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Speaker 1: Today's video is a classic scary story. It's about a
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Speaker 1: group of people in Scotland who go into this infamous
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Speaker 1: cemetery in the middle of the night and they encounter
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Speaker 1: something very bizarre and amazingly, they actually manage to get
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Speaker 1: a photo of it, and so if you stick around
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Speaker 1: till the end of this video you will see that photo.
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Speaker 1: into today's story. Late one night in November of nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety nine, a sixty six year old minister named Colin
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Speaker 1: Grant opened up the iron gates of a cemetery called
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Speaker 1: Greyfriars Kirkyard. The cemetery was one of the oldest and
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Speaker 1: most famous cemeteries in Edinburgh, Scotland. Now, the cemetery was
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Speaker 1: basically pitch black. However, there were a few old iron
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Speaker 1: lanterns that lined the cobblestone path that cut through the cemetery,
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Speaker 1: and so Colin pushed open these big gates and he
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Speaker 1: stepped on to this path and he began walking, and
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Speaker 1: on either side of him, for as far as he
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Speaker 1: could see, were all these headstones, some of which dated
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Speaker 1: back to the sixteen hundreds. And as he kept walking,
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Speaker 1: he could see up ahead, even in the darkness, the
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Speaker 1: huge Gothic style church that sat right in the center
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Speaker 1: of the cemetery. Now, at first glance, this cemetery just
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Speaker 1: kind of looked like a pretty typical old cemetery, albeit
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Speaker 1: a pretty spooky one. But to Colin he knew there
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Speaker 1: was far more than just a graveyard here. Deep underground
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Speaker 1: in the cemetery below where all the people had been
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Speaker 1: buried at their headstones, was basically another cemetery. There was
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Speaker 1: like this mass burial pit that the cemetery had been
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Speaker 1: built on top of, and in this lower level cemetery,
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Speaker 1: which in no way was marked, I mean this is
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Speaker 1: basically a hidden mass burial were thousands of people who
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Speaker 1: had been starved and tortured to death hundreds of years ago.
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Speaker 1: And so Colin stopped for a second on the path
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Speaker 1: and just kind of stared ahead at this church, and
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Speaker 1: for a second he thought about just turning and leaving
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Speaker 1: because he did not want to be here. He was
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Speaker 1: really only here because the city had begged him to
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Speaker 1: come here. Colin, in addition to being a minister, claimed
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Speaker 1: to be a psychic, which meant he could speak to
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Speaker 1: the dead, and so the city, in desperation, had asked
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Speaker 1: him to come to this cemetery tonight and perform an exorcism.
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Speaker 1: And so as much as Colin did just want to
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Speaker 1: turn around and leave, he knew he really had a
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Speaker 1: duty here, not just to the city, but really to
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Speaker 1: the people of the city, because if he didn't do
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Speaker 1: this exorcism, there was a good chance more people were
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Speaker 1: going to get hurt. The only thing that was making
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Speaker 1: Colin a little bit less afraid in this moment was
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Speaker 1: he actually was not alone in the cemetery.
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Speaker 2: There were two people with him.
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Speaker 1: There was a journalist and a photographer from a local
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Speaker 1: newspaper who were basically tagging along to document the sexoricism,
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Speaker 1: and so after taking a minute to compose himself, Colin
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Speaker 1: continued walking deeper into the cemetery with these two following
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Speaker 1: behind him, and then before reaching the big church, Colin
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Speaker 1: left the path and began cutting through the grass, passing
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Speaker 1: by different headstones on the way to perhaps the most
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Speaker 1: infamous building in the entire cemetery, the Black Mausoleum.
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Speaker 2: The Black Mausoleum was this.
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Speaker 1: Tall stone crypt with a rounded top that had been
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Speaker 1: built sometime in the late sixteen hundreds. And as Colin
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Speaker 1: got closer to this pretty creepy looking building that sat
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Speaker 1: basically on the side at the cemetery, Colin began to
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Speaker 1: feel this really intense sense of dread come over him,
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Speaker 1: and the closer he got, that dread began to kind
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Speaker 1: of manifest itself in like a pit in his stomach,
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Speaker 1: and eventually he began feeling really scared of this building.
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Speaker 1: And eventually Colin actually had to fully stop about ten
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Speaker 1: or so feet away from the building because he just
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Speaker 1: felt like he couldn't go any c it felt evil.
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Speaker 1: And then Colin turned and looked at his companions, the
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Speaker 1: journalist and photographer, to see if maybe they were reacting
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Speaker 1: to this mausoleum, But the two of them were just
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Speaker 1: standing there with blank expressions on their face, like obviously
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Speaker 1: not thinking that anything sinister was happening here. You know,
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Speaker 1: even though the city had asked the minister to be
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Speaker 1: here to perform this exorcism in this mausoleum, you know,
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Speaker 1: it didn't mean everybody believed what was going on here,
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Speaker 1: and clearly these two didn't.
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Speaker 2: They were totally skeptical. But this didn't offend Colin.
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Speaker 1: He was used to people not believing in the things
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Speaker 1: he believed in, and he knew as soon as he
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Speaker 1: actually began his work, you know, doing this exorcism, they
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Speaker 1: would change their mind. And so at some point Colin
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Speaker 1: told the photographer that, hey, you know, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: go in the mausoleum now, because I have to do
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Speaker 1: the exorcism. Before I do, take a picture of the mausoleum.
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Speaker 1: And so the photographer just raised her camera and took
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Speaker 1: a picture of the mausoleum. Colin thanked her, and then
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Speaker 1: he turned and began walking towards the building, and when
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Speaker 1: he got right in front of it, he looked up
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Speaker 1: and he read the name across the top of the
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Speaker 1: crypt and it said George McKenzie. And as Colin read that,
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Speaker 1: he could feel his heart rates start to spike. So
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Speaker 1: back in the late sixteen hundreds, George Mackenzie was a
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Speaker 1: Scottish lord who worked for the King of England enforcing
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Speaker 1: the King's religious laws. But at the time these laws
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Speaker 1: were very unpopular, and there was one group called the
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Speaker 1: Covenanters who hated these laws so much that they actually
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Speaker 1: mounted a full scale rebellion in sixteen seventy nine, but
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Speaker 1: their rebellion failed miserably, and this is when George Mackenzie
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Speaker 1: came in. He captured over a thousand Covenanters and he
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Speaker 1: marched them all into this huge field which would later
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Speaker 1: become the Greyfriars Kirkyard Cemetery, but at the time it
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Speaker 1: was just a big open field and he held them
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Speaker 1: there and for weeks he had these people starved and
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Speaker 1: tortured and mutilated. And if anybody tried to run or resist,
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Speaker 1: because they knew they were doomed. I mean, they all
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Speaker 1: knew they were going to die here. If anybody took off,
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Speaker 1: he would capture them, cut their head off and then
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Speaker 1: place their head on a spike around the perimeter of
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Speaker 1: this field, until after several weeks, the entire field is
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Speaker 1: just ringed with decaying bodies and bloody heads on spikes.
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Speaker 1: And so after a few months of this, basically everybody
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Speaker 1: in that field had been murdered in some horrible way
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Speaker 1: by George McKenzie, and their bodies were all dumped into
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Speaker 1: a mass grave in Greyfriar's Kirkyard been covered over, and
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Speaker 1: then you know, hundreds of years later a proper cemetery
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Speaker 1: would be built right on top of that mass grave.
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Speaker 1: And then when George McKenzie died later on, I mean,
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Speaker 1: he lived a normal, happy, full life after doing all
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Speaker 1: these horrible things. They built him this beautiful mausoleum in
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Speaker 1: Greyfriars Kirkyard. And so here's this horrible person, George McKenzie,
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Speaker 1: who's a mass murderer, and he's put to rest in
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Speaker 1: this beautiful mausoleum just you know, feet away from this
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Speaker 1: mass grave of.
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Speaker 2: All these people he killed.
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Speaker 1: For almost three hundred years after mackenzie was buried, Greyfriar's
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Speaker 1: Kirkyard was quiet. It was not considered a haunted place.
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Speaker 1: That all changed though in nineteen ninety eight. So that
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Speaker 1: was one year before Colin showed up to perform the sexoricism.
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Speaker 1: That year, in nineteen ninety eight, a homeless man broke
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Speaker 1: into the Black Mausoleum and he fell through the floor
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Speaker 1: and landed in one of those mass burial pits of
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Speaker 1: those people mackenzie had killed. And apparently basically right after
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Speaker 1: this happened, visitors to the cemetery began reporting the same thing,
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Speaker 1: that any time they were in or near the Black Mausoleum,
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Speaker 1: they'd get pushed or tugged on or scratched or burned
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Speaker 1: or even strangled. I mean, people were coming out of
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Speaker 1: the cemetery terrified, and so quickly people in town began
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Speaker 1: to speculate about what was going on in the cemetery,
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Speaker 1: and quickly a story began to circulate around town that
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Speaker 1: maybe when that guy fell through the floor in the Mausoleum,
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Speaker 1: that that had released George McKenzie's evil spirit, and his
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Speaker 1: spirit was responsible for all these attacks. And so it
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Speaker 1: went on like this for about a year until finally
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Speaker 1: this young woman was found outside of the Black Mausoleum, unconscious,
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Speaker 1: looking like she'd been strangled, and when she came to
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Speaker 1: she had no memory of what happened, and so people
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Speaker 1: assumed this had to be another attack by the spirit
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Speaker 1: of George McKenzie. And so by this point the city
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Speaker 1: it was totally fed up with this. They didn't know
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Speaker 1: what to do, and so they said, you know what,
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Speaker 1: let's just try an exorcism. Let's have someone go into
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Speaker 1: that mausoleum and literally confront the spirit of George McKenzie
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Speaker 1: and banish him, get him out here.
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Speaker 2: And stop this madness.
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Speaker 1: And so ultimately Colin was hired to perform this exorcism.
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Speaker 1: your first month. As Colin stood there, you know, reading
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Speaker 1: the name George McKenzie and mentally preparing himself to go
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Speaker 1: inside at this horrible place, he realized he just couldn't
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Speaker 1: do it.
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Speaker 2: This was too much.
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Speaker 1: And so Colin is just standing there feeling totally stressed out.
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Speaker 1: He's embarrassed, he feels like a coward. He has no
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Speaker 1: idea what he's going to say to the photographer and
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Speaker 1: journalists who've literally come out here to document what he's
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Speaker 1: going to do, and now he's not going to do it.
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Speaker 1: But as Colin turned around to basically blurt out this
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Speaker 1: really embarrassing news that hey, guys, we gotta leave, he
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Speaker 1: realized he actually knew something else he could do that
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Speaker 1: in many ways might actually be better than going into
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Speaker 1: this mausoleum and doing an exorcism. And so, without saying anything,
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Speaker 1: Colin just turned and began speed walking over to this
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Speaker 1: big field that was not too far away from the
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Speaker 1: Black mausoleum. And when he got there, he just began
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Speaker 1: chanting prayers and walking in circles flicking holy water. Didn't
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Speaker 1: explain anything he was doing to the journalist and the
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Speaker 1: photographer who'd followed him over there and are just watching him,
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Speaker 1: like what's going on here? They got no idea. He's
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Speaker 1: not clarifying, and for hours, this is.
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Speaker 2: What he did.
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Speaker 1: He just kind of paced in this field, you know,
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Speaker 1: just kind of doing what looked like stereotypical, you know,
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Speaker 1: exorcism type behavior. And that's what the journalist and the
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Speaker 1: photographer assumed he was doing. And so as Colin did
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Speaker 1: whatever he was doing in this field, the photographer, whose
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Speaker 1: name was Susan Burrell, just began doing her job, you know, again,
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Speaker 1: thinking that he was doing the exorcism, and so she
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Speaker 1: just started taking pictures of him. And then finally around
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Speaker 1: two am, so again this has been hours of Colin
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Speaker 1: doing this thing he's doing. Colin just abruptly stops and
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Speaker 1: walks over to Susan and the journalist.
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Speaker 2: And Colin looks horrible.
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Speaker 1: He's totally haggard, his hair's all disheveled, he's sweating, he's pale,
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Speaker 1: and his head is down, and he says to the
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Speaker 1: two women, I failed. He explained to them that his
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Speaker 1: original intention was to go into the Black Mausoleum and
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Speaker 1: confront George Mackenzie's spirit head on and banish him from
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Speaker 1: the cemetery. However, he had had a change of heart
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Speaker 1: at the door and decided to go this other route,
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Speaker 1: which was to go to this big open field in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the cemetery and attempt to free the
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Speaker 1: spirits of all those covenanters who had been tortured and
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Speaker 1: killed by George mackenzie. Colin's thinking was, you know, if
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Speaker 1: I can free all of these poor tortured souls, that
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Speaker 1: maybe once they're gone, George Mackenzie's spirit will also go away.
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Speaker 1: And while according to Colin, he was able to free
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Speaker 1: you know, two hundred some odd trapped souls, he said
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Speaker 1: there were many more that still needed to be freed
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Speaker 1: and he just didn't have the strength, Like he couldn't
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Speaker 1: do this right now, and so he said, you know,
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Speaker 1: I have to rest and do this at another time now.
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Speaker 1: The journalist and the photographer were totally over this and
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Speaker 1: did not care at all. It's two am. They don't
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Speaker 1: really understand what he was doing. They don't really know
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Speaker 1: if this was the exorcism or if it was something else.
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Speaker 1: But to them they're like, okay, fine, we'll get out
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Speaker 1: of here.
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Speaker 2: It's late. It's not a big deal.
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Speaker 1: And so the three of them they began walking out
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Speaker 1: of the cemetery, and right when they got in front
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Speaker 1: of the church, so basically between where the black mausoleum
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Speaker 1: was and where that field was, where Colin had been
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Speaker 1: the past several hours, Colin abruptly stopped and he told
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Speaker 1: the journalist and the photographer that actually, you know what,
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Speaker 1: he had a little strength left and he felt like
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Speaker 1: it was his duty to try this again because he
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Speaker 1: knew he could free more souls, and so he.
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Speaker 2: Was going to give it another go.
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Speaker 1: And so the journalists and the photographer are like okay,
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Speaker 1: and so Colin, you know, he gets out his Bible
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Speaker 1: and he begins kind of doing the same thing he
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Speaker 1: was doing out in the field, you know, walking around,
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Speaker 1: chanting Bible verses, sprang holy water all around. And then
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Speaker 1: at some point, for reasons he did not explain to
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Speaker 1: either Susan or the journalist, he pulled out twelve candles
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Speaker 1: from his backpack that he had brought along, and he
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Speaker 1: put them in a circle on the ground right in
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Speaker 1: front of this church. It also encompassed this big Celtic
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Speaker 1: cross that was on the ground, and Colin was inside
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Speaker 1: of this circle and he lit all these candles and
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Speaker 1: the whole time again, you know, he's chanting out these
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Speaker 1: Bible verses, and he stands up and right after all
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Speaker 1: the candles have been lit, suddenly Susan and the journalists
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Speaker 1: noticed that the candles begin to flicker, and it's not
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Speaker 1: windy at all inside the cemetery, like they shouldn't be flickering.
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Speaker 1: And at the same time, Colin seemed to sense that
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Speaker 1: something was happening around him, and he turned his whole body,
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Speaker 1: his whole presence, and he looked over at the Black
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Speaker 1: Mausoleum and began chanting these Bible verses louder and louder,
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Speaker 1: like he was aiming them at the Black Mausoleum. And
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Speaker 1: as he was doing this, the candles were flickering more
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Speaker 1: and more and more. And at some point Colin actually
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Speaker 1: picked up one of these candles and kind of held
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Speaker 1: it out at the Black Mausoleum. And so at this
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Speaker 1: point the journalist and the photographer Susan, they're sensing that
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Speaker 1: something weird is happening here, like this is spooky what
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Speaker 1: they're seeing, Like why are the candles flickering? What's going
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Speaker 1: on with Colin? Like what's happening here, and for a minute,
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Speaker 1: the two of them kind of abandoned their actual job,
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Speaker 1: which is to document what they're seeing, and they just
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Speaker 1: stood there kind of witnessing this totally bizarre event. But
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Speaker 1: then Susan sort of broke out of it. She lifted
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Speaker 1: up her camera and right as Colin is passionately chanting
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Speaker 1: out these verses, she takes a picture of him, and
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Speaker 1: the second she does, the flash lights up the cemetery,
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Speaker 1: and then after the flash goes away, Colin it was
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Speaker 1: like the light went out on him and he just
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Speaker 1: crumpled to the ground. And so the journalist immediately ran
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Speaker 1: over to Colin to see if he was okay. And Colin,
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Speaker 1: who's like barely conscious at this point, he just kept repeating,
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Speaker 1: this is going to kill me. This is going to
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Speaker 1: kill me. And so Susan was about to run over
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Speaker 1: and join her colleague and make sure Colin was okay,
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Speaker 1: but before she did, she glanced down at her camera
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Speaker 1: to see the picture she had taken of Colin right
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Speaker 1: before he collapsed, and as she glanced at it, she
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Speaker 1: couldn't believe what she was looking at. At first, she thought,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe this is some trick of the light,
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Speaker 1: like this can't be right. But then she zoomed in
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Speaker 1: on the photo, and when she looked closely, she screamed,
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Speaker 1: here's the photograph that Susan took. As you can see,
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Speaker 1: Colin the minister is standing there with the candle out stretched,
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Speaker 1: and behind him is the big church. And on the
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Speaker 1: church on the left side there are windows. Now, this
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Speaker 1: church was locked up, nobody was inside the church at
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Speaker 1: the time, but you can clearly see in the left
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Speaker 1: window there is a figure in that window looking out
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Speaker 1: at Colin. Now, of course this is not evidence enough.
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Speaker 2: To make everybody believe that.
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Speaker 1: Oh that must be George McKenzie's spirit staring out at Colin.
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Speaker 1: He's the reason Colin collapsed. But I'll tell you this
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Speaker 1: photograph is not the end of the story. Remember, after
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Speaker 1: Colin collapsed to the ground after this photo was taken,
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Speaker 1: the journalist ran over and all Colin kept saying was
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Speaker 1: this is going to kill me, This is gonna kill me.
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Speaker 2: Well it would turn out he'd be right.
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Speaker 1: Not long after this failed exorcism, Colin would die inexplicably.
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Speaker 1: His death would come as a total shock to his
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Speaker 1: friends and family. No one has ever been able to
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Speaker 1: debunk the photo that Susan took that showed that dark
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Speaker 1: figure in the window of the church, meaning nobody knows
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Speaker 1: what that was. The church really was supposed to be
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Speaker 1: empty and locked, and so how is there somebody or
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Speaker 1: something in the window?
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Speaker 2: Nobody knows.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people think that could be the evil
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Speaker 1: spirit of George McKenzie, you know, striking Colin down and
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Speaker 1: Susan managed to capture it on film. But you know,
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Speaker 1: it's up to you if you believe that or not.
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Speaker 1: But I will say to this day, people go into
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Speaker 1: that cemetery and come out with scratch marks on them
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Speaker 1: and you know, claiming they were pushed or pulled or strangled.
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Speaker 1: And so that cemetery is considered to be one of
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Speaker 1: the most haunted places in the world, and George Mackenzie's spirit,
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Speaker 1: who supposedly haunts it, is considered to be one of
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Speaker 1: the most dangerous poultergeist in the world as well. Before
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Speaker 1: I became a professional strange, dark and mysterious storyteller, I
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Speaker 1: served in the military, and during my time in the military,
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Speaker 1: I had some pretty wild experiences. But what I remember
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Speaker 1: most about my time in service was not my own stories,
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Speaker 1: but rather the stories I heard from other service members.
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Speaker 1: Keep in mind, service members are sent to some of
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Speaker 1: the most isolated and treacherous places in the world that
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Speaker 1: very few people go to, and so some of the
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Speaker 1: stories that come out of those places are totally creepy
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Speaker 1: and weird. And even more than that, a lot of
17:51
Speaker 1: these stories sort of stay in house. They stay in
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Speaker 1: the military just because it's kind of a cultural thing.
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Speaker 1: You know, people don't necessarily want to go out and
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Speaker 1: tell the world about the totally unsettling and inexplicable thing
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Speaker 1: they saw while they were deployed. It's like people might
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Speaker 1: think they were crazy.
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Speaker 2: But there's lots of stories like that.
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Speaker 1: reconnaissance marine, which I can tell you is kind of
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Speaker 1: he's been able to extract some of these stories from
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Speaker 1: the military and he.
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Speaker 2: Shares them on the show.
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Speaker 1: And if you wanted to kind of generalize the types
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