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What happened inside this church will SHOCK you - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. On the afternoon of January fifth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen oh nine, a fifty six year old reverend named
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  Speaker 1: John Carmichael kissed his wife and kids goodbye, and then
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  Speaker 1: stepped out of his cottage into the cold and wrapped
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  Speaker 1: his cloak around his black suit, and then he hopped
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  Speaker 1: on his horse and he galloped out onto the road.
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  Speaker 1: Reverend Carmichael lived in a rural part of Michigan, and
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  Speaker 1: on this day he was making his way to another
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  Speaker 1: town about nine miles away called Columbus, where he was
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  Speaker 1: going to host this big religious revival. Basically, he was
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  Speaker 1: going to hold this big sermon and try to get
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  Speaker 1: new people to join his church. And so as the
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  Speaker 1: reverend galloped his way down the road, he saw all
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  Speaker 1: these kids outside having snowball fights and making snowmen, and
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  Speaker 1: it was just really nice. But also in virtue of
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  Speaker 1: being the reverend, basically everybody in town knew him, and
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  Speaker 1: so either the kids wanted to say hi to him
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  Speaker 1: or their parents did. And so, as the reverend is
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  Speaker 1: really just trying to hustle his way to Columbus, he
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  Speaker 1: kept having to stop over and over again to have
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  Speaker 1: small talk and play nice. But after about thirty minutes,
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  Speaker 1: he had reached a point in the journey where all
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  Speaker 1: the houses were kind of behind him, and he had
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  Speaker 1: this kind of nice, quiet stretch where he knew he
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be bothered by anybody. He had made this journey
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  Speaker 1: many times to Columbus and he always looked forward to
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  Speaker 1: this stretch of the road. It was just very peaceful
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  Speaker 1: and gave him a chance to kind of just be
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  Speaker 1: left with his own thoughts and think about his upcoming
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  Speaker 1: sermon and what he wanted to say. And so as
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  Speaker 1: the reverend was having this sort of peaceful time trotting
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  Speaker 1: his way down the snowy road, he heard the sound
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  Speaker 1: of hooves fast approaching him, and so the reverend turned
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  Speaker 1: around and he saw there was this very rough looking
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  Speaker 1: guy wearing this brown stained shirt with a long overcoat over.
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  Speaker 1: And the guy's hair was slipped back and greasy, and
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  Speaker 1: he had this big, weird grin in his face, and
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  Speaker 1: he was waving wildly at the reverend, obviously trying to
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  Speaker 1: flag him down. Now, inside, the Reverend did not want
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  Speaker 1: to talk to this guy because he knew who this
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  Speaker 1: guy was. His name was Gideon Browning, and he lived
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  Speaker 1: in the town where the reverend lived, and he was
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  Speaker 1: known for being kind of erratic and had a horrible
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  Speaker 1: drinking problem. And frankly, you know, the reverend just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be left alone. Here. He was enjoying his ride
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  Speaker 1: and here comes the town drunk. You know, he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want to be around this guy. But also the reverend
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  Speaker 1: understood that he was the reverend in town. People knew
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  Speaker 1: who he was. He couldn't just be a jerk to people.
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  Speaker 1: He had to be kind, and so he smiled at
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  Speaker 1: Gideon and waved to him to be polite, but was
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  Speaker 1: dreading this interaction with Gideon. And in fact, weirdly enough,
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  Speaker 1: the Reverend over the past several weeks, had been running
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  Speaker 1: into Gideon all over town, to the point where it
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  Speaker 1: was becoming weird that he just kept seeing Gideon. And
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  Speaker 1: every time he interacted with Gideon, it was just awful
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  Speaker 1: because Gideon was just totally an unpleasant person. But here
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  Speaker 1: he was once again having to have yet another interaction
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  Speaker 1: with Gideon. And as soon as Gideon came right up
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  Speaker 1: alongside the reverend, his first question was, hey, Reverend, can
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  Speaker 1: I ride with you? And the Reverend again is like,
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  Speaker 1: my goodness, I don't want to do this right now,
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  Speaker 1: but he was like, of course, we can ride together,
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  Speaker 1: and pretty much immediately the Reverend regretted this decision because
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  Speaker 1: Gideon would just not shut up. He just talked the
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  Speaker 1: entire time they were supposed to be in this peaceful
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  Speaker 1: part of the reverend's journey. But not only that, the
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  Speaker 1: questions Gideon was asking Reverend the whole time they were
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  Speaker 1: riding together were sort of invasive. Gideon wanted to know
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  Speaker 1: exactly where the reverend was going and what he was
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  Speaker 1: doing there, and you know how many churches did the
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  Speaker 1: reverend own, and just all these personal questions, and sort
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  Speaker 1: of against his better judgment, the Reverend was being truthful
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  Speaker 1: with Gideon. He told Gideon that he was going to
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  Speaker 1: Columbus to have this big revival, and he also told
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  Speaker 1: Gideon about one of the churches that he owned in
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  Speaker 1: a town called Rattle Run. And as the Reverend was
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  Speaker 1: again kind of giving up this information that he kind
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  Speaker 1: of wished he wasn't. He noticed Gideon began doing something strange.
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  Speaker 1: As Gideon was galloping along, keeping a fixed gaze on
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  Speaker 1: the Reverend, Gideon reached into his pocket and pulled out
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  Speaker 1: a silver coin and began flipping the coin into the
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  Speaker 1: air and catching it and flipping it and catching it
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  Speaker 1: over and over and over again, never affecting his riding.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was like Gideon wasn't even aware he
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  Speaker 1: was flicking this coin, and the Reverend, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: kind of watching Gideon do this, and it was sort
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  Speaker 1: of impressive, like Gideon was just able to flick this
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  Speaker 1: coin over and over and never drop it and just
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  Speaker 1: keep on stride. But more than just being impressed with
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  Speaker 1: Gideon's hand eye coordination, the Reverend began to notice that
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  Speaker 1: he really liked what Gideon was doing with this coin.
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  Speaker 1: It was kind of soothing in a way, not so
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  Speaker 1: much the actual coin flipping in the air, but the
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  Speaker 1: sound it was making. The sound of it spinning in
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  Speaker 1: the air and slapping into his palm over and over
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  Speaker 1: again just kind of put the Reverend at ease, and
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  Speaker 1: he didn't know why. And so after a while, the
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  Speaker 1: Reverend just kind of stopped answering Gideon's questions and just
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  Speaker 1: kind of stared at the coin and listened to that sound,
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  Speaker 1: and he just felt himself, I'll drift into this weird
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  Speaker 1: relaxed state, almost like he fell to sleep. And so
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  Speaker 1: as this weird thing is going on with this coin,
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  Speaker 1: the two men eventually reached this crossroads where there's a
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  Speaker 1: general store, and at this point, Gideon catches his coin,
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  Speaker 1: puts it back in his pocket, and the two men
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  Speaker 1: they come to a stop at this general store. Even
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  Speaker 1: though the Reverend did not want to go to this
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  Speaker 1: general store, he just kind of followed Gideon up to
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  Speaker 1: the hitching post. They both got off their horses, they
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  Speaker 1: tied their horses to the post, and again the Reverend's thinking,
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  Speaker 1: I can't stop here. I got to go to Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: I got to get to this revival. But Gideon just
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  Speaker 1: turns to the Reverend and says, hey, we got to
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  Speaker 1: make a stop here. We need to get something. And
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  Speaker 1: the Reverend found himself saying, okay, what are we going
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  Speaker 1: to get? And the Reverences thinking what am I saying?
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to do this, I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: stop here. I gotta go, but he just stood there,
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  Speaker 1: just waiting for Gideon to tell him what they were
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  Speaker 1: going to buy. And Gideon, who had that big grin
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  Speaker 1: on his face again, he said, well, actually, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to go into the store. You are. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to go in there. You're going to buy me a
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  Speaker 1: new hatchet, and you're going to bring it out here
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  Speaker 1: and give it to me. And now everything about this
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  Speaker 1: was totally weird to the reverend. He did not feel
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  Speaker 1: like this was a normal request, nor did he want
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  Speaker 1: to go in the store. He wanted to leave, but
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  Speaker 1: for some reason he just said okay, and he turned
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  Speaker 1: and shuffled in the store, found a new hatchet, paid
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  Speaker 1: for it with his own money, walked outside, handed it
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  Speaker 1: over to Gideon. And then at this point the reverend
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to get on his horse and get away
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  Speaker 1: from Gideon. But the second the reverend got back in
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  Speaker 1: his horse to do that, Gideon hopped on his horse
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  Speaker 1: and said, hold on a minute, reverend, we're not done yet.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're going to go to your church and rattle
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  Speaker 1: run because I'm getting married soon and I'm thinking about
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  Speaker 1: maybe getting married in your church, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: scope it out and so the reverend at this who
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  Speaker 1: again just wants to go to Columbus. He doesn't want
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  Speaker 1: to be around Gideon at all, but for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: he just said, okay, yeah, we'll go to my church
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  Speaker 1: and Rattle Run. And so at this point, Gideon pulled
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  Speaker 1: out his coin and started flipping it again and again,
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  Speaker 1: and the two men rode side by side in the
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  Speaker 1: direction of Rattle Run, and the whole time the reverence
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  Speaker 1: thinking what am I doing? Why are we doing this?
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  Speaker 1: And also, in addition to just brain fog and confusion,
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  Speaker 1: the reverend also realized that Gideon was clearly lying to
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  Speaker 1: him because he knew Gideon was married, So what's he
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  Speaker 1: talking about needing to scope out his church to see
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  Speaker 1: about potentially getting married there. That didn't make sense, Like
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  Speaker 1: why was Gideon actually wanting to go to his church?
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  Speaker 1: The reverend didn't know, but he was really starting to
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  Speaker 1: feel scared. But again, he just couldn't stop agreeing to
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  Speaker 1: the things Gideon wanted to do, and so the two
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  Speaker 1: men galloped their way to Rattle Run. The whole time
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  Speaker 1: Gideon's flipping that coin and staring at the reverend, and
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  Speaker 1: the Reverend's just totally transfixed on the coin, and then
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  Speaker 1: they get to the church. Gideon puts the coin in
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  Speaker 1: his pocket. The two men hitch their horses to the
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  Speaker 1: post outside. They go up to the front door, the
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  Speaker 1: reverend unlocks it. They go inside, and sort of automatically,
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  Speaker 1: the reverend walked to the back of the church and
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  Speaker 1: he lit the stove, and then as he was walking
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  Speaker 1: back towards the front, where Gideon was still standing right
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  Speaker 1: in front of the doorway, Gideon suddenly told the reverend
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  Speaker 1: to stop where he was. The reverend stopped in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the church and he's just looking at Gideon,
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  Speaker 1: who's got that coin back out and he's flipping it
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  Speaker 1: up and down again. And at this point, the reverend
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  Speaker 1: just looks at Gideon and says, well, do you want
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  Speaker 1: to look around? And Gideon, who's flipping that coin up
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  Speaker 1: and down, just says, no, I don't need to look around.
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  Speaker 1: There is no wedding. Hey, reverend, go ahead and lift
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  Speaker 1: up your left arm. And at this point the reverend
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  Speaker 1: is terrified. He's confused, and his left arm just suddenly
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  Speaker 1: raised up into the air. He had no control over it.
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  Speaker 1: And then a second later, Gideon says, hey, go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and raise your other arm. And so the reverend, who's
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  Speaker 1: still got his left arm out to one side, felt
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  Speaker 1: his right arm come up to the other side. And
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  Speaker 1: so at this point the Reverend's just standing there with
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  Speaker 1: his arms out to the side. And it was at
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  Speaker 1: this point that the reverend understood what was going on.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly Gideon had hypnotized him that could be the only
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  Speaker 1: explanation for what was going on here. But before the
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  Speaker 1: Reverend could say or do anything about how totally weird
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  Speaker 1: the situation was Gideon, who was flipping that coin and
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  Speaker 1: had a big grin in his face the whole time
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  Speaker 1: he was making the reverend raise his arms up. Suddenly
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  Speaker 1: Gideon's face completely changed and he became deadly serious, and
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  Speaker 1: he was staring at the reverend, and then he dropped
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  Speaker 1: the coin to the ground and began moving towards the reverend.
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  Speaker 1: The following day, around noon, the caretaker for Reverend Carmichael's
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  Speaker 1: Rattle Run church made his way to that church to
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  Speaker 1: check in on the building. He knew Reverend Carmichael was
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  Speaker 1: going to be in Columbus for a few days and
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  Speaker 1: so we just wanted to make sure, you know, nothing
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  Speaker 1: was out of the ordinary. And as this caretaker galloped
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  Speaker 1: up to this small, white steepled church. He noticed right
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  Speaker 1: away there was a column of smoke coming up out
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  Speaker 1: of the chimney. Clearly there was a firelight inside of
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  Speaker 1: the church. And the caretaker's thinking, that doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 1: The reverend is not supposed to be here, so who
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  Speaker 1: could possibly be in the church right now? And then
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  Speaker 1: after the caretaker got up to the front door, he
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  Speaker 1: was about to put his key in the lock when
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  Speaker 1: he discovered the door was already unlocked, and so instinctively
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  Speaker 1: he put his hand on his pistol on his hip,
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  Speaker 1: and then he grabbed the handle and he flung the
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  Speaker 1: door open, and when he looked inside the church, he
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  Speaker 1: just froze because the entire interior of the church was
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  Speaker 1: drenched in blood. There was blood on the pews, the walls,
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  Speaker 1: on the altar. And then also amongst all this blood,
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  Speaker 1: the caretaker also noticed there were little pieces of ripped
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  Speaker 1: up fabric all over the place, and he saw one
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  Speaker 1: of them had a unique button sewn into it, a
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  Speaker 1: button he recognized as belonging on Reverend Carmichael's suit. And
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  Speaker 1: so the caretaker is horrified. He's looking around. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: see anybody but he sees there's a drag trail right
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  Speaker 1: down the center aisle, all the way up to the altar,
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  Speaker 1: and it curves around to the right out of view. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the caretaker wanted to turn and run away, but he
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  Speaker 1: was worried that maybe Reverend Carmichael was in here somewhere
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  Speaker 1: and was maybe still alive and he could help him.
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  Speaker 1: And so the caretaker felt like it was his responsibility
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  Speaker 1: to investigate, and so he drew his pistol and he
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  Speaker 1: began walking down this bloody aisle, kind of looking around
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  Speaker 1: for any sign of anybody inside the church, but it
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  Speaker 1: was deadly silent, and he eventually got about halfway down
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  Speaker 1: the aisle when he spotted a silver coin sitting in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the aisle, covered in blood, and he
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  Speaker 1: kept on walking to where the blood trailed turned around
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  Speaker 1: the pew and it led right up to that stove
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  Speaker 1: that was obviously still smoldering, and the door to the
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  Speaker 1: stove was shut, so the caretaker couldn't see what was
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  Speaker 1: inside of it. So the caretaker just walked up to
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  Speaker 1: the stove, and after looking around one more time to
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  Speaker 1: make sure nobody else was in here, he opened up
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  Speaker 1: the stove and inside the stove was a human skull.
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  Speaker 1: News of Reverend Carmichael's horrific murder very quickly spread all
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  Speaker 1: around town and beyond just that town. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: was all over the place, and within twenty four hours
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  Speaker 1: there was this huge police investigation that was launched to
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  Speaker 1: try to figure out who killed him. And very quickly
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  Speaker 1: the police in Rattle Run spoke to the sheriff of
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  Speaker 1: the town where the reverend lived, and they learned that
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  Speaker 1: on the same day that Reverend Carmichael had left to
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  Speaker 1: go to Columbus and then obviously was killed inside of
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  Speaker 1: his church. While on that same day, a man named
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  Speaker 1: Gideon Browning had had this really big blow up public
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  Speaker 1: fight in town same town as Reverend Carmichael with his
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  Speaker 1: brother in law, and this fight was so explosive, lots
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  Speaker 1: of people saw it and heard it, and people said,
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  Speaker 1: after this big fight with his brother in law, Gideon
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  Speaker 1: had hopped in his horse and rode off angrily. And
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  Speaker 1: the kids in that town who were outside that day
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  Speaker 1: have snowball fights and building snowmen. They would say that
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  Speaker 1: they saw Reverend Carmichael traveling down this road because he
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  Speaker 1: talked to all the kids and their parents and not
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  Speaker 1: long after Reverend Carmichael had kind of disappeared down the road,
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  Speaker 1: they also reported seeing Gideon Browning coming down the same road,
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  Speaker 1: heading in the same direction as Reverend Carmichael. And after that,
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  Speaker 1: nobody had seen Gideon since, and so very quickly Gideon
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  Speaker 1: became the number one suspect in this murder. And basically
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  Speaker 1: the thought was, you know, Gideon was so angry from
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  Speaker 1: this fight with his brother in law that he must
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  Speaker 1: have just taken out his anger on the reverend. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: the reverend was in the wrong place at the wrong
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  Speaker 1: time and got killed. Now, the police knew this was
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  Speaker 1: a flimsy theory at best, but Gideon had a reputation
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  Speaker 1: for being totally erratic and a total drunk, and so
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  Speaker 1: it kind of fit with who he was that this
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  Speaker 1: was something maybe he would do. And so within twenty
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  Speaker 1: four hours of the murder there was this huge, multi
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  Speaker 1: state wide manhunt for Gideon. Three days later, and five
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  Speaker 1: hundred miles away from the town of Rattle Run, in
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  Speaker 1: a city in Illinois, a man opened the door to
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  Speaker 1: a boarding house and stepped inside, and the owner of
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  Speaker 1: the boarding house, her name was Miranda Hughes. She was
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  Speaker 1: sitting behind the front desk, and when she looked up
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  Speaker 1: and saw this man, she had to stifle a gasp
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  Speaker 1: because this man looked absolutely horrible. He was wearing this
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  Speaker 1: really dark stained brown shirt with a long overcoat over it,
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  Speaker 1: shivering and skinny and pale, and just looked like he
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  Speaker 1: was about to die basically. But the man just walked
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  Speaker 1: up to her and said his name was John Elder
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  Speaker 1: and he wanted to rent a room. Now, Miranda for
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  Speaker 1: a second thought about refusing this guy's service, just because honestly,
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  Speaker 1: he kind of frightened her. But then again Miranda thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, a lot of my guests are pretty
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  Speaker 1: rough these days, and this guy's got money and he
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  Speaker 1: wants a room, So there you go. I'll give him
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  Speaker 1: a room. So she brought him upstairs to a room
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  Speaker 1: on the second floor. She opened it up. John stepped inside,
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  Speaker 1: and Miranda, as a courtesy, said, hey, do you want
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  Speaker 1: me to make you some food? And John, with not
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  Speaker 1: even turning around, just says no, I'm fasting, and then
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  Speaker 1: he shut the door in her face. For the rest
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: of the weekend, despite what John told Miranda, Miranda would
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: come up to his room and leave food outside of
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: his door At every meal time. It was something she
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: did for her guests, but John never came out to
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: get the food, and for a little while, Miranda was
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: actually kind of concerned about this guy, considering how terrible
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: he looked, and you know, now he's fasting. That didn't
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: seem healthy. But at the same time, Miranda was kind
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: of happy to not have to deal with this guy,
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: and so she basically ignored him. But on the morning
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: of January twelfth, so one week after the murder and
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: three days after John Elder had checked into the spoorting House,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Miranda was walking across the back lawn of the sporting
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: house when she heard what sounded like somebody moaning in
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: pain coming from the outhouse. Now, normally Miranda would never
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: even think of going to the outhouse and seeing if
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: somebody was okay in there, but the sound this person
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: was making sounded so obviously like they were in pain
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: that she just couldn't help herself. And so Miranda ran
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: to the door of this outhouse and she yelled inside, hey,
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: are you okay there? And the only sound she heard
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: coming out was more moaning and whimpering, and so, acting
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: on a gut instinct, Miranda grabbed the door and flung
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: it open, and what she saw made her scream. It
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: was John Elder, and he was sitting on the toilet
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: looking up at her with wide, panicked eyes, and his
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: throat had been slashed from ear to ear. She could
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: basically see deep into his neck. This was a fatal
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: wound and he was bleeding everywhere, and so Miranda stumbled backwards,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: turned around and ran to go find police. By the
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: time the police arrived at the boarding house and went
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: to the outhouse, John Elder was already dead from this
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: horrible wound. And at first the police did not connect
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: the death of John Elder to what had happened in
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Raddle Run, five hundred miles away. They were totally disconnected,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: that is until police searched John Elder and they found
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: in one of his pockets was a bloodstained letter addressed
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: to the sheriff of Rattle Run, And as soon as
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: the police read it, they knew they had something huge
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: on their hands because John Elder was not who he
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: said he was. To understand who John Elder was, and
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: to even begin to understand what happened in Rattle Run,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: we need to go back to January sixth, the day
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: that Reverend Carmichael left his house and began making the
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: journey to Columbus for this big revival. During that journey,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Reverend Carmichael did come in contact with Gideon Browning. Gideon
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Browning came up alongside him. They rode together, you know.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: They went to that general store, and Reverend Carmichael did
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: buy that hatchet for Gideon, and they did go to
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: the Rattle Run Church. But the reason they did all
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: these strange activities together is not because Gideon had hypnotized
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Reverend Carmichael. The actual reason for why they did these
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: things together is even more bizarre. In the weeks leading
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: up to that fateful day January sixth, Reverend Carmichael was
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: running into Gideon Browning all the time, all over town.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: It was like everywhere the reverend went, there was Gideon.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: And then on January sixth, when the Reverend is making
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: his way down the road and he turns and sees
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Gideon Browning coming up alongside him, He's like, oh my goodness,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: it's happening again. But the way the Reverend handled this
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: was not to say, Wow, what a strange coincidence. I
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: keep running into this guy everywhere I go. Instead, the
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Reverend believed that Gideon must have some sort of special
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: power that he's able to know where I am at
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: all times, and he's using that power to try to
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: intimidate me by spying on me. And so on January sixth,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: when Gideon came galloping up alongside of the Reverend, the
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Reverend's already completely paranoid and on edge about Gideon, fearing
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: this guy has magical powers, basically, and then when Gideon
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: pulled out that coin and began flipping it into the air,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: which apparently was just something he did, the Reverend took
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: that as, Oh, my goodness. In addition to having magical
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: powers to always know where I am, Gideon also has
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: the power of hypnosis. And that coin that I can't
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: take my eyes off. That sounds so incredible and it's
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: soothing me. Well, that is hypnotizing me. Gideon is now
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: controlling me and my thoughts and my body. And so
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: at this point the Reverend actually believe he was hypnotized,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: and so he just kind of began going along with
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: anything Gideon wanted. And so it's assumed that Gideon did
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: want to stop at the general store and just kind
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: of said, hey, do you want to stop at the
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: general store, and the Reverend's like, yes, I'll stop at
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: the general store. And then maybe Gideon asked the reverend, Hey,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: do you mind buying me a new hatchet? And the
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Reverend's like, yes, I'll buy you a new hatchet. And
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: he goes in, gets the hatchet, comes back out, and
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: then apparently, you know, Gideon said, hey, I want to
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: go check out your church and rattle run and the
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: reverend was like, okay, let's go check it out. And
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: then when they got to the church, at some point,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the reverend just went to the middle of the church
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: and put his arms out to either side like he
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: was Jesus Christ nailed to the cross, even though you know,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Gideon had not made him do that. This is the
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: reverend like caught up in his own delusion. As he's
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: standing there like this. Gideon, who's flipping the coin, fumbles
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: it and it falls to the ground, and the reverend,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: who believes that coin has full control over what he's doing,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: he thought, oh my gosh, the spell is now broken.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I need to save myself. And so the reverend ran
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and grabbed that hatchet. He forced Gideon to take off
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: all his clothes and then he made Gideon hand the
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: clothes over, and once the reverend had those clothes, he
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: hacked Gideon to pieces and then burned his body in
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: that stove. And then after this horrific murder, the reverend
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: took his own suit and basically ripped it off and
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: shredded it to bits, and then kind of threw it
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: all around the church to make it seem like he
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: had been the one who was killed. And that was
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: his skull inside of the stove. And then he put
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: on all of Gideon Browning's clothes, the brown, dirty shirt
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: and the long coat. And then he traveled five hundred
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: miles to Miranda Hughes's boarding house, where he went inside
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: and booked a room under the pseudonym John Elder. And
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: while the reverend was hiding out inside of this boarding house,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the police in Rattle Run very quickly figured out that
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the body inside of the church, the skull inside of
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the stove, and the remains that were in there, did
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: not belong to Reverend Carmichael. They belonged to Gideon Browning.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: And so immediately it went from you know, Gideon Browning
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: must have done it to no, no, no, Reverend Carmichael
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: is the killer and he killed Gideon. But before they
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: could track the reverend down, Reverend Carmichael aka John Elder
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: had gone into that outhouse and slit his own throat. However,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: when the police searched John Elder's body, so Reverend Carmichael's body,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: they would find that blood stained letter addressed to the
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: sheriff in Rattle Run. And basically it was a confession. Now, granted,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: it was the confession of Reverend Carmichael, who genuinely believed
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Gideon had hypnotized him and had all these special powers,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and he basically was acting in self defense, but nonetheless
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: it was still a confession to murder. Now. Of course,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: there's lots of details in the story that we can't
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: be totally sure of, Like we don't really know what
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: the discussions were like between Reverend Carmichael and Gideon Browning
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: when they met on that road and then eventually made
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: their way to the church and the murder happened. This
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: is basically just the best theory around what happened. Also,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: it's worth noting that there was a history of mental
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: illness in Reverend Carmichael's family, but this story happened at
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: a time when nobody took mental health seriously, and so
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: it's very unlikely that even if I already had known
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: about that, that this crime could have been prevented. Thank
• 22:10
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• 22:12
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• 22:15
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• 22:18
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• 22:27
  Speaker 1: until next time, see ya,