Ghosts of Christmas Past by Mission Spooky

[00:00:00] Listener discretion is advised. Hello, and welcome to Scary Time, the podcast that helps you find new, emerging and undiscovered scary and paranormal podcasts. I'm Greg, the host and curator of Scary Time. If you're enjoying this extra content around the holiday season, go ahead and drop me

[00:00:18] a DM on Twitter or on Instagram at indydropin. I always love to hear from you. Today's episode is from Mission Spooky. Mission Spooky is a bi-weekly podcast where history meets the peculiar and the paranormal. I think you're really going to love this episode, especially on Christmas Eve.

[00:00:39] It is called The Ghosts of Christmas Past. If you liked today's episode, make sure to check out the episode description for links to subscribe. Alright, let's get this show started. Begin. Welcome to Mission Spooky. I'm your fantastic host, JC.

[00:01:31] With me today, as per usual, is the Queen of everything, Kiki, and the pretty freaking awesome over there cord. How you guys doing today? I did not watch The Mandalorian. It's upsetting because it's a really good episode as all of their episodes are really good.

[00:01:52] But this one was exceptionally good. I like that we got it out of the way immediately. No, we didn't. Let's move on. Yeah, I didn't either because I'm still on episode two of season one.

[00:02:10] This is going to be a nice one where we're doing another Christmas special for you guys. It's not going to be as nice as the last one though. Why not? Because it's going to be spooky. Ooh, spooky. We're ghosting it up from this one.

[00:02:24] We're going back, back to creepy Christmas. Actually, we didn't really do a creepy Christmas last year, but this year, damn it. I am giving you creepy Christmas. So should we just go for it? Yeah, let's just jump on into it. That's what the YouTubers say. All right.

[00:02:41] Well, first of all, I'm sure that you all know that it was tradition to tell ghost stories around the fire during the Christmas season. I will take your silence. Oh, you're requiring us not the audience. Okay. Yeah, yeah, I know that. God! Yeah, fantastic. Way to start out.

[00:02:58] It's going to be great. You know I space out during the parts where you're giving facts and histories. Just three quarters of the entire podcast. I'm a host. So I like to think that it goes directly back to our pagan origins, the closing out of

[00:03:18] the year, the dead of winter, thinking of our ancestors, and a perfect time to recount bad decisions that sometimes lead directly to the creation of a ghost or residual energy. So we're going to bring you today, or perhaps tonight, a few Christmas related ghost stories.

[00:03:36] A few of them are tragic and a couple of them are, well, just sort of intriguing. As I said earlier, we have a ton of listeners in British Columbia. Thank you again. And we're going to start this episode with a ghost story from Victoria to thank all

[00:03:50] of you so very much for staying with us this year. Yay. The first one is the 1890 murder of David Fee at St Andrews Cathedral in Victoria. So 20 years before the murder, the spring of 1866, there's a group of Irish Americans

[00:04:06] who had fought on both sides of the Civil War coming together under a common cause. And that cause is to invade the British province of Canada, seize the territory and ransom it back to Britain for Ireland's independence. These were known as the Finian raids, which lasted from 1866 to 1871.

[00:04:28] Now this is going to be important to this particular story. Trust me. So let's go forward in time where the cornerstone to St Andrews Cathedral has been laid for two months before this murder takes place. Construction site managers and predominantly Irish American construction crew have a

[00:04:45] disagreement over flags placed at the site. There's a Union Jack flag. There's United States flag and there's an Irish flag flying over the site. The foreman, Thomas Deasy. I hope that's how you say it.

[00:04:58] It's the one what this the one name I didn't look up and now I'm like, ooh, what if it's a weird say? What if it's weird anyway? I'm waiting. Is this going to make a joke about like I'm waiting for the bad joke? Like, like what?

[00:05:11] I don't understand what joke I wasn't even paying attention. Yeah, I heard the guy's name easy. I thought you're going to go for a D's. Nuts. Yeah, I was thinking about it, but I'm like, I was on the right track waiting for it. So I could print.

[00:05:28] He just failed me for the last time. Stars. Right. Who knows what might not even be saying it could be Deasy, which is really no better. Just going to go with this first name. So Thomas orders the fourth flag to be taken down.

[00:05:46] This is going to be the more political flag of Irish independence or the sunburst flag, which is a green background with a golden rising sun. And it is the flag of the Finian Brotherhood. Given the history I just shared with you, it's completely understandable why

[00:06:00] the Finian Brotherhood flag would have been unwelcome in Canada. Sure. Unfortunately, this incident caused one of the construction crew, a 33 year old Irishman named Lawrence Whalen to take matters into his own hands.

[00:06:15] And he decided to do it at a time and place where he knew Deasy would be available Christmas Eve at midnight mass. Thomas was known for wearing a white coat. So Whalen thought that he would be an easy to spot target amongst the crowd leaving Christmas Eve mass.

[00:06:31] He waited until the mass was over and he crept up to the man he thought was Thomas and fired a single shot into his chest. But it wasn't Thomas that he murdered. Oh, no. Yeah. The unfortunate victim of mistaken identity was 28 year old David Fee.

[00:06:48] So wait, you're saying that the color of someone's jacket isn't enough to to know who you're murdering? That they had more than one white jacket in this town? Oh, it gets worse actually. Oh, God. David Fee is a well liked socialite who was also known for being an

[00:07:06] active volunteer. He was going to attend a costume party after mass and he was dressed in a white clown outfit. Yeah, that's why you never get dressed up like a clown. No, that's true.

[00:07:18] That is I mean, this isn't the reason why there's lots of reasons why but this is a what is a good one. Yeah, this is definitely a good reason. So David was also a shopkeeper in the Naimo who had returned to Victoria

[00:07:31] the day before to be with his parents for Christmas. Whalen would turn himself in once he realized what he had done. Fee's funeral was attended by thousands of people who saw his death as an act of cowardice by Irish nationalists.

[00:07:44] Fee was buried at Ross Bay Cemetery and there is a massive marble pillar that marks his grave. So perhaps this is a case of an untimely death causing residual energy to hang about a single shot that happened so fast that Fee hardly

[00:07:57] had time to process what had occurred before he passed into the next room. In any case, there are many who feel his presence outside St Andrews Cathedral. Others say they have seen his form floating along the sidewalk where he perished still clothed in the blood soaked white costume

[00:08:13] that was unfortunately his demise. There have also been similar feelings and sightings at his tomb at Ross Bay. So there you go. Christmas Ghost Number One. Nice. Not really. That's really sad. Well, it's nice that we got the number the first one.

[00:08:28] You know, it's it's it's a Christmas ghost. I would say that you're saying nice for my hard work and you know. Yeah. Good job doing research. We cannot visit British Columbia with a ghost story without mentioning one of our absolute favorite podcasts, the Ghost Story Guys.

[00:08:45] And the day marks episode 100 for them. So you're done listening to this. If you haven't listened to Ghost Story Guys yet, Episode 100, you need to go over there right now and do it. I am so excited for this episode. They worked really hard on it.

[00:09:00] It's going to be amazing. And Ian and Brennan, awesome. Each of them also has a book out. My fake dad's book is called A Strange Little Place, which can be found anywhere. Fine books are sold. And then Ian's book is called Victoria's Most Haunted.

[00:09:18] Those are that is correct. Yes. Those are the names and Ian's book is found according to Brennan. He actually he's making us say this. It's found in the trash. Wow. Wow. Brennan, if you hear this, it was for you. Except for the audio version

[00:09:38] because Brennan is the one doing the audio version. Well, you can't find audio in the trash. That's that's right. Yeah, it would be on the cutting room floor if this was like old, old timey. Yeah, but it's not. That's terrible. Jesus Christ.

[00:09:55] I was going to send them cookies in the shape of 100, like, you know, one zero zero. But and they know this. Yeah, Brennan has allergies to certain things. And Ian is on keto like I am. So yeah, I was like, I don't want to.

[00:10:11] I got to put that on you guys, you know? I'm not trying to kill you and I don't want you to like break your diet because of me. So, you know, just know in spirit that I have spiritually sent you cookies for episode 100. Oh, those guys.

[00:10:24] OK, so our next stop is going to take a quick jaunt over to California for a Christmas ghost story from there. Thank you, Callie. You guys finished out the year being our number one state in listenership. You guys managed to edge out Pennsylvania.

[00:10:38] Wow, good job, PA, letting me down like usual. They're very interested in our our woodsy ways over here, I guess. Exactly. That's what it is. We're so we're so different, like, you know, environment and atmosphere are so different here that they they really want to hear about us.

[00:10:55] So hey, you know what? More power to them. Love, California. Thank you. So I'm going to give you guys a little Alcatraz Christmas. A little tiny bit of history here, first of all, because I did find this to be very intriguing. Most people, as myself included,

[00:11:09] did do not know that Alcatraz actually had families of the wardens and the prison guards living on the island with them. Did you guys know that? I did not know that. Right. I obviously knew that, but I'll let you think I didn't.

[00:11:25] Just say if you knew that, I'll eat my shoe. Well, you don't have to eat your shoe. So the kids who lived on the island there, they would sing Christmas carols at the warden's house and then they would go sing Christmas carols to the prisoners

[00:11:40] like, you know, outside, obviously. The third warden was a guy by the name of Paul Madigan. And he was known for adding cigars to the prisoner's gift bags. Yes, prisoners got little gift bags for Christmas, which I thought was actually pretty nice,

[00:11:55] considering Alcatraz was such a horrible place to be. Yeah, it wasn't horrible to be. It was just almost impossible to get away from. And it was pretty garbage to be at. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Yeah, yeah, I was like that.

[00:12:07] I think the word notorious, notorious to get away from. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Notorious to be at, but I mean, I guess sure. Both. Sure. Yeah. Say, I don't know, infamously hard to get away from. Sure. Yeah.

[00:12:22] But I mean, I guess that was kind of the point, right? And the cruelty that the prisoners were put through that one. That one's the thing that makes it notorious, I would say. Yes, and probably the reason why it's super fucking haunted.

[00:12:35] These bags often included hard candies and chocolate. And Madigan also created a special holiday meal for the general populace that included things like roast turkey, whipped potatoes, raisin, nut dressing, giblet gravy, cranberry sauce and for dessert, apple pie with vanilla ice cream. Sounds delightful. That does sound delightful.

[00:12:57] But as I said, Madigan was the third warden. So before all of this Christmas cheer, the first warden of the prison, James Johnson, had a very different experience. In the 1940s, Johnson held a Christmas party at the warden's house.

[00:13:12] Now, I want you guys to know that every single iteration of this story that I looked up is exactly the same. Every one of the party is having a great time. And suddenly an apparition wearing a gray suit appears before the entire party. Room grows cold.

[00:13:28] The fire in the stove goes out. The ghost stands there for about a minute and then just as suddenly as it arrives, it disappears. After that, everyone at the party went home and said, good luck with that. Fuck that noise. Have a nice day. Exactly.

[00:13:49] Something to note, Johnson himself says that he did not. Sorry, my husband just scared the fuck out of me by trying to hide me. Honestly, what in the shit? I'm talking about ghost stories. Did he come into the bathroom? Yes, he did, motherfucker.

[00:14:06] What are you? You're on that right. I know I hate him. God damn. OK. I can edit this out. They can edit it out. No, I'm the one that has to fucking edit it out. They they can edit it out in post.

[00:14:23] They can, I think I think you should leave it in, honestly. Oh, I am going to ask pretty funny. Actually, we all know that me and Jay, she do the editing here. Right? Yeah, we do all the work. God damn it.

[00:14:34] If it wasn't for us, their podcast wouldn't even exist. Everybody knows we do the hard part. Yeah. I like how one of you is just eating. Sorry. Professional. That's what I told myself. Oh, man. I think you're very professional, Gord. You know what, Gord?

[00:14:53] You and I should get business suits. And every time we record mission cookie, we wear the business suits. Johnson was not a believer in ghosts. This was not the first time that he had been privy to paranormal activity.

[00:15:05] Another story says that he was giving a tour of the prison and he heard a woman sobbing. I thought you said he wasn't a believer of ghosts. I'm confused. And he wasn't. And yet he heard these things and he. Oh, OK. Got you. Got you.

[00:15:19] So it was like he couldn't deny these things. So he hears this woman sobbing and he stops the tour and obviously tries to find her and is freaked out. And it sounds like it's coming from the walls of the prison itself. Yeah, interesting.

[00:15:35] I like those stories when it involves someone who is very skeptical but yet can't deny the things that he saw or heard. I heard sobbing from the wall. That'd be a get the fuck out moment, I think.

[00:15:47] I'd ask the wall if there's anything I could do to maybe help out. You need like a blanket or. You want me to go get you some chocolate ice cream and sit on the couch and watch Netflix? Take a real long bath there.

[00:16:00] There's a joke in there about Wonderwall somewhere. Yeah, but I ain't going to dig for that one. That's JC's. Oh, no, I'm good. We're leaving California and we're moving on. So are you. Later, dudes. Travelers asked, are we on like the magic school bus?

[00:16:13] Yes, it is. It's the magic spooky school bus. Get on the spooky school bus. The spooky bus. I mean, yeah, I feel another T shirt coming on. Oh, yes, by the time this comes out, cannibal cows will have gone live on our red bubble store. Just FYI.

[00:16:32] All right, heading over to England specifically. But I want to say listeners in the UK in general, thank you so much again, guys, you're like a number three in listenership. We're proud of you guys. Thanks for staying with us.

[00:16:44] So this one is the bride of Bramsil House, Hampshire, England. So this might be a place that we delve into a little bit more because there are supposedly 14 ghosts at Bramsil House. But we're just going to focus on one of them right now.

[00:16:58] The 17th century, a young woman named Ann was married on Christmas Day at Bramsil House. In those days, it was traditional to carry the bride to the bed chamber after the ceremony and festivities had ended.

[00:17:11] Not wanting the night to come to a close and suggested they all play a game of hide and seek. She was given a five minute head start before her guests began searching for her. Searched for a long time before panic, search set in. No one can find her.

[00:17:24] And when minutes turned into hours, most people thought she had perhaps run away from her marriage to the groom Lord Lowell. Lowell searched for decades but never found her until one day. Wait, searched for decades? Yes. Like I would give it a decade, but like decades.

[00:17:43] Come on, man. Move on. Decades. He's still he's still searched for her until one day he's messing around in the attic. He comes across a secret room. Oh, God. Inside was a chest. He opened the chest to find the skeletal remains of his bride

[00:17:59] still holding the mistletoe bouquet in her hand. Scratch marks on the inside of the chest indicated that she had attempted to free herself, but unfortunately could not. Now, sucks is this tale is not altogether true. I know it's a really good story though.

[00:18:14] And I had to add it because it really is freaking awesome story. It turns out there was bridal chest in Bramshall house and one of the owners of the house Sir William Cope who BT dubs.

[00:18:26] I'm going to be doing a little bit of extra Kiki's quirks side stuff for Patreon on Sir William Cope because he's very interesting. He's known as the green man. That's all I'm going to say. He writes a pamphlet that he published called The Bridal Chest of Bramshall.

[00:18:41] In the pamphlet, he reported that there was no record of any bride in the family having ever died after the wedding. However, there was a bridal chest that was moved from the house by the widow of the fifth baronet.

[00:18:54] Now, the fifth baronet happens to be Sir John Cope and he spent a lot of time in Italy. William Cope discovers that the story is attached to the chest itself and that its former owner had told of a tragic story in which a lady

[00:19:08] of quote, distinguished Italian house had been trapped inside the chest and died. So Cope believed that this was the impetus for the story, but also for the 1822 Samuel Rogers poem, Geneva, which if you read Geneva, which you can it's free to read.

[00:19:24] It is I can't suffer JC because you're illiterate. I forgot. Thanks. There's one final however, and that is this. That 1822 story has an even earlier origin. It appears in 1809 issue of the Monthly and Boston Review under a title of a melancholy occurrence.

[00:19:48] And in this story, the setting is Germany and not Italy. There's also a silent film made called The Mistletoe Bough by Percy Shaw. 1904 is when that comes out. I will give you guys a link to the restored copy of that silent film that's available to watch.

[00:20:05] So Bramsel might only have 13 ghosts or perhaps the young woman dressed in white who roams the long gallery and floor to lee room just hasn't been identified yet. I mean, I still feel like maybe 13 ghosts is too many. I just like 13 movies.

[00:20:24] Fucking awesome. 13 is kind of a lot. I would say it's at least 13 too many ghosts. Yeah. Yeah. They got a lot of ghostesses, including apparently the ghost of Sir William Cope himself, the Green Man who's seen out by the pond.

[00:20:37] He has a very interesting character and do a little side story about him. This one's a little extra something, something from England because I love the fact that so many times this happens here too. So I'm not I'm totally not making or poking fun at English ghost stories

[00:20:52] in any way shape or form as we get this a lot here. You guys you guys will admit it's like the most haunted house in America. OK, so technically Bromsel Hall is like one of the most haunted houses in all of England. Guess what?

[00:21:06] There's another house is also one of the most haunted houses in England. And that's Roos Hall in Suffolk. This one's interesting. Again, we could do a whole side thing on this one because it's got some crazy crap going on in there.

[00:21:22] There is an oak tree called Nelson's Tree, the hanging tree. What was wait, what was hanging on the tree? People. Oh, shit. Priminals. Wow, by whose court? So at night there's a white lady that can be seen walking at the base of the oak tree.

[00:21:39] She apparently walks around it six times in order to conjure the devil. There's also something inside the house called the Devil's Footprint. Didn't do a whole lot of investigation on that one because again,

[00:21:50] I was focusing on the Christmas ghost story here, which is and I had to leave it in because it's a headless horseman. Night. Yeah, apparently on Christmas Eve, a headless horseman comes racing down the driveway of the hall followed by a ghostly coach and four undead horses.

[00:22:08] At the same time, every year, the horseman and his carriage soundlessly travel down the drive at great speed, rushing toward the house before disappearing. I'm done. And why does this headless horseman even do this on Christmas Eve? Well, because he's booked elsewhere the other days of the year.

[00:22:24] The answer is nobody knows. Oh, OK. There's no there's no history behind it. Although I imagine though, if it's the same time, this is where I love these. Like I'm sorry, I quoted that by the way, that is that is a quote from a blog.

[00:22:38] If you're driving down the same way, though, every single year at the same time, like surely somebody has got to pick this up on a camera. You know, I'm just saying. Yeah. So anyway, but there's still time for those of you who live out

[00:22:52] in your Suffolk, you could go to Ruse Hall on Christmas Eve and then you can get back to us and tell us if the headless horseman truly there. Yeah, let us know. I believe in you guys. I do. I would actually want to see that very much so.

[00:23:03] Yeah, maybe not charging at me, but like. No, because if it's going towards the house, then we're good. Just don't stand in the road. Although who cares? It's a it's a ghostly carriage is not real. Hey, never know. Just be able to fly right through you.

[00:23:18] I mean, I hope that it can fly right through you, right? Like, what if it becomes physical right at that moment? Like, fuck this guy should have gotten out of my way. Or if it's one dude doing a very long con elaborate prank

[00:23:33] and then he just actually hits you with his horse. And then that's how the place actually becomes haunted. Me, I become the ghost. Cory, you'd be the best ghost. I wouldn't. I wouldn't be able to slam anybody. I'm slamming unless I become a poltergeist. That's a possibility.

[00:23:55] That's scary. I don't want to think of you guys more of like or I'd like to think of you more as just just like the friendly ghost in the house, you know, like like Casper. No, not like Casper, but like every now and

[00:24:08] time you get something real hard, like just to let him know. But you don't like like you don't do anything weird, you know? He's a helpful ghost. I do almost nothing except weird stuff. Why would you assume I wouldn't do anything weird if I were a spirit?

[00:24:23] I don't know. I just I like the thing of you as like you would just you would just slam like stuff down every now and then, but you wouldn't you wouldn't be too like you wouldn't be too like weird.

[00:24:33] Like you'd get people that you won't do anything in the bathroom. My big ghost in the bathroom. OK, here you're here. You heard it here. Folks, JC's biggest fear. Merry Christmas. That's going to be my haunting when I become a spirit.

[00:24:52] I'm just going to constantly clog someone's toilet. Court becomes the thing I feared most. JC is going to be an old man and he's going to go to the bathroom one day and it's already going to be clogged. He's got no. No.

[00:25:08] It's going to be like two weeks after you passed. How long is going to take to clean out the bathroom? It's the next T-shirt, by the way. It's just going to be a picture of JC on a toilet with ghosts coming out of it. Nice. I like it.

[00:25:22] So many T-shirt ideas. I love all of them. I know. We got I just I just have Chris draw him up and then we and then and toast did a great job on making us a little ghosty. Yeah, it looked great. I saw it on the red bubble.

[00:25:36] All right. So our musical guest today is Philly band, Hauntress with their song Now Here. It could also be Nowhere. See, I see what you guys did there. That was very clever. You can find Hauntress on YouTube, Spotify and Bandcamp.

[00:25:52] Of course, you go to Bandcamp, go download their song. I mean, I'm sorry, go pay for their songs, then download them. And you're going to see that Mission Spooky is a supporters of Hauntress because they're freaking great. Please go show them some love.

[00:26:04] And when we get back, Spooky Squad News and shout outs. I found you wasted in the snow. You said this was impossible. Needed you more than I thought. We tried to keep each other warm. Again, listeners, viewers, you wonderful sons of bitches, daughters of witches.

[00:27:07] Thanks for fucking up the thing. Whatever. I guess it's called editing. Fix everything. Fix it in post. We'll fix all of it in post. We fixed the whole last episode in post. We'll do it again, damn it. Yes, we will.

[00:27:23] All right. So I already did my big shout out, which is go listen to Ghost Story Guys Episode 100. Yeah, where they keep it 100. That's what that's what the kids say these days, right? Yes, I have no idea what you're talking about. Yes. Nice.

[00:27:40] Cool. I'm in with the youth. Yes. Yeah. Yes. I also want to mention that Role for Damage is going to be starting back up again if they haven't already when this goes live. I can't remember. Yeah. So another one of my favorite podcasts. They're so great.

[00:27:56] And Counter Party is still going strong. They were my number one most downloaded and listened to. I apparently had an encounter party party all by myself. If 10 episodes one day. Oh, good job. Yeah. So when Kiki says that she actually listens to something like I listen to it.

[00:28:16] OK, no fake. Oh, real. Well, in that case, I listened to Mission Spooky Podcast. Yeah, I know that you stopped listening after like episode six. Something like that. It's just like I can only hold. I can only hear so much of my voice without, like, you know,

[00:28:34] my head getting too big. All right, you guys got anything, anything you want to add this evening? You know, I've been I've been doing my part to live a very boring life. You know, staying covid safe and stuff. And so just just bored.

[00:28:52] It just occurred to me that by the time this goes live, my sister will already be married. Good job. Congratulations. The wedding was wonderful. I hope so. I hope it goes out. It's a bit BT dubs. Court and I both did it's Saturday night, right?

[00:29:06] Yeah, we're not going to this wedding place. We're going. Yeah, you're going going to Allentown. Great. Yes. And we're crashing our wedding, right? Court. How about no. Oh, OK. Well, Court keeps me in check. He's he's my question.

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[00:29:36] And one of those things will hopefully be ready for New Year's Eve. Have a little bit of fun with with me. So I'm going to be home probably by myself, yeah, living a covid free life. Good. And I subscribe to the YouTube. Yeah.

[00:29:51] And I just got a notification that you subscribe to the YouTube. I did it. Thank you. But what's YouTube? Is it just is it just Mission Spooky? Are you kidding me? Are you kidding? Is it one word or two words? You've been on every episode. Subscribe.

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[00:30:33] What's going to be YouTube color coding? We're taking like the orange color from our logo. We're also taking the dark blueish turquoise from from it. And then there's some neon green in there for a little bit of catchy eye catchy and then there's a photo like photos involved.

[00:30:50] But those photos are either I can white or they have a greenish tint to them. Yeah, it's kind of cool. Yeah, yeah. Yep. And Instagram is going to be all color coded. It's going to be so pretty.

[00:30:59] Officially, we're going to start at the end of this month, but then next year it's going to be all like really cool looking. Again, we're all about doing the eye catchy RC stuff. Yeah. All right.

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[00:32:28] It's been a huge help. And you can also rate and review us on pod chaser as well. Again, huge help just getting us noticed. I think that's going to do it, but I do want to say thank you sincerely so much for a wonderful 2020. Wonderful.

[00:32:44] She says our listeners. Okay. Oh yeah. You guys are wonderful. You guys are wonderful. Your fans have your why 2020 wasn't the worst. Okay. Truly the only reason that 2020 was not a complete and utter shit show. It was just a shit show. Yeah. We accomplished huge gains this year.

[00:33:06] It's our first full year in action, you know, January to January. And we gained listenership 495 percent in the United States. So. Not bad. No, not bad. I ain't mad at it. It's so far.

[00:33:22] It's been a lot of fun and I can't wait until next year because thank you for waiting and listening through the C section this long. Yeah. I have some really cool things planned. One of our first stops is going to be to Odessa, not Pennsylvania.

[00:33:35] We're going way outside PA or stop at Wolf Castle in Odessa. I'm not going to tell you why. But it involves a heavy metal band. Oh, yeah. I'm intrigued. Yeah. We partnered up with some really cool people for next year already.

[00:33:51] I will be doing an interview in January, but I'm not sure when that's going to go live, so I'm not going to quite mention it yet. Oh, of course we have our chord versus cryptid. Yeah. That's coming next year. Yeah. It's going to be funny.

[00:34:04] We have more JC and chord go to spooky places. Yes. Yep. All right. We already, I'm already sending you somewhere. Yes. Week. The greatest birthday present I could ask for. A ghost adventure. Oh, and of course we have a red bubble t-shirts, etc. Live. We have our logo.

[00:34:29] We have, yeah, we have JC riding a squawk. Oh gosh. And by the way, JC riding a squawk was a special sticker that was inside the cryptid box for December. Nice. Yeah. I'm famous. Cryptid crate. And those started in 1999 a month. Can look it up.

[00:34:50] It's at box mountain LLC.com box B O X mountain. Obviously paranormal themes, crypt themes mostly were featured in there along with a bunch of other really cool stuff for December box. Also have our ghost deer and we have our devil ghost.

[00:35:09] And then by now I would have given you guys cannibal cows. And also you would have already started naming the cannibal cows themselves. The lead singer, we're going to have Taurus and drummer. And then those will be available on art cards once we get them all named.

[00:35:27] I'm going to let you guys name them. So lots of good stuff coming in 2021. Yeah. And in the last week of the month too. And we're going to have something special for you in about a week for New Year's Eve.

[00:35:40] I'm not going to tell you what it is. OK. I'm not going to tell you guys what it is. You don't even fucking know. Do I have to record anything? Possibly. Oh, God, more work. Fucking. So guys, Merry Christmas. And as always, stay spooky and don't die.

[00:36:00] If you do, contact us via. If you could the shrieks of. Wait, no. Cord, why don't you take this one? You got halfway through one. That put me on the spot. Yeah, you have like one job, remember? Yeah, the intro. This is all honest. And the outro.

[00:36:27] No, the intro. You're the worst. You said that you want to be like Ben Kissel. Ben does the intro and he does the outro. Do the outro, JC. God damn it. OK, what shrieks via if you could the shrieks of horny Sasquatches? Take it back.

[00:36:45] I don't I don't want to do the outro. And really. Yeah.

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