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53. Castles and Canines: Tower of London Ghosts and the Black Shuck · Amigos, Afraid!

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  Welcome to Amigos. Afraid this week we're
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  travelling across the pond. I'll be uncovering the Tower of
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  London's strangest hauntings, including two missing Princess,
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  the ghost of Anne Boleyn, and a phantom bear guarding the halls.
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  And I'll be diving into the legend of Black Shark, a
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  mysterious black dog from English folklore said to haunt
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  the countryside and appear before tragedy.
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  Crunch, crunch. We got some snacks, corn
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  tortilla chat. We will try our hardest not to
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  eat while recording. But if you try those Trader
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  Joe's rolled corn tortilla chips, chili and lime, you know
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  what I'm talking about. I don't even like Takis but
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  these are like crack. Genuinely pretty good.
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  How you doing Brian? I'm doing good.
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  You know how last week you were really hitting the nail on the
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  head, driving it in real hard, but how hot it was and how
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  you've been struggling? That's been me dude.
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  Yeah, it's still me. I don't know what.
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  Is causing probably El Nino, the storm that's coming in the next
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  couple weeks. But it's been hot and muggy and
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  not a cute way. Who's kid El Nino?
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  What? Yeah, the Nino.
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  Mucoso. Yeah, Tormenta, then Leon, Nino.
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  Wow, that's. So funny that you say Tormenta.
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  Why? You'll see.
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  Oh, shoot, I'm excited. Welcome back everyone.
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  Hi guys, welcome back to your weekly A a meeting.
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  Not that one. We've gone over this.
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  That's Jerry. And he's Jerry.
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  have a website nowamigosafraid.com.
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  Put it in your search bar on Google and it will tell you that
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  we are a Paranormal weekly podcast hosted by Brian and
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  Jerry. That's crazy.
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  We made it. We made it y'all.
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  That blew my mind. We made it.
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  I don't know. That's the thing, I'm not a.
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  Streamer, there is no chat here. And there's no likes.
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  So go ahead and thank Brian for putting together this website.
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  It looks so freaking good. Thank you.
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  His creative juices were. They're flowing, dude.
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  All over that that website I juiced.
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  All over the website. I had to look up so many YouTube
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  tutorials to figure out how to do it because it is really
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  difficult. And if it changes from one
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  moment to the next, just know that's me on there trying to fix
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  things because there's no spell check.
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  I'd be typing things in wrong. My guys like your coding,
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  putting software, I don't know, putting up a firewall.
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  Dude, I'm embedding stuff. What?
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  I'm like changing aspect ratios. Ooh that's crazy.
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  Every dude well afraid of coding.
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  Afraid of coding such a cool feature y'all?
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  we just haven't got to it, hey, that's a good chance to like
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  us. Yeah, be the first.
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  So cool. Shout out to Brian.
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  Yeah, there's a big button at the top right under our header.
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  It says submit your story. There's a section where you can
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  also read the descriptions of all of the podcast episodes.
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  It is a labor of love and so far there's only like 6 episodes
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  because it takes a long time but I'm working on it.
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  They're so good. It's so convenient for you to
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  just let me read this. Let me get and take a gander at
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  this. Nah.
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  Next. Guess what?
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  The next one, it's gonna have a little description.
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  Google did, aside from us being Googleable, it tells you like
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  the little like AI summary saying, Hey, this is a podcast
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  by so and so it tells you. Do you want me to recommend an
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  episode for you? I don't know if it's hit you.
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  I did not see that. The fact that we have like, as
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  of this episode, we've got 53 episodes.
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  That's like more than 51. Dude, it's more than 52.
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  That's crazy. I can't even count to 53.
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  Wait, what episode was this? This is 53. 53 Gotcha.
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  This is 53. Yeah, that's wild.
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  I appreciate. I appreciate it, man.
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  Thank you. I appreciate you you're giving
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  me content to work on. I was talking to them, not to
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  you. Yeah, sorry.
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  Well. I could be grateful to you.
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  Thank you. I guess, I guess what does that
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  mean? I don't know, I guess check out
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  the website I guess. Follow us on Instagram and
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  TikTok. I guess.
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  I guess. Last week, Jerry's story was so
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  interesting that it led to our most popular Instagram reels so
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  far, like 1500 views. The rest of them are sitting at
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  like 500. I still hate you and my boys to
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  be honest but that's so cool. Thank you so much y'all, you're
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  building my confidence. Yeah.
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  No, it's, it's true. We're, we're getting better and
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  I think we're the more we do it, the less we put on like any kind
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  of show or like adjust our voice in any way.
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  Because the first couple of episodes, why are we talking so
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  deep? So deep and so slow?
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  That's what we knew till we were, then we.
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  Were code switching. We didn't know who was going to
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  listen. We had to play it safe.
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  Yeah, now they know who we are, and now they're all amigos.
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  And you're afraid. Of our voices from the first
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  episodes. Dude, some of those are crunchy
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  anyways. Anyways, do you have a good
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  week? Yeah, I had a great week.
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  So far, so good. Happy Thursday.
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  I forgot what to mention that earlier.
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  Pretty exciting weekend. Just kidding.
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  We did a lot of chores. We did go to the beach.
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  That was fun. I went to the beach.
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  We're. Let's go to the beach.
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  Each No, we can't quote her. Sorry.
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  We don't support Maga Minaj. I'm so sorry.
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  You're right, I thought it was Ke$ha.
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  I blocked her on my Spotify. Straight up thought that was
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  Ke$ha, never mind rude. Ke$ha would never.
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  I apologize, I'm speechless. I don't know what to say
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  anymore. You were at the beach.
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  That's right, I was at the beach.
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  Just a quick little story there. We were there for like maybe
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  over an hour. It was kind of gloomy.
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  We were hoping to see the sunset.
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  Obviously that didn't happen, but not too crazy packed.
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  Found a good little spot while Dulce was swimming and being the
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  Otter that she is, I was sitting down being the non beachgoer
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  that I am and just keeping a watchful eye and it was cool.
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  The water did not reach us the whole time we were there, except
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  the right. When we were packing up to
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  leave, I was picking up the lawn chair, folding it up, of course,
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  struggling to try to put away a lawn chair.
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  And what does this massive wave decide to do?
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  Reach exactly where we're at. It swipes my Crocs, gets a
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  blanket wet, of course, in the sand, gets on everything else.
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  Yeah, it was pretty hectic and a reminder that I don't like the
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  beach. The ocean can never be trusted.
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  Right when you turn your back to it, it strikes.
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  Alexa told me today to never turn your back on the ocean.
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  She's a beach girl and I was telling her cuz when I went to
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  the beach on Friday there was a warning saying.
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  Don't turn your back to the Turzo beach.
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  No, otherwise I would have paid attention to that.
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  There's a whole flag system. There's green flag, yellow flag,
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  red flag. And I'm like, OK, that's good to
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  know. I didn't see no freaking flag
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  anywhere. So I'm like la, la, la, la, la.
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  The waves are kind of crazy. I heard that it's shark week.
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  The sharks are coming up. The water temperatures are
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  rising, and so is the sea level. Wow.
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  And that's just because of global warming.
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  But Yep, there was a portion. There was a moment where Jesse
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  and I were just chilling. I had just taken like a picture
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  of him on my little instant camera.
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  So I was holding that. I was holding my phone.
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  I was walking around our umbrella and a wave comes and
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  just sweeps over our entire little spot.
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  Everything gets wet. Me and Jesse jump up, pick up
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  our blanket, run it like 10 feet back.
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  Everything is soaked. Jesse's like, where's my phone?
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  No. I'm like, oh, it's, it wasn't
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  the blanket. Like when we picked it up, all
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  that stuff went in the middle. Like it has to be in here.
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  So we lift everything up. There's there's no phone.
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  He checks his bag. There's no phone like, Oh no, Oh
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  no. He's kind of start panicking and
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  I'm like, let me check your location just in case I open it
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  up, kind of fearing that his location is going to be in the
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  ocean. But no, it says it's exactly
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  where we're standing. So we're like, what?
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  That's weird. And we're we're looking, don't
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  see anything. And he's like, damn, no, it took
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  my phone. What are we going to do?
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  And I don't know if it's out of the corner of his eye, but he's
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  kind of like scanning the sand. The corner of his phone is
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  sticking up from being buried in the sand.
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  Wow. Yang sit out perfectly fine.
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  Good, didn't get wet. Nope.
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  It probably just fell off when you guys pull the blanket and.
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  With the water like coming back it brings sand with it so it
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  probably buried it a bit but. That's wild.
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  After that, this really really really really really old man
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  white, just to give you a reference in a tiny tiny tiny
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  tiny tiny Speedo comes up to us. Oh yeah, good for him.
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  And he's like, you guys, Latinos, Oh, fuck, yeah.
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  He's like, oh, what team are you guys rooting for for the World
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  Cup? And now, since you're a sports.
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  Guy, I was like all over the World Cup, Mexico, blah, blah,
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  blah, blah, blah. He was like, I don't know if he
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  was trying to pick us up, just trying to be friendly.
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  He was real interested in Jesse's tattoo, so he was
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  looking him up and down. But he was, he was funny.
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  We did have a long conversation about music and going to
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  concerts. Tells us his name is Jerry.
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  So Jerry, you have a wonderful future.
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  Can't wait for that for you. Dang.
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  But he mentioned how it was a yellow day, like a yellow Flag
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  Day. And I'm like, dude, yeah, I saw
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  that sign. I didn't really know what it
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  meant. He's like, well, look at the
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  lifeguard. There's a giant flag up there
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  that's a yellow. My God.
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  Yeah, so then today, Alexa, was like red Flag Day.
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  You're not allowed in the water. It's too dangerous.
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  Yellow flag. You don't turn away from the
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  water because it can. It has a moment of stillness
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  followed by intense moments of craziness.
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  And then green is come on in, we're fine.
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  I did not look for any flags. Was there even a lifeguard?
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  Couldn't tell you. Jerry, you can't swim.
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  You have to make sure there's a lifeguard.
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  There. Well, I'm not in the water.
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  I wouldn't put myself in. That, but your little honey bee.
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  You're the love of your life. Oh, I had ego vision to her.
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  And what are you going to do when she's in the water and
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  there's no lifeguard to? Fight the ocean, I guess.
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  OK, just start swinging. Yeah, I just started swinging on
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  the ocean. And then retrieve my damsel in
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  distress. She just comes to you.
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  We're like, damn, we were standing the whole time.
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  I was just punching the water looking like a crazy person.
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  And she was literally just toes deep in water.
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  Actually, what are you doing? I tried to take you from me.
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  Aside from that, that was my entire weekend.
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  I stayed in Saturday, Sunday, had a massive headache on
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  Saturday and then from just being out in the sun all day the
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  day before. Yeah, yeah, it's been hot.
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  Can't really do much. It's nicer today.
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  Today wasn't super hot. It's still too.
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  Hot. I'm still sweating, my thighs
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  are still sticking together. Oh my God, I'm let's see, my
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  Joanies are sticking out of my little booty shorts.
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  I I'm excited to go see Motionless and White this
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  Friday. Nice tomorrow, because today's
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  Thursday. Your life is going to change.
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  I have been waiting for this moment for a long time.
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  The last time I saw them was 2012.
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  Oh, so you've seen them before? I've seen them before.
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  Nothing new. But I haven't seen them recently
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  because they went on tour twice or two or three times already
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  since 2012. But yeah, COVID and all that
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  stuff obviously took big portion of that away.
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  But I have not seen him, so I'm excited.
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  Matt's going to go shout out. Matt.
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  Thanks, Woo. Shout out Matt.
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  We're going to be head of banging the night away.
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  How romantic. I know, I know.
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  Very very like emo. Romantic.
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  If they play werewolves, record a little clip for me, I love
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  that. Song.
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  I haven't seen it on the set list, but if they happen to play
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  it I will record it. It's because I asked.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You you called Chris?
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  Yeah, yo, Chris Dog, you know that song Werewolf?
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  Yeah, I get it. Cuz you're cuz you're that.
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  Doll, you got that dog and you. I love I love how things just
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  work out. Everything happens for a reason.
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  Everything is connected, nothing is random dog I just.
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  That's a fun word. I had a weird deja vu today
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  where I also said those things of like, wow, everything's
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  connected. I don't remember what it was.
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  And I just happened. To say but I said nothing's a
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  coincidence. No, it is not.
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  Oh, because we met Jerry at the beach right before that we met
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  Tom. Nothing is a coincidence.
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  Nothing is a coincidence. You think that was You think
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  that was random? The two people you met randomly
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  out in the world? No.
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  I was meant to Tom and Jerry. Yeah.
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  The same day, within a couple hours, yeah, that's my life.
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  How's yours? Not as cool as that?
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  Well, friend, what haunted you this week?
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  Well, I still have the books that I have yet to return to my
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  local library. I was haunted by the fact that
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  I'm going to be late at returning my books and I don't
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  never. I don't know how to do that.
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  Fabio, if you're listening, don't yell at me.
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  No. Man alone.
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  Angry e-mail. So I'm still haunted by ghosts.
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  I'm still on a ghost kick. I swear.
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  After this I will take a break next week.
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  I'll come at you with some sort of Cryptid or folklore or
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  something. Just we'll take a little break
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  from Ghosts on my end. OK.
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  But this week I've been haunted by the Tower of London, what I
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  believe to be one of the most haunted places in all of
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  England. Noise.
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  That was Australian. Are we surprised that a building
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  that is over 1000 years old has an insanely tragic history of
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  violence and grief? Sounds to me like it's the
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  perfect recipe for ghosts of Royals, prisoners and even
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  animals to wander the corridors of this majestic fortress.
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  Animals. Animals The Tower of London's
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  history dates back all the way to the year 1071070. 1070,
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  That's more than 1069. Dude, and we've been in the
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  2000s for. Like 2 years. 26 years at least.
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  Wait, no, wait. This is where we find out.
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  I can't do math. 10,000 to 20,000 is 10,000.
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  Is we're gonna OK? We're skipping.
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  We're skipping. Someone do that math for me.
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  Thank you. Wait.
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  Sorry. Sorry.
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  No, no. No, really good.
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  You know, when like two people are like doing like, oh, like
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  working on a math problem and stuff.
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  It's been like something that's come across my feet recently.
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  I'm always that person that's like also trying to do it in
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  their head, but I'm never gonna find the answer.
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  So I'm just like. Waiting.
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  For someone. And then as soon as someone does
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  it, I'm like. I guess that's what I got
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  that's. Exactly what I got, so sorry.
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  I think it's like 930 year. I don't know.
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  I don't know, almost 1000 years or more, maybe or less.
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  William the Conqueror had gathered Masons from neighboring
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  lands to build the strongest building England had ever seen.
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  The locals were gagged when it was finally completed.
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  They had never seen a building of this scale in their lives.
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  Wow, I know. It's like you live in a shack
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  and you leave one day and all of a sudden it's like Disneyland
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  right in front of you. Wow, a 20 foot building, 2
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  stories, Two stories. How does IT support itself?
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  How magic? William wanted the peasants to
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  be so impressed. I don't know if they're
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  peasants. He wanted them to be so
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  impressed that they couldn't even think of rebelling against
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  him. Like Oh my God, this is amazing.
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  Of course we can never rebel. Look, they can make a two-story
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  house. Three stories, 4.
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  That initial building outlived centuries of leadership and
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  purpose. Henry the Third and Edward the
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  First went on to add huge defense walls in the 13th
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  century. They also upgraded them out.
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  Low key. It's giving medieval Property
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  Brothers. Never seen that.
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  Never seen that show. They even made the main building
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  white to give it a fresh modern look.
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  You know, the fresh modern. Look of the 13th.
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  Mid Century 13. It's like dirty dusty.
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  No, it's white and then it gets dirty.
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  That's how they get the 13th century.
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  Look. Yup, there you go.
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  Thank you. For a while royalty would live
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  there on and off since it was heavily protected.
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  I wonder that instead of like a summer home, it was the
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  commoners are mad at us home, let's hide here for the summer.
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  At one point peasants did breakthrough the barriers in
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  1381 and maybe that's why the Royals stopped living there.
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  The Tower of London was also a mint until 1810.
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  There they made all the nation's coins and protected the family
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  jewels. Over the years, the Tower had a
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  little bit of everything. Historic events, lavish
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  ceremonies, mass bloodshed. A zoo.
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  A zoo. A zoo.
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  King Henry the Sixth was murdered there in 1471, two
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  young Princess disappeared in 1483 and Boleyn was executed by
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  sword. In fact, there is 3 executed
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  Queens currently buried there. Respectfully about his bitches
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  only. More than two.
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  During the Tudor period, it was a state prison.
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  During the First World War, German spies were brought there
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  to be killed. That's like a recent history.
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  That's like the last 100. Years and it was still being
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  used for executions. That's a lot of energy, right?
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  Yes, without explaining what I discovered there.
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  What do you think would be seen there?
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  Well. Just based on the the quick
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  little summary I gave you. A lot of damn, you're putting me
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  on the spot. It's like a pop quiz.
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  You're like mine's juggling to try to find.
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  You're always there. Residual hauntings every other
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  episode. Well, I was going to say all the
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  people that died there. Let's just try that again.
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  Oh, Brian, that reminds me of residual haunting.
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  Wow, really. Yes, you think?
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  Yeah, Yeah, I. He dropped his iPad.
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  That's what he gets for trying to be sarcastic and laughing.
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  Guys, I think I'm drunk even. Look at the circumstances of
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  three Queens being buried there. All three of them were killed
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  violently with the entire nation watching.
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  I feel like that just adds even more energy to the whole just
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  chaos that kind of existed within those like 5-6 walls.
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  It's a really weird shape. If these walls could talk, I
• 19:41
  wonder what they'd say. So what spirits are haunting the
• 19:44
  halls of the Tower of London? Allegedly, there's a freaking
• 19:47
  butt ton. First are the ghosts of the
• 19:51
  little Princess. The spirits of these two young
• 19:55
  boys are said to haunt the Bloody Tower, a rectangular
• 19:58
  tower that sits between the inner and outer ward of the
• 20:00
  property. It originally served as the
• 20:03
  Watergate. Before the scandal.
• 20:05
  Wow. But is now mostly known for its
• 20:08
  connection to the disappearance of 12 year old King Edward the
• 20:11
  5th and his younger brother Duke Richard of York.
• 20:14
  According to the book that I pulled this from, Phantom
• 20:16
  Encounters Buy Time Life books, the 12 year old was deemed King
• 20:20
  of England upon the death of his father Edward the 4th in 148312
• 20:25
  year old king. Ain't that wild.
• 20:27
  However, his uncle Richard, Duke of Gloucester.
• 20:31
  I didn't Google how that was pronounced.
• 20:33
  I'm so sorry. He was the brother to King
• 20:35
  Edward, wanted the throne for himself.
• 20:39
  He looked at this 12 year old and said I could take him and
• 20:42
  his brother too. I've seen Game of Thrones I I
• 20:45
  know where this leads. I.
• 20:47
  Wonder where they got inspiration from?
• 20:49
  So the uncle stole the throne, claiming that the two brothers
• 20:51
  were illegitimate heirs. So he went real political on
• 20:54
  them. You supper.
• 20:57
  He confined them to the bloody tower where the boys would
• 20:59
  disappear from history. Legend has it that they were
• 21:03
  murdered in that tower, but no one knew.
• 21:06
  They just fell off the face of the earth.
• 21:08
  No one knew where they ended up. Be your own family.
• 21:11
  And be your own. Uncle, be your own uncle.
• 21:14
  Visitors claim to see the spirits of two young boys in and
• 21:17
  around that tower. They're described to be floating
• 21:19
  around in nightgowns holding hands.
• 21:21
  Aw, that's sad. I know that's they were gone
• 21:26
  together. I wonder if they're trying to
• 21:28
  escape like together and that's why they're kind of.
• 21:30
  Roaming the halls. Scene going around corners and
• 21:32
  stuff. That's so sad.
• 21:35
  Trying to play hide and seek with their freaking uncle.
• 21:38
  No Allegedly the two children skeletons were discovered under
• 21:41
  a staircase in another part of the property.
• 21:44
  The skeletons looked like the bodies had been put into a
• 21:46
  wooden chest and they matched the size of the 12 and 9 year
• 21:49
  old. What's crazy is that they
• 21:51
  initially tossed out the bones, not really thinking much of
• 21:54
  them. They're like, oh just random
• 21:56
  bones I've found under a staircase.
• 21:57
  Yeah, no big deal. They.
• 21:58
  Just throw them out. At some point though, someone's
• 22:00
  light bulb went off and thought, Oh my God, wait, the Princess
• 22:03
  didn't. Didn't 2 Princess like lived
• 22:06
  here and disappeared and no one found them again?
• 22:09
  Yeah like 200 years ago isn't that crazy?
• 22:13
  Wait. They had to go digging in the
• 22:16
  trash to find them. They eventually had a whole
• 22:19
  ceremony to like give them a proper burial, but for a while
• 22:22
  they were in the trash. I wonder if that proper burial
• 22:25
  and that ceremony allowed them to rest.
• 22:29
  Yeah. Or if they're still happening,
• 22:31
  then it was. I don't have dates on when all
• 22:33
  these ghosts were seen because of the book says that they've
• 22:36
  been seen through centuries. When I did some research and
• 22:39
  other articles, exact same thing.
• 22:41
  A lot of these cases are through the years.
• 22:42
  Gotcha. Not necessarily super modern.
• 22:45
  Another popular spirit is that of Anne Boleyn.
• 22:48
  You know who she is. That's a no.
• 22:51
  She was the second wife of King Henry the Eighth and was
• 22:54
  executed after someone. The king most likely spread
• 23:00
  rumors that she was committing adultery.
• 23:03
  That and the fact that she did not give birth to a male heir.
• 23:08
  The T, according to historians, is that allegedly, the king had
• 23:12
  already been looking around for another lady, and once he found
• 23:15
  her, he was quick to dismiss Anne by murder.
• 23:18
  Yeah, which is kind of crazy because divorce was very much a
• 23:22
  thing already. Oh my God.
• 23:24
  And homie had already divorced his first wife to be with Anne
• 23:28
  and said now you got to kill her.
• 23:29
  Typical. By cutting her head off.
• 23:32
  No, he, he had something like he was, he was jealous or
• 23:36
  something, I don't know. He.
• 23:37
  Already had his eyes on another lady and that same lady ended up
• 23:40
  being his next wife he. Was just a piece of shit.
• 23:42
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Miss Anne was a bad bitch until
• 23:45
  death. She requested a French swordsman
• 23:49
  be her executioner because the typical executioners used axes
• 23:53
  and were very very, very, very bad at it.
• 23:57
  Like like very bad at it. Like they would swing and not do
• 24:01
  a clean cut through the neck so they were still alive.
• 24:05
  That's so crazy for a bit. Game of Thrones and.
• 24:07
  They still had to go like chop, chop, chop, she said.
• 24:10
  Nah, I want a professional if we're going to do this.
• 24:12
  Give me the French. And I bet he was sexy.
• 24:14
  She was killed in the grassy field in the front of the jewel
• 24:17
  house. That's where they held the
• 24:18
  family jewels. There's a huge monument out in
• 24:22
  that field, but allegedly people on Reddit say that's not exactly
• 24:26
  where it happened. Oh, OK, OK.
• 24:28
  They have this whole like monument in the center of a
• 24:30
  little like grassy field. People are like, no, no, she
• 24:32
  died like right in front of the house.
• 24:34
  This is not the location. Her story, her like ghost
• 24:39
  stories are a little scary. Her spirit is seen with and
• 24:42
  without her head in the tower of Chapel of Saint Peter and
• 24:46
  Vinkula, leading an entire horde of ghost back and forth through
• 24:51
  the Chapel. Just mobbing it with a bunch of
• 24:54
  spirits. In the freaking church.
• 24:57
  That's Oh my God, imagine, imagine just you know what, like
• 25:01
  I can't sleep. Let me go to the let me go to
• 25:02
  the church real quick. Let me repent real.
• 25:04
  Quick, let me repent real quick. You know, I think I'll, I'll,
• 25:06
  I'll have a better night's sleep.
• 25:07
  There's just a whole group of ghosts here.
• 25:10
  That lady's holding her head. I'm.
• 25:13
  Gonna go back to sleep. Literally, how do you continue
• 25:16
  with life if you walk into a church and see it filled with
• 25:18
  ghosts? Yeah, it's it's just, yeah.
• 25:23
  What? What can you do?
• 25:24
  My life is different now. I've seen things.
• 25:26
  Yeah, it's never see church the same again.
• 25:30
  Lastly, and most excitingly, Jerry, you're going to love this
• 25:34
  one. It is the ghost of a bear
• 25:38
  haunting Marten Tower. Have you ever heard of a ghost?
• 25:41
  Bear. No, Only Cocaine Bear.
• 25:44
  That's literally what I was telling Alexa.
• 25:45
  Wow. So you ever heard of Cocaine
• 25:47
  Bear? She's like, yeah, I saw the
• 25:48
  movie. You ever heard of Ghost Bear?
• 25:50
  Wow. So King Henry the First had a
• 25:54
  zoo. They kept a large variety of
• 25:57
  animals in the towers throughout its history.
• 25:59
  Sometimes it was monkeys, sometimes it was tigers or
• 26:02
  lions, once it was a flying squirrel, and sometimes it was
• 26:07
  bears. Nice.
• 26:08
  I also read that at one point there was an elephant, but I
• 26:11
  don't understand how they could get an elephant inside.
• 26:14
  Inside the zoo. OK, when I say zoo, it's like
• 26:17
  they kept these animals from my understanding in rooms of the
• 26:20
  tower. Oh Dang.
• 26:23
  Yes. Like the lion would have a
• 26:25
  bedroom probably a little bigger than like my living room or
• 26:28
  something in the towers. If you're British and you know
• 26:32
  that's wrong, correct us. But that's what I understood.
• 26:34
  OK. The zoo cycled through animals
• 26:37
  until 1835 when a lion ended up mauling a soldier.
• 26:42
  I'm genuinely surprised that a soldiers death was deemed tragic
• 26:45
  enough for them to get rid of it.
• 26:47
  You'd think it was like some sort of like Lord or lady or
• 26:50
  something, but now I guess they really valued their soldiers.
• 26:53
  They were like, what? That's that was that was Jason.
• 26:56
  God no, not Jason. He was so funny, damn.
• 27:00
  Who's going to? Who's going to run Comedy night
• 27:02
  now? Dude, we're going to have to.
• 27:03
  We have to get rid of the zoo. Or just a lion Now I got rid of
• 27:08
  the whole zoo, no? Anyways, a polar bear had been
• 27:14
  gifted to King Henry the Third in 1251 by the King of Norway.
• 27:19
  The king a little ungrateful. Allegedly he was not super happy
• 27:23
  with it. He would have preferred a pair
• 27:25
  of socks. Guess socks are hard to come by.
• 27:28
  I'd. Imagine.
• 27:30
  He also already had a grizzly bear named Martin.
• 27:34
  So like the novelty was kind of like worn off.
• 27:36
  What's the movie called? That's Baddington.
• 27:38
  Just kidding, Mawton. Allegedly, both bears were
• 27:43
  treated pretty badly. Aw.
• 27:45
  Man, I mean expected. So sad.
• 27:49
  On a very strange night at 1816, a guard was making his usual
• 27:54
  rounds when he stumbled across a massive grey bear blocking the
• 27:58
  jewel room door. The soldier George Offer did
• 28:02
  what any normal guard would do. Protect the jewels.
• 28:05
  Duh. Because the.
• 28:06
  Bear's going to steal them. Yep.
• 28:08
  Or eat them, I don't know. I don't know what what goes on
• 28:11
  with the grey bear? I've never seen a grey bear.
• 28:13
  He aimed at it with his bayonet, lining up the blade.
• 28:18
  He braced himself and tried to stab the bear, but the blade
• 28:22
  went straight through. That's what I figured when you
• 28:24
  say grey bear. It hit the wall behind him and
• 28:26
  got lodged in the door. The bear vanished and George
• 28:32
  probably pissed himself before collapsing.
• 28:35
  A doctor was called in when George was found on the floor in
• 28:37
  a fit, mumbling to himself. There was no signs of him being
• 28:41
  intoxicated and was seen in good spirits right before the
• 28:44
  incident. No bear was ever found.
• 28:47
  That incident alone was enough to kill George.
• 28:51
  Allegedly. He grew super weak following the
• 28:53
  incident, constantly repeating the story over and over.
• 28:57
  He died not long after with no clear explanation.
• 29:00
  Maybe he died of fright. Wow.
• 29:04
  That's just three of the many, many, many ghosts believed to be
• 29:09
  haunting the Tower of London. From Princess to Queens to Bears
• 29:12
  in between. I feel confident in saying the
• 29:15
  Tower of London might be the most haunted place in all of
• 29:18
  England. Which of these ghosts would you
• 29:20
  be the most scared to run into? I mean, I would say the ghost
• 29:24
  bear just because it's so big. I mean, if it's a grizzly or
• 29:28
  whichever one of the bears, I mean, still grizzly or a polar
• 29:31
  bear, massive bears. A bear inside of a building.
• 29:34
  Yeah, scary yeah, cuz I mean yes, it's one thing seeing a
• 29:37
  human, but like to the human eye, sometimes you mistake
• 29:39
  spirits goes for like an actual person totally valid.
• 29:43
  And your brain just like clocks it for what it is.
• 29:46
  But a bear that doesn't make sense and then just like
• 29:48
  standing somewhere where it's like what?
• 29:50
  And then no, that's. I think that's the most scary
• 29:53
  because you can easily convince yourself that your mind is
• 29:56
  playing tricks on you on making you see a person.
• 29:58
  Exactly, Exactly because. Your mind is always trying to
• 30:00
  connect patterns. I think the most immediate
• 30:02
  pattern of seeing something is the shape of a human like you.
• 30:06
  You convince yourself, Oh my God, that was the shadow of a
• 30:08
  person or something. You never think, Oh my God, is
• 30:11
  that a bear? Yeah, yeah.
• 30:13
  The the laundry, the The Dirty laundry in the chair, like, oh,
• 30:16
  that's like a person sitting down.
• 30:18
  Yeah, with their arm dangling off the freaking doorknob.
• 30:20
  Yeah. You don't think, Bear?
• 30:22
  Oh, that's so crazy. I would also be traumatized by
• 30:26
  Anne Boleyn walking around holding her freaking head.
• 30:28
  There's that too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's that
• 30:29
  too. Or I mean, like, hey, like past
• 30:31
  the rock. And it's like, you think it's a
• 30:34
  ball, throw me the ball, throw me the ball like.
• 30:36
  Throw me that pigskin. Oop oop, it's your head.
• 30:39
  No, no thanks, Kobe ISO. As far as I'm aware, there's
• 30:45
  been no paranormal investigations done at the
• 30:47
  property. Since it's considered an active
• 30:49
  royal palace. Access after dark is severely
• 30:52
  limited. I want to see if maybe Ghost
• 30:54
  Adventures or Ghost Hunters had done anything there to see if I
• 30:56
  can find like any kind of video evidence.
• 30:58
  Nah, nothing. But that's what haunted me this
• 31:01
  week, the Tower of London. London Bridge is folly of not
• 31:07
  not the one that's not the one. That's so cool, friend.
• 31:10
  Thanks. Thank you for sharing.
• 31:12
  A lot of residual energy for sure.
• 31:16
  It was also kind of silly and goofy, which I liked.
• 31:20
  I figured you might enjoy it, especially the bear story.
• 31:22
  Mm, hmm, that was the best one. That was the best one.
• 31:25
  I think being gifted a polar bear and not being like grateful
• 31:30
  or just shook with emotion is crazy because.
• 31:35
  You call me? A bear that is the that's the
• 31:40
  biggest bear at least. I mean, I'm sure at the time it
• 31:42
  was still the biggest, considered one of the biggest
• 31:44
  bear. How did they even get them?
• 31:45
  Where are polar bears in like the continental Europe?
• 31:49
  Do they exist there? I don't know you.
• 31:50
  Said you said Poland polar bear. No, no, but the the king that
• 31:54
  gifted it to King Homie. I think I said the king of
• 31:56
  Norway. Norway there.
• 31:57
  You just say Norway. Yeah, for sure.
• 31:59
  They. Got to be polar bear.
• 32:00
  Did they go to Antarctica? Probably a North Pole.
• 32:04
  Leave it to. How do they bring a bear on a
• 32:06
  boat? I'm sure they have their ways,
• 32:09
  hunters. They have their contraptions.
• 32:11
  I I don't. I don't.
• 32:12
  Know, and I bet it was inhumane. Yeah, probably.
• 32:15
  That's so sad. PETA, we need you on this case.
• 32:19
  I am befriending the ghost bear and using my druidic powers to
• 32:24
  make it a friend. Nerd.
• 32:26
  Nerd. And a tech, Brian.
• 32:29
  Nerd. And a tech friend show up in
• 32:30
  Brian's room at 2:00 in the morning.
• 32:34
  A random bear appears in his room.
• 32:36
  That sounds like a good time. A grey bear.
• 32:38
  Oh, a silver bear. Oh yeah, Guy.
• 32:43
  Wow, thank you friend, that was so cool.
• 32:44
  You're welcome and I've never heard of it.
• 32:46
  Wes, I had to be Me, me. Go.
• 32:48
  What haunted you this week? What haunted me this week,
• 32:54
  honestly, it's going to be the heat.
• 32:57
  Again, it's going to be. It's going to.
• 32:58
  Be the heat I'm being, I'm being defeated.
• 33:01
  I'm losing this battle, guys, but I'm not losing the war
• 33:04
  because today we're talking about England's devil dog.
• 33:07
  Why? We're both in England, both in.
• 33:09
  England this week, dude. We did not give each other a
• 33:12
  heads up this time. Which?
• 33:14
  Maybe we should, because last week's episodes had no
• 33:16
  connection other than being Mexican.
• 33:18
  I mean, that's a. Connection.
• 33:19
  That's a connecting right there. That's connecting.
• 33:22
  Yeah, I'm talking about England. When when you did mention when
• 33:25
  you started off your story, I'm like fuck, fuck, fuck.
• 33:27
  Like, is it in the same region? Is it like for for some reason
• 33:30
  connected to this tower? No, it's not.
• 33:33
  So that was very funny. I think after doing this podcast
• 33:38
  for a while, we've learned one thing.
• 33:40
  What? Every culture has a creature
• 33:42
  that people swear you should not encounter after dark.
• 33:45
  Absolutely Mexico. La La chusa, La La chusa El
• 33:50
  freaking nawales the chupacabra by corona.
• 33:54
  Ireland has the banshee, which we haven't talked about, but.
• 33:58
  Put a pin in that. Put a pin in that.
• 34:00
  Put a pin. Yeah.
• 34:01
  The Appalachian Mountains have all kinds of strange creatures
• 34:04
  people warn you about. We're not going to Appalachia
• 34:06
  anytime soon, so. We are not whistling after dark.
• 34:09
  No. And England.
• 34:12
  England apparently looked at a normal dog and said, you know
• 34:16
  what would make this terrifying? Make it the size of a horse,
• 34:20
  give it glowing eyes and make people think of death.
• 34:25
  That's exactly how they said it. They're scared of a Great Dane.
• 34:33
  That's that dog. Looks like a horse to me.
• 34:37
  Brian, are you thinking if you were to see this huge, massive
• 34:41
  dog, can I pet that dog? I would Can I pet that dog?
• 34:47
  OK. Can I pet that dog?
• 34:48
  I. Was going to say, if not then I
• 34:50
  would ask you to leave the room and I will continue this session
• 34:52
  by myself. But you said yes.
• 34:54
  So yeah, you get to stay, you get.
• 34:56
  To stay. Yeah.
• 34:56
  Great Dane. Before the Great Dane, before we
• 35:00
  talk about Black Shuck specifically, we have to talk
• 35:04
  about why stories like this exist in England in the 1st
• 35:07
  place. Oh OK scholar.
• 35:09
  The British Isles have a long history of black dog legends.
• 35:14
  And when I say long history, I mean these stories go back
• 35:18
  hundreds of years. That's like hundreds dude.
• 35:21
  That's almost thousands. Across different parts of
• 35:24
  England, Scotland and Wales, people told stories about
• 35:27
  mysterious black dogs that appeared on lonely roads, near
• 35:31
  churches, around graveyards, or in places where people felt
• 35:35
  vulnerable. The names changed depending on
• 35:38
  the region. Some people called them black
• 35:40
  dogs, basic, real, original. Others called the creatures like
• 35:44
  these bar Guest or Padfoot. But the idea stayed pretty
• 35:48
  similar. A large supernatural dog
• 35:51
  appearing when someone was alone.
• 35:53
  Sometimes it was considered a warning, and other times it was
• 35:56
  considered a protector. Whoa, why do you think dogs
• 36:01
  became the animal people were scared of in England?
• 36:03
  Because today, before you answer, when people look at
• 36:06
  dogs, they think of humans. Best friend.
• 36:10
  So sorry, I'll go back to the question.
• 36:12
  I don't know, that confuses me because I'm very rarely scared
• 36:17
  of a dog unless it is very big and it's aggressive.
• 36:20
  That's the only time I'm scared of a dog.
• 36:22
  I see one out in the wild. Oh my good.
• 36:24
  Come here. I have similar similar viewpoint
• 36:30
  except when I lived in Mexico some of those dogs were not the
• 36:33
  nicest and and growing up not in Mexico but growing up here there
• 36:39
  were certain alleys that had loose dogs and they would belong
• 36:42
  to someone there but as long as I drove by with my bike they
• 36:45
  were chasing my ass and like you they would.
• 36:48
  Get them out of our alley. There were always Chihuahuas.
• 36:51
  I got bit by a Chihuahua. The only time I've been bit by a
• 36:53
  dog was a Chihuahua. So I think we're we're honing in
• 36:58
  on to this black dog should should have been a Chihuahua.
• 37:01
  A black Chihuahua. I'm scared.
• 37:03
  Dude, so dogs have always had this weird place in human
• 37:07
  culture. They're companions, but they're
• 37:09
  also guardians. They protect homes, they watch
• 37:13
  over the dead. In some ancient traditions, they
• 37:16
  can sense things humans can't. So if you're living hundreds of
• 37:19
  years ago and you're trying to explain something strange you
• 37:22
  saw on a dark Rd. a giant black dog actually makes a lot of
• 37:26
  sense. It's familiar enough that your
• 37:29
  brain recognizes it. Literally just talked about
• 37:32
  this. Yeah.
• 37:33
  But strange enough that it becomes something supernatural.
• 37:37
  The black shark comes specifically from East Anglia,
• 37:41
  an area in eastern England that includes Suffolk and Norfolk.
• 37:47
  If you picture the landscape, it almost feels designed for ghost
• 37:49
  stories. The region has old villages,
• 37:51
  farmland, forests, marshes and winding roads that cut through
• 37:56
  the countryside. Never been more scared.
• 37:58
  Centuries ago, travelling through those areas at night was
• 38:02
  not like it is today. Obviously there's no St. lights,
• 38:05
  there's no cell phones. You can call someone FaceTime
• 38:07
  along the way. There's no, yeah, there's no
• 38:10
  quick way to call for help. So if you're walking home alone
• 38:13
  after sunset, you're dealing with a lot of real dangers.
• 38:17
  Anyways. The name Black Shuck.
• 38:19
  Most researchers believe the word Shuck comes from the old
• 38:23
  English word skuka, which roughly translates to a demon or
• 38:27
  evil spirit. Some people believe it may also
• 38:29
  connect to old words describing something shaggy or hairy, kind
• 38:33
  of like Brian. OK, come for me.
• 38:35
  Really. Wean my hair out of it.
• 38:38
  Which is a pretty unfair reputation for a dog, because
• 38:41
  all dogs are Angel. Babies, of course, Until they
• 38:43
  bite you, the Chihuahuas. Descriptions of Black Chuck
• 38:47
  vary, but there are details that appear over and over again.
• 38:50
  People usually describe it as an enormous black dog with rough,
• 38:54
  shaggy, firm. Some accounts describe it as
• 38:57
  being the size of a large dog, while others make him much
• 39:00
  bigger, almost impossible in size compared to a horse or
• 39:04
  other large. OK, if it's shaggy, I don't
• 39:07
  think it's a Great Dane. We have something weird going
• 39:09
  on. There's also another breed of
• 39:11
  dog which I will find at the end of the episode, but his massive
• 39:14
  and has like that shaggy complexion.
• 39:16
  Its eyes are usually the feature people remember the most.
• 39:19
  Many stories describe them as glowing red, almost like fire in
• 39:23
  the darkness, and other versions say his eyes were green.
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  There are even some unusual accounts describing it with a
• 39:31
  single eye. One detail that appears in many
• 39:34
  stories is that the black Shuck doesn't behave like a normal
• 39:38
  animal. People often describe seeing it
• 39:41
  appear suddenly, watching them, and then disappearing.
• 39:45
  With its one eye. With its one eye, to some people
• 39:48
  it's just winking. Had something caught in its
• 39:50
  eyes? It's flirting.
• 39:51
  It's trying to be coy with my fiery.
• 39:54
  Eyeball. The idea of Black Chuck watching
• 39:57
  people is actually important because in many versions of the
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  legend it isn't described as a creature that hunts people.
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  It's more of an omen. People believe seeing it could
• 40:07
  mean something bad was coming, a loved one becoming sick or close
• 40:10
  to death. Maybe tragedy would enter the
• 40:13
  community, and this is where Black Shuck connects to other
• 40:16
  folklore. Reef covered with La Lechusa,
• 40:18
  for example. The fear isn't always that the
• 40:20
  creature itself is going to attack you.
• 40:23
  Sometimes the fear is what its presence represents.
• 40:26
  Whoa, the warning. Whoa, OK, so like it's the same
• 40:31
  thing but it represents itself in different animals based on
• 40:34
  the region? Correct.
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  That's so interesting. I like that.
• 40:37
  It's like. When I'm in Mexico, I'm an owl.
• 40:38
  I'm a barn owl when I'm in England.
• 40:41
  Yeah. What are people most afraid of
• 40:43
  in that area? They they signed a what's it
• 40:48
  called? They did the kapole.
• 40:49
  They asked 100 English what the most scary and the scariest
• 40:53
  animal is, and black dog was one of them.
• 40:57
  The most famous Black Shook story comes from 1577, during
• 41:02
  one of the most violent storms England had experienced.
• 41:06
  Tormenta. We mentioned that at the
• 41:08
  beginning. That's why I laughed at the
• 41:10
  talking about the storm. El Nino.
• 41:12
  It was just an El Nino guy. It's just no nothing.
• 41:14
  It's a black shark named Nino. Literally.
• 41:18
  The story takes place in the town of Bungay, Suffolk.
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  On August 4th, 1577. Powerful thunderstorm moved
• 41:27
  through the area. People at the time described it
• 41:29
  as an extraordinary storm. Lightning was striking, the
• 41:33
  weather was chaotic, and during the storm, villagers gathered
• 41:36
  inside Saint Mary's Church, seeking shelter and praying for
• 41:39
  the storm to pass. Then, according to the legend,
• 41:42
  something entered the church. A massive black dog.
• 41:48
  It sounds like a movie. The story was recorded by a man
• 41:52
  named Reverend Abraham Fleming, who published an account
• 41:56
  describing the event. According to the story, the
• 41:59
  creature ran through the church while people panicked.
• 42:02
  Two people were reportedly killed during the incident and
• 42:05
  others were injured. Then the creature disappeared.
• 42:10
  Now, whether someone in 1577 actually saw a supernatural dog
• 42:14
  is something people still debate today.
• 42:16
  But what makes this story important is that it wasn't just
• 42:19
  passed down through whispers. It was written down and
• 42:22
  distributed. The account became one of the
• 42:24
  reasons Black Shuck became such a famous figure in English
• 42:28
  folklore. If it's written down, it's.
• 42:30
  True receipt. Show me the receipts.
• 42:33
  Oh, oh, oh, you have them. You typed that arm printed fuck
• 42:36
  Reverend. True shit.
• 42:38
  And he's a reverend. Oh, we got to listen to the
• 42:40
  reverend. He's the church.
• 42:42
  But Brian, yes. That wasn't the only church
• 42:45
  supposedly visited by Black Shuck that day.
• 42:49
  There's things all over the country.
• 42:52
  Legend has it that the creature appeared again, this time in
• 42:56
  Blithburg, another Suffolk village.
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  The village is home to the Holy Trinity Church, a beautiful
• 43:04
  medieval church that still stands today.
• 43:06
  And on that same stormy day in 1577, people inside that church
• 43:11
  were supposedly experiencing the same terrifying weather.
• 43:14
  Lightning, Thunder, heavy rain, yadda yadda yadda.
• 43:17
  Chance of dog. But during the service, the
• 43:20
  legend says the doors opened and a massive black dog entered the
• 43:23
  church. Once again, people described a
• 43:26
  creature unlike any normal animal, a huge black dog moving
• 43:30
  through the building while everyone panicked.
• 43:33
  According to this story, several people were killed and the
• 43:36
  creature eventually disappeared. These people are so pious, so
• 43:40
  religious. Yeah, it's the craziest storm
• 43:42
  they've ever witnessed, but they still got to go to church.
• 43:45
  They're like, Oh my God, I can't believe old man Van Winkle just
• 43:49
  died anyways. Back to praying back.
• 43:51
  To praying. Our Father who are in heaven,
• 43:54
  I'll leave me in the name. Bark, bark, bark.
• 43:57
  Who was that? The doors they've opened,
• 44:00
  There's a dog. There's a dog.
• 44:02
  There's a dog they turned into like New York.
• 44:03
  There's a dog. That's a fucking dog.
• 44:06
  No, that sounded. He didn't in the church.
• 44:08
  There's a dog in the church. So, Brian, you're probably
• 44:12
  wondering, did this dog allegedly go from one church to
• 44:15
  another? Well, then the span of four
• 44:18
  minutes. I don't know the time.
• 44:20
  I don't know the time. They didn't say a time.
• 44:22
  I always said the same day, different churches, same time
• 44:25
  according to the weather. OK, that's the part where
• 44:28
  folklore starts doing what folklore does best.
• 44:32
  Think about how the story would have sounded to someone living
• 44:34
  in 1577. You hear about this unbelievable
• 44:37
  storm, then someone says a giant black dog appeared in a church
• 44:41
  in the next town. Then another person says,
• 44:44
  actually it happened here too. Well, we got the same thing
• 44:47
  happened to us. Prayer man.
• 44:49
  We drank the same holy water that day.
• 44:51
  Brav what? Brav, Brav.
• 44:53
  We brought a dog. We we drank the same blood of
• 44:56
  Christ that day. Bravo was laced, I promise you.
• 45:00
  Bravo, are you taking a piss? You're taking a piss in my holy
• 45:03
  water. Like no, I saw the black dog.
• 45:05
  At that point, the story starts becoming less about what
• 45:08
  happened during the storm and more about what people believe
• 45:10
  the storm meant. What did it mean, Jerry?
• 45:13
  What did it mean? They were trying to make sense
• 45:15
  of things that they didn't understand.
• 45:18
  A violent storm could destroy homes.
• 45:20
  Lightning could kill someone instantly.
• 45:22
  A church could be damaged. Oh my God, not the church, not
• 45:25
  the church. Today we have scientific
• 45:28
  explanations for those things, but hundreds of years ago people
• 45:31
  often looked for deeper meaning. It was the dog.
• 45:34
  Was it a punishment? Was it a warning?
• 45:38
  Was something supernatural Trying to communicate a creature
• 45:41
  like Black Shuck gave people a way to explain chaos.
• 45:44
  One of the most famous parts of that story in Blithburg is the
• 45:48
  damage supposedly left behind. There was proof.
• 45:52
  Whoa, paw prints on the wall. Close.
• 45:55
  Wait, really? According to local legend, the
• 45:57
  black Shuck left Holy Trinity Church.
• 45:59
  He it damaged the wooden door with its claws.
• 46:03
  Visitors today can still see marks on the church door that
• 46:06
  many people connect to the legend.
• 46:09
  Now, historians have debated those marks.
• 46:12
  There are natural explanations, of course.
• 46:14
  The door is hundreds of years old.
• 46:16
  Wood changes over time, it warps, it ages and repairs can
• 46:20
  all create unusual marks. But if you're standing in front
• 46:23
  of that door and someone tells you those marks came from a
• 46:26
  demon dog that attacked this church almost 450 years ago,
• 46:32
  it's easy to understand why the legend survived.
• 46:33
  I believe it. Came at me with that voice and
• 46:37
  accent. I'm believing anything you tell
• 46:38
  me. And I'm wearing, like, a really,
• 46:40
  like, tattered shirt. I have the little newspaper boy
• 46:43
  hat that's also really dirty. Got some chaps on.
• 46:46
  Not chaps. What are the overalls?
• 46:47
  Yeah, Yeah. And that's how I would sound.
• 46:50
  And I'm like, 4 foot 2 holding a pipe.
• 46:52
  Yep, Yep, Yep. What I also found interesting is
• 46:56
  that the Black Shark became connected with churches
• 46:58
  specifically, and that tells us a lot about that time period and
• 47:02
  medieval and early modern England, churches were not just
• 47:04
  places people went on Sundays, they were the center of
• 47:07
  communities. They represented safety, order,
• 47:10
  and protection. So having a supernatural
• 47:13
  creature enter a church would have been incredibly powerful
• 47:16
  symbolism. Blasphemous.
• 47:18
  Practically the place where people went to feel safe was
• 47:20
  suddenly invaded by something terrifying.
• 47:23
  It's almost like the story was saying if something this
• 47:26
  powerful can enter a church, nowhere is completely safe.
• 47:31
  Oh, that was scary. Now this brings me to one of my
• 47:35
  favorite parts of this legend, because despite the Devil Dog
• 47:39
  nickname, not every story paints Black Shuck as evil.
• 47:43
  Some versions actually describe it as a protector.
• 47:47
  Some versions actually describe it as a protector.
• 47:50
  There are stories from East Anglia where people claimed a
• 47:53
  large dog followed them while they travelled at night.
• 47:56
  At first they were afraid. Obviously if a giant mysterious
• 47:59
  dog appears behind you on a dark Rd. your first thought probably
• 48:02
  isn't. Hell yeah I have a guardian now.
• 48:06
  But according to these stories, the dog would walk with them
• 48:09
  until they reach their destination safely, then it
• 48:11
  would disappear. Wow, it's like a passage.
• 48:14
  My dog, my job here is done and then poof.
• 48:17
  Wow. Have a funny little segment for
• 48:21
  this part. Archaeologists discovered the
• 48:24
  remains of a very large dog, at least in Abbey in Suffolk.
• 48:28
  Immediately people started asking, did they find the black
• 48:31
  shark? No, it was just confirmed to be
• 48:34
  a regular house dog. A great game, a big regular
• 48:37
  house dog. With every story we read, I come
• 48:39
  to appreciate this more and more than the last time.
• 48:42
  The feeling that maybe this world is bigger and stranger
• 48:44
  than we understand. 1000 years ago that fear had four legs and
• 48:48
  glowing eyes. Today it might just be the
• 48:51
  strange noise outside your window, but the feeling is the
• 48:53
  same. One final question for you.
• 48:56
  Shoot. You're walking through the
• 48:58
  English countryside at night. You hear something behind you.
• 49:04
  You turn around and there's a black shark standing there.
• 49:08
  Do you? Yes, you have an accent because
• 49:11
  you're in the English countryside.
• 49:12
  OK, run. Try to take a picture or accept
• 49:18
  that this is your life now and ask him where he wants to go.
• 49:22
  I would hope I'm one of those people that it's just helping
• 49:24
  along its path and maybe this is the dog delivery service giving
• 49:28
  me a new dog. OK, the dog distribution system.
• 49:31
  Come here, come here, puppy. There's no other dog.
• 49:35
  He is the jiggle boy. There is, there is no other like
• 49:38
  stray dog in the distribution system.
• 49:39
  And it's like, well, we have this legend, this black shark.
• 49:44
  Sure, it's because I'm the chosen 1, Jerry on the chosen 1.
• 49:48
  You're a wizard, Harry. All you've been chosen to own
• 49:52
  the shark. I'm the coolest in Essex, in
• 49:59
  Sussex. What's the village?
• 50:02
  I'm the coolest, most chillest person.
• 50:06
  That's that's that sounds like Donald Trump.
• 50:09
  I'm done with accents. Yesterday I allegedly I did a
• 50:13
  really good Michael Jackson one, but it's never coming back.
• 50:16
  Did it out of nowhere. He just pulled out his Michael
• 50:19
  Jackson voice and it sounded really good.
• 50:22
  He practiced this I. Don't.
• 50:24
  It sounded like you. Did.
• 50:25
  No, It was divine intervention. Anyways, I'm keeping that dog.
• 50:31
  Yeah, I'm at that dog. I'm going to see also like if
• 50:35
  it's a 5050 and it appears behind me and I'm walking, I'm
• 50:39
  gonna assume it's a like a protect a protector.
• 50:42
  We're might as well hope for the best if your chances are 5050.
• 50:45
  If it decides to kill me, what better way than to go out head
• 50:48
  on than being destroyed and mauled by a supernatural dog?
• 50:54
  I deserved it. Spectral supernatural dog.
• 50:56
  I did something. I deserve it.
• 50:57
  Yeah. Yeah, I did something.
• 50:58
  I disrespected the chanekas here that are, that came from Mexico,
• 51:01
  that are living in this forest now.
• 51:02
  And they sent word to the other cryptids on Cryptid book.
• 51:06
  And they and they sent it after me.
• 51:09
  I really like this story. Yeah, so I had a lot.
• 51:13
  I had a really good time. Obviously animals, it's going to
• 51:16
  be my main jam, but it was really fun because there were so
• 51:19
  many like recorded tales. There were so many recorded
• 51:25
  tales regarding the experiences, the specific stories that are
• 51:28
  connected. I didn't add it in in obviously
• 51:31
  my my script, but there was there's a town or in that area.
• 51:35
  They some places really like accept the folklore and they,
• 51:40
  you know, use it to to use it as like a identifier like, Yep,
• 51:44
  this represents us. This is who we are.
• 51:46
  This is going to get us tourists invested in this.
• 51:49
  Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep. But it just reminds me of like
• 51:51
  the Pacific Northwest or like Oregon that like just embodies
• 51:55
  the Cryptid. I was about to say, it reminds
• 51:57
  me of, I don't remember what city it is, but the one where
• 52:00
  they have a Mothman statue. I don't know where that is, but
• 52:03
  there's a city that has a giant Mothman, Yeah.
• 52:06
  Yeah, or like anywhere you go in Oregon, there's like the the
• 52:08
  whole Bigfoot. One just up in Northern
• 52:11
  California, they had Bigfoot cutouts.
• 52:13
  Everywhere, yeah. Like they just, they accept it,
• 52:15
  that they just take it. It's fun, it's silly, you never
• 52:19
  know, it could be true. I love it.
• 52:22
  Our imaginations have to pull from some sort of reality.
• 52:26
  Who's to say that we can't will it into existence?
• 52:29
  Why not the demon dog or? Demon Dog.
• 52:32
  I'm going to name it. I'm going to name it.
• 52:36
  Boo Boo. His name is Boo.
• 52:39
  Boo. My black shucks name is Boo.
• 52:42
  That there's Boo shook. Oh my God, my.
• 52:45
  Thighs are. I went real country right there,
• 52:47
  sorry. So yeah, we got dogs, we got
• 52:51
  London towers. We got haunted bears.
• 52:53
  We got bears. We it was a It was a menagerie
• 52:57
  of animals today, two of them. Two of them specifically.
• 53:02
  But I mean, you mentioned elephants.
• 53:03
  I. Know flying squirrels.
• 53:04
  But none of those were ghosts, just the dog and the bear.
• 53:07
  That we know of. True ghost flying squirrel dude.
• 53:11
  Scared. Imagine just a little phantom
• 53:14
  squirrel, just like flying across from your cabinet to the
• 53:17
  to the door. You just hear like your
• 53:20
  bookshelf rattling from up there.
• 53:22
  That's just Chewy the flying the ghost squirrel.
• 53:27
  It's our pet. Ghost squirrel.
• 53:29
  That's so cool man. That was fun.
• 53:31
  That was a very silly episode. I like that a lot.
• 53:34
  The black shook, so if you see big supernatural spectral dog.
• 53:41
  Tell us about it on our website. Add it on the website
• 53:45
  submission. He goes afraid.com.
• 53:47
  Submit your story here. You know where to find us or ask
• 53:50
  Google. Google knows this.
• 53:52
  Google US. Search for us on Bing.
• 53:54
  It's not about who you know, it's about who knows you.
• 53:57
  And Google knows us. By name too.
• 54:00
  It's kind of crazy. Well everyone, thank you so much
• 54:03
  for listening. My send off to you this week is
• 54:07
  I am recommending Ke$ha's Joyride just because you
• 54:10
  mentioned her earlier today because you confused her with
• 54:12
  someone else. No, I confused this.
• 54:15
  I thought she owned that song. I thought she.
• 54:16
  I'm just kidding. I'm just trying to save myself
• 54:20
  man. There's so many song I could go
• 54:23
  easy and recommend Black Dog by Led Zeppelin but that's too
• 54:26
  basic so I'm not going to do that.
• 54:29
  They're not connected. I checked.
• 54:31
  So I know I recommended the whole Decades album last time,
• 54:36
  but if you have time, I'm not telling you what to do.
• 54:39
  You don't have to listen to this.
• 54:40
  I know I've been really heavy on the metal core and the
• 54:43
  motionless, but if you have time, did I recommend Sunglasses
• 54:48
  at night? I don't remember.
• 54:48
  I don't think I. Did you mentioned it last week?
• 54:50
  Right. Nevermind.
• 54:51
  As a standout, I'm with my sunglasses at night.
• 54:58
  Damn that I don't have. He's once again recommending the
• 55:02
  album. Yeah, you know what?
• 55:08
  OK, no, I, I, I do have a Led Zeppelin song that I've been
• 55:11
  listening to non-stop. It's on my On Repeat playlist
• 55:14
  since I've been loving you, Led Zeppelin.
• 55:16
  Since you've been loving me, what?
• 55:18
  Since I've been loving. Since I've been loving you, Led
• 55:21
  Zeppelin. Well guys, thank you so much for
• 55:25
  listening. Hope you guys have a fantastic
• 55:26
  Thursday and have a great day. It didn't scare you too bad.
• 55:30
  Not this week. What's there behind you?
• 55:32
  Is that? Is that the black shark?
• 55:34
  No, no, no. It's the black shock.
• 55:37
  I refuse to turn around. Turn around and rest in peace
• 55:44
  and icon another British icon. Stay tuned next week.
• 55:50
  Very exciting episode. There might be a feature, there
• 55:54
  might not be. Check this out.
• 55:57
  Oh yeah, I forgot what was happening but I got excited
• 56:00
  because I remembered. Thank you guys for listening.
• 56:02
  This has been your weekly a a meeting.
• 56:04
  Not that one. I'm Brian and I'm Jerry, and
• 56:07
  this is Amigos. Afraid.
• 56:10
  Afraid Amigos.