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I'll be bringing you bran 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. I bought
a gargoyle and here's what happened. He's sitting right in
front of me right now. I'm looking at him, and
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he is a wicked looking little dude. Let me try
to describe him. He is about six inches tall and
he is made of I don't know, some kind of
like heavy resin that looks like dark gray granite. And
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I actually have him in my left hand right now.
So you know how all gargoyles they look like little
well maybe not all, but many of them look like
little devils. And so he's sitting there. He's got pointy ears,
and he's got big curled horns and bat wings, and
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his arms are crossed and his legs are crossed, and
he has these penetrating eyes with these arched eyebrows, kind
of an upturned nose, a mouth that looks a little
bit like a chimpanzees. And he's just resting his chin
on his hands as he stares out, guarding me against
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something you might say, and um, a very intimidating looking
little guy. He has a tail on the back. And
as a matter of fact, I know that, uh, you
probably want a picture, so maybe I'll post one on
my Twitter account for you instead of trying to describe
this guy. My Twitter, of course, is just at Joshua
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pe Warren or you'll find my Twitter feed on my
website Joshua pee Warren dot com. Okay, so why do
I have a gargoyle sitting in front of me? And
what has he done for me? What's the story? Here.
What has happened? Well, first off, I just want to
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point this out. Um, if you followed my work for
a long time, you know that I lived in year
for years in Puerto Rico, and there was an area
there is an area of Puerto Rico called end Sonata,
and I'm actually looking at some pictures of en Sonata
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right now. And uh, basically a few years ago, they
started seeing one of these big, uh devil is looking
creatures running around the city. Uh. In fact, they said
that this thing, which they called the gargola, which just
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means gargoyle. Uh. They say that this thing is six
ft tall. It can fly around in the evening skies.
It has been witnessed by dozens of people over the years.
I even interviewed some active duty police officers who said
that they had seen this thing and they didn't know
if it was an alien or an interdimensional being. Somebody
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even took a picture of what they claim is this
thing they call the gargola. Looks very much like moth man.
I don't know if this is real or not, but
if you want to see that picture for free, uh,
go to r CBO project dot com. That's a part
of Puerto Rico. You've probably heard of the Arecibo Observatory
a R E c I b O ri CBO project
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dot com, and you can see for free a photograph
that somebody claims they took of the gargula. I've always
been fascinated with this idea that there may be some
reality to these gargoyles, because it turns out that when
I started interviewing people in Puerto Rico, they would often
see this big gargoyle looking thing running around a field,
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a vast field, and on the other side of the
field was some kind of a a monastery there where
you know, I guess priests and nuns and folks like
that uh would live. And so it has long been
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believed that even though these these creatures they look scary,
that that might just be because they are meant to
to to frighten away truly scary things. It's sort of
a facade. So anyway, bearing that in mind, let's just
look at what the heck the story is behind gargoyles
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historically before I get into too to why I have
this one sitting here, and what a gargoyle might be
able to do for you. That's what we're leading up to. Here, so, okay.
In architecture, specifically Gothic architecture, the gargoyle is a carved
or formed grotesque, often with a spout, designed to convey
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water from a roof and away from the side of
a building, thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls
and are roading the mortar between. So architects have often
used multiple gargoyles on these buildings to just sort of
direct that flow of water. But also, um they look
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fantastic because they need to have these elongated throats so
that they can direct that water away. And what I
thought was especially intriguing about the story behind the gargoyle,
and I'll be surprised if you know this, okay. For
one thing, the term originates from a French word which
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is similar gargo allowed or something like that, which it
basically means throat or gullet. So that so the long
throat is a very you know, typical example of um
or are our, a typical feature of why these things existed.
Even though the one that I have right now, this
is not that type of a gargole. He doesn't have
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any long throat like that. He's sitting there kind of hunched,
so he has a bit of a a more fundamental
role to play. Um. But here is the story. Supposedly, Okay,
there's a French legend that sprang up around the name
of Saint Romanus, and he lived in the year uh
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six thirty one or thereabouts, and he was a chancellor
of an area called Rowan, And supposedly at that time
Rowan was being terrorized by a monster that they called
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Ligargula basically, and this basically was sort of like a dragon,
a dragon with bat like wings, a long neck, and
the ability to breathe fire from its mouth. And according
to many versions of the story, Sat Romanus uh subdued
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the creature with a crucifix and he somehow captured it
with the help of the only volunteer he could find,
which was a condemned man, and they led this monster
back to Rowan, and they burned this thing, but it's
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head and neck would not burn up due to it
being tempered by its own fire breath. So this was
a fire breathing dragon that's head and neck was so
tough it was resistant to fire. And so once they
had killed this dragon like creature, as as a big
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trophy and a warning. They mounted its head on the
walls of the newly built church there to scare off
evil spirits and use this for protection. And you know,
we we we see stories where people used to do this.
For example, when the pirate Blackbeard was killed, they cut
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his head off and they put it on the front
of the ship as they sailed into port. And in England,
of course, it was very common for them to draw
and quarter people and then they send the head to
one part of the kingdom, and the this right arm
to another part, and this left leg to another part.
People used to do that sort of thing. Is it
to turn? So this is the mosed lye um where
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it started. And then of course it's so it's a
protective um, a protective creature, but at the same time
it can serve this dual role in architecture of also
acting as a water spell. All right, So that's apparently
the story of the gargoyle, And of course there are
versions of gargoyles to go back way earlier though. Even
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the ancient Egyptians had similar types of things and chimeras,
which looked like a combination of people and animals or
different animals all you know, combined together. That sort of thing. Um.
And when you start reading about how that these things
have been used, in particular by the Catholic Church, it
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says that they were used as this isn't this is
a new word. Okay, they were used as apa tropeic devices,
Apo tropic. I didn't know that word. Do you know
what that means? Apo? Okay? Apo tropaic magic? It's it
comes from a Greek word which means to word off.
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This is what they call protective magic, and it's a
type of magic intended to turn away harm or evil influences,
as in deflecting misfortune or averting the evil eye. So
a lot of good luck charms, ambulets, bracelets, things like
that that are supposed to to protect you and turn
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bad stuff away are part of what's called apo tropaic magic. Well,
when we come back from our break, I'm gonna tell
you why I have this thing sitting here, because something
spooky started happening to me. And when you learn about
my experience, well you might want to get one of
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Let's get back to one of the things that Well,
this is actually something that has offended some people. When
I did my very first episode of the Strange Things podcast,
I told people how to create a minion. And this
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is basically something like a creature that you can draw
or sculpt. It's a thought form that you create and
you go through a certain technique and you charge it
with a particular purpose, and you send it out there
to do your bidding. And uh, some people they got
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freaked out by that idea because he said, this sounds
too much like, you know, you're conjuring up something. And
I understand that it's a controversial issue, but I do
believe that maybe sometimes when you have something like one
of these little gargoyle statues next to you, uh, there
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might be some kind of a spirit here that actually
is protecting you somehow. Okay, here's what happened to me.
I own way too much stuff. I have storage units
all over this country that are just filled from top
to bottom with strange things and mad scientific instruments and oddities. Um.
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And one of these days I will put all of
it on display. I don't know when that's going to be.
It's going to be a big project. And of course
right now it's not a good time to pursue anything
like that because the pandemic makes it so difficult for
people to to get together in a in a big
group and do anything for a while. But I still,
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on the other hand, I do produce here in Las Vegas,
the Vegas Ghost and UFO Show, where we bring out
props and we have items that are either haunted or
charmed that they have some kind of spiritual essence or attachment.
So last year I was traveling and I don't I
don't want to say where I was, but I was
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in a rather odd city and I went into a
rather fantastic little shop and Lauren, my wife, was with me,
and at one point I turned a corner and I
saw this little gargoyle statue sitting there, and I immediately
connected with it, and I just said, I'm buying that.
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I didn't even look to see how much it costs.
I just said I'm buying that, and uh so, And
to be honest with you, I don't remember how much
it costs, but I just felt like there was this
strong protective presence around it. Now, during that same trip,
I ended up going to a lot of weird little shops,
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and you know, not just antique stores, but yard sales,
and you know, sometimes I get invited to view a
private collection somewhere, and so I started buying some items
that I thought, we're probably haunted, and here's something I
should stress here. Um, because I have this show here,
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and because I'm interested in examining haunted stuff and things
that have attachments, I'm open to bringing that into my
life to a certain extent. If I see an object,
I can usually tell whether or not it seems to
have a spiritual attachment, but I cannot always tell if
it's good or bad. Sometimes I just know there's something
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attached to it, so I bring it into my my house.
And this says, I do not advise that you do this,
by the way, necessarily if you don't know what you're doing.
But I'll bring it into my house and I'll find
out within a few days if there's something good or bad.
In many cases, I find things that are absolutely lucky,
that bring good fortune, that create great synchronicity, that create
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you know, all kinds of wonderful vibes and healthy image.
But sometimes you you know, you bring an object in
and you say, oh, I don't think this should be
in my house anymore. So I bought quite a few
things on this trip, so many things that I even
bought a whole separate big suitcase, just a cram full
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of stuff, and uh, and have that you sent back
to me on the airplane and so um. When I
got back home, I was really exhausted, and I was,
I was. I was not unpacking everything at once. I
had unpacked about half of my stuff. And I don't
want to tell you at this point what I got
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because I'm still studying it and I don't want to
until I have all the results. And I don't want
to tell you exactly what I was dealing with. But
I got some things that were obviously haunted by some
bad energy. And here's how I know that. Here's what
happens to me when I bring something into my house
that's got bad juju. How it affects me is I
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will be leaping. And this is this is some scary stuff.
I hate to even say this because you know I
don't want to. I don't want to manifest this for anybody.
But here, here it goes. I'll be I'll be lying
in bed sleeping or almost asleep, and then I will
hear something in the bedroom and it will tap on
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the wall, or it will scratch on the wall, or
occasionally it will tap me on the back, and I've
I'm getting I'm getting goose pumps right now even recalling this,
because when it happens, I whip around and sometimes I
might see a very very dark form there. Sometimes I
don't see anything, but the room gets really cold, and
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at that point I know, oh, I think something something
is in here. But then the final straw is that
when I finally get to sleep, I will start having
some very intense nightmares. Uh. And that's when I believe
that these things are entering my room and interfering with
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my sleep. And that's when I say, I got something
bad here and I need to get it out of here.
And so I wasn't sure which item I had brought
into my house that was creating this effect that I
had experienced multiple times before with other items. And after
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two nights of this, I figured, well, maybe I'll just
take everything and put it into the storage one of
my storage units. And I opened up the suitcase and
I go, oh, look, I totally forgot about this. Gargole
that I bought this protective gargoyle. So I instantly brought
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this gargoyle into my bedroom. And he's a very intimidating
looking guy, and I sat him. I said, I said
to him, your job is to protect me and scare
away these bad things. And I set him right there
next to me, and it was just like the air
was cleared. And since then I didn't even have to
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take these negative things out of my house. He he
seemed to be keeping them away from me. And so
now I I carry him around if i'll if I'm
in the studio like I am right now, a lot
of times I'll bring him in and I'll sit him
right there, or certainly what I'm going to go to sleep.
And it reminds me a lot of the tradition behind
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Halloween in general. Do you remember why that we I've
told you this before, why that we wear masks at Halloween.
It goes back to a lot of the sort of
you know, pagan traditions, these ideas that when the harvest
period is about to kick in, the veil becomes very
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thin between our world and other worlds, and so these
spirits are able to slip into our world from the
Land of the Dead, and many of them are not
not They're not nice, okay they are. Some of them
are very nefarious, scary spirits. And so to combat that,
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we will wear Halloween masks that will either make it
seem as if we are blending in with these ghoules,
or we are trying to be even more intimidating than
they are and beating them at their their game and
scaring them away. And you know, we put out jack
lanterns and all these things to try to frighten off
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the truly bad stuff. And so I think that maybe
when you have something like one of these little gargoyles,
it accomplishes a similar mission in your life. And you
know how, I did a podcast a while back and
I was talking about Herkimer diamonds, and I said, look,
I I could sell you a Herkimer diamond, but it's
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not gonna work that well for you. You just need
to go online and you need to find one that
you connect with it feels right for you. It's the
same thing with these gargoyles. I just recommend that you
get on the internet and you just start looking around
at websites that have different kind of gargoyles, because there
are a million different types out there, and when you
find one that connects with you, you'll go ah ha.
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And that is one that you can bring into your
life to see if it starts protecting you and scaring
some of these spooky things away. Now, if you want
to know just how much of an impact that paranormal
phenomena can make on your environment and how interactive these
energies can be, I have an experiment that I want
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to tell you about that I did at a very
haunted house. And I also have what maybe some breaking
news about this haunted house. At least this is news
to me, and uh, I think especially those of you
who have I need some of the work I've done
in the mountains of western North Carolina, we'll want to
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hear about this one. I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're listening
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Normal podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua Pete Warren, and
this is the show where the unusual becomes usual. I
was recently talking to producer Tom dan Heiser about the
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importance of charity. Uh. He is a very charitable guy,
and we both think that it really is wonderful to
support charitable causes. And when you do that, you create
positive energy for everybody. It helps you out as much
as the people you're helping out. And I do have
way too much stuff, and I don't think I'm ever
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gonna be able to put it all on display. And
so I think what I'm gonna be doing is auctioning
off some of the things that I have in my collection,
my personal collection, and some of the stuff from the
Ashville Mystery Museum. Auctioning off things that have a positive
or protective spiritual energy or or just something that's really
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cool and and neat and funky and decorative. And I'll
start auctioning these things off from time to time and
um giving a good chunk of that to charities. So
I have this website called unusual Auctions dot com unusual
auctions dot com, and if you go there and check it,
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check it as often as possible, you never know what
I will have there for you at unusual auctions dot com.
Speaking of the Asheville Mystery Museum, the museum, of course,
unfortunately is no longer around because you know, it got
flooded in and we just ended up having to move
it out of there, and so all the contents are
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in two different storage units, one in Asheville and one
here in Las Vegas. Asheville, North Carolina, is where I
was born and raised, and Asheville is in Buncombe County,
and the oldest standing structure in Buncomb County there at
least around Asheville, I'm sure, is called the Smith McDowell House.
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And it was built an eight team four and James
McConnell Smith was the guy who built it. And he
was you know, he owned like a gold mine and
all kinds of businesses. I can't remember all the stuff
that he had, but he was. He was a very
well to do man. And the Smith McDowell House contacted
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me many years ago, I mean gosh, i'd say almost
twenty years or something like that ago, and they asked
me and my Lemur team to start doing investigations of
the Smith McDowell house. And we had carte blanche to
go there and not only do investigations, but I also
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was able to work with them to do some Halloween events,
which helped them raise money because they're nonprofit, and we
had people who would come from all over the country
and participate in that. And the thing about the old
Smith McDowell House is that, um, it's haunted apparently by
a little girl. We're not sure who she is, but
a lot of people have seen a little girl. And
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I actually was. I I hosted a ghost hunt at
the Smith mcdoell House, oh about thirteen years ago for
a celebrity, Kelly Pickler, the country singer. She was big
on American Idol. She's a television personality. Kelly Pickler came
to Asheville and the local radio station there five seventy
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w W n C and and and their affiliates. They
asked me if I would take Kelly Pickler on a
ghost hunt. And so my team and I took Kelly
Pickler to the Smith McDowell House for a night and
we had a blast. I mean, she was just the sweetest, loveliest,
most humble person and she was just having a great time.
We all had a lot of fun. Dean Worsing was
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there that night. Dean Worsing brought a little rubber ball
like a kid would play with, and he would set
that thing down in a room and we would dim
the lights. We'd start asking the little girl to play
with the ball and it would start rolling around. As
a matter of fact, there's video of this on YouTube.
If you go to YouTube and you just do a
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search for Kelly Pickler ghost hunt. Her first name is
spelled k E L l I E and then Pickler.
You know p I C K L E. R. Kelly
Pickler ghost Hunt. You'll see some clips that. Um. Then
Kelly Pickler's channel posted from that from that investigation. So, um,
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it's a really interesting place for a number of reasons.
But we've we've never been exactly sure why it was
so haunted. I mean, we'd heard that there were you know,
there there were servants there that were mistreated and all
that kind of stuff. Well, I got a message just
days ago from a researcher named Rebecca and she found
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this article that was published in a newspaper called The
Asheville Messenger onto some forty and here's what it says.
Suicide on Sunday evening, a man whose name, from papers
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found in his possession is supposed to be Robert B.
Hamilton's put an end to his earthly existence at the
house of James M. Smith. That's the guy, James McConnell
Smith in this village, by hanging himself with his pocket
handkerchief fastened to the bedpost. What could have induced him
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to commit this rash act and thus rush unbidden into
the presence of his maker. He has left no clue
by which we can ascertain or even conjecture. Funny how
they wrote back then, isn't It goes on to say
he came to the house of Mr Smith on Saturday
evening in the southern stage, complained of being indisposed posed,
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and went to a private room, where he remained until
he tied the fatal noose on the next evening. From
papers found in his possession, it is supposed he had
heretofore resided in Abbeyville, South Carolina, and that he had
recently been at Spartanburg, and he had with him about
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one hundred fifty dollars in money and copies of notes
supposed to have been placed in the hands of some
person for collection to the amount of about sixteen hundred dollars,
which are in the hands of Mr Smith. So I
sent that to Vance Pollock, Sherlock Pollock, and he is
the best forensic historian I've ever met. And uh, Vance says, yeah,
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this looks like it's that's him. So I don't recall
ever having proof of a suicide at the Smith mcdwellhouse before,
but there it is. Asheville Messenger, December Christmas Day of
eighteen forty on page three. How do you like that
I did a really interesting experiment at the Smith McDowell
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House because one of the things that people would always
experience there, uh, we're batteries running down. I cannot tell
you how many times my team and I would go
in there, and I don't care if we were using
walkie talkies or video cameras or whatever, we had. Something
paranormal would start happening and then boom, the batteries would
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get zapped. And when people would come and do our
ghost hunts, the same thing would happen. These strange people
who would come from all over the country. They would
just be walking around shooting video and boom, it would
stop working, you know, the camera, the battery. And so
I always wonder, what is this phenomenon about. Is it
possible that when a ghost or something like that is
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going to materialize that it it needs energy from somewhere,
so it taps into a battery and drains that energy.
Is that possible that that's what's happening. So I did
really interesting experiment. I took a little battery powered fan.
I did this back in two thousand six, I think, yeah,
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two thousand six. I took a fan that was powered
by two double a batteries, and I set it up
in front of a camera and I let it run,
and I recorded the entire duration of how long it ran,
right down to the second. It ran for one hour
and thirty eight minutes and then it stopped. I put
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that exact and I did I did that at my
home as a control. I took that exact same set
up to the basement of the Smith McDowell house, where
batteries were draining all the time. I set everything up,
left it alone, and guess what. In that case, I
got the exact same result. The motor ran for one
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hour and thirty eight minutes. Now, granted there were some
slight variations, but not much. The temperature was the same
in both locations. And I did this only days apart.
So what can we conclude from this? I don't know.
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But but what I can tell you is that when
I did this at my house as a control, I
left it alone. And when I did this at the
Smith pick dollhouse as a control or what it was,
as an as an experiment, I left it alone. So
I'm wondering if the parapsychologists are right that for ghostly
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things to start happening, for there to be an exchange
of energy. You're better off if you have people there
in the mix interacting with things. That's not the case
all the time, but in many cases it may be
that you need to have a person there to somehow interfere.
I did not repeat that experiment, but I I'm I'm
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wondering if you can do something like that. I can't
do everything. I have too much stuff going on, especially
at this time in my life. But it's an easy
experiment to do. Set up a camera, put a fan
there with the clock right behind time it, and you know,
in your living room or some control location, and then
take it somewhere that's supposed to be paranormally active and
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do it and see if you can get it to
slow down the rate of the battery flow or somehow
affect that battery charge um by your presence. You see,
somehow ghosts in the environment and ourselves all work together
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and all interact. But we still don't know exactly how
it works. I got an email I want to read
to you, though, from a guy who said, I love
the show and I've been wanting to tell you for
a long time about what happened to my mom. This
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is a listener in Canada, and actually I've got a
couple of other really cool emails. I'm gonna try to
squeeze in here. I'm Joshua B. Warren. You're listening to
Strange Things on the I R Radio and Coast to
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the final segment of this edition of Strange Things on
the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast, a AM
paranormal podcast network. I'm your host, Joshua pe Warren, and
I received this email from Frank in Ontario, Canada. He says,
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you absolutely rock. I love listening to you. I dig
your humor. I've been following you for quite a while
and you never disappoint Wow. Thank you, Frank. What a
nice way to start a message. I appreciate that, and
I like that you dig my sense of humor because
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a lot of people do not get it. So anyway,
Frank goes on to say, I have a story for you.
My mom is a Jehovah's witness and I was raised
in that religion but left at sixteen. Is having said that,
my mom tells of a worry when I think I
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was six years old. My father worked at General Motors
and that week worked the afternoon shift, so he would
come home around eleven pm. My mom would visit the
farm next to us as we became friends, and I
would play with their son, Joey. But that week, Joey's
mother came to visit my mom at our house. Oh
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and a side note, Joey's mom was known to be
a fortune teller in Hungary and uh So, anyway, he says,
this is interesting how he writes this. But he says,
when this woman will come to visit, my mom preached
to her and my but my mom would let her
smoke in the house. You gotta remember this is like
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the early seventies. So he says, my mom had what
she said could only be the reason of what she
left behind where her smoke butts. So my mom did
her thing, and they talked and they did whatever, and
Joey's mom left. Well, that night, my mother heard around
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the door in the back of the house open. Now,
when you came into the back of the house, he
would walk up three stairs into the kitchen and turn
right going down the hall to go right to my
parents bedroom, and if you went left, it would go
to the kid's bedroom. So after hearing the door opened,
my mother assumed it was my father coming up the stairs.
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She heard big, heavy feet, a lot of heavy breathing.
My mom slept with her back towards the door. So
the heavy footsteps coming down the hall were very very heavy,
my mama says, And they came into the room beside
the bed, and my mother says, dear, what are you doing?
And then it was like a handprint that pressed down
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her shoulder all the way down to her elbow and
pressed her into the bed to the point that it
hurt her her pushed her deep into the bed, and
she looked around to see if it was my dad,
and she says there was no one there, and she
tells of how she prayed to God, and then all
she heard was three or four steps running away, running
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from the bed, almost as if something ran and jumped
the fly away, that's her words. And then nothing. And
then fifteen seconds later the back door opened again and
it was my father this time. The story gives me
the creeps to this day. As a child up till
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I left home, I've had so many instances that were
unexplained and very scary. All the best, well, well, thank you, Frank.
I guess the you know, the idea here is that
maybe the fortune teller brought some kind of energy over
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into your house right that your mom found disagreeable. It
reminds me of what I was saying earlier in the
show though, right about something coming into your bedroom that
freaks you out. That is some freaky stuff. Okay, how
about this one? This comes to me from Gary, He
says Mr Warren. I'm currently listening to the first couple
(45:21):
episodes of Strange Things on Spotify at work, and when
I heard you speak about parasim atics, my interest was
piqued and I was compelled to write you. By the way,
when I first listened to the tone of the one
dollar Bill, I had some fortuitous manifestations. I've heard you
on coast to coast before and heard your name a
few times here and there, but I had not realized
(45:43):
just what you were onto. I've been researching ruins, symbology, mythology,
et cetera for years now. I'm just a mechanic with
some quirky interests, and I read about these subjects in
search of the truth. Manifestation, interdimensional portals, lost knowledge, ancent
civilizations as a visual representation. I enjoy the Marvel film
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Doctor Strange as an illustration of magic. The explanation as
fairly accurate as I see things as well. I don't
mean it's a literal depiction, of course, It's just a
good representation of concentrating and imagining the symbols that helped
to focus the energies of the universe to manifest and
conjure things. There are many ways to depict these symbols runes, pictograms,
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Mandola's mudras. There are representations of energy such as sound waves, light,
et cetera. And what I'm getting about it. What I'm
getting at here is have you applied parasit matics to
various symbols to explore what tones they create at what frequencies?
I believe that translating symbols into sounds the frequencies may
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have an effect on energy or matter, especially if used together.
Think of the seven tones produced by the pillars of
the Hindu Temple. Have you ever fed the various tones
that astronomers have picked up into symatic devices to explore
perhaps what symbols are formed. I have many thoughts, questions,
and theories I'd love to pick your brain about, but
(47:09):
you're a busy guy, so hopefully I'm steering you an
interesting direction. Thank you for that message, Gary, And yes, yes, yes,
I have done all that. Um. I created parasymatics as
a a form of taking sounds and turning them into images,
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but then I advanced that into parasymatics two point oh,
in which I take images and turn them into sounds.
And I will just tell you I have a lot
more coming out this year about my sigil work. I'm
just so swamped. But if you want the latest, all
you have to do right now is go to Joshua P.
Warren dot com. On the homepage, you can scroll down
(47:53):
and you will see right now some sigils listed there
and under it and yellow letters, it says update. For
a complete list of new sigils, click here. And if
you click that where it says for a complete list
of new sigils, click here. That will take you to
the big page that's got everything about parasi matics and
(48:14):
paris imatics two point oh, where I'm doing all this stuff.
But I will have some big announcements later this year,
at least I planned to. For those of you who
follow me through my free e newsletter. I have some
brand new sigil stuff and parasimatic stuff I'm gonna be releasing. Okay,
let me try to squeeze one more in here from David.
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He says, on September six one, I started experiencing a
very annoying problem that persisted all day every day. It
was related to another nagging problem of several years duration.
So on October I loaded the psionic de materializer with
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the annoying problem. Blum, Now, let me pause. He's talking
about something called the bad buster that I have my
curiosity shop, and he says the bad buster. Psionic de
materializer worked again. I loaded it with my problem, and
two days later I was inspired to start walking daily,
(49:20):
but to minor help. After a few weeks it was
fifty percent better. But I was then inspired to totally
quit a five year habit of two or three twenty
ounce SODA's a day. That was the answer. Just eighteen
(49:41):
days later, the problem was gone, and by December two
it was gone. On December I was so satisfied with
the result, I removed and trashed the paper note and
returned the psionic de materializer to its box. As of
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December thirty one, the annoying problem and the years long
nagging are both one hundred percent gone. I do not
want the sodas anymore. It worked again. Thank you, David. David.
I am so happy to hear that. And you know
that's the thing. I know that when you when I
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talk about some of this crazy sounding stuff on this show,
a lot of it's free. Some of it you know,
you have to go to my Curiosity Shop to buy it,
but I tell people you buy it and if you
if if this doesn't work for you, you have a
one percent money back guarantee. I'm providing this for you
this because it worked for me, and I'm hoping it
(50:45):
works somehow for you, and so uh, it would be
a pretty poor decision if I had to give everybody
a refund, right, So no. I put these out there
because they're experimental. I can't explain how they work. But
when stuff works for me, I share it with all
of you. So thank you, David, and congratulations. Here's something
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free that works for a lot of people. A lot
of people look forward to this every single week. It
is the good Fortune tone. Take a deep breath, if
you can, close your eyes, and hopefully this tone will
make your next week the best one ever. That's it
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and weird experiments you can do at home, and a
lot more. On this edition of the show. I bought
a gargoyle and here's what happened. He's sitting right in
front of me right now. I'm looking at him, and
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he is a wicked looking little dude. Let me try
to describe him. He is about six inches tall and
he is made of I don't know, some kind of
like heavy resin that looks like dark gray granite. And
(02:01):
I actually have him in my left hand right now.
So you know how all gargoyles they look like little
well maybe not all, but many of them look like
little devils. And so he's sitting there. He's got pointy ears,
and he's got big curled horns and bat wings, and
(02:22):
his arms are crossed and his legs are crossed, and
he has these penetrating eyes with these arched eyebrows, kind
of an upturned nose, a mouth that looks a little
bit like a chimpanzees. And he's just resting his chin
on his hands as he stares out, guarding me against
(02:46):
something you might say, and um, a very intimidating looking
little guy. He has a tail on the back. And
as a matter of fact, I know that, uh, you
probably want a picture, so maybe I'll post one on
my Twitter account for you instead of trying to describe
this guy. My Twitter, of course, is just at Joshua
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pe Warren or you'll find my Twitter feed on my
website Joshua pee Warren dot com. Okay, so why do
I have a gargoyle sitting in front of me? And
what has he done for me? What's the story? Here.
What has happened? Well, first off, I just want to
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point this out. Um, if you followed my work for
a long time, you know that I lived in year
for years in Puerto Rico, and there was an area
there is an area of Puerto Rico called end Sonata,
and I'm actually looking at some pictures of en Sonata
(03:49):
right now. And uh, basically a few years ago, they
started seeing one of these big, uh devil is looking
creatures running around the city. Uh. In fact, they said
that this thing, which they called the gargola, which just
(04:11):
means gargoyle. Uh. They say that this thing is six
ft tall. It can fly around in the evening skies.
It has been witnessed by dozens of people over the years.
I even interviewed some active duty police officers who said
that they had seen this thing and they didn't know
if it was an alien or an interdimensional being. Somebody
(04:35):
even took a picture of what they claim is this
thing they call the gargola. Looks very much like moth man.
I don't know if this is real or not, but
if you want to see that picture for free, uh,
go to r CBO project dot com. That's a part
of Puerto Rico. You've probably heard of the Arecibo Observatory
a R E c I b O ri CBO project
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dot com, and you can see for free a photograph
that somebody claims they took of the gargula. I've always
been fascinated with this idea that there may be some
reality to these gargoyles, because it turns out that when
I started interviewing people in Puerto Rico, they would often
see this big gargoyle looking thing running around a field,
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a vast field, and on the other side of the
field was some kind of a a monastery there where
you know, I guess priests and nuns and folks like
that uh would live. And so it has long been
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believed that even though these these creatures they look scary,
that that might just be because they are meant to
to to frighten away truly scary things. It's sort of
a facade. So anyway, bearing that in mind, let's just
look at what the heck the story is behind gargoyles
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historically before I get into too to why I have
this one sitting here, and what a gargoyle might be
able to do for you. That's what we're leading up to. Here, so, okay.
In architecture, specifically Gothic architecture, the gargoyle is a carved
or formed grotesque, often with a spout, designed to convey
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water from a roof and away from the side of
a building, thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls
and are roading the mortar between. So architects have often
used multiple gargoyles on these buildings to just sort of
direct that flow of water. But also, um they look
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fantastic because they need to have these elongated throats so
that they can direct that water away. And what I
thought was especially intriguing about the story behind the gargoyle,
and I'll be surprised if you know this, okay. For
one thing, the term originates from a French word which
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is similar gargo allowed or something like that, which it
basically means throat or gullet. So that so the long
throat is a very you know, typical example of um
or are our, a typical feature of why these things existed.
Even though the one that I have right now, this
is not that type of a gargole. He doesn't have
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any long throat like that. He's sitting there kind of hunched,
so he has a bit of a a more fundamental
role to play. Um. But here is the story. Supposedly, Okay,
there's a French legend that sprang up around the name
of Saint Romanus, and he lived in the year uh
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six thirty one or thereabouts, and he was a chancellor
of an area called Rowan, And supposedly at that time
Rowan was being terrorized by a monster that they called
(08:12):
Ligargula basically, and this basically was sort of like a dragon,
a dragon with bat like wings, a long neck, and
the ability to breathe fire from its mouth. And according
to many versions of the story, Sat Romanus uh subdued
(08:33):
the creature with a crucifix and he somehow captured it
with the help of the only volunteer he could find,
which was a condemned man, and they led this monster
back to Rowan, and they burned this thing, but it's
(08:54):
head and neck would not burn up due to it
being tempered by its own fire breath. So this was
a fire breathing dragon that's head and neck was so
tough it was resistant to fire. And so once they
had killed this dragon like creature, as as a big
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trophy and a warning. They mounted its head on the
walls of the newly built church there to scare off
evil spirits and use this for protection. And you know,
we we we see stories where people used to do this.
For example, when the pirate Blackbeard was killed, they cut
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his head off and they put it on the front
of the ship as they sailed into port. And in England,
of course, it was very common for them to draw
and quarter people and then they send the head to
one part of the kingdom, and the this right arm
to another part, and this left leg to another part.
People used to do that sort of thing. Is it
to turn? So this is the mosed lye um where
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it started. And then of course it's so it's a
protective um, a protective creature, but at the same time
it can serve this dual role in architecture of also
acting as a water spell. All right, So that's apparently
the story of the gargoyle, And of course there are
versions of gargoyles to go back way earlier though. Even
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the ancient Egyptians had similar types of things and chimeras,
which looked like a combination of people and animals or
different animals all you know, combined together. That sort of thing. Um.
And when you start reading about how that these things
have been used, in particular by the Catholic Church, it
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says that they were used as this isn't this is
a new word. Okay, they were used as apa tropeic devices,
Apo tropic. I didn't know that word. Do you know
what that means? Apo? Okay? Apo tropaic magic? It's it
comes from a Greek word which means to word off.
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This is what they call protective magic, and it's a
type of magic intended to turn away harm or evil influences,
as in deflecting misfortune or averting the evil eye. So
a lot of good luck charms, ambulets, bracelets, things like
that that are supposed to to protect you and turn
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bad stuff away are part of what's called apo tropaic magic. Well,
when we come back from our break, I'm gonna tell
you why I have this thing sitting here, because something
spooky started happening to me. And when you learn about
my experience, well you might want to get one of
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Let's get back to one of the things that Well,
this is actually something that has offended some people. When
I did my very first episode of the Strange Things podcast,
I told people how to create a minion. And this
(16:08):
is basically something like a creature that you can draw
or sculpt. It's a thought form that you create and
you go through a certain technique and you charge it
with a particular purpose, and you send it out there
to do your bidding. And uh, some people they got
(16:33):
freaked out by that idea because he said, this sounds
too much like, you know, you're conjuring up something. And
I understand that it's a controversial issue, but I do
believe that maybe sometimes when you have something like one
of these little gargoyle statues next to you, uh, there
(16:53):
might be some kind of a spirit here that actually
is protecting you somehow. Okay, here's what happened to me.
I own way too much stuff. I have storage units
all over this country that are just filled from top
to bottom with strange things and mad scientific instruments and oddities. Um.
(17:20):
And one of these days I will put all of
it on display. I don't know when that's going to be.
It's going to be a big project. And of course
right now it's not a good time to pursue anything
like that because the pandemic makes it so difficult for
people to to get together in a in a big
group and do anything for a while. But I still,
(17:42):
on the other hand, I do produce here in Las Vegas,
the Vegas Ghost and UFO Show, where we bring out
props and we have items that are either haunted or
charmed that they have some kind of spiritual essence or attachment.
So last year I was traveling and I don't I
don't want to say where I was, but I was
(18:04):
in a rather odd city and I went into a
rather fantastic little shop and Lauren, my wife, was with me,
and at one point I turned a corner and I
saw this little gargoyle statue sitting there, and I immediately
connected with it, and I just said, I'm buying that.
(18:26):
I didn't even look to see how much it costs.
I just said I'm buying that, and uh so, And
to be honest with you, I don't remember how much
it costs, but I just felt like there was this
strong protective presence around it. Now, during that same trip,
I ended up going to a lot of weird little shops,
(18:48):
and you know, not just antique stores, but yard sales,
and you know, sometimes I get invited to view a
private collection somewhere, and so I started buying some items
that I thought, we're probably haunted, and here's something I
should stress here. Um, because I have this show here,
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and because I'm interested in examining haunted stuff and things
that have attachments, I'm open to bringing that into my
life to a certain extent. If I see an object,
I can usually tell whether or not it seems to
have a spiritual attachment, but I cannot always tell if
it's good or bad. Sometimes I just know there's something
(19:32):
attached to it, so I bring it into my my house.
And this says, I do not advise that you do this,
by the way, necessarily if you don't know what you're doing.
But I'll bring it into my house and I'll find
out within a few days if there's something good or bad.
In many cases, I find things that are absolutely lucky,
that bring good fortune, that create great synchronicity, that create
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you know, all kinds of wonderful vibes and healthy image.
But sometimes you you know, you bring an object in
and you say, oh, I don't think this should be
in my house anymore. So I bought quite a few
things on this trip, so many things that I even
bought a whole separate big suitcase, just a cram full
(20:16):
of stuff, and uh, and have that you sent back
to me on the airplane and so um. When I
got back home, I was really exhausted, and I was,
I was. I was not unpacking everything at once. I
had unpacked about half of my stuff. And I don't
want to tell you at this point what I got
(20:38):
because I'm still studying it and I don't want to
until I have all the results. And I don't want
to tell you exactly what I was dealing with. But
I got some things that were obviously haunted by some
bad energy. And here's how I know that. Here's what
happens to me when I bring something into my house
that's got bad juju. How it affects me is I
(20:59):
will be leaping. And this is this is some scary stuff.
I hate to even say this because you know I
don't want to. I don't want to manifest this for anybody.
But here, here it goes. I'll be I'll be lying
in bed sleeping or almost asleep, and then I will
hear something in the bedroom and it will tap on
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the wall, or it will scratch on the wall, or
occasionally it will tap me on the back, and I've
I'm getting I'm getting goose pumps right now even recalling this,
because when it happens, I whip around and sometimes I
might see a very very dark form there. Sometimes I
don't see anything, but the room gets really cold, and
(21:46):
at that point I know, oh, I think something something
is in here. But then the final straw is that
when I finally get to sleep, I will start having
some very intense nightmares. Uh. And that's when I believe
that these things are entering my room and interfering with
(22:07):
my sleep. And that's when I say, I got something
bad here and I need to get it out of here.
And so I wasn't sure which item I had brought
into my house that was creating this effect that I
had experienced multiple times before with other items. And after
(22:28):
two nights of this, I figured, well, maybe I'll just
take everything and put it into the storage one of
my storage units. And I opened up the suitcase and
I go, oh, look, I totally forgot about this. Gargole
that I bought this protective gargoyle. So I instantly brought
(22:48):
this gargoyle into my bedroom. And he's a very intimidating
looking guy, and I sat him. I said, I said
to him, your job is to protect me and scare
away these bad things. And I set him right there
next to me, and it was just like the air
was cleared. And since then I didn't even have to
(23:12):
take these negative things out of my house. He he
seemed to be keeping them away from me. And so
now I I carry him around if i'll if I'm
in the studio like I am right now, a lot
of times I'll bring him in and I'll sit him
right there, or certainly what I'm going to go to sleep.
And it reminds me a lot of the tradition behind
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Halloween in general. Do you remember why that we I've
told you this before, why that we wear masks at Halloween.
It goes back to a lot of the sort of
you know, pagan traditions, these ideas that when the harvest
period is about to kick in, the veil becomes very
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thin between our world and other worlds, and so these
spirits are able to slip into our world from the
Land of the Dead, and many of them are not
not They're not nice, okay they are. Some of them
are very nefarious, scary spirits. And so to combat that,
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we will wear Halloween masks that will either make it
seem as if we are blending in with these ghoules,
or we are trying to be even more intimidating than
they are and beating them at their their game and
scaring them away. And you know, we put out jack
lanterns and all these things to try to frighten off
(24:36):
the truly bad stuff. And so I think that maybe
when you have something like one of these little gargoyles,
it accomplishes a similar mission in your life. And you
know how, I did a podcast a while back and
I was talking about Herkimer diamonds, and I said, look,
I I could sell you a Herkimer diamond, but it's
(24:58):
not gonna work that well for you. You just need
to go online and you need to find one that
you connect with it feels right for you. It's the
same thing with these gargoyles. I just recommend that you
get on the internet and you just start looking around
at websites that have different kind of gargoyles, because there
are a million different types out there, and when you
find one that connects with you, you'll go ah ha.
(25:21):
And that is one that you can bring into your
life to see if it starts protecting you and scaring
some of these spooky things away. Now, if you want
to know just how much of an impact that paranormal
phenomena can make on your environment and how interactive these
energies can be, I have an experiment that I want
(25:43):
to tell you about that I did at a very
haunted house. And I also have what maybe some breaking
news about this haunted house. At least this is news
to me, and uh, I think especially those of you
who have I need some of the work I've done
in the mountains of western North Carolina, we'll want to
(26:05):
hear about this one. I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're listening
to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio and Coast
to Coast day AM paranormal podcast network. I'll be back
after these important messages. Don't go anywhere. There's more strange
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I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast. I am eron
Normal podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua Pete Warren, and
this is the show where the unusual becomes usual. I
was recently talking to producer Tom dan Heiser about the
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importance of charity. Uh. He is a very charitable guy,
and we both think that it really is wonderful to
support charitable causes. And when you do that, you create
positive energy for everybody. It helps you out as much
as the people you're helping out. And I do have
way too much stuff, and I don't think I'm ever
(28:27):
gonna be able to put it all on display. And
so I think what I'm gonna be doing is auctioning
off some of the things that I have in my collection,
my personal collection, and some of the stuff from the
Ashville Mystery Museum. Auctioning off things that have a positive
or protective spiritual energy or or just something that's really
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cool and and neat and funky and decorative. And I'll
start auctioning these things off from time to time and
um giving a good chunk of that to charities. So
I have this website called unusual Auctions dot com unusual
auctions dot com, and if you go there and check it,
(29:11):
check it as often as possible, you never know what
I will have there for you at unusual auctions dot com.
Speaking of the Asheville Mystery Museum, the museum, of course,
unfortunately is no longer around because you know, it got
flooded in and we just ended up having to move
it out of there, and so all the contents are
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in two different storage units, one in Asheville and one
here in Las Vegas. Asheville, North Carolina, is where I
was born and raised, and Asheville is in Buncombe County,
and the oldest standing structure in Buncomb County there at
least around Asheville, I'm sure, is called the Smith McDowell House.
(29:57):
And it was built an eight team four and James
McConnell Smith was the guy who built it. And he
was you know, he owned like a gold mine and
all kinds of businesses. I can't remember all the stuff
that he had, but he was. He was a very
well to do man. And the Smith McDowell House contacted
(30:21):
me many years ago, I mean gosh, i'd say almost
twenty years or something like that ago, and they asked
me and my Lemur team to start doing investigations of
the Smith McDowell house. And we had carte blanche to
go there and not only do investigations, but I also
(30:42):
was able to work with them to do some Halloween events,
which helped them raise money because they're nonprofit, and we
had people who would come from all over the country
and participate in that. And the thing about the old
Smith McDowell House is that, um, it's haunted apparently by
a little girl. We're not sure who she is, but
a lot of people have seen a little girl. And
(31:04):
I actually was. I I hosted a ghost hunt at
the Smith mcdoell House, oh about thirteen years ago for
a celebrity, Kelly Pickler, the country singer. She was big
on American Idol. She's a television personality. Kelly Pickler came
to Asheville and the local radio station there five seventy
(31:27):
w W n C and and and their affiliates. They
asked me if I would take Kelly Pickler on a
ghost hunt. And so my team and I took Kelly
Pickler to the Smith McDowell House for a night and
we had a blast. I mean, she was just the sweetest, loveliest,
most humble person and she was just having a great time.
We all had a lot of fun. Dean Worsing was
(31:49):
there that night. Dean Worsing brought a little rubber ball
like a kid would play with, and he would set
that thing down in a room and we would dim
the lights. We'd start asking the little girl to play
with the ball and it would start rolling around. As
a matter of fact, there's video of this on YouTube.
If you go to YouTube and you just do a
(32:10):
search for Kelly Pickler ghost hunt. Her first name is
spelled k E L l I E and then Pickler.
You know p I C K L E. R. Kelly
Pickler ghost Hunt. You'll see some clips that. Um. Then
Kelly Pickler's channel posted from that from that investigation. So, um,
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it's a really interesting place for a number of reasons.
But we've we've never been exactly sure why it was
so haunted. I mean, we'd heard that there were you know,
there there were servants there that were mistreated and all
that kind of stuff. Well, I got a message just
days ago from a researcher named Rebecca and she found
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this article that was published in a newspaper called The
Asheville Messenger onto some forty and here's what it says.
Suicide on Sunday evening, a man whose name, from papers
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found in his possession is supposed to be Robert B.
Hamilton's put an end to his earthly existence at the
house of James M. Smith. That's the guy, James McConnell
Smith in this village, by hanging himself with his pocket
handkerchief fastened to the bedpost. What could have induced him
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to commit this rash act and thus rush unbidden into
the presence of his maker. He has left no clue
by which we can ascertain or even conjecture. Funny how
they wrote back then, isn't It goes on to say
he came to the house of Mr Smith on Saturday
evening in the southern stage, complained of being indisposed posed,
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and went to a private room, where he remained until
he tied the fatal noose on the next evening. From
papers found in his possession, it is supposed he had
heretofore resided in Abbeyville, South Carolina, and that he had
recently been at Spartanburg, and he had with him about
(34:20):
one hundred fifty dollars in money and copies of notes
supposed to have been placed in the hands of some
person for collection to the amount of about sixteen hundred dollars,
which are in the hands of Mr Smith. So I
sent that to Vance Pollock, Sherlock Pollock, and he is
the best forensic historian I've ever met. And uh, Vance says, yeah,
(34:43):
this looks like it's that's him. So I don't recall
ever having proof of a suicide at the Smith mcdwellhouse before,
but there it is. Asheville Messenger, December Christmas Day of
eighteen forty on page three. How do you like that
I did a really interesting experiment at the Smith McDowell
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House because one of the things that people would always
experience there, uh, we're batteries running down. I cannot tell
you how many times my team and I would go
in there, and I don't care if we were using
walkie talkies or video cameras or whatever, we had. Something
paranormal would start happening and then boom, the batteries would
(35:28):
get zapped. And when people would come and do our
ghost hunts, the same thing would happen. These strange people
who would come from all over the country. They would
just be walking around shooting video and boom, it would
stop working, you know, the camera, the battery. And so
I always wonder, what is this phenomenon about. Is it
possible that when a ghost or something like that is
(35:48):
going to materialize that it it needs energy from somewhere,
so it taps into a battery and drains that energy.
Is that possible that that's what's happening. So I did
really interesting experiment. I took a little battery powered fan.
I did this back in two thousand six, I think, yeah,
(36:09):
two thousand six. I took a fan that was powered
by two double a batteries, and I set it up
in front of a camera and I let it run,
and I recorded the entire duration of how long it ran,
right down to the second. It ran for one hour
and thirty eight minutes and then it stopped. I put
(36:31):
that exact and I did I did that at my
home as a control. I took that exact same set
up to the basement of the Smith McDowell house, where
batteries were draining all the time. I set everything up,
left it alone, and guess what. In that case, I
got the exact same result. The motor ran for one
(36:52):
hour and thirty eight minutes. Now, granted there were some
slight variations, but not much. The temperature was the same
in both locations. And I did this only days apart.
So what can we conclude from this? I don't know.
(37:15):
But but what I can tell you is that when
I did this at my house as a control, I
left it alone. And when I did this at the
Smith pick dollhouse as a control or what it was,
as an as an experiment, I left it alone. So
I'm wondering if the parapsychologists are right that for ghostly
(37:38):
things to start happening, for there to be an exchange
of energy. You're better off if you have people there
in the mix interacting with things. That's not the case
all the time, but in many cases it may be
that you need to have a person there to somehow interfere.
I did not repeat that experiment, but I I'm I'm
(38:02):
wondering if you can do something like that. I can't
do everything. I have too much stuff going on, especially
at this time in my life. But it's an easy
experiment to do. Set up a camera, put a fan
there with the clock right behind time it, and you know,
in your living room or some control location, and then
take it somewhere that's supposed to be paranormally active and
(38:24):
do it and see if you can get it to
slow down the rate of the battery flow or somehow
affect that battery charge um by your presence. You see,
somehow ghosts in the environment and ourselves all work together
(38:47):
and all interact. But we still don't know exactly how
it works. I got an email I want to read
to you, though, from a guy who said, I love
the show and I've been wanting to tell you for
a long time about what happened to my mom. This
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is a listener in Canada, and actually I've got a
couple of other really cool emails. I'm gonna try to
squeeze in here. I'm Joshua B. Warren. You're listening to
Strange Things on the I R Radio and Coast to
Coast AM baron normal podcast network. I'll be right back.
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That's Coast to Coast AM dot com. Welcome back, to
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the final segment of this edition of Strange Things on
the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast, a AM
paranormal podcast network. I'm your host, Joshua pe Warren, and
I received this email from Frank in Ontario, Canada. He says,
(41:18):
you absolutely rock. I love listening to you. I dig
your humor. I've been following you for quite a while
and you never disappoint Wow. Thank you, Frank. What a
nice way to start a message. I appreciate that, and
I like that you dig my sense of humor because
(41:40):
a lot of people do not get it. So anyway,
Frank goes on to say, I have a story for you.
My mom is a Jehovah's witness and I was raised
in that religion but left at sixteen. Is having said that,
my mom tells of a worry when I think I
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was six years old. My father worked at General Motors
and that week worked the afternoon shift, so he would
come home around eleven pm. My mom would visit the
farm next to us as we became friends, and I
would play with their son, Joey. But that week, Joey's
mother came to visit my mom at our house. Oh
(42:25):
and a side note, Joey's mom was known to be
a fortune teller in Hungary and uh So, anyway, he says,
this is interesting how he writes this. But he says,
when this woman will come to visit, my mom preached
to her and my but my mom would let her
smoke in the house. You gotta remember this is like
(42:47):
the early seventies. So he says, my mom had what
she said could only be the reason of what she
left behind where her smoke butts. So my mom did
her thing, and they talked and they did whatever, and
Joey's mom left. Well, that night, my mother heard around
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the door in the back of the house open. Now,
when you came into the back of the house, he
would walk up three stairs into the kitchen and turn
right going down the hall to go right to my
parents bedroom, and if you went left, it would go
to the kid's bedroom. So after hearing the door opened,
my mother assumed it was my father coming up the stairs.
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She heard big, heavy feet, a lot of heavy breathing.
My mom slept with her back towards the door. So
the heavy footsteps coming down the hall were very very heavy,
my mama says, And they came into the room beside
the bed, and my mother says, dear, what are you doing?
And then it was like a handprint that pressed down
(43:54):
her shoulder all the way down to her elbow and
pressed her into the bed to the point that it
hurt her her pushed her deep into the bed, and
she looked around to see if it was my dad,
and she says there was no one there, and she
tells of how she prayed to God, and then all
she heard was three or four steps running away, running
(44:18):
from the bed, almost as if something ran and jumped
the fly away, that's her words. And then nothing. And
then fifteen seconds later the back door opened again and
it was my father this time. The story gives me
the creeps to this day. As a child up till
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I left home, I've had so many instances that were
unexplained and very scary. All the best, well, well, thank you, Frank.
I guess the you know, the idea here is that
maybe the fortune teller brought some kind of energy over
(44:59):
into your house right that your mom found disagreeable. It
reminds me of what I was saying earlier in the
show though, right about something coming into your bedroom that
freaks you out. That is some freaky stuff. Okay, how
about this one? This comes to me from Gary, He
says Mr Warren. I'm currently listening to the first couple
(45:21):
episodes of Strange Things on Spotify at work, and when
I heard you speak about parasim atics, my interest was
piqued and I was compelled to write you. By the way,
when I first listened to the tone of the one
dollar Bill, I had some fortuitous manifestations. I've heard you
on coast to coast before and heard your name a
few times here and there, but I had not realized
(45:43):
just what you were onto. I've been researching ruins, symbology, mythology,
et cetera for years now. I'm just a mechanic with
some quirky interests, and I read about these subjects in
search of the truth. Manifestation, interdimensional portals, lost knowledge, ancent
civilizations as a visual representation. I enjoy the Marvel film
(46:03):
Doctor Strange as an illustration of magic. The explanation as
fairly accurate as I see things as well. I don't
mean it's a literal depiction, of course, It's just a
good representation of concentrating and imagining the symbols that helped
to focus the energies of the universe to manifest and
conjure things. There are many ways to depict these symbols runes, pictograms,
(46:26):
Mandola's mudras. There are representations of energy such as sound waves, light,
et cetera. And what I'm getting about it. What I'm
getting at here is have you applied parasit matics to
various symbols to explore what tones they create at what frequencies?
I believe that translating symbols into sounds the frequencies may
(46:48):
have an effect on energy or matter, especially if used together.
Think of the seven tones produced by the pillars of
the Hindu Temple. Have you ever fed the various tones
that astronomers have picked up into symatic devices to explore
perhaps what symbols are formed. I have many thoughts, questions,
and theories I'd love to pick your brain about, but
(47:09):
you're a busy guy, so hopefully I'm steering you an
interesting direction. Thank you for that message, Gary, And yes, yes, yes,
I have done all that. Um. I created parasymatics as
a a form of taking sounds and turning them into images,
(47:29):
but then I advanced that into parasymatics two point oh,
in which I take images and turn them into sounds.
And I will just tell you I have a lot
more coming out this year about my sigil work. I'm
just so swamped. But if you want the latest, all
you have to do right now is go to Joshua P.
Warren dot com. On the homepage, you can scroll down
(47:53):
and you will see right now some sigils listed there
and under it and yellow letters, it says update. For
a complete list of new sigils, click here. And if
you click that where it says for a complete list
of new sigils, click here. That will take you to
the big page that's got everything about parasi matics and
(48:14):
paris imatics two point oh, where I'm doing all this stuff.
But I will have some big announcements later this year,
at least I planned to. For those of you who
follow me through my free e newsletter. I have some
brand new sigil stuff and parasimatic stuff I'm gonna be releasing. Okay,
let me try to squeeze one more in here from David.
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He says, on September six one, I started experiencing a
very annoying problem that persisted all day every day. It
was related to another nagging problem of several years duration.
So on October I loaded the psionic de materializer with
(48:59):
the annoying problem. Blum, Now, let me pause. He's talking
about something called the bad buster that I have my
curiosity shop, and he says the bad buster. Psionic de
materializer worked again. I loaded it with my problem, and
two days later I was inspired to start walking daily,
(49:20):
but to minor help. After a few weeks it was
fifty percent better. But I was then inspired to totally
quit a five year habit of two or three twenty
ounce SODA's a day. That was the answer. Just eighteen
(49:41):
days later, the problem was gone, and by December two
it was gone. On December I was so satisfied with
the result, I removed and trashed the paper note and
returned the psionic de materializer to its box. As of
(50:02):
December thirty one, the annoying problem and the years long
nagging are both one hundred percent gone. I do not
want the sodas anymore. It worked again. Thank you, David. David.
I am so happy to hear that. And you know
that's the thing. I know that when you when I
(50:24):
talk about some of this crazy sounding stuff on this show,
a lot of it's free. Some of it you know,
you have to go to my Curiosity Shop to buy it,
but I tell people you buy it and if you
if if this doesn't work for you, you have a
one percent money back guarantee. I'm providing this for you
this because it worked for me, and I'm hoping it
(50:45):
works somehow for you, and so uh, it would be
a pretty poor decision if I had to give everybody
a refund, right, So no. I put these out there
because they're experimental. I can't explain how they work. But
when stuff works for me, I share it with all
of you. So thank you, David, and congratulations. Here's something
(51:07):
free that works for a lot of people. A lot
of people look forward to this every single week. It
is the good Fortune tone. Take a deep breath, if
you can, close your eyes, and hopefully this tone will
make your next week the best one ever. That's it
(51:49):
for this edition of the show. Follow me on Twitter
at Joshua pee Warren. Plus visit Joshua pee Warren dot
com to sign up for my free e newsletter to
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Cool Stuff and the Curiosity Shop. All at Joshua P.
Warren dot com. I have a fun one lined up
(52:09):
for you next time, I promise, so please tell all
your friends to subscribe to this show and who always
remember the Golden rule. Thank you for listening, thank you
for your interest in support, thank you for staying curious,
and I we'll talk to you again soon. You've been
(52:31):
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