Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hey and welcome to this bootcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and there's Jerry Booberry

Booberry. That was the best one. I like it. And this is Stuff You Should Know, the Spooktacular

Spooky Halloween Edition. That's right. This is our 13th Spooktacular. That's awesome.

I went back and looked and we started out kind of timid with the early days and then we kind of got,

I think it was a few years in when we finally started in with like the two stories and really got our wheels,

our Halloween wheels going. I can feel them just burning up the track right now. They're revving to go.

That's right. And also this is as we always like to mention one of our two episodes of the year that we have fought tooth and nail to keep

ad free. That's right. Does nothing will ruin a spooky Halloween story more than stopping to sell stamps.

That's right. You just want the scares and the thrills and the chills to be perfectly uninterrupted, right?

Yeah. And both of these stories, the parents have never heard these. They are both fine for kids to listen to.

Little creepy but largely because we have to use what's it called when you can read it.

Public domain stories. And usually those aren't their older so they're not as gross as the stories you would get today.

Yeah. I mean the language they use adults barely know what's going on. Kids definitely don't. Those are the stories we like to pick.

Two good ones though. I'm looking forward to these two to quality stories.

Let's start with yours. The boarded window by Ambrose Beers, right?

Yeah. Ambrose Beers, one of the great journalists and spooky story writers in history. I believe we already have done one beer piece.

Definitely. I can't remember the name of it but it was good.

Yeah, it was good. I think he was also called like the wickedest man alive at some point in time.

No, that was what's his face. No, I'm saying I think more than one person's been called that.

Oh, okay. I've been called that before. No, that's not true. All right. So you want to start this one?

Yeah, I'll give this one a whirl. All right. And Jerry, if you don't mind, bring it on the amazing sound effects hand for Jerry.

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