December 6, 2025 • 47 mins
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Joshua Warren. I am Joshua Pee Warren. At each week
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at home, and a lot more. This is my first
new recording of the year twenty twenty three. This is
January and last Christmas Day, December twenty fifth of twenty
twenty two. As Lauren and I were sitting at home
enjoying the festivities, talking about peace on earth and goodwill
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towards all, and love and generosity and all these wonderful
things somebody at the same time was robbing my storage unit.
Talk about some granchy stuff. I mean, isn't that. It's
so sad. I'm going to tell you what was stolen.
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But the thing is, there's some really weird stuff here
surrounding this whole story, and so I will get into that.
And you know, I sent out a newsletter recently and
I said, you know, I got some bad news I'll
tell you about. So look, I'm fine, Lauren's fine, everybody's okay.
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But it's just really unfortunate when something like this happens
on Christmas Day. So we're going to dig into all
of that and a lot more. But first, most of
my holiday break, because you know, I took off quite
quite a while for the holidays, had a lot of
catching up to do here at my new house in
Las Vegas. Most of my holiday experience was wonderful, and
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I want to tell you first about some of the
great things that happened before I get to that. Though,
I just made a note of this. This is pretty random,
but I wanted to mention this before I forgot. Of course,
the latter part of twenty twenty two was taken up
in large part by media coverage of the terrible murder
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of these four college students in Idaho who were all
stabbed to death in the middle of the night. And
I just recently realized that that murder spree took place
on November the thirteenth, and instantly I was like, that's
a familiar date, because of course I am from Asheville,
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North Carolina. That's where I was born and raised, and
November the thirteenth is the anniversary of Asheville's largest mass
murder killing spree, the Will Harris murders, and those happened
in nineteen oh six. So now there are in my
world two famous kind of murder sprees that happened on
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November the thirteenth. So maybe that's another one of those
bad luck dates that we have to start paying attention
to from here on out. So again, kind of random,
but thought provoking nonetheless. Okay, So before I get into
this weird story about what happened to me on Christmas,
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and I trust me, I know a lot of you
had a rough time this past holiday season, I'm going
to talk about all that as well. But first I'll
tell you about some of the good things and really
interesting things that happened to me, producer Tom dan Heiser.
He came here to Las Vegas and he invited me
to go see a John Fogerty concert with him at
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the Win and he had these primo seats. Now, of course,
John Fogerty he created basically, you know, Credence Clearwater Revival CCW,
and he more or less wrote and performed all those
famous songs. And he is I think seventy seven years old, yeah,
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seventy seven, and he still gets up on stage and
dances and sings and plays like you wouldn't believe. It's
just like, you know, you never I couldn't get up
there and perform like this guy does. And he's a
lot older than I am. And Tom and I had
such a blast because one of the things that is
impressive is that you don't realize it until you sit
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there and you listen to this guy perform for you know,
an hour and forty five minutes. You don't realize like
every single one of his songs was a hit, you
know them all. I don't even know how many hits
the guy had, and that it's just kind of mind
boggling to sit there and have this guy packed you know,
two hours with hits and he could have kept going.
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I'm sure, so what a talented songwriter. But I do
want to mention this because sometimes, since I live here
at Vegas, when I get to go see people in person,
they'll tell a story about their lives that stands out
in my mind, and I like to pass those stories
along to you. I did that recently with Wayne Newton,
and so John Fogerty at one point he was standing
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there on stage and he was pausing for a moment
and he said, you know, I played Woodstock. You know,
he was at Woodstock, and he was a lot of
big events in the nineteen sixties. And as a matter
of fact, he said much Woodstock was just so muddy
and rainy that you know, he wrote one of his
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songs about the wind will the rain end. I can't
remember what the song is called. He wrote a number
of songs about rain. But anyway, so he said that
when he was there on stage at Woodstock, you know,
he was playing this favorite guitar of his, and he
used this guitar all over the country, if not the world,
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for many many years in his performances. And he said,
one day he goes he didn't get into details, but
he goes, I met this like little boy who wanted
to be a rock star, and he was trying to
learn guitar and he didn't have a guitar. And he goes,
I don't know. I got to overcome, and he said,
I gave this kid my prize guitar. You know, I
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just gifted it him. And he didn't say at that time.
John Fogerty did not say if he was in the
right state of mind, but he certainly said that he
regretted it. The next day he missed that guitar. Right,
the guitar he played at Woodstock he gave to some
random kid. Now, I bet you think the end of
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this story is going to be like and that kid
became Eddie Venner, right, you know that would be a
but no, it doesn't end like that at all. As
a matter of fact, this kid apparently did nothing with
this guitar and it was just lost, and so he always, yeah,
he was always like missing this guitar. And then a
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few years ago, on Christmas morning, he goes over to
the tree at his house and there's a big box
there and he opens it and guess what it's this guitar.
His wife. His wife knew how much he loved that guitar,
and she'd spent all this time like tracking that thing
down and bringing it back into his life. And he
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said it was like the best Christmas present ever. And
he says, and this is that guitar, and he lifts
it up and he's holding that guitar and then he
starts playing songs on it. So I mean, like, I
love these kind of like strange stories about synchronicity and
the twist and turns the life takes and how things
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like that can come back to you. So you know,
it was just it was an awesome time. And Tom
and I just had a wonderful evening in Las Vegas.
And yeah, thank you so much, Tom for inviting me
to do that. And let me just tell you, if
you've never been to a John Fogerty concert, you get
a chance to do it, you should do it. But
you're not gonna hear anything in your head for like
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the next week or two except John Fogerty songs. It
drives you crazy. So that was awesome. Speaking of music,
you know I've talked I had been calling him Jim
Klanna the composer, but it's Jim Cologna. He's from Italian descent.
Jim Colonna. He never corrected me. That's what a nice
guy he is. Jim Colonna. He is the guy who
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was so inspired by the work that I've done over
the years that he composed this work of music called
Joshua's Shop of Miracles and Curiosities, and it was performed
recently near Washington, d C. And it's a fantastic piece
of music. I played part of it for you on
this show not too long ago. And after all these
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years of corresponding with Jim, I'd never gotten to meet
him in person. He was in Las Vegas, and so
Laurnie and I got together with him for an evening,
and boy to we hit it off as soon as
we sat down and started to talk. Well, you know,
we embraced as soon as we met each other, and
then it was just like we were old friends. We'd
known each other forever. He's such a warm and just
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like cheerful and just just a cool, interesting, funny just
just a great person. But like he's one of those
guys that I would want to hang out with on
a regular basis if he lived close to me, and
so that was fantastic. We got to just spend hours,
you know, just talking about everything under the sun, exactly
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as if we were just old buddies. And if you
have not gotten a chance to hear this piece of
music that he composed, go to his website, Jim Cologne,
Jim Coloonna, Jim Colonna, Jim Coloonna Cologne, It's a time,
Jim Cologna. It's it's j I M COO l o
n n A j I M c O l o
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n a dot com and there's a section called music
for Orchestra and right now if you click there for free,
you can just listen to his piece he composed called
Joshua's Shop of Miracles and Curiosities. And then also we
went to Murray the Magician's party at his house. It
was awesome. He's got a beautiful, big, beautiful new house
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and property, and hundreds of people were there and he
was so generous and just paid for amy. It was
like open bar catering of everything. You can imagine. I
had a great, great time. In fact, when I come
back from this break, I want to tell you about
a trip that we took to a place I'd never
been to before, and then something really creepy that I
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found out about that I'm leading up, of course, to
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back to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
Coasta m Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, the Wizard
of Weird, Joshua P. Warren, beaming into your wormhole brain
from my studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where
every day is golden and every night is silver. Before
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I continue, I did look it up during the break,
and the John Fogerty song that I was referring to
is called Who'll Stop the Rain? And I know if
I leave stuff like that hanging, it's gonna drive some
of you insane. Who Stop the Rain? But he made
another song or two about rain, But that was the
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one that he said he wrote when he got back
to his motel room after playing Woodstock. But anyway, let
me tell you about this trip that I took that
turned out to lead me down an interesting road of thought. So,
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being from the East Coast, growing up in the mountains
of western North Carolina, I was always used to Christmas
feeling very Christmasy. You've got trees everywhere and snowfall and
all kinds of kind of like European decorations everywhere seems like,
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you know, the Old Country. But out here in the
desert when you live in Las Vegas, no matter what
they do to decorate, it just never quite fills Christmas
y out here. And for one thing, you're almost certainly
not going to get any snow. But yeah, the desert.
And it's ironic because you know, well, the whole Christmas
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story is based in the Middle East, so so the
desert is really a more Christmasy and like an authentic
Christmas environment. Then what we think of is this whole
like European Bavarian Saint Nicholas kind of you know. But anyway, look,
it's just about what you are exposed to when you
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grow up. But so since we've lived here in Vegas
for several years, we we always, uh, you know, if
we don't travel somewhere else, if we kind of stick
around here, we're like that just doesn't quite feel you know,
like Christmas time. And so I was wondering about, like,
what would a relatively easy road trip be that we
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could take to go somewhere that's a little more Christmas set.
And if you drive a few hours from here into California,
then you eventually can wind your way up this huge
mountainous region that's like over seven thousand feet in elevation
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to a place called Big Bear Lake. And Big Bear
Lake is named after the grizzly bears that used to
live there. There are no more wild grizzlies in California.
I consider that a good thing, but you know, some
people disagree. Nonetheless, it's really weird because you know, to
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get there, and it takes you if you're going to
stop and get gas and eat. You know, it's like
a four hour drive from Las Vegas the Big Bear Lake.
And I did a lot of research on it, and
it turns out that it was exactly like I was expecting,
because you go through the Majave Desert and it's like
desert up until like the last forty five minutes, and
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all of a sudden, there's this dramatic change where you
just drive up this big, long, super steep winding road
up and all of a sudden, there's there are forests
everywhere and streams and there's the lake. And then finally
you get to the village and Big Bear Lake, and
it looks like a little village in a snow globe,
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and everything is all like rustic hunting lodge style and old,
like old old European and Bavarian, and it looks like
a little Christmas town. I used to tell people when
I first found it, it looks like a town in a
Hallmark movie. And then I got there and I realized, like, oh,
they actually do shoot Hallmark movies in this town. And
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it gets a ton of snowfall. It's very, very isolated.
So it really was exactly what I was looking for
in terms of this is the most Christmas y place
that you're going to get to that's within a reasonable
period of driving from Las Vegas to my knowledge, Big
Bear Lake, California. And I'll tell you a little bit
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more about the lake in a minute. So we ended
up going there, had a great Christmas, like a couple
of days. It's always spent, but you know, we'd never
been there before. It's really small. We walked everywhere we went,
and we hit up all the shops and the bars,
and I was exposed to cookie dough whiskey, which actually
is really really good. But I think I drank a
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little too much of it, and then also it's just
like lots of just quirky, little little themed gift shops.
It was cool. It was really cool, but it was
also quite cold. It was thirteen degrees while we were there,
which I know some of you listening are like, ah,
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but that's always gonna happen because some of you live
where it's like negative thirty fahrenheit. And if you do that,
you're just I guess the only good thing about that
is you get to say ha, a little pansy to
people like me when I complain about it being thirteen.
Other than that, everything else about it probably sucks really bad.
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But anyhow, so it was a cool place to visit,
and all these celebrities have had houses there. But here
is kind of the creepy thing I wanted to share
with you. So I before I go to a new place,
I do all this research and I learned everything I
can about it, and I read all the tourist stuff
and watched all the videos about Big Bear Lake, California,
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and I thought I knew everything about it, but it
turns out there's something that they don't promote about Big
Bear Lake, and I can see why in retrospect, I
only found it because I was digging deep, like I
was going within like layers and a footnote level, and
I was like, okay, so, okay, here's the story. My wife,
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Lauren is probably the luckiest lady in the world, whether
she or realizes it or not, because I am her husband.
She's married to me, and that means that she is
always being told amazing stories about the world, whether she
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wants to hear them or not. So I'm like having
your own living podcast there that's giving you, you know,
breaking news and stories. It's like it's like being married
to this podcast twenty four to seven. I'm always that's
you know, you're getting the real me minus the cursing.
And so so we get in the car and she's
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doing the driving, which is great because she's a much
better driver than I have ever been. And so we're
heading off to California and I go, Okay, Lauren, listen
to this. So here's the story. In the early nineteen eighties,
Steven Spielberg was on a movie set and one of
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the young ladies who was acting on that set had
her mother and her little sister on the set also,
and at one point, Spielberg looks over and he sees
the mother and the little sister, and the little sister's
like five years old, having lunch. And Spielberg sees this
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little kid, this five year old, and he's like, that
kid's got it. You know, talk about this is like
hitting the lotto when Steven Spielberg looks at you and
was like, boom, you've got And he goes up and
he just like starts talking to him. And it turns
out this little girl all as Heather O'Rourke. And at
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this point Spielberg is looking to cast Poultergeist, which of
course is this super famous horror movie that came out
in nineteen eighty two, and in fact, they just they
just re released it this past October. You know, it
was an anniversary thing where Lauren and I went and
watched it on the big screen again, and you know,
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it was a fun movie to watch again, but not
nearly as impressive as it was in you know, the
nineteen eighties. One thing that I always thought was interesting
about Poultergeist is you've got the special effects, but also
you have it was one of the earliest or one
of the first movies that showed like the modern day
esque paranormal investigators going in to do the job. And
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I'm sure you know, watching stuff like that probably inspired
and affected me. So anyway, he was gonna Spilberg was
thinking about casting Drew Barrymore, but instead he was like, Nope,
you're the one, and he cast Heather Rourke turned in.
I'm sure Drew Barrymore's people were very upset, but then
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she went on to be an Et, which was a
much bigger, better role, so it worked out. Don't feel
sorry for Drew Barrymore on this one. So so, Heather o'
rourke became famous as the little girl in the Poltergeist
movie who is just entranced by the television with a
static on it, and then of course he basically gets
kind of sucked into the TV and then they're trying
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to rescue her from this other dimension the whole time.
Very eerie concept combining spirituality and electronics and all that stuff,
which was very very precient in retrospect. So anyway, this
movie becomes a huge hit. So this little five year
old girl, Heather o' rourke, she's like an overnight sensation
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and her family was relatively poor. They were from southern California,
and instantly they like they signed her up for sequels,
and it just money like they they've never seen, and
their family starts pouring in, and so this little five
year old becomes this cash cow. And once the money
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starts pouring in, well, the parents decide that, hey, it's
time to buy another house somewhere. I don't know if
it was a vacation home or if it was they
considered it a primary residency, but they chose to buy
a house and Big bear Lake, California, this place that
Lauren and I were on our way to visit, this
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little hallmark town, Big bear Lake, California. So they buy
this nice house there and she starts attending class there.
I think they said she was even like a class
president or something in when she was in the fifth grade.
I know, things seem to be going well for this family,
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but when we come back from this break, things take
a terrible twist, and it has to do with them
living in Big Barrela. I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're listening
to strange things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast,
a paranormal podcast network that I'll be right back after
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these important messages. Welcome back to Strange Things on the
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iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal podcast network. I
am your host, Joshua P. Warre, and this is the
show where the unusual becomes usual. You know, Steven Spielberg
did not direct the movie Poltergeist. He produced it and
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he has a screen writing credit, but the director was
Toby Hooper, who was most famous for creating the Texas
Chainsaw Massacre. You know, he wrote and directed that, and
the guy he hired to shoot that, the director of photography,
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was named Daniel Pearl. And when I was I've talked
about this on the podcast before. When I was working
for Warner Brothers movie The Apparition, I was on the
set in California one evening and it was really late
and everybody was tired, and they were shuttling the cast
and crew back and forth from the set to you
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know wherever. I got seated next to this guy and
I didn't know who he was, and I started chatting
and it was Daniel Pearl. So I got like fifteen
or twenty minutes to have this conversation with the guy
who actually shot the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. So that was cool.
That's like six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon. But anyway,
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look back to the story. So Heather O'Rourke's family, they
buy this house in Big Bear Lake and that's where
they start living a good chunk of the time, and
she keeps pulling in money and then finally she's like
twelve years old and one day she gets really sick.
They don't know what's wrong with her, and they started
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taking her in for all this testing, and long story short,
turns out that she had been drinking the well water
there in Big Bear Lake, California, and there was some
kind of parasite in it that got into her system
and she had some kind of super sensitive system and
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ultimately it led to her dying from some kind of
septic shock that set in when she was twelve years old.
Isn't that horrible? And you may or may not know that,
there is this whole phenomenon regarding like the Curse of
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that movie Poultrygeist. All these different people who were involved
with that movie had or many of these people had
had bad things that happened to them, tragic endings. It's
like the Curse of King Todd. Documentaries have been made
about it, but she is one of the central figures there.
So that was just an eerie thing. And I wondered
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when I got to Big Bear Lake if anybody would
talk about it. Nobody did, either they didn't know or
pretended that they didn't know. So that's just a quirky
little thing about Big Bear Lake, California. But we, on
the other hand, we had a fine time. And again
I'd been having all kinds of good things occurring throughout
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my Christmas season. Oh also, you know what one thing
about Big Bear Lake before I continue into you know
what happened with the robbery, is that the Big Bear Lake,
like so many other of these bodies of water, is
shrinking tremendously. And you know how bad lake meat is
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getting here. And so I told you that once it
becomes the snowy season, I want all of us listening
to this podcast to start trying to manifest historic snowfall
and the Rocky mountains. And I had doctor Moulder on
a while back and talk to him about it. He
he flexes his muscles all the time by creating snowfall
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in places where it's not supposed to snow, like the
Middle East. You know, He's always sending me stories about
like look what I did. And you have to realize
that we need a lot of snowfall this year in
the Rocky Mountains in the US. And here is why
you might just think, like, well, you live out west,
I don't. Who cares, no, no, no. The snowfall from
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the Rocky Mountains makes up the bulk of the water
that goes into Lake Mead and these other reservoirs, and
it's rainfall is not going to do it. It's the
vast majority of it is based upon snowfall and the
Rocky Mountains. If we don't have enough water here in
Lake Mead and the surrounding lakes, and that means we
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have less vegetation, less vegetables, and that means less feed
for livestock. So when there's less vegetables and less feed
for livestock, and therefore less livestock, well then the prices
for those things go up, and they go up for
everybody all over the country. And when the price is
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for everybody goes up in the country, when we're already
having this inflation period, it starts creating this chain reaction
where everybody starts paying more for everything. The whole economy
gets worse. And obviously whatever's happening in the US affects
the economy dramatically and the rest of the world, And
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so everybody in the world has an interest in there
being a major snowfall this winter in the Rocky Mountains.
Start doing whatever you do to manifest right now and
start making that happen. All right, So let's get to
this strange story. Well, here in laws Fit, I have
storage units all over the country, but I have some
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of my most prized possessions, had some of my most
prized possessions, and two storage units here in Las Vegas.
So last year I bought this new house, which I'm
still getting an order. I've accomplished about fifty percent of
what I intended to over the Christmas break, but still
fifty fifty percent. So I had two storage units here
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with a bunch of goodies from my museums. Actually, well
it's I could say museum, but I have owned different
incarnations of a museum, So we're talking like Crystal Skull, Ufo,
crash stuff, stuff from Transylvania, signed artifacts, I mean, just
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all kinds of really interesting things. And so I had
them in two storage units where they have been for
five years without any problems. But when I got this
new house, Lauren and I moved to the other side
of town, which is like thirty minutes away. So I
decided it was time to consolidate what I had in
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those other two storage units where we used to live
into one new storage unit here close to my new house.
So we went and we got a new storage unit,
a third storage unit, a bigger storage unit, which it
actually turns out is more more cost effective than having
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two smaller storage units on the other side of town.
And then Lauren and I got together with our friend
Jason Sarachi, the famous UFO videographer who lives nearby, and
Jason helped us move everything from those two storage units
across town to this one new storage unit. So I
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have all these goodies there that I have plans for
to put back on display. And here's one of the
weird things though, and I have talked about this very places.
You may have heard this when Lauren and I got
this new storage unit. It's like, this is the building
is huge, and this is an internal storage unit. And
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this building that's like three or four stories tall. I
don't know how big it is, but it's fairly new.
It's gigantic. So you go in there and it's like
going through a maze until you get up to your
internal storage unit. There's no telling how many hundreds of
storage units there are in this place. When we went
there for the first time, we were like the only
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people there. There were no other customers. It was kind
of like early on a weekday. And the first odd
thing that happened was when we went up to our
storage unit and we were first looking at it. Out
of this whole place, a woman, uh, just kind of
a you know, normal looking lady. She comes walking up
and she opens up the storage unit right next to ours,
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and we were like, that's amazing. Of this whole place,
we just got this storage unit, and you just happen
to have this storage unit next to ours, and we
were like, what a coincidence. And so we're kind of
laughing and having a little friendly banter. But I just
felt like that's just one of those odd things in life.
So then fast forward a few weeks later, which was
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last month in December, we get together with Jason. We
were in a U haul and we consolidated everything. We
go back to this big storage unit building, where once again,
there's like nobody there except for us. We go in,
we haul all this stuff into the storage unit, and
lo and behold, guess who appears this woman who has
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the storage unit right beside ours. And we're like, what
are the chances of that? And she goes, the last
time I was here was when you were here, and
we go that's the only time we've ever been here.
So at this point our mind is blown, and and
I'm like, are you with the CIA? You know? And
I started just like joking around with this woman. We
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peek into her storage unit. She has a giant telescope
in there and some pretty interesting things, and so I say, well,
I guess we're friends now, you know. It's just like, so,
what are the literally what are the chances? I've been
to this place twice? At both times there's practically nobody
else in the building except for this woman who shows
up at the storage unit right next to ours. Okay,
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so I ended up I talked to her for a
little bit and I'm like, well, you know what, maybe
you need to come out and you got a telescope
and she goes, oh, I love the stars, And I said,
maybe you need to come out and do Nafara skywatches
or something, you know, vegasufos dot com. So anyway, we
left that whole situation after transferring everything into the new
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storage unit, and and I was having this conversation with
Lauren and Jason like isn't that amazing? Like what again?
Like that's just it. It's almost like that phenomenon where
every time you park your car, somebody is parking next
to you or they're coming to get out of that
space next to you at the same time. I don't know.
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So we knew there was already something weird about the situation. Okay,
so now now we're getting into what happened around Christmas time,
and man, I wish I had more time. I knew
that this show was going to go by too fast.
When we come back from this break, I'm going to
tell you this story and then it's going to be
(37:30):
the end of the show. I'm gonna squeeze in something
about the Blue Bunny. Also, I'm Joshua Pete Warren. You're
listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
Coast am Parianormal podcast network. I will be here right back.
(38:23):
Welcome back to the final segment of this edition of
Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast. I
am pay on Normal podcast Network, I am your host,
Joshua P. Warren, and I have so many cool, interesting,
wild shows lined up for you over the next few
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weeks months. I mean, I've been You wouldn't believe the
list of things that I have to share with you.
But anyway, everything was going well for Lauren and myself
up until right around like that week leading up to
Christmas of twenty twenty two, and all of a sudden,
like both of us started having health problems. I know,
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a lot of people around the world were having sicknesses,
and you know, it's like my sister was sick in Ashville,
and then we were having problems here and my poor
old mom and dad for the first time ever, had
to have Christmas with that either one of their kids present.
And then of course, you know, the weather was terrible
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in many places, and people were being delayed or having
their flights canceled or stranded and literally freezing to death.
I mean, it was like it was just a hard
Christmas holiday of twenty twenty two. So anyway, but you know,
again we're fine now in terms of all that stuff,
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but so here we go. It's like, I think the
day after Christmas, Lauren she was the one who got
the phone call from the storage unit place saying like,
we have a very important matter. Can you please call
us back? And it was the next day before she
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was able to connect, and they said, well, there's been
a break in, and we don't think they went into
your unit, but out of an abundance of caution, we
would like for you to come here because they broke
into the units like right around yours. So Lauren and I,
this was after hours, we went over to our unit,
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which was on one of the higher floors, and we thought,
how weird that of all this, of this whole place,
they broke into units that are around ours. And we
walked up to the storage unit and the door was
closed tightly and the lock was on it, and everything
looked fine. So we assumed, like, hey, everything's going to
be okay. We opened the lock, we slide up the door,
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and all of our boxes in disarray, and I go, uh, oh,
this does not look good. And we walked over and
the first thing I saw was that one of my
boxes was opened and it was partially empty, and it
was labeled drone drone because that is where I kept
my one and only drone that I owned. And I'm
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looking around and I couldn't find any evidence. I mean
like they shuffled stuff around, but it looked like that
nothing else has been taken. And Lauren goes, how is
it possible nobody could have gotten in here? The door
was closed, the lock was on there, and I go,
I don't know, but somebody obviously had to have got
in here, and from what I could tell, they just
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stole my drone. So the next day we went back
over there, and we went with one of the employees
and I said, is it possible that somebody could have
gotten in here without opening that door? I mean, it
has to be. And it turns out in these internal
storage units there's a little opening. It's not much. It's
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only probably like a foot wide at the very top
of the door. You'd have to be really slim to
get up there and slip through that. Well, we went
back into the storage unit and over on the walls
of the storage unit are these like metal rails that
you can hang things on. And those metal rails were dusty,
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and we looked over and guess what, there were footprints
on the metal rails, So sure enough, somebody had gone
to the effort to not break the lock or anything,
but to climb up and go over and slip through
that little space and go down into our storage unit.
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And still that drone and turned Fortunately nothing else was missing,
just in disarray. And let me tell you why that
is so weird that drone is. It's the only drone
I've ever owned. It's not a very expensive one, and
the only time I've ever used it was when I
first got it. I took it way out into the
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desert on the way to California, and I just put
it up in the air and took it down just
to see if it worked. And that was it. And
this area around Las Vegas and Nevada in general is
so restrictive when it comes to drones that you hear
stories about people having their drones and stuff confiscated all
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the time because people are going out there and recklessly
flying them around military bases and stuff. And I have
never done that, nor would I ever do that, but
I thought it was pretty darned interesting that the only
thing that was taken was that drone, and there was
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nothing on it. Again, I took it out almost to
the California border around prem put it up in the air,
and took it down and that was it. So the
conspiratorial side of me says, is it possible that somebody,
the men in black wanted to make sure that I
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wasn't using that drone for some bad purposes? Because I
did last year, as you know, buy a piece of
property not far from Area fifty one in Rachel, Nevada.
And I have never attempted to take that drone out there,
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nor would I ever do that. As a matter of fact,
I've never even tried to get close to the Area
fifty one boundary because I know that's a real top
secret military base that I just thought it was really
interesting that of all the things that were taken, it
was my drone. So that put a really sour damper
on things. But you know what, here's the good part
(45:02):
of that. I wrote about this in my book used
the Force. Sometimes when something happens, it seems bad, and
retrospect you look back it was actually good. Things can't change,
things can't improve unless something destructive happens. And that was
an opportunity for me to say you know what, let
me take the stuff out of this storage unit that
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I really care about, and it was all there. I'm
proud to say, I'm happy to say all my cool
stuff was there, and I got it out. And I'm
not going to tell you where I put it, but
I got out all my cool stuff and it's in
a much more secure area now, so it's better protected.
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So no matter who you are, you know you're gonna
have bad luck and weird bad things that happened to you.
I wrote about my book Used the Force, which you
can actually read for free right now if you go
to Joshua P. Warren dot com and just click the
link to the book cover. I wrote about the fact
that you know, when you align yourself with goodness, you're
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actually polarizing yourself, and in doing that, you're becoming a
target for bad stuff as well. So you have to
expect some bad things to happen in your life because
you're becoming like the north or the south pole of
a magnet and you're attracting the other pole. And so
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this actually is an inspirational story because I feel like
that this happening to me gave me an opportunity to
go in and become more responsible with what I'm putting
into storage units, and to give a warning to all
of you who may have a storage unit about how
vulnerable your stuff may be. That somebody can break in
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without even going through the door. And it gave me
an opportunity to take out the stuff that I really
cared about and put it in a more secure location.
And so that's why I say, look it was it
was bad, but it actually turned out to be inspirational.
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at home, and a lot more. This is my first
new recording of the year twenty twenty three. This is
January and last Christmas Day, December twenty fifth of twenty
twenty two. As Lauren and I were sitting at home
enjoying the festivities, talking about peace on earth and goodwill
(01:47):
towards all, and love and generosity and all these wonderful
things somebody at the same time was robbing my storage unit.
Talk about some granchy stuff. I mean, isn't that. It's
so sad. I'm going to tell you what was stolen.
(02:10):
But the thing is, there's some really weird stuff here
surrounding this whole story, and so I will get into that.
And you know, I sent out a newsletter recently and
I said, you know, I got some bad news I'll
tell you about. So look, I'm fine, Lauren's fine, everybody's okay.
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But it's just really unfortunate when something like this happens
on Christmas Day. So we're going to dig into all
of that and a lot more. But first, most of
my holiday break, because you know, I took off quite
quite a while for the holidays, had a lot of
catching up to do here at my new house in
Las Vegas. Most of my holiday experience was wonderful, and
(02:55):
I want to tell you first about some of the
great things that happened before I get to that. Though,
I just made a note of this. This is pretty random,
but I wanted to mention this before I forgot. Of course,
the latter part of twenty twenty two was taken up
in large part by media coverage of the terrible murder
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of these four college students in Idaho who were all
stabbed to death in the middle of the night. And
I just recently realized that that murder spree took place
on November the thirteenth, and instantly I was like, that's
a familiar date, because of course I am from Asheville,
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North Carolina. That's where I was born and raised, and
November the thirteenth is the anniversary of Asheville's largest mass
murder killing spree, the Will Harris murders, and those happened
in nineteen oh six. So now there are in my
world two famous kind of murder sprees that happened on
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November the thirteenth. So maybe that's another one of those
bad luck dates that we have to start paying attention
to from here on out. So again, kind of random,
but thought provoking nonetheless. Okay, So before I get into
this weird story about what happened to me on Christmas,
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and I trust me, I know a lot of you
had a rough time this past holiday season, I'm going
to talk about all that as well. But first I'll
tell you about some of the good things and really
interesting things that happened to me, producer Tom dan Heiser.
He came here to Las Vegas and he invited me
to go see a John Fogerty concert with him at
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the Win and he had these primo seats. Now, of course,
John Fogerty he created basically, you know, Credence Clearwater Revival CCW,
and he more or less wrote and performed all those
famous songs. And he is I think seventy seven years old, yeah,
(05:11):
seventy seven, and he still gets up on stage and
dances and sings and plays like you wouldn't believe. It's
just like, you know, you never I couldn't get up
there and perform like this guy does. And he's a
lot older than I am. And Tom and I had
such a blast because one of the things that is
impressive is that you don't realize it until you sit
(05:33):
there and you listen to this guy perform for you know,
an hour and forty five minutes. You don't realize like
every single one of his songs was a hit, you
know them all. I don't even know how many hits
the guy had, and that it's just kind of mind
boggling to sit there and have this guy packed you know,
two hours with hits and he could have kept going.
(05:55):
I'm sure, so what a talented songwriter. But I do
want to mention this because sometimes, since I live here
at Vegas, when I get to go see people in person,
they'll tell a story about their lives that stands out
in my mind, and I like to pass those stories
along to you. I did that recently with Wayne Newton,
and so John Fogerty at one point he was standing
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there on stage and he was pausing for a moment
and he said, you know, I played Woodstock. You know,
he was at Woodstock, and he was a lot of
big events in the nineteen sixties. And as a matter
of fact, he said much Woodstock was just so muddy
and rainy that you know, he wrote one of his
(06:40):
songs about the wind will the rain end. I can't
remember what the song is called. He wrote a number
of songs about rain. But anyway, so he said that
when he was there on stage at Woodstock, you know,
he was playing this favorite guitar of his, and he
used this guitar all over the country, if not the world,
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for many many years in his performances. And he said,
one day he goes he didn't get into details, but
he goes, I met this like little boy who wanted
to be a rock star, and he was trying to
learn guitar and he didn't have a guitar. And he goes,
I don't know. I got to overcome, and he said,
I gave this kid my prize guitar. You know, I
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just gifted it him. And he didn't say at that time.
John Fogerty did not say if he was in the
right state of mind, but he certainly said that he
regretted it. The next day he missed that guitar. Right,
the guitar he played at Woodstock he gave to some
random kid. Now, I bet you think the end of
(07:42):
this story is going to be like and that kid
became Eddie Venner, right, you know that would be a
but no, it doesn't end like that at all. As
a matter of fact, this kid apparently did nothing with
this guitar and it was just lost, and so he always, yeah,
he was always like missing this guitar. And then a
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few years ago, on Christmas morning, he goes over to
the tree at his house and there's a big box
there and he opens it and guess what it's this guitar.
His wife. His wife knew how much he loved that guitar,
and she'd spent all this time like tracking that thing
down and bringing it back into his life. And he
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said it was like the best Christmas present ever. And
he says, and this is that guitar, and he lifts
it up and he's holding that guitar and then he
starts playing songs on it. So I mean, like, I
love these kind of like strange stories about synchronicity and
the twist and turns the life takes and how things
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like that can come back to you. So you know,
it was just it was an awesome time. And Tom
and I just had a wonderful evening in Las Vegas.
And yeah, thank you so much, Tom for inviting me
to do that. And let me just tell you, if
you've never been to a John Fogerty concert, you get
a chance to do it, you should do it. But
you're not gonna hear anything in your head for like
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the next week or two except John Fogerty songs. It
drives you crazy. So that was awesome. Speaking of music,
you know I've talked I had been calling him Jim
Klanna the composer, but it's Jim Cologna. He's from Italian descent.
Jim Colonna. He never corrected me. That's what a nice
guy he is. Jim Colonna. He is the guy who
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was so inspired by the work that I've done over
the years that he composed this work of music called
Joshua's Shop of Miracles and Curiosities, and it was performed
recently near Washington, d C. And it's a fantastic piece
of music. I played part of it for you on
this show not too long ago. And after all these
(09:49):
years of corresponding with Jim, I'd never gotten to meet
him in person. He was in Las Vegas, and so
Laurnie and I got together with him for an evening,
and boy to we hit it off as soon as
we sat down and started to talk. Well, you know,
we embraced as soon as we met each other, and
then it was just like we were old friends. We'd
known each other forever. He's such a warm and just
(10:09):
like cheerful and just just a cool, interesting, funny just
just a great person. But like he's one of those
guys that I would want to hang out with on
a regular basis if he lived close to me, and
so that was fantastic. We got to just spend hours,
you know, just talking about everything under the sun, exactly
(10:30):
as if we were just old buddies. And if you
have not gotten a chance to hear this piece of
music that he composed, go to his website, Jim Cologne,
Jim Coloonna, Jim Colonna, Jim Coloonna Cologne, It's a time,
Jim Cologna. It's it's j I M COO l o
n n A j I M c O l o
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n a dot com and there's a section called music
for Orchestra and right now if you click there for free,
you can just listen to his piece he composed called
Joshua's Shop of Miracles and Curiosities. And then also we
went to Murray the Magician's party at his house. It
was awesome. He's got a beautiful, big, beautiful new house
(11:13):
and property, and hundreds of people were there and he
was so generous and just paid for amy. It was
like open bar catering of everything. You can imagine. I
had a great, great time. In fact, when I come
back from this break, I want to tell you about
a trip that we took to a place I'd never
been to before, and then something really creepy that I
(11:34):
found out about that I'm leading up, of course, to
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back to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
Coasta m Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, the Wizard
of Weird, Joshua P. Warren, beaming into your wormhole brain
from my studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where
every day is golden and every night is silver. Before
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I continue, I did look it up during the break,
and the John Fogerty song that I was referring to
is called Who'll Stop the Rain? And I know if
I leave stuff like that hanging, it's gonna drive some
of you insane. Who Stop the Rain? But he made
another song or two about rain, But that was the
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one that he said he wrote when he got back
to his motel room after playing Woodstock. But anyway, let
me tell you about this trip that I took that
turned out to lead me down an interesting road of thought. So,
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being from the East Coast, growing up in the mountains
of western North Carolina, I was always used to Christmas
feeling very Christmasy. You've got trees everywhere and snowfall and
all kinds of kind of like European decorations everywhere seems like,
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you know, the Old Country. But out here in the
desert when you live in Las Vegas, no matter what
they do to decorate, it just never quite fills Christmas
y out here. And for one thing, you're almost certainly
not going to get any snow. But yeah, the desert.
And it's ironic because you know, well, the whole Christmas
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story is based in the Middle East, so so the
desert is really a more Christmasy and like an authentic
Christmas environment. Then what we think of is this whole
like European Bavarian Saint Nicholas kind of you know. But anyway, look,
it's just about what you are exposed to when you
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grow up. But so since we've lived here in Vegas
for several years, we we always, uh, you know, if
we don't travel somewhere else, if we kind of stick
around here, we're like that just doesn't quite feel you know,
like Christmas time. And so I was wondering about, like,
what would a relatively easy road trip be that we
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could take to go somewhere that's a little more Christmas set.
And if you drive a few hours from here into California,
then you eventually can wind your way up this huge
mountainous region that's like over seven thousand feet in elevation
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to a place called Big Bear Lake. And Big Bear
Lake is named after the grizzly bears that used to
live there. There are no more wild grizzlies in California.
I consider that a good thing, but you know, some
people disagree. Nonetheless, it's really weird because you know, to
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get there, and it takes you if you're going to
stop and get gas and eat. You know, it's like
a four hour drive from Las Vegas the Big Bear Lake.
And I did a lot of research on it, and
it turns out that it was exactly like I was expecting,
because you go through the Majave Desert and it's like
desert up until like the last forty five minutes, and
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all of a sudden, there's this dramatic change where you
just drive up this big, long, super steep winding road
up and all of a sudden, there's there are forests
everywhere and streams and there's the lake. And then finally
you get to the village and Big Bear Lake, and
it looks like a little village in a snow globe,
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and everything is all like rustic hunting lodge style and old,
like old old European and Bavarian, and it looks like
a little Christmas town. I used to tell people when
I first found it, it looks like a town in a
Hallmark movie. And then I got there and I realized, like, oh,
they actually do shoot Hallmark movies in this town. And
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it gets a ton of snowfall. It's very, very isolated.
So it really was exactly what I was looking for
in terms of this is the most Christmas y place
that you're going to get to that's within a reasonable
period of driving from Las Vegas to my knowledge, Big
Bear Lake, California. And I'll tell you a little bit
(18:17):
more about the lake in a minute. So we ended
up going there, had a great Christmas, like a couple
of days. It's always spent, but you know, we'd never
been there before. It's really small. We walked everywhere we went,
and we hit up all the shops and the bars,
and I was exposed to cookie dough whiskey, which actually
is really really good. But I think I drank a
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little too much of it, and then also it's just
like lots of just quirky, little little themed gift shops.
It was cool. It was really cool, but it was
also quite cold. It was thirteen degrees while we were there,
which I know some of you listening are like, ah,
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but that's always gonna happen because some of you live
where it's like negative thirty fahrenheit. And if you do that,
you're just I guess the only good thing about that
is you get to say ha, a little pansy to
people like me when I complain about it being thirteen.
Other than that, everything else about it probably sucks really bad.
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But anyhow, so it was a cool place to visit,
and all these celebrities have had houses there. But here
is kind of the creepy thing I wanted to share
with you. So I before I go to a new place,
I do all this research and I learned everything I
can about it, and I read all the tourist stuff
and watched all the videos about Big Bear Lake, California,
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and I thought I knew everything about it, but it
turns out there's something that they don't promote about Big
Bear Lake, and I can see why in retrospect, I
only found it because I was digging deep, like I
was going within like layers and a footnote level, and
I was like, okay, so, okay, here's the story. My wife,
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Lauren is probably the luckiest lady in the world, whether
she or realizes it or not, because I am her husband.
She's married to me, and that means that she is
always being told amazing stories about the world, whether she
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wants to hear them or not. So I'm like having
your own living podcast there that's giving you, you know,
breaking news and stories. It's like it's like being married
to this podcast twenty four to seven. I'm always that's
you know, you're getting the real me minus the cursing.
And so so we get in the car and she's
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doing the driving, which is great because she's a much
better driver than I have ever been. And so we're
heading off to California and I go, Okay, Lauren, listen
to this. So here's the story. In the early nineteen eighties,
Steven Spielberg was on a movie set and one of
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the young ladies who was acting on that set had
her mother and her little sister on the set also,
and at one point, Spielberg looks over and he sees
the mother and the little sister, and the little sister's
like five years old, having lunch. And Spielberg sees this
(21:44):
little kid, this five year old, and he's like, that
kid's got it. You know, talk about this is like
hitting the lotto when Steven Spielberg looks at you and
was like, boom, you've got And he goes up and
he just like starts talking to him. And it turns
out this little girl all as Heather O'Rourke. And at
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this point Spielberg is looking to cast Poultergeist, which of
course is this super famous horror movie that came out
in nineteen eighty two, and in fact, they just they
just re released it this past October. You know, it
was an anniversary thing where Lauren and I went and
watched it on the big screen again, and you know,
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it was a fun movie to watch again, but not
nearly as impressive as it was in you know, the
nineteen eighties. One thing that I always thought was interesting
about Poultergeist is you've got the special effects, but also
you have it was one of the earliest or one
of the first movies that showed like the modern day
esque paranormal investigators going in to do the job. And
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I'm sure you know, watching stuff like that probably inspired
and affected me. So anyway, he was gonna Spilberg was
thinking about casting Drew Barrymore, but instead he was like, Nope,
you're the one, and he cast Heather Rourke turned in.
I'm sure Drew Barrymore's people were very upset, but then
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she went on to be an Et, which was a
much bigger, better role, so it worked out. Don't feel
sorry for Drew Barrymore on this one. So so, Heather o'
rourke became famous as the little girl in the Poltergeist
movie who is just entranced by the television with a
static on it, and then of course he basically gets
kind of sucked into the TV and then they're trying
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to rescue her from this other dimension the whole time.
Very eerie concept combining spirituality and electronics and all that stuff,
which was very very precient in retrospect. So anyway, this
movie becomes a huge hit. So this little five year
old girl, Heather o' rourke, she's like an overnight sensation
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and her family was relatively poor. They were from southern California,
and instantly they like they signed her up for sequels,
and it just money like they they've never seen, and
their family starts pouring in, and so this little five
year old becomes this cash cow. And once the money
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starts pouring in, well, the parents decide that, hey, it's
time to buy another house somewhere. I don't know if
it was a vacation home or if it was they
considered it a primary residency, but they chose to buy
a house and Big bear Lake, California, this place that
Lauren and I were on our way to visit, this
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little hallmark town, Big bear Lake, California. So they buy
this nice house there and she starts attending class there.
I think they said she was even like a class
president or something in when she was in the fifth grade.
I know, things seem to be going well for this family,
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but when we come back from this break, things take
a terrible twist, and it has to do with them
living in Big Barrela. I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're listening
to strange things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast,
a paranormal podcast network that I'll be right back after
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these important messages. Welcome back to Strange Things on the
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iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal podcast network. I
am your host, Joshua P. Warre, and this is the
show where the unusual becomes usual. You know, Steven Spielberg
did not direct the movie Poltergeist. He produced it and
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he has a screen writing credit, but the director was
Toby Hooper, who was most famous for creating the Texas
Chainsaw Massacre. You know, he wrote and directed that, and
the guy he hired to shoot that, the director of photography,
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was named Daniel Pearl. And when I was I've talked
about this on the podcast before. When I was working
for Warner Brothers movie The Apparition, I was on the
set in California one evening and it was really late
and everybody was tired, and they were shuttling the cast
and crew back and forth from the set to you
(27:05):
know wherever. I got seated next to this guy and
I didn't know who he was, and I started chatting
and it was Daniel Pearl. So I got like fifteen
or twenty minutes to have this conversation with the guy
who actually shot the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. So that was cool.
That's like six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon. But anyway,
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look back to the story. So Heather O'Rourke's family, they
buy this house in Big Bear Lake and that's where
they start living a good chunk of the time, and
she keeps pulling in money and then finally she's like
twelve years old and one day she gets really sick.
They don't know what's wrong with her, and they started
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taking her in for all this testing, and long story short,
turns out that she had been drinking the well water
there in Big Bear Lake, California, and there was some
kind of parasite in it that got into her system
and she had some kind of super sensitive system and
(28:10):
ultimately it led to her dying from some kind of
septic shock that set in when she was twelve years old.
Isn't that horrible? And you may or may not know that,
there is this whole phenomenon regarding like the Curse of
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that movie Poultrygeist. All these different people who were involved
with that movie had or many of these people had
had bad things that happened to them, tragic endings. It's
like the Curse of King Todd. Documentaries have been made
about it, but she is one of the central figures there.
So that was just an eerie thing. And I wondered
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when I got to Big Bear Lake if anybody would
talk about it. Nobody did, either they didn't know or
pretended that they didn't know. So that's just a quirky
little thing about Big Bear Lake, California. But we, on
the other hand, we had a fine time. And again
I'd been having all kinds of good things occurring throughout
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my Christmas season. Oh also, you know what one thing
about Big Bear Lake before I continue into you know
what happened with the robbery, is that the Big Bear Lake,
like so many other of these bodies of water, is
shrinking tremendously. And you know how bad lake meat is
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getting here. And so I told you that once it
becomes the snowy season, I want all of us listening
to this podcast to start trying to manifest historic snowfall
and the Rocky mountains. And I had doctor Moulder on
a while back and talk to him about it. He
he flexes his muscles all the time by creating snowfall
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in places where it's not supposed to snow, like the
Middle East. You know, He's always sending me stories about
like look what I did. And you have to realize
that we need a lot of snowfall this year in
the Rocky Mountains in the US. And here is why
you might just think, like, well, you live out west,
I don't. Who cares, no, no, no. The snowfall from
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the Rocky Mountains makes up the bulk of the water
that goes into Lake Mead and these other reservoirs, and
it's rainfall is not going to do it. It's the
vast majority of it is based upon snowfall and the
Rocky Mountains. If we don't have enough water here in
Lake Mead and the surrounding lakes, and that means we
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have less vegetation, less vegetables, and that means less feed
for livestock. So when there's less vegetables and less feed
for livestock, and therefore less livestock, well then the prices
for those things go up, and they go up for
everybody all over the country. And when the price is
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for everybody goes up in the country, when we're already
having this inflation period, it starts creating this chain reaction
where everybody starts paying more for everything. The whole economy
gets worse. And obviously whatever's happening in the US affects
the economy dramatically and the rest of the world, And
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so everybody in the world has an interest in there
being a major snowfall this winter in the Rocky Mountains.
Start doing whatever you do to manifest right now and
start making that happen. All right, So let's get to
this strange story. Well, here in laws Fit, I have
storage units all over the country, but I have some
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of my most prized possessions, had some of my most
prized possessions, and two storage units here in Las Vegas.
So last year I bought this new house, which I'm
still getting an order. I've accomplished about fifty percent of
what I intended to over the Christmas break, but still
fifty fifty percent. So I had two storage units here
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with a bunch of goodies from my museums. Actually, well
it's I could say museum, but I have owned different
incarnations of a museum, So we're talking like Crystal Skull, Ufo,
crash stuff, stuff from Transylvania, signed artifacts, I mean, just
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all kinds of really interesting things. And so I had
them in two storage units where they have been for
five years without any problems. But when I got this
new house, Lauren and I moved to the other side
of town, which is like thirty minutes away. So I
decided it was time to consolidate what I had in
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those other two storage units where we used to live
into one new storage unit here close to my new house.
So we went and we got a new storage unit,
a third storage unit, a bigger storage unit, which it
actually turns out is more more cost effective than having
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two smaller storage units on the other side of town.
And then Lauren and I got together with our friend
Jason Sarachi, the famous UFO videographer who lives nearby, and
Jason helped us move everything from those two storage units
across town to this one new storage unit. So I
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have all these goodies there that I have plans for
to put back on display. And here's one of the
weird things though, and I have talked about this very places.
You may have heard this when Lauren and I got
this new storage unit. It's like, this is the building
is huge, and this is an internal storage unit. And
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this building that's like three or four stories tall. I
don't know how big it is, but it's fairly new.
It's gigantic. So you go in there and it's like
going through a maze until you get up to your
internal storage unit. There's no telling how many hundreds of
storage units there are in this place. When we went
there for the first time, we were like the only
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people there. There were no other customers. It was kind
of like early on a weekday. And the first odd
thing that happened was when we went up to our
storage unit and we were first looking at it. Out
of this whole place, a woman, uh, just kind of
a you know, normal looking lady. She comes walking up
and she opens up the storage unit right next to ours,
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and we were like, that's amazing. Of this whole place,
we just got this storage unit, and you just happen
to have this storage unit next to ours, and we
were like, what a coincidence. And so we're kind of
laughing and having a little friendly banter. But I just
felt like that's just one of those odd things in life.
So then fast forward a few weeks later, which was
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last month in December, we get together with Jason. We
were in a U haul and we consolidated everything. We
go back to this big storage unit building, where once again,
there's like nobody there except for us. We go in,
we haul all this stuff into the storage unit, and
lo and behold, guess who appears this woman who has
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the storage unit right beside ours. And we're like, what
are the chances of that? And she goes, the last
time I was here was when you were here, and
we go that's the only time we've ever been here.
So at this point our mind is blown, and and
I'm like, are you with the CIA? You know? And
I started just like joking around with this woman. We
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peek into her storage unit. She has a giant telescope
in there and some pretty interesting things, and so I say, well,
I guess we're friends now, you know. It's just like, so,
what are the literally what are the chances? I've been
to this place twice? At both times there's practically nobody
else in the building except for this woman who shows
up at the storage unit right next to ours. Okay,
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so I ended up I talked to her for a
little bit and I'm like, well, you know what, maybe
you need to come out and you got a telescope
and she goes, oh, I love the stars, And I said,
maybe you need to come out and do Nafara skywatches
or something, you know, vegasufos dot com. So anyway, we
left that whole situation after transferring everything into the new
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storage unit, and and I was having this conversation with
Lauren and Jason like isn't that amazing? Like what again?
Like that's just it. It's almost like that phenomenon where
every time you park your car, somebody is parking next
to you or they're coming to get out of that
space next to you at the same time. I don't know.
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So we knew there was already something weird about the situation. Okay,
so now now we're getting into what happened around Christmas time,
and man, I wish I had more time. I knew
that this show was going to go by too fast.
When we come back from this break, I'm going to
tell you this story and then it's going to be
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the end of the show. I'm gonna squeeze in something
about the Blue Bunny. Also, I'm Joshua Pete Warren. You're
listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
Coast am Parianormal podcast network. I will be here right back.
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Welcome back to the final segment of this edition of
Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast. I
am pay on Normal podcast Network, I am your host,
Joshua P. Warren, and I have so many cool, interesting,
wild shows lined up for you over the next few
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weeks months. I mean, I've been You wouldn't believe the
list of things that I have to share with you.
But anyway, everything was going well for Lauren and myself
up until right around like that week leading up to
Christmas of twenty twenty two, and all of a sudden,
like both of us started having health problems. I know,
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a lot of people around the world were having sicknesses,
and you know, it's like my sister was sick in Ashville,
and then we were having problems here and my poor
old mom and dad for the first time ever, had
to have Christmas with that either one of their kids present.
And then of course, you know, the weather was terrible
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in many places, and people were being delayed or having
their flights canceled or stranded and literally freezing to death.
I mean, it was like it was just a hard
Christmas holiday of twenty twenty two. So anyway, but you know,
again we're fine now in terms of all that stuff,
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but so here we go. It's like, I think the
day after Christmas, Lauren she was the one who got
the phone call from the storage unit place saying like,
we have a very important matter. Can you please call
us back? And it was the next day before she
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was able to connect, and they said, well, there's been
a break in, and we don't think they went into
your unit, but out of an abundance of caution, we
would like for you to come here because they broke
into the units like right around yours. So Lauren and I,
this was after hours, we went over to our unit,
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which was on one of the higher floors, and we thought,
how weird that of all this, of this whole place,
they broke into units that are around ours. And we
walked up to the storage unit and the door was
closed tightly and the lock was on it, and everything
looked fine. So we assumed, like, hey, everything's going to
be okay. We opened the lock, we slide up the door,
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and all of our boxes in disarray, and I go, uh, oh,
this does not look good. And we walked over and
the first thing I saw was that one of my
boxes was opened and it was partially empty, and it
was labeled drone drone because that is where I kept
my one and only drone that I owned. And I'm
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looking around and I couldn't find any evidence. I mean
like they shuffled stuff around, but it looked like that
nothing else has been taken. And Lauren goes, how is
it possible nobody could have gotten in here? The door
was closed, the lock was on there, and I go,
I don't know, but somebody obviously had to have got
in here, and from what I could tell, they just
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stole my drone. So the next day we went back
over there, and we went with one of the employees
and I said, is it possible that somebody could have
gotten in here without opening that door? I mean, it
has to be. And it turns out in these internal
storage units there's a little opening. It's not much. It's
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only probably like a foot wide at the very top
of the door. You'd have to be really slim to
get up there and slip through that. Well, we went
back into the storage unit and over on the walls
of the storage unit are these like metal rails that
you can hang things on. And those metal rails were dusty,
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and we looked over and guess what, there were footprints
on the metal rails, So sure enough, somebody had gone
to the effort to not break the lock or anything,
but to climb up and go over and slip through
that little space and go down into our storage unit.
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And still that drone and turned Fortunately nothing else was missing,
just in disarray. And let me tell you why that
is so weird that drone is. It's the only drone
I've ever owned. It's not a very expensive one, and
the only time I've ever used it was when I
first got it. I took it way out into the
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desert on the way to California, and I just put
it up in the air and took it down just
to see if it worked. And that was it. And
this area around Las Vegas and Nevada in general is
so restrictive when it comes to drones that you hear
stories about people having their drones and stuff confiscated all
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the time because people are going out there and recklessly
flying them around military bases and stuff. And I have
never done that, nor would I ever do that, but
I thought it was pretty darned interesting that the only
thing that was taken was that drone, and there was
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nothing on it. Again, I took it out almost to
the California border around prem put it up in the air,
and took it down and that was it. So the
conspiratorial side of me says, is it possible that somebody,
the men in black wanted to make sure that I
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wasn't using that drone for some bad purposes? Because I
did last year, as you know, buy a piece of
property not far from Area fifty one in Rachel, Nevada.
And I have never attempted to take that drone out there,
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nor would I ever do that. As a matter of fact,
I've never even tried to get close to the Area
fifty one boundary because I know that's a real top
secret military base that I just thought it was really
interesting that of all the things that were taken, it
was my drone. So that put a really sour damper
on things. But you know what, here's the good part
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of that. I wrote about this in my book used
the Force. Sometimes when something happens, it seems bad, and
retrospect you look back it was actually good. Things can't change,
things can't improve unless something destructive happens. And that was
an opportunity for me to say you know what, let
me take the stuff out of this storage unit that
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I really care about, and it was all there. I'm
proud to say, I'm happy to say all my cool
stuff was there, and I got it out. And I'm
not going to tell you where I put it, but
I got out all my cool stuff and it's in
a much more secure area now, so it's better protected.
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So no matter who you are, you know you're gonna
have bad luck and weird bad things that happened to you.
I wrote about my book Used the Force, which you
can actually read for free right now if you go
to Joshua P. Warren dot com and just click the
link to the book cover. I wrote about the fact
that you know, when you align yourself with goodness, you're
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actually polarizing yourself, and in doing that, you're becoming a
target for bad stuff as well. So you have to
expect some bad things to happen in your life because
you're becoming like the north or the south pole of
a magnet and you're attracting the other pole. And so
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this actually is an inspirational story because I feel like
that this happening to me gave me an opportunity to
go in and become more responsible with what I'm putting
into storage units, and to give a warning to all
of you who may have a storage unit about how
vulnerable your stuff may be. That somebody can break in
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without even going through the door. And it gave me
an opportunity to take out the stuff that I really
cared about and put it in a more secure location.
And so that's why I say, look it was it
was bad, but it actually turned out to be inspirational.
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