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can do at home, and a lot more on this
edition of the show. More paranormal animals. Do you know
that Oscar, the death Sensing cat is still alive? He
lives at the Steer House Nursing and Rehab Center in Providence,
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Rhode Island. He's been there since two thousand five. He
came to public attention in two thousand seven when he
was featured in an article by Dr David Dosa in
the New England Journal of Medicine, and according to Dosa,
Oscar appears able to predict the impending death of terminally
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ill patients by choosing to nap next to people a
few hours before they die. He Uh. The cat there
was the subject of a book that Dosa wrote in
two thousand and ten called Making Rounds with Oscar The
Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat. So they say that Oscar,
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the therapy cat is in this forty one bed facility,
and he has been described generally as aloof and quote
not a cat that's friendly to people end quote, sometimes
hissing at people when he wants to be left alone.
Why is it that things named Oscar are always grouchy?
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Uh says. After Oscar had been at Steerhouse for around
six months, staff noticed that Oscar often chose to nap
next to residents who died within several hours of his arrival.
It seemed to staff as if Oscar were trying to
comfort and provide company to people as they died. Joan Tino,
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a physician there, said, quote, it's not that the cat
is consistently there first, but the cat always does manage
to make an appearance, and it always seems to be
in the last two hours end quote. After Oscar accurately
predicted twenty five deaths, staff started calling family members of
residents as soon as they discovered him sleeping next to someone,
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in order to notify them and give them an opportunity
to say goodbye before the impending death. How about that?
Can you imagine the facility calls you up and says, hey,
you should know Oscar just curled up with Grandma, so
might want to come down here and see her one
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last time before Oscar eats her. That's terrible. I'm joking.
I'm joking. Nobody can explain how that Oscar does this? Okay,
And the obvious thing that people ask, can't he smell something,
some kind of a chemical an odor that's released just
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before death occurs? Uh? Well, if so, then what what
makes him special? Why don't all cats consistently do that?
You know? Um? And then also one person here speculates
that maybe he just picks up on the stillness and
lack of movement in the room rather than the smell.
Nobody knows. Nobody knows how this cat consense death. If
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we could figure that out. That might tell us something
really fascinating about well, I guess certainly the paranormal power
of pets, but what death itself is. I'll keep an
eye on that story for you. We'll see if we
and figure out more about what's happening with Oscar, and
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then let's go let's switch to dogs. Do you know
about the suicide bridge for dogs? It's in Overton, actually,
it's called the Overton Bridge. That's spelled O V E
R T O u N. It's called the Overton Bridge
and it's in Scotland. Now. This is a big, beautiful,
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wide gray bridge and it spans a deep ravine next
to this striking majestic castle. The ravine is about fifty
ft deep and this bridge was built in eighteen and
it's always had a spooky reputation. But the stories really
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hit the media in two thousand five. That's when they
say a lot of publicity was given to reports of
a number of dogs either all ing or jumping from
the bridge, resulting an injury or death upon landing on
the rocks there fifty feet or fifteen meters below, and
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explanations for these deaths have ranged from claims of ghosts
and supernatural causes to natural explanations of dogs being attracted
to the scent or sounds of nearby animals in the
undergrowth and uh consequently losing their balance on the sloping
surfaces of the bridge there and as we look more
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into the specifics here, it says from approximately two thousand
five onward, stories of dogs apparently leaping to their deaths
from the bridge have continued to be published. A canine
psychologist named David Sands said that maybe it has something
to do with the surrounding foliage, that given the extremely
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steep drop off the side of the bridge, the appearance
of the ground, and maybe combined with the residual odor
from mal mink urine could all combine to lure dogs
into this vulnerable position where they fall or just jump
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off the bridge. That theory, however, was protested by a
local hunter and a resident of fifty years named John Joyce,
who stated the quote there are no mink in the
area end quote. In two thousand nineteen, the owners of
the castle there, which they call the Overton House, Bob
and Melissa Hill, said that in seventeen years of residing
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at the house, they have actually witnessed a number of
dogs become agitated just jump up and fall from the bridge.
So this is that's erie, okay, but listen to this.
This is just downright creepy. In October of a man
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went to that bridge and through his two week old
son to his death from the bridge because he believed
that his son was an incarnation of the devil. And
he then attempted to commit suicide several times, first by
attempting to jump off the bridge and later by slashing
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his wrists. Now does that kind of give you some
goose bumps? What a setting? A spooky old, big majestic
castle in Scotland with a bridge where dogs are jumping
off and a guy just walks up and throws a
baby in, saying this is the incarnation of the devil,
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and then tries to kill himself. I mean, like, you know,
I thought to myself, I'd like to travel there and
investigate it, but I'm also kind of intimidated by it.
You know, as time has gone on, I've become more
and more hesitant to go to really dark, evil places. Um,
but I don't know when when it's okay to travel again.
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I might just have to say what the heck, I'm
going to Scotland and I'm going to check this place
out and see is this land cursed? Um? You know,
is surely there's something going on here that because you know,
you think that again, if there's if there was a
more natural, common explanation for this, and that kind of
thing would happen more often at other places around the planet.
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So there must be something paranormal happening. There's something these
dogs are sensing. I don't know if they're if they're
attacking something, or if they are becoming possessed by something.
It kind of sounds like maybe a possession though, doesn't it.
Maybe it's both. I don't That's what I'm saying. I
don't have all the answers here, but dogs and cats
have long been associated with the paranormal. In fact, it
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really goes all the way back two this terrible book
that was published in let's see, perhaps you've heard of it.
It's called the Malleus Maleficarum, which translates into the Hammer
of Witches. Now even though okay, well, this book was
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the handbook that was used to persecute, you know, torture
and kill all these quote unquote witches back in the day.
It was written by Henrik Kramer and James Springer, and
they were Dominican Catholic friars who helped to spearhead this
whole witch hunting craze of the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries.
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During that period of time, sales of this book, The
Malleus Maleficarum, were only exceeded by the Bible. And by
the way the Bible says quote thou shalt not suffer
a witch to live in quote. So up to millions
of people may have been tortured and killed due to
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the influence of this handbook. And in this book they
talk explicitly about why cats are evil, and they get
into why dogs are holy and good. When we come
back from the break, i'll tell you more about what
they wrote and why they believe that, and then we'll
move on to some other stories, a very strange paranormal
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phenomena related to animals. We'll get into some birds. I
think I even have some pretty cool audio I'm gonna
play for you. This is kind of a part two really,
coming on the heels of my last show. There's just
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You know. The ancient Egyptians basically adored cats, treated them
like royalty. There are tons of cat mummies out there
all over the place. And yet the Europeans of the
Middle Ages demonized cats literally, and it was exemplified by
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this book, the Malleus Maleficarum, in which they claimed that
witches liked to turn into cats and even attack people.
They tell a very detailed story and hear about a
workman who was attacked by a bunch of witches that
had turned into cats. They called cats perfidious that means
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tending to betray. Said they were profigious vehicles for witches,
and this popular guide, the Malleus Maleficarum, immortalized a connection
between felines and the supernatural, for better or for worse.
On the other hand, dogs were seen as representing the
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holy viewpoint and as a matter of fact, when it
comes to dogs, it says that they even represented one
of the founding um Catholic priests. There, okay, here it
is uh the see the order of preaching Friars was
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it represented its first founder as a dog barking against heresy.
You see what they did there? They contrasted dogs and
cats as cats are of the devil and dogs are good.
And so you know you had the stigma surrounding cats.
I mean, to this day you have the traditional sorcerer
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with with the the purring cat sidekick. Black cats are
still thought to sometimes harbor bad luck. They're popular targets
for Halloween tricks. And we know that that's a bunch
of nonsense, don't we. We know that's hogwashed, because if
you've seen any Internet videos, you've seen plenty of videos
of dogs and cats cuddling up together. But regardless, it
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just goes to show how that those two creatures are
renowned for having some kind of a paranormal or some
some kind of supernatural. Mystique surrounds both dogs and cats,
and there's some truth to them being able to see
things and perceive things that we cannot. And I think
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that's why that oftentimes animals are great harbingers. You know,
they they freak out right before there's an earthquake or
some other type of disaster because they can sense things
that we can't. We don't know what it is. But
aside from dogs and cats, I will tell you one
of the strangest experiences that I ever had involved a
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different type of creature. Let me just tell you the
story if you've never heard it. I grew up on
kind of a small farm in the mountains of western
North Carolina. And by small, I mean you know, we
had chickens and ducks and goats and a horse and
all this kind of stuff. And we lived primarily on
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a big hill. And so it was a huge pain
from me as a kid to carry food and water
up and down this hill all the time to these animals.
Um and that those hills actually backed up to a vast,
vast property of just thick woods and wilderness. Well, one
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day my dad was perplexed when he discovered a chicken
had been killed, but it had not been eaten, there
was some little puncture wounds, and it's blood had been drained. Okay,
this is just like straight out of the Chio picabra lore.
And he couldn't, for the life of him figure out
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what was happening. Because then it happened again and again
and again, and I mean it became a regular thing,
and just about every day he go up there and
find at least one chicken drained of blood. And that
was it. It was some little puncture wounds or things
that looked like a puncture wound, and he, you know,
he made sure that everything was sealed up tightly. Just
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didn't make sense. So my dad, when he was young,
used to be a trapper, used to go out and
trap muskrats and things, and so he had some old,
rusty steel muskrat traps, and so he set he set
some bait. One night, he he had a um, let's see,
he got a giant wooden crate and he put the
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traps in there with a bunch of raw, bloody chicken
all over them. And then late that night, probably about
ten o'clock at night, the dogs started barking like crazy
outside and we stepped out and we could hear those
chains on those traps jangling around up at the top
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of the hill. We said, oh, something's in there. We
got something. So of course, the whole family piles out
of the house with flashlights and we go up there
and peer inside this box and saw a truly shocking sight.
Inside this giant crate is a gigantic great horned owl.
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And this thing is ticked off and puffed up and mad. Okay,
and it's got one of its talents. One of its
fingers there stuck right in this trap, and I mean
it was a truly majestic thing to see. And immediately,
of course we had this problem. Okay, well, how do
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we how do we release this thing now? Because we
knew if that thing got out and attacked one of us,
I mean, it was gonna be bad. So my dad
ended up getting a big long pole, and my mom
and sister and I we went back, you know, towards
the house, and he was able to get that pole
in there and maneuver it enough to release that trap
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and al pulled it's it's a little finger out and uh,
we just got out of there, and like you know,
went up there. Thirty minute later in the owl was gone.
We never saw that owl again, and never after that
was there another chicken drained of blood. Now, the weird
thing is to me, that clearly indicates that that great
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horned owl was flying into the chicken coop every night
and sucking the blood out of a chicken. But I
have seen no evidence, uh, in in the in zoology
so to speak, that owls are supposed to do that.
Maybe there's some new data I'm not familiar with. And
you can tell me if you know more about that.
But I've always thought when I read these chop acabra stories,
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I mean, obviously you can't apply that kind of thing
to a goat or you know, some some of these
big creatures. But um, for little things. I believe the
great horned owl was at least you know, responsible for that.
So it's not necessarily a paranormal thing other than the
fact that it kind of relates to a possible explanation
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for some of the low scale choop a cabra and
you know, blood sucking vampiric stuff that you hear about
out there. Birds are certainly bizarre creatures, aren't they. You know,
birds they say they are, well, they're dinosaurs that they know,
the dinosaurs evolved into birds, And when you look at
the skeletons, it sure looks that way, and look at
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how remarkable they are. Birds can talk, you know, you know.
I was, um, I'm gonna play some audio for you
real quick, because in April of two thousand seventeen, Lauren
and I went to this beautiful Waldorf Astoria resort and
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Puerto Rico right there on the coast on the east
coast called El conquistador. And inside they had a cage
in the lobby with a parrot, a female parent named Casey,
and they had a little signed with Casey's bio and
this parrot they say was born in nineteen seven. That
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parrot was ninety years old. Can you believe that a
ninety year old parrot? And so here Lauren and I
are looking at this thing, and it looked like it
was in you know, I mean, you can see this
is an old parrot, but I mean it wasn't like
half dead or anything. And if you don't know any Spanish,
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you probably at least know what oh law means, right,
that says that that's hello in Spanish. And Casey was
very happy to say, oh law. You can tell this
bird's been saying oh law for ninety years. Uh. Here's
a little audio from my from my few minutes there
in the lobby with this is Lauren and me talking
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to Casey. The ninety year old Puerto Rican parrot birds
in nineteen years old. Hold on, have you ever seen
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a ninety year old bird before? That's pretty wild, isn't it.
I mean, just to to try to imagine that that
bird has been around that long. The things that it
has witnessed the Great Depression, the World War Two, Man
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on the Moon, et cetera. I told you in my
last show that marine biologist went to the South Pacific
and they were exploring this part of the seafloor known
as the deadest spot in the ocean. And yet they
went down two d and twenty six ft that's sixty
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eight point nine meters, and they found some micro organisms
there that were alive. And they claim these micro organisms
are one hundred and one point five million years old,
absolutely unimaginable, unimaginable. They believe these are the longest living
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life forms ever found. And you don't think there might
be some kind of life out there in space? Oh yeah, Oh,
there's definitely life in space. When we come back from
this break, I'm gonna tell you about some other lifespans
that may shock you of creatures right here on this planet.
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More demonstrations really of just how amazing and almost paranormal
animals are. I'm Joshua pe Warren. You're listening to strange
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Welcome back to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio
and Coast to Coast a UM peronormal podcast Network. I
am your host, Joshua Pete Warren, and this is the
show where the unusual becomes usual. Do you know they
have found sponges, you know, living creatures, sponges in the
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East China Sea that are over ten thousand years old.
But you might think, okay, well, microorganisms, sponges, you know these,
that's weird stuff. It's like aliens. I can't really relate
to that. Well, okay, well let's move more into animals.
You can relate to a bit better. Like a shark. Okay,
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at least a shark has two eyes of mouth. It's
a big thing. You've seen as shark. I'm sure you've
been to an aquarium. The Greenland shark of the North
Atlantic Ocean can live up to five hundred and twelve years.
Think about that, a shark swimming around for five hundred
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and twelve years. A tortoise named to Malila died at
the age of one hundred and eighty eight in May
of nineteen sixty six. At that time, the oldest verified vertebrate,
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that tortoise, was born in seventeen seventy seven. Okay, think
about that. I'm sure that many of you listening were
alive in nineteen sixty six, and so just think there
was a tortoise alive at the same time you were
alive that was born the year after the Declaration of
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Independence was signed. And then right now there's a turtle
that's still alive. Jonathan, a giant tortoise living on the
island of St. Helena. He is reported to be one
hundred and eighty nine years old right now as I speak,
and may therefore be the oldest current currently living terrestrial animal.
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If that claim is true, so of the whole planet,
of the animals that we know about, it may be
that the oldest thing running around here on the ground
is Jonathan, the one hundred and eighty nine year old tortoise.
When you start thinking about these things, though, you can't
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help but wonder how humans fit into it. The oldest
person to ever live that is fully documented by science,
it was a frenchwoman named gene Kalment gene Klment or
maybe it for her, it's probably Jean Colmant or something
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like that, because she's French. She lived to be one
hundred and twenty two years and one hundred and sixty
four days old, so again, making her the oldest fully
scientifically documented human who has ever lived. She died on
August four. N One report claimed that she, as a girl,
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recalled selling colored pencils to Van Gogh and seeing the
Eiffel Tower being built. Uh this woman, Now you might wonder, Okay,
if you meet somebody who's a hundred and twenty two,
you're gonna say, what's the secret? Tell me how it which.
By the way, I'm thinking, I don't know if I
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want to be a hundred and twenty two. Really, I mean,
if I am, if I'm gonna feel okay, fine, I'll
live forever if I feel okay. But unless you know,
some miraculous scientific advances are made, I don't want to
be a hundred and twenty two anytime soon. Uh. That's
an ironic way of putting it, isn't it. So she says,
uh what her secret was the secret to her longevity
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and relatively youthful appearance for her age. The secret was
a diet rich and olive oil. That's what she said,
And of course there's so much interest in her. Here
is I know we're getting off the topic of animals
a bit, but do you want to hear about her
daily routine? Of course you do. After her admission to
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the Massendu Lock nursing home in January of n at
the age of one hundred and nine, she initially followed
a highly ritualized daily routine. Here is that routine. She
requested to be awoken at sixty five a m. And
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started the day with a long prayer at her window,
thanking God for being alive and for the beautiful day
which she was starting. Well, let me pause for a second.
Does it that sound familiar? You know how? I am
always saying that I believe it's important to start your
day by saying something like, h I believe I live
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in a friendly, loving, supportive universe that wants me to
be happy and succeed. That's how I start my day,
and I think you should do the same thing. I
live in a friendly, loving, supportive universe that wants me
to be happy and succeed. It doesn't have to be
that exact wording, but it is important to start your
day with some type of affirmation, even if you don't
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believe it, Just say it, Just do it and you'll
be surprised the impact at max and we'll hear some
proof of that, I guess, says. She Sometimes loudly asked
the reason for her longevity and why she was the
only one alive in her family. That's sad, isn't it.
Seated on her arm chair, she did gymnastics wearing her
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stereo headset. Her exercises included flexing and extending the hands
than the legs. Nurses noted that she moved faster than
other residents who were thirty years younger. Her breakfast consisted
of coffee with milk and rusks. A rusk is kind
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of a hard, dry biscuit, or like a twice baked bread,
similar to something a baby might teeth on. Uh. She
washed herself unassisted with a flannel cloth rather than taking
a shower. That's interesting, isn't it. She washed herself unassisted
with a flannel cloth rather than taking a shower, applying
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first soap, then olive oil and powder to her face.
She washed her own glass and cutlery before proceeding to lunch.
She enjoyed braised beef, but was not keen on boiled fish.
She had dessert with every mill and said that given
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a choice, she would eat fried and spicy foods instead
of the bland foods on the menu. Of course she would.
She She made herself daily fruit salads with bananas and oranges.
She enjoyed chocolate, sometimes indulging in a kilogram that's two
point two pounds per week. After the mill, she smoked
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a Dunhill cigarette and drank a small amount of port wine.
In the afternoon, she would take a nap for two
hours in her armchair, and then visit her neighbors in
the care home, telling them about the latest news she
had heard on the radio. At nightfall, she would dine quickly,
return to her room, listen to music, smoke a last cigarette,
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and go to bed at ten pm. On Sundays, she
went to Mass and on Fridays to vespers and regularly
conversed with and salt help from God, and wondered about
the afterlife. So look, I'm not saying that that's the
how to blueprint for everybody who wants to live to
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be old, but that's what worked for her. That's what
she did apparently, So I don't know, do you want
to be a hundred and twenty two? If not, you know,
it's like the old joke, nobody wants to live to
be one hundred except a nine nine year old. So
your opinion on that sort of thing might change a
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little bit as time goes on. So it's amazing, though,
to think of how short our lifespan is compared to
so many animals. And do you know what the largest
animal on Earth is? And and this is the real kicker.
I think it's not just the largest animal on Earth.
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They say it is the largest creature that has ever
existed on Earth. Okay, so you see all these dinosaurs
and they just look tremendous. You know that the terrible lizards,
as big as they are right now, the biggest animal
on Earth is the biggest creature that has ever lived
on Earth by all evidence found. It is, of course,
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the blue Well. The blue Well is one and ten
ft long, so that's longer than two city buses. And
they're very mysterious creatures, all right. And I went out
and I got some clips of what a blue well
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sounds like in nature. Would you like to hear some
clips of what the largest thing that's ever lived on
Earth sounds like. And of course it produces high tones
and low tones, and we can't hear all the tones
with our ears or with our speakers or our headphones.
But this ought to give you an idea of what
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the biggest thing that's ever lived sounds like. Here we
go actual tones from Blue Wells. It's kind of hair raising,
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isn't it in a weird way? How long do you
think that they live? Do you think they live a
long time or a short time? The biggest thing guess what,
they can live eighty to ninety years. And yet I
may fly similar to a little house fly, and may
fly lives twenty four hours. Our fruit fly thirty days.
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Welcome back to the final segment of this edition of
Strange Things on the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast,
a m paranormal podcast network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren,
And before I read you some creepy animal stories, I
think in general, the best way for me to summarize
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these past two shows about the amazing and paranormal powers
of animals is to read to you the last two
paragraphs of my book Pet Ghosts, Animal Encounters from Beyond
the Grave. This book is actually out of print. It
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was published in two thousand and six, but you should
still be able to find a used copy of it
somewhere out there. We need to get this thing back
in print. So much to do, so little time. But
here is how I summed things up in this book.
We are a part of the animals around us, indistinguishable
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from them at the smallest levels. By looking at them,
appreciating their special senses, and learning from their transitions between
this realm and others, we can understand more about ourselves
when we compare their superpowers to ours and ours to theirs.
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A balance is struck, an essential equilibrium designed by millions
of years. This, more than anything, reveals the true wonder
of nature and the full spectrum of life betwixt us all.
We can fly, breathe underwater, hibernate, regenerate, amputated limbs, change colors,
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withstand the vacuum of space, see into frequencies high and low,
have the strength of hercules, and move at sensational speeds.
Whatever God is, we can know God through creations. Each
day we learn more, and some of those creations we
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have only glimpsed thus far. Keep your mind and eyes
wide open. If you blink, you may miss the next one.
And this book, we've pondered the definition of a pet,
how we separate them from animals and enroll Perhaps first
and foremost, the reason we call them pets is because
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we pet them. Each time you share a moment of
affection with your animal, think about what must be running
through your animals head. That is probably the key to
the strongest bond obtainable, even capable of bringing them back
from the other side, trying to understand them, hoping they
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understand us. We should both learn from each other. I'd
like to think we're on the same boat, simply trying
to make it through life the best way possible, using
whatever gifts nature has given. At that level, if on
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no other, we are surely the same. There you have it.
There you have it. That's what it's all about. And
now for the last segment of the show. Some creepy,
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Some creepy animal Stories. This was sent to me by
a woman named Cindy Acosta about an incident that happened
in Sacramento, California and nine. She says, my friend Mike
and I were heading out to clean up a house
that an old lady had died in. It was around
seven pm when we left for Austin Street. A friend's
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mom lived just across the field from it, so we
parked there and walked over it. Was a really big job,
so I started at one end of the home and
Mike at the other. When we initially walked in, the
smell was pretty bad. It smelled of death. As we
threw things in garbage bags, we came across jars packed
full of money. We opened one of the jars and
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touched the bills and they instantly turned to dust. Immediately,
a picture fell off the wall, slamming into the floor.
I was starting to get scared, and it was dark
outside now, but Mike consisted that it was nothing and
we needed to continue doing our job. I told him
that I felt someone or something was in there with us,
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and that I was getting really uncomfortable, and finally he
admitted that he was scared too, and we headed into
the kitchen. On the kitchen table stood a cat that
had its back arched, with its hair on end, huge
eyes open, and teeth bared. It was standing there, but
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it was dead. I don't know what had happened to
make a cat die like that, but it looked like
it had been scared to death. I ran for my
life across the field to my mom's house and never returned. Wow,
literally scared to death. Can't you just visualize that story.
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Thank you, Cindy. Let me squeeze in one more. This
is from Melissa home organizer AFT in Virginia. This is
something that happened to her in two thousand two. She said,
I moved in with a friend in Virginia who was
a single dad to help him out with his finances
and kids. It was not a smooth transition. I was
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abruptly woken up every night around one a m. From
a horrifying dream involving large black birds swooping down at me.
On the fourth night, I woke again from this reoccurring nightmare,
only this time I saw a man who appeared to
be from the eighteen hundreds sitting on my bed. He
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faded away, along with the imprint on the mattress where
he had been sitting. I woke up my friend who
does hypnosis, and we went to work on getting me
to tune into this stream and apparition and find its
meaning and resolution. In the hypnosis session, I was talking
as if I were the man from the eighteen hundreds.
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This man stated that he was dabbling in black magic
when he was alive, using his will to gain power
over others. One of his favorite tools was a murder
of crows that would harass his enemies, scratching and biting them.
This became his calling card. Unfortunately for him, he got
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sloppy in his practice and the tables turned. Through a
dramatic series of events, the dark Magician's own army of
birds attacked him and pecked him to death. My friend
counseled the misguided spirit and eventually got him into the light.
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As this session was coming to a close, there was
a loud bang at the front door. We finished and
we went to investigate the noise. There in the center
of the front stoop, with its wings spread out majestically,
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was the largest black crow either of us had ever seen.
It was dead. WHOA now, tell me that would not
freak you out a little bit? Huh, Thanks so much
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for that report. By the way, have you ever wondered
why they call a group of crows a murder of crows?
It's one of those things that's kind of mysterious. I
looked it up and here's what I was able to find. Officially,
a group of crows as a flock. And the word
murder is a poetic term used in literature that originated
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in England in the fifteen century. The website for the
PBS documentary called A Murder of Crows states there are
quote different explanations for the origin of this term, mostly
based on old folk tales and superstitions. End quote. One
states that crows often will come together and decide the
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capital fate of another crow. Did you get that? So
it's like the crows get together and figure out whether
or not they're gonna kill a particular crow. Okay. Another
possible origin comes from people who view quote the appearance
of crows as an omen of death end quote. So
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so there you go. Officially it's a flock, but we
all know them as a murder of crows. And that's
I guess the closest we're gonna get to some kind
of an explanation on that. Okay, I believe we have
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can do at home, and a lot more on this
edition of the show. More paranormal animals. Do you know
that Oscar, the death Sensing cat is still alive? He
lives at the Steer House Nursing and Rehab Center in Providence,
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Rhode Island. He's been there since two thousand five. He
came to public attention in two thousand seven when he
was featured in an article by Dr David Dosa in
the New England Journal of Medicine, and according to Dosa,
Oscar appears able to predict the impending death of terminally
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ill patients by choosing to nap next to people a
few hours before they die. He Uh. The cat there
was the subject of a book that Dosa wrote in
two thousand and ten called Making Rounds with Oscar The
Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat. So they say that Oscar,
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the therapy cat is in this forty one bed facility,
and he has been described generally as aloof and quote
not a cat that's friendly to people end quote, sometimes
hissing at people when he wants to be left alone.
Why is it that things named Oscar are always grouchy?
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Uh says. After Oscar had been at Steerhouse for around
six months, staff noticed that Oscar often chose to nap
next to residents who died within several hours of his arrival.
It seemed to staff as if Oscar were trying to
comfort and provide company to people as they died. Joan Tino,
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a physician there, said, quote, it's not that the cat
is consistently there first, but the cat always does manage
to make an appearance, and it always seems to be
in the last two hours end quote. After Oscar accurately
predicted twenty five deaths, staff started calling family members of
residents as soon as they discovered him sleeping next to someone,
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in order to notify them and give them an opportunity
to say goodbye before the impending death. How about that?
Can you imagine the facility calls you up and says, hey,
you should know Oscar just curled up with Grandma, so
might want to come down here and see her one
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last time before Oscar eats her. That's terrible. I'm joking.
I'm joking. Nobody can explain how that Oscar does this? Okay,
And the obvious thing that people ask, can't he smell something,
some kind of a chemical an odor that's released just
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before death occurs? Uh? Well, if so, then what what
makes him special? Why don't all cats consistently do that?
You know? Um? And then also one person here speculates
that maybe he just picks up on the stillness and
lack of movement in the room rather than the smell.
Nobody knows. Nobody knows how this cat consense death. If
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we could figure that out. That might tell us something
really fascinating about well, I guess certainly the paranormal power
of pets, but what death itself is. I'll keep an
eye on that story for you. We'll see if we
and figure out more about what's happening with Oscar, and
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then let's go let's switch to dogs. Do you know
about the suicide bridge for dogs? It's in Overton, actually,
it's called the Overton Bridge. That's spelled O V E
R T O u N. It's called the Overton Bridge
and it's in Scotland. Now. This is a big, beautiful,
(05:26):
wide gray bridge and it spans a deep ravine next
to this striking majestic castle. The ravine is about fifty
ft deep and this bridge was built in eighteen and
it's always had a spooky reputation. But the stories really
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hit the media in two thousand five. That's when they
say a lot of publicity was given to reports of
a number of dogs either all ing or jumping from
the bridge, resulting an injury or death upon landing on
the rocks there fifty feet or fifteen meters below, and
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explanations for these deaths have ranged from claims of ghosts
and supernatural causes to natural explanations of dogs being attracted
to the scent or sounds of nearby animals in the
undergrowth and uh consequently losing their balance on the sloping
surfaces of the bridge there and as we look more
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into the specifics here, it says from approximately two thousand
five onward, stories of dogs apparently leaping to their deaths
from the bridge have continued to be published. A canine
psychologist named David Sands said that maybe it has something
to do with the surrounding foliage, that given the extremely
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steep drop off the side of the bridge, the appearance
of the ground, and maybe combined with the residual odor
from mal mink urine could all combine to lure dogs
into this vulnerable position where they fall or just jump
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off the bridge. That theory, however, was protested by a
local hunter and a resident of fifty years named John Joyce,
who stated the quote there are no mink in the
area end quote. In two thousand nineteen, the owners of
the castle there, which they call the Overton House, Bob
and Melissa Hill, said that in seventeen years of residing
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at the house, they have actually witnessed a number of
dogs become agitated just jump up and fall from the bridge.
So this is that's erie, okay, but listen to this.
This is just downright creepy. In October of a man
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went to that bridge and through his two week old
son to his death from the bridge because he believed
that his son was an incarnation of the devil. And
he then attempted to commit suicide several times, first by
attempting to jump off the bridge and later by slashing
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his wrists. Now does that kind of give you some
goose bumps? What a setting? A spooky old, big majestic
castle in Scotland with a bridge where dogs are jumping
off and a guy just walks up and throws a
baby in, saying this is the incarnation of the devil,
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and then tries to kill himself. I mean, like, you know,
I thought to myself, I'd like to travel there and
investigate it, but I'm also kind of intimidated by it.
You know, as time has gone on, I've become more
and more hesitant to go to really dark, evil places. Um,
but I don't know when when it's okay to travel again.
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I might just have to say what the heck, I'm
going to Scotland and I'm going to check this place
out and see is this land cursed? Um? You know,
is surely there's something going on here that because you know,
you think that again, if there's if there was a
more natural, common explanation for this, and that kind of
thing would happen more often at other places around the planet.
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So there must be something paranormal happening. There's something these
dogs are sensing. I don't know if they're if they're
attacking something, or if they are becoming possessed by something.
It kind of sounds like maybe a possession though, doesn't it.
Maybe it's both. I don't That's what I'm saying. I
don't have all the answers here, but dogs and cats
have long been associated with the paranormal. In fact, it
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really goes all the way back two this terrible book
that was published in let's see, perhaps you've heard of it.
It's called the Malleus Maleficarum, which translates into the Hammer
of Witches. Now even though okay, well, this book was
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the handbook that was used to persecute, you know, torture
and kill all these quote unquote witches back in the day.
It was written by Henrik Kramer and James Springer, and
they were Dominican Catholic friars who helped to spearhead this
whole witch hunting craze of the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries.
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During that period of time, sales of this book, The
Malleus Maleficarum, were only exceeded by the Bible. And by
the way the Bible says quote thou shalt not suffer
a witch to live in quote. So up to millions
of people may have been tortured and killed due to
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the influence of this handbook. And in this book they
talk explicitly about why cats are evil, and they get
into why dogs are holy and good. When we come
back from the break, i'll tell you more about what
they wrote and why they believe that, and then we'll
move on to some other stories, a very strange paranormal
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phenomena related to animals. We'll get into some birds. I
think I even have some pretty cool audio I'm gonna
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You know. The ancient Egyptians basically adored cats, treated them
like royalty. There are tons of cat mummies out there
all over the place. And yet the Europeans of the
Middle Ages demonized cats literally, and it was exemplified by
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this book, the Malleus Maleficarum, in which they claimed that
witches liked to turn into cats and even attack people.
They tell a very detailed story and hear about a
workman who was attacked by a bunch of witches that
had turned into cats. They called cats perfidious that means
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tending to betray. Said they were profigious vehicles for witches,
and this popular guide, the Malleus Maleficarum, immortalized a connection
between felines and the supernatural, for better or for worse.
On the other hand, dogs were seen as representing the
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holy viewpoint and as a matter of fact, when it
comes to dogs, it says that they even represented one
of the founding um Catholic priests. There, okay, here it
is uh the see the order of preaching Friars was
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it represented its first founder as a dog barking against heresy.
You see what they did there? They contrasted dogs and
cats as cats are of the devil and dogs are good.
And so you know you had the stigma surrounding cats.
I mean, to this day you have the traditional sorcerer
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with with the the purring cat sidekick. Black cats are
still thought to sometimes harbor bad luck. They're popular targets
for Halloween tricks. And we know that that's a bunch
of nonsense, don't we. We know that's hogwashed, because if
you've seen any Internet videos, you've seen plenty of videos
of dogs and cats cuddling up together. But regardless, it
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just goes to show how that those two creatures are
renowned for having some kind of a paranormal or some
some kind of supernatural. Mystique surrounds both dogs and cats,
and there's some truth to them being able to see
things and perceive things that we cannot. And I think
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that's why that oftentimes animals are great harbingers. You know,
they they freak out right before there's an earthquake or
some other type of disaster because they can sense things
that we can't. We don't know what it is. But
aside from dogs and cats, I will tell you one
of the strangest experiences that I ever had involved a
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different type of creature. Let me just tell you the
story if you've never heard it. I grew up on
kind of a small farm in the mountains of western
North Carolina. And by small, I mean you know, we
had chickens and ducks and goats and a horse and
all this kind of stuff. And we lived primarily on
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a big hill. And so it was a huge pain
from me as a kid to carry food and water
up and down this hill all the time to these animals.
Um and that those hills actually backed up to a vast,
vast property of just thick woods and wilderness. Well, one
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day my dad was perplexed when he discovered a chicken
had been killed, but it had not been eaten, there
was some little puncture wounds, and it's blood had been drained. Okay,
this is just like straight out of the Chio picabra lore.
And he couldn't, for the life of him figure out
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what was happening. Because then it happened again and again
and again, and I mean it became a regular thing,
and just about every day he go up there and
find at least one chicken drained of blood. And that
was it. It was some little puncture wounds or things
that looked like a puncture wound, and he, you know,
he made sure that everything was sealed up tightly. Just
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didn't make sense. So my dad, when he was young,
used to be a trapper, used to go out and
trap muskrats and things, and so he had some old,
rusty steel muskrat traps, and so he set he set
some bait. One night, he he had a um, let's see,
he got a giant wooden crate and he put the
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traps in there with a bunch of raw, bloody chicken
all over them. And then late that night, probably about
ten o'clock at night, the dogs started barking like crazy
outside and we stepped out and we could hear those
chains on those traps jangling around up at the top
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of the hill. We said, oh, something's in there. We
got something. So of course, the whole family piles out
of the house with flashlights and we go up there
and peer inside this box and saw a truly shocking sight.
Inside this giant crate is a gigantic great horned owl.
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And this thing is ticked off and puffed up and mad. Okay,
and it's got one of its talents. One of its
fingers there stuck right in this trap, and I mean
it was a truly majestic thing to see. And immediately,
of course we had this problem. Okay, well, how do
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we how do we release this thing now? Because we
knew if that thing got out and attacked one of us,
I mean, it was gonna be bad. So my dad
ended up getting a big long pole, and my mom
and sister and I we went back, you know, towards
the house, and he was able to get that pole
in there and maneuver it enough to release that trap
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and al pulled it's it's a little finger out and uh,
we just got out of there, and like you know,
went up there. Thirty minute later in the owl was gone.
We never saw that owl again, and never after that
was there another chicken drained of blood. Now, the weird
thing is to me, that clearly indicates that that great
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horned owl was flying into the chicken coop every night
and sucking the blood out of a chicken. But I
have seen no evidence, uh, in in the in zoology
so to speak, that owls are supposed to do that.
Maybe there's some new data I'm not familiar with. And
you can tell me if you know more about that.
But I've always thought when I read these chop acabra stories,
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I mean, obviously you can't apply that kind of thing
to a goat or you know, some some of these
big creatures. But um, for little things. I believe the
great horned owl was at least you know, responsible for that.
So it's not necessarily a paranormal thing other than the
fact that it kind of relates to a possible explanation
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for some of the low scale choop a cabra and
you know, blood sucking vampiric stuff that you hear about
out there. Birds are certainly bizarre creatures, aren't they. You know,
birds they say they are, well, they're dinosaurs that they know,
the dinosaurs evolved into birds, And when you look at
the skeletons, it sure looks that way, and look at
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how remarkable they are. Birds can talk, you know, you know.
I was, um, I'm gonna play some audio for you
real quick, because in April of two thousand seventeen, Lauren
and I went to this beautiful Waldorf Astoria resort and
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Puerto Rico right there on the coast on the east
coast called El conquistador. And inside they had a cage
in the lobby with a parrot, a female parent named Casey,
and they had a little signed with Casey's bio and
this parrot they say was born in nineteen seven. That
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parrot was ninety years old. Can you believe that a
ninety year old parrot? And so here Lauren and I
are looking at this thing, and it looked like it
was in you know, I mean, you can see this
is an old parrot, but I mean it wasn't like
half dead or anything. And if you don't know any Spanish,
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you probably at least know what oh law means, right,
that says that that's hello in Spanish. And Casey was
very happy to say, oh law. You can tell this
bird's been saying oh law for ninety years. Uh. Here's
a little audio from my from my few minutes there
in the lobby with this is Lauren and me talking
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to Casey. The ninety year old Puerto Rican parrot birds
in nineteen years old. Hold on, have you ever seen
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a ninety year old bird before? That's pretty wild, isn't it.
I mean, just to to try to imagine that that
bird has been around that long. The things that it
has witnessed the Great Depression, the World War Two, Man
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on the Moon, et cetera. I told you in my
last show that marine biologist went to the South Pacific
and they were exploring this part of the seafloor known
as the deadest spot in the ocean. And yet they
went down two d and twenty six ft that's sixty
(25:51):
eight point nine meters, and they found some micro organisms
there that were alive. And they claim these micro organisms
are one hundred and one point five million years old,
absolutely unimaginable, unimaginable. They believe these are the longest living
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life forms ever found. And you don't think there might
be some kind of life out there in space? Oh yeah, Oh,
there's definitely life in space. When we come back from
this break, I'm gonna tell you about some other lifespans
that may shock you of creatures right here on this planet.
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More demonstrations really of just how amazing and almost paranormal
animals are. I'm Joshua pe Warren. You're listening to strange
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Welcome back to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio
and Coast to Coast a UM peronormal podcast Network. I
am your host, Joshua Pete Warren, and this is the
show where the unusual becomes usual. Do you know they
have found sponges, you know, living creatures, sponges in the
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East China Sea that are over ten thousand years old.
But you might think, okay, well, microorganisms, sponges, you know these,
that's weird stuff. It's like aliens. I can't really relate
to that. Well, okay, well let's move more into animals.
You can relate to a bit better. Like a shark. Okay,
(30:36):
at least a shark has two eyes of mouth. It's
a big thing. You've seen as shark. I'm sure you've
been to an aquarium. The Greenland shark of the North
Atlantic Ocean can live up to five hundred and twelve years.
Think about that, a shark swimming around for five hundred
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and twelve years. A tortoise named to Malila died at
the age of one hundred and eighty eight in May
of nineteen sixty six. At that time, the oldest verified vertebrate,
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that tortoise, was born in seventeen seventy seven. Okay, think
about that. I'm sure that many of you listening were
alive in nineteen sixty six, and so just think there
was a tortoise alive at the same time you were
alive that was born the year after the Declaration of
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Independence was signed. And then right now there's a turtle
that's still alive. Jonathan, a giant tortoise living on the
island of St. Helena. He is reported to be one
hundred and eighty nine years old right now as I speak,
and may therefore be the oldest current currently living terrestrial animal.
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If that claim is true, so of the whole planet,
of the animals that we know about, it may be
that the oldest thing running around here on the ground
is Jonathan, the one hundred and eighty nine year old tortoise.
When you start thinking about these things, though, you can't
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help but wonder how humans fit into it. The oldest
person to ever live that is fully documented by science,
it was a frenchwoman named gene Kalment gene Klment or
maybe it for her, it's probably Jean Colmant or something
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like that, because she's French. She lived to be one
hundred and twenty two years and one hundred and sixty
four days old, so again, making her the oldest fully
scientifically documented human who has ever lived. She died on
August four. N One report claimed that she, as a girl,
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recalled selling colored pencils to Van Gogh and seeing the
Eiffel Tower being built. Uh this woman, Now you might wonder, Okay,
if you meet somebody who's a hundred and twenty two,
you're gonna say, what's the secret? Tell me how it which.
By the way, I'm thinking, I don't know if I
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want to be a hundred and twenty two. Really, I mean,
if I am, if I'm gonna feel okay, fine, I'll
live forever if I feel okay. But unless you know,
some miraculous scientific advances are made, I don't want to
be a hundred and twenty two anytime soon. Uh. That's
an ironic way of putting it, isn't it. So she says,
uh what her secret was the secret to her longevity
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and relatively youthful appearance for her age. The secret was
a diet rich and olive oil. That's what she said,
And of course there's so much interest in her. Here
is I know we're getting off the topic of animals
a bit, but do you want to hear about her
daily routine? Of course you do. After her admission to
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the Massendu Lock nursing home in January of n at
the age of one hundred and nine, she initially followed
a highly ritualized daily routine. Here is that routine. She
requested to be awoken at sixty five a m. And
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started the day with a long prayer at her window,
thanking God for being alive and for the beautiful day
which she was starting. Well, let me pause for a second.
Does it that sound familiar? You know how? I am
always saying that I believe it's important to start your
day by saying something like, h I believe I live
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in a friendly, loving, supportive universe that wants me to
be happy and succeed. That's how I start my day,
and I think you should do the same thing. I
live in a friendly, loving, supportive universe that wants me
to be happy and succeed. It doesn't have to be
that exact wording, but it is important to start your
day with some type of affirmation, even if you don't
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believe it, Just say it, Just do it and you'll
be surprised the impact at max and we'll hear some
proof of that, I guess, says. She Sometimes loudly asked
the reason for her longevity and why she was the
only one alive in her family. That's sad, isn't it.
Seated on her arm chair, she did gymnastics wearing her
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stereo headset. Her exercises included flexing and extending the hands
than the legs. Nurses noted that she moved faster than
other residents who were thirty years younger. Her breakfast consisted
of coffee with milk and rusks. A rusk is kind
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of a hard, dry biscuit, or like a twice baked bread,
similar to something a baby might teeth on. Uh. She
washed herself unassisted with a flannel cloth rather than taking
a shower. That's interesting, isn't it. She washed herself unassisted
with a flannel cloth rather than taking a shower, applying
(36:31):
first soap, then olive oil and powder to her face.
She washed her own glass and cutlery before proceeding to lunch.
She enjoyed braised beef, but was not keen on boiled fish.
She had dessert with every mill and said that given
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a choice, she would eat fried and spicy foods instead
of the bland foods on the menu. Of course she would.
She She made herself daily fruit salads with bananas and oranges.
She enjoyed chocolate, sometimes indulging in a kilogram that's two
point two pounds per week. After the mill, she smoked
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a Dunhill cigarette and drank a small amount of port wine.
In the afternoon, she would take a nap for two
hours in her armchair, and then visit her neighbors in
the care home, telling them about the latest news she
had heard on the radio. At nightfall, she would dine quickly,
return to her room, listen to music, smoke a last cigarette,
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and go to bed at ten pm. On Sundays, she
went to Mass and on Fridays to vespers and regularly
conversed with and salt help from God, and wondered about
the afterlife. So look, I'm not saying that that's the
how to blueprint for everybody who wants to live to
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be old, but that's what worked for her. That's what
she did apparently, So I don't know, do you want
to be a hundred and twenty two? If not, you know,
it's like the old joke, nobody wants to live to
be one hundred except a nine nine year old. So
your opinion on that sort of thing might change a
(38:23):
little bit as time goes on. So it's amazing, though,
to think of how short our lifespan is compared to
so many animals. And do you know what the largest
animal on Earth is? And and this is the real kicker.
I think it's not just the largest animal on Earth.
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They say it is the largest creature that has ever
existed on Earth. Okay, so you see all these dinosaurs
and they just look tremendous. You know that the terrible lizards,
as big as they are right now, the biggest animal
on Earth is the biggest creature that has ever lived
on Earth by all evidence found. It is, of course,
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the blue Well. The blue Well is one and ten
ft long, so that's longer than two city buses. And
they're very mysterious creatures, all right. And I went out
and I got some clips of what a blue well
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sounds like in nature. Would you like to hear some
clips of what the largest thing that's ever lived on
Earth sounds like. And of course it produces high tones
and low tones, and we can't hear all the tones
with our ears or with our speakers or our headphones.
But this ought to give you an idea of what
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the biggest thing that's ever lived sounds like. Here we
go actual tones from Blue Wells. It's kind of hair raising,
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isn't it in a weird way? How long do you
think that they live? Do you think they live a
long time or a short time? The biggest thing guess what,
they can live eighty to ninety years. And yet I
may fly similar to a little house fly, and may
fly lives twenty four hours. Our fruit fly thirty days.
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When we come back, some creepy animal stories, I'm Joshua
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Welcome back to the final segment of this edition of
Strange Things on the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast,
a m paranormal podcast network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren,
And before I read you some creepy animal stories, I
think in general, the best way for me to summarize
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these past two shows about the amazing and paranormal powers
of animals is to read to you the last two
paragraphs of my book Pet Ghosts, Animal Encounters from Beyond
the Grave. This book is actually out of print. It
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was published in two thousand and six, but you should
still be able to find a used copy of it
somewhere out there. We need to get this thing back
in print. So much to do, so little time. But
here is how I summed things up in this book.
We are a part of the animals around us, indistinguishable
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from them at the smallest levels. By looking at them,
appreciating their special senses, and learning from their transitions between
this realm and others, we can understand more about ourselves
when we compare their superpowers to ours and ours to theirs.
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A balance is struck, an essential equilibrium designed by millions
of years. This, more than anything, reveals the true wonder
of nature and the full spectrum of life betwixt us all.
We can fly, breathe underwater, hibernate, regenerate, amputated limbs, change colors,
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withstand the vacuum of space, see into frequencies high and low,
have the strength of hercules, and move at sensational speeds.
Whatever God is, we can know God through creations. Each
day we learn more, and some of those creations we
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have only glimpsed thus far. Keep your mind and eyes
wide open. If you blink, you may miss the next one.
And this book, we've pondered the definition of a pet,
how we separate them from animals and enroll Perhaps first
and foremost, the reason we call them pets is because
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we pet them. Each time you share a moment of
affection with your animal, think about what must be running
through your animals head. That is probably the key to
the strongest bond obtainable, even capable of bringing them back
from the other side, trying to understand them, hoping they
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understand us. We should both learn from each other. I'd
like to think we're on the same boat, simply trying
to make it through life the best way possible, using
whatever gifts nature has given. At that level, if on
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no other, we are surely the same. There you have it.
There you have it. That's what it's all about. And
now for the last segment of the show. Some creepy,
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Some creepy animal Stories. This was sent to me by
a woman named Cindy Acosta about an incident that happened
in Sacramento, California and nine. She says, my friend Mike
and I were heading out to clean up a house
that an old lady had died in. It was around
seven pm when we left for Austin Street. A friend's
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mom lived just across the field from it, so we
parked there and walked over it. Was a really big job,
so I started at one end of the home and
Mike at the other. When we initially walked in, the
smell was pretty bad. It smelled of death. As we
threw things in garbage bags, we came across jars packed
full of money. We opened one of the jars and
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touched the bills and they instantly turned to dust. Immediately,
a picture fell off the wall, slamming into the floor.
I was starting to get scared, and it was dark
outside now, but Mike consisted that it was nothing and
we needed to continue doing our job. I told him
that I felt someone or something was in there with us,
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and that I was getting really uncomfortable, and finally he
admitted that he was scared too, and we headed into
the kitchen. On the kitchen table stood a cat that
had its back arched, with its hair on end, huge
eyes open, and teeth bared. It was standing there, but
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it was dead. I don't know what had happened to
make a cat die like that, but it looked like
it had been scared to death. I ran for my
life across the field to my mom's house and never returned. Wow,
literally scared to death. Can't you just visualize that story.
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Thank you, Cindy. Let me squeeze in one more. This
is from Melissa home organizer AFT in Virginia. This is
something that happened to her in two thousand two. She said,
I moved in with a friend in Virginia who was
a single dad to help him out with his finances
and kids. It was not a smooth transition. I was
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abruptly woken up every night around one a m. From
a horrifying dream involving large black birds swooping down at me.
On the fourth night, I woke again from this reoccurring nightmare,
only this time I saw a man who appeared to
be from the eighteen hundreds sitting on my bed. He
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faded away, along with the imprint on the mattress where
he had been sitting. I woke up my friend who
does hypnosis, and we went to work on getting me
to tune into this stream and apparition and find its
meaning and resolution. In the hypnosis session, I was talking
as if I were the man from the eighteen hundreds.
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This man stated that he was dabbling in black magic
when he was alive, using his will to gain power
over others. One of his favorite tools was a murder
of crows that would harass his enemies, scratching and biting them.
This became his calling card. Unfortunately for him, he got
(50:39):
sloppy in his practice and the tables turned. Through a
dramatic series of events, the dark Magician's own army of
birds attacked him and pecked him to death. My friend
counseled the misguided spirit and eventually got him into the light.
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As this session was coming to a close, there was
a loud bang at the front door. We finished and
we went to investigate the noise. There in the center
of the front stoop, with its wings spread out majestically,
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was the largest black crow either of us had ever seen.
It was dead. WHOA now, tell me that would not
freak you out a little bit? Huh, Thanks so much
(51:44):
for that report. By the way, have you ever wondered
why they call a group of crows a murder of crows?
It's one of those things that's kind of mysterious. I
looked it up and here's what I was able to find. Officially,
a group of crows as a flock. And the word
murder is a poetic term used in literature that originated
(52:08):
in England in the fifteen century. The website for the
PBS documentary called A Murder of Crows states there are
quote different explanations for the origin of this term, mostly
based on old folk tales and superstitions. End quote. One
states that crows often will come together and decide the
(52:33):
capital fate of another crow. Did you get that? So
it's like the crows get together and figure out whether
or not they're gonna kill a particular crow. Okay. Another
possible origin comes from people who view quote the appearance
of crows as an omen of death end quote. So
(52:55):
so there you go. Officially it's a flock, but we
all know them as a murder of crows. And that's
I guess the closest we're gonna get to some kind
of an explanation on that. Okay, I believe we have
reached the end of another marvelous show, and before we
play the good Fortune tone and listen to that together. Uh,
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you know, Justin Perry recently interviewed me on his show,
you are creators on YouTube. If you haven't seen that,
you need to go to YouTube and uh just do
a search for manifesting using prayer boards, and you are
creators and listen to what happened to Justin when he
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started experimenting. You can also scroll through my tweets there
and find the link. Uh at Joshua pee Warrant is
my Twitter account and you'll see it linked up there
for you as well. It's really really good. It's forty
five minutes and you get to see my face instead
of just listening to me. Okay, take a break, relax,
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close your eyes if you can enjoy the good Fortune tone.
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