WEBVTT 00:00:04.539 --> 00:00:08.220 I have KG Michelli back with me today and we 00:00:08.220 --> 00:00:09.980 are going to touch base and find out because 00:00:09.980 --> 00:00:13.320 she has a lot going on since the last time she 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:18.460 was here. You, there's like, what, eight books 00:00:18.460 --> 00:00:24.140 now? Nine. Nine total. Oh my gosh. The last time 00:00:24.140 --> 00:00:28.210 KG was here she was still writing. Tales of Texas 00:00:28.210 --> 00:00:31.850 Road. I had a hard time getting this book. It 00:00:31.850 --> 00:00:36.409 was you had to get it for me because it was all 00:00:36.409 --> 00:00:38.630 we sold out. Yeah, I found any time I would bring 00:00:38.630 --> 00:00:40.789 them to the bookstores within like within a week 00:00:40.789 --> 00:00:42.969 they'd be gone and I'd be bringing you know stacks 00:00:42.969 --> 00:00:45.649 and stacks into these stores and they just they 00:00:45.649 --> 00:00:47.590 couldn't keep it for the longest time. It's starting 00:00:47.590 --> 00:00:51.590 to hold now in most of the locations so that's 00:00:51.590 --> 00:00:54.149 uh that's I mean a good thing and a bad thing 00:00:54.149 --> 00:00:58.020 sort of I guess. Oh no, no, actually last week 00:00:58.020 --> 00:01:01.299 somebody asked me on YouTube there was a question 00:01:01.299 --> 00:01:05.299 on where people can find your books. Yeah, so 00:01:05.299 --> 00:01:07.299 pretty much anywhere that you can get books locally 00:01:07.299 --> 00:01:11.790 you can find most of my titles. There's a storyteller's 00:01:11.790 --> 00:01:14.010 bookstore on Ottawa, of course, River Book Shop 00:01:14.010 --> 00:01:18.030 in Amisburg, Bibly Oasis has a few copies, and 00:01:18.030 --> 00:01:20.609 then you've got, there's actually one company 00:01:20.609 --> 00:01:23.170 called Love Local, they're out of Chatham, so 00:01:23.170 --> 00:01:25.049 this is a newer company where they actually, 00:01:25.049 --> 00:01:26.750 you can order right through their site, so I 00:01:26.750 --> 00:01:30.790 have my own webpage on their website, and you 00:01:30.790 --> 00:01:32.189 can go on there and you can order a book, and 00:01:32.189 --> 00:01:33.590 they'll actually deliver it to you for free. 00:01:33.870 --> 00:01:37.150 So it's like the way Amazon works, sort of, but 00:01:37.150 --> 00:01:39.930 it's all local stuff. So a lot of these people, 00:01:40.189 --> 00:01:42.870 they make like handmade items, art, things like 00:01:42.870 --> 00:01:45.700 that. And you can just... order it straight to 00:01:45.700 --> 00:01:48.219 your home and it's free shipping so that's awesome 00:01:48.219 --> 00:01:52.459 too. That's really nice. Now is it also on say 00:01:52.459 --> 00:01:56.920 Amazon or Indigo? Yep, Amazon, Indigo, Barnes 00:01:56.920 --> 00:01:59.420 and Noble's website also has copies of Tales 00:01:59.420 --> 00:02:01.079 of Texas Road. I don't know if they have any 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:03.980 other ones yet but they have the the Texas Road 00:02:03.980 --> 00:02:07.560 copies there. Well for people that didn't see 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:10.460 the first podcast can you tell us what Tales 00:02:10.460 --> 00:02:13.629 of Texas Road is about? So for a brief rundown, 00:02:14.050 --> 00:02:16.930 Texas Road, as many of you know, it is a place 00:02:16.930 --> 00:02:18.490 where for hundreds of years people have been 00:02:18.490 --> 00:02:20.870 saying that it's haunted, you know, they would 00:02:20.870 --> 00:02:22.930 go there and still to this day when they go there 00:02:22.930 --> 00:02:24.789 they see things that they can't really explain. 00:02:25.330 --> 00:02:28.030 They talk about the woman in white. you know 00:02:28.030 --> 00:02:30.250 sometimes missing her head and then you know 00:02:30.250 --> 00:02:33.469 there's the of course the headless horseman just 00:02:33.469 --> 00:02:37.409 fog that acts in weird ways and just things that 00:02:37.409 --> 00:02:40.009 don't make sense. Another thing that's happened 00:02:40.009 --> 00:02:41.909 to a lot of people who go there is it's almost 00:02:41.909 --> 00:02:45.289 like Texas Road itself is like this anomaly where 00:02:45.289 --> 00:02:48.430 when you go there like things that just I guess 00:02:48.430 --> 00:02:51.090 they're like explainable things but it's just 00:02:51.090 --> 00:02:55.139 so strange how all of these coincidences happen 00:02:55.139 --> 00:02:59.860 there, more so. Like, for example, some people 00:02:59.860 --> 00:03:01.979 would go there and they would say, you know, 00:03:02.099 --> 00:03:04.360 the one that saw the deer right at the bridge 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:06.500 and then it kind of left. It's like you kind 00:03:06.500 --> 00:03:08.000 of think to yourself, of course, OK, you're going 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:10.319 to see a deer in a trail. That's not too weird. 00:03:10.460 --> 00:03:13.020 But just the fact that it showed up when it did, 00:03:13.060 --> 00:03:15.659 where it did. There's a lot of different examples 00:03:15.659 --> 00:03:19.060 of this, too, when you look into these stories 00:03:19.060 --> 00:03:21.819 from different locals. I know it's creepy. I 00:03:21.819 --> 00:03:26.039 just. Read it as like even growing up here and 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:28.500 going down there. There's just this even though 00:03:28.500 --> 00:03:31.319 nothing happened to me You just have this weird 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:34.879 feeling like it's just not right Yeah, that's 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:36.479 something that a lot of people talk about too 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:38.300 Like you'll even have paranormal investigators 00:03:38.300 --> 00:03:40.259 go down there and they don't really experience 00:03:40.259 --> 00:03:42.300 anything But then they'll tell you like the air 00:03:42.300 --> 00:03:45.139 just feels heavy Or you always feel like someone's 00:03:45.139 --> 00:03:47.240 watching you or just like something's gonna happen 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:51.520 at any given moment It just seems to be a trademark 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:54.819 of Texas Road itself. And that book's been getting 00:03:54.819 --> 00:03:58.060 a lot of attention because you're now doing a 00:03:58.060 --> 00:04:02.819 series for Bell 5? Yes, so we are filming the 00:04:02.819 --> 00:04:06.319 Tales of Texas Road TV show. I'm doing that with 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:08.560 Riggy Media International. We kind of partnered 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:11.060 up and I'm actually the director, so I've been 00:04:11.060 --> 00:04:15.289 directing the TV show. I did act in it a little 00:04:15.289 --> 00:04:19.149 bit too. You'll see me on the show and then as 00:04:19.149 --> 00:04:21.389 well as there was a lot of locals who just came 00:04:21.389 --> 00:04:25.610 in to play a role and people from the book Tales 00:04:25.610 --> 00:04:28.930 of Texas Road that had come on as well to speak 00:04:28.930 --> 00:04:31.790 in person about their stories. So it's very interesting 00:04:31.790 --> 00:04:34.250 to see the stories from the book kind of come 00:04:34.250 --> 00:04:36.949 out in full force where you can see everything 00:04:36.949 --> 00:04:38.870 that they were talking about and it's just a 00:04:38.870 --> 00:04:41.560 totally different feel to it. and be kind of 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:43.959 creepy to watch. But I'm excited. How would you 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:46.959 like directing? It's a lot of work, obviously. 00:04:47.339 --> 00:04:49.439 Some people may think that it's a very easy, 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:53.420 simple job. It's a lot of work. But I mean, it 00:04:53.420 --> 00:04:56.879 is rewarding. It is fun in the same way. You 00:04:56.879 --> 00:04:59.860 always get a lot of laughs doing things like 00:04:59.860 --> 00:05:02.600 that. And just, you know, things happen. It's 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:05.160 entertaining, for sure. I don't know if it would 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:09.060 be hard to direct your own work. because you 00:05:09.060 --> 00:05:11.680 tend to be really particular well not you in 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:14.660 general but I know if it was me I'd be really 00:05:14.660 --> 00:05:17.480 particular you know I feel like that would definitely 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:20.980 be a thing in if we were to direct one of my 00:05:20.980 --> 00:05:23.459 fictional stories let's say like one of my psychological 00:05:23.459 --> 00:05:27.699 thrillers but with it being where we had these 00:05:27.699 --> 00:05:29.399 people come and sit into a room and they're telling 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:31.680 us what happened it's more like at that point 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:34.220 you're going off of what they're saying so you 00:05:34.220 --> 00:05:37.670 can kind of take these things and add them in 00:05:37.670 --> 00:05:40.110 where they need to be. So in reality the book's 00:05:40.110 --> 00:05:42.029 not going to change because that person is still 00:05:42.029 --> 00:05:45.329 telling you the same story. So it's much easier 00:05:45.329 --> 00:05:48.870 for it not to go a different route. Whereas like 00:05:48.870 --> 00:05:50.850 I said if it was like a fictional book that may 00:05:50.850 --> 00:05:52.769 be a completely different story and I could see 00:05:52.769 --> 00:05:55.470 myself pulling my hair out. Kudos to you because 00:05:55.470 --> 00:05:57.810 there's no way in heck I could ever do something 00:05:57.810 --> 00:06:00.529 like that. Now do we know when that's going to 00:06:00.529 --> 00:06:03.740 be airing yet? So the TV show will be on Bell 00:06:03.740 --> 00:06:07.439 5 in March of 2026. Now I don't know if they'd 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:09.160 be airing it like right at the beginning of the 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:12.819 month or what time but if they do follow me like 00:06:12.819 --> 00:06:16.100 if people want to follow me on my socials or 00:06:16.100 --> 00:06:17.860 anything like that they'd be able to kind of 00:06:17.860 --> 00:06:19.360 keep tabs on when it's going to come out but 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:22.959 it will be March of 2026. But she also wrote 00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:26.519 another book in between now we have Tales of 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:29.459 Sandwich Town, which I started reading again 00:06:29.459 --> 00:06:33.680 about halfway through and I got scared. It has 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:36.379 some really, really good stories in it. Oh my 00:06:36.379 --> 00:06:38.100 gosh. That's the one thing that a lot of people 00:06:38.100 --> 00:06:41.740 have said about it too. So whereas Texas Road, 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:45.720 it's more about these eerie stories out in the 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:48.730 middle of... Guess a trail where you'd have to 00:06:48.730 --> 00:06:50.850 you'd have to actually be searching for something 00:06:50.850 --> 00:06:54.490 to end up in a place like that Whereas with sandwich 00:06:54.490 --> 00:06:57.689 town, it's these stories are just happening in 00:06:57.689 --> 00:07:00.370 people's places of work. It's happening in their 00:07:00.370 --> 00:07:02.689 homes It's happening on the streets while they're 00:07:02.689 --> 00:07:07.490 walking by so to me it almost adds this Realistic 00:07:07.490 --> 00:07:10.470 aspect to the stories where you could walk into 00:07:10.470 --> 00:07:14.430 your kitchen and see something in in the kitchen 00:07:14.430 --> 00:07:17.879 so I guess like where I'm going with that. It's 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:21.040 just the stories are more realistic themselves 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:24.879 Yeah more relatable and for anybody that isn't 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:27.540 in the Windsor Essex County area Sandwich town 00:07:27.540 --> 00:07:31.259 is historical town and a lot of the homes and 00:07:31.259 --> 00:07:34.980 the buildings are old So there's a lot of history 00:07:34.980 --> 00:07:38.790 to a lot of them The Duff Baby House. Yeah, the 00:07:38.790 --> 00:07:40.649 Duff Baby House is a big one. Then you've got, 00:07:40.649 --> 00:07:42.509 of course, the Windsor Jail, which has been closed 00:07:42.509 --> 00:07:46.550 down for quite a few years. And then Mackenzie 00:07:46.550 --> 00:07:48.470 Hall, of course. You've got the cemetery right 00:07:48.470 --> 00:07:50.660 across the street where there's... a lot of weird 00:07:50.660 --> 00:07:53.420 stuff that happens there as well. It felt weird. 00:07:53.660 --> 00:07:57.040 I had, I was out on the other night and I was 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:58.899 parked right at Mackenzie Hall and it was dark 00:07:58.899 --> 00:08:01.540 and there's Mackenzie Hall. There's the graveyard. 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:04.160 And I had literally just read this book the night 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:06.120 before. I'm like, okay, hurry up, get to the 00:08:06.120 --> 00:08:08.060 car, get to the car. Cause it was dark out. I'm 00:08:08.060 --> 00:08:11.740 like, I'm not looking. That's great. I'm sorry. 00:08:14.819 --> 00:08:17.939 Now how long has this been out for? So this book 00:08:17.939 --> 00:08:20.839 just came out on October 11th. I had the launch 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:22.699 so that was the very first place that you could 00:08:22.699 --> 00:08:26.019 buy it was at the book launch over at Storytellers. 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:29.259 The following day on October 12th it became available 00:08:29.259 --> 00:08:33.600 on Amazon as well as river bookshop now carries 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:36.320 it. So far those are the only three places that 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:38.299 have access to it right now so if you are looking 00:08:38.299 --> 00:08:42.899 for a copy I will be broadening the reach for 00:08:42.899 --> 00:08:45.299 people to be able to get them as well. Now do 00:08:45.299 --> 00:08:48.600 you have a reading for us today? I definitely 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:51.970 can. Let's see. I know I couldn't even... Pick 00:08:51.970 --> 00:08:53.889 out one, because the one that scares me the most 00:08:53.889 --> 00:08:56.230 is a really long one. Were you there when I did 00:08:56.230 --> 00:08:58.350 the reading at the launch? I had missed it, because 00:08:58.350 --> 00:09:01.590 it was still so busy. So many people came in. 00:09:01.590 --> 00:09:04.730 It was insane. I'm going to read that one, I 00:09:04.730 --> 00:09:07.029 think. So some people may have heard this one. 00:09:09.029 --> 00:09:11.990 If you grew up around Sandwich Town, you may 00:09:11.990 --> 00:09:15.029 be familiar with the local folklore. The locals 00:09:15.029 --> 00:09:17.309 would speak about the woman in white who was 00:09:17.309 --> 00:09:20.059 killed on her wedding day. They say she haunts 00:09:20.059 --> 00:09:22.820 the grounds of Brock Public School and the surrounding 00:09:22.820 --> 00:09:26.200 areas. A wartime bride who lived back in the 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:30.000 early 1800s. They speak about the bowl of the 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:33.480 cemetery that is said to guard the area. If you 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:36.100 ask anyone familiar to the area, they'll tell 00:09:36.100 --> 00:09:38.139 you not to go through the cemetery at night. 00:09:38.659 --> 00:09:40.740 They'll tell you to stay far away from the grounds. 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:44.059 The bowl doesn't take too kindly to visitors 00:09:44.059 --> 00:09:48.320 after dark. And I can attest to this. since I've 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:52.379 stared this creature right in the eyes. I used 00:09:52.379 --> 00:09:54.379 to go to Brock Public School. This was quite 00:09:54.379 --> 00:09:56.500 a few years ago, before they changed a good amount 00:09:56.500 --> 00:09:59.200 of the building. My friends and I used to shortcut 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:01.379 through the cemetery on our way to and from school 00:10:01.379 --> 00:10:04.960 each day. It made the walk much faster. There 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:06.700 were quite a few times that I could count that 00:10:06.700 --> 00:10:08.700 we had run into the groundskeeper of the graveyard. 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:11.019 He seemed to be there almost every time we'd 00:10:11.019 --> 00:10:14.139 go through. Watch out for the bull, he would 00:10:14.139 --> 00:10:16.600 tell us. We always just assumed that he was trying 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:19.279 to keep kids out of the area. Don't come here 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:22.840 at night, he would warn. One specific night, 00:10:23.179 --> 00:10:25.659 sometime around Halloween, my friends and I had 00:10:25.659 --> 00:10:27.980 planned to go down there. We always cut through 00:10:27.980 --> 00:10:29.679 during the day, but never really experienced 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:32.320 what the place would feel like in the dark. I 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:34.139 wasn't expecting to see anything that night, 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:37.399 but had decided to go along with it. My friends 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:39.419 wanted to see if the lore were true, and I'd 00:10:39.419 --> 00:10:42.080 be lying if I said I wasn't a bit intrigued myself. 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:46.000 I was around 13 or 14 years old the first time 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:48.159 I stepped onto those grounds during the night. 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:52.980 Something felt different about it. It definitely 00:10:52.980 --> 00:10:54.679 didn't feel like the same place that we would 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:58.639 walk through to get to school. As we stepped 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:01.179 in, my friends began asking questions aloud. 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:03.700 I can't remember exactly what they had asked, 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:05.759 but I knew it was somewhere along the lines of, 00:11:06.100 --> 00:11:09.860 who are you? Or, what is your name? They were 00:11:09.860 --> 00:11:12.460 really working themselves up. I could hear them 00:11:12.460 --> 00:11:15.059 talking amongst themselves, all of them on edge. 00:11:15.539 --> 00:11:17.259 They kept thinking that they were seeing things 00:11:17.259 --> 00:11:19.440 move within the trees above or that they were 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:22.299 seeing shadows moving by. I personally was not 00:11:22.299 --> 00:11:24.960 very convinced. To me, it seemed like they were 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:27.360 spooking themselves out, becoming so nervous 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:29.179 that their eyes were playing tricks on them. 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:35.100 I remained quiet, despite the chatter happening 00:11:35.100 --> 00:11:38.879 around me. It was around 15 to 20 minutes into 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:40.940 our little expedition that my friends all started 00:11:40.940 --> 00:11:43.600 to get really scared. They decided that they 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:47.899 wanted to leave. Okay, let's go, I had agreed. 00:11:48.659 --> 00:11:50.840 I took the rounded path that led back out to 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:53.879 the road as to not step on any graves. I was 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:57.179 always extremely respectful of the dead. As I 00:11:57.179 --> 00:11:58.919 made my way, I noticed that my friends were all 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:01.240 too spooked to do the same. They had made their 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:03.399 way out to Peter Street before I had even had 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:05.279 much time to take note of which way they had 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:08.110 gone. I assumed that they had ran straight across 00:12:08.110 --> 00:12:10.289 the grass, forcing their way through in an attempt 00:12:10.289 --> 00:12:14.710 to get out faster. I made my way through the 00:12:14.710 --> 00:12:18.330 fenced area, my eyes scanning shadowed tombstones. 00:12:19.149 --> 00:12:21.070 I wasn't even sure exactly what I was looking 00:12:21.070 --> 00:12:23.409 for, but I had the sense that I wasn't alone. 00:12:24.730 --> 00:12:29.190 That was when I felt it. Hot, steamy breath poured 00:12:29.190 --> 00:12:31.330 down the back of my neck and into the collar 00:12:31.330 --> 00:12:34.809 of my t -shirt. As I turned my head, only slightly 00:12:34.809 --> 00:12:38.100 to the left, A putrid smell filled my nostrils. 00:12:38.860 --> 00:12:44.299 It was sour. Like rotten eggs. Sulfur. The warmness 00:12:44.299 --> 00:12:47.700 didn't dissipate as I froze. That mist of heat 00:12:47.700 --> 00:12:50.820 every few seconds. It's difficult even now to 00:12:50.820 --> 00:12:53.940 forget. It wasn't long before I began to hear 00:12:53.940 --> 00:12:56.360 the angry exhaling of a large mouth directly 00:12:56.360 --> 00:12:59.879 behind me. It was like whatever was there wanted 00:12:59.879 --> 00:13:02.440 me to turn around. It wanted me to know that 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:06.509 it was present. I began to walk. Slowly, toward 00:13:06.509 --> 00:13:09.809 the exit. As I moved, I could still feel and 00:13:09.809 --> 00:13:12.789 hear this thing breathing down my neck. It was 00:13:12.789 --> 00:13:15.490 hovering over my shoulders, following me very 00:13:15.490 --> 00:13:19.210 closely. My footsteps on the cement echoed throughout 00:13:19.210 --> 00:13:22.210 the cemetery as I made a run for the gate. I 00:13:22.210 --> 00:13:24.549 stopped and spun around, just as I had made my 00:13:24.549 --> 00:13:28.769 way out, and for a split second I saw it. I was 00:13:28.769 --> 00:13:31.049 almost expecting to see a bull -like creature, 00:13:31.230 --> 00:13:34.940 but that was not that. Sure, the size was similar 00:13:34.940 --> 00:13:38.379 to a bowl, but that was about it. No, it looked 00:13:38.379 --> 00:13:42.820 much more like a gargoyle, like a monster. It 00:13:42.820 --> 00:13:46.360 walked on four legs, its face unnaturally wrinkled. 00:13:46.700 --> 00:13:49.519 It had extremely long limbs, filled with muscle. 00:13:50.179 --> 00:13:52.940 And just as quickly as I had seen it, it disappeared. 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:56.460 My friends never did see it. They were much further 00:13:56.460 --> 00:13:58.580 down Peter Street and almost completely out of 00:13:58.580 --> 00:14:04.919 sight. Oh, gosh. That was so scary. Oh my god. 00:14:05.139 --> 00:14:07.320 I ate ball. Graveyards at night. Forget it. It 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:09.440 was really hard for me to... I ended up going 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:11.500 to the cemetery a couple days after writing that 00:14:11.500 --> 00:14:15.340 story. And I couldn't walk through. Like, okay, 00:14:15.500 --> 00:14:17.919 partially it was because there was... Before 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:20.179 we had gone in, we saw skunks like all over the 00:14:20.179 --> 00:14:22.139 place. So I was kind of like... I don't know 00:14:22.139 --> 00:14:24.659 if that noise I'm hearing is like something paranormal 00:14:24.659 --> 00:14:26.460 or is it like something that's gonna spray me 00:14:26.460 --> 00:14:27.980 and I'm gonna stink for a week. I don't know. 00:14:28.539 --> 00:14:31.759 So we didn't bother going through too far. So 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:34.159 the stories that people bring you, they do kind 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:36.820 of freak you out too. They do sometimes, yeah. 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:39.059 Sometimes like I feel like at first I was able 00:14:39.059 --> 00:14:41.299 with Texas Road because I had been there so many 00:14:41.299 --> 00:14:43.840 times. Like I had had these paranormal experiences. 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:48.340 It takes a lot to freak me out. So I mean, I 00:14:48.340 --> 00:14:50.200 could hear stories of, okay, I saw fog, I heard 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:52.759 a noise, I saw shadow. Those kind of things don't 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:54.659 really freak me out. But when you're seeing something 00:14:54.659 --> 00:14:57.370 that's physically there that doesn't... quite 00:14:57.370 --> 00:14:59.429 makes sense especially when the person that I'm 00:14:59.429 --> 00:15:02.769 getting the story from is just like there's there's 00:15:02.769 --> 00:15:05.029 no doubt that either they're a hundred percent 00:15:05.029 --> 00:15:07.389 telling the truth or they a hundred a hundred 00:15:07.389 --> 00:15:08.889 percent believe that they're telling you the 00:15:08.889 --> 00:15:11.129 truth well yeah you know and that just adds like 00:15:11.129 --> 00:15:13.610 this spook factor to it because it's okay you're 00:15:13.610 --> 00:15:16.409 not just saying this for a thrill or whatever 00:15:16.409 --> 00:15:20.850 you're you saw this I smelled it exactly and 00:15:20.850 --> 00:15:25.019 and felt it like it's So people are just they 00:15:25.019 --> 00:15:28.120 come willingly. You get a lot of stories from 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:30.960 people. This this one was harder to get stories 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:33.139 from. So with Texas Road, as soon as I posted 00:15:33.139 --> 00:15:35.980 it, like there's so many so many stories there 00:15:35.980 --> 00:15:38.279 that they were coming out of the woodwork with 00:15:38.279 --> 00:15:41.700 telling me what happened. This one definitely. 00:15:42.539 --> 00:15:44.820 I mean, I had to kind of pry like I had to go 00:15:44.820 --> 00:15:47.960 to places and actually search for these people 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:53.190 that had seen things like Texas Road. They're 00:15:53.190 --> 00:15:56.309 scary stuff, but also there's a bunch of it's 00:15:56.309 --> 00:15:58.370 you know kids out there They've been drinking 00:15:58.370 --> 00:16:01.509 there together, but these ones sandwich town 00:16:01.509 --> 00:16:04.789 a lot of them are very personal like happened 00:16:04.789 --> 00:16:08.570 in their house or in their workplace and They 00:16:08.570 --> 00:16:11.850 probably are still feeling that. That was the 00:16:11.850 --> 00:16:13.210 other thing I was going to bring up was a lot 00:16:13.210 --> 00:16:15.590 of these stories actually came from people who 00:16:15.590 --> 00:16:18.710 worked inside like Mackenzie Hall. There's people 00:16:18.710 --> 00:16:20.809 in here that are in city council. Like there's 00:16:20.809 --> 00:16:24.549 people in this book in higher I want to say like 00:16:24.549 --> 00:16:27.230 higher positions than a lot of the other stories 00:16:27.230 --> 00:16:30.850 from the previous book. So to me if someone's 00:16:30.850 --> 00:16:33.470 going to come out and start explaining like this 00:16:33.470 --> 00:16:37.600 is what I saw and and obviously people with like 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:39.779 jobs of that statute, they don't want people 00:16:39.779 --> 00:16:41.559 to think that they're crazy. They don't want 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:44.440 to have that hanging over them. So the fact that 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:47.159 they actually shared these stories with me, like 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:49.980 to me that almost adds just an extra, that extra 00:16:49.980 --> 00:16:52.179 ounce of credibility to what they're saying. 00:16:53.100 --> 00:16:55.240 Like why would someone who's like this big famous 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:59.059 doctor... The chiropractor. Exactly, the chiropractor 00:16:59.059 --> 00:17:01.539 story. Now she was left anonymous, but in a way 00:17:01.539 --> 00:17:04.460 she kind of named herself without naming herself. 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:09.160 this one a haunting on South Street this person 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:12.319 was 12 years old like it sounds like it's still 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:15.880 with them a little bit like yeah and when I talked 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:18.720 to her actually the girl who had given me she 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:20.380 was the one who had talked to me about that and 00:17:20.380 --> 00:17:23.019 she was like almost in tears for part of that 00:17:24.539 --> 00:17:28.339 So again, it's not yeah that one like that story 00:17:28.339 --> 00:17:30.559 itself just just like as soon as she was telling 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:31.900 me I'm like it sounds like you were living in 00:17:31.900 --> 00:17:34.400 the conjuring house. That's what I was thinking 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:37.160 too I'm like, oh my goodness like kudos to them 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:40.000 for staying as long as what they did there because 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:43.039 I would have been caught the first time Yeah, 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:45.359 and it almost makes me wonder so now that I mean, 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:47.920 I don't think the address was in there but no 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:52.259 even so it's Was looking for it. Yeah. Yeah. 00:17:52.259 --> 00:17:53.940 Yeah, just so that way, you know, I'm never gonna 00:17:53.940 --> 00:17:57.279 go there, but it almost adds like this Almost 00:17:57.279 --> 00:18:00.140 like a warning to the public or like just information 00:18:00.140 --> 00:18:02.259 that like hey, this is what happened in this 00:18:02.259 --> 00:18:04.759 building there are people from like some of them 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:06.740 do have the addresses some of the apartments 00:18:06.740 --> 00:18:10.700 on sandwich and they had weird things happening 00:18:10.700 --> 00:18:14.019 in their little apartments. And it's like you 00:18:14.019 --> 00:18:16.279 could be living in, someone else could be living 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:18.779 in one of those apartment buildings, having things 00:18:18.779 --> 00:18:20.380 move around on them and they think they're crazy. 00:18:20.460 --> 00:18:22.220 Maybe they're gonna read this book and see that 00:18:22.220 --> 00:18:25.839 someone else in the apartment next to them had 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:29.339 weird, they're not gonna feel so alone. It reminds 00:18:29.339 --> 00:18:32.500 me when I was young and my mom would go to work 00:18:32.500 --> 00:18:35.619 and I was terrified of being by myself in the 00:18:35.619 --> 00:18:37.900 morning and I always have my dog in the bedroom 00:18:37.900 --> 00:18:40.859 and I swear the house was settling at the time 00:18:40.859 --> 00:18:43.640 so it sounded like somebody was walking the dog 00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:45.920 would start barking and I was like almost in 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:47.880 tears I'd go to a friend's house early in the 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:50.900 morning but I couldn't imagine it being more 00:18:50.900 --> 00:18:55.440 than a house just settling. I see it like I've 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:58.240 seen some weird things growing up. I've experienced 00:18:58.240 --> 00:19:00.099 some really weird things that still to this day 00:19:00.099 --> 00:19:03.259 I just it doesn't make sense So I guess like 00:19:03.259 --> 00:19:06.019 some people it's just it's more condition isn't 00:19:06.019 --> 00:19:07.619 don't get me wrong. I still sleep with the lights 00:19:07.619 --> 00:19:11.619 on but I feel like some people are like they 00:19:11.619 --> 00:19:14.539 they become conditioned when Creepy things are 00:19:14.539 --> 00:19:18.019 happening like now. I mean it was a last week. 00:19:18.019 --> 00:19:21.900 I was laying in bed and my fiance saw like there 00:19:21.900 --> 00:19:24.180 was a slipper in the middle of the floor okay 00:19:24.180 --> 00:19:27.180 and the slipper there's nothing in the room and 00:19:27.180 --> 00:19:33.140 it just does a 360 it just twists and he's freaking 00:19:33.140 --> 00:19:35.519 out he's like oh my god it's not move i'm like 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:37.819 whatever and it's not that i didn't believe him 00:19:37.819 --> 00:19:40.019 like i was even saying i'm like i'm like is that 00:19:40.019 --> 00:19:43.819 all he's got like and then i'm sitting here like 00:19:43.819 --> 00:19:46.579 trying to figure out okay how does this how does 00:19:46.579 --> 00:19:49.430 it work in the mind of a spirit right Are they 00:19:49.430 --> 00:19:50.869 just like, oh, there's some humans over there. 00:19:50.869 --> 00:19:52.970 I'm going to go move this slipper just to scare 00:19:52.970 --> 00:19:55.789 it. Like, it's just weird, in my opinion. Sometimes 00:19:55.789 --> 00:19:58.730 it's like, really, bro? Did you see it move, 00:19:59.029 --> 00:20:00.809 too? I kind of caught like the tail end of it. 00:20:00.809 --> 00:20:03.049 Like, I saw it at the corner of my eye. I believed 00:20:03.049 --> 00:20:04.730 him based on the way he was acting. He was looking 00:20:04.730 --> 00:20:06.970 right at it. Plus, I've seen... You're both awake, 00:20:07.029 --> 00:20:07.829 so it couldn't have been him sleeping. I've seen 00:20:07.829 --> 00:20:09.690 weird stuff happen. Like, the one time me and 00:20:09.690 --> 00:20:11.769 him were both sitting there and the door, like, 00:20:11.829 --> 00:20:14.710 the door just slammed shut. And he's like, did 00:20:14.710 --> 00:20:18.000 you see that? I'm like, yeah. Do you live in 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:20.700 City and Rich Town? No, I don't. I actually live 00:20:20.700 --> 00:20:23.880 in East Windsor. Are we starting a book on East 00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:27.339 Windsor stuff next? Maybe. Do you have an idea 00:20:27.339 --> 00:20:29.259 of a book? Yeah, I was going to say, so I can't 00:20:29.259 --> 00:20:30.920 give it out yet because I did promise that I 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:33.839 was going to reveal the book on, I think it was 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:35.579 November 2nd, that I'm going to reveal it on 00:20:35.579 --> 00:20:37.880 Facebook and Instagram. But I will give a hint 00:20:37.880 --> 00:20:40.259 that the next haunted place that I'm going to 00:20:40.259 --> 00:20:42.960 be going to is in Niagara Falls. So you may be 00:20:42.960 --> 00:20:45.259 able to figure out where it could be based on 00:20:45.259 --> 00:20:48.410 that. It is one of the most well -known haunted 00:20:48.410 --> 00:20:51.349 places in Niagara Falls itself. I'm actually 00:20:51.349 --> 00:20:54.849 going there next week. I had never heard of haunting 00:20:54.849 --> 00:20:58.650 in Niagara Falls, but unfortunately through social 00:20:58.650 --> 00:21:02.289 media I did happen to see something there, so 00:21:02.289 --> 00:21:05.410 I'm not going to give anything away either whatever 00:21:05.410 --> 00:21:09.490 social media I saw it on. But I never heard of 00:21:09.490 --> 00:21:12.710 it, so I'm really excited to see this. I think 00:21:12.710 --> 00:21:15.730 it's going to be a similar thing to Texas Road. 00:21:16.670 --> 00:21:18.950 To me it just seems like the stories will be 00:21:18.950 --> 00:21:20.809 somewhat similar but I won't know until I talk 00:21:20.809 --> 00:21:22.849 to more people. I do have already two stories 00:21:22.849 --> 00:21:25.490 for that book so it's already coming along a 00:21:25.490 --> 00:21:28.789 little bit. It's nice that you're the go -to 00:21:28.789 --> 00:21:33.410 person for these different events and to be able 00:21:33.410 --> 00:21:36.250 to make books like maybe throughout Ontario. 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:39.579 I have different things. Yeah, I'm actually looking 00:21:39.579 --> 00:21:41.359 to branch into the United States eventually as 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:43.579 well. So this is looking to be something that's 00:21:43.579 --> 00:21:46.779 going to be like North America wide. Obviously, 00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:49.759 that's that's big dreams for someone who's only 00:21:49.759 --> 00:21:52.700 written two of them so far. But eventually that's 00:21:52.700 --> 00:21:55.799 where I would love to go. I mean, you went to 00:21:55.799 --> 00:21:58.900 Hollywood for an award. Come on. Yeah. Unfortunately, 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:01.700 I didn't win. It doesn't matter. You were nominated. 00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:04.599 It was. Yeah, it was the nomination for the author 00:22:04.599 --> 00:22:06.960 of the year award. and you know when I went there 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:08.480 of course I'm sitting there I'm like I'm in over 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:10.559 my head this isn't what I think it is and then 00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:13.400 I go there and it's this big event red carpets 00:22:13.400 --> 00:22:17.339 and there's actors there like I met Sean Cannon 00:22:17.339 --> 00:22:21.839 from he's from Karate Kid and he's also a producer 00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:25.400 as well and yeah he he played in a bunch of other 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:27.180 movies and he's still he's making movies right 00:22:27.180 --> 00:22:29.819 now so I mean that was cool I got to meet him 00:22:29.819 --> 00:22:32.380 and I mean even just a lot of the other people 00:22:32.380 --> 00:22:35.500 there they're really like, you know, big authors 00:22:35.500 --> 00:22:39.700 and people as well. That's pretty cool. And I 00:22:39.700 --> 00:22:42.519 mean, it's well worth it because you definitely 00:22:42.519 --> 00:22:47.099 gotta find these books because they are really 00:22:47.099 --> 00:22:51.240 scary. Now, were there scary books that you did 00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:53.980 before these two? The only books that I had out 00:22:53.980 --> 00:22:57.900 before that, they were the fiction. So I do have 00:22:57.900 --> 00:23:00.180 my psychological thriller. I'm still here as 00:23:00.180 --> 00:23:02.019 well. That was the one that won the award in 00:23:02.019 --> 00:23:05.339 Arizona before I had ever even had the idea of 00:23:05.339 --> 00:23:08.480 Texas Road. And then I do have the series of 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:10.859 short stories that are dark romance based. It's 00:23:10.859 --> 00:23:14.220 called Unspoken. And then... There's another 00:23:14.220 --> 00:23:17.140 one. Into the Nothing, which is an apocalyptic 00:23:17.140 --> 00:23:19.119 thriller. Another book that's come out since 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:22.400 I've been on the show, The Cursed Rock. I don't 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:24.359 know if you've heard about that one. So my daughter, 00:23:24.599 --> 00:23:27.420 who she's 11 right now, she wrote a story for 00:23:27.420 --> 00:23:31.880 school last year. And what we did was she gave 00:23:31.880 --> 00:23:34.859 me the story. It was about two pages. And the 00:23:34.859 --> 00:23:37.380 storyline was so good. and she wanted to turn 00:23:37.380 --> 00:23:39.000 it into a book. So it's actually a children's 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:40.740 chapter book. It's like young adults, I'd say 00:23:40.740 --> 00:23:44.480 from like ages 10 to 14. But it's, yeah, it's 00:23:44.480 --> 00:23:46.440 about a little girl who goes to Hawaii and she 00:23:46.440 --> 00:23:48.680 finds a rock that, you know, it just looks different 00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:50.559 than all the other ones. And then weird things 00:23:50.559 --> 00:23:53.519 start happening. So it is a thriller for kids. 00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:56.579 Yeah, a lot of people are interested in that 00:23:56.579 --> 00:23:58.599 one as well. And that's pretty cool that you 00:23:58.599 --> 00:24:00.900 were able to do that with your daughter and collaborate. 00:24:01.150 --> 00:24:03.430 Yeah, she was very, like we've had people approach 00:24:03.430 --> 00:24:07.509 us about speaking to students at schools and 00:24:07.509 --> 00:24:08.829 stuff like that too. Like they want to hear from 00:24:08.829 --> 00:24:11.430 her because she's, you know, she's a kid and 00:24:11.430 --> 00:24:14.309 her story ended up in this book, so. And what 00:24:14.309 --> 00:24:17.069 did she think of all the... I think she's scared 00:24:17.069 --> 00:24:21.109 of it, to be honest. She's... She's outgoing 00:24:21.109 --> 00:24:23.789 but not at the same time. She is really anxious 00:24:23.789 --> 00:24:26.369 of like public speaking and especially in front 00:24:26.369 --> 00:24:29.950 of other kids like her peers and... It's overwhelming, 00:24:30.190 --> 00:24:32.230 yeah. It is. At her age I don't blame her at 00:24:32.230 --> 00:24:35.410 all but she she's definitely going places for 00:24:35.410 --> 00:24:38.630 sure. It sounds it. I mean like even you saying 00:24:38.630 --> 00:24:43.490 that she wrote a two page essay for... Eleven? 00:24:43.730 --> 00:24:46.569 It was, yeah, she was in grade five at the time. 00:24:46.930 --> 00:24:50.289 That's a lot for a kid that age. And even the, 00:24:50.289 --> 00:24:52.410 so the story, when she had submitted it into 00:24:52.410 --> 00:24:55.609 her teacher, her teacher said, this is like your 00:24:55.609 --> 00:24:58.309 stood out, like she told her that it stood out 00:24:58.309 --> 00:25:02.410 of any of the kids in the class. Hers was like, 00:25:02.410 --> 00:25:03.650 caught her attention. She got talent from her 00:25:03.650 --> 00:25:06.509 mom. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for being 00:25:06.509 --> 00:25:08.950 on here. I really do appreciate it. And make 00:25:08.950 --> 00:25:12.009 sure that you follow K .G. Michelli on social 00:25:12.009 --> 00:25:16.329 media and get The Tales of Texas Road and The 00:25:16.329 --> 00:25:19.630 Tales of Sandwich Town. She will be having that 00:25:19.630 --> 00:25:22.970 new book announced sometime in the near future. 00:25:23.369 --> 00:25:27.289 And next year we will have the TV series on Bell 00:25:27.289 --> 00:25:31.269 5. There's also going to be a ton of events that 00:25:31.269 --> 00:25:34.230 she will be having, as well as story readings. 00:25:34.890 --> 00:25:38.410 I mean, you're just always busy. I feel like 00:25:38.410 --> 00:25:40.890 it never stops sometimes. I need a break. That's 00:25:40.890 --> 00:25:44.569 okay. You do need a break, but you're going to 00:25:44.569 --> 00:25:48.829 Niagara Falls. Yes. Again, my name is Tracy Martins 00:25:48.829 --> 00:25:50.670 and thank you so much for joining me for another 00:25:50.670 --> 00:25:54.549 episode of YQGN Bloom. You guys all have a great 00:25:54.549 --> 00:25:56.869 day and make sure to get these books.