#26 You had me at haunted barbecue [S3E7]

Tiffany is back from her vacation to India. She didn’t see any ghosts though. Also she may have an infectious rash on her hand or just a henna tattoo.

Story 1: Connie—a dead woman’s spirit or essence lives on in her husband’s new wives.

• Jesse wonders what happened to the other women’s spirits. Did they just get booted out? Tiffany thinks the man was murdering his wives.
• Who told this story? There are no witnesses.
• Jesse thinks all the women are dying from some bird disease.

Story 2: Positive I.D.—a man is accused of a robbery that he didn’t commit, only to make a shocking discovery.

• This is a perfectly reasonable story. But maybe too reasonable?
• Tiffany sees it as an interesting example of nature vs. nurture.
• Chris tries to utilize The Southern Rule.

Story 3: Trucker—a hitchhiker gets help from a mysterious truck driver.

• Kyle is a fan of stories where people get super human strength in dire moments.
• Kyle points out that this story is similar to another Beyond Belief story called The Tractor (which was fiction).
• Tiffany thought Big Joe was the hitchhiker’s future self trying to teach him a lesson.
• Chris dives into the ghostly rules: he doesn’t think a ghost can drive a vehicle. “Sounds like angel territory.”

Story 4: Cook Out—a dead relative’s grill saves lives at a family bbq.

• Everyone agrees this is now the craziest story of Beyond Belief.
• This could be a case of TFTBF.
• Maybe the writers just elaborated the BBQ going crazy moment.

Story 5: The New House—a spirit intervenes when a fire starts in a new family’s home.

• Tiffany thought it was a story about a mother’s instinct, but then it went in a wildly different direction.
• Jesse thinks the info dump at the end could be the writer’s way of explaining all the factual details.
• Kyle hoped the woman in the painting would have been moving around, Harry Potter style.

The story results are revealed:

• The group plans on taking a mid season break, but agree thus far season 3 has been one wild ride.
• To find out which stories are fact and which are fiction… you must listen to the podcast, or check out the full episode below or on Amazon Prime