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Hey, it's Mike Waters from the Waters Way Hip Call.
Thank you for joining me for Spooky Toons Day this morning with ghost stories and spooky tunes.
Happy Halloween, Mike.
Thank you, Carrie from Dicert.
Are you Carrie from Dicert today or are you somebody else?
And absolutely you shouldn't be Carrie because the last thing I want for you is goat's blood covering you from head to toe.
That's right.
Well, I reckon I'm a cowgirl
then.
You bet your nuggets.
You bet your
nuggets.
Chicken fried nuggets.
That's right.
And I don't know how you knew that, but...
A lucky guess.
Yeah, a lucky guess, of course.
The lucky, the lucky cowgirl.
Well, all right, all right.
Well, what does, what does Carrie from West of the Pay Coach want me to rustle up for?
Well, I
was thinking maybe Black Witchy Woman.
I can't remember the name of the song off the top of my head.
Got a Black Witchy Woman.
It's Black Magic Woman by Santana, and it's Witchy Woman by the Eagles.
Oh.
You should either be witchy woman or black magic woman.
I think that's creepier.
I could be, I guess.
Yeah, black magic witchy woman.
I think that would be perfect.
And to get you into the right state of mind, I should play both of those.
Oh, you are awesome.
You are rock star.
Happy, happy Halloween.
Hey, happy, happy Halloween to you, cowgirl black magic witchy woman Carrie from Dicert.
Hey, rock on, crouton.
Rock on, Carrie.
Happy Halloween.
Happy Halloween to you as well.
Thank you.
Yes, I'll bet you got a spooky tune you want to hear.
By Iron Butterfly.
In Agata De Vida.
That is it.
Yes.
Something creepy about that song.
That's creepy right there.
Yup.
Yup.
It was in a movie I saw.
So we're moving in.
Really?
I
could never think of that song.
Yeah.
The Simpsons, it's actually in a Simpsons episode where they're singing in in church as in the Garden of Eden.
And I hear, and this is what they say, that it was really gonna be in the Garden of Eden, but when they were singing it, it was just so muddled, it sounded like Inagata DeVita, and they kept it as Inagata DeVita.
So, whether that's true or not, I don't know.
Sounds good to me.
Water starts out of the moon.
The whole thing?
Well, that would be good.
Maybe I'll play both.
If you can squeeze it on.
Mr. Waters!
Ah!
Trucker Todd!
I haven't heard from you for a long time, so I assumed you're dead.
So this has got to be the ghost of Trucker Todd.
Are you, uh, it sounds like you have ghostly indigestion.
All right, we may hear more from the ghost of Trucker Todd coming up, but I think we have a genuine ghost story right
here.
my dad passed away to the custodian at the church, so I went and started doing the custodian work, went down to the basement, went to turn on the lights, and I heard his voice saying, go upstairs.
So
you heard a voice?
And did
you find the cobwebs?
I'll bet you did.
The first pew you found cobwebs.
Was that the only pew with cobwebs?
So how did that feel?
Was that comforting
to you?
I'm dying for a toonsday joke.
Alright, knock knock.
Who's there?
Ah.
Ah-hoo.
Ah-hoo, where wolves of London.
Oh, I should have done it right.
I just went ah-hoo.
That's a slightly bailed request for a little Zeeman.
Oh, is that what that is?
I have no idea.
We
had one of the oldest houses, my ex and I, when my kids were little, on the northwest side of Independence.
Okay.
When we moved in, we did what on the basement, and I'm assuming because of the way it was located, this house had like a cold shoot.
Right, yeah.
But they had boarded up the door, and my ex was like, what's in there?
So we opened it up, and it was full of dirt.
and broken furniture and bricks and everything.
Wow.
And he was like, should we dig through and see?
I'm like, no, no, no, no.
Let's just leave it alone.
So we see if we don't disturb, you know, let's
don't disturb it.
Right.
He didn't hear it, but I kept hearing a man's voice.
And the first time I heard it, I thought he had come back from work because he forgot something around.
And I called him and he said, no, I've been at work for some time.
You know, I was like, OK.
And he said,
It's just your boyfriend.
I was like, yeah, don't be funny,
time I heard it, I got off work early, I worked the evening, and I got home, and I was gonna take a bath, and I would relax for a little bit, and I hear that male's voice again, and I knew they were gone.
They'd gone to an event up in Waterloo.
I was like, that's it.
I'm going to a friend's house.
And when I told him about this stuff, he'd go,
creeping me out.
I said, well, it's creeping
me out.
Right.
So did you find out who this was?
We later looked up and the couple that owned the house first died in that house.
Oh, of course they did.
Yeah.
He died first and then she died sometime after when she was in the care center.
So he was probably looking for her.
and we've probably disturbed... ...something in that room.
Yeah, I don't know how many horror movies you've seen, but Horror 101 never opened a door that's been boarded shut, especially in an old, old house, because that'll get you.
You know, maybe seal it over somehow, just...
Yeah, so we looked in there and I was like, that's a little spooky, and he's
like... I wonder if they died and then started moving furniture back there.
like you had found, you know.
Hey, we'll take some
bricks
back here and some furniture.
We'll close it off and we'll hang out back here for a while.
How about
one from the Franklin Hotel in Strawberry Point?
Ghostly and
crowded.
And that night after a certain time, you wouldn't have anybody there really, but you had to stay there.
Right.
And I'd be sitting there and all of a sudden you could hear footsteps behind you.
They called her Lillie.
And
I just said, Lillie, please leave me alone.
Or maybe it was the traveling salesman.
Yeah, they're fans of this.
Are they all still paying their bills?
I don't know about that.
The doctor who built my house died in the house, prominent physician in town.
I saw the spirit, but after
after my research, I think that he was part of a counterfeit ring that took place in the county.
What county?
A harden.
And
is this the house you're living in right now?
Yeah.
Wow.
So what was the name of the doctor?
Doctor Willard Caldwell.
Have you seen weird
things in your house?
Only in the beginning and then we smudged it with sage and opened all the windows and asked the spirit to leave and he did.
So before
that, what did you experience?
Well, it was recurring.
He'd come to
the room where I left, standing in the doorway in a dark coat and a top hat.
You know, they're always dressed in old clothes.
It's not somebody who, you know, passed away in the 70s who's got bell bottoms on, you know?
No, no.
Here's a goodie from the grand in Dubuque.
My daughter and...
And I went on a ghost ride.
Really?
We took the tour through the theater.
Yeah.
And the old back stairs had not been remodeled yet.
Okay.
And so we were in one of those stairwells and we were on a landing about to go up the next batch.
was standing behind my daughter and people just pull body pushed me into my daughter.
And when I turned around, we had gotten ahead of everybody.
and they were still down on the stairs.
Wow, so nobody was behind you in order to push you, so it had to be a ghost.
Yeah, I just blew up those stairs faster than I ever
did in my life.
Oh, I'm sure you got some good haunted cardio out of the deal, didn't you?
Yeah, we did.
How about one from the Velisca axe murder house?
So my sister and her husband wanted to go there for their wedding anniversary.
Yeah.
It was just a really heavy feeling and you can tell that some actually happened there.
During the night my sister and her husband freaked out they weren't going to stay in the house so they stayed out in the garage.
And I got tired so I went to lay down on the sofa that they had in the living room but it was a type of a love seat so it wasn't big enough to actually lay down.
So my foot stayed out and a couple of
I woke up, I could feel something touching my foot.
I looked down.
a scary thing of feeling or anything like that, like something touching your foot.
It was just like a soft feeling like they get me away.
Okay.
And I woke up and there's this blue ball next to me.
A blue ball?
A blue ball.
I was like, do you want to play?
I walked out to the garage and I said to my sister and my brother-in-law, I said, you won't believe what just happened.
I think a kid wants to play with me.
And my brother-in-law said, Jack, we're leaving.
Are you scared?
Yes, just the second you called.
You know, like a very scary, scary person.
I am.
Yeah.
Yeah, I could tell.
I could tell.
So what do you need, creepy?
My scary tune is Monster Mash.
Oh, Monster Mash.
How could we not?
The reason why I like the Monster Mash is because my name is Doris.
So at the end, when
I sing
it, I say, when you get to my door, tell them Doris
sent you.
Right, right.
It rhymes with Boris, doesn't it?
Yes,
it
does.
For today only, you should
You should call yourself Doris Karloff.
Oh, jeez.
I thought you were scary right when you called.
The ending is much worse.
Thank
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