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Speaker 3: Hey guys, Hey guys. I'm Austin and I'm Mike. Welcome
Speaker 3: to the fifth episode of A Strange Thing Podcast.
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Speaker 4: Today we're doing something very strange strange. Oh no way, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: we're doing something strange. We're going to be talking about
Speaker 4: spooky things in strange places.
Speaker 3: And if you listen to our last episode number four
Speaker 3: about strange things in the woods, you kind of know
Speaker 3: what we're talking about. Started off called Milliner's Gate.
Speaker 4: Milliner's Gate Gate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did a little echo by himself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like totally me. It was like synthetic desperate.
Speaker 4: I thought it sounded really good.
Speaker 3: It sounded great.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, anyway, I just did it again, So if
Speaker 4: you missed an episode four, you can just started again.
Speaker 3: Yep, anyway, What's Milliner's Gate? You were there?
Speaker 4: I did so on the kickoff we do on an IDL,
Speaker 4: we do a kickoff. One thing that we say separates
Speaker 4: us from most podcasts is we go out and actually
Speaker 4: do an investigation. We kick off things in places where
Speaker 4: we are going to talk about things in those places.
Speaker 3: Sometimes we means I or you, right in this case,
Speaker 3: not every situation. Can we both get down there. Like,
Speaker 3: like we've mentioned probably before, my wife is super duper pregnant.
Speaker 4: About ready to pop, which by the time we do
Speaker 4: the next podcast, she'll probably have.
Speaker 3: A bait so next time you hear my voice, I'll probably.
Speaker 4: If you ever hear his voice again, because I hardly
Speaker 4: get him now. I already have busy lives.
Speaker 3: I'm going to try to set up a little area
Speaker 3: in our house. Yeah, so I don't have to leave.
Speaker 4: He's going to make me go over there because he
Speaker 4: thinks my life's easier.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And a.
Speaker 4: Life is busy, and we work full time jobs and
Speaker 4: we have families and stuff. But we do this because
Speaker 4: we like.
Speaker 3: It, right, And and we mentioned once before that my dad,
Speaker 3: Mike doesn't have a job, but I do.
Speaker 4: I got a job.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he got a job.
Speaker 4: I know. Back into the realm of the employed, which
Speaker 4: I am very very thankful for. Ye.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Miller's Gate back to the top.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's get back. Let's get back to what we're
Speaker 4: doing here. So we're talking about spooky things in strange places.
Speaker 4: And one of the places that we heard about is
Speaker 4: a place called Milner's Gate, which is a restaurant slash
Speaker 4: brewery in Twin Falls.
Speaker 3: Idoh, and you might have even seen it on YouTube recently.
Speaker 3: YouTube The manager there, Brian Brian.
Speaker 4: He's been posting video video on YouTube which we will
Speaker 4: have links to on our website if you go to
Speaker 4: episodes look at detail, and we have the links there
Speaker 4: and actually we might just strain them. We'll just we'll
Speaker 4: just put them on our page. So p even just
Speaker 4: click a button right page. Yeah, and then we'll put
Speaker 4: them on our YouTube because we also have a YouTube channel.
Speaker 4: Do you know that, boy I did a YouTube channel.
Speaker 4: There's no video. Well, no, our first IDL is on there.
Speaker 3: Don't watch that.
Speaker 4: But we're we are going off channel. We're going on
Speaker 4: a rabbit trail. So let's get back to Milner's Gate
Speaker 4: back and back to the top. So we will put
Speaker 4: those videos up of weird paranormal activity going on in
Speaker 4: Milner's Gate. Got to check all the doors and you
Speaker 4: got to hear and she heard like chains rattling right
Speaker 4: in her here, look right here, and she walked faster
Speaker 4: in the change badly to follow over her here and
Speaker 4: started running take out her balls, call run the contact,
Speaker 4: which is her daughter, and said to her daughter and
Speaker 4: keep talking, to keep talking, to walk the doors back
Speaker 4: year and this ghost thing down here is messing with me.
Speaker 4: And she was just out of it in chains because
Speaker 4: she heard che rattling like someone was messing like like Yeah,
Speaker 4: that is really crazy.
Speaker 2: Here here, this used to be the boiler room.
Speaker 4: This hare he did this, Yeah, we call it the
Speaker 4: boiler room. Still it's uh and now it's a gift
Speaker 4: to heat the whole building.
Speaker 3: That is really cool. So she was running down this
Speaker 3: halliway to lock these doors.
Speaker 2: Back year.
Speaker 3: We heard that someone.
Speaker 2: Died in an elevator shaping O.
Speaker 4: That's the only well we are in the elder shot
Speaker 4: in the floyer.
Speaker 3: So we our topic our title of this episode a
Speaker 3: strange thing in a strange place. Spooky things in strange places.
Speaker 4: Spooky things.
Speaker 3: So what makes Milner's Gate strange other than the things
Speaker 3: that are going on?
Speaker 4: Okay, So Milner's Gate history is that it was built
Speaker 4: in nineteen twenty two as an Elks lodge. This is
Speaker 4: a very large building in downtown swin Falls, Idaho. Quick sidebar.
Speaker 4: We won't always stay in Idaho for our stories.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we might branch out someday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, especially if we have enough listeners that we could
Speaker 4: maybe generate just a little bit of revenue so we
Speaker 4: could go out and do a story about something other
Speaker 4: than in Idaho. But we're close by so when we
Speaker 4: do these kickoffs, we can get there really quick and
Speaker 4: actually do an investigation. Yeah. So Milner's Gate was built
Speaker 4: in nineteen twenty two, and it was built by the
Speaker 4: Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks. That just rolls
Speaker 4: right off the tongue, isn't it.
Speaker 3: The Benevolent and Protected Order of the ILKs exactly. Sounds
Speaker 3: like something from the Yeah.
Speaker 4: And so they're a fraternal organization that meets and they're benevolent,
Speaker 4: which means that they do good things.
Speaker 3: They benevolent.
Speaker 4: They exist to basically help people do good things and
Speaker 4: enjoy life.
Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, good, good for them. Yeah, and they're Elks.
Speaker 4: They're semi secretive. They are kind of similar to Freemasons,
Speaker 4: although Freemasonry has a much more diverse and long history
Speaker 4: and also has a lot of mystery and intrigues surrounding that.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of conspiracy theories around Freemasonry. But Elks
Speaker 4: are kind of the are Freemason's light. Yeah, they're like
Speaker 4: the happy guys of fraternal organizations, secret societies that you know,
Speaker 4: they're they're happy guys.
Speaker 3: Grown up boy scouts.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, basically, yeah, good guys.
Speaker 3: Also, Elks is a word. It's a double PLURROI learned
Speaker 3: that from Neil deer Grass Tyson. No, he said that
Speaker 3: if you say, because you know, a herd of elk, yes,
Speaker 3: if you were to say elks, yeah, that would mean
Speaker 3: different kinds of elks, different kinds of elk like Rosevelt
Speaker 3: or whatever, and then multiple of each. Oh, so you're
Speaker 3: saying different types of different gotcha? Okay, okay.
Speaker 4: They could also be a possessive like it was the elks.
Speaker 3: Ooh, but the apostrophe.
Speaker 4: No, No, it's not a possessive in this case anyway. Anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 4: several elks. Yeah. So the Elks in nineteen twenty two
Speaker 4: built this building that was originally designed to be five
Speaker 4: stories high.
Speaker 3: Whoa big for that area.
Speaker 4: It is, it's huge, and that time it was all
Speaker 4: solid masonry and they built it and it was completed
Speaker 4: in nineteen twenty two when they stopped at floor number two,
Speaker 4: so they built two floors. It was very nice and
Speaker 4: they met there and did their things. And for those
Speaker 4: of you that know anything about Elks, they meet and
Speaker 4: they also do this kind of ritual where at eleven
Speaker 4: o'clock they have a moment of silence and remember their
Speaker 4: fallen brothers, people that were in the fraternity that have passed.
Speaker 4: There is some negativity about the Elks. I mean they
Speaker 4: had some initially, like when they first founded, they had
Speaker 4: some of the same requirements of membership that excluded like
Speaker 4: minorities and women and a lot of other those things.
Speaker 4: So it has you know, it's not all you know,
Speaker 4: beauty and roses and that kind of stuff. It has
Speaker 4: some darkness. But they've evolved with times and they've changed
Speaker 4: their requirements and it's an okay deal. But anyway, they
Speaker 4: built this building and about three years ago there was
Speaker 4: a grand design to basically go in, get this building
Speaker 4: and totally revitalize it. When they did that, they had
Speaker 4: a company that wanted to go in and build a
Speaker 4: really nice restaurant and bar and that was to be
Speaker 4: called Milner's Gate.
Speaker 3: And it sounds like they succeeded because they did a
Speaker 3: really nice restaurant.
Speaker 4: We've been there and we've eaten there.
Speaker 3: Oh man, the Tuna Tower Tuna Tower before the.
Speaker 4: Sashimi Tower from a heaven and it's huge.
Speaker 3: It's crazy.
Speaker 4: You get tons of food.
Speaker 3: But he's kind of bummed. So we went there. I
Speaker 3: don't remember. We were down there for something. We went
Speaker 3: there as a part few months ago, and I was
Speaker 3: I wasn't floating in cash like I've never been. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was like, I really want to try that sashimi tower,
Speaker 3: but my wife would kill me if I spent more
Speaker 3: than a dollar today. So it turns out my dad
Speaker 3: got it and I shared, and he shared because it
Speaker 3: was such a good like bag for your buck. It's
Speaker 3: a big thing. It's awesome.
Speaker 4: But little did we know when we were there that
Speaker 4: it was haunted by a resident ghost that has been
Speaker 4: nicknamed since then. But anyway, we're getting way ahead now,
Speaker 4: we got to back up a little bit. So anyway,
Speaker 4: this building, lots of history and stuff, was inhabited by
Speaker 4: the Elks, and then they moved to the second floor,
Speaker 4: and then they had like other businesses come in on
Speaker 4: the bottom level, and they had like the library there
Speaker 4: for a while in like the early nineteen hundreds, and
Speaker 4: they had some other stuff. And then a few years
Speaker 4: ago some investors got involved and they thought, hey, we're
Speaker 4: going to restore this and make it awesome. So they
Speaker 4: went in and they spent megabucks in going through this
Speaker 4: entire building. They gutted it. They started in the ground
Speaker 4: level and they went all the way up. They had
Speaker 4: to put in new fortifications. They put in a downstairs
Speaker 4: outside courtyard patio and it's right outside of this ten
Speaker 4: barrel brand new ten barrel brewing system for a brewery
Speaker 4: that's also incorporated with the restaurant. The restaurant has three levels.
Speaker 4: It has the basement area which is the brewer a
Speaker 4: but they also have a bar, party room, and conference a. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and then the middle area is the main restaurant area.
Speaker 4: Then they have like a loft, kind of a loft
Speaker 4: balcony that's also an eating area out there. We can
Speaker 4: kind of look down on people. That's from the rich people,
Speaker 4: snobby people that look down on people. No, not really,
Speaker 4: but it's everything there is top notch. It's beautiful. They
Speaker 4: have a full bar system. It's it's beautiful, and they
Speaker 4: have a lot of beers on tap and now they
Speaker 4: have their own beers on tap. So just a major
Speaker 4: call out kudos to Milner's Gate in Twin Falls, Idaho.
Speaker 4: If anybody is driving through southern Idaho and they want
Speaker 4: to try a really nice dining and beer brewing experience,
Speaker 4: that is your place.
Speaker 3: Yep listen to our next episodes next couple and well
Speaker 3: we'll supply you with a great place to eat, you know, drink,
Speaker 3: have fun with your friends, and a great place to stay.
Speaker 4: Stay with maybe families. But that's see, we're getting way
Speaker 4: ahead of ourselves again.
Speaker 3: We always do that. It's so exciting.
Speaker 4: But anyway, so we heard about this place. We know
Speaker 4: the manager there. His name is Brian, and he's also
Speaker 4: working with the brewmaster there and learning how to create awesome.
Speaker 3: Beers and his craft owning his craft craft.
Speaker 4: Well, Brian was watching the security tapes one well, he
Speaker 4: was actually closing up and working and they heard some
Speaker 4: strange noises. So they went to the room where they
Speaker 4: have their their security system and we're looking at tapes
Speaker 4: and they saw some weird stuff and then they had
Speaker 4: people start seeing a weird apparition, for lack of a
Speaker 4: better word, a spooky thing. So Brian, when he saw
Speaker 4: the video, he posted it on YouTube and so we
Speaker 4: have direct links for that on our website. And okay,
Speaker 4: let's just say it. Brian's my brother in law, so
Speaker 4: we have a lot of connections with everybody has that
Speaker 4: uncle that's like super cool and like yeah.
Speaker 3: He was in like he was like in a band
Speaker 3: and he like yeah and shit before then he managed it.
Speaker 4: Before he managed a brewery. He managed bands in Idaho.
Speaker 3: He's super cool guy. Yeah, he's a nice guy.
Speaker 4: He has really bad selection of cars, or bad luck
Speaker 4: selecting cars because he buys.
Speaker 3: They always break. He's got that cool jeep.
Speaker 4: He's got a good selection, just just they break anyway,
Speaker 4: And so I went down on a whim. I just said, man,
Speaker 4: we got to do this idel thing. If I wait
Speaker 4: for Austin, it's gonna be three months because you know, babies,
Speaker 4: He's gonna have babies. So I called Brian and said, hey,
Speaker 4: can I just come down. He said, yeah, come down.
Speaker 4: And it was a Monday night and I was unemployed
Speaker 4: at the time, so it was okay. Which, by the way,
Speaker 4: I am now employed. I got a job, so I'm
Speaker 4: back in the water.
Speaker 3: There's a strange thing. Somebody employing my dad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, suckers. I got a great job, and I want
Speaker 4: to work really hard for these guys. I'm a visual guy.
Speaker 3: Hopefully they listen to this and hear that little sport.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, maybe they'll give you a raise.
Speaker 4: Jason. If you hear this, give me a raise.
Speaker 3: But anyway, my boss's name is Jason. Jason. This give
Speaker 3: me a raise.
Speaker 4: It's our destiny. So I go down to meet with
Speaker 4: Brian at Milner's Gate in this old Elks ballroom building
Speaker 4: in downtown Twin Falls that has been totally gone through.
Speaker 4: It's beautiful, most of it is beautiful. And Brian gave
Speaker 4: me the full tour. We went from the very deepest
Speaker 4: darkest corners of the basement to the very top of
Speaker 4: the roof and attic.
Speaker 3: Oh cool, I want to go up there.
Speaker 4: And it was an amazing tour to go all the
Speaker 4: way through this entire place and look at all these
Speaker 4: dark areas and stuff. And as he took me through,
Speaker 4: you know, I was kind of keeping my eyes open
Speaker 4: for some of the apparitions that people were supposedly seeing,
Speaker 4: so just as kind of a preview. And we're going
Speaker 4: to talk more about these individual components later on we
Speaker 4: start talking about what our apparition and what could these
Speaker 4: operations be and all.
Speaker 3: That kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: But people there were describing an individual which was in shadow.
Speaker 4: It was just a shadow type shape that was a
Speaker 4: male and wearing a hat.
Speaker 3: The hat man, the hat man. The hat Man's are
Speaker 3: really common. Yeah, quote unquote, shadow person.
Speaker 4: Shadow person, hat man, the shadow person, and it has
Speaker 4: been seen by three different people at Milner's Gate, at
Speaker 4: this restaurant bar called Milner's Gate. Ye, so that's pretty weird.
Speaker 4: I didn't see anything. I was kind of bummed. I'm
Speaker 4: wondering if I'm kind of like ghost kryptonite, you know,
Speaker 4: when I don't know, I never seem to find the
Speaker 4: cool stuff I hear about all the cool stuff, I
Speaker 4: never see it. I guess that makes me kind of
Speaker 4: a skeptic. But at the same time, you know, I
Speaker 4: want to believe. Man, I'm like Fox Molder, Man, I
Speaker 4: want to believe. Or was that a Skully that wanted
Speaker 4: to believe? No, Fox Molder wanted to believe.
Speaker 3: I think they both want to believe. I think they just.
Speaker 4: There was some romantic tension with them maybe.
Speaker 3: And she doesn't want to sacrifice her career. You know,
Speaker 3: she wants to be held as a respectable woman because
Speaker 3: I feel like in that age, women weren't taken that
Speaker 3: seriously in that profession. So she was really making sure
Speaker 3: that she did everything by the books. But deep down
Speaker 3: she's seen enough to make, you know, to make it wonder.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Oh my gosh, a rabbit hole. So we've got
Speaker 4: this weird place and we've got these strange sightings and
Speaker 4: then there are these strange things that are caught on video.
Speaker 4: And Brian found these strange things and he posted them
Speaker 4: on YouTube and they kind of went viral.
Speaker 3: He heard some noises yep, and w went to the
Speaker 3: security camera recorded them on its phone or.
Speaker 4: Whatever, yeah, and then sent them to you know, on YouTube,
Speaker 4: and then people started hearing about it. Kind of went
Speaker 4: a little viral. Yeah, So all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 4: he was getting contacted by people, and I think he
Speaker 4: was named on the website as one of the top
Speaker 4: ten scariest videos for twenty nineteen. Yeah. Cool, so we'll
Speaker 4: put we'll put some links to those. And I must
Speaker 4: say one more, one more thing about Milner's Gate. They
Speaker 4: had some ghost hunters and a medium from I think
Speaker 4: Salt Lake City come up and walk through the place
Speaker 4: and do readings and things like that. And they had
Speaker 4: this box that you could ask questions and you can
Speaker 4: hear voices out of anyway. This ghost or this apparition
Speaker 4: or this presence, whatever you want to call it, said
Speaker 4: his name was James. Yeah. Every once in a while,
Speaker 4: Brian says, he leaves a little shot of whiskey down
Speaker 4: for James down in the basement. I don't I don't know,
Speaker 4: cool can apparition's drinks.
Speaker 3: We should have a little ideal kid down there just
Speaker 3: for him.
Speaker 4: He might just be enthralled and just listen to them
Speaker 4: all over and over and over. But eternal torture as
Speaker 4: part of his damnation he's experiencing. He's locked into this
Speaker 4: dimension and he can't go away listening to a strange
Speaker 4: thing all day. I made a rhyme.
Speaker 3: Yeah it was great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got some video and stuff that's all there,
Speaker 4: and we're gonna get a little more in depth of
Speaker 4: what I experienced. But this is more high level. We're
Speaker 4: doing high level today. At about twelve thirty, after the
Speaker 4: full tour and not seeing anything, then I left and
Speaker 4: I went to a second.
Speaker 3: Location, Spooky location, Spooky location number two, Spooky.
Speaker 4: Location number two.
Speaker 2: All over this broad land of ours a bit of war.
Speaker 2: He's being fought against tuberculosis able warriors armed with modern
Speaker 2: weapons around the firing line. How goes the battle? Come
Speaker 2: with me on a journey and let's see a lot
Speaker 2: is being done.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you the pre story just little bit
Speaker 4: so before I got to Twin Falls. I was driving
Speaker 4: down there and realizing that I was going to have
Speaker 4: to drive home like late, yeah, like one in the morning,
Speaker 4: and after having a beer, probably because I got a
Speaker 4: sample the wares, Yeah right, and it makes you sleepy,
Speaker 4: and I was like, I don't want to drive all
Speaker 4: the way back. And then I remembered about a sanitarium
Speaker 4: in Gooding, Idaho, which was a tuberculosis hospital. I'm trying
Speaker 4: to think when it was. Actually I think it was.
Speaker 4: The hospital itself was built in like nineteen seventeen, and
Speaker 4: it wasn't originally built as a hospital. It was built
Speaker 4: as a college. A lot of history, yeah, a lot
Speaker 4: of history. And then I think the school shut down
Speaker 4: in like nineteen thirty eight, couldn't quite make it, and
Speaker 4: there were some other schools that popped up and took over,
Speaker 4: and then the structure opened back up in the nineteen
Speaker 4: forties when there was a huge outbreak of tuberculosis in
Speaker 4: the United States and so they had these tuberculosis hospitals
Speaker 4: popping up all across the right. Now, this is before
Speaker 4: they developed the antibiotic that basically would cure you of tuberculosis,
Speaker 4: and so people were dying and if you had it.
Speaker 4: A lot of people were going to these sanitariums or
Speaker 4: these these tuberculosis hospitals and they would go there and
Speaker 4: they would try to.
Speaker 3: You know, rest because you know, modern the medicine at
Speaker 3: the time was just right perfect.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know perfect not yeah, no, the medicine was
Speaker 4: pretty primal. I mean, I mean it was like it
Speaker 4: was like nineteen forties.
Speaker 3: They were like, let's put a leach on your nose
Speaker 3: and put you in the sunlight.
Speaker 4: You know what. The one of the treatments was they
Speaker 4: would actually puncture your lung with a tube and a
Speaker 4: lot of times it would collapse lung, so it actually
Speaker 4: make the condition worse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a doc holiday from Yeah, he had it
Speaker 3: from Tombstone, yep.
Speaker 4: And a lot of people died from it. But they
Speaker 4: would go to tuberculosis hospitals, which they also called sanitariums.
Speaker 4: It doesn't mean insane's sanitary place for healing.
Speaker 3: If you need more information on Sana Charums, look up Metallic.
Speaker 4: And it was a tuberculosis hospital from like the nineteen
Speaker 4: forties all the way through nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 3: In fact, it.
Speaker 4: Was one of the best hospitals that specialized in TB
Speaker 4: in the entire country during its time.
Speaker 3: Oh cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But it officially closed down in like nineteen seventy six,
Speaker 4: but it probably waned in like the nineteen sixties as
Speaker 4: soon as they started getting the antibiotics available. Game over
Speaker 4: for TB. Right, So anyway, the hospital then kind of
Speaker 4: closed down and then it was other things, and then
Speaker 4: it opened back up here, I don't know, maybe ten
Speaker 4: years ago as a hotel, and it was a haunted hotel. Nice.
Speaker 4: So on my way down to Milner's game, I decided
Speaker 4: I'd swing through Gooding, which is a little out of
Speaker 4: the way, maybe fifteen miles, and I swung through the
Speaker 4: town and I drove up and I thought, hey, you know,
Speaker 4: maybe I could stay there. But I didn't know much
Speaker 4: about it other than I knew that they had done
Speaker 4: a special on it on the Travel Channel as a
Speaker 4: haunted building. So I went there and went up to
Speaker 4: the door, and it was like, there's no office sign
Speaker 4: or anything like that. So you kind of go up
Speaker 4: and it's like this old hospital and you open the door,
Speaker 4: you know, and you go inside and there's nobody around,
Speaker 4: but there's like a doorbell, and the doorbell is by
Speaker 4: this one of these weird doors. As you came inside,
Speaker 4: ring the doorbell, and pretty soon this litt lady comes out,
Speaker 4: very nice lady, and I said, Hey, I've heard this
Speaker 4: place is haunted. Can I rent a room? And she
Speaker 4: kind of laughed, and she told me about that the
Speaker 4: Travel Channel had been there and they had done a
Speaker 4: special on it and it had just aired. So I
Speaker 4: was like, oh, I'm going to check that out, so
Speaker 4: we have links to that. She also said that in
Speaker 4: I think it was that next weekend, which would have
Speaker 4: been two weeks ago, that ghost Hunters was going to
Speaker 4: be there. Yeah, so they were coming to check out
Speaker 4: this haunted place as well. Oh Nelly, And she said,
Speaker 4: you know, normally we don't rent anything on Mondays through
Speaker 4: Wednesdays because they just don't have enough people and so
Speaker 4: they don't want to have to staff it.
Speaker 3: But she's on a weekend thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah it is. But she said, you know what,
Speaker 4: if you want, there won't be any other guests here
Speaker 4: or anything, but I'll rent your room. No, if you
Speaker 4: don't mind, Yeah, if you don't mind being all alone
Speaker 4: and this big hotel by yourself, yeah, I'll rent your room.
Speaker 3: So I said, yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 4: So she gave me. It was like fifty eight bucks.
Speaker 4: It was pretty cheap. And I want to tell you,
Speaker 4: if anybody wants to go stay there. It's actually kind
Speaker 4: of a neat place. I mean, it's it's creepy, but
Speaker 4: at the same time, they've got some things that are
Speaker 4: kind of cool. Like if I was going to go
Speaker 4: and have like a family reunion and find a place
Speaker 4: that where I could everybody could sleep, and there's a
Speaker 4: dining room, there's a movie theater, and there's things like that,
Speaker 4: this is an awesome place to do it. Oh cool,
Speaker 4: So anyway, shout out if.
Speaker 3: You want to do that.
Speaker 4: And plus it's got that mystique of like hauntedness.
Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of little yeah backstory, yep.
Speaker 4: So after I left Milner's Gate, I drove and I
Speaker 4: was disappointed because I didn't see James the Ghost. I
Speaker 4: drove to Goodie, Idaho, and this is all part of
Speaker 4: our kickoff. And I go into my room like twelve
Speaker 4: thirty one in the morning. I've got a little video
Speaker 4: of me walking in for the first time.
Speaker 3: I'm up the stairs and go.
Speaker 4: Into my room and they'd put the little heater on
Speaker 4: for me and stuff laid down was wondering if I
Speaker 4: was going to see something, because the famous apparitions that
Speaker 4: happened at that place were a white coated, angry elderly.
Speaker 3: Man, oh like a doctor or something.
Speaker 4: Like a doctor or something, or an old dude that
Speaker 4: died there maybe, and then also a mom and young child. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and you know, if for any of anybody out that's
Speaker 4: seen the shining of the two little.
Speaker 3: Girls standing on the hallway.
Speaker 4: This place has that kind of creepy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, creep So I go there in
Speaker 4: the middle of the night and you walk in on
Speaker 4: the floorboards and they creak. Yeah, it's every time you
Speaker 4: take a step. Everything was creaking and making weird noise
Speaker 4: and kind of looked around a little bit. But I
Speaker 4: was tired, so I went in and went to bed,
Speaker 4: and then I had one experience a middle of the night,
Speaker 4: which I'm going to talk about later me on our
Speaker 4: other episode, but it was pretty cool, And then woke
Speaker 4: up at the morning refreshed. I didn't shower though I
Speaker 4: didn't know how warm the water was going to be
Speaker 4: because the sink water was very warm, so I didn't
Speaker 4: want to try the shower water, and got tons of
Speaker 4: pictures of that place too on our website, go to
Speaker 4: episodes and then look where it says spooky and strange detail.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, yeah, so if you click on that, it'll
Speaker 4: open up and there's like some links and pictures and
Speaker 4: all that fun stuff and media links. So that was
Speaker 4: my kickoff for this topic of awesome.
Speaker 3: That's a good kickoff, it is. I like how like
Speaker 3: one of your first kickoffs was without me.
Speaker 4: I know, it's kind of I was kind of bummed,
Speaker 4: but at the.
Speaker 3: Same time time, but the soloness of it, I think
Speaker 3: kind of makes it more.
Speaker 4: I was hoping that if it was, there was some
Speaker 4: kind of encounter that the whatever that is, we're going
Speaker 4: to be talking about what causes apparitions, What could they be?
Speaker 4: You are the ghosts or they demons? Are they aliens?
Speaker 3: Or the yellow he sleep paralysis?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And a really bad dream?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Right? Did you eat the wrong.
Speaker 2: Bed?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So we're going to be talking about those kind of things.
Speaker 4: But I was kind of hoping that maybe I ate
Speaker 4: a bad tortilla or mushroom and I was going to
Speaker 4: have like some kind of experience and and uh, I thought,
Speaker 4: maybe alone, you're more apt to have experience, And you know,
Speaker 4: that too. But honestly, I had two notable strange occurrences
Speaker 4: that happened, one at each place. And I'll talk about
Speaker 4: this cool when we get into a little bit. Other
Speaker 4: than that, it was pretty much kind of a boomer
Speaker 4: as far as like filling my.
Speaker 3: Need to be haunted things.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't get haunted, which is weird because like
Speaker 4: you talk to people, and some people when they talk
Speaker 4: about hauntings or apparitions or afterlife or ghosts, I mean,
Speaker 4: they are like full unbelievers. They believe it. I asked Brian,
Speaker 4: I said, Brian, do you believe this is like a
Speaker 4: real ghost, this James guy that's haunting Milner's Gate? Is
Speaker 4: it a real ghost?
Speaker 3: Are you sure?
Speaker 4: You know? What? What do you think? And he goes, oh,
Speaker 4: you know, before I started working here and experiences stuff,
Speaker 4: you know, I was maybe ninety percent I believe that
Speaker 4: there was something, but I wasn't sure ninety percent. He said,
Speaker 4: Now I'm one hundred and fifty percent sure.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, overachiever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And like the owner of the of the sanitarium,
Speaker 4: well the University Inn, I think is what they call
Speaker 4: it now and Gooding she has experienced the encounter of
Speaker 4: meeting that angry older white guy. Yeah, ghost or apparition
Speaker 4: or whatever it is. And then three other people experienced
Speaker 4: the hat Man at Milner's Gate.
Speaker 3: That's a scary one to me. Like those shadow people. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but we'll get into the whole different types of apparitions
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. But the hat Man, the shadow people,
Speaker 3: the what do they call it, the Old Wench or.
Speaker 4: The Yeah, and then they have like the Children of
Speaker 4: the Black Eyes, and those are shadow people, but they're
Speaker 4: all kind of connected.
Speaker 3: But the shadow people in your room at night, because
Speaker 3: so many people have reported the same thing freak me out.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, and I don't know what it is.
Speaker 4: And I also know another guy. His name is Brian.
Speaker 4: I'm going to try to get him to tell his
Speaker 4: story because he had a story about hat Man from
Speaker 4: when he was a little kid.
Speaker 3: Different Brian's scars, Yeah, different, different Brian. Yeah.
Speaker 4: What is it with Brian's and apparitions.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know, But anyway, this Brian had an experience
Speaker 4: with hat Man when he was a little kid, and
Speaker 4: it's something that he always remembered, but he never really
Speaker 4: talked about, but it always stuck in his mind. And
Speaker 4: then one night he was listening to Coast to Coast
Speaker 4: AM or one of those stations, some late night scary thing,
Speaker 4: and they were talking about hat Man, and it clicked.
Speaker 4: He goes, That's what I saw, right, That's what I saw.
Speaker 4: And so he wrote a little story and sent it
Speaker 4: in to this radio program and they actually read it
Speaker 4: online because it was It's like a big deal to him.
Speaker 4: He remembers it. So I'd like to get his story
Speaker 4: on this as well, which begs the question, what are
Speaker 4: these things? What the heck are these things?
Speaker 3: Who knows? Are there?
Speaker 4: Are they really ghosts? Do people really die? Get caught
Speaker 4: in between this life and the next?
Speaker 3: You never know?
Speaker 4: Is it like multi dimensional where there's like where the
Speaker 4: fabric between those two are thin? Like at hell? You know,
Speaker 4: we just went through Halloween, and that's kind of the
Speaker 4: history of Halloween. They believe these spirits can cross over
Speaker 4: at certain times. I mean, is it that kind of thing?
Speaker 4: Is it mass hallucinations?
Speaker 3: Is it like the energy of the things that have
Speaker 3: happened on that specific location just consistently manifesting, like the
Speaker 3: traumatic event just keeps repeating itself right there, right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, and I just read an article two days
Speaker 4: ago about it said something evil. The perception of evil
Speaker 4: is caused by people that have a lot of illness
Speaker 4: and sickness in their culture, So like Africa and yeah,
Speaker 4: places Millennium, Yeah, where you know, they are trying and
Speaker 4: they're looking for explanations for bad things happen, and so
Speaker 4: they personify evil. That's what they believe it's evil. So
Speaker 4: they think it's more of, you know, a way for
Speaker 4: people to come to grips with like bad things. So
Speaker 4: they come up and they manifest them as like well,
Speaker 4: these are ghosts or these are whatever, but.
Speaker 3: Who knows what it is.
Speaker 4: But it's gonna be fun talking about this stuff because
Speaker 4: there's so much weird stuff out there, right you know,
Speaker 4: we're talking about Milner's Gate, we'll talk about the sanitarium,
Speaker 4: the university in in Goodie, and Idaho. We might talk
Speaker 4: about Strychner Ranch outside of Twin Falls because it has
Speaker 4: a long history and there's the murders that took place there.
Speaker 3: Right around where we live. We have the Idaho State
Speaker 3: State Penitentiary, which we could easily get in there for
Speaker 3: a day for even tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, And you know that's just the tip of
Speaker 4: the Iceberg, spooky. These things are everywhere, and for our listeners,
Speaker 4: you are thinking of your own places right now. You
Speaker 4: know places where you heard scary, strange things, and that's
Speaker 4: what we're gonna be talking about. And we want you
Speaker 4: to share your stories of strange apparitions with us my
Speaker 4: story at a strange thing dot com type in your story,
Speaker 4: you'll get some free swag if we use your story,
Speaker 4: and we'll probably do a special program kind of like
Speaker 4: we did a Strange Thing in the woods. We're gonna
Speaker 4: do a spooky thing at a strange place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, every few episodes. You know, we don't have a
Speaker 3: set number, but once we get enough stories backlogged, we'll
Speaker 3: pick out a few that we really like send those
Speaker 3: people a little bit of swag. I'm looking at a
Speaker 3: few of our really cool stickers right now that we
Speaker 3: just and we'll send you some swag. We'll use your
Speaker 3: stories and we'll narrate them in whatever way, maybe some
Speaker 3: minor embellishment for dramatic effect, but the actual sound effects
Speaker 3: well yeah, sound effects, who knows, more dramatic writing, but
Speaker 3: we won't change the actual story.
Speaker 4: No, we'll do your story, then we'll tell it the
Speaker 4: best we can if you're so inclined, you would like
Speaker 4: to tell your story, record your own voice telling the story,
Speaker 4: and send us the audio.
Speaker 3: File and maybe we'll use that, which would be awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we could totally cut that in and use that,
Speaker 4: and that would be so great.
Speaker 3: All right, So next time, let's really break down what
Speaker 3: each kind of apparition we're dealing with is, what are
Speaker 3: we seeing at Millner's Gate? What are we seeing at
Speaker 3: the university in Yeah, that's the plan.
Speaker 4: So we went high level, and now we're going to
Speaker 4: dig into the specific things that happened and that other
Speaker 4: people have seen or experienced at these locations, and then
Speaker 4: we'll throw in a couple extra bonus locations as well,
Speaker 4: and then we're going to go into at a later date,
Speaker 4: we're going to go into what are these things?
Speaker 3: Yeah? What are hat people? Yeah?
Speaker 4: What are have people? What in the heck are people?
Speaker 4: Or And we might not be able to answer it,
Speaker 4: like we couldn't answer the cattle mulation stuff, but we
Speaker 4: threw out a bunch of ideas, right, and that's what
Speaker 4: we're going to do here regurgitated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all over that.
Speaker 4: So we hope we've perked your interest. We hope We've
Speaker 4: thrown enough out there to get you to want to
Speaker 4: tune in as we dive into these things. It's going
Speaker 4: to be a little spooky, but it's also going to
Speaker 4: be very informative.
Speaker 3: Ye, And it's going to be strange, And we want
Speaker 3: to remind you we're out there for some of these experiences.
Speaker 3: You know, we're going to these locations. Yet I wasn't
Speaker 3: able to go this time on Friday. I'm having a baby. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, we've got that in our calendar. So my
Speaker 3: dad went down without me. He went and he looked,
Speaker 3: he poked around, and he had some experiences I did.
Speaker 3: I think some of them were explainable some of them.
Speaker 3: One of them was one of them explainable, the other
Speaker 3: one not so much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And one of the explainable ones may or may
Speaker 4: not be what it was. Yeah. Yeah. And then you
Speaker 4: think about the symbol of what I saw the next day.
Speaker 4: That brings in a whole new paradigm.
Speaker 3: That's foreshadowing. That's where you guys aren't on the same pages.
Speaker 3: I'm not on the same page.
Speaker 4: So but anyway, Yeah, come back, listen to our next episodes.
Speaker 4: We're gonna get deep dive.
Speaker 3: We've hoped you.
Speaker 4: Enjoyed these little excerpts of people presenting their stories in
Speaker 4: this episode. We're gonna hear more from them, probably.
Speaker 3: Hopefully next time you hear my voice, I'll be enjoying
Speaker 3: a tuna tower, a tuna tower, or.
Speaker 4: Changing the diaper and a baby.
Speaker 3: Yeah, more likely not enjoying a tuna tower.
Speaker 4: No, anyway, until next time, thanks for joining us, and
Speaker 4: have a great week.
Speaker 3: Ye so join us next time for some cold drinks,
Speaker 3: some strange conversations, and some spooky, spooky stories.
Speaker 4: Yeah sounds good. Hi guys, this is Mike once more,
Speaker 4: just jumping in just to let everyone know that last
Speaker 4: night Austin and his wonderful, beautiful wife Shelby had a
Speaker 4: bouncing baby boy six pounds seven ounce's good looking kid,
Speaker 4: lots of hair, and I just gotta say it's such
Speaker 4: a wonderful, strange thing to watch a new child enter
Speaker 4: the world. Welcome to the world, baby Bennett. I hope
Speaker 4: someday you get to do a podcast with your dad. Teeters.
Speaker 4: Everyone