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of Strange Things with Joshua P. Warren. Welcome to our podcast.
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Get ready to be amazed, weird. This is a strange thing.
Just Wren. I am Joshua pe Warren. At each week
on this show, I'll be bringing you brand new mind
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blowing content, news, exercises, and weird experiments you can do
at home, and a lot more on this edition of
the program. Strange Holiday Tales. My favorite ghost story, if
you will, is also my favorite Christmas story. It's the
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one you probably see or hear about every year. It's
called a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Published in eighteen three.
The Miserly Old Ebeneezer Scrooge is visited on Christmas Eve
by the miserable ghost of his old business partner, followed
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by three spirits, and they each teach him life changing
lessons before he dies and it's too late to save
his own soul. It is a powerful story and I
definitely personally believe in the lessons, and around this time
each year, I like to remind people that the character
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Ebenezer Scrooge was based on a real man. His name
was John Ellis. John Elwis was born in Southwark, England,
on April the seven of seventeen fourteen, and he died
on November twenty six, seventeen eighty nine, at the age
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of seventy five. His father was a successful brewer and
his father's father was a member of Parliament. His mother
was the daughter of a wealthy English baronet, Sergeivaise, and
his mother's mother, Lady Isabella, happened to be a famous
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miser herself. So as a young man he received a
good education in the classics at the Westminster School, and
that he traveled some in Europe to study horsemanship. Uh
in Geneva, Switzerland. He was even introduced to Voltaire, the
famous French writer. Now John Elwis had already inherited his
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first fortune at the age of four. When his father died,
his mother was left the equivalent of nearly ten million
dollars in today's money, but they say she starved herself
to death because she was too cheap to spend it,
and so when she died, he inherited the vast family estate,
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spanning numerous properties. But and even bigger inheritance came when
his uncle died, Sir Hervey now Sir Hervey prided himself
on only spending a little more than a hundred and
ten pounds on himself per year, so John Ellis and
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his uncle would often spend the evening by a cheap
candle railing against other people's extravagances while they shared shared
a single glass of wine. And when his uncle died
in seventeen sixty three, the forty nine year old John
Ellis inherited about twenty million dollars in today's money. But
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that fortune would just continue to grow over the years
due to his various businesses. In fact, when let's see
in seventeen seventy two, when he was fifty eight years old,
with the help of a friend named Lord Craven, John
Ellis became a member of Parliament himself for practically no
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election expenditure. They say that l was sat with either
party according to his whim, and he never once rose
to address the House of Commons. Never. Fellow members mockingly
observed that since he possessed only one suit, they could
never accuse him of being a turn coat. Being a
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member of Parliament did, however, cause Els to frequently travel
to Westminster, and he made this journey on a poor,
old lean horse, the route chosen always being the one
whereby he could avoid turnpike tolls. Now he was known
to put a hard boiled egg in his pocket, and
midway on his journey he would sit under some hedge
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and eat his egg or sleep. And after twelve years
of this he retired rather than face the prospect of
laying out any money to retain his seat. Throughout his adulthood,
he was truly one of England's most famous miser's. He
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went to bed when darkness fell, so as to save
on candles, he began wearing only ragged clothes, was including
a beggar's cast off wig he found in a hedge,
and he wore that for two weeks. His clothes were
so dilapidated that many mistook him for a common street beggar,
and they put a penny into his hand as they passed.
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To avoid paying for a coach, he would walk in
the rain and then sit in wet clothes to save
the cost of a fire to drive them. His house
was was full of expensive furniture, but also molding food
and listen to this. He would eat putrified game before
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allowing new food to be bought. On one occasion, it
was said that he ate a more hen. Now that's
a bird that floats on the water like a duck.
He ate a more hen that a rat had pulled
from a river. Rather than spend money for repairs, he
allowed his spacious country mansion to become uninhabitable. A near
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relative once stayed at his home in the country read
but the bedroom was in such poor state that the
relative was awakened in the night by rain pouring on
him from the roof. The relative was forced to move
his bed several times until he found a place where
he could remain dry, and on remarking about what happened
to Elis in the morning, John Ellis said, I don't
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mind it myself. That's a nice quarter in the rain.
His biographer, a man named Edward Topham, knew him very well,
and he said, according to one historian, John even quote
complained bitterly of the birds robbing him of so much
hay with which to build their nests end quote. He
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also goes on to say even el Was his health
was limited by expense. In common with many misers, he
distrusted physicians, preferring to treat himself in order to save
paying for one. He once badly cut both legs while
walk home in the dark, but would only allow the
apothecary to treat one. Placing a bet with a doctor,
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wagering the doctor's fee that the untreated limb would hill first.
Well guess what Elis won, and the doctor had to
forfeit his feet. L was also a boar wound from
a hunting accident. Legend has it that one day he
was out shooting with a gentleman who was a particularly
bad shot. This same man accidentally fired through a hedge,
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lodging several shots in the miser's cheek. With great embarrassment
and concern. The gentleman approached Elis to apologize, but Elis,
anticipating the apology, held out his hand and said, my
dear sir, I congratulate you on improving. I thought you
would hit something in some time. When his parliamentary career
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was over, Els devoted his full energies to being a
miser as he moved about among his any properties, so
as his neglected estates, or at these neglected estates, because
you know, he continued to forbid repairs, and he joined
his tenants and post harvest gleaning, and sat with his
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servants in the kitchen to save the cost of a
fire elsewhere. Even on the coldest day of winter, he
was known to sit fireless at his mills, saying that
exercising through eating was exercise enough to keep him warm.
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If a stable boy put out hey for a visitors horse,
l Was would sneak out and remove it. And in
his last year's he had no real fixed abode, and
he frequently shifted his residence between unrented London properties in
the neighborhood of marl Bone, seeking out the ones which
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were temporarily unoccupied. Hide A couple of beds, a couple
of chairs, a table, and an old woman as he
called her, that's a housekeeper were said to be all
of his furnishings, and this same housekeeper was known to
frequently catch colds because there were never any fires and
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often no glass in the windows. Now this practice nearly
cost Elwis his life when he felt desperately ill in
one of those houses and no one could find him.
Only by chance was he rescued. His nephew, Colonel Tim's
wanted to see him, and he was asking around and
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trying to find him. He was inquiring in vain at
Ellis's banker at other places, and a boy selling pots
on the street said, oh, yeah, he saw an old
beggar go into a stable at one of Ellis's uninhabited houses.
So Tim's knocked on the door, but when no un answered,
he sent for a blacksmith and had the lock forced
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open on the door. And according to the author Edward Walford,
when they entered the place, they found something really terrible
and shocking. Do you think this story is gonna have
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a good ending? I'll tell you the rest of it
when we come back from this break, The story of
the real Ebenezer Scrooge, John Elwis. And I want to
remind you before we hit this break that I have
some very special projects coming up, some experiments that you
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can participate in. I have got some new products that
I'm going to be presenting soon, but I won't be
sharing that stuff through the podcast. I have very limited
time on the podcast. If you want to stay updated,
there's only one way to do it. You've got to
go to my website, Joshua pe Warren dot com. There's
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You put your email addressing there and you had to submit.
Takes you two seconds and boom, you will instantly receive
an automated email from me that's got some links to
some really cool free stuff that will help you bring
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in more money, will help you see things on the
other side. I'm telling you it can change your life,
and then you will stay informed about the cool projects
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is golden and every night is silver, And I'm telling
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you the story of the real Ebenezer Scrooge, John Ellis.
And of course here is the situation in which his nephew,
Colonel Tims, is trying to find John Ellis and nobody
can figure out where he is, and a boy selling
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pots as I saw some old beggar going to this
stable over here at this uninhabited house, and that was
one of Ellis's houses. So anyway, so Colonel Tim's the
nephew there, he got a black smith. They they broke
in there, and it says in the lower part of
the house all was shut and silent, but on ascending
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the stairs they heard the moans of a person seemingly
in distress. They went to the chamber and there was
an old palate bed where they found Mr Ellwis, apparently
in the agonies of death. For some time he seemed
quite insensible. He remained in this condition until some quote
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cordials could be administered by a neighboring apothecary, and after
he had sufficiently recovered, Elwas stated he believed he had
been ill for two or three days, and that there
was an old woman in the house, a maid, but
for some reason or other, that she had not been
near him, and that she had been ill herself, so
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he supposed she must have recovered and gone away. Upon
searching the premises, however, Tim's and the apothecary found the
woman stretched lifeless on the floor, having apparently been dead
in there for days. So oh, what a scene, right,
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The old man is lying there and this old drafty, creaky, wet,
damp house sick doesn't even know there's a dead woman
flying there nearby. For days anyway, Towards the end of
his life, Elvis grew feverish and restless, hoarding small quantities
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of money in different places, continually visiting all the places
of deposit to see that they were safe. He began
suffering from delusions, fearing he would die somehow in poverty.
In the night, he was heard struggling with imaginary robbers,
crying I will keep my money. I will don't robbed me.
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And when someone would ask him who was there, Elis
would say, oh, sir, I beg your pardon. My name
is Elis. I have been unfortunate enough to be robbed
in this house, which I believe is mine of all
the money I have in the world, of five guineas
and a half and a crown. The family doctor was
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sent for, and, looking at the dying miser, he was
hurt to remark quote that man, with his original strength
of constitution and lifelong habits of temperance might have lived
twenty years longer, but for his continual anxiety about money
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in quote. So upon his death, there says even his barrister,
who drew up his will, was forced to undertake his
writings in the firelight by the dying man's bedside in
order to save the cost of a candle. The famed
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miser was also known to sleep in the same warren
garments he wore during the day. He was discovered one
morning between the sheets, with his tattered shoes on his feet,
and an old torn hat on his head and a
stick in his hand. And it was in that condition
that he died on the twenty six November of seventy nine.
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His burial took place in an area called stoked by Clear,
and after having lived on only only fifty pounds a year,
he left behind five hundred thousand pounds, which in today's
money is about one hundred million dollars. Can you believe
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that that this guy lived that life when he had
a hundred million dollars at his disposal? And uh he
So he left that hundred million dollars to his two
sons who were born out of wedlock, George and John,
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and he loved both of them, but he would not
educate them. Believing that quote Putting things into people's heads
is the sure way to take money out of their
pockets end quote. And uh, he also left some money
to his nephew. His friend and biographer Mr. Toppham said, quote,
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his public character lives after him pure and without staying
in private life. He was chiefly an enemy to himself,
to others. He lent much to himself. He denied everything,
but in the pursuit of his property or in the
recovery of it, I have not in my remembrance one
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unkind thing that was ever done by him. End quote.
And on a side note, just in case you've been wondering,
the famous actor Carrie Ellis who played the lead and
the Princess Bride Fantastic movie, He's actually a descendant of
John Ellis. So you see, even though John Ellis was
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apparently not as mean as Scrooge, he obviously was a
great framework for a character who is obsessed with the
superficial material world, and in one way or another he
suffered in the end just as Scrooge would have if
not for the intervention of the Three Spirits on Christmas Eve.
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And it is easy easy to look at people like
John Ellis and roll our eyes and looked down on him.
But just remember what Jacob Marley said. He was the
tortured ghost of Scrooge's greedy old business partner, you know,
dragging those heavy chains and money boxes. And he says
in the story, I wear the chain I forged in life.
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I made it link by link and yard by yard
of my own free will, and of my own free
will I wore it. Would you know, the ghost as Scrooge,
the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself.
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It was as full and heavy and long as this
seven Christmas eves ago. You have labored on it since
it is a ponderous chain. So now I must ask
each of you, my dear listeners, to pause for a
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moment and imagine your own invisible chain that you have
fashioned link by link throughout your life. We all have one,
But it may never be too late to cut that
chain down a lot. To be a better, kinder, more understanding,
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and humble person. To be grateful for all the good
things in your life, and never take them for granted,
because if you're not careful, and you give into the
negative judgmental forces and opinions all around you, that chain
may drag you further and further down, all the way
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to hell. So this is a good time for you
to pause, think about that, cut that chain, raise your vibration, smile,
tell everyone you love them, mean it, Do something good
for someone, and the spirits of the holiday season and
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Christmas and all that will only bring you wonderful rewards
to be revealed in the coming. Here time to set
the tone. Isn't that a great true story? A great
thing to think about? You know? It seems all of
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the lessons of the holidays are told through weird stories.
Have you ever thought really about that. We have elves,
flying reindeer, a man who slides down your chimney with gifts,
and he loves to eat your milk and cookies. By
the way. We have the Old Crumpus, who is the
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opposite of Santa, and he's a great horned demon that
will come to your house if the kids are bad
and drag them away and eat them. We have kissing
under the mistletoe, chopping down a tree and bringing it
into the house, which is really based on the pagan
worship of nature, But of course the dominant theme is
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that one night long ago, a Ufo, the star of
Bethlehem appeared over a small town where a divine baby
was born, a version of God on earth who would
have magical and miraculous powers, and angels drift around the
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whole time. I mean, it's almost too much when you
start digging into this idea of strange holiday stories, it's
almost too much. Where do I begin. Well, I don't
know how much I can get to in one podcast. Um,
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I'll probably have to talk more in an upcoming podcast
about some of these things that I find so intriguing,
but I figure in this one, in this particular show,
I want to give you at least one truly personal,
bizarre paranormal story that I have related to Christmas and
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Santa Claus. And also it ties into one of my
favorite subjects topas. Yeah, it's whenever people ask me about
whether or not Santa's real and I tell them about
this experiment that I did. They think it's gonna be
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a really fun story, but it ends up kind of
creeping everybody out. I'll tell you what the story is
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on the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast a
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Pete Warren, and this is the show where the unusual
becomes usual. Years ago, I sent out one of my
free e newsletters, which goes out to thousands of people
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all around the world, and I said, I want to
ask all of you a question, and I'm serious, this
is not a joke. Do any of you believe you
actually have seen Santa Claus? And I had no idea
what reaction I would get. And I was quite amazed
when I got a flood of emails from adults who said,
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as an adult, I saw Santa Claus, not as a kid.
I mean there were some of those as well, but
people saying as an adult. And they told me about
seeing the Santa in the sleigh with the a near
flying across the sky, and they talked about, uh, seeing
him in the living room now, you know, and some
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people are getting scared to death thinking somebody broken into
their houses. I mean, like, the stories went on and on,
and I thought this must be a great example of
some kind of autopa. And you know autopa is you've
heard me talk about this before. Autopa is a thought form. Basically,
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it is an image of some kind that either one
person focuses on intensely over a long period of time,
or a bunch of people focus on intensely for maybe
even a shorter period of time, and they the focus
is so intense that somehow it becomes a projection that
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is objectified, externalized, almost like some kind of a movie
in the environment, and many strange and paranormal things maybe
the product of this. It's it's an impression almost like
hacking into reality and creating your own cartoon or something
like that, an externalized thought form. And sometimes they can
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seem conscious and interactive, and sometimes they don't, and and
and so like, Okay, let's say, for example, Superman. I
think most people in the world know what Superman is
supposed to look like, and what he sounds like, and
how he behaves. And if I said, draw a picture
of Superman, anybody could draw a picture of Superman. So
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Superman is a kind of topa. Uh, but he's not
a very strong one, because we all know Superman is
not real. You know, We've always been told like Superman
is fictional, so it never crosses your mind there's really
a Superman out there. But Santa Claus is different because
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we all have these these firm images of what Santa
is more or less supposed to look like, and who
he is, and how he behaves in his personality, in
his background. We all but but we're also in many
cases told for a large part of our lives that, oh, yeah,
he's real, this guy is real, and here all this
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stuff is real. And many of us believe that for
some time, and it's reinforced that he is real when
you are a kid, and you see he has left
these physical gifts in your house, and he has eaten
the cookies and drank the milk. Okay, so Santa maybe
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the strongest tulpa you can ever imagine. And I figured,
you know what, if people are seeing Santa and he's
this powerful of a tulpa, I'm going to see if
I can create a Santa Claus topa. And so I
did an experiment. I did this in Lauren, my wife.
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Uh Lauren is from Texas, That's where all her family
are located. And back in Lauren and I were staying
for an extended period of time. I guess it was
over a month or something like that, out in rural
Texas outside of San Antonio, on this big ranch that
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was owned by her mother, Linda. So that's my mother
in law and in Linda's husband Dale. Okay, So these
are the characters, the main characters in this story, Me
and law Lauren and myself. We're staying on this ranch
in Texas with Linda and Dell, my mother in law
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and father in law. Okay. So now this is a big,
big Texas ranch with lots of acreage and livestock and
a pond and an old cemetery, I mean the works.
This is everybody always said this place was haunted to
big in with because artifacts have been found there. I
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think they said Santa Ana went through there. They found
old swords and muskets, and so there there has always
been kind of a tradition like some spooky things happened,
and I think it's easier to create tulpa's at places
that are already prone to that kind of activity. So, um,
all right, So on this property, which was I don't know,
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I think it was hundreds of acres right uh Dale
who was self employed, he had this uh trailer that
was set up as an office building about a quarter
of a mile from their main house. And this is
a pretty desolate quarter mile, the kind of thing where
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like if you want to go to the office, you
get in the pickup truck and you drive down the
dirt road past the pond, and then you know when
you're when you're out there in this trailer which is
the office, you're kind of in the middle of nowhere
and they're just surrounded by woods and at night it's
real dark and spooky out there. And so while we
were staying there, um, I, of course was still working
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and I was doing a lot of radio stuff where
I needed a quiet environment. And their main ranch house
was not a quiet environment at all, um because for
one thing, they had a bunch of dogs, and you know,
the dogs are always carrying on, and then they were
very They're very social, so people were always coming and going,
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and I I said, look, I there are times where
I just need to go out here. And they gave
me that office a quarter mile away in the woods
for me to just go out, and there was a
bed in a kitchen, and I sometimes i'd just stay
there for a few days, like you know, that's where
I would kind of live because I'd be doing these
radio shows in the middle of the night, at all
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hours of the day, so it was not uncommon for
me to be in that isolated situation. So I decided,
you know what, this might be a good time. This
is around the holidays, so it might be a time
for me to try to create a Santa Claus Tulpa.
Lauren and I we were at the San Antonio Mall.
We walked into the store and they had this very
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elaborate ten inch Santa Claus doll on a stand and
I thought that would be the perfect focal point for
me to try to create my Santa Claus tulpa. So
we bought it. And then whenever I was out in
that building by myself, very quiet again, very very eerie,
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spooky out there, and I would have that Santa Claus
doll sitting there, and every time I would notice it,
I would sit there for a second and I think
about Santa being real, come to me, Santa manifest, Santa Welcome, Santa.
I would imagine Santa Claus being there. Sometimes I would
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use my Tibetan emos and i'd put them over my
eyes to meditate and bring me into a more psychic state.
If you don't know what Tibetan emos are, go to
my curiosity shop at Joshua P. Warren dot com and
you'll see these little things you can put over your
eyes that bring you into a more psychic meditation state.
And I hope that maybe one day I wouldn't only
see this topa, but also I might be able to
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photograph it. Right. So anyway, I did this for a
long time, probably well over a week, maybe a couple
of weeks, I can't remember exactly. And finally I had
a day or two off without any kind of radio work.
So Lauren and I we decided to drive to Austin,
which is about an hour and ten minutes away. There's
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a lot of cool stuff there. They have the Museum
of the Weird. The guy who runs that place, he's
really cool. He's a friend of mine. And there are
some cool oddity shops and some old saloons and like me,
a lot of cool stuff like that. So we we
spend our time in Austin, and then we got back
pretty late that night to the ranch outside of San Antonio.
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And like again, this is a very rural area, and um,
it was probably close to midnight. So when we got
into the main ranch house, everybody was asleep except for
Lauren's mom Linda. So Dale was already asleep in like
his the main bedroom. He's one of those guys, you know,
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he would wear a cowboy hat and get up early
in the morning and go out and wrangle things out
and so uh so Lauren and I were standing there
in the kitchen kind of creating a little late night
snack or meal for ourselves, and Lauren's mom comes in
there and we're all we're just chatting in the kitchen.
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And again, this is almost at midnight, and then all
of a sudden, the phone rings and Lauren's mom, Linda goes,
that's weird. I wonder who would be calling this late.
But the phone was answered. She assumed, well, you know,
Dale was an entrepreneur, so you never knew what he
had going on. So anyway, the the phone rang, and
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so then like a couple of minutes later, Dale has
he's woken up, and he has come out of the
bedroom and he walks into the kitchen and he said,
what just happened? What's going on? And we said, what
are you talking about? He said, I just got a
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call from nine one one. He said that they got
a call from the trailer on the back of the property.
Now does this Now this might want you this, This
might give you goose bumps a little bit, because think
about this. There are four people on this property, on
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this big gas property. Okay, there is myself, Lauren Lawrence,
I'm Linda and her husband Deal and we're all standing
in the kitchen and yet someone has placed a nine
one one call from this building where I'm doing all
this topa manifestation work out on the back of the property,
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so I decided to drive out there by myself to
see what was going on. When we come back from
this break, I'll tell you the rest of the story.
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Dell found out that Laren was fine and Linda was fine,
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and I was fine. He said, all right, just went
back to bed. We could have just left it at death.
But I thought to myself, well, how could I say
I'm worth my weighting salt as a paranormal investigator if
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I don't get in a pickup truck out there tonight,
you know. Now it's after midnight, you know, and drive
out to this old, dark building and see what's happening,
because the most likely explanation is not that Santa Claus
has manifested. The most likely explanation is that someone has
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broken into that building and that perhaps, uh, something bad
is happening in this building. But I had to find out.
So the ladies were like, oh, you're crazy. I got
into the truck and trust me, this is Texas, and
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there were a lot of guns at my disposal, but
I was unarmed. And so I go driving on this cold,
dark night across you slowly across this dirt road, and
you know, the headlights hit the trailer there. It's all dark.
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I get out of the truck. I stand there for
a minute. I will sort of listen. I don't hear
anything weird. So I crept over and I walked up
though creaky wooden steps, and the door was locked, so
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I unlocked it and I walked in there with a flashlight.
The first thing my flashlight hit was the little Santa
Claus doll there, and I went all around with a
flashlight and I did not see anything that was out
of place. And so then I walked up to that
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Santa Claus doll and I shined that flashlight right on him,
and I said, you called nine one one, didn't you?
You want attention, So now is your chance show yourself, Santa,
(43:58):
show yourself. You are commended. But it was a perfectly quiet,
peaceful night. Santa never appeared, and I never got that
photo was hoping for. But you know what afterward that
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building was and continues to be the site of weird phenomena.
The lights turn on and off by themselves, voices are heard.
I think I made some progress just doing my own
little work, my own little project. They're trying to conjure
up Santa Claus. And even though I may not have
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fully materialized Santa Claus there, I want all of you
to join in on a little experiment, all right. I
want all of you to recreate some version of the
experiment that I did at your own home. Make it
a family event. You know, you all continue all season long.
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Get a picture of Santa, get a doll of Santa,
get a rendition of Santa. Sit around, focus on Santa
and see if you can make Santa manifest and let
me know what happens. Just go to Joshua Pee Warren
dot com to email me. You'll find my email address
on the homepage. Are you gonna have any luck conjuring
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up Santa Claus? You know I mentioned that Santa likes
to eat milk and cookies. It's really weird. I lived
in Puerto Rico, of course for years, and Puerto Rico
has one of the longest celebration seasons of any um
of any place in the world. When it comes to
Christmas time. I mean they celebrate Christmas way after January one.
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I mean like they have what they call Three Kings Day,
where guys dress up like the Three Wise Men and
they ride around town on camels if they if they
got them and um. The night before, instead of leaving
milk and cookies, kids leave hay under their bed to
feed the camels. That's what they do, and then in
(46:13):
the morning the hay has been eaten and they have
presents under their bed. Uh yeah. I In our next show,
I'm going to share just more weird you know, holiday
stuff like that with you, because we are almost out
of time. In fact, I want to go ahead and
see if I can squeeze uh squeeze an email in here.
(46:36):
At least I haven't. I don't think I got thread
an email last time. Just so much to talk about,
all right? How about this one? Um? This came from
a man in California named Phil. He says, Mr warrens
something interesting happened to me back in the early nineteen sixties. Now,
I will go ahead and give your heads up. If
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you are a fisherman, you might really want to pay
it to men in to this, Okay, says I had
flattened two copper pennies until they were almost as thin
as writing paper, and then I used my BB gun
to shoot holes in the middle of each of them.
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I put a lot of effort into putting the holes
in them. My dad took me fishing with him on
the Sacramento River, just southwest of Sacramento, California. I took
out of my pocket one of the two flattened pennies
and threw it as hard as I could into the
river next to the dock. We got into the boat
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and went fishing on the river. I was the only
one who caught a fish. It was huge, almost a
two foot long fish. And after that my dad never
took me fishing again. How did I know that giving
a coin with a round hole in it would trade
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for a big fish? Somehow I just knew that doing
this would work. I never did it again, but I
do remember the prayer that General Pattent had the minister right,
and the negotiation for good weather from Finding Your Magic.
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Perhaps for me it was for the fish. That's an
interesting story, isn't it. And of course he's referring to
my Finding Your Magic e book there. I've never heard
that before that if you have a coin that you
flatten out and put a hole in the center and
toss it in the water, it'll be good lucky you
can catch a fish. So if you have the ability
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to try that out, let me know. You know. It's
it's funny because people they contact me sometimes and everybody
sort of assumes that I'm going to know every lucky
thing to do in the world. And uh, some people
contact me and they say. I've heard that if you
take two walnuts and a stick and put them in
your pocket, that that will attract money and and good
(49:09):
good fortune. And I've heard this over and over, but
I don't know anything about that. I don't know where
it comes from. And then, uh, then a guy emailed
me the other day and he said that, uh he
found the some buckeyes and that, uh the carrying a
buckeye with you is also supposed to be lucky. And
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that goes back to some of the traditions. Of course,
you to the Buckeye state is Ohio, but chestnuts look
a lot like buck eyes, and so people would often
take a chestnut or a buckeye and sort of carry
it around with him. And uh So, I don't know.
It's there are certain things that people fixate on that
bring them good fortune. And I think that that might
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be a cool thing for me to also talk about
as we get closer to the new year this year,
because you know how people they eat black eyed peas
and they say that that's good luck. I mean, maybe
I'll dig a little bit into some lucky things because
we all want to have a good, lucky new year
ahead of us and even if the world is not
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always the best place, if you can make your own
life good, and your own circle of friends and family good,
in your own community good, well that's pretty darn good,
isn't it. That is why, as usual, I'm going to
end the show for you. I don't always do this,
but I'm going to play the good fortune tone for you.
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And when you hear this, I want you to realize
this is not something that you can just only listen
to and close your eyes and take a deep breath
and and and enjoy. But a lot of people, I
keep telling you this now, they take a beverage, especially,
I mean, just plain old water is probably the best thing,
but who knows good to experiment, and they put it
(50:57):
right in front of the speaker and they let this
beverage absorb the frequency of the good fortune tonue. And
then after that they drink the beverage. It doesn't have
to be immediately, and they drink the beverage at some
point and they say that it replenishes them and brings
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that energy and it just it makes it even more powerful.
You can feel it going into every cell of your body.
So if you've never done that before, maybe this is
the time you give it a try, so more interesting
stories for you next time. But for now, here is
the good Fortune. Tom. That's it for this edition of
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at home, and a lot more on this edition of
the program. Strange Holiday Tales. My favorite ghost story, if
you will, is also my favorite Christmas story. It's the
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one you probably see or hear about every year. It's
called a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Published in eighteen three.
The Miserly Old Ebeneezer Scrooge is visited on Christmas Eve
by the miserable ghost of his old business partner, followed
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by three spirits, and they each teach him life changing
lessons before he dies and it's too late to save
his own soul. It is a powerful story and I
definitely personally believe in the lessons, and around this time
each year, I like to remind people that the character
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Ebenezer Scrooge was based on a real man. His name
was John Ellis. John Elwis was born in Southwark, England,
on April the seven of seventeen fourteen, and he died
on November twenty six, seventeen eighty nine, at the age
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of seventy five. His father was a successful brewer and
his father's father was a member of Parliament. His mother
was the daughter of a wealthy English baronet, Sergeivaise, and
his mother's mother, Lady Isabella, happened to be a famous
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miser herself. So as a young man he received a
good education in the classics at the Westminster School, and
that he traveled some in Europe to study horsemanship. Uh
in Geneva, Switzerland. He was even introduced to Voltaire, the
famous French writer. Now John Elwis had already inherited his
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first fortune at the age of four. When his father died,
his mother was left the equivalent of nearly ten million
dollars in today's money, but they say she starved herself
to death because she was too cheap to spend it,
and so when she died, he inherited the vast family estate,
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spanning numerous properties. But and even bigger inheritance came when
his uncle died, Sir Hervey now Sir Hervey prided himself
on only spending a little more than a hundred and
ten pounds on himself per year, so John Ellis and
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his uncle would often spend the evening by a cheap
candle railing against other people's extravagances while they shared shared
a single glass of wine. And when his uncle died
in seventeen sixty three, the forty nine year old John
Ellis inherited about twenty million dollars in today's money. But
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that fortune would just continue to grow over the years
due to his various businesses. In fact, when let's see
in seventeen seventy two, when he was fifty eight years old,
with the help of a friend named Lord Craven, John
Ellis became a member of Parliament himself for practically no
(04:48):
election expenditure. They say that l was sat with either
party according to his whim, and he never once rose
to address the House of Commons. Never. Fellow members mockingly
observed that since he possessed only one suit, they could
never accuse him of being a turn coat. Being a
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member of Parliament did, however, cause Els to frequently travel
to Westminster, and he made this journey on a poor,
old lean horse, the route chosen always being the one
whereby he could avoid turnpike tolls. Now he was known
to put a hard boiled egg in his pocket, and
midway on his journey he would sit under some hedge
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and eat his egg or sleep. And after twelve years
of this he retired rather than face the prospect of
laying out any money to retain his seat. Throughout his adulthood,
he was truly one of England's most famous miser's. He
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went to bed when darkness fell, so as to save
on candles, he began wearing only ragged clothes, was including
a beggar's cast off wig he found in a hedge,
and he wore that for two weeks. His clothes were
so dilapidated that many mistook him for a common street beggar,
and they put a penny into his hand as they passed.
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To avoid paying for a coach, he would walk in
the rain and then sit in wet clothes to save
the cost of a fire to drive them. His house
was was full of expensive furniture, but also molding food
and listen to this. He would eat putrified game before
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allowing new food to be bought. On one occasion, it
was said that he ate a more hen. Now that's
a bird that floats on the water like a duck.
He ate a more hen that a rat had pulled
from a river. Rather than spend money for repairs, he
allowed his spacious country mansion to become uninhabitable. A near
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relative once stayed at his home in the country read
but the bedroom was in such poor state that the
relative was awakened in the night by rain pouring on
him from the roof. The relative was forced to move
his bed several times until he found a place where
he could remain dry, and on remarking about what happened
to Elis in the morning, John Ellis said, I don't
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mind it myself. That's a nice quarter in the rain.
His biographer, a man named Edward Topham, knew him very well,
and he said, according to one historian, John even quote
complained bitterly of the birds robbing him of so much
hay with which to build their nests end quote. He
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also goes on to say even el Was his health
was limited by expense. In common with many misers, he
distrusted physicians, preferring to treat himself in order to save
paying for one. He once badly cut both legs while
walk home in the dark, but would only allow the
apothecary to treat one. Placing a bet with a doctor,
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wagering the doctor's fee that the untreated limb would hill first.
Well guess what Elis won, and the doctor had to
forfeit his feet. L was also a boar wound from
a hunting accident. Legend has it that one day he
was out shooting with a gentleman who was a particularly
bad shot. This same man accidentally fired through a hedge,
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lodging several shots in the miser's cheek. With great embarrassment
and concern. The gentleman approached Elis to apologize, but Elis,
anticipating the apology, held out his hand and said, my
dear sir, I congratulate you on improving. I thought you
would hit something in some time. When his parliamentary career
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was over, Els devoted his full energies to being a
miser as he moved about among his any properties, so
as his neglected estates, or at these neglected estates, because
you know, he continued to forbid repairs, and he joined
his tenants and post harvest gleaning, and sat with his
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servants in the kitchen to save the cost of a
fire elsewhere. Even on the coldest day of winter, he
was known to sit fireless at his mills, saying that
exercising through eating was exercise enough to keep him warm.
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If a stable boy put out hey for a visitors horse,
l Was would sneak out and remove it. And in
his last year's he had no real fixed abode, and
he frequently shifted his residence between unrented London properties in
the neighborhood of marl Bone, seeking out the ones which
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were temporarily unoccupied. Hide A couple of beds, a couple
of chairs, a table, and an old woman as he
called her, that's a housekeeper were said to be all
of his furnishings, and this same housekeeper was known to
frequently catch colds because there were never any fires and
(10:18):
often no glass in the windows. Now this practice nearly
cost Elwis his life when he felt desperately ill in
one of those houses and no one could find him.
Only by chance was he rescued. His nephew, Colonel Tim's
wanted to see him, and he was asking around and
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trying to find him. He was inquiring in vain at
Ellis's banker at other places, and a boy selling pots
on the street said, oh, yeah, he saw an old
beggar go into a stable at one of Ellis's uninhabited houses.
So Tim's knocked on the door, but when no un answered,
he sent for a blacksmith and had the lock forced
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open on the door. And according to the author Edward Walford,
when they entered the place, they found something really terrible
and shocking. Do you think this story is gonna have
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a good ending? I'll tell you the rest of it
when we come back from this break, The story of
the real Ebenezer Scrooge, John Elwis. And I want to
remind you before we hit this break that I have
some very special projects coming up, some experiments that you
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you the story of the real Ebenezer Scrooge, John Ellis.
And of course here is the situation in which his nephew,
Colonel Tims, is trying to find John Ellis and nobody
can figure out where he is, and a boy selling
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pots as I saw some old beggar going to this
stable over here at this uninhabited house, and that was
one of Ellis's houses. So anyway, so Colonel Tim's the
nephew there, he got a black smith. They they broke
in there, and it says in the lower part of
the house all was shut and silent, but on ascending
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the stairs they heard the moans of a person seemingly
in distress. They went to the chamber and there was
an old palate bed where they found Mr Ellwis, apparently
in the agonies of death. For some time he seemed
quite insensible. He remained in this condition until some quote
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cordials could be administered by a neighboring apothecary, and after
he had sufficiently recovered, Elwas stated he believed he had
been ill for two or three days, and that there
was an old woman in the house, a maid, but
for some reason or other, that she had not been
near him, and that she had been ill herself, so
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he supposed she must have recovered and gone away. Upon
searching the premises, however, Tim's and the apothecary found the
woman stretched lifeless on the floor, having apparently been dead
in there for days. So oh, what a scene, right,
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The old man is lying there and this old drafty, creaky, wet,
damp house sick doesn't even know there's a dead woman
flying there nearby. For days anyway, Towards the end of
his life, Elvis grew feverish and restless, hoarding small quantities
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of money in different places, continually visiting all the places
of deposit to see that they were safe. He began
suffering from delusions, fearing he would die somehow in poverty.
In the night, he was heard struggling with imaginary robbers,
crying I will keep my money. I will don't robbed me.
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And when someone would ask him who was there, Elis
would say, oh, sir, I beg your pardon. My name
is Elis. I have been unfortunate enough to be robbed
in this house, which I believe is mine of all
the money I have in the world, of five guineas
and a half and a crown. The family doctor was
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sent for, and, looking at the dying miser, he was
hurt to remark quote that man, with his original strength
of constitution and lifelong habits of temperance might have lived
twenty years longer, but for his continual anxiety about money
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in quote. So upon his death, there says even his barrister,
who drew up his will, was forced to undertake his
writings in the firelight by the dying man's bedside in
order to save the cost of a candle. The famed
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miser was also known to sleep in the same warren
garments he wore during the day. He was discovered one
morning between the sheets, with his tattered shoes on his feet,
and an old torn hat on his head and a
stick in his hand. And it was in that condition
that he died on the twenty six November of seventy nine.
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His burial took place in an area called stoked by Clear,
and after having lived on only only fifty pounds a year,
he left behind five hundred thousand pounds, which in today's
money is about one hundred million dollars. Can you believe
(18:47):
that that this guy lived that life when he had
a hundred million dollars at his disposal? And uh he
So he left that hundred million dollars to his two
sons who were born out of wedlock, George and John,
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and he loved both of them, but he would not
educate them. Believing that quote Putting things into people's heads
is the sure way to take money out of their
pockets end quote. And uh, he also left some money
to his nephew. His friend and biographer Mr. Toppham said, quote,
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his public character lives after him pure and without staying
in private life. He was chiefly an enemy to himself,
to others. He lent much to himself. He denied everything,
but in the pursuit of his property or in the
recovery of it, I have not in my remembrance one
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unkind thing that was ever done by him. End quote.
And on a side note, just in case you've been wondering,
the famous actor Carrie Ellis who played the lead and
the Princess Bride Fantastic movie, He's actually a descendant of
John Ellis. So you see, even though John Ellis was
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apparently not as mean as Scrooge, he obviously was a
great framework for a character who is obsessed with the
superficial material world, and in one way or another he
suffered in the end just as Scrooge would have if
not for the intervention of the Three Spirits on Christmas Eve.
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And it is easy easy to look at people like
John Ellis and roll our eyes and looked down on him.
But just remember what Jacob Marley said. He was the
tortured ghost of Scrooge's greedy old business partner, you know,
dragging those heavy chains and money boxes. And he says
in the story, I wear the chain I forged in life.
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I made it link by link and yard by yard
of my own free will, and of my own free
will I wore it. Would you know, the ghost as Scrooge,
the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself.
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It was as full and heavy and long as this
seven Christmas eves ago. You have labored on it since
it is a ponderous chain. So now I must ask
each of you, my dear listeners, to pause for a
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moment and imagine your own invisible chain that you have
fashioned link by link throughout your life. We all have one,
But it may never be too late to cut that
chain down a lot. To be a better, kinder, more understanding,
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and humble person. To be grateful for all the good
things in your life, and never take them for granted,
because if you're not careful, and you give into the
negative judgmental forces and opinions all around you, that chain
may drag you further and further down, all the way
(22:27):
to hell. So this is a good time for you
to pause, think about that, cut that chain, raise your vibration, smile,
tell everyone you love them, mean it, Do something good
for someone, and the spirits of the holiday season and
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Christmas and all that will only bring you wonderful rewards
to be revealed in the coming. Here time to set
the tone. Isn't that a great true story? A great
thing to think about? You know? It seems all of
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the lessons of the holidays are told through weird stories.
Have you ever thought really about that. We have elves,
flying reindeer, a man who slides down your chimney with gifts,
and he loves to eat your milk and cookies. By
the way. We have the Old Crumpus, who is the
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opposite of Santa, and he's a great horned demon that
will come to your house if the kids are bad
and drag them away and eat them. We have kissing
under the mistletoe, chopping down a tree and bringing it
into the house, which is really based on the pagan
worship of nature, But of course the dominant theme is
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that one night long ago, a Ufo, the star of
Bethlehem appeared over a small town where a divine baby
was born, a version of God on earth who would
have magical and miraculous powers, and angels drift around the
(24:19):
whole time. I mean, it's almost too much when you
start digging into this idea of strange holiday stories, it's
almost too much. Where do I begin. Well, I don't
know how much I can get to in one podcast. Um,
(24:41):
I'll probably have to talk more in an upcoming podcast
about some of these things that I find so intriguing,
but I figure in this one, in this particular show,
I want to give you at least one truly personal,
bizarre paranormal story that I have related to Christmas and
(25:06):
Santa Claus. And also it ties into one of my
favorite subjects topas. Yeah, it's whenever people ask me about
whether or not Santa's real and I tell them about
this experiment that I did. They think it's gonna be
(25:27):
a really fun story, but it ends up kind of
creeping everybody out. I'll tell you what the story is
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Pete Warren, and this is the show where the unusual
becomes usual. Years ago, I sent out one of my
free e newsletters, which goes out to thousands of people
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all around the world, and I said, I want to
ask all of you a question, and I'm serious, this
is not a joke. Do any of you believe you
actually have seen Santa Claus? And I had no idea
what reaction I would get. And I was quite amazed
when I got a flood of emails from adults who said,
(27:45):
as an adult, I saw Santa Claus, not as a kid.
I mean there were some of those as well, but
people saying as an adult. And they told me about
seeing the Santa in the sleigh with the a near
flying across the sky, and they talked about, uh, seeing
him in the living room now, you know, and some
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people are getting scared to death thinking somebody broken into
their houses. I mean, like, the stories went on and on,
and I thought this must be a great example of
some kind of autopa. And you know autopa is you've
heard me talk about this before. Autopa is a thought form. Basically,
(28:29):
it is an image of some kind that either one
person focuses on intensely over a long period of time,
or a bunch of people focus on intensely for maybe
even a shorter period of time, and they the focus
is so intense that somehow it becomes a projection that
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is objectified, externalized, almost like some kind of a movie
in the environment, and many strange and paranormal things maybe
the product of this. It's it's an impression almost like
hacking into reality and creating your own cartoon or something
like that, an externalized thought form. And sometimes they can
(29:11):
seem conscious and interactive, and sometimes they don't, and and
and so like, Okay, let's say, for example, Superman. I
think most people in the world know what Superman is
supposed to look like, and what he sounds like, and
how he behaves. And if I said, draw a picture
of Superman, anybody could draw a picture of Superman. So
(29:32):
Superman is a kind of topa. Uh, but he's not
a very strong one, because we all know Superman is
not real. You know, We've always been told like Superman
is fictional, so it never crosses your mind there's really
a Superman out there. But Santa Claus is different because
(29:54):
we all have these these firm images of what Santa
is more or less supposed to look like, and who
he is, and how he behaves in his personality, in
his background. We all but but we're also in many
cases told for a large part of our lives that, oh, yeah,
he's real, this guy is real, and here all this
(30:14):
stuff is real. And many of us believe that for
some time, and it's reinforced that he is real when
you are a kid, and you see he has left
these physical gifts in your house, and he has eaten
the cookies and drank the milk. Okay, so Santa maybe
(30:37):
the strongest tulpa you can ever imagine. And I figured,
you know what, if people are seeing Santa and he's
this powerful of a tulpa, I'm going to see if
I can create a Santa Claus topa. And so I
did an experiment. I did this in Lauren, my wife.
(30:57):
Uh Lauren is from Texas, That's where all her family
are located. And back in Lauren and I were staying
for an extended period of time. I guess it was
over a month or something like that, out in rural
Texas outside of San Antonio, on this big ranch that
(31:19):
was owned by her mother, Linda. So that's my mother
in law and in Linda's husband Dale. Okay, So these
are the characters, the main characters in this story, Me
and law Lauren and myself. We're staying on this ranch
in Texas with Linda and Dell, my mother in law
(31:41):
and father in law. Okay. So now this is a big,
big Texas ranch with lots of acreage and livestock and
a pond and an old cemetery, I mean the works.
This is everybody always said this place was haunted to
big in with because artifacts have been found there. I
(32:03):
think they said Santa Ana went through there. They found
old swords and muskets, and so there there has always
been kind of a tradition like some spooky things happened,
and I think it's easier to create tulpa's at places
that are already prone to that kind of activity. So, um,
all right, So on this property, which was I don't know,
(32:24):
I think it was hundreds of acres right uh Dale
who was self employed, he had this uh trailer that
was set up as an office building about a quarter
of a mile from their main house. And this is
a pretty desolate quarter mile, the kind of thing where
(32:44):
like if you want to go to the office, you
get in the pickup truck and you drive down the
dirt road past the pond, and then you know when
you're when you're out there in this trailer which is
the office, you're kind of in the middle of nowhere
and they're just surrounded by woods and at night it's
real dark and spooky out there. And so while we
were staying there, um, I, of course was still working
(33:06):
and I was doing a lot of radio stuff where
I needed a quiet environment. And their main ranch house
was not a quiet environment at all, um because for
one thing, they had a bunch of dogs, and you know,
the dogs are always carrying on, and then they were
very They're very social, so people were always coming and going,
(33:26):
and I I said, look, I there are times where
I just need to go out here. And they gave
me that office a quarter mile away in the woods
for me to just go out, and there was a
bed in a kitchen, and I sometimes i'd just stay
there for a few days, like you know, that's where
I would kind of live because I'd be doing these
radio shows in the middle of the night, at all
(33:48):
hours of the day, so it was not uncommon for
me to be in that isolated situation. So I decided,
you know what, this might be a good time. This
is around the holidays, so it might be a time
for me to try to create a Santa Claus Tulpa.
Lauren and I we were at the San Antonio Mall.
We walked into the store and they had this very
(34:08):
elaborate ten inch Santa Claus doll on a stand and
I thought that would be the perfect focal point for
me to try to create my Santa Claus tulpa. So
we bought it. And then whenever I was out in
that building by myself, very quiet again, very very eerie,
(34:34):
spooky out there, and I would have that Santa Claus
doll sitting there, and every time I would notice it,
I would sit there for a second and I think
about Santa being real, come to me, Santa manifest, Santa Welcome, Santa.
I would imagine Santa Claus being there. Sometimes I would
(34:56):
use my Tibetan emos and i'd put them over my
eyes to meditate and bring me into a more psychic state.
If you don't know what Tibetan emos are, go to
my curiosity shop at Joshua P. Warren dot com and
you'll see these little things you can put over your
eyes that bring you into a more psychic meditation state.
And I hope that maybe one day I wouldn't only
see this topa, but also I might be able to
(35:18):
photograph it. Right. So anyway, I did this for a
long time, probably well over a week, maybe a couple
of weeks, I can't remember exactly. And finally I had
a day or two off without any kind of radio work.
So Lauren and I we decided to drive to Austin,
which is about an hour and ten minutes away. There's
(35:40):
a lot of cool stuff there. They have the Museum
of the Weird. The guy who runs that place, he's
really cool. He's a friend of mine. And there are
some cool oddity shops and some old saloons and like me,
a lot of cool stuff like that. So we we
spend our time in Austin, and then we got back
pretty late that night to the ranch outside of San Antonio.
(36:03):
And like again, this is a very rural area, and um,
it was probably close to midnight. So when we got
into the main ranch house, everybody was asleep except for
Lauren's mom Linda. So Dale was already asleep in like
his the main bedroom. He's one of those guys, you know,
(36:25):
he would wear a cowboy hat and get up early
in the morning and go out and wrangle things out
and so uh so Lauren and I were standing there
in the kitchen kind of creating a little late night
snack or meal for ourselves, and Lauren's mom comes in
there and we're all we're just chatting in the kitchen.
(36:45):
And again, this is almost at midnight, and then all
of a sudden, the phone rings and Lauren's mom, Linda goes,
that's weird. I wonder who would be calling this late.
But the phone was answered. She assumed, well, you know,
Dale was an entrepreneur, so you never knew what he
had going on. So anyway, the the phone rang, and
(37:09):
so then like a couple of minutes later, Dale has
he's woken up, and he has come out of the
bedroom and he walks into the kitchen and he said,
what just happened? What's going on? And we said, what
are you talking about? He said, I just got a
(37:31):
call from nine one one. He said that they got
a call from the trailer on the back of the property.
Now does this Now this might want you this, This
might give you goose bumps a little bit, because think
about this. There are four people on this property, on
(37:53):
this big gas property. Okay, there is myself, Lauren Lawrence,
I'm Linda and her husband Deal and we're all standing
in the kitchen and yet someone has placed a nine
one one call from this building where I'm doing all
this topa manifestation work out on the back of the property,
(38:19):
so I decided to drive out there by myself to
see what was going on. When we come back from
this break, I'll tell you the rest of the story.
I'm Joshua pe Warren. You're listening to strange things on
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Dell found out that Laren was fine and Linda was fine,
(41:28):
and I was fine. He said, all right, just went
back to bed. We could have just left it at death.
But I thought to myself, well, how could I say
I'm worth my weighting salt as a paranormal investigator if
(41:48):
I don't get in a pickup truck out there tonight,
you know. Now it's after midnight, you know, and drive
out to this old, dark building and see what's happening,
because the most likely explanation is not that Santa Claus
has manifested. The most likely explanation is that someone has
(42:08):
broken into that building and that perhaps, uh, something bad
is happening in this building. But I had to find out.
So the ladies were like, oh, you're crazy. I got
into the truck and trust me, this is Texas, and
(42:29):
there were a lot of guns at my disposal, but
I was unarmed. And so I go driving on this cold,
dark night across you slowly across this dirt road, and
you know, the headlights hit the trailer there. It's all dark.
(42:51):
I get out of the truck. I stand there for
a minute. I will sort of listen. I don't hear
anything weird. So I crept over and I walked up
though creaky wooden steps, and the door was locked, so
(43:12):
I unlocked it and I walked in there with a flashlight.
The first thing my flashlight hit was the little Santa
Claus doll there, and I went all around with a
flashlight and I did not see anything that was out
of place. And so then I walked up to that
(43:35):
Santa Claus doll and I shined that flashlight right on him,
and I said, you called nine one one, didn't you?
You want attention, So now is your chance show yourself, Santa,
(43:58):
show yourself. You are commended. But it was a perfectly quiet,
peaceful night. Santa never appeared, and I never got that
photo was hoping for. But you know what afterward that
(44:22):
building was and continues to be the site of weird phenomena.
The lights turn on and off by themselves, voices are heard.
I think I made some progress just doing my own
little work, my own little project. They're trying to conjure
up Santa Claus. And even though I may not have
(44:46):
fully materialized Santa Claus there, I want all of you
to join in on a little experiment, all right. I
want all of you to recreate some version of the
experiment that I did at your own home. Make it
a family event. You know, you all continue all season long.
(45:09):
Get a picture of Santa, get a doll of Santa,
get a rendition of Santa. Sit around, focus on Santa
and see if you can make Santa manifest and let
me know what happens. Just go to Joshua Pee Warren
dot com to email me. You'll find my email address
on the homepage. Are you gonna have any luck conjuring
(45:30):
up Santa Claus? You know I mentioned that Santa likes
to eat milk and cookies. It's really weird. I lived
in Puerto Rico, of course for years, and Puerto Rico
has one of the longest celebration seasons of any um
of any place in the world. When it comes to
Christmas time. I mean they celebrate Christmas way after January one.
(45:51):
I mean like they have what they call Three Kings Day,
where guys dress up like the Three Wise Men and
they ride around town on camels if they if they
got them and um. The night before, instead of leaving
milk and cookies, kids leave hay under their bed to
feed the camels. That's what they do, and then in
(46:13):
the morning the hay has been eaten and they have
presents under their bed. Uh yeah. I In our next show,
I'm going to share just more weird you know, holiday
stuff like that with you, because we are almost out
of time. In fact, I want to go ahead and
see if I can squeeze uh squeeze an email in here.
(46:36):
At least I haven't. I don't think I got thread
an email last time. Just so much to talk about,
all right? How about this one? Um? This came from
a man in California named Phil. He says, Mr warrens
something interesting happened to me back in the early nineteen sixties. Now,
I will go ahead and give your heads up. If
(46:57):
you are a fisherman, you might really want to pay
it to men in to this, Okay, says I had
flattened two copper pennies until they were almost as thin
as writing paper, and then I used my BB gun
to shoot holes in the middle of each of them.
(47:17):
I put a lot of effort into putting the holes
in them. My dad took me fishing with him on
the Sacramento River, just southwest of Sacramento, California. I took
out of my pocket one of the two flattened pennies
and threw it as hard as I could into the
river next to the dock. We got into the boat
(47:40):
and went fishing on the river. I was the only
one who caught a fish. It was huge, almost a
two foot long fish. And after that my dad never
took me fishing again. How did I know that giving
a coin with a round hole in it would trade
(48:02):
for a big fish? Somehow I just knew that doing
this would work. I never did it again, but I
do remember the prayer that General Pattent had the minister right,
and the negotiation for good weather from Finding Your Magic.
(48:22):
Perhaps for me it was for the fish. That's an
interesting story, isn't it. And of course he's referring to
my Finding Your Magic e book there. I've never heard
that before that if you have a coin that you
flatten out and put a hole in the center and
toss it in the water, it'll be good lucky you
can catch a fish. So if you have the ability
(48:45):
to try that out, let me know. You know. It's
it's funny because people they contact me sometimes and everybody
sort of assumes that I'm going to know every lucky
thing to do in the world. And uh, some people
contact me and they say. I've heard that if you
take two walnuts and a stick and put them in
your pocket, that that will attract money and and good
(49:09):
good fortune. And I've heard this over and over, but
I don't know anything about that. I don't know where
it comes from. And then, uh, then a guy emailed
me the other day and he said that, uh he
found the some buckeyes and that, uh the carrying a
buckeye with you is also supposed to be lucky. And
(49:30):
that goes back to some of the traditions. Of course,
you to the Buckeye state is Ohio, but chestnuts look
a lot like buck eyes, and so people would often
take a chestnut or a buckeye and sort of carry
it around with him. And uh So, I don't know.
It's there are certain things that people fixate on that
bring them good fortune. And I think that that might
(49:52):
be a cool thing for me to also talk about
as we get closer to the new year this year,
because you know how people they eat black eyed peas
and they say that that's good luck. I mean, maybe
I'll dig a little bit into some lucky things because
we all want to have a good, lucky new year
ahead of us and even if the world is not
(50:14):
always the best place, if you can make your own
life good, and your own circle of friends and family good,
in your own community good, well that's pretty darn good,
isn't it. That is why, as usual, I'm going to
end the show for you. I don't always do this,
but I'm going to play the good fortune tone for you.
(50:35):
And when you hear this, I want you to realize
this is not something that you can just only listen
to and close your eyes and take a deep breath
and and and enjoy. But a lot of people, I
keep telling you this now, they take a beverage, especially,
I mean, just plain old water is probably the best thing,
but who knows good to experiment, and they put it
(50:57):
right in front of the speaker and they let this
beverage absorb the frequency of the good fortune tonue. And
then after that they drink the beverage. It doesn't have
to be immediately, and they drink the beverage at some
point and they say that it replenishes them and brings
(51:18):
that energy and it just it makes it even more powerful.
You can feel it going into every cell of your body.
So if you've never done that before, maybe this is
the time you give it a try, so more interesting
stories for you next time. But for now, here is
the good Fortune. Tom. That's it for this edition of
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