October 13, 2025 • 36 mins
A quiet New Year’s stroll at Miami’s Bayside turns into a story you feel in your bones—a swell of bodies running, a ripple in the air that won’t resolve, and a shape you can describe only in metaphors. We step into that moment on the linoleum, right where curiosity edges past fear, and bring you the first-person rush of a night that refuses to fit the official script. From the intimate details—the mojito glass, the banyan’s hush, the tug of a partner’s hand—to the jolt of gunshots and the flood of squad cars, we trace how a simple evening got swallowed by something stranger.
Then we do the work: placing eyewitness memories alongside the city’s statements, counting the cruisers, sorting rumors from records, and interrogating the vanishing act of footage that should exist. Fireworks and rowdy teens might explain noise, but how do you explain the scale of the response, the reports of phones checked and files deleted, the blackout stories, the helicopters, and the media’s brief, incurious shrug? We weigh mundane answers—overreaction, face-saving, policy failure—against the theories that went viral: a portal opening, shadow entities slipping through, kids in goggles with gear they shouldn’t have. Not to sensationalize, but to ask why our reality-testing fails where our pattern-recognition screams.
What emerges is a study in ambiguity, fear, and narrative power. Memory warps under adrenaline; institutions often choose silence and snark over transparency; and the internet fills every gap with myth. Whether Bayside hosted aliens, errors, or a little of both, the deeper question remains: who gets to tell the story when the cameras go dark? Join us as we pull apart the threads—police response, witness contradictions, missing CCTV—and reckon with why we keep hoping the world is weirder than it admits. If this ride makes you think, laugh, or re-check your priors, tap follow, share it with a skeptic, and drop your theory in a review—we’re reading every one.
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SPEAKER_01 (00:00):
Okay, you wouldn't give the kids in the whole
thing.
Hey, there's a spider on yourback.
SPEAKER_00 (00:11):
Fun silver rated.
Ever dance with the devil in thebelly mind.
SPEAKER_02 (00:46):
We don't like doing this.
SPEAKER_01 (01:30):
I just watched the squeeze through a ventilation.
This is a side development,ladies and gentlemen.
Well it is spooky season.
Take our hands as our companionsas we hop to the TARDIS and
traverse the great waves ofhistory all the way back to the
far distant yesteryear of 2024.
SPEAKER_00 (01:51):
It's a beautiful Miami evening.
It's the mid-70s, a pleasantbreeze coming off the Biscayne
Bay, and you are taking a lovelystroll in your day off.
You need some chill, becauseyesterday was an all-night
rager.
It's January 1st, 2024, andafter a lazy day of sleeping in,
it's time to feel like a humanonce more.
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So you figured you pick up yourpartner and just go have a nice
leisurely walk about, theBayside Mall.
Bayside, which is aboutthree-minute drive from
downtown, is an open-air mallthat shares elements of a
traditional mall and waterfrontpavilion.
Pavilion sandwiched between themarina water and a nestle of
shops, restaurants, loungyhangouts, and a Ferris wheel.
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Depending on the vibes for thenight, you might do some night
shopping at your standard mallspots, you know, your favorites
like Foot Locker, Victoria'sSecret, or maybe the Sunglass
Hut.
Mmm, that's a kiosk.
Or maybe taking a bite and brew.
You could even slum it with thetourist at Margaritaville or
Bubba Gumps.
Slumming it?
This is the height of eleganceand regal dining.
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So far, it's been a lovelyevening.
You walk around upstairs tocheck out some chains and
downstairs to some of theboutiques.
The time together has been fullof laughs.
While at the Mojito Barrecounting the shenanigans your
newly single friend got up tolast night.
Or tripping over a yo-yo somekid must have dropped.
They still make those?
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After a while, you felt a bitpeckish and decided to grab an
evening snack.
Some ice creams at scoops.
And why not take in some longlicks with a stroll by the
Bayside Banyan tree?
This is a 110-year-old70-foot-tall tree, a symbol of
nature's endurance, especiallyas it sustained despite the
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crass capitalist infrastructurebuilt up around it.
Now it was mid-bad joke whenthere was a commotion.
You thought there might be araucous caused by live music
getting ready to go on by thewaterfront stage, but the hubbub
began to swell and spill outfrom the entryways of the
shopping pavilion, both in soundand in bodies.
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You both pushed past the youngIndian woman, pushing her
elderly relative.
Their eyes were wide andfrantic.
Your partner is hesitant andtugged at your arm in
resistance.
Something appears to havefrightened these fling people,
but your curiosity is piqued.
So much of your days are satbehind a dingy computer on the
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bottom level of a nondescriptbuilding leased by an irrelevant
company, a cog, and the blandoff-white machine of mediocrity.
You crave some excitement inyour mundane existence, and you
just feel there is somethingthere that just needs to be
seen.
It's like the hairs on your armstouched by a battery.
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Your partner and toe, youquicken your footfalls.
Adrenaline seeps into yourbloodstream.
There are screams and gaps inthe walkway in front of you.
Your breathing becomes frenzied,as did your darting gaze, trying
to peer over the quickening massof people rushing towards you.
You dance and push past them.
About 30 feet ahead, you seesome kids, maybe in their late
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teens, pushing each other.
Your first assumption is that,oh, this is this is a fight and
it's a brew, and or maybe it'sjust simmering down, and this
must be the reason for all theraised voices.
But then you notice more peoplerushing past them, and that some
of those youths are hauling assas well.
But what from?
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You move to push further on.
The draw still palpable despiteits indefinability.
Yet as you shoulder through afumbling Otaku 20-something
whose stained chainsaw man animegirl t-shirt could have parted
its own sea of humanity with itspungent aroma, you feel a yank
at your sleeve.
You turn to meet the gaze ofyour partner, their eyes awash
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with anxiety.
They do not want to go on, andare more than content to
accompany the masses out awayfrom these polished linoleum
floors and out the nearest door.
But you, for some odd reason,need to see what is going on.
You brace the pair of youagainst the oncoming mass of
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human expedience to the nearbypillar.
Just stay here a minute.
I'll be right back.
Buttressed against the whitecolumn, their eyes scream
reticence about your decision,but you have bolted from them
before their vocalizationagainst your decision can find
purchase.
SPEAKER_01 (06:39):
Now you need You want to take that one again?
Vocalization?
SPEAKER_00 (06:45):
Buttressed against the white column, their eyes
scream reticence about yourdecision.
But you have bolted from thembefore their vocalization
against your decision can findpurchase.
Now you need to get past thesethrongs with urgency as to not
make the one you left behindeven more perturbed than they
are bound to be.
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You leap forward, just barelymissing a six-year-old's face
with your oncoming knee.
And you bound toward whatever isgoing on.
Your attention was distracted bythe near mist that you have only
just realized that you have gonepast where those scuffling boys
were.
Turn ahead and notice that youare now amongst only a few
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people who seem to form a circlearound it.
There may not be a better way todefine what you see, because it
defies all rational thought.
What meets your eyes is like theeye of reality itself flittering
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open and shut.
Imagine an old tube TV, like theones they would wheel into class
when your teacher was ill.
Imagine that TV switching fromone channel to another, but it
didn't quite catch and come on.
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The hazy, wavy image, not quitecrash, statically digitized, and
then supplanted by what shouldbe.
It was like that, but the veryair in front of you didn't make
sense.
You transfixed, your mouthagape.
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What is that?
Your mind questions.
Your eyes move past your mind tostrain to make out the
difference in what is and isn't.
You awaken from the haze ofdecipherment to realize you
unconsciously began to extendyour hand out to the questioning
phenomena some dozen feet awayfrom you.
And then, as if you sat down inthe darkened IMAX to see what
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latest action the blue people inthe savage land are up to and
put your special glasses on, atweak in your perception steals
the air from your lungs.
In this moment, the blank canvasof your wonder is being dunked
in the blackening icker of fear.
But what your body has begun tograsp is an impossibility, an
illogical thing that in your gutdoes not demand your
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inquisition, but your fight orflight response.
What was once a flickeringglitch in the matrix of your
understanding has been replacedby a dark, eight-foot humanoid
entity, emerging from thecrackling miasma of what you
knew as true five minutes ago.
It's tough for you to recall howlong you stood there, mesmerized
by what can't be solidifying infront of you.
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It's still hard now for you tofully describe it.
You could swear there was aface, eyebrows, a mouth,
emotion, but you can't put itinto words.
It was like a weirdamalgamation, like smoke made
flesh, like a shadow of an NPCfrom Tron, but tangible, like an
alien from signs made of blackstatic and fear.
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Embossed Ebony Hayes.
It seemed both deadly real andalso a phantasmagoric ethereal
intruder, like it was meant tobe on a different spatial plane
of existence.
Hell, maybe it was.
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Honestly, your mind could haveturned a frothy goop that was
able to drip out of your nostrilat the exposure to whatever this
is had consumed your will andability to exist as anything
other than a stone silhouette ofyourself.
If it wasn't for the crack ofthunder echoing through the
structure, you may have beenrooted to the spot forevermore.
But after that second 9mm blockround whizzed in your direction,
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you escaped that fix that shockhad latched you onto.
Maybe it had been a coupleminutes, maybe 15.
What is time in the face of aparadigm shift?
However long it was, the clockstruck like a cop's round, being
fired in fear, which might bethe most terrifying sound
possible for so many.
You bolted with every ounce ofstrength you could muster.
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Amazingly running directlytowards the death merchants,
unburdening their sidearms.
But their shot rung in your soulas a starting gun to escape
something far worse in yourwake.
You caught up to your partner,whose wrist became your new
tether to life itself, and youhugged the glass stone front and
eggshell painted walls until youwere past the frenzied others
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escaping whatever that is orwas, and you all scooted past
your guardlings who werepointing hot death towards that
thing with complete conviction.
Wild elbows, the chirps ofterror, the heavy pants of
escape pushed us out into thereassuring ocean breeze outside
the structure.
It was like falling into a pool,that shocking smack of your
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senses reacclimating to a wholenew element.
You came too.
What the fuck was that thing?
You almost didn't recognize yourown terrified squeak.
The fear surrounding the etherof those words congealing in
your core.
Was that real?
What is going on?
Surprisingly, your partner'sgrip on your forearm can't
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explain but soothes.
There are real things.
Things you know, things you cancount on, and they are with you
despite what that was or whathappened.
They usher you further outsidethe complex and out in front of
the entrance.
Your senses are further greetedby what you can only describe as
an army of police, flashinglights, sirens, and the wicked
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finely tuned purr of cop carssurrounded you.
It was an onslaught.
As you go to question one of theswarm of police rushing towards
you, wham! You are crashed intoby a couple of large black
gentlemen.
This thing of concrete meetingthe point of your bracing elbows
snaps into you, as does theweight of the smaller gentleman
having tripped on his cohort.
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Words barely have time toregister beyond thoughts, let
alone utterances, before yourgaze meets his and the
recognition marries yourexperience with his own.
He has the bright, wide eyes ofterror, silently crying out to
you for hope.
You want to embrace thestranger.
A sentiment that still shocksyou, like your body knew what
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you needed, and youinstinctively wanted to give
that to someone else.
A reassurance of reality, ahuman understanding.
And yet, at this moment, thepoliceman that had been the hope
of answers to safety waswrangling this gentleman and his
partner and you down onto theconcrete.
It would have been nice if youcould insist that it was
difficult to extricate yourselffrom this charged
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misunderstanding, that it wasdue to will or being right.
Those things did not win theday.
Rather, judgments of thesuperficial.
Something of the dermis andpigmentation is what colored the
turn of estimation.
The two men were taken from theasphalt towards one of the
waiting patrol vehicles, and youwere left alone.
Your attention turns to yourpartner, who has had her own
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run-in with authorities.
They are just being releasedfrom the strong grip of a couple
officers.
Your partner angrily snatchestheir phone, the offering mitts
of a pudgy policeman on theirleft who is now departing
rapidly.
You shuffle over to meet them asthey spit vitril back at the law
official.
Fuck you, this is bullshit! Theyhuff, to no apparent avail.
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What was all that about?
Are you alright?
You excitedly inquire.
No, yeah, yeah, those assholes.
As you bustle away searching foryour car in the maelstrom of
lights, sirens, and hysteria,your partner describes their own
run-in with law enforcement.
Them, along with others, werehalted on their escape.
The phone in their hand wasmotioned to, and like her fellow
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escapees, was pressured todisplay and delete any photos or
videos from their device.
Of course, being who they are,they've put up a modicum of
pushback.
What is this?
SPEAKER_01 (14:55):
A Banana Republic fascist regime?
SPEAKER_00 (14:58):
But with an officer holding each arm, the
threatening scowls and growlspaired with the ominous hands on
their sidearms, an implicitthreat of violence, and the
scene of multiple people ziptied and being disappeared, your
partner acquiesced.
Upon entering your car, it wasalmost like an out-of-body
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experience on the drive home.
It was a blur and you can onlyrecall flashes.
With the adrenaline andparadigm-shattering serum of
experience coursing through yourveins, hazing out the details.
Upon reflection, you didn'tremember the kids with goggles?
Or the strange wired boxesaround the feet of the incident?
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Things that your partnerobserved from a distance, but
your memory doesn't seem clearabout.
Nor astonishingly, the number ofbeings that you both remember
seeing.
Was there more than one of thosethings?
You didn't recall it comingafter you, but your partner
recollected alternatively, withits menace manifesting and
marching towards both you andthe onlookers.
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No, so many details were oddlydifferent.
Didn't quite fit together.
It was all a jumble.
Didn't make sense.
Questions birthed into your mindupon returning home from an
incident, both inexplicable andunforgettable.
Is this the first step?
What is the news saying aboutthis?
Why did the authorities takeeverybody's phones and what were
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those that are disabled?
What comes next?
On January 1st, 2024, officiallythere's an altercation at the
Bayside Mall in Miami.
Supposedly, there are a group ofteenagers causing mischief while
roving through the mall.
Then a scuffle ensued.
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During the ruckus, it is saidthat these teens were firing off
fireworks.
The amount of teens is unclear.
Supposedly the group of about 50juveniles lighting off fireworks
and carousing about.
Mistaking the explosions forgunfire, the police were called.
Those within the mall fled.
Now it is unclear at what pointthe officers arrived, but
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somehow it was determined that alarger police contingent was
necessary to regain control ofthe situation.
Supposedly, a Code 3, this isemergency response requiring
lights and sirens, often forsituations involving immediate
danger to life, serious injury,or the prevention of a felony.
Typically, this triggersmultiple units to respond
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quickly, but in this case, itwas citywide reinforcements.
This prompted a massive, massivepolice response.
At least 30, though some reportsclaim 60 or even 90 police
vehicles responded and floodedthe area around the mall.
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This is along with multiplehelicopters, reportedly black in
appearance, hovering above themall at the same time.
Now, after the crowd dispersed,multiple teens were said to have
been taken into custody for theevents of the evening.
I was unable to track down andobtain the identities of any of
these individuals, but that iswhat officials told reporters at
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the time.
Yeah, it is.
Police were dispatched for whathe said, quote unquote, for
crowd control due to the littlerascals refusing to leave,
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Vegeta had said in an email toNBC News.
Quote unquote, some businesseswere temporarily closed to allow
us to clear the area.
Now, after this, social mediawas a buzz, with a reaction to
the size of the police presenceand the multiple supposed
witnesses describing a fardifferent scene.
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What many people said were sevento ten foot alien creatures,
possibly caught on camera,showed up inside and later
outside the Miami Mall.
Now, reports vary.
I went through on social mediaand different videos, podcasts,
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news reports of about a dozen orso different accounts, and
they're all kind of quitevaried.
Some of them have keysimilarities, but there are some
vast differences as well.
But essentially what they say isthat somehow these alien
entities that were black, kindof shadowy in appearance, uh
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boy.
Showed up inside the mall.
Some say there were one, somesay there were three.
It's unclear.
There were descriptions of apossible portal of some sort
that opened up inside the mall,uh, allowing these entities to
pass through.
There are some stories ofpossible youths that appear to
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have equipment, like uh likewhat they were described as like
welder's goggles, uh, and thatsome of them had like scientific
equipment that they laid out andpossibly activated, which may or
may have opened said portal andlet in said entities.
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There is discussion of theseshadow figures escaping and
being caught leaving the scene.
There is a video of kind of thethe front entrance to the mall,
and in in one of the videos youcan kind of see what looks like
a shadow kind of move around andthen kind of dissipate into the
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air.
Rafael Horta, a Miami policespokesman, said the claim that
the video shows aliens at theshopping mall is false.
It's actually just a personwalking with a shadow, Horta
said in a January 5 Instagramvideo posted by the Miami Police
Department.
So I confirm to you all heretoday, right now, that there are
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no aliens in Miami in BaysideMarketplace at the moment.
Thanks, Mr.
Horta.
Uh other reports claim thatpolice were confiscating and
deleted uh footage from cellphones or any recording devices
uh as they were uh people werefleeing the scene.
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Um supposedly one person saidthat uh he got out with footage
because he had uh an old VHScamcorder that he was recording
things on.
Um I have supposedly I have seenwhat has been put out there,
supposed footage from thatcamcorder.
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One, nobody's getting out with acamcorder and not having that
thing taken.
If they're if they're goingthrough phones, two, the footage
is worthless.
There was nothing there.
People that were passing by andrecording things were forced to
either pull over, stop on theside of the street, and delete
their footage.
There are at least a couplepeople who said they were
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driving and then stopped andthen were recording both the
helicopters and possibleentities escaping the mall and
said they were forced to deletetheir footage.
As the story goes, the airspacearound the mall and the Miami
area was shut down and flightswere grounded and the airport
became non-functional.
I've looked into a few peopledeeper into this, can't find any
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backing for that.
That doesn't appear to be true.
I think that's a bit of a debunkclaim.
There were at least a couplepeople interviewed that said
that there was a UFO seen abovethe mall the day before and that
day.
Now, there was electricitydisrupted.
According to some sources, thisis true that the electricity
inside the mall went out andsurrounding areas and parts of
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Miami, the electricity did goout and there was a blackout.
The story of this was that therewas a runaway vehicle that hit
an electrical pole causing theblackout.
This was the report from thepolice.
I can neither confirm nor deny.
But also, if we're taking any ofthis with anything more than a
grain of salt, the police arewilling to lie about everything
happening in the mall.
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Why would they lie about ablackout?
Yeah, and the reason for that?
Now there are a few things thatare odd about this that really
draw interest.
One is the massive police force.
That's curious because somepeople that were asked, you
know, their residents in Miami,and they've had active shooters,
and they said, you know, youmaybe get three, five cars
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there, but not 10, not 20, not30, not 90.
I've sent you pictures of thisin videos, and this is it's all
you can see.
The entire block in both ways islined up with police.
There's like 50,000 police carsthere.
It's so many.
And I think that's one of thosefirst things, at least when I
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heard about this, that piqued myinterest.
Why?
Without any declaration ofactive shooter or terrorist
bombing or natural disaster,none of those has prompted this
much police interaction.
Yeah, that's weird.
You think a black man justjaywalked.
It's also very odd that if therewas this big fight that they
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talked about happening thatprompted all of these cars to
show up, that these teenagers,there's no recordings that I
could find or anybody else thatI could search into could find
about these high school kidsrecording this big fight,
recording setting off thesefireworks?
Nothing.
That doesn't sound normal to me.
Why wouldn't they?
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Also, they have they catch 50kids make and they arrest four
with their 50 cop cars.
And again, I can't perhaps Iwasn't diligent enough in
searching, but I also don't knowif I can track down the records
of all arrests made for thatday, if they're juveniles.
But I haven't heard anything.
SPEAKER_01 (25:23):
Seems like overkill, but I mean overreaction is a
typical response.
SPEAKER_00 (25:28):
That's true.
There have been supposedlymultiple paranormal
investigators who went there andsupposedly gotten responses on
their ends, spirit boxes andwhatnot, you know, the creme to
the creme of paranormal researchand investigation, and
supposedly that said things likeshadow people, aliens, and
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portal.
I don't give a shit about any ofthat.
But I do find it interestingthat also if they had this big
viral incident that has promptedspeculation and fascination
online, it has been mentioned bythe Kardashians on their
television show that no policebody cam footage or actual CCTV
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from inside that mall eversurfaced, either confirming or
debunking the story.
It seemed really easy if youwanted to say, A, there weren't
that many caps, b, there were noaliens, c there was no blackout,
anything.
You could easily show footagesaying, No, look, see, this has
been happening, but nothing.
And silence.
It's also really odd that withthis huge police force showing
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up, media coverage was prettymuch non existent.
There were some local TVstations covering the night.
Oh, some cops showed up.
Yep, some kids, nothing.
Moved about their day, didn'ttalk about it.
As the story went viral, forabout the next week or two, you
had some other outlets pickingup the story, being like, Oh, we
talked to the policerepresentatives, or statements
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from this officer or thatofficer.
There's nothing to see here.
It was all a hoax.
It was just some kids.
Okay.
So nothing.
Um, now, granted, if it reallywas that, you'd say the exact
same thing.
But of all of the encounters,the recounting of the incidents,
very few of the eyewitnesses, tome, feel reliable.
Some had stories that were laterrecanted, others even recanted
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those previous revocations,saying that they were pressured
into silence, and then they shutup about it, and then they're
coming back out to say, no, whatI originally said was true.
You have quite a few storiesfrom supposed people at the
scene who said they came out andmade all that stuff up.
It's very hard to find one thatfeels tangible and reliable.
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Which I would hope with thatmany people in the mall seeing
this, you'd have at least onestory that you could really sink
your teeth into.
But what is tangible is thetruly massive police response.
And again, that's curious.
I can't recall for myself muchoutside of 9-11 prompting such
police engagement.
So why so few arrests?
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Why is media engagement lacking?
Sure, you can say the officialline prompted no further
investigations, but it isperplexing and a bit
tantalizing.
But with so little videoevidence and scattered
eyewitness testimonies withvaried stories, descriptions,
and synopsis, you also have noleaks.
There was no video footage thatgot out there, there is nothing
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from CCTV.
You feel like something wouldget out.
Especially if you're having justthe police department crack down
this.
This wasn't the FBI, this wasn'tthe NSA, this wasn't some secret
men in black operation showingup to quiet things down.
They're just the local cops.
There's one fun video of onegentleman whose father is Miami
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Sheriff.
He's recording the video callwith his father.
And he's like, hey, I saw therewas a big Miami incident at the
mall.
There's uh some aliens.
What happened?
He's like, I can't talk aboutthat.
And he's like, What do you meanyou can't talk about it?
Come on.
He's like, You've told me aboutall these other things that
happened.
You know, what's going on?
He's like, nope, I can't.
We're not going to talk aboutthat.
And granted, that could be anactive investigation.
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They probably shouldn't discussthe details, but at least he
found it odd.
The sun did.
And it's one of those you'veheard multiple things like that
from Roswell, their Area 51, youknow, officials who, quote, have
seen things, but they're hushhush, not allowed to say things.
And whether it's uh true or not,it's fascinating.
And it's fun.
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Which is really what this wholething's about.
It's fun.
Honestly, I don't know which ismost plausible except for our
collective adherence to anaccepted reality.
Ten foot dark shadow alienentities invade a mall, or 90
cop cars descend on a mall toarrest a handful of zealous.
What if they were alien youth?
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They just came for a brew inorange action.
They are delicious.
Pretty good.
But we all know which one ismore fun.
And which one is moreterrifying?
Paranormal entities manifestinginside a busy, major city mall,
authorities fascisticallysilencing all involved
situation.
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But thankfully, we have MichaelVegeta.
Michael Vegeta, again, he saidaliens had nothing to do with
Monday's incident.
Quote, there are no aliens, lol.
I hope you said it out loud.
Email.
No airports were closed.
Nothing is being withheld fromthe public.
Capital L O L.
You hope when you you dig alittle deeper, you might find
(30:33):
something more interesting, butit's kind of surface level.
But as a story, there's lots oflike alien interactions in the
woods or maybe in someone'shome, but not often in major
metropolitan centers of transitand commerce.
You don't get a whole lot ofGreys showing up on the subway
(30:56):
or lizard people.
SPEAKER_01 (30:58):
You could argue those probably way more common
than you think.
Yeah.
It's one of those stupidsituations, most likely, where
it was like cops either didsomething stupid, one or two of
them did something stupid, andso they all turned off their
body cams and didn't want totalk about it because they're
covering for each other, orthey're all embarrassed that
that many cops showed up becausesome kid smoked a cigarette
(31:20):
inside or whatever, uh, and theydon't want that to get out
either.
It's gotta be something likethat.
SPEAKER_00 (31:26):
Yeah, I mean, the likelihood of it actually being
interdimensional black shadowentities that descended upon the
outdoor mall in Miami is prettylow.
But unfortunately, you havethose things, you know, like the
massive police response, youknow, the lack of media
engagement, uh, the lack of firmdebunking other than saying,
(31:47):
nope, nothing to see here.
Yeah, it just it it makes youquestion, and at least it
provides fodder for funspeculation, and I hopefully and
then one of those things werelike nothing happened, like so
why should we say anything?
SPEAKER_01 (31:59):
Like, well, because now they think something
happened because you're actinglike nothing happened.
That's why.
Yeah, really dumb.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (32:08):
But you know, maybe just maybe maybe they were
aliens.
There was one person who saidthat, like, oh, she had uh
looked at the coordinates andthat the portal was opened in
the wrong spot, and you took theGPS coordinates and you inverted
them, that it actually sent youto the middle of Antarctica, and
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that's where they're they weretrying to go, but someone put
the mall there.
SPEAKER_01 (32:33):
That you're supposed to meet up with the lizard
people down there, becausethat's the entrance to the inner
earth is, right?
unknown (32:38):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (32:39):
You had my ties at Margaritaville there.
You had scheduled seven o'clock,and Bill hit the wrong thing.
SPEAKER_01 (32:46):
It was two for 15 apps at Applebee's.
Yeah.
And hey, maybe Susie would bethere again.
SPEAKER_00 (32:53):
I mean, she's pretty cute for a surgery.
SPEAKER_01 (32:56):
Maybe if you gave her just enough margarita in
her.
SPEAKER_00 (33:00):
She's a little loose.
Yeah.
That's a bad process.
SPEAKER_01 (33:04):
Don't do any of this with lizard people.
Or uh women.
No.
SPEAKER_00 (33:08):
Or lizard women.
SPEAKER_01 (33:12):
Lord Wizard Lemons.
That's our name of our spin-offindie band, Wizard Lemons.
Featuring Lizard Women.
Well, it was a short one, butI'm glad you did that.
It's been a while since we'vehad that kind of format.
We need more storytelling.
SPEAKER_00 (33:28):
Yeah, a little spooky encounter.
Kind of.
Based on reality, in a way.
In the in-the-mouth madness sortof way, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (33:36):
This is not reality.
SPEAKER_00 (33:40):
This is not reality.
This is reality.
Well, we hope that you haven'tbeen too frightened.
That's not a concern.
Doing not an issue.
But you never know what you'regonna get on the next episode of
Dispatch Ajax.
Like a box of chocolate.
I hope you come back to checkout it could be a box of
(34:02):
chocolates.
And if you're a dog, we weretrying to kill you.
Yes.
Otherwise, we love dogs so muchwe would never do that.
SPEAKER_01 (34:11):
If a dog has we're not a big fan of dog men.
SPEAKER_00 (34:15):
Dogmen.
Oh, dogman.
Ooh, okay.
There's a question.
Dogman, chocolate.
Which side wins out?
If you feed a dog man enoughchocolate, uh you might get
diabetes and then eventuallydie.
You know what?
A fat, legless wheelchairdogman.
Not anymore.
SPEAKER_01 (34:34):
It doesn't have to be legless.
It seems like a hat on a hat.
SPEAKER_00 (34:39):
Well, I mean, he had complications from diabetes, and
unfortunately, he did lose thething.
SPEAKER_01 (34:48):
He was a contractor's neighbor of ours.
Oh boy.
SPEAKER_00 (34:53):
That was a rough situation that one.
SPEAKER_01 (34:56):
A case of mistaken identity.
SPEAKER_00 (34:59):
Yeah, yeah.
He was up on his moves.
Well, there we go.
Anyway, thank you for listeningto this latest episode.
Please come back for the nextone.
You never know what you're gonnaget as we move on from our spook
tabular prosum.
(35:19):
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
If you wouldn't mind liking,share, subscribing, maybe rate
us five smoky black entities onthe podcast app of your choice,
ideally Apple Podcasts is thebest way for us to get heard and
thus seen.
We would love that.
Again, thank you for listening.
We've hope you've enjoyed.
And until you visit your localBayside Mall in Miami and meet
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your own ten foot tall blackalien.
SPEAKER_01 (35:45):
Well, what should you uh I I'd like to point out
you can optionally give us fivewizard lemons.
We accept all forms.
She he screams into this intothe the inky blackness of the
night.
Well, please make sure that youhave paid your tabs, make sure
you've cleaned up afteryourselves to some sort of
reasonable degree.
(36:06):
Make sure you tip your KJs, yourbartenders, your wait staff,
your podcasters.
Don't forget to support yourlocal comic shops and retailers.
And once again, during ourspooky season, we'd like to say
Godspeed, for wizards, lemons.
Wizard lemons.
SPEAKER_02 (36:23):
Please go away.
Okay, you wouldn't give the kids in the whole
thing.
Hey, there's a spider on yourback.
SPEAKER_00 (00:11):
Fun silver rated.
Ever dance with the devil in thebelly mind.
SPEAKER_02 (00:46):
We don't like doing this.
SPEAKER_01 (01:30):
I just watched the squeeze through a ventilation.
This is a side development,ladies and gentlemen.
Well it is spooky season.
Take our hands as our companionsas we hop to the TARDIS and
traverse the great waves ofhistory all the way back to the
far distant yesteryear of 2024.
SPEAKER_00 (01:51):
It's a beautiful Miami evening.
It's the mid-70s, a pleasantbreeze coming off the Biscayne
Bay, and you are taking a lovelystroll in your day off.
You need some chill, becauseyesterday was an all-night
rager.
It's January 1st, 2024, andafter a lazy day of sleeping in,
it's time to feel like a humanonce more.
(02:11):
So you figured you pick up yourpartner and just go have a nice
leisurely walk about, theBayside Mall.
Bayside, which is aboutthree-minute drive from
downtown, is an open-air mallthat shares elements of a
traditional mall and waterfrontpavilion.
Pavilion sandwiched between themarina water and a nestle of
shops, restaurants, loungyhangouts, and a Ferris wheel.
(02:34):
Depending on the vibes for thenight, you might do some night
shopping at your standard mallspots, you know, your favorites
like Foot Locker, Victoria'sSecret, or maybe the Sunglass
Hut.
Mmm, that's a kiosk.
Or maybe taking a bite and brew.
You could even slum it with thetourist at Margaritaville or
Bubba Gumps.
Slumming it?
This is the height of eleganceand regal dining.
(02:58):
So far, it's been a lovelyevening.
You walk around upstairs tocheck out some chains and
downstairs to some of theboutiques.
The time together has been fullof laughs.
While at the Mojito Barrecounting the shenanigans your
newly single friend got up tolast night.
Or tripping over a yo-yo somekid must have dropped.
They still make those?
(03:18):
After a while, you felt a bitpeckish and decided to grab an
evening snack.
Some ice creams at scoops.
And why not take in some longlicks with a stroll by the
Bayside Banyan tree?
This is a 110-year-old70-foot-tall tree, a symbol of
nature's endurance, especiallyas it sustained despite the
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crass capitalist infrastructurebuilt up around it.
Now it was mid-bad joke whenthere was a commotion.
You thought there might be araucous caused by live music
getting ready to go on by thewaterfront stage, but the hubbub
began to swell and spill outfrom the entryways of the
shopping pavilion, both in soundand in bodies.
(04:04):
You both pushed past the youngIndian woman, pushing her
elderly relative.
Their eyes were wide andfrantic.
Your partner is hesitant andtugged at your arm in
resistance.
Something appears to havefrightened these fling people,
but your curiosity is piqued.
So much of your days are satbehind a dingy computer on the
(04:26):
bottom level of a nondescriptbuilding leased by an irrelevant
company, a cog, and the blandoff-white machine of mediocrity.
You crave some excitement inyour mundane existence, and you
just feel there is somethingthere that just needs to be
seen.
It's like the hairs on your armstouched by a battery.
(04:50):
Your partner and toe, youquicken your footfalls.
Adrenaline seeps into yourbloodstream.
There are screams and gaps inthe walkway in front of you.
Your breathing becomes frenzied,as did your darting gaze, trying
to peer over the quickening massof people rushing towards you.
You dance and push past them.
About 30 feet ahead, you seesome kids, maybe in their late
(05:14):
teens, pushing each other.
Your first assumption is that,oh, this is this is a fight and
it's a brew, and or maybe it'sjust simmering down, and this
must be the reason for all theraised voices.
But then you notice more peoplerushing past them, and that some
of those youths are hauling assas well.
But what from?
(05:35):
You move to push further on.
The draw still palpable despiteits indefinability.
Yet as you shoulder through afumbling Otaku 20-something
whose stained chainsaw man animegirl t-shirt could have parted
its own sea of humanity with itspungent aroma, you feel a yank
at your sleeve.
You turn to meet the gaze ofyour partner, their eyes awash
(05:58):
with anxiety.
They do not want to go on, andare more than content to
accompany the masses out awayfrom these polished linoleum
floors and out the nearest door.
But you, for some odd reason,need to see what is going on.
You brace the pair of youagainst the oncoming mass of
(06:21):
human expedience to the nearbypillar.
Just stay here a minute.
I'll be right back.
Buttressed against the whitecolumn, their eyes scream
reticence about your decision,but you have bolted from them
before their vocalizationagainst your decision can find
purchase.
SPEAKER_01 (06:39):
Now you need You want to take that one again?
Vocalization?
SPEAKER_00 (06:45):
Buttressed against the white column, their eyes
scream reticence about yourdecision.
But you have bolted from thembefore their vocalization
against your decision can findpurchase.
Now you need to get past thesethrongs with urgency as to not
make the one you left behindeven more perturbed than they
are bound to be.
(07:05):
You leap forward, just barelymissing a six-year-old's face
with your oncoming knee.
And you bound toward whatever isgoing on.
Your attention was distracted bythe near mist that you have only
just realized that you have gonepast where those scuffling boys
were.
Turn ahead and notice that youare now amongst only a few
(07:26):
people who seem to form a circlearound it.
There may not be a better way todefine what you see, because it
defies all rational thought.
What meets your eyes is like theeye of reality itself flittering
(07:47):
open and shut.
Imagine an old tube TV, like theones they would wheel into class
when your teacher was ill.
Imagine that TV switching fromone channel to another, but it
didn't quite catch and come on.
(08:08):
The hazy, wavy image, not quitecrash, statically digitized, and
then supplanted by what shouldbe.
It was like that, but the veryair in front of you didn't make
sense.
You transfixed, your mouthagape.
(08:30):
What is that?
Your mind questions.
Your eyes move past your mind tostrain to make out the
difference in what is and isn't.
You awaken from the haze ofdecipherment to realize you
unconsciously began to extendyour hand out to the questioning
phenomena some dozen feet awayfrom you.
And then, as if you sat down inthe darkened IMAX to see what
(08:53):
latest action the blue people inthe savage land are up to and
put your special glasses on, atweak in your perception steals
the air from your lungs.
In this moment, the blank canvasof your wonder is being dunked
in the blackening icker of fear.
But what your body has begun tograsp is an impossibility, an
illogical thing that in your gutdoes not demand your
(09:15):
inquisition, but your fight orflight response.
What was once a flickeringglitch in the matrix of your
understanding has been replacedby a dark, eight-foot humanoid
entity, emerging from thecrackling miasma of what you
knew as true five minutes ago.
It's tough for you to recall howlong you stood there, mesmerized
by what can't be solidifying infront of you.
(09:38):
It's still hard now for you tofully describe it.
You could swear there was aface, eyebrows, a mouth,
emotion, but you can't put itinto words.
It was like a weirdamalgamation, like smoke made
flesh, like a shadow of an NPCfrom Tron, but tangible, like an
alien from signs made of blackstatic and fear.
(10:00):
Embossed Ebony Hayes.
It seemed both deadly real andalso a phantasmagoric ethereal
intruder, like it was meant tobe on a different spatial plane
of existence.
Hell, maybe it was.
(10:23):
Honestly, your mind could haveturned a frothy goop that was
able to drip out of your nostrilat the exposure to whatever this
is had consumed your will andability to exist as anything
other than a stone silhouette ofyourself.
If it wasn't for the crack ofthunder echoing through the
structure, you may have beenrooted to the spot forevermore.
But after that second 9mm blockround whizzed in your direction,
(10:46):
you escaped that fix that shockhad latched you onto.
Maybe it had been a coupleminutes, maybe 15.
What is time in the face of aparadigm shift?
However long it was, the clockstruck like a cop's round, being
fired in fear, which might bethe most terrifying sound
possible for so many.
You bolted with every ounce ofstrength you could muster.
(11:08):
Amazingly running directlytowards the death merchants,
unburdening their sidearms.
But their shot rung in your soulas a starting gun to escape
something far worse in yourwake.
You caught up to your partner,whose wrist became your new
tether to life itself, and youhugged the glass stone front and
eggshell painted walls until youwere past the frenzied others
(11:29):
escaping whatever that is orwas, and you all scooted past
your guardlings who werepointing hot death towards that
thing with complete conviction.
Wild elbows, the chirps ofterror, the heavy pants of
escape pushed us out into thereassuring ocean breeze outside
the structure.
It was like falling into a pool,that shocking smack of your
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senses reacclimating to a wholenew element.
You came too.
What the fuck was that thing?
You almost didn't recognize yourown terrified squeak.
The fear surrounding the etherof those words congealing in
your core.
Was that real?
What is going on?
Surprisingly, your partner'sgrip on your forearm can't
(12:13):
explain but soothes.
There are real things.
Things you know, things you cancount on, and they are with you
despite what that was or whathappened.
They usher you further outsidethe complex and out in front of
the entrance.
Your senses are further greetedby what you can only describe as
an army of police, flashinglights, sirens, and the wicked
(12:36):
finely tuned purr of cop carssurrounded you.
It was an onslaught.
As you go to question one of theswarm of police rushing towards
you, wham! You are crashed intoby a couple of large black
gentlemen.
This thing of concrete meetingthe point of your bracing elbows
snaps into you, as does theweight of the smaller gentleman
having tripped on his cohort.
(12:59):
Words barely have time toregister beyond thoughts, let
alone utterances, before yourgaze meets his and the
recognition marries yourexperience with his own.
He has the bright, wide eyes ofterror, silently crying out to
you for hope.
You want to embrace thestranger.
A sentiment that still shocksyou, like your body knew what
(13:19):
you needed, and youinstinctively wanted to give
that to someone else.
A reassurance of reality, ahuman understanding.
And yet, at this moment, thepoliceman that had been the hope
of answers to safety waswrangling this gentleman and his
partner and you down onto theconcrete.
It would have been nice if youcould insist that it was
difficult to extricate yourselffrom this charged
(13:39):
misunderstanding, that it wasdue to will or being right.
Those things did not win theday.
Rather, judgments of thesuperficial.
Something of the dermis andpigmentation is what colored the
turn of estimation.
The two men were taken from theasphalt towards one of the
waiting patrol vehicles, and youwere left alone.
Your attention turns to yourpartner, who has had her own
(14:01):
run-in with authorities.
They are just being releasedfrom the strong grip of a couple
officers.
Your partner angrily snatchestheir phone, the offering mitts
of a pudgy policeman on theirleft who is now departing
rapidly.
You shuffle over to meet them asthey spit vitril back at the law
official.
Fuck you, this is bullshit! Theyhuff, to no apparent avail.
(14:21):
What was all that about?
Are you alright?
You excitedly inquire.
No, yeah, yeah, those assholes.
As you bustle away searching foryour car in the maelstrom of
lights, sirens, and hysteria,your partner describes their own
run-in with law enforcement.
Them, along with others, werehalted on their escape.
The phone in their hand wasmotioned to, and like her fellow
(14:45):
escapees, was pressured todisplay and delete any photos or
videos from their device.
Of course, being who they are,they've put up a modicum of
pushback.
What is this?
SPEAKER_01 (14:55):
A Banana Republic fascist regime?
SPEAKER_00 (14:58):
But with an officer holding each arm, the
threatening scowls and growlspaired with the ominous hands on
their sidearms, an implicitthreat of violence, and the
scene of multiple people ziptied and being disappeared, your
partner acquiesced.
Upon entering your car, it wasalmost like an out-of-body
(15:20):
experience on the drive home.
It was a blur and you can onlyrecall flashes.
With the adrenaline andparadigm-shattering serum of
experience coursing through yourveins, hazing out the details.
Upon reflection, you didn'tremember the kids with goggles?
Or the strange wired boxesaround the feet of the incident?
(15:45):
Things that your partnerobserved from a distance, but
your memory doesn't seem clearabout.
Nor astonishingly, the number ofbeings that you both remember
seeing.
Was there more than one of thosethings?
You didn't recall it comingafter you, but your partner
recollected alternatively, withits menace manifesting and
marching towards both you andthe onlookers.
(16:08):
No, so many details were oddlydifferent.
Didn't quite fit together.
It was all a jumble.
Didn't make sense.
Questions birthed into your mindupon returning home from an
incident, both inexplicable andunforgettable.
Is this the first step?
What is the news saying aboutthis?
Why did the authorities takeeverybody's phones and what were
(16:32):
those that are disabled?
What comes next?
On January 1st, 2024, officiallythere's an altercation at the
Bayside Mall in Miami.
Supposedly, there are a group ofteenagers causing mischief while
roving through the mall.
Then a scuffle ensued.
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During the ruckus, it is saidthat these teens were firing off
fireworks.
The amount of teens is unclear.
Supposedly the group of about 50juveniles lighting off fireworks
and carousing about.
Mistaking the explosions forgunfire, the police were called.
Those within the mall fled.
Now it is unclear at what pointthe officers arrived, but
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somehow it was determined that alarger police contingent was
necessary to regain control ofthe situation.
Supposedly, a Code 3, this isemergency response requiring
lights and sirens, often forsituations involving immediate
danger to life, serious injury,or the prevention of a felony.
Typically, this triggersmultiple units to respond
(17:37):
quickly, but in this case, itwas citywide reinforcements.
This prompted a massive, massivepolice response.
At least 30, though some reportsclaim 60 or even 90 police
vehicles responded and floodedthe area around the mall.
(17:58):
This is along with multiplehelicopters, reportedly black in
appearance, hovering above themall at the same time.
Now, after the crowd dispersed,multiple teens were said to have
been taken into custody for theevents of the evening.
I was unable to track down andobtain the identities of any of
these individuals, but that iswhat officials told reporters at
(18:20):
the time.
Yeah, it is.
Police were dispatched for whathe said, quote unquote, for
crowd control due to the littlerascals refusing to leave,
(18:41):
Vegeta had said in an email toNBC News.
Quote unquote, some businesseswere temporarily closed to allow
us to clear the area.
Now, after this, social mediawas a buzz, with a reaction to
the size of the police presenceand the multiple supposed
witnesses describing a fardifferent scene.
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What many people said were sevento ten foot alien creatures,
possibly caught on camera,showed up inside and later
outside the Miami Mall.
Now, reports vary.
I went through on social mediaand different videos, podcasts,
(19:28):
news reports of about a dozen orso different accounts, and
they're all kind of quitevaried.
Some of them have keysimilarities, but there are some
vast differences as well.
But essentially what they say isthat somehow these alien
entities that were black, kindof shadowy in appearance, uh
(19:53):
boy.
Showed up inside the mall.
Some say there were one, somesay there were three.
It's unclear.
There were descriptions of apossible portal of some sort
that opened up inside the mall,uh, allowing these entities to
pass through.
There are some stories ofpossible youths that appear to
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have equipment, like uh likewhat they were described as like
welder's goggles, uh, and thatsome of them had like scientific
equipment that they laid out andpossibly activated, which may or
may have opened said portal andlet in said entities.
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There is discussion of theseshadow figures escaping and
being caught leaving the scene.
There is a video of kind of thethe front entrance to the mall,
and in in one of the videos youcan kind of see what looks like
a shadow kind of move around andthen kind of dissipate into the
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air.
Rafael Horta, a Miami policespokesman, said the claim that
the video shows aliens at theshopping mall is false.
It's actually just a personwalking with a shadow, Horta
said in a January 5 Instagramvideo posted by the Miami Police
Department.
So I confirm to you all heretoday, right now, that there are
(21:27):
no aliens in Miami in BaysideMarketplace at the moment.
Thanks, Mr.
Horta.
Uh other reports claim thatpolice were confiscating and
deleted uh footage from cellphones or any recording devices
uh as they were uh people werefleeing the scene.
(21:47):
Um supposedly one person saidthat uh he got out with footage
because he had uh an old VHScamcorder that he was recording
things on.
Um I have supposedly I have seenwhat has been put out there,
supposed footage from thatcamcorder.
(22:07):
One, nobody's getting out with acamcorder and not having that
thing taken.
If they're if they're goingthrough phones, two, the footage
is worthless.
There was nothing there.
People that were passing by andrecording things were forced to
either pull over, stop on theside of the street, and delete
their footage.
There are at least a couplepeople who said they were
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driving and then stopped andthen were recording both the
helicopters and possibleentities escaping the mall and
said they were forced to deletetheir footage.
As the story goes, the airspacearound the mall and the Miami
area was shut down and flightswere grounded and the airport
became non-functional.
I've looked into a few peopledeeper into this, can't find any
(22:52):
backing for that.
That doesn't appear to be true.
I think that's a bit of a debunkclaim.
There were at least a couplepeople interviewed that said
that there was a UFO seen abovethe mall the day before and that
day.
Now, there was electricitydisrupted.
According to some sources, thisis true that the electricity
inside the mall went out andsurrounding areas and parts of
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Miami, the electricity did goout and there was a blackout.
The story of this was that therewas a runaway vehicle that hit
an electrical pole causing theblackout.
This was the report from thepolice.
I can neither confirm nor deny.
But also, if we're taking any ofthis with anything more than a
grain of salt, the police arewilling to lie about everything
happening in the mall.
(23:37):
Why would they lie about ablackout?
Yeah, and the reason for that?
Now there are a few things thatare odd about this that really
draw interest.
One is the massive police force.
That's curious because somepeople that were asked, you
know, their residents in Miami,and they've had active shooters,
and they said, you know, youmaybe get three, five cars
(23:59):
there, but not 10, not 20, not30, not 90.
I've sent you pictures of thisin videos, and this is it's all
you can see.
The entire block in both ways islined up with police.
There's like 50,000 police carsthere.
It's so many.
And I think that's one of thosefirst things, at least when I
(24:19):
heard about this, that piqued myinterest.
Why?
Without any declaration ofactive shooter or terrorist
bombing or natural disaster,none of those has prompted this
much police interaction.
Yeah, that's weird.
You think a black man justjaywalked.
It's also very odd that if therewas this big fight that they
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talked about happening thatprompted all of these cars to
show up, that these teenagers,there's no recordings that I
could find or anybody else thatI could search into could find
about these high school kidsrecording this big fight,
recording setting off thesefireworks?
Nothing.
That doesn't sound normal to me.
Why wouldn't they?
(25:03):
Also, they have they catch 50kids make and they arrest four
with their 50 cop cars.
And again, I can't perhaps Iwasn't diligent enough in
searching, but I also don't knowif I can track down the records
of all arrests made for thatday, if they're juveniles.
But I haven't heard anything.
SPEAKER_01 (25:23):
Seems like overkill, but I mean overreaction is a
typical response.
SPEAKER_00 (25:28):
That's true.
There have been supposedlymultiple paranormal
investigators who went there andsupposedly gotten responses on
their ends, spirit boxes andwhatnot, you know, the creme to
the creme of paranormal researchand investigation, and
supposedly that said things likeshadow people, aliens, and
(25:48):
portal.
I don't give a shit about any ofthat.
But I do find it interestingthat also if they had this big
viral incident that has promptedspeculation and fascination
online, it has been mentioned bythe Kardashians on their
television show that no policebody cam footage or actual CCTV
(26:12):
from inside that mall eversurfaced, either confirming or
debunking the story.
It seemed really easy if youwanted to say, A, there weren't
that many caps, b, there were noaliens, c there was no blackout,
anything.
You could easily show footagesaying, No, look, see, this has
been happening, but nothing.
And silence.
It's also really odd that withthis huge police force showing
(26:37):
up, media coverage was prettymuch non existent.
There were some local TVstations covering the night.
Oh, some cops showed up.
Yep, some kids, nothing.
Moved about their day, didn'ttalk about it.
As the story went viral, forabout the next week or two, you
had some other outlets pickingup the story, being like, Oh, we
talked to the policerepresentatives, or statements
(26:59):
from this officer or thatofficer.
There's nothing to see here.
It was all a hoax.
It was just some kids.
Okay.
So nothing.
Um, now, granted, if it reallywas that, you'd say the exact
same thing.
But of all of the encounters,the recounting of the incidents,
very few of the eyewitnesses, tome, feel reliable.
Some had stories that were laterrecanted, others even recanted
(27:23):
those previous revocations,saying that they were pressured
into silence, and then they shutup about it, and then they're
coming back out to say, no, whatI originally said was true.
You have quite a few storiesfrom supposed people at the
scene who said they came out andmade all that stuff up.
It's very hard to find one thatfeels tangible and reliable.
(27:43):
Which I would hope with thatmany people in the mall seeing
this, you'd have at least onestory that you could really sink
your teeth into.
But what is tangible is thetruly massive police response.
And again, that's curious.
I can't recall for myself muchoutside of 9-11 prompting such
police engagement.
So why so few arrests?
(28:03):
Why is media engagement lacking?
Sure, you can say the officialline prompted no further
investigations, but it isperplexing and a bit
tantalizing.
But with so little videoevidence and scattered
eyewitness testimonies withvaried stories, descriptions,
and synopsis, you also have noleaks.
There was no video footage thatgot out there, there is nothing
(28:25):
from CCTV.
You feel like something wouldget out.
Especially if you're having justthe police department crack down
this.
This wasn't the FBI, this wasn'tthe NSA, this wasn't some secret
men in black operation showingup to quiet things down.
They're just the local cops.
There's one fun video of onegentleman whose father is Miami
(28:47):
Sheriff.
He's recording the video callwith his father.
And he's like, hey, I saw therewas a big Miami incident at the
mall.
There's uh some aliens.
What happened?
He's like, I can't talk aboutthat.
And he's like, What do you meanyou can't talk about it?
Come on.
He's like, You've told me aboutall these other things that
happened.
You know, what's going on?
He's like, nope, I can't.
We're not going to talk aboutthat.
And granted, that could be anactive investigation.
(29:09):
They probably shouldn't discussthe details, but at least he
found it odd.
The sun did.
And it's one of those you'veheard multiple things like that
from Roswell, their Area 51, youknow, officials who, quote, have
seen things, but they're hushhush, not allowed to say things.
And whether it's uh true or not,it's fascinating.
And it's fun.
(29:29):
Which is really what this wholething's about.
It's fun.
Honestly, I don't know which ismost plausible except for our
collective adherence to anaccepted reality.
Ten foot dark shadow alienentities invade a mall, or 90
cop cars descend on a mall toarrest a handful of zealous.
What if they were alien youth?
(29:50):
They just came for a brew inorange action.
They are delicious.
Pretty good.
But we all know which one ismore fun.
And which one is moreterrifying?
Paranormal entities manifestinginside a busy, major city mall,
authorities fascisticallysilencing all involved
situation.
(30:11):
But thankfully, we have MichaelVegeta.
Michael Vegeta, again, he saidaliens had nothing to do with
Monday's incident.
Quote, there are no aliens, lol.
I hope you said it out loud.
Email.
No airports were closed.
Nothing is being withheld fromthe public.
Capital L O L.
You hope when you you dig alittle deeper, you might find
(30:33):
something more interesting, butit's kind of surface level.
But as a story, there's lots oflike alien interactions in the
woods or maybe in someone'shome, but not often in major
metropolitan centers of transitand commerce.
You don't get a whole lot ofGreys showing up on the subway
(30:56):
or lizard people.
SPEAKER_01 (30:58):
You could argue those probably way more common
than you think.
Yeah.
It's one of those stupidsituations, most likely, where
it was like cops either didsomething stupid, one or two of
them did something stupid, andso they all turned off their
body cams and didn't want totalk about it because they're
covering for each other, orthey're all embarrassed that
that many cops showed up becausesome kid smoked a cigarette
(31:20):
inside or whatever, uh, and theydon't want that to get out
either.
It's gotta be something likethat.
SPEAKER_00 (31:26):
Yeah, I mean, the likelihood of it actually being
interdimensional black shadowentities that descended upon the
outdoor mall in Miami is prettylow.
But unfortunately, you havethose things, you know, like the
massive police response, youknow, the lack of media
engagement, uh, the lack of firmdebunking other than saying,
(31:47):
nope, nothing to see here.
Yeah, it just it it makes youquestion, and at least it
provides fodder for funspeculation, and I hopefully and
then one of those things werelike nothing happened, like so
why should we say anything?
SPEAKER_01 (31:59):
Like, well, because now they think something
happened because you're actinglike nothing happened.
That's why.
Yeah, really dumb.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (32:08):
But you know, maybe just maybe maybe they were
aliens.
There was one person who saidthat, like, oh, she had uh
looked at the coordinates andthat the portal was opened in
the wrong spot, and you took theGPS coordinates and you inverted
them, that it actually sent youto the middle of Antarctica, and
(32:29):
that's where they're they weretrying to go, but someone put
the mall there.
SPEAKER_01 (32:33):
That you're supposed to meet up with the lizard
people down there, becausethat's the entrance to the inner
earth is, right?
unknown (32:38):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (32:39):
You had my ties at Margaritaville there.
You had scheduled seven o'clock,and Bill hit the wrong thing.
SPEAKER_01 (32:46):
It was two for 15 apps at Applebee's.
Yeah.
And hey, maybe Susie would bethere again.
SPEAKER_00 (32:53):
I mean, she's pretty cute for a surgery.
SPEAKER_01 (32:56):
Maybe if you gave her just enough margarita in
her.
SPEAKER_00 (33:00):
She's a little loose.
Yeah.
That's a bad process.
SPEAKER_01 (33:04):
Don't do any of this with lizard people.
Or uh women.
No.
SPEAKER_00 (33:08):
Or lizard women.
SPEAKER_01 (33:12):
Lord Wizard Lemons.
That's our name of our spin-offindie band, Wizard Lemons.
Featuring Lizard Women.
Well, it was a short one, butI'm glad you did that.
It's been a while since we'vehad that kind of format.
We need more storytelling.
SPEAKER_00 (33:28):
Yeah, a little spooky encounter.
Kind of.
Based on reality, in a way.
In the in-the-mouth madness sortof way, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (33:36):
This is not reality.
SPEAKER_00 (33:40):
This is not reality.
This is reality.
Well, we hope that you haven'tbeen too frightened.
That's not a concern.
Doing not an issue.
But you never know what you'regonna get on the next episode of
Dispatch Ajax.
Like a box of chocolate.
I hope you come back to checkout it could be a box of
(34:02):
chocolates.
And if you're a dog, we weretrying to kill you.
Yes.
Otherwise, we love dogs so muchwe would never do that.
SPEAKER_01 (34:11):
If a dog has we're not a big fan of dog men.
SPEAKER_00 (34:15):
Dogmen.
Oh, dogman.
Ooh, okay.
There's a question.
Dogman, chocolate.
Which side wins out?
If you feed a dog man enoughchocolate, uh you might get
diabetes and then eventuallydie.
You know what?
A fat, legless wheelchairdogman.
Not anymore.
SPEAKER_01 (34:34):
It doesn't have to be legless.
It seems like a hat on a hat.
SPEAKER_00 (34:39):
Well, I mean, he had complications from diabetes, and
unfortunately, he did lose thething.
SPEAKER_01 (34:48):
He was a contractor's neighbor of ours.
Oh boy.
SPEAKER_00 (34:53):
That was a rough situation that one.
SPEAKER_01 (34:56):
A case of mistaken identity.
SPEAKER_00 (34:59):
Yeah, yeah.
He was up on his moves.
Well, there we go.
Anyway, thank you for listeningto this latest episode.
Please come back for the nextone.
You never know what you're gonnaget as we move on from our spook
tabular prosum.
(35:19):
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
If you wouldn't mind liking,share, subscribing, maybe rate
us five smoky black entities onthe podcast app of your choice,
ideally Apple Podcasts is thebest way for us to get heard and
thus seen.
We would love that.
Again, thank you for listening.
We've hope you've enjoyed.
And until you visit your localBayside Mall in Miami and meet
(35:43):
your own ten foot tall blackalien.
SPEAKER_01 (35:45):
Well, what should you uh I I'd like to point out
you can optionally give us fivewizard lemons.
We accept all forms.
She he screams into this intothe the inky blackness of the
night.
Well, please make sure that youhave paid your tabs, make sure
you've cleaned up afteryourselves to some sort of
reasonable degree.
(36:06):
Make sure you tip your KJs, yourbartenders, your wait staff,
your podcasters.
Don't forget to support yourlocal comic shops and retailers.
And once again, during ourspooky season, we'd like to say
Godspeed, for wizards, lemons.
Wizard lemons.
SPEAKER_02 (36:23):
Please go away.
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