Feb. 5, 2026

Loira do Banheiro

Loira do Banheiro
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Bloody Mary...Bloody Mary...BLOODY MARY!!! In this episode, Ayden takes a bathroom break. Loira Do Banheiro is the spirit of a young woman who haunts bathrooms across Brazil!

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if they have a scary story or something like that,

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those resources. After all, that's basically how the show got started, right,

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was asking people about their stories. So I'm gonna encourage

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you to, in a sense, be part of the production

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of that process, right, But you know, going out in

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story scouting, so to speak, asking your family and friends

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for their stories is also perfectly acceptable by me.

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I love hearing them.

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With all of that said and done, we will go

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ahead and get into today's legend, which is the Loida

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de Bagnerro. Every school has a bathroom with this kind

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of story. Not the clean one, not the one near

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the main office with lots of foot traffic, the one

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at the end of the hall, the one with the

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broken lock, the one teachers pretend not to notice. No

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one completely agrees on how to summon her, only that

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you can. Some say you must use the last stall.

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You go inside, you lock the door, and you kick

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it once twice three times. Then you flush once twice

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three times, you step out, turn the sink on, turn

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it off, on, off, and on, and then you say

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something you're not supposed to say, a curse word, three times,

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loud enough that your voice travels through the pipes. Others

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say that the stall doesn't matter, that mirrors are the

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real doorways. You stand in front of it, look yourself

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in the eyes, and say her name once twice, three times.

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And then there's the one that no one likes to

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talk about, the one that isn't loud, the one that

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doesn't involve saying anything at all. You take a strand

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of your own hair, just a little, you flush it

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down the toilet, and you wait for her. No matter

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the version, the ending is always the same. Something changes,

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The air thickens, and the mirror's fog, And if you're

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truly unfortunate, you hear someone behind you. They call her

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the Loidra de Bannerro or the blonde in the bathroom.

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And once you learn the rituals, you start to understand

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something truly terrifying. She isn't really summoned by words. She's

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summoned by your belief alone, relying on your fear to

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manifest her. But this story doesn't begin in a school.

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It begins in eighteen sixty four in the city of

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guaratin Guetta, Supaulo, with the birth of a girl named

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Maria Augusta the Olivea. She was the daughter of Francisco

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de A sis Olivea Borges, the Viscount of Guaratinguetta, a

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powerful man, a wealthy man. The family lived in a

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large man but Maria Augusta was happiest by herself playing

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the piano. She was especially close to her mother, Amelia.

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With her mother's guidance, Maria Augusta grew as a talented, educated,

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but sheltered young woman. Then, at fourteen years old, Maria

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Agusta's life stopped belonging to her. Her father arranged for

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a marriage to Francisco Antonio Dutra Rodriguez, a man twenty

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years older than she was at the time.

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This was normal marriages were strategic.

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Financial but Maria Agusta did not want this marriage. Despite

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her objections, she was forced to marry. For four long years,

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Maria Agusta lived a life unfulfilled and restrained, at least

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until her father died for her. The tragedy of losing

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her father also meant that the last chain holding Maria

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Augusta in place had also died. At eighteen, Maria Augusta

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did something she previously thought impossible.

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She fled.

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She left Brazil for Paris, taking with her the family

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heirlooms and money to find the life she had never

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been allowed to live. In Paris, she was free what

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she did there, how she lived, who she became. History

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did not record much of We do know that in

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eighteen eighty six she had her marriage officially annulled and

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declared to her family that she would never return to Brazil.

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She was twenty two when she was finally fully free

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from her old life, but only five years later, in

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eighteen ninety one, she was dead. The cause was never

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fully confirmed. Some believe it was rabies, a rare and

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terrifying illness in humans, marked by fever, delirium, and an

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unbearable thirst. It is said that on the day she died,

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all of the mirrors shattered inside the family home back

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in Brazil. No explanation, no witnesses could agree on how

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or why. News traveled slowly.

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Then it was.

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Only weeks later when her mother, Amelia learned of her

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demise that they realized the mirrors had all fallen right

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after Maria Augusta's death. Despite knowing that Maria Augusta wanted

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to stay in Paris, Amelia had her daughter's body sent

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back to Brazil by ship. Along the way, looters stole

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everything that was packed within the coffin, her jewels, her clothing,

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even her death certificate. When she finally arrived, Maria Augusta's

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body was badly decomposed, and yet her mother chose to

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display her in a glass coffin. Those who attended described

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her as unrecognizable, a figure that barely resembled the young pianist.

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They remer Her corpse had been propped up and stuffed

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full of cotton to try to make her look more

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alive and to hide the decay. The body remained like

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that for days weeks. Neighbors would visit and comment about

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the horrifying sight. Some said they even saw Maria Augusta

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ask to be set free. Then Amelia had a dream

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about her daughter. In the dream, Maria Gusta asked for

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one thing to finally be buried. Soon after, she was

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laid to rest at the Lord of the Steps cemetery

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in Guaratinguata and the family eventually left the mansion, but

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the house did not become quiet. Former employees reported strange things,

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the sound of a piano playing by itself, lights turning

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on in empty rooms, faucets opening with no one there,

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and when in nineteen o two the mansion was converted

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into the Councillerro Rodriguez Davis State School, those disturbances didn't stop,

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they only intensified. One of these disturbances happened on a

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normal day in a normal high school in South Paulo.

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Late in the morning. A group of girls slips out

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of class to hide in the bathroom at the very

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back of the school, the one no one checks unless

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something goes wrong. Gamilla, Beatrice, and Luana had done this before.

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Skipping class was not new for them. They sat in

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the same formation they always do, Gamilla on the counter,

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Beatris on the floor, and Luana on a closed toilet lid.

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With their phones out. They shared videos with one another

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and their laughter echoes a little too loudly off the tiles.

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They were killing time and avoiding going back to class

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until Camilla came across something a strange video. Hey you guys,

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check this out. Beatrice watched along. Slightly confused, she asked,

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what is this? Gomilla grinned as she answered, I've heard

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of this before. Other kids do this at their schools

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all the time. Luana realized where this was going and

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replied with fear.

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No, please, I don't want to.

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Gomilla knows she has both of their full attention. Now

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it's the loidra Lubagnero, let's call her. Piatrice laughs and

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says it's fake, that the story is just for little kids,

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that they're too old for that, but the idea sticks

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in their minds. Gamila teases them, come on, if it's

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not real, prove it a dare. The other two hesitate,

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but begrudgingly agree, convincing themselves it's just a story, right.

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They choose the last stall and kick the door once twice,

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three times. They flush once than twice and three times.

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They come back out with Gamilla and Bietri's laughing louder now,

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but Luana grows more nervous. All three then stand in

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front of the mirror and Gamilla begins to chant loira

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do bagneiro. Bietris laughs, Loira do bagnero. Luana chuckles nervously

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and glances at the door. Gamila cries out of final time,

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Loira dough Bannero. The lights flicker and all three girls

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stop laughing. The mirror fogs slowly from the edges inward,

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and then they see her in the mirror, standing behind them,

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in front of the stall they just left.

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A young woman.

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Her hair is blonde, almost white. Her dress is white,

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too old fashioned and stained. Her skin looks like it's

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coming off, her body decaying and ragged and stuffed into

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her nose, her ears, and her mouth is cotton. The

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spirit raises one hand, but not threatening, motioning the girls

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to come closer, inviting them to look. She points to

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her mouth. The girls start crying. Beatrice says no, Camilla

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can barely muster a whimper.

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We have to go.

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Luana tries to make a call on her phone, only

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to realize that the battery is now completely dead. But

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the spirit doesn't advance. She just waits and points again

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to the cotton. Shaking, Luana realizes what the spirit wants

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and steps forward. Her hands tremble as she reaches up

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to the spirit's mouth and pulls the cotton free. The

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spirit's mouth opens and she makes a sound that doesn't

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belong in a living throat. The spirit points to the

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sink behind the girls. Biatri spins around and turns on

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the faucet. The spirit lunges forward. She drinks desperately, and

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then blood pours from her mouth, thick, dark. It spills

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into the sink onto the floor, more blood than should

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be able to come from one human. The girls scream

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and all three run from the bathroom. They tear down

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the hallway, crying, shouting over each other to warn everyone she's.

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Real, the loid dubagnetro. She was there.

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By the time anyone went back to check, the mirrors

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were clean and the stalls were empty, but the faucet

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was still running. Welcome back, well friends. Before we say anything, everybody,

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go to the restroom and wash your hands, and then

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look in the mirror and say, loira do bagnetro three times.

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So obviously this is very much a bloody Mary kind

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of story, right, I think, at least myself, that is

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what I am more familiar with. I feel like we

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have all heard of bloody Mary. You go in the restroom,

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it's like a fun thing to do with each other

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at like slumber parties or whatever. I don't think I

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have ever actually done it. I was about to say

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maybe I should try it and get it on video,

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but I don't think I want to play with that.

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I don't like. We have had this conversation and we're

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going to.

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Touch on it again about bathrooms as like portals, and

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I think that's where stories like this come from. Right,

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we'll get into it, but we're going to run through

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these sources. So the first one we have here is

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from a wiki fandom and this is just an entry

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on the Loira do Bagnerro. And this is a legend

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that comes out of Brazil, so you may have heard it.

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Listen the amount of takes that I have for this

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recording of me just trying to say these things right

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because Portuguese, you would like it. It's not Spanish at all.

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There may be some similarities, but yeah, it's like my

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mouth doesn't move in those ways. So I had to

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like really really fight to try and say those things

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the right way. So let me know how I did.

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Any Portuguese speakers out there, I may have to call

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Johnny and Eileen from Wuickyoo because there any time they

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say anything in Portuguese, or they come across like Portuguese movies.

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It's like their accents are beautiful Brazilian movies. Really, So

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this source says, certainly the best known of all urban

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legends in Brazil, Loira Dobagerro, is the ghost of a

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blonde girl who was murdered in her school bathroom, and

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from then on her ghost haunts anyone who dares to

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disturb her eternal sleep. So there's two kinds of legends

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that we married for this one, and really, honestly, those

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two legends in a lot of these sources, they also

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are linked together anyway, So it's like the modern legend

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that is influenced by the original story, like based off

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of true events, kind of thing. Right For the legend,

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it says, once there was a blonde girl, either a

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student or a teacher, depending on the version or who

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was telling the story. She was beautiful and smart, more

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than any other girl in her class, which made people

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envy her until one day when she was in her

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school's bathroom, skipping class. In the version where she was

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a student skipping class, she died for unknown reasons. Anyone

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who believes she was a student will tell you that

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she was murdered by other girls in the school who

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were jealous of her beauty. Anyone who believes that she

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was a teacher will tell you that it was because

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of students who were very angry at the grades that

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they received. And still there are those who, regardless of

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the girl's identity, believe it was just an accident. She

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just slipped and hit her head on the toilet. Regardless

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of the reason for her death, she was dead to

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everyone but herself. So this is a case of a

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haunting where the spirit doesn't know that they have passed on.

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This was I was very excited about this story when

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I came across this legend and Jeff and I were

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planning it because again, like we started off the story,

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every school bathroom or every school has this bathroom right

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where they're like, that's the haunted bathroom. That's the bathroom

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you don't go in. I think one of my stories

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growing up was when I was in high school, we

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had we didn't have like a big high school, but

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we did have auxiliary campuses kind of like they were

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all clustered together, like really close. So there was like

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the main high school building and then there was the

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vocational building, which is there was like the shop classes

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and all that kind of stuff, and then there was

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the newer one, which was interesting that it happened here.

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It was kind of I forgot what they're called.

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I think it was like the CTE.

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Yeah, the Computer Technology Engineering building where all the computer

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classes are the computer labs. I heard a story that

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one weekend there was a janitor that was cleaning I

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think Friday night, over the weekend whatever, and it was

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dark out and they went into the bathroom that was there,

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and I'd never used the restrooms there after I heard

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this that they went into the bathroom there and they

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walked in and they saw a woman who was like.

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An all white, long dark black.

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Hair, which I think fits the description of so many

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cryptid fams that we've talked about on sustill before.

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But that, yeah, she was this.

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Woman all in white, long black hair, but she didn't

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have a face, and that the janitor walked in and

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saw this person there and like was screaming, and course

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freaked out and ran out of the building and left

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and like never returned. I don't know how true the

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story was. I want to say it happened when I

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was in high school. There but maybe I wasn't taking

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classes there that year.

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I don't know.

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I just I remember taking classes there for one year

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and then never going back when I didn't have to

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because I didn't want to use that restroom.

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And it's interesting that.

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It was the newer building of the ones while I

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was there, but it was You would think the older

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one would be haunted, right Anyway, The point is, I'm

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sure that you all have had your own version of

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the story, which.

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I would love to hear.

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As always, please send it in use the submit story

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button on the website and the link tree, or DM

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it to me. Just get me the story. I want

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to hear it because I don't know why those stories

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are always super creepy. Maybe because the bathroom is a

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vulnerable place. Again, we're going to talk about that. I

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don't want to jump the gun, but okay, this continues.

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There is this one I think is like a specific

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telling of or like one version of this story. Her

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friends hadn't forgotten about her. They wanted to continue to

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commune with her. They didn't want to let her go,

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so they were looking for a way to communicate with her,

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and they discovered all they had to do was go

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into the restroom where she died, and after saying loidra

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domagnetro three times in front of the mirror, they had

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to slam the door three times, flesh to huy at

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three times, and swear three times, and then she would appear,

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which is very specific instructions. I'm like, how did you

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discover this way to some in your friend? For me,

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I would need like three slices of pizza, three episodes

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of Real Housewives, what else?

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I don't know.

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Yeah, these are like very specific instructions. Is very not complex,

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but it's like there's many steps to this ritual, and

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this idea of threes happens over and over. Right, it's

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the three knocks that chanted the name three times, the

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three flushes, the three kicks, whatever, And I wonder if

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there's any connection between that and like the Holy Trinity, right,

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Father's Son, the Holy Spirit. You think of exercism movies

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or the Witching Hour. It's at like three in the

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morning because it is the inverse of the time of

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when Christ was crucified. So yeah, I wonder if there's

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any connection there. Right, it seemed like an obvious one,

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and then this jumps into the real person and it

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says this legend supposedly arose from a true story about

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a girl called Maria Augusta the Olivea Borges, born at

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the end of the nineteenth century in guaratin Guetta. So, Paulo,

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this word this city was so hard for me to say.

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I want to say in Spanish as Guadatingueta or Guadatingueta.

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But when I looked at the pronunciations, I kept I

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was hearing guadatin Guetta, like the ua is not as emphasized,

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and the tea is more like a tea or a

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ch sound versus the I don't know. This isn't a

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phonetics lesson. I'm not a words doctor. But this continues.

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The young woman would have been forced by her father

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to marry at the age of fourteen with a much

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older man, and happy with the marriage, the girl would

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have sold her jewelry and fled to Paris at age eighteen.

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At the age of twenty six, Maria passed away.

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It says.

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The terror continues when the young woman's mother decides to

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take her body back to Brazil, and until the tomb

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was built, the corpse was on display in the glass

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coffin in the family mansion for public viewing. After a while, while,

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her mother decided to bury her daughter. Some say after

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having several visions of the girl asking to be buried

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when she went for it, which is so sad. I'm

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like later, grief is weird, though, right, you know, we don't.

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I can see this happening to this day, of people

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postponing a burial for whatever reason or like not wanting

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it to. It's just it's weird. You know, there's no

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one way to grieve. So you would think, like, oh

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my God, please put her body to rest, let her rest,

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let her go. But you can't really tell somebody how

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to do that. But I would think, you know, in

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these times, if the body's decomposing, it's like, all right,

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come on, it's starting to smell around here. I don't know,

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this says after About a decade later, in nineteen oh two,

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the house was a given or donated to the Cuinteleiro

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Rodriguez Atives State School, and that's where the roomor started

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that the spirit of Maria Augusta was roaming the school

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because it was the house. The mansion was turned into it,

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and that's where the story of the Blonde in the

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bathroom started right, and it says that this was attributed

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due to a mysterious fire in part of the building

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in nineteen sixteen. According to the legend, her spirit walks

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through the school bathrooms, opening faucets to quench her thirst

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and asking people to bury her. This next source that

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I have here is from ndmais dot com dot b

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r and the entry is the Blonde in the Bathroom existed.

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Discover the real story of Maria Augusta who gave rise

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to the legend.

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Again.

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All direct links to these sources will be in the

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Susto Google docs on Patreon. But this says true or

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false story of this young nineteenth century aristocrat has become

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one of Brazil's most famous and enduring urban legends.

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Wow.

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This is actually published in August of twenty twenty five,

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so very very recent, and it starts blonde in the bathroom,

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Blonde in the bathroom, Blonde in the bathroom. Legend has

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it that the sequence of words has the power to

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summon an evil spirit when said in front of a

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school bathroom mirror. And let me tell you, I'm very

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happy that I'm doing this in my office. There are

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no mirrors in here. I'm not gonna use the restroom

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for a couple.

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Of days just to be safe.

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Sorry, Jeff, You're gonna have to be the guinea pig

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for this, because, like I said, I'm not playing games

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with these chanting and vadimier things because I do think

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mirrors are portals. But this continues if you grew up

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in the two thousands like me, which is not really

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a flex anymore because it's like twenty one year olds

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were born in two thousand or twenty six year olds. Ugh, anyway,

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I hurt myself. Anyway, this continues if you grew up

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in the two thousands, you've probably tried summoning the spirit

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of the blonde Girl in the bathroom. I haven't, and

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I shan't with your friends during recess. What you didn't

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know is that the most famous myth in Brazilian schools

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was inspired by a true story.

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So what is the true story.

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Of the Blonde in the bathroom or the loidra l'bagnerro.

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The life story of Maria Augusta de Olivea Borges was

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dark as her legacy. The young woman was born into

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an elite nineteenth century family in Guadatinguata in the interior

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of South Baolon. She was the daughter of the Viscount

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of Guadaitinguta. I'm getting better at saying the word Maria

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as I go along, who was a powerful merchant and

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coffee grower who gave her all the luxuries that an

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aristocratic family could provide at the time. However, and there

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is a picture here that is said to be of

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her or of the mansion. But I'm going to try

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and find see if I can find like real authentic

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pictures of her. She does this is not a blonde

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person in this picture, so I don't know. But it's

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also an old picture. This is nineteenth century, so who knows.

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This continues. However, life stopped smiling on her when she

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turned fourteen, and in the mid eighteen eighties, an arranged

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marriage was set up for it because they're very common,

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especially among noble families, and she was forced to marry

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Dutra Rodriguez, a man twenty one years her senior, which

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means he was thirty five disgusting, pig gross. The young

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woman couldn't bear the unhappy marriage, and four years after

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the ceremony, when she was eighteen, she sold her jewelry

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and ran away alone. To Paris, France, without knowing that

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she would ever return to Brazil, at least not alive.

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So in our story and maybe the detail will come up.

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One of the sources was that her father passed and

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then that's kind of like the obligation to keep the

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business going and thriving was done with and once he

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was done, or once he passed, that was hard to

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say it that way, but you know, once he passed,

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it was like, well, then the business has gone with him.

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So I don't need to be in this marriage anymore.

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I'm out.

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But here it's just that she fled, She like up

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and ran away. This says what happened in Europe is

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a mystery. What is known is that the family received

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news of her untimely death seven years after her escape,

475
00:26:11.079 --> 00:26:14.440
when she was only twenty six years old. And there's

476
00:26:14.519 --> 00:26:17.839
a photo of her father here allegedly, and I will

477
00:26:17.839 --> 00:26:20.119
be posting these photos on the social media post for

478
00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:20.640
this episode.

479
00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:21.279
This continues.

480
00:26:21.359 --> 00:26:24.160
Rumor circulated that the cause of death was rabies, but

481
00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:27.319
her death certificate disappeared, which further contributed to the case

482
00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:30.599
becoming part of the popular imagination. So people just ran

483
00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:32.119
off with this story, you know, very similar to the

484
00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:36.240
vampire Resipiscoperu, which also did involve a cruise. Just kidding

485
00:26:36.279 --> 00:26:39.279
travel by boat or transporting a body of corpse by boat.

486
00:26:39.319 --> 00:26:43.079
Things go missing, things were maybe stolen, somehow they're gone.

487
00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:45.640
There's no documentation that says for certain this was her

488
00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:47.920
cause of death, but allegedly that's what was on there

489
00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:50.920
before it was robbed or swiped. So this says again

490
00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:53.400
that her body was brought back to Brazil and her

491
00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:56.039
mother commissioned a special tomb for her daughter that while

492
00:26:56.039 --> 00:26:59.279
it was being prepared, her remains were displayed in a

493
00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:02.759
glass Hoffen in the family's mansion, again for the public

494
00:27:02.799 --> 00:27:05.720
people were visiting. Her mother had the dream decided, okay,

495
00:27:05.759 --> 00:27:07.960
it's time my daughter's asking me to lay her to

496
00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:10.799
rest again. There's another picture here that they're saying is her,

497
00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:12.359
but she looks like a brunette. So I don't know

498
00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:14.440
where this blonde idea. Maybe it's that you know she

499
00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:16.720
was a brunette, But blonde in the bathroom is like

500
00:27:16.759 --> 00:27:18.440
more fun to say, or loyda the weagnetto.

501
00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:18.799
I don't know.

502
00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:21.960
The family's neighbor also claimed to hear Maria Augusta playing

503
00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:24.960
piano music. And to be able to smell white roses,

504
00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:29.039
the young woman's favorite perfume. Only then was Madia finally buried,

505
00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:31.240
but the supernatural accounts never ceased.

506
00:27:31.319 --> 00:27:32.119
It was too late.

507
00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:34.119
They you know, pissed her off, tortured her soul. She

508
00:27:34.119 --> 00:27:35.599
didn't want to be there and she didn't want to

509
00:27:35.599 --> 00:27:38.000
be on display. Over time, the family mansion again was

510
00:27:38.039 --> 00:27:40.559
transformed into the State school, and that's where the legend

511
00:27:40.559 --> 00:27:44.599
began to take root. And again, staff, students, employees, they

512
00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:47.880
report hearing footsteps in the hallways, door slamming, and of

513
00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:51.200
course strange occurrences in the bathrooms. This is a really

514
00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:52.039
pretty building.

515
00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:52.480
Wow.

516
00:27:52.599 --> 00:27:56.279
Then they had money, because this is huge. This looks

517
00:27:56.279 --> 00:27:58.279
like it was built to be a school. It's so massive.

518
00:27:58.400 --> 00:28:00.960
I can't imagine it being a house. Then this talks

519
00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:03.240
about the fire again. It says in nineteen sixteen, a

520
00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:06.680
fire of unknown origin destroyed part of the building, increasing

521
00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:09.480
the belief that the spirit of Maria Augusta inhabited the

522
00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:12.079
place and that she was responsible for starting the fire.

523
00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:15.480
The students believed that the spirit of the young aristocrat

524
00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:19.519
still haunts the school bathroom, supposedly tormented by cause of death.

525
00:28:19.559 --> 00:28:22.480
You know, the thirst and the rage, which would explain

526
00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:25.000
the reports of the faucets turning on by themselves. And

527
00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:27.839
this says that her tomb in the Basos Cemetery in

528
00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:31.000
Guadatinguata can still be visited, and the old school continues

529
00:28:31.039 --> 00:28:33.599
to be the subject of rumors and curiosities. I wonder

530
00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:35.960
if the school is actually still running. This photo looks

531
00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:39.279
very modern day, so maybe it's still a school. It's

532
00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:41.400
still going. And there's a section here at the end

533
00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:43.359
that says, how do I summon the blonde in the bathroom?

534
00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:45.640
Says that each region of the country has a variation

535
00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:48.200
on the legend, but the most common accounts involve the

536
00:28:48.200 --> 00:28:50.880
following steps. Going to the school bathroom when it's empty,

537
00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:53.559
usually knock three times in the door of the last

538
00:28:53.720 --> 00:28:57.039
stall or on the bathroom door, flush the toilet three times,

539
00:28:57.319 --> 00:28:59.640
or turn the light on and off three times, and

540
00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:02.079
then calling out for the blonde in the bathroom in

541
00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:03.240
front of a mirror.

542
00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:03.720
Again.

543
00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:07.759
Very bloody Mary, very bloody Mary, very bloody Mary. Inspired

544
00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:23.720
kind of story, right. The next ross that we have

545
00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:27.920
here is vocal media slash history, and the entry is

546
00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:30.839
the legend of the Blonde bathroom ghosts inspired by the

547
00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:33.680
story of Maria Augusta the Oliveira. This is published two

548
00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:37.400
years ago, very very very recently. By this says Hiraya,

549
00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:39.559
thank you so much for posing this and this just

550
00:29:39.640 --> 00:29:41.079
like it is a really nice write up of the

551
00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:43.480
entire story. But something that I thought was interesting was

552
00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:46.440
towards the end, is it, says Furthermore, the story of

553
00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:49.559
the Blonde in the Bathroom Ghost also shares similarities with

554
00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:53.319
the foreign urban legend of Bloody Mary, which keeps coming up.

555
00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:55.759
I keep saying it right, which involves invocation rituals in

556
00:29:55.759 --> 00:29:58.519
front of a mirror. Both legends evoke fear and curiosity,

557
00:29:58.519 --> 00:30:02.039
with historical roots and mutual influences. Although folklore has evolved

558
00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:04.839
over time, the legacy of Maria Augusta dea Oliveda the

559
00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:07.759
Blonde Bathroom Ghost remains alive in people's imaginations. So the

560
00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:09.920
next time you hear someone mentioned Blonde in the Bathroom

561
00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:12.799
or Bloody Mary, remember that these mysterious stories have deep

562
00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:15.480
roots in real events and the rich folklore of Brazil

563
00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:18.440
and the world. Which makes me think of this like

564
00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:21.799
invocation of someone of a spirit through the use of mirrors,

565
00:30:21.799 --> 00:30:23.519
And we're going to get into that kind of here,

566
00:30:23.599 --> 00:30:25.680
and I know I'm trying to save these ideas for

567
00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:27.920
a little bit later, but there. I have also heard

568
00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:31.680
of certain rituals of when people want to communicate with

569
00:30:31.720 --> 00:30:34.680
their loved ones who have passed on, they will use

570
00:30:35.240 --> 00:30:38.680
mirrors for divination because mirrors are said to be portals,

571
00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:42.079
and sometimes you use like an obsidian mirror, you use

572
00:30:42.119 --> 00:30:44.599
a regular mirror with like water cant like. It's like

573
00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:48.279
there's an actual practice to using mirrors as diven objects

574
00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:51.640
of divination. And so I think that also feeds into

575
00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:55.319
this type of story, this type of legend and folklore

576
00:30:55.359 --> 00:30:57.720
of you know, mirrors are used this way, so they

577
00:30:57.720 --> 00:30:59.799
can be used to summon this like one kind of

578
00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:02.759
entity that many people know about. So, speaking of the

579
00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:05.480
Bloody Mary folklore, because that is something that I am

580
00:31:05.640 --> 00:31:08.240
very familiar with that I grew up hearing about, I

581
00:31:08.240 --> 00:31:09.920
wanted to look a bit more into that too. So

582
00:31:10.039 --> 00:31:13.000
this is from eb sco dot com. I don't know

583
00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:14.759
what the acronym stands. Where I tried looking for it,

584
00:31:14.799 --> 00:31:16.880
I probably didn't poke around hard enough, but it's eb

585
00:31:17.039 --> 00:31:21.079
sco dot com. The entry is Bloody Mary Folklore and

586
00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:23.000
this says Bloody Mary is the name of the central

587
00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:25.680
figure in a game that is often played by young people.

588
00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:27.920
During this game, the participants stand in front of the

589
00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:30.559
bathroom mirror and call out to the spirit of Bloody Mary.

590
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:33.000
The number of times the participants say the spirit's name

591
00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:35.720
varies from three to one hundred times. I've only ever

592
00:31:35.759 --> 00:31:38.599
heard it three times. Sometimes participants are told to prick

593
00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:41.319
their fingers or spin around in a circle after calling

594
00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:43.440
out to Bloody Mary. All right, the pricking the finger,

595
00:31:43.559 --> 00:31:45.759
that's blood magic. You're doing too much with that. Don't

596
00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:48.680
do that, and this continues if performed correctly. Legend says

597
00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:51.400
that Mary will appear in the mirror. In some variations,

598
00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:54.279
Mary appears as a bloodied ghost, That's what I've heard of,

599
00:31:54.400 --> 00:31:56.680
while in others she may be a witch, an old woman,

600
00:31:56.799 --> 00:31:59.519
or a young girl. What Mary supposedly looks like varies

601
00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:02.480
widely from region to region. Depending on the legend. Mary

602
00:32:02.519 --> 00:32:05.039
may scream at the participants or try to scratch their

603
00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:06.240
cheeks or eyes.

604
00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:07.279
I feel like the.

605
00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:09.559
Version that I've always heard is that she appears as

606
00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:12.559
a bloodied woman, bloody Mary, of course, and that she screams,

607
00:32:12.599 --> 00:32:15.440
which is why I will never play this game. You're right,

608
00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:17.759
this continues. Who or what the legend of Bloody Mary

609
00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:20.319
is based on is unknown, and the story's background largely

610
00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:23.400
depends on locality. In addition, the name used during the

611
00:32:23.480 --> 00:32:25.759
ritual is sometimes Bloody Mary, but it can also be

612
00:32:25.839 --> 00:32:28.799
Mary Jane, Maryworth, Mary Wells, Mary Johnson, or a number

613
00:32:28.839 --> 00:32:32.599
of other alternatives like Loidra l'banerro. In some versions, participants

614
00:32:32.599 --> 00:32:35.200
are told to say I believe in, followed by the

615
00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:37.759
spirit's name. So this is getting more into that kind

616
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:40.680
of ritual of trying to communicate with a loved on

617
00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:42.960
on the other side. As you're calling you, you would say,

618
00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:45.279
I believe in. I am calling to let me speak

619
00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:48.039
to This is where I'm like getting a little bit

620
00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:50.079
more chilly, like I don't know. This is getting a

621
00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:52.559
little too real magic for me and less game. Some

622
00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:54.839
legends claim Mary was a witch who died during the

623
00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:57.400
famous Salem witch trials. In others, she is a young

624
00:32:57.440 --> 00:32:59.720
girl who was murdered by her father for killing her

625
00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:03.559
mother quote killing her mother during childbirth, which is wild logic, dude.

626
00:33:03.599 --> 00:33:08.000
People have suggested that the Bloody Mary legend originated with Mary,

627
00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:11.839
the first Queen of England, who ruled for five years

628
00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:15.119
in the mid fifteen hundreds, also known as Mary Tudor.

629
00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:17.319
And then this says, in real life, the Catholic Mary

630
00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:21.039
was known as Bloody Mary for her persecution of Protestants

631
00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:23.960
during her reign. This Mary Tudor one would make sense

632
00:33:23.960 --> 00:33:27.759
because there's also this idea of spirits who are damned

633
00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:30.160
to wander the earth for their wrongdoings, right, so I

634
00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:33.039
would assume that this is a punishment for Mary, the

635
00:33:33.039 --> 00:33:35.759
first Mary Tudor, you know she was. Her prosecution of

636
00:33:35.799 --> 00:33:39.240
Protestants earned her the name Bloody Mary, which sounds really violent.

637
00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:41.240
So it's like, well, guess what now in the afterlife,

638
00:33:41.240 --> 00:33:45.039
you're trapped in Bathamere's stinky However, this continues. Additionally, Queen

639
00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:48.279
Mary experienced several miscarriages and false pregnancies, which may be

640
00:33:48.359 --> 00:33:50.680
why some versions of the legend say that the Mary

641
00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:54.000
apparition appears with a dead baby in her arms. Despite this,

642
00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:56.599
many experts do not believe that the legend is based

643
00:33:56.640 --> 00:33:59.400
on the English queen, though her story may have contributed

644
00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:02.279
to some of the themes over the years. Definitely makes sense.

645
00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:04.519
Then this wraps up here and says, in many versions

646
00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:06.759
of the game, young women go into a dark bathroom

647
00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:08.719
and stand in front of the mirror. Some rules call

648
00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:11.280
for participants to flush the toilets to make Mary go

649
00:34:11.360 --> 00:34:14.920
away after she has appeared interesting, flush her away. Folklorist

650
00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:18.159
Alan Dundees, the author of the book Bloody Mary in

651
00:34:18.239 --> 00:34:23.119
the Mirror Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics. I'm buying this book.

652
00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:26.480
I need to read this anyway. This says that Alan

653
00:34:26.679 --> 00:34:30.320
associated the legend with anxiety concerning the onset of puberty

654
00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:34.159
and particularly menstruation in young women or young people with uteruses.

655
00:34:34.199 --> 00:34:37.440
The essential elements of the legend, the bathroom, the blood,

656
00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:39.840
the mirror, and the apparition of a woman all can

657
00:34:39.880 --> 00:34:42.960
be linked to the self consciousness that young women experience

658
00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:46.920
as they go through adolescence, according to experts. Very interesting,

659
00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:50.039
very ins y'all listen, y'all know I love I love

660
00:34:50.280 --> 00:34:54.880
anything that is academic about the spooky, the paranormal, the supernatural.

661
00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:57.079
It's just like, I eat that up. It's so fun

662
00:34:57.119 --> 00:34:59.039
to me. And then the last source that I have

663
00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:03.079
here is from good old atlass obscura at liss obscure.

664
00:35:03.159 --> 00:35:03.519
I love you.

665
00:35:03.559 --> 00:35:07.320
If you're listening, just say hi. I want that would

666
00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:09.480
be I'm going to put that on the universe. I

667
00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:12.360
don't know, there's some sort of partnership, some sort of something.

668
00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:15.199
I want to work with Atlas Obscura because I love

669
00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:18.239
their website. They have the coolest content on here. We're

670
00:35:18.280 --> 00:35:22.000
always going back to them for resources. So yeah, let's hey,

671
00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:24.199
at Less Obscura, what is up? Slide in my dms.

672
00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:26.440
I'm gonna slide yours too. This says, get to know

673
00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:29.519
your Japanese bathroom ghosts. There are several to keep track of,

674
00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:32.440
some scarier than others. So as you know, I am

675
00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:36.639
always looking to tie these stories interculturally, trans culturally. So

676
00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:40.199
we've covered Brazil, right, and then we've definitely heard this

677
00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:43.239
story all over the world. But the origins vary, right,

678
00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:45.159
So there's the one in Brazil, the Loyd of the

679
00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:49.880
Bonetto and Maria Augusta, and then there's Bloody Mary, which

680
00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:52.800
may be tied to English royalty. And so I wanted

681
00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:55.599
to jump around the world and this came up in

682
00:35:55.639 --> 00:35:59.480
my starts for like Bloody Mary stories, these bathroom Japanese ghosts,

683
00:35:59.519 --> 00:36:02.280
and what my eye was that it's multiple right. This says,

684
00:36:02.280 --> 00:36:04.599
as any horror film fan can attest, the bathroom can

685
00:36:04.599 --> 00:36:07.599
be a scary place. From Janet Lee's infamous shower scene

686
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:10.559
and Psycho to the bloodspewing drained pipes of Stephen King's It,

687
00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:15.000
there's no shortage of genuinely startling imagery connected to laboratories.

688
00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:18.719
What a good word, laboratories. I'm done saying bathroom, I'm

689
00:36:18.719 --> 00:36:21.119
done saying restroom, and it goes to the lavoratory. But

690
00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:24.000
when it comes to conjuring up the most terrifying possible

691
00:36:24.039 --> 00:36:27.480
interruptions to our most private moments, no one beats Japan

692
00:36:27.719 --> 00:36:29.360
that hit on something. And this is where I want

693
00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:33.440
to introduce these ideas the bathroom and I if you

694
00:36:33.679 --> 00:36:35.800
have never checked them out, please go listen to the

695
00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:40.920
Paranormal budas they have a really great theory about this phenomenon.

696
00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:44.199
And they call it portal potties instead of which I

697
00:36:44.199 --> 00:36:46.719
think is so cute, instead of porta potties. Right, portal

698
00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:49.239
like the potty, is a portal because it is the

699
00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:54.880
perfect combination for supernatural phenomenon. Right, It's so this right here,

700
00:36:54.920 --> 00:36:56.880
This is a perfect segue into it before we actually

701
00:36:56.880 --> 00:36:59.440
go into the rest of this list here, but this

702
00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:02.840
says that it's at our most private moment, so one

703
00:37:03.039 --> 00:37:05.559
that is already it is a very vulnerable space when

704
00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:07.599
you go into the restroom. And this is kind of

705
00:37:07.599 --> 00:37:10.320
a silly take, but it's real, Like it makes sense

706
00:37:10.320 --> 00:37:11.800
to me. When you go into the restroom, you're not

707
00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:14.360
looking over your shoulder. Typically there is a door and

708
00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:16.880
it's locked. Right, it is private time you have to

709
00:37:16.920 --> 00:37:20.880
yourself to hopefully relax do your business. Whether it's using

710
00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:23.639
the toilet or taking a shower. You know, both are

711
00:37:23.639 --> 00:37:27.639
things that should feel relieving hopefully, right, hopefully you're not

712
00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:30.480
stressed using the toilet or taking a shower. But it's

713
00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:32.480
also that thing where you're like, you know, you're washing

714
00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:34.880
your hair and you're able to just close your eyes.

715
00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:36.599
That's one place where you can do that. And you know,

716
00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:38.679
sometimes if you're on edge, you're like, oh, I couldn't

717
00:37:38.679 --> 00:37:40.639
even close my eyes while washing my hair, right anyway,

718
00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:42.920
So it's a very vulnerable place, is what I'm saying.

719
00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:46.480
You're kind of just like stripped down literally and spiritually,

720
00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:49.000
and it could leave you open to some things. Right,

721
00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:51.719
And then we've already spoken about mirrors. I truly think

722
00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:54.880
mirrors our portals can be used as portals. I've told

723
00:37:54.920 --> 00:37:57.800
a story on Sosto before but also the idea of

724
00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:01.360
mirrors used as divination alone are portals and you put

725
00:38:01.360 --> 00:38:05.400
them in the restroom, combined with your vulnerability, combined with water. Right,

726
00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:08.599
we know that water is a conduit for spirits. It

727
00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:11.280
is a source of energy. And there is flowing water

728
00:38:11.400 --> 00:38:13.239
everywhere in the restroanm It's in the shower, it's in

729
00:38:13.280 --> 00:38:15.440
the toilet, it's in the seink. There's gonna be pipes

730
00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:19.199
wrapped around some wather probably, so another addition to that recipe.

731
00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:22.079
And then there is the idea of the stone. So

732
00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:24.880
usually the toilets are made of porcelain, right, and some

733
00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:28.599
people believe that porcelain can hold energy as well. So

734
00:38:28.920 --> 00:38:32.599
you have just this perfect combination of these things really

735
00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:35.880
stir up some spooky stuff, right, And I'm going to

736
00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:37.719
try and get a clip from the paramal poot Us

737
00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:39.880
to put that in here, but if not, please make

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00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:42.880
sure that you go check out their podcast and I

739
00:38:42.920 --> 00:38:46.320
will link to the episode in the description below as

740
00:38:46.360 --> 00:38:48.360
well so that you can go hear that because their

741
00:38:48.440 --> 00:38:50.239
take on it is really cool. I've heard them speak

742
00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:52.400
about this at live events and on their show and

743
00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:54.199
just us you know, shooting the shit, talking to each

744
00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:57.119
other and they have spoken about that, and I think

745
00:38:57.159 --> 00:38:59.679
it's it's a great theory. It makes total sense to

746
00:38:59.719 --> 00:39:02.679
me anyway. So we're gonna get to know our Japanese bathrooms, right,

747
00:39:03.360 --> 00:39:06.960
our Japanese bathroom spirits. So immediately before I even say

748
00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:10.960
any of these, obviously, please forgive my pronunciation of these,

749
00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:13.800
I'm gonna try so. This first one, I believe it

750
00:39:13.880 --> 00:39:17.280
is Toide no hano co san, and it says one

751
00:39:17.320 --> 00:39:20.159
of the best known of Japan's bathroom spirits is Toide.

752
00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:21.960
I feel like I want to say it in Spanish.

753
00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:26.840
It's either Toide or Dode no hano cosan or Hanoko.

754
00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:27.079
Of the toilet.

755
00:39:27.239 --> 00:39:30.000
Like all ghost stories, the details of Hanoko's origins very

756
00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:32.679
somewhat from telling to telling, but in general, Hanoko is

757
00:39:32.679 --> 00:39:34.719
said to be the ghost of a young girl who

758
00:39:34.760 --> 00:39:37.719
died around World War two and now haunts school bathrooms.

759
00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:40.519
Classic see this story is everywhere around the world.

760
00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:41.440
I love it so much.

761
00:39:41.599 --> 00:39:44.320
Usually described as wearing an out of fashion red dress

762
00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:46.639
and bob haircut, she can be summoned by going to

763
00:39:46.679 --> 00:39:49.239
the girl's bathroom on the third floor, knocking on the

764
00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:53.000
third stall three times and saying, are you there, Hano cosan,

765
00:39:53.159 --> 00:39:55.840
are you there, Hanksan, are theresan? Or maybe just knocking

766
00:39:55.840 --> 00:39:58.400
three times and then saying it. Depending on regional variations,

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00:39:58.440 --> 00:40:01.039
Hanoko will respond by saying yes, I am, or a

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00:40:01.039 --> 00:40:04.039
ghostly hand will appear if someone enters the stall. They

769
00:40:04.039 --> 00:40:07.480
could also be eaten by a three headed lizard. Okay,

770
00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:11.480
this continues the last outcome. Notwithstanding, Hanoko is generally just

771
00:40:11.519 --> 00:40:14.639
a spooky presence meant for a good scare. Haniko, I've

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00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:17.440
been saying that wrong. It's Hanako, not Hanoko. Hanako has

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00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:20.760
appeared in numerous anime series and television shows and is

774
00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:21.920
pretty much a star.

775
00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:22.639
Wow.

776
00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:25.360
The legend is well known because it is essentially an

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00:40:25.440 --> 00:40:28.199
urban legend associated with schools all over Japan since the

778
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nineteen nineties. It has also been used in movies, so

779
00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:33.280
it became part of a popular culture, not just orally

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00:40:33.320 --> 00:40:37.239
transmitted or local folklore. Says Foster, Hanako, not Hanoko. Do

781
00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:40.519
it no Hanako san okay that is so cool? This

782
00:40:40.599 --> 00:40:43.599
next one is Kashima Riiko. Hanako is not the only

783
00:40:43.639 --> 00:40:46.440
young girl said to haunt the bathrooms of Japan. She said,

784
00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:49.119
move over, Hanniko. There is another legend of a young

785
00:40:49.159 --> 00:40:52.199
girl named Kashima Reiko, said to be the ghost of

786
00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:54.800
a girl who died when her legs were severed by

787
00:40:54.840 --> 00:40:58.400
a train. What her legless torso now haunts bathroom stalls

788
00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:01.920
asking unlucky visitors where my legs? The correct response on

789
00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:05.280
the Mation Expressway could save your life. Otherwise, it is

790
00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:07.679
said that she might tear a person's legs off.

791
00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:08.679
Oh my god, this says.

792
00:41:08.760 --> 00:41:12.159
Kashi Marieko is a bathroom centric variation of another Japanese

793
00:41:12.159 --> 00:41:14.920
ghost story known as Dekka Deke, which also features the

794
00:41:14.920 --> 00:41:16.760
ghost of a young girl who was cut in half

795
00:41:16.760 --> 00:41:19.320
by a train. There's also a version of the Kashi

796
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:22.320
Mareko story that suggests she will appear within one month

797
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:23.880
to anyone who learns your story.

798
00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:27.639
God, damn it. No, okay, what do I have to

799
00:41:27.639 --> 00:41:29.159
tell her? On the Mation Expressway.

800
00:41:29.199 --> 00:41:32.079
On the Mation Expressway, girl, don't even come here. Your

801
00:41:32.159 --> 00:41:33.559
legs are on the Mation Expressway.

802
00:41:33.599 --> 00:41:34.920
Thank you? There, skip over me.

803
00:41:35.039 --> 00:41:37.360
Why do they say this? I'm so mad. This is

804
00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:39.639
like the Ring. Great, thank you for making me watch it.

805
00:41:39.760 --> 00:41:42.840
This says, I'm gonna go tell Jeff about this right now.

806
00:41:42.920 --> 00:41:45.639
This continues. This setup probably sounds familiar to anyone who

807
00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:49.159
knows the popular Ring franchise exactly which Foster compares to

808
00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:51.880
the liminal aspect that makes bathrooms so ripe a setting

809
00:41:51.920 --> 00:41:54.760
for horror. Quote note the classic j horror film and

810
00:41:54.920 --> 00:41:59.000
book Ringo, in which Sadoko is in a well. The

811
00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:01.960
association of the well as a mysterious place has precedents

812
00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:04.559
in earlier Japanese folklore. Also, if we think about the

813
00:42:04.559 --> 00:42:07.199
imagery of Sadoko coming out of a television set, we

814
00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:09.280
get the same idea that the television is a portal

815
00:42:09.320 --> 00:42:12.400
to another world. She literally crawls from another world into

816
00:42:12.440 --> 00:42:15.159
our own. I'm so mad that they put this ring

817
00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:17.920
aspect in this, and now I know I have a month.

818
00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:20.360
We literally just hit this is It's February first, I'm

819
00:42:20.360 --> 00:42:23.360
recording this. What a great start to February. The next

820
00:42:23.400 --> 00:42:26.119
one is aka Manto. It says it's not all scary

821
00:42:26.119 --> 00:42:28.840
little girls. One of the most gruesome of Japan's bathroom

822
00:42:28.880 --> 00:42:32.280
ghosts is aka manto or the red cape, also sometimes

823
00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:35.719
called auai manto or blue cape, or in some variations

824
00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:38.880
a ka kami aoi gami red paper, blue paper. This

825
00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:41.719
modern spirit is said to resemble a person completely covered

826
00:42:41.760 --> 00:42:44.239
by a flowing cape and hood, wearing a mask that

827
00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:47.360
hides an irresistibly handsome face. He is said to appear

828
00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:50.320
to people, usually in the last stall, again as they

829
00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:54.239
are going to wipe, asking a stranger questions. Sometimes the

830
00:42:54.280 --> 00:42:56.960
spirit asks red cap or blue cape, or offers red

831
00:42:57.000 --> 00:42:59.559
paper or blue paper. Choosing red will lead to aka

832
00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:03.000
manto flaying a person's back, a red cape or another gruesome,

833
00:43:03.039 --> 00:43:05.880
bloody death, while choosing blue will cause the spirit to

834
00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:09.199
suffocate you getting clever and choosing any other color will

835
00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:11.480
just cause you to be dragged to the underworld. The

836
00:43:11.519 --> 00:43:14.440
only way to escape Acamantha's punishment is to decline its

837
00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:18.000
offer entirely, so don't try and get smart. So, okay,

838
00:43:18.039 --> 00:43:20.559
I have a question. It says red cape, blue cape,

839
00:43:20.599 --> 00:43:22.760
red paper, blue paper. So if you choose red cape,

840
00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:26.079
your back gets flayed. If you choose blue you get suffocated.

841
00:43:26.079 --> 00:43:28.159
But what about the paper? What is red paper and

842
00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:29.760
blue paper? Is that like the paper that you're gonna

843
00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:31.800
wipe with or what happens? I don't want to know,

844
00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:34.400
which is why they say, just decline the offer, Just

845
00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:38.280
say no, thank you, Go to the next all the

846
00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:40.679
next one here and there is a very silly picture

847
00:43:41.239 --> 00:43:43.679
with this or it looks silly to me. I'm interested

848
00:43:43.719 --> 00:43:47.159
to know what is going on here. This is the Kappa,

849
00:43:47.480 --> 00:43:50.639
it says, one of Japan's most famous mythological creatures. The

850
00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:53.960
Kappa is said to sometimes be found in bathrooms. However,

851
00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:56.360
it is not specifically thought of as a bathroom spirit,

852
00:43:56.400 --> 00:43:59.519
but more generally as a creature associated with water. Usually

853
00:43:59.599 --> 00:44:01.920
rivers are ponds, but there are a lot of legends

854
00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:04.480
in which the Kappa appears in an outhouse where it

855
00:44:04.559 --> 00:44:07.840
harasses people, especially women, says Foster. By the way, the

856
00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:11.199
Foster that I keep referring to is Michael Dylan Foster,

857
00:44:11.360 --> 00:44:14.039
who is the author of the book of Yokai Mysterious

858
00:44:14.039 --> 00:44:16.800
Creatures of Japanese Folklore. I want this book too, okay,

859
00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:19.039
And the silly picture it's captain here, It says. Kappas

860
00:44:19.079 --> 00:44:22.440
may be repelled by farts, that's what's going on. But

861
00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:25.679
they were known to appear in outhouses all the same.

862
00:44:26.039 --> 00:44:28.599
All right, lots of farts going on this week. I

863
00:44:28.679 --> 00:44:31.440
just made a post on socials of this. I believe

864
00:44:31.519 --> 00:44:35.480
South African pastor that it was said that he farts

865
00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:38.639
on people because it's God healing them like he heals

866
00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:41.280
people with God's power through farts. I don't know, but anyway,

867
00:44:41.400 --> 00:44:44.840
in this painting, it is a person at like a

868
00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:47.679
water some sort of water bank. These looks like steps

869
00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:49.880
leading into a river, lake or something, and they have

870
00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:52.119
their pants down and they're farting on a yokai and

871
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:54.280
the yokai is like ah, poo, pooh, no good. And

872
00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:58.079
then the last one is Akaname. The goblin esque yo

873
00:44:58.159 --> 00:45:02.119
kai spirit is filthy and dishe with a long, protruding tongue,

874
00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:04.800
and according to Foster, it is primarily known for licking

875
00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:05.920
the filth.

876
00:45:05.599 --> 00:45:06.920
Off of bathtubs.

877
00:45:07.239 --> 00:45:11.199
While not seen as a particularly frightening creature, the image

878
00:45:11.199 --> 00:45:13.280
of a gross little sprite licking the dirt off a

879
00:45:13.320 --> 00:45:14.760
tub is not exactly friendly.

880
00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:15.639
No, that's gross.

881
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:17.679
That sounds like Margaret because she goes in after we

882
00:45:17.719 --> 00:45:19.679
take a shower, and she rolls around and she puts

883
00:45:19.679 --> 00:45:22.079
her face in the spout and she comes upstairs and

884
00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:24.599
we're like, why is your face wet? Because she's she's

885
00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:26.639
an economy, that's what she is. She's a little goblin

886
00:45:26.719 --> 00:45:29.039
rolling around in our tub. This wraps up here. Japan's

887
00:45:29.039 --> 00:45:31.679
bathroom spirits may appear to be uniquely ready to haunt

888
00:45:31.800 --> 00:45:34.840
your every bowel movement. But ultimately there are good reasons

889
00:45:34.880 --> 00:45:37.239
bathrooms everywhere tend to be a source of fear.

890
00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:38.239
Ooh quote.

891
00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:41.599
You are exposed and vulnerable like I said, literally naked,

892
00:45:41.719 --> 00:45:43.480
like I said, at least in part, so there is

893
00:45:43.519 --> 00:45:47.079
a certain amount of danger or uncertainty associated with being there,

894
00:45:47.079 --> 00:45:49.480
says Foster. The bathroom is not a place you want

895
00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:52.159
to stay longer than necessary to complete the job you

896
00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:54.440
came to do. I definitely want to check out this

897
00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:56.440
book because I love all the quotes from Michael Dylan

898
00:45:56.480 --> 00:45:58.079
Foster in here. All right, y'all, those are all the

899
00:45:58.119 --> 00:46:14.599
sources to welcome back well friends. Thank you so much

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00:46:14.639 --> 00:46:18.239
for listening to today's episode. As always, please continue to

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support SUSTO by leaving comments, ratings, reviews whereveryonere listening reviews

902
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like this one from Lefty x three. Lefty says, thrilling podcast.

903
00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:29.719
Glad I found this podcast. Love listening to your uploads,

904
00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:31.559
especially when I'm home alone.

905
00:46:31.760 --> 00:46:32.639
I is emoji.

906
00:46:32.679 --> 00:46:35.920
I've definitely skipped through some content because it's too scary,

907
00:46:36.039 --> 00:46:38.000
but I'll return to it when I'm feeling brave enough.

908
00:46:38.039 --> 00:46:39.800
I'm not gonna lie. This is one of my favorite

909
00:46:39.800 --> 00:46:42.800
things to hear as a content creator. As a podcast,

910
00:46:42.960 --> 00:46:44.679
I have to find my instinct to be like, no,

911
00:46:44.800 --> 00:46:47.280
please don't skip it. I need you to listen. I

912
00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:50.840
need to get the listen right. But whenever people tell me, oh,

913
00:46:50.880 --> 00:46:52.880
I can't listen to it at this time, or I

914
00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:54.639
had to press pause and come back, or I skipped

915
00:46:54.679 --> 00:46:56.559
ahead like it was too spooky, that makes me feel

916
00:46:56.639 --> 00:46:58.400
so good because sometimes I feel like.

917
00:46:58.559 --> 00:46:59.920
Am I being spooky enough?

918
00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:03.280
Like I don't know, And I know that's very very subjective, right,

919
00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:06.079
so I may not think it is. Someone might think

920
00:47:06.079 --> 00:47:08.599
it is too spooky, like Lefty here and other people

921
00:47:08.639 --> 00:47:10.760
you know who knows. But I love hearing this. I'm like, Okay,

922
00:47:10.800 --> 00:47:15.000
I'm doing my job. I'm scaring you all good. Lefty continues.

923
00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:17.320
I've had my fair share of experiences from one of

924
00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:21.679
my previous homes. Maybe I'll share via email sometime soon. Lefty, Yes,

925
00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:23.679
please email it to me if you have my email,

926
00:47:23.800 --> 00:47:26.000
or go to my website sustopodcast dot com or my

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00:47:26.039 --> 00:47:29.400
linktree that's linktr dot e e slash sustal and click

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00:47:29.440 --> 00:47:31.679
the submit story button and send it into me.

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00:47:31.840 --> 00:47:32.159
Please.

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00:47:32.280 --> 00:47:35.360
Lefty finishes here. Love listening. Also, I get confused when

931
00:47:35.400 --> 00:47:37.920
you say Aiden or Adrian. Is Adrian your middle name?

932
00:47:38.039 --> 00:47:41.760
Either way, both names rock. Thank you Lefty so much. So.

933
00:47:41.840 --> 00:47:44.000
The name thing, I feel like I maybe have spoken

934
00:47:44.039 --> 00:47:47.079
about this before. So my given name is Adrian Adrian,

935
00:47:47.239 --> 00:47:50.519
but when one of my little sisters was very young,

936
00:47:50.639 --> 00:47:52.840
she was starting to speak and she was learning our names,

937
00:47:53.400 --> 00:47:56.199
she couldn't really say Adrian, so she would say Aidan

938
00:47:56.400 --> 00:47:56.760
and it.

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00:47:56.840 --> 00:47:58.440
Just it just stuck. And I was like, oh, that's

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00:47:58.440 --> 00:47:58.920
really cute.

941
00:47:58.920 --> 00:48:01.079
And so I just took the name and I ran

942
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with it. And so it's like, most people now know me.

943
00:48:03.880 --> 00:48:07.039
I think more people now know me as Aiden versus Adrian.

944
00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:08.840
But I still like my given name. So I'm like,

945
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either way, different people use it for different reasons. I'm

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