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Speaker 1: Happy Halloweek everyone. I'm Haley and I'm Adria and this
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Speaker 1: is Inhuman, a true crime podcast. So today we are
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Speaker 1: queuing up all the spooky vibes since it is almost Halloween.
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Speaker 1: In today's episode, we are going to be talking about
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Speaker 1: the Wayley House, aka the Travel Channel's most Haunted House
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Speaker 1: in America.
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Speaker 2: I'm so excited.
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Speaker 1: I was really excited to dive into this story because
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Speaker 1: I really don't look into ghost stories that often. Yeah, like,
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Speaker 1: I never actually really got into them until I started
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Speaker 1: listening to And That's Why We Drink, Which if you
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Speaker 1: guys haven't listened to that podcast, I highly recommend it.
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Speaker 1: Each week the one host covers a ghost or like
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Speaker 1: spooky story and then the other one covers a true
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Speaker 1: crime story, and I love it. And that's what got
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Speaker 1: me into spooky stories, like listening to them, but I
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Speaker 1: don't really like look into them myself, So this was
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Speaker 1: super fun for me to dig into. I know Andrea
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Speaker 1: loves all the ghost witchy, spooky vibes.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm all about that. I like, but I like
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Speaker 3: stuff that's like substantial. I don't want some po dunk
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Speaker 3: made up, you know, unbelievable story about some you know,
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Speaker 3: zombie or something like give me the good stuff I want,
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Speaker 3: like the hauntings and the witches and right.
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Speaker 2: All that good stuff.
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Speaker 1: I feel like you have so many good ghost stories too.
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Speaker 1: We need to like do an episode of just like
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Speaker 1: our personal Maybe we could do like a listener's episode
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Speaker 1: at some point and do like our ghost stories. Plus
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Speaker 1: if like any of our listeners have stories.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be super cool. On that note, good, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: that was a really good segue. So we had been asking, well,
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Speaker 3: we had been suggesting for you guys if you have
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Speaker 3: case suggestions.
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Speaker 4: To email us.
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Speaker 3: And I know that we do like occasionally give out
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Speaker 3: our email address on the episodes, but we now act
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Speaker 3: actually have it linked in our link tree. So it's
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Speaker 3: not one of the boxes, but it's at the very
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Speaker 3: top before the boxes begin, and it's literally just like
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Speaker 3: a little envelope and you can click it and it
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Speaker 3: just boop pops up and the email address is already there,
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Speaker 3: and all you guys have to do is put case
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Speaker 3: suggestions or now you can put listener tails. I guess
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Speaker 3: that's what we'll call it. Yeah, whenever, we might come
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Speaker 3: up with a better name, because I think Morbid uses that.
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Speaker 3: But I like it nonetheless, but whatever you guys want
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Speaker 3: to put into in the subject line, but that's just
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Speaker 3: the easier way for you.
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Speaker 4: Guys to email us.
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Speaker 3: So and the link tree is in our bio of
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Speaker 3: our Instagram, which is in Human Underscore podcast.
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Speaker 2: Yep, yep, that's.
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Speaker 1: All Andrea figured out how to set that up, and
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Speaker 1: that is very helpful. So thank you, Andrea, You're very welcome.
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Speaker 1: I'm tech savvy.
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Speaker 2: Look at me.
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Speaker 1: Well, I was going to say when you were describing
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Speaker 1: the icon that's at the top, I was about to
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Speaker 1: say the email signal, and then you said envelope and.
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Speaker 2: I was like, oh, yeah, it is a it is
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Speaker 2: just like, oh my god.
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Speaker 4: But it's also the email em are so old too.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, but whatever whatever generation you happen to uh
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Speaker 3: relate too, that's what it is.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my god, that's scared. That scared me too.
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Speaker 2: I almost peede a little luction pregnancy thing. Yeah exactly.
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Speaker 1: No, our mailman just walked up, so my dog went crazy.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, one other really quick thing before we get
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Speaker 1: into today's story, I wanted to let you guys know
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Speaker 1: that we will be releasing a bonus spooky episode on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: October thirtieth, to give you all the spooky vibes as
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Speaker 1: we experience. Hello Weekend twenty twenty one. So Andrew is
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Speaker 1: going to be covering a very spooky case and I
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Speaker 1: am so excited because I don't think I've ever actually
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Speaker 1: heard the story, so stay tuned. We were not going
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Speaker 1: to tell you what it is yet, but it's going
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Speaker 1: to be really good.
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Speaker 4: It is. I started doing my research today just a
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Speaker 4: little bit and I was.
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Speaker 2: Like, whoa ah, I'm so excited.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, that will be releasing at our normal time,
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Speaker 1: which is eight am Eastern, five am Pacific on Saturday morning.
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Speaker 1: We asked on Instagram if you'd rather have a bonus
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Speaker 1: on Saturday or on like actual Halloween, and most people
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Speaker 1: voted for Saturday, so that's what we're going with. Yep,
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Speaker 1: you can listen to it while you prepare all your
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Speaker 1: spooky snacks for your Halloween parties.
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Speaker 2: Exactly.
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Speaker 1: So we are going to be covering the Whaley House today,
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Speaker 1: And first of all, I just want to say I
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Speaker 1: really like this this one because it is spelled like
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Speaker 1: my name with a W in front of it. So
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Speaker 1: if you didn't know I'm Haley me, this is my
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Speaker 1: voice and my name is spelled the most basic spelling
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Speaker 1: of Haley just hluy, and Waley House is whaluy. So
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Speaker 1: it's like my name with a W in front of it,
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Speaker 1: and I just thought that was kind of cool, so
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Speaker 1: I wanted to share that, yeah, this is meant.
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Speaker 2: To be Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So and this actually was suggested by somebody. I have
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Speaker 1: no clue where. If it was on Instagram, on my
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Speaker 1: personal Instagram, I cannot remember, but somebody suggested this, So
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Speaker 1: thank you. I'm sorry that I don't know your name.
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Speaker 1: We will try to whenever we cover a case that
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Speaker 1: someone suggests, will try to shout you out.
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Speaker 2: And I'm so sorry.
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Speaker 1: And if you remind me that you are the one,
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Speaker 1: I will give you a shout out in the next
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Speaker 1: episode because I feel bad, Yes, but thank you because
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Speaker 1: I was this was perfect to look into this week.
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Speaker 1: So the Whaley House is in San Diego, California, which
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Speaker 1: I know we have a lot of international listeners, so
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Speaker 1: if you don't know, San Diego is in southern California.
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Speaker 1: I was actually there this past weekend and I kind
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Speaker 1: of wanted to go visit the Whaley House, but also
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Speaker 1: I'm too terrified and I don't think Rob would go,
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Speaker 1: so you know, I didn't even bring it up. But
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Speaker 1: as I mentioned, the Whaley House was ranked by the
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Speaker 1: Travel Channel as the most haunted house in America, and
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Speaker 1: it's also been ranked by other things like I Think
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Speaker 1: Life magazine ranked it as a super haunted house, and
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Speaker 1: it's gotten some other rankings. So it's definitely really spooky
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Speaker 1: and known for being spooky.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Now it is called the Whaley House because in the
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Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds a man brought bought the property that it
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Speaker 1: is on and built a house for his family and
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Speaker 1: his name was, drum roll please, Thomas Whaley. So I know,
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Speaker 1: big surprise there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So to start up this story, I'm basically going to
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Speaker 1: cover the full history of the Whaley family because I
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Speaker 1: found it super interesting and a lot of podcasts that
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Speaker 1: I've heard cover this case don't really tell their history,
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Speaker 1: and I just think it's interesting. So yeah, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to share that and buckle in because it's kind of
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Speaker 1: a lot. But this is the history of the Whaley family.
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Speaker 1: So Thomas Whaley was born on October fifth, eighteen twenty three,
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Speaker 1: in New York City. He had seven other siblings, but
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Speaker 1: he was the one to take over his father's business
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Speaker 1: relations in New York when he grew up. On January first,
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Speaker 1: eighteen forty nine, Thomas left New York City to take
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Speaker 1: part in the California Gold Rush. So he was in
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Speaker 1: San Francisco in northern California for a few years, and
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Speaker 1: then in September eighteen fifty one, he moved down to
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Speaker 1: San Diego. And this was actually I looked it up
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Speaker 1: because I was like, I feel like I never realized
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Speaker 1: that California was founded, like I for some times old
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Speaker 1: it was California founded in the eighteen fifties, Like what
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Speaker 1: the heck?
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Speaker 2: And it was, And I looked it up.
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Speaker 1: And this when he moved down there in eighteen fifty one,
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Speaker 1: it was about a year and a half after the
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Speaker 1: city of San Diego had been founded. Okay, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It just seemed weird to me. I was like, San
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Speaker 1: Diego was founded that long ago, But I guess it was.
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Speaker 3: Seen that to me seems like late, like late to
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Speaker 3: the game kind of I don't.
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Speaker 1: Know, really kind of see San Diego is like newer
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Speaker 1: compared to like San Francisco. Yeah, I don't know, but
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Speaker 1: it's apparently not so. Wailly actually returned to New York
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Speaker 1: in eighteen fifty three to marry his high school sweetheart.
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Speaker 1: So on August fourteenth, eighteen fifty three, Thomas Whaley and
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Speaker 1: Anna Eloise Delauny I think, were married in the city.
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Speaker 1: Four months later, the newly weeds moved back to San Diego,
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Speaker 1: where they resided for the next four years. On December
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Speaker 1: twenty eighth, eighteen fifty four, Anna gave birth to the
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Speaker 1: couple's first son, Francis Hinton Whaley. Francis was actually named
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Speaker 1: after a business partner of Thomas's, and I thought that
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Speaker 1: was interesting to throw in there because I just feel
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Speaker 1: like that shows how important like business was to Thomas.
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Speaker 1: He just, you know, clearly that was a big part
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Speaker 1: of his life. In eighteen fifty five, Thomas Wayleey purchased
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Speaker 1: some land in San Diego. And we're going to go
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Speaker 1: more into the land that he purchased in the actual
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Speaker 1: house a little bit later on, but for now, you
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Speaker 1: just need to know he purchased some land and began
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Speaker 1: construction on a new home for his family. During the
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Speaker 1: construction of the house, on August eighteenth, eighteen fifty six,
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Speaker 1: their second son, Thomas Wayley Junior, was born and then
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Speaker 1: about a year later, on August twenty seven, second, eighteen
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Speaker 1: fifty seven, the family moved into the home that Thomas
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Speaker 1: had built. The address of this home was twenty four
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Speaker 1: to seventy six San Diego Avenue in San Diego, California,
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Speaker 1: and this is the house that would later be known
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Speaker 1: as the Haunted Whaley House. So sadly, just a few
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Speaker 1: months after the family moved into the house, Thomas Whaley
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Speaker 1: Junior contracted scarlet fever and he passed away at just
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Speaker 1: eighteen months old on January twenty ninth, eighteen fifty eight.
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Speaker 2: Oh that's so tragic.
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Speaker 1: So this was the first of many deaths in the house.
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Speaker 2: Okay, six months after.
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Speaker 1: This, their third child, child Anna Amelia, was born on
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Speaker 1: June twenty seventh, eighteen fifty eight. And then not long
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Speaker 1: after that, a fire destroyed the convenience store that the
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Speaker 1: Whaleyes owned in town. So with all of this turmoil,
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Speaker 1: the death of their son, the fire, the family decided
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Speaker 1: to move up to San Francisco. About six months after that,
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Speaker 1: in January eight, eighteen fifty nine, Whaley decided to basically
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Speaker 1: turn all of his remaining affairs down in San Diego
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Speaker 1: over to a business associate named Frank Ames. So at
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Speaker 1: this point they had moved up to San Francisco. Thomas
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Speaker 1: had sold off all of his business down in San Diego,
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Speaker 1: but they did still own.
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Speaker 2: The Whaley House. Okay.
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Speaker 1: While they were in San Francisco, they had three more children,
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Speaker 1: George hay Ringold on November fifth, eighteen sixty Violet Elouise
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Speaker 1: on October fourteenth, eighteen sixty two, and Corin Lillian on
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Speaker 1: September fourth, eighteen sixty four.
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Speaker 4: Oh, that's those names, those are que I know.
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Speaker 1: In mid eighteen sixty eight, with the family still living
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Speaker 1: in San Francisco, Thomas Waaey decided to invest some of
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Speaker 1: the capital that he had gotten doing business in San Francisco.
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Speaker 1: So he purchased some new merchandise for a store, like
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Speaker 1: a convenience store I think, and headed back down to
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Speaker 1: San Diego over the next few months.
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Speaker 2: Actually, before I.
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Speaker 1: Say this, I did hear in one source that it
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Speaker 1: was partially because of the earthquake that happened in San Francisco,
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Speaker 1: and that's like part of the reason they moved back
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Speaker 1: down to San Diego. But I only heard that in
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Speaker 1: one source, so I'm not one hundred percent sure, Okay.
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Speaker 1: So over the next few months, he fixed up the
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Speaker 1: old Whaley House, you know, just kind of cleaned it
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Speaker 1: up because nobody had been living there. And on December twelfth,
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Speaker 1: eighteen sixty eight, the entire Whalley family arrived back in
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Speaker 1: San Diego and moved back into the house. Over the
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Speaker 1: next few years, the family experienced quite a bit of
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Speaker 1: turmoil while living in the house. On January fifth, eighteen
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Speaker 1: eighty two, both Violet and Anna got married. Anna, the daughter,
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Speaker 1: not the mom, got married inside of the Whaley House
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Speaker 1: and Anna actually married her first cousin, John T.
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Speaker 2: Whaley.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so you know you do you but yeah, go
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Speaker 1: off girl, Yeah. And Violet married a na man named
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Speaker 1: George T. Bertolachi. I don't know if I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: That right, but George George.
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Speaker 1: Shortly after they got married, Violet's new husband, George revealed
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Speaker 1: to her in a letter that he had a very
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Speaker 1: tumultuous past. So because of this, they got a divorce,
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Speaker 1: and Violet was clouded in scandal. Like at this time,
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Speaker 1: getting a divorce was like the worst thing, and even
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Speaker 1: though she didn't do anything wrong, and it was this
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Speaker 1: guy that was like a total shitthead. She was treated
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Speaker 1: like she was the one that did wrong.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: The women always get blamed, especially back then.
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Speaker 2: Exactly. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So she was heartbroken and extremely depressed over everything
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Speaker 1: that was going on, how she was being treated, and
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Speaker 1: just a trigger warning here, at the age of twenty two,
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Speaker 1: on August nineteenth, eighteen eighty five, Violet shot herself in
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Speaker 1: the chest with her father's thirty two caliber gun.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so this She actually did.
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Speaker 1: This in like one of the back house kind of
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Speaker 1: things or like behind the house, and her father found
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Speaker 1: her and carried her inside to the parlor where she
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Speaker 1: passed away. And her suicide note was actually a poem,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know if it's an actual Edgar Allan
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Speaker 1: Poe poem or if Edgar Allan Poe just like read
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Speaker 1: it or referenced it, but he had something to do
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Speaker 1: with it.
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Speaker 2: And it read.
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Speaker 1: Quote mad from Life's History, swift to Death's mystery, glad
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Speaker 1: to be hurled anywhere anywhere out of this world, which
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Speaker 1: is just like so breaking, that is, I know, it's deep,
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Speaker 1: it's so sad, like all she did was marry somebody
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Speaker 1: that she believed to be a good person and he
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Speaker 1: wasn't and it ruined her life.
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Speaker 4: Don't let men ruin your life for women or whoever.
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Speaker 1: Thankfully we live in a little bit of a better time,
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Speaker 1: but you know it's not one hundred percent. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: so after this, you know, obviously the family was still
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Speaker 1: kind of like surrounded by scandal, and the youngest Wayy daughter,
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Speaker 1: Corinne Lilian, had been engaged to be married at this time,
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Speaker 1: but Violet's death brought even more scanned to the family,
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Speaker 1: and Corinne's fiance broke off her engagement. So just you know,
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Speaker 1: just lots of bad things happening to the family. They
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Speaker 1: just kept running into bad luck.
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Speaker 2: Dude.
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Speaker 3: Was this house built on like a burial like an
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Speaker 3: old Native American burial site or something with like lots
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Speaker 3: of like do not disturb us bad juju?
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Speaker 1: Not quite, but you will find out. Okay, there definitely
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Speaker 1: was bad juju. Yeah, So, with all of these tragic
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Speaker 1: events that happened while the family was living in the
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Speaker 1: Whaley House, Thomas Whaley actually decided to build a new,
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Speaker 1: single story home for the family. So the family eventually
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Speaker 1: moved into nine thirty three State Street in downtown San Diego,
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Speaker 1: and this left the Whaley House vacant for more than
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Speaker 1: twenty years. Whoa So following this move, in December eighteen
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Speaker 1: eighty eight, Francis Whaley, the oldest son, married a woman
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Speaker 1: named Susan E. Murray Murray in Mendocino, California, so he
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Speaker 1: was off living that life. Two years later, on December fourteenth,
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Speaker 1: eighteen ninety, Thomas Waaey sadly passed away in the home
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Speaker 1: on State Street. So the dad, the dad. Yeah, I know,
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Speaker 1: there's like re use of names and stuff, but yes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, dad, Okay.
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Speaker 1: So over the next fifteen years, Anna, who was now
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Speaker 1: a widow, lived at the single story home on State Street.
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Speaker 1: Her middle daughter died fifteen years later on December twelfth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen oh five. And this was Anna Amelia, the one
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Speaker 1: that married her first cousin and then finally, in nineteen
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Speaker 1: oh nine, the eldest Wayley son, Francis decided to begin
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Speaker 1: restoring the old Whalley House, which they still owned, but
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Speaker 1: nobody was living in it, and his intention was turning
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Speaker 1: the historical home into kind of like a tourist attraction.
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Speaker 1: And it was noted in one source that his plan
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Speaker 1: was to entertain visitors with his guitar playing I.
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Speaker 2: Just thought that was adorable.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So in nineteen twelve, the house was all fixed
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Speaker 1: up and the three remaining Way children, Krinn, Francis, and
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Speaker 1: George moved into the old Whalley Home with their mother. However,
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Speaker 1: a year later, on February twenty fourth, nineteen thirteen, and
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Speaker 1: A Whaley passed away at eighty years old, which, like, girl,
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Speaker 1: you lived to eighty that's pretty damn good.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it wasn't any like tragic, horrible, not that
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Speaker 3: id okay.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just natural okay.
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Speaker 1: But she also passed away in the Whaley House okay.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: A year later, on November nineteenth, nineteen fourteen, Francis Whaley
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Speaker 1: passed away, so George and Krin's were the two remaining
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Speaker 1: of the immediate Whaley family. They were living in the
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Speaker 1: Whaley House. And then like almost fifteen years later, George
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Speaker 1: passed away on January fifth, nineteen twenty eight, and Kurn
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Speaker 1: actually lived to be eighty nine years old, which like, oh,
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Speaker 1: that's really good, Like this was you know, yeah, the
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Speaker 1: early to mid nineteen hundreds. I don't know, I feel
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Speaker 1: like that's pretty impressive.
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Speaker 3: I think so with all the like diseases and illnesses.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, like that took people's lives so early. That's yeah,
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Speaker 4: eighty nine, it's pretty good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and she passed away in nineteen fifty three, which,
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Speaker 1: like when I first read that, my initial thought was, wait,
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Speaker 1: that can't be right mathematically, because I feel like the
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Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds feel like so long ago, and then nineteen
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Speaker 1: fifty three doesn't feel like that long even even though
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Speaker 1: it's like actually a really long time ago. Still Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, she because she was born in eighteen sixty four,
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Speaker 1: so she died in nineteen fifty three at eighty nine
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Speaker 1: years old, so it makes sense. But yeah, it just
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Speaker 1: hit I was like, whoa, Like we're.
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Speaker 4: In the nineteen fifties now, Like, whoa, how do we
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Speaker 4: get here?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: But anyway, she lived in the house until her death
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Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty three, so she was the remaining wayly
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Speaker 1: resident of the house and she was there until she died. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So that is the history of the Whaley family. And
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Speaker 1: if you couldn't already guess, one of the reasons that
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Speaker 1: the house is so haunted is because of all the
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Speaker 1: Whaley family members who passed away inside the home. So
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Speaker 1: seven years after Crinn passed away, the Whaley House was
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Speaker 1: opened by a public museum. So the Whaley House Museum
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Speaker 1: was officially opened on May twenty fifth, nineteen sixty. The
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Speaker 1: San Diego Historical Shrine Foundation, which is a nonprofit organization
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Speaker 1: that was formed in nineteen fifty six, was who managed
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Speaker 1: the museum, and one of the heads of that company,
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Speaker 1: June Strudwick Reading, was the director of the Whaley House
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Speaker 1: Museum from its opening in nineteen sixty until her death
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Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety eight. So this was like her baby,
18:48
Speaker 1: like she was the director the manager of this house, okay.
18:52
Speaker 1: And then since the year two thousand, the house has
18:55
Speaker 1: been maintained by the Save Our Heritage organization And actually
18:59
Speaker 1: in two thatous seven a caretaker moved into the house,
19:02
Speaker 1: and I believe he now lives there and cares for
19:05
Speaker 1: the property to prevent theft and vandalism. I don't know
19:08
Speaker 1: if it's the same person that still lives there, and
19:10
Speaker 1: I couldn't find if, like there is somebody who still
19:12
Speaker 1: lives there, but at least for a while, there was
19:14
Speaker 1: like a live in caretaker. Okay, Okay, So now I'm
19:17
Speaker 1: just gonna go over like a brief overview of the house,
19:20
Speaker 1: and then we'll get into like the hauntings and the
19:22
Speaker 1: spooky shit that's happened there. Okay, So, as I mentioned before,
19:26
Speaker 1: the house was built by Thomas Whaley, with construction beginning
19:29
Speaker 1: on May sixth, eighteen fifty six. It took about a
19:32
Speaker 1: year to complete, and its total cost was ten thousand dollars,
19:36
Speaker 1: which in today's money is about three hundred and fifteen
19:38
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, which I feel like that's nothing.
19:42
Speaker 2: Yeah.
19:43
Speaker 3: I mean if you think about a house in San
19:45
Speaker 3: Diego now for three hundred thousand, that would be like
19:48
Speaker 3: a shack.
19:49
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
19:51
Speaker 3: So I mean, Harry, you could definitely get a decent
19:55
Speaker 3: house for.
19:55
Speaker 2: That amount of money. But yeah, it's kind of crazy. Yeah.
20:00
Speaker 1: I kind of expected it to be more, but I
20:02
Speaker 1: guess because it was like an up and coming city,
20:04
Speaker 1: maybe it just wasn't as big yet.
20:07
Speaker 2: Yeah. So the house was.
20:08
Speaker 1: A beautiful two or three story Greek Revival style house
20:13
Speaker 1: and it was super magnificent for the time and even
20:16
Speaker 1: now it's beautiful. It was made from all brick, and
20:20
Speaker 1: it was the first all brick house to appear in
20:24
Speaker 1: San Diego.
20:25
Speaker 3: Wow.
20:25
Speaker 1: And it was known as the finest in Southern California
20:28
Speaker 1: at the time, and it was pretty much considered a mansion.
20:31
Speaker 4: Okay.
20:32
Speaker 1: The interior of the house was just as beautiful, fully
20:35
Speaker 1: furnished with mahogany and rosewood, pieces of furniture, carpets from Brussels,
20:40
Speaker 1: and beautiful long drapes, so as you can imagine, it
20:43
Speaker 1: was just like super fancy, super.
20:45
Speaker 2: Nice, serious. Yeah.
20:47
Speaker 1: The house also functioned as different things for the town
20:51
Speaker 1: at different times. When Thomas Whaley was remodeling the house
20:54
Speaker 1: in eighteen sixty eight for his family to move back into,
20:58
Speaker 1: he transformed the upstairs bedroom into a theater and rented
21:01
Speaker 1: it out to the Tanner Troop, which was a local
21:04
Speaker 1: theater troop that was traveling through San Diego at the time.
21:08
Speaker 2: Oh cool, So the.
21:09
Speaker 1: Bedroom was transformed into like a small little theater with
21:12
Speaker 1: state with a stage and benches, and from people who
21:15
Speaker 1: have gone there, it's a pretty small little theater, but
21:18
Speaker 1: they still fit one hundred and fifty guests on opening night.
21:23
Speaker 3: Wow, You're like, yeah, a small bedroom and I'm picturing
21:26
Speaker 3: like thirty forty people maybe, Yeah, it's like one hundred
21:30
Speaker 3: and would you say one hundred and forty, one hundred
21:32
Speaker 3: and fifty, one hundred and fifty, Yeah, which I read
21:35
Speaker 3: somewhere that I didn't write this down, but like they
21:37
Speaker 3: basically told the women to not wear their like big
21:40
Speaker 3: skirts and coats for opening night because they were like,
21:43
Speaker 3: there's not going.
21:43
Speaker 1: To be real.
21:44
Speaker 4: You have to squeeze in.
21:45
Speaker 2: Yeah.
21:46
Speaker 1: So this was the city's first commercial theater and it was,
21:50
Speaker 1: you know, going great. But the theater operator, Thomas Tanner,
21:55
Speaker 1: died seventeen days after the Tanner Troops opening. Oh so
22:00
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think he died in the house,
22:01
Speaker 1: but still connelated to someone that died, and sadly, the
22:06
Speaker 1: Tanner Troop disbanded a few months after that. So for
22:08
Speaker 1: some time, another part of the house also functioned as
22:11
Speaker 1: a convenience store that was called the Wayley and Crossed
22:15
Speaker 1: Wait General Store. And then in eighteen sixty nine, a
22:19
Speaker 1: room in the Whaley House was leased to the County
22:22
Speaker 1: of San Diego to function as a county courthouse. So
22:26
Speaker 1: one room that used to be like a granary became
22:29
Speaker 1: the courthouse, and then the county also leased three of
22:32
Speaker 1: the upstairs bedrooms to use his offices and record storage
22:36
Speaker 1: for the courthouse, and some tensions started forming about the
22:40
Speaker 1: storage of the records here. There was a lot of
22:42
Speaker 1: contention between the newer residents of the city aka the
22:46
Speaker 1: people who lived in Newtown, which is currently downtown San Diego,
22:50
Speaker 1: and then the residents who lived in Old Town where
22:53
Speaker 1: the Whaley House was. The newtowners wanted the offices to
22:56
Speaker 1: be moved to Newtown, and on some reports that I've read,
22:59
Speaker 1: Thomas Whaley was the one not allowing the offices to
23:03
Speaker 1: move out because they had a lease. So these reports
23:06
Speaker 1: basically say that Thomas was like, well, you can break
23:08
Speaker 1: your lease, but you have to pay me a bunch
23:11
Speaker 1: of money.
23:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, But other reports that I've.
23:14
Speaker 1: Read have said that it was just the old towners
23:17
Speaker 1: who were fighting this, So I'm not exactly sure, but
23:19
Speaker 1: there was a lot of contention. There were kind of
23:21
Speaker 1: several years of battles about this in the eighteen sixties
23:25
Speaker 1: and eighteen seventies, and then in eighteen seventy one, Thomas
23:29
Speaker 1: Whaley was away on business and the new towners raided
23:33
Speaker 1: the house to move all of the records out. The
23:36
Speaker 1: angry mob even held Anna Whayley, the mom, at gunpoint
23:40
Speaker 1: on the staircase while this happened, Oh my gosh, and
23:44
Speaker 1: she was held on the ninth step of the staircase,
23:47
Speaker 1: and this became known as the Legend of the Ninth Step.
23:51
Speaker 1: So keep that in your back pocket. Well, we'll come
23:53
Speaker 1: back to that later.
23:54
Speaker 4: Ooh okay, Yeah, so.
23:57
Speaker 1: That's pretty much the history of the house, and now
23:59
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get in to the spooky shit. So we're
24:01
Speaker 1: first going to start by going all the way back
24:04
Speaker 1: to before the house was even built and talking about
24:07
Speaker 1: what was on the land before. Okay, So, first of all,
24:14
Speaker 1: this house was built on a site that was used
24:18
Speaker 1: for public executions.
24:20
Speaker 4: Ooh, that's even worse. That's way worse than what I said.
24:26
Speaker 1: And there was one particular execution of somebody who is
24:30
Speaker 1: now known to be one of the biggest ghosts in
24:33
Speaker 1: the house.
24:34
Speaker 2: Okay.
24:34
Speaker 1: So in eighteen fifty two, a man named James Robinson,
24:38
Speaker 1: who was better known as Yankee Jim, was a thief
24:42
Speaker 1: and crook in the area and he was caught stealing
24:46
Speaker 1: a row boat and his punishment for this was that
24:49
Speaker 1: he was to be hanged damn and it was likely. Yeah,
24:54
Speaker 1: I know, it seems like a lot and especially trying
24:57
Speaker 1: to get like some accomplice that only like went to
25:00
Speaker 1: jail or something.
25:01
Speaker 2: But a lot of people believe that it was.
25:03
Speaker 1: Because he was kind of infamous for being a thief
25:07
Speaker 1: in the area and he had been caught stealing things before,
25:10
Speaker 1: so like.
25:11
Speaker 4: A repeat offender, right, but death like okay, different time. Yeah.
25:17
Speaker 1: So this was one of the most famous public executions
25:21
Speaker 1: in the town of San Diego, partially because of how
25:24
Speaker 1: the execution was kind of like more or less botched
25:27
Speaker 1: at first. So just another trigger warning because I'm gonna
25:30
Speaker 1: be talking about how he was killed, but I want
25:34
Speaker 1: to explain like why this was such a disastrous execution.
25:37
Speaker 1: So he was to be hung from the gallows and
25:40
Speaker 1: after you know, they kicked out like a wagon that
25:43
Speaker 1: was under him, and he was hung but his toes
25:47
Speaker 1: were still touching the ground slightly, so you know, it's
25:51
Speaker 1: supposed to be like a quick death where his neck
25:53
Speaker 1: like snaps, but the rope was too long, so that
25:56
Speaker 1: didn't happen, and he was basically hanging there. And it's
26:00
Speaker 1: reported that he was hanging there for up to forty
26:03
Speaker 1: five minutes before he died, just being strangled.
26:07
Speaker 2: Wow.
26:07
Speaker 1: And a reporter at the time explained this by saying, quote,
26:10
Speaker 1: he swung like a pendulum.
26:13
Speaker 4: Ew. Yeah, someone should have intervened.
26:17
Speaker 2: No, they didn't I mean what was I don't know.
26:20
Speaker 1: And of course, because of the time, executions were kind
26:24
Speaker 1: of like a public spectacle with an audience, So there
26:27
Speaker 1: was an audience there watching this happen. And in that
26:30
Speaker 1: audience was Thomas Whaley. So Thomas Wayey knew that the
26:35
Speaker 1: execution happened there, but he literally.
26:37
Speaker 4: Watched it happen and then build house.
26:40
Speaker 1: He still purchased the house to build a land, build
26:44
Speaker 1: a home for his family. I mean, I guess I
26:48
Speaker 1: kind of get it because apparently he got the land
26:50
Speaker 1: for super cheap because you know, it was an execution location.
26:54
Speaker 1: But still it was kind of like the house was
26:57
Speaker 1: doomed to be haunted from the star and there are
27:00
Speaker 1: people who said that, like back in the eighteen hundred,
27:03
Speaker 1: said this house is gonna be haunted.
27:05
Speaker 3: I wonder if he just like didn't believe in that
27:07
Speaker 3: kind of thing like bad vibes or you.
27:10
Speaker 2: Know, definitely could be.
27:11
Speaker 1: And he was a businessman, so he saw the opportunity and.
27:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I could see that.
27:18
Speaker 1: So Yankee Jim is one of the main spirits that
27:20
Speaker 1: people report seeing when they visit the house, and he
27:23
Speaker 1: was actually known to have haunted the whalies while they
27:26
Speaker 1: were living there. He's known for making loud footsteps and
27:29
Speaker 1: leaving what looks like disembodied footprints around the house. And
27:34
Speaker 1: then there was one particular spot of the living room
27:37
Speaker 1: parlor area where there's a giant archway, and this is
27:41
Speaker 1: supposedly where the execution of Yankee Jim happened. So because
27:46
Speaker 1: of that and because of where they were hearing noises,
27:49
Speaker 1: the whalies would kind of think that it was Yankee
27:52
Speaker 1: Jim haunting the house.
27:55
Speaker 2: Makes sense.
27:56
Speaker 1: They reported that he would continually make noises to scare
27:59
Speaker 1: them all around the house. Okay, so the next spirit
28:03
Speaker 1: is that of Thomas Wailey Junior. So if you remember
28:07
Speaker 1: Thomas Baby, yeah, yeah, the House of Scarlet Fever, and
28:15
Speaker 1: it's reported that he has always kind of stayed close
28:18
Speaker 1: to the house. Visitors can hear sounds of tiny footsteps,
28:22
Speaker 1: crying or giggling when no kids are around, and so
28:25
Speaker 1: a lot of people believe that that's Thomas Junior. Something
28:28
Speaker 1: he necessarily is like scaring anyone. He's just like playing
28:32
Speaker 1: around and people here like giggling, Yeah, like kids giggling,
28:35
Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, that's Thomas Junior. Violet Wayley, the
28:38
Speaker 1: poor sweet girl, whose life was just enveloped in scandal
28:42
Speaker 1: after her husband divorced her. She is also known to
28:46
Speaker 1: haunt the house, specifically the second floor and the parlor.
28:50
Speaker 1: So after her husband's past came out and before she
28:53
Speaker 1: committed suicide, she spent most of her time on the
28:56
Speaker 1: second floor just consumed in her sorrow, extremely depressed. So
29:01
Speaker 1: now a lot of visitors will see a young woman
29:04
Speaker 1: that kind of lingers on the second floor, and a
29:06
Speaker 1: lot of people believe that to be Violet. People also
29:10
Speaker 1: report feeling cold and feeling hurt, sad, depressed presence in
29:16
Speaker 1: that area, which is just so sad.
29:18
Speaker 3: That is what a horrible like repetitive afterlife, right I know.
29:24
Speaker 1: People also report smelling a French perfume around the house,
29:28
Speaker 1: and that was Anna's signature scent the mom There are
29:33
Speaker 1: also sightings of a man which is believed to be Thomas,
29:36
Speaker 1: wearing a coat and top hat that likes to stand
29:39
Speaker 1: at the top of the stairs. So one person reported
29:42
Speaker 1: seeing him on the landing wearing quote a frock coat
29:46
Speaker 1: and pantaloons, and so a lot of people believe that
29:49
Speaker 1: this is kind of him, like overlooking everything, okay, And
29:53
Speaker 1: people also report that they feel and smell Thomas blowing
29:56
Speaker 1: tobacco smoke in their faces. And this is mainly women
30:00
Speaker 1: who this happens to you, So you know, okay, Thomas,
30:04
Speaker 1: but it's kind.
30:05
Speaker 2: Of a rude thing to do. But you know people
30:07
Speaker 2: are in your home, so you do you, Yeah, that's true.
30:10
Speaker 1: Other reported hauntings include seeing curtains move on windows that
30:13
Speaker 1: have been sealed shut, and then people also see figures
30:17
Speaker 1: in the upstairs windows, especially at night, kind of lingering
30:21
Speaker 1: long after the museum has closed for the day. Now,
30:24
Speaker 1: remember the legend of the ninth step that I mentioned,
30:27
Speaker 1: because Anna Whaley was held at gunpoint on the ninth
30:30
Speaker 1: step of the staircase while the mob raided the house
30:33
Speaker 1: to get all the court records. So because of that,
30:36
Speaker 1: people that are going up the stairs report not only
30:39
Speaker 1: feeling her presence specifically on that step, but they also
30:43
Speaker 1: say that they feel a horrific sense of dread and
30:46
Speaker 1: then feel as though someone is trying to stop them
30:49
Speaker 1: from continuing up the stairs.
30:52
Speaker 2: Yeah that's creepy.
30:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, that one really freaked me out. In the music room,
30:58
Speaker 1: the piano is known to play itself, specifically playing turn
31:01
Speaker 1: of the Sentry songs. People also hear laughter and smell
31:05
Speaker 1: cigar smoke and perfume in this room. And then one
31:09
Speaker 1: other creepy thing. There's a lamp that has like a
31:12
Speaker 1: couple of crystals hanging off of it, and people will
31:14
Speaker 1: see like one of the crystals moving while the others
31:17
Speaker 1: stay still, so it's like it couldn't just be a
31:19
Speaker 1: breeze or something like, yeah, touching them. Lights flicker on
31:23
Speaker 1: and off throughout the house. Windows will open up, even
31:26
Speaker 1: ones that are sealed shut, and then people hear lots
31:30
Speaker 1: of footprint footsteps. And then one of the biggest reported
31:34
Speaker 1: things is feeling cold and just like kind of feeling
31:38
Speaker 1: that haunted presence.
31:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, which is like a telltale sign that a spirit
31:42
Speaker 3: is a lurkin.
31:45
Speaker 2: Yeah.
31:46
Speaker 1: One tour guide that worked at the Whaley House for
31:48
Speaker 1: almost fifteen years also had a really creepy experience as
31:50
Speaker 1: he was locking up one night. So his name is
31:53
Speaker 1: Victor Santana, and he was closing up and like setting
31:56
Speaker 1: alarms for the night when he heard a woman ask
31:59
Speaker 1: him why are you here, and so he got so
32:02
Speaker 1: freaked out that he ran out of the house without
32:04
Speaker 1: properly setting the alarm code. So the alarm went off
32:07
Speaker 1: and it called the police automatically, and when the police arrived,
32:11
Speaker 1: they asked to speak to the woman in the parlor,
32:14
Speaker 1: to which Victor confusedly asked what lady in the parlor,
32:18
Speaker 1: and the officer told him that they saw another museum
32:21
Speaker 1: worker in costume in the parlor, and they specifically said
32:25
Speaker 1: that this woman was wearing a green Gingham dress. And
32:28
Speaker 1: with that, Victor told them that he was the last
32:31
Speaker 1: guide there that night and that there was not another
32:34
Speaker 1: woman in the house. And this is pretty much everybody
32:38
Speaker 1: believes that this was Anna because she was often in
32:42
Speaker 1: the parlor drinking tea. Her ghost is often seen in
32:45
Speaker 1: the parlor, and she was also known for wearing green dresses.
32:49
Speaker 3: Those are the kind of spirits that bother me, or
32:53
Speaker 3: disturb me or scare me. The most are the ones
32:55
Speaker 3: that are I guess intelligent enough to recognize that you're
33:01
Speaker 3: there and like communicate with you, because like a lot
33:04
Speaker 3: of it is kind of like that disem you know, right.
33:09
Speaker 4: Lurking around on repeat.
33:10
Speaker 2: Kind of thing.
33:11
Speaker 4: But when they like talk to you or try to
33:14
Speaker 4: touch you, or.
33:15
Speaker 3: You know, answer a question or you know something like that,
33:18
Speaker 3: that's that's when I'm like okay, bye.
33:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, This next one's kind of I guess a
33:23
Speaker 1: little bit more fun.
33:24
Speaker 2: I guess you can say the.
33:26
Speaker 1: Whaley family had pets, and apparently the ghosts of the
33:30
Speaker 1: pets are back playing around in the house. So they
33:33
Speaker 1: had a dog named Dolly and a cat named Winks.
33:37
Speaker 1: And people will see both a dog and cat running
33:39
Speaker 1: around the house, playing together out in the yard or
33:42
Speaker 1: just hanging outside, and people will mention them to the staff,
33:46
Speaker 1: and the staff will be like, we don't have pets here.
33:49
Speaker 1: And then also, like I guess, a lot of kids
33:51
Speaker 1: will be like, oh, I want to give a treat
33:52
Speaker 1: to the dog, or I want to go play with
33:54
Speaker 1: the dog, and then people will have to be like,
33:55
Speaker 1: there's no dog.
33:56
Speaker 2: There's no dog. Yeah. Oh.
33:59
Speaker 1: So another spirit, and this one's really sad, but I
34:03
Speaker 1: had to include it. So another spirit is a former
34:06
Speaker 1: childhood friend of the Waiy children. So her name is
34:10
Speaker 1: Carrie Washburn, I believe, and she was from the neighborhood
34:14
Speaker 1: and she would oftentimes come and play with the Waily children,
34:17
Speaker 1: and apparently Anna would bake the mom would bake fresh
34:20
Speaker 1: cookies for all the kids in their convenience store. And
34:23
Speaker 1: one day this friend found out there were fresh cookies
34:27
Speaker 1: and ran towards the house and she ran straight into
34:31
Speaker 1: a clothesline that was hanging and apparently it was right
34:34
Speaker 1: at the height of her neck, so it basically like
34:37
Speaker 1: broke her neck.
34:38
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah, So she.
34:41
Speaker 1: Was brought into the house to try to be saved,
34:43
Speaker 1: but she died on one of the tables in the house.
34:46
Speaker 1: So that's another death inside the house. And her spirit
34:49
Speaker 1: is said to hang around the house and people often
34:52
Speaker 1: hear laughing and like children's footsteps running around. Children or
34:56
Speaker 1: like young visitors will also tend to have conversations with
35:00
Speaker 1: children in the house, like conversations with quote unquote people
35:04
Speaker 1: at their height level that are not actually there. And
35:08
Speaker 1: there's one story of an experience that a police officer
35:11
Speaker 1: had at the Whaley House and this one just gives
35:13
Speaker 1: me like.
35:14
Speaker 2: Full on heavy genies.
35:17
Speaker 1: And what's actually interesting about this is the police officer
35:19
Speaker 1: did not tell anyone about this experience until he retired
35:23
Speaker 1: from the.
35:23
Speaker 3: Force because probably no one would take him seriously, and
35:26
Speaker 3: he didn't want to be right embarrassed but.
35:28
Speaker 1: Right, but he like fully believed it and he retired
35:32
Speaker 1: he was like, I'm telling everyone. Yeah, So he had
35:34
Speaker 1: been called to the house because someone had seen a
35:36
Speaker 1: woman in distress crying out behind the house. And when
35:41
Speaker 1: he arrived, he saw the woman crying, and he approached her,
35:44
Speaker 1: and he said that she was wearing period clothing and
35:47
Speaker 1: was crying as the witness had mentioned. But he asked, quote,
35:52
Speaker 1: are you all right, ma'am? And when he said that,
35:54
Speaker 1: the woman looked at him, smiled, and then disappeared. So
35:59
Speaker 1: this is believed to be violet, because you know that's
36:02
Speaker 1: where Yeah, yeah, okay. So there's just a few more
36:07
Speaker 1: things that I discovered while watching the BuzzFeed Unsolved episode
36:11
Speaker 1: about this house, which I highly recommend you guys go watch.
36:14
Speaker 1: It is so fucking creepy.
36:16
Speaker 2: Is it on Netflix? No, it's just on YouTube. Oh okay, okay, Yeah.
36:20
Speaker 1: I literally never watch spooky stuff, Like you know, I
36:24
Speaker 1: don't watch carry movies. I don't watch spooky stuff. I
36:26
Speaker 1: get way too scared. But I watched it for you guys,
36:29
Speaker 1: and I got thoroughly freaking terrified. So I'm telling you
36:33
Speaker 1: all to go watch it so you could be just
36:35
Speaker 1: as terrified. But I'll tell you a couple of things
36:37
Speaker 1: here and I will link it in the show notes,
36:39
Speaker 1: so you guys can go watch it yourself. So the host,
36:42
Speaker 1: Shane and Ryan went to the house and one of
36:44
Speaker 1: the things that they asked for while they were there
36:46
Speaker 1: were for spirits to give Ryan like a shiver up
36:49
Speaker 1: his spine if they were present. And they were sitting
36:53
Speaker 1: there for a while and then Ryan like began feeling
36:56
Speaker 1: super weird, just like out of it, and then all
36:59
Speaker 1: of a sudden, a shiver ran up his spine and
37:02
Speaker 1: it was so creepy like seeing his reaction because he
37:06
Speaker 1: he was saying, you guys probably don't believe me, but
37:08
Speaker 1: this literally just happened. Yeah, so they kind of they
37:11
Speaker 1: didn't find too many other creepy things, you know, they
37:15
Speaker 1: tried to do, and yeah, EVP didn't pick anything up.
37:21
Speaker 1: So finally they were in the parlor and they were
37:23
Speaker 1: trying to summon Yankee Jim right near that archway that
37:27
Speaker 1: is said to be where he was hung from. And
37:30
Speaker 1: so Shane went first and nothing happened, and he actually
37:33
Speaker 1: said he felt really peaceful. And then it was Ryan's turn.
37:37
Speaker 1: So he was sitting there and nobody else was in
37:40
Speaker 1: the room with him, and suddenly he heard a whisper
37:43
Speaker 1: in his ear, and his initial reaction was, like, who's
37:46
Speaker 1: messing with me. Somebody has to be messing with me, right,
37:49
Speaker 1: And they actually like played the audio in the episode
37:52
Speaker 1: that it picked up, and it was just you couldn't
37:55
Speaker 1: make out what it said, but it was creepy, like
37:57
Speaker 1: there was definitely audio.
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Speaker 4: There, like a disembodied voice type thing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So that, friends, is the story of the
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Speaker 1: most haunted house in America. And I am now going
38:12
Speaker 1: to rid myself of all of this knowledge from my brain,
38:15
Speaker 1: especially because I'm home alone right now and it's getting
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Speaker 1: dark and I don't want to think about this. So
38:20
Speaker 1: all the ghosts, I respect you. You are amazing and
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Speaker 1: I would like to never think about you again. Thank
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Speaker 1: you for allowing me to tell this story. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: so that's the story of the Whaley House. I had
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Speaker 1: a lot of fun looking into it.
38:38
Speaker 2: But I'm not gonna lie. I'm a little freaked out
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Speaker 2: right now.
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Speaker 1: So I'm not happy that this is the evening Robert
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Speaker 1: is not home, but it's fine.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you'll be okay.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you are in California, but you're far
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Speaker 3: enough away to wear I think you're all right, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Hopefully, So, yeah, do you have anything else to add? Andrea?
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Speaker 2: Really good?
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Speaker 4: I wonder.
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Speaker 3: It makes me wonder because you know, I like, well,
39:05
Speaker 3: I used to really like ghost Adventures, but like kind
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Speaker 3: of cheesy. Now I wonder if they I'm sure they've
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Speaker 3: been there. I kind of want to watch them today
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Speaker 3: and see what they.
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Speaker 4: What they quote unquote discovered.
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Speaker 1: Right, all right, you'll have to watch that and then
39:18
Speaker 1: you can tell me tell.
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Speaker 2: You about it. Watch that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's cool that BuzzFeed did it and
39:23
Speaker 3: they didn't like judge it up a bunch and make
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Speaker 3: it like.
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Speaker 2: Real, right, you know, they really didn't.
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Speaker 1: And it was like a fifteen minute episode and a
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Speaker 1: good portion of it was them telling the history.
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Speaker 2: Of the house. Yeah, so it was.
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Speaker 1: It was good and you could tell that they definitely
39:36
Speaker 1: weren't just trying to do stuff just for reviews.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's cool.
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Speaker 2: I'll have to watch that too. That sounds good. So yeah, I'll.
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Speaker 1: Post I'll post some photos and stuff on our Instagram
39:48
Speaker 1: as always, so you guys can see the house and
39:51
Speaker 1: how magnificent it was. And if I can find any
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Speaker 1: photos of the hauntings and spirits and stuff, I'll post those.
39:57
Speaker 1: But honestly, I don't want to even look it up.
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Speaker 3: I will, I don't want it on my phone.
40:03
Speaker 1: But yeah, so that'll be on our Instagram at Inhuman
40:06
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40:10
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40:12
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40:15
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40:18
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40:21
Speaker 1: have everything always linked down below in the show notes.
40:24
Speaker 1: I don't know why I said down below, because I mean,
40:26
Speaker 1: I guess it is kind of below, but I'm used
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Speaker 1: to like YouTube.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, because you have to scroll down below.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, so yes, I'm gonna go forget about ghosts,
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Speaker 1: make chili, and not think about ghosts.
40:41
Speaker 3: But and again in case you were confused, she's not
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Speaker 3: gonna think about us. Just in case you needed to
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Speaker 3: know that, again, she's gonna turn every light on in
40:50
Speaker 3: her house.
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Speaker 2: I literally will.
40:52
Speaker 4: I'm so baked out right now, close every calls at door.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
40:56
Speaker 1: So yeah, I hope that everybody enjoyed this episode. I
41:00
Speaker 1: hope that you have a super fun start to your
41:02
Speaker 1: Hallo weekend, and don't forget to tune into our special
41:07
Speaker 1: extra episode on Saturday. I'm also thinking we can post
41:11
Speaker 1: like our family's costumes on our Instagram and then you
41:14
Speaker 1: guys can tell us what your costumes are gonna be. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'd love to hear. And yeah, thank you guys so
41:21
Speaker 1: much for listening. Don't forget to leave a rating and
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Speaker 1: on Saturday, keep it human.
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Speaker 2: Bye,