1 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 1: When a colleague of mine retired, he began sharing the 2 00:00:11,679 --> 00:00:15,279 research we had been involved in, including work with two 3 00:00:15,359 --> 00:00:21,280 bigfoot research groups and some controversial researchers. By coincidence, he 4 00:00:21,359 --> 00:00:23,839 went on a hunting trip and he lost his life. 5 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:28,440 His passing never sat right with me. Since then, I've 6 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:33,439 retired to and I've taken precautions to keep my identity uncompromised, 7 00:00:33,799 --> 00:00:38,799 using public computers and going by another name in honor 8 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:41,799 of my colleague who left us too early. Here are 9 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:45,600 the highlights of our research. In nineteen eighty seven, a 10 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,719 small group of scientists were brought to an Air Force 11 00:00:48,799 --> 00:00:52,600 base where they were briefed on research they'd been conducting 12 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:57,200 involving a deceased sisquatch that had been hit by a train. 13 00:00:58,399 --> 00:01:02,280 Over the next thirty seven years, the program grew. Today, 14 00:01:02,479 --> 00:01:07,159 over one hundred individuals are involved in research. The facility 15 00:01:07,239 --> 00:01:10,159 is located in a mountain and it is guarded like 16 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:15,640 Fort Knox. Employees pass through three checkpoints before reaching the 17 00:01:15,879 --> 00:01:21,040 entrance in the mountain wall inside. An elevator takes employees 18 00:01:21,079 --> 00:01:24,400 more than one hundred feet underground to the research facility. 19 00:01:25,159 --> 00:01:29,879 There are one hundred sasquatch cadavers of multiple ages and 20 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:35,920 subspecies in freezers. There are thirteen that are living, captured 21 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,719 at great human costs to the military members supporting the program. 22 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:44,239 Over the last three decades, there have been several helicopter 23 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:48,879 crashes in the area of the facility. Entire squadrons and 24 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,840 teams have been lost. Cover Ups told the media the 25 00:01:52,959 --> 00:01:58,040 tragedies happen during training missions. The real explanations are far 26 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:02,079 more feral, relating to fail attempts at bringing more creatures in. 27 00:02:03,439 --> 00:02:06,840 The project began with an autopsy aimed at determining how 28 00:02:06,879 --> 00:02:10,639 the creature could survive even in the harshest climates. With 29 00:02:10,719 --> 00:02:14,400 each new discovery, the government found ways to apply it 30 00:02:14,439 --> 00:02:19,159 to Our military. Secrecy is a top priority. If the 31 00:02:19,199 --> 00:02:24,199 research leaked, it could cause problems homeland security, brain drain, 32 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:29,840 and stolen tech. Our research showed the specimen had two 33 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:34,000 more ribs than humans and was considerably larger and denser 34 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:38,120 by comparison, dense enough to withstand the impact of a 35 00:02:38,159 --> 00:02:43,400 thirty caliber bullet fired at close range space So closely 36 00:02:43,479 --> 00:02:47,639 together they act like plated armor under the chest, and 37 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,840 we theorized that their bone density involved due to the 38 00:02:50,879 --> 00:02:54,639 amount of calcium they consume. Gained by eating the bones 39 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:58,680 of animals they hunt. The skulls are curved like a 40 00:02:58,719 --> 00:03:02,800 bear's and more denser than a human's, able to deflect 41 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,400 most rounds of ammunition. The only way to penetrate the 42 00:03:06,439 --> 00:03:09,840 brain is a direct shot into the orbital socket or 43 00:03:09,879 --> 00:03:14,120 directly under the base of the skull. The digestive system 44 00:03:14,319 --> 00:03:18,400 is impressive. A nine hundred pound creature can consume one 45 00:03:18,479 --> 00:03:22,000 hundred and eighty pound deer in one sinning, including the 46 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,919 bones and the organs. This allows them to hunt and 47 00:03:26,039 --> 00:03:29,680 consume every three to four days, supplementing their diet with 48 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:35,080 fruits and nuts and other opportunistic hunting. This creature has 49 00:03:35,199 --> 00:03:39,439 forty eight chromosomes, the same as apes, but two more 50 00:03:39,479 --> 00:03:44,319 than humans. This implies the creature is not a human subspecies. 51 00:03:45,439 --> 00:03:48,840 The first life specimen was obtained in nineteen ninety nine, 52 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:53,919 and research grew exponentially after that, focusing especially on its 53 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:58,479 camouflage abilities. Perhaps our greatest finding to date is that 54 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:03,039 the creatures are capable of generating an electric current. The 55 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,479 energy is channeled to their hair and used to reflect 56 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:12,080 their surroundings its electric camouflage. We also believe the current 57 00:04:12,199 --> 00:04:16,439 powers their ability to see at night, similar to thermal scope. 58 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:21,199 When witness, the subject's eyes and skins will warm, making 59 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:25,199 the eyes appear to glow. When the animal is dead, 60 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:29,680 this camouflage ability ceases to function, and you can imagine 61 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,680 what the commercial hunting industry would do for this information. 62 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:37,000 The creature has three sets of vocal cores which it 63 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:41,879 uses to create infrasound. Our next leg of research examined 64 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,800 how the males use infrasound to affect emotions fear, anxiety, 65 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:52,560 and confusion. Some are capable of inflicting memory loss, lasting 66 00:04:52,639 --> 00:04:57,439 for several minutes to in some instances, several days. The 67 00:04:57,439 --> 00:05:02,079 female's infrasound is different, having a calming, soothing effect, though 68 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:06,319 it was also noted to create confusion. When live deer 69 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:10,480 or livestock are dropped into the containment area, the animals 70 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:14,000 do not panic or try to flee. They appear confused, 71 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,639 unaware of the creature feet away, even as it charges 72 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:23,639 and attacks. The creatures appear to communicate not only with infrasound, 73 00:05:23,639 --> 00:05:26,959 but also with an oral language of clicks and grunts 74 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,279 and hand signals. They have a community and a hierarchy 75 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:35,680 within their groups. There's typically one alpha male and a 76 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:40,519 group of females and juveniles. If another large male is introduced, 77 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:44,639 there will be a fight to the death. Similarly, when 78 00:05:44,639 --> 00:05:47,439 a juvenile male becomes a threat, he will be attacked 79 00:05:47,439 --> 00:05:50,920 by by alpha and he will be driven off. Now 80 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,839 this has resulted in the facility having multiple containments for 81 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:59,839 different males. However, research suggests that if there are no females, 82 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:04,240 resent males can coexist without aggression, even to the point 83 00:06:04,319 --> 00:06:09,600 of sharing meals. Females are not receptive to breeding until 84 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,600 the last offspring matures to the age of three to 85 00:06:12,639 --> 00:06:16,120 four years old. They rarely give birth to more than 86 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,639 one offspring at a time. The offspring cling to the 87 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:22,399 mother for the first year and then become more independent 88 00:06:22,439 --> 00:06:26,959 after that time. There were several documented events of female 89 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:33,759 staff experiencing vivid images described as waking dreams of places 90 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:40,399 and events experienced by the female creatures. Examples include capture, childbirth, 91 00:06:40,639 --> 00:06:46,360 confrontation with rival clans. Other examples include the creature projecting 92 00:06:46,399 --> 00:06:50,120 to the female's staff their favorite foods. There are no 93 00:06:50,199 --> 00:06:55,839 records of male staff members experiencing these visions. We have 94 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:59,360 also documented their behavior in the presence of staff members. 95 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,759 The females are present, the specimens are calm, observant, and 96 00:07:03,879 --> 00:07:08,519 open to accepting offerings. When there are males present, the 97 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:12,920 creatures become cautious, observing from a distance and refused to 98 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:17,079 accept any type of offering. When the uniformed or arm 99 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:20,279 staff are present, the creatures retreat to the furthest corners 100 00:07:20,319 --> 00:07:25,199 of the containment area and will sometimes project aggressive infrasound. 101 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:30,439 To this day, the facility has released four specimens back 102 00:07:30,439 --> 00:07:33,560 into the wild, all of which are non aggressive and 103 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:38,240 showed no hostility toward our research staff. All four were 104 00:07:38,279 --> 00:07:43,560 implanted with GPS tracking devices. The first two were released 105 00:07:43,639 --> 00:07:46,879 where they were captured and then tracked along a malgration 106 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:50,759 route for the next four years, traveling as far south 107 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:55,319 as East Texas and as far north as northern Ontario, Canada. 108 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:58,959 The other two traveled an average of forty to fifty 109 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,800 miles a night, spending several weeks in one location at 110 00:08:02,879 --> 00:08:06,879 a time before moving to a new location. Their movements 111 00:08:06,959 --> 00:08:10,759 suggest these creatures have learned routes that they teach to 112 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:15,360 their offspring, and on several occasions the signals have vanished, 113 00:08:15,839 --> 00:08:19,279 only to appear again several days later fifty miles away, 114 00:08:19,879 --> 00:08:25,439 suggesting the creatures use cave systems to move underground. As 115 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:28,920 for the foul smell the creatures emitt, we have discovered 116 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,840 there are different musks for different situations, for example, when 117 00:08:33,879 --> 00:08:39,240 females are receptive to breeding and when one feels threatened again, 118 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,679 those are just the highlights. I'm sharing the information with 119 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:46,639 you because of your viewer's base and your non judgmental approach. 120 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,919 I appreciate everything you have done sharing information with the public. 121 00:08:51,639 --> 00:08:54,519 I'm doing this for my late colleague. He would have 122 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:59,960 wanted me to do this. Okay. I didn't say any 123 00:09:00,159 --> 00:09:02,519 thing before I read this story, but I got this 124 00:09:02,639 --> 00:09:05,679 email quite a while ago, and I've actually read it 125 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:08,960 two or three times, and I've to be candid, I've 126 00:09:09,039 --> 00:09:12,720 used it for some research in my Steve Lilly stories. 127 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,639 I finally sent it off to Rebecca and she kind 128 00:09:15,639 --> 00:09:18,039 of cleaned it up a little bit, and it's the 129 00:09:18,759 --> 00:09:21,320 man who wrote the email did a great job on 130 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:23,840 the front end, but she kind of organized it for 131 00:09:23,919 --> 00:09:26,360 me so that I can because I'm not real smart, 132 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:30,759 and so she uses smaller words and stuff for me 133 00:09:30,879 --> 00:09:34,080 that I can pronounce. I thought this was interesting if 134 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:38,879 you're interested in secret government operations where they actually capture 135 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:42,879 sosquatch and keep them captive and examine the bodies. I 136 00:09:42,919 --> 00:09:45,879 thought this might be an interesting It was very interesting 137 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,080 to me. I thought you might enjoy it, so I 138 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:51,679 appreciate the writer for sending it. Sorry you lost your buddy, 139 00:09:51,919 --> 00:09:59,559 and we really enjoyed this email. Thank you, sir. This 140 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,320 event happened almost fifty years ago when I was a 141 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:06,759 young teenage boy growing up in rural Blunt County, Alabama, 142 00:10:07,159 --> 00:10:11,720 thirty miles north of Birmingham. This area of north central 143 00:10:11,759 --> 00:10:15,679 Alabama is considered the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, and 144 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,159 in nineteen seventy eight, it was far more country than 145 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:23,240 it is now. Back then, we had two gas stations, 146 00:10:23,399 --> 00:10:26,840 a general store, and a caution light, but today the 147 00:10:26,919 --> 00:10:31,519 community has several fast food places, a Mexican restaurant, a pharmacy, 148 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:35,440 and a bank. At the time of my encounter, I 149 00:10:35,519 --> 00:10:38,200 was in my early teens. I had not gotten my 150 00:10:38,279 --> 00:10:42,200 driver's permit yet, so my main mode of transportation was 151 00:10:42,279 --> 00:10:46,720 my bicycle. My friends and I used woods as our playground. 152 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,320 We hunted squirrels, and we fished, and we swam in 153 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,679 the river and camped out on the weekends. I was 154 00:10:53,759 --> 00:10:56,840 comfortable outdoors as any other twelve or thirteen year old 155 00:10:56,919 --> 00:11:01,480 boy who had spent years exploring the woods. Strange noises 156 00:11:01,519 --> 00:11:05,960 and critters or bugs did not easily spook me. Even today, 157 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,559 working as alignman for the local power company, my job 158 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:12,200 requires me to spend a great deal of time alone 159 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,240 in the woods at all hours of the day and night, 160 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:19,240 so I'm not one who worries about things going bump 161 00:11:19,279 --> 00:11:23,600 in the night. In nineteen seventy eight, a friend taught 162 00:11:23,639 --> 00:11:26,840 me into putting out trotlines down on the Locust Fork 163 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,919 River behind my house. I don't remember what possessed us 164 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:34,919 to undertake such an adventure, but I agreed to help him. 165 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,759 We chose a remote spot where the river made a 166 00:11:37,919 --> 00:11:41,799 U shape ben and all the water ran slower. To 167 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:43,480 get to the river, you had to walk down a 168 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:47,600 steep terrain that was heavily wooded, and going down wasn't 169 00:11:47,639 --> 00:11:49,919 too bad, but coming back up the road could be 170 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:54,200 a little taxing, even for a couple of kids. We 171 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:56,840 set out our lines, and for the next few days 172 00:11:56,919 --> 00:11:59,799 we went after school and we checked them. It didn't 173 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:02,720 take long to realize this wasn't at all that great 174 00:12:02,759 --> 00:12:06,279 of an idea. We caught two or three fish a day, 175 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,279 but usually by the time we got to them, turtles 176 00:12:09,279 --> 00:12:13,120 had eaten everything but the head. As a teenage boy, 177 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,320 I started thinking of other ways I'd rather spend my time, 178 00:12:16,639 --> 00:12:19,919 and I was seriously debating on quitting after a few 179 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:23,759 more days if the lack of success continued. But little 180 00:12:23,799 --> 00:12:26,240 did I know that decision would be made for me. 181 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,639 One day, after we'd been doing this for a few days, 182 00:12:30,799 --> 00:12:33,159 my friend told me at school that he had something 183 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:35,399 he had to do that afternoon, and he asked me 184 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,000 if I would check them by myself. I wasn't thrilled 185 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,320 about it, but I said, yeah, I'll do it that evening. 186 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:44,960 I hooked it down the steep hill alone to the 187 00:12:45,039 --> 00:12:47,519 river for what I expected to be a total waste 188 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:50,759 of time. I began to check the lines and I 189 00:12:50,799 --> 00:12:54,399 heard something grunt across the river on the opposite bank. 190 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,279 At this spot, the river was about forty feet across. 191 00:12:58,879 --> 00:13:02,639 The opposite bank was also heavily wooded, and thick underbrush 192 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:06,039 lined the bank. It was so thick that there were 193 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:08,600 very few spots where you could even see through it, 194 00:13:08,879 --> 00:13:12,120 and even then it was only in small gaps that 195 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,559 were few and far between. Whatever was across the water 196 00:13:16,799 --> 00:13:21,039 was now grunting and growling, and it was shaking small trees, 197 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:25,080 all the while making sure it stayed completely concealed behind 198 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,879 the brush. I told myself it was probably a hog 199 00:13:29,039 --> 00:13:32,720 rooting around, but I knew immediately that was not the case. 200 00:13:33,519 --> 00:13:36,240 It wasn't a pig with its nose stuck in the dirt. 201 00:13:36,759 --> 00:13:41,320 It was grunting and growling, not snorting and squealing. I 202 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:44,480 could tell by where the sounds came from that whatever 203 00:13:44,519 --> 00:13:46,639 it was, it was at least as tall as me, 204 00:13:47,519 --> 00:13:50,399 and wild pigs don't grab and shake twenty foot tall 205 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:55,200 hardwood trees like their twigs. Well, I try to ignore it, 206 00:13:55,399 --> 00:13:58,240 hoping whatever it was would tire of messing with me 207 00:13:58,399 --> 00:14:02,000 and just go away, But it continued to parallel me. 208 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,200 As I moved down the bank from line to line. 209 00:14:05,399 --> 00:14:07,720 It became obvious to me that it had no intention 210 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,799 of going away, and I eventually lost my nerve. I 211 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:15,159 began to be afraid that something would burst through that 212 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,919 thick brush and into the river and get me. So 213 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:20,639 I said, to hell with the fishheads, and I scurried 214 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:24,200 up that steep bank. I think I completed it in 215 00:14:24,279 --> 00:14:27,840 about half the time it normally took us. Even as 216 00:14:27,879 --> 00:14:30,679 I did, I could still hear this thing causing a commotion, 217 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,679 no doubt, making sure that I would not change my 218 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,799 mind and come back it didn't have to worry about 219 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:40,720 that happening. The next day, I told my friend that 220 00:14:40,799 --> 00:14:43,240 I was out of the trotline business and would not 221 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,240 be going back to that section of the river. When 222 00:14:46,279 --> 00:14:49,240 I told him why, he scoffed at me, But I 223 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,159 didn't care. I don't know if he went back down 224 00:14:52,159 --> 00:14:56,080 there or not, nor did I give a damn. Over 225 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:58,679 the years, I had thought about this event and tried 226 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:03,759 to rationalize what hap As my dad was a Bigfoot enthusiast, 227 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:05,879 I had known about the legend of it since I 228 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:09,000 was a young kid. We watched every one of those 229 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:14,279 cheesy seventy documentaries and of course the Patterson film. But 230 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:18,159 Bigfoot was something that lived out west. At the time 231 00:15:18,159 --> 00:15:21,399 of this event, sightings of this creature in Alabama were 232 00:15:21,559 --> 00:15:25,840 unheard of. Years later I learned that other sightings in 233 00:15:25,919 --> 00:15:30,000 North Alabama were actually quite common. I can't say for 234 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:33,879 certain what it was. I never saw it. It wasn't 235 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,320 until I listened to your podcast and heard others discussing 236 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:41,200 episodes of tree shaking, that I allowed myself to consider 237 00:15:41,279 --> 00:15:45,080 this possibility. Like I said in the beginning, this story 238 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,399 doesn't contain any of the more exciting aspects of many 239 00:15:48,399 --> 00:15:52,759 of your other submissions. But this did happen. My brother 240 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:56,000 told me it was probably some moonshiner running me off 241 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,000 of it. Still, as most of the counties in North 242 00:15:59,039 --> 00:16:03,120 Alabama around this time, we're all dry. Moonshining had once 243 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,519 been widespread in those hills and haulers, but by the 244 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:10,159 late seventies the illicit liquor trade had pretty much dried up. 245 00:16:10,879 --> 00:16:13,600 There were still bootleggers around, but they wouldn't have any 246 00:16:13,639 --> 00:16:16,960 reason to be that deep in the woods. Others have 247 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,679 also said somebody was messing with me, maybe even some 248 00:16:20,759 --> 00:16:23,799 of my friends, trying to scare me. But if that 249 00:16:23,879 --> 00:16:27,000 had been the case, and knowing my friends, they would 250 00:16:27,039 --> 00:16:29,879 have spilled the beans and told me about it. They 251 00:16:29,879 --> 00:16:32,080 were the kind of kids who if they ever got 252 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:34,519 anything on you, they weren't going to let you live 253 00:16:34,559 --> 00:16:37,919 it down. But until this day, no one has ever 254 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:41,600 admitted to such shenanigans. And I doubt a teenage boy 255 00:16:41,639 --> 00:16:44,559 could shake a tree like that. I don't think a 256 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,519 full grown man could either. When I shared it, even 257 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:52,919 with family members, I get ridiculed as such. Over the years, 258 00:16:52,919 --> 00:16:56,039 I've quit talking about it. It's only after hearing your 259 00:16:56,120 --> 00:17:00,000 podcast that I now feel comfortable relaying it to you. 260 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:02,320 Thanks for your podcast. I love listening to it and 261 00:17:02,399 --> 00:17:05,119 hearing all the accounts that you read, and I've turned 262 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,200 my dad onto your show. Thank you for that. After 263 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:11,039 hearing some of the more terrifying ones, I'm glad mine 264 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:16,000 was as unspectacular as it was. Sometimes in life, the 265 00:17:16,079 --> 00:17:19,319 less exciting it is the better. Oh that's the damn truth. 266 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:22,119 He signs it. I'm not gonna tell you his name, 267 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:25,680 but North Alabama. I spent some time in North Alabama 268 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:30,400 up around Fort Payne and five, Alabama and gunners Full. 269 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,359 I got to do some fishing at Gunnersville and Lakewise, 270 00:17:33,519 --> 00:17:37,599 and I really like that area. Very nice people, good people. 271 00:17:38,039 --> 00:17:41,480 I thought this was a real exciting story. I mean, 272 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:45,319 imagine you're a kid and you're running trot lines, and 273 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:47,920 you got to run them if you really to me, 274 00:17:48,079 --> 00:17:50,599 if you're going to run trot lines, some people put 275 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:53,799 them out, they'll run them once a day, but you know, 276 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:55,880 to really run trot lines and do it right, you 277 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:58,400 probably need to run them about every three or four hours. 278 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,240 So he found that out. The turtles and the guard 279 00:18:01,279 --> 00:18:03,880 and everything else that eat what's on your hook. It's 280 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:06,039 a fun thing to do, or it used to be 281 00:18:06,079 --> 00:18:07,839 for me when I was younger. I used to run 282 00:18:07,839 --> 00:18:11,000 trot lines with I'm sorry, I just keep talking about me. 283 00:18:11,079 --> 00:18:13,359 That's not what I mean to do. I guess I'm 284 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,440 just running at the mouth. I'm just rambling. Anyway, Let's 285 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:18,440 just put it this way. This was a good story. 286 00:18:18,519 --> 00:18:22,039 I identified with it, and knowing people in North Alabama, 287 00:18:22,079 --> 00:18:25,200 I could almost hear them telling me this story. So 288 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:27,440 I'm sorry I got choked up, but it was really good. 289 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,119 I wanted to say thanks to the writer. I appreciate it. 290 00:18:34,319 --> 00:18:37,440 This morning, as I was slowly waking up for the day, 291 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,240 I felt a finger touching my foot under the covers 292 00:18:41,279 --> 00:18:45,759 of my bed. This in itself is not unusual, except 293 00:18:45,799 --> 00:18:50,200 that I live alone. Somehow, the experience finally prompted me 294 00:18:50,319 --> 00:18:53,480 to write to you. My father was born in a 295 00:18:53,519 --> 00:18:56,880 small town in Germany. When the grave digger in the 296 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:01,759 town retired, he informed his successor when someone passes, there 297 00:19:01,799 --> 00:19:03,880 would be a knock on his door. Letting him know 298 00:19:04,079 --> 00:19:07,759 it was time to get up and start digging. When 299 00:19:07,759 --> 00:19:11,240 my grandmother in Germany died, doors knocked at two homes 300 00:19:11,279 --> 00:19:15,480 that day, one in Germany and one in Canada, within 301 00:19:15,559 --> 00:19:19,319 two hours of each other. My father opened the door 302 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:22,279 to see who was there, but our entrance was empty, 303 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:24,880 and there was in a single footprint in the fresh 304 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:29,839 coating of snow outside our door. At around thirteen years old, 305 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:33,079 I was shoveling grain into the auger that was supplying 306 00:19:33,079 --> 00:19:36,599 a feed meal. The grain bend sat in a plywood 307 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:39,440 barn with a ladder nailed to the wall for getting 308 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:42,920 in and out there. I was hauling the grain when 309 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:46,000 I looked up and saw my uncle wearing a black tuxedo. 310 00:19:46,759 --> 00:19:50,119 I stopped and stared at him curiously, and I told 311 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,599 him hello. Then I got back to my work. It 312 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,720 wasn't until later that night, after my chores were done 313 00:19:56,799 --> 00:20:00,960 that I found out that he had died. Moved into 314 00:20:01,039 --> 00:20:06,319 a farmhouse, and immediately started seeing apparitions once. I even 315 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,559 watched a glass move across the kitchen counter in front 316 00:20:09,599 --> 00:20:13,039 of me. Last fall, my father came to visit for 317 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:16,759 a night. He insisted on sleeping on the couch that night, 318 00:20:16,839 --> 00:20:19,519 and the next morning he asked which talk show I 319 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,079 was listening to on the radio at three in the morning. 320 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:24,799 I didn't know what he was talking about, so I 321 00:20:24,839 --> 00:20:27,839 told him I had been asleep all night. He looked 322 00:20:27,839 --> 00:20:31,000 at me like he regretted even asking, and we didn't 323 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:35,119 talk about it anymore. My old neighbor is the son 324 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,440 of a man who was born in this house over 325 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,599 one hundred years ago. Next time I see him, I 326 00:20:40,759 --> 00:20:43,519 tell him to take his relatives home with him. They 327 00:20:43,559 --> 00:20:47,640 aren't paying rent. Two winters ago, I woke up on 328 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:51,680 my back with my arms crossed onto my chest. I 329 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,519 felt a light pressure holding them down, and when I 330 00:20:54,559 --> 00:20:57,559 tried to lift them, something pushed them back with such 331 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:02,000 force that it pushed me into the Matre. Immediately said 332 00:21:02,039 --> 00:21:07,240 a prayer and felt the pressure disappear instantly. Many occurrences 333 00:21:07,279 --> 00:21:11,000 have happened, but became so frequent in my everyday life 334 00:21:11,079 --> 00:21:13,759 that I've been able to find normalcy in it. All. 335 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:18,880 Normal sea. It's a normal normal sea. Is that even 336 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:23,119 a word? Normalcy? Anyway? Normal sea, and at all I've 337 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:25,839 never felt afraid, nor have I ever found reason to 338 00:21:25,839 --> 00:21:30,480 be alarmed by it. Looking at it objectively, it's just energy, 339 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:35,440 different between human and animal. Each of us has a soul, 340 00:21:35,519 --> 00:21:38,000 and when we leave our bodies, we pass into the 341 00:21:38,039 --> 00:21:43,000 spiritual realm. Depending on our development and experiences, some of 342 00:21:43,079 --> 00:21:46,640 us move on toward the light, while others stay earth bound. 343 00:21:47,599 --> 00:21:50,640 Sometime those who have moved on will come back for 344 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,279 a visit to see how we're progressing here on Earth. 345 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:57,200 I'm convinced that if we could see the wider spectrum 346 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:01,599 of light, we would see the spiritual realm. But since 347 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,039 we can't, the spirits have to do the hard work 348 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:08,079 gathering enough energy by siphoning it from the living or 349 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,880 drawing it from energy of the environment. If there's enough 350 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:14,880 energy around, they can make themselves known to us by 351 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,559 knocking on a door, or moving a glass, or turning 352 00:22:18,559 --> 00:22:23,359 a light on or off. As a believer in reincarnation, 353 00:22:23,559 --> 00:22:29,200 I often question the role of ghosts and why they exist. Fortunately, 354 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:32,079 I found a book written by a Catholic minister in 355 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:36,839 Germany after World War One. His name was Johannes Greber. 356 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:41,839 Maybe it's Johanness Grieber Johannas Godeba if you'd like to 357 00:22:41,839 --> 00:22:45,839 look it up. The information he shared is monumental. It 358 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,039 will make you see the world and your life from 359 00:22:48,079 --> 00:22:51,599 a completely different perspective. Thank you for what you do. 360 00:22:51,759 --> 00:22:54,000 I hope my story is of help to people seeking 361 00:22:54,079 --> 00:22:56,519 the truth, and thank you to those who have the 362 00:22:56,559 --> 00:23:01,880 courage to write about their experiences and off. And this 363 00:23:02,039 --> 00:23:07,240 was a story about multiple experiences with ghosts and other apparitions, 364 00:23:07,319 --> 00:23:14,680 family members, neighbors, neighbors, parents, and I've never experienced anything 365 00:23:14,799 --> 00:23:17,160 like this, but we get a few emails like this, 366 00:23:17,759 --> 00:23:20,319 and people believe different things, and that's fine. You can 367 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:24,160 believe whatever you want. But sometimes I wonder when my 368 00:23:24,319 --> 00:23:26,680 light goes out, what am I going to see? What? 369 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:31,319 You know, I'm a believer in Jesus, But other than that, 370 00:23:31,519 --> 00:23:34,160 I wonder what the experience is going to be like. 371 00:23:34,559 --> 00:23:36,359 Is it going to be a bright light? Is it 372 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:40,599 going to be a woosh through space? Am I just 373 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:42,880 going to go to sleep? There are a lot of 374 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:47,119 different theories about it, and as many theories from the 375 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:51,920 secular community as there are from the religious community. And 376 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,720 the truth is, we don't know. It's funny because billions 377 00:23:54,799 --> 00:23:57,680 of people have lived and died on this earth and 378 00:23:57,799 --> 00:24:01,759 nobody has any idea what happens moment of death. But 379 00:24:01,839 --> 00:24:04,400 it will definitely be a new experience that I've never 380 00:24:04,519 --> 00:24:07,200 experienced before. So I'm kind kind of in a way 381 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:11,039 looking at it as sort of an adventure, you know, 382 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,880 A wonder meeting my creator. I think that's going to 383 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,799 be pretty cool, and I hope it happens instantly. I 384 00:24:18,839 --> 00:24:21,680 hope we don't just go to sleep and sleep for 385 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,920 a million years, because not that we would even know 386 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,440 if we were asleep. How would you even know it 387 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,440 had been a million years. I want to be cool 388 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,559 to wake up and say, hey, how long has it 389 00:24:31,599 --> 00:24:34,279 been since I died? And somebody there tell you, oh, 390 00:24:34,279 --> 00:24:37,839 it's been a million one point two million years since 391 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:41,480 you died? What? Man? I missed all that? Anyway, just 392 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,039 stuff I think about. You know something else I think about. 393 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,359 I get up in the morning and I drink some 394 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,400 coffee and I'll try to just clear my mind for 395 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,920 about fifteen or twenty minutes, and then I'll pull up 396 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:56,039 my phone and I've gotten I'll be honest with you, 397 00:24:56,079 --> 00:24:59,039 I've gotten on this TikTok rabbit hole kind of thing, 398 00:24:59,319 --> 00:25:01,920 and I've come They're ass some of these do you 399 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,319 guys know who these First Amendment auditors are? These guys 400 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,440 who just sit on a sidewalk and film stuff and 401 00:25:08,519 --> 00:25:11,720 try to provoke reactions from people on the street. And 402 00:25:11,759 --> 00:25:15,519 they're testing their freedoms just what they're doing, and they're 403 00:25:15,519 --> 00:25:19,039 making money off of it. But what I find really 404 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:24,920 spectacularly interesting and I love watching people and trying to 405 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,559 figure out what the what is the psychology of what 406 00:25:28,759 --> 00:25:32,920 is going on here? What makes people do and think 407 00:25:33,039 --> 00:25:36,319 and behave the way they do. What amazes me of 408 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:40,160 the people that the people who will confront these auditors 409 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,079 and they say they don't want to be on camera, 410 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,039 but they step right in front of the camera and 411 00:25:45,079 --> 00:25:47,480 they start a big fight with them or an argument 412 00:25:47,559 --> 00:25:49,640 with them. They'll even chase them around. Some of them 413 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,880 will get violent with the auditors. A lot of them 414 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,160 get pepper sprayed. What is it about? Is it? Is 415 00:25:56,759 --> 00:26:00,559 it a need to control your environment? If I walked 416 00:26:00,599 --> 00:26:04,000 in a shopping mall and there was somebody there with 417 00:26:04,079 --> 00:26:07,480 the camera just filming people going in and out, I 418 00:26:07,519 --> 00:26:10,119 wouldn't think anything about it. I just walk right by 419 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,440 them and go in. I have no need, no desire 420 00:26:13,519 --> 00:26:16,279 to find out what they're doing. Or somebody standing at 421 00:26:16,559 --> 00:26:18,839 a lot of times they'll stand in front of post office. 422 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,319 Is you know sometimes they'll stand in front of these 423 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:25,279 cannabis dispensaries, get people going in and out of the 424 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:28,240 marijuana dispensaries, which I think is kind of which is 425 00:26:28,319 --> 00:26:31,559 brilliant because you're always going to get someone to confront 426 00:26:31,599 --> 00:26:34,279 you there, which is that's what they want because that's 427 00:26:34,279 --> 00:26:37,720 what people watch, and that gets clicks, and that gets 428 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:42,359 full views, and that's how people like us creators make money. 429 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,640 If you listen to a video, in their case, watch 430 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,519 a video from front to end, that's when you do 431 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:52,599 the best financially. Nobody's getting super rich doing it, but 432 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,440 a lot of them make their living doing it, and 433 00:26:55,519 --> 00:26:59,680 they and the auditors have become extremely crafty at how 434 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,279 they respawn to people. But I'm just curious from you, 435 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,200 the audience, what is it that makes these people tick 436 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:12,759 that confront the First Amendment auditors? Why do they Is 437 00:27:12,799 --> 00:27:16,200 it just a control thing? Is it a pride thing? 438 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,680 What is it? You guys? Tell me what you think 439 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,480 of is if you haven't watched any of you won't 440 00:27:20,519 --> 00:27:23,279 even know what I'm talking about. But if you've watched 441 00:27:23,279 --> 00:27:24,960 any of them, and I know a lot of you have, 442 00:27:25,519 --> 00:27:30,039 I find them fascinating. Not because of the controversy I 443 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,519 just look at the people that confront these people and 444 00:27:32,559 --> 00:27:35,400 I go, what is going on in that person's brain? 445 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,839 And so along with that you get to see like 446 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,400 the police cam, the bodycam footage of people that the 447 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,000 police arrests. Like they'll pull somebody over and they'll say, well, 448 00:27:47,039 --> 00:27:49,400 you were going sixty five and a forty. I need 449 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:53,039 to see your driver's license, your registration, and your insurance. 450 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,279 And instantly these people become a problem. They won't roll 451 00:27:57,319 --> 00:28:01,200 down their window, they won't give the officer their driver's license. 452 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,559 They know they were speeding, but they won't cooperate at all, 453 00:28:05,799 --> 00:28:09,200 and it eventually winds up after thirty or forty five 454 00:28:09,279 --> 00:28:11,599 minutes of the cops saying, if you don't get out 455 00:28:11,599 --> 00:28:13,759 of that car and give me that information, you're going 456 00:28:13,799 --> 00:28:16,400 to prison. And if you don't roll down your window, 457 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,000 I'm going to break that window and drag you out 458 00:28:19,039 --> 00:28:22,400 of that car. They will take it so far, so 459 00:28:22,759 --> 00:28:25,400 far that they'll go to prison, when all they had 460 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,279 to do was just say, yeah, I was speeding, I 461 00:28:27,279 --> 00:28:30,240 broke the law, Take your lumps, give them the license, 462 00:28:30,319 --> 00:28:33,240 give me your insurance, all that stuff, and just get 463 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,200 it done and move on. What is it? What goes 464 00:28:36,319 --> 00:28:39,519 on in the mind of these people that bow up 465 00:28:39,559 --> 00:28:43,359 on the police when they've obviously done something that rated 466 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,680 them being pulled over. What is it you guys? Let 467 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,000 me know in the comments what you think is going 468 00:28:49,039 --> 00:28:51,680 on with these people, Like the people who won't roll 469 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,359 down their windows or give up their drivers. Are they 470 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:58,599 trying to control the cops. You're never gonna win. The 471 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:03,400 cops are always, always, every time, gonna come out on top. 472 00:29:03,519 --> 00:29:06,519 You're gonna do what they say every time. If they 473 00:29:06,519 --> 00:29:08,759 ask you to get out of a car, you are 474 00:29:08,799 --> 00:29:11,240 coming out of that car. If they ask you to 475 00:29:11,279 --> 00:29:13,319 turn around and put your hands on the back trunk 476 00:29:13,359 --> 00:29:17,319 of the car, they're gonna search you. They're gonna handcuff you, 477 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,599 put you to the ground. It's gonna get done. Why 478 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,680 do people continually bow up on this stuff? Anyway? I'm 479 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,880 just fascinated with the psychology of people and the trouble 480 00:29:29,039 --> 00:29:32,680 they get themselves in when it's not even necessary. It 481 00:29:32,759 --> 00:29:36,759 is not even necessary in the least bit. Is it 482 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,200 just a need to win? Is it a need to 483 00:29:39,279 --> 00:29:42,319 come out on top? Is it a need for control? 484 00:29:42,359 --> 00:29:44,240 Tell me what you're think in the comments. I know 485 00:29:44,319 --> 00:29:46,279 that was a big tangent, but it just popped in 486 00:29:46,359 --> 00:29:52,680 my head. Thought I'd just talk about it. When I 487 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,359 was six years old, my family took a vacation a 488 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:59,720 little ways north of Cadillac, Michigan. We stayed in a 489 00:29:59,759 --> 00:30:03,400 small cabin that belonged to some family friends. They had 490 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:06,119 a sun ma age named Jeff, and we got along 491 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,200 pretty well. We spent a few days playing in the 492 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,640 woods and by the creek that ran along the hill. 493 00:30:12,599 --> 00:30:16,279 On the fifth night, we saw a dog man. It 494 00:30:16,359 --> 00:30:18,720 was well past midnight, and Jeff and I were up 495 00:30:18,759 --> 00:30:22,519 away past our bedtime, goofing around and looking at comics 496 00:30:22,519 --> 00:30:26,599 with a flashlight. The bedroom we were staying in was small, 497 00:30:26,839 --> 00:30:29,759 in a loft that we'd climbed into with a lighter. 498 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,599 In the loft, there was a round window below the 499 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,559 peak of the roof where we could look out and 500 00:30:34,599 --> 00:30:38,200 see the driveway in the large front yard dotted with trees. 501 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,319 Next to the drive was a small wooden shed. Beside 502 00:30:42,359 --> 00:30:44,880 that was a telephone pole with a big yard lamp 503 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:49,359 casting pale bluish light on the ground. On the other 504 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,680 side of the shed, just out of our site of 505 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:55,599 our little window were metal oscar the grouch style trash 506 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:59,079 cans with lids secured down by black bungee cords to 507 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,880 keep animals out of them. We were sitting there, flipping 508 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,960 pages over in our comic books when we heard something 509 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,480 getting into one of those trash cans. We crawled to 510 00:31:09,519 --> 00:31:12,359 the little window, hoping to see a raccoon or maybe 511 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:16,880 even a bear, But what we saw was something else entirely. 512 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:21,720 It was darker than the night around it, blacker than black, 513 00:31:22,119 --> 00:31:25,680 a walking silhouette. It was bigger than a bear, but 514 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,680 narrower in some parts too, and moving slowly and low 515 00:31:29,759 --> 00:31:33,160 to the ground. We waited for it to come into 516 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,680 the pale blue light, but it seemed to know better. 517 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,079 It disappeared into the darkness of the lawn where the 518 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,799 light couldn't reach it, and then it circled around and 519 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,240 went back to the shed the long way. We lost 520 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,440 sight of it when it got to the vehicles, and 521 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:51,039 then we saw it again, clearer than before, as it 522 00:31:51,079 --> 00:31:55,440 stood up beside my dad's vehicle. Dad had a lifted 523 00:31:55,559 --> 00:31:59,319 charger so high that the floorboards were my eye level. 524 00:32:00,319 --> 00:32:03,480 I was an average sized, healthy six year old kid, 525 00:32:03,759 --> 00:32:05,759 but my dad still had to pick me up and 526 00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:09,599 set me in the car. It's head and shoulders towered 527 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,200 above the charger's roof, I could make out a neck 528 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:17,319 a long muzzle. In twenty years, we lost sight of 529 00:32:17,359 --> 00:32:20,319 it after that. The next morning, while our parents were 530 00:32:20,359 --> 00:32:23,319 just dragging themselves out of the bed, Jeff and I 531 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:27,000 rushed outside to look at the trash cans. Sure enough, 532 00:32:27,359 --> 00:32:30,839 the bags inside were torn to shreds, like something with 533 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,920 claws had ripped through them looking for what it wanted. 534 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,039 But the strange thing was that the lids were still 535 00:32:38,079 --> 00:32:41,440 on and the bunges were still secured when we got there. 536 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,160 Whatever had gotten into them had taken the lids off 537 00:32:45,319 --> 00:32:49,039 and then put them back on afterward. We never told 538 00:32:49,119 --> 00:32:52,799 anybody about it, even at six. We knew our parents 539 00:32:52,799 --> 00:32:56,400 would never believe us. And I can't say for certain 540 00:32:56,599 --> 00:32:59,359 that I saw a dog man, but I can't say 541 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,759 that I did either way. That experience taught me to 542 00:33:02,839 --> 00:33:06,559 keep an open mind. Since that day, I'm always cautious 543 00:33:06,599 --> 00:33:09,200 in the woods, and I advise anyone who hears this 544 00:33:09,359 --> 00:33:13,240 story to be cautious too. Yep, I would be cautious 545 00:33:13,559 --> 00:33:16,480 at least in your area if you saw a dog man. 546 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,880 But here's what confuses me about this story. Who lifts 547 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,200 a Dodge charger. That doesn't make sense to me. You 548 00:33:23,319 --> 00:33:26,000 generally left a truck, like a four wheel drive truck. 549 00:33:26,519 --> 00:33:29,599 Your dad lifted his charger to where you couldn't even 550 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:33,480 get in it. I've never seen a lifted Dodge charger. Anyway, 551 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,599 this was a great story. Kid six year old kid 552 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,640 thinks he sees a dog man by the garbage cans 553 00:33:40,039 --> 00:33:45,559 that opens and closes trash cans with bungee cords. Amazing, 554 00:33:45,759 --> 00:33:52,839 It's amazing. Okay, here's a short, little Bigfoot story you 555 00:33:52,839 --> 00:33:57,240 guys might enjoy. In October of nineteen ninety one, my 556 00:33:57,359 --> 00:34:01,519 ex husband and I had rent into a condo in Mammoth, California. 557 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,240 On our first day there, we decided to go fishing 558 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,639 at Lake Mary. The whole time we were at the water, 559 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,599 I felt as if someone was watching me, but I 560 00:34:11,639 --> 00:34:13,719 didn't make a big deal of it, and we went 561 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:17,599 about our day. The next day, we decided to hike 562 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:23,239 to Inyo Crater. I Nyo never heard of that. I 563 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:27,239 think that's unless that's a Typo. That's a crater I've 564 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,280 never heard of. We took the moderate trail and we 565 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,079 were about halfway there when we heard something crashing through 566 00:34:33,119 --> 00:34:36,920 the forest to our left, a huge buck came bounding 567 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,400 through the trees right in front of me. It was 568 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,719 so close I could see the color of its eyes. 569 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,519 It had been so frightened by something it couldn't have 570 00:34:45,599 --> 00:34:49,800 cared less about running right past us. We looked in 571 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,559 the direction that it came from, but nothing was chasing 572 00:34:52,599 --> 00:34:57,159 it that we could see. But still the experience spooked us. 573 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,719 I thought about the eerie feely God had while fishing 574 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,480 the day before, and I found myself looking over my 575 00:35:03,639 --> 00:35:07,079 shoulder the rest of the height. That evening, there was 576 00:35:07,119 --> 00:35:09,920 a light snowfall, and as I stood on the balcony 577 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,719 and listened to the silence, I pondered the day, unable 578 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,639 to get the look of fear on that animal's face 579 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:20,480 out of my mind. I've heard other people's stories on 580 00:35:20,519 --> 00:35:25,079 your channel about animal behavior and sisquatch, and to this day, 581 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,360 I wonder if that buck was being chased by one. 582 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,199 That's a really good question. Normally, if a deer's running, 583 00:35:32,599 --> 00:35:36,000 they they'll see you and they'll veer off. You know, 584 00:35:36,039 --> 00:35:40,119 they'll stop, hit the brakes, turn, they'll do something. But 585 00:35:40,199 --> 00:35:43,679 it sounds like they didn't even see you. So that's 586 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:45,639 kind of a creepy story. It could have been a 587 00:35:45,639 --> 00:35:48,639 big foot chasing it. You never know, you never know. 588 00:35:49,039 --> 00:35:51,119 Thank you very much for the story. I thought that 589 00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:55,519 was short and concise and very good. Thank you very much, 590 00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,239 ma'am for the story. All right, I'm going to add 591 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,440 a story from the archives, just one behind this one 592 00:36:02,559 --> 00:36:05,320 to finish out this podcast. Hope you guys enjoy it, 593 00:36:05,679 --> 00:36:08,119 and I'll sign off now until you I hope you 594 00:36:08,199 --> 00:36:11,679 enjoyed this last story, and after that we'll see on 595 00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:18,440 the next one. Veronica Amber had no recollection of her 596 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:24,400 first encounter with the wisps that came as inconspicuous and unexpected, 597 00:36:24,559 --> 00:36:28,360 like flurries of indoored dust that float and fly when 598 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,960 bathed by a sheen of sunlight. At the beginning of 599 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,599 their residence at three point fifteen Copacitic Lane, just before 600 00:36:36,639 --> 00:36:40,519 their street transitioned into the main road in town. Her 601 00:36:40,599 --> 00:36:43,920 home knew a time when it was vacant of the wisps, 602 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,639 and the only specters filling the inside of their projections 603 00:36:47,639 --> 00:36:50,440 from the old films that her father would display on 604 00:36:50,599 --> 00:36:54,480 dark velvet walls of the house. The walls of their 605 00:36:54,559 --> 00:36:58,400 Victorian used to hold no haunting tendrils of their existence. 606 00:36:59,039 --> 00:37:02,559 The hallways her no shrills or cutawalls from a life 607 00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:06,800 silenced by death, and the marbled floor of their historic 608 00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,719 home at one point had less of a tendency to 609 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:14,719 send shivers up one's another regions and into the spine. 610 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:19,000 The wisps were invisible inhabitants of their home, but to 611 00:37:19,039 --> 00:37:22,079 the rest of the world they were simply called ghosts. 612 00:37:23,679 --> 00:37:27,119 Veronica Amber's acquaintance with them was far from the horror 613 00:37:27,119 --> 00:37:32,079 filled nonsense she'd read about in books and watched in movies. 614 00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:34,599 For the more the whists made themselves known to her, 615 00:37:34,639 --> 00:37:38,679 the more annoyed she became. It seemed they were always around, 616 00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:42,840 causing mischief, popping out at the most inconvenient times, and 617 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:46,760 filling her ears with macabre groans in the dark in 618 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:50,360 an attempt to inflict fear into her soul when she 619 00:37:50,519 --> 00:37:53,760 only wanted to have a good night's sleep, and since 620 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:59,280 then she had scarcely known a moment's peace. Veronica Amber, 621 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,760 as she liked to be called, awoke on Halloween morning 622 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:07,039 with an abrupt opening of her eyes. She lay on 623 00:38:07,079 --> 00:38:10,000 her back in her attic room, watching the warmth of 624 00:38:10,039 --> 00:38:13,360 the dawning sun changed the color of her slanted ceiling. 625 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,840 She heard a shuffling of feet, moved her eyes to 626 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,760 the foot of the bed, and there stood a lady 627 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,639 Wisp looking at her with a cocked head, her spaghetti 628 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:27,480 strands of hair falling onto a ghostly shoulder where the 629 00:38:27,519 --> 00:38:32,559 clavical and humorous were exposed underneath decayed and stretched out 630 00:38:32,679 --> 00:38:38,159 torn skin. This particular wisp never bothered Vam like the 631 00:38:38,199 --> 00:38:41,440 others did, but the gaze she gave her always made 632 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,920 her feel uncomfortable because she knew the apparition was trying 633 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:50,159 to say something through those glassy, unblinking eyes. Perhaps it 634 00:38:50,199 --> 00:38:53,639 was due to the dislocated jaw and missing tongue that 635 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:57,239 kept her from saying what was on her mind, but regardless, 636 00:38:57,679 --> 00:39:00,519 Vam had no time to feel sorry for something that 637 00:39:00,639 --> 00:39:03,480 had the same design as a fart in the wind. 638 00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:09,880 It's Halloween today, Paprika Vam said, lifting her head from 639 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,480 the pillow and using her elbows to hold her up 640 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:16,280 as she faced the wisp. A Vam named all the 641 00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:22,519 wisps after spices, and Paprika happened to fit this specific one. 642 00:39:22,599 --> 00:39:25,280 Not only that, but it's my last time as host 643 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:30,039 now that I'm eighteen. After this I'm relieved of all duties. 644 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,920 Vam gave a quick stretched and moved her body into 645 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,920 a sitting position on the side of her bed. She 646 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,440 felt the moist hot fog surround her feet, and when 647 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,039 she looked down, she glanced at the open mouth of 648 00:39:44,079 --> 00:39:48,639 a Regano, an older wisp who was bodyless and used 649 00:39:48,639 --> 00:39:52,760 his old man head to roll around their home. His 650 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:57,000 gurgily foaming mouth was stretched wide in an expression that 651 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:01,360 would make any normal humans soil themselves and fright. His 652 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:06,199 cracky lips clung around Van's feet, leaving strands of ghostly 653 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:10,599 saliva on her ankles. Fam rolled her eyes and wiggled 654 00:40:10,599 --> 00:40:13,639 her toes, visible through the rotted eyelids of his head, 655 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:18,760 and she kicked him, making him vanish into nothing. You're disgusting, 656 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:24,199 she muttered, moving toward the bathroom. Before she reached the 657 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:28,199 toilet time, a young boy whisp who looked about six 658 00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,719 or seven, popped up from the floor and shrieked like 659 00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:36,159 a banshee. She gasped more from the suddenness of it 660 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:40,400 than from fright as his face collided into hers, and 661 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,599 before she had a moment to swat him away, he disappeared. 662 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,519 Time was the one who bothered her the most, and 663 00:40:47,599 --> 00:40:51,239 as many endeavors to frighten her, and failing to do so, 664 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:55,639 it made him the one she also felt closest too, 665 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,239 almost like a little annoying brother, but with maggots crawling 666 00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:02,519 out of his nose and ears. It was in the 667 00:41:02,599 --> 00:41:05,400 alone hours of the morning that Vam felt the most 668 00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:09,599 connected to the house. Her parents, who taught night classes 669 00:41:09,639 --> 00:41:13,840 at nixt University, remained asleep for the majority of the day, 670 00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:16,440 and it was in their solitude that she learned to 671 00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:20,039 speak to the house. Just one touch to a chimney 672 00:41:20,079 --> 00:41:22,480 stone or a beam of wood was enough for the 673 00:41:22,519 --> 00:41:25,400 house to remind and speak to her about how it 674 00:41:25,559 --> 00:41:29,719 was before their wisps had occupied the space. She would 675 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,639 get images of her mother and father, and their pale 676 00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:37,360 faces contrasted with the black exterior of the home. The 677 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:42,360 oldest and most abandoned, neglected house on Copastic Lane was 678 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:47,280 the one they had imprinted on. Could it be genetics? 679 00:41:47,599 --> 00:41:52,119 Her father, Professor Victor Ambrose Prior asked one night during 680 00:41:52,199 --> 00:41:55,960 dinner over his stake Flombay, many years ago, when Vam 681 00:41:56,039 --> 00:42:01,000 had confided in him about the wisps. When we adopted you, 682 00:42:01,119 --> 00:42:03,360 we knew at some point your health would become a 683 00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:07,000 source of worry for us. He said, well, that is 684 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,840 a possibility, my dear, but we must also not reule 685 00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:14,159 out the screen time. Her mother, doctor Vivian Amelia Pryor, 686 00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:18,320 had said, placing a cold, pale hand on Vam's forehead, 687 00:42:19,159 --> 00:42:21,719 that new iPad we got you for Christmas has become 688 00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,480 a bit of an addiction for you, darling. Are you 689 00:42:24,559 --> 00:42:29,559 sure you aren't hallucinating these images? A young Vam had 690 00:42:29,599 --> 00:42:33,440 smiled at them, half lovingly and half disappointed that her 691 00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:38,400 parents couldn't see the wisps. She shook her head. No, mother, 692 00:42:38,559 --> 00:42:42,079 I'm not imagining them there as real as you and 693 00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:45,239 I father. I can touch them, I can smell them, 694 00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:49,440 but when I try to scream, they disappear. At this point, 695 00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,639 being scared isn't an option. I just want them to 696 00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:58,199 leave me alone. Her mother's plumb, lipstick stained mouth formed 697 00:42:58,199 --> 00:43:02,199 a sympathetic frown. I'm so sorry, dearest, I wish there 698 00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,280 was something we could do to make it go away. 699 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,199 That had been many years ago, and since then, numerous 700 00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:12,960 wisps had appeared to her as real and as vexatious 701 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,599 as ever. For better or for worse, but not for long. 702 00:43:17,199 --> 00:43:20,920 Comes springtime, when Van was due to graduate, she'd leave 703 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:24,400 her home, seething with wisps, to start a new life 704 00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,079 and leave the nest, a phrase her father despised and 705 00:43:28,159 --> 00:43:33,199 regarded with contempt pishposh. He always said when that phrase 706 00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:36,840 was uttered. We aren't eagles, for goodness' sake. So I 707 00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:40,840 want no more talk about leaving nests and whatnot. Now, Vam, 708 00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,480 my darling, I couldn't be prouder of the person that 709 00:43:43,559 --> 00:43:46,039 you become and the one you are yet to be. 710 00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:50,039 And like any father, I'm disconsolate at the idea of 711 00:43:50,199 --> 00:43:53,960 seeing you go, but exhilarated at the prospects that await you. 712 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,599 Not flesh of our flesh, nor blood of our blood. 713 00:43:57,639 --> 00:44:00,960 But once you were handed into our arms, the darling 714 00:44:01,079 --> 00:44:04,159 child with the eyes as dark as coal, who appeared 715 00:44:04,199 --> 00:44:08,239 to us as a stranger, suddenly became the most beloved daughter. 716 00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:13,639 A most beloved daughter rang in Vam's head, and she 717 00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:17,840 dressed herself for the day. In the mirror, a young 718 00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:23,320 girl Wisp, whom Vam had named Coriander, manifested herself beside Vam. 719 00:44:24,159 --> 00:44:26,519 She opened her mouth and let out a shrill scream 720 00:44:26,559 --> 00:44:30,519 that penetrated the ear drums with a searing intensity, and 721 00:44:30,639 --> 00:44:34,320 Vam covered her ears, but ignored her and quickly placing 722 00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,159 a clip on her hair before making her way downstairs 723 00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:42,360 to finish the preparation for the night's Halloween party. A 724 00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:46,400 most beloved daughter, she thought to herself again, and a 725 00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:50,039 most beloved host. And when Vam was a young girl, 726 00:44:50,119 --> 00:44:53,559 shortly after the Priors had adopted her, she was given 727 00:44:53,559 --> 00:44:56,880 the responsibility of hosting a Halloween evening in their home. 728 00:44:57,639 --> 00:45:00,920 Mommy and Daddy have to sleep, dearest, and can only 729 00:45:01,039 --> 00:45:04,079 join later in the evening once we awaken, who will 730 00:45:04,119 --> 00:45:07,039 be there to entertain our guests. Well, that is where 731 00:45:07,079 --> 00:45:10,840 you come in, said her mother. But I'm only a child, 732 00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,599 Vam had objected. Well, that works to our advantage, darling, 733 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,760 her mother had said, kneeling to her level and pressing 734 00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:21,559 her pale forehead to Vams, they are more likely to 735 00:45:21,599 --> 00:45:26,639 trust you, and so they did. Every Halloween evening, the 736 00:45:26,679 --> 00:45:30,159 Priors would appoint Vam to welcome guests and passing trick 737 00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:33,800 or treats to their home. At the beginning, guests would 738 00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,599 question her on the whereabouts of her parents, to which 739 00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:40,079 Vam would reply no worries. They are resting and will 740 00:45:40,119 --> 00:45:44,159 be with you shortly for dinner. In the kitchen, Vam 741 00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:48,440 started the ord'eures baked brye made to look like Mommy 742 00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,440 and she's in cracker platter with bat and Jack o' 743 00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:54,920 lantern cutouts, a bowl of checks mix and candy for 744 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,960 a monster munch, and guacamole with vegetables arranged to look 745 00:45:59,039 --> 00:46:02,280 like the face of a whim. It was all coming together, 746 00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:06,960 and it was still hours to go until lunchtime. By 747 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,920 the time it was sundown, Vam had decorated and set 748 00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:13,000 the food in the dining room. A meat loaf shaped 749 00:46:13,039 --> 00:46:15,920 to resemble the anatomy of a human body was left 750 00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:19,639 cooling on the counter when she went upstairs to change, 751 00:46:19,679 --> 00:46:22,760 and she opted for a simple black dress that hugged 752 00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:26,239 her slender frame. And putting on the final touches of 753 00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:30,079 her makeup, she heard a wheezing, echoey sound behind the 754 00:46:30,119 --> 00:46:35,159 curtain of her shower. Pushing the curtain back, Time jumped 755 00:46:35,159 --> 00:46:37,920 at her, squealing and laughing as she went through her 756 00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:42,679 body and exited out the bathroom door. Another wisp, A 757 00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:46,119 young looking male around Vam's age, stood staring at her. 758 00:46:46,199 --> 00:46:50,239 Underneath showerhead. A harsh cut to the throat revealed a 759 00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:55,239 sliced trachea. Vams sighed and crossed her arms. Do you 760 00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,400 think you can keep it down, Nutmeg? Our guests are 761 00:46:58,519 --> 00:47:03,159 due to arrive soon in the wheezing is distracting. Nutmeg 762 00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:07,000 said nothing but nodded, watching Vam roll her tube of 763 00:47:07,039 --> 00:47:11,199 lipstick back in. You're lucky. You're a handsome one, even 764 00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:14,320 more of a looker. Before Vam turned back to him, 765 00:47:14,679 --> 00:47:17,639 her hand on the light switch of the bathroom, you know, 766 00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:21,400 she used her index finger to swipe under her throat 767 00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:26,320 in a slashing manner. The sound of the doorbell below 768 00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:29,719 made Vam return to her responsibilities, and with a clap 769 00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:32,159 of her hand, she turned off the light and clambered 770 00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:35,559 down the stairs, remembering the meat loaf and placing it 771 00:47:35,599 --> 00:47:39,960 on the table. Before reaching the entrance, she stopped in 772 00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:43,400 the fourier, where above the grinning candlelight jack o' lantern 773 00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:46,840 hung pictures of the hosts that came before her, the 774 00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:51,679 other priors, her sisters, the sisters she had never met, 775 00:47:52,119 --> 00:47:54,679 the sisters who had left to start a new life 776 00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:58,199 at eighteen. Once the new host was chosen, just like 777 00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:02,239 she would in the springtime the sisters, who had taken 778 00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:05,039 the same vow their parents had taken when they were 779 00:48:05,079 --> 00:48:08,719 each adopted into the family. We will take care of 780 00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,320 you if you will take care of us, they had said. 781 00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,440 None of the previous prior daughters had been hosts at 782 00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:19,840 three point fifteen Copestic Lane when their nomadic parents staked 783 00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:23,000 to claim on the property, Vam had been the first one. 784 00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,880 With each passing year of Vam's life, she was slowly 785 00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:30,079 coming to terms with the truth about why the wisps 786 00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:33,039 were part of their home and why they were visible 787 00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:37,800 only to her. Vam doesn't remember her first encounter with 788 00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:41,760 a wisp, but she remembers when Peperika, who in her 789 00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:46,280 previous life was called Monica, entered in her fleshly human 790 00:48:46,519 --> 00:48:50,280 form as a guest in their home, and Oregano, who 791 00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:54,599 was once Mister Franks her English teacher time, used to 792 00:48:54,679 --> 00:48:58,360 be Spencer, a classmate she would play with in elementary school, 793 00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,320 and was the first guest she entered in her first 794 00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:06,360 year as a host. Nutmeg was a packaged delivery worker 795 00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:09,199 who thought Vam looked rather pretty standing on the porch 796 00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:12,599 of her house in her black dress. Last Halloween He 797 00:49:12,679 --> 00:49:15,800 went up the steps to introduce himself and entered, and 798 00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:19,239 unbeknownst to him that he would not be coming back out. 799 00:49:21,199 --> 00:49:24,559 The whiffs were who they were because they had all 800 00:49:24,599 --> 00:49:27,920 made the decision to be guests at three point fifteen 801 00:49:28,079 --> 00:49:32,800 Copacetic Lane. What bound them together other than death, was 802 00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:37,159 their decision to trust Vam. Another ring of the doorbell 803 00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:42,360 sounded in the Fouryer, coming, Vam called out, straightening her dress. 804 00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:45,360 Opening the door, she came face to face with a 805 00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:50,119 group of tricker treaders, young and old, friend groups and families. 806 00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,239 No one wanted to miss out on the opportunity to 807 00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:56,440 sneak a peek inside the old, creepy Victorian house that 808 00:49:56,559 --> 00:50:02,559 sat like a tempting siren on Copastic Lane. Hello, she exclaimed, 809 00:50:02,679 --> 00:50:06,159 putting on an unnaturally inviting grin as she opened the door. 810 00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:09,280 We've got candy for your buckets, and if you'd like 811 00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:12,559 to stay, we have snacks and food. We hope you 812 00:50:12,599 --> 00:50:17,320 can join us for a while this evening. Stepping aside, 813 00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:19,920 she allowed the group of guests to walk into the fourrier, 814 00:50:20,159 --> 00:50:22,880 directing them with her arm towards the parlor. In the 815 00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:28,440 formal dining room, a murmur of excitement washed over the crowd, 816 00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,119 and they stepped over each other and pushed bodies away 817 00:50:31,199 --> 00:50:34,320 to be the first one to explore the house, and 818 00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:37,280 within a few minutes, the parlor was full of guests, 819 00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:41,840 socializing with each other, stuffing their faces with Vams snacks 820 00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:45,800 and cooked meals, and taking pictures with their phones of 821 00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:49,239 the interior of the house and ooing and eyeing like 822 00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:54,119 museum lovers. Vam stood and watched the energy that filled 823 00:50:54,119 --> 00:50:57,360 the room, and with no friends or relatives to invite over, 824 00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,519 the prior house was for the most part empty and 825 00:51:00,559 --> 00:51:04,679 deprived of visitors. Halloween night was the only time when 826 00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:10,559 people wilfully invited themselves over without arousing suspicion. Outsiders who 827 00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,079 saw the crowd beckoning to the front door of the 828 00:51:13,119 --> 00:51:16,199 prior house didn't have to think twice about coming to 829 00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:20,320 a conclusion to explain the number of people entering the abode. 830 00:51:21,039 --> 00:51:24,840 It's Halloween, they'd say, with a shrug. Halloween's for friends 831 00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:28,320 and strangers to come. A knocking a perfect cover up. 832 00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:32,400 As many of the moocher played in the room, causing 833 00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:36,559 an uproar with people singing along, Vam slinked away from 834 00:51:36,559 --> 00:51:39,039 the parlor and ambled over to a door leading to 835 00:51:39,079 --> 00:51:43,440 the basement. Pitch black darkness swallowed up any traces of 836 00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:46,360 the light from the main floor as she squinted in 837 00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:50,880 her eyes to see what was below. Father, mother, she 838 00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:54,559 called out quietly, it's time to wake up. Our guests 839 00:51:54,599 --> 00:51:59,440 are here. The early bat catches the worm. She heard 840 00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:04,239 a stir in the darkness, and then heard her father speak, Hello, darling. 841 00:52:04,599 --> 00:52:08,440 Is the black tarp laid out in the parlor? Yes, sir. 842 00:52:08,519 --> 00:52:11,119 Every year I get compliments about the noise that it 843 00:52:11,159 --> 00:52:13,280 makes when they walk on top of it, but no 844 00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:17,159 grievances from this group so far. They're a pretty good crowd. 845 00:52:17,599 --> 00:52:20,079 Not a drop of blood will make its way to 846 00:52:20,159 --> 00:52:25,159 the marble floors and the doorbell, camera and projector. Have 847 00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:29,239 you tested that out? It works like a charm. I 848 00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:32,519 tried it earlier, and the projection of myself passing the 849 00:52:32,599 --> 00:52:36,679 sidewalk and coming up the steps was reversed perfectly to 850 00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:40,280 make it look like I came back down. Anyone watching 851 00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:43,159 our home, we'll see our guests leave after the evening 852 00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:47,440 is over. Her mother spoke, now, have you prepared the 853 00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:51,480 needles and the collection bags? Yes, mother, they're beside the 854 00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:55,679 plastic bins that hold the peroxide, bleach and enzyme solvents 855 00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:58,960 we use for cleanup. All the backup freezers have been 856 00:52:59,039 --> 00:53:02,199 up and running since this morning. I counted at least 857 00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:06,239 forty people who arrived. Once we break apart ligaments, it 858 00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,679 should be enough to fit everyone without tacking up space 859 00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:13,039 in the basement. It's quite a bit of Burger's and 860 00:53:13,239 --> 00:53:16,639 steak Flambays ready for us to enjoy for another year. 861 00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:19,760 I hope we have more oh negatives than we did 862 00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:23,719 last Halloween. The flavor and the sauces we made just 863 00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:27,920 wasn't the same without their kick. Her father gave out 864 00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:31,079 a dark chuckle. Should we wear the fangs I got 865 00:53:31,079 --> 00:53:33,639 for us three years ago? My love? He spoke to 866 00:53:33,679 --> 00:53:37,119 his wife. Why ever would we want to do that? 867 00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:41,440 She responded. Vam couldn't see her father shrug, but felt 868 00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:45,039 them do. So. It's Halloween. If the people want to 869 00:53:45,039 --> 00:53:48,119 see Count Dracula, then who am I to deny them 870 00:53:48,199 --> 00:53:53,960 that pleasure? They'll be busy screaming, Dearest Veronica. Amber has 871 00:53:54,039 --> 00:53:59,360 everyone sipped their refreshments, Vam nodded yes. Mother. In about 872 00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:03,920 three minutes, the anesthetic solution will take full effect if 873 00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:06,199 you and father want to make a show of your entrance. 874 00:54:06,599 --> 00:54:09,559 It had better be quick before you lose them. Well, 875 00:54:09,559 --> 00:54:11,639 that's a good girl, and now run along and see 876 00:54:11,639 --> 00:54:14,440 that our guest are enjoying. The party will be there 877 00:54:14,599 --> 00:54:18,719 very soon. Vam closed the door and walked to the kitchen. 878 00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:21,760 She opened a drawer that held all the knives she 879 00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:25,159 had used in previous years. She grabbed a hold of 880 00:54:25,159 --> 00:54:28,599 a meat cleaver. This baby was her favorite, made it 881 00:54:28,639 --> 00:54:32,440 easier to cut through the skin and bone. She glanced 882 00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:35,159 over her shoulder and saw that the wisps of her 883 00:54:35,199 --> 00:54:38,800 home had gathered around her, all the ones she conjured 884 00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,840 by the work of her own hands. She gave them 885 00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:47,800 a sly smile, ready for some new roomies. Shutting the 886 00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:51,039 drawer with her hip, she walked past the wisps who 887 00:54:51,079 --> 00:54:55,000 were protesting. Hiding the meat cleaver behind her, she clenched 888 00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:58,000 it behind the shoulder blades of her back and used 889 00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:01,239 her free hand a mute the music. All the eyes 890 00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:03,760 of her guests looked at her, with their ears perked 891 00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:07,440 in bodies frozen. Vam smiled at them and gave her 892 00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:11,119 final announcement of the night. I just wanted to give 893 00:55:11,119 --> 00:55:13,679 you all the big thanks and a grand welcome to 894 00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:18,199 our humble little home. My name is Van Pryor and 895 00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:30,079 i'll be your host for the evening