MFM Minisode 464

Summary

My Favorite Murder Minisode 464 – December 1, 2025

Episode Overview

In Minisode 464, Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark return with a fresh batch of listener-submitted hometown stories for a classic, cozy, and cathartic episode. The minisode covers chilling true crime scares (including a real-life “the call is coming from inside the house” moment), accidental kidnappings, emotional tales of loss and survival, and a brush with the supernatural. Blending genuine empathy with their signature wit, Karen and Georgia explore tales from listeners’ childhoods and family histories—the spooky, the embarrassing, and the unexpectedly heartwarming.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Call Not Quite From Inside the House

[01:53–06:23] Story by Leigh Ann

• Summary: Leigh Ann shares a harrowing teenage experience of receiving repeated obscene phone calls while home alone, culminating in a terrifying escalation when the caller threatens to hurt her.
• The family initially believes it’s a prank by a local kid, only for Leigh Ann’s mother to later reveal (decades after the event) that the laundry room window screen had been cut, and someone had seemingly tried to break in.
• Police watched the house for a week without her knowledge; Leigh Ann was sent to her grandparents instead of being left alone.
• Karen and Georgia’s Reaction:
  • Both are stunned at how parents “pretend to be chill for your child's sake” (06:23, Georgia).
  • Karen notes the era’s casually dismissive attitudes toward “Peeping Toms” and prank calls.

Notable Quote:

“Thankfully, my gentleman caller either moved on to someone else or died a perhaps rightfully vicious and untimely death.”
— Leigh Ann [05:57, read by Karen]

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2. Placenta Donation and Healing After Tragedy

[06:55–08:44] Story by Elissa

• Summary: Elissa recounts how a recent discussion of placenta donation to train cadaver dogs struck a personal chord; she had twice suffered the disappearance and subsequent tragic loss of loved ones.
• The opportunity to donate her placenta as she nears the end of her pregnancy brings hope that she can help other families avoid similar heartbreak.
• Hosts’ Response: Georgia is deeply moved, commenting on the power of passing along even “weird information” for good (08:35).

Notable Quote:

“I have lived through that panic of searching for a missing loved one twice now, and to know that I… can soon help other families in that situation gives me greater relief and joy than I can describe.”
— Elissa [08:09, read by Georgia]

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3. Accidental Kidnappings and Trash Dad Memories

a) Framing Trash Dad for Kidnapping

[10:36–13:47] Story by Ivy

• Summary: Ivy’s “trash dad” takes toddler Ivy on an errand. A mechanical horsie ride inspires a full parking lot meltdown when the quarters run out. Ivy, not ready to stop, launches into a well-timed “Help! Help!” as her dad hauls her away, making him look like a kidnapper. Ivy repeatedly escapes the car before Dad finally wrangles her inside; it's pure 80s parenting chaos.
• Karen and Georgia’s Reaction: Both crack up at the parking lot antics and Ivy’s cleverness.
• Ivy’s dad has since passed; she shares the story in tribute.

Notable Quote:

“Apparently my dad was unaware that you can't reason with terrorists—or 2 year olds.”
— Ivy [11:45, read by Karen]

b) International “Kidnapping” in Sweden

[13:56–16:25] Story by Anna Marie

• Summary: During a girls’ weekend in Stockholm, Anna Marie’s best friend is flagged at border control due to an unresolved missing person report from 2015 (the result of a birthday bender). Swedish officers briefly detain them on suspicion of human trafficking, but after clarification, set them free to resume their vacation—with more champagne.
• Hosts’ Reaction: They highlight the absurdities of international bureaucracy and laugh about the “glass airlock booths.”

Notable Quote:

“You joke now…what if that was an international incident?”
— Karen [16:25]

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4. Embarrassment, Bad Luck, and High School Sweethearts

[18:20–21:47] Story by Jennifer

• Summary: Jennifer describes the “most epic” day in high school: tripping over her rolling book bag and knocking out her front tooth, only to encounter her crush moments later. Later that day, learns her beloved dog has died. The story comes full circle—she marries the boy she almost bowled over in the hallway.
• Hosts’ Reaction: Both are astonished at the luck and delighted at the twist that the hallway boy became Jennifer’s husband.

Notable Quote:

“Anytime I pick on him for doing something embarrassing, he isn’t shy to say, ‘at least my front tooth isn’t the one being held together with super glue.’”
— Jennifer [20:57, read by Karen]

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5. A Ghost in the Basement (and the Bravery of Dogs)

[21:47–24:44] Story by K.K.

• Summary: Four-year-old K.K., waking at night, falls down her basement stairs and is gravely injured. The newly adopted family dog’s relentless barking leads her brother to finally investigate and rescue her. K.K. tells her mother about a comforting lady in the basement, which the family believes was her recently deceased grandmother’s spirit.
• Hosts’ Reaction: Karen and Georgia unpack the logic of 80s/90s parenting and the emotional relief of a timely ghostly presence.

Notable Quote:

“‘No. The lady that was down there with me kept telling me it was going to be okay and stayed with me until someone came. She was the best.’”
— K.K., recalled by her mother [23:47, read by Georgia]

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Memorable Quotes by Hosts

• “Pretending to be chill for your child’s sake is, like, such a gift.”
  — Georgia [06:23]

• “That’s back in the time when it was like, ‘Peeping Tom’ was supposed to be funny and a prank caller was just… no one treating any of that stuff like they should.”
  — Karen [06:32]

• “You can’t reason with terrorists or 2 year olds.”
  — Karen quoting Ivy [11:45]

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Notable, Funny, and Touching Moments

• Box Wine / Black Box Wine banter ([01:53–02:36]): Karen and Georgia riff on a listener’s “quantities of black box wine” joke, accidentally connecting it to airplane black boxes.
• Karen and Georgia’s Open Nostalgia: Both reminisce about 80s/90s home alone life, prank calls, and the peculiar parenting norms of the era.
• “International Incident” Hypothetical: Karen jokes about the potential for being involved in a major diplomatic dispute (16:25).
• Rolling Book Bag Trauma: The relatable embarrassment of adolescence capped off with true-love serendipity (20:48–21:47).
• Supernatural Comfort & Animal Rescue: A memory combining “saving the day dog” with gentle ghostly reassurance (23:47).

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [01:53] — Start of listener stories: “The call is coming from inside the house”
• [06:55] — Placenta donation, true crime empathy
• [10:36] — Trash dad/accidental kidnapping in the grocery store parking lot
• [13:56] — Accused of trafficking during girls’ trip to Sweden
• [18:20] — Rolling book bag, broken tooth, and fateful high school romance
• [21:47] — Epic bad luck and a guardian ghost in the basement

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Final Thoughts

This minisode exemplifies the My Favorite Murder formula: spine-tingling near-misses, hilarious parenting flashbacks, the power of community, and soft landings in moments of grief. Karen and Georgia deftly thread together humor and heartfelt reflection, encouraging listeners to honor their stories—traumatic, silly, strange, or inspiring. As always, the rallying cry: “Stay sexy and don’t get murdered.”

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End of Summary for My Favorite Murder Minisode 464

Transcript

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Okay, this one is really quite something. The subject line is the call is coming from inside the house to the MFM crew and the hairy beasts in parentheses, canine, feline and facial. And then it says, miss you Steven, that bring you joy. And then it says, okay, the calls I'll be referring to, thankfully did not come from inside my house. But you'll understand after reading my story why I cannot watch the movie When a Stranger calls without a team of backup quantities of black box wine to drink and rest my feet on. That's so hilarious. Cause I think they just mean box wine, but then they're like referencing black box wine. Black box from a plain. So it's kind of like the really important wine.

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Oh, I get it.

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Black box wine.

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Yeah.

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Or something else. I'm not sure that's what I'm assuming. Okay, it says I grew up in a small town called Hopewell Junction in the Hudson Valley of New York. When I was in high school, my stay home mom went back to work and I would come home to an empty house for about an hour. I would usually hang out in our raised ranch's downstairs family room, watching General Hospital and talking to my friends on the phone. That's all we did after school. The only phone downstairs, oddly, was in our laundry room. You know the yellow one attached to the wall with the curly cord? Our ours was yellow too. One afternoon after school, I was expecting a call from a boy who would be my boyfriend on and off for the next year. The phone rang and I ran to get it, then of course waited a few beats before picking it up. Should this boy think I was too anxious, which of course I was. I answered hello, and I was greeted with silence. Hello? I said again, trying to sound flirty yet slightly above being bothered. No answer. Just silence. I hung up, deflated. The phone rang again before I could sit down. I picked it right up and said, slightly annoyed, hello? A man's voice, deep in monotone. This part's dirty, so if you are a mother with children in the backseat of your car, turn the radio down now, the man says. He whispers, do you wanna fuck? What? I said, thinking of nothing else to say and hoping I was hearing incorrectly. He says it again. I hung up. I was stuck to the spot, terrified. This didn't sound like a prank call from one of my schoolmates, although my parents later would say that it was Stevie from down the street, who was an asshole and a pervert, they said. I jumped up onto the wal and I sat looking out the ground level window into the backyard. I was there when my mom came home half an hour later. I was too afraid to move. This was before the days of screening and voicemail. A ringing phone could mean a best friend or a boyfriend calling. There were more calls over the next three days, always when I was home alone, asking over and over again the same dirty question until the third day, when, as I was about to hang up before he could ask yet again, he said, I think I might want to hurt you. Needless to say, I spent the next two afternoons with a friend at her house. My parents had a camping trip coming up and it was supposed to be the first time that I would be left home alone for a couple of days. I had been so excited about it, but not a fucking chance that was happening now. I was sent down the street to stay with my grandparents. And I could not have been happier for me until recently. The story ended there. No more calls. Eventually, I returned to General Hospital and phone gossip in the afternoons.

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I.

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But a few months ago, more than 30 years later, my mom and I were sharing a bottle of or three of wine and talking about how hard it was to be the mom of a teenage daughter. My mom said, I can't even tell you how scared I was when you were in high school and had that horrible collar.

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Oh, my God.

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She proceeded to tell me that when she and my dad had gotten home from their camping weekend all those years ago, my mom went downstairs to do the laundry. She found the laundry room's window screen had been cut and that it looked like someone had tried to pry the window open.

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Oh, my God.

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My parents called the police, who proceeded to watch our house, unbeknownst to me, for a week or so. My mom also took some extra vacation time off, which I now remember. We watched General Hospital together. It was nice. Oh, my God.

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My mom would have told me. Yeah, I love that she didn't tell her.

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My mom totally would have told me. And she'd be like, and so if something happens, here's the plan. Thankfully, my gentleman caller either moved on to someone else or died a perhaps rightfully vicious and untimely death. Love your voices, your views, and your vibe. Stay sexy and don't answer the phone until your mom gets home. Leigh Ann, who was it? Also, like, the parents keeping the hugest shoe drop from that story and being.

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Like, so chill about it. They even went on their vacation. Yeah, but they sent her to the grandparents. Like, pretending to be chill for your child's sake is, like, such a gift.

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Well, and also, that's back in the time when it was like, Peeping Tom was supposed to be funny and a prank caller was just. It's just some boy in your class. Like, no one treating any of that stuff like they should.

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And the fact that he only called when she was home alone means she was probably being watched, too. So it probably was a neighbor, but that doesn't mean that's not a good thing.

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No, it isn't. So scary. No.

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Oh, my God. How terrifying. Okay, this one is called thank you, re Placenta Donation. Oh, hey, team. I normally listen to your podcast in the car, but as I was listening to the latest minisode yesterday, I got home with only a few minutes left on the show, so I paused. This morning, home from work with a cold, I picked up the episode again and Georgia began talking about placenta donations to train cadaver dogs. Remember the mini set I did a few weeks back? I'm so glad I wasn't on my way to work because I immediately burst into tears in my kitchen. Almost a year to the day before I started listening to your podcast, a close friend had gone missing. Her home a clear crime scene. It took hours for the police to find her buried in the backyard. Those hours of waiting are dreadful. Your brain can't comprehend what's happening, so you feel some sense of hope that it's not real. But you're also so sick with worry that you know you couldn't be in the situation if there wasn't a chance that the worst had happened. In the end, the absolute worst had happened. My friend was killed in a violent crime that had nothing to do with her. It is terrible for this to happen to anyone, but Emily was truly filled with light. She made you want to be as good as she saw you. I have lived through that panic of searching for a missing loved one twice now, and to know that I, at 12 weeks pregnant, can soon help other families in that situation gives me greater relief and joy than I can describe. Thank you to Lauren for a message that felt timed just for me and to the MFM team for the platform on which to share it. Ssdgm Elissa Wow. I know you think you're just reading a story about a placenta and then you're actually making people cry in their kitchen.

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Well, and also like we're just passing the word totally that this is a thing you can do, a way to.

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Great.

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Let's go. This is Howdy Ho Murderinos. Your recent call for accidental kidnapping stories reminded me of the time I framed my trash dad for kidnapping. Here's the story. It's the late 80s and I'm around two years old doing my best to make my mom's life miserable. She was apparently complaining about the excellent work I was doing in this regard to my dad who had the gall to respond that I was a perfect angel. So my mom must not know how to handle me.

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Ooh.

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Knowing a trash dad statement when she heard my mom replied that my dad could take me with him and do the grocery shopping then. Genius. As my dad tells the story. The grocery shopping went fine until we went to leave and I noticed one of those old fashioned little rides that they used to have in front of stores and insisted daddy, daddy, I wanna ride the horsie. Since I'd been so good, my dad figured why not and put in a quarter. I ecstatically rode that little mechanical horse until the time ran out. They are pretty amazing. Yeah, those old ones really are. Kind of like as a little kid.

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My God.

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It's a good action. But then the horse is so. Yeah, it's like kept getting a single merry go round horse or the one.

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That would just go in a circle with a little C. Oh my God. It was like the. It felt like you were on the top of the fucking world.

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Yeah, as a little baby. Okay. My dad complied with my demands a couple of times until he was out of quarters. And patience. He tried to calmly explain to me that it was time to go. My trash dad apparently was unaware that you can't reason with terrorists or 2 year olds. I refused to get off the mechanical horse, crying about making the ride go again until my dad finally grabbed me and threw me over his shoulder. I took this as my cue to start screaming, help. Help. Oh my God. And reaching out in desperation to anyone and everyone in that grocery store parking lot. Realizing how this must look, my dad hurried towards his truck before anyone could call the police.

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No.

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Which is also what a real kidnapper would do. So not helping yourself. Look less sus there, dad. Unfortunately, these were the days before power locks or seat belts were standard, let alone car seats. And I was clever enough to know how to pull up the lock and on the car door and escape out the side before could get in behind the wheel.

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Oh my God.

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I don't know how long this Scooby Doo skit of chasing me around the car went on, but eventually he managed to keep me in long enough to get us on the road before any sirens pulled up. So this is a two year old with no car seat? Yeah, just get in and like stand on the seat like you did on the ride here.

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And then unlocking it and running into a busy parking lot. Cause it's so funny and fun and I'm mad. Oh my God.

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I had to have parking lot danger explained to me so many times as a kid. Cause I would just suddenly get an idea and be like, now I need to be back at the car really fast. Needless to say, by the time we got home, my dad was too trash dad to admit he was wrong. But he did swear to my mom that he was never taking me to the store again. Oh, my dad Jeff passed away three years ago. And while he was definitely a trash dad, although I think in this story I was more of a trash kid, I still miss him every day. Sharing the stories he liked to tell. Like, this one helps keep him close. I hope you enjoyed it. Stay sexy and believe your wife when she your kid is a pain in the ass. Ivy. Oh, Ivy, Ivy, you had a real good dad.

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I love him. I've been like, oh, really?

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Yeah.

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Then how about why don't you take.

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Her and enjoy yourself? See how that goes.

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Yeah, well, I had a kidnapper one as well.

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Okay.

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Okay. A few weeks ago, you asked for kidnapping Stories. So here's mine. In spring 2017, my best friend and I planned a girls weekend in Stockholm.

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Sweden.

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Sweden. In true celebratory spirit, we ordered champagne on a two and a half hour flight, and we were happily tipsy by the time we landed. In hysterics, we made our way to immigration, desperately trying to compose ourselves. I handed over my passport and stepped into one of those glass airlock booths. Basically just a mini jail that opens only when you're cleared. You know what I'm talking about. My door opened, I was free. My friend stepped in next. And that's when the immigration officer started frowning. Glancing from her to the computer, then back again, I joked, uh oh, they don't want you in the country. You're in trouble. Don't go through immigration drunk.

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No jokes. If you're gonna be drunk. No jokes.

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No jokes.

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No, you're not funny. No, nothing is funny. No, they're not gonna be funny with you.

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Then the officer picked up the phone. Within seconds, armed police surrounded us. We were escorted to a small room and seated across from two uniformed officers. Still half laughing, we nervously cracked jokes, trying to figure out what we could possibly have done. That's when they said it. They believed I had kidnapped my best friend and was trapping her out of the uk. Cue stunned silence. I stammered, what? No, we have return tickets. Because apparently traffickers always buy round trips. Then came the twist. The officer explained that my friend had triggered an Interpol alert. She'd been reported missing in 2015. And then it clicked back. In July 2015, her birthday. She'd gone out celebrating with an old friend, partied for two straight days and completely lost track of time.

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Birthday, was it?

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Yeah. Meanwhile, our group was frantically calling everyone we knew, and by Sunday morning, we reported her missing to the police. When she finally came home, thinking it was still Saturday, she was shocked by the panic she'd caused. The police closed the case, or so we thought. Apparently, someone forgot to tell Interpol. After a few phone calls and some awkward laughter, they confirmed everything. I was not a kidnapper, my friend was not a trafficking victim. And we were finally released, escorted back by some very handsome Swedish officers who found the whole thing just as funny as we did. Oh, we did what any sane woman would do. After being detained for fake kidnapping, we went straight for more champagne and carried on with our girls weekend. Stay safe and don't let your best friend sell you into the human trafficking market. Goodbye, Anna Marie.

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Annamarie. You joke now.

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Yeah.

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What if that was an international incident? Also, I love the way they lock in the person that's kidnapped and the kidnapper is just over there hanging out. No one puts that together.

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No, no, no. Yeah. Like both of you, get over here.

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Whoa.

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However, it was in a small town in rural North Carolina, so it wasn't as bad as it sounds. Basically, it was just a building with tiny barred windows and cinder block walls everywhere you looked. Well, one day on my way to class, I was cutting up with my best friend Abena, per usual and running late. We were turning a corner in the empty hallway when I made a particularly funny joke. As I turned to make sure that she was indeed laughing, I tripped over my nerdtastic rolling book bag and walked face first into the cinder block wall. No problem, I thought. You trip all the time. Everything's fine. That is, until I backed away from the wall, spit one of my front teeth into the palm of my hand. That's right, I had walked into the cinder block wall with my mouth open and chipped off over half my front tooth. Panic set in. The world was spinning. I had only had my braces off for a few months now, and I was going to go around looking like a hillbilly for the rest of my life. I was 14 and my life as I knew it was already over. As I re situated the offending rolling book bag, I took off a mad dash that would hopefully keep me from seeing any of my fellow classmates who would want to stop and chat. Unfortunately, my luck that day was bad and getting worse. I turned the corner in a hurry and ran smack dab into the boy that I had the biggest crush on, nearly toppling us both. I awkwardly tucked my upper lip over my teeth to hide my new gap, grunted sorry without making eye contact, and proceeded to run like the wind. After giving my principal a heart attack, she called my mom and I was eventually whisked away to the dent. In between sobs, informing my mom that I would never be able to smile again, I remembered to ask about our 15 year old dog, Nick that had been sick and at the vet. I had not quite used up enough bad luck that day because that's when she handed me his collar out of her purse and told me that he had passed away. No, needless to say, I was a wreck. At the dentist's office, I couldn't enjoy all the attention I was getting as every employee had to stop by my room to see the girl who had knocked her tooth out simply by walking into a wall. Miraculously, the break in my tooth was that my dentist was able to glue my front tooth fragment back on.

[B]

Jesus.

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And it is still holding on to this day. Oh, and the boy that I nearly mowed down in the school hallway, he is now my husband.

[B]

Oh my God.

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And anytime I pick on him for doing something embarrassing, he isn't shy. To say, at least my front tooth isn't one being held together with super glue. Cheers to you fabulous ladies and all the ways you've brought joy to my life and countless others. I can honestly say that I wouldn't be the person I am today without y'. All. Stay sexy and don't use a rolling boat. Jennifer. And then it says, P.S. i could never use a rolling book bag again. And then here's a picture of her as a 14 year old with a broken tooth.

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Oh, oh, she's a little baby. She looks pretty stoked. Or she's on good dentist drugs.

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Yeah, I wonder what's going on. She's like, haha. It's kind of funny for a second. The idea that it's her future husband though is the cutest, cutest.

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And I wonder if her like running into him and blowing him off, like made him go like, oh, oh, who's that? She didn't talk to me.

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Why isn't she being nice to me? I must know more about her, right?

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Okay, this one is my last one. I'm not gonna read you the subject. Hello everyone. When I was about four years old, my mom worked overnights and so I would sleep in her bed which was on the first floor, while all my older siblings would sleep upstairs. My mom's room had two doors where one led into the living room while the other was a door that opened up to the basement. I was half asleep one night and had to use the bathroom and my four year old self used the wrong door and fell down a full flight of cement basement stairs and hit the wall at the bottom. Like these days I feel like they would have childproofed that door like when.

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They were pregnant entirely.

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I don't remember what happened next, but when I woke up I was in the hospital and my mom filled me in. She said my brother's dog, who conveniently enough we just adopted two days before, must have heard me crying in the basement and would not stop bark until my brother became so annoyed and was gonna put her outside and when he came downstairs he heard me crying and found me down there almost bleeding to death. And they took me to the hospital. It took an hour for the brother to get out of bed to stop the dog barking. That's such a brother thing.

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Constant barking. But the parents didn't get out of bed?

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No, they weren't there. They were working overnight.

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Oh, sorry. I wasn't paying attention.

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I had lost a lot of blood and suffered a bad concussion.

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Holy shit.

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My mom said she thought I was weirdly calm and didn't seem very shooken up by and so she asked, were you scared being down there in the basement. Remember, she's four years old. And though I remember nothing, my mom swore I replied with quote, no. The lady that was down there with me kept telling me it was going to be okay and stayed with me until someone came. She was the best. What? My mom couldn't believe it, and she said she grilled me about it more later, and I slowly started forgetting more details about the lady and everything that happened. But my grandma had just passed away not even a year before that, and my mom truly believes it was her that helped calm me down during that time.

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A little baby in the basement, dying.

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Dying. Mm. I just thank God that we got that dog a few days before because otherwise the doctor said I would have bled out after a bit longer. And even though I suffered a head injury, I promise I'm not a murderer and will continue to ssdgm. Thank you, ladies. You make my workday fly by. K K. That ghost was, like, keeping her awake, too. Which is what you do when you have a concussion, right?

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That's right. You can't go to sleep.

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So she's just like, everything's gonna be okay. Stay calm.

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Stay calm. We'll just have this dog bark for 50 more minutes till your goddamn brother gets out of bed.

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Don't panic, because then your blood will fucking pump out faster. Like this ghost, this grandma ghost.

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Grandma ghost. But it was like, a lady, so she didn't know the grandma.

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Yeah, but I also bet, like, the mom just needed to feel better about it being just some random old.

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Yeah, exactly. No stranger ghosts, just whoever used to. Somebody used to live in that basement. She was like, I'm a renter, but I'm gonna make you feel better.

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Send us your ghost stories, your placement stories, your baseballing downstairs stories.

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You're being a little kid, and your brother puts your life in danger because he's lazy and a teenage boy.

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Dude. My favorite murder at Gmail. And thank you guys for listening.

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Stay sexy and don't get murdered.

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Goodbye, Elvis. Do you want a cookie?

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This has been an exactly right production.

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Our senior producer is Molly Smith and our associate producer is Tessa Hughes.

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Our editor is Aristotle Acevedo.

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This episode was mixed by Liana Squillace.

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