Hey, it's Mike Waters from the Waters Wake Up Call.
Hope you have it a fantastic Halloween and getting tons of candy.
I don't care how old you are.
I hope you're getting tons of candy.
Oh, and we had a great creepy week, didn't we?
And mainly because you were involved.
You know, I can't do this job by myself, so thank you for the help.
But man, we talked about everything from scary music to scary TV shows to scary movies, describing our jobs in the scariest way possible, discussing our own...
personal most scary word got retro talking about the costumes we wore as kids and let's not forget the ghost stories good lord you had some good ghost stories well I decided I would take all of that that we talked about over creepy week and just put it all together for 130 minute waters wake up call Halloween hootenanny so why don't we start hold on a second I've got a phone ringing
awesome
let's hear it
magical wizard
All
I need is one of those pointy hats with the stars on it and a magic wizard wand.
I'm not really good at that.
I was always out like first during spelling bees.
So I may not be good at spelling, but maybe I'll be good at wizarding, but thank you for that.
You know, we kicked off Creepy Week on Monday talking about our jobs, and there's nothing scarier than your job on Monday, especially when you're kicking off Creepy Week.
So why don't you describe what you do for a living in the scariest way
possible?
I have no idea
what this is.
What do you do, man?
I'm a pastor.
Oh, you're a pastor?
Oh, well, now it all makes sense.
I know, right?
Are you my ex-wife?
No.
Other than my ex-wife, I don't have a gas.
Do
you cackle like that at the children?
Yes,
I
do.
They love it.
And I'll bet it keeps them in line, doesn't it?
For my
job, I deliver.
Dead animal carcasses to you, everybody.
Dead animal carcasses, eh?
Yeah.
So are you a, uh, are you some kind of food delivery driver?
Maybe pizza delivery or something like that?
No, this is a meat man.
You know, meat man alone can sound kind of creepy.
That is true story.
Well, those are some scary jobs and that's coming from a guy who's a disembodied voice every day of the week.
Moving along to the second day of Creepy Week, Tunes Day.
Of course, we were talking about spooky tunes.
Are you scared?
Is this just a second you called?
Because you sound like a very scary, scary person.
I am.
Yeah.
Yeah, I could tell.
I could tell.
So what do you need, creepy?
My scary tune is Monster Mash.
Oh, Monster Mash.
How could we not?
The reason why I like the Monster Mash is because my name is Doris.
So at the end, when I sing it, I say, when you get to my door, tell them Doris sent you.
Right, right.
It rhymes with
Boris, doesn't it?
Yes, it
does.
For
today only, you should call yourself Doris Karloff.
Doris.
Oh jeez.
I thought you were scary right when you called.
The
ending
is much worse.
Thank
you.
Black witchy woman.
I can't remember the name of the follow up top of my
head.
Got a black witchy woman.
No, it's Black Magic Woman by
Santana,
and it's Witchy Woman
by
the Eagles.
You should either be Witchy Woman or Black Magic Woman.
I think that's creepier.
I could be, I guess.
Black Magic Witchy Woman, I think that would be perfect.
And to get you into the right state of mind, I should play both of those.
Oh, you are awesome.
You are rock star.
Happy, happy Halloween.
Hey, happy,
happy Halloween to you, cowgirl Black Magic Witchy Woman, Carrie from Dicert.
Rock on, Krutan!
Rock on!
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween to you as well!
Thank you!
Yes, I'll bet you've got a spooky tune you want to hear!
By Iron Butterfly!
In a Ghana de Vida!
That is it!
Yes!
Something creepy about that song!
that's creepy right there yep yep really the Simpsons it's actually in a Simpsons episode where they're singing it in church as in the Garden of Eden
And I hear, and this is what they say, that it was really going to be in the Garden of Eden, but when they were singing it, it was just so muddled.
It sounded like Inagata De Vita, and they kept it as Inagata De Vita.
So, whether that's sure or not, I don't know.
Sounds good to me.
That is dark side of the moon.
The whole thing?
Well, that would
be good.
Maybe I'll play both.
Maybe
you can squeeze it
down.
I'm dying for a Toon's Day joke.
All right, knock knock.
Who's there?
Ah.
Ah-hoo.
Ah-hoo, we're wolves of London.
Oh, I should have done it right.
I just went ah-hoo.
That's a slightly bailed request for a little Zeeman.
Oh, is that what that is?
I have no idea.
I love those festive Halloween tunes.
The Wandom Wednesday of Creepy Week, I just picked a Wandom Creepy topic and we talked about the greatest, well, maybe most infamous of all Halloween scary movie horror movie monsters villains.
What do you got?
The scariest guy was daytime soap opera Dark Shadows.
Oh,
yeah.
Barnabas.
with the vampire.
Right.
He would watch that as a kid.
It was so scary.
What was his last name?
Do you remember?
Collins.
Yeah, that's it.
We lived in a creaky old farmhouse.
There was five of us kids.
When anybody would go out at night and say, no, go out there, Congress is going to get you.
And then they'd scream probably.
Oh yeah, then they'd be back in.
or
it would have been fun to actually during the show you'd go into the kitchen for a drink or something and then maybe wait a few seconds scream then drop the glass shattering the glass and then they hear your body hit the floor and then time them and see how long it would take them to get up the courage to come in and and check on you.
You could also gauge how much they cared about you as well with the same
thing.
It's another good one.
That's a pretty good trifecta.
So is this
highway dark?
Are you the only car on the highway?
No, say you are.
Say you
are.
That'll be creepier.
Then the lightning comes down and you see flashes of all three of them and you scream and then you drive off the road and your car explodes.
But you still get out of the car and you're
some
kind of avenging spirit going off and then you're walking down the highway and killing things.
Like a zombie.
Yeah, like a zombie.
There we go.
Brains.
There's your own little villainous Halloween movie for today.
By the way, I don't want you to forget the kids when you get to this evil stuff.
No, I wouldn't Damien from the omen the son of the devil Especially since part of the movie was filmed in Iowa.
No, don't let that scare you too badly Oh, no,
they've already cut down all the corn around me.
It's true.
They
leave it off Let it keep dying and wilting That's a fine fine film Damien was my favorite the hat in the face.
I wonder
Whatever happened to that kid?
I'll bet he really was the son of the devil.
And after that movie, he was taken back downstairs.
He might have been a son of a witch, too.
I think Satan was married to a witch.
And then just like me, they broke up.
Ben, they're done that.
Ben, they're done that.
Got the t-shirt and then burned it immediately.
I
saw a couple of the other nights that had two t-shirts on.
She had a t-shirt on that just said devil on it.
Yeah.
And he had a t-shirt that says, I put the D in the devil.
Oh, truly some scary monsters.
Alright, let's move from scary monsters to scary words.
What is your most scary word you can possibly think of?
Oh, man.
That is
scary.
Does
it really?
Is that
serious?
Death
pledge.
Yeah, I I'm sure everybody's screaming across eastern Iowa right now Yeah, I think everybody's had to take out a mortgager to this year I
think
that's the best thing I've heard right along with doom scrolling I think
It's, uh, there's so much bad news lately.
So if you're on your phone or your device of some kind and you just keep scrolling through the bad news, that's, that's doom-scrolling.
Oh, nice.
Boy, and thanks for the word mortgage.
You know, nothing is scary than that word, especially when delivered by an actual accountant.
That's right.
That's right.
All right, let's get another scary word.
What do you got?
Proud blue crop.
Yeah, the horses
go crazy.
And then Igor, and then Igor looks at the horses and goes...
Well,
this is too much fun.
We've got to take another one.
Hi!
Oh, man.
That is scary.
Does
it really?
Is that serious?
Death pledge.
It's a good Halloween word.
Yeah, I I'm sure everybody's screaming across eastern Iowa right now Yeah, I think everybody's had to take out a mortgager to this year I think that's the best thing I've heard right along with doom scrolling I think
There's so much bad news lately.
So if you're on your phone or your device of some kind and you just keep scrolling through the bad news, that's doom-scrolling.
Oh, nice.
Boy, and thanks for the word mortgage.
You know, nothing is scary than that word, especially when delivered by an actual accountant.
That's right.
That's right.
All right, let's get another scary word.
What do you got?
Proud blue crop.
Yeah, the horse is
going straight.
And then Igor, and then Igor looks at the horses and goes...
Well,
this is too much fun.
We've got to take another one.
Hi!
You didn't get
yelled
at?
No.
They got a system.
Okay, good.
Good.
That's good to know.
I was worried about you there for a second, because I'm telling you right now, fired and unemployment are very scary words.
And thank goodness those two don't apply to you, but what is your scary word?
Sister-in-law.
Sister-in-law.
Oh
boy.
Seriously, I've had two.
Not good, huh?
Well, no, I've had more than two, but I've had two that were really, you know, winners.
He said sarcastically.
Yes.
Anyway, I learned if I could keep a civil tongue with them, I could carry on the conversation with the devil himself.
I think the scariest one is Death Pledge Mortgage.
I think that's the one I would pick.
But anyway, it's all about being scary.
So let's go to some scary movies.
What is your favorite horror movie of all time?
The favorite classic movie is Pumpkin
Head.
I don't know if I've ever seen Pumpkin Head.
Oh, Mike, it's awesome.
You gotta watch
it.
Really?
When did that come out?
It's
been out
for a long time.
Yeah.
There's Pumpkin Head, and then there's the sequel to Pumpkin Head, and they are both awesome.
I'll bet the sequel is Pumpkin Head 2.
Yes.
See?
I didn't even know, but I'm going to have to check out Pumpkin Head now.
Yes, just
do it.
Thanks, Debbie.
Another one's scariest horror movie.
They did the march.
Thank you so much!
Mom?
Mom,
is that
you?
That's a horror movie right there, man.
What is your favorite horror movie?
Well, let's see.
When my wife and I went for our second date, we went to see the Texas
Stainsaw Massacre.
Oh, man, with a leather face.
And that was down at the Paramount, which is no longer a movie theater.
So this is your second date?
That was our second date.
And we came out of there.
We skipped church that night.
Sunday night, we went to Texas Stainsaw Massacre.
We get out of there.
We walk through our car.
I'm sorry, we ran to our car.
Yeah
Yeah, that movie wasn't for the faint of heart.
All right, another one scary movie Hey Dave, what's happening man?
What's your scare?
What's your favorite scary movie night of the living dead night of the the original from
68?
Yeah, good
plan that's probably the the original classic zombie movie
All right, who's got another scary movie?
The Amityville Horror and Poltergeist.
And with Amityville Horror, you're talking the original from the 70s?
Yeah, the original Amityville Horror.
That was a great movie.
I only saw it on television, but I read the book when I was in junior high school, and I read it at night.
I went to bed freaked out every night, but still, I couldn't not read that book every night.
I sit with my kids.
My kids will watch it.
We watch it around Halloween.
We always watch the Amityville Horror and Poltergeist.
Yeah, well, good.
You're doing what should be done.
You're a good dad.
They're my
two classics.
Think that the number one scary movie is Halloween.
Got to go classic.
Michael Myers.
Yes, that is the number one most iconic Halloween
movie of all
time.
It scared me a lot when I saw it when I was
16.
Yeah, it scared me a lot too.
And now it doesn't really scare me so much, but the suspense is done so well.
And John Carpenter's score is brilliant.
Yeah, it really is.
is the theme to Halloween.
You know, I finally got my wife to watch it with me last Halloween and she loved it.
Oh, yeah.
And I love the sequels too.
Oh, you're just all about it, aren't you?
We have on vinyl, we have the score for Halloween one and for Halloween three.
Well, you're more all about it than I previously thought.
Yeah, I love to make dinner and feel like there's a murderer lurking in my house.
You know, you don't sound like that kind of person, but hey, I'm
not here to judge.
I haven't
heard from you for a long time, so I assumed you're dead.
So this has got to be the ghost of Trucker Todd.
It sounds like you have ghostly indigestion.
Alright, we may hear more from the ghost of Trucker Todd coming up, but I think we have a genuine ghost story right here.
One day, shortly after my dad passed away, he was a custodian at the church, so I went and started doing the custodial work, went down to the basement, went to turn on the lights, and I heard his voice saying, go upstairs and clean underneath a few, there's some cobwebs.
So you heard a voice.
It was my dad.
What?
Yeah, it was my dad's voice.
And did you find the cobwebs?
I'll bet you did.
Yeah, it was the first two.
The first P.O.
you found cobwebs.
Was that the only P.O.
with cobwebs?
Yep.
So how did that feel?
Was that comforting
to you?
It was to a point, but kind of spooky.
Yeah.
Because like I said, I went up to that P.O.
and there was a cobweb underneath there.
Yeah, so.
And that was the only one.
Hey, listen, I got a Toon's Day joke for you.
I'm dying for a Toon's Day joke.
All right, knock knock.
Who's there?
Ah.
Ah-hoo.
Ah-hoo, we're wolves of London.
Ah.
I should have done it right, I just went ah-hoo.
Oh, is that what that is?
I have no idea.
Okay.
Right, yeah.
They had boarded up the door and my ex was like, what's in there?
So we opened it up and it was the bull.
absurd and broken furniture and bricks and everything.
Wow.
And he was like, should we dig through and see?
I'm like, no, no, no, no, let's just leave it alone.
So we see if we don't disturb, you know, there's no disturbance.
Right.
He didn't hear it, but I kept hearing a man's voice.
And the first time I heard it, I thought he had come back from work because he forgot something around.
And I called him and he said, no, I've been at work for some time, you know, and I was like, okay.
And he said, it's just your boyfriend.
And I was like, yeah, don't be funny.
next time I heard it, I got off work early.
I worked the evening.
And I got home.
And I was going to take a bath.
Then I would relax for a little bit.
And I hear that male voice again.
And I knew they were gone.
They'd gone to an event up in Waterloo.
I was like, that's it.
I'm going to a friend's house.
And when I told him about this stuff, he'd go,
Creeping me out.
I said, well, it's creeping me
out.
Right.
So did you find out who this was?
We later looked up and the couple that owned the house first died in that house.
Oh, of course they did.
Yeah.
He died first and then she died sometime after when she was at the care center.
So he was probably looking for her.
And we've probably disturbed... Yes.
...something in that room.
Yeah, I don't know how many horror movies you've seen, but Horror 101 never opened a door that's been boarded shut, especially in an old, old house, because that'll get you.
You know, maybe
seal it over somehow, just...
Yeah, so we looked in there and...
I was like, that's a little spooky.
And he's like,
yeah.
I wonder if they died and then started moving furniture back there like you had found.
Hey, we'll take some bricks back here and some furniture.
We'll close it off, and we'll hang out here for a while.
How about one from the Franklin Hotel in Strawberry Point?
Well, yeah, we've had several sightings of a woman in a long flowing gown.
When she lived there, her room was seven.
But he says seven is always so cold and you can't sleep very well in
And we had the paranormal there and they said there was actually four ghosts in the hotel.
Childing salesman, her son, and another
guy.
Ghostly and crowded.
I worked in the bar and that night after a certain time you wouldn't have anybody there really, but you had to stay there.
And I'd be sitting there and all of a sudden you could hear footsteps behind you.
They called her Lillie.
Or maybe
it was the traveling salesman.
Are
they all still paying their bills?
I don't know about
that.
The doctor who built my house died in the house, prominent position in town.
I saw the spirit, but after my research, I think that he was part of a counterfeit ring that took place in the county.
What county?
A harden.
And is this the house you're living in right now?
Yeah.
Wow.
So what was the name of the doctor?
Doctor Willard Caldwell.
Have you seen weird things in your house?
Only in the beginning, and then we smudged it with sage and opened all the windows and asked the spirit to leave, and he did.
So before that, what did you experience?
Well, it was recurring.
He'd come to the room where I left, standing in the doorway in a dark coat and a top hat.
You know, they're always dressed in old clothes.
It's not somebody who, you know, passed away in the 70s who's got bell bottoms on.
You know?
No, no.
Here's a goodie from the grand in Dubuque.
My daughter and I went on a ghost ride.
Really?
We took the tour through the theater.
Yeah.
And the old back stairs had not been remodeled yet.
OK.
And so we were in one of those stairwells, and we were on a landing about to go up the next edge.
I was standing behind my daughter, and people just fall by.
Wow.
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There was this crazy moaning outside the door.
So I come outside the bathroom and I look at my son and she would be like, what?
What did I do?
And I was like, you were just standing at the door and moaning like crazy.
And she's like, no.
Well, then I found out somebody had killed themselves in the house.
And he was in the closet directly above the bathroom.
Good lord.
I'm gonna get weirder.
Okay.
I put on Led Zeppelin and no quarter.
that moaning comes over the stereo.
And they're looking at me and they go, that's part of the song.
I said, no, no, it is not.
I mean, I know Robert Plant does a lot of moaning,
but it's not
like
a
How about one from the Voliska Axe murder house?
So my sister and her husband wanted to go there for their wedding anniversary.
Yeah.
It was just a really heavy feeling.
And you can tell that some actually happened there.
During the night, my sister and her husband freaked out they weren't going to stay in the house.
So they stayed out in the garage.
Right.
And I got tired.
So I went to lay down on the sofa that they had in the living room.
But it was a type of a love seat.
So it wasn't big enough to actually lay down.
So my foot stayed out.
hours later I woke up I could feel something touching my foot.
I look down.
scary thing of feeling or anything like that, like something touching your foot.
It was just like a soft feeling like to get me away.
Okay.
And I woke up and there's this blue ball next to me.
A blue ball?
A blue ball.
I was like, do you want to play?
I walked out to the garage and I said to my sister and my brother-in-law, I said, you won't believe what just happened.
I think a kid wants to play with me.
And my brother-in-law said, Jack, we're leaving.
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