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Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!

April 8, 2026·1 hr 15 min·6 clips

John Sherlock saw a six-foot-tall man in dark clothes staring at him from the doorway, then vanishing.

1. That's Spooky hosts Tyler and Johnny present a Tyler-centric episode following two weeks of Ocean Gate Titan submersible content. 2. Tyler is the primary narrator of the Elke Sommer haunting; Johnny is the reactive co-host; both have hosted the show for approximately eight years and are Canadian. 3. The episode's main story covers the Beverly Hills haunting of actress Elke Sommer and her husband Joe Hyams beginning in July 1964. 4. Before the main story, Tyler covers a crypto scam in which fraudsters impersonated real veterinarian Joe Hollins on X to post a fake death announcement for Jonathan — described as a 194-year-old tortoise and the world's oldest living land animal on the island of St. Helena — and solicit cryptocurrency donations in his memory. 5. Jonathan was confirmed alive by the island's governor, who physically checked on the tortoise; The Guardian published a debunking article by Helena Horton on April 2, 2026. 6. The Drag Race segment covers season 18, episode 14: the Good Morning Bitches talk-show challenge, with Mikey Meeks and Darlene Mitchell praised while Nene and Juicy struggled; Johnny delivers a strong critique of RuPaul's Drag Race using AI-generated portrait images as a segment prop, calling it 'lazy' and 'stealing from artists.' 7. Elke Sommer was born in Germany in 1940, discovered by an Italian director on vacation, won a Golden Globe for most promising newcomer for The Prize in 1963, and appeared in Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number alongside Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller in 1965. 8. She married Hollywood journalist and columnist Joe Hyams in November 1964; they met when he interviewed her for the Saturday Evening Post in late 1963, despite a 17-year age gap. 9. Shortly after moving into their Beverly Hills home in July 1964, Sommer's journalist friend Edith Daffield reported seeing a tall, heavyset man with thinning hair and a 'bulbous potato nose' walk into the dining room — but the man could not be found when Sommer looked. 10. Two weeks later, Sommer's mother Renata woke in the downstairs guest room to find a man standing silently at the foot of her bed, who disappeared before she could call out; Joe's investigation found no muddy footprints outside the window, undermining his 'prowler at the window' theory. 11. Beginning shortly after, every night when the lights went off, Elke and Joe heard what sounded like all the dining room chairs being simultaneously dragged back from the table — Joe compared it to a dinner party ending — directly below the master bedroom. 12. Joe had overhanging tree branches trimmed to eliminate a possible natural explanation for the sound; the nightly scraping continued regardless. 13. When Elke and her mother traveled to Yugoslavia for a film shoot in August 1964, Joe stayed behind and immediately felt constantly watched even while alone in the house; locked windows and doors began opening on their own. 14. Joe purchased audio recording equipment and placed transmitters at the front gate, front door, and dining room; he also drew chalk lines around the legs of each dining room chair to detect movement. 15. That night Joe heard the chair sounds, descended with a gun, and found all chairs perfectly inside their chalk marks — but his audio recording confirmed both the scraping sounds and his own nervous cough, ruling out a hallucination. 16. Joe invited friend Gordon Mueller to stay for seven days while the activity completely ceased; when Joe left for Yugoslavia and Gordon remained alone, Gordon wrote a letter describing a terrifying first night alone with strange noises throughout and a window opening on its own. 17. Gordon took refuge in the upstairs master bedroom — the only room in the house with an interior lock — and reported that entering the dining room made the hairs on his neck stand up every time. 18. Joe, unable to act from Yugoslavia, hired a private investigator to monitor the property and check on Gordon, suggesting he had not fully dismissed the possibility of a human intruder despite the physical evidence pointing elsewhere. 19. The episode's tone is light and comedic with genuine reverence for the unexplained; Tyler and Johnny use pop culture references (Valley of the Dolls, Pan Am glamour) to frame the 1960s setting, making the spooky content accessible and playful. 20. Best for listeners who enjoy celebrity ghost stories, 1960s Hollywood history, and horror delivered with a sharp comedic voice.

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A creepy house mystery with worm-cursed banter and a slow, creeping wrongness.

That's Spooky turns a creepy house mystery into a quick, joke-heavy hangout before the unease really bites. It opens with worm curses, political disgust, and dry banter, then keeps circling back to the dining-room scraping sound that shows up night after night as Elkie and Joe…

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