Feb. 23, 2026

Monthly Spooky | Evil Ghost Baby Exorcism, Boston Skull Mystery, and the New England Vampire Panic

Monthly Spooky | Evil Ghost Baby Exorcism, Boston Skull Mystery, and the New England Vampire Panic

This time on Monthly Spooky, Henrique & Michelle tear into spooky news, true crime weirdness, and classic American vampire lore—the kind of stories that feel like they should be fake… but we're not so lucky. Inside this episode: - Galway exorcism:...

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Monthly Spooky: Weird News, Haunting Stories, And Urban Legends

This time on Monthly Spooky, Henrique & Michelle tear into spooky news, true crime weirdness, and classic American vampire lore—the kind of stories that feel like they should be fake… but we're not so lucky.

Inside this episode:

- Galway exorcism: the headline that sounds impossible—“poltergeist of dead baby torments family”—and why it set the tone for the night.
- Rhode Island UFO sighting: a pilot report of an unexplained object over Rhode Island, and the eternal question—do you believe?
- Las Vegas escaped toucan: a rescue group tries to catch an escaped toucan before the desert weather does.
- Boston skull in concrete: a grim discovery that kicks up rumors, crime-history vibes, and that “what if it’s worse than we think?” feeling.
- New England vampire panic: how tuberculosis/consumption + grief + superstition became “vampires,” and how that lore echoes into modern horror.

Henrique and Michelle follow the episode’s separate leads through reported facts, local legend, and horror-minded conversation, with Evil Ghost Baby Exorcism, Boston Skull Mystery, and the New England Vampire Panic providing the installment’s central subjects.

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Evil ghost babies, jellyfish invading Texas shores, a skull found

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in solid concrete, and vampires on the loose in nineteenth

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century New England.

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Get comfortable turning off the life.

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It's monthly spooky Welcome back, my spookies. It is that

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time of the month, and I just want to say

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real quick, I'm of course your host Enrique Kute were

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with my good buddy co host Michelle. Mondays have been final.

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Mondays of the month have been weird the last two months.

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Last month it was like all the way at the end,

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like to where it felt like it was never coming basically,

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and then this month it's like it feels like the

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middle of the month. Yeah, but it's the last Monday.

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It's also that month, the February month, so it's always

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messed up and I forget I have to do bills

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early and stuff like that.

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Oh yeah, yeah, Luckily I'm awful, Like for the most part,

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I pay my bills the moment I get them. It's

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a thing I got from my mom apparently, So I

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don't do a lot of like month end, not too much.

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But yeah, yeah February.

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Huh.

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Well, our topic for tonight, we'll be talking about. After

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we talk about the spooky news is one I'm pretty

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amped about. If I could find my notes, we're going

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to talk about the New England vampire panic that happened

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way back in seventeen hundred and eighteen hundreds.

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Oh okay.

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I had never heard about this, and the more I learned,

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the more I wanted to know more. So we're going

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to take a deep dive into that later on, and

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of course I've got a plethora of news stories ready

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for us to attempt in vain to understand. But before

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all that, Cell, how are you? I don't know, It's

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all you know. I always ask this question, and you're

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never ready. You've never done the research necessary. Apparently.

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I thought that eventually you'd figure out that I don't

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know how to answer that question.

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I thought eventually you would learn.

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No.

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No, I mean that's fair, fair enough, I suppose. Well,

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I have been a busy bee. Yeah yeah, as opposed

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to all the relaxing months that I have uh yeah, yeah,

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but no, I've just been up to a lot. I've

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been upgrading my office, like for the last two months,

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like I've been building things and moving things, reorganized in

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building furniture, building acoustic panels. Yeah, things like that, really

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boring nuts and bolt stuff that makes the podcast sound better.

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I mean, it does look like a lot of blood, so.

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Oh, you know, I never even thought that it would

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look like blood because the the contractor told me it

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was hemoglobin. Oh but you think it looks like blood.

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I think I think it's blood.

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But so you think you like ripped me off.

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No, I think you got exactly what you deserved.

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Well, okay, first of all, I hate when people say

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that because it's never good. But let me look this

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up real quick. Oh yeah, hemoglobin is blood. That's what

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blood is. Yeah, okay, yeah, that's what I get for

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being a high school dropout. Huh shh.

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I mean I think it's fine. It's just a lot

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of blood.

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It doesn't smell like copper as much as it did. Good,

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so I mean there's improvement occurring.

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It's okay. I still think it's fine. I just closed

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my eyes when I look at it.

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Now and imagine less blood, like slightly less blood. That's

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how you call it yourselves. Yeah, you're like you closed

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eyes are like twenty percent less blood. Twenty percent less blood.

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That's fine. Then, well I'm glad you like it thanks,

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sort of when you close your eyes. Yeah, but no,

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it's just but it's been it's been a lot. So

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but I've I've learned, you know, aside from what hemoglobin

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actually is, I've learned a lot about carpentry.

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That's good.

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So that's that's nice. And survived, you know, a snow

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apocalypse which did slow down my building. That's why I

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built my last giant panel. Like I rushed out and

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did it as fast as I could last week because

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the weather suddenly became warm and decent. So I'm like, okay,

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do it now, do it now? Because these things are

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huge and they're sawdust and insulation. You don't want to

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do it inside if you can help it. So but

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uh but yeah, yeah, so I feel pretty pretty good

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about it. And I've been I've been working on some

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different things, like I've been trying out making real content, shorts,

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content related to terrifying and true. And what I'm really

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learning from making this content is number one, the Internet

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is still a very bully ridden place. Yes, luckily, I mean,

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my skin at this point may as well be you know,

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a friggin panser tank, because like I'm just like, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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I survived public high school. What you got try. But

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I've also more so realized that most weeks it's actually

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really hard for me to find an hour to record videos.

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So I'm trying to like find, I know that there's

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a play in my week where I could more conveniently

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do it. Yeah, I need to like find that day

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of the week that it makes the most sense, because

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when you work from home and you mostly do you know,

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internet stuff and recording and talking to microphones, it actually

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like I actually have to make like I have to

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make a special time to like be dressed and nice

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and like, you know, like I because usually I'm kind

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of like I'm in pajamas right now, you know. Yeah, No,

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it's bad. It's it's not. It's not the best thing.

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And I wish I could claim it was because we

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like do this early in the morning, but it is.

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It's noon. Yeah, it's like yeah. But yeah, So I've

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been like, Okay, I need to get you know, find

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a day where I can get in the habit of

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like taking a shower and doing a mustache up and

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and putting on some nice clothes and and it's been

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it's been more challenging than I want to admit to

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do that. This week got particularly crazy yesterday. We're recording

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this on Friday, the twentieth. Yesterday was my mother's birthday, yay,

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and I took her to see Dracula. Oh okay, which

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I actually really liked.

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Did I even know? I don't even know if I

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knew there was a Dracula out.

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That's what a lot of people are saying. And I

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got to admit when I first saw at the theater

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they were showing it, I had not heard anything about it,

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which is really because it's directed by Luke Besson, and

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Luke Besson is famous for the professional and the take

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in movies, and he's a really he's like my favorite

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modern French director. And I didn't even know yet a

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new movie coming.

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Wow.

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So it just kind of happened and it's done okay

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at the box office, but it's still a flop. It

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they did. I'm talking about this early. Well, you know,

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I was gonna talk about this, but I also saw

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so many horror movies in the theater that it may

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as well talk about one now. But it is definitely

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only a horror movie in the broadest of senses. It

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is a romance. It's a movie about love. Like it's

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totally a romance movie.

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Yeah, but there's.

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Decapitation and stuff, but it is mostly a romantic movie.

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And I actually think they did it really well.

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I mean, a lot of vampire stuff is romantic.

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Yeah, no, I agree, but this one, like the focal

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point is entirely love, and Dracula as a character is

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like fully fleshed out and like he has like really

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strong logic, Like most of his choices I thought made sense.

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Hum and also some of the sillier things were pretty

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easy to explain away, Like he has like minions in

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his castle that are like stone gargoyle, but they like

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run and do stuff and they look a little hokey,

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and you're like, how did he do that? And then

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you and then like it's pretty much explained away by like, well,

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Dracula has been alive for four hundred years. He's figured

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out some creepy occult stuff because his motivation was to

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be reunited with his dead wife. So he's been studying

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the occult NonStop since he turned his back on the

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church and God refused him death, which is what made

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him a vampire. Yeah, yeah, no, it's it's it's it really.

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I don't want to spoil it because that would be

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the best way to explain like why how they did

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him so well, But I don't want to. But there's

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a lot of really cool stuff in there. They also

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eliminated the concept of vampire glam, like you know, like

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looking in your eyes and mesmerizing you h and instead

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went with that in his studies. Of all things, he

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mastered perfumery. He traveled the world learning about scent, what

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it does, the magical properties of smell, from India and

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Constantinople in all these places, and instead of glamoring people

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by like look into my eyes, you know, he puts

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on whenever he wants to control people, especially women, He

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just puts this perfume on his neck and then they

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they are mad for him, like like they're literally like crazy.

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They're not like just like oh you're so, you know,

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they're like begging. They're like screaming and running at him,

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and the way I imagine you would you imagine dating.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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But I thought that was a really cool touch because

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it was very different, and it also explained why in

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this version they set they set it in Paris instead

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of London, which was how they did the original Dracula,

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or in Nosferatu they said it in Germany because it

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was a German film. This one was a French film,

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although it's in English, and the perfumery is kind of

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how he ends up like having an established life in Paris, Okay. Also,

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the reason he has minions vampires he like spreads vamporism

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everywhere is to have people all over the world looking

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for the reincarnation of his dead wife. He's got a problem,

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he does. But but I'll tell you right now. They

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don't cop out and like change everything about him to

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make him more Dracula, Like he really is believable. I

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really liked it. I don't want to spoil anything else.

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I can talk about it for a while because I

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was shocked how much I enjoyed it. And then the

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more I thought about I was like, man, I like

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this more than nos Faratu, the remake of nos Faratu.

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But it's not much of a horror movie. There aren't

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big scares and stuff is. It is more a macabre

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love story, and Dracula always had a lot of that

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in the original book. I mean, that's why he gets

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obsessed with Mina is because she reminds him of his

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dead wife. So, but in this version, he's seeking a reincarnation,

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which is another thing he figured out studying the occult

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for so long. Was that so, No, I'm just gonna

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act like your phone didn't go off, Cell, I'm gonna

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act I'm.

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Sorry it's and it's a spam call.

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Of course it is. No, it's it's okay. We all

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know how important we are to you, Nowchell, oh Man.

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I was going to put it on another not ringing

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thing and I didn't.

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Well, I think that's as good a point as any

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to take a quick break, and when we get back,

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we're going to dive into the spooky news, all right.

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Before we get into the spooky news, Cell, I meant

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to tell you something, and I don't think I've told

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you this yet, or maybe I have. Did I tell

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you about how I was on my health insurance website

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and found out that they give you points. No, So,

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my health insurance has like a rewards system. It's nothing crazy.

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It's just like you get fifty a fifty dollars reward

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for doing your wellness check once a year, and you

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get and then you get like another reward for doing

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like filling out some crap on there, you know, whatever

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it's it's and it caps off at like seventy five

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bucks in a year. But I had no idea. I

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didn't know about it. I just had no idea. So

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I found it like three days ago, and I had

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like a good chunk of money just sitting there.

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And I turned it into an Amazon gift card, and

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I was like, Okay, I want to I want to

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get something silly for me because this is money I

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never had at all. I never expected it, never planned

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for it. Nothing. You know what I ended up buying. No,

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it'll be here tomorrow. I bought a Terraman.

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Oh oh, like a Thehreman.

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Yeah, EXCEPT said, right, oh fine, it's like Neanderthal. Everybody

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says nar tall. I don't believe that it's wrong to

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say Neanderthal. It's just a different pronunciation. Fine, but Neanderthal

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is the original pronunciation of Anderthal. That I don't believe

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it's right or wrong if you say Neanderthal, we know

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exactly what you're saying. It's not like Florida when you

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say Florida instead of Florida, which is how it's.

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Spelled no, no, it's no no, I'm not going to

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do this.

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I'm okay, okay, your exit. There's no g's inn exit.

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But but I ordered a theremin or Terramen, you know,

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and I'm like super amped. I've always wanted one. Yeah,

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for those who don't know, it's an electric instrument that

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you control by putting your hands toward it or away

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from it. It controls the pitch and then one can

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control the volume, and there are lots of different ones.

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I bought a beginner's one because I know that they're

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super hard to master, so I wanted one that you

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could pick up and play right away, and then if

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I really like it, someday I'll get like a really

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nice theremon So now you got me doing it. Sorry,

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but I'll get like a really nice one if I

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get really into it. But I just love them, and

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I have I've always had really strong pitch, so I've

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always wanted to try it because I can hear pitch

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pretty well and it's all listening and muscle memory. So yeah,

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I'm really excited. Come I'm gonna hook it up to

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my interface and like I can run it through my

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workstation through like tons of guitar amps and pedals and

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stuff and do all kinds of weird stuff. So anyway,

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I'm sure i'll bug you with it sometime and show you.

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I'm I'm really excited to try hip hop stuff with it,

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because when I hear the Terraman, I'm always like, man,

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this would be great for like dance music and hip hop,

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way more than I think for like the classical music.

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It was very popular for classical music, and then it

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got very popular for surf music for a while.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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In fact, the first time I ever saw one in

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person was when the Mulchmen were playing here in Dayton

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and they're a surf band and one of the guys

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does Terraman solo while he's playing guitar. He'll stop playing

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and then do we rue. It's so cool. Yeah, so

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I'm excited. But anyway, I just wanted to tell you

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and I was like, this is that's spooky enough yeah

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to share to share here. So but now Chell, it

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is time for the spooky news, the spooky news, and

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this one is of course from Mirror dot co dot UK. Yeah.

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I was like, do you have an opinion on that?

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You shouldn't but I don't blame you if you do.

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And this one I wanted to start with because I

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know it'll make you mad.

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Oh.

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The headline reads, exorcism performed in Galway house after poltergeist

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of dead baby torments family. No, that's horrible, which part

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all of that?

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No, we're going to exercise a dead baby.

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That's horrible. Oh well, what else are you gonna do

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with it? Leave it alone?

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Comfort it?

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They say it's tormenting them.

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What by just existing? It's a baby?

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Is it technically existing? If it's a ghost? I guess

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it is. So yeah, Yeah, well we're gonna we're gonna

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take a look at this. I saw this headline and

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I got very curious.

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Oh my god.

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A Galway home required an exorcism after a family was

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forced to flee due to disturbances caused by a poltergeist.

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The Faye household parents Jackie and esther daughter Martha, son Michael,

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his fiance Mary, and Martha's infant, Sarah Luise. So there

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was a living infant in the house too, weird? Maybe

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I hope, I hope I didn't bury the lead and

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that's who the ghost is.

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Yeah.

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Resided in krab through the nineteen nineties. After Sarah Louise's birth,

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the family experienced torment from a poltergeist. So this is

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a babies hate babies kind of thing, I guess.

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Okay, yeah, that's.

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You've never heard about that. Yeah, baby, I hate babies.

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I don't think that's a thing.

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It's like, it's like how some cats just need to

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be the only cat, Like some baby's got to be

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the only baby.

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Like, man, I hate other babies. I don't know anything,

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but I know.

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That stupid baby also looks like Winston Churchill. That's my look,

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you jerk. Yeah, I like that for many reasons, like

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that the baby knows who Winston Churchill is. The disturbance

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is manifested through peculiar odors, objects being damaged or relocated,

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unexplained sounds, and abrupt temperature drops.

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Okay, it doesn't sound that bad, but whatever.

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Well, odors can be pretty bad. If they're really bad,

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I mean they're really smelly.

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I hope they explain what the odors are.

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When objects being damaged or relocated, you know that you

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could be like, oh, where's the remote, or it could

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be where's my insulin, where's by inhale her? Where's the pills?

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I have? To put under my tongue after I've been

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scared by unexplained sounds. See, she'll just loves to diminish

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other people's fear, you know. Oh but what frightened the

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family most was that many of the bizarre occurrences appeared

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to originate in Sarah Louise's bedroom. M During one evening,

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they heard her distressed cries emanating from her room and

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rushed to check on her. They discovered the infant sitting upright,

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surrounded by her stuffed toys arranged in a precise circle.

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Babies don't know what circles are.

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I want to know, Like, I don't think there's a

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photo of it, no, because I want to know what

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is a precise circle? Because like if a baby just

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has toys all around them, there's gonna be a kind circle.

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Yeah yeah, but I mean but if it's like a

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really clear, like not sloppy circle, that would be that

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would be strange.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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The situation deteriorated to such an extent that the family

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eventually vacated the property, with Michael and a mate remaining behind.

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The case attracted nationwide coverage, and ultimately the family secured

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help from professional parapsychologist Sandra m ram Donnie. Yeah, i'd

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say say rom Donnie. The family escorted Sandra to the

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property and presented her with Sarah Luise's bedroom, as they

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suspected this was the epicenter of the haunting. Sandra uncovered

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that an infant had been suffocated to death in the

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dwelling a century earlier. Oh, I mean a lot of

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that's you know, a lot of infants died like a

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century ago.

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Yeah, it's not the.

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Most unsafe, guess.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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It was envious of the care which Sarah Louise was getting,

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and that explained why it haunted the property, particularly her bedroom.

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I don't believe, man, Yeah, why do you think it's

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haunting them?

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No, I don't think it's a baby at all.

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What do you think it is?

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It could be anything pretending to be a baby, because

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I just don't believe.

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Yeah. Yeah, sometimes, yeah.

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Cat and cats get envious of things. I just don't

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think babies get envious of like. No, no, I don't

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believe that.

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Fair fair and exorcism was performed, with Sandra lighting candles

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and incense, urging the family to direct all their love

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towards the ghost baby. I like that all our love

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for you to get.

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Yeah, we love you so much. We don't ever want

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to hear from you again.

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Michelle has a real problem with the concept of exorcisms.

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She thinks they're mean.

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The Poldergeist peacefully departed the house, restoring normality, okay. In

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a conversation with RTE at the time, Michael expressed his

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conviction quote firm beliefs in any type of things to

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do with ghosts and poltergeist. I actually believe in the

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psychic part of it as well, and that's where it ends.

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Great work. Ohr uk, they just published stuff like that. Yeah,

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but I mean that was that was somewhat interesting. I

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mean it sounds like if you know, there was a

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ghost baby, it was pretty reasonable.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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It was kind of like, hey, just you know, no,

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stop it no, and the baby was like oh okay, yeah.

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No one ever even said anything that I shouldn't do

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this before. Now I understand, and I will.

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Leave babies tell you well luckily, you know. I mean,

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I mean, is it that mean to exercise a spirit

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if it's gonna go to like the afterlife or something

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like somewhere where it's supposed to be.

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We don't know where it's gonna go. Maybe nothing will

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take it now because it was.

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Mean, that's gonna be like a like a baby bird

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like no, if your sense on it the moment, we'll

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take it back, which I'm pretty sure isn't true.

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But it's not true.

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Yeah, well, good job everybody for saving or for freeing

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yourself of the poltergeist baby. That needs to be a

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movie Poltergeist or baby Poltergeist. And it's just maybe I

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wonder Well, we're gonna take a quick break and we'll

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be back with even more spooky news. So Chell, Yeah,

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we're leaving the ghost babies behind for a little while

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at least. Oh, we've got this. We've got this news

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story from ATVU dot com, which is a Fox affiliate,

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and the headline is pilot reports UFO beside jet makes joke,

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good luck with the aliens. Uh wall, it says atc

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oh sorry, air Traffic Control makes joke, good luck with

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the aliens.

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Okay.

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The pilot of a private plane reportedly made an eerie

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discovery while flying thousands of feet over Rhode Island, marking

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the latest and unexplained encounters baffling both experts and civilians alike.

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Hmm.

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Do you believe Chell, I don't know.

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I believe that there's probably aliens probably maybe I don't

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think they're here, but they could be. I don't know.

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I think it's more likely that people are seeing other

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things that they don't understand, like government crafts and.

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Drones and Poulterygeist babies that are flying in the sky.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Why couldn't they don't act like that? That's a crazy surmising.

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I mean, let's be fair. They did exercise the baby,

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so maybe it just went up.

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Yeah, it's just wouldn't you. Yeah, like Rhode Island, It's.

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All right, that's pretty okay. Yeah.

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Newly resurfaced video shared on YouTube in October by the

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Vasa vas Aviation Channel reveals the head scratching moment the

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pilot radio to the ground team at the Rhode Island T. F.

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Green International Airport regarding a mysterious small silver cylinder hovering

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near the wing of his aircraft, telling air traffic control, quote,

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it appears to be standing still. Quote looks like a

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strange small object that we just float or we just

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floated by, the pilot told air traffic control. According to

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the clip, quote, a small silver canister. Do you know

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what that could be?

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Well, that's pretty weird.

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That is weird. It sounds like like a like a

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beer commercial from the like in the nineties. You know,

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it could be a beer floating in the middle.

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Of the Yeah.

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Air traffic control went on to inform the pilot there

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were no other reports regarding an object in the area

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and ask the pilot if it could be a drone

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or balloon. Quote, I saw nothing attached to it, the

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pilot responded. According to the clip, it was sort of

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hovering there. It was astonishing. I don't know what it was.

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The object was reportedly seen floating near the right wing

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of the Piper PA thirty two r T three hundred

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T Turbo Lance two at an altitude of three thousand,

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five hundred feet before flying alongside the aircraft and later

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disappearing from view. Yes, I'm a great cold reader. I

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thought that was so good. Do you remember that time

465
00:26:57.359 --> 00:27:00.559
years ago I was reading I was reading comics in

466
00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:04.279
a news article from from TikTok and the users had

467
00:27:04.319 --> 00:27:07.039
they just pay pasted the user names. Yeah, they were

468
00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:09.880
like they were sometimes they were like fifteen numbers and

469
00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:15.960
letters in no particular order. That was fun creepy. The

470
00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:18.359
ground team can be heard saying on the radio with

471
00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:23.240
air traffic Control joking good luck with the aliens. Oh

472
00:27:23.279 --> 00:27:25.759
that's nice. I see life is so much easier now

473
00:27:25.799 --> 00:27:29.119
that there's no Soviet Union to be afraid of. Yeah,

474
00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:31.960
that's true, because I feel like that would be the

475
00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:33.839
first thought, you know, if it was the if this

476
00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:36.920
was the eighties, it would just be like, uh, oh,

477
00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:40.640
the Ruski's got something something for us, something we don't

478
00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:45.240
know about. Little can, a little can. You don't know

479
00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:46.200
what's in the can.

480
00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:48.480
It could be anything. It could be a bomb.

481
00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:51.119
Really, I like how how it's a can now it

482
00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:57.160
was a cylinder. Oh, but I made a joke about

483
00:27:57.160 --> 00:27:58.559
a beer can and now it's a can.

484
00:27:58.839 --> 00:27:59.880
Yeah, it's a can now.

485
00:28:01.599 --> 00:28:04.240
Other pilots quickly took to the radio to join in

486
00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:07.440
on the mystery, as one added, I want to believe him.

487
00:28:08.599 --> 00:28:09.640
Oh.

488
00:28:09.799 --> 00:28:17.079
The FAA documents documents UAP sightings UAP versus UFO. I

489
00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:22.359
like UFO more, I think either.

490
00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:24.960
Yeah. I don't really think we needed to switch it

491
00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:27.240
because it's both saying the same thing.

492
00:28:28.400 --> 00:28:33.519
Yeah. UAP means unidentified aerial phenomena or unidentified anomalist phenomena.

493
00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:38.599
I think maybe they wanted to the flying object was like,

494
00:28:38.680 --> 00:28:41.960
maybe that. Maybe it's not a flying object. Maybe it's

495
00:28:42.039 --> 00:28:45.759
hobbing not flying. Maybe it's a hole in the like

496
00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:49.440
a rip in the dimension, so it's not necessarily flying,

497
00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:50.960
but it's in the sky.

498
00:28:52.279 --> 00:28:55.839
Okay, I still don't like it. Yeah, I like UFO

499
00:28:55.960 --> 00:29:01.160
because it's fun and spooky. Yeah were you Were you

500
00:29:01.240 --> 00:29:03.480
into UFO stuff when you were a kid or anything

501
00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:07.039
like that? Not really, No, were you into anything when

502
00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:10.519
you were a kid? No, No, just anime.

503
00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:13.880
I was just existing. Just no one knew what was

504
00:29:13.920 --> 00:29:14.519
wrong with me.

505
00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:21.640
Okay, fair enough on that one. Jeez, geez cell, well start,

506
00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:25.720
I read UFO books like they were going out of style,

507
00:29:25.880 --> 00:29:29.240
which they were already out of style, so that helps.

508
00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:33.359
But I rented or rented checked out two library books

509
00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:36.720
about UFOs. At my elementary school library, they had two

510
00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:39.920
books on UFOs, so I checked them both out. Cool

511
00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:43.000
and it was it was because I watched the History Channel.

512
00:29:43.240 --> 00:29:43.720
Go ahead.

513
00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:46.680
Oh yeah, No, I was more into like ghosts and

514
00:29:46.759 --> 00:29:48.359
things than UFOs.

515
00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:51.359
I checked those books out too. Yeah, And I was

516
00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:54.279
the only name in the cards in the back of

517
00:29:54.279 --> 00:29:55.960
those books. I was the only name.

518
00:29:56.799 --> 00:29:58.799
That's kind of nice though, It's like they were doing

519
00:29:58.839 --> 00:29:59.559
it just for you.

520
00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:03.519
For me as a treat. Yeah, just for me. Okay,

521
00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:08.359
now I feel better. Not really, nothing could make me

522
00:30:08.359 --> 00:30:14.039
feel better. Uh. Quote. Multiple US government agencies have individual

523
00:30:14.079 --> 00:30:18.599
programs or processes to study and document UAP. However, the

524
00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:23.440
agencies also work collaboration collaboratively on the topic. That's the

525
00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:27.000
that's the story, that's the end. It was a beer

526
00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:31.359
can we all know now, Yeah, it's just uh, it's

527
00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:35.240
just what's what's their name? Uh? What's that Budweiser. They're

528
00:30:35.279 --> 00:30:39.079
just trying desperately to like get back into relevancy. They're like,

529
00:30:39.079 --> 00:30:43.759
we're gonna float a can, a giant can in the sky. Yeah,

530
00:30:43.759 --> 00:30:46.200
and then and then and then it just pans across

531
00:30:46.200 --> 00:30:48.279
in the room is just completely empty. It's just one

532
00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:50.759
insane person running all of the marketing.

533
00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:52.960
Yeah.

534
00:30:53.119 --> 00:30:55.440
No one can tell me no because there is no

535
00:30:55.480 --> 00:31:00.759
one that's sad. Why is everything sad? Now? Shell? What

536
00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:06.680
did you do? Why are you doing this? Well, after

537
00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:09.079
the break, we're going to come back and talk about

538
00:31:09.480 --> 00:31:14.599
something that has become a running lighter element of weekly

539
00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:19.960
or monthly Spooky, which is strange animal situations as we

540
00:31:20.079 --> 00:31:22.559
head to Las Vegas to find out about a bird

541
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:26.240
that seems kind of out of place, although if it

542
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:29.440
was going to be anywhere, I guess it would be Vegas.

543
00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:41.599
Right after this, All right, Shell, we're back, And what's

544
00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:43.119
your favorite bird?

545
00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:46.279
That's such a hard question.

546
00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:48.519
Go on.

547
00:31:49.160 --> 00:31:52.759
I think I like probably turkey vultures the best.

548
00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:54.799
Oh okay, but I also.

549
00:31:54.839 --> 00:32:00.640
Like cardinals, and I like fish crows and that one

550
00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:05.720
I don't know. They're they're like American crows. They look

551
00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:08.720
almost exactly the same, but they call really strange.

552
00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:10.599
What does it sound like?

553
00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:14.119
Give us something sounds really nasally, but like a pro call.

554
00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:15.000
I'm not gonna call.

555
00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:20.119
Oh okay, fine, Yeah, they just look like crows to me.

556
00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:23.119
Yeah, I like them.

557
00:32:23.359 --> 00:32:25.559
Well, I don't have a favorite bird.

558
00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:27.519
And I like pigeons.

559
00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:31.599
I know you have pigeons. Yeah, you're not grab a pigeon?

560
00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:33.079
No, I want to.

561
00:32:33.640 --> 00:32:35.640
It's not hard. You just have to actually want to.

562
00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:37.400
Oh, I know.

563
00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:40.839
That's the secret I learned is Yeah, you just have

564
00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:43.759
to actually want to grab the pigeon because if you hesitate,

565
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:48.680
you won't catch it. Yeah, so you have to commit. Well,

566
00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:53.640
in Las Vegas, we have this news story from w

567
00:32:54.039 --> 00:32:57.519
r a l dot com and the headline is Rescuer

568
00:32:57.519 --> 00:33:00.279
group and Las Vegas tries to catch a two can

569
00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:06.920
that escaped its owner before it's too late. Yeah, I'm

570
00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:08.839
shocked tucan wasn't even in your top ten.

571
00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:11.640
No, I don't really. I mean they're cool, but I

572
00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:15.000
don't have any sort of like things like, yeah, I

573
00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:15.319
don't know.

574
00:33:16.519 --> 00:33:18.480
You didn't you didn't like fruit loops?

575
00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:19.680
No, not really.

576
00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:21.599
No, I liked fruit loops.

577
00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:22.480
They're fine.

578
00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:27.079
Catherine Eddington was driving in north Las Vegas last week

579
00:33:27.119 --> 00:33:30.119
when she thought she saw a big black bird carrying

580
00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:36.559
a banana across the intersection. You know that's fair. Yeah,

581
00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:39.640
But after a closer look, she realized it was a tucan,

582
00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:44.599
a tropical bird native ter rainforests in Central and South America,

583
00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:49.240
known for their large, colorful bills. I would say that's

584
00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:57.079
what they're known for. Yeah, two can Sam oh yea quote.

585
00:33:57.119 --> 00:33:59.799
They're beautiful birds. So being able to see something like

586
00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:03.559
that so close to home was fascinating, said Eddington, who

587
00:34:03.599 --> 00:34:07.519
recognized the bird from social media and contacted Animal Rescue

588
00:34:08.039 --> 00:34:14.519
M that two can. That tu Can's name is Sam. No.

589
00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:18.960
I like it too, because two can Sam. It feels

590
00:34:18.960 --> 00:34:21.400
because it's so like instilled in a since childhood. It

591
00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:24.199
sounds really like like it works, but it doesn't rhyme

592
00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:24.840
or anything.

593
00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:29.960
Well, two can Sam and Sam kind of rhyme?

594
00:34:31.239 --> 00:34:34.719
That's that's like people say Action and Jackson kind of rhyme.

595
00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:41.960
They do not rhyme. Um, you think action Jackson rhymes No,

596
00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:44.840
but it's close. I didn't say it wasn't close, but

597
00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:45.760
it doesn't rhyme?

598
00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:47.480
Fine?

599
00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:56.599
Why not? Two can stand? That literally rhymes.

600
00:34:54.360 --> 00:34:57.400
I okay, fine, I don't know.

601
00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:03.119
Ha gotcha. His name is Sam and he was living

602
00:35:03.119 --> 00:35:05.599
in the area since or has been living in the

603
00:35:05.639 --> 00:35:08.960
area since November, when a resident posted online that he'd

604
00:35:09.079 --> 00:35:13.639
escaped from his cage after surviving the Las Vegas desert.

605
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:17.719
For months, Sam has captivated community birding groups, with people

606
00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:21.960
posting occasional sightings around town. Imagine if you were a

607
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:27.360
person who does birding, like talk about Peter. Yeah, I

608
00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:30.320
saw it too, can No you didn't? Yeah? I did?

609
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:32.559
And his name was Sam, and they're like get out.

610
00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:38.119
A local rescue group has been trying to catch him

611
00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:40.239
for months and the clock is ticking.

612
00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:41.119
Mmm.

613
00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:43.559
Oh, do you think he has one of those like

614
00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:46.400
collars that explodes if he's away from home too long.

615
00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:48.679
I mean that's usually what that means.

616
00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:53.239
So quote, I'm really worried about him, said Sky Marsh,

617
00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:57.559
president and co founder of the Southwest Exotic Avian Rescue.

618
00:35:57.760 --> 00:36:00.800
Do they have a oh so Lost Vegas has a

619
00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:05.000
Southwest Exotic Avian Rescue? Is that like just one person

620
00:36:05.159 --> 00:36:06.880
or is that like like, I mean no, no, I'm

621
00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:08.719
not trying to be funny. I mean seriously though, like

622
00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:12.280
how much demand is there for a Southwest Exotic Avian

623
00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:13.840
rescue organization?

624
00:36:14.320 --> 00:36:15.920
I don't know. I don't know.

625
00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:20.280
The Las Vegas based group has spent hours searching for him,

626
00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:22.679
only to find the bird fifty feet up in a

627
00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:25.079
palm tree, limiting rescue options.

628
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:25.760
Yeah.

629
00:36:26.119 --> 00:36:27.920
Well, I mean and that makes sense kind of where

630
00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:31.480
they like to hang out. They have not been in

631
00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:33.920
touch with the owner, she said. They haven't been in

632
00:36:33.960 --> 00:36:37.760
touch with the owner. Why, Yeah, it's the damn birds.

633
00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:39.400
I mean I get that, Like, well, is this one

634
00:36:39.400 --> 00:36:40.719
of those things where like, well they should have taken

635
00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:42.559
better care of them, Okay, fine, but like it's their owner,

636
00:36:42.719 --> 00:36:44.119
like I think they probably care.

637
00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:48.679
Yeah yeah yeah, sorry, birds escape?

638
00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:54.360
Yeah, plus like the owner might have additional resources you know,

639
00:36:54.519 --> 00:36:56.119
like what if the owner was like, oh, I'm a

640
00:36:56.159 --> 00:36:59.440
fireman or my brother's a fireman. We'll go get a

641
00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:00.880
ladder and get the damn bird.

642
00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:03.760
Yeah, Or what if the owner just said step up

643
00:37:03.800 --> 00:37:06.599
and it came ooh.

644
00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:12.119
I don't know if they're like that cans. I honestly,

645
00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:13.480
I think you could get the bird to come home

646
00:37:13.480 --> 00:37:17.360
if you just changed his name from Sam because that's offensive.

647
00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:18.800
To something else, anything else.

648
00:37:18.920 --> 00:37:23.480
Yeah, your name is Lister. Yeah, bird flies right down,

649
00:37:23.719 --> 00:37:27.599
loves that. Yeah. Las Vegas is not a good environment

650
00:37:27.639 --> 00:37:29.679
for a two can to be in the wild, with

651
00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:33.079
its too hot summers and cold winters, said Donald Price,

652
00:37:33.280 --> 00:37:36.119
a professor and biologist at the University of Nevada and

653
00:37:36.199 --> 00:37:40.639
Las Vegas who studies winged animal species adapt to different environments.

654
00:37:41.199 --> 00:37:45.559
Imagine if you were like seventeen, and you're trying to

655
00:37:45.559 --> 00:37:48.840
convince your parents to let you to send you to

656
00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:52.480
the University of Nevada and Las Vegas. How do you

657
00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:53.679
sell that. I'm not even trying to say that the

658
00:37:53.719 --> 00:37:55.760
school's not good or something, but how do you sell that?

659
00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:57.960
I don't want to go there to like, you know,

660
00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:01.239
goof off. I just want to go the university of

661
00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:03.719
Nevada and Las Vegas. They're like, what about the University

662
00:38:03.719 --> 00:38:07.159
of Nevada anywhere else? No, No, it's got to be No,

663
00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:11.880
gotta be Vegas. I want to major in drum lines

664
00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:12.760
and magicians.

665
00:38:13.480 --> 00:38:18.239
Yeah yeah, Or what about like psychology or something. I

666
00:38:18.280 --> 00:38:20.119
want to understand human behavior?

667
00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:23.840
There you go, Yeah, by watching people just keep feeding

668
00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:24.440
the slots.

669
00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:25.719
Yeah exactly.

670
00:38:26.920 --> 00:38:29.960
Marsh, who has two two cans of her own. Okay,

671
00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:32.400
so it's not a you shouldn't own this kind of attitude.

672
00:38:32.639 --> 00:38:34.639
It's like we should own all the two cans.

673
00:38:34.719 --> 00:38:40.360
Yeah, tons of them. Uh oh oh, now it's getting sad. Yeah, great,

674
00:38:40.639 --> 00:38:44.920
thanks a lot. Marsh, who has two two cans of

675
00:38:44.920 --> 00:38:48.159
her own, said Sam is starting to show signs of struggle.

676
00:38:48.679 --> 00:38:50.800
His eyes are sunken in and the skin around his

677
00:38:50.840 --> 00:38:54.840
beak is starting to get discolored. She said. Fuck. Sam

678
00:38:55.039 --> 00:38:57.880
likely lived off figs and pomegranates from trees in the

679
00:38:57.880 --> 00:39:01.840
Los Pratos neighborhood, located fifteen miles from the Las Vegas

680
00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:06.760
Strip when he first escaped in November. Wow, he's done

681
00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:12.079
surprisingly well for the winter. Yeah, Marsh said. Those fruits

682
00:39:12.079 --> 00:39:14.920
have since disappeared, and Sam has moved on to citrus,

683
00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:19.480
which can be harmful to tucans. Oh No, their livers

684
00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:25.320
cannot process the calcium and the iron can be deadly. Quote.

685
00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:28.840
This bird is not in good shape, Marsh said. Bird

686
00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:32.519
experts and enthusiasts alike are surprised the tucn has survived

687
00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:35.679
so long in Vegas. Exotic birds that escape often have

688
00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:39.320
difficulty finding food and avoiding predators, and the changing weather

689
00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:41.880
in Las Vegas has also likely taken a toll on

690
00:39:41.920 --> 00:39:45.440
the two can. Birds can thermal regulate, but only for

691
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:47.519
so long. It takes a lot of energy, so the

692
00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:51.800
tucan would need more food. Price said. Quote. If it's

693
00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:54.639
still alive, it could be in trouble. I can imagine,

694
00:39:54.719 --> 00:39:57.480
So hopefully they catch it, he said. The tucan has

695
00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:01.079
been spotted in one specific location, sign he's running out

696
00:40:01.079 --> 00:40:04.320
of energy. She said. The rescue rescue group set up

697
00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:06.760
a cage with food in it and urge neighbors to

698
00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:11.239
stop feeding it. The two can has scoped out the cage,

699
00:40:11.239 --> 00:40:13.760
but get spooked when the people are people are around,

700
00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:16.920
Marsh said. The rescue group will rush him to the

701
00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:20.639
vet as soon as he's caught. Marsh added he'll need

702
00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:23.159
fluids and his system needs to be flushed to remove

703
00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:26.480
the iron he's eaten. Marsh urged neighbors to not get

704
00:40:26.519 --> 00:40:30.480
close to the TUCN or try to trap Sam themselves. Quote.

705
00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:32.559
The more people are out there, the worse it's going

706
00:40:32.599 --> 00:40:35.639
to be, because he doesn't like people, she said. So

707
00:40:35.760 --> 00:40:37.800
let's just so just let us do our thing and

708
00:40:37.840 --> 00:40:40.199
we'll get him without talking to the owner, which is

709
00:40:40.199 --> 00:40:41.000
the weird part to me.

710
00:40:41.599 --> 00:40:42.159
So weird.

711
00:40:42.440 --> 00:40:46.840
Yeah, poor thing. I hope they catch him. I mean, yeah,

712
00:40:46.880 --> 00:40:48.880
this was this was posted yesterday.

713
00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:51.360
Oh man, so they probably haven't caught him yet.

714
00:40:51.559 --> 00:40:56.159
Yeah, but at least there's time. Well, the good news

715
00:40:56.239 --> 00:40:59.360
not to be like, yeah, I'm always so positive, but

716
00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:02.400
like the good news is the weaker he gets, the

717
00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:06.000
easier he'll be to catch, which that's good. Hopefully they

718
00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:08.599
can catch him relatively soon when he can't fly around

719
00:41:08.599 --> 00:41:11.039
a ton and then it'll be easy to get him treated.

720
00:41:11.440 --> 00:41:13.039
Yeah. We just don't want it to get so weak

721
00:41:13.079 --> 00:41:15.480
that like he has trouble getting better.

722
00:41:16.079 --> 00:41:22.000
Yeah, no, definitely him. Yeah, yeah he should. After you

723
00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:24.079
said all those mean things about Tukens at the beginning

724
00:41:24.119 --> 00:41:27.440
of this, well, now we know where you stand, the

725
00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:32.239
kind of person you truly are so. Well, when we

726
00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:35.280
get back, we're going to talk take talk about a

727
00:41:35.280 --> 00:41:40.639
news story involving a homeless man or does it? Oh?

728
00:41:40.679 --> 00:41:41.840
I don't know what that means?

729
00:41:42.559 --> 00:41:54.599
Right after this? All right, we're back and sheill. What

730
00:41:54.599 --> 00:41:56.559
would you do if I told you that we have

731
00:41:56.599 --> 00:42:01.880
a story about a TikTok trend? Not be surprised because

732
00:42:01.880 --> 00:42:03.639
all the news is TikTok? Oh, what have you heard

733
00:42:03.639 --> 00:42:04.480
about this? No?

734
00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:07.840
No, I haven't. I but yeah, not surprised. No.

735
00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:11.440
Well, this article is a little older, but I just

736
00:42:11.559 --> 00:42:17.039
discovered it. It's from abcnews dot Com. Headline is police

737
00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:22.800
departments issue warnings on ai homeless man prank huh okay.

738
00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:28.960
A viral trend involving artificially generated images of a quote

739
00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:33.480
homeless man has prompted police warnings over safety concerns, with

740
00:42:33.559 --> 00:42:39.239
officials calling it quote stupid and potentially dangerous. You gotta

741
00:42:39.360 --> 00:42:42.639
narrow that down. This there's a viral trend that's stupid

742
00:42:42.679 --> 00:42:46.519
and potentially dangerous. You gotta give us some qualifiers. We

743
00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:49.960
are not able to figure out what you mean. Yeah, like,

744
00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:52.960
you've got to be more specific. We're we're too much

745
00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:58.199
information out there to dig through. So let's see The

746
00:42:58.280 --> 00:43:03.360
trend uses AIM image generators to create realistic photos depicting

747
00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:07.440
a disheveled man appearing to be at someone's door or

748
00:43:07.639 --> 00:43:08.840
inside their home.

749
00:43:10.239 --> 00:43:13.320
Oh, it's probably not good no.

750
00:43:14.239 --> 00:43:18.360
In the videos, pranksters send these AI generated photos to

751
00:43:18.480 --> 00:43:23.920
friends or relatives. The recipients panicked reactions, sometimes resulting in

752
00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:28.599
emergency calls, are then recorded and posted online for entertainment

753
00:43:28.840 --> 00:43:37.440
and likes. I mean, I've done this with Rachel's cat,

754
00:43:38.159 --> 00:43:40.960
like I'll AI, I'll take I'll take a couple of

755
00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:42.760
pictures of her and the AI pictures of her like

756
00:43:42.760 --> 00:43:47.320
doing ridiculous things really, Like one time I texted her.

757
00:43:47.519 --> 00:43:49.119
I did it really fast because I didn't want to

758
00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:51.239
scare her, but I said, like, dude, I'm worried about

759
00:43:51.239 --> 00:43:54.079
E two. I think she's she's sick as fuck. And

760
00:43:54.119 --> 00:43:56.159
then I sent a picture and it was her doing

761
00:43:56.239 --> 00:43:58.840
like a an alie on a skateboard with a backward

762
00:43:59.039 --> 00:44:04.679
goal cap. Or one time I said, uh, I said,

763
00:44:04.679 --> 00:44:06.599
like E two and I are getting along really well.

764
00:44:06.599 --> 00:44:09.360
Look and it was a I had done a picture

765
00:44:09.400 --> 00:44:11.880
of her with a cpap on and I was like,

766
00:44:11.960 --> 00:44:18.559
she's learning from me. Stuff like that, Or one time

767
00:44:18.639 --> 00:44:21.760
she ripped into a bag of her treats and Rachel

768
00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:23.960
had like had to hide the treats or whatever. And

769
00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:25.880
I was like, and I was like, so bad news.

770
00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:27.960
I think you two figured out how to hack the

771
00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:30.880
automatic feeding machine too. And I just sent her a

772
00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:33.719
picture of you two, like, you know, forty pounds heavier,

773
00:44:33.800 --> 00:44:38.280
like she's yeah, so she's a calico. So it's pretty

774
00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:40.719
easy to like generate a general cat that looks kind

775
00:44:40.719 --> 00:44:45.400
of like her. Yeah. The Yonkers Police Department in New

776
00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:49.960
York posted an AI generated image demonstrating the prank on Facebook,

777
00:44:50.280 --> 00:44:54.280
noting that the prank has happened a few times already.

778
00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:57.079
I just want to mention, so I have a picture here.

779
00:44:57.079 --> 00:45:00.119
I'll show it to you. Chelle of the AI generated

780
00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:03.119
quote unquote homeless man. He doesn't even look that homeless.

781
00:45:03.119 --> 00:45:06.800
He looks like he's just running errands. To me, am

782
00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:09.840
I wrong. Oh wait, you can't see it. Sorry, I

783
00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:14.000
ruined it's he just looks like a guy with a

784
00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:16.159
beard and long hair. He's just wearing like a jacket,

785
00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:17.960
a shirt, and a pair of jeans. He doesn't even

786
00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:20.320
look Yeah, he doesn't look to me, he looks like, yeah,

787
00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:22.159
he's just running errands on like a Saturday.

788
00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:26.199
Yeah. Yeah, I mean I have no idea, but sure, sorry,

789
00:45:26.480 --> 00:45:27.320
it's okay.

790
00:45:27.239 --> 00:45:31.639
It's your own fault. Quote. Here's the problem. Officers are

791
00:45:31.679 --> 00:45:35.400
responding fast, using lights and sirens to what sounds like

792
00:45:35.440 --> 00:45:39.599
a call of a real intruder, and only getting called

793
00:45:39.639 --> 00:45:43.039
off once everyone realizes it was a joke. The police

794
00:45:43.039 --> 00:45:47.119
department wrote on Facebook. Well, it's so weird because I've

795
00:45:47.119 --> 00:45:50.320
never heard of false alarms being dangerous, and I've never

796
00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:54.320
heard parables about that either. Like I've never heard anything

797
00:45:54.360 --> 00:45:57.440
about how it's bad to like scream things that aren't happening.

798
00:45:58.039 --> 00:46:01.480
I mean, I definitely haven't. This was the first time

799
00:46:01.519 --> 00:46:04.519
I've ever heard of anyone even pretending that's something like

800
00:46:04.559 --> 00:46:05.920
that's what happened, you know.

801
00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:08.840
Yeah, this reminds me of the boy who cried AI

802
00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:09.639
homeless man.

803
00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:11.519
Mm hmm. Yeah.

804
00:46:11.559 --> 00:46:14.280
One day these pranksters are gonna walk into their house

805
00:46:14.280 --> 00:46:16.519
and there's gonna be an AI homeless man in their home,

806
00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:18.920
and no one's gonna believe them.

807
00:46:19.480 --> 00:46:22.119
I wouldn't believe it. I mean, how does an AI

808
00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:23.400
guy get in your house?

809
00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:25.960
Just you just break in, but you add an extra

810
00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:27.280
finger to your hand that way.

811
00:46:27.320 --> 00:46:32.960
All the pictures like, yeah, no, that's such a good idea.

812
00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:36.880
Though, I think I've heard somebody else say something like that.

813
00:46:36.960 --> 00:46:41.199
I watched the show Tulsa King and they did this gag.

814
00:46:41.239 --> 00:46:43.920
They're they're selling like at one point this like really

815
00:46:44.039 --> 00:46:47.559
fancy aged whiskey, and they invent an AI guy who

816
00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:50.320
reviews whiskey on the internet to try and help them

817
00:46:50.360 --> 00:46:53.360
go viral. Yeah, and it's great because you could tell

818
00:46:53.360 --> 00:46:55.440
they had a real actor pretending to be the AI guy.

819
00:46:55.480 --> 00:46:57.440
But at one point he says like, and that's why

820
00:46:57.480 --> 00:46:59.400
I love this whiskey, and he lifts up his hand

821
00:46:59.400 --> 00:47:03.119
and there's just one extra finger. It was very, very funny.

822
00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:09.559
Let's see, it's not just a waste of money or

823
00:47:09.559 --> 00:47:12.320
a waste of excuse me, that's not just a waste

824
00:47:12.360 --> 00:47:15.679
of resources. It's a real safety risk for officers who

825
00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:19.119
are responding and for family members who are home if

826
00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:21.840
our officers get there before the prank is revealed and

827
00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:26.280
rush in to apprehend this intruder that doesn't exist.

828
00:47:27.239 --> 00:47:28.639
Yeah.

829
00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:32.679
The Salem Police Department in Massachusetts also issued an alert

830
00:47:32.760 --> 00:47:35.960
earlier this month after receiving multiple nine one one calls

831
00:47:36.280 --> 00:47:39.719
linked to the prank. Wow, we might be going back

832
00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:42.199
to Salem. A little later in the New Stories, Salem

833
00:47:42.199 --> 00:47:45.039
Police Captain John Burke told Good Morning America that the

834
00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:49.079
prank is quote eliciting a lot of fear. He said

835
00:47:49.119 --> 00:47:52.280
the department has investigated three incidents so far, all of

836
00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:56.360
which involve people genuinely believing a break in was happening.

837
00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:03.440
It makes me want to see a couple of these pranks,

838
00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:07.159
because my first thought is, like, if I texted you,

839
00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:10.719
I mean, if we lived like in the same town, Yeah,

840
00:48:10.719 --> 00:48:14.119
and I just texted you, like a photo from inside

841
00:48:14.159 --> 00:48:15.960
your house of a homeless guy and said, like, there's

842
00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:18.320
a homeless guy breaking in, wouldn't your first thought be,

843
00:48:18.360 --> 00:48:20.400
why aren't you calling the police? Why are you taking

844
00:48:20.400 --> 00:48:21.599
a picture and texting me?

845
00:48:23.199 --> 00:48:25.400
No, I'd probably just be like, oh, no, there's a

846
00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:26.960
homeless person breaking in my house.

847
00:48:28.599 --> 00:48:31.760
Not again, not again. It's not the one that lives

848
00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:34.760
in my in my crawl space either, it's a different one. Yeah.

849
00:48:34.840 --> 00:48:35.760
Maybe it's his friend.

850
00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:38.440
Maybe it's fine, that's good, it's good to have friends.

851
00:48:38.679 --> 00:48:42.400
Yeah. I always encourage him to go out and meet

852
00:48:42.440 --> 00:48:43.880
new people, you know.

853
00:48:43.920 --> 00:48:46.280
Like, hey, bad, Ronald, You're not so bad. You should

854
00:48:46.280 --> 00:48:52.679
make friends. Yeah, Yeah, I'm gonna start calling you likable Ronald. Yeah,

855
00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:54.960
I think didn't you say your dad like what WHOA?

856
00:48:55.119 --> 00:48:57.119
Because I referenced bad Ronald.

857
00:48:57.679 --> 00:48:58.280
Yeah.

858
00:48:58.360 --> 00:49:01.320
Yeah, your dad was watching scary TV movies when he

859
00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:04.960
was younger, that's for sure. In one case, Burke said,

860
00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:07.320
a person thought a relative had picked up a hitch

861
00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:12.440
hiker who was now threatening them. Okay that yeah, they

862
00:49:12.519 --> 00:49:15.400
said I picked up a hitchhiker, yeah, prompting a nine

863
00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:17.519
to one one call from someone who had no idea

864
00:49:17.559 --> 00:49:21.599
the situation was a prank. Emphasized that the prank wastes

865
00:49:21.679 --> 00:49:29.199
emergency resources and can easily lead to dangerous misunderstandings. I

866
00:49:29.199 --> 00:49:30.679
would I would have to you have to make an

867
00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:32.280
AI cop to go arrested.

868
00:49:33.719 --> 00:49:36.000
Yeah. They just send them a picture and be like

869
00:49:36.039 --> 00:49:38.960
we did it and have them like going out in handcuffs.

870
00:49:38.679 --> 00:49:42.320
Got him. Yeah, quote you're causing Oh sorry please.

871
00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:43.519
Oh no, no, no, please continue.

872
00:49:43.639 --> 00:49:44.440
We're going to say something.

873
00:49:44.599 --> 00:49:47.440
Oh I was going to say, aren't you isn't isn't

874
00:49:48.039 --> 00:49:50.079
making like a false police report a crime?

875
00:49:51.519 --> 00:49:55.679
Yes, but I think that it's the people reacting, So

876
00:49:55.719 --> 00:49:59.119
this is more inciting panic, not a false police report. Okay,

877
00:49:59.159 --> 00:50:02.599
but it's still yeah, yeah, it's just different because the

878
00:50:02.639 --> 00:50:07.440
person calling something's wrong, right right right. Quote, you're causing

879
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:10.320
your friends or your family to panic, he said, you're

880
00:50:10.360 --> 00:50:12.960
tying up a police public safety answering point, a nine

881
00:50:13.000 --> 00:50:16.559
one one dispatch center, and you're wasting the police's resources.

882
00:50:16.760 --> 00:50:19.960
Burke added of the police response, quote, there is the

883
00:50:20.039 --> 00:50:23.239
case when you know we're responding to these incidents. There

884
00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:25.960
is the chance, when you know we're responding to these incidents,

885
00:50:26.000 --> 00:50:27.760
we don't know at first if it's real. We have

886
00:50:27.800 --> 00:50:31.039
to handle every situation like it's a potential real situation.

887
00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:34.960
In its warning, the Sale and Police Department also condemned

888
00:50:35.000 --> 00:50:39.079
the prank for dehumanizing the homeless and spreading fear for entertainment.

889
00:50:40.519 --> 00:50:41.599
I mean fair enough.

890
00:50:41.920 --> 00:50:43.360
Yeah, yeah.

891
00:50:43.400 --> 00:50:46.719
The department warned that pranksters could face criminal charges under

892
00:50:46.760 --> 00:50:50.800
Massachusetts law for making false reports to emergency services, even

893
00:50:50.840 --> 00:50:52.360
if no one was hurt. I didn't think they were

894
00:50:52.360 --> 00:50:57.920
calling emergency services directly, But Burke urged social media users

895
00:50:57.960 --> 00:51:02.199
to think twice before participating in trends that could endanger others. Well,

896
00:51:02.199 --> 00:51:03.519
that leaves no trends at all.

897
00:51:04.159 --> 00:51:07.199
Yeah, what are they gonna do? Just like be nice

898
00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:08.079
to people.

899
00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:12.079
And get off quietly. Yeah. Quote, if you're thinking this

900
00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:14.480
is funny, or you're thinking this is something you may

901
00:51:14.519 --> 00:51:18.400
want to try, please think twice on behalf of friends

902
00:51:18.440 --> 00:51:22.480
and family, he said. And then also don't don't don't

903
00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:25.280
risk it, he said, he said three times.

904
00:51:25.639 --> 00:51:26.239
Good for him.

905
00:51:26.920 --> 00:51:29.559
You're you're getting yourself in trouble or having to go

906
00:51:29.599 --> 00:51:33.000
to court being charged with this. It's easily preventable.

907
00:51:34.440 --> 00:51:38.159
Yeah, you could. It's definitely easier not to create an

908
00:51:38.199 --> 00:51:40.760
AI homeless person than it is to create one.

909
00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:44.440
And then file a report or something. Yeah. No, not

910
00:51:44.440 --> 00:51:47.159
not not the way to go. Yeah, not the way

911
00:51:47.199 --> 00:51:49.840
to go. Well, we're gonna take a quick break, and

912
00:51:49.840 --> 00:51:53.280
when we get back, cell I gotta be honest with you,

913
00:51:53.360 --> 00:51:57.360
I'm a little disturbed by how many news stories I

914
00:51:57.440 --> 00:52:02.280
discover that are just about things being built and corpses

915
00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:06.440
and remains being found. Is such a constant in the news.

916
00:52:08.159 --> 00:52:11.559
We have one that's a little extra flavor on it.

917
00:52:12.280 --> 00:52:15.440
So yeah, so we'll be talking about that right after

918
00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:29.199
this and we're back, and now I can finally show

919
00:52:29.320 --> 00:52:34.119
tell this quote unquote AI homeless man. You see what

920
00:52:34.159 --> 00:52:34.559
I'm saying.

921
00:52:35.079 --> 00:52:37.360
Yeah, I mean I could I could see someone saying

922
00:52:37.400 --> 00:52:39.559
that that looks like a homeless man. I mean he

923
00:52:39.599 --> 00:52:41.880
does just look like some guy with long beard.

924
00:52:42.599 --> 00:52:44.360
Yeah, and he just looks like a guy.

925
00:52:44.920 --> 00:52:46.119
Yeah. Yeah.

926
00:52:47.159 --> 00:52:50.079
I don't think he looks even remotely homeless. I mean,

927
00:52:50.320 --> 00:52:53.559
if he was, he's like really well put together. Yeah yeah,

928
00:52:54.039 --> 00:52:55.880
so yeah, I just.

929
00:52:56.440 --> 00:52:59.360
Yeah, he's also really friendly. He's waving.

930
00:52:59.800 --> 00:53:02.239
Yeah, it looks super friendly. Like why couldn't they have

931
00:53:02.239 --> 00:53:04.559
made him like murderous, like giving him like half a

932
00:53:04.599 --> 00:53:10.519
broken bottle or something. Yeah, why not? All right? This

933
00:53:10.599 --> 00:53:13.719
next article is from the New York Post and the

934
00:53:13.760 --> 00:53:17.559
headline is workers find skull I don't know why it's

935
00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:21.800
in quotes, en cased in concrete of Boston peer, sparking

936
00:53:22.239 --> 00:53:26.199
mob hit fears. Uh oh, so they're worried that this

937
00:53:26.280 --> 00:53:27.880
has something to do with the mafia.

938
00:53:28.519 --> 00:53:30.000
Uh huh.

939
00:53:30.039 --> 00:53:33.519
Construction workers at a Boston peer found what appeared to

940
00:53:33.559 --> 00:53:36.519
be a human skull en cased in concrete last week,

941
00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:40.199
prompting a flurry of speculation that the victim of a

942
00:53:40.239 --> 00:53:44.639
mob hit from the ikes of Whitney, Oh, from the likes, sorry,

943
00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:48.199
from the likes of Whitney, Whitey Bulger had been uncovered.

944
00:53:48.320 --> 00:53:53.280
Whitey Bulger was that famous Boston psycho who was in

945
00:53:53.320 --> 00:53:55.480
the mob. They did a whole movie about him. The

946
00:53:55.480 --> 00:53:56.400
movie was not very good.

947
00:53:56.920 --> 00:53:59.039
Oh yeah, I don't know much about yeah.

948
00:53:59.199 --> 00:54:01.679
Sorry, I mean what you need to know is that

949
00:54:01.679 --> 00:54:03.159
he was in the mob, but he was also just

950
00:54:03.199 --> 00:54:05.320
like a total psycho. He was just killing lots and

951
00:54:05.360 --> 00:54:09.119
lots of people. I mean, by mob standards, he was

952
00:54:09.159 --> 00:54:14.119
a problem. The discovery was made Thursday by workers sawing

953
00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:17.119
into a concrete portion of the pier, with photos showing

954
00:54:17.159 --> 00:54:20.719
the distinct shape of a human skull protruding from inside

955
00:54:20.760 --> 00:54:25.719
a chunk of broken material. Huh, yeah, I would say

956
00:54:25.719 --> 00:54:27.000
it's safe to call that a skull.

957
00:54:30.159 --> 00:54:31.000
It's not a skull.

958
00:54:31.159 --> 00:54:32.119
No, no, what is it?

959
00:54:32.599 --> 00:54:36.760
That's paradolia. You just think it looks like a skull.

960
00:54:37.000 --> 00:54:39.239
No, we're looking for faces, not skulls.

961
00:54:39.480 --> 00:54:42.159
Oh I forgot, but I see eyes?

962
00:54:43.559 --> 00:54:46.719
Yeah, I mean you see one. Actually, your argument for

963
00:54:46.760 --> 00:54:49.800
paradolia really doesn't fit this one. No, because there's only

964
00:54:49.800 --> 00:54:50.400
one eye.

965
00:54:51.320 --> 00:54:55.719
Yeah no, yeah. I just have a question though that, like,

966
00:54:55.800 --> 00:54:57.079
how did it get in the pier?

967
00:54:57.440 --> 00:55:01.119
Though? That's well, I mean I'm assuming the argument would

968
00:55:01.119 --> 00:55:06.800
be that the peer was probably made by union workers. Therefore,

969
00:55:06.920 --> 00:55:10.639
the mob dumped a body in the building of the pier.

970
00:55:10.920 --> 00:55:13.559
That's such a good idea.

971
00:55:13.679 --> 00:55:17.039
You should learn more about mobsters. They do stuff like that. Yeah,

972
00:55:17.079 --> 00:55:20.440
that's a skull. Yeah, although now, I mean this picture's

973
00:55:20.480 --> 00:55:22.119
kind of low resolution. Now it kind of looks fake

974
00:55:22.199 --> 00:55:28.159
to me. Oh really the teeth. Mmmm. But I mean

975
00:55:28.199 --> 00:55:31.320
I'm not a skull expert anymore than anyone else can be.

976
00:55:31.400 --> 00:55:38.559
I guess, yeah, and I never will be. Oh, thank you,

977
00:55:38.599 --> 00:55:43.599
I needed that build up. Workers told NBC ten Boston

978
00:55:43.679 --> 00:55:47.079
they quote could not believe what they were seeing, and

979
00:55:47.199 --> 00:55:51.039
police were promptly called. The apparent skull was bagged and

980
00:55:51.119 --> 00:55:54.199
sent off to a medical examiner for analysis, while some

981
00:55:54.320 --> 00:55:57.039
began to wonder whether cops would finally be able to

982
00:55:57.039 --> 00:56:00.760
close an old cold case or else have to open

983
00:56:00.880 --> 00:56:06.719
a new investigation at quote, A gut reaction is to

984
00:56:06.719 --> 00:56:10.039
make connection to a mob hit. Former Massachusetts state trooper

985
00:56:10.119 --> 00:56:14.360
Todd McGee told NBC ten quote the location was chosen

986
00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:16.920
where it was probably a remote situation, and there was

987
00:56:16.960 --> 00:56:20.639
no anticipation of any human interaction in that area. He added,

988
00:56:20.920 --> 00:56:25.639
and lo and behold, the skull was discovered. The theory

989
00:56:26.079 --> 00:56:30.079
was not far fetched. Boston's history of organized crime is

990
00:56:30.079 --> 00:56:34.559
well known with numerous murders associated to mobster Bulger and

991
00:56:34.639 --> 00:56:37.840
his Winter Hill Gang, which terrorized the city on a

992
00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:41.400
hill for decades beginning in the nineteen seventies.

993
00:56:42.559 --> 00:56:45.000
Okay, a hill. That's why they are called the Winter

994
00:56:45.079 --> 00:56:45.679
Hill Gang.

995
00:56:45.960 --> 00:56:49.480
Yeah, yeah, I like that. I'm glad you want to

996
00:56:49.559 --> 00:56:54.159
join now you're like, got they's still around? That sounds yeah, yeah,

997
00:56:55.480 --> 00:56:56.079
that was me.

998
00:56:56.519 --> 00:56:57.119
That was you.

999
00:56:58.800 --> 00:57:01.360
My phone doesn't show any anything.

1000
00:57:01.760 --> 00:57:04.480
That's so weird. That was I don't even have a

1001
00:57:04.559 --> 00:57:05.599
sound that sounds like that.

1002
00:57:06.599 --> 00:57:10.599
Yeah, that's the timer app. That's weird, weird. I'm leaving

1003
00:57:10.599 --> 00:57:12.360
that in because that was sincerely. I looked at my

1004
00:57:12.400 --> 00:57:13.920
phone and there's nothing lit up.

1005
00:57:14.280 --> 00:57:14.480
Wow.

1006
00:57:15.119 --> 00:57:16.880
And it wasn't my watch because my watch wouldn't be

1007
00:57:16.960 --> 00:57:19.000
that loud. And there's nothing lit up on my watch either.

1008
00:57:19.280 --> 00:57:22.599
Sure weird. Anyway, let's talk about something less creepy, the

1009
00:57:22.679 --> 00:57:28.639
mob killing people. Okay. However, within days the intrigue proved

1010
00:57:28.719 --> 00:57:32.519
all for naught. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

1011
00:57:32.559 --> 00:57:37.519
announced Monday the skull was in fact fake. I guess

1012
00:57:37.519 --> 00:57:38.840
I am a skull expert.

1013
00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:39.840
I guess you are.

1014
00:57:40.519 --> 00:57:41.119
What do you mean?

1015
00:57:41.199 --> 00:57:41.880
It was fake?

1016
00:57:43.079 --> 00:57:43.679
It was fake?

1017
00:57:44.360 --> 00:57:46.679
How did it get there well.

1018
00:57:47.039 --> 00:57:49.559
The last piece of this article says it remains unclear

1019
00:57:49.599 --> 00:57:52.639
how it got there, and no other information was immediately

1020
00:57:52.679 --> 00:57:56.760
available about any ongoing investigation into the mystery. I thought

1021
00:57:56.800 --> 00:58:01.159
the teeth looked weird. I think this was a prank.

1022
00:58:01.719 --> 00:58:03.760
It's probably a prank, yeah, because you see.

1023
00:58:03.639 --> 00:58:06.280
All those like internet memes about like I'm gonna leave

1024
00:58:06.360 --> 00:58:09.960
this fake skeleton in the you know, walls while I'm remodeling,

1025
00:58:10.039 --> 00:58:12.519
or I'm gonna put this skull under the porch or whatever.

1026
00:58:13.400 --> 00:58:16.239
So I think that that might be what it was.

1027
00:58:16.880 --> 00:58:17.960
Yeah, that would be cool.

1028
00:58:19.480 --> 00:58:21.440
So but yeah, it was the teeth. The teeth is

1029
00:58:21.440 --> 00:58:24.079
what made me think it was fake, because they're square.

1030
00:58:24.320 --> 00:58:26.920
They didn't have like, they didn't look like human teeth

1031
00:58:26.920 --> 00:58:31.039
to me, not on a skull. I mean like they

1032
00:58:31.199 --> 00:58:35.840
literally have like a square ridge to them. So here

1033
00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:38.280
look again, see.

1034
00:58:37.960 --> 00:58:40.639
Oh they really do. Yeah.

1035
00:58:40.960 --> 00:58:42.719
At first I thought maybe it was just a photo,

1036
00:58:43.079 --> 00:58:45.559
but no, I think that's a I think that's just

1037
00:58:45.599 --> 00:58:52.519
because it's a phony. Yeah, big phony. So, Chelle, would

1038
00:58:52.519 --> 00:58:56.320
you hide fake human bones if you ever did any

1039
00:58:56.400 --> 00:58:58.039
major renovations on your home.

1040
00:58:58.639 --> 00:59:01.679
I definitely thought about it. I would definitely want to

1041
00:59:01.760 --> 00:59:04.880
hide something because people get so excited when they open

1042
00:59:04.920 --> 00:59:08.679
their walls and they find things. Yeah, like I just

1043
00:59:08.760 --> 00:59:14.079
saw on century homes reddits somebody found lots and lots

1044
00:59:14.119 --> 00:59:20.599
and lots of condoms, so many condoms, so like turn

1045
00:59:20.639 --> 00:59:23.519
of I don't know when they were they were really old. Yeah,

1046
00:59:23.559 --> 00:59:27.280
And so it's nice to hide things for people to find.

1047
00:59:27.719 --> 00:59:31.679
Maybe a skeleton is that doesn't sound that nice? I

1048
00:59:31.719 --> 00:59:34.719
think if the skeleton is obviously fake, like it's made

1049
00:59:34.719 --> 00:59:37.519
out of plastic, so it scares them for like a second,

1050
00:59:37.559 --> 00:59:39.519
and then they're like, oh, this is just a halloween

1051
00:59:39.559 --> 00:59:40.920
prop and that's fine.

1052
00:59:41.559 --> 00:59:45.760
Okay, Well now we know where Chell stands on hiding

1053
00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:49.199
phony baloney, skeletons, yeah, and things.

1054
00:59:49.599 --> 00:59:51.519
I probably hide something else, though.

1055
00:59:52.440 --> 00:59:55.599
I would hide something really ridiculous to make you, like,

1056
00:59:55.760 --> 00:59:58.800
to make you laugh at yourself, Like I would hide

1057
00:59:58.840 --> 01:00:02.480
like like an age book, and then like on the

1058
01:00:02.519 --> 01:00:05.559
other side, just put like like like I don't know,

1059
01:00:05.599 --> 01:00:09.519
like like hand scribbled, like you know, George Washington's personal

1060
01:00:09.599 --> 01:00:11.960
diary or something, so like what is does he look? Like?

1061
01:00:12.199 --> 01:00:12.320
Oh?

1062
01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:14.079
Yeah, why would it be anything. I'm just in a

1063
01:00:14.079 --> 01:00:17.400
house that was like built in nineteen fifty one or something. Yeah,

1064
01:00:17.400 --> 01:00:23.840
why would this be anything that interesting. No, oh, you don't.

1065
01:00:23.840 --> 01:00:25.440
Be a good one is put a book in there

1066
01:00:25.760 --> 01:00:28.400
and have a fake cover printed. That just says, so

1067
01:00:28.480 --> 01:00:31.199
I found a book under my house? What now or

1068
01:00:31.239 --> 01:00:34.280
something like that. So you found a book under your house?

1069
01:00:34.679 --> 01:00:35.280
I like that.

1070
01:00:35.639 --> 01:00:39.639
Yeah, you're pretty good. Yeah, okay, well I think on that.

1071
01:00:39.920 --> 01:00:42.239
I mean, I don't I have a slab foundation, so

1072
01:00:42.239 --> 01:00:44.159
there's not a lot of places to hide anything without

1073
01:00:44.159 --> 01:00:45.119
like pouring cement.

1074
01:00:45.760 --> 01:00:51.039
Yeah. Sorry, yeah, well do you have like, do you

1075
01:00:51.039 --> 01:00:52.880
have a little room in your attic you could throw

1076
01:00:52.920 --> 01:00:54.840
a book and then have So I found a book

1077
01:00:54.880 --> 01:00:56.239
in my attic? What I mean?

1078
01:00:56.639 --> 01:01:00.400
I bet there are books in my Go up and

1079
01:01:00.440 --> 01:01:05.119
clean it out. I'm awful. It's just storage. But I

1080
01:01:05.119 --> 01:01:07.719
don't even know what all is up there now if

1081
01:01:07.719 --> 01:01:12.559
I'm honest, hmm, man, I should go up there because

1082
01:01:12.559 --> 01:01:14.280
I'm also afraid of my attic. But that's a whole

1083
01:01:14.320 --> 01:01:15.000
other conversation.

1084
01:01:15.119 --> 01:01:16.599
Why are you scared of it?

1085
01:01:16.599 --> 01:01:26.079
It's just weird and dirty, Okay, it's not like it's special.

1086
01:01:26.320 --> 01:01:29.480
That's the way addicts are weird. This kind of like

1087
01:01:29.639 --> 01:01:33.119
because mine's not very big, it's very small, and and

1088
01:01:33.239 --> 01:01:35.480
I think I also, I don't like closed spaces that much.

1089
01:01:35.519 --> 01:01:37.599
I'm not like I wouldn't say I'm claustrophobic, but I

1090
01:01:37.599 --> 01:01:41.599
have my moments. That's a little tight for me. But

1091
01:01:41.639 --> 01:01:43.440
I should just go up there because there's boxes and

1092
01:01:43.440 --> 01:01:45.159
stuff up there. I'd like to check what it is

1093
01:01:45.199 --> 01:01:46.559
and maybe get rid of some stuff.

1094
01:01:47.000 --> 01:01:51.039
Yeah, that's probably good something. Yeah, you could put new

1095
01:01:51.079 --> 01:01:52.280
things in there if you got rid of.

1096
01:01:52.320 --> 01:01:54.960
The exactly what would happen. Yeah, I gotta get rid

1097
01:01:55.000 --> 01:01:56.760
of my stuff so I can put more stuff in there.

1098
01:01:57.719 --> 01:02:01.440
Oh gosh, my life is just getting more stuff. I

1099
01:02:01.440 --> 01:02:04.960
can't wait to get my theremin. Okay, so when we

1100
01:02:05.000 --> 01:02:07.960
get back, we're taking a trip to Texas where there's

1101
01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:11.400
a strange creature washing up on the beaches.

1102
01:02:12.400 --> 01:02:13.960
Better not be a chupicabra.

1103
01:02:16.239 --> 01:02:20.000
Okay, a different news story. Now we'll have to find

1104
01:02:20.039 --> 01:02:34.800
out after this shell. Yeah, we're going to Texas. We're

1105
01:02:34.840 --> 01:02:40.159
going to Texas. Oh, okay, this is from my San

1106
01:02:40.239 --> 01:02:46.719
Antonio dot com. M Yeah, the headline reads, strange stinging

1107
01:02:46.920 --> 01:02:49.840
creature is washing up on Texas beaches.

1108
01:02:51.519 --> 01:02:53.000
So not a cheopicamera.

1109
01:02:53.760 --> 01:02:57.599
It appears to not be a chub oficabra. Okay, there's

1110
01:02:57.599 --> 01:02:59.159
a picture of a man holding one.

1111
01:03:00.639 --> 01:03:04.840
This I don't know. Is that like a jellyfish?

1112
01:03:05.559 --> 01:03:12.880
Yeah, it's a jellyfish. Oh but that's unusual. Oh wait wow, Okay,

1113
01:03:12.880 --> 01:03:17.239
you're gonna love this. But it's unusual. First line of

1114
01:03:17.280 --> 01:03:20.639
the articles, it's not unusual for jellyfish to wash the

1115
01:03:20.679 --> 01:03:26.559
short I can't. I couldn't have made that up if

1116
01:03:26.599 --> 01:03:30.119
I tried. It's not unusual for jellyfish to wash ashore

1117
01:03:30.119 --> 01:03:34.039
along the Texas coast. More often than not. They're harmless

1118
01:03:34.079 --> 01:03:39.039
moon jellies. Do you ever think about jellyfish? By the way, yes,

1119
01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:41.480
does it bother you? It bothers me.

1120
01:03:42.039 --> 01:03:43.639
Why why would it bother you?

1121
01:03:44.119 --> 01:03:45.400
They don't have a brain.

1122
01:03:46.679 --> 01:03:49.639
Just because their brain doesn't look like your brain doesn't.

1123
01:03:49.440 --> 01:03:51.559
Mean they do have a brain. I thought they literally

1124
01:03:51.559 --> 01:03:52.280
don't have a brain.

1125
01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:54.559
Well, they don't, but that doesn't mean that they don't

1126
01:03:54.559 --> 01:03:59.280
have a brain that we just don't understand as a brain.

1127
01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:03.199
Okay, So jellyfish do not have brains, hearts, or a

1128
01:04:03.239 --> 01:04:09.360
central nervous system. Instead, they possess a diffuse nerve net

1129
01:04:09.639 --> 01:04:13.079
spread throughout their bodies that allows them to sense light, temperature,

1130
01:04:13.159 --> 01:04:15.760
and chemicals, coordinate movement, and feed.

1131
01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:18.760
Yeah, so kind of brain.

1132
01:04:19.480 --> 01:04:23.199
My problem is like I just don't understand, like, like,

1133
01:04:23.280 --> 01:04:24.800
at what point is something.

1134
01:04:24.480 --> 01:04:29.119
Alive when it's moving around and doing things.

1135
01:04:29.760 --> 01:04:31.480
It's just it's just weird to be. I'm not saying

1136
01:04:31.480 --> 01:04:34.760
that therefore it's not alive. I'm just saying like it

1137
01:04:34.840 --> 01:04:36.320
breaks a lot of conventions.

1138
01:04:37.159 --> 01:04:37.760
I guess.

1139
01:04:39.119 --> 01:04:42.599
Okay, fine, you understand jellyfish perfectly. I'm just stupid, you win.

1140
01:04:42.840 --> 01:04:45.440
I just do jellyfish are fine? Fine.

1141
01:04:46.480 --> 01:04:47.880
Well, I don't know if you how you feel about

1142
01:04:47.920 --> 01:04:52.239
these harmless moon jellies, which are clear, disc shaped creatures

1143
01:04:52.239 --> 01:04:55.039
that most people can handle without being stung. But this

1144
01:04:55.199 --> 01:04:58.320
week a different kind of creature has been washing up

1145
01:04:58.360 --> 01:05:02.440
ashore on North padre I Island, one whose gelatinous tissue

1146
01:05:02.519 --> 01:05:04.679
can pack a powerful punch.

1147
01:05:05.360 --> 01:05:06.760
Uh oh, I guess.

1148
01:05:07.519 --> 01:05:11.000
According to Jas Tunnel with the Heart Research Institute in

1149
01:05:11.039 --> 01:05:14.599
Corpus Christi, a number of Atlantic box jellyfish have been

1150
01:05:14.760 --> 01:05:18.039
washing ashore in the coastal Bend this week. The jellies

1151
01:05:18.079 --> 01:05:20.360
get the name for their ship from their shape, which

1152
01:05:20.360 --> 01:05:23.239
the Heart Institute described on Facebook as having a square

1153
01:05:23.320 --> 01:05:35.199
shaped bell with long tentacles extending from each corner. Yeah,

1154
01:05:35.519 --> 01:05:40.320
like moon jellyfish. Box jellies are transparent, but unlike moon jellyfish,

1155
01:05:40.639 --> 01:05:43.320
touching a box jellyfish can pack a wallop of a

1156
01:05:43.360 --> 01:05:46.920
sting that can cause burning, weltz and itching.

1157
01:05:47.760 --> 01:05:48.280
Ow.

1158
01:05:48.400 --> 01:05:50.880
I guess you've never been stung by a jellyfish?

1159
01:05:51.039 --> 01:05:55.559
No, why not? I haven't been that lucky yet.

1160
01:05:58.719 --> 01:06:01.840
Quote. Just ask j who put one of his arms

1161
01:06:01.920 --> 01:06:05.800
to one of his arm to test the pain level?

1162
01:06:07.639 --> 01:06:10.559
I say, one of his arms, Yeah, to test the

1163
01:06:10.559 --> 01:06:12.519
pain level. He says it's about a four or five

1164
01:06:12.639 --> 01:06:16.000
out of ten on the jellyfish pain meter. The research

1165
01:06:16.320 --> 01:06:21.840
facility said, that's a job, right there. Yeah, I let

1166
01:06:21.920 --> 01:06:23.800
jellyfish sting me and then rate it.

1167
01:06:24.440 --> 01:06:27.039
I don't think that's a bad job, and four fish

1168
01:06:27.559 --> 01:06:30.360
is not bad either. I wouldn't mind getting stung by

1169
01:06:30.400 --> 01:06:31.559
a fourish.

1170
01:06:31.280 --> 01:06:34.039
Jellyfish, well, if you had to choose, but you'd rather

1171
01:06:34.119 --> 01:06:36.440
not get stung at all. I assume I don't know.

1172
01:06:37.000 --> 01:06:38.320
Oh my gosh, you're so weird.

1173
01:06:38.880 --> 01:06:42.760
You should probably get me stung by a jellyfish, just

1174
01:06:43.639 --> 01:06:46.199
so you can know, just so I can know. And

1175
01:06:46.239 --> 01:06:48.639
I would prefer that one to like a man of

1176
01:06:48.719 --> 01:06:50.559
war collection of jellyfish.

1177
01:06:50.719 --> 01:06:53.159
Oh, you mean a Portuguese man of war? Don't I

1178
01:06:53.280 --> 01:06:54.480
steal that from my people?

1179
01:06:54.599 --> 01:06:56.960
Okay that one? Yeah?

1180
01:06:57.039 --> 01:07:01.519
Man? Yeah. In the water, the jellyfish and their tentacles

1181
01:07:01.800 --> 01:07:07.320
can stretch as long as seven feet. Oh shit, that

1182
01:07:07.519 --> 01:07:08.119
I didn't know.

1183
01:07:08.639 --> 01:07:10.360
Yeah.

1184
01:07:10.519 --> 01:07:17.519
The tentacles are covered in venom filled structures called nemoticists. Nemoticists,

1185
01:07:18.719 --> 01:07:22.719
those demoticists are capable of stinging a person or animal

1186
01:07:22.719 --> 01:07:26.239
who touches a box jellyfish, even if it's dead.

1187
01:07:27.000 --> 01:07:28.039
Yeah.

1188
01:07:28.239 --> 01:07:30.440
I remember hearing that jellyfish sting when they're dead.

1189
01:07:31.159 --> 01:07:34.360
Can you touch the top of it? Like pettit is that?

1190
01:07:34.480 --> 01:07:36.960
Okay, you totally can. That was a picture of a

1191
01:07:36.960 --> 01:07:38.440
guy holding one that I showed you at the beginning

1192
01:07:38.440 --> 01:07:38.920
of the article.

1193
01:07:39.000 --> 01:07:41.199
Yeah, but that doesn't mean it was It was fine

1194
01:07:41.360 --> 01:07:42.000
that he did that.

1195
01:07:42.679 --> 01:07:45.559
I mean, he seems happy, actually he does. He does

1196
01:07:45.599 --> 01:07:48.920
have like a serious face. It's probably a lot of pain. Yeah,

1197
01:07:48.960 --> 01:07:49.960
I mean, but aren't we all.

1198
01:07:50.760 --> 01:07:52.000
Yeah.

1199
01:07:52.239 --> 01:07:55.079
Another thing that makes box jellyfish unique is that they

1200
01:07:55.119 --> 01:07:58.920
don't rely upon ocean currents to move them around. While

1201
01:07:58.960 --> 01:08:03.039
other jellyfish undulate their bellies to help propel them through

1202
01:08:03.079 --> 01:08:07.039
the water, their locomotion still largely relies on drifting in

1203
01:08:07.119 --> 01:08:10.599
ocean currents. According to the University of Florida's Institute of

1204
01:08:10.639 --> 01:08:15.400
Food and Agricultural Sciences, who's eating jellyfish? That that would happen?

1205
01:08:15.840 --> 01:08:20.000
People eat jellyfish, they do, I believe. So I believe

1206
01:08:20.039 --> 01:08:22.960
that's a dish. What I'm almost.

1207
01:08:22.800 --> 01:08:29.039
Positive now I'm getting mad. Yes, people eat jellyfish primarily

1208
01:08:29.079 --> 01:08:32.000
in East and Southeast Asian countries like China, Japan, Korea,

1209
01:08:32.039 --> 01:08:32.600
and Thailand.

1210
01:08:33.399 --> 01:08:35.159
Are you reading an AI summary?

1211
01:08:35.479 --> 01:08:41.359
Yes, don't do that. It says here some species are

1212
01:08:41.399 --> 01:08:45.319
suitable for human conncension. They're harvested and consumed in East

1213
01:08:45.319 --> 01:08:48.199
and Southeast Asian countries and in some Asian countries it's

1214
01:08:48.199 --> 01:08:53.680
considered to be a delicacy. See what you can make

1215
01:08:53.720 --> 01:08:56.199
sushi with it? Oh, they make noodles out of it.

1216
01:08:56.439 --> 01:09:01.560
Mmmm ooh edible jellyfish prepared and sesame oil and chili sauce.

1217
01:09:01.760 --> 01:09:04.119
I bet that's really good. Maybe I don't know what

1218
01:09:04.199 --> 01:09:05.119
jellyfish tastes like.

1219
01:09:05.479 --> 01:09:11.159
I don't either. Hm uh. It has been described as

1220
01:09:11.239 --> 01:09:12.239
slightly chewy.

1221
01:09:12.960 --> 01:09:13.840
Yeah, I would think so.

1222
01:09:16.319 --> 01:09:24.960
Hmm, okay, fine, you win this round? Yay box. Jellyfish however,

1223
01:09:25.119 --> 01:09:31.199
quote actively swim and hunt small fish and shrimp. Woh okay.

1224
01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:35.840
Atlantic box jellyfish live for about a year. They have eyes.

1225
01:09:37.079 --> 01:09:39.359
I didn't see any, but says they have eyes. They

1226
01:09:39.359 --> 01:09:41.279
have eyes and can see where they want to go.

1227
01:09:43.159 --> 01:09:46.640
I like how this article does this? Speaking of box jellyfish.

1228
01:09:46.680 --> 01:09:49.800
Speaking of box jellyfish can propel themselves through the water.

1229
01:09:49.840 --> 01:09:53.960
It speeds of up to four knots. I don't know

1230
01:09:54.039 --> 01:09:54.800
how fast, four not.

1231
01:09:54.880 --> 01:09:57.399
I don't Is that is that I don't know? Is

1232
01:09:57.399 --> 01:09:59.399
that like miles per hour? Is that like four miles

1233
01:09:59.399 --> 01:09:59.760
per hour?

1234
01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:01.560
Four point six miles per hour?

1235
01:10:01.720 --> 01:10:03.039
Okay, so it's around there.

1236
01:10:03.239 --> 01:10:07.760
Yeah, yeah, so it's like brisk walk, probably not even brisk,

1237
01:10:07.800 --> 01:10:09.840
that's pribace, slow walk, slarter.

1238
01:10:10.840 --> 01:10:13.720
No, Actually, four miles per hour is a pretty fast walk.

1239
01:10:13.760 --> 01:10:16.159
People normally walk about two miles an hour.

1240
01:10:18.920 --> 01:10:22.800
Let's see the average walking speed for adults is two

1241
01:10:22.800 --> 01:10:24.399
point five to four miles per hour.

1242
01:10:24.680 --> 01:10:26.840
Okay, so it's a really walk brisk walk.

1243
01:10:26.920 --> 01:10:29.880
Yeah, yeah, it would be considered a fast walk, but

1244
01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:36.520
still walking. See, we figure out the serious topics in

1245
01:10:36.520 --> 01:10:39.399
the yeah that people want to know about. Yeah, that's

1246
01:10:39.600 --> 01:10:43.199
that's what we're all about here at Monthly Spooky. We

1247
01:10:43.239 --> 01:10:45.640
asked the questions, you are too smart?

1248
01:10:45.640 --> 01:10:46.279
To ask.

1249
01:10:47.800 --> 01:10:52.319
About. Oh, wow, this is quite a margin. About twenty

1250
01:10:52.359 --> 01:10:55.199
to fifty species of box jellyfish can be found around

1251
01:10:55.199 --> 01:10:58.159
the globe. Wow, twenty to fifty.

1252
01:10:57.920 --> 01:11:03.479
That's ye, find in them, I guess no, with.

1253
01:11:03.479 --> 01:11:08.720
The most notorious one being the deadly kiaranax fleckery, more

1254
01:11:08.720 --> 01:11:11.760
commonly known as the sea wasp, that can be found

1255
01:11:11.760 --> 01:11:15.239
off the coast of Australia. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric

1256
01:11:15.279 --> 01:11:20.359
Administration calls the Australian box jellyfish the most venomous marine animal.

1257
01:11:20.680 --> 01:11:21.159
Wow.

1258
01:11:21.760 --> 01:11:24.199
Yeah, I want to know what happens when you get

1259
01:11:24.199 --> 01:11:28.279
stung by sea wasps wasp? Yeah, when you get stung

1260
01:11:29.920 --> 01:11:35.880
by a sea wasp. A sting from a sea wasp

1261
01:11:37.720 --> 01:11:41.399
causes immediate, excruciating, whip like burning pain, with severe cases

1262
01:11:41.520 --> 01:11:45.680
leading to cardiac arrest or death within three to five minutes.

1263
01:11:46.039 --> 01:11:47.399
That's not good.

1264
01:11:48.119 --> 01:11:51.680
No, no, it's not good man.

1265
01:11:52.199 --> 01:11:55.800
It's Wanda gets stung by one and I changed my mind.

1266
01:11:56.439 --> 01:11:58.399
That's too late. It's your Christmas gift.

1267
01:11:58.720 --> 01:12:00.279
Okay, fine out.

1268
01:12:00.720 --> 01:12:05.680
Yeah, I should think before you speak. I should too. Well,

1269
01:12:05.720 --> 01:12:07.239
we're going to take a quick break and when we

1270
01:12:07.279 --> 01:12:11.000
get back, we're heading back to Salem to learn a

1271
01:12:11.000 --> 01:12:20.640
little bit of culture right after this. All right, we're

1272
01:12:20.760 --> 01:12:28.000
back and we're gonna head to Salem, Massachusetts. You ever

1273
01:12:28.000 --> 01:12:28.840
been to Salem?

1274
01:12:29.199 --> 01:12:29.359
No?

1275
01:12:29.520 --> 01:12:32.840
I haven't, me neither. You've been to Massachusetts though, right? Yes?

1276
01:12:33.560 --> 01:12:34.560
What have you been to? Boston?

1277
01:12:35.479 --> 01:12:36.680
Boston and Lowell?

1278
01:12:37.640 --> 01:12:39.399
Oh? Never been to Worcester?

1279
01:12:41.479 --> 01:12:43.600
Ah, yes, yeah, I have. Yeah.

1280
01:12:43.800 --> 01:12:45.319
I like Worcester. Worcester's kind of cool.

1281
01:12:45.680 --> 01:12:48.800
It was okay. I had lots of bed bug bites

1282
01:12:48.840 --> 01:12:51.239
on me at the time, so I don't really anything.

1283
01:12:51.039 --> 01:12:57.000
About fair enough. Jeez. The headline reads, Meet the Ghosts

1284
01:12:57.039 --> 01:12:59.439
of Salem's historic Grand Theater.

1285
01:13:00.640 --> 01:13:03.880
Oh, that's fine.

1286
01:13:05.319 --> 01:13:08.119
The ghost Hunters stood in the basement of the Grand

1287
01:13:08.199 --> 01:13:12.079
Theater while Zoe Damon sat crisscross on the floor, a

1288
01:13:12.159 --> 01:13:18.119
crystal on a chain hanging from her fingers.

1289
01:13:18.720 --> 01:13:20.359
I mean, that's that's rough. Man.

1290
01:13:21.640 --> 01:13:23.520
Well, you're the one who's into all the ghost Hunter shows,

1291
01:13:23.520 --> 01:13:25.520
so I figured you'd be like, yeah, man, that's what

1292
01:13:25.560 --> 01:13:26.159
it's like, bro.

1293
01:13:26.640 --> 01:13:27.039
Yeah.

1294
01:13:27.319 --> 01:13:33.520
Yeah. Damon had established that should the crystal move forward

1295
01:13:33.560 --> 01:13:36.840
and backward on the chain, that would indicate a yes

1296
01:13:37.239 --> 01:13:40.800
response from the spirits around them, but so far she

1297
01:13:40.920 --> 01:13:44.279
hadn't been able to establish which movement would mean a no,

1298
01:13:45.279 --> 01:13:49.399
the other way, yes, side side side. I thought that's

1299
01:13:49.439 --> 01:13:53.319
usually how they do that with the divining tools and stuff. Yeah,

1300
01:13:53.720 --> 01:13:58.359
I guess not. Silence stretched and ghost hunter Chelsea Surpas

1301
01:13:58.399 --> 01:14:03.880
glanced occasionally at her spirit box. We know you have

1302
01:14:03.920 --> 01:14:08.680
opinions about spirit boxes. Yeah, what are they?

1303
01:14:09.399 --> 01:14:13.039
I mean, are spiritbox? Are we talking about the thing

1304
01:14:13.119 --> 01:14:16.039
that does the radio frequencies? Spiritbox?

1305
01:14:16.399 --> 01:14:16.479
Ye?

1306
01:14:18.279 --> 01:14:21.800
I mean I definitely don't think that. I always believe

1307
01:14:21.840 --> 01:14:24.439
what's coming through It sounds like what they think. It

1308
01:14:24.520 --> 01:14:30.199
sounds like that's for sure. There's definitely like matrixing going

1309
01:14:30.239 --> 01:14:32.399
on when people hear things that aren't really there and

1310
01:14:32.439 --> 01:14:41.119
you are picking up radio stations, so.

1311
01:14:37.880 --> 01:14:38.920
So you think they're buonca.

1312
01:14:40.000 --> 01:14:42.520
No, I just don't. I mean, they're really picking up

1313
01:14:42.600 --> 01:14:43.479
radio stations.

1314
01:14:43.720 --> 01:14:48.840
Definitely, congratulations, you invented a crappy radio.

1315
01:14:49.000 --> 01:14:52.319
Yay, Like it just keeps cycling. You can't even listen

1316
01:14:52.359 --> 01:14:56.640
to anything. No, I don't. I mean, if ghosts surreal,

1317
01:14:57.520 --> 01:14:59.800
they might be able to use that to communicate. But

1318
01:15:00.039 --> 01:15:02.319
most of the time I hear them, use I don't.

1319
01:15:02.359 --> 01:15:04.640
I can't understand the words, and they're like it said

1320
01:15:04.720 --> 01:15:06.880
the person's name. It's like I'm pretty sure. It just

1321
01:15:06.920 --> 01:15:08.880
said so like.

1322
01:15:10.920 --> 01:15:15.479
Fair enough, that's fair. Some believe the machine can turn

1323
01:15:15.600 --> 01:15:19.039
radio frequencies into words or phrases at a ghosts behest,

1324
01:15:19.600 --> 01:15:22.119
which the box will show on the screen as a

1325
01:15:22.199 --> 01:15:25.479
robotic voice and a British accent reads the words aloud.

1326
01:15:26.399 --> 01:15:28.359
Oh okay, so it's the other kind of thing.

1327
01:15:28.600 --> 01:15:30.560
Oh it's I didn't know there was a one that

1328
01:15:30.640 --> 01:15:30.920
did that.

1329
01:15:31.560 --> 01:15:33.720
Yeah, there's one where, yeah, you just see it on

1330
01:15:33.760 --> 01:15:37.279
the screen, which actually I actually trust less because I'm

1331
01:15:37.319 --> 01:15:39.279
not one hundred percent sure that those things aren't just

1332
01:15:39.319 --> 01:15:41.399
set up to say scary words or something.

1333
01:15:41.840 --> 01:15:44.039
I mean, that's what I would want if I bought one.

1334
01:15:44.479 --> 01:15:46.119
You wanted to say scary words.

1335
01:15:46.199 --> 01:15:50.079
Yeah, the whole point is to be still kill. Well

1336
01:15:50.079 --> 01:15:52.840
it's okay. I'm sure I've talked about this before, but

1337
01:15:53.119 --> 01:15:55.479
when I worked at Spencer's Gifts years and years ago,

1338
01:15:56.319 --> 01:15:59.600
there was a time I sold a h Well, I

1339
01:15:59.880 --> 01:16:01.319
was talking to a kid who wanted to buy a

1340
01:16:01.359 --> 01:16:04.920
Wigi board because we saw Wigi boards, and I had

1341
01:16:05.079 --> 01:16:09.279
so much fun scaring this kid. I was probably twenty

1342
01:16:09.279 --> 01:16:14.680
four and he was like seventeen, and he was like, so,

1343
01:16:15.560 --> 01:16:18.319
do Oigi boards really work? And I just went into

1344
01:16:18.359 --> 01:16:21.279
the whole diatribe that the guy that owned the store

1345
01:16:21.279 --> 01:16:26.000
and whichboard said the horror movie, just the whole thing about. Yes,

1346
01:16:26.520 --> 01:16:31.279
it's a tool to communicate with the other side, where spirits, demons,

1347
01:16:31.359 --> 01:16:35.800
all kinds of things. Dwell, it's a safe parlor trick,

1348
01:16:35.840 --> 01:16:39.399
you know, but never use it alone. Using it alone

1349
01:16:39.439 --> 01:16:42.640
makes you the one way they can cross over, and

1350
01:16:42.680 --> 01:16:45.520
they can open you to demonic possession. And I started

1351
01:16:45.520 --> 01:16:50.520
saying other and his eyes got so wide and he nojoke.

1352
01:16:50.560 --> 01:16:52.920
He was like really, And I was like, no, just

1353
01:16:53.000 --> 01:16:54.520
buy it. And then when you and your friends are

1354
01:16:54.520 --> 01:17:00.159
doing it, just spell murder, no matter what they ask,

1355
01:17:01.279 --> 01:17:08.039
Just spell murder, no matter what. Just murder. Oh good times.

1356
01:17:08.600 --> 01:17:11.399
Damon felt her head getting heavier and heavier, as if

1357
01:17:11.399 --> 01:17:17.920
a phantom hand was yanking her ponytail. Okay, yeah, okay,

1358
01:17:18.800 --> 01:17:21.880
can you show me what your no is? She asked again.

1359
01:17:22.840 --> 01:17:26.159
A beep cut through the silence, and the spirit box

1360
01:17:26.239 --> 01:17:35.680
responded with a single word. No, yes, nerd, it's an

1361
01:17:35.800 --> 01:17:37.359
eerd nerd.

1362
01:17:37.680 --> 01:17:39.079
Okay, I believe it now.

1363
01:17:40.039 --> 01:17:45.439
Well, I mean, here's a photo of the young lady. Yeah, nerd, nerd.

1364
01:17:46.680 --> 01:17:51.600
She is wearing glasses and uh, and some flannel and stuff.

1365
01:17:53.039 --> 01:17:55.800
But this is what the article. As a responded NERD,

1366
01:17:57.119 --> 01:18:01.680
then the ghost hunters doubled over in laughter. I would

1367
01:18:01.680 --> 01:18:03.960
assume you'd just be afraid, but they really are here

1368
01:18:04.000 --> 01:18:08.560
with us. Ghosts of the Grand has again taken over

1369
01:18:08.600 --> 01:18:12.640
the Downtown Historic Theater this year, offering two unique ghost

1370
01:18:12.720 --> 01:18:18.159
hunting experiences, both celebrating the profession of paranormal investigation. Ghost

1371
01:18:18.239 --> 01:18:22.439
Hunters take equipment like spirit boxes, tools that measure electromagnetic fields,

1372
01:18:22.600 --> 01:18:26.399
and old school options like Damon's crystal pendulum into places

1373
01:18:26.439 --> 01:18:29.680
that some believe to be haunted, like the Grand. There

1374
01:18:29.680 --> 01:18:33.199
are ghost hunting organizations throughout the Pacific Northwest and reality

1375
01:18:33.239 --> 01:18:38.640
TV shows like Ghost Adventures and Ghost Files. I'm pointing

1376
01:18:38.640 --> 01:18:40.319
at you because you like those shows.

1377
01:18:40.359 --> 01:18:42.560
I know both of those. I don't like either of them.

1378
01:18:43.000 --> 01:18:47.000
Ouch's the what's in your opinion? What's the money ghost

1379
01:18:47.079 --> 01:18:47.960
Hunter show? No?

1380
01:18:48.079 --> 01:18:52.119
I don't want to. Why not because I feel stupid.

1381
01:18:53.399 --> 01:18:58.560
I like like Kindred Spirits a lot. Wow, Yeah, sorry.

1382
01:18:59.159 --> 01:19:00.079
I haven't heard of it.

1383
01:19:00.239 --> 01:19:00.520
Good.

1384
01:19:01.560 --> 01:19:04.439
I just don't have the those I don't watch those channels.

1385
01:19:04.880 --> 01:19:05.199
I know.

1386
01:19:06.680 --> 01:19:08.600
Nothing against them. I think they're pretty entertaining.

1387
01:19:09.439 --> 01:19:10.880
Sure, what.

1388
01:19:12.439 --> 01:19:16.800
Oh, geez, she is hateful. I don't I would tell

1389
01:19:16.840 --> 01:19:18.760
you if I did. Do you think I mince words

1390
01:19:18.760 --> 01:19:19.279
on this show?

1391
01:19:19.680 --> 01:19:20.279
I don't know.

1392
01:19:21.680 --> 01:19:24.880
I don't you know that. I don't you know that.

1393
01:19:25.000 --> 01:19:31.520
I don't. So shows like Ghost Adventures and Ghost Files

1394
01:19:31.520 --> 01:19:34.520
have built dedicated fan bases, including Surpas of the Salem

1395
01:19:34.520 --> 01:19:36.960
Haunt Club, who brought the concept to life for this

1396
01:19:37.079 --> 01:19:40.520
year's Ghosts of the Grand. This year's scripted Haunted House

1397
01:19:40.600 --> 01:19:45.239
asks attendees to become ghost hunters themselves, investigating quote, a

1398
01:19:45.359 --> 01:19:49.960
mysterious and dangerous cult that was driven underground after media

1399
01:19:50.039 --> 01:19:55.399
exposure from last year's Haunt. Okay, so it's entirely scripted. Cool,

1400
01:19:55.800 --> 01:19:56.840
that's actually really fun.

1401
01:19:57.039 --> 01:19:57.159
Ye.

1402
01:19:57.560 --> 01:20:00.479
Ostensibly I would go to a theater to do that,

1403
01:20:01.600 --> 01:20:09.760
which ostensibly included Salem, which ostensibly included Salem Reporter. I

1404
01:20:09.800 --> 01:20:12.880
guess that's the website. Visitors to this year's Haunted House

1405
01:20:13.159 --> 01:20:16.279
will have to break to brave scare actors and find

1406
01:20:16.720 --> 01:20:22.520
that their trusty equipment malfunctions at inopportune times. So that

1407
01:20:22.640 --> 01:20:25.800
was on purpose? Calling her a nerd? Nice?

1408
01:20:26.039 --> 01:20:27.000
That's that's pretty good.

1409
01:20:29.039 --> 01:20:32.159
Yeah, I'm glad we're promoting this, although it's already over,

1410
01:20:33.800 --> 01:20:36.199
and once the Haunted House closes for the night, the

1411
01:20:36.199 --> 01:20:39.399
theater and basement will remain open for guided ghost hunts

1412
01:20:39.520 --> 01:20:42.960
using equipment led by experienced Okay, so this is the

1413
01:20:42.960 --> 01:20:45.880
part they were talking about. David's the real ghost hunter,

1414
01:20:45.920 --> 01:20:50.520
I guess, led by experience hunters like Damon, who will

1415
01:20:50.640 --> 01:20:53.199
make an earnest effort to communicate with the dead and

1416
01:20:53.199 --> 01:20:58.600
collect evidence of the paranormal. Both Haunted experiences run Thursday

1417
01:20:58.600 --> 01:21:02.199
through Sunday through November one. It's already or sorry. General

1418
01:21:02.199 --> 01:21:04.840
admission for the Haunted House is twenty four to ninety five,

1419
01:21:04.880 --> 01:21:07.359
and the separate ghost hunt, which lasts at least thirty minutes,

1420
01:21:07.560 --> 01:21:10.199
is also twenty four to ninety five. Theater is located

1421
01:21:10.199 --> 01:21:13.520
at one of the seven High Street Northeast Surpus, who

1422
01:21:13.560 --> 01:21:16.479
also runs dark History tours in Salem, said she began

1423
01:21:16.600 --> 01:21:19.840
offering a guided ghost hunt in the Grand this summer,

1424
01:21:20.079 --> 01:21:23.039
which were booked up immediately, so she invested in more

1425
01:21:23.079 --> 01:21:26.600
equipment and recruited ghost hunters for the Halloween season's tours,

1426
01:21:26.800 --> 01:21:34.359
including Damon and local comedian Tina Hogstrom. Okay, yeah, so

1427
01:21:34.760 --> 01:21:35.560
that's pretty cool.

1428
01:21:36.039 --> 01:21:38.680
Yeah. I will say though that I have not been

1429
01:21:38.720 --> 01:21:41.079
to Salem, as I already said, but my sister has

1430
01:21:41.079 --> 01:21:44.680
been there and she went unfortunately near Halloween and had

1431
01:21:44.720 --> 01:21:47.720
a terrible time because it is so so crowded.

1432
01:21:48.039 --> 01:21:52.560
Yeah, oh yeah, that's the time of year. Yeah. Oh h.

1433
01:21:52.640 --> 01:21:54.800
This little piece stuck out real quick. Most of the

1434
01:21:55.119 --> 01:21:57.119
of the spirits are nice, they said, and some have

1435
01:21:57.159 --> 01:21:59.760
shared their names, including Dori, who they believe used to

1436
01:21:59.800 --> 01:22:02.720
be a trumpet player and sometimes treats theater guests to

1437
01:22:02.840 --> 01:22:06.800
phantom jazz music who The building was originally built by

1438
01:22:06.800 --> 01:22:10.159
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in nineteen hundred, and

1439
01:22:10.199 --> 01:22:13.119
the ghost hunters believe the ghostly inhabitants from that era

1440
01:22:13.600 --> 01:22:17.399
enjoy a good waltz. As they explained this spirit box

1441
01:22:17.640 --> 01:22:22.640
of theirs kept interjecting it said sex small and keep going.

1442
01:22:23.840 --> 01:22:25.880
Surpas made a face and said, I think this is

1443
01:22:26.000 --> 01:22:32.640
just being dirty right now. So that's pretty funny. It's

1444
01:22:32.680 --> 01:22:34.680
pretty cool. I would check that out.

1445
01:22:35.000 --> 01:22:35.640
Yeah, me too.

1446
01:22:36.600 --> 01:22:39.880
Well, after this break, we were staying in New England

1447
01:22:39.920 --> 01:22:46.399
as we learn about the vampire invasion supposedly that happened

1448
01:22:46.479 --> 01:22:51.319
in late seventeen hundred's New England. I'd never heard anything

1449
01:22:51.359 --> 01:22:53.560
about this before, and I'm really excited to dive into

1450
01:22:53.600 --> 01:22:56.520
it with you guys and watch Michelle keep being mean

1451
01:22:56.560 --> 01:23:09.119
to me right after this. Alright, Shell, where do you

1452
01:23:09.199 --> 01:23:10.880
stand on vampires?

1453
01:23:12.000 --> 01:23:15.319
Like about what do I what do you mean?

1454
01:23:15.720 --> 01:23:15.800
Like?

1455
01:23:16.199 --> 01:23:17.880
Did they're real? Or do I like them?

1456
01:23:18.119 --> 01:23:21.760
Your thoughts opinions on vampires?

1457
01:23:22.000 --> 01:23:24.920
I think vampires are okay. I used to really like

1458
01:23:25.000 --> 01:23:26.960
Buffy the Vampire Slayer a lot.

1459
01:23:27.279 --> 01:23:30.760
Oh yeah, you were one of those. Yeah, oh Buffy's classic.

1460
01:23:31.880 --> 01:23:33.279
Yeah I liked the movie.

1461
01:23:33.880 --> 01:23:35.680
Yeah, I know you did. And I know you've never

1462
01:23:35.720 --> 01:23:36.359
seen the show.

1463
01:23:37.479 --> 01:23:39.800
I've seen like an episode straight episode here or there.

1464
01:23:39.920 --> 01:23:42.680
It looks good. I have nothing against it. It just wasn't

1465
01:23:42.760 --> 01:23:45.399
my period, you know, I just did. It wasn't in

1466
01:23:45.439 --> 01:23:48.159
my face during the time when it was airing. Yeah,

1467
01:23:49.359 --> 01:23:53.000
there's great jokes in the New Naked Gun movie about

1468
01:23:53.000 --> 01:23:56.479
Buffy because the main character gets mad because he's like,

1469
01:23:56.520 --> 01:23:59.479
I loaned you my TVO, which I've never plugged into

1470
01:23:59.479 --> 01:24:01.960
the internet again, because then I might lose the episodes

1471
01:24:02.000 --> 01:24:04.279
of Buffy I've saved. And look what you've done. You've

1472
01:24:04.279 --> 01:24:06.760
plugged it into the internet. If those episodes are gone,

1473
01:24:06.760 --> 01:24:13.359
I swear to God. But that all being said, I've

1474
01:24:13.359 --> 01:24:16.560
always liked the concept of vampires. I think that it's

1475
01:24:16.680 --> 01:24:20.920
cool how you can expand that lore in so many directions,

1476
01:24:22.640 --> 01:24:28.399
and there's a long history of weird Maybe people believe

1477
01:24:28.399 --> 01:24:32.359
in them, maybe they don't. Stories Like in Romania, they're

1478
01:24:34.319 --> 01:24:37.880
published articles saying like we're having like like the town

1479
01:24:37.960 --> 01:24:40.319
is under vampire threat, so everybody has to do this stuff,

1480
01:24:40.640 --> 01:24:44.199
and then years later somebody was like, based on historical

1481
01:24:44.880 --> 01:24:49.359
knowledge of Romania, this was probably for fun. Yeah yeah,

1482
01:24:49.399 --> 01:24:51.399
like this was actually like all they did was say, like,

1483
01:24:51.439 --> 01:24:53.840
they're vampires around, we better all cook really good food

1484
01:24:53.880 --> 01:24:57.279
and hang out together and sing songs. And I was like,

1485
01:24:57.319 --> 01:24:59.600
oh shit. But then you also hear stories about like

1486
01:25:00.720 --> 01:25:03.439
how in Europe especially, they've dug up graves and found

1487
01:25:03.439 --> 01:25:05.199
that like their mouths were full of garlic and they

1488
01:25:05.199 --> 01:25:07.760
had steaks nailed through their hearts and stuff. So it's

1489
01:25:07.800 --> 01:25:12.479
like some people thought there were vampires out there. Yeah yeah,

1490
01:25:12.520 --> 01:25:16.800
well this is not as old as Europe, but it's

1491
01:25:16.800 --> 01:25:20.439
New England, so it's old still, you know. But this

1492
01:25:20.600 --> 01:25:24.159
article is from history dot com and it's when New

1493
01:25:24.199 --> 01:25:28.680
Englanders blamed vampires for tuberculosis deaths.

1494
01:25:29.119 --> 01:25:35.359
I mean, I would I knowbody, Yeah.

1495
01:25:33.640 --> 01:25:36.760
More than two hundred years after the Salem witch trials,

1496
01:25:36.880 --> 01:25:41.239
ripples of another hysteria struck England, the fear of vampires.

1497
01:25:41.880 --> 01:25:45.479
During the nineteenth century, the spread of tuberculosis or consumption,

1498
01:25:45.960 --> 01:25:49.760
claimed the lives of entire families in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont,

1499
01:25:50.039 --> 01:25:53.960
and other parts of the Northeast. Between seventeen eighty six,

1500
01:25:54.000 --> 01:25:58.079
when health officials first began recording mortality rates, and eighteen hundred,

1501
01:25:58.239 --> 01:26:02.760
the disease claimed two percent of New England's population.

1502
01:26:03.239 --> 01:26:06.439
Wow, that doesn't sound like a lot, but I know

1503
01:26:06.560 --> 01:26:07.359
that it's supposed to.

1504
01:26:07.960 --> 01:26:09.680
Yeah. I mean, well, once you get to ten percent,

1505
01:26:09.680 --> 01:26:14.800
that's when you're in decimation. So that's a lot. Yeah,

1506
01:26:14.880 --> 01:26:16.920
because decimation is really bad.

1507
01:26:17.199 --> 01:26:19.600
Yeah, I mean, I get it. But my brain also

1508
01:26:19.640 --> 01:26:21.640
says two percent, that's no big deal.

1509
01:26:22.119 --> 01:26:24.119
So that's like eighteen people.

1510
01:26:24.720 --> 01:26:26.479
Yeah.

1511
01:26:26.600 --> 01:26:29.359
The death toll was not only terrifying, it was also

1512
01:26:29.479 --> 01:26:34.159
a horrific way to die. Consumptives lost weight, coughed a blood,

1513
01:26:34.239 --> 01:26:38.600
their skin turned ashen, and sometimes died a slow death,

1514
01:26:38.720 --> 01:26:42.840
almost as if something was sucking the life out of them.

1515
01:26:43.199 --> 01:26:44.720
There we go, okay.

1516
01:26:44.720 --> 01:26:50.680
It, says Connecticut State archaeologist Nicholas Bellatoni New Englanders didn't

1517
01:26:50.680 --> 01:26:54.840
deny the reality of consumption, but before the germ theory,

1518
01:26:54.920 --> 01:26:57.960
at a time when physicians were unable to explain how

1519
01:26:58.159 --> 01:27:02.720
certain infectious diseases were read, hopeless villagers believe that some

1520
01:27:02.800 --> 01:27:06.600
of those who perished from consumption preyed upon their living

1521
01:27:06.640 --> 01:27:12.520
family members themselves. Mmmmm. Some described New England vampires as

1522
01:27:12.520 --> 01:27:19.319
a microbe or bacterium with fangs. That's pretty cool. I

1523
01:27:19.520 --> 01:27:27.439
like that done. Done nice. To prevent an ongoing vampire

1524
01:27:27.560 --> 01:27:31.760
attack and the disease from spreading, panicked citizens dug up

1525
01:27:31.840 --> 01:27:37.520
bodies and performed various rituals, including burning internal organs.

1526
01:27:38.680 --> 01:27:40.960
I think we should just leave the dead bodies alone,

1527
01:27:41.039 --> 01:27:44.079
because I'm not sure they stopped spreading the diseases and

1528
01:27:44.119 --> 01:27:46.279
stuff which would probably not touch them.

1529
01:27:46.840 --> 01:27:49.079
I think that what this is telling me is the

1530
01:27:49.119 --> 01:27:52.960
real reason we embalm corpses is vampires.

1531
01:27:54.560 --> 01:27:55.159
Yeah.

1532
01:27:55.319 --> 01:27:59.039
Probably, I mean, come on, they're digging up and burning

1533
01:27:59.079 --> 01:28:02.600
the internal organ mm hmm. You take out like almost

1534
01:28:02.640 --> 01:28:04.800
all the internal organs and they probably get I would

1535
01:28:04.800 --> 01:28:07.439
assume they burn them, because that's what you do with organs.

1536
01:28:07.800 --> 01:28:09.239
I just thought they threw them away.

1537
01:28:09.479 --> 01:28:12.439
But okay, from what I understand when they took my

1538
01:28:12.439 --> 01:28:14.560
gallbladder out. They said that it actually gets it put

1539
01:28:14.560 --> 01:28:16.800
in an incinerator after they confirm it's not diseased.

1540
01:28:17.600 --> 01:28:20.159
I would be really sad if someone took away my

1541
01:28:20.199 --> 01:28:22.079
gallbladder and didn't give it back.

1542
01:28:23.079 --> 01:28:27.119
First of all, you don't know how bad that gallbladder

1543
01:28:27.199 --> 01:28:27.800
treated me.

1544
01:28:28.439 --> 01:28:28.880
Yeah, I know.

1545
01:28:29.439 --> 01:28:31.840
It was truly cruel.

1546
01:28:32.399 --> 01:28:32.640
I know.

1547
01:28:33.920 --> 01:28:37.880
And secondly I asked if I could keep it, and

1548
01:28:37.920 --> 01:28:41.840
they said they don't do that. I remember, but mainly

1549
01:28:42.279 --> 01:28:43.840
one of the reasons they have to dice it up

1550
01:28:43.840 --> 01:28:45.920
into pieces for pathology.

1551
01:28:45.880 --> 01:28:48.680
So you don't get the pieces back. That's okay, I'll

1552
01:28:48.680 --> 01:28:49.479
take the pieces.

1553
01:28:50.239 --> 01:28:53.600
Oh my gosh, I just wanted it to be hand

1554
01:28:53.640 --> 01:28:55.479
delivered to the gates of Hell where it belonged.

1555
01:28:56.359 --> 01:28:57.920
That sounds like a lot of work.

1556
01:28:59.640 --> 01:29:03.960
Once such exhamation took place in March of eighteen ninety

1557
01:29:03.960 --> 01:29:06.800
two at the Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Exeter, Rhode Island.

1558
01:29:07.319 --> 01:29:10.960
Local people brought shovels and picks and together exhumed the

1559
01:29:10.960 --> 01:29:14.600
corpses of Mary Brown and her daughters, twenty year old

1560
01:29:14.680 --> 01:29:21.039
Mary Olive and nineteen year old Mercy Lena. Each Yeah.

1561
01:29:21.199 --> 01:29:23.720
Each of the women had grown sickly. Those names are cool,

1562
01:29:23.880 --> 01:29:27.119
by the way. Mercy Lena and Mary Olive, Yeah, that's

1563
01:29:27.199 --> 01:29:31.359
kind of cool. Each of the women had grown sickly,

1564
01:29:31.720 --> 01:29:36.680
wasting away, and eventually succumbing to a mysterious affliction. Doctors

1565
01:29:36.720 --> 01:29:39.920
thought they knew the cause of death, but citizens were

1566
01:29:40.000 --> 01:29:45.119
concerned and had another theory. George Brown was among those

1567
01:29:45.159 --> 01:29:50.960
who believed something more might be lurking on his farm.

1568
01:29:51.720 --> 01:29:56.600
Shortly after Mercy Lena passed away, his son Edwin fell ill. Too.

1569
01:29:56.800 --> 01:29:59.920
Desperate to save the last of his kin, George gave

1570
01:30:00.119 --> 01:30:02.680
the townspeople permission to dig up the bodies of his

1571
01:30:02.760 --> 01:30:03.880
wife and daughters.

1572
01:30:04.279 --> 01:30:05.840
Okay, yeah, I get it.

1573
01:30:06.560 --> 01:30:09.039
Once on earth, the crowd discovered that the corpses of

1574
01:30:09.119 --> 01:30:13.439
Mary and Mary Olive had rotted away. Mercy's body, on

1575
01:30:13.479 --> 01:30:18.039
the other hand, was oddly well preserved, despite lying in

1576
01:30:18.079 --> 01:30:25.800
a crypt for several months. Sounds like, oh, I'm Pierre. Yeah,

1577
01:30:25.840 --> 01:30:32.359
it looked as if her hair and nails had grown. Yeah,

1578
01:30:32.399 --> 01:30:37.560
and when pierced, her delicate skin still contained drops of blood.

1579
01:30:38.920 --> 01:30:42.520
That's weird after months underground.

1580
01:30:42.840 --> 01:30:46.560
Well, where is the blood gonna go? I don't know,

1581
01:30:47.399 --> 01:30:50.239
the boy, I would think it would stay in.

1582
01:30:50.279 --> 01:30:54.159
There I would think it would pool like at the

1583
01:30:54.159 --> 01:30:55.399
bottom on your back and stuff.

1584
01:30:55.520 --> 01:30:57.640
Well, they didn't say where they pierced her.

1585
01:30:57.920 --> 01:31:01.000
Right, I feel like they probably pierced her hand or something.

1586
01:31:01.000 --> 01:31:05.479
But yeah, you're right. For those who had gathered, these

1587
01:31:05.520 --> 01:31:11.760
telltale signs confirmed their suspicions Mercy was a vampire. Damn,

1588
01:31:13.399 --> 01:31:16.600
just when you think you know somebody. A village doctor

1589
01:31:16.640 --> 01:31:20.800
witnessed the makeshift graveside autopsy and reiterated the suspected cause

1590
01:31:20.840 --> 01:31:23.800
of death. He explained how the cold New England weather

1591
01:31:23.840 --> 01:31:28.640
would have kept her body preserved. The townspeople wouldn't listen. Panicked,

1592
01:31:28.680 --> 01:31:32.039
they removed Mercy's heart and burned it on a nearby rock.

1593
01:31:33.760 --> 01:31:35.399
I mean, if you're gonna burn it, you know, burn

1594
01:31:35.399 --> 01:31:35.960
it on a rock.

1595
01:31:36.279 --> 01:31:37.720
I mean that's what I always say.

1596
01:31:38.920 --> 01:31:44.560
It is believed that you have always said that. I know, right, Yeah,

1597
01:31:44.840 --> 01:31:48.079
I always wondered what you were referring to, like, I mean, poetically,

1598
01:31:48.159 --> 01:31:48.640
I get it.

1599
01:31:49.039 --> 01:31:53.560
Huh, yeah, it wasn't even this. It's just a coincidence.

1600
01:31:53.560 --> 01:32:01.000
By the way, this is a cinkid ink Okay. I

1601
01:32:01.000 --> 01:32:02.600
don't know why that's so funny to me, but it

1602
01:32:02.640 --> 01:32:03.000
really is.

1603
01:32:04.000 --> 01:32:04.119
Uh.

1604
01:32:05.479 --> 01:32:08.279
Panicked, they removed Mercy's heart and burn it on nearby rock.

1605
01:32:08.399 --> 01:32:13.119
It is believed that, in ritualistic fashion, Edwin then consumed

1606
01:32:13.199 --> 01:32:20.439
the ashes. M Yeah. Unfortunately it did nothing to slow

1607
01:32:20.520 --> 01:32:23.960
the progression of his illness. The young sales clerk died

1608
01:32:24.199 --> 01:32:25.199
a few months later.

1609
01:32:26.520 --> 01:32:27.840
Yeah.

1610
01:32:28.439 --> 01:32:31.600
The Brown exhumations in Rhode Island, known as the Vampire

1611
01:32:31.720 --> 01:32:35.560
Capital of America, was just one among tens of similar

1612
01:32:35.560 --> 01:32:39.720
exhumations throughout New England at the time. Henry David Threau

1613
01:32:39.880 --> 01:32:49.600
even mentions one in an eighteen fifty nine journal Hmm interesting, wow. Okay,

1614
01:32:49.720 --> 01:32:52.640
So we're going to take a break, and when we

1615
01:32:52.680 --> 01:32:57.119
get back, the next session's headline is possibly the dumbest

1616
01:32:57.680 --> 01:33:02.439
thing I've ever seen. Yay, But I don't want to

1617
01:33:02.439 --> 01:33:04.560
waste it. I want to make everybody wait and baited

1618
01:33:04.600 --> 01:33:07.800
breath and suspense. So we'll get to that right after this.

1619
01:33:15.119 --> 01:33:17.880
So Shell here's I know, I built it up, but

1620
01:33:17.960 --> 01:33:22.399
this I just saw. I just saw this headline for

1621
01:33:22.439 --> 01:33:27.760
the next section and it made me. It made me laugh.

1622
01:33:28.399 --> 01:33:35.000
Vampire myth likely inspired eighteen ninety seven novel Dracula. You

1623
01:33:35.319 --> 01:33:38.479
think so, you think so?

1624
01:33:39.600 --> 01:33:41.079
I mean maybe not.

1625
01:33:42.640 --> 01:33:45.319
Right. I mean, it's a book about a vampire. So

1626
01:33:45.359 --> 01:33:48.079
you think it might have been inspired by vampire legend.

1627
01:33:48.960 --> 01:33:49.399
I don't know.

1628
01:33:50.479 --> 01:33:51.840
Maybe it was a coincidence.

1629
01:33:52.520 --> 01:33:59.520
Another kuwinky dink hmmm. Bram Stoker, perhaps feeding on these fears,

1630
01:33:59.560 --> 01:34:03.479
published his novel Dracula in eighteen ninety seven. He described

1631
01:34:03.479 --> 01:34:07.079
the vampire character as a spectral being or ghost possessing

1632
01:34:07.079 --> 01:34:09.800
a human body who left the grave at night to

1633
01:34:09.880 --> 01:34:13.800
suck blood from the living. The vampires feared in New

1634
01:34:13.800 --> 01:34:19.079
England took on a less fantastical but still terrifying form.

1635
01:34:20.000 --> 01:34:21.880
I mean, but it's nothing like those Oh what are

1636
01:34:21.920 --> 01:34:24.960
those called? You know about Chinese vampires. I don't know,

1637
01:34:25.520 --> 01:34:29.600
you don't I don't know. If I know, they're called xiangshi.

1638
01:34:31.079 --> 01:34:31.560
I don't know.

1639
01:34:32.479 --> 01:34:36.199
They hop. Oh that's the thing.

1640
01:34:36.760 --> 01:34:39.199
That's I mean, people can also.

1641
01:34:38.960 --> 01:34:41.399
Hop, but okay, they have to hop.

1642
01:34:42.199 --> 01:34:43.319
That sounds annoying.

1643
01:34:45.520 --> 01:34:50.279
Yeah, it's it's really interesting. They're like a like a

1644
01:34:50.319 --> 01:34:53.560
procession almost. It's it's really the hopping vampires are really interesting.

1645
01:34:53.560 --> 01:34:55.640
I should do a I should do a show on

1646
01:34:55.720 --> 01:35:01.520
the hopping vampire. Sometimes. Yeah, it's interesting. So let's see

1647
01:35:02.399 --> 01:35:05.119
the authentic image of New England vampires would be a

1648
01:35:05.159 --> 01:35:08.560
corpse that did not appear to have been completely decomposed

1649
01:35:09.039 --> 01:35:11.920
once that had fresh that is, one that had fresh

1650
01:35:11.960 --> 01:35:15.600
that is, liquid blood in its heart or other vital organs,

1651
01:35:15.840 --> 01:35:18.680
which indicated that the corpse had been inhabited by some

1652
01:35:18.760 --> 01:35:22.840
sort of evil spiritual not corporeal, that was draining the

1653
01:35:22.880 --> 01:35:28.880
life from living family members. Okay, so the vampire was spiritual.

1654
01:35:29.960 --> 01:35:33.600
But then like giving the blood to the to the corpse,

1655
01:35:36.199 --> 01:35:38.880
I think so, I think that's it. Yeah, And that

1656
01:35:38.920 --> 01:35:41.600
was according to Michael Belly, folklorist and author of the

1657
01:35:41.600 --> 01:35:44.039
book Food for the Dead, on the trail of New

1658
01:35:44.039 --> 01:35:48.640
England's vampires. H I love that they're just like it

1659
01:35:48.720 --> 01:35:54.079
might have inspired Dracula, Yeah, might have. People believed that

1660
01:35:54.159 --> 01:35:57.439
the spiritual connection that some suspected vampires had with their

1661
01:35:57.479 --> 01:36:01.279
living relatives allowed them to gain access to their victims

1662
01:36:01.279 --> 01:36:03.199
without even leaving their graves.

1663
01:36:03.479 --> 01:36:05.279
Okay, yeah.

1664
01:36:05.399 --> 01:36:08.239
The practice of exhuming the deceased to halt the evil

1665
01:36:08.279 --> 01:36:11.600
practice of vampires was likely introduced to New England by

1666
01:36:11.640 --> 01:36:16.520
traveling healers from Eastern Europe and Germany. Okay, so it's

1667
01:36:16.520 --> 01:36:22.920
always those Eastern Europeans. In one clue, says bell Is,

1668
01:36:23.079 --> 01:36:26.479
a seventeen eighty four letter to the editor published in

1669
01:36:26.600 --> 01:36:30.359
a will in a Willington, Connecticut newspaper, in which a

1670
01:36:30.439 --> 01:36:34.800
town official complained about a foreign quack doctor who was

1671
01:36:34.840 --> 01:36:38.640
promoting the consumption ritual and had induced a townsmen to

1672
01:36:38.720 --> 01:36:45.159
exhume the bodies of his two children. Well, you got

1673
01:36:45.199 --> 01:36:45.640
problem with that.

1674
01:36:46.159 --> 01:36:49.640
No, it's just sad. This whole thing is sad a

1675
01:36:49.640 --> 01:36:52.680
little bit, I guess, because it's like, I mean, this

1676
01:36:52.880 --> 01:36:55.199
is like I assume, in an effort to feel like

1677
01:36:55.239 --> 01:36:58.439
they're in control of this really horrible disease, it's killing

1678
01:36:58.520 --> 01:37:02.760
two percent of their population. That's sad.

1679
01:37:03.279 --> 01:37:06.720
It is sad. Well, and they're just trying to understand

1680
01:37:06.840 --> 01:37:12.159
more than anything, just what it is at all. Yeah,

1681
01:37:12.199 --> 01:37:14.880
and it always it's weird. You wouldn't think it would

1682
01:37:14.880 --> 01:37:18.359
feel better to know a malevolent force did it on

1683
01:37:18.439 --> 01:37:23.359
purpose to be cruel. But for a lot of people

1684
01:37:23.359 --> 01:37:25.039
that is kind of a relief to hear, like, oh,

1685
01:37:25.079 --> 01:37:27.239
well this was this is cruel. Therefore it was done

1686
01:37:27.239 --> 01:37:28.479
to be cruel. That makes sense.

1687
01:37:28.880 --> 01:37:32.279
Yeah, Yeah, it's not just a random occurrence. It just

1688
01:37:32.359 --> 01:37:35.800
happened to, you know, kill your kids. Yeah, it was

1689
01:37:35.840 --> 01:37:37.880
a bad guy, so a.

1690
01:37:37.880 --> 01:37:39.119
Bad thing guy.

1691
01:37:39.640 --> 01:37:39.800
Yeah.

1692
01:37:39.800 --> 01:37:45.199
Creature Bell has documented over eighty vampire rituals in New

1693
01:37:45.239 --> 01:37:49.399
England and continues to uncover new cases. He estimates the

1694
01:37:49.439 --> 01:37:53.520
practice began no later than seventeen eighty four and persisted

1695
01:37:53.600 --> 01:37:56.199
through to at least eighteen ninety two.

1696
01:37:58.319 --> 01:38:00.000
That's that's a really long time.

1697
01:38:01.119 --> 01:38:03.479
It's kind of a bummer. Dracula was such a big

1698
01:38:03.560 --> 01:38:06.520
deal the book and then the movie. You know, you'd

1699
01:38:06.520 --> 01:38:09.319
think it'd be like Jaws, like more. More people would

1700
01:38:09.319 --> 01:38:12.520
be going out, like exhuming caskets and killing what they

1701
01:38:12.520 --> 01:38:14.720
thought were vampires because they were like, man, that book

1702
01:38:14.760 --> 01:38:19.319
was so good. That should be my life. Yeah, yeah,

1703
01:38:19.319 --> 01:38:21.319
well more so, Man, that book was so scary. What

1704
01:38:21.359 --> 01:38:23.199
if that's my life? I guess that's a better way

1705
01:38:23.239 --> 01:38:23.680
to put it.

1706
01:38:25.600 --> 01:38:28.520
Yeah, that too, you're like.

1707
01:38:28.520 --> 01:38:32.760
I like both. I would do both. The evidence also

1708
01:38:32.840 --> 01:38:36.680
suggests that this practice was was known and accepted, and

1709
01:38:36.760 --> 01:38:41.319
sometimes actually endorsed by the community at large, by town authorities,

1710
01:38:41.359 --> 01:38:48.479
and even by clergymen. Wow, that one surprises me. In

1711
01:38:48.520 --> 01:38:51.880
parts of Massachusetts and Maine, bodies were simply flipped over

1712
01:38:51.920 --> 01:38:56.279
and left alone. Oh, I've heard about that. Exuoming corpses

1713
01:38:56.319 --> 01:38:58.239
and turning them over as a way to make them

1714
01:38:58.680 --> 01:39:02.079
stay in their grave. Why it's just a it's an

1715
01:39:02.119 --> 01:39:05.279
old superstition, but the idea being basically that if they're

1716
01:39:05.319 --> 01:39:09.279
faced down, I guess they can't be used for like

1717
01:39:09.359 --> 01:39:12.359
psychic thing like by not looking up toward the sky

1718
01:39:12.359 --> 01:39:15.520
but looking down toward the ground. They're like, it nerves them.

1719
01:39:15.560 --> 01:39:17.079
It stops them from being able to do anything.

1720
01:39:17.279 --> 01:39:20.479
M h, I guess that makes sense. Not really, it

1721
01:39:20.479 --> 01:39:21.439
doesn't make sense.

1722
01:39:21.479 --> 01:39:24.000
It makes sense as much as all of this makes sense. Yeah,

1723
01:39:24.279 --> 01:39:27.760
you know, like there's a logic to it. It is

1724
01:39:27.800 --> 01:39:31.720
a bit bent, yeah, but there is a logic to it.

1725
01:39:31.760 --> 01:39:36.039
I see. I find this stuff fascinating. It's like when

1726
01:39:36.079 --> 01:39:38.319
you didn't know about the sin eater and I got

1727
01:39:38.439 --> 01:39:42.399
like amped up to tell you about sin eaters. This

1728
01:39:42.439 --> 01:39:46.079
stuff is fascinating because there was there's such we are

1729
01:39:46.239 --> 01:39:51.760
in such a tiny piece of human history. Yeah, you know,

1730
01:39:52.000 --> 01:39:54.359
like like each person gets to live such a small

1731
01:39:54.399 --> 01:39:58.880
piece of human history. I watched a movie recently unrelated, No,

1732
01:39:59.119 --> 01:40:00.800
I watched a movie recently, but it was about a

1733
01:40:00.840 --> 01:40:04.319
guy who was born in like eighteen eighty five, and

1734
01:40:04.359 --> 01:40:07.039
it was like about his whole life and the thing

1735
01:40:07.079 --> 01:40:09.079
that the movie points out without like beating you over

1736
01:40:09.079 --> 01:40:12.319
the head is it points out that like he literally

1737
01:40:12.439 --> 01:40:16.920
watched Cowboys stop being a thing, like the Frontier stop

1738
01:40:16.920 --> 01:40:20.119
being a thing, and then watched Men land on the Moon.

1739
01:40:20.800 --> 01:40:21.319
Wow.

1740
01:40:21.600 --> 01:40:24.239
Well well or no, I don't know, if you watch,

1741
01:40:24.479 --> 01:40:27.520
he watched Men in Space. And the way he saw

1742
01:40:27.560 --> 01:40:30.640
Men in Space was he went into Spokane. He lived

1743
01:40:30.640 --> 01:40:34.359
in Oregon. He went to Spokane because he needed something

1744
01:40:34.359 --> 01:40:36.840
because he lived like in the middle of nowhere. And

1745
01:40:37.079 --> 01:40:39.119
he was walking down the street and he saw a

1746
01:40:39.119 --> 01:40:41.880
TV set and he literally this lady's just staring at it.

1747
01:40:41.920 --> 01:40:43.359
He's like, what are these fellows doing? She was like,

1748
01:40:43.359 --> 01:40:46.640
they're in space. He was like, wow, he didn't even

1749
01:40:46.720 --> 01:40:48.840
know people were trying to go into space. You know.

1750
01:40:48.960 --> 01:40:53.319
He lives his farm, you know, and stuff. So my

1751
01:40:53.399 --> 01:40:57.920
point is that it's pretty insane to think about even now.

1752
01:40:58.000 --> 01:41:00.079
Like I was watching a movie that took place in

1753
01:41:00.119 --> 01:41:02.520
the eighties the other day that was made nineteen ninety nine,

1754
01:41:02.880 --> 01:41:04.720
but it took place in eighty two, and I was like, wow,

1755
01:41:04.720 --> 01:41:06.159
if we were going to do that now, it'd be

1756
01:41:06.239 --> 01:41:09.199
like two thousand and what like two thousand and two

1757
01:41:09.279 --> 01:41:12.279
or something. You know. Oh, yeah, you're one of those

1758
01:41:12.279 --> 01:41:15.399
people that bothers them to hear that, I mean a

1759
01:41:15.439 --> 01:41:18.920
little good good. Yeah, I'm gonna remember that weakness, but

1760
01:41:19.000 --> 01:41:22.600
no it but it was wild to think, like, look

1761
01:41:22.640 --> 01:41:25.600
at how much we've changed, yet how little we've changed,

1762
01:41:26.439 --> 01:41:29.960
because as technology is proliferated so aggressively, there aren't as

1763
01:41:30.079 --> 01:41:33.479
many differences in certain in many ways from like two

1764
01:41:33.479 --> 01:41:35.800
thousand and five to twenty fifteen, but there are also

1765
01:41:36.000 --> 01:41:40.039
massive differences. Smartphones became affordable for everybody, and that's a

1766
01:41:40.119 --> 01:41:42.880
huge thing, you know, but like when you look at

1767
01:41:42.960 --> 01:41:46.640
nineteen ninety compared to nineteen eighty, they're very different in

1768
01:41:47.000 --> 01:41:49.199
certain ways. And if you look at nineteen eighty to

1769
01:41:49.239 --> 01:41:53.279
two thousand, massively different, unbelievably different. So my point is

1770
01:41:53.319 --> 01:41:58.760
that you know, we haven't even our advances are so fast, Yeah,

1771
01:41:58.800 --> 01:42:01.000
and we kind of get spoiled by that into thinking

1772
01:42:01.000 --> 01:42:02.520
we kind of see it all and know it all

1773
01:42:02.560 --> 01:42:04.680
because we are in the information age.

1774
01:42:05.359 --> 01:42:05.640
Yeah.

1775
01:42:05.680 --> 01:42:07.920
In fact, I think we're in the post information age now,

1776
01:42:08.439 --> 01:42:12.640
like because it's so readily available to normal nobody sits

1777
01:42:12.680 --> 01:42:14.920
and goes holy crap. I have like all of the

1778
01:42:14.960 --> 01:42:17.680
information the world has in my hand everywhere I go,

1779
01:42:17.960 --> 01:42:20.079
and I mostly use it on the toilet nobody does

1780
01:42:20.119 --> 01:42:22.479
that anymore. Yeah, because it's just your phone.

1781
01:42:23.079 --> 01:42:25.880
Yeah, it's phone on the toilet.

1782
01:42:26.880 --> 01:42:30.720
Damn straight. But yeah, I'm sorry that was a long digression.

1783
01:42:31.239 --> 01:42:34.199
My point is it's easy to forget, like how did

1784
01:42:34.239 --> 01:42:38.600
people cope with all the stuff? Yeah, you know, just

1785
01:42:38.640 --> 01:42:41.319
one hundred years ago, two hundred years ago, and then

1786
01:42:41.359 --> 01:42:43.239
to go like, well, there's like four thousand, five thousand,

1787
01:42:43.239 --> 01:42:44.560
and six thousand years prior to that.

1788
01:42:45.479 --> 01:42:46.560
Yeah, so.

1789
01:42:48.279 --> 01:42:54.720
Vampires was the answer for a while. What do you want?

1790
01:42:54.800 --> 01:42:56.239
You know, like, what do you want from them? Like?

1791
01:42:56.960 --> 01:42:58.880
Where were they because where are they getting information? Getting

1792
01:42:58.880 --> 01:43:04.199
information from empirical sources very recently in human history, they're

1793
01:43:04.199 --> 01:43:09.159
getting it from literature, like reading stuff, because being literate

1794
01:43:09.319 --> 01:43:12.159
is a relative was relatively new to the average person.

1795
01:43:12.760 --> 01:43:14.479
Yeah, so before.

1796
01:43:14.199 --> 01:43:15.600
That, where'd you get it from? You got it from

1797
01:43:15.760 --> 01:43:21.079
your imagination, dreams, interpretations of stories you're told, interpretations of

1798
01:43:21.079 --> 01:43:24.359
religious things, you know, whatever you're exposed to. That's where

1799
01:43:24.399 --> 01:43:26.880
you get your concept from.

1800
01:43:27.319 --> 01:43:27.520
You know.

1801
01:43:27.640 --> 01:43:30.800
So I guess that's a very long winded way of

1802
01:43:30.840 --> 01:43:33.880
saying we just don't know what it's like to just

1803
01:43:34.079 --> 01:43:39.079
not know, yeah, yeah, and to not know so much.

1804
01:43:40.079 --> 01:43:43.479
Yeah, I mean, actually we do, but we don't know

1805
01:43:43.840 --> 01:43:46.079
that we know that because we don't know what we

1806
01:43:46.199 --> 01:43:49.600
don't know yet. Yeah, you know, like in the future,

1807
01:43:50.159 --> 01:43:53.079
people in like one hundred years or five years or whatever,

1808
01:43:53.359 --> 01:43:55.920
people are going to be like they didn't even know

1809
01:43:56.119 --> 01:43:58.760
all of that stuff and they were just walking around

1810
01:43:59.119 --> 01:44:00.920
thinking they what was happening.

1811
01:44:01.880 --> 01:44:04.840
I like to pick random things and imagine that's what

1812
01:44:04.880 --> 01:44:06.920
they'll be saying. I'll be like, whoa, Like, look at

1813
01:44:06.920 --> 01:44:09.159
this picture of my grandma and grandpa or my great

1814
01:44:09.159 --> 01:44:11.800
grandma and great grandpa, like you just hanging out. It's like, whoa.

1815
01:44:12.079 --> 01:44:14.920
It's like, I know people brush their teeth back then.

1816
01:44:15.239 --> 01:44:19.600
They didn't know. How did they not know? It's so obvious, right,

1817
01:44:19.680 --> 01:44:21.880
They just didn't know. They just did it every day,

1818
01:44:22.079 --> 01:44:24.319
like so I heard, I think two or three times

1819
01:44:24.359 --> 01:44:27.119
a day. It's like, man, no wonder things were the

1820
01:44:27.159 --> 01:44:29.760
way they were, I know. And then that's like the

1821
01:44:29.800 --> 01:44:35.520
whole never a detail. Mm hmmm. Just it's no wonder

1822
01:44:35.600 --> 01:44:37.680
the world was warming at such an alarming rate they

1823
01:44:37.680 --> 01:44:39.479
were brushing their teeth three times a day.

1824
01:44:40.079 --> 01:44:40.279
You know.

1825
01:44:40.399 --> 01:44:41.640
Wow, I know.

1826
01:44:43.760 --> 01:44:45.159
That was a lot of digression. We're gonna take a

1827
01:44:45.199 --> 01:44:47.920
quick break and then we will get back on the

1828
01:44:48.000 --> 01:44:54.560
vampirey topic. But I don't know. I I think, yeah,

1829
01:44:54.600 --> 01:44:59.239
I try not to be too harsh on the hilarious bizarreness,

1830
01:44:59.359 --> 01:45:01.720
and I try to more imagine if I was a

1831
01:45:01.760 --> 01:45:05.479
person than just trying to figure stuff out.

1832
01:45:05.960 --> 01:45:09.199
Yeah, no, I totally agree. I mean I've always because yeah,

1833
01:45:09.239 --> 01:45:13.359
because everything we know currently is because someone else figured

1834
01:45:13.399 --> 01:45:16.520
it out already. So I mean, if I was back then,

1835
01:45:16.520 --> 01:45:18.399
I'm sure I would think it was vampires too.

1836
01:45:19.319 --> 01:45:22.399
Human knowledge is cumulative, so every person that starts with

1837
01:45:22.439 --> 01:45:26.640
all that knowledge is infinitely farther ahead. Yeah, it's crazy,

1838
01:45:27.079 --> 01:45:29.680
sou And actually, we can wrap this up this. I

1839
01:45:29.720 --> 01:45:32.159
just realized the article is actually ending right here, So okay,

1840
01:45:32.199 --> 01:45:33.680
we'll wrap it up real quick before we go to

1841
01:45:33.720 --> 01:45:38.319
the break. So above, in Massach's main bodies were simply

1842
01:45:38.359 --> 01:45:40.680
flipped over and left alone. In Rhode Island, Connecticut and

1843
01:45:40.720 --> 01:45:43.520
Vermont villagers burned the hearts and liver That sounds like

1844
01:45:43.600 --> 01:45:46.439
those people. I spent a lot of time in Connecticut

1845
01:45:46.479 --> 01:45:49.439
as a kid. It just sounds like those people burden

1846
01:45:49.520 --> 01:45:53.600
hearts and livers on stones. Yeah, yeah, yeah, from bodies

1847
01:45:53.600 --> 01:45:57.399
of suspected vampires. In the nineteen nineties, archaeologists discovered twenty

1848
01:45:57.479 --> 01:46:00.399
nine skeletons and a gravel pit in Griswold, Connecticut, which

1849
01:46:00.439 --> 01:46:02.640
was my favorite song to sing on the school bus

1850
01:46:02.680 --> 01:46:05.359
as a kid. Twenty nine skeletons in a gravel pit

1851
01:46:05.600 --> 01:46:10.720
in Griswold, Connecticut, Yeah, oh my gosh, I don't know

1852
01:46:10.760 --> 01:46:14.840
what's with me and I'm perky, which had once served

1853
01:46:14.880 --> 01:46:17.920
as a colonial era graveyard. The body showed signs of

1854
01:46:17.920 --> 01:46:21.960
tuberculosis and had been rearranged into skull and crossbones patterns.

1855
01:46:22.199 --> 01:46:22.880
Wow.

1856
01:46:23.680 --> 01:46:27.359
The case, known as the Jewet City Vampires revealed one

1857
01:46:27.399 --> 01:46:31.760
of the more unusual consumption rituals. Quote. If enough time

1858
01:46:31.840 --> 01:46:34.279
had passed and there was nothing but skeletal remains and

1859
01:46:34.359 --> 01:46:38.119
no sign of soft tissue, they knew Englanders had to make.

1860
01:46:38.159 --> 01:46:43.520
I love that had to make had to make a

1861
01:46:43.560 --> 01:46:47.600
decision as to whether the corpse was undead. Bellantoni explains

1862
01:46:48.439 --> 01:46:51.600
if villagers believed they had uncovered the undead, they would

1863
01:46:51.640 --> 01:46:55.479
rearrange the bones by decapitation and sometimes uproot the legs

1864
01:46:55.520 --> 01:46:59.920
to prevent the vampire from leaving the grave where the

1865
01:47:00.039 --> 01:47:01.079
stake through the heart comes from.

1866
01:47:01.119 --> 01:47:06.239
By the way, like country wise are like why why

1867
01:47:06.239 --> 01:47:08.920
they do it? Until they keep them down right, so they.

1868
01:47:08.880 --> 01:47:13.319
Can get up. Yeah, to do the opposite of tub thumping.

1869
01:47:14.039 --> 01:47:16.640
They're not getting up again, keeping them down.

1870
01:47:17.039 --> 01:47:19.319
Yeah, they can't get up again. You have to keep

1871
01:47:19.359 --> 01:47:19.880
them down.

1872
01:47:20.600 --> 01:47:21.479
Yeah, exactly.

1873
01:47:21.880 --> 01:47:23.880
Yeah.

1874
01:47:23.960 --> 01:47:26.800
The vampire folk belief started winding down by the end

1875
01:47:26.840 --> 01:47:30.479
of the nineteenth century, when German physician and microbiologist Robert

1876
01:47:30.560 --> 01:47:35.960
Koch identified the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis. Science then slowly

1877
01:47:36.000 --> 01:47:39.640
began to replace folklore in explaining disease that had claimed

1878
01:47:39.680 --> 01:47:43.760
so many lives and devastated families. It makes sense. I mean,

1879
01:47:44.119 --> 01:47:45.720
that's another thing that blows my mind, is like, the

1880
01:47:45.760 --> 01:47:50.880
idea of washing your hands is important, is recent? Extremely recent?

1881
01:47:51.359 --> 01:47:54.039
Yeah yeah, I was washing my hands.

1882
01:47:54.199 --> 01:47:57.520
Sorry, they were just doing like surgery, and they just like, well,

1883
01:47:57.520 --> 01:47:59.159
we're done with that guy, and they'd walk over and

1884
01:47:59.239 --> 01:48:01.920
maybe they'd they wipe it off of the rag and

1885
01:48:01.960 --> 01:48:03.920
then start working again. That's insane.

1886
01:48:04.520 --> 01:48:06.800
Yeah, how did people survive at all?

1887
01:48:08.000 --> 01:48:11.239
Well a lot of them didn't. Yeah, but you're right.

1888
01:48:11.279 --> 01:48:14.520
I mean, it's a testament to how tenacious our species

1889
01:48:14.600 --> 01:48:17.520
is that we could like because now we're like, well, yeah,

1890
01:48:17.520 --> 01:48:18.880
you gotta wash your hands. At least a couple of

1891
01:48:18.880 --> 01:48:22.199
times a day, like just to be clean, you know,

1892
01:48:22.439 --> 01:48:27.079
so you'll get sick, you know, you just reduce it. Quote.

1893
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These people in early New England history were just trying

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to stop the deaths, says Bellentoni. They were desperate, and

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01:48:33.239 --> 01:48:35.840
when all else failed, some families were willing to go

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into the graves if it meant saving themselves and their families. Yeah,

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that's fair. We're going to take a quick break and

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when we get back, we'll talk about horror media. We'll

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talk about spooky stuff on Reddit, and we'll wrap up

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the show another month in the can this can.

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Photos the skin, Yeah, that one.

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All right, wrapping up this edition of Monthly Spooky. I

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want to mention I watched a lot, and I mean

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01:49:13.560 --> 01:49:18.239
a lot of horror films in the theater this this

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last month. There were just a lot of them. Well, okay,

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not that many, jeez, it was but it was one, two, three, four,

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which is still quite a bit. That's well, you don't

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think that's a lot. How many do you see in

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the time twelve?

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I didn't see any.

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Oh, well there you go. Yeah, in a jerk. So

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I saw the aforementioned Dracula, the Luke Bessan Dracula, which

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I really enjoyed. The other three horror films that were

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in the theater this month, Number one I'll mention is

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Iron Lung. The market Plier made film that he wrote, directed,

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starred in, and paid for like he financed it and

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it was the number two movie in the nation. Oh,

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he distributed it independently the theaters. It's a really cool

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story and it goes to show you because people kept saying, like,

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look at what they did, it's an independent movie. I

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was like, it just goes to show you what you

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can do if you just have millions of dollars and

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are super famous. Yeah, really accomplish anything. Yeah. Not no

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hate though. The movie was good good. It was damn good.

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It was scary and creepy and really well done.

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Good.

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So the Iron Lung was actually based on a video game.

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You would like this. The setting is some catastrophic event

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has happened, and all of life on Earth is most

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of it was killed, and now the oceans are literally

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full of blood. Oh so in order to travel in

1932
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the waters, you have to have these special ships that

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01:50:54.600 --> 01:50:56.760
can handle it, and in order to see you have

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to use X ray flashes, like a thing that shoots

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an X ray and then so when you're traveling around

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and you want to see what's in front of you, you

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have to pop this thing and then a little X

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01:51:05.279 --> 01:51:09.319
ray like you know, comes up like raah develops in

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front of you. Cool, really cool movie. I really enjoyed it,

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had a great time with it. The next film I

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saw in the theater was Send Help, which is the

1942
01:51:19.520 --> 01:51:22.840
brand new Sam Raimi, famous for Evil Dead, his new

1943
01:51:22.880 --> 01:51:27.079
movie about a woman and her asshole boss who gets

1944
01:51:27.079 --> 01:51:29.479
stuck on a desert island together, but she happens to

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be a survival expert, right right. That was really good.

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It was I wasn't sure if it was going to

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be good or not good.

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It was good. It has a phenomenal twist, and it's

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a twist on multiple levels, which I like.

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Cool.

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It was really good, really entertaining, very very funny, and

1952
01:51:50.600 --> 01:51:53.760
I really enjoyed it. I would see it again. My

1953
01:51:53.800 --> 01:51:56.760
mom decided she wanted to see Dracula instead of Send Help,

1954
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which I was shocked because I thought she want to

1955
01:51:58.439 --> 01:51:59.880
see Send Help the most, but she was like, well,

1956
01:51:59.880 --> 01:52:01.399
you've already seen it. I was like, I want to

1957
01:52:01.399 --> 01:52:04.800
see it again though, Yeah, So we went to see Dracuel,

1958
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but Send Help a lot of fun and that was

1959
01:52:06.640 --> 01:52:11.319
the number one movie in the country. And then finally,

1960
01:52:11.920 --> 01:52:14.520
and this is one that horror nerds are probably gonna

1961
01:52:14.520 --> 01:52:17.520
be like, but I loved it. I saw The Stranger's

1962
01:52:17.640 --> 01:52:21.479
Volume three, the final installment of the of the New

1963
01:52:21.520 --> 01:52:24.079
Strangers trilogy that's been releasing in theaters for the last

1964
01:52:24.079 --> 01:52:27.600
two years. I like the whole thing. I like the

1965
01:52:27.640 --> 01:52:30.000
whole series. I think they did a great job wrapping

1966
01:52:30.039 --> 01:52:32.960
things up. I thought it was good. I just I

1967
01:52:33.039 --> 01:52:35.439
just really liked it. It's not it didn't reinvent the

1968
01:52:35.479 --> 01:52:37.560
wheel or blow your mind. And that's the thing that

1969
01:52:37.640 --> 01:52:41.319
drives me crazy. Some people, they just they're they're mad.

1970
01:52:41.319 --> 01:52:43.159
They're like, well it was you know, it wasn't It

1971
01:52:43.239 --> 01:52:45.279
was nothing special. It's like, dude, you went to see

1972
01:52:45.319 --> 01:52:48.359
a horror movie at the theater. Not every horror movie

1973
01:52:48.399 --> 01:52:51.159
is going to change the way you see life and

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01:52:52.079 --> 01:52:55.600
the world and yourself. Some of them just make you

1975
01:52:55.640 --> 01:53:00.920
go like, that's creepy, and sometimes that's all you need. Yeah,

1976
01:53:00.960 --> 01:53:03.199
And that's why I liked them so much. The second

1977
01:53:03.199 --> 01:53:06.520
one had so many cool scenes with like thunderstorms and

1978
01:53:06.600 --> 01:53:08.359
being stalked, and I was like, man, I was like

1979
01:53:08.399 --> 01:53:09.880
creeped out the whole time. I was like, yeah, this

1980
01:53:09.920 --> 01:53:11.359
is why I go to the movies, this is why

1981
01:53:11.399 --> 01:53:12.279
I like this stuff.

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01:53:12.720 --> 01:53:13.319
Yeah.

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So I really enjoyed all Three Strangers, and I thought

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01:53:16.319 --> 01:53:21.000
they wrapped it up really well, especially considering the mystery

1985
01:53:21.039 --> 01:53:23.560
element of The Strangers volume one and two that was

1986
01:53:23.560 --> 01:53:26.840
like everything and three the mystery is basically gone, so

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01:53:26.880 --> 01:53:30.880
they're just running through everything else, you know, and kind

1988
01:53:30.920 --> 01:53:33.680
of giving you a pretty satisfying ending too, if I

1989
01:53:34.520 --> 01:53:37.000
do say so myself. So I really enjoyed all of

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the films, the horror films that were in the theater

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over the last month, so yay, Yeah, it was nice.

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So anything creepy going on over there on a Reddit, yeah, I.

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01:53:49.840 --> 01:53:52.600
Can give you one. It's it's a little different than

1994
01:53:52.640 --> 01:53:55.479
I normally would, so we'll see how it goes. Okay,

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but it is from let me call it back up.

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01:54:00.119 --> 01:54:05.920
That is not how you get there. It's from it's

1997
01:54:05.960 --> 01:54:09.399
an ask Reddit thread, so it's just somebody replying to

1998
01:54:09.640 --> 01:54:11.800
what's the creepiest thing that ever happened to you? And

1999
01:54:11.960 --> 01:54:18.079
ask credit. Okay, So basically, this dude is he lives

2000
01:54:18.159 --> 01:54:22.439
with his girlfriend maybe or whoever, it's some person in

2001
01:54:22.560 --> 01:54:27.039
like a house, I guess, right, got it? So he

2002
01:54:27.399 --> 01:54:29.720
a lot of times she goes to bed earlier than him,

2003
01:54:29.800 --> 01:54:32.479
and he falls asleep on the couch and then ends

2004
01:54:32.560 --> 01:54:33.640
up just sleeping there.

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01:54:34.079 --> 01:54:36.279
Sounds like they have a very bad relationship.

2006
01:54:36.720 --> 01:54:41.880
Yeah, I was thinking that too, But but he falls

2007
01:54:41.880 --> 01:54:46.439
asleep on the couch. So one night that happens, and

2008
01:54:49.600 --> 01:54:53.399
he like woke up because he heard her like moving

2009
01:54:53.439 --> 01:54:57.520
around near the door and stuff, and so he's like,

2010
01:54:57.760 --> 01:54:59.760
but he's like kind of still asleep, like his eyes

2011
01:54:59.760 --> 01:55:02.720
are so closed. He's exhausted. Here's her moving around. Here's

2012
01:55:02.760 --> 01:55:04.760
her like come into the room and then like kind

2013
01:55:04.800 --> 01:55:09.199
of pause over him, like and then kind of move off,

2014
01:55:10.279 --> 01:55:14.119
like to go back upstairs or whatever. And then he

2015
01:55:14.159 --> 01:55:17.000
feels a really cold breeze. So he opens his eyes

2016
01:55:17.199 --> 01:55:21.199
and the front door is open. And it wasn't his girlfriend.

2017
01:55:21.239 --> 01:55:23.399
It was some dude who came in to look through

2018
01:55:23.439 --> 01:55:25.880
the stuff in his house, saw him asleep and left.

2019
01:55:26.680 --> 01:55:30.720
Oh my god, that's yeah. We're sure the guy that

2020
01:55:30.760 --> 01:55:31.800
came in the house wasn't Ai.

2021
01:55:32.039 --> 01:55:34.880
Right, I'm pretty sure because he opened the door.

2022
01:55:35.279 --> 01:55:38.359
But I'm not. And they don't have hands that work, so

2023
01:55:38.359 --> 01:55:42.159
it would Yeah, exactly, no, but that's terrifying.

2024
01:55:42.359 --> 01:55:42.920
Yeah.

2025
01:55:43.720 --> 01:55:46.640
So wait, so he woke up and like the guy

2026
01:55:46.760 --> 01:55:47.640
was leaving right then.

2027
01:55:48.039 --> 01:55:50.279
I think there was not anybody in there, but it

2028
01:55:50.319 --> 01:55:52.520
was very clear that like somebody had been rummaging through

2029
01:55:52.520 --> 01:55:53.079
their stuff.

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01:55:53.159 --> 01:55:53.479
Gotcha.

2031
01:55:53.920 --> 01:55:56.319
So he he never saw the person, but he knows

2032
01:55:56.479 --> 01:55:58.520
that there was a person who came into the house.

2033
01:55:58.960 --> 01:56:01.079
Or his girlfriend's lying it was just like messing with

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01:56:01.079 --> 01:56:02.439
stuff to mess with him.

2035
01:56:02.680 --> 01:56:05.319
Yeah, I mean they already have a bad relationship, so.

2036
01:56:05.520 --> 01:56:08.840
I clearly, Yeah, I mean, something is not right if

2037
01:56:08.880 --> 01:56:12.359
you're always falling asleep on the couch. Yeah, especially if

2038
01:56:12.399 --> 01:56:14.439
you're out there for the whole night. That's when it's

2039
01:56:14.479 --> 01:56:15.680
a real thing.

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01:56:15.960 --> 01:56:19.199
Yeah, that's the part I didn't like because I mean,

2041
01:56:22.119 --> 01:56:25.720
I mean, I don't even I live by myself with

2042
01:56:25.800 --> 01:56:30.199
a cat. That's very dangerous by the way, Yes and yes,

2043
01:56:31.079 --> 01:56:33.640
but but like I don't even stay asleep on the

2044
01:56:33.640 --> 01:56:35.439
couch all night. If I fall asleep and I don't

2045
01:56:35.479 --> 01:56:38.119
have anybody I'm going upstairs to sleep in bed with

2046
01:56:38.199 --> 01:56:40.359
except my cat. But she's on the couch with me

2047
01:56:40.600 --> 01:56:44.000
until we go upstairs. So like you have like a partner,

2048
01:56:44.319 --> 01:56:46.479
why are you not going upstairs to them.

2049
01:56:47.520 --> 01:56:49.560
It is weird. I mean, you know, I mean it's

2050
01:56:49.600 --> 01:56:52.239
possible she's like an obscenely light sleeper. But if that's

2051
01:56:52.279 --> 01:56:54.319
the case, she shouldn't have been that. Somebody shouldn't be

2052
01:56:54.399 --> 01:56:55.399
able to just break into their house.

2053
01:56:55.960 --> 01:56:58.800
Well if she's upstairs and the person broke in really quietly,

2054
01:56:58.960 --> 01:57:00.880
maybe baby.

2055
01:57:00.680 --> 01:57:03.479
I don't know that just that part is a little awkward.

2056
01:57:04.000 --> 01:57:06.560
Yeah yeah, so but that was creepy. I like that one.

2057
01:57:06.600 --> 01:57:08.520
That that's the kind of stuff I'm terrified of.

2058
01:57:08.800 --> 01:57:10.119
Yeah, that's a bad one.

2059
01:57:10.199 --> 01:57:15.000
Yeah yeah. So well, thank you Shelle for that. I

2060
01:57:15.079 --> 01:57:18.760
guess I'll have a great time going to sleep, Yeah,

2061
01:57:18.800 --> 01:57:20.840
watching TV on my couch and getting sleepy.

2062
01:57:21.439 --> 01:57:23.319
Yeah.

2063
01:57:23.520 --> 01:57:25.800
Yeah. That's one of the things I do miss about

2064
01:57:25.800 --> 01:57:28.119
having dogs is I always was confident, like nobody's in

2065
01:57:28.159 --> 01:57:30.840
the house because the dogs would freak out. Yeah, the

2066
01:57:30.880 --> 01:57:33.960
dogs would be like, hey, that something's going on. So

2067
01:57:34.239 --> 01:57:37.000
but on that note, we're going to take off. But

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thank you guys so much for joining us for another

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01:57:39.159 --> 01:57:42.399
episode of Monthly Spooky had a great time talking about weird,

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01:57:43.279 --> 01:57:48.520
strange news and vampires in New England. If you want

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01:57:48.520 --> 01:57:50.640
to write us for any reason, whatsoever. It's at Weekly

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Spooky at gmail dot com. We love to hear from you.

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That would be cool, I don't I think we've only

2074
01:57:56.600 --> 01:57:59.159
had like one person write in directly to Monthly Spooky

2075
01:57:59.600 --> 01:58:03.279
about it specifically, so we get we get comments on

2076
01:58:04.039 --> 01:58:07.920
Spotify and stuff, especially when you're mean. People love spicy Cell.

2077
01:58:08.359 --> 01:58:17.319
That is their favorite, spicy chill, spicyll spicy cell. But

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thank you, guys, and we'll see you on the last

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Monday of March and we'll talk about more spooky stuff

2080
01:58:23.920 --> 01:58:30.640
and cill will continue for spicy hatefulness. Michelle, you want

2081
01:58:30.680 --> 01:58:35.880
the last word, then no, that counts damn it.

2082
01:58:37.079 --> 01:58:37.880
Yeah exactly.

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Oh no,