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Several years ago I covered a case that was beyond creepy.
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If anything, it turned out to be more of a phenomena than a
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singular case, and it ended up being quite a rabbit hole of
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information. And of course, being who I am, I
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couldn't say no to delving into it.
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What unfolded before me as I dug deep was an extremely elaborate
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tale of a supposed demon manifesting in people's lives
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through the use of Ouija boards, hexes and curses tied to this
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thing, angry and terrifying encounters, and so much more.
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All tying back to a singular entity or demonic force that
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went by several names, but it's most famous was Zozo.
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I've recently revisited this case in my own personal research
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out of sheer curiosity once again, and have since gained
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some newer information that I hadn't initially come across.
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There's details that maybe I missed or omitted in the
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original video, and I'll be sharing my encounters with some
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people I had dealt with and spoken to regarding this entity
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when I originally made the first video.
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I'm doing these revisited episodes in an effort to not
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only remain as honest and open about my research into these
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topics as possible, but to revisit my own roots to better
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improve my content moving forward.
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I now present to you a revisited version of this story, and I
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promise you there is a ton of new information, there's
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theories, and more to delve into, so you will absolutely
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want to stick around from start to finish.
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For some of you, if you are new here, if you enjoy deep dives
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into real hauntings, dark history, demonic encounters,
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unsolved disappearances, and so much more, than you're in the
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right place. This is one of the scarier and
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perplexing cases I've covered, so I would not recommend
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watching this video alone, or in the dark, or both if you like a
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challenge. Now let's begin.
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Throughout history, it has been speculated that many have been
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plagued by an ancient demonic force.
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From Mesopotamia to more modern times, this evil and terrifying
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entity has said to enter our world and wreak havoc upon those
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who dwell within it. When a seemingly normal family
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disregards the warnings and partakes in multiple Ouija board
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sessions, what happened next nearly destroyed them.
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This is the untold story of the demonic Zozo House of Oklahoma
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and the abhorrent creature that stalks its walls.
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Oklahoma City, A small but growing city in the heartland of
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America known for blue collar work and brick and mortar shops,
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red dirt and sports would soon become known for something much
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darker. A teenager by the name of Darren
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Evans was growing up here, a normal boy by all accounts,
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doing things that any teenagers would enjoy, hanging out with
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friends, shenanigans here and there, and dating girls.
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He began dating a girl named Brandy who attended school with
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him, and the two often found themselves visiting each other
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as often as they could, whether that was walking to and from
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school in between classes or visiting each other's homes.
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One day, while Brandy's home was having some plumbing work done
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on some pipes located underneath the house, the plumber doing the
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work would soon make a strange discovery.
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Located below the foundation of the home, covered in dirt, was
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an old Ouija board. The front letters were partially
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buried and the back of the board was solid black in color.
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Off to the side of where the board was found was an aged
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planchette. What made this finding even more
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bizarre was that 4 old jars sat on the corners of the board,
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speckled with dirt as well. Thinking perhaps the kids had
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stashed the board away and forgot about it, the worker told
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the young couple after his work was done about what he had
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found. And it's from here that things
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seemingly take a darker turn. Upon examining the discovery,
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they began to brush the dirt away from the jars.
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They were then shocked by what they found inside each one of
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the jars, sitting on the four corners of the board where the
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decaying bodies of blackbirds congealed, blood and matter
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still present. Bewildered but intrigued, they
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sat the jars off to the side and picked up the board.
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As soon as his fingers made contact with the board, Darren
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seemed to have an instant connection with it.
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And with this soon came a burning curiosity to examine it.
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And this curiosity would manifest into obsession.
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With this, the couple took the board inside the home where they
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spoke with Brandy's mother. She actively practiced the
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Wiccan religion but had no idea who could have put the board
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there several days later. Curious as most teenagers are,
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Darren was an avid music fan and one night, after building up the
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courage to do it, he decided he was going to contact the
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deceased singer of the popular band ACDC, a man named Ronald
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Belfort Scott, using the board. Scott had passed away from
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alcohol poisoning in 1980. After lighting several candles,
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laying the board with letters facing towards him, and placing
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the planchette upon the board, he began his session.
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At first, nothing seemed to happen, but Darem was still
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feeling this otherworldly connection to something within
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the board itself. After trying for half an hour,
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to his shock and amazement, the planchette began to move.
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Slowly at first, it then frantically began to move by
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itself, moving from Z to OZ to O over and over and over again,
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spelling out the name Sozo. Shocked and unsure of what or
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who he had contacted, Darren said goodbye in an attempt to
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end the session. Before his eyes he saw the plain
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chest spell out See you in hell and then it threw itself across
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the room. A now terrified and bewildered
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Darren ran out of his room and tried to make sense of what had
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just taken place. But this was just the beginning
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of what was to come. It started with horrible night
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terrors. He would wake up unable to move
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or speak and would hear whispering in his ears.
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These episodes at night were soon followed by banging and
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knocking throughout his house during the daytime, as well as a
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constant feeling as if he was being watched by something he
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couldn't see. But despite the presence he was
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feeling, Darren now sought answers to his ever growing list
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of questions, just what exactly he had uncovered.
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So he continued to hold sessions with the board.
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For better or for worse. Darren would later quote this.
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The sessions now were as intense and paranormal as anything I've
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ever witnessed. A deep and terrible moaning
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could be heard emanating through the walls.
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After these sessions, I developed sleep paralysis and
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became reclusive to society in general.
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I was once again messing with Zozo and Ouija boards, despite
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the terrors of my earlier sessions, which I had promised
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myself I would never do it again.
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But again, and again I did. When not in use, the board was
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kept in a purple silk cloth and stored in his bedroom closet.
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It would also often go missing, sometimes for days on end.
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When checking back where he had placed it in order to set up and
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initiate a new session, the board would seemingly vanish,
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only to reappear at random times as if it was the one calling the
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shots of when it could be seen and used.
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The years came in wind and the sessions on the Mystical Ouija
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board continued. Darren by this time started
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inviting his friends to partake in the sessions, and although
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their sessions with him would prove he's not insane, it's of
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little consolation considering the tragedy they would seemingly
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manifest later on. Darren's best friend was a man
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by the name of Randy. The two had bonded over their
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love for the band ACDC in high school and had been inseparable
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ever since. Randy's idol also being the late
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Bon Scott, whose lifestyle seemingly imprinted upon the
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youthful teens Once Upon a time and perhaps would ultimately
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lead to the downfall of one of them.
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By now, Darren was living in his own apartment and working
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construction at a job site he was on.
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He would make a strange but familiar discovery.
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As he was digging down into the earth, he found what appeared to
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be a jar. Upon picking it up to discard
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it, he wiped away the dirt and debris only to be shocked by its
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familiar contents. Loan and behold, within the jar
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was a congealed and rotting Blackbird, extremely similar if
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not identical to the ones initially found alongside the
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Ouija board under underneath his high school girlfriend's home
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all those years ago. It was particularly weird not
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just because of this, but the fact that he had found it
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digging down deep into the earth.
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He wondered what were the odds of this, and although he had no
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way of knowing for sure, his gut began to tell him that there was
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some kind of witchcraft or a cult expertise at play here.
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Perhaps someone or a group of people were knowingly contacting
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this entity known as Zozo. But for what remained to be
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known, one evening in 1985, Darren and Randy were relaxing
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at Darren's apartment when they decided to host a session on the
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Ouija board. Randy, more than anything,
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wanted to try and make contact with his late idol, Bon Scott
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while wearing a Highway to Hell ACDC shirt.
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Randy's intent was clear. The two dimmed the lights, lit a
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couple of candles, and began the session upon the board.
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They made contact within a few minutes once the planchette was
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moving. Randy exclaimed.
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We want to talk to Bon Scott of ACDC.
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With this sentence, the planchet seemingly obliged.
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It moved in circles, eventually spelling out a YEMATE.
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The 2 looked at each other in amazement.
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The entity was using Australian dialects, and for anyone who
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doesn't know, Bon Scott was Australian.
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After several more questions, both of the young men were
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convinced they were speaking with their idol.
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The spirit seemed to know every little detail to any question
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they asked and during the session the entity then made a
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strange request from the men. It asked them to light a
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cigarette and place it in the hole in the plane jet.
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What proceeded to make both of them laugh also made them quite
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spooked as well. So they lit a couple cigarettes,
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one for each of them and one for this entity.
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They took a few drags to keep it lit and then placed it cherry
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side up in the Blanchette hole. The Blanchette then spelled out
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thanks. They then watched an utter
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amazement as the cherry of the cigarette lit up as if Bon
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himself was taking puffs off of it.
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But this amusement was short lived.
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Once the cigarette had seemingly been smoked, playing Chet began
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to spell something very different.
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It's spelled F you Randy. I will have your soul and I'll
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see you in hell. Zo Zo terrified the men quickly
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into the session by saying goodbye and tossing the board
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outside the second story apartment balcony door.
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Clearly scared and upset, Randy also didn't take kindly to
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threats. He began cussing out Zozo with
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complete and utter rage. The board would later be
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returned by his downstairs neighbor and after this session,
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a series of lows for both of the men seemed to manifest in the
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years to come. Influenced by the lifestyle of
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his idol, Randy fell victim to alcoholism.
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He soon would lose his wife to divorce and have split custody
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with his son. And although many opportunities
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presented themselves for Randy to better his life, for one
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reason or another, he was always just too far away to be able to
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grasp them, he often said to Darren, I feel like I'm in a
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prison and I can't escape for old time's sake.
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The two did one last Ouija board session together in 2005, in
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which Randy asked the board how he would die.
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The board responded in a car at night alone.
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In 2007, after spending the evening with Darren, the last
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words he would say to him were Darren, I will see you in hell.
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The next morning, Darren received a phone call from
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Randy's girlfriend Alicia, saying that Randy never made it
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home after he left. Instead, he had passed away in a
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violent head on collision, ultimately passing away in a car
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at night and alone. This devastating passing, along
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with the frequent contact with the entity known as Zozo over
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the years, led to a fascination and borderline obsession with
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the search for answers for Darren Evans.
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During the time before and after Randy's death, he had been
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living in a home in Oklahoma City, OK that would become
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synonymous with the demon's name.
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It was here that the worst afflictions brought on by the
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entity would take place to him and his family.
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Darren's fascination with the occult led him to hanging on to
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and possessing multiple Ouija boards and other various occult
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objects. It was here that he began to
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study on a much more in depth and organized basis, just trying
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to figure out who or what Zozo was.
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But this research would soon be interrupted, and this home lived
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himself, his wife Kathleen, and their young daughter at the
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time. During a session with his wife
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Kathleen one evening while their daughter slept rooms away, Zozo
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would once again make itself present in their lives, but this
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time seemed to take possession of Darren.
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Kathleen trembled with fear and bated breath as something stared
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at her through Darren's eyes, something that clearly wasn't
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human. He then turned violent,
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attempting to attack her. Fortunately for Kathleen, she
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was able to say goodbye and get away before any harm could be
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done to her. Several minutes later, Darren
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would come back to himself with no memory of what had taken
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place. After this session, things
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seemed to escalate in intensity. Sounds began to rap throughout
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the entire home, from knocking to hissing, footsteps and
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banging, all seemingly with no explainable origin.
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The family got so terrified that they sectioned off a particular
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bedroom upstairs, calling it their safe room.
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One night. However, not everyone was within
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the safe room. Suddenly, an overwhelming sense
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of terror creeped upon Darren as he was trying to sleep.
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He rushed to the safe room to attempt to stop what he was
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feeling, but quickly realizing he couldn't leave his family
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behind, he rushed back out of the room and then attempt to
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gather them and bring them to safety as well.
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As he was heading towards the stairs, his daughter had heard
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his cries. And was now at the foot of the
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stairs. It was here that Darren saw her
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being lifted by invisible hands into the air and carried away
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from him, screaming for his child as she screamed for her
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father. Darren ran down the stairs as
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fast as he possibly could, but couldn't see her anywhere.
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Insight. He then heard her muffled
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screams coming from the basement.
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At first the door was locked and wouldn't open, but after
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adrenaline and brute force, Darren thankfully was able to
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open it. He then retrieved his hysterical
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child and brought her to the safety of the safe room.
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Once inside the room, the family huddled together in fear as they
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continued to hear movement and noises all throughout the house.
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After this abhorrent nightmare of a situation, the family knew
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they had to get out of the house.
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This situation and the many other paranormal experiences had
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led to a lifelong fascination for Darren Evans with the occult
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and finding out just exactly what Sozo is.
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But was it worth jeopardizing his family's safety?
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It took some time, but the family would soon relocate to
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another home. And once his family was safe,
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Darren was able to continue his deep dive into the unknown to
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try and track down and decipher just what this entity could be
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and where it came from. And although he knew the topic
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was vast, I think it went far deeper than he ever anticipated.
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Whilst trying to dig up more information, he posted his
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experiences to an old paranormal forum in 2009.
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And since then, many, many people have shared their
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experiences with the demonic force, many of which have been
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documented and compared by Darren himself on his website.
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But these experiences are not just the 21st or even 20th
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century phenomena, they date back far older than that.
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Not every fine detail will be mentioned here, but I will do my
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best to list the most important details that I could find in
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regards to the origin of Zozo. According to Darren and other
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online sources, Zozo in the old Basque language means Blackbird
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or crow. The Zo people of Haiti practiced
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a form of voodoo whose rituals involve horrific scarification
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as well as the intake and passing around of bodily fluids
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and bizarre rituals. Their witch doctors are called
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Zozo and wear demonic looking masks as part of their death
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ritual. When someone is passing away,
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they lift up the mask at the moment of death to take in the
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person's final breath. This is apparently done to
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absorb the soul of the person to gain more spiritual power.
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Zozo, also in the Malay language is the same as it is in English,
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but it translates to wandering spirit, which is the spirit they
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believe to steal people's souls while they sleep, which is also
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bizarre because sleep is often considered the cousin of death.
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Zozo has been called the minister of deception.
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It is known to convince you that it is the deceased loved one or
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friend or even someone you've idolized, when in reality it's
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not. Sessions typically start out
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friendly and inviting but soon turn malevolent and dangerous.
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During his research over the years, Derren made contact with
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and spoke to famous demonologist John Zappos, who shared with him
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that in his experience of over 40 years of studying the demonic
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and paranormal, the name Zozo and other pseudonyms of its name
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kept coming up in his investigations, which too led
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him to seek answers as to what it could be.
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And some of those investigations, when questioned,
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the demon stated that it was the son of Satan himself.
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But Zapfis thinks perhaps is with many deities that seem to
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be lurking in the shadows, Zozo could be an entity that's
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existed far before the founding of Christianity.
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Besides evidence showing up in Africa and Egypt, there's also
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evidence found linking Zozo to ancient Mesopotamia as well.
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Other names Zozo has gone by throughout the ages have been
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Zuzu, Zaza, and Mamo, among many others.
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The name Zuzu could refer to Pazuzu, the famed demon from the
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film The Exorcist, which in reality was a demonic entity
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from ancient Mesopotamian religion.
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It's incredibly strange to note the following as well.
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Zozo was replaced in the story of the exorcism of Roland Doe
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and Peter Blatty was using it as inspiration to write The
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Exorcist. He changed Zozo to Pazuzu.
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Zozo is believed to be the demon that possessed Roland.
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It was described as a terrifying form that first appeared in the
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Neo Assyrian period, roughly around 934 to 610 BC.
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It had a monstrous head resembling A fierce lion or a
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dog with horns, and had an emaciated human body with clawed
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hands, a scorpion's tail, and two sets of wings, One
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translation reads. I am Pazuzu, the son of Hambu,
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king of the Lilu demons. I have scaled the powerful
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mountains. They trembled.
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The contrary winds were headed West 1 by 1.
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I broke their wings. Pazuzu and other demons like it
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were held responsible for ailments like disease, fetal
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death, nightmares, and much more.
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Could it be that this ancient demonic force is what could be
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plaguing people all the way into modern times?
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The demon Zozo is also mentioned in the French Demonic
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Encyclopedia. Is one of the demons responsible
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for diabolical possession and corruption.
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The possession of a young girl in 1816 is noted as a documented
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case where Zozo, among several other demons, were present.
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Other noteworthy possession cases over the ages ranging
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closer to modern times that bears Ozo's name other than the
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exorcism of rolling dough in the 1950s are the possession of
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Doris Blither in 1972 in Los Angeles, the Enfield Poltergeist
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incident in 1977 in the UK, and as recent as 2012 where a
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possession incident led to an attempted murder.
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Other theories with how this entity could communicate with so
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many people so quickly and across the globe over the years,
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besides supernatural ability of its own, would be that its own
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reach is perhaps being strengthened by an agrigor or a
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collective group of thaw form created by occultists for a
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certain purpose. However this seems unlikely
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considering the entity doesn't seem to serve any human interest
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other than to destroy the person or people's lives it makes
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contact with. Agrigors are typically formed to
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bring control over a summoned deity for the person or groups
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bidding. But perhaps instead there is a
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cold worshipping Zozo? I mean, that would make more
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sense to me. People who have made contact
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with the entity via spirit or Ouija board have also been asked
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to chant or spell out phrases in Hebrew or Latin, which has
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convinced many of the intelligence of the being that
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they're speaking with. What is also interesting is that
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the letter Z was actually removed from the original Latin
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alphabet because it was considered too evil when
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pronouncing it. It was said that one's face
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would make a death's grimace like that of a corpse, and that
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it mimicked the letter S like an evil twin.
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Perhaps the entity uses this name as some sort of mocking,
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whether to God or something else.
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One may also ask, despite the origin, theories, and historical
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details that could be linked to this ancient demonic force, how
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would one know if they encountered such a thing?
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These are what's known as Zozo's calling cards when it's being
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summoned using a Ouija board. The obvious is there that the
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planchette will begin to move on its own, but some less obvious
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signs are there as well and are as follows.
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The planchette will move in a rainbow pattern from side to
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side, spelling ZOZO over and over again, also known as the
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rainbow effect. It can also move in repeating
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Figure 8 movements like an Infinity sign.
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The planchet will spell out various versions of the demon's
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name, like Zozo, Zoso, Zaza, Zuzu, or Mama.
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You may also begin to see shadows moving around the area
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where you were hosting the session, like you're seeing
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through the thinnest sheet and to a Dark World that exists just
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behind your vision. And you and whoever you may be
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with may start to feel scared, uneasy, or upset, seemingly for
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no other reason. Before or after this takes place
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when you tell this entity goodbye.
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Typically the best way to close a session, it may not truly be
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goodbye because often times, depending on how long the
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session has been for, like an ever widening door, the entity
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may have had just enough time to sneak in to begin to wreak havoc
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upon your life. And thus begins what many
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demonologists and religious leaders alike call demonic
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obsession, which is where the entity becomes aware of you and
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begins to crave you, which then leads to oppression or begins to
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inflict various forms of torture upon you in an effort to break
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you down, whether that's physically, psychologically, or
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spiritually. It will also work to isolate you
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from others, especially those who care about you.
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And finally, if you're incredibly unlucky, possession,
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where the entity finally takes control of you as its vessel.
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All of which to me, are absolutely terrifying in every
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imaginable way. Darren Evans to this day
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continues to research the Zozo Phenomena, having been involved
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in the number of paranormal investigations, shows, and
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various other public and private events, as well as radio shows
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and podcasts, many of which he goes into various degrees of
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details regarding his encounters, other people's
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encounters, and other various historical details.
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He also in 2016 compiled his year's worth of research and
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experiences into a book, also titled The Zozo Phenomena, which
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you can read and learn more about the entity and the topic
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as a whole. If you're interested, I'll link
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it below. I also pulled a lot of this
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information from various interviews, which I'll also be
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linking below, as well as an older website he runs that
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doesn't seem to have been updated in a while, but supplied
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me with much information to get the story as cohesive as I
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possibly could. I also sourced the photos of the
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apparitions from this site, some of which were taken by Evans
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himself over the years. So does this demon or ancient
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force truly exist? Is it some kind of elder God, a
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pre Christian deity or being or manifestation of occult or
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Luciferian practices? Did Darren Evans just make it up
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and did thousands of people find it interesting enough to make up
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their own stories and partake in a mass charade that has lasted
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years? All of these answers may never
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truly be known, but my opinion is this I think not only given
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the wide array of strange coincidences and details
34:35
throughout history. From the origins to the stories
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of this creature existing in distant past to the present, to
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literally thousands of people. From casual interest in the
34:47
occult, to more hardcore fanatics, religious scholars,
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demonologists, and more claiming to have had experiences with
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this thing. With all of these details in
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mind, I certainly think it very well could be real.
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I do think there are things that exist in the shadows, things we
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can't see or touch that are there watching and waiting to
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strike when and if the opportunity presents itself.
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So my advice to all of you to avoid any possibility of opening
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a door that you can't close and inviting evil into your life is
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this. Don't mess with Ouija boards.
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These things are not toys. Whether you believe it or not,
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these entities do exist and they believe in you.
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So keep away from them, because you might just let something in
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that won't want to leave even if you say goodbye.
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Man, we're to begin with this one.
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This may end up being a little bit out of order, but so be it.
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So when I initially made the original Zozo video, the one
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that we just watched together, I didn't hear anything from Darren
36:13
himself, but rather someone who claimed to be a friend of his
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who went by the name of Butch, which is presumably an alias.
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Butch said that he had known Darren for a long time and that
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he was a stand up guy. He provided me screenshots of
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proof and what not of their relationship, so I believed him.
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Among those screenshots, Darren had said that yes, the majority
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of the original homes in which the activity had taken place and
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still stood, including the house that was featured on Ghost
36:46
Adventures, and that it was in his still standing and is
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located in Oklahoma City. I think I might have referred to
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Oklahoma City as a small city, and perhaps compared to some
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metropolises like Los Angeles or something, may you know?
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Maybe it is, but for the most part it's considered fairly
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large, particularly in the Midwest, so my apologies there.
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But to my knowledge, it is a rental property or was and is
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more than likely occupied at the moment.
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So with that being said, please don't ever harass or bother
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anyone who might live there. Who even knows if they're aware
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of its particular significance. Anyways, Butch had also said
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that himself, along with others and especially Darren as well,
37:35
were scared to even mention the name and albeit that seems to
37:38
vary from show to show or blog to blog.
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Of course, if one did indeed have these horrendously scary
37:45
experiences dealing with this entity, then one would be
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terrified to even mention it due to its possible return, right?
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But it also made me think that what if this was all some kind
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of tulpa? A tulpa, for those unaware, is a
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thought form or mental entity created through enough focused
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thought and visualization. Its concept originates from
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Tibetan Buddhism and has since been popularized in modern
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Western contexts. The concept describes a being
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with its own independent consciousness, personality and
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will that is created by a person, sometimes referred to as
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a tulpa mancer. And it doesn't really specify if
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the person has to be fully aware of what they are doing or not in
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order to create 1. So this is speculative at best.
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But what if Darren inadvertently created this thought form and it
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started manifesting more in his life?
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And as time went on and it gained further strength and due
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to its story or stories of it being disseminated through the
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Internet, what if it then essentially took on a life of
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its own and began manifesting in other people's lives as well?
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I mean, although Darren and some of my own research conclude that
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there may perhaps be references to a Soso or Zozo or Mama type
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entity throughout various ages and whatnot, we do know that
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Darren was a big fan of Led Zeppelin and probably still is.
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And this is something I didn't really mention in the previous
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video, the first one that is. But Jimmy Page, the guitar tars
39:27
for Led Zeppelin, who kind of deserves a video all of his own,
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was obsessed with the occult. And his favorite occult symbol
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that he often used as a trademark of sorts of his works
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was one that spelled the name Zoso ZOSO.
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So Darren, who maybe was already interested in the occult himself
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and maybe had other occult related experiences, might have
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inadvertently tied the two things together.
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And one thing led to another and we ended up with this tulpa that
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keeps showing up and gaining strength, the various forms of
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media and exposure, kind of like what we're doing now, wink wink.
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And that's why it allegedly keeps showing up during people's
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Ouija board sessions. I'm curious that if it had some
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other type of medium or tool associated with it, like a
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scrying mirror for example, if we'd have the same results or if
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we'd see the phenomena adapted to that said scrying mirror
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versus a Ouija board. If that isn't the case, then
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perhaps we are dealing with the real deal.
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It very well could be an actual entity that maybe we're not
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fully capable of understanding. Certainly seems to feed off
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negative energy, human curiosity, and exploits the
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doorway that is supposedly opened by a Ouija board.
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Or, and this is all devil's advocate speculation here, it's
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made-up. But if it was all made-up, the
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likelihood of a lot of other people having experiences would
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certainly be much lower. Now.
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People do want to be a part of things, whether they were or not
41:07
for one reason or another. It's called confabulation or
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maladaptive storytelling, depending on the context and
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intent. Confabulation is often an
41:18
unconscious act where a person fills in memory gaps with
41:22
fabricated but believable stories they genuinely believe
41:26
are true. Maladaptive storytelling,
41:29
however, is a broader term that can include more intentional
41:32
lying to create a better self-image, even if it's
41:36
harmful. So it is possible that maybe
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that's what's taking place, or maybe, just maybe, the
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phenomena, the entity or entities perhaps exist and are
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waiting and lurking from the shadows.
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I wasn't sure if I was going to mention this or not, but here
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goes nothing. Darren, from what I recall,
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didn't say anything to me on the original upload of the Zozo
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story, but had since commented on my Demonology Archives video
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at some point, definitely early on when it had come out.
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And his comment, albeit I can't remember verbatim what he said,
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seemed angry with me for some reason.
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And this has happened with multiple people over the years,
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so he's certainly not the only one.
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But the comment has since been removed ages ago.
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But I thought it was worth addressing finally, because
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maybe he'll watch this too. At some point during my
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rereading of the emails his friend had sent me, his friend
42:37
told me that he had been dealing with some kind of copyright
42:39
issues as a result of some deal that he had made with some
42:42
project he was involved with. So if that's indeed the case,
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which honestly and understandably so, I'd be angry
42:50
too. But that has nothing to do with
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me, bro. So to Darren, if he happens to
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be watching, I've done my best to respect your experiences,
42:59
your bodies of work and the latter, and I wish you nothing
43:02
but the best. Whatever I did, which I'm not
43:05
even sure what that was to upset you, it certainly was not done
43:09
out of malice with him as well as others.
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All information I provide I get through a variety of sources.
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It's all publicly available knowledge.
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Those of us who are in this field, and I'm sure I'm not the
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only one, can't always find the contacts for those involved in
43:26
cases we're asked to and end up covering.
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And I wanted to say this as well.
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If any of you watch my content, you'll see that I do my absolute
43:35
best to be understanding and respectful when it comes to
43:38
telling people's experiences and reminding those who watch that
43:43
these are real people with real lives and that they need to be
43:47
respected. That respect and empathy is
43:51
incredibly important to me. I also, with others, and Darren
43:55
is no exception here, do my best to link their case back to their
43:59
bodies of work, whether it's blogs or books or other
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interviews or what. Have you?
44:05
I want people to do their own research beyond just my videos,
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you know? But anyways, just wanted to lay
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all of that out there for the sake of being transparent and
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open. As a person as well as a
44:18
creator. I have nothing but respect for
44:20
those I deal with and will continue to do my absolute best
44:24
to uphold integrity with what I do.
44:27
I'm sure that there are other details, in this case
44:30
specifically that I could provide, but honestly it's
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nothing major aside from what I've already mentioned and there
44:37
are many informational bits that Darren has included in his blogs
44:41
and books. All of which I will.
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