Summon the Holiday Spirits | Elf on the Shelf, Hail Demon Santa, Haunted Toys (x211)

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very spooky I was about to start singing like my but like as I was trying to figure out which one to sing my brain like mashed a bunch of them together and so no words came out and it was just like gasping for air every single year the only thing that I can think of when I first think of Christmas songs is the Family Guy episode where it's like I have a gift for you it's up in my bum ding Faz D ding Faz ding f

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oh God what an episode I don't even know if I've seen that one I feel like I've seen so many sporadic episodes of Family Guy I've never watched it like start to finish yeah me neither same with South Park one show that I've watched probably 30 times front to back is Bob's Burgers that's how I am with the office I haven't seen the office front to back maybe I need to do that we'll switch I'll do Bob's Burgers you do the office great great okay okay bobsburgers is my comfort show and this is two girls one ghost two girls of one ghost and we are your ghostesses that's Karen with her sunglasses on ready to go take on the day I'm ready here we go you look like what's the C it yeah can you please record like that the whole episode let's see how far I get baby does it not like it looks so weird I look like a potato you do there we are

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that's Karen I'm Sabrina and this is an

Listener story: demonic soul

encounters episode and everyone happy holidays whatever it is that you celebrate whatever it is that you are doing this year during the December to January New Year's holiday we hope it is a safe and lovely relaxing couple of weeks and this is our last Encounters of 2023 we will resume with so many more ghost stories in 24 and we cannot wait to see you there yes what are you doing for holidays or rather I know what you're doing which is celebrating your niece's very first Christmas squeezing Noemi so I guess my question is what did you get Noemi for Christmas oh I'm like spoiling like she's the only one getting gifts from me as it should be once you have a child the child gets all the gifts all the gifts no I got her a bunch of things I got her some clothes the love every subscription cuz I did the love every for like the first three

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phases of life and it's like every three months they send a box and so now I did the second part of it that's a great gift a little stocking so sweet baby's first Christmas baby's first Christmas so cute and here's hoping that 2024 brings so much love and light to all of you and to us I feel it in my bones and I know next year it's going to be great I feel it in my fingers I feel it in my toes we have some holiday tales for you okay I'm going to start with one that's scary because of course I found a loophole and then I will read two more in this episode that are more I mean they're a little bit spooky but they're more okay okay I understand because I found a loophole of my own we love loopholes here MH this is from our listener whoa this is from our listener Crystal and pronounce she her they them so this was sent last year it's called your gift and tarot reading and a ghost photo from the Queen Mary and when

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demons tried taking my soul hi Sabrina and Karin I want to say I love the podcast okay no let's be real I'm obsessed with the podcast thank you we like when people are obsessed thank you for making such a warm and welcoming Community for all things spooky I even got to share some of my stories on campfire stories episode 24 there's a photo attached it's not my photo but it's fascinating one person shared a photo of the ghost on the Queen Mary and they swore that there was nothing present to the naked eye when they took the photo I don't remember whose photo it is but I wanted you to see it my scariest stories ever dot dot dot when demons tried taking my soul oh no happy holidays everyone what a beautiful start I very clearly like searched the word holidays and it came up in the story but like it's not at all about the holidays it's not about the holiday okay in our first year of living in Long Beach my husband's family

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visited us for the holidays key word mhm we lived in a studio apartment at the time and my husband's family stayed with us because hotel prices were super expensive our friendly neighbor even offered her apartment for us to use while she was away so my husband and I stayed in her apartment and my four in-laws all slept in our apartment and now I don't know why but I just have to picture it where like all four of them are sleeping in the same bed like Willy Wonka style you Charlie the Chocolate Factory yeah I really thought about that as a Halloween costume where you just like lay down in a bed and you don't ever get up that's the costume that's a good one I am celebrating just from bed just from bed during our first night sleeping in my neighbor's bed I had the most terrifying dream ever you know how visitation dreams from loved ones feel so real well this felt just like that the dream started in my own apartment and I was observing dark shadowed entities shoveling dirt in the corner of the room I was calm and intrigued but then the

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dark shadow entities uncovered a wooden casket I started to feel uneasy and nervous of what could be inside and the casket opens and the body inside sits up it was my aunt I was in shock and in awe because she was even wearing the same purple dress that she wore at her funeral I started to get emotional and I started to cry I have had several visitation dreams over the years and in my experience all visitation dreams occur within 6 months of the this person passing my aunt had passed away 10 years prior to the dream so I was like why would she be visiting me now mhm and then my aunt began to speak to me and I noticed something wasn't right her eyes were still closed while she was talking and I don't even know what she was saying because I was so focused on her mouth the way it was moving was not human her mouth was Pitch Black e she had no teeth it was kind of like moving like a squiggly blob and looked like a cartoon I knew that this was not my aunt

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this is kind of reminding me of talk to me the way that they show the spirits and talk to me oh suddenly a bright light filled the room it felt warm and comforting and I believe that this is the light that people see when they're dying and I'm confused why I'm even seeing it in the first place so I wondered am I dying but I could still see my aunt sitting up in her casket beside the light and these dark shadowed entities that were digging up the casket earlier were still surrounding her and then I realized the dark shadow entities were manipulating my aunt like a puppet they were using her to make me feel more comfortable so that they could lure me into the light and take my soul Jesus and I started to feel my soul getting pulled into the light even though the warm light felt inviting I knew I was not supposed to go there it's a trick I'm not religious so I wasn't sure if I was supposed to pray so I just kept thinking it's not my time yet it's not my time yet it's not my time yet and Bam I woke up sobbing in my neighbor's bed

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my husband comforted me but he was freaked out too because he knows that I'm spiritually gifted and knows that a lot of my things happen in my dreams so he could tell that it wasn't an ordinary dream if I had gone into the light would my husband have woken up to my dead body it's a very scary thought after waking up I felt panicked and wanted to pay a visit to the local metaphysical store in Long Beach it's kind of embarrassing but I told my husband's family about my dream and convinced them to come with me his family is spiritual except for his brother but even his brother had no idea what to say about the dream so we all arrived at the metaphysical shop and we realized it was closed for the holidays so we were super disappointed but just as we were about to leave the store owner came to the door to tell us they were closed I ended up telling her every detail of my dream and she thought about it for a few seconds sighed and then opened the door for us she hooked me up with everything I needed to cleanse myself in my apartment she's obligated to if she knows that you're in danger like she has

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the shop to help you she has to open the door again it's holiday gift it was like you can't just turn your back on someone like this especially not the holidays it's like how doctors make the vow that they always have to help people in need if you're working at a metaphysical shop I think the same thing goes for you I agree besides my dream our apartment never really felt dark or evil to me but some small things did happen there were mornings where I would lie in bed and I would feel my husband standing at the doorway of our kitchen but when I would wake up and look there was no one standing there and I would realize my husband was actually in the bathroom getting ready for work we also had a fox knickknack that sat on the Shelf next to the kitchen doorway and I would often find it turn towards the doorway no matter how many times I said it to its original position lastly my husband and I saw a smiley face drawn into condensation on the window closest to the kitchen doorway and it was drawn from inside the apartment no no although I feel like if I were a spirit I would do that i' just

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be tempted not not to freak anyone out but I would just do it and then I'd be like oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] they're going to know it was me and then I'd be like panicked that they were going to see it and be scared but I wouldn't be thinking just be like beautiful condensation draw a little thing on the out the window hopefully it was innocent like that I yes but a smiley face feels so ominous like that feels it does like I'm inside the house you're happy now it's like the smiley face Killers yeah we don't live in that apartment anymore and haven't had too many experiences in my current place I do have lots of other stories so expect more emails from me soon see you on the other side Crystal Crystal I'm sorry your aunt's

Discussion on mimics

likeness was used against you that is awful it is horrible it's my least favorite thing when it comes to the Paranormal is mimics and doppelgangers and just H like I hate that I hate the manipulation the like pull on your emotions and I feel like it

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does take so much strength to sort out what to do in that scenario because everything in you is like is this a visitation from her or is this not it doesn't feel like it is but then you know there's some guilt or something with like what if I run away from this experience and it's her trying to reach out and I'm I'm not there because I'm scared and I'm rejecting her spirit you know like there's so much that can go in your in your mind and I'm glad that Crystal was clear enough early enough to be like this is not not what is supposed to be happening this is not how it's supposed to feel this is not right I need to go no I'm not smiling like the smiley face that was drawn on my condensation window yeah it's creepy anytime that Spirits manipulate and use like someone you love to terrify you it's not cool not a fan no you know who I am a fan of

Stories of the tooth fairy

what the Tooth Fairy yeah oh okay is this your loophole this was my loophole this was not about specific holidays that happen in

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December but the Tooth Fairy I feel like is a holiday creature of its own right it's a magical little spirit it's a fairy yeah and we love fairies sometimes and we love teeth and we love teeth I did want to be an orthodontist for a really long time did you I didn't know this about you yeah and I was supposed to Shadow a periodontist I was going to do like a high school internship at a periodontist office but then my junior year of high school I took AP Bio and I fainted yeah okay that makes sense and that was my third time fainting in a science class did it stop me from taking all science classes when I was in college no but I fainted a lot so you know I knew I could not actually work on a physical human because maybe you're working your way up to that in like a next life you will have a stronger stomach but like you're priming yourself in this life by interesting

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yourself in that subject my dream of giving people braces that died that day my parents actually were the ones that told me they were like this means you can't continue on your desired course cuz you were not going to make it I was like I guess you're right your heart was just shattered but hey look at you now we're spending our days talking about ghost stories yes so it didn't even matter that I got both an undergrad and a grad degree in psychology because now I talk about ghosts for a living hey I will say ghost stories we use a lot of psychology to analiz the ghost stories and their intentions and why they're doing the things that they do so you're putting it to good use I guess a little bit I feel like we're we're drawing Upon Our empathy more than actual like hard psych evaluations but sure that's okay we never know where life will lead us we're allowed to have and live many different lives and at one point I was in the psych world now I'm not and

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now we're talking about tooth fairies yeah the Tooth Fairy has an assistant named Martin yo ghostesses with the mostes dashing off a quick note to tell you two stories that relate to recent topics that you've mentioned the tooth fairy and baby monitors the first story happened when I was 6 years old I'd lost a tooth and I was trying to sleep with that tooth under my pillow hoping that the Tooth Fairy would come in those days a quarter was all we got glad kids get more these days at one point I heard rustling and movement in my room and then the sound of a woman's voice Whispering sh come on Martin we have to go of course my eyes were screwed shut as tight as they could because I know that you are not supposed to lay eyes on things like the Tooth Fairy and Santa so I didn't see anything but I just knew that the Tooth Fairy had an assistant named Martin this is so pure and that she was telling him to hurry up before I saw them weird the Second Story took

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place years later after the birth of my first son I had a baby monitor on in his room while I was in the living room watching TV I distinctly heard an older woman's voice over the monitor saying good night sweetheart I was shocked now the across the street neighbors also had a baby so I figured I was picking up on their monitor but the voice was obviously an older woman's voice and it didn't sound like them so I called them and I asked if one had any visitors and two do they use the word sweetheart nope to both of those questions I never heard anything else random from that monitor again but 5 years later when I had my daughter she used to smile and wave excitedly at the corner of her room to An Invisible Presence so you know what I think love you Ghouls and lelay longtime listener since my son was in the eighth grade and now he's going into his senior year we used to listen together in the car on his way to school and he l loved you just as much as I do and now Avid

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YouTube Watcher stay spooky and see you well you know love Melinda Melinda did

Discussion on baby monitors

we meet Melinda because I feel like I remember someone telling us that they listened with their son from like and he's too cool for us now now he's too cool for us yeah anyway we were like this is a missed opportunity for him to induct everyone in high school to listen to us too come on get us in with the geners that's the most like cringe thing I've ever said I'm so sorry is that even jenz I think that's another generation right who's in high school right now I think it's still jenzy I mean is it yeah our generation is like the Millennials are pretty expansive what is it it's like 79 to 96 or something like that or 90 95 yeah I don't know something like that something expansive well the baby monitor thing is so creepy and I feel like growing up we never in my house when the baby monitor

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would pick up on something it was it was never just like a one-off it was like we would actually hear people's conversations and so we'd always consider it as like almost like a spy tool my mom would be like okay let's shut it off but we're like no let's hear what the neighbors are talking about in private what are they saying yeah but it does pick up on paranormal stuff it does and I feel like this is a very sweet one where it's like clearly some good Guardian is watching over yeah them and the Tooth Fairy though the Martin is sh come on Martin we have to go we have to go you know I love that it's clear that Martin was getting trained on how to be a tooth fairy because usually there's just one tooth fairy that comes but it makes sense that like there needs to be more than one tooth fairy perhaps because there's so many kids and so many teeth to collect like I remember when I was little I had a few different tooth fairies visit me because my brother and I we would write notes to the tooth fairy we would ask their name and for

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them to draw a picture of themselves and we had like two or three very distinct tooth fairies that would come and visit us that's so interesting it also makes sense I mean like Santa has helpers like it would make sense that the Tooth Fairy has helpers exactly yeah can't just be a oneman job there's too many people out there well I have a story about Santa's helpers lovely perfect transition and

Stories of elves and aliens

this is from our listener Emily and it's called I saw Santa's Helper and many aliens and ghostly visits hi go I'm Emily she they English is not my first language so I'm sorry if Punctuation is weird or if I misspell anything when I was in kindergarten around 5 or 6 years old I was living in northern Europe and Christmas was approaching I can't really remember if it was morning or afternoon but the sun was rising and it was kind of dark outside I think we were doing Christmas themed crafts and I remember there being red paper or card stock laid out on the table the teachers start

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joking that an elf or a pixie I don't really know what it's called in English was outside you know those Santa helpers with red pointy hats and small chubby figures elves elves well all of the kids were so excited and we looked outside I don't really remember if anyone else saw anything but I still remember I saw something or someone when I looked outside in the snow there was an elf walking very fast and it disappeared and never was seen again W to describe the thing to my 5-year-old six-year-old brain this is how it looked it was almost animated like CGI but I definitely saw it at first I thought one of the teachers was outside in costume trying to entertain the kids but it didn't look human it looked real like a real elf it genuinely looked like it was a 3D animated creature o even if I was five or six I still believed it to be the real thing I don't know I'm still

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hoping it was real I believe it was it reminds me of Mis minutes from Loki just like looks so clearly out of place but everyone just accepts that being as being a part of this reality this Dimension a cartoon clock I haven't seen it or like a weird 3D looking elf it reminds me of like the clation yeah Year Without a Santa Claus and those like the Rudolph movies put one foot in front of the other yep another quick story a few years back and I'm currently right now writing this email from the same place where my bed was back then I saw a light under my bed it was night time my room was dark and I had just put my phone away or I had grabbed something from my bedside table when all of a sudden I saw a bright light coming from under my bed and it was from the side where I lay my head onto the wide leg of my side table it was a greenish light and it went away after a few seconds I was so confused because at the time I felt like there

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were a few ghosts hanging out in my room so maybe I was like is it them but my gut was telling me no it was something else when I looked under my bed to see where the lights were coming from there was nothing that could have caused such a strong and bright light to appear to this day I'm confused was there a portal that was opened were little aliens invading my room I don't know yeah PS about the ghosts that I was experiencing at the time one of them I believe was my half brother who had passed before my parents got together and had four kids I was the youngest and had three older brothers my mom prior to this had a baby boy with someone when she was like 22 unfortunately the baby had died around 1 years old because he had heart problems in my gut I feel like he aged with us in the afterlife and is still hanging around my family and now is being a responsible adult in his own Dimension whenever I see yellow butterflies my instincts tell me it is him coming to greet us see you on the side Emily oh Emily I'm sorry for your loss

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but what magical signs that you get from your brother I know that's really sweet it's so sweet as for the aliens I have

Revisiting favorite stories

no idea what that was you know what story I think about all the time and I feel like we should just reread it because I would love to we should just see like a revisit some of our favorite stories which would be so hard cuz there's so many but there was that story from listener who was like in their bathroom and a little like troll gnome Fay like creature came out of the vent do you remember this vaguely I remember the one where they vacuum all of the fairies Up Wait someone recently asked us about that I had like redirected them to the episode I think it was encounters 124 I looked this up last night but yeah they were like in their bathroom and the house they grew up and it was almost like a portal to this like little troll playful thing I'm gonna have to find it I would love to see a gnome or a

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troll do you ever go like deep on YouTube and watch the like troll sightings or no because trolls really scare me to be honest they're really scary that reminds me you did a whole episode on that like troll encounter in the woods this is many years ago maybe I did it I don't remember but I do remember was it the story or was it a listener story where someone approached what they thought was just a bunch of people like dancing in a circle in a field and as I got closer they were very very short and small and they realized that they were elves and there was like one in a red dress that just turned and looked at them and started sprinting at them do you remember that one it's so funny how I mean it's not funny because we've done like six years of this podcast so it makes sense that there's so many stories that we don't really remember do I need to go back and start binge listening to our own podcast I know same it's hard I feel like I wouldn't be able to listen for the content because I feel like I'm so critical yeah me too that I'd be like

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oh there's a weird background noise there and that would distract me we should every once in a while just like pull some of the ones that we reference often and talk about and just do like a in case you missed it here's what has still stuck with us for years that we still talk about a fresh reading yeah yeah the other one that I feel like you and I both talk about a lot I don't even know if it's on the podcast or if it's just between you and I but where that woman was camping with her brother tan and tan yes tan okay we're definitely gonna do this we'll do a few episodes like this yes what do you have oh it's my

Story of the haunted santa

turn okay this is called Haunted Santa toy for your Christmas time reading pleasure if you happen to locate this email while searching for Haunted Christmas stories here is where you'll find one it's a short little email but sometimes you need those right yeah first some backstory this is one of

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those stories from the haunted house now split into three apartments that I lived in for 4 years in Everett Washington my old roommate actually sent in a story that you read for your episode on murder houses a few years back oh it is so called because a sex worker was murdered there by a tenant maybe 20 to 30 years ago or so and her body was dragged into the back alley dumpster oh oh how awful a trigger warning there's more description on how she passed she was then indecisively dragged back up to the closet of the apartment apartment number three and the guy who murdered her enlisted aid from a guy in apartment 1 to help him drag her back and forth as he tried to figure out what to do with her it's just a really horrible horrible thing it is oh gosh to be rather honest I actually loved living there despite the spooky occurrences or rather because of them I loved the extremely cheap rent and we loved scaring our friends with stories whenever they'd come over m ha but I have another story of an

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attachment and possibly a momentary possession of a sad mournful Spirit who I'm pretty sure is the spirit of that poor murdered woman but that's for another email because this is a Christmas episode yes let's lift it up a bit at least that came first you know it's not like the end of the episode yeah one time it sadly was not around Christmas when this happened me and my now ex partner were hanging out in the living room netfli fxing it up and we suddenly heard a strange low pitched mechanical sound coming from the closet by the front door we trepidatiously opened the closet to investigate this Oddity and after we dug around some dusty 10-year-old Antiquities that my old roommate's family had left behind when they moved out we Unearthed a hauntingly creepy Discovery what it was an old half paralized Santa toy trying to dance and sing to some indistin wishable Christmas tune it sang in long

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drawn out warbled notes indicative of a Dying battery scary it was feebly trying to bring its arms up and down almost like it was begging or waving for help after having been left for dead truly I wanted to put this thing out of its misery as if it wasn't the creepiest thing I had ever seen and that voice with that creepy dying robot draw you know the one yeah yeah we do from having Furbies so so we go to check if the thing has batteries just as a general toy autopsy procedure you know we unscrew the tab out where the batteries should go and immediately scream and jump into the air simultaneously as we find nothing no batteries powering this thing it was a total what the f David Blain moment holy [ __ ] my partner became very investigative at this point and he kept looking for more batteries as an effort to debunk what seemed to be impossible into my leaf or was it to my sh because I know the story would have been cooler if it started playing

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without the power source we did find two Reserve batteries hidden in a separate part of the toy okay thank God however I still think this story is rather creepy there's still a question as to why this thing turned on absolutely out of nowhere when no one physically manipulated the switch there's no way anyone bumped into it it was just chilling in the closet collecting dust like its comrades and why so creepy The Voice why because the spirit was taking the energy from the battery I'm thinking that it was dying even faster and creepier this is just one story of this historically haunted place and I have many more where that came from sadly this 120 yearold house no longer exists as it was demolished probably for good reason to be honest it was not well taken care of by the slummy landlords but as we all know this haunted land Still Remains and those new apartments that they built right on top are going to offer some spooky entertainment for the unsuspecting tenants they thank you for listening to my story you Cuties are seriously the best and I feel so calm

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and happy plugging into your podcast and zoning out thank you ladies for what you do every week sincerely Hillary well Hillary I'm very sad to hear what happened in this place I know yeah I mean definitely like knocking it down and rebuilding doesn't mean that anything's going to change like there's probably still hauntings happening there's definitely some Darkness Left Behind whether it's residual or Active Energy like it's you know very sad what happened there MH I am glad that they found the reserve batteries because I hate hate hate hate hate when toys that don't have batteries are going off like that freaks me out yeah it's still creepy when there is nothing to trigger the toy going off either like that's still that's freaky yeah that's it's like your childhood home when the toys would go off too and it was the little boy that would try to play with your brother in the middle of the night it's interesting cuz I look back on it and I like have such fond memories of that stuff because it's like I know it was the kid and MH yes like sometimes they

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were creepy but like it never really freaked me out the stuff that freaked me out was the dark energy at that house and I feel like I can separate those two from each other right like it's startling when it happens but you know that it's not meant to be creepy it's just a curiosity someone trying to play with the toys yeah they have every right to if they're a ghost kid please have fun I have another story about a creepy

The elf on the shelf story

toy kind of and just as a a warning or for anyone who's listening with your young kids maybe if you want to skip past this to prevent losing some magic this year this is from our listener Tiffany and it's called shouldn't have gotten an Elf on the Shelf hey there lovely ladies I'm still only on your 2018 episodes I'm on 61 to be exact so probably won't hear this until maybe December which would be perfect considering my story I'm about to share that would be so impressed if Tiffany you've caught up all the way to this

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that's like wild 440 episodes yeah some people have jobs though where they can just crush it all day listening to podcasts okay so back when my daughter was like six or seven I was foolish and decided to get an Elf on the Shelf I always thought those things were creepy as [ __ ] and I have four kids so I was like you know what it could be fun right now my children currently 18-year-old girls 17y old boy 11-year-old girl Mary who the story is about and 9-year-old girl okay first let me tell you that when Mary was four for some reason she was convinced that Santa would come into our house and kill all of us uh that is so scary years old how do you reverse that fear right that's an annual fear Tiffany says no we never watched Krampus or any of that scary stuff with her she also hated mascot thoughts at the time so I took this as the opportunity to tell her that the Tooth

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Fairy the Easter Bunny and Santa were not real less pressure less money from me and Dad LOL it's the same reason people say ghosts aren't real cuz sometimes it's just easier to let people not believe and to not be scared I purchased a girl elf on the shelf and my youngest at the time named this Elf on the Shelf Crystal nothing happened with her my oldest children than I enjoyed hiding her around and have the younger two find her doing crazy things Crystal the doll the Elf on the Shelf apparently told my youngest how to do the skittle rainbow trick with hot water and was once Frozen in a jar by Elsa my youngest had a toy Elsa doll and other Shenanigans great what fun right all the other toys are are bullying yes crystal crystal is supposed to cause chaos and it sounds like the other dolls are like nope no to you being here yeah bullying the

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Newbie a year later I won a boy Elf on the Shelf from a drawing on Facebook while we lived on Tinker AFB in Oklahoma so now we have two Mary is about six or seven at this time and I got tired of having to remind my kids that the magic will be lost should they keep touching the elves so I just told them that it's only lost if my kids are mean to each other so my two younger children started carrying the elves around with them all the time and started sleeping with the elves One Time Mary took the boy elf with us to a store off base because we lived on the Air Force Base and she dropped him this was like 2 weeks before Christmas and when she dropped him my son saw a lady grab the elf and run away with him what this broke my daughter's heart for 4 days I thought who the hell is this lady one morning the boy Elf was back at our house in New Clothes with cookies and a note that basically said he was sorry he ran off and wouldn't do

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it again at first I thought maybe our friends had gotten us a new one none of them did they all swore up and down that they didn't well [ __ ] you need a special ID to get on base so how how the elf did this elf get back to our house the [ __ ] well here's the creepy [ __ ] creepier than what you just said right one night Mary was sleeping with the boy Elf when she raced into my bedroom in a panic she was crying and said I don't like the elf anymore please take it away it's evil oh my gosh my husband tried to make her feel better saying it's just a dream but Mary said no it's bad I was looking at him and his eyes changed to Red upside down triangles and he gave me an angry face her little heart was beating so fast faster than jack rabbits I felt so bad for her what did I do so I calmed her down and and said it's okay we can get rid of him I went to her room and

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took that elf and walked him down the stairs with Mary following behind me I took one of those big Goldfish cracker containers and stuffed him in there I then took the stapler and stapled all the openings and stapled it shut was that enough [ __ ] no I then took the container containing the elf took it to the outside storage shed put it inside another tupperware container and latch that shut was that enough hell no I then locked the storage shed and he stayed there until trash day I told Mary he shouldn't be able to get out of there and if you want you and I can just sleep on the couch tonight so we did when trash day Came Mary and I put the container in the trash can and watched as the garbage truck dumped that evil elf in the container in the back of it and smashed it up after that no more issues I'm not really sure if it was haunted or what but no matter what I listened to my kids no matter how ridiculous it may sound or be if I wouldn't want to deal with it why would I try to make them deal with it

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you know why make them feel worse if a simple thing like the two of us locking up a creepy elf for the night can help calm her down and feel better however now listening to you guys and how you said you're not supposed to throw away those types of items I'm not sure if maybe I cursed someone else we also eventually got rid of Crystal and I let the two youngest pick out little stuffed animals instead and now we do Christmas Critters and nothing else has happened thanks for reading this is from Tiffany okay I love the Christmas Critters idea because I also think Elf on the Shelf is so creepy just like having mischievous elves elves are supposed to make you toys and be kind and be Santa's helpers but the elf on the shelf elves get into Shenanigans and sometimes they're a little too creepy and so I'm actually surprised that her kids were receptive to them in the beginning anyway especially with one of them having the fear of Santa yes because I think the elves are so much worse and this is proof the elves are those ones The Elf on the Shelf they're

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scary first of all who the heck took the elf boy Elf who wheny dropped it like that's cruel and then cuz they weren't on the base then were they no they were outside of the base which is why it's even creepier that it ended up back in their home in a new outfit and it was evil yeah yeah that's what because part of me is like okay if someone if there was like a person who knew them and recognized the kids and was like oh I'll do this and this will be like a fun Elf on the Shelf like prank or whatever I could understand that but I also can't understand actively taking it in front of the kids and running it'd be one thing if it was left behind and they didn't realize and the person grabbed it and was like I'll return it the other thing is like the elf became evil and the kids had no reason to think that it was evil their elf went missing brought them cookies and was like I'm so sorry I'm so glad that I'm back home with you that's a sweet message and then it's evil how did it suddenly become evil

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okay here's the thing I'm thinking Toy Story the very first one that story where woody gets lost this guy finds Woody and he like stitches him up he like fixes him and all the stuff he's like all shiny and sparkly but Woody wants to go back to Andy and so maybe this elf was taken off by someone who collects elves on the shelves and fixes them up and changes their outfits and has like a whole little like home for elves and this elf was like I want to go home but there was an evil elf there who was like nuh-uh I'm taking your place a little doppelganger Switcheroo doppelganger elfes on the shelves and now that Elf on the Shelf I hope the original is fine I hope I hope he's okay and he's not being locked up and terrorized by the evil elves I love the amount of effort that Tiffany put into like concealing and getting rid of this elf like I I know that's the proper amount yeah take as many precautions cuz

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if that thing makes it out like oh my God you may as well just burn your whole house down at that point get out get out that would be so creepy I want to know about Christmas Critters what do Christmas Critters do I know that seems sweet also to be fair for Mary when you hear about stranger danger like I feel like when you're forish like that's when you start to learn about like stranger danger and you know don't talk to strangers and I imagine this story of a person Santa despite the magic around Christmas and everything coming into your home while you're sleeping really would trigger your fear of stranger danger right so like I kind of get why you would have that fear that yeah right because he's a large humanized man who's coming in and can squeeze through impossible places so it's not like your security system or your locked doors or Windows are going to keep Santa from coming in he always finds a way in yeah

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he knows how to get in and he comes with a posy and he he knows what you're doing he knows when you're awake he's always

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he knows if you're good or bad he knows too much yeah okay I can understand how Santa could be a little creepy yeah although I love the guy he's still Jolly he doesn't mean to be creepy it's kind of how you and I are creepy but we don't always mean to be creepy we just like the creepy things and then have dark thoughts which make us creepy and the dark thoughts I was thinking about us on tour the other day and how people got a taste of like the unedited and unfiltered versions of our brains because there were so many so many places that we were just like whatever came to mind we just said and sometimes we do say it on the podcast and then after we're like oh was brutal edit that out but you can't edit it out when you're on stage well my favorite thing is how you just have this like very clear expression on your face when an intrusive like creepy thought comes

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into your mind and so like even if you weren't about to say it you give away the expression of saying something creepy that I have to ask you to say it because I need to know what happened in your brain probably 50% of the time I didn't say it cuz it was not appropriate for any stage but sometimes I did yeah well everyone we hope you have a very happy very not spooky Maybe ghostly if it's positive stories holiday oh it just started pouring oh beautiful also this is a great time to remind everyone that telling ghost stories is basically the OG Christmas tradition it is so so this is the best time of year to listen to Ghost Stories to gather around a fire or with some hot chocolate and just tell some spooky stories to one another so please do and if you tell stories to one another and you get news stories from your family members your loved ones your friends whoever it may be your your stranger on

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the street please email them to us cuz we want to hear them and we have a whole year ahead of us full of more ghost stories also you can support us in a variety of ways you can join us on patreon we have some awesome stuff over there and we're on it all the time talking to everyone you can also follow us on social media check out our website those things will let you engage with us more and also be in the know with everything that's coming up yes we love you all happy holidays and we will see you see you on the other side in the next year very spooky