Unearthing Spines, Mummified Mice, & Job Site Mysteries | Sidequest 32

Welcome to our Sidequest! This is our mini bonus episode where we take a break from the main educational content to go down some structured bunny trails. Today, Samantha, Arly, and Emily are leaning into their true crime era to share the absolute weirdest, spookiest, and most confusing things we have unearthed on construction sites over the last six years.

Because sometimes, the only adequate payment for a handyman job is the wild story you get to tell afterward.

In this episode, we cover:

• The time Samantha and Arly were widening an exterior door on a 100-plus-year-old rental house and found the doorjamb insulated with ruffled purple baby clothes.

• Emily, her twin sister Hannah, and their mom almost squishing a live shrew with a 16-pound tamper while digging a fence hole.

• Emily's dog, Lemon, moonlighting as a backyard archaeologist and digging up an early 1900s shoe.

• Arly and Samantha trying to auger a hole, only to tunnel through a massive package of unopened plastic shingles buried underground.

• The terrifying true story of Jace's mom finding a fully sealed refrigerator buried out in the country.

• Arly crawling around a dirt-filled, 100-year-old Michigan basement and finding a giant piece of a spine.

• A perfectly preserved, mummified mouse skeleton falling out of a drop ceiling directly onto Emily's head.

• An excavating company using a giant auger for deck holes and accidentally deconstructing a 30-year-old rug that a cat had been buried in.

Call to Action:Did your Uncle Jim Bob find something bizarre at a job site? Have you unearthed something weird during a renovation? We want to hear your listener tales!

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