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Paranormal Road Trippin' with Merle! - Ghosts of Virginia City on SOR · The Cryptid Huntress

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it. Okay, But yes, you guys, I am so excited to
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be here tonight and and see all you guys in the chat. We have
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such a fantastic show. We have space Out Radio's own Michael Merle. Merin
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here tonight. Y'all know Merle. Everybody's gonna have to give the Merle shout
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outs in the chat tonight. Okay, but he's here. I actually got
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to meet Merle back in May last month at the spaced Out Radios fan party
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in Reno, Nevada. We actually went ghost hunting, and that was the
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highlight of my trip out there in Virginia City. And so we've got a
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lot to talk about tonight with that. We had some interesting activity there too,
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by the way, Okay, so don't forget that right after this show,
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after ours has a fantastic show set up for us, So be sure
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to go hang out with Rob Gi right after we get done tonight. All
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right, All right, y'all, let's get to our guest. Mike Myrtle.
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Marin is an accomplished paranormal investigator out of Vancouver, British Columbia. He
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has investigated all over his province, along with areas in Washington and Oregon states.
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Merle's goals are to find critical answers in solving paranormal mysteries that have haunted
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people or places for decades and centuries. And he has his group, his
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team. He is the Paranormal road Trippers, And so you guys please go
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subscribe to his channel on YouTube and give him a follow please help me.
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Welcome to space Out Radio for the first time on my show, Merle.
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Hey, Merle, how you doing. I'm excited to be here tonight.
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Oh my gosh, thank you so much for being here. I've seen you
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on Dave Show so many times. It's always fun watching you guys interact and
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hearing all your stories about your road tripping across the I guess the United It's
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not just Canada but the United States, right, we do, Washington,
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Oregon, Idaho. Going to be in Montana in August. Everyone, What
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are y'all doing in Montana? Brothels? Investigating Brothels old eighteen hundreds? Like
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cowboys? Brothels? Oh Man say, is that is that your favorite thing
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to investigate? Or like old Western towns? They are I've become to really
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enjoy them. It's it's more of a wheelhouse here in the West. I've
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never gone out east where it's a lot older, but I do. I
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love them. I'm so connected to the to the Wild West. I had
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to have lived there in the previous life. I would say you probably did
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too, uh, and I had. I'd swear, like the highlight of
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my entire trip. And we had a lot of good times in Reno,
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but the highlight of my trip was going ghost hunting with you and the whole
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crew out there. I thought that just made the entire trip just like the
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bomb. Okay, it really did. And you you kind of let our
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team. Let's just say, like you and Melinda Leslie both had had a
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lot, a lot of input. You had all the equipment and stuff in
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it, and it made it super fun. Okay, super fun with a
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lot of activity. Yeah, it did. Like and I got to put
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hats off to the Bats of Belfry. That's the house team that does the
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ghost tours out in Virginia City, and they gave us a behind the tour
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all access to the wash ho Club where they let us use all the gear
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and see what we can get to the wash Hoo Club. Man, we
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went inside the Silver Queen. We we did it all and it was Noel's
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barden. I love how during the tour she was giving us all the history
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and all the who's who in the zoo, so to speak, information,
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and we got to apply that, especially when we were we went up to
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that court house and we had the spirit box and everything out, and we
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were getting so many different responses to our questions and and Melinda was indeed leading
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the charge on the questions up there, and it was awesome, Yeah,
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it was. It was actually kind of sad too. You know, whenever,
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whenever we get in locations like that, there's been a lot of death.
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Okay, I mean that's that's what we're doing. We're communicating with spirits,
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so people who passed over. But that city, that little town,
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that village of Virginia City was full of like death and shootouts, right shootouts
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and suicides. It was. And where we were investigating, like where you
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just showed that photo, they had what you ma call it not a scaffold,
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but the area where the hang people the tree. They had a tree
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there. I think it was right there too, where they where they had
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a guy for for wrongdoings like and just to be in this same area where
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that happened. Is it's pretty pretty into an energy rich it was. It
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was. Now I have some other picture. I think this is the that's
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not the courthouse. I can't see because I have my glasses on tonight.
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Okay, so, but but every every place just had it. It was
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beautiful, Okay. I was surprised at all the architecture there. It went
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from like rickety old wooden jacks to beautiful like lily Roman architecture and stuff.
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I mean, it was gorgeous out there. Very you could tell that it
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was very rich, very rich in history, very rich in history. And
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the main place that we focused on when we first got there was the was
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Show Club, right made famous by the Ghost Adventures crew. I think I'm
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yea the Wash Show Club. That was definitely on my bucket list. I
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had no clue that when I would be going there, but here we are.
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Dave had announced doing a uh A Reno a Reno fan party, and
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I twisted, as I'm hard to do a side trip to Virginia City because
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I thought it would be awesome for the listeners and US hosts to to experience
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such a cool historic place and do a ghost hunt because I know a lot
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of the times we experience a lot of the et stuff and we go on
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all the ETI side missions I like to call them at these events. But
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it's cool to have to do a ghost one and have people kind of walk
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in walk in my shoes for a night. Oh yeah, well it was
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fun. We were glad to do it. And you know, I in
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my cryptied field research, we do encounter some spirits, okay when we're out
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there, and I actually use my ghost hunting equipment when I'm out in the
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field doing cryptid research. So of course I want to ask you at some
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point if you've ever come across any en cryptids when you're ghost hunting, because
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I've come across ghosts when I'm crypted hunting. I may come across a few
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in my time too. Okay, well we're gonna have we're gonna have to
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do another show together for sure, with your with your cryptied stories. We
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can probably talk about some of those tonight. But first let's let's get into
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this Washow club. Okay, and big Dog, thank you so much for
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that super sticker. That's amazing, he says, ur so thank you.
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Love it. You're very much loved and appreciated over here off the trails.
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Merle. Okay, so you got fans over here, Okay, I want
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to be back. Oh yeah, you better come back. Okay. Well,
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let's let's talk about the Washow Club a little bit, because the history
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behind that is it's a little smooth. It can be kind of dark,
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right, it is so so and then that show, the wash Show Club
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was a millionaire's club. And what happened was all all the prominent people of
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Virginia City that the silverpeat like the silver miners, the owners of all the
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of the elite businesses and all of that, they all had a membership to
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the Washoe Club. And it was where the gentleman went to smoke, playpool,
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drink. There would have been ladies of the night there for if you
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needed that. And and that's that's basically what it was. It was basically
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a boys club, men's club. And they had that creepy cellar in the
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back though, right, And that was and I closed myself in there and
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turned the light off and did like a one minute investigation when Melinda and the
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others were talking in the other room, and I was terrified, where were
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you, we'll see I think that this may be there she is. That's
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that's the seller. There's Melinda right there. Yeah, that's the backsellar.
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Yeah. You know. Of all the rooms in that that whole club,
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the scariest place was the bathroom. It was literally the bathroom. I did
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not like that here. Well, I just didn't like it. I felt
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like I was being watched. I felt like there was somebody breathing on top
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of me in there. So it was, yeah, it was. I
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did have to go use the restroom once when I was there, and I
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did not like it at all. I was trying to hurry. Okay,
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it's a goal of mine. Would because you can rent the Washout Club,
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Like the night we were there, there was a team coming and that rented
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it for the night, and that would be something I would want to do
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because you get all access upstairs to all the rooms as well as downstairs to
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investigate till your heart's content. Oh wow. Yeah. Well they also have
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that really strange staircase going up to the top floor and I don't know,
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it was made famous by the Ghost Adventures crew, Okay, and that that's
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like my favorite. If I watched Ghost Hunting I'm watching Ghost Adventures on television,
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me too. And now is this the same place where they had the
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two by four that went flying through the air or is that a different location?
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I can't remember. That was Apache Junction. That's for next year.
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Okay, perfect, the Goldfield Hotel was where that happened. Okay, all
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right, thank you for the clarification. Now, I definitely want to go
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we want to go there. Okay, well, but but you got you
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you usually get some really good, I want to say, evident, but
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good results when you're out there. Do you think that the ghost are attracted
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to you because you're so not You're very nice, ma, like, you
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know, taunting them and stuff. Do you No, I'm straight up respect
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so my style of investigating, and I'm pretty passionate of how I do this
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because I think it's the right way to do it. But uh, I
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like to talk to the curator, the owner of the properties. I like
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to learn about the properties. I like to know the deaths. I like
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to know the lore. I like to know every person that is said to
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haunt the place. And once I know those names, I like to research
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those people. And then before I even I even go into the place,
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I have a curator introduce me at the location to the ghosts, and I
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find that goes a long ways, because if somebody came in my house saying
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knock three times and tell me you're here, I'm not gonna be overly impressed
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because I don't know who you are. And so that that respect and ethics
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go a long way with communicating with the ghosts and the spirits. In my
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opinion, Hey, that's a good point. That's the way that I look
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at it with cryptids too. It's like we go out there and I always
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have a very healthy dose of respect whenever I'm out there doing my research.
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The same goes with the ghost hunting. You just don't want well. But
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then again, I was going to see, you don't want things following you
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home, but manager too nice? They what do they follow you home?
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Anyways? If you haven nice people put up boundaries, But no I have,
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Uh what was I going to tell you? I have a creepy story
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for you. Actually, before I started doing their introducing myself with the curator,
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so the known person to the ghosts, we were investigating a place in
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Merit, British Columbia called the Bailey House and with my job. My job
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D day job is enforcement, and so sometimes when I ask questions, I
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can become kurt or very direct. And I was doing the direct thing that
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night, and the medium that was with me it was like, Mike,
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you need to chill. I think the spirits think you're coming off a little
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too aggressive, but that wasn't my intent. And I felt a hand grab
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my throat and squeeze and it was ghost, a ghost hand, like an
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ice cold hand, and I couldn't bat it away. And after that,
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I tucked tail and ran out of that house. I puked in the flower
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bush because I was over done. And I actually contemplated ghost unting for about
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a month after that. Of like, if this is something I really want
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to do, I would I would question it too, especially when you're getting
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sick. I don't. I don't. I don't mind getting feeling like I
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have been overpowered by some kind of energy, especially if it's a dark kind
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of energy. And that's where like I really thought about it. Of maybe
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I was being a little bit of a prick talking to them, but so
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I just am a lot softer in the hole. Introducing yourself with with respectful
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intent is kind of like number one, Marty have fun and Virginia Marty's the
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chat. Hey Marty, it's good to see you. Yeah. We we
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had a nice, big group, and I know it was a lot of
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fun. I know, I got separated from the group at some point.
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I wandered off and I met back up and it was I mean we went
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all over that town though, right, I mean it was like, we
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went to the courthouse, we were at bars. They even have like twenty
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four hour casino machines in some of those places, yep, So it's easy.
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It's easy to get lost in there. And then after Reno, like
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when everyone went home, I stayed for four days after okay, and what
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I wanted to hear about, Like, this is what I've been dying to
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hear about, alas, please, So I stayed for two nights at the
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Silver Queen Hotel and then I stayed for two nights at the Gold Hill Hotel.
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And yeah, and it's funny because the first night, Brad, who
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was with us, he's like and and A They're like, can we come
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up and go stunt with you for a night? So I'm like absolutely,
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So they drove up and then like drove home after and it's kind of neat
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because an as a medium and I saw her. She came. So I
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was staying in Room eleven of the Silver Queen Hotel, and and the lore
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of room eleven is a lady of the night and alive herself in the bathtub
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there. Okay is this for? Okay, Charlie, Catherine's in the chat.
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This is Charlie. Is that the Silver Queen Hotel. They had the
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carpet everywhere and the weird ceilings with the bars on them. We were there,
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Okay, that's hey Charlie watching and Okaytherine's here. So what happened?
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I didn't know that there was an a living there. Yeah, And so
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it happened in the in the bathtub. And so when an A and Brad
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came in my room, she kind of sat in the bathtub and started crying
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and holding her stomach, and I was like, what's happening here? But
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I remember she's a medium. And then she started communicating her name's Rose and
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communicating as Rose and telling these stories of her being sad, her waiting for
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her lover. And then a more aggressive spirit came in, which was a
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male who I guess looks out for Rose. So there's some spirit drama going
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on, and it was just interesting to watch like a psychic medium do that
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sort of stuff, speaking to the spirits. And I haven't gone through my
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audio or my video yet. I'm going to be putting out a video of
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my of my road trip through Virginia City of all my stops. And it
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was really the first night I woke up and something woke me up in my
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room. It was just me and I heard footsteps outside of the room.
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But could that have been people? Probably maybe, but that is quote one
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of the tells in the middle of the night. Uh oh. And then
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the second night was it was was kind of quiet. But the second night
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we had a side mission and uh I rented Mackie Mansion for three hours by
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my cycle. Brad game with me. So it's just the two of us
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for three hours. Okay, what is Mackie Manchin. So Mackie Manchin is
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uh John Mackie Well live there and he was the overseer of all of the
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silver and all of that sort of stuff, and he was he was a
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rich man. His wife lived there. They had two kids, and they
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had a maid. Was the maid. I'm going to go through the pictures.
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I can't see them very just me in the red, Me and the
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red. Okay, you in the red. We'll let's see. No,
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that's not it. There's back you mansion that's okay, beautiful, and ghost
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of Adventures, any show that's on TV's being there, ghost Hunters, Ghost
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Adventures, Destination Fear, Ghost Club, Paranormal, they've all done their I'm
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just bucket list. And it was quite at first, but like the tour
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guide there, he was amazing. He gave us a thorough tour of the
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whole place, all the ghost stories, all the said lore, talked about
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all the people that lived there. And so that was about twenty minutes.
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So we had about two and a half hours just to ourselves to investigate the
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place. And I was going to do it alone, but Brad had come
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up. I thank the gods. I don't know if I would have had
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the fortitude to do it alone, to be honest. And we were up
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in missus Mackie's room because back in the Victorian days, if a male the
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husband had a room and the female had a room, it's kind of a
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posture saying that you're loaded. So they were so that each had their own
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room, and when I was in missus Mackie's room, I had remembered with
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the tour guide said. The tour guide said that the maid that's there gets
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really mad if people make a mess, and she will interact with you.
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So I'm like, fine, So I throw my book on the ground willie
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nilly with no care. Brad had a napkin. He tore it up and
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threw it on the ground. Oh gosh, yeah. And then all of
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a sudden it gets cold, and Brad and I are looking at each other
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and I'm like, I forget her name now starts with an H. But
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I told her that don't worry. I'm going to clean it up before we
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leave. Don't worry. And then I had my EMF candle, so it
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looks like a Victorian style candle, but it goes off to EMF and it's
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like a yes no device. And I'm like to the maid, are you
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upset or no? I doesn't upset. I says, does it annoy you?
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We made a mess? Boom it goes on. I was like,
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oh, here we go, and I said, do you believe that we're
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going to clean it up? It didn't didn't respond. Then I'm like,
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are you going to make us clean it up? Boom it goes off again.
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And just talking about it wasn't disrespectful. It was more of a trigger
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object because that was her thing. Everything needed to be in order all the
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time. So we we pardon, that's her job, right, Yeah,
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we don't want to make a job. Sucks thinking about that, Like if
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you had a job that I measureed, if you had a job that you
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just didn't like, and like you're doing that job on the other side forever
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and ever in a loop, like uh, all these dists coming through with
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all their objects and but yeah, no, it was interesting. We had
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a good, yes, no reactionary conversation with her for like fifteen minutes,
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and it was kind of neat, like obviously subjective because we're using ghost tools,
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but like and every question we asked where related it would go off and
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Brad was a bit of a skeptic and you just see him being like,
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how is this happening. It's kind of cool to have somebody that doesn't have
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the field experience of in ghosts like ghost hunting, just as like a nice
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validation of what's happening. Yeah, well, I mean there it's proof that
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there's life on the other side. It's proof and really that's kind of what
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all what we all want to know, Like we ultimately want to know what
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happens when we die, at least I do. And that's what got me
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into ghost hunting, okay and communicating because I had so many people that I
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loved who have passed away. Yeah, okay, so I guess that's why
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we do this. Stu was asking about an EMF candle. Absolutely, an
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EMF candle if you go to the ghost Stop website and look up, it's
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basically it's an EMF meter essentially, but it's it's a candle. It's a
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wax candle with a little light in it. And I like it in these
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type of places like Victorian eighteen hundreds places, because you bring an EMF meter,
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they're going to be what is that witchcraft? But if you bring in
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a candle, I feel they can relate with the time period easier and better.
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Oh yeah, that's a great idea because yeah, I mean because you
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wonder about that, like we have such modern technology now that they didn't have
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back then, so like that, how would they even know what to do
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with it? When it comes to the stuff that we have during like an
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iPhone, you know, really any kind of like a cell phone or digital
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in digital anything. And I oftentimes I bring with me, like I'll bring
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objects from the period, like I have these old ambrotype photos like these down
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there. We go, okay, and these are eighteen sixties, and I
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think seeing a photo like this looks better than looking at a photo of like
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something modern. And I just feel if I can give them something they're familiar
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with, maybe it brings trust to talk to me a little little easier,
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or want to even talk to me because I'm relating. Yeah, what is
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that called a trigger object? Yeah? Trigger object like that. Yeah,
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and it's it's respectful, Okay, respect respect big thing. Now there's something
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else that was a trigger object that I remember from being there, and that
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was the I know we're probably not supposed to say this on YouTube, but
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the unliving table. Okay, yes, I mean, we don't have to
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talk about that now. I mean, because I know you probably have more
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to tell us. But I was just thinking about this. As far as
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the trigger object goes, that goes, that's a big triggering object. I
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would assume we could also we don't have to call it that. We can
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call it the cursed table, the cursed table. Yes, So whoever owned
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this table basically departed, we can use that word. They lost their fortunes,
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their houses. There's like three people known to lose their businesses over a
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hand of whatever they played on there poker. And whoever owns it doesn't farewell,
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owns it and uses it. So as you can see in this photo,
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it's under a glass protection. So that is in the Delta Saloon casino,
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and when I was there on my own, it was actually open as
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they were renovating it. So I went over there and introduced myself and I
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low key begged them to let me in for two minutes. How you got
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in there that place of like Fort Knox, Yeah, I guess. I
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talked to the right person who was one of the owners, I believe,
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and she brought me over there and showed me the table, and I didn't
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take I don't have any photos that I shared with you, but the walls
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also has stories of the different owners and about the table as well. It's
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god of neat. Yes, I don't want to play a game of poker
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on that table though, No, really, it's really kind of sad.
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And I think it was like the people that were playing, like the people
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who own the table. People would come in and they start winning so much
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money they didn't have the money to pay them. Okay, so one one
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instance, it was like seventy thousand dollars, which would be like millions of
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dollars today, right, and so he just ended up taking himself out because
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he was like, I can't pay this. So it's really tragic. Strange
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lore as well. Yeah, that would be something i'd want to investigate,
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just the energy of the table, But then I wouldn't want to put myself
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in harm's way. I guess, Oh yeah, no, definitely not.
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You don't want to be the owner of that table and definitely don't want to
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play poker on it. But but there's I was really sad that I didn't
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get to see a shootout while I was there, Like I wanted to see
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some wild West Cowboys shootouts and stuff. So maybe next time next time?
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Yeah yeah, well, oh go ahead, Oh no, all right,
29:56
you're right. I was going to say the first day we are there,
30:00
there was a fight at the Red Dog, and I was like, let's
30:02
set the tone. Oh yeah, I could say, had a biker gangs
30:06
there and stuff that was kind of awesome. I was selling it. Yeah.
30:11
Oh my gosh, okay, well did you did you so? Weren't
30:15
you planning to go to a old miners cabin as well? Or was that
30:18
one of the hotels that you went to, because it seemed like you were
30:19
going to go to a miner's cabin where there was a bad mining accident and
30:23
they put all the bodies in the yard of that house. Did you go?
30:27
Yeah? I stayed at the Gold Hill Hotel for two nights. Oh
30:32
that's it. Nobody else was there. Oh gosh, okay, tell tell
30:37
the audience about the history behind that, because there was like a horrible mining
30:42
accident and they put all the dead bodies in the yard, right they did.
30:47
So it was the Yellowjacket mine and it had what happened was somebody had
30:56
lit fire. Sorry, there was one of the miners lights and it had
31:04
fell over and ignited explosives which carved everything down and killed and trapped a ton
31:14
of miners. And yeah, so the miners they brought up, they were
31:18
stored in the cabin there. I didn't sleep in the cabin. I stayed
31:26
at the I stayed in the in the hotel on the property. Oh man,
31:30
that would have been really scary. It was really scary and uh and
31:34
so I was I was actually kind of worried about you. I said a
31:37
little prayer for you. I was like, Okay, just you need some
31:40
extra protection when you're out there, because thank you. It seemed really it
31:44
seems like it could be pretty negative, okay, like kind of darker,
31:48
like dark energy with some of this stuff, especially with the drinking, the
31:52
gambling, the prostitution that was going on, ye, the unlivings, you
31:57
know, it just seems really dark. And it seems like I remember there
32:01
being some kind of like underground where I don't know if it was like Asian
32:06
workers that came there, people that were working in the mines that they lived
32:09
like underneath the town or something, if I can remember correct, they did
32:13
in Virginia City. Let they lived underneath. So we had the boardwalk we
32:17
walked on right and underneath was the area where they walked and they had their
32:22
stores and sleeping areas, which was kind of sad. It is kind of
32:29
sad. It is. We were talking about having a duel before we turned
32:34
the Live on tonight, Right, can you imagine, I mean, be
32:39
challenged to a duel back then, I mean just by some drunk dude out
32:44
a saloon on the road. You'd be like, okay, well I'm either
32:45
about to die or I'm about to hurt somebody. That sucks. I mean,
32:49
I wonder how common that was for people to challenge you to a duel.
32:52
Well, I walked through the Virginia City Graveyard and it was one of
32:55
the biggest ones I've ever been in. So really it was massive. Like
33:02
they had a Mason section they had, they had Ladies of the Night section,
33:08
they had a Catholic section they had. It was huge, the amount
33:13
of people there. Oh my gosh. You know, I didn't know that
33:17
they were divided up like that now. I remember driving in. We drove
33:21
in, I saw the cemetery on the side of the hill. It was
33:23
beautiful, but it didn't look that big from where we were, where our
33:28
vantage point was. I wasn't so my tender Canadian skin walked through the Virginia
33:35
City high noon sunlight and I'm like, I didn't think it would be this
33:39
long. Yeah, they had like a fireman section, they had like like
33:46
some of the miners were buried there. Some of the miners were buried in
33:51
the Gold Hill Cemetery as well. And okay, wow, well I wonder
33:58
I wonder what the gold mines had and all the minds and all the minerals
34:01
and the metals. I wonder if that is a conductor for some of this
34:05
paranormal activity out there. Oh, think it is. I think the amount
34:10
of life that has come through Virginia City and the whole surrounding areas, the
34:15
amount of tragedy that's come through there, the amount of yeah, the minerals,
34:20
especially the silver around there, all the ore, the copper. You
34:22
can see how like dark the sand is, so there's so much, so
34:28
much mineral in there. Yeah, oh yeah, Well, see we're finding
34:32
or I'm making connections. I don't know about everybody else, but I've been
34:36
making connections to the gold mines and bigfoot sightings, a lot of there's a
34:42
lot of cryptid activity around interests to old abandoned and I guess working gold mines
34:47
these days, so especially of in Alaska. Well that's interesting. Yeah,
34:53
I don't know if it's like a place where they have like portals or maybe
34:58
that's where the Sasquatch lived. I mean, I don't know, but there's
35:00
a connection. Yeah, wow, Yeah, And I was I was wondering,
35:07
like I guess, I was just wondering, like if the ghosts are
35:08
attracted to those things too, Like if there's what's going on on that land?
35:13
You know what is the Is there a conductor? Is there's something like
35:16
a moss to a flame, you know? To these gold mines, it
35:20
has to be all the unsteady, all the unsteadiness of all the mining they've
35:24
done there, all the all the gold or all the silver they've they've obtained,
35:30
all the silver they want to obtain, the greed, the wealth,
35:32
the the one upping each other, and the backhandedness of taking silver and the
35:39
mining claims, and and I just think there's a lot of energy involved in
35:45
that. Yeah. Have you ever gone deep into a mine to do some
35:49
ghost honey? I have not, but I want to a that kind of
35:52
scares me. What What about caves? Have you ever gone into a cave
35:58
to do some ghost honey? I've done some big footing around to some caves
36:02
up here, but I I you know where i'd want to go with the
36:06
Bellwitch Caves in Tennessee. Oh, I'm planning to go there soon. Okay.
36:12
So yeah, Actually, John Bell's fifth great grandson is a friend,
36:16
I guess because he's I mean, I've only met him online, Okay,
36:19
I know, but he's Uh, he's been on my show once. I
36:22
could keep up my show once, and I've done some shows with him too,
36:25
over on Esoteric Atlanta. So yeah, super cool to super cool dude.
36:30
And so they say that if you go into that cave and you pick
36:35
up a rock and you take it home, you're cursed, completely cursed.
36:39
That's why I was very careful not to pick up anything from Virginia City,
36:44
Merle. I didn't pick up anything. I made sure there were no rocks
36:47
stuck in my shoes. Okay. I did not want any courts. I
36:52
did not want anything from that city to come home with me except for some
36:57
home and some antiques home from Virginia City. Oh you got antiques I did?
37:01
That might have some energy with it. I think it does. Thank
37:07
Yeah about some of those photos like the one I just showed you, and
37:10
uh what else? Oh, I found a post mortem Victorian photo in Virginia
37:17
City that I had to buy. Oh yeah, that means a death photo.
37:22
Right. It's a little girl she's dead in it and with her mom.
37:28
Was her mom deceased too? Yeah, you can see she's propped up
37:34
on something because she's standing in it because they used to like strap their waists
37:40
on too, like a stand. And yeah, that's so sad. I've
37:45
seen those pictures too, I've seen them. People in the chat are saying,
37:50
Tommy Knockers. Okay, Marty's in here, Marty's with this out there.
37:53
Yes, they were advertising Tommy knocks So I went to the Virginia City
37:57
History Museum and they were talking about Tommy. I think I took a photo
38:00
of Tommy Knocker's sign there. That would be to investigate next time. Yeah,
38:08
well, we talk about Tommy Knockers on my channel and on my shows
38:12
a lot. I've done a couple of shows where we talk about Tommy Knockers,
38:15
and it's a real thing. I mean, there's even a video of
38:19
an alleged Tommy Knocker in a cave. Looks like the little little like small
38:23
men, I guess, like just a little small men. But yes,
38:28
you're supposed to. I think you're supposed to take some sort of an offering
38:30
to them and they'll help you. Okay, they can either help you or
38:34
hurt you, okay, but usually they're helping to get you out of them
38:37
before the cave the mind collapses. Yeah, I don't know. It is
38:43
interesting. That's just another weird paranormal phenomenon that happens it places like gold mines
38:49
in probably Virginia City. There's probably a lot of them everywhere. Yeah,
38:54
yeah, you're very brave, though. I would not want to spend the
38:58
night anywhere by myself there gold That was the first time I did. I
39:02
did a mission by myself actually, so gold Hill, two nights alone.
39:07
Not much happened. I got to be honest. I heard really loud footsteps
39:13
coming towards my room and there's nobody there because you could blow on the floor
39:20
and it would creak. But I that's it because it's old. But you
39:22
could hear the doom, doom, doom. Oh silent, listen. I
39:27
did buy an antique mirror as well. Oh you did. That was gonna
39:31
be dangerous here we are. Yeah, there was one one time when I
39:38
was in my early twenties, okay, lot half a lifetime ago, and
39:45
we I used to when I worked my former life, when I worked in
39:49
the government and stuff, we did conferences a lot had meetings all over the
39:52
state of Georgia, and we went down to a place called Planes, Georgia,
39:57
and there's this old hotel there. I think it's called the Winchester or
40:00
the wind I can't remember. It starts with the ws the windsor I guess
40:04
the Windsor Hotel. And it's an old, haunted hotel. And I did
40:07
not like that hotel staying there. At night, I heard people walking around
40:13
at night like and there was nobody out there, wow and uh and I
40:16
felt like somebody's walking in my room all night, like all night like,
40:20
I kept waking up because there was somebody in my room. That's creepy.
40:23
Yeah, it was bad. It was bad. It was really creepy.
40:27
I didn't sleep very much there. But yeah, no, every place I
40:31
go to, I always have to get an antique. Like all the photos
40:35
you see behind me, uh huh are all from from journeys and I just
40:40
put them up at a creepy corner in my living room. But now my
40:44
living room has exploded into like a little Victorian manner. I love that You're
40:51
like you see, like when I go places and I do cryptid investigations every
40:53
home where there every every nook and cree any of my vehicle. There's courts,
41:01
okay, boxes I have everywhere. I just I don't even where to
41:06
put it anymore because I have so much courts. So I feel you on
41:09
that. It's like mementos absolutely and hopefully it doesn't have any attachments to it.
41:16
Now do you do you think that any of those objects have had attachments?
41:20
And is your house haunted? Yes, well that's something I have a
41:24
beholder so that the female rate here that I'm pointing to her I was talking
41:35
to. Uh. There's a team called Ghost Club Paranormal and one of the
41:39
investigators, her name is Mandy Sue And actually I interviewed them on my segment
41:45
of s R with Dave I think two months ago, and she was saying
41:50
that the female in that photo is it is haunting my house. And funny
41:59
we say that because I had another a couple of friends here one night too.
42:02
They're investigators as well, and she's she's she's kind of like a medium
42:07
and she's like, who's the Victorian lady that goes up and down your hallway
42:10
in a protect protective manner, like protecting me? And I'm like well maybe
42:20
it's her. Well, as long as she's not she's not hurting anybody,
42:24
I guess it's okay. Right, it's kind of weird maybe maybe, Well
42:29
we'll deal with that sooner than later. Oh yeah, Now, now you
42:32
you have children, right, so I have a daughter. You have a
42:36
daughter. Does your daughter pick up on anything that's paranormal, especially in her
42:40
house? Nor zero? Her room's protected, like I don't want nothing,
42:47
and even look at her room, like, I'm very protective of my daughter,
42:52
and yeah, it's just my living room that has stuff, and like
42:55
the rest of my house is normal. So other than that, yeah,
43:00
no, it's it's okay, that's awesome. If it wasn't her, then
43:06
then I would everything would be gone. So oh yeah, well I don't
43:09
know about you. You know, my son goes out and does some CRYPTI
43:13
investigating with me. Does your daughter ever a ghost? Hut? She does.
43:15
She's come with me three times. We went camping down to Oregon two
43:21
years ago, two summers ago, and she's like, we went to Fort
43:24
Stevens, which is an old military base and the Civil War era, and
43:30
there's still barracks you can go walk through and all that stuff, all like
43:34
underground layers and that, and it's a state park. So she's like,
43:38
Dad, can we ghost hunt? I'm like, yes, yes we can.
43:43
And so I'm like, what you got to do? We just had
43:46
an iPhone. I didn't bring any ghost stuff because we don't do that on
43:50
these trips. It's daddy daughter camping, and so I give her my phone
43:55
with my gimbal and I'm like, okay, go, I'll be behind you.
44:00
And then I'm like, don't forget, say who you are and all
44:02
that sort of stuff and ask a ton of questions. And when we were
44:07
listening to our footage, we heard a high there at the beginning, and
44:12
just to see her face go, that wasn't you, I'm like no,
44:15
So that was kind of cool. Oh wow, that's awesome. Somebody in
44:20
the chat we got rain here says she just want behind you, Marle.
44:23
Oh oh, actually she's playing with me here. I'm not going to rain
44:28
here. I'm listening if she is. I don't know, I don't know.
44:34
I don't know. Rys Ran says, Marle, you should do a
44:39
live EVP session in your living room while we're here and see if she answers
44:44
you. I don't know here what's your name? Put the microphone up for
44:53
it. Okay, y'all, listen, we'll do her name. Are you
45:04
attached to one of the photos? Are you protective? Tell us your name?
45:28
All right? Uh, there's multiple people saying they see somebody back there.
45:32
They're thinking they're seeing somebody. All right, this just turned into a
45:36
scary show tonight, Earle. I'm living here, I know, I know.
45:42
All right, let's not encourage it, y'all, because I mean,
45:44
I don't want I don't want you to not be able to sleep tonight.
45:46
Though. Drama for the next show, good drama, trauma, build it
45:52
up. Yeah, but what are your listeners? What do they see?
45:55
Like? Honest question. If people are seeing things, I'd love to know
45:59
what they see because I do have a team scheduled to come investigate here this
46:05
week. No, my daughter's not here. Okay, maybe they were seeing
46:09
what they look like your daughter. Maybe maybe that's what it did. Nobody's
46:14
here. Uh. Tawa says, I don't get a bad vibe. I
46:19
think she's just chilling. I think she's just chilling. But is it her?
46:23
Is it her? I don't know. Okay, Rain was just joking.
46:30
By the way, Rain says she was just joking. Yeah, okay,
46:32
but but I mean this, It is part of being a ghost hunter.
46:37
You do can You can't get hitchhikers though, to come home with you
46:39
from an investigation. Now, do you take precaution when you get done with
46:44
the investigation to kind of shut it down and say, like, don't follow
46:49
me home, y'all? How do you do that? I do? So
46:53
I had been I've been followed home before. This was actually from one to
46:58
eight mile Rand by Dave's house, and I had an attachment from I got
47:04
two attachment stories for you, and I had to have somebody clear my house
47:09
from that. But yes, I normally I'm may Tea, Like my heritage
47:15
is Mati, so that that's like French indigenous. So I believe in sage,
47:20
sweet grass and cedar, and I burn that all the time. I
47:22
burn that in my house. I burned that to spunge me. When I
47:25
bring antiques home, I basically hot box all the antiques before I bring them
47:30
in the house to purify them. And I just I don't like negative stuff,
47:36
especially in my own home. Like I know that we're in ghost hunting,
47:38
and I know it's playing with fire sometimes but like I'm very I think
47:45
I am cautious and respectful. Oh yeah, well, I know you're respectful.
47:51
I could. I know I've done a ghost hunt with you now and
47:54
and so yeah, I mean I've had ghosts follow me home before. I've
47:58
had I've lived in a haunted house before. That was not it was scary.
48:02
Okay, it was pretty scary where I would come home at night and
48:07
there would be like a blanket of black flies on my ceiling in the hallway.
48:12
It was horrible. Yeah, and let's see, I had a black
48:16
mass like a cloud float out of my bedroom one night and it blew past
48:22
me and it shoved me down into my kitchen cabinets and then it kept going
48:25
past me. Yeah. Here's what I don't tell very often, but with
48:30
my job, I unfortunately see a lot of dead people, like real ones.
48:35
And we were at a property and I was training an officer at the
48:39
time, and whatever we got done, what we were doing. And when
48:45
I leave my work, I h everything was great. How's your day at
48:50
work? It was fantastic. I could see the most grossest, horrible thing.
48:52
Had a great day. Because I'm not going to talk about that stuff
48:54
to people because they don't need to hear it. And I had an investigation
49:00
that night, and we had a medium at the investigation. When I get
49:02
to the investigation, the medium goes, who to break with you? I'm
49:07
like, no one, you can see it's just me. He's like,
49:10
no, no, there's a man here with you, and needs really upset.
49:13
You're in his house today rifling through things. I'm like, number one,
49:16
I wasn't rifling through things. And then I'm like, oh crap,
49:21
I know exactly where I was today. And so he described the man to
49:27
a t what he looked like, because I saw the deceased man in his
49:30
bed and same facial hair, same hair, same clothing, and he had
49:37
to clear me and cleanse me before we started our investigation. So I had
49:42
someone followed me from work. I've had that twice from work. Oh my
49:45
god. They're probably very confused. They are pretty new. Yeah, that's
49:52
it's kind to be confusing, and it's very sad to think you're there.
49:58
You're there one minute and life is and then you have an accident and you
50:01
know you're watching it. You're looking at your body and you're not in it
50:05
anymore. I mean, I can't imagine it. Yeah, it's interesting that
50:07
your job kind of correlates with this stuff to you know, and you do
50:12
encounter people who have passed on tragically, probably in a lot of instances and
50:16
suddenly. So I'd be surprised if you didn't have more paranormal activity going on
50:24
around you all the time. To be honest, whenever I go to the
50:28
properties now or the or the scenes, I'll say above below my breath,
50:34
I'm like, I'm sorry, I'm here. I'm just helping. I'm only
50:36
doing what I'm supposed to do, and very apologetic, and I say,
50:39
don't follow me please. Wow. Wow, So you're you're an e M
50:45
T Right, No, no, no, what do you do? I
50:50
do animal services, So I investigate animal cruelty. I investigate like dog like
50:57
bad dogs, and livestock, a lot of livestock. So yeah, oh
51:01
my gosh, wow, very interesting, very interesting. Well what in the
51:07
world got you into ghost hunting in the first place. Is this just something
51:09
you've always wanted to do or did you have like myself, like have a
51:13
lot of people that you love pass away and you wanted to communicate. I
51:16
mean, what got you into it? I hadn't, so I was back
51:22
in the back in the late eighties early nineties when you were allowed to stay
51:24
home alone from school. I was at home sick, and I was like
51:30
on the couch and I saw a man coming up my stairs. It was
51:35
just me at home, but he looked like an old fashioned farmer from like
51:37
the twenties, like brown coveralls, a cream shirt, and he just walked
51:44
down the hallway and I just looked as clear as day, just like looking
51:47
at you. And I was wide awake, and I called my neighbor,
51:52
who was a cop, but he wasn't home. So his wife came over
51:57
and she busted in like swat with her little can of pepper spray and cleared
52:00
everything, and nobody was there, and none of the windows were open,
52:05
nothing, nothing. It was bizarre, and that kind of piqued my interest.
52:12
So then I started reading the ghost story books in my library at school,
52:16
and then I had more experiences along the way, and here we are.
52:21
I'm investigative by nature, hence my job. And that's how wow amazing.
52:29
Okay, what about animal spirits, because I think that I've had some
52:31
animal spirits around me, probably smell my pets that are passed. Do you
52:36
encounter those quite a bit. I've encountered ghost pigs. So I was out
52:44
of town. It was an old wild West town, Barkerville, and I
52:47
was just doing an EVP session by myself, just walking up the drag.
52:52
Nobody was there, and it was after hours, and I was walking by
52:57
the old butcher shop and I was just talking to myself, asking questions.
53:01
But then when I went back and listened to the audio, I could hear
53:05
winking likes, Oh my god. Yeah, interesting, it's just linking in
53:13
another dimension, you know, so cool, so cool? Okay, Well,
53:20
I mean I just feel like cold spots around my feet sometimes and I
53:22
just assume it's either my cat or a dog or something. I hope it's
53:27
an animal. Yes, you know what I mean, I really do so
53:31
yeah, And I don't know I was trying. I was. I was
53:37
thinking of all the different correlations the different places where I investigate, like Civil
53:42
War battlefields. Okay, so we had a lot of Civil War battles here
53:45
in the United States down here in the South where I live. And I've
53:49
heard like phantom cannons being fired at night. Wow. A lot of weird
53:54
stuff goes on out there. But wherever there's a battlefield. There's usually cryptid
53:59
activity there too, interesting, a lot of cryptid activity. Yeah, I
54:04
was just wondering, have you ever investigated like a battlefield. We don't have
54:08
many battlefields up here. No, in the US. Maybe, I don't
54:14
know. I guess most of the Civil War happened. A lot of it
54:15
happened out here on the East coast down here. I've invested so where so
54:21
well, I have kind of I investigated a place called Alexandra Lodge and it
54:27
was built in eighteen fifty four and it was around the time where there was
54:30
something called the Fraser Canyon War is between the Indigenous, the English settlers,
54:37
and the Americans. The Americans I wanted to come up here and take over,
54:42
but we're like, uh uh, so that there's a bit of war
54:46
there where we pushed you back down to Washington And I've investigated around there,
54:52
but not the actual battlefield. I've investigated buildings where the battle took place.
55:00
Part of the well. Whenever you're ready to investigate a battlefield, you come
55:04
down to Georgia, bring your crew. Now do you actually have a crew
55:07
or is it just you? What is paranormal road trippers? The paranormal road
55:12
Trippers right now, it's just me, just keep me saying. And I
55:15
work. I work with a lot of teams. I work with a lot
55:17
of people, a lot of them. Like one of my good friends,
55:22
great guy, his name is Jake, and him and I we call each
55:25
other the gadget Bros. Because we love all the ghost of gadgets and he
55:29
has all of them. And we tend to investigate a lot our little sub
55:35
genre. We call it Our Haunted Heritage, and we have a website,
55:37
our Haunted Heritage dot com. And we're very history heavy where we talk history
55:43
and then we do the ghost hunt. So yeah, so I'm more of
55:47
a freelancer right now, and I would like to add some people because it's
55:52
hard. It's hard to do. You're only one person. Oh my gosh,
55:58
I get that. I totally get that. Okay, So our Haunted
56:00
Heritage. I think I may have accidentally put a space there, okay because
56:05
I can't see you well tonight. But that that's your there. You said,
56:09
that's your website. That's what I have. The website. So we
56:12
have our Haunted Heritage dot com. And then I'm working on the Paranormal road
56:17
Trippers dot com. Oh yeah, and then Instagram. We're extremely active on
56:22
or I'm extremely active on the Panormal road Trippers. Yeah, that's what.
56:28
I'm actually more active on Instagram than just about any of the other social media
56:31
sites. So I put I post all the time, almost every day on
56:35
Instagram. So I'm the same. It's my favorite. But you also you
56:38
have a YouTube channel too, right, I do the Paranormal road Trippers,
56:42
and I'm gonna be truckling out about five videos over the next couple of months.
56:46
Here. I've been doing some cryptid hunting. Oh I want you to
56:51
come back and talk about that. Oh my gosh, We've got more to
56:53
talk about. And what I was saying was when you whenever you get ready
56:58
to go investigate about you can come down here to Georgia. You can come
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out with my team. I'll take you to some places. We have a
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lot of old Civil War battlefields around here where I live. I will take
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one's. They're not too far from Atlanta, so you just fly into Atlanta.
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Uh, picket Smell. Picket Smell Battlefield is where my son and I
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heard the cannons firing late one night after a Haunted Haunted ghost tour. Actually
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okay, at Halloween. But yeah, there were people that were actually dressed
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up like dead soldiers and stuff. And as we were leaving, we were
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walking to the parking lot and then the cannon started firing out in the battlefield.
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That's crazy. Oh yeah, but nobody. They weren't firing cannons that
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night, by the way. It was. Yeah. So anyways, this
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has been fantastic. Oh my god, Mike, thank you so much for
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coming on tonight and h and sharing your stories with us. And it's just
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been it's been a lot of fun. We got to do this more often.
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Yeah, what before, just to give us a teaser, what kind
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of kryptis have you encountered? What if I encountered I've encountered bigfoot, I've
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encountered a shape shifter, and I've encountered stick indians? Stick Indians? What
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is that? We have to talk talk about that? All right, you're
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you're hired. Okay, we're gonna read you back. Okay, all right,
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Mike, Well, thank you so much for being here. You guys,
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please go subscribe to Paranormal road Trippers on YouTube and follow him on Instagram
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and everywhere else you can find Paranormal road Trippers and Mike, thank you so
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much for being here. You're the best, and hopefully I'll see you down
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here in Georgia sometime. We'll go investigate some battlefields. That awesome. Awesome.
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I'll have a great night, and Thanksgiin for me. Okay, see
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ya. I stay safe out there, all right, y'all. Man,
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that was fantastic. I hope you all enjoyed that as much as I did.
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All right, So you guys go over to After Hours and I think
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Robbie, they may be playing a replay tonight, Okay, but go over
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there and hang out, get in that chat. There'll be a live chat
59:06
tonight. So thank y'all so much for being here. Please come hang out
59:09
with me over on the crypton Hunters channel on YouTube this week. I'm gonna
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have a show Wednesday, Thursday, and then Saturday, and I'll be back
59:17
here next Sunday with doctor John Stamy. We're gonna be talking about UFOs,
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aliens and Bigfoot or something like that. It's gonna be fun, all right,
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y'all. Well, everybody, have a great night. Thank y'all so
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much. Thank you for the supersticker Big Dog, Big Dog tonight. Thank
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you so much for that and you guys have a great week, and I
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will see y'all later, all right, see y'all.