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Two Truths, One Lie! Happy Halloween Edition feat. Ye Olde Crime!
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Horror season is in full swing, and we have some scary stories for you, my cryptic cuties! We are so excited to be joined by special guest Lindsay Valenty of the Ye Olde Crime Podcast for some true or false tales of creeps!
If you are on Patreon, you know we have done our version of 2 Truths, 1 Lie scary stories and had so much fun , so here's some more you can play along with at home!
So listen in, guess along, there will be ghosts on stairs, in closets, naked men stealing pizzza, you name it we talk about some weird spooky shit! Thanks so much to our special guest, Lindsay, drop what you are doing and go check out her amazing podcast and our guest episode of their Crack the Cramp Word segment, all at Ye Olde Crime Podcast. Please don't haunt us closet-creeper, and always let your ghost girls accept your parcels, just warn us all first, for god's sakes. I'd rather ghost helpers than porch pirates, eh?
Hope you all had a Happy Halloween and get ready for more ghost stories to come! Boo-yah!!
Check out Lindsay and co-host Madison here: https://www.yeoldecrimepodcast.com/episodes
Keep it Cryptic!!
Apologies for my audio not being the clearest, we had some issues with recording remotely, but we hope it's worth the pain lol!
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Transcript
Introduction of Lindsay from Ye Olde Cry
00:00:00
Speaker
So welcome to a very special episode of Castles and Cryptids, where the castles are haunted and the cryptids are cryptic as well. And I'm your host, Alana. And I'm Kelsey. Today we have a very special guest for the very first time, I think, ever on our show. So we're very excited to welcome Lindsay from Ye Olde Cry. Welcome. Hello. Thank you for having me. I know it's been a ah fun a fun time trying to get this to work. So thanks um I'm glad you stuck with me.
Challenges of Podcasting
00:00:37
Speaker
but like we can record our like our loaf yeah Our listeners are well versed in hearing us talk about technical difficulties. You know, we gotta to pull back the curtain a little bit. They know we're not so polished. yeah It happens, man. It happens.
00:00:57
Speaker
Right? but That's, that's a brutal world of podcasting. That's just the way it is. Yeah. This is true. This is true. Um, yeah. For spooky season, we were like, well, we've been on Lindsay's show now. Oh, and we had to guess those hard, hard cramp words. We cramp our brains. We all learned that Lully Priggers will steal your clothing off the line. I don't know. It was hard. Yes. They will steal your laundry.
00:01:27
Speaker
But if you guys haven't gone with that one yet, you should. It's very random. It was a grand old time. Yeah, yeah watch out for those guys. um And today we thought we'd bring Lucy on to do some guessing herself.
Spooky Story Guessing Game
00:01:41
Speaker
So if you guys are on our Patreon one, you know we did this little True Truth One lie scary story edition that we kind of really enjoyed. So we're gonna do that. I'm excited. Me too. I haven't heard Kelsey's story.
00:01:58
Speaker
So I found a few. Nice. It is fun. Yeah, there's a lot online and you can find a lot of like really crazy true ones. And yeah, really crazy not true ones. all Yeah, yeah. That's the nature of the beast when it comes to being online and looking at stories. Right. And then the ones that are creepy pastas, and some of them are like really believable, like the Russian sleep experiment, like a lot of times you don't know that one's
00:02:29
Speaker
not real going into it.
Creepy Pastas: Fact or Fiction?
00:02:31
Speaker
And you're like, what the hell happened to those people? Yeah, that one tricked my 10 year old, she thought that was real. And we had to be like, no, that is fake, because she saw something about it at school. ah And I was like, gee it's not real. It's not real. And it's very scary. And there's a very scary picture associated with it. So I'm glad you were able. Yeah, yeah. Damn. That was a fun couple weeks with her not sleeping. But We did get over it. So there's that. Oh, yeah. Creepy pastels go hard though, seriously. job Watch out for that shit, man. You do. so Well, with that being said, do you want to kick us off, Kelsey? Uh, yeah. Um, let's see. Cause I don't know. We said we might not read all of the
The Child and the Nunchucks
00:03:24
Speaker
ones I found.
00:03:25
Speaker
So let's see. Oh, you had some in the running for the right amount yeah. to All right, this first one. your story number will Start. Yeah.
00:03:46
Speaker
When my daughter was two, I found her twirling paper towel tubes tied with twine in the air. I asked her what she was doing. She said she was practicing her nunchucks. That's cute. A two year old. That's very cute. I was very confused as she she'd have no way of knowing what they were. I asked her what she meant and she said that Adam had told her how to make them and showed her each night how to use them.
00:04:16
Speaker
Okay, I mean, Adam's not a brother. No, ah she went on to say that Adam told her to practice because she might need to know how to defend herself someday. I almost freaked out but asked her what Adam looked like. And she said he was tall, blonde and had blue eyes. She said, Mommy, you know what he looks like. You know him. He died of a headache. Oh, oh no A creepy, right? He thought of a headache, and just so childlike too, yeah. Yeah, that's such an innocent thing to say. and I had to leave the room, you see. Four months before she was born, ah my tall blonde blue-eyed martial arts pro friend had died of a brain aneurysm at the age of 27.
00:05:09
Speaker
ah She so like before she was even born ah she has not spoken of him since that day So I'm not sure if I scared her with my reaction or if she had completed her lessons. Oh my god none nu chuck and That would be really cute if that was like his way to be like I'm okay. I'm teaching your kids self-defense. You know, like that'd be cute. Watching over. Yeah. Yeah. You get those ones where you get the sense, like they're just checking in and like being like, yeah, I'm okay. Those are kind of sweet actually. Yeah. But wow. I can't play with you right now. Stop. Oh no. God. We're anti. I did this earlier too, when I was on like, uh,
00:06:02
Speaker
interview and then like they're like coming into the screen and they're playing with this hard rubber ball in the background and then the cat comes up and I was like Oh my God. I can't have nice things. It's all those, it's all those videos at the beginning of lockdown where all the professionals were at home and like their two-year-old stumbles in wearing no clothes and is like, that's my life right now. You talking to your friends? Yeah. Yeah.
00:06:35
Speaker
But yeah, I think that's more, that story is more cute than like freaky just because it's her friend and he wasn't doing anything super creepy. He was trying to be like a good uncle type of thing. So yeah. Yeah, I agree. That one, if that one's true, I'm okay with that one. ah Yeah. Cause at first when you were like tall, blonde, blue-eyed, I was like, where's this going? Hmm. Yeah. Oh.
00:07:05
Speaker
Always be afraid of the man. No, I don't know.
00:07:11
Speaker
I'll take the bear. Do you want to do one, Atlanta? yes i really can the trade off We'll switch off. Okay. I was too much caffeine today, by the way. oh we You never drink caffeine, so wow. I had a London fog at Timmy's for the first time in a long time. o weather's getting shorter, you know, it's just about that time. But yeah, we're recording like really early. Yeah, actually. so Yeah. Oh my god. Okay, so I have a scary story. Scary story number two.
Night Shift Haunts: Polaroid Encounter
00:07:51
Speaker
I tried to look up like a sound clip. One of the scary story noise, but I'll just do the Twilight Zone music
00:08:02
Speaker
but so my does it Okay, this one's called I hate working the night shift. so Oh, no. I already don't like it. Sounds like drudgery. ah I work the night shift at a data center, data center, whatever, from 10 at night until six in the morning. My job is network monitoring. Basically, I stare at a computer screen all night watching for alarm. Once per shift, I walk back to the server racks and make sure all the cooling systems are functional. Assuming nothing is wrong, which is almost always the case, I'm free to browse the internet until morning.
00:08:41
Speaker
That's not a bad for a job. Just be able to scroll essentially for your job. Get some research done. Yeah. Can you watch, can you watch movies? Can you stream in there? Oh, just you wait. Oh no. Also, just because I have this one printed out doesn't mean anything because I'm very old school. I'm always looking at things on the screen when I'm also having to look at Kelsey and stuff. So that's what I do.
00:09:11
Speaker
Anyway, last week seemed to be no different. After receiving the turnover from the evening shift, I settled in for another boring night. I read through the day's emails, opened it, opened my monitoring software and camera feed and started looking for the nice entertainment. My typical activity is to freak myself out by watching scary stories on YouTube. No, why would you do that? Probably with like headphones in I'm guessing. Oh, I don't know. Yeah.
00:09:40
Speaker
wrong I just got a shower. You should probably be more alert when you're at this night job. um yeah The environment is perfect, lights dimmed all alone in an empty building for hours. I pulled up a compilation of terrifying true scary stories and let my imagination run wild.
00:10:03
Speaker
I was absorbed into the tense story of a hiker pursued by an unknown entity in the woods. My vision narrowed in on the screen and senses on alert when I thought I noticed movement on one of the cameras monitoring the server rack. I felt a pang of anxiety and my heart jumped, but this was not my first time intentionally frightening myself and paranormma paranoia is inevitable in this situation. Oh.
00:10:28
Speaker
i ah I put the camera feed into full screen. The lights were all off in the ah data hall as they should be, and they only turn on when there's movement. Just my imagination. Still, I kept the panel opened in full screen while I went back to my video, glancing back occasionally. Not five minutes later, I saw a shadow again out of the corner of my eye. Looking at the camera feed, I still couldn't see anything, and the lights were still off, but I knew I saw something move.
00:10:56
Speaker
I got up to my desk, walked out into the hallway, then through an accident. I'm dying. Into the data hall. The rows of fluorescent lighting all clicked on at once, flooding the room in light. I paused to let my eyes adjust and tried to slow my breathing. I strained to hear any kind of movement somewhere in the racks, but the drone of the servers covered up any noise. With mounting dread, I began checking between the rows.
00:11:23
Speaker
With each corner I rounded, I felt my panic grow. My heart pounded louder than the scream of the servers. As I approached the last row, I knew that whatever I saw would be so unthinkably horrible, my body would not be able to bear it. I could barely breathe, my hands and face were dripping cold sweat, and I felt the urge to vomit. I wheeled myself forward, and in a moment, I felt an eternity rounded the corner and saw nothing.
00:11:50
Speaker
um Slenderman. A chair. yeah ah oh Ronald McDonald. That would be scary. It was grimace the whole time. Where's our friend Adam? I was alone, of course. I let myself get freaked out again from those stupid videos. Relieved, I went back to my desk. I switched over to a documentary on fighter jets and the rest of the night passed uneventfully.
00:12:20
Speaker
Okay. I watched a movie but or so you think. At last morning came, the morning shift came in with his usual hangover and we discussed the non events of the night. After exchanging a few pleasantries, I packed up to head home. On my way to my car, I noticed something under my windshield wiper. Drawing closer, I saw that it was a Polaroid picture.
00:12:47
Speaker
With trembling hands, I picked it up from under the blade and held it up to my face. Rows of server racks in a brightly lit room, I stood facing away from the camera, prepared to look around a corner. In the middle of the frames, reaching out from behind the camera, a man's hand clutched the knife.
00:13:06
Speaker
That's the end. No. I don't like that. No. Yeah. Also, you shouldn't have ah electricity-conducing objects if you're going to stab somebody in a server room. I'm just saying. That doesn't seem very smart. If you're going to be using a knife where there's a whole bunch of electricity and stab somebody, on the off chance you hit something else, practice in a say. just Just bring like a wooden baseball bat if you're going to do that.
00:13:37
Speaker
I don't know why I'm telling a killer that but respect the data servers, please yeah rethink your life choices maybe. Yeah, maybe I just always hate anything that's like somebody reviewing footage or a picture that gets developed later and it's something you miss that is the creepiest. I don't like it either. No, and it does come up in like, in movies and stuff, but also in like, personal stories I see like online. Yeah. oh yeah Yeah. Yeah. I can't remember what castle it was, but there was one castle that we covered where fairly recently, a grandmother
00:14:21
Speaker
a mother and her son were taking this photo in front of the castle and like in one of the archways behind them was what they thought was a woman in period dress, but there were no actors there that day. oh You can see somebody in like period appropriate attire like in the archway.
00:14:40
Speaker
Right, right. And they're not being paid to be there. You're like, nope, okay, that's the full on apparition caught on tape. Yeah. Oh, yeah. course That's, that's good when you can tell from the clothing that they're out of place. Yeah. so Wow. Yeah, there's not they always say there's not a lot of modern looking ghosts wearing a lot of hippie clothes. Who knows?
00:15:03
Speaker
I'm just waiting for those 90s ghosts and like the like neon track suits, you know, just like, so you can hear them like the track pants swishing as they walk past. What was that? Little tails everywhere. yeah It was a time. oh It was a look. that's beat her We wait another decade and then everybody will be super hipster. and into so I always see the joke online about ghosts asking eventually for your Wi-Fi password. They're stuck in the place where they died. So it's like, yo, dude, what's your Wi-Fi password? Be chill, man. Be chill. it's like yeah We've got to live together. Yeah. Yeah.
00:15:48
Speaker
Yeah, like you want to watch this, like it's your roommate now, just want to watch this on Netflix. like What do you want to watch? Send text messages from beyond the pale. Oh yeah, I don't like that. Yeah. Again, with the creepy ones that are kind of comforting, because if it's like about a loved one, you're like, oh, that's sweet. but okay Well, this one, this one is not comforting. It's definitely very creepy. All right. I like that we're ramping up.
00:16:18
Speaker
Yeah. ah but When my sister Betsy and I were kids, our family lived for a while in a charming old farmhouse. We loved exploring its dusty corners and climbing the apple tree in the backyard. but our But our favorite thing was the ghost. We called her mother because she seems so kind and nurturing.
00:16:44
Speaker
nope don't like that already after bed start don't like it no yeah no good horror movies are called mother or ma or anything like that you know this no Uh, some mornings, Betsy and I would wake up, and on each of our nightstands, we'd find a cup that hadn't been there the night before. Mother had left them there, worried we'd get thirsty during the night. What? She'd... She just wanted to take care of us. Among the home's original furnishings was an antique wooden chair, which we kept against the back wall of the living room. And whenever we were preoccupied watching TV or playing a game,
00:17:26
Speaker
mother would inch that chair forward across the room towards us. just like not without me guys so ah screeching mean imagine like hardwood floors do you hear like that but yeah yeah
00:17:46
Speaker
ah Sometimes she'd managed to move it all the way across to the center of the room. We always felt sad putting it back against the wall. Mother just wanted to be near us. okay
00:17:59
Speaker
Years later, long after we'd moved out, I found an old newspaper article about the farmhouse's original occupant, a widow.
The Poisonous Mother Revelation
00:18:09
Speaker
She'd murdered her two children by giving them each a cup of poison milk before bed. Then she had hung herself. The article included a photo of the farmhouse's living room with a woman's body hanging from the beam. only Beneath her knocked over was that old wooden chair placed exactly in the center of the room.
00:18:31
Speaker
shut That's dark. Yeah, no this one's not comforting. But it's like, oh yeah, she no mother no so she brought her and her sister drinks every night and would move the chair. oh and yeah Yeah, you knew it was gonna be sinister. Yeah, I was like, what's in those cups, girls? Yeah. Arsenic? What is it? oh Yeah, I feel like it's gotta be something.
00:19:02
Speaker
Yeah. Those are never usually that helpful either, are they? No. No. Even ones named mother. Yeah. Or nicknames mother. Yeah. Damn. Damn. Was that it? Damn. Yeah.
00:19:22
Speaker
That's it. I might share my, I have one last one. I might share it at the end. It's like maybe a paragraph long. It's really short. I'm so short. Some of them are so long. Okay. I had the same thing where I was like, yeah. yeah ah hello also Okay. Okay. What do you think? Do you have any guesses? I'm going to say, I think
00:19:51
Speaker
The first one sounds like it could be true. Mm-hmm.
00:19:58
Speaker
I thought they were going to throw up back there, but he's just licking his crotch. Oh. That's the odd silence about it. He's like, what are you doing? You're being too quiet. I was like, what's happening back there? um So I'm going to say the first one's true. I'm going to say the second one is not.
00:20:23
Speaker
And my gut reaction is to say that the third one is not. Okay. So you think it's two lies, one truth is what you're saying. Yes. yeahp Okay. Okay. Well, was she right about the first one?
00:20:41
Speaker
So the first one is true. It's true something on the internet claims to be. name um It's from ah Haunted Rooms, ah Short True Ghost Stories. And it was by Michelle Froelich Young. um Yeah. I like that. I'm glad that one, because that one's yeah's kind of comforting. Yeah. It is a little old.
00:21:10
Speaker
Yeah, it's like a little comforting, kind of like that. I like it. All right. And then Alana, what are the results in the second one? It's a lie. Yay. It's all lies. Thank God. It can be so hard to pick a lie one sometimes because even if they're like written to be like believable or whatever, they can be too long or like way too short or just like like Yeah, right. Exactly. Yeah. yeah but All right. And then the third one you said lie. It is actually true. Oh, I don't like that. um how Yeah, it's from the same. It's from the same website. They pulled it from Reddit by
00:22:11
Speaker
The thing I hate is like these ones, you know what, if you say like, oh yeah, there's newspaper clippings and that kind of stuff, like, come on, at least say like the town you live in. Some people can try and verify this. Yeah. Or just say like, yeah, or even like what year and what state so you can kind of narrow it down, you know? Yeah. But yeah.
00:22:34
Speaker
Yeah, but but it's it says it's true. It could be right out of a horror movie, though. Like you find. Yeah. Yeah. After you're living there with the hauntings and the scooching of the chair is just disgusting. Yeah, I don't like that. Right in the middle of the room. Yeah. Oh, no. um Good job. Thank you. oh Well, ah I brought something.
00:23:01
Speaker
that I could read to you guys and you can guess if you think it's true or not. Oh, OK. Oh, nice round. Oh, nice round. Oh, nice round. OK. So this is from I'm not going to tell you who it's from yet. I'll tell you at the end. Fair enough. All right.
Footsteps on the Stairs: Listener's Tale
00:23:22
Speaker
So it says so I keep having that dream about the little girl in my daughter's room.
00:23:28
Speaker
The past few nights my husband and I have awoken to the sound of footsteps slowly coming down the creaky old stairs Then stop before they reach the bottom We never hear the sound of them going back up the stairs When we go to check if one of the kids is there the stairs are empty just darkness It's had us both a little spooked And last night I was in my youngest daughter's room after she had a nightmare. As we laid there, I could hear the sounds coming up the stairs this time. who But it repeated. it's It sounded like they kept starting at the bottom and coming all the way up, then stopped at the top.
00:24:16
Speaker
oh Oh, that's gross. Jump out the window and light the house on fire. Yeah, that was my thought. I was like, no, no, no, no, no, nope, nope, nope. no but It reminds me of that like a like poem, isn't it? Something about you met a man on the stairs. He wasn't there. I met a man upon a stairs who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today or how I wish he'd go away or something like that. That's what it was, right? wow Yeah. Creepy. So you think it's fake? oh Do you think it's fake? I hope so.
00:24:46
Speaker
I think it's real, but I wish it was fake. no ah true then go It is true. So it's, it's something that one of our listeners sent to us and I, know um, I can read you the first thing she sent us about this space. So she said,
00:25:12
Speaker
She said, we recently moved into a house that's a little over 100 years old. It's a two-story with an attic slash storage crawl spaces on the second floor and a full attic above. As soon as we moved in, the space attached to my eldest daughter's closet felt unwelcoming, different than the others. o or and so all She said, even Yeah, and it's old. Yeah, I don't like it. And she said, even my husband, who is a hardcore skeptic, doesn't like going inside. Recently, the door to the space has started opening on its own. And it's a slow, creaky, horrifying open, like something out of a horror movie. We have that close. It freaks my dog.
00:26:04
Speaker
Yeah, I know you so you can you know exactly what kind of creaking is exactly exactly. Yeah just here yeahp Yeah, and she said it freaks my daughter out. So we moved her hamper outside the closet and blocked the door with it and She said the past few days we've heard the inside door do it slow creepy open then a click and the closet door pops open even with the hamper in front and Oh my God. The hammer flies away. Oh. yeah Yeah. She said, my poor daughter is terrified of what's inside. I don't know what to tell her. It's such a strange thing and very unnerving. And then. Damn. Yeah. And then she had an update before the one that I read read you originally. She said, update to the creepy closet story. Oh, God.
00:27:01
Speaker
I probably just psyched myself out, but I've been having weird dreams the past few nights. I walk into my daughter's room on a beautiful bright sunny day. There's a little girl facing away from me, but I can tell it's not my daughter. When I get to her and reach out to try to turn her around, I always wake up. I never get to see her face.
00:27:26
Speaker
It seems not creepy, but also very creepy at the same time. And it's got me freaking out a bit. Does anyone believe dreams have meeting? And if so, what could this one be? Oh, that's a good question. Yeah. name interpretation. Study yours. Yeah. Like, just can that's creepy. And then it's not her. Yeah. But it is her. But is it? Yeah. yeah Yeah, and these were I was like, I don't know the real stairs in her house. She's hearing this on our day. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So so something with something always going down the stairs, but never going back up. And then when she went to sleep in her daughter's room that one night, for whatever reason, they're going up the stairs instead of down. Oh, is it because she was up the stairs and instead of down the stairs that time?
00:28:22
Speaker
Maybe like maybe it's like this the little girl like trying to be wherever she is. so Yeah, because you said her and her husband are normally in the living room when did they hear it come down the stairs. But yeah, when she was upstairs, it came up the stairs. Yeah. boy I don't know. As a parent, I would just like, I can hear if my kids like getting near the stairs. I don't know. That would just put you on the tile or something creeping down the stairs. yeah You'd be like, that's not my child. I know. you're like i mean like You hear nothing. You're like, yeah, go get some holy water. That's my, that's my take on that. Just oh have someone bless the house for you because that's terrifying. Yeah. But if it doesn't feel like it's super
00:29:08
Speaker
ominous then hopefully maybe it is not a really like an evil spirit right yeah but even still like even more reason to try to have the house blessed because then maybe that little girl spirit could then move on yeah if it is a little if it is truly a non malevolent small child spirit right then yeah getting yeah that's so creepy that one is creepy Oh, yeah. but Old houses, attics.
00:29:45
Speaker
They are terrified. Don't like it. Don't like it. <unk> have that I at least have no stairs into my attic and nothing that comes down from the attic. You would have to like put a ladder underneath sure the door. So at least that's semi comforting for me. Is it? I wish my attic door is right above us. and talk about at can see and or something in this scene i know yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah We have one kind of like that that's on the ceiling in between
00:30:20
Speaker
my bedroom and my youngest daughter's room. Yeah, mine's in the hallway too. A lot of the newer houses they put it in the master bedroom, oh like in the walk-in closet, just to keep it so you don't normally see it. Yeah, I mean, ah if yeah, if no one's going up there, just tuck it away. I don't have to think about it. Yeah.
00:30:42
Speaker
Um, but then that just makes me think of like, what was it? The story of like the spider man or whatever, who would like hide in someone's attic.
Man in the Attic Mystery
00:30:53
Speaker
And he did it through their closet, like the opening in their closet. Oh no. mean i' I'd have to find it, but yeah, it was some very, very thin man that was like living in the attic of this person's house for like months.
00:31:10
Speaker
And he would go in through the crawl space thing like in their closet. Oh, those stories are scary. There was a case I thought I told Alana about and it was a a teenager that like, ah the father had told the girlfriend like, can't see her anymore. And he had mental health problems or something and but started living in their walls. Is it Daniel? Yeah.
00:31:36
Speaker
Anyway, he's the creepy case. he was remember He was frogging in someone's house. There was a lot going on with with it. ah very Yeah, very creepy. Me and Kelsey have talked about doing those. And then you're like, I don't want to do frogging crimes. And I was like, fair. And I live with a few frogs. And maybe I'm coming at it from a different place. But they are so terrifying. Yeah, very scary.
The Bizarre Pizza Thief
00:32:07
Speaker
Not a fan. One of the true stories I found was about creepy naked guys stealing someone's pizza. it's ah It was kind of fun. You guys want to hear that one? Sure. It was pretty short. Hang on. oh yeah yeah I don't know. Yeah. I didn't think that one would be too believable. it's it's Yeah. ah You're like, that's probably not fake. but It's from the let's not meet subreddit, which I love. And it's also, oh yeah let's not meet. Yeah. Make a guy stole my pizza. Um, just looking into the happier note. No, but this happened a few hours ago and I'm not scared anymore. Just angry. My pizza got stolen in my town. There's a story that a guy has moved into the deep woods close to our town. I never believed it as I go for night drives occasionally and never saw him or anything resembling a man that lives in the woods.
00:33:06
Speaker
Anyway, tonight I decided to go for a drive and drove past a pizza place. Being hungry, I decided to get a pizza before I went home. In my head, I had a plan to eat pizza and place a Minecraft, sorry, Minecraft.
00:33:22
Speaker
That's what I need today, a Minecraft. As I'm in my two week Minecraft phase at the moment. I paid for my pizza and instead of walking to my car with the pizza in one hand and my phone in the other, messaging my friend if he wants to play some Minecraft when I get home. um This was written by Minecraft, no. I was going to say, is Minecraft sponsoring this? It's an ad. It's just an ad for Minecraft. Also, of those sponsored posts on Reddit do look like ads, or look like ads. Yeah. yeah
00:33:56
Speaker
I look up from my phone to cross the road to the car park and see something under my car. It looks like a shadow or something dark. I put my phone in my pocket and pull up my keys. I unlock the car to scare off anything close to the car. I was thinking it may be a car or a dog just hanging around my car, but when I are probably a cat or a dog they meant a cat. Yeah. I should have made that correct. It's a tiny car. car right yeah goes a real race childs ah a little truck um But when I was ah unlocked the car, nothing happens. No cat running away and nobody running away.
00:34:32
Speaker
The shadow looked like it was cast from the driver's side, so I was going to have to look at what it was, whether I wanted to or not to get in. I put my keys away and pull up my phone again and turn the flashlight on to see better in the dark. As I turn towards the driver's side of my car, I see him, a dirty naked guy with big eyes staring right at me. He was crouched down trying to hide from me. Nope.
00:34:56
Speaker
No, I don't usually get scared of him. And he hangs out by the pizza. What? Sorry. I said he hangs out by the pizza place. Oh, right. Yeah, they were looking for him in the woods at the wrong spot. He's a pizza hut.
00:35:14
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Pizza hut troll. But this guy scared me. He looked like he rolled around in mud and it dried out on his skin. His eyes looked creepy bloodshot and kind of bulging out of his head. And he was naked.
00:35:26
Speaker
Sorry. I get startled and jump backwards out of instinct, dropping my pizza in the process. It falls out of its box and onto the floor. I assume they're in the ground. I start moving back to slowly and shut him to get away from my car. He looks up at me, then at the pizza, then back at me again. He tilts his head to one side and then dumps towards the pizza like a dog grabs it and starts running away down the road. And I assume he ran all the way to the woods. I wouldn't know where he went if I didn't feel like following him.
00:35:57
Speaker
Fair. Yeah. Wow. I lock my car and run back to the pizza place and stay there for a bit. The workers obviously don't believe me when I tell them what happened, but I know what I saw. Once the fear subsides after a while, I realized that this guy just stole my pizza. Angry as I was looking, angry as I was looking forward to it, I decided to get another one and run to my car this time. I get in, put the pizza on the passenger seat and go home.
00:36:23
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Once I get home, I locked all my doors and windows. I even locked my bedroom door as I feel a little scared still. I think I'll be playing Minecraft until the sun comes up. Creepy, dirty, naked guy that lives in the woods close to my town. I never want to see you again because I may have to fight you for stealing my pizza. Damn. And the top two comments were like, what the hell? Did they at least pay for your pizza? And he was like, no, they didn't believe me. Yeah.
00:36:53
Speaker
Literally the worst part. Oh, God. I feel like there's a just the tip joke in there somewhere, but I can't figure out how ah right how to how to work it in. Yeah. you know if He stole the pizza pie. What was he going to do with that pizza pie? with it Yeah.
00:37:16
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It's a rough day all together for that person. I don't know. I hope they got to play their Minecraft and they're OK now. I would be so pissed if I like had a horrible day and some creepy naked guy like stole my pizza. I would be so mad. He's crouched by your car. Like that is almost urban legends bullshit. Like you might as well be in your back. Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:41
Speaker
yeah I thought you were gonna say that he had the pizza delivered and it was like the video doorbell situation where like it got delivered and then you see ah the naked dude run from the woods steal the pizza and run away. I thought that's where it was going.
00:37:55
Speaker
nobody i like what is ah yeah Yeah, like one of those ah what is it contact list deliveries where you just leave it on the steps and then you run away. I didn't get my food.
00:38:08
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yeah No, but I did hear like a ghost story or something written into a podcast the other day where um the house had the little girl answer the door and was like, yeah, I'll take the package. Just put it inside the door. And the guy's like, okay, sure, whatever. And then later on, the delivery man gets accused of not or letting himself into the house to deliver it. And he's like, no, there was a little girl. She let me in and the homeowner went, oh, okay, nevermind. Nevermind. He's like, yeah, that happened before. She likes to accepting packages.
00:38:40
Speaker
of those that just like accepts all your packages for you and yeah we bring them in the house. It's a millennial. She's like, yeah, people will steal your Amazon package if you leave it on the doorstep. Let me let them in for you. It's from a time before the millennials were too scared to open the door. Her name is Alexa. She's like, Hi, I can accept that package for you. right I'm Alexa. And I think the ring doorbell showed like the door being opened by like, Noah, and then I'm like, well, that's kind of scary. I know you were talking to him. Yeah. and Yeah, because it does record as soon as it senses motion, it starts recording audio. So presumably if he was talking to them and moving that it would have recorded at least his side of the conversation. Yeah, I would like to see that. So that's creepy. Yeah, yeah it's even creepier to know that like,
00:39:37
Speaker
if you didn't hear who he was talking to. You know what I mean? like But you could hear him respond. You could hear him. Yeah. I'd be like, and I'm moving out of this house. Yeah. I know. But is that all she does? She's fine for deliveries. Yeah. like They were then speculating if she's going to take your DoorDash, if you're not there. I'm like, I guess you'd have to be there to order it. But still, yeah. She's like, it could be a porch pirate. Interesting. Yeah.
00:40:07
Speaker
Oh my god. Yeah. Yeah. It'd be even creepier if like, that story was connected to the story that I told you guys and she's like, trying to be the helpful little girl that goes down the stairs and never goes upstairs. She's always just down their way. Yeah. Yeah. You get home from work and she's like, so there was two deliveries. I pick up the mail. Like, really?
00:40:32
Speaker
like having an old time you And I didn't touch the thermostat. Oh, even better. Yeah. Oh, there was a TikTok like that where the ghost is like opening all your covers and messing with your thermostat being like, I just want to be comfortable, like your ghost roommate's point of view or whatever.
00:40:48
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yeah yeah
00:40:51
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ah Damn. we then just I do have one. Yeah. Yeah. I have one tiny short story. It's like a paragraph long. Let's hear it. I love it already. So this is from that same website. It was all true ah ghost stories. So this one's very creepy. um But short.
The Giggle and the Lost Phone
00:41:15
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ah It says last night, a friend rushed me out of the house to catch the opening act at a local bars music night. After a few drinks, I realized my phone wasn't in my pocket.
00:41:27
Speaker
I checked the same the table we were sitting at, the bar, the bathrooms, and after no luck, I used my friend's phone to call mine. After two rings, someone answered, gave out a low raspy giggle and hung up.
00:41:42
Speaker
ah They didn't answer again. And I eventually gave up as it seemed to be a lost cause and I headed home. When I got home, I found my phone lying on my nightstand right where I had left it. No. So it's like, so somebody from inside your house answered that. I don't like it.
00:42:06
Speaker
Yeah. The drunk answer is coming from inside the house. Yeah. Yeah. oh Yeah. A low raspy giggle. Try putting that on your cat. Hello?
00:42:23
Speaker
No, yeah that's gross. Creepy. I don't like that either. Yeah. I like it either. Oh, that was fun. That was fun.
Crafting Believable Spooky Stories
00:42:33
Speaker
Yeah, like guessing and making other people guess and trying not to giggle too hard through them.
00:42:43
Speaker
That's fair. That's fair. Oh, there was some as we critique what weapons you come out with somebody in a server room. There was some while you're made up story. I wouldn't use a knife. Yeah. Like I read it because they have the a lot of like the different true ones, like paranormal and let's not meet. But then they have like the ones like no sleep where they like make them up and yeah. i don know Yeah. Some of them are terrible. Yeah. Yeah. Some of them are really bad. But then some of them are like,
00:43:12
Speaker
That could be true. Like, you know, or could make a good you know titlelaw movie anyway. Yeah. One or the other. Yeah. Yeah. It was quite the Shyamalan twist. Yeah. Oh,
Ye Olde Crime Podcast: A Glimpse into Historic Crimes
00:43:27
Speaker
oh my God. Well, thank you so much for coming on, Lindsay. Did we tell you where they could find you plug yeah yourself now?
00:43:34
Speaker
Okay. Um, so I am Lindsay and. I do yield crime with my sister, Madison. We do ah historic true crimes that took place pre 1900. And we have new episodes every Wednesday. And then we also, every two weeks on a Saturday have the, can you crack the Grand Port episodes, which you were both on fairly recently. yeah um And it's just a really fun way to introduce our listeners to other podcasts.
00:44:07
Speaker
and some fun Victorian slang terms that you may or may not add to your daily lexicon. So yeah if that's something that, yeah. So if that's something you like, we're over at yieldcrimepodcast.com and we're on all the socials, ah think I uh, let's see, Instagram, Facebook, uh,
00:44:39
Speaker
YouTube and threads were yield crime podcast all one word and tick tock And then on x because we're still on x uh, we're yield crime pod You know, I feel like you still have to be on x to fear on a podcast but yeah, it's like i'm on yeah media is minimally Yeah, I I tried to minimize my social media engagement until after the election is done just because I just can't. No, but I always write very true memes and stuff. ah Yes. I do. I do post a lot of Bucky Barnes slash Sebastian Stan content on our Instagram, which I always sorry, not sorry. And I was like, Oh, hell yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. Speaking of, there's going to be another one in a couple of days. So.
00:45:37
Speaker
other opposed oh Yeah, another there'll be another ah Sebastian Stan post in a couple days. So fuck yeah, I got it. I got to keep it up. People expect it now. right yeah you start like eight and then they want more I need my Sebastian Stan Bucky Barnes content and I need it now.
00:46:02
Speaker
must have Marvel fix. if Yes. This very specific subset of Marvel fix. Yeah. so nerd is and now Yep. And now with thunderbolts coming out soon, like there's brand new. Yeah. know Oh, there's always something coming out. Yeah.
00:46:27
Speaker
That's what she said. Never follow a naked guy to a pizza place second location. Yeah. Don't do it. Yeah. they'll do it Don't do it. All right. And keep it cryptic.
00:46:48
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The end.