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Tommyknockers, Gnomes & Little People · The Cryptid Huntress

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Bye, Baby, baby Baby, everybody, Welcome to a Glitch in the
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Matrix. I'm your lovely host. I'm Jessica Jones, the Cryptid Huntress,
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and I have this wonderful, fantastic, really cool show for us today.
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I have my buddy John Vinventer here in the studio today to help me talk
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about something that I have not talked about on my channel before. We're gonna
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be talking about Tommy Knockers, gnomes, leprechauns, and the Cherokee Little People,
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Okay, and a host of other stuff if we can get to it.
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We've got so much to talk about. I've printed out about one hundred
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pages worth of stuff that I've been going over today. And because this is
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not my forte y'all, I'm into the you know, the bigger, the
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bigger cryptids like Bigfoot, dog Man and giants. So we're going to go
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from one extreme to the other. Last week, I believe we were talking
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about giants. This week we're talking about the the wee little folk okay,
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the little people, and it's it's really interesting, y'all. Okay, so
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oh, and this all stems from last week's show. Okay, I was
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actually talking about the Van Meter Monster with Barry Lyttleton if you'll remember on Thursday
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night and Barry questioned, he was like, what in the world is a
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Tommy knocker okay, and and I said, well, I guess we're gonna
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have to have a show about Tommy Knockers. Okay, So this is this
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is what we're doing today. And Plus, if you go into any store
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like Hobby Lobby or Michael's or Walmart or anywhere. Uh, there's noomes,
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you guys. There are nomes everywhere. I have a nome right behind me,
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there's one over my shoulder today. We have nomes in the building today
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and uh. And so they're everywhere, especially at Christmas time as well.
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And Santa's got his elves out there work into Uh. So we're gonna talk
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about all that today. Okay. If you guys would like to follow along
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to shop with me for your Christmas gifts this year. Okay, let's get
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to our show, y'all. I have so much to talk about, and
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I've got John here. John is always a wealth of knowledge and he has
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some personal stories about the little people today. Okay, so on this episode,
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we're talking about little people nomes Tommy knockers. Tommy knockers are said to
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be little gnomes who live deep in the caves and mines and are mysterious creatures
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of the underworld. Miners have seen them, but more often felt their presence
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or heard them tapping knocking on the walls of mines, warning the miners of
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danger, telling them to get out. You don't ignore a Tommy knocker.
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Okay. That's one thing that I have learned. We do not ignore Tommy
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knockers. Not if you want to live. At least they can be your
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best friend and they could be your worst nightmare. Okay, and I think
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that's kind of similar for a lot of the smaller stature cryptids that we have
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out there. The legend of the Tommy Knockers has been around for thousands of
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years, beginning in the ten mind days of the Roman Empire. If you
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sit quietly and listen at the entrance of a cave, you too might hear
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a Tommy knocker mining away at the gold and potentially warning you to get out,
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okay before the mind collapses. I have John Bendaventer here. John's originally
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from Plano, Texas. He's a sixteen year veteran of the United States Air
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Force. Let's see, I have a hold on my grab his bio,
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y'all. He is the author of the novel Relics, first published in twenty
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seventeen. After he spent about two years writing the novel and researching the topic
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of Sasquatch as he wrote, in twenty eighteen, he and his wife moved
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to Hanobi, Oklahoma, in the heart of Oklahoma Sasquatch country. He's been
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a guest speaker on several Bigfoot and paranormal podcasts, and he was also a
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speaker at the Hanobia Bigfoot Festival in twenty eighteen. He served as MC for
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the twenty twenty one Hanobi Bigfoot Festival, and we'll return to MC again in
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twenty twenty two, or he did. Sorry, we're in the future real.
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In twenty twenty one, John became an active writer again. He signed
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with Empire Publishing. He's completed two complete series, Relics fiction adult series and
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The Shadow Chasers adult fiction series. He has retired. Everybody retires, but
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he seems like you get more busy after you retire, right, and he's
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working on a new book. I think he just put it to the publishers,
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I guess, and so it's publishing right now. Please help me.
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Welcome to the show, my buddy, John Vendaventer. Hey, Happy Thanksgiving,
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Hey John, Happy Thanksgiving to you. Thank you for being here today.
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We have so much update biod I noticed that right as I was reading
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it, so I felt like I was in the future reading the past.
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But it's okay because you are. You're super busy with all of your books
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and uh and you you have one of the best book series that I know
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of regarding sasquatch UFOs all that paranormal stuff. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely,
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Oh my gosh, Catherine, thank you so much. Thank you to
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everybody who's in the chat today. By the way, uh, Catherine,
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I met Catherine in Las Vegas at the Space Out Radio fan party. Thank
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you for that super chat. I appreciate that. I love you too,
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Cauz. And also I wanted to give a shout out to Colleen Roach who's
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in the chat. It's her birthday to day everybody, so everybody please wish
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Colleen a happy birthday to day. Yeah, but half of me and John
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we want to tell you happy birthday, Colleen. Okay, all right,
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we have the best audience. John, I'm so excited. Okay, So
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we're going to be talking about Tommy Knockers today. I want to start off
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with the Tommy Knockers subject. John. It's something that people have been writing
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into me this past week, telling me their own stories of Tommy Knockers.
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Now, I believe that you might have a story that you've heard or you've
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experienced on your own of Tommy Knockers. Can you tell me about it?
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Well, this isn't my story. Now. I do have a story about
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the little people when we get there. But I did a quick look on
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Tommy Knockers, and those of you that like to get on YouTube, I
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want you to look for this guy named Jeff Williams. He's a minor and
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a geologist, and I watched a couple of his episodes this morning, and
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he was deep down in a coal mine and started getting the knox, you
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know. He hammered on something and the knock started coming back, and then
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they just kept coming. And in another scene, he had drilled a hole
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into his wall and was shoving a rod in there, and he found a
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cavity at an empty space on the other side of the wall, and something
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started turning his rod and just pulled it through, pulled it through the hole.
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He got picked for me, So I want to go back and watch
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the rest. He trying to figure out what did that. But he did
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have evidence of Tommy Knocker activity, and that rod thing was pretty wild.
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Really, I just kind of did a I didn't know that much about it,
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still don't. As you were saying, they go back to Roman times,
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I guess the American version of the American stories came from Cornish and Welsh
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miners that had come over to the United States to come over to the New
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World, and they kind of brought to Tommy Knocker's legend with them, and
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uh, the activity you know, the same activity they were getting over in
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Great Britain, you know, back in those days, in the old times.
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Now they're still having it here, and they started immediately having it here
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when they started mining. So I guess it's never been a bit. This
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is the only time I've lived in in a mining area, Like, I'm
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not too partner here where they've got the coal mines and stuff around Heavner and
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I use those for some other weird stuff that happened in those minds occasionally.
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But so this is kind of new something I think I want to dig into
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more since I am in an area with mines now. Oh yeah, Well,
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that's something that we continually talk about, is the relation to cryptids and
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gold mines in any kind of minds. I mean, I've been I've been
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hearing about minds and cryptids for a long time. And uh and I've talked
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even extensively Fred roll up in Alaska with Subarctic Alaska Sasquatch on YouTube. We
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made a connection to the Sasquatch guarding gold mines. And then last week we
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had the van Meter Monster out of Iowa. That thing was seen coming out
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of a coal mine. It's not a gold mine, but a coal mine.
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So these mines in cryptids. I think it's a great place for cryptids
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to live and to hide if they don't want to be seen. But also,
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I mean potentially they could be like entrances to Inner Earth. If you
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guys, are you know, if you believe in Inner Earth? I do,
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I totally do, okay, but it could they could be interesces to
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something a little you know, a little more mysterious, I guess. And
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so the Tommy Knockers are a little terrifying, okay, But if you if
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you go back and think about pop culture, these things have been kind of
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shown to us for many years. Okay, back in the nineteen thirties we
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had Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Okay, I believe that's when that
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came out, and snow White was found by a bunch of dwarves. Now
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listen, I'm going to get into this in detail here in just a minute,
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because I could do an entire show just on Snow White and the Seven
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Dwarves, Okay, And because there's so much symbology in that. There's so
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much not only about with the little people the Dwarfs, they're basically like Tommy
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Knockers. Okay, that's the way I would describe them. But also we've
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got stuff in there, like a magic mirror, we have blood rituals,
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okay, like all sorts of weird stuff, very occultish in addition to the
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seven dwarves that are in there. And so yeah, that that's a rabbit
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hole. I don't know if you guys want to go down at today,
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but I guarantee you I'm going to talk about that in the future, especially
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those magic mirrors and not dimensioned on the Mandela effect, Yes, were you
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weird? The Mandela effect has affected the Snow White movie. It's affected everything,
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it seems. I mean, I can remember, you know, I'm
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pretty good about like movie lines and things like that. I have a good
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memory, you know, but I remember things from the past and now they're
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saying no, that was never said, and I'm like, you gotta be
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kidding, you know. But yeah, the Mandela effect, that's that's really
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weird and it's weird affecting Snow White. Well, okay, so the part
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about it, the Mandela effect of Snow White is mirror mirror on the wall.
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Who's the fairest of them all? That's what I remember. Now it's
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something different, and I can't remember exactly what it is now, but it's
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not meror to see if it is actually something different, I have not,
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but I mean I've seen clips of the movie that people have posted in regards
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to this Mandela effect, So it's happened. That's what I hear is that
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it's not mirror mirror on the wall anymore. It's something different. That's weird.
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Who's the fairest of them all? It's super weird. It's super weird.
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Yeah, because Roger in the chat is wondering if the Tommy Knockers,
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Oh yeah, exactly right, exactly. Dockers have a connection to leprens.
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Well, you know, the Leprechauns are said to be guarding gold. Also,
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there's a German word for the Tommy Knockers is uh Bergeister, and it
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means mountain mountain ghosts, and they believe to be guardians of gold and treasure
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too. Okay, very cool, very cool. Hey, I'm gonna put
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a picture up here and I'm gonna switch over to my phone. Y'all.
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We've got one of those things where I'm starting to lag a little bit today
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so yeah, we're okay. So, so the Tommy Knockers, I think
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that they're all they can all kind of be classified in with leprechauns a little
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bit. I know it's different. We're gonna we're gonna go there just a
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second. But yeah, John, let me let me switch over to my
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phone real quick, and if you have any any more facts on the Tommy
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Knockers, Okay, I'm gonna be switching over while you will you talk about
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it? Okay, okay, did expect me? So? Actually, my
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information on them, folks is, uh, they first came to America,
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as I mentioned earlier, the stories from Cornish and Welsh miners that brought their
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trade to the New World. As I mentioned earlier, the Germans have a
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named for him. The Swiss have a named for him, and they do.
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There's something about all these gnomes and small, small people like this.
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They always seem to be guardians of some kind of treasure or or gold or
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silver or something like that. And if you really got an interest on them,
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I really can't tell you enough. Go watch this Jeff Williams guy on
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YouTube and watches Tommy Knocker episodes. It's pretty wild. Oh yeah, I'm
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gonna go check this guy out. Can you guys hear me? Okay,
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yeah, okay, it's a glitch in the matrix once again. Yeah,
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that's funny. Oh my gosh. Yeah, Roger said, some of these
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pictures look like his ken Folk. Okay, that's kind of funny. Yes,
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so the Tommy Knocker started. Okay, the traditions go back way back
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in the day, back in the Welsh traditions, Celtic traditions of the miners.
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There, the Tommy Knockers were mischievous, but they would save your life.
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Okay. Now I did post and I pinned it to the top of
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the live chat. Today, I do have a video of a reported Tommy
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knocker, okay, that was on TikTok Now, I don't know the validity
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of this video, y'all. I can't tell you for sure if this is
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a real video or not. But I have still shots from it today,
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so I figured I would show the audience some of the still shots. Now,
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y'all, go up and click on that and you can see the video.
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It looks like a little man with beautiful long hair, long beautiful hair,
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and he's climbing up. He was baited Okay. The story behind this
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goes he was baited by some British miners, okay, some miners out of
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the UK. And he almost looks like he has gray skin. Now,
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this could be like a night vision discrepancy, like where he doesn't look this
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color usually, But I don't know, okay. And you can see this
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is your some clips from the short video that they show on TikTok And this
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is a little fellow right here. They're calling him, calling him a gnome,
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but he's it looks like a real human. I mean, some people
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might say that cgi, some may say it's just all set up for a
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movie. I don't, y'all, I don't know, but it's pretty convincing,
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okay. And uh, and this is a little a little guy shortened
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stature looks a little like Santa Claus, okay, with his white hair and
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his grayish blue it's kind of blue. Uh you know what that reminds me
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of? John? What's that? The Smurfs? Okay, the Smurfs,
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right, something else from pop culture? Okay. And so, like I
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said, I don't know the validity of this video one hundred percent, but
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I've seen it. I did pin it. It isn't the live chat at
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the very top, You guys, go scroll up to the top. It's
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up there, and y'all tell me what you think. Okay, tell me
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what you think. Now I'm going to go over some of the characteristics of
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these Tommy Knockers. Okay. The creatures are known to make mischief. They'll
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eat your lunch, hydrotols, knock your hard hat off your head, tweak
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your ear, and some people think that they appear as the ghosts of the
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miners who died in the minds years ago. So some people say that the
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Tommy Knockers are not an actual three D type of a creature. They think
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they're more of like a spiritual type of an entity. Okay, because sometimes
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they'll see lights like ghosts. Like what they're seeing they think are ghosts.
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The miners are seeing them in the mind and they see a glowing light at
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the end of the tunnel that suddenly takes a human form and then vanishes in
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a misty white cloud. Some say that it's just a could be like a
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mix of dust and dirt and a gas of some sort. But they say
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that when you see that light, you get out, Okay, get out
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and don't don't look back, take off running because it's probably going the mind
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could potentially collapse or something could happen to you, because that's usually the Tommy
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knockers are giving a warning to get out. So they'll do favors to assist
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the miners. They work right along beside them, some people say, and
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they'll lead you to the riches, like the veins of gold or the veins
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of whatever metal it is. They're down there trained to get But if you
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mock them, John, if you mock them, and if you make fun
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of them, they can cause injury and even your death. Okay, so
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you know, and that was that was something I read up on them.
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You know that they're tapping could mean a warning you need to get out of
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mind, or they could be trying to show you where the the mother load
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is. How do you know which one to do? Yeah, well,
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you have to go with your gut. Okay, that's what I always say,
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Go with your gut. Don't go that far underground anyways, I don't.
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Well, let me tell you, John, caves are caves and mines
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are scary places. They agree, they're very scary. It takes, uh,
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it takes somebody with Cojones of steel. Okay, to be a minor
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and to even go caving, in my opinion, I've been in one cave.
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I mean, I've been in several caves, but I've only explored one
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for like paranormal stuff. When we were out in Tennessee and it was it
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was I didn't want to go in there by myself. Okay, and that's
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unusual. I don't mind doing things on my own, but that that cave
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was so scary. It just felt we felt a presence in that cave and
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uh well, and plus we were told there were skin walkers in it.
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Oh really, Yeah, I don't know. Like I've been in a few
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caverns, in a couple of caves, it's just not my thing. I
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mean, I like the caverns are beautiful, but then I start thinking about
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how much rock and earth is above my head. I think be the same
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way. Like I toured a submarine once. It's great, even though I
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knew we weren't underwater, I didn't want to stay in it that long.
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You know, Hey, this is cool, let me out. It must
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be a clock. The phobia thing with me, I guess it is with
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me too. And the girl in her gone. Thank you for that super
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chat. Thank you so much that supersticker. That means a lot. I
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appreciate that. Okay, yes, I mean I went into another cave.
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There's one. It's called Ruby Ruby Cave, I think up in Tennessee Ruby
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Falls or Ruby Cave. And and you have to take an elevator way way
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down into the ground. And and it's beautiful. It's like cave caverns and
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you just go through these caves. It's absolutely beautiful, but it's very claustrophobic
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down there. But it's also a place that you could go to escape if
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something were to happen on the surface level of the earth. And uh.
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And I think a lot of these cryptids that we're looking into today they live
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underground. Is that I don't know if it's a way to escape what's going
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on above ground or if it's just they're just subterranean because they prefer living down
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there. You know, maybe they've just adapted to living down there, and
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uh, and that's what they prefer. But I mean, even with like
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the Native American legends and stuff, there's these subterranean even the little people with
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the chero the Cherokee have a story about the little people, and we can
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get into that today as well. Uh. They have a name for them.
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Let's see if I can find it. Uh, the nana the nana
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hi, the nuana hi, I think is how you pronounce that? Uh.
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And there are a race of more immortal spirit people in Cherokee mythology.
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Now they say mythology. A lot of this mythology, I think that there's
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a lot of truth behind it, Okay from what I've from my research that
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I've done in my experiences. But they believe the nunnahei or nunahet to be
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a type of supernatural human being completely distinct from ghosts and nature spirits as well
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as from the gods as well as from the gods. Now, they lived
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in subterranean housing something they called the townhouse is where they lived. And they
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would go underground and whenever they would help the Cherokee, like to get away
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from the enemy or you know, when they were being rounded up to walk
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to be relocated. I guess you could say this is the nice term for
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it. I guess it's not a nice term. But to be relocated to
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Oklahoma, a lot of people went and hid, you know, in the
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mountains a lot of the Native Americans, a lot of the Cherokees went to
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go hide, and they were guided into. The story goes they were guided
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into the mountain behind a secret stone door. Okay, And and where do
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we hear about the secret stone door? Last week? I believe I did
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that. I did that show or week before last on the giant, the
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giant that was spotted an Oregon that that gentleman said had disappeared behind a stone
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door that opened up in the side of a mountain. Okay, Well,
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the Cherokee have a legend about the little people, and they would open up
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a stone door much like the one that was described with the giant out in
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Oregon from a couple of weeks ago, and they would they walked in,
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and the people that would go in there wouldn't want to leave because it was
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so beautiful inside. It's almost like the stories of Inner Earth, John and
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that that's her story, and the people would be safe there. And when
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they went in and they started communing and eating the food of these little people,
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they became immortal, Okay, which is interesting. So I don't want
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now. I have a chop tak version here if you want to hear it.
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Yes, they called them cali Anda and Ukasha cali Anakasha or the bo
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Polli uh both well Connie and Ukasha means forest dweller. Bu Polli means thrower
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because they would throw with small sticks and stones, and it was a playful
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thing. They weren't throwing the hurt. But they would take small children,
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usually males, and they'd kidnap them, and what they would do they would
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keep them for three days and they teach them about herbs and what plants to
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use to cure sickness or illness, and then they would return them to the
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tribe and the children were to say nothing about what they'd learned, but they
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would become the medicine man or doctors of the community once they became adults.
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And if the child had no no temperament for it, or you know,
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this wasn't something he was going to be good at, they would return the
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child in lesson three days. You know, they could tell he wasn't gonna
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gonna make the cut as a as a healer. And also like the Cherokee,
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this followed them from Mississippi and Alabama into Oklahoma when they you know,
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when they were forced into Oklahoma during the trill of tears. So and so
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so did their big foot thing. For that matter, the champagne followed them
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from from Mississippi to Oklahoma. And this is what this is where I have
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a little story. Funny thing was probably right around this day three years ago,
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and I think it was a day for Thanksgiving, and I was I
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had a busy day. I had service calls doing Texas, Oklahoma, and
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Arkansas that day, so I got up. I wanted to get out early,
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so I was leaving around five point thirty and I was, everything here
28:03
that weird's ever happened happens at my gate for some reason. So I went
28:07
to the gates to go out to my car, and I looked at the
28:08
mountains to my south, and uh live in a little my wide valley and
28:14
we're kind of backed up to the mountain in the north. To the south's
28:17
about a mile away, and I see I thought, we're two headlights up
28:21
on the mountain where there's no road up there. So I'm thinking it was
28:23
deer hunters at the time. I see it on ATVs and they're just moving
28:29
from my left to my right, and then all of a sudden, one
28:32
then the other one just brought down like two hundred feet and I thought,
28:34
oh my god, they drove off a cliff or something. But I never
28:37
saw no red tail lights or no tumbling. The lights just went down and
28:41
then they came back up moved on to my right again until I couldn't see
28:45
them, and I was, you know, I was like, well,
28:48
I had to go that direction. So I jumped to the car and drove.
28:51
I drive right by that mountain on the way out, and I never
28:53
saw anything. And of course me, I'm thinking it was orbs or UFOs
28:57
or something, and I mentioned it to a chalk tall guy. He goes,
29:02
no, that's the little people, and that's when I first heard.
29:04
He goes, that's their lamps. And then one more story on this.
29:08
Two years ago, during the Hanobe Bigfoot Festival, one of the speakers I'm
29:14
pretty good friends with. He's an author as well, and he's a researcher
29:18
like you. He's out a lot and I won't mention his name because I
29:19
didn't get permission to tell his story, so I'm sure he wouldn't mind,
29:25
but I'm not going to take that chance. The first night of the festival,
29:30
he had done his speaking and stuff, and they had put him up
29:32
in a cabin not far from here in the shova, and him and this
29:36
other speaker who happened to be chalk tall, we're standing no. I think
29:41
this guy was Cherokee. I can't remember for sure. But they kept seeing
29:47
this light and my friend kept moving towards the light. He was getting closer
29:52
because he'd never seen anything like this. Now he's well rounded. I mean,
29:55
he's been researching Sasquat for twelve years and he's never had a sighting.
30:00
He's had activity. He's found prints and stuff like that. So he's not
30:06
somebody that you know is gonna make things up. He's very, very honorable
30:11
in it. And you know the things he described me, He'll admit straight
30:15
up. I believe in him, but I've never seen one when it comes
30:18
to bigfoot. But this he saw and his curiosity was peaked, and he
30:22
started following it, and then the Native American speaker told him to stop,
30:26
don't go any further because you're gonna get lost. They're leading you away to
30:30
get you lost. So he let it go, and this guy told him
30:33
that was the little people. It was the landern of the little people.
30:37
So there's my stories about Oh my gosh. Okay, so that could be
30:41
very mischievous, and so you gotta be careful of what you're following around out
30:47
there in the woods. Yeah, okay. So I have a good friend
30:52
of mine who does filled research with me and my team, and that's Dave
30:56
Pardue. I bring him up pretty often. I love, I love my
30:59
buddy. And uh. And he is up in North Carolina. With North
31:03
North Carolina, it's Carolina Cryptid Field Research Organization up there, and uh.
31:08
And he has a video of little people, okay, and uh and the
31:15
video, I mean it is it is clear. There's like three or four
31:18
maybe five, I can't remember little people that look like they're walking in a
31:23
single file line. And this is through his night vision camera or his fleer
31:29
and uh, in the middle of the night, up in up in the
31:32
forest, Okay, up in North Carolina somewhere. And and these these little
31:36
people, the Cherokee little people, for instance, they are known to especially
31:41
live around Franklin, North Carolina. Uh, they're spotted around that area.
31:44
He's not too far from there, okay, where he does his research.
31:48
And uh. But but if he actually has this a video, now I
31:52
don't I don't know if it's public. I don't know if he's shown up
31:55
to the public or anything. But you can clearly see what what I think
32:00
he had determined that he thought it might be ets or something because he was
32:05
filming what looked to be like a gray alien two around the area. So,
32:09
but they liked little people. They're about this big, just tiny,
32:15
tiny little people and uh and so I don't know. I don't know if
32:20
they were actual little people like the the the Nuna heat or if they were
32:25
extraterrestrials. Okay, watch that show? Sorry? Do you remember the old
32:32
show ghost Hunters came on early two thousands taps? Yes, the one where
32:37
they were in Ireland and they were outside a couple of them and then all
32:43
of a sudden, these little figures showed up on the fleer and they were
32:45
on two legs and they were following them, like tracking them. Did you
32:50
ever see that episode? I don't know. I don't think so I would
32:54
remember that one. It may have been season three, episode six. I
32:58
was trying to find it this morning because I wanted to send you that that
33:01
video if I could find it, but I didn't. I just did They
33:06
didn't have that one scene cut out anywhere where I could find it, So
33:09
if I can, if I can find that, I'll send it to you.
33:14
Oh yeah, I mean we have little things like Puckwadgis too out in
33:17
the woods, okay, and those are like you know, like on Star
33:20
Wars they talk about the Ewoks in the We've got Chewbacca and all the Wookies,
33:23
but they've also got the little ones the Ewoks. That was my brother's
33:27
favorite movie when we were kids were all the Ewok Adventures. H And they're
33:30
just a little bit smaller. But the punk Wedgies are even smaller than Ewoks.
33:35
Okay. Now, Ewoks are made up. Okay, they're from Star
33:37
Wars, but I feel like they put the truths out there in movies like
33:42
Star Wars when it comes to these creatures. So yeah, just these little
33:47
tainting things. Now, if you also, if you go to TikTok,
33:51
I know I'm talking about TikTok a lot, but I saw several different creatures
33:57
on there recently that what like look like little puck wedgies and look like little
34:02
people in little little fuzzy hairy beings. So I don't know, y'all,
34:08
y'all go do a deep dive on TikTok and go down that rabbit hole and
34:12
call me in like three days. Okay, let me know what all y'all
34:15
found, because yeah, you can really get sucked into a rabbit hole when
34:20
you get when you start doing this research online. Uh there's just stuff that's
34:22
so inexplicable on there and uh oh yeah, so okay, let's see.
34:31
Let's see here. What do we have to talk about? Okay, y'a
34:35
want to see some weird people. I'll go ahead and show this John.
34:37
Okay, Like I said, you find some weird stuff on TikTok. Right,
34:42
Yeah, I've seen that photo. What is this? I mean,
34:47
I don't know if this is real or not, but I came across this.
34:51
This is something from a video on TikTok. They say this is a
34:53
Tommy knocker. I don't know. I don't know, but I thought i'd
34:58
show it just because it it was. It was weird. Okay, what
35:04
do you think about that? What do you think about it? I would
35:07
never go back in the cave again if I saw that. I would never
35:13
I mean, I mean I would I'd go back. I mean, this
35:15
is what I do. I like to do this for fun. But that
35:17
looks like a person. It looks like a human. But who It seems
35:22
like the whole the whole subject matter, except maybe for the uh, the
35:28
Native American traditions, but you know, all the European stuff, and even
35:34
you know, well you know the ancient Rome stuff, which is that you
35:37
know, it's part of Europe. Now they seem to like mines or caves,
35:42
and they seem to like to guard, they guard precious metals or or
35:47
or whatever. There's got to be a there's you know, there's that's a
35:53
common thread. And I wish I had had more time to look. But
35:58
there's got to be something somewhere that started this this theme, where this this
36:05
whole uh phenomena. You know, you hear about, you hear about uh,
36:13
you hear about similar things in other parts of the paranormal. But these
36:20
things are all tied in, even you know, and I don't know they're
36:24
all the same type of being, but they all sure seem to be tied
36:28
in to the underground and protecting, you know, something valuable. Yes,
36:34
And I wonder if it goes back, if there's a there's a story from
36:40
back, maybe in the Greek times or something like that, you know,
36:44
ancient Greece or one of the earlier civilizations that got the ball rolling on the
36:47
on this but it's really interesting. Oh yeah, well they said that,
36:53
actually it was the Roman Empire. I guess the Romans were going. I
36:58
think it was the Romans they were they were in the ten mindes, the
37:02
t I n ten Okay, okay, yeah, I know. I got
37:07
a cold, so I feel like my words aren't coming across very effectively today.
37:09
But but the ten minds, they said they would they encountered stuff kind
37:14
of like the Tommy Knockers down in those ten mins back centuries ago, centuries
37:21
ago. I used the Copper mind from King Solomon's era in my uh in
37:30
a couple of my novels. I think I want to go back down and
37:32
look and see if there was any kind of stories like that coming from there
37:38
from those minds. Absolutely yes, Lenita Bryant, thank you for that super
37:44
sticker. Thank you so much. Now Lenita has little people on her property
37:47
too, She has uh, she has all sorts of pictures of not only
37:53
sasquatch, but the little people and all sorts of stuff out there. So
37:57
thank you, Lenita. I hope you have a very happy Thanksgiving and uh,
38:00
and thank you for that. I look, I appreciate your support so
38:02
much. But yeah, these things have been seen all over the world.
38:07
They've been heard, they've been felt, they've been experienced in all these caves.
38:10
But you mentioned them guarding the caves and the mines in the gold.
38:16
Okay. So something that has become synonymous with Irish mythology is the leprecan Okay.
38:24
And uh, I mean, I know I've been I want to say,
38:30
I don't want to say obsessed with leprechauns. I'm not obsessed with them,
38:32
Okay, any means, I've been curious about Lebrecrons for a long time.
38:37
I mean, there was a really scary movie series called Leprecawn when I
38:42
was a kid. Oh my god, if you want to have nightmares,
38:45
y'all watch Leprechawn. Okay, that movie leprecn one, two, three,
38:49
I don't know how many they made. Skin Was he a Leprechaun or was
38:52
he ann Oh my gosh, he was like a lebre Con too. Yeah,
38:57
he was like a troll, I guess k guarding gold, I believe.
39:01
So, yeah, I didn't even think about that one. You have
39:05
brumpel Stiltskin. He's the one that asked the puzzle to let down her long
39:07
hair. He took her hair. I remember, yeah, I just remember
39:14
there was a movie about him. I think in the sixties. I was
39:16
a little bitty guy and I remember the commercial. He walked around canting something
39:22
and I didn't want to see that movie. That guy's kind of scary.
39:29
It may have been the seventies, but I think it was the sixties.
39:31
Oh yeah, creepy. I mean, I don't know what the deal is
39:36
with the with the trolls and the lepre cons being so being so scary and
39:42
plus like the trolls that are the bridges and stuff like that. I mean,
39:45
and they want you to pay a toll, you know, and they
39:49
want to pay him money. It's got something to do with gold coins or
39:52
something, some kind of pentacle, some wealth. Right, So all right,
40:00
I got a little bit of information on leprechauns. Shall we let's talk
40:02
about leprecauns. Okay, So, lepre cons are figures of Irish folklore.
40:07
And let me pull up a picture to you. We can we can check
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out a picture today here. Let me thank you again, Lenita. Okay,
40:15
So, this is just your typical Irish leprecaun here and uh and this
40:21
is it looks very much like the gnomes, the gnomes that we hear about
40:25
in folklore. Also like the Tommy knockers. Okay, it has that elfish
40:31
look and Santa's elves. Okay, we're coming up on Christmas, y'all.
40:36
Uh, the elf on the shelf will be making an appearance at my home
40:38
at some point in the next couple of weeks. Unfortunately, that thing is
40:43
a pain in my butt, just so you know. But but yeah,
40:45
we have we have we have elf we have elves. They pretty much are
40:52
synonymous with Christmas, right with Santa's elves. Okay, but the leprechaun is
41:00
guarded as a small and incredibly agile male fairy or goblin. They most often
41:06
guard a pot of gold. They live solitary lives and could be a source
41:08
of mishious for the unwary. They are infamous for being extremely difficult to catch
41:15
or to trap. Okay. Even if a libricon is caught, the captor
41:19
must keep them always within sight or they will not give away the location of
41:23
their treasure. Okay, because you want that pot of gold, right and
41:28
It's usually at the end of a rainbow, but that's where they keep it.
41:32
They usually keep a crock of gold coins. They share merry many characteristics
41:38
with more ancient creatures from Irish, Celtic and wider European mythology, but sinsilate
41:44
nineteenth century, they have risen to the dominant position of being the most recognizable
41:51
symbol of Irish folklore. So yeah, they're just they have small bodies.
41:57
I mean, that's kind of what there. They were originally known as the
42:01
lurcopon lercalpan. I'm not sure how to pronounce that, which means small body,
42:07
and that was medieval Middle Irish lurcialpon Okay, But yeah, they were
42:16
part of the Irish oral tradition, long before written folklore written, and they
42:21
were written about in poems, okay, written about in poems and now.
42:24
I did a show not too long ago on Space Out Radio with garyl and
42:30
Jane Okay of mid Midwest Night Watchers, and she wrote sounds Jane's right here.
42:36
Hey, Jane, I see you in the chat today. I bet
42:38
geralds in here too. But but yeah, they we talked about mythological creatures
42:45
of long long ago. John, but it seems as though some of those
42:49
mythological creatures might not have been so mythological. I think that they actually walked
42:53
the earth. Okay, including these little leprecawn guys. Well, I agree
43:00
with you, and I do agree that a lot of the a lot of
43:06
the characters from mythology actually walked the earth. I have my own opinions on
43:12
what they were and how they got here, which I won't share today,
43:14
but I agree. I think the names you hear from the old Greek mythology,
43:22
and yeah, they were here. I firmly believe that. Now I
43:27
have a I know you're out on the ancient stuff here, I do have
43:30
a story a gnome encounter in Nonage of England from nineteen seventy ninet. If
43:37
you want to hear it, yes, please, I'd love to hear.
43:40
Okay, there's a thing called Wallington Palace. It's this huge you know,
43:46
it's like the side of a castle, but it's a palace. I don't
43:51
know when they quit becoming a palace and become a castle. Maybe the way
43:55
they're decorated, you know, not all the stone and stuff. But in
44:00
twenty thirty September nineteen seventy nine, and this this palace takes up a huge
44:07
area. There was a group of young young boys and girls walking home and
44:13
it was just getting dark and they were behind they were behind a fence on
44:16
a property just outside the property where this palace sits. And they were in
44:22
an area they called the swamps, and it wasn't a swamp per se,
44:24
but it was heavily wooded, and you know, it was wet, but
44:28
not swampy. And they started seeing these dome like figures. They were two
44:32
to three feet tall, and they'd seen them before. Now this gets weird,
44:37
So these kids decide they want to get a better look, because when
44:42
they get to the fence, these known things retreat back deeper into the woods.
44:46
They climb the fence and they go over and then there's there's Now the
44:51
story didn't give an accurate count, but I would say ten to twenty of
44:53
these things and they come out. Now this is where it really gets weird,
44:59
because it starts sounding more like a shriner convention. But these nomes come
45:02
out of the woods on these little vehicles with two nomess and are chasing these
45:08
kids around and one of them balls and you didn't get hurt, but he
45:13
got muddy and uh and then anyway, they it was so bad they couldn't
45:19
climb the fence. They were being run down that hard by these things.
45:22
They got to a gate somehow got outside the gate. But uh, yeah,
45:28
that was a stranger Dome story that they came out. And you know,
45:30
and this is seventy nine. I don't think you know, we didn't
45:34
have like the ATVs and all that stuff or side besides then, especially in
45:38
England, I mean I lived there for three years. You know, they
45:43
would at tax the heck out of them. I mean we had to pay
45:46
tax to have a television, you know, So yeah, it was something
45:52
else. But yeah, I just thought that was an incredible story and they
45:55
were taken serious by their uh I guess ahead, Master there is the principal.
46:01
But uh, their story was taken serious and other people have reported seeing
46:06
them. Now I don't know of anybody else that reported seeing the vehicles.
46:08
I just thought that was a strange story. Though maybe they were motorized mining
46:14
carts, who knows. I mean, I think that's great. Okay,
46:19
So my favorite thing, like every every year we have the Christmas parade in
46:22
my hometown, and uh, and the strainers always show up with their go
46:28
karts and their little motorcycles and stuff, so I know what you're talking about.
46:31
They wear their fez hats and you know, the kind of nightcap looking
46:37
things that gnomes and stuff were known for. According they threw some photos.
46:42
I wish I would have thought to get them of them in their little carts
46:45
and stuff, and they had that normal, you know kind of no yeah,
46:52
okay, which is interesting because I was I can't remember, I was
46:55
reading somewhere that hat has some kind of meaning. It's almost like a h
47:00
The point of it is almost like an antenna or something. I don't know
47:04
where I read that. I have to do a similar research on that.
47:07
But this is this is your typical gnome right here, which very much in
47:14
fact, they said the hats were were red or had red tops, and
47:21
for one, for some reason, one of the children subscribed them as having
47:23
black beards, when all the rest said it was white beard. So you
47:28
know, kid maybe been scared or perception, you know, just how he
47:32
saw it, you know. Okay, Well, we have stories out of
47:38
Alaska, okay, And I'm and Fred Fred Ruhll, who I mentioned earlier.
47:43
He's he is an elder. He's one of a card carrying carry on
47:49
tribe member in Alaska, and and he he he tells the stories of a
47:54
lot of the people who have given him their first hand accounts of little people
48:00
up there in Alaska. And one of the stories that he told on my
48:02
show a while back was about the some little people. Okay, there's at
48:07
least two or three different stories that he's told us before, but one of
48:12
them involved little gnomes that looked just like this with hats on their heads,
48:16
just like that, Okay, And it was like one of them started.
48:21
And I believe that the story he told was about a gentleman who was a
48:23
law enforcement official. He was a sheriff's deputy or a police officer, and
48:29
he was getting the side of his house was getting knocked on, and it
48:32
sounded like somebody's beating on the side of his home. So he thought it
48:36
was his drunk neighbor, okay, wanting to get some more alcoholic see if
48:38
he had some alcohol at his house or something. So he was irritated.
48:43
The guy was tired. He jumped out of bed and was going to open
48:46
up the door tell the guy to go away, and as he opened up
48:51
his door. There was a little gnome standing there, and the one little
48:55
gnome turned into like five little gnomes right before his eye. It actually multiplied
49:00
into multiple gnomes, the little people is what they called it. And uh,
49:07
and so it was pretty scary for this guy. That was one of
49:10
the stories. There was another story of some kids that were at home and
49:15
uh and their their mother was out working, I guess, and the uncle
49:19
had left a window open in the back of their home because he was sneaking
49:22
out there and smoking cigarettes, okay, and so he had left, so
49:27
he had left the back window kind of open. It was cracked open.
49:30
And they think that that's how these little, these little people were getting into
49:32
their house at night. And the kids said they'd hear pitter patter on the
49:37
on the floors at night and uh, and their door would crack open and
49:40
they'd act like they were sleeping. But there's these little noomes just like this
49:43
guy right here would walk into their room and look at him, stare at
49:46
him while they slept. Okay. So there's something about little things like that
49:53
that are creepier than big things. To me. I don't know why Chilling
49:58
with my nomis, oh my gosh. I mean every store that you go
50:05
in right now, it's covered. There's there's all sorts of gnomes. Even
50:07
I was at Walmart okay this week, and uh, and they've got nomes
50:12
for their Christmas decorations. And we haven't used gnomes in our garden, right.
50:16
I mean, this this one right here is looking pretty dapper. Uh
50:21
but uh, but yeah, there's gnomes are just kind of a part of
50:24
American tradition now, you know they honestly I feel like it. I guess
50:29
they came from Europe here and now we have noomes, especially in you know,
50:35
even like in Danish culture, you know, I theynomes are a big
50:40
deal there. Okay, I don't know, it's it's pretty much all over
50:45
Europe mostly. Uh. And yes, the Smurfs are probably based off noomes
50:51
as well. And that's the interesting point I do. I was making a
50:54
connection with the Smurfs and you yeah, probably based on gnomes. Absolutely.
51:06
I have some information on the Smurfs here. But when I think of the
51:08
Smurfs, I also think, Okay, this is gonna this is gonna be
51:12
weird. This, this may not have anything to do with the Smurfs at
51:15
all. But have you guys heard of the Kentucky Are you John? By
51:19
you guys? I mean you John. Have you heard of the Kentucky Blue
51:22
People? Never? You've never heard of the Kentucky Blue People. I never
51:25
heard of them. Okay, well, this is another rabbit hole to go
51:30
down. Okay, is that? Does that have something to do with This
51:34
is gonna sound stupid, but Kentucky Bluegrass. I don't. I don't.
51:39
I don't think so. I don't. I don't think it does. That's
51:44
nuts. I mean, this is a guy, this is actually a gentleman.
51:49
Now, this right here is actually a medical condition I believe, But
51:52
it's caused by Okay, I was talking with Cryptoville. Hey, Cryptoville,
51:57
he's in the chat today and uh and Cryptoville Uh. I asked him earlier
52:01
if he had heard of the Kentucky Blue People, and he was like absolutely.
52:06
Uh. He said, this is actually that it's a skin disease.
52:09
It's caused by drinking water with silver and chlorine content in it. Okay,
52:15
Yeah, it's it's the combination of the silver and the chlorine when you drink
52:19
it in the water, and it causes your skin to turn blue. Now,
52:22
I do believe that gentleman that I just showed he has passed away.
52:27
I was reading that he'd had a he had a heart condition, I believe,
52:30
but yeah, he he had he had blue skin. And you hear
52:34
about the Kentucky blue blue skin people. I've been hearing about them for a
52:38
while now. But but it reminds me of the Smurf. Now, this
52:43
fugate, the fu Gate family. I think that's how you pronounce it.
52:45
Uh that they actually Okay, I heard it their blue skin was from in
52:50
breeding. Okay, it's what I heard, but it could be from the
52:52
water as well. It depends on what story you're reading. I guess it.
53:00
I think when you were a child, did I love the Smurs when
53:05
I was a child, Absolutely, that was one of my favorite cartoons.
53:08
Actually, and uh, and I made the connection because we're talking about the
53:13
little people today. When you go to the opposite end of the spectrum,
53:17
John, we have the Titans, okay, the alleged like mountain ranges and
53:24
mountains that are sleeping giants, and we have these gigantic like mushrooms and it
53:30
looks like animals that have been petrified, like the petrified giants. And you
53:34
see these gigantic mushrooms. It reminded me of like, well, what if
53:37
we're the smurs, you know what I mean, you're the little people I
53:45
was I was too old for the summers. But you can tell about looking
53:47
at me and never saw a kebler elp. I didn't like, Oh yeah,
53:52
the keebler help. Well that's another one there. There's so much in
53:57
our there. They're just all in our pop culture. Okay, the little
54:01
people dismerse. Even the fairies too. I mean, I know we're not
54:05
talking about fairies today. We talked about those a couple of weeks ago.
54:07
Fairies too. If you go back to the Irish version or the old world
54:13
version of fairy, it ain't Tinkerbell, you know that they talk about.
54:19
In fact, that episode of Ghost Centers I mentioned to you, where these
54:22
little things are following them, they thought they may have been fairies. Oh
54:29
really, well, I have to wonder sometimes because when we're out in the
54:31
field and we're getting orbs out there, it's like balls of light. What
54:37
if those balls of light those could be fairies. I've never made that connection
54:42
of the orbs being fairies, but it could be some sort of an elemental
54:45
out there because we don't know what these We don't know what the orbs are.
54:51
Sometimes they follow us, sometimes they follow us around. Sometimes they make
54:55
V shaped patterns, and they make patterns and then they sometimes it's I believe
55:00
that an orb could be a non corporeal form of a sasquatch. I don't
55:06
know. I don't know. We don't know. We absolutely don't know.
55:13
But uh yeah, Amy says colloidal silver causes that in high doses. Yeah,
55:19
I love taking coloid. I need to take I can't pronounce it.
55:22
I need to take some get rid of my cold. But yeah, we
55:28
I had no idea anything could turn your skin blue, John, I had
55:30
no idea. Yeah, I got some of that coloidal silver too. I
55:37
never take it, though, I took one dose of It's like I'll keep
55:40
the cold. Yeah, no, I don't mind it. I think it's
55:45
really good for you. I really do. I think it's I think it's
55:47
very good for you. So okay, So, but we did touch on
55:52
the blue people out of Kentucky. I know I only brought them up because
55:54
of the Smurfs. Now, I do believe that the Smurfs started off as
56:00
like a Belgian or a French. I can't remember. It's Belgian or French
56:04
cartoon or there were there were characters out of there, and there were humanoid
56:07
creatures that lived in mushroom shaped houses in the forest. I guess it was
56:14
back in nineteen fifty eight. I had no idea they were that old.
56:16
Okay, I thought this most there, they're old. Just kidding. I
56:30
thought they were created back when I was a kid. I mean, it's
56:32
not that much farther after I was born. I mean, what twenty years
56:37
so, but yeah, they were, you know. I just I feel
56:44
like it's just part of oral tradition. Things have been passed down about these
56:49
little people that live under mushrooms and stuff. I think there could be some
56:53
truth behind it, Okay. I also have some pictures here of the Cherokee
56:58
little people is well, if you guys are interested in seeing these, These
57:02
are just some of the artists pictures of them. I mean this, that's
57:06
that's kind of the size for size reference. This is a drawing, of
57:09
course, or a painting, but that's kind of for size reference. That's
57:13
what the little people look like right there of the Cherokee nights. And also
57:17
you said the chalk tall little people. I think it's it's it's just native
57:24
American lore. Okay, I have another picture here. That's how little there
57:30
are. Those Those are about the size of what smurfh would be. I
57:34
guess right, they're little people are see more proportion more like more human like
57:45
proportions for their size. They're not you know, that dwarf looking stocky.
57:52
They look, you know, just like miniature people, miniature humans. That's
57:58
right, they do, like the way the artist are rendering them. Any
58:04
yes, you're right, they just look like miniature humans. Whereas uh,
58:08
and and this one looks pretty terrifying. It looks like an ogre or something.
58:13
But these do they look like little little humans? Okay? And uh
58:16
and with the with the gnomes, well the gnomes do too. Actually,
58:22
uh, the the Tommy Knockers, they look more just like little humans in
58:24
my opinion, but I know the features with the nose and the chins and
58:32
then yeah, they're very there. They are kind of elfish. So I
58:38
mean, here's here's some more pictures. I mean, these are just drawings,
58:43
you know of them, but they do they do appear more elfish.
58:52
Yeah, those are some cool pictures. I don't know, they're they're pretty
58:57
they're pretty cool to look into you. And yeah, I mean I want
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Tommy Knockers there with me if I was in a cave and there was impending
59:06
doom, you know, something to warn to warn me to get out of
59:08
there. I think that it's I think they're very beneficial, most definitely.
59:15
And yeah, I wanted to get back to the Cherokee little people for here
59:21
for just a second. Let's see, let me pull some of these comments
59:25
up, y'all. Okay, I got more super stigrets. Thank y'all so
59:30
much. Amy, thank you so much for that super stigar. I appreciate
59:34
you so much. And I see Bigfoot Michigan rob in here, Thank you
59:37
too, Bigfoot Michigan Robymr You're awesome. Okay. So so then Nuna he
59:45
Okay, the little people of the Cherokee, they wore the Cherokee of impending
59:50
danger, okay, and protected them in times of need. John, Okay,
59:54
So that sounds a lot like the Tommy Tommy Knockers. But these are
59:59
the Cherokee people, okay, And so it's andy. They live subterranean as
1:00:04
well, in the trees, in the stone, behind the stone doors in
1:00:08
the side of the mountains. It's very similar to the Tommy Knockers, aren't
1:00:13
they. Yes, sounds a lot Michael super very much so, it says.
1:00:21
One of the most well known stories about the Nuanahet tells how they helped
1:00:23
the Cherokee before their moval. In eighteen thirty eight, the Cherokee were forced
1:00:27
to leave their homeland and resettle in Oklahoma. They came to a Cherokee village
1:00:32
and told the people to pack their belongings and prepare to leave in seven days
1:00:37
to come with to live with them in Nunaha, to come live with the
1:00:40
nuanaheet for a great catashphe was about to happen worse than anything had ever happened
1:00:45
before to the Cherokee. So they were like harbingers or whatever. Like.
1:00:51
They were telling them like, hey, you got something coming. You don't
1:00:53
know what it is, but just trust us, pack up and come with
1:00:57
us. After seven days, the nunahe returned for the Cherokee and led them
1:01:02
to a large stone deep in the mountains. As a Cherokee watched, the
1:01:07
stone rolled away, revealing an entrance to the mountain. Inside the mountain was
1:01:14
the most beautiful place a Cherokee had ever seen, and many families rushed into
1:01:17
the mountain without ever looking back. However, some of the people refused to
1:01:22
enter, and instead chose to stay outside and face faced whatever was about to
1:01:28
happen to them. The people who remained outside were later forced to leave their
1:01:31
homes and resettle in Oklahoma. The people who remained are the people who chose
1:01:37
to live in with the nunnahe escape this fate of their fellow Cherokee. According
1:01:43
to the story, it is from this group of Cherokee that the small number
1:01:45
of modern Cherokee who still live on their native lands is descended. Wow.
1:01:52
Interesting, I think that's a really interesting story. Okay, what's going on
1:02:00
underground? Y'all? I think that was my quote Journey to Truth podcast.
1:02:04
That's what my buddy Tyler put that up on for the thumbnail of the show
1:02:07
I did with them. We were talking about underground and Inner Earth and Argatha
1:02:12
and the deep underground military bases. And that's a good question, like,
1:02:16
what's going on underground? John? What is going underground and inside these mountains?
1:02:22
Who knows? Yeah, I've seen videos like of trains disappearing in the
1:02:25
mountains and things like that. It's there's something weird going on unless somebody dci
1:02:32
am, you know, messing with the graphics. I've seen some weird stuff
1:02:37
with the mountains. Are you talking about like holographic? Well, I don't
1:02:45
know that. I mean I've seen where these trucks just drive and they just
1:02:50
drive into a mountain. They're just gone. I've seen a train even so
1:02:54
I don't know. You know, it could be somebody's photoshopped or video shopped
1:03:00
or whatever they call, you know, altered it using CGI graphics or something.
1:03:06
But it looks it looks really weird and believable. Yeah. Wow,
1:03:13
there's there's so much going on in this world. We just don't know.
1:03:15
We don't know what this stuff is. So I don't get a whole lot
1:03:22
of reports of the little people, you know, we get reports of cryptids
1:03:27
as far as like bigfoot sightings and dog Man and uh, the dinosaurs and
1:03:32
the appellations. I mean, the appellations are so full of high strangeness and
1:03:37
and that's where those blue blue skin people are from, you know. And
1:03:43
yeah, the I'm trying to think what else the blue skin people? And
1:03:47
uh, I mean I can imagine things like the Smurfs living in places like
1:03:52
the appellations, I mean that's the all APAs to so yeah, yeah,
1:03:58
absolutely totally. Okay, Well, I was just trying. I was wanting
1:04:02
to kind of make that connection to the nunnahe and the Cherokee little people and
1:04:08
then being harbagers of I don't say bad news or whatever, but saviors and
1:04:14
like helping people. But also they helped during the Civil War as well,
1:04:20
if I can find that story here, they had helped during the Civil War.
1:04:25
Apparently the Union soldiers had marched down into North Carolina and they were planning
1:04:30
to burn I mean it was on I guess it was Sherman's march down through
1:04:32
the South, like burning everything in this path and destroying all the cities and
1:04:36
the towns and everything. They went to what is now known as Franklin,
1:04:41
North Carolina. The Union soldiers were there. They were ordered to burn the
1:04:45
town down, okay, but when they got there, they what they told
1:04:50
their commander was that the whole town was guarded by huge soldiers, like too
1:04:56
many soldiers where they they just didn't want to mess with it. It was
1:04:58
going to be too much, too much trouble. And it turns out the
1:05:02
Cherokee said that that wasn't actually the townspeople. Those were the little people there
1:05:08
that had I guess they could shape shift into human looking people, like the
1:05:13
size of humans. And they were there guarding the town because all the people
1:05:17
who were able able body people out of Franklin, that area that's known as
1:05:21
Franklin today, they had gone off to Word to fight, so there was
1:05:25
nobody there to defend their town. So it had to have been them and
1:05:30
that was the only reason their town was not destroyed by the Union soldiers.
1:05:33
So interesting history there where they they're protective, protective of the people, and
1:05:40
protective of the land. So yeah, so they're protecting the people. The
1:05:46
Leprecrons are protecting the gold. They're all protecting something. But yeah, cool.
1:05:56
I don't know, is there anything else? I don't know. I'm
1:05:58
trying to keep up with chat over here. I'm sorry, y'all. I
1:06:02
want to just say that this has been a really fun show so far.
1:06:05
And uh, John, do you have any final thoughts on the on the
1:06:09
little people and uh and the Tommy Knockers today, because this has been really
1:06:12
fun. I love talk. I don't know. I mean, this is
1:06:16
the subject I've never ever really researched much. I mean, I've heard a
1:06:21
lot of stories. Their impact on culture. You can't deny it. I
1:06:27
mean they're in everything Lord of the Rings, World of Warcraft game. As
1:06:32
you were saying, home Depot, you know, it might as well be
1:06:35
known depot. Yeah, tom Tommy, you know stuff it rhymes bigger,
1:06:48
you know, and that like a minor Tommy, Tommy knockers Tommy. Yes,
1:06:55
a new clothing line. There you go, that's what you ought to
1:06:58
do. Tom Oh my gosh, I'm giving jewelry. Oh my gosh,
1:07:03
don't give me. Don't give me any ideas. I'm already too busy right
1:07:08
now with all my with all my creative thoughts over here. But yeah,
1:07:12
that's a great idea, great idea. Interesting knowing it is. For the
1:07:15
most part, they're benevolent, you know. There's not really a lot of
1:07:21
bad stuff going on with them, except maybe the Leprecauns. I think the
1:07:26
Leprecauns can get a little testy canty, Yes, But have you ever had
1:07:31
the one really attacking people or being a menace of any kind. I don't
1:07:35
think I have. Uh, I mean I don't know. I mean,
1:07:43
we, you know, we get things like that we consider to be trickster
1:07:45
spirits in our base camps when we're out in the woods. But what is
1:07:49
a trickster spirit, you know? I mean, could it be elemental?
1:07:54
Could it be a no? Maybe, I don't know. I mean we
1:07:58
we like to think of them as like a a ghost or spirit kind of
1:08:00
a thing. Look at a look at an alien gray what of his craft?
1:08:06
And it's an orb and he's just one of these things, you know.
1:08:10
But since it's an orb that appeared in the sky, we assume it
1:08:14
came from the stars. It may be nothing more than one of these a
1:08:16
type of you know, who knows? That's right, who knows? FAP,
1:08:24
Welcome back. I hadn't seen you in a while, he said,
1:08:27
Ess, I ain't going to visit you in those small mountains outloaded from the
1:08:30
army with everything. You're too weird. I know, I'm weird. I
1:08:31
take that as a badge of honor. I love and I love all my
1:08:35
fellow weirdos here today with me. I am so weird. Yeah, that's
1:08:41
that's what keeps me safe, is that nobody wants to come around me because
1:08:44
I'm so weird. I like that. I'm just kidding. Oh yeah,
1:08:51
yeah, I mean who's the same. There could also be a lot of
1:08:57
misidentified activity doing out there. You know the two lights I told you about
1:09:03
on the mountain that went down and came back up. You know, originally
1:09:06
it's operate ATVs. My first thought when I saw that was UFO, because
1:09:12
that's just the way I think. And then you know, I talked to
1:09:15
the guy goes, no, that was probably the talk to all the little
1:09:19
people their lamps, and I'm like, what are you talking about? And
1:09:23
then I hear that, and I'm like, wow, see, I wouldn't
1:09:26
have considered that. So yeah, well, you know, I've seen things
1:09:30
that were looked like a lamp going through the woods before and tree. The
1:09:33
head of one of my teams, uh, when he was out I think
1:09:36
he was on one of the trails out and down here in the south somewhere
1:09:41
when he was younger. He actually woke up one night was seeing a light
1:09:45
through his tent and he poked to set out of his tent and there was
1:09:48
a lantern floating down the trail. Okay, and this is way deep in
1:09:54
the Appalachian mountains, and I think eventually it looked like a woman was carrying
1:09:59
a but it was like a lantern kind of a thing. Lanterns are very
1:10:03
common in ghost stories, okay, and in local legends and lore. There's
1:10:09
actually where I went to college, down at Georgia Southern University, Okay,
1:10:13
down in Statesboro, Georgia. There's a place called Ghost Road, And for
1:10:17
fun, we would go there on the weekends and uh or early week nights,
1:10:24
usually the weekends. Oh and and you drive down this desolate road in
1:10:28
the middle of nowhere, in between some fields, like it's a lot of
1:10:33
farm land out there, okay, and so, but you go down this
1:10:36
road and there's like a factory down the road. You can cure the home
1:10:40
from the factory once you get out there, but other than that, there's
1:10:42
no noise out there. And there's just one it looks like a little house
1:10:46
or a shack kind of in the road on the side of the road,
1:10:49
and a lamp like a street light, a street light, and underneath this
1:10:54
light you can see a soldier walking back and forth kind of patrolling the area
1:10:59
with a with his bayonet and his gun over one of his shoulders, and
1:11:02
he just walks back and forth underneath that street light all night. And that's
1:11:05
a ghost if you get enough courage. You can actually turn on your car
1:11:11
and drive right through him, and I've done it. Yeah. But another
1:11:15
story. I've not seen the lantern before, but some people that go it
1:11:18
looks like a lantern will start coming towards you from where that soldier is.
1:11:25
It looks like somebody is holding a lantern and it just starts floating towards you.
1:11:28
Because you park your car about one hundred yards away, about fifty yards
1:11:31
away, and you walk down the road towards it, and you don't usually
1:11:34
get closer to it than that unless you drive through it. But it's a
1:11:39
lantern. And I mean there have been times when I've been out in the
1:11:42
field and we've seen something that we thought might be a lantern, but it
1:11:45
turned out to be orbs which turn out to be spacecraft. Okay, So,
1:11:53
like I said, a lot of this could be misidentified, or maybe
1:11:56
things are morphing, who knows, who knows. It's all weird, weird
1:12:00
stuff. But wow, wow, I think we've covered Tommy Knockers in the
1:12:06
Nomes pretty well. John, Thank you so much for being here today.
1:12:12
You always do well. Thank you, thank you so much. Well.
1:12:16
I hope you have some good Thanksgiving plans for tomorrow along with everybody that's wa
1:12:21
washing to day. You have plans, John, Yeah, we're going down
1:12:27
to Texas. Can't make it to see all the kids. Going to go
1:12:30
see a couple of them tomorrow and then have another get together in a couple
1:12:34
of weeks, kind of combined Christmas and Thanksgiving. We got so many kids
1:12:40
between us, we you know, got our own tribe. Oh that's great,
1:12:45
that's awesome. No, man, Yeah, the more people the better
1:12:48
too. You know, we've got a lot, We've got a lot of
1:12:50
driving around and cooking Tomorrow. I got to cook in the morning, and
1:12:55
then we've got houses to go to with all the family all over Georgia.
1:12:58
So it's gonna be ay and man, I want to thank everybody for being
1:13:02
here today. This has been such a fun show. And I will not
1:13:08
be live tomorrow night. By the way, I usually have a show every
1:13:10
Thursday night, and Tomorrow night we're not going to have a live show.
1:13:14
I am going to be airing a very special show on the Georgia Werewolf.
1:13:19
Okay, so at the normal time at eight pm, my friends Angie and
1:13:25
Bryce Okay Bryce from Esoteric at Lena we did a show together a little while
1:13:30
back and we discussed The Georgia Werewolf Emily Isabella Burt. Okay, so I'm
1:13:35
going to be airing that show on my channel tomorrow night. And for all
1:13:40
of my Patreon members, I have all of my I've remote viewed. I
1:13:44
have remote viewed The Georgia Werewolf a little while back, and so I'm going
1:13:46
to put all that data up on Patreon today. It's already up there actually,
1:13:51
so you guys go check that out. You can see what I found
1:13:57
and I actually had communication with this girl. Okay, So that's all there
1:14:01
on Patreon, So you guys go check that out if you'd like to join
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my Patreon. That's the crypted Huntress over on Patreon. Okay, Well,
1:14:13
awesome, you guys have a wonderful Thanksgiving, John, have a great Thanksgiving.
1:14:20
Yeah, Happy Thanksgiving everybody. And I want to thank everybody for all
1:14:24
the superstickers and the super chat today. That was so sweet of y'all.
1:14:27
Thank you so much. I appreciate your support more than you'll ever know.
1:14:30
Okay, let's see. I guess I'll be back this weekend. It's spaced
1:14:35
out radio, so you guys come check me out over at spaced out.
1:14:39
I was gone last weekend. I had some personal stuff Sunday going on.
1:14:43
One of my best friends passed away and we had her memorial on Sunday and
1:14:47
uh and so and on Saturday, I had the Molina Bigfoot Festival. So
1:14:51
once again, thank you guys so much. I have a lot of new
1:14:54
subscribers right now. So if you're a new subscriber, thank you so much
1:14:57
for being here. And uh, and thank you for following me along on
1:15:00
this crazy wild ride. And we got more to come. Okay, John,
1:15:03
well, John, I hope you'll come back and uh, and here's
1:15:06
some more shows with me, and come and give me some of your some
1:15:11
of your input on some of these wild wild talking. Okay, awesome.
1:15:16
All right, y'all have a wonderful Danksgiving. Don't eat too much turkey tomorrow.
1:15:20
It makes you tired. Okay, just kidding. Eat as much turkey
1:15:24
as you want. Y'all, have a great turkey day, and I'll see
1:15:27
y'all this weekend. All right, y'all have if I can find these buttons,
1:15:32
I can't find my buttons. Okay, you have a great day.
1:15:35
I'll see y'all this weekend. Bye. Y'all. Bye bye Finela be many
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