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Eerie Éire - Revealing the Paranormal Legends of Galway, Ireland · PNW Haunts & Homicides

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But we're not here for scenery and songs about pretty girls.
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We're here for some creepy shit.
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If you ruin Ireland for me Cassie, I won't ever forgive you.
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I don't think- There will be nowhere for you to hide.
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Just Galway.
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Not all of Ireland.
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So fun.
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Oh my god.
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No.
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Hi, Caitlyn.
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Hi, Cassie.
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Hi, creepy people.
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Hello.
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If you're new to our creepy corner of the world, this is PNW Haunts and Homicides, where we chat about true crime, the paranormal.
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And anything spooky in the Pacific Northwest, usually, usually.
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We also do a tarot reading at the end of every episode for a little bit of deeper insight into the episode topic.
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So make sure to stick around if you're into that, which you will be by the time we get to it.
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Are you into it?
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Because I'm into it.
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And into it.
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That's my prediction.
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So I know Caitlyn just took us all out of the country to the end of the world.
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But in honor of St. Patrick's Day.
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I thought it would be fun to take a little visit, a little journey to Ireland.
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Yeah.
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A motherland.
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I'm so excited.
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And wouldn't you know it?
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One of Seattle Washington's sister cities since March 12, 1986 is Galway.
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Yeah.
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It's like, yeah.
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According to irishtourism.com, quote, "Galway is the only city in the province of Connacht in Ireland.
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Galway City also has a reputation amongst Irish cities for being associated with the Irish language, music, song, and dancing traditions.
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It is sometimes referred to as the bilingual capital of Ireland.
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Oh, interesting.
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The city's name comes from the Gaillimh River, which means Stony as a Stony River, not Stony Baloney.
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I was literally just about to ask.
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I was like, listen, I was told to wear green.
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So I really went hard.
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I'm lit up in green.
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And then also, I didn't even bring a wine glass.
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I just, I brought my green cup and I know you're not going to be able to read it.
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It says, excuse me.
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I have to go make a scene.
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Perfect.
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Cheers!
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Chas!
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Okay, I'm going to send Caitlyn a link and I want you to open it.
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And just look through the photos of, like, the seasons I was literally in tears.
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This place is so fucking gorgeous.
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Yeah.
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Oh, my God.
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Other than Seattle, I feel as though Ireland is like the one other place outside of Oregon that I'm like supposed to be there.
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Yeah.
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The weather's like very similar to here.
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Yes.
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It's so pretty.
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A lot of Ireland.
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We're going to go.
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It's gorgeous.
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Pod trip.
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Okay.
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Pod trip.
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Expensive.
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Yeah.
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Join our Patreon.
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Yeah, please.
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Also, if the city sounds familiar to you, it might be because of two bangers by the name of Galway Girl.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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The first being released in 2000, but topping the charts eight years later after being on the soundtrack of one of my favorite movies to cry to.
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P.S. I Love You.
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Do you know that one?
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I'm not sure that I'm conjuring like a very clear memory of what this movie is.
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I'm going to all look.
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Hold on.
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It hits a fucking nerve.
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Like the lady's husband dies and he like leaves her at this letter of things to do to like remember.
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That's what I thought.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, my God.
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It just makes me ball
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Even like I rewatched just the scene where he's singing it to her and I just fucking balled my eyes out last night.
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It's fine.
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But on a happier note in 2017, Ed Sheeran "Ed Sheeraned" and came out with a new catchy popped up version.
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Ed Sheeran "Ed Sheeraned".
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He "Ed Sheeraned"
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All over the place.
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But we're not here for scenery and songs about pretty girls.
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We're here for some creepy shit.
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If you ruin Ireland for me, Cassie, I will never forgive you.
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I don't think- There will be nowhere for you to hide. Just Galway, not all of Ireland.
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So far.
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Oh, my God.
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No.
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So all it took was one visit to visitgalway.ie, which is a website.
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To learn that Galway is just as creepy as its Washington sister.
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Well, that makes sense.
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The site has several paranormal stories listed and we're going to go through some of them.
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Great.
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Because there was too many to fit into one episode and I think I'm going to make a Patreon bonus out of the rest.
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Oh, my gosh.
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Yeah.
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That's a lot.
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There was a lot.
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All right.
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So let us start off a little light so we don't torture Caitlyn too much.
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With some fairies.
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Is that okay?
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I feel like you're lying and I was literally about to ask you when do the fairies come in?
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Because fairies are very prominent in the Galway culture.
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I'm giving you understand.
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Around 1846, there was a fairy battle at Knockma Hill, which we tried to look up the pronunciation for it.
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And there wasn't one.
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So we're going with Knockma.
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It's spelled like you would knock on something and then M.A.
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Yeah.
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Knockma.
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Knockma.
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The battle was thought to have been between the fairies of Connacht and those of Ulster.
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And they think it was a rebellion against the fairy king.
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This one had a pronunciation with it.
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Finvarra (Finnbheara).
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Oh.
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It's weird because it has a V in it, but it looks like it's pronounced like a B.
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Oh, I came across that name and I was like, who's this?
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He was the ruler of the Connacht fairies.
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He resided on Knockma Hill.
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Finvarra was apparently generous and wise.
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But he kind of also like to abduct and force women to become his wives.
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As long as they were beautiful, he wasn't really picky, he would take human or fae.
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Okay.
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Great.
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Because so, you know, I'm safe.
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Well, first of all, you better watch out.
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I'm going to hug this whole situation right up.
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Okay.
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Also super gross.
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And I know we all realize that of course every woman's worth is just determined by her looks.
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But yeah, I hate that.
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Yeah.
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So he wasn't that great.
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No.
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Yeah.
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Thank you.
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So Knockma Hill is thought to be a fairy fortress as well as a portal to the otherworld, which is like the fairy realm, I think.
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Oh.
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Yeah.
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I didn't read too much into it, but from what I've heard, that's what it sounds like.
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Okay.
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Where humans feel a presence, kind of like they're being watched, I assume.
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They see strange lights hear music and voices or even run into Finvarra himself.
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So watch out.
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I.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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If you could just point to where that is on the map and I will just play in my trip everywhere, but there.
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But if you do go make sure to hug it up, but whatever you do, do not disturb the fairy cairns and or fairy forts, their circular stone enclosures.
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Or you will more than likely piss off some fairies.
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And that's never a good idea.
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Like ever.
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Don't do that.
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Okay.
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But it could potentially be good luck for you if you respect and honor the fairies while you're there.
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I just feel like it seems too risky and maybe I would just avoid it altogether.
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You know, I'd still do it.
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Of course you would.
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They're fairies.
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Oh my god.
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That's that just really sums us up.
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That's us in a nutshell.
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Yeah.
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Well, should we move on to some cryptids?
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Sure.
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They're not ghosts.
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I mean, yeah, that's true.
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There are several lake monsters just in Galway alone.
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The creature of the black lake was caught by some fisherman in 1962.
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The creature was the size of a cow with stumpy legs, small ears, and a nose on its horn.
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And I said that backwards.
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And a horn on its nose.
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So is it like a rhino/hippo?
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A rhinippo?
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Rhinotamus?
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Hiphopanonymous?
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Okay.
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If anyone gets the Hiphopanonymous joke, hit me up.
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All right.
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Okay.
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Moving on from the Hiphopanonymous.
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The Coole lake creature who has been spotted by locals since 1896 is described to be 15 feet long, fish like with scales and a long neck and a horse like head.
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What?
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I feel like we've heard before.
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Okay.
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The creature at LOUGH AUNA has been spotted since the 1960s and is described almost the same way.
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It was 15 to 18 feet long, kind of an eel-like body with scales and a horse like head again.
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Oh, well.
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What's going on here?
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Are they migrating?
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We don't know.
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I mean, that's some inner species, shenanigans.
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This one, though, has the added details of flippers, large eyes, and large nostrils, which rude.
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Like, don't call someone's nostrils large.
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Yeah.
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Leave the nostrils out of this.
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I feel like a horse like head kind of implies that they have a big nose.
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Okay.
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Don't rub it in.
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I, yeah.
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I feel like at a certain point, like, are you just adding insult to injury?
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Come on.
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For real.
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Yeah.
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I wrote all the better to snort you with my dear.
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Because it said to snort loudly.
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The descriptions are actually very similar to the Irish legend of the Dobhar-chú, meaning
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"water hound" or "hound of the deep," which I kind of like that.
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It sounds like Adele song.
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It does.
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I literally just going to say, like, Adele's puppy or...
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That's funny.
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We were both thinking the same thing.
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Of course.
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So, this is a cross between an otter and a dog, but also sometimes an otter-like creature
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with a horse like head.
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So, kind of varies, I guess, it depends on who you are, how you describe things.
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Okay.
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It's so bizarre.
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These are apparently very aggressive, and they prey on humans and other animals.
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And apparently, a dying Dobhar-chú will whistle loudly to signal its mate to come and get some
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revenge.
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So, like, if it's attacking you, you can't really even try to kill it, because the mate will
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come and get its revenge.
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Watch it.
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But, like, there's more of them.
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Right.
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Okay.
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Thought this was sort of a lone biology mix-up in the wild, and now you're telling me there's
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more.
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Yeah, this is making me think of like all of our water cryptids here.
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Like, they're all kind of described the same way.
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Yeah.
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It's interesting.
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Is it interesting or is it perhaps terrifying?
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Because they're aggressive towards humans.
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It could be both.
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Two things can be true.
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Thrilling.
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When it's interesting and terrifying, it's thrilling.
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Oh, right.
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I like that.
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Next up is the LOATHSOME CREATURE AT LOUGH FADDA.
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This predator has been spotted since the 1950s, described as having smooth skin, a shark-like
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head, and of course, containing a mouthful of sharp teeth.
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I mean, yeah.
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It's got a shark-like head, so, like, wouldn't be complete without the teeth.
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I was prepared to assume, but it has also been described as a long eel-like body and a
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what-kids.
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That's right.
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A horse-like head.
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Oh.
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Yeah, I feel like I should have gotten that one, but I'm really disturbed about the...
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Yeah.
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Something about eels.
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I'm just...
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I can't.
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I love eels.
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They're so cute.
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Okay.
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We...
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I love them.
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For people that are so alike, we are just also so very different.
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But it's interesting, like, a horse-like head is completely different than a shark-like
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head, so which...
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Yeah.
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Please tell me which one.
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Yeah.
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We need answers, dammit.
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Ireland.
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Call us.
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Yeah.
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These do.
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They call it loathsome because they say it's aggressive and dangerous.
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And it could possibly be the manifestation of an ancient curse.
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Dumb it.
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Great.
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Yeah.
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But others believe it to be shy and harmless and possibly a guardian of the lake, so maybe...
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Maybe to the people who are being naughty to the lake, it shows up as a shark and is aggressive.
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I mean, yeah.
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I mean, that could kind of make sense.
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I don't know.
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That does make sense.
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We solved the case.
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Yeah.
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There are several other lake creatures specifically called eels.
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No.
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I'm not into it.
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We have the giant eel of LOUGH GRANEY, the large eel at BALLYNAHINCH Lake, and the horned
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eel at Locke.
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We're going to guess on the pronunciation of this one because we couldn't find it, but
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I will spell it for you.
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Yeah.
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NAHIOON.
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So I'm going to guess NAHIOON.
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NAHIOON.
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NAHIOON.
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NAHIOON.
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I'm so sorry if it's wrong.
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Please, someone from Ireland call me immediately.
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Yeah.
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And this last one, the horned eel, is the only one of them described with two horns on
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its head.
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So not only is it creepy, Caitlyn thinks it's creepy, an eel, but it has horns on its head
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as well.
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I just don't understand why we are allowing these eels to just what they get to pick their
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own accessories.
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Well, some people think it might be due to radiation or pollution.
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Oh, great.
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So then actually that kind of makes us this whole.
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But I mean, how many really knows for sure?
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Next, we're going to talk about one that made me think of a story I talked about recently.
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This is the “bear faced" man at Woodlawn train station.
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And it kind of sounds like the very rudely named "dog face" boy of Ashland, which we don't
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agree with.
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And we renamed him Johnny.
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We're not fans.
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We don't like that.
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No, thank you.
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No, thank you.
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That was the Lithia Park episode.
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So if you haven't listened yet, it's the one where we brought back Shakespeare again.
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And then popularizing Shakespeare since 2024.
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Two people claim to have seen a man with a quote, “Bear like face."
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I don't care for that.
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This is in the late 19th to early 20th century time frame.
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They witnessed him groaning and holding his stomach.
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And when he saw them looking, he apparently said, "Don't speak to me."
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And walked away.
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"Okay, bye."
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So he was just speaking normal, but they were apparently shocked and scared by what they
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saw.
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But my theory is that maybe this man had the same condition as Johnny - Hypertrichosis, where
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you grow hair on other parts of your body, other than your head.
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And this person was clearly in pain for whatever reason.
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And probably didn't want two people staring at him, like, scared, with scared looks on their
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faces, you know?
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Yeah.
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So he just left and said, "Don't talk to me."
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Like, that doesn't seem paranormal to me at all.
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No.
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No, not at all.
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That seems like I'm unwell.
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Please get the fuck out of my face.
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I...
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That could be me on any given day.
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So if you think that's paranormal.
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Right.
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And especially if you're probably used to people looking at you like that, you're probably
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annoyed.
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Yeah, no kidding.
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I just hope you ate, you know, probably ate some bad cheese or milk or something and had
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like a tummy ache.
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I hope it wasn't anything super serious.
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I hope it was okay.
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Yeah.
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Like, take a picture.
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It'll less longer.
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Yeah.
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And I would assume if he had like a full bear head, like if it was actually bear, like,
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a bear shape and like with ears and stuff, like they would have said a full ass bear head.
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Yeah.
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But they said "bear like" and the other one said dog like so it just makes me think.
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But just had a hairy face.
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Yeah.
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Or it's just like a dig at his appearance, you know?
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Yeah.
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It just sad.
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So next we're going to talk about a little SHC.
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Do you know what that stands for?
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I don't know.
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Spontaneous human combustion.
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Oh, god damn it.
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I even warned you this was coming.
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I know, but you misled me.
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I was trying to think of like something Sinéad and Connacht.
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Sinéad?
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Sinéad helps Connacht.
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Yeah.
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Handles?
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Oh, I can't do better.
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Yeah, she does.
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Not Humps.
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Humps.
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Humps.
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Sinéad Humps.
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Connacht.
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No disrespect.
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Love both of you.
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According to the National Library of Medicine, quote, the term spontaneous human combustion
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refers to a situation when a human body is found with significant portions of the
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middle parts of the body reduced to ashes, much less damaged to the head and extremities,
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and minimal damage to the direct surroundings of the body.
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Typically no observable source of ignition is found in the vicinity of the victim, and
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a bad smelling oily substance is noted.
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I hate it.
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I hate it.
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I hate it.
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I wonder what that could be.
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I don't know when they hate it.
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I'll tell you, people were once completely baffled by this, as was I before I read this,
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to be honest with you.
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I was kind of, I kind of missed the mystery of it now, but I'll explain it for you.
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Okay.
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Cool.
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And there were all kinds of theories from paranormal to the Lord shall smite thee.
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Oh, well.
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People literally thought.
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People were being smited.
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You know, the Lord be smitin' in mysterious ways.
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Be smitin'.
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But the website does go on to explain that they've done studies to show how this happens
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and it's not so spontaneous after all.
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There is a fire source, but it happens so precisely igniting body fat in a slow, insulated
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burn.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Quote, the term spontaneous human combustion has nuances, which are not applicable in this
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situation or to these modern times.
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Therefore we suggest a new term, fat wick burns.
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Sir.
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Sir.
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So spontaneous human combustion is now called fat wick burn.
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Okay.
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Well, that is offensive and also no, just no.
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I was really going to try hard to hone in on like a different aspect and make it about like,
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oh, it's not spontaneous anymore.
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So is it perhaps premeditated human combustion?
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And I guess we're going to go a different way.
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So great.
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Cool.
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The situation is sad and unfortunate, but one thing that is a little relieving if there
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is one thing is that it does say for the body fat to start melting and ignite, the victim
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does already have to have been passed.
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So at least they're not burning alive.
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So how they explain it is that an ember or like if you're talking a cigarette or something,
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it'll like fall and it'll burn a hole through the clothes and then it'll start to like burn
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through the skin and then like ignite the fat underneath and then it just kind of starts
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to burn inside the body like insulated almost.
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Oh my God.
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Isn't that great?
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It's it's so crazy still like it's not any less weird.
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Ah.
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Well, in 2010 this actually happened to a 76 year old Galway man named Michael Faherty.
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Although it was officially ruled spontaneous human combustion, obviously with what we know
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now, it most likely was the fat WIC burn.
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No, it's never going to be that.
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I'm never calling it that.
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No, FWB.
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No, no.
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He was found next to a fireplace, but when they investigated they found no evidence of it
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being the cause of Faherty's death.
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But he probably passed away, you know, maybe of natural causes while he was laying there.
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In an ember probably floated down from the fire, again burning a little hole through the
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clothes and then through the skin and then igniting the fat.
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No.
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No.
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Yeah, but it's still crazy that like none of the surroundings catch on fire because like
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the floor below and the ceiling above him were damaged, but then like nothing else.
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So it is kind of weird that it doesn't like keep catching things on fire.
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It's just kind of like smolders and it's own.
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Oh God.
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Yeah.
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I didn't want to finish that.
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I don't want you to either.
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What's nervous laughter everyone nervous.
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I've never liked anything less than this I think.
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Yeah, but it's just one of those things where like the conditions have to be just right,
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which is why it's like super uncommon.
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It's like a Goldilocks phenomenon.
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Like yeah, I guess I really hate that.
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I hate it.
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I hate it so much.
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Yeah.
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There's a couple other theories too, but I think I don't think they've ever like been proven
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or but I didn't dig into those.
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You can research them on your own if you'd like.
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I don't think that I will.
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It's not smiting.
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I'll tell you what it's not.
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It's not smiting.
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Are you sure?
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Because like I said, the Lord be smitin' and in mysterious ways.
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Okay.
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Smite you.
26:07
Smite you over there.
26:10
I want that on a t-shirt.
26:12
I just got a shirt that said Satan loves you for who you are.
26:16
Oh.
26:17
I really like that.
26:19
He won't smite you.
26:20
I just think it's like really rude to say that it's due to smiting because like, oh yeah,
26:26
your loved one died in this horrific way.
26:30
They were probably a terrible person and God prob sauce hated them.
26:34
Yeah, this is God just wanted them dead.
26:37
Like, like, yikes.
26:39
What?
26:40
That's so fucked up.
26:43
Anyway, let's move on.
26:46
Yeah.
26:47
Yeah, let's.
26:48
Okay, know what you're all thinking.
26:51
Where are the goddamn ghosts, woman?
26:53
Uh, no.
26:54
I'm good.
26:55
I'm going to ignore you.
26:56
I'm fine.
26:59
I have some ghosts for you though.
27:01
Who do you want to hear about them?
27:04
Totally.
27:05
Okay, raise your hand if you like pirates.
27:08
Unless you're driving or pouring hot locks then don't.
27:11
Raise your hand.
27:12
Like the “arg".
27:13
Yeah.
27:14
I don't know.
27:16
Like I'm open to it, but I don't know.
27:21
Well, at DUNANORE castle, you might, I love how you say everything will take a question.
27:28
Like, I'm from burgundy.
27:31
I'm trying to pronounce things.
27:33
I'm giving it my all.
27:35
But at this castle, you might just catch a ghost ship anchored off the coast with ghost
27:41
pirates smuggling their booty into the castle ruins.
27:45
Okay.
27:46
This muggle in that booty.
27:49
Yeah, this kind of takes me back to like the prohibition crimes.
27:53
Yeah, it's kind of like that.
27:55
Okay.
27:56
All right.
27:57
I'm with you.
27:58
So that's pretty fun.
27:59
But we're going to keep going.
28:00
Talk about some different places.
28:03
Castle Daly was a popin' place.
28:06
Was it popin'?
28:09
It was popin'.
28:10
It was the daily family.
28:12
They like to host what sounded to me very Gatsby-esque.
28:17
Right.
28:18
Just thinking is it like Gatsby?
28:21
That's what I picture anyway.
28:23
Love it.
28:24
Their last big blowout was an engagement party for their daughter.
28:28
Oh, no.
28:29
There happened to be a pretty bad storm that night.
28:32
So the guest stayed over, which is fine.
28:35
I mean, they had the space.
28:36
Okay.
28:38
But as the "thunder rolled and the lightning striked” and- Garth Brooks appeared.
28:44
Garth Brooks appeared.
28:46
The ghost of Garth.
28:49
Garth.
28:50
The ghost of Garth Brooks appeared and smote them all.
28:58
Listen, Garth Brooks be smitin' in mysterious ways.
29:02
Anyway, the guests were trying to settle in, but they kept hearing commotion downstairs
29:08
as if the party was still going on without them.
29:12
And then they got FOMO.
29:13
Oh my gosh, you're a freaking witch.
29:16
My next line says, but when they went down to cure their FOMO, they walked into a real
29:23
"red wedding" situation.
29:25
No.
29:28
The daily family and all of their houseworkers had been brutally murdered by a quote group
29:36
of rebels.
29:37
Oh, I think there was like a war or something going on at this time.
29:41
I didn't dig into it.
29:42
Okay.
29:43
I was like, God damn, what are they rebelling against?
29:46
I don't know.
29:47
It was too much to dig into that.
29:49
But the article did say the rebels stormed the castle during the storm.
29:55
Oh my god.
29:56
Wow.
29:57
Okay.
29:58
But it is said that the party at the castle still continues from the other side.
30:05
Those dancing to music can be seen.
30:08
Clinking of glasses and laughter and good cheer can be heard.
30:13
But beware, the party sounds might just turn into screams.
30:19
No, no, thank you.
30:23
That would be terrible.
30:25
Yeah.
30:26
That's so far.
30:27
Don't kill people while they're partying.
30:29
It's just not nice.
30:30
It's really rude.
30:32
Also, it's not just like a party.
30:35
I know it's engagement party.
30:37
You know, it's so mean.
30:40
So this is fine.
30:41
I love this episode and everything in it.
30:46
I hate this is fine.
30:48
Well, we can move on.
30:49
We're done with wedding stuff for right now.
30:51
Well, that makes one of us.
30:55
We're going to move on to the knocking girl of RATHPEAK House or RATHPEAK.
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I'm not sure.
31:04
We're having a lot of trouble finding pronunciations for these.
31:08
The mansion was built in the 1800s by a man named Owen Lynch.
31:13
And this man apparently loved him a duel.
31:17
He was like, do you want a duel?
31:19
Do you want a duel?
31:20
Do you want a duel?
31:21
Let's duel right now, right here.
31:23
Literally.
31:24
But it just feels like a lot.
31:27
You know, it was a lot of dueling.
31:30
People even called him "the frightening (I meant to say fighting) squire" or "the terror of Connaught."
31:36
I mean, yeah, it sounds like that was fitting.
31:40
But I challenge you to it.
31:44
How about I challenge you to like, I don't know, like a cheeto eating contest.
31:50
That's really more my speed.
31:54
Depends.
31:55
Are they hot cheetos?
31:56
Because that might be a little challenging.
31:58
You know they're not.
31:59
Okay.
32:00
I'm not talking to.
32:01
I would die.
32:02
Yeah.
32:03
We could have a cheeto duel.
32:04
Let's do it.
32:05
Yeah, just a regular cheeto duel.
32:08
Okay.
32:09
We are the terror of cheetos.
32:12
[laughs]
32:15
Before the house was torn down in the late 20th century, it was haunted by one of the daughters
32:22
or granddaughters of Owen Lynch, of which there were many.
32:28
These people popped out babies like nobody's business.
32:32
Yeah.
32:33
I mean, it's kind of, listen, if you're Irish Catholic, it's like kind of their thing.
32:38
But no one really knows who she is or how she died.
32:43
While the house was occupied by the lynches and their houseworkers, they would witness
32:49
the apparition of a little girl peering out of a top floor window, looking sad.
32:56
No, thank you.
32:58
Just sad, so cruel.
33:01
And I'm out.
33:03
Or she would knock loudly on the walls and doors like she was trying to get attention or
33:07
possibly ask for help.
33:09
Okay.
33:10
Help me.
33:11
No.
33:12
Sad.
33:13
[laughs]
33:15
I was trying to be delicate and get my feet up in this chair quietly and not cause a stir.
33:25
But I made you jump.
33:27
Just me over here with my green cup causing a scene after Cassie harrasses me.
33:34
Sorry.
33:35
We're moving on.
33:37
No more little girls.
33:38
Great.
33:39
We're just going to move on to the phantom of a sad old man.
33:43
Okay.
33:45
This is the sad old man of Maam or Maam. It's M-A-A-M cross.
33:52
Okay.
33:53
So, he will stand in a sharp bend in the middle of an old dirt crossroads on dark and foggy
34:03
nights.
34:04
That's not where you want to be.
34:08
And when cars inevitably hit him, he doesn't move.
34:13
Instead, he just stands there, staring back at you with sorrowful eyes.
34:18
Okay.
34:19
Why is everyone so sad?
34:24
I don't know, but I feel like at that point, I would just be like, all right, well, I have
34:29
to go drive this car into the ocean.
34:32
Goodbye.
34:33
No.
34:34
I can't with that.
34:38
I just, I won't.
34:40
I also, I will not.
34:41
Yeah.
34:42
It's like the white- it's like the white ladies who just like jump out in front of cars or
34:47
appear in front of the cars.
34:48
God, why do old people jump out of front of cars?
34:51
Don't worry.
34:53
I know.
34:54
No.
34:55
Some people think he's sad though because maybe he passed during the great famine of the 1840s.
35:04
I mean, that'll do it.
35:07
Yeah.
35:08
Going some food.
35:09
Yeah.
35:10
Leave him an offering of some Cheetos.
35:14
Cheetos are just like literally anything, but I mean Cheetos are always a-
35:18
It's a strong selection.
35:21
I want to go find this.
35:22
Crossroads and leave him, leave him a little offering of food and see if I can.
35:26
See if it helps.
35:27
I guess people have gone there before to try to get him to cross over, but it doesn't work.
35:31
Oh, that's sad.
35:35
The walking dog ghost.
35:38
A cyclist came across a black dog walking ahead of him in the Ballygar area in 1913.
35:47
As he wrote up on it, the dog disappeared right in front of his eyes.
35:52
Okay.
35:53
And he was so distraught that he reported it to newspaper.
35:57
Oh, all right.
35:59
That seems like a weird thing to write into a newspaper about, but live your life.
36:05
Right?
36:06
Like, hey, I saw this dog and it just disappeared.
36:09
I saw a dog story.
36:10
Go.
36:11
And then I didn't.
36:13
Like what?
36:14
Did you blink?
36:19
And it just ran away.
36:20
Maybe it's real fast.
36:22
Not newsworthy.
36:23
But there have been several other sightings of the dog in the area.
36:30
People report the dog to be large and shaggy with glowing eyes.
36:34
Great.
36:35
Aww.
36:36
He's seemingly harmless.
36:39
Okay.
36:41
He's glowing with love for his owner.
36:45
Possibly.
36:46
Or like glow in the dark, like radioactive or evil type of glowing.
36:53
It just says glowing.
36:54
Doesn't say they're like red.
36:56
So that's good.
36:57
But they do say he's seemingly harmless.
37:01
He might follow people for a while before disappearing.
37:06
And people think he might be the spirit of a loyal pet that was buried in the area.
37:11
But he could also be the black dog of death or the fairy hound.
37:18
Oh no.
37:19
Bring him back, fairies.
37:20
No.
37:21
No, thank you.
37:23
So that's cool too.
37:26
I didn't see anything saying the dog was mean or anything bad happened when people saw
37:30
him.
37:31
Okay.
37:32
I don't know why people think he's like a death dog or a fairy hound.
37:35
I don't know.
37:36
Yeah.
37:37
Why suddenly I don't trust dogs and weddings or engagement parties or for fairies.
37:45
None of it.
37:46
I mean cheetos.
37:47
That makes sense.
37:48
And listen, you'll never break my trust in cheetos.
37:51
That's ridiculous.
37:52
But Garth Brooks, I'd brew into a lot today.
37:56
Ireland.
37:57
Water.
37:58
Just go away.
37:59
Just go away.
38:00
Okay.
38:01
Are you ready for our last story?
38:05
I mean, please.
38:07
It's very on theme and I think it'll make you happy.
38:10
Okay.
38:11
Our last story is about the short men in green of the ARAN Islands.
38:20
This is a group of three islands off the west coast of Ireland.
38:25
And in 1982, a boy spotted two men fishing while he was out walking the shoreline of one
38:31
of the islands.
38:34
They were dressed in green and speaking Irish, but with an accent, the boy didn't recognize.
38:40
So we had me that was a different dialect.
38:45
But the strange thing was the two men were only about a meter tall.
38:51
I don't know how tall a meter is.
38:53
It's like three feet.
38:55
Okay.
38:56
Yeah.
38:57
They were about three feet tall.
38:58
So roughly my height.
39:01
Was it you?
39:06
I mean, I am wearing green.
39:11
Case closed.
39:12
Yeah.
39:13
Solved it.
39:14
But the curious cat, the boy tried to quietly approach, but the men noticed him and they
39:24
vanished right before his eyes.
39:26
There's a lot of disappearing here in these stories.
39:28
Yeah, it seemed to just be popping in and out of his existence.
39:32
Yeah, just I don't know.
39:34
That seems odd.
39:36
Odd.
39:37
Yeah.
39:38
Like put a pin in that.
39:41
Ireland.
39:42
That's Ireland for you.
39:44
But the boy noticed that they dropped something.
39:48
A pipe.
39:50
I wonder what was in this little pipe.
39:53
I was like, I don't know if I would smoke that pipe.
39:57
So of course he took it as proof and stashed it in a drawer.
40:02
But unfortunately his friends and family didn't believe his short tail.
40:07
Get it?
40:08
Cause it's not a tall tail.
40:14
But I'm like, did he show them the pipe?
40:16
I'm not sure if he showed them or if he just kept it to himself.
40:19
I mean, he must.
40:20
Yeah.
40:21
Yeah.
40:22
Unless they're like what?
40:23
Like, yeah.
40:24
Well, they might have taken it though, because it is a pipe.
40:26
And if you try to tell your parents, yeah, they'd be like, we don't smoke reefer in this house.
40:32
If you're telling your friends, you might have shown them the pipe.
40:35
Who knows?
40:36
I don't know.
40:37
Ireland's pretty conservative.
40:39
Maybe his friends would have been like, yeah, smoke reefer in this house.
40:43
I don't know.
40:44
I don't know if I'm smoke weed either.
40:45
Who knows?
40:46
It's probably just tobacco.
40:47
I mean, yeah.
40:50
Well, he tried to go back and see if he could spot the little men in green again, but he never
40:55
did.
40:56
And the stolen pipe also mysteriously banished from the drawer.
41:02
Okay.
41:03
Yeah.
41:04
Now that.
41:05
Okay.
41:06
He searched his house high and low, but was never able to find it again.
41:11
He searched it.
41:12
So I and I and low.
41:18
I didn't even make that joke on purpose.
41:19
Nope.
41:20
I wonder if his parents just found it in through.
41:24
They were like, yeah, no, this isn't.
41:27
Nope.
41:28
Because you have to think it was probably not like a, it was probably a normal size pipe.
41:32
Like people who are three feet tall don't have like teeny, weenie tiny pipes.
41:36
Or do they?
41:37
I don't know.
41:39
Asking for a friend.
41:41
Leprechauns call us and tell us how big your pipe is.
41:45
Leprechauns call Cassie.
41:49
I just need to know about the pipe.
41:51
You guys know.
41:52
Uh huh.
41:54
Gosh, we have some real themes running through the show.
41:57
We do.
41:58
Well, that's all the stories that I could fit into this episode.
42:03
So stay tuned, Patreon for a bonus later at some other point in time.
42:10
Well, I will see you later or I will see you another time.
42:17
Well, you ready to do some tarot?
42:19
I am.
42:20
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42:22
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44:01
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44:41
I feel like what if we do, because this one is like the plant in animal and then I have
44:46
the goddess one, what if we do, and what if we do two oracle readings?
44:52
Because we are allowed to mix it up.
44:56
We can do whatever we want.
44:57
This is our show.
44:58
I don't know if you knew that.
45:00
Being a smart one.
45:03
You both.
45:04
Because then I feel like it's giving us all of the elements.
45:09
I don't know.
45:11
I like it.
45:12
I don't really know that I even understood it but here we are.
45:18
I have really small hands.
45:22
Have we ever talked about that?
45:25
These goddess oracle cards are ginormous.
45:30
They're huge.
45:33
Okay.
45:34
Now, where about in the deck?
45:39
I'm just like, where your thumb was just now?
45:42
Down.
45:43
Yeah.
45:44
Like there?
45:45
That area.
45:46
Yeah.
45:47
Okay.
45:48
You're going to shit.
45:50
You're going to absolutely shit.
45:54
What is it?
45:55
It's a red head and there's a sneak.
45:58
Is it The Morrigan?
46:00
No.
46:01
Dang it.
46:02
How you pronounce this?
46:03
S-I-G-Y-N.
46:06
Sigyn.
46:07
Sigyn.
46:08
Sigyn.
46:09
I like it.
46:12
Cassie.
46:16
She is number 33 and you know how I feel about these synchronicity numbers, especially
46:23
of late.
46:24
Oh my goodness.
46:26
Okay.
46:27
So she is from the Norse pantheon and her keywords are loyalty, support and devotion.
46:38
Goddess Sigyn, the loyal wife of the trickster Loki.
46:43
Loki.
46:44
Loki.
46:45
Loki was so devoted that when the other gods chained her husband in a cave as punishment
46:53
for killing Balder, she would not leave his side.
46:57
Oh my god.
47:00
Ah.
47:01
Okay.
47:02
I really hate snakes, but I'm going to power through.
47:05
Above Loki was a venom-dripping snake, but Sigyn held a bowl to catch it so the venom
47:12
wouldn't touch her husband's head.
47:14
Aww.
47:15
That's so sweet.
47:16
It is sweet.
47:17
This reminds me of those like the monsters who scream when they're being killed and their
47:23
mate comes and like gets revenge.
47:26
And they kind of like the snake that's in here, like you could make an argument.
47:30
That looks kind of like an eel.
47:32
Yeah.
47:33
It's hard to see it.
47:34
You also snake like.
47:35
Yeah.
47:36
You even said that earlier.
47:37
Yeah.
47:38
Yeah.
47:39
Yeah.
47:40
Yeah.
47:41
Supporting loved ones is important in good times and bad.
47:45
It's easy to be there for someone when things are going well, but being present in the
47:49
harder times speaks more of your love, be there for each other at all times equally unless
47:57
it's toxic.
47:58
Oh my god.
48:00
Well that's just making me think of like this goes back to like kind of the wedding theme
48:06
that appears to be just like running through this, you know, like for better or for worse.
48:12
Yeah.
48:13
Or wires.
48:14
Wires.
48:15
Um, and they have these little quotes at the bottom and hers is my love and support are
48:24
powerful.
48:25
Interesting.
48:26
Okay.
48:27
I'm going to fan it out.
48:28
That one.
48:29
That is not helpful at all.
48:38
Right there you that thumb keep going back, back more somewhere around there.
48:44
Oh my god.
48:46
Is it an eel?
48:48
Dude, it's a bear.
48:50
Oh, it's a bear.
48:52
And it's like, I know and it's like just a close up of his face.
48:58
That's very interesting.
49:00
Um, so cool.
49:02
Cool.
49:03
Okay.
49:04
So our Oracle card for the bear are keywords are recharge, inner strength and solitude.
49:14
This card tells us to use your energy wisely.
49:21
Relaxation, solitude and inward exploration allow for deep insights to just state.
49:31
Is one of my least favorite words in any like state.
49:39
Stay true to your vision and stand tall in the face of your fears.
49:46
Stay tall.
49:47
Also, Caitlin scared of everything.
49:49
Mm-hmm.
49:50
Yeah.
49:51
I'm just afraid of everything.
49:52
You know what?
49:53
You remember when that doll said that to you?
49:55
I've been trying to forget ever since, but thank you for reminding me.
50:00
Stand tall.
50:01
Oh, fuck me, right?
50:04
Geez.
50:05
Okay.
50:06
Anyways.
50:07
I have more jokes.
50:10
Okay.
50:13
But trust that now is not the time to act.
50:16
Presently, your energy is better spent envisioning, strategizing and preparing for the future.
50:25
It just really like reminds me of the man who they said had a bear face.
50:30
I want to name him.
50:32
Is there any names on that card?
50:35
Um, Barry?
50:38
We can call him Barry.
50:39
I don't know if that's disrespectful or not.
50:42
We've already had a Barry in the podcast though.
50:44
Oh, yeah.
50:45
We did just have a Barry.
50:46
Um, we could call him Sid, like, Sigyn and he could be Sid.
50:53
I was thinking like Stanley.
50:55
Okay.
50:56
But we're both getting S's.
50:58
Yeah.
50:59
What do you think?
51:00
Sid or Stanley?
51:02
Stan?
51:03
Stan.
51:04
Yeah.
51:05
I mean, it should be shortened up.
51:07
So okay, Sid and Sigyn or Stan and Sigyn, I think Stan, Stan and Sigyn.
51:16
Okay.
51:17
Their names sound better together.
51:18
Okay.
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So on this, um, you know, marriage kick.
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Now Stan and this goddess are getting married.
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They are now.
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I'm shipping them real hard.
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No, I just like it when people's names like sound good together, you know, like Chris and
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Caitlyn.
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I was going to say Caitlyn and Cassie.
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All and uh, I mean, we should get married.
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We're all the C names.
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So it doesn't hurt.
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I was saying that that card just like reminded me of Stan who wanted to just be alone and
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like everyone else leave me alone.
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I'm doing my own thing.
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I'm working on myself here, working through some shit, some trauma, leave me alone.
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Yeah.
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Bitches.
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Don't look at me like you're scared.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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If you can't bear to look at me.
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Oh Stan.
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Oh Stan.
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We wouldn't look at you scared.
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I frankly like men with most of their face full of hair.
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Well, I think, I think we're done.
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I think we covered Ireland.
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I think we did it.
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Yeah.
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Well, we covered Galway.
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We'll probably visit Ireland again.
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Yeah, that would be such a sight to see, you know?
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Tell everyone and anyone, all of the people, that you come into contact with, all about
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Because it really helps us.
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Especially if they're leprechauns.
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Or from Ireland, just in general, just tell all of the leprechauns and all of the Irish people
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So we can pronounce things right.
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Yeah, that would be so helpful.
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Yeah.
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Have a creepy ass St. Patrick's Day!
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In Ireland, in Galway.
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With the leprechauns, I'm going to go have lucky charm ice cream after this.
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What?
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You have a lucky charm ice cream?
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Not yet, but I'm gonna.
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Oh, bitch.
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I want some.
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I know.
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I'll bring some.
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Maybe I can bring some help.
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I think you're gonna bring me some and I'm like, aww.
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You're gonna drive an hour to bring me some ice cream.
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I love you.
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I mean, I would.
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Like if you had a broken leg, but it's very free.
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I don't.
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I don't.
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I just need to make an-
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I just need to make an Irish friend who will just, I can text and they can just send me a voice.
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Hmm.
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Thing of how to say it.
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Yeah.
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Or they get like face time you.
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Yeah.
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Does any Irish people want to be friends with me?
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Woo!
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Welcome, visit you.
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Woo!
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Yeah.
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I will as well.
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Not in a creepy way like Caitlyn is trying to make it seem.
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I am not a creeper.
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I just want to slide off my chair as I listen to you speak.
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Oh my god.
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What is the big deal?
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