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Time slips; places that don't exist; and Bitcoin is the Antichrist? · Paranormal Lens - A Crossroads Of Curiosities, LLC Production

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  coming up this is not my paranormal lens podcast
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  bitcoin is the antichrist yeah huh so that's
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  an outlander statement but bigfoot being the
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  antichrist isn't so uh there's a concept that
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  i kind of want to talk about angeline we're talking
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  about this uh it's not directly paranormal but
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  also we did do a whole episode where we talked
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  about giant frog wizards and how Bigfoot's the
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  Antichrist, so I think we can talk about non
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  -ghost stuff every now and then. Yeah. So there's,
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  like, a common -ish, like, surprisingly common,
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  like, there's all these Reddit threads and stuff
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  about, like, places that shouldn't exist or,
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  like, that disappear after you go there, like
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  glitches in the Matrix, and Angela and I kind
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  of experienced something similar to that, so
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  we wanted to talk about it. okay welcome to our
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  podcast where we take deep dives looking at various
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  topics through a paranormal lens i love the spooky
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  stories on tiktok of people talking about these
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  type of experiences or they believe like maybe
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  oh we can get we can get more into it i'll shut
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  my mouth for now but like what what kind of like
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  what what tiktok stories have stood out to you
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  because there's one i saw that was really crazy
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  it was like a guy lived in a town for like four
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  years and suddenly he was driving by and he noticed
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  a music store that he like never saw before so
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  he popped in and the whole store was this one
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  guy and there was one single instrument which
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  was a bass guitar and the guy's like cool i play
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  bass like i'm starting to pick it back up i'll
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  i'll buy your one bass guitar and then he goes
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  back the next day to like thank the guy no no
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  he got it but he went back to like thank the
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  guy and be like hey the guitar is great uh ask
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  follow questions like how long have you been
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  here i've never seen the store before then he
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  goes in or tries to go and the store is closed
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  like closed closed closed like it's but the building's
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  still there the building's there but there's
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  nothing in it ah well he only had one instrument
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  and he sold it But it was like this whole thing.
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  Yeah, I know. But it was this whole thing. The
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  store literally was never. He lived there for
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  four years and he drives down the street all
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  the time. And then he. One day noticed a store.
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  That just came up out of nowhere. Had one instrument,
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  which was instrument he plays. And then it was
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  like bored up and closed. It is a little weird.
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  Like I get that like a store would close if they
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  sold their last instrument. But they would also.
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  probably be established in the community a little
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  bit you would notice it existed they would say
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  something like oh you bought my last instrument
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  we're closing tomorrow or have a sign saying
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  closing or something it's like yeah it's a little
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  weird like just a little it's not totally weird
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  but it's weird enough to be like is that a normal
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  thing yeah like that's the type of I can't remember
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  the details of this story, but it's basically
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  along the same thing. People are driving, and
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  they go and stop for gas, and they go get gas,
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  and then they drive past the next day, and the
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  gas station is abandoned or something like that
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  type of thing. Interesting. And there's a lot
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  of stories, too. People are reminiscing on childhood.
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  One example I saw... right by their house, there
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  was a big hill, and on the top of the hill was
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  a cemetery, and they would always go hang out
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  there, and then they would reminisce, and everyone's
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  like, what are you talking about? And then they
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  would go on, like, Google Maps and stuff. It'd
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  be like, the cemetery's not there. Yeah, it,
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  like, never existed. It's not on any maps, and
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  there's no indication one ever existed. Hmm.
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  Interesting. I mean, I feel like I've definitely
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  heard some stories like that out there, but...
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  I don't know. I feel like... Well, guess what,
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  Brianna? You're gonna hear another one from us.
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  Okay. I was about to say, I feel like the human
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  mind is odd and complex, and I feel like especially
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  as time goes on, we remember things differently,
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  and our memories can warp and change, so it isn't
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  unreasonable to think like, oh we went to this
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  place like last year and it's like oh it never
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  existed it's like like yeah it's possible that
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  that like realistically yeah probably a logical
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  explanation for the something that's just tricking
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  your mind getting you mixed up or something and
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  it's not supernatural or paranormal at all you
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  know yeah a lot of these stories too if you go
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  on the reddit threads they're all about like
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  pre -gps like they would turn down a road and
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  then they would go back you know they have a
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  weird encounter then they want to go back and
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  they try to retrace their footsteps and they
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  can't find the road it's like yeah not all roads
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  are even like real roads or marked and if you
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  don't know where you are and you just stumble
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  upon a road and you try to retrace your footsteps
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  pre -gps and stuff i mean i i think the brain
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  is just weird yeah you mix up details especially
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  if you're in a state of like confusion and a
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  lot of these stories too they highlight like
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  started off weird from the get -go like i my
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  speedometer started acting up and then i felt
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  like i entered the twilight zone because all
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  these people were acting weird and then i went
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  to retrace my footsteps and then i couldn't find
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  a road at all so if you're already having weird
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  things happen your brain might just kind of go
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  into like uh glitchy mode i don't know yeah so
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  what what happened to you guys so it was about
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  four or five months ago we went to the town called
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  marshall michigan and we found a store um both
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  on the gps we're going antiquing and we found
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  this antique store on the gps this is a very
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  short drive from a previous antique store we
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  went to uh and we went there and it wasn't like
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  a typical antique store it wasn't like a bunch
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  of like household items and knickknacks there's
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  like paper themed it a lot of frames very paper
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  based store yeah the uh posters ephemera uh postcards
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  uh old books that's where we got um if you have
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  done our live streams we do live streams every
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  week on tiktok uh the old 1800s bible we got
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  from there so we actually bought something from
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  there uh we paid in cash There's no evidence
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  of this transaction, but we paid in cash. It
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  was this sweet couple that ran it. The guy actually
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  made his own frames in the back, so he had his
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  own business. And I think they lived above the
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  building too. Don't quote me on that, but it
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  kind of gave that vibe where they lived there.
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  They ran a business out of there. He made frames.
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  And we wanted to go back because this was four
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  or five months ago. And then just a few weeks
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  ago, we were back in town, back in Marshall.
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  And we wanted to go back to that store. And the
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  store doesn't exist. This is the only way I can
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  put it. Can't find it. Can't find it anywhere.
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  You want to elaborate, Ange, on how we try to
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  find it and stuff? Because we were wanting to
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  go back there because I was wanting to get some
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  more old, cheap photos, antique photos, because
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  they were really cheap. They were like $0 .25,
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  $0 .50 each. no more than a dollar and so i was
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  like i've got to go back i gotta get more i'm
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  running low and couldn't find it we put in all
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  the antique stores that we went to that same
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  day and it we couldn't find it on google maps
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  we couldn't find it anywhere online actually
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  and we yeah i went on all the local facebook
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  groups looked up every like i literally spent
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  two hours doing this, looking up every mention
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  of antique store, paper, old books, and all the
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  local Facebook groups. They all mentioned the
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  same two antique stores, never mentioned this
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  one. We drove around every side street, retraced
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  our footsteps. We remembered where we got coffee
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  before and knew it had to be close by. We started
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  at that other antique store and then started
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  driving around and looking up anything that could
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  be vaguely related. and then i i kind of assumed
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  because we did find it initially by looking at
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  the gps but i was like maybe it's no longer on
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  gps um or something you know gps can be finicky
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  let's just drive we did every side street we
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  just drove around for three hours and the building
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  is not there it's not there like i remember specifically
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  specifically what this building looked like it
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  was a singular building i don't think it was
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  like other buildings were connected to it it
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  was like a white building the doors were right
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  in the middle window on one side window on the
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  other side it was white i remember specifically
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  what this place looked like so i knew if we were
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  driving around and we were just driving and i
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  see it i would know that's what it that's what
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  it was because i remember there was also like
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  an open flag that was hanging from like above
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  the door or something too and I was like, what
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  the heck? I literally couldn't find it anywhere.
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  And the only thing that I did find a little weird,
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  we were driving and I was looking at buildings
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  and I was like, Ben, that's kind of what the
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  building looked like. Remember this part when
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  I was like, that's kind of what the building
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  looked like and it was just a modern state farm
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  building now. I was like, it's the same setup,
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  just more updated and new looking. And it's been
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  there. But the building is not something that,
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  A, even could have cropped up in a four -month
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  time to completely clear out, modernize, and
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  move in. It's been there the whole time. But
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  we did find something that was kind of uncannily
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  similar while driving down those side streets,
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  but way more modern. The side street was kind
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  of like the same type of side street. And I don't
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  know if it was the exact same. road or something
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  but it was in that general area where we thought
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  it was and yeah that was like that was weird
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  i was like what the heck well we knew because
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  we both knew because my first thought was that
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  we sure it's even in marshall because we do trips
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  semi often like just little day trips or whatever
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  and we both knew it was in marshall that's the
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  whole point why we went back there we both knew
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  it was from there um did you guys take any pictures
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  while you were there no no pictures there's no
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  evidence that we were ever there because we paid
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  in cash for our stuff yeah i even checked credit
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  card transactions and we paid in cash i was gonna
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  say if you took pictures like even just a random
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  picture on your phone it has like i know you
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  both have iphones too like you can go to the
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  map uh like in your in your picture gallery and
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  see where those pictures were taken specifically
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  so okay to that point too it's really weird um
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  because my mind went to the same thing is there
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  any pictures uh we got a book so a lot of these
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  places will give you a little bookmark or something
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  didn't get a bookmark or any sort of postcard
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  or anything that would say where it's at there's
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  no writing in the book itself but this is I'm
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  going to sound weird, but I have a photo collection
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  on my phone of weird bathrooms I visit. Did you
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  go to the bathroom there? Yeah, I vividly remember
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  the bathroom there was so weird. Yeah, I remember
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  you telling me this was weird. Wait, what was
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  weird about it? You didn't take pictures of it?
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  Wasn't there a weird mannequin in there or something?
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  Yeah, there was a mannequin just sitting in a
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  chair looking at you while you went to the bathroom.
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  Not creepy at all. Yeah, behind, like, a stack
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  of frames and stuff. It was, like, a room. Like,
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  a big room. And you're just sitting there in
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  the back. The frame makes sense because it was,
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  like, a framing store in the back or whatever,
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  too. But, like, the mannequin is, like, that
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  didn't fit the theme of that place. But I could
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  have sworn I had a picture. And I don't have
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  any pictures of it. Weird. So... No, but, like,
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  I also thought you showed me that picture, too.
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  Maybe it was like a Snapchat or something. Maybe
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  it was a Snapchat. Yeah, so I would have taken
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  a Snapchat then. I just didn't save it. Yeah,
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  you never know. I don't know. It was just weird.
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  Because I know this was in Marshall. We went
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  to this place in Marshall. Like, I know this
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  for a fact. And we even looked up... We did go
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  to an antique store on the way home from Marshall,
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  but we... it wasn't that place that was more
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  of like a bigger mall type of antique store and
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  we know like we went because we're we stayed
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  overnight in marshall and we knew it was the
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  first day that we went there not the second day
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  so what it had to be in the town proper and then
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  we that was the second store we went to and then
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  we were back in downtown for dinner so we couldn't
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  have strayed far um And it came up and there's
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  just no evidence of it existing. And even the
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  weird part is if it just closed in a four month
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  span or something, there would still be evidence
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  of it in like Facebook groups. It would probably
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  still have a Google listing or a website or you'd
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  see the building. It was just kind of weird.
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  We didn't even see anything that resembled it
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  only like uncannily just modern. version of it
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  and the side streets themselves looked familiar
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  obviously that area um i don't know i'm not if
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  anyone's listening and they know what we're talking
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  about by some chance let us know because like
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  brie's saying i'm not saying this is like uh
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  i mean i don't know what are your thoughts angie
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  i'm not saying it's a time slip or a weird ghost
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  thing but i feel like it wasn't because there
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  was also other people that were in there was
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  us too that came in and out only like two other
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  people but still you know i i don't think it
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  was like a time slip type of situation i don't
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  know i don't know i i it gives the feeling of
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  like you know in the like fantasy cartoon movies
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  or whatever and they have the witch's shop that
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  they go in and get get the um get a spell And
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  then they try to go back the next day. And then
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  it's gone. I'm specifically thinking of like
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  Brave. If you don't know what I'm talking about.
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  That's kind of the vibe it gave. Huh. Yeah you
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  can get your. Old 1800's bible. For your haunted
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  rocking chair. But you can't come back. Which
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  is what we did. I don't know. I still. My whole
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  thing is like. It's probably this old. It was
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  an older couple that ran it. They may not have
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  a social presence or social media presence or
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  an online presence. They might not even have
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  a website. Then how the heck did we find this
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  online? Yeah, I don't know. Google Maps might
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  have, I don't know, refreshed or something. I
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  don't want to sound crude or crass right now,
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  but they were an older couple and they might
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  have died. That's so sad. yeah like i'm not trying
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  to be like that but they might have and we might
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  have just driving been driving around the side
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  streets and then when we turned around it could
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  have been that one side street right like that
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  we could have turned down but we turned around
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  you know what i mean so yeah you you never really
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  never it could have been just out of reach yeah
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  I don't know, man. I don't know. It's just weird,
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  the timing. Like Bree said, if it was like a
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  year or two years after, yeah, but like four
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  months? Yeah. No place can just shut down. It's
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  not like, oh, this used to be this building.
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  I thought it was this store. It's like the building
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  itself. Yeah, and I remember specifically, I
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  was like, there was no point to keep track of
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  the name of this place exactly, because I knew
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  once we go back to Marshall's, I can just...
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  look up antique stores and marshall and it will
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  pop up like it did that day and it never popped
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  back up and now we can't find it and i'm sad
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  about it weird definitely weird i can't say that
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  i've ever had an experience like that personally
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  so definitely there's another that comes to mind
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  too um this was in college uh on an investigation
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  with some members of the good old paranormal
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  society at MSU. I don't think you were there,
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  Bree, but you definitely know about this. We
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  went to Riverbend Park in Lansing, and I had
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  just bought a new device. It was a static EMF,
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  like, 360 circle thing that, like, detects in
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  all directions. Yeah, the puck. Yes. Second time
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  ever using it. Brought it out there. Started
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  to really enjoy that thing because it is different
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  than EMF. It did static electricity and stuff.
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  It showed you exactly where it was detecting
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  a reading from. Brought it out. Had a lot of
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  crazy stuff happen with it that night. Was filming
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  for the Afterlife Road web series, so I filmed
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  the whole thing. And when I filmed for Afterlife
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  Road, I didn't stop. I just filmed continuously
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  the whole night. So I started recording as soon
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  as we hopped out of the car, and I ended when
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  we went in the car. I have on video us bringing
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  the puck back into the car with us. I stop recording
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  about five minutes into the drive back home,
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  which we were only 20 minutes away. Five minutes
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  in, I go to put it in my backpack because I just
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  set it down next to me, and it's gone. So I say,
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  turn around. At that point, we were only like
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  five minutes away. Turn around. We turn around.
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  We couldn't see it anywhere. On the ground, I
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  assumed it may... Maybe we didn't actually bring
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  it in the car. Maybe I had to have... uh just
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  put it on top of the car or something or kind
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  of set it down and it fell out i don't know um
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  couldn't see it anywhere so then we went home
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  and i thought about it a little while and i was
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  like i'm going back there so like an hour after
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  that i get in my car uh because my one of my
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  friends had driven so it was his car we searched
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  his car entirely couldn't find it so i took my
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  car back to riverbend park and thoroughly looked
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  all over the place could not find this thing
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  To this day, it's gone. It just vanished into
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  thin air. He's never found it in his car. It's
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  not there at Riverbend Park. Spent like an hour
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  looking for it. It just kind of vanished into
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  thin air. I feel like we all have a story like
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  that, where we have an item that just mysteriously
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  disappears one day, never to be seen again. Have
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  you ever seen those, like, posts online where,
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  like, someone will miss something and they'll,
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  like, move or something and find it or find two
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  of it? Or their plate will break. This one's
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  my favorite, is their plate will break and they'll
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  find a missing shard, but they'll find a shard
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  that's exactly like it. and there's nowhere for
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  it to go because they already like they already
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  have it they have it but then it just pops up
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  again super weird stuff i i've heard stories
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  like that before it's like something goes missing
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  and then they see it and then they find a duplicate
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  and there's literally a duplicate two of them
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  right in front of each other and it's like what
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  kind of weird time slip weird thing did i just
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  witness i don't know i i heard a really weird
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  one i don't remember exactly the details but
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  it was like something about how they like found
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  the object and all of a sudden that went missing
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  and then two seconds later it fell from like
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  the ceiling what or something like that i don't
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  even know how to describe it so like in this
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  hypothetical like let's say it's a pencil they
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  lost their pencil and they found their pencil
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  said okay cool it's right here set it down and
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  then it vanished again and they went to go back
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  to where it was and it just fell from the ceiling
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  i don't know that's weird i'm missing a lot of
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  details but yeah but that makes sense what you're
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  saying like the pencil scenarios found my pencil
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  set it down pencil falls from the ceiling how
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  did that happen and it's like a duplicate So
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  now they have two pencils. Now they would have
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  two pencils in this scenario? That's so weird.
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  So who's dropping things from the sky? Yeah,
• 22:14
  it's like a wormhole or black hole situation.
• 22:18
  I don't know. Glitch in the Matrix. So if we
• 22:23
  go back to Marshall next time, there's going
• 22:25
  to be two old paper stores right next to each
• 22:28
  other. Yeah, maybe. I would be like, we can't
• 22:33
  step foot in that, Ben. We're gonna get lost
• 22:35
  in the universe if that happens. Like, we're
• 22:38
  not gonna leave in time and the place is just
• 22:40
  gonna disappear again and we won't reappear for,
• 22:43
  like, four months. Dang. What am I gonna do?
• 22:48
  You guys aren't gonna be here. Just turn on the
• 22:52
  spirit box. What if you guys slip into a different
• 22:55
  time dimension and you guys are still here, but
• 22:57
  it's not the same you? I mean, same us, different
• 23:06
  cheese, right? Exactly. But what if the different
• 23:11
  you guys are weirder? Weirder? Weirder. Or less
• 23:18
  weird. What if they're less weird? I was gonna
• 23:20
  say, if we're normal... If you guys are normal,
• 23:23
  I'll be concerned. You're, like... The other
• 23:27
  Ben and Angela that comes into this timeline
• 23:30
  are the Ben and Angela that went to Fairfield
• 23:32
  in July. Fairfield in July. So we go to Fairfield
• 23:38
  in July. We can safely say it's August now. We
• 23:41
  did not go to Fairfield in July. Then we come
• 23:43
  back and on the podcast, Bree says, what's the
• 23:48
  topic? And then... I say the stock market and
• 23:51
  then Angela gives a deep dive analysis on the
• 23:54
  stock market and cryptocurrency. And like, we
• 23:56
  just go like, we won't stop talking about stocks
• 23:59
  and crypto. And you're just like, what the fuck?
• 24:04
  This is what I'm picturing. Just like, this is
• 24:08
  not my paranormal lens podcast. We'd be like,
• 24:11
  what are you talking about? We don't do paranormal
• 24:13
  stuff anymore. We do. Blah, blah, blah. You keep
• 24:17
  trying to type cryptid and autocorrect to crypto?
• 24:20
  Yeah. Sorry, I just got distracted. There's a
• 24:25
  spider crawling across my desk. Oh. Kill it!
• 24:30
  One's gonna drop from the ceiling. Oh, God. As
• 24:35
  soon as you acknowledge it. You know, Bitcoin
• 24:39
  is the Antichrist. Bitcoin is the Antichrist?
• 24:44
  Yeah. Huh? So that's an outlander statement.
• 24:55
  But Bigfoot being the Antichrist isn't? Bigfoot
• 25:01
  being the Antichrist makes a lot more sense than
• 25:03
  Bitcoin. Weirdo. Okay. Well. I'm glad we're not
• 25:13
  normal, huh? I am also so glad you guys are not
• 25:16
  normal. How boring life would be. We just gotta
• 25:20
  thank God every day for not going to Fairfield
• 25:24
  in July because we would be very normal now.
• 25:28
  Would we though? Hmm? Would we? I'm just thinking
• 25:34
  if we were normal, our podcast might get like
• 25:37
  400 listens when you make crazy challenges and
• 25:40
  stuff. So, ironically... How is that doing? Oh,
• 25:45
  I don't know, because this is airing in a few
• 25:46
  weeks from now, so I can't read into the future.
• 25:48
  But right now, we're on track, but also on track
• 25:53
  not to do it, if that makes sense. That makes
• 25:55
  sense. So, if you guys have no idea what we're
• 25:59
  talking about, go listen to episode 55. Actually,
• 26:03
  don't go listen to episode 55. Or do. And whatever.
• 26:09
  It's basically episode 55. We designed the scariest
• 26:13
  ghost hunt imaginable, like for us personally.
• 26:16
  What would be our craziest, like, fuck this.
• 26:19
  I would not do that. I would die if I had to
• 26:22
  do that ghost hunt solo challenge. And then it
• 26:26
  was supposed to be a hypothetical, just most
• 26:28
  outlandish, crazy, scary concepts. And then we
• 26:31
  agreed. Well, not all of us agreed, but we came
• 26:34
  up with a joke. It's now a thing that if it gets
• 26:38
  400 listens by the end of this month, August
• 26:40
  2026, we will make it a reality. So go listen
• 26:45
  to it or listen to it again if you want to. Or
• 26:48
  maybe don't listen to it at all. I mean, we're
• 26:51
  fine with either of those. Yeah, we're fine with
• 26:53
  not doing it. So if you don't want us to do it,
• 26:58
  please don't listen. So I'm confused. Is this
• 27:02
  like... Because usually we just kind of release
• 27:04
  these and then just like move on. Am I treating
• 27:07
  this like the first big campaign or push to listen
• 27:12
  to an episode? Or should I just not mention this
• 27:15
  at all? Like, I don't know if I should be making
• 27:18
  multiple posts about this or just like... If
• 27:22
  it happens, it happens. Like, do you want me
• 27:24
  to? I don't know. Do you want me to make this
• 27:27
  happen? I'm generally curious if we'll reach
• 27:30
  that number. I think it would be entertaining
• 27:32
  if we did do it. And I think it would be great.
• 27:36
  But also at the same time, I know none of us
• 27:38
  actually want to do it. But I think it would
• 27:41
  be great. 400 isn't too crazy. We average between,
• 27:46
  like, 40 and 50 an episode, and some have gone
• 27:49
  into the upper 100s or 200s, but it's, like,
• 27:52
  over time, not within the first couple weeks.
• 27:54
  Wait, really? I never knew that. Yeah, mostly,
• 27:56
  like, the Piers Cheney one is popular. Oh, that
• 27:59
  makes sense. Two other ones randomly got a boost
• 28:02
  for some reason. I didn't know we were so popular.
• 28:10
  We're not really 200s or nothing. I mean, hey,
• 28:14
  we've made $4 officially on the podcast, so.
• 28:17
  Woohoo! We're so rich! I think that's a wrap.
• 28:28
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• 28:30
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• 28:32
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• 28:42
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• 28:44
  for another paranormal deep dive.