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Did I get that right? That's obviously Ash. That's obviously not. Ash is with us. No, it is not Ash. As you guys can tell, we have Sheena Milwani and Trid in the house today. Last time we were here, you had a button that clapped. This time I clapped for myself. We did. We still have a button, but I never know which button it is. That's okay. So I could hit something, but it might be like a fart sound or something. Let's do it. Let's see what happens. Yeah. Let's try. Let's hit a button.
We're not wearing headphones, so you tell us what happened. I don't think anything happened. It's just going to be like dead air. I'll insert something really great. Insert funny sound here. Like, or something. Oh, yes. I like those. There you go. I forgot what those were called. What is it? That's what I called it. They're like,
There's something like that. You just made that up. No, it's actually pretty close to that, I'm pretty sure. I don't know, though. Maybe this is just confirmation bias, and I'm like, yeah, totally. I think that's what it is. It's like a what he said thing. Yeah, he says it, and I'm like, that sounds right. I like that. He does that with a lot of confidence, and then you would believe him. That's what it is. He's got the entire internet fooled. Absolutely.
And I immediately was one of those people. As soon as I came across your video on TikTok, I was like, I believe everything you say. Him. Not me. Nobody believes me, but I'm actually the one who speaks all the truths. But no one believes me. But no one, everyone's like, it's him. Yeah, those are Vuvuzila. Vuvuzila. Vuvuzila. That sounded brought to you by Google. There you go. That's not a... I know, that's the wrong instrument. That is different. But he said it with confidence, so you believed him. I did. And I still kind of do. I haven't even forgotten yet. I'm like, you know what? Yeah, that's what it is. But yeah, you guys, I'm sure you guys know who Sheena Malani and Trid is. And if you don't...
Go on TikTok. Yeah, come find us. And go find Sheena. And you will also find Trid. And you will laugh your ass off. And you will end up sending these videos between either your friends or your husband or wife 100,000 times a night. Or your kids. People send it to their kids and their grandparents. Entire families. Because that's what happened with John and I. We were literally for like an entire year sending our videos back and forth between ourselves. And now they don't do it anymore because they're sane people. You can find me. We know them. It's fine. We're over it. We still send the videos. I'm not going to lie. You can find me on Spotify. No, you can find me on Spotify. Well, someone had to say it. Because Sheena is multi-talented.
Not only hilarious and a beautiful Luna moth. I still don't get that, but I love it. I've decided to call Sheena a beautiful Luna moth because Luna moths are beautiful. It really is a very interesting looking creature. They're unique. They're pretty. They're delicate. I feel like they sparkle without actually sparkling, which is like you. You're not fully made out of glitter, but I feel like you are glittery. Should I just come back and pick her up in an hour? Ash, where are you?
But that's my skincare routine. Yeah, but you're like actually fully glittery. He's glowing today. Because I have an emoji. He's an actual disco ball right now. It's an emoji disco ball. Why are you glowing today? It's my aura. It's your aura. Yes, I'm a special person. Yes, I am. I actually...
rubbed a pregnant woman's tummy this morning. That'll do it. Yeah. That'll do it. If she doesn't punch you in the face. She was asking for that. Oh, good. Okay. Why do people do that? I never liked when people do that. No, me neither. They just come up. And they touch your stomach and they're like, oh, can I touch you? You're already touching me. You're already here. So I don't know what to do here. When I was pregnant with the twins, I was so gigantic that everyone felt like they really had like license to do that. With both hands. Yeah. And license to be like, oh, are you like ready to pop? And I was like, no, I'm only five months pregnant. Thank you for asking that. Oh, that's kind. You should rub people's heads. Pregnant women out there, you are allowed to rub the person rubbing you right back. Like bald heads? If they're bald.
Double points. But you just rub their head. Whatever's up there. Anything. You just rub. Like, oh, you rub me. I rub you. And they say, why are you shaking my, why are you rubbing my head? Why are you rubbing my stomach? Yeah. It's a valid question. The best thing would be like, why are you rubbing my stomach? I'm not pregnant. Yeah. Oh, that is the ultimate. Just make them super uncomfortable. Like, what are you doing? Because that will be something they think about in their final hour. They will be like, when was that time? Remember that very, very. That I rubbed that woman's stomach. Peace lady. Who was stealing basketballs at dicks and I rubbed her stomach. I rubbed her stomach and she told me she wasn't pregnant. Like, that'll stay with that. And then she rubbed my head.
Yeah, that's the ultimate. That's the way to ruin someone. That really is. That's why I come on this show. That is. We get to talk about how to rub people the wrong way. Life-ruining moments. Yes, excellent. Brought to you by Trips. But you know what we should talk about a little bit? Disney. Oh, your favorite place. We're going to Disney. I heard your raving review. I booked immediately. The most magical place on earth as far as I'm concerned. I mean, I actually wanted to ask if you wanted to come with us. Yeah. You know what? I do. I need to do a redo because that was not a...
Not a great experience, I think. I heard you did more laundry in Disney than you have in your own house in a month. Yeah. At one point we broke the dryer. Come on. But not in a good way. In the middle of the night. Whenever is it a good way that you would break a dryer? When it's not filled with vomit. Yeah, that is better. Anything is better than how they broke it. That's definitely not the way you want to break it. I'm going to keep it clean on this show because I know it's a G-rated show. Please behave yourself. They only talk about Disneyland. That's all. That's what this podcast is. It's a Disney podcast. They're your official sponsor. Yeah, official sponsor Disney. I'm wearing yours right now. It's amazing.
If Ash was here, she would give out one to five. It would be half true. I love her because she was just like, she fully committed to the Disney experience. I love that. That's how I expect to go. I want to commit. But I also have that, like I really appreciated what you were saying about like just seeing Disney through your kid's eyes. Yes. And I think that's a whole different thing. It is. When you go as a parent, you kind of put all your own stuff aside and you just go and you love it because you see the world through your children's eyes. Oh yeah. And even when you're like.
sweating and there's a million people slamming into you and it smells weird and you're like, why am I here? I hate that everything's pastel. It sounds amazing. I don't know what you're supposed to say. It's bearing down on me. And then like we went into the little bippity boppity boutique and the girls were just like blown away that they got to go into Cinderella's castle to get their hair done. I was like, all right, this is all right. I was like, this is great. You know what makes me happy? That all of those moments they enjoy being princesses comes from John. Yes.
That makes me happy. Because it's certainly not coming from you. It's not coming from you. You're blackmailed. I don't know where I get. John loves it too. He was fully invested. Where is that guy? He's my hero. I thought he was going to be here. I know. He's not here. Ash is not here. All the Disney people have evacuated the building. Yeah, they left Morticia in their place to talk about Disney. We love it. I'm here to add a little spice. That's all. Yeah. We're going to redo Disney. We're going to do it right. John is like absolutely determined to do Disney. Where you like it. Yeah, he was like, we're going to make this a good experience.
Yeah, there you go. There'll be some spooky Disney. For sure. I did do the Pirates of the Caribbean ride and there's a big drop and I was proud of myself. You survived the drop. I did. So did my three-year-old. All four seconds of it. It was like, it was a good drop. At the end of it, I was like, because Drew told us, you know, he was, he's been there like a million times. So Drew was our like unofficial tour guide and would tell us if certain rides were okay for the kids or if, you know, this one has a drop. I don't know if you'll like it. And that one, he was like, there is a drop, but it's really small. And you can handle it. And when we did the drop, I looked back at him and I was like, you son of a bitch. That was a big drop. He was like, it really wasn't. That really wasn't. In the official Disney photo.
She's looking back. The kids are all smiling in their booster seats when they admit on said ride. They thought it was great. Amazing. So we will go and recreate all these pastel memories in two weeks. Pastel wonder. I love it. It's just parenting in a different space. In like a magical land. With no sleep. With bracelets that translate to money. I heard there were giraffes that like roam.
They just like come right up. They like serve coffee in the morning. Do you need anything? And you're like, no, that's fine. Thanks for just being here. More sheets, please. Definitely more sheets in this one. We'll take all the sheets. Preferably dark. Oh, yeah. Oh, they're all white sheets. Let me tell you. All of them are white, but not after my family was there. You know what you would have enjoyed? If you would have found.
a tunnel that took you to the Disney underworld. Yes. To show you how all this happens. Any underworld would have enjoyed it. You would have seen like stains on the wall and people running, screaming. Hey, where the hell is that Cinderella? She's due in this castle in four minutes. And you see some high school girl running, putting on a slipper. You would have tripped them, laughed at them. Up where they walk, up where they run, up where they stay all day in the sun. Wandering free, wish I could be part of that world.
Just embrace it. Ariel just came in here real quick. And then somehow swam out with no water. I don't even know how that just happened. That was a real special treat. That was beautiful. You know I wanted to be a Disney princess. You should be a Disney princess. Yeah, but not Jasmine. Not Jasmine. The red-headed Ariel. Why would I be Jasmine? Why be Jasmine when you can be Ariel? Why? I want to be a ginger. I feel that. Who doesn't want to be a ginger? Not me. I'm just saying. I promised people it was going to get weird in here. It's going to get weird. All right, let's do it. Now that you've got her all bubbly with her Disney songs, tell her what we're going to be talking about. You know she's afraid, right? You know she will not watch a horror movie.
horror movie. She will not watch anything. But she comes here. I love it. You know, what's that? They made like a joke, like a spook off of like Scream. Oh, yeah. Scary movie. Yeah, I won't even watch that. And those are hilarious. I know, but I won't watch it. All right. Tell us a story. All right. So listener tale time. And this one is a themed episode. And Deb Deb has found haunted hospitals. Why? Because hospitals are just fun places otherwise. They're not sad enough and scary enough. It's all the sadness. Where do you think ghosts go to heal?
to heal they need hospitals too yeah there you go it's true hospitals are spooky take it from someone who worked in a morgue in a hospital overnight many times it's a creepy place why is it not surprising to me yeah a morgue you know what's funny too all the nurses would come down when they would have to come down they hated coming down to the morgue and they would come down in the middle of the night and every single time they'd always go are you just alone down here and i was like yeah and they'd be like are you okay and i was like yeah i'm fine and they're like I couldn't do that. And they just leave. They were just like, you're horrifying. I have to go. That does sound horrifying. Every time. Is anyone listening surprised? Except for all these people. Do you know what the morgue is like for me? The morgue is like underneath Disney. Yeah. It's essentially that. And then you're happy about it. Yeah, it was great. It was very quiet and peaceful in there. Just talk to people. They're dead. Yeah, they can talk back to you. It was great. Only once in a while they talk back. My favorite kind of interaction is just like, I can just sit there and talk. No small talk. We're good. Pass. Especially in the middle of the night. Pass. Hard pass. The only problem with the morgue in the middle of the night is if you do get a weird...
like visual in your head. Like we had one that was like a pretty gnarly one. And so it kind of like shook me for a second when they came in. And I was sitting in the office and I just kept thinking about what if they just stood up and walked in here? And then I kept getting this weird vision of them just standing up and walking in in a body bag into the office. Oh my God. That wasn't great. That would be exactly what I'd need to run for the hills. Yeah, that was not great. Never come back. So I just kept having to go in there and peek. He hasn't moved. Joe is still in. Still dead. Yeah. Is that why they put locks on those freezers? Yeah. In case they try to get up and come out? They can't come out. Yeah. Because sometimes, this is little known, but sometimes they're like...
Just lock them in there. Yeah. We don't want to. We're not sure. Because they get up sometimes. But let's just throw them in there. Can we move on? Zombies are real. I'm going to haunted hospitals. That's why you put them in the freezer. I'm never going down to a morgue. Ever. It's a place. Yeah. It's got a vibe. It's got a smell. They should put it right on the top floor. It has a smell too. Yeah. And it's not like a dead body smell, but it's got a very chemical smell. Like mothball smell. Yeah. There's a lot of different preservatives. The same things that they put. And you get a different kind of smell. That's for sure.
But if you're in there, you should have your face covered. I wish you guys could see my face. She's smiling. She's like, I just want to see that. She's just eating a hummus sandwich. Yeah, it's fine. All right. So my first one I'll do is called pediatric nurse gets more than she bargained for. I don't love ghost kids. So this is going to be challenging. But this one says, yeah, I don't love a ghost kid. Why? Because one, like they're always giggling. Oh, my God. Yeah. Or like doing some or singing. I don't love like a singing child ghost. That's not really my company. You should be an equal opportunity ghost lover. Like I'm not going to turn you away.
But you're not going to be my favorite. You're not going to be employee of the month over here as a child's ghost. The singing is always creepy and out of tune. Yeah, that's what it is. It's always out of tune. It's out of tune. That's the issue. It's very stressful. It's very unprofessional is what it is. If the dead kid could just sing properly, it'd be fine. And also if it's a kid ghost, you're like, you died. I know. That's a kid that died. So yeah, so pediatric nurse gets more than she bargained for. And back to dead kids. It says, hey Lena, Ash and Deb Deb. My name is...
Heather, yes, you can use my name if by some miracle this makes it onto the pod. Miracles happen. Hi, Heather. It's on the pod. But not for the children we're about to discuss. Apparently not. And I'd like to start off by saying thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this submission, even though I'm sure you have a billion and seven others to read. You're amazing. You really are. And you stood out, Heather. I can say your name. Yep, I can. So you guys are absolutely amazing, and I don't think I would survive my hour-long drive to work every day without this podcast. You guys are pure entertainment, and I wish I could be your guys' BFF because you're dope as shit. We are BFFs, and you are also dope as shit, Heather. Yes. And Ash would agree. Absolutely. If she was here, she would say you are dope as fuck.
I agree on her behalf. I have a proxy today. But you feel it. Yeah, I feel it. In my soul. And you exude it. Yes. I feel that. Dope. You guys have made me cry with laughter so many times, all while talking about murder. And that takes some real talent. Anyway, I'm going through. It's a skill. You know, you got to make fun of the murderer. That's what I'm saying. Anyways, I'm going to get into my supernatural experience before my ADHD takes over. And I end up gushing over you guys for 20 pages. I love you, Heather. So I am currently a pediatric nurse, which means you're a superhero. Yes. Agreed. Thanks for being that. Love a pediatric nurse. Love them. They saved one of my twins' lives, so I always love a pediatric nurse. They really are the true heroes. Amazing.
Like, I mean, literal superheroes. The doctors, I mean, they're awesome also. They come and they leave, but the pediatric nurses are the ones that are there through the night holding the hair back. Exactly. They're always bringing the extra toys in and the extra little things that you need. So for some background information on how my final semester went, most of my days were spent at a hospital assigned to a nurse that already worked there and learning from her how to be the best nurse I can be. Shout out to you, Alyssa, for making my final semester the best semester ever. Shout out to Alyssa. Alyssa, you rock. You are the MVP.
P.S. I asked, and you can say her name too. Good, because I said it before looking ahead. I would have had to bleep that out. I mean, her name is Lissima. Hell yeah, Lissa. Originally, I asked my school if I could be assigned to a neonatal intensive care unit. You really are a hero. Who are you? You're amazing. At one of the hospitals in my city because I already had a job lined up there for after I graduated. Unfortunately, due to COVID, that unit wasn't taking students and my 3.4 GPA wasn't good enough to go to the children's hospital in the city. This meant I got stuck at a hospital I had never been to and had to work on a floor that only saw adults. That sucks. I'm going to try to continue this story with giving as much detail as I can without violating HIPAA. I appreciate that.
I know, that's a good rule. I do appreciate that. At one point towards the end of my semester, I was doing well enough that the nurse who oversaw me would let me go into patients' rooms alone to do certain things. My first patient was in his mid-30s and was completely with it mentally. While I was getting his vitals, I tried to make small talk. One of the first questions I asked was, how did you sleep last night? The man proceeded to tell me that he slept fine, except for around midnight when a group of children went running through the halls and peeking into every room once in a while. And so it begins. He then said that once the quote-unquote older nurse got the children to behave, he was able to go to sleep.
I immediately froze when he told me this for two reasons. Can I guess? Can I guess? What are the reasons? There are no children in that hospital. One, two.
There's no older nurse. Ding, ding, ding. One, at this time... I should be writing these stories. You're like, I knew it. At this time, COVID rates were still high, so children were not allowed in the hospital. Oh, my God. And two, all the nurses from the night before were under 40 years old, so there was no older nurse working there. I'm melting. Yep, I can't. Literally melting. I can't. I told the man all of this, and he looked at me completely confused. He then went on to tell me that there were definitely kids running in the halls the previous night, and that the, quote, girl with the blue sweater was the one who was going in and out of the room the most. The one with the long hair. Someone to comb that brat's hair. Yep, and she had a British accent, and she was the ghost of Christmas.
Oh my God. I continued to just stare at the man like the awkward turtle I am and said, okay, cool. Before leaving to go find my nurse. He's just like rad. All right. Thumbs up for you, man. Awesome. Sorry about that. Won't happen now. Can't guarantee that won't happen tonight. Can we double his medication last night? Yeah, let's make him sleep. I immediately told her what the man said to me and she then proceeded to say, oh yeah, patients here see kids running down the halls all the time at night. What? And then she said, this makes sense considering this was a pediatric floor when the hospital first opened. Oh, so they're just a bunch of dead kids. Yes. Even though this wasn't a saying at the time, I definitely shit my dick at this moment.
That's an unfortunate event for her to experience. She's like, wasn't a saying back then, but I felt it in my bones. Is it a saying now? Heather just made it up. It is. I heard it on TikTok. Oh, really? There's a TikTok sound that says, are you shitting my dick? And it's Ash's favorite. What side of TikTok are you on? Because I'm not on that side. It's an Ash side of TikTok because Ash is the one that brings me these and is like, this is the funniest shit I've ever seen. She has the most random TikTok algorithm. Her feed. I'd be curious to spend a day on her feed. Her feed is a wild place to be. I love it. I love it so much. Yeah. Mine's like a very spooky. It has spooky stuff, but it also has like.
Lots of like parent humor. Random Sheena video pops up. You fly in there all the time. Yeah. Just spooky parent puppies. That's more like hers is hers is like her, like her, her music algorithm would be insane too. She listens to literally everything under the sun and that is who she is. There's just no rhyme or reason. She's Gemini. I love it. Multiple people. All those souls. Who are we getting today? You know?
I love it. All right. Not knowing what else to do or say, I moved on to my next patient. This was an older woman who had been there for a while and I've had many conversations with, mostly about her adorable cat and dog because I could talk for hours about someone's pets with them. Same. She greeted me with a good morning, darling, to which I responded with a good morning and asked her to FaceTime with her cat and dog, how her FaceTime went with her cat and dog the previous night. Oh, she didn't ask. Yeah, she was like, how did it go last night hanging out on FaceTime with your cat and dog? I love that she did that. Love it. Where am I? She said it went fine, but that the children running in the hall got too distracting at one point. Oh boy, with the children again. Once again, I shit my dick.
There she goes. I then proceeded to ask her if she remembered what the children looked like, to which she responded that the one child who kept going in and out of the room was a blue sweater wearing a cardigan the same color as my scrub pants. My scrub pants were blue. Well, they were before she soiled them. I honestly can't tell you how the rest of my day went because I was too paranoid looking over my shoulder worrying that ghost children were following me in and out of rooms. Also, from then on, anytime I worked a night shift, I would try to tell the ghost children to behave and not keep the patients up that night. That's nice of you. That is very nice of you. But she kept working there. She kept working there. What's she going to do? She's going to quit?
I would not last more than, not even one day, but one minute after that. I would love it. I would have left. I'd just be like, guys, I'm here. I would have found my replacement because I'm responsible. You could have sang to them. To the ghost children? Yeah, why not? That's a hard pass. You get to turn your resignation to them. Yes. You're like, sorry, I have to resign. Sorry, kids.
Gotta go. Yes, gotta go. You freak me out. Yep. It says, I probably looked like a freaking weirdo talking to nothing. But like you guys always say, it's good to keep things weird. But not so weird that ghost children go in and out of people's hotel rooms keeping them up at night because to be honest, that's a little rude. That is a little rude. Let them sleep. Let them sleep. The fact that two patients said the exact same thing. Back to back. Yeah. It's like that's not just one guy being like, yeah, I had weird visual and auditory hallucinations last night. Scary as shit. Maybe I'm on weird meds. No. That is terrifying. Unless the weird meds were being served to everybody in that ward that night. Yeah. And they all had the same symptoms? Yes.
They were messing with her. That's what I would do if I was like... Oh, you think it's like a hazing thing? I for sure would do that. If I were in a hospital, I'd just call my friend Bertha next door because all the old ladies with dogs and cats that they FaceTime would call Bertha. I'd say, hey, Bertha, blue cardigan today. Got it? Say it, Bertha. Okay, do it, do it. Okay, good. The new girl's coming. Let's go with the blue cardigan noise. That's a hazing. That would be a really good hazing to weed out the week. Yeah. You're not going to handle this. If you're listening to this... There's going to be a lot worse on here. So if you can't handle the ghost children, this probably is the time for you. If you are listening...
I see what I need to see. I'm all done here. Yeah, I'm good. So if you're listening to this from a hospital ward, talk to all your roommates and come up with a story to scare the crap out of the night. Get the best of the best survival of the fittest. This is so good. I'm going to do that. Start the story. Start the story. Tell everybody that children were running the halls at night and see what happens when the interns come tomorrow. There you go. You're cut out to be a pediatrician. Ghost children or live children. Thanks, Heather. Thanks, Heather. You're the best.
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So this next one that Gina is going to read is called Featuring Hospital in a Spirit of a Deceased Friend. Love Jim. More hospitals? The whole theme. This is all going to be a theme. All right. Haunted hospitals. Good day, my morbid mates. I'm terrible with accents. How did you decide to go with that? That's how we wrote it. Good day, my morbid mates. Yep. If you can't tell, I'm Australian. Oh, hell yeah. I can, but I just can't do the accent. We love an Australian. But this Australian fan is a huge fan. Contrary to popular belief, we don't always say good day, mate.
It's more like an old school white dad who dances really awkwardly at a barbecue kind of thing to say. That makes sense. That does make sense. Like my dad says, good day mate. He's going to be saying good day mate for the rest of the day. Yes. And dancing awkwardly. That's how I say yes. If Ash was here, she would use her Australian accent in the one word that she knows how to do it. She always says, nar. Oh, yes, yes. Nar. Nar. Nar. Well, have I got a weird story for you? Here we go. I love it. Nar. Say R and R. R and R.
R&R. Oh, R&R. R&R. There you go. It works. R&R. There you go. That's my gift to you today. You're so welcome. R&R. You know what? I did like an Australian accent on some of our Australian episodes. Let's give it a minute for everyone. We'll give you 10 seconds now in your cars, in your homes, wherever you are. Everyone on three.
One, two, three. R&R. You got it. You're all experts now. You got it. We're all linguistically. Morbid's gift to you today is how to show sympathy if you're in Australia. You know, I looked up all the like the different ways to say things like with the Australian accent. Because when we did like Australian madness, I think we did an episode that was just like crazy Australian stuff. And I got good at it, but I lost it. How? I have to get good at it years ago. I just didn't do it again. We have to practice. I probably got self-conscious about it. I'm super self-conscious. I'll have to get back on it. Okay. I want to get that in a Scottish accent. I want to do really good because I can only say don't get. And that's, that's all I got. That's an ass. Yeah.
That's an ass. In case you were wondering. Just here to confirm that is an ass. Donkey. Donkey. Yeah, go on. All right. Let's continue. Anyway.
You see, I spent a lot of time in a hospital as a child. I was born with cystic fibrosis. It's a genetic lung and digestive system condition. It sucks, yet I am pretty healthy these days and have had a very successful lung transplant nine years. Whoa, I know. And when I was nine years ago when I was 23 and a liver transplant 18 years ago when I was 14 years old. Now I'm 32 and doing well. This is amazing. You don't realize that we're like Legos. Yeah. With medicine, just swap out this piece. Yeah. Take this one up, put this one in. And just put it back in. And it's fine. Like that's why. That is liver and lung. Go sign all your, what is it, your license? Yeah.
If you're dead, why do you need to keep the parts? Let a guy like this get the parts so he can keep living. Got my little heart on my license. Send all the hate my way for people who want to take their organs. But I think that's ridiculous. Take it. I don't need it anymore. What did you do with it when you were in the basement in the hospital? Give it to somebody. Someone else can use it. At least that way they won't come after you. Exactly. Listen to my friend Lego man. Sign your...
organ donor. Yeah, do it. In 2007. Okay, so this was when she was in the hospital in 2007 when she was 17. Okay. I got to know a lot of my nurses at the kids' hospital over the years pretty well. Some would let me hang out behind the desk on night shift if I couldn't sleep because hospital beds suck. Yeah, they do. They truly do. So one night I was hanging out with the nurses. It had been a pretty sad day on the ward. Unfortunately, I experienced a friend passing away while I was in the hospital. Oh, that's really sad. That is sad. It would rarely happen, yet my friend had passed away in the ICU that morning. After she was transferred there from the ward.
She also had cystic fibrosis. Let's call her Kate for the story to protect her identity. Kate was waiting for a double lung and liver transplant. We were good friends and she was just too sick and didn't make it in time for her transplant to come. Oh, that's so sad. That is really sad. See, organ donors. I encourage everyone listening to sign up. Hey, we did it already. I know. It's not like the black market organ donation, which is illegal and unethical. Exactly. That's some education for another time though. Kate was strong, funny, never afraid of anything and would teach me things I never knew about anything and everything.
She was wise beyond her years and I honestly believe she was here to teach people. She passed at the age of 15 and around two weeks before her 16th birthday. Oh, Gemma. That's really bad. I'm so sorry. Kate sounds rad. I know. When she was put into the ICU after being stabilized in surgery and not back on the ward.
Oh, before her 16th birthday. All her things were left in her room on the ward and she had already been in the hospital for weeks. She was not too sick to go home and she was too sick to go home until the transplant came. Unfortunately, it wasn't meant to be and a donor could not be matched in time. That's really sad. So there I was hanging out with the nurses behind the desk one night late around 3 a.m. They let cystic fibrosis patients hang out behind the desk occasionally if we couldn't sleep, etc. back in 2007. These days, there were not a lot of rules with CF patients and cross infection. Unlike in the movie Five Feet Apart, there is some truth to that movie. Yet I can't stand that movie though.
I mean, who the hell goes ice skating on a lake in the middle of the night when waiting for a lung transplant? I can barely shower myself or walk three meters, let alone do that. That would be really frustrating to watch while you're going through it. And you're like, yeah, no, thank you for that. Right. Beautiful. Back to my story. My nurse and I were chatting away about random things, surfing the web, looking up silly sites like funnyjunk.com. Who remembers that? Funnyjunk.com. I'm not even sure if it's still a website. It was like a website of funny photos before memes were a huge thing. I love that. Me too. We should go look it up after this. Funnyjunk.com. Go look it up as you're doing it. Maybe it's just junk.com. Oh, no, here's a fridge.
The air con in the hospital was getting maintenance work done. I promise this is important later. So the air con wasn't working for a few hours that night. All of a sudden, from Kate's empty room, as she had been transferred to the ICU, slowly bopping out was a balloon. It was a get well foil balloon with the ribbon still attached to it, which we both knew was tied at the other end to her bed. Her room was right near the nurse's station as she was one of the more critical patients and needed a lot of care. My nurse and I were talking and mid-sentence looked at the balloon, then looked at each other, then looked back at the balloon. We looked at each other again and just whispered,
What the actual F? There was no draft, no air to push this balloon bopping along the hallway at us. Remember how I said there was no air con that night and it was tied down at the end of her bed? The balloon had pink and red colors. If it was only red in color, I probably would have yeeted myself into an early discharge home, thinking it, the clown, was now on the wall. I was going to say Pennywise is coming through. Yeah. So as I have been in and out of the hospital with my CF most of my childhood over the years, I found out where the morgue was. It was down the large hallway and into the diagnostic services part of the hospital. Now, this hallway just happened to be near the teenager's ward. Ooh. This story is getting a little bit scary. A little scary. I know.
My nurses and I stood up. By now, it had bopped right up close to the desk, hovering. Super creepy. We were both gobsmacked. That's a good word. That is a good word. All of a sudden, it turned towards the ward main doors and floats out. As there were two other nurses in the drug room, my nurse quickly told them, um, we'll be back in one second. We both decided to follow this balloon that had us gobsmacked and freaked the F out.
Now it was out of the ward and yep, still bopping down that hallway. Oh, that's spooky. And they were actually following, said balloon. Oh yes, she went back in. I would follow the hell out of the balloon. You would too? Yeah, I need to know where it's going. Okay, my nurse and I were half laughing and I said, why do I feel so cold? We both had goosebumps now. Remember the aircon wasn't working. The balloon had reached the next hallway, away from the hall to the ward, towards the hallway past the elevator to the diagnostic section of the hospital. Which is ding, ding, ding. We're home. Nothing could have been making this thing move the way that it did. Yep, it was still floating and this time at more of a speed.
And we were both so cold. There's a ghost afoot. Katie? There is a ghost afoot. Kate? Let me tell you. I know. I'm sorry to tell you. Ghost makes you cold.
You okay? My nurse asked. Yeah, fine. I just, I was kind of stunned and pointed to the balloon. We watched the balloon. It went down the hallway and we both gasped. It turned a new corner straight to the hallways that led to the diagnostic services where the mortuary was. We both screamed as we had the same thought, Kate, she wants her balloon. Oh my God. You're surprised. Like it's just, I knew it was following, but I wasn't thinking of her wanting her balloon. Well, I thought she was just, I thought she was just like meeting that way, but now I'm like, oh my God, she wants her balloon. Maybe it was her and she was just walking with her balloon. She was going to be turning 16. It's like her birthday.
So she's like, I want my balloon. We suddenly realized what had happened and ran back to the ward laughing. What? Yeah. We saw something really bizarre. Wait, they didn't complete the journey? They did not complete the journey. They just laughed and went back. Why didn't they take the balloon and took Katie? Because I think Katie came in and took it herself. Did they make it all the way? They were like, Katie, we'll get this. Katie, we'll take it. Katie, you got it for me. I'm going. You're all sad. Peace out. The next night, my nurse was on again and Kate's mom, still exhausted from the day before, now grieving, had come to the ward to pack up Kate's things from her room. My nurse, called Louise, by the way, was helping pack up her belongings to go home. I felt like I had to tell her about the balloon. Me and Kate's mom were close.
When I told her, she was tearing up and smiled. That is just so, so funny. Is it though? You're like, yeah. Is it? Why? She definitely was playing a trick on you and Louise, my nurse. I guess it was her way of saying hello. She always said to me she will say hi in a creative way to her friends and nurses. Oh, I love that. I mean, I guess that's creative. I love that. That is creative. A nice way of saying, I love you. I'm still here. Yeah, just like a little balloon bump in my mind. Like it's not threatening. It's not threatening. Like as spooky as it is, you're like, that's just a balloon. Right. You know, like.
We all laughed. Kate has been gone a long time, since 2007, yet she's always in my thoughts. Cystic fibrosis isn't cured yet, and I hope one day it will be. Treatment has improved, yet we have a long way to go. I encourage everyone to donate to cystic fibrosis charities and research. Yes. We'll link some in our show notes. Oh, that's nice. That's really sweet. I'm still in contact with Kate's family and my old nurse, Louise. We never went down the diagnostic service building as you needed an electronic pass to get to a certain area. I was actually going to say that. That's why they didn't follow. Not everybody could get into the Morgan Hospital. You had to have a certain pass. Had a balloon get passed. You know, paranormal stuff, they always have a pass. They have all the electronic.
whoever they want. You know? Yeah. Love the podcast. Keep it weird, but not so weird that your friend passes away and haunts you with a balloon that it's somehow untied from her bed and goes down the hallway at 3 a.m. just to spook the bejesus out of you. And it's 3 a.m. too. It's the witching hour. It's always 3 a.m. That's the witching hour. That's when all the weird shit happens. That's why I don't get out of my bed. Yeah. That's when my youngest used to see Skeleton. Skeleton was my buddy. Skeleton. I love Skeleton. She was just like, Skeleton. 3 a.m. Just hanging out. 3 a.m. Oh, man. All right. Damn, Gemma. That was like a sweet one. And you may use my name.
Oh, thank you, Gemma. So this won't be beep. The whole episode will not be beeped out. I love it. And you know what? That was like a sweet one. Was it though? Very kind. It's like her friend coming back. Her friend coming from the dead to say hello. And just being like a little silly goofy. Just being like, okay, just a note to all my friends. If you die and you're a ghost, please don't play a joke on me. Leave me alone. You mean nothing to me. The minute you stop breathing, you mean nothing to us anymore. No, nothing to me. Follow the light. Go. You can send me like, you know, sweet little messages in the form of like, a nice book showing up at my door. Oh, there you go. Oh, you want Amazon? Then you have to go get a subscription.
to continue to show your love. Don't freak me out with a balloon. Just show up in her mirror at 3 a.m. That's the kindest way to do it as a ghost. Do you know when I was younger, I heard stories of Bloody Mary. I never actually saw any movies or anything. Bloody Mary used to scare the shit out of me. But if I had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I would close my eyes as I wash my hands. Why don't we create a morbid mirror that you can sell to people so they can put it in the guest bathrooms of their homes. Oh my God. Like Bloody Mary? No, so only in the morning. Yeah, children's faces just pop up. And the giggling noise. Just like the, hi. Hey. Don't forget to wash your hands. Oh my God. But only at 3 a.m. Like 3 to 4 a.m. Only if it's dark. If they turn the light on, it doesn't work. But only in the dark that happens. I love that. Let's make that product.
That would be so good. Yeah, that's a great product. That's how you TM things, right? You just say TM. That's how Ash and I TM things all the time. I think that's how it works. Brilliant idea, TM. No one can take that now. We'll sue you. That's great. He was in that podcast. I like this idea. That's a good idea. I think that's a great idea. But then you have to clean up the bathroom after. Can you do that for us? Let's get that going, Mikey. Let's get that rolling. Yeah, let's scare the shit out of your mirror. I think this one is going to be, let's see. I think this will be a good one. Okay. I'm not really sure. They're all good ones. It's called A Haunted Hospital of an Uninvited Passenger.
Passenger. I'm a little scared by this one. Okay, I'm quickly scanning to see if I can use the name. Oh yeah, we can use the name. We can use the name. Excellent. I love when people tell us that. Are you two ready? I'm ready. This one's called a haunted hospital and an uninvited passenger. What's up, bitches? I couldn't wait. And I mean in the high five, fist bump, finger poke kind of way. What's a finger poke, you might say? When my nephews were wee ones, we taught them to high five and then fist bump. My youngest nephew then stuck his finger straight out like E.T. And we did the finger poke. His words. Okay, can you guys, let's see if you learned. There you go. That takes a lot of like, focus. Yeah, it really does. You have to like.
Just so you guys can see what I'm seeing now. We'll put it online. Two drone people trying to touch fingers. It takes a lot of focus. It does. I feel purposeful right now. This has since become a thing with all our little ones in our lives. It's the cutest damn thing ever. Not here, it isn't. This was adorable. This is so cute. You can use my name, which is Casey, by the way. Hi, Casey. I'm a new listener and was introduced to your podcast in an interesting manner. Well, good for you, Casey. This is not the podcast you were introduced to. I love it.
We are at my uncle's burial and my very large, very redneck family all met up at the closest bar to celebrate with bar food and lots of drinks. I love that. That sounds great. That sounds like the way to do it. That's what you got to do. As we were sitting around tables shooting the shit, my aunt Susie asked me out of the blue, what is a, you like this, pedifa. Oh my gosh. Oh no. My sister, it's what you call. Oh, come on. This is your word. There's no filing involved here. My sister and I in unison say, a peda what?
She laughs and says, do you listen to podcasts? I've been listening to this one called Morbid. And they keep referring to something called a pedophile. Oh, my God. So, of course, my sister and I jump on Google to her and to our dismay find nothing except a reference to, you know, what I was thinking. Pedophiles. Yeah. My aunt Susie, who, by the way, is a badass bitch with the biggest heart in the whole world, says that doesn't really seem right. You need to listen to this podcast. Yeah. You love all that ghostly stuff. And I thought of you as soon as I heard it. I downloaded a couple of episodes and proceeded to laugh when I discovered a pedophile is your word for a PDF file.
I'm obsessed with that, is the way she got into it. I love it. Nothing to do with scary stories. Aunt Susie. Just Aunt Susie saying, what the hell is a pedophile? Love it. I love it. Much like us in the nursing world who refer to an EKG as an ekaga. Ekaga. My aunt got a good giggle out of this as well. I also realized I had just found my new obsession.
Morbid. Your podcast. Yay, Casey. You're my new obsession. You bitches are the best. You are, Casey. I don't just call anyone bitches in a good way. So you should take that as a compliment. I love that. Casey reserves it in for just demeaning people. I also, I. Bad parking jobs. If I'm calling you like a bitch in a happy way, then like you really like. That's like a good thing to me. You're a bad bitch. That's a term. You might be a bastard. You son of a bitch. Like in a good way. I like that. Let's normalize cursing our friends out. I like that. You are very aggressive. The more aggressive my compliment to me, to you, the more I love you. Your first email or text to me.
We're signed off. I love your fucking guts. Yeah, I love your fucking guts. That's how you signed off. Literally. I was like, wow. The amount of times that I look at John and I'm like, I just want to punch you in the face. You're so cute. I say that to the kids. Like, oh, I just want to punch you. And he's like, that's not nice. But I feel like a lot of people do that. No, I get that. With my kids, I wanted to punch them in the face. Constantly. I want to launch you in the face and you're just the cutest. Don't punch your children in the face. No, don't ever do it. Just tell them you want to. Oh, I want to pop you. Squeeze your fists. Yeah. I want to pop them until their heads pop off. Oh, because you're so cute. Yep. Yeah, don't do any of those things. You'll be arrested immediately. They figured out that's like normal.
Is it? Yeah, it's like some evolutionary thing. It's something that the two of you do. It's not normal. Okay, back to our story, ladies. Now she's correct. I do love me some ghostly stuff. I was watching Poltergeist at home alone at a young age and have never stopped. Well, that's impressive. I'm obsessed with horror movies and haunted houses. The Warrens are my heroes. I can't get enough of their stories. Okay, please tell Sheena who the Warrens are. The Warrens are like famous, very famous and infamous ghost hunters. There you go. Sheena should hang out with them. Like Amityville, The Conjuring, like they're all over. You should go. You should look them up and say, hey, I'd like to come hang out with you. Where do they live?
Where are they? Isn't one of them dead? Oh, but that's... They're both dead? No, but that doesn't matter in this field of work. They just committed to their jobs. Yeah, they truly are. They're just doing more now. Yeah, they're an interesting story. Well, they're here right now. The two of them. The poster is shaking on the wall. You know, we have a lot to talk about. Oh, there's a red balloon. There's the warrants. My sister, Jessica, and I tend to frequent places that are known to be haunted. We have a few good stories, but nothing as good as the time I took a tour of the haunted St. Ignatius Hospital in our local town.
How do these people that love horror always have something in their local town? I know, I'm jealous. Because I don't have a lot in my local town. You're like 12 minutes from Salem. That's true. You're like, go there for fun. That's very true. And didn't you go on a boat, like the scariest ship? We did, just in Quincy. With Salem and Colby. In your state. I think you're all sad. And I got a ghost blow in my ear. I got assaulted by a ghost. They were hitting on you. Yeah, they're sailors, so. That's the nicest thing they do.
You're good. The hospital has been abandoned for years, and when some local ladies discovered how haunted it was, they decided to put on some tours. Of course, this place is shut down because it's scary. They can't service the needs of the ill here, but we can make people ill here, so let's bring them in. They can get service down the road at the new hospital. You turned that right around. Now, growing up in this small town, I had also grown up with all of them, so the tours seemed more like a girls' night out with just a touch of, let's see who can make it through the scary ass shit. That sounds like my perfect idea. You guys should take her on this tour. She is nodding in 100% agreement. This is sarcasm for me. No, no, they should take you. This is going to be our whole new YouTube series where...
We take you to haunted places. Oh my God. It'll be great. I'll just, I'll go. Lizzie Borden. Lizzie Borden house. Let's do it. Lizzie Borden house. What is that house? Oh my God. Don't start. So we need to make it a series, not a one and done. Yeah, that's true. If it's a feature film, then we could do one and done. It's got vibes in that. And then they follow you. Yeah, there's some, there are some vibes in that house for sure. But I loved it. I'll go back. Okay, let's see how creepy this one is. This can be added to the list though, because at the beginning of each tour, you meet outside the massive building with a scale of 10 on the creepy scale. That's just a building.
hospital abandoned for years so there's no power or anything in the building yes i'm in you're equipped with flashlights and the warmest clothes necessary for a fall night So now they're ready to enter. The ladies also suggested we download a specific ghost hunter app on our phones because now you can just get apps for this. If you want to just put it out, the Apple's got this sorted. It tells you which ghosts are where. Take a left here for children, you know, straight for murderers. Yeah, it's a map. Yeah, those are good. No, but the real ones are too real. The apps are better. For 99 cents, someone can build that for you. You want a morbid app? You can make a morbid app for made up ghosts. There you go. I like that. We're going to make a fake app. Here's where my skepticism kicked into overdrive.
Seriously? A stupid iPhone app? That's what I was just thinking. Thank you. I was like, yeah, this doesn't... They supposedly had previous luck with communicating through this app with ghostly residents. It acts like one of those devices that make the white noise and let spirit talk through it. I think EVP is the correct name. I also decided to start recording on my phone just to see if I picked up any voices or noises. I mean, why not, right? So we all laugh and skeptically download the app. As we begin the tour into the hospital, the app is squawking and randomly spouting out words like ring, landscape, etc.
We're all like, ooh, so there is a ring buried outside in the landscaping. About how absurd the app was. As we made our way through the hallways of peeling plaster and scattered debris, we come upon a specific patient's room by the name of Rose. At least I think that's what was her name. We will go with that for now. Let's go with Rose. Rose was known to be a volatile patient who didn't want anyone bothering her in her room at any time. As we all conjured around in the room hearing the stories of Rose, we were suddenly stalled as all of our phones with a ghost hunter app promptly shouted.
Get out. Oh no. At the same time. Needless to say, we got out. Rose had spoken. When they tell you to leave, you leave. You should be. We made our way through the rest of the hallways of the massive hospital, searching all the remains of the procedure room, the children's wing, and eventually the kitchen. This is where things got interesting for me. The kitchen area was still stocked with all the dishes, cooking pots and pans, and the cash register. As I was standing next to the cash register, my app became very active, spouting out words like cash, money, etc.
While I was concentrating on this particular revelation, I could hear others talking very excitedly in a cubby off the kitchen, which was known to be a very active area. I went to the area after they cleared out and just found shelves of dishes. Nothing too exciting. However, remember this particular spot for reference. I'm remembering. We left the kitchen area and made our way upstairs. Now, keep in mind that since the building has been sold and was going to be renovated, we were told that if we wanted, we could take anything home from the hospital that we please. What? The dishes? Here's some dishes from this. Roses.
It's like, do you want to take like a catheter? Oh, this is Jeremy's catheter. Still filled. As we made our way up the stairs and through the rooms, we came upon a room with the number 309. It would appear someone had been squatting here for some time. There was a mattress and sleeping bags and lots of empty food containers in back. So this is an abandoned building. So maybe someone just wanted cover. We also found 80s porn magazines, which are quite comical in the amount of hair that was acceptable in various regions at that time. Ah, yes. 80s hairstyles. My sick humor being what it is, I thought.
I need this door number plaque considering it was also the same number as my address. So I peeled it off the wall and placed it in my pocket. Yep. This is not the first time I've made this grave decision. I also found a super old beer bottle that piqued my interest. Into my pocket it went. I also found several windows and doors I would have loved to confiscate but didn't have my power tools with me. They didn't say take anything. We then made our way down to the main level, but there was still one more level to descend.
What's in the basement, Elena? The moor. The moor. My place. I stood at the top of the stairs looking down into the deepest, darkest darkness I had ever seen or not seen. I made the immediate decision that there was no way I was going down there. Period. End of story. Go down there. All I could envision was ghostly scream faces trapped at the bottom screaming up at me.
So basically the tour had ended. So she didn't go. We stood outside and visited and said our goodbyes. And I got in my pick for my 20 minute drive home on the dark country back roads to where we lived. I feel like those objects are going to be a problem. Yeah, she got in her pickup. I was excited to see if my phone had picked up anything while I was recording the whole two hours we were in the hospital. I mean, I could see the red line going up and down the whole tour. I was expecting to hear something. As I pulled up the app on my phone, I was stunned to find that was absolutely nothing recorded at all.
Before I left the hospital, I had two hours worth of recording on. Now, outside the hospital, I had zero. What the hell? It was all gone. So I threw some music on and drove home, rethinking my visit to the hospital and imagining it was when it was still in working condition with the nurses in white uniforms and their caps in place, etc. I could see it all clearly in my mind before the plaster was peeling and the place wasn't riddled with trash and debris. Could have been a nice place. Yeah. I got home and this is where things got interesting. At home now. Not in the hospital. She's come home now. She's taken the plaque and she's taken, what else did she bring? A beer bottle. A beer bottle. Yep.
I was standing in my kitchen when I got the feeling I should check the Ghost Hunter app just for shits and giggles. I opened the app and heard the white noise. I then asked, is anyone there? Immediately the app responds, yes. Never ask that. I then asked, who are you? The app responds, Dave. Oh, it's Dave. Well, of course. I then responded with, why are you here? The app responded with, pretty. Oh, you got a creepy one too. Oh no, a pervy Dave. I asked, you followed me home because you think I'm pretty?
App said yes. Dave, ever heard of consent? Okay. No. Jeez. Dave dead. Dave dead. Dave like Casey.
Now, as I stand in my kitchen in the late hours of the night, I'm thinking to myself, not only is there a present named Dave here in my kitchen, but most disturbingly, he was in my passenger seat with me on the ride the whole way home. Oh my gosh. That is so creepy. Maybe he just floated. I don't know. What is the speed limit for floating? No, he definitely sat in that passenger seat. Or maybe just on top of her. Maybe in her lap. But it would have been cold. Maybe he sat in the back. There's a significant temperature. Every time I feel cold now, you guys, I'm going to be freaked out. I'm telling you. You feel cold every night.
Maybe our house is haunted. The Quincy ship was freezing, obviously, because it's just like sitting in the middle of the ocean. But there was significant changes in temperature when things would start going down. Wow. Like all of a sudden your breaths would become visible and it was like a deep cold that you were like, oh, this is different. How cold is it when a sailor licks your ear? That was awful. I thought it was a bug in my ear. I thought it landed in my ear, but it was like this weird cold. It was Robert. That was his name. We're sure. Bobby. You're sure? Yeah, we're sure. Bobby the ear blower. What a bastard. God damn it, Robert.
Dave then told me other things about a man named Gary White. That may also have been with him. It was a little confusing at this point because of the information he was spewing out. It was so sporadic. I love that she's not even slightly freaked out.
Yeah. So, I mean, she was kind. She told Dave that he should go back to the hospital where he belonged. And I'm sorry if I gave him the wrong impression that I wanted him to come home with me. Wow. She's very nice. I then went to bed. However, for about three days after that, my cat would stand on the back of the couch, staring at the ceiling, chattering his teeth. The cat was basically Garfield reincarnated. So his behavior is so out of his norm and a little unnerving. I mean, let's be real. His fat ass didn't move unless he needed to eat or shit, but he was obsessed. He was watching the ceiling constantly.
About three days after the tour, I talked to one of my girlfriends, Robin, who helped out with the tours and told her my story. She gaped at me and then told me that the hotspot in the kitchen that had all the activity where the dishes were was a ghost named Dave. And there had been no activity in that area since the day I had taken the tour. Robin then told me that she had taken a couple of ghosts home with her as well. Taken.
But they eventually go back to the hospital where they belong. Don't worry about it. They'll go home. The hospital still remains in its decrepit state. Several people have tried to convert the building into apartment buildings and such, but have never succeeded. The show Ghost Hunters did an episode of a tour through the St. Ignatius Hospital in Colfax. And I did hear that most of their recordings from that night were erased from their cameras when leaving the hospital. Oh, that's weird. On a side note, my dear friend Robin died last year of cancer. Because she is one of the people who suggested the Ghost Hunter app to me, I occasionally try to reach her through it.
So far, all I have gotten is that my drink is next to my remote, which is always true, but can never get a name of who I am communicating with. Maybe Dave is still making house calls. Who knows? Maybe one of these days I will get to talk to my dear friend again through a suggested app. Oh, I hope you do. But I do hold solace that the last time I saw her, I told her I loved her and would see her soon. I know she is happy and no longer in pain in heaven with her daddy. So keep it weird, but not so weird that you bring home a ghost by the name of Dave from a haunted hospital because he thinks you're hot and terrorizes your cat for three days while you try to get him to go back home. Definitely not that weird. Yeah, that's not too weird. Wow, Casey. But on the bright side.
She got to keep her 50-year-old beer bottle and her new nameplate. 309. I thought that was going to be part of the scary part. Maybe he attached to those things. Maybe. He wanted to make sure that they had a good home. So Davey likes hot kleptos. Yeah, you know, who doesn't? But she's not a klepto because she was allowed to take it. But Dave didn't know that. She was definitely allowed to take it. Dave doesn't know what they tell you outside the premises. I feel for him.
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Ever since I listened to the first listener tales, I was tempted to share some of my stories. I finally decided to write in today after I validated one of the stories with a nurse that I work with. And then later in the day, my mail in my office mailbox just flew out onto the floor in front of my coworkers. No breeze and no one else's mail ever shifted. I've included two stories as there's a theme and they are somewhat short. Take what you like, leave what you don't. We'll take it. We'll take it all. The first one is called wheelchair basketball ghost. I was like, be basketball. I don't know why I said it like that.
The first story originates in my first year of nursing. I worked second shift from 3 to 11 p.m. I often got mandated to work a double shift 16 hours. Damn. That is a long. 3 p.m. to 7 a.m. I was young and energetic and loved the overtime pay. Mama needed some new shoes. So it didn't faze me too much. One evening, I had a patient's family member getting ready to leave for the night, and she asked me not to let anything bad happen to her mother. I assured her that she had nothing to worry about and that I would be there all night with her. Her mother was there because of COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and was very stable.
I really was not worried about this patient so much. I was worried about my psych patients across the hall that were seeing spiders everywhere. But I parked myself outside my COPD's patient door so that I could visualize her throughout the night. You're a good nurse. Very good. Also, I'd be scared of the spider patients. I would also be scared of that. I would stay away from the spider patients. Yeah, that would be a little terrifying. She was receiving an overnight statogram, which basically measures her oxygen levels throughout the night. They say that after you've been a nurse for a while, you start to develop a sixth sense for your patients and can predict when something is just not right, even when they look clinically fine. I was by no means an experienced nurse, but I like to think that this is when my nursing sixth sense started to kick in. I had this strange desire to make sure that I knew where the code blue, a code called when a patient loses their pulse button, was in her room. Isn't that like terrifying? That's terrifying. That's really terrifying.
that's like when you see like it's like in the new schools now you see like lockdown buttons on the walls like those kind of things while very necessary and i'm so happy they exist like they're comforting but also terrifying at the same time yes it's like so when you see a code blue you're like oh you have to use that at some point that's scary yeah like i said i was a new nurse and had never actually called a code blue Until this night. Oh, no. Later in the night, just after 2 a.m., my patient's oxygen saturation started rapidly decreasing. I ran into the room and flipped the light on. She was not breathing. I checked for a pulse. No pulse. I immediately pushed the code blue button on the wall that I had so conveniently located earlier in the night and began CPR. It's like she knew. She just knew. Like, that was the sixth sense. We were able to get her pulse back, and she was transferred to ICU. I felt horrible, like I had failed her daughter. But there were no clinical indicators leading up to this event. She was getting ready to be discharged home the next day. I then learned what happens when you use a code cart, the cart full of medications and supplies to run.
code blue. My co-workers instructed me that I had to take the open cart down to the sub-basement at the far end of the hospital and retrieve a new one. They thought that this would be a good learning experience for me and that I had to go alone so they could cover the rest of the floor. Because she didn't have a difficult enough night already. You should go alone. And she says, was this hazing? I don't know. You be the judge. Yes, it was. Our hospital was set up with a very long outer hallway that's slightly curved.
band the length of the hospital, and each unit had small hallways that branched off one side. My unit was on the far north end of the hospital, and the elevator to the sub-basement was at the far south end. As I pushed the code cart down the hallway, the units branched off to my right. I made it about one-third down the hallway when I saw a patient in a wheelchair, wheeling herself out of the unit hallway into the main hallway. I could not see her face, but she had long, black, scraggly hair. Of course. Nobody does their hair when they're past. I'm starting a salon when I die. Nodded.
DM. That draped somewhat over her face. Do you want to scare the shit out of living people? Do it looking good. Come to Nodded. Come to Nodded. The only thing was, it was not a pattern I'd ever seen on one of our hospital gowns. It appeared as though she noticed me coming towards her and she began to roll her wheelchair backwards and back into the unit she came from. I don't like that. I don't like it either. She did this so smoothly and quickly, like something you would see from a professional wheelchair basketball player. Yet she looked so disheveled. Apparently not. This listener is familiar with the wheelchair.
Wheeling and dealing in wheelchair basketball. She said she was so smooth, but she looked so disheveled and weak. I was still a ways from her, so I picked up my pace and turned the corner into the unit she had come from. She was not there. I looked down the hall in the unit, and she was nowhere to be found. Stop. There's a nurse's station right at the entrance of the hallway, so I asked the nurses sitting there if a patient had just come by in a wheelchair. Of course not. They looked at me like I was so strange for asking that kind of question at 3 a.m. and said, no, no one has been passed here. I proceeded back out into the main hallway, thinking to myself, cool, cool, cool. So that was a ghost. Yes. This is awesome. I arrived at the elevator to the sub-basement. How could they expect me to go down there after this? Couldn't I just leave this?
cart in the hallway? Do they really need a fresh code cart on our unit? Can it wait till morning? Or at least not the witching hour of 3am? Or can you take a buddy at 3am and use the buddy system? Yeah, you gotta use the buddy system. No nurses came out alone to the morgue. Oh, they had a buddy? These are smart nurses. I sucked up my fear and retrieved a new cart. Wow, you're brave. The whole time questioning everything I had just experienced. I know I wasn't overtired and wasn't seeing things because I had just performed CPR and my body was pumping with endorphins. But you said it was a 16 hour shift. Yeah. So possibly, but the CPR like pumped her up. She's like, let's go.
I was wide awake. I never told anyone at work about that event because I was not trying to stand out as a weirdo. Flash forward 10 years later and I fully embraced my weirdness. Love it. So that was the first story. The second story is the boy in the striped shirt. That's ominous.
This story takes place years later in a hospital in Georgia. I was a very experienced nurse and worked as a float nurse where I would work in a different unit each day to help the short staffing. I really enjoyed this position because I got to see all areas of the hospital and it also meant that I didn't always know the deep details of each unit, like the boy in the striped shirt. Yuck. On this particular day, yuck, I was working on a cardiac unit and one of my patients was losing their battle with heart disease and had to get put into hospice, end of life care. It was the last rounds of my shift and I went in his room to give him some medication for comfort. Before I gave his medication, he asked me, who is that little boy in the corner with the striped shirt? Did you say yuck?
She said, yeah. She said, that's your friend Billy. And just walked out. This poor guy's like, okay. Just seeing things. It was just the patient and I in the room, but I was too frightened because at this, but I wasn't too frightened because at this point in my career, I had worked with many hospice patients and it is very common for them to see loved ones that had passed shortly before they passed. That is true too. It's like a very mild thing. I have heard that too. Because they're like helping them transition. Isn't that soothing? Actually. I love the idea of that. You think of you're going to die tomorrow. What does that mean? I'm not telling you nothing. Yeah. I'm not going to tell you. If we'd like to tell you to go visit some country you've never been to, you'd be scared. Imagine going to a whole other.
no i know i've heard that before and i actually think it's really comforting that they come and like welcome you in yeah just transition you in and be like it's gonna be cool they're like it's not they're not talking to the people that are still living their beautiful lives here on earth they're talking to people that are going i'm okay with that it's warm and welcoming oh and this is she says i had experienced this with my own grandfather and would later experience it with my father i asked the patients the patient do you know him and he said no That's when I became concerned. I asked, what is he doing? It's like a TSA guy. You don't want to make sure you come without any. You don't bring anything. They scan you. Are you really who you say you are? So she said, what is he doing? And the patient said, you can see for yourself. Look at him. I turned to look and saw nothing in the room with us. The patient then said, he's just staring at us.
I wouldn't like that. Internally, I thought, us? Don't bring me into this. Leave me out of this. You're the one seeing him, not me. But I smiled and nodded. Finished administering the medication and made my way back out to the nurse's station. At the end of our shift, we would give the charge nurse updates on our patients. I gave my updates and laughingly told the charge nurse that my patient saw a boy in his room with a striped shirt. Instantly, her face turned from calm to frightened, as did everyone else's face at the nurse's station. She proceeded to tell me that the unit has a resident ghost or what some would call a grim reaper. Yeah, time is up.
Exactly. The boy in the striped shirt appears to people before they die. That's a good thing. All those people are dying and they're getting a welcome host. Why are you getting a boy in a striped shirt? I know. They just say a boy in a striped shirt. It's a nice light blue stripes. He's like the, he's there.
He's their transport. Yeah, their guy. Shuttle has arrived. He's just their guy. He's such a good guy. He's just our guy. I was fully creeped out and called his family to come visit him, which is probably a good thing. Yeah. I didn't say why. I just said that he had been asking for them. I handed off report to the oncoming nurse and gave her the notice of the sighting of the boy in the striped shirt. She huffed and puffed and casually said, great, more paperwork for me tonight. Yeah. Wow. Someone's going to go. Great. Oh, he's going to die. I was hoping for next Tuesday. Okay. She knew the legend and knew that he would be passing shortly. Damn. All right.
I hate to admit that there are nurses like this. Yes. But burnout is real, y'all. That is very true. I can't imagine being a nurse. It made me sad to hear that from her, but I was glad to know that his family would be there with him. I stopped back by the unit the next day to check on him. He had, in fact, passed away overnight and was now in the morgue. Helena. With me. She gets so happy every time she's in the morgue. I just get so excited. I joke. His family got to be by his side and say their last goodbyes and help his spirit move on. While the situation fully creeped me out, I found myself being thankful for that warning from the boy in the street shirt. She gets it. So that I could get his family to be there with him. Was this boy a grim reaper or was he a ghost there to help the staff and those that are about to pass know that the...
Time is soon. Thanks for listening to my couple of stories. Keep it weird, but not so weird that. Take it away, Ash. She can't. Not so weird that you're not in the fucking room like Ash. Not so weird that you get scared about the little boy in the pajamas who comes to do a good deed because he likes to transport you and you give him a bad name calling him the Grim Reaper. I like that.
I like this boy. I'm team pajama boy. Team pajama boy. He's always coming. He's like, hey, look, guys, just a heads up. I could get in a lot of trouble for doing this, but I want you to know it's going to be good here, buddy. I'm going to take you. It's going to be good. That's his job. He's an angel. He's going over the Grim Reaper's head to be like, this really scary guy is going to come in here later. I'm here to chill you out. I'm here to give you a heads up. Don't worry about it. You don't want the Grim Reaper just walking in with no one. He's going to show up. He'll be fine. He's just big teddy bear. He pretends he's scary. Ignore him. He loves that outfit. He'll come through and then I'll be right there. I'll pick you up tomorrow at four.
There you go. Good pajama boy. Like ignore the scythes when he comes in. Yeah. The kid's like, what's that? It's like, oh, it's like he had a pair of scissors. It broke. He carries just one scissor around. Like a giant pair of scissors. Why are you guys making me creepy again? But he just has one scissor. He just like, peacified the whole thing. He'll have no flesh on his face. You don't need to worry about that. You don't need flesh over here. It's okay. We don't. No skincare on this side. You just relinquish your flesh when you come. There's no such thing as skincare. Very smooth. It's like Hellraiser, which will make Sheena watch it. No. What song does this remind you of? What song does this?
This Grim Reaper? You have nothing in your repertoire for Grim Reaper arrivals? Not really. I'm okay. You're lacking. I am lacking. Are you thinking of a jam? I'm trying to think of a jam. I'm jamming to think of a jam. Sing a song about the pajama boy. What would his theme song be when he came in? I am pajama man. I love that one.
Imagine. Yeah, let's write this song back. And this little guy just comes in and he goes, I am Pajama Man. Yeah, yeah. He just comes in. I'd be like, hell yeah, you are. Elton John starts playing on the piano. Oh, that would be great. Listen to me now. You're just in your bed like, I'm ready, let's go. Don't be scared. Oh, that's Pajama Man. That's Pajama Man. That's it. And then he's like, now the Grim Reaper's coming by. Again with the Grim Reaper. He's got to come. Yeah, how else are you going to go? With Pajama Man. You know why? Wherever you are, Pajama Man, come get me. You know why he has that? Sing the song. I don't want a Grim Reaper, just a Pajama Man. He has to disconnect your relationship to this world.
And then your soul and your body split. And then he plops your ass into a boat. And you go floating down that river. Yeah, there's a boat. Towards the afterlife. Yeah. I know there's a boat ride. There's a nice boat ride. I actually know an Indian spiritual about the boat ride. Oh, really? Oh, I like that. What? The spiritual that I sang when my grandpa died. I love that. What did you sing?
Oh my God, that is so spooky and pretty at the same time. I know. Oh, I love that. You know, you have like all your Indian listeners are going to be like, what the hell is happening? They're going to be like, what the hell is happening? I sang that song when my grandpa died. I love that. And it's all about like, take me to the other side of the shore. That's beautiful. I love that. That was like so haunting. Ooh. Wow. Just gave us all the feels. That was crazy. We're all feeling all the feels all over here. All your Indian listeners are going to be like, whatever that is, make it stop. You're not supposed to sing that here. They're all like, la, la, la, la.
Don't worry, we stopped. Okay. I promise. All right, let's see. This next one is called, and I think this is the last one. It's called Hospital Spook Spook. What is the longest Listener Tale episode that's ever been published? This one, almost two hours long. I think we've made it to two hours. Really? Yeah. And you actually put it out as one? Maybe. You should warn people. Yeah. Listen.
If you have to pick up your daughter in an hour, this is not the day to listen to this one. This is a two-run. This is a I'm flying from Boston to LA kind of an episode. That's my listener tale. Listener tales can be so loosey-goosey. Oh, LTs as I like to call them. LTs. LTs can be so loosey-goosey. They can be a 40-minute. They can be a four-minute. It could be two hours. We could be talking about spooky things. We could be talking about people getting abducted, murders. Pop quiz. There's quizzes too. At the end of the listener tale? No, right in the middle. This is one. How do you show compassion in an Australian accent?
Or nor. She remembers. She remembered halfway through. Or nor. That's a good one. Or nor clear. That's what Ash always uses Cleo as the name. Yes, that's a good name. Nor clear.
You sound perfectly Australian. Yes, absolutely. Everybody's like, whoa, did you just have an Australian host come in here? No, it was me. It was me. It was me. Okay, here we go. Let's go. Hey, weirdos. Hey, my name is Becky. And yes, you can use my name. Becky! Thanks, Becky. Can I make a request that you all write, you can use my name, it's Becky? I love it the other way. Can we just reverse it? Hi, this is Becky and you cannot use my name. So please pick another name you prefer. That happens all the time. It does? And then you go back and peep it out. We'll be like, my name is Matt. And then you'll start saying it. It's like, don't use my name. And I'm like, oh, did that. I have to go back and peep it out.
All right. So Becky says we can use her name. Hello, Rebecca. There are probably fuck loads of Beckys out there. Yeah. Yeah, that's correct. Can confirm there are. There are lots of Beckys. That's how you make Beckys. But you're special, Becky. You are. Yeah. And we like you. Anyways, on to the gushy stuff. I love, love, love the pair of you. I love you, Becky. And Stan Dinesh. Yeah. Yes. Becky, I love you. I started listening to you guys last year and I can honestly say whatever it is, you guys have it. And I'm hooked. I love you, Becky.
I could listen to you all day. I've listened to a few true crime podcasts before and haven't gotten into them. But the way you tell these stories and the passion that you put into them really comes through in the way that they are presented. Alina, I feel you when you talk about sleep paralysis. I get it on near enough a nightly basis and I like the fact that I'm not the only one. No, you're not. I can't imagine getting it on a near nightly basis. That's horrifying. That stinks. I'm pretty sure if I told my husband he might divorce me. Ha ha. He already puts up with the sleepwalking. Uncomfortable laugh. Ha ha. Guess what I do when you're sleeping.
He already puts up with the sleepwalking and talking and gets freaked out when I'm just staring at him in the middle of the night. I've done that to John before. Why? And if he looks at me, apparently I start laughing. Oh, even better. I don't know. And a laugh you don't normally do. And he's staying with me. Yeah. Yeah. Kids with me. So like, he's really stuck. That's what she did on the first date. Yeah. Stared him down. Stared him down and laughed at him. And he was like, oh, I love this. I love living on the edge. He proposed right then and there. That was it. He was like, this is it. This is the one. Yep. Why would you not want the love of your life adoringly staring at you like she's possessed at 3 a.m. Exactly. 3 a.m. Again. 3 a.m. The witching hour.
All the weird things happen at 3am. All of it. Right. A little bit about me. I'm from a small city in a rural part of England. I'm a 37-year-old mother of three who decided at the age of... Same. Wow. Twinsies. Yeah, Becky. I decided at the age of 35 that I didn't know what to do with my life. Oh. Yeah. Hey, when did you switch? When did this start? Four years ago? Yeah. So you were right around there. Same track, Becky. Have you seen one of these? Yeah. Same. Do that in school. Same. So she didn't know what to do with her life.
Then grow up, get married, have babies, all worked out. But nobody had told me about what happens between now and happily ever after. So many women feel bad. This is your story now. This is my story. No one told me what happens after the kids are like big and then you have to find something to do for the rest of your life. Yeah, you don't think about it. Because your whole life is like them. Yeah, for that short time. This was the opposite. She thought they required no time. I thought I was going to pop them out and be done. Yeah, that's it. And like three months later, I'd be back at work. Yeah. How'd that work out? Ten years. Yeah, exactly. I feel that. Took a minute. Worked well. So I decided to go to university. Oh, good for you.
Get it, girl. And do a nursing degree. Hell yeah. Her children were the ages seven, six, and two. Damn, you're a badass. That sounds like the perfect time to go back to school. Another awkward laugh. Holy shit. Mine are seven and two sevens and a three and holy shit. Mine are 12 and nine and I'm just like, okay, maybe. Just finally like, wow. I've worked at the hospital for 12 years prior to starting my degree so I've seen a few spooky things from time to time and heard many a story. This story, however, happened recently on a placement I had in another smaller, more rural hospital.
It's always in the rural hospitals. Rural. Rural. Rural. Rural. Rural. Rural. Rural. Rural.
Starting the night shift, obviously, everything was running smoothly until the ceiling fell through in one of the bays that some patients were in. Oh, nice. That's a disruption. If a ceiling's going to fall on you, it better happen in the hospital, is what I always say. Until the ceiling came in. I know, but what a nice place to be. Yeah, you want to be there. You know, the casual stuff that happens in hospitals. We were rushing around to get the patients out and settled into a new area and phoning around to get someone from the maintenance team out to access the damage and condemn the bay until it could be fixed in the morning. Eventually, lights were turned off and the patients were settled in for a good night's sleep after the event that had just happened.
We had tidied the bay and left it still with the equipment, patient lockers and tables inside, and shut the doors. A few hours later, Jill, a member of the staff, went into the empty bay to grab a piece of equipment that was left in there. Jill came out a bit confused and I asked her if she was okay. And she replied, when we left, all the lockers were next to each bed space, wasn't they? I said, yes, they were. I put them there myself. She said, well, they are all in the middle of the room and the windows are open.
Why do the windows keep opening? Is that an easy trick for the afterlife? I can't open windows easily. It seems like a difficult task. It does. Close the windows. Only the real will get that reference. It all works out. It all connects. Okay, where was I? I said, yes, I put them all there myself. She said, well, they're in the middle of the room and the windows are all open. I went with another member of the staff, Sarah, to have a look. When we got there, all the lockers were in the bed spaces like they were when I left them and all the windows were closed. Yes.
Me and Sarah came to an agreement that Jill must have been seeing things and thought nothing of it. Seeing a lot of things. Yes. Yeah. A little while later, there was a cold breeze and it was coming from the empty bay. I asked Sarah to come with me to inspect it as Jill said she was not going into that room. I don't blame Jill on that one. We slowly walked towards the room. We stood there in shock. All the windows were open. The emergency exit door was wide open. That's the first trick they teach you in dead school. Oh yeah, burst open windows. Had to open all the windows. In cabinets. Yeah. Back to Jill and her windows. Back to Jill. No, Jill didn't want to have anything to do. Jill's like, I'm out. This is Sarah and what was her name?
I can't remember her name. Becky. Becky. Becky. Becky. All right. So I asked Sarah to come with me to inspect because Jill said she wasn't going into the room. We slowly walked towards the room. We stood there in shock. All the windows were open. The emergency exit door was wide open and all the curtains around the bay were pulled around. We heard laughter. Children's laughter. Oh, no. We stood in silence for a few very long minutes and looked at each other in fright. I bravely walked in and shut the door and the windows. As I was doing this, I thought to myself, well, if someone's in here and going to attack me.
Then bring it on, bitches. Becky. Becky's crazy. She also went back to school when she had three kids at home. She did. She's really, she's looking for a fight. She has the good hair too, I bet. For sure. When they were all shut and it was obvious no one was in the room, Sarah followed in and helped me to open all the curtains. We shut the door and headed to the nurse's station to tell all the rest of the staff what had just happened. With that, there was a loud bang and the other nurses were straight on their feet to check on the patients to make sure they were all okay. Sarah, Jill, and I, however, looked at each other. The three of us slowly walked to the empty bay and peered in the door.
All the windows were open. What the fuck? These kids are like, hey, we're having a party. We made sure no humans come here. We broke the ceiling. Get out. Get space. Now go away. All the lockers were moved to the middle of the bay and in one of the curtains, there was something. It looked like someone had got the end of the curtain and twisted themselves up in it. Oh, nice. So it's like a form of somebody. Oh, I don't like that. Curtain shape. I'm not into that. Jill's response was, oh, good Lord. Who is that? Then we heard it again. The children's laughter.
Just like that. Actual footage. Billy climbing curtains again. Sarah out of nowhere ran into the room with a and full on ran. Karate kicked the curtain. Oh, nice. Go Sarah. What if it's like an actual sick child that wandered in there? She just karate chopped him. Sarah just blew out the window. The curtain instantly dropped and the laughter stopped. Oh, they didn't like the fight. That's like paranormal activity. Whatever one it is. Where it's like, there's like a sheet ghost. Yeah.
And then when she goes to touch it, the whole thing laughs and there's nothing under there, that scares the shit out of me. But why? Only that? That will scare the shit out of me. That will scare the shit out of me. Yeah, that scares her. I don't need to see a shit ghost and then not a shit ghost. You know, magicians can also do that. Scares the shit out of me. They also scare her. That's true horror to me as a magician. With a red note. I don't like that. I don't like it. I looked at Sarah and said, where the hell did that come from? Sarah said she didn't know what came over her. It was the first thing that came into her head. Karate job.
Really? A million things went through my head and not one was that. We moved everything back into place, closed all the windows, and left. Why? Why are they doing this? And then... A little later on, me and Sarah together went to get some food from the vending machines. Walking past reception, we said hello to the receptionist who slowly looked up at us. She looked very relieved and said, How has your night been, girls? Mine has been terrible. I'm too scared to look up from my desk. I keep hearing children laughing, and I'm so frightened. I keep trying to figure out where it's coming from, but there is nowhere in the hospital.
But there's nowhere the hospital is all closed now and we don't have the children's ward. Where can it be coming from? We stood and spoke to her a while telling her about our night. When the night shift housekeep came, she looked like she had just literally seen a ghost. Or a view. Or a view. The out of hours apartment was now closed and she was cleaning the individual rooms and locking them as she finished. Unlocking. This one room had a heavy chair in the corner of the room. One a bit like a dentist chair is how she's described it.
She left, locked the door and carried on when she had got to another room. She realized she had left her antibacterial spray in the last room and went back to retrieve it. When she opened the door, the heavy chair in the corner of the room was now smack bang in the center of the room. Ooh, I don't like that. Why do they move everything when no one's looking? It's like a level skill. Like you can't move when people are looking. They should do it when they're looking. They're embarrassed.
What? Weakness. Because in case it's heavy, I don't want to struggle. I can barely move this chair. I'm a ghost. I'm supposed to be intimidating. I can't be struggling. Yeah, it won't be scary. You can't even move that chair, useless bugger. Come back next to you. It's a good bamboom effect when it's just there in the middle of the chair. All the windows are open. Ghosts are all about the pizzazz. The truly scary thing would be to watch it move. Yeah, but they can't move it. They call seven of them and say, hey, come on, Joe, come on. This is really heavy. They have to call their friends. Yeah, it's too much. That's a big to do. It's a production. Oh, man. Okay, so she ran out and she heard children's laughter and that's when we saw her coming out the corridor. What's so funny, kids? I know. That's what I want to know. It's the
are you guys watching bluey because if you are can i also watch oh look that three-year-old moved a chair and they're all scared that's hilarious That's really why they're laughing. They're laughing at the adults. Throughout the remainder of the night, we had to go into the bay to close the windows a few more times and still heard the children's laughter. I can honestly say I've never had an experience like this before. Like I said before, I've heard a few stories and have had a few moments, but nothing like this. For the remainder of my time, nothing else happened. I honestly don't think I would have been that scared if it wasn't for the laughing children. Keep it weird, but not so weird that you don't believe that one of your colleagues is seeing, but then see it all for yourself and go and karate kick a curtain that probably landed on a ghost child's head. Then you tell your story and find out they also have been terrorizing the rest of the building.
Bye. They were busy. Damn. You're not only doing that one room. They're running around on circuits. I love that ghost kids just like are like hospitals. They're just running like normal kids. They're like running around. That's where we're going. Yeah. You know one thing that's really nice about it is that they're all happy. They are all happy. Like they're not really sad to be bad. They're not walking around crying. That would be. Oh, I didn't even think about that. I know what's worse than a giggling kid. Imagine you're just here. Yeah, just kids crying. A giggling ghost kid is way better than a sob. If I saw a sobbing ghost kid just said, help me. No, that would be the end of me. That would be the worst. And then they started poking you in the back.
And then when you went to take your jacket, your jacket was already being worn by a form. Oh, my God. Say, help me. Yeah, I don't like that. I would like that less. Because nothing's worse than a crying child. Like, it'll just destroy my soul. Like, I'll just want to help it. But I'll also just want to cry. That's the soundtrack on the boat. Yeah. To hell. Yeah. Just crying. Crying children. Oh, my God. But tortured crying. Yeah. That makes sense. Crying dead children. Yeah. That's so much worse. Okay. Okay. At least I feel okay about... I want to start a podcast where we make noises. Can you sing that? You want to start a podcast? Yeah, yeah. Like, can you make that sound? No, no. A crying dead child. What does that sound like?
Oh, I hate it. Oh yeah, this is good. We'll just do sound effects. I hate it. Can you want to leave on this note? No, I don't. You're such a sicko. I'm a sicko? I'm sorry I brought her. I apologize. How dare you? I know. This is really mean. Well, thanks for having us. Thanks for coming. This is a fun spot. You're welcome anytime. We have literally been talking to you for two hours. Hell yeah. We're going to break this up into 17 episodes? Yeah, it's just going to be a little snippet. Oh, this is good. Ash, we missed you. We do miss you, Ash. She'll be back though. Oh, I thought this was a permanent position for me. No, I'm sorry.
Very coveted seat you're in. I am. I'm sitting in Ash's chair. You may have not known this. I'm actually feeling her. This little show has a few listeners. Just a couple. Just a couple. About a million people will listen to you now.
Just a couple of million people will hear you. Just a couple of million. And your fears. And my irrational fears of spiders and all things ghost related. And the sounds of crying dead children. Yet you're still here. Please don't haunt me. You are still here. I am. I made it. I've been a pretty good sport. You have. You've been a great sport. I've made it through now two episodes of Listener Tales. We'll ratchet it up a notch the next time. Okay. And I went to a haunted house with you. Something scary. Something like, you know, like I escaped a murder or something.
That's when we take it out. Let's do that. Or home invasion. I can do this. Oh, home invasion. Home invasion. Even better. Then I'm going to have to buy it. As long as it's not my home. Can you just do it on an episode where you have like a... And I'll bring sage and I'll like leave all the ghosts here before I leave. Yes. If we're going to do home invasion, can we do it when you have like a security company sponsor that episode? Yeah. Because I'm going to need that entire kit when we leave to do the whole house. Code morbid. Exactly. I have to go buy all these things. SimpliSafe. SimpliSafe. That's my home security system. I want the whole kit. SimpliSafe. Send me a kit. There you go. I need to secure my home.
You don't need to secure our home. Before we do any scarier things, we need to secure our home. You need to arm yourselves. From the ghosts. Yeah. From the ghosts. I'm not scared of people. I'm scared of the ghosts. I'm way more scared of people. As you should be. What has a ghost ever done to you in your life to harm you? What have they done for you lately? I don't know. I try and stay away from them. Oh, well, yeah. You guys are welcome back anytime. Thank you for having us. Ash will be back. See you next time. You need a minute. We'll do this with Ash. Oh, there you go.
We'll switch it up. Next time you want to go to Disney World. Oh, sweet. Elena is taking March in Disney. Yeah. Because she's doing an internship. Yes, absolutely. Disney has said, we're going to fix you. We're going to fix you. We're going to make you wear only pastel colors and enjoy it. It's going to be in like Adam's Family Values when they like stick Wednesday in that cap. And it's like, what just happened? And it's like, it's shock therapy. But her eyes never smile. No, just the teeth.
How do you end this thing? So we always end it with, we hope you keep listening. And we hope you keep being it. No, it. Come on, I made you listen in the car for two hours to get this right at the end. You got it right. You got it right in the car. We even practiced. We'll do the clapboard. Okay, let's go this way so you can do the last word on your end. Ready? Keep it weird. Keep being weird.