You're three miles deep on the Appalachian Trail when you notice it.

The sudden, complete silence.

No birds, no insects, nothing.

Your heart pounds as you remember the first rule, leave immediately.

You start walking faster, and then you freeze.

Someone just called your name.

Every instinct screams to answer to run towards it, but you know that it's not really them.

You don't look back, you just keep moving, and then the whistling starts.

Today we test the believability of the rules of Appalachia.

You know, Welcome to Believing the bizarre, where we dive into the unknown and the unusual.

And tell you whether or not we find a believable

that's right happy tuesday and welcome to a new episode of believing the bizarre y'all y'all

because we're in appalachia it's not all y'all what is it we're i talk about that because i

feel like we've never had a full understanding of what is appalachia not Not really. Because we started a proper one. We did Appalachia too. And that might slip, guys. Appalachia. It sounds right in my tongue. Yeah, it's been beaten out of me now. I more often say Appalachia. They say different ways, different places. I grew up saying Appalachian. Yeah, Appalachians. Yeah. But then you guys shamed us. So. For Apple at you. But we'll get to that. But first, I want to thank all of our newest patrons of Believe and Bazaar, which includes Megan, Jill, Cash, Leah, and Estevan. Thank you so much for supporting the podcast. Every single Wednesday and Friday, new content comes your way, in addition to the stuff we're already putting out Tuesday and Friday. So really, Monday is the one down day of the regular week where you can just chill. And then we come in swinging. You don't got to worry about us on Monday, but it's a surprise attack. Although, actually, that's not true, because if you're a patron, sometimes you get early releases for the Tuesday episodes, and that's like Monday night. So really, we're always around. But thank you all so much for supporting us. And thank you, everybody, even if you're not in Patreon. Thank you so much for listening, because that means a lot to us as well. And reminder, our first ever live show is June 13th in 8, Ohio with Cryptids of the Korn Podcast. It's going to be a lot of fun. Starts early evening around like five or whatever. Yeah, yeah. It's kicking off around then. I got to text Matt to make sure he's coming. I'm pretty sure he's coming. We also want to shout this out because this is very, very exciting. Producer Ben is now not only producer Ben. He is published author, producer Ben.

Wow, you can add a monocle that bitch. Two monocles. Yeah, it's just glasses. But they're not

connected. They're both separate. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, I know. Producer Ben wrote a book about

his family or something. That's what it's called. Do you know what it's called? I don't know. It's called suitcases, shenanigans, and sunburns, true stories of family road trips, bathroom breakdowns, and my slow descendant madness. Ben was obviously trying to hit a word count in that title. I think it's actually officially just called suitcases, shenanigans, and sunburns. But either way, Ben is an awesome writer.

Anyone on Patreon who listens to our, do you believe the bizarre? They know that. Also, so a lot of theatrical readings are done by Ben. He is a fan. He is very good at spinning a yarn. He spins good yarn, just like my cat. So go check out his book. We'll put a link in the description of this episode if you want to check it out. But again, it's called Suitcases, Shenanigans, and Sunburns. Lingering question. Yeah, linger. Our episode last week is dropping out today right now, this very second. So we can't talk about that. So we're going to talk about creature in the vanity. Yes. Yeah, that one, that one lingered with me, man. It's being a lingered question with me. Yeah, no, it was chilling. The, the creature in the vanity is still with me. Like, I'm not looking at me. It's with you? Hopefully not figuratively. Only, only figurative.

She does.

It doesn't have.

Actually.

Single pain?

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