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You're ready to be amazed the wizard of weird. This
is Strange Things with John will be Warren. I am
Joshua B. Warren, and each week on this show, I'll
be bringing you brand new mind blowing content, news, exercises,
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and weird experiments you can do at home, and a
lot more. On this edition of the show, my experiences
with real voodoo dolls. Now listen. I'm not proud of
what I'm going to tell you in a minute, but
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I thought about it a long time and I decided
to tell you because it's true. This is something I
have rarely brought up in my lifetime. Because I used
to be very afraid that it might inspire people to
go do bad things. But I eventually reached the point
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in my life where I now believe that at the
end of the day, I just have to trust my audience.
I mean, anything powerful can be used for good or
bad purposes. The classic example is fire. You can cook
a nice meal, or you can burn down the forest.
So I mean it's up to responsible use. And even
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though voodoo dolls are famous for people using them for
bad or hurtful purposes, they don't have to be used
that way. You can do lots of good things with
them as well. So I'm going to tell you about
those good things. But first I'm going to tell you
about something bad that I did with a voodoo doll,
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and that's how I learned that they really work. Before
we get into that. Also, now that the autumn has
kicked off, I would like to give my opinion on
what many consider the top ten strangest stories of Summer
two thousand and twenty one. A lot of interesting stuff
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to dig into there, and I also want to follow
up a little bit. My last podcast UH episode was
about Ghost of the White House, and I was telling
you just how overwhelming and vast that topic is. So
there's so many stories I wanted to tell you that
I I just didn't have the time to tell you.
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But afterward, I thought, you know what, I gotta go
back and at least tell him a couple more, just
just a couple of quick tidbits. When it comes to
the way that Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd
were affected by the death of their eleven year old
son Willie while Lincoln was president there, Willy died of
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typhoid fever when he was eleven years old. There. Uh,
when it to illustrate for you how deeply affected they
were by this, they actually, uh, Abraham Lincoln and his
wife actually dug their son's dead body up on two
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occasions just so they could stand there and look at
him one last time. I mean that shows you this,
I mean incredible morbid connection. You know that, especially Mary
Todd had with with bringing that spirit back, bringing bringing
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their son back. It's a it's a terrible thing. Uh,
but that's pretty extreme. The other thing I wanted to
mention is that they say the area around what we
now call the Rose Garden is haunted by the ghost
of Dolly Madison. Of course, she was the first lady
James Madison's wife. And um, there's this great story. It
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comes from the book Haunted White House. Um. Actually this
has been retold many many times, but it says here
that Ellen Wilson was the wife of President Woodrow Wilson.
And in nineteen thirteen she decided that she wanted to
have some workmen completely relocate the Rose Garden. And so
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she got a couple of these workmen and provided them
with shovels and hose and buckets, and told them go
start moving that thing. And these two guys went out
to the rose garden and they came back to her
a short while later. Their faces were pale, and they
looked absolutely shocked, and they said, you're not going to
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believe this, But when we started to break ground on
the rose garden, the ghost of a woman appeared hovering
there in mid air, and she was filled with rage,
and she was screaming at them and scared them out
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of their skin. And they turned. They they dropped their tools,
and they ran out of there as fast as possible,
and said, you cannot pay us enough to go back
there and attempt that again. And that is when Edith
will Will actually Ellen Wilson, uh realized that that was
the ghost surely of Dolly Madison. And to this day
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nobody has attempted that feat. Again, interesting, isn't it that? Uh,
for some reason this apparition may be so attached to
that physical location. I just had to share those with you,
just had to share them with you. I hope you
find those as interesting as I do. Now let's get
back to real voodoo dolls, all right. When I was
a teenager, I was contacted by a guy who was
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into paranormal stuff. He I don't want to get too
specific about who he was, but he was years older
than me, and as we became friends, uh, he eventually
told me more and more about some of the times
that he had used magic and magical rituals. And these
are things that I never really missed with. I had
read books about magic and rituals, but I never really
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played with it when I was young. Later on, I
started understanding how to responsibly tap into that. But anyway, UM,
he had a dark side to him for sure, a
mischievous side at very least. And he started telling me
about how often that he would use voodoo dolls and
just how well they worked. And I couldn't believe it.
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It just seems silly to me. So but he would,
he would give me these experiences he'd had and I said, well,
how do you make a voodoo doll? I said, okay,
here's what you do. Yes, people go out and they
buy these little dolls that gifts gift stores or occult shops.
And he says, you can do that, but if you
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really want one that's going to work, well, you need
to make it yourself. So you figure out who you're
going to represent. Okay, you pick out the person, and
you you want to represent that person using any kind
of medium. You can make a paper doll, or a
cloth doll, or a clay doll. It doesn't matter, and
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it doesn't matter if you have any artistic ability. It
doesn't have to look accurate. The more accurate it looks,
the better. But you have to make this thing however
you want to, and des by the way, this whole
process has got to be kept secret. You don't tell
another single person on planet Earth what you're up to
as you do this. So once you get this person
representative about as well as you can, and buy a
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doll we're talking about, you know, maybe no bigger than
the size of the palm of your hand. You know,
you could have one that's bigger if you want to,
but yeah, you don't need anything bigger than like six.
Once you have this doll represented, then uh, you write
the name of the person on it. You don't have
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to do that, but it seems to help make that
clear connection. And then of course you want to have
something if you can get it that really represents the
DNA of that person. So if you can get the
strand of that person's hair or a fingernail, or if
you can get well saliva, I mean whatever, Okay, use
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your imagination, some lipstick, whatever, whatever, and you can add
that to the doll, than great. But if not, you know,
those things could be hard to attain. Uh. If you
just have an object that person touched, that usually does
just fine, especially if it happens to be signed or
you know, just something that they've come into contact with
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and you just literally kind of tape that onto the doll.
Now you've got your person represented, You've spent time, you
put energy into this, and then you take out you're
straight pin. Now this is what he said, okay, and
you figure out where you want this person to feel
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some pain, and you say out loud what your intention
is and why you're doing this, and then you stick
that pin in there and you just sit back and
see what happens. Right, So he's telling me this unbelievable story,
and it's because I did not believe it that I said, okay, fine,
let me try this out. Because it just so happened
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at that time that there was a man who was
living in my neighborhood that I did not like very much.
And so I can say that I don't regret having
negative feelings towards this guy, but I figured he would
be a good target for this experiment. So I decided
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to make a paper rendition of him. And I have
some artistic ability, and so was able to, you know,
just take an ink pen and draw a face and
some physical features that looked pretty close. Actually, I think
I did an okay job. And I had a business
card of his something that that's something that came out
of his hand. He gave it to me. I said, okay,
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this is something he touched it and it has his
name on it. So I just sort of like folded
that up and taped it into the structure of the doll.
And then I took out the pen the straight pin.
You can use a needle, anything sharp. When we come back,
I'll tell you what I did and what happened. But
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then I'm gonna tell you how you can also, once
you know this is real, do good things with it.
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Welcome back to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio
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your host, Wizard of Weird, Joshua PEE Warren, beaming into
your wormhole brain from my studio and Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada,
where every day is golden and every night is silver.
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If you go to Wikipedia and you just look up
the term voodoo doll, it says the term voodoo doll
commonly describes an effigy into which pins are inserted. Such
practices are found in various forms in the magical traditions
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of many cultures around the world. Although the use of
the term voodoo implies that the practice is linked to
Haitian voodoo or Louisiana voodoo. Uh, it is not dominent
in either. That's interesting. But one thing I can tell you, Like,
I'm not an expert on voodoo, I have friends who
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are big time. But one thing I can tell you
is I know a lot of people around Louisiana who
use voodoo dolls. So take that for what it's worth. Okay,
So when I stuck the pen in my little paper
voodoo doll of this guy, I just stuck it right
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in his heart. And I did not have a clearly
defined intent. I really didn't. I just figure, Okay, it's
a voodoo doll, I want something bad to happen, stick
it right in the heart, put it away. Practically forgot
about it, and then I heard two days later that
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this guy had a massive heart attack and almost died.
And I am so glad that he did not die,
because I would wonder to this day if I had
recklessly contributed somehow to the death of this guy, you know,
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because I didn't like him, but I he didn't deserve
to die, you know what I mean. So I got
this voodoo doll, and of course I took the pin
out of it, and again I was so thankful that
he didn't die. And I started doing research on like
what do I do with this doll now? And basically
to properly dispose of it. Here's what I did. Okay,
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I know that there are people listening who were going
to have vastly different opinions on this. All I did
was I took my pen, I crossed his name out,
and I just threw it in the garbage. And I'm
sure that there are proper ways of like burning it
or throwing it in in the ocean, or burying it
or I don't I don't even know that much about it.
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That was such a shocker for me to to see
that it appeared to have worked. Okay, Now I can't
prove to you in a laboratory or a court of
law or whatever. I can't prove to you that me
doing that, cause that could just be coincidence, right, But
it scared me enough that I didn't mess with voodoo
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dolls again for a long time. But as time went
on and I started learning more and more about magic
and how it works and and all that kind of stuff,
I started to realize that, Okay, I do believe the
voodoo dolls work. So are there things that can be
done that are positive using this power? Because it has
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been popularized as this negative, creepy thing, But it doesn't
have to be that way necessarily. Turns out, using voodoo
dolls is indeed something that can help you immensely if
you want to help yourself or others. Now, let me
start by saying, any time you're using magical practices, I
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dissuade you, I recommend against you doing things to or
for another person. That's usually a bad idea because you
are not necessarily privy to all of the variables in
this person's life that could affect a wise decision. Okay,
you don't necessarily know all the things that they may
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keep private, or or factors that they don't even know themselves,
and so you start tapping into that. It's risky business.
There are, however, some big exceptions to that. If somebody
really asks for help. If somebody says I'm sick, you know,
pray for me, can you help me? Or somebody wants
some good fortune you know uh, and you you want
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to send something positive. So that's a very very tricky area.
It's best for me to say, just don't do things
for other people. But you can use the technique that
I gave you for how I created a little paper
voodoo to all and you do positive things. For example,
one of the most useful techniques is to bind a
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person from something. So you can make a voodoo doll
of yourself. And let's say you have a bad habit
that you want to break. Well, you might be able
to tie a string around one of the arms of
that doll and wrap it up, and as you do that,
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you say, I bind you from fill in the blank.
So let's say somebody's bad habit is well smoking, okay,
so you say I bind you from smoking. I bind
you from smoking. I bind you from smoke. And you
do that every time you coil it. And then you
tie it to the other arm. So now you have
this coil of string that represents this person not smoking.
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And again, this could just be for yourself, you know,
and you bind yourself from some some bad habit you've
been trying to break. Now, technically you could do that
for another person. There's no reason that you couldn't bind
another person from having a you know, a certain proclivity.
Um in the same way, you might even experiment with
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sending something positive to another person. So let's say you
do have a voodoo doll of another person and that
person needs some money. Well maybe you could take that
and you could take a twenty dollar bill or something
and wrap it around the voodoo doll and send that
person the energy of money. You could even experiment with
sending medicine or something like that. I mean, look, the
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sky is the limit with this stuff. How does it work? Look?
I believe that the simplest explanation is when you go
through that process of creating that doll, what you're really
doing is taking your imagination and condensing it very powerfully
into a physical thing that you can use as a
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handle to start working with. Most of the things that
we feel powerless against our concepts that sort of flit
through our minds, or they're just sort of like subconscious
impressions that are weighing on us and we don't take
time to define them and condense them into something that
we can start trying to manage. And that's what magic
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is all about. And this is a technique that can
be used for those purposes. So look, was it a
good idea for me to to give out all this information?
I don't know I'm doing. You know, if this is
nothing new, you can get on the internet or you
can hell, you can watch a lot of movies and
get about what I told you out of it. So
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I'm not breaking some new ground here by telling you this.
I'm just telling you that in my experience, it works,
and that if you know it works, then you you've
been warned against abusing it and doing something irresponsible, but
you've also been empowered to take my opinion if it's
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worth anything to you, and do something positive with it.
And I just figured, what the heck, I may as
well go into it. And I, like I say, I
trust my audience. So there you have it. Please don't
email me and ask me for any more details or
instructions or I don't have any more for you, but
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I would like to hear about your experiences if you
have had some, or or you decided to create some,
but please please only use it for positive things. As
we head into the fall of this year, it is
interesting how people start thinking more and more about these
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types of spooky and paranormal things. You know. That's I
think one of the reasons that I've done very well
in my life is that h Halloween is always going
to roll around. You just wait long enough, and Halloween
is is like Christmas time. You know, in my business,
I am always swamped. It's incredible, but it's a fun time.
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And I was born on October, so you know, it's
one of those kids who grew up celebrating a fun
time my birthday in the midst of the Halloween atmosphere.
So I think I associated a lot of that into
a positive memory. Not to mention growing up in the
Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. Beautiful time of year,
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the leaves are changing and it's it's cooling down and
just a fun time. But let's look back on Summer
of one, because Summer of one it was another tough one.
It was tough for for many many reasons, but you know,
not not least of which being that the health problems
that people continue to have and travel issues that that
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brings up. In the world is just a very complicated
place right now. And uh, I don't know how long
it's gonna take for everybody to sort that back out again.
But anyway, Uh, there is a list of the ten
the top ten strange stories of Summer that was put
out by our buddy Tim Banal. They're the extremely talented
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Tim Banal, who uh he writes some of the great
content there at Coast to Coast a m dot com.
Coast to Coast a m dot com. He's always staying
on top of these weird news stories, and so I figured,
you know, what would be kind of fun is just
for I don't have to take too much time, but
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I can go through and and by the way, I
don't I don't just want to single out Tim because
everybody over there is fantastic, like lex and but I
think he I think he threw this one together. It
doesn't matter. So here are the top ten stories from
summer that we can dig into a little bit. And
I'm gonna give you my opinion on each one. The
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issue here is that a lot of these are image based, right,
and so, uh, this is not a TV show, this
is a podcast. So I can't show you all these pictures.
I'll tell you where you can find them. But at
least I can give you a little bit of a
description of what some of these images are. You gotta
see it to believe it kind of thing. And then, um,
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each one of these stories is gonna lead into something
interesting to think about and maybe something that you've experienced.
I'm Joshua P. Warren, and you are listening to strange
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Welcome back to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio
and Coast to Coast Stay Yeah, Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm
your host, Joshua Pete Warren and this is the show
where the unusual becomes usual. Technology is so good these
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days that almost anything can be easily faked. I mean
it's very difficult if you are in my position and
you're analyzing things that people send you. It's very difficult
to stake your name or your reputation to something if
you did not get it yourself. You know. So I
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I before I present something is saying like I think
this is real. I go to a lot of links
to get in touch with the people. Basically the source material,
you know, the source context. Where did this come from?
And uh, you must realize that when I was a kid,
I really got interested in photography, and you know, I
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was one of those people running around with the medium
format camera taking pictures and very you know, manually adjusting
everything and then developing it. And then when I was
nineteen years old, I shot an entire feature film all
on sixteen millimeter film with an old CP sixteen R camera.
So you know, when when you used to just analyze
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things based upon film exposure, then it was much easier
in many ways, many ways to separate fact from fiction
than it is now with digital technology. I mean, it's
just amazing, amazing analyzing amazing ghost and UFO stuff and parents,
it's it's it's it's harder than ever to a certain extent.
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So bear that in mind now. I did post a
little recently on my Twitter feed, which is at Joshua
Pee Warren. You don't have to be a member of Twitter,
uh to go look at somebody's tweets. If you just
go to Joshua pee Warren dot com. You'll see a
window there where you can scroll through my tweets and
you'll find this list on the Coast to Coast a
m website which is called the Top ten Strange Stories
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of Summer two thousand twenty one. So let's just go
down that list, shall we? Number ten? Ghost photographed at
Colorado's notoriously haunted Stanley Hotel. Question mark, did a tourists
catch a genuine specter lingering in the hotel? That's that
inspired The Shining? You know that the Stanley is a
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really cool place to visit, and uh, sure enough, Stephen
King best I recall, was staying at the Stanley Hotel
and this is in Estes Park, Colorado, very you know,
up in the mountains. I mean it's it's high, high
altitude there and high elevation. And he was one of
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the people staying on one of the last days before
they closed down for the winter, and it was very
eerie because the place was so vacant. And so that's
why he started thinking about this concept that became his novel,
The Shining. And they have a room there that that's
it's supposed to be the room that he stayed in.
It's the Stephen King Room. So I've been to the Stanley,
oh twice, I guess. And uh, I've taken a ghost
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tour there with like a v I P thing where
it's just me and an expert, and I uh, I've
sat in the bar and had many a whiskey's uh
morphing into Jack Nicholson. And here's the thing about this picture. Uh,
it just to me. It's a picture of what looks
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like a girl in a white gown standing in the window.
And I see what they're saying, like, yes, it looks
like it could be I see the shape of a
girl there, but I think that it doesn't look like
a real person. It looks more like a cutout or something.
So I believe this is what we call paradoia, which
is the number one thing that I deal with when
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you analyze photos these days. Paradoia is the tendency for
people to perceive or impose a meaningful interpretation on things
that are nebulous. Uh. Wikipedia says a usually visual so
that one season object pattern or meaning where there is none.
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It's exactly like looking at clouds and seeing animals and
clouds or the man in the moon and that kind
of thing. And I deal with this a lot, and
people send me images all the time that I have to, uh,
you know, I gotta break the bad news and be like,
in my opinion, I think this is paranoia paradoia because
the bar to exceed paradoia is very high, especially these days,
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and that is why I believe that so much stuff
is explained by Paradoia and this is one of those.
In my opinion, cool picture, but I don't think it's
a ghost, all right. Next on the list we have
Oh boy, this is gonna fly by? Is okay? Number
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nine massive Mr Peanut balloon mistaken for a UFO over
Toronto suburb says, up in the air, it's a bird,
it's a plane, it's Mr Peanut. All right, Well, mystery
solve there. Uh. Number eight eerie face mysteriously appears behind
a girl writing down a slide in Mexico. Okay, so
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you got a little girl going down down a slide
in a park there, and it says like out of
a horror movie. Footage appears to show a ghostly face
suddenly appeared behind a girl as she descends a slide.
I watched the video and the face is weird, but
like it's as soon as she leaves the top of
the slide, it's like a little something that kind of
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looks like a little white, ghoulish face kind of pops
in and out. But it's so fast that I can't
really tell what it is. And it looks more to
me like it was somebody kind of helping her get
started as she was going down the slide, and it
just you know, the lighting and shadow kind of made
it look weird when you saw when you glimpse their
hands as they're getting her going down the slide. That's
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why I think that probably is Sorry to be a
Debbie downer, but there's a you know, most of the
stuff I think is explainable. UM number seven Flying Saucer
filmed in Alaska. Now this one is really weird to
me because, honestly, UM, I would have I probably would
have suspected that this was fake, except I must admit it.
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It apparently is real because this footage was actually released
by UM the park Service there. But the Glacier Bay
National Park and Preserve posted this footage on their page
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and let's see here, uh, it says. Okay, so here's
the rest of the story. While not an et craft,
this video from an early August, excuse me, This video
from early August is an example of the uncanny mirage
phenomenon known as fata morgana. And if you look up
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fata morgana, it says it is a complex form of
superior image visible in the narrow band right above the horizon. Okay,
so just a really intense illusion. And when you look
at this footage and I'm watching it right now, I mean,
this is so bizarre because you're looking at some mountains
next to um, next to the bay, and there is
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what looks like an island that's floating, uh over the water,
over the top of the water. But it doesn't look
like a real island. It looks like some kind of
a flat digital artifact that's been cut out and inserted there.
And they're saying it's a saucer because the island. You know,
if you can imagine an island that's sticking up out
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of the water that you're looking at from a distance,
it kind of has a bit of a a little
bit of a saucer shape. But anyway, this is really really,
really weird. Like if if you saw this, this would
freak you out. And uh so, like, like I say,
it's impressive enough that I would have thought that that
was possibly something fake, but nope, that's real. So that's cool. Um. Next,
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we have number six ghost pants caught on film question Mark.
The Emperor may have no clothes, but this pair of
pants racing down the sidewalk presumably has no one inside
of them. I'm not gonna waste time on that because
I watched it and I don't I don't remember where
it was filmed. But that looks fake to me. I mean,
think about it. Really, a pair of pants just racing
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down a sidewalk. I mean, it's fun to watch that stuff. Uh.
Number five, Erie Well from Hell in Yemen leaves officials
scratching their heads, says the peculiar pit rivals mills hole
with its bottomless depth. Now, if you're struggling with geography,
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a little bit um this whole again, this is in Yemen.
So in the Middle East, there's a chunk of land
between Egypt and Iran, and that's where you have Iraq
and Syria. And at the bottom of that chunk of
land is Yemen. If that, if that's of interest to you,
and you will find out in the desert a big
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hole that looks almost like a perfect circle. And what
they're saying is it's ninety eight eaten diameter, but its
depth is actually a mystery, says they have. Uh they've
dubbed this eerie chasm the well from Hell. Quote. We've
never reached the bottom of the well. And this is
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from one of the geological experts there says as little
as there is little oxygen and no ventilation end quote.
They don't know how deep it is. They're thinking it
might be up to eight hundred feet deep. They say
that it's been in the desert for millions of millions
of years, and as one might imagine, some rather unsettling
legends have become attached to it over that time. Due
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to an unpleasant odor emanating from the pit, it has
come to be regarded by people living in the area
as a prison for demons, especially the infamous jim you know,
the genies. There are also claims that those who venture
too close to the pit can wind up being pulled
into it, presumably never to be seen again. Remarkably, belief
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in the ominous nature of the chasm is so significant
that many residents not only refused to go near it,
but some will not even talk about it. They're afraid
of unleashing the dark forces believed to live within the pit.
All right, what do you think, Well, I mean, it's
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hard to access that, but it'd be interesting to drop
a camera. Can we fly a drone down there? Maybe? Uh,
when we come back. More of the list and also
I think I'm gonna try to squeeze in here a
conspiracy something that I created that I believe is being censored.
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I'm your host, Joshua pe Warren, and I recently was
sent a ghost photo from a woman. She took this
photo in Europe, and I said, WHOA, this is interesting.
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I talked to her on the phone. I mean, she
has a background of photography, she had all the tech details.
She sounds very believable, and she had controls. And my
team is looking at it right now and we have
a few more tests to run, but this is looking
pretty interesting, interesting enough that I planned to be interviewing
her on this show soon and then debuting this photo
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for you exclusively in telling you how to see this.
It's pretty wild, all right. Let's get back to the list.
Here at number four Colombian mayor that we're talking about Columbia,
South America. Colombian mayor shares video of ghost attacking security guard.
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Was a sinister spirit on the prow in the city
of Armenia. Footage seemingly shows a man being violently thrown
by an unseen force. Uh, this is gonna surprise you.
I thought this is gonna be fake before I even
hit the button to watch the video. But I've watched
it several times, and I said, you know what, this
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looks like. It could be real. You know I that
it would. It surprised me, but it could be real.
Go watch that one. Number four on the list again.
You'll find this list on my Twitter feed if you
scroll down there. Go to Twitter dot com and then
just search for Joshua P. Warrent. That's scary to think
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you could be thrown around by something like that. You
really need to see that. Uh. Number three bigfoot filmed
crossing river in Michigan, question Mark. This very intriguing video
seems to show a bipedal creature hiding something in its arms.
Could it be a baby sasquatch? Uh So? Anyway, look
I watched this video. It's the typical thing where you
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kind of see the brown figure kind of rushing through,
and um, I think it's probably somebody in a bigfoot
suit or I don't know, not necessarily a big foot,
somebody in a suit or a costume of some kind. Uh.
Number two weird shape shifting UFO filmed by bewildered airline passenger.
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A puzzling anomaly from July really captured our reader's imagination
as the object morphs from a circular form to an
almost stick like shape. Yeah, this is pretty weird. It's
just like this white object of some kind. That's what
it looks like outside of an airplane window. That's just
shape shifting. And so look, I can't tell whether or
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not this is fake. I really can't. But what I
can tell you is that if it's not fake, then
this is either an optical illusion or it's a shape
shifting being of light of some kind, something interdimensional. Seriously,
it's that weird in my opinion. And then number one
here they have an eerie quote alien figure filmed in India.
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This viral footage from June grabs the number one spot.
A tall, glowing white figure with unusually long limbs wander
is down a road illuminated by headlights. Just who or
what was it? Well, it's very clear when I watched
the footage, it's very clear, but I think it's I
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think it's faked. And to me it looks like a
skinny human and a costume, possibly with some computer enhancement
of some kind. So of the whole list, the two
that I definitely think you should go look at would
be the Flying Saucer filmed in Alaska. Even though that
I think, you know that that's just an optical illusion,
that's a mirage, but it's really cool and educational. But
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then I think, you know, this number four of this
evil violent force throwing the security guard around, is it's
pretty it's pretty good. So that's what I would check
out on the list. And you might often wonder, as
I do you know, why are these paranormal things? And
these videos only glipsed? You know, because everybody takes a
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like a five minute selfie on social media, and by
that I mean like literally they'll just videotape themselves for
like five but we only catch the alien or the
bigfoot or the ghosts sometimes sort of moving out of
the frame for a few seconds. And here's what I
want you to understand. There is real material out there.
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There is real paranormal phenomena. It doesn't happen that often,
but it's real. But it's buried often under the bs
of the entertainment industry and people that take advantage of
of hoaxes, uh or take advantage with hoaxes, you know,
And you might say, well, why does somebody hoax? Well, hey,
did you ever toilet paper a house when you were young?
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I mean, kids have computers and cameras. Now, they're not
toilet papering houses anymore. A lot of kids are They're
faking this kind of stuff. And of course there is
always the possibility, when you see something legit that these
may not naturally just to I mean, okay, what if this?
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What if this is the case. These weird things may
naturally just exist for real, hovering around the outskirts of
our lives. And that's why we so often catch them
fleeting out of the frame in the matrix. That's where
they usually exist for us. They're always kind of around
(46:22):
on the peripheries. But I think to myself, if I
had not investigated all this stuff personally for thirty years,
I would think that a lot of this was just
a bunch of bs, you know, just based upon what
I see on the internet. But I'm glad that you
listen to me and you trust me and you realize
I'm here to help you sort through all that kind
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of thing. And there is also this weird phenomenon were
often paranormal stuff does get censored, And I want to
mention this real quick. Last year I wrote this book
called Ghosts, UFOs and Legends of Death Valley the Ultimate Guy. Okay,
this is from Death Valley, California, And if you go
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to Joshua Pee Warren dot com and click the link
to my Curiosity shop, you'll find this book. And the
back of the book says, you know what's hot, but
do you know how haunted it is? And it goes
on to talk about how look time warps, ancient mummies,
interdimensional spirits. I mean, all this stuff has been reported
around there, and it seems like a place which almost
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be It might almost be like a portal, one of
those areas where reality sometimes warps. I wrote this book
last year, and I decided to publish it independently through
my own company so that I would have no issues
with editorialism or any of that stuff. And uh, it
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turns out nobody has ever written a paranormal book before
like this about ghosts and UFOs of Death Valley. This
is the first one, and I wrote it to be
family friendly. Is very well illustrated by Mr Sam Sharon.
And I thought, this thing is going to sell a
gazillion copies and everybody's gonna love it. But then something
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weird happened. I went to Death Valley and gave out
all these copies and talked to the companies that have
stores there, and none of them will approve it. Okay, Now, granted,
Death Valley is a national park, so there's more paperwork
involved than usual. But there are private companies there that
have store fronts and they can approve it, but they
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want And then there are places there that have storefronts
that are associated very directly with the federal government and
they want to prove it. Either. Nobody will approve this
book in Death Valley. Now, this is a family friendly
book that has tells that anybody would love who is
(48:53):
going there and enjoying the mystery of Death Valley. And
I yes, I could tell you names of people and companies,
and I don't want to do that. I don't want
to stir up anything, but I do want you to
know that I believe there is a conspiracy of some
kind to not let people know about paranormal stuff happening
(49:15):
around Death Valley, California. And in fact, getting a lot
of these stories was like pulling teeth. And I'm very
protective of the witnesses and the people I've interviewed, but
I if you have any insight or influence on whether
or not any of these places in Death Valley, California
will actually carry this book that I wrote. I would
(49:37):
love to hear about it, and again, go to my
Curiosity shop click the link and you can actually hear
me read the book as an audio book, and you
can download it as an e book, or you can
get a printed copy, and right now it's even on
Amazon dot Com if you want to get a kindle
or you can order uh, you know, a kindle version,
or you can order a copy that way as well.
(49:59):
But there's something, there's something happening around Death Valley, California
where they will not talk about paranormal stuff, and I
want that to change. I hope that changes. Maybe one
of you listening will give me some more information about that,
So I'll keep you updated and I might tell you
even more about things that people and things that might
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be blocking this. But anyway, we've covered a lot of
weird stuff in this show, haven't we. Now it's time
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and weird experiments you can do at home, and a
lot more. On this edition of the show, my experiences
with real voodoo dolls. Now listen. I'm not proud of
what I'm going to tell you in a minute, but
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I thought about it a long time and I decided
to tell you because it's true. This is something I
have rarely brought up in my lifetime. Because I used
to be very afraid that it might inspire people to
go do bad things. But I eventually reached the point
(01:59):
in my life where I now believe that at the
end of the day, I just have to trust my audience.
I mean, anything powerful can be used for good or
bad purposes. The classic example is fire. You can cook
a nice meal, or you can burn down the forest.
So I mean it's up to responsible use. And even
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though voodoo dolls are famous for people using them for
bad or hurtful purposes, they don't have to be used
that way. You can do lots of good things with
them as well. So I'm going to tell you about
those good things. But first I'm going to tell you
about something bad that I did with a voodoo doll,
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and that's how I learned that they really work. Before
we get into that. Also, now that the autumn has
kicked off, I would like to give my opinion on
what many consider the top ten strangest stories of Summer
two thousand and twenty one. A lot of interesting stuff
(03:08):
to dig into there, and I also want to follow
up a little bit. My last podcast UH episode was
about Ghost of the White House, and I was telling
you just how overwhelming and vast that topic is. So
there's so many stories I wanted to tell you that
I I just didn't have the time to tell you.
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But afterward, I thought, you know what, I gotta go
back and at least tell him a couple more, just
just a couple of quick tidbits. When it comes to
the way that Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd
were affected by the death of their eleven year old
son Willie while Lincoln was president there, Willy died of
(03:49):
typhoid fever when he was eleven years old. There. Uh,
when it to illustrate for you how deeply affected they
were by this, they actually, uh, Abraham Lincoln and his
wife actually dug their son's dead body up on two
(04:10):
occasions just so they could stand there and look at
him one last time. I mean that shows you this,
I mean incredible morbid connection. You know that, especially Mary
Todd had with with bringing that spirit back, bringing bringing
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their son back. It's a it's a terrible thing. Uh,
but that's pretty extreme. The other thing I wanted to
mention is that they say the area around what we
now call the Rose Garden is haunted by the ghost
of Dolly Madison. Of course, she was the first lady
James Madison's wife. And um, there's this great story. It
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comes from the book Haunted White House. Um. Actually this
has been retold many many times, but it says here
that Ellen Wilson was the wife of President Woodrow Wilson.
And in nineteen thirteen she decided that she wanted to
have some workmen completely relocate the Rose Garden. And so
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she got a couple of these workmen and provided them
with shovels and hose and buckets, and told them go
start moving that thing. And these two guys went out
to the rose garden and they came back to her
a short while later. Their faces were pale, and they
looked absolutely shocked, and they said, you're not going to
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believe this, But when we started to break ground on
the rose garden, the ghost of a woman appeared hovering
there in mid air, and she was filled with rage,
and she was screaming at them and scared them out
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of their skin. And they turned. They they dropped their tools,
and they ran out of there as fast as possible,
and said, you cannot pay us enough to go back
there and attempt that again. And that is when Edith
will Will actually Ellen Wilson, uh realized that that was
the ghost surely of Dolly Madison. And to this day
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nobody has attempted that feat. Again, interesting, isn't it that? Uh,
for some reason this apparition may be so attached to
that physical location. I just had to share those with you,
just had to share them with you. I hope you
find those as interesting as I do. Now let's get
back to real voodoo dolls, all right. When I was
a teenager, I was contacted by a guy who was
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into paranormal stuff. He I don't want to get too
specific about who he was, but he was years older
than me, and as we became friends, uh, he eventually
told me more and more about some of the times
that he had used magic and magical rituals. And these
are things that I never really missed with. I had
read books about magic and rituals, but I never really
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played with it when I was young. Later on, I
started understanding how to responsibly tap into that. But anyway, UM,
he had a dark side to him for sure, a
mischievous side at very least. And he started telling me
about how often that he would use voodoo dolls and
just how well they worked. And I couldn't believe it.
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It just seems silly to me. So but he would,
he would give me these experiences he'd had and I said, well,
how do you make a voodoo doll? I said, okay,
here's what you do. Yes, people go out and they
buy these little dolls that gifts gift stores or occult shops.
And he says, you can do that, but if you
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really want one that's going to work, well, you need
to make it yourself. So you figure out who you're
going to represent. Okay, you pick out the person, and
you you want to represent that person using any kind
of medium. You can make a paper doll, or a
cloth doll, or a clay doll. It doesn't matter, and
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it doesn't matter if you have any artistic ability. It
doesn't have to look accurate. The more accurate it looks,
the better. But you have to make this thing however
you want to, and des by the way, this whole
process has got to be kept secret. You don't tell
another single person on planet Earth what you're up to
as you do this. So once you get this person
representative about as well as you can, and buy a
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doll we're talking about, you know, maybe no bigger than
the size of the palm of your hand. You know,
you could have one that's bigger if you want to,
but yeah, you don't need anything bigger than like six.
Once you have this doll represented, then uh, you write
the name of the person on it. You don't have
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to do that, but it seems to help make that
clear connection. And then of course you want to have
something if you can get it that really represents the
DNA of that person. So if you can get the
strand of that person's hair or a fingernail, or if
you can get well saliva, I mean whatever, Okay, use
(09:24):
your imagination, some lipstick, whatever, whatever, and you can add
that to the doll, than great. But if not, you know,
those things could be hard to attain. Uh. If you
just have an object that person touched, that usually does
just fine, especially if it happens to be signed or
you know, just something that they've come into contact with
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and you just literally kind of tape that onto the doll.
Now you've got your person represented, You've spent time, you
put energy into this, and then you take out you're
straight pin. Now this is what he said, okay, and
you figure out where you want this person to feel
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some pain, and you say out loud what your intention
is and why you're doing this, and then you stick
that pin in there and you just sit back and
see what happens. Right, So he's telling me this unbelievable story,
and it's because I did not believe it that I said, okay, fine,
let me try this out. Because it just so happened
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at that time that there was a man who was
living in my neighborhood that I did not like very much.
And so I can say that I don't regret having
negative feelings towards this guy, but I figured he would
be a good target for this experiment. So I decided
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to make a paper rendition of him. And I have
some artistic ability, and so was able to, you know,
just take an ink pen and draw a face and
some physical features that looked pretty close. Actually, I think
I did an okay job. And I had a business
card of his something that that's something that came out
of his hand. He gave it to me. I said, okay,
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this is something he touched it and it has his
name on it. So I just sort of like folded
that up and taped it into the structure of the doll.
And then I took out the pen the straight pin.
You can use a needle, anything sharp. When we come back,
I'll tell you what I did and what happened. But
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then I'm gonna tell you how you can also, once
you know this is real, do good things with it.
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If you go to Wikipedia and you just look up
the term voodoo doll, it says the term voodoo doll
commonly describes an effigy into which pins are inserted. Such
practices are found in various forms in the magical traditions
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of many cultures around the world. Although the use of
the term voodoo implies that the practice is linked to
Haitian voodoo or Louisiana voodoo. Uh, it is not dominent
in either. That's interesting. But one thing I can tell you, Like,
I'm not an expert on voodoo, I have friends who
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are big time. But one thing I can tell you
is I know a lot of people around Louisiana who
use voodoo dolls. So take that for what it's worth. Okay,
So when I stuck the pen in my little paper
voodoo doll of this guy, I just stuck it right
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in his heart. And I did not have a clearly
defined intent. I really didn't. I just figure, Okay, it's
a voodoo doll, I want something bad to happen, stick
it right in the heart, put it away. Practically forgot
about it, and then I heard two days later that
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this guy had a massive heart attack and almost died.
And I am so glad that he did not die,
because I would wonder to this day if I had
recklessly contributed somehow to the death of this guy, you know,
(16:14):
because I didn't like him, but I he didn't deserve
to die, you know what I mean. So I got
this voodoo doll, and of course I took the pin
out of it, and again I was so thankful that
he didn't die. And I started doing research on like
what do I do with this doll now? And basically
to properly dispose of it. Here's what I did. Okay,
(16:36):
I know that there are people listening who were going
to have vastly different opinions on this. All I did
was I took my pen, I crossed his name out,
and I just threw it in the garbage. And I'm
sure that there are proper ways of like burning it
or throwing it in in the ocean, or burying it
or I don't I don't even know that much about it.
(16:59):
That was such a shocker for me to to see
that it appeared to have worked. Okay, Now I can't
prove to you in a laboratory or a court of
law or whatever. I can't prove to you that me
doing that, cause that could just be coincidence, right, But
it scared me enough that I didn't mess with voodoo
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dolls again for a long time. But as time went
on and I started learning more and more about magic
and how it works and and all that kind of stuff,
I started to realize that, Okay, I do believe the
voodoo dolls work. So are there things that can be
done that are positive using this power? Because it has
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been popularized as this negative, creepy thing, But it doesn't
have to be that way necessarily. Turns out, using voodoo
dolls is indeed something that can help you immensely if
you want to help yourself or others. Now, let me
start by saying, any time you're using magical practices, I
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dissuade you, I recommend against you doing things to or
for another person. That's usually a bad idea because you
are not necessarily privy to all of the variables in
this person's life that could affect a wise decision. Okay,
you don't necessarily know all the things that they may
(18:24):
keep private, or or factors that they don't even know themselves,
and so you start tapping into that. It's risky business.
There are, however, some big exceptions to that. If somebody
really asks for help. If somebody says I'm sick, you know,
pray for me, can you help me? Or somebody wants
some good fortune you know uh, and you you want
(18:45):
to send something positive. So that's a very very tricky area.
It's best for me to say, just don't do things
for other people. But you can use the technique that
I gave you for how I created a little paper
voodoo to all and you do positive things. For example,
one of the most useful techniques is to bind a
(19:09):
person from something. So you can make a voodoo doll
of yourself. And let's say you have a bad habit
that you want to break. Well, you might be able
to tie a string around one of the arms of
that doll and wrap it up, and as you do that,
(19:29):
you say, I bind you from fill in the blank.
So let's say somebody's bad habit is well smoking, okay,
so you say I bind you from smoking. I bind
you from smoking. I bind you from smoke. And you
do that every time you coil it. And then you
tie it to the other arm. So now you have
this coil of string that represents this person not smoking.
(19:52):
And again, this could just be for yourself, you know,
and you bind yourself from some some bad habit you've
been trying to break. Now, technically you could do that
for another person. There's no reason that you couldn't bind
another person from having a you know, a certain proclivity.
Um in the same way, you might even experiment with
(20:14):
sending something positive to another person. So let's say you
do have a voodoo doll of another person and that
person needs some money. Well maybe you could take that
and you could take a twenty dollar bill or something
and wrap it around the voodoo doll and send that
person the energy of money. You could even experiment with
sending medicine or something like that. I mean, look, the
(20:35):
sky is the limit with this stuff. How does it work? Look?
I believe that the simplest explanation is when you go
through that process of creating that doll, what you're really
doing is taking your imagination and condensing it very powerfully
into a physical thing that you can use as a
(20:57):
handle to start working with. Most of the things that
we feel powerless against our concepts that sort of flit
through our minds, or they're just sort of like subconscious
impressions that are weighing on us and we don't take
time to define them and condense them into something that
we can start trying to manage. And that's what magic
(21:20):
is all about. And this is a technique that can
be used for those purposes. So look, was it a
good idea for me to to give out all this information?
I don't know I'm doing. You know, if this is
nothing new, you can get on the internet or you
can hell, you can watch a lot of movies and
get about what I told you out of it. So
(21:41):
I'm not breaking some new ground here by telling you this.
I'm just telling you that in my experience, it works,
and that if you know it works, then you you've
been warned against abusing it and doing something irresponsible, but
you've also been empowered to take my opinion if it's
(22:05):
worth anything to you, and do something positive with it.
And I just figured, what the heck, I may as
well go into it. And I, like I say, I
trust my audience. So there you have it. Please don't
email me and ask me for any more details or
instructions or I don't have any more for you, but
(22:26):
I would like to hear about your experiences if you
have had some, or or you decided to create some,
but please please only use it for positive things. As
we head into the fall of this year, it is
interesting how people start thinking more and more about these
(22:49):
types of spooky and paranormal things. You know. That's I
think one of the reasons that I've done very well
in my life is that h Halloween is always going
to roll around. You just wait long enough, and Halloween
is is like Christmas time. You know, in my business,
I am always swamped. It's incredible, but it's a fun time.
(23:09):
And I was born on October, so you know, it's
one of those kids who grew up celebrating a fun
time my birthday in the midst of the Halloween atmosphere.
So I think I associated a lot of that into
a positive memory. Not to mention growing up in the
Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. Beautiful time of year,
(23:30):
the leaves are changing and it's it's cooling down and
just a fun time. But let's look back on Summer
of one, because Summer of one it was another tough one.
It was tough for for many many reasons, but you know,
not not least of which being that the health problems
that people continue to have and travel issues that that
(23:55):
brings up. In the world is just a very complicated
place right now. And uh, I don't know how long
it's gonna take for everybody to sort that back out again.
But anyway, Uh, there is a list of the ten
the top ten strange stories of Summer that was put
out by our buddy Tim Banal. They're the extremely talented
(24:19):
Tim Banal, who uh he writes some of the great
content there at Coast to Coast a m dot com.
Coast to Coast a m dot com. He's always staying
on top of these weird news stories, and so I figured,
you know, what would be kind of fun is just
for I don't have to take too much time, but
(24:41):
I can go through and and by the way, I
don't I don't just want to single out Tim because
everybody over there is fantastic, like lex and but I
think he I think he threw this one together. It
doesn't matter. So here are the top ten stories from
summer that we can dig into a little bit. And
I'm gonna give you my opinion on each one. The
(25:03):
issue here is that a lot of these are image based, right,
and so, uh, this is not a TV show, this
is a podcast. So I can't show you all these pictures.
I'll tell you where you can find them. But at
least I can give you a little bit of a
description of what some of these images are. You gotta
see it to believe it kind of thing. And then, um,
(25:28):
each one of these stories is gonna lead into something
interesting to think about and maybe something that you've experienced.
I'm Joshua P. Warren, and you are listening to strange
things on the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast.
They am paranormal podcast network. I'll be back after these
(25:49):
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(27:05):
Welcome back to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio
and Coast to Coast Stay Yeah, Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm
your host, Joshua Pete Warren and this is the show
where the unusual becomes usual. Technology is so good these
(27:26):
days that almost anything can be easily faked. I mean
it's very difficult if you are in my position and
you're analyzing things that people send you. It's very difficult
to stake your name or your reputation to something if
you did not get it yourself. You know. So I
(27:49):
I before I present something is saying like I think
this is real. I go to a lot of links
to get in touch with the people. Basically the source material,
you know, the source context. Where did this come from?
And uh, you must realize that when I was a kid,
I really got interested in photography, and you know, I
(28:11):
was one of those people running around with the medium
format camera taking pictures and very you know, manually adjusting
everything and then developing it. And then when I was
nineteen years old, I shot an entire feature film all
on sixteen millimeter film with an old CP sixteen R camera.
So you know, when when you used to just analyze
(28:33):
things based upon film exposure, then it was much easier
in many ways, many ways to separate fact from fiction
than it is now with digital technology. I mean, it's
just amazing, amazing analyzing amazing ghost and UFO stuff and parents,
it's it's it's it's harder than ever to a certain extent.
(28:55):
So bear that in mind now. I did post a
little recently on my Twitter feed, which is at Joshua
Pee Warren. You don't have to be a member of Twitter,
uh to go look at somebody's tweets. If you just
go to Joshua pee Warren dot com. You'll see a
window there where you can scroll through my tweets and
you'll find this list on the Coast to Coast a
m website which is called the Top ten Strange Stories
(29:19):
of Summer two thousand twenty one. So let's just go
down that list, shall we? Number ten? Ghost photographed at
Colorado's notoriously haunted Stanley Hotel. Question mark, did a tourists
catch a genuine specter lingering in the hotel? That's that
inspired The Shining? You know that the Stanley is a
(29:42):
really cool place to visit, and uh, sure enough, Stephen
King best I recall, was staying at the Stanley Hotel
and this is in Estes Park, Colorado, very you know,
up in the mountains. I mean it's it's high, high
altitude there and high elevation. And he was one of
(30:04):
the people staying on one of the last days before
they closed down for the winter, and it was very
eerie because the place was so vacant. And so that's
why he started thinking about this concept that became his novel,
The Shining. And they have a room there that that's
it's supposed to be the room that he stayed in.
It's the Stephen King Room. So I've been to the Stanley,
oh twice, I guess. And uh, I've taken a ghost
(30:27):
tour there with like a v I P thing where
it's just me and an expert, and I uh, I've
sat in the bar and had many a whiskey's uh
morphing into Jack Nicholson. And here's the thing about this picture. Uh,
it just to me. It's a picture of what looks
(30:49):
like a girl in a white gown standing in the window.
And I see what they're saying, like, yes, it looks
like it could be I see the shape of a
girl there, but I think that it doesn't look like
a real person. It looks more like a cutout or something.
So I believe this is what we call paradoia, which
is the number one thing that I deal with when
(31:10):
you analyze photos these days. Paradoia is the tendency for
people to perceive or impose a meaningful interpretation on things
that are nebulous. Uh. Wikipedia says a usually visual so
that one season object pattern or meaning where there is none.
(31:31):
It's exactly like looking at clouds and seeing animals and
clouds or the man in the moon and that kind
of thing. And I deal with this a lot, and
people send me images all the time that I have to, uh,
you know, I gotta break the bad news and be like,
in my opinion, I think this is paranoia paradoia because
the bar to exceed paradoia is very high, especially these days,
(31:55):
and that is why I believe that so much stuff
is explained by Paradoia and this is one of those.
In my opinion, cool picture, but I don't think it's
a ghost, all right. Next on the list we have
Oh boy, this is gonna fly by? Is okay? Number
(32:16):
nine massive Mr Peanut balloon mistaken for a UFO over
Toronto suburb says, up in the air, it's a bird,
it's a plane, it's Mr Peanut. All right, Well, mystery
solve there. Uh. Number eight eerie face mysteriously appears behind
a girl writing down a slide in Mexico. Okay, so
(32:39):
you got a little girl going down down a slide
in a park there, and it says like out of
a horror movie. Footage appears to show a ghostly face
suddenly appeared behind a girl as she descends a slide.
I watched the video and the face is weird, but
like it's as soon as she leaves the top of
the slide, it's like a little something that kind of
(33:01):
looks like a little white, ghoulish face kind of pops
in and out. But it's so fast that I can't
really tell what it is. And it looks more to
me like it was somebody kind of helping her get
started as she was going down the slide, and it
just you know, the lighting and shadow kind of made
it look weird when you saw when you glimpse their
hands as they're getting her going down the slide. That's
(33:24):
why I think that probably is Sorry to be a
Debbie downer, but there's a you know, most of the
stuff I think is explainable. UM number seven Flying Saucer
filmed in Alaska. Now this one is really weird to
me because, honestly, UM, I would have I probably would
have suspected that this was fake, except I must admit it.
(33:49):
It apparently is real because this footage was actually released
by UM the park Service there. But the Glacier Bay
National Park and Preserve posted this footage on their page
(34:10):
and let's see here, uh, it says. Okay, so here's
the rest of the story. While not an et craft,
this video from an early August, excuse me, This video
from early August is an example of the uncanny mirage
phenomenon known as fata morgana. And if you look up
(34:34):
fata morgana, it says it is a complex form of
superior image visible in the narrow band right above the horizon. Okay,
so just a really intense illusion. And when you look
at this footage and I'm watching it right now, I mean,
this is so bizarre because you're looking at some mountains
next to um, next to the bay, and there is
(35:00):
what looks like an island that's floating, uh over the water,
over the top of the water. But it doesn't look
like a real island. It looks like some kind of
a flat digital artifact that's been cut out and inserted there.
And they're saying it's a saucer because the island. You know,
if you can imagine an island that's sticking up out
(35:21):
of the water that you're looking at from a distance,
it kind of has a bit of a a little
bit of a saucer shape. But anyway, this is really really,
really weird. Like if if you saw this, this would
freak you out. And uh so, like, like I say,
it's impressive enough that I would have thought that that
was possibly something fake, but nope, that's real. So that's cool. Um. Next,
(35:44):
we have number six ghost pants caught on film question Mark.
The Emperor may have no clothes, but this pair of
pants racing down the sidewalk presumably has no one inside
of them. I'm not gonna waste time on that because
I watched it and I don't I don't remember where
it was filmed. But that looks fake to me. I mean,
think about it. Really, a pair of pants just racing
(36:06):
down a sidewalk. I mean, it's fun to watch that stuff. Uh.
Number five, Erie Well from Hell in Yemen leaves officials
scratching their heads, says the peculiar pit rivals mills hole
with its bottomless depth. Now, if you're struggling with geography,
(36:30):
a little bit um this whole again, this is in Yemen.
So in the Middle East, there's a chunk of land
between Egypt and Iran, and that's where you have Iraq
and Syria. And at the bottom of that chunk of
land is Yemen. If that, if that's of interest to you,
and you will find out in the desert a big
(36:51):
hole that looks almost like a perfect circle. And what
they're saying is it's ninety eight eaten diameter, but its
depth is actually a mystery, says they have. Uh they've
dubbed this eerie chasm the well from Hell. Quote. We've
never reached the bottom of the well. And this is
(37:12):
from one of the geological experts there says as little
as there is little oxygen and no ventilation end quote.
They don't know how deep it is. They're thinking it
might be up to eight hundred feet deep. They say
that it's been in the desert for millions of millions
of years, and as one might imagine, some rather unsettling
legends have become attached to it over that time. Due
(37:35):
to an unpleasant odor emanating from the pit, it has
come to be regarded by people living in the area
as a prison for demons, especially the infamous jim you know,
the genies. There are also claims that those who venture
too close to the pit can wind up being pulled
into it, presumably never to be seen again. Remarkably, belief
(38:01):
in the ominous nature of the chasm is so significant
that many residents not only refused to go near it,
but some will not even talk about it. They're afraid
of unleashing the dark forces believed to live within the pit.
All right, what do you think, Well, I mean, it's
(38:22):
hard to access that, but it'd be interesting to drop
a camera. Can we fly a drone down there? Maybe? Uh,
when we come back. More of the list and also
I think I'm gonna try to squeeze in here a
conspiracy something that I created that I believe is being censored.
(38:43):
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of this edition of Strange Things on the I Heart
Radio and Coast to Coast. I am Paranormal Podcast Network.
I'm your host, Joshua pe Warren, and I recently was
sent a ghost photo from a woman. She took this
photo in Europe, and I said, WHOA, this is interesting.
(40:53):
I talked to her on the phone. I mean, she
has a background of photography, she had all the tech details.
She sounds very believable, and she had controls. And my
team is looking at it right now and we have
a few more tests to run, but this is looking
pretty interesting, interesting enough that I planned to be interviewing
her on this show soon and then debuting this photo
(41:17):
for you exclusively in telling you how to see this.
It's pretty wild, all right. Let's get back to the list.
Here at number four Colombian mayor that we're talking about Columbia,
South America. Colombian mayor shares video of ghost attacking security guard.
(41:38):
Was a sinister spirit on the prow in the city
of Armenia. Footage seemingly shows a man being violently thrown
by an unseen force. Uh, this is gonna surprise you.
I thought this is gonna be fake before I even
hit the button to watch the video. But I've watched
it several times, and I said, you know what, this
(42:00):
looks like. It could be real. You know I that
it would. It surprised me, but it could be real.
Go watch that one. Number four on the list again.
You'll find this list on my Twitter feed if you
scroll down there. Go to Twitter dot com and then
just search for Joshua P. Warrent. That's scary to think
(42:20):
you could be thrown around by something like that. You
really need to see that. Uh. Number three bigfoot filmed
crossing river in Michigan, question Mark. This very intriguing video
seems to show a bipedal creature hiding something in its arms.
Could it be a baby sasquatch? Uh So? Anyway, look
I watched this video. It's the typical thing where you
(42:43):
kind of see the brown figure kind of rushing through,
and um, I think it's probably somebody in a bigfoot
suit or I don't know, not necessarily a big foot,
somebody in a suit or a costume of some kind. Uh.
Number two weird shape shifting UFO filmed by bewildered airline passenger.
(43:06):
A puzzling anomaly from July really captured our reader's imagination
as the object morphs from a circular form to an
almost stick like shape. Yeah, this is pretty weird. It's
just like this white object of some kind. That's what
it looks like outside of an airplane window. That's just
shape shifting. And so look, I can't tell whether or
(43:27):
not this is fake. I really can't. But what I
can tell you is that if it's not fake, then
this is either an optical illusion or it's a shape
shifting being of light of some kind, something interdimensional. Seriously,
it's that weird in my opinion. And then number one
here they have an eerie quote alien figure filmed in India.
(43:51):
This viral footage from June grabs the number one spot.
A tall, glowing white figure with unusually long limbs wander
is down a road illuminated by headlights. Just who or
what was it? Well, it's very clear when I watched
the footage, it's very clear, but I think it's I
(44:12):
think it's faked. And to me it looks like a
skinny human and a costume, possibly with some computer enhancement
of some kind. So of the whole list, the two
that I definitely think you should go look at would
be the Flying Saucer filmed in Alaska. Even though that
I think, you know that that's just an optical illusion,
that's a mirage, but it's really cool and educational. But
(44:37):
then I think, you know, this number four of this
evil violent force throwing the security guard around, is it's
pretty it's pretty good. So that's what I would check
out on the list. And you might often wonder, as
I do you know, why are these paranormal things? And
these videos only glipsed? You know, because everybody takes a
(45:00):
like a five minute selfie on social media, and by
that I mean like literally they'll just videotape themselves for
like five but we only catch the alien or the
bigfoot or the ghosts sometimes sort of moving out of
the frame for a few seconds. And here's what I
want you to understand. There is real material out there.
(45:22):
There is real paranormal phenomena. It doesn't happen that often,
but it's real. But it's buried often under the bs
of the entertainment industry and people that take advantage of
of hoaxes, uh or take advantage with hoaxes, you know,
And you might say, well, why does somebody hoax? Well, hey,
did you ever toilet paper a house when you were young?
(45:42):
I mean, kids have computers and cameras. Now, they're not
toilet papering houses anymore. A lot of kids are They're
faking this kind of stuff. And of course there is
always the possibility, when you see something legit that these
may not naturally just to I mean, okay, what if this?
(46:02):
What if this is the case. These weird things may
naturally just exist for real, hovering around the outskirts of
our lives. And that's why we so often catch them
fleeting out of the frame in the matrix. That's where
they usually exist for us. They're always kind of around
(46:22):
on the peripheries. But I think to myself, if I
had not investigated all this stuff personally for thirty years,
I would think that a lot of this was just
a bunch of bs, you know, just based upon what
I see on the internet. But I'm glad that you
listen to me and you trust me and you realize
I'm here to help you sort through all that kind
(46:44):
of thing. And there is also this weird phenomenon were
often paranormal stuff does get censored, And I want to
mention this real quick. Last year I wrote this book
called Ghosts, UFOs and Legends of Death Valley the Ultimate Guy. Okay,
this is from Death Valley, California, And if you go
(47:05):
to Joshua Pee Warren dot com and click the link
to my Curiosity shop, you'll find this book. And the
back of the book says, you know what's hot, but
do you know how haunted it is? And it goes
on to talk about how look time warps, ancient mummies,
interdimensional spirits. I mean, all this stuff has been reported
around there, and it seems like a place which almost
(47:28):
be It might almost be like a portal, one of
those areas where reality sometimes warps. I wrote this book
last year, and I decided to publish it independently through
my own company so that I would have no issues
with editorialism or any of that stuff. And uh, it
(47:49):
turns out nobody has ever written a paranormal book before
like this about ghosts and UFOs of Death Valley. This
is the first one, and I wrote it to be
family friendly. Is very well illustrated by Mr Sam Sharon.
And I thought, this thing is going to sell a
gazillion copies and everybody's gonna love it. But then something
(48:11):
weird happened. I went to Death Valley and gave out
all these copies and talked to the companies that have
stores there, and none of them will approve it. Okay, Now, granted,
Death Valley is a national park, so there's more paperwork
involved than usual. But there are private companies there that
have store fronts and they can approve it, but they
(48:32):
want And then there are places there that have storefronts
that are associated very directly with the federal government and
they want to prove it. Either. Nobody will approve this
book in Death Valley. Now, this is a family friendly
book that has tells that anybody would love who is
(48:53):
going there and enjoying the mystery of Death Valley. And
I yes, I could tell you names of people and companies,
and I don't want to do that. I don't want
to stir up anything, but I do want you to
know that I believe there is a conspiracy of some
kind to not let people know about paranormal stuff happening
(49:15):
around Death Valley, California. And in fact, getting a lot
of these stories was like pulling teeth. And I'm very
protective of the witnesses and the people I've interviewed, but
I if you have any insight or influence on whether
or not any of these places in Death Valley, California
will actually carry this book that I wrote. I would
(49:37):
love to hear about it, and again, go to my
Curiosity shop click the link and you can actually hear
me read the book as an audio book, and you
can download it as an e book, or you can
get a printed copy, and right now it's even on
Amazon dot Com if you want to get a kindle
or you can order uh, you know, a kindle version,
or you can order a copy that way as well.
(49:59):
But there's something, there's something happening around Death Valley, California
where they will not talk about paranormal stuff, and I
want that to change. I hope that changes. Maybe one
of you listening will give me some more information about that,
So I'll keep you updated and I might tell you
even more about things that people and things that might
(50:21):
be blocking this. But anyway, we've covered a lot of
weird stuff in this show, haven't we. Now it's time
to kick back, relax, and let's make the next week
as great as it can be for all of us.
I'm gonna play for you the twenty second good Fortune tone.
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