March 22, 2026

A cow escaped on to the high school tennis courts

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Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: urban explorers Mitch and Jake find a remote Scottish bungalow packed with dusty teddy bears and dolls, allegedly hoarded by a widow, after a long search and trek; Alan at the Trumpet Inn offers a 5% cash discount to offset card fees, shifting payments from mostly card to about half cash; a cow on the loose in Nebraska wanders onto a high school tennis court, prompting a lockdown until police and rodeo helpers herd it to the fairgrounds and back to its owner; artist Gary mixes cremation ashes into custom landscape paintings so families can see and feel where ashes remain; and three original Bob Ross paintings auction for $1.27 million for public television, led by “Change of Seasons” at nearly $788,000.

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Kalaroka Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories creepy one to start us off today.

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Two urban explorers say the creepiest place they ever visited

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was not an abandoned asylum, not a church, but a

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remote Scottish bungalow packed floor to ceiling with teddy bears

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and dolls. Mitch and Jake have spent years photographing abandoned

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buildings around the world. They say this place in Scotland

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left them more unsettled than anywhere else. Mitch said it

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was the creepiest place I've ever been to. I couldn't

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wait to get out. I even sacrificed some pictures because

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I didn't want to be in there. The guy said

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they had heard rumors about the bungalow belonging to a

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woman who began hoarding teddy bears after her husband died.

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When the woman herself passed away, the house and its

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contents were left untouched. It took the explorer's four days

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searching on Google Maps to figure out where this place was.

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Then they drove six and a half hours to get there.

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They had to go through an hour of dense woodland

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to reach the property. Mitch said, it was literally a

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fifty minute trek to the house. It was that remote.

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We were going through all the pine forests and we

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were hearing all sorts of noises, and branches were snapping everywhere.

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It was the most bizarre place I'd ever been. They

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entered through the missing panel on the back door and

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they found rooms covered with soft toys, almost stacked to

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the ceilings. All that was covered in dust and cobwebs.

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Mitch said there was some real collectibles in there, some

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rare dolls. There were like two hundred or three and

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are cabbage batch dolls. Some of them are a grand each.

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It was dusty as well. You could taste how damp

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the place was. I don't know how she lived in

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there was a little unnerving because they kept thinking at

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any moment, someone's going to pop out. You can only

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just walk into the bedroom. The rest of it was

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just teddies. It's like six feet deep. It was probably

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one of the most uncomfortable places I've ever been here because,

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if I'm honest, I wasn't quite sure if there was

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anyone in the teddies. It felt like anyone was going

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to jump up at any opportunity. I felt like I

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was being watched. Couldn't wait to get out of there.

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I really couldn't. Alan owns the Trumpet Inn. He says

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customers have switched to paying cash after he introduced a

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five percent discount to offset credit card charges. Yeah, he said,

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it was costing him five pounds for every fifty pounds spent.

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A pint for six pounds is now five seventy when

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paid for in cash. Same discount goes to food. He explained.

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We started this couple weeks ago. We decided paying the

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bank charges the credit charges. It was enough to pay

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another member of the staff. The banks aren't doing anything

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for the money. It's just pressing some buttons. We'll still

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take the card, but we have discounts for cash. Before this,

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we had ninety five percent of our transactions on the card.

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Now it's fifty percent cash. I'm increasingly running this. I'll

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be somewhere and someone will ask me a five money.

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I never have money on me anymore. I switched to

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a slim walllet after years of a Castanza wallet. When

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I do hit the pub, one of the guys puts

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the card down and we just venmo each other. There's

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no money anymore anyway, five to seventy pints such a bet.

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In Nebraska, a cow on the loose made its way

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to a high school tennis court. That's just not a

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sentence to say a lot, even if he host this show.

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That's right, the cow on the loose made its way

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to a high school tennis court. I just like the sentence.

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Never got to say before, probably won't get to say

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it again. Wanted to get it in twice, maybe a

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third time. A cow on the loose in Nebraska made

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its way to high school tennis court the school when

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it's a lockdown. Imagine you're a parent. You get a

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text and you're like, hey, the high school's in lockdown,

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and you freak out, and then you find out it's

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because a cow is on the loose and on the

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high school tennis court. Well, the police explain this keeps

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students and staff in the building and keeps the cow out.

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Officers were able to herd the cow into the fairgrounds.

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The owner was able to gain control of the cow

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with the help of the rodeo team members and the

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fairground staff. The cow then went back to the barn.

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An artist is using cremation ashes in his paintings to

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create unique landscapes that grieving families can personalize as a

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way to remember loved ones. I kind of like this.

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Gary started painting two years ago when he was inspired

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by the loss of his cousin to experiment with blending

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a small amount of ashes into his artwork. He explained,

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I held an art therapy session with a patient. We

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made so many paintings together. I was guiding her through

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the process, and I realized I much I enjoyed it.

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A month later, I picked up the brush and started

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painting for myself. The piece was abstract sunflowers, and the

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feedback I got was overwhelming. A year later, was painting

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a sea scape and he was like, I could add

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some ashes. He explains. They do a consultation with the

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loved one, learning everything about the person, what they enjoyed. Visually,

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the family can see where the ashes have gone, rather

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than scattering them, he says. Some people scatter ashes and

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then there's nothing left well the painting. When it's done,

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the family can feel the painting texture with the ashes,

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so they could still feel the person of the painting,

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especially if it's a place they used to love. I

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like that A lot. Speaking of paintings, paintings by the

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late Bob Ross, you know, the Happy Little Trees guy.

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Those paintings have raised more than one point two million

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dollars for public television. There was an auction in January.

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It generated one point twenty seven million dollars from the

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sale of three original paintings by Ross. The top sellar,

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Change of Seasons was painted in a nineteen ninety episode

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of The Joy of Painting that sold for nearly seven

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hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars, thirteen times over the

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estimate nineteen ninety three is babbling Brook two hundred and

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eighty grand, and Valley View in nineteen ninety sold for

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more than two hundred grand. Bob Ross hosted The Joy

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of Painting from nineteen eighty three to nineteen ninety four,

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and if you were a young man who stayed home

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from school because you were sick, I definitely saw that

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show many times. Bob Ross passed away in at nineteen

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ninety five at age fifty two. Wow from Lymphoma. What

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a great show. His legacy lives on and it's still

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like on the reruns and you can find it on YouTube.

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There's a lot of stuff too. I think everybody enjoyed

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his work. It's good that we're still talking about him.

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And those are your five good news stories for today.