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The Conjuring Chest · Ghost stories and the Unusual Paranormal podcast

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  Speaker 1: There are stories everywhere you go, some more horrifying than others.
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  Speaker 1: We're here to investigate the stories. This is Ghost Stories
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  Speaker 1: and an Unusual Paranormal Podcast with your host, Joe the
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  Speaker 2: And today's episode we are going to talk about a
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  Speaker 2: cursed item. And this curse item, no one really knew
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  Speaker 2: the story until later on. You know, when you know,
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  Speaker 2: people end up going to yard cells or estate sells,
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  Speaker 2: or someone's just getting rid of a piece of furniture
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  Speaker 2: and you look at it. I mean, you think, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this ain't too bad, this looks good shape, and you
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  Speaker 2: take it and you don't really know the history of it,
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  Speaker 2: and my parents go, you know, do these state cells
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  Speaker 2: and garage cells, et cetera. And in this particular case,
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  Speaker 2: this cursed object has you know, it took a while
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  Speaker 2: for everyone to realize what happened. And you know, we've
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  Speaker 2: heard about cursed objects, and we've heard there many stories
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  Speaker 2: about objects that carry curses, such as the great blue
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  Speaker 2: white gem called the Hope Diamond, the tiger's eye worn
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  Speaker 2: by the late Randolph Almentino, how about a booty knife
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  Speaker 2: that brought about the death of a purchaser back in
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  Speaker 2: the roaring twenties. The spookiest story today is one cursed
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  Speaker 2: object that I've ever run across comes from the Antebellum, Kentucky,
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  Speaker 2: where a beautiful chest of drawers was made. It was
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  Speaker 2: pron it, it had pronounced it was pronounced a A
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  Speaker 2: in the in the knobs, but a curse had laid
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  Speaker 2: on the revenge of its murdered maker. On the plantation
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  Speaker 2: of Antebellum self, there were many o occupations held by slaves,
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  Speaker 2: from house servants through skilled craftsmen down to field hands.
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Cooley, who owned a large plantation near Frankford, Kentucky,
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  Speaker 2: owned a slave named Hosa was one of the most
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  Speaker 2: skilled craftsmen in the state. Holsa made furniture. It was
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  Speaker 2: a piece of his own making that brought about his death.
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Cooley was a harsh, disciplinarian and best, and an
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  Speaker 2: evil bastard at worst. Even his wife was carrying their
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  Speaker 2: first child, Jacob, who with a oregans typical of him,
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  Speaker 2: when the arrogance typical of him, assumed that this first
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  Speaker 2: born would be a son, ordered Holsa to build a
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  Speaker 2: chest of drawers for the baby's baby's room. Holsa made
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful chest of drawers with which are which any
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  Speaker 2: man budg Jacob Cooley would have been well pleased. But
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Cooley, though, hated the Finnish peace, and in a rage,
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  Speaker 2: be Hossa so badly that he died a few days later.
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  Speaker 2: And so despite the injustice and the anger of Hossa's
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  Speaker 2: fellow slaves, the matter might have ended, save us from
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  Speaker 2: one Koli's to another's slaves. Was a conjurer man who
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  Speaker 2: remembered and practiced the ways of his people far across
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  Speaker 2: the sea. One dark night, as Jacob Cooley slept, the
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  Speaker 2: slaves gathered in the conjurer man's cabin It's not certain
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  Speaker 2: now how they managed to get or into his possession,
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  Speaker 2: but that one night of the chest, but the cursed
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  Speaker 2: of death was placed on it for all future generations
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  Speaker 2: of Jacob Coley's lineage. One drawer was sprinkled full of
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  Speaker 2: dried owl's blood, and a conjured chest was sung. A
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  Speaker 2: conjured chant was song. Despite his hatred for the peace,
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  Speaker 2: and positively out of guilt, Jacob Cooley eventually put the
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  Speaker 2: chest to drawers in his yet unborn child's room. It
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  Speaker 2: would be satisfied fighting to say that Jake Cooley was
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  Speaker 2: the first to fall victim of this curse. Unfortunately, that
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  Speaker 2: first born, a son died within days of his birth.
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  Speaker 2: The baby boy was only the first of Jacob's descendants
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  Speaker 2: to die of the curse. The second Cooley son was
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  Speaker 2: his young was a young man stebbed to death by
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  Speaker 2: his personal servant. The Chester Drawers fell inheritance to Cooley's
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  Speaker 2: third son, John, whose wife tactfully st stored it in
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  Speaker 2: the attic, known the tragic associations it had with his family.
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  Speaker 2: Even though she gave it, she gave it to her
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  Speaker 2: sister in law, Jacob Cooley's youngest daughter, Melinda as aif
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  Speaker 2: housewarming gift when she and her and the man with
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  Speaker 2: whom she had eloped, a charming but lazy irishman named Sean,
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  Speaker 2: set up housekeeping on another holding holding of the Coolies family.
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  Speaker 2: Melinda bore many children and was left to raise them
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  Speaker 2: all alone when her husband deserted her and moved to
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  Speaker 2: New Orleans. Melinda became the third victim of the curse,
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  Speaker 2: dying of worry and overworked before she was forty. The
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  Speaker 2: Coolies received the words shortly after her death that her
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  Speaker 2: lawish Lotish husband, Sean, have been killed in a steamboat
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  Speaker 2: descending gameplank hit him in the head. John Cooley and
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  Speaker 2: his wife, Ellie, adopted one of Melinda's orphans, a little
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  Speaker 2: girl named Evelyn. Evelyn married at seventeen. Ellie gave the
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  Speaker 2: happy couple the Carjure chest, perhaps hoping that the precious
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  Speaker 2: deaths would already been consensual, but they weren't. Evelyn and
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  Speaker 2: her husband adopted a young orphan themselves, a girl named Arabella.
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  Speaker 2: Evelyn stored Arabella's wedding dress in the chest. Within months
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  Speaker 2: or at, Bella's husband and only child died, and the
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  Speaker 2: only child died within weeks of each other another bride
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  Speaker 2: in the family, Evelyn's daughter in law Esther, also stored
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  Speaker 2: her bridal finery in the chest. Esther died shortly thereafter.
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  Speaker 2: An aunt needed the scarf and gloves for her son's
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  Speaker 2: Christmas present one year, and with Evelyn's permission, stored thee
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  Speaker 2: the gifts into the chest. The boy was killed shortly
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  Speaker 2: thereafter when he fell from the train trestle. One Evelyn's
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  Speaker 2: biological daughters was deserted by her husband after story in
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  Speaker 2: some items in the chest. One of Evelyn's younger children
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  Speaker 2: was crippled in a freak accident when its when in
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  Speaker 2: its clothing was put in the chest. Evelyn, overwhelmed by
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  Speaker 2: the spite of the deaths and the family, yet not
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  Speaker 2: seeing to realize the chest was his common common denominator,
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  Speaker 2: and all the tragedies took her and all the tragedies
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  Speaker 2: took her own life. She was She was the eleventh
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  Speaker 2: victim of the Conjuredman's curse. Eventually, sometime in early twentieth century,
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  Speaker 2: Evln's granddaughter inherited to the conjured chest, and notation of
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  Speaker 2: a curse was lovely piece of furniture until her firstborn
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  Speaker 2: died after she laid as Larryette was stored in the chest. Eventually,
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  Speaker 2: after several other accidents and violent deaths raised the total
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  Speaker 2: fatalities associated with the chest to sixteen. This owner of Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: Carrie Hudson, consulted an old friend of the family, a
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  Speaker 2: black woman called Annie. Annie was, as it happened, was
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  Speaker 2: a conjure woman. She told missus Hudson after hearing the story,
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  Speaker 2: had three conditions that would have to be met before
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  Speaker 2: the curse could be lifted. Someone would have to give
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  Speaker 2: missus Hudson imprompt a stuffed dead owl. A pot filled
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  Speaker 2: with leaves from a willow tree would have to be
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  Speaker 2: boiled from sunrise to sunset, with the owl sitting nearby,
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  Speaker 2: and then theker of the boil, the lxir of the
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  Speaker 2: boiled willow would have to be poured into a jug
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  Speaker 2: and the jug buried underneath a flowish bush within the
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  Speaker 2: JUG's handle, facing east towards the morning sun. With a
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  Speaker 2: short time, Missus Hudson had an owl, had the found
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  Speaker 2: had given her, or al had given her. Now a
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  Speaker 2: family friend had given one of her sons. She and
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  Speaker 2: Annie got together and bowled the willow leaves while that
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  Speaker 2: al stood guard nearby, then buried the jugful of liquor
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  Speaker 2: underneath the lullick bush and then in full bloom with
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  Speaker 2: the handle facing east. And they waited to see if
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  Speaker 2: the curse had been lifted. And he told her if
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  Speaker 2: that was one of the or if it had, and
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  Speaker 2: he told her that if one of them died shortly,
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  Speaker 2: it would be the last. Annie died in September following
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  Speaker 2: that strange lifting of the curse. She was the seventeenth
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  Speaker 2: victim and last known victim. Missus Hudson's daughter Virginia May
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  Speaker 2: the last private owner of the chest. She never used it.
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  Speaker 2: After storing in the attic for many years, she finally
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  Speaker 2: said and gave it to the Kentucky History Museum and
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  Speaker 2: Frankfurt in nineteen seventy six, and there it remains, and
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  Speaker 2: as the last reporter, has never been put on display,
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  Speaker 2: remaining in storage. And the museum staff they say, I
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  Speaker 2: placed a powerful talisman against a curse. Then old blood,
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  Speaker 2: bloodied drawer for the owl's blood was placed so long ago.
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  Speaker 2: A handful of feathers from the owl. And this is
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  Speaker 2: from the History Street Museum, the Kentucky Historical Museum. When
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  Speaker 2: you work at a museum People often ask you if
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  Speaker 2: any scary or a hundred artifacts in your museum. The
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  Speaker 2: Kentucky Historical Society has plenty of them. The graveyard quilt,
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  Speaker 2: the Cursed Beats, a hangman's news, and the salt in
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  Speaker 2: the suit that Governor Groundable was wearing when he was shot.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps most unique of the eerie artifacts that the chest
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  Speaker 2: of drawers as known as the Conjuror Chest. Eighteen desks
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  Speaker 2: were associated with his chest. Virginia Carrie Hudson, marrying donated
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  Speaker 2: the Conjuring Chest in Kentucky Society in eighteen seventy six,
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  Speaker 2: and Is and Uh said the chest was the Marine
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  Speaker 2: family for generations. The Conjuring chest replace retribution extends outside
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  Speaker 2: of Kentucky so much that the chess traveled to Las
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  Speaker 2: Vegas and twenty twenty fifteen, where it was featured in
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  Speaker 2: season one of Travel Channel's Deadly Possessions. On the show
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  Speaker 2: Paranormal Vesture, Zach Baggins interviewed Virginia Carrie Hudson's main's daughter,
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  Speaker 2: Beverly Maine Kinsey, about her mother. There's motivation for donate
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  Speaker 2: the chest to the Kentucky Society, she says, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think she would have turned it loose, I mean imagine
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  Speaker 2: putting it out of the onto the curb, knowing that
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  Speaker 2: someone might put some event and then die. She felt
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  Speaker 2: that she needed to be preserved, but to be kept
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  Speaker 2: away from the innocent people in a place that would
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  Speaker 2: make any clear that it wasn't to be used. Conjuring's
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  Speaker 2: chest story was first described in a letter from Virginia
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  Speaker 2: Hudson's Cleveland from eighteen ninety four to nineteen fifty four
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  Speaker 2: to her daughter Virginia Carrie Hudson, Maine from nineteen sixteen
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  Speaker 2: to nineteen eighty nine. Cleveland's granddaughter Ezra told the story
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  Speaker 2: as a child, and the native was originally documented in
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  Speaker 2: the book Flip a Doodle, Trust and Obey by Virginia
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  Speaker 2: Carrie Hudson Cleveland, and the names were in the book
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  Speaker 2: were changed in twenty seventeen. That's pretty nice book. And also,
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  Speaker 2: you know, here's you know, here's some descriptions of the chest.
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  Speaker 2: It's an Empire's style Mahogany veneer chest of jewel has
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  Speaker 2: four drawers. The top drawer is curved and extends out
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  Speaker 2: beyond the other three. There were panels that at each
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  Speaker 2: end of its piece. At the sides of the top
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  Speaker 2: of the drawer. There's an arcathists leaf designed on these panels.
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  Speaker 2: There are a scroll work on top of the columns
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  Speaker 2: which side to have turned turned work and a bottle
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  Speaker 2: of the top turned work at the bottom. The legs
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  Speaker 2: were turned turned and have casters. You know that's you know,
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  Speaker 2: looking at the picture of this this drawer, of this dresser,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you wouln't believe it was you know, it
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  Speaker 2: had a deadly curse on it looks like a great
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  Speaker 2: you know, piece handed by you're a great great grandmother
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  Speaker 2: or something. But you never know what you get when
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  Speaker 2: you end up inheriting something. So for anyone out there
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  Speaker 2: that's looking for something, I say buyer beware or fortune
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  Speaker 2: hunters beware, because you never know when you may get
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  Speaker 2: a cursed item that may only be your death, but
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  Speaker 2: maybe someone else's. Until next time, my friends, this is
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