You're listening to the Fresh Hell Podcast. Fresh Hell contains stories of a disturbing

and often graphic nature and is intended for a mature audience.

Please don't let your kids listen to this or they might turn out like us.

I'm Annie in America and I'm your honey in Austria and you're listening to your favorite international

podcast. The podcast hosted by two women who have never met in real life but share a love of historical crime and macabre true stories.

That's us. We get together virtually with you once a week and today we are sharing our fifth annual listener story special.

Every year we ask for your personal spooky stories and once again you've delivered.

In fact we have great news.

We had so many wonderful stories that we have enough to do two

episodes and so we will have an episode next week after all.

Yes, we are really thrilled because Eni and will be traveling the end of this week beginning of next week.

No, we're not going to be traveling together towards each other, unfortunately.

Anyway, so we thought we want to have time to record another episode for next week, but

thanks to all your amazing stories, we will. And we're gonna drop the episode one day early next week so it's gonna be right on

Halloween isn't that just perfect so good all right let's get right into it this

first story is from Christine, who writes.

So, a little background is needed here.

My mother came from a really big family and they were very loving and clothes.

My father, however, did not. family and they were wearing loving and clothes.

My father, however, did not.

He didn't know his mother's maiden name for the birth certificate and had no idea why my mother

thought it was important to bring me to see my grandmother so his mother after I was

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