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You get ready to be amazed by the wizard of weird.
This is Stringing. I am Josh would be Warren, and
each week on this show, I'll be bringing you brand
new mind blowing content, news exercises, and weird experiments you
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can do at home, and a lot more. On this
edition of the show, yesterday, I investigated this house and
oh yeah, you bet, I'm talking about a haunted house
right here in Las Vegas, Nevada. But not just any
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old haunted house. It's one of those stories. Where shall
I begin? M M. Well, I have lived here in
Las Vegas for about six and a half years or so,
and I've done a lot of work with the little media,
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and back in twenty eighteen, I met a man named
Guy Finalese, who at that time was working as a
cameraman and well just a general videographer and photographer all
that stuff, putting stories together for the local Fox TV affiliate,
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Fox five. And I presume this was around Halloween. I
don't remember for certain, but it would make sense because
you know, the media always contacts me around Halloween because
they want some spooky story and so and I nowadays
I don't have much time to get out and do
that kind of thing in person, but you know, I'm
good at hooking people up, referring them and all that. Anyway,
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So in twenty eighteen, Guy and I got together. I
forget exactly how it happened, and we met up at
this haunted park in Henderson, Nevada, which is right outside
of Vegas, called the Fox Ridge Park, where, sure enough,
years ago, this little boy died a car accident and
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I don't remember all the details of that story, but
he came out to this playground that's right next to
the school where this incident happened, and I did a
little ghost hunt. It was just myself and Lauren helping
me out and Guy filming the thing, and he just
did a phenomenal job putting that story together for the
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news and we kind of hit it off. After that,
he came out to a show that I used to produce.
I'll get back to that in a minute. But the
following year we decided to do another story again. I'm
sure it was around Halloween, and so that time we
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went to this haunted oddity shop and filmed quite a
bit of interesting footage there. And one of the people
who I met at the oddity shop an artist who
had some of her work on display. There was a
woman named Irene B Smithy. Irene B Smithy, she has
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been on numerous TV shows like Pond Stars, and she
makes art with skulls human flesh. We'll get back to
her later, all right. So Guy filmed this segment with
Nick Weird and myself, and of course Nick hosts the
Haunted Boulder City Ghost and UFO tour right here outside
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of Nevada that I created and owned that. So anyway,
Nick and I did this investigation and he Guy put
this piece together, and the piece came out and was
so fantastic. It looked so cinematic, it won an Emmy seriously,
and I Guy and the Report contacted me after they
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came out of the Emmys and they were like, look
what we got, and they had they had the statue.
So and I go, well, I was kind of the
star of an Emmy Award winning segment. There's a picture
of me somewhere. It might be at joshuap Warren dot
com holding the Emmy. Well. Anyway, so he and I
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we've kept in touch and we have a lot of fun.
Sometimes we meet up socially. Sometimes we shoot segments. Suite
did something at the Pioneer Saloon. You may remember me
talking about that. And Guy contacted me recently and he said, hey,
let's do a new segment for Halloween, because I'm recording
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this right now in the fall of twenty twenty four.
And you know, the thing is, I have done a
lot of TV in my life over the years. In fact,
you know, if you go to my website joshuap Warren
dot com and you just click the link, Yeah, there
it is on the homepage. You see me with the
Emmy that we got. There's a heading does TV and
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film work? And if you click that, I mean it
just has me doing TV going all the way back
to nineteen ninety six, and I mean all kinds of shows,
ghost Adventures, in Search of I even did a show
that William Shatner hosted, you know, I was a cast
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member on the Travel Channel for a show. I mean,
I've just done a lot of TV, and I really
just I honestly, I just kind of feel like that
I've done enough. I'm middle aged now, and if you're
in any field of art or research, you kind of
spend the first part of your life learning as much
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as you can while you have the energy, and then
the last part of your life sharing what you learned
and trying to help improve life for everyone. And then
of course just kind of being selfish and doing whatever
little personal experiments and things that bring you you fun.
And also, one thing that's always been very frustrating for
me is that when it comes to commercial television stuff,
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paranormal investigation is generally incompatible with how TV shows are
put together. I mean, if you go into an environment
that's paranormally active, you're trying to measure subtle things with
very sensitive equipment. But when you create a TV show,
you completely alter the environment. You bring all these new
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people into this place. People are going in and out.
They bring all this equipment in. It's producing electromagnetic fields,
electrostatic fields. They're turning on lights, which is creating abnormal
temperature differences. I mean, you're contaminating the scene by shooting
a TV show there. You know, it may be that
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there are I mean, the only show I can think
of right now that might be kind of a cool
exception to that approach is that show Paranormal Caught on
Camera that I was on earlier this year, because they
just take footage that people have captured themselves and then
they feature it, so they're not actually coming into your home.
And so anyway, look, there are just issues. That's been
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a struggle my whole life to try to conduct paranormal
investigation in front of a camera. And I've always made
it very clear there's real paranormal investigation and then there's
paranormal entertainment. And when you're doing a TV show, it's entertainment.
There's a schedule, I mean, a lot is planned out,
so you have to be a real expert to go
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into a TV setting and pull off some type of
a credible investigation. But you see, here's where guy threw
me a curveball because he said, this is not just
to be an ordinary investigation for the local news or
some TV segment. He said, this will be an official
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investigation for the city of Las Vegas. And that is
because that guy no longer works for the Fox TV channel.
He now works for the City of Las Vegas. He
was so good at what he did. He got this
job as one of the big digital content creators for
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the city because you know, cities now they have to
have somebody who goes out and films a lot of
stuff for them, whether it's cultural or historic or official business,
and you know, operates a website and all that. And
he is super tech savvy. So he said, no, this
will be an official investigation for the City of Las Vegas.
And we thought it would be interesting to feature a
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place in Vegas that's haunted for this Halloween season. I thought,
you know, okay, I'm I will, I'll do that. That
just sounds cool, you know, because I have been hired
over the years by cities to do things. The city
of Morganton hired me one time to create a tour
for them and to write a booklet for them about
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the Brown mountain lights and then let's see then. Of course, Asheville,
where I'm from, they put me on a committee one
time to help to save Helen's Bridge, a haunted bridge there.
But anyway, I had never done anything officially for the
city of Las Vegas, and you know, such a famous city.
I said, well, I can't turn that down. So we
started brainstorming, tossing around possible ideas, and it was like,
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maybe we go to this historic district or district, or
maybe we go to this hotel or whatever. And then serendipitously,
in the midst of all this, remember Irene B. Smithy,
She's the artist that I told you that I met
at the Oddity Shop years ago. Well, she she contacted
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me because I had been in touch with her over
the years somewhat because I used to produce this show
called The Vegas Well we called it originally the Creepy
Vegas Show and then later it became The Vegas Ghosts
and UFO Show, and sometimes she would come to the
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show and present some of her art, so we kind
of kept in touch. When we come back from this break,
I'm going to tell you what she revealed when she
contacted me. Oh a couple of weeks ago, right in
the middle of us trying to figure out where to
go and film what she told me was happening at
her house. And I told you she has she has
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Joshua P. Warren, beaming into your wormhole brain from my
studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day
is golden and every night is silver. Ijietato Zoome. And
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right after I moved to Las Vegas, of course, I
created a Haunted Downtown Las Vegas walking tour and I
quickly discovered that it just wasn't going to work out
well enough for my standards because it's just too loud
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and chaotic in downtown Las Vegas. And so the next
step was, well, why don't we why don't we turn
this into a show, and so we would have a
controlled setting. It's an indoor environment. So we teamed up
with a place called Millennium Fandom, which was our first
venue and a just an excellent pop culture bar. You
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should check it out if you're ever in Las Vegas.
And it was called at first off the Creepy Vegas
Show and then but I think that name actually creeps
some people too much, so I changed later to the
Vegas Ghost and UFO Show. Nick Weird was the host,
and you know, we had all kinds of haunted and
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cursed and charmed objects that you could touch, and you
got to watch all this film footage that has never
been on TV and just see a lot of really
cool stuff during this like one hour show. And it
was going great. We were expanding. We actually started doing
it in addition to that bar, doing it at a
casino on the strip. Everything was going great, and then
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the pandemic hit and boom, everything shut down, including Las Vegas,
and so we said, well, now what are we gonna do?
So I said, well, let's go back to the outdoor
tour thing. But how about Boulder City? And so I
started developing, I wrote and created, and I put this
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whole tour together, the Haunted Bolder City, Ghosts and UFO Tour,
which is doing great to this day. And everybody could
go do it because it was an outdoor activity and
hold Boulder City. The history there's amazing. And so now
we only occasionally do the Vegas Ghost and UFO Show
because we have all of our efforts on the tour.
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So if you if you're if you come into Vegas
and you have like a special group or a special occasion,
and you'd be interested in maybe arranging a show, Uh well,
contact me through my website and maybe I'll produce one
for you. But I don't see us doing that on
a regular basis anymore because I just don't have the time.
The tour is just going so well. We have thousands
of people who take it every year. I tell you
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all that because when the show was going on, as
I mentioned, this artist Irene B. Smithy, she would come
and set up some of her art, which consisted of
human skulls that she had intricately carved and jewelry she
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made out of human flesh. And during that time something
changed her life. She met a man who came to
the show named Chuck, and well, they hit it off
and then they got married. And then I think it
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was only maybe a little over a year ago, I'm
not sure about that, but so she married. She married
this man who came to the show and moved into
his house and guess what, it's a haunted house. Irene
contacted me and she told me that, well, okay, for
one thing, this house was built in nineteen fifty nine.
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Very nice piece of property. I don't want to say,
of course, where it is. But there was a man
there named who lived there, named Johnny, and he was
a military veteran, and long story short, you know, he
once he got old enough, I mean, he lost his wife,
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he lost his daughter. He suddenly his health went down
the toilet and he said, oh well, I'm not going
out this way. So he went into his bedroom and
he he killed himself with a shotgun. And Irene said
that furthermore, to make this whole situation a bit more interesting,
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he was he was on the FBI watch list for
a possible involvement with the mob. And he was also
a collector of antiquities that he would find out in
the desert to various artifacts and things that probably should
have been left undisturbed, but he would bring some of
those things back to the property. So there was a
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lot going on there. So it's no wonder that the
house is haunted. This is all documented, This is all true.
And of course when I say haunted, well now there's
you name it. There a shadowy forms that move around
the people who live there. Irene and Chuck and their
daughter getting touched and shoved. There's a grandfather clock that
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doesn't work, and yet it will chime sometimes when weird
things happen in the house, as well as a cuckoo
clock that does the same thing. So Irene's telling me
all this stuff. So I said, you know, guy, this
is a rare opportunity to be able to go into
a private household. Because Irene said, yep, you know, you
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guys are welcome to come and do an investigation here
in film it. I said, look, you know, this is
a private household in Las Vegas. And you know a
lot of times if you shoot like a business or
a public place, then people think you're just looking for publicity.
You're sort of exploiting a ghost story. I get that,
but it's different when you go to public, excuse me,
a private house. So I pitched this to guy and
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his host Meredith, and they like the idea, so they
pitched it to their boss and they got the green light.
So I go, all right, well we're gonna do this.
So I contacted Nick Weird and my friend Jason Sarachi,
the UFO videographer, to assist me, and but then things
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got even weirder than I was expecting. First off, as
we got closer to the date, I asked Guy what
time he wanted to meet up for us to shoot this,
and he said eight thirty am. And I thought he
was making a mistake. I said, you mean PM. He goes, no,
I know that's an odd time, but we know we're
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on this the city schedule. Here. We have to do
this ghost hunt at eight thirty am. And I don't
think I've ever done a ghost hunt at eight thirty am,
unless it's the end of a ghost hunt after I've
been up all night. So to start a ghost hunt
at eight thirty am in the morning, that's going to
throw me off because I'm not I'm not used a
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morning guy like that. As you can imagine, I don't
have much of a schedule. But I said, all right, fine,
if that's the way it has to be, then you know,
we'll do it. And Irene was fine with Everybody was
fine with it. So then, uh, maybe like a day
before we're actually going to get together, and of course
I'm going over all my equipment and making sure everything's
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all calibrated and all the batteries are fresh. Irene contacts
me as if this situation is not going to be
strange enough. And she says, by the way, I have
a pet tarantula. And she got out of her her
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case or her you know, or whatever they keep her in.
I don't know what do you keep a tarantula in,
like a tarantula tarium or something. She got out of
her box and we just decided to let her have free,
free run of the house. Free. So it's gonna be
interesting to see whose spots here first. That'll be a bonus.
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And I go, oh boy, because you know what, all right, Look,
I love all animals, I really do. And if you
tell me that you're gonna take your tarantula out and
you want me to pet it, I might just do that.
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I might just do it. But if I'm just like
sitting there checking my text messages and all of a
sudden the tarantula is on my arm, I don't know
what I'm gonna do, all right. And I'm just being
honest with you because I that's some kind of an
instinct is gonna kick in. And I because I'm getting goosebumps, right,
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are you? Yes, I'm a rachnophobic, all right? That that
I can thank my mom for that. I think she's
very a ractophobic. I think she Isn't there something about
the mom is gonna put all her fears into you.
Isn't that one of the Pink Floyd lyrics? So anyway, yeah,
I would not go out and have my own past spider.
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So I'm thinking, all right, this is gonna be interesting,
and hopefully the tarantula doesn't crawl into my gear bag.
I don't even want, you know what, I don't even
I don't want to look in my gear bag. This
was just yesterday, you know, so you see how things
are going. Well, look, let's just cut to the chase.
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So the morning arrives right and early. I am definitely
not at one hundred percent. So Lauren and I get there.
We meet Nick Weird, we meet Jason Sarachi. They've got
some of their own gear. They're ready to go. And
here's the thing about Irene. She's the most warm, sweet, friendly,
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soft spoken, mild mannered, polite lady you'll ever meet. And
she has this necklace, choker of human flesh around her neck. Okay,
and she has in a frame on the wall a
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woman's face, a dead woman's face. Now I'm talking about, like,
you know, something that like the ed Geen or the
Texas chainsaw Masker. What have you? If you just peeled
somebody's face off and you put it in a frame.
She has that hanging on the wall. She admits to
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being a cannibal. Okay, we gotta take a break. When
we come back, I'm setting the stage for this ghost
hunt for you, all right. I told you this is
not a typical haunted house investigation, and you can see
I was not exaggerating. So what do you think is
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gonna happen? Do you think we're gonna see something? Do
you think something interesting is going to occur here? I'm
Josh Whoopee Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the
iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and
I will be back after these important messages. Welcome back
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to Strange Things on the iHeart Radio and Coast to
Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, Josh Whoopee Warren,
And this is the show where the unusual becomes usual.
Irene is creating a doll out of human remains. Are
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you into dolls? I told you she admits to cannibalism.
She'll even offer you some human flesh to eat if
you want to eat it, And I watched one of
my friends do it as a matter of fact. Trust me,
I could go on and on, and I want you
to understand something. You might be sitting there listening to
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this saying wow, when Irene hears this, she's going to
be really mad that Joshua is talking about all this stuff.
But see, this is also what's really weird. She's not
it's going to be the opposite of that. She loves
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this stuff. She thinks it's wonderful that she's eccentric, you know,
And I mean I'm telling you is she will not
be the least bit offended that I'm telling you all
this she I mean, she's the one out there presenting
it on TV. And that's one of the reasons also
that I wanted to kind of tell you my version
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of the story here, because trust me, most of this
kind of stuff is not going to be in the
final cut of the whatever segment or video that guy
puts together for the City of Las Vegas because it's
it's just it's just too controversial. I think it's a
little too extreme for a government project. I mean, it's
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great that he has all this stuff, all this footage,
but I don't know what kind of version is going
to come out, but it's not going to have these
types of details. But I think you should know all
this because I want you to understand the layers of
activity that we're talking about here. We're talking about Las Vegas,
which is already a haunted place, and this is in
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an area where a lot of mob activity did take
place back in the day. We're talking about knowing for
a fact that a man committed suicide in there. I
don't know if his wife and daughter also died in
the house, but you know, he was bringing objects into
the house that had all kinds of unknown but perhaps
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significant energies. And then Irene gets in there, and she's
one of the most fascinating people I've ever met in
my entire life. You know, she's totally unique. I've never
met anybody really like her. She brings all this stuff
into the house. We're talking about layer upon layer of complexity.
So anyway, as we're about to begin the investigation, the
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first thing you have to do is get the story.
So she's taking us around and showing off all of
these things. And then and this is very fortunate for
a credit ability. Her neighbors came over and they were
the ones who found Johnny's dead body in two thousand
and eight, and they were happy to talk about that experience,
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and in fact, well they I think what they said
was that they saw the like his garage door wasn't
closed properly, and you know, the newspaper wasn't picked up.
I mean, he was in a routine and when they
went into check on him, that's when they found this
horrifying scene. But they also pointed out that the room
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where Irene's daughter currently stays, Irene's teenage daughter is the
same room that Johnny's daughter was in. And one of
the ghostly things that happens these days is that if
Irene's daughter is in her room getting dressed, and for
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whatever reason, the door isn't closed, the door will slam shut.
And that's interesting, isn't it if you think about the
idea that Johnny had a daughter in there and he
was maybe shielding Irene's daughter like he would shield his own.
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I broke out the trifild meters and I walked around
this house for the investigation, and I don't want to.
I don't want to spoil some of the stuff that
you're going to see in the video, but let me
just tell you the trifild meters, which pick up the
same type of electromagnetic and electrostatic energy around a human body.
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They were bumping at certain places even though nobody was
around them. We were talking to Johnny, the temperature would drop.
Jason Sarachi had a thermal camera and we would start
talking to Johnny and the camera would start flashing and
doing completely weird things. And one thing that really I
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you know, it surprised me a lot. I have this
little device and gosh, I can't remember it's it's similar
to what you think of as like a spirit box.
I can't remember exactly what it's called. And I've always
been very wishy washy about this type of technology. Basically,
it's like a scanner, so it just sits there and
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it scans through a bunch of frequencies on whatever band
you want, AM or FM, and you just get a
little a blip of sound, maybe a word or a
syllable if it comes across something. And the people who
create these create them based upon the theory that well,
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a ghost might want to talk to you, a spirit
might want to talk to you, But a spirit doesn't
have a voice box, right, doesn't have a larynux, doesn't
have the ability to create words for you. In the
same way, might be able to telepathically communicate with one person,
but not to come right out and say something in
a way that a recorder might pick up. But they
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might be able to influence the electromagnetic fields around a device,
and by doing so, and maybe with a little sprinkling
of synchronicity, might be able to force certain words to
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be transmitted right at a particular moment in order to
answer a question. And there's a lot of you know
how like in Paradoia, you can look at a cloud,
you could say, well, this looks like a rabbit or
a dragon or a unicorn, or or you look at
the moon you say, oh, it looks like there's a
man in the moon. That's that's Paradoia. Well there's a
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you know, there's a It's a similar phenomenon with with
auditory stuff. That's my problem with EVP often is that
if you listen to EVP and I tell you in
advance what I think it's going to say, that it's
more likely you're gonna hear hear what I think I
think it is, rather than you picking it out on
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your own. So that said, this is one of the
reasons I'm very skeptical and very reserved in my judgment
about these types of devices. However, having said that, we
were sitting there, and again I don't want to spoil anything,
because I'll tell you when the video is out, you
can watch it for yourself. We're sitting there and a
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question was asked, and for that, I'm telling you, for
that one second blip, a very clear, distinct voice said okay,
like there was no wish you like there was no
wiggle room on that. We all looked at each other
like that was obviously sounded like a man saying okay. Now.
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If that had happened once, you might say, all right, fine,
total coincidence. Glad that worked out for the camp. That's
gonna look good on TV. Nice spooky Halloween segment. But
then we were in another part of the house. We
sat down for another session, and we asked a question
or we said something, and once again, immediately the same
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exact male voice said okay. Now that I have never
experienced before in my thirty plus years of doing paranormal investigation. Now,
I don't use these types of devices a lot, these
spirit box type things. And again I apologize for not
telling you exactly the one that I have, because it's
not in front of me right now. You know, I'll
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tell you what. I'll get it during the next break,
and I'll tell you what it is. But that was
like I was struck by that, and I still am.
And the video and there's obviously this just happened yesterday.
I have a lot of stuff to analyze. I have
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a lot to go over and and this podcast is
recorded oftentimes weeks before it is posted, and I don't
know when the video is going to come out, so
the video may or may not be out by the
time you see this. I will probably post the video,
of course on my social media or certainly notify people
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who subscribe to my free e newsletter, unless that is
I come across as too old, fat and drunk. But
hopefully you, you know, you'll get to see some of
this stuff for yourself, because I'm if anybody could capture
it properly, it would be Guy. So that's all I'm
going to tell you, because I don't I don't want
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to spoil it. By the way, Irene has something else
very special coming up soon, and I will most likely
have a new report for you on that in the
near future as well. Oh yeah, but I guess you
know what. I'll tell you one more thing. Here is
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what happened at my house after we got back from
the investigation, right, something happened last night. Now, granted, I
have a variety of things in my house that are haunted,
and when you bring them in then sometimes, you know,
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you get some activity for a while, then it tends
to calm down. And I don't I don't bring negative
things into the house. Of course, I have Kennedy, the
haunted doll here. But well, I didn't bring anything back
from Irene's house. And yet last night, you know, with
the investigation was over by sometime in the afternoon, we
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all partied ways, everybody had a good time that evening.
Last night, something happened at my house, and Lauren told
me that this has never happened before. When we come
back from the break, I'm going to tell you what
that is. Tell you what happened at my house. And
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I have a story for you that I've been meaning
to get to, and it's about a celebrity who had
a paranormal experience, a very personal paranormal experience. This just
came out in the news recently. I'm Joshua P. Warren.
You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
(37:30):
to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be
right back. Welcome back to the final segment of this
(38:11):
edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren,
and I want to make sure since this is the
last segment, I want to just sincerely think Irene and
Chuck and Guy and Meredith for working with me putting
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all this together. It's so much fun. It's just so interesting.
And of course Jason and Nick did a great job
assisting me. Lauren, as always is a wonderful chauffeur who
caters to anything I need. But okay, I did look.
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Guess what, folks, It actually is a spirit box. I
have it in my in my hands, the one that
I was using. It's called a p SB seven, so
p as im Peter s and then B as in
boys seven. It's actually going to a hyphen in there
p hyphen SB seven spirit box looks like it's a
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registered trademarks is itc research device? And so yeah, when
you turn it on, you can choose different frequencies and
if you wanted to sweep forward or reverse and the rate.
So I'll turn it on for a second and you
can probably hear kind of what it sounds like. So like,
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for example, right now, I'm going to ask, is is
there a spirit near me right now? Can let me
be more specific, Johnny, are you with me right now
in my house? Let me ask this question. You know,
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my good friend Tim Peterson recently passed away. Tim Peterson,
old buddy, Are you with me? All right? So you
get the picture of how this thing works, and you
can see why I was so shocked when it very
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clearly said okay in a man's voice in response to
some specific questions. So that's something that's worth playing with, honestly.
Why not? So that night last night, after the investigation,
here's the weird thing that has happened so far at
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my house. We have this little Chihuahua named Dolly, and
Lauren is with Dolly almost twenty four to seven, so
she knows everything about this dog's behavior. And last night,
as Lauren was getting ready for bed, I was in
a whole different part of the property, so it's just
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her and Dolly. So there's a bathroom of course, next
to the bedroom. Lauren was getting ready in the bathroom
and she turns around and she realizes that Dolly is
doing something that she'd never seen Dolly do before. Dolly
is standing at the top of our stairs looking at
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the stairs in that hunched alert stance that dogs get
into when they see something they're not expecting to see,
like a person, And she's not barking or anything. She's
just sort of frozen in this stance with her eyes
locked right there at the top of the stairs, which
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is also a place where we have a lot of
security sensors and things which alert us if there's something
spiritual going on. So Lauren sees Dolly in this stance
like she's looking at an invisible person, and Lauren gets
freaked out for a moment because she thinks, what if
there's somebody there? And then Dolly slowly backed up, and
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then she turned and ran straight into the bedroom. Now
she has a little doggy bed that she loves to
sleep in on the floor. She said, screw that. She
ran into the bedroom and leapt up onto the bed
as if she were going to I don't know if
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she was running for her life or she was going
to protect Lauren. But you know, fortunately we have a
very good security system and so you know, Lauren was
able to you know, confirm that the property was secure.
But she said she'd never seen We of course had
Dolly for years. We used to have a dog called Lollie,
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but this one's Dolly, part of the old Dali Lama team.
But you know, Lama is no longer with us, but
we have a lot of spirits running around this house.
But that was just very odd that right when we
came back from that expirit that house, you know, this investigation,
Lauren had that experience. And also last night after the investigation,
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Nick he had to go back to Boulder City to
give a Boulder City tour Haunted Bouldercity dot com. It's
only thirty minutes from Vegas. I'm telling you it's a
really good tour. You know that Boulder City was built
to house the workers of the Hoover Dam. There are
so many weird stories about people who had tragedies and
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deaths and things and surrounding the construction of the Hoover
dam I'll give you just one example. Just think about
this from It doesn't matter if you believe in ghosts
or not. Think about this from just an eerie historic perspective.
On the morning of December twentieth of nineteen twenty two,
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there was a surveyor named J. G. Tierney, and he
slipped from a barge near the Hoover Damn site and drowned.
And when that happened, he became the first man to
die associated with the project. Exactly thirteen years later to
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the day, his son Patrick Tierney fell to his death
from an intag tower, becoming the last man to die
on the project. There we go again, ice water down
the back, my friends, the goosebumps? Did you, I mean,
does what is that a coincidence to the exact day?
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Thirteen years later? Father and son die, first man, last minute.
You hear these kinds of stories, you know, when you
when you take a ghost tour. It's not like somebody
has to jump out and go boo, and we don't
do any of that stuff, all right, You just hear
these stories and that's trust me, it's good enough. And
you get all the UFO stuff Haunted Bouldercity dot com.
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And you know, we have some wonderful YouTubers who come
out and take the tour and we give them like
you know, like influencers, We give them a VIP experience.
Of course, Danny the Medic was the first one. And
just recently we had Paul and Amy from the YouTube
(45:41):
channel called Best Food Review road Trip. If you don't
if you've never watched their videos, especially if you're in
the Vegas area, get on YouTube. Look up Best Food
Review road Trip and uh, the one that they did
about our Haunted Boulder City tour. It's actually the tour
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starts at a place called Beer Zombies, and you got
in Boulder City, you can actually go to Beer Zombies
where we meet up and you can get a beer,
and you can take your beer with you on the
tour as you walk around town. So it's titled Zombie
Beer and Haunted Boulder City Ghost and UFO Tour near Vegas.
Look that up and thank you so much Paul and
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Amy for doing a fantastic job. We always love, of
course to share what we do with people who make
YouTube videos. Okay, I told you I had a celeb
story for you. It's about the celebrity chef Guy Fieri,
and he actually has at least a few restaurants here
(46:45):
in the Vegas area. I'm sure he has them all
around the country. I think I ate one of his places, oh,
in Virginia or something like that, might have been Maryland. Anyway,
Fox News they have an article by Stephanie jiang pun
on guy Fieri spoke with his late father through a medium,
and then in quotations, it says Goosebump City Diners, Drive
(47:09):
Ins and Dives host claims he spoke with his father
through a medium two days after he died. Says the
chef sought spiritual advice to help grieve over his late
father's death, and he said his father died at the
age of eighty one. His father was named Jim. Fiery
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said it screwed me up. He said, I had days
if I don't want to talk to anybody, don't want
to see anybody, leave me alone. Apparently he was on
a show called In Depth with Graham Benzinger, and of course,
the Food Network star continued to explain how he had
this friend who was a spiritual medium, and he said
(47:52):
that he had a conversation with the medium, and she said,
your dad is blowing me up. He's all over about me.
He wants you to know something. And then he started.
The medium started telling guy fiery quote things that nobody
in the world would know. End quote. He said, let's see.
(48:14):
She says that they don't usually come this fast. It
usually takes five or six days. This was like a
day or two. And he goes, she's not full of it.
I'm telling you, this is the real thing. Something changed.
All right. We are at the end of the show
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You get ready to be amazed by the wizard of weird.
This is Stringing. I am Josh would be Warren, and
each week on this show, I'll be bringing you brand
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can do at home, and a lot more. On this
edition of the show, yesterday, I investigated this house and
oh yeah, you bet, I'm talking about a haunted house
right here in Las Vegas, Nevada. But not just any
(01:39):
old haunted house. It's one of those stories. Where shall
I begin? M M. Well, I have lived here in
Las Vegas for about six and a half years or so,
and I've done a lot of work with the little media,
(02:01):
and back in twenty eighteen, I met a man named
Guy Finalese, who at that time was working as a
cameraman and well just a general videographer and photographer all
that stuff, putting stories together for the local Fox TV affiliate,
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Fox five. And I presume this was around Halloween. I
don't remember for certain, but it would make sense because
you know, the media always contacts me around Halloween because
they want some spooky story and so and I nowadays
I don't have much time to get out and do
that kind of thing in person, but you know, I'm
good at hooking people up, referring them and all that. Anyway,
(02:45):
So in twenty eighteen, Guy and I got together. I
forget exactly how it happened, and we met up at
this haunted park in Henderson, Nevada, which is right outside
of Vegas, called the Fox Ridge Park, where, sure enough,
years ago, this little boy died a car accident and
(03:09):
I don't remember all the details of that story, but
he came out to this playground that's right next to
the school where this incident happened, and I did a
little ghost hunt. It was just myself and Lauren helping
me out and Guy filming the thing, and he just
did a phenomenal job putting that story together for the
(03:32):
news and we kind of hit it off. After that,
he came out to a show that I used to produce.
I'll get back to that in a minute. But the
following year we decided to do another story again. I'm
sure it was around Halloween, and so that time we
(03:53):
went to this haunted oddity shop and filmed quite a
bit of interesting footage there. And one of the people
who I met at the oddity shop an artist who
had some of her work on display. There was a
woman named Irene B Smithy. Irene B Smithy, she has
(04:15):
been on numerous TV shows like Pond Stars, and she
makes art with skulls human flesh. We'll get back to
her later, all right. So Guy filmed this segment with
Nick Weird and myself, and of course Nick hosts the
Haunted Boulder City Ghost and UFO tour right here outside
(04:36):
of Nevada that I created and owned that. So anyway,
Nick and I did this investigation and he Guy put
this piece together, and the piece came out and was
so fantastic. It looked so cinematic, it won an Emmy seriously,
and I Guy and the Report contacted me after they
(05:01):
came out of the Emmys and they were like, look
what we got, and they had they had the statue.
So and I go, well, I was kind of the
star of an Emmy Award winning segment. There's a picture
of me somewhere. It might be at joshuap Warren dot
com holding the Emmy. Well. Anyway, so he and I
(05:22):
we've kept in touch and we have a lot of fun.
Sometimes we meet up socially. Sometimes we shoot segments. Suite
did something at the Pioneer Saloon. You may remember me
talking about that. And Guy contacted me recently and he said, hey,
let's do a new segment for Halloween, because I'm recording
(05:47):
this right now in the fall of twenty twenty four.
And you know, the thing is, I have done a
lot of TV in my life over the years. In fact,
you know, if you go to my website joshuap Warren
dot com and you just click the link, Yeah, there
it is on the homepage. You see me with the
Emmy that we got. There's a heading does TV and
(06:10):
film work? And if you click that, I mean it
just has me doing TV going all the way back
to nineteen ninety six, and I mean all kinds of shows,
ghost Adventures, in Search of I even did a show
that William Shatner hosted, you know, I was a cast
(06:31):
member on the Travel Channel for a show. I mean,
I've just done a lot of TV, and I really
just I honestly, I just kind of feel like that
I've done enough. I'm middle aged now, and if you're
in any field of art or research, you kind of
spend the first part of your life learning as much
(06:53):
as you can while you have the energy, and then
the last part of your life sharing what you learned
and trying to help improve life for everyone. And then
of course just kind of being selfish and doing whatever
little personal experiments and things that bring you you fun.
And also, one thing that's always been very frustrating for
me is that when it comes to commercial television stuff,
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paranormal investigation is generally incompatible with how TV shows are
put together. I mean, if you go into an environment
that's paranormally active, you're trying to measure subtle things with
very sensitive equipment. But when you create a TV show,
you completely alter the environment. You bring all these new
(07:40):
people into this place. People are going in and out.
They bring all this equipment in. It's producing electromagnetic fields,
electrostatic fields. They're turning on lights, which is creating abnormal
temperature differences. I mean, you're contaminating the scene by shooting
a TV show there. You know, it may be that
(08:01):
there are I mean, the only show I can think
of right now that might be kind of a cool
exception to that approach is that show Paranormal Caught on
Camera that I was on earlier this year, because they
just take footage that people have captured themselves and then
they feature it, so they're not actually coming into your home.
And so anyway, look, there are just issues. That's been
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a struggle my whole life to try to conduct paranormal
investigation in front of a camera. And I've always made
it very clear there's real paranormal investigation and then there's
paranormal entertainment. And when you're doing a TV show, it's entertainment.
There's a schedule, I mean, a lot is planned out,
so you have to be a real expert to go
(08:45):
into a TV setting and pull off some type of
a credible investigation. But you see, here's where guy threw
me a curveball because he said, this is not just
to be an ordinary investigation for the local news or
some TV segment. He said, this will be an official
(09:08):
investigation for the city of Las Vegas. And that is
because that guy no longer works for the Fox TV channel.
He now works for the City of Las Vegas. He
was so good at what he did. He got this
job as one of the big digital content creators for
(09:33):
the city because you know, cities now they have to
have somebody who goes out and films a lot of
stuff for them, whether it's cultural or historic or official business,
and you know, operates a website and all that. And
he is super tech savvy. So he said, no, this
will be an official investigation for the City of Las Vegas.
And we thought it would be interesting to feature a
(09:55):
place in Vegas that's haunted for this Halloween season. I thought,
you know, okay, I'm I will, I'll do that. That
just sounds cool, you know, because I have been hired
over the years by cities to do things. The city
of Morganton hired me one time to create a tour
for them and to write a booklet for them about
(10:16):
the Brown mountain lights and then let's see then. Of course, Asheville,
where I'm from, they put me on a committee one
time to help to save Helen's Bridge, a haunted bridge there.
But anyway, I had never done anything officially for the
city of Las Vegas, and you know, such a famous city.
I said, well, I can't turn that down. So we
started brainstorming, tossing around possible ideas, and it was like,
(10:40):
maybe we go to this historic district or district, or
maybe we go to this hotel or whatever. And then serendipitously,
in the midst of all this, remember Irene B. Smithy,
She's the artist that I told you that I met
at the Oddity Shop years ago. Well, she she contacted
(11:05):
me because I had been in touch with her over
the years somewhat because I used to produce this show
called The Vegas Well we called it originally the Creepy
Vegas Show and then later it became The Vegas Ghosts
and UFO Show, and sometimes she would come to the
(11:25):
show and present some of her art, so we kind
of kept in touch. When we come back from this break,
I'm going to tell you what she revealed when she
contacted me. Oh a couple of weeks ago, right in
the middle of us trying to figure out where to
go and film what she told me was happening at
her house. And I told you she has she has
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right after I moved to Las Vegas, of course, I
created a Haunted Downtown Las Vegas walking tour and I
quickly discovered that it just wasn't going to work out
well enough for my standards because it's just too loud
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and chaotic in downtown Las Vegas. And so the next
step was, well, why don't we why don't we turn
this into a show, and so we would have a
controlled setting. It's an indoor environment. So we teamed up
with a place called Millennium Fandom, which was our first
venue and a just an excellent pop culture bar. You
(14:37):
should check it out if you're ever in Las Vegas.
And it was called at first off the Creepy Vegas
Show and then but I think that name actually creeps
some people too much, so I changed later to the
Vegas Ghost and UFO Show. Nick Weird was the host,
and you know, we had all kinds of haunted and
(15:00):
cursed and charmed objects that you could touch, and you
got to watch all this film footage that has never
been on TV and just see a lot of really
cool stuff during this like one hour show. And it
was going great. We were expanding. We actually started doing
it in addition to that bar, doing it at a
casino on the strip. Everything was going great, and then
(15:24):
the pandemic hit and boom, everything shut down, including Las Vegas,
and so we said, well, now what are we gonna do?
So I said, well, let's go back to the outdoor
tour thing. But how about Boulder City? And so I
started developing, I wrote and created, and I put this
(15:48):
whole tour together, the Haunted Bolder City, Ghosts and UFO Tour,
which is doing great to this day. And everybody could
go do it because it was an outdoor activity and
hold Boulder City. The history there's amazing. And so now
we only occasionally do the Vegas Ghost and UFO Show
because we have all of our efforts on the tour.
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So if you if you're if you come into Vegas
and you have like a special group or a special occasion,
and you'd be interested in maybe arranging a show, Uh well,
contact me through my website and maybe I'll produce one
for you. But I don't see us doing that on
a regular basis anymore because I just don't have the time.
The tour is just going so well. We have thousands
of people who take it every year. I tell you
(16:33):
all that because when the show was going on, as
I mentioned, this artist Irene B. Smithy, she would come
and set up some of her art, which consisted of
human skulls that she had intricately carved and jewelry she
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made out of human flesh. And during that time something
changed her life. She met a man who came to
the show named Chuck, and well, they hit it off
and then they got married. And then I think it
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was only maybe a little over a year ago, I'm
not sure about that, but so she married. She married
this man who came to the show and moved into
his house and guess what, it's a haunted house. Irene
contacted me and she told me that, well, okay, for
one thing, this house was built in nineteen fifty nine.
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Very nice piece of property. I don't want to say,
of course, where it is. But there was a man
there named who lived there, named Johnny, and he was
a military veteran, and long story short, you know, he
once he got old enough, I mean, he lost his wife,
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he lost his daughter. He suddenly his health went down
the toilet and he said, oh well, I'm not going
out this way. So he went into his bedroom and
he he killed himself with a shotgun. And Irene said
that furthermore, to make this whole situation a bit more interesting,
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he was he was on the FBI watch list for
a possible involvement with the mob. And he was also
a collector of antiquities that he would find out in
the desert to various artifacts and things that probably should
have been left undisturbed, but he would bring some of
those things back to the property. So there was a
(18:47):
lot going on there. So it's no wonder that the
house is haunted. This is all documented, This is all true.
And of course when I say haunted, well now there's
you name it. There a shadowy forms that move around
the people who live there. Irene and Chuck and their
daughter getting touched and shoved. There's a grandfather clock that
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doesn't work, and yet it will chime sometimes when weird
things happen in the house, as well as a cuckoo
clock that does the same thing. So Irene's telling me
all this stuff. So I said, you know, guy, this
is a rare opportunity to be able to go into
a private household. Because Irene said, yep, you know, you
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guys are welcome to come and do an investigation here
in film it. I said, look, you know, this is
a private household in Las Vegas. And you know a
lot of times if you shoot like a business or
a public place, then people think you're just looking for publicity.
You're sort of exploiting a ghost story. I get that,
but it's different when you go to public, excuse me,
a private house. So I pitched this to guy and
(19:56):
his host Meredith, and they like the idea, so they
pitched it to their boss and they got the green light.
So I go, all right, well we're gonna do this.
So I contacted Nick Weird and my friend Jason Sarachi,
the UFO videographer, to assist me, and but then things
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got even weirder than I was expecting. First off, as
we got closer to the date, I asked Guy what
time he wanted to meet up for us to shoot this,
and he said eight thirty am. And I thought he
was making a mistake. I said, you mean PM. He goes, no,
I know that's an odd time, but we know we're
(20:38):
on this the city schedule. Here. We have to do
this ghost hunt at eight thirty am. And I don't
think I've ever done a ghost hunt at eight thirty am,
unless it's the end of a ghost hunt after I've
been up all night. So to start a ghost hunt
at eight thirty am in the morning, that's going to
throw me off because I'm not I'm not used a
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morning guy like that. As you can imagine, I don't
have much of a schedule. But I said, all right, fine,
if that's the way it has to be, then you know,
we'll do it. And Irene was fine with Everybody was
fine with it. So then, uh, maybe like a day
before we're actually going to get together, and of course
I'm going over all my equipment and making sure everything's
(21:23):
all calibrated and all the batteries are fresh. Irene contacts
me as if this situation is not going to be
strange enough. And she says, by the way, I have
a pet tarantula. And she got out of her her
(21:43):
case or her you know, or whatever they keep her in.
I don't know what do you keep a tarantula in,
like a tarantula tarium or something. She got out of
her box and we just decided to let her have free,
free run of the house. Free. So it's gonna be
interesting to see whose spots here first. That'll be a bonus.
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And I go, oh boy, because you know what, all right, Look,
I love all animals, I really do. And if you
tell me that you're gonna take your tarantula out and
you want me to pet it, I might just do that.
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I might just do it. But if I'm just like
sitting there checking my text messages and all of a
sudden the tarantula is on my arm, I don't know
what I'm gonna do, all right. And I'm just being
honest with you because I that's some kind of an
instinct is gonna kick in. And I because I'm getting goosebumps, right,
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are you? Yes, I'm a rachnophobic, all right? That that
I can thank my mom for that. I think she's
very a ractophobic. I think she Isn't there something about
the mom is gonna put all her fears into you.
Isn't that one of the Pink Floyd lyrics? So anyway, yeah,
I would not go out and have my own past spider.
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So I'm thinking, all right, this is gonna be interesting,
and hopefully the tarantula doesn't crawl into my gear bag.
I don't even want, you know what, I don't even
I don't want to look in my gear bag. This
was just yesterday, you know, so you see how things
are going. Well, look, let's just cut to the chase.
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So the morning arrives right and early. I am definitely
not at one hundred percent. So Lauren and I get there.
We meet Nick Weird, we meet Jason Sarachi. They've got
some of their own gear. They're ready to go. And
here's the thing about Irene. She's the most warm, sweet, friendly,
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soft spoken, mild mannered, polite lady you'll ever meet. And
she has this necklace, choker of human flesh around her neck. Okay,
and she has in a frame on the wall a
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woman's face, a dead woman's face. Now I'm talking about, like,
you know, something that like the ed Geen or the
Texas chainsaw Masker. What have you? If you just peeled
somebody's face off and you put it in a frame.
She has that hanging on the wall. She admits to
(24:36):
being a cannibal. Okay, we gotta take a break. When
we come back, I'm setting the stage for this ghost
hunt for you, all right. I told you this is
not a typical haunted house investigation, and you can see
I was not exaggerating. So what do you think is
(24:56):
gonna happen? Do you think we're gonna see something? Do
you think something interesting is going to occur here? I'm
Josh Whoopee Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the
iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and
I will be back after these important messages. Welcome back
(25:49):
to Strange Things on the iHeart Radio and Coast to
Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, Josh Whoopee Warren,
And this is the show where the unusual becomes usual.
Irene is creating a doll out of human remains. Are
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you into dolls? I told you she admits to cannibalism.
She'll even offer you some human flesh to eat if
you want to eat it, And I watched one of
my friends do it as a matter of fact. Trust me,
I could go on and on, and I want you
to understand something. You might be sitting there listening to
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this saying wow, when Irene hears this, she's going to
be really mad that Joshua is talking about all this stuff.
But see, this is also what's really weird. She's not
it's going to be the opposite of that. She loves
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this stuff. She thinks it's wonderful that she's eccentric, you know,
And I mean I'm telling you is she will not
be the least bit offended that I'm telling you all
this she I mean, she's the one out there presenting
it on TV. And that's one of the reasons also
that I wanted to kind of tell you my version
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of the story here, because trust me, most of this
kind of stuff is not going to be in the
final cut of the whatever segment or video that guy
puts together for the City of Las Vegas because it's
it's just it's just too controversial. I think it's a
little too extreme for a government project. I mean, it's
(27:45):
great that he has all this stuff, all this footage,
but I don't know what kind of version is going
to come out, but it's not going to have these
types of details. But I think you should know all
this because I want you to understand the layers of
activity that we're talking about here. We're talking about Las Vegas,
which is already a haunted place, and this is in
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an area where a lot of mob activity did take
place back in the day. We're talking about knowing for
a fact that a man committed suicide in there. I
don't know if his wife and daughter also died in
the house, but you know, he was bringing objects into
the house that had all kinds of unknown but perhaps
(28:29):
significant energies. And then Irene gets in there, and she's
one of the most fascinating people I've ever met in
my entire life. You know, she's totally unique. I've never
met anybody really like her. She brings all this stuff
into the house. We're talking about layer upon layer of complexity.
So anyway, as we're about to begin the investigation, the
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first thing you have to do is get the story.
So she's taking us around and showing off all of
these things. And then and this is very fortunate for
a credit ability. Her neighbors came over and they were
the ones who found Johnny's dead body in two thousand
and eight, and they were happy to talk about that experience,
(29:13):
and in fact, well they I think what they said
was that they saw the like his garage door wasn't
closed properly, and you know, the newspaper wasn't picked up.
I mean, he was in a routine and when they
went into check on him, that's when they found this
horrifying scene. But they also pointed out that the room
(29:36):
where Irene's daughter currently stays, Irene's teenage daughter is the
same room that Johnny's daughter was in. And one of
the ghostly things that happens these days is that if
Irene's daughter is in her room getting dressed, and for
(29:57):
whatever reason, the door isn't closed, the door will slam shut.
And that's interesting, isn't it if you think about the
idea that Johnny had a daughter in there and he
was maybe shielding Irene's daughter like he would shield his own.
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I broke out the trifild meters and I walked around
this house for the investigation, and I don't want to.
I don't want to spoil some of the stuff that
you're going to see in the video, but let me
just tell you the trifild meters, which pick up the
same type of electromagnetic and electrostatic energy around a human body.
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They were bumping at certain places even though nobody was
around them. We were talking to Johnny, the temperature would drop.
Jason Sarachi had a thermal camera and we would start
talking to Johnny and the camera would start flashing and
doing completely weird things. And one thing that really I
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you know, it surprised me a lot. I have this
little device and gosh, I can't remember it's it's similar
to what you think of as like a spirit box.
I can't remember exactly what it's called. And I've always
been very wishy washy about this type of technology. Basically,
it's like a scanner, so it just sits there and
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it scans through a bunch of frequencies on whatever band
you want, AM or FM, and you just get a
little a blip of sound, maybe a word or a
syllable if it comes across something. And the people who
create these create them based upon the theory that well,
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a ghost might want to talk to you, a spirit
might want to talk to you, But a spirit doesn't
have a voice box, right, doesn't have a larynux, doesn't
have the ability to create words for you. In the
same way, might be able to telepathically communicate with one person,
but not to come right out and say something in
a way that a recorder might pick up. But they
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might be able to influence the electromagnetic fields around a device,
and by doing so, and maybe with a little sprinkling
of synchronicity, might be able to force certain words to
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be transmitted right at a particular moment in order to
answer a question. And there's a lot of you know
how like in Paradoia, you can look at a cloud,
you could say, well, this looks like a rabbit or
a dragon or a unicorn, or or you look at
the moon you say, oh, it looks like there's a
man in the moon. That's that's Paradoia. Well there's a
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you know, there's a It's a similar phenomenon with with
auditory stuff. That's my problem with EVP often is that
if you listen to EVP and I tell you in
advance what I think it's going to say, that it's
more likely you're gonna hear hear what I think I
think it is, rather than you picking it out on
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your own. So that said, this is one of the
reasons I'm very skeptical and very reserved in my judgment
about these types of devices. However, having said that, we
were sitting there, and again I don't want to spoil anything,
because I'll tell you when the video is out, you
can watch it for yourself. We're sitting there and a
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question was asked, and for that, I'm telling you, for
that one second blip, a very clear, distinct voice said okay,
like there was no wish you like there was no
wiggle room on that. We all looked at each other
like that was obviously sounded like a man saying okay. Now.
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If that had happened once, you might say, all right, fine,
total coincidence. Glad that worked out for the camp. That's
gonna look good on TV. Nice spooky Halloween segment. But
then we were in another part of the house. We
sat down for another session, and we asked a question
or we said something, and once again, immediately the same
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exact male voice said okay. Now that I have never
experienced before in my thirty plus years of doing paranormal investigation. Now,
I don't use these types of devices a lot, these
spirit box type things. And again I apologize for not
telling you exactly the one that I have, because it's
not in front of me right now. You know, I'll
(34:37):
tell you what. I'll get it during the next break,
and I'll tell you what it is. But that was
like I was struck by that, and I still am.
And the video and there's obviously this just happened yesterday.
I have a lot of stuff to analyze. I have
(34:57):
a lot to go over and and this podcast is
recorded oftentimes weeks before it is posted, and I don't
know when the video is going to come out, so
the video may or may not be out by the
time you see this. I will probably post the video,
of course on my social media or certainly notify people
(35:20):
who subscribe to my free e newsletter, unless that is
I come across as too old, fat and drunk. But
hopefully you, you know, you'll get to see some of
this stuff for yourself, because I'm if anybody could capture
it properly, it would be Guy. So that's all I'm
going to tell you, because I don't I don't want
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to spoil it. By the way, Irene has something else
very special coming up soon, and I will most likely
have a new report for you on that in the
near future as well. Oh yeah, but I guess you
know what. I'll tell you one more thing. Here is
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what happened at my house after we got back from
the investigation, right, something happened last night. Now, granted, I
have a variety of things in my house that are haunted,
and when you bring them in then sometimes, you know,
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you get some activity for a while, then it tends
to calm down. And I don't I don't bring negative
things into the house. Of course, I have Kennedy, the
haunted doll here. But well, I didn't bring anything back
from Irene's house. And yet last night, you know, with
the investigation was over by sometime in the afternoon, we
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all partied ways, everybody had a good time that evening.
Last night, something happened at my house, and Lauren told
me that this has never happened before. When we come
back from the break, I'm going to tell you what
that is. Tell you what happened at my house. And
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I have a story for you that I've been meaning
to get to, and it's about a celebrity who had
a paranormal experience, a very personal paranormal experience. This just
came out in the news recently. I'm Joshua P. Warren.
You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
(37:30):
to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be
right back. Welcome back to the final segment of this
(38:11):
edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren,
and I want to make sure since this is the
last segment, I want to just sincerely think Irene and
Chuck and Guy and Meredith for working with me putting
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all this together. It's so much fun. It's just so interesting.
And of course Jason and Nick did a great job
assisting me. Lauren, as always is a wonderful chauffeur who
caters to anything I need. But okay, I did look.
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Guess what, folks, It actually is a spirit box. I
have it in my in my hands, the one that
I was using. It's called a p SB seven, so
p as im Peter s and then B as in
boys seven. It's actually going to a hyphen in there
p hyphen SB seven spirit box looks like it's a
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registered trademarks is itc research device? And so yeah, when
you turn it on, you can choose different frequencies and
if you wanted to sweep forward or reverse and the rate.
So I'll turn it on for a second and you
can probably hear kind of what it sounds like. So like,
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for example, right now, I'm going to ask, is is
there a spirit near me right now? Can let me
be more specific, Johnny, are you with me right now
in my house? Let me ask this question. You know,
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my good friend Tim Peterson recently passed away. Tim Peterson,
old buddy, Are you with me? All right? So you
get the picture of how this thing works, and you
can see why I was so shocked when it very
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clearly said okay in a man's voice in response to
some specific questions. So that's something that's worth playing with, honestly.
Why not? So that night last night, after the investigation,
here's the weird thing that has happened so far at
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my house. We have this little Chihuahua named Dolly, and
Lauren is with Dolly almost twenty four to seven, so
she knows everything about this dog's behavior. And last night,
as Lauren was getting ready for bed, I was in
a whole different part of the property, so it's just
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her and Dolly. So there's a bathroom of course, next
to the bedroom. Lauren was getting ready in the bathroom
and she turns around and she realizes that Dolly is
doing something that she'd never seen Dolly do before. Dolly
is standing at the top of our stairs looking at
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the stairs in that hunched alert stance that dogs get
into when they see something they're not expecting to see,
like a person, And she's not barking or anything. She's
just sort of frozen in this stance with her eyes
locked right there at the top of the stairs, which
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is also a place where we have a lot of
security sensors and things which alert us if there's something
spiritual going on. So Lauren sees Dolly in this stance
like she's looking at an invisible person, and Lauren gets
freaked out for a moment because she thinks, what if
there's somebody there? And then Dolly slowly backed up, and
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then she turned and ran straight into the bedroom. Now
she has a little doggy bed that she loves to
sleep in on the floor. She said, screw that. She
ran into the bedroom and leapt up onto the bed
as if she were going to I don't know if
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she was running for her life or she was going
to protect Lauren. But you know, fortunately we have a
very good security system and so you know, Lauren was
able to you know, confirm that the property was secure.
But she said she'd never seen We of course had
Dolly for years. We used to have a dog called Lollie,
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but this one's Dolly, part of the old Dali Lama team.
But you know, Lama is no longer with us, but
we have a lot of spirits running around this house.
But that was just very odd that right when we
came back from that expirit that house, you know, this investigation,
Lauren had that experience. And also last night after the investigation,
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Nick he had to go back to Boulder City to
give a Boulder City tour Haunted Bouldercity dot com. It's
only thirty minutes from Vegas. I'm telling you it's a
really good tour. You know that Boulder City was built
to house the workers of the Hoover Dam. There are
so many weird stories about people who had tragedies and
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deaths and things and surrounding the construction of the Hoover
dam I'll give you just one example. Just think about
this from It doesn't matter if you believe in ghosts
or not. Think about this from just an eerie historic perspective.
On the morning of December twentieth of nineteen twenty two,
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there was a surveyor named J. G. Tierney, and he
slipped from a barge near the Hoover Damn site and drowned.
And when that happened, he became the first man to
die associated with the project. Exactly thirteen years later to
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the day, his son Patrick Tierney fell to his death
from an intag tower, becoming the last man to die
on the project. There we go again, ice water down
the back, my friends, the goosebumps? Did you, I mean,
does what is that a coincidence to the exact day?
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Thirteen years later? Father and son die, first man, last minute.
You hear these kinds of stories, you know, when you
when you take a ghost tour. It's not like somebody
has to jump out and go boo, and we don't
do any of that stuff, all right, You just hear
these stories and that's trust me, it's good enough. And
you get all the UFO stuff Haunted Bouldercity dot com.
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And you know, we have some wonderful YouTubers who come
out and take the tour and we give them like
you know, like influencers, We give them a VIP experience.
Of course, Danny the Medic was the first one. And
just recently we had Paul and Amy from the YouTube
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channel called Best Food Review road Trip. If you don't
if you've never watched their videos, especially if you're in
the Vegas area, get on YouTube. Look up Best Food
Review road Trip and uh, the one that they did
about our Haunted Boulder City tour. It's actually the tour
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starts at a place called Beer Zombies, and you got
in Boulder City, you can actually go to Beer Zombies
where we meet up and you can get a beer,
and you can take your beer with you on the
tour as you walk around town. So it's titled Zombie
Beer and Haunted Boulder City Ghost and UFO Tour near Vegas.
Look that up and thank you so much Paul and
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Amy for doing a fantastic job. We always love, of
course to share what we do with people who make
YouTube videos. Okay, I told you I had a celeb
story for you. It's about the celebrity chef Guy Fieri,
and he actually has at least a few restaurants here
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in the Vegas area. I'm sure he has them all
around the country. I think I ate one of his places, oh,
in Virginia or something like that, might have been Maryland. Anyway,
Fox News they have an article by Stephanie jiang pun
on guy Fieri spoke with his late father through a medium,
and then in quotations, it says Goosebump City Diners, Drive
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Ins and Dives host claims he spoke with his father
through a medium two days after he died. Says the
chef sought spiritual advice to help grieve over his late
father's death, and he said his father died at the
age of eighty one. His father was named Jim. Fiery
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said it screwed me up. He said, I had days
if I don't want to talk to anybody, don't want
to see anybody, leave me alone. Apparently he was on
a show called In Depth with Graham Benzinger, and of course,
the Food Network star continued to explain how he had
this friend who was a spiritual medium, and he said
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that he had a conversation with the medium, and she said,
your dad is blowing me up. He's all over about me.
He wants you to know something. And then he started.
The medium started telling guy fiery quote things that nobody
in the world would know. End quote. He said, let's see.
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She says that they don't usually come this fast. It
usually takes five or six days. This was like a
day or two. And he goes, she's not full of it.
I'm telling you, this is the real thing. Something changed.
All right. We are at the end of the show
the Clacus Goddess. Let's leave everybody with the positive note.
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