A Sleepover in the 90s: Ghostly Tea Parties, Mall Encounters, and a Ouija Board That Wouldn't Stay Gone

The hosts of Morbid recorded this episode in full 90s regalia—zigzag parts, Pam Anderson eye makeup, Y2K hair—and the listener tales that follow match the era's particular flavor of weird. These are sleepover stories: the kind you'd whisper to friends with a flashlight under the blanket, except these actually happened.

The Barbie Lamborghini That Came Home Through Dreams

The first tale comes from a listener named Laurie, who grew up in an Italian family in a house that became her mother's preschool. The basement had a reputation. Her grandmother and great-grandmother used to hear what sounded like women talking and clinking glasses down there—ghostly tea parties, apparently—and as a kid Laurie would haul ass up those stairs so fast she'd trip. But the basement's inhabitants never seemed malicious, just present.

The centerpiece of the story is a Barbie Lamborghini Power Wheels car her mother gave her for her fourth birthday. It was the 90s dream: a car phone to chat with Barbie, a color scheme that screamed the decade. Laurie's mother died in 2021—not from the pancreatic cancer she'd been dealing with, but from COVID. Laurie was seven months pregnant with a daughter at the time. That daughter, Ella, would later attend the same preschool her mother had run.