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Hello and welcome to my favorite murder. It's it's a big gift to you, apparently sent it to me.

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It's a miniature. It has its own dollhouse. Oh, thank you. You should see the baked goods in the oven, but that's my new thing. Dollhouses Victorian back in or mid century modern DNA to the tea fucking doll housing.

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It's got to exist, in my view.

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That would be how bout a mid century modern dollhouse instead of this usual Victorian bullshit we should deal with?

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I don't want to wear claw foot bathtub for my dog. Wow. I'm going. I'm doing it. Goodbye. And I think if you. OK, George, you do it OK. But if you're out there and you make mid century modern dollhouses, let's look and see it and let me know.

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Is there a hashtag on Instagram? And it's like a whole world I don't even know about. I have probably going to find it. That's amazing. That's the beautiful thing about this world that we're all discovering through social media is every there's a there's a fan ship for every little thing on the planet. You know what? I was just looking up the other night when I couldn't sleep. Black mold, just as there is.

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And there's a huge, huge fan of black. And I am like, how how to spot it.

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I just know, like invasive how crazy invasive it gets. And so, like the photos of like look at how crazy invasive this got and you're like, wow, that got crazy invasive. That's fascinating.

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Now what is it the kind of thing where people have to like burn their house down.

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It's so bad. Yeah. And there's a lot of abandoned houses which is like so it's like a crossover of two of my favorite things that people had to leave abandoned their entire, you know, almost like Chernobyl style because it was so infested with black mold that they couldn't fucking take anything with them.

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Oh, anyway, oh, this isn't the regular episode where we talk about whatever the fuck we want.

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It's not because I want to know, OK, do you have any what's your new hobby going to be?

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A green mold. All right. This is the episode where we read you the emails you've sent to us at my favorite murder at Gmail dot com. Yeah, you could be business like big fucking business like you only go first. I'll fucking go first. OK, I won't read you the title. Hey, yo, you guys are great. I love what you do. Let's get into it. Oh well I was listening to you talk about this shooting in Huntsville.

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It reminded me of a shooting that happened in my hometown that same year. Clay Alan Duke, whose wife was a teacher and had recently been fired, attended a school board meeting in Panama City, Florida, in December of 2010. He stood up, pulled out a can of red spray paint. Very that's so disturbing. Painted the V for Vendetta symbol on the wall. He then pulled out a gun and let the other attendees of the meeting leave, as well as the two female board members.

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So he basically kept the male board members as one of the board members was leaving. She tried to attack Duke with her purse, but he knocked her to the floor, but still, thankfully didn't shoot her and let her leave. The superintendent of schools, Bill Hughes, felt tried to negotiate with him to let the rest of the board leave, but Duke would not listen. Duke ended up firing four shots at point blank range, which miraculously all missed the shells.

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Yeah, by this time, the security guard began firing upon Duke, hitting him several times. Well, once he went down, Duke took his own life. The craziest thing about this to me was that the entire thing was streaming. No.

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Yep, and this says, I had teachers watching all of this happen in real time, the story blew up and got national attention and the female board member sold the purse she tried to disarm him with for charity.

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Oh, Ginger, that went for you. Oh, oh, oh. I forgot about the name Ginger. Oh, Ginger.

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You bet us. She's a she's a tall redhead with a big ass purse and a serious attitude. I like how dare you try to fuck and shoot fellow board members her and then it just says anyway, hope you enjoyed my tail, says DGM Brinn. I definitely enjoyed your tail, Brinn.

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It's that it reminds me of remember the shooting in front of the the courthouse with the guy in the tree and he just kept dodging the bullets I got. Yes. And a person with a gun in a room trying to kill people. It's like.

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Yeah, a traumatic nightmare. Amazing. Good job and thank you.

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OK, this one's called an early 1990s abduction with some solutions. Hello to my Motorino, Sam. I was born and raised in Rochester, New York. My parents raised my brother and I by watching the news Unsolved Mysteries and Rescue nine one one, leaving us obsessed with all things horrendous.

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Mm hm. Anyway, I happened to remember an incredibly sad hometown murder that I wanted to share on November 13th. Nineteen ninety three. Eighteen year old college student Jennifer Koon was abducted from a suburban mall parking lot after using the ATM in an affluent town near Rochester, New York. Jennifer desperately called 911, one with her cell phone while the abductors were driving. She pleaded with the nine one one operator to help her. But since it was the early 90s, the technology to pinpoint a caller wasn't accessible.

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Oh, it's horrible. Jennifer was raped, then shot and killed, all while on the line with nine one one oh oh.

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She was found dead two hours after the initial call and the cell phone was locked on nine one one. One of Jennifer's killers, Willis Knight, was arrested six months later. There's a brief mention of others involved, but no conviction or follow up as to what happened to them. What the fuck? Rochester police and I looked it up and I guess there's like people talking to each other on the nine one one recording, but they said it was only one person, the gut wrenching nine when one recording was played in court and the nine one one operator, Jennifer spoke with took the stand to convict Knight.

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He was sentenced to thirty seven point five years to life in prison and I'm happy to report, is still in jail. Following his daughter's murder, her father, David Koon, asked local officials to install security cameras in such parking lots, but received no response. This led Mr. Koon to political activism. He successfully ran for the hundred and thirty fifth assembly district seat in a special election held in February. Nineteen ninety six and one that shit Helyar, one of Coons legislative priorities, was for full funding of E nine one one a system used in North America to automatically provide the caller's location to nine one one dispatchers.

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Coonan's wife, Suzanne, were also instrumental in creating and managing the Jennifer Patterson Coon Peacemaking Foundation at their daughter's college, St.. John Fisher. The foundation recognizes and honors people who have made a significant contribution to peacemaking and who foster and stimulate a commitment to peacemaking in our society. The and love you all. And then so I looked him up to see where he is now and I couldn't really find out what's exactly happening. I guess he lost two.

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He lost his next election. Yes, but I did see his his Wikipedia. And it says Coon is in favor of increased penalties for violent crime, including the elimination of the statute of limitations for criminal sex cases. So I'm wondering where he is now if anyone has any info.

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I mean, just just. Wow. I mean, that's a horrible story. And again, like when you're like then he ran for assembly, it's just it gets me because those people are in such pain, suffering, such a horrible loss. And then it's like and now I'm going to go take action. I mean, it's it's the beautiful part. You know, through the grief, you can actually use grief to help you through his grief.

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He's trying to keep other people's children safe. That's what he's doing. It's like he is trying. His whole point is to make the world safer because he can't do anything about what happened to his daughter. He wants to do something that's for someone else's daughter, which is just incredible.

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And the idea of peace keeping. Yeah. Is so nice. That idea of like what if what if we in this utopian concept, none of us had to deal with this. Yeah. Shit in any way in any part of me. I mean or if you just try to do better things for the world even though it. Won't affect you, you know, it's like try to do better for everyone else, right? But what a great concept.

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Yeah. To kind of like I don't know, the more we do the show, the more these stories we read and we read things like this parents that then take up this unbelievable charitable action for other people. It's like the solution is not revenge. The solution is not hurting other more people. It's like to then go out and try to lessen. Yeah. The hurting and the I don't know. It's very beautiful and inspiring. Yeah, OK. Wow.

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Are you ready for this one? Sure. We're going to be now going over to our friends over in Ireland, Ireland, Ireland, the island.

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Let's do it here to Georgia and then parentheses. And Steven, my girlfriend is a long time motorino. She told me about your Minnesota and encouraged me to send in this story about the craziest shit that ever happened to me. And hey, why not listen, whatever you do what you want, you do what you want to do that. I went to college in Dublin, Ireland, one week. One week, a classmate asked if I played soccer and invited me along to his once a week kick around with some friends.

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There was a core group of about 15 or so guys and I became a regular playing with them. Among the group was a short, bearded Sicilian Sicilian guy called Severiano. He was good at soccer, quiet, never yelled or got too angry, never lost his temper. When he got fouled, you get the impression he was a little bald, bottled up, but but on the whole seemed like a nice, polite guy. The weekly games or organized via a big email chain with with everyone keyed one week.

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There were a lot of emails in the chain and a link to a news article on most of the time these emails were meaningless. So I just skimmed through and marked them as read. Later that day, though, I ran into my classmate and he said, Did you read the article? I hadn't. He walked over to the nearest computer in the lab and opened it up for me. The headline read Italian Lawyer Charged with murdering Dublin landlord right next to a photo of Severiano back.

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So there you live with this guy who was a member of a notorious organization in Ireland. They were a right wing Catholic activist group who campaigned on the wrong side of history on issues such as abortion rights, gay rights, same sex marriage. And they even dabbled in some climate change denying. So the night before, Saverio and this guy were playing a game of chess at 2:00 in the morning. Why play chess so late? No one really knows.

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But this whole story is so fucking crazy that that's not even the weirdest thing. An argument broke out between the two of them about whether a move was legal and Severo lost it, stabbing his landlord four or five times with a kitchen knife and eating what he believed to be his heart. But it turned out to be his lungs lot.

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Yeah, Saverio called the police on himself and confessed to the murder.

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The cops that came to the house first were so traumatized they were put on indefinite paid leave after like Ireland is a small country, about five million people and murders are rare. A modern case of cannibalism has never been seen here before. Local police had no experience with it. So investigators with some expertise were brought in from a neighboring county. It turned out Saverio had schizophrenia and had been taken taken off his medication two days earlier. He had he thought his landlord had come to embody evil and that by killing him and eating his heart, that he could end the evil in the world.

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The weirdest thing, though, was how well our little soccer group adjusted to finding out one of our ranks was a cannibal. It was like it was so preposterous, so outrageous that our brains couldn't register it. It was surprisingly easy to be, quote unquote, light hearted about it. Weirdly, I think if he'd just and just as in quotes, just murdered someone, we would have been way more shocked. But with all these bizarre details, it passed into the surreal and it was easier to come to terms with it or you didn't.

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I went to a meeting friend, go into full straight up Irish denial and kid yourself trauma. You you are pushing it down. It's going to come back. That last I'd heard, Severiano had been found not guilty by reason of insanity and was in a mental hospital. Stay sexy and don't play chess with a cannibal. Patrick.

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Wow. Oh, it's just sad all around.

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Yeah, it's so heavy. And also it's that thing it makes me think of, you know, we've all seen like, say, a beautiful mind movies where you can see the inside of the experience of like a mental illness, a. Illusion like that, yeah, where actually in it, he's he actually thinks he's helping people, you know, as soon as I have all these comments in my head and then when it came to the fact that he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, it's like, oh, OK, this is yes.

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Not this is a completely different thing. Yeah. And I think it's completely inaccurate to call that person. I mean, he technically cannibalized the victim, yet it's not it was a practice. Right. You know what I mean? It was like a it was an explosion. Yes. And it was an extension of his mental illness. Right. It was almost like this story. Wow. It's just. Yeah. Wild.

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OK, I promised you this one last week. So here is abandoned underwater locales. Yeah. Accidental deaths and bonus sinkhole horror.

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Oh, there you go.

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Hello, ladies. Hope this bullshit year hasn't been too stressful on you. Thank you. I'm from Twin Falls, Idaho, which is built right on the Snake River Canyon. Well, the river is beautiful. There are a series of lakes in the canyon system that are less well known, one of which is Dakis Lake. And they spelled out how to say Dakis for me, which I really appreciate.

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Very nice, which legend says was not always a lake, but used to be an old dairy farm. At some point the area was flooded and is now a popular swimming, fishing and cliff jumping location. Some of the other lakes in the area are a bit harder to get to, and our colloquial and colloquially just known as I'm going for it as the Hidden Lakes and our also popular for cliff jumping. Unfortunately, because these lakes are harder to get to anyone who is injured, cliff jumping at these lakes is less likely to receive medical care in time.

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One of my high school friends was at these lakes and weren't a boy that he was on one of the more dangerous jumps. He scoffed at her several minutes later, after my friend had left and was back to the road and ambulance went past her. The boy had hit a rock on the way down and died.

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Another boy from my parents church hit his head, jumping last year at a different lake and drowned. Several years ago, the city finally installed a road all the way to the most popular lake in order to reach it quicker. Finally, a family in a different Idaho city had a sinkhole occur near their house, which caused a partial collapse in the basement. This revealed that their house had been built over a snake den. No one.

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What the family later said that they had heard slithering in the walls over time and that their water is ready for this had had tasted like the snakes smelled. No, no. Can I tell you that if I had read this to Vince, he would have divorced me immediately?

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He said that is that is a so there's a sinkhole and then it's just like an Indiana Jones straight into Indiana Jones.

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It just it hit and it tasted their water and drink and snake water, which I would think is probably good for you, Mike. They could probably bottle and sell that shit. I mean, what do you think?

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It's good.

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But like, Gary, skin or virility reality colloquially good for your skin.

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You know, this is the most fucked up thing. How is this possible?

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I hated my guts as a CTM and shout out to my sister who introduced me to your podcast and hates me for seeing you live in Manchester last year.

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Leah and Leah's sister. Sorry you were there first, OK.

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Also snakes and walls like you would think you were going insane. Yeah. Slithering. You just like to hear that because it honestly smells sounds smells like, sounds like like bugs or water or something or the devil.

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I mean I don't like this at all so I take that one.

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No, no, no, no. It's amazing. I mean like fucking eight because also when you buy a house it gets inspected like yeah. There's guys that come and look at every single goddamn inch of your house.

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But it wasn't their sinkhole. It was like a sinkhole nearby that caused it.

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So like but but the pit was under and among their homes.

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Every house is built on top of something. Right. But snakes like a modern house to me.

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I know what this is.

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So make that illegal for you. Fuck. All right. Now, BLIS, that's not even your last one. No sender, sender stuff, mounded walls, stories or snakepit stories. Everyone. What was your house built over that made you have a nervous breakdown, black mold? Would you rather would you rather have your house built on a snake pit or a black? W why are I would pick black mold all day long, a black mold pit, though, that's different.

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You you fall into it and Sallisaw, you're like, why this isn't so bad? And then the spores begin to take over my water taste shit like this. My water tasted like snakes. I'm so thirsty. Hold on. Let me just stand here the side.

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Why is my hair so shiny lately? I love that you think snakes would have this great effect. You know how like they use snail like snail slime for fascial. I use the same concept to me and sometimes they'll put you have to eat the rattle of the rattlesnake and it'll make you all, you know, like in some some like Maskell's or shit chelo. Sure. Yeah. Like and it's supposed to make you like get a boner or whatever.

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Right. You're making this.

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I'm not sure if you're out there in your institution or a urologist, will you let us know the like how good snakes are for your face or genitals. Yeah. God damn it, I'm sorry. I'll never stop thinking about snake water.

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No. The subject the subject line gives us away, so I'll just read it to you. Hi, friends. I didn't know my dad's father very well. He passed away when I was still quite young. And I remember him only as a quietly imposing figure who sat in his leather armchair in the corner of his hoarder's paradise of a house, a chronic shopaholic. His home was always filled with ridiculous treasures from the department store floor sale, and his grandchildren always received many impersonal but weird and wonderful gifts for Christmas and birthday.

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Love it. Love it. I had this same my aunt Dorothy, who was not an actual relative, but she was friend of the family who had a gift room at her house.

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She couldn't not buy anything that wasn't on sale. And when we were building the house that my family lives in now in Petaluma, we had to live with my Aunt Jean and Aunt Dorothy would be there all the time. And so on holidays, we would come out of our rooms and go to the front room and Aunt Dorothy would have like a gift for me and a gift for Laura.

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And and so one time I watch Laura open up this. It was a necklace that was from easily from like nineteen seventy eight. It was like that really thick gold. And it came down into like a V shape and then a matching.

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Yeah. And a matching cross. No, no, no. It was not nice.

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It was, it was very corny and cheesy looking and then I just had twenty dollars and I that would be, I could easily become that person especially with vintage stuff because I'll go find like a set of incredible 60s like drinking glasses that I don't fucking need, but I hate to leave them behind. It's only ten dollars you know.

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Yeah. I asked to stop myself from doing that. I mean that is, that is the thing of thrift is I can't this is a true treasure. I can't just leave it here. And it's only ten dollars. Yes. Yes I have.

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I have a garage that's like fire king bowls and dishes and plates. And I'm like, oh, this is the cutest coffee cup or would I come shopping at your house?

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I miss shopping so much. Can I just go to your house and do it? Oh yes.

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Up a little store down there for you right now. It's all still in boxes from when I moved. I'm working on it. Working on it. Oh, OK.

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Sorry, I'm in the middle of an email. I knew vaguely that in his youth he had been a navigator in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War Two. Shortly after that, he had graduated from Sydney University and became a well respected doctor in Sydney. That was the sum total of my knowledge until a recent Google of my uncommon family name turned up a surprising newspaper article from nineteen forty six.

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Google your name, everyone. Yeah, get in there. On December 15th of that year, the Sunday Mail reported that three medical students were about to spend their university vacation in a pretty unique way, attempting to cross the six hundred mile stony desert in Central Australia on foot. Oh no. Among them was my grandfather, then age twenty two, who was putting his skills as a navigator to use plotting the course across the desert. This desert is notorious for having beaten Captain Charles Sturt, who had attempted to cross it one hundred years earlier.

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Unfortunately, I've been entirely unable to find any other articles from there from the end of their trip. In fact, the only other article I found mentioning my grandfather was from a few years later when at the age of thirty, he apparently got extremely drunk and decided to drive home. Anyway, according to the paper, the car, quote unquote, got out of control.

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The passive voice, clearly he's not responsible, overturned three times and plunged forty feet off an embankment. The car was wrecked. My grandfather, on the other hand, came away uninjured and was fined.

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Fifteen pound guys don't even when it's all timing, don't drink, don't drive, don't in the past drink and drive. That's. And also he drove over a 40 foot cliff and walked away unharmed saying, I like this guy. While I don't have any evidence that the desert crossing was actually completed, I like to imagine that only such an experience would allow a man to drive his car up a 40 foot cliff and live to deal with the resulting fine.

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Stay sexy and don't drive drunk back.

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Could went back. Wow, love it.

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Grampa's all right. My favorite was what did they do next.

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Oh my God. Tell us by sending an email about it. All right. OK. The last is called Hometown Story. Hi MFM. I'd like to tell you the story of my aunt seemingly haunted house when I was in elementary school. My aunt lived in Minnesota.

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Snakes in this house. They get so mad at you there's no snakes. Move around next time there's snakes in the story, let's do trigger warning. Right. Snake trigger one where you just go, oh, you ready for this story? Exactly.

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When I was in elementary school, my aunt lived in Minnesota in a town of about seventeen thousand people. Her house was on a nice. Corner lot near a park, and my younger sister and I love to visit and spend weekends with her, as I got into my early teens, I started to become more in tune with my sixth sense and felt uncomfortable going anywhere in the house other than the new edition of The Sun Room. I even slept in there instead of the spare room.

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When I visited, I had just I just had this weird feeling when I spent too much time in any other room, like someone was watching me.

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Well, it turns out I wasn't completely wrong about that feeling. My aunt moved into a new house right before I started high school, which didn't seem too weird. Everybody moves until I heard why. Well, hanging out with her at her new house, I asked why she decided to leave, and she proceeded to tell me that while she loved the supernatural, the house was just too haunted for her. And then it says, Excuse me, what lights would turn on and off?

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She would see hair whipping around a corner as if someone was running and hear footsteps in the attic.

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OK, so cool. My creepy feeling was right. Great. I had always assumed this was the whole story, but then a few years later, I was left stunned when I learned the truth. When I was in high school circa 2010 ish, we were having Thanksgiving with aunts and uncles and someone cracked a joke towards my aunt about someone living in an attic. I didn't get it, so I didn't laugh, feeling dumb. I asked what was so funny about that.

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Well, it turns out my aunt's ex-husband was unknowingly living in the attic of her old house.

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No one. What's worse, he had installed cameras all over her house and was essentially watching her and our every move while stowing away. So, yes, my feeling of being watched in every room of that house minus the sun room where there were no cameras found was valid genius, more valid than I could have ever imagined.

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Obviously, the adults decided to keep the story for my sister and I until we were older and honestly probably would have preferred to keep it from us forever. As far as I know, my aunt's ex-husband is still in prison and my aunt still swears that the old house was haunted by ghosts, not just her ex-husband lady.

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She is now enjoying life with her cats in a non haunted house and has neighbors that always keep an eye out.

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Right. Thank you for bearing with me during this long story. SS DGM Taylor Taylor. That was a great story and a horrifying story. And you do have a sixth sense that had to be somewhat not satisfying.

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You now have proof that your instincts are razor sharp, that you are very smart and almost a hesp style way.

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I would have so much more self-confidence after learning that even as disturbing as that story is it. This story is about how you are about it. I would insist that everyone around you start calling you Vangard.

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If I were you just based on this alone? I don't know. I think you're the true vanguard, turns out. Oh, how cool.

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Like, that's my unbelieve worst nightmare because I've had those feelings before. That is what if someone is video has a secret hidden camera because you can put those in a fucking pen now it's like they're so tiny. Yes, they're everywhere. And then you admonish yourself for being so paranoid.

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But wait now would you would you rather w why are mold snakes or some fucking creep in me. Oh OK. Obviously snakes with Camrose snakes below it, total creep above camera snakes. There are snakes. I still think. I think no. Yeah. I still don't want those snakes though. I still don't want a snake pit and snake water.

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You want them more than mold I promise. Yeah. That the water is the problem here unless it's like an institution is going to tell us. Incredibly good for so good for your kidneys.

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Snake venom, drink it, drink it and become young again. Good luck. Oh my God. Right here come the lawsuits. Allegedly, allegedly, allegedly. Allegedly. We are not doctors. We begin. We are not doctors, merely ichthyologist.

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That's right. What is the thing that's ever happened to our story. Please us. If it's anything like Taylor's story or any of these stories, I mean, Greatbatch people are really honing in on what we love to hear and and writing it really well, too.

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I feel like so good. Yeah. Good job. Good. Thank you. Thanks for listening to you. Don't it. If you just want to listen and don't want to write anything and don't feel pressure, that's fine. You can but please definitely don't be like Patrick and don't listen and still write in. I'm still mad at Patrick is a typical Irishman. Just does whatever the fuck the only rule rambles right up and tells us a story that everybody loves so much.

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Unworkability. Oh salary fire.

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Oh also state and don't get murdered by.

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Elvis, do you want a cookie?