WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:05.400 Salutations and welcome to the He'll Billy Nation. I am 2 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:09.839 tim your episode rewind DJ. It is that a thing 3 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:14.000 what I'm saying it is? So I am I am 4 00:00:14.119 --> 00:00:18.960 your episode rewind DJ. I hope everybody had a great 5 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:22.280 week an ending in an even better weekend. 6 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:24.000 Ah. 7 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:26.719 I see the person from last week stepping out the 8 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:30.760 shower has to throw clothes on this time. We all 9 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:34.280 thank you for that one. Just in case I'm not 10 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:37.240 able to get an episode out next week. If you 11 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:42.359 celebrate Easter, Happy Easter. I know Jerry and Tracey have 12 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:46.320 a rule no politics or religion, so we'll just leave 13 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:50.520 it there, Happy Easter. I will be attendant to Easter 14 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:53.520 sermon with my wife and afterwards she'll be heading over 15 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:57.560 to the grandchildren, and I will do what I always 16 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:02.240 do work. I was really hoping to go because I 17 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:08.400 printed these cute large melted chocolate eggs for their Easter baskets. Okay, 18 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:13.760 quick pause there. You probably didn't notice, but I did. 19 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:17.599 I stopped recording and posted the Easter egg basket on 20 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:20.480 the group, so check it out if you're interested. If 21 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:24.519 you haven't joined the Facebook page, it's still around and 22 00:01:24.599 --> 00:01:28.079 it's still just as active now. As it has been 23 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:37.040 in the past. It is still act. We are still 24 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:40.959 around and it's still very active. Matter of fact, is 25 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:46.599 it's as act As a matter of fact, it's just 26 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:49.799 as active now as it was what six months ago. 27 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:54.079 So come join us, and if you're lucky, you might 28 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:56.879 even see Tracy. She does pop in that cute load 29 00:01:56.879 --> 00:01:59.959 ahead from time to time. We all look forward to 30 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:04.000 seeing you all. Yeah, So let's get on with this 31 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:07.400 week's episode. Jerry and Trace to talk about the inspiration 32 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:11.199 of the signing the Stanley Hotel, and afterwards to talk 33 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:15.159 about death Knocks. Now that is actually something I'm very 34 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:18.400 interested in. And at the very end they interviewed the 35 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:22.319 Haunted Explorers from Las Vegas. That sounds like a pretty 36 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:24.680 good show this week, So I'm gonna let y'all go 37 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:26.039 and you go enjoy the show. 38 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:31.840 This is Dakota, and you're listening to my grandma and 39 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:33.680 grandpa and Hillbilly Horror Stories. 40 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:37.000 All right, everybody, and welcome to a very special thirtieth 41 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:40.879 edition of Hillbilly Horror Stories. I'm Jerry and that's Tracy 42 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:41.479 beside me. 43 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:42.759 Ola coma Sta. 44 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:45.319 I'm not sure that meant anything, but. 45 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:48.360 Hello, hell, are you okay, well me. 46 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:50.120 I'll take your word for it. Some of some of 47 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:52.240 our Hispanic listeners can tell us if that's what that 48 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:52.960 actually meant. 49 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:54.919 Be ready to be amazed. 50 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:58.960 The introduction you heard us from our adorable little granddaughter, Dakota, 51 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:03.400 and and she did a fantastic job. We've got another granddaughter, 52 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:05.039 and I tried to get her to say a little something, 53 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:07.000 but I can only get one word out of her. 54 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:09.240 And after you hear it, you will definitely know she's 55 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:13.199 a member of this family. And here she is poop. 56 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:15.400 That's right for all of you keeping score at home. 57 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:17.680 She said poop. She could have said any word in 58 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:19.319 the world, and she chose poop. 59 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:22.240 She likes to talk about poop for some reason. I'm 60 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:24.599 not sure just why. But we still love her. 61 00:03:24.919 --> 00:03:28.719 And in case you have any declarations about Tracy being 62 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:31.879 country as I was gonna say fuck, but that was 63 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:40.599 a bad word, but she said poop, she said. Guys, 64 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:44.759 you're probably wondering why are we playing Tony Orlando in 65 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:47.479 the beginning with the knock three times, But it's because 66 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:50.080 we have a really cool story to tell you about 67 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:53.120 the night. It's actually more of a I guess you 68 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:56.080 could say a superstition than a story, but we've got 69 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:58.000 a bunch of little stories to go along with it. 70 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:00.479 But it's called It's about Death Knight because I don't 71 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:02.159 know how many people are familiar with it, but we're 72 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:04.199 going to tell you about that, and then we're going 73 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:08.599 to talk about the Stanley Hotel, which has several ghosts 74 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:11.960 and a famous book that came from it. We also 75 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:15.879 have an interview with the Haunted Explorers. They're a ghost 76 00:04:15.960 --> 00:04:18.480 hunting crew out of Las Vegas, and we're going to 77 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:21.199 tell you a story about sleep paralysis from a listener 78 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:23.399 who just found the show and heard our episode and 79 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:25.879 had a really cool story. So we have a jam 80 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:27.519 packed episode for you tonight. 81 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:29.800 Exciting. I can't wait, So. 82 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:33.279 Let's go ahead and jump right into it. I want 83 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:35.160 to do a couple of shout outs first, because I 84 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:36.720 know we've been doing them kind of at the end 85 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:37.879 of the night, but I want to go ahead and 86 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:40.519 do some of these in the beginning. First one, this 87 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:43.279 was when I overlooked she interacts with us on the 88 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:45.319 Facebook page all the time, and I don't know why 89 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:47.120 I haven't done it yet. It's just an oversight on 90 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:51.399 my fault. So Priscilla Gordon. Thank you so much for 91 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:54.120 being so active on our Facebook page and being a 92 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:55.920 great listener, and sorry that took me so long to 93 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:56.680 get you a shout out. 94 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:57.480 Hey, Priscilla. 95 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:01.240 Another one that I've probably should have already done, and 96 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:02.959 I think we've done a shout out, but I want 97 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:07.000 to give some extra recognition is Robert Burton. Robert actually 98 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:10.800 has taken it upon himself to volunteer and do some 99 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:13.160 research on a bunch of different stories from around the world, 100 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:15.639 because we've got a listeners from around the world and 101 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:18.759 I want to try to get some kind of story 102 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:20.720 at least close to home. Last week we did the 103 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:25.399 Japanese suicide forest and that gives something for our Japanese, 104 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:29.279 but we've got several other countries such as Australia, India, Canada, 105 00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:33.240 and Robert is actually helping us locate some cool stories 106 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:35.319 from all around the world that we can start using. 107 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:37.959 That's amazing. Thank you so much. I can't wait to 108 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:38.720 hear what you got. 109 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:42.000 I've got This is kind of funny. Amanda de Grasse. 110 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:46.319 I hope I'm doing that right. But Amanda actually reached 111 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:48.199 out to me on Twitter because I sent her a 112 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:50.399 request and said, hey, listen to the show and she's like, Hey, 113 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:53.600 I already listened to the show, bitch. Well she didn't 114 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:56.639 say that, but she said she was already a listener. 115 00:05:56.680 --> 00:05:59.000 So I had some cool conversation with her yesterday. 116 00:05:59.360 --> 00:05:59.720 Nice. 117 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:04.519 That's if you guys join us on Twitter, I'm in that, 118 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:08.279 so I respond. I get several direct messages every day 119 00:06:08.279 --> 00:06:10.480 and tweets, and we respond to all of them. But 120 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:13.959 I highly advise everybody to join our Facebook page. It's 121 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:15.600 not a group, it's just a page, but we do 122 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:17.360 a lot of fun stuff and we interact with you 123 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:18.720 guys a lot on there. So if you want to 124 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:21.519 talk to us and send suggestions or just talk about 125 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:23.759 what's going on in sports or whatever, we talk to 126 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:25.839 everybody who wants to talk to us. So it's a 127 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:27.600 cool way to interact with the show and know what's 128 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:32.160 coming up for upcoming shows. With that being said, I 129 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:37.240 do have one request, and this is something that I 130 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:40.560 do last couple of shows. If I hear a podcast 131 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:42.480 that I really like, especially if it's an up and 132 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:45.000 coming podcast, I try to get the word out there. 133 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:48.160 I did it last week for Don't Break the Oath. 134 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:50.959 Them guys were very thankful for you guys that gave 135 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:53.160 them an opportunity, and we're going to do it again 136 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:55.279 this week. I got a couple of young ladies, Am 137 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:58.959 and Christine, and they have a podcast. They're only on 138 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:01.879 their I think the sixth episode came out today, maybe 139 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:05.000 the fifth, and it's called and That's Why We Drink. 140 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:09.240 These young ladies are very funny and they're they're getting 141 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:11.759 their feet underneath of them. They're starting to get listeners 142 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:15.560 and they're really a fun listen. So give them an 143 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:18.720 opportunity and I think you'll be surprised, and uh, let's 144 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:21.000 grow with them. I think as they go on, they're 145 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:22.839 gonna get better and better. You can already see it 146 00:07:22.879 --> 00:07:24.959 if you listen to episode one and listen to the 147 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:28.399 last one. It's been noticeable improvement. It's tough when you're 148 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:30.680 first starting out doing this, and it takes a while 149 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:32.480 to get used to having a microphone stuck in front 150 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:34.879 of your face and get that comfort level. But they're 151 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:37.279 doing a fabulous job and I hope all you will 152 00:07:37.439 --> 00:07:38.839 give them a listen and see what you think. 153 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:41.000 And I like the name of their show too, it's 154 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:41.959 pretty pretty awesome. 155 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:45.000 They have some their their graphic, their logo is awesome. 156 00:07:45.079 --> 00:07:48.639 It's made like a Oiji board, but it spells out 157 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:51.680 and that's why we drink. So it's if nothing else, 158 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:53.079 it's worth checking out just for the graphics. 159 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:54.920 It's got blood and guts all over it. 160 00:07:54.920 --> 00:08:00.959 It does not have bloody. Tracy's one of those moods today. 161 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:02.839 So there's no telling how this is going to turn out. 162 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:08.279 So let's talk a little bit about death knocks. 163 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:08.879 Now. 164 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:11.000 I wanted to talk about this subject because I've actually 165 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:13.959 known about this for a very long time, several years. 166 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:16.279 But when I talk to people about it, it seems like 167 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:19.160 nobody that I've talked to has ever heard of this before. 168 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:22.560 And you know, we're gonna start off with the way 169 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:25.600 I've always understood and I've learned as I've started researching this. 170 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:30.439 But I've always had situations to where and just think 171 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:32.879 about this and see if you've been in this same situation. 172 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:37.200 Have you ever been asleep you hear three pounds on 173 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:40.240 the door? It sounds like just think about like what 174 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:42.399 it would sound like on a castle door with the echo, 175 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:45.799 you know, the boom, boom boom. Have you ever heard 176 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:47.919 that and just woke up in the middlenight thinking there's 177 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:50.799 somebody knocking on a door and then there's nobody there. 178 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:54.320 I've actually had this happen two or three four times 179 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:56.679 and then actually went to the door because it was 180 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:59.480 that realistic to realize there was nobody there. So was 181 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:02.000 it something I I was just imagining. I don't know, 182 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:05.360 because when I started looking into it, I found out 183 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:08.120 that there's actually a phenomenon called death knocks. And now 184 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:10.360 this goes all the way back to the eighteen hundreds 185 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:14.639 where people would swear that if you hear three knocks 186 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:17.320 on the door or anywhere, and it doesn't have to 187 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:18.480 be in the middle of the night, this could be 188 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:21.360 while you're awake. But they call it the three knocks 189 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:25.120 of death or death knocks and what that supposedly say. 190 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:28.039 There's different different variations of the story. But a lot 191 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:31.240 of times people will hear this and within sometimes minutes, 192 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:34.720 they hear that somebody they know and love have passed away. 193 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:37.679 It could be friend, family member. Sometimes it's you know, 194 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:39.799 some people will tell you that it's either three days, 195 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:42.879 three weeks, or three months to the day you hear it, 196 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:45.519 somebody's going to pass away. So there's the different variations. 197 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:50.080 But I've got a bunch of stories that actually collaborate 198 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:52.279 with this, and I thought i'd share these with you guys. 199 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:57.720 So here's the first one. This is actually from a 200 00:09:57.799 --> 00:10:01.480 gentleman named Hensex in upstate New York. But he says, 201 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:03.799 when I was fifteen years old in nineteen sixty five, 202 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:05.440 I lived out in the country in a small town 203 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:09.600 called GasPort. One cold and very snow evening, we all 204 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:11.679 were gathered in the living room around the television when 205 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:14.440 we suddenly heard a loud pounding on the front entry door. 206 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:17.360 The door was sealed with weather stripping for the winter, 207 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:20.440 and we never opened it. It was in a dark place, 208 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:22.759 didn't have any kind of lighting, so nobody goes there. 209 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:25.120 The pounding was so loud that my mother went out 210 00:10:25.159 --> 00:10:28.039 to the side door to see whoever was knocking to 211 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:30.399 walk over to the side door tell them to come 212 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:34.320 over the side door whatever. She called again, and there 213 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:36.759 was no answer. She turned on the outside of light 214 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:38.600 over the front door and peered out the window, and 215 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:41.840 there was nobody there. She went out and looked. There 216 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:43.720 was no marks in the snow where anybody had been 217 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:47.080 walking over there, so it seemed very odd that somebody 218 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:49.759 could be out there since there was no footprints in 219 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:53.159 the fresh snow. My dad, being a skeptic, he suggested 220 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:56.000 the noise was windblowing something against the door. The next morning, 221 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:58.039 we got a call that our uncle Charlie had passed 222 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:02.440 away unexpectedly. That's one of those stories. Here's another one. 223 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:05.320 As a child, at the age of eight, I was 224 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:08.799 in care of my German grandma. I'd been drawing at 225 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:11.679 the kitchen table my grandparents farm house during the summer break. 226 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:14.679 My grandmother was drawing preserves and when we were both 227 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:17.039 startled by three loud knocks that seemed to come from 228 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:20.360 nowhere and yet everywhere, all at the same time. My 229 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:23.519 grandmother had turned and said nothing for a few minutes, 230 00:11:23.559 --> 00:11:26.440 she quickly took me outside of play. Nothing was ever 231 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:29.399 said about it, and you know, the only remained. It 232 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:32.679 only remained in my memory because of the first being 233 00:11:32.720 --> 00:11:35.039 startled and then being angry that I was taken away 234 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:38.759 from my drawing. What a gritty little punk. I later 235 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:42.240 learned many years that my grandmother's sister passed away that 236 00:11:42.360 --> 00:11:45.679 evening from a heart related ailment. Years later, my dad 237 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:50.919 had called when I was home with my partner. My 238 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:54.399 brother suffered from a long term substance abuse addiction and 239 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:58.279 had extremely hard to deal with that evening. My father 240 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:00.720 went on to add that not only that he had 241 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:02.720 that situation to deal with, but he thought the whole 242 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:05.120 house was going to come down too, because he had 243 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:08.480 three or four large bangs within the walls. My brother 244 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:10.720 died from a cocaine overdose just hours later. 245 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:12.440 My gosh, that's crazy. 246 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:16.399 The last instance took place after my long term companion 247 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:20.000 pet dog fell violently ill very quickly one day. I 248 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:22.559 had no car, but I phoned and requested a VET 249 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:24.919 ambulance to come and get us. As I lay on 250 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:27.080 the floor with her, there were three sharp knocks on 251 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:29.320 the apartment door. I rushed to open it, but there 252 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:32.720 was no one there. The vets arrived approximately fifteen minutes later, 253 00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:34.840 but my baby girl passed away in my arms less 254 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:36.399 than an hour later. That's from Christopher. 255 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:37.440 That's terrible. 256 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:39.360 So Christopher had a couple of experience. 257 00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:41.679 I don't want to hear no knocks. 258 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:43.919 Here's a couple more. My story begins back in the 259 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:46.559 twenties when my grandmother was in the kitchen and heard 260 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:49.840 three large, loud knocks on her front door. There was 261 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:52.000 no one there, but three days later learned that her 262 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:55.559 mother had died. Back in Germany. In seventy three, my 263 00:12:55.639 --> 00:12:58.320 parents were awakened by three loud knocks on the front door. 264 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:01.159 Upon inspection, there was no one there, but received a 265 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:03.399 phone call about an hour later that my uncle had 266 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:06.960 passed away. This was never brought up again until I 267 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.279 was telling my uncle about the story at my father's 268 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:12.799 funeral in nineteen seventy nine. He and his wife froze 269 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:15.360 and said that they had heard three loud knocks on 270 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:17.720 their storm door about the same time my father had 271 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:21.600 passed away. They lived in Arizona, which was three hours away. Now. 272 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:23.960 Two weeks ago, my mother awoke the three loud knocks 273 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:26.480 or bangs on the front door again. She got up 274 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:28.679 and found nothing at the front door and was immediately 275 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:31.200 scared because of it reminded her of the nineteen seventy 276 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:34.600 three incident. Three days later, my brother was murdered in 277 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:37.799 Louisiana in the early morning. The strangest fact is that 278 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:40.919 all the times a family member heard the knox, it 279 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:43.159 corresponded with a time of death, give or take an 280 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:46.960 hour of the family member. That's from Neil tack one. 281 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:49.480 Oh, that's so creepy. 282 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:52.080 Here's another quick one. My mother and her mother have 283 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:55.840 always been gifted by omens. We live in a little town, 284 00:13:55.960 --> 00:14:00.039 Saint Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, November tenth, twenty eleven, and 285 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:02.559 my mother heard three knocks. She always said that means 286 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:05.159 it takes three days, three weeks or three months right 287 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:07.919 to today that something bad was going to happen, usually 288 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:10.399 a death. Well, three days later, her cousin shot himself 289 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:12.840 in a hunting accident while hunting with his seven year 290 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:13.279 old son. 291 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:17.360 That is amazing. I better be not hearing no damn 292 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:19.879 knocks anywhere. And don't you be getting up in the 293 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:21.320 middle of the night and knocking on the door either, 294 00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:22.279 because that's how you roll. 295 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:26.600 Well, here's one from nineteen seventy nine. Miss Hughes of 296 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:30.320 England heard three knocks at eleven pm. Now she said 297 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:31.960 that she went and looked at the door, but it 298 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:34.039 was surprised her that it didn't surprise her that nobody 299 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:35.799 was there, because she's got a really squeaky gait and 300 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:38.639 she can hear when somebody comes to the gate. Thirty 301 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:41.120 minutes later, two policemen told her that her husband had 302 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:43.480 been killed. He got struck by a car and was 303 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:46.759 killed in the road. In nineteen eighty two, Miss Hughes 304 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:50.279 and her daughter heard three knocks on the kitchen window. 305 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:53.879 Fifteen minutes later, she found her brother dead of a 306 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:56.519 heart attack at the front door, but he hadn't made 307 00:14:56.559 --> 00:14:57.639 it to the door to be able to be the 308 00:14:57.639 --> 00:15:05.360 one that knocked. Had two incidentss There's another incident where 309 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:08.039 a guy named Frank had three knocks on his living 310 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:10.360 room wall and then he found out surely later that 311 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:15.559 his ex wife committed suicide. But you can see there's 312 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:17.840 a lot of different stories. I mean, I can literally 313 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:21.320 find probably fifty more stories almost instantly with these same things. 314 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:25.840 Here's one with a mister Hannaby that two days before 315 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:28.720 her dad died. I'm sorry, miss Hanniby. Two days before 316 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:31.679 her dad died, she told her mom that she heard 317 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:34.039 three knocks, and her mom said it was a sign 318 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:35.639 of death, and her dad died two days later. 319 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:41.159 Let's change the subject. This is depressing. 320 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:43.519 Well, let's talk about the Stanley Hotel. 321 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:44.840 Okay, Yeah, let's do that. 322 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:47.600 We'll talk about the Stanley and then we'll do our 323 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:50.120 interview with Haunted Explorers, and then we'll come back and 324 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:54.399 We'll do the listeners story because that's a really cool story, 325 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:57.639 so we'll save that for last. As alls I. 326 00:15:57.559 --> 00:15:59.360 Can say is I hope you guys none of you 327 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:02.840 all have any Three Knocks anywhere, because that's that got 328 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:04.039 me all paranoid and stuff. 329 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:05.759 What if it's three knocks and it really is Tony 330 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:06.559 Orlando at the door? 331 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:09.200 I mean that would be awesome because I could get 332 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:09.600 down with. 333 00:16:09.559 --> 00:16:12.240 That, but not better not happening late at night. I'll 334 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:15.080 be playing a yellow ridbond around his throat. Oh, waking 335 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:17.360 me up. No way I can take him. He's like 336 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:18.840 old now, he's playing his seventies. 337 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:21.039 I don't know if he still got a stash. 338 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:23.200 He might have a fun if he shows up at dawn. 339 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:30.200 Our younger listeners won't get that. Oh, Stanley Hotel. A 340 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:32.360 whole bunch of cool facts about the Stanley, And normally 341 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:34.879 we would have led with this, but I didn't have 342 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:38.519 any Stanley Hotel music, but I had Three Knocks music, 343 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:42.799 so we led with the door with the death Knocks. 344 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:47.159 Stanley Hotel. It's in Estes Park, Colorado, which is right 345 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:50.960 at the foot of the Rocky Mountain National Force. And 346 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:53.360 actually that actually had a lot to do with it 347 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:55.679 because back when it was built, it became kind of 348 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:57.759 a touristy town. If it hadn't been for that hotel 349 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:00.200 being built in the touristy town being there, they probablyrobably 350 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:02.080 wouldn't have that park right there. So that's all part 351 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:05.359 of it. Let's talk a little bit about how it 352 00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:07.559 came to be right now. It's got four hundred and 353 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:08.599 twenty rooms. 354 00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:11.920 It's huge and white, really really white. 355 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:15.880 Yeah, it's got four hundred and twenty rooms. It was 356 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:18.640 built by Freeman Freeland. I'm sorry, I don't want to 357 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:21.880 mispronounce the man's name, Freeland Stanley. He opened it on 358 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:25.480 the fourth of July nineteen oh nine. Now Freedland had 359 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:29.279 a twin brother named Francis, and they actually made a 360 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:31.000 lot of money. These kids were very smart. When they 361 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:34.240 were kids. They would build whittle tops, you know, like 362 00:17:34.279 --> 00:17:36.640 the little spinning tops. They would whittle tops and sell 363 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:38.799 them to their friends. So they were entrepreneurs from the 364 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:42.640 from the very beginning of their time for them, and 365 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:47.880 they created a product caught Stanley dry plate, and that 366 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:52.519 was actually a I guess a photography product that they 367 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:54.279 ended up making a lot of money off of because 368 00:17:54.640 --> 00:17:58.119 mister Eastman from Eastman Kodak bought it from them for 369 00:17:58.200 --> 00:18:01.759 a fortune. It was the equivalent of something like fifteen 370 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:06.079 million dollars back then, and he used that for what 371 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:09.519 became mostly the way photography has done today, as far 372 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:13.559 as it used to be a really long process with 373 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:16.319 taking a picture, and it shortened the process tremendously. So 374 00:18:16.359 --> 00:18:20.160 that's how they made their money. Then they invented the 375 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:21.240 Stanley Steamer. 376 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:25.079 Well, who knew you could make so much money cleaning carpets. 377 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:30.519 This is a different Stanley Steamer. Maybe most people probably 378 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:32.759 think of Stanley Steamer their carpet cleaning company, But the 379 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:36.680 Stanley Steamer back then was an automobile and it had 380 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:39.480 a steam engine. And so when you think of like 381 00:18:39.559 --> 00:18:41.720 the Model T forwards and stuff like that, it's kind 382 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:43.440 of like that, but it had a steam engine instead 383 00:18:43.440 --> 00:18:46.200 of a combustible engine, and they made a lot of 384 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:48.799 money off of that. Unfortunately, they were kind of stubborn 385 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:50.480 and they didn't want to change with the times, and 386 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:54.400 as automobile companies kind of got more complex, they kind 387 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:56.200 of stayed with where they were and that was the 388 00:18:56.279 --> 00:18:58.240 end of that. But they made all their money and 389 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:02.039 it was it was no big deal anyway. But Freedland 390 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:06.039 had a situation back in nineteen oh three where he 391 00:19:06.359 --> 00:19:09.920 contracted TB and back in the day, there was no 392 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:12.200 cure for TV, so they advised a lot of people 393 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:16.119 to move out west, and Colorado because of the high 394 00:19:16.160 --> 00:19:18.880 altitude and the good clean air was a place that 395 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:21.079 a lot of people were advised to go to. Well, 396 00:19:21.079 --> 00:19:23.119 they were from Maine, and there was a doctor that 397 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:26.160 originally from Maine that was now in Colorado on that area, 398 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:28.799 and he said, hey, come on out Freeland, this will 399 00:19:28.839 --> 00:19:31.079 be the place for you. He came out there. They 400 00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:33.839 got out there in March of that year, him and 401 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:37.640