hi i'm Britt and my name is Alissa
and this is skeletales and this is the
podcast where we strive to answer the
age-old question of is my dead grandma
watching me
alyssa as you know christmas is around
the corner
mere days away
so i was thinking going on your
suggestion
coming up with shameful christmas things
that grandma
would be watching me do shame okay
did you come up with some because i
immediately have some i know it oh you
do okay maybe we can spit ball and i
want to know yours too
okay
so you know how you get a gift and you
it's a good gift like you've maybe spent
like a lot of money on it and you know
you're supposed to take that price tag
off every time but then maybe a little
bit you want to know them to know like
how much you actually spend
so you just leave it on purpose and you
wrap it up
and you send it off grandma saw that and
she was like
tisk tisk
modesty brit i've never done that
all right all right
so you know when you're little and
you're like snooping around your parents
room and you stumbled upon your
christmas gifts yes
oh grandma saw that i'm watching
that she saw that and then that's why
your mom was like who found the
christmas gifts and then returned them
all
and then what get those for christmas oh
that's actually my brother's story shane
yeah he was gonna get a teenage mutant
ninja turtles blimp and ruined it for us
all because i was stoked for him to have
that plimp too
bummer adam damn it grandma saw it all
right all right
remember you know how sometimes you're
given the
horrible get it's like a candle holder
that is like circa 97 and you're like oh
thank you for this gift oh cool
immediately wrap it up
re-gift and then the person who gave it
to you ends up showing up too
if that's whatever happened to you
grandma saw that she saw it she goes no
no no this is what she saw you do that
and she's like you know what i'm
gonna inspire that person to come to
this party there bloody appeared in a a
a dream you need to go to britt's work
party so you get
shame
has that happened to you
yeah
yeah was it's been a while i know better
now i know better don't mix yeah
i actually returned a baby gift for odin
that was very it was just not my style
not his style not that the baby had
style really was not my style and i went
to return it and as i was returning it
the person who purchased it for me
was at the counter next to me oh
i felt really bad it was what are the
odds the uh yeah so grandma dammit
grandma's shoes just say thank you and
appreciate you got anything at all
all right what's the worst gift that
you've been given at
christmas oh boy
oh boy well so i had some relatives who
didn't have children and didn't really
have a finger on the pulse of what like
a teenage girl would wear or get and so
i'm pretty sure in high school i got
like a sweater with like a
a puppy on a pillow that was like a
little puffed out like 3d
and i was like oh thank you
she tried very hard
and so it is the thought that counts
yeah exactly
what's the worst one you got
oh my gosh years ago we had a christmas
with mike's family and his mom um was
cleaning out her house and decided it
was a fantastic opportunity to gift
items
that instead of get donating them to
goodwill to like just give them his
christmas gifts
um so that year i got some used pot
holders
i got
some old lingerie from the 70s
i'm trying to think what else
some oh just like
old potpourri or something where you're
like oh
okay
the lingerie that's it that's the worst
one old
lingerie from your mother-in-law
yeah
we also got some like antique you know
crisp like antique german you know like
cups and glasses that were really cool
but also bl mixed in was like
the other things yeah the lingerie did
not last long
and it was like it was hers probably
right
yeah but she was like oh this you know
this is this is really good quality nice
so you know like that brit
oh or like what hopefully that was the
thought and not like this is really sexy
you know i felt so sexy
i bet mike will really like how britt
looks in this ew
no
that's oh yeah we're skipped sorry
family we're skipped
no that wins i'm not even like gonna
brainstorm i definitely haven't nothing
that will beat that at all
absolutely
well brett do we just talk about bad
christmas gifts and
um christmas notties we also talk about
true tales of the strange unusual and
paranormal
what are we talking about this week brit
um we've got some
super i've got some supernatural holiday
themed um tidbit stories for you tonight
what about you yeah ghosts of christmas
past
present
future
and then other ones that have nothing to
do with any of those things but they do
mention christmas
okay perfect in some way the word comes
up i'm excited to hear yours and i'm
sure mine okay you go first okay i'm
gonna start it off here so this one
comes from
santa and she says
this is actually my mom's story and a
quick preface is that my mom knew a
couple who lost their baby son in 1990.
we'll call him peter i don't want to put
his real name on here for obvious
reasons he crawled out an open balcony
window and unfortunately died
oh no the glitch i i did not read that
part i apologize everybody
i didn't know that was like such a
downer part maybe i won't put the
details of the
merry christmas that's it that's my
story
it was christmas morning anyway okay
the glitch happened later on in the
early 90s just before christmas my mom
was busying herself with wrapping
presents when she got up to leave the
living room as she walked past the
window she froze still in the windows
reflection she could see a boy with
curly hair standing next to the
christmas tree but when she looked there
was no boy she looked at the window
reflection again and the boy was still
there
she quickly closed the curtains in a
panic and went to run up the stairs but
just after she closed the curtains there
was three knocks at the window
she says she never ran so fast in her
life
oh my gosh
it's the reflection like your story from
last week
with the yellow house
oh it was
through a window yeah through a window i
drew a complete blank i don't know if
you could tell by the look of my face
that blank
what did i talk about last week like no
clue i should probably have some notes
a little yeah i guess a little bit a
little bit not quite
in real life not there
in window there
yeah
that's more like the reason why you hate
windows why a lot of people hate windows
especially at night mirrors anything
with a reflective surface that something
could be in the reflection that is not
actually in the room or maybe but the
mirror and the reflection only sees it
it's scary it is okay
so the next day she received the news
that peter's parents had a baby girl
that night she also had similar
experiences in early in the early 2000s
but she puts that one down to having
just woken up this one she says she was
fully awake and alert i asked her if it
was possible that there really was a boy
outside but she was 100 sure it was the
reflection of a boy and not a boy
outside wow
oh that's so freaky does that mean that
the little like
so was it the
new baby being born that was she saw the
reflection of or was it the child who
fell off the balcony
my theory is that it was the child who
fell and he knew he now had a baby
sister and he was running around to let
everybody know
i have a baby sister and like knocking
on windows and trying to let everybody
know
that how excited he was that his family
had
a new baby
that's a very positive way to think
about it
not that he's just having to haunt the
balcony for the rest of his life because
it was a traumatic death oh he's just
locked outside and no one will let him
in
he's like i see the christmas tree i
want a part of it
christmas time is here
[Music]
that's the charlie brown christmas right
here
[Laughter]
no no no it was totally
yeah he's welcoming his new baby sister
for sure because that was the only time
she saw him so
it was that special night exactly a good
story i like that one
do you have any stories
i do
this one uh was told um by somebody with
the um name raspberry waterfall
obviously not their birth name i'm
imagining
you never know
but that was the name they wanted that
was the name they wanted me to use so
that is the name we are using when i was
eight or nine i saw something weird on
christmas eve this was many many years
ago but i still remember it like it was
yesterday i still believed in santa
claus then as a good amount of children
do and i had the usual anxiety and
excitement for santa to leave christmas
presents by the tree
after i went to bed i had some trouble
going to sleep with holiday nerves and
such
i'd finally drifted off when i woke up
to the sound of soft footsteps somewhere
in my room i automatically assumed it
was santa claus
and i was scared to see him for fear he
might leave or his magic would fail
i opened just one eye barely and saw
this black figure standing over my bed
staring at me
it was probably around six feet tall and
was completely dark
it looked almost blacker than black in a
way
i couldn't see any eyes a mouth or a
nose but i could clearly see the outline
of the head arms body and legs it looked
like a bigger person so i'm was thinking
it was santa and it made sense
it stayed in one spot for 10 maybe 15
seconds
until it took a few steps closer
it leaned in a little more
still a few feet away from me and then
stayed there for 10 or 15 seconds more
even though i couldn't see a face i knew
it was looking right at me it's just
that weird feeling you get when you know
you're being watched
i closed my eyes again and waited for a
few minutes
when i looked back it was gone
i lived in a pretty old house at the
time so the doors and floorboards were
squeaky and loud i heard the footsteps
but i never heard the door open i never
saw this figure again though i've had
some other spooky experiences in this
house
i asked my mom if she heard santa when
he came in my room last night and she
looked confused for a second and then
played along and just assumed that i was
lying
i know this wasn't a person and i know
it wasn't a dream i also know that
spirits or entities are often attracted
to a lot of excitement or energy so
christmas would be a perfect time for a
ghost to pass through so this got me
this got me thinking though about
kind of i love santa love santa but
santa's pretty creepy
um
my kids have zero desire to sit on his
lap we're like do you wanna go sit on
santa's lap and the look upon their
faces is of sheer
horror and disgust and like
why why why would i ever want to go sit
on his lap like they know it's creepy
too yeah i ran into um our favorite
child of the podcast elise who has seen
jada
um we uh live in the same neighborhood
and every year they do um a luminary
festival with lights around the whole
park it's very beautiful but santa is
there and you can go and sit on santa's
knee and tell him what you want
she was having
none of it i was like elise are you
excited to see santa oh no no
and julie was like she hates santa
and
she was like
she told at least she goes elise aren't
you excited for santa to come and bring
you presents i don't want him here mommy
no absolutely not do not let him come in
my house
but it got me thinking and then i heard
a story that i think it's in um
the uk somewhere that they go into your
santa goes into your bedroom and fills
the stocking above your bed so he's like
literally in your bedroom
giving you gifts so maybe that's what
the kids saw was uh the british santa
that was maybe trying to she got lost a
little bit
yeah maybe
she said it was a creepy presence though
wasn't it it didn't yeah it wasn't
really it was not i don't know maybe it
was just a christmas ghost but like
no i think that was
i think that that was like she said like
maybe just because of the excitement and
energy it brought forth some like
strange creepy spirit who's staring yeah
so it um but it so it got me thinking
though first of all how creepy santa is
and so then i started um researching
online like creepy santa experience
i don't know
it's gonna go anywhere well there were
the all of those fantastic creepy santa
photos but i came across um
on the smithsonian
website they tell of
um the iceland santa have you heard of
this at all um in iceland they have 13
different santas called the the yule
lads
um and they're kind of like the seven
dwarfs
like really mischievous
so i'm gonna i'm gonna read a little
snippet of that if that's okay oh yeah
i'd love to hear about the the yule lads
that's the
lads um
on the smithsonian website it says
icelandic children get to enjoy the
favors on not one but 13 father
christmases called the yule lads these
merry but mischievous fellows take turns
visiting kids on the 13 nights leading
up to christmas on each of those nights
children place one of their shoes on the
windowsill for good boys and girls the
yule lad will leave candy if not the
yule lads will not are not subtle in
expressing their disapproval they fill
the shoe with rotting potatoes
oh it lists off the different yule leads
do you want to hear what they are
yes please i'm i can i guess wait a
minute can i guess can i guess first
we've got 13 okay we've got stinky we've
got pinky uh we got licky
roddy
oh how many is that four um okay
we've got smokey
uh slimy
okay
hairy cheery um sneaky
sticky
[Laughter]
minnie
flakey
spooky
and um roddy
very close on some of them good
job thank you
okay now now can i hear the real ones
please okay so keep in mind these guys
came about in the like 1700s
oh are they like racist names
or is this what we're oh no but it is
applicable to the mischievous things
that they do like the first one is
the sheep coat clawed he tries to suckle
use in farmer's sheep sheds
mystery
we have the goalie gawk
we tries to suckle use that's his
mystery yeah okay
we have the gully gawk he steals foam
from buckets of cow's milk
you know that the good stuff foamy
stubby
he's short and steals food from frying
pans
that was kind of close to one of the
ones you said wasn't it
no i didn't say stubby my like sweet but
he's a good climber because aren't
like i would think he'd be good at
stealing food from like dog dishes
dumpsters
like real
short things yeah
we've got spoon liquor
i didn't say licky yeah yeah
he licks spoons just all these
we have a pot scraper or pot liquor he
steals unwashed pots and licks them
clean so kind of like mischievous and
also helpful i guess that one but then
you're bound to use it if you think it's
clean i like his name's potlicker i'm
going with that
okay
a bowl licker he steals bowls of food
from under the bed
oh here we go back in the old days
icelanders used to sometimes store bowls
of food there convenient for midnight
snacking
i don't think that i would want to have
food under my bed that's how you get
rodents and
yeah i guess it's colder there i don't
know
oh here we go door slammer that's kind
of like a haunted one right door slammer
he stomps around and slams doors keeping
everyone awake
oh slammy
we have this skyr gobbler
apparently skyer is i don't even think
i'm pronouncing that correctly it's a
type of yogurt so
he eats up all the icelandic yogurt oh
that would make me angry i like yogurt
and icelandic yogurt some good yogurt oh
i'm sure it is we have the sausage
swiper
he loves stolen sausages
um the window peeper he likes to creep
outside windows and sometimes steal the
stuff he sees inside that would be the
freakiest one for me
yeah maybe that's what we had over here
in my first story is a window peeper yes
oh and on christmas eve yeah that makes
sense
window paper
uh we got the door sniffer he has a huge
nose and an insatiable appetite for
stolen baked goods
the door sniffer oh god sniffy sniffer
okay okay we have meat hook
he snatches up any meat left out
especially smoked lamb
these are so random i love it and then
love it
somebody thought these up which is what
tickles me like what i mean there's 13
of them our kids supposed to remember
last one here
candle beggar he steals candles which
used to be a sought after items in
iceland okay so there's our 13 uh yule
ads there
i love it i love it i didn't need
another reason to want to go to iceland
but now i got another now i have 13 more
reasons to go to iceland
yeah i feel like the idea of like the 13
like it really like puts the pressure on
the kids of like for at least these 13
days you have to be good
behave my kids are fighting like mad
right now i like kind of wish i had some
like yule lads to seek on them to be
like stop okay so stinky potato in your
shoe i would just go with candy because
it's easier to acquire
well i mean a stinky it's stinky potato
feels less messy to clean up than like i
don't know other stinky things
yeah but just where do you get them like
that takes preparation you gotta like
this is still potatoes they started in
the oldie times though where like you've
got your potato cellar so you've got
bags of potatoes sitting around so they
still do this in current days though
i don't know i don't know i didn't
follow that through i've had a bag of
potatoes like in a like a pantry like
turned to maggots once so that was
pretty gross beyond potato just a pile
of pool of
slime this stench is like a rotting body
it smelled so bad you know what rotten
potato is way worse than like a piece of
coal
oh yeah yeah
oh you know
they'll probably and then they could
just throw the coal at their brother
like
oh they could also equally throw a piece
of
rotten potato at a brother oh it's
smooshy rotten potato to the face oh my
gosh okay well that was a joy okay so my
next story comes from angie and she says
when i was around the age of five i
received a life-size doll for christmas
on the box the doll was called the wispy
walker doll it was about the same height
as me with blonde hair and overalls the
strangest part about this gift was no
one could recall who got me this doll as
it was labeled from santa
even years later when i asked my family
who got me the doll no one could
remember who
i instantly did not like the doll
because it freaked me out i left the
doll in the back of my closet far away
from all my other toys years passed and
the doll remained in the back of my
closet untouched
i feel you that's exactly where all my
dolls ended up as well
when i was about seven years old i began
to play hide and seek with my mom in our
home i decide to hide behind the door in
my bedroom which is right in front of my
closed closet door
i gasp when i come to find the walking
wispy doll out of her box placed behind
my bedroom door with one eye open and
another eye shut i scream
i scream and i run to my mom crying i
tell her mom big sis is playing a prank
on me and put the walking doll behind my
door to scare me
my mother confused explains that my
mother confused explains that my sister
had left for camp this morning with her
class my mom walks over to check behind
the door and there was no doll no
my stomach drops and i am at a loss for
words
maybe you're just seeing things my mom
told me we open the closet to check if
the doll is inside the closet it was but
outside of its box just standing next to
it
i had never taken the doll out of its
original packaging and i eventually got
rid of the doll that every time i
remember this story i get chills
oh that is freaky as
hell
dolls are just freaky but a life-sized
one whose eyes are like looking at you
and only maybe one
and walks around the whiskey walker doll
that no one knows where it came from
i think i would probably just take to
keeping my front door open and hope it
walks out and never comes back
walked into the road bye-bye
yeah
there's
very few good dolls out there i'm
convinced
you know growing up um
or as a child i had the most fabulous
jaws imaginable to me
when i was a child i had the most
fabulous dolls okay imaginable i thought
you said jowls
i may have
fabulous jowls ever
but then i grew up and i
got them out of the box of my childhood
things and i was like oh these are
hideous like
hand-painted face dolls and ones where
they're half their hair is falling out
one had a hole in her head
but in my mind as a child i was like
these are the most beautiful things in
the world
and they were not they're really freaky
looking i still have them yeah i never
liked any of those the only ones i
really i didn't like barbies and like
any of that i
loved me a cabbage patch kid a creamy
cabbage patch kid
absolutely but other any other doll hell
no my brother got one of those my
buddies do you remember that i was like
the real life and me yeah exactly kid
sister
sister
kid sister that's who i wanted i wanted
kid's sister
um but it's like the chucky doll did
chucky come before after my buddy
that's a really good question because
it's almost exactly it has to be after
otherwise poor children would be
immediately traumatized well i mean
i'm sure they were traumatized either
way
that was so freaky the same shirt the
same overalls it's identical how can you
have that in your room and know there's
like a horror movie and just like not be
convinced it's waking up at night to
kill you and suck your air out of your
mouth because and they are the they are
bigger sized dolls the buddy ones they
weren't like you know full body ones but
they were like double the size of a
normal doll i think bigger than a
cabbage patch kid they were big they
were definitely big a little knife would
fit perfectly
okay no thank you
um it's a good one i like that did you
have another
oh i do okay so mine is um
we're going back in history a little bit
this came from a newspaper article from
the los angeles times october 12
1963.
so i do want to give out credit though
um i got news of this article from
strangeco
so they did tip me off on this article
our little tale originates on the farm
owned by dora and william monroe just
outside of poissippi wisconsin
the couple bought their home in 1955
after the previous owner died
among the furnishings they acquired
along with the farm was a colorful black
red and yellow patchwork quilt about 60
to 75 years old
the monroes kept it stored away for a
couple of years until mrs monroe brought
it out to use in the guest bedroom
because it was so beautiful and so old
soon afterward the monroe's daughter
florence
del fossie spent the night at the farm
she was given the bedroom adorned by the
old quilt
then things got weird around midnight
miss del fossie was awakened by a
jerking sensation from the bottom of the
quilt
too surprised and frightened to make a
sound she just desperately held on to
her end of the quilt
this spectral game of tug and war was
interrupted by a voice snapping
give me back my christmas quilt
not knowing what else to do florence
stubbornly held onto the quilt until
dawn when the tugging finally stopped
florence's account of her disturbed
night created quite a family sensation
another monroe daughter margaret
came over to test the quilt herself just
after midnight she too felt the violent
jerking of the quilt the blanket also
became extremely hot it is as if the
heat came from an oven
the alarmed woman flung the quilt off
the bed when margaret's daughter-in-law
margie used the quilt she swore it had
an audible heartbeat
margaret's teenage son tom decided to
get in on the fun
he spent the night on a sofa wrapped in
the quilt while another monroe grandson
richard stayed awake to view events
sure enough right after midnight richard
saw invisible hands yank the quilt from
the sleeping tom
according to richard the quilt raised
itself about a foot above tom after
which it floated away from the sofa and
landed on the floor
the boyfriend of a monroe granddaughter
brought the quilt to his home he was
alone in the house something which he
probably soon regretted after midnight
he was awakened when the blanket began
to move he got out of bed and observed
the quilt straighten itself out
as if
no one had slept there then he heard a
knock on the front door
when he opened the door he saw a man
a man with no face
although it was raining hard the man was
completely dry without saying a word the
eerie figure just vanished when the
young man went outside he saw no sign of
the visitor and no footprints
william monroe was the next to test the
quilt same story the quilt jerked itself
away from him he held onto the quilt for
a while then let go
curious to see what would happen he said
the quilt dragged itself across the
floor and crawled under the dresser
faced with this paranormal mystery the
monroes and their friends knew there was
only one thing to do that's right a
supernatural slumber party yes indeed
six of doris female relatives and
interested observers including a
reporter from the oshkosh daily
northwestern decided there was strength
in numbers on the night of november 1st
1963 right after this witching hour of
halloween they would challenge this
cranky crazy quilt
on mas
dora herself
begged off from the experience because
she had a heart condition and she feared
the strain would be too much for her
sadly this unique episode of
paraphysiological research appears to
have been a big fat bust the women
reported that on the night they gave the
quilt the acid test in quotation marks
it didn't do a thing mrs monroe
attributed the quilt's
uncharacteristically docile behavior to
the fact that there were too many women
at a time testing it if the women were
silly about it it wouldn't work either
she added the story of this haunted
bedding appears to end there for one
very good reason the quilt disappeared
mrs monroe mailed the quilt to relatives
in oakland california so that they could
test its remarkable powers she never got
it back and apparently the quilt was
never seen again
it's unclear if the blanket was lost in
the mail or if it's still lurking
somewhere in oakland or perhaps the
faceless man finally got his damned
christmas quilt
i want someone like digging in a yard
and like they uncover the quilt with
dirt they like hit something and it's
like been buried or something or the
body it was wrapped it was wrapping a
body the whole time there's a whole time
um can i just make comment on the first
who ended up with the quilt and
the quilt's literally tugging on off of
her and she's like you and she
holds on tight and they're just like i
am imagining her laying in bed
tugging this quilt all night long like
no you can't have my quilt i would do
the same thing i think i mean i do
anyway so no i'd be
cold i'm like no man i want to sleep
like let me sleep back because i feel
like i play that tug of war with like
mitch and that you know
mine and he thinks i have more and i
think he has more and then we just
tug tug
um what color was this quilt again did
you say it i was right i was literally
looking that up so anybody in oakland
california can keep their eyes open
black red and yellow patchwork quilt
okay so did you there was the gala i
think it was recently and one uh
somebody i don't know who it was some
young famous person i don't know who
they are they showed up wearing a quilt
like a big fluffy like quilt that was
yellow and red and i do believe it had
some black like decor on it
but they found it at a it was in
california i believe is where they oh
maybe not be
i can't maybe it was i don't remember i
don't remember i'm going to pretend that
the mount gala happens in um
oakland california yes
i think it might be in new york city but
maybe the stylist who found it found it
they found it at a thrift store
nearby and like apparently the family
had donated it like a week or two
beforehand and then
a stylist found it and then dressed
whoever in this freaking family quilt
um i love that i i need to look that up
right yeah now fingers crossed it is the
same quilt i doubt it is but i like that
idea it would be so someone just they
can't get rid of their body yeah it
wants to be either um back
with the the dead guy or famous it's
making its way oh yeah it likes the face
he likes the fame and wants to be in the
spotlight um yeah yeah good old haunted
christmas quilt
love it that's such a great story i love
that i made the newspaper i did it
beautiful that's so fun haunted like
clothing and objects is a very
fascinating idea and i guess like a
blanket as good a thing as any to be
haunted like people die in blankets all
the time right there's actually there
should be more haunted linens
and maybe they are but you know if
you're sleeping
you know you probably aren't paying
attention to that like
blanket moving across your legs or or
all the sleep paralysis has been blamed
on like all this other stuff but really
you just have haunted blankets
this whole time the whole time solved
some paralysis solved oh my gosh we are
detectives i love it love it okay okay
so my last story comes from breezy and
they say
it was a week before the christmas after
my grandpa died and i had stayed the
night at my grandma's after we'd gone
christmas shopping the day before my
grandma was still taking it hard and i'd
been trying to help her cheer her up
we had just gone out to do more shopping
for gifts boxes and paper the usual
wrapping stuff when we got back we ate
lunch and watched christmas movies in
the living room until my mom got there
to pick me up i guess all that shopping
wore her out because halfway through the
movie my grandma fell asleep as i was
sitting there i started to think about
my grandpa because we were really close
and his passing hit me really hard but i
was trying not to show it around my
grandma
i was missing a lot and i really
actually didn't even want to stay over
at my grandma's house as much as i used
to because
being there just brought up all the
memories of him and it made me miss him
even more i never even went into his
bedroom anymore because it was just too
sad while my grandma was sleeping i
tried to pay attention the movie but
again all i could think about my grandpa
and all the fun stuff we did for
christmas and how i just wanted to see
him again
then all of a sudden the room started to
feel cold
at first i thought it was just a draft
but then everything felt heavy and it
got real quiet
the clock stopped ticking no car noises
no nothing it was like the whole whole
world had just stopped
it looked
like all the color had started to fade
away till everything had just turned
gray
then my whole body felt like felt like
pin prickles and it felt like someone
was watching me
as i looked up i almost screamed in
shock
there in the doorway that led into the
hall was my grandpa
he was just standing there smiling at me
wearing his favorite cream color brown
pinstripe shirt sleeve button-up shirt
blue jeans brown belt white socks brown
loafers and brown glasses the only thing
different was a kind of glow about him
i sat there frozen for what seemed like
an hour when i started to stand up i
don't know why maybe to hug him or maybe
just to touch him to see if he was
actually there but the second i got to
my feet he was gone and the world went
back to normal with all the sounds and
color back like someone had just hit the
unpause button
i just stood there for a second then
realized i was crying and went to get a
tissue
i never saw my grandfather after that
day and even though i was scared i
really kind of wish it would happen
again
oh
what a gift though his grandpa was like
you miss me all right i'll come say hi
it sounds like a marvel movie or
something like where you can just hit a
pause button and everything feels right
and then there's this glowing grump on
the doorway
i know when i was reading this i was
like really is this all i have to do is
just like think about something and
somebody that i miss like real hard and
think about them and maybe like
everything will stop and they'll show up
it didn't work yet
that kind of reminds me though i've um
heard recently um about a medium
who
um to get to
this
state of being able to communicate with
the dead they meditate yeah and it's
like and they're able to hone in on
their abilities through meditation i
wonder if this kid was just so relaxed
and focusing that attention so
intently i wonder if they were a medium
and just didn't know it and were able to
like
hone in on their abilities by just
focusing so intently on their
grandfather's memory that's really
interesting maybe they are you know who
also told us that was alex our psychic
friend alex he said we should meditate
that's
almost everyone's recommendation for
everything it's just there's nothing
negative about it i know
i've done it one time since i know you
could be able to get my abilities yeah
we could be uncovering all these
superpowers
if we would just sit quietly
and clear our mind yeah
why do we refuse to do it so much alyssa
i yeah i don't know it's not even a
refuse i don't just don't do it i don't
i do have an app
with his melty voice and every time i do
it i'm like that was nice but it's
literally three minute sessions i think
i know my answer
i don't can't sit still i don't have
that attention span
my brain
one meditation i did it was like
less than 15 minutes i felt incredible
afterwards
maybe i just have to make it routine i
also don't get 15 minutes of silence all
that often and when i do there's like a
gush a whole bunch of stuff i want to
get done and
you know so i guess that's true yeah
excuses is what all we're listing is
excuses
2022 is when we gain our superpowers
okay
by the way oh here we go
my superpowers with meditation
um so did you have one more story okay i
do
i teased last week about a story from my
niece sunshine
and though it is not technically a
christmas story it is a december story
because that is when she told me this
month
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holiday season
so sunshine is a freshman at ut here in
austin
and university of texas
yeah good show good job uh longhorns
one of her jobs is that she uh works at
the classics library it's
the dream job of sunshine like my
goodness she gets to sit in this library
with like ancient books that are just
they have that old smell
oh is this going to be a story about a
book covered with human skin
no but i now need to ask her and then
i'm thinking about smelling it you're
like taking a big inhale
i'm really grossed out it's like
skin particles going in your nose yeah
um
so she is working and she said the the
classics library not a hustly bustly
place like she she said she's worked
entire shifts were like nobody's just
there she just does her homework during
that time or reads a book or whatever
so
she comes in for her after night to cl
afternoon shift that goes into closing
and
she gets there she's at the front and
the way the library is laid out i
haven't been there yet but i do want to
visit is um
you go down the row and then it kind of
offshoots and there are little study
rooms off to the side
and so she's um
doing her homework and she hears that
somebody's studying back there
um they're moving the chair a lot she
hears paper wrestling
and um they're there for quite a while
and then it's starting to get late and
she was wanting to close up early
because she had to get somewhere um
at six
and they usually close at six so it's
getting closer and she is not one to for
confrontation so she's like man i really
hope that they like wrap up so i don't
have to go talk to this person
it gets closer it's like 5 30 5 45 and
she's like damn it all right so then she
starts to turn some lights off like
maybe indicate like okay wrap it up put
your stuff away
and um
finally she realizes i have to go tell
them that we're closing
so she walks back there turns the corner
to where the table is and nobody's there
nobody all day she'd heard breathing
rustling papers that chair was moving
and there is not a single soul
there the occasional cough and throat
clearing uh-huh just
just you know the little one where it's
like
not a soul there and there is only one
way in and out there's no back exit
i love it we're talking about kind of
how like
i love we've had one tale about a book
loving a book loving ghost as well but
like that makes so much sense to me i
don't know why like of course you would
go hunt
a classics library right of course uh so
i put her on the task of like
go ask your co-workers what have they
seen like i need to know some stories
here
there's only one other woman the
librarian who works there and she
essentially was so nervous to ask bless
her heart she asks the librarian have
you like had any weird experiences and
librarians like no
but
that closet back there the
anthropologists keep all of their
artifacts back in that back closet by
the table where the chair is
so it is either a haunted book or some
kind of strange artifact back in that
closet back there or like an old
librarian or an old student who's like
eternally studying for finals or
something never gets a chance to take
their tests oh what a nightmare how have
you
yeah that's at night like purgatory is
just like you finally you just have to
study for a test forever
how old is the building was my question
do you know any idea yeah uh it was
built in the 20s or 30s oh not like
1800s or anything but old enough to
still haunt this plenty of time to
get a good old ghost right up in there
oh i love it sunshine
keep us updated please i know i know now
i i want to know well and then so then
the librarian was like ascension well
sunshine have you experienced anything
essential no
why are you asking no
that's weird that would be so weird
that's really weird of you to even ask
me i don't see weird things i don't hear
things what no
never heard or
i thought someone was here when there's
no one here no
crazy oh i love it so much
all right well if you have any stories
of a haunted object or a haunted library
haunted anything weird coincidences we
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tux get busy on there um
was there anything else that i wanted to
say to you brett i did uh one thing oh
yeah did you not remember what it was
wait no
haunt y'all later oh yeah that's great
good night
good night merry christmas christmas to
all and to all a good night
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