E489 Cartwheel Trauma and an Oenophile Ghost

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Maybe my mom and that gym teacher really just halted what could have been maybe we were both meant to be gymnasts and then when i got all screwed up in the head the universe was like alternate plans m and christine are gonna be podcasters instead so then you got pulled out of your gymnastics because i showed up and did one class and they were like christine's never gonna fucking live up to this i feel like the universe was like no no simone biles needs this so like let's move you somewhere else yeah please get rid of these fucking clowns you know in another world simone is the podcaster yeah and that should be the world i think uh maybe she'd do both you know but anyway we're here i'm alive i did a cartwheel allegedly um is there a reason why you drink is that why you drink well right before we recorded do you and i both heard some sort of footsteps coming from above me but that's the roof so i'm like there must be an animal up there santa uh satan i don't know it could be either one uh but it sounded almost in the walls but not but i gotta say it was sounded like footsteps so i actually thought maybe blaze had like gone into the crawl space and so then i called for him something he does like no no and so i was like what is that but geo's face was like this too and i was like well he sleeps up here so if he's not used to the sound then like i don't feel great about that so i couldn't find the source of it but it was right here kind of you hope it's a squirrel you just gotta hope you just gotta hope and so we'll wait and see but if you hear a loud like if i jump out of my skin and like you hear banging sounds it's like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm like oh it's a squirrel are all of your cats accounted for no and because juniper is up as a frequent flyer up there right he's a menace you know i've never heard him get up there but i wouldn't put it past him he goes outside on the roof i mean that could have been laggy oh you did get laggy just now fuck maybe it is a ghost i don't know juniper just cut the red wire on the roof oh my god okay um well my apologies for whatever's about to happen sounds like someone's totally not good it's probably christmas in july let's just go with that yes i love that um why do you drink by the way oh i don't know i feel like uh i feel like a bruise again this week oh um it's just i i'm about to i was just telling christine off air i'm about to do a lot of traveling and i think i'm just mentally prepared for like the weight of the travel we're like i'm happy to i'm i'll be happy once i get to my destinations but like i haven't packed in a while so i'm a little um out of practice on yeah back when we were on tour i was just like so used to living out of a suitcase and it's bizarre it's a it's a weird feeling to have to pack now i just i feel like it was such a muscle memory for a while that i didn't have to think about it but now it's it's back to being a task and so yeah um and it's a long i'm gonna be gone for like at least two weeks one of them's a wedding one of them requires a rented tux but then also kind of panicking about like well if i'm about to leave and i need the rent to tux a certain time i need the rentals with travel it needs to be delivered to another location and will it get there on time and if it doesn't should i bring a backup something ship it back and all that um it's just it will it's just a silly time with a lot of to-dos lists of to-dos also i told you about the recipe book i'm working on no i don't think so did you i don't know i don't know anymore you remind me i uh found a bunch of old family recipes but when i say a bunch i mean like 300 oh my god no i've talked about this somewhere i know you've talked about this i feel like is this like you've collected them i wouldn't i can't say exactly where because i went searching through a filing cabinet when it wasn't my business oh i see okay yeah so i don't know who listens um but uh i and by the way i don't feel bad about that god knows my heart so i okay and he's listening we know that i mean she yeah they are somewhere and they didn't stop me by the way if god is all powerful didn't strike me dead you know what i'm saying yeah i think he wanted this so i think that's a good sign and by the way when i went snooping through a filing cabinet it was a thousand percent for family stuff it wasn't like oh how much think how many things are they hiding i wasn't going for how many were they hiding though i i as we know i'd the recipes and i don't even think they were hiding it it just never came up and so you didn't find any ancillary secret any collateral secrets no when i saw the recipes i stopped my search and i went jackpot this is what i this is the kind of shit i was looking for bummer okay so i wasn't looking for anything juicy um except that steak recipe and i ended uh three of them i found i anyway i i'm trying i'll just go get to the good part so i ended up taking pictures of everything and then putting all the recipes exactly back where i found them and then rappelling out of the room on a fucking what are you doing you're like in oceans one and it's just m realistically i there is no doubt in my mind the house i was at they would have absolutely let me take all the pictures i wanted i just felt guilty once i found it that i had been looking at all and so i didn't know how to tell them that i was looking at all the pictures i wanted i just felt guilty once i found them that period yeah you're like well now i found them and i can't even tell you how yeah i just feel bad i the guilt has happened don't worry i just feel because i i was snooping but with good intentions but still snooping you know what i mean so i feel lucky about it um but didn't stop me from taking a picture of all the recipes because then what if they end up somewhere else or with a different family member now i'm not asking for the highest good god knew i for the sake of ancestry it was good because you know what now all those recipes aren't just going to be in a filing document they're safe hands and safe hands so i'm transcribing them for myself i love that and yeah it was um anyway i just i i knew that there was like family stuff uh in the room and i was like oh i just want to like see if i can find anything and i found something and then i and so i'm not doing anything with it except just like i just wanted a copy for myself and i didn't want to like say like let me take all this from your home and said i just yeah i feel like i did you had like a ethical way about it as possible you had like a big um potato sack with a dollar sign written on it and you just put all the recipes in that and you threw it over your shoulder like a burglar and like walked out yeah no and by the way my snooping i will say was like i literally saw a one of the drawers was already open and so i i like i i i'm not saying and that's why i look through it i'm just saying like the level of my snooping it's not like i spent all night like in that room it really happened where like there was a filing cabinet that was open and i was just going to close it for them and literally right there we've all snooped we've all snooped and we've all we've all had only the best intentions right guys all i mean i'm saying what i did is not is not 10 out of 10 but i will say it was not like a long hunt for anything like i really stumbled upon it and went well that works that's great to worry this person listens i feel like you're backtracking i feel like now you're like oh i am i i really am filing that is that is the honest truth but i also i don't i don't think are you going to listen but i don't think they're going to care or listen i think getting family recipes is a very noble sorry my computer just threw itself off of the stand that's nice disagrees with us cool cool cool anyway i the reason i drink is uh traveling and also uh the i did not realize just how many recipes there were and some of them um are in like different languages which is crazy so cool it's very cool and it's like they're handwritten they're all handwritten um so anyway that was that's fun though it was very cool to see um but yeah anyway so i'm just i just got a lot of projects uh on my desk at the moment just came across your desk i love it across my desk and i'm drinking just like a chill little tea just a little black tea what are you drinking well i would be drinking my nice morning jolt what happened but it had but it arrived it arrived uh has it arrived oh a few minutes ago but it took forever to get here so that's probably blaze's problem when he gets home okay can you bring me is that your that's your brown drink with the blue straw is it yes hey you one other reason why i drink yes it's a gross one tell me i think i have contracted i'm so embarrassed i'm so embarrassed a nail fungus oh no i've never had that before don't be embarrassed i've just never had it before and it sounds like something that like someone like many generations higher than me would get like it feels like a bunion does that help well it's just and i always noticed that this one toenail was just a little discolored and now it's like a bit noticeable and so i'm like but i've heard i i mean i'm gonna go to an actual doctor everybody but i have been obviously also looking up like home remedies and everyone is like soak your foot in listerine and yellow listerine listerine apparently yellow listerine has like match that's because it'll match the rest of your foot i've never had anything like this and i'm like is my nail gonna fall off or something like what have you done any like your nails not gonna fall well my brother okay i can't even actually hear about it oh my god his nail fell off but it was because he slammed his foot in he was wearing he was going barefoot walking barefoot into a blockbuster video well that was kind of i'm not saying he asked for it i'm just saying you that's what i said Just saying the toe was there. yeah and we did get dude dude where's my car that evening so it you know it ended up being fine he's fine he should have said dude where's my toenail that's what the should have made a sequel he may have and i probably didn't laugh um anyway i am i think a doctor visit oughta oughta happen soon so i'm just a little paranoid about it and i'm a little freaked out i'm skeeved out by it because i've never like had any feet problems before and you know how i feel about nails yeah yeah i know you'll but as long as you get it looked at soon like someone will they'll be like easy fix i hope so anyway it'll be easy those are that's my top three this week folks no one asked well blaze said he would bring you my smoothie slash coffee it's sort of like a mixture of both when he gets home he said but it might be a while so probably halfway through your story i'm gonna get like jump scared yeah so just a heads up is it a smoothie or a why so it's like a cold brew smoothie thing so it's like a chocolate and coconut and stuff but it has like coffee in it yeah like a yes and it has like blended it's like a blended coffee type thing yeah precious precious precious i wish many good tastes for your mouth thank you so much this episode is brought to you by angry orchard hard cider and they have done us the kindness of sending us some angry orchard and so what we're going to do today is tell you some of the gripes that we have in life but we are going to use this as a lovely baton where i can i can air my grievances and then i'm going to pass it over christine for the rest of the show so if you're through the power of technology that's right our backward back back rooms liminal space we have a mini fridge back there yeah we have a mini fridge in the back rooms and so m's gonna go pop one and by the way angry orchard sent us more than one angry orchard to be clear but it's way more fun to to like pass the baton you know it's very fun so i'm gonna i'm gonna go first one of the things that gets me angry these days i have to take hank to the vet his he's doing the boot scoot at the dog park lately and i'm not loving what i see and or smell um it's pretty disgusting and also i have to go to the doctor myself my my feet are not acting right these days i don't know how old i am i feel like i'm a thousand so we're falling apart falling apart i just don't like it anymore remember when we started the show we were 20 f and four we were 24 20 f and four you know it's incredible we had just as much to complain about then as we do now that's exactly right well so today i complained that i'm i'm not 24 anymore but my dog's acting like he's 24 in dog year so all right i'm gonna pass it to you now christine this is your turn so give it a reach you and what are you what are you angry about today that the number one hard side on the country can can heal can help you aid from thank you so much for asking um you know i got my nose done as i can show you as i show off this crisp refreshing cider um and i sat down and the lady looked at my hand and just said what happened and i was like excuse me i think they look evil and then she said that'll be two extra dollars too and i was like i don't know anyway i didn't get angry i got orchard um it really is like a staple at our house especially when we have game nights things like that um so you know it's called it's called the payment of my pride getting wounded and also the bunion on my foot so i'm also old sorry angry orchard we're also just kind of old here you go yeah oh thank you hang on thank you well anyway it's it's nice to to air our grievances but also i'm sure you've got some grievances but you don't have to get angry you can get orchard angry orchard is made with two real apples in every cider which is why it has a real fresh apple flavor and instead of being overly sugary um it's gluten free it's crisp bold refreshing as christina said and tried and it's um it's it's really helped me make 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our second book oh my goodness okay i just know you don't remember a single thing that i'm about to say that's fine and by the way neither neither do i because we were supposed to record a while back and so these notes are also new to my eyes which i love yeah i love when that happens because then we get to explore together it's like wow what who knew um apparently i did five days ago but yeah uh who could have known i know it's crazy but i will say that proves though i know we say this all the time but like we both wrote and read our book at least twice because we had to write it and read it and then read it aloud for the audible and read put our commentary so it's like if i can forget that like please please understand and my brain it cannot hold so much i did use my my own book as a reference which is interesting that's a weird one yeah but like you just said it is odd when it's the reference and also you wrote it and also you don't remember it so it really does feel like a you better sort it out and then you can read it and then you can read it and then you can my work accurately because i'm gonna sue you otherwise uh your blurb does show up don't worry hell yeah okay so this is woodburn mansion oh it does sound familiar it does sound familiar but i don't even know if that's true anymore because i feel like everything and i'm not trying to like poopoo my own stories but when you could tell me that was from like schitt's creek and i'd be like oh okay well i was gonna say everything is either like a hotel or a manor like woodburn just feels very it's always an old last name and i that's not to say like all of my stories sound exactly the same but you know when it comes to like buildings that have stood the test of time long enough to become haunted they are kind of all they do fall into very similar categories right exactly so i don't know if you have if it actually does remind you of anything or it just sounds haunted hmm you want to take a stab in the world of where it is is it in georgia that's a close guess it's in delaware i really believed you hey east coast you were right same time zone same time zone same time zone um it's in dover delaware okay which i feel like i wanted to cover the dover demon yeah for our book but isn't dover is is it like dover massachusetts or something that the dover demons in oh i didn't you write that in the book i must be like i don't know listen don't ask me to do a book report on this spot right right right why did i even say this okay so dover delaware uh it's a mansion from 1790 it was on the national register of historic places in 1972 and since the 60s since 1965 but just to make it easier on your brain since the 60s uh it has been the home of the sitting governor so if you're the governor of delaware or yeah of delaware you get to live here is this the one with the ice cream maybe no i don't know i don't remember the story anymore okay okay okay go ahead take it away what do you mean the joe biden ice cream oh no i don't know what's happening here oh okay good because you covered a story in delaware and they had like joe biden themed ice cream or something fine yeah and then we read the recipes of it so i was like uh-oh i hope we're not doing the same story again no it sounds like we are not okay gotcha would love to hear that though because once again i don't know what the fuck you're talking about that sounds great that sounds it was a good one sounds like i really nailed that episode okay um i i love when there's a governor's house uh in virginia there was a mayor's house that i used to work next to when i did my segwaying and my go sunning um and it was like if you became mayor of yorktown then you got to live in the house i don't know if that's still the case but i remember always thinking like i can't imagine moving into a house and knowing that in four years or how whatever the term is it's kind of weird yeah um well it's probably like furnished and stuff for you i would hope so can you imagine if it's like now a shitload of furniture on your mayor salary well the mayor had of course has fabric like honestly if he doesn't i don't trust him with our yeah oh true i only but my mayor and i'll tell you mayor collector he is he loves an egg i'm sure he loves his bad boys so this is where the governor sits um it's where also where he sleeps and stands i don't know why we call it okay whatever and the fun fact about he does cartwheels sometimes probably it could be a fun fact about the governor's house is that he doesn't about this, which I didn't know i found out from our book thank you past me um is that this house also has a hedge maze in the garden and then of course my blurb from the book involved the shining where i'm like did we not see this coming this is an old house i remember being mad that you already did the blurb about the shining so i was like well that was my perfect entry point honestly in hindsight i wish i could tell you like you should just delete my fucking name like i wouldn't have known i could have i should have i wouldn't have known which one of us wrote it it's too bad i have such an integrity so much integrity that's very nice of you i would have been like just steal my line please no like charlie would be like who the fuck is deleting christine who's actually copypasting their own avatars into the middle i literally see christine in there in the google dot moving shit around um so this house was built in 1790 it was built by charles hilliard the third and he bought the land fun fact i know you love a number version yep he bought the land for 110 and 1790 which was what a bargain four thousand dollars today i just feel like that math can't even equate because it's just like great 17 like what do you even it money doesn't even mean the same thing probably also like over 200 years later and it's only like four times like who back then had 110 you know what i mean so it's like 40 probably nobody i don't remember math i hear i hear someone judging me for how bad that math was please don't i think it was actually really bad spot on thank you um but i'm with you it does it feels like it should not if it should be more or so anyway he bought it for the equivalent of four thousand dollars i think it's shocking because in today's world i couldn't buy a house for four thousand dollars so i'm like how right how did you do that kind of thing today anyway so he built it in 1790 and when he died his daughter's family inherited it so then that's the second generation of hilliards they ended up renting it out this is actually a very fun fact to me and nobody else he they rented it out to a governor and this was in the 1820s but this was before it ever became like the house that the governor lived in oh that's cool this is something only like the person running the tour at the museum would giggle about and every kid on the field trips like i don't fucking care at all about this information but i think it's a fun fact that like even though this is now the governor's house when they started that system whoever the first governor was to live there still wasn't the first governor to live there does that make sense still wasn't the first governor like years later they decided that governors would be living there but that's still but there were because the other guy had stayed there before yeah oh because he rented it out okay gotcha gotcha he had lived there just not officially right so that in the 1820s the first governor to live there although it was not technically the governor's house and would not be for a while ah okay the first governor that lived there fun fact was jacob stout and um so he lived there before it was even the governor's house and throughout the decades it did switch hands many times to people who were not the governor um until 1965 and that's when the state said actually the governor should live here like i guess they're like that jacob stout had a good idea and i miss those good old days when jacob lived here ah big jake he fucking loved this house he would want other always had a keg tapped in the backyard a guy what a guy i love how sensitive all of the governors who are obviously men um they all love a fabergé i love a fabergé they just don't like to admit it they don't tell you that's what's going on in in male circles that's right um another fun fact the first governor to live there 100 years later when it was the governor's house his name was governor charles terry okay you'll never hear his name again but i thought you'd like to know thank you another chuck another charles yes that's exactly right so um i'll i'll bullet point it so in 1790 charles charles hilliard had it his daughter inherited it she then gave it to the governor who was the first person to rent it out from her over time it then ended up becoming the governor's house so um in between governor jacob stout having it and it officially becoming a governor's house one of the people who lived there was a family called the bates hmm of all names of all names they um they also were renters from the hilliards so this was pretty early on in in the house's history um the bates then ended up buying the house and then they sold it you don't have to remember all these names but this they their history is important but you don't have to like remember names i'll just i'll keep summarizing governor stout had it then the bates had it the bates ended up buying the house and selling it to a guy named daniel cowgill daniel he was a quaker and an abolitionist he would actually use the house to hide enslaved people here as part of the underground railroad oh wow and although he helped enslaved people escape here the mansion was of course also previously used to enslave people uh yeah right sure so i or at least i don't know if uh this was actually like a working like plantation or anything but it was used by traders of enslaved people um so it did not have the world's history at all uh daniel cowgill is trying to just save that history one day at a time trying to reverse it and during uh during renovations they did find in the cellar um chains and shackles that were bolted to the walls which i think confirmed because i think people talked about it because of course we try to like erase that history and people were like i think this used to be involved in in the enslavement of people in some way and then they found these chains and shackles and it kind of confirmed it for people jesus okay so when daniel cowgill lives here quaker and abolitionist and he's helping with underground railroad he would regularly scare off these southern raiders who were looking for people who ran away and they'd come to the house because anyone hiding here and daniel would go no get off my fucking property meanwhile many people are hiding there um well one day one night the raiders come to his house and he the story goes that he scared them off i don't know if it was that he scared them off or just told him to leave but one of these raiders was in his tree i'm assuming to get like an aerial view of the property to see if anyone was hiding and on his way out um whether it's because he was scared or just told to leave he slipped out of a tree he slipped out of the tree and uh his head got stuck in a hole in the tree and he ended up strangling himself to death my blurb in the book whoa my blurb in the book from here because was um good for her which was a quote from lucille bluth that he strangled oh for the tree oh good for her yeah oh my god lucille bluth yeah whoa okay whoa whoa whoa oh whoa so that's just quite a that's one that's one death that turns into a haunting later is that there was a southern and like i mean i'm not trying to like be like woo people died but also like you're a southern raider trying to like yeah but i don't want that ghost near me either you know like get off my property like i don't want that ghost around at least he's in the tree you know what i mean like at least like he's not like in your house i sure hope not so um that's one of the major stories of what happened here another one is that um before daniel cowgill lived there remember he bought it from the bates family so the bates family they lived there in the 1820s and they have the first ghost on record from the 1820s the ghost story is from the 1820s so the bates were living here um this is charles hillier's daughter and her husband her husband by the way here's like his quick little resume he was a doctor merchant lawyer and a senator and i'm like okay go to bed same fucking relax it was probably like two dollars to get your fucking license back then yeah you had to pass like a five multiple choice questionnaire to be a doctor and they'd be like which what is good for this cocaine yes blood seeping out of you good or bad leeches we love them yes um a traveling minister was staying with them this traveling minister his name was lorenzo and he was staying in the house he was going to go downstairs and have breakfast with the bates and one morning on his way down he uh meets a man on the stairs and when the bait he i guess i don't know if they spoke to each other or anything like that but they definitely interacted in some way and when lorenzo finishes going downstairs he gets the dining room and he's like oh my god i'm so they're setting up for breakfast and the baits ask him to pray before they eat and lorenzo's like oh should i wait for the other guy who i just saw on the stairs and they're like who the fuck are you talking about and uh he basically described the guy he just saw he rude said he was in outdated clothing um that he had a wig a roughly puffy shirt he had britches and i guess after enough description um mrs bates realized that that was her father charles hillier the third and how dare you call his clothing outdated literally what i have next is your blurb from the book which was oh a man with outdated fashion sense that must be my father oh oh no because i was trying to pretend like joke no i was pretending that that lady said it i was like what i love that we wrote a whole fucking book and i didn't know no i think i was saying like she was like oh that's oh the the frilly britches oh that's my dad i literally took it as like you being like oh that must be my father i should have uh no no no my dad loves uh i mean he does love a frilly whatever but he's more he's pretty he's not he strikes me as a man who would own a wig and britches and i don't know why true yeah you never know with that one but uh no i was yeah i was trying to kind of make a joke about that lady being like oh that's just my father with his curly old-fashioned clothing i love that either way it lands thank you you very rarely get a double joke i guess not i mean people in general not just not just you but that's okay well i'm hey i learned something i listen we're still learning our own fucking book congratulations to us so since then people still spot charles and his uh his wig and his britches on the stairs and also in the hall i think the upstairs hall was specifically but in the hall near the stairs so i guess they something pivotal happened in that moment where he was in his own like foyer yeah one former resident said that he uh that charles hilliard passed by him on the stairs multiple times um others checked the stairs before uh or other people who ended up living there would regularly check the stairs before using them because they were afraid to actually run into him but that one former resident who said he would pass by him on the stairs all the time is like i'm like how do you just get used to seeing a man you know is dead what do you mean it's so weird i wonder if like you just see him out of the corner of your eye and you're like whoa i don't know i i guess i but i mean it sounds like he was just at least for the first guy lorenzo he was like it's a straight up man and we made eye contact and he just 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so interesting it's literally officially documented in security reports this ghost that loves wine security reports oh that's for me too there are certainly security reports out there that have documented how much i love wine i'm telling you i mean like i'm sure like in the first draft of our book it was like i just made a bunch of christine jokes i'm sure there was plenty of christine uh wines they were these good uh graphics where they would spill wine all over the pages and i was like i never knew if that was my wine that i spilled it's really perfect or like just a graphic the best part about our book was if you're drinking wine while you read it and you spill wine on it we've we've pre-dirtied it for you so you don't have to feel bad i wanted it to be a coaster because like you always need a coaster you know this one's already has rings on it the dream is if we made our book out of cork and then you every page was a coaster well we also had dreams of making the book a ouija board so we've had a lot of dreams we've had a lot to do with this fucking book in another lifetime maybe the best we could it so um the ghost who loves wine uh by the way our home girl is uh this uh this woman she's oh she was governor and lived there for eight years her name's ruth ann minner not minner or minor um governor governor minner okay lived in this house for eight years she did an interview in 2004 and i don't know if it was fully exactly about the ghosts or like about her fucking policies but the ghosts were heavily mentioned in this interview oh okay and she said the ghosts are absolutely real especially this fucking guy who loves wine she was like this guy beyond exists like this is a this is a very real ghost so it might be charles hilliard it might be there's another ghost that people see in a revolutionary war uniform so it might be him they're all drunks who knows all luscious all luscious but she made it clear if the wine is left out in this house it will be drank by someone who is not alive it like you there is a leak and they are drinking it up that is bizarre some residents have intentionally left wine out which i love that there's just like governor after governor after governor it's become a thing where they're all trying to booby trap these ghosts with wine in the same seriously they're like i guess i'll appease you it's like well the last one said that you like wine so i guess i'll also put wine out and because you know every single one of them has heard the rumors and when they finally become governor and get to move in they're like first thing on the agenda is find this fucking ghost you know they sent their assistant to to wawa or whatever to get like a box of wine be like just to keep the supply coming i i just like it's so funny to me just that there's just politicians who are just lining up to live in this house and probably at least one of them was it was mainly it's like i only want to live in the house to see if this ghost but do you think any of them were like i'm not gonna do that and then the ghost was like some fucking boring one maybe i was like here's bourbon and the ghost like i don't want bourbon yeah they tried to put a real spin on it yeah um some residents have intentionally left wine out to try and catch the ghost drinking it um i will i'm gonna ask you now that you are no longer uh a wine drinker what is the new thing food or wine or anything or food or drink or anything if you were a ghost and someone had to trap you with something what's your thing now like the people want to know christine it's just candy i think candy like i just love sugar now because it's like i have so much sugar in my diet and now it's like oh that's all gone so now i just love like tropical skittles oh i'm like in a very like chewy candy so like sour gummy worms and stuff like that okay that's easy and cheap to try to catch you then i oh cheese you didn't say cheese but that's another one you could do that okay i know you love a charcut i love that honestly just do that so you'd still be in the same circles as the wine drinkers i imagine you're just fine with that i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't on my end of it where it's like everyone's drinking wine i'm eating the salami yeah and like i'll drink something that i'm or a mocktail this time yeah which might i say christine if you're looking for a mocktail i am currently having a real fix with um ginger beer and pineapple juice mixed together oh that sounds nice i'm not usually like a huge ginger beer person but i feel like with pineapple that actually sounds very refreshing i'll tell you i also don't like ginger beer unless it's pineapple juices involved and if you do a little a little a little squirt or a little couple of drinks and then you're like oh my god i'm eating a like jalapeno seeds and it's sweet and spicy okay hey i'm into this do we need to do oh my god oh my god that sounds so good um okay so you would be gummy worms or cheese yeah i don't know what i would be but it'd have to be something carb heavy um yeah what about like chicken pot pie like right like really heavy on the carbo yeah i'm already dead am i like just a stick of butter will probably do it get me a get a bread bowl i'm already dead exactly um put some mac and cheese in a bread bowl so they would like leave wine out hoping to catch uh this ghost um if literally all the way to like they would fill decanters and the whole decanter would be gone like what the fuck the canter would still exist and it all the wine would be gone by i just wonder like how many is it one ghost are they trying to share because i'm like how much should i be leaving out like do you want all this or is it like you have to drink however much is out like i don't know like are they have is in the other realm are they like you know like i don't know like i don't know like i don't know are they having a bunch of like are they partying and it's like 20 people there or is it someone like me with it but instead of carbs it's wine where it's like i'm already dead i might as well just be blasted out of my mind yeah just keep it coming i can't leave the house so yeah and also like if you're gonna leave me wine i'm not gonna not accept your offer you know right right uh decanter well don't mind if i do again i'm sure on in early versions of this book there were a governor was like sneaking way too much wine and blaming it on a ghost i probably said i was just living in the basement although that's kind of spooky probably like christine just comes out christine's living in the walls yeah she heard there's free wine sometimes like every night because everyone's trying every night yeah well one resident would leave a decanter filled at night just to test it and wake up in the morning and it would be gone um it's a waste of wine i was Yes, and the governor's budget. is seriously just wine wine wine for the ghost instead of like on like wine wine wine for the ghost like and then what instead of social services or anything like important it's like seriously well the ghost we have to prove the ghost is real first he's the ghost one ghost there's an apparition of a man in a wig again might be charles hilliard might be another guy he has my dad your father and he has literally been caught by some people actually sneaking wine in the dining room see oh my god it's him um so it might be him he's like if you were all gonna use my house um wine bottles have literally been found empty in the cellar that nobody has drank oh so he really is just a lush i guess he's just i mean he lives in that house and lets you know i i do wonder if he's if wine bottles are empty i would love to know the labels of which ones are empty which ones is he picking when he has a selection right does he like go for the like the really expensive does he know or does he just pick one you know yeah like is he a wine or is he only picking ones that are like the year he was born or something right like is he a snob or not i don't know and then i would do another test where i'd be like okay well these are the labels that he was he seemed to like and i would put those out in a decanter versus like like a random remember when you didn't understand why you were a virgo rising that's why is that yourself right now like i'm gonna put this one here and this one here and then i'm gonna test which one he likes it's like well i would like to see like does he keep going back for the same wine or it is interesting it just makes you very virgo to me good to know i had no idea um so that's another ghost the wine drinker then there's a ghost of a little girl maybe she's the wine drinker i was gonna say could it be technically she's like 300 years old she's legal to drink true she's like i'm dead again like let me have some uh she is seen in a red gingham dress and she's most often by the garden and the reflecting pool outside and then disappears by the hedges and i don't know if that means she fades away or like runs into the hedges and then you don't ever find her or like the homer simpson yes or yes exactly she's also been seen in the mansion during parties but apparently not like partying it up she's more like standing in the corner and has like a little kid like watching a party or something yeah and she's also been seen um or felt sorry tugging on people's clothing like to get their attention at the party she's been seen a lot in the kitchen this i remember the governor her interview about the ghost this this was in that interview she's been seen a lot in the kitchen um she's been seen in the middle of the day by tour guides and fades away moments later after the tour guides are like left alone with her in the kitchen people have seen her peeking around corners of course horrifying people have heard her giggling in empty rooms and then people get evps of a little girl saying things like play with me like straight out of a horror movie please again there's the man in a revolutionary war uniform um there is actually there's a ghost of the traveling minister who first saw charles hilliard's ghost he is now also a ghost he's like i know where i'm headed yeah he's like well now i know it's possible um but he's seen in the library and apparently he's like the the least warm of the ghosts i guess people have said that they get a really like stern vibe from him it's his fucking problem um i mean i'd be stern too if i'm a traveling minister and i clearly didn't like make it to heaven like i'm just stuck in this imagine traveling like just traveling for work and you're in a hotel and somebody tells you when you die you're gonna be stuck in in this fucking place for the rest of your life take a look around yeah take a look around this you're fucking forever god i really god that makes me wonder i'm like all of all the places i've been that's horrifying will i be visiting in the afterlife um yeah it's like welcome back to your college dorm room no you know like you please don't make me haunt that you know how like mobsters and like every like i don't know about every dad but certainly my dad they all the people who cosplayed as little mobsters uh whenever they go to a restaurant they're like i have to sit with my back facing the wall just to make sure there's no danger have you ever heard about this my fucking dad always said that no and that's that's like the mobster rule it's like i gotta have my back to the wall so i know that nothing's gonna come my way and i can keep my eyes on everything i feel like i need to start having a little mobster rule for myself where every new building i go into i all haunt if i have to be here that's wrong all right that's my i call that corner called dibs yeah exactly um people also hear the the raider stuck in the tree who accidentally hanged himself the irony they hear him screaming for help and then my next blurb in the book was another quote from lucille bluth that says i want to cry so bad but i don't think i can spare the moisture oh yeah you see yeah good double good callback a callback yeah yeah good callback um but i mean that's i don't think i can spare the moisture i don't think i can spare the moisture i don't think i mean luckily it's someone i don't particularly care for but either way like i can't imagine just like walking like bringing the groceries in at night and just hearing screaming from a tree gruesome like from a tree and then being like oh that's just the ghost of the yeah fucking enslaved person yeah seeker well i don't know what he what was he called he was a raider like a raider oh for god's sake yeah i um give me the chills yeah i don't know that's uh give me the crease it's a yikes right there um people also hear footsteps both intentional and they hear um separately like heavy bootsteps and then even worse this is a quote that people hear scampering through the dining room ew scampering i don't like that in in the deck because in the walls it's like squirrel immediate squirrel in the dining room just an open floor plan of scampering absolutely not it's always when it's a different type of walking than just normal walking it's always when it's a different type of walking than just normal walking it's always when it's a different type of walking than just normal walking normal fucking walking like it's always either you're way too slow you're way too fast you're way too peppy you're way too mad the slow is so creepy like slow bootsteps like it's bad it's all bad when there's a motion to the footsteps that's when i hate it the most yep um the chandelier has been seen swinging tobacco is smelled in the library people hear mumbled voices speaking to you in the cellar don't go to the cellar people get grabbed and touched or grabbed and shoved um the sounds of the rattling chains downstairs which means someone's probably stuck there um people feel severe cold spots people see shadow figures throughout the house and they've also seen shadow figures standing over their bed at night uh furniture rearranges itself objects move themselves items go missing altogether equipment malfunctions when they do try to go ghost hunting including fresh batteries dying we have had that happen before and it's always freaky and inconveniencing uh doors open and close by themselves door not open and close by themselves knobs are seen turning themselves um doors are seen this is the fucking craziest one because any door can open and close by itself but one person one security guard said that in the woodburn mansion he watched a whole floor of doors one open and slam the next one open and slam then the next one open and slam as if someone was going in and out of every room and that feels a little mocky if i'm a security guard like oh this is what you should be doing now i'm over here now i'm over here oh oh yeah like i'll do your job for you it's like yeah like you're you're like doing the room checks yeah in front of the secure oh that's so creepy and also it's like oh and no room in no room you're safe yeah cool cool great awesome the mansion is open to visitors that make an appointment which i love that you can just like call the governor and go i'm coming over yeah bring a bottle of wine it's so small town to be like oh i just i have to go i have where are you off to oh i have to see the governor um i'm popping over to the governor's a functioning government building you can make an appointment to go at least to the house i don't know if you're going to see the governor it's kind of like when all the kids in dc go on field trips to the white house and you don't actually see anybody except security wow i'm meeting the president that's what i thought uh during october the building also houses paranormal investigations for people uh or hosts paranormal investigations they've said which is no real surprise but in case you're curious they've said that paranormal activity is the best from 11 p.m to 4 a.m okay okay one governor actually one time just let students come investigate overnight which i love this is literally i'm gonna go see the governor he invited me for a sleepover uh to hunt ghosts and they said the creepiest thing that happened was they reported a woman in a painting smiling at them all night long what does that mean wasn't she i don't know she was already smiling i'm imagining it's like one of those old paintings where no one ever smiled because you had to sit still for the and then she just like people kept seeing her smiling i mean that's spooky i wonder if she just it was just a permanent smile in which case it'd be like yeah that's just how the painting is or if like every now and then she would just she would start stern until she caught your real icon like made real eye contact with you and then went you know which would be very frightening yes anyway that is the woodburn mansion remember when i was like i remember that you said ice cream and i went i'm about to break your heart because i don't know what the fuck you're talking about no i was so relieved because we've done the ice cream one and i was like i hope this isn't the same one that we've already done um i just remember it being delaware because of joe biden and i remember that his dessert was like not ice cream and i was like is and you were like isn't that his whole thing why didn't they make ice cream for joe biden anyway that was when i covered um it was a haunted haunted president's themed restaurant that's what it was and it was it was it in delaware i don't know where it was but i remember like you said you really lean you what's the right word um And your commentary led right into my next whole thing, which was like, I actually looked up all the president's favorite food and you were like oh well I would think it's like squirrel or something I went don't worry I checked oh thank god I remember that that was so good yeah yeah we barely one day we won't remember it at all 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today actually was going to be because I took little g to the vet and I was sitting there and the vet comes in and she goes do you have a podcast by chance and I was like shut up and it'd been a long time I feel like since anyone said anything got recognized and she goes I saw geo's name on the thing and I looked up your name and was like that sounds familiar and I was like you recognize geo gg I know and then she gave him a bunch of shots and so now she's his worst enemy but I'm sorry it's her fault I didn't do it what a way to butter butter like if I got recognized by like someone who's about to draw my blood for a second I'd forget they were about to take my blood I'd go and then I really did she really did just stick the needle in and then I will say um to she did a great job and was really sweet her name was marisa or um dr hernandez thank you for your kind work with geo you're so good with him and also shout out to your sister ally because apparently ally is the one who who showed the podcast but I just was like this is so special it was like 9 a.m and I was like that's really I was just like poor geo was all anxious and I was like totally like taken aback so anyway marisa and ally I wrote their names down because I was like I'm gonna forget was this was this geo's first time being recognized or did he get recognized he got recognized once in a couple times actually the butt curtain got recognized like someone was like I saw the butt curtain at the dog park from afar at the dog park iconic um but the name this is the first time I think the name really has caught someone's attention that's so cute hank hasn't yet to be recognized he's recognized once they recognize me and then they go oh in that tank but um but he I don't think it has the same play as geo geo is an og he's you know and he has that feature of that tail that really gets people wondering he's such a cutie pie that little gg where is he what's he doing right here he already ripped off his little band-aid oh a little band-aid I was like taking selfies with him at the vet I'm like oh my god anyway so cute uh okay I wanted to shout that out before yappy hour I got my coffee situation and I'm ready to come back to life and do a yappy hour so meet us there okay so speaking of world war ii hi everybody yes you missed yappy hour did you well don't worry we were talking about world war ii so you really did miss out for like an hour I yeah for a full hour uh no no we talked about ancestry and like the darker sides of ancestry and how um I've been uncovering some stuff because I was respectful of my family's wishes to not look into their history until they disowned me and then I said well if I'm not part of the family I guess I can do whatever I want so then I kind of went rogue and I found out some like really wild stuff um but I but I'm kind of like em and I talked about like hitting walls where you're like oh I really want to know more about this one interesting piece and then you're like can't find the missing piece so we talked about that for a while but I say uh speaking of world war ii because this story that I'm bringing today also takes place during world war ii um which is when something called the birmingham blitz was causing massive chaos in britain okay and there were uh there they were being bombed people were being displaced um I give you this context to say like it was a crazy time um that this incident took place this is the story of bella in the witch elm couldn't even I have no clue what you're saying bella in the witch elm that sounds like something I would cover I know I know it's what I've wanted to cover for ages I remember creeps and crimes got like way into it and like did an awesome uh coverage of it so definitely go listen to that after um anybody who wants more but this is I've been waiting to cover this for years it's one that like I've meant to cover since the beginning so cool okay I know let's get into it so we're in worcestershire okay during world war ii okay and there is a birmingham blitz it's causing chaos displacing people in other words it's a bit too easy for someone to be displaced and go missing uh compared to what it might be like nowadays okay local police were completely overwhelmed with air raids civil defense national security so missing persons registries were backed up right like we're in the middle of war like active warfare there's just uh too much going on and because of all that wartime confusion if someone for example was a traveler or had come from out of town it would be even easier for them to go missing without a trace and uh never be found again so the setting for all of this is hagley wood hagley wood is a private patch of woods on get this lord cobham's massive hagley hall estate near witchbury hill that's some shit that like only exists in england or something like this they made it up like it just sounds like cottage talk like that's just some shit they made it up but like good on them like if there's not a cobblestone in sight it's a lie like that you're lying it's all it's all fabric like this is this is the only real place this is the only real place cobblestones should be allowed to exist i mean just it just sounds like cobblestones hold on say it again say it again just everyone imagine a cobblestone just imagine if you will a cobblestone the setting for all of this is hagley wood which was a dense private patch of woods on lord cobham's massive hagley hall estate right near witchbury hill it's like i heard the horse feet oh my god wow that was beautiful i'm telling you like you have set this scene thank you so much okay so this estate if you will was heavily patrolled by game keepers because it was known for poachers and trespassers to kind of wander onto the land uh one afternoon april 18th 1943 four local teenagers robert hart thomas willetts bob farmer and fred pain snuck onto lord cobham's private land now the reason they're doing this they're hunting for wild bird eggs not faberge not faberge eggs not yet not yet uh because of course at the time with rations wartime rations um people were hungry and so people would go looking for eggs uh as like nourishment some extra food or poaching rabbits and that's why this land because you know lord cobham doesn't want you poaching anything on his land i know that i know so it's like patrolled so that people aren't doing this but of course these four dumb teenagers decide they're gonna do it they're looking for they're desperate though they're looking for food um bob farmer decides to climb the big witch elm near witchbury hill because he figured the hollow trunk would be a great place to find a bird's nest smart now a witch elm this is a specific type of tree it's spelled w y c h witch elm it's native to britain and tends to rot from the inside and so it leaves deep hollow cavities in the trunk and so it's known to have a hollow inside once the tree dies okay looks like a tree just googled it everyone don't worry looks like you've got you've got the the report it just looks like a tree okay it looks like a like a thick funky tree yeah it's like a funky tree but then picture that it's hollow it hollows on the inside because it rots from the inside and so then the inside is a great place for animals to burrow and that kind of thing you know cool so this is the the dark hollow and when he does he sees something pale and round he reaches down thinking it's a nest or an animal skull but he realizes it is a human skull that he has picked up oh oh my god see that that's not the sign for all four of those teenagers to go we're good we're just leave the property immediately crazy since they were trespassing and poaching illegally the boys panicked worrying they'd get in trouble with game keepers or cops and vowed secrecy to the house and we're going to keep this secret for the rest of the rest of our lives yeah that's all you can do that's literally i mean four teenage boys frontal lobes soft as ever and in 1843 where there's no dna evidence are you kidding right right call it a night no dna evidence they don't even know what that is they don't even know what just happened like they're just looking for bird eggs okay yeah i'm just hungry i don't want a single other problem okay but the poor tommy tommy tommy couldn't tommy couldn't keep a secret tommy i fucking knew it i knew he was going to be trouble okay he's the oldest too and he just had a conscience and like i would be that kid i can't i mean it would eat me alive there's no way that like there's no way a kid can be like as much as i say of course it's what you would do as a teenager i'm not condoning that i would say please as a teenager tell see something say something right and like thank god top little tommy did but uh i do understand the inclination to be like whoa okay yeah out of my depth and i'm so young that i can just pretend this never happened it's probably the first real trauma he's ever ever had yeah well i don't know you're starving during world war ii that's a good point okay looking for looking for eggs on a trespassing property gotta be pretty hungry to be looking for eggs in the dirt uh i would say okay yeah i would say but yeah i mean i would say this is a pretty significant trauma on a scale of despite the war we'll reverse this must be his second trauma this wow it's only his second major trauma in life um yeah so okay this poor kid uh anyway so they find this skull they freak out um he pulls it out he freaks out uh the what had happened is the tree itself had made a perfect natural coffin like it became this almost hollow space that fit a lot of space and it's like it's like it's like it's a body perfectly honestly science is fucking rock and roll sometimes right like it kept it hidden there uh for over by the way we'll find out over a year and a half oh the skull oh and like this talk about trauma really i mean this really is upsetting okay remember this kid picked it up yeah the skull still had patches of matted hair attached some crooked teeth and a very it's like a noticeable uneven dental pattern so they see this skull i mean it's out of like a movie right like something out of a prop like a prop out of a movie so because they were trespassing and poaching illegally they panicked um farmer just dropped the skull back into the tree they made a pact of silence and they ran home but tommy like i said was too uneasy and he told his mom and dad and they called wouldn't you know it the worcestershire county constabulary can somebody give me a trophy thank you that's crazy okay so the constable you could have just said that you know i could have but i could have said whatever i did say constabulary that's crazy that's i've never heard that word before constabulary that's constabulary just curious how because i i told you at the dog park i'm hosting a spelling bee i would love to use that word how does it spell oh of course c-o-n-s-t-a-b so con stab uh you larry u-l-a-r-y it's a classic concept stab you larry typical constabulary tip yeah but also i want to say it has a red squiggle underneath so i wouldn't i would i would perhaps consult the oxford before you do a little bit of a at the uh at the school you know where i would be at the judge's booth throwing your fucking hissy fit is what i'd be doing i would be throwing tables over i would be doing cartwheels down the fucking aisles oh my god okay okay sorry my face is like red that was so funny okay i'm just sweating all over again oh my god constabulary because fuck off what's i'm talking to myself sorry what's this shirt i practiced so hard on the worst shirt okay you killed it thanks when the police went to the woods and so this kid feels so much guilt and i'm sure this was probably hard for all the kids but one of them spilled the beans right away i'm assuming that was going to happen no matter who it was uh mom and dad call the police and i'm sorry the constable and the constable goes out into the woods and when they search the tree as indicated by the kids they do pull out not only a skull but a nearly complete human skeleton inside the tree they also found a gold wedding ring torn fragments of clothing a single crepe sold shoe and a small glass bottle when they searched the ground outside the tree they found the bones of a hand scattered on the forest floor and a shin bone buried close to the tree trunk oh my god it's weird they sent all the remains to birmingham where a famous uh pathologist named professor james webster did a forensic autopsy and he figured out that the body most likely belonged to a short slender woman who was about five feet tall so relatively short he estimated she was between 35 and 40 years old and looking at her pelvic bones he could tell she had given birth to at least one child he could tell that she had been dead for at least 18 months which put her time of death in or before october of 1941 which would have been during the wartime craziness so that's why one of the main theories is that perhaps this was just somebody who was startled by an air yeah air time siren you know a bombing and ran into the woods and the wrong person oh oh yeah i was gonna get to that okay yeah i was gonna say hit and then got stuck yeah that that would be um nicer that would be nicer okay she had actually died of suffocation not being stuck because they found down her throat a tightly packed wad of fabric oh man so she was definitely killed taffeta yeah she was murdered some sort of taffeta or something like that um and she had injured the opening of the tree and realized the killer must have put her in there immediately after the murder while the body was still warm because if they had waited for rigor mortis to set set in her stiff limbs would have not allowed her to fit into the kind of narrow shape as for the missing left hand that they had found nearby uh webster and the police concluded that wild animals had chewed off the bones and dragged them out of the tree although some people maintain that this has a more maybe ritualistic or witchy explanation the victim had a uh really irregular like i said dental pattern and a uh the jaw was a bit crooked and some missing teeth and so they thought like okay well hopefully that will at least help us identify her through dental records but checking all the local dentists turned up absolutely nothing and because the wartime registries were such a mess there was not really like a reliable local missing persons report that matched the record her description and so the investigation kind of just stalled at first but then around christmas in 1944 things took a bizarre turn now remember her death would have been october 1941 so now we're in christmas time 1944 okay cryptic graffiti starts showing up in the area okay and i have a picture for you uh okay here's the photo i'm gonna send this to you so cryptic graffiti began to to show up. I know, I know, I know. Oh, it's so creepy. Um, can you read it please? Yeah. So we don't know who wrote this. This just showed up near the area. Yes. Okay. Yuck. Who put Bella down the witch Elm? Hagley would. So, okay. So now we know her name is Bella. So somebody definitely knows exactly who that person was and that she was hidden there. So that's what the graffiti said on the same day nearby. Um, by the way, that was written on an empty building on Hayden Hill road in the town of old Hill nearby. It was written in three inch white chalk block letters. And that was discovered March 30th. Um, there was another one, uh, found the same day, uh, who, and this one though said Hagley would Bella. Then on March 31st, they found another one who put Lou Bella in the witch Elm. Okay. So Lou Bella, maybe it's just like the longer version of that name. Exactly. Okay. So the message, um, had changed a little bit, but it appeared several times in the same handwriting and it was unknown, you know, who this author was and why they were leaving these messages around. Um, and immediately I'm curious about like, what is like, what do you want out of this? Because you have been, I'm assuming right now it was like, it's the murderer themselves or someone who witnessed the murder. And my first thought is like, you've gotten away with it for so long and now they have a lot of evidence. Why would you add to that evidence? And less, but then there's the typical, if you're the killer, you have to like run back to the crime scene as soon as you're caught. It's like, it's like the ego, like the taunting police stuff that makes me think like, maybe it's an ego. I don't know. I don't know. I think it's the ego maniac thing. Like, Oh, I just need the attention or I need to stir the pot and like get some more attention, you know? Yeah. Like this is like really, if I ever hit a body and then someone found it, that's when you just absolutely don't make a goddamn peep, let alone tell them exactly the name and the longer version of that name. What's also weird is that it was like years later. Right. I don't know what to do with this. Like that's weird. Right. So, okay. Yeah. So I mean, I'm, I was like, let me clarify. No, there's not going to be any clarity, but let me just add more confusion, I guess. Um, okay. So there were several messages, uh, Hagley would Bella once said who put Bella down the witch Elm Hagley would, Ooh, just so creepy. Um, but the message that shortened the name from Lou Bella to Bella and added, uh, the location is, is the one that kind of got the public using, calling this unknown victim, Bella. Like we don't even know if that's her real name. We don't know if somebody made that up. We don't know. I was so quick to assume that that was actually her fucking name, but yeah, someone could just be trolling everybody. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's weird. Uh, according to someone on Reddit, so grain of salt, uh, the original name gave given to the lore was Lou Bella. And they said they knew from growing up in the area that like their aunt would say Lou Bella in the witch Elm, not Bella. So the, you know, there's at least some account that says Lou Bella was kind of like the original lore. Um, and then it was shortened to Bella because today we, it is Bella down the witch Elm. Okay. Okay. So the graffiti of course became a massive local phenomenon. Um, of course then it like was copycatted all over the area, the Midlands. Uh, it was repeatedly written in white spray paint on something called the Witchbury obelisk because of course this town called Witchbury has an obelisk. That's this historic 18th century monument by Witchbury Hill. And in 1999, somebody spray painted who put Bella in the witch Elm and they spelled witch instead of W Y C H. They wrote it like witchcraft. And that has kind of like furthered further. Sure. I mean, that was just meant to happen eventually. Exactly. Ritualistic kind of witchiness to it. So now, nowadays it's often referred to as witchcraft. It's often referred to as witchcraft. It's often referred to as like the witch Elm instead of the, Oh, like all trees in general because of that. No, just the story. Oh, okay. I was like, yeah. Hmm. Fine. Like a change. No, I think the, the, that poor botanist who named it the witch Elm is like, damn it. It's spelled. It's like I intentionally used a W or I mean a Y instead of an I. I did that on purpose. Yeah. So it kind of matched like local witchcraft rumors. And then that of course like stuck, um, as did the spelling of Bella rather than Lou Bella. So nobody ever figured out who this artist was and because they couldn't identify the victim, people started coming up with theories. Um, one of the main theories, um, was that they had found the body of a real German spy named Clara and her name was Clara Bowerly, a 35 year old German cabaret singer, actress, and unfortunately up via agent, Nazi intelligence agent in training. And how did her name come in here? Well, Clara was actually the lover of an active German spy, uh, named Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs, who had this, like this sentence feels like I'm having some sort of an episode, but it's, I'm just going to say it. Okay. He had parachuted into Cambridgeshire, been captured and been executed at the tower of London in August of 1941. He was a spy and he, that's what happened to him. When he was arrested, he had a photo of Clara in his pocket because she was his lover. And because she was also a spy, he basically told MI5 that she was a secret agent who was scheduled to parachute into the Midlands on that same mission where he was captured. So theoretically he's saying Clara parachuted into the Midlands around that time. Okay. And then he, he was executed at the tower of London. This does feel like a drunk ramble or something. And then the tower of London does make an appearance in this. Interesting. Okay. Did I say tower? I meant bridge. I didn't even know parachutes existed in the fucking 1800s. Okay. It's not the 1800s. Wait, I thought those 1840 something. No, 19. Did I say 1840? No, 1941. It's, it's 1941. Sorry. I keep making it 1840 in my head. Sorry. Blitzkrieg bop. You literally keep saying 19. In my head, I keep saying 18. Sorry. Well, that's okay. Basically what happened is this one spy, I mean, because it sounds so nuts, but this is really what happened. Okay. This German spy, I'm going to say it like the English way, because otherwise I'd trip myself up. This German spy, Joseph Jacobs, he is caught when he's parachuting into Cambridgeshire, which is like two hours away from where this witch elm is. When he's caught, he tells British agents like MI5, he tells them, oh, this photo in my pocket, that's my lover, Clara. She's also a secret agent for Germany, for Nazi intelligence, which she was, Clara Bowerly, and that is who's in his pocket. Okay. And she was scheduled to also parachute, but in two hours away into the Midlands area. So where she did, where she did, where the witch elm was, and where the body was found. So this is now the connection that's being made here. That already is a lot of like weird coincidence that she, and basically his tale was that she landed, she supposedly was supposed to meet him. He was caught and she was never heard from again. So the theory is that she got killed along the way, maybe by like the opposition. Got tangled up in something. Yes, yes, yes. Okay. So yes, keep that in mind actually, because that's sort of kind of, the broader picture that starts to develop actually. Okay. So wait, before we go any further, am I still thinking of this as just one of many theories or is this the standing theory? Um, pretty not much on the, it's sort of like they all kind of blend together. I don't know how else to put it. Okay. Yeah. It's, it's sort of, I think that they're all connected in like a broader scheme. Okay. I think there's some sort of spy angle here, but I, I could be totally off. Like the other theory being that like somebody was just in the wrong place at the wrong time during an air raid and the air raid sirens going off and we're startled and we're confused and lost and met, met somebody who harmed them. So, you know, that's also a theory. So there is, so Bella is just like the, um, the mythical name to this lore, but not, not actually that we don't find out later that there really was in fact a Bella. Cause I'm, I'm still thought I'm still thinking about the, the graffiti and like, it feels like someone knew her name was Bella, but maybe they were, maybe this was just like baiting people. Okay. See, this is exactly why I couldn't give like a straight answer on how many theories there are, because listen to this Clara, the spy. Okay. Remember her who was supposedly supposed to parachute into the Midlands and then was never heard from again. Uh, she had actually performed in West Midlands music halls for two years. years before the war, and she actually spoke English with a perfect Birmingham accent and her audiences so she's a spy right but so she was like really in character like she that is like someone she was able to portray very well and her audiences in in england knew her as clara bella or bella oh shut the fuck up i know so this like it was like either her stage name went for like her um what's it like an agent name or your alias yeah something like that okay yeah but in 2016 researchers dug into german public archives and completely debunked the theory when they proved that clara bowerly actually died of natural causes in a berlin hospital in december of 1942 that adds an extra layer okay and that was before the skeleton in the tree was ever even found however i want to say remember what we were saying about wartime records and what are you going to tell me about spies like i don't believe you you know i don't know how much am i supposed to believe about spy records being accurate especially when it comes to like nazis being involved you know i don't know i don't know i'm just saying i still find it a bizarre coincidence all of this if if it wasn't her it's summer outside and a lot of people are trying to get that close shave so their legs are extra silky smooth and uh unfortunately when it comes to shaving your legs a lot of people deal with irritation and red bumps and they feel like the razor isn't really meant for them or it's flimsy especially you know women's products uh with the pink tax a lot of women's products are double the price of men's products but luckily when it comes to harry's flamingo came out of that basically the women who helped build harry's found themselves rolling their eyes when other companies were just shrinking men's razors and making them pink so they decided to create flamingo flamingo was born to give women shaving solutions made with their bodies and minds so 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journalist and like keep in mind this is nine years later a journalist named wilfred byford jones got a letter from someone using the pen name anna and this anna claimed that bella down the witch elm was actually a dutch woman named clara bella no i'm sorry about the last name clara bella i can't wait i can't wait i just whatever it is i know she was bullied in high school or something or would have been clara clara bella drunkers drunkers is crazy but you know in high school they called her clara bella drunkers like she was she i it could be worse it could be worse but you could definitely make fun of that this is like the time on beach t-sandy i couldn't say there was this woman named dorcas and i like could not for the life of me say the name out loud because just crying laughing deirdre had a grandma named dorcas and i remember being like oddly insensitive about it when i first it's so rude i was like what and i was like everyone in this family is talking about dorcas why is nobody acting about how crazy that name is like it's not okay you're gaslighting me it's like oh aunt flatulence and i'm like what like i'm like like but i i remember hearing dorcas and everyone was talking about and i was like this is a joke right we're all like you're punking me yeah i hundred yes a hundred percent and then by the way someone wrote in and they were like okay wait so no it okay no i forgot it wasn't someone my brother would just be so mortified it was a review okay that i brought and the reviewer was so upset because the tour guide kept making fun of the name dorcas but this reviewer had like a great aunt named dorcas and so they took it really personally they were like how dare you in like a yelp review i mean um i like when i was when i heard that from deirdre's family and i made a comment first of all they gaslit the shit out of me and made me think that i was the crazy person for having that reaction you're correct because all of them were like what it's just a name and i was like no i know you're right but i i think i'm right too no m's right i was seven to be fair but i do think it's still like i've never even heard that name till i was like 33 and i literally couldn't say it because i was laughing so hard i cried i it does and i have to assume the the term dork came from someone named dorcas like you know when there's no in the office when they're like oh he totally shrewded it it's like yeah i bet they were like oh she's a real dorcas you know what i'm saying talking about dorcas is such a good like little oh man i i that i mean there's a reason people often choose actively to not use that name anymore i guess so uh i guess so i wonder if deirdre ever has a daughter she'll she'll say what do you mean it's a perfectly nice thing i know then i'll go it's beautiful um listen the world will to say something don't worry i mean i feel like that's how a lot of probably um people in the uk probably see the name fanny right i was just thinking that too so i'm sure there's probably a lot of those instances yeah um right so now this anna claims she knows who bella is and then she's a dutch woman named clara bella drunkers the wife of a dutch spy now this is the letter that anna wrote to the journalist okay i'm going to read to you you will never solve the mystery the one person who could give the answer is now beyond the jurisdiction of earthly courts jesus yeah i feel like that's a notification i would get on my ancestry.com tree where it'd be like there's nothing left that you'll never find yeah you've reached the end yeah i hope you haven't had a terrible time uh yeah he uh the only person who could ever give the answer is now beyond the jurisdiction of earthly courts the affair is closed and involves no witches black magic or moonlight rights the person responsible died insane in 1942 and the victim was dutch and arrived illegally in england about 1941 anna respectfully i feel like this is what your family would tell you so you'd stop looking for your family members go she's gone insane don't look any further you know what i mean okay no so so actually she was referring to her husband oh i know because anna was actually a mossop and when she was kind of called out like they were able to figure out who this was they determined that she the the real story is that her ex-husband jack mossop was a black marketeer civilian black marketeer who occasionally liked to wear a stolen raf uniform and run around and cause trouble and she said that back in late 1941 he went drinking at a pub in hagley with a dutch guy named van ralte and an unnamed dutch woman which would be this clarabella person she said the woman got wasted passed out in the car and either to i mean i'm gonna go with like i'm assuming worst possible case scenario because i know men um it says to either teach her a lesson or frighten her or play a game and she said that i'm assuming to a sort of i mean this is assault in some way or another they put her supposedly into the tree and then she got stuck and died but it's like why was there something stuffed down her throat then you know what i mean like that doesn't even make fucking sense um that yeah and and not long after that which this is the part the journalist tracked down jack mossop had a massive mental breakdown and he had to be institutionalized so it's like i mean and she was using a pen name so it's like i don't know it's kind of crazy yeah uh he was admitted to the stafford mental hospital because he kept seeing hallucinations of a pale woman staring out at him from a tree trunk oh my god okay well that's i mean we'll never know but that does feel telling a little bit it's weird right yeah it's a weird overlap so modern investigators are pretty skeptical of the story even though i find it pretty like i don't know jarring um mainly because she waited 10 years after his death to say anything and it doesn't explain how the hand bones got scattered on the ground but then i'm like i thought that was an animal so why are you saying it was something different i don't get it i don't know like then what do you think the hand bones like not you i mean then what do they think the hand bones are there for it's just weird um then you have like the occult side of it and then you have like the occult side of things right so this came mainly from a famous anthropologist an archaeologist named 1945 and boy did she cause quite a fucking stir uh she claimed that bella the victim in the witch elm was actually killed in a ritualistic witchcraft execution she argued that her hand being cut off was done to create a hand of glory which is like an artifact that was historically like a magical object that you would make from a dead criminal's hand and then burglars would use it as a totem sort of okay to put the homeowners to sleep before they robbed them hang on i feel again like maybe i'm having a stroke can i repeat that i feel like yeah but start where you parachute out of the sky and then you get captured and you die in the tower of london but you've got another spy in 1841 but there's also parachute yeah this is all a little um okay okay i mean i'm like is this normal in england like maybe i'm just like maybe they're just new words to me yeah they're like fanny is crazy but this shit we do all the time yeah um yeah so this anthropologist and archaeologist like concocts this theory that this is witchcraft right and that i mean which like i i don't know it feels like a bit of a stretch because if they were creating a hand of glory why did they leave it there on the forest floor i don't understand as it feels like it was important to to be with you or placed somewhere or it's strange that you would say that and then like it would be there on the ground i feel like anyone i feel like a lot of people just throwing their hat in on their ideas of what happened i think so too i think so too um she also said putting a corpse in a hollow tree was a classic occult way to lock away a witch's spirit so she couldn't escape or curse her killers um the media of course fucking loved this theory and they splashed it all over the newspapers and they even linked it to another unsolved local murder of charles walton who was killed in lower quinton in 1945 and we're like there's like a spree of ritualistic witch i mean it's basically like um satanic panic but in the 40s i mean also like i feel like let's not forget that it's literally called a witch elm like of course the story was already was a witch in the witch elm that's that and the graffiti appearing i mean it is very creepy like it does totally lend itself to like uh folklore yeah if you told 10 year old me oh there's a tree called a which i've never heard of before so i have to assume it's the word witch and there was a woman found in there and maybe for some sort of ritual of course i'm gonna think she's a witch immediately and like the way to be fair the way it was presented also which like i don't know you think i don't know anything about fucking i was like what field any of them you're like you think i don't know i think you don't know what you don't think you don't know geometry i don't know i could go on and on the list goes on but like like farming agriculture i don't fucking know but the theory was that apparently some local people native to this land would put a body in the witch elm to bring about a good harvest and i'm like i is that true i just feel like we're making shit up like i don't know because it's like then why didn't we find a bunch of them in trees like what are you talking about i think this i think like there's just too many very out there theories that all of them sound even more ridiculous than if it was just one theory by itself yeah i don't know i i i want to believe like i mean for some reason like a spy going missing and getting murdered is like the most believable all of a sudden exactly and that's why i'm right usually that has to be like so thrown i feel like in every other story you've covered like them being a spy is the most believable like the wackiest thing that could happen right and it's almost like weirder that somebody would just randomly accidentally run into someone in the woods during during an air raid and like i i don't know i don't know i don't know what's weirder i honestly so it's very confusing um but yeah so she basically claimed that this was like a ritualistic thing and the media like ran with this and then said there was like another one even though the police were like no it's wild animals that the hand is missing in which case i'm like then why did you dismiss that other theory but whatever okay um they were like it's wild animals for the missing hand of course the witchcraft part like caught on and became like one of the main focal points of the story because like you said it's it writes itself like there's no way yeah it wasn't gonna become part of the story uh there were a couple other minor theories like uh for example a birmingham sex worker who told police that one of her colleagues named bella who worked on hagley road had vanished in 1941 like that's a very interesting theory and i think it's a very interesting theory and i think it's a i think makes a lot of sense that makes the most sense so far most sense and that's like that's considered like a minor possibility and i'm like okay i guess yeah let's just gloss over that i guess so another simple theory was that it was just a local woman who like somehow got trapped during an air raid and the bomb scared her and she climbed in like like you said earlier but again with like the finding that things stuffed down her throat and that's odd that tells me it's bizarre like i just don't feel like that's it's like she choked on her own fabric and got scared so she ran into a tree and then got stuck that didn't happen climbed into it right no or like she got stuck and decided to try to eat her own fabric to stay alive that's not that didn't happen exactly i don't think that's it so i exactly thank you i agree someone did this to her i agree i agree um so just super super weird and like of course over the years people have like thrown around different theories and none of them quite lead to like a satisfying conclusion um the biggest tragedy is that the physical evidence as in the body is completely gone it's missing what right after the autopsy in 1943 pathologist james webster sent the bones to his friend okay his at the university at the university at the university at the university he was also a mob guy who keeps his back to the wall when he goes to restaurants uh-huh and got rid of the body or can you imagine if he really thought like oh i'm like an amateur who really wants to get into this field and then he loses a fucking body that'd be crazy it's only one of the two either he was paid to do it or it was an accident either way he should be like shit i think what i think i have like a totally other take on it what is it i mean i think he just they they were like they like the occult theory i think and they wanted to keep the body i think they or maybe i think they wanted to keep it just to like you know how people just you know how white men like to just take stuff just like a trinket just like a trophy yes just like a little trinket yeah they love to have a little trinket especially when it's a woman's body so i think maybe he sends it to his friend at the university of birmingham for some unofficial test whatever the fuck that means and then her body we have no record of it disappears vanishes you're totally right yeah so apparently the skeleton for was kept in uh the birmingham city police's private museum at their at their tally ho training okay that's better it's better proceed the skeleton was kept in the birmingham city police's private black i don't know what it means private black museum i at their private museum at their tally ho training center until the 1960s or early 70s but during a big reorganization of police archives the remains vanished and nobody knows where they are um so anyway still nobody knows okay even though police officially closed a review of the police archives the remains vanished and nobody knows okay even though police officially closed a review of the like they're just somewhere you know which is crazy like someone just snagged them and also put them somewhere yeah you i mean there are people who just buy storage storage units without even knowing what's in there and yeah exactly you could accidentally have a body in there go i aspire to be one of those people i mean the dream is like to just like have treasure and the treasure is like yeah treasure hunting all the time um but yeah so they've asked but nobody can find anything but if they are able to find the skeleton uh modern labs could finally run like isotope testing to see where she was from run dna to see who she was if we can be so lucky um but of course this legend whether we discover who she actually is or not has become um you know very very famous there have been lots of there have been operas and plays and movies and stories and podcasts and comic books all sorts of stuff um even a ballet i believe um even a ballet i believe oh no i'm sorry contemporary dance piece called bella um so yeah lots of lots of beautiful art but it's just tragic that we don't know i also have a picture of the skull which i i'm not i mean unless you want to see it but i mean i'll see it we don't have to make it public but i'll okay it's it's just like disturbing to think a this is what these poor kids discovered but also b that somebody like took this and like wanted it as like a like a trophy or something you know and and kept it like that just that just gives me the ick you know okay well it's not gonna let me maybe i'll get it in the middle of the night and oh my god like finally and it i'll i'll click notify anyway just to be evil okay hold on i'm gonna send it so that the bottom is the is the skull and then this is the picture above is the reconstruction right from face lab science is crazy i kind of like i kind of call bullshit on science sometimes i'm like i don't understand how that like you must just have put a face up there and just gone see and like i don't know how scientifically you would even be able to haven't you seen those videos where they like take the cartilage and mold it like how crazy it's amazing wow okay well that's been i mean that's fascinating it's just so sad you know though we still don't know yeah do you think like at some point do you kind of a dark question do you just give up on some of these cases right because like it was me yeah well like when you think about the theories of it because i sit there and i think like like almost 100 years old anyone who would know anything about it is gone like i wouldn't like i could never be the the cop in the department where like they do cold cases because i just every day i would be just so discouraged i just feel like oh no i mean i'm just fortunate that i get to do something new every day but i definitely believe that the right person just has to have an estate sale and they're like here are the bones that's a good point like i just i feel like shit like that happens you know yeah i mean zodiac killer like some i guess like no reason golden state golden state um i guess anything's possible but at some point i would just i'm i like i think i get so focused on like wanting to figure out and if i can't within a certain time frame then i'm like oh then it just must not exist um yeah it does not exist it's just how my my brain operates so um man congrats to the people out there who don't give up i do i know seriously because i do yeah um wow yeah well what a great story everybody and thank you um yeah i've been wanting to do that one for a long time because you know i love an unsolved mystery i love when you do an unsolved mystery do you love it or do you hate it you kind of hate it i hate that i um never love to hate it yeah yeah there you go we have a we have a bit of a a dance me in those cases because i i really do for some reason there's there's a pinch of me who thinks can you imagine if we solved it right now i mean someone has got to eventually right so like what if we came up with the theory that just like nobody else had i don't know why i think i'm i would be on that level but then at the end by the time i haven't figured it out i'm like oh well but you did a great job telling it well thank you and um ditto thank you my well i already i retold it technically because mine was a from our book both both tellings and my double joke made it even better i thought that was so funny i love how i didn't and actually i love that like that the double entendre as you know i like to say it's so um not a good feeling often when people don't get your joke but it worked when the joke works either way it actually like sure we can take it that way too correct it itself oh my gosh oh man well what are you up to for the rest of the day week what are you doing i gotta get out of here it's like 90 degrees in here i believe it's sweating i'm sweating what are you doing i don't know i guess i'm just enjoying my last weekend before i have to pack everything up and head on out of here so i'm going on a bunch of family trips and weddings and i'll be busy i for all i know the next time you see me i'll be in a hotel i don't even know if i'm gonna bring my microphone just in case i don't know we'll see yes we're gonna try to record monday and then yeah if not well i have i i know i mean i have so many trips coming up all back to back you might bring it i might just bring it for for a bunch of reasons because i have this then a wedding then i have another wedding right after and then from that wedding i'm treating it as a trip so i'm gonna stay a couple days so i think i'm just gonna start bringing my microphone everywhere because i just don't know wow how our schedule look versus traveling and anyway it'll be a bit of a headache but whatever i think i'm just gonna i need to just buy myself a pelican case and just like have like an official holder of all the equipment your to-go kit yes exactly you can have a go bag yeah you know after we traveled so much our suitcases like we just had double of everything so we never had to like keep packing our toiletries i think i just need a double microphone so i've just always got a box with all my working equipment instead of thinking about like i have to bring this wire and this wire oh i have two microphones i bring i have a travel mic yeah what do you say i bring with me i don't take this giant boom mic off you used to have a normal boom mic one and that was your travel one that's true that's your wireless mic that's true what the fuck happened to that i don't know uh but yeah so anyway i that's what i'm doing are you having any fun this weekend oh my god i don't know well let us know we'll find out blaze is coaching a bunch of jujitsu so leona and i are going to be on our own which means we're going rogue and probably getting ice cream that sounds like the best way to go rogue we're usually just eating ice cream on weekends like the whole time little mommy daughter date that's we have a lot of fun i love it okay well we'll see you guys next week and that's why we drink at zocdoc we know you care about your health you wouldn't do that early morning cardio if you didn't so the fact that your annual physical is overdue just shows how hard it can be to get seen by a doctor sorry that doctor's not a network press one for more options you've reached us outside normal business hours the next availability is in three months but zocdoc makes finding the right doctor easy download the app and search by specialty insurance and availability read real patient reviews then book instantly zocdoc ready to be seen daydreaming about fiori's soft dream net fabric meet the 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