Episode 95

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Speaker 1 Hey, it's me, Jared, Radio Rental's favorite AC repairman. I'm sure you're you're thrilled to see me again.

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Speaker 8 It was a fall night in Guelph, Ontario. This was in my second year of university.
I was over at my friend's apartment.

Speaker 8 Three friends and myself were at their apartment at night working late into the night on a school project that was due the next morning, morning, a video project.

Speaker 8 Two out of the three of my friends working on the project lived at this apartment.

Speaker 8 Their third roommate, his name's Jay, he wasn't in the same program as us, so he had been studying that night for his midterm the next morning.

Speaker 8 Jay tended to struggle with sleeping. He would often take, you know, certain meds to help him fall asleep and stay asleep.
And he had been studying that night and had called it a night, went to bed.

Speaker 8 So we were trying to be extra careful when working on our project to keep quiet. We didn't want to startle him, wake him up at any point.

Speaker 8 His bedroom was in the far left corner of the kitchen, so we could see his door closed and how it was dark inside.

Speaker 8 It's about 1 a.m. at this point, and we're starting to put sort of the finishing touches on this video project we're getting done.
Jay's room has been dark for hours.

Speaker 8 We assume he's dead asleep at this point. He hasn't made a sound.
So we're sitting at this table about 30 feet away from his door.

Speaker 8 All of a sudden, there's a thud at his door. And it gets all of our attention right away because it's late at night.
It's 1 a.m. It's quiet.
We're being as quiet as we can.

Speaker 8 We look up at the door. Everything looks normal.
It's just a dark room. Door's shut.
Hasn't moved.

Speaker 8 Maybe he's up.

Speaker 8 We don't think too much about it. We get back to work.
And then about 15 minutes later, the same thing happens.

Speaker 8 Louder this time, more aggressive.

Speaker 8 Startles us again, we look back up, and it's the same thing as before.

Speaker 8 His door is shut, the room is dark.

Speaker 8 We are at full attention now.

Speaker 8 It's gotten kind of hard for us to focus. on our work because, you know, why has he just run into his door twice without opening it?

Speaker 8 Well, maybe he's playing a joke on us, trying to scare us.

Speaker 8 But like I said before, he struggles with sleeping and he has a midterm the next morning. It's not really the right time for him to be playing a prank on us.
It doesn't make sense.

Speaker 8 I had a running joke at the time in their apartment. They had a poster on the wall of a local politician named Steve.

Speaker 8 Every time there would be a noise in the apartment, I would say, oh, that's Steve the poltergeist poltergeist trying to reach out to us.

Speaker 8 Anytime there was something freaky going on, I would just blame it on Steve. It was always in a joking manner.

Speaker 8 I see the picture of Steve on the wall, and I think, oh, I'll just call out to Steve the poltergeist.

Speaker 8 So I call out and I say, Steve, if you're there, give us a sign.

Speaker 8 And then bang, immediately after I said that, he's run into the door. It's a loud thump coming from the inside,

Speaker 8 which sort of shakes the apartment.

Speaker 8 We're all

Speaker 8 shocked and terrified at this moment. It's late at night.
Everything's quiet for the most part. We're scrambling at this point.
I grab a golf club, which was near me, and I'm holding it to my chest.

Speaker 8 I just had this sort of primal fear for some reason.

Speaker 8 The four of us are in this corner, kind of huddled, just watching the door, trying to make sense of what's happening.

Speaker 8 We decide to set up a chair with a phone on it to just be recording the door, just in case whatever happens.

Speaker 8 And so we have the phone set up, we're recording the door, and we're still trying to finish this project that we have to finish. So we get back to work, we're wrapping things up.

Speaker 8 I decide to call out to Steve again.

Speaker 8 Steve?

Speaker 8 Steve is still there. And then immediately again, the loudest bang at his door.

Speaker 8 We can't make sense of what's happening.

Speaker 8 We ran straight outside. We didn't put our shoes on.
We just threw the door open and flew out into the street.

Speaker 8 We immediately just tried to explain it, trying to convince ourselves that he was still playing a prank on us.

Speaker 8 Because if he is, it's working.

Speaker 8 We were arguing with each other, like, why would he be doing this right now? This makes no sense. At this point, it's like 2 a.m.
in in the morning.

Speaker 8 But then we go through it again. Like,

Speaker 8 he struggles with sleeping. He has a midterm he's been studying for.

Speaker 8 Like, he needs his sleep tonight. That's why we've been trying to be so quiet tonight.

Speaker 8 After about five minutes outside, you know, we work up the courage to go back inside.

Speaker 8 We look towards Jay's bedroom door. We notice a piece of paper paper just sitting in front of his door.
That piece of paper had been slipped from his room under the door into

Speaker 8 the kitchen.

Speaker 8 Zeke picks up the note and his eyes just go wide looking at it. And we sort of look over his shoulder.
On the note is just one word scribbled in,

Speaker 8 help.

Speaker 8 This just sends shivers down my spine. And it's written very sloppily, like chicken scratch, horrible writing.
Just the word help in the center of the page.

Speaker 8 I said to Zeke, I said, we got to go in there. Something's not right.

Speaker 8 We have to go in there and see for ourselves what's going on in this room. Maybe he is in trouble somehow.

Speaker 8 This has to be done.

Speaker 8 So we do open his door to his room, turn on his light, and the first thing I noticed was him laying on the bed with his covers off of his body.

Speaker 8 He's sort of just laying like he had fallen back into the bed.

Speaker 8 He's not like snuggled up under the covers.

Speaker 8 Dwayne's first thought, he checks the closet to make sure that there's not an intruder or just some other being in the room. Make sure Jay's the only one in this room.

Speaker 8 We walk right over to him and Zeke keeps calling out his name like, Jay, Jay, Jay, wake up, Jay.

Speaker 8 And he's almost yelling at him at this point, just yelling his name over and over. And Jay's just completely unresponsive.

Speaker 8 Zeke even goes right up to him, is yelling at him, and we can see his eyes.

Speaker 8 His eyes would sort of flutter from closed to half open over and over again, like very rapidly.

Speaker 8 Open enough to where you would see a pupil, but I couldn't see his pupil because they were straight up, like rolled back into his head. Like he's not in control of them or he's not conscious.

Speaker 8 Zeke at this point is shaking him, calling out his name. Jay, wake up, Jay, you're scaring us, Jay.

Speaker 8 Still nothing. Not a single response from the guy.

Speaker 8 He just was in a frozen state with his eyes fluttering and completely unresponsive.

Speaker 8 Zeke puts both hands on his shoulders and is pushing up and down pretty hard, like shaking him so his head's bobbing.

Speaker 8 The bed is essentially bouncing because he's pushing down on both shoulders over and over again. He probably shakes him for a good 20 seconds until we just gave up because

Speaker 8 there was no response from Jay.

Speaker 8 And then it seems kind of ridiculous what we're doing. We're shaking this man in his bed and he's unresponsive.

Speaker 8 This is freaking me out.

Speaker 8 This is not a prank at all.

Speaker 8 He would have broken character. He would have smiled.
He would have laughed. This guy is

Speaker 8 possessed and we can't seem to do anything to snap him out of it.

Speaker 8 We turn off his lights again. shut his bedroom door, leave him to rest.

Speaker 8 I remember Dwayne saying that he didn't want to stay there for the night because he didn't have a lock on his door and he was worried about staying in his room that night because he thought Jay might break into his room and hurt him.

Speaker 8 Dwayne stays at my house to sleep and Zeke stays at another friend of ours to sleep. We hardly get any sleep that night, maybe a couple hours because our minds are reeling.

Speaker 8 So the next morning, we do go to class, we present our project, but in the back of our minds, we're just thinking about Jay still because none of us have seen him since we entered his room.

Speaker 8 Then we head back to the apartment to talk to Jay.

Speaker 8 And he's just sitting in the kitchen like normal. Seems to be himself.

Speaker 8 Dwayne asked Jay, how was your sleep last night? I hope we didn't bother you. I hope we weren't too loud.
I hope we didn't wake you up at all last night. Jay said, yeah, no, my sleep was all right.

Speaker 8 But I had this dream where I kept trying to leave my room, and there was this dark, massive figure at the door blocking my way.

Speaker 8 And every time I tried to leave my room, this dark figure would stop me.

Speaker 8 This large, dark figure blocking the doorway.

Speaker 8 Once we heard this, we couldn't believe it.

Speaker 8 It was shocking.

Speaker 8 We checked the footage on the phone.

Speaker 8 It had me calling out to Steve. It had the door being slammed into.

Speaker 8 And throughout the entire time, the room was pitch dark. So he, in his state, was still able to grab a pen, grab a piece of paper from his

Speaker 8 table, and wrote help. and put it under the door for us to read.

Speaker 8 We just thought it was incredible what he had told us about his night because it sort of explained how he was essentially running into his door over and over again.

Speaker 8 Because that's sort of how it felt when it was happening. Like the door is just being smashed into like in an attempt to escape, but he wasn't able to open the door and just leave in his state.

Speaker 8 So he was calling out for us to help him.

Speaker 8 For a while, we tried to just say that he was pranking us, but that doesn't line up at all. And I feel like we sort of failed him, honestly.

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Speaker 5 All right, here we go.

Speaker 10 So it's the summer of 1999.

Speaker 10 My... Neighbors and I are outside playing.
It's something we did all the time from sun up to sundown, just be playing basketball and just be outside.

Speaker 10 On this day, whereas we're shooting hoops, we can look down the street and out of the corner of our eye, we can see two people peeking into houses.

Speaker 10 First, we see them try to jump onto a windowsill

Speaker 10 and then we can see them go around trying to peek into windows that might have been open.

Speaker 10 Definitely wasn't people that we knew from the neighborhood.

Speaker 10 So we go inside inside and we were only 15 and 13 at the time. So we went in to get our moms to tell them, you know, something's going up down the street.

Speaker 5 As our parents come out, the people are gone.

Speaker 10 There's no sign of them.

Speaker 10 All of a sudden, around the other corner, you see the people come back out and we're like, see, we weren't lying to you. There's actually people peeking into these windows.

Speaker 10 And the same thing, they start peeking into the windows. They start trying to jump onto the windowsill.

Speaker 10 But at this house, the old man that had lived there was still home.

Speaker 10 He came out and we could see him arguing with them. We couldn't hear what they were saying, but we could see like their arms flailing.
So there was definitely some type of argument being had.

Speaker 10 Our moms, now believing us, you know, also started watching to see what might go on.

Speaker 10 And my mom at this time had her phone with her just in case, you know, something had happened.

Speaker 10 So we're sitting there and the old man seems to go and the two people that were peeking at the houses looks like they leave and we continue playing basketball.

Speaker 10 All of a sudden we look up and we realize that those two people didn't leave. They were actually coming down the street towards us.

Speaker 10 So the two of them start walking towards us and where I was, I was at the top of the driveway

Speaker 10 and he makes his way down and he

Speaker 10 puts out his hand for a handshake.

Speaker 10 Instinctively, I reach out and grab his hand

Speaker 10 and just

Speaker 10 regret it as soon as I grasp it.

Speaker 10 His warm, sweaty palms just like squeeze tightly onto my hand, and I hear him say, Hi, I'm Bobby Corey.

Speaker 10 He says it with a tone that I should know exactly who he is.

Speaker 10 I shake his hand, and he says, I used to live down the street and my daddy won't let me in.

Speaker 10 We were just looking in the windows to see if our friends were still there. So don't be afraid.
You guys don't have to be afraid of me.

Speaker 10 And he says that a few times to us, like, don't be afraid. We're not scary.
Don't be afraid. He starts asking us, where's your daddy? Does your daddy live here? Is your daddy still around?

Speaker 10 And at this point, our moms come up and, you know, they are trying to like, you know, pull us away, but Bobby is still shaking my hand at this point.

Speaker 10 As we're talking, he notices that my mom has a phone in her hand and he

Speaker 10 sees a cruiser come down the street

Speaker 10 and he gives her a look like, did you call the cops?

Speaker 10 And it turns out that the old man who had just started walking down yells, nope, nope, that was me.

Speaker 10 So the police come down

Speaker 10 and they start talking to the adults. All of us kids go down to the back.
I noticed that they pat down Bobby and his girlfriend. And he's getting into the back of the cruiser.

Speaker 10 No Miranderites, no cuffs.

Speaker 10 And the cops go over to the adults. They start talking to them as well, telling them what's going to happen.
And the cruiser takes off.

Speaker 10 All of us kids are a little shaken up. I mean, this man was...
Extremely creepy. His girlfriend was just whispering at him and giggling.
So we had no clue what was going on.

Speaker 10 The adults come to us and tell us that he's gone now. He's going to get dropped off at the next town over.
He has a brother, whose brother is going to come and pick him up.

Speaker 10 The old man proceeds to tell us that Bobby did live in the neighborhood.

Speaker 10 Bobby Corey lived down the street for years and his whole house with his brothers and sisters were in trouble.

Speaker 10 Bobby years ago had possibly started a fire in the house that had claimed the life of one of the kids.

Speaker 10 Bobby Corey had either been locked up or put away for some unknown reason and that's why he was home now and his dad wasn't going to let him in.

Speaker 10 So with all this excitement, you know, we stay outside for a little bit longer and my mom decides we'll all stay together.

Speaker 5 We'll have a cool cookout now.

Speaker 10 Let's go get some hot dogs and hamburgers and stuff.

Speaker 10 I ride with my mom and we're just going to go down the street to go pick up some hamburgers and hot dogs and, you know, try to just enjoy the rest of the nice day and try to forget about what just happened.

Speaker 10 And as we're driving down the street, it's about three-quarters of a mile long and it's straight woods and it's a straight shot.

Speaker 10 We get almost to the end and we see two people walking with a brown paper bag.

Speaker 10 I sink into my chair. trying not to look at them.
And my mom, obviously can't sink because she's driving,

Speaker 10 drives past them and they give a little stare down

Speaker 10 and my mom realizes oh my god we have to get back home so we go up another like probably 10 seconds pull a u-turn and start driving back and as we start driving back

Speaker 10 there was nobody on the street

Speaker 10 this

Speaker 10 street had No driveways, no other roads. It was a straight three-quarter mile of just woods.

Speaker 10 So we get back to our house.

Speaker 5 We gather up our neighbors who are outside still.

Speaker 10 We bring everybody into our house and we just sit in our living room.

Speaker 10 I had a ranch-style house with a big bay window up front. So we all sit there and just wait to see if anybody comes walking down the street or if we can hear anything.

Speaker 10 After about 10-15 minutes, we can start hearing faint singing.

Speaker 5 And then it gets louder and louder.

Speaker 10 And then we can see them coming out down the street. Bobby Corey waving an American flag, singing God bless America,

Speaker 10 marching with his girlfriend in to giggling right behind him, also holding an American flag, parading in front of my neighbor's house and then our house. And you can hear, God

Speaker 5 bless America,

Speaker 10 back and forth, horrible toned, right in front of where we were sitting.

Speaker 10 We never saw him peek into our window, but there he was marching right in front of us, probably no more than 20 feet, holding his paper bag, holding his American flag,

Speaker 5 and going right past our driveway and then down the road.

Speaker 10 We cracked the window a little bit so we could hear.

Speaker 10 And we could hear him getting fainter and fainter.

Speaker 5 And when we thought it was okay and safe, we all got out of the house and very slowly walked to the top of the driveway and looked down.

Speaker 10 And we couldn't see anything and we could barely hear anything at this point. So we thought, okay, we're in the clear.

Speaker 10 Just as we thought we were in the clear, a llama comes flying down the street.

Speaker 10 There are some people in our neighborhood that had animals. I didn't know anybody that had a llama, but apparently there was one and it got loose and started sprinting down towards us.

Speaker 10 The cruiser came up to us and told us that the original call that he received was somebody had gone into their backyard and unlatched their llamas from the backyard and now they were running loose.

Speaker 10 So somebody else now had called to say that there was a man in their backyard unlatching their animals.

Speaker 10 And he described Bobby Corey.

Speaker 5 So Bobby Corey now had gone past us and was letting out animals for whatever reason.

Speaker 10 That was the last time I thought I would ever hear the name of Bobby Corey.

Speaker 10 About a week later, I was going over my friend's house who lived pretty close to me.

Speaker 10 If anybody needed to cut through the woods to pretty much anywhere in this neighborhood, instead of driving down the street or walking wide open, you could just go through the woods and be able to get to all these centralized locations

Speaker 10 so I went over his house and we were gonna try to see if any of our friends were around and maybe I'll try to get together and play a big game of wiffle ball

Speaker 10 so when we got to his house he unlocked the door which typically meant that nobody was home they always locked their house

Speaker 10 so we went inside grabbed some snacks and we went to go on on the computer. This is 1999, so we had to use dial-up to get onto America Online.

Speaker 10 So we sat down and we were going to see if any of our friends were online to get in touch with them.

Speaker 10 As we're sitting there chatting, we can hear something above us. So my friend yells to his brother and he goes, hey, Jay, are you home?

Speaker 10 And we don't hear anything after that.

Speaker 10 We look at each other. We think it's kind of odd, but it's an older house.
So maybe it was just a creek. So we start talking to some friends seeing you know what's going on when we get knocked offline

Speaker 10 we're like oh that's weird now back then if you had picked up the phone you'd get knocked offline so we go back on to dial up and we think we hear some footsteps again upstairs

Speaker 10 Well, as we're talking to our friends, I tell my buddy, I say, hey, tell them we think someone might be here.

Speaker 10 And as I say that, we get knocked offline again.

Speaker 10 So now we're very suspicious that there might be somebody in the house with us.

Speaker 10 So we grabbed the landline that was next to us and we decided to call our friends and ask them where they are. Maybe they want to come over because they could come here and help us out.

Speaker 10 We call them and as we're on the phone with them, I hear. the receiver pick up upstairs and I look at my friend and I go, someone just picked up the phone

Speaker 10 hang up the phone and me and him look at each other and we decide that we're gonna go now upstairs to try to see who's here

Speaker 10 it could still be his brother messing with us it's something he would do so we go to the kitchen we go up his staircase which is a very old school steep staircase And we go to his bedroom, which is on the left, and we look and there's nobody there.

Speaker 10 To go to where the noise was, we have to go through a hallway, which connects to another hallway.

Speaker 5 And as we're walking down this hallway, I can see in the room a shadow dart across and go behind the door.

Speaker 10 And I freeze. And I look at my friend and I go, did you see that?

Speaker 10 And he nods. And we both go to take one more step.
And at that moment, he darts. So I dart.

Speaker 10 And we run down the stairs, out the front door, and just go to the driveway.

Speaker 10 We look up to the window of where we heard the noise. And then we look at each other and we go, no, we got to be braver than this.
We have to go back in.

Speaker 5 So together we go into the kitchen.

Speaker 10 I grab a serrated bread knife, just the first thing I grabbed.

Speaker 10 He grabs a giant butcher knife, and

Speaker 10 we start walking up the staircase.

Speaker 10 The hallway that I mentioned before had two doors on either end. As we go up to the staircase, both doors are now shut.

Speaker 10 So, with our knives in hands, we look at each other and we go, all right, on the count of three, we're gonna go in. We're just gonna see who's there.

Speaker 6 One,

Speaker 5 two,

Speaker 5 three.

Speaker 10 We slam open our door.

Speaker 5 Across the hall, the other door slams open.

Speaker 10 He darts. I dart.

Speaker 10 We run out to the driveway.

Speaker 10 Now we know that there's someone definitely upstairs.

Speaker 10 In the driveway, we look down and we can see that there's four guys working on their car.

Speaker 5 So we go down and we get them and we say, hey, if you guys could come up with us, help us.

Speaker 10 We think someone broke in. It's just us two in the house.

Speaker 10 We didn't need to give them any more reason.

Speaker 10 And they ransacked the house. They ran through the first floor looking for anybody they could see.
They went upstairs. They couldn't find anything.

Speaker 10 We're walking through the house and we get up to the second floor and we can see that the second floor window onto the roof is open.

Speaker 10 And we walk out onto the roof and look down and in his mother's flower bed is a perfect body imprint of somebody who had just jumped and ruined all of her flowers and more than likely took off into the woods.

Speaker 10 We gather ourselves. We call the police just to tell them what had happened.

Speaker 10 The police come and they take our statement. They say there's not much they can do because there's no one there.
And this is now the third, fourth cop that I've seen in town.

Speaker 10 So now they all know my name. And he tells us just to relax.

Speaker 6 So that

Speaker 5 next day, I go back home.

Speaker 10 My neighbor comes over and he says, oh, I heard you had an exciting day yesterday. And I was like, yeah.

Speaker 10 And he says, oh, he goes, there must be a full moon going on because I've caught someone the past two nights coming out in the middle of the night from the woods with a bucket and stealing my water.

Speaker 10 Really? And he goes, yeah. He goes, brown, greasy hair, dirty.

Speaker 10 He grabs it and he sprints back into the woods. And at that moment, I looked out into the woods of where the snowmobile paths were

Speaker 10 and realized it was Bobby Corey.

Speaker 5 Bobby Corey had been out in the woods this entire time watching us.

Speaker 10 And I know for a fact Bobby Corey was in the house that day when I was with my friend. And then he escaped back into the woods.

Speaker 5 It was Bobby Corey.

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Speaker 1 Alright, I'm out of here. I feel I've done my duty.
I've fixed about everything in this store, except for Malachi's attitude. attitude.

Speaker 1 I'd say it was nice meeting you, but I don't really know you. You literally never said one word.
Anyway, I guess you should come back next week. I mean, I won't be here, but I guess someone will be.

Speaker 1 And hey, don't break anything, because I don't want to come back here anytime soon.

Speaker 1 Hey, hey, Malachi, don't you dare push that cup off the counter.

Speaker 14 Don't you dare put

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During a house call, she found Jack had an issue.

Speaker 15 Jack's blood pressure was dangerously high.

Speaker 10 It was 217 over 110.

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Speaker 15 He had had a stent placed in his heart, preventing a massive heart attack.

Speaker 5 If it wasn't for my guardian angel, I wouldn't be here.

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