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The Haunting True Story of The Sallie House (FULL PARANORMAL HORROR DOCUMENTARY) · History Dark

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: I got just a glimpse of that upper window of
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: the face of a little girl.
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know who lives here.
• 0:14
  Speaker 3: It's a boy, right?
• 0:15
  Speaker 4: But I saw the face of a little girl.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: In that window just now.
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: The exact date appears to be lost to time. But
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: at some point in the mid-1800s, in the dead of night, Dr.
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: Charles Finney, a medical practitioner, living in Atchison, Kansas, heard
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: a loud knock on his door. He cautiously opened it
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  Speaker 2: to find a woman, clearly distressed and holding her six-year-old
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  Speaker 2: daughter in her arms. The young girl was in an
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: incredible amount of pain.
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  Speaker 1: Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Finney realized that the girl's appendix was about to rupture
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  Speaker 2: and quickly took her to his operating room that was
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: located in the basement of his home. Unfortunately, in his
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: haste to help the girl, he incorrectly administered the wrong
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  Speaker 2: amount of anaesthetic. The girl died on his operating table,
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  Speaker 2: screaming in pain as he cut into her. This is
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: the widely spread origin story of one of the most
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: infamous haunted houses in all of America, the Sally House.
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  Speaker 2: But while it makes for a creepy tale, it most
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: likely isn't true. Or at least there's no evidence that
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: it's true. There are some elements that are, though. Charles
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  Speaker 2: Finney was a medical practitioner that lived in the house.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, the house was built some years before the
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  Speaker 2: story is said to take place. By a MC Finney.
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  Speaker 2: The house remained in the possession of the Finney family
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  Speaker 2: for years. And a number of them passed away within
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  Speaker 2: its walls. But there are no records that suggest a
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  Speaker 2: small girl named Sally was ever treated there. Or lived there.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe... These encounters with spirits that so many people
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  Speaker 2: claim to experience aren't the lost souls of the dead
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  Speaker 2: at all. Maybe they are manifestations of something else. In
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  Speaker 2: this episode of the Tape Library, we're going to be
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  Speaker 2: visiting the Sally House and going over the terrifying experiences
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  Speaker 2: of the Pickman family and their shocking violent encounters with
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: something that appeared to be sharing their home with them.
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  Speaker 2: In the early 90s, Tony and Deborah Pickman moved into
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  Speaker 2: 508 North 2nd Street. What followed was one of the
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: most well-documented hauntings of all time. A big part of
• 2:52
  Speaker 2: this was due to the TV series Sightings, who carried
• 2:56
  Speaker 2: out numerous investigations into what they referred to as the
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: Heartland Ghost. Because of this, there are visual examples of
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  Speaker 2: many of the phenomena the family encountered during their two
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  Speaker 2: years living in the Sally House. I'll link to the
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  Speaker 2: sightings episode in the description if you want to watch
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  Speaker 2: these clips in full. I'm going to go over some
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  Speaker 2: of the most notable incidents in Deborah and Tony's time
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  Speaker 2: in the home. There are so many encounters they describe.
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  Speaker 2: I strongly recommend delving into some interviews with the couple
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  Speaker 2: if you want to learn even more. But here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Deborah was from Buffalo originally. She's always had an interest
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  Speaker 2: in the paranormal, but never experienced anything personally in her
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  Speaker 2: younger years. The two met in Kansas and bought the
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  Speaker 2: house in Atchison together when they were expecting their first child.
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  Speaker 2: Tony did not have any interest in the paranormal, though
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  Speaker 2: he was raised as a Catholic. It all started fairly innocently.
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  Speaker 2: Everything seemed fine when they moved in, But within a
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: month of being in the property, they started to hear
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  Speaker 2: odd noises. Lights would flicker or dim. There were strange occurrences,
• 4:11
  Speaker 2: but nothing jumped out of them as specifically paranormal. Lights
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  Speaker 2: would dim while they were sat there watching TV multiple
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  Speaker 2: times a night. The chains on their ceiling fans would spin,
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  Speaker 2: even when the fan wasn't on, or it would look
• 4:24
  Speaker 2: like someone was almost flicking them. Again, nothing that they
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  Speaker 2: felt couldn't be explained as the wind or electrical issues.
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  Speaker 2: They contacted the landlord, but could never find any electrical
• 4:36
  Speaker 2: problems in the house. The baby would wake up often
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  Speaker 2: in the night. Every time he'd fall asleep in his nursery,
• 4:45
  Speaker 2: he'd almost immediately wake up again crying. Obviously not an
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: uncommon thing for a young child, but the lack of
• 4:53
  Speaker 2: sleep quickly started to become a drain on the Pickmans.
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  Speaker 2: Deborah's sister came to visit to help with the sleeping pattern.
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  Speaker 2: She took the baby downstairs and the baby slept through
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  Speaker 2: the night with no issues. The sleep disruptions only seemed
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  Speaker 2: to happen when the baby was alone in the nursery.
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  Speaker 2: One night Tony walked past the nursery and noticed the
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: light was on, which was strange as the couple had
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: only just gotten home. sat in the center of the
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  Speaker 2: floor where three of their babies stuffed animals. Position sat
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  Speaker 2: up and in a circle. Tony went back down to
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  Speaker 2: talk to Deborah and her sister, who said they hadn't
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: moved any toys. So they went back up and looked
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  Speaker 2: for any explanation, but couldn't find anything. They carefully put
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  Speaker 2: the toys back on the shelves, turned the lights out,
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  Speaker 2: and went back downstairs. By the time they'd reached the bottom,
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  Speaker 2: they had heard the lights flick back on, they walked
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  Speaker 2: back up. The teddy bears were back on the floor
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  Speaker 2: with the lights on. This was the first time that
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: something had happened in the house that the couple could
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  Speaker 2: not explain. Again, they turned out the lights and went
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  Speaker 2: back down. This time the light didn't come back on.
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  Speaker 2: When Debra went back upstairs 15 minutes later, the teddy
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  Speaker 2: bears were on the floor again. in the darkened nursery.
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  Speaker 2: They all stayed in the master bedroom together that night,
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  Speaker 2: with the family dog standing guard and the door tightly closed.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of their dog, it did not like entering the
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  Speaker 2: nursery and was often found standing in the doorway, barking
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  Speaker 2: at seemingly nothing. From this point on, things started to escalate.
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  Speaker 2: Tony would hear footsteps running up and down the stairs
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  Speaker 2: at night. This happened often, and he was sure it
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  Speaker 2: was just their cats running around. One night after being
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: kept awake by the running, he went to the stairs
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  Speaker 2: to catch the cats and stop them. But they weren't there.
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  Speaker 2: Tony looked down the dark stairwell and heard the running
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  Speaker 2: quickly approaching him. He then described what he felt was
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: like a cold wind run through his body. And then
• 7:21
  Speaker 2: the unmistakable laughter of children. One day Tony was lying
• 7:28
  Speaker 2: there having an afternoon nap, when suddenly he sat up,
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: looked Deborah in the eye and said, He's mine. And
• 7:38
  Speaker 2: then laid back down straight away. This happened early in
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  Speaker 2: the haunting, and at the time Deborah assumed Tony was
• 7:45
  Speaker 2: having some sort of dream. Another morning the family photos
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  Speaker 2: that were on the walls down the stairs were found
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  Speaker 2: placed upside down on the wall, with the glass cracked
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  Speaker 2: on one of them. Candles would randomly be melted. In
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: one case the candle hadn't even been unwrapped. It was
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  Speaker 2: still coated in what was now a melted plastic wrapper.
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  Speaker 2: On the candle they saw what appeared to be a
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  Speaker 2: small handprint in the wax. What was interesting was that
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  Speaker 2: the wick was not burned. It was just as if
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  Speaker 2: something hot had been pressed against the wax of the candle.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't long before the couple started to reach out
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  Speaker 2: for help, which ultimately led to the crew at sightings
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  Speaker 2: visiting the property. While they appeared to be sceptical about
• 8:35
  Speaker 2: the whole thing to begin with, the team became so
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  Speaker 2: fascinated by the family stories and captured such compelling evidence
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  Speaker 2: that they would return time after time to get updates
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  Speaker 2: on the case. Initially, during the sighting's investigations, the family's
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  Speaker 2: identity was kept hidden, particularly Tony's, who didn't want anyone
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  Speaker 2: to know it was him who was experiencing this. It
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: was only after numerous investigations by the team that they
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  Speaker 2: were willing to disclose their identity. There would be random
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: small isolated fires that would appear throughout the house, like
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  Speaker 2: sudden shots of flames that would appear and disappear in
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  Speaker 2: an instance. One time during a family party, a doll
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  Speaker 2: was found on the stairs in flames. The way it
• 9:23
  Speaker 2: had been burned, it appeared that the fire only affected
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  Speaker 2: specific areas of the doll, almost like the flame had
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: come from the inside to the out. The damage done
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  Speaker 2: to the Pickman's belongings through these fires were really bizarre.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't seeing uncontrollable fire. The damage appeared to be
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  Speaker 2: extremely targeted, and somehow only able to damage specific parts
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  Speaker 2: of an object. This phenomenon was even captured by the
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  Speaker 2: sightings team during their investigations. Tony became convinced that whatever
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  Speaker 2: was doing this could potentially create a fire that if
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  Speaker 2: unnoticed could burn down the house or even more unsettling
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  Speaker 2: that if whatever this was that was waking up their
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  Speaker 2: baby could set the cot on fire. The family that
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  Speaker 2: lived there before the Pickmans also reported unexplainable fires in
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  Speaker 2: the home including seeing the window frame of their nursery
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  Speaker 2: on fire. Deborah became convinced they were dealing with the
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  Speaker 2: spirit of a little girl who was desperately trying to
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  Speaker 2: get their attention. A suggestion that was backed up by
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  Speaker 2: the mediums the sightings team brought, who claimed they could
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  Speaker 2: see a little girl.
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  Speaker 4: There's a little girl that's standing right there.
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  Speaker 2: Right at the top of the stairs.
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  Speaker 3: Hello?
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  Speaker 1: Hello?
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  Speaker 3: Look, look. Hello?
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  Speaker 2: Can you speak to me?
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  Speaker 1: Sally? Is that your name, Sally?
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  Speaker 3: Sally?
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: The family and our sightings investigative team were amazed that
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  Speaker 4: Peter James had correctly named the entity.
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  Speaker 2: They brought in a psychic to the home, who said
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  Speaker 2: that there was in fact the spirit of a little
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  Speaker 2: girl in the house, and that she just wanted to
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  Speaker 2: be part of the family. More specifically, she said she
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  Speaker 2: wanted to protect the Pickmans' baby son. If you've been
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  Speaker 2: listening to the tape library for a while, you might
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  Speaker 2: notice the unsettling similarity to another famous paranormal case we've
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  Speaker 2: covered here. This is almost exactly what the entity wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do in the Annabelle case. It wanted permission to
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  Speaker 2: be part of their lives. Deborah felt comforted by this
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  Speaker 2: and felt the urge to nurture the spirit that would
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  Speaker 2: later become known as Sally. But for Tony, something about
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  Speaker 2: it didn't feel right to him. He felt uneasy in
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  Speaker 2: his own home. But it seemed Sally was much more
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  Speaker 2: interested in getting Tony's attention and not in a positive way.
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  Speaker 2: One night, Deborah came out of the shower to find
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  Speaker 2: Tony complaining. She bit me. Sure enough, on Tony's leg
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  Speaker 2: was a bite mark. This was the first incident of
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  Speaker 2: whatever was in that house causing physical harm towards Tony.
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  Speaker 2: But it certainly wouldn't be the last. It wasn't long
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  Speaker 2: after this that the scratches would start. Tony would often
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: find deep red scratch marks on his body. Some would bleed.
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  Speaker 2: Others would be accompanied by sharp pain. Some would appear
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  Speaker 2: without any pain at all. Whatever was in their home
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  Speaker 2: had certainly appeared to take a disliking to Tony Pickman.
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  Speaker 2: Tony came home from his night shift one morning and
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  Speaker 2: got a glass of juice from the kitchen. He turned
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  Speaker 2: around to see a little girl standing at the entrance
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  Speaker 2: to the basement door. She wore what he described as
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: an old white outfit. The sort of thing a little
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  Speaker 2: girl might have worn to church in the previous century.
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  Speaker 2: She stared at him. She looked terrified. Tony froze. It
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  Speaker 2: was only the realisation that he could partially see through
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  Speaker 2: her that snapped Tony out of his almost trance-like state.
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  Speaker 2: He dropped his glass and ran upstairs to find Deborah.
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  Speaker 2: Tony later drew an image of the girl. Interestingly, a
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  Speaker 2: previous resident of the Sally house claimed they had an
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  Speaker 2: imaginary friend while living in the house as a child.
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  Speaker 2: When they saw Tony's picture, they immediately recognised the girl
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  Speaker 2: as their imaginary friend. She called her Sally. Other times,
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  Speaker 2: Tony saw what he thought was Deborah walking past him
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  Speaker 2: in the hall. It looked exactly like her. except she
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: appeared to be wearing an old housemaid's outfit with her
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: hair in a bun. But Tony is adamant that whoever
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: this was had Deborah's face. He'd follow her into a room,
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  Speaker 2: only for the apparition to disappear. As we've already discussed,
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  Speaker 2: there is no evidence to suggest that there was a
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  Speaker 2: child named Sally who died in that house. Tony saw
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  Speaker 2: more than one apparition in this house. Could whatever is
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: residing in that house be taken on the form of others?
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  Speaker 2: A small child. Tony's loved ones. To lower their guard.
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  Speaker 2: To seem innocent. Harmless. But deep down its intentions were
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: much more nefarious. The possibility of this is potentially backed
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: up by the next encounter Tony had. Tony was now
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: hearing scratching in the walls when he laid in bed.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: He said it often sounded like six or seven people
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  Speaker 2: were inside the walls, whispering, but he could never make
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: out what was being said. One night he said he
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: was laying in bed, and the foot of the bed
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: was a window. He saw what looked like dust particles
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: blowing past the window, but gradually the particles grew darker
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  Speaker 2: and larger It drifted towards the bed and slowly took
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: the form of what appeared to be a woman. An
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: older lady, all dressed in black. She floated towards Tony.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: The drawers on either side of the bed were slamming
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  Speaker 2: open and shut. The waterbed that Tony was laying on
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  Speaker 2: was flopping around like crazy. He couldn't scream. The woman
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: got closer and closer. Her arm shot out and reached
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: for Tony's throat. The woman yells, I'm gonna, as she
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: reaches for his neck. Then suddenly Tony saw what looked
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: like a giant black bird. The woman was gone. All
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  Speaker 2: the furniture stopped rocking instantly. Tony started screaming for Deborah,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: desperately trying and failing to open the door. Deborah was
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: across the hall with the baby. She didn't hear a
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: thing except for Tony yelling. A case of sleep paralysis?
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  Speaker 2: As an individual incident, it certainly seems to be the case.
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  Speaker 2: But when combined with all the other phenomena taking place
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: in the house, it becomes a little harder to discount.
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  Speaker 2: Tony was beginning to fear for his sanity. This wasn't
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  Speaker 2: the only nighttime visit of a shape-shifting creature that Tony
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: would experience. Tony also saw something that appeared to be
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: the little girl. approaching his bed again in the dead
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  Speaker 2: of night. The girl reached out for him a number
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  Speaker 2: of times, but Tony kept resisting. Suddenly the girl let
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: out what sounded like a growl. Then it began to
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: transform into something else. Something on all fours. Hunched over.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: With worms hanging off its melted flesh. Each time the
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: sightings crew would come to visit, the phenomena Tony was
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: experiencing would get worse. The scratches, the visions, the sounds.
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  Speaker 2: Each visit from the crew would make things worse for Tony.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: The crew would check Tony for scratches any time he
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: was going to be left alone, like if he went
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: to the bathroom, just to make sure he wasn't doing
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  Speaker 2: them to himself. Many members of the sightings team were
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: sceptical of the whole thing, but then saw scratches appearing
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  Speaker 2: on Tony right before their eyes.
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  Speaker 4: New welts began to form on Jeff's stomach. Then, I
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: was shocked to see mysterious welts forming on his forehead.
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  Speaker 2: The initials MC were scratched onto Tony's body on camera,
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  Speaker 2: while the sighting's crew were filming.
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  Speaker 4: We're in control here, so don't... MC!
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  Speaker 2: A strange coincidence, since the house itself was built... By
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: a Michael C.
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  Speaker 1: Finney.
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  Speaker 2: They apparently have a 9 minute clip. Of a scratch
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  Speaker 2: slowly appearing. On Tony's torso. Just as a warning before
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: we get into the next section. There are some descriptions
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  Speaker 2: of violent impulses. And more specifically animal cruelty. If you
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  Speaker 2: want to skip this part. Then please do so. Tony
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: said he turned into a different person. He would hear
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: voices saying horrible things. Such as telling him to kill Deborah.
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  Speaker 2: In the final months, when Deborah would walk past him,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: he'd be overcome with an intense urge to harm her
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  Speaker 2: in some way. An urge to get her out of
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: the way, as he said. If he left the house,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: he felt fine. A dark anger was overtaking him in
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: this house. He would have vivid dreams of cutting her
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: throat with a butcher's knife when she would come home
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  Speaker 2: from work. One morning, he woke up full of hateful thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: He went into the kitchen, took out a butcher's knife,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: saw their pet cat in the kitchen, and blacked out
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: later that day he was at his parents house he
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: returned back to the family home to find the cat
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  Speaker 2: stabbed with a knife and pinned to the kitchen counter
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  Speaker 2: Tony says he has no memory of harming the cat
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  Speaker 2: but is sure he must have done it a fact
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  Speaker 2: that still haunts him to this day This, alongside his
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: dark thoughts towards Deborah, are something that he's obviously deeply
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: ashamed of, that he says he speaks about it, to
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: make people aware just how disturbing hauntings like this can be.
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  Speaker 2: There was a darkness in their home, where literally the
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: result of a ghost was something more psychological that was
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: transforming Tony into someone he didn't recognise. Tony did seek
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: out psychological help, But nothing clinical appeared to be wrong
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: with him. The only way he could be free of
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: these violent impulses was to get out of this house.
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  Speaker 1: Probably every one of your television viewers ask is, why
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  Speaker 1: do you stay here? Why don't you just get out?
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  Speaker 1: What holds you there?
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  Speaker 3: Curiosity.
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  Speaker 1: Curiosity. There needs to be more data so that we
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: can know what exactly this is, what causes it. Why
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: do these things happen to certain people, certain places, certain times?
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  Speaker 2: Tony tried to talk to Deborah about how bad things
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: were getting, but she was so excited and fascinated about
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: the entire thing. She wasn't experiencing any of the negative
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: aspects of the haunting. She says that her reactions now
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: don't make any sense to her, but at the time
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: she was so wrapped up in the entire thing that
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: she was almost blind to the effects it was having
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: on her husband. She was completely naive to the very
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: real danger it appears she was in. One day, Tony
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: was thrown into the rungs at the top of the stairs,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: breaking several of them, as if something was attempting to
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: throw him over the banister and down the stairs. For
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: some reason, this was the incident that made Deborah realize
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: that things weren't right and they needed to leave. Within
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: three weeks, they were out of the house. People would
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: ask them how they stayed so long, but they said
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: they would experience this phenomena, and then it would stop.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Months would go past without anything happening. They'd begin to
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: doubt themselves, thinking maybe it was all in their heads,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: or whatever was there had left. And then it would
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: start up again. Little waves of paranormal activity, that gradually
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  Speaker 2: became more and more dark and violent. The basement is
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: said to be a focal point of something within the
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Sally House. There is an area in the back where
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  Speaker 2: a number of bricks have been removed, leaving a dark hole.
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  Speaker 2: Tony said he never felt any urge to go down
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  Speaker 2: into the basement and would avoid it as much as possible.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: After the Pickmans left, a woman moved into the Sally
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: House After some time, the landlord was called, and she
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: had apparently been trashing the house. The landlord evicted the woman.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: After that, he visited the property, and discovered in the
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: basement a number of strange markings and names on the walls.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: In the middle of the floor, the woman had painted
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: a pentagram. Apparently the woman was very solitary, had few
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  Speaker 2: belongings in the house, and it appears was primarily using
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  Speaker 2: the property. for whatever ritual she was attempting to conduct.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Many paranormal researchers and TV shows have investigated the Sally House,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: including the popular show Ghost Adventures, in which the host
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: brought Deborah and Tony Pickman back with them to the house.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Tony claimed that he had heard so many EVPs people
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: had recorded over the years of the voices of little
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  Speaker 2: children that he began to feel guilty, like maybe there
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: wasn't something demonic in this house. Maybe they're just lost
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: children trying to communicate. This led to him returning to
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: the home. Yet again, Tony experienced a whole host of
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: violent interactions. With welts appearing on his neck, other guests
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: experienced scratches and witnessed odd phenomena. Tony isn't alone here.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Many who have visited the Sally House report no matter
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: how terrifying their experiences might be inside its walls, A
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: draw to come back. Just something in the back of
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: their minds that tells them they need to return. But
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: for what reason? There are countless examples of video, photographic
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: and audio evidence from the Sally House. The Sally House
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: has become one of the major tourist destinations for ghost
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: hunters all across the world. And because of this, there
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: are so many investigations that have taken place within the property.
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  Speaker 2: What is remarkable is is that so many others appear
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  Speaker 2: to have had experiences that back up some of what
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  Speaker 2: the Pickmans have been talking about. I'm going to leave
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  Speaker 2: you with one specific piece of evidence that was recorded
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: during an investigation into the Sally House. I try not
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: to talk about my own personal beliefs on this channel,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: but I like to see myself as an optimistic sceptic.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: I have no evidence for the existence of ghosts or
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: anything paranormal, but part of me really hopes it's true. Additionally,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: this is a horror channel. I will never knowingly include
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: any false information in the video, but I do take
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: things as much as I can at face value, because
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: I'm telling the stories in the way they were originally reported.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: As far as evidence of the supernatural goes, I have
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: never heard or seen anything that made me go beyond a, hmm,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: that's strange. EVPs in particular. While I've heard some really
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: creepy ones, Part of me always thinks this could be
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: easily faked, or could just be a strange sound happening
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: in the distance from a very mundane source. I heard
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: this clip I'm about to play you two years ago,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: and it has never left my mind. The moment I
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: heard it, I froze in my seat, re-listened to it,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: and then played it to anyone I knew who would
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: be interested. The podcast Astonishing Legends carried out an investigation
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: into the Sally House back in 2018 Now it's worth
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: pointing out this podcast, if you're not familiar, generally doesn't
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: do this sort of in-person investigating. They do deep dives
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: into all sorts of unexplained stories and try to prove
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: or disprove it as best they can in their usually
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: grounded and level-headed manner. They are not a ghost hunting show,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: nor do they overly dramatize their stories. I strongly recommend
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: their series on the Sally House if you are interested.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: It goes for hours, covering the history, interviews with the
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Pickmans and others involved in the house, as well as
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: breaking down their own investigation and even attempting to debunk
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: the evidence they themselves collected. On July 20th, 2018, they
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: placed an audio recorder, a Panasonic RRDR60, in the nursery
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: room at the Sally house. The recorder is set up
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: so it only records when it hears a noise. They
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: placed the recorder in the room, quietly left, and then
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: returned a few moments later. No audio effects have been
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: added to this file beyond an increase in volume. Many
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: who have listened to this recording have experienced traumatic sensations.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: So please do so at your own risk.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Okay, file 10, I'm putting this down. I'm gonna leave
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: this here for about five minutes.
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  Speaker 4: If there's anything you wanna say, any message you would
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: like to share with the.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: World, leave it on this recorder. And we will carry it.
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  Speaker 2: Leaving now, closing the door.
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  Speaker 3: No one else is in this room at this time.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you. Coming back into the room. Gonna
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  Speaker 3: take the recorder. Thank you for your time. time.
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  Speaker 2: Wishing you peace.