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I CAN_T With These HAUNTED Pets · CelinaSpookyBoo

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  Speaker 1: What's up, Boo Crew?
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Haunted Estate, where we discuss the spookiest, weirdest,
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  Speaker 2: and downright creepiest stories from around the world.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Selina Myers, and boy, do I have
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  Speaker 1: a treat for you guys.
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  Speaker 3: What was that when you did this? You were grabbing things?
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  Speaker 1: Grabbing ghost boobs.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, guys. I'm Adam. Welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome, welcome. Now let's get into it. Now picture this.
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  Speaker 2: You're chilling at home, maybe scrolling through TikTok or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: when suddenly your cat starts speaking perfect English.
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  Speaker 4: Nope. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Not just meowing, but full-on Shakespeare-level squillikies.
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  Speaker 1: Squillikies. Soliloquies.
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  Speaker 3: Soliloquies.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: Soliloquies. Soliloquies. Somebody translate that word. I need a thesaurus.
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  Speaker 1: I had to work through it. I need a thesaurus. Freaky, right?
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  Speaker 2: Well, guys, buckle up, buttercup, because today we are diving
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  Speaker 2: into the world of possessed animals and haunted creatures. We're
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  Speaker 2: talking about furry little critters with a supernatural twist. ghostly
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  Speaker 2: beasts that'll make your blood run cold, and some seriously
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  Speaker 2: messed up animal shenanigans that'll have you side-eyeing your pet
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  Speaker 2: hamster for weeks. Now, trust me, after this episode, you
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  Speaker 2: will never look at your goldfish the same way again.
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  Speaker 3: I side-eye the dogs sometimes. Eddie's eyes are haunted.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he's a skinwalker.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we have a dog named Eddie.
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  Speaker 3: Skinwalker.
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  Speaker 1: He's a skinwalking boy. He's not real. That is a fursuit.
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  Speaker 1: It's evil.
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  Speaker 3: He's so Jekyll and Hyde, though. He's so cute and
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  Speaker 3: so loving.
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  Speaker 1: He will look at you- And then in the next second,
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  Speaker 1: be like, you're a demon, go away!
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  Speaker 3: Crazy.
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  Speaker 1: But before we.
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  Speaker 2: Just stay spooky. Man, I love these. We have the joggers,
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  Speaker 2: animal encounters. I honestly read every single one. And who knows,
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  Speaker 2: maybe your story will end up in a future episode.
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  Speaker 2: All right, guys, let's kick things off with a tale
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  Speaker 2: so bizarre, so utterly bonkers, that it makes those my
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  Speaker 2: dog ate my homework excuses look downright believable. I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about none other than Jeff the Talking Mongoose.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you heard that right.
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  Speaker 2: And not only any talking mongoose, but one that claimed
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  Speaker 2: to be an earthbound spirit and from the fifth dimension.
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  Speaker 2: So picture it. It is 1931 and we are in
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  Speaker 2: the Isle of Man. No, not the Isle of Men.
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  Speaker 2: Although it does sound like it could be a fun
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  Speaker 2: vacation spot, ladies. We are talking about a tiny island
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  Speaker 2: smack dab in the middle of the Irish Sea. Now
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  Speaker 2: on this island, there is a remote farmhouse called the
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  Speaker 2: Dorlish Cashin. This farmhouse is the home to the Irving family. James,
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  Speaker 2: the dad, Margaret, the mom, and their 13-year-old daughter, Voirie?
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  Speaker 1: Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: I think so.
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  Speaker 1: I think so.
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  Speaker 2: They are just your average run-of-the-mill farming family living their
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  Speaker 2: best life in the literal middle of nowhere.
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  Speaker 3: Ooh, hook me up with that life.
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  Speaker 1: That is like the perfect start to a horror story, though.
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  Speaker 4: Right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Little did they know their lives were about to take
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  Speaker 2: a turn for the seriously weird. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: one September day, the Irvings began hearing strange noises from
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  Speaker 2: behind their farmhouse walls.
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  Speaker 1: Talking in the walls, real fun.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, malfunction. What's in your walls?
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  Speaker 1: What's in your walls?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing good.
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  Speaker 4: Mold.
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  Speaker 3: Moisture.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I don't know about you, but if I heard
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  Speaker 2: weird scratching and rustling in my walls, I would be
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  Speaker 2: calling an exterminator faster than you can say rat infestation.
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  Speaker 1: But not the Irvings.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: They decided to wait it out.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like a problem that will only grow.
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  Speaker 3: What was that?
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear that? Did you hear banging? I heard
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  Speaker 1: something in the literal walls. Did you hit that?
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  Speaker 3: I heard knocking in the walls. I didn't hear anything.
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  Speaker 1: Becca, replay.
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  Speaker 3: Becca, replay that sound. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like a problem that will only grow.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like a Okay, sounds like a- that's weird.
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  Speaker 2: At first, they heard barking sounds and spitting sounds, like
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  Speaker 2: some kind of wild animal had taken up residence in
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  Speaker 2: their walls, but then things got real freaky real fast.
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  Speaker 2: One day, this little yellow mongoose pops out.
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  Speaker 1: I need to know what a mongoose is.
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  Speaker 3: I had a mongoose BMX bike back in the day.
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  Speaker 3: So did I.
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  Speaker 1: That's such a Canadian thing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's almost like that little... That is
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  Speaker 1: a mongoose!
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? You have a literal mongoose behind you? It's a mongoose!
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  Speaker 3: That's a weasel, that one.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it? But it looks.
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  Speaker 2: They must be from the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like different areas of the world, same thing.
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  Speaker 1: They're like fourth cousins removed.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Fourth cousins removed.
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  Speaker 3: Oh god, shit's about....
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  Speaker 1: Shit's about to get weird.
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  Speaker 2: One day, a little yellow mongoose pops out, looks at
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  Speaker 2: the family, and starts talking.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you heard that right. A talking mongoose. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: know what you're thinking. Selina, come on. A talking mongoose?
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy talk. And you're absolutely right. It is crazy talk.
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  Speaker 2: But that's exactly what the Irving family claimed had happened.
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  Speaker 2: This wasn't just some mongoose squeaking or making animal noises. No,
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  Speaker 2: this furry little dude was allegedly speaking perfect English.
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  Speaker 1: This is not scary. This is exciting now.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I want one of these mongooseses.
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  Speaker 1: I would keep my name Charlie.
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  Speaker 3: Charlie and the mongoose chocolate factory.
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  Speaker 1: And he would bite my finger.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, Charlie.
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  Speaker 2: So what did this linguistic genius of a mongoose have
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  Speaker 2: to say? Well, according to the Irvings, he introduced himself
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  Speaker 2: as a mongoose from India. Apparently he had been hunted
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  Speaker 2: a lot back home and fearing for his life, he
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  Speaker 2: somehow managed to teleport all the way to the Isle
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  Speaker 2: of Man because that is totally a thing that mongooses
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  Speaker 2: can do, right?
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  Speaker 3: Where is this going? We got teleportation. It's telekinesis next.
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  Speaker 1: We got a talking mongoose that teleports.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Cool. All right.
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  Speaker 3: I need some scientific data on this one.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the best part. The family decided to call him Jeff.
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  Speaker 3: With a G. Is that a thing in Europe? Please
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  Speaker 3: let us know, Europeans. My name's Jeff. Jeff with a G.
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  Speaker 1: My name's Jeff. Okay, so Jeff, which is a weird
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  Speaker 1: name for a mongoose, if you ask me. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: who am I to judge?
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  Speaker 2: If a talking mongoose shows up in my house, He
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  Speaker 2: can call himself whatever the fuck he wants. I'd probably
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  Speaker 2: be too busy freaking out to argue about names. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Jeff was not your average house guest. Oh no, this
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  Speaker 2: little fella had a personality bigger than the tiny mongoose
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  Speaker 2: body could contain. He popped in and out of the
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  Speaker 2: walls shouting one-liners and dropping wisdom bombs like he was
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  Speaker 2: some kind of furry fortune cookie.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: Imagine you just like take all your life advice from Jeff.
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  Speaker 4: Like you just base your life around Jeff. Like Jeff today,
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  Speaker 4: what do I have to do today? And Jeff gives
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  Speaker 4: you some quest. He's like, you're going to learn so
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  Speaker 4: much from this quest. Your soul is just going to
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  Speaker 4: achieve so much in this life.
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  Speaker 1: That would be so weird.
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  Speaker 3: You must.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what's crazy? This happened in the thirties.
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  Speaker 2: So like, think of like the telephone game and what
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  Speaker 2: that would be like.
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  Speaker 1: And I'd be like, yeah, you're crazy. And Edith had
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  Speaker 1: a talking mongoose.
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  Speaker 4: So if you were Jeff, what kind of quest, a
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  Speaker 4: simple quick side quest would you give your owner?
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  Speaker 3: Snacks?
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  Speaker 1: What kind of snacks in the 30s? It's a mongoose,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, if you were Jeff, what fortune would you give?
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  Speaker 1: You are the light of most people's lives. In bed.
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  Speaker 3: Did you have to say in bed at the end?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. All right, one of his favorite phrases was, I
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  Speaker 2: am an earthbound spirit, which, let's be real, is a
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  Speaker 2: pretty deep thing for a mongoose to say. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: most of us humans are trying to figure out our
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  Speaker 2: place in the universe, and here's this mongoose casually declaring
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  Speaker 2: his spiritual status like it's no big deal. But wait,
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  Speaker 2: it gets better. Jeff also liked to proclaim, I am
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  Speaker 2: the fifth dimension.
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  Speaker 1: This is getting too deep. Adam would be up this
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  Speaker 1: mongoose's ass.
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  Speaker 3: Dude, this mongoose is hanging out in the fifth dimension.
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  Speaker 3: That means this mongoose can see the past.
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  Speaker 4: And the future i can see all the things see
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  Speaker 4: all the things that's why he has so much wisdom
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  Speaker 4: i love it there's no timeline and like there's no
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  Speaker 4: time in the fifth dimension it just is everything everything
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  Speaker 4: Time is a construct of the Earth moving around the sun.
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  Speaker 1: Every planet and solar.
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  Speaker 3: System has its own concept of time.
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  Speaker 2: Do your friends ever have a conversation and you just
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  Speaker 2: nod along even though you're not really sure what they're
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  Speaker 2: talking about?
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  Speaker 3: Jeff's fucking deep, bro.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I barely understand the third dimension that we live in,
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  Speaker 2: so thank you, Adam, for your explanation there.
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  Speaker 1: I still don't understand the fifth, though. So, yeah. Jeff
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  Speaker 1: wasn't always Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Nice Guy, though.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes he'd get a bit sassy sometimes. swearing up a
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  Speaker 2: storm and throwing things around the house. It's like having
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  Speaker 2: a teenage poltergeist, but in mongoose form.
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  Speaker 1: I see the movie now.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Mongoose. Like poltergeist.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine trying to have a quiet family dinner
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  Speaker 2: and then suddenly a disembodied voice starts cursing from inside
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  Speaker 2: the walls?
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  Speaker 1: Talk about awkward.
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  Speaker 2: But it wasn't all bad. Apparently, Jeff could be helpful
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  Speaker 2: when he wanted to be. He'd hunt rabbits for the
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  Speaker 2: family's dinner, which was pretty considerate for a supernatural entity.
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  Speaker 3: That is so handy in the 1930s.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: The Depression. You just have to find food, right? You're
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  Speaker 3: on an island, too.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to put up with his sass for that meat.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, I mean, when is the last time that your
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  Speaker 2: friendly neighborhood ghost brought you a takeout? And get this,
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  Speaker 2: Jeff even liked to sing. Yeah, you heard that right.
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  Speaker 2: A singing, talking, rabbit hunting mongoose. It's like Disney meets
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  Speaker 2: The Exorcist with a dash of National Geographic thrown in.
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  Speaker 1: For good measure.
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  Speaker 4: So this mongoose is like the one and only all
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  Speaker 4: being of everything.
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  Speaker 1: And he came to us in mongoose form.
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  Speaker 4: He's got your wisdom. He's got your mood swings. He's
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  Speaker 4: got your food delivery service.
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  Speaker 1: I just wish they had phones back then to tape
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  Speaker 1: all this.
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Now, as you can probably guess, news of a talking
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  Speaker 2: mongoose spread faster than gossip at a small town bingo night.
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  Speaker 2: Before long, the Irving's farmhouse was the talk of the
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  Speaker 2: paranormal community. Psychic researchers and tabloid journalists flopped to the
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  Speaker 2: Isle of Man, all hoping to get a glimpse, or
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  Speaker 2: better yet, an interview with the chatty little critter. The
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  Speaker 2: Irving's blessed their hearts, tried their best to provide evidence
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  Speaker 2: of Jeff's existence. They released photos that they claimed were
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  Speaker 2: of the mongoose, although, to be honest, they looked more
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  Speaker 2: like blurry shots of a hairy sausage.
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  Speaker 3: Than a supernatural entity.
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  Speaker 1: But hey, it was the 1930s. What can we expect?
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  Speaker 2: Interestingly enough, it wasn't just the Irvings who claimed to
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  Speaker 2: have heard Jeff speak. Other visitors in the farmhouse reported
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  Speaker 2: hearing strange voices and unexplained noises. Now, whether these people
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  Speaker 2: were experiencing genuine paranormal activity or just really wanted to
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  Speaker 2: be a part of the excitement... is up for debate.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if I traveled all the way to a
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  Speaker 2: remote farm to hear a talking mongoose, you bet I'd
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  Speaker 2: convince myself that every creak and every whisper was a
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  Speaker 2: message from the beyond. But all the investigators who came
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  Speaker 2: to the Dorlish Cashion, none were more famous or more skeptical.
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  Speaker 1: Than the famous Harry Price.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you're not familiar with Harry Price, think of
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  Speaker 2: him as the 1930s versions of those ghost hunters you
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  Speaker 2: see on TV, but with more tweed, and less night
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  Speaker 2: vision goggles. Price was a well-known psychic researcher, and he
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  Speaker 2: had been corresponding with James Irving for quite some time.
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  Speaker 2: James was practically begging Price to come investigate, probably hoping
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  Speaker 2: that with his seal of approval from a big-shot paranormal investigator,
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  Speaker 2: that this would all validate their extraordinary claims. Finally, in 1935,
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  Speaker 2: Price decided to take the plunge and visit the Irving's farm.
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  Speaker 2: But when police arrived at the farm, things did not
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  Speaker 2: go as planned. For starters, Jeff was nowhere to be seen. Apparently,
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  Speaker 2: the mongoose was not in the talking mood, which, to
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  Speaker 2: be honest, is a pretty convenient excuse. Price got the
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  Speaker 2: grand tour of the farmhouse, seeing all of Jeff's unusual haunts,
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  Speaker 2: but despite his best efforts, he never actually saw or
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  Speaker 2: heard the mongoose for himself. Now, I'm not saying Jeff
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  Speaker 2: was camera shy, but for a mongoose who supposedly loved
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  Speaker 2: to chat... He sure clammed up when a professional investigator
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  Speaker 2: came knocking. In his book, Confessions of a Ghost Hunter,
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  Speaker 2: Price wrote about his experiences at the farmhouse, and he
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  Speaker 2: could not determine whether or not the role of the
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  Speaker 2: investigation that we had taken a part in was farce
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  Speaker 2: or tragedy. Which is a fancy way of saying, I
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  Speaker 2: have no clue what the heck is going on here,
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  Speaker 2: but something smells fishy.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, do you think that the mongoose is real?
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: I think that we have some storytellers.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: I want to believe.
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: I want to believe so bad. I'm the skeptic. You're
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: the fantasy guru.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: I think that they did mushrooms.
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Very possible.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: And then they thought that a mongoose was talking. Or
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: they are, like, secluded in the middle of a farm
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: in the middle of nowhere. Did their delusions get to them?
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: Were they alone for too long?
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: Or they're, like, super psychically connected and they're the ones
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: that are in the fifth dimension and they just think
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: it's Jeff.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Maybe they live in a portal.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: I need the cussing, singing, rabbit hunting, mongoose fortune cookie
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: to be real, and I will take nothing less.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Nothing less!
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: All right, let's go on the hunt for a mongoose.
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: Was Jeff a genuine paranormal phenomenon, a hoax that perplexed
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: the family, or maybe just a very vivid shared hallucination
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: brought on by too much goat cheese?
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: If anyone knows what cheese does to you before bedtime,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: it's me, baby.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: First up, we got the it's all real camp. These
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: folks believe that Jeff was exactly what the Irvings claimed.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: A talking mongoose with supernatural abilities. Now, I am all
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: for keeping an open mind, but come on. A mongoose
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: that can not only talk. but also has claims to
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: be in the fifth dimension.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: That's a stretch. But how do they know about the
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: fifth dimension in the 30s? I don't know, man.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: I'm lost and I'm liking it.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: Even for my paranormal loving brain, when we got the
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: skeptics to think that it was all elaborate hoax, some
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: people pointed fingers at Vueri, the 13-year-old daughter. suggesting that
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: she might have been practicing her ventriloquism skills.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: Smart. Ooh, it was a stuffed goose.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Stuffed goose.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: A mongoose.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Just throwing her voice.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Others thought it may have been a family-wide effort to
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: drum up some excitement in their otherwise dull rural life.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: Yep, that's my belief.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: That's where Adam stands.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: That's where Adam's jammed.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: They're probably just super bored, like... And honestly, can you
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: blame them?
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: But here's where it gets interesting. Harry Price, despite his skepticism, couldn't.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Quite figure out the family's motive. In a letter he
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: wrote in 1936, he.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Said, I agree that the whole family must be mixed
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: up and that there still remains the question of motive.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: It certainly is not to draw people to the Cashin's
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Gap because they do their utmost to keep them awake.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: The motive for the imposture lies much deeper than mere publicity.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: And you know what? He's got a point.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: If the Irvings were just looking for attention, why did
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: they make it so darn difficult for people to actually
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: witness Jeff in action? It's like opening a restaurant and
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: then hiding all the food whenever a customer walks in.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: It just doesn't make sense. So, what are we left with?
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: A genuine paranormal phenomenon? Or an elaborate family hoax? Or
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: something in between? Personally, I think the truth probably lies
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: somewhere in the murky middle. Maybe the Irvings experienced some
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: genuinely weird stuff in their farmhouse. Strange noises, unexplained events,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: and some sort of thing. And maybe then perhaps their
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: imagination ran wild. Turning those experiences into the legend of
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Jeff the Talking Mongoose. Or maybe, just maybe, there really
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: was a mongoose with a gift for the gab hanging
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: out in their walls. Hey, stranger things have happened, right?
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Whatever the truth may be, one thing is for sure.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: The story of Jeff the Talking Mongoose has stood the
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: test of time. Nearly a century later and we are
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: still talking about this chatty little critter. And isn't that
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: the real magic of paranormal stories?
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: They stick with us. Make us wonder... and sometimes make us.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Laugh at the sheer absurdity of it all. So the
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: next time you hear a strange noise in your walls,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: who knows? Maybe it's a leaky pipe, or maybe it's
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: a mongoose from the fifth dimension looking to strike up
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: a conversation. Either way, maybe think twice before calling the exterminator.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: You might be evicting the next paranormal superstar.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Okay, Jeff.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, Jeff.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: If you're out there in the fifth dimension still... Please
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: come to me in one of the local chipmunks or raccoons.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Visit me. Visit me. Visit me. Bring your alien friends.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Maybe stay out of the walls.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: You can probe me.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Maybe just show up at the back door once in
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: a while. The screen door.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Now let's shift gears from our chatty mongoose friend to
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: something a little more, shall we say, terrifying. Buckle up, folks,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: because we are about to meet the legend of the
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Black Shuck.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: What?
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: These are the weirdest names. Now let me tell you,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: this ain't no Scooby-Doo mystery.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: This is the kind of story that will have you
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: sleeping with all the lights on for a week. So
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: you're strolling through the English countryside on a foggy night.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: The moon is full, casting an eerie glow over the moors.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Suddenly you hear a low growl. You turn and there,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: emerging from the mist, is a massive black dog with
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: eyes like burning coals. Congratulations. You just met the Black Shuck.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Hope you brought an extra pair of panties. The Black Shuck,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: my friends, is the stuff of literal nightmares. This spectral
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: hound has been terrorizing good people of the East Angela
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: for centuries. And when I say hound, I don't mean
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: some cute little Pomeranian you can stuff in your purse. No,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: we are talking about a beast the size of a
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: small horse. It is like someone took Clifford, the big
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: red dog, painted him black, and gave him a serious
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: attitude problem, and then turned him into a ghost. now
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: you might be thinking selena come on a giant ghost
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: dog that's ridiculous and you know what you're absolutely right
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: and it is absolutely ridiculous but let's go a little
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: bit deeper into the origins of our spooky canine friend
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: shall we the name black shuck super weird is thought
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: to come from the old english word meaning demon Or possibly,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: from the local dialect, the word shucky meaning shaggy or hairy.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: So basically, we are dealing with a shaggy demon dog.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Great, yeah.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Nightmare, nightmare, nightmare.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Nightmare, nightmare, nightmare! Nightmare, nightmare, nightmare!
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: You okay?
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I'm never okay.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: As if regular demons were not bad enough, now we
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: got ones who shed all over your furniture. The description
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: of the black shuck varies depending on whom you ask,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: but there is a few common themes. First off, he's big. Like,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: makes a Great Dane look like a Chihuahua big. And
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: we're talking about anywhere from the size of a calf
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: to a horse. Next up, we got the eyes. Now,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: most accounts describe the Black Shuck as having glowing red eyes.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Some say they're like burning coals. Others say blazing fires.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Either way, it's not the kind of look that you
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: want to see peering at you.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: In the darkness. And let's not forget the fur. Black
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: is nice.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: They say so black that it seems to absorb the
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: light around it. But here's where it gets really freaky.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Some accounts say that the black shuck is headless. So
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: that makes that's weird.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: That's not fun. I like my dogs with a head.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Now, you might be thinking this all sounds pretty scary,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: but surely this is just some old folktale, right?
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Nothing actually to be worried about.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Well, buckle up, because here we're about to take a
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: trip back to 1577 with a little incident that puts
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: our spectral pooch firmly and absolutely terrifying category. It was
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: a dark and stormy night on August 4th, 1577 in Bungay, Suffolk.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: The good people of Bungay. Bungay.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Bungay.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Bungay. It sounds like something you rub on your elbow.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: To stop tendonitis.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: The good people of Bungay, the God-fearing folk they were,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: decided the best course of action was to hole up
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: in a St. Mary's church and pray for deliverance. So
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: there they were, the townsfolk of Bungay, probably singing hymns
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: and trying not to think about how much the stained
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: glass windows rattled with each thunderclap. And then, as if
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: things weren't dramatic enough, a bolt of lightning struck the church.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: In all that instant, the witnesses claimed they saw a
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: massive black dog, and it appeared at the entrance of
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: the church. In the face of this horse-sized hellhound, the
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: townsfolk stood their ground. which in hindsight may not have
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: been the best idea, because what happened next is the
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: stuff of pure nightmare fuel. The black shuck, not content
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: with just making a dramatic entrance, decided to go on
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: a rampage, as an old verse describes it like this.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: All down the church in midst of fire, the hellish
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: monster flew, and passing onward to the choir, he many
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: people slew. The beast reportedly tore through the church, ripping
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: out the throats and generally causing a kind of mayhem
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: that you'd expect from a demonic dog the size of
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: a horse. But wait, there's more. Because the one church
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: apparently was not.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Enough for our canine friend.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: After thoroughly traumatizing the good people of Bungay, the black
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: shuck decided to take his tarot show on the road.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: It vanished from St. Mary's, only to reappear 12 miles
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: away at Holy Trinity Church by Blithenburg.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Blith-burg.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: At Holy Trinity, the black shuck picked up right where
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: it left off, wreaking havoc and scaring the ever-loving shit
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: out of another congregation. You might say that this sounds
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: like something straight out of.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: A horror movie. Surely there's no actual evidence of this happening, right?
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Well, hold on to your sage bundles, ghost hunters, because
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: this is where it gets interesting.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Church records from St. Mary's and Bungay do.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Indeed confirm that there was a terrible storm on that
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: date in 1577.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: And here's the kicker. Two people were found dead in
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the belfry.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: The records don't specify how they died, but I'm going
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: to go out on a limb here and say it
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: probably wasn't from natural causes, unless mauled by a spectral
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: hound counts as natural in the 16th century England.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: At Holy Trinity Church in Plathenburg, you can still see.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: The scorch marks on the door to this day. Legend
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: has it that these are the claw marks left by
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: the black shuck as it fled the church. Whether or
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: not the black shuck actually existed or exists, the impact
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: of this legend on local culture is very real. For centuries,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: people in East Anglia have reported sightings of the spectral hound.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: It's become a part of the local folklore as ingrained
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: in its culture as fish and chips or complaining about
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: the weather. The black shuck has been spotted in graveyards,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: on lonely roads, near bodies of water.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Basically any place creepy enough to give you goosebumps. Now,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: this is funny.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I see so many videos and it's funny because it's
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: black men that post it about white women and how
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: white women will go out and tame any animal to
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: save it.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: And like my gut is like, oh.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: It's always on lonely roads and it's by water and
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: I need to go and I need to save it
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: because I'm a crazy white woman.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Adam, book it.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Basically, you can find it any place that's creepy enough
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: to give you goosebumps. But the Black Shuck isn't always
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: seen as a harbinger of doom. In some stories, it's
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: actually considered to be a protector. There are tales of
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: the Black Shuck accompanying lone travelers on their dark nights,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: keeping them safe from harm. In other stories, the Black
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Shuck is seen as an omen of death. If you
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: see the hound, legend has it that you or someone
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: close to you will die soon. Is the Black Shuck real?
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Is it all a bunch of superstitious nonsense? Or is
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: there something more to the sightings? Well, as with most
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: things in the paranormal world, there is no easy answer.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: But there are plenty of theories. And boy, are they
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: fun to dive into. First up, we got the psychological explanation.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Some experts suggest that sightings of the black shuck might
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: be the result of sleep paralysis. The idea that it's
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: people experiencing sleep paralysis might hallucinate a large dark figure.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: which their mind interprets as a giant black dog. Another
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: theory suggests the black shuck might be a cultural memory
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: of some long-extinct large predator. Maybe there used to be
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: a wolf-like creature roaming East Angela, and over time the
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: stories of these animals got exaggerated and mixed with supernatural elements.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: It's like a game of.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Prehistoric telephone, where Big Wolf somehow became Ghost Dog the
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: size of a horse with flaming eyes. Then there's the
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: idea that the Black Shuck may be tied to ley lines.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: For those of you who.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Don't spend your weekends dowsing ley lines, they are supposed
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: to be invisible lines of energy crossing the Earth. Some
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: folks believe that supernatural entities are drawn to these lines. So,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: maybe the Black Shuck's just a spectral puppy following these
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: cosmic highways. All jokes aside, though, the enduring legend of
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: the Black Shuck tells us something important about human nature
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: and our relationship with the unknown.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: We have been telling.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Stories about mysterious creatures for as long as we have
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: been able to talk. From the monsters and the ancient
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: myths to modern day urban legends, there is something in
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: us that.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Loves a good scare.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's our way of making sense of a world
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: that's often so chaotic and unpredictable. Maybe it's how we
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: process our fears, giving them shape and form so we
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: can face them.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Or maybe we just really like spooky stories.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Whatever the reason, legends like the Black Shuck serve an
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: important purpose in our culture. They connect us to the past,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: the people who walked the same lands hundreds of years
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: ago and saw shadows moving through the mist. They give
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: us a shared experience and common ground. So whether you
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: believe in the Black Shuck or not, whether you think
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: it's a real or supernatural entity, or just a cool
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: story to tell around the campfire, there is no denying
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: its impact on the culture of East Angela and beyond.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: It's a reminder that the world is still full of
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: mystery and that there are still shadows that we don't
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: fully understand. And that sometimes is the best response to
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: the unknown. It's just simply to tell a really good
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: story about it. Now, I want to hear from you guys.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Have you had an encounter with a supernatural animal? Maybe
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: a ghost cat that keeps knocking things off your shelves
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: from the great beyond? Or a spectral fish that does
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: backflips in your toilet bowl? Drop your stories in the
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: comments below. And until next time, Keep your eyes peeled
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: for talking animals, your ears open for ghosts who bark,
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: and save the ghost pets and feed them and find
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: them new homes.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Woof!
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Adam!
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Did you hear that? Get the leash! You have a
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: lot of boyfriends. We need to have a talk. Bye.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: You forgot one.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Aww.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Where is it? You asked. I'm going to pass out.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Bye. Oh, cross-country skiing. Now we're just downhill skiing.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: We're going downhill skiing. I hope not.