Move-In Ready (To Ruin Your Life)

Summary

Morbid Podcast Episode Summary

Episode Title: Move-In Ready (To Ruin Your Life)
Hosts: Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart
Date: April 20, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into truly “move-in ready” nightmare homes—specifically, tales of haunted or paranormal happenings that follow people into their personal spaces. Ash and Alaina blend creepy historical research with lighter banter and relatable humor, creating their signature “lighthearted nightmare” vibe. They recount two unsettling stories: the 1987 Atlanta "Bleeding Walls" case and the history of Scotland's once-most-haunted home, Blecking (Blaken) House. The stories journey from bizarre to tragic, with moments of eerie speculation on paranormal justice.

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Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• “You know what? You’re not going to sleep after hearing this story.” — Alaina (06:36)
• “911, we have an emergency. We’re just not sure how to classify it.” — Alaina, narrating Minnie & Willie (10:40)
• “Where’s the mud that we can find that’s type O positive?” — Elena (23:25)
• “I'd literally run outside and just plop a for sale sign on the front yard.” — Alaina (17:10)
• “Blood be wildin', blood is crazy!” — Alaina (28:32)
• “If you can’t respect the dogs, the ghosts will make you regret it.” — Paraphrased sentiment from the Blecking House tale

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Opening Banter & Merch Update (01:33–06:13)

• Drinks of the Season: Ash and Alaina start with a passionate review of a Shirley Temple-flavored Bloom Pop (non-alcoholic), reminiscing about past Shirley Temple experiences and drink trends. Mikey, a friend, is crowned master of the DIY Shirley Temple.
• Merch Launch & Fraud Warning: Excitement over new Morbid merchandise; strong warning to buy only via Podswag or Sirius XM’s official store due to fake, AI-driven scam sites popping up.
  • “Apparently AI now can set up websites that, like, seem real. So gross.” — Elena (04:18)
• Offbeat Tech: Discussion of human-like robots, including a Polish robot that chases wild boars (“We are the stupidest species I know that has ever graced [the earth].” — Elena, 05:29), leading to a light critique of unnecessary robotics.

2. True Crime Story #1: The ‘Bleeding Walls’ of Atlanta (08:01–28:32)

Summary of Events

• Minnie and Willie Winston, 1987: The couple, both in their late 70s, are living in their Atlanta home. Minnie, seeking some relaxation after caring for her ailing husband, notices blood droplets on her bathroom floor after a bath.
• Blood is discovered pooling and seeping from walls, crawl spaces, under the entertainment center—even spurting from the bathroom floor “like a sprinkler.” (10:32)
• Police respond, find no source for the blood, no evidence of a break-in, and the blood is confirmed to be human, type O positive.
  • “The police were just as confused... It seemed like straight-up blood, not some other substance.” — Alaina (11:05)
• Neither Minnie nor Willie is type O, and there’s no missing blood reported from local hospitals.
• Speculation: Detectives entertain—and dismiss—theories of elaborate hoax involving energetic daughters or medical theft for attention. Both options are found implausible.
• Aftermath: Media camps outside the home for weeks; the case is left unsolved with official attention shifting to other major cases in racially fraught late-'80s Atlanta.
• Alternative Explanations: Later, Minnie tells a writer (Kurt Rowlett) it was “mud and rust from a ruptured water heater.” Both hosts are skeptical, citing the lab results and possible psychological comfort in denying a haunting.
• Historical Context: Other mysterious "blood rain" incidents, such as 1884 North Carolina, are referenced; lab testing then also confirmed blood, not animal origin.
• Paranormal Theory: The hosts note that the house’s previous tenant, Albert Thompson (a Black lawyer who died of internal bleeding at home on Halloween), died under mysterious circumstances—possibly linking tragedy, unrest, and the haunting.

Notable Cultural and Religious Parallels

• Saint Januarius of Naples: His reportedly miraculous “blood liquefying” relic is invoked as another example of blood-as-omen, with talk of natural disasters following a failed liquefaction.

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3. True Crime Story #2: Blecking (Blaken) House, Scotland (29:32–53:55)

History & Haunting

• House Origins: Built in 1806 for the Stewart family; passed to Major Robert Stewart, an eccentric dog lover with an intense interest in reincarnation/transmigration.
  • He insisted in his will that his dogs be allowed to remain in the house so his soul might return as one of them.
• Tragedy and Cruelty: Upon inheriting, his nephew John Stewart instead killed all the dogs before moving in (40:18).
  • “I hope that he comes back as shit.” — Alaina’s immediate response.
• Hauntings Begin:
  • Staff refuse to stay in the house unless paired up.
  • Loud knocks, violent arguments, unexplained explosions.
  • Wet dog smells and phantom animal touches; spectral apparitions of half-women and nuns.
  • Repeated apparitions of dogs and a spectral nun (possibly Robert’s sister, Isabella, a nun who died in 1880).
• Escalations and Departures:
  • Witnesses report footsteps running, slamming into doors, and chilling moans, with one family abandoning their year lease after only 11 weeks due to hauntings, including an apparition staring at their children.
• Mass Paranormal Investigation: In 1897, 35 people sent by the Society for Psychical Research investigate for three months.
  • Findings: unexplained footsteps, knocking, voices, priestly prayers, dogs’ presence and sounds, spectral hand holding crucifix, and direct apparitions including a crying nun in a nearby glen, presumed Isabella.
  • Later, much of the house burns down, leaving only ruins.
• Speculation: Ash and Alaina muse that the hauntings and bad energy are a direct result of the cruelty suffered by the dogs and unresolved tragedies in the house’s past.

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4. Fun Fact Closing (53:55–55:16)

• Science-y Laugh: Sloths can’t fart the normal way; they “breathe out their farts” because their digestion is so slow.
  • “Sloths breathe out their farts. So that is their breath!” — Alaina (55:10)
• Ash jokes about psychic predictions, having discussed animals “farting out of their mouths” the previous day.

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Morbid Merch Announcement & Scam Warnings: 03:24–04:46
• Robot & AI Discussion: 04:51–06:13
• Main Story: Bleeding Walls of Atlanta: 08:01–28:32
• Speculations/Paranormal Parallels: 23:25–29:29
• Blecking House – The Most Haunted House in Scotland: 29:32–53:55
• Fun Animal Fact/Outro: 53:55–55:16

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Tone & Style

The episode is rich in dark, macabre details but balanced with the hosts’ irreverent, sassy humor and empathetic concern for both the human (and canine) tales at its center. The language is candid, informal, and peppered with witty asides and relatable tangents. Even amid truly unnerving mysteries, Ash and Alaina keep things “weird”—but never without humanity.

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Takeaway

If haunted houses and unsolved mysteries give you thrills, this episode is a perfect blend: bloody walls, vengeful spectral dogs, and enough real-life puzzles to keep you up at night—especially if you’re thinking of moving somewhere “move-in ready.” Blood, ghosts, and all, Morbid keeps it both educational and fun.

And remember: "Blood be wildin', blood is crazy!" (28:32)

Transcript

[Alaina]

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[Elena]

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[Elena]

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[Elena]

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[Alaina]

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[Elena]

And I'm Elena.

[Alaina]

And this is morbid. It is. Hi honeys, how you doing?

[Elena]

How are you doing? We'll wait.

[Alaina]

Oh, really?

[Elena]

Yeah. Like that? Sometimes, yeah, it do be like that.

[Alaina]

I hope that worked for at least one person.

[Elena]

I think somebody found that funny.

[Alaina]

Yeah. This is not an ad right now, but I am enjoying a fucking. I gotta tell you about this Bloom Pop Shirley Temple flavor will change your fucking life.

[Elena]

Yeah, she had me try it and it's genuinely good.

[Alaina]

It is.

[Elena]

Usually I can't stand those drinks.

[Alaina]

I have to say it's the closest non soda Shirley Temple flavor I've ever tried. Yeah, some of them are also very good, but this is the best one.

[Elena]

So I mean, not an ad.

[Alaina]

Again, not an ad at all. I just. If you're a Shirley Temple girly, I needed to tell you because I feel like you Know how there's always, like, people say, like, oh, like, that's like the drink of the season.

[Elena]

Yeah.

[Alaina]

Or like. Like, drinks just get popular, like, randomly. I feel like Shirley Temples are kind of sweeping the nation right now.

[Elena]

I love that because.

[Alaina]

Might have been your doing.

[Elena]

Maybe it was because I am truly a Shirley Temple girly.

[Alaina]

She always orders a Shirley Temple.

[Elena]

Just what I drink when I go out. Yeah. So that's it.

[Alaina]

Really good.

[Elena]

I love a shir. I love a good Shirley Temple.

[Alaina]

I love a good.

[Elena]

You know who makes a good Shirley Temple?

[Alaina]

Tell me.

[Elena]

Mikey.

[Alaina]

Mikey makes a bomb Shirley Temple.

[Elena]

Mikey makes a bomb Shirley Temple.

[Alaina]

One time, Mikey got this, like. Was it like pomegranate. Shirley Grenadine. The pomegranate grenadine. Is that what it was? That was so.

[Elena]

That it was so good. Yeah. So give it a try.

[Alaina]

Give it a try.

[Elena]

Just saying.

[Alaina]

You'll never have Mikey's. But we will.

[Elena]

But we will.

[Alaina]

One really fucking exciting thing that is not an ad and not about anything except having to do with us is that we launched our merch today.

[Elena]

Oh, we did.

[Alaina]

I guess that is kind of an ad.

[Elena]

I was going to say that's kind of an ad. Yeah.

[Alaina]

Sorry.

[Elena]

Sorry. I just yawned in the middle of that. I didn't mean to. Wow. Crazy.

[Alaina]

We launched our merch and the only. There's two places you can buy it. There's one place if you're international, which is Pod Swag. You can check out the link our bile for the exact, you know, place to go. And then the other one is the Sirius XM store. It has come to our attention that there are a lot of fake sites selling our merch.

[Elena]

Yeah, fake.

[Alaina]

And Deb. Deb helps us with the email. And she's gotten emails before. That's like, I've ordered this and I.

[Elena]

And I didn't get it. That's because that's not our store. That's not our store. Don't have anything to do with it. And it's just some scammer taking your money and then not sending you the thing.

[Alaina]

And apparently AI now can set up websites that, like, seem real.

[Elena]

So gross. I really hate it. I. I really do.

[Alaina]

I do, too.

[Elena]

Don't love any of the AI stuff. And I don't love that people can just make a shop and sell merch.

[Alaina]

Yeah, it's really lame. So if you want to check out the new merch, the only way to do that is that Pod Swag website or the Sirius XM store, both in

[Elena]

our bio is not us and we have nothing to do with it.

[Alaina]

And it's fake and chances are you're probably not going to get it.

[Elena]

And you're. Yeah, you might get your money stolen. So don't by from there. No.

[Alaina]

Something else I really hate is that robot that you showed me the other day.

[Elena]

Oh yeah, there's this robot in like Poland. I think it is.

[Alaina]

Yeah, I think it was Poland.

[Elena]

And I think his name is Edward Warchaki.

[Alaina]

Yeah, I think it was. Wait, she didn't even look at her photo. That just stuck in your memory.

[Elena]

Warchaki the. And he chases wild boars out of town while yelling go away. In Polish.

[Alaina]

Which is probably good cuz I was going to say.

[Elena]

I know you look sad, but like they do need to go away from humans. So I mean they. They.

[Alaina]

No, they can like eat you alive. Watch the strangers too pray.

[Elena]

And he's not hurting the boars. He's just chasing them back into the woods where they belong.

[Alaina]

But I don't like that he can run.

[Elena]

Oh, I think humans building robots. We are the stupidest species I know that has ever graced.

[Alaina]

Have you ever seen a movie?

[Elena]

We humans make movies about robots killing.

[Alaina]

Killing us all.

[Elena]

And then humans are like. That's probably like a robot. Something we should try.

[Alaina]

No.

[Elena]

Come on. Stop making robots.

[Alaina]

Don't make like human like robots.

[Elena]

Yeah. You want to do like little robotics things? Sure. Fun. Exciting.

[Alaina]

Exactly.

[Elena]

One of my kids loves robotics, so like. Yeah. And. But don't make human sized robots that can like chase you run and. Too much personality.

[Alaina]

Clomp around. I don't like it that they can shout real words.

[Elena]

Yeah, I don't like that. I know, but that was weird.

[Alaina]

I think that's all we got. Yan McGee.

[Elena]

Sorry, I. Keep it. I'm. It's not because you guys are boring.

[Alaina]

You get bad sleep score last night?

[Elena]

No, I got an all right sleep score. Not as good as I think. I haven't had a good sleep score the last couple nights though, so I'm probably still dealing with that.

[Alaina]

I have been sleeping so good lately.

[Elena]

That's great.

[Alaina]

I got a 93 last night.

[Elena]

I. Because we have the aura ring, so that's what we're talking about. Not an ad. But I love mine. And if you get one, I will get nothing out of it. Except the pure joy of you also having that.

[Alaina]

Unless they walk to sponsor us, in which case I would talk endlessly about.

[Elena]

Yeah, or ring if you want to sponsor us. I tell everybody about my order.

[Alaina]

We both recently told our separate doctors about them. And I was like, listen, I know both of us were like, listen, we

[Elena]

know you're medical professionals, you're better than a ring.

[Alaina]

But like this, But I do have this, this data showing.

[Elena]

Yeah, cuz the oring's great.

[Alaina]

And in both cases that like both of our doctors were like, oh yeah, yeah, that's good.

[Elena]

Yeah. So I don't know where I was going with that. But sleep. I live and die by my sleep score and I have yet to crack a 90.

[Alaina]

You've never got a 90?

[Elena]

I don't think I've ever gotten above the 80s.

[Alaina]

Wow. These kids gotta let you sleep.

[Elena]

Yeah. Even when they do, you just don't. Yeah, I don't think you get the deep sleep that you should.

[Alaina]

I'm enjoying my 90s while I have them.

[Elena]

Your 90s? Yeah.

[Alaina]

Well, you know what? You're not going to sleep after hearing this story.

[Elena]

Both of these stories.

[Alaina]

Yeah, both of these stories we both have. I don't even know what the freak to classify this as. Yeah, it's just a weird phenom phenomenon.

[Elena]

A phenom. A phenom.

[Alaina]

And you have a haunting, and I

[Elena]

have a straight up haunting.

[Alaina]

All right, so let's talk about my weird phenomenon first.

[Elena]

I like that.

[Alaina]

So on Tuesday, September 8, 1987, we're taking it back to the 80s.

[Elena]

Let's go. I was born, period.

[Alaina]

You were 2 years old?

[Elena]

I was.

[Alaina]

Minnie Winston was not. She was 77 years old.

[Elena]

Oh, damn.

[Alaina]

And she had spent the day taking care of her husband, William Willie Winston.

[Elena]

William Willie Winston.

[Alaina]

Minnie Winston and Willie Winston. I love it. He was 79 and sadly his health was declining more and more recently. And these days he was on dialysis. Minnie was the one who brought him to and from his appointments and then took care of him afterwards at home. She was a good wifey.

[Elena]

Yeah.

[Alaina]

Not only that, but she kept up with the house that they lived on on 1114 Fountain Drive in Atlanta, Georgia, baby. Okay. Atlanta. By 1987, they had lived in that house for about 22 years. This particular Tuesday, though, it had been a long day for Minnie. She was ready for some relaxation at the end of the night. And where do we go to relax, girlies? The bath A loves a bath.

[Elena]

I was like, where do we go?

[Alaina]

You don't like a bath?

[Elena]

I'm not a real bath person. I like a shower.

[Alaina]

I find that so odd.

[Elena]

I like a nice everything shower.

[Alaina]

I too love an everything shower. But to me there's nothing like a bath. And Minnie felt the same. So she drew herself one and she soaked for a little bit. She got that relaxation just all in there. And then she took a moment to rest her mind. But it was not, not long lived. As she was getting out of the bath, the worst part of taking a bath, she realized that there were little droplets of blood on the bathroom floor. So she called out to her husband who up until that point had just been resting after his long day. He came barreling out of the room when he heard the fear in Minnie's voice and he too saw the blood on the floor. Now, for a quick second, Minnie felt relief that nothing had happened to him. But then quickly she shifted her attention back to the blood on the floor. Where the fuck did that come from? They didn't have any pets in the house. But she was like, maybe some kind of animal got in here. Now, Willy took on the task of searching around their six room house and quickly realized that there were pools of blood in almost every single room.

[Elena]

I'd be concerned.

[Alaina]

Yeah. It was also seeping from the walls. And then the reason they were finding pools of blood is because it was pooling on the floor after just seeping from the walls.

[Elena]

Oh, yep.

[Alaina]

It was coming out of crawl spaces that nobody had access to. And even underneath their entertainment center they also found pools of blood.

[Elena]

What the.

[Alaina]

At one point, Minnie said it started spurting, quote, like a sprinkler from a hole in the bathroom floor.

[Elena]

Yeah.

[Alaina]

So they didn't really know what to do other than call the police. So they said, 91 1, we have an emergency. We're just not sure how to classify it.

[Elena]

Honestly. Valid.

[Alaina]

And the police arrived and they checked around the property and they too saw the blood, but were just as confused as Minnie and Willie were because there didn't seem to be any source that the blood was coming from. But it was, it seemed at least like real blood. Like not some other substance, you know, like leaking from a pipe or anything.

[Elena]

Like rusty.

[Alaina]

Yeah, nothing rusty. Just it seemed like straight up blood to be sure. They did check and see if there were any busted pipes. And sure enough, there were not. There were also no signs of a break in. And the house had an alarm system that was set earlier that night. Now, when they were asked, Minnie and Willie said they hadn't had any visitors in the last couple of days.

[Elena]

So no visitors who might have accidentally bled all over the house, who crawled into crawl spaces, bled in there.

[Alaina]

Yeah, exactly. Just left. And we would have noticed earlier.

[Elena]

You just never know with house guests,

[Alaina]

you know, you just can't be sure.

[Elena]

Yeah. Have you ever seen Ramona and the New York Housewives?

[Alaina]

Yeah.

[Elena]

Going to the Berkshires might be different.

[Alaina]

Yeah, not blood, but ripping shit off the walls. Just ripping sharks. Now, a lab tech, Brenda Dipple, was called in to take a sample of the blood and it was sent to the Georgia State Crime Lab to be to tested. Steve Cartwright, one of the homicide detectives on the case, said he had never seen anything like this during his 10 years on the force. And he went on to say that. He said it was an extremely strange situation. I'm guessing it was an animal. Hope that's all it was.

[Elena]

I guess it was an. That's. I mean, what else could it be?

[Alaina]

Here's the thing, though. Sorry to disappoint you, Mr. Steve. When the blood came back from the lab, in fact, it was confirmed to be human blood and it was type O positive, to be specific.

[Elena]

Wasn't me.

[Alaina]

Wasn't you.

[Elena]

I wasn't bleeding all over that house.

[Alaina]

It wasn't me because I wasn't alive. But I don't know my blood type.

[Elena]

That freaks me out that it came back human. Yeah, like, I don't think we properly sat on that.

[Alaina]

Well, do you? We didn't because we have to get to the most important part. Minnie and Willie both had the same blood type, type A, which is not opossum. So it wasn't their blood either. And they were the only two fucking people that lived there.

[Elena]

Who, what, when, where? Oh, why? I don't like it.

[Alaina]

So the police were able to determine that no homicide had taken place at the residence. But other than that, they were very stumped as to how this amount of type O human blood just started seeping from the walls and shooting through the floor.

[Elena]

Safe to say such a valid inquiry.

[Alaina]

Yeah, safe to say. They had never experienced anything like that. Rumors started to fly around Fulton county once this started getting out there. People were guessing everything from paranormal to obviously some kind of ho. Media was gathered outside of the house 24 7, to the point where Minnie started to get agitated too, especially because of the state that her husband's health was in. If they needed to leave the house to get to a doctor's appointment or if some kind of emergency happened, it would have been dangerous to get through all those people. Now, time went on and there were still no, I guess you would say, leads in the case. Once the detectives were able to determine that there was no foul play involved, they really didn't have time to just figure out what this was like. They had to shift their attention to more pressing matters.

[Elena]

Yeah.

[Alaina]

1987 in Fulton County, Atlanta was intense to say the least.

[Elena]

You don't say.

[Alaina]

There was a lot of racially, racially charged crimes taking place. A couple, including the police departments, too. 19 year old Lamar Montgomery had been shot and killed by an officer who claimed self defense. But it was determined to be otherwise when they found the gunshot in the back. The back windshield. Meaning that Lamar had driven his car past the officer and not into the officer. Officer, like the officer said.

[Elena]

Damn.

[Alaina]

Now, when detectives couldn't figure out what had gone on in the house, they tried to say that it was some kind of hoax. One of the lead detectives on the case, Horace Walker, spoke to a group of skeptics in 1994 and he told them two reasons why this thing, this entire thing could have been a hoax. He said there were some family problems going on between the parents and the children. Willie and Minnie had three kids, one of whom Horace claimed worked at a hospital and had access to blood.

[Elena]

Oh.

[Alaina]

So Horace threw out the idea that maybe their daughter got the blood from the hospital and was somehow able to plant it in the house for like some kind of gain. He thought maybe that was. Yeah, he thought maybe that gain was financial to the daughter if she was able to use the incident to prove that her parents were unwell or unstable.

[Elena]

Oh.

[Alaina]

So I don't know, maybe she wanted that.

[Elena]

He.

[Alaina]

I think from his theory, maybe she wanted the house and she could get them into like a care facility or something like that. He also, though, floated the idea. And I feel like this is really mean that Willie could have gotten the blood from the hospital because he was always in and out of the hospital since he was on dialysis. I was like, I think they're like keeping track of him while he's there.

[Elena]

Yeah. And like, here's the thing, it's not like super easy to just snag blood as a patient.

[Alaina]

I wouldn't think so. I've never attempted.

[Elena]

I mean, as far as I know. Okay. It's. It's not easy to just, to just grab and go. I wouldn't think they don't have it in like a freezer, like at a convenience store where you can just like grab it a la carte.

[Alaina]

No, it's not like where you like, they, they offer you a jello and they say you can go get it. The blood's not in there.

[Elena]

No. And you. It's like, oh, I could get a jello or I could get a bag of blood. Yeah. No.

[Alaina]

Well, his idea behind Willie getting the blood was so that he. Or so that the couple could gain the attention that they were looking for from their children, which I was like,

[Elena]

I like, so sad.

[Alaina]

One, that's really mean to float that idea. And two, I think they could do, like, a million other things to get that attention.

[Elena]

They could do literally any other thing.

[Alaina]

Yeah.

[Elena]

And I also think that's so sad.

[Alaina]

Yeah, it really is. And anyway, in the beginning of the investigation, officers were searching blood banks and they found that no blood had gone missing.

[Elena]

Yeah. Oh, even weirder.

[Alaina]

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[Elena]

We sure do.

[Alaina]

Being in your house, vibing, and then there is blood dripping down the wall.

[Elena]

Would.

[Alaina]

I would literally run outside and just plop a for sale sign on the front yard.

[Elena]

Oh. Immediately, no questions asked. House is yours. Now I'm gone. Bye.

[Alaina]

Have it, babe.

[Elena]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Alaina]

But that's the thing. It's not even like a big dramatic moment at first. It's just like that slow realization of what's happening. Why am I not prepared for this?

[Elena]

Which, honestly, is a very specific kind of panic that exists outside of haunted houses as well.

[Alaina]

I think it does because tell me why my uterus sometimes does the exact same thing. Zero warning, worst timing possible. And I'm like, cool, I guess we're bleeding now.

[Elena]

Oh, yeah. And then the best part. Society has trained us to go into, like, full stealth mode about it. Yeah.

[Alaina]

Suddenly your secret agent, you're like, okay, no sudden movements. Don't alert anybody. Act natural.

[Elena]

When in reality, periods are just normal bodily functions that we've been taught not to talk about. Which is kind of wild.

[Alaina]

No, it really is. That's why I love Kotex because they normalize what's real and they help you say it out loud. So instead of being completely unprepared for the chaos that sometimes is your period, we can actually be ready for it.

[Elena]

Exactly. Having products you trust like Kotex makes a huge difference. It's about being prepared, feeling comfortable, and not having to stress in those moments.

[Alaina]

Exactly. Unpredictable things. They're going to happen. Whether your house starts bleeding or you do. You can Be like, I got this.

[Elena]

Yeah. No haunting required.

[Alaina]

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[Alaina]

Now another writer who got involved in the case is Kurt Rowlett. He writes about the bleeding house in his book Labyrinth 13 True Tales of the Occult, Crime and Conspiracy. He actually got the chance to interview Minnie Winston a while after that night in September when all the blood just appeared.

[Elena]

What a crazy when her house started bleeding.

[Alaina]

Yeah. He asked her if anything paranormal had happened in all the time that she and Willie had lived in the house, and Minnie kind of dodged the question, never giving him a straight answer. But she did tell him that she was satisfied now that the substance oozing from the walls and shooting from the bathroom floor wasn't actually blood. She said it was mud and rust mixed with water that came into the house because of a ruptured hot water heater in the basement. And she went on to say if she thought the substance was Actually, blood. There was no way she'd still be living in the house.

[Elena]

I. My. Here's my problem. Where's the mud that we can find that's type O positive?

[Alaina]

Exactly.

[Elena]

Okay.

[Alaina]

Exactly.

[Elena]

Clearly.

[Alaina]

I think Minnie was just freaked out by the whole incident and probably had to convince herself otherwise to live in her home.

[Elena]

I, too, would probably do that.

[Alaina]

Yeah. So she got to the point where she was like, oh, no, it's not blood, though the water heater did burst and it was rust.

[Elena]

It's. You know, the lab said it's human blood, but, like, what do they know?

[Alaina]

Wrong O.

[Elena]

You know?

[Alaina]

Yeah. Wrong O.

[Elena]

Literally wrong. Oh.

[Alaina]

So, sadly, Minnie's husband died two years after that night. At 81 years old, Winnie actually lived to be 104.

[Elena]

Winnie.

[Alaina]

And she never commented on whether or not she thought the house was haunted or Minnie.

[Elena]

Sorry, I said Winnie.

[Alaina]

Oh, did I say Winnie first?

[Elena]

Maybe I might have done that.

[Alaina]

I'll take fault with you.

[Elena]

You know what? We'll both forgive each other.

[Alaina]

Solidarity, sister. So, Minnie.

[Elena]

Minnie.

[Alaina]

Oh, I did say Winnie because I wrote Winnie.

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[Alaina]

No, Mini. Live to be 104.

[Elena]

104.

[Alaina]

I know. What a bad bitch.

[Elena]

Like, I want. I want to live to be 140, personally. Whoa.

[Alaina]

Yeah. You're trying to top that.

[Elena]

Yeah. Okay. Personally, I would like to hang out with my kids for, like, so long. Oh, I get that. To the point where they're like.

[Alaina]

They're like, hey, let's get you back inside now. In his book Labyrinth, 13th Labyrinth 13. Excuse me. Rowlett points out that this actually isn't the first time in history that blood has just manifested itself seemingly out of nowhere.

[Elena]

Love that.

[Alaina]

He wrote of an instance in North Carolina that happened in 1884. A woman named Kit Lassiter was the first one to report the blood. But quickly, other people in the 60 foot area confirmed what. What kid had seen. She said she was working out in the field of a farm when she realized that it was raining blood. Oh, my God, it's raining blood.

[Elena]

And then you don't say Hallelujah.

[Alaina]

I was just gonna say.

[Elena]

You say, oh.

[Alaina]

Oh, fuck. What do we do? So the earth around her, she said, started to become stained with this red substance, and it was pooling in some areas almost as big as a finger.

[Elena]

Ew. Yeah.

[Alaina]

It was found on the earth where Kit had said, but also in the surrounding area. It had stained trees and was found on bushes and grass. Like, she did not make this up at all.

[Elena]

Did a bunch of birds just, like,

[Alaina]

explode midair, maybe Dr. Francis Preston Venable was able to test some of the blood that had fallen. The blood rain, I guess you could call it. He determined that it was blood, but he could not determine the exact type. So maybe a bunch of birds did explode.

[Elena]

Maybe it did. I don't know. I don't know.

[Alaina]

Now Danny Cherry Jr. Hints at a potential reason for why the blood appeared in Minnie and Willie's home. Before Minnie and Willie had started renting the home, there was a previous tenant named Albert Thompson. He was a black man working as the Director of Regional Racial Relations with the Federal Housing Authority during a particularly racially charged time in Fulton County. One night he was driving home and he was hit by a trucker. It's unclear whether or not it was intentional because it was not really investigated very much and the trucker was free to go. Apparently it was determined that he had faulty brakes. But there's a lot of mystery thoughts. Yeah, there's a lot of thoughts. Now Albert was quickly treated at the hospital, but he later died in his home from internal bleeding that he was left with after the accident that they did not catch.

[Elena]

Oh, damn.

[Alaina]

And allegedly he died on Halloween night. Now it's interesting to note that the blood in Minnie and Willie's home appeared leading up to not only the anniversary of the accident, but also the night that Albert Thompson died.

[Elena]

Oh, interesting right?

[Alaina]

Now, Danny Cherry Jr. Related the bleeding walls at Minnie and Willie's house also to the Catholic martyr Saint Januarius. Saint Januarius was arrested during the persecution of the Christians. And legend has it that his punishment for hiding fellow Christians would be being fed to bears. Oh, but that the public might freak out a little bit about that.

[Elena]

Why?

[Alaina]

So instead he and the Christians that he protected were beheaded.

[Elena]

Now because they were like, public doesn't care about that.

[Alaina]

They said public might freak out about bears beheadings.

[Elena]

Maybe.

[Alaina]

Still chill with beheadings.

[Elena]

They are super chill with.

[Alaina]

It's okay.

[Elena]

Been that way for a while now.

[Alaina]

To this day, people go to Naples where there's a sample of Januaryus blood that is said to liquefy three times throughout the year.

[Elena]

What the fuck? That's cool as hell.

[Alaina]

Well, a few years ago the blood didn't liquefy and people took that as a bad omen because the last time it didn't liquefy was September 19, 1980. That is the saints feast day. So the believers got especially nervous. And they do in general, if the blood doesn't liquefy on that day, rightfully so it seems, because there was a Devastating earthquake that happened just two months later and 3,000 people were killed.

[Elena]

Shut up.

[Alaina]

Now, maybe this was the case at Minnie and Willie's house. A sign of something bad to come or a spirit or an energy that dwelled in the house. Just fed up with everything going on in the area.

[Elena]

Damn.

[Alaina]

Moral of the story, though. Blood Be wild in blood is crazy. I also. Whenever anybody says blood, I just think of that old YouTube video where the kid is going, blood.

[Elena]

Yep.

[Alaina]

Isn't that wild?

[Elena]

That's wild. And also the blood of January is there. Just made me think of that. I saw this thing that was like how like catholic, like, aesthetics. Okay.

[Alaina]

Are just metal as hell.

[Elena]

So metal. And that right there is a perfect example. Like that they just have like a. That a little bit of that saint's blood. Yeah. And it just liquefies a few times a year. Like that is. And if it doesn't, so cool.

[Alaina]

People panic.

[Elena]

Yeah. As they. I feel like you should. I don't even know what it's about, but sure.

[Alaina]

Aren't you guys, like, mad at witchcraft? That feels pretty witchy.

[Elena]

That feels so witchy. But so cool. It's all cool.

[Alaina]

Mata.

[Elena]

Yeah.

[Alaina]

Sigma is crazy.

[Elena]

That's gnarly.

[Alaina]

Yeah.

[Elena]

Wow. What a tale.

[Alaina]

Top that.

[Elena]

Top that. That. Well, I'm gonna try to top that with a Scottish house. Scottish. And it's called the Blecan House.

[Alaina]

Bless you.

[Elena]

It's called the Blecan House. But I like how Scottish people say it because they say Blaken.

[Alaina]

Okay.

[Elena]

It was once known to be Scotland's most haunted home. I think they have since topped it perhaps. But was once deatened that. Okay. So Blaken House is that. It is a gorgeous, like, Georgian style manor house. Beautiful. It's like, it sits in these, like, manicured gardens and it's in Perthshire countryside.

[Alaina]

I like the way that sounds.

[Elena]

I hope I said it correct. It's gorgeous. It's sprawling. It's just. It looks like you could have your, like, reawakening in this house. It really does. It's beautiful.

[Alaina]

I think I'm gonna reawaken in this. His house.

[Elena]

Precisely. That's black and house. So it was built in 1806. It was built by a very renowned Scottish architect, Robert Smirk. It was commissioned for the Stewart family.

[Alaina]

Okay.

[Elena]

The Stewart family was said to be descendants of King Robert II of Scotland. Feels like that's a big deal. Pretty serious family there. Sorry. In 1835, this estate. So it was like in the family the whole time. And it ended up passing to Major Robert Stewart.

[Alaina]

Okay.

[Elena]

And at the time that it was passed to him, he was in the military. He was serving overseas. I think he was in India, actually. So it got passed to him while he was over there. So he ended up renting it out while he was gone.

[Alaina]

Smart. Make a little cash.

[Elena]

Yeah. He was like, why not? So after he retired, he finally. I think he was like 25, 30 years in the military. It was a long career. And after he finally retired, he was like, I'm going to live in Blick and myself. So he did okay. He was eccentric by all accounts. Yeah. People liked him. Like, it's not like he was like, mean or anything. He just. He was a strange guy.

[Alaina]

We're kind of eccentric.

[Elena]

Yeah. I feel like I'm very eccentric. So, like, I get people like us.

[Alaina]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Elena]

And he did get hurt, I think the military. And he had a limp.

[Alaina]

Oh.

[Elena]

So I think, like, people were mean. That made him, quote, unquote, eccentric to me.

[Alaina]

If that's eccentric. I think that's just like he's feeling a little bit.

[Elena]

I think you should just an injury. But like, sure, people. But people liked him. But he really loved dogs, which makes me love him.

[Alaina]

That's a good sportsman.

[Elena]

And he had tons of dogs at the lichen house.

[Alaina]

All the dogs.

[Elena]

Tons of dogs. Loved his dog. He had a crew of dogs. I mean, what's a.

[Alaina]

What's a group of dogs called? Do you know?

[Elena]

A litter? Is that it?

[Alaina]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Elena]

Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. We knew that pack of dogs. A litter of dogs. Yeah. But it should be something more fun, though. I know. But yeah. He had a favorite who was a black spaniel. I couldn't find what he named that black spaniel, which I'm upset about. But he loved that black spaniel. It was like his best bro. Oh. And he also, when he came back and lived in Blaken House, he had this like, really intense belief in reincarnation. Like, he got very into researching I in a transmigration, I think it's called, is when you go into a non human vessel.

[Alaina]

Oh, okay.

[Elena]

So he was very interested in that believed.

[Alaina]

Interesting. You know, I find that very fascinating.

[Elena]

It is very fascinating and it's also kind of comforting.

[Alaina]

What would you come back as?

[Elena]

I'd want to come back as. Because I'm like, I don't want to come back as another human. I.

[Alaina]

Probably not a human.

[Elena]

Yeah. A crow would be cool.

[Alaina]

A crow would be fun.

[Elena]

I think that would be rad. I would also. I wanted to say dog, because dogs Live, like, the coolest life. And I'm like, what if you get a shitty owner? Then you got to rely on humans.

[Alaina]

That is tough.

[Elena]

That's a gamble.

[Alaina]

I was gonna say cat, because they sleep so much.

[Elena]

That's true.

[Alaina]

And they can, like, fit everywhere and they just, like, bask in the sun. But like you said, you gotta. You gotta rely on a good owner.

[Elena]

Yeah, it's tough.

[Alaina]

I know.

[Elena]

Humans inhabit the earth.

[Alaina]

Well, you know what, though? I'm good in this life. Like, I've done good things.

[Elena]

That's the thing.

[Alaina]

So I feel. I do. I wonder, and I don't. I've never really looked into it too much, but I do wonder if part of reincarnation is like. Like, based on who you were in the last life.

[Elena]

That makes sense.

[Alaina]

Like, you'd get good things in the next life.

[Elena]

Yeah, that'd be sick. Yeah. It's kind of like karma. Yeah. Like, if you're, like, a person, you come back as a piece of toilet paper. Oh, my God.

[Alaina]

That'd be nice. No, even worse. It would need to be, like. It would need to be animate.

[Elena]

Yeah, that's true.

[Alaina]

What if you were really shitty? Should come back as, like, a rat.

[Elena]

Yeah.

[Alaina]

Because you are a rat.

[Elena]

Because you're a rat. Hear that?

[Alaina]

Rat.

[Elena]

But, yeah, he was really into that. Okay. So anyway, apparently, yeah, you know, super into it. And one of his greatest wishes in life, and he was very expressive about this wish, was that he wanted to come back as one of his dogs. Oh, okay.

[Alaina]

That's why people said he was eccentric

[Elena]

and he wanted to come back as that spaniel. He just, like, really wanted to. He was like, when I die, hopefully they'll be alive still. And I can just transmute right into there.

[Alaina]

Oh, my God, that's really cute.

[Elena]

Which I think is just nice.

[Alaina]

And he, like, wanted his soul to intertwine with his dog. So I take back my answer. I'd like to become Dolores. Right.

[Elena]

And that's the thing. And I feel also, I'm like, that thing. He wasn't hurting anyone being. Saying that, you know, like, so, like, just let him be like that, I hope.

[Alaina]

I think they did right.

[Elena]

Yeah, I think they did okay. He was very isolated, though. He liked being isolated. I think he just.

[Alaina]

So they were just respecting his wishes.

[Elena]

He was in his beautiful manor house in Blacken House, and he was. Was hanging out. He didn't really have a whole lot of people around the house. He also didn't have a lot of, like, staff at all.

[Alaina]

He liked dogs at one Point.

[Elena]

He had one single staff person, like just one person who helped him out. Her name was Sarah, and she lived there.

[Alaina]

All right.

[Elena]

There was questions, and there still remains questions about what that relationship exactly was because he never married.

[Alaina]

Okay.

[Elena]

Like, you never know. She was like in her 20s at the time. Like she was and, you know, seemed to be getting along. And in 1873, though, Sarah, who was only 27 at the time, she died mysteriously and very unexpectedly. Okay. Nobody knows what. How. Nobody knows what the circumstances were.

[Alaina]

She questioned his belief on reincarnation.

[Elena]

I don't know if it's foul play or what.

[Alaina]

Huh.

[Elena]

It's. It's a little shady.

[Alaina]

That is a little shady.

[Elena]

Yeah.

[Alaina]

But it was also the 1800s and people died, if you, like, looked at them.

[Elena]

That's very true. And a lot of people claimed that she died in the main bedroom. Huh. So that's interesting. And that room would later become very central to all the hauntings.

[Alaina]

Interesting.

[Elena]

So I'm like, what happened there? Murder. I would love to know what happened there. I think this is one of those situations where, like, you know how when we did the Sam and Colby investigation at SK Mansion and we were trying to solve the mystery. That would be a good one to do to solve them.

[Alaina]

Go to Scotland.

[Elena]

Go to Scotland. But three years later, in 1876, Major Stewart himself passed away.

[Alaina]

Three years later.

[Elena]

Yeah.

[Alaina]

Could it be guilt?

[Elena]

At the age of 70.

[Alaina]

Damn. He lived a long ass life.

[Elena]

Yeah, I know. For back then. And in some reports, it does say that he's buried next to Sarah. So I'm like, what's that about?

[Alaina]

Maybe she died in an accident. Maybe they were like, maybe.

[Elena]

And they were just. They were just buds. Yeah.

[Alaina]

Maybe they were homies. I really.

[Elena]

I'm trying to give benefit of the doubt.

[Alaina]

I know we're like people gonna. People. And then we're like, maybe. And it was like nice and kind.

[Elena]

I just want to believe that. Please just let me have this. Yeah. We don't have any evidence to the contrary, so. But in his will, he requested that his beloved dogs be allowed to remain at Blaken House. Okay. And he still wanted to come back as one of those dogs, but he just. Whoever moved in because it was going to pass to a family member. Okay. So in the will, he just said, please keep my dogs in the house.

[Alaina]

That's a pretty simple request.

[Elena]

It's a very simple request.

[Alaina]

Somebody.

[Elena]

Beautiful manner. Now. Trigger warning. Oh, no. Just for animal cruelty. Yeah.

[Alaina]

Meanness.

[Elena]

He did have a few siblings, but there was like a lot of like, A lot of them were just here and there, you know what I mean? He had a sister named Isabel or Isabella who became a nun at one point. She died in 1880.

[Alaina]

RIP.

[Elena]

The reason I mentioned her is that possibly comes back later. Just remember Isabella. Isabella became the nun.

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[Elena]

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[Elena]

I asked my H vac guy I

[Alaina]

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[Elena]

Find pros for all your home [e-mail]. It ended up that the estate ended up passing to his nephew, John Stewart.

[Alaina]

Okay.

[Elena]

Who apparently didn't want his uncle to get a chance to come back as one of his dogs. He was so put off by this fact that before he and his family moved into Belekin House, he either executed or had all the dogs executed.

[Alaina]

I hope that he comes back as shit.

[Elena]

Yeah, he's a monster. That's monstrous.

[Alaina]

That's horrible.

[Elena]

That's monstrous.

[Alaina]

This one. This one request. That is pretty simple. You just get to hang out with a Bunch of fucking dogs and you get killed.

[Elena]

What the fuck is wrong with you? Wow. And this was the real turning point for black in the house. I bet. So really started off that gnarly energy. Immediately, Jon Stewart's family started to be haunted. And honestly, I haunt the shit out of my opinion because of all the scary that started happening. Servants and governesses that were live, like, living in the house for them. They refused to remain in the house unless they were paired together.

[Alaina]

Wow.

[Elena]

They would not work unless they were working in twos.

[Alaina]

They said, honey, there is strength in numbers.

[Elena]

I mean, this whole family wasn't allowed to sleep because of these hauntings. Like, they were being kept up at night. Good. They would hear. These are just some of the things that they experienced. They would hear violent knocking and thumping throughout the halls. Heated arguments echoing all over the house when everyone was sleeping.

[Alaina]

Right.

[Elena]

Like full on pissing matches when, like no one was around to be arguing.

[Alaina]

Not a pissing match.

[Elena]

Sudden loud explosion sounds. Explosion with no source.

[Alaina]

You guys gotta sit with that for a second. You're sitting in your house straight chilling.

[Elena]

Yeah.

[Alaina]

And you hear an explosion and you look for the source and there is none.

[Elena]

Yeah.

[Alaina]

That's you up.

[Elena]

There was also footsteps in the, like, empty corridors. And sometimes. This is so scary. Sometimes the footsteps would start walking and then they would start running. And they would run full speed up to a door that somebody, like, was in the room. And it sounded like they. Somebody would throw themselves against the door as hard as they could.

[Alaina]

I have goosebumps. Which would be all over my back right now. That's some paranormal activity type.

[Elena]

Yeah. Yeah. No. Ew. Yeah.

[Alaina]

Oh, that's haunting.

[Elena]

Yep. One day, John's wife was alone in like the library or the study or the office, whatever it was. Alone she was. She said she smelled the overwhelming smell of wet dog. And then she said she felt multiple. Like what? Felt like dogs brush against her legs.

[Alaina]

Holy.

[Elena]

Would you know those dogs were like, hey, you know, it's one of the worst smells known to man. What dog? So they were like, smell it.

[Alaina]

They said, we rub this on your

[Elena]

legs, now you're going to smell like wet us.

[Alaina]

Oh, wet us is no.

[Elena]

A maid claimed to, like, walk into a hallway and see the upper half of a woman suspended in midair.

[Alaina]

I wonder if they did any renovations.

[Elena]

I wondered that too. Or it's just a half woman, which could be even scarier.

[Alaina]

That is scarier.

[Elena]

They would hear a moan sometimes and then it would sound like whatever moan fell to the ground. Like they hear a Moan and then like a thump.

[Alaina]

So it was not a moan of ecstasy?

[Elena]

No.

[Alaina]

Like a moment, like.

[Elena]

Like, I'm dying. Some. One of the strangest things they would see is a spectral nun.

[Alaina]

What was the lady's name? Isabella. Isabella the nun.

[Elena]

It might be Isabella.

[Alaina]

Maybe she was like, how dare you not respect his last wishes?

[Elena]

That was my brother, so be nice. Apparently, everything was becoming way too much. Obviously, that's a lot to deal with. And he had children. Yeah. I mean, so you.

[Alaina]

You had me at explosions.

[Elena]

Yeah. So eventually, John had an entire new wing built onto Bleken House and moved his entire family into that new wing.

[Alaina]

Why don't you just move house if you can afford to do that?

[Elena]

I don't know if they. I don't know if they could. Okay. At the time, I don't know what the whole shebang was, but they just kind of abandoned a lot of the original house.

[Alaina]

It feels like it's going to make things much worse.

[Elena]

Well, and one of the, like, maids who worked there or governesses ended up quitting unexpectedly and, like, fleeing. And later, it was. She reported that it was because she simply couldn't handle it. The haunting anymore.

[Alaina]

Yeah.

[Elena]

In 1895, John Stewart was in the room because they, like, abandoned the main house, but they would have to go in there sometimes for certain things. And he was in the main bedroom, and he was using the telephone. He was talking to, like, a business associate about going to London. For business. For business things. Yes. And both Pete hit the person on the phone, and John heard three huge bangs. Like knocks. Like, big knocks.

[Alaina]

Yeah.

[Elena]

And the person on the phone could hear it, too. They were like, what?

[Alaina]

You're like, hey, you need to get that.

[Elena]

Shortly after that, John went to London for this business trip, and while crossing a street near King's Cross station, he was struck by a car and killed. And a lot of people wondered if those three knocks were a warning knock or like a death omen. Like, isn't that up? Yeah. And the rumors and tales of the haunting of this house, like, were spreading all over the place. People were terrified to go near it. It became like, that place.

[Alaina]

Yeah.

[Elena]

Because after he died, they moved out of the house, of course. In 1892, a Father Hayden, who was a Jesuit priest in the area, he was invited by. I don't remember who invited him, but they said you should stay in the main house and see what you experience and try to, like, make it chill. Yeah, and make it chill, bro. Yeah, make it chill. So he did. And when he went to bed, the first night, he said he was absolutely tormented by a relentless just string of noises. He said he could hear animals in the room.

[Alaina]

Like dogs.

[Elena]

I think he heard dogs. He could hear wailing cries and moaning. He could hear whimpering of dogs. He heard knocks against the walls. He heard the person running down the hall and slamming against the.

[Alaina]

Do I think that one me?

[Elena]

That one.

[Alaina]

Most every time you say that, I get full chills.

[Elena]

Me too.

[Alaina]

Like, look at my light. Can you see my goosebumps from across

[Elena]

the room right now? It's the worst one.

[Alaina]

I hate it.

[Elena]

At dawn he was like, nope. And he got the out of there. Not long after this, a young family moved in. They were super optimistic, very unaware of what they were moving into. They only planned to rent this place for a year. Okay. So they were only going to move in for a year and they were excited to do this. And the haunting started almost immediately.

[Alaina]

It's not their fault. They didn't hurt the dogs, but nobody

[Elena]

wants them living there. They heard constant bangs, knocks and footsteps again, where it seemed like someone would throw themselves against the doors. They would encounter ice cold spots in the house and would hear groans and moans, all manner of things. They also saw a white mist, like woman walking through the halls. I wonder if she's like the half woman too do. And she would just go in and out of the bedrooms, like just kind of like maybe.

[Alaina]

I wonder if maybe she was somebody who had worked there previously. Maybe like making beds and stuff.

[Elena]

Yeah. Then one night they awoke to this huge thump in their room. And so they both like shot up in bed and the bed sheets got ripped off their bed.

[Alaina]

No.

[Elena]

Yeah.

[Alaina]

No.

[Elena]

And it was, I believe it was that. I think it was like the next night they were like, we, we gotta get out of here. But like the neck. They were trying to like, like just be like, okay, maybe this was what happened. Or this.

[Alaina]

Yeah, I mean, you do want to try to explain things away in the moment.

[Elena]

But then the next night it really took a turn because their children woke up screaming and they ran into the room they were in and they were huddled together, absolutely terrified and yelling that a man was standing silently in the corner of their room staring at them.

[Alaina]

Fuck. A whole bunch.

[Elena]

I just got the chills. You've been saying, I'm so mad at

[Alaina]

you because I shaved my legs this morning and now you've given me goosebumps eight times. Godamn it.

[Elena]

The family who was going to stay there a year and rented it for a year, lasted 11 weeks and then fled 11 weeks.

[Alaina]

I give them kudos for that.

[Elena]

They never returned.

[Alaina]

A man silently staring in the corner of your room.

[Elena]

And in 1897, obviously Blenhaus had become famous and infamous enough to attract some paranormal investigators. Yeah, duh. Even for the time, because spiritualism was definitely booming.

[Alaina]

She was popping off.

[Elena]

So the Society for Cyclical Research members and a bunch of other paranormal researchers and associates, they wanted to do this like big mass scale inquiry at the place. So they invited 35 people to come along with them.

[Alaina]

I wish that we had been invited. I know.

[Elena]

Why weren't we invited?

[Alaina]

Pre birth. Invite me.

[Elena]

No. Apparently it was all sponsored by a guy named Lord Butte who was a famous paranormal investigator of the day.

[Alaina]

Brought to you by Lord, Lord Butte. This message is sponsored by Lord.

[Elena]

And they were gonna stay there for about three months, everybody.

[Alaina]

Three months.

[Elena]

Yes, they're gonna stay there for three months. And they were going to record absolutely everything they experienced while attempting to draw out the spirits as well with Ouijas and other ways of communication.

[Alaina]

I don't know if you want to do that.

[Elena]

None were reportedly told. Told about the haunting ahead of time. Like they weren't told about like what they were going to say.

[Alaina]

You're going to a haunted location.

[Elena]

Yeah, we're just going somewhere. Goes down. Just record what you see. They were just asked. Document. That's it. So of course they got knocks and footsteps, the banging on the doors. They got size. A lot of them reported hearing size because they're.

[Alaina]

They're sick of their.

[Elena]

Yeah, that's the thing. They're all sick.

[Alaina]

What else do we have to do? Slamming ourselves against doors every night.

[Elena]

Right? They. One, a few of them documented that they heard the sound of a priest praying out loud, which I wonder if

[Alaina]

it was like mimicking the guy that I stayed there.

[Elena]

One, one guy said he woke up and saw a disembodied hand at the foot of his bed holding a crucifix. Which. Just saying that makes me shiver. I hate it because I'm just picturing this creepy ass hand coming up holding a crazy crucifix.

[Alaina]

All I can picture is Wednesday.

[Elena]

I hate it.

[Alaina]

What is, what's the hand called? Is it just called Hand?

[Elena]

Thing.

[Alaina]

Thing.

[Elena]

Just hand. That's what I pictured. One of them saw, who they described as a hunchback slowly ascending the main staircase. They saw dogs everywhere. A lot of people saw dogs. A lot of people saw black dogs.

[Alaina]

The dog should remain.

[Elena]

A lot of them would say they heard the sound of dogs tails wagging and hitting like floor like Doors, Door frames. Because you know that sound like wagging.

[Alaina]

It's like. Like a thud almost.

[Elena]

It's like like a excited dog. One woman woke to hearing a whimpering dog in her room. Oh that would. And so she immediately lit a candle. Cuz she was like what the. And she said when she lit the candle there was a clear black dog standing with its paws on the dresser just looking over at her and whimpering. And I was like I would have died. I would have been so sad. Me too.

[Alaina]

I would have been like what can I do for you Paul? Up.

[Elena]

And things got even weirder. What? Cuz again they were doing like Ouija board sessions. And during one of these like seances they were doing. Investigators were told by the spirit to go to a nearby glen. And so they were like do we listen to it? And I think some of them were

[Alaina]

like I'm not going to go to the glen. Let's go. Was divided.

[Elena]

Oh yeah. You know, some of them are like I am staying in this haunted house.

[Alaina]

You go to that.

[Elena]

Haunted.

[Alaina]

That's like a body of water, right?

[Elena]

Yeah. Like. Or like just like a. Like a valley almost. Oh okay.

[Alaina]

Like no water.

[Elena]

Cuz I'm thinking like oh Danny boy. The call from glen to glen and down the mountain side. Sorry.

[Alaina]

I used to work with a waitress who would sing that literally all the

[Elena]

time I'm looking at it. It's a narrow secluded valley, typically deep in the mountains.

[Alaina]

Okay.

[Elena]

And often containing a stream.

[Alaina]

Ah, see.

[Elena]

So there's water. But that's. Yeah, that's what I was picturing in my head was like a valley.

[Alaina]

Like a poop.

[Elena]

That song is such a badger.

[Alaina]

I gotta say.

[Elena]

It really is.

[Alaina]

Goes hard.

[Elena]

It really is. Poor Danny. Poor Danny boy. But yeah, they were like go to this nearby glen. And you know, some of them were like go yourself. And some of them were like off to the glen we go. The glen Balls. So they followed it and there according to reports they saw immediately saw a full body apparition of a nun. And this nun was just walking across the glen vibes. She looked very distressed at times. She would be crying at times like weeping. And they wonder. They tried to get her attention but if they did she would like disappear and then reappear somewhere else.

[Alaina]

What?

[Elena]

And they wondered if it could possibly be Isabella. Yeah, maybe. So this was all weird. They ran back to the house and were like that. The findings of this whole inquiry were later published in 1899 under this the title the alleged haunting of Bee House.

[Alaina]

I feel like it's More than alleged.

[Elena]

And someone later. And it's like in. I forget where it is now. It's. It is somewhere in these papers. Papers. And someone later wrote Blecken in pencil on this. On the original port report, which, because

[Alaina]

they're like, call it what it is.

[Elena]

It's not B house. It's black. And.

[Alaina]

Yeah.

[Elena]

Don't disrespect the house and that. It remains. I think. And actually, a fire might have burned it mostly to the ground. So we actually can't go. We can't go. Now that I think about it.

[Alaina]

Can we go to the remains?

[Elena]

We could go to the remains. I think I might bum me out. I know.

[Alaina]

I don't want to. Want to be around sad dogs.

[Elena]

I know sad dogs.

[Alaina]

Like, I want to be around them if I can soothe them.

[Elena]

But otherwise, nay, I want to help the sad dogs.

[Alaina]

Oh, what a sad story.

[Elena]

I know.

[Alaina]

What a horrible haunting.

[Elena]

Blanken House.

[Alaina]

Blanken. That's fun to say. Wow, girl.

[Elena]

Yeah.

[Alaina]

So there's that Blood and Hounds. Blood and black and Blood and black

[Elena]

and there it is.

[Alaina]

That's what you should name the episode.

[Elena]

Blood and Blood and Black and him.

[Alaina]

Well, I need a fun fact after all of that.

[Elena]

I, too, need a fun fact.

[Alaina]

Sorry if I sounded weird. I grazed the microphone with my shoulder.

[Elena]

She actually punched it with her full fist. You shouldn't tell them that.

[Alaina]

Let's talk about farts.

[Elena]

Let's talk about it.

[Alaina]

Sloths are very slow. They're also slow at digesting, and that is because they. Wait, no, sorry. It's not because they're just slow, but because they digest food so slowly, they have to breathe out their farts because they can't actually fart. So you know that. That Glozell song where she's like, did that. Is that your breath? Did you just fart? Is that your heart? Did you.

[Elena]

Is that your heart?

[Alaina]

Did you. Is that your breath?

[Elena]

Oh, dude.

[Alaina]

You just fought. You know that? I didn't know where that was gonna end, my girl. What? Were you just listening to that or something?

[Elena]

Like, I would just like to mention that I predicted that this was going to happen because I asked, did you see that fact? No. I remember yesterday when I was like,

[Alaina]

imagine if you farted out of your

[Elena]

mouth instead of like, did I said that to you yesterday?

[Alaina]

You did.

[Elena]

You did.

[Alaina]

I didn't even think of that.

[Elena]

I found this fact, like, I am a psychic, everyone.

[Alaina]

Wow.

[Elena]

Wow.

[Alaina]

Yeah. Sloths breathe out their farts.

[Elena]

That's hilarious.

[Alaina]

So that is their breath, and they just.

[Elena]

Damn. Sloths all right. Wow.

[Alaina]

Thanks for listening to this crazy ass show. We hope you keep listening and we

[Elena]

hope you keep it weird.

[Alaina]

But not so weird that you as a human breathe out your farts, because that would be disgusting.

[Elena]

Yeah. Bye.

[Alaina]

Bye.

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