While some spirits move around and are more ethereal beings, others stay in one place and are attached to physical items...or even people. They allegedly do this because they're 'attached' to these items and can't move on. But why is that? On this episode, the brothers break it all down by telling us about one such attached spirit: The Legend of The Bandage Man. And later, pop culture commentator and podcast host, Zach Campbell shares a chilling family story and what he thinks of spirit attachments.
While some spirits move around and are more ethereal beings, others stay in one place and are attached to physical items...or even people. They allegedly do this because they're 'attached' to these items and can't move on. But why is that? On this episode, the brothers break it all down by telling us about one such attached spirit: The Legend of The Bandage Man. And later, pop culture commentator and podcast host, Zach Campbell shares a chilling family story and what he thinks of spirit attachments.
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[THEME IN: Ghost Brothers Asha Theme]
Dalen Spratt: What is going on fellas? It is another episode of Urban Legends with the Ghost Brothers, and I am the bad boy of paranormal himself. Dalen, ladies love, Spratt.
Juwan Mass: That was so unnecessary, but I am Juwan Mass, the one and only paranormal papi here.
Marcus Harvey: (singing)
Juwan: Thank you. Thank you. I'm moving my hips just in case y'all was wondering.
Dalen: Oh, we see em.
Marcus: And I am your good friend, the Marcus Harvey.
Dalen: Okay and today it is time for an urban legend over on the west coast. Some might say it's the best coast.
Marcus: Yeah, yeah! Yeah, yeah!
Dalen: And they say it's spooky.
Marcus: Real spooky.
Dalen: I’m talking about it's crazy
Marcus: Over the top crazy!
Dalen: And I mean it is downright…
Juwan: What you think it is?
Dalen: Listen man, it's The Legend of the Bandage Man.
Juwan: The bandage man? What that man talk about? Like did he get hurt or something? Why are we calling him bandage?
Dalen: So you know what, Juwan, you're actually on the right track, but later we're gonna be chatting up with a very special guest. We got Zach Campbell and he's all things pop culture and entertainment. He has his own YouTube channel and get this, he has over half a million followers. He's the host of HBO Max's Chat Shit. The official Rap Sh!t podcast. And he's got his own personal podcast called, Tired Ass. My man was even on Beyonce's last world tour and today he's coming on the show to talk about spirits in his Nana's house. And listen, he still says him and his family still see them to this day.
Juwan: This gonna be a good one!
Marcus: The still seeing is the thing that got me. You know what I'm saying? Some spirits don't just get tired, you know? Like, dang, man! Go to your next location!
[THEME OUT: Ghost Brothers Asha Theme]
Dalen: Say, man, you know how it go Marcus, man. They just keep on going and going and going. Y'all remember that commercial? But anyway, overall today's episode is basically about spiritual attachments. We talking about those good old STDs. Spiritually transmitted diseases, baby.
But for people that don't know a STD, spiritually transmitted disease or a spiritual attachment as we like to call them
Juwan: Mm-hmm.
Dalen: That's when a person, thing or place has a spirit connected directly to them.
Juwan: Break it on down for the listeners, doc. I hear you.
Dalen: Listen, all right. So boom. Listen. So say yo auntie got a table, right? Like it's been in the family for years.
Marcus: What? Like a spades table?
Dalen: The one that they play spades and uno on.
[SFX: dealing cards]
Marcus: You know, there's a lot of spirits on that.
Dalen: Exactly. So listen, so every time you walk by the table right, it moves just a tiny little bit without you touching it.
And then ain't no earthquakes, ain't no wind blowing, ain't nothing that should be causing your auntie’s spade table to be moving.
Juwan: Mm-hmm.
Dalen: Chances are maybe a spirit is attached to it. Or look, how about this Marcus? How about when people see a spirit and it's just living in the same place for a long time? You know what I'm saying?
Marcus: Mm-hmm.
Dalen: Like your barbershop.
[SFX: barber clippers turning on]
Marcus: Okay. Okay.
Dalen: You know what I'm saying?
Juwan: Mm.
Marcus: What?
Dalen: The spirit of all the past fades that you gave, just lingering in the aftermath. In the abyss!
Marcus: You gonna pull a hamstring.
Dalen: I’m trying to reach for it, Marcus.
Marcus: You gonna pull a hamstring, a glute, a maxima.
Dalen: But no, see you playing. I'm serious though, but hear, hear me out.
Think about all the type of people that came into your shop, right? All the energy that they had. Good, bad, ugly or indifferent and you're cutting their hair. Pieces of them are being now left into this building. You can't get all that hair up from out of there.
Marcus: You're right.
Dalen: You don't know the type of energies that could be literally attached to that space that came from the people that you serviced.
Marcus: Even the dandruff.
Dalen: Even the dandruff.
[Music in: Ghost Brothers Transition 1]
Dalen: All right y'all. Let's go ahead and jump into this urban legend of the bandage man. Let's hop on over to Cannon Beach on the coast of Oregon. So many different versions of this story are out there, but this one, this one starts back in the 1950s.
Marcus: Mm, sounds good.
Dalen: Look, they say that there was this man who was a logger, you know, a lumberjack.
Marcus: Good old lumberjack.
Dalen: Listen, they say he was cutting down trees and was working in a nearby forest when he got injured really bad.
[Music out: Ghost Brothers Transition 1]
Juwan: How bad we talking?
Dalen: Like I'm talking about chopped up bad. I ain't trying to say what my man's financial situation was, but it seemed like he was trying to put in that overtime.
Marcus: Okay.
Dalen: A sawmill accident did the damage to his look, bro, I don't even want to tell you what got cut. Just know that they had to call the ambulance.
[SFX: chainsaw starting up]
Marcus: Dang the ambulance?
Dalen: Hey look man, when the ambulance came, they wrapped him up in bandages. They had him looking like a mummy. They were trying to stop the bleeding and literally just popped him in that like a big old hotdog wrapped up in sauerkraut.
Marcus: Did y'all say the man was in like a corn dog?
Juwan: It was like a burrito.
Dalen: It was more of a burrito
Juwan: More of a burrito.
Marcus: Like the ones that get the pretzels wrapped around it.
Dalen: Right.
Marcus: But it's sticking out the end, but it's pretzel wrapped. Ok, Gotcha.
Juwan: But they did all that to get him to the hospital ASAP.
[Music in: Ghost Brothers Transition 2]
Dalen: Listen, but here's the thing, man, they were speeding trying to get him to the hospital as fast as possible. So it was riding down Highway 101, near Cannon Beach, but the road was super slippery. Bro, the story just even gets worse, man. The ambulance crashed, it got caught in a landslide and then was buried and by the time anybody got to it, the bandage man was gone. Poof! Listen bro, they ate that pretzel.
[Music out: Ghost Brothers Transition 2]
Juwan: Wait a minute, hold on.
Dalen: They ate that pretzel.
Marcus: I'm sorry!
Juwan: Wait, you mean to tell me he resurrected or he just ain't never die?
Dalen: Say either pretzel man was Jesus.
But look though you ain't, the ambulance didn't just crash, it crashed, rolled down a hill, got caught in the landslide and then buried by the sand.
God was like, you know what, we gonna do an all for one special today.
Juwan: So what happened to bandage man though?
Dalen: Oh, here's the creepy part. They say he lurks in the area on the beach and in the nearby forest wrapped in bloody bandages smelling like rotten fish.
Marcus: What?
[Music in: Ghost Brothers Transition 1]
Dalen: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes they say he jumps in the cars driving down the highway near the beach and just vanishes.
Juwan: That's why you can't have a convertible.
Marcus: So this man just is, first off, he got killed twice.
Dalen: Mm-hmm.
Marcus: And he's stealing cars in his after death.
Dalen: Listen, bro, apparently he likes doing it to teenagers and supposedly he likes to eat dogs and small animals. And if he crosses your path, you might be dinner, too.
[Music: Ghost Brothers Ad Break 3]
Juwan: Mm-hmm. I hate they had to do that to my dog man.
Dalen: Hey man, listen, this is a great example of a spiritual attachment. Bandage man is tied to the beach area, which technically means he just doesn't want to leave. And remember, sometimes it can be negative or positive energy, but in this case you could tell that the man was just not happy at all.
So that's just one spooky spiritual attachment story that we have. But our guest, Zach Campbell, is gonna share his own.
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[Music in: Ghost Brothers Transition 1]
Dalen: All right, y'all. We are back and here with us today, man, we have Zach Campbell, man. Zach, man, welcome to the podcast!
Zach: Thank you for having me. First of all, y'all are legends!
Juwan: Ok, all right.
Dalen: Yeah, you better tell them folks that!
Zach: You know, I just gotta give y'all y'all flowers for having me on, first of all. But I've been watching back when - in like 20, what was that? 2018, 2017. Yeah, I've been done due.
I was really hooked on like paranormal, like things at a point in time in my life. Still is actually, but it's kind of calmed down, but I used to really be in to like spirits and like ghosts and stuff and I used to like prank my friends a lot until it got real for real. And I said, oh bitch, wait a minute!
Dalen: Right. Right. Wait, Zach before we even get started, man cause I already see where this interview is going, man.
Juwan: This is gonna be a good interview. I can feel it.
Dalen: You gotta tell our listeners, man, like just a little bit about yourself, man.
Your background. That's what we wanna know.
Zach: Absolutely. Yeah. I started on YouTube. I'm from Detroit, Michigan. I was the only kid in my high school talking about YouTube and like pop culture and stuff like that and everybody being from Detroit. So everybody talking about rap music and they like, why are you talking about Lady Gaga? I'm like, cuz that's my girl!
Juwan: Right.
Zach: And so since my friends didn't get it, I went home and talked to a camera about it and didn't think anybody would watch it cause it was just my thing. Come to find out, I woke up one day and had 20,000 views and it just grew from there. Then Gaga herself was like, wait, this dude is funny. Put me on her website, but then escalated for me being on that and I got to be on international television on the BBC, on the Graham Norton Show with Lady Gaga because of that moment. Fast forward, Beyonce got to see my content and it was like, can I have one his videos on my tour?
Juwan: Oh wow.
Dalen: Are you serious?
Zach: Yeah. Mm-hmm. I was on the Formation World tour. It was supposed to be a one-off thing cuz she just thought I was funny.
I was in college and I was like, wait, my first check for real came from my girl. That's crazy. And ever since then, the rest has been history. I've been in LA for six years and turned this into a career and I went to college in the HBCU actually for communication and broadcasting.
And then, I got a chance to work with Issa Rae this past year, on the HBO podcast for Rap Shit. So I do that. I host that, too.
So it's quite interesting how I made my own lane. And here we are.
Dalen: You know, you know what's dope about what you do and just hearing you talk, it just seems like, you have been authentically yourself, your entire journey, and you've literally built a career outta just talking and being you, man, like people can't do that. Like, that's just dope. That's dope.
Zach: Thank you.
Juwan: That’s amazing. And we appreciate having you on, like, this is dope. So I wanna get back to like some of the paranormal stuff. Like, you know we go to different locations, we investigate all the different paranormal activity.
But tell me like, how do you feel about the paranormal? Like how do you feel about ghosts and like what do you believe?
Zach: Oh, I absolutely believe it's real. There's no cap. There is no lies. So honestly, I've had like my first paranormal experience when I was like, maybe I was six years old. Never forget it because I thought I was dreaming, but I was not. I saw like this shadowy black man with like a black - what is that?
A fedora at the edge of my bed. And I remember vividly waking up. Like, I remember waking up and looking at it like, why are you standing at my door? Like, why are you doing this?
Dalen: Who is this man?
Zach: Like, what's happening? Yeah, but I never was scared though, which was weird, but I was always intrigued by it.
Juwan: Let me ask you real quick, did you grow up religious?
Zach: Well, Christian. I grew up in the church for sure. But that even kind of made me more intrigued into the paranormal because if this - no shade, but like if somebody is getting up three days later.
Dalen: Right.
Juwan: Facts.
Zach: If somebody else can rise. Um -
Dalen: There wasn’t no one off.
Zach: Actually, my Nana, the story I was gonna tell you guys about my Nana's an evangelist, which is a preacher, basically. And it's funny, talking to her about these things. I'm like, we talk about the Holy Ghost, but if people talk about the Holy Ghost, there gotta be something else ghost, too.
Dalen: Right, right. You know, black folks, we notorious for putting on those sunglasses, man, those blinders, man. Like we, we, we gonna keep it safe.
Juwan: Safe enough.
Dalen: And in the Lord's house. Anything outside of that, it's a wrap.
Zach: Mmmmhmm. Absolutely. I feel like if you keep it in the, in the Lord's house, we all say we okay, you can talk about that, but don't talk about nothing else, now! Go on with all that!
Juwan: What about scary movies, man. How do you feel about those? You got a favorite horror film?
Zach: I have a traumatic horror film, actually. So I'm a big Freddy Krueger fan, only because I've never seen a character be so charismatic and you know -
Dalen: Was he?
Juwan: Hold on.
Dalen: You giving Freddy Krueger charisma?
Juwan: Speak your truth, man. Tell us how you feel.
Zach: Let me tell you something, because some - cuz black people love Chucky because he was an asshole.
Dalen: Right. Right.
Zach: You know? But nobody was more of an asshole than Freddy Krueger. I'm so sorry. Imagine like taking somebody to like his dimension and be like, welcome to my world, bitch. Like, whoa, whoa! And then like -
Juwan: But he had finesse. Freddy had finesse.
Zach: Like though his jokes were crazy. Like I remember just the way he used to like just pop around and just stand. Like it was just - I used to think that Freddy was like the top, top tier. So I've watched that for comfort, to be quite honest.
Dalen: Oh, wow.
Zach: But then, I used to be obsessed with The Saw franchise.
I was obsessed. Like I watched 1 - 7. I had it on DVD, like a DVD box set situation, but the movie that actually scared the shit out of me was Jeepers Creepers 2. And to this day, I have to like get myself together to watch that movie. Jeepers Creepers 2, with the bus. Like every time we went on a fucking field trip after that movie.
Dalen: Yeah, yeah.
Zach: I could not!
Dalen: I'm not even gonna clown you for Jeepers Creepers, bro. Cause I remember watching Jeepers Creepers and thinking, that had some, some seriously intense moments in it. So like that's one of those sleeper horror movies. People forget about how intense Jeepers Creepers was.
Zach: Just specifically the second one. The first one was like, you can probably get through the first one.
Dalen: You can get through the first one.
Zach: That second one when the man was like having a vision, like go back.
Juwan: On that bus?
Zach: Go back. Oh my God!
Dalen: But let me ask you this though. We talking about horror movies and scary movies and Freddy Kruger and all of that. What do you feel about attachments? Do you feel like there's a world where maybe you end up going to an estate sale or a yard sale and maybe you pick up, I ain't even gonna say a doll, cuz we all, everybody feel like a doll could be.
Juwan: Right. Right.
Dalen: Let's say you get a dresser.
Juwan: A vase.
Dalen: A vase. A picture frame or something.
Juwan: Yeah.
Dalen: Like, do you believe that these items can hold spirits and attachments that you can pick up from one place and bring them to another?
Zach: Absolutely. That's - I don't even play with people.
Dalen: Right, right.
Zach: It's humans. It's not even just objects. People coming in my house. My house needs to be saged after some people leave. I remember actually one of my friends gave me some couch pillows. We brought it back home and my boyfriend was like, we may need to sage these cause you just never know what people can bring.
And you know, people talk about bad energy. You know, we can talk about the spiritual world and stuff like that, but like people leave stuff on things, for sure.
I remember when I was a kid actually, this boy left his Xbox controller at my house and I could have sworn but his parents would leave him like at home all the time.
So he did anything he wanted to do.
Dalen: Yeah.
Zach: And I remember when that Xbox controller was in my house, I was so rebellious to my parents, like for that the whole like maybe weekend or so that it was there. I was like, why am I being so bad? Like what's going on and I bullshit you not, once I gave it back to him, everything went back to normal in my house. And I remember that can't be because of, but like I said, my Nana was very heavily into the church. So she was already putting me on to like spirits and stuff like that as a kid.
Juwan: Right.
Zach: And she brought that up jokingly, but after she said it, I was like, you may be on to something girl.
Dalen: Right, right.
Zach: Yeah, I definitely believe in that.
Juwan: I just think there's so many ways for things to be attached that we just don't think about on a regular basis. Like even clothes when they do thrifting and you like, bro, you don't know what you really picking up when you go to these thrift stores.
Zach: It's funny that you said that cuz love thrifting. I used to say shoes were too far. Cause I felt like I used to take the literal sense of take a walk into my shoes. And so I used to be like, you don't know where these shoes have literally walked, you know what I mean?
Dalen: That's interesting. That’s interesting.
Zach: Yeah. So I never used to get shoes just because of that very reason. I used to think like, maybe I really may be taking a walk in somebody's shoes and I don't want that walk. I don't think I want that journey. Mm-hmm.
Dalen: So I guess, what do you feel like can be the extent of an attachment? Do you feel like spirits could like maybe take over?
Zach: Yeah. But I do believe there's a difference between possession and energy transfer, right?
Dalen: Yes.
Zach: So, for me, like I said, that controller was an energy transfer. It wasn't more so like it was controlling me. It was more so just influencing maybe the way I thought, maybe the way I talked, the way I treated my parents because that's how that energy was from my friend at the time.
And I think that it kind of, teeters the line of that. Like if you buy a picture frame that's haunted, right? I don't think that it's going to possess you, but I do think it can bring more negative - it's almost like a portal. It can draw more negative energy into your home than bring more positive energy into your home.
Dalen: So, what other stories do you have? Anything particular with, you said with your Nana, right?
Zach: Yes!
Dalen: Oh, anytime somebody starts laughing!
Zach: Cause it's a thing that didn't just happen to me, it now happened to like my little cousins. So I knew that we wasn't tripping. I knew I wasn't tripping, but like now to have other witnesses, I feel really good about what happened. Like, I know I wasn't crazy.
It started when I was 12, 13 and I was like brushing my teeth one time. And I don't know if you ever experienced this, but like, have you ever seen like shadows run past you really quickly? It was the most weirdest thing like, in the peripheral, peripheral, and something just like, and I was like to the point where, you know you saw something, bro, you know, I look, I said, okay, whatever.
Cool, cool, cool. It'll be like maybe a couple days after that, I'm going to sleep, which is why I don't sleep in the pitch black dark now. Something could be like standing in my closet, like that same shadowy figure and I'm like, I see it clear as day and they don't do anything.
Then, my Nana told me she had a dream or like she felt like she was dreaming, but it felt real that same shadowy figure and mind you, we never talked about nothing. I kept this to myself cause I didn't want her to think I was crazy. Then she comes to tell me that she had a dream, that she saw literal death, like the literal death figure come over to her side of her bed.
Cause my grandparents' bed is like huge and then walked over to my granddad. And she literally saw this, that death figure walk over to my granddad and about to put his hands on my granddad's chest.
And she like fully woke up and was like, no, like, no, like, get the fuck on! And she said to like, like disappear type shit.
Juwan: Yeah.
Zach: And she told me to this day, she was like, I felt like I saw like death coming to visit your granddad that night to like take him away. And I remember my Nana used to tell me like a prayer before we went to sleep about where like, you know, pray like your soul to keep, you know that that prayer.
Dalen: Yeah.
Zach: And then after that. It was like a month. It was a good gap that the house was quiet. We were cool. We thought that that was a big thing that could happen. We're all sleeping in the house, all of us. Next thing you know, we have like the alarm system that you can have one while you sleep in and everything if anything happens, it goes off.
We're all asleep. We have things like this huge, like my grandparents are like really big art collectors, especially of African art. And so they have like this rare painting over our fireplace the size of like a 60 inch television. It’s huge. That bitch randomly and I'm mean in the most randomly like just falls and kosh! Like cracks, now the alarm goes off cuz of the motion sensors and everything.
And everything is like, man, and we walk into the middle of the, in the living room.
So my parents going off on me like, what the fuck were you doing downstairs?
Dalen: Right.
Zach: I'm like, yo, for the first time I was actually asleep. I was like not doing nothing. I was upstairs minding my business. We thought somebody broke into the house. Meanwhile, it's this whole picture frame that fell, and ever since then, I moved out, went to college, everything like that.
That was like the last big thing that happened. I've seen the shadows from there time to time, but like nothing that crazy. Like they didn't make their presence known, until I moved out and my little cousin started to call me and I never told them these stories by the way, so like, there, there's no correlation.
But then my little cousin called me like, I've been like going to the bathroom and I feel like somebody's watching me and it's weird and I'm like, girl!
Juwan: Oh!
Zach: I said, girl, did you experience what I used to? I knew it. I think it was two different ones.
I think it was the one that my Nana saw, but then I think it was one that used to just be in our house. Cause it never like, tried to do anything or like tried to like make itself seem violent. I felt like that one though, like the death one was one thing for sure. I really do feel like that was a thing.
Dalen: I'm gonna be honest with you man. I feel like we need to just give yo Nana just the biggest shootout ever. Yo Nana woke up and kicked death's ass up out her man.
Zach: Yes.
Dalen: Say, that’s real love. That's that black love.
Juwan: She’s the real MVP. Yeah!
Zach: I told her, I said, that was actually kind of fire.
Dalen: Yeah, right!
Juwan: She said, nuh-uh! Not tonight!
Dalen: Wow. That's dope.
Zach: She watched it clear as day walk past and it was so weird. I was like, yeah, I could believe that though. And she said it was like this big spirit by the way. Like it didn't look human. And I was like, girl, that makes sense to me.
Dalen: So, all right, before we get up outta here, man, let me ask you this question though. This is the most serious question we probably can ever ask you on this podcast.
Juwan: You gonna ask him the real question?
Dalen: I'm gonna ask him. I got to, I got to, and we need your extreme honesty.
Zach: Okay.
Dalen: Now 100 years from now. I'm gonna give my man 200.
Juwan: Don't put a timeline on it. Put no timeline on it.
Dalen: 300 years from now when it's your time to transition over, cuz you got another 250 in you at least.
Juwan: You’re seeing triple digits, for sure.
Dalen: For sure. If you had the opportunity to become a ghost, would you take it?
And why or why not? Why would you take it?
Zach: Absolutely!
Juwan: Who would you haunt?
Is there somebody or somewhere? Is there a specific place or person?
Zach: It wouldn't be a haunt. It would just be - I want to just be nosy.
Juwan: Nosy. Nosy.
Dalen: Right.
Zach: Imagine being able to like, go to your favorite artist studio session.
Dalen: Right. Are you in the booth with Beyonce?
Juwan: Yeah!
Zach: What? I'm about to be messing with the dows and stuff. Like, I wanna make sure that people know like, girl, uh, maybe scrap that song.
I'm gonna delete stuff off the hard drive. Yeah. That's me!
Dalen: Why when you hear Beyonce new album, you gonna hear Zach in the background.
Juwan: He doing the vocals.
Dalen: Is that Zach in the background?
Juwan: Zach doing the vocals.
Dalen: Right. Was he in the booth with Beyonce?
Zach, man. Hey, we appreciate your time, man. I can sit up here and talk to you all day, man.
Juwan: Nah, this is good. I felt like this was gonna be good when you got on. Your energy was good. So, Zach, man, before we go, I need you to tell the listeners, like, where can they find you?
What's your socials? YouTube?
Zach: Yeah, everything is at Zach Campbell, Z-A-C-H, C - A - M - P - B - E - L - L, like Campbell’s Soup. Yeah, thank you all for having me. I'm such a fan. So this is like a childhood moment coming to life. Like literally that's what, it's funny how everybody I've watched, you know, growing up has, like, now we've all worked together in some, in some capacity.
So it is so crazy how, that's one thing of, I would say about life in general, right? That we're living the current life that we're living. It's funny how you can manifest it and you don't even know how you're manifesting it. By just being a fan, you could be manifesting that person to then come and you never know.
You could cross paths a certain way. So I'm just grateful. This was amazing. Thank you guys for having me.
Dalen: Dope man.
Juwan: Thank you for taking the time to join us. Appreciate you.
[Music in: Ghost Brothers Transition 1]
Dalen: Man. It's always crazy when the story happens at your grandmama house, man.
Juwan: I feel like everybody has a scary story from their grandma's house. Like your first scary story happened.
Dalen: At my damn grandmama's house.
Juwan: Mine happened across the street from my grandmama's house.
Marcus: And, and, and I'm fearful of cats cuz of my damn grandmama's house.
Dalen: Your grandmama was the cat lady?
Marcus: No, she had one, she had one crazy ass cat named Tinkerbell that cut the - slapped the crap outta my ankle. I mean it tore, it tore my achilles up one night.
Dalen: Tinkerbell was a thug?
Marcus: Woo!
Juwan: You scared of a cat named Tinkerbell? That was your first paranormal experience?
Marcus: Man, damn right.
Dalen: Listen man, Tinkerbell used to wear an eye patch.
Marcus: Tinkerbell literally was missing an eye, but it was not missing any heart.
[Music out: Ghost Brothers Transition 1]
Marcus: All right, here we go. It's time for one of the best parts of the episode, the game. Are you all ready for another round of trivia? Because today's topic is haunted beaches!
Dalen: Yeah, man. I'm ready cuz never have I ever got me sweating sometimes. And like I said, it makes me nervous.
Juwan: Let's get into this game.
Marcus: Yes, yes, yes, yes. All right, here we go.
Y'all know how trivia goes. I'll ask a question. You guys try to answer it. Okay.
Juwan: Gladiators ready?
Marcus: Ok, here we go. Question one. What's the name of the beach where the WWII Queen Mary Ship is now a tourist attraction. People say they've seen ghosts on this ship, like one of the murdered cooks and a crew member who was crushed by a mechanical door. Dalen? Juwan? Do you have a guess?
[SFX: countdown clock; game show]
Juwan: What's the spot in California? Queen Mary, California.
Dalen: The name of the beach?
Juwan: What's it called?
Dalen: Oh, that's Long Beach.
Juwan: Long Beach.
Marcus: You know what? Congratulations guys. You actually got it.
[SFX: correct answer]
Dalen: Is this the first time we got something right?
Marcus: This is the first time in seven episodes that you got something, right. Yes. The home of Snoop Dogg. Long Beach.
Juwan: The LBC.
Marcus: Alright, question two. For this one, you gotta guess the name of this barrier island in South Carolina. Some say the ghost known as Gray Man appears as a spirit. There's different stories out there, like the bandage man, but one says this man was thrown from a horse and drowned on his way to visit his fiance. That means he was thrown off the horse into a puddle and died in the puddle, on his way to see his girl.
What's the name of this island?
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Dalen: Gilligan's Island.
[SFX: wrong answer buzzer]
Marcus: Oh my gosh.
Juwan: Pleasure Island.
No, off South Carolina? Kiawah Island. I know that's off South Carolina.
Marcus: You say where?
Juwan: Kiawah.
[SFX: wrong answer buzzer]
Marcus: Kiawah. You know what Juwan? That sounded almost so official that I thought it would've been right, but I know it's not.
Juwan: Oh man. What's it called?
Dalen: What’s the answer?
Marcus: Pawleys Island in South Carolina
Dalen: It ain't no island called Pawley Island.
Juwan: Pawleys Island in South Carolina.
Marcus: Pawleys. Yeah.
Juwan: There really is a Pleasure Island.
Marcus: There's a Pawleys island.
Dalen: And there really is a Gilligan's Island.
Juwan: Yeah, and there's a Kiawah Island.
Marcus: Oh my gosh. This is why people don't like y'all. This is exactly why y'all have no friends to this day except for us.
All right, here we go. Question three. A man is named after this beach. In the 1800s, he owned a tavern here, was even buried here, but later dug up and moved to another place. So apparently his spirit is seen wearing a long coat while walking a dog. What's the name of this beach?
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Dalen: Bikini Beach?
Juwan: Miami Beach?
[SFX: wrong answer buzzer]
Dalen: Were we close?
Marcus: No.
Juwan: Okay. Daytona Beach?
Dalen: Nude Beach?
[SFX: wrong answer buzzer]
Marcus: Oh my gosh. You're just saying types of beaches now.
Juwan: That's the, that's exactly what we're supposed to be guessing.
Dalen: Ain’t that the game?
Marcus: Oh my god. Okay.
Juwan: Um, Laguna Beach?
[SFX: wrong answer buzzer]
Marcus: It's Higbee Beach.
Dalen: Funky Beach?
Marcus: Stop describing the beaches! And I've never seen a funky beach!
But no, it's Higbee Beach in Cape May, New Jersey.
Marcus: That's it for the game guys.
Dalen: That game sucked!
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Marcus: I mean, you guys sucked. You guys were terrible.
What do we have next, Juwan?
Juwan: Oh my gosh. It's about time we go talk to the people. Let's hear what them folks got to say! It's time for a listener's submission.
Marcus: Yeah, our legends!
Dalen: And this one comes from Melanie in South Carolina.
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Melanie: This is a story of something that me and my old high school friend Paul saw way back when. A little bit of background. My neighborhood borders some historic sites and one of the old houses has been turned into a museum that sometimes you tour the museum, then you'll go tour a graveyard where that family's buried. But, there's another house directly on the other side of the street that has also, along with that museum, been rumored to have been haunted.
So this was, you know, more than 20 years ago when I was a freshman in high school. And this was on a Friday night after a football game and a movie, so it had to be a little bit closer to midnight.
And my friend Paul was driving me home. We look over to the left and it's dark on this street other than the streetlights and we see this elderly lady on the sidewalk facing the street and she startled us because she looked real but not alive, if that makes sense?
She never like, acknowledged our presence or it didn't seem like it registered to her that a car was passing by her. She stared up at the sky. And she almost looked like, like if somebody's senile grandmother had just kind of wandered out of the house, but this lady was in a white nightgown, barefoot, long silver hair. She looked like she had to be about. You know, older than 80, 90 years old. And she looked like I could just like walk up and touch her. That's how real she looked. And her sizing was right, but the coloring was off.
So nothing about her coloring matched like the environment or looked like how you'd seen any other human that you've been around. It's very hard to describe. It's like she was glistening but not wet glowing, but she wasn't neon.
So me and Paul, we both registered that we saw this lady. We both screamed and this was before Ghost Brothers obviously, so we are black. There was no stopping to investigate.
So, Paul gunned it, he put the pedal to the metal. I'm pretty sure that he ran the stop sign and got me home.
We both acknowledged that we saw it. I don't think either one of us thought she was alive. We were pretty convinced that we had seen some type of ghost.
But yeah, that is my story and the most vivid experience I've had. I would say.
Dalen: That's insane, man.
Marcus: That's crazy.
Dalen: I feel like everybody in the world has some type of weird unexplainable experience that they've had that they just have to feel comfortable enough to talk to about it.
Juwan: Correct. We are insecure about our scary story until we find somebody who may have else had a scary story.
Marcus: Yea, thank you for your submission, love. We truly appreciate you guys.
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Marcus: All you guys, remember, we need to hear all of your submissions, submitted to GhostBrothersPodcast.com. That is GhostBrothersPodcast.com and we might hear yo scary creepy story!
Juwan: Yeah and don't y'all forget to rate us and subscribe. You know, where you listen to all your podcasts. Apple Podcasts, Spotify. You know where we’re at.
Dalen: That's it for Urban Legends with the Ghost Brothers. See all you listeners, not legends later!
Marcus: Bye legends! Y'all know y'all name.
Dalen: Here we go again.
Juwan: Here we go.
Urban Legends with the Ghost Brothers is produced by Neon Hum Media for Discovery Plus.
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For Discovery +, our executive producers are Michael DiSalvo and Ali Read.
At Neon Hum, our Executive Producer is Shara Morris.
Our lead producer is Charis Satchell.
Our associate producers are Navani Otero and Anne Lim.
Our production manager is Samantha Allison.
Music by Asha Iwanowicz.
Concept by Odelia Rubin and Shara Morris.
Our engineers are Hansdale Hsu, Max Unruh and Laila Williams.
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