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Famous Hauntings That Were FAKED · CelinaSpookyBoo

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  Speaker 1: From ghostly whispers to shadowy figures caught on camera, the
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  Speaker 1: allure of the paranormal has captivated human curiosity for centuries.
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  Speaker 1: But what happens when the eerie encounters we can't stop
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  Speaker 1: talking about turn out to be big, fat fakes?
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  Speaker 2: What's up, boo crew?
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  Speaker 1: It's me, Selina Myers, and welcome to The Haunted Estate,
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  Speaker 1: where we're going to talk about famous paranormal things that
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  Speaker 1: maybe you thought were true and were big, phony fakes!
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  Speaker 3: It's all fake.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse you?
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  Speaker 1: The things you've seen? The things you've heard?
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  Speaker 2: Apologize at once.
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  Speaker 3: Go watch the video at the mill to see the
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  Speaker 3: craziest paranormal experience ever.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, was that fake, Adam?
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  Speaker 3: No, it was not fake at all.
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  Speaker 2: You're just trying to be drama.
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  Speaker 3: It was insanity. Someone turned off the lights. That was creepy.
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  Speaker 1: And talked.
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  Speaker 3: And talked. Yeah. Do you want the lights off?
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  Speaker 1: You need to start the words. Stories of haunted mansions,
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  Speaker 1: mysterious apparitions, and inexplicable events have often found eager audiences.
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  Speaker 1: But while some tales stem from unexplained phenomenon, others are
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  Speaker 1: the result of elaborate hoaxes that have fooled even the
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  Speaker 1: most ardent believers. Number one, and we have talked about them,
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  Speaker 1: we have the Fox sisters. Maggie Fox, 14, and her
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  Speaker 1: younger sister Kate, 11, concocted intrigue in their bedroom on the.
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  Speaker 2: Eve of April Fool's Day in 1848.
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  Speaker 1: Their basic clapboard farmhouse in rural New York resonated.
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  Speaker 2: With strange hammering sounds night after night.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that these noises seemed to answer queries added
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  Speaker 1: even greater appeal. Their mother challenged, if you're an injured spirit,
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  Speaker 1: manifest by three raps, only to be met with three
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  Speaker 1: different knocks. This spooky reaction seemed to create a root
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  Speaker 1: between the living and the spiritual world. The story of
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  Speaker 1: the Fox sisters and their ghostly contacts rapidly spread over
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  Speaker 1: the spiritually charged environment of upstate New York, a territory
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  Speaker 1: previously known as the cradle of the new religious organizations,
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  Speaker 1: including Mormonism and Millerism, and subsequently involved into a Seventh
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  Speaker 1: Day Adventism.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot of tisms. Not the tism that I have, though.
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  Speaker 2: You have to hit go.
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  Speaker 1: We just filmed a movie in seven days. We are exhausted,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm still here with you, baby. Spiritualism, a movement
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  Speaker 1: that enthralled many of the promise of direct personal direction
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  Speaker 1: from beyond the grave, has given by spirits the secret
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  Speaker 1: knowledge sprang from this rich ground. The sisters traveled to
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  Speaker 1: New York City where their seances drew sizable audiences as
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  Speaker 1: their fame developed. Over time, their performances evolved from simple
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  Speaker 1: knocks and raps to full-fledged discussions with the dead and
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  Speaker 1: the enigmatic emergence of messages on blank cards.
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  Speaker 2: However, the weight of the.
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  Speaker 1: Fame was not kind to the Fox sisters. Despite their success,
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  Speaker 1: their lives were marred by troubled personal relationships, psychological turmoil,
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  Speaker 1: and struggles with alcoholism.
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  Speaker 3: You see that nowadays, too. If you become famous for, like,
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  Speaker 3: deception or a lie, it's just not comfortable to live life.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: Not only that, look at child stars, right? They're pushed in,
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  Speaker 2: they're doing all this stuff. These girls were like 11
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  Speaker 2: and 14 or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: It's just too much. You're going through puberty, you're evolving,
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  Speaker 1: and they just can't handle it. In her 50s, Maggie
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  Speaker 1: Fox came clean about the origins of their ghostly encounters,
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  Speaker 1: revealing them to be a hoax that began as a
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  Speaker 1: childish prank. She confessed that the mysterious knocking had initially
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  Speaker 1: been produced by her sister using an apple tied to
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  Speaker 1: a string to create thumping noises on the floor. Over time,
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  Speaker 1: they refined their techniques, learning to produce popping sounds with
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  Speaker 1: their knuckles and toes to enhance the illusion of supernatural presence.
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  Speaker 2: Now, number two.
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  Speaker 1: In the mid-19th century, an intriguing figure captivated America's East
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  Speaker 1: Coast with his uncanny photographic talent. William H.
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  Speaker 2: Mumler, an American.
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  Speaker 1: Photographer, became famous for producing images that supposedly revealed spectral
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  Speaker 1: forms of the deceased alongside their living relatives. Among these
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  Speaker 1: haunting images is a particularly striking photograph of a bearded
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  Speaker 1: man with a ghostly veiled lady hovering over his shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: This image, along with dozens of others by Mumler, has
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  Speaker 1: been preserved and displayed in prestigious institutions such as the J.
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  Speaker 1: Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California, and the George
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  Speaker 1: Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. Mumler's photographs emerged during
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  Speaker 1: the peak of spiritualism, a movement that captivated many with
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  Speaker 1: its promise of communication with the dead, grieving clients desperate
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  Speaker 1: to cling to images of their loved ones, had paid
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  Speaker 1: handsomely for Mumler's photos, believing they were authentic representations of
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  Speaker 1: the departed. However, the truth behind these eerie portraits was
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  Speaker 1: far more mundane and deceptive. According to Lewis Kaplan, a
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  Speaker 1: professor of photography history at the University of Toronto, Mumler's
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  Speaker 1: method involved a clever trick. He used stock photographs that
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  Speaker 1: borne a resemblance to the deceased individuals by skillfully incorporating
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  Speaker 1: these existing images into new photographs. Mumler created the illusion
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  Speaker 1: that the spirits of the dead were present. Mumler's practice
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  Speaker 1: tapped into the deep-seated emotional needs of clients. These mourning
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  Speaker 1: the loss of family members found solace in these photographs,
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  Speaker 1: which seemed to offer a tangible connection to those that
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  Speaker 1: they had lost. This type of wishful thinking made Mumler's
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  Speaker 1: offerings particularly appealing. The photographs provided a form of comfort
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  Speaker 1: and closure. during the time when death was both common
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  Speaker 1: and profoundly impactful part of life. Despite the initial acclaim,
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  Speaker 1: Mumler's reputation eventually suffered as the true nature of his
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  Speaker 1: work became known. His techniques were exposed as fraudulent, revealing
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  Speaker 1: that his ghostly apparitions were nothing more than artful manipulations
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  Speaker 1: meant to exploit the vulnerable emotions of his patrons. So
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  Speaker 1: I have a love-hate with this one. On one aspect,
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  Speaker 1: if it never came out that it was fake, he
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  Speaker 1: was bringing peace to so many people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but.
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  Speaker 2: I find that with some mediums.
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  Speaker 1: You can't deceive people. I know, but there are mediums
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  Speaker 1: out there who have come out saying, I'm not a
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  Speaker 1: medium at all, but I just wanted to bring peace
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  Speaker 1: to people.
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  Speaker 2: Where I understand their heart was in the right spot.
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  Speaker 2: It's not right. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: But there's other ways to do that instead of being deceitful.
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  Speaker 2: Counseling.
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  Speaker 3: I think you could find like another method. I get
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  Speaker 3: what you mean. I get what you mean. Like obviously
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  Speaker 3: mediums and those shoes helped a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not right.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just the type of person that I want to
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  Speaker 3: positively help somebody without deceptions.
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  Speaker 1: Deception. Adam was just a sweet, nice man who would
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  Speaker 1: never have done fake photographs for people.
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  Speaker 3: Not those kind, anyways.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god. Moving on.
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  Speaker 1: Number three, the Amityville haunting. A horrific tragedy occurred in
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  Speaker 1: the little New York town of Amityville in the fall
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  Speaker 1: of 1974. That would subsequently inspire one of the most
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  Speaker 1: notorious horror stories in America's popular culture. As they slept,
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  Speaker 1: 23-year-old Ronald Butch DeFeo Jr. savagely killed his parents and
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  Speaker 1: four siblings. The ghastly scenario prepared the ground for a
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  Speaker 1: narrative well beyond the fabricated accounts of hauntings that followed.
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  Speaker 1: DeFeo's cold-blooded acts were soon followed by a confession during
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  Speaker 1: police questioning, in which he claimed to have been driven
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  Speaker 1: to kill by the voices in the house. He entered
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  Speaker 1: an insanity plea and was found guilty and sentenced to
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  Speaker 1: to six straight life terms. So, firmly grounding the house's
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  Speaker 1: negative reputation, in fact, the Lutz family, George, Kathy, and
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  Speaker 1: their three children moved into the famed Dutch colonial house.
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  Speaker 2: A year following the disaster.
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  Speaker 1: They hired a priest to do an exorcism in hopes
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  Speaker 1: of clearing the house, only to have more spooky events.
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  Speaker 1: The priest reportedly heard a voice growl, get out. and
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  Speaker 1: started bleeding from his hands. The Lutz stayed in the
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  Speaker 1: house for not long. From unexplainable cold spells to strange
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  Speaker 1: slime to Mrs. Lutz levitating above her bed, they went
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  Speaker 1: through a sequence of unsettling incidents for over a month.
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  Speaker 1: These horrific events drove the family to flee to California,
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  Speaker 1: where they eventually worked with a writer to create the
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  Speaker 1: Amityville Horror. Inspired by this generously fictionalized description of their
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  Speaker 1: 28 days in the mansion, This book became a national
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  Speaker 1: hit and spawned many books and movies based on its
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  Speaker 1: frightening appeal. Still, there has been discussion over the accuracy
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  Speaker 1: of the horrific experiences. Later on, DeFeo's lawyer said that
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  Speaker 1: he and the Lutz family created the eerie stories over
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  Speaker 1: a few bottles of wine.
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  Speaker 3: I would love to watch the original Amityville Horror with
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  Speaker 3: you tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Can we? I don't think I've actually seen the original.
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  Speaker 3: Can you hack that?
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  Speaker 2: Can you hack that?
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  Speaker 3: Can you handle that? The original Amityville horror?
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  Speaker 1: I've only watched the one with Ryan Reynolds, so let's
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  Speaker 1: do it. A 70s horror movie?
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  Speaker 2: I'm down.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Number four, we have The Ants and Lights. In the
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  Speaker 1: quiet expanses around Abilene, Texas, a local legend known as
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  Speaker 1: The Ants and Lights has capivated the imaginations of thrill-seekers
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  Speaker 1: for decades. Originating from the poignant tale and loss of
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  Speaker 1: The Eternal Search, the story tells the ghostly light was
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  Speaker 1: believed to be a lantern held by a grieving mother
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  Speaker 1: searching through the night For her son who got lost.
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  Speaker 3: In a snowstorm.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, a snowstorm in Texas?
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  Speaker 1: Sandstorm.
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  Speaker 2: It's a snowstorm. It could be a snowstorm. It snows
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  Speaker 2: in Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Did it say snowstorms?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: North Texas, it snows, so you get snowstorms for sure. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: This haunting visual, appearing down a lonely stretch of road
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  Speaker 1: near a cemetery in Anson, has become a staple of
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  Speaker 1: local ghost stories, drawing a high school and college students
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  Speaker 1: looking for a supernatural encounter on an otherwise uneventful Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: The journey to witness the Anson light involves a drive
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  Speaker 1: north out of Abilene on US-83 to US-180 in Anson.
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  Speaker 1: followed by a right turn and a mile's travel to
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  Speaker 1: a cemetery. Adjacent to this somber landmark is a dirt
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  Speaker 1: road that leads adventurers to a crucial crossroad. Here, folklore
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  Speaker 1: instructs them to turn their car around, flash their lights,
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  Speaker 1: and wait for the ghostly illumination to appear, seemingly.
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  Speaker 2: Out of nowhere down the road.
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  Speaker 1: However, the mystery of the Anson Lights has recently been unraveled.
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  Speaker 1: not by seasoned paranormal investigators, but by a group of
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  Speaker 1: resourceful students from Abilene Christian University, led by Professor Richard Beck.
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  Speaker 1: Armed with nothing more than common sense and their iPhones,
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  Speaker 1: these students set out to apply a scientific approach this
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  Speaker 1: long-standing myth. Utilizing the GPS and mapping capabilities of their smartphones,
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  Speaker 1: they meticulously tracked their location and origin of the mysterious light.
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  Speaker 1: Professor Beck and his students embarked on their investigative journey
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  Speaker 1: with a healthy skepticism and a keen eye for detail.
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  Speaker 1: Upon reaching the fabled crossroads, they employed their technology to
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  Speaker 1: analyze and pinpoint the source of the light. What they
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  Speaker 1: discovered was both simple and scientifically explainable. Yet, it effectively
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  Speaker 1: stripped the story of its mystical veneer. The so-called Anson Light,
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  Speaker 1: which had fueled local legends and chilled the spines of many,
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  Speaker 1: was conclusively identified as headlights of cars traveling along the
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  Speaker 1: distant highway. Their beams distorted and magnified through atmospheric conditions
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  Speaker 1: and the rural landscape. This revelation mirrors the findings of
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  Speaker 1: a report a decade earlier, which suggested a similar conclusion,
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  Speaker 1: but failed to provide definitive proof or trace lights to
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  Speaker 1: its precise origin. The efforts of Beck's students not only
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  Speaker 1: confirmed these earlier suspicions, but also demonstrated the power of
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  Speaker 1: modern technology to demystify legends that have held sway in
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  Speaker 1: communities for generations. But see, that's the kind of thing
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  Speaker 1: where I'm like, leave it alone.
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  Speaker 2: This is fun. Like, we have Critter's Lane, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like, it's just like, let the kids have fun. It
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  Speaker 2: was a Christian university. Like, come on, leave us alone.
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  Speaker 3: Do you remember the story of Red Eyes around here? No.
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  Speaker 3: There was a place called Red Eyes. Everybody used to
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  Speaker 3: play paintball there. It was out near Beachville.
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  Speaker 1: Is it Two Eyes?
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  Speaker 3: Two Eyes, yeah, yeah. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: My mom used to party at Two Eyes when she
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  Speaker 2: was a teenager.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it Red Eyes? Oh, it's Two Eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Two Eyes, because it's the two concrete structures.
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  Speaker 2: I've never been there.
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  Speaker 3: No, this was, um, Red Eyes was in Brantford.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, tell me about Red Eyes.
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  Speaker 3: At a hockey camp I went to. There would be, like,
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  Speaker 3: two floating red eyes in the forest.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see them?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't, no. It was probably just a story they
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  Speaker 3: told every group of hockey kids at hockey camp.
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  Speaker 2: Or should we go investigate the hockey camp? That sounds boring.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Number five, we have the ghost of Coventry University. In
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  Speaker 1: the dim lights of his laboratory, Vic Tandy was engulfed
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  Speaker 1: by a pervasive sense of dread, a chill that seeped
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  Speaker 1: into his very bones as he worked late into the night.
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  Speaker 1: His rational mind initially dismissed the tales of the lab
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  Speaker 1: being haunted, attributing any strange sounds to the machinery. Yet,
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  Speaker 1: on this particular night, the machines lay silent. It was then,
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  Speaker 1: out of the corner of his eyes, he glimpsed it,
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  Speaker 1: a ghostly gray figure looming silently. The sight sent a
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  Speaker 1: shiver down his spine and made the hairs on his
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  Speaker 1: neck stand up on end. Tandy admitted to being quite
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  Speaker 1: frankly terrified, mustering all his courage as he turned his
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  Speaker 1: face to the apparition, only to watch it vanish into
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  Speaker 1: thin air. Shaken, he quickly gathered his belongings and left,
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  Speaker 1: the eerie encounter weighing heavily on his mind. The following day, however,
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  Speaker 1: he would shift the narrative from supernatural to scientific. Tandy,
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  Speaker 1: an avid fencer, brought his sword into the lab for
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  Speaker 1: repairs and secured it in a vice. To his astonishment,
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  Speaker 1: the blade had begun to vibrate wildly, without any apparent cause.
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  Speaker 1: This peculiar phenomenon sparked Tandy's curiosity, leading him to suspect
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  Speaker 1: that something in the environment was amiss. His investigation pointed
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  Speaker 1: to a newly installed fan system, which unbeknownst to him
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: emitted infrasound sounds at frequencies below 20 Hz, imperceptible to
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: the human ear. The significance of these findings became clearer
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: as Tandy realized the fan was generating a steady 19
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: hertz frequency, precisely at the resonant frequency of his sword.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: A resonant frequency, objects, can experience enhanced vibrations. This principle
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: explains how opera singers shatter glass by hitting the right note.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: The glass breaks due to vibrations induced.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: At its resonant frequency.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: But the implications of this discovery when far beyond vibrating swords.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: The human body shares a similar resonant frequency, particularly around
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: 19 hertz. Tandy deduced that the infrasound was causing the
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: vibrations in his body, particularly his eyes and chest. These
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: vibrations led to his labored breathing and intense feelings of anxiety.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Physiological responses that manifested as the profound dread and chilling
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: sensations he experienced, even the vision of the ghost could
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: be explained by resonant frequencies affecting his eye tissues, creating
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: optical illusions. Driven by this revelation, Tandy expanded his research
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: into infrasound. He conducted further studies in various locations reputed
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: to be haunted, including ancient cellars in Coventry and the
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: eerie corridors of Mary King's Close in Edinburgh. His findings
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: consistently showed elevated levels of infrasound in these haunted places,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: often up to 200 times higher than in non-haunted settings.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Due to meticulous scientific inquiry, Vic Tandy had not only
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: debunked the haunting of his own.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Lab, but it also provided a plausible.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Explanation for ghost sightings in other famously haunted locations. His
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: research into infrasound offered a rational explanation for many elements
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: traditionally attributed to the paranormal.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: So is this why people are scared of 5G?
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like it made my boobs
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: perk here.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Because of the frequencies? I feel like when 5G came around,
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: my boobs were like, Nips just hard all the time?
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: No, they just lift it a little bit.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: They lift it a little bit?
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I have more.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Volume in my hair.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: All right, well, we're looking forward to 10G then.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Number six, Wem Ghosts.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: A picture taken after a dramatic fire in a 90-year-old
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: town hall in Wem... What?
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Shoresfire?
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Shoresfire. Shoreshire.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Caught what seemed to be a ghostly apparition of a
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: small child standing behind a rail surrounded in flames in
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: November 1995. Among the throng across the street, Tony O'Reilly,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: a sewage farm worker and avid photographer, was among them
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: when he snapped the picture that would generate international interest
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: and create the legend of the WEM ghost. The picture
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: attracted interest right away since many people speculated that the
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: ghost was that of 14-year-old Jane Cherm. a girl who
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: supposedly started a terrible fire in Whelm back in 1677.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: The fact that the origin of the 1995 fire remained
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: unknown gave the eerie picture to further the mystery. Local
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: historian Tom Edwards echoed O'Reilly's instance that the picture was authentic,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: even though she passed away in 2005, but the veracity
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: of the picture and the tale around it would soon
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: be called into doubt. Fifteen years after the photograph was taken,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: a significant revelation came from Briar Lear. a 77-year-old retired
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: engineer from Shrewsbury.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Shrewsbury.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Lear reported a striking resemblance between the ghostly figure and
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: a girl pictured in the doorway in 1922 of a
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: postcard of Whelm's High Street, which he had seen in
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: a local paper. The girl in both images wore an
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: identical dress, a bonnet and a ribbon, leading to Lear
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: to suggest that the photo might have been doctored. casting
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: doubt on the ghost's story. This theory gained further support
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: from Greg Hobson, curator of the photographs of the National
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Media Museum in Bradford. Hobson pointed out that the postcard
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: provided pretty conclusive proof of a hoax, suggesting that the
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: mystery of Wham! Ghost had been solved. He explained that
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the technique used to create the doctored photograph was likely
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: a similar method employed by Edwardian-era mediums. These mediums would
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: often engage a trick in photography to bolster their credibility
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: during seances. They would ask for a photograph of the
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: deceased person, take a picture of it in a back room,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: and then later during the client's consultation, take another picture
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: with the client, and it would be exposed onto the
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: same glass plate, creating the illusion of the spirit visiting them.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Just like we heard earlier.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: The exposure of this technique underscores not only the skepticism
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: that often surrounds paranormal claims, but also the ease which,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: with photographic evidence, can be manipulated. The WEM ghost story,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: while captivating, serves as a reminder of the importance of
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: scrutinizing such phenomenon critically. So this happens a lot in
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: this day and age.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I get sent.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: photographs and people are like i caught a ghost 9.8
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: times out of 10 it's always from one of those
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: apps where you can like add a ghost they always
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: look the same or you like put ghost in google
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: and you get one of those transparent images and you
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: can just tell they like turn down like i see
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: it i get what you're trying to do i have
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: seen a couple real ghost photographs in my life i've
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: taken one a lot of the time orbs are moisture
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: in the air dust in the air.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah i was gonna say you've got those those people
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: that are so intense and that every single orb is
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: a ghost.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Yes and it's not 99.9% of the time and it
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: has a lot to do with color shape density not
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: only that like it's really hard orbs are really really
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: hard to dictate there's also you know smoke in a
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: room some people catch a bug that kind of thing
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: it's just it is what it is it's hard but
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I have I've actually taken a photo and I have
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: a part of a man in it it's the craziest
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: ghost photo I've ever seen and I took it which
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: was Now we have number seven, the H family. In
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: the winter of 1912, a mysterious series of events unfolded
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: within a large rambling house built in 1870 and situated
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: in a seemingly benign street bathed in sunlight. The house,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: which had stood mostly vacant for the previous decade, became
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: the new residence of Mrs. H and her family on
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: November 15th. As documented in 1921 publication of the American
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Journal of Orphanage, Whoa. Ophthalmology. Wow. Okay.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: By William Wilmer. That's a name.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: After whom the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Clinic is named.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: That transpired next would challenge the boundaries between medical silence.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: There is a lot of that nowadays.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, which will challenge the boundaries between medical science and
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: the supernatural.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: From the moment the.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Family moved in, an oppressive silence enveloped the heavily carpeted house,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: which was devoid of electricity and illuminated only by gaslight.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Almost immediately, the family experienced an overwhelming sense of gloom
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: and inexplicable occurrences that suggested a haunting. Unseen footsteps, severe headaches,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: unexplained chills, and ghostly apparitions.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Mrs.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: H herself recounted hearing footsteps overheard when no one else
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: was upstairs and even encountering the unsettling sight of a dark-haired,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: black-clad woman who mysteriously transformed into her own reflection in
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: a mirror. The family's discomfort grew as their health deteriorated.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: The children became pale and listless, abandoning their toys and
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: expressing a desire to stay in their bedrooms. Mysterious ailments
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: plagued the household. The plants withered. Mysterious sounds echoed through
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the house at night. and the family suffered from symptoms
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: like the flu. These bizarre events reached a climax when Mrs.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: H's son, B, claimed that he was called by an
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: unknown presence, and the governess reported a terrifying vision of
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: physical sensations that defied explanation. Household staff also shared tales
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: of eerie footsteps, chilling encounters, adding to the mourning dread
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: within the halls of this haunted house. The haunting seemed irrefutable.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: until a pivotal night at the opera led to an
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: alarming discovery.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Mrs.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: H woke, feeling as if somebody had tried to strangle her,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: a sensation so vivid that left her husband rattled and
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the household on edge. It was then that the possibility
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: of a haunting began to intersect with something more sinister,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: an earthly danger, carbon monoxide poisoning. Prompted by the suggestion
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: of a relative, A thorough investigation was conducted in the house.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: A specialist found the furnace was malfunctioning, leaking carbon monoxide
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: into the home. This revelation explained the physical symptoms and
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: hallucinations experienced by the family, attributing what seemed like supernatural
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: phenomenon to the toxic.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Effects of the gas.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Immediate actions were taken to ensure the safety of the family,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: relocating them and treating the children for poisoning.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: The ordeal of Mrs.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: H and her family, while initially believed to be a haunting,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: underscores the dangers of carbon monoxide and the importance of
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: proper home maintenance. I will always feel wildly alert to
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: carbon monoxide for a tragedy that happened. And I think
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: right now is a really good time to pause the
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: computer and go check your carbon monoxide detectors.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: We had this amazing conversation.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Officer in our town and she actually taught she went
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: into the schools and she taught safety about fire alarms
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: and carbon monoxide.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Alarms no way i didn't know that i thought she
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: was just a police officer she was a police officer
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: but she was a safety person for that she.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Did that yep and unfortunately one night with one day
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: she didn't show up to work the police went to
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: um her house and she was found in the front
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: hallway she was still alive Her whole family had passed
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: away in the night because of carbon monoxide poisoning. Her
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: daughter had gone to my high school. It was just
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: one of those really tragic things. It's things you don't
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: think about, right?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Like you don't think about. So check your carbon monoxide.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Do it.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Don't let anything bad happen to you, okay? All right,
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: moving on.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: We got number eight, the San Antonio legend. At the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: eerie intersection of Villa Main and Shane near San Antonio's
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: historic San Juan Mission lies a stretch of railroad tracks
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: enveloped in legend and tragedy. Dubbed by locals as America's
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: spookiest railroad crossing, this site is reportedly haunted by the
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: spirits of children whose lives were cut tragically short in
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: a horrific accident. The chilling tale that perpetuates this reputation
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: centers around a catastrophic event involving a school bus full
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: of children returning from a field trip.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: According to.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Whoa. What was that?
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I burped.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: You should see, I'm like, According to local lore, on
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: a dark and foggy night, a nun was driving the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: bus along Shane Road. As they approached the railroad crossing,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the bus unexpectedly stalled right on the tracks.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: The children, most of.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Whom were asleep, remained unaware of the looming danger as
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the nun struggled to restart the engine. Without warning, a
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: freight train barreling down the tracks with a burnt-out headlight
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: appeared out of the darkness. Despite the nun's frantic efforts
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: to turn on the ignition, the train collided with a
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: stationary bus, slicing it in two in a devastating crash. Miraculously,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the nun was thrown clear and survived, but the children
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: were not as fortunate.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: They were all killed instantly.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Haunted by guilt and grief, the nun later returned to
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: the scene of the accident and parked her car on
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: the tracks, intending to meet her end under the same
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: steel wheels that took her students. However, just as another
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: train approached, her car mysteriously was pushed to safety. This
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: inexplicable event is believed to have been the work of
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the children's ghosts determined to save others from their fate.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: The story of the ghostly intervention has turned the railroad
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: crossing on Shane Road into a site of pilgrimage for
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: thrill-seekers and paranormal enthusiasts from across the nation. Most visitors
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: place baby powder on their car bumpers before parking on
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: the tracks, hoping to see tiny handprints after their vehicle
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: is pushed to safety, allegedly other spectral children's way of
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: preventing another tragedy. We have that down on Critters Lane
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: on that track right there. People do the same thing.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Shelby, I have a friend named Shelby, one time went
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: down there.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: It's so muddy. It's not like a Keptro. They don't
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: like keep it up in the winter. And she was
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: down there investigating with friends and her car wouldn't start,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: wouldn't start. Then it started and she couldn't get out
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: of the mud. And when she finally got it out
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: of the mud, there were two dirty kid handprints on
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the back of her bumper.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Ooh. It was probably a bug.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: We were like a teenager.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Just a five-year-old behind there. Despite its popularity, the tale
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: of the haunted railroad crossing is met with skepticism. Some
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: experts suggest the phenomenon of cars being pushed off the
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: tracks can be explained by optical illusions or subtle inclines
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: in the terrain. Yet, the allure of the ghost story persists,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: drawing crowds eager to experience the supernatural for themselves.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Next up, number nine. Are you ready for this? The
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Salem Witch Trials.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Still a vivid and disturbing chapter in American history, the
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Salem Witch Trials of 1692 continue under charges of witchcraft.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: The little Puritan town of Salem Village, now present-day Danvers, Massachusetts,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: was engulfed in a frenzy that.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Claimed 27 people.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: 20 executed and 7 dead in jail. These incidents started
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: with the sequence of troubling incidents involving the little daughter
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and niece of Reverend Samuel Parris, whose unexplainable symptoms of
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: violent contortions and episodes of hysterical screaming were quickly labeled
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: as witchcraft by a local physician. In the strongly religious
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: and superstitious setting of New England in the 17th century,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: the devil was real in an immediate menace to upset
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: and demolish the holy order the Puritans thought Satan actively
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: sought witches and minions with recent smallpox outbreaks and the
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: continuous threat posed by Native American tribes, Salem at the
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: time had already a tense atmosphere. These anxieties helped to
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: create a community ready to assign blame for their tragedies
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: by means of scapegoat. The hysteria intensified with the affected
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: girls who started accusing other members of the society of
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: bewitching them.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Soon after these.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Charges, a special court was established to manage matters involving witchcraft.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Mostly ghostly, the evidence was against the accused.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: Mostly ghostly?
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Mostly ghostly, the evidence against the accused meant that although
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: their physical forms were elsewhere, the accused witches were thought
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: to torment the girls in spirits or in visions. For
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: many during the trials, this kind of evidence, though immensely
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: thin and intangible... was sufficient enough for these weirdos to
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: decide their fate. More young girls began exhibiting identical symptoms
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: as the year went on. The circle of accusation grew
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: much larger. About 150 people from Salem Village have been
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: imprisoned under accusations of witchcraft by the.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Fall of 1692.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: The trials and the executions carried on until a growing
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: mistrust of the governor of Massachusetts Intervention produced notable changes.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Concerned by the growing crisis and the dubious quality of evidence,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Governor William Phipps outlawed spectral evidence and finally dissolved the
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: witchcraft court.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Witchcraft court.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Those still in prison were freed and forgiven. Later on,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the families of the executed did receive compensation. The fundamental
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: reasons for the witch trials remained a subject of mystery
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: and conjecture, even with the outcome. Historians propose a mix
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: of religious, psychological, and socioeconomic elements had part. Problems from
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: those family conflicts, financial difficulties, and rivalries to the widespread
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: belief of supernatural could have stoked the flames of accusation
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: and frenzy.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Just disgusting. People back then, like, I shouldn't say people
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: back then, I'm stereotyping.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's still happening, babe.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: It's just, it's easier to do it back then because
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: we don't have the means to call everybody out like
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: we can now.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Well, witches can live openly. Damn, what do I do?
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: 10. Ghosts in the Closet In a curious visit from Coventry, England,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: captured by Lisa Manning, the eerie phenomenon of a closet
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: door eerily swinging open and a chair.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Mysteriously sliding across the floor has.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Sparked a blend of intrigue and skepticism. Broadcasted by independent
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: television news ITN, the footage prompted this question. Is the
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: family being visited by a poltergeist? The video, while chilling,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: leaves room for doubt as to the authenticity of the
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: events depicted. The video, which can be described as both
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: spooky and hokey, depending on one's belief of the paranormal,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: features lightweight objects, a closet door and a chair that
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: some viewers suspect could have been manipulated by simple tricks
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: like fishing line, possibly by someone just out of camera's view,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: contrary to more dramatic claims made by the Manning family
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: to the media, The chair in the video does not
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: dramatically crash into the wall, but simply scoots a few feet. Similarly,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: the door does not exhibit violent slamming or come unhinged,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: rather than just open slowly and gently. Further casting doubt
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: on the video's authenticity is the evident editing. The footage
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: is not a continuous clip, but rather a compilation of
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: separate events stitched together in a way that obscures whether
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: they occurred subsequently or even in the same context. This
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: editing makes it a challenge to tell if the full
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: extent of what's going on or what the uncut tape
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: might reveal.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: So that's just a little one there. So I see
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: ghost videos all the time.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I've reacted to tons of them. I think it's fun
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: all the time. There's some that get me like some
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: of the dull ones. Like I think there are genuine
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: ghost videos out there.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Here's the thing.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Whenever I've dealt with ghosts moving things, a lot of
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: the time there's no one in the fucking room, which
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: is crazy.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Like you leave, you come back and something's moved, right?
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Then there's the ones where things do happen right in
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  Speaker 1: front of you, but they look so fake that everybody
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: thinks that they're literally fake.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: I have had that happen. I've had fake ass things happening.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: We have those videos somewhere from the old house.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: From the kitchen.
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  Speaker 3: Where are those?
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: They're on my Facebook. They're deep.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: We need to find those. I, and that was the thing.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: That was insane.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: It's a butter plate with a knife and it just
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: kept twirling on the counter and people thought like, oh,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: there's water under it. Like there's all these different things
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: that could make sense. Same, it was same counter with, um,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: the blender.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: And it happened.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: And that's the thing. It's so hard to judge something.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: But sometimes I feel like someone's being like so loud
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: about it or it's like getting, like the more they
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: talk about it, the more it's happening, which is how
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: it happens with ghosts. It's just so hard. There's, there's
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: no way to disprove anything or to prove anything unless
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: somebody comes out and that's the truth.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah. right?
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: For me, ghosts aren't so much manipulative of things as
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: they are in my head and the way that I
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: see and hear things.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean? Leftover energies. Residuals. Most
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: of the time for you, it's residuals, is it not?
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: More so than they're actually being a presence of something. Yeah. Yeah.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: And a lot of the time, like I'm not like
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: a total presence thing. Like I will see, so I
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: could see a ghost and it will look like Adam.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: I won't even know it's a ghost. It'll be as
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: thick as him. Like how often.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: We're driving, do I go, do you see the lady
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: in the pink pants? And he's like, But almost all
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: the time he sees a lady.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: And that's something some people don't understand when we're talking
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: about ghosts. We just use ghosts as a blanket term.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: We're not calling them a legitimate specific ghost in a
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: legitimate specific term. Like it just means it could be
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: literally anything. But there's some kind of energy in presence
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: in that moment.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Could be residual. Could be intelligent. Could be demonic. Could
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: be any of these things.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: Anything.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: We just call it a ghost.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. All right.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Next one. We have number 11.
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  Speaker 1: The Cottingley Fairies. Okay.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: We got to talk about this.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: I don't get the fairy thing.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: What's that book called?
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: A Court of Thorn and Roses or something.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: They call it Actor or something. Everybody's into this book.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: I can't do fairies. I've tried to do fairies. I
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: can't do it.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: This lady came up to me at Indigo. She's like,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I don't read anything but fairies having sex. She's like,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is about it but I
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: love it. I tried to listen to a court of fairies.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: I can't.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: I'm not a fantasy girl. I'm so sorry.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I like fantasy as far as like Harry Potter but
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: like when we're like, I'm not into Avatar. I'm not
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: into Lord of the Rings.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: I'm not into I'm sorry.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: You're definitely not into fairies f * * * ing.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: I'm definitely not into fairies f * * * ing.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: I could write it probably.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: I'd be upset about it, but I could write it.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: It could be the hottest.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Write some right now.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Fairy f * * * ing.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Okay. Don't go too deep. This is YouTube.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Keep it PG. Leah, the fae, walked out on the
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: porch of her lily pad.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: Fairies are tiny, right?
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's on a lily pad.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: And she saw him across the pond, resting upon a
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: giant bullfrog. It croaked.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: This isn't very fairy-like. This is the adventures of the swamp.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Stop!
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Stop!
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: There is a swamp! Get off me, swamp!
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: This is the adventures of the swamp fairies.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: She heard the bullfrog croak before it leapt into the water.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: What did I name the boy fairy again?
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Thea? Or Thea? Fae?
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: The boy fairy.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Fae.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Swam, holding onto the bullfrog, over to Leah.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: There's boy fairies?
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: He jumped on her lily pad.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, fairy is a race. Yeah, Fae.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Fae is fairies. He jumped onto her lily pad and
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: he said, wow, this lily pad is soft. He's like,
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: I'm still going to stop.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: You kept bothering, you kept intro to it. I could
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: have wrote, it could have got.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: You something good.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: Okay, I won't interrupt next time. I promise.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, guys.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: I just couldn't.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: I want to talk about horny fairies.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: In the early 20th century, a seemingly magical event unfolded
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: in the quaint village of Cottingley, right?
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Cottingley?
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: West Yorkshire that captured the imaginations of many around the world.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Young cousins, Elise Wright, age 16, and Francis Griffin, age 9,
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  Speaker 1: produce a series of photographs that they claim depicted real
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: fairies frolicking near their home. The initial photographs, taken in 1917,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: use Elise's father's camera. It showed the girls interacting with
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: delicate fairy figures. and these images quickly catapulted into international fame.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Upon the release, the photographs were subsequent scrutiny by various
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: experts of the day and were astonishingly declared genuine. The
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: validation of these images fueled widespread public interest and enthusiasm,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: particularly among spiritualists. One of the most prominent proponents of
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: the photograph's authenticity was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: of Sherlock Holmes.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Fervent believer of.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Fervent? I got it.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: Fervent?
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: A fervent believer of... And fervent believer in spiritual... Don't laugh.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: And fervent... And fervent... And fervent... And fervent believer in spiritual.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: It's such a dumb word.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: You interrupted when I was trying.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: I finally got it.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: It's such a dumb word.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Stop!
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: Such a dumb word.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: The creator of Sherlock Holmes and a fervent believer of
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: spiritual and psychic phenomenon, Doyle heralded the Conningley fairy photographs
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: as concrete evidence of the supernatural existence, which only amplified
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: their reach and significance worldwide.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: My mom believes in fairies.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: She thinks if you plant Lily of the Valley, the
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: fairies will come. I think this is my issue. My
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: grandma used to always talk about these fairies. I never
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: saw these goddamn fairies. Then my uncle, who's off his rocker,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: went to Europe and thought he brought home gnomes in
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: this giant hat that had a huge tail. He would
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: leave rice out for them all around the table, and
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: it scared me. So I think that's why I'm not, like,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: super into... That kind of stuff. So, however, the fairy
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: tale aura surrounding the photographs was not to last. In 1978,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: renowned magician and skeptic James Randi utilized computer enhancement techniques
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: to closely examine the images and discovered evidence of manipulation,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: specifically strings that appeared to be attached to the fairies.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: This revelation prompted the re-evaluation of the photograph's authenticity. The
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: final unreliving of the Cottingley fairy mystery came in in
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: 1983 when when Elise Wright and the Francis Griffin, then
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: much older, confessed in a magazine article that the photographs
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: had indeed been fabricated. The fairies in the pictures were art,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: crafted from painted paper and supported by hat pins, not
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: ethereal beings that they had once claimed. However, despite admitting
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: the hoax, both cousins maintained that they had genuinely seen fairies,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: separating their personal experiences from the faked photographs.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, that one did no harm. You know what I mean?
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: It was fun we got to think fairies existed yeah
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: yeah i think that.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: One's cute my mom probably fell for.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: That you're gonna fake gnomes or fairies or something that's
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: already clearly likely not real.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Well i'm not saying they're not real i you know
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: what all right let's talk when we first.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Moved in What did I think the lightning bugs were?
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: Fairies.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, moving on.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: My point, exactly.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: All right, guys.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: So that is all that we have for today.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Hopefully you enjoyed this video and don't forget to subscribe
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• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Hit the bell icon on your way out.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: And do you believe in fairies?
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Have you named one? Have you met one? Tell me
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: your fairy stories. Make me a believer.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Make me want to read this actor book because everybody
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: loves it.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: So until next time. And go read Selena's books.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, go read my books.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: They're on Amazon.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: I have a new one coming out sometime soon-ish. News
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: will be happening. Anyways, I love you guys. You're amazing.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: And stay spooky, Boo Crew. Oh my god, there's a
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: fairy on my phone.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: It's you. The story of the Fox sisters and their
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: ghostly contacts wrapped... The story of the Fox sisters and
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: their ghostly contacts wrapped... The story of the Fox sisters
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: and their ghostly contacts wrapped... my ass i can't read
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: i need to go home i am home you.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: It's hard on the prompter it's really far away from
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: you the words are really.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Small that's not it adam i'm just dumb.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: Wink wink i'm dumb don't say that out loud what
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: have we been talking about
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: I'm beautiful and i'm kind i'm strong thank you and
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: i'm positive and i smell nice and i only shit
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: twice a day like a normal person it's all lies