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In this episode of A Little Bit Bothered, the girls spill all the tea on their epic cabin trip to the Colorado mountains. Think altitude sickness-ish, ghost towns, and wildlife encounters that kept everyone on edge (and laughing). It’s a mix of hilarious misadventures and memorable moments that prove this trip was one for the books. Here's your sign to go take that girls trip!
But things get spooky as they dive into childhood fears, ghostly encounters, and the weird stuff that still gives them chills today. From creepy dolls to a game of ‘Would You Rather’ that’ll make your skin crawl, this convo explores fear in all its freaky forms – with a side of humor, of course.
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Hello, friends.
Kelsey:It's Kelsey hopping on here.
Kelsey:I just want to give you a quick disclaimer that things get a little whack a doodle in this recording.
Kelsey:It is our first time ever recording in the same room, and it shows.
Kelsey:So I just want to warn you that you are going to hear some major echoes throughout this episode, and I'm sorry about that.
Kelsey:But you live and you learn, and unfortunately, we can't get back together to redo this whole episode, so enjoy it.
Monica:As it is.
Kelsey:We can't wait for you to hear it.
Monica:So, a group chat that turned into a podcast?
Monica:Hell yeah, dude.
Nicole:Fenting to all your besties.
Monica:Hell yeah, dude.
Monica:Are they a little bit bothered?
Monica:Hell yeah, dude.
Nicole:Welcome to a little bit bothered, the podcast where our group chat spills out into your ears, where four friends who overshare, laugh too much, and aren't afraid.
Monica:To get a little snarky in our brutally honest, vulnerable, and downright hilarious conversations from the chat and turned them into a podcast.
Monica:Because, honestly, why keep all this entertainment to ourselves?
Monica:Whether it's the petty stuff, the deep stuff, or the stuff that makes you wonder, did they really just say that?
Monica:We hear to say what everyone's thinking, but doesn't always say out loud.
Kelsey:So grab your drink, settle in, and join the group chat.
Kelsey:We promise you'll feel right at home like you're just another one of the crew dishing out hot takes and throwing some shade.
Nicole:I just would like to say already that this is kind of, like, crazy, all being in the same place, recording together.
Monica:I wish this was every recording.
Nicole:Yeah, this is fun.
Monica:Fun.
Nicole:Well, for those of you who don't know, we are on our girls trip.
Nicole:We are at a cabin in the very high country of Colorado.
Monica:We're all out of breath, so if you hear us panting, we can't breathe.
Nicole:The altitude is getting to us, niffling.
Kelsey:We're just.
Monica:I think we also have to have a honorable mention of our.
Monica:Oh, yeah, we have merch that is not for sale.
Monica:But maybe one day, someday one day.
Kelsey:Maybe one day, if you share this with everybody that you know and care and love about, we'll be cool enough.
Monica:To have merch for everyone, so we can afford to give you hats.
Monica:Also, I just want to say that it is very rainy and hoa hoa sees him outside.
Monica:Like, it actually looks like we're in twilight, which is fitting because we did watch Twilight.
Kelsey:I also tried to reenact twilight scene today, and I fell down a hill.
Monica:So we will post that on our social media when this episode goes live.
Kelsey:I did accomplish it the second time, but just barely.
Nicole:She almost took out a small, and now she's bleeding.
Nicole:She says, yes.
Kelsey:I have seemed to have acquired some sort of wound.
Kelsey:Yeah.
Nicole:It's not surprising if you saw her running around in the woods earlier as well.
Monica:It was not frolicking.
Monica:It was rolling down the.
Kelsey:Just trying to become Edward Cullen.
Nicole:Yeah.
Kelsey:As you freak it out, obviously it was meant for a vampire, not me.
Monica:Clearly.
Kelsey:Clearly.
Nicole:We almost had.
Kelsey:I could have played Bella.
Nicole:Yeah.
Kelsey:Yeah.
Nicole:Oh, yeah.
Nicole:Great.
Kelsey:Bella Swan.
Kelsey:You would have been better than Kristen.
Monica:Stewart, that's for sure.
Nicole:You were channeling Bella.
Monica:That's what it was.
Nicole:Clumsy.
Monica:Wrong character.
Kelsey:Darn.
Kelsey:So the lion found one.
Kelsey:Love with the lamb.
Kelsey:What a dumb.
Kelsey:What a dumb lamb.
Kelsey:That's me.
Monica:Okay.
Kelsey:Anyways, moving on.
Nicole:What else have we done while we've been here?
Monica:Well, we safely made it home, which I think is worth noting, because we decided to take a little joy ride out into the forest.
Monica:Beautiful trees.
Monica:Without checking our gasket.
Monica:Yeah, we almost were stranded.
Monica:But it was fine.
Monica:It was fine.
Monica:The jeep was parked at an angle.
Monica:Guys.
Monica:It was fine.
Nicole:We did make it out, so it was, in fact, fine.
Monica:Yeah, we're here.
Nicole:Yeah, it was.
Nicole:We.
Nicole:I mean, it was touch and go for.
Nicole:For a little minute there.
Nicole:We weren't sure how long we drove.
Monica:We didn't know how many miles.
Monica:It was not our wisest decision, but we are okay.
Kelsey:You can't rely on me to tell you to check the gas because I don't.
Kelsey:I have an electric car.
Kelsey:I will never think.
Kelsey:Do we have enough gas?
Monica:I'm just terrible.
Monica:Entering.
Monica:You did the forest.
Monica:I did not hear.
Kelsey:Yeah, she did question our fuel.
Nicole:How come all three of us knew?
Nicole:You said that.
Nicole:But the only driver.
Nicole:But the driver didn't respond.
Nicole:And none of us were like, hey, Monica, can you check the gas tank?
Nicole:We're all just like, okay.
Nicole:Well, she didn't answer, so carry on.
Nicole:All of us were just like, okay.
Nicole:Meanwhile, the gas lights on.
Kelsey:It is completely coming down.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:It's, like, about to snow, actually.
Nicole:Yeah, it's supposed to snow tonight.
Monica:Oh, actually, I think it is snowing further out.
Monica:It does kind of look like it's.
Nicole:A little bit more.
Monica:Oh, my gosh, you guys, it's so cool.
Monica:It's very pretty here.
Monica:So we're in South park.
Monica:Not South park.
Monica:We're in fairplay.
Monica:Fairplay, which is where South park was, like, based.
Monica:And there is a little town called South park.
Nicole:Yeah.
Monica:But we didn't realize it was an actual, like, historic city.
Monica:So we went looking for the characters.
Nicole:Thinking we would find we.
Nicole:Yeah, I think we.
Monica:To be fair, we did find pictures online of, like, the characters and stuff that they had here, and we found them today.
Monica:But the other day when we were.
Kelsey:Looking, we thought we were gonna go through, like, a replica south park city.
Nicole:Yes.
Kelsey:That's what I was, a show.
Kelsey:But we were going through South Park City.
Kelsey:The ghost town, actually.
Monica:Ghost town, which, by the way, the museum that goes along with this town is very creepy.
Monica:If you peeped any of our stories, you saw the creepy dolls and you saw the creepy mannequins.
Nicole:I didn't know this.
Nicole:It was going to be such a spooky that there was going to be so much spookiness.
Nicole:There's a lot because we purposely went to one ghost town.
Nicole:Then we accidentally went to the South park ghost town, which was arguably creepier.
Monica:Than with the actual ghost town doll.
Nicole:Room and all those mannequins, especially when we went in there.
Nicole:And I was fully expecting, like, when you go to universal studios and you go into, like, the Simpsons area, you know, that's what I was expecting, but in South park style.
Nicole:And I quickly realized that was not what was happening.
Monica:No.
Kelsey:You would just turn corners and all of a sudden it was a jump scare.
Kelsey:There would be, like, mannequins.
Monica:Mannequins.
Kelsey:Lots of mannequins.
Kelsey:Just living life.
Nicole:Old victorian era looking mannequins doing weird shit.
Nicole:Baby mannequins playing with creepy toys, sharp corners.
Monica:There was zero anticipation.
Monica:You couldn't see anything.
Monica:Oh, there's going to be a.
Kelsey:It was even worse because sometimes there were mirrors that would allude you to what you were going into, which was almost worse because you were seeing people in a reflection.
Monica:And it was scary.
Monica:Yeah, it was scary.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:Or, like, walking through.
Monica:And it sounds like the glass that, like, separating them because the building is about shatter next to you.
Kelsey:We went into this one house, and I walked.
Kelsey:I, like, peered into this pantry because it was like a house.
Kelsey:It was supposed to be set up like a house.
Kelsey:And Monica was right behind me.
Kelsey:And I turn around to leave the pantry, and there's a noise.
Kelsey:There's a noise behind me.
Kelsey:And Monica's like, oh, the house was just shaking.
Monica:I think it was like the wind and kind of, like, pulled on the door, and I'm gonna stand by that.
Monica:But it sounded creepy as.
Kelsey:I don't know.
Kelsey:It sounds to me, it sounded as it was within the pantry, not like, I mean, I was in from within he was like, in there.
Nicole:Every scary thing that's happened this weekend, Monica's had some kind of logical explanation.
Kelsey:It's a ghost.
Kelsey:And Monica's like, no, it was this.
Kelsey:It was this.
Monica:Like, the bagels.
Monica:The bagels still confused me because I was with Kelsey in the kitchen.
Monica:I.
Monica:So Kelsey was making some breakfast, and she's making a bagel, and I'm talking to her, and she's doing her thing.
Monica:She got the toaster out.
Monica:She's making her bagel.
Monica:And I had even, like, glanced in there because I wanted to make a bagel, but I was like, where are they?
Monica:That's weird.
Monica:But, like, hadn't quite gotten to looking for them just yet.
Monica:And then you guys came in.
Monica:I never saw her put them away.
Kelsey:And Nicole was standing next to me when I walked away with my bagel over here.
Monica:But I smelled, the minute I smelled your bagel, I said, oh, that sounds good.
Monica:I want a bagel.
Kelsey:Yeah.
Monica:So, like, we weren't putting the toaster away.
Monica:We weren't wearing bagels away.
Kelsey:And I walked away with my bagel on my plate and my drink in my hand.
Monica:I go into the kitchen, enter me, and I'm like, where the fuck the bagels at?
Monica:I see the toaster.
Monica:Where fuck's bagel?
Monica:Bagels at?
Monica:Looking around, I'm like, did you put the bagels in the fridge?
Nicole:Now all of us are in the.
Kelsey:Kitchen searching for bagels, looking for the bagels.
Monica:And it's a whole bagel bag kitchen either.
Monica:No, it's a small kitchen right behind us.
Monica:Very small kitchen.
Monica:There's only so many places it could have gone.
Monica:I opened the cabinet where the toaster belongs, which is.
Kelsey:Which is down below the island.
Kelsey:Like, it's not anywhere near where the toaster is.
Monica:There are.
Monica:Yeah, it was in there, and there the bagels are.
Monica:And I shit you right where the toaster went.
Monica:Dude, you put the bagels where the toaster goes.
Monica:Like, you must have been trying to put the toaster away.
Monica:And she.
Monica:Kelsey got so white.
Monica:Kelsey's already white.
Monica:And she got so white.
Monica:She was like, I did not put those there.
Kelsey:No.
Kelsey:It's like, sometimes I do things, and I'm like, I know I blacked out, but I'm like, no, I remember putting my butter in my bagel, and then I remember walking away with my bagel on my plate, and, yep.
Kelsey:It all being right where I left it.
Monica:How the fuck did the bagels get.
Monica:I mean, I want to, like, rationalize bagel ghosts and be like, you put them away.
Monica:No, it's a bagel ghost.
Monica:I don't remember seeing you put them away.
Nicole:So that was one.
Monica:That was literally the first morning that we were here.
Monica:Bagel ghost.
Monica:And that day we also went to.
Monica:That's when we went to St.
Monica:Amos.
Monica:Oh, yes, the ghost town.
Monica:That's an actual ghost town.
Monica:That wasn't scary.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:And we've had lots of chipmunks.
Kelsey:Yeah, ghost town doesn't mean scary, in case you don't know.
Kelsey:It just means they abandoned.
Nicole:But it's usually also kind of scary.
Kelsey:I mean, yeah, they can be.
Kelsey:We don't really get to go in any buildings there, so it's hard to.
Nicole:Get spooked out, you know, it wasn't very spooky.
Nicole:I was more just walking around.
Nicole:Plus, then we bought the seed, and you get to sit in this little, like, spot, and there's a gazillion chipmunks, and they just, like, jump all over you and you feed them.
Nicole:So that was really fun.
Monica:That was fun.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:I just feel like as we're talking about this, if you and your girlfriends have been thinking about having a girls trip, like, this is your sign, go do it.
Monica:Happen in the woods and go have a girls trip, because it's completely worth it.
Monica:Yeah.
Nicole:Yeah.
Monica:I was gonna say something else.
Nicole:About the chipmunks?
Monica:No, about spooky.
Monica:Because the minute that we got here, we were, like, spooked out.
Nicole:Yeah, well, it's just a cabin up in the woods.
Nicole:I mean, it's literally all woods around a neighborhood.
Monica:And Kelsey gets very excited and jumps at anything.
Monica:So, like, there's been several times where she husband in the passenger seat of the jeep.
Monica:By the way, first night we were driving home, like that.
Monica:Scared the freaking shit out of her.
Monica:Yeah, she smacks the window.
Monica:Our driveway to this cabin is, like, scares the shit out of us.
Monica:The driveway is not me.
Kelsey:Monica did this.
Monica:Well, no, it was not.
Monica:When you get excited and you scare us.
Kelsey:No, but Monica's the one scared.
Monica:Monica scared herself because she scared both of us.
Monica:No, I scared both of us because we're coming down this, like, dirt road, and we get to the driveway, and it's this huge hill.
Monica:And all I saw was, like, these lights through the trees.
Monica:And what my brain said was, those are headlights.
Nicole:Someone's here.
Monica:And so I had to stop at the bottom of the hill before I proceeded and got us, like, stuck on this hill, and someone's in our cabin.
Monica:And then I quickly realized it was the porch lights.
Monica:Like, we're okay, but it's like, dark out.
Nicole:We're in the middle of the woods.
Kelsey:No.
Monica:Then you scared yourself again.
Nicole:Pitch black.
Monica:But, like, all I did was slow down.
Monica:And Kelsey, like, freaked out.
Monica:Panic.
Kelsey:I could sense her panic.
Monica:Like, she was, her panic filled the entire car.
Nicole:And it hasn't left.
Monica:And it's been here the whole time.
Nicole:With us in the cabin.
Kelsey:I'm telling you, like, it's very rare that you can feel someone's emotions just, like, in the fill the room.
Kelsey:But Monica's panic, instantly, it, like, hit me.
Kelsey:I was like, something's wrong.
Kelsey:She didn't say a word, but I was like, something's wrong.
Monica:And then, like, that happens.
Monica:30 seconds later, we get to the top of the hill, and we park the jeep.
Monica:And I look out.
Monica:I look out Kelsey's window.
Nicole:Panic is still swirling around in the jeep.
Monica:I look out Kelsey's window and see my reflection, but it's dark out.
Monica:So it looked like it was somebody, like, out of the car, like, walking through the street.
Kelsey:And the panic hits again.
Monica:And all of us were like, what the fuck is happening?
Nicole:She looked out Kelsey's.
Nicole:So Monica's driving.
Nicole:Kelsey's in the passenger seat.
Nicole:And so she looks out Kelsey's passenger window.
Nicole:Screams while she's staring out Kelsey's window.
Nicole:So we and Nicole are in the back seat.
Nicole:Kelsey damn near jumps on Monica's laugh from the passenger seat.
Nicole:Like, we hit Ashley in the back.
Monica:Like, what's happening?
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:We're like, what?
Nicole:Should we be afraid?
Monica:Or like, I don't even know.
Monica:I'm just.
Kelsey:Monica looks terrified.
Monica:I'm just fearing for my life.
Nicole:Yeah.
Monica:And then we just try to keep you guys safe.
Monica:What else?
Monica:Oh, you saw a deer smack the window again and scared the fucking piss out of everybody in the car because she's like, oh, dear.
Kelsey:I get excited very easily.
Kelsey:Like, this morning.
Nicole:Yeah.
Nicole:Okay, well, then night one.
Nicole:Yeah, that one's actually funny.
Nicole:Night one also.
Nicole:Then we went in the hot tub, and it's so dark outside.
Nicole:And we're just, the panic is like.
Kelsey:Just, we were already fired up from.
Nicole:All the other, from all the jump scares we've had.
Nicole:And the cabin is just like, now we're comfortable, but it is a cabin, and it is a little bit spooky.
Nicole:And so then we're in the hot tub.
Nicole:It's pitch black.
Nicole:We keep hearing noises.
Nicole:Everyone's fucking jumpy as shit.
Nicole:Like, literally so afraid of everything.
Monica:It was actually really funny.
Nicole:But then this morning, well, then last.
Monica:Night, we saw a moose.
Nicole:Oh, yeah.
Monica:And it was very fun and, like, exciting.
Monica:We were like, yay, moose.
Monica:Okay.
Kelsey:Because we've been watching moose.
Nicole:We've been looking for moose.
Monica:We manifested.
Kelsey:We saw the moose driving last night.
Nicole:Yeah.
Monica:So then this walked across the road.
Monica:We're all, like, still basically in bed.
Monica:Still kind of three of the four of us are still.
Nicole:I still had my eye mask on.
Monica:Yeah.
Nicole:My eye mask was on my eyes.
Kelsey:And I get out of bed.
Monica:I was opening my eyes.
Kelsey:I get out of bed, and I walk in here, and I'm like, we have the blinds down.
Kelsey:Because in it's snowing.
Kelsey:I have the blinds down.
Kelsey:And we.
Kelsey:Because it gets really bright in here in the afternoon, so we have them shut at night and.
Kelsey:Cause it's just creepy.
Kelsey:Anyways, so I'm opening them to let in the morning light.
Kelsey:And a moose is walking right in front of our cabin, like, right by our jeep.
Monica:And this bitch runs across the room.
Kelsey:I wish that I had it on camera.
Kelsey:I was so excited.
Kelsey:I take off bolting back to the room where Monica's sleeping, and I run to her side of the bed.
Kelsey:I'm like, Monica, wake the fuck up.
Kelsey:She's not even in the bed.
Kelsey:So I run to the bathroom, and I'm like, Monica, there's a moose.
Nicole:Okay, but pause, because me and Nicole are sleeping in the basement.
Monica:We're downstairs.
Monica:You said people are up here.
Kelsey:We just hear.
Nicole:All we hear is sprinting.
Monica:Literally, I jumped out of the bed so fast because my brain, my mom's brain kicked in.
Monica:And I was like, people are running.
Monica:Something's happening.
Nicole:No one's been running.
Nicole:We told you.
Nicole:The elevation at the door either was like, I shot up in the top bunk, and I looked down.
Nicole:Nicole's already sprinted through the door.
Nicole:I'm, like, throwing my body over the edge of the bunk, like, terrified.
Nicole:Certainly there's a killer up there.
Nicole:And they're running.
Nicole:Certainly something.
Kelsey:We don't record.
Monica:Her fucking run so fast up the stairs.
Monica:The fastest I've ever ran.
Monica:It was like, it's a moose.
Monica:There's a moose outside.
Monica:Nothing.
Nicole:But we understood looking for this moose.
Monica:So, like, we were excited, but I.
Kelsey:Was like, I want to kill you.
Nicole:Then by the time we get here, the moose is like, we.
Nicole:All we can see is his ass, and he's walking out into the freaking.
Monica:Tree back at us.
Kelsey:Like, yeah, he turned around, like, what.
Monica:Is wrong with you guys?
Monica:Who are these bitches?
Nicole:That was.
Nicole:That was.
Nicole:Yeah.
Nicole:Quite a way to wake up this morning.
Kelsey:I'm so glad to know, though, that you would literally sprint to my defense, I would not.
Nicole:Well, depending on what we heard, we might have gone out the garage not.
Kelsey:Knowing what you were coming for.
Kelsey:You just.
Monica:I am the smallest of us all and I'm.
Kelsey:My little bulldog was coming to protect me.
Nicole:My.
Monica:Yeah, yeah.
Monica:I spring into action.
Nicole:There was.
Kelsey:She didn't have a baseball bat.
Nicole:Now that you're, like, telling the story.
Nicole:There was.
Nicole:The footsteps were.
Nicole:There was so many footsteps.
Nicole:There was one.
Monica:I'm shocked.
Monica:It's broken.
Monica:That rarely happened.
Nicole:I'm literally shocked to learn that it was only you running.
Monica:I wish I could.
Kelsey:I wish I could replicate the run in my head.
Nicole:It was the footsteps of you, Monica, and the killer.
Nicole:That somebody footsteps and how you.
Kelsey:How I think I was running.
Monica:Can I show you so we can see it?
Nicole:Yeah, yeah.
Nicole:Do it right behind all of these so we can.
Monica:Oh, my God.
Monica:You guys need to watch.
Monica:More room behind you guys.
Nicole:Oh, my God.
Nicole:There was just so many footsteps.
Nicole:Yeah, that's pretty close to what it.
Monica:Sounded like, I guess it's ok.
Monica:Why did I.
Kelsey:What is that?
Nicole:The Flintstones?
Nicole:That's what I want.
Nicole:You have such long legs and for there to be so many.
Nicole:You were taking such small little steps.
Monica:Oh, my gosh.
Monica:Because.
Monica:Yeah, I thought both of them are running for their lives.
Kelsey:For sure.
Nicole:You could hear from downstairs that across the whole house that the steps were running.
Kelsey:Ghost was running with me.
Nicole:Let's go.
Monica:Maybe it was a frightening thing to wake up to who?
Monica:That's for sure.
Monica:It gets better and better every time I think about it, though.
Monica:But guys, we also went to a hot spring.
Monica:And that was really fun.
Nicole:One relaxing, one relaxing moment of our.
Monica:Entire stay here was a hot spring.
Monica:And we were there for, like, ever.
Nicole:If you've never been to a hot spring, ten out of ten.
Nicole:It was so sure.
Monica:We went to the Mount Princeton hot Springs.
Monica:So if you're ever in, like, the Fairplay Breckenridge area, it's definitely worth going to.
Kelsey:Yes.
Kelsey:I actually did physically get burns on my butt cheeks, though.
Nicole:You did?
Monica:Literal burns.
Monica:The sand scorched her.
Monica:I took a dunk.
Monica:I didn't mean to.
Monica:I flopped into one of the pools and didn't realize how deep it was and went under.
Nicole:It.
Monica:I was like, oh, how deep is it?
Monica:As I was already, like in mid flop and just all the way down.
Nicole:The pool was funny because Kelsey and I could just walk around to the whole thing.
Nicole:I had to stop.
Monica:I'm on my toes, like, hi, guys.
Nicole:I can't go any further.
Kelsey:But then they had like, real ones down by the creek.
Monica:Yeah.
Kelsey:So you were, like, actually sitting between the rocks and that's where I burned.
Nicole:My ass because some of the water.
Monica:In there all day long, it was great.
Monica:Relaxing was so.
Monica:It was amazing.
Nicole:Yeah.
Nicole:The water flowing out from, like, the hot spots, I just never anticipated it to be that hot.
Nicole:It is like, scorching.
Nicole:It's like boiling.
Kelsey:Yeah, it is boiling.
Kelsey:Yeah.
Kelsey:And sometimes it, like, comes up through the sand, which is, I think, how my butt cheeks got burned.
Nicole:It was unpredictable.
Nicole:It was very unpredictable.
Kelsey:Yeah.
Nicole:So we were constantly mixing water around.
Monica:Yeah.
Nicole:We were trying to get some of.
Monica:The cool water from the, like, flowing creek.
Nicole:Yeah.
Monica:And the hot water.
Kelsey:The creek was cold and so you had to find this hot spots.
Kelsey:And then, like, sometimes the cold would mix in, which was nice, actually, if you were in a boiling pot of people soup.
Monica:Stop doing that.
Nicole:Stop.
Nicole:We've made people soup in the hot tub and people soup at the hot spring.
Nicole:Yes.
Monica:We were in the hot tub this morning.
Monica:I ruined it because I called it people soup.
Monica:It is, though, and that's why you need to stop saying it.
Kelsey:She uses a lot of colorful language.
Kelsey:People puppets.
Kelsey:People soup, lush pedestrians.
Monica:What else?
Monica:Ah, don't say that while we're in the mouth.
Nicole:Well, that was one of the things she said on night one in the hot tub that really had us all.
Kelsey:Fucking scared out of the jeep.
Kelsey:I said, don't.
Nicole:Yeah, don't even say it.
Monica:Excuse me.
Nicole:Yeah, but she hears a noise only she hears.
Nicole:That's what it was.
Nicole:She's fucking hearing shit.
Nicole:She's doing all kind of creepy shit all weekend, to be honest.
Monica:And then when she malfunctioned last night.
Kelsey:Yeah, listen, it wasn't as bad of a malfunction as we thought it was.
Monica:No, no.
Nicole:Luckily that one was recorded.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:And we were able to.
Kelsey:I'm glad there was video evidence because I was like.
Nicole:It was a miscommunication.
Kelsey:Yeah, it was just a miscommunication.
Monica:She forgot she even said words and just was like, what?
Monica:It was really funny, actually, cowboy.
Monica:It was funny.
Monica:But the best part is that it was on Instagram Live and getting comments.
Monica:There's snow accumulating on the barbecue.
Nicole:Oh, yeah.
Kelsey:That's what I was saying when I said it snowed.
Nicole:Yeah, this was fun.
Nicole:It hasn't snowed the whole time we've been here.
Nicole:No, but we're going to.
Monica:To snow now.
Nicole:It is snowing.
Kelsey:It's been fairly nice, but, yeah, we're gonna get snow.
Kelsey:Anywho, do we have any other stories or should we move on?
Monica:That was.
Monica:I think that those are definitely some of the highlights.
Monica:And so.
Monica:Oh, we went to the haunted ham.
Monica:Total.
Monica:Oh, that's true.
Monica:We did.
Monica:And it was adorable.
Monica:It was so cute.
Kelsey:And the lady was.
Kelsey:We were like, right off the bat, we're like, do you have any?
Monica:Like, we walked in, and she was like, hi, guys.
Monica:And we were like, hi.
Monica:I heard your hotel or your hotel was haunted.
Monica:And she goes, yep, it sure is.
Monica:And just like I told us about experiences, it was so cute.
Monica:It was so fun.
Monica:And she was really sweet, and she was like, yeah, go ahead, look around.
Monica:You can even go upstairs where the rooms are.
Monica:We have a deck.
Monica:You can.
Monica:Yeah, it was really great.
Monica:Ten out of ten.
Monica:Also recommend the handheld.
Kelsey:A guy poked his head out of his room and looked at us, and I'm still, like, a little not sure that he wasn't a ghost.
Kelsey:It was weird because I didn't actually see.
Kelsey:I didn't actually physically see him like you did.
Kelsey:Like, I saw the door shut, and that's why I said, did you see anybody?
Kelsey:Because I didn't see anybody.
Nicole:I did see his head.
Nicole:Yeah.
Nicole:That is all I saw, his bald head.
Nicole:He opened the door and shut the door.
Nicole:Just one motion, open shuttle.
Nicole:Make sure, because maybe he was looking for ghosts.
Nicole:I don't know.
Monica:Yeah, he could have been making sure that.
Nicole:Unclear.
Monica:It was fun, though.
Monica:It's a very cute town, though.
Monica:I feel like everyone we've met has been so nice, and, oh, yeah, they had, like, a fest happening today.
Monica:Cabin weekend.
Nicole:Mm hmm.
Monica:So since we're here and we're all spooked out, should we do spooky?
Monica:Would you others?
Nicole:Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Monica:Because Chad gave us some really disgusting ones this time.
Nicole:Okay.
Nicole:I didn't even read them all.
Monica:I don't think I've read any of them, so I'm gonna be very surprised.
Monica:They're gross.
Monica:I hate them all.
Monica:I feel like we should just be telling ghost stories because we're like.
Monica:I feel like this is our version of sitting around the campfire telling ghost stories or sitting around with our pod mics telling ghost stories.
Monica:I also just, like, love this, because I feel like it's the epitome of, like, a girls weekend where we're just getting ourselves freaked out over probably nonsense, nothing.
Monica:But it's just really.
Monica:It is really funny.
Monica:But we've done a lot of, like, it was funny because I feel like a lot of people probably thought, like, oh, is it gonna be weird, like, seeing each other for the first time, like, because, actually, I'd never met Kelsey before.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:I'm the only one who met Kelsey.
Monica:Three of you?
Monica:Yeah.
Kelsey:You three all have been together.
Kelsey:I just have only ever been with.
Nicole:Only, like, twice.
Monica:Yeah, twice.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:But for not very long.
Monica:Yeah, like, we've hung out.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:But really, like, our.
Monica:Our friend group became so close because of, like, the Internet, like, being online and stuff, and so, yeah, that was some of the questions.
Monica:It's like, is it gonna be.
Monica:Is it gonna be weird, you guys being all together?
Monica:And.
Monica:Absolutely not.
Monica:Like, instantly, there was literally has not been one single weird moment.
Monica:No.
Kelsey:Me and even the science.
Kelsey:The second we saw each other in the air force.
Monica:What was that?
Monica:It fell off the roof.
Monica:It was, like, ice or something off the roof?
Monica:Because I was not prepared for that.
Nicole:Oh, my God.
Nicole:That just awakened another memory of this week.
Nicole:See, we're just weird shit happening all the time.
Nicole:We're just, like, the first night when Kelsey thought she saw something in the kitchen, and then we were all just, like, rode her off, and we're like, okay, it's nothing.
Nicole:That was you that saw something, right?
Nicole:Then when we were downstairs in the basement, and I was talking to you guys, and I was, like, the only one facing, I don't know, the hallway, and I saw something, like.
Nicole:And I was like, okay, that I'm confident I saw something just come go across the floor.
Monica:And then I saw it.
Nicole:Yeah.
Nicole:And then I was like, either there's a rodent in this house, or we have to leave.
Nicole:Like, that was.
Nicole:I was, like, freaked out.
Nicole:I was like, someone go in there.
Monica:And look here for a massive rodent.
Nicole:It was a mouse.
Nicole:We named Jerry.
Nicole:He's our friend now.
Kelsey:Yes.
Nicole:See, that?
Nicole:That just added to the more snow did just fall over there.
Kelsey:I'm apparently so hysterical that when I say I see something, everybody's like, nah, she is.
Nicole:You are.
Nicole:Yeah.
Monica:Even just saying, oh, my gosh.
Monica:Oh.
Monica:Even our silence when, like, we've just been chilling and not saying anything, it's not awkward.
Monica:It doesn't feel weird.
Kelsey:And that doesn't happen very often.
Monica:It doesn't.
Monica:We don't shut up.
Monica:But, like, sometimes, oh, my gosh, no sheets of ice are just falling off of the roof.
Monica:So funny.
Monica:Anyway, yeah, so far, it's just been a good trip, and I'm a little sad that it's coming to an end.
Monica:It's not fair.
Nicole:It would be nice if we all lived in the same state.
Monica:It would be.
Monica:Sorry.
Monica:I mean, we already have two people in one place.
Monica:So I guess that's where everybody needs to go.
Monica:Oh, gosh.
Monica:Just think, I was already there.
Monica:It didn't work out.
Nicole:No, just kidding.
Nicole:Well, you didn't find us.
Nicole:That's why.
Monica:Literally, I mean, I found you guys.
Monica:I knew you guys, but we were not.
Monica:Our group hadn't formed until after I already left, which is very unfortunate for me.
Nicole:Yeah, it is.
Monica:It is unfortunate, but it is what it is.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:It is unfortunate, though.
Monica:It always.
Monica:It feels that way.
Monica:It's that way for a lot of people.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:Adult friendship, long distance, and, like, just that timing of it being off.
Monica:And I know we were saying this earlier, but, like, 20 years ago, having long distance friendships would have been so much more difficult.
Monica:But for us, being able to chat all day long, like, our group chat and stuff, makes it a lot easier to feel like we're with each other all day long and, like, more frequently than we are.
Monica:I don't know, like, it just.
Monica:It's hard enough making friends and then it's sex that, like, we're also.
Monica:And keeping friends.
Monica:Like, it's hard enough keeping friends in adulthood, too.
Monica:So, I mean, we're lucky to have each other, but also sex.
Monica:We're not in the same vicinity of each other all the time.
Nicole:Yeah.
Monica:It's just so weird.
Monica:It's a weird dynamic.
Kelsey:It is.
Monica:But I'm very thankful for the Internet.
Kelsey:Me too.
Nicole:We're thankful for WhatsApp.
Monica:Yes.
Monica:Sponsor us.
Nicole:Yeah.
Monica:Chat, GPT and.
Monica:What's up, sponsor?
Nicole:Yeah.
Nicole:For real.
Nicole:Okay, but back to the spooky.
Nicole:Would you rather.
Nicole:Yes.
Monica:Ooh.
Monica:Ooh.
Monica:I don't like this one.
Monica:I'm telling you, they're bad.
Monica:Would you rather hear whispers from the walls or see shadowy figures out of the corner of your.
Monica:Oh, those are the tame ones.
Monica:Scoot.
Monica:Go to the next two.
Monica:We'll answer it.
Nicole:Oh, wait, wait.
Nicole:What was the question?
Monica:Would you rather hear whispers from the walls or see shadowy figures out of the corner of your eye?
Monica:Shadowy figures?
Monica:Because that happened to me already.
Kelsey:Shadowy figures.
Kelsey:Yeah, I was about to say.
Kelsey:I live with that.
Monica:I see shadow people.
Monica:Yeah, I don't think I would want to hear them.
Monica:Yeah, no, I hear you.
Monica:No, see you out of my peripherals.
Nicole:I don't really want either, but.
Monica:Yeah, but go to the next set.
Monica:The next set are particularly awful.
Nicole:Would you rather feel your bed slowly start to float into the air while you sleep or have your reflection move independently in the mirror?
Monica:That one.
Monica:Literally, that one freaks me out.
Monica:Both of them.
Monica:I hate both of them.
Monica:But I guess if I had to pick one bed, because I would not want to see my reflection move in the pedaling in the mirror.
Nicole:Agree.
Monica:Agree.
Monica:I would probably pee my pants.
Monica:Both of them.
Monica:I would pee my pants, probably.
Monica:But the reflection would more.
Nicole:Yeah, that's scarier because then it's like, wait a minute.
Nicole:Am I.
Nicole:Yeah.
Nicole:Am I.
Monica:Am I.
Nicole:What's happening?
Kelsey:Yeah.
Nicole:Right?
Nicole:Yeah.
Nicole:If it's the bed, then you could, like, think it's the house or.
Nicole:I don't know.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:Just a poltergeist.
Nicole:Yeah.
Kelsey:Would you rather hear footsteps behind you while walking alone in the woods at night or feel a hand grab your ankle from under your bed?
Monica:Although that was the other one I said, ill much rather hear footsteps.
Nicole:Footsteps.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:Cause you could get out of the forest and it'd be done.
Kelsey:Maybe.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:Hope, perhaps.
Nicole:I don't want anything to grab you.
Monica:From under your bed.
Monica:I would have to burn my house down.
Nicole:That's insane.
Monica:Like, there's no recovering after that.
Nicole:No way.
Kelsey:I would leave.
Monica:I would leave the country.
Monica:I would get as far away as I wasn't.
Monica:There's a reason that the bed that we have is on the floor.
Monica:On the floor.
Monica:There's nothing going under my bed.
Nicole:That's how mine is too.
Monica:Mine is literally on the floor.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:Okay.
Monica:Would you rather find a cursed videotape that guarantees your death in seven days or be forced to live in a house where anyone who enters dies mysteriously within 24 hours?
Kelsey:The house no one would be allowed in?
Monica:Yeah, don't come into my house.
Monica:But at least I don't die in seven days.
Kelsey:I hate that.
Monica:Yep.
Kelsey:I hate both of those.
Monica:Oh, this is a good one.
Monica:At least you can keep people out.
Monica:This is a good one.
Monica:Would you rather have your body taken over by a demon that forces you to hurt your loved ones, or be the only survivor of a brutal massacre with no memory of how you survived?
Monica:Both of those are awful.
Monica:Gosh, those are both really dark.
Monica:But I will take massacre 500, Alex, because.
Nicole:No, I can't.
Nicole:Yeah.
Monica:Have a demon take over your body that forces you to hurt your loved ones, or be the only survivor of a brutal mastication with no memory of how you survived.
Monica:I don't need to remember it.
Monica:It's fine.
Monica:They're both horrendous.
Monica:They're horrendous, but I don't need to remember it.
Monica:That snow is thumping on the porch.
Nicole:Literally.
Kelsey:Yeah.
Monica:And I'm panting, I'm huffing and puffing.
Kelsey:Yeah, I'm trying.
Kelsey:Like, my nose is so runny right now, and I'm just trying so hard to not be, like, sucking my fucking nose up in the microphone.
Kelsey:So if you see me, like, with my sleeve on my nose, it's for you, so you don't have to listen to my snorting.
Monica:So it doesn't sound like this.
Kelsey:Yes, this one isn't that spooky.
Kelsey:But I am curious what your answer would be.
Kelsey:Would you rather see a doppelganger of yourself staring at you from across the street or find a letter written in your handwriting that you don't remember writing?
Monica:Both.
Monica:I would, actually.
Monica:I do not mind experiencing either of those.
Monica:However, they do say, what?
Monica:Doppelganger, you die.
Monica:But what?
Monica:Yeah, that's the actual lore of the doppelganger.
Nicole:Well, that's how it goes.
Monica:That's not how it goes in vampire diaries.
Monica:No, but I've never heard that before.
Monica:Oh, yeah.
Monica:Look it up.
Monica:She's like, I will not look it up.
Nicole:I probably won't.
Monica:But the one.
Monica:The handwritten letter to your, like, to yourself that you don't remember writing.
Nicole:Yeah, that's true.
Monica:It's really bizarre.
Monica:Like, I would have be like, whoa.
Kelsey:Yeah.
Kelsey:I think it depends on what the letter says.
Monica:Like, what happened.
Monica:Why don't I remember?
Monica:That goes a lot of different ways.
Monica:Well, did I chime travel like, I would?
Kelsey:Yeah.
Kelsey:Yeah.
Kelsey:It's interesting.
Monica:It's not as scary as both.
Monica:Yeah, both would definitely, like, jolt you and would make me feel not well.
Monica:But I don't know.
Monica:I think it really depends what the letter would say.
Kelsey:Yeah, I wouldn't mind speaking spooky encounters.
Kelsey:I just don't want horrendous ones where people are brutally murdered.
Monica:Or I'm being like, yeah, or like, something.
Monica:Yeah, or something's grabbing my foot out from under the bed.
Monica:No, thanks.
Monica:Don't touch me.
Nicole:Yeah, hard pass on that.
Monica:Don't touch me.
Monica:Very hard pass.
Kelsey:Yeah.
Monica:We did ask if there was anything with us to flicker the light while we were filming.
Monica:So far, no, thanks.
Kelsey:So far, nothing.
Kelsey:I know.
Kelsey:I was just thinking that.
Kelsey:I was like, I'm still waiting.
Monica:I'm still waiting.
Kelsey:Friendly bagel mover ghost.
Kelsey:Anytime now.
Monica:Anytime, bagel ghost.
Monica:Oh, it's so, like.
Monica:Like, foggy out there.
Monica:It's cool looking.
Monica:It's very cool looking outside.
Monica:Hello, colorado.
Nicole:Truly, it is beautiful.
Monica:I'm curious because we've had lots of, like, weird, spooky, spooky random crap this week, and we've had a lot of conversations.
Monica:What are some of, like, the spooky paranoia kind of things that you guys have experienced, like, in real life.
Monica:I have some doll ones to go along with our spooky doll shenanigans in the.
Monica:In the south park historic.
Monica:And we talked about creepy dolls last time, so to go off of that, oh, my gosh, I think I was, like, six, which made it even worse because I was a little.
Monica:And I was like, oh, no.
Monica:Everything is so scary when you're little.
Nicole:It's true.
Monica:You know how during the holidays they always have, like, all the seasonal, like, tchotchke, like, little toys and, like, okay, so it was Valentine's Day, and my mom had got me this little.
Monica:It probably was, like, as tall as this can.
Monica:It wasn't very tall, but it was a little, like, bear.
Monica:And it moved and it spoke when you pushed a little, it spoke.
Monica:It said, I love chocolate when you push this little hand because it was a Valentine's Day themed thing.
Monica:And so I was like, oh, it's so cute.
Monica:It's okay.
Monica:Whatever.
Monica:And, you know, she got it for me for Valentine's Day.
Monica:I had it up on my dresser, and I had, like, a taller dresser.
Monica:And I was in my bed one night, and I'm about to fall asleep, and the stupid thing starts going off.
Monica:Chocolate.
Monica:I love chocolate.
Monica:And I look at it and it's walking.
Monica:What?
Monica:And it falls off.
Monica:And I kid you not, I jumped from my bed, over it, and ran out my fucking door and into my mom's room.
Monica:And I was like, nope.
Monica:And it stayed.
Monica:It stayed there until the next day when I made the.
Monica:My mom dispose of it because it was terrifying.
Monica:I don't trust toys that talk like.
Monica:Yeah, yeah.
Monica:Because even if it is, like, an electronic malfunction, whatever.
Monica:Like, that might be the rational version of it.
Monica:Walk, though, before that.
Monica:Yeah, I hear you.
Monica:Unless it was supposed to.
Monica:And, like, it did.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:You know what I mean?
Monica:Like, that's possible.
Monica:I don't know.
Monica:I'm just saying, I don't care if it's the rational thing or nothing.
Monica:It's creepy as hell.
Monica:Oh, for sure.
Monica:It was terrifying.
Monica:It was terrifying.
Monica:I wanted to die, actually, because I was so scared.
Monica:Like, I think I almost died of a panic attack.
Nicole:That is horrifying.
Nicole:And that just reminded me of something that happened to us.
Nicole:Have you ever seen those?
Nicole:They're like kids toys.
Nicole:I think they're called link emuls, and they all link together.
Nicole:And so when you have, like, we had four of them, and so when you put them together, they all sing together or talk to each other type of thing.
Nicole:If you just have one, it still sings and talks and has lights and stuff.
Nicole:But when they're together, they do.
Nicole:They link up and, you know, talk to each other and stuff.
Nicole:One night, we were going to bed.
Nicole:Kids were already in their rooms.
Nicole:We were going in our room, and there's.
Nicole:We have a loft, and we're, like, getting into bed, and all the fucking linkables start talking, like, lights.
Nicole:Like, and it's all dark out there.
Nicole:And so I open the door, and, like, you can see them lighting up in the loft.
Nicole:And I think one of them even downstairs.
Nicole:And I'm like, I was so afraid.
Nicole:I was like, the toys.
Nicole:I was like.
Nicole:Both of us were, like, spooked, because it's like, why is this happening?
Nicole:You know, I.
Nicole:We rationalized it somehow, but the linkables did leave my house very quickly after that, so I was like, no.
Nicole:All of you talking to each other in the night.
Nicole:It's not happening here anymore.
Monica:The furbies.
Nicole:Yeah.
Monica:Those things were up 100%.
Monica:Demon toys.
Monica:No, thank you.
Nicole:And they even looked creepy.
Monica:Yeah, they were.
Monica:They were terrible.
Nicole:Yeah.
Monica:Look like gremlins.
Nicole:Yeah.
Monica:With beaks.
Nicole:There were.
Monica:I hate furby.
Monica:My kids want one so bad.
Monica:No.
Monica:Nope.
Nicole:They're still around.
Kelsey:They kind of brought them back.
Kelsey:Yeah.
Nicole:Oh, I didn't know that.
Monica:Yeah, they came back.
Kelsey:I liked my furby.
Monica:I did not.
Nicole:Somehow I have furbies associated with the movie remlans.
Monica:Yeah.
Nicole:Yeah, they do, right?
Monica:They look similar.
Nicole:And they were, like, popular at the same time, maybe.
Nicole:Well, I must.
Nicole:They must have been popular.
Nicole:And I saw gremlins at the same time.
Monica:I think so, because I swear I saw gremlins probably around that time that the furbies came out.
Nicole:Yeah.
Monica:Associated them.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:There's some similarities to it, but I think that they're creepy and they respond generally.
Nicole:Toys that talk to you are creepy.
Monica:It's true.
Monica:I don't.
Monica:I don't like toys that talk to.
Nicole:Except Chad.
Monica:Yeah, well, Chad's not a toy.
Kelsey:Are you sure?
Kelsey:Well, I don't.
Nicole:He talks to you, though.
Monica:It's adult toy.
Monica:Okay.
Nicole:We've taken a turn.
Nicole:We've gone down a different road here.
Kelsey:We learned a lot about each other this weekend.
Nicole:Oh, my God.
Kelsey:I was gonna say I have a.
Monica:Cute kind of talking toy story.
Monica:So I have this puzzle, and it's all the members of the shark family.
Monica:You know, baby shark, mama shark.
Nicole:Oh, yeah.
Monica:Grandma.
Nicole:Oh, we have that.
Nicole:We had that.
Nicole:We had that puzzle.
Monica:Okay.
Monica:So we never had a problem with that toy until my second was born, and then the grandpa shark specifically started going off.
Monica:And it's cute, though, because.
Monica:Let me explain.
Monica:So my grandfather passed before, like, right before Justin, I got married.
Monica:And I didn't call him, like, grandpa or any, like, I called him grandpa grandpa.
Monica:Like, that was his name.
Monica:Grandpa grandpa.
Monica:Well, grandpa shark on the thing goes off in doubles like that.
Monica:Specifically, he goes, grandpa, grandpa, grandpa, grandpa, grandpa, grandpa.
Nicole:Shut up.
Monica:And I'm like, I love that.
Kelsey:What?
Nicole:That's crazy.
Monica:He's annoying with it, so I have to tell him to shut up.
Monica:I'm like, okay, I get it.
Monica:I see you, I hear you.
Monica:Then I go over to toy and I turn it off.
Monica:But at first I thought the batteries were, like, going dead, so I, like, changed batteries.
Monica:Same thing happened.
Monica:Very specific.
Monica:Grandpa, gripa gripa grippa gripa gropa.
Nicole:That is so weird.
Monica:But I'm like, okay, hi.
Monica:Hello.
Monica:Thank you for coming to visit, and.
Monica:No, stop making the toys talk, please.
Monica:But you gotta come out like that.
Monica:Yeah, but at least I'm like, you know, it's not something that makes me scared.
Monica:Like, when it happens.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:I don't get, like, a panicky feeling about it.
Monica:I'm like, okay, hello.
Monica:And my grandmother's also passed.
Monica:We've had lots of experiences with her with electronics.
Monica:Like, she's really, really good at manipulating electronics.
Monica:So I wonder if he's just more recently figured out how to do it.
Nicole:Sounds like a grandpa.
Monica:Yep.
Monica:Sounds like a grandpa, right?
Nicole:Yeah.
Monica:That's my cute ghost story.
Nicole:I guess that is pretty cute.
Monica:You can call it cute.
Kelsey:That's cute.
Nicole:Yeah.
Monica:I mean, if all ghost stories were that way, wouldn't have as much of a problem.
Monica:Yeah, the bagels were cute.
Nicole:I didn't feel threatened by the bagels.
Kelsey:I didn't either.
Kelsey:I thought it was funny.
Kelsey:I thought it was a funny little.
Nicole:I think he was gaslighting us a little bit.
Nicole:It was a test of our friendship to see if we would turn on each other, which we did, a little bit.
Monica:I mean, it's okay.
Kelsey:You guys just ready to throw me under the bus every time?
Kelsey:They really don't have a lot of faith in me is what I've learned.
Nicole:I really just try to, like, any try, and I'm like, vanika, like, rationalizing the stuff.
Nicole:I try and, like, me and Kelly ignore, ignore.
Nicole:And they're just, yeah, you guys are like, immediately something happens, and they're like, spooky.
Nicole:And spooky is usually, like, the last thing to come to my mind.
Nicole:Like, I'll deny that.
Nicole:I deny pretty much.
Nicole:And I think that's so last episode, we talked about my oldest and how.
Monica:He is actually a creepy kid.
Nicole:Oh, how he.
Nicole:What was it that I told you guys when he was telling me, like, that?
Nicole:The door.
Nicole:Like, who opened the door?
Nicole:Things like that.
Nicole:So then after we recorded it, I was talking to my husband, and I was telling him about, like, you know, that we talked about that on the podcast.
Nicole:And he's like, oh, you didn't even say any, like, the really creepy stuff he does.
Nicole:But, like, I'm in denial, you know, so I'm like, what are you talking about?
Nicole:And he's like, he reminds me that, you know, our oldest will very, very frequently be like, we'll be talking about something or we'll drive somewhere, or he'll see something on tv, and he'll just.
Nicole:Nonchalant, just reference past lives.
Nicole:And he's like, oh, yeah, well, when I was your age.
Nicole:Or he'll say specific things, like, I wish I had written some down that he said, but he'll be like, oh, well, when I was 25 and I had that car, or, like, just random stuff, and we'll be driving somewhere.
Nicole:We were driving to California, and he's like, oh, yeah, I used to live over there, and that's when my grandpa was there.
Nicole:And he lived.
Nicole:And, like, just entire stories, full stories that just.
Nicole:He just pulls out of nowhere.
Nicole:It happens all the time.
Monica:And he's not old enough to really be that creative.
Nicole:He's not that old.
Nicole:No, he's not really that creative.
Nicole:Like, he doesn't do a whole lot of, like, white lies, really, yet.
Nicole:Like, the imagination isn't fully there, so it's just very.
Monica:Makes you believe it more.
Nicole:It's very odd.
Nicole:Yeah.
Nicole:And usually I just, like, brush it off.
Nicole:Like, okay, he's just kid, but I don't often hear other kids, like, doing that.
Monica:No.
Nicole:And he does it all.
Kelsey:You could ask these questions because someday he won't do it anymore.
Kelsey:And you'll be like, man, I should have asked more questions.
Nicole:Sometimes I do.
Nicole:And then he usually just says what he wants to say, and then he's done talking about it.
Kelsey:Now you need to write it down.
Nicole:I know I will.
Nicole:Next time he does one, I'll write.
Monica:It down because I'm so curious.
Monica:I need to hear all about his past lives.
Nicole:Yeah.
Nicole:And then between our last episode and this episode, my youngest did something so creepy that had me so spooked.
Nicole:He woke up in the middle of the night on his baby monitor.
Nicole:They share a room we wake up to him screaming bloody murder.
Nicole:Like, screaming, look at the monitor.
Nicole:He's running around the room, and that's, this is, like, abnormal.
Nicole:And so I told Patrick, I'm like, we'll go see what's wrong with him.
Nicole:He goes in there.
Nicole:He picks him up, and I just hear him saying, like, I want mommy.
Nicole:I want mommy.
Nicole:So I go in there, pick him up.
Nicole:He's, like, clinging, like, literally clinging to me like never before.
Nicole:And I'm like, okay, like, let's lay down.
Nicole:So we try and lay down in his bed with him.
Nicole:He lays on my chest, will not let his hands, feet, legs, knees, elbows, nothing.
Nicole:Touch the bed.
Nicole:A piece of him touches the bed, and he's, like, so jumpy.
Nicole:Like, getting back on top of me.
Nicole:I have my hands on his back.
Nicole:I move my hand.
Nicole:He's fucking jumping.
Nicole:Like, he's horrified.
Nicole:We laid in there for, like, maybe five minutes.
Nicole:Like, the blanket moved.
Nicole:He started screaming, screaming again.
Nicole:I'm already in his bed with him.
Nicole:And so I'm like, okay, let's go to my room.
Nicole:We go to my room.
Nicole:He never sleeps in my bed.
Nicole:Never.
Nicole:I put him in my bed.
Nicole:He's on my chest, like a little fucking koala hanging on.
Nicole:And he just keeps looking up over my shoulder.
Nicole:He's looking over my shoulder, and he's going like this, covering his eyes.
Kelsey:Oh, no, no, no.
Nicole:Looking up and then covering his eyes to the point.
Nicole:Now I'm getting scared.
Nicole:I'm like, motherfucker, what are you doing?
Monica:What are you saying?
Nicole:And he's still jumpy, jumpy, jumpy.
Nicole:Like, I move my leg.
Nicole:I do anything.
Nicole:He's jumpy as hell.
Nicole:It went on for probably, like, 15 minutes before he fell asleep.
Nicole:At least 15 minutes.
Nicole:It was scary.
Nicole:And after that, he just, we did get him to sleep in his room again the next day.
Nicole:But it was, he was saying, like, it's scary, it's scary, it's scary.
Nicole:But now he's like, fine, I'm slept in there.
Nicole:That, that hasn't happened again.
Nicole:But he was horrified, and it was horrifying to witness Sage.
Monica:That's all I'm gonna say.
Nicole:I don't know.
Nicole:Nothing has happened again.
Monica:Oh, my gosh, that's so scary.
Monica:And your oldest didn't, like, he was just asleep.
Nicole:He was sleeping amidst the screaming, amidst all of it.
Nicole:He just pretty much stayed asleep.
Nicole:The only thing I can say to rationalize to stay asleep through all that, it was actually impressive.
Nicole:We had recently gotten them these new blankets, and they are glow in the dark.
Nicole:I don't know.
Nicole:Because he was, like, specifically afraid of, like, the bed, the blanket, any movement?
Nicole:I don't know if he had a nightmare, woke up, saw the glow in the dark blanket.
Nicole:His is a dinosaur face.
Nicole:And then got scared.
Kelsey:Yeah, but then to be in what.
Monica:You said, but then in my.
Nicole:But it was like he was too far gone.
Nicole:He was like.
Nicole:Yeah, the fear was.
Nicole:Had overtaken him at that point.
Nicole:I don't know.
Nicole:That was fucking weird.
Monica:Yeah, that's the scary.
Monica:The scariest part.
Kelsey:Yeah, it was.
Kelsey:Scariest part.
Monica:And running around in his room, that's terrifying.
Kelsey:Yeah.
Nicole:I can just wake up and be screaming.
Nicole:Yeah.
Kelsey:I could rationalize all of that.
Kelsey:But the going into your room and then, like, staring at, like.
Kelsey:And acting scared of what he was.
Nicole:Seeing and then the covering the eyes.
Monica:Yeah.
Kelsey:Yeah.
Kelsey:That's where I draw the line.
Kelsey:Because you could.
Kelsey:Night terror.
Kelsey:I could rationalize with a night terror until you say that.
Kelsey:And then I'm like, nope.
Nicole:Yeah, that was weird.
Monica:So scary.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:That literally gave me goosebumps.
Nicole:Yeah.
Monica:So much creepier when it's like, stories with kids.
Nicole:Yeah.
Nicole:I'm just gonna say if it wasn't anything, it was passing through and it's gone.
Monica:Okay.
Nicole:I like that it's gone because everything's been fine since.
Nicole:And that was probably.
Monica:Well, if it ever had a week and a half ago, two weeks, like, if it ever happens to.
Monica:And you need to tell it to go away.
Nicole:Yeah.
Monica:It's not.
Monica:Well, go and stand your ground and hopefully it goes away.
Nicole:Yeah, hopefully.
Monica:They're a little.
Monica:In the name of Jesus.
Nicole:Yeah, for real.
Nicole:Get the Bible.
Nicole:Get the Bibles out.
Nicole:A Bible in their bedroom.
Monica:Yeah, they have some at South Park City you could probably just grab.
Nicole:When we were.
Nicole:I wouldn't take one of those old and scary.
Monica:We were walking through South Park City Museum.
Monica:You can touch the things.
Monica:That is way too much trust.
Monica:There's way too much trust.
Monica:You can flip the pages in the Bible.
Monica:At the old Bible, you can touch all the things.
Monica:I.
Monica:We literally could have taken whatever we wouldn't done there.
Monica:I wouldn't because I would believe it was cursed.
Nicole:But for sure.
Kelsey:You have been bringing a ghost.
Kelsey:Yeah, for sure.
Monica:I have another very funny doll story.
Nicole:Okay, go for it.
Monica:Even the dolls.
Monica:Well, I have a, like, I had a fear of it, so, like, it's just, like, sticks out in my mind.
Monica:But do you just attract creepy dolls to your life?
Monica:Maybe.
Monica:It's possible.
Monica:I don't anymore, but I also attract friends that are assholes.
Kelsey:Oh, jeez.
Monica:Us not included.
Nicole:Yes.
Monica:Anyway, so my.
Monica:I used to work at a retail store, and the staff there and I, we were very, very close.
Monica:Like, we hung out outside of work, and there was, like, me and two other people that always worked very similar shifts.
Monica:We were all, like, met in management, so we were usually working kind of with each other almost every day.
Monica:And so we got really close.
Monica:And so my boss knew that I had a creepy doll, like phobia.
Monica:Like, they were terrifying, and I didn't like them.
Monica:And so one day, we're closing.
Monica:Me, her, and another one of our.
Monica:And our third person that was in our group, we're closing, and they're dicks.
Monica:They're like, okay, you know, why don't you go check the fitting rooms, make sure that there's nothing in there.
Monica:We're each gonna count down the doors.
Monica:The first fitting room I fucking open, I scream fucking murder because there was a fucking doll in the fucking fitting room, and I screamed all out, and I ran out of the fucking.
Monica:And they're laugh.
Monica:They're peeing themselves laughing, these bitches.
Monica:And Laura's like, I don't know if she's gonna listen, but if you listen, shout out to you and thank you for traumatizing me.
Monica:And she's like, it's mine.
Monica:I brought it from home.
Monica:I have a picture of me and the creepy doll together somewhere.
Monica:I'll have to find it.
Monica:But, yeah, a lot of.
Monica:A lot of experience with creepy dolls.
Monica:She was creepy, too.
Monica:She was like an old, like, porcelain on a stand.
Nicole:My great grandma used to have those.
Nicole:Yeah, my great grandma used to have those, and she passed one down to me, and I had it for a little while, and I was like, I just can't.
Nicole:I don't know.
Nicole:It's too much.
Nicole:It's too much for me.
Nicole:It's weird.
Nicole:It's just weird.
Monica:I remember opening that fitting room door and just, like, literally screaming and almost feeding my pants.
Monica:I couldn't run away fast enough.
Monica:And I'm like, oh, my.
Monica:And I think back to it now.
Monica:I'm like, wow.
Nicole:My reaction was, like, way very extreme.
Monica:No, I think it's right on track.
Monica:I've done the same.
Monica:Yeah, I probably, like.
Monica:I mean, I feel like I say this with every scary story, but I probably would have paid my parents.
Monica:Yeah, I'm gonna really try hard to dig deep because I have it on Facebook, and I'll try to find it, and I'll put it on our socials.
Monica:You guys can tell me if I was valid in my scream or not.
Monica:No validity.
Monica:I'm telling you right now.
Monica:Yeah, I don't need.
Nicole:Regardless of what the doll was.
Monica:That sounds terrible.
Monica:Terrifying and terrible.
Monica:It was.
Monica:It was.
Kelsey:No, thank you.
Monica:Uh uh.
Nicole:You guys, we should have people write in their stories so that we can share them, like, if any listeners.
Nicole:Bless you.
Kelsey:I tried to get them.
Kelsey:I tried.
Monica:Me and Kelsey have been sneezing, like, every day.
Nicole:They.
Nicole:I should take an allergy pill, and then the next day, they complain about their noses and their sneezing.
Nicole:It's a fun game.
Nicole:It's a fun game they play.
Nicole:No, but if any listeners have scary stories, they need to send them to.
Monica:Us that are, like, a time or.
Nicole:You scared somebody or whatever.
Kelsey:Yeah, I'm sure it's not real scary.
Nicole:Yes.
Nicole:Manufactured.
Kelsey:I did scare Ashley one time.
Nicole:Oh, yeah.
Monica:We were hiding behind the door, and I knew you guys were upstairs, and it was too freaking quiet.
Monica:Yes, I looked.
Monica:Was outside on the porch.
Monica:Because that makes sense.
Monica:That's rational.
Monica:But, no, you weren't out there.
Monica:Although that fucking.
Monica:That tag on the grill has scared me this entire week.
Nicole:It scared me multiple times.
Monica:But then.
Monica:So then I went and checked mine and Kelsey's room and was like, okay, you guys were probably in the really creepy walk in closet.
Kelsey:You weren't there.
Monica:And then I noticed that you left the fan light on in the other bedroom.
Monica:I was like, that was on earlier in the day, though.
Kelsey:Yeah, that wasn't even because of us.
Monica:Yeah, that wasn't.
Monica:That wasn't because we were in there.
Monica:That was on earlier in the day.
Monica:So.
Monica:And she said that too.
Monica:She was like, the light in the fan is on.
Monica:I was like, I know I turned them on earlier.
Monica:Well, that's.
Monica:I think I got changed in there.
Monica:As soon as I saw that you weren't out on the porch.
Kelsey:I.
Monica:You were trying to scare me.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:She goes, I know you bitches are hiding.
Monica:And me and Kelsey are like, oh, my God.
Monica:Trying so hard.
Monica:Which, behind the door, we were trying so hard not to make a sound.
Monica:Okay.
Kelsey:I was literally.
Kelsey:I didn't tell you guys this last night.
Kelsey:I was literally trying to force it back into my body so hard that I thought I, like, I was gonna fart because I was, like, so much pressure from holding in the laugh.
Kelsey:I was, like, trying to.
Kelsey:Trying to force him to hold him apart too.
Nicole:You laugh in a complete.
Kelsey:No, but I was giggling.
Kelsey:I don't know.
Kelsey:You could ask Nicole.
Kelsey:I was like.
Monica:We both were, like, huffing and puffing behind the door.
Kelsey:So shy, like, shove it back in.
Monica:You're like that scene from scary movie.
Nicole:Like, he's just, like, giggling.
Monica:Strong hair.
Monica:He's like, on the phone, he's like, are you scared?
Monica:Oh, that's funny.
Monica:Oh, my gosh.
Monica:It's been a good time, though.
Monica:We've had so much fun.
Kelsey:We have.
Nicole:Yeah.
Monica:Except for our getting our rental car, that was.
Nicole:Yeah, but we got a rental car that we like, so.
Nicole:Yeah, it's worth it.
Kelsey:Our whole travel day of getting on our flights and flying here took less time trying to get a rental car.
Monica:Than literally getting to the rental car place and getting it was.
Monica:But I feel like everything has worked out so perfectly.
Kelsey:Yeah.
Monica:We've already kind of been in our spooky season, just kind of talking about everything as we approach Halloween, and then we ended up being somewhere that had, like, all of this spooky shit.
Monica:So it's been fun.
Kelsey:Yeah.
Monica:Colorado is very haunted.
Nicole:Yeah.
Monica:I mean, that's not the first time I've heard that.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:Thankfully, we have not really, really experienced any haunting, so that's good for us, too, but.
Kelsey:Well, debatable whether that's good or not.
Kelsey:I'd like a little bit.
Monica:You need to refer to Patrick to see if he can give you one that has happened, like, in detail so that we can.
Nicole:Okay, I'll ask him.
Monica:That's good.
Nicole:I'm sure it'll happen again.
Monica:He will.
Monica:Yeah, I would think so.
Nicole:Well, yeah.
Nicole:Who knows?
Nicole:It's a mystery.
Monica:That is crazy.
Nicole:Yep.
Monica:Those are my favorite stories to hear, though, when kids have past lives.
Nicole:Mm hmm.
Monica:Because it's like, it's spooky, but it's not scary.
Monica:It's not like anything that's gonna, like.
Kelsey:Some of them are kind of, like, spooky.
Kelsey:A little spooky.
Nicole:It's very interesting, though.
Kelsey:There was this kid.
Kelsey:I don't know.
Kelsey:I'm sure this.
Kelsey:I think this is a pretty, like, popular story that got put out, but this kid that.
Kelsey:He knew a lot about this, about baseball, and, like, his dad showed him a picture of Babe Ruth, or he saw a picture of Babe Ruth, and he's like, oh, that guy's really mean.
Kelsey:Like, he did.
Kelsey:And.
Kelsey:And so.
Kelsey:And then other things he said, basically, they figured out that he was, like, describing the life of this, like, babe Ruth, I guess, had this other baseball player that was, like, kind of his arch.
Kelsey:Yeah.
Kelsey:His rival.
Kelsey:Yeah.
Kelsey:And they didn't get along.
Kelsey:And he described the life of the other baseball player that didn't like Babe Ruth.
Monica:That's crazy.
Kelsey:That's wild.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:Have you heard.
Kelsey:I've heard Titanic ones before.
Kelsey:What?
Monica:There's this one of a girl who had an accident, and she actually, like, was declared deceased and then came back to life.
Monica:And she came back to life with a completely different set of memories.
Monica:She thought she was completely different person, and it turns out she thought she was an egyptian, like, princess.
Monica:And I got to look it up because it's a fascinating story.
Monica:And her retellings of the life that this princess led and all the things that she knew from that time were accurate, like, 100%.
Monica:They were able to fact check it with archaeologists and things of the sort.
Kelsey:It reminds me of goosebumps.
Kelsey:Well, it actually reminds me of possibly something that would be a spoiler, and I'm not even sure that Nicole's there yet.
Monica:Okay, don't spoil it.
Kelsey:But just, like, I've heard that before of other stories, though, like, where, you know, someone comes into somebody else's recently dead body.
Monica:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Monica:I wonder if it's that or if it's.
Monica:Yeah, I don't know.
Monica:I'm gonna look into it.
Monica:I'll find it.
Monica:And then we could talk about it later.
Nicole:Yeah, we can discuss Monica's.
Monica:Like, I'd rather not.
Nicole:Like, did she ever go back to her normal self?
Monica:No.
Nicole:She stayed the princess.
Monica:She believes, for the rest of her life, she believed that she was the princess.
Monica:She moved back to Egypt, actually.
Monica:What?
Monica:When she got older, and she was, like, closely worked with architects to be like, oh, that was this area of this pyramid.
Monica:Like, it's really sad for palace.
Nicole:That's what I'm thinking.
Nicole:Like, is your family.
Nicole:I mean, if that's your.
Monica:When she was young, her parents still raised her.
Monica:She still, like, you know, loved them, but she was like, this is not my life.
Monica:Like, her.
Monica:From the time that it happened to her in her childhood all the way up to her adulthood, she was like, that was.
Nicole:That's not my life.
Nicole:I am not.
Monica:Yeah, that's weird.
Monica:Really weird.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:She ended up, like, being able to tell him exactly what part of the palace was what?
Monica:And, like, she was like, oh, this part of the grounds was the garden at one point, and they were able to, like, fact check it.
Monica:I think it's very fascinating.
Kelsey:Yeah, it is.
Kelsey:It's sad.
Kelsey:It's mostly sad to either.
Monica:It is sad for, like, her parents because it's gotta be a trip.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:Like, yeah, I guess she wasn't deceased that long, you know, but, like, it was only, like, a few minutes, but she was pronounced gone and then I was on reanimated.
Nicole:I just thought of the mummy when I fucking arguably better off left dead.
Nicole:Oh, y'all.
Kelsey:Oh, my gosh.
Monica:She didn't choose that.
Monica:I don't know, but that's weird, isn't it?
Monica:That is very weird.
Monica:People really thought she was lying too.
Monica:And she was like eight when it happened.
Monica:Or younger, maybe.
Monica:I don't even know, like her age.
Monica:But she was really young when it happened.
Monica:How would a child be able to lie in that grade of detail about an egyptian?
Monica:At some point you would think that there would be, like, some.
Monica:Something that would be wrong.
Monica:And honestly, I think she wrote, like a memoir or something.
Monica:I think she wrote or somebody did a piece on her.
Monica:And, yeah, it's documented.
Monica:That is wild.
Kelsey:It is wild.
Monica:But I just heard it again on two girls, one ghost who referenced them more.
Monica:That's what, like, why it's fresh, but.
Nicole:I've heard it before.
Monica:I'll try to find that soon.
Kelsey:All right, well, I think that means that this is a wrap and we will pick up on some of this next time.
Monica:Yeah.
Monica:Yes.
Monica:If you have any stories, spooky or not, anything that you're a little bit bothered by, because I'm a little bit bothered by these stories.
Nicole:I was bothered by that last one.
Monica:I'm sorry.
Nicole:Yeah, I am very bothered by that.
Monica:It does not sit well with me.
Nicole:I'm bothered by how spooky the rest of the evening is going to be.
Monica:Not scared ourselves thoroughly, but it's snowing and spooky kind of outside.
Monica:But I would love to hear some stories from some of our listeners.
Monica:So if you guys have any, send them our way.
Monica:We would love to share them on the podcast and discuss.
Monica:Yeah, please.
Kelsey:If you love today's episode or even if you're just a little bit bothered, don't forget to subscribe, rate and leave.
Monica:Us a review, please, can we?
Nicole:Love you guys.
Nicole:Can't wait to see you next time.
Nicole:Bye.
Nicole:See ya.
Nicole:Stop.
Monica:I had to do my kisses.
Monica:I always do my kisses.
Kelsey:Thank you for listening to this very special episode of a little bit bothered.
Kelsey:And if you put up with all the echoing and craziness, then you're the real MVP.
Kelsey:And you are a true bothered bitch.
Kelsey:And we thank you for that.
Kelsey:Make sure, like, subscribe, leave us a review, go follow us on our socials at a little bit bothered.
Kelsey:And if you want to send us what bothers you or if you have a spooky story that you'd like us to tell before spooky season is over.
Kelsey:You can go to the link in our bio and find a place to submit your stories.
Kelsey:Or just dm us, we don't care.
Kelsey:Have a beautiful, wonderful week.
Kelsey:Love you.
Monica:Bye.
Nicole:Welcome to the inner sanctum of friendship.
Kelsey:These bitches are a little bit bothered.
