Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio. Hey and welcome to the spook-tacular spook. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too and we are all wrapped in bandages because we're mummies

scary mummies that have been dead for thousands of years, but now want to pull your brains out with the hooks we were buried with.

That's good. Thanks. I've been writing it and work shopping it for months.

I think it paid off my friend.

So if you are new to the show or new enough

that you don't know what we do on Halloween,

what we do is we each pick a spooky story that's in the public domain

so we don't get sued and we read it together

sometimes with fun accents, sometimes without.

This is an ad-free episode,

and we have it, we've mentioned this before,

but we had it written into our work contract that Halloween and Christmas are, I guess barricaded off from ads, so you can enjoy the spookacular without having ads right in the middle of it.

Yeah.

I think it was a good move.

Good move.

Yeah, so Josh, we're going to read yours first.

Do you want to set this one up?

Yes, this is a story by Aldrin and Blackwood.

He's a recurring friend of the spookacular episodes because he's squarely in the public domain, but he's also a good writer of ghost stories for sure.

This one, it's not his best work, but we, and you in particular, but I think we both did, looked for a story written by a woman.

And it's harder to do than you would think

because the stuff that's in the public domain,

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