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Hometown Haunt: McKay Avenue School Museum
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We hear dead people! Haha, we promised a local hometown haunt and here it is. Alanna reads to us of the haunting encounters that happen at the McKay Avenue School, an institution established in Edmonton in 1881. You know the big old buildings that look like they could be old-timey jails or schoolhouses? That's the vibe, only now it's a museum where the spirits tease the workers like they may have pranked their teachers so long ago! And since Leslie Nielson was a student, you know stuff went down!
So join us, Gordo the Interrupting Ca-(Meow!), Ron the worker and Peter the poltergeist with a saucy personality, for some Sunday Scaries, but the good kind! And some divergences into Halloween 2024, the Haunted Museum in Vegas, and why we would never come back to haunt high school. But we may have to go check out this haunted school...
So don't forget to rate, share, and donate on Patreon so we can go ghost-hunting!! Right, Kelsey? Kelsey?? ....
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Transcript
Introduction and Ghost Story Sources
00:00:00
Speaker
Darkcast Network. Indie Pods with the Dark Side.
00:00:31
Speaker
You told me a ghost story about something that I forgot all about now. Or you told me several, actually. What even was it? I think you had some that were actually from like Reddit. Did you not? Yeah, I had some ones that said that they were true.
00:00:49
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um And for i'm from like our ghosty one that we're putting out this week that we're adding to, you had some that were like Reader's Digest,
00:01:00
Speaker
but also Reddit or something. I was like, weird.
00:01:07
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Yeah, I can't even remember. Jesus Christ, it's been a thousand years. It has.
Halloween Content and Fatigue
00:01:15
Speaker
It's been a Halloween and a half and now we're coming back to rerecord some extra ghosty content that we didn't get to. Because last time we just didn't, same episode, but I think you had been up since five o'clock and we just couldn't record any longer.
00:01:31
Speaker
Oh yeah! i I think I had closed and then I had opened. Oh, no. And I had started at, yeah, and I started at seven or something. So I think I had like five hours of sleep and I was like delirious. I was like, I can't do this. i And I remember after we like stopped, I went straight to bed. So tired. Yeah, it's so funny sometimes that the recordings will hype me up a bit. And to be fair, I'm usually drinking some
00:02:08
Speaker
coolers or whatever, but then like you get off and you're just like, okay, party's over. You just shut the shit down sometimes and you're just like, moving on, right? Yeah, I normally go to sleep, but it it depends what time it is. Oh, yeah. we We haven't done too many Saturday afternoon recordings, I think.
00:02:28
Speaker
Either you've been working too much, or I've been like, oh, I think we have D and&D, or whatever happens. And then we were like, I guess we're doing it Monday. No. yeah yeah This time on a Tuesday. Yeah, top Tuesday. See you next Tuesday. At least just say that on the P and&W haunts and homicides. Well, free promo for them. No.
00:02:58
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oh What else was I gonna tell you? I don't even know.
Halloween Costumes and Traditions
00:03:02
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We handed out Halloween candy. I put on a cloak and said I was a traitor. I'll put pictures. there was pitch I'll put a picture of Rain's cape she made for her costume. That was pretty cool. She yeah said she wanted to go as the lamb from the Cult of Lamb show or something that she watches. I don't know. Never heard of it.
00:03:28
Speaker
some what do they call that her generation gen z gen alpha i don't even know some of that bullshit um but it looks good yeah and she i don't know it's getting all crafty like we bought her some red fabric and then she made furry lamb ears and then used some of the cobwebs to make like lamb's wool i don't know it was like oh
00:03:57
Speaker
nice yeah i would can make her own yeah I went Wednesday Adams again at work. Oh, nice. you always have I was closing. Yeah, and I was closing so I was at work till 930 so I didn't get to see any qe cute costumes and trick-or-treaters. Oh, true. That's too bad you were all decorated up.
00:04:25
Speaker
I know. Yeah, I did. This is the the third year now that I didn't get to hand out candy. um The first year I ended up getting really sick like the day before and I i wasn't feeling good and then the last two years I ended up working. so i I told people at work I was getting sad, like seasonal affective disorder, but it was about not seeing trick-or-treaters for three years and around. It's Halloween FOMO is what it is. Yeah, Legit missing out. Yeah, it's like my favorite holiday and yeah not getting to see all the fun costumes and handing out candy. and
00:05:06
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I didn't watch like any, I didn't watch Nightmare Before Christmas or anything like that that I normally do. Hard to have time to watch any horror movies for us to talk about. I know, I didn't. a yeah Had like nothing. Yeah, so this year has been really weird for me.
00:05:28
Speaker
Yeah, well that's too bad. I heard one of the, well, from on a podcast or something listing top costumes that one of them for the year that was bought was Lady Deadpool. ah Yes, if I could get a Deadpool costume that actually like looked good, oh really I would probably wear it every Halloween for the rest of my life. Yeah, that's not a bad one. That's a fun one for sure. Yeah.
00:05:59
Speaker
Yeah, I don't always like the costumes that you can buy at the stores. Even as a kid, I always wanted to be something kind of weird, but yeah, yeah that's that's a fun one. Gordo is doing the same thing I sent you an Instagram video about. it's not The laptop is not to like brush your your teeth with. he looks likes He looks like he's trying to like bite the laptop.
00:06:27
Speaker
Oh, he's like, oh, ah Fenrir will itch his face so hard on the side of the couch, like he's a bear scratching his back. I'm under that's what Kordo is doing. He does. He's like brushing his face. My face, my beautiful face. Yeah.
00:06:50
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All right. Well, OK, I'm going to get back into it after your You're regaling me with hilarious work stories that I think people might like to hear if they want to join our cult on Patreon. yeah hello I listen to a whole podcast where they bitch about weird stuff at work because like, who doesn't do that, right? It's not like annoying, it can be.
00:07:19
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but oh ah Anyway, yeah, I guess I told you guys about a haunted hotel in Vancouver.
Haunted Hotel Story from Vancouver
00:07:33
Speaker
Yes, yes. I had wanted to cap it off with this story from my ghost stories of Alberta book by Barbara Smith.
00:07:43
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who Cool. It's first chapter, first one, Edmonton ghost stories. So yeah local ah for us. yeah And then I think I mentioned to you in the first part of this episode that I think I recognize the name of the ghost experiencer.
00:08:06
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um oh Well because in travel I thought I had like worked with someone or booked someone named this name oh and I looked it up and I did book someone with this name. I just don't know if it's the same someone. Yeah but he's from our area so I'm gonna go with yes. I know this person and his name is Ron Halady.
00:08:30
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H-L-A-D-Y. I think that's how you say it. Gordo, just chill. Lay down. Thank you. Chill the book out. It's very like green in this corner right now. Yeah, I don't know. Something like... Is your shirt green? um It's like a mint color. Yeah, I don't know why there's like a green wash on the screen. Gordo, I don't know. Yeah, there was a little bit. You're cropped right now.
00:09:04
Speaker
Can you close your legs? Thank you. Ew. He was just like, ah. And he was like right here. What a different slut, as Michael Scott would say.
00:09:19
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Oh, this is so appropriate, this first line. So it said, do you ever feel haunted? What?
00:09:27
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but so It says, what's up Slut? It do you ever feel haunted by your job?
McKay Avenue School: A Haunted Tale
00:09:37
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Oh no. Do you bring your job home at night? Oh God.
00:09:45
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Um, no, that was me. It says, Ron Helady can certainly sympathize. He's the building preservation technician at McKay Avenue School, which now serves as the Edmonton Public Schools Museum and Archives. So it's an old building. We have a public museum.
00:10:08
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If you look up uh so this one's called this chapter was called mccain museum's lively spirits i don't know if i said that um and if you do google mccain museum alberta it does come up and it does look like an old school building like reminds me of my middle school or my kids elementary school here yeah um So it's an old school building, now a multi-purpose museum building.
00:10:42
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um And in the early 80s, the once grand old school closed its doors to students. Shortly after that, restoration got underway. The site was an obvious one to become a historical treasure house. The first free public school in the Alberta District of the Northwest Territories was located there.
00:11:02
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It's a fun fact. Yeah. Also, I feel like at one point, like all of the West out here was just called the Northwest Territories until they kept chopping it up and chopping it up until it just became that little, you know, territory we have up by Yukon, Alaska. Yeah. Because, yeah, there's there's always reference to the Northwest Territory.
00:11:28
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um it says unbelievably that clapboard structure has survived despite having served numerous functions since its construction in 1881 damn it's old yeah all this book the building have you been to any schools that like were less modern in construction or have yours all kind of been Like, modern, like your high school and stuff. I'm trying to think. Like, I think most of the schools I went to were probably around the 80s, at least, built. Oh, okay. The 1980s, that is. Yeah, like, my... I guess the high school I went to was before that, because...
00:12:26
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huh that that might have been in like the 60s or something because there was quite a bit like black and white pictures and everything for grad photos i remember still on the walls oh yeah yeah i think yeah a lot of maybe the high schools are more modern i don't know i know for my daughter her high school yeah seems like it's more constructed in the last probably 50 years or so but her elementary school was like an old stone kind of building there. And you're like, is that, was that an old school or was that an old prison? Like they have those looks to them where you just like, you have no idea. School or prison? I don't know. It's got the same like concrete walls that they just paint with a hundred thousand layers of white paint. And you're like, this could have been a prison. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's an institution of some kind. Gordo, what are you playing with? What's happening? You just got really excited about something. G-G-Gordo.
00:13:28
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Yeah. Was he playing with the ghosts? I'm just kidding. I hope not. It's ah under the desk right now.
00:13:36
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All right. The building is back in its original condition and location, although now dwarfed by the museum in Edmonton's inevitable growth. We're like a tumor. Yeah. Also, whatever I was listening to earlier with the one case a Native American who was like, went windy go and like killed his whole family and that.
00:14:07
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It was really, I couldn't get over, I'm trying to remember what his stinking name was now. It was like, not Skinwalker, but something really simple that I can't believe I'm forgetting. Um. Yeah. It was like really close to here though. They were like, and then he went home, but nearby like St. Albert and I was like, holy shit. Like. Yeah. Yeah. I can't remember his name. I know you're talking about though. Skin taller? I don't know. He was a tall fucking dude. Um.
00:14:36
Speaker
So back to this. In 1904, McKay Avenue School replaced that original schoolhouse and the imposing red brick structure began to earn its own place in the political and educational history of Alberta. and Sorry, just one more little history paragraph they're giving us. The first and second sittings of the Alberta legislature were held in the third floor flo assembly hall. A floory. I can try that again. if you The Fleur. They were held in the Fleur and youngsters destined to make an impression on the world practiced their sums and poured over their readers in the classrooms. Hollywood star Leslie Nielsen. Do you know who that is? The white haired like airplane. He's in all those like parody movies and stuff. Oh, yes, I am. Cheers. And don't call me Shirley. or Yeah, he's like, yeah, it's me and like Naked Gun and stuff too.
00:15:33
Speaker
Yes, I think that's Leslie Nielsen also. i just yeah okay i I have not seen many of his movies, but I yeah i know who he is. That's fun. I think he's an older Canadian icon, but I don't know the rest of these like celebrities, quote unquote, um Supreme Court Justice Ronald Martin, the National Hockey League's Clarence Campbell, author Laura Dempsey, an internationally acclaimed Air Force and Bush pilot, WAP,
00:16:02
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May were all students at McKay. Absolutely not. I don't normally follow Supreme Court justices for Air Force and Bush pilot. My god, I cannot speak. Also, their name is Wap May. Like, what the fuck is that?
00:16:26
Speaker
Isn't that a slur? Anyway, moving on. I think so.
00:16:35
Speaker
I should know. I just watched that ah short film that was based on the HBO series Oz today and I was like, oh yeah, that happened. That was a brutal show. Oh yeah. They did do some horrible things, didn't they? It was like bringing it all back. Yeah, sometimes you don't notice stuff until you're looking back at least 10 years later and you're like, damn, that was on TV. Like, what were we doing, guys?
00:17:02
Speaker
we were watching that being like, this is scandalous. And we're like, this is still pretty scandalous. Yeah. yeah Holds up. um Okay, so to the ghost, ghosty activity, the paranormal activity, quote, the restoration seems to have caused a lot more activity than anyone could have predicted. There's something definitely going on in the building. Some mornings, it looks like there's been a party.
00:17:29
Speaker
Oh, is it the night at the museum? Everything comes to life at night? Oh my god. So fun. I hope there's a lot of models then, like little dioramas. Oh god, I love little miniatures. um Okay, so this comment was made by a former co-worker of Ron's who has since sought more mundane employment.
00:17:56
Speaker
It was he who was working with Ron to set up a room for an early morning audio visual presentation. They spent the last part of their day lining up chairs in neat rows, lowering window blinds, and as a precaution, even stapling them to the sills. They went above and beyond.
00:18:14
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i That's interesting. I mean, trying to go the extra mile due to the, I guess, unusual activity.
00:18:26
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As usual, Ron was the last to leave at night and the first to get to work in the morning. Go get her. Yeah. What he found the next morning would have sent a lesser man to the unemployment office. Oh, honey, we could tell you about some bad coworkers now. Yeah.
00:18:48
Speaker
Chairs were knocked over and strewn around the room. Despite the staples, some blinds were up and others were right off the windows. Jeez. We really had to rush in order to redo the room in time for the meeting, explain the unflappable H'lady. They just didn't want to have to redo all the work in the morning. Like, give a guy a break. I mean, I wouldn't. I know. It's like when I worked at McDonald's and it was like a slow Sunday, it'd be at the one in the mall, in the Walmart, and we're like, let's just start cleaning up stuff as much as we can and not using it again.
00:19:22
Speaker
if possible. Yes. That is from 7pm to 9 when our store closes. That's all we're doing. It's like, hey, these registers are clean. The scanner is down. Please don't use it. Yes. Every one last piece you can get into the freaking puzzle. Like we like clean out the lattice thing and then we just maybe have some in like a little tiny bag. Yeah. Whatever you can do. Yeah. Oh, the shortcuts.
00:19:52
Speaker
Well, these aren't even shortcuts. That's just expected because we just have so many registers. You have to start pre-cleaning them. No. Why, God forbid, would you do it all at the end of the night? Yeah. Yeah, we literally couldn't. No. That's just smart.
00:20:11
Speaker
um On other occasions, spoilers have been turned on or off, doors that were left locked were found unlocked, pictures have been removed from the walls, and the school security system has registered a rash of false readings. Hmm. System. No wonder the other employees aren't keen on staying alone in the old building. I wouldn't. No.
00:20:36
Speaker
Would you do this next thing? These incidents, coupled with occasional strange tales from visiting alumni, prompted Ron to big bring a Ouija board to work. Absolutely not. No. Ron! Why? Why, Ron? I never say this, but Ron was asking for it. We are victim blaming, Ron. Yeah. Actually, Ron, if you're the Ron I met, you were probably pretty nice.
00:21:03
Speaker
ah take it off oh through the board peter was quick to identify himself he maintains there are half a dozen spirits floating around the school all right well lots of students i don't know why why in a school why would you go back to high school and yeah ah and you yeah oh after life But this didn't surprise Ron. The number and variety of occurrences had led him to assume he was dealing with more than one presence. Despite this, Peter's been the only one to communicate with Ron. What Peter lacks in visibility, he certainly makes up for in personality.
00:21:50
Speaker
I like our haunted, haunting ghosts personality.
00:21:58
Speaker
He's a bit of a saucy pants. um So he's told, quote unquote, Ron quite a bit about himself. He was a laborer during construction of the 1912 four classroom addition to McKay Avenue School.
00:22:15
Speaker
Aww, they had to add four classrooms to- there were probably one classroom at school. They tripled in quadruple. There was no, uh, friggin' portables that they just, like, trailer just like, here's your classroom, it's a trailer! I'm pretty sure I did my grade two in a portable one, and I, like, I know it was a grade two-three split, like, there was, you know, some teacher sharing going on, yeah.
00:22:43
Speaker
I don't think I was ever in one of those classes, but my friend was. She was in one of the split. And I was like, how? it Like my head still can't really comprehend how that worked. Right. How do you teach two different class levels at once? Although coming back to the one room schoolroom thing.
00:23:02
Speaker
they would literally just be sitting, learning out of the diff, like the same book at different levels. You know what I mean? And then they would come up and be like, okay, here you go. Youngest student, you put your work on the board and then you guys did this problem. Well, you show us that, you know, and they just kind of go through it. But that's when they had like 18 students or whatever. And also yeah they would like whip their teachers because they were like big farm boys. Yeah.
00:23:28
Speaker
I've read too much little house books.
00:23:34
Speaker
and Not where the classrooms are like 30, 30 kids to one teacher. And you're like, what do you mean 60 kids to two teachers in one room? They're just like getting up on 30. That would be a big one back then. Yeah. Yeah, huge. They're like, well, I'm going to go back and farm the land. We're not going to be here. Yeah.
00:23:55
Speaker
Go home for recess, help your parents farm. Stop whipping the teacher, god damn it. So most of the teachers were like, do it. You're going to be too tired to act out because you're just exhausted from farming as soon as you get home and up at the crack of dawn. I remember when Laura Ingalls Wilder becomes a teacher because all you have to do is basically like finish your schooling at 16, write a test, and then they're like, OK, you're a teacher now.
00:24:24
Speaker
And then she's like, how am I going to deal with these big boys? It's pretty tough. Imagine most teachers still know what that feels like. Yeah.
00:24:37
Speaker
I wouldn't want to deal with kids nowadays just like what I'm gonna take out my phone and like videotape you yelling at us and put it on the internet and you'll get fired like how how do you how do you deal with that? There's so many things to navigate there. Yeah, how do you discipline anybody for anything nowadays and parents are so hands off like not parenting at all. And to be fair, they're overworked, underpaid, a lot of them have two jobs, they just stand. Yeah, like, I don't know, it it would be so hard. Yeah, like, yeah, our hearts go to the teachers, I guess, right? Like, they're doing absolutely. Like, holy shit. Lots of times they're f freaking raising kids, not the parents. Yeah.
00:25:27
Speaker
yeah Well, they can be like, yeah, just such a strong influence and presence in your life if you have a good one. Yeah. Yes. Absolutely. They could bring it back to that supernatural. That's pretty watching it.
00:25:46
Speaker
but whatever they go back to this one high school for a a job and they had gone there for high school for like one month and they all had they both had very different memories of it oh yeah i remember that episode yes Sam's like that's gonna say when did they ever go back to high school he gets bullied but then he stands up for himself then he finds out the bully was going through a hard time it's emotional yeah oh my gosh i'm sorry um
00:26:17
Speaker
Okay, so this ghost, Peter, is apparently a laborer, was a laborer, adding the four room, four classroom edition. That's where we left off. He claims to have been married and the father of three daughters, one of whom is still alive and resides in California, couldn't get Peter's last name. So we can't go ah deep diving. I was gonna say confirm. I know I really want to but then I'm like, probably they kept that out for privacy. These are real names. I don't know.
00:26:47
Speaker
But Peter does report that he was killed in a fall from the roof, and apparently his spirit has roamed the building ever since. Okay. He has steadfastly refused to reveal his last name. Oh, that's right. He wouldn't say.
00:27:06
Speaker
I don't know he wouldn't say. um As laborers in 1912 would have little need to read or write, Peter might well have been illiterate and therefore unable to spell his name to Ron on the Ouija board, which I think is speculating a little bit. If he just refused to say, then maybe he just didn't want to tell you. Yeah. Oh. um A pair of young psychics operating a business called Second Sight were called in.
00:27:38
Speaker
What else are you gonna call? um They confirmed there were a number of spirits residing in the building, but disappointingly, Peter did not identify himself to either of them.
00:27:50
Speaker
um The psychic's visit was far from wasted though. While standing in the school hall, the woman reported in an astonished voice, children are running up and down the side of the building. How can that be?
00:28:04
Speaker
no like beside the building or on the on the wall sideways like spider-man right like she hears it coming from what sounds like the side and then it said the ever pragmatic haleidi pointed to the fire escape stairs on the exterior of the school they would have been used frequently during routine fire drills oh that would be creepy yeah because she's like it sounds like they're going from stairs but they're not there i love that when like the ghosts adhere to like the floor plan that was there when they were there and so then they're like yeah walk through the wall but that wall wasn't there when they were alive yeah that wall got in my way yeah fuck that wall um
00:28:54
Speaker
when another feeling stumped the young lady. My jaw hurts in this room was her comment at one point during the tour. Ron again came up with an explanation. The room she was in used to be the school's medical room where visiting dentists examined and tended to students' dental problems. Can you imagine? You start to feel all the maladies, the people in the room. I'm kind of glad I'm not that like of an empath or whatever. Yeah.
00:29:22
Speaker
I feel like it would be like emotionally exhausting. I know, I think I feel my own emotions a little too hard, so I'm fine. like I'm good. I have enough I'm i'm like dealing with. oh oh Hello again. Third time's the charm, little buddy. Come join us for the conclusion.
00:29:46
Speaker
um The most dramatic moment of the tour, this is what he wanted to hear Gordo, came when everyone involved realized that file cabinet drawers that were closed upon entering the room were now open.
00:29:59
Speaker
filing cabinets. I thought it was gonna be a lot more dramatic. True. When they say it like that, you're like, I hope they caught something shooting out on camera. Yeah, like thrown against the wall or something. No, the filing cabinets. They're open. Are you sure they were open? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Okay. Yeah, they're open. The floor slanted. Did you close them properly?
00:30:27
Speaker
ah The room this occurred in is on the second floor in the southwest corner of the building. That didn't clarify.
00:30:38
Speaker
On the third floor, the psychic was again drawn to the southwest corner. Oh right, that's what. This time though, she was embarrassed to find herself in a recently renovated men's washroom. Could this possibly be the area Peter fell from? Likely no one will ever know, but that corner does overlook the 1881 schoolhouse.
00:30:57
Speaker
help I'm not so sure about that. If Peter didn't show his himself to the psychic, then why he would take her to the room. but yeah yeah There's two more paragraphs. The small building was used as a storage shed for tools during the time Peter was working on the addition to the newer school. He would have been in and out of the old wooden building frequently. Okay, so he was there a lot.
00:31:22
Speaker
um Ron is also required to be out at the one-room schoolhouse often. The man reports that sometimes when he goes out there, a wicked shiver will run through his body. Sorry. I can't do the dramatic ones sometimes. It's me. I'm sorry. It's me. No, I'm not very good at them. That nostalgic little structure originally opened on January 3rd, 1882. Peter claims to have died on January I like the way they worded that. Peter claims to have died on January 3rd, 1912. And Ron Haldady was born on January 3rd, 1951. Quite a coincidence. So it's all on January 3rd is what they're getting at, I guess. hu If you didn't. So I had to read that back to be like, what did I just say? Huh?
00:32:17
Speaker
And that's just page seven in this wonderful Alberta ghost book that my mom bought me by this wonderful Barbara Smith that lives in Edmonton. So I thought it was really interesting and I'm excited to read the rest of it and maybe share some more with y'all. Yeah, that's weird.
00:32:36
Speaker
I see ads about the property, but I don't know. Maybe not. I see ads all the time about local ghost tours and stuff on Facebook. And I'm like, I don't know if I could actually do that. I might get too freaked out trying to do that. Oh, really? The one they have in Fredericton, my hometown is ah just kind of interesting and funny like they walk around they talk about the history and like yeah maybe who's yeah died near here or whatever at these historic places and then they tell silly jokes about how like a coffin was coming at you and then you throw cough drops at it and then the coffin stopped and you're like oh my god but we're really on a tour just like the daddiest joke yeah yeah so i don't remember being too scared on the one that i did i remember that kind of thing okay
00:33:27
Speaker
But it was entertaining. like You go at night. It was kind of fun, you know? Yeah. ah Speaking of fun things you can do at night, I heard some people on the podcast and their fan had wrote in about their experience at the Zach Baggins Museum.
Zak Bagans Museum and Listener Engagement
00:33:47
Speaker
They really brought back some memories. Of us being ah delirious with starvation? Yeah, because they were talking about the stuff they didn't like and they're like,
00:34:01
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, it's all you're standing in line and it's all his TVs playing his show and then like, yeah, it's a lot of murder abelia and it's a lot and they're like, Oh, why the podcasters? I think Yeah, it was the girls from sinisterhood. They're like, did we really think we'd like this? And then they're like, Oh, no, there's two more hours to go. And I'm like, Yeah, and you're already like, we were starving. yeah And they're like, kind of enjoyed it.
00:34:30
Speaker
Well, I did too. I just could kind of yeah i could kind of relate to the person's complaints and like all that stuff too. It's a lot and then especially we were ah hungry and then they like made some of the same jokes where we were like, yeah, we're about to pass out from hunger. It's not necessarily the yeah feelings in the rooms. It's the ah the tour itself is draining. you know and I think it would some of it was really rough. just to yeah <unk> and li Yeah. I think there was some spots it would have been nicer to maybe like have a chance to, um hey, we're gonna spend 10 minutes in this room or five minutes you guys can look around at stuff here's a break like
00:35:21
Speaker
Yeah, and like you get to kind of just look at stuff. I feel like you went in the room, they pointed out three things in each room, and they're like, here's three of the things. And then you're like, but there's 100 things in this room. And they're like, but moving on. You're like, right. Okay, we're ready to leave the museum of tragedy. And you know, you get two seconds to experience it all. And then hope that doesn't hurt your feelings. Because bye. Yeah, we're gonna move on to. the Yeah, I feel like certain certain things.
00:35:49
Speaker
um yeah it would have been like cooler to spend more time in certain rooms just getting to like look at some more of the stuff and not just what they talked about or pointed out to you no because that as they pointed out it's a lot of like there's a little bit of tour guide and then a lot of zack beckons talking and stuff everywhere you go it's just like recorded you know yeah there was some recordings i remember that yeah we blocked it all out
00:36:21
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We were very hungry. Yeah. but I remember standing there and like, um, like I felt like I was leaving my body. Like I felt like walking that I was floating because I was so hungry and like, just delirious. And I felt like it was gonna pass out that I couldn't feel myself walking anymore. But I knew I was moving from room to room and I was like, the fuck?
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like All this time has passed. Yeah, it was daytime when we got there. Now it's night. We're still there. We're still on our feet. We're just like, when does it end? ah Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah. That's wild. Anyway, I do recommend, but no. It really resonated with me when they were like joking about some of the parts of it. like yeah I'm not saying it wasn't worth it. like I'm kind of with them where they were like, maybe if you could isolate some of the stuff like where you're like, I want to just want to see the Dybbuk box and like Peggy the doll and some of the other shit. I don't need to see all of the serial killer murder of Bealea and everything that someone got killed on once. That's a little bit right. Yeah. all Yeah.
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yeah But what can you do? Even the Warrens were a bit like that with their little
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<unk>re a bit exploitative as well so yeah got it we can't we're beggars we can't be choosers with our poor paranormal people no no there's a paranormal enthusiast and a true crime podcaster on the latest seasons of the traitors canada which i am currently obsessed with and will continue to be obsessed with because outlander will be ending so
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What are we going to do? Like ending ending or just the season? the They finished filming next season, which is the last season. so saying there Oh. Yeah.
00:38:30
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Well, well, whatever way you guys do when I don't keep mentioning Outlander. Oh, wait, I still will. I always reference things I learned in books and TV shows. yeah That's just what we do in my family. We quote things. No original thoughts. Quotes only. Yeah, exactly. Oh, where do I heard someone like say they played. Sorry. He's like falling off the table into me.
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I wanted to pet him. He was he's like, hi. Being all coquettish at the camera like, here's my neck. I'm so fluffy. Will you pet me? Yeah. This is him right now. I'm literally holding him up. Oh, finally I will lean so far back off the bed that I have to stop him from falling off it. And I'm like, what are you doing? I'm literally holding up from his shoulders back. I'm holding you up. Shoulders back, yo.
00:39:35
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He's our favorite podcast. Yeah. Well, anyway, I just heard the static off of your fur. My headphones just went whoa.
00:39:46
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Ew, don't get like a static whatever in your ear. That'd be uncomfortable. Yeah. We used to get static electricity walking around those stupid carpets at work.
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Well, bye Gordo, thanks for listening as well as rest of y'all. Can you say bye? Please, please join Patreon, Gordo say. Please join Catrion. Catrion. Yes, that is where you can donate and don't forget to like and tell a friend because that's really awesome weight. promote us as well. Yes. Spread the word. Spread it like butter.
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It's like butter. I was like, m that's all I'm going to say. All right. Well, I have to go pee.
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godo corrido
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And until next time, keep it cryptic. Yeah. Bye-bye.
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