Latest / Trapped Souls Podcast / Joel Sturgis - After Hours AM - part two
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- 0:00SPEAKER_01: You hear a lot from investigators about their great evidence or this or that, but you don't hear a lot about them.
- 0:06SPEAKER_01: Talk about like when they went in this private home and helped somebody.
- 0:09SPEAKER_01: You know, it's it's getting a little bit less because I I got a lot of those calls.
- 0:13SPEAKER_01: Hey, you know, can you help me out?
- 0:16SPEAKER_01: Got this cruise, you know, at least just tell me what's going on.
- 0:19SPEAKER_01: Tell me I'm not crazy.
- 0:20SPEAKER_01: Can you can you just come in for a little bit?
- 0:21SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I can do that.
- 0:23SPEAKER_01: And that's more rewarding than anything else, too.
- 0:25SPEAKER_01: It's just helping people out.
- 0:27SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was talking to someone who used to do that all the time.
- 0:29SPEAKER_00: Go and help people out, but that's starting not to because this is not suggesting any of this.
- 0:37SPEAKER_00: If you have an issue at home, do not watch YouTube to figure out how to do it.
- 0:42SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
- 0:44SPEAKER_00: It's it's probably not gonna turn out good if you actually know no, it's not.
- 0:49SPEAKER_00: No, it's not, but I think that's what's happening.
- 0:51SPEAKER_00: People are like, I got a demon in my house, how'd you get rid of a demon?
- 0:55SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, they Google it.
- 0:57SPEAKER_00: Demon removal, demonology for dummies, you know.
- 1:00SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, no, then they run into more problems, yeah.
- 1:03SPEAKER_00: They run into more problems, but like I've had a couple people reach out, and it's like, I can tell you if there is something in your house, maybe like I can't say for sure because we don't know for sure, yeah.
- 1:14SPEAKER_00: But if it's something dark, I'll lead you in the right direction because I'm not that's I'm not your guy for that stuff.
- 1:22SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, yeah.
- 1:25SPEAKER_01: I've done that rodeo, yeah, yeah.
- 1:28SPEAKER_01: The dark, dark stuff, yeah.
- 1:30SPEAKER_01: Back back in the early days when I was learning how to investigate.
- 1:33SPEAKER_01: I I had a book, I had my recorder, and I had all my little gadgets, you know.
- 1:39SPEAKER_01: I started collecting more as we went, you know, try different things, and uh, so you know, at this point, I'd been investigating a couple years, and I'm thinking, hey, I got this under control, I know what I'm doing.
- 1:52SPEAKER_01: Look at that, look at this.
- 1:54SPEAKER_01: I've been doing it, yeah.
- 1:55SPEAKER_01: We got this covered.
- 1:56SPEAKER_01: And so a friend of mine, being in the radio industry, you get to know like the police department really well, you know, because they'll come on.
- 2:02SPEAKER_01: I used to host like during the morning show, ask a cop, stuff like that.
- 2:06SPEAKER_01: So you get to know them, you become friends with them, you know, and and uh so they would tell me about some of the stuff they saw.
- 2:12SPEAKER_01: And there's this one particular case.
- 2:15SPEAKER_01: This gal was standing in her kitchen, and all of her cabinets opened at once, and every dish flew out at her, like hit the wall behind her, right?
- 2:26SPEAKER_01: And and she is freaking out.
- 2:29SPEAKER_01: And and her son, she had a 12-year-old son that would get scratches on him, like almost on the daily, and he would wake up and stand in one spot for like 10 hours, like he'd get up and just stand there sleeping, just stand there, not move a muscle, and then he'd have scratches on him, she'd have scratches on her, uh, just really, you know, really crazy stuff.
- 2:53SPEAKER_01: So she this happens, and this is like the breaking point.
- 2:56SPEAKER_01: So she finally she calls the police.
- 2:58SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, you know, something's going on my house.
- 3:00SPEAKER_01: I'm not sure what's going on.
- 3:02SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, she she calls the police and they come in and they're figuring that they have an intruder in the house.
- 3:08SPEAKER_01: Something you know was going on because they're not thinking paranormal, they're thinking that there was an an intruder in the house.
- 3:15SPEAKER_01: So they send the dog, you know, they couldn't find anyone.
- 3:17SPEAKER_01: They go through the house, they couldn't see anyone.
- 3:19SPEAKER_01: But at that time, they had a canine unit, and they said, Well, you know, we'll send the dog in because the dog always finds people, you know, all the time.
- 3:26SPEAKER_01: You know, it's the dog, he's gonna find it.
- 3:29SPEAKER_01: So, according to the officer that told me this the story, they they sent the dog in, and and the dog came out like five minutes later with his tail between his legs and laid down by the handler's feet and wanted nothing to do with that house.
- 3:42SPEAKER_01: We couldn't get it, go back in.
- 3:43SPEAKER_01: It was done, right?
- 3:45SPEAKER_01: Done.
- 3:46SPEAKER_01: And so uh the the police officer was telling me about it, and I said, Well, do you do you know this gown?
- 3:52SPEAKER_01: And he goes, Yeah, he says, Well, we had just we told her, you know, you might have something going on, but it's not anything we can help you with.
- 3:59SPEAKER_01: And we left.
- 4:01SPEAKER_01: I said, Oh, geez, that poor lady.
- 4:02SPEAKER_01: I said, Well, is there any chance that you would be willing to reach out to her and tell her that I would be interested in doing an investigation, you know, you know, if she'd even be open to that.
- 4:15SPEAKER_01: So I said, Well, here's my number.
- 4:17SPEAKER_01: Have her call me at the studio and I'll talk to her and see, you know, how she feels about that.
- 4:21SPEAKER_01: So she calls me and I tell her, Hey, uh, you know, I'm I'm a paranormal investigator, and she's like, Well, what's that?
- 4:28SPEAKER_01: You know, and I'm like, Well, I look for exactly pretty much what you got going on.
- 4:34SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know, you're you know, you said you have this going on, that going on, and I said, Well, and I start taking notes, you know, we're talking.
- 4:41SPEAKER_01: I said, Well, I stopped her.
- 4:43SPEAKER_01: I said, Hey, let's go meet and have coffee tomorrow, and you can just tell me your whole thing.
- 4:48SPEAKER_01: So we meet, and that's when I found out about the sun being, you know, being disturbed and being scratched, her being scratched.
- 4:55SPEAKER_01: There, there, then she tells me they're they're hearing voices screaming, and they're smelling the smells in their house, and she thinks it's rotten meat, and she's trying to figure out where the smell's coming from, and and uh, and I didn't know you know what from Shinola, right?
- 5:10SPEAKER_01: So I'm not putting this together that oh, they have oppression, that's what it's doing, it's trying to wear them down.
- 5:16SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's it's it's you know, I mean, I'm not putting any of this together.
- 5:20SPEAKER_01: I'm thinking, well, this ghost really means business, huh?
- 5:24SPEAKER_01: So, so I asked her, I said, Hey, you know, I I happen to be good friends with the guy that owned the Super Eight by the radio station, and he was gonna be out of town and he used to live there, but he you know, he had his own hotel room, and so I asked him, Hey, can this gal stay in your hotel room while you're out of town?
- 5:42SPEAKER_01: He owed me a couple favors, and I said, Do you mind if she stays at the hotel room?
- 5:48SPEAKER_01: Because I want to investigate, but I didn't want them there, you know.
- 5:51SPEAKER_01: I mean, I I picked her get them out of there, and I so I told her, Hey, I got you a hotel room for three days, go enjoy it, go swim in the pool, go, you know, go do your thing over there at the Super Eight.
- 6:03SPEAKER_01: And so she says, Oh my god, thank you so much.
- 6:05SPEAKER_01: We have to get out of the house anyway.
- 6:07SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be you know, awesome.
- 6:08SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't care.
- 6:09SPEAKER_01: She's like, I don't care what you do, you know.
- 6:11SPEAKER_01: You get in there, do it, you do what you need to do.
- 6:14SPEAKER_01: And uh, one of the cops' name was Daryl, complete skeptic, like cynic, like there is no such thing as a ghosts, but we were good friends, we're fishing buddies and stuff.
- 6:25SPEAKER_01: And I said, Hey, Daryl, want to come with me on this investigation?
- 6:29SPEAKER_01: Oh, he's like, please, investigation, that whole thing, and he says, You know what?
- 6:34SPEAKER_01: Tell you what, you run around, you do your ghosty thing, and I'll come with you and I'll sleep on the couch, you just do that whole thing, and then we can leave.
- 6:42SPEAKER_01: I said, All right, because I'm like, I said, I'm being told now by other investigators I should bring somebody with me, just in case.
- 6:50SPEAKER_01: So I'm figured I'll bring Daryl with me.
- 6:52SPEAKER_01: Daryl, again, a cop doesn't believe in any of it, right by the book.
- 6:57SPEAKER_01: Mr.
- 6:57SPEAKER_01: You know, just nope, nope, stoic as hell, tough as hell.
- 7:01SPEAKER_01: I think he was also a veteran and marine, didn't mess around.
- 7:05SPEAKER_01: All right, didn't believe in it.
- 7:06SPEAKER_01: Fine, so finally the day comes, and we're we're in the house, and and she hadn't left yet.
- 7:12SPEAKER_01: And we sat down at our kitchen table, and uh she had uh off her kitchen was uh a door with wooden steps that led down to the basement, you know.
- 7:23SPEAKER_01: So the table, you know, was here, and then the basement was just around the corner, and we're sitting there talking, and I'm saying, Hey, you know, you all packed, and you know, and she's given us the rundown again, and of course, Daryl's going, Yeah, I believe you're haunted by as much as I believe whatever, you know, and kind of ridiculing her a little bit, and we hear this come up the steps.
- 7:43SPEAKER_01: It's the best thing I could do is boom, boom, boom, boom, coming up the steps, like somebody's stomping, and this door creaks open real slowly, and she looked at me, she turned pale, and she says, Whenever something like that happens, something bad happens.
- 8:07SPEAKER_01: Whenever we hear that, something bad happens next.
- 8:10SPEAKER_01: I heard it before the dishes flew, I heard it before I was punched.
- 8:15SPEAKER_01: Every time that happens, something bad happens.
- 8:20SPEAKER_01: So I'm getting a little nervous.
- 8:21SPEAKER_01: I'm like, holy shit, lady, you got some activity going on here.
- 8:26SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm I'm not thinking like I might be putting myself in danger at this point, you know.
- 8:32SPEAKER_01: I'm not thinking that at all.
- 8:34SPEAKER_01: I'm thinking, wow, this could be cool.
- 8:36SPEAKER_01: So get her out the door.
- 8:37SPEAKER_01: Hey, you know, go go go ahead, go ahead, go have fun.
- 8:39SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 8:40SPEAKER_01: Daryl goes and lays down, he's like, Ah, whatever.
- 8:43SPEAKER_01: You know what?
- 8:44SPEAKER_01: She must have something, you know, how shift.
- 8:46SPEAKER_01: He's trying to rationalize what we heard in his brain, you know.
- 8:49SPEAKER_01: He's like, There's gotta be a window or something open down something.
- 8:53SPEAKER_01: So I'm sitting there, and and Daryl's snoring away, and I hear that boom, boom, boom again, and the door opens, and I smell suddenly.
- 9:08SPEAKER_01: I'm like, did you light a match?
- 9:09SPEAKER_01: Why why am I smelling the smell?
- 9:12SPEAKER_01: You know, almost felt smell burnt.
- 9:14SPEAKER_01: I'm thinking, is something burning up?
- 9:16SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's a smell, and it went away.
- 9:18SPEAKER_01: I'm like, Well, that was strange.
- 9:20SPEAKER_01: I didn't know anything about the negative at this point, like, bear in mind, nothing, right?
- 9:26SPEAKER_01: And and so the second time I heard it again, nothing happened.
- 9:32SPEAKER_01: So I'm I'm like, uh-huh.
- 9:34SPEAKER_01: I got an idea.
- 9:35SPEAKER_01: So I she had some flour in her in her uh pantry, and I'm like, I'm gonna spread this out.
- 9:41SPEAKER_01: Now, I don't know if you ever heard the investigator Harry Price, you might have, yeah, from the 30s, and so he did in the confessions of a ghost hunter, he would use like baby powder, you know, powders and stuff like that to capture footprints.
- 9:54SPEAKER_01: And I thought, well, that's what I'm gonna do, is I'm gonna I'm gonna lay this down, and then when this thing steps on it, I'm gonna be able to get my my footprints.
- 10:02SPEAKER_01: So I lay it down, and uh and I'm waiting at the top of the steps for this to this happen again with the door closed.
- 10:10SPEAKER_01: So I'm waiting.
- 10:12SPEAKER_01: I start hearing that boom, boom, boom.
- 10:17SPEAKER_01: And then that Daryl wakes up, he goes, The hell keep it down, man.
- 10:21SPEAKER_01: I'm trying to sleep, and I'm like, Shut up, Daryl, shut up.
- 10:26SPEAKER_01: He says, Whatever.
- 10:27SPEAKER_01: So he goes back to sleep.
- 10:29SPEAKER_01: So the door opens, and I got hit by the biggest blast of cold.
- 10:35SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, it felt like 40 below zero was hitting me full body, like woof, but at the same time, it felt like something full body pushed me, like so hard.
- 10:48SPEAKER_01: I ended up hitting the wall behind me and cracking her drywall.
- 10:52SPEAKER_01: Like, that's how hard this thing hit me.
- 10:54SPEAKER_01: I mean, I flew back, and I I'm I'm I'm not cuckoo.
- 10:59SPEAKER_01: Daryl gets up and goes, I don't know what the hell's going on here.
- 11:02SPEAKER_01: And he tears out of the house, he's running down the road.
- 11:05SPEAKER_01: He's he promised he'd never leave me.
- 11:08SPEAKER_01: He's like, I don't know what the hell's in that house, but I'm not gonna hang around and find out.
- 11:12SPEAKER_01: So he's running down the road.
- 11:13SPEAKER_01: I'm there in this house by myself, and I got this whatever is going on at this time.
- 11:19SPEAKER_01: I don't know what's going on, and I'm and I'm not, you know, I'm still trying to gather what the hell just happened because I mean it hit me hard.
- 11:28SPEAKER_01: And so I gather myself, I stand up, and I start walking into the living room, which is away from that door.
- 11:36SPEAKER_01: The door slams behind me, like hard, slams, and then I'm standing there going, okay, and it just registered to me.
- 11:47SPEAKER_01: I'm alone in this house by myself.
- 11:52SPEAKER_01: I got something that clearly has the ability to assault me.
- 11:57SPEAKER_01: Like that, you know, I don't know if this is a warning shot or what's going on.
- 12:03SPEAKER_01: So I'm standing there and and something comes behind me again, the worst.
- 12:10SPEAKER_01: It's it smelled terrible.
- 12:12SPEAKER_01: And all it said is a whispered very softly, you need to leave.
- 12:19SPEAKER_01: Just like that.
- 12:21SPEAKER_01: And I stopped and I and I knew something was behind me, so I didn't even turn around.
- 12:26SPEAKER_01: I just said, Will you please let me get my stuff and I'll leave?
- 12:31SPEAKER_01: And it you could feel it changed, energy changed, and you don't know how defeated you feel gathering your equipment.
- 12:40SPEAKER_01: I mean, maybe you do, maybe you've been in a similar situation, but I felt so defeated, like oh my god, like leaving like a scalded child, like you know, like wow, and that was my only brush with the what I would call the negative, right?
- 13:01SPEAKER_01: And that was enough.
- 13:03SPEAKER_01: When I hear negative, I'm like, I don't know, man.
- 13:05SPEAKER_01: I I don't know, that's a tall order, I don't know, but yeah, that that's uh the I'll never forget that.
- 13:15SPEAKER_01: And and again, you know, anyone that messes with that stuff.
- 13:19SPEAKER_01: I go to people that know what they're doing because it could easily blow up in your face, it could easily get tenfold worse.
- 13:27SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there's so many people out there like, oh, I'll mess with mega stuff, I'll mess with demons.
- 13:31SPEAKER_00: I'm like, dude, be careful what you wish for, man.
- 13:35SPEAKER_01: Right, you know, I found mine, my my counter was stupid, dumb.
- 13:40SPEAKER_01: I would say luck, but it was arrogance, not understanding what I was messing with, not a full scope of what I was messing with.
- 13:49SPEAKER_01: I put myself in that situation, not understanding, right?
- 13:54SPEAKER_01: Uh, so the lady, I I speak with the client, I go, I am so sorry I couldn't help you.
- 14:02SPEAKER_01: And I kind of explained to her what happened to me.
- 14:04SPEAKER_01: She looked at me so stone faced, she says, Nobody can help me.
- 14:08SPEAKER_01: I already know that there's nobody that can help me.
- 14:11SPEAKER_01: So, luckily, about a few uh two years later.
- 14:18SPEAKER_01: Um, well, anyhow, well, I'm getting ahead of myself.
- 14:21SPEAKER_01: She was able to move out of there because during that time, that three-day weekend I gave her, she was able to kind of clear ahead and be away from it.
- 14:28SPEAKER_01: She ended up finding, you know, some family because she dumped every nickel into this house, so she couldn't really leave.
- 14:34SPEAKER_01: But she ended up uh talking.
- 14:36SPEAKER_01: I think her sister-in-law, they ended up moving in with them because she just couldn't bear the thought of going back, which I don't blame her.
- 14:42SPEAKER_01: And then a couple of years after that, they're expanding the highway, and her they bought the house from her, and now it's a highway where the house used to be.
- 14:52SPEAKER_01: That's the best thing that could happen to that place, in my in my opinion.
- 14:56SPEAKER_01: And so now it's part of the interstate system.
- 14:59SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's good, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 15:01SPEAKER_00: That that was far as I'm concerned, that was a good thing.
- 15:06SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, I'm glad it whatever was there didn't follow her.
- 15:10SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that does happen a lot, but yeah, go get help, man.
- 15:14SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's the whole key.
- 15:16SPEAKER_00: I mean, it doesn't you don't hear too many stories out there anymore about it happening.
- 15:21SPEAKER_00: I'm sure it does.
- 15:22SPEAKER_01: Um, but it's but Ryan, it's okay to say I don't know, and I don't yeah, I mean it's okay, yeah.
- 15:29SPEAKER_01: You know, there's there's no penalty, yeah.
- 15:31SPEAKER_01: You know, if you don't know, just be honest.
- 15:35SPEAKER_00: I mean, how many abandoned locations you go into or new things that you go in there and there's kids drawing pentagrams on there or even sacrificing animals because they think it's cool, you know.
- 15:46SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, right, right.
- 15:50SPEAKER_00: You might not be bringing anything like demonic in, but you can bring something negative in at least.
- 15:55SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and and one of your listeners just wrote on there.
- 15:58SPEAKER_01: I I'm watching the board, you know, what do you think happened to the entity when the house is demolished?
- 16:05SPEAKER_01: You know, I don't know.
- 16:06SPEAKER_01: I I don't know.
- 16:07SPEAKER_01: I I didn't, you know, I mean, once it was demolished and stuff became part of the highway.
- 16:10SPEAKER_01: I I haven't heard like people are seeing anything or anything like that.
- 16:14SPEAKER_01: I haven't really kept up on it.
- 16:16SPEAKER_01: I guess part of me was scared, like I don't even want to think about this place anymore, you know.
- 16:23SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't want to forget about this house, you know, that whole thing.
- 16:26SPEAKER_01: So there is that too.
- 16:28SPEAKER_01: But I mean they might move elsewhere, I don't know.
- 16:31SPEAKER_01: I I I just I don't have that answer.
- 16:34SPEAKER_00: I always thought that too.
- 16:35SPEAKER_00: Like, I told you I listened to exorcism and stuff.
- 16:38SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they got rid of the demon, you know, exorcism.
- 16:42SPEAKER_00: But great, you just went to the neighbor's house now.
- 16:44SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, it might, it might have, you know, because that whole block, the whole radius was bought out for this new interstate to go through or part of the interstate, so you know, a large portion was taken out, but yeah, who knows?
- 16:56SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know, yeah, it could have gone anywhere as long as it didn't come with me.
- 17:01SPEAKER_01: I know it didn't come with me, and I'm happy about that one because I don't know what I would have done if that thing would have been screwing around with me.
- 17:07SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, I mean that's good.
- 17:09SPEAKER_00: I mean, I I've talked to Father Bob a little bit about that.
- 17:12SPEAKER_00: He'll be on the show, I believe, November.
- 17:14SPEAKER_00: He's gonna jump on.
- 17:16SPEAKER_00: Um, he's the one that he's always out there, Father Bob.
- 17:20SPEAKER_00: So I mean, he yeah, I heard him speak, and they they asked pretty much the same question, what happens to it?
- 17:26SPEAKER_00: And you know, I don't want to misquote him, but I think he walks it to the light and let God judge him.
- 17:33SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
- 17:35SPEAKER_01: I uh ended up uh um years after that, I ended up talking to Malachi Martin, Father Malachi Martin, and he wrote, of course, you know, the the definitive book, you know, hostage to the devil.
- 17:47SPEAKER_01: And uh he was always he was on coast to coast a lot to talk to art and I had a chance to kind of talk to him a little bit, and and he he's like, You're you're actually kind of lucky.
- 17:57SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know, I mean that you know it was just that because then of course he goes into tales of you know things you know following you or or ruining your life, or you know, but one one thing he did say, he says, you know, people will challenge the demonic at that moment.
- 18:15SPEAKER_01: Like, I challenge you to do this, or I challenge you to do that.
- 18:19SPEAKER_01: But one thing they don't understand is they have nothing but time.
- 18:22SPEAKER_01: Time is not a thing to them, right?
- 18:24SPEAKER_01: They're gonna wait till you're at your weakest before they balance.
- 18:27SPEAKER_01: They're they're gonna wait.
- 18:28SPEAKER_01: I mean, just because you challenge today doesn't, you know, I mean they may take you up tomorrow on it, you know.
- 18:34SPEAKER_01: So, you know, they're they're they're gonna wait until you're at your weakest, they're gonna wait until they can really infest your life, you know.
- 18:40SPEAKER_01: And that's that's what's a lot of people too.
- 18:43SPEAKER_00: These pay-to-play places, you know, demonic.
- 18:46SPEAKER_00: No, demonic's not gonna be at a pay-to-play place, so no, no, because they have to break you down, yeah.
- 18:52SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's it's it's not like oh, there's a demon in that corner.
- 18:55SPEAKER_01: Oh, look at that demon.
- 18:56SPEAKER_01: No, no, this was now when after I kind of smoke cleared, and and and I kind of was able to research a little bit, and that's another thing I didn't do is I didn't research the property, I had no idea.
- 19:11SPEAKER_01: Um, before that property, she bought it, and I didn't know this, and I don't even know if she knew this, but I I ended up pull talk to the police, and they pulled, you know, have there ever been calls to that house before?
- 19:26SPEAKER_01: You know, and and it was a murder suicide place, you know, there was a murder suicide place at the home years before she got into it, and it was vacant a long time before she moved in.
- 19:39SPEAKER_00: So, knowing what you know now and hearing her story before you went in there, would you go in there?
- 19:47SPEAKER_01: No, I mean I would I I I would uh get them the best help I could, yeah.
- 19:55SPEAKER_01: I I would uh uh you know listen to their story and and reach out to the best resources I could direct them to because I'm no good, I would just be in there poking the bear, I might make it tenfold worse.
- 20:09SPEAKER_01: Now this thing knows that someone knows exists, right?
- 20:12SPEAKER_01: So now it might make it because there's a real chance it gets worse, and that has happened where people have gone in, messed with it, and now you're leaving that homeowner take pick up these pieces, and it's become a thousand times worse, right?
- 20:30SPEAKER_00: Let's get encrypted a little bit.
- 20:31SPEAKER_00: Um cryptids we have a lot of what we some people call evidence of the paranormal, which it's not evidence, it's just interesting.
- 20:43SPEAKER_00: But how come we don't have as much as encrypted?
- 20:49SPEAKER_01: But don't we?
- 20:51SPEAKER_01: I mean, we have footprints, we have hair samples, we have tangible things that we can hold on to.
- 20:56SPEAKER_01: What the hair samples, I ask you that, like it's always and indeterminate.
- 21:00SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, that's because they don't have anything in the in the uh sample to compare to, so they don't have anything in the genome sample to you know, you know, like if it's a dog, hey, it's a dog.
- 21:11SPEAKER_01: Look, we already have the sample from earlier tests, so we know it's a dog.
- 21:15SPEAKER_01: They don't have a genome mapped out for Bigfoot, right?
- 21:20SPEAKER_01: So that's that's why it's kind of inconclusive usually.
- 21:23SPEAKER_00: All right, I'll just do Bigfoot.
- 21:27SPEAKER_00: I think I already believe that it's real.
- 21:30SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
- 21:31SPEAKER_01: I do as well because I saw one.
- 21:33SPEAKER_01: So yeah, okay.
- 21:34SPEAKER_01: There we go.
- 21:35SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's that's what got me going.
- 21:37SPEAKER_01: Mothman.
- 21:39SPEAKER_01: You know, I you know, if you read I I interviewed John Keel and he wrote the Mothman prophecies.
- 21:47SPEAKER_01: This is years ago.
- 21:48SPEAKER_01: This is a long time ago.
- 21:51SPEAKER_01: Um, and and and the Mothman was a small piece of a puzzle to a much bigger case.
- 21:58SPEAKER_01: You know, the Mothman.
- 22:00SPEAKER_01: Was seen, of course, when the silver bridge went down, people saw it.
- 22:05SPEAKER_01: But what a lot of people don't realize is that there was a big UFO flap going on in that area already.
- 22:13SPEAKER_01: And and you know, there was there was men in black involved, there were many sightings of UFOs, there were aliens being spotted.
- 22:21SPEAKER_01: So it was already a hotbed that area for you UFO activity.
- 22:26SPEAKER_01: Now, Mothman comes into play because the silver bridge went down, but there wasn't just one Mothman.
- 22:34SPEAKER_01: There are people said that they saw hundreds of Mothman that day, that there were a lot of them around.
- 22:41SPEAKER_01: So it kind of begs the question: is it a cryptid or is it maybe an alien that was marooned or or an alien, you know?
- 22:48SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know, which is it?
- 22:50SPEAKER_01: But yes, I haven't found anything to do with Mothman.
- 22:54SPEAKER_01: I went to Point Pleasant, went to the TNT area.
- 22:57SPEAKER_01: I looked as much as I interviewed a lot of the witnesses that are still around that could talk on it.
- 23:02SPEAKER_01: They absolutely believe it, they absolutely believe what they know what they saw, and you're not gonna change their mind.
- 23:07SPEAKER_01: I didn't find any evidence to support Mothman, not to say didn't exist, but uh in my estimation, and this is where I'm kind of a skeptic, it is a wildlife preserve, and it's a wildlife preserve for owls.
- 23:24SPEAKER_01: Okay, and some of those owls get pretty damn big, right?
- 23:28SPEAKER_01: And they can get aggressive.
- 23:30SPEAKER_01: So I'm not saying moth now is owl, but it's yeah, yeah, I have a hard time with that one.
- 23:38SPEAKER_00: Yeah, all right, triple cava.
- 23:41SPEAKER_01: You know, when I was living in Texas, that was kind of getting big, it was gaining traction, the goat sucker.
- 23:47SPEAKER_01: And I I went looking for the goat sucker, and I talked to a lot of the folks that were allegedly seeing the goat sucker, and uh it sounded like they're seeing a dog that looked like it hadn't eaten too, you know, as much as it should have.
- 24:00SPEAKER_01: Um, I personally haven't found any good evidence of the chupacabra.
- 24:07SPEAKER_01: Other researchers have they've found great evidence of it.
- 24:10SPEAKER_01: They even claimed the pictures of it.
- 24:12SPEAKER_01: I was never lucky enough.
- 24:13SPEAKER_01: I did look, I did see what were uh alleged true trupa cabra tracks.
- 24:18SPEAKER_01: I did talk to a couple farmers that allegedly had their their sheep that were, you know, the blood was all out of them, you know.
- 24:26SPEAKER_01: And so there was evidence there that something something of highest strangeness is going on, but to what level?
- 24:32SPEAKER_01: I I can't really speak to that.
- 24:35SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I always thought that was just uh something made up to keep the kids in.
- 24:40SPEAKER_01: I I kind of thought that too.
- 24:42SPEAKER_01: I really did.
- 24:42SPEAKER_01: I mean, I because I didn't see any real physical evidence to support its existence.
- 24:49SPEAKER_01: I do have it in my book, my cryptid book.
- 24:51SPEAKER_01: I do cover the chupacabra a little bit from what I know of it, you know.
- 24:55SPEAKER_01: My limited, you know, my limited knowledge of my investigating in it, but it didn't it really didn't resonate with me as far as maybe being something that I would put on the hierarchy of legitimate being a legitimate cryptid.
- 25:12SPEAKER_00: All right, big question here then.
- 25:15SPEAKER_00: We got paranormal, we got cryptid, we got UFOs.
- 25:19SPEAKER_00: What's gonna be solved first?
- 25:25SPEAKER_01: You know, I want to say, I mean, ghost in my mind, there's no doubt in my mind that there's a I know, but with evidence, like with yeah, um, I mean personal with evidence.
- 25:38SPEAKER_01: I think their best chance with evidence, full blown, no BS evidence, it's gotta be the UFOs, and the government's already vetting us for disclosure.
- 25:50SPEAKER_01: They're they're putting a little more, a little more out there.
- 25:53SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, and and and quite honestly, anyone that says there's no aliens is is fooling themselves.
- 26:00SPEAKER_01: If we can be here, they can be there, right?
- 26:02SPEAKER_01: You know, uh, so I mean it's the law of averages just say hey there there there are other things out there.
- 26:08SPEAKER_01: Why have a barren universe, right?
- 26:10SPEAKER_01: So but I think that that's gonna be the first thing that's gonna be widely, if it does come to pass, will be widely now.
- 26:17SPEAKER_01: A lot of the reason why Bigfoot has not been really put out there wide is because think of how things have changed overnight, like for the timber industry, you know.
- 26:27SPEAKER_01: Now you or you know, I mean, all those industries that deal with the forest, you know, now they have to account for this new endangered species.
- 26:35SPEAKER_01: Now we have to set land aside, now we have to do this and do that.
- 26:38SPEAKER_01: But UFOs aren't far behind because religion would change overnight, right?
- 26:44SPEAKER_01: You know, uh the power structure in the world would change overnight.
- 26:48SPEAKER_01: I mean, who are you gonna follow?
- 26:49SPEAKER_01: The guy with the ray gun that's got a billion years of evolution on you that you know has all this great technology that they've given us and they haven't given us everything, they give us little little tidbits of technology, or you go with the guys that have been screwing you all these years in line to you.
- 27:05SPEAKER_01: I'm going to the aliens, okay.
- 27:07SPEAKER_00: What I got to lose.
- 27:09SPEAKER_00: Uh does Bigfoot travel interdimensional?
- 27:14SPEAKER_01: In my opinion, I think it's a flesh and blood creature.
- 27:17SPEAKER_01: My in my own opinion.
- 27:18SPEAKER_01: I just think that they're very adept at stealth.
- 27:22SPEAKER_01: That that's what I believe.
- 27:24SPEAKER_01: Now I have talked to several people, like on my own radio show, that that absolutely, you know, hey, it's interdimensional.
- 27:30SPEAKER_01: Uh in fact, I just had uh uh uh an email uh encounter where a guy says hey it it it was an orb and then it turned into a bigfoot.
- 27:40SPEAKER_01: You know, the orb morphed into being a bigfoot and I stared at it and and I watched it.
- 27:45SPEAKER_01: So, you know, there's both camps, but for me, for me personally, if you're pin me down, I think it's flesh and blood.
- 27:51SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 27:52SPEAKER_00: I mean the government spent a lot of money researching Bigfoot.
- 28:00SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 28:00SPEAKER_00: I mean they had their own facility, they had everything because of its camouflage.
- 28:07SPEAKER_01: Right?
- 28:08SPEAKER_01: I mean, could have been something made in at Plum Island.
- 28:11SPEAKER_01: Nobody knows.
- 28:12SPEAKER_01: Nobody knows.
- 28:13SPEAKER_01: You know, Plum Island is where they do all the genetic testing for DARPA and the CIA, and you know.
- 28:22SPEAKER_00: So how much does Native Americans play into not folklore but paranormal?
- 28:27SPEAKER_01: Oh, I I think absolutely.
- 28:30SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, like I remember when I went looking for you know the Windigo, I ended up going to the uh a Native American um reservation, and it was a place called Thief River Falls, and it's got a fairly sizable, but that is hot spot for for windigo, and they absolutely believe in it, and I believe they believe in it, but uh I saw something I can't explain.
- 28:57SPEAKER_01: I I after after I begged basically, hey, because not none of the native people want to take me out look for wing windigo, even bringing up the windigo was not cool, you know.
- 29:07SPEAKER_01: They're like, we don't talk about it, we don't bring it up.
- 29:09SPEAKER_01: It's not something that we just go out there and say, Hey, how about that windigo?
- 29:13SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, they very when it is brought up, it it's very, you know, like big deal.
- 29:20SPEAKER_01: Like, let's just kind of not bring that up.
- 29:23SPEAKER_01: So I ended up befriending a Native American gentleman that would happen to be a uh hunting guide, and and he and he he said, Hey, I you know, I I believe in the windigo, I've never seen one, but you know, I know where or thereabouts people have seen windigo.
- 29:40SPEAKER_01: So we I'm like, Hey, would you be willing to take me out there and we check out for a windigo?
- 29:46SPEAKER_01: And he says, Yeah, absolutely.
- 29:47SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, I you well, I shouldn't say he was in that chip or about it.
- 29:50SPEAKER_01: He's like, Are you serious?
- 29:51SPEAKER_01: Are you serious?
- 29:52SPEAKER_01: Yeah, would you show me?
- 29:54SPEAKER_01: Well, I'll show you, but you know, I'll take you out there.
- 29:58SPEAKER_01: But just saying, I'm letting you know now.
- 30:01SPEAKER_01: I I don't think it's a good idea.
- 30:03SPEAKER_01: So we go out looking for the windigo, and um I'm in this meadow, and there's these tall Norway Norway pines, this meadow, and and the the strangest thing I ever saw in my life is sitting there.
- 30:18SPEAKER_01: It looks like a piece of saran wrap, but it's human-sized and it's moving.
- 30:24SPEAKER_01: It reminded me of if I had to explain it to the listeners, it reminded me of the Predator.
- 30:29SPEAKER_01: Remember the movie The Predator?
- 30:30SPEAKER_01: It kind of had that sheen to it, like I kept on looking, and I'm like, what is that over there?
- 30:36SPEAKER_01: You know, and I'm watching it, and it's in the trees, and it's going from tree to tree to tree, and it looks just like saran wrap, like you know, I mean, like clear plastic, and because the lights catch it once in a while.
- 30:48SPEAKER_01: Look, you know, I can see right through it.
- 30:50SPEAKER_01: And the guy that I'm with he grabs me right by the back of I was wearing a hoodie.
- 30:55SPEAKER_01: This is the fall of the year, and he grabs my hoodie from behind, he pulls me back.
- 31:00SPEAKER_01: He says, We are effing leaving right now.
- 31:03SPEAKER_01: We are leaving, full stop.
- 31:05SPEAKER_01: We're leaving, we are leaving.
- 31:08SPEAKER_01: Well, dude, dude, what is that?
- 31:11SPEAKER_01: You know, I'm watching this thing in awe, and I'm you know, like, you know, again, not knowing what I'm dealing with, obviously, and I'm looking and uh I want to take pictures.
- 31:21SPEAKER_01: And he says, You don't take not take pictures, you nope, you're leaving, we are leaving, we're leaving now.
- 31:27SPEAKER_01: And and he he meant it and he drugged me off.
- 31:31SPEAKER_01: And he's a bigger dude, he was he was probably about six foot five, going about three bills.
- 31:36SPEAKER_01: So, I mean, he grabbed me, and uh, you know, and and he's and I'm going, No, dude, give me five.
- 31:40SPEAKER_01: No, we're leaving.
- 31:41SPEAKER_01: So we leave, and we get back to you know, his his the the reservation.
- 31:47SPEAKER_01: He goes, You need to go talk to the medicine man, and I need to go talk to the medicine man.
- 31:51SPEAKER_01: We have to go do that now.
- 31:53SPEAKER_01: Uh no, no arguing, we have to go do this.
- 31:56SPEAKER_01: So we end up going to him and and he's telling him, you know, I'm inside the truck and he's pointing, he's talking, and I see his arms flailing around, you know, to this guy, and because I didn't know this guy at all, so I kind of hung back because I didn't want to be like, Hey, by the way, I'm Joel, I'm looking for a windigo today.
- 32:12SPEAKER_01: How you doing?
- 32:12SPEAKER_01: And shake his hand.
- 32:13SPEAKER_01: I I figure I'd stay back and let him do the talking.
- 32:17SPEAKER_01: So he's doing the talking and then and he waves to me, you know, from I'm sitting in the truck, he waves to me so I get out, and and the and the the guy that the the medicine man goes, Did you did you see this?
- 32:29SPEAKER_01: And he and he explains, you know, you know, did you see that?
- 32:33SPEAKER_01: And I said, Yeah, I I did, I did.
- 32:36SPEAKER_01: And I said, It was it was actually pretty cool.
- 32:38SPEAKER_01: I'm trying to figure out what that was.
- 32:40SPEAKER_01: And he says, That's not for you to know what that was.
- 32:45SPEAKER_01: I said, Okay, well, you gotta share with me what that was?
- 32:50SPEAKER_01: That'd be kind of cool.
- 32:52SPEAKER_01: You you saw a windigo.
- 32:55SPEAKER_01: What he says, yeah.
- 32:57SPEAKER_01: When you see a windigo, you're marked, and that you're marked, yeah.
- 33:01SPEAKER_01: I mean that you you need to get clean, like you need to get that off of you because it's it's basically a demon, it will follow you, it will stalk you, it will follow, it knows you.
- 33:11SPEAKER_01: You watched it.
- 33:12SPEAKER_01: If you see one, you're next in in their idea, you know, in their mind, you are next if you see one.
- 33:19SPEAKER_01: So we go into um his area, and he's got sage and he's got salts, and he's got smoke, different smokes and stuff, and he's he's got this feather, and he's smoking, you know, putting smoke around me, and he's chanting and stuff, and and and I'm like, dude, what's this guy doing?
- 33:35SPEAKER_01: You know, I mean, in the back of my head, I'm like, Oh, you know, what the hell's going on here?
- 33:39SPEAKER_01: Finally, I gets done, and he and and and he says, Well, you're clean now.
- 33:44SPEAKER_01: I said, Why?
- 33:44SPEAKER_01: And he said, You had a windigo with you.
- 33:47SPEAKER_01: It was it was with you, it was attaching to you.
- 33:51SPEAKER_01: Well, get out of town.
- 33:54SPEAKER_01: And and so then he does the same thing with the you know the other another native fellow, but yeah, he he's like, You're you're lucky that you weren't by yourself to see this and then not come to me because it would have infected your life, it it would have it would have destroyed you.
- 34:15SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's I'm not not saying that's not true or not, because I don't know, we don't know.
- 34:21SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't know.
- 34:23SPEAKER_00: But if someone told you that before you left and you did not get cleansed, your book I don't know what would have happened, you know.
- 34:32SPEAKER_01: I I often think about that.
- 34:33SPEAKER_01: What what would have happened to me?
- 34:34SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know, if you didn't know that it would affect you, then I don't think it would affect you, but yeah, yeah, someone told you you you know I know what you're saying.
- 34:42SPEAKER_01: There there's a certain amount of belief that probably has to come into that, and they wholeheartedly believed it.
- 34:49SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't mess with Native American stuff.
- 34:51SPEAKER_01: I no, no, I I you know I was researching for the book, and it's in the book, you know, about the windigo.
- 35:00SPEAKER_01: I I it's kind of I left it generalized about the windigo and stuff, uh on their on their request that you know it not be and so I was respectful and uh I just have a chapter on it, and uh yeah, it was it was interesting writing that book, and it's gonna be coming out.
- 35:18SPEAKER_01: Foundations publishing is putting that out there, and it will be next month be available.
- 35:23SPEAKER_01: If you're interested in uh learning more about my exploits, you can uh pre-order the book, and that's just uh go on over there and go to Joel Sturge's books at gmail.com and you can just uh put in there pre-order, put your name, which book you want, and I will get you a book.
- 35:41SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, you can buy a book, I'll even sign it for you.
- 35:44SPEAKER_00: Wow, nice.
- 35:45SPEAKER_00: I'll probably have to do that because I am collecting signed books now.
- 35:49SPEAKER_00: Every paracon I go to.
- 35:50SPEAKER_00: I have to buy a couple books.
- 35:52SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
- 35:54SPEAKER_00: I always feel bad when they're signed.
- 35:55SPEAKER_00: I try not to fold it too much, you know.
- 35:57SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, yeah.
- 35:58SPEAKER_01: Anyone that wants, I'll just you know, order one, I'll I'll get it to you, I'll sign it for you.
- 36:03SPEAKER_00: Um, so what other books do you have out there?
- 36:05SPEAKER_00: Is that your first one?
- 36:06SPEAKER_01: I got no, well, I got I got a few different books.
- 36:10SPEAKER_01: I I got several books.
- 36:11SPEAKER_01: I I have, of course, that one, and then I did uh uh ultimate paranormal uh investigator field guide, where I basically take everybody through what I wish I would have known, and then I kind of teach them what I taught, you know.
- 36:24SPEAKER_01: I mean, as best I can, you know, take it for what it is, everyone has their own idea, but it was fun to write, you know, gain all the knowledge I've collected over 30 years in a book, you know, and so I tried my best to kind of you know navigate people through the world of the paranormal and how to maybe investigate along the way, yeah.
- 36:42SPEAKER_01: You know, and if they find something cool with the book and it's helpful, absolutely I've done my job, you know.
- 36:47SPEAKER_00: But at the same time, it was also fun to write.
- 36:50SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
- 36:51SPEAKER_00: So after hours a.m.
- 36:54SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
- 36:55SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know what?
- 36:56SPEAKER_01: Go to the iHeartRadio app, type it in up in the little search bar after hours a.m.
- 37:01SPEAKER_01: We're live and you can listen.
- 37:03SPEAKER_01: There's also about 15 years of podcasts there.
- 37:07SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so there's a lot of years, a lot of stuff in there, a lot of rare interviews.
- 37:12SPEAKER_01: I still keep up there uh from people that are either past, you know, like I have Hans Holzer on there, I have the original Warren, you know, the Warrens are on there and stuff like that.
- 37:22SPEAKER_01: So uh yeah, yeah, go check it out, have fun with it, download as many as you can because I mean there's many years of podcasts.
- 37:29SPEAKER_01: I think there's up, I think I have like 3,000 episodes up right now, so you can go ahead and pick and choose and check it out, and you know, and then of course, I'm available on YouTube.
- 37:40SPEAKER_01: We're we've started YouTube in it, we're not just strictly radio anymore, we also use StreamYard, so we're on YouTube, and of course, we got the TikTok, the after hours am TikTok, and for the short videos and all that kind of good stuff.
- 37:53SPEAKER_01: It's just a it's just a good time, yeah.
- 37:55SPEAKER_00: Everybody, you know, definitely follow him after hours am i heart.
- 38:01SPEAKER_00: Get his books.
- 38:02SPEAKER_00: I'm going to.
- 38:03SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I appreciate it.
- 38:04SPEAKER_00: I appreciate everyone.
- 38:05SPEAKER_00: I appreciate you having me on your show, man.
- 38:07SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I appreciate it too.
- 38:08SPEAKER_00: Um, interesting talking to you, man.
- 38:10SPEAKER_00: You got a lot of thank you.
- 38:12SPEAKER_00: 35 years.
- 38:13SPEAKER_00: I'm only 20 years into paranormal, so you got 10 more years.
- 38:16SPEAKER_01: That's still that's still a considerable amount of time, and we're still learning every day, every time, you know.
- 38:25SPEAKER_01: I mean, I still read books like crazy, you know.
- 38:28SPEAKER_01: Like uh right now I'm I'm reading another like a new Brad, uh Brad Stugger book I've never read, you know, read before.
- 38:35SPEAKER_01: I don't I don't watch a lot of the TV shows, I find them kind of boring myself, yeah.
- 38:39SPEAKER_01: You know, but that's just me.
- 38:40SPEAKER_01: That's just me.
- 38:41SPEAKER_01: I know a lot of people love them, and that's cool.
- 38:43SPEAKER_01: I I I find you know, because I always find myself saying to myself, you guys kind of did that wrong.
- 38:48SPEAKER_01: I would have done this way, you know, that kind of thing, you know.
- 38:51SPEAKER_01: So I don't, but you know what?
- 38:53SPEAKER_01: It brings people into the field that wouldn't have been in the field otherwise, exactly.
- 38:57SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, so it has its place.
- 38:59SPEAKER_00: I watch TV shows to learn what not to do when I go out.
- 39:04SPEAKER_01: I've always jokingly said there should be entertainment purposes only across the screen when you first start watching one of those, right?
- 39:11SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for entertainment purposes only.
- 39:13SPEAKER_00: They are.
- 39:14SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's you know the apps they make, they say that they say it and all that ghost hunting apps, entertain personally.
- 39:20SPEAKER_00: Again, you see Joel Sturgis anywhere after hours a.m.
- 39:24SPEAKER_00: Um, I appreciate talking to you.
- 39:26SPEAKER_00: I will be in touch with you about next year.
- 39:28SPEAKER_00: Yes, do that.
- 39:29SPEAKER_00: I'd love to, man.
- 39:30SPEAKER_01: I'd love to do that.
- 39:32SPEAKER_00: You know, anytime you have anything new coming up, let me know.
- 39:35SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I will definitely be on para X radio coming up.
- 39:38SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
- 39:39SPEAKER_01: They picked us up.
- 39:40SPEAKER_01: Uh, they got a hold of me.
- 39:42SPEAKER_01: Um, if I would be willing to let them have the you know, run the podcast.
- 39:46SPEAKER_01: So I think I'm on a midnight eastern, is where they put me.
- 39:50SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they throw them, they throw mine every now and then, but welcome to the para X family because that's what they told me.
- 39:56SPEAKER_00: No, they it was weird, he didn't even say that to me.
- 40:00SPEAKER_01: He's like, Oh, cool, you have your show.
- 40:01SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm I'm like, Well, yeah, why wouldn't you?
- 40:04SPEAKER_01: Why not?
- 40:05SPEAKER_01: You know, I'm also on the UK paranormal uh stuff too, because there's a UK radio network, and I'm on that, and then we are also there's uh IRN, we're on that, it's uh broadcasting, but yeah, you can find anywhere you can get downloads for downloads for podcasts.
- 40:22SPEAKER_01: I'm there, so all right, yeah.
- 40:24SPEAKER_00: Sounds good again, again, Joel.
- 40:27SPEAKER_00: I appreciate it, and anytime.
- 40:31SPEAKER_00: Have a good one, man.
- 40:32SPEAKER_00: You too, brother.