July 27, 2026

Monthly Spooky | Creepy Carnival Animatronics, Hooga Hooga, Haunted Houses & UFOs

Monthly Spooky | Creepy Carnival Animatronics, Hooga Hooga, Haunted Houses & UFOs
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Monthly Spooky: Weird News, Haunting Stories, And Urban Legends

Key Takeaways

  • Summerween brings spooky season early with a deep dive into the strange history and eerie pop-culture legacy of the Laughing Sal carnival animatronic doll.
  • Gracie the missing Texas giraffe was safely located on private property after wandering off a remote ranch, proving that even massive exotic animals love to go on an adventure.
  • Local police and animal control departments frequently deal with bizarre wildlife calls, including unexpected snakes hiding underneath residential beds in Butler County, Ohio.
  • Modern technology, such as adaptive cruise control and automated lane-changing, can feel entirely like stepping into a futuristic spaceship for drivers coming from older, seventeen-year-old vehicles.

Summerween arrives with a laugh you can hear from across the midway. In this July edition of Monthly Spooky, Henrique Couto and Michelle explore Laughing Sal, the towering carnival animatronic doll whose wild cackle once echoed through American funhouses, amusement parks, and carnival midways.

They trace the strange history of this six-foot mechanical nightmare, from her early days as one of America’s most popular funhouse attractions to her appearances in movies, museums, and pop culture. Why did generations of amusement-park visitors love Laughing Sal? Why does her endless recorded laughter feel so threatening today? And how did a freckled, gap-toothed carnival figure become one of the world’s most uncanny animatronic dolls?Before entering Laughing Sal’s funhouse, Henrique and Michelle take a funny, creepy trip through the month’s strangest spooky news, cryptid folklore, paranormal investigations, UFO reports, and archaeological mysteries.Inside this episode:

  • Gracie the missing giraffe is finally found alive in Texas after spending two weeks on the loose.
  • Butler County, Ohio deputies confront a snake hiding beneath a resident’s bed.
  • Lansing, Michigan introduces the Hooga Hooga, a hairy, Bigfoot-like summer-camp cryptid said to tunnel beneath a local nature center.
  • A Japanese real-estate service sends investigators into stigmatized homes overnight to test them for ghosts and paranormal activity.
  • A rare Antarctic titanosaur fossil is rediscovered after sitting unnoticed inside a drawer for decades.
  • Centuries-old royal tombs in Barcelona contain unexpected remains and far more bodies than researchers anticipated.
  • Divers recover a haunting carved face and possible ritual animal bones from a Polish lake.
  • The Pentagon investigates a reported swarm of mysterious UAPs and watercraft near the Virginia coast.
  • Archaeologists enter a sealed chamber beneath a medieval Ukrainian castle and search for additional underground rooms.
Michelle closes the episode with a wonderfully unsettling Glitch in the Matrix story about a childhood McDonald’s collectible glass that apparently duplicates itself—complete with the exact same crack.

Come for Laughing Sal. Stay for cryptids, ghosts, UFOs, secret chambers, ancient burials, haunted real estate, bedroom snakes, and one deeply suspicious drinking glass. This funny and frightening Summerween episode is perfect for fans of creepy carnival history, animatronic horror, haunted attractions, paranormal podcasts, Bigfoot folklore, unexplained mysteries, Halloween in July, and the early spooky season.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Laughing Sal carnival animatronic?

Laughing Sal is a towering, six-foot mechanical nightmare and popular funhouse figure whose wild cackle once echoed through American amusement parks and carnival midways.

Where was Gracie the missing Texas giraffe found?

Gracie was spotted about four miles south of her enclosure on private property in the Texas Hill Country after spending two weeks on the loose.

What is the focus of the Monthly Spooky podcast episodes?

The monthly episodes explore strange spooky news, cryptid folklore, paranormal investigations, UFO reports, and deep dives into iconic horror and carnival history like the Laughing Sal animatronic doll.

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An underground tomb discovered raises more mysteries, a brand new

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cryptid just dropped, a giraffe is found in Texas, and

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an animatronic that laughs all the way to your gray

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Get comfortable, turn off the lights. It's monthly spooky, Well,

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my spookies, it is indeed. That time of the month

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is monthly spooky. I'm, of course your host Enrique Kuto. Wow,

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I almost say my own last name wrong. Kotao, kotao,

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kowtow Kuoto hurt them all kids, read them all too.

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And I'm here with my good buddy and co host Michelle. Michelle,

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how are you?

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I don't know, I don't know. I don't know.

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You still don't know.

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Yeah, I don't know if I should be happy or

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not happy or sad or.

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You don't know what what does this entail? I'm curious

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you don't know if you should be happy or not?

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Yeah?

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Like, did something happen that should make you happy?

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No? Yes, that's the thing. I don't know.

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Well, but okay, so we could we could try and

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get through this.

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Okay. So I had an inspection yesterday, right, and then

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this morning I woke up and went, huh, did I

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turn off the stove at the inspection.

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Oh god, And.

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I couldn't remember happening. I remember turning it on, of course, yeah,

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and I remember like doing other things. So then I

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was like, if I had the code for the door,

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I could just go there and check. But I don't

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have the code, so the only way to so the

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only things to do are to just hope that the

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health doesn't burn down, even though it's it's vacant, so

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who knows when someone's gonna come and check the stove,

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or I have to ask the realtor and I have

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to tell her what happened. So I ended up having

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to ask the realtor for the code and going there

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and finding out the stove was off.

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Of course it was, So it's been a day. It's

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one of those things where you do it so often,

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turn on and off a stove or whatever, you just

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kind of skip remembering. I would have assumed I had

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turned it off, just because unless I had a history

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of leaving stoves on. Do you have a history of

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leaving stoves on shell.

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No, But it happened one time where I actually left

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the stove on and went back and turned off the stove.

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Oh at an inspection. Yes, oh god, okay, yeah, yeah, okay,

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now we're I'm with you. That was I'm glad it

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turned out you didn't do that.

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Yeah, me too.

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Yikes, yeah, yikes on bikes.

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I got distracted during that one because I was talking

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to someone and then I was like working on the

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report and I was like, I don't think I turned

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it stoveall, Like, I literally don't remember it happening at all.

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turn off the stove.

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And you did that this morning before the show.

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Oh no, this one, it's only was only ten minutes away.

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Oh okay, okay, so I did that this.

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Morning before the show when I was supposed to be

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writing the report.

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So oh well, yeah of course.

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And now the nice wheel turn knows that I'm have

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problems with it.

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But you have anxieties. Yeah, but you know there is

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a thing though. Think about it this way though, you'd

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be like, ah, this home inspector has anxiety because you know,

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she wanted to make sure she didn't cause a house

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to burn down. Versus all they have anxiety so they

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like don't show up to work. I mean, your anxieties

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are productive at least you were like ensuring no grievous

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bodily harm and death.

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Yeah, you're like maybe, Oh, I mean I think that's better, though,

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you know you I have been writing that report.

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If you had a car that drove itself, you could

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have written the report on your way out there.

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I was so nervous because before I decided I was

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gonna call, I just didn't get anything done.

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So no, I get that. No, I do get that. Well,

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I'm picking on you because I'm in the process of

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buying a car and the car does so many things

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for you with technology, and they just enrage you so much.

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I know.

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I don't understand. So I'm it looks like I'm getting

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a brand new Toyota Prius, which will be replacing my

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two thousand and nine Toyota Prius, which, by the way,

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I realized cell that when I sold my first car,

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when I traded in my first car, it was a

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year younger than this my Prius is. Now, wow, I

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had the Prius for two years longer than I had

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the Volkswagen Beetle, which is just kind of like time

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really kind of blows your mind. I was telling my

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mom that I was like, I just realized that the

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Prius is seventeen years old, and Mom was like, oh

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my gosh. If I'd realized it was that all, I

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would have been pressuring you to get a new car sooner.

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I guess I took good care of it, you know,

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because it didn't look quite so old. But yeah, I

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need a car, and I wanted the one that could

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park itself, which is like so cool to me, and

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Michelle's very upset by this concept.

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I just want people to be able to park cars.

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That's it.

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What if I can, but I don't want to.

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Why don't you want to?

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Because I like, sometimes I'm tired of this crap.

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It's not that it takes like a minute, it's not hard.

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I mean, when it comes to parallel parking, there's a

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fifty to fifty shot. I'll just look for something else

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that isn't so that I don't have to parallel park into.

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Well, I don't know, maybe you should just do it more.

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Well, I live in Ohio, so that i'd have to

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try to parallel park.

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More uh huh. Yeah, or you could set up like

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cones in a parking lot and you could just practice.

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Yeah. Well, I also I think you might remember this.

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I have a belief in omens when it comes to cars,

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and by Volkswagen Beetle, which was a great car. It

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ran great. I had it from age eighteen until thirty.

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I think it was eighteen to thirty or twenty nine, anyway,

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it doesn't matter. But when I was driving that thing,

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I loved that car. It was mechanically running great. I

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went to meet a friend up in Fairborne, Ohio, which

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does have a lot of street parking. It's like a

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small town that's kind of like got that vibe. And

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I remember I went to I was going to a

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restaurant and I pulled up to a spot there was

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no traffic, so I felt very comfortable, saying like, ah,

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I'm going to parallel park, like you know, cause if

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I have to start over, nobody cares. There's nobody around.

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And I nailed it in one go, just pulled up,

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backed in forward and I was done. And two weeks

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later the car couldn't be driven anymore. I had to

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get rid of it. So now I believe that if

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I master a car, that means it will die immediately.

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That is just that is just the law of the jungle.

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So but I was looking at other things that the

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car does that will upset you. Did you know that? Now?

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Apparently now I was driving a seventeen year old car.

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So getting a car that's technically a twenty twenty seven

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is going to be like getting into a spaceship. It's

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going to be completely a different world. It has adaptive

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cruise controls. You know what that is?

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Of course I know what that is.

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I just found out, like this year, you didn't.

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Know what adaptive cruise control was.

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No, why would you know? Of you what?

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Because I have. It's not like I only know what's

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happening with my car. I know what's happening with other

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people's cars, like my parents car.

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Oh see my mom's driving Alex that's like a twenty thirteen.

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So you know because she actually when I was getting

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through this and I was talking to her about stuff,

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she was like really that? And then I like showed

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her and she was like, oh, I guess I haven't

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shopped for a car in a while. I was like, yeah,

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there's a lot out there. It's nuts. It uses lidar

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to slow you down and speed you up separate from

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other cars, So you just turn it on on the

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highway and until you need to get off the highway,

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You're golden. It also has lane assists, so as long

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as your hands are on the steering wheel, you don't

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have to keep the car in the lane. It does

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it for you. Yeah. Yeah, then and this is the

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part that flew my mind though, because this is newer though. Now,

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if you press the turn signal up or down, it

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changes lanes for you by detecting the cars around first.

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Boo, sound like that one.

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I knew you'd get mad. I knew you'd get mad.

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Why would that happen?

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I don't know, but boy howdy, I can't wait because

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I get on the I get on the highway a lot,

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and when I'm on the highway it's usually for you know,

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five or six hours. So I am very excited to

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be able to fully dedicate myself to singing along to

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the radio.

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No, you have to keep your foot on the gas.

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No. Well, we've talked about I don't use my normal

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cruise control because my first car it didn't work, so

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I got the habit. This is going to break that habit, though,

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I'm going to break that habit of always using the pedal.

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I'm probably never gonna have a car with adaptive cruise

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control because I'm just gonna always have it's just gonna

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get worse and worse and older and older cars, you know,

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but if I did, I wouldn't use it.

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So you're going to be like waiting to hear about

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like somebody finding a warehouse with like a bunch of

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new of a new old stock, like twenty ten cars.

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Oh my god, three of them.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Well, very there you go. That's what I've been up

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to is just getting the car. Now I'm waiting because

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the car I want is on a barge coming from Japan.

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Yay Japan.

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Yeah, yeah, and boats. Yeah. In fact, I was telling somebody,

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I said like, now I'm just waiting on the barge

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with my car on it. And I was like, hey,

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my car is kind of like Dracula. It's going to

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arrive on a boat and it's mysterious and red. Dracula's

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kind of red. I don't know, blood, No, no, he's not.

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Thanks for calling me out on that. Well, we're going

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to take a quick break and when we get back,

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we're going to talk about spooky news stories, including a

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major update to a story we talked about last month.

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Oh yeah, and it's good news. Oh depending right after,

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right after this break. I also want to mention shell

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that our topic this week is one that I've actually

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been curious about for a while. It's the story of

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Laughing sal It's many people call it the world's most

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uncanny dummy, like it's a creepy animatronic dummy. And I've

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seen it at multiple fairs and carnivals in my life

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and in fairs and carnivals and movies. So we're gonna

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dive into the reality of the Laughing sala as. I

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believe I never knew what it was called. Yeah, laughing sal.

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So that'll be our topic here in a little bit.

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But first it's time for the spooky news. The spooky news.

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So we're heading first to Huffington Post for a follow

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up from last month. From last month's spooky news, and

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this is the headline reading, Gracie the Giraffe finally found

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in Texas after two weeks on the lamb. Oh ironically,

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she was found like the day after we did our show.

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Oh wow. Yeah, So, for those who don't know, Gracie

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the Giraffe went missing in Texas and we found it

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kind of funny. How do you lose a diraffe in Texas?

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But also we want Gracie to be you know, survive

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and be safe. So this is from huffingtonPost dot com. Gracie,

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the giraffe, who went missing for about two weeks in

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Texas after wandering off a remote private ranch, was finally

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found Friday, and the open Range appeared to have agreed

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with her. The giraffe was spotted about four miles south

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of her enclosure during an aerial search in the Texas

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Hill County Country Sorry, according to the real county sheriff.

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Oh yeah, it's real county, the real county, Yeah, Sheriff

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Nathan Johnson. He said Gracie's owner, Vic Jones, contacted a

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veterinarian and began putting together a team to bring the

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giraffe back safely to the ranch. Quote, she's in good

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shape and said she's standing there swishing her tail. Aw.

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That means they're happy, right.

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I have no idea.

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I don't know if it's like a dog or like

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a cat.

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Gracie, who is about three years old and weighs at

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least twelve hundred pounds, was found within a half mile

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of a pond and creek and had plenty of vegetation

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defeat on, said Jones, adding that she appeared to have

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been in that area for about a week. Getting the

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ten foot tall giraffe home to the Cedar Hollow Ranch

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about one hundred miles west of San Antonio was taking

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some work. So it was one hundred miles away from

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the ranch.

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I thought they said it was four miles away. I

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bet it was one hundred miles west of Oh so.

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Yeah, you're right south of her enclosure.

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I think the ranch is just one hundred miles.

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Yeah, that kind of confused. Am I got crazy? Right?

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That's confusing? Maybe fair enough? Yeah, it does say the

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Cedar Haller Ranch about one hundred miles west of santon

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Oh No, it's referencing San Antonio. Yeah, okay, gee, Why

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that makes me think that they're transporting it one hundred

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miles when they say it's going to take some work. Yeah, Yeah,

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I'm just dumb. I have no reading comprehension. Veterinarians needed

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time to sedate Gracie and put a hood over her eyes,

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Joan said. From there, Gracie will be moved with an

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open moved with an open pasture trailer to a taller,

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enclosed trailer made for giraffes for the trip back to

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the ranch.

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They can't just walk her there, I.

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Mean, I guess not. I mean now, First of all,

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I love that they put a hood on her. It's

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like they don't want her to know the way to

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get there, like it's still a secret, like in an

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old like Batman movie or something. But also I love

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that they got an enclosed trailer made for giraffes. Where

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do you rent that from? I wonder?

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I guess there's probably just one company that specializes in that.

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Gotta be gotta be, yeah, gotta be, yeah, just one.

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Ever since Toys r us closed, their mascot was a giraffe.

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Part parts of the remote area cannot be reached by car,

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which prompted the search by helicopter. While Real County's twenty

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seven hundred residents were urged to keep an eye out

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for her, Gracie was found on private property where no

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one lives. Joan said, that's good. Yeah. I just imagine

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if you were like a landowner and it was a

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I could see if it was just about any other

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common animal, but just a giraffe stand there. I'd probably

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just call somebody. I wouldn't shoot it. I'd be like,

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U huh, I don't think that's supposed to be here, Like,

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I don't think it came here to cause trouble. I

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think it's just this is unusual. Yeah, and it's real tall.

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I don't like that part quote. We didn't bother her,

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Joanes said of the sighting, she's got water. She looked

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in really good shape. The Texas Ill Country has one

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of the largest concentrations of exotic captured captive animals in

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the US. Johnson said this week he had reports of

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missing wildebeast's, water, buffalo, zebras, and monkeys, though never a

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giraffe previously.

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Wow, they need to keep their animals inside.

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This isn't inside. If they're cold, you're If you're cold,

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they're cold. Let them inside the wild exactly. The area

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has a mild climate and rugged terrain, and plenty of

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vegetation for Gracie to eat. In Africa, giraffes thrive best

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in dry and semi dry savannahs and grasslands. Jones believes

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that Gracie, who arrived at the ranch in May, didn't

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mean to leave She had been wandering up to a

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rocky area to feed on trees growing out of the rock,

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and it always come back to the ranch's giraffe enclosure

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until that fateful day.

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I mean, it sounds like she meant to leave. She's

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just like, oh, I'll just go over here and eat

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more food, and then she.

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Likes she's to go on a lark, you know, have

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an adventure Gracy's day out. Joan said Gracey wandered into

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the rocky area fed and came down on the wrong

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side of the gate. At that point, he said it

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was easier for her to keep walking in the same

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direction than to try and go back right, because, yeah,

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Chill is calling this cope. She is saying this is

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all cope.

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It is. It really is. Yeah, It's like, oh, I'd

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have to walk back up there. I guess I'll just

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go I'll just I'll just go on an adventure instead.

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Dern Dern durn Dern. The area wasn't fenced because giraffes

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had not been going there until Gracey did, and and

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building a fence requires jackhammering through rock to put up

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the posts, but Jones said he plans to have a

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fence put up now, and Gracie will stay in the

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ranch's giraffe enclosure until it's ready.

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It's like, right now, part of my neighbor's fence is

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down because a tree hit it. Yeah, and they have

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a dog and I don't know what kind of dog

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it is, but it growls at me and barks at

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me when I mowed the lawn. Yeah, and they like

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let it out because there was like a little section

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that was kind of had like a like a wire

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fence sort of. But I guess it's not there anymore,

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because she was just on the other side of the

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down tree, barking and growling at me because she hadn't

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figured out that she could step over the tree trunk yet.

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So it's like that eventually they figure it out.

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Though dog no dog sounds like a good judge of character.

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I mean, to be fair. She also barked and growls

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at my neighbor, So I don't think it's me. I

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think it's just people.

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We'll see.

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I'm not saying that dogs don't bark and growl at me.

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I'm just saying this one doesn't seem like it just

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specifically me.

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Okay, the other ones, Okay, I mean now, let's see,

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like you're coping really hard. But I mean, yeah, despite

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Gracie's size, she wouldn't have harmed a person who encountered

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her off the ranch. Joan said, quote, if you move

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toward her, she's taking off. She's cautious. That's good. I

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want to her. We all do. But we at Monthly

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Spooky want to say we're so happy Gracy is safe

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and sound. So that's a good a good ending to

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the story from last month. Yeah, but when we come back,

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we're going to some news in my own well not

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my literal backyard, but very close by me, uh where

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we talk about an unexpected guest in a residence bedroom

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right after this. So tell this story comes from w

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h io dot com, which is my local news. Oh yeah,

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although it's it's the stories from a little south of here,

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but it's still local. The headline reads, area deputies help

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wrangle snake inside residents bedroom.

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Better be a good snake.

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What's a good snake to you?

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I mean, I I wasn't really sure when I said

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that what I.

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Meant, so that's why I challenged it.

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Either a good snake is a snake that you really

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need to take out of a bedroom because it's dangerous,

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or a good snake is a nice snake that I

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just want to hear about.

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I'm not sure what's a nice snake? I mean, does

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it doesn't matter what type of snake it is.

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When that doesn't hurt you and then you touch it

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and it's soft like those kinds.

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Okay, that was the thing that you just that was

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the thing that you said. Butler County Sheriff's Deputies respond

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responded after a homeowner found a snake in their bedroom.

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According to a social media post, When when deputies arrived,

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the quote suspect had gone into hiding under the bed.

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After a little patience, teamwork ended some impressive detective work,

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Deputy Britney Koch safely captured the snake and relocated it

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to the backwoods.

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What kind of snake?

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It's not safe? It was softer anything so far? I'm sorry. Quote.

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I've always said, no two days are the same around here.

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One call, you're chasing a fugitive, the next you're chasing

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a snake under somebody's bed. Around Butler County, our deputies

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don't just catch bad guys. We catch anything that slithers, crawls, moves,

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bas or Bucks Sheriff Richard K. Jones said, this guy

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sounds all right. Yeah, I guess quote whether it's runaway goats,

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wandering cows, snake in the bedroom, or wanted criminals, no

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job is too big or too small for your Butler

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County Sheriff's deputies.

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Is that it?

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Then it says the suspect was released without bond into

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the woods.

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So we don't even know what kind of snake it was.

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No, damn, sorry man, It's okay. I guess were you

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excited to just imagine touching this little I just want

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squishy snake.

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I just wanted to know what kind of snake it was?

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That was it?

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Were you hoping for a certain type like one?

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Yeah? I was hoping for our kind that like it

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would be ridiculous to call someone about like a really

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small Yeah, yeah, you know, like the small ones.

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Like a corn snake or something.

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I mean, that's not the one I'm thinking of. But

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I can't remember what it's called. But I found it

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and I was touching it and it was like, oh no,

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and then it went away.

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Awesome.

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It was very soft.

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Yeah, this is this is the most bizarre. I don't

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even know how to I don't even know how to

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I just don't know how to process or where to

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put this information, you.

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Know, like, I don't know why this is so weird.

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But it is weird. Yeah, I know. Yeah, okay, okay,

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I just want to make sure from the same page.

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I'm sorry, that's strange. Do you like? What?

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What?

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Okay? So, if you're out in about yeah, and you

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see a snake, do you is your instinct to see

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if you can touch it? Apparently it's it's looking that way. Yes, yeah,

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what would you do with your Oh? Sorry? What? No? No, please,

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I don't remember. Oh. I was just gonna ask if

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you ever found a snake in your home.

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No, but I found them in my shed and in

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my grass, and that's it.

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And did you touch them? Yes? Okay, fair enough, Well

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not all of them, but were some of them dangerous?

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No, they were very small and they were not dangerous snakes.

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But you looked at them like you're not soft. I

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don't want to touch you.

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Well, no, you don't understand, I'll explain I clearly do.

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Please do So.

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I had not touched a snake before until a few

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years ago. Right, I didn't have any friends with snakes

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or anything. So there was one sunning itself on my driveway,

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I think, and I was like wow, So I touched

448
00:24:50.200 --> 00:24:53.440
it and I was like, it's the softest thing ever.

449
00:24:53.839 --> 00:24:56.559
So I got really excited. That's it.

450
00:24:57.759 --> 00:25:03.079
That's it. That's the story. I touched snakes because my

451
00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:07.799
dad had a snake. He had a big python, because

452
00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:10.559
of course he did, because he was a biker. He

453
00:25:10.599 --> 00:25:17.160
also had a monitor lizard. Yep. He'd feed them chunks

454
00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:17.960
of raw meat.

455
00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:20.200
That's nice, because.

456
00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:22.960
He said, you gotta feed well, well, no, he's fed

457
00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:28.240
the the snake got mice. It was his alligator that

458
00:25:28.319 --> 00:25:31.839
got raw meat. Because he said that if you feed

459
00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:36.039
an alligator something alive, it makes them aggressive, like, it

460
00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:38.960
makes them meaner. So he would always give them chunks

461
00:25:38.960 --> 00:25:42.480
of stuff because some people feed them like goldfish or whatever.

462
00:25:43.319 --> 00:25:44.680
And he was like, nah, I don't give him anything

463
00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:46.160
alive because it makes them aggressive.

464
00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:48.000
Yeah, you don't want to give him any sort of

465
00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:53.119
you know, cherry snacks.

466
00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:54.119
I mean, yeah, fruit stripe, gum, I mean the the

467
00:25:54.119 --> 00:25:56.960
the alligator will be mad because the flavor goes away

468
00:25:57.039 --> 00:26:02.880
so fast, super super mean. Yeah, oh that thing, give it,

469
00:26:02.920 --> 00:26:06.720
Give it a couple of fruit roll ups. Those sound nice.

470
00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:11.920
Were you a fruit roll up kid? I like, yeah,

471
00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:17.039
I was more Fruit by the Foot kid that was made. Yeah.

472
00:26:17.079 --> 00:26:18.599
I like the texture on Fruit by the Foot a

473
00:26:18.599 --> 00:26:22.240
little more as all. Okay, like fruit roll ups tasted good,

474
00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:24.279
but they did kind of taste like the plastic they

475
00:26:24.279 --> 00:26:27.319
came in, I mean like a texture wise. Yeah. Yeah,

476
00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:29.200
so that that turned me off just a little bit.

477
00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:30.359
I could see that.

478
00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:36.640
But yeah, there's actually I watched a YouTube documentary about

479
00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:40.880
fruit roll ups and it was actually really fascinating. I

480
00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:43.119
guess when they originally made them, they were literally just

481
00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:47.240
made out of like pounded strawberry pulp, Like they were

482
00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:50.599
actually pretty healthy. They were just like, it's just they

483
00:26:50.640 --> 00:26:54.119
had to make them shelf stable. Yeah, so over time

484
00:26:54.160 --> 00:26:56.519
they became a sugary stack. But originally it was like

485
00:26:56.960 --> 00:27:00.480
just flattened fruit. It's just that it would go badretty quickly,

486
00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:04.599
so you'd buy it and eat it right away. Oh yeah. Yeah.

487
00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:10.759
The things you learn on Monthly spooky. But the thing

488
00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:13.880
we're all going to learn when we get back is

489
00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:21.400
how Lansing, Michigan now has its very own cryptid Oh yeah,

490
00:27:21.839 --> 00:27:25.519
we're going to find out all the juicy details right

491
00:27:25.559 --> 00:27:37.160
after this. We're back, and we're heading up to Michigan,

492
00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:40.440
Lansing to be specific, have you been to Lansing, Michigan.

493
00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:42.559
I really like Lansing, Michigan.

494
00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:45.079
I've never been, but I've always wanted to check it out.

495
00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:47.599
You should go. I mean, I can't tell you anything

496
00:27:47.640 --> 00:27:50.400
cool to do there. The only thing I did was

497
00:27:50.480 --> 00:27:55.279
I went to Chipotle. Oh, and I ate food out

498
00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:57.519
of my car and I had a really bad cold.

499
00:27:58.240 --> 00:28:00.519
Oh right, I went to a CBS and I bought

500
00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:01.640
cold medicine.

501
00:28:01.880 --> 00:28:02.799
Oh.

502
00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:05.799
But also I played a really good show with a cold.

503
00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:08.240
So oh that's impressive.

504
00:28:08.839 --> 00:28:10.200
I couldn't really sing, so.

505
00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:13.039
But you said it was a good show.

506
00:28:13.319 --> 00:28:16.559
It was a great show somehow. And yeah, shout out

507
00:28:16.599 --> 00:28:18.400
to the person who got me tea.

508
00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:22.519
So oh I remember that. Yeah, I remember you talking

509
00:28:22.519 --> 00:28:24.160
about that because you were like, oh they brought they

510
00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:25.079
got me tea.

511
00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:27.400
I was sick. Yeah they're sweet.

512
00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:32.440
So where is Lancing? Like it's it's it's not a

513
00:28:32.680 --> 00:28:36.559
shrug she shrugged. Okay, fine, Uh well this is from

514
00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:42.119
Lancing citypolse dot com and the headline is Lancing's very

515
00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:44.119
own cryptid revealed.

516
00:28:46.440 --> 00:28:47.440
Yeah.

517
00:28:47.559 --> 00:28:48.880
I think that's exciting.

518
00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:52.279
Yeah, I mean, I don't have a cryptid so.

519
00:28:53.559 --> 00:28:57.359
You never will with that attitude. Hopefully, if you do,

520
00:28:57.400 --> 00:28:59.720
it's a snake, like a really big snake that's soft.

521
00:29:02.519 --> 00:29:12.279
Waldemar Camp counselors spill the baked beans about the hooga hooga, yeah,

522
00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:16.200
in the golden July sunshine, with the smell of wildflowers

523
00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:19.759
filling the air and every blade of grass in sharp focus.

524
00:29:20.200 --> 00:29:24.839
Lancing's one hundred and eighty acre Waldemor Nature Center doesn't

525
00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:29.359
feel like a place with a deep, dark secret, but

526
00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:37.039
it has one. Oh ooh. The clueless adult hikers, joggers, birders,

527
00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:41.319
and nature lovers who blithely trip along the Woldemer's five

528
00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:45.559
miles of wooded trails have no idea what lurks under

529
00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:51.359
their keynes and marrels. Somebody wrote this hard, like really

530
00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:55.759
broke this with purpose. But the secret is well known

531
00:29:55.880 --> 00:29:58.759
to thousands of young campers, many of whom have gone

532
00:29:58.759 --> 00:30:02.000
on to become camp count and pass the secret on

533
00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:08.480
to the next generation. They don't volunteer the information unless

534
00:30:08.519 --> 00:30:12.319
they're asked, but when you ask them, their eyes flash

535
00:30:12.440 --> 00:30:17.759
with a far away purple light. Okay, they will tell

536
00:30:17.799 --> 00:30:21.799
you about tell you that Waldemar is home to the

537
00:30:21.880 --> 00:30:27.400
hooga hooga mysterious hairy, secretive beings akin to Bigfoot. That

538
00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:32.839
tunnel in unknown numbers under the nature center's meadows, forests, streams,

539
00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:33.799
and wetlands.

540
00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:36.920
Wow.

541
00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:40.680
Tunnels take a lot of effort to dig too. Yeah,

542
00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:45.079
hooga hoogas are only found at Waldemar, nowhere else in

543
00:30:45.119 --> 00:30:45.680
the world.

544
00:30:46.599 --> 00:30:48.440
Wow.

545
00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:51.960
Just to be clear, Waldemar is a proper nonprofit nature

546
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:55.680
center rooted in level headed science. The staff doesn't even

547
00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:58.720
like it when you call it a park. The counselors

548
00:30:58.720 --> 00:31:02.680
and naturalists are always ready to teach about the life

549
00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:07.200
cycles of painted turtles, great blue herons, maple beach forests,

550
00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:12.880
native meadows, very soft snakes, and so on. Okay, I

551
00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:13.400
did that one.

552
00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:18.119
Well, thank you, I guess, but.

553
00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:20.880
It really lights them up to be the proud stewards

554
00:31:20.920 --> 00:31:25.240
of Lancing's very own cryptid as localized as the Lockness Monster,

555
00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:27.319
and as much an emblem of the city as the

556
00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:29.599
state capital or the Oldsmobile.

557
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:33.599
Oh, I didn't know that was from.

558
00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:36.880
There, Well Michigan, you know that was like the auto

559
00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:41.319
works originally originated there. And hooga hoogas not uh, and

560
00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:45.359
hugahoga is not the only secret at Waldemar. The nature

561
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:48.680
Center itself is one of Lancing's best kept secrets, a

562
00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:52.759
gorgeous swath of spacious meadows and rolling woodland that helps

563
00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:56.119
thousands of kids a year experience the joys of outdoor

564
00:31:56.200 --> 00:32:00.759
life and unravel the mysteries of nature. It's just that

565
00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:08.319
some of those mysteries are more mysterious than others. Mysterious

566
00:32:08.359 --> 00:32:16.759
mystery kids, Wow, Who's ready? The theme of last week's

567
00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:21.599
camp Discovery at Waldemar Under the Surface, was particularly appropriate.

568
00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:25.599
On the sunny, hot morning of July fourteenth, about eighty

569
00:32:25.759 --> 00:32:29.119
kids gathered near the converted barns on the nature Center's

570
00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:32.519
lush grounds to prepare for another day of the week

571
00:32:32.599 --> 00:32:35.759
long camp. About nine hundred kids attend day camp at

572
00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:39.640
Waldemar during the eleven weeks it's offered each summer. Waldemar

573
00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:43.880
executive director Kevin Warnett put the combined number of students

574
00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:47.359
served by the field trips from regional schools, educational programs

575
00:32:47.359 --> 00:32:50.319
and summer camps at five to six thousand a year.

576
00:32:52.839 --> 00:32:53.720
It's a lot of kids.

577
00:32:54.160 --> 00:32:56.240
Yeah, yeah, that's a bunch of kids. I guess.

578
00:32:56.319 --> 00:32:58.240
I don't really think did you ever go to day

579
00:32:58.279 --> 00:32:59.400
camp or anything like that.

580
00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:04.039
I'm not. I mean, maybe like a little I can't

581
00:33:04.079 --> 00:33:04.799
really remember.

582
00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:09.759
So okay, you don't remember much of your childhood.

583
00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:11.599
No, I just blocked it all out.

584
00:33:11.799 --> 00:33:16.720
Good for you. Must be nice, Must be nice. The day,

585
00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:20.079
campers poked under logs, turned over rocks, and took sample

586
00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:24.359
dips from the woodland pond, hunting for hidden organisms. Even

587
00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:26.559
before they set off into the woods, a few kids

588
00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:29.599
were bent to the ground watching a mole burrow into

589
00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:33.960
the grass near the barn. He's still down there, but

590
00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:38.279
let's not bother him. A counselor said it was all

591
00:33:38.359 --> 00:33:42.000
fun and educational, but there was something much more charismatic

592
00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:46.160
and elusive under the surface. At Woldemar, counselor Colum Shutler

593
00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:48.680
took a break from minding the kids to share the

594
00:33:48.759 --> 00:33:54.240
secret quote. They like bigfoot covered in fur. It was

595
00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:58.079
a legend. They looked like bigfoot covered in fur. It

596
00:33:58.200 --> 00:34:01.279
was a legend. Even before I started camping here. We

597
00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:04.000
never see them because they can get from one spot

598
00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:08.199
to another by underground tunnels. Shutler began camping at Waldemoor

599
00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:11.360
fifteen years ago at the age of five. See he

600
00:34:11.400 --> 00:34:16.000
can remember that, yeah, just saying.

601
00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:22.159
Yeah, So he didn't block out his fine fair enough.

602
00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:26.320
There's a lot of doubtful and apocryphal hooga booga lore,

603
00:34:26.519 --> 00:34:30.239
but some things are pretty much agreed upon. They are

604
00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:33.400
seven to nine feet tall, and they have brown black

605
00:34:33.480 --> 00:34:36.440
hair all over. Why are you your head?

606
00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:39.400
Because no one has ever seen one?

607
00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:42.679
Apparently no one alive.

608
00:34:43.800 --> 00:34:45.880
Okay, but the dead people are I mean, are the

609
00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:48.239
ghosts coming back and going like, okay, guys, so this

610
00:34:48.320 --> 00:34:49.159
is what it looked like.

611
00:34:49.400 --> 00:34:51.000
It's called the ouiji board.

612
00:34:51.880 --> 00:34:57.000
Oh sure, okay, they're they're using weedi boards to ask about.

613
00:34:56.719 --> 00:35:00.440
The things, or I guess evp. They could just be like,

614
00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:03.199
you know, like they hold up the thing and then

615
00:35:03.239 --> 00:35:04.679
they put it through all the things that he goes

616
00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:09.360
brown and black hair and they're like, whoa, it's real.

617
00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:13.719
Quote this, I love this. This is so perfect for

618
00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:17.519
like camping. Quote. You can repel them with grape jelly,

619
00:35:17.639 --> 00:35:22.440
which actually burns them on contact. Longtime camp counselor Patrick

620
00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:26.320
Reichl said, you can also do a huga hooga war

621
00:35:26.440 --> 00:35:29.920
dance a sign of aggression. Fortunately for us, it looks

622
00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:32.760
like the children. It looks a lot like the chicken dance,

623
00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:37.320
so it's easy to teach. Reichl first attended camp at

624
00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:41.119
Waldemar at age five and just never left. Quote he

625
00:35:41.239 --> 00:35:43.920
became a junior counselor in his teens and a senior

626
00:35:43.960 --> 00:35:48.320
counselor at eighteen. He's twenty seven now. Quote. In certain

627
00:35:48.440 --> 00:35:53.000
lighting conditions, the fur changes color. Reichel said. One of

628
00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:56.480
the colors you can perceive is purple. We've seen shades

629
00:35:56.519 --> 00:36:00.000
closer to orange. It varies from huga houga to hooga hooga.

630
00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:03.679
Another councilor reported that they flat out dyed their fur

631
00:36:03.840 --> 00:36:04.880
purple this summer.

632
00:36:06.199 --> 00:36:09.039
They're very fashionable and also, like I thought, no one

633
00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:11.119
had seen these, so I'm really confused.

634
00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:15.719
They are said to be fond of pad thaie and

635
00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:22.800
cheese sandwiches. Hmmm same, I mean big sand yeah. Quote. Allegedly,

636
00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:26.280
if a hooga hooga consumes a large amount of pad tie,

637
00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:30.400
it will undergo mitosis and divide into two hooga Hoogas

638
00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:34.840
Richel said, I only heard this once. It could be true,

639
00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:37.480
it could just be a story, or it could even

640
00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:42.800
be a hooga hooga pulling a joke on us a joke.

641
00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:46.320
Does that mean they can communicate with humans as a

642
00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:50.400
hooga meister or liaison to the creatures? Raikel helped to

643
00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:53.960
set the terms of an agreement that made Huga Hooga Island,

644
00:36:54.239 --> 00:36:56.480
a small bit of land in the Grand River off

645
00:36:56.519 --> 00:36:59.760
limits to humans. He thinks they picked up English from

646
00:36:59.800 --> 00:37:02.760
e dropping on counselors or campers.

647
00:37:03.159 --> 00:37:03.840
That makes sense.

648
00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:06.920
I like that they made a little island dedicated to

649
00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:11.199
the Hooga Hooga. The island has the only known entrance

650
00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:14.199
to a Hooga Hooga tunnel. He said, we didn't want

651
00:37:14.199 --> 00:37:19.599
to disrupt their comings and goings. Wow, so we learned

652
00:37:19.599 --> 00:37:23.480
a lot about the Hooga Hooga we did. Doesn't like

653
00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:27.960
grape jelly, loves pad tie and cheese sandwiches and cheese sandwiches.

654
00:37:27.960 --> 00:37:30.559
I mean, I love grape jelly, pad tie and cheese sandwiches. Man.

655
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:32.239
I can really, I can really feel that I've been

656
00:37:32.239 --> 00:37:34.280
on a fast now that I'm talking about cheese sandwiches

657
00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:38.559
and pad tie. But that's Lancing's very own cryptid and

658
00:37:38.559 --> 00:37:42.960
I love that because the best part about ghost stories

659
00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:46.559
and Bigfoot and stuff like that is that kind of

660
00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:49.639
fun element, that element when you're a kid and it's

661
00:37:49.719 --> 00:37:53.199
whispered on the school bus or at a camp fire

662
00:37:53.519 --> 00:37:56.719
or at a sleepover or whatever, or your older sibling

663
00:37:57.000 --> 00:38:00.079
terrorizes you with it. It's a it's kind of a

664
00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:02.800
joy to me, Like so, I love that they're kind

665
00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:06.039
of sharing this kind of fun stuff with those kids

666
00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:08.360
who are already out there learning about nature. It makes

667
00:38:08.360 --> 00:38:12.280
me happy. It makes me smile. Yeah, yeah, But you

668
00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:13.760
know what doesn't make me smile?

669
00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:15.159
I don't know.

670
00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:18.880
Japan, which is where we're heading for our next story

671
00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:31.239
right after this quick quick break. All right, Celle, you

672
00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:33.760
ready to head to Yapine?

673
00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:36.000
Sure?

674
00:38:36.280 --> 00:38:37.079
Is that how you say it?

675
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:37.880
No?

676
00:38:38.519 --> 00:38:40.199
How do you say it?

677
00:38:40.599 --> 00:38:41.400
You mean Japan?

678
00:38:41.920 --> 00:38:43.079
Yeah? In Japanese?

679
00:38:43.480 --> 00:38:47.039
Andon, Yeah.

680
00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:50.119
Oh, I feel like I knew that the moment you

681
00:38:50.119 --> 00:38:53.920
said it, you definitely did well. I chose to forget

682
00:38:54.079 --> 00:38:58.000
it made me happier. This headline is from the Times

683
00:38:58.039 --> 00:39:02.199
of India or India Times or when it's Times of

684
00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:05.960
India dot India Times dot com. H okay, well, okay,

685
00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:09.159
but the headline is would you spend a night in

686
00:39:09.239 --> 00:39:14.239
a haunted house for eighty eight thousand yen inside Japan's

687
00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:19.199
bizarre real estate job proving homes are ghost free? Oh man,

688
00:39:20.039 --> 00:39:20.920
have you heard about this?

689
00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:23.719
No? I want to do that. That's my new job,

690
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:24.440
damn it.

691
00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:28.840
And that's not that much money. It's four hundred and

692
00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:30.079
eighty eight US dollars.

693
00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:32.440
Yes, yeah, it's not that much money.

694
00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:36.440
But it's for one day, that's true, I think. And

695
00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:38.400
it's at night too, so you could even do something

696
00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:41.199
else and then go do that at night maybe.

697
00:39:41.599 --> 00:39:42.519
I guess.

698
00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:46.480
Well, let's let's find out before you before you go

699
00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:48.840
go getting your work permit.

700
00:39:49.599 --> 00:39:50.760
That would be so cool.

701
00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:55.400
Okay, sorry, I wonder what the snakes are like in Japan.

702
00:39:55.440 --> 00:39:57.199
Do you think they're soft?

703
00:39:57.800 --> 00:39:59.559
Yes, I think they're soft.

704
00:40:03.400 --> 00:40:08.880
Japan's unusual ghost investigation job is attracting attention as specialists

705
00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:12.199
are being hired to spend an entire night inside so

706
00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:19.960
called haunted houses to prove they are free of paranormal activity. Oh,

707
00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:24.239
I mean, you know, I guess that's a real concern.

708
00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:25.800
It is. It is.

709
00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:30.840
The service costs eighty eight thousand yen per property and

710
00:40:30.960 --> 00:40:33.760
is helping owners sell or rent homes that have been

711
00:40:33.800 --> 00:40:39.039
abandoned because of their tragic past. So many homes have

712
00:40:39.079 --> 00:40:41.239
a tragic Oh it's Japan, never mind.

713
00:40:41.679 --> 00:40:45.119
And also like yeah, but also like in Japan, like

714
00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:48.960
what I think, like once you've like had a home

715
00:40:49.320 --> 00:40:52.239
and then goes like vacant, like no one wants it anymore,

716
00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:54.400
Like they don't want it.

717
00:40:55.159 --> 00:40:57.280
Yeah, like that scene and toy story, I don't want

718
00:40:57.360 --> 00:40:59.079
you anymore and they drop him.

719
00:40:59.440 --> 00:41:00.760
Yeah like that.

720
00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:07.320
The business has emerged as thousands of Jico Buchan. That's

721
00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:10.119
what it says. J I ko b u k k e.

722
00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:14.320
N okay yeah close knopoly.

723
00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:19.480
Or stigmatized properties across Japan remain vacant, with many people

724
00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:22.880
refusing to buy or rent them because someone died under

725
00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:28.840
distressing circumstances. This shell that should be your next comic.

726
00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:33.079
It could be. It could be this like intro introvert

727
00:41:33.119 --> 00:41:36.280
girl who loves soft snakes who moves to Japan to

728
00:41:36.599 --> 00:41:39.760
UH to investigate Jico buchan for money because she's not

729
00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:42.360
good at UH because she tried to like be an

730
00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:44.800
English instructor but was really bad at it and felt

731
00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:49.079
bad that she was teaching people English poorly. Yeah, that

732
00:41:49.119 --> 00:41:53.119
could be really funny. Actually, she could encounter all kinds

733
00:41:53.159 --> 00:41:59.039
of fun ghosts and watch people and people could eat

734
00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:02.840
like anime characters, So it's really goofy. Yeah, okay, okay,

735
00:42:03.239 --> 00:42:06.519
you're like, I'm kind of sold now, sure, if I'm honest,

736
00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:09.639
I don't know. I think that would honestly, I think

737
00:42:09.639 --> 00:42:12.559
you would be really funny. But anyway, what are Japan's

738
00:42:12.599 --> 00:42:17.039
jico buchan or stigmatized properties? Exactly? There are properties where

739
00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:20.559
a suicide, murder, fatal fire, or what Japan calls a

740
00:42:20.760 --> 00:42:24.760
quote lonely death, which is when an elderly person dies

741
00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:29.119
alone and remains undiscovered. Oh, places where those things have occurred.

742
00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:31.840
This is exactly what I said. Oh right, Japan, Oh right, Japan.

743
00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:35.039
I was referring to this stuff immediately. Do you ever

744
00:42:35.079 --> 00:42:37.960
watch The Forest, the film about the Japanese suicide forest.

745
00:42:38.199 --> 00:42:39.159
No, I don't think I have.

746
00:42:39.639 --> 00:42:42.000
It was an okay horror movie, but there is a

747
00:42:42.119 --> 00:42:49.159
Japanese suicide forest, which is something. Yeah, I mean it's.

748
00:42:48.159 --> 00:42:52.039
Not just for suicide. It's a place that a lot

749
00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:53.199
of people kill themselves.

750
00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:55.639
It's very popular for suicide.

751
00:42:55.880 --> 00:42:58.719
Yes, but it's not just for suicide. Oh, it's just

752
00:42:58.719 --> 00:43:01.840
to the top, throw there and walk around in kill you.

753
00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:06.119
Well okay, but see that's see though, that's misleading the

754
00:43:06.199 --> 00:43:08.679
statistics though, because people who go there to kill themselves

755
00:43:08.679 --> 00:43:11.159
go and walk around as well. So like most people

756
00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:13.719
just go there to walk around, Like twice as many

757
00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:15.480
people walk around as kill themselves like ah, but the

758
00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:19.320
people kill themselves walk around too. Yeah, okay, I see

759
00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:21.920
what you're playing. I see you. You're like the Pew

760
00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:27.000
Research Fellows. One such two story house in Yokohama has

761
00:43:27.079 --> 00:43:30.639
reportedly remained empty for at least five years. Although the

762
00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:34.079
structure can be renovated into a comfortable home, its history

763
00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:39.079
has made it nearly impossible to attract buyers to According

764
00:43:39.079 --> 00:43:43.880
to Kasuoshi Kodama, sorry, had ads started playing in my

765
00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:45.840
ears while I was trying to pronounce Japanese at the

766
00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:50.880
same time. That was very challenging. Kazutoshi Kodama, president of

767
00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:57.360
property management company Kachimodi Kachimode. Many Japanese people associate death

768
00:43:57.440 --> 00:44:02.360
with impurity and bad luck. Quote death equates to impurity

769
00:44:02.400 --> 00:44:07.320
and misfortune, Kodama told DW, explaining that many people avoid

770
00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:11.199
even visiting such homes, let alone buying or renting them.

771
00:44:11.199 --> 00:44:15.840
While they won't even visit them Wow. To help property

772
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:19.840
owners overcome these fears, Kaci Mode offers what is called

773
00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:23.920
a ghost investigation. Investigators stay inside the property from ten

774
00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:28.920
pm until six am. That's not even that long, using

775
00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:34.559
video cameras, audio recorders, thermography equipment, electromagnetic wave detectors and

776
00:44:34.679 --> 00:44:39.079
sensors that monitor room temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, and noise levels.

777
00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:42.400
This is basically just being a home inspector.

778
00:44:42.480 --> 00:44:45.119
Dude, Hey, it's more like being a ghost honor.

779
00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:50.480
But in a home inspecte kind of way. Yeah. Yeah.

780
00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:52.880
The objective is to verify that the house has been

781
00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:57.039
fully refurbished after the incident and to determine whether there

782
00:44:57.079 --> 00:45:03.880
is any evidence of ghosts, poltergeist activity, or other unexplained phenomena.

783
00:45:04.039 --> 00:45:06.880
After the overnight inspection, which costs eighty eight thousand and yen,

784
00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:11.000
the company provides a detailed report that real estate agents

785
00:45:11.039 --> 00:45:14.320
can share with potential buyers and tenants as evidence there

786
00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:17.239
are no lingering bad spirits. That sounds like a home

787
00:45:17.239 --> 00:45:17.920
inspector to me.

788
00:45:18.679 --> 00:45:20.800
It kind of does. But now I'm thinking, like, this

789
00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:22.559
is a lot of work, and I'll just keep home

790
00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:25.039
inspecting because at least I don't have to do it overnight.

791
00:45:25.880 --> 00:45:27.880
That's true, but it's ten am to ten pm to

792
00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:31.079
six am, so like you're gonna sleep a good chunk

793
00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:31.320
of that?

794
00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:33.559
Am I really going to? Or do? I have so

795
00:45:33.679 --> 00:45:35.719
much work to do because I got to like make

796
00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:37.920
sure there's no ghosts in this room, in that room

797
00:45:38.039 --> 00:45:41.679
and deck, all the temperatures, maybe I can't sleep, Maybe

798
00:45:41.719 --> 00:45:43.559
I have to stay awake the whole time to make sure.

799
00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:45.480
What if when I'm sleeping the ghosts come out and

800
00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:47.239
they don't wake me up and they're just hanging out.

801
00:45:48.760 --> 00:45:52.599
I think it's probably much more automated than you'd think.

802
00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:55.639
I don't know, and then you've got to write a report.

803
00:45:57.320 --> 00:46:01.199
That's true. Kodama also works with the university professor who

804
00:46:01.239 --> 00:46:05.760
specialized specializes in monitoring supernatural phenomena, which makes the service

805
00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:10.920
one of its kind in Japan. Kodama admitted that the

806
00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:16.320
equipment has occasionally recorded unusual incidents, including video cameras unexpectedly

807
00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:20.079
stopping and microphone's malfunctioning. However, he said that in the

808
00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:24.400
overwhelming majority of cases, the supposed paranormal activity cannot be

809
00:46:24.440 --> 00:46:30.440
reproduced and is dismissed. It as dismissed as an isolated occurrence. Yeah,

810
00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:33.760
so that's I mean, yeah, that's what they want you

811
00:46:33.840 --> 00:46:35.679
to think. No matter what happens, they just say it's

812
00:46:35.719 --> 00:46:36.239
not haunted.

813
00:46:36.639 --> 00:46:39.119
I mean, I mean, it probably isn't good for anyone

814
00:46:39.159 --> 00:46:41.480
if they say it's haunted. But then again, like if

815
00:46:41.480 --> 00:46:44.880
somebody new moves in or buys it or whatever and

816
00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:47.719
it is haunted. Can you like sue them?

817
00:46:48.039 --> 00:46:51.119
Can I would? Yeah, I would sue the hell out

818
00:46:51.119 --> 00:46:51.400
of them.

819
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:54.000
Well, I mean, maybe there's like a thing on it

820
00:46:54.039 --> 00:46:56.760
that says like this is just a snapshot of when

821
00:46:56.800 --> 00:47:00.000
we were there, and there's you can't prove it for sure,

822
00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:04.039
and the most you can claim is what the inspection costs.

823
00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:07.960
He added that there are a small number of properties

824
00:47:07.960 --> 00:47:12.079
where unexplained events reportedly continue over extended periods, making them

825
00:47:12.239 --> 00:47:17.119
especially difficult to rent or sell. Japanese law requires estate

826
00:47:17.159 --> 00:47:20.719
agents to disclose the history of stigmatized properties to prospective

827
00:47:20.760 --> 00:47:24.719
buyers and tenants. Dedicated websites even list the locations of

828
00:47:24.719 --> 00:47:29.239
such homes and explain why they earn their label. As

829
00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:32.400
a result, landlords are often forced to slash rents by

830
00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:36.159
around thirty percent in major cities, while in smaller towns

831
00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:38.599
rents can fall by fifty percent.

832
00:47:39.440 --> 00:47:40.079
Wow.

833
00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:43.400
Some homes remain vacant for five hundred days, and Kodama

834
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:45.840
said he knows of one property that stayed empty for

835
00:47:45.880 --> 00:47:51.920
more than one thousand days despite repeated attempts to find tenants.

836
00:47:52.599 --> 00:47:53.239
Wow.

837
00:47:55.559 --> 00:47:58.920
The issue is becoming more significant as Japan's vacant homes

838
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:02.400
continue to rise. A government survey conducted in late twenty

839
00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:05.719
twenty four found that the country had nine million empty homes,

840
00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:10.480
representing thirteen point eight percent of all residential properties. While

841
00:48:10.559 --> 00:48:14.719
population decline, inheritance disputes, and aging communities contribute to the problem,

842
00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:21.280
cultural beliefs surrounding death also play a major role. I mean, yeah,

843
00:48:21.400 --> 00:48:27.280
they're they're in trouble. That's not great. Yeah, that is

844
00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:29.039
not great.

845
00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:37.119
There's places around here that have lots of vacant houses.

846
00:48:37.159 --> 00:48:37.639
I don't know.

847
00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:40.920
I don't think it's because no one wants to live there.

848
00:48:41.039 --> 00:48:44.079
I think it's just that, I mean, unless it's geographically

849
00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:46.559
like I don't it's not close to work. But it's

850
00:48:46.599 --> 00:48:48.719
not like I don't want to live there because of

851
00:48:48.800 --> 00:48:51.559
the cursed Bent Neck ghost thing.

852
00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:54.800
Maybe that's just why people say they don't want to

853
00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:56.800
live there. But they're probably like other things, like they're

854
00:48:56.800 --> 00:48:58.360
trying to be polite. It's like the house is like

855
00:48:58.400 --> 00:49:01.960
falling down. They're like there's a there's ghosts. I'm sure

856
00:49:01.960 --> 00:49:03.679
some WoT want it, but there's ghosts.

857
00:49:03.840 --> 00:49:06.320
Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't the faucet, no, yeah, no, it

858
00:49:06.360 --> 00:49:10.360
wasn't that fawcet. Well, when we take a break, we're

859
00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:13.679
going to uh, we're gonna get ourselves nice and cozy

860
00:49:13.719 --> 00:49:16.599
and tuck away in a little drawer. You'll see what

861
00:49:16.639 --> 00:49:31.920
I mean right after this. So, Chell, Yes, have you

862
00:49:31.960 --> 00:49:35.480
ever opened a drawer in your home or never?

863
00:49:35.920 --> 00:49:35.960
Not?

864
00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:36.400
Once?

865
00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:36.800
No?

866
00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:41.480
Damn lucky. I guess. Have you ever opened a drawer

867
00:49:41.519 --> 00:49:43.159
at your house or your mom's house or whatever and

868
00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:45.639
found something and been like, Holy crap, I totally forgot

869
00:49:45.679 --> 00:49:46.039
about that?

870
00:49:46.760 --> 00:49:47.159
Sure?

871
00:49:48.079 --> 00:49:51.119
Can you think of an example? No? Was it like

872
00:49:51.119 --> 00:49:54.920
an item from your childhood or like a something you

873
00:49:54.920 --> 00:49:56.400
were saving for some reason?

874
00:49:57.960 --> 00:50:00.400
How about life? Just a T shirt that I did No,

875
00:50:00.760 --> 00:50:01.440
I still had?

876
00:50:01.679 --> 00:50:05.719
Sure? Yeah that works. Yeah. What if instead of that

877
00:50:05.800 --> 00:50:07.920
you found an incredibly rare.

878
00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:12.159
Fossil that I had for my childhood?

879
00:50:12.639 --> 00:50:14.559
Maybe? Well, I mean it would be older than your childhood,

880
00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:15.559
so that's not impossible.

881
00:50:16.159 --> 00:50:17.760
Okay, that would be fine.

882
00:50:18.559 --> 00:50:21.559
This Huffington Post article really caught my attention because the

883
00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:25.360
headline is rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica found tucked away

884
00:50:25.760 --> 00:50:31.400
in a drawer. The priceless Titanosaur fossil was discovered in

885
00:50:31.559 --> 00:50:34.599
nineteen eighty five. During an expedition to Antarctica, but was

886
00:50:34.639 --> 00:50:42.079
tucked away for decades, only being found recently. Okay. The

887
00:50:42.119 --> 00:50:44.679
bone comes from the tail of a long necked plant

888
00:50:44.679 --> 00:50:49.920
eating dinosaur called Titanosaur. Scientists haven't yet identified the species

889
00:50:49.920 --> 00:50:53.360
it belongs to. It was discovered in nineteen eighty five

890
00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:56.800
during an expedition to Antarctica's James Ross Island and collected

891
00:50:56.800 --> 00:51:00.679
by geologist Mike Thompson working with the British antarct Survey.

892
00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:04.239
Thompson was mapping the area's rock layers and collected marine

893
00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:08.079
reptile fossils to help with future dating efforts. He recorded

894
00:51:08.119 --> 00:51:12.920
the find as a large reptile. Decades later, paleontologist Mark

895
00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:16.719
Evans spotted the bone in the British Antarctic Surveys collections

896
00:51:17.000 --> 00:51:19.760
and wondered whether it might be a dinosaur. He and

897
00:51:19.800 --> 00:51:22.519
other researchers analyzed the shape of the bone and compared

898
00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:26.480
it to other complete dinosaur remains, confirming their discovery. The

899
00:51:26.519 --> 00:51:29.480
findings were published on Monday in the journal of Acta

900
00:51:29.559 --> 00:51:39.719
pale Paleontological Telgica Polonica. I did fine, I will say, like,

901
00:51:40.519 --> 00:51:45.920
how dumb would you feel? Like? Oh? Just nobody ever

902
00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:47.480
thought to look in that drawer. I don't know, it's

903
00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:48.960
just over there on that side of the room, Like

904
00:51:49.000 --> 00:51:51.960
the light lighting's not good there. It's just that's not

905
00:51:52.039 --> 00:51:55.480
where we really spend our time. You know. It's not

906
00:51:55.559 --> 00:52:00.800
in the drawer marked really rare lost Antarctic fossils, So

907
00:52:00.880 --> 00:52:04.800
we just didn't notice it, do I The sock drawer,

908
00:52:05.199 --> 00:52:07.800
the sock drawer, Yeah, just said socks, and then under

909
00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:09.599
it said and other stuff. And I didn't even think

910
00:52:09.639 --> 00:52:12.880
what other stuff could be. I thought it was underwear, yeah,

911
00:52:13.039 --> 00:52:16.760
or just different kinds of socks, or like those socks

912
00:52:16.800 --> 00:52:22.079
that are kind of slippers, slipper socks. Didn't know, Yeah,

913
00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:27.400
what a gaff. But also like it was logged as

914
00:52:27.440 --> 00:52:31.400
a reptile, as a large reptile bone in Antarctica. Wouldn't

915
00:52:31.400 --> 00:52:33.480
you think somebody would go, hey, maybe that's a dinosaur,

916
00:52:33.519 --> 00:52:37.800
because that's like much more likely than a large reptile.

917
00:52:38.199 --> 00:52:40.599
No, because dinosaurs are really old.

918
00:52:40.920 --> 00:52:45.480
So yeah, so it's Antarctica. They I guess you're like

919
00:52:45.519 --> 00:52:48.480
a guess how old? How old would you say Antarctica is?

920
00:52:49.039 --> 00:52:54.039
I don't know, like like really old, yeah, at least

921
00:52:54.039 --> 00:52:55.480
as old as me, if not.

922
00:53:01.559 --> 00:53:06.880
Well played dinosaur fossils are rare to find in Antarctica

923
00:53:07.159 --> 00:53:10.480
because of the unforgiving ice caps. But millions of years ago,

924
00:53:10.559 --> 00:53:14.920
when this dinosaur lived, the region was populated by lush forests,

925
00:53:15.440 --> 00:53:19.440
a quote rather different and much more hospitable place than

926
00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:23.039
we think of today, said study co author Paul Barrett

927
00:53:23.079 --> 00:53:26.000
with the Natural History Museum in London. Don't worry, Chell,

928
00:53:26.039 --> 00:53:28.320
it would still have like the the like three months

929
00:53:28.360 --> 00:53:29.199
of just nighttime.

930
00:53:29.719 --> 00:53:32.320
Okay, okay, as long as it could be like warm

931
00:53:32.360 --> 00:53:33.920
but also nighttime.

932
00:53:33.679 --> 00:53:38.159
That's fine. I like how when we talk about Antarctica,

933
00:53:38.159 --> 00:53:39.639
you're like, I only want to go during the time

934
00:53:39.639 --> 00:53:45.800
when they're positive. People will go insane. Yeah, please, please please.

935
00:53:47.039 --> 00:53:49.719
At about twenty three feet or seven meters long, the

936
00:53:49.800 --> 00:53:52.360
dinosaur was small for its group and may have been

937
00:53:52.440 --> 00:53:56.440
young when it died. Oh no, well, now I'm sad.

938
00:53:56.880 --> 00:54:02.039
Shows over the dinosaur wash. Sorry. Scientists don't know how

939
00:54:02.079 --> 00:54:05.039
the creature met its end, but they think its body

940
00:54:05.079 --> 00:54:07.719
floated away from the coast and sank to the seafloor,

941
00:54:08.079 --> 00:54:13.000
becoming fossilized in marine rock. Technology has come a long

942
00:54:13.039 --> 00:54:16.519
way since the dinosaur tailbone was first found, allowing researchers

943
00:54:16.519 --> 00:54:19.800
to peer inside the bones and gain even more detail

944
00:54:19.880 --> 00:54:25.119
information about ancient creatures. Thompson died in twenty twenty before

945
00:54:25.119 --> 00:54:28.360
the fossil was identified as belonging to a dinosaur. Well,

946
00:54:28.400 --> 00:54:29.679
at least didn't have to feel dumb.

947
00:54:30.360 --> 00:54:31.440
Yeah that's true.

948
00:54:32.159 --> 00:54:35.239
Is walk into his nursing home. Hey, idiot, guess what

949
00:54:35.440 --> 00:54:38.559
this was? A dinosaur? People were like looking for So

950
00:54:38.840 --> 00:54:40.960
anyway you suck.

951
00:54:42.639 --> 00:54:45.079
It'd be like were you?

952
00:54:46.079 --> 00:54:48.599
Who are you? God? You got it here? What do

953
00:54:48.639 --> 00:54:54.320
you want from me? Take the silverware? I go quote.

954
00:54:54.400 --> 00:54:56.360
If he were still with us, he would be delighted

955
00:54:56.360 --> 00:55:00.039
to know what this was. Evans, a study co author, said, No,

956
00:55:00.360 --> 00:55:02.320
I feel like I feel like I'm right.

957
00:55:03.519 --> 00:55:05.280
I think he'd be delighted.

958
00:55:05.639 --> 00:55:10.199
But sure, okay, yeah, I like my answer more.

959
00:55:10.239 --> 00:55:13.880
But but okay, I mean sometimes you just have a

960
00:55:13.920 --> 00:55:16.599
bone in a drawer and then someone's like, hey, is

961
00:55:16.599 --> 00:55:19.719
a dinosaur bone, and you're like, really, that's awesome.

962
00:55:20.119 --> 00:55:23.480
So I don't know, you're like, say what, homie, no,

963
00:55:23.639 --> 00:55:29.679
cap Yeah, those things. So before we take a break

964
00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:34.800
and look into a shocking mystery. I think I've asked

965
00:55:34.800 --> 00:55:36.360
you this before, but when you were growing up, did

966
00:55:36.400 --> 00:55:39.800
anybody ever talk about the Jersey devil. No, you were

967
00:55:39.800 --> 00:55:41.679
talking about cryptid. I had a feeling it was. The

968
00:55:41.679 --> 00:55:43.679
answer was no, because it sounds like nobody you hung

969
00:55:43.719 --> 00:55:46.519
out with cared about cool scary stuff.

970
00:55:46.760 --> 00:55:49.199
I mean pretty much. And also, yes, my family was

971
00:55:49.199 --> 00:55:50.360
not from New Jersey.

972
00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:53.320
No, but you lived in South Jersey for a long time.

973
00:55:53.519 --> 00:55:55.639
No, I lived in central New Jersey.

974
00:55:56.400 --> 00:55:59.800
I I think this is because I lived in No. No, no, no, no,

975
00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:02.679
I'm not saying you just live No. I think because

976
00:56:02.679 --> 00:56:05.079
I only lived in North Jersey, I see that as

977
00:56:05.079 --> 00:56:08.400
South Jersey. Okay, well you're not trying to pull something

978
00:56:08.440 --> 00:56:10.320
on you, but I'm like, oh man, you know, that

979
00:56:10.440 --> 00:56:12.760
was a formative time in my life. I think I

980
00:56:12.760 --> 00:56:16.400
I think I have that little like unintentional like you know,

981
00:56:16.480 --> 00:56:18.840
like a grandma who's a little racist and doesn't know it.

982
00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:22.119
Like I totally think I have like the smallest bit

983
00:56:22.159 --> 00:56:24.840
of like, well that ain't that ain't North Jersey, that's

984
00:56:24.880 --> 00:56:27.760
South Jersey. Like because I lived in North Jersey and

985
00:56:27.800 --> 00:56:30.159
it doesn't take a lot to pick up on the

986
00:56:30.239 --> 00:56:33.679
attitude towards South Jersey. Did Central Jersey have an attitude

987
00:56:33.719 --> 00:56:35.920
like whoa, whoa, We're not South Jersey? Yeah?

988
00:56:35.920 --> 00:56:38.239
Because no, one believes that central New Jersey's there, and

989
00:56:38.239 --> 00:56:40.760
it's like it's in the middle. It's right in the middle, Like,

990
00:56:40.800 --> 00:56:42.039
what do you mean, it's not real?

991
00:56:42.519 --> 00:56:46.559
So yeah, I mean, well, but in defense, I won't

992
00:56:46.559 --> 00:56:49.000
say you grew up in South Jersey, but you did

993
00:56:49.000 --> 00:56:53.840
grow up much closer to the pine barrens than most people.

994
00:56:54.360 --> 00:56:57.239
Yeah, but most of the people that I grew up

995
00:56:57.280 --> 00:57:01.119
near were in New Jersey. Like of people, they had

996
00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:02.320
moved from New.

997
00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:05.199
York for the most part, or checks out.

998
00:57:05.239 --> 00:57:08.400
From like other countries. Like they it wasn't like they

999
00:57:08.440 --> 00:57:10.519
were like Piney's in my town or something.

1000
00:57:12.360 --> 00:57:15.119
Man, if I had grown up in in in that

1001
00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:18.000
part of your almost at South Jersey, if I had

1002
00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:20.440
grown up in that part of Jersey, I would I

1003
00:57:20.480 --> 00:57:24.679
would have been like hungry for Jersey Devil stories, like immediately.

1004
00:57:24.679 --> 00:57:28.079
Yeah, you have to know about it first.

1005
00:57:27.800 --> 00:57:30.400
Though, Oh I would know because I knew about the

1006
00:57:30.440 --> 00:57:33.880
Jersey Devil when I was a teenager. I know because

1007
00:57:33.920 --> 00:57:35.679
I watched the History Channel and stuff.

1008
00:57:35.760 --> 00:57:36.960
They're just that cool.

1009
00:57:37.960 --> 00:57:40.400
Yeah, cool, Yeah, that's what all the kids in school said,

1010
00:57:40.400 --> 00:57:44.880
Why beat me up, You're so cool? Punch punch punch,

1011
00:57:46.039 --> 00:57:46.639
Because they.

1012
00:57:47.039 --> 00:57:49.840
Were they were ashamed of how cool you were, and

1013
00:57:49.880 --> 00:57:52.800
they felt him back, they felt, you know, jealous.

1014
00:57:53.400 --> 00:57:56.800
That's fair. Yeah, that's fair. Hey loser, Let's see if

1015
00:57:56.800 --> 00:57:59.960
the lock this monster helps this bleeding stop. Punch punch.

1016
00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:06.400
But that was my Yeah, we're gonna take a quick break,

1017
00:58:06.440 --> 00:58:08.559
and when we get back, we're going to talk about

1018
00:58:08.679 --> 00:58:23.960
a shocking mystery revealed after this, we're back and now

1019
00:58:23.960 --> 00:58:29.079
we're heading to the New York Post. Oh. The headline reads,

1020
00:58:29.239 --> 00:58:36.000
shocking mystery revealed in centuries old royal tombs at Queen's monastery.

1021
00:58:36.800 --> 00:58:42.119
Okay, yeah, means like the place queens.

1022
00:58:43.280 --> 00:58:50.559
Ah. No, oh, I also thought it meant queens when researchers,

1023
00:58:51.840 --> 00:58:57.679
I'm sorry, when researchers in Barcelona recently opened centuries old

1024
00:58:57.800 --> 00:59:03.840
royal tombs, they uncovered a startling mystery. Several contained the

1025
00:59:03.880 --> 00:59:04.840
wrong people.

1026
00:59:06.239 --> 00:59:07.440
Yeah, I could see that.

1027
00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:09.039
You feel like that's a normal thing.

1028
00:59:09.760 --> 00:59:14.000
Yeah, basically, yeah, how does that happen? Maybe they get

1029
00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:17.159
stolen and somebody else put someone in there, or they

1030
00:59:17.199 --> 00:59:20.360
get lost. I don't know how that happens. Like, hey,

1031
00:59:20.360 --> 00:59:21.400
open thing.

1032
00:59:23.760 --> 00:59:28.440
Fair enough. The exhumations took place at the royal Monastery

1033
00:59:28.480 --> 00:59:35.639
of Santa Maria de pa Brades in pedrel pedrobis pedbas.

1034
00:59:36.199 --> 00:59:39.000
Never seen that word in my entire life. In Barcelona, Spain,

1035
00:59:39.320 --> 00:59:42.719
a nearly seven hundred year old Gothic monastery founded by

1036
00:59:42.800 --> 00:59:50.760
Queen Elessenda Montegra. So that's the queen okay, sorry, the

1037
00:59:50.800 --> 00:59:54.920
wife of King James the second of Aragon. Alessinda founded

1038
00:59:54.920 --> 00:59:58.760
the monastery in thirteen twenty six, and to mark its

1039
00:59:58.800 --> 01:00:04.719
seven hundredth anniverse researchers wrapped up a multidisciplinary investigation into

1040
01:00:04.760 --> 01:00:08.800
its medieval tombs. I like this multidisciplinary.

1041
01:00:10.679 --> 01:00:16.159
I guess, like what like archaeologists and oh yeah, multiple disciplines.

1042
01:00:16.199 --> 01:00:19.039
That makes more sense. Yeah. First I thought, I was like, Hey,

1043
01:00:19.360 --> 01:00:21.360
we're gonna have to beat you guys up for doing

1044
01:00:21.400 --> 01:00:22.800
a bad job, and.

1045
01:00:22.760 --> 01:00:26.000
Then we're gonna give you a really good talking to, yeah,

1046
01:00:26.480 --> 01:00:27.639
to take away your phone.

1047
01:00:28.199 --> 01:00:34.480
Yeah yeah yeah. Local officials have now shared the first

1048
01:00:34.519 --> 01:00:39.199
results of a three year excavation and research project, which

1049
01:00:39.239 --> 01:00:44.079
provided several unexpected discoveries. They found that many of the

1050
01:00:44.159 --> 01:00:48.559
remains did not belong to the people assigned to the tombs. Quote.

1051
01:00:48.599 --> 01:00:51.239
One of the project's most significant findings is that the

1052
01:00:51.280 --> 01:00:55.119
opening of several tombs showed that identities historically assigned to

1053
01:00:55.199 --> 01:00:59.000
them do not necessarily correspond with the remains found inside.

1054
01:00:59.480 --> 01:01:03.079
The release noted, which was translated from Catalan. Of course

1055
01:01:03.119 --> 01:01:07.639
it was in the tube of Catalan. In the tomb

1056
01:01:07.719 --> 01:01:12.800
of Artaro de Fosses, researchers found no male individual. Instead,

1057
01:01:12.840 --> 01:01:16.480
they discovered the remains of five people to adult women

1058
01:01:16.599 --> 01:01:22.679
and three children. The sheer number of skeletons found was surprising,

1059
01:01:23.159 --> 01:01:29.599
said WHOA, I've never seen that name. It's Enrique E

1060
01:01:29.760 --> 01:01:34.079
nri c instead of Enrico andriterested that would be a

1061
01:01:34.119 --> 01:01:35.000
form of my name.

1062
01:01:35.559 --> 01:01:36.360
Yeah.

1063
01:01:36.599 --> 01:01:40.880
Enrique Puga, communications officer for the Royal Monastery of Santa

1064
01:01:40.920 --> 01:01:47.159
Maria de Pederables. Puga told Fox News Digital that researchers

1065
01:01:47.159 --> 01:01:49.760
were not expecting to find the remains of twenty five

1066
01:01:49.800 --> 01:01:53.480
people in eight tombs, and were even more surprised to

1067
01:01:53.519 --> 01:01:58.559
find over two hundred archaeological samples, including funerary offerings and

1068
01:01:58.679 --> 01:02:04.639
preserved plants. Quote. The openings have shown reopenings and subsequent alterations,

1069
01:02:04.679 --> 01:02:07.519
which means that we do not always find the person

1070
01:02:07.639 --> 01:02:12.159
identified with the tomb. So actually, your your insight was

1071
01:02:12.199 --> 01:02:17.480
actually pretty pretty dead on their cell. Yay, I guess

1072
01:02:17.480 --> 01:02:18.519
does it feel good?

1073
01:02:19.079 --> 01:02:23.440
I mean, no, not really, but no, yeah, ya, anyway,

1074
01:02:23.480 --> 01:02:24.400
I guess.

1075
01:02:24.880 --> 01:02:28.679
I mean celebrate every victory, That's what I say. You're like,

1076
01:02:28.840 --> 01:02:34.079
no quote. This is the case of the tomb of

1077
01:02:34.119 --> 01:02:40.960
Francesca's Sapporteria second Absess of the Monastery, where a abbess,

1078
01:02:41.079 --> 01:02:45.119
not absess, abbess of the monetary monastery, where at least

1079
01:02:45.199 --> 01:02:48.840
nine individuals of late chronologies have been found, some with

1080
01:02:49.079 --> 01:02:52.400
edge weapon wounds, as well as a female trunk mummified

1081
01:02:52.440 --> 01:02:59.320
with fetal remains at the Puga. You. Yeah, the abbess

1082
01:02:59.360 --> 01:03:03.239
is not there in any of the identified remains. Ooh,

1083
01:03:03.280 --> 01:03:06.239
so she's missing. There was a lot of bones stealing

1084
01:03:06.360 --> 01:03:08.679
for a while there too, if you were like a

1085
01:03:08.679 --> 01:03:11.840
big deal, especially if you were a saint. If you

1086
01:03:11.880 --> 01:03:14.000
were a saint, people were stealing your bones. It was

1087
01:03:14.079 --> 01:03:16.559
really weird because then people would come to wherever the

1088
01:03:16.559 --> 01:03:18.559
bones were to pray to them. So you'd be like, yeah,

1089
01:03:18.599 --> 01:03:23.519
we get all your tourism dollars. Yeah, it's weird imagining

1090
01:03:23.559 --> 01:03:29.039
tourism dollars before like cars and stuff like and trains,

1091
01:03:29.079 --> 01:03:32.440
like the idea like their tourists they walked, you know,

1092
01:03:33.239 --> 01:03:37.079
eighty miles to be here and like slept in huts

1093
01:03:37.079 --> 01:03:39.679
along the way when people were kind like. It's very

1094
01:03:40.320 --> 01:03:44.480
different world. He said. It was quote reassuring to find

1095
01:03:44.519 --> 01:03:48.119
that the wooden box preserving the queen's Queen's tomb dated

1096
01:03:48.119 --> 01:03:52.679
to the medieval period and remained in excellent condition. Researchers

1097
01:03:52.679 --> 01:03:57.800
found that Queen Elissanda Alessenda was buried in simple, modest

1098
01:03:57.840 --> 01:04:01.079
clothing despite being a queen, and that her remains showed

1099
01:04:01.119 --> 01:04:08.800
health conditions commonly associated with old age. Good fight, You

1100
01:04:08.840 --> 01:04:11.119
want to know what the conditions associated with old age are?

1101
01:04:11.320 --> 01:04:13.320
No, I want to know what the conditions the health

1102
01:04:13.320 --> 01:04:15.519
conditions that they found specifically.

1103
01:04:16.159 --> 01:04:17.480
Oh, I don't know if they're going to tell you.

1104
01:04:18.679 --> 01:04:19.000
Fine.

1105
01:04:20.079 --> 01:04:24.199
Thanks to archaeopotanical analysis, wow I Knael that we have

1106
01:04:24.320 --> 01:04:28.079
been able to identify several different funerary rites with plants

1107
01:04:28.119 --> 01:04:32.880
associated with body preparations, such as rosemary, and also floral

1108
01:04:32.960 --> 01:04:38.599
offerings with a symbolic component. He added, the subsequent reopening

1109
01:04:38.719 --> 01:04:40.920
of the of some tombs gives us a lot of

1110
01:04:40.960 --> 01:04:45.119
information about the funerary culture inside some tombs, some wrapped

1111
01:04:45.159 --> 01:04:48.000
in bundles. We have found many objects from the daily

1112
01:04:48.079 --> 01:04:52.320
life of the period. Additional DNA testing is planned through

1113
01:04:52.360 --> 01:04:56.639
twenty twenty seven. So far, researchers have recovered about six

1114
01:04:56.760 --> 01:05:00.920
percent of Queen Elessenda's genome, allowing them to make preliminary

1115
01:05:01.119 --> 01:05:06.360
estimates about some of her pigmentation traits. I like, I mean, yeah,

1116
01:05:06.480 --> 01:05:08.559
I guess you are. You want to know how olive

1117
01:05:08.599 --> 01:05:11.880
skinned she was. We're skinned depending on where you're from.

1118
01:05:11.920 --> 01:05:15.679
Where I'm from, this is skinned. Poga added that all

1119
01:05:15.719 --> 01:05:18.280
the research was done with the approval of the monastery's

1120
01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:22.480
community of nuns. That's important, I guess. But they took

1121
01:05:22.480 --> 01:05:24.559
a vow of silence, so that's pretty easy to guess.

1122
01:05:24.599 --> 01:05:27.559
Oh yeah, they're just like, don't say anything if you

1123
01:05:27.559 --> 01:05:32.400
think this is okay. Yeah, and they're like shaking their

1124
01:05:32.440 --> 01:05:34.400
heads now and they're like, oh, okay, so it's fine.

1125
01:05:34.440 --> 01:05:37.239
Then if anything we're doing you don't like, just speak

1126
01:05:37.320 --> 01:05:39.760
up and will stop immediately. Yeah, And they just and

1127
01:05:39.800 --> 01:05:42.480
then just knock over a vase like it's just like

1128
01:05:42.599 --> 01:05:47.679
being needless to However, Queen Alisanda's final will Will Shall

1129
01:05:47.719 --> 01:05:50.920
Always Be Honored, which stipulates that all remain studied must

1130
01:05:50.960 --> 01:05:53.679
be returned to the monastery to be interred in the

1131
01:05:53.719 --> 01:05:58.280
same location where they originally were buried, said Puga. Overall,

1132
01:05:58.360 --> 01:06:03.519
Puga says the results have provided quote significant insights regarding

1133
01:06:03.519 --> 01:06:06.519
the fourteenth century. Once all the samples have been analyzed,

1134
01:06:06.559 --> 01:06:09.320
this information on the burials of a female power center

1135
01:06:09.360 --> 01:06:15.360
will enable an understanding of medieval Catalan society. He said, yeah,

1136
01:06:16.039 --> 01:06:18.920
I mean, do you feel like your understanding of medieval

1137
01:06:18.960 --> 01:06:24.039
Catalan society is lacking? You need something we need. That's heartbreaking,

1138
01:06:24.119 --> 01:06:24.480
isn't it.

1139
01:06:26.800 --> 01:06:29.559
I mean not really, but but it is always good

1140
01:06:29.599 --> 01:06:29.920
to know.

1141
01:06:31.559 --> 01:06:37.039
Well played, harsh but fair. I was only going to

1142
01:06:37.079 --> 01:06:39.960
be a little mean to the Catalans being that I'm Galician.

1143
01:06:40.519 --> 01:06:44.880
Oh so, I mean pretty much Galasian.

1144
01:06:46.599 --> 01:06:47.239
That's nice.

1145
01:06:48.760 --> 01:06:51.519
I even have the eyes. That's the weirdest part. When

1146
01:06:51.559 --> 01:06:54.440
I first looked up Galasians, they have a specific shade

1147
01:06:54.480 --> 01:06:58.000
of hazel. And when I found that, I was like, wait,

1148
01:06:58.239 --> 01:07:01.039
like my weird shade of hazel that I literally only

1149
01:07:01.079 --> 01:07:02.960
my grandpa and my dad are the only two people

1150
01:07:02.960 --> 01:07:05.599
I've ever seen have that shade of hazel. And then

1151
01:07:05.639 --> 01:07:07.800
I looked and it was like, yeah, that shade of hazel,

1152
01:07:07.800 --> 01:07:10.920
and I was like, holy crap, that's really weird because

1153
01:07:10.920 --> 01:07:12.559
I mean, people who say they have hazel eyes, I'm like,

1154
01:07:12.559 --> 01:07:17.280
they don't look anything like my eyes, You're not gonna

1155
01:07:17.280 --> 01:07:17.880
be able to see it.

1156
01:07:18.199 --> 01:07:20.719
I can't because you're the classes.

1157
01:07:21.159 --> 01:07:24.400
Sorry, pal, Maybe later i'll let you look, but uh,

1158
01:07:24.440 --> 01:07:26.239
we're gonna take a quick break and when we come back,

1159
01:07:26.400 --> 01:07:30.280
divers are excavating a lake when they stumble upon something

1160
01:07:30.920 --> 01:07:42.199
a bit eerie. Right after this, we're heading to popular

1161
01:07:42.360 --> 01:07:46.719
Mechanics dot com. Oh wow, Yeah, you've always been saying

1162
01:07:46.760 --> 01:07:51.559
why don't we do more popular mechanics? Right, Yeah, And honestly,

1163
01:07:51.559 --> 01:07:53.760
it's starting to like it's been getting kind of frustrating

1164
01:07:54.079 --> 01:07:55.199
how often you bring it up.

1165
01:07:55.559 --> 01:07:58.119
I'm sorry, I just need to make sure that one

1166
01:07:58.199 --> 01:08:01.159
day we'll do one. And apparently we're going to, So

1167
01:08:01.199 --> 01:08:03.480
maybe I'll lay off and only say it like ten

1168
01:08:03.519 --> 01:08:06.239
times today instead of I don't remember how many I'm

1169
01:08:06.280 --> 01:08:06.800
doing Now.

1170
01:08:07.119 --> 01:08:12.000
I'll believe it when I see it. Divers excavated a

1171
01:08:12.079 --> 01:08:18.720
lake and stumbled upon a haunting ancient face. You're like, oh,

1172
01:08:18.720 --> 01:08:20.800
that's not that interesting. I thought it was gonna be interesting.

1173
01:08:21.199 --> 01:08:22.119
Yeah.

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01:08:22.279 --> 01:08:26.000
Wood usually doesn't get one thousand years to survive, but

1175
01:08:26.239 --> 01:08:33.479
in the right anaerobic and anaerobic anaerobic wetland or underwater conditions,

1176
01:08:34.039 --> 01:08:36.880
water can lock away a piece of the past, long

1177
01:08:36.920 --> 01:08:41.800
after almost everything around it has rotted. That's why the

1178
01:08:41.800 --> 01:08:46.800
wooden face from Poland's Lake Ladnika is such a strange

1179
01:08:46.880 --> 01:08:52.840
little survivor. In twenty twenty five, scientists from Nikolaus Copernicus

1180
01:08:52.960 --> 01:08:58.079
University Center for Underwater Archaeology and the Museum of the

1181
01:08:58.119 --> 01:09:02.720
First Piosts in Ladnik found the carved face submerged in

1182
01:09:02.800 --> 01:09:06.680
Lake Lenika. The face was carved into an oak structural

1183
01:09:06.760 --> 01:09:10.720
timber known as a hook beam, specifically beam number three

1184
01:09:10.720 --> 01:09:13.840
point fifty three, from a section of the stronghold rampart

1185
01:09:14.199 --> 01:09:17.560
that had collapsed into the lake. Wow. Oh good, I

1186
01:09:17.600 --> 01:09:19.439
was afraid it was number three fifty two.

1187
01:09:19.840 --> 01:09:21.439
Yeah, that would have been bad.

1188
01:09:22.159 --> 01:09:24.760
That's my favorite of them, and I don't want anything

1189
01:09:24.760 --> 01:09:29.439
bad to happen. The preserved timber is one point three

1190
01:09:29.439 --> 01:09:32.840
to four meters long. The face sits about fifty centimeters

1191
01:09:32.880 --> 01:09:34.880
from the end of the hook and on the outer

1192
01:09:35.319 --> 01:09:39.600
narrower side of the trepezoidal branch section. The carving itself

1193
01:09:39.640 --> 01:09:43.720
measures about twelve centimeters tall and nine centimeters wide.

1194
01:09:44.920 --> 01:09:48.760
Small, no idea what size that is at all?

1195
01:09:49.159 --> 01:09:51.119
Love, I'm so glad. Shell was the one who said

1196
01:09:51.159 --> 01:09:54.600
the American exceptionalism thing this time, and not not me.

1197
01:09:56.520 --> 01:10:00.640
I mean I can barely use the measurements we use

1198
01:10:00.720 --> 01:10:03.680
and understand what that means. I don't know how big

1199
01:10:03.720 --> 01:10:05.359
any of these things is.

1200
01:10:05.880 --> 01:10:08.039
It sounds small to me. It's twelve centimeters tall.

1201
01:10:08.399 --> 01:10:12.119
I think centimeters are small ones, but I'm I'm not

1202
01:10:12.239 --> 01:10:17.680
sure how small they are. I think they're smaller than inches.

1203
01:10:18.800 --> 01:10:24.760
Yes, they are four point seven inches. It's twelve centimeters.

1204
01:10:25.119 --> 01:10:28.800
Oh, okay, so it's like it's like two thumbs plus

1205
01:10:28.840 --> 01:10:29.880
a little bit more.

1206
01:10:30.319 --> 01:10:35.000
Yeah. Probably, Okay, see there you go. You get it? Yeah,

1207
01:10:35.119 --> 01:10:38.720
good job, pal, Yeah did it. No, that's pretty small

1208
01:10:39.520 --> 01:10:43.560
with modeled eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks, brows, and a triangular

1209
01:10:43.760 --> 01:10:49.039
or bearded chin. Experts estimate that the tree from which

1210
01:10:49.079 --> 01:10:53.520
the face and beam were carved fell in the year

1211
01:10:53.680 --> 01:11:00.600
nine and sixty seven, which one that would be a

1212
01:11:00.760 --> 01:11:01.760
d oh.

1213
01:11:02.119 --> 01:11:06.000
I mean, it's not as cool as no PC. But still.

1214
01:11:07.359 --> 01:11:11.279
That's a long time, meaning the carving has existed for

1215
01:11:11.479 --> 01:11:15.119
over a millennia. Wow, it's a long time.

1216
01:11:16.159 --> 01:11:16.720
But you know.

1217
01:11:19.920 --> 01:11:22.079
This was around the same time that the founder of

1218
01:11:22.119 --> 01:11:26.359
the Polish state Miesco number one Mjesco one was baptized

1219
01:11:26.560 --> 01:11:32.319
and Poland shifted into a state of Christian assimilation. Oh yeah,

1220
01:11:32.359 --> 01:11:33.760
they thought that was bad, and then it was like,

1221
01:11:33.840 --> 01:11:36.239
just wait till the Communists get here. Uh. This isn't

1222
01:11:36.279 --> 01:11:39.000
the first face of its kind to be discovered. Similar

1223
01:11:39.039 --> 01:11:43.680
depictions have been found in other Slavic cities, including Wolan, Novgorod,

1224
01:11:44.079 --> 01:11:50.119
the Novgorod the Great, and Staraya Lodoga Lodoga. Oh I

1225
01:11:50.159 --> 01:11:54.239
said that right. According to experts, consistencies between these finds

1226
01:11:54.239 --> 01:11:58.600
suggest that the beam found at Lehnika reflects a local

1227
01:11:58.720 --> 01:12:03.800
artistic and spiritual tradition rather than Scandinavian or Ruth's influence.

1228
01:12:04.479 --> 01:12:07.159
In short, the recent discovery is just one piece in

1229
01:12:07.239 --> 01:12:12.960
the larger puzzle of medieval Slavic life. Okay, how often

1230
01:12:13.039 --> 01:12:15.600
your day do you feel you're upset by lacking pieces

1231
01:12:15.640 --> 01:12:23.439
of the puzzle of medieval Slavic life?

1232
01:12:23.560 --> 01:12:26.239
I mean at least once or every other day.

1233
01:12:26.279 --> 01:12:28.840
I guess that's tough to live with.

1234
01:12:29.439 --> 01:12:32.079
Yeah, and I don't really feel like I'm ever going

1235
01:12:32.119 --> 01:12:36.039
to get everything I need about medieval Slavic life.

1236
01:12:36.119 --> 01:12:38.720
So but you got to hold to your hope.

1237
01:12:39.880 --> 01:12:43.399
I guess it's not worth it ouch.

1238
01:12:44.319 --> 01:12:48.479
Quote, this discovery not only evokes admiration for the craftsmanship

1239
01:12:48.520 --> 01:12:51.600
from over a thousand years ago, but also opens a

1240
01:12:51.640 --> 01:12:55.720
fascinating discussion about the spiritual life of early medieval Slavs.

1241
01:12:56.439 --> 01:13:04.880
Andre Andrev Pedn't It's py dyn I, director of the

1242
01:13:04.920 --> 01:13:08.520
Center for Underwater Archaeology at NCU, said in the press release.

1243
01:13:09.079 --> 01:13:12.199
The beam appears to have belonged to the settlement's defensive rampart,

1244
01:13:12.279 --> 01:13:14.640
but what the what was the face doing there? The

1245
01:13:14.680 --> 01:13:19.279
paper's author argue that it was probably associated with the

1246
01:13:19.319 --> 01:13:23.319
deity or hero meditating between people and the spiritual world.

1247
01:13:23.399 --> 01:13:27.399
Mediating sorry, mediating between people in the spiritual world. That

1248
01:13:27.439 --> 01:13:31.439
fit the wider symbolic reading, but it doesn't name the face,

1249
01:13:31.920 --> 01:13:34.520
prove a cult or settle whether the carving was meant

1250
01:13:34.600 --> 01:13:38.680
to guard the rampart, mark power, or do something else entirely.

1251
01:13:39.600 --> 01:13:43.039
See this is when I like, I feel like we're

1252
01:13:43.039 --> 01:13:46.079
trying too hard. It's like maybe someone like just really

1253
01:13:46.079 --> 01:13:49.479
wanted to carve faces that could be a nice face.

1254
01:13:49.560 --> 01:13:51.239
They were like, look this face I carved.

1255
01:13:51.399 --> 01:13:53.840
Would it be so funny if in a millennia somebody's like,

1256
01:13:53.840 --> 01:13:55.800
what is this and it's like, haha, it's my uncle.

1257
01:13:55.920 --> 01:14:02.319
You're so stupid. Other evidence supports the idea of being

1258
01:14:02.439 --> 01:14:06.680
part of the spiritual practices of medieval Slavic society. The

1259
01:14:06.760 --> 01:14:10.640
researchers also discovered horse jaws and bones around the ramparts,

1260
01:14:10.880 --> 01:14:14.720
which may have come from ritual offerings or protective sacrifices.

1261
01:14:15.880 --> 01:14:19.920
Popik said from NCU said the team also found similar

1262
01:14:19.960 --> 01:14:25.600
bones underneath houses. The artifact has become has already become

1263
01:14:25.640 --> 01:14:29.000
one of Poland's best known archaeological finds from twenty twenty five.

1264
01:14:29.319 --> 01:14:31.239
In January of twenty twenty six, the beam with the

1265
01:14:31.239 --> 01:14:34.239
face was named Unique Artifact of twenty twenty five in

1266
01:14:34.239 --> 01:14:40.800
the Archaeological Sensations poll organized by Archaeologia Zoya. Yeah, I know,

1267
01:14:40.880 --> 01:14:44.079
I read that every day. The Broader Lake Lednika project

1268
01:14:44.199 --> 01:14:48.079
also won recognition for popularized research and Puppek's image of

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01:14:48.079 --> 01:14:53.319
the face when the best archaeological photo, which is believe

1270
01:14:53.319 --> 01:14:55.479
it or not in this article they did not include

1271
01:14:55.520 --> 01:15:03.399
that photo. I was wondering, Yeah, that's foue. Yeah wow, yeah,

1272
01:15:03.479 --> 01:15:07.560
good job everybody. The wood face is a priceless monument

1273
01:15:07.600 --> 01:15:10.319
and a rare example of an item combining utility and

1274
01:15:10.359 --> 01:15:13.279
symbolic function. A post from the Museum of the First

1275
01:15:13.319 --> 01:15:17.640
Pists in Leednica. Read The discovery from Lake Lednika is

1276
01:15:17.680 --> 01:15:21.760
not only impressive, but also opens new questions about the life, culture,

1277
01:15:21.760 --> 01:15:24.800
and spirituality of the inhabitants of these lands from over

1278
01:15:24.840 --> 01:15:29.439
a thousand years ago. So I guess there is some hope, Cell,

1279
01:15:29.600 --> 01:15:31.520
even if you don't want to hold on to any

1280
01:15:31.560 --> 01:15:32.239
of it anymore.

1281
01:15:32.600 --> 01:15:34.479
Okay, Well, I mean it's nice to know for the

1282
01:15:34.520 --> 01:15:36.560
other people who want to hold on.

1283
01:15:37.279 --> 01:15:41.039
Who haven't lost their sense of faith in this whole thing.

1284
01:15:41.439 --> 01:15:44.079
Yeah. Yeah, it's just been too long for me.

1285
01:15:45.399 --> 01:15:48.880
I get it. Man. Well, when we come back, we're

1286
01:15:48.880 --> 01:15:55.600
going to talk about UAPs, which are not UAPs, they're UFOs.

1287
01:15:58.640 --> 01:15:59.399
I'm standing on.

1288
01:15:59.319 --> 01:16:02.640
The hill phenomenons.

1289
01:16:02.319 --> 01:16:08.039
Unidentified flying object. It's way better u AP. Right after this,

1290
01:16:15.960 --> 01:16:20.760
we're heading to defence scoop dot com. Oh, which is

1291
01:16:20.800 --> 01:16:22.960
another site. I know You've always told me, why don't

1292
01:16:22.960 --> 01:16:25.039
you ever use defense scoop dot com?

1293
01:16:25.520 --> 01:16:27.760
Yeah, but I don't like say it every day.

1294
01:16:28.079 --> 01:16:30.000
No, you just brought it up here and there usually,

1295
01:16:30.039 --> 01:16:32.439
like like at that funeral when I was really sad

1296
01:16:32.920 --> 01:16:35.760
and you were like, hey, it's all right, Why don't

1297
01:16:35.760 --> 01:16:38.199
we ever use defense scoop dot com on the on

1298
01:16:38.279 --> 01:16:40.880
the show, and I was like, oh no, no, it

1299
01:16:40.920 --> 01:16:42.600
was it was a good it was a good day.

1300
01:16:42.760 --> 01:16:43.439
I guess I was.

1301
01:16:43.359 --> 01:16:45.199
Trying to take your mind off it. Jeez.

1302
01:16:45.920 --> 01:16:50.279
Oh oh okay, that makes sense. Then you like ate

1303
01:16:50.439 --> 01:16:53.920
almost all of the shrimp at the little the little

1304
01:16:54.000 --> 01:16:55.239
table it was.

1305
01:16:55.199 --> 01:16:57.640
There, they're they're there for people to eat, Like, what

1306
01:16:57.680 --> 01:16:58.159
do you want?

1307
01:16:59.000 --> 01:17:02.119
I just didn't think that they meant for one person

1308
01:17:02.159 --> 01:17:02.800
to eat all of it.

1309
01:17:03.159 --> 01:17:04.520
No one else was having them.

1310
01:17:05.359 --> 01:17:07.760
Well, yeah, they were all visiting and paying their respects.

1311
01:17:07.960 --> 01:17:10.920
I said something. I mean, I said, I'm not sure

1312
01:17:11.000 --> 01:17:15.000
who you are. Oh I'm here, but I'm.

1313
01:17:14.800 --> 01:17:18.920
Sorry, and also defencescoop dot com would probably be a

1314
01:17:18.920 --> 01:17:22.680
good source for some stuff. Yeah, some news stories. Geez.

1315
01:17:23.039 --> 01:17:24.920
Yeah.

1316
01:17:25.039 --> 01:17:29.600
Do ever tell you about the Christmas at Rachel's family?

1317
01:17:30.479 --> 01:17:32.399
Her dad came to us when we were walking in

1318
01:17:32.399 --> 01:17:36.680
and said, hey, I accidentally ordered like way more shrimp

1319
01:17:36.720 --> 01:17:38.960
cocktail than I thought. I never tell you that story.

1320
01:17:39.199 --> 01:17:41.920
He literally just he just tells us like he ordered

1321
01:17:41.960 --> 01:17:45.600
like pounds instead of ounces or something ridiculous. So there

1322
01:17:45.640 --> 01:17:48.479
was literally just bags and bags and bags of shrimp.

1323
01:17:48.840 --> 01:17:51.720
So he said, please eat as much as you want.

1324
01:17:52.159 --> 01:17:54.920
I ate three full plates of shrimp and I didn't

1325
01:17:54.920 --> 01:17:55.960
even eat all of them. I mean there was so

1326
01:17:56.039 --> 01:17:57.960
much left. I was just like the best day of

1327
01:17:58.000 --> 01:17:59.479
my life was the day I was told, please eat

1328
01:17:59.479 --> 01:18:02.439
as much shrimp as you possibly can. I was just say, aha,

1329
01:18:02.439 --> 01:18:07.479
I'm going for the high score. Anyway. The headline reads

1330
01:18:07.520 --> 01:18:12.479
Pentagon investigating mysterious UAP event reported by the Navy near

1331
01:18:12.600 --> 01:18:18.039
Virginia's coast, oh okay, And then after that it says,

1332
01:18:18.039 --> 01:18:20.840
but it's a UFO because nobody cares what a UAP is,

1333
01:18:20.840 --> 01:18:24.520
because it's stupid and it sounds stupid. Experts in the

1334
01:18:24.520 --> 01:18:28.399
Pentagon's All Domain A nominally Resolution Office are investigating a

1335
01:18:28.439 --> 01:18:31.760
report that the US Navy from the US Navy involving

1336
01:18:31.840 --> 01:18:37.039
roughly one hundred mysterious airborne objects and watercraft that were

1337
01:18:37.039 --> 01:18:40.000
recorded operating off the coast of Virginia.

1338
01:18:40.800 --> 01:18:41.880
Okay, so.

1339
01:18:43.319 --> 01:18:48.960
Drones, I would hope. I guess AAR's fiscal Year twenty

1340
01:18:48.960 --> 01:18:53.479
twenty five Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena released

1341
01:18:53.520 --> 01:18:58.279
this week, briefly disclosing that modern military accounts of UAPs

1342
01:18:58.399 --> 01:19:04.119
swarming near a US installation were a lot a lack

1343
01:19:04.199 --> 01:19:08.159
of timely and actionable censor data continues to constrain AAR's

1344
01:19:08.199 --> 01:19:11.520
ability to resolve cases, officials wrote in the fourteen page

1345
01:19:11.600 --> 01:19:16.079
review launched under the Biden administration in twenty twenty two

1346
01:19:16.119 --> 01:19:20.039
to fulfill a mandate in that year's National Defense Authorization Act.

1347
01:19:20.399 --> 01:19:25.800
AAR is charged with detecting mysterious objects reported across the air, land, sea,

1348
01:19:25.960 --> 01:19:30.199
and space domains that could threaten national security or endanger

1349
01:19:30.359 --> 01:19:35.239
military operations, and resolving the intent and origin of those

1350
01:19:35.279 --> 01:19:39.479
recorded UAPs. Congress made the directive to establish the office

1351
01:19:39.479 --> 01:19:42.880
partly in response to mounting concerns that some UAP could

1352
01:19:42.960 --> 01:19:47.039
be high tech drones or other next generation military platforms

1353
01:19:47.079 --> 01:19:53.720
produced by US adversaries. So, once again, Shell is probably right,

1354
01:19:55.920 --> 01:20:00.920
this must be nice. That's not. The Intelligence Authorization Act

1355
01:20:01.039 --> 01:20:04.000
for fiscal year twenty twenty three required the Director of

1356
01:20:04.079 --> 01:20:07.319
National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense to jointly submit

1357
01:20:07.479 --> 01:20:13.760
unclassified reports summarizing all UAP incidents and intelligence assessments for

1358
01:20:13.880 --> 01:20:18.359
Congress for the Congress annually for four years thereafter. All

1359
01:20:18.479 --> 01:20:23.039
UAP related events added into AAR's caseload between June second,

1360
01:20:23.119 --> 01:20:26.800
twenty four and May thirtieth twenty twenty five, and incidents

1361
01:20:26.800 --> 01:20:30.079
occurring within any past reporting period that were not recorded

1362
01:20:30.079 --> 01:20:35.439
in previous reports are included in the latest congressionally mandated analysis.

1363
01:20:35.960 --> 01:20:38.760
This is very dry.

1364
01:20:39.560 --> 01:20:42.359
Yeah, yeah, this is why I wanted you to go

1365
01:20:42.439 --> 01:20:42.800
from this.

1366
01:20:42.840 --> 01:20:46.159
News site, you son of a bitch.

1367
01:20:46.520 --> 01:20:48.479
It's just perfect this way.

1368
01:20:50.000 --> 01:20:53.159
Over the course of that year, AAR received three hundred

1369
01:20:53.159 --> 01:20:56.680
and nineteen UAP reports in total, two hundred and eighty

1370
01:20:56.680 --> 01:20:59.640
four featuring UAP related events from the reporting period and

1371
01:20:59.680 --> 01:21:04.199
twenty occurring between twenty ten and twenty twenty four. AAR

1372
01:21:04.479 --> 01:21:06.800
resolved one hundred and fourteen of the three hundred nineteen

1373
01:21:06.880 --> 01:21:15.359
UAP reports, each attributable to various prosaic objects such as balloons, birds, satellites, aircraft, uas,

1374
01:21:15.399 --> 01:21:19.079
and a single instance of each, a single instance each

1375
01:21:19.159 --> 01:21:24.239
of a rocket launch and a manned jetpack. Wow, that

1376
01:21:24.319 --> 01:21:25.199
guy's so cool.

1377
01:21:25.560 --> 01:21:27.239
Yeah.

1378
01:21:27.279 --> 01:21:31.279
They confirmed that the office's case holdings contained one eight

1379
01:21:31.359 --> 01:21:37.000
hundred and seventy reports as of May thirtieth, twenty twenty five. Wow,

1380
01:21:37.159 --> 01:21:42.800
that's a lot. Yeah. Notably, two cases in the current

1381
01:21:42.840 --> 01:21:48.239
period quote described electronic or avionic interference as attributable to

1382
01:21:48.319 --> 01:21:52.199
UAP and proximity to an operational aircraft. According to officials,

1383
01:21:52.520 --> 01:21:54.720
the office is not yet determined whether or to what

1384
01:21:54.840 --> 01:22:00.720
extent those reported effects were due to UAP. Among other

1385
01:22:00.760 --> 01:22:04.560
new initiatives in the pipeline, ar officials revealed that the

1386
01:22:04.600 --> 01:22:08.760
office is currently developing a formalized process for handling UAP

1387
01:22:08.960 --> 01:22:14.039
derived materials by an appropriate line organization quote such, should

1388
01:22:14.119 --> 01:22:19.680
such materials ever come into the government's possession. That was dry,

1389
01:22:20.159 --> 01:22:23.279
very dry. It was interesting though. That's a lot of reports.

1390
01:22:23.640 --> 01:22:26.119
Yeah, that is a lot of reports. I'm surprised that

1391
01:22:26.199 --> 01:22:29.880
they don't call a ro just arrows.

1392
01:22:30.159 --> 01:22:32.800
I didn't call it arrow for whatever reason, it probably

1393
01:22:32.800 --> 01:22:33.399
is called arrow.

1394
01:22:33.640 --> 01:22:35.680
I mean, who knows, really.

1395
01:22:36.159 --> 01:22:37.119
Who could ever know?

1396
01:22:37.520 --> 01:22:38.760
How would we ever find out?

1397
01:22:39.239 --> 01:22:44.319
The Shadow knows that. Well, we're going to take a

1398
01:22:44.359 --> 01:22:46.000
quick break and when we come back, we're going to

1399
01:22:46.039 --> 01:22:50.760
cover our last little spooky news story because I am

1400
01:22:50.800 --> 01:22:54.960
mad about us covering Catalan, So I'm gonna I'm using

1401
01:22:55.000 --> 01:23:00.159
this story to get my revenge, and it'll make you happy, Chelle, No,

1402
01:23:00.960 --> 01:23:13.359
at least a little bit. Right after this cell, no,

1403
01:23:13.920 --> 01:23:17.199
you are no, you're saying no, you are going to

1404
01:23:17.239 --> 01:23:20.720
be so happy. We are heading back to Popular Mechanics

1405
01:23:20.800 --> 01:23:27.439
dot Com oh really for real? Yay. Yeah, and we're

1406
01:23:27.479 --> 01:23:40.399
also heading to Galicia. Oh okay, oh we're not. Everybody

1407
01:23:40.439 --> 01:23:44.840
can laugh at me. It's not in Galicia. It's Galatian.

1408
01:23:45.960 --> 01:23:46.760
I'm sorry.

1409
01:23:49.399 --> 01:23:52.920
I read the headline. I read the subheadline and it

1410
01:23:53.000 --> 01:23:56.560
said Galician Castle. I thought it was Galician Castle, which

1411
01:23:56.600 --> 01:24:00.119
because my people are from Galicia. Oh well, we're gonna

1412
01:24:00.000 --> 01:24:06.000
et it anyway. Okay, Archie, I can't believe that. That's

1413
01:24:06.039 --> 01:24:08.520
so funny, and so said, I was so excited.

1414
01:24:08.960 --> 01:24:11.319
We can pretend that it's Galicia and you could just

1415
01:24:11.520 --> 01:24:12.119
fill that in.

1416
01:24:13.000 --> 01:24:18.520
It's gonna be hard because it's actually in Ukraine. Oh, archaeologists.

1417
01:24:18.600 --> 01:24:21.960
Of the headline is archaeologists found a mysterious secret chamber

1418
01:24:22.039 --> 01:24:28.640
beneath a twelfth century castle. It's kind of cool. You

1419
01:24:28.680 --> 01:24:30.359
don't like secret compartments.

1420
01:24:30.640 --> 01:24:33.880
I mean I think they're I think they're pretty cool.

1421
01:24:33.920 --> 01:24:36.560
I think I'm just annoyed because I don't ever find any.

1422
01:24:36.840 --> 01:24:39.640
Oh that makes sense. Yeah, that's frustrating. Yeah see I

1423
01:24:39.720 --> 01:24:42.039
found a couple, but I'm not gonna lie like it wasn't.

1424
01:24:42.119 --> 01:24:43.680
I was just like, hell, yeah, I found a couple.

1425
01:24:43.720 --> 01:24:46.479
I was like, whoa dude, Like this is pretty neat.

1426
01:24:46.840 --> 01:24:48.760
Yeah, I actually found one in a house I was

1427
01:24:48.800 --> 01:24:52.840
inspecting that was cool. What Yeah, there was a there

1428
01:24:52.920 --> 01:24:56.479
was a in the dining room. There was a like

1429
01:24:56.520 --> 01:24:59.560
a big like shelving unit that was built into the wall,

1430
01:25:00.479 --> 01:25:01.960
like you know, because it was built in like the

1431
01:25:02.000 --> 01:25:05.479
nineteen twenties or nineteen tens or something, really nice shelving unit.

1432
01:25:06.439 --> 01:25:09.000
And I'm like looking around and I'm like, wait, how

1433
01:25:09.000 --> 01:25:11.439
do you get to the attic? And it was like

1434
01:25:11.479 --> 01:25:13.960
you had to like open the shelving unit. It was

1435
01:25:14.000 --> 01:25:15.800
like seated in the wall and it was actually a

1436
01:25:15.800 --> 01:25:16.479
big door.

1437
01:25:17.119 --> 01:25:20.760
Oh that's so cool. Yeah, I wish I had a

1438
01:25:20.800 --> 01:25:22.920
house big enough to put like a secret door. I

1439
01:25:22.960 --> 01:25:23.840
don't you.

1440
01:25:23.800 --> 01:25:26.680
Could totally take one of your rooms and make them

1441
01:25:26.760 --> 01:25:29.039
like just put all like you know.

1442
01:25:29.680 --> 01:25:31.680
Yeah, people will be like why does your house have

1443
01:25:31.720 --> 01:25:34.039
so few rooms when it's so big on the outside.

1444
01:25:35.079 --> 01:25:38.640
They probably wouldn't notice, honestly, Like because when I go

1445
01:25:38.680 --> 01:25:40.960
into a space, I'm confused, So.

1446
01:25:41.399 --> 01:25:45.760
That's I think that's a you thing, like what's happening?

1447
01:25:45.800 --> 01:25:47.680
But like you know, when I go into a new house,

1448
01:25:47.720 --> 01:25:50.079
like I don't expect there to be something where there isn't,

1449
01:25:50.439 --> 01:25:52.319
So they can get away with it well.

1450
01:25:52.359 --> 01:25:55.159
Two bedroom houses are also not super common out here.

1451
01:25:57.319 --> 01:26:01.000
Uh For three hundred years, one vaulted space inde Ukraine's

1452
01:26:01.079 --> 01:26:05.319
historic Galatian castle sat cut off from the rest of

1453
01:26:05.359 --> 01:26:09.159
the ruin. When archaeologists finally discovered the room in twenty

1454
01:26:09.199 --> 01:26:13.720
twenty five, the first clues point toward something military suit

1455
01:26:13.840 --> 01:26:19.039
darkened walls, a ventilation shaft, and a chamber's study sturdy

1456
01:26:19.119 --> 01:26:22.279
enough to have belonged to a defensive or weapons related

1457
01:26:22.319 --> 01:26:25.920
part of the castle. The castle, prominent in the twelfth

1458
01:26:25.920 --> 01:26:28.920
through seventeenth centuries in the western Ukraine city of Hulsch

1459
01:26:29.640 --> 01:26:34.000
or Hilik. Hylik is probably that sounds more Ukrainian has

1460
01:26:34.079 --> 01:26:37.439
long been an attraction. When archaeologists from the National Academy

1461
01:26:37.439 --> 01:26:40.319
of Sciences of Ukraine noticed a ventilation shaft among a

1462
01:26:40.439 --> 01:26:44.119
tower's ruins, it led to an unknown room that hasn't

1463
01:26:44.159 --> 01:26:47.279
been used for three hundred years. Most likely, it had

1464
01:26:47.279 --> 01:26:49.359
been cut off from the rest of the castle since

1465
01:26:49.439 --> 01:26:53.760
the Turkish Polish War of sixteen seventy six, when bombardment

1466
01:26:53.920 --> 01:26:59.880
buried or blocked parts of the structure. The shaft itself

1467
01:27:00.000 --> 01:27:03.159
it was too narrow to use an entrance Vladimir Olinik,

1468
01:27:03.600 --> 01:27:09.000
director General of the Ancient Gaelic Gallic Gallic National Reserve,

1469
01:27:09.520 --> 01:27:12.399
told Heritage Daily that crews had to remove over five

1470
01:27:12.800 --> 01:27:15.680
two hundred cubic feet of soil and rubble by hand

1471
01:27:16.119 --> 01:27:21.399
to access the room. Wow, that's a lot. Yeah. Also,

1472
01:27:21.520 --> 01:27:25.000
America needs to start having more spooky news, because, like

1473
01:27:25.079 --> 01:27:27.159
I'm struggling with some of these foreign names that I

1474
01:27:27.199 --> 01:27:31.600
don't understand. Just putting that out there. Olinik said that

1475
01:27:32.119 --> 01:27:34.840
the manual labor was key to ensuring artifacts were not

1476
01:27:35.000 --> 01:27:38.279
damaged and the integrity of the structure wasn't compromised while

1477
01:27:38.319 --> 01:27:43.000
accessing the chamber. Once inside, archaeologists found evidence that suggested

1478
01:27:43.039 --> 01:27:46.399
the room was likely a casemate, a fortified space for

1479
01:27:46.520 --> 01:27:51.039
storing and testing weapons. The walls carried dark soot stains,

1480
01:27:51.079 --> 01:27:53.680
and the ventilation shaft could have helped pull smoke out

1481
01:27:53.680 --> 01:27:57.199
of the space. A casemate a fortified chamber used for

1482
01:27:57.199 --> 01:28:01.039
weapon storage or firing positions, remained one possible explanation, but

1483
01:28:02.119 --> 01:28:05.359
Ukrainian reports said the same kind of space could have

1484
01:28:05.520 --> 01:28:10.319
served as a vault, arsenal prison, treasury archive, or court

1485
01:28:10.399 --> 01:28:11.720
linked storage area.

1486
01:28:12.079 --> 01:28:12.560
Wow.

1487
01:28:14.279 --> 01:28:16.159
I mean, I think we should go even further than

1488
01:28:16.199 --> 01:28:19.159
that maybe that was where they kept the you know,

1489
01:28:19.239 --> 01:28:22.520
the server room, you know, for the for the castle.

1490
01:28:22.560 --> 01:28:24.600
You know, like you go to the big corporate buildings,

1491
01:28:24.640 --> 01:28:27.279
they have the server room. Yeah, maybe that's it. Maybe

1492
01:28:27.319 --> 01:28:28.239
it was the server room.

1493
01:28:28.439 --> 01:28:30.399
I mean that sounds good. And maybe the servers went

1494
01:28:30.439 --> 01:28:32.760
on fire, which is why there's all that soot down there.

1495
01:28:33.399 --> 01:28:33.680
Yeah.

1496
01:28:33.880 --> 01:28:37.279
See, because they were cooling them back in the day.

1497
01:28:38.000 --> 01:28:41.199
Yeah, they were still figuring it out. They didn't have

1498
01:28:41.239 --> 01:28:43.159
germ theory or water cooling theory.

1499
01:28:44.199 --> 01:28:45.359
Yeah.

1500
01:28:45.399 --> 01:28:48.279
By twenty twenty five, one sealed chamber widened to a

1501
01:28:48.359 --> 01:28:54.680
large entrance tower. Excavation archaeologists were still working around the

1502
01:28:54.800 --> 01:28:58.000
entrance gate and looking for additional underground spaces near the chamber.

1503
01:28:58.039 --> 01:29:03.279
First identified in twenty twenty three. Archaeologist Yuri Lokomus Lukomski

1504
01:29:03.800 --> 01:29:07.079
said the tower may contain six vaults in all, three

1505
01:29:07.159 --> 01:29:10.159
on a lower level, and three deeper spaces suggested by

1506
01:29:10.239 --> 01:29:16.239
ventilation chambers. The Galatian Castle, sometimes known as Starasta Castle,

1507
01:29:16.680 --> 01:29:19.439
was originally a wooden fortress from twelfth century and was

1508
01:29:19.479 --> 01:29:23.960
built along the Dnesty River Dnesta River in the fourteenth century,

1509
01:29:24.279 --> 01:29:28.239
Kasimir the Kazimir third the Great I was gonna say

1510
01:29:28.279 --> 01:29:31.760
the third because it's been the Great. Kasimir Iie the

1511
01:29:31.800 --> 01:29:35.479
Great led major renovations, after which the castle was used

1512
01:29:35.479 --> 01:29:39.239
as a residence. In the early seventeenth century, architect Francisco

1513
01:29:39.319 --> 01:29:43.960
Krazini designed a remodel, but not even a century later,

1514
01:29:44.039 --> 01:29:47.720
the Turks armed siege. Turk's army sieged the castle with

1515
01:29:47.800 --> 01:29:51.479
cannons during the Turkish Polish War. Experts believe that bombing

1516
01:29:51.479 --> 01:29:54.800
of the castle buried the ventilation shaft covering the recently

1517
01:29:54.880 --> 01:29:59.199
rediscovered room and all the servers got it, and all

1518
01:29:59.199 --> 01:30:01.880
the servers were bloed, which would be awful to have,

1519
01:30:01.960 --> 01:30:03.520
like network connectivity issues.

1520
01:30:04.079 --> 01:30:06.560
Yeah yeah.

1521
01:30:06.680 --> 01:30:09.439
The team also located a small gap in the chambers

1522
01:30:09.520 --> 01:30:13.000
walls that could lead to further exploration, with a legend

1523
01:30:13.079 --> 01:30:17.399
circulating throughout the city that the castle site features secret

1524
01:30:17.520 --> 01:30:21.800
underground passages. One such story tells of how a love

1525
01:30:21.840 --> 01:30:25.079
struck teenager or love struck daughter of a high ranking

1526
01:30:25.119 --> 01:30:28.960
official escaped with her chosen man, all thanks to her

1527
01:30:29.039 --> 01:30:33.359
maid bribing castle guards. Any little clue about the existence

1528
01:30:33.359 --> 01:30:36.319
of such tunnels would add a fresh level of intrigue

1529
01:30:36.640 --> 01:30:41.640
to the site. Hm it still would have been nicer

1530
01:30:41.680 --> 01:30:48.079
if this was Galicia. But whatever. Sorry, always a bride'smaid,

1531
01:30:48.079 --> 01:30:54.039
never a bride. Yeah, well I tried, and at least

1532
01:30:54.039 --> 01:31:01.239
I brought you another popular mechanics. Yeah, I had to

1533
01:31:01.359 --> 01:31:04.600
check because I only knew a little bit. Galicia in

1534
01:31:04.640 --> 01:31:08.640
Spain and Galicia in Eastern Europe, spanning modern day western

1535
01:31:08.720 --> 01:31:12.800
Ukraine and southern Poland, share a name by pure coincidence,

1536
01:31:14.079 --> 01:31:16.840
with entirely different origins and locations.

1537
01:31:17.439 --> 01:31:18.279
I'm sorry.

1538
01:31:18.800 --> 01:31:22.399
Also, they're being a little harsh part of Galicias in Portugal,

1539
01:31:23.560 --> 01:31:29.159
that's where my family's from. Yes, Galicia and Portugal bastards.

1540
01:31:29.720 --> 01:31:31.880
Although it is funny. I heard that a lot of

1541
01:31:31.880 --> 01:31:35.920
Galicians they just consider themselves Galician. So one day somebody

1542
01:31:35.920 --> 01:31:38.319
would come and be like, you know, you're gonna have

1543
01:31:38.319 --> 01:31:40.600
to pay Portuguese taxes. They'd be like, I'm in Portugal.

1544
01:31:41.680 --> 01:31:46.880
Like that was like how it would go. Anyway, we're

1545
01:31:46.880 --> 01:31:48.600
gonna take a quick break, and when we come back,

1546
01:31:48.600 --> 01:31:51.560
we're gonna talk about one of the most uncanny animatronic

1547
01:31:51.640 --> 01:31:56.840
dolls to ever proliferate the Carny and beyond in the

1548
01:31:56.920 --> 01:32:09.079
United States. Right after this, during the break, I introduced

1549
01:32:09.279 --> 01:32:15.239
Shell to a laughing sal which is a creepy kind

1550
01:32:15.319 --> 01:32:19.640
of animatronic doll that was popular in carnivals for a

1551
01:32:19.760 --> 01:32:23.640
very long time. It looks like a kind of big

1552
01:32:23.800 --> 01:32:30.720
woman and she laughs hysterically when you pay, and it

1553
01:32:30.760 --> 01:32:33.239
is a lot of people have described it as a

1554
01:32:33.359 --> 01:32:39.600
horrific and nightmare inducing. I would have to agree that

1555
01:32:39.680 --> 01:32:40.439
is pretty creepy.

1556
01:32:41.880 --> 01:32:44.600
I mean, it's creepy. I definitely wouldn't go so far

1557
01:32:44.680 --> 01:32:47.279
to say horrific or nightmare inducing.

1558
01:32:47.520 --> 01:32:49.439
You know, until you're in a room with one in

1559
01:32:49.439 --> 01:32:53.399
the dark, you know, I mean, I guess, you know, Like,

1560
01:32:53.439 --> 01:32:58.399
I don't know. Is it soft like a snake? I'll

1561
01:32:58.399 --> 01:33:03.079
never forget. Well, today we're our topic for this month

1562
01:33:03.279 --> 01:33:08.239
is from Atlas Obscura. They have a little story about

1563
01:33:08.560 --> 01:33:12.840
Laughing Sal. The headline is, or the name of the

1564
01:33:13.039 --> 01:33:15.560
article is the story of Laughing Sal, the world's most

1565
01:33:15.720 --> 01:33:21.760
uncanny animatronic doll, six feet tall and pure nightmare. She

1566
01:33:21.920 --> 01:33:29.119
was once one of America's most popular fun house amusements. Yeah,

1567
01:33:29.239 --> 01:33:30.319
you're like, I don't believe you.

1568
01:33:30.880 --> 01:33:33.199
Yeah. I mean, my question, and I'm sure we'll go

1569
01:33:33.279 --> 01:33:35.760
into it, is are people scared of her? Did they

1570
01:33:35.800 --> 01:33:36.600
just really like that?

1571
01:33:36.640 --> 01:33:37.159
You laugh?

1572
01:33:37.439 --> 01:33:38.359
Like? What was going on?

1573
01:33:38.840 --> 01:33:42.840
I think laughing. That's the problem is that it laughs

1574
01:33:42.920 --> 01:33:48.600
and laughter can you know, very quickly be threatening. Plus,

1575
01:33:48.640 --> 01:33:50.720
you know, the older the salal gets, the more it

1576
01:33:50.760 --> 01:33:53.960
becomes like, oh god, it's laughing, and like the recording

1577
01:33:54.000 --> 01:33:57.640
is of a dead person laughing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did

1578
01:33:57.640 --> 01:33:59.039
you know? That used to be a thing people used

1579
01:33:59.039 --> 01:34:01.079
to say about why they hate sitcoms. They would say

1580
01:34:01.119 --> 01:34:03.319
those are dead people laughing, because those are recordings from

1581
01:34:03.319 --> 01:34:06.159
like the forties that they're still using for the laugh tracks.

1582
01:34:06.279 --> 01:34:11.520
They used to claim that dead people laughing. Red Skelton,

1583
01:34:11.920 --> 01:34:16.319
I believe he uh A lot of the laugh track

1584
01:34:16.359 --> 01:34:18.840
you heard in early sitcoms was from a Red Skelton

1585
01:34:18.920 --> 01:34:22.600
performance because there was a large portion of his show

1586
01:34:23.039 --> 01:34:26.399
that was recorded for a record where he does panamime.

1587
01:34:27.920 --> 01:34:31.279
So there's all these laughs, but you don't hear anything else. Okay,

1588
01:34:31.319 --> 01:34:33.279
so a lot. That's what I heard. That could be

1589
01:34:33.319 --> 01:34:35.199
completely inaccurate, but I heard that.

1590
01:34:35.960 --> 01:34:37.800
I don't think that's true.

1591
01:34:38.119 --> 01:34:41.760
Oh fine, but I could be wrong, you don't think.

1592
01:34:41.800 --> 01:34:43.399
I mean, I'm not saying that the only thing they use.

1593
01:34:43.439 --> 01:34:45.000
I'm just saying that that was one of the earliest

1594
01:34:45.039 --> 01:34:48.680
laugh tracks they used was from a Red Skelton performance. Okay,

1595
01:34:49.079 --> 01:34:52.119
I'm sure that they, you know, upgraded it later on.

1596
01:34:52.600 --> 01:34:54.760
I mean, I think a lot of I mean, and

1597
01:34:54.800 --> 01:34:58.199
there were a lot of live studio audience laughing.

1598
01:34:58.479 --> 01:35:01.960
Yeah, so yeah, but sometimes they would have to augment

1599
01:35:02.000 --> 01:35:04.159
it or fake it, or they'd have to reshoot something,

1600
01:35:04.199 --> 01:35:05.159
and they would just fake it.

1601
01:35:06.279 --> 01:35:08.000
But even if they were sorry, even if they were

1602
01:35:08.039 --> 01:35:11.399
dead people laughing. A lot of the people in sitcoms

1603
01:35:11.439 --> 01:35:12.600
are dead too.

1604
01:35:13.560 --> 01:35:16.600
Well, this was a thing people were saying in the seventies. Okay,

1605
01:35:16.680 --> 01:35:20.640
they're just so there weren't as many dead people on

1606
01:35:20.720 --> 01:35:23.680
TV then, I guess, yeah, I guess. So you'll know

1607
01:35:23.840 --> 01:35:27.680
her by the trail of sobbing children. Follow the line

1608
01:35:27.720 --> 01:35:30.960
of confused faces, and you'll find the six foot tall, freckled,

1609
01:35:31.000 --> 01:35:35.760
curly haired, gap tooth animatronic monstrosity that's beautifully written right

1610
01:35:35.800 --> 01:35:39.520
there as an antique that's still in use. There's something

1611
01:35:39.560 --> 01:35:43.880
both dated and timeless about her. Or outsides are paper mache,

1612
01:35:43.920 --> 01:35:47.479
her insides are carefully set springs and gears, and she

1613
01:35:47.600 --> 01:35:51.000
moves with the confidence of an alien spry, a spy

1614
01:35:51.079 --> 01:35:55.720
testing their human body into sguise. I love this article

1615
01:35:56.000 --> 01:35:58.640
at Less Obscura if you if you never read them,

1616
01:35:58.840 --> 01:36:02.159
they're great for stuff like this, for folklore and haunted

1617
01:36:02.279 --> 01:36:04.920
roads and stuff, and they're always really really well written.

1618
01:36:05.359 --> 01:36:12.399
Cool and laughs in a pitch that conjures visions of

1619
01:36:12.479 --> 01:36:16.600
demons or the final thing you see before you die.

1620
01:36:17.680 --> 01:36:22.079
She is laughing. Sal a horror show designed to brighten

1621
01:36:22.119 --> 01:36:26.560
your day. So many things that are meant to be

1622
01:36:26.600 --> 01:36:31.000
cute and funny become creepy somehow. Yeah, yeah, I mean clowns.

1623
01:36:31.039 --> 01:36:33.920
That's fascinating to me. I don't find clowns particularly scary

1624
01:36:34.000 --> 01:36:37.000
unless you make them scary, like you make them like

1625
01:36:37.119 --> 01:36:40.039
bloody or something. I don't generally find clowns creepy at all,

1626
01:36:40.439 --> 01:36:42.279
And I think it's fascinating that some people just find

1627
01:36:42.319 --> 01:36:43.279
clowns so creepy.

1628
01:36:43.680 --> 01:36:44.640
I don't like them.

1629
01:36:44.880 --> 01:36:47.920
You don't like clowns? No, what's the matter. Don't you

1630
01:36:48.000 --> 01:36:51.319
think we're fucking funny from a movie?

1631
01:36:51.720 --> 01:36:52.800
Yeah, but I don't.

1632
01:36:53.399 --> 01:36:56.840
So is it all clowns? M What about mimes?

1633
01:36:57.920 --> 01:37:02.439
I think mimes are really interesting, actually really yeah?

1634
01:37:02.640 --> 01:37:10.319
Like snakes, yes, like snakes? No? Please please?

1635
01:37:10.800 --> 01:37:13.000
No, I don't know. I just think that like actually,

1636
01:37:13.119 --> 01:37:15.720
like if you're good at like pantomiming, and stuff. I

1637
01:37:15.760 --> 01:37:17.680
think that's really cool because I'm not that.

1638
01:37:17.800 --> 01:37:20.800
It's a hard skill. Michelle is trying to put herself

1639
01:37:20.800 --> 01:37:23.680
in a box. Actually I'm not bad at it. But

1640
01:37:23.800 --> 01:37:26.960
I did go to clowning school. Yeah you did, and

1641
01:37:27.000 --> 01:37:28.520
I was training to be a mime.

1642
01:37:29.479 --> 01:37:30.239
Oh there you go.

1643
01:37:30.760 --> 01:37:33.640
Well, later on I decided I wanted to be a

1644
01:37:33.680 --> 01:37:36.960
talking mime. Okay, I think I've told you that story.

1645
01:37:37.039 --> 01:37:41.279
Yeah you have. That's why I left. It turns out

1646
01:37:41.319 --> 01:37:44.079
the main instructor was a mime. I didn't know that

1647
01:37:44.319 --> 01:37:46.359
because they don't do the class and their get up.

1648
01:37:48.119 --> 01:37:49.720
I guess I just like I thought it was funny

1649
01:37:49.720 --> 01:37:51.880
because I was kind of crapping on how silly miming is,

1650
01:37:52.680 --> 01:37:55.000
because when you talk as a mime, you're going like, whoa.

1651
01:37:55.079 --> 01:37:58.359
I guess I'm stuck in a box. Now, what's happening? Okay,

1652
01:37:58.399 --> 01:38:00.720
I'm fine. I'm gonna climb this ladder. I don't feel

1653
01:38:00.720 --> 01:38:02.840
like I'm going anywhere. I'm gonna walk this dog. Go

1654
01:38:02.840 --> 01:38:05.680
all the dogs walking me. And that's what I did.

1655
01:38:05.800 --> 01:38:08.199
And he did not laugh once. And that's when I

1656
01:38:08.239 --> 01:38:09.960
was like, maybe I should just maybe I should just quit.

1657
01:38:09.960 --> 01:38:11.960
I'm not that good. I wasn't. I was also really

1658
01:38:11.960 --> 01:38:17.560
bad at physical humor. They put me in remedial physical comedy. Geez,

1659
01:38:19.760 --> 01:38:21.239
I was really bad anyway.

1660
01:38:21.680 --> 01:38:23.239
Oh, I kind of can't believe that.

1661
01:38:23.399 --> 01:38:28.039
Actually, really, Yeah, you think I'm good at physical comedy.

1662
01:38:28.319 --> 01:38:30.439
I mean, I don't know, but I just kind of

1663
01:38:30.439 --> 01:38:31.359
figured you would be.

1664
01:38:31.800 --> 01:38:33.960
Oh, that's the lasest thing anyone's ever said to me,

1665
01:38:34.000 --> 01:38:37.680
because that's like a scar that probably will never never fade.

1666
01:38:38.039 --> 01:38:39.399
It's okay, I believe in you.

1667
01:38:39.920 --> 01:38:43.000
Thank you. I messed up. I should have been a clown,

1668
01:38:43.039 --> 01:38:47.239
all right. While you may have never laid eyes on

1669
01:38:47.279 --> 01:38:51.239
a laughing sal personally, she permeated our pop culture in

1670
01:38:51.279 --> 01:38:54.800
ways that few other dolls have. sALS appeared in The

1671
01:38:54.840 --> 01:38:58.640
Princess Diaries, the classic noir Woman on the Run, and

1672
01:38:58.720 --> 01:39:02.880
Fritz Lang's thriller m her or M just m It

1673
01:39:02.920 --> 01:39:06.640
looked like M dot her m her Manic laughter is

1674
01:39:06.720 --> 01:39:10.720
hidden deep within the background of neutral milk hotel hotels.

1675
01:39:11.079 --> 01:39:15.800
In the Aeroplane over the Sea, You you a neutral

1676
01:39:15.800 --> 01:39:16.680
milk hotel person.

1677
01:39:17.600 --> 01:39:19.760
No, but I I know of that.

1678
01:39:19.960 --> 01:39:21.520
Yeah, me too, I'm not. I don't. I don't have

1679
01:39:21.520 --> 01:39:24.319
any negative opinion I've heard. I think I've heard a

1680
01:39:24.359 --> 01:39:27.159
song or two and liked it fine. And she's made

1681
01:39:27.199 --> 01:39:30.279
appearances in nearly any episode of television set at an

1682
01:39:30.319 --> 01:39:34.960
amusement park, the arena she originally was designed to haunt.

1683
01:39:36.880 --> 01:39:40.960
There's a laughing soal in the carnival scene in Dark Man,

1684
01:39:41.439 --> 01:39:43.920
and that's the first time I noticed it. Oh, okay,

1685
01:39:44.399 --> 01:39:47.520
it's very creepy. There was a time when, Oh, here

1686
01:39:47.560 --> 01:39:49.600
we go. There was a time when the US was

1687
01:39:49.640 --> 01:39:53.279
blanketed an army in an army of sALS constructed by

1688
01:39:53.359 --> 01:40:00.960
the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. Wow, based in Germantown, Pennsylvania. That's

1689
01:40:01.760 --> 01:40:02.399
close enough.

1690
01:40:02.680 --> 01:40:05.920
No, that's probably they're probably that's probably Philly because there's

1691
01:40:05.960 --> 01:40:08.520
a there's a this neighborhood called Germantown.

1692
01:40:08.840 --> 01:40:14.119
So okay, they don't have a Butterstreet Monster, but you know, yeah,

1693
01:40:14.319 --> 01:40:18.880
a manufacturer that specialized in building amusement park rides and attractions.

1694
01:40:18.920 --> 01:40:23.159
Since nineteen oh four, this mostly meant wooden roller coasters.

1695
01:40:23.199 --> 01:40:25.720
According to the PTC, eighty two of them are still

1696
01:40:25.760 --> 01:40:31.000
in operation today. That's good. That's impressive. Yeah, carousels, ski

1697
01:40:31.039 --> 01:40:36.039
ball machines, and crazy Daisy rides, those teacups that twirl.

1698
01:40:37.359 --> 01:40:47.039
But in the nineteen thirties, the PTC got into paper mache. Wow, yeah, ooh,

1699
01:40:47.319 --> 01:40:50.399
look at this. It all comes around. They subcontracted the

1700
01:40:50.439 --> 01:40:53.760
work to Canton, Ohio's Old King Coal Company. I've heard

1701
01:40:53.760 --> 01:40:56.520
of Old King Coal Company. Canton is like three and

1702
01:40:56.520 --> 01:40:59.039
a half hours away from me, but it's my state, dammit.

1703
01:40:59.760 --> 01:41:03.840
Who first used their thrifty construction techniques to more exotically

1704
01:41:03.880 --> 01:41:09.199
decorate the rides before constructing standalone figures. Early contracts included

1705
01:41:09.199 --> 01:41:12.560
one with RCA to mass produced replicas of Nipper the

1706
01:41:12.600 --> 01:41:16.920
Sweet Pooch attentively listening to a phonograph, and to department

1707
01:41:17.000 --> 01:41:20.800
stores around the country to build laughing animatronic Santa clauses

1708
01:41:20.840 --> 01:41:24.800
displayed during Christmas. So that's where it was. You got

1709
01:41:24.840 --> 01:41:27.600
nervous over that. You don't like the laughing animatronic Sanna

1710
01:41:28.680 --> 01:41:36.399
ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ry Christmas,

1711
01:41:36.920 --> 01:41:43.880
ho ho ho. It just looks down at you, not you. Yeah,

1712
01:41:44.039 --> 01:41:49.720
you know you can tell uh lolsy anti semitic animatronic Santa.

1713
01:41:50.239 --> 01:41:52.199
Yeah.

1714
01:41:52.359 --> 01:41:55.600
One day someone had the clever idea. The latter may

1715
01:41:55.600 --> 01:41:59.720
be more valuable if not relegated to seasonal employment. As

1716
01:41:59.760 --> 01:42:03.560
Bill Luca, creator director of the Dark Carnival Ride fan site.

1717
01:42:03.640 --> 01:42:07.039
Laugh in the Dark. That's totally they got that from it.

1718
01:42:07.079 --> 01:42:08.840
Are You Afraid of the Dark episode? That makes me

1719
01:42:08.960 --> 01:42:11.880
think it'spelled the laff. Laugh in the Dark described it.

1720
01:42:12.560 --> 01:42:16.920
I love that episode. It's the most fun you'll have

1721
01:42:17.000 --> 01:42:21.000
in the park when you're laughing in the dark. I

1722
01:42:21.159 --> 01:42:24.279
love that. Oh, I want to watch Are You Afraid

1723
01:42:24.319 --> 01:42:26.840
of the Dark. Yeah, we should watch that. I'll bring

1724
01:42:26.840 --> 01:42:28.279
my I have, I have all the DVD sets. I

1725
01:42:28.279 --> 01:42:30.720
should bring it next time I visit. Okay, we'll go

1726
01:42:30.760 --> 01:42:33.159
down memory lane. We'll watch that in some Pete and

1727
01:42:33.159 --> 01:42:38.439
Pete Yeah. Yeah. Described in his History of sal the

1728
01:42:38.520 --> 01:42:43.039
Santa modification involved quote substitut touting a woman's head and legs,

1729
01:42:43.319 --> 01:42:47.520
making some anatomical enhancements, and dressing the figure in a

1730
01:42:47.600 --> 01:42:53.640
frumpy dress, jacket and hat. I guess that would that

1731
01:42:53.640 --> 01:42:57.000
would do it. We're going to take a quick break

1732
01:42:57.000 --> 01:42:59.800
and we come back. We'll talk more about how creepy

1733
01:43:00.399 --> 01:43:06.239
laughing sal is and uh and oh these photos are creepy.

1734
01:43:06.720 --> 01:43:18.079
Right after this, before we talk more about laughing sal Shell.

1735
01:43:19.279 --> 01:43:22.600
How often did you did you go how often did

1736
01:43:22.680 --> 01:43:27.479
you go to like like a carnival or anything like that.

1737
01:43:27.840 --> 01:43:29.640
Did you ever go to the boardwalk or anything.

1738
01:43:30.199 --> 01:43:31.800
Yeah, I've gone to boardwalks.

1739
01:43:32.319 --> 01:43:35.840
Yeah yeah, because you're from not South Jersey. Yeah, there's

1740
01:43:35.960 --> 01:43:39.840
other boardwalks that aren't and I feel like a lot

1741
01:43:39.880 --> 01:43:43.159
of the board boardwalks are in North Jersey. Actually yeah, well.

1742
01:43:43.000 --> 01:43:47.600
It depends because eventually you hit like where New York

1743
01:43:47.640 --> 01:43:48.760
City is over there.

1744
01:43:49.279 --> 01:43:50.840
Yeah it's all weird.

1745
01:43:51.319 --> 01:43:55.199
Yeah yeah, but uh but yeah, I mean I went

1746
01:43:55.239 --> 01:43:57.319
to boardwalks, so we didn't go to like carnivals.

1747
01:43:57.319 --> 01:43:59.760
There really weren't as as you say. They probably weren't

1748
01:43:59.760 --> 01:44:02.600
that many because you have things like boardwalks and stuff nearby.

1749
01:44:03.680 --> 01:44:06.600
Did you have like a favorite ride or game or

1750
01:44:06.720 --> 01:44:08.880
food from them? No?

1751
01:44:08.960 --> 01:44:10.680
Like, I really didn't like them that much.

1752
01:44:11.119 --> 01:44:11.520
Why.

1753
01:44:12.279 --> 01:44:17.159
I just don't really like rides or games or food.

1754
01:44:18.479 --> 01:44:19.439
You like food.

1755
01:44:19.640 --> 01:44:23.239
I do like some, but like I know, I like,

1756
01:44:23.359 --> 01:44:26.560
I don't have a lot of memories of those things,

1757
01:44:26.640 --> 01:44:30.399
and I like don't. I didn't. It was never like yay,

1758
01:44:30.439 --> 01:44:31.880
this is really fine. It was like, well, I guess

1759
01:44:31.880 --> 01:44:34.520
we're doing this thing because everybody wants to do it.

1760
01:44:35.760 --> 01:44:38.560
That's actually very similar to me. I didn't like rides,

1761
01:44:38.800 --> 01:44:44.680
I like games, Okay, I mean they're fine, like whack them.

1762
01:44:43.479 --> 01:44:45.760
Like when anything. And then if you do win stuff,

1763
01:44:45.760 --> 01:44:47.000
you don't really like the thing you.

1764
01:44:47.000 --> 01:44:51.760
Won, you know, and you gotta carry it all day. Yeah,

1765
01:44:51.920 --> 01:44:56.239
I'm so glad that you're the wetter blanket than even me. Somehow,

1766
01:44:56.600 --> 01:45:03.840
some way, Well back to laughing South. This new thing

1767
01:45:04.199 --> 01:45:08.960
had two moves. Her torso shifted back and forth with

1768
01:45:09.039 --> 01:45:12.319
a belly laugh, causing her spring loaded head to bounce

1769
01:45:12.399 --> 01:45:17.119
in awkward nods. Another gear moved her arms up and down,

1770
01:45:17.199 --> 01:45:21.960
as if telling everyone around her to calm down. She

1771
01:45:22.079 --> 01:45:24.960
also had speakers positioned at the base, which played her

1772
01:45:25.039 --> 01:45:28.920
laugh on repeat. It originally came from a stack of

1773
01:45:29.039 --> 01:45:33.079
seventy eight rpm records that needed to be changed periodically

1774
01:45:33.119 --> 01:45:39.239
by a technician before tape recordings automated that job. That's funny,

1775
01:45:40.279 --> 01:45:43.520
No wonder she was laughing. It all added up to

1776
01:45:43.560 --> 01:45:50.279
an early precursor of Uncali Valley robotics, humanoid replicas that

1777
01:45:50.359 --> 01:45:54.640
caused passerby to stare at this weird contraption and wonder

1778
01:45:54.720 --> 01:45:59.800
if someone was inside staring back. You ever see the

1779
01:45:59.840 --> 01:46:03.399
zo tars, like the big the full size animatrocs that

1780
01:46:03.479 --> 01:46:05.279
you put the money in and they do your fortune.

1781
01:46:06.159 --> 01:46:07.239
Not in real life now.

1782
01:46:07.960 --> 01:46:11.560
Oh I saw one not long ago. Gosh, where was I?

1783
01:46:11.560 --> 01:46:13.159
I can't remember where it was, but there was like

1784
01:46:13.159 --> 01:46:16.720
an actual one sitting there. It was really cool. Since

1785
01:46:16.760 --> 01:46:20.920
Sal's debut, the reaction to her spastic movements and ear

1786
01:46:21.039 --> 01:46:24.880
piercing giggle had been that perfect mix of intrigue and

1787
01:46:25.000 --> 01:46:27.399
cringe that gets us to buy a ticket to a

1788
01:46:27.399 --> 01:46:32.119
thriller only to watch half of it through shielding fingers.

1789
01:46:33.000 --> 01:46:36.399
This is a really good article. In other words, the

1790
01:46:36.439 --> 01:46:39.960
funhouse aesthetic. That's fair. I always wanted to go into

1791
01:46:40.000 --> 01:46:41.520
a funhouse when I was a kid, but we never

1792
01:46:41.560 --> 01:46:43.560
went to like the carnival. We only went to like,

1793
01:46:44.199 --> 01:46:46.800
you know, we go to like the county fairs maybe.

1794
01:46:47.359 --> 01:46:50.079
And we had like a little amusement park nearby and

1795
01:46:50.119 --> 01:46:53.119
a huge amusement park nearby, because King's Island is one

1796
01:46:53.119 --> 01:46:55.960
of the bigger amusement parks in America and it's not

1797
01:46:56.039 --> 01:46:59.319
far from me. And we had a little one called Americana,

1798
01:46:59.600 --> 01:47:01.319
which we to go to a lot in school and

1799
01:47:01.319 --> 01:47:03.000
stuff because it was pretty cheap and it was very

1800
01:47:03.000 --> 01:47:06.239
close and they had like tilt to whirls and stuff.

1801
01:47:06.279 --> 01:47:08.800
It was all right. It had two roller coasters. Okay,

1802
01:47:09.560 --> 01:47:13.159
So when the PTC began selling and installing their new

1803
01:47:13.199 --> 01:47:16.720
funhouses into amusement parks, it was only natural that sal

1804
01:47:16.960 --> 01:47:21.560
came along for the ride. That's so good. No unsure

1805
01:47:21.600 --> 01:47:24.560
how many sALS were made. Some reports say two hundred

1806
01:47:24.560 --> 01:47:28.239
and fifty, others pushed that number to five hundred. But

1807
01:47:28.359 --> 01:47:32.119
then comes the question of what one considers original in

1808
01:47:32.159 --> 01:47:37.039
the official tally, because two hundred fifty sounds low to me.

1809
01:47:38.079 --> 01:47:40.039
I don't know, But then again, there could only be

1810
01:47:40.079 --> 01:47:44.399
so many festivals and carnivals and stuff. Yeah, they went

1811
01:47:44.439 --> 01:47:47.600
for about three hundred and sixty dollars a pop back

1812
01:47:47.600 --> 01:47:51.239
in nineteen forties dollars, and it actually says what that

1813
01:47:51.319 --> 01:47:54.000
is in today's dollars, except that this articles are ten

1814
01:47:54.079 --> 01:47:56.199
years old. So let's find out what that is in

1815
01:47:56.239 --> 01:47:56.920
today's money.

1816
01:47:57.199 --> 01:48:00.319
Oh god, what.

1817
01:48:02.000 --> 01:48:05.039
It always it upsets you? Huh yeah, yeah, me too.

1818
01:48:05.479 --> 01:48:10.600
I was that would be oh, three hundred and sixty

1819
01:48:10.600 --> 01:48:20.479
dollars in what year was this? Nineteen forty? That would

1820
01:48:20.520 --> 01:48:24.000
be eight thousand, six hundred and seventeen dollars in today's money,

1821
01:48:25.199 --> 01:48:31.920
or or ten years ago six thousand, two hundred. Yeah, inflation, man,

1822
01:48:32.319 --> 01:48:36.720
I was watching I was watching Office Space last night

1823
01:48:37.119 --> 01:48:39.239
and they're talking about how they're going to like steal

1824
01:48:39.279 --> 01:48:42.039
a couple hundred thousand dollars and never have to work again.

1825
01:48:42.119 --> 01:48:45.479
And I was like, oh, my gosh, inflation. That's so

1826
01:48:45.760 --> 01:48:52.119
crazy shit, man, Yeah, yeah it is. Buying a car

1827
01:48:52.319 --> 01:48:55.079
was awkward, not because I couldn't afford it, but because

1828
01:48:55.479 --> 01:48:58.319
I realized how high car payment normal car payments were.

1829
01:48:59.319 --> 01:49:01.239
Like I was like, I feel like I'm kind of indulging,

1830
01:49:01.239 --> 01:49:03.560
and it was like, actually, your car payment is less

1831
01:49:03.600 --> 01:49:06.279
than the average new car payment and only slightly higher

1832
01:49:06.279 --> 01:49:08.000
than the average used car payment, and I was like,

1833
01:49:08.039 --> 01:49:09.159
that's insane.

1834
01:49:09.520 --> 01:49:09.840
Yeah.

1835
01:49:10.000 --> 01:49:13.760
Yeah. I watched a video like they're like a they

1836
01:49:13.840 --> 01:49:16.439
just audit like random people, Like they'll walk down the

1837
01:49:16.479 --> 01:49:19.079
street and ask you a financial question, and they were

1838
01:49:19.119 --> 01:49:20.880
asking people, what do you eat? What's your car payment?

1839
01:49:21.439 --> 01:49:22.239
Yeah?

1840
01:49:22.319 --> 01:49:27.319
They were insanely high. Yeah, Like, I don't understand having

1841
01:49:27.399 --> 01:49:29.640
a nine hundred dollars car payment unless you need like

1842
01:49:29.720 --> 01:49:34.199
a pickup truck for work or something. I don't understand

1843
01:49:34.239 --> 01:49:37.000
having like almost one thousand dollars car payment. That's insane.

1844
01:49:37.760 --> 01:49:39.319
I felt bad because I'm gonna have like a five

1845
01:49:39.399 --> 01:49:41.319
hundred dollars car payment. I was like, Oh my god,

1846
01:49:41.520 --> 01:49:43.960
I'm a Kennedy. Now this is what happens. I'm gonna

1847
01:49:43.960 --> 01:49:47.520
crash the car into a lake too soon. Okay, back

1848
01:49:47.560 --> 01:49:51.520
to the Sal at hand. Wow, that really went off

1849
01:49:52.000 --> 01:49:56.159
a bit there. That's all my fault. Sal was so popular.

1850
01:49:56.239 --> 01:50:01.159
In fact, the PTC commissioned mail counterparts called Laughing I've

1851
01:50:01.199 --> 01:50:05.039
seen a laughing Sam. That's what I've seen more than sALS.

1852
01:50:05.560 --> 01:50:07.680
It's funny though, because Sally. I guess Sal like Sally,

1853
01:50:07.720 --> 01:50:11.119
because I think Sal I took a guy's name, as

1854
01:50:11.159 --> 01:50:15.239
well as offshoot characters like laughing farmer, giggling Gerdy and

1855
01:50:15.439 --> 01:50:19.520
ooh Blackie the sideshow barker. Ugh, you probably want to

1856
01:50:19.560 --> 01:50:23.199
leave that one alone. But Sal was the most popular.

1857
01:50:24.039 --> 01:50:28.840
Most had multiple versions on hand in case one broke down. Unfortunately,

1858
01:50:28.880 --> 01:50:31.560
there's no complete list or map of the sALS left.

1859
01:50:31.680 --> 01:50:34.039
No one knows how many lie buried in the depths

1860
01:50:34.119 --> 01:50:37.479
of long forgotten warehouses, waiting to send shivers down the

1861
01:50:37.520 --> 01:50:42.319
eventual discoverer's spine, although Wikipedia does collect a number of examples.

1862
01:50:43.560 --> 01:50:45.640
You know what makes me happy? I'm about to turn forty.

1863
01:50:45.760 --> 01:50:48.720
Right in September I turned forty. Yeah, what makes me

1864
01:50:48.800 --> 01:50:50.359
happy is I just had a thought of like, I

1865
01:50:50.399 --> 01:50:51.960
wonder where one is, and I was like, I know

1866
01:50:52.159 --> 01:50:55.800
three people I could call that would know exactly if

1867
01:50:55.840 --> 01:50:58.880
not own one, you'd know exactly where they are. That

1868
01:50:58.960 --> 01:51:02.359
made me realize I've been living my life correctly. That

1869
01:51:02.520 --> 01:51:05.279
in my rolodex. I was texting with a guy today

1870
01:51:05.279 --> 01:51:07.199
that I almost guarantee would know how I could buy

1871
01:51:07.199 --> 01:51:09.720
one if not owns one, in one of his warehouses. Wow,

1872
01:51:10.199 --> 01:51:12.359
that made me happy. That makes that makes me feel

1873
01:51:12.359 --> 01:51:14.119
like I haven't wasted forty years.

1874
01:51:15.159 --> 01:51:16.359
Yeah.

1875
01:51:16.520 --> 01:51:18.279
To have those kinds of people you can just reach

1876
01:51:18.319 --> 01:51:21.720
out to makes me makes me proud. One particular sal

1877
01:51:21.800 --> 01:51:24.720
hotspot is the Bay Area Playland at the Beach, a

1878
01:51:24.880 --> 01:51:27.880
seaside amusement park that was located at the westernmost end

1879
01:51:27.920 --> 01:51:31.439
of San Francisco, down the coast of Sutro's Bath and Cliffhouse.

1880
01:51:32.319 --> 01:51:36.039
Has been long been a destination for sal lovers. The

1881
01:51:36.119 --> 01:51:38.760
area was an unofficial settlement for transience in the late

1882
01:51:38.800 --> 01:51:41.560
eighteen hundreds until the first amusement ride, which was a

1883
01:51:41.640 --> 01:51:45.000
roller coaster, had been installed in eighteen eighty four. Other

1884
01:51:45.079 --> 01:51:47.600
rides and attractions soon followed, and in nineteen twenty six,

1885
01:51:47.680 --> 01:51:50.840
George Whitney became the general manager of the complex, now

1886
01:51:50.880 --> 01:51:54.000
given the name and order. When Funhouse is opened in

1887
01:51:54.039 --> 01:51:57.000
the thirties, so came the sALS, where they rocked and

1888
01:51:57.119 --> 01:51:59.600
laughed and terrorized until the land was sold to a

1889
01:51:59.680 --> 01:52:08.800
Navy List condominium developer in nineteen seventy one. Wow, I

1890
01:52:08.840 --> 01:52:12.159
am shocked how much information there is about sal like here.

1891
01:52:13.359 --> 01:52:16.000
The most visited sal in the Bay, though, is located

1892
01:52:16.039 --> 01:52:20.399
near the entrance of Mussey Mechanique, the famed collection of

1893
01:52:20.520 --> 01:52:23.680
vintage penny arcade machines and moving dioramas, at the edge

1894
01:52:23.680 --> 01:52:26.000
of Fisherman's Wharf. That would be the best place for it,

1895
01:52:27.119 --> 01:52:28.479
because it's you know, machines.

1896
01:52:29.119 --> 01:52:32.199
Yeah, but I've been to there, but not you have place.

1897
01:52:32.239 --> 01:52:33.600
I've been to Fisherman's Wharf.

1898
01:52:34.119 --> 01:52:36.800
Oh, you probably saw one and just blocked it out

1899
01:52:36.840 --> 01:52:38.000
like your entire childhood.

1900
01:52:38.279 --> 01:52:40.720
Maybe. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.

1901
01:52:41.119 --> 01:52:46.840
Yeah, it's the kind of thing to do that. Dan Zelinski,

1902
01:52:46.880 --> 01:52:50.399
the museum's director, recalls getting Sal about two decades ago

1903
01:52:50.479 --> 01:52:55.279
for a price tag of near three thousand dollars. The

1904
01:52:55.359 --> 01:52:57.640
seller called me a quote. The seller called me to

1905
01:52:57.640 --> 01:53:00.600
come over to his house and look at it. Housed it,

1906
01:53:00.640 --> 01:53:03.359
and it's in his stairwell under a blanket. I said,

1907
01:53:03.359 --> 01:53:05.720
looks great and went back with a check. But then

1908
01:53:05.800 --> 01:53:09.640
he decided not to sell it. Oh well, don't worry.

1909
01:53:09.640 --> 01:53:12.840
This story has a happy ending. Years later, the seller

1910
01:53:12.880 --> 01:53:16.560
passed away and his family put it up for sorry.

1911
01:53:16.600 --> 01:53:20.319
I saw that ahead that couldn't resist, and Zelensky pounced.

1912
01:53:20.359 --> 01:53:23.680
Both for practical purposes, it's multi lingual. It's something that

1913
01:53:23.760 --> 01:53:26.600
everyone around the world can relate to, and his own

1914
01:53:26.680 --> 01:53:30.640
personal nostalgia. As a kid, Zelensky often visited Sal outside

1915
01:53:30.680 --> 01:53:34.119
the funhouse at Playland and now Sal's back where he belongs,

1916
01:53:34.159 --> 01:53:37.479
greeting new visitors who either chortle with delight or pant

1917
01:53:37.560 --> 01:53:43.439
with terror, mostly the latter. I love this so much.

1918
01:53:43.600 --> 01:53:45.239
I love it's multi lingual. It's like, you don't have

1919
01:53:45.279 --> 01:53:49.359
to speak English to be terrified of this goddamn thing. Yeah,

1920
01:53:49.439 --> 01:53:52.159
I have to admit, like I've often thought, like, man,

1921
01:53:52.239 --> 01:53:55.399
if I ever just end up having dough to just

1922
01:53:55.560 --> 01:53:58.800
like stick into things, I would own stuff like that.

1923
01:53:59.079 --> 01:54:01.520
I would have a like a warehouse or a really

1924
01:54:01.560 --> 01:54:04.279
big house, and I would just have that stuff. I'd

1925
01:54:04.279 --> 01:54:06.159
be like, you want to go to the Chamber of horrors.

1926
01:54:06.199 --> 01:54:07.880
That's what I call my basement because it's got all

1927
01:54:07.880 --> 01:54:11.119
the creepy stuff that nobody else really wants that badly.

1928
01:54:11.520 --> 01:54:11.880
Mm hmm.

1929
01:54:12.760 --> 01:54:15.079
So and believe I've seen how quickly you can become

1930
01:54:15.119 --> 01:54:16.600
that person. I have a friend who has one of

1931
01:54:16.640 --> 01:54:19.199
the biggest serial killer collections in the world.

1932
01:54:19.720 --> 01:54:22.359
Wow, he just collects serial killers.

1933
01:54:22.840 --> 01:54:24.479
Yeah, he puts some, he gets some of the net.

1934
01:54:24.600 --> 01:54:28.800
That's the trick is using a net. Oh okay, yeah,

1935
01:54:28.840 --> 01:54:33.760
a net Benning music Works. Really uh No, he has

1936
01:54:33.880 --> 01:54:37.600
a lot. He has uh the he has the largest

1937
01:54:37.640 --> 01:54:42.079
collection of John Wayne Gacy. That's his big one. He

1938
01:54:42.119 --> 01:54:45.640
has all of the gay sy stuff, including a part

1939
01:54:45.680 --> 01:54:48.279
of his body. But we'll talk about that off the

1940
01:54:48.319 --> 01:54:51.039
show because it's it's I don't I know he would

1941
01:54:51.079 --> 01:54:53.680
want me to say his name, but he bought it

1942
01:54:53.760 --> 01:54:55.119
legally from a from a doctor.

1943
01:54:55.439 --> 01:54:56.199
Well that's nice.

1944
01:54:56.720 --> 01:55:00.880
Yeah. Quote, kids are scared to death of that thing,

1945
01:55:01.119 --> 01:55:04.359
the Lindsay says a certain glee in his voice. Their

1946
01:55:04.439 --> 01:55:06.920
parents bring them in because they grew up going to playland,

1947
01:55:07.199 --> 01:55:10.119
and so they started up and their kids hide. They're like, mom,

1948
01:55:10.399 --> 01:55:15.319
are you sure this is supposed to be fun? That?

1949
01:55:14.800 --> 01:55:18.319
That's really fun? I love the carnival. I kind of

1950
01:55:18.960 --> 01:55:20.520
that's one of the reasons I love going to haunts

1951
01:55:20.520 --> 01:55:22.680
because it kind of brings the like a bit of

1952
01:55:22.720 --> 01:55:26.960
that old school carnival mentality back because a lot of

1953
01:55:26.960 --> 01:55:29.079
haunted houses they'll have like the trucks parked out that

1954
01:55:29.119 --> 01:55:32.039
make like the elephant ears and the chili cheese fries

1955
01:55:32.079 --> 01:55:36.600
and stuff and the candied apples, which, by the way,

1956
01:55:36.600 --> 01:55:38.399
if you go to a haunt, I didn't get any

1957
01:55:38.479 --> 01:55:40.600
last year, and I was like so depressed because they

1958
01:55:40.600 --> 01:55:43.880
closed the donut chopped down. The rule of haunts is

1959
01:55:43.880 --> 01:55:47.439
you're supposed to get at least one cider donut, okay,

1960
01:55:47.880 --> 01:55:51.479
because that's like the taste of the haunt. Okay, that

1961
01:55:51.640 --> 01:55:57.439
isn't just like cigarette butts and sweat. Now that everybody's

1962
01:55:57.479 --> 01:56:00.680
been properly educated on laughing South, we're going to take

1963
01:56:00.720 --> 01:56:03.159
a quick break and when we come back, Cell is

1964
01:56:03.199 --> 01:56:05.680
going to regale you with one of the most terrifying

1965
01:56:05.840 --> 01:56:10.520
stories we've ever heard in the history of our lives.

1966
01:56:10.560 --> 01:56:14.079
That includes the people listening. No, it's the most terrifying

1967
01:56:14.079 --> 01:56:15.760
story probably in the history of Earth.

1968
01:56:16.000 --> 01:56:18.680
It's not even terrifying at all, fairly.

1969
01:56:18.520 --> 01:56:32.079
Terrifying horrifying, deeply and guttterly right after this, All right,

1970
01:56:32.159 --> 01:56:35.359
we're wrapping up this month. This July two thousand and

1971
01:56:36.199 --> 01:56:42.800
twenty six monthly spooky, and unfortunately, unlike the month before,

1972
01:56:43.680 --> 01:56:45.640
there was not a lot of horror in the theater.

1973
01:56:48.239 --> 01:56:52.279
I saw one horror film in the theater last month, wow,

1974
01:56:52.640 --> 01:56:55.960
And it was the New Evil Dead Evil Dead Burn,

1975
01:56:58.039 --> 01:57:04.960
And I gotta say I did like it. It was wild, insane,

1976
01:57:06.520 --> 01:57:10.720
obscenely violent and disgusting, which is pretty much what you

1977
01:57:10.800 --> 01:57:14.279
get from those movies. Like what they promise you, they

1978
01:57:14.319 --> 01:57:17.399
broke like every taboo on purpose to like really upset you.

1979
01:57:18.920 --> 01:57:23.119
They they fearlessly kill animals and children and everything in between.

1980
01:57:24.520 --> 01:57:27.279
And in fact, the dog that gets killed in it

1981
01:57:27.319 --> 01:57:30.279
like keeps coming back as like a like a possessed thing.

1982
01:57:30.520 --> 01:57:32.039
So you get to see the dog get killed like

1983
01:57:32.079 --> 01:57:35.119
three times. Oh wow, just for anybody who's mad. And

1984
01:57:35.680 --> 01:57:39.560
I understand that people don't love the idea of like

1985
01:57:39.600 --> 01:57:41.760
an animal dying in a movie or whatever. I get it,

1986
01:57:41.800 --> 01:57:44.439
because we all love our animals and stuff like that.

1987
01:57:44.680 --> 01:57:46.079
Do you get bothered when you see, like in a

1988
01:57:46.079 --> 01:57:48.079
movie where they like kill a cat or something.

1989
01:57:48.279 --> 01:57:50.560
I mean, I don't like I don't love it. I

1990
01:57:50.560 --> 01:57:53.239
mean it doesn't like I'm not like up in arms

1991
01:57:53.279 --> 01:57:53.680
about it.

1992
01:57:53.920 --> 01:57:57.279
Yeah. Yeah, it always blows my mind because people say, like,

1993
01:57:57.279 --> 01:57:58.960
I don't like that movie they killed a dog in it.

1994
01:57:59.000 --> 01:58:02.159
I'm like, I'm pretty sure they pretended to kill a

1995
01:58:02.199 --> 01:58:04.119
dog in it. That's always my go to. It is

1996
01:58:04.159 --> 01:58:06.239
like I'm pretty sure they didn't really do it. But

1997
01:58:06.279 --> 01:58:08.439
there was a movie that showed a few years back

1998
01:58:08.479 --> 01:58:11.319
on Joe Bob Briggs and people were super mad because

1999
01:58:11.319 --> 01:58:12.800
the cat dies in it. Not for real, I mean,

2000
01:58:12.840 --> 01:58:14.600
you know, like in the movie, cat dies in it.

2001
01:58:15.760 --> 01:58:18.399
And I had said to somebody, I was like, try

2002
01:58:18.479 --> 01:58:20.600
to try to take solace in knowing it was a

2003
01:58:20.640 --> 01:58:23.319
low budget movie, so they didn't have a lot of takes,

2004
01:58:23.319 --> 01:58:25.439
so they probably only killed three or four cats to

2005
01:58:25.439 --> 01:58:30.680
get that shot. You know, they didn't hurt any cats. Yeah,

2006
01:58:30.920 --> 01:58:34.279
the goodness. But but yeah, so a lot of people

2007
01:58:34.279 --> 01:58:37.800
were mad about the dog getting killed, the child death,

2008
01:58:37.800 --> 01:58:41.439
which was like really not turning away, it was like unflinching,

2009
01:58:41.439 --> 01:58:42.840
and I was kind of shocked. The movie still had

2010
01:58:42.840 --> 01:58:46.560
an our rating. Wow, but it was fun. If you

2011
01:58:46.680 --> 01:58:50.760
liked Evil Dead Rise, it's in a similar space to

2012
01:58:50.800 --> 01:58:53.079
that but it They did a lot of new stuff.

2013
01:58:53.079 --> 01:58:55.600
They did a lot of interesting stuff with family dynamics,

2014
01:58:56.199 --> 01:58:59.159
and I loved that burn and fire was like the

2015
01:58:59.159 --> 01:59:03.920
theme of everything that happened, the consumption of flame. Okay,

2016
01:59:04.079 --> 01:59:06.000
so I thought it was cool. I enjoyed it. I

2017
01:59:06.000 --> 01:59:09.560
do recommend going and checking it out. Mm hm that's uh.

2018
01:59:09.920 --> 01:59:13.800
But that's my horror film for the month. Cell Scare

2019
01:59:13.880 --> 01:59:17.399
the Bejesus out of us with the best scariest Reddit

2020
01:59:17.520 --> 01:59:18.119
entry ever.

2021
01:59:18.880 --> 01:59:23.800
So this was hard because I intended to like sit

2022
01:59:23.880 --> 01:59:26.560
here this morning and like do things, but I had

2023
01:59:26.600 --> 01:59:28.960
to go to the house and make sure the.

2024
01:59:28.960 --> 01:59:30.520
Stove was off right.

2025
01:59:30.560 --> 01:59:35.239
So what I have is, so there's from glitching the matrix.

2026
01:59:35.279 --> 01:59:39.880
What I just said, Uh oh oh yeah. So like

2027
01:59:41.039 --> 01:59:45.239
there's this person and they have, like like nine years

2028
01:59:45.279 --> 01:59:49.479
ago or something, their son had like a favorite glass.

2029
01:59:49.960 --> 01:59:52.399
They love this McDonald's glass that they have.

2030
01:59:52.880 --> 01:59:54.119
I had a McDonald's glass.

2031
01:59:54.399 --> 01:59:57.279
Yeah, me too. I don't think I loved it, but

2032
01:59:57.359 --> 02:00:01.840
we had some Okay, So they and it's it was

2033
02:00:01.880 --> 02:00:04.720
like their special glass. They always used it and then

2034
02:00:04.760 --> 02:00:07.000
they dropped it and it got like a big crack

2035
02:00:07.039 --> 02:00:09.319
in it, and they and so the kid got like

2036
02:00:09.479 --> 02:00:13.399
really really upset, and the parent was like, you know,

2037
02:00:13.479 --> 02:00:14.960
it was like trying to calm the down and was like,

2038
02:00:15.000 --> 02:00:17.199
you know, we have an one identical to that, like

2039
02:00:17.479 --> 02:00:22.319
they have two of them, so so the poster I

2040
02:00:22.319 --> 02:00:25.560
don't know, I don't know. They like wrapped up the

2041
02:00:25.640 --> 02:00:28.359
glass and threw it away and stuff, and then like

2042
02:00:28.640 --> 02:00:31.560
a week later, the kid was like, hey, the glass

2043
02:00:31.640 --> 02:00:35.520
is fixed. Everything's better, and so they were like, okay,

2044
02:00:35.680 --> 02:00:37.479
I guess they you know, the kid just found the

2045
02:00:37.560 --> 02:00:40.399
identical one. So they were like, yay, that's so nice.

2046
02:00:40.720 --> 02:00:42.760
And then they went to look and the identical one

2047
02:00:42.880 --> 02:00:47.239
was there still there. So it's like it duplicated or something.

2048
02:00:48.119 --> 02:00:51.560
So then like just like a week ago or something,

2049
02:00:52.199 --> 02:00:55.640
they come downstairs or wherever, or they get home and

2050
02:00:55.680 --> 02:00:59.159
on the counter is that glass with the same crack

2051
02:00:59.239 --> 02:01:04.960
in it. And they're just like what And so they

2052
02:01:05.000 --> 02:01:06.840
go and they check and you know, there's there's still

2053
02:01:06.840 --> 02:01:10.479
two glasses, and so they like message their kid who

2054
02:01:10.600 --> 02:01:12.840
is older now, and it's like, you know, did you

2055
02:01:13.000 --> 02:01:16.039
use this glass? Did you break this glass? And the

2056
02:01:16.119 --> 02:01:19.920
kid is like no, and also like that's the same

2057
02:01:20.039 --> 02:01:23.159
crack from what it broke like when I was nine,

2058
02:01:23.920 --> 02:01:25.720
and so they don't know what happened.

2059
02:01:28.239 --> 02:01:31.039
If I'm gonna have to s broke, I'm gonna have

2060
02:01:31.079 --> 02:01:33.560
to say that they probably had more of those than

2061
02:01:33.600 --> 02:01:37.399
they realized because it's a it's a I'm being such

2062
02:01:37.399 --> 02:01:41.720
a a butt, but like, because that's like an impulse

2063
02:01:41.720 --> 02:01:44.520
purchase buying McDonald's glasses and stuff, I think that they

2064
02:01:44.640 --> 02:01:47.119
just thought they bought two and they bought three, or

2065
02:01:47.159 --> 02:01:50.199
thought they bought two and they bought four. I mean.

2066
02:01:50.680 --> 02:01:53.920
The only thing that that you know makes me think

2067
02:01:53.960 --> 02:01:57.960
maybe not is because they have moved since then. Okay,

2068
02:01:58.000 --> 02:02:00.279
so you'd think that you'd know when you're moving how

2069
02:02:00.319 --> 02:02:03.000
many McDonald McDonald's classes you had, But.

2070
02:02:02.960 --> 02:02:04.920
You'd also think when you're moving that you might not

2071
02:02:05.000 --> 02:02:07.720
just pay attention because you're just like, oh God, moving sucks.

2072
02:02:07.720 --> 02:02:11.119
I got to wrap everything in freaking newspaper and do

2073
02:02:11.279 --> 02:02:13.840
this crap or or worse yet, somebody else does it

2074
02:02:14.039 --> 02:02:14.880
that doesn't care.

2075
02:02:15.079 --> 02:02:17.479
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's possible, but like, what about

2076
02:02:17.479 --> 02:02:19.399
when you're taking it out and you're pulling everything in

2077
02:02:19.399 --> 02:02:20.640
the cabinet. Don't you notice?

2078
02:02:20.680 --> 02:02:24.560
Then? Maybe so once again you're like, oh my god,

2079
02:02:24.600 --> 02:02:26.920
I'm so tired from moving out of my old house,

2080
02:02:27.560 --> 02:02:30.439
and I'm so sad because my mortgage is a mortgage

2081
02:02:30.680 --> 02:02:34.079
and like everything's bad, but I have a place to live,

2082
02:02:34.159 --> 02:02:36.439
so hooray. I don't know, I mean, that's the only

2083
02:02:36.479 --> 02:02:39.680
thought I have that that could explain it. Or I mean,

2084
02:02:40.199 --> 02:02:42.079
when he was a kid, he was a little klepto,

2085
02:02:42.119 --> 02:02:44.239
and he stole it from like a friend's house because

2086
02:02:44.239 --> 02:02:46.359
they probably all had McDonald's glasses.

2087
02:02:46.760 --> 02:02:51.239
That's possible, And I mean, also it's it's possible that

2088
02:02:51.520 --> 02:02:54.720
you know, I mean basically everybody that she like, whoever,

2089
02:02:54.800 --> 02:02:57.600
the people who live in the house. The poster asked like,

2090
02:02:57.640 --> 02:02:59.479
did you use this class? Did you drop this class?

2091
02:02:59.479 --> 02:03:02.600
And everyone was like no, but maybe somebody did, so

2092
02:03:02.760 --> 02:03:05.159
maybe it's just not a big deal at all.

2093
02:03:05.640 --> 02:03:08.680
You know, it's only because there's like I when I

2094
02:03:08.720 --> 02:03:14.000
was growing up, we had four flintstone like collectible mugs

2095
02:03:15.319 --> 02:03:17.399
that were like they looked like coffee mugs, but they

2096
02:03:17.520 --> 02:03:19.840
had like a bone, you know, like a cartoon bone

2097
02:03:19.880 --> 02:03:22.520
shape on the handle, and they were clear, they were glass,

2098
02:03:23.560 --> 02:03:25.920
and we had like I think we had four of them,

2099
02:03:26.239 --> 02:03:29.119
and a couple broke over time, and you know, like

2100
02:03:29.600 --> 02:03:32.159
they just kind of yeah, we had those and those

2101
02:03:32.159 --> 02:03:34.800
were from either McDonald's or Burger King. And then I

2102
02:03:34.840 --> 02:03:39.000
had a couple of McDonald's Christmas Time glasses that were

2103
02:03:39.039 --> 02:03:41.800
my favorites. But one of them did break, I think,

2104
02:03:42.119 --> 02:03:43.439
and I don't know what happened to the rest of them.

2105
02:03:43.520 --> 02:03:45.239
So I just remember, like there was a lot of

2106
02:03:45.239 --> 02:03:47.920
that stuff around, a lot of collectible and commemorative cups

2107
02:03:48.000 --> 02:03:49.159
and mugs and glasses.

2108
02:03:49.680 --> 02:03:53.199
Yeah. I mean, I think it like just depends on

2109
02:03:53.279 --> 02:03:55.880
the person too, because like we used to, like we

2110
02:03:55.920 --> 02:03:58.000
had a couple of McDonald's glasses. I think we had

2111
02:03:58.039 --> 02:04:00.279
like two or three, but like I would have own

2112
02:04:00.399 --> 02:04:03.960
if we had duplicate of them, you know, because I

2113
02:04:04.000 --> 02:04:06.600
know where they are in the like in the cabinet

2114
02:04:06.600 --> 02:04:08.840
and stuff. There was you know, we take the glasses

2115
02:04:09.119 --> 02:04:11.720
and you take all the glasses and there's no more glasses.

2116
02:04:13.159 --> 02:04:16.800
I like, this is the part of your childhood you did, remember, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

2117
02:04:16.800 --> 02:04:18.239
the one thing you're lettingeek through.

2118
02:04:18.560 --> 02:04:21.880
Yeah, just the glasses and like when you like wash

2119
02:04:21.960 --> 02:04:26.720
them and stuff. So I'm just saying, like I can't imagine,

2120
02:04:26.760 --> 02:04:29.960
I can I understand, And that's a really logical explanation.

2121
02:04:30.079 --> 02:04:32.520
But I also if this were something that happened in

2122
02:04:32.840 --> 02:04:36.079
my house, Like, I would be weird because I like, No,

2123
02:04:36.359 --> 02:04:36.720
I do.

2124
02:04:36.640 --> 02:04:38.840
Think it's weird. No, I do think it's weird. I'm

2125
02:04:39.000 --> 02:04:41.920
only coming to that conclusion from a total like separation

2126
02:04:42.720 --> 02:04:44.439
to be like, uh, you probably just had more of

2127
02:04:44.439 --> 02:04:46.720
those than you realized. Yeah, yeah, but I mean it

2128
02:04:46.720 --> 02:04:49.359
would creep me out for sure if I was, if

2129
02:04:49.399 --> 02:04:53.119
I was dealing with that, I would be very weirded out. Yeah,

2130
02:04:53.199 --> 02:04:55.960
well you lucked out. That was the scariest thing anyone's

2131
02:04:56.000 --> 02:05:00.199
ever heard in the world. Wow, so you nail it,

2132
02:05:00.439 --> 02:05:04.520
just barely by the skinnier teeth. Okay, So, thank you

2133
02:05:04.520 --> 02:05:06.960
guys so much for joining us on this edition of

2134
02:05:07.000 --> 02:05:09.520
Monthly Spooky. We really do appreciate it. If you want

2135
02:05:09.520 --> 02:05:12.119
to send us an email, do so at Weekly Spooky

2136
02:05:12.600 --> 02:05:14.960
at gmail dot com. We would love to hear from

2137
02:05:14.960 --> 02:05:19.720
you about spooky news, stories, comments, questions, anything like that,

2138
02:05:19.800 --> 02:05:23.039
especially about Michelle and snakes. That's the new topic djor

2139
02:05:24.920 --> 02:05:26.640
and we would love to hear from you. We'll be

2140
02:05:26.680 --> 02:05:28.840
back on the last Monday of next month. Chelle, what

2141
02:05:28.880 --> 02:05:29.880
are you going to defend yourself?

2142
02:05:30.319 --> 02:05:32.960
No, I'm not going to defend myself. Go on, go ahead, No,

2143
02:05:33.000 --> 02:05:35.039
I'm not that's no, it's okay.

2144
02:05:35.279 --> 02:05:36.079
What were you going to say?

2145
02:05:36.159 --> 02:05:37.199
No, I'm not going to say anything.

2146
02:05:37.359 --> 02:05:40.319
Go on, no, come on.

2147
02:05:40.279 --> 02:05:43.880
Okay, I touched a Deckay's brown snake. That's the kind

2148
02:05:43.920 --> 02:05:44.399
of snake.

2149
02:05:47.520 --> 02:05:50.479
She ain't beaten the allegations, kids, But we'll be back

2150
02:05:50.560 --> 02:05:53.800
on the next next time, on the last Monday in August,

2151
02:05:53.880 --> 02:05:56.199
and we'll even celebrate my birthday a little bit since

2152
02:05:56.239 --> 02:05:59.920
it's in the beginning of September. So until next time,

2153
02:06:00.439 --> 02:06:04.640
stay safe out there, my spookies, and as always, as

2154
02:06:04.680 --> 02:06:07.439
is appropriate, Michelle has the final word.

2155
02:06:09.439 --> 02:06:28.960
I don't know, like this is too many words already