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Flightless Bird

Hell Houses

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s spooky Flightless Bird, Rosabel reveals her thoughts on the afterlife and ghosts, before David meets a bunch of Americans who’ve taken part in, or run, Christian Hell Houses. What is a Hell House, and what do they have to do with Halloween? David then drives to visit his first Hell House, learning about the myriad of ways humans can die, and what hell looks like. Flightless Bird on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flightlessbirdpod Email us your feedback and ideas: flightlessbirdchat@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello. Hi, Rosabel. How are you?

0:07.3

I'm good. How are you?

0:08.9

Good. Now, look, I'm calling you for the podcast. Is that okay?

0:12.1

Look, it's completely acceptable.

0:14.5

I was wondering if you've been following along with the Rosabel Roosevelt controversy.

0:24.6

What's the controversy that my name is not Roosevelt?

0:29.9

Well, most people think your name apparently. Most Americans think your name is Roosevelt,

0:34.9

like the president, and not Rosabelle. Well, you know, sometimes I hear people say that name,

0:37.5

and I think they're saying my name. Oh my God.

0:39.5

It's just different context, isn't it? Like that email you sent me this morning about the lady who thought I was a chicken.

0:43.0

I had to explain that later in the episode.

0:46.6

We're doing an episode today about Christian hellhouses.

0:51.9

And I'm just wondering, do you believe in hell, or I guess more widely,

0:57.3

like what do you think happens when Rosabelle dies and her life ends in some hideous fashion?

1:04.3

I don't really believe in an afterlife, but I do believe in ghosts.

1:08.8

Oh. Hmm. I never really thought about how that doesn't make sense.

1:14.2

Yeah, because I mean a ghost is something living in the afterlife, isn't it?

1:17.6

Yeah, but maybe they're kind of like plants, you know, like they don't really have the same consciousness.

1:23.7

Hmm.

1:24.3

So wait, get me what you think when you die, you're going to be sort of floating around with like the intelligence of a plant?

1:30.9

Well, I think I'm going to decompose and then maybe I'll become like a plant.

1:35.7

Like a plant ghost, a spirit.

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