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The Haunting of Tennessee High School

from Mountain Mysteries: Tales from Appalachia · host Hailey and Holly

Join us this week as we dive into the history of Tennessee High School in Bristol Tennessee.  This school has a fascinating history and a few students who may have never left.  Let us know if your high school had a spooky history!Support the show

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Hi, I'm Holly and I'm Hailey. Welcome to Mountain Mysteries Tales from Appalachia. All right, welcome back. Ho, ho, ho, hey, Lee.

Don't call me names. Listen, we are two days, three days away from Christmas. Three days. That's crazy.

Three days. Are you ready? Sure. I take that as a no.

This year, I did not get you any kind of liquor. I am sending you hugs and a lot of well wishes. It's the same. It's been a very rough year.

It has. So we agreed like, no, we're just doing that. We're just doing the well wishes. Well wishes.

No gifts. I will send you a Christmas card. I not gotten, you know, those out yet. No, we've got three days, but it'll be a good one.

It'll be a new year's card. A new year's card. Yeah. Here's a picture of my kid.

I hadn't decided if I was going to send them, but I did send a few. I never know. I should probably entrance it. I'll get it by the new year.

I see you also get a new year's card. You know what? That's going to be the new trend and we are going to start it right here on this podcast. New year's cards.

New year's cards. Things that say, you know, let's hope that 23 is a hell of a lot better than 22. Yes. This is a rough year.

This has been a terrible year. And the first part of my year, I feel like, was okay. I mean, you had a rough year. But my fall into winter was really rough.

It was with really rough. You know, you're livers slowly failing you. Yeah. My whole body just shutting down.

That was really fun. Let's not do that again. That's what it says in her card. Well, I did.

So I had a panic. I got a tick on my dog. It was dead. I mean, she's on prevention medication and stuff like, you know, my mother's dead.

And I had like a full like reaction of sleep. The trauma. Because you can get it again. Yeah.

Like I mean, I just have, you know, it's diagnosed with Lyme disease. But apparently you can get it. Like you can still have flares and stuff like that from it, but you can also get it full blown again. Which would suck.

I just tell my mom, I'm like, if I ever get this again, just take me out. Just got you live right now. Bye. By the way, before we get started, I'm going to let you know that I am working on Heart in a Box, the song, the single releasing really cool drops the summer.

I'm so I'm super excited about it. It's going to be the summer hit. You watch out. I'm not sure yet if it's slow, jam, if it's like 90s pop.

Not sure where we're at with that. We got two versions. Oh, I love that. We got two versions.

Maybe a club mix. Everybody got me hot in a box. It's going to be, it is going to be the golden hour of, you know, top of the charts. It's going to be, that was more YouTube.

I think this is going to be much more podcast. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

We're working on it. It's going to come out. I'm for real. I'm working with my friend Katrina.

She plays the piano and so I'm thinking we're going to start out with something slow. And then it will manifest. And for those of you who have music talent out there and want to help me create this, reach out. We'll tell you how to do so at the end of the podcast.

I had kind of a crazy experience earlier this week, which is not really that crazy because it's pretty normal around here, but I was walking my dog up to visit my grandmother and look over and they're just cows in the field, which is not unusual, but they're not supposed to be cows in this field because it's right inside the road. And there was one cow that was just like going crazy kicking up the seals, having a grand old time running straight towards the road. So it's like, oh God, it's like, you know, I live in a pretty residential neighborhood. Houses are close together kind of thing, but then in the middle, there is just a large dairy farm that my family owned.

And there are still cows out there and there are two cows just out in the field by the road. My grandmother's out there with a feed bucket like yelling. So there's nobody else out there to help her. So I shoved the dog in the house.

I run out there and like, you know, can I go walk in? You gently put the dog in the house and run it. Shove it in the house. Pito proved.

And I ran out there and we finally, you know, my parents came. I had to call my dad and see what's down here working on the house. And I thought it was a little bit helped out here. The cow's gone rogue.

But we did get them in, you know, and if you know, you've out there growing up on a farm or been around livestock, you know, cows don't particularly listen well to directions. So especially when they're in a dark place like that. I mean, you know, following up with her on the run. Yeah, yeah.

I hope that you're able to have somebody to, you know, talk with her about profits or feelings. You know, perhaps she needs an SSRI or some kind of medication to help stabilize. To keep her in the field builds, you know, many, many vaults of electricity running alone. And one would think that'll teach her.

It didn't. She's no one to kill herself. So she ran out and then well, actually there was one out. We got that one to the fence and we opened the gate and another one just bolted.

Right. That common do. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. That's it happens. But the thing is, you know, if you have lived on a farm listeners or been around animals, you know, then once they get out, you have to walk the fence line to figure out where the fence is down. Well, thankfully the guy that like works on the fences we call him when he came up to and we were all walking around and nobody could figure out where it was.

The fence was hot. There's like a tester you can put on there to make sure that it's electric. I'll actually go through there because I'm like, I have because I used to, I used to test them by get a long blade of grass and hold it up there. And just because you can, it doesn't like it won't shock you fully, but you can feel like a tingle through the grass.

That's definitely not recommend because it's probably highly unsafe to do that. But that's how I used to see if they were still on if you were like down in a lower field or something. And if you're looking for the tingle, go for it. I wouldn't recommend sending your kids down there to try that.

But you know, all right. But they've been in because I can see them when I drive down the road. They've been in the window. And for those of you who were like, holy shit, they just keep talking through this intro.

We'll let you know at what point to fast forward. That's eight minutes in. Oh, my friend is going to be like, horrified. What is this episode about today?

We are talking about the Bristol Tennessee High School this week. You stole my, you know, I was in Abingdon a while ago. So you're like, oh, got to see it. Is this it's the Bristol Tennessee High School.

Okay, could you know, Bristol? Lies in both Virginia and Tennessee. They're on the line. So there's a Bristol Tennessee and a Bristol Virginia.

Yes, there are. It's very confusing when you're trying to figure out. It is my friend, Blond Meghan's from there. Really?

Yep, interesting. So we're rolling in to Bristol, Tennessee. It's a role talking about the school and it's hauntings. Oh, okay.

So public school system in Bristol Tennessee actually began 1888. Wow. Which I feel like is pretty early. Yeah, I don't know when most normal public schools started, but it started in 1888.

Yeah, 18. That's a 19. Oh, god, no, hopefully not. They had big hair.

Big hair. And before then they were just homeschooled. Yes, no one ever went to school. No, no, no, no.

18. 88. School administrators, they used a variety of buildings as public schools until they could actually build a school. One way that makes sense, even now they use trailers sometimes.

Yeah, yeah, when they can't fit all the kids in the buildings. Yeah, because it takes a lot of money to add on to buildings and, you know, we don't particularly like the fun to public education. No, unfortunately. But anyway, so they were using different buildings.

They first rented out the Baptist Academy to be a girls school. So the girls got, you know, this nice Baptist Academy situation. The boys school, however, was on the corner of Anderson and 10th street. Don't know really what kind of building it was, but it was nicknamed cornfield Academy.

I feel like you would have gone there. It was a boys school, but right now, I still probably, they would have been like, no, you can't go to the Baptist Academy. You've got to go to cornfield Academy. I know.

It's like, you give birth to your child and you're like, oh, no, and they're like, instead of visiting where a girl? Are they going to Baptist or are they going to cornfield? And they're like, I'm sorry, they're going cornfield. You're like, son of a bitch.

All right. It's my phone's going. Oh, no, like, I might have been amazing. I'm right.

I could have been this gorgeous building and I could find no other information about what it was. But I was like, why is it nicknamed cornfield Academy? He's going cornfield. Is it just a shack in a cornfield?

Like, what's going on? Probably like one of those log school houses would be my thought. But my thought was why, I mean, this feels progressive. The girls get to go to this nice school.

Sounds like, I mean, maybe the Baptist Academy was pretty rough. But they'd like to go to this like, nice school. And then the boys had to go to the cornfield. But if you think about it, you know, the girls were probably in their learning skills, like, you know, how to make dinner and, you know, how to set a nice table where as the guys were learning things, like how to shut K.

Chuck Hage. Chuck Hage. Chuck Hage. I bet you about Chuck Hage.

I know maybe. Maybe. Maybe. No, I actually, I don't know what to do with any kind of farm things.

My son did recently explain to me about Ace gets deer. Well, when he gets, you know, a little older and, you know, when I'm more of a stable adult, we've decided that. That long years is going to come and spend, you know, a week, summer on the farm with me. Yes.

That would be great. Have farm education week with our Auntie Haley. Watch him. You're like, no, take this blade of grass.

He's like, Mommy. I'm not there running like thousand pound animals back into fences. That are very unpredictable. Guess what I did today.

I'm knocked over by a steer. Yeah. Oh, he would probably love that. That's what they were doing at Court of Field Academy.

Who knows? Who's to say really? I'll get skills. Absolutely.

The first public school was built in 1893, which again, pretty early, I feel like. And it was called fifth grade school. That's it? That's all you had was.

No, it sure wasn't. I don't know why they called it fifth grade school, but it was called fifth grade school. Probably because it's not his education. Sure.

Like when you, oh, no, they taught fourth through 10th. Wait a minute. It's called fifth grade school. It's fourth through 10th.

Yeah, fourth through 10th, but it was fifth grade school. Maybe the intention was fifth grade. It was like, these kids just keep getting smarter. We just can't just keep education.

Exactly. They have to keep going, which is great. Education is wonderful. We should all invest in it.

Well, yeah, that's why we have all these student loans. Oh, God, yes. Anyway, so they did not have student loans. So they did have seven teachers and one principal.

How many early grades were still taught at Court of Field Academy? But now it was Boys and Girls with us. Okay. For what I understand.

There was not a whole lot of info. So now it's like, push. Which one is it? It's cornfield.

Boy or girl? They're still like, oh boy. Sorry, boy. Sorry.

Okay. Gotcha. Yeah. So they, the early grades were still at Court of Field.

Don't know what they were doing at Court of Field Academy, but I'm assuming. Skills for life. Skills for life from first through third grade. Yeah.

Is that the primary school? Yeah, like primary, because I think kindergarten was really a thing. Actually, I don't think kindergarten was really a thing until more like the 60s. Even my mother did go to school.

Yeah. That would have been the 50s. Yeah. So, yeah.

Okay. So in 1916, the first Tennessee high school was built in Bristol and it was called a Tose High School. Oh, there you go. So moving on to the actual high school.

Bristol Tennessee high school was built in 1937, but I've also read 1939 in other articles. I don't know which it was created in the teens. Yes. It didn't actually have a building.

Well, they built another building since the high school. They built that building. And then I think they moved and built another building. Gotcha.

But it was built during the Great Depression. Either in 37 or 39, I couldn't, towards the end of the Great Depression. It was said different years. Yeah.

And it was built actually by the Public Works Administration. I think several schools were. Like that was a pretty common thing. Especially with the economic issue.

Yeah. There were many additions built on over the years. I think that's been like 10 years like adding pieces to it. So I think it's kind of confusing little building, but built in the 30s.

Today, it is home to about 1,100 students, which is a pretty sizable school. I'm going to look it up. See if it's still how many they have. So I'm thinking about the school that I went to in high school was I went to a weird kind of high school.

But we only had my graduate class. We only had 30 people in it. Really? So I went graduate with 30 people.

But the big high school in the county had like probably around 500 total. So it's still pretty small. Mine was like 500 graduating class. It was like 3,000 kids.

It was big. Yeah. It's pretty, I mean, we're pretty small. It also has, the Tennessee High School has an 8,000 seat arena.

So I think they've got pretty good sports stuff going on over there. Sports stuff. I didn't play sports in school. I think they've got some sports stuff going on over there.

They're doing good. They're doing good. They've got their sports stuff. Maybe they have an 8,000 seat arena.

I guess somebody is doing well. And I think you would also be able to rent that out too. Right. I don't know.

Clearly, we both know a lot about sports. Yeah, no. Got nothing. And it has several afterschool activities going on.

I think they're pretty doing things. They have trick or regulars. Yes. There are also a few spooky residents that stuck around and like to run the halls.

You know, I kind of like that idea. Like, you know, I just never left my school. I just wanted to learn more. Yeah, the learning.

I think that's what it is. Yeah. They just wanted to learn. Yeah.

And stay. Who are they? That's what we're talking about. There are three pretty well known ones.

So let's talk about two of them. And then we'll go into the third. That's kind of fun. Okay.

So there's one that makes an occasional appearance. And it is a spirit of an athlete who was walking home from a game one night when he was struck by a car and killed it. There's no name on it. So like it's kind of one of those like is it real?

Is it just a story that they've made up? Yeah. You know, there could be some type of spooky happenings. Not just the story that was attached to this particular ghost.

But so as an athlete walking home hit by a car, they say that athlete was so attached to the school that his ghost is still seen in the field house during games. So you know, you're getting ready. You're putting your gear on. Yeah.

As you do. As you do. You know, you put on your straps and supports and the thing that you put on. Your cleats and your shin guards and your mouth guard.

There you go. We don't know what we're talking about. What's happening? You get your balls, whatever they knock those balls.

Whatever balls you need for this sport that you play. So you're you stretch. Get the hammies warmed up. And suddenly appears at Joe.

Just this random guy. And he says, what does he say? First and down. First.

And you're like, do you? I don't know what that means. It's a football term, but I still have no idea what it means. It means it's your first down.

What was that? Something about yards. We're ignorant. We're stupid people.

And he's going to even let's give us a play by playing football. That would be great. Because we are stupid. We're adorable.

We're educated. We're very well educated. But we're so dumb. And I feel like in football, they switch sides.

At some point, like they switch. But they do that in basketball too. Yeah, they switch goals goals. In positions.

Just which teams in the middle. They're playing for the other team. You know what we should do? We should right now just switch chairs.

Really. Look, we're sporty. We're sporty. That's what we confuse me so bad because I'd be watching one end and then all of a sudden they switched and I'm like, what's going on?

Yeah. Well, and actually even in baseball, you know, you have the ones who are hitting and then you've got, you know, that makes sense to me. Right. But like why switch ends of the field?

So we're just, they're just, they're gonna damage to one side versus the other. Well, I think, you know, sometimes people tend to play better on one side versus the other. So I guess they're making it an even playing field. Yeah.

You feel the hate emails rolling in currently. It's fine. Okay. So let's have the rolling or, you know, rolling for you to kick it and score.

Hey, okay. We don't really don't. It's being mostly punted. Is that a thing?

You punt? Yes. You can punt. And you can in baseball, you can but that's, yeah, you can punt in football.

Yes. You punt in baseball. And you punt in baseball. Yep.

Okay. Great. I could go for a but cake actually. No, that sounds good.

It is, but anyway. All right, y'all there it goes. We'll just actually the second goes for talking about this. There goes to my list because I want to talk about, you know what I mean?

Okay. No, this goes, um, which is super interesting. It's not actually a person for many years. The spectral image of a 19th century steam engine has been seen rumbling down the hallway and then it just vanishes.

Why a steam engine? Was this a former like railroad station or something? Like, yes. So context helps.

Yes. Local say that at one time a railroad passed through the site where the ice was not located. So I don't think there's any, I couldn't find any history of there being any type of like accident or something. But you know, we've talked about how places can hold energy of things and sometimes that presents in kind of a weird way.

Like whether it's just a weird vibe you get going in there, like the hair of the back here next ends up, like you just feel kind of icky kind of thing. Or you know vice versa. You walk in somewhere and just feel a great piece, a great calmness for this place. It's a, you know, ghost train.

Well, and we even did a ghost train story. Yeah, that's why I was like, huh? That's kind of in a loop where they don't, you know, the train doesn't know that it doesn't go through the station that doesn't exist anymore. You know, so yeah, um, that would be weird.

Your walk changing classes. Well, they say it usually happens at night. Oh, great. Um, but apparently this ghost train is so noisy that the vibrations of the engine have been known to cause the entire building to shake.

Wow. I think probably it's on an old boiler system or something. Maybe school is and it just rails. We didn't earthquake the other day in the middle of the night.

My house shook. Really? Yeah. I know that.

And I would, I had taken Michael and, uh, no, I was not dreaming and I woke up and I was like, I think that was an earthquake because it was like, boom, and my house shook really hard. And, uh, then I was like, you know, it was an earthquake. Okay. And sure, not the next day I woke up and we had an earthquake.

Wow. Yeah, then the, you know, western part of the state, there is a lot of little fault lines. Yeah. I mean, maybe a little mixture of boiler earthquake.

Earthquake, ghost train. I say ghost train. I love it. I love it.

I love it through the hallways. At, you know, how to me boy. Is that the Chattanooga? Choo choo.

Okay. Um, thank you so much. Okay. So let's talk about the best known ghost.

Okay. So this is a ghost of a former student named Actus. Many years ago, following a, like a, I've heard it called college night or class night. I think they call it both and it's a lot of different articles, but it's kind of a ceremony where, I think it's like juniors and seniors are there in this, they're celebrating the seniors moving on and the seniors are like passing down, you know, there wisdom to the junior class of like, hey, you're about to be, you know, top of the school.

Here's our advice kind of situation. Yeah. As a best I could understand, if you're from the school, that is no, that's, you know, what you do. Who knows?

Or did or did. Um, but she was on her way to a dance after this college class night or whatever it is when the car she was writing in was struck by a train. Could be the ghost. I was like, say, was it the ghost?

I know. Um, struck by a train at a dangerous intersection. Um, and this was killed instantly since that night, the ghost has been seen many times in the original part of the school. Um, before apparently the corridors were carpeted, which seems like a terrible idea in a school.

But students and staff, apparently her ghost footsteps echoing through the school before it was carpeted. You could hear the footsteps on the tile or whatever it was. Maybe hardwood. The hardwood floor, maybe.

Um, so even though no one can hear the footsteps anymore because of the carpet, janitors working after hours have felt, you know, a presence around them, which is spooky. Uh, some people say they have seen the white figure of a girl passing down the hallways. Um, and there's actually a book written by Charles Price called Haunted Tennessee. Um, it says that every night at midnight members of the chorus rehearsing for an abretta.

So Agnes is ghost floating out of the attic and sitting on the rail of the clock, usually swinging, sitting there, you know, swinging her legs. Wow. She's brazen, right? Um, it said that sightings of Agnes stopped around the same time with the production of upper red tuzz.

I think that's how you say that. Um, and plays were halted. So they stopped doing, you know, big production. So I guess she's all in.

She's like, she loves it. She loves the drama, theater productions. Yeah. Because I'm gonna be here for it and then boom, nothing.

Right. So I'm wondering if they started doing, you know, little operatas again. Then here's the question. Where does the ghost go?

I mean, I mean, okay. I mean, we would support her no matter what. The go back and they check in with you with a reception desk and they say, do I need to haunt someone else? And I'm like, wait a minute, let me see.

Let's see if I have an assignment for you. And I check and I'm like, I'm sorry. We're pretty booked up. So then they just chill and the lounge that goes flange and they're looking at me and I'm like, stop looking at me like this.

And then they, you know, see on there, you know, whatever that, oh, hey, there's a football game. They get an email, an email, they pop up and they're cute and I'm like, oh, I'm gonna go score. So they go out. I'm hit out, pitches and they go out and they're ready, you know, and I'm like, oh, you get them.

You haunt them. I'm like, I try and encourage them. That's what I do to you. Yeah.

You turn that table upside down. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Hello.

This is Holly Hillman, director of call. No, I'm sorry. She's out on the football field. Yeah.

Yeah. Let her know. Thank you so much for calling me after life. Just doing some poltergeist activities.

Exactly. She'll come back to you. Just violently haunting today. Not a good night to reach out.

Give her a couple of days and she'll get out of the room. She needs to recoup. Like her soul is just some violent haunting. Right now, I can't wait until you violently haunt the people I want you to, you know, and second reception.

So I need you to do this for me. I got it. I have a list. Okay.

You can start now if you want. No. All right. I don't want you to die.

Okay. I such a delicious sort, isn't it? I know. What are we talking about?

This goes. It's right. There are apparently several versions of Agnes' story though. So nobody really knows exactly what happened because there's another story that she drowned in a swimming pool, you know, accidentally or whatever.

And then there's another version that she actually hung herself in the girl's bathroom at the school that's like apparently like walled off now or something crazy. So I don't know. However, what I thought was really cool. I wanted to make sure that I included this.

An English teacher at the school, I don't know what year this was, and his students, they dug into the history of Agnes to try to figure out like what was the real story. Student reporters dug into her past finding a student named Norma to be the kind of originator of legend. She drowned in the early 1950s and at some point in the following decades, people started talking about a ghost named Agnes. So they really think it's Norma.

So they think that it was probably Norma, which is kind of cool. And a long time teacher at the high school who I guess had been there for probably some sippies, said that the new name was a way to kind of separate the legend from the real person. Kind of give it a little fantasy. That and to kind of respect you.

I mean, I can imagine, you know, she, you know, this young student did drown in her family was still around and you hear about this like, you don't want to hear about the ghost of your loved one. And if so, I mean, I would want that to be my children or, you know, people who are close to me to walk into a place and being like, yeah, she's awful. Like this ghost just, I mean, destroys a place every night. It's horrific.

We hate it. The table is thrown every time. Every time. But we're like, yeah, that sounds like the truth.

Yeah, that's right. But yes, I could see and how they would feel like, why does she go to the high school and not come and visit us? Right. You know, yeah.

So it's kind of this the way they they've separated the two people. So this English teacher's student has actually wrote a profile of Norma several years ago, which on earth, you know, details about her life. And they like made this thing. And the teacher said, you know, it really became kind of a lesson of respect.

As a newspaper staff, we felt almost like this is sacred. We wanted to honor the student who was one of us. Wow. So I was like, I guess it was like a journalism class.

I'll read more about it. It's really cool. I was like, well, that's awesome that, you know, and then it's like, well, this was a student. This is one of, you know, and it's awesome to have a school community that's like that where it's like, you know, this, you know, the history of this place, like our alumni were one of us and, you know, make sure you honor them.

To me, you know, souls never die. And everybody has their own belief system. But you know, I think there are those ones who maybe went before they shouldn't have, and they're sort of just trapped. They're just, you know, they're kind of one foot on one side, one foot on the other because they were taken so suddenly, you know, without resolution.

And even if Haley has resolution, she will still haunt. I have her set for employment in 2020. Oh, no. I have her set here in 2069.

She'll be here. So yeah. Can't wait. Yeah.

So we're looking forward to that, Haley. Thank you for joining us. You're welcome. You're welcome.

But yeah, that's, you know, kind of the history of the school. Do you know, Tennessee public schools? It's still open, still functions. Yeah.

Probably on a most work registry that they can't tear it down. Yeah. Yeah, they could probably change. I mean, there's a school in our, in the town that I live in that is on the store registry, but it's not school anymore.

I think it's like apartments or something. Of course. Right. Why was this housing, of course?

I think it went through like those community center and those partners and like that. And the good news is in this area, if you want a studio apartment that's about, you know, 400 square feet. Yeah, $2,000 a month. It can be yours.

Yeah. It's right. It's close to things. Right.

Walking distance to a brewery. So, you know, yeah, it's high. Anyway, there was just a lot of, I feel like there was a lot of yes, so true, so true. Yeah.

But this, you know, how cool to be in a haunted high school. I think, you know, my high school was haunted. Yes, seriously. Yes.

But we didn't, I mean, it did feel kind of creepy, but you didn't actually know it was haunted until years after there was a whole video that came out about it's, you know, riding the elevator, which by the by. I used to ride that elevator. So we have our guidance office was in the towers that exist on the top of my school. And a scene, I was a freshman and the senior told me if I had one of those cool little mailbox keys, I could put it in there and make the elevator open up because it used to be teachers only with these and stuff.

And I was like, well, don't know, but I'm going to try it and sure enough. So I would pop up in that elevator and open up, you know, until one of the guidance counselors said, how'd you get access to that elevator? And I was like, um, um, it was the senior and I got him in trouble, but whatever, it's fine. I was tired of walking up those millions of stairs off the twisty turn to get up there all the time.

I was a frequent flyer. Yeah. Oh, no, no, I worked for the guidance office. I was an aide.

That was like my fourth period or something. Yeah. That's cool. And I have given back because now I do what I do.

So, you know, it all comes full circle, but I didn't see a ghost, but I do think it's ironic that even the ghost doesn't want to walk the stairs. Right. Right. That's a lot of stairs.

Yeah. This episode kind of fell apart. It kind of did, but I did kind of enjoyed it. I haven't been able to get to it wasn't bad.

No, it wasn't right. Up an elevator in town. No, we didn't do that. We don't know.

We don't know what we're talking about. Around and around. It's, you know, it's the holiday season. Everything's a little crazy right now.

Actually, yes. You know, and what are my questions? What are you guys up to for the holidays? Are you traveling somewhere listening to this episode?

And if so, I'm really sorry. Right. Not about the traveling. Just obviously.

This is what you had to deal with today. But you thought, oh, I'm going for intrigue and mystery and you got this. It's fine. It's fine.

Every once in a while, we got to have one of these. I figure we'll get emails. It's fine. I don't care.

Hayley, how do they do that? You can send us an email at Mount Mysteries.com. Find us on our Facebook, Mount Mysteries. Tell us about B'Lasha.

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Wow, Hayley. You really sold it. You're welcome. I was going to say something else.

Oh, we are in Augusta, you know, Christmas is in what, like three days? Hanukkah began on the 19th, I believe. Yes. So we're in the swing of Hanukkah.

I read a really cool thing that was like between, I think, mid November to mid-January. They're like 29 holiday, like, holiday celebrations for the major world religions. Like over 29, like, significant dates to people celebrating. Which is crazy to me.

But I just know, you know, right now, Christmas, Hanukkah, they're going on. I'm sure there's more. Oh my gosh, yes. So many, so many.

So happy holidays to everybody out there. And holiday, whatever you are celebrating. Yes. I will be celebrating Christmas with my family in a couple days, which is exciting.

But yeah, whatever you're celebrating, be that Hanukkah Christmas, Kwanzaa, Chinese New Year's coming up pretty soon. I have a good friend who, every holiday I send her a box of like things from America and, you know, some Christmas items and she sends me stuff for Chinese New Year. Oh, that's awesome. It's really cool.

Kind of a little like exchange we do back and forth. So I'll have to get the box together. Yeah, that's really cool. I haven't sent it yet, but I need to do that.

So what? Maybe, maybe for New Year's. Maybe for New Year's. Maybe for New Year's.

Maybe we'll do have a New Year's box. Yeah, this is an American New Year's box. I think it's very different celebrations. She just sends me little lanterns and things like that.

So maybe I'll do that. That's your instance of Christ and stuff. Maybe, maybe, but it's typical American champagne. Oh, I don't know if I can ship that.

Maybe a hot talk? Maybe a hot talk? It feels very American. Yeah.

Maybe something from sports? Yeah. At first down. This box that helps.

Send it right on. How do you send a first down? We'll find out. Oh gosh.

All right. So should we do a shout out? We should. We should end this.

I just put this one down and call it a day. All right. I want to give a huge shout out to Eskendido, California. Oh, yeah.

I've never heard of that. Yeah, Eskendido. You never heard of it? No.

Southern California. Interesting. Yeah. Cool.

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