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