Looks Creepy Cool Podcast: Horror Stories & the Creators Behind the Fear
Jul 23, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 18 segments
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Jennifer Leigh HoustonGuestReneeHostYou know what I mean? And when you think about it, I say this every time I bring it up, but I need people to be filled in.
Single family home in the East Village in the very scrappy working class.
When you think about in the late 1800s, mid to late 1800s, early 1900s, what that neighborhood was going through.
I'm not just talking about disease and famine and like the Spanish flu of 1917.
You're going to have a very rough working class life if you are living in that neighborhood, because this ain't uptown, baby.
This is just a couple of blocks above Houston Street where the fabric and the beer industry and the pickle industry, you know, so everybody's really and people have come from all over the world and they've landed downtown.
So you've got a real kind of hard life built into the house's history already or the apartment's history.
And I don't know when that single family house was broken up into two apartments.
I mean, who knows when that happened? Could have been the 20s, could have been the 30s, could have been the 70s.
what I feel and what I, or what I felt in that house was particularly in our bedroom where a lot of shit went down, um, which would have been the main bedroom, uh, And I imagine a lot of people died there.
And how I feel it, what I want to say is imagine the worst flu you've ever had in your life or if you had COVID or if you've had dysentery.
Imagine having the worst flu of your life and imagine not having not one thing to remedy it.
You know what I mean? And when you think about it, I say this every time I bring it up, but I need people to be filled in.
Single family home in the East Village in the very scrappy working class.
When you think about in the late 1800s, mid to late 1800s, early 1900s, what that neighborhood was going through.
I'm not just talking about disease and famine and like the Spanish flu of 1917.
You're going to have a very rough working class life if you are living in that neighborhood, because this ain't uptown, baby.
This is just a couple of blocks above Houston Street where the fabric and the beer industry and the pickle industry, you know, so everybody's really and people have come from all over the world and they've landed downtown.
So you've got a real kind of hard life built into the house's history already or the apartment's history.
And I don't know when that single family house was broken up into two apartments.
I mean, who knows when that happened? Could have been the 20s, could have been the 30s, could have been the 70s.
what I feel and what I, or what I felt in that house was particularly in our bedroom where a lot of shit went down, um, which would have been the main bedroom, uh, And I imagine a lot of people died there.
And how I feel it, what I want to say is imagine the worst flu you've ever had in your life or if you had COVID or if you've had dysentery.
Imagine having the worst flu of your life and imagine not having not one thing to remedy it.
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