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Speaker 1: Today's story is about one of the most haunted rooms
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Speaker 1: in the world and what happens when you go inside
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Speaker 1: of it. Now, this particular account is from two hundred
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Speaker 1: years ago, but the legend of what goes on inside
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Speaker 1: of that room is still very much alive today. However,
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. Late one evening in eighteen forty,
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Speaker 1: a thirty year old British nobleman named Sir Robert Warboys
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Speaker 1: stood next to five of his closest friends on the
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Speaker 1: front porch of a town home in one of the
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Speaker 1: fanciest neighborhoods in London, England. The address of this town
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Speaker 1: home was fifty Berkeley Square and it was one of
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Speaker 1: dozens of these beautiful brick and marble town homes that
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Speaker 1: surrounded this big garden. The whole square had been built
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Speaker 1: about one hundred years earlier, and since then it had
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Speaker 1: become one of the most fashionable places for the rich
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Speaker 1: and famous to call home. However, Robert and his friends
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Speaker 1: had not come here to rub shoulders with important people. Instead,
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Speaker 1: Robert had come here to win a bet. So Robert
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Speaker 1: actually was a nobleman. He was like this proper guy,
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Speaker 1: at least on paper, but in reality, at least to
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Speaker 1: his friends, he had a total wild streak. He loved
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Speaker 1: taking on dares. Basically, anytime anybody you know challenged him
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Speaker 1: to do something, he would do it, especially if there
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Speaker 1: was money on the line. But it wasn't really about
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Speaker 1: the money. It wasn't about, you know, winning money by
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Speaker 1: doing these different things. He just loved the challenge. He
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Speaker 1: loved the thrill of taking chances. So that night, on
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Speaker 1: the front porch of this town home, Robert turned and
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Speaker 1: knocked on the front door. And then as soon as
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Speaker 1: he did, he turned back and looked at his friends
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Speaker 1: and grinned at them, and he saw some of them
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Speaker 1: looked really excited and some looked pretty nervous. But to Robert,
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Speaker 1: He was purely happy about how things were going so far,
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Speaker 1: because he knew, you know, come tomorrow, when this whole
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Speaker 1: thing was done and he had won his bet, he
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Speaker 1: would have a great story to tell. A few seconds later,
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Speaker 1: the front door of the town home swung open and
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Speaker 1: this middle aged man stepped outside. His name was Charles Benson,
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Speaker 1: and while Robert and Charles did know each other, they
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Speaker 1: were not close friends. They actually only knew each other
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Speaker 1: because they both were members of the same exclusive gentlemen's
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Speaker 1: club in London. Plus pretty much everybody in London had
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Speaker 1: at least heard of Charles because of all the rumors
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Speaker 1: swirling around about what went on inside of his townhome.
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Speaker 1: Even though Robert had told Charles that on this night
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Speaker 1: he and his buddies were coming to his town home
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Speaker 1: for this bet, even though he had clearly told him,
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Speaker 1: Charles still seemed very surprised to see Robert standing there.
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Speaker 1: But Robert nonetheless was like, Hey, Charles, how are you
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Speaker 1: you know? I'm here for the bat And Charles basically
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Speaker 1: didn't react. He just stared at Robert with this very
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Speaker 1: concerned look in his face and just said, are you
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Speaker 1: sure you really want to do this? And Robert, who
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Speaker 1: knew what he was referencing, just kind of looked down
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Speaker 1: at the pistol on his hip and said, yeah, I'm sure.
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Speaker 1: A few minutes later, Robert and his five friends were
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Speaker 1: inside of charles town home in the dining room, sitting
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Speaker 1: around a table while Charles had gone upstairs to get something.
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Speaker 1: And as they sat there, Robert kind of looked around
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Speaker 1: the room at his friends, and he could tell they
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Speaker 1: were clearly more nervous about this than he was, and
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Speaker 1: so he tried to, you know, keep the mood light
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Speaker 1: by making some jokes and kind of downplaying what he
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Speaker 1: was about to do. But it was like, no matter
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Speaker 1: what he did, he could just tell his friends were
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Speaker 1: very uneasy about what was going to happen here. And
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Speaker 1: then a moment later, they heard the sound of Charles
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Speaker 1: coming down the stairs, and Charles, you know, he came
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Speaker 1: in the kitchen, still with a very serious look in
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Speaker 1: his face, and he walked up to them and he
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Speaker 1: reached in his pocket and he pulled out this old
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Speaker 1: iron key and he placed it in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the table, and as soon as he did that, the
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Speaker 1: room went completely silent, and everybody just stared at this
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Speaker 1: key and then Charles eventually broke the silence and explained
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Speaker 1: to the group that over the last ten years of
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Speaker 1: living in this town home, he had only used that
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Speaker 1: key maybe two or three times total, and when the
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Speaker 1: key was not in use, Charles said he actually hid
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Speaker 1: the key just to make sure it never wound up
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Speaker 1: in the wrong hands. But now, again with that somber
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Speaker 1: look on his face, Charles looked over at Robert and said,
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Speaker 1: if you're really sure about this, the key is yours
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Speaker 1: to take, and Robert, with no hesitation, reached out and
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Speaker 1: snatched the key, showing his friends and showing Charles that
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Speaker 1: he was not about to get cold feet. A couple
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Speaker 1: of minutes later, all the men stood up from the
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Speaker 1: dining room table, and then Charles led the group up
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Speaker 1: the thin, narrow, creaky staircase to the second floor, and
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Speaker 1: when they got to the second floor, Charles led them
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Speaker 1: down this narrow hallway that came to a stop in
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Speaker 1: front of this closed door. At this point, all seven
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Speaker 1: men were kind of crowded together right in front of
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Speaker 1: this door, but it was obvious that even though Charles
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Speaker 1: lived in this town home, he was sort of hesitant
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Speaker 1: to get even close to this door. Like he really
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Speaker 1: didn't want to be anywhere near it. Also, all of
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Speaker 1: Robert's friends were sort of reacting the same way too.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they were the ones that actually dared Robert
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Speaker 1: to do this in the first place, but now that
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Speaker 1: they were actually here about to go through with it,
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Speaker 1: they were looking at Robert like he was totally insane.
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Speaker 1: And also they were kind of hoping that, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe he would just back out and they could just leave.
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Speaker 1: But Robert did not seem remotely like he was about
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Speaker 1: to back out. He had a very determined look on
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Speaker 1: his face. And as everybody else was kind of cowering
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Speaker 1: away from this door, Robert stepped up, reached into his pocket,
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Speaker 1: pulled out that iron key, and put it into the lock,
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Speaker 1: And as he began to turn the lock, everybody else
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Speaker 1: took steps farther away from him. And then he pulled
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Speaker 1: open the door, and as he did, everybody gasped, and
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Speaker 1: Robert even took a step backwards. But when Robert actually
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Speaker 1: looked through the now open doorway, he just laughed. Because
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Speaker 1: it was just a normal bedroom. It was filled with
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Speaker 1: all this old but very expensive looking furniture. On one
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Speaker 1: side of the room was this big wooden dresser with
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Speaker 1: a huge round mirror above it. And then on the
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Speaker 1: opposite side of the room was this big four poster bet.
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Speaker 1: And right above this bed, dangling down from the ceiling,
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Speaker 1: was this red ribbon. Now Robert knew that in a
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Speaker 1: rich nobleman's house there were ribbons like this one that
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Speaker 1: are known as bell pulse. A nobleman could pull on
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Speaker 1: that lever and it was connected to a pulley system
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Speaker 1: that rang a bell down in the servants quarters, and
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Speaker 1: when the servant heard that bell, they would see what
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Speaker 1: room it was coming from, and they would go up
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Speaker 1: to the room to see what the nobleman needed. And so,
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Speaker 1: after taking in the sight of this bedroom, Robert took
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Speaker 1: a confident step into the room, and as soon as
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Speaker 1: he did, Charles reached out and grabbed him by the
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Speaker 1: wrist and said, hey, Robert, this is your last chance
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Speaker 1: to change your mind. Are you sure you want to
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Speaker 1: go through with this? And Robert kind of looked back
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Speaker 1: at his friends and smiled and said, I'm sure. I'll
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Speaker 1: see you guys tomorrow morning once I've won the bet.
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Speaker 1: Then Robert released Charles's grip on his wrist, walked into
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Speaker 1: the room, turned shut and locked the door. At this moment,
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Speaker 1: Robert's friends didn't really know what to do. They were
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Speaker 1: still sort of shocked that Robert was actually going through
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Speaker 1: with this. I mean, even by his standards, this felt
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Speaker 1: particularly reckless. They also felt kind of guilty. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they were the ones who ultimately put him up to this,
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Speaker 1: so you know, if Robert got hurt, which in theory
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Speaker 1: could actually happen here, they would be partially their fault.
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Speaker 1: And so Robert's friends turned to Charles to see what
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Speaker 1: he was thinking, and Charles had this very grave, resigned
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Speaker 1: expression on his face, and he just told them, I
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Speaker 1: have one more thing to show you before we go
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Speaker 1: to bed. So Robert's friends followed Charles back down the hallway,
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Speaker 1: down the stairs, past the dining room, towards the very
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Speaker 1: back of the town home. And when they got there,
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Speaker 1: they found there was sort of like a studio apartment
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Speaker 1: area back there. There was a kitchen area, a laundry area,
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Speaker 1: and there were several bets. Charles explained this was where
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Speaker 1: his servants lived and worked, but he had given them
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Speaker 1: all the night off because he knew it was possible
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Speaker 1: that Robert and his friends would be here for this bet,
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Speaker 1: and they would need a place to stay. Charles pointed
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Speaker 1: to a space right above the beds where there was
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Speaker 1: this row of all these bells in a horizontal line.
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Speaker 1: Each of these bells were connected to various bell polls
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Speaker 1: throughout the house, and he pointed to one particular bell
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Speaker 1: and told them that that was the one that was
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Speaker 1: connected to the bell poll in the room Robert was
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Speaker 1: staying in tonight, and so he said it was their
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Speaker 1: job tonight to constantly monitor that bell all night. So
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Speaker 1: somebody had to be awake all night listening to that bell,
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Speaker 1: because heaven forbid, if Robert pulls that bell, that was
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Speaker 1: going to be the signal that something bad had happened
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Speaker 1: silently play blackjack and just focus exclusively on this bell,
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Speaker 1: in the room. They're basically all just staring at the bell,
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Speaker 1: dealing one hand after another, paranoid it would go off,
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Speaker 1: so hand after hand the friends are playing blackjack, you know,
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Speaker 1: anxiously watching this bell, being completely silent, and then suddenly
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Speaker 1: they hear this sound that makes them all jump. But
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Speaker 1: it wasn't the bell. It was a blood curdling scream
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Speaker 1: coming from upstairs. And for a moment the friends just
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Speaker 1: sat there and shock, and then they got up and
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Speaker 1: began running out of the servants quarters to see what
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Speaker 1: was going on. And as they did, Robert's bell began
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Speaker 1: ringing furiously, so loud it hurt their ears. And so
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Speaker 1: they charge out of the servants quarters and literally bump
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Speaker 1: into Charles, who also is coming to figure out what's
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Speaker 1: going on, and as a group, they begin running up
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Speaker 1: the stairs to the second floor, and all the while
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Speaker 1: the bell is ringing furiously there's screams coming from Robert's bedroom,
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Speaker 1: and by the time they got to the second floor,
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Speaker 1: suddenly everything went silent. The ringing stopped, the screaming stopped.
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Speaker 1: They're in the second floor, in that hallway, and it's
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Speaker 1: just deadly silent, and up ahead of them is that
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Speaker 1: closed door, and so Charles and the group they begin
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Speaker 1: walking down the hall having no idea what to expect,
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Speaker 1: and right as they're about to reach the door, they
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Speaker 1: hear this loud bang sound and then silence again. Seconds later,
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Speaker 1: Robert's friends were at that door, pounding on it, screaming
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Speaker 1: for Robert come open the door, because Robert was the
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Speaker 1: only one with the key. But Robert wasn't making any noise.
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Speaker 1: The room was still totally silent, and so eventually the
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Speaker 1: friends begin kicking on this door to try to break
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Speaker 1: it down, all the while Charles is just kind of
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Speaker 1: standing back in the hallway watching this horrible thing unfold.
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Speaker 1: And then finally the friends managed to literally kick the
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Speaker 1: door in. I mean, it's one hundred year old house.
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Speaker 1: The door gets kicked in, and the friends stumble into
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Speaker 1: the room and they look over towards the bedroom and
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Speaker 1: they all just freeze and shock. When Charles bought this
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Speaker 1: town home ten years earlier, it came with a very
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Speaker 1: dark backstory. The previous owner had apparently kept his violent
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Speaker 1: and psychotic brother locked up inside of this second floor
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Speaker 1: bedroom where Robert was, and after this brother died inside
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Speaker 1: of this room, all these strange and frightening things began
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Speaker 1: happening inside of this room. People began hearing these awful
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Speaker 1: wailing sounds coming out of this room when nobody was
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Speaker 1: in there, and then they'd go into the room and
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Speaker 1: the whaling would stop. But furniture had been moved all
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Speaker 1: around the room, even though again no one had been
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Speaker 1: in there to do that. And then also people began
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Speaker 1: seeing this sort of a morphous gray figure sort of
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Speaker 1: moving around inside of that room, especially at night, kind
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Speaker 1: of slinking up against the wall and across the floor.
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Speaker 1: And even though nobody had any idea what it was,
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Speaker 1: it just felt like it was evil, and so they
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Speaker 1: began calling it the Nameless Thing, and they referred to
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Speaker 1: it as the physical manifestation of evil. However, not everybody
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Speaker 1: believed the story. In fact, one person who absolutely did
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Speaker 1: not believe the story was Robert Warboys. He thought this
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Speaker 1: was just a tall tale. Designed to scare people, and
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Speaker 1: so when his friends dared him to spend one night
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Speaker 1: inside of that bedroom where supposedly the nameless thing lived,
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Speaker 1: he happily accepted because to him, it didn't seem risky
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Speaker 1: at all. You know, spending one night in the haunted
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Speaker 1: room was no big deal because it's not actually haunted.
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Speaker 1: He'd be fine, and anyways, it would make for a
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Speaker 1: great story to tell down at the Gentleman's Club. Unfortunately, though,
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Speaker 1: the night in that bedroom did not go as Robert hoped.
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Speaker 1: When Robert's friends burst through the bedroom door and looked inside,
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Speaker 1: the first thing they noticed was the bell pull. The
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Speaker 1: ribbon from the ceiling had been yanked out of the ceiling,
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Speaker 1: and Robert's pistol was on the ground next to the bed.
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Speaker 1: And then on the other side of the room there
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Speaker 1: was a very obvious bullet hole in the world. And
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Speaker 1: so that was the loud bang sound they heard as
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Speaker 1: they were coming down the hall. It was the pistol
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Speaker 1: going off, and then there was Robert. Robert was laying
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Speaker 1: on the bed and he was totally rigid, and he
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Speaker 1: actually was still clutching the red ribbon from the bell pull.
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Speaker 1: And as they stared at him, they saw his eyes
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Speaker 1: were wide open and bloodshot, and his lips were kind
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Speaker 1: of pulled back in this horrible grimace, with his teeth exposed.
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Speaker 1: And for a second his friends thought Robert must be
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Speaker 1: having a seizure of some kind, that's why he was
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Speaker 1: so tight on the bed like that, and so they
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Speaker 1: ran to him, trying to snap him out of it.
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Speaker 1: But as soon as they touched him, they realized that
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Speaker 1: the reason he was rigid was not because of a seizure,
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Speaker 1: it was because Robert was dead. That night, Charles would
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Speaker 1: call the local corner who would come by and take
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Speaker 1: Robert's body, and also he would open up an official
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Speaker 1: inquest into Robert's death to figure out what had happened
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Speaker 1: to him. And the verdict of this inquest was that
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Speaker 1: Robert had died from massive heart failure caused by unknown circumstances.
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Speaker 1: But to Charles and all of Robert's friends who were
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Speaker 1: there that night and actually saw Robert in the room,
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Speaker 1: it seemed plainly obvious that what had happened here was
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Speaker 1: Robert had come in contact with the so called nameless
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Speaker 1: thing in that room, and it literally scared him to death.
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Speaker 1: In the nearly two hundred years since Robert's death, fifty
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Speaker 1: Berkeley Square has had many different owners, and virtually all
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Speaker 1: of them have reported either seeing, feeling, or hearing some
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Speaker 1: sort of malevolent, ghostly presence inside of that second floor bedroom.
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