August 30, 2025 • 27 mins
From crystals that breathe to dreams caught on tape, this week’s news roundup is stuffed with the strange, the spectral, and the just plain surreal. Beck and Rachel dive headfirst into the uncanny with their trademark wit and wonder:
Fake bunnies bouncing into our timelines (AI wins again).
Scientists create a crystal that literally inhales and exhales oxygen, modern alchemy or proof the ancients were right?
A brand-new Bigfoot emoji, cryptid triumph or emoji dodge?
Paranormal belief still steady at 40%, what does it say about us?
Japanese researchers edging closer to recording and replaying your dreams.
The chilling tale of Tamerlane’s cursed tomb, did opening it unleash World War II?
And the “Zombie Wildlife Parade” rabbits with horns, squirrels with sores, and deer sprouting grotesque black growths.
Plus: your Paranormal Calendar of events, a shadow-drenched Tale from History, a Quote from the Beyond, and a call for your own Listener Lore.
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You're listening to to the Spirit podcast.
Truth and fire, my ghostly friends.
It's your favorite flame, a match that knows its shape,
beckoning you back beyond the veil.
I'm back Your guide into the uncanny today.
The strangest, most delightful curiosities the cosmos and
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probably your neighbour's attic had to offer.
And perched beside me, literallyin the spirit realm, is the one
the only Rachel ready to get weird with me.
I'm perched up on the bust of Palace.
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First up, hold on to your carrotsticks.
Fake rabbits bouncing on trampolines online turned out to
be, well, fake. What?
Did you see those videos? Rabbits on trampoline.
Yeah, there was a viral video ofthese little rabbits bouncing
around and it looked awful real.But people kept sharing them
anyway because, as one observer grimly notes, people want things
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to be true, so they will fail toact to remove it.
AI will win. Rach, what's your take?
Do we choose to believe bunny's on trampolines because they're
too cute to Fact Check? I've seen deer get up on a
trampoline. I see dogs jump on trampoline.
So why wouldn't little Bunny rat?
Because Bunny rabbits. You ever see them play?
Yeah, they're cute and they hop and they jump around.
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Oh my God it's so cute. Like one will run at the other
one and then it'll hop over is the cutest freaking thing.
And you know what? We still just want to see
bunnies on trampolines, real or not.
That's right. Is this the new frontier of
existential dread, or just adorable?
Chaos. It's adorable chaos and I want
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it all. I'm here for.
It I am. All right, Vale watchers, move
over. Mood ring science just out
weirded the new age Isle researchers have created a
crystal that actually breathes oxygen like lungs.
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Not metaphorically, literally inhaling and exhaling oxygen
molecules the way you and I do. What?
This thing's stable and repeatable, and scientists are
already whispering about it, powering underwater exploration,
space travel, and maybe keeping us alive in places we were never
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meant to. Breathe a rock as your scuba
buddy, because who doesn't want a geology major saving your
life? This probably has actually been
around like they probably found.It's probably some old ancient
stuff. Here's where it gets spooky.
Cultures for thousands of years have said that crystals are
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alive, repositories of the spirit, memory and energy.
The ancients didn't need microscopes to tell you a stone
had a pulse. They carved them, carried them,
slept with them under their pillows, believing they held
breath. Dreams, even.
Voices of the Gods. You ever put a crystal under
your pillow before you went to sleep like.
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No, but I need to. I need to, yeah.
Or rose Quartz. You'll be surprised what you
dream. Hmm, I need to do that.
Maybe I'll do that tonight. Do it.
So imagine science has just proven a crystal can literally
take in breath. Did our ancestors already know?
Were those temple amulets reallybreathing prayers back into the
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world or is this the start of earth reminding us her bones are
far from inert? Is this modern day alchemy rocks
becoming lungs or just science catching up to what Mystics have
already whispered? Nah, this has been around just
in my core. I feel like this is just
something that's been there. Maybe they discovered it or
found it. It was a lost thing, but yeah.
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If crystals can breathe, what's next?
Stones that dream, rubies that sigh when pond, or amethyst that
snores in your sock drawer. Crystals, they heal, they're
very healing, and science is catching up.
I think so. I think science is way behind,
yeah. I mean there's there's crystals
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for each chakra and for each body area.
Yeah. And they work.
And be honest, would you keep a breathing crystal in your
bedroom or would that sound likethe start of a new kind of
haunted roommate story? As.
Long as it didn't have the asthmatic wheeze.
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Listeners, what do you think? If your favorite crystal
suddenly started huffing and puffing?
Would you lean closer to hear its secrets or Sprint out of the
room faster than a ghost hunter?At 3:00 AM, Unicode has blessed
us with a hairy creature emoji. Officially, it's not Bigfoot,
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but let's be real, this is the digital beast we've all been
waiting for. Is this a cryptic triumph or
bureaucratic dodge from naming Bigfoot directly?
What did they name it? It's just a hairy creature emoji
which. Shaped like Bigfoot.
Yeah, it looks like Bigfoot. I don't.
Know is this woke culture sayingno?
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Bigfoot. You can't say.
Bigfoot. It's Harry and the Hendersons.
Would you use it or do you prefer the mystical shadow
remain emoji free? I'm down with emojis I'll be
throwing. It out.
You're going to throw Bigfoot atme once in a while.
Yeah. All right.
Throw that Bigfoot at me, baby. Gallup reports roughly 39 to 40%
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of Americans still believe in ghosts.
Not a spike, not a drop, Just that steady spectral glow of
belief. Is paranormal belief a cozy
constraint? Or are we just avoiding
admitting we kind of dig the idea of ghosts?
I think the people who don't believe in ghosts are just
scared. You're afraid and you haven't
seen them. I really want the non believers
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to. Have an experience?
Yeah, I want it so bad. I think it's, I think there's
like some weird catch to it. That's why they don't.
I don't know what it is yet. I haven't figured it out.
Especially the ones that want itthe most.
They don't get it. Yeah.
Well, what does it say about us and about you?
What that I see them or I want people to see them?
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Well, that we believe in ghosts,that's.
Interesting. That means that they're staying
at a constant. They're not showing themselves
anymore, or any less hang tight because the veil is ever so
continually thinning. So if you haven't seen one yet,
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you're bound to see one. Veil spectators, brace yourself.
Scientists in Kyoto are claimingto have created a device that
let's you record and replay yourdreams.
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I swear I'm not making this up. This is real life myth bending
territory. Science behind the nightmare or
movie? Researchers at Kyoto's ATR
Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, led by Professor
Yoki ASU Kamitani, don't know ifI'm saying that right, have
developed technology that monitors brain activity via F
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MRI during REM sleep and paired with AI, reconstructs images
matching the dreamers recollection up to 60% accuracy
and exceeding 70% for clear visual objects like people or
chairs. The device isn't quite recording
full blown cinematic dreams yet,but it's no longer just smoke
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and mirrors. It's more like stitched together
stills forming a surreal storyboard shown on a screen
like a glitchy short film of your subconscious.
This is the stuff of metaphysical midnight tales
humans have long whispered aboutdream journals, amulets to
capture visions or spirit scribes.
Now science says it's captured the dream on screen.
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A stone cold ghost in the data stream.
That's the new occult Rach. If you could watch your dreams
as movies, would you relive themor would they haunt you?
I love my dreams. So you'd want them recorded.
Even when they're scary, they'recool.
I think that's true, but would you want other people having
access to that? I wouldn't.
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And who knows what kind of radiation you're exposed to the?
MRI all the time. Yeah, that's a good point.
Yeah, we. Can see what your brains doing
but it's going to grow a big oldfat tumor eventually.
What creepy or wondrous dream would you want replayed?
I think any dreams that I have visitations from loved ones, I
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would love those replayed to see.
That's good. I thought you were going to go
into the sensual direction. At that time with Henry Cavill.
No, I like your answer. I'm all about that too.
The encounters with our loved ones.
Yeah. Yeah, cuz those ones are the
most impactful. And I do a lot of AI dream
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interpretations. They're really good.
Yeah, at breaking stuff down. Are we decoding the dream or
inviting the dream to decode us?By recording it, see the
mystical side of the dreaming, we were having that conversation
about Icarus flying too close tothe sun.
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I don't feel as if it is spiritually ethical to do this
to cut into this. I did hear on the Tik Toks that
some of the recordings that theywere getting were entities
coming in and trying to repetitively speak to the
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sleeper and tell them what to dowhen they woke up and it was
nefarious. Really.
Yeah, and they had gotten that in the recordings.
That's a whole nother level you don't even think about.
Not to mention all of the dark things they're probably
recording, like people that are doing nefarious things in their
dreams over and over. That's scary for.
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Some on that end of it, if we can detect entities that are
trying to corrupt our subconscious mind, yeah, the
dreams. So you kind of like forget about
that kind of stuff cuz you and I, we've kind of got our
boundaries and we don't, we don't play.
We're kind of like dream masters, you know, So people who
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are just raw dreaming, they don't know.
Raw dreaming. We're waiting for the raw dog
and yeah, OK. They don't got it wrapped up so.
I know if they recorded my dreams, they'd see a whole bunch
of zombies and waves that are coming at you.
Those are the stress dreams I have.
I've been having a lot of dreamsof being in water, the ocean and
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water, lots of water. What's that about?
Yeah, not like scary water, but just I'm in water.
We're. Gonna have to have a dream
episode soon. We really do.
We need to. Hey friends, enjoying the
weirdness so far. If your ears are still open and
your third eye hasn't shut out of fear.
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All right, Vail watchers, let's take a breather from the
headlines and peek at what's waiting out there in the land of
ghostly gatherings. You might want to grab your
planners or your sage bundles, because spooky season doesn't
wait. Let's go guys all.
Right San Antonio Paranormal Fest September 20th, 2025
Victoria's Black Swan and in Texas kick things off with the
San Antonio's Paranormal Fest. Expect psychics mediums
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including the formidable Bloody Mary investigator panels and
believe it or not, a world record collection of Casper the
Friendly ghost memorabilia. VI.
PS Get the full package, cemetery tours and guided
investigations at the end. Translation you'll be hanging
out with ghosts and then sleeping like 1.
I heard they're re releasing Casper into theaters for it's
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like anniversary. They never stop, do they?
Warren Seekers of the supernatural.
Paracon September 27th through the 29th 2025 Gettysburg, PA.
Gettysburg's not just about Civil War re enactment anymore.
This Paracon throws you right into the battlefield.
Hauntings, Warren lore, and enough EVP chatter to fill in
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Netflix series You talk. About any Lorraine.
Yeah, it's like a history class,but with more ghosts and fewer
pop quizzes. Spooky Spectacle and Boyd
Paranormal Convention Granbury, TX September 20 to 21st, 2025
Boyd, MN September 27th to 2025 Double the State's Double the
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Spooky Granbury hosts the spookyspectacle with everything from
Cryptid art to ghost hunting gear, while Boyd, Minnesota
offers one day convention sure to make you rethink small town
quiet. Because nothing says Fall
festival like a haunted pie contest, right?
We all have a good haunted pie. Wraith Chasers at Rolling Hills
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Asylum, September 26th through 27th 2025 E Bethany, NY tag
along with the Wraith Chasers inside a classic haunted asylum.
You'll get screamed, shadows andmaybe a new ringtone courtesy of
EVP Static. Forget Ghost tours, this is
ghost Lock in. If I wasn't so sensitive and
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like afraid of the bad juju that.
You would be doing it. Oh my God, sounds so.
It sounds so fun. Mothman Festival September 20th
to the 22nd, 2025 and Point Pleasant, WV.
Of course, we can't forget the annual Mothman Festival.
Thousands flock to Point Pleasant to celebrate everyone's
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favorite winged harbinger of doom.
It's part crypted convention, block party and all.
Weird, because who doesn't want to buy a funnel cake under the
watchful red eyes of a prophecy bird?
We know Mothman can twerk. That's true.
He's got that cake. Paranormal Cirque tour various
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cities September and October 2025.
Think Cirque du Soleil, but dipped in gothic ink.
Paranormal Cirque is touring through Saint Louis, Middletown,
Castle Rock and Aurora this fall.
Where acrobatics meets the uncanny.
Imagine juggling, but haunted. That sounds really cool.
Rock Island Roadhouse Esoteric Expo, October 4th and 5th 2025
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and Rock Island, IL. Want to meet the real Annabelle
doll? Nope, she'll be there.
Sealed tightener case, midnight seances, Warren lore and
paranormal TikTok creator swapping ghost stories in the
corner like it's speed dating for the damned.
This one's not for the faint of heart.
I don't want to meet Annabelle. Ghosts of Lighthouse Point
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October 9th through the 11th 2025 in Marquette, MI.
By day, family friendly lighthouse tours.
By night, creepy paranormal investigations by the water.
Bonus points. It all helps keep the Maritime
Museum afloat. Haunted history and good deeds
rolled into one. Ghost approved.
Rachel approved too. Missouri Town Paranormal
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Investigation October 25th, 2025Lee's Summit, Missouri Step into
the 19th century buildings with living history interpreters and
investigators guiding you through the chills.
It's part museum, part seance, part reminder that old timey
Missouri probably had way more ghost than school books admit.
So, Rach, which one survived Casper merch, funnel cakes with
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Mothman, or spending a night in an asylum with Wraith chasers?
Because I'll be honest, I'm voting for Funnel.
Cakes. The circus thing sound really,
really cool. The Haunted Circus, but the
asylum. Wow, you're stuck with the
asylum. I mean, I was just, if I
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curiously watch somebody, I guess if I could, if I knew, if
I could guarantee like total spiritual protection, I would
love to go on a haunted asylum. See, that's not my jam at all.
I'm not feeling asylum. Are you looking past me at
something? I don't have my glasses on and I
think I feel like you're staringbehind me like someone standing
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there. Blind as bubbles.
I am right now man. Trailer Park Boys.
OK Vale Breakers, this is your turn.
Send us your weirdest real worldknocks at the paranormal.
Flickering lights, whispering corners, shadows that follow the
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slow dance will read 1 and send a chill down your collective
spy. Triple dog dare you.
To the Spirit pod@gmail.com. With a Bigfoot emoji.
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And now it's time for strange tales from history's shadow, the
cursed tomb of Tamerlene, 1941 Uzbekistan.
Tonight, Vale watchers, we open not just a tomb, but a page of
history stained with war and whispers and curses.
June 1941, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Soviet archaeologist
unearthed the resting place of Tamerlane, the infamous 14th
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century conqueror who left rivers of blood in his campaigns
across to Asia. His tomb bore a chilling
inscription. Whomsoever.
Open with slime cheese shall. I move.
Should be more terrible. OK.
And yet the Soviets, in their certainty, dismissed it as
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superstition. On June 20th, 1941, they pried
open the sarcophagus and inside lay Tamerlane's remains, his
bones fractured, his legacy etched in stone.
Two days later, June 22nd, Hitler launched Operation
Barbarossa. The largest military invasion in
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history, hurling the Nazis deep into Soviet lands.
Coincidence. Maybe, but the timing was
uncanny. To the people of Uzbekistan, it
was proof that the Greek conqueror's spirit had not gone
quietly into the earth. Even Stalin's iron grip couldn't
stop the whispers. Tamerlane's curse had been
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loosed. And here is where it gets even
stranger. By 1942, after devastating
Soviet losses, Stalin ordered that Tamerlane's remains be
interred with full Islamic burial rates.
Only weeks later, the tide of war began to shift.
The Battle of Stalingrad turned the Nazis back.
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Was it strategy and sheer grit, or the settling of a curse
appeased by respect? History, like the veil, doesn't
always speak in absolutes. Did Soviet archaeologist break
more than the stone that day? Did they release a spirit
waiting centuries for revenge? Or is this just a story soldiers
told themselves as the bombs fell to make sense of the
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senselessness? Rach, what do you think?
Was this pure coincidence or do you think ancient curses still
have teeth in the modern world? Oh for sure, it's just like the
guy who wanted to be cursed for funsies or the people who all
disrupted King Tut's tomb. They all died.
Yeah, so you're a believer? I am a believer of ancient.
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Cursing and you ain't messing with the curses.
True and true. If it says.
Do not open. I will turn around and.
Walk away. OK, That was my next question.
If you came face to face with that and it was sealed, would
you open the tomb or not? If there was a warning on it,
no. What if some old poisonous gas
was held behind? There, that's a good.
Thought or something that meltedyour skin.
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Haven't we all watched The Mummy?
Like and the bigger question wasit Tamerlane who cursed the
invaders or then invaders cursedthemselves by ignoring the past?
He created the curse, he cursed them OK, and they chose the
cursor. He didn't just go out of his way
to curse them. It was like they made the
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decision. Well, in the end, the tomb was
closed again, but the story never was.
It lingers like an echo, reminding us some doors once
open, can never be shut the sameway again.
And now it's time for a quote from the beyond.
We're all just walking each other home, even into the
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unknown. And that was by Yoko Ono.
Or maybe a cosmic echo from the beyond, perfect to float us
into. Rabbits with horns, squirrels
with sores, deers with bubbles. All right, bell watchers, Our
final headline takes us out of the stars and back into our own
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backyards where Mother Nature isapparently auditioning for a
horror anthology. First came the rabbits with the
black tentacle like horns sprouting from their heads.
And just when you thought that was weird enough, here comes the
squirrels and the deer. Colorado residents first spotted
wild cottontails with eerie hornlike protrusions, jet black
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curling up like something straight out of Pan's Labyrinth.
Scientists were quick to explainit's an old virus called Shoop
Papilloma virus, known for almost a century.
It causes wart like tumors that can look uncannily like antlers.
Creepy, but not contagious to humans.
Well, not to be outdone, squirrels in the US and Canada
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started popping up with swollen pus filled tumors all over their
face and bodies. The Internet dubbed them zombie
squirrels. The cause?
Squirrel fibromatosis, another species specific virus.
It looks horrific but usually runs its course in a few months.
Still, imagine that thing staring at you from the bird
feeder. And now deer in states like New
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York, Wisconsin and Pennsylvaniaare being spotted with grotesque
black wart like growths, some asbig as grapefruits jutting from
their necks and faces. Scientists say it's cutaneous
fibromas, basically deer. Papillomovirus.
Let's try that again. It's deer.
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HPV is essentially spread by insect bites.
Again, not contagious to people,not even deadly most of the
time, but visually straight nightmare fuel.
So here we are, Rabbits sprouting horns, squirrels
turning into pus zombies, deer bubbling like haunted Jack O
lanterns. They're not sharing one virus,
it's three different species specific infections.
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But in the collective imagination, it looks like
nature running a creature feature marathon.
Reminder that the veil doesn't always split in the skies.
It sometimes gets weird right onyour lawn.
Rachel, if you were out on a midnight walk and a horned
rabbit, a zombie squirrel and a bubble faced deer all line up in
front of you, which one would you try to pet and which one
would you Sprint away from? I am petting none of them.
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I'm just I'm. This is the thing I wish was AI.
Oh my God. Do you think people are just
seeing monsters where nature shows viruses?
Or is there something deeper, maybe archetypal, about animals
morphing into these gothic figures right now?
It's freaking me out and they'resaying, oh, it's not contagious,
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but they're also saying stay away from them.
Yeah, so it won't spread to yourpets, but keep your pets away
from them. And keep me away from them.
Keep. Me away from them, it's very
sad. I can't even watch videos of it
because it makes me very sad. Yeah, me too.
Me too. Listeners, we want to know which
spooky backyard Cryptid woods this round?
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Horned rabbit, zombie squirrel, or bubble deer?
Drop your vote in the comments, and bonus points if you've got
your own eerie critter Cam footage to share.
Share it with us. And that, my truth seekers, is
our news spun, sizzled and served beyond the veil.
Tonight we wandered from crystals that breathe to curses
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that linger, to dreams replayed like movies and even wildlife
that looks like it wandered straight out of a horror comic.
Rach, one last question for you after all this.
Do you think these are just curiosities of science and
chance, or are they the veil itself, reminding us that it's
always thinner than we think? It's getting thinner and thinner
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by the day back. Pretty soon it's just going to
be gone. And remember, if you haven't
seen a ghost yet, you're probably going to see one
because I said so. Rachel said it.
It's coming, It's coming. There's nothing you can do now
at. 333 in the morning. Boy, well, I'm back and I'm with
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Rachel by my side. We ignite the corners of the
unknown with you. Until we meet again, keep your
match struck your heart. Curious.
And your mind unblanketed. Goodnight from beyond the veil
to the Spirit. Podcast Supernatural science in
aliens I'm ghosting ghost, ghostpsyche, Mystic spirit.
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Divine source in. Heaven.
You're listening to to the Spirit podcast.
Truth and fire, my ghostly friends.
It's your favorite flame, a match that knows its shape,
beckoning you back beyond the veil.
I'm back Your guide into the uncanny today.
The strangest, most delightful curiosities the cosmos and
(00:27):
probably your neighbour's attic had to offer.
And perched beside me, literallyin the spirit realm, is the one
the only Rachel ready to get weird with me.
I'm perched up on the bust of Palace.
(00:47):
First up, hold on to your carrotsticks.
Fake rabbits bouncing on trampolines online turned out to
be, well, fake. What?
Did you see those videos? Rabbits on trampoline.
Yeah, there was a viral video ofthese little rabbits bouncing
around and it looked awful real.But people kept sharing them
anyway because, as one observer grimly notes, people want things
(01:09):
to be true, so they will fail toact to remove it.
AI will win. Rach, what's your take?
Do we choose to believe bunny's on trampolines because they're
too cute to Fact Check? I've seen deer get up on a
trampoline. I see dogs jump on trampoline.
So why wouldn't little Bunny rat?
Because Bunny rabbits. You ever see them play?
Yeah, they're cute and they hop and they jump around.
(01:31):
Oh my God it's so cute. Like one will run at the other
one and then it'll hop over is the cutest freaking thing.
And you know what? We still just want to see
bunnies on trampolines, real or not.
That's right. Is this the new frontier of
existential dread, or just adorable?
Chaos. It's adorable chaos and I want
(01:51):
it all. I'm here for.
It I am. All right, Vale watchers, move
over. Mood ring science just out
weirded the new age Isle researchers have created a
crystal that actually breathes oxygen like lungs.
(02:12):
Not metaphorically, literally inhaling and exhaling oxygen
molecules the way you and I do. What?
This thing's stable and repeatable, and scientists are
already whispering about it, powering underwater exploration,
space travel, and maybe keeping us alive in places we were never
(02:33):
meant to. Breathe a rock as your scuba
buddy, because who doesn't want a geology major saving your
life? This probably has actually been
around like they probably found.It's probably some old ancient
stuff. Here's where it gets spooky.
Cultures for thousands of years have said that crystals are
(02:54):
alive, repositories of the spirit, memory and energy.
The ancients didn't need microscopes to tell you a stone
had a pulse. They carved them, carried them,
slept with them under their pillows, believing they held
breath. Dreams, even.
Voices of the Gods. You ever put a crystal under
your pillow before you went to sleep like.
(03:15):
No, but I need to. I need to, yeah.
Or rose Quartz. You'll be surprised what you
dream. Hmm, I need to do that.
Maybe I'll do that tonight. Do it.
So imagine science has just proven a crystal can literally
take in breath. Did our ancestors already know?
Were those temple amulets reallybreathing prayers back into the
(03:36):
world or is this the start of earth reminding us her bones are
far from inert? Is this modern day alchemy rocks
becoming lungs or just science catching up to what Mystics have
already whispered? Nah, this has been around just
in my core. I feel like this is just
something that's been there. Maybe they discovered it or
found it. It was a lost thing, but yeah.
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If crystals can breathe, what's next?
Stones that dream, rubies that sigh when pond, or amethyst that
snores in your sock drawer. Crystals, they heal, they're
very healing, and science is catching up.
I think so. I think science is way behind,
yeah. I mean there's there's crystals
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for each chakra and for each body area.
Yeah. And they work.
And be honest, would you keep a breathing crystal in your
bedroom or would that sound likethe start of a new kind of
haunted roommate story? As.
Long as it didn't have the asthmatic wheeze.
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Listeners, what do you think? If your favorite crystal
suddenly started huffing and puffing?
Would you lean closer to hear its secrets or Sprint out of the
room faster than a ghost hunter?At 3:00 AM, Unicode has blessed
us with a hairy creature emoji. Officially, it's not Bigfoot,
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but let's be real, this is the digital beast we've all been
waiting for. Is this a cryptic triumph or
bureaucratic dodge from naming Bigfoot directly?
What did they name it? It's just a hairy creature emoji
which. Shaped like Bigfoot.
Yeah, it looks like Bigfoot. I don't.
Know is this woke culture sayingno?
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Bigfoot. You can't say.
Bigfoot. It's Harry and the Hendersons.
Would you use it or do you prefer the mystical shadow
remain emoji free? I'm down with emojis I'll be
throwing. It out.
You're going to throw Bigfoot atme once in a while.
Yeah. All right.
Throw that Bigfoot at me, baby. Gallup reports roughly 39 to 40%
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of Americans still believe in ghosts.
Not a spike, not a drop, Just that steady spectral glow of
belief. Is paranormal belief a cozy
constraint? Or are we just avoiding
admitting we kind of dig the idea of ghosts?
I think the people who don't believe in ghosts are just
scared. You're afraid and you haven't
seen them. I really want the non believers
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to. Have an experience?
Yeah, I want it so bad. I think it's, I think there's
like some weird catch to it. That's why they don't.
I don't know what it is yet. I haven't figured it out.
Especially the ones that want itthe most.
They don't get it. Yeah.
Well, what does it say about us and about you?
What that I see them or I want people to see them?
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Well, that we believe in ghosts,that's.
Interesting. That means that they're staying
at a constant. They're not showing themselves
anymore, or any less hang tight because the veil is ever so
continually thinning. So if you haven't seen one yet,
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you're bound to see one. Veil spectators, brace yourself.
Scientists in Kyoto are claimingto have created a device that
let's you record and replay yourdreams.
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I swear I'm not making this up. This is real life myth bending
territory. Science behind the nightmare or
movie? Researchers at Kyoto's ATR
Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, led by Professor
Yoki ASU Kamitani, don't know ifI'm saying that right, have
developed technology that monitors brain activity via F
(07:42):
MRI during REM sleep and paired with AI, reconstructs images
matching the dreamers recollection up to 60% accuracy
and exceeding 70% for clear visual objects like people or
chairs. The device isn't quite recording
full blown cinematic dreams yet,but it's no longer just smoke
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and mirrors. It's more like stitched together
stills forming a surreal storyboard shown on a screen
like a glitchy short film of your subconscious.
This is the stuff of metaphysical midnight tales
humans have long whispered aboutdream journals, amulets to
capture visions or spirit scribes.
Now science says it's captured the dream on screen.
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A stone cold ghost in the data stream.
That's the new occult Rach. If you could watch your dreams
as movies, would you relive themor would they haunt you?
I love my dreams. So you'd want them recorded.
Even when they're scary, they'recool.
I think that's true, but would you want other people having
access to that? I wouldn't.
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And who knows what kind of radiation you're exposed to the?
MRI all the time. Yeah, that's a good point.
Yeah, we. Can see what your brains doing
but it's going to grow a big oldfat tumor eventually.
What creepy or wondrous dream would you want replayed?
I think any dreams that I have visitations from loved ones, I
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would love those replayed to see.
That's good. I thought you were going to go
into the sensual direction. At that time with Henry Cavill.
No, I like your answer. I'm all about that too.
The encounters with our loved ones.
Yeah. Yeah, cuz those ones are the
most impactful. And I do a lot of AI dream
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interpretations. They're really good.
Yeah, at breaking stuff down. Are we decoding the dream or
inviting the dream to decode us?By recording it, see the
mystical side of the dreaming, we were having that conversation
about Icarus flying too close tothe sun.
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I don't feel as if it is spiritually ethical to do this
to cut into this. I did hear on the Tik Toks that
some of the recordings that theywere getting were entities
coming in and trying to repetitively speak to the
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sleeper and tell them what to dowhen they woke up and it was
nefarious. Really.
Yeah, and they had gotten that in the recordings.
That's a whole nother level you don't even think about.
Not to mention all of the dark things they're probably
recording, like people that are doing nefarious things in their
dreams over and over. That's scary for.
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Some on that end of it, if we can detect entities that are
trying to corrupt our subconscious mind, yeah, the
dreams. So you kind of like forget about
that kind of stuff cuz you and I, we've kind of got our
boundaries and we don't, we don't play.
We're kind of like dream masters, you know, So people who
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are just raw dreaming, they don't know.
Raw dreaming. We're waiting for the raw dog
and yeah, OK. They don't got it wrapped up so.
I know if they recorded my dreams, they'd see a whole bunch
of zombies and waves that are coming at you.
Those are the stress dreams I have.
I've been having a lot of dreamsof being in water, the ocean and
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water, lots of water. What's that about?
Yeah, not like scary water, but just I'm in water.
We're. Gonna have to have a dream
episode soon. We really do.
We need to. Hey friends, enjoying the
weirdness so far. If your ears are still open and
your third eye hasn't shut out of fear.
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Make sure to like, follow, subscribe, and leave us a review
on Apple or Spotify. It helps more than salt around a
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on coffee too, it keeps our gearrunning and the static
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head over to YouTube for our Beyond Files curse clips, creepy
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reels, and us reacting in real time.
Got your own spooky story? Send it to to
thespiritpod@gmail.com. We love hearing from the
haunted. None.
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All right, Vail watchers, let's take a breather from the
headlines and peek at what's waiting out there in the land of
ghostly gatherings. You might want to grab your
planners or your sage bundles, because spooky season doesn't
wait. Let's go guys all.
Right San Antonio Paranormal Fest September 20th, 2025
Victoria's Black Swan and in Texas kick things off with the
San Antonio's Paranormal Fest. Expect psychics mediums
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including the formidable Bloody Mary investigator panels and
believe it or not, a world record collection of Casper the
Friendly ghost memorabilia. VI.
PS Get the full package, cemetery tours and guided
investigations at the end. Translation you'll be hanging
out with ghosts and then sleeping like 1.
I heard they're re releasing Casper into theaters for it's
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like anniversary. They never stop, do they?
Warren Seekers of the supernatural.
Paracon September 27th through the 29th 2025 Gettysburg, PA.
Gettysburg's not just about Civil War re enactment anymore.
This Paracon throws you right into the battlefield.
Hauntings, Warren lore, and enough EVP chatter to fill in
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Netflix series You talk. About any Lorraine.
Yeah, it's like a history class,but with more ghosts and fewer
pop quizzes. Spooky Spectacle and Boyd
Paranormal Convention Granbury, TX September 20 to 21st, 2025
Boyd, MN September 27th to 2025 Double the State's Double the
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Spooky Granbury hosts the spookyspectacle with everything from
Cryptid art to ghost hunting gear, while Boyd, Minnesota
offers one day convention sure to make you rethink small town
quiet. Because nothing says Fall
festival like a haunted pie contest, right?
We all have a good haunted pie. Wraith Chasers at Rolling Hills
(14:58):
Asylum, September 26th through 27th 2025 E Bethany, NY tag
along with the Wraith Chasers inside a classic haunted asylum.
You'll get screamed, shadows andmaybe a new ringtone courtesy of
EVP Static. Forget Ghost tours, this is
ghost Lock in. If I wasn't so sensitive and
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like afraid of the bad juju that.
You would be doing it. Oh my God, sounds so.
It sounds so fun. Mothman Festival September 20th
to the 22nd, 2025 and Point Pleasant, WV.
Of course, we can't forget the annual Mothman Festival.
Thousands flock to Point Pleasant to celebrate everyone's
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favorite winged harbinger of doom.
It's part crypted convention, block party and all.
Weird, because who doesn't want to buy a funnel cake under the
watchful red eyes of a prophecy bird?
We know Mothman can twerk. That's true.
He's got that cake. Paranormal Cirque tour various
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cities September and October 2025.
Think Cirque du Soleil, but dipped in gothic ink.
Paranormal Cirque is touring through Saint Louis, Middletown,
Castle Rock and Aurora this fall.
Where acrobatics meets the uncanny.
Imagine juggling, but haunted. That sounds really cool.
Rock Island Roadhouse Esoteric Expo, October 4th and 5th 2025
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and Rock Island, IL. Want to meet the real Annabelle
doll? Nope, she'll be there.
Sealed tightener case, midnight seances, Warren lore and
paranormal TikTok creator swapping ghost stories in the
corner like it's speed dating for the damned.
This one's not for the faint of heart.
I don't want to meet Annabelle. Ghosts of Lighthouse Point
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October 9th through the 11th 2025 in Marquette, MI.
By day, family friendly lighthouse tours.
By night, creepy paranormal investigations by the water.
Bonus points. It all helps keep the Maritime
Museum afloat. Haunted history and good deeds
rolled into one. Ghost approved.
Rachel approved too. Missouri Town Paranormal
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Investigation October 25th, 2025Lee's Summit, Missouri Step into
the 19th century buildings with living history interpreters and
investigators guiding you through the chills.
It's part museum, part seance, part reminder that old timey
Missouri probably had way more ghost than school books admit.
So, Rach, which one survived Casper merch, funnel cakes with
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Mothman, or spending a night in an asylum with Wraith chasers?
Because I'll be honest, I'm voting for Funnel.
Cakes. The circus thing sound really,
really cool. The Haunted Circus, but the
asylum. Wow, you're stuck with the
asylum. I mean, I was just, if I
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curiously watch somebody, I guess if I could, if I knew, if
I could guarantee like total spiritual protection, I would
love to go on a haunted asylum. See, that's not my jam at all.
I'm not feeling asylum. Are you looking past me at
something? I don't have my glasses on and I
think I feel like you're staringbehind me like someone standing
(18:16):
there. Blind as bubbles.
I am right now man. Trailer Park Boys.
OK Vale Breakers, this is your turn.
Send us your weirdest real worldknocks at the paranormal.
Flickering lights, whispering corners, shadows that follow the
(18:36):
slow dance will read 1 and send a chill down your collective
spy. Triple dog dare you.
To the Spirit pod@gmail.com. With a Bigfoot emoji.
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And now it's time for strange tales from history's shadow, the
cursed tomb of Tamerlene, 1941 Uzbekistan.
Tonight, Vale watchers, we open not just a tomb, but a page of
history stained with war and whispers and curses.
June 1941, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Soviet archaeologist
unearthed the resting place of Tamerlane, the infamous 14th
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century conqueror who left rivers of blood in his campaigns
across to Asia. His tomb bore a chilling
inscription. Whomsoever.
Open with slime cheese shall. I move.
Should be more terrible. OK.
And yet the Soviets, in their certainty, dismissed it as
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superstition. On June 20th, 1941, they pried
open the sarcophagus and inside lay Tamerlane's remains, his
bones fractured, his legacy etched in stone.
Two days later, June 22nd, Hitler launched Operation
Barbarossa. The largest military invasion in
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history, hurling the Nazis deep into Soviet lands.
Coincidence. Maybe, but the timing was
uncanny. To the people of Uzbekistan, it
was proof that the Greek conqueror's spirit had not gone
quietly into the earth. Even Stalin's iron grip couldn't
stop the whispers. Tamerlane's curse had been
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loosed. And here is where it gets even
stranger. By 1942, after devastating
Soviet losses, Stalin ordered that Tamerlane's remains be
interred with full Islamic burial rates.
Only weeks later, the tide of war began to shift.
The Battle of Stalingrad turned the Nazis back.
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Was it strategy and sheer grit, or the settling of a curse
appeased by respect? History, like the veil, doesn't
always speak in absolutes. Did Soviet archaeologist break
more than the stone that day? Did they release a spirit
waiting centuries for revenge? Or is this just a story soldiers
told themselves as the bombs fell to make sense of the
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senselessness? Rach, what do you think?
Was this pure coincidence or do you think ancient curses still
have teeth in the modern world? Oh for sure, it's just like the
guy who wanted to be cursed for funsies or the people who all
disrupted King Tut's tomb. They all died.
Yeah, so you're a believer? I am a believer of ancient.
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Cursing and you ain't messing with the curses.
True and true. If it says.
Do not open. I will turn around and.
Walk away. OK, That was my next question.
If you came face to face with that and it was sealed, would
you open the tomb or not? If there was a warning on it,
no. What if some old poisonous gas
was held behind? There, that's a good.
Thought or something that meltedyour skin.
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Haven't we all watched The Mummy?
Like and the bigger question wasit Tamerlane who cursed the
invaders or then invaders cursedthemselves by ignoring the past?
He created the curse, he cursed them OK, and they chose the
cursor. He didn't just go out of his way
to curse them. It was like they made the
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decision. Well, in the end, the tomb was
closed again, but the story never was.
It lingers like an echo, reminding us some doors once
open, can never be shut the sameway again.
And now it's time for a quote from the beyond.
We're all just walking each other home, even into the
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unknown. And that was by Yoko Ono.
Or maybe a cosmic echo from the beyond, perfect to float us
into. Rabbits with horns, squirrels
with sores, deers with bubbles. All right, bell watchers, Our
final headline takes us out of the stars and back into our own
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backyards where Mother Nature isapparently auditioning for a
horror anthology. First came the rabbits with the
black tentacle like horns sprouting from their heads.
And just when you thought that was weird enough, here comes the
squirrels and the deer. Colorado residents first spotted
wild cottontails with eerie hornlike protrusions, jet black
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curling up like something straight out of Pan's Labyrinth.
Scientists were quick to explainit's an old virus called Shoop
Papilloma virus, known for almost a century.
It causes wart like tumors that can look uncannily like antlers.
Creepy, but not contagious to humans.
Well, not to be outdone, squirrels in the US and Canada
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started popping up with swollen pus filled tumors all over their
face and bodies. The Internet dubbed them zombie
squirrels. The cause?
Squirrel fibromatosis, another species specific virus.
It looks horrific but usually runs its course in a few months.
Still, imagine that thing staring at you from the bird
feeder. And now deer in states like New
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York, Wisconsin and Pennsylvaniaare being spotted with grotesque
black wart like growths, some asbig as grapefruits jutting from
their necks and faces. Scientists say it's cutaneous
fibromas, basically deer. Papillomovirus.
Let's try that again. It's deer.
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HPV is essentially spread by insect bites.
Again, not contagious to people,not even deadly most of the
time, but visually straight nightmare fuel.
So here we are, Rabbits sprouting horns, squirrels
turning into pus zombies, deer bubbling like haunted Jack O
lanterns. They're not sharing one virus,
it's three different species specific infections.
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But in the collective imagination, it looks like
nature running a creature feature marathon.
Reminder that the veil doesn't always split in the skies.
It sometimes gets weird right onyour lawn.
Rachel, if you were out on a midnight walk and a horned
rabbit, a zombie squirrel and a bubble faced deer all line up in
front of you, which one would you try to pet and which one
would you Sprint away from? I am petting none of them.
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I'm just I'm. This is the thing I wish was AI.
Oh my God. Do you think people are just
seeing monsters where nature shows viruses?
Or is there something deeper, maybe archetypal, about animals
morphing into these gothic figures right now?
It's freaking me out and they'resaying, oh, it's not contagious,
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but they're also saying stay away from them.
Yeah, so it won't spread to yourpets, but keep your pets away
from them. And keep me away from them.
Keep. Me away from them, it's very
sad. I can't even watch videos of it
because it makes me very sad. Yeah, me too.
Me too. Listeners, we want to know which
spooky backyard Cryptid woods this round?
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Horned rabbit, zombie squirrel, or bubble deer?
Drop your vote in the comments, and bonus points if you've got
your own eerie critter Cam footage to share.
Share it with us. And that, my truth seekers, is
our news spun, sizzled and served beyond the veil.
Tonight we wandered from crystals that breathe to curses
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that linger, to dreams replayed like movies and even wildlife
that looks like it wandered straight out of a horror comic.
Rach, one last question for you after all this.
Do you think these are just curiosities of science and
chance, or are they the veil itself, reminding us that it's
always thinner than we think? It's getting thinner and thinner
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by the day back. Pretty soon it's just going to
be gone. And remember, if you haven't
seen a ghost yet, you're probably going to see one
because I said so. Rachel said it.
It's coming, It's coming. There's nothing you can do now
at. 333 in the morning. Boy, well, I'm back and I'm with
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Rachel by my side. We ignite the corners of the
unknown with you. Until we meet again, keep your
match struck your heart. Curious.
And your mind unblanketed. Goodnight from beyond the veil
to the Spirit. Podcast Supernatural science in
aliens I'm ghosting ghost, ghostpsyche, Mystic spirit.
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Divine source in. Heaven.
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