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This is why you NEVER stay in a HAUNTED castle - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to share three stories that all fall
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Speaker 1: into the category of paranormal. But before we get into
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Speaker 1: those stories, if you're a fan of the strange, dark,
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Speaker 1: night in the summer of nineteen twenty one, a young
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Speaker 1: man named Carl Logis walked across the farm that he
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Speaker 1: had recently purchased in rural Ohio. He was on his
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Speaker 1: way to check on his horses and his cattle one
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Speaker 1: less time before he went to bed. He had a
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Speaker 1: gun on his hip and a lantern in the other hand,
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Speaker 1: and as he walked across the farm, he sort of
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Speaker 1: looked out at the farmhouse and the barn up ahead,
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Speaker 1: and the water well and all this land, and he
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Speaker 1: couldn't help but feel really proud of what he had.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this was all his. So Carl had always
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Speaker 1: dreamed of having this, of having his own farm, and
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Speaker 1: he'd been able to get this one for a really
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Speaker 1: low price because apparently the people who owned it before
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Speaker 1: him had been very eager to get rid of it,
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Speaker 1: and he had seen it as a great opportunity. Now
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Speaker 1: Carl didn't really know why they wanted to move it
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Speaker 1: so badly, but he didn't care. It just meant he
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Speaker 1: got a great deal. And so Carl continued walking over
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Speaker 1: to the barn where his cattle and his horses were,
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Speaker 1: and as he got closer, keep in mind it's dark out,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's late at night. He suddenly felt the
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Speaker 1: hairs in the back of his neck stand up, and
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Speaker 1: he had this unmistakable feeling that he was being watched.
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Speaker 1: But Carl, he lives alone. It's just him and his animals, Like,
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Speaker 1: there's no reason there would be anybody nearby to watch him.
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Speaker 1: And so instinctively, Carl stops where he is and he
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Speaker 1: whips around and he shines his lantern in all directions,
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Speaker 1: just seeing if there's somebody there, you know, but there's nobody.
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Speaker 1: Granted his field of vision, it's pretty limited. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's dark outside. His lantern's not that bright. But for
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Speaker 1: the most part he can tell that there's no one
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Speaker 1: in the immediate vicinity. He's all alone. So then his
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Speaker 1: thought is, well, is there a predator nearby? I mean,
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Speaker 1: is there an animal watching me? But Carl, I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's looking around that it's a peaceful, quiet night, and
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Speaker 1: you know, the previous owners certainly hadn't mentioned any risk
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Speaker 1: of predators in the area. And so Carl tells himself,
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Speaker 1: you know, he's just being paranoid. I mean, he's new
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Speaker 1: to this property. He doesn't really know what it's like
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Speaker 1: to be here. And so he tells himself, you're just
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Speaker 1: overthinking it. You know, go to the barn, take care
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Speaker 1: of your animals, and just go to bed. Everything is fine.
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Speaker 1: And so Carl turns around and he walks over to
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Speaker 1: the barn. He goes inside, and he kind of busies
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Speaker 1: himself getting the horses and the cattle ready for the night.
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Speaker 1: And you know, he's in there for a few minutes,
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Speaker 1: and for the most part, he's forgotten about that strange
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Speaker 1: feeling he had when he came over, that feeling of
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Speaker 1: being watched. But after he was wrapping up, he couldn't
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Speaker 1: help but start to feel like he had that feeling
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Speaker 1: again that there was somebody watching him. And so he's
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Speaker 1: looking out his barn door and he doesn't see anything,
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Speaker 1: but it's dark out there, and he's kind of looking
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Speaker 1: around the inside of his barn, and again he's telling
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Speaker 1: himself that you're just you're being paranoid. Everything is fine,
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Speaker 1: but admittedly, deep down, Carl was feeling pretty nervous about
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Speaker 1: just this walk he was going to have to make
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Speaker 1: through the darkness across his property back over to the farmhouse.
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Speaker 1: But you know, he stealed his resolve. He grabbed his
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Speaker 1: lantern and he checked his gun on his hip, and
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Speaker 1: then he walked out the doors of his barn and
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Speaker 1: began quickly making his way towards his house. And as
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Speaker 1: he's walking, he's kind of scanning both sides, you know,
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Speaker 1: checking to make sure nobody's out here, and he's not
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Speaker 1: seeing anyone. And right as he's about halfway to his house,
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Speaker 1: something catches his eye on the far side of the property,
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Speaker 1: something kind of off in the distance, and he stops
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Speaker 1: and he aims his lantern in that direction, which doesn't
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Speaker 1: really illuminate that much, but it illuminates enough to see
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Speaker 1: that there's actually somebody standing on his property, and he's
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Speaker 1: so alarmed by it. He just stands there holding his lantern,
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Speaker 1: looking at this person. And it's like this white silhouette
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Speaker 1: just standing there, still looking right over at Carl. They're
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Speaker 1: sort of in the vicinity of his water well. And
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Speaker 1: after being frozen for a second, Carl kind of snapped
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Speaker 1: out of it and he said, hey, like, who are you?
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Speaker 1: What are you doing here? And this figure doesn't move,
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Speaker 1: doesn't react. They just stand there kind of staring at Carl,
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Speaker 1: and then they turn and begin kind of moving away
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Speaker 1: from Carl in the direction of the water well. And
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Speaker 1: Carl at this point he doesn't know what's happening. He
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Speaker 1: thinks that this person clearly is some sort of trespasser.
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Speaker 1: They must have been here earlier, Like that's what I
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Speaker 1: was feeling. They were here, They've been watching me? Are
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Speaker 1: they going to try to rob me? Like? Who is this?
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Speaker 1: And so he draws his gun and he starts chasing
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Speaker 1: after this person. And as he's running, you know, his
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Speaker 1: lanterns waving back and forth, and like as he's running,
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Speaker 1: he kind of he loses sight of this white figure
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Speaker 1: and by the time he actually gets to the water well,
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Speaker 1: he realizes he's lost this person. They're just gone. At
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Speaker 1: this point, Carl really didn't know what to make of this.
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Speaker 1: He didn't know where this person went, like, he has
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Speaker 1: no idea if they've doubled back around and they're gonna, like,
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Speaker 1: you know, try to go in his house at some
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Speaker 1: point here. He does not understand what's happened or where
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Speaker 1: they've gone. He doesn't know who they are, and so
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Speaker 1: all he can think to do as he's standing there
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Speaker 1: by the well, out of breath, you know, from running there,
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Speaker 1: is just to yell out that, you know, he's got
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Speaker 1: a gun and he's not afraid to use it, and
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Speaker 1: don't you dare come back here. But despite yelling out
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Speaker 1: these sort of open ended threats into the darkness, there's
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Speaker 1: no response. And he doesn't see this this white figure anywhere.
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Speaker 1: It's just dark and silent in all directions. And so
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Speaker 1: for a while Carl just stood there at the well,
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Speaker 1: just you know, looking out, almost expecting to see this
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Speaker 1: figure reappear. But they never did. And eventually, when it
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Speaker 1: really felt like everything had kind of calmed down on
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Speaker 1: his property, he just turned and run the rest of
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Speaker 1: the way over to his farmhouse, he went inside and
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Speaker 1: locked the door behind him. Now, the next morning, when
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Speaker 1: Carl will up, he tried to tell himself that whatever
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Speaker 1: happened the night before, it had to be an anomaly,
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Speaker 1: like maybe that was a neighbor who had come over
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Speaker 1: and they were shy, or or maybe it was you know,
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Speaker 1: a potential trespasser or a thief or something and they
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Speaker 1: were scared off by Carl's threats of being willing to
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Speaker 1: use his weapon. Like Carl is telling himself that whatever
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Speaker 1: that was last night, he likely would never encounter that
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Speaker 1: person ever again. And you know, it was handled. But
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Speaker 1: Carl was wrong. Almost every single night from that night
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Speaker 1: onward for the next year, at about nine thirty pm,
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Speaker 1: every night, around the time that Carl would go to
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Speaker 1: the barn to check on his animals before bed, he
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Speaker 1: would always see that figure. And they were never close
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Speaker 1: enough that Carl could actually see who it was or
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Speaker 1: get any sense of what they wanted. They were always
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Speaker 1: just kind of off on the side of the property,
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Speaker 1: always watching Carl every time he came out of the barn.
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Speaker 1: And then when he would invariably scream at them and
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Speaker 1: run towards them and even at one point he fired
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Speaker 1: his weapon in their direction. Every time this figure would just,
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Speaker 1: without saying anything, move away from Carl in the direction
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Speaker 1: of the water well and around there, Carl would lose
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Speaker 1: sight of them, they would just vanish. Now, as much
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Speaker 1: as Carl really wanted to pretend that this was just
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Speaker 1: something explainable, that this was some person coming on his
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Speaker 1: property that was evading his capture every single night, as
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Speaker 1: much as he wished that could be the explanation, Carl knew,
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Speaker 1: despite not being a very superstitious or a believer in
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Speaker 1: the paranormal, despite not being those things, he felt like
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Speaker 1: what he was witnessing was a ghost. I mean, what
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Speaker 1: else could it be. It's this white figure that floats
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Speaker 1: away from him and vanishes every night, Like that's a ghost.
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Speaker 1: And also another part of Karl was thinking like the
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Speaker 1: previous owners were really excited to sell this property effectively
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Speaker 1: at a loss. It's like they just wanted to be
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Speaker 1: rid of this property. And he couldn't help but feel
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Speaker 1: like maybe there's a connection between what I'm seeing and
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Speaker 1: why they left. But the one thing that Carl hung
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Speaker 1: onto it was that despite how unsettling this whole thing
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Speaker 1: was and how terrifying it was to see this figure
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Speaker 1: floating around on his property. Despite that, the reality was
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Speaker 1: is it was pretty predictable. Every night around nine point thirty,
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Speaker 1: he would see this ghost, whatever it was, but it
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Speaker 1: didn't really affect him or his animals. It was just terrifying,
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Speaker 1: and he accepted that. It just sort of became his
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Speaker 1: new normal. That is until August first of nineteen twenty two,
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Speaker 1: which happened to be almost exactly a year after Carl
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Speaker 1: had purchased this property. On that day, Carl noticed his
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Speaker 1: horses his cattle they stopped drinking the water, the well
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Speaker 1: water that he gave them all year long since he
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Speaker 1: had been here. They had never had any issues with it,
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Speaker 1: but on that day they just stopped drinking it, and
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Speaker 1: in fact, they were kind of skittish around the water,
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Speaker 1: like there was something in the water that was upsetting them.
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Speaker 1: Carl tasted the water. It tasted fine to him, but
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Speaker 1: he assumed there just must be something in it that
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Speaker 1: made it unclean to the animals, and so what he
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Speaker 1: had to do was clean the water, which meant he
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Speaker 1: needed to drain the well, get rid of all this
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Speaker 1: dirty water, and let the well refill and hopefully at
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Speaker 1: that point it will be clean. So Carl goes over
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Speaker 1: to the water well. Remember this is always where the
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Speaker 1: figure goes off and disappears to And as the water
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Speaker 1: began to drain, he realized there was something in the well,
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Speaker 1: clearly deep in the well that he never would have
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Speaker 1: been able to see unless he drained it. And here
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Speaker 1: he is draining it, and he's looking down and he
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Speaker 1: can't quite tell what it is. But eventually the water
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Speaker 1: was shallow enough that it was obvious what was in
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Speaker 1: the bottom of his well, and at that point he
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Speaker 1: went and got the sheriff. It would turn out five
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Speaker 1: years earlier, Carl's farm had been owned by another man
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Speaker 1: whose name was Frank Luherman, and Frank, when he was here,
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Speaker 1: had multiple employees, including a young farm hand named Henry Leipenstick,
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Speaker 1: and one day Henry had gone missing. Henry didn't have
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Speaker 1: any family or close friends who lived nearby, and so
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Speaker 1: basically everybody in town assumed that Henry must have just
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Speaker 1: left town. But one of Frank's neighbors had told the
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Speaker 1: sheriff at the time that she didn't actually believe that.
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Speaker 1: She thought maybe Frank himself had done something to Henry
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Speaker 1: because According to her, Frank and Henry argued all the
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Speaker 1: time about money like there was clearly real tension between
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Speaker 1: those two. The sheriff tried to look into Frank to
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Speaker 1: see if there was any legitimacy to this claim, but
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Speaker 1: at the same time this investigation was beginning, Frank abruptly
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Speaker 1: sold his property and moved away, and without any real evidence,
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Speaker 1: the sheriff couldn't prove there was any foul play involved,
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Speaker 1: and so he just had to close the case and
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Speaker 1: move on until Carl, five years later, drained that well
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Speaker 1: and suddenly the Henry lipnstick case was solved because at
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Speaker 1: the bottom of the well, Carl found Henry's very decomposed body.
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Speaker 1: He was practically skeletal by this point, but they could
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Speaker 1: tell that was Henry, and autopsy later revealed that Henry
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Speaker 1: had died of blunt force trauma to the head, and
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Speaker 1: his death was ruled a homicide. Frank was rested and
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Speaker 1: found guilty of second degree murder, but he only served
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Speaker 1: seven months before his charges were dropped due to insufficient
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Speaker 1: evidence and he was released. When they pulled Henry's remains
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Speaker 1: out of the well to give him a proper burial,
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Speaker 1: they noticed he was wearing a watch, and the watch
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Speaker 1: had stopped at nine to thirty five pm, precisely the
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Speaker 1: time that Carl for a whole year saw that white
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Speaker 1: figure running off, disappearing over towards the water well where
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Speaker 1: Henry's body was located. After Henry's body was properly buried,
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Speaker 1: Carl never saw that white figure ever again. Also, it's
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Speaker 1: believed that the previous owners right before Carl, who sold
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Speaker 1: him the property at a discount, likely they were selling
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Speaker 1: it because they too had seen Henry's ghost. Happy new Year, everybody,
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Speaker 1: and to celebrate this new year, I actually have a
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Speaker 1: pretty huge announcement. So beginning this and going forward, we're
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Speaker 1: going old school on this channel. We're going back to two,
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Speaker 1: three even four uploads a week, and this is none
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Speaker 1: so it's brand new. Now we're talking new content up
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Speaker 1: to four times a week. So how will it actually work? Well,
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Speaker 1: this week, you're gonna be getting new stories on Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
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Speaker 1: and of course Saturday, Saturday is the same as it's
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Speaker 1: always been and will continue to be. And then each
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Speaker 1: single week. You've told me that you want more strange,
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Speaker 1: dark and mysterious stories, and now you're gonna get it.
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Speaker 1: Can't wait to see you guys. Thank you. Late one
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Speaker 1: night in the winter of nineteen thirty three, a young
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Speaker 1: woman named Anton Holberg poured another round of drinks for
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Speaker 1: all of his buddies who were sitting inside of one
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Speaker 1: of Anton's many sitting rooms inside of his huge castle
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Speaker 1: that he owned in southern Poland. And after pouring these drinks,
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Speaker 1: Anton kind of clumsily began walking his way over to
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Speaker 1: the table where his buddies were. And because Anton was
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Speaker 1: pretty drunk, because he and his friends had been drinking
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Speaker 1: for hours and playing cards and partying, you know, Anton
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Speaker 1: stumbled at some point and basically spilled half of the
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Speaker 1: drinks onto the carpet. But because he was so drunk,
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Speaker 1: he just thought it was really funny, and so did
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Speaker 1: his friends. They were all roaring with laughter as he's
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Speaker 1: on the carpet picking up all these basically empty glasses.
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Speaker 1: But then instead of going back and re pouring the drinks,
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Speaker 1: Anton sort of as a joke, walked over to the table,
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Speaker 1: sat down and handed out these basically empty cups to
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Speaker 1: his friends, and everybody thought it was so funny. And
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Speaker 1: they didn't even get up to get more drinks. They
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Speaker 1: were just all so drunk and happy. They just kept
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Speaker 1: on playing their card game. And so as Anton's sitting
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Speaker 1: there and everyone's laughing and smiling, the friend of his
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Speaker 1: that was the dealer for this round of blackjack began
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Speaker 1: to deal. But as he did, there was this sudden,
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Speaker 1: really loud, creaking sound that came from right above them,
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Speaker 1: and it was so loud and so pronounced that even
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Speaker 1: amongst this loud room of drunk men playing cards, everybody
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Speaker 1: heard it. And there was a moment of silence where
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Speaker 1: everyone sort of registered, like, what's going on above us?
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Speaker 1: And in this sudden stillness, Anton he sort of made
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Speaker 1: a jest and he goes, oh, boy, that's the monk. Now,
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Speaker 1: for the most part, everybody at the table, all of
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Speaker 1: Anton's friends that were there, they had heard the story
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Speaker 1: of the so called hooded monk that apparently haunted the castle.
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Speaker 1: That's at least what Anton would say. But one person
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Speaker 1: who was there that night was a new friend of Anton's,
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Speaker 1: and they had not heard of, you know, the monk's
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Speaker 1: story and they said, well, what are you talking about.
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Speaker 1: That's the monk. And immediately everyone's like, god, geez, here
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Speaker 1: we go. Because Antony looked over at the friends and
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Speaker 1: he was like, oh, you haven't heard the story of
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Speaker 1: the hooded monk. Let me tell you. And then Anton
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Speaker 1: basically told this friend, as the rest of the friends
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Speaker 1: are all like, give me a break. This is just crap,
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Speaker 1: this is not real. But Anton would tell this person,
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Speaker 1: this newbie, that when he took ownership of this huge castle,
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Speaker 1: he was told that everything's fine, except there's one bedroom
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Speaker 1: upstairs that's totally off limits because apparently it is haunted
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Speaker 1: by a hooded monk, an evil hooded monk that sort
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Speaker 1: of patrols this room. And Anton told this friend that
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Speaker 1: he actually had never gone in that bedroom because he
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Speaker 1: believed the story was true that maybe, just maybe there
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Speaker 1: really was a malevolent spirit, a hooded monk figure that
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Speaker 1: was in there. And also, you know, he had tons
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Speaker 1: of bedrooms in his castle. He didn't need to go
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Speaker 1: in there. But you know, right above us is that
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Speaker 1: off limits bedroom, and so maybe that creek we heard
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Speaker 1: was the monk. Now again, basically everybody in the room
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Speaker 1: knew this story because Anton loved to tell the story
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Speaker 1: of how his castle was haunted. But that's all it
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Speaker 1: ever was. It was just some story that Anton told.
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Speaker 1: But this friend, when they heard this from Anton, my
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Speaker 1: reaction was, wait a minute. You have a bedroom in
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Speaker 1: this castle that you own that you literally haven't gone
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Speaker 1: inside of because there's a ghost in there? Are you
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Speaker 1: kidding me? You literally haven't gone in that room for
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Speaker 1: that reason. And as they said it out loud, all
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Speaker 1: of Anton's other friends sort of picked up on, like
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Speaker 1: how cowardly it seemed for Anton to have never gone
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Speaker 1: in Suddenly this story just made it seem like Anton
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Speaker 1: was just kind of a coward, and everybody just piled on.
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Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, Anton, why haven't you gone in there?
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Speaker 1: Come on, man, this is you, this is your castle.
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Speaker 1: Go in that bedroom. And before long Anton was no
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Speaker 1: longer happy to be talking about the story. He was like, Oh,
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Speaker 1: I just forget about it, guys, Let's get back to
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Speaker 1: our game. But nobody would let it go until finally
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Speaker 1: they dared him, like, Hey, not only should you go
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Speaker 1: in there, but tonight you should stay the night in
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Speaker 1: that bedroom to show us that you're really not afraid
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Speaker 1: and eventually, because Anton was so drunk and he was
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Speaker 1: sort of standing up for his pride, he finally said, fine, fine,
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Speaker 1: I'll go in there and I'll spend the night. Fine,
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Speaker 1: I'll show you that this is just a story. It's
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Speaker 1: no big deal. Now. After Anton loosely agreed to this,
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Speaker 1: he likely thought that, you know, the guys, we'll forget
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Speaker 1: about this and we'll go back to playing cards, and
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Speaker 1: by the end of the night, nobody's gonna make sure
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Speaker 1: I really go into that bedroom tonight, like they're gonna
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Speaker 1: forget about this. But no, the friends would not let
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Speaker 1: this go. And at the end of the night, when
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Speaker 1: they had kind of wound down their card game and
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Speaker 1: everybody was feeling pretty tired, they all were like, Okay, Anton,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna walk you up to your bedroom to make
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Speaker 1: sure you sleep inside of that haunted room. And because
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Speaker 1: Anton had already publicly declared that he wasn't afraid and
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Speaker 1: he would do it, he was like, okay, let's go.
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Speaker 1: And so the group, with Anton in the lead, they
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Speaker 1: left the sitting room and they went up the stairs
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Speaker 1: to the second floor and they go down the hallway
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Speaker 1: to the bedroom where supposedly, you know this this hooded
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Speaker 1: monk ghost resided and the door it wasn't like barred
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Speaker 1: up or anything, but you know, again, Anton had never
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Speaker 1: been in there, but he had grabbed the key. And
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Speaker 1: Anton he goes up and he sort of nervously unlocks
17:59
Speaker 1: the door, and then before pushing it open, he turns
18:02
Speaker 1: and looks at his friends and he's like, all right,
18:03
Speaker 1: I'm going in, trying to see if they really wanted
18:06
Speaker 1: him to do it, and all his friends are sort
18:08
Speaker 1: of looking at him, sort of hesitantly, but they're like, yeah,
18:10
Speaker 1: go go inside, go do it. And Anton's like all right.
18:14
Speaker 1: He pushes the door open, and he and his friends
18:17
Speaker 1: they all look inside for the first time. Anton is
18:19
Speaker 1: now laying eyes on the inside of this bedroom, and
18:21
Speaker 1: really there was not much to see. I mean, it
18:23
Speaker 1: was a bedroom, and there was old furniture in there
18:25
Speaker 1: that looked like it had been there for hundreds of years,
18:27
Speaker 1: covered in dust, and there's cobwebs everywhere, but it basically
18:31
Speaker 1: just looked like a really old bedroom that nobody used.
18:34
Speaker 1: And so his friends are like, all right, Anton, get
18:36
Speaker 1: in there, and Anton's like, all right, I'll see in
18:38
Speaker 1: the morning. And he goes inside the room and he
18:41
Speaker 1: shuts the door, and then the friends they all walked
18:43
Speaker 1: back down the hall, went into their respective bedrooms where
18:46
Speaker 1: they were sleeping, and everybody went to bed. Several hours later,
18:50
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night, as all the friends
18:52
Speaker 1: are all asleep, there's this sudden, extremely loud, blood curdling
18:57
Speaker 1: scream that appeared to be coming from the bedroom where
19:00
Speaker 1: Anton was, you know, inside the haunted room, and so
19:03
Speaker 1: the friends they jump out of bed, they run into
19:05
Speaker 1: the hallway, They go down the hall and they get
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Speaker 1: to the door and they try to open it, you know,
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Speaker 1: the room that Anton's in, but it's locked, and they
19:12
Speaker 1: start banging on the door, yelling, Anton, are you okay?
19:15
Speaker 1: Are you okay? Because even though they had put him
19:17
Speaker 1: up to this, they had dared him to do this,
19:19
Speaker 1: they didn't really think there was any risk. But at
19:22
Speaker 1: the same time, maybe, you know, maybe there was something
19:25
Speaker 1: bad in there. So they're worried. They're worried about Anton.
19:27
Speaker 1: They want to make sure he's okay. But after pounding
19:30
Speaker 1: and yelling on the door, there was no response. The
19:34
Speaker 1: haunted bedroom where Anton was was completely silent, and the
19:38
Speaker 1: friends they all kind of exchanged worried glances and they're
19:40
Speaker 1: like we got to get in there. We're got to
19:42
Speaker 1: make sure he's okay. Something just feels wrong. That scream
19:45
Speaker 1: that's somebody in danger like Anton could be heard here,
19:49
Speaker 1: and so they began smashing this door, ramming into it,
19:52
Speaker 1: until finally they literally blew the door off its hinges.
19:56
Speaker 1: And when they looked into the room and saw what
19:59
Speaker 1: was going on, they couldn't believe it. When Anton went
20:03
Speaker 1: into the bedroom to spend the night, his friends would
20:05
Speaker 1: recall hearing the sound of him turning the key and
20:09
Speaker 1: locking the bedroom door behind him. So Anton is in
20:12
Speaker 1: this haunted bedroom and he's locked inside, and there's no
20:15
Speaker 1: other way in or out of this bedroom. So he
20:18
Speaker 1: is in there totally alone, and he's locked the door.
20:21
Speaker 1: So keep that in mind. So now, a few hours later,
20:23
Speaker 1: after hearing the scream, the friends blow the door open,
20:26
Speaker 1: literally knock it off its hinges because it was locked,
20:29
Speaker 1: and they find Anton and he's dead and he's laying
20:33
Speaker 1: on the bed on his back, and the only sign
20:35
Speaker 1: of something that happened to him is there's this red
20:38
Speaker 1: mark around his neck, like a ligature mark, a thin
20:41
Speaker 1: red ligature mark around his neck. But there's no rope
20:45
Speaker 1: or line anywhere in the room. There's no sign of
20:47
Speaker 1: a struggle. There's nothing else really in this room except
20:51
Speaker 1: for Anton, and he's just inexplicably dead with this mark
20:54
Speaker 1: on his neck. Authorities got involved and they searched the
20:57
Speaker 1: room top to bottom and they never found any rope
21:00
Speaker 1: or any line, nothing that could have left those marks
21:02
Speaker 1: on his neck. And they also did an autopsy on Anton,
21:05
Speaker 1: but they couldn't figure out what his cause of death was.
21:08
Speaker 1: So just the fact that Anton died in this really
21:11
Speaker 1: inexplicable way in a bedroom that he claimed was haunted
21:15
Speaker 1: is pretty mysterious. But it becomes even more mysterious when
21:19
Speaker 1: you consider the whole story about this this ghost that
21:23
Speaker 1: haunted this castle. So Anton, when he would typically tell
21:26
Speaker 1: the story, would just basically say, well, you know, there's
21:28
Speaker 1: this evil, hooded monk that is upstairs in one of
21:30
Speaker 1: the bedrooms, and that's why I don't go in it.
21:32
Speaker 1: And that's kind of the whole story. But that's not
21:35
Speaker 1: the whole story. That's just kind of the version that
21:37
Speaker 1: Anton would tell. The whole story was this castle has
21:40
Speaker 1: been haunted for hundreds of years. There is an evil
21:43
Speaker 1: monk that lives in that bedroom upstairs, and if you
21:46
Speaker 1: go in there, the evil monk will kill you by
21:49
Speaker 1: strangling you with a thin rope. That's the story. And
21:53
Speaker 1: so it really makes you wonder because to this day,
21:57
Speaker 1: nobody knows how Anton Holberg died a in that locked
22:01
Speaker 1: bedroom after seemingly being strangled by a rope that didn't exist.
22:18
Speaker 1: Around one am on Sunday, January twentieth, nineteen oh seven,
22:22
Speaker 1: a fifty seven year old man named Samuel Hughes was
22:25
Speaker 1: riding on a passenger train that was moving through southeastern Wales.
22:29
Speaker 1: Sam had spent basically the last twenty four hours working.
22:32
Speaker 1: The entire time, he was a salt merchant, and he
22:35
Speaker 1: had left the town where he lived, a town called Blackwood,
22:38
Speaker 1: and taken a train south about an hour to another
22:40
Speaker 1: town called Newport, where he did a lot of business.
22:43
Speaker 1: And basically all day Saturday, from early morning all the
22:46
Speaker 1: way until late at night, he had been working. And
22:49
Speaker 1: now finally, you know, one am on Sunday, he's back
22:52
Speaker 1: on a train heading back to his town in Blackwood.
22:55
Speaker 1: But despite how utterly exhausted he was on this ride
22:58
Speaker 1: back home, you know, barely able to keep his eyes open,
23:01
Speaker 1: sam was just so relieved that soon, very soon, he
23:05
Speaker 1: would get off the train, he'd be back in his
23:07
Speaker 1: house and he could just collapse in bed. And so
23:09
Speaker 1: that's all he's thinking about. And so for a little
23:11
Speaker 1: bit longer, Sam is you know, fighting to keep his
23:14
Speaker 1: eyes open, and the train's rumbling along, and he can
23:16
Speaker 1: tell he's getting close to home. I mean, he rides
23:18
Speaker 1: this train all the time. This is a pretty you know,
23:21
Speaker 1: regular route for him. And then finally Sam feels the
23:23
Speaker 1: train start to slow down, at which point he gathers
23:26
Speaker 1: up all his things. He gets up and kind of
23:28
Speaker 1: shuffles his way into the hall. And then once the
23:30
Speaker 1: train came to a full stop, he stepped off the
23:33
Speaker 1: train onto the platform, relieved that you know, he's now
23:36
Speaker 1: maybe ten minutes from home. But as the train took
23:39
Speaker 1: off from the station, Sam, who's again standing on this platform.
23:43
Speaker 1: It's late at night here, he's looking around and he
23:46
Speaker 1: realizes something. In his stupor, in his exhaustion, he didn't
23:51
Speaker 1: realize this was not his stop. He had gotten off
23:55
Speaker 1: one stop too early. It was like he was on autopilot.
23:57
Speaker 1: He was so tired. He just he got off thinking
23:59
Speaker 1: he was but he wasn't. And now the train is gone.
24:03
Speaker 1: And remember this is the early nineteen hundreds. He didn't
24:06
Speaker 1: have a quick way to get from where he was
24:09
Speaker 1: to his home, like there wasn't going to be another
24:11
Speaker 1: train anytime soon, nor did he know the train schedule.
24:14
Speaker 1: He also didn't have a way to call a cab
24:17
Speaker 1: or anything. You know, it's one two in the morning here,
24:19
Speaker 1: and so Sam realizes he basically can either find a
24:23
Speaker 1: place to stay in whatever town this is, or he
24:26
Speaker 1: can basically walk to Blackwood, which is, you know, a
24:29
Speaker 1: pretty good walk away. But he figured, you know, maybe
24:32
Speaker 1: you know, this town was close enough he could do it,
24:34
Speaker 1: and so we figured, you know, his first step here
24:36
Speaker 1: is just leave the platform and just go find somebody,
24:39
Speaker 1: anybody in town that maybe is out and about and
24:41
Speaker 1: just kind of figure out where we are. How do
24:44
Speaker 1: I get to Blackwood? Is there a hotel nearby or
24:46
Speaker 1: an inn or something? But he needs to go find somebody.
24:49
Speaker 1: And so even though Sam at this point is furious
24:52
Speaker 1: for himself and really just wants to spend time dwelling
24:55
Speaker 1: on the fact that he's made this mistake, he's sort
24:58
Speaker 1: of over that and he's he's just focused on finding
25:01
Speaker 1: a solution. And so Sam leaves the platform and he
25:04
Speaker 1: starts walking you know, in the general direction of lights
25:07
Speaker 1: that he sees off in the distance. But this is
25:09
Speaker 1: a small train platform. He's clearly not near any major city.
25:13
Speaker 1: It's pretty much dark and just rural roads going in
25:16
Speaker 1: different directions, and so he really does not have high
25:18
Speaker 1: hopes that he's going to run into anybody anytime soon.
25:22
Speaker 1: But surprisingly, after leaving the platform and walking not very far,
25:26
Speaker 1: he got to an intersection where he saw another person
25:29
Speaker 1: walking up the other street, and he quickly realized it
25:32
Speaker 1: was a police officer, and so Sam is like, so relieved,
25:35
Speaker 1: you know, an authority figure. They can help me, and
25:38
Speaker 1: he flags down the police officer and the officer comes over,
25:42
Speaker 1: and you know, they're kind of sizing up Sam, like
25:44
Speaker 1: what are you doing out here? It's the middle of
25:45
Speaker 1: the night. You got luggage with you, Like, what's going
25:47
Speaker 1: on here? And Sam explained the mistake he had made
25:50
Speaker 1: and asked the officer like, hey, you know, is there
25:52
Speaker 1: a place to stay here or maybe you know, is
25:55
Speaker 1: it walkable to get to my town, you know, Blackwood,
25:58
Speaker 1: And the officer would tell him like, you know, there
26:00
Speaker 1: is places to stay in this town, but if you're
26:03
Speaker 1: up for it, it would only take you, you know, maybe
26:05
Speaker 1: an hour if you did want to make the walk
26:07
Speaker 1: to Blackwood, and you know, if I was in your
26:09
Speaker 1: shoes eye, I might do that. And Sam, you know,
26:11
Speaker 1: he thought about it, and he was like, you know
26:12
Speaker 1: what I do. I just want to get home. I
26:14
Speaker 1: want to get in my own bed. So yes, just
26:16
Speaker 1: just point me in the right direction. And so the
26:18
Speaker 1: officer he explained to Sam that luckily, it's really simple.
26:22
Speaker 1: You just basically go straight down that road and you
26:25
Speaker 1: walk for about an hour until you reach a bridge.
26:27
Speaker 1: Once you get over the bridge, follow some signs and
26:30
Speaker 1: it'll be really obvious that you're right in your Blackwood
26:32
Speaker 1: and you'll make it the rest of the way. And
26:34
Speaker 1: so Sam thanked the officer and then gathered up his
26:37
Speaker 1: things and he began walking in the direction of his town.
26:41
Speaker 1: Several hours later, a little after three am, Sam's wife,
26:45
Speaker 1: Bess was awake inside of their home in Blackwood. She
26:48
Speaker 1: was awake because she was waiting for Sam to get home.
26:51
Speaker 1: She knew he would have a long day in Newport,
26:54
Speaker 1: but by now she knew he should be home. I mean,
26:56
Speaker 1: he went on this trip fairly regularly. She knew how
26:59
Speaker 1: long took, even on the long end, and it being
27:02
Speaker 1: three am and him not being home was starting to
27:04
Speaker 1: be pretty concerning, And so she's up. She's kind of anxious,
27:08
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, she hears Sam calling out
27:11
Speaker 1: to her. He's clearly out in front of the property.
27:13
Speaker 1: You know, he must have known that she was awake.
27:15
Speaker 1: He could see the lights on inside the house, and
27:17
Speaker 1: he was calling out to her that you know, he
27:19
Speaker 1: was returning, and so Best. You know, she's overcome with relief.
27:22
Speaker 1: She knows her husband is safe. She grabs a candle
27:24
Speaker 1: and she goes to the front door to greet her husband.
27:26
Speaker 1: She opens the door and she looks out and it's
27:30
Speaker 1: not her husband. Her husband is nowhere to be found. Instead,
27:33
Speaker 1: there is this dark figure standing on her porch, just
27:36
Speaker 1: inches away, looking right at Best and Best. You know,
27:40
Speaker 1: she freezes when she sees it, but she isn't scared.
27:43
Speaker 1: There's a weird calm about what she's looking at. She
27:46
Speaker 1: doesn't know what it is. She has no idea what
27:48
Speaker 1: to do, but she's just standing there calm as this
27:51
Speaker 1: figure is right in front of her, not moving, And
27:53
Speaker 1: as she's just staring at it, she realizes it's dressed
27:57
Speaker 1: in this long black cloak and it had on a
28:00
Speaker 1: black silk hat, and her husband always wore a black
28:07
Speaker 1: silk hat, and she knew specifically he had worn it
28:10
Speaker 1: that morning when he went to Newport. And so for
28:12
Speaker 1: a minute, she's just staring, sort of unbelievably at this apparition,
28:17
Speaker 1: apparently wearing clothes at least a hat that belonged to
28:20
Speaker 1: her husband, and she knows she just heard her husband
28:23
Speaker 1: called to her. She didn't imagine that he just called
28:26
Speaker 1: to her. But then Best blinked and the figure just vanished.
28:29
Speaker 1: The hat, the cloak, its all just gone, and there's
28:31
Speaker 1: nobody standing on her porch. And now Bess is scared
28:34
Speaker 1: because as much as there was a calm about this figure,
28:37
Speaker 1: now she's thinking, like, did I just imagine that? Like,
28:39
Speaker 1: what's going on here? Is my husband outside somewhere? Did
28:43
Speaker 1: he call to me because he's hurt or something? And
28:45
Speaker 1: so she leaves her house with this candle, and she's
28:47
Speaker 1: running around her house calling out for Sam, but Sam's
28:51
Speaker 1: not out there, and so eventually Best goes back inside
28:54
Speaker 1: the house and just continues to sit up waiting for Sam.
28:58
Speaker 1: But Sam doesn't come home, and eventually, you know, by
29:01
Speaker 1: five or six in the morning, Best just goes to bed.
29:03
Speaker 1: When Bess woke up later that afternoon, Sam still had
29:07
Speaker 1: not come home yet. But now you know, the sun
29:09
Speaker 1: is out, and she's telling herself that that weird thing
29:12
Speaker 1: that happened last night, she must have imagined that, you know,
29:15
Speaker 1: like that didn't happen. And you know, Sam's fine, he'll
29:17
Speaker 1: be home, you know, he's he's stayed late before and
29:20
Speaker 1: not told me like everything's okay. But as Bess is
29:23
Speaker 1: reassuring herself that everything's okay, she hears a knock on
29:26
Speaker 1: the front door, and for a second she thinks maybe
29:29
Speaker 1: it's Sam, maybe he's home. But she goes to the door,
29:32
Speaker 1: she opens it up and it's a police officer and
29:36
Speaker 1: he just says to her, I have some terrible news.
29:39
Speaker 1: It would turn out the night before when Sam met
29:41
Speaker 1: that police officer who told him to walk this way
29:44
Speaker 1: to get back to Blackwood, well, Sam had followed the directions,
29:48
Speaker 1: and apparently he was on the right path because he
29:50
Speaker 1: got all the way to that bridge that the officer said,
29:53
Speaker 1: would you know demarcate that he was close to Blackwood.
29:57
Speaker 1: But perhaps because he was so exhausted, or maybe just
30:00
Speaker 1: because it was still so dark outside, he fell off
30:03
Speaker 1: the bridge to his death. And so the police officer
30:07
Speaker 1: is telling Best this, and she's totally overcome with grief.
30:10
Speaker 1: But then, for whatever reason, her mind immediately went to
30:13
Speaker 1: that dark figure she saw on the porch a little
30:16
Speaker 1: after three am, and without really thinking this through, she
30:19
Speaker 1: just said to the officer, what time do you think
30:22
Speaker 1: he died? And the officer was like, well, you know,
30:25
Speaker 1: based on the officer that directed Samuel in that direction,
30:29
Speaker 1: you know, towards the bridge, and how long it would
30:31
Speaker 1: have taken him to get there, we estimate he likely
30:33
Speaker 1: fell off the bridge around three in the morning. And
30:36
Speaker 1: so for Best she's thinking, that's around the same time
30:39
Speaker 1: I saw that figure on my porch. And then she
30:42
Speaker 1: also began to think about that hat, the black silk
30:45
Speaker 1: hat that sam always wore, that she knew he had
30:48
Speaker 1: worn that morning when he went to Newport. And so
30:51
Speaker 1: Bess's next question was, well, when you found him, was
30:55
Speaker 1: he wearing his black silk hat? And the officer was
30:58
Speaker 1: kind of confused and said, no, he wasn't wearing a
31:01
Speaker 1: hat at all. And so when Bess heard that, those
31:04
Speaker 1: details confirmed that who or what she saw on her
31:08
Speaker 1: porch earlier that morning, the dark figure with the black
31:11
Speaker 1: silk hat that must have been Sam's soul. He was
31:14
Speaker 1: coming to say goodbye to his wife because he had
31:17
Speaker 1: just fallen off the bridge and died, and this figure
31:20
Speaker 1: having that black silk hat on was a way of
31:23
Speaker 1: showing her that, yes, that really was her husband. Bess
31:27
Speaker 1: would later tell the story to a reporter who would
31:29
Speaker 1: have this story printed all over Whales and that's how
31:32
Speaker 1: we know it today. Thank you so much for watching.
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