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Get ready of weird. This is Strange Things with Joshua Warren.
I am Joshua P. Warren. At each week on this show,
I'll be bringing you brand new my blowing content, news exercises,
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and weird experiments you can do at home, and a
lot more. On this edition of the program, I interviewed
my dad about the paranormal and he had a surprise
for me. Last year, I interviewed my mother, Peggy Warren
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about her experiences with E s P. That was episode
twenty one called Joshua's Personal Proof of ESP. Well, my father,
Danny Warren, recently turned seventy and he has never been
interviewed by anyone and his entire life, so it was
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certainly time for me to bring him on the show
to ask him about some of his paranormal experiences. And
you know what, he surprised me. He got into a
bad car wreck a while back and was in the
hospital for weeks having surgery. He's okay now, but he
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was driving late at night with my mother in the
mountains near Maggie Valley, North Carolina. At the time he
told everyone he must have hit a bear. But now
he's coming clean with the truth about what he may
have actually hit on that terrible night. Honestly, he had
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never told me this before, so this was a true surprise,
captured live for this podcast. Now, my mom and dad
were both born in Asheville, North Carolina, just like me
and my sister Jessica, and they were high school sweethearts.
They've been together forever, living in the mountains, and when
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you hear me talk with them, you get an idea
of sort of how they helped to inspire my enormous
interest in the unknown. So here we go. Here is
my interview with my father, Danny Warren. Dad, when I
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was growing up, you were always telling me stories about
history and religion and folklore and legends, and I was
deeply inspired by your curiosity and enthusiasm for those things.
Did you grow up with a particular storyteller around your
family or did you develop this interest in stories on
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your own? I believe really it probably was. I'm kind
of like you. We always have a lot of questions
but very few answers, So I think that kind of
uh come, you know, I need to know some answers,
and you did do too, so I think we just
uh went that route and figuring on this stuff. So,
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but was there ever anybody who would get around the
campfire and then tell you tales like this? Uh? No,
not really that I know of. I'm sure that they were,
like can uh when I was in boy Scouts or
something like that, but I don't remember it too much
of that stuff. So, now, when you were a kid,
you know, what are some of the most mysterious stories
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that you heard growing up? Well, I guess probably the
most Cheris was one my My dad told me years
ago he hadn't talked too much, but when he did,
you know, I listened because he was more open with
you than he ever was me, because you know, he
had a lot of memories of awards stuff. But one
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time he I asked him, I was trying to find
out about my ancestors, and he told me about his
his dad living out towards Pole Creek is where he
raised up. We were at that way one time and
he's saying one right up piers while I grew up.
So his dad, I think his name was Melvin. Now
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I just bindly remember him. He had a great little
big handlebar must tash and they were he was dad dad.
He was the thirteenth kid. I think he's the youngest
and the thirteen kid. So that's a lot of kids
back then. Anyhow, Malvin, his dad was the only bread around.
So he where they lived on Pole Creek, he had
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to walk through the dark woods old a mountain to
a tannery over in Kenon, and uh, you know that's
how he made live. And he had to get up
like four o'clock in the morning because it probably took
him a couple of hours to get there, but seven,
and he'd had to walk home at night and he's
always dark usually, especially you know, in the wintertime. And
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he had an old cossack or people called it burl app.
I guess he'd put his lunch in and he had
a lantern he'd had to carry when he's walking through
the woods. And I asked him one time, I said,
what did he ever come across any barns or mountain
lines or anything like that. He said, well, my dad
told me one time that he remembered he saw which
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is dancing around on the ridge tops. And I thought,
what witches he should ask try out? Which is is
what his dad told him. So I always thought that's
pretty istant, deft, he mysterious. And so he didn't know
anything more about who or what these witches were. H No,
he just said he had he had were witches. He
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said how he knew that, I don't know, but he
acts like hein't had a fire, a camp fire of
some sort, and they, uh, you know, they danced around
and nobody lived there. He was just old dark woods.
You know, you're walking through the you know, that was
dark all the time. So that's kind of surprised me
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to him to say that because he was dead, he
had a he was pretty religious, really, and uh, that
surprised me to him to talk about Abbott, you know,
that's what he told me. Well, you know, my first
memory of hearing about the Brown Mountain lights was you
singing the bluegrass song to the family and telling me
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the folklore about the mountain. What was it about Brown
Mountain and that whole mystery that sort of captured your imagination. Well,
I after I heard about him, I heard the song
probably first, and I got my curiosity got the best him,
and I thought, well, I'd like to check that out,
since it's not that far from this is at Liville.
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So one day all of us, uh, your mama and
you and myself, I think, I don't know if Jessica
was born there, we went down and see what Haoigan
see and as we looked off on one eighty one
that points towards Brown mount So we went there and
and all of a sudden it was dark, and it's
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really scary because no other cars were around, and all
of a sudden a little old lights started coming up
off the mountain. And then there's a few minutes another
one and they kind of went across the light, I
mean across the ridge, and they shot off up into
the sky, and I thought, man. And since then we've
been down are dozens of time, and all but one
or two times we saw those lights and and and
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they were all kinds of stories for years they said
it was train lights and this another. But there's no
train tracks are there's no cars, there's no houses. I
think the State Forest Service owns that property, but they're
no way that lights is going to come through there
and shoot up. So do you have a feeling about
what they most likely are? Well, I'm not real sure
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that there's a lot of a lot of controversy about that,
and it's still a mystery. I think scientists have come
here from all over the United States and probably the
world and and trying to figure it out, but nobody's
said anything concrete about what it could be. I've got
my own theories, but I don't I don't don't have much,
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you know, you can put in the way. Well, let's
let's hear a sample of one of your theories. Well,
I'm working on a little book right now, and I
kind of wonder if fact couldn't be some type of
alien crafts. Yeah, so that's a possibility. A lot of
people have said they've had encounters with aliens up there,
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and you know, even abductions have been reported out there,
and that's what that's what I've heard, and nobody can say,
nobody can side that it's not. Yeah, and uh, of course, uh,
it seems that many of these strange lights out in
the middle of national forests are associated with people vanishing. Um.
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You know that we've we've talked before about like the
Missing four one one books and how that. Uh. I
don't know whether people are being abducted or carried off
by bigfoot or whatever. There are weird things in the
ranges of western North Carolina. And you know, you you
were were inspired by a lot of the stories that
you've heard to uh write a book. Uh. You wrote
this years ago. It's called Ridge Hoppers. Uh tell us
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about that book. Okay, we're gonna take a break right there,
and when we come back, you'll hear about my dad's book,
Ridge Hoppers. Did you know that my dad was also
an author? I guess you can see in our family
the apple does not fall far from the treat And then,
of course you will be hearing about the surprise that
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he had for me and all of us when he
talks about what actually happened to him and this car accident. Um. Okay,
By the way, of course, you probably know that years
ago I created a new field of research called parasymatics,
and the most popular sigil that I have created is
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every day is golden and every night is silver. And
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now back to my interview with my dad, Daniel Warren.
Everybody calls him Danny, and I was just asking him
to tell us about the book he wrote, which is
pretty much geared towards young adults called Ridge Hoppers. Well,
that book actually I used. My grandfather did as far
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as crossed lower in the Pole Creek over to the
other sides of the canry, and he him uh and
his wife, I mighteed that he had one son, and
they didn't know where he was at, so a little
boy come to live with his own grandson. Anyway, he
was going up the mountain one day and he encountered
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some little people and they were they were They were
green and blue and red and all that, and they
would have a festivul on top of the mountain and
they were a real mystical type people. They was magical too.
And he went up there and they were they were
which is up there, and they were playing music and
it's a it's pretty interesting. And then he come back
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because he had it had been a flood and he
couldn't cross the creek to go to his work, so
he didn't even go to work that day. So he
come back home late that night and told his wife
and his grandson what had happened, and they wouldn't believe him. Basically,
so he the story goes, is he had to prove
that everybody that he was telling the truth. And they
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found out in the end that he was. So this
is a work of fiction that's based on some of
the real stories from your family's history. Yes, yes, that's right,
so And the website is ridge hoppers dot com if
people want to learn more about that book, Yes, yes,
well and actually on rich hoppers dot com. Um you
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also feature some of your art. You're now one of
the country's premier wood carvers. Your hand carved walking sticks
sometimes sell for hundreds of dollars and high end shops.
You've carved thousands of them. What attracted you to wood carving,
well would to me is it's easy to work with
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and all different woods have all of them seem to
have different characters about them. And what I like about
wood is what people most people were They like a
walking stick, ain't like a straight stick? Well me at
the top is pretty straight, in the bottom, I don't
care watch in the middle. What I like about it
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is is all of the noahs and the imperfections and
the gal and all the imperfections about it, and each
of them is different and it makes you think. You know,
if you if you wheel it down to the bar,
I mean to take all of the bark off. You
can see the grain, but the bark is what amazes
me most is it's so different and like you simmon,
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like on the Sasha Fresh it's just an old brown
looking tree or walking stick water. When you shave the bark,
he gets that beautiful reddish color, and it's just it's
just amazing that the wood. It's just to say, everything
is individualized. It's not even though it's a specie of tree.
If you're dealing with and everything, they're all different, just
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like people. Well, you're always studying the wilderness. I mean,
you've spent a lot of time in the outdoors. Like
you said, you were a boy scout, you were in
the army, You've been a trapper and a hunter, and
a farmer and the land developers. So you've spent lots
of time outdoors, especially in the mountains of western North Carolina.
And you think the Bigfoot maybe real? Is that right? Well,
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I I there's a lot of things I've seen. Uh,
your Mama and I we deliver our hiking sticks a
lot of times, two different states around and we come
home in the dark a lot of times. And I've
spent so many days, hours out in the woods and
there's a lot of mysterious stuff at already can't be explained. Actually,
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to tell you the truth, a year before last, we
were coming through Maggie Valley and Heywood Carny and I
ran into something with the car and it tolled the car.
It just crushed the whole front of the car. And
I didn't see anything. I was doing about forty five
and it here, so I as soon as it here,
the our bags come open and the lights had to
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come out, and the lights went on, and I saw
just the image of something dark is way up above
the hood. So I was hurried to get out because
I had the internal leading in all this, and I
was trying to get the mother out of car. So
I walked around to the front of the car, I said,
and don't want to hit And I looked and there's
a bunch of blackish long fur on the front of
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the car. And there was a piece of undigested fish.
And uh, I've been around bars my whole life, and uh,
byar scat is just an old Tory black and it's
usually got seated. There was some kind of poop or
what do you call it there, and and it was
not a bar. I don't know what it was, but
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whatever it was, it run off into the woods, so
I never did see it, and the highway patrol and
he didn't want to go down into the woods to
look for it, so I think he ended up putting
putting that it was a bar that I hit. But
there's nothing there, sir. And I didn't never get a
chance to put the brakes on when I hit it,
and I thought at later our car was towed away
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and I went to the hospital and your mother did too,
and then they took me to the trauma center and
they hadn't taken a spleen out. I had infernal bleeding.
I was in the hospital two weeks, and I thought
after that, I for I'd love to I'd take to
give you a hundred dollars so I could get a
stranded out higher and a bowl of that plue for
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whatever it was, to have him a DNA tested. That's interesting.
I mean, you know, you know bars have short high
elks have short hir dare have short hir horses. Everything does.
But this had long, furry, black and brown hir. Now
what could that have been? And it's running around at night. Yeah,
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you'd think that there would have been some more definitive
evidence if you'd hit a bear. I mean, it's that
is really weird. Yeah, and it was. It was, Joshua.
It was way up above the hood. You could see
the the image up way up above the hood. What
Barro would have been, he might have been hood level
or a little bit more. This was way up I
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don't know what it was. I can't definitively say that
there was a big foot, but can't say it's not.
It's good possibility. Joe, Well, this is certainly fired up
your your curiosity because you have this Bigfoot hot Spot
retreat that you and Mom and Jessica and a lot
of our friends are gonna be producing October fifteenth and
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sixteen in Madison County, North Carolina. Uh, tell us more
about what you're gonna do out there. Well, I looked
at the map and Madison County. I've heard my whole
life about it's a big foot hot spot. People. Hundreds
of people's told me that Madison County is kind of
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in the center of the piscoph Forest. You go, wish
you go towards Guanty in Avery and Mitchell and mcdale County.
A man called John Brewer has a picture of a
big foot at Late James and Murray. And you heard
John Brewer, I probably I've heard that he has he
has a picture. Okay, if you go west from Madison County,
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you run into the rest of the Pisga nash Forest
and it runs into the Smokies and uh d Nanta
Halen Nashville Forest and great. A matter of fact, right
there just is in Maggie Valley where I hit. Whatever
I hit, and that's right close to Smokey's was probably
within ten miles of the Smokies. So Masson County is
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just a hub really as far as I'm concerned. And
not only that taken to account all the reportings. A
man after I told me he hunts all the time,
and he was in the general area where we're gonna
have the hunt, and he said that it's eight and
ten ft high up in the are he'd found toward
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pine the of been broke off the trees and something
had made a bed on the ground with all them
pine lamps. So what could that be? What in no Barica?
And that are they ain't No beavers are down clothes.
So I don't want to go up back to that day.
Actually they wasn't solid off. They were broke off. And
I mean, so how are you going to conduct this hunt?
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What is the plan going to be? Well, we've got
a big Foot expert called Christian mc cloud. He he
he's been in the big Foot for years and years,
and he's going to lead the searches. We're going to
have two searches every night, to searches the fifteenth of
October and two searches the sixteenth, and he's going to
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lead these and everything will be over at midnight and
we're gonna see what's out there, if you can find anything.
And he knows how to conduct all this stuff. So
we're gonna have a base camp where we'll have a
camp fire if somebody wants to eat their supper, we're
gonna have bottled water, we're gonna have poort. The parties
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that actually leave there, they better take a flash out
with him because they'll be with the the guy, uh
and see what they find. Actor. Yeah, that's gonna be
uh interesting. I can't wait to get reports after that
event from the people who go out there, and of
course I'll be talking about it on on this show. Um, well,
you know, I guess I think you said, this is
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the first time that you've ever been interviewed, and uh so,
I guess you know, finally, after all of your adventures
in life, even facing death more than once, possibly even
having hit a sasquatch, Uh, what have you learned? Is
the meaning of life? Okay, time for another break. Yeah.
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I had to go there with my dad. What is
the meaning of life? Perhaps the biggest question? I guess
it is the biggest question. But hey, uh, he helped
bringing bring me into this world. And uh, you know,
my mom and dad both say that my sister and
I were we were planned and so that's one of
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the reasons that I, my wife and I chose not
to have kids because I thought, well, I don't want
to have a kid because someday the kid might grow
up like me and turn around and say, Hey, explain everyone,
why did you bring me into this thing? What's the
meaning of life? And I would be like, I got
some hypotheses here, but no real answers. Let's see what
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my dad says, shall we. I'm Joshua P. Warren and
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and this is the show where the unusual becomes usual. Yeah.
I asked my dad, who just turned seventy this year,
what is the meaning of life? And here's what he said, Well, okay,
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awsome think the meaning of life is to go out
here and do the best you can do and treat
everybody right, and you know, carry on with life and
trying to make the best of it. Because it's just
hard to say. What I mean. Christ come into the
world and he had to come down here as a
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human as an example to everybody. So I think that
that's kind of the way people are to feel the
same way like he did. That there's something bigger and
better for us in the future. And he taught righteousness.
I hope you know that's the best way to be.
And why the way. While I'm thinking about it, I
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was doing a little research in this. Daniel Boone and
Davy Crockett both had encounters with Bigfoot. Yeah, they sure did.
It's it's in ridden down that word he did. I
think Teddy Roosevelt may have had an encounter or or
he talked something about Bigfoot as well, and Uh, if
anybody would be out out there running around bigfoot, it
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be Cheddie Roosevelt. Huh oh, I'd say, But you know,
they didn't come up with that. It was some kind
of like a little giraffe for something over in Africa
to like in the twinnies or thirties they found a
new species. And so this could very well. People talked
to big Foot for hundreds of years. Indian legends talked
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about big Foot, calling him the hiring Man and different
names like that. So why couldn't they be a big
foot out there? And they have a way of if
they even die to get rid of you know who,
or dies or whatever. I mean, it's always a possibility,
all right. And so lastly before we end this interview, Look,
the floor is yours. Is there anything at all that
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you want to say? I mean, if not, that's fine,
but anything else you want to stick in here? Well,
the only thing if people want to come and check
this out and see if there's a big Foot out there.
This is supposed to be a play where they've been
known to be soon and it looks like it could be,
and uh, you know, who knows. That's a long way
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to find out. Just search and look. Uh. You know,
I used to hunt years ago and fish. I've hunted
and fished holl Over western North Carolina, and I give
out up years ago. I don't want to harm anything anymore.
And the more you can learn about stuff, it would
be nice. If I saw a big foot. I wouldn't
tell people where they were at, because somebody would try
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to harm them. But I think I'm open to the
people coming and have the search, and who knows you
might see one. There is this debate out there over
whether or not if a person sees bigfoot, the person
should shoot bigfoot just to get one specimen to prove
they exist. How do you feel about that? I know
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I wouldn't. I wouldn't shoot it. You know if you could,
uh maybe uh walk up to and gets over its
hers something like, or or see maybe some of its
tire we scrape off on a fence or a tree.
You know, big foot from what I understand, they have
rubs like deer. You know when deer have antlers and
they take their antlers when in the velvet and rubbed
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their head. They must each Apparently big foot scratches trees too.
I guess he It's is like other people, and so
you know, uh, there's you see trees all time, and
something's been rubbing on them, you know, eight and nine
ten ft up an iron and I couldn't be a
deer that high. So what do what caused that? Yeah,
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it's it's it's a mystery, and uh, you know, we
may never find out what it is, but well I'm
sure we're gonna try as long as I can. All Right,
there was my interview with my dad. As you can see,
it kind of sounds like that our family is both
tortured and delighted and entertained by our curiosities trying to
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solve these mysteries. Um, but I'm really glad that even
though we know we're never going to understand everything, that
at least, you know, we're never going to get bored
because there's a lot to think about, a lot to explore.
And Dad, thank you for being on this show. I
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love you and Mom so much, and I know my
sister Jessica feels the same. And uh, it's just fantastic
that I've been able to have you and Mom on
this show to share your thoughts and experiences with the
world for posterity. I'm very fortunate, and I guess I
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got to interview Jessica next, but that might be heavily atitude.
There's no telling what my sister Jessica is liable to say.
So got gotta come full circle here and get Jessica
on here. But now that that was great and a
very special thing for me to be able to talk
with with my parents on this podcast. And as you
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can all hear, I mean like my dad is fired
up about the whole bigfoot mystery, especially after having that
accident where he may have hit a bigfoot, just like
something out of Harry and the Henderson's you know. Um.
And so look, if you want to participate in this
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bigfoot hunt in October of two in Madison County, North Carolina,
I believe that if you go to ridge Hoppers dot com, um,
you'll see a little information there are I D G
E H O, P P e R S ridge hoppers
dot com. But um, the easiest thing is just to
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you know, email my mom, uh and that way, I
mean you can get details about how you can go
out there with my mom and my dad and Christian
McLeod and a bunch of other people who are experts
in this UM email my mom, Peggy at ridge hoppers
at gmail dot com. R I D G E H
O P P E R s at gmail dot com.
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And again I think if you just go to ridge
hoppers dot com, UM, you'll have some information there as well,
because I am going to be giving a report on
this show about what happens there in the field, and
most of you probably know that. I think that majority
of bigfoot sidings are the product of some kind of
an interdimensional creature, and a lot of people have trouble
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believing that because that they don't realize that an interdimensional
creature is not like a ghost that you just passed
right through when you're It's not like Casper the friendly
ghost and you try to to hug him and you
go through him. No, I mean, uh, an, an interdimensional
creature is actually here physically here. It's a real physical
thing while it's here, and then it just disappears us.
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And so that may be why that so many people
think like bigfoot has to be a physical thing, because
it is, but then they can't find it. And about
seven years ago, UM, I met Dr Jeffrey Meldrum, who's
one of the most esteemed bigfoot sasquatch researchers in the world.
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And and by the way, I mean, I've been looking
into sasquatching bigfoot my whole life. Um, even before I
got in the Ghost, I was reading books as a kid.
And then you know, I know Lauren Coleman very well.
I have hired him to speak at events for me.
We have spoken together at events, and um, I mean
I I I really have always been very open minded
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about this whole thing. So anyway, I was looking back
at some of my notes about meeting uh Dr Jeffrey
Meldrum back in two thousand fifteen, and I asked him,
uh face to face if he thinks the Bigfoot has
to be just an ordinary biological organism, and he said
that he thinks Bigfoot is absolutely an ordinary ape like creature.
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And when I asked him why we don't have more hair, scat, etcetera,
he said that it's simply an extremely small population and
that we are not used to dealing with extremely small
populations of extremely large, intelligent animals. So you know, it's like,
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one of the things that makes me think that that
may be true, but it's also interdimensional is because we
have reports from all fifty States every year. We've gotten
very good at documenting normal physical animals, but we can
barely grasp the idea of interdimensional life forms. And it
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makes sense to me that we can only explain all
these sightings, if they're true, by applying the concept of
a creature that is not the ordinary by logical type.
That's just what I think, Okay, But I do believe
that people have these encounters with Bigfoot, and hopefully you
can see how I bring those two together. And it's
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actually quite interesting, uh, to show you just the extent
to which I am intrigued with Bigfoot. Um. You may
or may not know that I have released a new
brand of paranormal coffee. This is something I've been working
on for years, and one of my coffees is called
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Bigfoot or Brew. And just to give you an idea
of how this came to be, I have, for about
twenty years had a good friend who is an expert
in the gourmet coffee business. She lives in North Carolina
and I I love coffee, but I'm not a big
coffee drinker. And so she started sending me samples of
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different like five star coffees and saying, like, try I
this blend and try this blend. And I started really
enjoying these blends, and it became kind of a fun
thing at my house. Like I would. I started taking
notes on these different blends, and I thought, well, you
know what, if I love this coffee, maybe my audience will.
So I picked these three coffees because they tasted wonderful
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to me. And because that, I thought to myself, if
I were going to go on a ghost hut, I
think I would bring this coffee with me to keep
me alert and all that, you know. Or if I
was going to go out for a night searching for UFOs,
I would want this coffee. It has a little bit
of a cerebral effect opens the mind. Or if I
was gonna sit around that campfire looking for Bigfoot like
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some old cowboy, I would use this guy. And I
picked these coffees. And when we come back from the break,
I want to tell you about these coffees and my
new coffee brand, which is available right now. And then
I want to read to you an email, actually a
couple of interesting emails I've gotten. One of them is
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about dreams that come true. I'm Joshua pe Warren, and
you are listening to Strange Things on the I Heart
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or wherever you find your favorite shows. And welcome back
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to the final segment of this edition of Strange Things
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Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your whole is Joshua pe Warren
And yeah, I uh, I have my own brand of
coffee now. And here's the thing. This is not just
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a gimmick. This is good stuff. Okay. These are artisan blimbs,
roasted and small batches and shipped fresh. Uh. The bad
news is, currently we can only ship to addresses in
the United States. Uh. So I've called this Close Encounter coffees,
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and so I have this flagship Close Encounter Coffee and
then I've got the Banshee Brew. So like you know,
close Encounter Coffee. That's that's what you want if you're
gonna go on a UFO hunt, or the bandshe Brew
if you're gonna go on a ghost hunt, and then
the big Footer Brew. Duh, you know you're gonna go.
And uh, Sam Shearon, who I believe is the best
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artist in the world, produced these beautiful labels for these bags,
and so uh look, if you if you want to
just try it out, Um, you can. You can buy
one of them and try it, or you can buy
us all of them and tryumph. But if you actually
subscribe to one of them or all of them, well
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you'll you'll save money because you get free shipping. And
then every month, what is what a nice surprise it
will be to have a nice fresh bag of this
artist and coffee that appears in your mailbox right when
you need it. So look, just don't take my word
for it. UM, read all about it. Go to the website.
You'll see a video there. You can click a link
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where I'm talking more about this and and why that
this is something that I've never done before, but I'm
doing it now and I guarantee it. Okay, I guarantee
that you will love this and you'll get hooked on it.
You'll pick your favorite one just like I have, and
you know you'll use it probably every day. You know,
this will be your like regular coffee. Uh, go to
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close and Counter Coffees dot com, Close Encounter Coffees dot
Com and uh, you will see very soon. I'm sure
why that I have fallen in love with these coffees
and why that I put my name on them? You know,
I could have taken some old cheap coffee coffee and
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like slap my name. I Now, I'm not just trying
to make a buck here. You'll see um again artisan
gourmet blends. Okay, So let's get to the emails, shall we.
You know I did a show not too long ago
about dreams and dreaming, and I got this email from
Robert in Pennsylvania and he said I was breeding mice
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and rats to feed my growing reptile pet collection. At
one time, I had nine snakes and several lizards that
ate live rodents in different shapes and sizes, everything from pinky,
which is just day old mice to full grown rats.
At this time, I was also camping a lot, and
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I would often be gone an entire weekend, sometimes a
three day weekend, and on one of my three day trips,
I told my dad to check my rodents and make
sure they had enough water. Well. He did not have
to worry about feeding them, as they had plenty of
food to survive until I got home. In other words,
Dad did not have to open any of the cages.
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Our old house was weird in the sense that there
was only one light switch to the basement, and the
switch was at the top of the stairs. You had
to walk through the entire carpeted house, living room, dining
room to get the cellar door, which was in the kitchen.
So whenever I would come home from camping or we
just got out of the creek from inner tubing, I
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would use the outside basement door so as not to
track dirt all over the main house to get to
the basement, But unless the sun was shining, we'd have
to use a flashlight or feel our way with a
dark basement until we found the stairs and then climbed
them to the top to flip on the basement lights. Well,
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while I was camping, I dreamt that I was going
down the stairs into the basement, and I saw some
of my mice running around loose out of their cages.
And when I got home three days later and opened
the outside basement door, I saw mice running around. After
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getting the lights turned on, I found that one of
the cages my dad had opened. Uh, one of the
cages my dad had opened and forgot to put the
lid back on. So did I dream of a future
event or did I dream about it as it was
happening miles away from my campsite. Okay, let me pause
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for a second. Look, it could be either of those, Robert,
because look, I have had dreams myself, uh that come
true in the future. Okay, I'll give you a couple
of examples. When I was a kid, I've talked about
this before. I was like in middle school, and I
had a dream about my science teacher going up in
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front of the class wearing a certain outfit, sitting on
a stool and telling us that she was taking a
new job and she was never going to be our teacher. Well,
she wasn't gonna be our teacher, you know. And uh.
And so the next day, um, that happened. So I
dreamed that in the future. Now, two days ago, I
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was sleeping late because I was up working all night,
and I had this dream about being here in my
house with my wife Lauren and our dogs, and I
looked over and there was this lizard, like some kind
of geck or something like that, you know, uh, sitting there,
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and the dogs started to go after it, but it
didn't move, and it turns out it was it. And then,
like I don't know, maybe a minute after that, I
got woken up because my phone I turned, I kept
it turned up, and I got a text from Lauren.
She had gone out to our swimming pool and she
had found a dead lizard that had drowned in the
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pool that looked almost exactly like what I had dreamed.
So I have no doubt I was dreaming about that
incident as it was happening. So it can go either way.
When you're out of your body, you you can travel
to other places, or you can travel to other times spacetime.
It's the same thing. It's flexible. And then he goes
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on to say, I have heard this story about how
if you dream and you are falling and you hit
the ground before waking up, you will die in your sleep.
Have you ever heard this story? I do remember at
least one time I dreamt I was falling off a
bridge and fell into the creek spend, and I remember
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I bounced awake in my bed. It was like I
was really falling and landed in my bed. The balance
landing woke me up, and I'm thinking my astral spirit
snapped back into my body. And since you mentioned that
you dream you are flying, how do you land? How
have you ever crashed? Well, Robert, these are great stories
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and questions, and okay, so thank you for those. Yes.
Usually when I land, it's kind of soft, you know.
It's it's almost like I'm standing at the bottom of
a swimming pool and I propel myself up and then
I sink back down. But I have had uh dreams
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and which I have fallen straight down and I'm waving
my arms and nothing happens, and I hit and I die.
Uh that has happened to me. And I'm I'm actually
lying there face down and I know I'm dead, and
then I wake up after a while. So I don't
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believe that if you fall and you die in your dream,
that that means you have to die uh in your
physical body. But see, isn't it's cool to get, you know,
feedback like that from listeners. After I talked about this stuff,
let me squeeze in one more email. This comes to
me from man named Charles. I'm not sure where he lives,
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and he says, I want to tell you about some
success I have had with a good fortune tone and
the sigils. I want to write and tell you my
quick success story of using your good fortune tone and sigil.
I was going to Bingo on September one and decided
to take a copy of the money sigil with me.
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I put it on the table in front of me
so I could see it, and I also remembered that
you sent me the free links that included a long
version of the good Fortune Tongue. I put in my
earbuds and listened to it on a thirty minute loop,
and I kept thinking, I'm a winner and I will win.
Will guess what I won? Twice and he told me
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how much he won. I don't think i'll repeat that,
but let me tell you, he says, not a bad
night at all. I plan to try the Casino next.
Thanks well, congratulations Charlie. That's wonderful. Please keep me updated.
And that's the thing, um, when you sign up from
my newsletter, you know, you get this kind of stuff
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that you can experiment with. And that is why I
believe that this whole show does so well, because we're
always working together to have good fortune together. And so
guess what, it's time for me to play the good
fortune tone for you. I want you if you can,
and to close your eyes. If not, uh, you know
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that's okay, but at least take some deep breaths, try
to relax a second. This is only twenty seconds long,
and if you meditate on this while you hear it,
I think you might have one of the best weeks ever.
Here we go. That's it for this edition of the show.
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Get ready of weird. This is Strange Things with Joshua Warren.
I am Joshua P. Warren. At each week on this show,
I'll be bringing you brand new my blowing content, news exercises,
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and weird experiments you can do at home, and a
lot more. On this edition of the program, I interviewed
my dad about the paranormal and he had a surprise
for me. Last year, I interviewed my mother, Peggy Warren
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about her experiences with E s P. That was episode
twenty one called Joshua's Personal Proof of ESP. Well, my father,
Danny Warren, recently turned seventy and he has never been
interviewed by anyone and his entire life, so it was
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certainly time for me to bring him on the show
to ask him about some of his paranormal experiences. And
you know what, he surprised me. He got into a
bad car wreck a while back and was in the
hospital for weeks having surgery. He's okay now, but he
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was driving late at night with my mother in the
mountains near Maggie Valley, North Carolina. At the time he
told everyone he must have hit a bear. But now
he's coming clean with the truth about what he may
have actually hit on that terrible night. Honestly, he had
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never told me this before, so this was a true surprise,
captured live for this podcast. Now, my mom and dad
were both born in Asheville, North Carolina, just like me
and my sister Jessica, and they were high school sweethearts.
They've been together forever, living in the mountains, and when
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you hear me talk with them, you get an idea
of sort of how they helped to inspire my enormous
interest in the unknown. So here we go. Here is
my interview with my father, Danny Warren. Dad, when I
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was growing up, you were always telling me stories about
history and religion and folklore and legends, and I was
deeply inspired by your curiosity and enthusiasm for those things.
Did you grow up with a particular storyteller around your
family or did you develop this interest in stories on
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your own? I believe really it probably was. I'm kind
of like you. We always have a lot of questions
but very few answers, So I think that kind of
uh come, you know, I need to know some answers,
and you did do too, so I think we just
uh went that route and figuring on this stuff. So,
(04:33):
but was there ever anybody who would get around the
campfire and then tell you tales like this? Uh? No,
not really that I know of. I'm sure that they were,
like can uh when I was in boy Scouts or
something like that, but I don't remember it too much
of that stuff. So, now, when you were a kid,
you know, what are some of the most mysterious stories
(04:54):
that you heard growing up? Well, I guess probably the
most Cheris was one my My dad told me years
ago he hadn't talked too much, but when he did,
you know, I listened because he was more open with
you than he ever was me, because you know, he
had a lot of memories of awards stuff. But one
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time he I asked him, I was trying to find
out about my ancestors, and he told me about his
his dad living out towards Pole Creek is where he
raised up. We were at that way one time and
he's saying one right up piers while I grew up.
So his dad, I think his name was Melvin. Now
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I just bindly remember him. He had a great little
big handlebar must tash and they were he was dad dad.
He was the thirteenth kid. I think he's the youngest
and the thirteen kid. So that's a lot of kids
back then. Anyhow, Malvin, his dad was the only bread around.
So he where they lived on Pole Creek, he had
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to walk through the dark woods old a mountain to
a tannery over in Kenon, and uh, you know that's
how he made live. And he had to get up
like four o'clock in the morning because it probably took
him a couple of hours to get there, but seven,
and he'd had to walk home at night and he's
always dark usually, especially you know, in the wintertime. And
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he had an old cossack or people called it burl app.
I guess he'd put his lunch in and he had
a lantern he'd had to carry when he's walking through
the woods. And I asked him one time, I said,
what did he ever come across any barns or mountain
lines or anything like that. He said, well, my dad
told me one time that he remembered he saw which
(06:42):
is dancing around on the ridge tops. And I thought,
what witches he should ask try out? Which is is
what his dad told him. So I always thought that's
pretty istant, deft, he mysterious. And so he didn't know
anything more about who or what these witches were. H No,
he just said he had he had were witches. He
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said how he knew that, I don't know, but he
acts like hein't had a fire, a camp fire of
some sort, and they, uh, you know, they danced around
and nobody lived there. He was just old dark woods.
You know, you're walking through the you know, that was
dark all the time. So that's kind of surprised me
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to him to say that because he was dead, he
had a he was pretty religious, really, and uh, that
surprised me to him to talk about Abbott, you know,
that's what he told me. Well, you know, my first
memory of hearing about the Brown Mountain lights was you
singing the bluegrass song to the family and telling me
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the folklore about the mountain. What was it about Brown
Mountain and that whole mystery that sort of captured your imagination. Well,
I after I heard about him, I heard the song
probably first, and I got my curiosity got the best him,
and I thought, well, I'd like to check that out,
since it's not that far from this is at Liville.
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So one day all of us, uh, your mama and
you and myself, I think, I don't know if Jessica
was born there, we went down and see what Haoigan
see and as we looked off on one eighty one
that points towards Brown mount So we went there and
and all of a sudden it was dark, and it's
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really scary because no other cars were around, and all
of a sudden a little old lights started coming up
off the mountain. And then there's a few minutes another
one and they kind of went across the light, I
mean across the ridge, and they shot off up into
the sky, and I thought, man. And since then we've
been down are dozens of time, and all but one
or two times we saw those lights and and and
(08:47):
they were all kinds of stories for years they said
it was train lights and this another. But there's no
train tracks are there's no cars, there's no houses. I
think the State Forest Service owns that property, but they're
no way that lights is going to come through there
and shoot up. So do you have a feeling about
what they most likely are? Well, I'm not real sure
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that there's a lot of a lot of controversy about that,
and it's still a mystery. I think scientists have come
here from all over the United States and probably the
world and and trying to figure it out, but nobody's
said anything concrete about what it could be. I've got
my own theories, but I don't I don't don't have much,
(09:30):
you know, you can put in the way. Well, let's
let's hear a sample of one of your theories. Well,
I'm working on a little book right now, and I
kind of wonder if fact couldn't be some type of
alien crafts. Yeah, so that's a possibility. A lot of
people have said they've had encounters with aliens up there,
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and you know, even abductions have been reported out there,
and that's what that's what I've heard, and nobody can say,
nobody can side that it's not. Yeah, and uh, of course, uh,
it seems that many of these strange lights out in
the middle of national forests are associated with people vanishing. Um.
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You know that we've we've talked before about like the
Missing four one one books and how that. Uh. I
don't know whether people are being abducted or carried off
by bigfoot or whatever. There are weird things in the
ranges of western North Carolina. And you know, you you
were were inspired by a lot of the stories that
you've heard to uh write a book. Uh. You wrote
this years ago. It's called Ridge Hoppers. Uh tell us
(10:38):
about that book. Okay, we're gonna take a break right there,
and when we come back, you'll hear about my dad's book,
Ridge Hoppers. Did you know that my dad was also
an author? I guess you can see in our family
the apple does not fall far from the treat And then,
of course you will be hearing about the surprise that
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he had for me and all of us when he
talks about what actually happened to him and this car accident. Um. Okay,
By the way, of course, you probably know that years
ago I created a new field of research called parasymatics,
and the most popular sigil that I have created is
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called the Money Sigil. I get stories from all over
the world every year from people telling me they have
the sigil near them, and it's like a money magnet.
Well guess what. Finally, at long last, I have turned
the money Sigil into a line of shirts and hoodies
that you can go online and buy right now. There's
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no better way to use it than to have this
thing physically on your body, all right, So, um, and
not just shirts and hoodies, but also I think there
are some leggings with a wide range of sizes. So
if you want to get the Money sigil um clothing, well,
you gotta go to Joshua pe Warren dot com and
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I'm not sure exactly how it's worded. Uh. And and
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now back to my interview with my dad, Daniel Warren.
Everybody calls him Danny, and I was just asking him
to tell us about the book he wrote, which is
pretty much geared towards young adults called Ridge Hoppers. Well,
that book actually I used. My grandfather did as far
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as crossed lower in the Pole Creek over to the
other sides of the canry, and he him uh and
his wife, I mighteed that he had one son, and
they didn't know where he was at, so a little
boy come to live with his own grandson. Anyway, he
was going up the mountain one day and he encountered
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some little people and they were they were They were
green and blue and red and all that, and they
would have a festivul on top of the mountain and
they were a real mystical type people. They was magical too.
And he went up there and they were they were
which is up there, and they were playing music and
it's a it's pretty interesting. And then he come back
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because he had it had been a flood and he
couldn't cross the creek to go to his work, so
he didn't even go to work that day. So he
come back home late that night and told his wife
and his grandson what had happened, and they wouldn't believe him. Basically,
so he the story goes, is he had to prove
that everybody that he was telling the truth. And they
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found out in the end that he was. So this
is a work of fiction that's based on some of
the real stories from your family's history. Yes, yes, that's right,
so And the website is ridge hoppers dot com if
people want to learn more about that book, Yes, yes,
well and actually on rich hoppers dot com. Um you
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also feature some of your art. You're now one of
the country's premier wood carvers. Your hand carved walking sticks
sometimes sell for hundreds of dollars and high end shops.
You've carved thousands of them. What attracted you to wood carving,
well would to me is it's easy to work with
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and all different woods have all of them seem to
have different characters about them. And what I like about
wood is what people most people were They like a
walking stick, ain't like a straight stick? Well me at
the top is pretty straight, in the bottom, I don't
care watch in the middle. What I like about it
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is is all of the noahs and the imperfections and
the gal and all the imperfections about it, and each
of them is different and it makes you think. You know,
if you if you wheel it down to the bar,
I mean to take all of the bark off. You
can see the grain, but the bark is what amazes
me most is it's so different and like you simmon,
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like on the Sasha Fresh it's just an old brown
looking tree or walking stick water. When you shave the bark,
he gets that beautiful reddish color, and it's just it's
just amazing that the wood. It's just to say, everything
is individualized. It's not even though it's a specie of tree.
If you're dealing with and everything, they're all different, just
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like people. Well, you're always studying the wilderness. I mean,
you've spent a lot of time in the outdoors. Like
you said, you were a boy scout, you were in
the army, You've been a trapper and a hunter, and
a farmer and the land developers. So you've spent lots
of time outdoors, especially in the mountains of western North Carolina.
And you think the Bigfoot maybe real? Is that right? Well,
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I I there's a lot of things I've seen. Uh,
your Mama and I we deliver our hiking sticks a
lot of times, two different states around and we come
home in the dark a lot of times. And I've
spent so many days, hours out in the woods and
there's a lot of mysterious stuff at already can't be explained. Actually,
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to tell you the truth, a year before last, we
were coming through Maggie Valley and Heywood Carny and I
ran into something with the car and it tolled the car.
It just crushed the whole front of the car. And
I didn't see anything. I was doing about forty five
and it here, so I as soon as it here,
the our bags come open and the lights had to
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come out, and the lights went on, and I saw
just the image of something dark is way up above
the hood. So I was hurried to get out because
I had the internal leading in all this, and I
was trying to get the mother out of car. So
I walked around to the front of the car, I said,
and don't want to hit And I looked and there's
a bunch of blackish long fur on the front of
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the car. And there was a piece of undigested fish.
And uh, I've been around bars my whole life, and uh,
byar scat is just an old Tory black and it's
usually got seated. There was some kind of poop or
what do you call it there, and and it was
not a bar. I don't know what it was, but
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whatever it was, it run off into the woods, so
I never did see it, and the highway patrol and
he didn't want to go down into the woods to
look for it, so I think he ended up putting
putting that it was a bar that I hit. But
there's nothing there, sir. And I didn't never get a
chance to put the brakes on when I hit it,
and I thought at later our car was towed away
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and I went to the hospital and your mother did too,
and then they took me to the trauma center and
they hadn't taken a spleen out. I had infernal bleeding.
I was in the hospital two weeks, and I thought
after that, I for I'd love to I'd take to
give you a hundred dollars so I could get a
stranded out higher and a bowl of that plue for
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whatever it was, to have him a DNA tested. That's interesting.
I mean, you know, you know bars have short high
elks have short hir dare have short hir horses. Everything does.
But this had long, furry, black and brown hir. Now
what could that have been? And it's running around at night. Yeah,
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you'd think that there would have been some more definitive
evidence if you'd hit a bear. I mean, it's that
is really weird. Yeah, and it was. It was, Joshua.
It was way up above the hood. You could see
the the image up way up above the hood. What
Barro would have been, he might have been hood level
or a little bit more. This was way up I
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don't know what it was. I can't definitively say that
there was a big foot, but can't say it's not.
It's good possibility. Joe, Well, this is certainly fired up
your your curiosity because you have this Bigfoot hot Spot
retreat that you and Mom and Jessica and a lot
of our friends are gonna be producing October fifteenth and
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sixteen in Madison County, North Carolina. Uh, tell us more
about what you're gonna do out there. Well, I looked
at the map and Madison County. I've heard my whole
life about it's a big foot hot spot. People. Hundreds
of people's told me that Madison County is kind of
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in the center of the piscoph Forest. You go, wish
you go towards Guanty in Avery and Mitchell and mcdale County.
A man called John Brewer has a picture of a
big foot at Late James and Murray. And you heard
John Brewer, I probably I've heard that he has he
has a picture. Okay, if you go west from Madison County,
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you run into the rest of the Pisga nash Forest
and it runs into the Smokies and uh d Nanta
Halen Nashville Forest and great. A matter of fact, right
there just is in Maggie Valley where I hit. Whatever
I hit, and that's right close to Smokey's was probably
within ten miles of the Smokies. So Masson County is
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just a hub really as far as I'm concerned. And
not only that taken to account all the reportings. A
man after I told me he hunts all the time,
and he was in the general area where we're gonna
have the hunt, and he said that it's eight and
ten ft high up in the are he'd found toward
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pine the of been broke off the trees and something
had made a bed on the ground with all them
pine lamps. So what could that be? What in no Barica?
And that are they ain't No beavers are down clothes.
So I don't want to go up back to that day.
Actually they wasn't solid off. They were broke off. And
I mean, so how are you going to conduct this hunt?
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What is the plan going to be? Well, we've got
a big Foot expert called Christian mc cloud. He he
he's been in the big Foot for years and years,
and he's going to lead the searches. We're going to
have two searches every night, to searches the fifteenth of
October and two searches the sixteenth, and he's going to
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lead these and everything will be over at midnight and
we're gonna see what's out there, if you can find anything.
And he knows how to conduct all this stuff. So
we're gonna have a base camp where we'll have a
camp fire if somebody wants to eat their supper, we're
gonna have bottled water, we're gonna have poort. The parties
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that actually leave there, they better take a flash out
with him because they'll be with the the guy, uh
and see what they find. Actor. Yeah, that's gonna be
uh interesting. I can't wait to get reports after that
event from the people who go out there, and of
course I'll be talking about it on on this show. Um, well,
you know, I guess I think you said, this is
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the first time that you've ever been interviewed, and uh so,
I guess you know, finally, after all of your adventures
in life, even facing death more than once, possibly even
having hit a sasquatch, Uh, what have you learned? Is
the meaning of life? Okay, time for another break. Yeah.
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I had to go there with my dad. What is
the meaning of life? Perhaps the biggest question? I guess
it is the biggest question. But hey, uh, he helped
bringing bring me into this world. And uh, you know,
my mom and dad both say that my sister and
I were we were planned and so that's one of
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the reasons that I, my wife and I chose not
to have kids because I thought, well, I don't want
to have a kid because someday the kid might grow
up like me and turn around and say, Hey, explain everyone,
why did you bring me into this thing? What's the
meaning of life? And I would be like, I got
some hypotheses here, but no real answers. Let's see what
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my dad says, shall we. I'm Joshua P. Warren and
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and this is the show where the unusual becomes usual. Yeah.
I asked my dad, who just turned seventy this year,
what is the meaning of life? And here's what he said, Well, okay,
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awsome think the meaning of life is to go out
here and do the best you can do and treat
everybody right, and you know, carry on with life and
trying to make the best of it. Because it's just
hard to say. What I mean. Christ come into the
world and he had to come down here as a
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human as an example to everybody. So I think that
that's kind of the way people are to feel the
same way like he did. That there's something bigger and
better for us in the future. And he taught righteousness.
I hope you know that's the best way to be.
And why the way. While I'm thinking about it, I
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was doing a little research in this. Daniel Boone and
Davy Crockett both had encounters with Bigfoot. Yeah, they sure did.
It's it's in ridden down that word he did. I
think Teddy Roosevelt may have had an encounter or or
he talked something about Bigfoot as well, and Uh, if
anybody would be out out there running around bigfoot, it
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be Cheddie Roosevelt. Huh oh, I'd say, But you know,
they didn't come up with that. It was some kind
of like a little giraffe for something over in Africa
to like in the twinnies or thirties they found a
new species. And so this could very well. People talked
to big Foot for hundreds of years. Indian legends talked
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about big Foot, calling him the hiring Man and different
names like that. So why couldn't they be a big
foot out there? And they have a way of if
they even die to get rid of you know who,
or dies or whatever. I mean, it's always a possibility,
all right. And so lastly before we end this interview, Look,
the floor is yours. Is there anything at all that
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you want to say? I mean, if not, that's fine,
but anything else you want to stick in here? Well,
the only thing if people want to come and check
this out and see if there's a big Foot out there.
This is supposed to be a play where they've been
known to be soon and it looks like it could be,
and uh, you know, who knows. That's a long way
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to find out. Just search and look. Uh. You know,
I used to hunt years ago and fish. I've hunted
and fished holl Over western North Carolina, and I give
out up years ago. I don't want to harm anything anymore.
And the more you can learn about stuff, it would
be nice. If I saw a big foot. I wouldn't
tell people where they were at, because somebody would try
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to harm them. But I think I'm open to the
people coming and have the search, and who knows you
might see one. There is this debate out there over
whether or not if a person sees bigfoot, the person
should shoot bigfoot just to get one specimen to prove
they exist. How do you feel about that? I know
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I wouldn't. I wouldn't shoot it. You know if you could,
uh maybe uh walk up to and gets over its
hers something like, or or see maybe some of its
tire we scrape off on a fence or a tree.
You know, big foot from what I understand, they have
rubs like deer. You know when deer have antlers and
they take their antlers when in the velvet and rubbed
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their head. They must each Apparently big foot scratches trees too.
I guess he It's is like other people, and so
you know, uh, there's you see trees all time, and
something's been rubbing on them, you know, eight and nine
ten ft up an iron and I couldn't be a
deer that high. So what do what caused that? Yeah,
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it's it's it's a mystery, and uh, you know, we
may never find out what it is, but well I'm
sure we're gonna try as long as I can. All Right,
there was my interview with my dad. As you can see,
it kind of sounds like that our family is both
tortured and delighted and entertained by our curiosities trying to
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solve these mysteries. Um, but I'm really glad that even
though we know we're never going to understand everything, that
at least, you know, we're never going to get bored
because there's a lot to think about, a lot to explore.
And Dad, thank you for being on this show. I
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love you and Mom so much, and I know my
sister Jessica feels the same. And uh, it's just fantastic
that I've been able to have you and Mom on
this show to share your thoughts and experiences with the
world for posterity. I'm very fortunate, and I guess I
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got to interview Jessica next, but that might be heavily atitude.
There's no telling what my sister Jessica is liable to say.
So got gotta come full circle here and get Jessica
on here. But now that that was great and a
very special thing for me to be able to talk
with with my parents on this podcast. And as you
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can all hear, I mean like my dad is fired
up about the whole bigfoot mystery, especially after having that
accident where he may have hit a bigfoot, just like
something out of Harry and the Henderson's you know. Um.
And so look, if you want to participate in this
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bigfoot hunt in October of two in Madison County, North Carolina,
I believe that if you go to ridge Hoppers dot com, um,
you'll see a little information there are I D G
E H O, P P e R S ridge hoppers
dot com. But um, the easiest thing is just to
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you know, email my mom, uh and that way, I
mean you can get details about how you can go
out there with my mom and my dad and Christian
McLeod and a bunch of other people who are experts
in this UM email my mom, Peggy at ridge hoppers
at gmail dot com. R I D G E H
O P P E R s at gmail dot com.
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And again I think if you just go to ridge
hoppers dot com, UM, you'll have some information there as well,
because I am going to be giving a report on
this show about what happens there in the field, and
most of you probably know that. I think that majority
of bigfoot sidings are the product of some kind of
an interdimensional creature, and a lot of people have trouble
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believing that because that they don't realize that an interdimensional
creature is not like a ghost that you just passed
right through when you're It's not like Casper the friendly
ghost and you try to to hug him and you
go through him. No, I mean, uh, an, an interdimensional
creature is actually here physically here. It's a real physical
thing while it's here, and then it just disappears us.
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And so that may be why that so many people
think like bigfoot has to be a physical thing, because
it is, but then they can't find it. And about
seven years ago, UM, I met Dr Jeffrey Meldrum, who's
one of the most esteemed bigfoot sasquatch researchers in the world.
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And and by the way, I mean, I've been looking
into sasquatching bigfoot my whole life. Um, even before I
got in the Ghost, I was reading books as a kid.
And then you know, I know Lauren Coleman very well.
I have hired him to speak at events for me.
We have spoken together at events, and um, I mean
I I I really have always been very open minded
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about this whole thing. So anyway, I was looking back
at some of my notes about meeting uh Dr Jeffrey
Meldrum back in two thousand fifteen, and I asked him,
uh face to face if he thinks the Bigfoot has
to be just an ordinary biological organism, and he said
that he thinks Bigfoot is absolutely an ordinary ape like creature.
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And when I asked him why we don't have more hair, scat, etcetera,
he said that it's simply an extremely small population and
that we are not used to dealing with extremely small
populations of extremely large, intelligent animals. So you know, it's like,
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one of the things that makes me think that that
may be true, but it's also interdimensional is because we
have reports from all fifty States every year. We've gotten
very good at documenting normal physical animals, but we can
barely grasp the idea of interdimensional life forms. And it
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makes sense to me that we can only explain all
these sightings, if they're true, by applying the concept of
a creature that is not the ordinary by logical type.
That's just what I think, Okay, But I do believe
that people have these encounters with Bigfoot, and hopefully you
can see how I bring those two together. And it's
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actually quite interesting, uh, to show you just the extent
to which I am intrigued with Bigfoot. Um. You may
or may not know that I have released a new
brand of paranormal coffee. This is something I've been working
on for years, and one of my coffees is called
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Bigfoot or Brew. And just to give you an idea
of how this came to be, I have, for about
twenty years had a good friend who is an expert
in the gourmet coffee business. She lives in North Carolina
and I I love coffee, but I'm not a big
coffee drinker. And so she started sending me samples of
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different like five star coffees and saying, like, try I
this blend and try this blend. And I started really
enjoying these blends, and it became kind of a fun
thing at my house. Like I would. I started taking
notes on these different blends, and I thought, well, you
know what, if I love this coffee, maybe my audience will.
So I picked these three coffees because they tasted wonderful
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to me. And because that, I thought to myself, if
I were going to go on a ghost hut, I
think I would bring this coffee with me to keep
me alert and all that, you know. Or if I
was going to go out for a night searching for UFOs,
I would want this coffee. It has a little bit
of a cerebral effect opens the mind. Or if I
was gonna sit around that campfire looking for Bigfoot like
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some old cowboy, I would use this guy. And I
picked these coffees. And when we come back from the break,
I want to tell you about these coffees and my
new coffee brand, which is available right now. And then
I want to read to you an email, actually a
couple of interesting emails I've gotten. One of them is
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about dreams that come true. I'm Joshua pe Warren, and
you are listening to Strange Things on the I Heart
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or wherever you find your favorite shows. And welcome back
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to the final segment of this edition of Strange Things
on the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast AM
Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your whole is Joshua pe Warren
And yeah, I uh, I have my own brand of
coffee now. And here's the thing. This is not just
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a gimmick. This is good stuff. Okay. These are artisan blimbs,
roasted and small batches and shipped fresh. Uh. The bad
news is, currently we can only ship to addresses in
the United States. Uh. So I've called this Close Encounter coffees,
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and so I have this flagship Close Encounter Coffee and
then I've got the Banshee Brew. So like you know,
close Encounter Coffee. That's that's what you want if you're
gonna go on a UFO hunt, or the bandshe Brew
if you're gonna go on a ghost hunt, and then
the big Footer Brew. Duh, you know you're gonna go.
And uh, Sam Shearon, who I believe is the best
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artist in the world, produced these beautiful labels for these bags,
and so uh look, if you if you want to
just try it out, Um, you can. You can buy
one of them and try it, or you can buy
us all of them and tryumph. But if you actually
subscribe to one of them or all of them, well
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you'll you'll save money because you get free shipping. And
then every month, what is what a nice surprise it
will be to have a nice fresh bag of this
artist and coffee that appears in your mailbox right when
you need it. So look, just don't take my word
for it. UM, read all about it. Go to the website.
You'll see a video there. You can click a link
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where I'm talking more about this and and why that
this is something that I've never done before, but I'm
doing it now and I guarantee it. Okay, I guarantee
that you will love this and you'll get hooked on it.
You'll pick your favorite one just like I have, and
you know you'll use it probably every day. You know,
this will be your like regular coffee. Uh, go to
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close and Counter Coffees dot com, Close Encounter Coffees dot
Com and uh, you will see very soon. I'm sure
why that I have fallen in love with these coffees
and why that I put my name on them? You know,
I could have taken some old cheap coffee coffee and
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like slap my name. I Now, I'm not just trying
to make a buck here. You'll see um again artisan
gourmet blends. Okay, So let's get to the emails, shall we.
You know I did a show not too long ago
about dreams and dreaming, and I got this email from
Robert in Pennsylvania and he said I was breeding mice
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and rats to feed my growing reptile pet collection. At
one time, I had nine snakes and several lizards that
ate live rodents in different shapes and sizes, everything from pinky,
which is just day old mice to full grown rats.
At this time, I was also camping a lot, and
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I would often be gone an entire weekend, sometimes a
three day weekend, and on one of my three day trips,
I told my dad to check my rodents and make
sure they had enough water. Well. He did not have
to worry about feeding them, as they had plenty of
food to survive until I got home. In other words,
Dad did not have to open any of the cages.
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Our old house was weird in the sense that there
was only one light switch to the basement, and the
switch was at the top of the stairs. You had
to walk through the entire carpeted house, living room, dining
room to get the cellar door, which was in the kitchen.
So whenever I would come home from camping or we
just got out of the creek from inner tubing, I
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would use the outside basement door so as not to
track dirt all over the main house to get to
the basement, But unless the sun was shining, we'd have
to use a flashlight or feel our way with a
dark basement until we found the stairs and then climbed
them to the top to flip on the basement lights. Well,
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while I was camping, I dreamt that I was going
down the stairs into the basement, and I saw some
of my mice running around loose out of their cages.
And when I got home three days later and opened
the outside basement door, I saw mice running around. After
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getting the lights turned on, I found that one of
the cages my dad had opened. Uh, one of the
cages my dad had opened and forgot to put the
lid back on. So did I dream of a future
event or did I dream about it as it was
happening miles away from my campsite. Okay, let me pause
(46:53):
for a second. Look, it could be either of those, Robert,
because look, I have had dreams myself, uh that come
true in the future. Okay, I'll give you a couple
of examples. When I was a kid, I've talked about
this before. I was like in middle school, and I
had a dream about my science teacher going up in
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front of the class wearing a certain outfit, sitting on
a stool and telling us that she was taking a
new job and she was never going to be our teacher. Well,
she wasn't gonna be our teacher, you know. And uh.
And so the next day, um, that happened. So I
dreamed that in the future. Now, two days ago, I
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was sleeping late because I was up working all night,
and I had this dream about being here in my
house with my wife Lauren and our dogs, and I
looked over and there was this lizard, like some kind
of geck or something like that, you know, uh, sitting there,
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and the dogs started to go after it, but it
didn't move, and it turns out it was it. And then,
like I don't know, maybe a minute after that, I
got woken up because my phone I turned, I kept
it turned up, and I got a text from Lauren.
She had gone out to our swimming pool and she
had found a dead lizard that had drowned in the
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pool that looked almost exactly like what I had dreamed.
So I have no doubt I was dreaming about that
incident as it was happening. So it can go either way.
When you're out of your body, you you can travel
to other places, or you can travel to other times spacetime.
It's the same thing. It's flexible. And then he goes
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on to say, I have heard this story about how
if you dream and you are falling and you hit
the ground before waking up, you will die in your sleep.
Have you ever heard this story? I do remember at
least one time I dreamt I was falling off a
bridge and fell into the creek spend, and I remember
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I bounced awake in my bed. It was like I
was really falling and landed in my bed. The balance
landing woke me up, and I'm thinking my astral spirit
snapped back into my body. And since you mentioned that
you dream you are flying, how do you land? How
have you ever crashed? Well, Robert, these are great stories
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and questions, and okay, so thank you for those. Yes.
Usually when I land, it's kind of soft, you know.
It's it's almost like I'm standing at the bottom of
a swimming pool and I propel myself up and then
I sink back down. But I have had uh dreams
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and which I have fallen straight down and I'm waving
my arms and nothing happens, and I hit and I die.
Uh that has happened to me. And I'm I'm actually
lying there face down and I know I'm dead, and
then I wake up after a while. So I don't
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believe that if you fall and you die in your dream,
that that means you have to die uh in your
physical body. But see, isn't it's cool to get, you know,
feedback like that from listeners. After I talked about this stuff,
let me squeeze in one more email. This comes to
me from man named Charles. I'm not sure where he lives,
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and he says, I want to tell you about some
success I have had with a good fortune tone and
the sigils. I want to write and tell you my
quick success story of using your good fortune tone and sigil.
I was going to Bingo on September one and decided
to take a copy of the money sigil with me.
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I put it on the table in front of me
so I could see it, and I also remembered that
you sent me the free links that included a long
version of the good Fortune Tongue. I put in my
earbuds and listened to it on a thirty minute loop,
and I kept thinking, I'm a winner and I will win.
Will guess what I won? Twice and he told me
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how much he won. I don't think i'll repeat that,
but let me tell you, he says, not a bad
night at all. I plan to try the Casino next.
Thanks well, congratulations Charlie. That's wonderful. Please keep me updated.
And that's the thing, um, when you sign up from
my newsletter, you know, you get this kind of stuff
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that you can experiment with. And that is why I
believe that this whole show does so well, because we're
always working together to have good fortune together. And so
guess what, it's time for me to play the good
fortune tone for you. I want you if you can,
and to close your eyes. If not, uh, you know
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that's okay, but at least take some deep breaths, try
to relax a second. This is only twenty seconds long,
and if you meditate on this while you hear it,
I think you might have one of the best weeks ever.
Here we go. That's it for this edition of the show.
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