Kelsey McKinney
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607 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Feb 2025
Kelsey McKinney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The other is a tattered piece of paper that's like 70 years old with the names of everyone in the family in cursive and their brand new social security number and their ages. And this puts Grand Aunt Julia as younger. Oh. So you have two conflicting documents. Yeah.
And both of them are handwritten.
Do you know anything about the history of social security numbers?
Okay, great. I'm going to tell you because I looked it up.
Social security numbers were introduced by the Social Security Act in 1935. They began in earnest in November of 1936 with FDR's New Deal. And what we did as a country, I guess, was we converted a thousand post offices into typing centers. And then they just like made cards and shipped them to Washington.
So that means that everyone who was born before 1936 did not have a social security number, right? Someone was like coming to your house and being like, who lives here? What's their name? How old are they? Writing that down on a piece of paper and then getting you a card with a number on it.
So the document that they have in the house is this document that is like from the family's social security numbers being assigned.
You're like scratching your head.
Yes. And there are like a couple of real problems with this document, right? Like people's names are spelled wrong. Like the handwriting is borderline illegible.
Grandpa Enzo's quote middle name is just the letter D. And sure enough, Julia's age is five years younger than the family thought it should have been.
Here's a question I have for you. If some guy came to the door and he was like, what's your name and your birthday and your age? Is it possible she just lied?
So I'm thinking about this as if I answered the door and I'm like, I'm 33 years old.
Yeah, I'm like, if a government officer asks me my age, one, I might forget, right? I might get it wrong. Who's to say? And two, the temptation to be like, I'm 28 is certainly there.
OK, I love this read. Everyone in the family in present day, like post Aunt Julia's death, is like mystery solved. Somebody wrote down the age wrong. Maybe she lied. It doesn't matter. Right. Like they're like, we have a document that says she's 93, which is what the government thinks she is. That's fine. We accept this false narrative.
Get her buried.
But at this point, Allegra's own mother is like, huh. I just like really thought there was going to be a bigger reveal here.
Yeah. Everyone's like, why would you think that? And Allegra's mother is like, well, right before Grand Aunt Julia died, she said something to me. What? Way to bury the lead, hunty.
what do you do with this information?
Everyone in this family is like, did you ask her follow-up questions? Like, what else did she say? And Allegra's mom is like, To be honest, I just assumed she was being dramatic.
Which like is a possibility, right? Because like Grand Aunt Julia was the most dramatic woman who ever lived. And so she could have just been saying this because she like learned that someone was a fake blonde.
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