Hello, and welcome back to He'll Billy Horror Stories.

Now I know what you're all about to say, Tim, you missed another episode and you will be correct.

But Tim, this is becoming a habit, and once again you would be correct.

But as always, I'll be making this up to you all, which we will discuss here in just a few moments.

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Now I had this idea and let me know what you think.

Jerry and I started up a little audio drama podcast called Hillbilly Horrorhouse.

Perhaps you've heard of it.

We must have started that four five years ago, and since it grew up to be its own podcast.

Triple A's media was born.

Over the years, it grew and we put out many stories since Hillvily Horror House.

We put out three seasons of Hibbly Horror House.

We had a space adventure called and Beyond, and we cannot forget our currently running solo a Zombie Apocalypse, which is now on its third season.

So I had an idea, since Jerry helps start all of this, I wanted to start rerunning Hillvily Horror House from the beginning right here, one episode a week separate from the Hibily Horror Stories.

So you would get an episode of Hibbily Horror Stories and a separate episode of Hibbily Horror House once a week or so.

What do you think We'll start with season one and see where it goes from there, and we'll start that this week, So look for episode one of Hibby Whorehouse in your feed.

Now keep in mind this was our very very early stages.

None of us knew what we were doing.

I most certainly did not.

I had never edited a thing in my life, and I was learning as I went.

I had to teach myself, but it did gradually get better.

So keep that in mind as you listen and please please be gentle with us.

We were new, weren't we?

Natasha and John if you'll get to know those names.

Now onto this week's episode, Jerry and Tracy talk about the Curse of Body and Australia's most hunted house, de Monte Crystal Homestead, and an interview with Katie Stewart.

And remember you are your worst enemy.

You will tear yourself down faster than anybody else, but you are also your biggest supporter.

You will build yourself up.

You can do anything that you put your mind to.

Keep that in mind and enjoy the show.

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Welcome to your Billy Horror stories and your Jerry, Tracy, Pauline Edgar told Menja.

Good eight Hayden ready here from Brousse Valley South, Australia.

In Australia, you're listening to Hillbilly Horror Stories.

Have a great day and I don't get too scared.

How's it going.

This is Stana and Caitlin from Melbourne, Australia and you're listening to Hillbilly Horror Stories.

Hey, welcome to episode forty seven and Hillbilly Horror Stories.

My name is Jerry.

Hey guys, how y'all doing?

That?

Would be Tracy.

I figured they might know that by now to the show, know that.

Oh hey, I'm Tracy, Nice to meet you.

What we're going to do tonight is something a little bit different.

And by that I mean not different at all.

What the heck does that mean?

I'm just kidding, But we got is you noticed the intro was a little bit different because we had two intros.

I know that was really cool.

Both are from Australia and we're doing that for two reasons.

First and foremost, we would have just used the first one, Hayden.

I thank you for that, Hayden, for our Australian story that we're doing second of all tonight.

But I had some help on that story by a longtime listener Dania Lee Leeson, So I thought it would be cool to play her intro that we played.

I think it was the first or second one we did back when we first started doing those intros a few months back.

I thought it'd be cool to just do both of them if they're both Australian.

Why she helped and through a little inexcess in the middle.

Oh yeah.

We finished up with some kid rock Cowboy, which is because we're going to do the first story tonight is the Legend of Body, which is actually a cursed ghost town nice, so I thought that would kind of fit in there.

You don't like some good kid rock anyway?

That's right for everybody in the US, Happy fourth of July.

Happy fourth of July, yo, And for.

Everybody outside of the US, Happy Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

Whenever you're listening to this.

We don't know when your all holidays are.

Well, we know you don't celebrate the fourth.

So oh yeah, that's dumb.

Oh wow, that's funny.

I don't even think about that.

We're gonna do the shout outs in between the two stories in between ers yep, and we have these are actually longer stories.

This could end up when it's all said and done being our longest show night, so a lot of people will be happy about that.

With a holiday coming up, you'll get plenty of time to listen.

So don't Bitchcripe and complain that we're not doing enough longer shows, because this one's gonna be pretty long.

I don't know what he's talking about.

Also wanted to point out that we did put out the Patreon episode, so that's out there if you're just listening for some reason you missed it on the special feed or on the Patreon page for the listener's episode.

Really cool stories on there.

So that was fun.

I'm really full, Okay, I just felt like saying that.

And I really didn't eat a lot today.

I kind of think it did.

I did not.

I had a piece of cake and a burger, that's all they had.

Oh wait, I had breakfast Frito.

You get a breakfast Britta.

You had a piece of cake, You had a burger, You had a whole bag of cotton candy, which, by the way, you shouldn't have had.

Oh don't tell on me, I'm telling on you.

Let me explain to you what happened.

Guys.

We went to my grandson's birthday party.

Our grandson's birthday party.

But it was a chucky cheese And at the end of it, they brought out all these little bags of cotton candy to distribute to the children.

Mind you, I said, the children.

I'm a children.

They set them on the table.

Well, because they didn't get snatched up quick enough, Tracy just decided to take one to start eating it.

And then when my soon to be daughter in law comes around and says, hey, did Logan get his cotton candy, Tracy hides it under the table in her lap and says, yes, he came and got it, which he did not come and get So, just so you know what kind of person you're dealing with on the other end of this microphone, she will still cotton candy from a little uh child.

Well, you threw me under the bus, so it all evened out, and and I got his bag of cotton candy back.

Yeah, we did get to coton cotton candy back and get another bag.

I can't help it, he's slow, All right, let's.

Jump into this.

I don't know how many people have actually heard the Curse of Body.

I know a lot of people have, but I think there's probably just as many people, if not more than have heard about it, and I think that's what really makes this a cool story.

And the second story we're going to do is the Monte Cristo Homestead, which is actually the most haunted house in all of Australia.

So we've got two good ones for you tonight.

Both of these should have been stories on their own, but I felt like the last couple of weeks maybe the show was just a little bit shorter than I wanted them to be, so I thought we'd make it up for you this week.

So hopefully that'll be sufficient for you guys.

If not, what do you want from me?

All right, well let's jump into this.

They want you not to throw me under the bus about the cotton candy.

I threw you under the bus and then I backed over you.

You did you run on me like three towns?

I threw the bus driver oute and jump behind it even though I don't know how to ride and drive a.

Stick that well, well you shouldn't have said that on the air.

It's just it is what it is.

This is an open forum.

Okay, go ahead with your story.

I won't interrupt no more so body is actually the largest unrestored ghost town in America.

What does that mean?

That means they want to leave it like it is pretty much.

So it means it's been maintained.

Now they put in like new windows, but they haven't touched the wood or the exteriors.

It's just been whatever it takes to keep it from falling down.

So that's what this is now.

It's in the Body Hills, east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, seventy five miles from Lake Tahoe.

Almost people know where Lake Tahoe is or they've heard of Lake Tahoe.

I'd like to go there one day.

Man.

That's fantastic.

And it was designated as a National Historic Landmark in nineteen sixty one.

In nineteen sixty two it became Body State Historic Park, and at that point in time there was about one hundred and seventy buildings remaining.

These are still upstanding.

You know, that's incredible.

Well, it's gonna be really incredible when we get a little later in the story, we'll talk about some other parts of it.

That's amazing.

Why it is actually is still standing now California official State Gold Rush ghost Town.

How about that that was pretty good.

Actually, it's the California official state gold Rush gold Town Good Jobs.

I don't know how many of those there were, but weether had to be playing because that's where most yeah, rush was In eighteen seventy nine, it had a population of five to seven thousand people and had over two thousand buildings.

So that's that's a lot of building.

Yeah.

So when you consider there's only one hundred and seventy left in nineteen sixty two, there's a lot of buildings no longer there.

Some say that in eighteen eighty it was either the second or the third largest city in California, and that goes a lot to say because, like I said, at one time, there was absolutely nothing there till the gold rush had and that's how big or how quickly grew, but only lasted a couple of years, and then the gold rush kind of went away, and so did everybody lived in the town.

There's about two hundred thousand visitors yearly to come by.

And what most people don't realize that it's just a little more of a fun fact I thought out there.

Winner is the body has a cemetery right on the outskirts town and a nearby mortuary was the only building that the town had that was actually made of brick, no kidding.

It was made of red brick and it was three layers thick.

And the cemetery included a miners union section, you know, not miners like under eighteen years old, no.

But like miners really miners.

What I was nice though, you said, miss why you got to judge me.

There's a museum on Main Street that used to be the miners Union Hall, and they would hold back in the day, they would hold dances and plays and anything of the concerts stuff like that.

There was approximately one hundred and ten buildings left today, so they've lost sixty buildings since nineteen sixty one when they made it up an official right, you know whatever.

Many of the buildings that are left now have the original interiors, so that's like whatever was left in it when people went away, it's still all there.

Oh wow.

Yeah, so it's pretty cool.

Like I said, they're maintenanced.

They put in some new windows and stuff like that, but everything else is pretty much the same as what it was now.

The California State Parks Ranger station is also in one of the original homes on Green Street, so yeah, that's for the whole for the ho state.

In two thousand and nine, twenty ten, it was actually scheduled to be closed down by California, but the state legislature worked out some kind of a budget and was able to keep it going.

And now it's got its own little foundation that helps keep it going.

Oh that's awesome.

Yep.

Now, if you come to visit Body, here's the deal.

Be careful, don't take anything back with you.

This is where the curse comes in.

Oh, the Curse of Body says, if you take something that's not yours, you're going to be in for a lot of bad luck.

Now, several people a year mail back stuff that they actually took from Boding.

Oh, because bad things started happening.

Bad things started happening, and they send letters of apologies, so much so that the park has assigned Terry Geisinger to handle all of these claims.

And she said that she's actually got a book like a binder with these letters that people send and it's about four inches thick.

Oh, man, I would love to look at that.

People have sent small things back, such as square nails, which are kind of like if you don't know what a square nail is it's kind of like the nails that you would see on for railroads.

Oh and then the small ones, yeah, the big thick ones, well those are spikes, but they make you'll see them in the rayal ties.

But it's also to put it in biblical terms, like you see the nails that they crucified Jesus with.

Those are actually technically square nails I don't like, so they don't have the round heads on them.

That's got the You know, Now people send these things back, like I said, and they'll send pieces of glass.

There's a lot of colored glass there from old bottles and stuff like that from back in the eighteen hundreds of people will take these things even if they're busted, and now they started sending them back.

The one that she said stands out the most was a man who's trying to send back a piano.

What how you just gonna take a piano?

Well, she said, he was very emotional about it.

He said that years earlier.

We're talking about before it was in the state park, so we're talking over thirty years ago.

This guy and his brother, his their mom really loved to play the piano.

They didn't have the money to buy her a piano.

Well, they knew there was one up in Bodie just sitting in a place that it was nobody was using it, so they came down and took the piano.

Okay, that's dumb.

That's still not right.

Bro, I didn't say it was right.

That's what happened.

And starting the moment that they took the piano, I shouldn't say, Pianne.

Then were talking like me.

He took.

From the moment that they took the piano, they started having all these misfortunes and stuff.

They they had numerous car wrecks and the family, they had death, they had divorces.

They just so So what you're saying though, even though they are the one that took it, it affected everybody around them, is what you're saying.

Family, Oh dang.

And the last straw was the man who took it.

His daughter was just diagnosed with leukemia.

Oh, and he just basically called him and looked said, you know, I'm going to have this thing shipped back there.

And you know they told him that if you don't accept it, I'll leave it in the parking lot.

Yeah, because I'm not going to have it anymore.

And that's what he did.

About two weeks later it showed up and they accepted it back.

Oh my god, this is a really old piano.

Now, four or five things a month come back, is what they said.

The equivalent is God, a bunch of thieves up in there.

Even people that just don't believe in curses send stuff back just in case.

So they just don't like the Yeah, well they just want to take the don't want to take the chance, and they'll start having some little things happen and they're like, well, I don't really.

Believe it, but so did things start happen immediately after they took it.

Or not in some cases yet?

Oh really Yeah, we'll get into some of those.

Like one lady said, if she visited on August fifth and on August seventh, eighth, and ninth, she had an extreme sinus infection.

She had to get a dem roll shot.

August fourteenth, her son dropped the bowl on her foot, which broke and then cut her foot open.

She had to go back in emergency room over that.

August fifteenth, her daughter got stung on the foot by a red aunt.

She had to go to the emergency room over that, and then she decided that there was some glass that they had taken, so she returned that back.

Oh did she take it or did did she herself take it or a family member take it?

No, she took it.

She took it as part of it, So I mean it was But like, for example, this is kind of ties into what you're saying.

A lady named Chrissa Gardner, her husband, and three kids went to Bodie right, and she says, I don't believe in curses, but I told every one of them, don't touch a thing, don't bring a thing back.

And you know, from her three kids and her husband, she made well aware you're not to bring anything.

And before they left, she even made the kids, you know, empty their pockets out and check everything, just to make sure that there wasn't in there.

And so they get home and then I'm thinking nothing about it.

Right before they leave, she tweaks her back a little bit, so she's like, okay, we'll go ahead and go.

My back's a little sore.

It kept getting worse to so much to the point where she ended up going to the emergency room to get a shot, a pain shot, and they decide that she to make an appointment to her her doctor to get a checked out, and it turns out that she had a disc that was out of rotation.

So the doctor gave her basically two valume and said, I want you to be really relaxed because we're gonna do a procedure the next day, but I need you to be really relaxed.

Well, she took the valume and she tossed and turned all night long.

She woke up and you know, she was in worst case.

That didn't help her.

It was way worse and she was in worse pain.

Her husband drove he to the er, and she actually was one in two thousand people that had an opposite reaction to value.

Oh my god, are you kidding?

So she actually recovered in the long run.

Your backs on the men's now.

But during that time, her son accidentally stabbed himself with his brother's allergy shot went straight through his hand.

Oh geez, she said, take him to the hospital.

Luckily, you know, didn't have any yeah, nothing, nothing.

Actually the medicine wasn't actually injected.

Oh that's good, and to worry about that.

And then.

She gets home from from that of yard trip and the husband actually tells her that he had taken.

Some colored glass from there, that dirty dog.

Yeah, and that night the daughter fell out of a tree.

Oh no, you kidding.

So there's three trips to the er in ten days.

Oh wow, she got you know.

She she didn't want to take any chances, and she sent it back to him as soon as she could.

Right next day she sent stuff back.

Well, her husband needed a beatn and eating.

Fess up.

It's like I said, some people are so afraid of taking something back with them that they will they'll take their shoes off.

Well yeah, going to say, what if you have some kind of dirt in your shoe?

Does that even matter?

I mean, I guess it probably does.

I know a lot of people are just afraid to take chances.

So yeah, they'll they'll dust their shoes off and all that.

So, I mean, I would think that they just got to be careful in that situation, because you definitely don't want to take something home with you back they end up with a bunch of bad luck.

Yeah, I don't think i'd want to, but I sure we'd love to go see that place.

So I'm thinking that the University of Louisville basketball coaching staff maybe went there and brought a whole bunch of stuff.

They probably took, like, they probably brought several buildings back and all kinds of glass.

Yeah, they're having a little bit of bad luck, that's.

For sure, a little stretch over the past two three months.

Yeah, anyway, enough about them.

I don't want to run the show.

I'm sure now people are saying, well, what's the deal with the curse?

How did this happen?

And tune in next week, And I'm just laying now here's the story in a nutshell.

That's me in a nutshell.

Sorry.

Body was named after william S.

Body.

He came to California eighteen forty nine.

He obviously was all part of the gold rush, you know, fever.

You know, he was, you know, wanting to come there, the whole thought of discovering gold and having a better life and becoming rich and and you know, this is about the time when California, especially San Francisco area was really booming with the gold rush.

Thus the San Francisco forty nine ers.

In case people who.

Didn't realize that that's true, you get out of here.

That's why, that's why the forty nine ers are called the forty nine ers.

Oh my gosh, I don't know that the.

Gold rush really took off in eighteen forty nine.

Dang, it's just we're just a cornucopia of knowledge.

I seriously, I had no clue about that.

So what he decided to do is obviously he was on you know, over where everybody else was, and he spent basically nine years, oh gosh, looking for gold, looking for gold, and not having any love whatsoever.

And he decided, you know what, it's kind of tapped out over here, So I think what I'll do is I'll go to the eastern side, to the the Sierra Mountains.

And that was a problem.

He just didn't realize it was a problem, but it was a problem.

And the problem is because the weather there is basically unforgiving.

It's not like the Pacific.

The Pacific Ocean brings a lot of bad weather through that part with it being up in the mountains.

So what you have is a combination of harsh winters and I'm talking twenty to thirty below zero really and wind shills fifty to sixty below zero.

Those of you that use celsius, that is a code as hell.

Oh yeah, that's like the ball's freezing off.

Yeah, it's it's it's as cold as you can imagine, man, And you know, so you got that.

Then in summers it gets in the nineties, but the heat in decks it could be like one hundred and fifteen degrees.

Isn't that the craziest weather ever?

Yeah, they say that there's only about really about thirty to sixty days out of the year where they have normal weather.

Oh gosh, there's not very many.

How do you know how to prepare for that?

You don't.

That's the whole point.

And this this weather can change in an instant and that's really going to play a big part in our story because, like I said, they didn't realize it.

But you know, he gets over there and he teams up with a guy named Es Taylor.

Es Taylor was actually something like half Cherokee Indian, which in the eighteen fifties that really wasn't a good thing to be, not being Cherokee, but being a minor that was part Indian because the Indians, I'm sorry, Native Americans, that'd be politically correct.

We'll get a review on that.

The Native Americans didn't like the fact that the miners were there.

Because the miners didn't cherish to land.

They're just digging through whatever.

They didn't care what happened to land.

Oh that's not good.

Well, obviously the Native Americans they cared before, of course, So to see someone that was a miner but was awesome also Native American, that was an issue for a lot of them.

Oh so that'll come to play a little bit later too.

I haven't said the funny thing about that yet.

No, I mean, I just remember I got pointed out that I always say, Well, the funny thing about that is, I haven't said that the host show.

That's good for you, Yeah, but I want I need to work that in.

Okay, it's kind of like my calling card.

And so he meets up with this guy, right, and this guy's an experienced miner, and he didn't really I guess he didn't really know body.

But it's kind of like they just instantly became friends and started helping each other.

So these two are over here all by themselves on this side of the mountain.

There's nobody over here looking, and you know, it's it's hot, it's muggy, it's so humid, and you're higher up in the altitude here, and so you're closer to the sun, the weather's center.

You're closer to the sun.

There's no trees or anything, so it's like as hot as it could possibly be, you know, so you had to constantly stay highydrated.

And what the problem was is they found gold in the stream.

That part wasn't a problem, but when they found it, they got greedy.

Well, and that the way well, sure, so.

It's enough gold where they can actually stick a clan.

They planned on working all summer long and then lead before winter hit.

But as we discussed, the weather changes instantly, and this is where their problem started running into.

They wanted to go another couple of weeks and get a little more out of it, so they went to town to get some supplies.

It was about fifteen miles away to the closest town.

It's about a two days hike.

And they started out coming back a beautiful day, beautiful, and just in a blink of an eye, it changed to a winter blizzard.

Oh my god, you're serious, white out conditions.

The wind blowing so strong that you couldn't see, it was so cold.

You were having trouble with even being able to fill your extremities.

How does that even happen like that.

It's just craziness.

Oh my gosh, I don't wouldn't want to live in a place like that.

So the vision was so bad that they actually got lost, and they say that they wandered around for days.

Well, at this point in time, Body became exhausted and he apparently wasn't in the greatest of shape anyway, and you know, Taylor tried to carry him for a little bit, and eventually Taylor just said, look, I can't do this or we're both going to die, and let me go find the cabin because they've been looking for their cabin.

Let me go find our cabin.

Let me get some rest, and I'll come back for you.

So he actually lays body down in the snow, covers him up in a blanket, and says, I'll be back.

This was like the fall, This was like October.

He gets back to the cabin and he realizes he can't go back out, no way he can go back out, and he just leaves body there to freeze to death.

Oh what a liar.

Well, I mean, it was just but I understand that in a way.

But that's that's so sad.

So now we fast forward to May Oh my gosh, it snowed basically all that time.

Oh wow, so you had to you had to go to all the way to May before stuff started thrown out.

Yeah.

Go, And that's basically when he was able to find body's body.

I can't believe he even found his body.

How did he even I mean, if he was so lost, how could he even find his body?

Well, here's the here's the here's the funny thing.

He said that he was only like three quarters of a mile from the cabin.

No, all that time they were walking in all stuff, and they were only three quarters of a mile from the cab.

All that sucks.

So that ties in though most people I think that his story sounded fishy, because you mean to tell me that this guy left, he found that, he found the cabin, and then he realizes that they're only like three quarters of a mile and he didn't go back and grab him.

So, oh you but you don't.

So you think he didn't realize or he did realize it and just didn't want to because he wanted because he wanted to keep all that firm out.

Exactly what most people think that he wanted to keep all the gold for himself, so Taylor.

He continued to mind the claim himself, but he kept a low profile because he didn't want anybody to know.

You know, they got that gold over there.

He took a job in a nearby town.

He was taking care of a ranch and the and the rancher's livestock.

He hadn't made very much headway on any anything as far as making money since body had passed away, and he definitely didn't come anywhere near striking it rich.

And that's kind of, you know, what their their goal was.

So he's got to still work somewhere.

One night he was attacked by a band of payute Indians.

Oh, he was m They busted into the farm where he was the ranch they busted in, and this was vicious.

I mean they scalped him.

Oh, they beheaded him.

Oh.

And it was obvious by scalping him and matterly that they were trying to send a message.

And once again, this could very well have been because of him being part Native American.

I think that was really Uh.

They I want to say they had an extra grind.

I guess that was probably place of words, but realistically.

But how did they know?

I wonder?

Oh, they didn't mean keep a track up.

Oh, they've been tracking like that whole time.

I'm sure.

I mean they see where he goes and what he's doing, and so it wouldn't have been that hard.

Oh my gosh, what a horrorful.

Oh that's just terrible.

Now, most people will say that's what he gets.

Well, most people will say that was his just desserts.

But they will also say that this was the first case a revenge of the body curse.

So body cursing then, I guess.

Yeah, Well, they feel like that body maybe was coming back from beyond the grave to take revenge on somebody that was taking something that was rightfully his.

Well, of course, I mean he worked all the years and stuff, so I.

Mean obviously this is where it comes into what the body curse is.

Anytime somebody takes something that is not rightfully his from body, they feel like that body reaches out from beyond the grave to basically teach them a lesson.

I mean, how do you feel about that?

I feel like that's the right thing to do.

Sure, I mean I would like to be a vengeful ghost.

I mean, yeah, you know, that just sucks for him though, because if I was a ghost and I could come back and just teach people lessons like it.

That's what I'd want to do.

Yeah, I still can't believe they took a piano.

It was like twenty minutes ago.

I know.

But that's I mean, that's huge.

Well it is huge, But there was like nobody there at the heart of town at that time.

There was nobody on the Oh my.

Gosh, my conscience would kill me.

I can never if not body will.

Well that's true.

So let's talk about a little bit that happened afterwards.

So in eighteen seventy five, a huge amount of gold was found there in Body.

That's where everything put into play.

It became the huge town that it went because it went from having nobody there to having what we say, five to seven thousand people in eighteen seventy seven.

They named the town Body after the gentleman who found it.

Unfortunately, and this will tie into some of the stuff we talked about earlier.

You know, this was a very bad town.

When it was at its height, there was like something like over one hundred and fifty saloons.

Think about that the world.

You have one hundred and fifty saloons.

Well, there was a lot of people there and they'd go mining throughout the day and then at some point in time they would get off work and then most of them would just go out for a drink afterwards.

I mean, did they just have like make shift tents or do they have houses?

This is where they had two thousand buildings at some point.

Oh, this is back when they were at the height.

And they said there was at least two shootings a week there.

Oh my god.

So there's a lot of people who died not just from the shootings but from the weather.

Because we just talked about how otherwise shoot and you know, they said that people would walk out of the saloon it would be snowing.

They would walk out, they would go into saloon, it wouldn't be snowing.

They'd come out it would be snowing, and they would actually get lost, Oh wow, in the town and die.

That's the craziest.

Weather is so blinding, that is crazy.

Everything dried up after a few years and that was it.

I mean it was like a two to three year deal.

That was it.

And and you know what it got to be so nobody found anymore what you're saying, they.

Found gold, but it got to be where it was too deep and it was too expensive to pull it out.

So most people say that once again, that's body actually making.

Them say, look, you got your fresh, sure to get the heck out.

Yeah, you know, this is my claim, not your claim.

There's a lot of people there that would actually find gold and somebody else would find out about it, and then they would go kill that person so they could take their claim.

Once again, the body curse of.

Yeah, well you don't need to be greedy, be thankful what you found, and move on.

So let's talk about some ghost sightings.

There's all kinds of different things that go on here.

Children if you go to the schoolhouse, are heard to be laughing and joking when there's nobody else there.

There is a strong energy, I guess you could say in the area.

There's people when they get there, it's just like as soon as they into the town, it just feels different different.

Yeah, it just got a different feel.

You can hear footsteps when you're in like one of the old buildings, and you can't go into all these buildings.

You can go into some of them, but when you go into them sometimes like in the back of the building, you can hear footsteps from like boots, all of them because they don't want people damage in what's.

Already they're already there.

Yeah, you can hear music, Well, I don't know, it's probably not rap music either.

I'm guessing it's probably like you know, probably like the you know, in the middle of Kid Rocks Cowboy.

Yeah, piano, Oh yeah, yeah, I like that.

Actually, there was one instance where a big time fund raiser for the body Fund.

I told you that, that's why they raise the money now to keep it going.

She went into one of the houses I can't remember the name of the house, and she was walking up the steps and something pushed her from behind, like as she was going up the steps.

She didn't fall down the steps, she was pushed up the steps, you know, pushed up the steps basically, and she kind of.

Looked around bysel I mean, dang, I fell up the steps.

But she looked up and she just said, look, hey, I'm just here visiting.

I'm not planning on stains.

And then she said she got up and left, and they had some kind of a fundraiser I guess the following year, and the misguisinger that we talked about earlier, she asked her.

She said Hey, do you want to spend the night or is a bunch of us going to spend the night, And she said, hell no.

Not only am I not going to spend the night, I am never walking in that house again.

Oh id I wasn't either, So.

That was pretty bad.

Some believe that the curse protects the town and it's a reminder of people that you just don't take things that don't belong to It's meant to just teach a good, solid lesson.

The amazing thing about the building I said was going to talk about it is that these things are even still standing.

By all accounts by meteorologists and by architects and whatever.

These buildings shouldn't.

The ones that are there should not be standing.

Well, not with that crazy weather.

Well most of them look like they're about ready to fall.

But I mean, you've got the super intense dry heat in the summer, you've got twenty foot snow drifts in a wintertime.

You know, you've got hurricane type winds that are hitting this and these buildings that are old and dilapidated, and you know, one hundred and fifty years old roughly are still standing.

So what we need is material like that these days.

So that right there is the story of body.

What do you think?

I think that was a fun story and it was real, Its real interesting, and it should teach you a lesson.

We're going to do a story so never just you just never should take stuff that don't belong to you.

That's just terrible.

Like people's cutting candy.

Well, I knew you were going to say that.

I thing it.

I replaced it.

Now if I get cursed by something, I don't gonna feel really bad.

I could you see you sitting there putting a bag of cotton candy with an apology letter, sending it to their house because it's a bad luck.

Look, I honestly thought everybody had their cotton candy.

You don't need cotton candy anyway, your dia.

Why no, But I love it.

It's lude Okay.

I thought we would.

I thought we would save the shoutouts until this part of the show kind of in between the two stories brim up a little bit.

Oh and I didn't mention this either.

At the end of the show, we have a very cool interview with Katie Stewart.

Yeah, Katie is a longtime friend of ours.

I told you a little bit about her last show.

She's the main star of The Wicked One, which is a really cool movie.

It's an old throw back to the Michael Myers type movies, the slasher type films.

And it's taking me forever to get her on the show because she's always.

That, oh my gosh, she's always busy doing something.

So we've got that the end of the show.

She's ever been of probably what ninety pounds, but she can kick your ass.

Yeah she's five foot tall, yeah, and probably ninety pounds.

Yeah, she's a sweetheart.

Shout out first of all and foremost to the military all over the world, no matter who you support.

Absolutely all the civil servants.

And that's that goes from police fire Oh yeah, ambulance drivers.

I know EMS doesn't get a lot of credit, and I want to make sure they get their credit.

Oh my gosh, I thank God for the MS.

They saved my mom's life and your life one time.

And yeah, God bless every one of you guys.

We do appreciate you.

I should put a picture of my shorts up there, you know.

That's great, leading profusely.

I know that was really bad.

Almost gout of my bran new shoes too.

Oh here is the shoutouts we've got.

We did not have any new patrons this week, so there's no shout outs for those.

But we still love you though.

No, absolutely, Oh my god.

But I don't want to point something out because I I'm not exactly sure that everybody knows how this works.

If for some reason, like we put out two shows a month, we put out one on the first, So we just put one out yesterday that was a listener's story.

So some of you guys out there have told us their stories and we bring you on the show and we let you tell their stories and we interact with you.

It's so fun.

Yeah, it is one of the fun It is different than what we normally do, but it's a whole show.

I think last night's show was like an hour and ten minutes of nothing.

That was four different listener stories.

And so you get that if you pledge three dollars a month, if you pledge five dollars a month, you get not only that show, but you also get a show that we do on the fifteenth of the month, and that is more like a regular show.

Last month's show we did some true crime, and we did some haunted places and one that was true crime in Haunted all at the same time.

So we did that, and those are going to be over an hour.

Now, what you may not realize is you can go in and set up your donation now and you get these shows.

Like if you went in and heard this show and you went into Pleasures the five dollars for Patreon, You're going to get these shows automatically even though, but they don't take the money until the first of next month, So the money comes out on the first of the next month.

So you basically would get anything that comes out this month for free.

So if you do, if you try it and you don't like it, you can always cancel, of course, so I thought i'd bring it out.

I want to think Jackie gets for making a absolutely stunning, beautiful ring that I gave to Tracy on her birthday.

We posted a video of her opening it up on our Facebook page.

Oh my gosh.

I was so shocked about that ring because I had seen a similar ring that I just loved.

But this one means so much to me because Jerry and her both personalized it just for me and I just I have shown it to a million people, one one million, but I've shown it to a lot of people.

I'm so proud of that, and I can't thank you enough, honey for doing that for me, because you always just you're just amazing.

You really are.

You always are the most thoughtful person, and you always do the most awesome things for me, for every occasion and every day of my life.

So I just really want to thank you for that because it meant the world to me.

It's because I love you well.

I love you too, Honey, and I really appreciate it, and I really appreciate you taking the time out to make that ring for me.

I will cherish it forever.

I also want to thank Tina Ahller.

I don't know whether it's older or Aller.

I think it's Aller.

But she went to Alcatraz and took a tour and she sent us a nice little package that has her one of her original tickets to it and some little flyers and stuff like that.

From it.

She sent us a bunch of pictures from al Capone outfitting for the time, the al Capone's jail cell and all that.

Oh, how fun and have fun.

Good for her.

We appreciate it.

Yeah, we appreciate everything you guys do.

I mean, I swear we just love you all to death and you just touch your hearts every day.

I'm not trying to get sappy or anything, but you guys really do mean the world to us.

Too late, I also wanted to throw a podcast I guess suggestion out there to you know.

This is going to be a little different than what I normally suggest to you guys.

This is more of a drama.

They're twenty thirty minutes long, and it's a fairly new podcast out there.

But the woman who runs it is an absolute sweetheart, and I started listening to it a little bit.

It's a kind of like a throwback to the old radio days where they would actually just come on and you got the acting and stuff.

It's like a play but over the radio.

And these, like I said, they're about twenty or thirty minutes.

They're each one separate and it's really cool.

But it's called twelve chimes.

It's midnight, oh neat, So give that a listen and help her out.

She's just getting started, and apparently she's got a significant other that basically told her that it's such a small genre of that nobody would really be interested and she wouldn't get more than a couple of hundred listens to it whatever, and I think I think we should prove them wrong.

So yeah, subscribe, give it a couple of lessens and see if you just give it a chance if you like it.

But it is different than what we normally do.

But it's it's pretty cool.

I kind of like it, so all right.

iTunes reviews, there was a ship Ton this week.

I like that word actually, so Jimbo from.

Indy Go Coats appreciate it.

Yeah, Bluer Eyed Devil, Alex Archie Hillbilly, I'm assuming that's a priine Arkansas hill Billy, four hundred pound gorilla.

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Keep trying, you'll get there, bab you are a princess already.

Fisher Dan sixty six, Dan kim KOs seventy seven, Cat Girl in Vermont, and Buddy Lee forty one.

Thank you guys, Oh my gosh, you guys are awesome.

And I mean these were some awesome reviews.

Well, one of them wasn't awesome really.

Yeah.

One of them basically said that they like the older shows.

And I guess about me.

It's okay, I'm getting used to it.

I'm getting tough, y'all.

I'm starting to take this out right now.

We appreciate all your reviews.

I mean, if they're negative, hey, that's fine too.

We want to improve on our show, and we're you know, whatever we need to do, we'll do.

We love you guys speak other way.

So we probably do need to get Ricky back on a show.

So I know we do need to get Ricky back on here.

Maybe we get him on one of the bonus episodes or something.

Yeah, that would be awesome.

Okay, let's jump into our second story.

This one will probably freak some of you out.

It's a combination of stuff that's all over the map.

It's almost hard to believe that so much stuff, tragedy wise can happen in one house, especially when it's all over the map.

And you'll see what we're talking about.

But what we're going to tell you about is the Monty Crystal Homestead.

Now, before this, I had only heard of the Monty Crystal sandwich.

I was gonna say, that's the stuff they put powdered sugar on.

Which how in the world you can have a sandwich they put powdered sugar on.

It's beyond me.

That's it's not a damn funnel cake.

I don't care.

I'll eat it.

You have eaten it.

That's where I knew where it was from.

I know what did what's his name say?

Oh?

The Briton guy with the no I don't know chef.

Oh my god, yeah, Gordon Ramsey.

Remember, I'm sorry, y'all, the Breton guy.

I don't even know where that came from.

I'm gonna send Gordon a message and say, hey, my wife loves you because you're the Briton guy.

Oh my gosh.

Well you know what I'm saying.

Remember remember when he got that sandwich that time at the restaurant.

He's like, what the hell is this?

He puts powdered sugar on a sandwich?

Oh?

Is that what it was?

Yeah?

It was one of those.

Sorry, but it's still powdered sugar.

Good.

I mean, it's just good anyway.

Sorry, it goes right with your cotton candy.

I know, maybe you can steal some of that from one of our other grands.

I know, well maybe I can.

Maybe I should could eat now that shit.

Okay, go ahead, Okay, so the money, Crystal Homes said, And I want to again thank Dana Leek Leeson for helping us out with this story.

She's a sweetheart.

And she got mad at me earlier this week for she thought I was being smart to her because she said she thought she thought we were gonna do this story like two weeks ago, and she told me that we put it off the last two weeks.

I'm like, no, it wasn't scheduled yet.

I think when I when I said that, because you know how stuff comes across different text and I put out that I put out that list of stories that we're doing with all the day, it's like six seven weeks in advance.

And when I told her that it was basically not scheduled yet, I think she thought I was just trying to be a smart elect to her.

Well, let me tell you a little fact here, honey, he can be a smart ass a lot.

So yeah, but he means well so yeah.

But she knows I love her, So yeah, we've all patched it up.

We're good.

Let's talk about this place.

It's pretty cool to two story late Victorian manor in Juni, New South Wales, Australia, and that's in Australia.

Yeah, yeah, it's in the Austria.

Guy now gos But it sits on a hill overlooking the town.

Originally, it was built in eighteen seventy six, and I say that because it was an original house was built in eighteen eighty five.

They built another house in front of it, which is where all the tragedy happened.

The house that they built behind it ended up becoming the servants' quarters, and it ended up which was the original house at the servants quarter and eventually ended up being a place where he kept horses.

So and by he, I mean Christopher William Crawley.

He's the gentleman that built the house.

Crawley used used to kind of fund the projects and loan money to people because back in this day over in that part of Australia, it was such a small town that the government thought it was too big of a risk to try to loan money to people, and there were no government programs to help people.

So these people would want to move their family into the town and they would come to him and pretty much beg for money.

Yeah, most people won't get that.

Oh, yeah, we should watch the profits.

And the profits of TV show in America where people a guy uses as the Marcus Lamonas uses his own money to help struggling businesses.

But yeah, theoretically, if anybody was SAT seven actually got that would be but so Crawley, he would actually help people out, like and help them get started.

Now, I told you that the original homestead a little bit, and on the new house the walls were actually eighteen inches thick with twelve foot talls ceilings.

Wow.

Yeah, that's a little thick.

That's all scary type.

Hey, we want this to be soundproof.

Oh my gosh.

I'd imagine, as Dana pointed out, it was probably freezing in the wintertime because you could imagine that there's no heat getting getting into it or out of it.

And at eighteen inches thick, I mean it's that's extremely thick for a house.

Well yeah, but in the in the wintertime though, if they have heat in the house, it ain't gonna escape.

Well, they probably don't have a lot of heat in the house, considering it was you know, well it had seventy.

Still burning stoves.

So why is the House of Honted I don't know, you tell me.

Mainly because several people died there, including the Crawleys.

Oh gosh, no, Kidney.

Well, mister Crawley died in nineteen ten from blood poisoning.

He died in the house in his bedroom.

And Missus Crawley, but she didn't die until twenty three years later, in nineteen thirty three, but she died in the house.

Also, supposedly there's ten ghosts that are in that house.

Now that's going let me tell you a little bit of background.

I'm gonna jump around a little bit.

The house stayed vacant from most of the fifties and early sixties, and when that happened, it was kind of a setup just for vandals and teenagers and stuff like that just come up and just kind of make some ruins of it.

So the house went in all that greater shape.

Now Reginald Ryan and his wife they actually moved in in nineteen sixty three, and they're the ones who are saying that there's approximately ten ghosts announce and the ten ghosts they say are the Crawleys.

There are three children, and the rest were people who worked on the premises.

So that's supposed to be who people are.

Now.

Missus Ryan, who now owns the house, and like I said, they've lived there since nineteen sixty three, so they've been there for over forty some ideas.

Yeah, they said that they knew that something was up as they were coming in from a distance, you know, riding in, you could see the house up on the hill and they said it was all lit up, which normally wouldn't be Yeah, that situation, except there was no electricity in and it was only one kerosene heater or one kerosene and it wasn't on.

Oh my gosh, but that was the first time.

Now, his wife, missus Ryan, she thinks that she had a past life in that house because she said when she got into the house the very first time, it's like she knew everything about it.

Oh, how weird.

So we could have put her on the Past Lives episode.

We had a couple.

Yeah.

The first official death happened when the Crawley's nanny dropped her ten month old baby Ethel down the staircase.

Oh.

The maid was distraught for the whole rest of her life.

But she swear that in invisible force knocked the baby out of her hand.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah, sad, that is very sad.

And to have to live with that all that time.

Yeah, people say that you can feel evil presence when you get anywhere near those that staircase.

Little kids become like really agitated when they're anywhere near that area.

Wow.

So that was the first official death.

The second official death was mister Crawley died in nineteen ten of blood poison.

He was sixty five years old at a time.

Some years later, a pregnant woman died in the same bedroom that mister Crawley died.

In a matter of fact, they say, I think by all accounts, most people assumed that it was some type of a botched abortion.

Oh, that she died from.

That's terrible.

Now, after mister Crawley's death, Missus Crawley spent the rest of her life mourning his death.

She had a room that was more or less a chapel for lack better terms, and she would spend all of her time in there rather than throughout the house.

And over the twenty three years that she lived after that, she only left the house twice.

What she only left the house twice when she died she was ninety two years old.

Well, that's the craziest thing I've.

Ever heard we're going to talk about Harold Steele.

Now this isn't a death.

There's more death coming.

Harold Steele was probably the most unique situation.

I told you we're going to bounce all over the place and tragedy.

Harold was a mentally disabled guy.

He was supposedly from everything that I've read, he wasn't born that way.

But there was a carriage accident at some brain dams and a lot of people say that he was actually the son of mister Crowley.

Oh, that he had an affair with one of the servants.

Mister Crowley did.

Yeah, mister Crawley, I said, Crowley, mister Crawley, Oh okay.

But what happened was his mom was a caretaker there, okay, and she basically kept him chained up to a wall in her cottage for forty years.

Forty years, come on now, forty years.

Oh, buss is heart.

They said that that if if you unchained him that he'd like basically just ran around the streets like a wild man.

Wow, I guess so.

So they changed him up to it.

This is like a dairy area, that is what it was, therri Are dairy area.

Oh, but I could see where there are there.

Yeah, this is they had a dairy on the farm and this was in that area where her cottage was.

I mean, I can't even imagine being chained up for forty years.

How does he even know how to do anything.

He probably don't know how to walk or anything.

But that mean heifer.

They ended up you know, his mom and well, first of all too, I'm gonna jump around again.

This is kind of where the first tales of the house been Haunted came from, because he would make these moaning and sounds that sounded kind of like a ghost, and kids and teenagers would come by there and they would hear him back from the dairy area making those noises.

So they said that the house was haunted.

Yeah, and in reality it was him.

What ended up happening is they went a couple of weeks without seeing his mom in town, and then there was some mail and stuff that didn't get picked up.

Okay, so they decided to go ahead, and when they got there, they found Harold actually kind of cuddling her body.

She had been dead for a couple a couple couple weeks, maybe several days.

He was really bad, malnursed, but he was sitting there basically crying over her body.

After well, he's got to hate disabilities.

He don't realize what's going.

On, and they'll see those That was all that he had.

I know, but he like I know, he treasured her.

And after what she did to him.

It's said, it really is.

And what's even more sad is that kids had been coming up her trying to throw food to him, but it was all just out of his reach.

They were too scared to come up close to him, but they were throwing food to him and it was out of his reach.

So they came up and they got him.

They took him to an institution where he died shortly after.

Oh he did.

That's the saddest thing I've ever heard.

It was sad.

I mean, I mean, to live through all that and then get out of there where you can maybe at least, and then to pass away.

Life sucks.

There's more death involved.

There was a maid that supposedly jumped to her death.

She landed on the front doorsteps.

The locals say that she was pregnant with Crawley's baby.

This guy warn.

Punchm in his nuts.

Now.

A lot of other people say that a ghost pushed her out the window because there apparently is a lot of different cases were just like the maid to drop the baby said that something knocked it out of her hand.

There's all kinds of people even today saying that people push, touch while they're in the house.

So that's what some people think now regardless of how she fell, she fell over twelve feet or twelve feet from the balcony.

She landed on the steps.

It's nice rounded steps, you know, onto the entryway there, and she broke a bunch of the vintage towels that were there, and most of them were still cracked and still there.

But there's a huge white spot on the steps if you ever look at any pictures.

And we're going to post some of these pictures on Facebook because Dana gave us some cool ass pictures of the cemetery, Like we got a picture of their baby Ethel, the tombstone, tombstone and stuff from there.

So I'm gonna post all these on Facebook.

But there's a huge spot, white spot there because back then they would use pure bleach to clean blood up.

Where they cleaned the blood up, there's still a huge bleach spoke.

Now we're going to talk about another very disturbing death there Led Morris.

Led Morris was a young boy.

I'm not exactly sure what his agent was.

I couldn't seem to find out anywhere I looked.

He didn't get up for work one day because he just said he didn't fill up to it.

His boss thought he was bs and he decided that he wasn't sick.

And to prove that he wasn't sick, he set fire to the boy's straw mattress.

What the hell.

Apparently he was that sick because he couldn't get up and he burned to death.

Oh my gosh.

Nineteen sixty one, there's a caretaker by the name of Jack Simpson.

There's a bunch of different caretakers all through the years before they moved in, because this is sixty one, and keep in mind the Ryan's actually bought the house in sixty three, so this was a couple of years before.

But Jack Simpson, he was shot to death by a young man, youth who had seen Psycho three times in that day the movie cycle from Alfred Hitchcock.

I said, Albert his brother, but he'd seen Cyco three times.

He went and he shot him to death.

And then he actually wrote died.

Jack die on the door.

He scratched it on the door, and you can actually faintly still see that today.

I had a picture of that outpost too, needless to say.

And all Jack did was open the door.

He went up there purposely to do this.

He opened and Jack opened the door, and he just shot him with death right there, needless to say, and then just shocked by the altcohol.

I can tell he barbed twice, oh three times.

Needless to say.

They had trouble getting caretakers after that, so nobody wanted to become the caretaker up there.

In sixty three, obviously the Ryan's about the house.

They completely remodeled it.

So now it's it's a beautiful work of art.

Because remember I said it several years back in with their vandals and everything took place of it.

Dang, that was a that was a dark story.

Well we're not done yet.

Oh my gosh, there's darkness.

So to this day they give tours, the Ryans give tours and stuff out there all the time.

That's that's one of the things that they do.

But to this day there are feelings of sadnesses, sadness, sadnesses, there's feelings of sadness and certain room, certain rooms just going to you just feel I'm very depressed.

I feel depressed already.

In some rooms you have trouble breathing.

There have been animal mutilations on site.

Animals just show up mutilated.

Nobody knows exactly what happens.

People see apparitions not only in person, but in pictures.

They see sights of mister Crawley and Missus Crawley.

There was actually a movie done, I'd say, I think it was two thousand and twelve called The Mirror House.

It was kind of like a fake documentary, but it was done, actually shot it in that house.

And the director I got named tanzy Roshan Rasham.

He said that the very first night of filming that he was up in a room and he turned around and there was mister Crawley's ghost, Oh, sat at the doorway, just staring at him.

So he said he hurried and ran down the steps.

But he said he didn't tell anybody because he still had a movie.

He had film.

Yeah, he's scared.

Boddy Off now, the the main star of the film God about the name of Lane McDonald.

He says that he saw all kinds of stuff he could feel when he was sleeping in the bed because he spent four nights there.

He said he could feel people tugging at the blankets.

You could hear stuff, chairs would move, he could hear voices.

So he was brave.

So that is our story.

Dang, that was that was a really great story.

But man, I'm like thoroughly depressed.

Now, that's sad.

That's really bad.

People back in the days, they are they are hardcore.

I mean, I can't imagine.

I can't imagine a point where it's like, I think you're fake and being sick.

I think I'll set your bed on fire, Jesus.

I mean, it's just what goes through somebody's head.

I mean, you just think about let's break this down.

Think about this story.

You've got it.

You've got a ten month old baby being dropped down the steps and killed.

You've got a caretaker shot to death for no reason whatsoever.

You've got Missus Crawley who never left the house really in twenty three years.

You've got a maid who jumped out to her and killed herself that may have been pregnant.

You've got another You've got the kid that was burned to death.

The stable kid that was burned to death just by somebody trying to, you know, prove a point.

And then you've got the steel Harold Steele who was chained up for forty years, his mom dying there, and then eventually you know, him dying shortly after.

Yeah, all this in one place, now, who so, yeah, you could you could understand why the place is so haunted.

Yeah, that's that's the awfulst thing.

I don't even think that's a word.

Awful list is not a word.

I'll give you a break on that one.

Oh thank you.

That was playing scrabble.

That shit wouldn't know it, that would not fly with it.

That was very disturbing.

So there we go.

I think what we're gonna do is go ahead and play the interview now with Katie.

Now, I'm gonna tell you ahead of time there was some noise in the background, a little bit of hammering going on.

Overall, it's still, I think, very listenable, but I just want to tell you that we do know the hammerings out there, and she is so busy that I didn't want to take the chance of trying to set something up later, so we just went with it.

But I think you'll find it's really not that bad, so we are aware that's in the background, and let's give Katie a listen.

It's with great pleasure that I welcome my next guest, Miss Katie Stewart, is an up and coming actress in the horror genre.

She's really starting to hammer down these big rolls that are coming her way.

And I've had the pleasure to know Katie for roughly five or six years, and I'm kind of excited about having her on.

I probably should have had it already before now, but she's got such a tough schedule it's hard to actually get an interview with her.

Katie, please welcome to the show.

Thank you, thank you for having me.

I guess I should give a little bit of background about how you and I know each other.

Roughly five years ago, we worked for an internet television station.

Katie had a show on, I had a show on, but we would come to these production meetings, so we got to know each other, and we also had some events that we would do.

We did a zombie walk in Louisville, which was really cool, and then we had a cancer benefit.

It was a bunch of rock bands getting together to try to raise money for cancer, and man, that day it was freezing outside.

We just basically had to kind of huddle together just to kind of keep warm, and heck, you can't help but to get to know each other when you have to do that.

But that's kind of how we go back and forth.

But it's funny during it.

The whole time, I never really asked Katie about her acting, how long she's been doing it, what made her get into us.

I thought, right now would be the perfect opportun tell me a little bit about how you got started in acting.

Well, ever since I.

Was little, I've always, you know, wanted to wanted to be in front of cameras.

Whether it was pictures or whatever it was.

I've always wanted to entertaine people.

And I was raised on the classics from the eighties and the nineties.

You know, Freddie, Halloween, you know all those different wives, and I just always, I always loved the horror films because not only because I love the excitement that you get from them and the thrill and the chase that you get from them, but I always envisioned seen in one because I always wanted to be the chick that was running in the forest, but not the way, or that didn't run up the stairs instead she actually ran out the front door and survived, you know, because so many of those they do stupid things, and I would watch them and just say I would do something so much martyr than that.

Let me show you how to debt, you know, And I just I love I've always been big on drama anyway, So like drama and horror in a.

Lot of ways they kind of go together.

And so I just really found a knack and in being out being able to bring that emotional side of the fear and the drama.

That it that it takes for horror felts.

Plus I just love them.

I like I like the Door.

So let me ask you this, and I'm pretty sure I already know the answer to this.

What is your favorite horror movie?

My My favorite is always going to be Well, I Have I Have Two Aliens is probably my number one, top all time.

You know, horror film.

But it's also one of my all time.

Favorite movies anyway.

But as far as just the horror, the horror genre franchise side with the Halloween, I've always loved Michael Myers the Halloween franchise.

I think I kind of already knew the answer to that, because it seems like every time I see your Facebook status and has something to do with your watching Aliens.

Oh yes, I love the Aliens.

I think you're the only person I know that can actually wear out a DVD.

Totally by another one of them wear that one out too.

So I'm looking at your IMDb page right now.

In my goodness, I mean this thing, you've got fifty different credits in here.

As far as like acting, whether it be movies or commercials or short films, I mean, you are a busy little bee.

But one thing that catches my attentions is you want a bunch of awards too, But one of them is for best fight Scene.

Tell me a little bit about about the award for best Fight Scene.

Yes weekend, that was for a film festival and I had a fight scene that I actually mister Dale Miller.

It was a very phenomenal actor as.

Well as choreographer.

He choreographed the whole scene and it was between me and him, and it was about a two minute long fight me.

I mean, there was a lot of different stuff in it, and that was really one of the first major, you know, stunt fight type things that I had done and we won.

We won the the best for it, We won the award for it.

So that was that was really fun.

Not only was it fun to do it, but it was fun to win the award because it was kind of like, see, y'all, people think I'm so small and I can't do anything.

Look, I just want an award for fighting.

So you know, it made me feel good.

Yeah, for anybody who doesn't know you, you're every bit of what like five foot tall.

Yeah.

I want to take time talk about a couple of your movies that you've been in.

Now.

The first one I want to talk about was probably at this time, your biggest break, which was Overtime.

Now, you got to work with Al Snow in that movie.

Tell me a little bit about how you felt about the opportunity for that movie and what was it like working with Al Snow.

I was completely blessed to be a fit to have been a part of that film.

That film did a lot for a lot of us in the in the area that you know that had done some stuff that hadn't really been able to say that we've done.

A real knockout type of films.

So I did a lot for several of us that were in it.

Working with alf Snow was a was comical every time I was around him.

Al is one of the funniest, yet sweetest and most people you'll ever meet, and we are still very close friends to this day.

In fact, I was just in his wedding on Friday night.

So yeah, So he's He's wonderful to work with.

And I mean that whole cast, everybody that was there, the ones that I hadn't met yet, or the ones that I hadn't already known but wasn't that close with.

Butt In this way, the whole cast, we became a family, to the point that we all are still family.

We all still hang out average once a month.

We all see each other, we all still.

Work together on other projects.

You know, it was it was working on that film and working with that company, which was pot Play Studios, was a blessing and by far one of the best, not only one of the best films that I've done, but one of the best times I've ever had.

So it was great.

I'll tell you what I'll say this about Alice.

No, he's one hell of a lucky guy himself, because he's always surrounded by beautiful women in these movies.

He had you in this movie, and then he's acted with Chanel Ryan who's been on the show, in a movie up in Connecticut that they did together.

So I would be willing to trade places with him at any point in time.

That's true in a lot of ways, that's true.

Let's move on to the next movie that I want to talk about, Revelation Trail.

It had Daniel Van Thomas in it and had a pretty cool plot to this one.

Tell me a little bit about that one.

Yeah, Revelation Trail was a Western zombie film shot back in you know, older days, obviously Western.

That was a lot of fun because number one, I had never done a Western before, so I got to wear you know, the western get up and and I had you know, a shot shotgun and the old Western styles small pistols, and that was that was fun to do because I got to actually fire the weapon, I got to fight a little bit in that one, and just the genre we actually shot up in.

I can't remember the name of the town or the name of the actual you know, uh Western town, but if you were to google you know, like western towns around Kentucky and it'll pull it right out because it's actually almost like a theme park.

They don't really have run, but the whole place is set up like it used to be back in the back of the old days, with a saloon and a gunshot and you know, all kinds of stuff like that.

So it was really cool.

And it was also cool because I got to take my daughters with me.

They were with me, and they were actually extras in the film.

They played little zombie, so that was that was fun.

But it was a lot of fun.

And Dave Bless I heard he was writing a sequel that was supposed to focus on a lot on my character and on one of the other characters that was in it.

He wasn't in it very much, but he's had a very strong part when he was in it.

So it was its supposed to focus on kind of on hours and how we came to be during the whole zombie thing.

But I'm not sure that will actually happen again.

That's you know, just Fear Safe, So we'll have to wait and see, but I hope they do.

That's going to lead us right into the movie that I'm most excited about.

Recently, you just had released a movie where you pretty much have the starring role.

And this movie's had a lot of acclaim.

It's called The Wicked One.

Now this is available for people to purchase right now on all kinds of platforms.

Why don't you talk a little bit about that movie and how they can get this movie if they're interested.

Yes, The Wicked One.

I played Alex Curtis.

I was the lead female and I was the final girl.

As you tell it, and it's basically it's a slasher film, but it paid a really good homage to the typical eighties nineties feel.

Of horror slasher films.

It was a lot of fun, it was very hard, it was very trying.

There was a lot in it that.

Was difficult, simply because my.

Character had such an emotional roller coaster through the whole thing.

You know, there was a lot of laughing and having fun, and then there was a lot of crying.

There was a lot of running, there was a lot of fighting.

There was just a lot that went into not just the film but that character.

But again, Dale Miller was the choreographer for all of the fight stuff, which was amazing and we actually wanted to well.

He won an award for that for Best Unt choreography.

The film itself won six awards between Best Director, Best Sound Design, or Best Score, a lot of different awards that were won.

And yes, it is available just about everywhere.

You can get it anywhere online.

You can get it at Walmart, you can get it on Apple, iTunes, Amazon, and you can do it just about anywhere.

And so it was, and it was by far, probably.

Well, it was definitely within my top five favorite films I've ever done, probably top three.

It was fun.

I worked with amazing people as I'm the camera and the front of the camera, Torry Jones, amazing director, one of my favorite people on the planet, which you want to say real quickly since we're talking about that.

He's got another one coming up.

Angel starts production in October.

Remember, so everybody should go like that page two and keep a watch out for that one.

But yeah, it was great.

It was a lot of fun.

And hopefully they'll be a sequel to that one too.

I mean, I can pretty much bass it.

It's a pretty badass movie as far as slash of flicks go, and it does kind of remind me of the old Halloween feel, the old Friday the thirteenth field.

So you guys did an excellent job on creating the feeling that I know that you were going for.

Now, obviously I don't know a lot about the project, but I've seen some pretty cool has pictures that you've posted in your wardrobe.

But you just got through shooting a pilot for I believe a television show.

Uh are you allowed to talk about that or is that something that's top secret right now?

For Raydon Vapory A Lion Heights, Yes, yeah, I can talk a little bit about that.

That's a that was a TV pilotic that we just recently shot, and it's basically a Viking Warrior style project and starts a lot of great casts in it.

One of the main girls, her name is soul I.

Cannot pronounce your last name.

She's from Norway.

It also stars Rock O'Hearn, which is a internet sensation.

He's known as the Bunman.

He's also done a lot of work for Tyler Perry, so he's pretty big, which helps us all a lot.

And then of course it stars John Wells, James Packett, Dale Miller, myself, Lion Beckwell, Eric Hire, whole bunch, whole bunch of people that I can't even name them all right now, but it's uh, it's basically a band of warriors who are on a mission to you know, save some people that have been taken and they face a lot of crazy things, mutants that live in the woods, and and raiders which the other fighters that we have to fight.

So it was just the first, the first initial pilot that we shot.

And it was very exhausting and grueling at hot So we had a great time and we made some magic.

So that's that's going to be beautiful and I can't wait to see to see that.

I don't have any release dates for it yet, but whenever there is showing your release.

Of it, it will be definitely posted all over Facebook.

I got to be completely honest with you.

I get the biggest kick out of seeing a trailer for some up in like the Wicked one that's a big time production, and to see you in it and I'm like, oh my god, there's my Katie.

And I think the reason I get so much joy out of it is, you know, we've had a lot of actresses talk to us on the show.

I mean, we've had yourself, We've had you know, Ryan, We've had bol Keister and every one of you guys are working your way up to the ranks, some of you a little bigger status than others at the moment.

But it gives us a chance to get some insight of what you guys actually go through.

And I don't think people realize how hard it is to lead a regular life.

I mean, all you guys have for the most part, regular jobs during the day.

In your case, I mean, you've got children you're trying to raise and at the same time you're trying to get this career off the ground.

And there's some crazy hours that are involved in making these films because you have to make it fit in with the rest of your you know, your life schedule.

Tell me a little bit about some of the craziness that goes on on trying to make these movies.

It's it's a struggle.

It's a constant struggle.

Like you said, I mean, I work a regular day at regular day job.

I work at eight to five jobs during the week.

I have two kids that I'm raising, so it's it's very difficult.

And even though being a full time paid actress is the ultimate goal and it is what I want to do for the rest of my life, right now it's a it's a hobby because I can't you know, I don't make a living at it yet, so it is it is still a hobby.

But the hours are just it's crazy because basically you have to try to find the time to film projects around your day job and around your children, you know, and and around your other regular life that you may have.

So it's you know, you work a full time job, and if you can film on the weekends, and you'll you'll film around the clock on the weekends time, and sometimes you lose time from work.

It's the hours to go from you know, sut up to sundown.

They can go from SunUp to sundown, take a break, and then you're back at it again till three, four or five o'clock in the morning, get home at five or five point thirty, sleep for an hour or two, get and go to work all day, come home from work, change, go to set, do the same thing all over again.

I've done that, you know.

There's been many nights where I have filmed till two or three o'clock in the morning, got home, slept for two hours, got up that ready with alert, came home, change, went back to bet didn't get.

Home till two or three o'clock in the morning.

You know, there's been many many nights, and there's been many times where we've filmed, you know, all week and long with only two or three hours of sleep if we were under.

A time crunch.

So it's it's very difficult.

And you have to have a true love and a true passion for what you're doing, whether it's in front of the camera, behind the camera, make up here, it doesn't matter.

You have to have a real true love for the arts and the love for the entertainment to be able to really pursue anything in this field, because that's that's what it takes.

If you don't have that passion for it, you you'll never do it.

If you're just in it too because you want to get rich and famous.

You'll never make it or you won't last, you know.

And there is a lot of stuff that we have to go through.

I mean, I've done I can't I've done more productions than I can count, and I'm still not in Hollywood or even in Atlanta, you know at this point.

You know, so you still have to take basically what you can get with the option of still trying to be somewhat particular on what you do.

You don't want to do everything that's thrown at you, but a lot of times in the beginning you do, and then you know, you kind of work your way into where you can actually start to choose the things that you want to do.

But it's it's very difficult, it is, but I love what I do.

I love the people that I get to work with.

I love meeting new people.

I want to direct the projects, you know, I want to I want to learn all aspects of it.

So it's it's a it's a great thing when you can do it.

It's very hard and trying as long as you have that passion.

And then you get to have people you know, say, you know, I knew you back when, or I knew you before I was watching another movie and I just happen to see movie come up, you know, with you get to hear things that those fans are worth many it all worth it.

I agree.

I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you a question and if you don't want to answer, you don't have to because I'm going to try to make it as in general as possible.

But like for these types of movies that you do let's say like the Wicked One or the Palette that you just shot.

Pay wise for those things.

Is that something that's predetermined, Hey, this amount pays a certain thing or is it based on the outcome of the movie sales?

Is it or is it different for each situation?

Each situation is different the way that it works with independent film.

Most independent films are not paid, and if they are, it's on a deferred basis, which means after the film is done and it starts making money, then you get a certain percentage of it.

That's how that's most you know, a lot, that's how a lot don't work.

But then there aren't ones that we'll have a small budget to work with and they'll offer you, you know, they'll offer you a certain amount of you either ticket or you don't.

And then there are other one too will come right out and.

Ask you, you know, what's your pay rate?

And so.

The without you know, without trying.

To sound hockey or anything like that.

I most people now when they approached me about doing a film for them, that do you ask me what's your what's your day rate?

What your you know, what would you ask for to do this?

In all honesty, it just depends.

I have a pretty much set day rate, but I'm always willing to work things out with people, whether it's less or whether you know, whatever it may be.

So every situation is different.

It just depends on It just depends on what their initial budget is.

I have no budget, and then you then it's set on a deferred basis.

I kind of figured that was similar situation.

Uh.

That's why I want to bring up because it ties into what you were saying just right before that that if you're doing this to get rich or if you're doing this, uh for the fame, you know you're doing it for the wrong reasons because obviously, not only are you working your tail off raising two kids and working a day job, and it's sometimes staying out till all hours of the night to record these movies, You're not getting a big payoff in the beginning for any of these now, so you're definitely doing it.

For the love of what you do, honey.

I've been doing this for a good fourteen well kind of me.

I really really started, so it's been about thirteen years.

But I have films on a regular basis and projects and I'm still no.

I don't get any form of a big page whatsoever.

And there are still things that I do for free depending on you know, what project.

Is and who's doing it.

If it's a really really good script and I believe in the person that's making it and their team, then I may possibly do it for free.

But no, I you have to have if you're not in la or in Atlanta, or you know, a big list slid, then yeah, you have to have the real past and and love for doing it to be able to put up with some of the trap that comes along with it.

But being that being said, with some of the crap that comes along with it, there is so much better that you get in return that any little bit of crap that you may come across is water under the bridge.

You know.

Okay, I just wanted to say, from one friend to another, you know, I sit back and see what you've accomplished, and I couldn't be more proud of you.

When I when I see these trailers come out of these big time productions and I see you in them, I just can't help but just smile from ear to ear.

Thank you, Thank you so much.

That means that means a lot to me, And hopefully.

One day I'll have bigger places we'll see.

But the one thing that I will never stop, even if I stay an independent of the rest of my life, I'll never stop doing it because it's.

That's what I love, that's what I want.

Well, I appreciate your support, always have.

I mean, I think it really is just a matter of time before that right person sees you and snatches you up to Hollywood, because I'm telling you you you have a very versatile acting ability, and I mean I've seen you do comedy, I've seen you do horror.

I've seen you do some crying scenes where you just totally drug me in to where I mean I was like totally believing everything you went on.

So it's just a matter of time for you.

Thank you, Katie, Thank you so much for coming on the show.

I greatly appreciated.

I can't wait to see your future endeavors and see the success as it comes your way.

But like I said, I greatly appreciate you coming on the show.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate you having me and all of for it through the years.

You've been great and but I wish you the very best and we won't be talking again soon.

I'm sure, we'll be seeing you at Scarefist because you go virtually every year.

I'll be there.

You keep up the hard work, and I promise you we'll keep up the support.

We'll see you later, babe.

Our little Katie making big splash in the world.

Congratulations to you, honey.

Yeah, I think it's really cool, like I said, to be able to see somebody that when you watch one of these big time movies and you see the previews and you see somebody you going on there, it's prettydamn cool.

So I'm so happy for next week's show.

It's the true story behind the exorcism of Emily Rose, the exism of Annalise Michelle.

And if you haven't heard this story, it is a really cool story.

It's different than any other exorcism type story that you're going to hear, mainly because of the ending and some things that went on.

But I think you're really going to enjoy this one.

I've been waiting to do this one for a while and it's just kept getting pushed back and back and back, and I think it's time to finally do it.

It's a good time during the summer to do a good exorcism show.

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