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Get ready to be amazed by the wizard of this
Strange Things with Joshua Warren. I am Joshua Warren, and
each week on this show, I'll be bringing you brand
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new mind blowing content, news, extra sizes, and weird experiments
you can do at home, and a lot more on
this edition of the show. Would you like to hear
about some amazing items from my strange collections? I bet
you would, because you know, for thirty years I've been
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traveling the world investigating weird, amazing stuff, collecting samples, taking
them back to the lab, doing tests and experiments. I
even had a museum for ten years called the Asheville
Mystery Museum, and Asheville, North Carolina, my hometown. And of
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course I live in Las Vegas now, and uh, the
only reason that I no longer have. The museum is
because it was housed in the basement of the Asheville
Masonic Temple, a very old, grand building, but it's gotten
so old that the basement was just perfect for the museum.
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It's like a dungeon down there. But there's a lot
of precipitation in Asheville, a lot of rain, and they
started having problems with the basement flooding, and I was
losing some of my stuff in the basement, and so
finally the board said, we have got to do some
major renovations. This could take years to complete, and so
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in January of twenty h I will be forever indebted
to to so many friends in Asheville who went there
and helped move my museum out of the building. I
could not be there in person because I was working
on a TV program here in Vegas, and so this show,
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I guess it's a bit of a tease because none
of the things I'm going to tell you about are
all display right now. They are either in some special
storage units that I have strewn around the country that
our climate can rolled and perfect for various things, or
I have some here in my home that I see
and interact with every day. So I'm just gonna kind
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of ramble on here and go down the list and
tell you about some of the things that I have,
and uh, I'm I'm not gonna tell you everything. I'll
still keep some surprises, and over the years I have
sold some really interesting pieces to raise money for fundraisers
and that kind of thing. But it's a shame if
you didn't get to see the museum while it was up.
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You know, the Asheville Masonic Temple was already a very
haunted building long before I moved my stuff in there.
It was a temporary emergency ward when the Spanish influenza
hit around nineteen eighteen, and we don't know how many
people died in the building, but over the years there
were plenty of stories of people seeing apparitions in their
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Uh Lauren saw shadow person and they're a friend of
mine named Lewis saw. In the basement. Doors would have
constantly open and closed. I would be down there in
that basement, sometimes by myself at night, and this is
a big, big empty building, you know, it's several stories tall,
and at two o'clock in the morning, it would sound
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just like somebody took their fist and went just pounded
on the door to the museum, and I would jump
out of my skin and run over there and open
the door, and there would be nobody around, no evidence
of anybody in the building. And so my stuff was
already often kind of haunted stuff. But it's even more
haunted now, I think, because for so many years it
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sat at this haunted property. And in fact, I want
to tell you a really interesting story about the Hope
Diamond that I bet you've never heard before. And I've
been looking for an excuse to tell you this story
for a while, and this is a good time to
bring it up as I reflect on the things that
I have in my collection. So, the largest mass murder
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killing spree in the history of Asheville, North Carolina, which
is up in the mountains, the Blue Ridge Mountains in
the western part of the state. That's where you find
the Bill Moore House and the Grove Park in um.
The largest killing spree took place there in nineteen oh six,
known as the Will Harris murders, and Will hear Us
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was a man who escaped from prison and with just
a whole long list, the whole laundry list of of
charges along rap sheet, and he he went to Asheville,
but I think he escaped from near Charlotte and he
went to Asheville because he was looking for an old
girlfriend and everybody was sort of trying to hide her
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from him. And it got laid at night, and he
got ticked off, and he was drinking whiskey, and he
ended up buying a rifle and the next thing you know,
he went on a shooting rampage around town, killed a
couple of police officers, a number of civilians. But the
reason I'm telling you this story is when he started
his rampage, which I think he was around like pm uh,
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he was walking down one of the main streets there
in downtown Asheville. We now call it Built Moore Avenue,
and across the street from him there was this popular
pub that was, you know, at least two or three
stories tall, and there was a judge who liked to
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spend time at that pub. His name was Spears Reynolds,
and Spears Reynolds always carried a little pistol in his
vest pocket. And so when the shooting erupted on the street,
because really Will Harris was sort of shooting it, you know,
just random people half the time Judge Spears Reynolds, he
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rushed out and he saw an opportunity to use this pistol,
and he took it out, and he and Will Harris
started exchanging gunfire back and forth across the street, and
at one point Will Harris's bullet hit so close to
the judge that it cracked some bricks, and some pieces
of the bricks fell right down on top of the
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judge's head, and the judge said, okay, that's enough, and
he went back inside. And so neither of those guys
hit the other one. But it was a really interesting
moment because you know, later Will Harris was tracked down
by a posse and they riddled him with probably a
hundred bullets. It's one of those deals. But everybody always
considered Judge Spears Reynolds to be the luckiest man in
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Asheville after that night, because he faced down our worst
fiend and and came out unharmed. So he was a
bit of a hero. And what's interesting about him being
considered the lucky judge in Asheville is that twenty six
years later, his brother, Robert Reynolds became a United States
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Senator from Asheville. He was a very prominent senator. They
called him Bunkum Bob, and uh, Reynolds was tied in with,
you know, the Reynolds Tobacco family. The guy's official portrait
shows him smoking a cigarette. It's pretty funny. So anyway,
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Senator Bob there he lived near Asheville at what they
now call Reynolds Mansion, which is a beautiful bed and breakfast. Now. Uh,
he lived there in this big, glorious mansion that had
been around since gotsh the probably before the Civil War.
And when Senator Reynolds was fifty seven years old, he
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married a nineteen year old young woman. And that nineteen
year old was the daughter of Evelyn mcclan. Evelyn McClain
was the last the owner of the Hope Diamond. Now,
of course, I won't go into this whole trail of
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bad phenomena that has followed the Hope Diamond. You can
look that up on your own. But you know, that's
why they say it's cursed, like all these bad things
have happened to people who have owned the Hope Diamond.
And so Evelyn McClain would visit Asheville and she would
go to the Reynolds Mansion to see her daughter and
her son in law, and she would wear the Hope
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Diamond two parties and social gatherings, this priceless, big blue diamond. Now,
she had already experienced some bad luck. Right after she
got it, her son died in a car accident, and
shortly after she visited her daughter and the Senator in Asheville,
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her daughter died of a drug overdose. And then things
just kept getting worse and worse from there, her philandering
husband in a sanitarium, the family newspaper, The Washington Post,
went bankrupt, and just one year after her daughter's death,
Evelyn herself died from pneumonia. And she was sixty years old.
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So the bad luck surrounding Evelyn McClain helps sort of
prompt the New York jeweler Harry Winston to donate the
cursed Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian. Now, I know you're
asking yourself at this point, Josh, do you have the
Hope Diamond? I do not. But what I did was
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I bought a really high quality replica of the Hope
Diamond from the Smithsonian. Now, trust me, I have lots
of unique original things I'm going to tell you about
in this podcast. But I wanted to get this one
out of the way because it is a replica, and
so when when you'd walk into the museum, I would
have this replica there and show it's connection to to
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Asheville and all this other weird stuff that people don't
usually talk about or know about when they discussed the
Hope Diamond. But here is a question that I had
for myself when I bought it, and I want you
to ask yourself this question. I thought to myself, do
I even want to buy a replica of this thing?
Because maybe there's something about the shape itself that acts
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as an antanna that somehow attracts bad stuff. And I
was kind of would you do that? Would you put
a replica of the Hope Diamond in your house? It's
a good question, isn't it. Well I got it, and
what I can tell you is, fortunately all has been
smooth sailing, no problems, so I can assure you replicas
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of the Hope Diamond are not cursed. I've seen the
original one in the Smithsonian the I don't think I
would want to own that. But when we come back
from this break, I'm gonna tell you about some things
I have that are the real deal, including one of
my favorite things that I picked up in Transylvania and
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Romania while I was investigating Flad the Impaler, the real Dracula.
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Radio and Strange Things. Welcome back to Strings Things on
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their adorable podcast network. I am your host, the Wizard
of Weird, beaming into your wormhole brain from my studio
in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day is
golden and every night is silver. I'm going to tell
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you about some of the real unique things that I have. Uh.
But you know, when it comes to replicas, I do
have some other really interesting replicas. You know. The shoe
R tribe in the Amazon region of South America is
infamous because they specialized in the shrunken heads, and I
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do not have a shrunken human head. But I do
have a shrunken head crafted by the descendants of the
shoe r tribe, and it is made of flesh. I
don't know what kind of flesh it is. As soon
as I bought this thing, Laurence saw it. That's my wife,
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and she said, oh, that's a goat testicle. Now I
have no idea why that Lauren was able to so
quickly identify a goat testicle, but that is what she says.
She thinks my shrunken head actually is. I don't know,
but it's you know, it's still an interesting piece because
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it came directly from them. I also, you know, I
do not at all advocate the the harming of animals
for you know, taxidermy or collections or any of that.
But you know, sometimes animals just die. I mean, we've
all been walking through the woods and stumbled up on
like a monkey or something like that, you know what
I mean, right right? So I've always thought I wouldn't
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mind having a monkey's paul because there's that old story
from the eighteen hundreds, Uh, where a guy. I'm not
going to tell you the story right now. But a
guy he gets a monkey's paul and supposedly it grants wishes.
But it's a horror story because every time he grants
a wish, something bad happens in order to make the
wish come true. So it's a cautionary tale. But anyway,
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I always thought that would be just like an odd
little thing for me to have monkeys paul, and but
they I've never seen a monkey's paul for sale. I
do have a monkey skull that a friend of mine
who deals and novelties, sold to me. Uh, maybe you
can hold a monkey's skull and make a wish on it.
I don't know. But again, these are not animals that
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are killed for this purpose. These are animals that die,
usually in zoos and and or there are some countries
that probably eat them. I don't know exactly, But anyway,
my point is I was on eBay one time and
I happened to type in monkeys paw and there was
a taxidermist who had something that looked a heck of
a lot like a monkey's paul, and but he said
it wasn't really a monkey's pall, so I bought it,
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and then I said, well, what is it? And that's
when he confessed that it is a raccoon Paul. He
said he found that he goes out. He lives in
I think the southeastern u S and he go is
out and he just hunts road kill and people tell him,
you know, when there's road kill, and he does little
artistic things like that. So I do have a raccoon Paul.
So I've gotten out of the way. It's in a nice,
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little beautiful glass case with a latch. It's all old
fashioned and spooky looking. I'm getting out of the way
some of that kind of stuff, which is you know,
more like a replica oriented. And by the way, if
you do happen to know anybody who has a monkey's
Paul for sell, you know, let me know about it.
But when I can. In two thousand twelve, I got
to take one of the most amazing best trips of
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my life. I spent some time in Europe. I got
to investigate the Tower of London. I took the official
Jack the Ripper tour there in London, and I flew
to Romania and I got to investigate all of the
big castles associated with Vlad the Impaler, not just the
touristy stuff. I mean, I'm talking historic places that uh
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either he either he owned or where he was imprisoned.
And um, we had a great his story in and
guide and a lot of spooky things happened. But um,
one of the best parts of that trip was going
to the town where they wrote the Romanians say that
Vlad was born. It's called siggy Swara, and it is
the uh the They call it the best preserved Middle
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Um Middle Ages, like medieval town in Europe. That's what
it's promoted as. And it's amazing. It doesn't look real.
The whole place looks like a movie set. So I
felt like I was in the Dracula novel on the
way there. As a matter of fact, I'll just toss
this out in case you find this of interest, uh
if you read the book Dracula. I brought up a
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little pdf of it right here in front of me,
Like just a few pages into the book. Jonathan Harker
is writing in his diary, of course, about his trip
as he's going to Transylvania, and so he Um, he
writes that he stopped like at some end, and he says,
I dined on what they call robber steak, bits of bacon,
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onion and beef, seasoned with red pepper and strong on
sticks and roasted over the fire in a simple style
of London's cat meat. The wine was golden mediash, which
produces a queer sting on the tongue, which is, however,
not disagreeable. Now you may or may not know that
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I enjoy a glass of wine, and so I said, hey,
I gotta have me some of this golden mediash, just
like Jonathan Harker and the book Dracula. And sure enough,
near Siki Shwara, there is a winery called Jive. I
think it's j I d v e I or something
like that. Uh, And let's look it up. And so
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raw Do, who was our guide there, he said that
they are going to produce the closest thing to that wine. Yeah,
j I d V e I. And it is great wine,
Jive white wine. But since I have gotten back in
the States, I have never been able to find it.
So if any of you know how to get some
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Jive white wine, let me know and I'll buy a
few bottles. Anyway, in Sigi Shwara, in the home well,
the birthplace of Vladim Paler there in Transylvania. I said
to Lauren, I have got to have a crucifix from
this place. And I imagine that maybe when you go
to Transylvania and it looks like you're in the movies
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and you have these big snow capped mountains everywhere, maybe
it's easy to find a crucifix. It was practically impossible.
None of the shops I went into had them. I'm
hitting up antique shop after antique store. I mean, like,
nobody had any crosses, and I'm asking people. It was
just really weird to me that it was so hard
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to find a cross, and I'd basically almost given up hope.
And finally here I wasn't siggi Shwara a stone's throw
from where, you know, like the building that Lad was
born in, And I walked down this really steep, small
dark staircase underneath the street, okay, under the cobble stones,
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and it came out into this tiny little antique shop.
The ceiling was so low I could barely stand up,
and there it was really claustrophobic, and there was this
little old woman in there with all these display cases
with various odds and ends, and I went over and
I said to her that I, well, I'm looking for
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a crucifix. And at first she pointed out a crucifix
that she had that was really cool and old antique
crucifix and it had some nice big like pieces of
amber in it and everything, and I was like, I'll
take it. I bought that, and I said do you
have anything older though, And she goes, well, I do
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have a piece, but this is something that I usually keep,
you know, for my special collectors. And I was like,
what what, what do you? What do you have there?
So she goes back and she comes back out from
behind her scenes there in a shop, and she had
this worn simple metal cross that what had been hand hewn,
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hand fashioned. And she told me that this had belonged
to a family there in the area there around Siki
Shwara in Transylvania. It had been in the family for
generations because they actually had some dark spirits that were
messing with the family, and that this is what they
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used to keep the spirits at bay. It basically was
on the mantel at their house and the the last
ancestor had died and they had a state type of cell.
And so I said, I will take it. And I
have therefore got this actual old generational metal and I
forget what kind of metal it is because it's been
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in storage now for a while and I haven't you know,
it's been in a nice glass case. I'm gonna be
breaking it out soon. That's one of those things I'll
probably put in my house. But um, so I have
this nice Transylvania cross uh with some actual pieces of
Lad's castle Poinari, And that's one of the just one
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of the coolest things that I have great memories there, Okay,
moving on. Oh yeah, I also have a vampire killing kit.
Uh there there. I've had an exorcist one time, uh
here in the States who actually makes vampire killing kits
with the wooden steaks and the silver bullets and the
garlic and the salt and all that stuff. So I
have that. That's a really neat thing to have. It's
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in a nice big wooden box, you know. Um. When
I was in Puerto Rico, I was always coming across
really interesting stuff there, and one day my friend Ellis said, Josh,
you've got to meet me at the bar. I have
something you want to see. Trust Me, you're gonna love this.
And I met Ellis there at the bar and he
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opens up a shoe box and inside is this big
skull with big teeth and just a really creepy ridge
on the top. And he said, this is a chupacabra skull.
I said what. And sure enough, there was a small
town in the western part of Puerto Rico where people
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had been claiming they were seeing some kind of what
they called a chupacabra running around and killing livestock, and
it was always seen, especially around this one house. And
they finally went under there. They smelled something dead, and
they went under the house and they found that this
thing had crawled under a house and died. And so
he says, this is what the people of that village
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called a chupacabra skull. And I made a nice donation
to the village, and I have this thing, and look,
I'll be honest with you, I think it's some kind
of a canine skull um. But I I know that
if this is gonna be shocking to you, I have
not had this expertly examined yet. And the main reason
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is when I got it, I shipped it to Asheville
from Puerto Rico and since I've been back in the States,
I have not had a chance to do testing on
a lot of the stuff that I shipped back. But
that's not all I got from Puerto Rico. You know,
everybody talks about what happens when a UFO crashes. Will
a UFO crashed in Puerto Rico? And when we come
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back from this break, I'm going to tell you about
that crash and what I retrieved from the crash site.
Another super cool thing that I have in my collection.
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unusual becomes usual. And when I was living in Puerto Rico,
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I went to the home of a man who lives
in Lajas. Now Lajas is a very rural part of
the island. It's on the western side. It's that's basically
over in the direction where you find the Laguna Cartagena,
the Ufo Lagoon. And he was home there in his
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kitchen on May five of nineteen nineteen seven, May fifth,
n uh, preparing a meal when all of a sudden,
this is in the early evening, the sky lit up
red and there was a horrible explosion on the mountain
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right next to his house, the uninhabited mountain. There may
have been some animals, you know, roaming there. Boom, big
flash of blinding light, and then he looked up and
the entire mountain was a blaze. And in no time
you had every emergency service in the world there, followed
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by every government agency you can have engine and they
were coming in with Geiger counters and has matt suits
and cleaning out the area and telling everybody, don't come
around here, this could be radioactive blah blah blah blah
that they would never ever given explanation as to what
it was. So many people have seen UFOs around that
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spot and aliens around that spot that this incident was
sort of the icing on the cake, and so uh,
it became so popular that at one point one of
the state officials there, I guess actually was a local official,
decided to designate the road that runs through their Puerto
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Rico's extraterrestrial Highway. So they're just like we have an
et highway here in Las Vegas. There's also one in Lajas,
Puerto Rico. So it's actually a bit of a hike,
uh to get to this spot where this thing crashed,
but I got permission to go on this land it's
probably it land, and I got a guide because you
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could get lost up there easily. And my friend Ellis
and the guide and I we took a whole day
and we hiked up to this spot where this thing
had crashed. And when I got there, uh, there were
still signs of some type of you know, big explosion there.
I took lots of pictures, video footage, measurements, and I
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didn't get anything particularly radioactive or you know, there were
some very odd electromagnetic fields best I recalled. But the
main thing that impressed me was you found or I
found all of these uh, charred black scorched stones still
there around the impact zone. And so I got it
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bag full of these things and ship them back to
the US. And so that is another thing I have
in my collection. I have some scorched rocks from the
UFO crash site in Lajas, Porto Rico from May fifth.
That is something else that I'm going to be devoting
a lot of research to in the near future, and
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I'll be telling you how that goes. Also, you know,
if you listen to one of my earlier podcasts, I
forget which episode it was. Um I was talking about
the time I spent investigating Roswell, New Mexico, and how
that sure when you go there, there are places where
the tourist guides will tell you like, oh, yeah, that's
the crash sight. No, no, this is the crash. Well.
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When I went there, I was with historians that had
actually found the real crash site there around Corona, like
the main area, and so I did collect some some
sand from the desert. I do have some sand from
the real Roswell crash site. I also have some UFO
crash debris, some little pieces of metal that were collected
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from near Roswell, And perhaps I'll tell you more about
that on a future show. That is also one of
my most prized possessions. And people who go to the
Creepy Vegas Ghosts the UFO show here I do in
Las Vegas, Lisa, I will be doing it again once
we can have shows like that. Um it uh you
know it features that you get to touch a piece
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of it. I have pieces I collected from a crop
circle in the hay that appeared in a part of
western North Carolina. Also in western North Carolina. This is
probably the heaviest thing in my collection. We had the
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old Buncombe County Jail there in town, which was built
in nineteen and after being there for eighty three years
being the center of all that drama, uh, the officials
in the area decided to demolish and scrap that gael
and build a new jail. And so the idea was,
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I mean, this jail is all just you can imagine
the most hardcore, heavy, thick still. The idea was like,
like they hired this company from Tennessee to go in
and just you you just use giant cranes and torches
and cut everything up in the the tiniest pieces possible,
scoop them out, take them off, dumpleman, you know, and uh,
and scrap them. And I wanted to have some pieces
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of the jail. I wanted to preserve some some parts
of this old jail, not just because they're haunted, but
also it's that's just a very rare opportunity historically speaking,
you know, to be able to save a piece of
something like that. And fortunately the guy in charge of
the scrapping company from Tennessee, he had an appreciation for
history and he worked with me, and yes, I paid him,
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but um he took special care to cut out some big,
heavy pieces of that old jail uh. The bars, a
crude metal table, a bed, uh, part of a peep hole,
like a whole section of the of the all or
the door that had a people, some of the big
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levers that would open and close the cell doors. I
have these giant, heavy chunks of metal. That's the worst
part about moving my collection around. Nobody wants to be
on the move the jail bars duty. But I have
these old haunted jails jail bars, and not surprisingly, this
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stuff is extremely magnetic. It's it's even more magnetized than
you would expect it to be, just from being made
of steel and people. They're always hearing weird voices around.
I think they're magnetized with spiritual activity from decades of
exposure to criminals, desperate people, all these dreary souls trapped
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behind them. So that's that's an interesting thing. Another heavy
thing that I have, I have the original vacuum chamber
that the Lemur team and I used to do our
Brown Mountain Lights experiments. We produced a plasma on a
miniature scale that's very similar to the Brown Mountain Lights
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and it's it's such a special thing because it earned
us the cover of a science journal, the Electric Spacecraft Journal,
in two thousand four. Not many people in the so
called paranormal field can say they have been on the
cover of a science journal. And so I've got that
big heavy very you know, it's if you don't know
what you're doing with that thing, it's a dangerous machine. Actually,
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I've got that vacuum chamber. I have a lot of
the machines featured on TV shows like Ghost Adventures. For example,
on Ghost Adventures, I owned the big Tesla coil that
was on the live episode of Ghost Adventures I think
from like maybe two thousand eighteen. The Vandergraph machines that
were on just recently, um a Devil's toy box that
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we used on our Winchester Mansion show. So I have
a lot of TV prop stuff. And you've heard the
talk a lot about my buddy Jim Mars, who he
was just one of a kind of walking encyclopedia, the
world's greatest expert when it comes to conspiracies, and he
was just, uh, he really was a walking encyclopedia. Jim Mars.
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He died in seventeen at age seventy three. And I'm
so lucky because the last time I visited him was
the year before, in sixteen. Lauren and I were in
Texas for something. Actually, we were passing through Texas and
uh he lived in the Dallas Fort Worth area, and
so we went to his house and we spent a
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night with him and his wife, Carol, and it was
just a treasured memory. I saw things, and he showed
me things that I'll never forget. I'll do a whole
other podcast sometime about the things that Jim Mars had
at his house and his collection. But Jim Mars, you know,
if you if you're having trouble picturing him. He always
wore fedora. He had a gray beard. He was a
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jolly man, and Jim was famous for wearing that fedora.
And I guess, you know, he was getting up there
in years, and so I just knew when I saw
him in twenty sixteen, Lauren and I had a feeling
it might be the last time we were to see him,
even though he was in good health at that time.
And I convinced Jim to take a fedora out of
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his closet and sign it so that I could put
it in my museum, and he did. He made me
by a fedora he had. He had probably twenty fedoras
in his closet and he made me by one. But
I was happy too, So I got this fedora from him.
He signed it and then uh he also gave me
a picture of him wearing that the same fedora at
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Citznitsa and a handwritten note saying he wore that. Uh. Anyway,
when he was done, he says, after all this, Josh,
if anybody doubts that I owned this fedora, they kiss
my So anyway, um, I've got us, as far as
I know, the only signed Jim Mars fedora. That's uh yeah,
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what what what a treasure? Let mean to me? That's
a true treasure. Uh. My great friend Santaro, David Longley,
he donated a big special beated wand probably like two
point five feet long, you know, like a big center
Santaria wand and and another very special item that's used
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in Santaria. I would tell you more about this stuff,
but I am going to be interviewing him soon, and
so instead of telling you now, I'll let him tell
you what these things are that he donated for the collection.
I have haunted dolls. I have a German doll that
uh it's people, they say, as a presence around it.
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And I have a replica of Robert the Haunted doll
that I got from Key West. It's not an exact replica,
but it's they sell it as a replica. So I've
got all kinds of little dolls and things. But when
we come back from this break, I'm going to tell
you about the ultimate, like my favorite things that I
want to tell you about that I have that are
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so precious to me that I have them here in
my house. I see them every single day. And then
I'm going to tell you about my crystal skull and
what I think is up with the crystal skull phenomenon
because I have a heck of a unique crystal skull.
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Welcome back to the final segment of this edition of
Strange Themes on the I Heart Radio and Coast to
Coast a M Paranormal podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua
Pete Warren, and two of my favorite items in my
collection are right here currently in my living room. One
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of them of Wars is Carville the Alien. This is
the four four or five ft tall, one pound wooden
alien statue that belonged to Art Bell. He kept it
in his studio with him as he was broadcasting his
classic shows, and according to Art, his family said that
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this alien was coming to life at night and running
around the house. That is a long story, and so
instead of me trying to tell you that story, I listen.
I built a whole website to tell you this story.
And that website is simply art Bell Alien dot com.
Art Bell Alien dot com. Go there, watch the videos,
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listen to the audio, look at all the material, the provenance.
It's incredible. You'll see why that Carville is like another
member of my family. Here in my house. I also have,
of course, in my living room Dr Moody Psycho Mantium Mirror.
I told you in an earlier episode of this show
that I have that now in my house, and I
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will be giving you an update on what has been
happening in a future podcast. But it's one of those
things that really belongs in the Smithsonian, and I have
both of those things right here now. Something that I
have in storage that will soon be in my living room, however,
is a special crystal skull. And let me start by
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telling you. You know, there you're all kinds of weird
rumors about the power of crystal skulls and them speaking
to people and having a consciousness and all that, and
it's it's certainly possible. There's something to it, because crystals
do store energy and manipulate energy and play energy back.
And you know, maybe that's worth a whole show digging
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into why that crystals are special. But you know, in
two thousand nine, my friends Missy and Ron Hill arranged
for the friend Joshua Shapiro to come to my laboratory
and bring one of his favorite crystal skulls for some testing.
And I was there with Forrest Connor and Shelley Right
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and we spent a whole night subjecting this crystal skull
to tests. And one weird thing I found was that
if you put uh, basically a telekinetic will or or
a p K will in front of it, a mind
will that you're you're supposed to move with your mind,
it would spin fluidly when we put it in front
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of the skull, but not when we put it in
front of a control. And if you don't know what
kind of will I'm talking about, go back and listen
to episode three of this show, because episode three was
called like how to Move Things with your Mind, So
it was a will similar to that that would spin
incredibly in front of the crystal skull, but not otherwise.
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And I looked at my report that I wrote after
testing the skull in all these different ways, and I wrote,
the skull is a capacitor that slowly accrues a slight
electrical potential and then gradually discharges it, usually with the
current flow from the left temple to the right temple.
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This is most pronounced when the skull is held by
a human. Okay, a human holds it, you get this
pronounced flow of energy. I wrote. The skull takes high
voltage electrical potential and most likely transforms it into a
high frequency output. Hence the fact the skull rarely gave
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forth a large bolt of discharge to surrounding objects, even
though at least fifty to a hundred and fifty thousand
volts were being applied to the skull. It's taking voltage
and turning it into an electro magnetic broadcast. I also wrote,
it may be that this and similar crystal skulls are
so popular because of their ability to transform low frequency
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electrical potential into high frequency electrical output that is broadcast
at a level to which sensitive individuals can perceive, perhaps
even affecting the electro physiology of the brain. UM. I
have a heck of a crystal skull. Now, I've been
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telling you about the one that we tested that was
owned by Joshua Shapiro. But my good friend, miss Shaleyen Gates,
she is a world traveler, and years ago she was
in another country and she found this amazing alien crystal skull.
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It reminds me of something from the Indiana Jones and
the Crystal Kingdom of the Crystal Skull movie. We're talking
about a skull that's easily you know, a foot long,
a massive chunk of courts, beautifully carved. And she bought this,
and she donated it, and I took it to the
Bermuda Triangle and charged it up, and I had that
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in the museum and I'm telling you, people would go
there and they would receive telepathic messages from it, occasionally
glimpses of the future. That's another thing that's soon going
to be in my house. Another one of my really
cool possessions that I have in storage right now, just
for a limited time. Um, and that is my alien
crystal skull. You know, at some point I'm going to
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have all of this stuff on display again here in
Las Vegas. And I have not told you about everything
that I have because as a surprise, I keep some
of my best stuff for only for people who come
to the Creepy Vegas Ghost and UFO show when they
visit Las Vegas. And so it's not running right now,
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but it should be up and running again very soon.
We're just waiting until we get the green light on that.
Before I go, I want to read to you a
quick story that my buddy, Mr. Vance Pollock wrote, because
Vance Pollock was the chief historian for my museum, and
he also is the operator of the Joshua pe Warren's
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Asheville Mystery Museum Facebook page. And it reminded me of
this great story when I was going over all these
items that you know, Vance helped me so much researching
things and digging up wonderful documents. Listen to this story.
Vance wrote. It's called, um, the Legend of Red Blood
Rock and uh, he says. As I was growing up,
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I remember often hearing my mother recount a local legend
from her small mountain community. The tale spoke of a
murdered man, fallen and bleeding, left to die on a
great pale boulder along the side of a creek, and
although the body is long gone, every time it rains,
the boulder will still run red with blood. As a boy,
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this story always fascinated me, and I never got tired
of hearing it. Many years later, I came across a
politician while doing research on my great great grandfather Kit Bird.
According to the book, he was murdered back in one
during a run in with his quote business partners, that
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is to say, fellow moonshiners. They were called Whitson Brothers.
The murder happened near Red Hill, a rural mountain community
in Mitchell County, North Carolina. It is supposed that all
three brothers fired shots at Kit as he attempted to
walk away from a heated argument, and kit staggered to
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a nearby creek bank, where he fell upon a large
pell boulder and bled to death. Red Hill is just
miles down the road from the community in which my
mom grew up, so without knowing it, she had for
decades been recounting a legend born from the murder of
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her own great grandfather. That is so typical of the
kinds of synchronicities that Vance Paulock always runs into when
he does his research. I'm gonna have to to be
sure to interview Vance. I'm making a note right now.
You gotta, yeah, I gotta have vants on this show.
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Uh you know, Vance was I specifically chose him to
be my replacement host on Speaking of Strange after I
no longer had time to host it. And he is
just one of those guys crackling with synchronicities. Sherlock Pollock.
You put him on a mission to find something, he
will find that he will stumble into it, it will
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come to him. And so that was one of the
reasons that my museum was was such a great place,
because you had people like Vance Pollock there who was
who was doing research all the time. So look that
those are just some examples. I'm really just scratching the
surface of some of the things that I have in
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my collection that I find interesting and meaningful, and I
hope that you find them also interesting to hear about.
And there are some that I really, really, really really
wish I could tell you about. But again, I gotta
save some surprises for you know, down the road, especially
when I do put some stuff back on display. I
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have some things that are so crazy that uh it's
it's different. You won't even believe how I attained some
of the things that I have. So I I saved
the very best stuff of course, um for those who
come to an event where I promised them something big. Right.
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