MFM Minisode 459

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Speaker 3 Hello, and welcome to my favorite murder.

Speaker 1 That's Georgia Hardstark. That's Karen Kilgareth.
This is a mini-sode.

Speaker 3 God damn it. It's okay.
We can still introduce ourselves in our mini-sode. Maybe we should start doing that 10 years.

Speaker 1 No, I think we should be 10 years in. Let's keep it mysterious.
Oh, I think you go first. That's time.

Speaker 3 Okay. We have special Halloween hometowns for you guys because it's spooky season.

Speaker 1 And if you're watching the video, you can see that Georgia has a very special Halloween-inspired t-shirt on right now.

Speaker 3 I found this at a vintage shop when we were in Denver and it reminded me of candy corn. And I was like, this is perfect for the show.
Want to see something really spooky? Yeah.

Speaker 3 Look at the size of that fucking zip on my phone. Oh my God.

Speaker 1 It's the ghost of your teenage years.

Speaker 3 Where'd that come from?

Speaker 3 I don't know. Touring breaks me out so bad.

Speaker 1 Dude, here's the thing. I watched the other day and the the bags under my eyes, like the, it was hilarious.
I was just like, no one's ever going to mention that I have huge like exhaustion bags.

Speaker 3 Because only you think that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but good lord, I could slap some fucking

Speaker 1 restrictor on there, do something.

Speaker 3 It's all bad. It's all bad.
It's all, we're doing a lot of things. We're aging.

Speaker 1 We're aging. We decided to, why don't we go ahead and record this for posterity?

Speaker 3 Great idea. Yeah.
Us. All right.
This one's called Perfect Halloween Hometown.

Speaker 3 MFM crew, let me jump right in. I went to middle and high school in a small Vermont town called Woodstock.
It's quiet, historical, no stoplights kind of town, and it reeks of its Puritan past.

Speaker 3 Central to the town is a green, like a small park, where most of the community events take place, including farmers' markets, snow sculpture contests, etc. It sounds like a Hallmark movie, doesn't it?

Speaker 3 Snow sculpture? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, just, I'm going to give you a couple examples. Snow sculpture.

Speaker 3 But there is one community event in particular I'd like to tell you about. In 1834, the eldest brother of the Ransom family,

Speaker 3 Frederick, age 20, died of an illness that made him very pale and lose his appetite for food.

Speaker 3 Three months after his death, the younger brother, Daniel, became ill with the same symptoms and began to waste away.

Speaker 3 The family feared that the dead son was a vampire draining his little brother from beyond the grave. I feel like 1834 is a little late in the game to be believing that, right? Yes, agreed.

Speaker 3 Like 16 something, maybe. Yeah.

Speaker 3 It's like, or if you lived out in the country late 1700s but yeah come on now so this is on them the family dug frederick up and upon examining the decaying corpse one dr frost determined that there was fresh blood in frederick's heart and that he had likely sucked it from his brother okay sir

Speaker 3 Sir.

Speaker 1 We need a second opinion on this one.

Speaker 3 Yeah. The townspeople gathered together at the green with a blacksmith forge to burn the body because as we all know, this is how you release a curse.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 But this got me. The younger brother, Daniel, eats the ashes of his brother's vampiric heart to try to cure him.
Daniel is only three years old, which means they're fucking force feeding this baby.

Speaker 3 The rest of the ashes were buried in a box in the center of the Woodstock green. Good lord.
Cool.

Speaker 3 I have been to the cemetery that Frederick was originally buried at, even on school field trips, but his grave is gone.

Speaker 3 Urban legend says that some students from the high school dug up the spot in the green that was supposed to house Frederick's ashes.

Speaker 3 When they reached six feet, the earth shook and they heard screams and a deep rumbling. Needless to say, no one has fucked with digging up that shit since.

Speaker 3 But my best friend's mom still lives in town and recently went out on a blind date. The guy was good looking and younger than her, so they went out a few times.
That's all it takes.

Speaker 3 Good looking and younger. Especially, you know, in Woodstock in a small town.
That's right. That's all you fucking takes.

Speaker 1 Is he dumb? Stop talking about that. Does he have any common interests in you? I don't know why you keep asking these questions.

Speaker 3 Until he said that he thinks he's a distant relative of the Ranson family and that he's a vampire too.

Speaker 3 Stay sexy and dump him if he wants to drink your blood. Cat.
As an afterward,

Speaker 3 it is likely that the real cause of Frederick and the rest of his family's eventual death was tuberculosis. I sent this in once before and forgot to sign it, so Kachina.

Speaker 3 Kat, you nailed it. You nailed it.

Speaker 1 You nailed it, cat.

Speaker 3 That was really good. So fucked up.

Speaker 1 But also, it just makes you think of like that stuff that used to happen back then where it's like one old guy with a beard and he's just like, yeah, you know what this is?

Speaker 1 And no one checked me on this.

Speaker 3 One elected official with like a fucking MD. Yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to read you the subject line of this one. It says, hey, MFM fam.

Speaker 1 Let's give her something they legit say in my hometown. I grew up in rural farmland, Ontario, Canada, where my parents grew ridiculous and hideous town fair award-winning giant pumpkins.

Speaker 1 We're talking the over 300-pound variety. And back in those days, their place was also the local party house/slash barn where they hosted, among all the other festivities, an annual Halloween rager.

Speaker 1 My uncle, who works for the government, doing not sure what, but has access to explosives, got the great idea to blow up that year's biggest pumpkin as a way to end the night with a bang. I love it.

Speaker 1 That's the person I want to meet.

Speaker 1 This went on for a couple years without incident, just chunks of pumpkin all over the yard. Then came the year we barely speak speak of still to this day.

Speaker 1 My uncle decided to up the auntie that year. I need to meet this man.

Speaker 3 He's fun.

Speaker 1 He is what it's about.

Speaker 1 This is just making life fun

Speaker 1 and explosive. And basically accidentally built a pipe bomb.

Speaker 3 Oops.

Speaker 1 I was always too cool as a teenager to attend these parties. So I was just arriving home that night, high as hell.

Speaker 1 And when I stepped out of the car in the long driveway before the barnyard, I heard, don't move, stay back. it's pumpkin time.

Speaker 1 I noticed my parents, friends, and family cowering in the barn, all dressed up like the lunatics.

Speaker 1 Then came the blinding white light and the loudest bang that hit me in the chest and echoed throughout the surrounding woods. Stunned, scared, and mortified, I stood in the driveway as also stoned.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Right.
Stoned, stunned, scared, mortified.

Speaker 1 I stood in the driveway as I started to hear chunks of pumpkin and rocks rain down on and around me, including in my hair, on all the cars, in the trees, and on the roof.

Speaker 1 No one could say anything from shock for several moments. And then my uncle frantically started yelling, Is everyone okay? Miraculously and thankfully, everyone was.

Speaker 3 Drunk people with explosives. Yeah.
Terrible idea.

Speaker 1 It's bad enough when they're just firecrackers.

Speaker 1 Family and friends, wide-eyed and in shock, started to look at one another and basically pat down their bodies in search of damage among all the fake blood and ridiculous costumes.

Speaker 1 They had exploded the pumpkin in our massive fire pit, which was surrounded by big boulders. These rocks had exploded in the blast and became projectiles.

Speaker 3 Holy shit.

Speaker 1 One went through the barn doors like a cannonball close to my aunt's head. Everyone just mumbled quietly, and the party was, without saying, officially over.

Speaker 1 Still in shock and as the bitchy teenager I was, I stormed into the house and up to my room.

Speaker 3 So embarrassing. This is about me.

Speaker 1 Stupid.

Speaker 1 You blew up a boulder and it hurts me.

Speaker 3 My work.

Speaker 3 My problem now.

Speaker 1 So they stormed into the house and up to their room, only to find the shock from the blast had blown out my bedroom window and all the windows on the back side of the house.

Speaker 3 Oh my fucking God.

Speaker 3 How's that for a bratty teenager? You fucking idiots.

Speaker 1 I stormed downstairs where a small remainder of my family was gathered, basically in tears saying, you guys went too far. And everyone knew this to be true.

Speaker 1 The silence was still so eerie, no one knew what to say.

Speaker 1 Then the phone started ringing. The neighbors were all calling around to each other.

Speaker 1 The town had come to the conclusion that an airplane had crashed in our fields and were asking, should we call the cops? My mom had to nervously talk them down,

Speaker 1 muttering something about homemade fireworks. Needless to say, that was the last year they grew pumpkins, exploded them, or even had a Halloween party.

Speaker 1 We can finally chuckle about the absurdity and the thankfully injury-free outcome of that fateful Halloween night that went off with a real bang.

Speaker 1 Stay sexy and don't accidentally build a pipe bomb with stolen explosives to blow shit up as a party trick, Laura.

Speaker 3 Oh, that's amazing. Can't you just chunk those pumpkin chunking? You know, and they like slingshots.
Just do that.

Speaker 1 I know, you don't need explosives. You can do any manner of slingshot.
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Speaker 3 All right, this is a Ouija board story.

Speaker 3 Hi, Karen in Georgia. A friend of mine in middle school was obsessed with all things scary and had an October birthday.
So naturally, her 14th birthday party was Halloween-themed.

Speaker 3 There were about 10 girls in attendance, and my friend's parents, two of the nicest people I've ever met, had planned tons of hilarious now but terrifying at the time activities.

Speaker 3 Think haunted hayride, tarot card readings, an uncle dressed as Michael Myers. It's fucking uncles, man.

Speaker 1 Love the uncles. Just kind of standing in the doorway with a hockey mask on.

Speaker 3 And a seance tent that was rigged with a fake rat on a string to rattle leaves and scare the shit out of us when we thought we were summoning dead celebrities. Wow, they're doing real work.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 I bet she was an only child. To cap off the night, we broke out the Ouija board.
We played around for a few minutes, then began receiving the words help, water, and res, R-E-S.

Speaker 3 We were freaked out, but not as freaked out as we were when a woman was found in her car in a retaining pond, reservoir, perhaps, two days later.

Speaker 3 The woman was said to have gone missing on Friday and was found on Monday. The party was Saturday night.

Speaker 3 I've never believed much in supernatural forces, and even at 14, was the asshole of the group trying to rationalize away the messages, but I still get chills thinking about it.

Speaker 3 We're from a very small town, and rumors about the woman's death ran wild.

Speaker 3 It doesn't seem that there was any serious criminal investigation, and sadly, no justice was ever served for the woman or her family.

Speaker 3 Her mother is adamant that she was murdered, and 16 years later, she is still trying to solve the case. Thank you for all you do, researching, writing, and producing this podcast.

Speaker 3 It's gotten me through many long drives/slash days at work. You rock anonymous.
Anonymous. Yeah.
Doesn't want to spread the town's gossip.

Speaker 1 That is

Speaker 3 spooky.

Speaker 1 That's quite something to carry if you're a 14-year-old, even if it can be written off as coincidence. Yeah.

Speaker 3 It's like not a lot, but it's enough to be fucking creepy as shit.

Speaker 1 And it hooks you into another person's mortality. Yeah.
Which I think that once that happens to you at a young enough age, you're just like, well, now I can't stop thinking about it.

Speaker 3 Holy.

Speaker 3 Wow. Okay.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to read you this subject line. This email starts just travel with me, won't you?

Speaker 1 Back to Halloween 1980, where I'm eight years old and my sister and I are preparing to get ready to go trick-or-treating in my grandpa Leo's new neighborhood.

Speaker 1 He had recently moved in with his girlfriend Beverly, who had a huge old house on a nice tree-lined street that was bound to have better candy than we could get where we lived.

Speaker 1 That's what it was all about.

Speaker 3 Hell yeah.

Speaker 1 Which was above our dad's store in the main commercial drag in downtown Albany, New York. Okay.
That's badass. Yeah.
To grow up over your dad's story. Yeah.

Speaker 3 In Albany, beautiful Albany. Come.
It's beautiful.

Speaker 1 I think it is. Must be.
It must be, right? It's like upstate. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But I had another reason to be excited. This year I had dreamed up a creative and terrifying Halloween costume.
I was going to be a ghoul.

Speaker 1 Inspired by the episodes of Scooby-Doo and

Speaker 1 Inspired by episodes of Scooby-Doo and perhaps the movie Young Frankenstein, I had it all figured out. Hunchback made of balled up socks, check.

Speaker 1 Matted hair, courtesy of one of my mom's old hair pieces from the 60s, check. Deep circle drawn around my eyes with my mom's brownish lipstick, check.

Speaker 1 However, the best part of this costume, the part that would get everyone's attention as I lurched terrifyingly from porch to porch, was the green glow in the dark body paint that I had persuaded my mom to get us.

Speaker 1 And then parentheses, it says, my sister was going to be a glow-in-the-dark witch, not very creative, if you ask me. I was dressed, ready to go.

Speaker 1 Glow paint applied not just to my face, but to my hands as well, so that unsuspecting homeowners would see an eerie green hand reaching out from the darkness for what would hopefully be a full-size Snicker bar.

Speaker 1 But it was still frustratingly light outside.

Speaker 1 We've got to go at six. We've got to get you back by eight.

Speaker 3 Put a jacket on. It's cold.
No.

Speaker 1 No way I was going to be able to wait for the sun to set before I could gaze upon the full effect of my truly terrifying glowing ghoul get up. It's such a kid story.

Speaker 1 So I asked my grandpa if there was a, quote, closet or someplace dark in this as yet unfamiliar house that I could step into so that I could see how glowy, in fact, my glow-in-the-dark skin was.

Speaker 1 He said there was and walked me to a door just off the dining room. A word about my grandpa.
He probably had ADHD. I know I do.

Speaker 1 But back in the olden days, they just called him absent-minded and accident-prone. He survived getting hit by a trolley on two separate occasions.

Speaker 3 Oh my god, I feel it.

Speaker 1 Those albany trolleys are real fast.

Speaker 1 Careful. He also, a few years after this Halloween, cut off a bunch of his fingers while operating a jigsaw.
They were successfully reattached.

Speaker 3 Oh my God.

Speaker 3 Accident prone. That's what they called it back then.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 1 Just on Halloween, though.

Speaker 1 So it's perhaps not the biggest surprise that grandpa opened this door for me, closed it behind me, and then realized that he should perhaps have told me that this was not a door to a closet, but the door to the stairs leading to the basement.

Speaker 1 I remember a moment of confusing weightlessness and then the hard slam of my butt on the earth-packed floor.

Speaker 3 Oh my God.

Speaker 1 I remember seeing the silhouette of my grandpa at the top of the stairs, frozen in horror.

Speaker 3 Oh my God.

Speaker 1 Convinced that he had killed his granddaughter. I was fine.
I only cried when I realized how freaked out everybody else was. But the next year, I played it safe and dressed up as Cleopatra.

Speaker 1 It's been sexy lady costumes every year since.

Speaker 3 It's safer.

Speaker 1 Stay sexy and trust but verify, Ava. P.S.
A special thanks to Karen for her you're too high song.

Speaker 1 Imagine a middle-aged woman, me, curled in a fetal position, whisper singing, you're going to be fine after an ill-advised second brownie.

Speaker 3 No,

Speaker 3 no, second brownie.

Speaker 1 Never a second brownie.

Speaker 3 I'm not that high. I'm going to have another one.

Speaker 1 No one's ever that high.

Speaker 3 You're going to be fine.

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Speaker 3 Hi, Karen in Georgia. I've always loved listening to your podcast.
My mom and sister first played it for me when I was 15, and I loved it, but I was too busy being 15 to listen consistently.

Speaker 3 It's only now that I'm going through every episode from the beginning, and I'm hoping you still want stories of secret/slash spooky holes. Always.

Speaker 3 Every way. Never question yourself.
Because being the big kid that I am, now 17, I work at Spirit Halloween. How fucking fun is that?

Speaker 3 And this year, and this year we've seen a lot of weird shit.

Speaker 3 We're in an old forever 21 this year because they're always in like abandoned, they were like in our abandoned CBS last year. Yes.

Speaker 3 Okay, well, this year we're in an old forever 21, which has both an upstairs and a downstairs. We only use the upper level.

Speaker 3 The downstairs is closed off from us completely and shut off from the rest of the mall as well so it's like an old mall it's upstairs only but the whole upstairs and downstairs used to be forever 21 wow so you enter on a i'm just trying to say burbank mall you know how like they closed the bed bath and beyond that was two floors oh yeah and they probably only use the top floor now for whatever it is got it

Speaker 3 let's do something very specific that only like a handful of people who listen would understand i can only understand things like this if you explain them to me in terms of burbank yeah i can tell you all about burbank oh i get it

Speaker 3 I totally get it. The downstairs was closed off and shut off and rested the mall.

Speaker 3 One day, my coworker nonchalantly mentioned that during a walkthrough, they found an old dressing room downstairs with bed sheets, food, liquor, a fucking gun holster, and signs that someone had been hanging out in there for quite some time.

Speaker 3 But no one was actually there. I was creeped out, but I moved on with my life.
17-year-old, at least for a few weeks.

Speaker 3 Then my manager casually asked me if I'd, quote, seen the holes we found in the walls yet. Me Me trying to hide the fact that I was low-key excited, asked her, Where?

Speaker 3 She led me to them, and let me tell you, there is a whole fucking shitty, man-made, creepy tunnel. One end is hidden behind an old fridge.
Not sure why there's a fridge.

Speaker 3 It's just sitting there in a poorly lit, unused storage room with cords and random crap everywhere.

Speaker 1 This is the perfect thing to cover a big hole that a person can cover.

Speaker 3 Perfect. And the other end of the tunnel opens into a room with all the ventilation and pipes.
There's also a whole secret door in another wall made with a saw, hinges, and pegboard.

Speaker 3 So someone like was there long enough to make a door they could open a house.

Speaker 3 And this is all upstairs, totally separate from what we found downstairs. I hate the thought of people secretly inside a fucking wall because, girl, get your peeping tom ass out of there.

Speaker 3 I apologize if this is too long, but I thought maybe you'd give it a chance. I love you guys.
Thank you for keeping me company while I work this scary ass job. Yes.
Stay sexy.

Speaker 1 heart emoji love ari ari i would like for you to check in every once in a while because the spooky season is upon us but also there have been stories over the years people being able to be squatters in malls is like the easiest thing seriously nobody's there also like i bet she hasn't told her parents and like later they're gonna be like why the fuck didn't you tell like that we would have made you stop working there right or we would have you know had some problem i bet it's just like oh yeah you didn't i didn't tell you just do not close alone because that's the thing that those fucking like businesses where they're just like, oh, this 17-year-old assistant manager, she can close by her car.

Speaker 1 It's like, absolutely not.

Speaker 3 No, 100%. No.

Speaker 1 Hopefully, since everyone knows there's holes in the walls.

Speaker 3 Yeah, they have the security and someone walking under their cars.

Speaker 1 But I do want to hear like all the things that happen in Spirit Halloween.

Speaker 3 Oh, I bet it's good.

Speaker 1 I bet it's fun times. Okay.
But you have to listen to that, like the one weird witch at the front, like make noise.

Speaker 1 Reach out. Do you work at Spirit Halloween? What store did your job replace a store of?

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 1 The subject line of this is,

Speaker 1 no, I'm not going to read it. Okay.
So it says, hello, murder besties.

Speaker 1 I have a zillion things to thank you for, but I'll save them for the end and try to truncate this email so it isn't horrifyingly long.

Speaker 1 I'm catching up on episodes and heard something about prankster teachers, and I had to talk about Mr. Bream.
Do you remember prankster teachers? No. But we're bringing it all back with Mr.
Bream.

Speaker 1 Let's do it. He was the legendary seventh grade history teacher at my combined middle high school, and he always made his classes fun, interactive, and truly a joy.

Speaker 1 I have no idea how this man tolerated seventh graders all day, but he was clearly a saint. Halloween hit, and I had history for third period.
A bunch of kids from the earlier classes said that Mr.

Speaker 1 Bream was going to give a pop quiz that day, which felt unusual for such a fun-loving teacher on the auspicious candy-based holiday that was October 31st.

Speaker 1 But oh well, my anxious ass was all ready for that quiz when we walked in.

Speaker 1 He looked distracted and weird and he said that he had something he needed to get off his chest before we started the quiz and that he'd called down some of his older former students there because he wanted them to know too.

Speaker 1 He then proceeded to tell us a story about his three best friends and him going on a backpacking trip in Germany decades earlier and that they had come across an injured mountain climber as a snowstorm hit.

Speaker 1 They weren't able to rescue him and they had to leave him behind.

Speaker 1 It had been 40 years since then and he'd always regretted it, but in the past three months, those three friends have died mysteriously on the last day of each month.

Speaker 1 So good.

Speaker 1 The last had been stabbed with a pita, a metal spike used for mountain climbing, and Mr. Bream was terrified he was going to be next.

Speaker 1 He knew that the climber had come back for revenge for being left for dead. At the end of the story, the lights suddenly went off and Mr.
Bream screamed, oh my God.

Speaker 3 How do you keep this right face if you're Mr. Bream?

Speaker 1 I mean, you've got to have the passion of a prankster in you where you're like, this is going to scare the fuck out of them. I just can't give it away.

Speaker 3 I was supposed to be an actor, not a teacher, but let's make the best of it.

Speaker 1 You have to, maybe he's deep down supposed to be an actor.

Speaker 1 Because he's tapping into something real.

Speaker 3 Seriously.

Speaker 1 So he screams, oh my God. All the seventh graders scream before realizing that he's been fucking with us.

Speaker 1 Everyone laughed, and he checked in to see how we were all feeling after the story, making sure no one was too scared.

Speaker 1 While in retrospect, the story was far-fetched enough that we should have all known it was a prank. I was and am very gullible and believed every word right till the end.

Speaker 1 He then told us to make sure to tell kids in later classes that we had a pop quiz so as not to spoil the joke. Love it.

Speaker 1 This teacher was also beloved enough that no one spoiled the Petal Man story for the other classes for years.

Speaker 3 Oh shit.

Speaker 1 I went back and listened to him tell that story as one of the former students until I graduated high school. I even got to be the one to turn off the lights a few times.

Speaker 3 Oh my God.

Speaker 1 Older kids didn't spoil it for their younger siblings. And Mr.
Bream told that story every year until he retired.

Speaker 3 Oh my God, I'm like going to cry.

Speaker 1 I know. It's really good.
That's like true unity of like, we're going to keep your innocence and fuck with you a little bit.

Speaker 3 And like, yeah, but also like, here's the reach that a really good teacher who cares can have. It's like, yes, amazing.

Speaker 1 Yes. It's fun to be in it.
Clearly, it's not upsetting.

Speaker 1 Everybody loves a good story. Yeah.
And the rest of the year was always fun and involved zero traumatizing.

Speaker 1 I'll always be thankful that I had a teacher who was so invested in his students having special and memorable experiences in the hellscape that was middle school.

Speaker 3 God, I remember mine. They were amazing.

Speaker 1 I mean, thank you for all you do in creating a space to talk about mental health and your experiences with therapy. Your podcast was no small part of the reason I left the entertainment industry.

Speaker 3 Me too. Wow, seriously.

Speaker 1 And I went back to grad school to become a therapist myself. Wow.

Speaker 1 I've never been happier. Stay sexy and be awesome enough that your students will forgive you for scaring the shit out of them.
Shauna.

Speaker 3 Shauna.

Speaker 1 Shauna.

Speaker 3 What a beautiful story.

Speaker 1 So good.

Speaker 3 Tell us about your memorable teachers. We want to hear all about them.

Speaker 1 And like legendary teachers.

Speaker 3 Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 Because that's amazing.

Speaker 3 That's beautiful. That's a great Halloween app.
It is. I've never heard of one.

Speaker 1 Also, we started posting some teacher wish lists. I'm sure those teacher wish lists are, there's still plenty.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So if you there's probably some on our social media, but take a look around and see if you can't donate some bucks here or there because that's that's like those are the people it's going to.

Speaker 3 Totally, totally. Amazing.
Well, thanks for listening, you guys. Spooky Halloween.
We do it. Oh, yeah, a spooky Halloween.
Thank you. We've been waiting

Speaker 1 all my life.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and stay sexy and don't get murdered.

Speaker 3 Goodbye,

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