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The Hello and welcome to episode number 282 of real-life ghost stories.

And to kick things off this week, I would like to thank some of our newest Patreon subscribers.

I would like to thank Beth Hayndages, Sammy Kay, Leah, Mark Collins and Charlie the Tooth Fairy.

For some context about Charlie the Tooth Fairy, right?

Charlie, if I think this is the same person responded to one of my Instagram Q&A's and she was like,

I really like the podcast. I listen when I'm in my garage because

I make teeth in my garage and I was like, well, now I need to know all about that because that's

a wild thing to say. So as it turns out, Charlie makes like a not synthetic teeth. You know

what I mean? Like false teeth in her garage, basically.

Which is still pretty crazy, to be honest and I love it.

Thank you so much for subscribing to the Patreon.

I love you all and I appreciate you every single day.

And our film review this week, our film review is Weapons.

Weapons was released in 2025. It has 7.8 out of 10 on IMDB and 95% on

rotten tomatoes. When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night

at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their

disappearance. Kids, 2025 has been a good year for horror so far. We've had sinners. We've had

28 years later. We've had bring her back. And now we have weapons. And this was so fun.

And I'm glad this year has been so good for big horror films that aren't formulaic.

They're not relying on cheap jump scares. We're not looking at that Hollywoodized kind of dot to dot color by numbers type of horror.

People are thinking about things, thinking about

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