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Rider From HELL terrorized this desert town... · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today, we're going to cover two very strange but very
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  Speaker 1: true stories. But before we get into those stories, if
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  Speaker 1: One afternoon in the spring of nineteen ninety, a young
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  Speaker 1: mother tidied up her family's living room in Pingyang Township,
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  Speaker 1: which is a small rural community made up of several
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  Speaker 1: villages in southern China, and she was almost done when
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  Speaker 1: she heard her three year old twin daughters start to cry.
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  Speaker 1: And this really caught her off guard because even though
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  Speaker 1: these kids were only three years old and three year
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  Speaker 1: olds cry well, her daughters basically never cried. They were
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  Speaker 1: like silent all the time. The girl's names were Sheetsai
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  Speaker 1: and she Hung Woo, and they'd been really easy babies
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  Speaker 1: because they were basically quiet all the time and just
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  Speaker 1: wanted to sleep. However, as they got older, their silence
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  Speaker 1: became more concerning. All they really wanted to do was
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  Speaker 1: just lay around and sleep and do nothing. Even at
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  Speaker 1: three years old, they hadn't even said their first words yet.
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  Speaker 1: So when this mom heard these girls crying, she rushed
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  Speaker 1: down the hall to see what was going on. One
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  Speaker 1: just obviously to make sure her kids were okay, but
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  Speaker 1: two just out of curiosity. This is so uncharacteristic to
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  Speaker 1: be making any noise at all, And so the mom
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  Speaker 1: she burst into the nursery and she saw her girls
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  Speaker 1: in their crib and they were sobbing, hysterically, totally upset.
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  Speaker 1: And the mother rushed over and she scooped them up
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  Speaker 1: and asked, you know what's going on? Are you okay?
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  Speaker 1: But of course the girls didn't say anything because they
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  Speaker 1: didn't speak. They just continued to cry. Mom she kind
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  Speaker 1: of assessed her kids and couldn't see any injuries. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't seem sick. They were just upset about something, but
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  Speaker 1: she had no idea what it was. And so the
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  Speaker 1: mom just stood there comforting her girls until they calmed down,
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  Speaker 1: and then she put them back into the crib and
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  Speaker 1: they both went to sleep, and that was it. A
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  Speaker 1: couple of days later and the twin girls were back
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  Speaker 1: to their normal routine, being totally silent and sleeping for
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  Speaker 1: most of the day. And as the girls slept in
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  Speaker 1: their nursery, their mom just went around the house doing
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  Speaker 1: some housework, and at some point she walked down the
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  Speaker 1: hallway past the girl's bedroom. Now their door to the
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  Speaker 1: nursery was shut, and again they're just sleeping and being
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  Speaker 1: totally quiet. The mom hasn't heard them at all all day,
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  Speaker 1: and as she's walking down the hallway, she suddenly comes
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  Speaker 1: to an abrupt stop right outside the nursery door, because
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  Speaker 1: distinctly she can hear her girls making noise in their room.
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  Speaker 1: But they're making a noise that just doesn't make any
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  Speaker 1: sense to the mother. Her daughters were not crying or
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  Speaker 1: fussing or anything like that. They were talking. At first,
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  Speaker 1: the mother wanted to rush in there and experience this
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  Speaker 1: first hand, in this landmark moment of her girls speaking
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  Speaker 1: for the first time, but she also worried if she
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  Speaker 1: went in there, you know, they might go silent and
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  Speaker 1: she'd ruin the moment, and so instead she just pressed
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  Speaker 1: her ear to the door and just listened. And as
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  Speaker 1: she listened, she really couldn't believe what she was hearing,
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  Speaker 1: because these girls weren't just babbling saying random words. These
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  Speaker 1: girls were having like a full blown conversation with each other,
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  Speaker 1: like adult level sentences being spoken back and forth, these
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  Speaker 1: girls who apparently, at least according to the mother, couldn't
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  Speaker 1: even speak, like, how is this even happening. However, the
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  Speaker 1: more the mother listened to her daughters, the more unsettled
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  Speaker 1: she became. Not only because you know, she's listening to
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  Speaker 1: her daughters speak for the first time at like an
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  Speaker 1: adult level, which is totally bizarre, but the content of
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  Speaker 1: this discussion her three year old daughters are having made
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  Speaker 1: no sense. These girls were talking about stuff that they
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  Speaker 1: could not possibly know. The girls were talking in detail
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  Speaker 1: about people and events from a totally different village, a
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  Speaker 1: village their mother knew they had never been to, had
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  Speaker 1: never been heard of, and certainly didn't know anybody who
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  Speaker 1: lived there. Now, in basically every other part of the world,
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  Speaker 1: if a mother suddenly heard her three year old twins
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  Speaker 1: who had never said a word before, suddenly having adult
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  Speaker 1: level conversations with each other about people in places that
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  Speaker 1: they can't possibly know about. That might be enough to
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  Speaker 1: spurn that mother to at least call their doctor. But
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  Speaker 1: this mom, well she lived in Pingyang Township, and that meant,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when she heard what her daughters were saying,
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  Speaker 1: as alarming as it was, she actually did know what
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  Speaker 1: was going on. Pingyang Township has a very strange secret,
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  Speaker 1: and that secret is that of the approximately seven thousand
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  Speaker 1: residents who lived there, over one hundred claimed to be
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  Speaker 1: the reincarnated spirits of people who have died traumatic deaths.
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  Speaker 1: And this is not just some wacky thing these people
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  Speaker 1: are saying now in Pingyang Township. It's not just those
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  Speaker 1: one hundred people who believe they really are reincarnated. It's
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  Speaker 1: the whole community. All seven thousand some other people, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent believe that these people truly are reincarnated. And
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  Speaker 1: so how that plays out is that periodically, the reincarnated
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  Speaker 1: folks will go to a non reincarnated person in the
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  Speaker 1: township and will claim things like, hey, in my past life,
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  Speaker 1: your family owed me a debt, and so now you're
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  Speaker 1: going to pay it out, and these non reincarnated people
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  Speaker 1: will absolutely pay that debt, or in other cases there
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  Speaker 1: have been fights, physical altercations that have come from a
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  Speaker 1: reincarnated person approaching a non reincarnated person and basically saying,
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  Speaker 1: in a previous life, you or your family or your
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  Speaker 1: relatives insulted me in some capacity, you know, my previous self,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to fight about it right now. And
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  Speaker 1: those fights take place in this town and it's totally normal.
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  Speaker 1: But the interactions between the reincarnated and non reincarnated people
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  Speaker 1: in this township, it's not just about conflict. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: there's been lots of decisions made in this township that
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  Speaker 1: are designed very specifically to avoid conflict between the reincarnated
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  Speaker 1: and non reincarnated. For example, there was a little boy
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  Speaker 1: who claimed to be the reincarnated spirit of a pig
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  Speaker 1: who was butchered in town. And the butcher who this
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  Speaker 1: boy said butchered him when he was a pig, well,
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  Speaker 1: the butcher, to make sure he was not offending this
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  Speaker 1: boy or potentially other people who were, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: reincarnated spirits of other animals he had slaughtered, the butcher
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  Speaker 1: shut down his business just to be like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to offend you all. I'll find something else to
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  Speaker 1: do with my life. And so when this mother heard
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  Speaker 1: the sound of her twin girls, who had never spoke
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  Speaker 1: before suddenly having this detailed conversation about people and events
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  Speaker 1: from this other village. As jarring and shocking as that
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  Speaker 1: was for her because she lives in Pingyang, she instantly
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  Speaker 1: understood that the only way my girls could have that
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  Speaker 1: information and be able to have this conversation is if
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  Speaker 1: they are reincarnated spirits. And so this mother did what
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  Speaker 1: she thought was right, which was not to call a doctor,
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  Speaker 1: but instead to get the word out to the people,
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  Speaker 1: not just in her village but across the Pingyang township
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  Speaker 1: that her twin daughters are actually reincarnated spirits. The mother's
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  Speaker 1: hope was that perhaps there were still family of these
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  Speaker 1: reincarnated spirits in this other village her daughters were referencing
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  Speaker 1: in their conversation that would find out about this, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe they'd want to come here and meet their family
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  Speaker 1: who now live inside of her daughters. And sure enough,
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  Speaker 1: less than a week after this mother got the word out,
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  Speaker 1: this man and woman who she didn't know, came knocking
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  Speaker 1: at her door. When the mother let them inside the house,
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  Speaker 1: her girls immediately recognized them. One of the twins said
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  Speaker 1: that this was her mother, and father from her previous life.
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  Speaker 1: Then the twins, these little three year old girls, went
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  Speaker 1: on to tell this unbelievably complicated and sophisticated story about
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  Speaker 1: how in their previous life, these twin girls were not
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  Speaker 1: actually sisters. Instead, they were best friends and together they
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  Speaker 1: had taken their their own lives approximately one month before
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  Speaker 1: they were reborn in the bodies of these twin girls.
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  Speaker 1: And so after that, the twins just continued talking to
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  Speaker 1: this man and woman for quite some time, giving specific
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  Speaker 1: details about this village that again these girls, at least
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  Speaker 1: according to their mother, had never been to before. These
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  Speaker 1: girls also gave intimate details about these teenage girls' lives
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  Speaker 1: and even had information that was very specific to what
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  Speaker 1: happened to them when they took their lives and you know,
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  Speaker 1: where their bodies were found, again information these girls shouldn't have.
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  Speaker 1: And then at some point the mother of the twins
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  Speaker 1: asked this man and woman, like, are these details they're
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  Speaker 1: giving you accurate? Is this true? And the man and
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  Speaker 1: woman said, yep, it's all true. And then at some
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  Speaker 1: point the twins turned to their biological mother and they
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  Speaker 1: told her that the reason they had been silent to
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  Speaker 1: this point was because they were trying to keep their
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  Speaker 1: reincarnation a secret. And also the reason they slept all
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  Speaker 1: the time is because when they slept, they would dream
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  Speaker 1: about their previous lives, which they claimed to miss. To
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  Speaker 1: this day, no one's ever been able to offer a
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  Speaker 1: better explanation for how these twin girls, these toddlers, had
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  Speaker 1: such accurate information about people they had never met and
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  Speaker 1: places they'd never been to. Basically, the only explanation that
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  Speaker 1: works is that they must actually be the reincarnated spirits
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  Speaker 1: of those teenage girls. Pingyang Township remains a hotspot of
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  Speaker 1: alleged reincarnations, and nobody knows why. As many of you
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  Speaker 1: but also our love for the strange, dark and mysterious.
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  Speaker 1: So this next story is going to sound really far
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  Speaker 1: at the end there is a crazy plot twist like
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  Speaker 1: this is one of the better stories we found in sometime,
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  Speaker 1: so stick around till the end. On a spring afternoon
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  Speaker 1: in eighteen eighty three, a young woman named Sarah tidied
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  Speaker 1: up her farmhouse in a tiny settlement called Eagle Creek
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  Speaker 1: in Arizona. While Sarah cleaned, her sister Elizabeth, took a
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  Speaker 1: bucket outside to get water from their outdoor spring. So
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  Speaker 1: Sarah and Elizabeth actually lived together in this farmhouse along
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  Speaker 1: with their respective family. The American West at this time
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  Speaker 1: was sparsely populated and dangerous, so it was not uncommon
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  Speaker 1: for families to kind of band together like this. Their
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  Speaker 1: husbands herded the sheep and worked the land, while Sarah
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  Speaker 1: and Elizabeth looked after the house and also took care
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  Speaker 1: of their collective four kids and so on this day,
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  Speaker 1: as Elizabeth was out getting water, Sarah continued to tidy
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  Speaker 1: up the house with one eye on the kids, making
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  Speaker 1: sure they were okay, when all of a sudden, the
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  Speaker 1: family's dogs, who were leashed up outside, began barking really aggressively.
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  Speaker 1: Now for Sarah, this was really alarming because the dogs
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  Speaker 1: typically were pretty docile and didn't make a lot of noise,
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  Speaker 1: so clearly something was going on outside, and so Sarah
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  Speaker 1: told the kids to stay inside and she quickly went
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  Speaker 1: outside onto the porch to see what the dogs were
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  Speaker 1: barking at. And so once Sarah was out on that porch,
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  Speaker 1: she immediately surveyed the area out in front of her,
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  Speaker 1: and off to her left and off to her right
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  Speaker 1: was just rocky scrub land, and then right in front
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  Speaker 1: of their house was this big sandy hill that kind
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  Speaker 1: of obscured their view off into the distance, and the
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  Speaker 1: dogs who were leashed up right in front of the
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  Speaker 1: property out in the front yard. They were all looking
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  Speaker 1: right at that hill and barking at it. At first,
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  Speaker 1: Sarah couldn't understand what the dogs were even barking at.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she looked around a few more times to
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  Speaker 1: see if she was missing anything, but there was nothing
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  Speaker 1: happening out here. But then as Sarah continued to stare
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  Speaker 1: at this hill where the dogs were still barking, she
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  Speaker 1: suddenly saw this huge creature emerge over the top and
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  Speaker 1: begin coming down the hill in her direction. It was
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  Speaker 1: this massive, four legged creature with red fur and its
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  Speaker 1: back was all twisted up. And on the back of
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  Speaker 1: this creature was this man. Except it was not a
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  Speaker 1: normal looking man. His face was horrible and sunken, and
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  Speaker 1: his mouth was in this huge grin, and as she
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  Speaker 1: stared at him in total shock and disbelief, she saw
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  Speaker 1: he was missing eyes. Now, Sarah was a deeply religious person,
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  Speaker 1: and so as she's watching this creature being ridden on
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  Speaker 1: by this person come charging towards her, all she could
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  Speaker 1: think was this is the devil. The devil is riding
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  Speaker 1: on this red creature and it's coming to get me
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  Speaker 1: and my family. And so instinctively she just turned bolted
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  Speaker 1: inside the house, barricaded the door with the kitchen table,
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  Speaker 1: and then rounded up the four kids and sat in
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen huddled over them, praying to God to save
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  Speaker 1: them from the devil. But as she was doing this,
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  Speaker 1: Sarah suddenly heard this blood curdling scream come from somewhere outside.
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  Speaker 1: Then she knew it sounded way too human of a
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  Speaker 1: scream to be coming from the devil or the creature
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  Speaker 1: it was riding on, and then she remembered her sister
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  Speaker 1: was out there getting water. That scream almost certainly came
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  Speaker 1: from her sister. But Sarah was so scared she couldn't move,
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  Speaker 1: and she had these four kids to look after, and
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  Speaker 1: so instead of going out to try to save her sister,
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  Speaker 1: she just held the kids closer and continued to pray,
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  Speaker 1: hoping her sister would survive. Hours later, Sarah was still
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  Speaker 1: inside the barricaded house, clutching the children, praying, and her
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  Speaker 1: sister Elizabeth, had not made another sound and she had
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  Speaker 1: not come back to the house, so she's been gone
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  Speaker 1: for hours at this point, and Sarah feels horrible. All
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  Speaker 1: she wants to do is go out there and find
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  Speaker 1: her sister, but she just feels like she can't leave
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  Speaker 1: her kids, and she knows the devil is out there,
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  Speaker 1: so she can't go out there. But just then she
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  Speaker 1: hears footsteps out on the porch, and then she hears
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  Speaker 1: the sound of the doorknob turning and then bumping up
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  Speaker 1: against the barricade, and Sarah immediately thinks it's the devil.
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  Speaker 1: The Devil's come back, and so she screams and the
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  Speaker 1: kids are screaming. But then on the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the door, Sarah hears the sound of two familiar voices.
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  Speaker 1: It was the sound of her and Elizabeth's husbands. They
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  Speaker 1: had come back from hurting the sheep, and they're calling
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  Speaker 1: in to her, like, hey, what's going on here? Let
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  Speaker 1: us in, And so this huge wave of relief came
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  Speaker 1: over Sarah. She rushed to the door, She got rid
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  Speaker 1: of the barricade, flung it open, and immediately began sobbing
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  Speaker 1: and telling these men about what had happened, about the devil,
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  Speaker 1: about hearing that scream, which she believed was Elizabeth, and oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Elizabeth is still back, yet no idea
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  Speaker 1: what happened to her. And so the two husbands are
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  Speaker 1: immediately so concerned. They have no idea about the validity
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  Speaker 1: of the story, but Elizabeth is gone. They have to
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  Speaker 1: go find her. And so the two men they grabbed
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  Speaker 1: their guns and lanterns and they head off towards the
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  Speaker 1: outdoor spring to hopefully find Elizabeth. And so the two
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  Speaker 1: men they began making their way down this path towards
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  Speaker 1: the spring, and at first they were walking, kind of
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  Speaker 1: keeping their composure, but quickly as they're calling out for
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth and not getting a response, they just took off running.
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  Speaker 1: And as they turned the corner and they finally saw
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  Speaker 1: the spring, they also saw Elizabeth and she was face
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  Speaker 1: down on the ground with blood all around her. She
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  Speaker 1: was dead. And so as Elizabeth's husband wept over Elizabeth's body,
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  Speaker 1: Sarah's husband rode off into town to get the local
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  Speaker 1: corner to come out and investigate to see what happened
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  Speaker 1: to Elizabeth. The only thing that seemed fairly obvious about
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth's death, at least to the two husbands, was that
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth looked like she had been trampled to death. There
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  Speaker 1: were all these hoof prints all around her when they
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  Speaker 1: found and so the corner he comes out and he
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  Speaker 1: looks at the scene, he sees Elizabeth, and he agrees
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  Speaker 1: that it looks like she was trampled to death. However,
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  Speaker 1: when he examined the hoof prints that were all over
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  Speaker 1: the place, they were way too big to be a
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  Speaker 1: horse's hoof print, and so the corner literally said, I
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  Speaker 1: can't say she died by being trampled by a horse.
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  Speaker 1: This was not a horse. And so the corner wound
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  Speaker 1: up speaking to Sarah, who would tell him all about
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  Speaker 1: you know how the devil came over the hill on
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  Speaker 1: this big, four legged creature that was all red, and
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  Speaker 1: she heard the scream, which must have been Elizabeth, and
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  Speaker 1: so the devil has trampled her sister to death. That's
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  Speaker 1: what happened. Now, the corner agreed with Sarah that very
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  Speaker 1: likely her sister had been trampled to death by something gigantic. However,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't believe the actual details of Sarah's story. He
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  Speaker 1: did not believe that the devil killed Elizabeth, and so, ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: because the corner just couldn't be sure what actually happened
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  Speaker 1: to her, he wound up listing Elizabeth's cause of death
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  Speaker 1: as just unknown. But the corner's doubts did not stop
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  Speaker 1: the story of the Devil from spreading. Before long, basically
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  Speaker 1: everybody on the Arizona Frontier had heard about the Devil
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  Speaker 1: and the strange creature he rode, to the point where
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  Speaker 1: they were given a nickname. Together, they were called the
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  Speaker 1: Red Ghost. Still, most people who heard this story didn't
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  Speaker 1: really believe it actually happened. They figured it was kind
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  Speaker 1: of a joke or maybe an exaggeration, you know, just
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: sort of lore passed around town. But over the next
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: few years following Elizabeth's death, sightings of the so called
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Red Ghost became much more frequent and more strange. Many
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: campers claimed to have seen the Red Ghost trotting through
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: the Arizona Wilderness. In fact, some of these people claim
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: that in the middle of the night, the Red Ghost
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: would appear and trample on their tents. One cowboy claimed
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: he got close enough to the Red Ghost that he
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: was able to actually lasso its neck. However, the Red Ghost,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: in turn took off so quickly and so powerfully that
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: the cowboy got dragged and had to let go. And
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: so stories like these run ins with the Red Ghost
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: out in the wild persisted for years until about a
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  Speaker 1: decade after Elizabeth's death. This farmer in eastern Arizona happened
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  Speaker 1: to look out his window and there standing in his
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  Speaker 1: turnip patch was the so called Red Ghost. And this
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  Speaker 1: farmer had heard all the stories about the Red Ghost,
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  Speaker 1: and he had already made up his mind about what
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  Speaker 1: he would do if he ever ran into the Red Ghost,
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  Speaker 1: and that would be to shoot it. And so what
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  Speaker 1: did he do. He grabbed his rifle, he leaned out
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  Speaker 1: the window, and he fired, and the Red Ghost crumpled
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  Speaker 1: to the ground right in the middle of the turnip patch.
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  Speaker 1: Once the creature was down, the farmer rushed outside and
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: ran up to the carcass to finally see what the
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: heck the Red Ghost was, what was causing all these
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: stories to spread over so many years. And when he
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: got out there and actually looked down at the Red Ghost,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: he knew immediately that all the stories about this creature
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: had been wrong. It would turn out the Red Ghost
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: was not the devil riding some supernatural monster. Instead, the
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Red Ghost was a combination of two very mortal beings.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: The first of these two beings was a creature that
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: if you saw it today, you would know what it was.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: But for folks in Arizona in the late eighteen hundreds.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: They would have no way of knowing what this creature was.
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  Speaker 1: They had never seen it before. It had red fur,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: a long neck, and a humped back. It was a camel.
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  Speaker 1: It had been brought to the United States from the
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Mediterranean to help haul supplies through the Western frontier, and
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  Speaker 1: it had escaped captivity. But this camel alone was not
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: responsible for scaring the people of Arizona. What terrified the
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: people of Arizona and created the legend of the Red
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Ghost was the rider of the camel. When Sarah saw
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: the rider on the camel, at first, she thought it
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  Speaker 1: was a person, but when she looked more closely, she
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: saw they didn't have eyes, and they had this disgusting
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: toothy grin. They just couldn't be human to her, and
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: so she had decided this must be the devil. But
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: it would turn out her first instinct was right, This
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  Speaker 1: was a person. There was a person on the back
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  Speaker 1: of that camel. The devil on the back of the
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: camel was a man's decomposing corpse, And because he was
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: a dec composing corpse, his flesh and eyes had rotted
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: from his face, making it look like he had no
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: eyes and gave him this huge, toothy grint because there
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: was no flesh there. Now, we don't know who this
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: man was or how exactly he died. All we know
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: is at some point he was riding this camel. This
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: camel escaped, he died and somehow didn't fall off, and
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: his dead body remained in an upright seated position on
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: this camel. And then this camel just roamed around Arizona
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: for years with this corpse on its back, giving the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: impression that it was the devil riding on a monster. Today,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: the Red Ghost remains a local legend in Arizona. In fact,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: there's even a permanent statue of the camel in a
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: small Arizona town called Quartzite. Thank you so much for watching.
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