Nov. 25, 2024

Monthly Spooky | Spectral Harassment, Dangerous Giraffes and Christmas Hauntings!

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

In this episode of Monthly Spooky, we dive into a mix of spooky tales and seasonal anecdotes with hosts Henrique and Michelle. Kicking off the conversation, we ponder the unsettling occurrences of deep-sea fish washing up along the California coast. This phenomenon leads us to reflect on whether such events hold any ominous significance, touching on folklore that suggests strange marine activities could foretell disasters. 

The hosts then transition into a light-hearted discussion about Halloween, sharing personal stories about their celebrations and experiences with trick-or-treaters. Hnrique recounts how his neighborhood has become vibrant with kids during Halloween, contrasting it with his childhood memories of sparse trick-or-treating. He joyfully describes his approach to candy distribution and how he creatively scares younger trick-or-treaters while maintaining the festive spirit. 

As the episode progresses, spooky news takes center stage, where Henrique and Michelle explore a range of odd stories including a trending viral incident involving a ghost making an inappropriate advance at a paranormal investigator. They analyze the humorous yet unsettling situation, debating what constitutes an acceptable ghostly request versus one deemed inappropriate. The discussion shifts to a giraffe that mistakenly tossed a toddler during a safari visit, provoking anecdotes about animal antics during encounters at wildlife parks.

In a fascinating segment, Henrique shares about a peculiar incident involving a warehouse heist of high-value cheddar cheese in the UK, detailing the bizarre lengths the thieves went to for this unassuming product. The playful banter continues as they juxtapose the seriousness of a cheese heist with light-hearted commentary about the seemingly absurd nature of it.

As the conversation turns toward Christmas, the duo shifts gears to share allegedly true paranormal stories associated with the holiday season. They explore eerie legends, including spectral sightings and ghostly hauntings tied to Christmas festivities, wrapping up with their thoughts on what makes Christmas so uniquely spooky.

The hosts conclude the show by engaging in light-hearted speculation regarding their ghost tales assessment, considering public opinions and reactions to their stories. Throughout the episode, listeners are invited to reflect on their own spooky encounters while enjoying the holiday spirit through the lens of paranormal lore, culminating in a rich tapestry of holiday stories and adventures that blend laughter with chills.

This episode encapsulates the intersection of holiday nostalgia and the thrill of the unknown, leaving audiences with a delightful sense of seasonal spookiness.

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Deep sea fish washing up on the shores of California

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could spell doom and danger. Never ever trust a giraffe

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and a ghost that makes a troubling pass it you romantically.

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Get contact, turn off the life. It's Monthly Spooky.

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Well, hello, my spookies, and yes, Kelle, you earned that

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sigh of relief you had. We were experiencing some technical

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difficulties at the start of the show, but now we

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are back with Monthly Spooky. I am, of course your host,

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Enrique Kuto here with my good buddy and co host Michelle. Michelle,

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how are you.

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I'm fine, everything's fine.

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Yeah, I feel that. I feel that very much.

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Yeah.

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So we are here to talk about some spooky topics

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and just some general tomfoolery in the world of spooky,

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as well as be you know, moderately depressed together I suppose. Yeah,

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so hooray. But uh, Chelle, how was your Halloween?

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I don't remember. It was fine. My my dad was here,

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so we he was here during it.

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Yeah, you handed out candy mostly.

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I just handed out the candy.

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What did your dad do?

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Then just kind of hang out. We were watching that

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like the Halloween that by that thing where they like

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the Halloween Challenge baking thing where they have the pumpkin

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person and then like the candy person and the cake person.

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I am not familiar, but now I kind of wish

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I was.

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It was it's really good because they have them make

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like really scary scenes a pumpkin, cake and candy together

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like their team. And then yeah, I.

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Mean fair enough did did did? Do you think the

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winner was the was the real winner? Or did you

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feel like they got stolen? They got robbed?

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Oh? I didn't see all of it because it's like multiple,

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multiple episodes, so I think I saw like the middle ones,

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and then I was like, Okay, that was good.

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Hurtful, didn't even finish it, didn't even finish it well.

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I had a great Halloween aside from having just getting

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over a cold. I handed out candy. We had way

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too many kids. It was great. Yeah, it's so weird,

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you know. I read on like Facebook and stuff. I

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have so many friends who are like, there's no kids

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trigger treating anymore in my neighborhood. It's just every year

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there's more, Like uh, I mean when I grew up

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in and around this area, there were like no kids.

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It was like, you know, maybe three or four kids

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per block. It was very very minimal. Now we're just

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maggoty with kids.

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So and it makes Halloween really fun. And now we're

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starting to get kids who come back to my house

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because they know that we'll have the cool decorations and

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a lot of candy. Cool because we give out handfuls

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of candy. So my role is big handfuls for at

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least the first hour. And then once you once you

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notice your down to like the last big bowl, you

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slowed down a little bit, maybe two or three pieces.

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Because the youngest kids come early. Yeah, you know, and

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they're the ones who need the most candy in my

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in my estimation.

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Yeah, because they're still growing.

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Yeah yeah, they growing bodies needs. They need highrouctose corn syrup. Man.

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little less exciting to the older kids than the younger kids.

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And the older kids can like, you know, walk to

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the you know, the United Dairy farmers down the road

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and get candy whenever they want. But these kids, I mean,

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when you're four, you're basically a prisoner. So so this

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is this is a small reprieve for you.

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Yeah, but no it was.

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It was a really nice Halloween. We got at least

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a I would say, about one hundred and forty hundred

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and fifty kids. Wow, it could have been a little

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bit more. I mean I try to kind of count,

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but it's hard. The reen camera makes it a lot easier.

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So and this year we went a little kinder. We

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only made one kid like so afraid that they wouldn't

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walk up to the door at all, even when we

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offered the candy.

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Oh come on, I mean that's nothing though, because I

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also made some kids so afraid they wouldn't walk up

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to the door. And I wasn't even doing anything.

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And let the record show you weren't wearing a costume either.

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No, I was just I just went outside and I

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was like, hey, do you want some candy? And the

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kid was like, no, I don't want to go over there.

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Well, you know, in some ways, you do fill that

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like really stereotypical and kind of racist depiction of a witch.

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Oh oh that's second. Oh that's the the knowing. Oh yeah,

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it's okay. One time I had to explain to a

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friend how you can love a Christmas Carol but also

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accept that Ebenezer Scrooge's description is extremely problematic.

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M M.

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A spoiler alert. He's a Jew if you if you

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look at if you read his description in the book,

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and then especially see his description or the way he's

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depicted in plays and stuff, he's just like a caricature

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of a Jewish person from that time period, like not

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a nice one. You know, he's greedy, he has a

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big nose. He uh, he doesn't, he doesn't. He makes

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you work on Christmas. Eh. Still a good story, but eh, anyway, Uh,

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it's just the reality. I'm just pointing out something that

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is unfortunately true. So I mean, it's true that the

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story did that, not that that's the way Jewish people are.

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Oh okay, sure.

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Great, now you don't believe me, okay, fine, no, no, no,

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but no. It was a good Halloween season. We released

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our thirty one weekly Spookies in thirty one days and

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it was a roaring success. Lots of folks are still

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with us through November, which is really cool to have

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a lot of new listeners who've decided they want to

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stick around for more scary stories and weird talking shows

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and stuff like that. So I'm very happy with that.

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Most exhausting month possibly of my entire life. Wow, well

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I was moving Well I wasn't. I was moving Rachel in,

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which is about half the stress of you know, moving

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out is just like moving things around and changing things

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and reorganizing. So I did that at the same time

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I was doing all of those episodes. Uh, there was

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there were only I think maybe five days in October

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that I wasn't recording a podcast, maybe five total days

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in that month that I didn't record apart, it might

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be less than that. I'm trying to be trying to

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be liberal with it, so I don't you know, I

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don't want to overestimate or you know, it might have

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only been three if I'm honest. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it

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was a it was a hell of a time. So

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but but no, it was a it was a good October.

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We didn't have the all night horror movie marathon in

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town this year for the first time in twenty some years,

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which was kind of a bummer. But I had a

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good time, handed out lots of candy. I what did

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I dress as? I can't even remember what I dressed. Oh,

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I was dressed as a psycho Santa. Yeah, yeah, which

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was a really fun costume.

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Cool glad.

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I just bought a out of seasoned Santa suit and

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made it dirty and bloody and the kids were a

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little afraid.

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Yeah, yeah, you're your rooming there there. Yeah.

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And I had a big I had a fake axe,

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so it answered the door. And when the kids will

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go trick or treat, I'd look at him and go

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naughty or nice. So it was a very it's very fun.

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Oh. I had this kid who was like trying to

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be like fun and he was. He had like a

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backpack that he was using as his his bag for candy.

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And he's like, okay, so we're gonna play a game.

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I will I will have my bag open, right, and

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you throw the candy and if you get it in

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the bag, I'll give it back to you. But if

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you miss, then I get to keep the candy. And

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I was like okay, And so I did it and

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I just got them all in and I was like

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it's okay, it's okay to just keep them.

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And leave mans game.

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It was not hard. He was like he was like

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three feet away from me.

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Yeah. My response would be, you know the point of

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this whole thing is for you to keep to.

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Take candy, right, Like candy.

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Yeah, like if anything, once you get to a certain

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age as an adult, you're very frustrated if there's a

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lot of Halloween candy left over, because you're like like

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a big bowl of Halloween candy. It's like I like sweets.

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I like to eat. I'm never like, how am I

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gonna eat all that? Even in a year. I'm probably

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not gonna eat that much candy in my living room.

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Yeah, you know it's.

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I mean, that's what my dentist says. He's like, I

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want to boat. You need to eat more candy.

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Oh, and before we go to break and then get

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into the spooky news, I am very excited because today

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as we record this, I am waiting on a very

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special package in the mail, yeah, which will arrive today

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according to the Post Service, which means there's a forty

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eight percent chance it's gonna come today since it says

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it's out for delivery. I love when they put like

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delivery attempted. No one home, and I'm like I was home. Also,

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the ring camera never showed anyone walking up to my

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door or a or a What was the one time

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it said delivery attempted? Business closed? And I was like

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it's my house. Yeah, but then the ups comes in clutch.

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I ordered a brand new monitor and I missed them

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by ten minutes, and when I arrived there was a

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notice on my door. I was like, god, I ah.

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And then I look at it just as left at

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back door and I went around my backyard opened up

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the Yeah. I was just sitting in my back and

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I was like, thank you. I really really wanted that today.

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It was nice of him because they freaking shipped it

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in like just a monitor box, So it just was

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a box with a handle that said you know, Dell

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Ultra Sharpe thirty two inch monitor. And I was like,

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oh cool, that's not I mean, my neighborhood's pretty safe.

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I would honestly be shocked if someone had the goal

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to walk up and star feel something off my porch.

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But still it's like, do you want to tell them, Hey,

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this is expensive and really cool.

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You should take it.

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Yeah, it should just say on it too, like and lightweight,

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easy to stow in cars, you know, yes, but uh no.

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But what I'm waiting on that I'm really excited about

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is I ordered the overseas edition of the new Blair

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Witch Project Blu Ray. Oh okay, you've seen the Blair

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Witch Project, right yeah? Are you a fan or are

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you a hater?

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I think it was fine.

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I really loved it. I saw in the theater when

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I was a kid and it scared the ever loving

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company that Licenser that bought it. They had the film

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because it was shot on sixteen millimeter film and it

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was shot on Super eight or a high video. They

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had a film print created that combined the two right, okay, Well,

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that film print was then used to make the Blu Ray,

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which means that the Blu Ray was basically a scan

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of a film print of a video, so it always

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looked kind of weird. Yeah, and not very high quality.

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but they hied they wanted to do a Blair Rich

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Project Ultimate Edition. They got the original filmmakers and got

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the original Hiate tapes and the sixty milimere film and

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did a scan. So it is the first ever edition

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of the film approved by the filmmakers.

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It looks the way they wanted it to look cool

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when they made it cool, And I don't want to

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like crap on Artisan which is now Lionsgate for like, dude,

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it's such a badge. At the time, literally, they were like,

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how the hell do we release this wide in theaters?

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It's like mostly shot on videotape. They just didn't know

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what to do. This is, you know, nineteen ninety nine,

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there's video projectors were garbage and there were barely any

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of them. So I cannot wait to crack it open

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and then try to get past the rechi encoding so

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that I can watch it right away. I'm hopeful, but

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I'm really excited because that's a movie that's I've always

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found really eerie and fun and scary, and I'm excited

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to crack it open and watch it in a way

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for the first time. But yeah, I was gonna talk

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about that off camera or off mic, and then I

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was like, oh, yeah, that that actually pertains to the

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show and it's exciting. But speaking of exciting, we're gonna

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go to a quick break and when we get back,

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we're gonna talk all about the spooky news after this,

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and we are back and till it's about time for

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the spooky news.

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Why why you gotta.

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I'm trying to time it perfectly and here you are

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just messing with you. Oh sorry, that's fine. Well I

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feel like I would be truly missing out if we

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didn't go right. For a Mirror dot co dot uk

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article that has a headline that made me ask so

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many questions. Huh yeah, yeah, So the headline is a

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ghost asked me for a totally inappropriate sex act. What

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it freaked my boyfriend out?

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What I wonder what they consider a totally inappropriate sex act?

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No, what I want to know is what they consider

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a totally appropriate sex act for a ghost to ask for? Yeah?

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I guess me too.

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The use of a qualifier in this is what throws

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me completely.

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Just said a ghost ask me for a for a

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sex act, I'd be like, whoa, that's freaky. The fact

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that says a totally inappropriate sex sex act makes me go, oh,

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so where is the line? I'm very curious where this

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line is.

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I hope that they explain because I have a feeling

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they're not going to explain what inappropriate sex sex would be.

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I mean, that would be expected from mirror dot co

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dot UK. A viral ghost hunter claims a spirit made

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a creepy sexual demand of her and it freaked her boyfriend.

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Now you're calling creepy, So what is a not creepy

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sexual demand?

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Maybe? I mean, to be fair, maybe all sexual demands

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made by ghosts are creepy, because that's kind of that

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would kind of creepy to me.

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I would agree. Yeah, It's just there's something weird to

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me about about qualifying things that are already like bizarre

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and terrifying. The creepy sexual demand is a little less

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confusing than calling something totally inappropriate when it's like that

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would suggest there are appropriate ones. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Sarah Carter thirty two fell in love with her online

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follower Lee Steer thirty eight.

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Oh the ghost no oh man, sorry, I mean unless

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that's the plot twist in the end.

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Of the whole thing.

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I really hope so me too.

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And now they hunt down paranormal activity together. The pair

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initially met at a ghost hunting event led by Lee

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and his then wife, a fellow paranormal investigator.

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Oh, hold record, I hope that she's the dead one.

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That would be cool.

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I mean, that would be nice. But I have a

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feeling that it's more just like he started having an affair. Well,

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you know, what are you gonna do?

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Uh?

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I do like how it refers to her as fell

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in love with her online follower Lee, But then it

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says they met at a ghost hunting event Lee was

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the organizer of. So how I don't think he was

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just some follower. It sounds like they were colleagues.

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Well, it sounds like they met online and then they

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got kind of close, and then they met in person

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first time at this event.

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Right. Well, here's some coke, here's some cope right here.

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They started their relationship at the beginning of twenty twenty

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four after Lee's divorce, right, and now live in Rotherham,

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South Yorkshire, where they run the Haunted Objects Museum, housing

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a collection of other worldly objects. Okay, the ghost obsessed

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couple were visiting Wafttown Hall in Rotherdam when they came

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across the creepy spirit and managed to capture evidence of

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the so called sexual interaction. Sarah was gobsmacked when she

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heard the randy spirit asking her to suck my blank.

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It says blank, what no I want the time?

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Like fine?

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And she recorded the creepy ordeal for her huge TikTok

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following She said Lee had warned her about entities that

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can be aggressive towards women, but she was left stunned

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at what she encountered. Man, she would have a real

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rough time if she played Call of Duty online.

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Yeah.

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Quote, when we went to a haunted town hall, we

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heard that the person who died there was not very

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nice to women, and spirits can be quite rude, Lee explained.

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Our recording picked up a voice saying, suck my dot

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dot dot. You know it says dot dot dot in.

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The in the quote literally say dot dot do o

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t d o t d o t Oh my god,

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I hate everyone.

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We could all hear it a creepy deep voice. It

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was totally inappropriate. Well, what are you gonna do. Let's

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let's tell your social media followers they can get the

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ghost fired.

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Like, yeah, well, I mean you could, right, you could

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go to HR for the ghosts.

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Gr ghost resources.

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Yeah exactly. Well there's still they were human, so maybe

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it still is human resource.

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Oh that's a good point, Sarah added, quote, it was weird.

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Lee had forewarned me that entities can be aggressive towards women.

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I was just asking him normal questions. When it happened,

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he said a lot of CD things, and I feel

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really uncomfortable. We got this camera with sensors. We've got

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this camera with sensors, and it picked up that there

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was a figure there bending down and mining sexual actions

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towards me.

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Man, But do I get to see any of this

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or hear this? EBB?

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No, there's no video clips on this news page.

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Why don't Why don't they care about me?

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I know the sexual position left the couple feeling spooked,

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but it's all part of their ghost hunting pas times

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they share their experiences on their TikTok account named Ghosts

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of Britain, amassing millions of followers as they visit haunted

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venues and share their encounters with creepy apparitions, including in

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appropriate incidents.

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So so now we are saying that sexual harassment is

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part of ghost hunting, right, Yeah, that's that's pretty rough.

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Well, it's it's called ghost hunting, not ghost hanging out

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and having a drink in an air conditioned space. I mean,

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you would assume if ghosts were people, and some amount

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of people are dangerous, that then some amount of ghosts

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would be dangerous.

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That depends on what you think ghosts can do, right, because.

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Like, well, I mean, I guess more, what I mean

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is they would have the mindset of a dangerous person,

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not necessarily be literally dangerous, you know, like if they

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were an asshole when they were alive, then they'd probably

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be an asshole as a ghost. Sure, Sure, that's what

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I'm more what I mean, because I mean, clearly, I mean,

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they're suggesting that the ghosts said suck my blank. It

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says blank, I'm reporting the news, and then was miming

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sexual acts toward her. I don't even know man. Sarah

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said her belief in ghosts was reinforced after she's observed

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a microwave meal inexplicably flipping over while at least house. Huh,

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I just, I guess observed a microwave meal explicably flipping over.

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I think that was when she just realized, like, oh,

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this divorced guy doesn't know how to cook. She's a

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great This is going to be bad times. The pairs

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say that most days they witness objects flying around the room,

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doors rattling, and CCTV cameras moving by themselves in their

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haunted museum, So it's literally a museum which is haunted.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, quote, it's weird to say, but it's important to

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me that my partner, that a partner believes in the paranormal,

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because it's a huge part of my life. Lee shared clearly.

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Yeah.

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He has since dedicated his entire life to exploring and

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looking for the afterlife, saying he can't see himself ever stopping.

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The pair met over their shared interest in the paranormal

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world and enjoyed ghost hunting expeditions together. One of Sarah's

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most memorable supernatural encounters occurred early in their relationship. She

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stayed at Lee's house and claimed to have seen a

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ready meal packet mysteriously flip over. She explained, quote, we

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had just returned from an investigation and we're having a

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microwave meal. I saw the tray it comes in flip

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over completely one hundred and eighty degrees and turn upside down.

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There was no mess, mess, It was just perfectly turned

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and there was no one else around.

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Wait if it flipped over one hundred and eighty degrees,

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so it's upside down, now, what do you mean there's

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no mess?

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Yeah, that's uh yeah, I guess she's claiming it flipped

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so quickly that like gravity just held the stuff in.

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Okay, but it's upside down now, so.

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Well, I'm sure once you pick it up, it's gonna

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pour everywhere. Yeah yeah, Yeah, that's actually a pretty solid prank.

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Good one goes stick to that instead of telling people

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to suck your blank or your dot dot dot.

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Uh.

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Lee has been fascinated by the paranormal world since he

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was fourteen years old, and it stemmed from the moment

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he believes he witnessed objects moving around in his bedroom.

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At their Spooky Museum, the pair of reports seeing objects

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move regularly and hearing voices. They believe this is linked

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to newly acquired haunted artifacts, such as a window frame

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from the Amityville Horror House in New York, infamous for

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a nineteen seventy four family murder and paranormal claims. Quote.

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We've got relics from Alistair Crowley's house. He was a

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very famous occultist, and since his conjuring lamp appeared in

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the museum, we've noticed activity ramping up, with cameras moving.

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Uh.

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There's a very dark, horrible energy and things have started

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happening all over the house, Sarah said one evening the

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door was locked and it sounded like someone was trying

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to open it, but no one was outside. It was terrifying.

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Things like this still make me jump. But Lee is

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more inquisitive and wants to investigate. Well, yeah, because he's

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not being sexually harassed exactly. I'm sorry, spectraally harassed.

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There you go.

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Oh man, that's the funniest time we're gonna be. We

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should just end the show right now. That's it. Okay,

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have a great one. Everybody will see you in December.

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No spectual spectral harassment. Oh no, Well, we're gonna take

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a quick break and we'll be back with even more

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spooky news. And we are back talking all about spooky news.

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But before we get to the next story, Cell, what like, what.

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How?

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What's the least creepy thing a ghost could say if

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it was like coming on to you?

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Oh my god, I don't know. I would think anything

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a ghost could say that was coming on to me

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would be really upsetting for me. Anything.

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It's just like, oh, you look so pretty when you smile, Like.

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What the fuck is your problem? No?

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No, oh, do you come here often?

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I live here so not really, I don't know, are.

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Your legs tired because you've been running through my mind

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all night. No, no, okay, I just wanted to make sure.

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I want to see if we can come up with

463
00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:13.240
any appropriate advances from a ghost. Sorry, this shouldn't be

464
00:26:13.240 --> 00:26:13.799
this funny.

465
00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:20.079
I guess if they complimented me on something that wasn't physical,

466
00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:26.279
they were like, oh, I really liked how you was

467
00:26:26.359 --> 00:26:30.240
drawing that picture.

468
00:26:28.839 --> 00:26:34.400
Drawing that thing. I'm you have a beautiful singing voice.

469
00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:39.640
Yeah, oh, thank you so much. I'm really concerned about this.

470
00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:42.519
I will never sing in this house again.

471
00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:48.160
All right, Well this next article, oh, by the way, chell,

472
00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:50.480
I didn't tell you what it started to show what

473
00:26:50.519 --> 00:26:53.039
this month's topic is going to be. In case you

474
00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:59.440
were curious, Okay, I found a list of Christmas ghost stories,

475
00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:04.680
famous ghost stories that are revolving around Christmas. I thought

476
00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:07.079
they'd be fun to kind of go through. I was

477
00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:09.160
going to try and find a Thanksgiving kind of thing.

478
00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:11.640
But we're actually not going to be talking everybody until

479
00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:15.079
right before New Year's Eve again, so I was like, yeah,

480
00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:19.200
let's do Christmas now. Okay. But anyway, this story comes

481
00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:23.000
from the Huffington Post. The headline is Abe Lincoln wax

482
00:27:23.079 --> 00:27:30.480
Statues head melts off, and of course there are jokes. Yeah.

483
00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:33.720
Literally a wax replica of the Abraham Lincoln Memorial. It's

484
00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:37.880
had melted off, honest abe was no match for a

485
00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:42.680
DC heat wave. A six foot tall wax replica of

486
00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:46.279
the sixteenth President created by artists Sandy Williams. The fourth

487
00:27:46.920 --> 00:27:52.519
was installed in February on on in On in Northwest Washington.

488
00:27:53.160 --> 00:27:58.440
Great job, huff Post. The Washington Post reports, although Williams

489
00:27:58.440 --> 00:28:01.000
told New York Magazine that the public art piece was

490
00:28:01.039 --> 00:28:05.559
always meant to melt, it was installed under shady trees

491
00:28:05.599 --> 00:28:10.039
so it could survive the summer. For the Post, but.

492
00:28:10.119 --> 00:28:13.880
Thanks to sorry, then, when was it supposed to melt?

493
00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:16.960
Well, they assumed it would, but they were trying to

494
00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:17.480
prevent it.

495
00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:20.440
Okay, fine, whatever, But thanks.

496
00:28:20.119 --> 00:28:23.359
To the temperature topping one hundred degrees over the weekend,

497
00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:27.480
Lincoln's head got a little gooey for too guy for comfort,

498
00:28:28.759 --> 00:28:32.119
so it was removed and stored for safe keeping, with

499
00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:36.480
plans to reattach it. On Tuesday, the Post reported this

500
00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:40.440
is the second Lincoln candle Williams has crafted. The first

501
00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:44.039
wax replica had one hundred wicks which were meant to

502
00:28:44.039 --> 00:28:47.079
be lit just not all at once, Williams told The

503
00:28:47.079 --> 00:28:50.039
New York magazine. It was installed at the same location

504
00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:52.880
in September of twenty twenty three, but was melted by

505
00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:56.240
some wily local residents.

506
00:28:56.559 --> 00:29:00.000
Yeah yeah, oh no, you shouldn't. You shouldn't light them

507
00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:02.000
all the ones. Well they're right there though.

508
00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:10.519
Yeah no, these kids lighting Lincoln emancipate this. Oh it's

509
00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:15.720
just a candle, let's leave. Uh. People found the sculpture

510
00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:18.680
without any sort of prompt, Williams told New York Magazine.

511
00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:22.119
They just noticed it had wicks. Then they lit all

512
00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:25.319
the wicks and left it melting for days. So when

513
00:29:25.359 --> 00:29:28.319
we came back to have the unveiling, it was already

514
00:29:28.359 --> 00:29:29.079
half melted.

515
00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:33.000
And and see, I really like that. That's what I would do.

516
00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:37.079
Like it has wicks, you could.

517
00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:38.519
Just put up a sign that says please do not

518
00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:41.599
light like unveiling, and then put like on the like

519
00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:45.200
unveiling on this date or something else. Well like yeah,

520
00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:48.759
yeah yeah, because then whoever lights it is like being

521
00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:51.119
a real jerk as opposed to just an average like

522
00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:52.720
why would you light this?

523
00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:55.799
But I mean it has wis Yeah, it's a candle.

524
00:29:55.960 --> 00:29:58.960
Why isn't it lit? We should light it just leave

525
00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:01.279
it going for or whatever.

526
00:30:01.839 --> 00:30:04.559
It's great because when you look at the statue, the

527
00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:07.519
only part of it that isn't like really leaning on

528
00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:09.559
the base is its head. So there are all these

529
00:30:09.559 --> 00:30:12.319
pictures of the head like it like leading these different

530
00:30:12.359 --> 00:30:15.160
ways because it's like the neck is too skinny. It's

531
00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:20.039
very funny. Even before Wax Lincoln number two's head melted off,

532
00:30:20.079 --> 00:30:23.960
the statue began to droop backwards, making it appear like

533
00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:28.720
the former president was exhausted and slouching back in his seat.

534
00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:33.400
Journalist Kirk A. Battow snapped a shot of Abe in

535
00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:36.640
this position and posted it on x formerly Twitter on Sunday.

536
00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:39.440
People quickly started making jokes, and some of them were

537
00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:44.079
pretty dirty. I like this comment. It's just Lincoln looking

538
00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:46.400
like he's like drunken passed out the comic just as

539
00:30:46.440 --> 00:30:50.880
me two wax Lincoln, Me too. Another says how your

540
00:30:50.880 --> 00:30:56.319
email finds me? Uh, maybe a wax Lincoln sculpture wasn't

541
00:30:56.359 --> 00:30:58.559
the best idea during DC's first week of summer. That's

542
00:30:58.559 --> 00:31:04.559
not that funny, Just like old Abe to wax eloquently,

543
00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:05.759
that's a good one.

544
00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:08.319
Yeah, it's okay.

545
00:31:09.240 --> 00:31:13.079
He was known for being a good talker. Yes, yes,

546
00:31:13.960 --> 00:31:21.160
this lady commented, Abe getting that good? Oh lord, is

547
00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:23.799
it live or is it memory? X? That's pretty good.

548
00:31:24.440 --> 00:31:33.200
That old commercial somebody posted historically accurate and oh man,

549
00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:35.599
oh this is a good one. Even our monuments are

550
00:31:35.640 --> 00:31:46.039
exhausted by our politics. That's a pretty good one. Yeah.

551
00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:51.599
Other than that, how was the statue Missus Lincoln? Do

552
00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:52.279
you know that joke?

553
00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:54.160
Maybe?

554
00:31:54.960 --> 00:31:57.640
Oh, it's just that's a joke when things go really bad,

555
00:31:57.640 --> 00:31:59.200
As you say, well, other than that, how is the

556
00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:00.759
play Missus Lincoln? Yeah?

557
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:01.640
Yeah, I do know that.

558
00:32:01.720 --> 00:32:06.920
Yeah. Yeah, man, these comments are all right, They're not

559
00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:11.720
fire like they were making me think it was. Jeez.

560
00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:16.480
Williams said that the piece was initially intended to draw

561
00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:19.960
attention to the Civil War era and its aftermath. Quote.

562
00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:23.200
For this work, we chose Garrison Elementary School because it

563
00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:25.960
sits on top of Camp Barker, which was a Civil

564
00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:29.480
War era freedman's community that we often don't learn about.

565
00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:33.200
Williams told New York Magazine. Quote, I think we learned

566
00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:35.720
this history that Lincoln freed the slaves, but we aren't

567
00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:39.279
taught what happened to the early freed communities. The injustices

568
00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:42.799
of that period of reconstruction and the concept of reparations.

569
00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:46.240
But the artist was also open to quote wherever people

570
00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:49.359
take their interpretations of the piece, because that is what

571
00:32:49.480 --> 00:32:51.680
public artwork is about.

572
00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:54.039
Quote.

573
00:32:54.079 --> 00:32:57.000
My methodology around the work is that I put love

574
00:32:57.039 --> 00:32:59.519
into making these projects and present them as a sort

575
00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:02.359
of gift to the community. I'm hands off on the

576
00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:06.119
authorship of its form or its reading. William said. I

577
00:33:06.160 --> 00:33:08.920
thought one comment was like, this is me after I

578
00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:10.920
get home from work, or this is me in the

579
00:33:11.000 --> 00:33:12.960
zoom meeting. That could have been an email. I think

580
00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:15.359
it's funny the way an image can be so viral

581
00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:19.799
and have so many different meme interpretations. Oh, that artist

582
00:33:19.799 --> 00:33:21.279
seems like somebody I'd like to hang out with.

583
00:33:21.400 --> 00:33:22.839
Yeah, he seems like a nice guy.

584
00:33:23.160 --> 00:33:29.559
Good attitude. So well, slumpy Lincoln statue, we kind of

585
00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:33.119
salute you. So we're going to take a quick break

586
00:33:33.160 --> 00:33:35.240
and then we're going to talk about something creepy that's

587
00:33:35.279 --> 00:33:48.119
going on offshore in California right after this welcome back.

588
00:33:48.839 --> 00:33:51.279
Now it's time to take a trip to your favorite place.

589
00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:55.960
Michelle npr Oh, okay, that's what were you going to say.

590
00:33:56.079 --> 00:33:57.839
I don't know, like Pittsburgh or something.

591
00:33:58.279 --> 00:33:59.440
I like Pittsburgh.

592
00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:02.920
Yeah, huh, you could move there if you just believed.

593
00:34:03.519 --> 00:34:06.559
I don't, though I know it makes me sad.

594
00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:12.360
The headline says, or fish keep washing ashore in California.

595
00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:16.199
Folklore suggests that could be a bad omen.

596
00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:21.440
Hmmm, I guess well.

597
00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:24.119
It says here a deep sea creature steeped in folklore

598
00:34:24.159 --> 00:34:28.320
has once again washed ashore in California. On November sixth,

599
00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:33.199
the researcher on an in Sinatas and Sinatas Beach spotted

600
00:34:33.239 --> 00:34:36.360
an oar fish measuring nine to ten feet long. The

601
00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:39.400
fish typically swims at depths of three thousand or three

602
00:34:39.519 --> 00:34:43.000
hundred two three thousand feet and are rarely seen on

603
00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:45.840
the surface. Yet it was the third time one has

604
00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:51.360
appeared in southern California since August. Hmm, I'll show you.

605
00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:54.559
I'll show you image of it. So it's like a

606
00:34:54.679 --> 00:34:57.039
very very long fish with like kind of like tentaclely

607
00:34:57.280 --> 00:35:02.039
little like whisker things. Would you say it's cute?

608
00:35:03.199 --> 00:35:05.199
I was going to except it's dead.

609
00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:12.639
Oh wow, that's harsh and very judgmental. Sorry, we'll learn

610
00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:17.920
to forgive you. Let's see. They have been associated with

611
00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:22.519
bad omens, according to English language accounts, of Japanese folklore.

612
00:35:26.079 --> 00:35:27.800
Why why the sigh on that?

613
00:35:28.199 --> 00:35:30.280
I don't know, because I was getting ready to get

614
00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:33.119
annoyed with that because like, can you imagine if you

615
00:35:33.320 --> 00:35:35.239
just came somewhere and they were like, oh, it's a

616
00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:38.440
bad omen because you exist, like that's mean. But then

617
00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:40.400
you said Japanese and then I was like, well, I

618
00:35:40.559 --> 00:35:43.079
like Japanese things, and I got confused.

619
00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:46.800
I mean, for the record, I am Hispanic in America,

620
00:35:47.039 --> 00:35:49.920
and when I was younger, I feel like when my

621
00:35:50.039 --> 00:35:52.760
family moved into neighborhoods, it was a bad omen to

622
00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:53.519
some people.

623
00:35:54.360 --> 00:35:56.920
Okay, so that's what I'm saying. It's not good. I

624
00:35:57.000 --> 00:35:59.880
don't want to feel like a bad omen to be

625
00:36:01.159 --> 00:36:06.440
because they exist. Oh sorry, sorry, Oh so I know

626
00:36:06.519 --> 00:36:08.840
I was gonna say, see, you understand the plight of

627
00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:10.960
this fish. I do.

628
00:36:11.360 --> 00:36:13.880
I just remember moving into neighborhoods. It would just be

629
00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:17.039
like they'd see my Mexican stepdad and be like h

630
00:36:17.079 --> 00:36:18.559
and then they see my white mom would be.

631
00:36:18.440 --> 00:36:21.320
Like ah, it's worse.

632
00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:22.960
Why can't they why?

633
00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:23.480
Why?

634
00:36:24.119 --> 00:36:26.440
I mean, this is the you know, nineties, the early nineties,

635
00:36:26.599 --> 00:36:31.400
very fun time. The fish, which can grow up to

636
00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:36.119
thirty feet in length. And feeds on. Krill have typically

637
00:36:36.280 --> 00:36:40.320
washed up on beaches when injured or disoriented, according to scientists,

638
00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:46.519
I know, right, yeah, The current group of oarfish washing

639
00:36:46.519 --> 00:36:49.599
ashore quote may have to do with changes in ocean

640
00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:52.920
conditions and increased numbers of oar fish off our coast.

641
00:36:53.559 --> 00:36:55.840
You think it might be that there are more if

642
00:36:55.880 --> 00:36:59.719
you're seeing more of them. Sorry, I know that's like that.

643
00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:01.639
They're their job is to answer it, but that just

644
00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:04.519
seems really obvious. I think we're seeing more or fish

645
00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:06.320
because there are more or fish.

646
00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:09.440
Well, I mean, considering we're seeing them in an area

647
00:37:09.679 --> 00:37:15.320
of depth which is not on land. I don't know.

648
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:17.480
That could mean that there's less or fish because they're

649
00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:20.239
all dying out because they can't survive in their place.

650
00:37:20.360 --> 00:37:21.559
So I don't know.

651
00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:27.239
That could be Ben Frable, manager of the Script's Oceanography

652
00:37:27.280 --> 00:37:31.159
Marine Vertebrate Collection that you See San Diego, said in

653
00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:34.679
a statement. Many researchers have suggested this as to why

654
00:37:34.719 --> 00:37:37.880
deep water fish strand on beaches. Sometimes it may be

655
00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:41.000
linked to broader shifts such as El Nino or and

656
00:37:41.159 --> 00:37:44.079
La Nina cycles, but this is not always the case,

657
00:37:44.119 --> 00:37:47.079
he said, adding that many variables could be the cause.

658
00:37:48.840 --> 00:37:52.239
The previous fish were discovered in Huntington Beach in September

659
00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:56.639
and in La Jola in August. According to scripts, before

660
00:37:56.679 --> 00:38:00.480
August discovery, scientists had only recorded nineteen or fish that

661
00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:04.880
had washed up on the California coast since nineteen oh one. Wow,

662
00:38:05.559 --> 00:38:09.599
so that's a lot more mm hmm. Or fish have

663
00:38:09.679 --> 00:38:13.800
been found around the globe, but one particular country's history

664
00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:16.920
with the fish has gathered the most attention. Japan.

665
00:38:17.679 --> 00:38:20.480
I know, accord, have you heard.

666
00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:20.920
Of these before?

667
00:38:21.159 --> 00:38:25.239
No, we already talked about it being Yeah.

668
00:38:24.440 --> 00:38:26.719
You're just you're a Japanophile. So I wanted to make

669
00:38:26.760 --> 00:38:31.199
sure that. According to some media reports, or fish have

670
00:38:31.239 --> 00:38:35.599
been associated in Japanese folklore with prophecies of doom, in

671
00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:40.760
particular earthquakes. H Well, then it makes sense for them

672
00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:44.920
to be in California. Mm hmm, although it be weird

673
00:38:44.920 --> 00:38:48.360
if it was like they were in Minnesota. It was

674
00:38:48.480 --> 00:38:51.360
or fish in Minnesota, there must be an earthquake coming.

675
00:38:52.519 --> 00:38:53.679
How did they get here? Eh?

676
00:38:53.760 --> 00:38:58.159
Uber, Yeah, they just come dead over. They just let

677
00:38:58.239 --> 00:39:00.440
them out on this street.

678
00:39:01.440 --> 00:39:04.119
They just dropped the dificials. Make sure to rate five stars.

679
00:39:04.159 --> 00:39:11.199
Thank you. Duisla researchers in Japan looked into this in

680
00:39:11.239 --> 00:39:16.000
twenty nineteen. Quote in Japan folklore says that uncommon appearances

681
00:39:16.039 --> 00:39:19.559
of deep sea fish are an earthquake precursor. If this

682
00:39:19.639 --> 00:39:22.760
folklore is to be proven true, the appearance of deep

683
00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:26.840
sea fish could be useful information for disaster mitigation. A

684
00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:30.679
group from the Tokai Universe University and the University of

685
00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:36.840
Shinzuako Shinzuaka wrote, but they were scoured news reports. But

686
00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:39.599
they scoured news reports of deep sea fish washing up

687
00:39:39.719 --> 00:39:42.239
and determined that there wasn't much of a relationship between

688
00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:46.840
those sightings and earthquakes. Oh well, it was fun while

689
00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:51.800
it lasted. Yeah, old wives tales. Some accounts say the

690
00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:55.599
oar fish were known in centuries past as ryugu no sukai,

691
00:39:56.559 --> 00:40:01.840
roughly translating to a messenger from the dragon Palace. That

692
00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:04.159
sounds first of all, I would love to eat at

693
00:40:04.239 --> 00:40:06.840
Dragon Palace. That sounds like they probably have really good food.

694
00:40:07.119 --> 00:40:10.119
It does number one. Yeah.

695
00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:15.280
But Yoshiko okumar and Yama, a professor of Japanese studies

696
00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:18.800
at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, pointed to a

697
00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:21.639
Japanese fairy tale with source text dating back to the

698
00:40:21.639 --> 00:40:24.519
eighth century It tells the story of a fisherman named

699
00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:30.239
Ershami or Ashima Taro, who, in return for saving a turtle,

700
00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:33.000
is taken to the underwater palace of the Dragon king

701
00:40:33.320 --> 00:40:38.480
or yugojo. H Does that make sense to you?

702
00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:39.440
Sure?

703
00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:46.480
You're the Japanese expert? Okay quote. In Japan, several different

704
00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:49.159
sea creatures have been called the messenger of the Dragon Palace.

705
00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:52.840
The list includes eels and turtles. She said in an email,

706
00:40:53.079 --> 00:40:56.400
adding or fish to that list was plausible. Anything mysterious

707
00:40:56.400 --> 00:40:59.039
from the sea can be imagined as such, right, but

708
00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:02.000
she said she was unable to immediately verify it with

709
00:41:02.079 --> 00:41:06.559
source material. A database of Japanese folklore describes for Yugo

710
00:41:06.679 --> 00:41:10.800
no sukai as large fish with human heads, horns, long hair,

711
00:41:10.840 --> 00:41:15.280
and sometimes beards. Huh, I guess it depends on what's

712
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:16.239
in style at the time.

713
00:41:16.440 --> 00:41:19.360
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean, if they're going to have hair, yes.

714
00:41:19.800 --> 00:41:24.320
You gotta style it. Yeah, you gotta keep it frigginy fresh.

715
00:41:24.519 --> 00:41:27.159
In a retelling of a legend on the folklore database,

716
00:41:27.199 --> 00:41:29.559
the creatures were a bit of a mixed bag. They

717
00:41:29.599 --> 00:41:32.800
foretold of death and disease, but said people would be saved,

718
00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:35.960
so long as they quote hear my message.

719
00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:40.800
Okay, so it's like, uh, it's it's a warning, but

720
00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:44.719
it's like it's like, if you follow my warning, it's

721
00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:45.960
good warning.

722
00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:48.400
Yeah yeah, if you listen, if you take heed.

723
00:41:48.840 --> 00:41:49.119
Yeah.

724
00:41:49.159 --> 00:41:52.760
Now, I feel like California has been told for a

725
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:55.280
very long time everything is going to go horribly wrong

726
00:41:55.559 --> 00:41:58.039
in every way, and they just like chill.

727
00:41:58.760 --> 00:42:04.159
But what are they supposed to do exactly anything? Well,

728
00:42:04.199 --> 00:42:07.159
I mean besides like leave, what are they supposed to do?

729
00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:09.920
I mean, they could go to northern California where it's better.

730
00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:13.519
M I don't know.

731
00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:16.159
I mean, I'm not one hundred percent sure either. I

732
00:42:16.199 --> 00:42:17.800
just know that it's like, you have a place with

733
00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:24.519
constant wildfires, constant earthquakes, constant compared to like Ohio, where

734
00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:28.159
we have had none. We actually are on a fault line.

735
00:42:28.199 --> 00:42:29.840
It's just been a really long time since we've had

736
00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:33.159
an earthquake, are you guys? You guys aren't on a

737
00:42:33.159 --> 00:42:33.800
fault line, are you?

738
00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:36.000
I don't think so?

739
00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:43.840
Lazy So, but anyway, so that's the story of the

740
00:42:44.679 --> 00:42:49.239
Messenger of from the Dragon Palace worn in California that

741
00:42:49.599 --> 00:42:51.480
gas prices are probably gonna go up or something. Who

742
00:42:51.480 --> 00:42:56.599
knows high. Yeah, but we're gonna take a quick break

743
00:42:56.639 --> 00:42:59.159
and when we get back, we're gonna talk about a giraffe.

744
00:42:59.159 --> 00:43:01.559
We have a lot of animal stories this week boo

745
00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:06.880
or this month and boo. Yeah, why do you hate animals?

746
00:43:06.960 --> 00:43:09.800
Oh no, I don't really like giraffes. I think they're weird.

747
00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:12.599
Oh well, you're gonna like them a lot less when

748
00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:15.440
we get done reading this story, we'll be right back.

749
00:43:23.519 --> 00:43:26.960
And we are back with even more spooky news. And

750
00:43:27.559 --> 00:43:29.719
something must be in the water, because we have a

751
00:43:29.719 --> 00:43:33.960
lot of animal stories today, and this one features one

752
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:38.000
of Michelle's least, in her opinion, the least trustworthy animals

753
00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:41.280
on earth, the giraffe.

754
00:43:42.199 --> 00:43:45.039
I don't know why they got all tall like that, though,

755
00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:46.599
Like it.

756
00:43:46.599 --> 00:43:51.119
Seems mean, well, it's to eat food from high trees.

757
00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:53.679
But they don't get it down for other animals, right,

758
00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:55.519
they just eat it themselves.

759
00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:58.320
Yeah, well, I mean but they But then other giraffes

760
00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:00.719
can also eat it if they can. If they want

761
00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:02.199
to eat it, they could either grow long neck or

762
00:44:02.280 --> 00:44:02.920
learn to climb.

763
00:44:03.800 --> 00:44:05.639
That seems like that's going to take too long.

764
00:44:06.119 --> 00:44:09.519
Well, the girafts didn't, but that was a long time ago.

765
00:44:10.599 --> 00:44:15.639
Perhaps It's like, if you figured out calculus, you wouldn't

766
00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:18.280
tell other people. I can't help you with this calculus

767
00:44:18.320 --> 00:44:20.400
problem because you have to figure it out by yourself.

768
00:44:20.480 --> 00:44:21.679
I think, I don't know.

769
00:44:21.840 --> 00:44:24.679
Uh do you? Is that an open invitation for people

770
00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:26.639
to email you and ask calculus questions?

771
00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:29.599
No, that's an open invitation for me to ask other

772
00:44:29.639 --> 00:44:30.760
people calculus.

773
00:44:32.760 --> 00:44:35.400
I'm applauding that that was that solid point. Do you

774
00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:38.519
remember when well, I'm sure you do. When you had

775
00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:42.559
that apartment in West Philly. Your shower had like a window,

776
00:44:42.599 --> 00:44:47.239
but it was way high. Every time I would take

777
00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:49.599
a shower in there, I just imagined a giraffe popping

778
00:44:49.599 --> 00:44:52.679
its head into going hello. Because it was so I

779
00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:54.960
was like this, why is there a window that high up?

780
00:44:56.119 --> 00:44:58.880
It's because it used to be bigger, but then they

781
00:44:58.920 --> 00:45:01.039
put the shower there, so then they made a small

782
00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:01.880
window instead.

783
00:45:03.519 --> 00:45:05.639
That's like whenever I hear giraffe, I think of that

784
00:45:05.719 --> 00:45:10.199
bathroom mineral department. But this story the headline, this is

785
00:45:10.239 --> 00:45:14.760
from Huffington Post. Giraffe takes Texas toddler to frightening heights

786
00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:21.960
in shock Safari movie. Okay, Glen Rose, Texas, a Texas

787
00:45:21.960 --> 00:45:24.280
family got a brief scare when a nibble from a

788
00:45:24.320 --> 00:45:27.199
giraffe turned a two year old safari visit into an

789
00:45:27.239 --> 00:45:32.960
airborne adventure. Paisley Totin was in the bed of a

790
00:45:32.960 --> 00:45:36.079
pickup truck on June first when her family drove through

791
00:45:36.119 --> 00:45:40.079
the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, where visitors can see exotic

792
00:45:40.119 --> 00:45:44.159
animals such as zebra's giraffes and sable antelope and feed

793
00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:48.480
some of them from their car. Okay, the first miss

794
00:45:48.719 --> 00:45:51.440
I've never been to a drive through wildlife center. But

795
00:45:51.559 --> 00:45:56.000
the first mistake is putting like anybody in the bed

796
00:45:56.039 --> 00:45:56.880
of the vehicle.

797
00:45:57.559 --> 00:46:01.199
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Like have.

798
00:46:01.159 --> 00:46:03.360
You ever heard the stories Because you're from Jersey, you

799
00:46:03.400 --> 00:46:06.400
know about Great Adventure. There used to be a zoo

800
00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:08.440
or a theme park or whatever you want to call it,

801
00:46:08.519 --> 00:46:10.480
called Great Adventure, And one of the things they had

802
00:46:10.559 --> 00:46:15.119
was a drive through monkey habitat and they had to

803
00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:18.320
close it down because for years monkeys were just like

804
00:46:18.480 --> 00:46:20.960
terrorizing people in their cars.

805
00:46:21.320 --> 00:46:25.119
Okay, first of all, there's obviously still Great Adventure.

806
00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:26.320
Oh it's still around.

807
00:46:26.559 --> 00:46:29.480
It's yeah, if you were from the monkey part, I

808
00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:33.360
guess if you if you are on if you're not

809
00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:35.840
from New Jersey, you may not understand because we call

810
00:46:35.880 --> 00:46:38.199
a great Adventure. But it's a six Flags theme park

811
00:46:38.360 --> 00:46:42.840
six Flags, so it's absolutely still there. I actually had

812
00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:45.960
the tallest roller coaster in the world up until like

813
00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:48.719
two weeks ago when they closed it. We don't know why.

814
00:46:48.960 --> 00:46:53.119
Uh they closed that tall one Cope. I don't remember

815
00:46:53.119 --> 00:46:56.320
what it was called. Anyway they did. They did have

816
00:46:56.400 --> 00:46:59.639
like a like a drive through Safari thing that I've

817
00:46:59.639 --> 00:47:02.199
been to. I guess maybe they just got rid of

818
00:47:02.199 --> 00:47:03.039
the monkey exhibit.

819
00:47:03.199 --> 00:47:04.440
They must have just gotten rid of the monkey.

820
00:47:04.519 --> 00:47:06.119
Yeah, I don't know. Yeah.

821
00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:09.400
So, back when I lived in Jersey, I was already

822
00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:11.880
a fan of what it was called pen Radio, was

823
00:47:11.880 --> 00:47:16.079
Pendulutt's radio show on free FM in New York. I

824
00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:17.719
used to listen to in Ohio, but I'd have to

825
00:47:17.760 --> 00:47:20.239
download it, somebody would record it and upload it. When

826
00:47:20.239 --> 00:47:21.840
I moved to Jersey, I would just put it on

827
00:47:21.880 --> 00:47:25.239
my radio because I could get free FM from where

828
00:47:25.239 --> 00:47:27.960
I lived in North Jersey. And every Tuesday they would

829
00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:30.920
do Monkey Tuesday, where they would encourage listeners to call

830
00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:36.679
in with their monkey stories. Oh and it was literally

831
00:47:36.719 --> 00:47:39.679
eighty five percent where like so it's the nineteen eighties

832
00:47:39.719 --> 00:47:44.880
and I met great Adventure. They're like yep, like apparently

833
00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:49.039
they stopped doing the monkey exhibit in the nineties, in

834
00:47:49.119 --> 00:47:51.679
the early nineties, but like they said, like they would

835
00:47:51.679 --> 00:47:53.880
be like, does anybody have a story that doesn't involve

836
00:47:53.960 --> 00:47:57.000
New Jersey's Great Adventure, And it'd be like all the

837
00:47:57.039 --> 00:48:00.800
hands would go down, like okay, the monkeys would just

838
00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:03.559
like they said that, like the sign would just get

839
00:48:03.639 --> 00:48:06.840
longer and longer of like what's not allowed, like no

840
00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:11.440
convertible top cars, no this, no this, Yeah, the monkeys

841
00:48:11.480 --> 00:48:17.440
were just terrorizing people. The family had stopped to feed

842
00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:20.440
a giraffe when it grabbed Paisley's shirt with its mouth

843
00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:23.760
and lifted her several feet. Paisley's mother was in the

844
00:48:23.800 --> 00:48:26.800
pickup bed with her and shouted and shouted, prompting the

845
00:48:26.840 --> 00:48:31.000
giraffe to drop the toddler into her arms unhurt. Okay, fine,

846
00:48:31.880 --> 00:48:33.599
I mean at least the mother was with the kid

847
00:48:33.679 --> 00:48:36.119
in the back of the pickup. But I've seen all

848
00:48:36.119 --> 00:48:39.119
these fail videos of like, you know, people getting swarmed

849
00:48:39.119 --> 00:48:43.159
for their treats that like drive through animal shelter things.

850
00:48:44.280 --> 00:48:45.639
I would not want to be in the bed of

851
00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:46.320
the pickup truck.

852
00:48:46.599 --> 00:48:48.800
Yeah, No, that doesn't feel like that would be safe.

853
00:48:49.800 --> 00:48:53.159
Video of the encounter, taken from the car behind, went viral.

854
00:48:53.480 --> 00:48:57.039
The girl's family also shot their own video. Quote Paisley

855
00:48:57.119 --> 00:48:59.119
was holding the bag and the giraffe went to get

856
00:48:59.119 --> 00:49:01.840
the bag, not to get her, but ended up getting

857
00:49:01.880 --> 00:49:04.360
her shirt too and picking her up. Jason Totin, the

858
00:49:04.360 --> 00:49:09.079
girl's father, told television station KWTX, my heart stopped, my

859
00:49:09.119 --> 00:49:13.679
stomach dropped. It scared me. Totin said, yeah, do you

860
00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:15.840
believe that or do you think the giraffe was is

861
00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:18.960
just inherently evil? Oh, because it sounded like you kind

862
00:49:18.960 --> 00:49:19.559
of believe that.

863
00:49:20.840 --> 00:49:24.400
I think that in this case, the giraffe was just

864
00:49:24.519 --> 00:49:29.559
kind of scheming and wanted to freak everyone out because

865
00:49:29.559 --> 00:49:33.880
that's what they do. So that's why it lifted up

866
00:49:33.920 --> 00:49:37.960
the kid, because what they do, because that's what they do.

867
00:49:41.480 --> 00:49:47.880
I mean, fair enough. Oh, I love this. After the encounter,

868
00:49:48.599 --> 00:49:51.039
the family then took the girl to the gift shop

869
00:49:51.079 --> 00:49:52.719
and bought her a toy giraffe.

870
00:49:53.320 --> 00:49:55.760
And she didn't want it because she was terrified of it.

871
00:49:56.519 --> 00:49:58.719
No, she loves it because giraffes are fun.

872
00:49:59.320 --> 00:50:02.559
Oh maybe this was all the ploy to get them

873
00:50:02.599 --> 00:50:04.519
to go buy a toy giraffe.

874
00:50:04.679 --> 00:50:06.320
Maybe that's the move.

875
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:09.880
Okay, so they're just yeah, so the giraffe is just

876
00:50:09.920 --> 00:50:13.320
in on it with the gift shop and then they

877
00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:15.480
get a cut or something.

878
00:50:16.079 --> 00:50:18.719
The girafts Yeah, get it cut nice?

879
00:50:18.800 --> 00:50:23.679
Yeah, otherwise would they do that? Yeah?

880
00:50:23.960 --> 00:50:28.280
Always those scheming giraffes. Yeah, oh you'll like this last part.

881
00:50:28.679 --> 00:50:31.719
Park rules when the family visited allowed riding in an

882
00:50:31.719 --> 00:50:34.440
open truck bed as long as an adult was riding

883
00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:39.159
with any children. The park on Thursday changed its safety

884
00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:42.920
rules to require everyone to stay inside their vehicles with

885
00:50:43.079 --> 00:50:44.280
doors closed.

886
00:50:46.239 --> 00:50:49.719
I am yeah, I would be really proud if I

887
00:50:49.800 --> 00:50:52.000
was the reason that the park changed the rules.

888
00:50:54.719 --> 00:50:56.559
Has anybody ever changed the rules because of you?

889
00:50:58.440 --> 00:51:01.639
When I used to work one of my last jobs,

890
00:51:01.639 --> 00:51:07.679
when I worked for the company in Stacart, there was

891
00:51:07.719 --> 00:51:11.079
a time where they changed their dress code and literally

892
00:51:11.440 --> 00:51:14.119
me and everyone else in the store thought that we

893
00:51:14.199 --> 00:51:16.639
were the reason that they changed it. Like everyone was

894
00:51:16.639 --> 00:51:19.199
like it was probably me, So we really don't know

895
00:51:19.239 --> 00:51:19.920
who it was.

896
00:51:21.760 --> 00:51:24.320
But if I have been the reason for workplace change

897
00:51:24.360 --> 00:51:28.000
dress code, yeah, that that absolutely happened to me. Yeah,

898
00:51:28.199 --> 00:51:30.360
I remember because I got angry and I was like,

899
00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:32.840
why don't you just ask me to dress differently.

900
00:51:33.480 --> 00:51:36.559
Yeah, yeah, like you're.

901
00:51:36.440 --> 00:51:38.239
Putting out this dress code thing. They also did the

902
00:51:38.239 --> 00:51:42.079
thing where they said no more listening to one earbud

903
00:51:42.280 --> 00:51:45.119
because I would have like one air like it had

904
00:51:45.119 --> 00:51:47.239
phone in while I worked. Oh and they put it

905
00:51:47.239 --> 00:51:48.679
and I was like, and I literally was like, I'm

906
00:51:48.719 --> 00:51:50.320
the only person who does that. You could have just

907
00:51:50.360 --> 00:51:52.760
told me, yeah, you don't want me to yeah, but

908
00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:54.239
then I was. But I was also like, but also

909
00:51:54.280 --> 00:51:56.039
the reason I use one is so I can hear

910
00:51:56.079 --> 00:52:00.599
the phone right, Like, I don't miss any anything. So

911
00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:02.239
then they were like, well you can listen through the

912
00:52:02.239 --> 00:52:04.800
speakers on your computer. I was like, oh, okay, so

913
00:52:05.039 --> 00:52:08.599
I'll just let other people listen to my podcast and

914
00:52:08.639 --> 00:52:10.480
then they'll realize what a loser am because I'm listening

915
00:52:10.559 --> 00:52:13.480
to the combined letters of Thomas Jefferson. That was what

916
00:52:13.559 --> 00:52:15.599
I was listening to at that time. I remember, because

917
00:52:16.239 --> 00:52:18.559
I was I was like, enjoy listening to the combined

918
00:52:18.639 --> 00:52:23.960
letters of Thomas Jefferson. Jerks, Wow, They're fascinating to me

919
00:52:24.119 --> 00:52:30.320
and only me probably, So yeah, it was just a

920
00:52:30.360 --> 00:52:33.360
guy who would read Thomas Jefferson letters. That was the

921
00:52:33.360 --> 00:52:33.880
whole show.

922
00:52:34.679 --> 00:52:36.800
That's pretty good.

923
00:52:36.559 --> 00:52:39.840
For him, I think it was called Letters from Monticello

924
00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:42.760
or something was the name of the podcast. This was

925
00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:46.559
like thirteen fourteen years ago. So but we're going to

926
00:52:46.639 --> 00:52:48.480
take a quick break and then we're gonna come back

927
00:52:48.519 --> 00:52:50.800
with one more piece of spooky news before we jump

928
00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:55.639
into allegedly true paranormal stories of Christmas right after this.

929
00:53:07.119 --> 00:53:11.760
And we are back with one more piece of spooky news,

930
00:53:11.760 --> 00:53:13.440
and this one is a little bit more on the

931
00:53:13.519 --> 00:53:18.199
strange side. It's odd this month the stories were very

932
00:53:18.280 --> 00:53:21.199
light on ghosts, which is surprising because we had all

933
00:53:21.239 --> 00:53:25.039
of October for ghost stories and very little. But luckily

934
00:53:25.039 --> 00:53:27.199
we'll make up for it when we start talking about

935
00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:30.119
allegedly true ghost stories of Christmas, which we'll be getting

936
00:53:30.159 --> 00:53:34.519
to in the next segment. But this story, I thought

937
00:53:34.559 --> 00:53:38.360
you'd appreciate, Michelle, because am I right? And assuming that

938
00:53:38.440 --> 00:53:44.000
you like a good cheese, I guess you don't enjoy cheese.

939
00:53:44.000 --> 00:53:45.159
I thought you were a cheese person.

940
00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:47.960
No, I like cheese, you know, I don't make it

941
00:53:48.000 --> 00:53:49.719
my whole personality or anything.

942
00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:55.840
As you slowly lean down so I can't see your

943
00:53:55.920 --> 00:54:00.199
cheese T shirt you're wearing the lea. Yeah, well, this

944
00:54:00.280 --> 00:54:03.960
story talks about cheese in a way, I never really considered.

945
00:54:04.440 --> 00:54:08.360
Man arrested in United Kingdom cheese heist where impostors stole

946
00:54:08.480 --> 00:54:11.760
three hundred and eighty nine thousand dollars worth of cheddar.

947
00:54:12.440 --> 00:54:19.199
Wow. Yeah, that's probably a lot of cheese.

948
00:54:19.239 --> 00:54:23.599
Yeah, it must be high quality too, Maybe it's just

949
00:54:23.719 --> 00:54:28.000
a lot of it. Authorities in London have arrested a

950
00:54:28.039 --> 00:54:30.719
sixty three year old man in connection with the cheese

951
00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:34.360
heist of twenty twenty four, in which tens of thousands

952
00:54:34.400 --> 00:54:37.280
of pounds of high value cheddar were stolen from a

953
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:40.079
major distributor. Now do they mean money or do they

954
00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:40.519
mean weight?

955
00:54:42.639 --> 00:54:50.639
I think they Oh, I don't know. Then did they

956
00:54:50.719 --> 00:54:52.360
even know any.

957
00:54:52.239 --> 00:54:54.400
I don't know. I mean, I guess both are true,

958
00:54:55.679 --> 00:54:57.239
so they don't need to qualify it.

959
00:54:57.599 --> 00:54:59.280
I guess because it was.

960
00:54:59.239 --> 00:55:01.800
Tens of thousands pounds and tens of thousands of.

961
00:55:01.679 --> 00:55:05.800
Pounds, I guess.

962
00:55:07.639 --> 00:55:09.719
I guess since it has tens of thousands of pounds

963
00:55:09.719 --> 00:55:12.519
of high value cheddar, that means that it's probably.

964
00:55:12.199 --> 00:55:15.039
Okay, it's the cheese. Yeah yeah.

965
00:55:15.159 --> 00:55:20.400
So. London based retailer and cheesemaker Neil's Yard Dairy said

966
00:55:20.400 --> 00:55:23.159
it learned on Wednesday that a suspect was in custody.

967
00:55:23.440 --> 00:55:26.559
The Metropolitan Police confirmed to NPR that a man was

968
00:55:26.559 --> 00:55:30.800
detained on suspicion of fraud by false representation and handling

969
00:55:30.960 --> 00:55:35.679
stolen goods quote. The man was taken to a South

970
00:55:35.719 --> 00:55:38.599
London police station where he was questioned. He has since

971
00:55:38.599 --> 00:55:43.119
been bailed pending further inquiries, a police spokesman said. Over

972
00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:45.800
the past week, the British artisanal cheese community has been

973
00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:49.079
reeling after Neil's Yard Darry announced it had been quote

974
00:55:49.400 --> 00:55:52.599
victim of a sophisticated fraud resulting in the loss of

975
00:55:52.679 --> 00:55:57.719
over three hundred thousand pounds worth of cloth bound cheddar,

976
00:55:58.079 --> 00:56:01.960
the equivalent of more than three hundred eighty nine thousand dollars.

977
00:56:02.280 --> 00:56:02.880
Wow.

978
00:56:04.159 --> 00:56:06.800
That is quite a bit of cheddar and also quite

979
00:56:06.800 --> 00:56:14.519
a bit of cheddar. Hmmm, living language, never confusing quote.

980
00:56:14.599 --> 00:56:17.679
The theft involved a fraudulent buyer posing as a legitimate

981
00:56:17.679 --> 00:56:21.440
wholesale distributor for a major French retailer, with the cheese

982
00:56:21.519 --> 00:56:26.440
delivered before the discovery of the fraudulent identity. The company Saidah,

983
00:56:26.719 --> 00:56:28.960
you should never. You shouldn't have trusted them simply because

984
00:56:28.960 --> 00:56:29.559
they were French.

985
00:56:31.239 --> 00:56:34.920
Well what did they so? They must have delivered it? Right?

986
00:56:35.039 --> 00:56:37.360
So did they just delivered to like some dude's bedroom.

987
00:56:37.400 --> 00:56:39.599
He was like, just I don't know, just put it in.

988
00:56:39.480 --> 00:56:41.840
Here, and they were like behind the flat screen.

989
00:56:42.239 --> 00:56:45.079
Yeah, and they were just like, Okay, I don't know

990
00:56:45.119 --> 00:56:47.199
anything about you. I'm sure it's fine.

991
00:56:48.000 --> 00:56:51.119
Hey, I'm not Union. I don't care. Also, if I

992
00:56:51.199 --> 00:56:55.320
was Union, would not care. The thief made off with

993
00:56:55.519 --> 00:57:00.719
nine hundred and fifty wheels. Wow, that's over twenty two

994
00:57:01.039 --> 00:57:02.199
metric tons.

995
00:57:02.440 --> 00:57:03.760
Where would he put them?

996
00:57:04.519 --> 00:57:07.960
Or roughly forty eight thousand, five hundred pounds.

997
00:57:08.280 --> 00:57:12.039
I don't even know what That's a lot of pounds.

998
00:57:12.280 --> 00:57:18.159
Did you know that? I mean the the like the

999
00:57:18.199 --> 00:57:21.480
way that floors are made. They're only made to support

1000
00:57:21.599 --> 00:57:24.199
so much weight. You know. I think if you put

1001
00:57:24.239 --> 00:57:28.119
that much cheese in the floor on your bedroom, you

1002
00:57:28.239 --> 00:57:30.320
might have a structural problem.

1003
00:57:30.679 --> 00:57:33.159
I'm gonna guess that he has some kind of storage

1004
00:57:33.159 --> 00:57:36.519
space rented, because this is not a small grift. This

1005
00:57:36.599 --> 00:57:39.360
is like hundreds of thousands of dollars in grift.

1006
00:57:39.800 --> 00:57:40.920
Let me believe this.

1007
00:57:41.639 --> 00:57:44.599
Oh, I mean, I hope it's a studio apartment. He's like,

1008
00:57:44.679 --> 00:57:51.280
just put it right by the lava lamp. Yeah, but

1009
00:57:51.639 --> 00:57:54.280
forty eight thousand, five hundred pounds of cheese. How much

1010
00:57:54.320 --> 00:57:55.800
do you weigh, Michelle? I want to know how many

1011
00:57:55.800 --> 00:57:56.960
michelles this cheese?

1012
00:57:57.280 --> 00:58:01.199
Just assume I weigh an amount of pounds one hundred

1013
00:58:01.239 --> 00:58:06.440
and eighth. Why that, I don't know.

1014
00:58:06.440 --> 00:58:08.480
I'm just guessing because you won't give us a number.

1015
00:58:08.679 --> 00:58:13.000
That's about right, I know, all.

1016
00:58:14.559 --> 00:58:17.840
By one eight. So that's four hundred and forty nine

1017
00:58:17.880 --> 00:58:21.199
point seven Michelle's. I actually thought it would be more

1018
00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:29.679
kind of disappointed. Now, yeah, I'm sorry, sorry, pal, So

1019
00:58:29.760 --> 00:58:32.480
for four hundred or forty eight, five hundred pounds of

1020
00:58:32.480 --> 00:58:36.800
hal of Halford, Westcombe and Pitchfork cheddar. It added the

1021
00:58:36.800 --> 00:58:41.239
wheels came from three different artisan suppliers across England and Wales.

1022
00:58:41.719 --> 00:58:43.559
Wow quote.

1023
00:58:43.599 --> 00:58:46.400
Between them, these cheeses have won numerous awards and are

1024
00:58:46.400 --> 00:58:49.559
amongst the most sought after artisan cheeses in the UK.

1025
00:58:50.119 --> 00:58:53.360
Neil's Yard Dairy said the high monetary value of these

1026
00:58:53.400 --> 00:58:56.840
cheeses likely made them a particular target for the thieves.

1027
00:58:57.360 --> 00:59:01.639
You think, no, I think they Yeah, yeah, that's like

1028
00:59:01.960 --> 00:59:04.719
that's why they steal diamonds. They're particularly valuable.

1029
00:59:05.119 --> 00:59:07.360
I could have been just a coincidence. Maybe he just

1030
00:59:07.480 --> 00:59:08.199
likes cheese.

1031
00:59:09.400 --> 00:59:13.679
That is. Man, if this dude was just like I

1032
00:59:13.760 --> 00:59:16.440
got it to eat it, I'd be like, man, you

1033
00:59:16.559 --> 00:59:17.440
got a hand to it.

1034
00:59:17.599 --> 00:59:19.679
Yeah, he's just gonna have to keep it, I guess.

1035
00:59:19.880 --> 00:59:22.760
Yeah. Like there's a difference between being a thief and

1036
00:59:22.840 --> 00:59:24.960
being someone who makes your own dreams come true.

1037
00:59:25.320 --> 00:59:30.920
Yeah, he's never had good cheese before because he's been impoverished.

1038
00:59:31.079 --> 00:59:35.079
So yes this time, so with his wits, he got

1039
00:59:35.119 --> 00:59:41.280
all that Cheddar. Yeah, the crime cuts deep. Cheddar, which

1040
00:59:41.480 --> 00:59:44.559
originated in a village by the same name in Somerset, England,

1041
00:59:44.840 --> 00:59:48.039
is the best selling cheese in the UK and a

1042
00:59:48.079 --> 00:59:52.519
big source of national pride. Aw it's like Wisconsin.

1043
00:59:53.679 --> 00:59:55.599
Yeah.

1044
00:59:55.719 --> 00:59:59.400
Last oh no. Last week, British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver

1045
00:59:59.519 --> 01:00:02.360
explained an Instagram video that there is quote only a

1046
01:00:02.360 --> 01:00:05.000
small handful of real Cheddar cheese makers in the world

1047
01:00:05.440 --> 01:00:08.119
and that's where the stolen cheese came from. He called

1048
01:00:08.159 --> 01:00:11.280
it a real shame. I'm assuming that that a real

1049
01:00:11.280 --> 01:00:14.159
shame was a quote from anyone who's made his recipes.

1050
01:00:15.320 --> 01:00:18.679
I've watched so many Jamie Oliver videos. He is not

1051
01:00:18.800 --> 01:00:22.880
a good cook. I'm sorry, I don't understand. I'll send

1052
01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:25.000
you a video of him making ramen, where he boils

1053
01:00:25.039 --> 01:00:29.679
the broth the entire time. You'll love it. Hum a

1054
01:00:29.840 --> 01:00:34.679
rolling boil of broth, heinous Asian food is where he's

1055
01:00:34.719 --> 01:00:35.320
at his worst.

1056
01:00:36.760 --> 01:00:38.800
Yeah.

1057
01:00:38.880 --> 01:00:41.480
Quote this will slow Neil's Yard being able to support

1058
01:00:41.559 --> 01:00:44.079
all of their cheesemakers over the next five years. I

1059
01:00:44.079 --> 01:00:47.679
would imagine, Oliver said, Neil's Yard Dairy is shouldering the

1060
01:00:47.719 --> 01:00:51.079
cost of the crime, having already paid the artisan cheesemakers

1061
01:00:51.079 --> 01:00:54.199
in full. Shouldn't you have insurance?

1062
01:00:54.800 --> 01:00:55.679
Well maybe they do.

1063
01:00:57.920 --> 01:01:00.199
The company says it is now taking steps to ensure

1064
01:01:00.239 --> 01:01:03.840
its own financial stability and the quote continued development of

1065
01:01:03.880 --> 01:01:08.239
the British artisan cheese sector. It sounds like they don't

1066
01:01:08.239 --> 01:01:11.880
have insurance. I don't like that's bizarre, like with that

1067
01:01:11.960 --> 01:01:14.679
big of a business, with like, if you have inventory

1068
01:01:14.719 --> 01:01:17.800
of over a half a million dollars, you should really,

1069
01:01:17.880 --> 01:01:19.239
I mean, like I would have insurance. I've had an

1070
01:01:19.239 --> 01:01:22.960
inventory of over forty thousand dollars, probably even thirty.

1071
01:01:23.519 --> 01:01:26.360
I mean, maybe they just never thought anyone would steal

1072
01:01:26.400 --> 01:01:28.480
it because it's cheese.

1073
01:01:28.840 --> 01:01:32.719
Because it's cheese. On Thursday, the company said it was

1074
01:01:32.760 --> 01:01:35.280
aware of the arrest. Quote, we are grateful for the

1075
01:01:35.320 --> 01:01:38.039
progress they have made and we will continue to support

1076
01:01:38.039 --> 01:01:40.960
their investigation in any way we can, Neil's Yard Darry

1077
01:01:41.039 --> 01:01:44.119
said in a statement. So it was like, I guess

1078
01:01:44.119 --> 01:01:47.199
they're not going to get it back or anything.

1079
01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:49.880
Yeah, where is it? And how did how did they

1080
01:01:49.880 --> 01:01:52.159
find this guy? Did they find the cheese?

1081
01:01:52.440 --> 01:01:54.360
Well, good news is there's actually a lot more story

1082
01:01:54.400 --> 01:01:58.280
left than I thought there'd be. Neil's Yard was not

1083
01:01:58.360 --> 01:02:01.320
the only company affected by the chief. Tom Calver with

1084
01:02:01.400 --> 01:02:04.360
the Cheesemaker Westcombe, said they were led to believe they

1085
01:02:04.360 --> 01:02:08.599
were sending their products to France via Neil's Niel's Yard Dairy. Quote.

1086
01:02:08.679 --> 01:02:12.639
These guys basically impersonated a wholesaler slash customer, quite a

1087
01:02:12.719 --> 01:02:15.480
large retailer over in France, he said in an Instagram

1088
01:02:15.559 --> 01:02:18.079
video showing a row of empty shelves and noting he

1089
01:02:18.119 --> 01:02:21.679
had posted excitedly about the ten ton order just weeks earlier.

1090
01:02:23.000 --> 01:02:26.320
That is a bum yeah, bummer. It was a hoax,

1091
01:02:26.360 --> 01:02:28.960
it was theft, it was fraud. I mean it's nuts, No,

1092
01:02:29.079 --> 01:02:34.519
it's cheese. Patrick Patrick Holden, whose Hafford Welsh Cheddar was taken,

1093
01:02:35.519 --> 01:02:38.320
told the BBC that the robbers asked Neil's Yard Dairy

1094
01:02:38.400 --> 01:02:41.880
to dispatch the cheese to a London warehouse, then collected

1095
01:02:41.880 --> 01:02:45.440
it and disappeared. He believes they may be trying to

1096
01:02:45.480 --> 01:02:48.599
sell it in the Middle East or Russia. Quote because

1097
01:02:48.599 --> 01:02:53.199
people won't ask questions there. Wow, tell us your real

1098
01:02:53.239 --> 01:02:57.519
feelings about them geese. Quote. I think they tried to

1099
01:02:57.559 --> 01:02:59.840
sell it closer to home. If they tried to sell

1100
01:02:59.880 --> 01:03:02.360
it as home, they'd find it difficult, he said, naming

1101
01:03:02.400 --> 01:03:06.079
North America and Australia as examples. Quote because the international

1102
01:03:06.119 --> 01:03:11.039
artisan community is very connected the cheese. I mean sorry,

1103
01:03:11.639 --> 01:03:12.079
I don't know.

1104
01:03:12.119 --> 01:03:14.679
If somebody was just like, hey, do you want some cheese.

1105
01:03:14.760 --> 01:03:16.079
It's good cheese, I would.

1106
01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:20.400
Just be like, okay, you'd be like, say less us brother.

1107
01:03:21.280 --> 01:03:24.400
The cheesemakers have all issued statements thanking Nil's Yard Dairy

1108
01:03:24.480 --> 01:03:27.519
for honoring the sale and praising the company's response as

1109
01:03:27.519 --> 01:03:31.000
an example of the trust and integrity that exists in

1110
01:03:31.039 --> 01:03:31.960
the small industry.

1111
01:03:32.280 --> 01:03:34.239
Yeah. I mean they're not going to be a company anymore,

1112
01:03:34.320 --> 01:03:35.440
but sure, sure.

1113
01:03:35.280 --> 01:03:40.320
No again, ensure your stuff man. To that end, Niel's

1114
01:03:40.360 --> 01:03:44.159
Yard Dairy is asking its esteemed community of cheesemongers around

1115
01:03:44.159 --> 01:03:46.519
the world that's in quotes to keep an eye out

1116
01:03:46.559 --> 01:03:48.599
for the cheese and contact them if they are offered

1117
01:03:48.679 --> 01:03:52.800
or receive any suspicious deals, especially cloth bound cheddars of

1118
01:03:52.800 --> 01:03:56.400
certain weights ten kilograms and twenty four kilograms with the

1119
01:03:56.480 --> 01:04:01.559
tags attached. Calver amplified that request in his Instagram video. Quote,

1120
01:04:01.599 --> 01:04:04.000
if you see or know of anybody over in Europe

1121
01:04:04.079 --> 01:04:07.440
or around the world that there's some cloth bound raw

1122
01:04:07.480 --> 01:04:10.039
milk cheddar that's going cheap, then just can you let

1123
01:04:10.119 --> 01:04:13.360
us know, he said, because we can potentially trace it

1124
01:04:13.400 --> 01:04:16.280
back hopefully maybe I don't know, and we can hopefully

1125
01:04:16.320 --> 01:04:18.199
work with the police to try and find out who

1126
01:04:18.199 --> 01:04:20.920
the culprits are and in some way help Neil's Yard

1127
01:04:20.960 --> 01:04:27.199
in this quest of finding the cheese. Yeah that's in

1128
01:04:27.280 --> 01:04:36.920
his quest of finding the cheese. Yeah wow. So. In

1129
01:04:36.960 --> 01:04:39.639
a social media update posted on Sunday, Nil's Yard, Darry

1130
01:04:39.679 --> 01:04:42.480
said it has received an overwhelming number of calls, messages

1131
01:04:42.519 --> 01:04:45.360
and visits from supporters since announcing the theft, and it

1132
01:04:45.400 --> 01:04:48.199
offered an answer to many everyday cheese lovers who have

1133
01:04:48.239 --> 01:04:52.360
been asking how they can help. He wrote, continue to

1134
01:04:52.400 --> 01:04:56.360
support British and Irish cheese. Hafford, Pitchfork and Westcombe are

1135
01:04:56.400 --> 01:05:00.039
special examples of farmhouse, cheddar, eat them, celebrate.

1136
01:04:59.599 --> 01:05:02.239
Them, and also we need money.

1137
01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:05.480
Yeah, but also like we need money. Do they know

1138
01:05:05.480 --> 01:05:09.960
how we could illegally get retroactive insurance? Yeah? I like

1139
01:05:10.039 --> 01:05:13.320
putting illegally in the request. Yes, is there any way,

1140
01:05:13.599 --> 01:05:15.599
like that's the best Reddit question. Is there any way

1141
01:05:15.639 --> 01:05:17.719
I can illegally do this thing?

1142
01:05:18.039 --> 01:05:21.559
Yeah? You have to. You have to kind of state

1143
01:05:21.599 --> 01:05:24.719
your intentions.

1144
01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:25.159
Manifest it.

1145
01:05:26.199 --> 01:05:27.599
Yeah.

1146
01:05:27.639 --> 01:05:29.239
Well, we're gonna take a quick break and then we're

1147
01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:33.599
gonna jump into allegedly true paranormal stories involving Christmas right

1148
01:05:33.639 --> 01:05:44.400
after this. All right, we are back and I found

1149
01:05:44.519 --> 01:05:50.239
a list of some allegedly true paranormal stories revolving around Christmas,

1150
01:05:50.280 --> 01:05:52.440
courtesy of rancor dot com.

1151
01:05:53.360 --> 01:05:53.880
Wow.

1152
01:05:55.000 --> 01:05:58.960
Thanks, But here's the fun thing there, Because it's rancor,

1153
01:05:59.280 --> 01:06:02.159
there's a vote counter at the bottom of each story

1154
01:06:02.519 --> 01:06:04.400
and that's what makes it number one, number two and

1155
01:06:04.480 --> 01:06:07.440
number three and stuff. So, cell, after I read this

1156
01:06:07.519 --> 01:06:09.000
and we talk about it, you have to tell me

1157
01:06:09.679 --> 01:06:14.000
the question is is this a chilling tale? Upvoter down vote? Okay,

1158
01:06:14.719 --> 01:06:17.239
So we have to if we're gonna use this for content, we.

1159
01:06:17.239 --> 01:06:21.280
Have to share, Okay.

1160
01:06:20.159 --> 01:06:23.800
Okay, we have to, like help So number one is

1161
01:06:23.840 --> 01:06:28.480
the legend of the Mistletoe Bride that haunts England's Bramshill House.

1162
01:06:30.400 --> 01:06:33.920
Okay, that's it, I'm just kidding.

1163
01:06:36.000 --> 01:06:38.800
The legend of the Mistletoe Bride has been retold for

1164
01:06:38.920 --> 01:06:42.800
centuries and has taken many forms. While the story's true

1165
01:06:42.840 --> 01:06:45.920
origin is difficult to determine, many have come to believe

1166
01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:49.000
its roots are in the disappearance of Lord Lovell's bride

1167
01:06:49.320 --> 01:06:55.719
at Bramshall House in Hampshire, England. Allegedly, Lord Lovelle was

1168
01:06:55.760 --> 01:06:59.320
preparing to wed a young woman related to Sir John Cope,

1169
01:06:59.360 --> 01:07:02.559
the owner of of the Bramshall House. This was around

1170
01:07:02.639 --> 01:07:06.679
Christmas time, so mistletoe hung throughout the mansion, inspiring the

1171
01:07:06.679 --> 01:07:09.880
wedding party to play a game. The young bride to

1172
01:07:09.920 --> 01:07:13.199
be would hide somewhere in the mansion, The groomsmen would

1173
01:07:13.199 --> 01:07:15.920
all seek her out, and whoever found her would get

1174
01:07:16.039 --> 01:07:20.199
to kiss her. Gross So the bride went to hide,

1175
01:07:21.320 --> 01:07:23.599
and the wedding party sought to find her. That part

1176
01:07:23.639 --> 01:07:27.360
didn't rhyme, However, the minutes turned to hours and they

1177
01:07:27.440 --> 01:07:29.079
still could not find her.

1178
01:07:29.599 --> 01:07:31.960
I yeah, no, if someone wanted to kiss me, I'd

1179
01:07:31.960 --> 01:07:33.320
be gone too. That'd be it.

1180
01:07:35.000 --> 01:07:37.079
Fair fair, I mean, but she agreed to the game.

1181
01:07:37.119 --> 01:07:37.639
As far as we.

1182
01:07:37.559 --> 01:07:43.000
Can tell, we don't know that she could have been coerced.

1183
01:07:44.079 --> 01:07:48.960
Eventually, the game turned terribly serious, as no matter where

1184
01:07:49.000 --> 01:07:56.119
they looked, she remained missing. Not until fifty years later

1185
01:07:56.239 --> 01:08:00.000
did Lord Lavelle, still seeking answers to his bride's disappear.

1186
01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:03.719
Appearance happened upon a secret closet in an upstairs room

1187
01:08:03.760 --> 01:08:07.960
of the Bramshall House. Inside he found a wooden chest

1188
01:08:08.239 --> 01:08:13.000
sealed shut with a lock. Upon opening the chest, he

1189
01:08:13.079 --> 01:08:17.319
found the nearly unrecognizable remains of his bride.

1190
01:08:19.000 --> 01:08:23.640
Huh, So how'd you get in there? That's the question, because, like,

1191
01:08:24.199 --> 01:08:26.720
I mean, I could see going into a chest, but

1192
01:08:26.760 --> 01:08:29.039
if it's it can't. It's not about lock on its own.

1193
01:08:29.039 --> 01:08:29.960
That's not how locks were.

1194
01:08:30.159 --> 01:08:33.239
It had a lock on the outside. Somebody definitely locked

1195
01:08:33.239 --> 01:08:38.359
her in there. Yeah, whether intentional or not, I would

1196
01:08:38.399 --> 01:08:42.319
assume intentional, probably intentional.

1197
01:08:41.880 --> 01:08:43.760
Because I don't I mean, I don't just walk around

1198
01:08:43.920 --> 01:08:46.520
to like strange boxes and go like maybe I should

1199
01:08:46.560 --> 01:08:47.039
lock this.

1200
01:08:48.760 --> 01:08:51.199
Maybe you do now you know, now you're in denial

1201
01:08:51.239 --> 01:08:53.479
because you realize you killed so many people doing that.

1202
01:08:53.560 --> 01:08:55.520
Well, I mean I always think I killed some people,

1203
01:08:55.680 --> 01:09:00.680
so fair fair killed her her?

1204
01:09:00.840 --> 01:09:02.399
Well, No, I don't think. I think that was a

1205
01:09:02.399 --> 01:09:03.439
little bit before your time.

1206
01:09:03.640 --> 01:09:05.279
Probably, I don't know.

1207
01:09:06.199 --> 01:09:07.880
So is that a chilling tale?

1208
01:09:10.800 --> 01:09:13.800
Sure? Sure, okay, I'll give it to him because I'm

1209
01:09:13.960 --> 01:09:18.479
involved trying to kiss somebody who obviously would rather die

1210
01:09:18.600 --> 01:09:22.000
than be kissed, so fair enough.

1211
01:09:22.239 --> 01:09:25.000
Ninety six percent of people who've read this agree with

1212
01:09:25.079 --> 01:09:31.720
us that it is indeed chilling. Okay, all right. Number two,

1213
01:09:32.199 --> 01:09:37.359
The Brown Lady of Rainham Rainham Hall wanders the passages

1214
01:09:37.800 --> 01:09:39.439
every Christmas.

1215
01:09:40.119 --> 01:09:41.960
Okay.

1216
01:09:43.119 --> 01:09:46.800
The Brown Lady of Rainham Hall has perplexed visitors and

1217
01:09:46.880 --> 01:09:52.640
paranormal investigators for hundreds of years. Back in the seventeen hundreds,

1218
01:09:53.000 --> 01:09:57.079
owner Charles Townshend married a young woman named Dorothy Walpole.

1219
01:09:57.800 --> 01:10:01.439
While they lived happily together for some in Rayham Hall

1220
01:10:01.760 --> 01:10:07.600
a Rainham Hall and these English words, Townshend soon became

1221
01:10:07.720 --> 01:10:11.199
paranoid that his new wife was being unfaithful to him,

1222
01:10:11.560 --> 01:10:15.520
Eventually driving himself mad with jealousy. He decided to hide

1223
01:10:15.600 --> 01:10:18.479
Dorothy away in the hall, telling all of their friends

1224
01:10:18.479 --> 01:10:25.760
and family that she had tragically passed away. Mm hmm ooh.

1225
01:10:26.199 --> 01:10:29.359
Dorothy was forced to stay inside the mansion, allowed only

1226
01:10:29.439 --> 01:10:33.159
to wander through its halls. Not long after, she perished,

1227
01:10:33.520 --> 01:10:37.000
never having left Raynham Hall after her husband imprisoned her.

1228
01:10:37.680 --> 01:10:40.680
Ever since her passing, people have witnessed the image of

1229
01:10:40.720 --> 01:10:44.279
a woman in a tattered brown dress wandering through the halls,

1230
01:10:44.760 --> 01:10:49.199
and some of these reported encounters are truly horrifying. One visitor,

1231
01:10:49.279 --> 01:10:52.840
unaware of the Brown Lady's legend, approached a woman in

1232
01:10:52.880 --> 01:10:55.279
the hall, only to have her look at him with

1233
01:10:55.399 --> 01:10:58.720
a glowing face, but where her eyes should have been

1234
01:10:59.279 --> 01:11:01.239
there were only the empty.

1235
01:11:00.880 --> 01:11:03.199
Sockets ew Why.

1236
01:11:05.399 --> 01:11:09.079
Years after or later, after numerous other reported sightings, a

1237
01:11:09.079 --> 01:11:13.960
photographer from Country Life magazine visited Raynham Hall to document

1238
01:11:14.000 --> 01:11:16.760
it for an article. After snapping a photograph of the

1239
01:11:16.760 --> 01:11:20.479
central stairwell, he saw within the image a hazy silhouette

1240
01:11:20.680 --> 01:11:23.920
that many believe is none other than Dorothy Walpole The

1241
01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:26.760
Brown Lady.

1242
01:11:26.920 --> 01:11:27.720
Yeah.

1243
01:11:27.800 --> 01:11:29.359
I have a little bit of a problem with this

1244
01:11:29.399 --> 01:11:31.920
one because the color brown doesn't actually exist.

1245
01:11:33.199 --> 01:11:34.760
Boo, it does exist.

1246
01:11:36.399 --> 01:11:39.800
This is a long standing debate between Michelle and I.

1247
01:11:39.920 --> 01:11:42.319
It is simply orange with no luminance.

1248
01:11:42.520 --> 01:11:45.600
I can't, I like, I want to explain this to you,

1249
01:11:45.680 --> 01:11:48.800
but it would take so long and require so much

1250
01:11:48.920 --> 01:11:52.359
like legwork. They're like, I don't want to do it,

1251
01:11:52.880 --> 01:11:54.880
but it but brown.

1252
01:11:54.720 --> 01:11:58.159
Exists, So why can't we make a brown light? Then?

1253
01:11:58.720 --> 01:12:01.800
I don't know why because magic? I don't know.

1254
01:12:03.840 --> 01:12:05.800
So why if you take a photo of something that

1255
01:12:05.880 --> 01:12:08.119
is brown and put it into a photo ending software

1256
01:12:08.159 --> 01:12:11.600
and use the dropper tool, why is it that brown

1257
01:12:11.800 --> 01:12:14.239
is just darkened orange?

1258
01:12:14.800 --> 01:12:18.840
Because because that's a computer, Like, it's not real. The

1259
01:12:18.880 --> 01:12:21.920
computer is just trying to like explain something to you,

1260
01:12:22.079 --> 01:12:25.399
and that's how it did it. There's plenty of browns

1261
01:12:25.399 --> 01:12:29.680
that are not dark orange. I almost said orange, so

1262
01:12:30.399 --> 01:12:35.079
I got you so, like I'm telling you, it's not

1263
01:12:35.479 --> 01:12:38.800
the same all the time. And brown is just a

1264
01:12:38.840 --> 01:12:42.920
combination of colors. So maybe it's not a real color,

1265
01:12:42.960 --> 01:12:44.720
but it's definitely not orange.

1266
01:12:45.199 --> 01:12:55.840
It's mostly orange. No, okay, So is this a chilling tale? Yes?

1267
01:12:55.920 --> 01:12:56.159
Or no?

1268
01:12:56.560 --> 01:12:59.000
I mean it's a little chilling because I'm worried about

1269
01:12:59.000 --> 01:13:01.680
that dude. Why did he go crazy? You don't go

1270
01:13:01.800 --> 01:13:06.000
crazy from jealousy like that. He probably had lead poisoning

1271
01:13:06.159 --> 01:13:06.640
or something.

1272
01:13:07.319 --> 01:13:11.600
Well, it's England, yeah, so we're giving it. Yes, it's chilling.

1273
01:13:11.880 --> 01:13:15.800
I guess all right, up vote that ninety percent of

1274
01:13:15.800 --> 01:13:16.840
people agree with us.

1275
01:13:17.319 --> 01:13:17.680
Okay.

1276
01:13:19.640 --> 01:13:23.840
Number three. An old Victorian house is allegedly haunted by

1277
01:13:23.880 --> 01:13:31.359
an eccentric woman every Christmas, just on Christmas, just on Christmas.

1278
01:13:32.199 --> 01:13:35.079
One group of ghosts from the Stark family have created

1279
01:13:35.119 --> 01:13:39.079
quite a legacy for themselves. The Starks left behind numerous

1280
01:13:39.119 --> 01:13:42.880
spirits that are now haunting a Victorian home in Luddington, Michigan,

1281
01:13:43.560 --> 01:13:50.319
and visitors have reported numerous sightings, particularly around Christmas. Oh

1282
01:13:50.800 --> 01:13:54.640
One such specter, Vera Stark, was well known in life

1283
01:13:54.640 --> 01:13:57.560
for her eccentricities and seems to have brought them with

1284
01:13:57.640 --> 01:14:00.920
her into the afterlife. Those who to have seen her

1285
01:14:00.960 --> 01:14:03.439
ghost say she appears in the front yard of the

1286
01:14:03.479 --> 01:14:08.039
home wearing only a fur coat and picking flowers, just

1287
01:14:08.119 --> 01:14:13.279
as she did in life. In addition, the ghost of

1288
01:14:13.359 --> 01:14:16.000
one of the Stark daughters, who suffered a terrible misapp

1289
01:14:16.239 --> 01:14:19.640
in the mansion's gymnasium. Damn they have a gymnasium. That's

1290
01:14:19.680 --> 01:14:23.880
pretty cool, can allegedly be seen walking through the halls

1291
01:14:23.920 --> 01:14:27.760
of the home. So is this another example of ghost

1292
01:14:27.800 --> 01:14:29.760
being inappropriate? If she's out there with just a fur

1293
01:14:29.800 --> 01:14:32.119
coat and nothing else, But she's also a ghost.

1294
01:14:32.000 --> 01:14:34.359
Yeah, that's what I want to know. Do we really

1295
01:14:34.399 --> 01:14:37.279
mean nothing else? Just a fur coat?

1296
01:14:37.920 --> 01:14:39.520
Just a fur coat, that's what it says.

1297
01:14:39.640 --> 01:14:42.800
That is pretty inappropriate. Yeah.

1298
01:14:43.000 --> 01:14:45.880
The current owners of the home have even attempted to

1299
01:14:45.920 --> 01:14:49.439
open it up to historical tours, but they apparently ran

1300
01:14:49.479 --> 01:14:50.920
into problems.

1301
01:14:50.560 --> 01:14:52.359
Because of the inappropriateness.

1302
01:14:56.479 --> 01:15:00.600
Perhaps quote our spirits did not care for it being

1303
01:15:00.600 --> 01:15:03.399
open to the public and went wild.

1304
01:15:04.640 --> 01:15:08.279
I mean, if I was just mostly naked outside picking flowers,

1305
01:15:08.319 --> 01:15:13.600
I wouldn't want people coming over. I mean, but yeah,

1306
01:15:13.640 --> 01:15:16.159
I don't know. Maybe I'm kind of an exhibitionist if

1307
01:15:16.159 --> 01:15:18.159
I'm just outside in just my pro code, So.

1308
01:15:18.920 --> 01:15:19.920
It would sound that way.

1309
01:15:20.199 --> 01:15:21.920
Yeah.

1310
01:15:21.960 --> 01:15:25.319
So is this a chilling tale?

1311
01:15:25.640 --> 01:15:30.920
Yeah, because it's we're bordering on inappropriate ghosts behavior again.

1312
01:15:30.960 --> 01:15:34.520
So ninety percent of people agree with us.

1313
01:15:35.079 --> 01:15:37.920
Yeah.

1314
01:15:38.000 --> 01:15:39.920
Well, we're gonna take a quick break and we'll jump

1315
01:15:39.960 --> 01:15:45.039
back in with even more stories of paranormal Christmas after this,

1316
01:15:53.279 --> 01:15:56.279
and we are back looking at rancor dot COM's list

1317
01:15:56.279 --> 01:16:00.960
of Christmas ghost stories and rating how spoopy they are.

1318
01:16:02.079 --> 01:16:04.319
One thing I really do love about Christmas a lot

1319
01:16:04.319 --> 01:16:06.279
of my friends and now I think they get it

1320
01:16:06.319 --> 01:16:08.119
because I've been doing the show so long, but like

1321
01:16:08.439 --> 01:16:10.439
Christmas has always been a bit spooky.

1322
01:16:10.960 --> 01:16:11.239
M h.

1323
01:16:11.760 --> 01:16:13.960
Which is one of the reasons I extra love Christmas

1324
01:16:14.039 --> 01:16:16.079
so much is that, like you get a little Halloween

1325
01:16:16.119 --> 01:16:18.840
in there too. There's all kinds of ghost stories. It's

1326
01:16:18.840 --> 01:16:22.680
all about, like you know, Christmas night, there's lots of

1327
01:16:22.800 --> 01:16:25.920
night time stuff in the winter nights are longer, like ye,

1328
01:16:26.079 --> 01:16:29.600
there's a lot to be spooky about Christmas, yeah, which

1329
01:16:29.640 --> 01:16:32.520
I've always enjoyed. I love the British tradition of telling

1330
01:16:32.560 --> 01:16:34.680
ghost stories. I mean because whatever I tell people that

1331
01:16:34.720 --> 01:16:36.640
are like, really they did that, I'm like a Christmas Carol.

1332
01:16:37.399 --> 01:16:39.640
They're like oh, and I'm like yeah. That was just

1333
01:16:40.439 --> 01:16:42.319
most of the time, the ghost stories that they would

1334
01:16:42.319 --> 01:16:45.359
that would get famous on Christmas Eve were not directly

1335
01:16:45.399 --> 01:16:48.479
related to Christmas. They were just ghost stories. But that's

1336
01:16:48.520 --> 01:16:51.239
why Christmas Carol became extra famous was it was a

1337
01:16:51.279 --> 01:16:54.479
really good one and it was Christmas themed, so it became,

1338
01:16:55.319 --> 01:16:58.359
you know, popular in America too. It got popular everywhere.

1339
01:16:58.760 --> 01:17:03.359
So but like you've seen Scrooged, right, did I send

1340
01:17:03.399 --> 01:17:05.279
you a copy of Scrooged or did you already see

1341
01:17:05.279 --> 01:17:05.560
that one?

1342
01:17:05.800 --> 01:17:06.880
I had already seen it.

1343
01:17:07.520 --> 01:17:11.119
That's a great one. Like the scary moments are really great,

1344
01:17:11.279 --> 01:17:15.279
Like they're really scary, like the demonic monster, ghosts and stuff.

1345
01:17:15.279 --> 01:17:20.439
They're really scary. I love that about that movie. Yeah, anyway,

1346
01:17:21.880 --> 01:17:24.399
do you remember on Christmas? It was Christmas Eve, I

1347
01:17:24.479 --> 01:17:27.560
rented the movie theater and showed Scrooged. I rented a

1348
01:17:27.640 --> 01:17:31.920
movie theater at my local cineplex. It was during COVID, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1349
01:17:31.920 --> 01:17:34.199
and we showed Scrooged and it was me and like,

1350
01:17:34.239 --> 01:17:36.600
I think it was eighteen friends because you're allowed to

1351
01:17:36.640 --> 01:17:41.520
have I think at that time it was thirty people. Okay, well,

1352
01:17:41.760 --> 01:17:43.760
well based on the rental price. Because the rental price

1353
01:17:43.840 --> 01:17:45.800
was not very high. If I want to have more

1354
01:17:45.840 --> 01:17:48.079
than that, I had to pay a little bit more,

1355
01:17:48.079 --> 01:17:49.760
like fifty dollars more or something. It wasn't too bad.

1356
01:17:49.840 --> 01:17:51.640
It was like two hundred bucks. It was totally worth it.

1357
01:17:53.119 --> 01:17:55.359
But during the end when they do the singing part

1358
01:17:56.079 --> 01:17:58.119
where they're like during the credits, Orry saying like now

1359
01:17:58.159 --> 01:18:00.399
you on the left, now you on the right doing that.

1360
01:18:00.479 --> 01:18:01.880
I stood up at the theater. I was like, you

1361
01:18:01.920 --> 01:18:05.279
all sing right now? Because I paid for this, so

1362
01:18:06.039 --> 01:18:08.399
we followed his direction, like when he said like all

1363
01:18:08.439 --> 01:18:10.159
you on the left. Everybody on the left of the

1364
01:18:10.159 --> 01:18:12.520
theater was singing, and then other right the right was singing.

1365
01:18:12.600 --> 01:18:17.159
It was really fun cool anyway, all right. So number

1366
01:18:17.159 --> 01:18:21.239
four at Rancor alleged phantoms. Ooh, you're gonna like this.

1367
01:18:21.239 --> 01:18:25.000
This is near your ancestral homeland. Alleged phantoms plague a

1368
01:18:25.039 --> 01:18:27.159
Brooklyn home during Christmas time.

1369
01:18:27.560 --> 01:18:28.079
Yay.

1370
01:18:29.520 --> 01:18:31.640
Hopefully we get to the bronx at some point.

1371
01:18:31.960 --> 01:18:32.560
Yay.

1372
01:18:33.439 --> 01:18:37.319
A few weeks before Christmas in eighteen seventy eight, Edward F.

1373
01:18:37.439 --> 01:18:40.039
Smith was at his home in Brooklyn, New York. When

1374
01:18:40.079 --> 01:18:43.880
the doorbell rang. He answered the door, but there was

1375
01:18:43.920 --> 01:18:48.800
no one there. This soon became a nightly occurrence. The

1376
01:18:48.840 --> 01:18:51.159
doorbell would ring, only for Smith to find no one

1377
01:18:51.199 --> 01:18:54.520
outside and no sign that anyone had been there at all.

1378
01:18:56.439 --> 01:19:01.079
Growing frustrated, Smith sprinkled ash and fly along the path

1379
01:19:01.159 --> 01:19:04.840
of the door, expecting to find footprints left behind, but

1380
01:19:04.960 --> 01:19:08.720
substances were undisturbed, and the noises continued.

1381
01:19:10.199 --> 01:19:13.039
Pesky kids, lousy kids.

1382
01:19:13.399 --> 01:19:16.279
See Brooklyn was going to health so long before now?

1383
01:19:18.640 --> 01:19:22.319
Growing Oh wait, no, sorry, you lost my place. No

1384
01:19:22.359 --> 01:19:24.960
matter where he and his family stood around the house,

1385
01:19:25.199 --> 01:19:30.439
the noises remained unidentifiable. Smith and his family were growing

1386
01:19:30.479 --> 01:19:34.119
more concerned as the doorbell ringing turned aggressive banging on

1387
01:19:34.159 --> 01:19:39.960
the doors. Eventually they contacted the police. The ringing and

1388
01:19:40.000 --> 01:19:42.800
banging continued, and still no one was able to identify

1389
01:19:42.840 --> 01:19:46.800
its source. One night, a brick suddenly flew through the

1390
01:19:46.840 --> 01:19:50.800
window from outside, even though police officers were standing nearby

1391
01:19:51.640 --> 01:19:52.560
and no one saw.

1392
01:19:53.239 --> 01:19:54.720
So, I get it.

1393
01:19:56.000 --> 01:19:57.760
I think there was a printer. It was just a

1394
01:19:57.760 --> 01:19:59.079
printer turning.

1395
01:19:58.760 --> 01:20:01.560
On h I mean, I was gonna say, I think

1396
01:20:01.560 --> 01:20:02.920
it's the police.

1397
01:20:02.960 --> 01:20:05.840
That was actually my first thought. The cops doing it then.

1398
01:20:06.039 --> 01:20:07.319
Yeah.

1399
01:20:07.359 --> 01:20:10.800
Although they investigated the home for some time, police were

1400
01:20:10.880 --> 01:20:14.840
unable to identify the cause of the disturbances. Smith and

1401
01:20:14.880 --> 01:20:19.119
those who witnessed the strange occurrences ultimately concluded that they

1402
01:20:19.199 --> 01:20:24.159
must have been paranormal in nature. Oo.

1403
01:20:26.880 --> 01:20:32.840
Yeah, yeah, it was only a person, fair fair.

1404
01:20:34.640 --> 01:20:36.399
Well? Is that a chilling story?

1405
01:20:36.680 --> 01:20:36.760
No?

1406
01:20:38.000 --> 01:20:39.560
Wow, you just no way?

1407
01:20:40.079 --> 01:20:41.039
No.

1408
01:20:41.079 --> 01:20:43.439
What about the ash and flower they sprinkled on the

1409
01:20:43.479 --> 01:20:44.479
path to the doorway.

1410
01:20:44.720 --> 01:20:47.000
Oh you don't think that a person could not step

1411
01:20:47.039 --> 01:20:48.479
on something, because I do.

1412
01:20:49.560 --> 01:20:50.880
But how would they know it was there?

1413
01:20:51.640 --> 01:20:53.960
They can't see m.

1414
01:20:55.439 --> 01:21:00.319
All right, we'll downvote that one. Thirteen percent of people

1415
01:21:00.359 --> 01:21:09.560
agreed with us. Yeah, ooh, number five. A headless horseman

1416
01:21:09.600 --> 01:21:12.239
allegedly haunts Ruce Hall every December.

1417
01:21:13.960 --> 01:21:17.960
So there was there is a headless horseman at Christmas.

1418
01:21:18.199 --> 01:21:20.520
Well now this but for the record, this is not

1419
01:21:20.560 --> 01:21:23.039
a headless horseman legend. This is what's called a doula

1420
01:21:23.079 --> 01:21:28.199
han okay, which is the story that is very common

1421
01:21:28.279 --> 01:21:31.439
in the England and Ireland. And that's kind of where

1422
01:21:31.479 --> 01:21:33.239
the concept of it came from. I think we cover

1423
01:21:33.279 --> 01:21:38.760
that last week we did. Yeah, so a doulahn is

1424
01:21:38.800 --> 01:21:40.520
a specific kind of ghost that rides a horse and

1425
01:21:40.600 --> 01:21:41.399
usually has no head.

1426
01:21:41.760 --> 01:21:42.880
Yeah.

1427
01:21:43.000 --> 01:21:45.840
So let's see. Ruce Hall, a mysterious mansion in the

1428
01:21:45.840 --> 01:21:48.560
English countryside, is rumored to be one of the most

1429
01:21:48.600 --> 01:21:52.680
haunted places in England. Located just outside the small town

1430
01:21:52.720 --> 01:21:56.840
of Beccles or Vessels, whichever, in the County of Suffolk.

1431
01:21:57.840 --> 01:22:01.000
The mansion has accumulated plenty of ghost stories ever since

1432
01:22:01.039 --> 01:22:04.960
it was first built in the sixteenth century. One of

1433
01:22:04.960 --> 01:22:07.960
the most horrifying stories is that of the headless horsemen.

1434
01:22:08.800 --> 01:22:11.079
Many people may be familiar with this legend, but at

1435
01:22:11.159 --> 01:22:13.159
Ruce Hall it takes on a life of its own.

1436
01:22:13.760 --> 01:22:16.800
Numerous vigious visitors to Ruce Hall have reported a man

1437
01:22:16.840 --> 01:22:19.319
on a horse riding toward them on the road, only

1438
01:22:19.399 --> 01:22:25.399
to discover that he has no head. Allegedly on Christmas Eve,

1439
01:22:25.439 --> 01:22:28.399
the headless man is often seen clattering down the driveway

1440
01:22:28.560 --> 01:22:33.520
with his phantom coach and four horses. Ooh, that's a

1441
01:22:33.600 --> 01:22:35.279
version of the doula han. You don't hear as much

1442
01:22:35.359 --> 01:22:39.760
as the headless horseman is riding a cab you know

1443
01:22:40.279 --> 01:22:46.520
a thing. Yeah, carriage, couldn't couldn't think of it. And

1444
01:22:46.600 --> 01:22:50.000
this is only the beginning of Ruce Hall's ghostly existence.

1445
01:22:50.520 --> 01:22:53.600
Other rumors claim that there are strange markings inside the

1446
01:22:53.640 --> 01:22:58.760
hall known as Devil's footprints, and some have even reported

1447
01:22:58.800 --> 01:23:03.920
seeing a girl watch them from the windows. Eh, girls,

1448
01:23:03.960 --> 01:23:09.399
they're gross. Yeah, that one's pretty creepy.

1449
01:23:09.720 --> 01:23:13.439
Yeah, I mean it would be creepier if the headless

1450
01:23:13.479 --> 01:23:16.199
horseman doula hand dude came up to them and was like,

1451
01:23:16.239 --> 01:23:18.680
are you do you need a ride? And then if

1452
01:23:18.720 --> 01:23:21.000
you get in, he takes you to hell or something.

1453
01:23:21.239 --> 01:23:23.039
You're back home or something. I don't know.

1454
01:23:23.560 --> 01:23:26.640
I love your phrase, the doula hand dude.

1455
01:23:27.600 --> 01:23:28.760
You're welcome than.

1456
01:23:28.840 --> 01:23:35.159
The tale of the doula hand dude. No, I agree

1457
01:23:35.159 --> 01:23:37.479
and there are some stories like that where it's like

1458
01:23:37.479 --> 01:23:38.199
they take you to hell.

1459
01:23:38.600 --> 01:23:39.640
Yeah.

1460
01:23:40.119 --> 01:23:41.680
I don't hear a lot of stories about a doula

1461
01:23:41.720 --> 01:23:44.800
han haunting like a house specifically. Usually it's like an area.

1462
01:23:45.520 --> 01:23:47.840
Yeah, maybe he just really likes this one.

1463
01:23:49.920 --> 01:23:54.000
Number six, The ghost of Sir Jeoffrey D. Manville and

1464
01:23:54.079 --> 01:23:57.399
his headless dog roam the streets on Christmas Eve.

1465
01:23:57.720 --> 01:23:59.840
Oh that's sad, poor dog.

1466
01:24:01.000 --> 01:24:04.199
The story of Sir Jeoffrey D. Mandeville is brimming with

1467
01:24:04.279 --> 01:24:08.239
political betrayals. Thank god that's stopped. He held the title

1468
01:24:08.279 --> 01:24:11.039
of the Earl of Essex and was a prestigious European

1469
01:24:11.119 --> 01:24:14.960
landowner during the eleven hundreds. Because of his title, he

1470
01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:18.319
had great influence over royal politics at the time. However,

1471
01:24:18.359 --> 01:24:21.920
when a debate emerged regarding the rightful heir to the throne,

1472
01:24:21.960 --> 01:24:25.199
he chose the losing side and was promptly stripped of

1473
01:24:25.279 --> 01:24:30.520
many of his assets and excommunicated from the Church. During

1474
01:24:30.560 --> 01:24:35.039
his excommunication, s Joffrey was slain on the battlefield, but

1475
01:24:35.159 --> 01:24:37.640
because of his exile, he was not allowed a prop

1476
01:24:37.680 --> 01:24:42.279
and proper Christian internment, which many believe left his spirit

1477
01:24:42.439 --> 01:24:49.199
trapped within the earthly realm. Rumours claim that Sir Jeoffrey

1478
01:24:49.520 --> 01:24:53.199
also left a curse on the properties he owned, stating

1479
01:24:53.239 --> 01:24:55.920
that should they ever be taken away from him, Ruin

1480
01:24:56.000 --> 01:25:00.479
would befall his betrayer, and every six years on Christmas Eve,

1481
01:25:00.960 --> 01:25:04.439
he and a headless dog would haunt the lands draped

1482
01:25:04.920 --> 01:25:05.880
in a red cloak.

1483
01:25:07.840 --> 01:25:10.439
That's oddly specific a bit.

1484
01:25:11.560 --> 01:25:15.680
I know. Headless dogs are like a very European ghost thing.

1485
01:25:16.119 --> 01:25:20.000
Headless dogs why because they're spooky, I guess. I mean

1486
01:25:20.039 --> 01:25:20.960
I would be creeped out.

1487
01:25:22.039 --> 01:25:25.359
I mean, I guess it depends on if it's friendly

1488
01:25:25.479 --> 01:25:25.680
or not.

1489
01:25:25.840 --> 01:25:28.399
I guess would you be more afraid it was friendly?

1490
01:25:28.520 --> 01:25:30.119
Oh God, that's gonna touch me with its stuff?

1491
01:25:30.319 --> 01:25:33.760
Yeah, I would be more afraid. Yeah, I don't know

1492
01:25:33.800 --> 01:25:36.199
what it's gonna do with its its neck hole.

1493
01:25:37.079 --> 01:25:40.159
It'd be like how like gigs, How gigs natural instinct

1494
01:25:40.199 --> 01:25:41.960
is to put the part of her face that's missing

1495
01:25:42.000 --> 01:25:42.960
like right to whoever.

1496
01:25:43.399 --> 01:25:46.920
Yeah, exactly. It'd be like sticking its neck up against me,

1497
01:25:46.960 --> 01:25:48.479
And I'm just like, I don't, I don't know what

1498
01:25:48.479 --> 01:25:51.680
I'm supposed to do. Do I touch it or all?

1499
01:25:51.800 --> 01:25:55.319
Sweet gigs. Ever since his demise, people have visited the

1500
01:25:55.359 --> 01:25:59.159
properties he once owned particularly the Pims brook Bridge in

1501
01:25:59.239 --> 01:26:03.560
East Barnett, and they have reported hearing strange sounds and

1502
01:26:03.600 --> 01:26:07.079
witnessing the hazy image of a headless dog breaking through

1503
01:26:07.119 --> 01:26:10.159
the fog accompanied by a knight in full armor and

1504
01:26:10.199 --> 01:26:10.960
a red cloak.

1505
01:26:11.880 --> 01:26:15.439
Oh we came back as a knight. Huh, yeah, he's

1506
01:26:15.560 --> 01:26:21.359
pretty cool. Now, well he's Sir Jeoffrey. He was a knight. Okay, fine,

1507
01:26:21.640 --> 01:26:23.279
what that's what it means? I know?

1508
01:26:26.319 --> 01:26:28.560
Yeah, so is this a chilling tail?

1509
01:26:30.560 --> 01:26:33.720
I mean, considering there's that dog that I'm scared of?

1510
01:26:33.800 --> 01:26:35.920
Now yeah, yeah.

1511
01:26:35.560 --> 01:26:40.840
All right. Eighty eight percent of people agreed with us. Well,

1512
01:26:40.880 --> 01:26:43.680
we'll have even more of these tales right after this.

1513
01:26:52.520 --> 01:26:56.359
And now, for number seven on rancor dot COM's Christmas

1514
01:26:56.399 --> 01:27:01.640
ghost stories list, a ghost supposedly disrupts a Christmas party

1515
01:27:01.680 --> 01:27:02.720
at Alcatraz.

1516
01:27:04.279 --> 01:27:08.399
Oh fine, what do you mean?

1517
01:27:08.399 --> 01:27:08.600
What?

1518
01:27:09.079 --> 01:27:11.319
Why is there a Christmas party at Alcatraz?

1519
01:27:11.840 --> 01:27:15.119
There are employees. Oh so prisoners don't get to celebrate.

1520
01:27:15.239 --> 01:27:16.279
I say, how do you feel?

1521
01:27:16.680 --> 01:27:18.479
No, yeah, that's.

1522
01:27:18.359 --> 01:27:21.199
Against the constitution. That's cruel and unusual punishment.

1523
01:27:21.880 --> 01:27:24.199
I think that that is debatable.

1524
01:27:25.159 --> 01:27:29.039
Wow, you're just gonna withhold Christmas?

1525
01:27:30.640 --> 01:27:33.079
No, you can celebrate Christmas in your own way. But

1526
01:27:33.119 --> 01:27:35.079
we're not going to do it like as a thing.

1527
01:27:35.720 --> 01:27:37.840
I'm not gonna have a Christmas celebration.

1528
01:27:38.600 --> 01:27:45.199
Ooh, it explains it, and it actually raises way more questions. Yay. Alcatraz,

1529
01:27:45.239 --> 01:27:49.119
the isolated penitentiary located in the middle of California's San

1530
01:27:49.159 --> 01:27:53.399
Francisco Bay, closed down in nineteen sixty three, but tales

1531
01:27:53.399 --> 01:27:55.760
of those who were once held on the island continue

1532
01:27:55.760 --> 01:27:59.520
to haunt generations of onlookers and visitors. Often referred to

1533
01:27:59.560 --> 01:28:03.720
as the Rock, Alcatraz has gained a reputation for unexplainable

1534
01:28:03.720 --> 01:28:06.640
and shocking ghost encounters, and one of the most notable

1535
01:28:07.000 --> 01:28:11.039
was recounted during Christmas time. I prefer to call Alcatraz

1536
01:28:11.159 --> 01:28:13.319
Dwayne Johnson instead of the Rock.

1537
01:28:14.000 --> 01:28:16.159
Yeah.

1538
01:28:16.199 --> 01:28:19.479
But in the nineteen forties, while the facility was still

1539
01:28:19.520 --> 01:28:23.720
in operation, the warden at the time, Warden Johnston, decided

1540
01:28:23.760 --> 01:28:26.680
to throw a small Christmas party at his boarding house

1541
01:28:26.760 --> 01:28:32.319
on the island. Okay, I'm guessing it wasn't he didn't

1542
01:28:32.319 --> 01:28:34.079
own the boarding house. That would be an awfully big

1543
01:28:34.119 --> 01:28:36.039
conflict of interest to be like, I own the boarding

1544
01:28:36.039 --> 01:28:38.560
house on this island, which is the only place anybody

1545
01:28:38.560 --> 01:28:41.960
can live that wants to work here conveniently and pretty brutal.

1546
01:28:42.439 --> 01:28:44.000
Yeah, but it makes sense.

1547
01:28:44.039 --> 01:28:46.159
Like when you look at the Alcatraz photo of Alcatraz,

1548
01:28:46.199 --> 01:28:48.239
there is like a board, there's a house on one

1549
01:28:48.279 --> 01:28:49.039
side of the island.

1550
01:28:49.560 --> 01:28:50.439
Yeah, I've been there.

1551
01:28:50.479 --> 01:28:55.680
I don't remember you went to Alcatraz? Yeah, man, you people.

1552
01:28:57.319 --> 01:28:59.680
Sorry, I never got to do anything awesome like that.

1553
01:29:00.279 --> 01:29:02.359
I mean I didn't go that long ago.

1554
01:29:02.800 --> 01:29:08.239
Oh man, that's even worse. I hate you. During the gathering,

1555
01:29:08.279 --> 01:29:11.079
a few of the guards began retelling the story of

1556
01:29:11.119 --> 01:29:14.520
a phantom figure who appeared before them quote, wearing a

1557
01:29:14.560 --> 01:29:19.439
gray suit, brimmed cap, and sporting mutton chop sideburns. All

1558
01:29:19.479 --> 01:29:21.960
the guards could do was stare at the ghostly figure

1559
01:29:22.000 --> 01:29:25.279
and shock. Before they had a chance to move quote,

1560
01:29:25.520 --> 01:29:28.800
the room suddenly turned very cold, and the fire in

1561
01:29:28.840 --> 01:29:32.840
the Ben Franklin stove was extinguished, And just as suddenly

1562
01:29:33.399 --> 01:29:41.079
as he had appeared, the phantom vanished. Okay, so is

1563
01:29:41.079 --> 01:29:42.000
that a chilling tail?

1564
01:29:43.279 --> 01:29:43.880
That was it?

1565
01:29:44.520 --> 01:29:49.680
That was it? Sid, I'm just reading No, damn hateful,

1566
01:29:49.760 --> 01:29:55.680
Michelle is hateful. Thirteen percent of people agreed with you. Okay, brutal.

1567
01:29:56.159 --> 01:29:58.079
I'm sorry. That was like nothing. It was like, oh,

1568
01:29:58.119 --> 01:30:00.279
they saw a thing and it got cold.

1569
01:30:01.279 --> 01:30:05.239
Come on, well, this next one takes us to Canada.

1570
01:30:06.880 --> 01:30:10.920
A Christmas ghost is said to haunt Bastion Square in Victoria,

1571
01:30:10.960 --> 01:30:17.560
British Columbia. On December twenty fifth, eighteen ninety, a disturbing

1572
01:30:17.600 --> 01:30:20.479
story appeared on the front page of a Victoria newspaper,

1573
01:30:20.760 --> 01:30:25.119
The Daily Colonist, quote, just as the clock was striking midnight,

1574
01:30:25.239 --> 01:30:29.640
ushering in the joyous Christmas Day, A misdeed as dark, cowardly,

1575
01:30:29.720 --> 01:30:33.039
and mysterious as ever disfigured the history of this province,

1576
01:30:35.119 --> 01:30:38.399
as ever disfigured the history of this province, and was

1577
01:30:39.159 --> 01:30:45.640
perpetuated or weird phrasing most eighteen ninety. The target, who

1578
01:30:45.680 --> 01:30:48.520
went by the name of David Fee, was only twenty

1579
01:30:48.560 --> 01:30:51.039
one years old and had been walking to meet his

1580
01:30:51.159 --> 01:30:54.399
parents for evening Mass at the nearby church after attending

1581
01:30:54.399 --> 01:30:58.119
a costume party. Dressed up in a white clown costume,

1582
01:30:58.399 --> 01:31:00.600
Fee had just arrived at the court corner where the

1583
01:31:00.600 --> 01:31:03.560
cathedral sat when a man burst out from the shadows

1584
01:31:03.560 --> 01:31:06.479
and aimed a double barrel directly at him. The man

1585
01:31:06.560 --> 01:31:13.439
simply said, you challenged me whoa before Fee could speak

1586
01:31:13.720 --> 01:31:17.680
the man fired and Fee perished within moments. Apparently the

1587
01:31:17.720 --> 01:31:20.880
man had confused Fee for another man in a hollow

1588
01:31:21.000 --> 01:31:22.960
or in a clown costume.

1589
01:31:23.479 --> 01:31:23.920
I guess.

1590
01:31:23.920 --> 01:31:28.840
So Ever, since that tragic night, Fee's ghost is rumored

1591
01:31:28.840 --> 01:31:32.479
to rome the streets outside the cathedral, as well as

1592
01:31:32.520 --> 01:31:37.239
his grave site. What do you think of that one?

1593
01:31:37.760 --> 01:31:40.239
I guess that was whatever?

1594
01:31:41.039 --> 01:31:41.399
Chilling?

1595
01:31:41.760 --> 01:31:47.239
Chilling? Well, I just tale, yeah, I guess I'm just

1596
01:31:47.239 --> 01:31:48.720
feeling bad for that kid.

1597
01:31:49.520 --> 01:31:55.319
Eighty six percent of people agreed with us, all right.

1598
01:31:55.439 --> 01:31:58.520
Annie Bolin is said to return to her child at

1599
01:31:58.520 --> 01:32:04.079
home every Christmas. Heaver Castle, which is nestled deep in

1600
01:32:04.119 --> 01:32:06.960
the British countryside of Kent, was once home of the

1601
01:32:06.960 --> 01:32:10.000
Bolan family. Anne Bolan, the most well known member of

1602
01:32:10.000 --> 01:32:12.600
the family, lived the early part of her life there

1603
01:32:12.640 --> 01:32:16.840
before she married King Henry the six eight.

1604
01:32:17.840 --> 01:32:20.720
Oh no it's Roman numerals black.

1605
01:32:22.319 --> 01:32:25.399
Within a few short years of her marriage, however, Anne

1606
01:32:25.560 --> 01:32:29.039
was targeted by descent and gossip within the castle, accusing

1607
01:32:29.079 --> 01:32:33.439
her of everything from witchcraft to adultery. It would be

1608
01:32:33.439 --> 01:32:35.279
better if it was adultery to witchcraft, because that's a

1609
01:32:35.359 --> 01:32:41.159
to w know. Eventually, her husband formally accused her of

1610
01:32:41.199 --> 01:32:47.479
these charges, and she was ultimately executed. Whether she suffers

1611
01:32:47.520 --> 01:32:51.680
from heartbreak or homesickness. Anne Bolan's spirit is said to

1612
01:32:51.680 --> 01:32:55.760
haunt the halls of her child at home, Heaver Castle. However,

1613
01:32:55.800 --> 01:32:59.720
she is allegedly only However, she allegedly only appears on

1614
01:32:59.720 --> 01:33:07.159
one day of the year, Christmas Eve. Okay, fine, I

1615
01:33:07.159 --> 01:33:11.000
thought that was creepy. Rumors persist that her quote somber

1616
01:33:11.159 --> 01:33:14.920
specter is seen drifting silently over the picturesque bridge that

1617
01:33:15.039 --> 01:33:18.000
spans the River Eden in the grounds of the home

1618
01:33:18.319 --> 01:33:25.199
where she knew much happiness. Yeah, so I'm guessing you

1619
01:33:25.199 --> 01:33:26.439
don't find that one chilling at all.

1620
01:33:26.800 --> 01:33:32.760
Actually, the image of her somber spirit drifting over that

1621
01:33:32.920 --> 01:33:36.039
bridge is actually kind of chilling.

1622
01:33:36.720 --> 01:33:39.239
Oh so that's a chilling.

1623
01:33:39.439 --> 01:33:40.560
Sure, I don't care.

1624
01:33:40.800 --> 01:33:44.560
Sure eighty four percent of people agree with you.

1625
01:33:45.119 --> 01:33:47.000
Okay ooh.

1626
01:33:47.159 --> 01:33:54.680
A slain highwayman supposedly reappears each Christmas Eve in England.

1627
01:33:54.760 --> 01:33:58.439
One particularly twisted ghost story hearkens back to a tragic

1628
01:33:58.479 --> 01:34:02.199
event that occurred on Chrissmiths Eve in the late eighteenth century.

1629
01:34:03.239 --> 01:34:05.960
According to legend, there was once a fearsome high woman

1630
01:34:06.439 --> 01:34:09.920
known only as Gilbert, who would wander up and down

1631
01:34:10.159 --> 01:34:13.399
one of the town's main roads. One evening the night

1632
01:34:13.439 --> 01:34:16.079
before Christmas, a man and his daughter were traveling in

1633
01:34:16.119 --> 01:34:19.560
a horse drawn coach when Gilbert apprehended them. The daughter

1634
01:34:19.680 --> 01:34:22.039
was able to exit the coach, but before her father

1635
01:34:22.079 --> 01:34:26.359
could disembark, the horses became startled and bolted down the

1636
01:34:26.439 --> 01:34:30.720
road with the man and his coachman in tow. The

1637
01:34:30.760 --> 01:34:33.560
two men struggled to get the horses back under control

1638
01:34:33.720 --> 01:34:35.840
so they could go back and find the man's daughter,

1639
01:34:36.159 --> 01:34:40.079
who had been left behind with Gilbert. However, when they

1640
01:34:40.159 --> 01:34:45.079
arrived back at the scene, she was nowhere to be found. Instead,

1641
01:34:45.520 --> 01:34:48.279
they saw Gilbert hunched over on the ground with a

1642
01:34:48.399 --> 01:34:53.000
dagger in his side. Rumor claims that once the coach

1643
01:34:53.079 --> 01:34:56.119
took off down the road, Gilbert revealed to the girl

1644
01:34:56.199 --> 01:34:58.520
that he was the one who took her brother's life

1645
01:34:58.560 --> 01:35:02.560
some time before. Thrown into a rage by the revelation,

1646
01:35:03.119 --> 01:35:07.880
she stabbed him and fled the scene. Local legends say

1647
01:35:08.199 --> 01:35:10.520
that Gilbert was buried by the side of the road,

1648
01:35:11.000 --> 01:35:14.239
and every Christmas Eve he can be seen wandering that

1649
01:35:14.399 --> 01:35:17.199
same road, waiting for the coach with the man and

1650
01:35:17.239 --> 01:35:19.960
his daughter to pass by again.

1651
01:35:22.119 --> 01:35:24.159
I don't know it's just is very convoluted.

1652
01:35:25.039 --> 01:35:27.960
There's a lot of moving parts on that one.

1653
01:35:28.279 --> 01:35:31.319
Yeah, I don't know, man, why did she have a dagger?

1654
01:35:32.000 --> 01:35:34.600
I don't know, because high women rob you all the time, though,

1655
01:35:34.640 --> 01:35:37.000
I guess that actually kind of answers itself.

1656
01:35:39.520 --> 01:35:42.279
I don't know. Ooh oh.

1657
01:35:42.760 --> 01:35:46.720
This one takes place in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Oh, okay, I

1658
01:35:46.760 --> 01:35:51.279
love Bethlehem. A spectral socialite is said to sing Christmas

1659
01:35:51.359 --> 01:35:53.439
carols at the Hotel Bethlehem I've stayed.

1660
01:35:55.520 --> 01:35:57.920
Yeah, it's a.

1661
01:35:57.680 --> 01:35:59.159
Really, really nice hotel.

1662
01:35:59.439 --> 01:36:00.159
It is nice.

1663
01:36:00.600 --> 01:36:04.039
Hotel Bethlehem, located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is home to a

1664
01:36:04.159 --> 01:36:07.239
number of chilling ghost stories, not the least of which

1665
01:36:07.279 --> 01:36:10.520
centers around a young girl named Mary Yo Born in

1666
01:36:10.560 --> 01:36:14.520
eighteen sixty six, Mary or May was raised on the stage,

1667
01:36:14.600 --> 01:36:18.000
inspiring within her a love for singing and performing. From

1668
01:36:18.039 --> 01:36:21.399
a young age, her talent gained her much attention, and

1669
01:36:21.479 --> 01:36:25.199
eventually she found herself performing with great success on stages

1670
01:36:25.239 --> 01:36:28.680
in Paris and throughout Europe. She even caught the attention

1671
01:36:28.760 --> 01:36:31.439
of a wealthy lord, who quickly married her and made

1672
01:36:31.479 --> 01:36:37.000
her a member of the British aristocracy. Tragically, her success

1673
01:36:37.159 --> 01:36:40.279
led to led her down a dangerous path. Her marriage

1674
01:36:40.319 --> 01:36:42.560
fell apart after the lord who swept her off her

1675
01:36:42.560 --> 01:36:46.520
feet went bankrupt and she went to She went on

1676
01:36:46.680 --> 01:36:49.840
to marry an American soldier who robbed her of much

1677
01:36:49.880 --> 01:36:53.920
of her wealth. I like how she was rich, so

1678
01:36:54.000 --> 01:36:55.520
then when her husband went broke, she just went and

1679
01:36:55.560 --> 01:36:56.439
found another husband.

1680
01:36:56.760 --> 01:37:00.000
Yeah exactly, yeah. Yeah.

1681
01:37:00.199 --> 01:37:03.840
At the time of her eventual passing, reports claimed that

1682
01:37:03.920 --> 01:37:07.119
she recalled her years in Bethlehem as the best of

1683
01:37:07.159 --> 01:37:11.560
her life. To this day, the Hotel Bethlehem's visitors claimed

1684
01:37:11.560 --> 01:37:14.760
to see apparitions of a young may Yo dressed in

1685
01:37:14.800 --> 01:37:18.520
elegant attire and either singing at the paid patio, either

1686
01:37:18.560 --> 01:37:22.680
singing at the piano, or pacing next to the Christmas tree.

1687
01:37:22.840 --> 01:37:26.079
Some even claim to have heard her faint but recognizable

1688
01:37:26.159 --> 01:37:28.840
voice singing one of her favorite songs.

1689
01:37:29.520 --> 01:37:32.680
They would recognize her voice well.

1690
01:37:32.479 --> 01:37:35.319
When it start singing. The wheels on the bus go round,

1691
01:37:35.359 --> 01:37:40.079
then round, round, then round. It's extra creepy because buses

1692
01:37:40.079 --> 01:37:41.079
didn't exist yet.

1693
01:37:41.520 --> 01:37:44.079
Yeah.

1694
01:37:44.119 --> 01:37:45.960
Well, we're gonna take a quick break and then we'll

1695
01:37:46.000 --> 01:37:48.800
do one more, a little bit more of these lists,

1696
01:37:48.840 --> 01:37:51.479
and then we're gonna jump into our goodbyes and such

1697
01:37:51.720 --> 01:37:54.399
or something like that. I was really thrown off by

1698
01:37:54.439 --> 01:37:58.000
thinking it was patio when it was piano. Oh, I

1699
01:37:58.079 --> 01:38:01.520
read out loud, way too much. We'll be right back,

1700
01:38:09.039 --> 01:38:11.720
And we are back with a few more of Rankers'

1701
01:38:12.319 --> 01:38:17.079
best ghost stories involving Christmas. This one is called the

1702
01:38:17.520 --> 01:38:20.159
is referred to as the raucous Revelers who are said

1703
01:38:20.199 --> 01:38:24.399
to ring in the season at the Crescent Hotel, Okay.

1704
01:38:25.479 --> 01:38:29.680
The Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is by far

1705
01:38:29.760 --> 01:38:32.560
one of the most notoriously haunted hotels in the US.

1706
01:38:32.960 --> 01:38:36.000
Located in the northern border of Arkansas near the Ozark

1707
01:38:36.079 --> 01:38:39.479
National Forest, the hotel has been plagued by tragedy and

1708
01:38:39.520 --> 01:38:42.760
ghost stories since it was first erected in eighteen eighty.

1709
01:38:43.840 --> 01:38:44.319
Wow.

1710
01:38:46.000 --> 01:38:48.479
Yeah, people, I guess wasted no time in dying.

1711
01:38:48.239 --> 01:38:49.239
There, I guess.

1712
01:38:49.279 --> 01:38:49.359
So.

1713
01:38:49.720 --> 01:38:50.960
Yeah.

1714
01:38:51.039 --> 01:38:54.279
While there are different legends and ghostly sightings associated with

1715
01:38:54.319 --> 01:38:58.239
almost every square inch of the hotel's estate, that's a

1716
01:38:58.239 --> 01:39:03.600
lot one story can used to astonish visitors to this day. Allegedly,

1717
01:39:03.720 --> 01:39:07.039
one year, during Christmas time, visitors came to view the

1718
01:39:07.079 --> 01:39:11.960
hotel's Christmas tree only to find that quote the Christmas

1719
01:39:12.000 --> 01:39:15.760
tree in all its packages were mysteriously moved to the

1720
01:39:15.800 --> 01:39:21.640
other side of the room. Oh okay, This could have

1721
01:39:21.680 --> 01:39:25.600
been a prank staged by the hotel staff or a visitor. However,

1722
01:39:25.640 --> 01:39:29.479
the occurrence was accompanied by sightings of various phantom spirits

1723
01:39:29.720 --> 01:39:34.079
dressed in Victorian era clothing, wandering aimlessly around the hotel's

1724
01:39:34.119 --> 01:39:34.680
dining room.

1725
01:39:35.760 --> 01:39:36.119
Hummm.

1726
01:39:37.039 --> 01:39:39.800
Some said the spirits appeared to be playful, and they

1727
01:39:39.840 --> 01:39:42.840
moved the gifts and furniture across the room as a joke.

1728
01:39:43.800 --> 01:39:47.600
This was seemingly confirmed when the hotel staff reportedly returned

1729
01:39:47.600 --> 01:39:50.640
the next day, only to find that everything was back

1730
01:39:51.039 --> 01:39:52.680
exactly where it was supposed to be.

1731
01:39:55.119 --> 01:40:00.079
Okay, I don't know. Maybe there were some drugs in.

1732
01:40:00.680 --> 01:40:03.479
I'm there's a lot of stuff going on here. There's

1733
01:40:03.520 --> 01:40:07.600
just spirits hanging around. Maybe they seem playful. Maybe maybe

1734
01:40:07.600 --> 01:40:10.199
they moved an entire tree in presence. I don't know.

1735
01:40:11.720 --> 01:40:13.319
So do you find that one? You sound like you're

1736
01:40:13.359 --> 01:40:14.279
not chilled by that one?

1737
01:40:14.479 --> 01:40:15.039
No, I'm not.

1738
01:40:16.279 --> 01:40:21.359
Damn, that's hateful, all right, No chill. Twenty two percent

1739
01:40:21.399 --> 01:40:22.439
of people agree with you.

1740
01:40:22.920 --> 01:40:26.439
Yeah, I know, but's not a lot of people.

1741
01:40:28.359 --> 01:40:30.800
All right, This next one, maybe this one will redeem itself.

1742
01:40:31.079 --> 01:40:34.119
The ghosts of Poland's kings are said to gather in

1743
01:40:34.159 --> 01:40:36.319
a dragon's den on Christmas Eve.

1744
01:40:37.119 --> 01:40:37.600
Okay.

1745
01:40:38.680 --> 01:40:42.159
In the middle of Krackow, Poland sits the Wawell Castle,

1746
01:40:42.800 --> 01:40:45.439
which for centuries served as the home of each of

1747
01:40:45.479 --> 01:40:48.880
Poland's kings after it was built in the early Middle Ages.

1748
01:40:49.720 --> 01:40:52.800
Since this time, it has been associated with numerous legends

1749
01:40:52.800 --> 01:40:56.800
and ghost stories spanning as far back as the prehistoric era.

1750
01:40:58.760 --> 01:41:01.520
What what?

1751
01:41:02.039 --> 01:41:05.319
How are their legends and ghost stories from the prehistoric era?

1752
01:41:08.600 --> 01:41:16.560
Maybe they're like we saw dinosaur and we know that

1753
01:41:16.560 --> 01:41:20.720
that dinosaur was killed by the meteor.

1754
01:41:23.039 --> 01:41:26.239
One such legend involves a large series of caves that

1755
01:41:26.279 --> 01:41:29.239
are rumored to exist under a plot nearby of nearby

1756
01:41:29.319 --> 01:41:33.479
land known as Wawell Hill. These caves have been explored

1757
01:41:33.520 --> 01:41:36.680
countless times since they were discovered centuries ago, and they're

1758
01:41:36.760 --> 01:41:39.720
rumored to hold quote, a statue of a dragon and

1759
01:41:39.760 --> 01:41:45.399
a millennia of human record. The caves are believed to

1760
01:41:45.560 --> 01:41:49.600
have been inhabited by humans since the prehistoric era. Okay,

1761
01:41:50.560 --> 01:41:52.119
that's a stretch, but all right.

1762
01:41:52.680 --> 01:41:53.119
Sure.

1763
01:41:54.600 --> 01:41:57.239
The legend says that the eleventh in the eleventh century,

1764
01:41:57.319 --> 01:42:00.399
King Casimir, who was just a child at the time

1765
01:42:00.479 --> 01:42:04.039
explored these caves and came across a strange tunnel. Inside

1766
01:42:04.039 --> 01:42:06.279
the tunnel, he claimed to have found a large stone

1767
01:42:06.279 --> 01:42:09.800
emitting a glowing light, and from this light, a magical

1768
01:42:09.840 --> 01:42:14.159
protective energy is said to be emitted throughout to this day.

1769
01:42:14.359 --> 01:42:17.920
Local legends claim that the ghosts of all of Poland's

1770
01:42:17.920 --> 01:42:21.640
passed King's meet every Christmas Eve in that very tunnel

1771
01:42:21.840 --> 01:42:27.239
to confer upon the fate of Krackow. Why oh for

1772
01:42:27.359 --> 01:42:28.119
the wulls.

1773
01:42:28.560 --> 01:42:30.680
I don't know, man, I didn't get any real evidence

1774
01:42:30.680 --> 01:42:32.800
that they meet in this tunnel with this glowing rock.

1775
01:42:32.840 --> 01:42:34.239
It's probably just normal rock.

1776
01:42:36.359 --> 01:42:39.119
Yeah, I don't know about that one.

1777
01:42:39.479 --> 01:42:41.840
So no, chill, no, no chill.

1778
01:42:42.039 --> 01:42:43.920
I would agree on that one. Twenty six percent of

1779
01:42:43.920 --> 01:42:45.159
people agreed with us.

1780
01:42:45.479 --> 01:42:46.880
Finally, more than a quarter.

1781
01:42:47.399 --> 01:42:56.720
We did it. Oh boy, oh that was it.

1782
01:42:57.359 --> 01:42:58.079
Oh yeah.

1783
01:42:59.520 --> 01:43:01.800
I thought that the next button would take us to more,

1784
01:43:01.880 --> 01:43:03.960
but no, that would It took me to another article.

1785
01:43:04.000 --> 01:43:05.640
That's why I was like what when I was reading?

1786
01:43:06.920 --> 01:43:09.159
But that was pretty pretty good. I mean most of

1787
01:43:09.159 --> 01:43:11.439
those were good. I think it had a good hit

1788
01:43:11.520 --> 01:43:16.319
to miss ratio r. Yeah, so well, now you know,

1789
01:43:16.520 --> 01:43:18.119
and knowing is half the battle.

1790
01:43:19.239 --> 01:43:21.840
So I can't do. But that's not very much, and

1791
01:43:21.880 --> 01:43:22.800
I don't know the rest.

1792
01:43:24.760 --> 01:43:28.199
Gi Joe. Well, before we take a break and come

1793
01:43:28.239 --> 01:43:30.520
back and wrap up the show, I did want to

1794
01:43:30.560 --> 01:43:33.319
mention I did something I've been putting off for a

1795
01:43:33.399 --> 01:43:35.680
really long time that I'm very excited about, Michelle.

1796
01:43:36.119 --> 01:43:39.079
Really, I bought.

1797
01:43:38.399 --> 01:43:41.760
A real legitimate Santa hat.

1798
01:43:42.880 --> 01:43:44.640
Oh, I don't know what this means.

1799
01:43:45.319 --> 01:43:47.840
I bought so Santa's clothes are from like a specific

1800
01:43:47.920 --> 01:43:51.119
time period, the ones that he's drawn in. I bought

1801
01:43:51.159 --> 01:43:54.199
like a legitimate hat made exactly the way they were

1802
01:43:54.199 --> 01:43:58.600
made back then, with fox fur and felt and everything.

1803
01:43:58.720 --> 01:44:00.239
From Ukraine of all places.

1804
01:44:00.479 --> 01:44:01.119
Wow.

1805
01:44:01.600 --> 01:44:04.239
Yeah, apparently they have a lot of winter foxes, so

1806
01:44:04.279 --> 01:44:07.000
it's a very popular place to make those kinds of

1807
01:44:07.000 --> 01:44:10.600
hats now. So I ordered one and it should be here,

1808
01:44:10.720 --> 01:44:13.479
and it's shipped already, so it should be here in

1809
01:44:13.600 --> 01:44:14.560
two weeks or less.

1810
01:44:14.920 --> 01:44:16.439
Okay, that's pretty cool.

1811
01:44:16.720 --> 01:44:18.680
I've always wanted a really good Santa hat, and I

1812
01:44:18.760 --> 01:44:22.800
used to buy like, you know, expensive, you know, fake ones,

1813
01:44:22.920 --> 01:44:25.800
I mean, like kind of traditional one nowadays, and they

1814
01:44:25.800 --> 01:44:28.359
were always they like, they always left something to be desired.

1815
01:44:28.359 --> 01:44:30.439
They never were that fluffy yeor they never felt like

1816
01:44:30.640 --> 01:44:34.239
they were worth like sixty dollars, you know, yeah, I'd

1817
01:44:34.279 --> 01:44:35.479
be like, why don't I just stick with like an

1818
01:44:35.479 --> 01:44:38.119
eight dollar when you buy at the grocery store. Then yeah,

1819
01:44:38.159 --> 01:44:39.880
So this year I was like, I want to buy

1820
01:44:39.960 --> 01:44:45.119
a legitimate fur Santa hat. Yeah, so I'm really excited

1821
01:44:45.439 --> 01:44:49.239
cool to have it. Then the next step is buy

1822
01:44:49.279 --> 01:44:51.720
a full fur Santa suit, and then I can become

1823
01:44:51.880 --> 01:44:56.199
just like the guy in Christmas Evil. Yeah. Yeah, it's

1824
01:44:56.239 --> 01:44:59.000
my favorite movie. I love that movie so much.

1825
01:44:59.479 --> 01:45:00.520
It's good movie.

1826
01:45:00.920 --> 01:45:03.239
Well you I'm sure you enjoyed half for just being

1827
01:45:03.279 --> 01:45:05.199
able to see like New York and Jersey in the

1828
01:45:05.239 --> 01:45:07.359
seventies because they show like a ton of New York

1829
01:45:07.359 --> 01:45:11.199
and Jersey. Yeah, it's very New York and Jersey heavy.

1830
01:45:11.600 --> 01:45:13.960
But that movie just speaks to me. It's a character

1831
01:45:14.000 --> 01:45:17.319
study about a person who's like, you know, deeply troubled.

1832
01:45:17.319 --> 01:45:20.560
It's not really so, it's about somebody who's like who

1833
01:45:20.600 --> 01:45:23.239
tries to legitimately become Santa Claus and how terrifying that

1834
01:45:23.279 --> 01:45:26.199
would actually be to actually be Santa. I love that

1835
01:45:26.239 --> 01:45:28.199
movie Christmas Evil. If you haven't seen it, guys, you

1836
01:45:28.239 --> 01:45:30.760
need to watch it. It's great. I love it so much.

1837
01:45:30.760 --> 01:45:33.680
I sent Michelle a copy. Yeah, so you need to

1838
01:45:33.680 --> 01:45:36.079
watch this, and she was like, Okay, I'm sorry, I

1839
01:45:36.119 --> 01:45:41.479
will please stop. So, but that's a damn good movie

1840
01:45:41.479 --> 01:45:43.079
and it stars Fiona Apple's dad.

1841
01:45:43.960 --> 01:45:44.760
That's pretty cool.

1842
01:45:45.439 --> 01:45:48.479
Yeah, I suppose so. So well, we're gonna take a

1843
01:45:48.520 --> 01:45:51.760
quick break and we'll wrap up with some scary stories

1844
01:45:51.760 --> 01:45:54.920
from Reddit, some horror media I've looked at, and what

1845
01:45:55.000 --> 01:45:57.159
I'm looking forward to as far as having a scary

1846
01:45:57.239 --> 01:46:09.039
Christmas right after this, and we are back wrapping up

1847
01:46:09.079 --> 01:46:14.560
this December two or December November twenty twenty four episode

1848
01:46:14.680 --> 01:46:17.000
of Monthly Spooky. I got ahead of myself a little

1849
01:46:17.000 --> 01:46:20.520
bit and I wanted to mention a few things I've

1850
01:46:20.520 --> 01:46:23.960
seen in the theater horror wise that I really enjoyed.

1851
01:46:24.479 --> 01:46:28.239
The first one is I saw a Smile Part two, Yeah,

1852
01:46:28.279 --> 01:46:32.199
which the sequel to Smile Part one, obviously, and I

1853
01:46:32.279 --> 01:46:35.560
have to say, I dare say it's almost a better

1854
01:46:35.560 --> 01:46:37.960
film than Part one. Like it was definitely a really

1855
01:46:38.000 --> 01:46:41.279
fun movie. I was not expecting to be like completely

1856
01:46:42.319 --> 01:46:45.479
invested and just love it, but Smile Too was really

1857
01:46:45.520 --> 01:46:49.600
really good good. I really enjoyed the hell out of it,

1858
01:46:50.159 --> 01:46:55.039
and It's basically there's this illness that's spread by somebody

1859
01:46:55.159 --> 01:46:59.399
smiling at you and then killing themselves, like they're haunted

1860
01:46:59.479 --> 01:47:03.520
by these apparitions that make them go crazy and eventually

1861
01:47:03.520 --> 01:47:07.119
trick you into killing yourself. Is basically the gag and

1862
01:47:07.319 --> 01:47:11.439
the moment that the smile demon or whatever wins it

1863
01:47:12.039 --> 01:47:14.119
will look at the person nearest by and give this

1864
01:47:14.159 --> 01:47:17.319
like terrifying grin and then kill themselves in some way,

1865
01:47:17.680 --> 01:47:20.119
and then that passes the smile illness onto you.

1866
01:47:20.680 --> 01:47:20.960
Wow.

1867
01:47:21.479 --> 01:47:24.079
So in this one, the smile illness gets passed on

1868
01:47:24.119 --> 01:47:29.319
to like a a drug recovering pop star who was

1869
01:47:29.359 --> 01:47:32.520
in a year earlier, was in like a horrible car

1870
01:47:32.520 --> 01:47:36.039
accident where her boyfriend died. Oh so now she's like

1871
01:47:36.119 --> 01:47:38.359
in horrible pain but can't have pain killers because she

1872
01:47:38.399 --> 01:47:41.239
has a history of drug abuse, and then she starts

1873
01:47:41.279 --> 01:47:44.159
being haunted by all these eerie visions of smiling people.

1874
01:47:45.920 --> 01:47:50.039
Very good. I really enjoyed it cool. And the other

1875
01:47:50.079 --> 01:47:53.479
film I saw was Heretic or The Heretic, either one.

1876
01:47:53.479 --> 01:47:57.479
They're all good, but this one really surprised me how

1877
01:47:57.600 --> 01:48:01.119
damn good it was. It stars Hugh Grant as an

1878
01:48:01.279 --> 01:48:05.960
older gentleman who basically traps these two Mormon missionaries in

1879
01:48:05.960 --> 01:48:08.159
his house so he can debate theology with them.

1880
01:48:08.600 --> 01:48:08.920
Wow.

1881
01:48:10.119 --> 01:48:13.680
Yeah, but it goes crazy, It gets really really wild.

1882
01:48:13.760 --> 01:48:15.479
But the first half of the movie is just him

1883
01:48:15.520 --> 01:48:18.319
like pointing out, like your religion is basically a lie,

1884
01:48:18.479 --> 01:48:21.600
it's basically a cult. And he does this really great

1885
01:48:21.640 --> 01:48:26.119
thing where he points out like there was the Landlord's

1886
01:48:26.159 --> 01:48:30.359
Game compared to Monopoly, compared to like a different version

1887
01:48:30.359 --> 01:48:32.319
of Monopoly that's out now, and he basically says that

1888
01:48:32.359 --> 01:48:36.079
like that's Judaism, Christianity, and islam m which I thought

1889
01:48:36.119 --> 01:48:39.239
was really funny. But because Landlord's Game was basically ripped

1890
01:48:39.239 --> 01:48:43.119
off and turned into Monopoly, Okay, so but yeah, I

1891
01:48:43.119 --> 01:48:45.279
thought that was really funny. But then the girls start

1892
01:48:45.319 --> 01:48:47.600
like fighting back, and you realize that they're not stupid,

1893
01:48:47.640 --> 01:48:50.239
and that they're not religious because they're scared or their

1894
01:48:50.279 --> 01:48:54.479
parents made them. They're actually people who can think for themselves.

1895
01:48:55.000 --> 01:48:58.279
It's really really good. I enjoyed the hell out of it.

1896
01:48:58.359 --> 01:49:01.479
I thought it was scary and sup bnsful. I'll probably

1897
01:49:01.479 --> 01:49:04.000
go see it again on Monday when this is airing,

1898
01:49:04.319 --> 01:49:05.920
because I want to see it with Rachel because I

1899
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think she'll really enjoy all the epistemological debate that happens

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in it. He basically Q Grant's basically playing like an

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evil Richard Dawkins who's just like, clearly religion's not real,

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blah blah blah blah blah. Anyway I might be a murderer.

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You have to figure that out. There's basically a whole

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thing where he says like where he's like, you can

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go out through the back door. This doesn't spoil anything.

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He's like, you can go out through the back door.

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But there are two back doors, and they're like, well,

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which one do we go through? And he's like, well,

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I don't know. I mean, can anyone really know which

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door takes you where you want to go. I'm pretty

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certain one of them takes you out the front and

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the other one I'm not sure where it goes. And

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he's like, would you like a hint? And they're like sure,

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And he's like, well, I think this door is the one,

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but the only way to know is to go through it.

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So I couldn't sell tell you for sure because I

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can't go through it. So and I was like, ah,

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I see oh. And he keeps referencing his wife and

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it becomes clear that his wife, like they'd be like

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who this house, He'd be like, my wife because you

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never see her. He keeps saying that there's a wife,

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but they never get to see her. And I was like, oh,

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that's a really clever kind of like metaphor for people

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who just say God did it, God did it, God

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did it. He just keeps saying like my because eventually

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it becomes like, my wife built this whole house, my

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wife designed this, my wife did all this stuff. But

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at first it's just like, oh, she made a pie, Well,

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can we have the pie when it's ready, Like I'll

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ask her, And then he keeps coming back and never

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having the pie. It's a it's a really fun movie.

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I really enjoyed it.

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So cool.

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But yeah, so I highly recommend seeing The Heretic in

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the theater. Cell. Did you find anything creepy on the Reddit?

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Yeah? I have. I have one thing that I could

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share if I can paraphrase it correctly. So there's this dude, right,

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and he works at a place as people do, right,

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and he has like he always goes to this coffee

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shop when he takes a break at two o'clock and

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like every day so the burista like even knows who

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he is, and he knows the borista's name. His name

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is the Borusu's name might be Tom, I don't remember.

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And so one day he is running late a little bit,

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you know, because I don't know why he didn't. So

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he goes down to leave the office at two fifteen

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and said two you know, no big deal. But he

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also realizes he doesn't have his key card. He left

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it upstairs in the office. So he talks to the

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person at the front desk who knows him, and it's like,

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it's cool, just like sign in and I'll remember when

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you come back. So he goes out to the coffee shop,

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and as he is approaching the coffee shop, he I guess,

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looks in the window and he sees himself getting some

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coffee and he's just like, what so like wearing the

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same clothes and everything. So he just turns around and

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goes back and he's like, I'm just getting a coffee

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because I don't know what the fuck that was. He

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goes back and when he gets back, he's probably having

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some sort of psychotic break. He gets back and he

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in his bag. I guess he has like a Uh.

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He had to explain this to people because they asked.

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He's got like a like a drink holder in his bag.

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I don't know what kind of bagasses, and there's coffee

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in there that he absolutely ordered, I guess. And so

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he's like, what the fuck happened? Who am i? Am

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I the person who've got coffee? Or am I the

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person who watched myself get coffee? And he like went

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to the front desk to ask the lady, like when

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time did I like come down here? And she remembered,

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but she said she thought it was at two o'clock.

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And then the next day he went to the coffee

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shop like normal at two o'clock and he talked to

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his barista, and his brista was like, oh, I didn't

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see yesterday what happened? So we have no idea what's

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going on?

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Oh? What are what are the popular theories?

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I don't even remember what they were. My theory is

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that oh right, yeah, The biggest popular theory was that

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he made that up. That that's not I mean, that's

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the easiest one to go. Yeah. My theory is that

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he probably has cancer or something like something something bad

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is happening to his brain.

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Did you ask They should have asked, like, is there

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a carbon monoxide detector in the coffee shop?

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And yes, and in your job because one of them

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needs it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, So I don't know. But he's he was like

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it was a couple of months ago, and he's like,

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I'm still freaking out about it. I still don't understand.

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So, I mean that would, uh, that would concern me

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a little bit about you.

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I mean I go to the doctor, I'd be like,

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that's I need to know what.

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You go to the doctor and the doctor said, no

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more monkeys jumping on the bed.

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Yeah, And then you're like, wow, I really do have

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a problem if I think that this is happening in

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a doctor's office.

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I mean, I feel like that's the most classic kind

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of advice you can get from a doctor, is no

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more monkeys jumping on a bed.

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I think we've probably gone to different kind of doctors before.

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That's true. I mostly go to monkey related doctors.

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Oh I get it. Now A lot of things make sense.

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So much makes sense now. Well, thank you for pulling

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that up, Michelle, and you know, being unafraid to dive

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into Reddit, where the rest of us are simply too scared.

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Oh so well, we're going to get out of here,

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here and head into the holiday season, Michelle final word

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is all yours.

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No, that's that's okay. You got this.

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Thank you,