Episode 72: Return to Danny Fastpaws' God Damn Castle of Blood

Original air date: October 31, 2018

Episode overview

The returning Halloween-special wrapper contains Blood News, interleaved spooky submissions, a homemade electronic-voice experiment, guest discussion, and themed transitions; it is an episode format rather than a contest, winner, or prize. The hosts review two attributed television-news reports, then follow an accidental clip into several Parker and Grant videos before the sponsor tag; all real-world details remain in-show reports rather than independently verified facts. Across an interleaved umbrella, the hosts play and discuss 18 distinct prerecorded spooky submissions. Philip's grandmother-and-locked-box story is called a possible voicemail of the day and possible winner, but no final winner or prize is announced. The hosts explain alleged EVP and Spiricom history, then route a police-scanner app through a noise gate and reverse delay for a homemade experiment; perceived words remain ambiguous and no spirit communication is verified.

Segments

• **Danny Fastpaws’ God Damn Castle of Blood** — 0:00:20 · citation pending — The returning Halloween-special wrapper contains Blood News, interleaved spooky submissions, a homemade electronic-voice experiment, guest discussion, and themed transitions; it is an episode format rather than a contest, winner, or prize.
• **Blood News** — 0:13:22 · citation pending — The hosts review two attributed television-news reports, then follow an accidental clip into several Parker and Grant videos before the sponsor tag; all real-world details remain in-show reports rather than independently verified facts.
• **Spooky Story Submissions** — 0:30:44 · citation pending — Across an interleaved umbrella, the hosts play and discuss 18 distinct prerecorded spooky submissions. Philip's grandmother-and-locked-box story is called a possible voicemail of the day and possible winner, but no final winner or prize is announced.
• **Spiricom / Backwards Box Experiment** — 2:08:16 · citation pending — The hosts explain alleged EVP and Spiricom history, then route a police-scanner app through a noise gate and reverse delay for a homemade experiment; perceived words remain ambiguous and no spirit communication is verified.

Verified episode facts

• **Castle of blood wrapper outcome**: Episode 72 explicitly returns to Danny Fastpaws' God Damn Castle of Blood as an episode-length Halloween wrapper containing several nested and interleaved features. The wrapper itself is not a contest, winner, or prize.
• **Blood news outcome**: Blood News plays two attributed television-news reports before shifting into Parker and Grant clips and a comic sponsor tag. The stabbing and alleged school-plot details are reported in-show only and are not independently verified medical, legal, or adjudicative facts.
• **Episode 72 phone classification**: All 18 phone-category records are incoming prerecorded submissions. There are zero live calls and zero outgoing attempts; robocalls in news reports, fictional calls narrated inside stories, and instructions to continue listening are source or plot content rather than show phone events. All numbers and contact details are excluded.
• **Vivian hot dr pepper submissions**: Two separately played, initially misordered Vivian files form the Hot Dr Pepper setup and explanation. The drink-history statement remains an unverified caller assertion, and the files are not merged into one recording.
• **Spookiness scoring classification**: The hosts discuss a running overall spookiness score and evaluate submissions informally, but they do not preserve an ordered finite list, tiers, or a final ranked result. The activity is not canonical Rank'em or a recognizable full ranking predecessor.
• **Produced story and source-feature exclusions**: Strange Field is a titled produced Greg Nichols story insert nested within the Halloween program, not a phone event or separately recurring show segment. The Funology Halloween jokes and Thomas Lightningbolt music showcase are source-driven blocks without stable show-segment titles and likewise remain nonformal activities.
• **Loveland frog submission status**: An anonymous caller recounts two sightings associated with the Loveland Frog or Lizard legend. This is an uncorroborated personal anecdote inside the spooky-submission umbrella, not a verified cryptid event.
• **Denver spider-man retelling status**: Cat with Glasses explicitly reads a sourced retelling of the Theodore Coneys or Denver Spider-Man account from Wikipedia. Preserve it as an attributed secondary retelling rather than independently verified history.
• **Spooky submission provisional leader**: After Philip's grandmother-and-locked-box story, the hosts say it 'might be voicemail of the day' and 'might be the winner' while explicitly avoiding jumping the gun. This is provisional praise, not a finalized winner announcement; no later formal selection or tangible prize occurs.
• **Spiricom experiment outcome**: The hosts hear ambiguous scanner and reversed-delay sounds and sometimes interpret possible words such as 'help.' The archive does not treat these impressions, alleged Spiricom history, source demonstrations, or later paranormal discussion as verified spirit communication or scientific evidence.