Episode 261: Spooky Stories! PLUS Guess What’s in My Hand!

Halloween is coming! The Wizard knows how to celebrate………

plus, what the heck is he holding?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yet ready to be amazed by the wizard of weird.
This is Strange Warren. I am Joshua be Warren. At
Each week on this show, I'll be bringing you brand
new mind blowing content, news, exercises and weird experiments you

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can do at home, and a lot more on this
edition of the show Spooky Stories plus guess what's in
my hand right now? It is? It's amazing, this is
this is really something extraordinary. I'm of course going to

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tell you what it is later. Think about it, see
if you're psychic enough to guess it between now and then.
Before we get to that, I must say again, as
I I often have to do. Excuse me if my
voice is a bit gravelly. These sandstorms here and the

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Las Vegas Desert are just brutal sometimes, I mean, the
wind will knock you down. Earlier today, I literally watched
a large trash can next to my house go soaring
into the sky and vanish. It's gone. It's in oz now,

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and that's why, you know, you have to drag all
your furniture in sometimes when these storms hit. And man,
it's it's rough. It's it's rough. But the weather is
definitely changing and it's getting it's getting cool here. I
you know, I realized this is a podcast, and that
means you could be listening to it any time of

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the year. However, I am recording this in October, one
of my favorite times of the year, because of course
we're leading up to Halloween, and so since I am
recording in October, I usually tried to stick in at
least one or two halloweeny things. Of course, I grew

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up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina.
I grew up in Ashville, and it was an extremely
rich Halloween atmosphere around there, very traditional, was almost like
an old kick back to old Europe. Or something. Everybody
was partying. There were tons of stories in folklore, and
I mean it was just it was a big deal.

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And so it's not as big of a deal in
other places. You know, Here in Vegas, it doesn't feel
nearly as much like Halloween as it did when I
was in western North Carolina. But I actually wrote about
sort of what it was like on Halloween night in Asheville,
North Carolina, in a novel called The Evil in Ashville.

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Asheville spelled ashe the I ll E. So there's literally
the word evil in the middle of it. So my
novel The Evil in Ashville, it's on Amazon if you're
a novel reader. I've never done an audio book version
of it. It's a long book, so I've never taken
the time to sit down and read the thing out
loud on on a recording. But there's a there's a

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passage from my novel The Evil in Asheville where I
describe what it was usually like for me as a youth,
you know, let's say, like a teenager on Halloween night.
And in the crisp air uh Western North Carolina, and

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so here is I play this every so often, and
so ever so often and so here it is. Here
is a passage and excerpt from my book where I
am telling you what Halloween was like for me growing
up October thirty first, it was like the earth had

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died for a night, and on its last exhale, as
the life slipped away, the darkness of the other world
had oozed in to the void left behind ever so gently,
the sun had submerged into the grave of the horizon,
leaving behind cold blue whirl to fend for itself. The

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leaves and trees were dry and crackly, and the air
was so thin that it could not restrain the spirits
of the dead, unleashing them into the helpless realm of
the living. The color black had never looked blacker, and
the lustrous moon above a mangy cat at the side

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of the road, and the fire in a jack o'lantern's
eyes never looked more sinister. The sky above felt bigger
and bleaker than before, its infinite mystery overwhelming, and within
each shadow a spectral predator lurked and waited, watching, always watching.

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But amongst the more substantial underlying malevolence of the night,
frivolities danced about its crust. There were rubber bets flapping
from bands of elastic fabric, Ghosts hanging from trees, grinning,
gap toothed pumpkins at every doorstep, and the people, ah,

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the people. It was like the world had turned inside
out for a night, and all of society filled the streets.
Both children and adults were decked in costumes of every kind,
which is goblins, werewolves, frankenstein, monster and grotesque slashed faces

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strolled every lane. Plastic cauldrons of candy, sweets abounded. Houses
were mummified with soaring rolls of toilet paper, Dry eyes,
fog rolled off green fountains of punch, and floating apples
were bobbed for from wide germ filled vats. In ghoulish garb.

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Storytellers sat around lapping campfires, relating creepy tales of the past,
stories of hooks and hitchhikers, spook infested houses, heads and bags,
cold blooded murders, and pranks gone terribly wrong, all of
them true, of course. And at Helen's Bridge, teams gathered

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to spot the ghostly mistress, perhaps to find her handprint
burned permanently into the finish of their cars. At other places,
like the secluded vacant water tower, the open cut or
Spidey Mountain. Some of the more bold search to find
Satanists absorbed in their cursed rights. A human sacrifice splayed

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before them. Young men intrepid and dashing in their capes
and masks, competed for the favors of young women dressed
seductively in the revealing costumes of morbid tempresses, smoke candy,

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mischief tales, spirits, ancient evil, and the crisp Air. This
was Halloween. Yup, there you go. That's pretty much how

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it was. I don't know if it's still like that
there these days. I imagine it is. I haven't spent
Halloween in Ashville in a few years. Of course, I
definitely keep tabs on everything happening around Halloween because I
only Haunted Ashville Ghost Tour. I created it. It's Ashville's

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oldest and original ghost tour, and we just get slammed
every year jam packed. We sell out every single tour.
So if you'd like to come on Joshua Pee Warren's
official Haunted Ashville Ghost Tour in Asheville, North Carolina, go
to Haunted Ashville dot com. It's guided by locals who

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are friends of mine who are also paranormal investigators, and
they really know what they're talking about. So take a
tour Haunted Ashville dot com. But if you happen to
be near Las Vegas, of course, outside of Vegas's Boulder City,
where I created the Boulder City Ghost and UFO tour,

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and so you can just go to Haunted Bouldercity dot
com if you want to join us for that. The
weirdest Halloween experience that I had, of course, well experiences,
it was when I was living in Puerto Rico. I mean,
I lived in Puerto Rico for five years, and it's
very odd to be on a hot tropical island at

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Halloween time. B See, I didn't live in San Juan.
Most people have been to Puerto Rico, they've been to
San Juan, the capital. I lived on the opposite side
of the island in a much more secluded place called
Bokerone in Cabo Rojo, and this was the place where
like the locals would go to actually party. And people

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in Puerto Rico, in that part of Puerto Rico, they
like anyway to ride around tonight on black horses. It's
just something they do for fun. Sometimes you'll see them
take those horses out into the ocean and swim those
horses around for exercise. And so Puerto Ricans love any
opportunity to party. So every Halloween, sure enough, the streets
would get decked, I mean just filled with people deck

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with out in the most incredible crazy costumes. And there
would always be at least two or three headless horsemen.
And these guys, they would they knew how to make
that headless horseman costume with that flowing cape, and you'd
have headless horsemen running all over Boca Own, Puerto Rico,
all these big black steeds. It was the craziest thing.

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And everybody's just getting absolutely sloshed. Well, time for a break.
When we come back, I'm gonna tell you what I
have have been holding in my hand. It's a good one.
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will be right back. Welcome back to Strange Things on

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the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast a M paranormal podcast Network.
I am your host, the Wizard of Weird, Joshua P. Warren.
Beat me into your worm whole brain from my studio
in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day is
golden and every night is silver. Gietato Zoome. You know,

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some of the most haunting images from history come from
those atomic bomb explosions during World War II. I mean,
everybody has seen everybody has seen that giant, boiling mushroom

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cloud just swelling into the sky. And what terrible destruction
is blow unimaginable destruction. And you know, it's very difficult
when you start trying to describe, like, well, how powerful
is an explosion? You know, you talk about megatons and

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all that, but you know, most people can't relate to
that sort of thing. But let me just put it
to you this way. Okay, when when the Hiroshima bomb exploded. Okay, now,
that was the first time an atomic bomb was dropped
in warfare on a city, Hiroshima. When Hiroshima was bombed,

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well you can imagine without me going into details here,
how many, how powerful that was. And that's why it's
absolutely mind boggling to realize that in nineteen o eight,
when the Tunguska event happened, this massive, massive explosion over

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fortunately a remote part of Russia, it was over one
thousand times more powerful than the Hiroshima blast. Think about that,
and we still to this day don't know exactly what
created this amazing explosion. I mean, it was the morning

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of June thirtieth, nineteen oh eight, and all of a
sudden paw. I mean, they say, again, I don't know
what this means to you. An explosion of between three
and fifty megatons and it just it created this unbelievable
pattern of fallen trees for miles and miles and miles

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I think eight hundred and thirty square miles of forest
and it and what's kind of eerie is did it
almost formed kind of like a wing pattern, like a
big mothman imprint. And scientists again to this day, they
don't know what caused this, and they have some theories.

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I'm going to toss some theories out there in a minute.
But I am holding in my hand right now a
tiny sliver of wood. That's right. This is about one
inch long, maybe about a quarter inch wide, and this

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is an actual specimen of one of the trees from
the Tunguska explosion event. Can't believe I'm holding this in
my hands. I'm looking at it, and I can see
all the little marks, the little lines. I guess part of

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the rings is what you would call it. It almost
looks like a little piece of cedar. And I want
to read to you what the signed certificate of authenticity says.
Here It says Tunguska Event Surviving Tree Certificate of authenticity.
On the morning of June thirtieth, nineteen oh eight, a

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column of blue light moved through the atmosphere over the
pod Kamanaya Tunguska River in Siberia. Minutes later, a flash
filled the sky and a deafening boom shook the earth.
Shock waves from the blast could be measured from across
the globe, and the skies over Eurasia glowed for several nights.

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After thought to be a meteorite, studies suggests the object
was roughly two hundred feet that is sixty meters in size,
detonating at an altitude of three miles or four kilometers
with a blast force equal to twelve megatons of TNT.

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The event disrupted over eight hundred thirty square miles that's
two thousand, one hundred fifty kilometres of forest, flattening roughly
eighty million trees. Early investigations of the site revealed that
microscopic spheres of silicate and magnetite were present in the
soil and lodged in some trees. This metal exhibited a

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high nickel to iron ratio, a characteristic commonly found in meteorites.
Killer Specimen is a section of a surviving tree recovered
by scientists from the University of Bologna in two thousand
and two. The tree was located near the suspected epicenter

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at Lake Checko dendver Dendra chronological stud It's not enough
to have allergies, now, I have to say dendrochronological analysis
of the tree resident and growth rings provides direct evidence

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of the catastrophic event, and then it certified and stamped
and all that kind of stuff. Wow. So here I
have a piece of wood from the epicenter of the
Tunguska explosion. If you go to an Encyclopedia article and

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read up on this, it says this event is the
largest impact event on Earth in recorded history, though much
larger impacts are believed to have occurred in prehistoric times.
An explosion of this magnitude would be capable of destroying
a large metropolitan area. So there is an eeriness about

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all this because I think anything that happens in the
remote wilderness of Russia is kind of creepy. But also
the mothman thing that ties in, you know, amazingly because
it was so remote. They say they believe that only

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three people died, but the sky glowed so brightly afterward
the people could go outside and read newspapers at night.
Sometimes the sky was just green, so bright green, they
could go outside and read. And there have been so
many theories about what caused this. And again, you know,

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scientists are saying that they believed that this was probably
a meteor air burst. But as you can imagine, over
the years, every type of theory has been put forth.
One of the most popular is that it uh oh well,
let me just first off say, obviously people have said,
could this have been an alien like a UFO that crashed.

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Could this have been, you know, some kind of an
interdimensional clash, two universes bumped into each other. I mean,
you have you, you name it. People have a theory
for it. But one of the most popular is that
this may have been an early test of Nikola Tesla's

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death ray, because it is absolutely true that nick Tesla
claimed that he had created a death ray, and one
reason that some people believe that is because that it
just so happened to be in this very remote area
where it didn't kill many people, and that maybe that

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was done by design. In fact, here's the real scoop
on nick La Tesla's death ray. In the early nineteen hundreds,
there were a lot of inventors claiming that they had
created some kind of a death ray. Marconi said that
he made one. He's the guy who's credited with inventing radio,
even though most people say that Tesla was way ahead
of him. Here's what Tesla actually said about his so

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called death ray. He called it a death beam. He
called it a teleforce t E l E f O RCEE,
and he said that quote this invention of mine does
not contemplate the use of so called death rays. Rays
are not applicable because they cannot be produced and requisite

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quantities and diminish rapidly in intensity with distance. All the
energy of New York City transformed into rays and projected
twenty miles could not kill a human being, because, according
to a well known law of physics, it would disperse
to such an extent as to be ineffectual. He said,
My apparatus projects particles which may be relatively large or

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of microscopic dimensions, enabling us to convey to a small
area at a great distance trillions of times more energy
than as possible with rays of any kind. Many thousands
of horsepower can thus be transmitted by a stream thinner
than a hare, so that nothing can resist. That was

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a quote by him. He said that a nation could
quote destroy anything approaching within two hundred miles and provide
a wall of power in order to make any country
large or small impregnate against armies, airplanes, and other means
of attack end quote. He claimed to have worked on
the project since about nineteen hundred and said it drew

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power from the ionosphere, which he called an invisible ball
of energy surrounding the Earth. And he said that he
had done this with the help of a fifty foot
Tesla coil. He's talking about the inverse square law for
those of you who are in the physics and so look,
he said, I've been working on this since nineteen one hundred.

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Tunguska happened in nineteen oh eight. Well, I ran some tests.
I ran some tests. Are you surprised on this piece
of wood from a tree near the epicenter of the
Tunguska explosion? My results, Well, I'll tell you when we

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come back. It's just I can't believe I'm holding this
in my hand though, I mean of all the things
that I own, this is one of the most prize collectibles.
I could talk for a whole hour about it. But
I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on
the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast, a paranormal podcast network,

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and I will be back after these important messages. Welcome

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back to Strange Thing on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
Coast AM Paranormal podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua Pee Warren,
and this is the show where the unusual becomes usual. Yes,
of course, as soon as I received my piece of

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tongusca of a tongusca tree, I ran straight for my
Geiger counter. I just got this yesterday. I ran straight
from my Geiger counter. And I have a number of
Geiger counters, but one of them is my favorite. It's
I believe it's the most sensitive one. And I have

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had this Geiger counter for over fifteen years. I bought
it from from Bob Lazar, the Area fifty one whistleblower
and uh. I have used this Geiger counter all over
the world and I can't find it. For the first
time ever, I was like, are you kidding me? You

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don't usually just misplace a Geiger counter. It's something that
goes into a spot, a safe spot that it's the
geiger counter spot, you know. And I can't imagine how
I could have misplaced this geiger counter. The only thing
I can think of is that. And I've been moving

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equipment around so much this year during the portal experiment,
you know, going back and forth between the desert and
my laboratory and my house, that maybe it got misplaced
and it's just in the wrong bag somewhere. So hopefully
I will find that. In the meantime, I have ordered
another Geiger counter that is just as sensitive. But in

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the meantime, like I say, I have a number of them.
So I took out my second favorite geiger counter and
I tested this piece and I did not get any
significant radioactivity from it. And so now you might say, well,
what's the significance, what would it What would it mean

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if it were highly radioactive? Well, meteorites are usually not
highly radioactive. They can be a little bit, but not highly.
So if this were highly radioactive, then that would make
me start thinking outside the box about it being something
other than a meteorite. Also, I did not pick up
any great electromagnetic anomalies around it or electrostatic anomalies. So

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I am going to continue testing this thing. I am
going to update you as soon as I get my
new Geiger counter. I will have more specific readings. But
I am really looking forward to putting this thing under
a microscope because I have a feeling when I do that,
I may see some things that will surprise me. So

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stand by. This is an ongoing project, but I will
have some more results soon. And even if there's nothing
special about it, then that is in and of itself
a result. And I love getting to test these odd
little things. A piece of a tree from the Tongue
Guska event. All right, well, this show is called Spooky Stories.

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Plus guess wat's in my hand? So it's October as
I record this. How about another well spooky story that
I like to read this time of year. Several centuries ago,
amongst the green countryside and superstitious towns and villages in Ireland,

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there lived a drunkard known as Stingy Jack. Jack was
known throughout the land as a deceiver, a manipulator, and
a dredge on his community. A fateful hallowy night typical
of Jack. He was drunk and wandering through the countryside

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in the moonlight when he stumbled upon his shadowy body
lying in his path, and to his surprise, the body,
with an eerie grimace on his pale face, rose suddenly,
and the figure said to stingy Jack, I am the Devil,

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and I have finally come for you. You knew this
day would come. What do you want with me, exclaimed Jack.
I'm here to take your soul down to hell, said
the horrible, grinning figure. Well, Jack seemed to accept his fate,

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but he said to the devil, then please please at
least give me one last strink of ll before I go. Well,
the devil, always up for a good time, said well, yes, fine,
then let's go to the pub for your last ale. Well,
the two had a good old time, drinking up a

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storm for hours. Finally the tab came to but Jack
did not have a penny to his name, so he
said to the devil, well, you're a great and powerful magician.
Let's see if you can turn yourself into a silver
coin we can give this bar keep. Well, the devil
was happy to show off and oblige, and he transformed

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himself into a silver coin. Jack quickly stuffed the coin
into his pocket, where Jack always kept a crucifix, and
this trapped old Satan. You see, his power was gone
next to a crucifix, and the devil begged Jack to
let him go free. But Jack said, I know my

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inevitable fate, but I'll only release you if you grant
me ten more years, just ten more years on this earth.
The devil had no choice but to agree. Well, you
think old stingy Jack would have changed his ways, but
he did not. Some say he got even worse. But

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time flies by, and Halloween night, ten years later, Old
Jack was wandering the moonlit countryside when once again his
old friend, the devil, appeared, next to a dark tree.
It's been ten years, growled the devil. Now it's time

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to go Jack. And Jack bowed his head and said,
all right, all right, I know it's time, but at
least give me one last morsel of food from this
good green earth before I have to go. The devil
was actually kind of fond of Jack, and he said,

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oh fine, I'll give you one last morsel of food,
since you won't be getting it anymore forever. They were
next to an apple tree and Jack said, I can't
reach them apples up there, but you're a great and
powerful spirit. Can you please run up that tree and
take me down an apple to feed this hungry belly?

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And once again the devil agreed to this request. But
as the devil climbed up the gnarled branches of the tree, clever, old,
stingy Jack reached in his pockets and quickly surrounded the
base of the tree with a ring of crucifixes. Satan

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was mad as hell that he had been entrapped again
and demanded his release, and as before, Jack made a
demand that his soul never be taken by Satan into hades.
Satan had no choice but to agree, and so the
devil was set free. Well, the years passed by, time

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always wins. Eventually, the hard drinking took its toll on
Jack and he died in pain. Jack found himself at
the gate of Saint Peter in heaven, but he was stopped.
Saint Peter said Jack, because of your drinking and sinful

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life of deceit, you shall never be allowed in heaven.
So Jack was immediately spirited down to Hell, but there
he saw his old drinking buddy, the devil, once again,
and Satan said, I have to fulfill my promise. Jack,
you shall never be admitted here. And so Jack was

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not admitted to heaven or hell. And the devil, with
his eerie, vindictive grin, tossed a fiery ember into an old,
hollowed out turnip and gave it to Jack. And the
devil said, you shall miserably wander the earth forever, never

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at rest, always weary with this lantern, as a warning
to all those fools who think they can somehow outsmart
God and the Devil. And to this day, on some dark,
clear nights, especially around Halloween, you'll catch a glimpse of

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old stingy Jack with his lantern, drifting about the hills
and glens. All he wants now is a rest that
shall never come. He is doomed to this fate for
all time. Those who see this apparition shudder and rush

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their children inside. He's old stingy Jack with his lantern,
where as we call him Jack of the Lantern or
Jack a Lantern. And that, my friends, is the story
of the Jack a Lantern. Can you imagine how much

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spookier it was to live back in the days when
you could be walking down a dark path by yourself
at night and look up at the moon and just
have no idea what is up there. You don't even
know what the moon is. Born into a world where

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we take so much for granted, and yet there are
still many mysteries out there. And when we come back
from this break, I'm going to share with you some
creepy things that I have learned that are synchronicities to
kind of make your skin crawl, give you goosebumps, a
little bit perhaps about art imitating life, life imitating art,

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predictive things. Perhaps I'm not sure how to make sense
of it, but that's why the show is called what
it's called. I'm Joshua pe Warren. You're listening to Strange
Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal
Podcast Network, and I will be right back. Welcome back

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to the final segment of this edition of Strange Things
on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.
I am your host, Joshua P. Warren. And six months
before nine to eleven September eleventh, two thousand and one,

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when our country was attacked the Twin Towers and other locations.
Six months before that, there was a television series that premiere,
a spinoff of The X Files called The Lone Gunman,
and in the pilot episode, which aired March fourth, two

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thousand and one, rogue members of the US government remotely
hijack an airliner planning to crash it into the World
Trade Center and let anti American terrorist groups take credit
in order to gain public support for a new, profitable

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anti terrorist war. Six months before nine to eleven that
was on TV. Kind of gives you the chills. One
of my favorite movies is The Big Lebowski, and right
near the opening of the movie, the dude he is

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at the grocery store and he is writing a check
for I think sixty nine cents, and he he dates
the check September eleventh, and I think it's nineteen ninety one,
so that'd be exactly ten years before the attacks. He ate,
he dates it September eleventh, nineteen ninety one, and then

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while he's writing the check, he pauses and he looks
up and George hw Bush is heard giving a speech
in the background saying, this aggression will not stand. These
things happen more often than you'd think, and just recently,

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I was pretty astounded. Well, I learned this one. I'm
going to try to share a couple things with you.
Of course, this year twenty twenty five, on September tenth,
the conservative influencer Charlie kirk was assassinated and the guy

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charged is named Tyler. And turns out there was this
movie that came out in nineteen ninety eight called Snake
Eyes starring Nicholas Cage. It's directed by Brian de Palmer.

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They call it a mystery thriller. Nicholas Cage is a
detective investigating a political assassination at a boxing match. And
I actually went back and watched the beginning of this movie.
And in the beginning of this movie, there is a
politician named Charlie Kirkland. He's I believe, the Secretary of Defense,

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and he is sitting in the audience at this boxing
match in Atlantic City. And the boxer who's on stage
in the ring, I mean, the executioner is what they
call him, but his name is Tyler. And it turns

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out that Tyler is involved in this conspiracy to have
Charlie Kirkland assassinated in the middle of the bolt and
at one point Charlie Kirkland gets shot and he's hit
on the left side of his throat and almost the

(42:31):
exact spot where Charlie kirk was hit. And there are
many other synchronicities like that between this movie Snake Eyes,
which came out in nineteen ninety eight and what happened
this year with these I mean, I just you know,
how do you explain these things? How do we explain

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these things? It happens so often that it makes me
think that perhaps some of these creative people who make
movies are actually channeling subconsciously events from the future that
uh that are you know, things that are going to happen,
and they just tap into it spontaneously and they get

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all these details and circumstances close enough to put a
scenario together where you know, names and dates and times
and circumstances are that closely related. You know, there are
the there are these weird resonances between moments and figures
and history, like the whole connection between Kennedy assassination and

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John F. Kennedy. Uh, I mean, the the Lincoln assassination
and the John F. Kennedy assassination. I mean it boggles
the mind when you really start thinking about it. Is
it the fact that there is just some grand matrix
here and at a certain point, fact and fiction sort

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of merged together into one reality, and that it gets
expressed in different ways, that what we discern as fact
from fiction is not always an absolute boundary. That everything
is real on some level, even if it is imagined

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and expressed artistically, or whether it's something that you see
happen in what you consider your objective world. This is
a very philosophical, sort of very philosophical concept. I mean,
I don't know. Again, I'm here to raise questions. I

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did an episode of this podcast called Strange Things not
too long ago, episode two thirty eight, and it's called
Our Superhero Actors Cursed, and actually the full name is
Major Portal Update and Our Superhero Actors Cursed, and I
talked about people involved with these movies, like, you know,

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there's a Superman curse. I won't go over all that again.
You can go back and listen to episode two thirty
eight if you're interested, but bearing this kind of thing
in mind, I just recently heard of a new Cursed project.
And when I first heard about this, I thought it
might have been you know, like a a clickbait or

(45:33):
something like that. But no, it turns out it's this
is true. I'd never heard this before. There was a
novel that was published in nineteen sixty three called The
Incomparable Attuck, and Attuck is spelled at Uk And apparently

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this is a Canadian inn is what it says here?
I guess an Inuit. It's the name of a Canadian Inuit.
The Incomparable Attuck is a satirical novel by a Canadian
author named Mordecai Richler, and it tells the story of

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this I mean a lot of people. I don't know
if you would say that this was similar to an
Eskimo type of a character. I really don't know that
much about it. But someone like that who is transported
to Toronto, or Toronto as I think the locals often
called it, and quickly adopts the greed and pretensions of

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the big city. And a film adaptation of this was
in the works from the mid nineteen eighties to the
beginning of the nineteen nineties, but it never materialized. The
film was going to simply be called Attuck, and it
has been considered cursed because that several actors associated with

(47:06):
the film's development died. First it was John Belushi, he
was going to be I guess this lead character. And
then it was Sam Kennison, and of course Kennison got
killed in a car accident. As a matter of fact,
it almost seemed like he was seeing an angel or

(47:27):
god or something like that and speaking to this invisible being.
As Sam Kennison died on the side of the road.
So the next actor they went to to play this
role was John Candy. Of course, John Candy died young
of a heart attack not too long after that. You
might not know the name Michael o'donnahugh unless you're really

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into the world of comedy, but Michael o'donahue was. He
was the head the first head writer for SNL. He
actually occasionally acted, was the first person who spoke lines
on the show, and he died unexpectedly. Next they offered

(48:10):
it to Chris Farley. Chris Farley overdosed and died. Then
they went to Phil Hartman and his wife shot him
and killed him. You know what, look this up. I'm
almost out of time, But how do we explain this
the incomparable attack. I actually bought a copy of the book.

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It hasn't arrived yet I'm not sure I want to
read it though. I'm kind of afraid to open it
up and read it. All Right, Well, we've covered a
lot of strange stuff on the show. You can't say otherwise,
So let's try to end on a positive note, though,
shall we. You know what we do here. Take a
deep breath, if you can close your eyes, let us
all focus on something happy. Now, let's focus on the

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