Monthly Spooky | Vanishing Hitchhikers, Bugs in Your Nose, and a Ghostly Love Triangle!

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Camping in an abandoned insane asylum,
a hitchhiker that mysteriously vanishes, and a

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ghostly three way relationship. I guess, get comfortable. Turn off the lights.

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It's monthly Spooky. Hello, my
spookies, your ears are not deceiving

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you. It is indeed that time
of the month. It's time for Monthly

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Spooky. I'm, of course your
host, Enrique Kuto here with my good

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buddy Michelle Antisocial to sit down and
talk about spooky goings on of the last

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month or so. Cell how are
you? I don't know, I mean,

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could you could you check for me? No, you can't. You

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can't check for me. Should we
involve the audience in your current turmoil?

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Well, so, I'm gonna not. I have to knock on wood every

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time I talk about cars because I'm
so afraid that my car will decide to

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now be trouble. But uh,
I've been very I've been there's that.

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Yeah, I've been very blessed.
My my my Prius has been in good

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shape for almost ten full years.
But the eleven years before that, I

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had a Volkswagen Beetle that was,
you know, not new by any stretch

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and needed a lot of love to
keep running. So I have so many

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times in my life been where you
are, although not nearly as frustrated at

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it. Well maybe once, Yeah, because your car is currently in the

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shop and there's nothing quite crumb as
crummy as the car being in the shop.

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Yeah, I mean talk about a
horror story, eh, eh No,

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It's funny like people are like listening
to like a show last week and

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they're like, ah, a vampire
ripped into guy's throat, spooky. But

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then they hear us talk about like
unexpected car repairs, and they just shut

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it off. They can't do it. Yeah, too much, too close

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to home, Yeah, too close
to home. It's like when you watch

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Old When you watch a horror movie
or something and like somebody's head gets cut

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off, You're just like, whoa, his head got cut off. But

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then if they like bust a finger
in a door, you're like, ah,

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like oh no. Or like one
time somebody's like nail got like ripped

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off like not by like not by
another person, but just in an incident.

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I was like, oh my god, I don't think I can watch

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this movie anymore. I understand what
that pain feels like. Too much to

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be comfortable. Yeah. Sorry.
Yeah, So, so your car has

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some issues and your mechanic has been
a delight. Yeah uh yeah, I

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mean I just want to say my
car's issues are not a big deal.

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My car is seventeen years old,
so things just go eventually. I'm just

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having suspension issues and also I'm having
weird something else going on that the mechanic

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already couldn't figure out. So hopefully
whatever they think it might be, which

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already doesn't sound like it is,
is it. But it's like not catastrophic

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regardless. The suspension stuff is normal, Like I need new tie rods and

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little whatever those balls are they go
And I knew that because it makes a

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horrible clunking noise when I hit bumps. Ice drove all the way to Atlanta,

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Georgia and back with a bad bearing
entyrod. Yeah it's not pleasant,

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No, it's not, but also
like it happens, it's a part of

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having a car aging. And yeah, and the roads in my area are

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not even remotely good ever, so
sounds like a libertarian to me. Yeah,

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talking bad about the roads. Yeah, it's one of my favorite libertarian

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memes is like a person saying like
I'm a libertarian, and then it's like

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the other and then it just as
like the other person and they're holding a

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baby, but they photoshopped a road
over the baby, because that's always the

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who will build the roads, that's
always the argument. Yeah. Interestingly enough,

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the roads that are the worst here
are the state roads. The ones

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that are owned by my township are
fine. So well, I mean,

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the state only has billions to work
with, right, Yeah, yeah,

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I mean, well, in your
state's defense, you live in a small,

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inconsequential state, Pennsylvania. It's not
like it's one of the largest states

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with a very high population or something. Yeah, and it's not like I'm

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near a large metropolitan area, not
even vaguely, let alone one of the

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largest. So but yeah, So
while we're doing the show, Cell is

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waiting for it has the un veeable
task of waiting to hear back from a

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mechanic. Okay, and I just
did. Oh yeah, he just texted

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me and said, so far,
so good. We're still on track for

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tomorrow. So I guess we're fine. I guess I'll probably pick up my

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car tomorrow. In theory, I
guess yesterday when we were talking about your

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car mishap I was remembering when I
had to take my Volkswagen too a specialized

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mechanic for European cars, and he
kept my car for two weeks. Yeah,

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I remember that, but didn't tell
me anything. So I handed it.

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I handed him the car on a
Tuesday or a Wednesday, and I

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was told I would have it on
Monday. So then Monday afternoon I called

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to confirm before I got a ride
to go get it, and they're like,

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oh, it's not going to be
ready for at least another week.

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And I was like, oh,
well, when did you know that?

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Yeah, because you didn't pick up
the phone and tell me, and you

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know, it was one of those
things where they were getting a part,

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which happens a lot when you drive, especially older European cars. Yeah,

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well he ended up. I mean
because don't get me wrong, I don't

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want to crap all over the guy. He had terrible customer service, but

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he saved me almost eight hundred dollars
by finding the part in America. Okay.

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What he did was because he's connected
into that space, he found some

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guy in North Carolina who machines the
part himself, wow, and bought it

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from him. Okay, And that
saved us a ton of money, and

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it would make sense as to why
it took so long, but it doesn't

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excuse that, Oh we're just not
going to tell you anything. R answer

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the phone. Yeah, I could
have just called. And then my favorite

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part was after I was so frustrated
because number one they took Forever, number

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two no communication, and number three
they didn't take Discover card, which really

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bothered me because like it was like
twenty six it was like twenty fourteen or

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twenty thirteen, and like I took
Discover Cars as a as a merchant.

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Yeah, I get that, like, oh well it costs more, but

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it doesn't really anymore, Like that's
that just means that you don't keep up

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with your your credit card transaction services. Yeah, so I had to put

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it on like three different cards because
my good credit card didn't have was my

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Discover had space for it, which
was really annoying. But then I remember

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my favorite part was then I get
in the car and it's just filthy inside,

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like covered in oil like greet or
not oil grease, Like there's just

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grease spots everywhere, and my steering
wheel was like completely sideways, like like

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my car was so unaligned that the
steering wheel was sideways. Wow, And

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I literally I was like, I'm
not gonna say anything. I don't want

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to deal with this idiot anymore.
So I just drove straight to the place

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I got my tires and was just
like, please align my car. I

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don't I know it's one hundred dollars, Just do it please. And they

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were like, ok, you know
two weeks. No, they did it

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like. They did it like in
like an hour and forty minutes. So

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anyway, that all being said,
that's way too scary to talk about on

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this show, to talk about car
mishaps. Yeah, so, actually the

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subject of today's show is going to
be a car related urban legend that I've

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always enjoyed. Is it when cars
eat people? That was the joke.

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I was about to say, you
steal it? Why you're stealing? No,

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it's the it's the urban legend of
the vanishing hitchhiker. Oh okay,

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and I see finally, maybe you've
actually heard this one before. I don't

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like. It's like, did you
ever hear this from friends when you're growing

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up? And you're like, no, I had no friends when I was

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growing up exactly, although you had
that like weird creepy pond. What was

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it called Devil's pond? Devil's pond? I mean you had that, which

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is pretty spooky. Yeah, I
guess all I had was the date was

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the stream behind my apartment building where
La Yarna lived, which didn't even exist.

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My stepdad made up that there was
a stream, oh back behind our

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apartment. I for years, I
didn't even realize it. He would just

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he would just want he would tell
a story and be like down by the

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river over behind the buildings, she'll
get you. And like I would never

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go there. It was really far
away and you had to walk through like

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backyards, but there was no and
that as an adult, like, yeah,

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there aren't streams and stuff in downtown
Dayton. I mean there's there's the

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Miami River. That's what you get. It's a giant river though it's very

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very big, Like it's big enough
people surf it. So oh have you

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never seen people river surf? I
don't think so. It is just as

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cool and lame as it sounds.
Yeah, it sounds kind of like both

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of those things. There are spots
where there are like rocks and stuff and

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it becomes kind of rat and they
just surf right there. Interesting. Yeah,

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it's pretty, it's pretty interesting.
I've been down by the Miami River

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like taking photos or just hanging out
because it's a very pretty place, and

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every now and then you'll see people
out there on little specialized riverboards. So

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but we're gonna do a modest dive
into the concept and history of the vanishing

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hitchhiker, and hopefully it'll give you
a little spooky feels, because it gives

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me the spooky feels because I've heard
so many variations of the vanishing hitchhiker when

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I was a kid, oh,
a kid up until I was like twenty

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five. Really, like my whole
life is one long vanishing hitchhiker story.

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So I've always had a soft spot
for that because, like, I feel

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like, the moment you get a
driver's license, you're you're immediately you have

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this like sense of fear of hitchhikers. Do you not? As a woman

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who travels alone a lot, I
would assume you would. I'm not afraid

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of hitchhikers. I don't have to
like pick up a hitchhiker. Have you

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ever had a hitchhiker approach you while
you were filling your gas tank? No,

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but I've had other people approach me
well, I mean they're all uncomfortable.

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Yeah. I remember when I first
moved to Jersey. It was literally

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on my way to move in to
my apartment in Jersey. I was,

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you know, gosh, is it
like take you take a Pennsylvania Turnpike all

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the way till you get to a
certain point, then you take like eleven,

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you know, and stuff to get
up to seventy eight. It was

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up there where there's the big truck
stops everywhere on eleven I think it is.

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And I was literally filling my gas
tank at like eleven PM, and

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this dude just walks up to me
and asks me for a ride. And

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I was scared shitless because he was
a stranger walking up to me in the

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middle of the night. I'm eighteen
years old, I've been driving for four

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months or something like. I'm just
like and I had to. The only

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excuse I could think of was I
literally had there was no room in my

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Volkswagen. It was full of all
of my belongings, well, all the

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belongings I could fit in a Volkswagen
Beetle, which spoiler alert, not a

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lot. I know, you're like, oh, poor guy. Yeah,

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but the worst part was like when
you're when you're trying, like moving across

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country and all you have is your
car. That's like an extra curse because

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that means that your car is only
full of the most valuable things you own.

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Like, yeah, it's like,
well, I didn't bring my throat

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pillows, but I did bring my
computer, yeah, in my and my

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Social Security card of course, of
course I have my Faberge eggs. Yeah.

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So but anyway, we'll get to
the vanishing hitchhiker story in a little

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bit. And but now we really
need to get to the spooky news,

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and we will do that right after
these quick words from our sponsors. All

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right, we are back and it's
time. Cell. Do you want to

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do the honors? What? Oh
my god? How many how many shows

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have we done? I don't think
we've done that any do you want?

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I'm gonna count right now. Okay, please, don't you can count.

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No, let's find out how many
Monthly Spookies we've done Monthly Spooky Oh wow,

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it is a lot. It can't
be more than twenty one, two,

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three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,

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ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen

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eighteen, nineteen twenty. This is
the twenty first. Wow, I got

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it. That's weird. That is
a little strange. I don't appreciate that

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you've prepared in advance. But no, Cell, what you were supposed to

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say was it's time for the spooky
news. Okay, the spooky news.

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All right? This first story?
Can you at least guess where it's from?

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Mirror dot co dot UK. No, No, it's totally for mirroor

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doc code at UK, the internet
source for questionable ghost stories and a lot

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more but mostly questionable ghost stories.
This one I thought of you when I

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saw it. Cell. It says
urban explorer spends the night in haunted abandoned

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asylum, but soon regrets it.
That's called squatting. Well, not only

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is it called squatting, but like, I like how it's like stays an

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abandoned asylum but soon regrets It's like, well, I hate to break it

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to you, but wouldn't have had
as much fun if it wasn't abandoned either.

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Yeah, it's full of scary ghosts. Oh, it's full of crazy

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people. Like, which one do
you want? All right? There's just

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one of institutionalized there. Oh I
wanted was a pepsi? Just a pepsi.

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I'm not crazy. You're the one
that's crazy. An urban explorer spent

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the night in a haunted abandoned asylum, but admits it wasn't long before he

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was massively second guessing his spooky accommodation
Joyce. I don't know. The way

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that makes it sound is like he
got on like airbnber Vermo. It was

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like, ah, I'm tired,
I gotta find a place to lay my

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weary bones. Oh, abandoned asylum
sold, Yeah, twenty dollars a night,

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sure, twenty bucks a night.
Oh yeah, but then there's an

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eighty five dollars cleaning fee. Of
course there is, and it's like hidden,

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so you don't even know until you're
like getting ready to like sign up.

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Dude, I am so bummed with
places like Airbnb and verbo now because

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those additional expenses are kind of getting
so ridiculous on so many places. Yeah,

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they are that I'm starting to just
get hotels again. That's pretty much

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the general you know, consensus,
yeah, thank you right now is that

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hotels are probably cheaper, yeah,
or they're at least more more transparent and

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oh so please do please. Also, they tend to be better accommodated and

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you don't have to do as much
work, and usually they're clean or at

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least you know how clean they're going
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well, And that's the thing,
Like I don't want to act like I

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don't love the airbnbs I stay at, but at this point, I only

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stay at stay at airbnbs for the
destination like oh, it's a cabin in

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the woods, or oh it's you
know, an abandoned insane asylum. Oh

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it's a it's you know, a
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You know, Like that's the kind
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it's like unless I need, unless
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I want to stay in like a
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I just get a hotel. Because
at a hotel, you know, they

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don't charge you a cleaning fee but
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Yeah yeah, and I know that
that's like, oh, that's being so

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petty, but that really does drive
me crazy. I've had I've stayed at

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airbnbs where like I was staying for
six or seven days and there's an eighty

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or one hundred dollars cleaning fee,
but also instructions on how I have to

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clean up everything before I leave.
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Well, and I get like I
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I get it, you gotta wash
the sheets, you gotta like I'm not

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because most of the places, although
I've heard horror stories about places where they

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actually tell you to do the laundry
and make remake the bed and stuff that

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I've never seen wall see. I
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or any experiences with either platform.
I don't think I've ever stayed at one.

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I have, you know, with
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of like Airbnb, but they were
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realty companies and stuff, right like
short term rentals. And there was the

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ones we used to say stay at
you had to clean up everything and you

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did do the sheets. So yeah, but I don't think there was a

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cleaning fee. Yeah. That's the
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a cleaning fee, but you're also
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like then it's like you're gonna tell
me it's gonna cost you eighty dollars to

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have somebody change the paper products and
do the sheets. Realistically, there should

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just be a cleaning fee and they
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So actually, their cleaning fees should
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I've stayed the places I've stayed at, some of them have detailed and auctions

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on how you have to fix the
place up when you leave, and it's

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like at that point it's like I
work here, Yeah, yeah we should

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pay they should pay you. I
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mean, like there are places I
really like so and I've I've also stayed

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at places where they don't have a
cleaning fee at all, But it does

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seem to be becoming more and more
popular to just amp up those fees and

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amp up those fees. Yeah and
uh yeah, anyway, I just remember

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what Airbnb was a was a nice
young concept and it hadn't been ruined yet

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Yeah, yeah, but anyway,
back to the spooky accommodation choice. Dave

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Better Dave, better known online as
Freaktography, shares his creepy findings from venturing

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into buildings forgotten in time, and
is known for uploading clips of his adventures

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with his followers on YouTube. Most
recently, he took a look around a

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thirty year old asylum, which he
I think it means thirty year old,

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thirty year abandoned. Maybe, I
hope so, because because if the asylum

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was built in the nineties, that's
not that impressive. Yeah, and it's

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already abandoned and it was built in
the nineties. It's like, well,

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we know it was built in the
nineties because it has this color scheme with

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there's a lot of nyons, which
he claimed claims is haunted, and he

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was left horrified after hearing loud noises
from the floor below. He was brave

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enough to stay overnight in the former
asylum and slept on a hammock to make

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an easy escape if any spooky occurrences
happened. Hold on, wait wait what

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Yeah, it says he slept in
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Maybe there's a translation issue. Maybe
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mean, I hope so, or
sleeping bag or something, because hammocks would

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not make it easy for you to
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hammock believer, but they're not the
easy. You do need a second to

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get out of them. Yeah,
I mean the only reason I would want

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to sleep in a hammock at a
abandoned place is maybe I just don't want

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to touch things. Maybe I don't
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well, I mean most camping,
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raised off the floor at least a
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like those portable cots that take you
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h, Well that makes sense because
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if you have to sleep on the
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into the ground has to warm the
whole ground. I mean I could do

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that, not to brag, but
I'm pretty warm. Also, you don't

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want bugs and stuff crawling on you. Maybe you do for warm Yeah,

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they can cuddle with you. While
visiting the site, Dave from Ontario,

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Canada said quote, I heard a
very loud sound coming from the floor beneath

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us, ah, it would okay? Is that it was the sound of

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someone dragging something heavy and metal across
the floor. I froze, and every

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hair on my body stood on end. I stood there still and silent.

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You don't have any thoughts on that? No, I was waiting for something

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to happen. Oh no, No. The next part is the asylum,

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which was previously used as a home
for people with mental disabilities, is located

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in the United States. Oh.
I was going to say that if you're

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in an unsecured building and you hear
sounds and you don't investigate them, you

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have to assume that they're actual people
that are in the building. Well,

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why would he assume, as a
person who is snuck into and is staying

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illegally there, that there people who
would sneak in and stay illegally there.

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I don't know. Maybe they were
dragging something around so they could set up

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a little thing that you set up
with. They were probably dragging hammock holders,

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apparently hamm Have you ever slept in
a hammock? No? No,

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I've been in a hammock, but
I haven't slept in one. Well that's

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debatable. Did the hammock have a
bar like a crossbar to make it flat.

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One of them did, that's a
fake hammock. That's a different kind

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of hammock. But I've also gone
in the hammock that my mom has that

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doesn't have the bar. Now,
nice, I don't like any of them.

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I don't like that and stuff.
What was that? It's just it's

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too much, it's too much movement. I don't I like my surfaces to

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stay, not move around. Oh
but I bet your mattress has springs,

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yeah, but they're not good springs. No. I am a believer that

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hammocks are an excellent sleeping surface as
long as you know how to sleep on

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them. And that sounds silly,
but like, if you lay just perfectly

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flat in a hammock, you're gonna
be like cradled all weird and it's gonna

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hurt your back. But if you
lay kind of across, like diagonally in

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the hammock, it actually flattens out
nicely, okay, and becomes a lot

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more comfortable. I'm a fan of
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I'm not trying to show off,
but no, I love a good

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Brazilian style hammock because it's also like
it's like, do you want it to

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be a hammock or do you want
it to be a couch? It's ready

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to be both. Yeah. I
like that. But the idea that this

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guy is like in a hammock just
in case he needs to get out in

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a hurry just makes me imagine him
like flipping over and whoa, you know.

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And then and then like the squatters
below are like what the fuck is

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that? And they're all updating their
Twitter like I just a creepy sound upstairs

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in the asylum up there. I
would love to see like a super cut

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of like somebody staying in one part
of an asylum and being creeped out by

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sounds coming from the other, and
then seeing the perspective of the people there

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going like what the hell's that sound
coming from? The complex and grounds were

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built on a two hundred and three
acre two hundred and three acres of undeveloped

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land in nineteen eighty six. It's
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No. I know too, because
I was born in eighty six. It

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was registered as a National Historic Landmark. What why would why would a abandoned

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insane asylum be a national historic landmark
from nineteen eighty six. Yeah, that's

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not even that historicke I mean,
maybe it was from like nineteen ten and

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it was like a really cool landmark. But no, no, I don't

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even believe that. Actually, I
think that's a mistake. I don't know.

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They found they found like letters from
like Ken's brick ken Burn style letters

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from the building of the asylum.
My dearest Adeline. I look forward to

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one day showing you the work we've
done. Also, the men have become

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very saddened by the idea Michael Keaton
will be playing Batman. Could this be

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true? We don't. We simply
don't understand these times we live in.

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They are changing, but the one
thing that won't change is my love for

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you, dear Adeline. Also,
Cocaine is very good signed guy from the

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eighties. Uh. The building is
currently being Oh, the building is currently

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being turned into a hotel. Okay, with Dave claiming he obtained permission to

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enter the east and west wings,
which remain untouched. Well, if we

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believe him and they're secured, then
it he gives things a little bit more

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credence. But if we don't believe
him, because I don't, then well,

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The funny thing is, so it
looks pretty abandoned. Here, I'll

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show you Chell. Okay, yeah, so like it looks pretty abandoned.

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But but if it's being renovated,
but he's in the part that isn't being

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renovated, and I would assume he's
hearing renovations, he might be, especially

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if he's like, I'm hearing drag, like loud, heavy dragging. It's

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like, well, that sounds like
renovations. But we don't know like how

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big this area is, Like maybe
you really can't hear things from where he

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is that. I mean that could
be as well. Yeah, despite ongoing

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renovations, there are many items left
behind. In his video, Dave spots

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what looks like an old classroom with
chairs and tables left in their exact positions.

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Okay, he has no way of
knowing how they were positioned originally,

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they look the way he thinks they
should. Yeah, down the hallway,

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there are broken wheelchairs sprawled across the
floors, as well as peeling wallpaper and

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rubble from rotting ceilings. As I
do. The clip has thousands of views

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online, with users flocking to the
comment section to share the reactions. Claire

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said, close call Dave. Glad
you guys got out safely. Interesting history

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on this building. Jonathan added,
you did well to come away unscathed.

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Good explore, good explore, good
explore, righteous explore. Someone else,

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I love the news. Someone else
commented that's also someone else. No way

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would I spend the night in there, Cherry wrote, can you imagine being

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there when it first opened? Well, you'd have to be insane, So

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Jean said, a great explore.
Apparently people say good explore, great explore,

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nice explore. I guess maybe that's
the thing now that we didn't know.

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I mean, I would have said
exploration, but maybe I'm sad and

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pathetic. So but speaking of sad
and pathetic, we're gonna take a quick

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break because I need money. No, but we're gonna take a quick break,

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and after these commercials we'll be talking
more about this asylum of sorts right

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here, and we are back continuing
a really good explore, and Chell's trying

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not to sneeze. I was gonna
sneeze, but then it went away,

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So that means you're curse. Now
you'll be almost sneezing the rest of the

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day. Yep. Sorry, I
don't make the rules. Oh, now

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you're gonna yawn. I'm sorry,
I'm you have so many better places to

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be a couple of minutes ago,
I'm just yawning. Oh, let's see.

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In another separate exploration in the UK, Emma claimed to have heard echoing

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voices as she ventured inside a derelict
mental asylum which featured featured a creepy cemetery

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embasement. Wouldn't it be weird if
it was like an abandoned asylum which featured

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a delightful cemetery in basement. Well, I mean I think they're probably delightful,

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but you know, I worry about
you. Cemeteries are nice, and

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so our basements. Basements are the
best. Oh my god, there's a

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picture of the hammock. It's actually
am Oh my god, it really it's

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a camping hammock. Okay, it's
fine, Sure, he could. I

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mean just say it's because you don't
want to sleep on the floor because there's

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probably I was about to say this
probably asbestos, but it was built in

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the eighties. There's not. Oh
that's too bad. Yeah, back when

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they knew what they were doing.
Yeah for asbestos. Yeah, no,

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I mean, yeah, they're just
camping hammocks, that's all. Yeah,

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so you can get out real quick. I mean, I guess flipping over

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and hitting the ground is pretty quick. Yeah, I guess you're right.

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The twenty nine year old stepped inside
Saint John's Asylum in Lincolnshire for over three

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hours. I like how this is
now just about a totally different asylum.

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They were just trying to find words
to put in the article basically. Yeah.

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She investigated the eerie building, which
had been abandoned for two decades before

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a property developer scooped it up in
twenty twelve. The hospital, also known

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as Saint John's Asylum, first opened
its doors in eighteen fifty two as the

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Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum after the eighteen
forty five Act of Parliament ruled it compulsory

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for each country. I think it
meant county to offer accommodation to lunatics and

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lunatics is in quotes. I love
that that in the law it says lunar

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tics. Yeah. Patients were subjected
to electroshock therapy, brain surgery and lobotomies

404
00:32:07.079 --> 00:32:15.319
in a bid to cure them from
conditions including depression or schizophrenia. I mean,

405
00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:21.559
I think the lobotomies probably did stuff. I'd rather have a bottle in

406
00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:23.440
front of me than a front of
lobotomy, am I right? Everybody?

407
00:32:23.559 --> 00:32:30.720
Hey, careful when that joke it's
an antique? Well, you know what

408
00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:34.559
I love? I just I love
Mirror dot co dot uk because every time

409
00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:37.440
I read their articles, I'm like, boy, I should be making bank

410
00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:43.440
as their copywriter. Yeah, because
like they don't proofread. Yeah, very

411
00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:47.720
much. Like it just said to
cure them from conditions including depression or schizophrenia.

412
00:32:49.480 --> 00:32:53.839
That suggests that it's limited to only
those two. Yeah, it should

413
00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:59.640
be conditions including depression and schizophrenia.
Yeah. Well yeah, because it's the

414
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:05.440
the including that messes it up.
Yeah. Yeah. So that being said,

415
00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:07.519
do you ever feel a little bummed
out and you consider just sticking your

416
00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:12.400
finger in a wall outlet to kind
of razzle dazzle little way. No,

417
00:33:12.599 --> 00:33:16.599
it doesn't really feel good. Well
that's because you just haven't kept at it.

418
00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:21.200
No, if you keep at it
long enough, it starts to feel

419
00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:28.119
great. I don't think. So. It's fascinating that ect electroconvulsive therapy is

420
00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:34.079
still is still used because it turned
out that there is in extreme cases benefits.

421
00:33:34.839 --> 00:33:37.400
Yeah, I think that's really interesting, and that it's because your brain

422
00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:43.640
is electric. Yeah, so it's
electric, you know, yeah, exactly.

423
00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:50.440
Well, this story is weird and
kind of sad, and it's from

424
00:33:50.480 --> 00:33:57.400
your favorite news source, NPR.
Wow, mummified monkey remains were found in

425
00:33:57.480 --> 00:34:04.319
luggage at Boston's airport. That's significantly
better than there remains that were found this

426
00:34:04.440 --> 00:34:07.199
week in Philly. So yay.
Oh, the remains in Philly are always

427
00:34:07.280 --> 00:34:14.880
bad news. Yeah, so there's
there's the mummified monkeys. Yeay. The

428
00:34:14.960 --> 00:34:20.360
traveler at Boston Logan International Airport said
the bag contained dried fish, but upon

429
00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:25.159
further examination, airport agents discovered that
it was in fact mummified remains, which

430
00:34:25.239 --> 00:34:30.960
included heads belonging to four monkeys.
US Customs and Border Protection said in a

431
00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:38.559
statement, when you travel, you
liked to do you like souvenirs? Not

432
00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:43.719
so much. Really, You never
like go. You never go somewhere You're

433
00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:46.599
like, Wow, Branson, Missouri
is wild? Can I get some monkey

434
00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:53.440
heads? I mean I have thought
that, yes, specifically about the monkeys.

435
00:34:53.480 --> 00:35:01.840
Are just about how wild Branson is
the entire sentiment. The incident took

436
00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:08.480
place on Thursday at a security screening
for passengers a canine officer named Buddy sniffed

437
00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:14.599
out the dead and dehydrated monkeys from
inside luggage belonging to a traveler who recently

438
00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:20.679
returned to the US from the Democratic
Republic of Congo. Okay, I guess

439
00:35:20.719 --> 00:35:25.400
that checks out. Yeah, sure, I don't know. Raw or minimally

440
00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:30.320
processed meat from certain wild animal animals, otherwise known as bush meat, is

441
00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:35.159
not allowed to enter the US,
largely out of health concerns. I don't

442
00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:40.559
know that mummified monkeys qualify, but
sure, it's probably just kind of like

443
00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:45.519
that's the blanket rule they're going to
use, because in reality, no one's

444
00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:52.639
expecting to have a mummified monkey.
Yeah. Quote. Bush meat can carry

445
00:35:52.719 --> 00:36:00.320
germs that can cause illness, including
the Ebola virus Julio caravella the area the

446
00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:06.239
area port director at CBP Boston said
in a statement the traveler on Thursday carried

447
00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:09.719
about eight pounds of bush meat.
Okay, so the bush meat doesn't include

448
00:36:09.719 --> 00:36:15.280
the heads, I don't think.
Okay, whatever, the Centers for Disease

449
00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:21.199
Control marked it for destruction. According
to the CBP, Airport agents around the

450
00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:25.559
country have encountered a variety of meats
in twenty twenty two, agents at Washington

451
00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:35.000
Doles Airport confiscated charred baty. In
twenty nineteen, officers at O'Hare International Airport

452
00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:39.440
intercepted thirty two pounds of rat meat. You could just get that here.

453
00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:44.960
That's what I was about to say, what are you doing? Why on

454
00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:50.519
earth would you need to import rat
meat? Yeah? And the worst part

455
00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:54.519
is it doesn't say where it was
coming from either, So like where did

456
00:36:54.559 --> 00:36:57.960
the rat meat come from? I
want to know where the good rat meat

457
00:36:58.039 --> 00:37:00.599
is. Maybe it came from Australia. Remember there was that rat or was

458
00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:05.119
it? Was it Australia? That
was Australia. Yeah, take over the

459
00:37:05.159 --> 00:37:07.519
town, Yeah, because that would
make sense. That's like a fast,

460
00:37:07.599 --> 00:37:14.079
easy source of rat meat. So
that's the next that's the next Michelle t

461
00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:16.320
shirt is just to your face.
That's just a fast, easy source of

462
00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:23.239
rat meat right there. So And
also though, like the charred bat in

463
00:37:23.239 --> 00:37:30.440
twenty twenty two, I mean,
haven't we learned from COVID to to avoid

464
00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:37.199
bat meat? I mean I guess
not. I mean granted it turned out

465
00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:39.119
that was made up, but still, you know, but there are other

466
00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:49.840
diseases that have come from bats.
So it's like name six rab's, uh

467
00:37:50.559 --> 00:37:57.320
one of those plasmosises histoplasmosis. I
don't know. Oh man, for a

468
00:37:57.360 --> 00:38:02.679
second, I was like, shit, she's gonna name six. Well that

469
00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:09.440
was from NPR about mummified monkey remains. Okay, so let me ask you,

470
00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:15.800
if you were smuggling mummified monkey remains
into the United States, who would

471
00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:19.960
that be a gift for in your
family? In my family? Yeah,

472
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.719
I mean or your friend's family,
in your life? I mean, who's

473
00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:28.199
the mummified monkey remains for? Oh? Your cat? Yeah? Do you

474
00:38:28.239 --> 00:38:30.400
think she would like the mummified monkey
remains? Well? Of them? She

475
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:37.239
could smell them, and she eat
them, play with them. Has gigs

476
00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:42.559
shown interest in eating monkeys before?
She's never seen one, but that doesn't

477
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:46.320
mean she wouldn't eat it. Well, I mean, I based on everything

478
00:38:46.320 --> 00:38:51.920
I know about cats, you are
correct. Yeah, so this one is

479
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:55.880
truly bizarre. Child. Okay,
this one caught my attention immediately because I

480
00:38:55.920 --> 00:39:00.000
was just like, what on earth
is this headline? This is from Huffington

481
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:06.639
Post HuffPost dot com. Alabama radio
station off the air after two hundred foot

482
00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:15.159
radio tower is stolen. Oh no, yeah, I just this is just

483
00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:17.440
one of those stories where it's like
where it's like, hold up, start

484
00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:23.400
from the beginning. What did you
just say? I love that about the

485
00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:29.760
way our brains process information that if
you get something so far out of the

486
00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:32.320
realm of probability, you didn't even
hear it. Yeah, it's just like,

487
00:39:32.480 --> 00:39:36.639
well, I'm standing outside and then
our two hundred foot radio tower was

488
00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:38.360
gone, and you're like wait,
wait, what hold on? What did

489
00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:45.960
you say? Yeah? I did
not process that. And then the quote

490
00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:47.599
under he says, a maintenance worker
called me on Friday and said, the

491
00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:52.840
tower is gone. We'recalled wjlx's Brett
at Lilmore. I said, what do

492
00:39:52.880 --> 00:40:00.000
you mean the tower is gone?
It reminds me there's this band I've loved

493
00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:05.159
since I was a teenager called Irritating
Rainbow, and one of their later albums

494
00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:09.159
was just called what Happened to the
Truck Ye? And the album cover is

495
00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:13.079
just a photo of the side of
a street with the three of them standing

496
00:40:13.079 --> 00:40:20.360
around like with like shrugging like what
the hell and there's no truck. I

497
00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:24.639
don't know why that tickles me so
much. If you happen to see a

498
00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:30.639
two hundred foot radio tower lying around, there's a radio station in Jasper Alabama,

499
00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:35.079
that would love to hear from you. Oh God. WJLXAM has been

500
00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:37.920
off the air since February second,
when a landscaping crew visited the site where

501
00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:43.280
the tower is supposed to be for
a bit of routine maintenance. The station's

502
00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:47.320
general manager, Brett Elmore, told
Birmingham Fox affiliate WBrC that he was shocked

503
00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:52.119
when a crew member called him with
some news quote when he arrived. He

504
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:55.559
called me on Friday and said the
tower has gone. Elmore told WBrC,

505
00:40:55.960 --> 00:40:59.360
I said, what do you mean
the tower is gone? Are you sure

506
00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:02.079
you're at the right place. He
said, no, the tower is gone.

507
00:41:02.199 --> 00:41:07.199
There are wires everywhere and it's gone. So did the landscaping crew take

508
00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:13.199
it? Wow? Look at you
just assuming the blue collar workers are criminals.

509
00:41:13.199 --> 00:41:16.599
Well, why did they even bring
them up? I'm guessing because they're

510
00:41:16.599 --> 00:41:22.000
the ones who discovered that the tower
was missing. I thought it was one

511
00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:24.480
of those it was somebody else,
No, no, it was it was

512
00:41:24.519 --> 00:41:29.239
a landscaping crew person. Oh okay, well, okay, so at the

513
00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:30.840
top of the thing they referred them
as maintenance workers, and then down here

514
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:35.239
they call them landscapers. Okay,
so it's a little confusing, but well

515
00:41:35.280 --> 00:41:37.599
it makes sense. Think about it, like the towers offul ways, you

516
00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:40.000
know, because it doesn't have to
be next to the building, it can

517
00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:44.760
be somewhere else. Yeah, and
then you would want to keep you know,

518
00:41:44.840 --> 00:41:47.119
trimming back hedges and stuff, you
know, to keep it nice and

519
00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:52.920
new. So how long had the
tower been gone? I'm guessing not long

520
00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:57.480
if nobody had noticed that work there
had noticed they were off the air.

521
00:41:58.079 --> 00:42:02.159
What if they just didn't know and
no just kept broadcasting to nobody. Well,

522
00:42:02.159 --> 00:42:07.519
gee, at that point you may
as well have a podcast. Now

523
00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:16.079
I'm sad. I'm going back to
bed. Let's see. The radio station's

524
00:42:16.079 --> 00:42:21.400
Facebook account announced the theft by rightfully
noting quote, this is going to get

525
00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:23.480
out eventually, so I might as
well make it public before it does.

526
00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:27.960
Yeah, it's no, you're not
going to really keep a secret. Like

527
00:42:28.199 --> 00:42:34.559
somebody stole our two hundred foot tour
Maybe they thought it was made of a

528
00:42:34.599 --> 00:42:37.960
copper, so they were like,
yeah, we're gonna get some methamphetamine money

529
00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:43.639
with this copper it. So I
was watching something last night where these people

530
00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:47.440
were they wanted to have a silo
attached to their barn for some messed up

531
00:42:47.480 --> 00:42:52.639
reason. And they found one this
big, like thirty foot silo and I

532
00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:54.559
and like they went to it to
check it out, and I was like,

533
00:42:54.599 --> 00:42:58.760
how are they gonna get it though? Because it's so large and they

534
00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:00.840
had to put it on a truck. Like how do you take a giant

535
00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:06.480
tower and have nobody noticed that you
take it? I don't know. I

536
00:43:06.480 --> 00:43:09.000
mean I would imagine even if you
disassembled it as much as humanly possible,

537
00:43:09.119 --> 00:43:14.639
it would still be a massive job. Yeah, and not fast. No,

538
00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:21.920
And two hundred feet is really really
big. Yeah, like it's easy.

539
00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:24.679
You know how some numbers just don't
click with us because we're you know,

540
00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:28.320
we like, we don't really we
don't really understand how big a hundred

541
00:43:28.360 --> 00:43:32.159
feet is. To give context,
two hundred feet is like the max that

542
00:43:32.199 --> 00:43:39.039
you're allowed to fly a non commercial
drone in a neighborhood. I don't know

543
00:43:39.159 --> 00:43:43.719
how. That's very very high up. Okay, two hundred feet is pretty

544
00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:47.519
high up. I was thinking more
like my house is probably like thirty feet

545
00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:54.159
tall. Yeah, so it would
be like three, and some would be

546
00:43:54.199 --> 00:44:00.159
one hundred feet and even then some
more houses American we'll do anything to not

547
00:44:00.280 --> 00:44:05.480
use the metric system. I can't
even use I don't even understand feet really,

548
00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:09.519
like I don't get any of it. So here's the post they put

549
00:44:09.559 --> 00:44:14.400
on Facebook. This morning, my
bush hoog crew went down to a tower

550
00:44:14.480 --> 00:44:17.559
site to do an early cleanup of
the property before we did some more work

551
00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:22.280
down there. When he arrived,
he called and notified me that not only

552
00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:27.880
was my building vandalized, but my
two hundred foot tower was gone. That's

553
00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:31.119
in all caps. They stole every
piece of equipment out of the building,

554
00:44:31.519 --> 00:44:36.960
cut the guy wires to the tower, and somehow managed to down a two

555
00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:40.440
hundred foot tower and take it from
the property. Wow. I don't know,

556
00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:45.079
Like it makes me feel like almost
like they wanted it more. You

557
00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:47.079
just gotta let them have it.
Yeah, it's their tower. Now.

558
00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:51.920
It's their tower now. Man,
I hope they use it for a tower

559
00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:53.840
so we can find it and then
somebody can just take it from them.

560
00:44:54.400 --> 00:44:59.960
In unrelated news, a rival radio
station just opened up down the street.

561
00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:06.360
Although Elmore filed the police report,
Jasper Mayor David o'mary told NBC News that

562
00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:12.280
local authorities lack the information needed to
conduct a full fledged investigation. Now I

563
00:45:12.280 --> 00:45:15.679
think the mayor did it. Yeah, Oh we don't know about any Yeah,

564
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:20.079
I don't know how that would work. WJLX listeners can still visit the

565
00:45:20.119 --> 00:45:23.159
station online, but a note on
its webpage said the Federal Communication Commission denied

566
00:45:23.199 --> 00:45:30.719
a request to broadcast on FM radio
via a sister station. Oh it's the

567
00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:35.159
FCC that took their tower. They
don't want them. I mean, I've

568
00:45:35.159 --> 00:45:39.559
never liked the FCC. So yeah, local broadcasting colleagues have reportedly offered to

569
00:45:39.599 --> 00:45:45.800
help find a temporary transmitter location.
According to Inside Radio, Elmore said that

570
00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:51.039
the tower and other equipment weren't ensured. That's a big mistake. Oh no,

571
00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:55.559
how do you not ensure equipment for
broadcasting when you're a radio station?

572
00:45:55.800 --> 00:46:02.360
I don't know. So the station
has organized a GoFundMe campaign to raise sixty

573
00:46:02.440 --> 00:46:06.639
thousand dollars to replace or well,
it doesn't say to replace the tower.

574
00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:09.480
It says to get back on the
air. And they must be well like,

575
00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:13.519
they have three hundred and ninety six
donations and have raised twenty two thousand

576
00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:17.239
and thirty eight dollars. Okay,
so good for them on that. Well,

577
00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:21.559
so it's important to keep in mind. So I've obviously since I've been

578
00:46:21.559 --> 00:46:23.559
into podcasting for so long. Obviously, I had interest in radio when I

579
00:46:23.599 --> 00:46:29.039
was younger. Back in the olden
days of radio, they used to say

580
00:46:29.199 --> 00:46:34.159
the way that you would send a
radio signal was an ISDN line, which

581
00:46:34.199 --> 00:46:38.320
was basically high speed Internet, but
you would use it only to send data

582
00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:44.599
of voices or radio broadcasts, and
it would be exactly one hundred and twenty

583
00:46:44.639 --> 00:46:49.719
eight kilobits per second, so it
was almost CD quality. And so that's

584
00:46:49.760 --> 00:46:53.000
why it's not impossible for them to
just send their feed somewhere that will then

585
00:46:53.559 --> 00:46:58.840
broadcast it, because you don't actually
need that much bandwidth to get the signal

586
00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:04.360
because it's just an audio stream.
It's not you know, it's like Discord.

587
00:47:04.400 --> 00:47:07.880
You pay eight dollars a month in
Discord will be that high quality now,

588
00:47:07.719 --> 00:47:12.360
which is insane, but it used
to be in the olden days.

589
00:47:12.599 --> 00:47:16.000
Like if a radio host was working
from home, like which would happen sometimes,

590
00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:19.559
like somebody would have an injury or
whatever, they would just have an

591
00:47:19.559 --> 00:47:22.840
ISDN line installed in their house and
it would feed directly into the studio where

592
00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:28.800
they were doing the show, so
it'd be relatively lossless. I'm a nerd.

593
00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:31.079
As of Friday afternoon, the campaign
raised fourteen hundred dollars. Yeah,

594
00:47:31.239 --> 00:47:35.000
we're a small market station, but
we're going to get back. We're going

595
00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:37.119
to get back and we're going to
be back on the air as soon as

596
00:47:37.119 --> 00:47:40.199
we possibly can, he told NBC
News. Currently there are no suspects in

597
00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:44.760
the theft, but Elmore told Inside
Radio that he doesn't quote see some guy

598
00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:47.559
off the street just doing this,
and added, this looks like a professional

599
00:47:47.639 --> 00:47:54.440
hit. It definitely sounds like that, it really does. So if anybody

600
00:47:54.480 --> 00:47:58.880
out there has any information on who
might have stolen a two hundred foot radio

601
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:02.880
tour, please contact the Jasper Police
Department. So, but we're gonna take

602
00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:07.679
a quick break and we'll be back
with even more spooky news, assuming our

603
00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:22.440
podcast tower doesn't get stolen. Now
we're back with another piece of spooky news

604
00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:28.400
from Mirror dot co dot uk,
and this one, Chelle, you'll appreciate,

605
00:48:28.840 --> 00:48:37.039
appreciate because love is in the air. Ah. The headline is quote,

606
00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:39.719
I'm in love with a ghost and
my girlfriend accepts it. They both

607
00:48:39.800 --> 00:48:52.039
hang out together. What how could
that sentence not be more clear? I

608
00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:58.920
mean, do not do not?
I mean it is very clear. What

609
00:48:59.719 --> 00:49:05.440
I love about this this story is
like and I'm not trying to be mean,

610
00:49:05.519 --> 00:49:07.679
but like these girls, uh that
are in a relationship top, they

611
00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:13.400
look exactly like I would expect.
They're just like young and kind of alternative

612
00:49:13.480 --> 00:49:15.679
and both in different ways. Like
one girl seems more like a free spirit

613
00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:19.960
type and the other girl is like
very like, you know, kind of

614
00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:24.840
TikTok emoey kind of which is only
something a freaking millennial would say, yeah,

615
00:49:24.840 --> 00:49:29.719
because everybody else like, what's emo? But I wouldn't really call that

616
00:49:30.400 --> 00:49:32.679
emo? What would you call it
goth? Yeah? Yeah, I don't.

617
00:49:32.719 --> 00:49:38.679
I don't want to disrespect goths by
calling it goth. That's and I

618
00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:44.280
was thinking maybe other girl is like
some sort of like cottage core thing.

619
00:49:44.840 --> 00:49:49.639
What cottage core? Yeah? You
didn't What is cottage core? You gotta

620
00:49:49.679 --> 00:49:52.400
fill me in right now. I
mean, I don't know if that's what

621
00:49:52.599 --> 00:49:55.159
it what she is, but I
just thinking about like her dress. Cottage

622
00:49:55.159 --> 00:49:59.800
core is like when when you think
it's really cool to like like have like

623
00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:07.639
just like I don't know, rustic
living century, Yeah, rustic rustic living

624
00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:13.280
or like kind of like old kitchy
things that kind of okay, I kind

625
00:50:13.280 --> 00:50:16.679
of like that term. Yeah,
And I might not have said it correctly.

626
00:50:16.719 --> 00:50:20.679
So if you're listening and you're like, that's not what cottage core is,

627
00:50:20.719 --> 00:50:23.480
I'm sorry, I'm tired. You're
like, that's exactly what cottage core

628
00:50:23.599 --> 00:50:30.679
is. Damn it. Yeah,
that's it. Well, So my favorite

629
00:50:30.679 --> 00:50:34.599
thing about this is the the little
headline underneath. So this is a two

630
00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:39.599
women who are dating and they have
a third partner that is a ghost.

631
00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:44.360
But what I like the most about
this is as they describe the ghost,

632
00:50:44.559 --> 00:50:50.159
I just am like, what would
you have in common? Hey? What

633
00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:55.039
just because you're dead doesn't mean or
from a different time period, doesn't mean

634
00:50:55.079 --> 00:51:00.000
you can't have common things, can't
have things in common with other people,

635
00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:05.760
people who are alive and from it's
modern day. I don't know a couple

636
00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:09.639
who are unapologetic for their lifestyle have
been told they are speaking to demons after

637
00:51:09.719 --> 00:51:15.599
confessing they have a third individual in
their relationship, a war soldier from the

638
00:51:15.719 --> 00:51:22.079
seventeen hundreds, It's okay. That's
the part where I'm like, Okay,

639
00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:24.840
so, first of all, sure, look look like I'm not trying to

640
00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:30.920
be rude, but these two women
don't look like they would they would date

641
00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:36.960
someone in the military. Now it's
different, it's more well, it's worse

642
00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:40.800
in every way in seventeen hundred.
Sure. I mean, well, let's

643
00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:45.119
see if they can find out what
war he fought in or she. I

644
00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:49.039
would assume it's a he because women
weren't really fighting in many wars, but

645
00:51:49.119 --> 00:51:52.960
I could be proven wrong because who
knows where they're from in the world as

646
00:51:52.960 --> 00:51:57.800
well. Yeah, meet the couple
who spend their date nights at cemeteries and

647
00:51:57.840 --> 00:52:01.000
have a third individual in their relationship, a three hundred year old ghost.

648
00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:07.239
For the record, I'm just gonna
come out and say this real quick.

649
00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:10.239
This is just white people shit.
This is just such white people shit.

650
00:52:12.239 --> 00:52:15.360
Like, my life is so disinterested, is so uninteresting. I swear I'm

651
00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:19.800
also dating a three hundred year old
ghost. You don't think it's possible that

652
00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:23.639
they're just insane? No, not
even a little bit. I mean one

653
00:52:23.639 --> 00:52:27.719
of them might be a little cuckoo
bananes, but the other one is just

654
00:52:27.760 --> 00:52:30.920
in it for the attention. I
think they're just insane. I'd hate to

655
00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:37.079
believe that they're just liars. You're
like, I pray that they're both incurably

656
00:52:37.119 --> 00:52:43.679
insane. Yeah, what the hell
is this sentence? A loved up couple?

657
00:52:44.199 --> 00:52:45.480
That's how it starts a loved up
couple. That must be a British

658
00:52:45.519 --> 00:52:50.280
thing. A loved up couple has
been inundated with judgment after opening up their

659
00:52:50.360 --> 00:52:55.440
unconventional relationship online. Why would you
need to put it online? Because the

660
00:52:55.519 --> 00:52:59.960
ghost said, put it online.
I don't know what that internet is,

661
00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:06.199
but you should do it. Let's
take a selfie. What is a photograph?

662
00:53:06.440 --> 00:53:08.119
Oh? It is a man?
Okay, So Rebecca Carmichael is a

663
00:53:08.119 --> 00:53:12.599
professional ghost guide. But here,
okay, first of all, that's mixing

664
00:53:12.639 --> 00:53:15.840
business with pleasure. Then you're a
professional ghost guide and you're dating a ghost.

665
00:53:15.280 --> 00:53:19.719
That seems a little inappropriate. It
does seem inappropriate. That's like,

666
00:53:19.920 --> 00:53:25.400
that's like a hostile work environment.
Yeah, but her otherworldly connection suddenly became

667
00:53:25.440 --> 00:53:30.599
a lot more personal when she met
Rupert, the spirit of a Welshman and

668
00:53:30.639 --> 00:53:35.280
revolutionary war soldier from the seventeen hundreds. Wait, what war? Are we

669
00:53:35.320 --> 00:53:39.039
talking? Like? The American Revolution? Well it kind of sounds like seventeen

670
00:53:39.119 --> 00:53:45.760
hundreds and revolutionary that it would be
the American Revolution? Well, which would

671
00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:47.119
I mean? Now, so was
Rupert on the other side, Because if

672
00:53:47.119 --> 00:53:52.280
he was, this is treason.
This sounds like treason. I mean,

673
00:53:52.360 --> 00:53:59.000
I don't think it's treason anymore.
Well, well, it wouldn't be treason

674
00:53:59.039 --> 00:54:01.440
anymore because all of those people are
dead. But if you're dating a ghost

675
00:54:01.480 --> 00:54:06.559
that was fighting directly against us in
war, I call that treason. I

676
00:54:06.920 --> 00:54:10.199
disagree because the war's over, so
it doesn't matter if he was fighting in

677
00:54:10.199 --> 00:54:13.679
the war. Well, there are
other things to consider too. Did he

678
00:54:13.840 --> 00:54:15.400
die in the war or did he
just fight in the war and then die

679
00:54:15.480 --> 00:54:21.559
later. Sounds like, Oh,
I don't know, I don't know where

680
00:54:21.559 --> 00:54:24.639
are these people from what's going on? I mean, if I had to

681
00:54:24.679 --> 00:54:31.400
guess, Oregon is my guest,
but it's based on nothing. The girls

682
00:54:31.400 --> 00:54:36.760
are in Americas are Americans? Then
I assume he died during the war.

683
00:54:37.639 --> 00:54:42.360
The American woman claims the ghost followed
her home one night, and soon after

684
00:54:42.400 --> 00:54:45.320
they got to know each other and
slowly began to spend more time together.

685
00:54:46.880 --> 00:54:52.760
Unexpected feelings grew between them and they
became a couple. But soon after Rebecca

686
00:54:52.840 --> 00:54:57.159
did meet someone new in the living
world. Wow, so the ghost was

687
00:54:57.159 --> 00:55:02.679
there first. Wow. Okay,
now this is where I'm gonna get really

688
00:55:02.760 --> 00:55:07.599
judgmental now. To me, now
it sounds like she was just saying,

689
00:55:07.639 --> 00:55:10.280
I'm dating a ghost to be kookie
and fun and make her business make more

690
00:55:10.320 --> 00:55:14.679
sense and get that bad girl and
get that TikTok clout, get whatever.

691
00:55:15.559 --> 00:55:17.639
But then she actually met a person
and was like, wait, actually,

692
00:55:17.639 --> 00:55:20.880
I would like to actually be in
a relationship, but I'd like to actually

693
00:55:20.960 --> 00:55:23.440
date a person. And so she
was like, oh, well we're in

694
00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:31.880
a oh a thrumble. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, I'm kind of with

695
00:55:31.960 --> 00:55:35.400
you there. Yeah, because it
would have been at least a little bit

696
00:55:35.440 --> 00:55:37.440
more weird if it was like I
had a girlfriend, but then I met

697
00:55:37.440 --> 00:55:39.480
this ghost and we just we hit
it off. So yeah, in all

698
00:55:39.519 --> 00:55:49.440
sense, that's so. I mean, No, I just thought of all

699
00:55:49.480 --> 00:55:52.280
sorts of questions, but I don't
want to ask them, ask one of

700
00:55:52.320 --> 00:55:57.000
them. No, I don't want
to please. None of them are good.

701
00:55:57.480 --> 00:56:00.119
That's the best part. No.
I just I just won about because

702
00:56:00.119 --> 00:56:07.679
I know that like most people,
most people they like needy sexual components to

703
00:56:07.679 --> 00:56:13.480
their relationship. So I'm just wondering, Well, according to Ghostbusters, ghosts

704
00:56:13.519 --> 00:56:16.440
can have sex acts with living people. Yeah, I know, but I'm

705
00:56:16.480 --> 00:56:22.000
wondering if for reals are in their
world? How this? According to dan

706
00:56:22.039 --> 00:56:27.360
Ackroyd, all depictions of ghosts and
Ghostbusters were relatively true to life. Okay,

707
00:56:27.679 --> 00:56:35.840
dan Ackroyd is nuttier than a squirrel
turn just believe. Okay, so

708
00:56:37.800 --> 00:56:40.079
this article is bringing so much more
fun. I thought it was just gonna

709
00:56:40.079 --> 00:56:45.719
be a little kooky, but this
is hilarious. Rebecca did meet someone who

710
00:56:45.719 --> 00:56:51.800
in the living world a fellow spirit
social media educator, so they're both in

711
00:56:51.840 --> 00:56:59.480
the same business, Spirit social media
educator. And her name is Catherine.

712
00:56:59.480 --> 00:57:04.360
But it's a T H A R
y N. It's not her fault that

713
00:57:05.039 --> 00:57:07.519
you don't know that that was her
given name. She could have chosen that

714
00:57:07.599 --> 00:57:10.679
name. You think her parents were
just that bad? Yeah, yeah,

715
00:57:10.679 --> 00:57:16.119
that's fair, Rebecca. Rebecca says
she had to come clean to Rupert about

716
00:57:16.119 --> 00:57:20.280
her living world relationship. He's a
ghost. He couldn't see. Yeah,

717
00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:24.519
he didn't know. It's like,
no, no, he just hangs out

718
00:57:24.559 --> 00:57:28.119
at the house and plays Xbox while
I go to work. I mean,

719
00:57:28.159 --> 00:57:31.039
it's possible. Imagine how jealous you'd
be if you were a ghost dating a

720
00:57:31.039 --> 00:57:35.519
woman whose job is to hang out
with ghosts. It'd be like, listen,

721
00:57:35.559 --> 00:57:38.199
Rebecca, I want to trust you, I really do, but you're

722
00:57:38.239 --> 00:57:43.519
hanging out with people that I know
were your type all day long. You

723
00:57:43.519 --> 00:57:45.199
know how hard it is for me
to sit here. I'm not even a

724
00:57:45.239 --> 00:57:50.599
citizen. I can't work. Yeah, we have to get married and then

725
00:57:50.599 --> 00:57:59.960
I have to get a K one
visa. At least they didn't try to

726
00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:06.519
do a Welsh accent while yeah,
I'm sorry. He also might not have

727
00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:08.960
an accent anymore since he's been in
the US for so long. Oh yeah,

728
00:58:08.960 --> 00:58:14.119
that does happen. Yeah, and
the reverse if you're if you're Madonna,

729
00:58:14.159 --> 00:58:15.519
it only takes like two years and
you got a full British accent.

730
00:58:15.880 --> 00:58:20.760
To be fair, I think if
I lived somewhere with a different accent,

731
00:58:20.840 --> 00:58:24.480
it wouldn't take very long because I've
just been around people with different accents and

732
00:58:24.800 --> 00:58:30.920
started thinking in that accent before.
So I will say I've I have to

733
00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:34.519
catch myself occasionally, like mimicking an
accent if I'm around it too much.

734
00:58:34.880 --> 00:58:37.519
But it doesn't feel effortless. It
feels like I kind of want to do

735
00:58:37.559 --> 00:58:39.079
it because I can, because like, when you're around it enough, you

736
00:58:39.159 --> 00:58:44.039
pick it up. Like I had
a friend who was English when I was

737
00:58:44.079 --> 00:58:46.000
a teenager, and we hung out
so much that I would do his accent

738
00:58:46.039 --> 00:58:50.159
to him to make him laugh because
I could sound just I mean, because

739
00:58:50.159 --> 00:58:52.719
I literally when I heard him so
much, I could just sound like him,

740
00:58:53.400 --> 00:59:00.760
and he thought it was hilarious.
But uh, okay, and if

741
00:59:00.039 --> 00:59:02.880
okay. Rebecca says she had to
come clean to Rupert about her living world

742
00:59:02.960 --> 00:59:09.639
relationship and inform her girlfriend of her
spirit relationship. Catherine insists there is quote

743
00:59:09.719 --> 00:59:15.199
no jealousy, as she quote respects
the connection that Rebecca and Rupert have.

744
00:59:15.719 --> 00:59:22.239
The trio reportedly often hang out and
go on trips together. Aw oh god,

745
00:59:22.280 --> 00:59:24.880
here's a picture of the old man
of all three of them. Well,

746
00:59:24.960 --> 00:59:30.440
no, maybe it's just a shot
of them like doing EVP or something

747
00:59:30.599 --> 00:59:37.519
like at a cemetery together. Yeah, oh my gosh. Rebecca and Catherine

748
00:59:37.519 --> 00:59:43.199
often visit cemeteries and speak to spirits
quote for fun. That's what the caption

749
00:59:43.320 --> 00:59:47.519
says. Rebecca explained to Love don't
judge that she and Rupert connect through their

750
00:59:47.639 --> 00:59:53.480
energies, with their relationship primarily revolving
around emotions. Okay, well, what

751
00:59:53.519 --> 00:59:57.199
else would it? I mean?
I guess, you know, I assumed

752
00:59:57.239 --> 01:00:02.360
immediately that it was not strictly sexual. But you know what, I should

753
01:00:02.360 --> 01:00:07.960
not judge, yeah, quote because
of the very clear physical differences between us.

754
01:00:07.960 --> 01:00:10.960
Well, you mean that there's that
one of you has no physical being

755
01:00:12.039 --> 01:00:16.119
whatsoever. Yeah. Yeah, I'm
just saying one of you is corporeal and

756
01:00:16.159 --> 01:00:21.000
the other one is not. I'm
just saying you're starting to sound a little

757
01:00:21.119 --> 01:00:24.480
judgy about Oh I'm sorry, Yeah, I'm sorry. No, I apologize.

758
01:00:24.480 --> 01:00:28.159
I should really open my mind a
little bit. And really, there

759
01:00:28.159 --> 01:00:30.440
could be ghosts listening to this and
now they feel like they can't get in

760
01:00:30.519 --> 01:00:36.199
relationships with random women that are alive, and you totally can. If you're

761
01:00:36.199 --> 01:00:39.320
a ghost and you want to be
in a consensual relationship with some women,

762
01:00:40.400 --> 01:00:45.800
go for it. I think the
biggest issue here really would be that Rupert

763
01:00:45.840 --> 01:00:51.320
has to be super racist. He's
three hundred years old. It might not

764
01:00:51.400 --> 01:00:54.760
be like if I had to make
excuses for my grandma, you know,

765
01:00:54.840 --> 01:01:00.159
to be like she's just old and
dumb. You know, Rupert, it's

766
01:01:00.159 --> 01:01:05.719
gotta be raised. He might not
be okay. I mean, if you

767
01:01:05.800 --> 01:01:10.119
say so, I'm surprised he's okay
with them them being not totally straight,

768
01:01:10.199 --> 01:01:14.440
Yeah, them being lesbians. Yeah, yeah, that's probably. I would

769
01:01:14.440 --> 01:01:16.400
assume that Rupert would be like,
Rupert would be like, oh yes,

770
01:01:16.440 --> 01:01:22.480
sapphic. Uh, that's not all
right. Or he might be just really

771
01:01:22.519 --> 01:01:27.320
into it because some guys think,
what a creep. I don't like Rupert

772
01:01:27.320 --> 01:01:30.000
at all. The more we're talking
about Rupert, the more I have problems.

773
01:01:32.599 --> 01:01:37.440
Uh, she added. Quote he
is acknowledging that I'm here in the

774
01:01:37.480 --> 01:01:39.559
physical and I need to live a
life here in my present. If Rupert

775
01:01:39.599 --> 01:01:42.599
really loved you, he'd be like, oh, he just kill yourself.

776
01:01:43.199 --> 01:01:49.480
Yeah, come god, this is
awful. Quote. He had to learn

777
01:01:49.519 --> 01:01:52.519
how I was physically perceiving him with
respect. He started hanging out more where

778
01:01:52.519 --> 01:01:57.119
I was living. He was always
very clear on boundaries, wanting consent.

779
01:01:57.480 --> 01:02:01.480
He never wanted to press being inside
my home or anything like that. He's

780
01:02:02.039 --> 01:02:07.920
insanely forward thinking for a soldier from
three hundred years ago. Or maybe he's

781
01:02:07.920 --> 01:02:12.960
a vampire and he needs consent to
enter your home and you just gave him.

782
01:02:13.400 --> 01:02:17.639
Well, we have not touched on
the idea of vampire ghosts. Yeah,

783
01:02:17.719 --> 01:02:21.400
I mean, who knows, because
I feel like it can't be a

784
01:02:21.400 --> 01:02:23.840
ghost vampire. I feel like ghost
vampires are people who like feed on the

785
01:02:23.880 --> 01:02:27.559
blood of ghosts, which doesn't make
any sense, but that's what my brain

786
01:02:27.599 --> 01:02:32.800
says, okay, so he'd be
a vampire ghost. Yeah. Speaking about

787
01:02:32.840 --> 01:02:37.159
how the relationship began with Catherine,
Rebecca said, quote, we met in

788
01:02:37.199 --> 01:02:39.519
person a year after we started talking. We became best friends. Then we

789
01:02:39.559 --> 01:02:45.000
stopped ignoring how we felt about each
other. We met on TikTok. Nailed

790
01:02:45.039 --> 01:02:49.639
it. Nailed it. I found
Rebecca and I thought, wow, this

791
01:02:49.719 --> 01:02:53.079
is great. Catherine explained, well, we're going to take a quick break

792
01:02:53.079 --> 01:02:59.639
and then we'll dive more into this
extra this I don't even have the word,

793
01:03:00.639 --> 01:03:13.079
this throuple from Beyond the Grave.
Right after this quick break, all

794
01:03:13.199 --> 01:03:19.599
right, we are back and oh, cell what there's an there's an artist's

795
01:03:20.159 --> 01:03:22.400
rendition of what Rupert looks like.
Oh. I thought that's probably what that

796
01:03:22.440 --> 01:03:25.800
picture was when you had and you
showed me the screen. Yeah yeah,

797
01:03:25.840 --> 01:03:29.639
let me let me let me pull
it up for you. Of course,

798
01:03:29.679 --> 01:03:37.000
he's perfect and handsome and blonde.
He's blonde with bluish greenish eyes, kind

799
01:03:37.039 --> 01:03:40.079
of rosy cheeks, very rosy,
which makes no sense because he's dead.

800
01:03:40.960 --> 01:03:45.239
Yeah, Rebecca said, this is
what her ghostly partner and former Revolutionary War

801
01:03:45.280 --> 01:03:50.480
soldier Rupert looks like. Wow,
well, notice he's not smiling. Because

802
01:03:50.480 --> 01:03:53.559
you don't want to see a welshman's
teeth from three hundred years ago. Oh

803
01:03:54.559 --> 01:03:59.719
no way. But here's the part
that I just I read ahead, just

804
01:04:00.039 --> 01:04:01.400
when we were on break, that
made me go, wait a second,

805
01:04:02.519 --> 01:04:06.079
Catherine isn't Oh okay, never mind, this makes sense. Catherine isn't in

806
01:04:06.119 --> 01:04:12.400
a romantic relationship with Rupert, but
often interacts with Rupert. Quote Rupert and

807
01:04:12.440 --> 01:04:15.480
I are friends. We've hung out, had conversations, gone on trips together.

808
01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:18.440
The living couple makes videos and live
streams of the community of people online

809
01:04:18.480 --> 01:04:24.119
who get an insight into their ghostly
interactions. So it's this is what they

810
01:04:24.199 --> 01:04:30.880
call a V triad okay in polyamory. So that means that one person is

811
01:04:30.880 --> 01:04:33.400
the connection between the other two.
Okay, they are not dating each other,

812
01:04:33.719 --> 01:04:36.199
but they're both dating that one person. Okay, So it's not a

813
01:04:36.199 --> 01:04:43.159
full triangly thing. Yeah, yeah, it's a V got it a V

814
01:04:43.400 --> 01:04:48.159
triad. But the pairs say they
have been inundated with comments such as you're

815
01:04:48.280 --> 01:04:55.000
crazy or told them they are quote
lying and quote talking to demons. That's

816
01:04:55.039 --> 01:04:59.519
an escalation between two different viewpoints.
One viewpoint you're making it up. The

817
01:04:59.559 --> 01:05:04.840
other people viewpoint it's evil. Yeah. Quote they're letting everybody out of your

818
01:05:04.840 --> 01:05:11.079
asylums nowadays. One commented, Another
said quote, find Jesus, accept them

819
01:05:11.079 --> 01:05:15.599
into your heart. Wow, well
then it could be a four way relationship.

820
01:05:15.719 --> 01:05:19.960
You get Jesus involved. Yeah,
the couple said. Also said set

821
01:05:19.960 --> 01:05:24.239
the record straight on love, don't
judge, confirming that they do not suffer

822
01:05:24.280 --> 01:05:28.960
from mental health issues, but people
assume they must do. They must do

823
01:05:29.480 --> 01:05:33.840
due to their Yeah, great work, mirror Dakota, you can they must

824
01:05:34.079 --> 01:05:41.360
due to their interests and lifestyle.
Despite this, they focus on the positives

825
01:05:41.360 --> 01:05:45.400
and the hope that they have brought
to many like minded people. Rebecca added

826
01:05:45.679 --> 01:05:47.920
what it's worth. What's worth it
to me is the amount of people who

827
01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:51.840
come forward and say, you made
me feel sane, thank you, Oh

828
01:05:51.880 --> 01:05:57.239
my god. What really matters is
that we're making people who may literally be

829
01:05:57.360 --> 01:06:02.880
desperately insane feel like they're fine.
Yeah. Yeah, I'm waiting for Catherine

830
01:06:02.920 --> 01:06:05.559
to be like, I'm glad I
could make them feel better. My dog

831
01:06:05.599 --> 01:06:10.000
tells me to kill blonde women,
yeah, or my neighbor's dog. My

832
01:06:10.039 --> 01:06:14.880
neighbor's dog tells me to kill blonde
women. Quote. It was really like

833
01:06:14.920 --> 01:06:17.639
a community built on people. That
says I thought I was losing it.

834
01:06:18.800 --> 01:06:27.760
Yeah, this is this is harmful. Yeah, I mean unless unless it's

835
01:06:27.760 --> 01:06:32.000
for you. Well, let's let's
play the idea that this is real.

836
01:06:32.280 --> 01:06:39.000
That doesn't mean that people who are
finding solace in it are real. That's

837
01:06:39.039 --> 01:06:42.920
all I'm saying. Yeah, the
people are finding solace in it may have

838
01:06:43.079 --> 01:06:45.880
severe mental problems. The problem is
like, what are you gonna do?

839
01:06:47.719 --> 01:06:54.880
I guess therapy yeah, or or
more likely just you know, swipe on

840
01:06:54.920 --> 01:06:59.800
TikTok all day. Oh gosh.
Catherine uses a spirit box to hear.

841
01:07:00.400 --> 01:07:08.119
What makes their bond so strong is
their acceptance of one another. So did

842
01:07:08.159 --> 01:07:11.519
they just talk to him through this
spirit pox? Is that what's happening.

843
01:07:13.039 --> 01:07:15.559
I'm trying to figure it out,
but I'm not sure. Catherine said,

844
01:07:15.599 --> 01:07:19.400
quote I love Rebecca for her talent. I feel very privileged to be in

845
01:07:19.440 --> 01:07:26.880
this spirit with her. She is
like a star. Well, speaking on

846
01:07:26.960 --> 01:07:30.480
screen on love don't judge, Rebecca
told Catherine what I love about you the

847
01:07:30.519 --> 01:07:33.360
most is how you make me feel
seen. I don't worry about the future

848
01:07:33.400 --> 01:07:36.360
with you. I'm so caught up
and how happy I am in the present.

849
01:07:38.199 --> 01:07:42.880
I think that that's very hateful to
say. I feel seen when one

850
01:07:42.880 --> 01:07:48.119
of your partners is not corporeal.
Yeah, that's okay. I bet Rupert

851
01:07:48.159 --> 01:07:53.000
doesn't feel seen. I bet he
doesn't feel seen at all. I think.

852
01:07:53.559 --> 01:07:56.199
Okay, Rupert, if you're listening
to this, and I know you

853
01:07:56.239 --> 01:08:04.400
are, you could do better.
Don't listen to him. You're in a

854
01:08:04.519 --> 01:08:13.360
nice, stable relationship with some crazy
girl and friend girlfriend, that's good enough.

855
01:08:13.960 --> 01:08:20.359
The first word I had in my
mind was stable as well. Oh

856
01:08:20.439 --> 01:08:25.920
my gosh. Okay, let's move
on to a story that's much less upsetic.

857
01:08:26.239 --> 01:08:30.960
Okay. This is from HuffPost dot
com. Doctors remove one hundred and

858
01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:36.520
fifty live bugs from Florida man's nose. That seems like a lot of bugs.

859
01:08:36.680 --> 01:08:41.880
It's one hundred and fifty live bugs
lives, so maybe there's another one

860
01:08:41.920 --> 01:08:45.479
hundred dead ones. You don't even
know what kind of bugs. I apparently

861
01:08:45.520 --> 01:08:50.960
it's larvae. It says dozens and
dozens of larvae were reportedly feeding on the

862
01:08:51.000 --> 01:08:56.279
man's nose and sinus cavity, some
as big as the end of a pinky.

863
01:08:57.239 --> 01:09:01.199
So are they just maggots then?
Is that what we're doing? I

864
01:09:01.199 --> 01:09:06.720
think they're maggots. Okay, they
should just specify that they're maggots. Well,

865
01:09:06.760 --> 01:09:11.399
bugs is kind of a general term. Yeah. Uh, so let's

866
01:09:11.439 --> 01:09:15.119
find out more details about this nightmare
come true. A Florida man is breathing

867
01:09:15.159 --> 01:09:19.239
easier now that one hundred and fifty
live bugs have been removed from his nose.

868
01:09:19.680 --> 01:09:24.399
Good work, huff posts that's solid. The unidentified patient went to a

869
01:09:24.439 --> 01:09:28.399
hospital earlier this month after noticing that
his whole face felt like it was on

870
01:09:28.479 --> 01:09:32.600
fire. According to Friday report by
the Jacksonville First Coast News, awoke up

871
01:09:32.640 --> 01:09:35.560
this morning and I was like,
huh, my face just feels like maybe

872
01:09:35.560 --> 01:09:39.279
it's on fire. But I don't
know. But I don't know. I'm

873
01:09:39.319 --> 01:09:41.800
just gonna I'm just gonna sleep in
a little. I probably just need extra

874
01:09:41.800 --> 01:09:45.600
rest. Yeah. Although the man
first started experiencing symptoms in October, it

875
01:09:45.680 --> 01:09:50.920
wasn't until recently that they became serious. Well, obviously this was published at

876
01:09:50.920 --> 01:09:56.039
the end of February. Yeah.
Well, I mean, just everybody understands,

877
01:09:56.239 --> 01:10:00.039
assuming these are maggots, there's it's
not just like one day you just

878
01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:02.479
wake up and you have megots all
over your body. No, there's something

879
01:10:02.560 --> 01:10:08.640
wrong with a part of your body. Causing it to basically rot, and

880
01:10:08.680 --> 01:10:12.720
then the maggots would move in.
So it is necrosis. I guess something,

881
01:10:12.840 --> 01:10:16.279
yeah, like dead tissue, because
I know that in the past they've

882
01:10:16.359 --> 01:10:23.319
used maggots to get dead tissue off
of healthy tissue. Although the man first

883
01:10:23.319 --> 01:10:27.399
started experiencing symptoms in October, it
wasn't until recently that they became serious.

884
01:10:27.479 --> 01:10:32.000
Quote over a couple of hours,
my face just started swelling, My lips

885
01:10:32.000 --> 01:10:35.720
swelled. I could hardly talk,
the patient told First Coast News. I

886
01:10:35.760 --> 01:10:40.399
couldn't even get up to go to
the bathroom without my nose starting to bleed.

887
01:10:44.159 --> 01:10:46.279
I know what to tell you that
sounds this is this is heinous.

888
01:10:47.479 --> 01:10:54.000
The man visited HCA Florida Memorial Hospital
in Jacksonville and consulted with doctor David Carlson,

889
01:10:54.199 --> 01:10:58.319
an ear, nose and throat specialist
who was on call. Carlson was

890
01:10:58.319 --> 01:11:01.239
shocked when he looked inside the man's
neck with a camera. He saw dozens

891
01:11:01.319 --> 01:11:05.880
and dozens of bugs feeding on the
nose and sinus cavity, some as big

892
01:11:05.880 --> 01:11:10.760
as the end of a pinky quote. I knew he was in big trouble.

893
01:11:11.119 --> 01:11:15.600
There was erosion. You think you
know there are dozens and dozens of

894
01:11:15.600 --> 01:11:19.039
bugs eating your sinuses. But it's
probably You're probably fine, just drink some

895
01:11:19.079 --> 01:11:25.840
water. Yeah, there was erosion
that was occurring near the skull base,

896
01:11:25.920 --> 01:11:31.720
in very close proximity to his eye
and his brain. Yeah, that is

897
01:11:31.920 --> 01:11:38.760
h I suppose not a good thing. At At first, the physician tried

898
01:11:38.800 --> 01:11:42.600
to use suction to remove the insects, which were in the larval stage,

899
01:11:42.960 --> 01:11:46.520
but they were too large, so
he had to extract extract them one by

900
01:11:46.680 --> 01:11:50.960
one from the man's nose. I'm
surprised he didn't like have to have like

901
01:11:51.079 --> 01:11:58.119
surgery, like like they open up
the uh huh take out the bugs.

902
01:11:58.600 --> 01:12:00.800
I don't know. I mean I
guess it. And how big your nose

903
01:12:00.880 --> 01:12:03.279
is, Like I have a pretty
I have pretty big nostrils. Yeah,

904
01:12:03.279 --> 01:12:08.159
I could pab. I could pride
you that. Okay, we can try.

905
01:12:08.399 --> 01:12:11.079
This makes me extra nervous because I
was complaining earlier in the show to

906
01:12:11.119 --> 01:12:14.159
you when we were off the air
about my sinuses being clogged, and I'm

907
01:12:14.159 --> 01:12:18.399
like, oh, no, it's
just it's just larvas. Yeah, oh

908
01:12:18.479 --> 01:12:24.880
god. Quote. They were right
up against his skull base, right under

909
01:12:24.920 --> 01:12:28.680
the brain. Had they gone through
that, it could have killed him.

910
01:12:28.760 --> 01:12:34.079
Carlson said, Yeah. The bugs
have since been sent to an epidemiologist to

911
01:12:34.119 --> 01:12:40.880
determine their species. The patient is
expected to make a full recovery. Okay.

912
01:12:41.399 --> 01:12:45.479
It remains a mystery how the larvae
got inside the man's nose, but

913
01:12:45.560 --> 01:12:48.600
he first told First Coast News that
the problem might have stemmed from his bad

914
01:12:48.680 --> 01:12:56.000
hygiene habits when handling dead fish.
I mean that's probably it. Yeah,

915
01:12:56.039 --> 01:13:01.079
that sure does sound that sure does
sound like it. Yeah, we're you

916
01:13:01.119 --> 01:13:04.760
guys can't see us. We're both
like leaning away from the microphone in like

917
01:13:04.880 --> 01:13:10.279
total disgust and then having to remember
we're doing it. Though this is so

918
01:13:10.439 --> 01:13:15.039
anus. There are no photos,
okay, thank goodness. Although I can

919
01:13:15.119 --> 01:13:19.399
have Dolly aias a photo, maybe
they might not because I think that might

920
01:13:19.439 --> 01:13:23.520
be against their standards. I just
have to figure out how to describe it

921
01:13:23.520 --> 01:13:26.920
in a way that it's not offensive. Yeah. When I was a boy,

922
01:13:27.039 --> 01:13:30.000
my grandma used to tell me stories
about meg. It's in a nasal

923
01:13:30.079 --> 01:13:35.880
cavity. It remains a mister.
Oh sorry, I read that all right.

924
01:13:36.359 --> 01:13:40.880
Quote Before I would rinse my hands
in the river. Now I'll use

925
01:13:40.920 --> 01:13:44.520
cleaner to do a better job and
not touch my nose or my hand.

926
01:13:44.840 --> 01:13:48.520
The man told the station. I'm
actually thinking there's probably more to it than

927
01:13:48.560 --> 01:13:55.079
that, you know, especially if
it's if they're fly larv larvae. Like

928
01:13:55.239 --> 01:14:00.039
it's not like touching your nose is
gonna no, but whatever on an epidemial

929
01:14:00.119 --> 01:14:04.319
though that's not what that's called.
Doesn't matter. I'm trying to see if

930
01:14:04.319 --> 01:14:10.560
I could find a follow up on
it. It doesn't look like there's a

931
01:14:10.600 --> 01:14:17.199
follow up. Yeah, nope,
no follow up. Sorry, interesting damn

932
01:14:18.920 --> 01:14:21.720
yeah, because the latest report is
from like three days later and it's not

933
01:14:23.279 --> 01:14:26.800
it's the same story. Oh okay, just got picked up by everywhere because

934
01:14:27.560 --> 01:14:30.239
and now I can't wait to see
what my ads are gonna be on Google

935
01:14:30.239 --> 01:14:34.279
since they got Florida man larva and
nos. Yeah that's gonna be nothing but

936
01:14:34.279 --> 01:14:38.079
but larva plugs, you know,
people saying, like, check out our

937
01:14:38.199 --> 01:14:44.680
larva, they're the best in town. Yeah, I don't even know up

938
01:14:44.760 --> 01:14:47.680
your knows. All right. We
got one more piece of spooky news.

939
01:14:48.319 --> 01:14:55.520
This one is from w XTK News
Radio and it says, chilling video shows

940
01:14:55.520 --> 01:15:01.960
strange shadow creature with glowing eyes behind
boy ah and I love it because they

941
01:15:02.000 --> 01:15:06.720
say that and then don't like,
show up a screen capture of that image,

942
01:15:08.600 --> 01:15:12.800
like, it's not in there at
all. An innocent video. An

943
01:15:12.880 --> 01:15:16.600
innocent video of two children playing hide
and seek has become much more sinister upon

944
01:15:16.680 --> 01:15:20.960
further inspection. It might not have
just been a child hiding in the clip.

945
01:15:21.159 --> 01:15:25.479
The video, which was filmed in
Mexico, shows a little girl finding

946
01:15:25.520 --> 01:15:28.880
a boy behind a large rock and
yelling, I found you. As the

947
01:15:28.920 --> 01:15:32.399
boy reveals himself, what looks like
a tall, dark figure with glowing eyes

948
01:15:32.880 --> 01:15:40.000
rises behind it. The footage was
posted to TikTok, of course, where

949
01:15:40.119 --> 01:15:44.359
viewers were unsure if they were seeing
an animal, something supernatural, or just

950
01:15:44.399 --> 01:15:48.520
an optical illusion. A slowed down
version of the clip was later shared on

951
01:15:48.560 --> 01:15:55.840
YouTube to better show the creepy shadow
creature. So let me see if I

952
01:15:55.880 --> 01:16:00.720
can find the still for you.
Okay, I think they would just link

953
01:16:00.760 --> 01:16:03.720
it. Well, they have the
video, but not. But you'd think

954
01:16:03.720 --> 01:16:10.159
they would like take a capture of
the image, but they don't. So

955
01:16:11.000 --> 01:16:15.000
I'm showing tell the image. Oh
wow, Oh it's just looks like a

956
01:16:15.039 --> 01:16:18.319
person peeking their head up. Yeah. I don't even see the glowing eyes.

957
01:16:19.119 --> 01:16:25.239
Oh never mind, I was looking
too low. It was really tall.

958
01:16:26.560 --> 01:16:30.840
I don't know what that is,
but it's definitely something. Oh maybe

959
01:16:30.880 --> 01:16:35.560
it's that kid. So it does
appear to be like a really tall two

960
01:16:35.680 --> 01:16:41.960
eyes. That could have been some
kind of like bug reflection or something.

961
01:16:43.399 --> 01:16:51.920
I don't know it does it's weird. It is weird, so that would

962
01:16:53.000 --> 01:16:59.760
upset me. Yeah, no,
me too. Commenters had plenty of suggestions

963
01:17:00.239 --> 01:17:03.159
of what's in the video. One
stated that the figure is actually another girl

964
01:17:03.239 --> 01:17:09.359
who had her back turned the shadow
eyes of the girl's pigtails. Okay,

965
01:17:10.479 --> 01:17:13.359
but another wrote quote, I think
that all of us who have lived in

966
01:17:13.399 --> 01:17:16.319
the countryside or in rural areas know
that it is not a good idea to

967
01:17:16.359 --> 01:17:20.399
play hide and seek at night.
My grandmother said that when it gets dark,

968
01:17:20.840 --> 01:17:29.279
the demons will be there playing hide
and seek, playing hide and seek.

969
01:17:29.399 --> 01:17:31.000
I like that because that just sounds
like being told ana, So I

970
01:17:31.000 --> 01:17:34.920
won't be outside playing at night.
And the last piece that this says is

971
01:17:34.960 --> 01:17:42.279
there is no official word on what
the figure is. Why would there be

972
01:17:42.399 --> 01:17:51.439
official word? So that one definitely
chilling, at least that's what they said.

973
01:17:51.479 --> 01:17:55.159
They said it was chilling. Yeah, but we're going to take a

974
01:17:55.239 --> 01:17:57.760
quick break and when we get back
We're going to talk a little bit about

975
01:17:57.760 --> 01:18:14.640
the vanishing hitchhiker right here on monthly
Spooky. All right, we are backed,

976
01:18:14.760 --> 01:18:19.800
and this month's topic is a urban
legend I've been hearing about since I

977
01:18:19.960 --> 01:18:27.199
was a very young boy, the
vanishing hitchhiker. Do you remember the first

978
01:18:27.199 --> 01:18:30.159
time you heard of such a thing, Michelle, No, no, no,

979
01:18:30.439 --> 01:18:33.960
but you know that you have heard
of it. I guess, yeah,

980
01:18:34.000 --> 01:18:36.720
Well, the vanishing hitchhiker. It's
important to keep in mind that there

981
01:18:36.720 --> 01:18:42.159
are an immense amount of variations.
I'm a vanishing hitchhiker. Sometimes it's a

982
01:18:42.159 --> 01:18:45.720
woman in white, sometimes she has
a baby, and sometimes she doesn't.

983
01:18:46.119 --> 01:18:49.920
Yeah. Some of the version of
the variations, they disappear in the backseat

984
01:18:49.960 --> 01:18:56.359
of your car. Some versions you
drop them off and then they disappear later,

985
01:18:56.520 --> 01:18:58.960
or you come back to where you
drop them off to check on them

986
01:18:59.239 --> 01:19:01.239
and find out that, like you
know, well, Tina has been dead

987
01:19:01.319 --> 01:19:08.880
fifteen years last night, Dad.
There's all kinds of variations on the vanishing

988
01:19:08.920 --> 01:19:13.960
hitchhiker. And the reason that I
love the story of the vanishing hitchhiker is

989
01:19:14.039 --> 01:19:18.960
because I love to drive, and
I know you also have enjoyed, like

990
01:19:19.159 --> 01:19:25.960
seeing most of the country by driving. Yeah, and when you drive a

991
01:19:25.960 --> 01:19:32.000
lot at night, it's creepy sometimes. Yeah, you don't find driving at

992
01:19:32.039 --> 01:19:36.760
night creepy, not at all.
No, the only things I find I'm

993
01:19:36.760 --> 01:19:44.039
something about are about driving at night
are that I might fall asleep. That

994
01:19:44.399 --> 01:19:48.680
yad, And then also I might
hit a deer. I have hit a

995
01:19:48.680 --> 01:19:51.800
deer. I don't recommend it.
Yeah, I know, but it was

996
01:19:51.880 --> 01:19:57.479
already dead. But like you've never
driven you have you ever driven through a

997
01:19:57.479 --> 01:20:00.920
full night? I don't really do
that. I don't do it anymore.

998
01:20:00.960 --> 01:20:03.840
I did it when I was really
young. Yeah, I didn't. I

999
01:20:03.880 --> 01:20:10.399
didn't ever do that. But I've
driven like late to get places. But

1000
01:20:10.520 --> 01:20:15.119
I'm not really creeped out by that. Sorry, Oh that's okay. You

1001
01:20:15.159 --> 01:20:18.359
don't have to agree with me,
like as if you ever do rude.

1002
01:20:18.840 --> 01:20:23.520
No, But I mean I've driven. I've probably more than five times.

1003
01:20:23.560 --> 01:20:26.800
I've driven literally through the night,
like I arrived and it was daytime again.

1004
01:20:28.520 --> 01:20:36.159
And there's something about It's like there's
a it's like there's a level where

1005
01:20:36.279 --> 01:20:40.399
you drive at night and it's peaceful
and it's great because there's no traffic,

1006
01:20:40.640 --> 01:20:44.319
Like it's very freeing. But then
it's like once you hit that like three

1007
01:20:44.359 --> 01:20:49.359
am, four am, it just
gets creepy. Yeah, just a little

1008
01:20:49.439 --> 01:20:54.319
bit, because you're traveling pretty fast. But like my favorite example is when

1009
01:20:54.319 --> 01:20:58.359
I would drive down to Georgia.
The first few times I drove down to

1010
01:20:58.399 --> 01:21:01.319
Georgia to see my buddy Andrew,
I was working a day job, so

1011
01:21:01.359 --> 01:21:05.359
I had to leave at like nine
pm, so I would just drive through

1012
01:21:05.359 --> 01:21:09.359
the night because that would arrive in
Georgia at like six or seven in the

1013
01:21:09.359 --> 01:21:14.880
morning. And there was something about
when you would get off the interstate and

1014
01:21:14.920 --> 01:21:18.319
get on just a state route where
you're just driving along and you're turning on

1015
01:21:18.359 --> 01:21:23.279
the winding roads and all you can
see are like the blacked out mountains on

1016
01:21:23.319 --> 01:21:26.159
either side of you, where you're
just like, man, if somebody was

1017
01:21:26.199 --> 01:21:28.880
standing on the side of the road
right now, I'd be so freaked out.

1018
01:21:29.359 --> 01:21:31.439
Yeah, that would be scary,
you know, because you're thinking,

1019
01:21:31.479 --> 01:21:35.159
like I'm alone, but in reality
you're not. I mean you are,

1020
01:21:35.720 --> 01:21:41.319
but you're traveling at like fifty sixty
seventy miles per hour, so like anytime

1021
01:21:41.359 --> 01:21:45.000
now you could come across something.
That's the other thing I find creepy about

1022
01:21:45.039 --> 01:21:49.159
driving at night. Is you're not. Sometimes it feels like you're sitting still,

1023
01:21:50.159 --> 01:21:55.079
but in reality you're traveling obviously.
Yeah, so there is that sense

1024
01:21:55.119 --> 01:21:57.359
of like, you know, I'm
fine, there's nobody out that's late,

1025
01:21:57.439 --> 01:21:59.520
and then all of a sudden,
it's like, you know, sixty miles

1026
01:21:59.560 --> 01:22:02.159
later, it's like, uh,
I'm in a completely different place, and

1027
01:22:02.159 --> 01:22:05.479
now it's foggy and creepy. I
had that happen once driving through North Carolina

1028
01:22:05.520 --> 01:22:11.159
at like four in the morning.
There was just a dense fog everywhere and

1029
01:22:11.199 --> 01:22:14.159
it just and it felt like it
came out of nowhere. I'm just driving

1030
01:22:14.159 --> 01:22:16.079
along and then all of a sudden
it's really foggy. Had to shut my

1031
01:22:16.119 --> 01:22:20.760
high beams off because it was blinding
me. There are areas if you're if

1032
01:22:20.760 --> 01:22:25.000
you're like traveling on ninety five,
there are areas that just do that.

1033
01:22:25.079 --> 01:22:29.119
It's very strange. The last time
that that, uh, that first Joe

1034
01:22:29.119 --> 01:22:31.920
Bob jamboree that I went to in
Nepa, when we were heading back to

1035
01:22:31.960 --> 01:22:34.840
our hotel at four in the morning, it just was foggy as hell.

1036
01:22:35.119 --> 01:22:41.399
Yeah, it was really creepy and
awesome. Where I used to live in

1037
01:22:41.439 --> 01:22:46.800
Plainsboro, there's there's an area like
kind of behind development where there's like office

1038
01:22:46.840 --> 01:22:51.439
buildings and stuff, and for some
reason, if it's if it was foggy

1039
01:22:51.479 --> 01:22:57.279
anywhere, it was foggy there and
really foggy, like you can't see where

1040
01:22:57.319 --> 01:23:03.600
you're going, right, So that's
something. The other thing about the vanishing

1041
01:23:03.680 --> 01:23:09.359
hitchhiker stories, it's inspired so many
concepts about just hitchhikers in general, because

1042
01:23:10.119 --> 01:23:13.960
you and I are from a generation
where hitchhiking was it was generally illegal,

1043
01:23:14.840 --> 01:23:17.159
but there was a long period of
time where hitchhiking was away. People got

1044
01:23:17.199 --> 01:23:23.800
around, yeah, you know,
long distances. And there's something about the

1045
01:23:23.880 --> 01:23:28.680
idea of like driving down a dark
road at night and seeing and it's usually

1046
01:23:28.680 --> 01:23:33.840
a woman because people are more likely
to help women than men. So there's

1047
01:23:33.880 --> 01:23:36.640
this concept of like, oh,
man, there's a woman just standing on

1048
01:23:36.680 --> 01:23:39.560
the side of the road in the
middle of the night. That can't be

1049
01:23:39.640 --> 01:23:43.640
good. Something's got to be wrong. Yeah, so then you stop to

1050
01:23:43.640 --> 01:23:45.960
help her, and whether she's normal. I mean, there are versions of

1051
01:23:45.960 --> 01:23:49.319
the story I've heard where like literally
somebody pulls up to them and rolls the

1052
01:23:49.319 --> 01:23:51.960
window down and calls to them,
and they walk up to them and then

1053
01:23:53.039 --> 01:23:55.199
like when they turn their head,
their face is just a skull and it

1054
01:23:55.239 --> 01:23:57.920
screams, and then they just like
hit the gas and driveways as they can.

1055
01:23:58.399 --> 01:24:00.920
And like, even just telling you
that version, I'm like, what

1056
01:24:01.079 --> 01:24:05.439
creepy. I love a good creepy
story, you know. Yeah. So

1057
01:24:05.800 --> 01:24:11.960
that all being said, I'm looking
at, of course, the most the

1058
01:24:12.000 --> 01:24:18.199
most common and reliable source of information
on Earth, Wikipedia to find out a

1059
01:24:18.199 --> 01:24:24.399
little bit more about the vanishing hitchhiker
story. So let's dive in right now.

1060
01:24:24.800 --> 01:24:27.680
This says. The vanishing hitchhiker,
which is also known as the ghostly

1061
01:24:27.760 --> 01:24:31.319
hitchhiker, disappearing hitchhiker, and phantom
hitchhiker, among others, is an urban

1062
01:24:31.399 --> 01:24:34.960
legend in which people traveling by vehicle
meet with or are accompanied by, a

1063
01:24:35.039 --> 01:24:43.199
hitchhiker who subsequently vanishes without explanation,
often from a moving vehicle. Public knowledge

1064
01:24:43.199 --> 01:24:47.119
of the story expanded greatly with the
nineteen eighty one publication of Jan Harold Brunvaughan's

1065
01:24:47.159 --> 01:24:53.960
nonfiction book The Vanishing Hitchhiker. In
this book, brun vaugh suggests that the

1066
01:24:54.000 --> 01:24:58.800
story of the vanishing hitchhiker can be
traced as far back as the eighteen seventies,

1067
01:25:00.640 --> 01:25:01.520
and I'm sure they're going to talk
about this too. But that's the

1068
01:25:01.560 --> 01:25:06.960
other thing I forgot to mention.
Roads are scary because people die on them.

1069
01:25:08.479 --> 01:25:13.880
Car accidents happen. Like I know
that you grew up, you didn't

1070
01:25:13.880 --> 01:25:16.239
grow up where your mom grew up, like because she grew up in De

1071
01:25:16.319 --> 01:25:21.199
Bronx. So I grew up near
where my mother grew up, but not

1072
01:25:21.399 --> 01:25:28.000
specifically. And I remember my mom
taking me on drives through Farmersville, Ohio.

1073
01:25:28.159 --> 01:25:30.960
Yes, my mother's from goddamn well, she grew up in Farmersville.

1074
01:25:30.079 --> 01:25:35.439
But we would go on drives through
the winding roads of Farmersville. My mom

1075
01:25:35.560 --> 01:25:40.319
loved. That was the thing we
did sometimes when we had nothing, nothing

1076
01:25:40.399 --> 01:25:43.720
pressing. Mom loved to go on
a Sunday drive. That was something that

1077
01:25:43.720 --> 01:25:45.479
we really she and I really enjoyed. We'd go on a Sunday we'd get

1078
01:25:45.479 --> 01:25:49.039
Hamburgers, and then we'd go on
a Sunday drive and we'd just drive on

1079
01:25:49.079 --> 01:25:53.800
the beautiful roads of the back roads
of the rural counties because they're beautiful out

1080
01:25:53.840 --> 01:25:58.600
there. But there was always this
tinge of creepiness. My mother, I

1081
01:25:58.640 --> 01:26:00.720
love her to death. She is
morbid. My mom is a morbid person.

1082
01:26:01.319 --> 01:26:04.199
And it's funny because you would think
I would be a morbid person.

1083
01:26:04.439 --> 01:26:10.119
I fucking founded weekly spooky. Yeah, but I'm not as morbid as my

1084
01:26:10.159 --> 01:26:14.640
mom. So We'll be riding on
the on the back roads of Farmersville and

1085
01:26:14.680 --> 01:26:17.399
my mom will literally like come to
a big curve and she'll take the curve

1086
01:26:17.439 --> 01:26:20.239
and be like, three of my
friends died on prom night on this curve

1087
01:26:20.239 --> 01:26:25.159
because they were driving drunk geese And
I'm like what, And then my mom

1088
01:26:25.239 --> 01:26:27.000
was like, yeah, see the
crosses, And I'm like, oh my

1089
01:26:27.079 --> 01:26:32.560
god, there are crosses on the
side that that happened, And but she

1090
01:26:32.720 --> 01:26:35.359
had multiple ones of those. She
would talk about like how oh yeah,

1091
01:26:35.399 --> 01:26:39.920
Like because it was a small rural
area. So thing kids would do,

1092
01:26:40.199 --> 01:26:42.760
which I'm sure they do a lot
of places, they get drunk, go

1093
01:26:42.800 --> 01:26:46.199
on a drive, and those country
roads can be dangerous. Yeah, well

1094
01:26:46.239 --> 01:26:48.680
and they're not. Just I mean, like, have you ever You probably

1095
01:26:48.720 --> 01:26:54.079
haven't because you're from the East Coast. But a fun thing to do when

1096
01:26:54.079 --> 01:26:57.800
I was a teenager was get in
a car. Nobody would be drunk,

1097
01:26:57.840 --> 01:26:59.960
thank goodness, but we'd get in
a car and we'd go on the cunt

1098
01:27:00.000 --> 01:27:02.079
free roads and just drive as fast
as we want it because at like e

1099
01:27:02.720 --> 01:27:06.119
twelve o'clock at night, it's there's
just nobody. It's you know, everybody,

1100
01:27:06.319 --> 01:27:10.840
everybody that lives in those communities is
asleep because they're getting up at five

1101
01:27:10.840 --> 01:27:13.880
in the morning to do farming.
Yeah. I mean, I didn't do

1102
01:27:13.920 --> 01:27:17.840
that because I didn't have any friends, but I do I did hear about

1103
01:27:18.039 --> 01:27:21.439
some roads that people would do that
on. So yeah, Well, and

1104
01:27:21.479 --> 01:27:26.319
then there's things like you hear about
dead Man's Curve. You know, they're

1105
01:27:26.479 --> 01:27:29.079
like, I mean, I mean, you just hear the concept like it's

1106
01:27:29.119 --> 01:27:30.640
in movies, TV's books, you
know, where it's like, oh,

1107
01:27:30.680 --> 01:27:33.479
yeah, that's dead Man's curve because
it's just like a really hard curve.

1108
01:27:34.039 --> 01:27:36.079
I have a friend who lives in
Waynesville, Ohio, which is in the

1109
01:27:36.119 --> 01:27:43.199
middle of nowhere, and there is
a full, like ninety degree turn on

1110
01:27:43.239 --> 01:27:46.439
this long stretch of back road.
And when I was younger, I remember

1111
01:27:46.479 --> 01:27:50.399
taking that curve and how scary it
was. And now it has five signs

1112
01:27:50.439 --> 01:27:56.119
and a flashing light thing warning you
it's coming right because so many people flung

1113
01:27:56.199 --> 01:28:02.600
right off. There's a Actually I
grew up you know, in relative suburbia,

1114
01:28:02.720 --> 01:28:09.560
but it was fairly undeveloped in certain
directions. So near my house there

1115
01:28:09.640 --> 01:28:14.119
was a really small road that went
towards South Brunswick and it had like a

1116
01:28:14.199 --> 01:28:17.359
ninety degree curve and there was a
house right next to the road, like

1117
01:28:17.600 --> 01:28:21.039
and actually somebody did end up hitting
that house, yeah, because it was

1118
01:28:21.079 --> 01:28:26.000
like against the road, the house
on that curve. I was just telling

1119
01:28:26.000 --> 01:28:29.199
you about. They have a ditch
in front of their house. Smart.

1120
01:28:29.760 --> 01:28:34.119
Yeah, and it's because the house
had been hit. Yeah. So yeah,

1121
01:28:34.199 --> 01:28:38.119
So see what I mean. Like
this is why I think like ghost

1122
01:28:38.159 --> 01:28:40.920
stories involving roads, you start to
think about it and if you go even

1123
01:28:40.960 --> 01:28:43.920
further back, because this says like
eighteen seventies, that would mean that the

1124
01:28:44.000 --> 01:28:47.720
Hitchhiger was being picked up on horseback, yeah, with a carriage. Yeah.

1125
01:28:47.880 --> 01:28:54.520
But again we have stories of ghostly
horsemen. The headless horsemen we have

1126
01:28:54.560 --> 01:28:58.880
stories about and headless horseman is not
just a one off there. It's called

1127
01:28:58.920 --> 01:29:03.319
the doula Han is the term because
there were concepts of headless horsemen over in

1128
01:29:03.520 --> 01:29:08.600
Scotland and all over the world.
There have been this concept of headless horsemen.

1129
01:29:08.640 --> 01:29:12.720
There's been this concept of people dying
while traveling, So then when you're

1130
01:29:12.760 --> 01:29:15.159
traveling, you encounter the spirits of
those who didn't make it when they were

1131
01:29:15.159 --> 01:29:19.880
on the roads and paths and trails
you were on. I just think that

1132
01:29:20.000 --> 01:29:26.199
traveling has this interesting element to it
because it can be dangerous to travel.

1133
01:29:26.760 --> 01:29:30.600
And you know, what's the most
important part about a ghost story. Ghostory

1134
01:29:30.640 --> 01:29:32.439
has to take place in the past, because you know, you can't be

1135
01:29:32.520 --> 01:29:36.279
like and then five years from now
they all die. That makes sense,

1136
01:29:36.640 --> 01:29:40.279
so that but that also feeds into
it because you can be like, well,

1137
01:29:40.600 --> 01:29:44.439
in the sixties cars were less safe, you know, you know,

1138
01:29:44.600 --> 01:29:48.079
or or before cars orse drong,
carriages weren't that safe. Things like that.

1139
01:29:48.520 --> 01:29:54.319
It just plays with your It plays
with your expectations of the world around

1140
01:29:54.359 --> 01:29:57.199
you to be like this road could
have who knows how many people have died

1141
01:29:57.239 --> 01:30:00.640
in a car accident on a road
and any given place you're at. So

1142
01:30:00.680 --> 01:30:01.439
then all of a sudden, it's
like, well, then why wouldn't a

1143
01:30:01.520 --> 01:30:06.560
hitchhiker in the middle of the night
maybe be an unhappy spirit who wants to

1144
01:30:06.800 --> 01:30:11.319
or even a non eventful spirit,
a spirit that just wants to make sure

1145
01:30:11.399 --> 01:30:13.760
you slow down when you're on the
road. There are a lot of stories

1146
01:30:13.760 --> 01:30:16.640
like that too, where it's like
a hitchhiker. I've heard story versions of

1147
01:30:16.680 --> 01:30:21.039
it where a hitchhiker is standing on
the curve of a road, so somebody

1148
01:30:21.079 --> 01:30:26.520
stops to help them, and in
reality, the supposedly the story is that

1149
01:30:26.520 --> 01:30:30.159
the ghost was just there to make
you slow down on the curve. Because

1150
01:30:30.680 --> 01:30:33.960
Yeah, when I was a young
man, my friend who was about two

1151
01:30:34.039 --> 01:30:38.119
or three years older than he,
took me out to Waynesville, to the

1152
01:30:38.119 --> 01:30:41.279
middle of nowhere, and we parked
on the side of the road and he

1153
01:30:41.319 --> 01:30:45.760
told me this ghost story about how
there's a ghost car of Waynesville that drives

1154
01:30:45.800 --> 01:30:48.880
down this road at night, late
at night, scary thing, and that

1155
01:30:48.960 --> 01:30:53.119
what you have to do is sit
and wait. Could take forever for the

1156
01:30:53.159 --> 01:30:57.680
car to come, but it always
comes. And the second we saw headlights

1157
01:30:57.680 --> 01:31:00.439
way down the road, he was
like, there it is. Now.

1158
01:31:00.560 --> 01:31:03.560
Just remember when the ghost car comes, it looks like a normal car,

1159
01:31:04.079 --> 01:31:09.319
but when it gets right next to
you, when it passes right by you,

1160
01:31:09.359 --> 01:31:12.760
the car will vanish and you'll realize
that the person driving is just a

1161
01:31:12.800 --> 01:31:17.319
skull, like a screaming skull.
And then as the car comes down.

1162
01:31:17.640 --> 01:31:19.760
The second it gets close enough to
your car to where you could see us

1163
01:31:19.840 --> 01:31:24.279
driving it, he just went ah
and screamed, you know, really loud,

1164
01:31:24.359 --> 01:31:26.840
and scared the everloving hell out of
me. And then I did that

1165
01:31:26.880 --> 01:31:30.199
to like five or ten other people
myself. That's such a good gas.

1166
01:31:30.439 --> 01:31:33.600
It's solid, So you know,
That's what I mean though, Like there's

1167
01:31:33.600 --> 01:31:39.000
something about dark roads at night and
ghost stories that I feel like just goes

1168
01:31:39.039 --> 01:31:45.279
together really well. Yeah. So, oh man, now I'm always spooped

1169
01:31:45.279 --> 01:31:51.560
out. Oh my gosh. Oh
so. Similar stories have been reported for

1170
01:31:51.600 --> 01:31:58.039
centuries across the world, in places
like England, Ethiopia, Korea, France,

1171
01:31:58.119 --> 01:32:01.760
South Africa, Czarist Rush, and
in America among Chinese, Americans,

1172
01:32:01.800 --> 01:32:09.039
Mormons, and Ozark mountaineers. Wow. What was probably the first vanishing hitchhiker

1173
01:32:09.119 --> 01:32:14.079
legend can be found in the four
hundred year old manuscript Ohmed the Teca h

1174
01:32:14.399 --> 01:32:21.199
Wick under some forgingo that latursk owentz
debt, which translates approximately as about the

1175
01:32:21.279 --> 01:32:28.079
signs and wonders that preceded the liturgical
event. Okay, just away with words.

1176
01:32:28.319 --> 01:32:32.159
Yeah. The author Joan Petrie Clint, a priest in the Diocese of

1177
01:32:32.319 --> 01:32:36.880
Lincoln Ping, Sweden and diligent collector
of omens. That's the person who wrote

1178
01:32:36.880 --> 01:32:42.600
it. So he was like a
kind of a supernatural priest type, which

1179
01:32:42.600 --> 01:32:46.119
I think they may have all been
four hundred years ago that way. So

1180
01:32:47.159 --> 01:32:49.279
we're gonna take a quick break,
and then when we get back, we're

1181
01:32:49.279 --> 01:32:55.399
gonna look at some variations of the
vanishing hitchhiker right here on Monthly Spooky.

1182
01:32:55.479 --> 01:32:59.720
So don't pick up any I hope, I hope in prachell that someone who's

1183
01:32:59.720 --> 01:33:03.039
listening to this is on a dark
highway right now. I hope. So.

1184
01:33:03.159 --> 01:33:06.119
Oh, I hope they have a
hitchhiker in their car. Oh my

1185
01:33:06.199 --> 01:33:09.920
gosh, that would be the best. The hitchhiker would just be like looking

1186
01:33:10.000 --> 01:33:14.279
back and forth. Uh, I'm
not a ghost, which is exactly what

1187
01:33:14.319 --> 01:33:26.399
a ghost would say. Yeah,
and we are back with some variations of

1188
01:33:26.439 --> 01:33:29.399
the vanishing hitchhiker story. And again, if you're listening to this in your

1189
01:33:29.399 --> 01:33:31.760
car right now, with a hitchhiker
sitting next to you in your back seat,

1190
01:33:31.960 --> 01:33:38.159
just give them a little side eye. Yeah. A common variation of

1191
01:33:38.199 --> 01:33:43.760
the above involves the vanishing hitchhiker departing
as would a normal passenger having left some

1192
01:33:43.960 --> 01:33:47.479
item in the vehicle, or having
borrowed a garment for protection against the cold,

1193
01:33:47.720 --> 01:33:53.359
right, yeah, yeah. The
vanishing hitchhiker may also leave some form

1194
01:33:53.399 --> 01:33:59.640
of information that encourages the motorists to
make subsequent contact. In such accounts of

1195
01:33:59.640 --> 01:34:03.319
the led, the garment borrowed is
often found draped over a gravestone in a

1196
01:34:03.359 --> 01:34:08.479
local cemetery. One of the first
versions I heard, I'm getting goosebumps.

1197
01:34:08.840 --> 01:34:13.479
One of the first versions I ever
heard was the scarf draped over one of

1198
01:34:13.479 --> 01:34:16.359
those little crosses that's put on the
side of the road when people die on

1199
01:34:16.439 --> 01:34:19.840
the side of the road. Right, that makes it. Yeah, So

1200
01:34:19.880 --> 01:34:24.880
that was the first version I ever
heard. In this and other versions of

1201
01:34:24.920 --> 01:34:28.960
the urban legend, the unsuspecting motorist
makes contact with the family of the deceased

1202
01:34:28.960 --> 01:34:32.279
person using the information the hitchhiker left
behind, and finds that the family's description

1203
01:34:32.359 --> 01:34:36.239
of the deceased matches the passenger motorists
picked up, and also finds that they

1204
01:34:36.239 --> 01:34:42.199
were killed in some unexpected way,
usually a car accident, and that the

1205
01:34:42.279 --> 01:34:47.119
driver's encounter with the vanishing hitchhiker occurred
on the anniversary of their death. Yeah,

1206
01:34:47.199 --> 01:34:49.319
I used to always. I mean, that's one of my favorite gags.

1207
01:34:49.359 --> 01:34:51.880
I made a joke about that just
earlier in the show about like why

1208
01:34:51.920 --> 01:34:57.199
he's been dead fifteen years ago yesterday? You know, I always joked that

1209
01:34:57.239 --> 01:35:00.239
I wanted to make a friend somewhere
publicly and tell them they shel come and

1210
01:35:00.319 --> 01:35:02.279
visit sometime, and then pay someone
to do that when they get there.

1211
01:35:03.560 --> 01:35:09.680
Enrique, haven't heard that name in
twenty five years? Is this some kind

1212
01:35:09.680 --> 01:35:12.039
of joke? I love when they
go, Is this some kind of joke

1213
01:35:12.119 --> 01:35:19.920
or that's not funny? Or other
variations reverse this scenario in that the hitchhiker

1214
01:35:19.960 --> 01:35:25.720
meets a driver. The hitchhiker later
learns that the driver is actually an apparition

1215
01:35:26.239 --> 01:35:31.840
of a person who died earlier.
That's interesting, I mean, because there's

1216
01:35:31.880 --> 01:35:36.039
so many other factors there, because
I assume that means that the car is

1217
01:35:36.079 --> 01:35:41.079
also a ghost. But somehow you
went in the car, so ghost flying

1218
01:35:41.199 --> 01:35:46.079
in the air? Yeah, the
ghost car? Yeah? Is that the

1219
01:35:46.159 --> 01:35:54.079
most ridiculous thing you've heard today,
let alone ever? Kind of because they

1220
01:35:54.159 --> 01:35:59.600
just don't understand physics of that,
But whatever, fair enough. I mean,

1221
01:35:59.640 --> 01:36:01.279
I've actually heard a lot of stories
about ghost cars yeah, but can

1222
01:36:01.319 --> 01:36:04.600
you get inside them and go places? It's my question. I've heard a

1223
01:36:04.600 --> 01:36:09.079
couple of that, usually not though. Usually it's it's that the ghost car

1224
01:36:09.119 --> 01:36:12.560
will come. Well, I'd heard
a version where this like, if you're

1225
01:36:12.640 --> 01:36:15.640
a hitchhiking on a specific stretch of
road, a ghost car will pick you

1226
01:36:15.760 --> 01:36:20.039
up and then crash just like it
did, you know, all those years

1227
01:36:20.039 --> 01:36:25.880
ago, with you inside. Wow, that seems mean. I've heard versions

1228
01:36:25.880 --> 01:36:28.920
where it's that. I've heard versions
where they pick you up so that you

1229
01:36:29.079 --> 01:36:33.840
don't crash, like they rescue you. They like drop you off just past

1230
01:36:33.880 --> 01:36:39.840
where they died. That's nice.
Yeah, it's nice. Just because you're

1231
01:36:39.840 --> 01:36:45.319
an evil apparition doesn't mean you can't
be a mensch. Yeah. So uh,

1232
01:36:45.520 --> 01:36:49.680
let's see other very Okay. Not
all vanishing hitchhiker legends involve ghosts.

1233
01:36:50.600 --> 01:36:59.000
One popular variant in Hawaii involves the
goddess Pele traveling the roads incognito and rewarding

1234
01:36:59.079 --> 01:37:04.600
kind travelers. Other variants include hitchhikers
who utter prophecies, typically of pending catastrophes

1235
01:37:04.680 --> 01:37:10.800
or other evil events, before vanishing. Hmmm, I think I've heard the

1236
01:37:10.800 --> 01:37:15.039
Pele version where like you pick up
a woman and you help her and and

1237
01:37:15.319 --> 01:37:17.159
like you pick up a hitchhiker woman
and she helps you or you help her,

1238
01:37:17.600 --> 01:37:21.800
and then she rewards you by like
blessing your family. It's interesting because

1239
01:37:21.800 --> 01:37:29.359
it has a different, different kind
of moral thing than you know. I

1240
01:37:29.479 --> 01:37:31.760
mean, it's like you should pick
up hitchhikers, I mean nice to them

1241
01:37:32.000 --> 01:37:36.079
because they might help you instead of
oh no, I feel like I've heard

1242
01:37:36.079 --> 01:37:41.680
a version where because I've heard I
mean really like the reason I chose this

1243
01:37:41.720 --> 01:37:44.760
topic was I was like, I
can't even nail down one version of the

1244
01:37:44.840 --> 01:37:48.079
vanishing hitchhiker story. There's so many
types. I feel like I've heard one

1245
01:37:48.079 --> 01:37:53.600
where like you pick up a hitchhiker
and it's like if you didn't pick them

1246
01:37:53.680 --> 01:37:57.560
up, you were definitely going to
die, like they did, like they

1247
01:37:57.600 --> 01:38:00.760
prevented you from crashing your car.
I've heard that a lot. Okay,

1248
01:38:01.680 --> 01:38:08.119
a lot of these stories are about
the idea that like supernatural things that happen

1249
01:38:08.159 --> 01:38:13.079
are on a loop, like they
happen every night or every year or every

1250
01:38:13.119 --> 01:38:15.760
ten years or whatever, or every
time it's a full moon or every time

1251
01:38:15.880 --> 01:38:19.279
the you know, the wind is
high or whatever, that like this thing

1252
01:38:19.319 --> 01:38:25.079
will always happen, and there'll be
a ghost trying to stop you from reliving

1253
01:38:25.079 --> 01:38:28.039
their pain, or or a ghost
hoping to make you relive the pain,

1254
01:38:28.039 --> 01:38:30.439
but then you're kind and they let
you go, or what have you.

1255
01:38:32.880 --> 01:38:35.479
Oh, here's one. There is
a similar story, which is about two

1256
01:38:35.560 --> 01:38:39.840
travelers sitting next to each other on
a train, normally a man and a

1257
01:38:39.880 --> 01:38:43.199
woman. One of them is reading
a book and the other person asks what

1258
01:38:43.279 --> 01:38:47.439
the book is about. The first
person says that it's about ghosts. They

1259
01:38:47.520 --> 01:38:53.239
then have a conversation about ghosts,
and the second person asks the first if

1260
01:38:53.239 --> 01:38:57.279
they believe in ghosts or have ever
seen one, to which the first person

1261
01:38:57.319 --> 01:39:00.680
says that they have never seen or
believed in ghosts at all. The second

1262
01:39:00.680 --> 01:39:06.640
person replies that it is doubtful and
vanishes this version. Oh yeah, that

1263
01:39:06.680 --> 01:39:10.600
was in Scary Stories to Tell in
the Dark book. That was in that

1264
01:39:10.640 --> 01:39:15.920
one. That was their version of
the vanishing Hitchhiker. I love I love

1265
01:39:15.960 --> 01:39:18.000
folklore like this, dude, like
I eat it up ever since I was

1266
01:39:18.000 --> 01:39:23.159
a little boy. I think it's
obvious if you listen in any way to

1267
01:39:24.840 --> 01:39:29.199
anything we do here at weekly spooky
that I love those campfire stories. I

1268
01:39:29.199 --> 01:39:32.560
love those stories that were like a
whispered between giggles and bites of pizza at

1269
01:39:32.680 --> 01:39:38.439
slumber parties and stuff like. I
live for that stuff. I think it's

1270
01:39:38.479 --> 01:39:44.279
I think it's the most pure form
of human expression. Yeah, are those

1271
01:39:44.319 --> 01:39:48.039
stories, Because what's more human than
like like you meeting with your friends and

1272
01:39:48.039 --> 01:39:49.920
going like, oh, I gotta
tell you guy, I heard this thing

1273
01:39:49.960 --> 01:39:54.840
and is so freaky. I've got
to tell my friends. I love that.

1274
01:39:55.520 --> 01:39:57.920
And that's one thing I am.
One reason I'm glad I went to

1275
01:39:57.920 --> 01:40:00.560
public school because I got all of
that. Of course, not all of

1276
01:40:00.600 --> 01:40:02.359
it was fun and spooky. Some
of it was like, you know that

1277
01:40:02.359 --> 01:40:08.680
Marilyn Manson removed ribs so he could
give himself fallatio or whatever. You know,

1278
01:40:08.960 --> 01:40:13.439
they're all kinds with or that.
One of my favorites was that Paul

1279
01:40:13.800 --> 01:40:15.920
the best friend in the Wonder Years, you know, the nerdy friend Paul

1280
01:40:16.520 --> 01:40:19.880
that he grew up to be Marilyn
Manson. Oh wow, that was an

1281
01:40:19.960 --> 01:40:24.439
urban legend for a really long time. Yeah, I didn't know that one.

1282
01:40:24.800 --> 01:40:28.119
It's not true, by the way. Yeah, they just both have

1283
01:40:28.359 --> 01:40:35.000
prominent noses. That's the only comparison. So now we have a thing about

1284
01:40:35.039 --> 01:40:43.520
classifications of the vanishing hitchhiker. The
first one is Beardsley and Hanky. This

1285
01:40:43.600 --> 01:40:47.079
is a study about the story.
The first proper study of the story of

1286
01:40:47.119 --> 01:40:53.199
the vanishing hitchhiker was undertaken in nineteen
forty two and forty three by American folklorists

1287
01:40:53.479 --> 01:40:58.359
Richard Beardsley and Rosalie Hanky, who
collected as many accounts as they could and

1288
01:40:58.399 --> 01:41:04.119
attempted to analyze them interesting. The
Beardsley Hanky survey elicited seventy nine written accounts

1289
01:41:04.119 --> 01:41:11.600
of encounters with vanishing hitchhikers drawn from
across the United States. They found four

1290
01:41:11.720 --> 01:41:19.319
distinctly different versions, distinguishable because of
obvious differences in development and essence, and

1291
01:41:19.359 --> 01:41:25.760
these are described as a stories where
the hitchhiker gives an address through which the

1292
01:41:25.800 --> 01:41:30.479
motorist learns he has just given a
lift to a ghost. Forty nine of

1293
01:41:30.479 --> 01:41:34.880
the Beardsley Hankly samples fell into this
category, with responses from sixteen states in

1294
01:41:34.920 --> 01:41:41.560
the US. Another version, which
they labeled B, is stories where the

1295
01:41:41.640 --> 01:41:45.720
hitchhiker is an old woman who prophesies
disaster or the end of World War II.

1296
01:41:46.399 --> 01:41:54.720
Oh Subsequent injured inquiries likewise reveal her
to be deceased. Nine of the

1297
01:41:54.760 --> 01:41:58.680
samples fit this description, in eight
of these came from the vicinity of Chicago.

1298
01:41:59.159 --> 01:42:03.359
Interesting, Beardsley and Hankley felt that
this indicated a local origin, which

1299
01:42:03.359 --> 01:42:10.159
they dated to approximately nineteen thirty three. Okay. Two of the Version B

1300
01:42:10.359 --> 01:42:15.600
Hitchhikers in this sample foretold disaster at
the Century of Progress Exposition, and another

1301
01:42:15.640 --> 01:42:23.439
foresaw calamity at the World's Fair.
The strict topicality of these unsuccessful forecasts did

1302
01:42:23.439 --> 01:42:28.000
not appear to thwart the appearance of
further Version B Hitchhikers, one of whom

1303
01:42:28.039 --> 01:42:31.760
warned that Northerly Island in Lake Michigan
would soon be submerged, which has not

1304
01:42:31.880 --> 01:42:41.720
yet occurred. Not yet. Dune
Dun, Dun. See stories where a

1305
01:42:41.760 --> 01:42:45.840
girl is met at some place of
entertainment a dance instead of the road.

1306
01:42:46.319 --> 01:42:50.159
On the road, she leaves some
token, often an overcoat she borrowed from

1307
01:42:50.159 --> 01:42:55.720
the motorist, on her grave by
the by way of corroborating the experience and

1308
01:42:55.800 --> 01:43:00.319
her identity. The uniformity amongst separate
accounts of this very led Beardsley and Hankley

1309
01:43:00.399 --> 01:43:08.159
to strongly doubt it's folkloric authenticity.
They're so alike that they don't think that

1310
01:43:08.199 --> 01:43:13.800
it's folklore interesting, and then d
stories where the hitchhiker is later identified as

1311
01:43:13.840 --> 01:43:18.119
a local divinity, which would be
like the Pelee story and stuff. Beardsley

1312
01:43:18.159 --> 01:43:23.479
and Hankley were particularly interested to note
one instance in Kingston, New York in

1313
01:43:23.560 --> 01:43:27.960
nineteen forty one, in which the
vanishing hitchhiker was subsequently identified as the late

1314
01:43:28.039 --> 01:43:32.119
Mother Cabrini. There's a movie about
her out right now in theaters called Cabrini.

1315
01:43:33.319 --> 01:43:39.079
She was the first nun sent to
America to like run Catholic stuff.

1316
01:43:39.439 --> 01:43:43.359
Ok first woman to run Catholic stuff
in America and making it very very basic.

1317
01:43:43.359 --> 01:43:46.159
But that's how I understand it.
A founder of the local Sacred Heart

1318
01:43:46.239 --> 01:43:51.359
orphanage who was beatified for her work. Beatified, betified to what that means?

1319
01:43:51.840 --> 01:43:58.560
Yeah, let's look up that word. Beatification is a recognition accorded by

1320
01:43:58.640 --> 01:44:01.880
the Catholic Church of a deceased person's
entrance into heaven and capacity to intercede on

1321
01:44:01.920 --> 01:44:05.600
behalf of individuals who pray in her
name. Okay, so it's not quite

1322
01:44:05.680 --> 01:44:11.159
being not quite being a saint,
m hm. Okay, but we know

1323
01:44:11.239 --> 01:44:15.359
she got into heaven. Lucky Yeah. The authors felt that this was a

1324
01:44:15.399 --> 01:44:23.359
case of version B glimpsed in transition
to version D. Okay. Beardsley and

1325
01:44:23.399 --> 01:44:27.239
Hankley concluded that version A was the
closest to the original form of the story,

1326
01:44:27.279 --> 01:44:30.319
containing the essential elements of the legend. Version B and D, they

1327
01:44:30.359 --> 01:44:34.640
believed were localized variations, while C
was supposed to have started life as a

1328
01:44:34.680 --> 01:44:41.359
separate ghost story which at some stage
became conflated with the original vanishing hitchhiker story.

1329
01:44:41.560 --> 01:44:44.880
Okay, this is fascinating. I
love this. I love that somebody

1330
01:44:44.880 --> 01:44:50.119
sat and studied this. One of
their conclusions certainly seems reflected in the continuation

1331
01:44:50.239 --> 01:44:56.520
of vanishing hitchhiker stories. The hitchhiker
is in the majority of cases female and

1332
01:44:56.560 --> 01:45:02.279
the lift giver male. Beardsley and
Hanksley's sample contained forty seven young female apparitions,

1333
01:45:02.479 --> 01:45:09.359
fourteen old lady apperations, and fourteen
more of an undeterminate sort, so

1334
01:45:09.520 --> 01:45:15.840
none of the stories were out and
out men that were the hitchhikers. Then

1335
01:45:15.880 --> 01:45:19.479
we look at Bowman's study of the
hitchhikers. Ernest W. Bowman's Type and

1336
01:45:19.600 --> 01:45:25.359
Motif Index of the folklore tales of
England and North America in nineteen sixty six

1337
01:45:25.479 --> 01:45:30.600
delineates the basic vanishing hitchhiker as follows. Ghost of young woman asks for ride

1338
01:45:30.600 --> 01:45:34.640
and automobile disappears from closed car without
the driver's knowledge. After giving him an

1339
01:45:34.640 --> 01:45:39.760
address to which she wishes to be
taken. The driver asks person at the

1340
01:45:39.800 --> 01:45:43.960
address about the rider, finds she
has been dead for some time. Often,

1341
01:45:43.960 --> 01:45:47.000
the driver finds that the ghost has
made similar attempts to return, usually

1342
01:45:47.039 --> 01:45:50.760
on the anniversary of death in an
automobile accident. Often, too, the

1343
01:45:50.760 --> 01:45:56.439
ghost leaves some such item as a
scarf or traveling bag in the car.

1344
01:45:58.399 --> 01:46:06.159
Yeah sounds right. Bowman's classification system
grades this basic story as motif E three.

1345
01:46:06.640 --> 01:46:14.279
This is crazy. This is so
detailed, but basically the subcategories include

1346
01:46:15.199 --> 01:46:18.880
hitchhikers who reappear on anniversaries, hitchhikers
who leave items and vehicles unless the item

1347
01:46:18.960 --> 01:46:23.159
is in a pool of water,
in which case it is referring to a

1348
01:46:23.159 --> 01:46:28.000
different Yeah, this is crazy.
How this is for accounts of sinister old

1349
01:46:28.079 --> 01:46:33.000
ladies who prophesied disasters, or could
account accounts of phantoms who are apparently sufficiently

1350
01:46:33.039 --> 01:46:39.479
solid to engage in activities such as
eating and drinking during their journey, phantom

1351
01:46:39.560 --> 01:46:42.439
parents who want to be taken to
the sick bed of their dying son,

1352
01:46:43.039 --> 01:46:48.399
No hitchhikers who simply request a lift
home, and a category reserved exclusively for

1353
01:46:48.520 --> 01:46:55.560
vanishing nuns, which is a surprisingly
common variant. Interesting, and many of

1354
01:46:55.560 --> 01:47:00.159
whom foretell the future. So here
the phenomena blends in religious encounters with the

1355
01:47:00.159 --> 01:47:05.359
next and last vanishing hitchhiker classification for
being encounters with divinities who take the road

1356
01:47:05.760 --> 01:47:10.359
take to the road as hitchhikers.
The legend of Saint Christopher is considered one

1357
01:47:10.359 --> 01:47:14.520
of these, and the story of
Philip the evangelist being transported by God after

1358
01:47:14.600 --> 01:47:20.079
encountering the Ethiopian on the road.
Okay, that's a Bible story that's somewhat

1359
01:47:20.119 --> 01:47:26.000
similar. Okay, so we're gonna
take a quick break and we'll be back

1360
01:47:26.039 --> 01:47:30.840
to wrap up all of our information
about the vanishing hitchhiker right here a monthly

1361
01:47:30.880 --> 01:47:43.800
Spooky and I hope that hitchhiker hasn't
disappeared in your car yet. And we

1362
01:47:43.880 --> 01:47:48.920
are back wrapping up our little dive
into the vanishing hitchhiker legend, which during

1363
01:47:48.920 --> 01:47:50.880
the break, I was like,
man, I want to get these books

1364
01:47:50.920 --> 01:47:55.319
about the about folklore, and it
turns I own all of them already,

1365
01:47:55.880 --> 01:48:00.000
so I guess I should probably do
more reading than buying. That's a painful

1366
01:48:00.039 --> 01:48:05.239
lesson I'll never learn. So now
we're going to break into what many people

1367
01:48:05.279 --> 01:48:12.520
believe is the first vanishing hitchhiker legend. Okay, it says the author was

1368
01:48:12.600 --> 01:48:16.039
Joan Petrie Clint, a priest in
diocese from Sweden we talked about earlier,

1369
01:48:16.960 --> 01:48:21.159
and a diligent collector of omens.
In February sixteen oh two, a priest

1370
01:48:21.239 --> 01:48:26.960
and two farmers were on their way
home from the Candle mass market in Vostergotland.

1371
01:48:27.239 --> 01:48:30.680
A maid asked to go along.
At an end, they got off

1372
01:48:30.720 --> 01:48:32.640
to get a bite to eat,
and the maid wanted something to drink,

1373
01:48:32.960 --> 01:48:36.640
a jug of beer, which was
a common beverage. The first time the

1374
01:48:36.640 --> 01:48:43.000
innkeeper fetched beer, the jug was
filled with molt, second time acorns,

1375
01:48:43.479 --> 01:48:50.560
and finally blood. Sweet that acorns
were in the middle there but whatever they

1376
01:48:50.560 --> 01:48:55.760
were. Then horrified, the maid
explained that this year will yield much grain,

1377
01:48:56.199 --> 01:49:00.000
plenty of fruit on the trees,
but also war and pestile. So

1378
01:49:00.119 --> 01:49:11.960
I brought you this blood. She
then disappeared into thin air. The incident

1379
01:49:12.000 --> 01:49:15.079
contains all the hallmarks of a vanishing
hitchhiker. It fits well with Beardsley and

1380
01:49:15.119 --> 01:49:20.199
Hankley's B and C categories when the
hitchhiker disappeared after making a prediction. The

1381
01:49:20.199 --> 01:49:26.600
beers transformations match Bowman's categories when the
maid left behind seed, acorns, and

1382
01:49:26.640 --> 01:49:30.399
blood, and the other category when
she predicted the future. However, Clint

1383
01:49:30.439 --> 01:49:35.920
does not mention whether the prophecy was
correct. And then it also fits some

1384
01:49:35.960 --> 01:49:41.880
categories for wanting something to drink and
for being on her way home. I

1385
01:49:41.920 --> 01:49:46.720
guess I don't know. I mean, I mean, considering how old that

1386
01:49:46.760 --> 01:49:50.079
story is, it's from sixteen oh
two, I mean, that could be

1387
01:49:50.119 --> 01:49:55.520
the seed of the concept. I
guess it's possible because that's a very long

1388
01:49:55.520 --> 01:50:00.319
time ago. I guess so.
And they're like education research people, so

1389
01:50:00.359 --> 01:50:05.479
they are probably right. Well,
now we'll talk a very little bit about

1390
01:50:05.479 --> 01:50:13.000
the skeptical reception to the concept of
the vanishing hitchhiker. Paranormal researcher Michael Gross

1391
01:50:13.079 --> 01:50:16.920
or Michael Goss, in his book
The Evidence for Phantom Hitchhikers? Wait is

1392
01:50:16.960 --> 01:50:21.279
that A that's a book? I
want that book discovered that many reports of

1393
01:50:21.319 --> 01:50:26.520
vanishing hitchhikers turned out to be based
on folklore and hearsay stories. Wow,

1394
01:50:26.840 --> 01:50:30.800
must be a short book. Yeah. Goss also examined some cases and attributed

1395
01:50:30.800 --> 01:50:39.039
them to hallucination of the experiencer.
Sure, what, You've never imagined a

1396
01:50:39.119 --> 01:50:44.399
hitchhiker in my car that I picked
up? It was just once? So

1397
01:50:44.680 --> 01:50:49.000
okay, only once? Is that
doesn't count? Yeah? According to Goss,

1398
01:50:49.039 --> 01:50:55.399
most of the stories are fabricated folklore
creations retold in new settings. Sure

1399
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skeptic Joe Nichol who I Love?
Joe Nichol the one of the world's only

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full time paranormal investigators. He studied
dozens of hundreds of cases of the paranormal.

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01:51:06.159 --> 01:51:11.199
Love Joe Nichol, who investigated two
alleged cases, concluded that there is

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01:51:11.279 --> 01:51:16.279
no reliable evidence for vanishing hitchhikers.
Historical examples have their origin in folklore tales

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01:51:16.319 --> 01:51:23.479
in urban legends. Modern cases also, modern cases often involve conflicting accounts that

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01:51:23.600 --> 01:51:29.039
may well be the result of exaggeration, illusion, or hoaxing. Well,

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01:51:29.479 --> 01:51:31.439
I mean, I feel like this
is a this is a kind of story

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01:51:32.239 --> 01:51:36.960
that you're not going to really find
evidence for because I could just be like

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01:51:38.000 --> 01:51:40.720
Oh my god, I picked up
a hitchhiker and they weren't real. It's

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01:51:40.720 --> 01:51:43.479
like, well, how are we
gonna how are we going to go back?

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01:51:43.520 --> 01:51:48.279
And you know, do tests to
see if this happened. You can't.

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01:51:49.479 --> 01:51:51.239
I mean, you could go to
the same spot and see if the

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01:51:51.319 --> 01:51:57.079
hitchhiker shows up again. But maybe
it's only once seventy five years, you

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01:51:57.119 --> 01:52:01.600
know, who knows. So it's
also worth mentioning that almost every continent in

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01:52:01.640 --> 01:52:05.920
the world has multiple haunted roads,
like roads that people believe are haunted.

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01:52:08.960 --> 01:52:13.199
Also worth mentioning. Some people believe
this may have something to do with highway

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01:52:13.279 --> 01:52:17.279
hypnosis. That's weird. You never
heard of highway hypnosis? No, I

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01:52:17.359 --> 01:52:21.159
have. I just don't see how
that would have anything to do with it.

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01:52:21.960 --> 01:52:28.800
Okay, is in highway hypnosis just
when you get really used driving on

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01:52:28.840 --> 01:52:33.079
a road, so you're not really
so you don't usually remember all of it

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01:52:33.239 --> 01:52:39.520
when you drove on it. Yeah, it's basically you kind of lose memory.

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01:52:39.960 --> 01:52:42.640
Yeah, because you're it's something you're
so used to doing that you just

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01:52:42.800 --> 01:52:49.279
forget that. It's your brain just
basically doesn't save the journey because it's so

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01:52:49.520 --> 01:52:54.560
common. So I have no idea. What that would how that would make

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01:52:54.600 --> 01:52:58.119
sense. Well, if you hallucinated
and also had highway hypnosis, it would

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01:52:58.159 --> 01:53:06.600
be hard to tell was real.
I'm pretty sure if you experience something that

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01:53:06.800 --> 01:53:12.920
was a hitchhiker on the side of
the road, you wouldn't have highway hypnosis.

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01:53:13.279 --> 01:53:17.520
Like, you know, it's not
like if you're driving on a highway

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01:53:17.600 --> 01:53:23.279
and you're in really bad traffic,
which is unusual, you're not highway hypnosising

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01:53:23.319 --> 01:53:27.439
anymore. You know, like it's
only when you're having a very normal time

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01:53:27.520 --> 01:53:31.359
on a road you're familiar with.
So I don't know. I think I

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01:53:31.439 --> 01:53:34.680
kind of think people when they hear
highway hypnosis, they think it's something like

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01:53:34.720 --> 01:53:39.239
really weird and scary, and they
like want to, you know, push

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01:53:39.279 --> 01:53:43.359
it to something like that. But
I just it's just like anything else.

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01:53:43.399 --> 01:53:46.159
It's like I don't remember what I
did at three pm yesterday, you know,

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01:53:46.479 --> 01:53:50.039
like it doesn't if there was a
ghost in my house then and it

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01:53:50.119 --> 01:53:55.159
was talking to me, i'd remember, though, So I think we could

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01:53:55.199 --> 01:53:59.880
both agree life is a highway and
I want to ride it all not long,

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01:54:00.319 --> 01:54:05.760
I guess. Oh fine, Well
that is a little dive into the

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01:54:05.840 --> 01:54:14.760
concept of the vanishing hitchhiker, and
there are lots of similar stories that it

1439
01:54:14.840 --> 01:54:18.479
mentions in here, such as A
two two nine road, which is a

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01:54:18.520 --> 01:54:25.600
place that's believed to have lots of
phantom hitchhikers, the Belkan Tunnel in Switzerland,

1441
01:54:26.600 --> 01:54:31.560
a giant list of haunted highways all
over the world. There's the Niles

1442
01:54:31.600 --> 01:54:38.920
Canyon Ghost, Madam KOIKOI like the
Green Man, which is kind of a

1443
01:54:39.000 --> 01:54:45.600
hitch hiker. There's a lot of
fascinating concepts. So that all being said,

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01:54:45.760 --> 01:54:49.239
Michelle is positive they don't exist.
So if you're if you are listening

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01:54:49.279 --> 01:54:55.079
to this and you are a vanishing
hitchhiker, she denies your existence and denies

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01:54:55.119 --> 01:55:00.640
your life experience. Sorry, that's
harsh, Shell. Yeah, before we

1447
01:55:00.680 --> 01:55:05.760
get out of here, do you
have any redditiness to share with us today?

1448
01:55:06.239 --> 01:55:11.960
I have one thing that hopefully will
be good enough. I thought it

1449
01:55:12.000 --> 01:55:15.319
was good, but it might not
be, so I'll tell you anyway.

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01:55:15.880 --> 01:55:24.720
Okay, So there's this woman who
bought a house. I guess that her

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01:55:24.760 --> 01:55:27.560
family was going to move into,
but I think she might have bought it

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01:55:27.560 --> 01:55:30.520
for someone in her family I can't
remember, and it was in really bad

1453
01:55:30.600 --> 01:55:34.199
shape, like the previous owner had
like had all like lots of animals and

1454
01:55:34.239 --> 01:55:39.319
stuff, so there was like and
they didn't really take care of it,

1455
01:55:39.439 --> 01:55:42.479
so there was like pe all over
the carpets and all that stuff, and

1456
01:55:42.520 --> 01:55:45.520
she like wanted to rip up with
the carpets, and she was pretty sure

1457
01:55:45.560 --> 01:55:48.760
there was hardwood floor underneath. And
this is this is interesting because it's not

1458
01:55:48.800 --> 01:55:53.960
from a paranormal reddit. It's from
the Century Homes reddit. Oh okay,

1459
01:55:54.119 --> 01:55:57.680
so that's why we're talking about carpet
and hardwood and stuff because they like to

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01:55:59.239 --> 01:56:00.840
and everybody was like, there's not
hardwood under there. You should just buy

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01:56:00.840 --> 01:56:03.159
carpets, and she's like, no, no, no, there's hardwood.

1462
01:56:03.199 --> 01:56:05.640
And she's like trying to fix it
up. But while she's in there,

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01:56:06.119 --> 01:56:12.960
she starts to feel really paranoid,
like something is wrong, and she keeps

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01:56:13.000 --> 01:56:16.399
getting glimpses of something out of the
corner of her eye and thinking that she's

1465
01:56:16.439 --> 01:56:20.319
hearing someone call to her, but
she's like not sure, but there's no

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01:56:20.319 --> 01:56:24.920
one else in the house. And
she's like telling other people about what's going

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01:56:25.000 --> 01:56:29.840
on, and they're just getting more
and more concerned for her sanity because none

1468
01:56:29.840 --> 01:56:33.479
of this makes sense, right,
And I guess this goes on for a

1469
01:56:33.520 --> 01:56:41.640
while, and one day she hears
something faintly call out to her sort of.

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01:56:41.920 --> 01:56:44.319
I mean, she can't understand what
it's saying, but it sounds like

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01:56:44.359 --> 01:56:49.279
a person's voice. And she goes
looking and there's a I guess an area

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01:56:49.800 --> 01:56:55.560
that I'm taking some liberties with the
story. There's an area I guess that's,

1473
01:56:55.960 --> 01:57:00.239
you know, where maybe the wall
is partially demoed or something, where

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01:57:00.279 --> 01:57:03.800
there's like a cavity in the wall. And she reaches her hand in and

1475
01:57:03.840 --> 01:57:10.920
there's something fuzzy inside and it's a
cat. There's been a cat living in

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01:57:10.920 --> 01:57:15.279
the house the whole time, me
owing at her, trying to get her

1477
01:57:15.319 --> 01:57:20.760
attention, but also kind of scared. So now the cat is her pet.

1478
01:57:21.079 --> 01:57:24.840
Oh she kept the cat? Yeah, well of course she'd say that

1479
01:57:24.880 --> 01:57:27.239
on Reddit. She's not going to
tell the truth, which is she's just

1480
01:57:27.319 --> 01:57:29.920
like put it in the Kroger bag
and threw it out the window. Well,

1481
01:57:29.960 --> 01:57:32.199
she she showed she gave us cat
tax picture, so we know,

1482
01:57:32.800 --> 01:57:38.920
Ah, it's gray. It was
really cute. Well, a panic cat

1483
01:57:39.000 --> 01:57:44.119
can make sounds that are really upsetting. Yeah, yeah, I don't think

1484
01:57:44.159 --> 01:57:46.920
it was panicked, but yeah,
Well, and out of context cat.

1485
01:57:47.000 --> 01:57:50.399
That should be a whole like subreddit
out of context cat, because out of

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01:57:50.439 --> 01:57:55.880
context cats are scary. You know, you're, ah, it's like,

1487
01:57:55.960 --> 01:57:58.680
okay, that's a demon, and
then you're like, oh wait, there's

1488
01:57:58.720 --> 01:58:00.880
a cat, then it's a cat. Yeah, but when you don't,

1489
01:58:01.159 --> 01:58:04.920
when you are under the impression there
is no cat, very scary. And

1490
01:58:05.000 --> 01:58:10.079
the idea that the cat who seemed
to be kind of living in the walls

1491
01:58:10.319 --> 01:58:13.760
was probably like walking around a little
and checking her out, you know,

1492
01:58:13.880 --> 01:58:15.960
and she would just see like glimpses
of it and then not no, you

1493
01:58:16.039 --> 01:58:19.920
know, out of the eye.
That would that would make me very uncomfortable,

1494
01:58:20.199 --> 01:58:26.079
and that's definitely a cat thing to
do. Yeah, so well,

1495
01:58:26.119 --> 01:58:30.359
thank you Chell for bringing us a
little Reddit creepiness. That ended in a

1496
01:58:30.439 --> 01:58:34.079
positive light with Kitty Cat getting a
new home, although it seems like it

1497
01:58:34.079 --> 01:58:39.479
was already it's home, So yeah, it just got a new a new

1498
01:58:39.520 --> 01:58:42.720
friend, I guess. Oh and
to make madn was even better, there

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01:58:42.920 --> 01:58:47.439
was hardwood under the carpet. Yeah. This is the happiest ending I think

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01:58:47.439 --> 01:58:51.840
we've ever had on the show.
Yeah, well, thank you Chell,

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01:58:53.000 --> 01:58:57.279
that's pretty good. Well, we're
gonna get out of here for this month,

1502
01:58:57.319 --> 01:59:00.439
but we will be back at the
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01:59:48.880 --> 01:59:53.439
you guys so much, and in
fact, sheell Craig Cohen will be joining

1516
01:59:53.479 --> 02:00:00.399
myself and Rachel here in Dayton to
witness the big eclipse coming up. Oh,

1517
02:00:00.439 --> 02:00:04.800
it's completely like total luck. It's
although it's not that much luck because

1518
02:00:04.840 --> 02:00:08.960
most of the places that we're gonna
be the best places to watch the eclipse

1519
02:00:08.960 --> 02:00:14.560
got destroyed by the tornadoes. The
tornadoes actually went almost exactly in line with

1520
02:00:14.600 --> 02:00:19.279
the eclipse site. Yeah, so
I'm not sure exactly where we're Rachel will

1521
02:00:19.279 --> 02:00:23.439
figure that out, but we're gonna
but Craig is taking a bus out to

1522
02:00:23.520 --> 02:00:29.239
Dayton from Philly and we're gonna We're
gonna watch the eclipse and then I'm sure

1523
02:00:29.279 --> 02:00:31.239
we'll do other things because the eclipses, like what's for four minutes or seven

1524
02:00:31.239 --> 02:00:36.399
minutes. I'm gonna watch the eclipse
and be sad that I don't get up

1525
02:00:36.479 --> 02:00:46.640
for You are welcome to come.
Why not? It only happens like every

1526
02:00:47.039 --> 02:00:54.159
very long time. Yeah, well
until next time. Thank you again to

1527
02:00:54.199 --> 02:01:01.640
everybody for listening, and Cell you
have the final word. I don't know