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matter for yourself. You got ready. This is Strange Thing
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with I Am JOSHUAFE Warren, and each week on this show,
I'll be bringing you brand new my blowing content, news exercises,
and weird experiments you can do at home, and a
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lot more on this edition of the show. They won't
let me investigate this. Actually you're going to hear kind
of a list of stories and places in this particular podcast.
I got a message the other day from a woman
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asking me if I had ever investigated the creepy La
Louri mansion in New Orleans, Louisiana. Now, I have had
a lot of spooky experiences in Louisiana. In fact, you
possibly heard me talk about the time I spent the
night by myself at Myrtle's plantation in Saint Francisville, Louisiana,
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and had some intelligent invisible being knocking on the walls
and the tables and keeping me up all night. Got
that on video. But anyway, getting back to her particular question,
I told her that I I have been to the
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Llauri mansion and if you don't know what that is,
I'll tell you in a minute. But I said, I
have been to the creepy l Loauri mansion, but they
would not let me in to investigate. And she said,
what why? Why on earth wouldn't they let you into it? This?
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And I get this reaction from time to time for
people when I say, yeah, I couldn't get in, They
can't believe it, They say, well, wi on earth would
anyone deny access to the great and terrible Joshua Pee
Warren to go in and do it? And I think
this is a good opportunity to tell you some stories
about just how much resistance that you get sometimes when
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you're in the paranormal field. If you are the type
of person who listens to a podcast like this, then
that means you are open minded and you are intelligent
enough to understand how interesting these mysterious places are. And
if you owned a place like that, or managed a
place that had some amazing phenomenon, you would welcome a
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credible person coming in to study it. But because you're
that kind of person, it's easy to just expect that
others would feel the same way, and that is certainly
not always the case. So let me tell you what
happened when it comes to the Lo Louri Mansion. First off,
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this is a story that I find kind of difficult
to talk about. If you a lot of you may
have heard about this place because it was dramatized in
the popular show American Horror Story. But this truly was
a house of horrors, a house of torture and mutilation,
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And in fact, some of the stories are so gruesome
and disturbing that I honestly do not want to get
into them on this podcast. But here's the gist of it. Okay,
this house, it's right near Bourbon Street, so it's in
the middle of all the action. And it was the
residence of this woman who lived from seventeen eighty seven
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to eighteen forty nine named Marie Delphine la Lourie. Okay,
and so I guess she became known as Madame la
Lourie after one of her marriages. And according to Wikipedia,
it says she was a New Orleans sociolite and serial
killer who tortured and murdered slaves in her household. And again,
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if you want to to learn more about this, then
you can just look it up for yourself. But she
was so horribly torturing slaves, almost to the point of experimentation,
you know, mutilating them and doing really unspeakable things to
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them that when the people of New Orleans found out
about this and discovered some of these poor people who
had been chained up in her house and tied up
in her house, the house was mobbed and it was
basically destroyed, and they were going to execute her, but somehow,
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you know, she was connected enough, and she escaped. They
I think they believed she escaped to France and was
never brought to justice, and they believed that she died
there on Let's See at the age of sixty two.
But it's just just a terrible story. So they're that
in mind, because in twenty twelve, I was hired by
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the Travel Channel and the company that produces the Ghost
Adventures show to be a regular cast member on a
TV series called Paranormal Papa Rozzi, And the idea was
that I would be on every single episode and I
would be one of a handful of reporters that would
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travel around the United States covering strange topics and especially
any kind of breaking news about anything weird. You know, ghost, UFOs, cryptids,
all that stuff, but also you know, just unusual stuff
like some of these explosions that people would experience out
of the blue in the in their in their their
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neighborhood and all that kind of business. The As a
matter of fact, one time I went to uh UM,
I went to Florida and I did a segment off
the cuff about the Fountain of Youth, and the people
there didn't want me to cover that, so UM anyway,
that kind of ties into the topic. But nonetheless, for
this show UM, I spent months with my friend and
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producer ce Eric Scott traveling all over the United States
by planes, trains, and automobiles, h and even part of
the fringe, the outer fringe of Mexico there covering these stories.
It was a heck of an adventure. There's no way
I could do that now I don't have the energy
to do that anymore. But it was a great epic adventure,
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kind of a once in a lifetime experience. And one
of the places we were assigned to cover a story
in was New Orleans, and they actually sent us down
there to do a story about this voodoo priestess. And
actually I think that one didn't make the cut for
some reason. But while Eric and I were in New Orleans,
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I realized at one point that we were near the
La louri Mansion. Okay, this is in in the evening,
and this is a mansion that it's connected to pop
culture in a lot of different ways. For a while,
Nicolas Cage, the actor, owned this house. So I was
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let's see Eric and I one evening we were walking
by and I go, that's the La Lourie Mansion. Wouldn't
that be an risting segment? And of course it was.
It was all locked up and it looked like, I
didn't have any way of even trying to figure out,
you know, who to contact. And I looked up at
Lo and behold, there is a man standing on a
balcony up there, holding a drink. And I start shouting
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up there and we start having a friendly conversation and
he's telling me about the house and everything, and I said, hey,
this is amazing. You know, I'm here in town filming
some interesting stories for the Travel Channel. Is it okay
if I come inside and take a look. And the
guy says, yeah, sure, that's fine, and then he turned
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and he walks off, And I said to Eric, Wow,
can you believe this? What an unexpected Jack Pott. You
know I'm going to get to go into this this
you know, amazing Lolauri mansion to do this story. And
then we waited and waited. About five minutes later, the
guy reappears and now there is a second man with him,
an older guy, and the older guy just looks down
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it doesn't say anything. And the first guy I was
talking to he was wearing a ball cap and he
kind of looked like a groundskeeper. Sort. I don't know,
I've just seen enough groundskeepers I kind of know what
they look like and uh, and he goes, I'm sorry,
I can't. I can't, And I was like, what, you know,
I was so close, and I try my best to
convince these guys. You know, I started bribing them, and
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I don't know how much money I had on me,
but I was and nothing worked. So I never got
to go in there. And that was the story at
that time. They did not want that kind of publicity.
And I must point out that actually that is not
even the same structure, because the original structure was torn
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and torn apart and burned down by a mob, so
this is even a different building. But still, you know,
it's the same piece of space time there where all
this happened. And but since then the building has changed hands,
and I believe that with new owners and new management,
other people have I'm in and been able to investigate
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that place. But this made me think of like all
these similar situations that I've had throughout my life in
which I have been told Nope, you cannot investigate this.
And you have to realize that over time, though ownership changes,
management changes, and some people do and some people do
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not want publicity. When we come back from our first break,
I'm going to tell you about some of these places
that have had this attitude or change in attitude, like
the Grove Park in in Asheville, North Carolina, the Reed House,
and my biggest challenge ever, the White House. I also
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have an interesting story for you about Robert the Haunted Doll.
All that and a lot more. By the way, you know,
I recently released the Buddha Stone, money Magnet and Happiness Kit,
and boy has the response been absolutely overwhelming. People around
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the world absolutely love this thing. Watch the short video
about this and as long as I may have them
in stock, I don't know how long that will be.
But here's what you need to do. Go to Joshua
Peewarren dot com. There's no period after the Joshua Peewarren
dot com. Click the link first off on the homepage
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to the free e Newsletter. Okay, you just put your
email address and there, hit the button and you'll instantly
receive an automated email from me with some cool free
gifts online instant stuff. But then go to the Curiosity
shop and you'll find currently currently a picture there of
the buddhistone on top of what I call the portal plate.
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Click that watch the video learn why this thing is
so amazing. I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange
Things on the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast am
para normal podcast network, and I will be right back.
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Welcome back to Strange Things on the iHeart Radio and
Coast to Coast am parin normal podcast network. I'm your host,
the Wizard of Weird, Joshua pe 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.
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Gia Tato Zume, agiatatos Zume, do you feel the magic?
Guess what a listener of this show heard the episode
I did about the magical word ajiatatos Zume, and he
created a private Facebook group just to discuss experiences regarding
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this word and similar topics. And so if you are
on Facebook and you want to participate, even though it's
a private group, you should be able to just go
there and you know, request to be a part of it,
and it would be fascinating, I'm sure for all of
us to sort of see where this goes. So let
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me spell that for you in case you want to
do it. It's spelled A g I A T A
t o z o O m A y. Probably if
you just type in a gia it'll pop up. But
a gia T A t o z o o m
a y ajiatato zoome. This is gonna be cool. Also,
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you know, I was talking about me being on this
show called Paranormal Paparazzi that aired on the Travel Channel
in twenty and twelve. If you want to see some
free segments from that TV show, as well as samples
of some other TV stuff I've done, if you go
to Joshua Pewarren dot com, there's a section at the
top that says TV and film work, and if you
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click that, it will just give you some free samples,
you know, clips and reels and things that you can
watch and if you've never seen that, you might enjoy
some of it. But you know, I was born and
raised in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, and one
of the most prominent places in Asheville is the Grove
Park In Resort and spa. The Venerable Resort was built
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in nineteen thirteen and its history is magnificent. It's the
kind of place where you know all the celebrities and
the presidents would stay, you know, when they came into town.
And while I was growing up, I mean, everybody knew
that there was this ghost there called the Pink Lady.
And the story was that she was some young woman
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who'd been staying there, probably in the nineteen twenties, and
wearing a long pink evening gown and somehow she fell
off of a balcony in the interior of the hotel
around the Palm Court and died, and then her death
was sort of covered up. And now this Pink Lady
has seen as a ghost floating around the place, and
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for decades it was forbidden to talk about this ghost.
Employees were told at the Grove Park End, if you
talk about this, you will be fired. For a number
of reasons. It might not just be because some people
get scared, but also because that if there was a
real death and some prominent figure was connected, then it
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may have actually been a cover up. We just we
still don't know for certain about the facts surrounding this
Pink Ladys story. But all we know is that a
lot of people said they saw her, and a lot
of people claimed that's it's rooted in fact and all
of that sort of changed in I guess it was
around nineteen ninety five ninety six when I actually was
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already writing my book, Haunted Asheville. It took me a
long time to write that book because I went out
and ideal of these investigations and turned them into stories,
and it was just so fortunate for me. It was
it was just like a super you know, hitting the
local ghost latto. I got contacted by the resort Dave
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Tomsky and Craig Madison, who were in charge of marketing
immediate relations there, decided they were interested in finally revealing
this story, but they wanted to get the facts down,
and so they hired me to spend six months crawling
around that place and interviewing people and spending the night
in rooms, and I produced a report, the Pink Lady Report,
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which impressed them enough that they did it all out
marketing campaign, had a big media event, and I'm telling you,
satellite news trucks came from all over the country. It
was a huge boost for what would become my career.
And also, you know, they allowed me to write about it,
and Haunted Asheville and The Pink Lady ended up on
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the cover of the book, and it was just like
a huge win win win, Like everybody loved it. And
now when you go to the Grove park in, I mean,
the Pink Lady is this beloved sort of mascot for
the place, and little kids leave notes to her outside
of the door where they believe that she stayed. I mean,
it's just, you know, it's turned out to be great.
And yet at the same time, there was another house
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that I wrote about, or there was a house, a
mansion that I wrote about in Haunted Asheville called the
Reid House, which was owned by one of George Vanderbilt's lawyers.
Of course, George Vanderbilt owned the Biltmore House, which is
this amazing castle in Asheville. It's the largest private home
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in America. And so his lawyer, Samuel Reid, owned this
house on a nearby hill. And at that time, the
woman who owned the house, Marge Turco, was with the
Preservation Society, and she was just delighted to have the
story of the ghosts in that house put into the book,
and we would take people up there sometimes on tours
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and investigations. And then all of a sudden, you know,
she sold it and a couple of new guys came in,
and the next time I went over there, they said,
this is under new management now and you are no
longer welcome to talk about the ghost here. And I
was like, what really? So that happened. I don't know
who owns it now and what the policy is, but
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I often I will have access to a place for
a while and then something like this will happen. Of course,
the top place that I've been trying to get into
for a long time is the White House, and nobody
has ever been able to successfully go and conduct a
public paranormal investigation of the White House, but in particular
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the Lincoln Bedroom. I have been to the White House
on a tour and that was arranged by some friends
that I have in the political arena, But as far
as an investigation of the Lincoln Bedroom, that's something that
almost has to be authorized by the President or certainly
his inner circle. And you know, there was this amazing
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photograph that was taken in the nineteen fifties during a
renovation of the White House that shows what I believe
is a ghostly, full bodied apparition standing in the basement
of the White House, right under the Lincoln bedroom and
if any of you think that that maybe like a
long exposure, I did a video where we demonstrated why
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we don't believe that, and in fact, there are updates
to that video that are not in the video where
we determined that that was only exposed for a maximum
of two seconds and there's no way it could have
created that kind of of a translucent being. As a
matter of fact, we found we didn't even notice this
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when we were doing our original research. And by us,
I mean see Eric Scott and myself who made the
report and put a video out about it. But there
actually is another construction worker in this picture, and he
happens to be walking, like taking a step at the
moment the picture was snapped, and we were able to
use that to calculate the exposure time. But anyway, if
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you're interested in this picture, you'd go to Joshua Pewarren
dot com. There's a section called Gallery of the Strange
and if you click that, you'll see a section called
something about you know, the White House Ghost, and you
can watch our video report and see the updates and
all that. Well. I started writing letters to presidents, starting
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with Obama. Obama was the first president. I think that
I wrote a letter to asking for permission to go
and do an investigation. And you have to understand something.
The White House is ultimately supposed to be accessible to
the people. And we see how that how the roles
have changed and the government of this country over the
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past you know, two hundred and almost two hundred and
fifty years here, but you know that it is supposed
to be the people's property, and the president is as
a public servant who lives there temporarily, but it should
be accessible to the people. Well, anyway, good luck convincing
the system of that nowadays. I wrote multiple letters to
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Obama asking for permission to just go and spend a
few hours investigating the Lincoln bed him. Absolutely got no
clearance to that. And then I wrote President Trump and
ask him no clearance. Then I wrote President Biden, same deal,
no clearance. I don't care who the president is, I
don't care what the political party is. This transcends politics.
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This is about a historic building that belongs to the
American public. And so you know, presidents and their administrations
come and go, always have, always will. But I have
never been given that opportunity. And I'll throw it out
there one more time. You know, if any president or
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any administration or anybody in a position can give me
just a few hours to go into the Lincoln Bedroom,
it will be a very professional investigation. Everything that I
do will be authorized in advance. And I think it
would just be a wonderful treat because it also would
be a great way of helping to feature the history
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of that room and the White House in particular. But
you know, I doubt that's going to happen, but you
never know. You never know. I've even said a wishing
machine on that project before, and that's one of the
wishes that has not come true yet. It's not too late.
I'll tell you something else. You know, when I was
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down there in Key West, Florida doing my original investigation
of Robert the Haunted Doll, and this has been like gosh,
I don't know, probably like thirteen years ago or something
like that. When I went down there, the people in
Key West, and of course, you know Robert the Haunted Doll.
He's this doll who supposedly comes to life and runs
around the people in Key West. They rolled out a
red carpet for me, and they really gave me a
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lot of wonderful access to Robert the Haunted Doll. But
then something happened after that. They put a negative spin
on things. When we come back, I'm going to tell
you that, and I'm gonna tell you about a very
weird personal experience I had less than a week ago.
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And listen to this. A friend of mine, who is
a witch, said she has a weight loss spell. If
you want to lose weight, she said, try this out.
I wonder if it works. I'm Joshua Pete Warren. You're
listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast.
I am para normal podcast Network. I'll be 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 Aaron Normal podcast Network.
I'm your host, Joshua Pete Warren, and this is the
show where the unusual becomes usual. I spent quite a
while investigating Robert the Haunted Doll down in Key West, Florida.
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George Nor asks me about it all the time. It's
one of his favorite stories. And I got to go
in there late at night because he's kept in a
museum now. And when I got to go in when
the museum was closed and spend time alone with the doll.
And then at one point they there's a big glass
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case around him, and that case had been over him
for four years, and they came and took the case
off and let me do all these studies. And I
did all these reports for Coast to Coast AMS Live reports.
It was a huge success. And one of the ladies
who at that time was in charge of access to
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the museum and the doll, she was very kind and
open to everything I was doing. And then afterward I
had so much interesting content and I discovered some, you know,
some new things about Robert the Haunted Doll that I
decided to write a short book about it, because at
that time there was no like Little Robert the Doll
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book and their gift shop or anything. So I wrote
this little book called Don't Play with Robert the World's
Most Haunted Doll. And I was all proud of it,
and I sent a copy to her and she flipped out.
And it's weird, I mean, in other words, she did
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not like it. She did not flip out in a
good way. It was a very bad way. She was.
She was outraged that I had written a book without
getting her mission to write it, and I guess she
didn't like the way I wrote it, And I mean,
don't play with Robert was meant to be kind of
tongue in cheek, but at the same time, I mean,
the idea is you respect this doll. Because the walls
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around the doll are covered with letters from people asking
for forgiveness because they didn't respect him. That's part of
the legacy of the doll. But I found over and
over a lot of people who get around certain objects,
especially Robert the doll, they become obsessed with the doll,
and they start feeling like it's my precious, my precious,
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you know, and if you do anything that encroaches on
it without like including them, they don't like it. So
she basically, you know, was she well, I don't. I
wouldn't go so far as to say I was. I
was threatened if I did anything with the book, but
it was certainly not endorsed or supported in any way.
But I did put it on my website and that
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to this day. If you go to my Curiosity shop
just for you know, like a few bucks, you can
you can download it as an e book. I think
for like less than ten dollars, you can download a
handful of of e books I've written. Don't play with Robert.
But that's another one of those cases where um, you
never know, I mean, you gotta you gotta walk on
eggshell sometimes when it comes to this, this paranormal content
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and in paranormal places, of paranormal objects and the whole thing.
You know, here's a bit of a side note. When
I was in Key West doing a lot of research,
one of the best tours I've ever taken in my
life was the Rather You know, it was probably like
a one hour long walking tour of the Ernest Hemmingway home.
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And you know, the guy who was there, Uh, he
looked like he'd been giving this tour for a long time.
And I just love how succinct he was when he would,
uh as he as he took us through this house,
I mean the house. Yeah, it was a large house,
but it wasn't that big, and yet he made you
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feel like you'd gone on this epic journey and he
just he kind of used Himingway style of writing was
very vivid as he took us through and told us everything.
And at the end of it, I asked him. I said,
what's your favorite humming Way quote? And he looked at
me and he said, courage is grace under pressure. So
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I've always remembered him saying that to me. What do
you think courage is grace under pressure? It is kind
of beautiful, isn't it. But anyway, look, getting back to
this whole list of places, you know, I don't even
get out and conduct investigations as much as I used to.
You know, I had thirty years of doing that, and
now I spend more time doing experiments in my lab
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here in Las Vegas and inventing metaphysical tools based on
the things I've learned. I'm working on a long term project.
I'm working on a portal machine for my property near
Area fifty one. I run tours, the Haunted Ashville Tours,
the Haunted Boulder City Tours. I have a lot of
stuff going on, so I don't get out and investigate
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as much as I want to. So there, I don't
even know if I would go back and make the
trip to investigate some of these places that I've talked about,
but I would. I would make that trip to the
White House if they let me into the Lincoln bedroom. Okay,
let me tell you about a weird experience that I had,
oh less than a week ago. You know, I have
a very erratic schedule, but often I'm up all night
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working and then I sleep rather late into the day.
You know, sometimes I'll sleep to like four pm. And
so I was sleeping during the afternoon recently. And I've
always talked about what a vivid dreamer I am. And
I had this dream that Lauren and I were going
down a road I couldn't tell where it was, and
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all of a sudden, I go, oh, my god, look
and Lauren she realizes that there is this driver going
the wrong way. I guess we were on a one
way road, you know, I guess, like on a freeway,
and there's there's a driver coming the wrong way toward us,
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and right we were about to have a head on collision.
I woke up and I really couldn't get back to sleep,
and so not too long after that, you know, I
got up and when I started checking the news and
my messages, that's, you know, my routine. And it turns
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out the news didn't post until like, you know, maybe
a couple hours later, but less than a mile from
my house. There had been a wrong way crash that
had happened on the two fifteen, And as a matter
of fact, I've got the news story right here, and
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it said that a white Nissan CenTra was going the
wrong way on two fifteen here in Las Vegas and
crashed head on with a gray Chevrolet Silverado truck and
both drivers were transported to the hospital. The man driving
the truck is in a critical condition. Police believe the
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woman in the wrong way vehicle was impaired, and police
are investigating. And so that happened right around the time
that I was having that dream. Was I experiencing, you know,
in real time what was happening down the road for
me in my dream? Stay? I don't know, but that
kind of stuff, you know, it sticks with you when
it happens, because what are the chances of that? And
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you know, I really do believe in a greater self
and a higher self and a spiritual self that sometimes
you can access more easily through through dreams. And I
think you can tap into that to improve your life
as well through various spiritual exercises. And a friend of
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mine who lives in California is Patty Negri. She's been
on lots of TV shows, especially ghost Adventures, and she's
famously known as the Good Witch, and she's just a wonderful,
fun loving, warm, nice person. And she posted something I
thought I would share with you. She posted this on
Twitter recently. She said it's a weight loss spell. And
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I think people are always interested in that, right, a
weight loss spell. She says, it's so easy. She says,
what you do is you take a candle that you like,
and you decide that every time you eat something, you're
going to light this candle. And then then you stop
eating and you blow the candle out. That you do
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not eat unless that candle is lit. And she said,
even if you're going to go get a midnight snack
and you want to get one more chip or one
little cookie, you turn, you light that candle, and that
this starts training your brain to become more aware of
what you're consuming and how much you need. And somehow,
she says, you will start eating less and you'll start
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burning off more energy and the pounds will stop drop
start dropping away. As she said, if you go out
to eat with somebody, or maybe you're on a date
and you don't have the candle, she said imagine the
candle is burning, and that's the next best thing. She
also said you might want to have a spell that
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you say out loud, like beauty here, beauty now, beauty,
it is me. I am healthy, I am fit. Tomorrow
you will see. And when she said that, I thought, well,
that's a good way to prevent a second date. Imagine,
you know, you go out on a date. I'm a guy,
so I'm like, imagine going out with some young lady
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on a date and every time she eats, she goes,
beauty here, beauty now, beauty, it is me. I am healthy,
I am fit. Tomorrow you will see. I'd be like, oh,
this is gonna be a fun night. Matter make the
most of it. So anyway, but you know, obviously you
get the point. You know, it's about having some kind
of a ritual or routine that you attached to eating
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that you do consistently. So I want you all to
try that out, and I want you to email me
and tell me what happened to you. You can find
my email address if you go to Joshua Peewarren dot
com and scroll down on the homepage. There something else
I want to share with you real quick. Along these
lines is George Dory was recently interviewing a woman who
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said she was a law of attraction expert. But he
asked her, well, what is He said, where does the
word law of or he said, where does the phrase
law of attraction come from? And there was a moment
of silence and she said, Oh, that's a that's a
good question. I have no idea. Well, I know, and
(37:09):
I wrote about this and my book used the Force,
a Jedi's Guide to the Law of Attraction. When we
come back from this break, I'm going to tell you
about that. It's actually really interesting. And then I'm going
to read an email from a guy who has a
question about wishing machines and prayer boards, and then I
plan to share some fascinating trivia with you trivia word edemola.
(37:33):
I just love this stuff. Word etymology. Oh boy, time
flies too quickly sometimes. On this show, I'm Joshua pee Warnon.
You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
to Coast am parin Normal Podcast Network, and I will
be right back. Welcome back to the final segment of
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this edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
to Coast am Paranormal podcast network. I am your host
Joshua pe Warren, and in my book used the Force
A Jedi's Guide to the Law of Attraction, I wrote.
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In the late eighteen hundreds, mystic writers such as Madame
Blovotsky began using the term law of attraction and reference
to the relationship between matter and energy. Other writers in
the early nineteen hundreds clearly define this phrase as a
simple yet profound concept which is like attracts like. In
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nineteen o nine, English writer Thomas Troward stated it more eloquently.
He said, quote the action of mind plants the nucleus, which,
if allowed to grow undisturbed, will eventually attract to itself
all the conditions necessary for its manifestation in outward visible form.
End quote. I Also, going back to Madame Blovotsky, I
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wrote that in her book Isis Unveiled? A Master Key
to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern science and Technology?
Madame Helena Blovotsky wrote, quote by whatsoever name the physicist
may call the energizing principle in nature? If the law
of attraction is admitted as governing one, why should it
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be excluded from influencing the other end quote. I believe
that's the first time we actually saw law of attraction
in print that I'm aware of. And by the way,
I also wrote here. Helena Blovotsky, often referred to as
Madame Blavotsky, was born in eighteen thirty one and what
is now the Ukraine and died in London in eighteen
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ninety one at the age of fifty nine. She was
a world famous philosopher and occultist who traveled the globe
investigating spiritual cultures and esoteric mysteries. And I'll actually continue
just a little bit, says her friends included inventors such
as Thomas Edison. In eighteen seventy five, she was a
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founder of the Theosophical Society, an institute devoted to metaphysical
research and publishing. Blovotsky herself defined theosophy as the quote
archaic wisdom, religion, the esoteric doctrine once known in every
ancient country, having claims to civilization. In quote again, that's
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from my book Use the Force, a Jedi's Guide to
the Law of Attraction. You can attain that book through
my website. You know a lot of people who are
writing during that period of time are considered people who
align themselves with the New Thought movement, a spiritual movement
that especially coalesced in the United States in the early
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eighteen hundreds and continued shaping a lot of thinkers throughout
all the way up until till the early twentieth century.
And I also sympathize and resonate with what they say
as the New Thought movement. Apparently, there are four main
core beliefs. So let's see if you agree with these
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four beliefs. Number one, God or infinite intelligence is supreme, universal,
and everlasting. That's number one. I agree with it. Number
two is divinity dwells within each person, and that all
people are spiritual beings. I agree with that, do you.
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Number three, the highest spiritual principle is loving one another
unconditionally and teaching and healing one another. That's the tough one,
isn't it. I mean, like, I almost feel like I'm
not worthy to claim that I'm capable of loving people unconditionally.
But it doesn't say that you have to because nobody's perfect.
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It just says the highest spiritual principle is that, and
that's what most of the ascended masters. I've also said
you know, that's what Jesus said, So I mean, yeah,
if you can do that, then I guess you're there.
It's hard, but I agree that that has to be
the highest principle, because hey, loving others, all that does
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is eventually reflect back on you. And then number four
and this is the last one. Our mental states are
carried forward into manifestation and become our experience in daily living.
So let me repeat that. Our mental states, okay, the
state of mind that you're in. Our mental states are
carried forward into manifestation and become our experience in daily living.
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And yes, I certainly agree with that as well. So
I guess I am a new thought adherent and I
bet many of you are as well. So I thought
i'd share that with you. Let's go to some emails now. Actually, well, gosh, ya,
the time is clicking by too fast. How about this one.
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I got this message from a man named Randy. He says, hello, Joshua,
I was curious as to which one manifest faster or better.
Would it be the prayer board or the wishing machine
or what a combination of both be beneficial? Okay, so
if you go to my curiosity shop, you're going to
see a lot of different manifestation tools and you can
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pick the one you like the best. It's almost like
going into the music store and saying, they all make music. Okay,
what kind of music do you do you want to make?
Do you want a guitar? Do you want a piano?
Do you want to violin? Do you want to flute? Like?
What does it for you? But what I said to
him specifically is that I personally use a wishing machine
for long term goals. So if I have a big goal,
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big project, I will tune that into the wishing machine
and then let the wishing machine sit there and work
on it and take its time. However, I use the
prayer board every single day as general maintenance to just
make my day go smoothly as possible every single day.
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So they perfectly complimented each other, but I think they're
but there. They do different things. You can you're manifesting
either way. But one is more of like like, let's
direct on this one thing, and the other one is, yeah,
you can focus on a one thing, but you also
should just really interact with it every single day. So
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hopefully that will answer a question that others may have.
Usually they say, when one person asks a question that
there's like thousands of other people out there who have
that same question but haven't asked it. All right, let
me squeeze in some interesting trivia here. Here's there's an
old joke. It's more of an insult. Really, you say
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to somebody you know how to instantly lose eleven pounds
of ugly fat, cut your head off. Now that's mean,
isn't it. Um? But it turns out that the average
human head actually does weigh eleven pounds. It seems like
a lot, doesn't it be carrying around on your neck.
(46:00):
I told Lauren that a head weighs eleven pounds, and
she said, yeah, I knew that. I was like, how
did you know that? She said that it was in
a movie. I think she said it was Jerry Maguires,
some kid says that, And I was like, oh, okay,
so maybe you knew that also. All right, how about this.
Everybody loves oreos I think it may be the best
selling cookie in the world. What do you think is
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the origin of the name oreo O r EO? Where
do you think that comes from? Turns out nobody knows.
Nobody knows. It's a true mystery. That's kind of crazy,
isn't it. Nobody knows where oreo came from? Oh? Well
that was That was dissatisfying, wasn't it. But this is
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something that I thought was particularly interesting, the word jinks.
You know, you do something and somebody goes, oh, things
are going well, don't jink sit, you know, don't get
too carried away. I thought, where does that come from? Well,
here is the answer to that question. Apparently if you
look into the etymology, it says the word jinks, and
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of course we spell it usually nowadays j i n x,
but at once was spelled j y n x, meaning
a charm or a spell, was in usage as early
as the sixteen hundreds. It's traced to a seventeenth century
word which means a spell, gene, which means a spell.
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That ultimately leads to the Latin word jinks, which comes
from the Latin word inex, which comes from the Greek
name of a bird called a Rheineck bird. You ever
heard of a rheineck w R y n e c
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k small but distinctive group of old, small, old world woodpeckers,
And you think, well, why in the world are we
talking about this originating from a woodpecker, and it says
this woodpecker, the rheineck, has always been associated with sorcery.
Not only was the bird used in casting of spells
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and divination, but the ancient Romans and Greeks traced the
birds mythological origins to a sorceress named Lynx, who is
transformed into this bird to punish her for a spell
cast on the god Zeus. So apparently, thousands of years ago,
the ancient Romans and Greeks believe that this sorceress cast
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a spell on Zeus and she was punished by being
transformed into this bird called a rheineck. And that is
what jinks basically means rheineck. So we're referring to that bird.
That's wild, isn't it. So that's why you know you
don't want to jink stuff. Okay, my friends, we're out
of time, so now it is time to relax and
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lot more on this edition of the show. They won't
let me investigate this. Actually you're going to hear kind
of a list of stories and places in this particular podcast.
I got a message the other day from a woman
(01:58):
asking me if I had ever investigated the creepy La
Louri mansion in New Orleans, Louisiana. Now, I have had
a lot of spooky experiences in Louisiana. In fact, you
possibly heard me talk about the time I spent the
night by myself at Myrtle's plantation in Saint Francisville, Louisiana,
(02:21):
and had some intelligent invisible being knocking on the walls
and the tables and keeping me up all night. Got
that on video. But anyway, getting back to her particular question,
I told her that I I have been to the
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Llauri mansion and if you don't know what that is,
I'll tell you in a minute. But I said, I
have been to the creepy l Loauri mansion, but they
would not let me in to investigate. And she said,
what why? Why on earth wouldn't they let you into it? This?
(03:05):
And I get this reaction from time to time for
people when I say, yeah, I couldn't get in, They
can't believe it, They say, well, wi on earth would
anyone deny access to the great and terrible Joshua Pee
Warren to go in and do it? And I think
this is a good opportunity to tell you some stories
about just how much resistance that you get sometimes when
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you're in the paranormal field. If you are the type
of person who listens to a podcast like this, then
that means you are open minded and you are intelligent
enough to understand how interesting these mysterious places are. And
if you owned a place like that, or managed a
place that had some amazing phenomenon, you would welcome a
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credible person coming in to study it. But because you're
that kind of person, it's easy to just expect that
others would feel the same way, and that is certainly
not always the case. So let me tell you what
happened when it comes to the Lo Louri Mansion. First off,
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this is a story that I find kind of difficult
to talk about. If you a lot of you may
have heard about this place because it was dramatized in
the popular show American Horror Story. But this truly was
a house of horrors, a house of torture and mutilation,
(04:37):
And in fact, some of the stories are so gruesome
and disturbing that I honestly do not want to get
into them on this podcast. But here's the gist of it. Okay,
this house, it's right near Bourbon Street, so it's in
the middle of all the action. And it was the
residence of this woman who lived from seventeen eighty seven
(04:58):
to eighteen forty nine named Marie Delphine la Lourie. Okay,
and so I guess she became known as Madame la
Lourie after one of her marriages. And according to Wikipedia,
it says she was a New Orleans sociolite and serial
killer who tortured and murdered slaves in her household. And again,
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if you want to to learn more about this, then
you can just look it up for yourself. But she
was so horribly torturing slaves, almost to the point of experimentation,
you know, mutilating them and doing really unspeakable things to
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them that when the people of New Orleans found out
about this and discovered some of these poor people who
had been chained up in her house and tied up
in her house, the house was mobbed and it was
basically destroyed, and they were going to execute her, but somehow,
(06:09):
you know, she was connected enough, and she escaped. They
I think they believed she escaped to France and was
never brought to justice, and they believed that she died
there on Let's See at the age of sixty two.
But it's just just a terrible story. So they're that
in mind, because in twenty twelve, I was hired by
(06:35):
the Travel Channel and the company that produces the Ghost
Adventures show to be a regular cast member on a
TV series called Paranormal Papa Rozzi, And the idea was
that I would be on every single episode and I
would be one of a handful of reporters that would
(06:57):
travel around the United States covering strange topics and especially
any kind of breaking news about anything weird. You know, ghost, UFOs, cryptids,
all that stuff, but also you know, just unusual stuff
like some of these explosions that people would experience out
of the blue in the in their in their their
(07:17):
neighborhood and all that kind of business. The As a
matter of fact, one time I went to uh UM,
I went to Florida and I did a segment off
the cuff about the Fountain of Youth, and the people
there didn't want me to cover that, so UM anyway,
that kind of ties into the topic. But nonetheless, for
this show UM, I spent months with my friend and
(07:43):
producer ce Eric Scott traveling all over the United States
by planes, trains, and automobiles, h and even part of
the fringe, the outer fringe of Mexico there covering these stories.
It was a heck of an adventure. There's no way
I could do that now I don't have the energy
to do that anymore. But it was a great epic adventure,
(08:08):
kind of a once in a lifetime experience. And one
of the places we were assigned to cover a story
in was New Orleans, and they actually sent us down
there to do a story about this voodoo priestess. And
actually I think that one didn't make the cut for
some reason. But while Eric and I were in New Orleans,
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I realized at one point that we were near the
La louri Mansion. Okay, this is in in the evening,
and this is a mansion that it's connected to pop
culture in a lot of different ways. For a while,
Nicolas Cage, the actor, owned this house. So I was
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let's see Eric and I one evening we were walking
by and I go, that's the La Lourie Mansion. Wouldn't
that be an risting segment? And of course it was.
It was all locked up and it looked like, I
didn't have any way of even trying to figure out,
you know, who to contact. And I looked up at
Lo and behold, there is a man standing on a
balcony up there, holding a drink. And I start shouting
(09:17):
up there and we start having a friendly conversation and
he's telling me about the house and everything, and I said, hey,
this is amazing. You know, I'm here in town filming
some interesting stories for the Travel Channel. Is it okay
if I come inside and take a look. And the
guy says, yeah, sure, that's fine, and then he turned
(09:38):
and he walks off, And I said to Eric, Wow,
can you believe this? What an unexpected Jack Pott. You
know I'm going to get to go into this this
you know, amazing Lolauri mansion to do this story. And
then we waited and waited. About five minutes later, the
guy reappears and now there is a second man with him,
an older guy, and the older guy just looks down
(09:59):
it doesn't say anything. And the first guy I was
talking to he was wearing a ball cap and he
kind of looked like a groundskeeper. Sort. I don't know,
I've just seen enough groundskeepers I kind of know what
they look like and uh, and he goes, I'm sorry,
I can't. I can't, And I was like, what, you know,
I was so close, and I try my best to
convince these guys. You know, I started bribing them, and
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I don't know how much money I had on me,
but I was and nothing worked. So I never got
to go in there. And that was the story at
that time. They did not want that kind of publicity.
And I must point out that actually that is not
even the same structure, because the original structure was torn
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and torn apart and burned down by a mob, so
this is even a different building. But still, you know,
it's the same piece of space time there where all
this happened. And but since then the building has changed hands,
and I believe that with new owners and new management,
other people have I'm in and been able to investigate
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that place. But this made me think of like all
these similar situations that I've had throughout my life in
which I have been told Nope, you cannot investigate this.
And you have to realize that over time, though ownership changes,
management changes, and some people do and some people do
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not want publicity. When we come back from our first break,
I'm going to tell you about some of these places
that have had this attitude or change in attitude, like
the Grove Park in in Asheville, North Carolina, the Reed House,
and my biggest challenge ever, the White House. I also
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have an interesting story for you about Robert the Haunted Doll.
All that and a lot more. By the way, you know,
I recently released the Buddha Stone, money Magnet and Happiness Kit,
and boy has the response been absolutely overwhelming. People around
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the world absolutely love this thing. Watch the short video
about this and as long as I may have them
in stock, I don't know how long that will be.
But here's what you need to do. Go to Joshua
Peewarren dot com. There's no period after the Joshua Peewarren
dot com. Click the link first off on the homepage
(12:28):
to the free e Newsletter. Okay, you just put your
email address and there, hit the button and you'll instantly
receive an automated email from me with some cool free
gifts online instant stuff. But then go to the Curiosity
shop and you'll find currently currently a picture there of
the buddhistone on top of what I call the portal plate.
(12:53):
Click that watch the video learn why this thing is
so amazing. I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange
Things on the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast am
para normal podcast network, and I will be right back.
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Welcome back to Strange Things on the iHeart Radio and
Coast to Coast am parin normal podcast network. I'm your host,
the Wizard of Weird, Joshua pe 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.
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Gia Tato Zume, agiatatos Zume, do you feel the magic?
Guess what a listener of this show heard the episode
I did about the magical word ajiatatos Zume, and he
created a private Facebook group just to discuss experiences regarding
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this word and similar topics. And so if you are
on Facebook and you want to participate, even though it's
a private group, you should be able to just go
there and you know, request to be a part of it,
and it would be fascinating, I'm sure for all of
us to sort of see where this goes. So let
(14:53):
me spell that for you in case you want to
do it. It's spelled A g I A T A
t o z o O m A y. Probably if
you just type in a gia it'll pop up. But
a gia T A t o z o o m
a y ajiatato zoome. This is gonna be cool. Also,
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you know, I was talking about me being on this
show called Paranormal Paparazzi that aired on the Travel Channel
in twenty and twelve. If you want to see some
free segments from that TV show, as well as samples
of some other TV stuff I've done, if you go
to Joshua Pewarren dot com, there's a section at the
top that says TV and film work, and if you
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click that, it will just give you some free samples,
you know, clips and reels and things that you can
watch and if you've never seen that, you might enjoy
some of it. But you know, I was born and
raised in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, and one
of the most prominent places in Asheville is the Grove
Park In Resort and spa. The Venerable Resort was built
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in nineteen thirteen and its history is magnificent. It's the
kind of place where you know all the celebrities and
the presidents would stay, you know, when they came into town.
And while I was growing up, I mean, everybody knew
that there was this ghost there called the Pink Lady.
And the story was that she was some young woman
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who'd been staying there, probably in the nineteen twenties, and
wearing a long pink evening gown and somehow she fell
off of a balcony in the interior of the hotel
around the Palm Court and died, and then her death
was sort of covered up. And now this Pink Lady
has seen as a ghost floating around the place, and
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for decades it was forbidden to talk about this ghost.
Employees were told at the Grove Park End, if you
talk about this, you will be fired. For a number
of reasons. It might not just be because some people
get scared, but also because that if there was a
real death and some prominent figure was connected, then it
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may have actually been a cover up. We just we
still don't know for certain about the facts surrounding this
Pink Ladys story. But all we know is that a
lot of people said they saw her, and a lot
of people claimed that's it's rooted in fact and all
of that sort of changed in I guess it was
around nineteen ninety five ninety six when I actually was
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already writing my book, Haunted Asheville. It took me a
long time to write that book because I went out
and ideal of these investigations and turned them into stories,
and it was just so fortunate for me. It was
it was just like a super you know, hitting the
local ghost latto. I got contacted by the resort Dave
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Tomsky and Craig Madison, who were in charge of marketing
immediate relations there, decided they were interested in finally revealing
this story, but they wanted to get the facts down,
and so they hired me to spend six months crawling
around that place and interviewing people and spending the night
in rooms, and I produced a report, the Pink Lady Report,
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which impressed them enough that they did it all out
marketing campaign, had a big media event, and I'm telling you,
satellite news trucks came from all over the country. It
was a huge boost for what would become my career.
And also, you know, they allowed me to write about it,
and Haunted Asheville and The Pink Lady ended up on
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the cover of the book, and it was just like
a huge win win win, Like everybody loved it. And
now when you go to the Grove park in, I mean,
the Pink Lady is this beloved sort of mascot for
the place, and little kids leave notes to her outside
of the door where they believe that she stayed. I mean,
it's just, you know, it's turned out to be great.
And yet at the same time, there was another house
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that I wrote about, or there was a house, a
mansion that I wrote about in Haunted Asheville called the
Reid House, which was owned by one of George Vanderbilt's lawyers.
Of course, George Vanderbilt owned the Biltmore House, which is
this amazing castle in Asheville. It's the largest private home
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in America. And so his lawyer, Samuel Reid, owned this
house on a nearby hill. And at that time, the
woman who owned the house, Marge Turco, was with the
Preservation Society, and she was just delighted to have the
story of the ghosts in that house put into the book,
and we would take people up there sometimes on tours
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and investigations. And then all of a sudden, you know,
she sold it and a couple of new guys came in,
and the next time I went over there, they said,
this is under new management now and you are no
longer welcome to talk about the ghost here. And I
was like, what really? So that happened. I don't know
who owns it now and what the policy is, but
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I often I will have access to a place for
a while and then something like this will happen. Of course,
the top place that I've been trying to get into
for a long time is the White House, and nobody
has ever been able to successfully go and conduct a
public paranormal investigation of the White House, but in particular
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the Lincoln Bedroom. I have been to the White House
on a tour and that was arranged by some friends
that I have in the political arena, But as far
as an investigation of the Lincoln Bedroom, that's something that
almost has to be authorized by the President or certainly
his inner circle. And you know, there was this amazing
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photograph that was taken in the nineteen fifties during a
renovation of the White House that shows what I believe
is a ghostly, full bodied apparition standing in the basement
of the White House, right under the Lincoln bedroom and
if any of you think that that maybe like a
long exposure, I did a video where we demonstrated why
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we don't believe that, and in fact, there are updates
to that video that are not in the video where
we determined that that was only exposed for a maximum
of two seconds and there's no way it could have
created that kind of of a translucent being. As a
matter of fact, we found we didn't even notice this
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when we were doing our original research. And by us,
I mean see Eric Scott and myself who made the
report and put a video out about it. But there
actually is another construction worker in this picture, and he
happens to be walking, like taking a step at the
moment the picture was snapped, and we were able to
use that to calculate the exposure time. But anyway, if
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you're interested in this picture, you'd go to Joshua Pewarren
dot com. There's a section called Gallery of the Strange
and if you click that, you'll see a section called
something about you know, the White House Ghost, and you
can watch our video report and see the updates and
all that. Well. I started writing letters to presidents, starting
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with Obama. Obama was the first president. I think that
I wrote a letter to asking for permission to go
and do an investigation. And you have to understand something.
The White House is ultimately supposed to be accessible to
the people. And we see how that how the roles
have changed and the government of this country over the
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past you know, two hundred and almost two hundred and
fifty years here, but you know that it is supposed
to be the people's property, and the president is as
a public servant who lives there temporarily, but it should
be accessible to the people. Well, anyway, good luck convincing
the system of that nowadays. I wrote multiple letters to
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Obama asking for permission to just go and spend a
few hours investigating the Lincoln bed him. Absolutely got no
clearance to that. And then I wrote President Trump and
ask him no clearance. Then I wrote President Biden, same deal,
no clearance. I don't care who the president is, I
don't care what the political party is. This transcends politics.
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This is about a historic building that belongs to the
American public. And so you know, presidents and their administrations
come and go, always have, always will. But I have
never been given that opportunity. And I'll throw it out
there one more time. You know, if any president or
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any administration or anybody in a position can give me
just a few hours to go into the Lincoln Bedroom,
it will be a very professional investigation. Everything that I
do will be authorized in advance. And I think it
would just be a wonderful treat because it also would
be a great way of helping to feature the history
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of that room and the White House in particular. But
you know, I doubt that's going to happen, but you
never know. You never know. I've even said a wishing
machine on that project before, and that's one of the
wishes that has not come true yet. It's not too late.
I'll tell you something else. You know, when I was
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down there in Key West, Florida doing my original investigation
of Robert the Haunted Doll, and this has been like gosh,
I don't know, probably like thirteen years ago or something
like that. When I went down there, the people in
Key West, and of course, you know Robert the Haunted Doll.
He's this doll who supposedly comes to life and runs
around the people in Key West. They rolled out a
red carpet for me, and they really gave me a
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lot of wonderful access to Robert the Haunted Doll. But
then something happened after that. They put a negative spin
on things. When we come back, I'm going to tell
you that, and I'm gonna tell you about a very
weird personal experience I had less than a week ago.
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And listen to this. A friend of mine, who is
a witch, said she has a weight loss spell. If
you want to lose weight, she said, try this out.
I wonder if it works. I'm Joshua Pete Warren. You're
listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast.
I am para normal podcast Network. I'll be 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 Aaron Normal podcast Network.
I'm your host, Joshua Pete Warren, and this is the
show where the unusual becomes usual. I spent quite a
while investigating Robert the Haunted Doll down in Key West, Florida.
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George Nor asks me about it all the time. It's
one of his favorite stories. And I got to go
in there late at night because he's kept in a
museum now. And when I got to go in when
the museum was closed and spend time alone with the doll.
And then at one point they there's a big glass
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case around him, and that case had been over him
for four years, and they came and took the case
off and let me do all these studies. And I
did all these reports for Coast to Coast AMS Live reports.
It was a huge success. And one of the ladies
who at that time was in charge of access to
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the museum and the doll, she was very kind and
open to everything I was doing. And then afterward I
had so much interesting content and I discovered some, you know,
some new things about Robert the Haunted Doll that I
decided to write a short book about it, because at
that time there was no like Little Robert the Doll
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book and their gift shop or anything. So I wrote
this little book called Don't Play with Robert the World's
Most Haunted Doll. And I was all proud of it,
and I sent a copy to her and she flipped out.
And it's weird, I mean, in other words, she did
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not like it. She did not flip out in a
good way. It was a very bad way. She was.
She was outraged that I had written a book without
getting her mission to write it, and I guess she
didn't like the way I wrote it, And I mean,
don't play with Robert was meant to be kind of
tongue in cheek, but at the same time, I mean,
the idea is you respect this doll. Because the walls
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around the doll are covered with letters from people asking
for forgiveness because they didn't respect him. That's part of
the legacy of the doll. But I found over and
over a lot of people who get around certain objects,
especially Robert the doll, they become obsessed with the doll,
and they start feeling like it's my precious, my precious,
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you know, and if you do anything that encroaches on
it without like including them, they don't like it. So
she basically, you know, was she well, I don't. I
wouldn't go so far as to say I was. I
was threatened if I did anything with the book, but
it was certainly not endorsed or supported in any way.
But I did put it on my website and that
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to this day. If you go to my Curiosity shop
just for you know, like a few bucks, you can
you can download it as an e book. I think
for like less than ten dollars, you can download a
handful of of e books I've written. Don't play with Robert.
But that's another one of those cases where um, you
never know, I mean, you gotta you gotta walk on
eggshell sometimes when it comes to this, this paranormal content
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and in paranormal places, of paranormal objects and the whole thing.
You know, here's a bit of a side note. When
I was in Key West doing a lot of research,
one of the best tours I've ever taken in my
life was the Rather You know, it was probably like
a one hour long walking tour of the Ernest Hemmingway home.
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And you know, the guy who was there, Uh, he
looked like he'd been giving this tour for a long time.
And I just love how succinct he was when he would,
uh as he as he took us through this house,
I mean the house. Yeah, it was a large house,
but it wasn't that big, and yet he made you
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feel like you'd gone on this epic journey and he
just he kind of used Himingway style of writing was
very vivid as he took us through and told us everything.
And at the end of it, I asked him. I said,
what's your favorite humming Way quote? And he looked at
me and he said, courage is grace under pressure. So
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I've always remembered him saying that to me. What do
you think courage is grace under pressure? It is kind
of beautiful, isn't it. But anyway, look, getting back to
this whole list of places, you know, I don't even
get out and conduct investigations as much as I used to.
You know, I had thirty years of doing that, and
now I spend more time doing experiments in my lab
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here in Las Vegas and inventing metaphysical tools based on
the things I've learned. I'm working on a long term project.
I'm working on a portal machine for my property near
Area fifty one. I run tours, the Haunted Ashville Tours,
the Haunted Boulder City Tours. I have a lot of
stuff going on, so I don't get out and investigate
(31:16):
as much as I want to. So there, I don't
even know if I would go back and make the
trip to investigate some of these places that I've talked about,
but I would. I would make that trip to the
White House if they let me into the Lincoln bedroom. Okay,
let me tell you about a weird experience that I had,
oh less than a week ago. You know, I have
a very erratic schedule, but often I'm up all night
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working and then I sleep rather late into the day.
You know, sometimes I'll sleep to like four pm. And
so I was sleeping during the afternoon recently. And I've
always talked about what a vivid dreamer I am. And
I had this dream that Lauren and I were going
down a road I couldn't tell where it was, and
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all of a sudden, I go, oh, my god, look
and Lauren she realizes that there is this driver going
the wrong way. I guess we were on a one
way road, you know, I guess, like on a freeway,
and there's there's a driver coming the wrong way toward us,
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and right we were about to have a head on collision.
I woke up and I really couldn't get back to sleep,
and so not too long after that, you know, I
got up and when I started checking the news and
my messages, that's, you know, my routine. And it turns
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out the news didn't post until like, you know, maybe
a couple hours later, but less than a mile from
my house. There had been a wrong way crash that
had happened on the two fifteen, And as a matter
of fact, I've got the news story right here, and
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it said that a white Nissan CenTra was going the
wrong way on two fifteen here in Las Vegas and
crashed head on with a gray Chevrolet Silverado truck and
both drivers were transported to the hospital. The man driving
the truck is in a critical condition. Police believe the
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woman in the wrong way vehicle was impaired, and police
are investigating. And so that happened right around the time
that I was having that dream. Was I experiencing, you know,
in real time what was happening down the road for
me in my dream? Stay? I don't know, but that
kind of stuff, you know, it sticks with you when
it happens, because what are the chances of that? And
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you know, I really do believe in a greater self
and a higher self and a spiritual self that sometimes
you can access more easily through through dreams. And I
think you can tap into that to improve your life
as well through various spiritual exercises. And a friend of
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mine who lives in California is Patty Negri. She's been
on lots of TV shows, especially ghost Adventures, and she's
famously known as the Good Witch, and she's just a wonderful,
fun loving, warm, nice person. And she posted something I
thought I would share with you. She posted this on
Twitter recently. She said it's a weight loss spell. And
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I think people are always interested in that, right, a
weight loss spell. She says, it's so easy. She says,
what you do is you take a candle that you like,
and you decide that every time you eat something, you're
going to light this candle. And then then you stop
eating and you blow the candle out. That you do
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not eat unless that candle is lit. And she said,
even if you're going to go get a midnight snack
and you want to get one more chip or one
little cookie, you turn, you light that candle, and that
this starts training your brain to become more aware of
what you're consuming and how much you need. And somehow,
she says, you will start eating less and you'll start
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burning off more energy and the pounds will stop drop
start dropping away. As she said, if you go out
to eat with somebody, or maybe you're on a date
and you don't have the candle, she said imagine the
candle is burning, and that's the next best thing. She
also said you might want to have a spell that
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you say out loud, like beauty here, beauty now, beauty,
it is me. I am healthy, I am fit. Tomorrow
you will see. And when she said that, I thought, well,
that's a good way to prevent a second date. Imagine,
you know, you go out on a date. I'm a guy,
so I'm like, imagine going out with some young lady
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on a date and every time she eats, she goes,
beauty here, beauty now, beauty, it is me. I am healthy,
I am fit. Tomorrow you will see. I'd be like, oh,
this is gonna be a fun night. Matter make the
most of it. So anyway, but you know, obviously you
get the point. You know, it's about having some kind
of a ritual or routine that you attached to eating
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that you do consistently. So I want you all to
try that out, and I want you to email me
and tell me what happened to you. You can find
my email address if you go to Joshua Peewarren dot
com and scroll down on the homepage. There something else
I want to share with you real quick. Along these
lines is George Dory was recently interviewing a woman who
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said she was a law of attraction expert. But he
asked her, well, what is He said, where does the
word law of or he said, where does the phrase
law of attraction come from? And there was a moment
of silence and she said, Oh, that's a that's a
good question. I have no idea. Well, I know, and
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I wrote about this and my book used the Force,
a Jedi's Guide to the Law of Attraction. When we
come back from this break, I'm going to tell you
about that. It's actually really interesting. And then I'm going
to read an email from a guy who has a
question about wishing machines and prayer boards, and then I
plan to share some fascinating trivia with you trivia word edemola.
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I just love this stuff. Word etymology. Oh boy, time
flies too quickly sometimes. On this show, I'm Joshua pee Warnon.
You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
to Coast am parin Normal Podcast Network, and I will
be right back. Welcome back to the final segment of
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this edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
to Coast am Paranormal podcast network. I am your host
Joshua pe Warren, and in my book used the Force
A Jedi's Guide to the Law of Attraction, I wrote.
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In the late eighteen hundreds, mystic writers such as Madame
Blovotsky began using the term law of attraction and reference
to the relationship between matter and energy. Other writers in
the early nineteen hundreds clearly define this phrase as a
simple yet profound concept which is like attracts like. In
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nineteen o nine, English writer Thomas Troward stated it more eloquently.
He said, quote the action of mind plants the nucleus, which,
if allowed to grow undisturbed, will eventually attract to itself
all the conditions necessary for its manifestation in outward visible form.
End quote. I Also, going back to Madame Blovotsky, I
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wrote that in her book Isis Unveiled? A Master Key
to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern science and Technology?
Madame Helena Blovotsky wrote, quote by whatsoever name the physicist
may call the energizing principle in nature? If the law
of attraction is admitted as governing one, why should it
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be excluded from influencing the other end quote. I believe
that's the first time we actually saw law of attraction
in print that I'm aware of. And by the way,
I also wrote here. Helena Blovotsky, often referred to as
Madame Blavotsky, was born in eighteen thirty one and what
is now the Ukraine and died in London in eighteen
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ninety one at the age of fifty nine. She was
a world famous philosopher and occultist who traveled the globe
investigating spiritual cultures and esoteric mysteries. And I'll actually continue
just a little bit, says her friends included inventors such
as Thomas Edison. In eighteen seventy five, she was a
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founder of the Theosophical Society, an institute devoted to metaphysical
research and publishing. Blovotsky herself defined theosophy as the quote
archaic wisdom, religion, the esoteric doctrine once known in every
ancient country, having claims to civilization. In quote again, that's
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from my book Use the Force, a Jedi's Guide to
the Law of Attraction. You can attain that book through
my website. You know a lot of people who are
writing during that period of time are considered people who
align themselves with the New Thought movement, a spiritual movement
that especially coalesced in the United States in the early
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eighteen hundreds and continued shaping a lot of thinkers throughout
all the way up until till the early twentieth century.
And I also sympathize and resonate with what they say
as the New Thought movement. Apparently, there are four main
core beliefs. So let's see if you agree with these
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four beliefs. Number one, God or infinite intelligence is supreme, universal,
and everlasting. That's number one. I agree with it. Number
two is divinity dwells within each person, and that all
people are spiritual beings. I agree with that, do you.
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Number three, the highest spiritual principle is loving one another
unconditionally and teaching and healing one another. That's the tough one,
isn't it. I mean, like, I almost feel like I'm
not worthy to claim that I'm capable of loving people unconditionally.
But it doesn't say that you have to because nobody's perfect.
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It just says the highest spiritual principle is that, and
that's what most of the ascended masters. I've also said
you know, that's what Jesus said, So I mean, yeah,
if you can do that, then I guess you're there.
It's hard, but I agree that that has to be
the highest principle, because hey, loving others, all that does
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is eventually reflect back on you. And then number four
and this is the last one. Our mental states are
carried forward into manifestation and become our experience in daily living.
So let me repeat that. Our mental states, okay, the
state of mind that you're in. Our mental states are
carried forward into manifestation and become our experience in daily living.
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And yes, I certainly agree with that as well. So
I guess I am a new thought adherent and I
bet many of you are as well. So I thought
i'd share that with you. Let's go to some emails now. Actually, well, gosh, ya,
the time is clicking by too fast. How about this one.
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I got this message from a man named Randy. He says, hello, Joshua,
I was curious as to which one manifest faster or better.
Would it be the prayer board or the wishing machine
or what a combination of both be beneficial? Okay, so
if you go to my curiosity shop, you're going to
see a lot of different manifestation tools and you can
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pick the one you like the best. It's almost like
going into the music store and saying, they all make music. Okay,
what kind of music do you do you want to make?
Do you want a guitar? Do you want a piano?
Do you want to violin? Do you want to flute? Like?
What does it for you? But what I said to
him specifically is that I personally use a wishing machine
for long term goals. So if I have a big goal,
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big project, I will tune that into the wishing machine
and then let the wishing machine sit there and work
on it and take its time. However, I use the
prayer board every single day as general maintenance to just
make my day go smoothly as possible every single day.
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So they perfectly complimented each other, but I think they're
but there. They do different things. You can you're manifesting
either way. But one is more of like like, let's
direct on this one thing, and the other one is, yeah,
you can focus on a one thing, but you also
should just really interact with it every single day. So
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hopefully that will answer a question that others may have.
Usually they say, when one person asks a question that
there's like thousands of other people out there who have
that same question but haven't asked it. All right, let
me squeeze in some interesting trivia here. Here's there's an
old joke. It's more of an insult. Really, you say
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to somebody you know how to instantly lose eleven pounds
of ugly fat, cut your head off. Now that's mean,
isn't it. Um? But it turns out that the average
human head actually does weigh eleven pounds. It seems like
a lot, doesn't it be carrying around on your neck.
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I told Lauren that a head weighs eleven pounds, and
she said, yeah, I knew that. I was like, how
did you know that? She said that it was in
a movie. I think she said it was Jerry Maguires,
some kid says that, And I was like, oh, okay,
so maybe you knew that also. All right, how about this.
Everybody loves oreos I think it may be the best
selling cookie in the world. What do you think is
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the origin of the name oreo O r EO? Where
do you think that comes from? Turns out nobody knows.
Nobody knows. It's a true mystery. That's kind of crazy,
isn't it. Nobody knows where oreo came from? Oh? Well
that was That was dissatisfying, wasn't it. But this is
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something that I thought was particularly interesting, the word jinks.
You know, you do something and somebody goes, oh, things
are going well, don't jink sit, you know, don't get
too carried away. I thought, where does that come from? Well,
here is the answer to that question. Apparently if you
look into the etymology, it says the word jinks, and
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of course we spell it usually nowadays j i n x,
but at once was spelled j y n x, meaning
a charm or a spell, was in usage as early
as the sixteen hundreds. It's traced to a seventeenth century
word which means a spell, gene, which means a spell.
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That ultimately leads to the Latin word jinks, which comes
from the Latin word inex, which comes from the Greek
name of a bird called a Rheineck bird. You ever
heard of a rheineck w R y n e c
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k small but distinctive group of old, small, old world woodpeckers,
And you think, well, why in the world are we
talking about this originating from a woodpecker, and it says
this woodpecker, the rheineck, has always been associated with sorcery.
Not only was the bird used in casting of spells
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and divination, but the ancient Romans and Greeks traced the
birds mythological origins to a sorceress named Lynx, who is
transformed into this bird to punish her for a spell
cast on the god Zeus. So apparently, thousands of years ago,
the ancient Romans and Greeks believe that this sorceress cast
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a spell on Zeus and she was punished by being
transformed into this bird called a rheineck. And that is
what jinks basically means rheineck. So we're referring to that bird.
That's wild, isn't it. So that's why you know you
don't want to jink stuff. Okay, my friends, we're out
of time, so now it is time to relax and
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enjoy the good fortune and tone that's it for this
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