Hey there, strangers. Today we're doing something we've never done before. We are doing an

ask me anything. I put out the call for questions about a month ago and you all did not disappoint.

And so, without further ado, let's go.

So let's start with this question from Gretchen.

She asks, what made you get into strange and unexplained?

Have you had an obsession with strange and unworldly things your whole life?

Did you grow up in a haunted house? Well, Gretchen, I had a friend who

had started a podcasting network, and during COVID, toward the very beginning, actually, he

reached out and asked if I'd be interested in making a podcast. And he actually pitched the

idea to me. I was lucky enough a couple years ago to take the show over myself,

which has been an interesting experience. But yeah, I grew up watching things like unsolved mysteries,

The Twilight Zone, Tales from the Dark Side, Tales from the Cript. Do you remember that guy?

I didn't. The old saying, if looks could kill. So she did.

I did not grow up in a haunted house as far as I know, although I've never really had an experience with a ghost or whatever.

So sometimes I think that it's just me.

Maybe I'm just closed off to it. The house I grew up in

in Brooklyn was quite old, actually, and sort of falling apart. But it wasn't haunted as far as I know.

It was scary. We didn't have many lights because, I don't know, we just didn't have money. And so I

would have to run upstairs as fast as I could

to get to my bedroom where I could turn the light on because I was scared that monsters were

coming after me. But I never really had like an experience with anything like that.

And then on a related note, a listener named Crystal asked, what was one of, if not the story slash

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