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Ep. 88 | 10 Shadow People & The Oily Man - A Greasy Deviant · Weeknight Mysteries Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You awake in a night with an eerie feeling of
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  Speaker 1: being watched. You look around the room and see nobody there,
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  Speaker 1: but then you spot it. Standing in the doorway is
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  Speaker 1: the shadow man, just standing there, peering at you. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as you spot him, you fades away. Night after night,
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  Speaker 1: the same thing happens, the same entity, always in the doorway,
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  Speaker 1: always watching. The figure has no features. It is a
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  Speaker 1: solid black silhouette of a person, a shadow. This is
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  Speaker 1: the tale most often told by people who get a
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  Speaker 1: visit from a shadow person, but encounters can take many
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  Speaker 1: different forms. Sometimes they are seen in forests, or graveyards,
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  Speaker 1: or abandoned buildings, sometimes in daylight, walking right down the street.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes the figure is wearing a hat, or a hood.
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  Speaker 1: Other times it has glowing red eyes. Some people feel
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  Speaker 1: a frightening evil aura from the figure, others feel calm
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  Speaker 1: and reassured. Stories of shadow beings have been reported for centuries,
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  Speaker 1: but it is only in recent decades that people have
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  Speaker 1: begun to share their stories more readily. As the internet
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  Speaker 1: made mass communication easier, people who had encountered such entities
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  Speaker 1: were able to share their experiences with each other. As
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  Speaker 1: more and more people reported the same black figure, the
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  Speaker 1: term shadow person was coined. Some people even managed to
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  Speaker 1: photograph these entities. Here are 10 of the best photographs
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  Speaker 1: of shadow beings ever captured on camera. This is one
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  Speaker 1: of the most well-known shadow person photographs. It is commonly
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  Speaker 1: known as the hospital demon photograph. It was recorded on
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  Speaker 1: a nurse's monitor and appears to show a black figure
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  Speaker 1: standing on a patient's chest as a lie in bed.
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  Speaker 1: Shadow beings are often reported by hospital staff and are
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  Speaker 1: seen as portents of death. Unsurprisingly, a few hours after
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  Speaker 1: this photo was taken, the patient died. This picture was
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  Speaker 1: taken by a woman named Shelly in her New York apartment.
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  Speaker 1: She claims that she experienced many paranormal phenomena such as
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  Speaker 1: polar gas activity, seeing shadows out the corner of her eye,
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  Speaker 1: and a general bad luck and oppressive atmosphere whenever she
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  Speaker 1: was in the apartment. This photograph is interesting because the
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  Speaker 1: shadow was passing right in front of a light source,
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  Speaker 1: eliminating the possibility that it is just a shadow being
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  Speaker 1: cast on the wall. This image is one of the
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  Speaker 1: most recent shadow person photographs. The low-quality photo shows a
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  Speaker 1: black figure peering out from behind a pillar. The picture
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  Speaker 1: was taken by pupils at the Malaysian school. The photo
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  Speaker 1: caused mass panic within the school, over 20 students had
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  Speaker 1: to be sent home because they feared they were being
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  Speaker 1: possessed by spirits. Locals blame the phenomena on a Pontianak,
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  Speaker 1: a vengeful spirit of a woman who was died during childbirth.
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  Speaker 1: The planchianic is said to kill its victims by tearing
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  Speaker 1: open their stomachs with her long fingernails and devouring their
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  Speaker 1: internal organs. This picture shows a strange black shape behind
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  Speaker 1: the hand of the person sat at the table. Again,
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  Speaker 1: this shape appears in front of items in the background,
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  Speaker 1: suggesting it is a solid manifestation rather than a normal shadow.
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  Speaker 1: It does not seem to be shaped like a human being.
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  Speaker 1: More like an amorphous blob, it fits with the description
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  Speaker 1: of shadow beings that can shape shift into any form
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  Speaker 1: that they like. Perhaps this entity was captured on camera
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  Speaker 1: just as it was taking form. This photo was uploaded
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  Speaker 1: to Reddit by a user called CamelSoros. He tells the
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  Speaker 1: story behind it. 10 years ago I was given this
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  Speaker 1: photo by an ex-girlfriend. Back story is, the owner of
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  Speaker 1: the home always said it was haunted by things that
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  Speaker 1: were always all black. They would wake up and see
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  Speaker 1: the entity standing over them, then it would vanish. This
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  Speaker 1: photo was taken around Christmas and you can see the
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  Speaker 1: figure near the fridge. You can see a flash on
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  Speaker 1: the fridge handle but not on the figure. Supposedly a
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  Speaker 1: family haunts the house, he claims the entity is the
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  Speaker 1: daughter of the family, whose room used to be where
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  Speaker 1: the fridge is. This photo was taken by a paranormal
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  Speaker 1: investigation team in the Rolling Hills Asylum and Abandoned Mental
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  Speaker 1: Hospital with a long history of hauntings. The corridor where
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  Speaker 1: this picture was taken is known as Shadow Hallway because
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  Speaker 1: of how common shadow entities are sighted there. A spirit
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  Speaker 1: called Jack is said to pace up and down behind
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  Speaker 1: the doors here. The team reported hearing footsteps and voices
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  Speaker 1: and when they checked their cameras they noticed this eerie
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  Speaker 1: figure caught on a tape. This picture is quite well
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  Speaker 1: known but has been spread so widely across the internet
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  Speaker 1: that I cannot find the original story behind it. It
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  Speaker 1: shows two shadowy figures peeking out from behind the tree
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  Speaker 1: but other than that no other information is known. Michelle
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  Speaker 1: Spitler was in a kitchen preparing dinner when she spotted
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  Speaker 1: what she thought was her husband out the corner of
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  Speaker 1: her eye. Turning to talk to him, she saw standing
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  Speaker 1: there her previous husband who had died eight years earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Terrified Michelle ran out the room and did not see
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  Speaker 1: the ghost again. This photo was taken two months later.
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  Speaker 1: Her family were visiting and they decided to take some
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  Speaker 1: photos of her home. When they developed the picture they
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  Speaker 1: spotted this dark figure standing behind Michelle. It was standing
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  Speaker 1: in exactly the same spot that she had seen her
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  Speaker 1: dead husband. This photo was taken at a promo shoot
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  Speaker 1: for a band named Myth. They were unaware of the
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  Speaker 1: figure in the background until they reviewed the photos later.
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  Speaker 1: Early in the band's career they had a bassist called
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy who died in a car crash. The band believe
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  Speaker 1: this figure is Jimmy returning for one last picture with
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  Speaker 1: the band. There was a road in Missouri called La
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  Speaker 1: Fata Road. It has been nicknamed Zombie Road by the
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  Speaker 1: locals because of its reputation for hauntings by strange shadowy figures.
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  Speaker 1: This picture was taken on the Zombie Road by Tom Halst.
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  Speaker 1: It shows an entire group of shadow beings watching him
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  Speaker 1: from the trees alongside the road. This is definitely one
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  Speaker 1: of the creepiest pictures that I've ever seen. There are
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  Speaker 1: many theories as to what shadow people actually are. Some
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  Speaker 1: people think they are ghosts, some think they are demons
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  Speaker 1: or angels or other transdimensional entities. They could even be
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  Speaker 1: alien life forms or astrally projecting bodies. Whatever they are,
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  Speaker 1: they seem to like watching us sleep. I recommend reading it,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe not before bed. A lone woman stirs from
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  Speaker 1: her sleep, raising her head slightly to scan their room.
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  Speaker 1: She locks eyes on a monstrous human form oozing with
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  Speaker 1: grease as a black as his soul. Her eyes widen
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  Speaker 1: in terror because she knows who it is that she faces.
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  Speaker 1: The uncatchable oil smeared violator known as the oily man.
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  Speaker 1: Here's another weird story all the way from Malaysia. The
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  Speaker 1: Orang Minya, the oily man. Who or what the oily
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  Speaker 1: man is is disputed by many. To some, the oily
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  Speaker 1: man is classed as a hand to a regional term
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  Speaker 1: for a demon or spirit. Others say that he is
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  Speaker 1: a surviving form of a prehistoric man with a knack
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  Speaker 1: for smelling out virgins. Some say that he is a
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  Speaker 1: living beast akin to a Bigfoot or a Yeti. To
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  Speaker 1: others he is simply a man, a cunning rapist who
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  Speaker 1: uses his slick body to squirm from the clutches of
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  Speaker 1: angry boyfriends, fathers, and law enforcement alike. Out in the
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  Speaker 1: rural districts of Malaysia, The Orang Minya is an evil
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  Speaker 1: warlock who has made himself untouchable with malevolent occult oils
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  Speaker 1: so that he can take his fill of the local
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  Speaker 1: young ladies. There have been countless attacks recorded since at
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  Speaker 1: least the 1950s that I have been blamed on the
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  Speaker 1: Orang Minya. This myth is so entrenched that young girls
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  Speaker 1: have been known to try and keep the oily man
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  Speaker 1: away by sleeping in sweaty and disheveled clothing. This is
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  Speaker 1: to give them the appearance of someone who has just
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  Speaker 1: had sex so that they will be of no interest
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  Speaker 1: to the Orang Minya. Today from time to time, in
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  Speaker 1: local news across Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia, there are reports
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  Speaker 1: of rapes carried out by the oily man. According to
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  Speaker 1: a report in The Star, a Malaysian newspaper, there were
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  Speaker 1: multiple sightings over the Christmas of 2011 of not one
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  Speaker 1: but two oily men. I saw the bold orang minyak
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  Speaker 1: hiding behind the water tank of a house at about
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  Speaker 1: 2 in the morning. It was breathing really loudly like
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  Speaker 1: a cow. It was black and shiny. When I shone
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  Speaker 1: my light on it, the thing stuck out its head
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  Speaker 1: to look back at me. Before I could do anything,
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  Speaker 1: it climbed up on the roof and disappeared. One I
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  Speaker 1: witnessed saw it crawling up the stairs of the house
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  Speaker 1: just like Spider-Man. When it reached the top, it suddenly
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  Speaker 1: jumped onto the roof. I don't think a human could
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  Speaker 1: do that. It then just disappeared. The hair on my
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  Speaker 1: hand stood up. We can laugh and joke about it,
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  Speaker 1: but this is serious. All the families here have young girls.
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  Speaker 1: 200 people patrol the street waiting for the Orang Minya
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  Speaker 1: to appear and many carried machetes and axes. The villagers
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  Speaker 1: believe that they discovered the site in which the men
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  Speaker 1: conducted sinister ritual oil baths, but the oily men themselves
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  Speaker 1: were not captured. As is common with many of the
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  Speaker 1: mythological creatures in this part of the world, many movies
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  Speaker 1: have been produced that only fuel sightings of this diabolical,
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  Speaker 1: oily rapist. Movies with imaginative names such as The Oily Maniac,
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  Speaker 1: Curse of the Oily Man and The Oily Man Strikes Again.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's more modern incarnations, Orang Minya from 2007
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  Speaker 1: and 2012's Pontianna vs Orang Minya. These develop and spread
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  Speaker 1: the myths into present day. The Orang Minya is often
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  Speaker 1: seen as a bogeyman type figure with parents threatening their
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  Speaker 1: kids with if you don't eat your dinner, the oily
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  Speaker 1: man will get you. The oily man isn't just limited
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  Speaker 1: to Malaysia and Indonesia either. Another case in Sri Lanka
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  Speaker 1: in 2011 boiled over into mass violence, leading to the
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  Speaker 1: death of a policeman trying to calm local groups chasing
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  Speaker 1: Greece devils. The panic over these nocturnal creatures has gotten
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  Speaker 1: so bad that military and police have been fighting Greece
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  Speaker 1: devils chasing lynch mumps. The official Sri Lankan message about
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  Speaker 1: Greece devils is that they are criminals taking advantage of
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  Speaker 1: the legend to carry out their attacks. Some locals believe
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  Speaker 1: that the Greece men are working with the military to
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  Speaker 1: keep the populace scared and give them an excuse to
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  Speaker 1: imprison people. The seeming link between the Orang Minya and
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  Speaker 1: the Greece devils despite the two and a half thousand
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  Speaker 1: kilometer distance between Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Does it come
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  Speaker 1: from a singular source? Could they exist in other parts
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  Speaker 1: of the world? It's much appreciated.