Grandma Took Her Teeth Out

The gang skipped the mystery this week and just talked, and somehow that turned into false teeth, a haunted

house in Hartford City, and a box of Charleston groceries with something deeply unserious buried at the bottom.

It started with Shane's trash company, which has now gone weeks without picking up his can and keeps insisting

in the app that the can was never out there. Then Kim opened the listener questions, and the whole thing got

away from them.

Savannah asked what the most absurd thing was that their grandmothers ever did. Josh remembered dentures

slipping mid-hymn on a church stage, and a grandmother who simply took them out and kept right on singing.

Shane confessed to prank calling his own grandma as "John from the bank" about fraudulent charges in Nigeria

and New Zealand, which ended with her cussing him out and then driving to the bank anyway, just to be sure. And

then there is the story that gives this episode its name. One afternoon Grandma rose out of her chair, removed

her false teeth, kicked off her slippers, and went after a houseguest who had used the F word one time too many

in her house. Shane caught her mid-flight and got dragged the length of the living room for his trouble.

Kim's memories run a little differently. Her grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's while Kim was still in

high school, so the one she holds onto is a camper at Cabin Creek shaking hard enough that Grandma hollered

at Grandpa to knock it off. It was an earthquake.

Trevor wanted to know what one snack each of them would carry into a haunted house. Josh picked Doritos, on

the grounds that they burn. That set Shane off on the night he agreed to go live on Facebook from a house in

Hartford City without knowing it was a haunted house, discovered the only air conditioned room was the one

he then refused to leave, watched a curtain move behind him on camera, and turned down an invitation to the

basement where someone had just been scratched. There was a room lined with mirrors that the owner called

a portal, and a room full of dolls with a Ouija board sitting in the middle of it. He left at one in the morning for a

Holiday Inn rather than sleep on an army cot.

Kat asked whether Shane is married, and he answers that about as directly as you would expect from a man of

mystery. MT asked whether solving a case like JonBenet Ramsey with DNA would ever quiet the arguments online

or only make them louder. Nobody at this table is optimistic.

There is a tender stretch in here too. It was Amber's birthday, and Kim brought her cake for everyone. Josh brought

the news about Dolly Parton, and the room sat with that for a while.

Then Savannah's box got opened, and the trail leads somewhere none of them saw coming.

What you'll hear in this episode:

The trash company saga, and why the chat support keeps insisting it is not AI

Three grandmothers, two sets of false teeth, and one earthquake blamed on Grandpa

Shane's night in a Hartford City haunted house, the mirror room and the doll room

A care package from Charleston, a Bigfoot figurine, and an award nobody asked for

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