Urban Legend: Little Choo Choo Daycare

Mom used to drop us off out of school because she was taking classes there too, and that was like our daycare type of thing. Yeah, huh, yeah it was. It was cool. I mean that's where I learned that I love Plato and that you shouldn't eat it and stuff. These are good lessons to learn. Welcome to Scary Mystery Surprise, where we talk about scary things that surprised us around the Internet. I'm Edwin, I'm Michelle. So this one is not about a bar or Anything's actually quite the opposite. The most innocent thing you could ever imagine. A daycare, even though they end up on the news sometimes. Yeah, they end up on the news a lot, So I don't know if they literally end up on the news, like every month there's a weird daycare thing that happened. That's oh that's missed up though they're kids, Michelle, Oh, man, I know that kids, but you know they're run by weird adults a lot of the time. So yeah, it brought back memories like reading through the through the script. Actually it's from an episode of Horror Story the other podcast, and it's called Little Choo Choo Daycare. For some reason, Edwin's saying the word choo choo is really funny to me. I was wondering why it was called that, and and then I found out and it's it's kind of cool but then really tragic. So here we go, Michelle, a friend of a friend told you about this place, and since zero a fan of the paranormal and the unexplained, and Zach began's you agree to go. As you're driving, the car comes, Will stops the carson to that confused, confused that my car made that noise. You look around and you're like, where's the place right? Like? You look at the Google Map. Sorry, you don't use Google Maps. You use maps? Wow? How dare you out me on in the public. That's just that's just because is it? Because? Okay? Is it laziness? Like yeah, it's absolutely lazy. Not loyalty. You didn't want to change the default. You just didn't want to hand complete laziness, not loyalty. But I love how passionate people get about it. People get really upset when I told them I use maps. It's because they've probably been wronged by maps like me. Just the passion, it's just the endless passion about it until you get to like Inglewood and you're trying to go to like, you know, a certain address, and then it leads you to like all these alleys and stuff. Then you'll be pissed at maps. That's what it did to me, and it's not it's not cool. But anyway, so you look at maps and obviously it's going to be wrong. But let's say you double check. Let's say I double check on Google whatever, Google Maps. I'll even accept map Quest, right, So I kind of like map Quest is even harder to use than Google. Like, what do you even I'm gonna sign up for map Quest and then print the internet and then carry the thing around with me. I forgot that's what you have to do. You have to print out the map. Yeah, you have to print it out. You didn't get to have it on your phone anyway. So you check, you look around and there's no building. Then you double check and you triple check and it says that you're at the right spot, but there's nothing there. So you're like, okay, well, I mean I'll just get out, I guess. So you go and you're like kind of walk around for a bit. It's dark, and you take out a camera and you're like, oh, I'm gonna paranormally investigate this, and there's like this it's just like like a lot, Like that's what you see, Like it's like a kind of like a parking lot. And you go through the lot all the way to the end of it, and then you come back and censor's by yourself. You're kind of freaking out. You think, what if I do see something, So you'll make your way back, and then out of the corner of your eye you see a shadow perfectly still. It's to your right. You rub your eyes, hoping that it's just your imagination and you wonder what it could be. But the shadow, that thing you were saying it won't leave. He turned back toward your car, and you start running. Your heart's beating faster, and you're just like, yeah, I'm leaving, So you run. You take a final glance back, like you're like, am I really gonna let this like have this power over me? I want to see what this is. I don't want to just like run away. In reality, I'd never I'd be like I'm getting in my car and I'm just like in our random Autica episode, I don't give a shit what it is let's just get out of here. And that's when you see this shadow that's it's twisting and it's moving, and you can tell it's a woman. Her head is hunched in sadness and she doesn't seem to notice you. But still you run and you get to the car and you start your prius and then it's silent and then it goes and there you go. You're back. So and the thing is this place, it's a real place, Little Tutu Daycare. But the thing is that it's not really there. And I know this is weird. I know this is weird. But while researching haunted locations, looking up things in like places where they're not supposed to be haunted, like they're fun, like Disneyland or you know whatever, and I kept coming across Las Vegas, which it does seem like a haunted area, but I was yeah, I was like, yeah, this one place kept popping up around there and it was called Little Chew Chew Daycare in Vegas, and I was like, it's weird because it's known for fun and you go for this and you do that. I'm like, but then it's desert and they have a lot of ghost towns and they have a lot of like you know, all these areas. So the whole Vegas area is creepy when you leave that. You know, the well Vegas itself is creepy because of all the organized crime and stuff that went on there too. Yeah, the story goes back to this thing. Right. There was once a building in that area that was a daycare and it was called Little Chew Cheo Daycare. If you go to it now, the address is three three three five Win Road. You can type it on Google Maps and all you'll see there is a business named Ryan Mechanical, which is like a contractor business. In this place, people like children around, the children of the residents that live around there. They would leave the kids. Back when it was a daycare, it was just like a normal business. And in order to stand out and make the place seem more appealing the children and to the children and the parents, the daycare put this train in the front yard for kids to play in, like one that they could climb and go around. And it worked. I mean I would have loved it, just like I said, like here with you know the daycare that I see games and stuff. I'm like, that's really cool. But it's important to note that this toy train in the front yard was not like a simple plastic toy or like something that was safe. This one was like classic. It was gas powered. What the fuck? Yeah? How big was it? Was? It an actual like full train. It was like big enough, Like okay, it was smaller than you know, the not very farm ones like the size like they're not like that, They're a little bit smaller. I would imagine it kind of like a you know those what are they call those red carts of the Red Wagon, but like one of those things, imagine just like a little it's big enough for little kids to get in, and they're just you know, for little kids. But still gas power is like what Anyway, it was strong and it was soldered together like it was like one of those like a local fair type of train. That's how I met one day. A little boy was playing around the front yard, interested in nothing more than digging the biggest hole in it. That's all he wanted to do. I don't know this part of the story, but it just seemed to fit because I like making holes, and you know, he was there by himself. What else was he to be doing? Yeah, you make a big hole? Anyway, he had just gotten started and he was on his way, so he crouched down near the ground and as he was digging, imagining finding treasures and insects and everything. Turns out life had other plans for him, though, Associa never got to find his treasure. He was looking at the ground. The train was being started and it moved slowly from across the yard and toward him, and the person that was operating the train didn't see him. The child was run over in front of the other kids. As everyone was laughing, it suddenly turned to cries, and eventually it was the beginning of the end. It's a little chew cheo daycare. Wait why didn't the did the train not have tracks? Like it could just go wherever it wanted? Oh, I don't know, actually I think, yeah, that's true. Now I imagine. I mean, for it to be a train, you need tracks. So I'm pretty sure he was on the tracks. Yeah, it would make sense. And if it was gas powered, probably noisy, which I mean it doesn't make sense why it would catch him by surprise like that. But either way, a little kid, Supposedly that's how the legend goes, or the story goes is because like the way you told it made it sound like the train cut his head off, like he's in the hole and then the train just go okay. You know, I don't think he would make a hold of that big that he could get it, But that's like what I imagined. He was just in there, really in it, and then he like pokes his head up as the trains. He doesn't duck down in town. A poor kid. Anyway, the fate of the place was not like completely sealed then, right. It took another tragedy to make the patrons of the place to begin to search for other daycare services. They said that a teacher that worked that Little Chow Choo daycare killed herself one morning during times of operation what the fuck? And today, residents of the area claimed to see the ghost of the little boy crouched down on the ground, still searching for treasure. Others claimed to see the ghost of a woman roaming the grounds where the daycare used to be. So remember how I said that the address where the daycare was supposed to be as wrong? Like the thing is like after just researching, trying to find all these explanations like why can't why is that, like, why is that? Why would anybody put a daycare in an industrial area? First off? Like it's just it's weird. Ozzie Turner in twenty sixteen wrote this article that talks about Little Choo Choo Daycare being in another location, and this one is mentioned by locals who actually remember the daycare itself, saying that it's located in the area where the houses are behind a middle school named Hyde Park, not far from the original address. So I guess maybe the address was wrong. I mean, that's according to this person. But people are old enough to like, there's people there that are old enough to remember it, and some even claim to it that they actually went to this daycare, and they have strange stories. Then they have strange stories to tell. I couldn't find any of these, like specific ones or at least something that you could trust, you know, people they join in on comments, and but as you go deeper into the story, I found a link to another article about it. It was saying the same information, but down in the comment area. A man by the name of Sean Henan or Heenan wrote about his experience as a student in Hyde Park Middle School and a student at the Little Choo Choo Daycare? Could it be real? I don't know. But that's the thing about places like these, right, the ones that you learn about in the in their internet records, whether they're accurate or not, were not kept as easily as now. You know, when what timeframe were we in? When was the chu Chuo operating? Let me find it again, because I mean I was thinking like envisioning the early eighties, but it must have been before then. You know, like did you ever play in those like really dangerous like play cards like the metal slides like a sharp metal slides all wood, big toy. Yeah, of course, Like I feel like back then, I mean writing in a car without a seatbelt, like all these things were. That's how I that's how I can reason that somebody would have a gas powered train at a daycare. It's like it would have to be the eighties or something where, like well eighties or before yeah, yeah, because yeah, man, I remember all those things, Like how were we allowed to do that? Like seesaws like they were they were actual bcsons that would hit the ground. And now it's like they're all safe, like they only have a certain this things that they go up and down and they even slow you down when you get to the bottom. Back then it's like no, you get the biggest person on the other side and you make them jump. That's changed Little Chetoe Daycare. Oh here it is. The building that was there dates to nineteen sixty four of Little Chee Choo Dacare. Oh okay, y sixty four and then has just changed. And Ryan Mechanical, like the company that's there now has been there since nineteen ninety six. So okay, So I think this is the same article that I mentioned where Yeah, this is the person that said, like it's the wrong address. It can't be. There are some schools around there though, And I remember seeing this in the original article where in the in the Las Vegas area where the around where the daycare is, there's like it's residential, right, so there's I mean where it was supposed to be, like the original address, there's is this industrial But Las Vegas has this weird thing where like even in even near the Strip is industrial area, like just not that far from it. Yeah, there's like a pig farm in the middle of North Lost Pig. It's like it's like it's such a weird play. Yeah, it's it's strange and you know they have there's this thing about in some schools around there. There was one, for example, of this fifty eight year old teacher who shot himself in the courtyard in a high school in twenty ten, So that's just recent. In two thousand and five, Green Valley High School history teacher was thirty four years old, attempt at suicide while at the school. Please pay your teachers, pay your teach yeez sleezers please. From that address, we can go to fifty two eighty five Dean Martin Drive, which has been investigated by various groups in Las Vegas who have caught electronic voice phenomenon and strange chart changes in electromagnetic field readings, and the place has seen its share of crime because I mean that's what we know Vegas for. Do you like Vegas, by the way, like, do you like going? I don't know, you know, we were just there. I don't know. I think, like, hey, did my peak Vegas at like twenty one, And I don't know if it's ever I ever like needed to need to ever like do Vegas again. I think next time I go before the restaurants and shows. And that's the only reason why. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, like unless I have to go to a bachelorette party, I don't know. I don't know. But you know, on occasion, every like Robert Robert, I'm talking, I'm talking you weird boy, Robert whatever, continue with your daycare. Sorry too, too well, we've already moved. We changed locations right to Dean Martin Drier and in this specific area. Actually, let me look up the map location. I'm so curious to see what it looks like, fifty two point eighty five, because this place has some type of curse. See with this place like I used to, I mean, I don't see any buildings there right now, but that place had Mexican restaurants, soul food restaurants, all these other types of restaurants. I think restaurants are just a bad business to start, but none have succeeded. And some say that it's the location that has something to do with it. And yeah, because I mean there's a place of I don't know, it's in the next city over in Bellflower. There's a place that has just reopened into a new thing. Like every few years you see a new thing that you're like, it's not gonna work. It's not gonna work. It's not gonna work unless they're like money laundering. But it hasn't. Nothing has lasted there, nothing right, And it's just one of those places. Well this one was just like that. And they say that this place has a curse because of some of the bodies that were buried in that buried by the mob actually a lot of people. Yeah, in twenty sixteen, the place caught on fire and it cost oh maybe that's why it's not there anymore, And it cost upwards of one hundred thousand dollars in damages. And they even mentioned that the location was actually haunted like by ghosts and stuff, with paran investigators visiting it and finding you know, all that info, and it was because of the deaths people that were buried there. Now apparently it's just a lot so Vegas tears down like everything nothing stays. Yeah, well I guess it's yeah right. I mean, it would make sense if like all these haunted places just became lots that were like gone and Vegas just had haunted like abandoned lots, which I mean, it would suck to be a ghost in Las Vegas. It's like tear down your house You're like damn, like fuck, Well, what am I going to do now? I guess I'll just hang out like that depressed woman at the you tube. That's why she's sad. She got like, ah, my home, my home. Wait boy, do I regret doing this at work? So what are we going to talk about next week? Michelle? I don't know, but I think it'll be a surprise. Alright, see you guys. H