Courtney: 0:00

Rob would have a fit if he thought I did.

Hannah: 0:02

You should have been a ballerina. Those are beautiful feet. Hey, thank you, I can get a feet finder.

Courtney: 0:07

Any takers, any takers, okay.

Hannah: 0:21

Hi, I'm Hannah and I'm Courtney. Join us as we delve into true crime, paranormal encounters and all things spooky.

Courtney: 0:27

Grab your flashlight and get ready to wander into the darkness with us. This is Wicked.

Hannah: 0:35

Wanderings. Hi gordy, hi hannah, so we're gonna do one of your favorite things and we're gonna do the guessing game.

Courtney: 0:59

You said we're gonna do one of your favorite things. I was like, but I already read a book today. The guessing game. Okay, is there to be a category or do I just get like freebies, like?

Hannah: 1:09

are you guessing like town or a place or a person?

Courtney: 1:12

Yeah.

Hannah: 1:13

I can tell you. Okay, it's kind of like, what is it Mineral person? When you do that guessing game and you're like, is it mammal, mineral or something else?

Courtney: 1:31

You never played that game. I don't know.

Hannah: 1:32

I was thinking it's like guess who and I'm not very good at that either. Okay, animal, animal something, or mineral interplay, that no, just guess who. Okay, cool, I'm just gonna do some reading. You're trying to guess the town the town.

Courtney: 1:38

Okay, yes okay.

Hannah: 1:39

Can a family be so cursed they carry their dark fortunes across an ocean to an entirely different continent? And can the place they settle and absorb so much of their bad blood that it forever affects the fates of those who live there, even when they flee the place forever? Okay, some swear this can happen and that such a place actually exists. In the woods of this place there lies a remote community where unexplained orbs of light swirl around the dark forest, where residents go mad or succumb to violent and unnatural deaths, and where even the local wildlife dares not go. It's also called the Village of the Damned. Okay, I will tell you, it's in the US.

Courtney: 2:17

When you said fleeing, I was like the Glauben Reservoir, Because I just hate the way that they did those people so dirty. That way, it's in the US and it's okay. Okay, I'm going to keep going. Okay, lynn from Springfield is yelling the answer right now.

Hannah: 2:29

I just know it, she's like Courtney come on and Mark's yelling it.

Courtney: 2:33

I can hear them.

Hannah: 2:34

The curse and the legend begins in England in the year 1510, when King Henry VIII ordered Edmund Dudley to be beheaded. H ordered Edmund Dudley to be beheaded, hint, hint. The legend goes that at the time of the beheading, all of Dudley's residents were cursed for his crimes, and one of his descendants was William Dudley, born on June 8th 1639, aboard a ship headed for America. William's son, joseph, was born in Saybrook on September 14th 1674. I mean, I want to just yell Dudley.

Courtney: 3:03

It's close, dudley.

Hannah: 3:08

Dud, for I mean, I want to just yell dudley, it's close, deadly, deadem, dudlem, I'm just guessing now. It's a small hamlet filled with ghostly tales, demons, unexplained events and curses. Today, the area looks much like it did when it was first settled 250 years ago a very thick forest and incredibly rocky terrain in the shadow of three mountains bald mountain, woodbury mountain and the colts foot triplets. The dense, tall forest, which was given the ominous name of dark entry forest, and the shadows of the mountain ensured that the village received little sunlight. All the remains of the hamlet that once stood there are cellar holes and a few foundations. The roads have become forest trails. Many people claim that the woods are strangely silent. The birds and bugs that sing and call during a hike up to don't follow into the village. Nope, okay, you got Dudley. It's in New England. Oh, I'm guessing the state too. You don't have to guess the state. No, you want me to tell you the state?

Courtney: 3:58

yeah, connecticut I don't know man, I don't know connecticut deadly town, deadly town. Okay, that would have made sense because you said it was a town. See, that's just. But I had. I can confidently say that if I had gotten that it would have been on a pure guess, because I don't know anything about that. You did. No, look at hannah's. Like I'm gonna find something that she knows about and then she picks something that I don't. If you don't know anything about this, next one, oh man me and you I don't know if we could be friends.

Hannah: 4:22

Oh boy, I'm about to get kicked off, guys.

Courtney: 4:24

It's been great knowing you okay this macabre and infamous play.

Hannah: 4:28

Oh, by the way, we're looking for, I guess, a house, okay, okay. This macabre and infamous playground rhyme describes a violent tragedy that befell an unassuming town in massachusetts over 100 years ago. It's a stanza repeated so often that, even though most people are familiar with it, they can't recall the circumstances that prompted it or the players involved. And that's a darn shame, because, as murder mysteries go, this one was a real humdinger, particularly for its time. Was he borden house?

Courtney: 5:03

we can be friends man, I was a little nervous there. No, I just kept thinking about how my mom used to repeat it and she never she would repeat it. And then, I think a couple years ago, I was like, hey, mom, do you know what that's about? And she was like no, actually. And that's when you said that I was like I'm confident that this was the lizzie borden house oh my god, okay, if the next one yes, I am a gated, dirt road is all that blocks the outside world from the eighth gate to hell what am I guessing?

Hannah: 5:30

whatever you want, spider gate seminary I just had that one in there she's trying to make me sound.

Courtney: 5:36

Good guys, I got two out of three. I'll settle for at least 50% of however many we do, so I'm hoping I can keep this up. Okay, is this weird US or weird Massachusetts? Weird.

Hannah: 5:47

US.

Courtney: 5:47

That's why I'm going to suck at these.

Hannah: 5:50

Yeah, but I'm doing all New England so far actually.

Courtney: 5:53

It's because if you get out of New England, I'm not going to know the answer.

Hannah: 5:56

I mean, honestly, in New England we have a lot of weird shit. Ooh, okay, you ready. Yes, okay, so you're. It has to be in a same asylum.

Courtney: 6:06

Okay.

Hannah: 6:07

After three years in Louisville, I'm starting to learn a few things about weird Kentucky. One of the famous local sites is blank. It was a tuberculosis hospital at the beginning of the 20th century and later a mental hospital. The building has been abandoned since 1980 or so. During the Halloween season they hold haunted tours there and I have heard many media people tell stories of how their equipment stops working or they have other strange experiences Transverse or traverse Nope, they say things like I'm going to the other Halloween haunted houses. You know they are just theater. This one is for real.

Courtney: 6:42

Ooh, I start with a W In Kentucky. Uh-huh, it's not Western. I don't think I know Kentucky.

Hannah: 6:50

Waverly Hills.

Courtney: 6:53

I don't think I know that one, no way. Maybe I've heard it in passing, but it's definitely not one I've researched or read about.

Hannah: 6:59

Maybe I could you know, I think we need to switch roles at some point, because oh you, oh, give me one more, and then we're switching.

Courtney: 7:07

Oh, okay, all right, let's, we can do two episodes, let's do it, okay, and then we could switch, and then we could do it that way. So we have three again.

Hannah: 7:17

This is so weird.

Courtney: 7:18

I'm just trying to make sure, this thing is like sharing the thing I'm asking it to.

Hannah: 7:23

Pressure, pressure, let's do. I wish I had the Massachusetts one, because I think my brother has one I think I have the Massachusetts one. Okay, how about this? These strange creatures have been spotted in many locals, locales, locales, yeah, often in southern Atlantic states with their low-lying roads that cross through swamps, swamp people. Sorry, you're looking for a beast of some sort. I should have started with that. I apologize, it's Kenzie, kenzie.

Courtney: 7:49

She just ran by.

Hannah: 7:51

Oh she did. She like checks in once in a while. If one didn't know better, they'd see Bishopville, south Carolina, as just another small southern town surrounded by swamps. But what happened there one summer 15 years ago made the sleepy place rife with frenzy and fear Cue them. In 1988, the eyes of the world focused on Bishopville in hopes of catching a glimpse of the mysterious and dangerous blank.

Hannah: 8:15

The sensation began in June when 17-year-old Christopher Davis was on his way home from working the late shift at McDonald's. As he drove along the outskirts of town, along the border of Scape or Swamp, a tire blew out. It was already approaching 2 in the morning and the exhausted teenager simply wanted to go home and go to bed. The events that occurred as Chris labored to change his tire would make it difficult for the young man to ever sleep soundly again. Suddenly, to change his tire would make it difficult for the young man to ever sleep soundly again. Suddenly, chris heard a loud thump in a bean field across the street from his disabled car. A few days later, davis described his experience this way to the AP wire services, and I quote and here I am quoting I looked back and saw something running across the field towards me.

Hannah: 8:50

It was about 25 yards away and I saw red eyes glowing Skinwalkers Nope, zombies, nope. Eyes glowing Skinwalkers Nope, zombies, nope. I ran to the car and as I locked it, the thing grabbed the door handle. I could see him from the neck down the three big fingers, long black nails and green rough skin. Frankenstein it's not the Loch Ness Monster, nope, it was strong and angry. I looked into my mirror and saw a blur of green running. I could see his toes and then he jumped on the roof of my car. I'm sorry, I'm very distracted. His toes Yep. I thought I heard a grunt, and then I could see his fingers through the front windshield where they curled around on the roof. I sped up and swerved to shake the creature off. It starts with an L.

Courtney: 9:30

Lizard people, lizard man, I got it. It's the lizard man, I got it.

Hannah: 9:34

Yay, I got it. It's the lizard men. I got it. Yay, I just had to slurp at you, woohoo.

Courtney: 9:40

Lizard people. It took me a while. I think I might need to get like a handicap or something. I feel like I really don't have a good time with this. I mean, I have a good time doing it, but I'm not good at it. I'm not good at it at all.

Hannah: 9:55

Maybe it's not your fortune. I mean girl, we're gonna see.

Courtney: 9:57

Now I probably suck we're gonna flip the script here a little bit. All right, courtney, what a fine night. Courtney, I'm picking a card by myself. Pick a card, any card, courtney. Okay, courtney, I'm picking a card. You can't do that I have a breast lump. I picked the nine of hearts are you sure it's a heart?

Hannah: 10:29

I'm gonna show you a fist in a minute. I picked the nine of hearts. Are you sure it's a?

Courtney: 10:32

heart. I'm gonna show you a fist in a minute. I picked the nine of hearts and it is mr christopher white. On july 14th 2006, the fire department responded to a house fire at 242 haywood street in braintree. Oh, the victim was found inside his bedroom and had been stabbed. If you have any information about this case, please call 1-855-MA-SOLVE.

Courtney: 10:54

That is so sad and almost for a minute I was like okay, it's very sad, it was a house fire and they just like buried the lead, they were like, and he was stabbed and that's just Right, a cover-up, yeah, and Braintree is so close to like the Boston area.

Hannah: 11:08

I feel like this is where a lot of these are.

Courtney: 11:09

We've had a few Springfields. It's feeling very Karen Reid to me. Karen Reid, dude, that's a whole different episode.

Hannah: 11:19

Bye Wanderers.

Courtney: 11:20

Bye.

Hannah: 11:28

Thanks for listening today. Wicked Wanderings is hosted by me, hannah, and co-hosted by me, courtney, and it's produced by Rob Fitzpatrick.

Hannah: 11:36

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