
194: URBAN LEGEND ORIGINS | 22 True Scary Stories | EP 182
The Lets Read Podcast
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The Fear of Gerald's Parents
Gerald Kennedy was nicknamed Dog Boy for his habit of collecting dead cats and dogs. By the time he was a teenager, locals say Gerald towered over his elderly parents at a gargantuan 6'4", while weighing in at close to 300 pounds. He kept his parents virtually imprisoned in the upstairs part of that house, Mary Hollabird said. It'd feed them, but only when he decided it was time for them to eat. There are multiple reports of Gerald violently assaulting his elderly father, and one such article states that Gerald actually threw his father from an upstairs window during his teens.
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