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The Jennie Wade House left a lasting impact on us · Paranormal Lens - A Crossroads Of Curiosities, LLC Production

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I look to the left and Brie's feeling like she's
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discombobulated, falling through the floor, and
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I look to the right and there's a bunch of people
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trying to see ghosts in portal mirrors, and I'm
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just like, where the fuck am I? What's going
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on? Coming up... The whole time we were in Gettysburg,
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I could not get my brain off the Jetty Wade house.
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Yeah! So you guys know the phrase, if these walls
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could talk? Yes. To me, that phrase means that...
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Sometimes you can look at, like, an inanimate
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structure and just, I don't know, like, feel
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like you're looking at a structure with a soul.
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Yeah. So people talk about, like, buildings that
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have a striking image. Like, everyone talks about,
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like, the Amityville house. Like, that house
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looks like it has eyes watching you, right? Which
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are, like, some houses where you can feel there's
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shit going on in it. Yeah, more than that, though,
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like, there's shit going on, and they're opening
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their mouth to tell you. Yeah. Which is weird,
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and I've always heard that and never experienced
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it, but I'm sure we've all, like, seen a house
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where, like, that house looks like it has a story
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to tell. Yeah. It wasn't until a couple months
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ago when not only did a house have that look,
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but it actually grabbed me, stopped me on the
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street, and looked me in the eyes. and told me
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to listen. I'm talking about the Jenny Wade house.
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Welcome to our podcast where we take deep dives
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looking at various topics through a paranormal
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lens. We've never done really, I don't think,
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like a very specific episode just on like one
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place. But let's do it now for a place we went
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to for all of 20 minutes. Yeah. But had such
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a lasting impact. It was, honestly. I mean, just
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like you, I felt the same way about the Jenny
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Wade house. There was just something about that
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house. Something about the house and the story
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behind Jenny Wade. The feeling that was just
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coming from that house that just left a lasting
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impression. And, like, I mean... We all we all
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were saying pretty much the same thing while
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we were there. It's like we were a little obsessed
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with the Jenny Wade house. But it's funny because
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we'll get into it. But I had no I could not relate
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to your feelings at all until the next day. But
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we'll get into that for very brief context. We
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just submitted our write up our little essay
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piece on the remote contact presentation we did
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at the paranormal research symposium, which was
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in. gettysburg and that will be published in
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the journal this coming april so stay tuned for
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that that's a lot of fun um great event and we
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will be having some guests on soon probably throughout
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2027 leading up to next year's symposium um that
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we met at you know this previous one uh great
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event and when we're in gettysburg we stayed
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at a hotel that is Pretty much connected to the
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- Like, as connected as you can be without actually
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- Yeah. It was like the building right next door.
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Yeah. You can walk to the end of the balcony
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and pretty much look through the windows of the
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Jenny Wade house. Which we did at midnight. 100
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% during a thunderstorm. Yeah. Oh, so when we
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were there that night, there was like a freak
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storm. Probably nothing. Like, if we were in
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Michigan, it would have been nothing. But Gettysburg,
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I don't think it's prepared for that shit. And
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the streets were, like, flooding. Absolutely
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flooded. Dude, it was so cool. It was like cars
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were driving by and creating waves. It was so
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flooded. Yeah, it was a waterfall. Like, because
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we're on a hill. And so it was literally like
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two feet of water going down this freaking street,
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it looked like. Yeah, and you go out on her balcony
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of her hotel, walk down, you can literally reach
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out. If we had like a fucking selfie stick, we
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could have poked the Jenny Wade house. Like,
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it was that close. But we did take out, like,
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the spirit box and stuff. And, like, the energy
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was crazy that night. Remember, like, the spirit
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box was saying stuff. We were all, like, riled
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up. And, like, you could just feel, like, the
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streets were alive that night. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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Just the energy from the storms. I know we did
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a podcast episode on possible energy from storms
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and weather events. And it seems crazy. But,
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like, you could really feel it in downtown Gettysburg.
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I feel like it's a combination. It's like there's
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already... I mean, everyone knows what Gettysburg
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is. We don't need to explain Gettysburg. But
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just in case you don't know or you forgot, Jenny
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Wade was the only civilian killed in the Battle
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of Gettysburg. So this house, there's still the
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bullet holes of... A lot of bullet holes. Yes,
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yes, but the actual ones, the real ones, from
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when Jenny Wade, the only civilian killed in
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the Battle of Gettysburg, was killed right there,
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and we were right next to it. And, you know,
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the whole place was a fucking battlefield, so
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there... Who knows if our hotel was haunted,
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if the grounds are haunted. I think there's a
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combination of when all that stuff gets, like,
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washed up, you know, like, that's... Because
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that town of Gettysburg... We don't experience
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that in Michigan, really. Like, we felt that,
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Ange, in New Orleans. Like, you turn on the spirit
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box and it's like a portal. I felt that in Gettysburg,
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too, to an extent. Yeah. Yeah. But anyways, as
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part of the Paranormal Research Symposium, we
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got, like, a VIP, like, ghost tour of the Jenny
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Wade House and the old orphanage. We were in
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the Jenny Wade House on this ghost tour. It was,
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like, at, like, 9 or 10 o 'clock at night. And
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as part of it, you know, we had a nighttime tour
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of the house and had about 20, 30 minutes to
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do a little investigation. It was packed in there.
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There were a lot of people. But still, you got
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to take pictures and use equipment and whatnot.
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And Bree, I think you were, I wasn't feeling
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anything at all in there. But you, you kept telling
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me stuff you were feeling. Yeah, it was weird.
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Because, like, I mean, you know me. Like, I'm
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not. that much in like more recently i've come
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to like try to lean more into trusting my own
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natural instincts and like recognizing hey my
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body is like having these sorts of reactions
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because there's something going on and on that
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first floor because you walk the door to the
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entrance of the jenny wade house that you walk
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through is exactly in the spot pretty much where
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jenny wade died like And just standing in that
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same place, same area, like, I felt like the
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floor was uneven. It felt a little off balance,
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which is odd, but like, you can throw it off
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as being like, okay, the floor is old and uneven.
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Like, it's probably just the flooring. Like,
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you can chalk it up to something like that. Well,
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you get upstairs and they're like, oh yeah, the
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floor downstairs is like... is not original it's
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not original it's newer it's been replaced but
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the floor up here is not so you will feel a little
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uneven i didn't feel uneven upstairs upstairs
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was fine i was like yeah okay so it wasn't the
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floor maybe it was something more and because
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i was fine upstairs it was just an odd feeling
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of just feeling off i don't know how to describe
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it other than that and there's a lot of like
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mirrors they say are like uh people catch apparitions
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feel weird looking into them i don't know so
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for me i wasn't feeling anything but i looked
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to the left and breeze feeling like she's discombobulated
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falling through the floor and i look to the right
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there's a bunch of people trying to see ghosts
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in portal mirrors and i'm just like where the
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fuck am i what's going on like that that's like
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a fun house like A literal fun house. You go
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through, like, there's literally the wall mirrors
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over there that people see weird shit in. Then
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you go over there and you're like, ooh, trippy,
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you know, and falling over. It really was like
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a fun house. But not because of the ghosts. I
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was just chilling the whole time. You were chilling
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the whole time? I, like, I could tell, like,
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there's something there, but I didn't. That's
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what I'm saying. I was in the same boat. I was
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just chilling, but then looking around, not because
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of the ghost, but just because of like how crazy
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everything around was just being like, where
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the fuck am I? But then the next day was the
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day that, you know, we had the ghost hunt and,
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you know, like I was saying, the storm and we,
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you know, we're outside on the balcony looking
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at Jenny Wade house with the streets flooding
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and something that night, I think I just. I just
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got so compelled to just stare at the Jenny Waite
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house. Like, I could have just stared at it all
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night. Yeah. Yeah, same. Like, we were doing
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stuff in our hotel room trying to, like, do an
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investigation, doing spirit box, doing cat balls,
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whatever. We were getting a lot of things. And
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this storm just hit. And we're like, oh my god,
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this is intense. And I'm pretty sure we both,
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like, at the same time got the urge of, we need
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to go down to the jenny wade house like we both
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kind of ran down there and we're just watching
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and just staring at the jenny wade house like
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something was going to happen and like i swear
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to god i took like a hundred pictures because
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i'm like something's got to be there there's
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nothing there oh sorry i think jenny wade might
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have hacked my computer i'm kidding but also
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that was kind of weird my cursor i wasn't touching
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my computer my cursor Moved on its own. And clicked
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on. Like Safari. Which has the remote contact.
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Thing where. We just turned in. The Google Doc
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of it. And I had set it to dark mode. Because
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I was working with you on it Bree. And you wanted
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it on dark mode. The cursor moved. Clicked on
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the Google Doc. It went off dark mode. And then
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back on dark mode. What? Yeah. It doesn't like
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the dark mode! You'll probably see on my Zoom
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thing that I went bright for a second because
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it flashed a... That's so weird. It's a little
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weird. So I have the document open from Gettysburg
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and it's just like, while we're talking. They
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were probably like, oh, this is interesting.
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I can't see it though. Let's turn it on. Let's
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turn off dark mode. Oh, that's terrible. Turn
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dark mode off. Do you think because it's too
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dark in the spiritual realm, they need the...
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Anyways, but yeah. Yeah, so we were both compelled
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to go stare at the house. And then ever since
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the next day after that, so we're now two days
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removed from the literally 20 minutes we spent
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in the Jenny Wade house. Were you guys still
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thinking about the Jenny Wade house? Because
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I was. Yes. Like, the whole time we were in Gettysburg,
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I could not get my brain off the Jenny Wade house.
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Yeah. Which, I didn't even feel anything there.
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We were there for 20 minutes. All I could do
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was think about it. Yeah. You know what's interesting?
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And what finally, like, stopped, like, reset
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my brain from thinking about the Jenny Wade house?
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What? Going to Jenny Wade's grave. Oh. Yeah,
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I got the chills. Yeah, talk about that. paid
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our respects because we couldn't stop thinking
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about her yeah and then like the rest of the
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time it's like okay there's the jenny wade house
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don't need to stop and take pictures of it again
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like i don't like because every time we were
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passing by it i was like i need to take pictures
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of it i need to like it's the jenny wade house
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but then like after we went to jenny wayne's
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grave and paid our respects it was like okay
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like it can settle in my brain now like so weird
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I don't know. I've never had that kind of, like,
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obsession, compulsion about anything, really,
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ever. Like, my brain was just so stuck on that
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house. It stuck with me past then. Like, it's
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good that that solved it. Like, even now, like,
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yes, Jenny Wade's, the house and the story of
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Jenny Wade are still, like, amplified in my brain,
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but I'm not stuck on it anymore. Right. For me,
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it wasn't until the very last day we were in
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Gettysburg. I got up early that morning, got
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breakfast, and you guys were still kind of sleeping,
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and I said, I'm going for a walk. I wanted to
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go for a walk, but I didn't pass Jenny Wade House.
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Well, I passed the Jenny Wade House, but then
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I stopped, and I didn't go any further, and I
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was just looking up at the Jenny Wade House for
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probably longer than we were even in there for
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the ghost tour. This was at, like, 8 in the morning.
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There was no one in there. Like, all the lights
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were off. There was, like, literally no one in
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there. But it felt like the house was watching
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me back. Like, I've never felt that before. And
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then suddenly it all clicked. Everything you
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were saying, Bree, about the house and everything
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about the feelings you got, I felt that from
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the sidewalk. It felt like the house was looking
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at me, which is the weirdest thing. Even before,
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when I was like, I gotta look at the house. I
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never felt like the house was watching back.
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Maybe spirits were inside the windows, but the
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house itself. And that was just kind of what
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I was saying at the top, like, if these walls
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could talk. It felt like the walls and the house
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itself was trying to say something or reach out.
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And then I finally, you know, was satisfied after
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a while. And I went back, and you were like,
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where did you go? And I was like, I went for
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a walk. You were like, that was a long walk.
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I'm like, yep, I walked five feet. I mean, you
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kind of got to think about it, though. I feel
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like we've gone to a lot of haunted houses and
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stuff like that. Lots of haunted locations. A
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lot of haunted locations. We don't really go
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to people's haunted houses or whatever, but we
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drive past haunted houses that have been on TV
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or we watch documentaries about. And none of
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them really speak. You know? Yeah. Like, I mean,
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they have a lot of stories. They have a lot of
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things to say. They have a lot. But there was
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something different. Yeah. That's the thing.
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Like, when you go to Jenny Wade's house, it's
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like, I feel like it has a soul in a way. Yeah.
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You felt that too. But you also gotta think about
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it too. Like, there's a traumatic thing that
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happened there during a traumatic point in history.
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Surrounded by a bunch of traumaticness. if that's
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a word but and with the amount of people that
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come tour that place walk past that place know
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about that place i feel like it takes pieces
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of people's like soul and makes it its own soul
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you know and you are so right because every time
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people go there the tour guides encourage people
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to look in the mirror and look in the mirrors
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and what do they say about mirrors right They
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capture your reflection. They capture your reflection.
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So like literally they capture your reflection.
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So if all these people are going with the intention
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to speak to the house and speak to Jenny and
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they are being encouraged to look in the mirrors.
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It's like taking a part of you and it's making
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something its own, you know? Yeah. This, this
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house and come to think of it. It literally feels
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like it has a heartbeat. Yeah. And I had never
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been to a place that feels like that before.
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they can probably take out all the mirrors inside
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there and it would still feel like that the house
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would still reflect something back to you that's
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yeah that's a good way to put it that's what
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i felt i felt like it wasn't so much it was like
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the best kind of conversation where it reflects
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something back like it speaks back but it's not
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so much the house is talking to you or answering
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your questions it is reflecting back what you
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need to know yeah good way of putting it you
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know it's this is gonna be a controversial take
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here I don't even know if... I feel like Angela's
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going to be, like, disagreeing. What? I don't
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know about her. So, on this road trip to Gettysburg,
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where did we go? We went on our way to Pennsylvania.
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We hit up, like, every haunted spot on the way
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in Pennsylvania. Every haunted spot we possibly
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could. Yeah, in Pennsylvania. Yeah, we went to
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Hillview Manor, Crescent Sanitarium, Canberra
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County Old Jail. And literally everywhere in
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Gettysburg. Everywhere in Gettysburg. Was that...
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I mean, I still... huge list of eight or nine
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places but um i feel like jenny wade out of all
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the structures i i can place myself looking at
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jenny wade's house right now more than i can
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accurately describe the feeling of any other
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location we went to more than hillview manor
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i i know what jenny wade felt like More than
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Crescent Sanitarium, more than Cambria County
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Jail, which, stay tuned, we have a project coming
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out in a couple weeks about our experience there.
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But that's a huge, daunting prison. You look
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at that place and it's just imposing, daunting.
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You get a little freaked out. But it doesn't
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speak to you like Jenny Wade. I can literally
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put myself back on the sidewalk in front of Jenny
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Wade's house in terms of a feeling. I can tell
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you how Jenny Wade House felt before I can tell
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you. I mean, obviously, Crescent Sanitarium is
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the coolest fucking place ever. Yeah. And that
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would be, like, my number one place to go back
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to. But same with Canberra County Jail. Incredible
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place. Would go there in a heartbeat tomorrow
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if I could, and it was an area. But Jenny Wade's
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house, the feeling was the most palpable. Yeah.
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I can... I can... kind of agree with that because
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i i also did like kind of have a different experience
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at cambria compared to you guys like oh way different
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emotionally but yeah the person wasn't even still
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talking exactly like jenny wade's house still
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left more of an impression on me even though
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i was more emotionally impressionable from cambria
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i got a perfect comparison Well, perfect comparison
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for me. Okay, so you guys all know the cartoon,
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the kids' movie, Monster House? Yeah. That's
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kind of what it feels like. Really? Except it's
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not like a monster. Oh, because, like, I get
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what you're saying, because the house in Monster
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House, it became living because it was actually,
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like, a human emotion. Yeah. I kind of understand
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what you're saying, but not in a negative sense
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like the Monster House was. Yeah, you know what
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I mean? That's how I feel. So it's like, think
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of the Black Lodge, White Lodge. You got Black
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Lodge, Monster House, and the inverse of that.
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Same concept, but just the opposite of Jenny
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White House, a positive emotion. Yeah. but also
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positive emotion yeah it's because it's not i
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was gonna say positive this doesn't seem necessarily
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right but it's also not like dark or whatever
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so the feeling that i felt on that main floor
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and what made me feel so uneven and like so just
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off it was grief it was sadness it wasn't it
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was just that sudden like it was it felt like
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i was there in that sudden shock and awe of what
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happened in that event without actually being
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there. Yeah. So it was that mix of emotion that
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you can't quite interpret, but you know it's
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not positive, but you know it's not necessarily
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negative. Does that lend itself to stronger emotions,
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you think? like you go to a prison you know it's
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all going to be negative so it's like it's negative
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it's negative it's negative it's exactly how
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you felt or positive it's like you're talking
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to your grandmother or whatever it's like okay
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it's all sugar and rainbows or whatever but that
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gray area maybe it leaves a greater impact because
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it sits with you longer of like trying to figure
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out what it was yeah i don't know maybe it's
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possible I don't know. It's just that house was
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different. That's all I can say. That's the point
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of this, yeah. Way different. I wonder if other
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people have had the same thoughts. Same experience.
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How many other people come to Gettysburg, look
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at the Jenny Wade house, and then can't get their
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mind off of it? Just curious. I don't know. He
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can't just put a poll out there. Oh, did you
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visit the Jenny Wade house while you were in
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Gettysburg? How long did you think about it afterwards?
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It's not like a question you can ask. I mean,
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you could, but no one's going to respond. People
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might not understand. I mean, maybe by the time
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they finish listening to this, which this episode
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is going to be longer than the entire duration
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we spent inside the house. Yeah, that's the weird
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thing. Maybe by the end of this they can respond
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and know what we're talking about. If you've
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been to Gettysburg and you've been to the Jenny
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Wade's house or if you've ever even just looked
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at the Jenny Wade's house or have heard the story
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while you were in Gettysburg, how long afterwards
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or how long did that stick in your brain? Tell
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us. We want to know. You know what's really weird
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too? that we should probably mention before we
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end this this was right at the start of the year
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so like this the symposium was in august of 2026
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right at the start like in january or february
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one of the first antique stores i went to of
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the year i randomly found a old like from the
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70s or 80s jenny wade house uh souvenir pocket
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mirror interesting And I got it. And this was
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before I think it was even confirmed that we
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were going to Gettysburg or anything. Had no
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knowledge of the symposium. Well, I submitted
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to the symposium, but I didn't know we were actually
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going. And I got it, you know, just because I
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thought it was cool. And, you know, this is real.
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It has real weight to it. It's not like the cheap
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souvenirs you get now. This is old. It's vintage.
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It has weight to it. It's an antique. It's made
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out of glass. Thick glass. It's an old pocket
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mirror. It has the Jenny Wade house on it. And
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I totally kind of forgot about this, to be honest.
25:00
We just kind of had it on our shelf with our
25:02
random shit behind the haunted shit. So we have
25:06
the haunted shit and the historical shit. And
25:08
when we do the live streams, we move the haunted
25:11
shit up front. So I kind of forgot about that,
25:14
but then... after we came back from gettysburg
25:17
which i did not know we were going at the time
25:19
i was like hey you don't have that pocket mirror
25:21
of the journey weight house and i took it out
25:23
it's not the same photo like i think the perspective
25:28
it must have been before the hotel we stayed
25:31
at was built because it was like i think it was
25:33
a different view yeah whoever's taking the photo
25:36
is was standing where the hotel is now yeah because
25:40
i got a postcard while we were At the Jenny Wade
25:44
house as well. Because there's a gift shop on
25:45
the back side. And the view is different as well.
25:49
So. And I can't figure out what the orientation
25:52
is. Yeah. I'd have to put myself back there.
25:54
I think the hotel that. The hotel we stayed at
25:57
was not original to the time. Yeah. It's newer.
26:01
And must not have been there at the time this.
26:04
Souvenir was made. And time here. That photo.
26:09
That must have been the old photo spot. But if
26:12
that souvenir, you know, postcard he got even
26:16
now is from a different perspective. That was
26:19
just so weird to me. I totally expected to find
26:21
it, which I did. And I totally expected, like,
26:24
being transpired again. I was just a little confused.
26:27
I'm like, this doesn't look the same. Like, I
26:29
can't look at that photo and put myself back
26:31
there, which is weird. Yeah, it is. Because,
26:35
like, I feel the same way. Because I got, like,
26:38
a postcard picture of it. Because I'm like, I
26:39
just need. a souvenir of the jenny wade house
26:43
and like looking at the picture like i mean it
26:47
doesn't i feel like it doesn't do its justice
26:50
you know yeah no yeah it doesn't capture the
26:56
emotion of what the jenny wade house is no i
27:03
mean that's the whole thing is like pictures
27:06
can only capture so much but they can't capture
27:09
the emotion so it's deep A thousand words, zero
27:15
emotions, right? Yeah. That's how the saying
27:19
goes. A hundred pictures and nothing there. My
27:24
photos are so deceiving. You know, people look
27:27
at a photo and think someone's all happy and
27:30
living the best life, but then deep down there's,
27:33
you know, shit. So a better phrase could be a
27:39
hundred pictures. Or one picture can hide a hundred
27:44
emotions. Yeah, that's a way better way of putting
27:47
it. Yeah, not a picture's worth a thousand words.
27:51
A picture hides a hundred emotions. Well, why
27:54
did we make this sad now? This is like, we ended
27:57
on a good place. It's not, you don't have to
28:00
make it sad. It's just sad. It doesn't necessarily
28:02
mean sad. It kind of does. It could be. I don't
28:11
know. Take it how you want it. Take it how you
28:13
want it. Who are we to say? We're just some kids
28:18
making a podcast. Yeah, we're just some... Yeah.
28:26
Being ghost hunters. Being ghost hunters. We
28:34
make podcasts. That's how we're fucking ending
28:37
this thing? Man, I don't know what else to say
28:40
about Jenny Wade. No, I mean, yeah. There's so
28:44
much to say, and so, like, but you can only say
28:48
so much without, like, sounding like a blabbering
28:51
idiot saying the same thing over and over again.
28:55
Yeah. Yeah. But also, like, I don't know. I mean,
28:59
we don't need to say anything about Jenny Wade,
29:00
but the ending can't be sad. I mean, there's
29:03
a lot to say about Jenny Wade. Yeah, true, true.
29:05
I mean, do you want to say anything? Because
29:06
the ending went from sad to stupid, so. I mean.
29:11
Jenny Wade died very young. And it's sad what
29:14
happened to her. I mean, anything we say about
29:16
Jenny Wade is still going to end the podcast
29:18
on a sad note. Yeah, but it's more like historical
29:23
and like tied to what we're talking about. Not
29:25
like, hey, that Instagram photo of me is hiding
29:28
a hundred emotions you didn't even know I had.
29:31
I'm so undiagnosed right now. It's not even funny.
29:35
So, what? That's what she said. No, but isn't
29:46
it that Jenny Wade wasn't even supposed to, that
29:49
wasn't even her house. That was like her sister's
29:51
house, right? Oh, there's a ghost in the background.
29:54
Yeah. Oh, geez. That's, that's kind of spooky
29:59
to me. Oh my gosh. Anyone watching the YouTube
30:10
version. Freaking the fuck out right now. You
30:13
shouldn't have even said anything, because that
30:15
would have been so freaky. The ghost of Jenny
30:18
Wade is cat. First she hacked my computer, now
30:20
she's in Brianna's video. What was that? My mother.
30:27
Oh. Sorry. That was disrespectful to everyone.
30:31
That was your mother? I mean, she walked in and
30:35
was playing a video for me. No, that's not what
30:37
I meant. That's not what I meant. I meant, like,
30:38
Ben called your mother that, so I said that.
30:42
Yeah. You know, last episode... Never mind. Yeah.
30:53
What? I was going to say, last episode, everyone's
30:56
going to remember Daddy. This one, they're going
30:57
to remember Mommy. You need to end this now.
31:02
No, but my point is... It's not even appropriate
31:06
to say it now. I was just going to say, isn't
31:08
it that Jenny Wade wasn't even supposed to be
31:10
there that day? That was her sister's house,
31:12
technically. They call it the Jenny Wade house,
31:15
but it wasn't even Jenny Wade's house. It was
31:19
her sister's house. Her mother was there as well.
31:25
And she just so happened, she didn't have to
31:28
be there. No, she didn't have to be there. She
31:31
was just in the kitchen. She didn't have to be
31:33
in the kitchen. She was there for a couple different
31:38
reasons. Because of the battle going on, she
31:41
felt it would be safer to not be in her home
31:44
by herself. And two, her sister had just had
31:48
a child, so she had went to also help. Because
31:52
she had other kids. And so she was making bread
31:57
in the morning. The theory is that Confederate
32:03
soldiers saw movement inside of the house, not
32:07
realizing that not all the civilians had been
32:10
evacuated, because at that point, all of the
32:13
civilians should have been evacuated, or most
32:16
of them had been. And the Confederates did not
32:21
think that there was people still in there, and
32:25
if they were, they were likely Union soldiers,
32:27
so they started open firing. and um jenny wade
32:34
almost instantly died and you go and look at
32:37
her house or where her house is i don't know
32:40
if her house is still there or not but i don't
32:44
know yeah i i don't i don't recall but her house
32:48
was untouched in that battle so the possibility
32:52
there is that strong possibility that if she
32:56
didn't leave home to go stay with her sister
33:02
she could have lived that being said there's
33:05
always that possibility that the confederates
33:06
could have thought the same thing that oh there's
33:09
movement inside of this house it could be a union
33:11
soldier and done the same but who's to say yeah
33:16
there's always possibilities but like i think
33:18
the point is like it's so sad to think she didn't
33:21
have to die yeah she didn't have to and i think
33:24
that's what makes the haunting so strong and
33:27
why it lingers because she didn't have to And
33:31
the fact that the only reason that they were
33:36
able to escape the rest of the family without
33:38
injury was because an artillery shell, a whole
33:44
artillery shell, got shot into their house on
33:49
the second floor and broke the wall but didn't
33:52
explode. So they were able to get through the
33:56
divider wall to get to the opposite side and
33:59
escape the house. Or at least get into the cellar.
34:03
Yeah. So, it's insane. Like, every single, like,
34:09
circumstance that happened during that battle
34:13
and during that instance of Jenny Wade unfortunately
34:16
getting killed could not, like, be any more,
34:24
like, I don't want to say perfect. Perfect isn't
34:27
the right word. But, like, how much coincidence
34:34
is like i don't know it all lined up yeah to
34:41
the point where it's like how how did this line
34:44
up just adds to the tragedy just adds to the
34:47
tragedy it's very interesting so so that's the
34:51
jenny wade house that's the jenny wade house
34:54
the house that speaks to us you can tell it's
34:57
still in my brain because i still like remember
34:59
like i remember everything about that story Like,
35:04
I knew nothing about Jenny Wade before I went
35:06
to Gettysburg. And if there's one thing I remember,
35:09
which I don't remember a lot from Gettysburg,
35:14
I remember every single bit of that Jenny Wade
35:17
story. Like, the facts, the lore, like, everything.
35:24
I know it all. It's stuck there. I think we're
35:30
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