2023 Wrap: Michelle & Edwin's top 3 favorite episodes

Welcome everybody, Welcome to our rap. We're doing a wrap up of two thousand of twenty twenty three. Is how you say it? I think twenty twenty three. I really actually forgot what twenty and twenty three. It worried me that that wasn't exactly the year. It was. Welcome to Scary Mystery Surprise, where we talk about scary things that surprised us around the internet. I'm Edwin, I'm Michelle. Anyway, we're doing a wrap up of our favorite episodes of twenty twenty three. Yay Surprise, Yay Surprise Surprise, so we can revisit some of our favorites and read comments from our listeners. Yeah, we're gonna go through some of the favorite stuff and some of your favorite stuff, which is yeah, and you know, show our appreciation and our love to our listeners. Yes, yeah, think you No seriously though, like no joke here, I'm like seeing that wrapped from Spotify. It didn't. I don't know, but I forget. I was like, oh, wow, before I should be listening to us, Like should we start with the episodes? Then? I guess I don't know how we're gonna structure it. It's our first rap. Guys, So we're gonna we're gonna wing this, We're gonna miss it up, We're gonna mess it up. But let's start with our third favorite episode. We'll do the number one is the big reveal ready one of my favorite episodes that we've done. Foot of the Sea. It's August twentyeth two thousand and seven. Imagine a cold, gray day on a rocky beach. You thought it was gonna be nice because it's August, but joke's on you because it's the Northwest, and it's just a gray sky meeting a gray sea and just an endless void of gray. Did the sun rise today? You'll never know. Imagine the sound of a ferryboat and seagulls in the distance. A twelve year old girl is playing at the beach. Between the rocks and the driftwood. She spots a shoe. It's blue and white. It's a running shoe, men's size twelve. She looks inside. She sees a sock. Inside that sock, she finds a decomposing foot. Ooh about feet just floating around in the Northwest. Literally, that's what it is. Well what it is, but I don't think there's any comments for that episode because it was before Spotify was doing comments. But it's still one of my personal favorites because it was like a true cry, like one of my intros to weird Tales. And I remember being like watching the news stories on the news and being like, op, they found another foot, Like it was just becoming a thing or you just people were just finding feet a lot. Yeah, I had no idea that was the thing until you mentioned it. Now then I started really noticing it. We listened to it because it is still one of my favorites. Yeah, listen to her her third favorite, My third favorite, foot of the Sea. Yeah, foot of the Sea, the beautiful feet that set sail on the sea, feet that disarticulate from dead bodies and float because of the way shoes are made anyway. Number three, number three for me, fairies that replace humans. You edwin. Your neighbor in the village has just had a baby. It's pretty cute. Everyone's really oohy gooey over it. But oh no, not you. You're like you gross? You you what a gross little potato fitting for Ireland. Oh, it was a gross little potato. Boy. Baby envy is bad and it puts that baby at risk and at risk of what you say, getting the attention of the Irish fairies. And if you do that, well that baby could become what the Irish call a changeling. Well that's how you pronounce it. Yeah. Change. I don't know why I thought of change ling. No, I think it's just changed. Yeah. Ooh was a creepy, creepy I'm afraid of, you know, witches and stuff like that, like all these elementals have, and that they just creep me out. So that takes the case. Let me see if we have comments on there. Oh, and this is a good one. With a comment here, Wicked Windigo says, not the toilet. I got listen to it because I wait, what were we talk talking about? Not the toilet, listen to it. I feel so bad for you, Michelle. Amazing episode. Oh because my toilet. Oh that okay? So because uh my, that plumber came and smashed the toilet and then the pee leaked everywhere, his peae leaked everywhere, didn't flush, he didn't flush. Oh god, oh wow, I'd forgotten about that. But that was a nightmare. And it says amazing episode. Best podcasters to ever walk the face of this earth. Okay, that's oh, thanks, very good to go. Yeah, wow, I know that's very sweet. Wow. I can't believe I forgot that toilet thing. But now I have such a functional toilet that. You know, once the toilet is functional, you never think about it again. That's how it should be. Yeah, you shouldn't have to think about the toilet. Well, and then Maddie said it was fucking hilarious, So thank you, Maddie. It was fucking hilarious. Yeah. I was creeped out. It was funny and it was creepy to me, Like, I think that's that's what. Yeah, I made it, so I like it cool. Number two. Number two was the Turkey Witch. So, although the legend says she can transform into any animal, even to like a roach or a fly or a flea or whatever. Well, here's the thing. She needs to perform a ritual in order for it to happen. So, where's a capulin wood from a cherry tree copol tree resin agave roots and dry so off both lit leaves. It's like a small yellow flowered shrub. Once she has the fire going and the ingredient's ready, she walks over to the fire three times first from north to south and then from east to west, and then she sits on the fire, like ask first or I guess it's just like how big is the fire? I don't know, like it's I'm assuming it's like a decent sized campfire that has to be large enough for it to look powerful and evil. Oh, I mean like could she put it out with her ass? Hmmm, that's a good question. We should ask historians. What's the real name for it? What's the log? It's called like you really really click that your children? Yeah, it's like which that eats your children but also turns into a turkey? What's what's it's? What's the what's the Mexican names? Yes, that's it. Yes, there we go, the witch that could turn into a turkey and eat your kid. Let's see if there's any comments on this monster. Ninety seven says, you two always crack me up. I love it, smiley emoji. Oh there's a few things, okay, And then Yoda two three seven says, which is a real? I think we're all we're all in that camp? Is that? Which is a real? But thank you for your comment. Yeah, thanks Joda, And then Marribiv weird and terrifying and funny. Edwin and Michelle are hysterically hilarious. Thank you Edwin and Michelle for making this show funny. Ps Edwin, I absolutely love your other podcast. Yay, thank you. That's awesome. Yeah, that's great from Edwin and Michelle. Thank you. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. But yeah, I like Turkey Witch because I'd never heard it before and it was so Yeah, I'd never heard of that story before and it was so weird. All right, time for your number two. You are average. It's beautiful Japanese ghost stories. There's nothing unusual about this woman. She's walking towards you, and she has her mask on, and you're just, you know, doing your things, singing your little song down the I mean, you seem like the weird out here. This is Halloween, this is following. Then you hear am I beautiful? And you're like, uh, excuse me, you don't think you heard right. It's just you and her on the street. But then again, am I beautiful? Or maybe more like am I beautiful? Any answer? Because you're confused? Uh sure, uh? Maybe this has got that weird woman away from you. Slowly, she takes off her mask, revealing that her mouth has been slit open from ear to ear, blood dripping for her elongated mouth. Beautiful, and you're like, uh yes, you scream. It's like oh god, oh god, oh god. Yes. And she pulls out a pair of scissors and slices your mouth from ear to ear to match her scars. You lay on the street bleeding to death because the wounds caused by kitchisak Ona can never be healed. That was a good one. That one was good, very freaky. That one. I'd say maybe on the freakier side of the whole year, honestly. Yeah. And then she says what does she And then that means, am I pretty? Why? Am I beautiful? Wow? We did a good Japanese accent there, that was good. Wow is this your talent? Yeah? Now you know how to do Japanese accents. That was good. Imagine I just start doing over dubs like just I duve my own shows in anime career and it's all wrong. Oh man. For that one, we have Mandy Gonzalez here in the comments for from Your Average Beautiful. I could not stop laughing. But it did get chills too, because these stories were creepy, you know, Mandy comments and she supports the shows across the board, so huge shout out, huge shot, huge shout out to Mandy. We recognize your name and lots of love from us. Yes, I'm doing the heart sign with my hands. He is, I can vouch. The night guard says the this is Halloween got me, dude, I can't. We actually have several comments on here. Yeah, this one got, this one got some love. You guys are awesome. I love listening to your podcast. It's a perfect balance of comedy and horror, and I love it. That's byz Thank you, oh man. I love Japanese ghost Stories. It is probably my favorite episode. Hey well it was my second favorite, so you win because thank you. Haik Joe G eight zero six says love the episode. Let me see. Jillian says, I'm always at the gym when I'm listening to you guys, and you make me laugh too much, so I lose my grip. You gotta be careful. You can't lose your grip when you have like fifty or three hundred pounds. And as someone who has also been on a treadmill and flown off a treadmill, it's yes, I did that. Freaking cartoon thing of like misstepping and going like I think my body jammed on the uh, on the railing or whatever. But the guy next to me had to pull the emergencies You're supposed to clip clip the emergency thing to yourself in case that happens. I know now I have an ongoing fear of treadmills because I'm always scared I'm gonna misstep and fall shoot off the back again. You know, I don't blame you, but yeah, the guy had to save my life. Whoever he was, Thank you. Weird guy at the gym is the meat cute. It wasn't quite that. There's not a like, uh a lot of being hit on when you could you imagine like, oh are you okay? Like there was no concern or anything like that. It was just like, oh, this woman flew off the back. Did you jump back on? Uh? I think I must have to like just try and save my dignity or something. But I you know, I don't know. Maybe I hit my head because I don't really remember. Moral of the story, be careful, yeah, moral of the story. Watch out at the gym, especially if you're laughing at our episodes. Oh man, okay, moment of truth here ooh, okay, Moment of Truth Number one. Favorite episode we've done. Origins are childhood stories. When I was seven years old, I took a trip to Mexico with my parents to visit family, and that's when I started discovering cable TV because I didn't have cable at home. So Nickelodeon with all those shows like Are You Afraid of the Dark? A Arnold? It was great, but programming would be the same at my Grandpa's house. We would you normally stay at my Grandpa's house and they had the state run the regular signals. Anyway, there was this one thing that really creeped me out. I don't know exactly what it was, and I try to find it so if anybody else can find it, and it's good at this Google searching stuff to help me out, but I can't find it. It was this type of commercial or announcement from the channel, and it was like this mime type of thing, but it wasn't a face. Imagine this right. It's a sound of a like amom type of sound, like a something like that. The thing is there are two gloves on the screen, like two gloves like the five fingers. Their gloves not like boxing gloves, like regular gloves. Behind them, there's just darkness nothing, there's no arms, no hands, nothing, just gloves, empty gloves making hand gestures and they're just like shaking hands, bumping fists, walking, slapping each other like with the index finger. And it wouldn't say anything, just silence in that. And I remember telling my cousins like, what is that? Like what And they were like all those wan things like the gloves, and everybody was afraid of them, but nobody knew what they like, they had a message like I'm sure there was some announcement or something on it. But I used to hate it. And my parents would be like, oh, if you do this, the gloves are gonna come get you. And I would be so freaked out. Yeah. It would be like I would imagine them walking along the bed. It was like the creepiest thing you could imagine. Yeah, And it would come out at night. I would run. That thing would pop up and I would run out of the room like it was that bad to me. And it was kind of like a joke. Sometimes it's just you run, but you run because it's scary run with everybody. But I was actually scared of it. I was like, oh man, and I remember thinking I'm gonna have a nightmare, and I did. I would have nightmares of all those things. You share one of yours with me, Like, I'll tell you how that relates to my next one, because okay, one of my top fears as a child was Michael Jackson. I'd spit on my screen. It would just spin up everybody. Yeah that was good. Yeah, I mean it's good. It's a good one because we shared a lot of our internal fears and I think we bonded as well. It was a bonding episode. Yeah. I was definitely. You know, you found out I was scared of rats and then did an episode on Rats, which was rude story, but like a full episode. Yeah, what are they? It's funny once you talk about them, they kind of go away. Except for Michael. Yeah. Yeah, it's just gotten worse and worse. I just don't like that all of a sudden, that's a thing now where he's just flowed around on the internet with his mugshot and they're just going just like you know how he used to do that thing when he would sing. It would be like yeah that yeah, well that gives me chills. Okay, are we ready for your your final your favorite yes, okay, my favorite episode, number one. All right, we'll be right back, perfect, perfect timing. Okay, to hate it when they did that in like American Idol and all that. Oh yeah, of course, like, let's drag it out as long as we can. My number one episode and favorite getting cursed by your real haunted doll. We were gonna get Well. I looked through a bunch of categories on the haunted items right so on eBay. This is straight from eBay because Michelle told me so thankful for this. She told me that they sell haunted items on eBay and I didn't know, And then all I do is educating it figures. There were a couple of things that I liked about it a couple of times. One of them is that the format of it was a little bit different. It was like we lived it, like we were there, you know. And then it involves so much stuff like just getting the doll sent out, voting on what it was supposed to because it could have been a picture, it could have been some other haunted thing, and it turned out to be a doll, which, yeah, then all the effects that came out of it and the theories that were surrounding it. People were actually commenting, wet I had a lot of comments on that. I mean someone at a party, uh just comment she was like Edwin's poking the bear, like why did everyone want to buy that doll? And I'm like, look, I don't know for the content. For the content, and I had to spend so long looking to make sure that was not going to be a harmful doll, and you still had a bunch of problems. Yeah, and you know, people were saying, actually, there's some comments on here that's mentioned that it might have been the other doll, the one that I at the antique shop that might have been acting up because you know, yeah, she wants to be your one and only. I mean, dogs do that. You're I can imagine kind of like that, Like you ever been petting a dog and another one comes by and they're like, but it head bucks the other dog out of the way. Yes, yeah, that's how I imagine the dolls behaving around me. But they don't make each other dolls. These dots are fighting over you, fighting over them like what you do in your personal time, Edwin. But you know, I don't know why. I don't know. This is really creepy and you're gonna find me really weird for this. But I imagine, like she already has a name, and it'd be weird for me to name someone that already has a name. Well, maybe you should ask her her name. Have you ever thought of asking her her name? Because it seems like that might be what isn't you know? The next I get a weird, a weird vibe name, like like a weird Beth the nine or betha min something like that in my head, but I've never heard the name real life, so I don't know if it exists or like it just wait, Bethany, Oh that's right, No, something like that. It might be Bethany because it has that like Beth, I mean Elizabeth, kind of like Elizabeth but not I don't know Bess. It's like a b name. Like once again, I think you need to ask it. I think you need to have a lot of uh one on one time with your dolls. That sounds sounds so weird, but yes, weird therapy counseling sessions with your dolls and you work some stuff out. I think we're gonna need some therapy. Though, if people here hear what I'm doing with dolls over here, that they're going to recommend me, what's just just petting the doll? What's your name? What's your name? What's your name? Betterhell, are you listening? I'm coming? Yeah, you know. You know, this year, when I was looking through Spotify wrapped, I found that we are in the top ten podcasts for one twenty eight fans what so so crazy. Yeah, we're in their top ten, which is amazing when they're top five or seven and eighty people where it's top five. We love you guys, you're our core base. And out of the top of the top we're like the top number one show of one hundred and thirty four people. Dude, you guys, that's awesome. Yeah, this is amazing. So this is I mean, I can't complain here, we just know that, right. It also shows you how much Scary Mistress Price has grown in this year. We're up two hundred and ninety three percent of listeners, so we more than doubled. We like, yeah, that's fantastic. Well, I mean it's our first full year. Yeah, that's true. True or true. We also made obviously more minutes of audio. We have one thousand minutes created of audio. You believe that that's a back catalog. We've done it where it's like, that is a back catalog of stuff. If you need more, go back and listen to our back catalog. Yeah, go go And yeah. That's also they have the top episode of the year, which is the most listened to episode of all time, like of whenever we published it, but of this year. Like I said, what listened to this year? And it happened to be what is it? Tell me you thought I froze? Okay, top episode of the year, A Wild Time with the Ghosts of Bobby Mackie's. I don't believe it. And the reason why here's here's what I'm gonna tell you is because it's the first first one that is not our most solid episode. That is absolutely our first episode. We're still figuring stuff out. So I mean, I guess if you guys want to hear us figure stuff out, I think we hit our stride with prank calling. I think that's what we started to really hit our stride. Yeah and and yeah, I mean that's that's been the this year. And then what do we have going on for next year. I don't know, but but I think it'll be full of surprises. It will. We'll see you guys twenty twenty four, See you twenty four. Keep it going woooo