BSCMC 009: Kristy and the Haunted Mansion

The episode for "Kristy and the Haunted Mansion" was originally released on April 29, 2019 and is Mystery #9. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 1:07:04 long.This week's ghostwriter: Ellen Miles.

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## Official Episode Description

The boys are elbows deep in Boethius this week as they take a trip with Kristy and the Krashers to a mansion that is haunted by the angry, vengeful ghost of The Patriarchy itself. Meanwhile, the Pike boys are living backwards, Mary Anne finds a runaway bride in a sewing shop, and a couple of experts drop by to offer their thoughtful, modern, and inspired expertise in what is sure to become an instant classic segment for our most fashion forward listeners. As usual, a surprising and possibly unwelcome amount of poetry, and this week … some insight into what may have happened on those fateful days leading up to June 10.

## Music Credits

* “Suspenseful Dark Cinematic Mystery,” by Sun Channel Music
* “Chopstick Slapstick,” by OurMusicBox
* “Gothic Choir,” by Allen Grey
* “Sad to Hopeful,” by The Story Shop
* “Banjo Hoedown,” by Andy Slatter
* “Once Upon a Dark Time,” by Allen Grey
* “Sadness,” by Allen Grey
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Heavy Metal Outro by Baby Bee Wolfkiller

## Book Description

Tanner guesses that Jack's description is the 2003 movie Identity. Jack admits that most of his description came from the movie The Vanishing.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

A very good burn
That stings you so right
A knife that doth turn.
It gets in your head
But oh so soon:
It will cause me to call
The burn unit.
—inspired by "The Sick Rose" by William Blake

Tanner does an "old-timey burn of the week", where a reporter wondered if the viewer had been out too late on a Saturday night.

###  Jack and Tanner, Fashion Idiots

Lacy purple leggings with a lacy floral top. The boys decide this is above the knee.

A second outfit is a black miniskirt with little cowboy shoes. There is much discussion about whether this is cowboy boots, or something else, and how the cowboy shoes are position relative to the skirt.

###  Possible Worlds

The segment where Jack and Tanner provide clues that the Mystery books are in an adjacent universe to the main BSC canon. This is introduced by Jack reciting information about possible worlds theory and Tanner singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

* Santa Claus lives one million miles from Earth (somewhere between Earth and Mars) as opposed to on the North Pole. Alien Santa.
* Crashers, the super team.
* Kristy of this universe doesn't like eating loose teeth or squirrels.
* The Pike boys talk and/or live backwards.
* An echo of the main universe with a Shadow Lake reference.

 ###  Strike Against the Patriarchy

To build a mausoleum all around.
This shriveled thing that's reached its natural end
And lower it at last into the ground.
So strike the match
And join me as we sing
A glad goodbye to all of history's men
Let's warm our hands upon this funeral pyre
And think on all the joys that life will bring
And all the light we'll share together when
We put the patriarchy to the fire.
Inspired by Keats' "Ode to Melancholy"

Tanner sings a ditty from Les Mis.

Jack reads a passage about Dorothy Sawyer, the woman who realized that she was finally free from a life of stifling men and took control of her own life.

Her date of freedom was on or near June 10.

###  Tearful Moment

And my mind grew weak and foggy
His tragic fate was writ in Martin's lore.
He was but a border collie
And to weep would be such folly
Overcome by melancholy
Sorry, but there must be more.
Louie's gone to be with Mimi
Sad goodbyes I do abhor
Tearful moments come once more.
— inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"

Jack: the moment where the old man describes why he lives in the cottage and not the big house, because he can't bear to be amongst the memories.

## Jack's References

* Jack reads from possible worlds theory.
* Benjamin Button and "Supper for Time".
* "This is logic chopping."
* Obviously there are Boethius references.
* In the stinger, Jack tries to explain sentient cars and references MACOS (Man: A Course of Study)

## Tanner's References

* Tanner Sings Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
* Redfield, from Resident Evil

## Notes

* This is a special Naptime record.
* Jack introduces himself as The Riddlemaster. Tanner introduces himself as The Cold Slimy Hand of the Ghost that Touched You Just as the Clock Struck Twelve.

## References & Links

#### Literature

1. ↑ "The Sick Rose" by William Blake: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43682/the-sick-rose
2. ↑ Keats' "Ode to Melancholy": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44478/ode-on-melancholy
3. ↑ "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven
4. ↑ Possible Worlds Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possible\_world
5. ↑ Logic Chopping: https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/120/Logic-Chopping
6. ↑ Man: A Course of Study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man:\_A\_Course\_of\_Study
#### Culture

1. ↑ Identity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity\_(film)
2. ↑ The Vanishing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Vanishing\_(1993\_film)
3. ↑ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Curious\_Case\_of\_Benjamin\_Button\_(film)
4. ↑ Redfield from Resident Evil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris\_Redfield
#### Music

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