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Strange Kid Tales

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The setup

Two jittery talk-show hosts lose their nerve as parents share increasingly spooky stories about their unsettling children.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

On the daytime show Strange Kid Tales, hosts Alan Daniels and Kenny Gerard grow more frightened with every guest. Marla Winters says her son Caden waves at an unseen man in a red jacket who followed them home from a cemetery; Dave Timpkins explains that his six-year-old Max remembers a past life as a World War II pilot who was shot down and died; and Ramona Garrett reports that her daughter Coraline's imaginary friend matches a photo of her long-dead great-grandmother. Kenny tries to quit on the spot and the pair declare it their final episode, just before the man in the red jacket turns up standing silently between them.

The funny people

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Say it with us

Highly quotable.

That is not a sentence I want coming out of a child's mouth.

I can't listen to these spooky stories by myself.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Jonathan Majors repeatedly breaks into laughter during Dave Timpkins's past-life story, covering his mouth while Kenan Thompson carries the exchange.

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