Episode 285: Have Mermaids Ever Been REAL? PLUS Monkey’s Paw!

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Speaker 1 (00:55):
Ready to be amazed by the wizard of Weird This
with Joshua Warren. I am Joshua B. Warren, and each
week on this show, I'll be bringing a brand new
my blowing content, news exercises and weird experiments you can

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do at home, and a lot more on this edition
of the show. Have Mermaids Ever Been Real? Plus Monkeys? Paul,
One of my favorites. Speaking of my favorites, one of
my favorite movies is Grimlins from nineteen eighty four. I

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think a lot of people would say that, and the
guy who was the father in that movie, who pretty
much kind of narrated the story, was Hoite Axton, and
I've always just loved his voice because he wasn't just

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an actor, but he also was He was most known
as a as a songwriter and a singer. He wrote
to Joy to the World, you know, Jeremiah Well it
was a pool frog and uh, well I never I've
been to Spain and the songs like that. But he
really stood out for his his voice, whether he was

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speaking or singing. And of course, in nineteen eighty four
is Grimlins. In the beginning of the movie, his character
is in some Chinatown and he's looking for a Christmas
gift for his son, and he ends up going into

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this mysterious shop with this you know, run by this
ancient old man and discovers this creature tucked away called
a maguai. And I presume we all know the story
of grim One, so I'm not going to repeat that
to you. But I always was fascinated by that concept

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that maybe someday you could you could walk into some
obscure shops somewhere and discover a new creature. And that
probably contributed to some of my interest over the years
in collecting things and owning a museum and that sort
of sort of deal. Well, I had kind of a

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reminiscent experience. You know, my wife, Lauren and I have
been together for almost thirty years, and I know that's
hard to believe considering how young and handsome I still am.

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Actually that's not true. I'm in my young Santa Claus
stage at this point. She has aged far better than I.
But that will all change once I soon drink baby
blood and get my fresh stem cells. And long ago,
when Lauren and I were first forming our relationship, there

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was a time when we didn't have much money. As
a matter of fact, there was a time when we
were basically broke, I mean literally. One thing that has
stuck with me is that she was coming home from
work at one point and I wanted to have us
a couple of salads and baked potatoes. And so I

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went to a local bar and I told him I'd
like two salads and two baked potatoes to go. And
when they came, my card was declined and I didn't
have any other way to pay, and so I had
to go home empty handed and without those two salads
and two baked potatoes. Now, sure there were people who

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could have helped me if i'd called the salad and
baked potato ambilance. But you know, I wasn't going to
do that. But I know I remember walking out of
that bar and thinking to myself, man to heck with this,
I'm not going to be like this anymore. And that
was one of the things that started me on this

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process of learning how to manifest things and also understanding
that sometimes bad things are necessary in order to make
you change and lead you to better things. It's kind
of like pain when you put your hand in a flame.
The pain is there to help you. The pain itself sucks,

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but the pain it shows you that you shouldn't be
doing that. And sometimes the worst, the worst something hurts,
then the more it's driving you in a more positive direction.
It's hard to see it at the time. And so
if you're going through a tough time right now, no
matter what it has to do with whether it's money

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or health or relationships or whatever it is, I mean,
you just have to think that sometimes you know, pain
is there to drive you towards what's good for you,
and that this sometimes the more painful it is, the
bigger the payoff is going to be when you get

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the reward. If you're smart, and you go in the
right direction, you get the character to stick. But I'm
telling you all that because when we decided to get married,
we were saying, you know what, why don't we go
take a cruise somewhere and this we didn't do this

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for our wedding, but around you know, when we were
around that period of time, we decided to take a
cruise down to Mexico, where we knew they had cheap jewelry,
and so we said, let's buy our wedding rings and
Mexico and so, because you know, you're going to save

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a lot of money down there. So sure enough, we
took this cruise down to Mexico and Lauren, who has
aged very well. By the way, Lauren and I we
got off of the ship and we walked into the
town of en Sonata, which was at that time, it

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was it was creepy. I'll just be honest with you.
I mean it was weird because I mean maybe it
was just a time of day or something, but there
weren't that many people around. And Lauren and I we've
never been the kind of people to kind of like
hang out with the crowd. I mean, we always wanted
to go do our own thing, and so we separated

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and we just went exploring on our own, and in retrospect,
that was possibly not the smartest thing to do. I
don't know. There was just like an eerie stillness about
the town. But here at some point, you know, we
went into this bar and there were all these locals there,
all of you know, a bunch of men, and they

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looked at us. I mean it was literally one of
those like moments where the music stops and then everybody
looks at you and you hear them, you know, and
we're just like, hey, guys, do you have any tequila? Boy,
they did have some tequila, and I'm talking some good
tequila for a low price. So we were told don't

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drink the water, so he had to drink the tequila. Well. Anyway,
as we explored the town, we ended up at one
point going into this little weird shop that was down
below the street. And when we walked into the shop,

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I looked over and it was cluttered. It was a
very very low ceiling, super cluttered shop with all kinds
of crazy drinkets and things, and hanging on the wall
was this little figure. I would say it was maybe
a foot and a half figure, and it looked just

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like a little mermaid. Well actually you could say it
looked like a little devil or a little devilish mermaid.
And it was to me, it was obvious that this
thing was was real and I'd never seen something like
that before. And so I was looking at this thing,

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and I'm trying to communicate with the guy who owned
the shop, and he's telling me it's some kind of
mermaid or whatever. And I was just like, I want
to buy that, and he says, no, no, he wouldn't
sell it to me. I was just It's like, I
didn't have that much money, but I just wanted to see.
You know, we're in Mexico. I don't know. So I go, well,

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I want how much I've I'm I'm I'll pay you
whatever you want. You know, I just wanted to have
this creepy little thing hanging on the wall that looked
like some kind of a creature there, and he would
not sell it to me. Turns out this is something
that is called a Jinny Hannover, and it's you will

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occasionally see them, especially nowadays if you go to like
oddity stores and stuff. It's the carcass of array I
guess like a you know, like a like a sting
ray or something, or a skate. They also call those
types of fish that has been modified by hand and

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then dried, resulting in a mummified specimen intended to resemble
a fanciful fictional creature, like a demon or a dragon.
And this goes all the way back to the sixteenth
century when these specimens were often sold as curiosities to
sailors and collectors. We're coming up on a break here.

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If you don't okay, it's called a Jenny hannover j
E N N y h A N I V E R.
When we come back, i'll tell you why it is
supposedly call that and how this connects to the whole
like mermaid legend leading into what's called gaffes. And you know,

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I have a heck of a personal collection at this
point in my life. I'm trying to get rid of
some of it right now because I have too much stuff.
But you know the Fiji Mermaid, surely you know what
the Fiji Mermaid is. Well, what's the real story behind
the feed Mermaid. I'll tell you that and more. If

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(13:29):
Things on the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast AM
Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, the Wizard of Weird,
Joshua P. Warren. Beat me into your wormhole brain from
my studio in Sencity, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day
is golden and every night is silver Agietato Zoo Mane.

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I was told if you're gonna go looking for gold
and silver jewelry, especially from a street, then to bring
a magnet because gold and silver do not stick to
magnets and if they sell you something that will stick
to a magnet, it's not legit. It's not the real thing.

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So there's a tip for you if you did not
know that. So yeah, I mean, we go into this
creepy little shop and here's this thing hanging on the wall.
A Genny Hannover guy would not sell it to me.
It was just like Gremlins. I did end up buying
a really cool hat from there, and I think I

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bought a marionette as well. I'm sure that's one of
my storage units. When I find that thing, I'm keeping it.
But yeah, a Jenny Hannover. Now they say that it's
believed it comes from the French phrase and I don't
speak French, but something like jum dion verse, which is

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a youth of Antwerp, and that British sailors cock neyed
this description into the personal name Jenny Hannover. I was like, okay,
well what does that even mean? And so uh jung
dianoverb young of young of Antwerp was described. Uh let's

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see was used to describe these modified ray carcasses that
resembled human like creatures because they looked like young people
and apparently some of these were very popular around Antwerp. Okay,

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when you start digging into words, you get into the
weirdest stuff, don't you. And so he says, here these
things they have been created to look like various mythical creatures, devils, angels, dragons.
The most common misconception was that jenny Hanivers were basilisks. Okay,

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so it says. Basilisks were creatures that killed with merely
a glance, and no one could claim to know what
one looks like. For this reason, it was easy to
pass off Jenny Hannivers as these creatures in the sixteenth century.
So I was like, okay, let's look at this bascialists.

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In European legends, the basilisks is a legendary reptile reputed
to be a serpent king who causes death to those
who look into its eyes. Sorry for my rough voice.
The allergens this time of year here in Vegas are
at an extreme high. According to Pliny the Elder, the

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basclisk of Syreene is a small snake not more than
twelve inches in length, but so venomous. It leaves a
wide trail of deadly venom in its path, and its
gaze is likewise lethal. You know, it's funny you hear
about Pliny the Elder sometimes, who is this guy? Pliny
the Elder was this Roman author and naturalist who lived

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about two thousand years ago. He was also a commander
in the Empire there and he wrote this encyclopedic thing
called the naturalis Historia or Natural History, a thirty seven
volume work that covered a vast array of topics on
human knowledge in the natural world, which became an editorial

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model for encyclopedias. He was only about fifty five fifty
six when he died, and he died when Mount Vesuvius exploded,
and apparently his I guess his son, Planning the Younger,

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witnessed this. I don't know if you look. You can
look all this stuff up on your own if you're
that interested. But regardless, I never forgot seeing this, and
it made me very interested in the whole history of
these things, because this is basically what we would consider
to be a gaff. So a gaff is something you

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might see in a sideshow these days. It's a fake
monstrosity of some kind. So common examples will be, like,
you know, jackalopes, the furry trout, some of these things
you know, they call it pickled punks, and these are

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you know, taxidermy things that people put together. And if
you wonder, like, you know, well, why is it called
a side show gaff. It's because that gaff is actually
the name of a hook, like like literally a hook

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that fishermen would use. And so the idea was that
you'd create a sideshow gaff as a fabricated or fake
exhibit displayed at a circus or a carnival with taxidermy
or whatever to hook people into the attraction. And that's
why you get these things. And of course the king

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of gaffs was.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
P. T.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
Barnum, and of his most famous was the Fiji Mermaid.
Similar to what I've been talking about, the Fiji Mermaid.
They're all over the place now I have one in
my collection. Of course, the Fiji Mermaid was like the
Fiji Mermaid that Barnum had, was an object composed of

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the torso and head of a juvenile monkey sewn to
the back half of a fish. These things were common
features of side shows back in the day, presented as
the mummified body of a creature that was supposedly half
mammal and half fish. A version of a mermaid. The

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original had fish scills with animal hair superimposed on Its body,
had some breasts, mouth was wide open with teeth beard.
The right hand was against the right cheek. Apparently. Barnum
in his autobiography described the thing that he made famous

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as a Fiji mermaid's quote and ugly, dried up, black looking,
diminutive specimen, about three feet long. Its mouth was open,
its tail turned over, and its arms thrown up, giving
it the appearance of having died in great agony end quote.

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Now there were people who were selling so called Fiji
mermaids before then. I mean there was an American sea
captain named Samuel Barrett Eads who bought Barnum's mermaid from
Japanese sailors supposedly in eighteen twenty two for six thousand dollars,
and then said he used the money from the ship's

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account and then turned around and gave it to Barnum.
Interesting how that, you know, people they think of Barnum
as being a guy who said there's a sucker born
every minute, but he never actually said that. That was
something that was said about him by a reporter or

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a writer of some newspaper at the time. Who was
kind of criticizing him. They say that Barnum didn't really
view his patrons as as suckers, that he just thought
that they wanted to be entertained, and it was kind
of like an inside joke that he was pulling their
leg and they wanted to have their legs pulled. Well anyway,

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this only worked, of course, because people have actually believed
that there may have been real mermaids. So what the
heck is a mermaid? Where does this come from? And folklore?
A mermaid is an aquatic creature with the head and
upper body of a female human and the tale of

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a fish. And they appear in the folklore of many
cultures Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and sometimes they're associated
with perilous events, storms, shipwrecks, drownings. You know, they're ominous.
They can be benevolent and benefficient, or sometimes you know,

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they fall in love with humans. It's kind of all
over the place. And of course we do have the merman,
not as famous as the murr maid, but it says
when you start looking into it here the Western concept
of mermaids is beautiful, seductive. Singers may have been influenced

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by the sirens of Greek mythology, which were originally half
birdlike but came to be pictured as a half fish like.
In the Christian era, there have been rational attempts to
try to explain mermaids, sometimes even before five point forty
six PC. This philosopher said that maybe the idea of

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mermaids had sprung from aquatic animal species that looked bizarre
or were deformed. People have obviously said that sailors they
get out to see, they start getting a little looney,
they start drinking, they see manatees, do goongs, seals? Is

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there any real evidence though, of mermaids? And when we
come back, I'll get I'll dig a little bit deeper
into that, and then I'll tell you about another gaff
that I ung. That's pretty darn cool. I like the

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story of it anyway. And you know, I don't try
to pull people's legs. I tell them if it's a
gaff or not. How about you know it's just fun stuff.
I'm Joshua pe Warren. If you're listening to strange things
on the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal
podcast network, And I'll be back after these important messages

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Welcome back to Strange Things on the iHeart Radio and
Coast to Coast AM para normal podcast network. I'm your host,
Joshua P. Warren, and this is the show where the
unusual becomes usual. Here's an interesting theory. There are some

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historians and such who believe that maybe the legend of
the Mermaid began with human women who were trained over
time to be skilled divers for things like sponges and
spent a lot of time in the sea as a result.

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Some people like this British author William Bond apparently has
written several books about it. Do you remember when that
movie ca that fake documentary came out on Discovery Channel
in twenty twelve, I think? And what was that thing called?

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Let me look it up real quick, Mermaid documentary? Oh yeah,
Mermaid Mermaids the Body Found Yeah, twenty eleven. And okay, okay,
so no, I'm sorry, there's another one, Mermaids. Yeah, okay,
Mermaids the Body Found. It came out an Animal Planet

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and Netflix around like our the Discovery Channel and then
later Netflix. Oh and I can't believe it's been that
long ago, but yeah, I mean they put out kind
of like a mockumentary like a a fake documentary about

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proof of mermaids and people. A lot of people believed it.
A lot of people believe that that was real when
it came out. Pseudo documentary Let's See It originally aired
on in America on Animal Planet May of twenty twelve
and then Discovery Channel June of twenty twelve. But look,

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there is no evidence that mermaids have ever existed that
I've seen. I'd love to be proven wrong. But if
you see a mermaid on a shelf, like a Fiji
mermaid or whatever I mean at this point, I would
if I were a betting man and I am, I

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would say it's fake. It's a gaff. It's fun. Now.
You can, on the other hand, get something else that
I have in my collection, a monkey's paw, whether it
is real or fake. A monkey's paw is a hand. Now,
don't worry like sometimes people say you have monkey pipe,

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I have a monkey's skull. But look, he died of
natural causes. I did not kill a monkey, and I'm
sure you didn't kill that chicken that you ate yesterday.
The monkeys Paul is often produced as a gaff, and
this is one that I specially like in my collection

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because it has this amazing connection to the idea of
magic and manifestation. It goes back to a horror short
story written by an English author named W. W. Jacobs,
and it first appeared in the publication called Harper's Monthly

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in September of nineteen o two, and it's been adapted
numerous times. Yeah, a spoiler here you go. I'm just
going to try to give you the overview in a
nutshell if you don't know this already. So it starts
with these people I guess they're are Americans, mister and
Missus White, and they're grown up so named Herbert, and

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they're visited by a British Man, Sergeant Major Morris, friend
of theirs. He served the British Army in India, and
during dinner he introduces them to a mummified monkey's paw
and he explains how an old faker or an old
mystic or whatever they're in India had placed a spell

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on the paw so that it will grant three wishes,
but only with hellish consequences as punishment for tampering with fate. Now,
Morris had had horrible experience, you know, like using the paw.
So he just threw it into the fire. But the
skeptical host there, mister White, says no, no, don't do that,

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and he retrieves it. And so before leaving, Morris warrens
mister White of what might happen should he use the paw,
And you know, hesitates at first, thinking he already has
everything he wants. But then he says, you know what
if I had two hundred pounds, okay, so I guess

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these were not Americans. I guess these were all English people.
Mister White says, if I had two hundred pounds, I
can make the final mortgage payment on the house. And
then he suddenly drops the paw, saying it moved and
twisted like a snake. And the following day his son, Herbert,

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left for work, and that night a representative of Herbert's
employer arrives at their home and says, well, Herbert has
been killed in a terrible accident that mutilated his body.
But here is a payment of two hundred pounds. Right.
So a week after the funeral, missus White, he was

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very very grief stricken, says to her husband, you use
the paw to bring Herbert back to life. He doesn't
want to, but he does, and he sure enough makes
the wish, summoning his son's mutilated and decomposing body. And

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later that night, there's a knock at the door, and
as Missus White fumbles at the locks in a desperate
attempt to open the door, mister White becomes terrified and
fears the thing outside is not the son he loved,
and so he makes his third and final wish and

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the knocking stops and Missus White opens the door and
finds no one is there. Kind of a pet cemetery
type thing, right, that you don't want to bring back
to dead because they're not ever going to be the same.

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And this is what those cautionary tells. Sometimes dead is
better because because you know, the idea is like, okay,
be careful what you wish for because it might happen
but not the way you want it to. And that

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happens in Leprechaun stories all the time as well. It's like, okay,
you get the wishes and uh, you know it's a trap.
And there are people who contact me all the time
and they say, do you think that it's right to

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sell wishing machines and all these kind of manifestation devices
that you have in the Curiosity Shop at Joshua P.
Warren dot com. Because I mean, it's like, sometimes if
something's too good to be true, it is. And if
I can just make a wish and it'll come true,
what if I have a price to pay? And I
I mean, I deal with this all the time, and

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I always think about these stories, and I'm like, I
know what you're saying, but that does not apply to
wishing machines and similar manifestation devices if you actually know
what you are doing. Because the things that I have produced,
that I experiment with, that I sell, they're different because

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they can only produce positivity if that's what you put
in them. So it's for every action, there's an opposite
but equal reaction type of thing. So as long as
you only put a positive intention into these things, then
only positivity can come from them. So it is impossible

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with the things that I promote or whatever, it is
impossible for you to try to manifest something good that
then comes true via something bad. It's because that would
defy the laws of karma or whatever you want to
call it. You know the laws of physics if you want.

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And I'm always honest with people. You know, I live
here in Las Vegas. I know magicians. I'm friends with
a lot of magicians, and I love doing magic tricks.
And it's like, you know, one time I did a
big event here and I hired a magician to go
around and entertain everybody. And I said, look, some of

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the people who come here. I mean, they might actually
believe that what you're doing is real, because I was
doing a like a conference on like real magic, and
I said, I don't want these people to be misled.
So if you do a magic trick, I want you
to afterward, you know, explain that this was just a
magic trick. You don't have to explain how you did it,

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but just tell them it was a trick. And he said, okay,
I got it. And there was one time when I
threw a party here and I went up in front
of a couple of very intelligent people and I took
out a spoon and a fork and I did the
whole uri geller like melting thing right before their eyes

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and laid it down in front of them, and they
were just like mind blown, and they thought I was
uri gellery. And as soon as I did it, I
said that was a trick, and I showed them how
to do the trick. So I don't mislead people. But
that would not be good for my reputation. If you know, here,

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I am a guy who's talking about manifesting real magic,
and then I turn around and confuse you with some
magic trick. No, I don't do that. If I do
a magic trick as a parlor trick, then you know
you'll learn about it. But when we come back from
this break, I want to tell you something that I've
been playing around with that may be a part of
real magic. Real magic. It's very very simple. You can

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do it for free. And also I have an email
I want to read to you from a guy who
says help help. I hate getting those kinds of emails
because I don't. I'm not the kind of guy who
can help you. But well you'll see what I told him.

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I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on
the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast. I am para normal
podcast network, and I will be right back. Welcome back

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to the final segment of this edition of Strange Things
all the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast am Paranormal Podcast Network.
I am your host, Joshua P. Warren, and I'm holding
something in my hands right now that is quite impressive.

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You have to understand something. Everybody thinks that I am
some optimist who just is always thinking super positively and
manifest things. It's the opposite. I am a natural pessimist.
I was born a pessimist, and believe it or not,

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I am more of an introvert than an extrovert. I
turned out opportunities all the time to get out there
and interact and socialize. That is why I turned to
tools to help me learn magical manifestation skills, and that's
how I kind of get past that. But you know,

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I struggle all the time. That's why I'm always coming
up with new things that work for me. And that's
why if you go to my curiosity shop, everything that
you're going to find there is a tool that has
worked for me. And so you know, there's not a
lot there, very limited stuff, but I mean, these are
things that have helped me, and so I think maybe

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they'll help you. Well. I was at Barnes and Noble recently,
and Barnes and Noble, this is not a sponsorship thing.
I have no relationship with Barnes and Noble. They should,
they should sponsor this show. That'd be a good match.
My first real job working hourly wage was I was sixteen,

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I guess, and I worked at Beadalton bookseller at the
Ashville Mall for a long time and I was just
a clerk there. And I believe that Barnes and Noble
bought them. And it's kind of the same thing. Anyway,
Lauren and I here in Vegas. We were at Barnes
and Noble and I was walking through one of the

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areas and I looked over and there was this It
looked at first I saw this box that kind of
looked like a game, like some kind of board game,
and it says a complete Vision Board Kit Life Goals
by Shanna Kennedy. And I don't know who Shanna Kennedy is,

(40:53):
but she must be somebody impressive because she has this
thing that I found in Barnes and Noble that I
bought for seventeen dollars. I don't even know how you
produce something like this for seventeen dollars, but it's a
it's called a vision board. I've heard about vision boards,
you know, for decades. And basically you open this thing

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up and it's got some corkboards in here, and it's
got some thumbtacks, and it has a bunch of very
nicely printed cards. And some of the cards have words,
and some of these are like playing card size. Some
have words and some just have pictures. So for example,

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one card might say I am strong, and then a
picture would be like the silhouette of a lady or
a man looking into the the sunrise with arms outstretched
like yeah, you know, or then you know they're might
be a card that says abundance or money comes in

(42:03):
unexpected ways. And then there's another card that just has
like a stack of gold coins. And so what you
do is you take these pieces of cork and you
just go through this big selection of cards and there
I don't know how many cards are. There's probably like
a couple hundred cards. I don't know. Actually, what does
it say? Says? Okay? Includes eighty cards, all right, well,

(42:29):
forty eight page workbook, four cork tiles, thirty pins. And
what you do is you just get these pieces of
cork and you just on a day to day basis
or a week to week basis or whatever, you know,
whatever your goals are. Obviously some things take longer to
manifest than others. You get them and you just you

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arrange images and words that reflect what you want to achieve.
And for seventeen bucks, I just couldn't believe it. If
you have a Barnes and Noble near you, you know,
maybe you can go check it out. It's probably online
as well. But I love this because to me, like
this is the simplest form of manifestation magic it Honestly,

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I don't think that this is the fastest, most effective
and efficient form. I do believe that wishing machines and
tepaphones and things like that make things happen more quickly,
and I won't get into why that is right now,
but this is very simple, and you know, you can
just do this on your own. Just get online, find

(43:42):
images that represent what you want, find words that represent
what you want. And I know you can put them
on your phone, and that's great, you should do that.
But also if you can print them out or whatever,
then do that and you know, put them around, put
them around your house. And my book Used the Force
talks about this kind of concept, and that book is

(44:05):
freely available to every single one of you right now
in multiple languages as a PDF. If you go to
Joshua Pwarren dot com and you'll see the cover of
the book and you can click on it and you
can download it in various forms. This is that's real magic,
staying focused. Like things that help you keep your mind

(44:27):
focused on what you want. And it can be good
or it can be bad. I got this email from
a fella let's see here. Subject line is help. I go,
Oh boy, here we go. He says, no kidding about this.
My family obviously has a curse on us. We are

(44:52):
also blessed as most all things that would kill our
merely close halls. All right, interesting way to start. He
goes on to say the curse seems to do to
date back to medieval times and suppresses any and all

(45:12):
attempts to increase wealth through luck, hard work, legal loopholes,
and sure things. No wealth at all. I've seen trends
change overnight. I've seen four no money card games. We
always win, just bet anything, and we always lose one
hundred percent of the time. The curse is extremely probable,

(45:37):
as my name is traced back including this castle. I
won't give the name of the castle because it's got
his name in it. This castle in Scotland to the
powerful Gordon clan in Norway. I'm thinking we may have
angered Merlin to an extreme degree reference to the sitcom

(45:58):
Monstrous episode about Herman and the Nothin' Muffin kind of
like that. So I need a powerful witch that may
be over maybe able to overcome this issue. The search
engines are giving me nothing, the closer the better due
to a money travel situation. And then he gives me

(46:19):
some info on his location. Thank you, and his name
is Tom Well, I wrote Tom back, and I know
and I do get these these emails more often than
you think, where people are like, I'm cursed and here's

(46:40):
what you do. I did a whole podcast about this.
It's episode eighty one. If you go to Strange thingsshow
dot com, you'll see links to different platforms where you
can listen to different shows. Find episode eighty one and

(47:00):
that episode is called if You Are Cursed. Listen to
that and that will give you, uh, not only my
thoughts on curses, but also some specific individuals that you
can contact if you want. You know, people who are
experts in that I'm just a dude with a microphone

(47:22):
who does a podcast. I some people have a calling
to be help helpful and to be like therapists and ministers,
and I'm just not. You know, I don't have that calling,
but that's what you do if you need help with that.
I'm gonna end with a quick piece of mental manner.

(47:43):
Superhero movie that has the song pick up the Pieces
Dead Letna Dead Lenna dea Lenna. You know it Superman
Too with Christopher Reeve. I love it because that's the scene,
or that's part of the that it happens in the

(48:05):
diner when Superman gets his butt kicked and he bleeds
for the first time, and uh, it's so funny. You know,
Superman gives up his powers to be with Lois Lane
so he can make love to her, and I go like,
I don't need to see this. I was a kid,
I was like, I don't need to see that. I

(48:26):
still don't need to see that as a man. So
he gets his butt kicked and they're playing in the movie,
and then of course he gets his powers back, and
so there you go, mental manner. The clock's about to
get us. You know what to do? Take a deep breath.

(48:47):
If you can't close your eyes, here is the good
Fortune tongue. That's it for this edition of the show.

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