September 13, 2025 • 37 mins
Step Beyond the Veil with Beck and Rachel as they strike thematch on another hour of uncanny headlines and strange true tales.From a man secretly living beneath the floorboards in Oregon, to a mysterious metallic sphere that hums with Sanskrit chants, to medical oddities like stone babies and chicken-egg tumors, this episode blurs the line between science, folklore, and the downright bizarre.
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You're listening to to the Spirit podcast.
Truth and fire my veil walkers. It's your favorite flame, your
match that knows it's shape, welcoming you back beyond the
veil. I'm back.
Your guide into the uncanny, where the strange isn't just
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tolerated, it's celebrated. Tonight we've gathered another
hour's worth of reality bending curiosities that prove the
universe has one heck of a senseof humor and maybe a secret file
marked CLASSIFIED Too Weird for Saturday.
From unwanted tenants crawling under the floorboards to a
mysterious fear that hums along with ancient Sanskrit chants to
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bodies harboring stone babies and chicken egg tumors,
tonight's headlines blur the line between biology, folklore,
and the downright bizarre. Add in Annabelle hitting the
road again, a Demon Hunter back on the radar, and a stroll
through history's devil's footprints, and you've got an
episode that feels less like a news roundup and more like
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rummaging through your grandmother's attic and finding
a grimoire wedged between the cookbooks.
And perched beside me, as always, steady on the other side
of the microphone is the ever brave, sometimes slightly
skeptical, always entertaining. Rachel.
Ready to get weird with me tonight, Rach?
Bring on the weird. Back.
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Well, good, because we've got headlines that range from creepy
crawly to cosmically bizarre, and if the Veil feels a little
thin tonight, that's just the way we like it.
So buckle in. Let's strike the match.
All right, Vale watchers, let's strike our first match of the
night when, oh boy, this one will make you look twice at your
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floorboards before bed. In Happy Valley, Oregon, a
homeowner started hearing strange noises.
Now, normally that's part of thestory where you blame the cat,
the pipes or the ghost of great.But in this case, it wasn't a
ghost at all. It was a roommate they didn't
sign up for. Police were called, and what did
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they find? A crawl space converted into a
secret hideaway. My fear?
Uh huh. Holy shit.
We're talking string lights, ATVA bed that works, the man
living down there, a 31 year oldnamed Benjamin Bucher Bukhar.
Bukhar, something like that. That apparently turned the
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family home into his own paranormal episode of Extreme
Makeover Crawlspace Edition. He's now facing burglary and
drug charges with a bail set of $75,000.
And the newscasters called it what the Internet has been
whispering about it for years, frogging.
The act of secretly living in someone else's home without them
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knowing. I fear that to this day, I would
take a ghost, a spirit, a spook any time over that.
Like, sometimes I even just go look around.
Yeah. Oh, you're brave.
I'm scared. We've covered haunted houses all
the time, but this is next level.
It turns out the only thing scarier than a ghost under your
bed might be a dude charging hisphone under your floorboards.
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Oh my God, the creepiness of that.
Let me ask you Rach, would you rather find a ghost in your
basement or a full on squatter watching Netflix in your
crawlspace Ghost. OK, Ghost.
OK and the real question how long do you think you could frog
someone's house before getting caught?
I feel like your snacking game would give you a wait about 3
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hours. I know, but that that twisted
the the other way around. That's that's kind of a thrill.
I see how you rolling now. Here's the weird connective
tissue. For centuries, folklore has
whispered about hidden folk spirits who live in the walls.
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The rafters are beneath the floor.
Iceland calls them Huldufolk. Japanese lore has the zashiki
warashi, childlike house spiritswho hide under the tatami mats.
And here in America, well, we apparently have Benjamin string
lights and a $75,000 bail bond. So maybe the legends weren't
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wrong. Maybe the hidden folk are still
among us. They've just upgraded to LED
lighting. You know, I feel like my
groceries are going really fast.I swear to God if someone's
living in my walls. Rach is going to find you.
Maybe you need one of those detectors, those heat sensing
detectors. I'm going to home alone traps or
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something. Home alone traps and then that.
What is that called? It's a red.
You need to walk around and scanthe pipes.
I have a night vision camera. And I don't think that's going
to scan the body heat signature.Our next headline sounds like it
was ripped straight out of an Indiana Jones sequel written by
a conspiracy theorist on 2 espressos.
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Oh. A video has gone viral showing a
strange metallic sphere named the Bugosphere that supposedly
responds to ancient Sanskrit chants.
That's right, chant in the oldest living Indo European
language and the sphere hums or pulses or resonates.
Depending on who you ask, it's either alien tech, the lost
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relic, or a hoax filmed with better sound effects than a
Marvel movie. Now, scientists haven't weighed
in officially yet, so this is still floating in the twilight
zone between evidence and TikToktheatre.
But here's why it caught fire online.
For centuries, Mystics have saidsound, chant, prayer, vibration
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changes, matter. And now we've got a hunk of
metal allegedly vibrating in agreement.
Is it proof, or is it just another case of humans yelling
at objects until they rattle? So Rach, here's the $1,000,000
question. If you had a mysterious alien
sphere in front of you, would you chant to it or just back
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away slowly? I'm not chanting to it.
Oh my God. Really, you'll look at yourself
in the mirror like a Squire, butyou won't chant to a bugosphere.
No, I don't understand alien tech and all that.
That stuff creeps me out. At least the mirror I got a foot
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on that side. All right.
And what do you think is more likely that this thing is
genuine, or that someone's having a really fun weekend with
a Bluetooth speaker hidden inside most?
Likely. It's probably a hoax for
entertainment purposes. Not buying it.
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Remember, I'm slightly skeptic as you said.
Yeah, that's true. But here's where it gets
interesting. Ancient cultures have always
connected orbs with power, crystal balls for divination,
the sample and Finnish myth, theown fallow stone at Delphi in
India, Sanskrit itself was called the language of the gods,
said to resonate with creations Blueprint.
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So imagine for a second, just imagine that this is legit, that
a metal sphere responds only to the sounds of Sanskrit.
Would that mean whoever made it spoke the same language as our
ancestors? Would that tie alien visitors
not to our future, but to our past listeners?
We've got to know if you stumbled upon a strange orb in
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your backyard. What's the first thing you do?
Chant, call the news or try to sell it on eBay as slightly
haunted? Send us your takes, because
let's face it, half of you wouldabsolutely try to talk to the
Orb before calling the cops. Maybe I'd see if there's
something living in it or something.
Pokémon. Probably is just a glorified
Pokémon Ball. 2 minutes to countdown.
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I hope you strapped in, because this one defies even our
expectations for human weirdness.
In Hokkaido, Japan, an 80 year old woman befriended someone
online claiming to be an astronaut, stranded in space,
breathing problems and all. Concerned and convinced she sent
about 6700 USD to save him from an oxygen crisis.
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Spoiler alert, there was no astronaut in orbit, just a
profoundly skilled scammer playing cosmic heartstrings.
So this is instead of Nigerian Princess.
Now we. Have stranded astronauts talk
about launching grief and goodwill into orbit and having
it land in a scammers bank account?
Makes me wonder, did she hope a real astronaut was reaching out?
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Was she hearing the faint echoesof something beyond, or just
loneliness of space framed in pixels?
I think people are very lonely and they're doing whatever they
can well to find connection. On a scale from heartfelt sci-fi
moment to red flag flashing at lightspeed, where does this land
for you? That is, would she get it in the
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e-mail or what? How'd she get the message?
She befriended this person online.
They were online. Get out of here.
Would you even for a second consider sending help to someone
in space? Or would skepticism pilot the
shuttle here? I think I would have to get like
a what is the hologrammed message in my house or something
like that. Help me Obi Wan, you're my only
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hope that maybe I would I would consider, but in the chat room,
no. Well, here's where the ancient
tales would have thrived. In folklore, strangers from
distant realms, celestial messengers or starborn Wanderers
were figures of awe or tools of deceit.
Exchanges between worlds, real or imagined, always came with a
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price. So maybe this modern tale echoes
thousands of years of stories about longing, about believing,
and about the shadows love can fall into when connection
outpaces caution. Vale walkers gather round
because this one digs into a medical mystery that's literally
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fossilized. In Columbia, doctors discovered
a calcified fetus inside a 40 year old woman, a phenomenon so
rare it could be straight out ofa gothic novel.
We're talking lithopedion, colloquially called a stone
baby. It's been estimated to occur in
just one to 2% of all atopic pregnancies, but most go
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completely undetected. This one it turned into a $1.5
million Instagram post. Was this the woman?
Yes. The woman who's still alive?
Yes. That was a crazy thing.
Uh huh. Oh my God.
Tonight's news might just crack more than bones.
It cracks minds. Now imagine getting a call from
your OBGYN. Ma'am, congratulations, you're
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hosting a fossil. That's some Natural History
Museum level weirdness and humananatomy.
A stone baby happens when the fetus dies during an abdominal
pregnancy, but instead of causing infection, the body
calcifies it, turning it into a grotesque calm.
Fascinated, horrified, or just desperately trying not to Google
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Stone Baby on your lunch break? I looked into it because that
was crazy. Oh, so you did Google?
I did. I mean I think I saw TikTok on
it and I was like whoa, because I've heard of those things
called what they called like Terra teratomas that have like
teeth and hair and stuff like that.
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So that's it. Kinda is teratoma ish, but it's
actually a fetus. Real talk, if you found
something ancient and calcified inside yourself without the
souvenir T-shirt, what's your game plan?
Frame it. Bury it.
Listed on eBay as Vintage Pregnancy keepsake.
So I was talking about, we were talking about like the, you
know, Gwyneth Paltrow, yeah, kept her teeth and stuff.
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And I kind of thought like I, I wish I kept some.
She did. Gwyneth Paltrow did.
I thought it was Heidi. Klum, Oh, was it Heidi Klum?
Yeah, Gwyneth Paltrow has the Vijayjay candle.
Oh yeah. Famous thin blonde.
Yeah, hey, same category. Tomato tomato clone but.
For entertainment purposes only.But I think I would hold on to
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it. No, no eBay, huh?
It's kind of creepy and weird. It is.
It'd be good in a little museum.Little museum just come to my
house. And look at my little stone
baby. My stone on display.
In a glass jar. But that I would I would keep
that thing. Maybe it has some magical
properties to it? Thing is, this isn't just
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biology. Folk tales across cultures
featured petrified children, waxen statues or ghosts turned
into stone like Medusa's victims, or Saints and medieval
cathedrals. Lithopedion is literal
embodiment of that myth. Life frozen in time, uncanny and
silent, lying with a living body.
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I wonder what it metaphysically could represent it.
Blurs the line between the animate and inanimate, the
present and the fossilized past.Maybe that's why it chills us,
because we recognize our own mortality, our capacity to
preserve what was once alive, yet also to bury it forever.
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A stone baby doesn't cry, it doesn't move, just exists and
calcified stillness, like a memory that refuses to fade.
It just. Causes a lot of discomfort and
pain I. Can't even imagine a big.
Stone, you talk. About a kidney stone.
Our next story is equal parts medical oddity and gothic
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poetry, so brace yourselves. In China, doctors recently
removed a tumor from a man's scrotum.
That was What if that word scrotum got you already?
Just. Immature.
Wait for it. The size of a chicken egg.
And before you ask, no, this is not an Easter special.
This is real or rare medical case.
Here's the kicker. This type of tumor, called an
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angiofibroblastoma, is usually found in women, most often in
the vulvas of premenopausal women and men.
Nearly unheard of Indiana fact Fewer than a dozen cases have
ever been documented in English medical literature, and now we
can add one more to the file. Imagine the odds you walk in
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with a lump and doctors flip through the textbook like we've
only ever seen this eight times before worldwide.
Now, I'm not a doctor, but if someone told me I had a chicken
egg growing in my nether regions, I'd expect them to pass
me a basket and say congratulations, you're hosting
brunch. Instead, this poor guy had to
undergo surgery to remove what was essentially A flesh bound
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Faberge egg. Rare, benign and medically
baffling. Rach, to be honest, if you heard
a friend complain of carrying around a chicken egg where no
chicken egg should be, would youbelieve them or call the psych
ward? A man or a woman?
Man, I'd be like, listen buddy, once you go through what we go
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through. You don't want to hear it.
Cyclically, I'm not. Going to hear it.
You got 1 egg. Well, do you think our bodies
hide these bizarre surprises as cosmic jokes, or is nature just
endlessly inventive even in the most uncomfortable places?
Maybe it symbolized something? She keeps saying they symbolize
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something. The stone baby and the chicken
egg and the scrotum. What are they symbolizing?
You a bitch, that's why you growin female things.
OK, I was waiting for you to go.But here's where it gets uncanny
in folklore. And I always bring it back to
that lump swellings or strange growths.
We're never just medical. They were omens.
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See, Here you go. Curses, even signs of spirit
possession. A swelling could mean you've
crossed a witch, or that a body was harboring a ghost that
refused to move on. Medieval texts are full of stone
tumors that were said to whisper, bleed or vanish
overnight. And yet here in 2025, science
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delivers us a tale. Just a strange tumor where it
doesn't belong with the shape ofsomething symbolic.
An egg. And what is the egg if not the
eternal archetype of mystery, fertility, rebirth, the cycle of
life cracking open? Except in this case it hatched
in a scrotum. So actually it was a an egg.
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Or was it? Yeah, it was a fibro.
Yeah, it wasn't real. A real chicken egg, but it's.
Maybe it's just a sign to lay off the processed food.
Well, maybe that's why stories like this rattle, if they remind
us that the body isn't just biology, it's myth written in
tissue, symbol stitched in flesh.
We carry mysteries beneath the skin, and sometimes they surface
in the most unlikely ways. The doctor saw a tumor.
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I see the universe winking at us.
Life is stranger than you think.And sometimes it's shaped like
breakfast. Maybe he was cursed.
He did some. He did one woman wrong and she
axed him. Egged him.
Hi, I'm Rachel, still not possessed despite what Beck
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share it. Now let's hop across the sea to
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Ireland, where something truly magical is stirring.
And County Leitrim. A dancer and folklorist named
Edwina Guckian is doing something rare.
She's collecting fairy tales by singing sessions and retirement
homes, then weaving them into immersive performances.
Schlimpenny set for the festivalof Bioaltenna in a secret
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location. Stories of she fairy lights that
dance you nearly to the ground. Ring forts that trap the
curious. What we think of as myth is
being reborn on stage. Think fairy stories are just
cute bedtime stuff? Try this.
Folks are still saying they've seen little lights and fields so
platch in a fairy origin that lure the unwary into endless
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exhausting dances. One tale even include a field
where potatoes were planted and instead of spuds only Hawthorne
trees grew. That's wild.
Literally Rach. Serious question, if a glowing
fairy light LED you into a field, do you run, dance or text
it for directions? Dance.
You Can Dance if you want to. Fun night time interpretive
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dance. 9 of cups energy. Just fun and whimsicalness and
hope that it's doesn't curse me.Do you think these stories are
fading, or are they old fairy tracks that modern people are
starting to follow again? It feels like things are just
coming back. Yeah.
And we're giving the the old things power again.
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Gnomes. Yeah.
Giants, Giants Big feet. Yeah, big feet, all these
creatures, I just feel like, I don't know, they're coming back
and we're bringing them back to life.
If they live in the Unseen realm, they might start emerging
more. I think they've always existed.
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Yeah, I think you're right. Fairies in Ireland weren't sugar
plum sprites, they were ancestors, spirits of long dead
tribes like the Two a Day Dannanor Fear Bulog.
Sometimes mischievous, sometimesdangerous, these were stories
told to explain the inexplicableor to protect children from
wandering. Shklipani resurrects those
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stories with dance, sound and communal memory.
Like the veil pulling back, if only for a moment.
It's the soul of folklore, part myth, part memory, all belonging
to us. And Guckians performance, those
invisible lights, those fairies don't just flicker in stories.
They become dances, hand gestures and a shared human
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heartbeat. And that's the kind of magic we
need right now, just like Rach said.
All right, everybody gather round.
The screens. Aren't the only things being
haunted by The Conjuring last rites?
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At a special preview in Texas, something emerged from the
darkness. A man convulsed mid screening
mere yards from an audience being blessed with holy water
and prayer cards by a Bishop. Was it genuine terror or the
wildest PR stunt the franchise has pulled yet?
Let's peel back the veil. In the Rio Grande Valley
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screening, Bishop Brian Ulet, yes the one from Ghost
Adventures, was on duty distributing holy water and
Saint Michael prayer cards in the lobby.
Then during the screening, a manbegan convulsing.
Audience chaos followed. Was this a spiritual showdown, a
medical meltdown, or just a perfectly timed scream for
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attention? With Warner Brothers staying
silent, speculation is hotter than a ghost whisper.
Be honest. If you were being blessed at a
screening and a man started jerking in the front row, would
you respect the holy water and back away slowly, snap a selfie
for horror crud, or just scream movie magic and genuine mayhem
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louder than the soundtrack? I'd be recording it because
that's going to go viral. OK, you're one of them.
I'm one of them. I didn't realize it was the
Bishop, the Ghost Adventures Bishop, the stage.
Look, horror is always flirted with fear in theatre.
The Exorcist handed out air sickness bags.
Paranormal activity use night vision clips to scare the pants
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off audiences. This It's two parts cinematic
ritual, one part anxiety, a blessing and a convulsion served
in the same bucket. The fans are split.
Some said Amen. Some said Nah, man, that's
marketing mojo in action. It's fun though.
It's all good fun. In a region where Catholic
symbolism runs deep, a Bishop atthe movies isn't odd, it's
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tradition. That this moment made the
Internet explode shows just how thin the veil between belief and
spectacle still is. And there it is, friends, an
unholy mash up of faith, fear and flicker.
Were we watching a witching hourintervention or just the
spookiest commercial ever conceived?
Either way, The Conjuring provessometimes the scariest thing
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isn't what's on screen, it's what shows U between the scenes.
Speaking of the Warren verse, hold your collective breath.
The Conjuring's most infamous antagonist just went Turing
again in the US, the real Annabelle Dahl.
Yes, the Raggedy Ann Gondemonic is back on display, fresh off
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its Hollywood debut and last rites and heading to conventions
and cult gatherings again. This September, the New England
Society for Psychic Research is touring Annabelle across the
country. She's showing up at horror
conventions like the main Paranormal and Horror Con and
the San Antonio Psychic and Spirit Fest.
Displayed under glass, yes, but still traveling.
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Comedian Matt Rife has even become the legal guardian of the
doll, and the entire Warren Museum collection has claimed to
fame. Now haunted by legacy.
Literally making it a joke. Now we need to talk about this a
little bit. Judy and Tony still own the
Warren Occult Museum artifacts including Annabelle and what
Rife and Cassidy purchased was the Warrens home in Monroe,
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Connecticut. Plus A5 year guardianship lease
of the 750 artifacts. This gives the Warren family
continued oversight but outsources the physical
caretaking and financial responsibility of maintaining
and reopening the collection. I think some of you may have
been interested like I was, as to why this was happening and
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that is why. But here's where I got to throw
down a little Truth and Fire Vale watchers, because the
Warrens themselves said it. Annabelle isn't just a doll,
she's a conduit. She's like a cracked battery,
leaking energy. You move her around, and that
influence isn't locked in glass anymore.
It breathes, It leeches, it looks.
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For new hosts. Think of cursed objects as
spiritual Wi-Fi. You don't have to touch the
router to pick up the signal. Just being in the room is enough
for it to find a way in. So when you start trucking
Annabelle across the country, Wheeling her into convention,
snapping selfies with her case, you're not just stirring hype.
You're stirring the entity that rides her.
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And let's be blunt, this also smells a little like a cash
grab. Haunted roadshow tickets, photo
OPS, overnight stays. The Warrens warned about moving
her for decades, and now suddenly it's a marketing plan.
If this isn't irony, it's hubris.
And hubris, my friends, is what every ghost, demon and trickster
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spirit loves to feed on. So yes, maybe this isn't just
spooky fun. Maybe it's a dangerous gamble
dressed up as entertainment. Because here's the truth.
Some relics were never meant forthe spotlight.
Some veils are thin enough without us poking holes.
And sometimes when you take the devil on tour, the devil doesn't
stay in the case. Rach, what do you think?
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Is this the biggest paranormal mistake since someone cracked
open Tutankhamun's tomb? Or is this just hype for the
headlines? Another haunted sideshow cashing
in on our goosebumps. It is the worst idea ever I
think and especially bringing Annabelle to Psychic and Spirit
Fest. That is a feeding ground for
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whatever is in that doll and you're giving it fame.
It's going to thrive off of the fame, the attention.
Doesn't feel like evil. Are these roots that are just
growing all over right now? Yeah.
And these idiots are spreading it around like a bad movie.
As I say, it's a a live horror movie.
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In the main game we've already had one person pass because.
Of it, Yeah, that's no joke. No, Annabelle isn't just a prop.
She's a living myth. Ed Lorraine Warren famously
warned she should never be movedfrom her case.
And yet here she is, far from Monroe, CT, sparking chatter
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online and local news. It's like inviting a legendary
monster on a talk show. Dangerous, tempting, and utterly
irresistible for the curious andthe conspirator alike.
Fairy lights dance, stone babieswhisper, and dolls go on tour.
The veil doesn't just tear. Sometimes it boards on Amtrak.
And if that doll stirs the air in a hushed hall, who are we to
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say that the veil isn't watchingback?
For our final headline, we head to the Bronx by the way of Hell
itself. Meet Ralph Sarchi, a retired
NYPD Sergeant who traded busted criminals for battling demons.
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If his name rings a bell, it's because he was the real life
inspiration for the book Beware the Night and the 2014 film
Deliver Us From Evil. Well, Ralph is back in the news
because he says sinister entities have been whispering at
him again, warning him to quit, to walk away, to stay out of
their business. And if there's one thing we know
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from horror movies, that's the kind of advice you probably
don't ignore. Imagine this.
You retire from chasing murderers only to spend your
golden years chasing the devil. Most people get a gold watch.
Ralph got spectral threats in the middle of the night.
Demons apparently don't send Hallmark cards.
So, Rachel, if something dark started warning you stay out of
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it, would you listen? Or would you double down like
Ralph and start polishing your holy water bottle?
They said stay out of it. I'm not like a a spiritual
warrior. You're going to.
You're complying. I might reach out to somebody
who is better experienced in that kind of work, but that that
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ain't my Forte. Got it.
And the real question do you think demons actually warn
before they act, or is that justthe human brain dressing fear up
in dialogue? They, they could give a warning
like just to kind of say, 'causeif they do it and be like, oh,
the demon told me to do it, but they're like, no, I, I didn't
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tell you to do it. I actually gave you an option
and you chose this so. Here you go.
They're pretty cunning. I don't know if they'd give you
a warning, but that's just my thought.
Maybe in a manipulative way, some kind of, I don't know.
Here's where this collides with folklore.
Warnings from the underworld areancient motif.
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Banshees shrieking before death,witches sending omens, spirits
scratching messages into walls to be told to stay away is as
old as ghost stories themselves.But Ralph's case is different.
It's not a haunting of a place, but of vocation, a man's entire
calling, policing evil marked asa target.
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That's why it lands like folklore with a badge.
So here we are, ending tonight'snews with the man who can't
leave the veil behind, no matterhow much he wants to.
Maybe the lesson is simple. Some people get called to serve
in precincts, others in parishes, and some get drafted
straight to spiritual warfare. The rest of us?
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We just get to read about it andmaybe check our closets before
bed. And now it's time for strange
tales from history's shadow. The Devil's footprints of 1855
Vale walkers. For tonight's shadow tale, we
journey back to the frosty English countryside.
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Devon winter of 1855. Snow had fallen thick across the
land, blanketing the villages insilence.
But when dawn broke, the people awoke to something they couldn't
explain. Marching single file across
miles of snow were footprints, odd cloven, hoof like tracks
stretching for over 100 miles. They crossed rivers without
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breaking, climbed rooftops, scaled high walls and vanished,
only to appear again on the other side.
The villagers said only one creature could move like that,
the devil himself. Imagine waking up, trudging to
your barn and seeing hoof printson your roof.
That's not your neighbour's goat.
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It's Santa. That's a cosmic prankster
leaving bread crumbs. And the strangest part?
The Prince were all in a single file, as if one legged like some
demonic Pogo stick. What the hell?
So if you woke up to hoof Princemarching across your roof, would
you call the priest, grab a camera, or just follow them into
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the woods to see what's waiting?The following that in the woods
I I would get footage and reach out to somebody.
Rachel's always getting footage.I'd probably call you.
There's a theme, and do you think this was a demon dropping
by? Or maybe something stranger,
like atmospheric phenomenon balloons dragging chains?
Or my favorite, the world's mostambitious kangaroo escape.
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It could be like one of them Baycreatures that have the the hoof
feet. They're like the body.
Of person and. Then their two legs have the
hoof feet. Oh yeah, yeah, I know what
you're saying. Like the Lion Witch in the
wardrobe. Yeah.
Walking. Or Narnia.
Yeah, walking single file like 1foot in front of the other,
Yeah. Those are weird creatures.
They're like goat bottoms, I think.
Yeah. Villagers whispered that the
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devil had stalked them, reminding the faithful he could
walk the earth. Clergy declared it an omen, but
skeptics since then have pointedto wild animals, escaped
Kangaroos from traveling menageries, even experimental
balloons dragging weights acrossthe snow.
Yet none of these theories explain the sheer scale.
The Prince spanned over 100 miles, and to this day, no one
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has recreated the conditions convincingly.
The Devil's Footprints remain 1 of history's great unsolved
winter mysteries. Maybe it was hooves.
Maybe it was a hoax, or maybe itwas a reminder left stamped into
snow that something walks among us when the world is quiet and
white. The veil doesn't always whisper.
It sometimes leaves tracks. It kind of seems like I think
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the devil himself would have farbetter things to do.
Walk 100 miles in the snow. And I would walk 500 miles.
People have walked way more for way less.
Right. All right, Vale watchers, now
it's your turn. We love when you peel back the
Vale with us and share what's been knocking on your own door.
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Tonight's story comes from Phantom Steps 87, and it's the
kind that reminds us the uncannydoesn't just live in books or
headlines. That sometimes lives in our
bedrooms, Phantom Steps 87 writes.
One night I woke up to the soundof footsteps circling my bed.
There's a lot of footsteps goingon today.
The room was pitch black, but I could hear breathing close
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enough that it stirred the hair on my arms.
When I grabbed my phone flashlight, nothing.
But when I looked in the corner,the rocking chair was moving by
itself. Slow and steady.
So. You don't put chairs in your
bedroom. Especially rocking chairs.
What the hell? That was your first mistake.
Like someone had just stood up from it.
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You could dismiss it as a draft,as creaky wood, as nerves.
But sometimes the bell shows up in subtle, unnerving ways.
Not the big jump scare, but the quiet reminder you're not alone.
That's my take on it. The phantom steps 87.
But Rach, what's scary to you? The shadow you can see are the
presents you can only hear. The rocking chair in your
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bedroom no see or hear makes seeing it scarier.
Yeah, I'm with you. I'm way more shook when I see
things than when I hear things. Uh huh.
I think it's because we're more clear audience by nature.
Yeah, and that, truth seekers, is our news for tonight.
Lit, spun and carried beyond theveil.
We've danced through crawl spaces with unwanted tenants,
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chanted to alien spheres, peekedat stone babies and chicken egg
tumors, watched Annabelle hit the road, and even followed hoof
prints into history. Rach, one last question before
we sign off. After all that, do you think the
veil is thinning or are we just finally paying attention?
It's damn near gone. I think we collectively have
just gone through a lot. So we're all kind of vibrating
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differently and we're seeing more.
And I think because of that, we've all gone through a great
awakening. So the veil has become far
thinner. Yeah, I agree.
I'm with her, I'm Beck, and withRachel by my side, we're honored
to walk this liminal edge with you.
Until we meet again, keep your match struck your heart.
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Curious. And your spirit unblanketed.
Goodnight friends, from Beyond the Bell to the Spirit podcast
Supernatural. Society I'm.
Ghosting ghost. Ghost.
Thank you, Mystic. Spirit.
Divine. Source in heaven the dead.
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It's magic. Magic, magic, magic magic.
You're listening to to the Spirit podcast.
Truth and fire my veil walkers. It's your favorite flame, your
match that knows it's shape, welcoming you back beyond the
veil. I'm back.
Your guide into the uncanny, where the strange isn't just
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tolerated, it's celebrated. Tonight we've gathered another
hour's worth of reality bending curiosities that prove the
universe has one heck of a senseof humor and maybe a secret file
marked CLASSIFIED Too Weird for Saturday.
From unwanted tenants crawling under the floorboards to a
mysterious fear that hums along with ancient Sanskrit chants to
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bodies harboring stone babies and chicken egg tumors,
tonight's headlines blur the line between biology, folklore,
and the downright bizarre. Add in Annabelle hitting the
road again, a Demon Hunter back on the radar, and a stroll
through history's devil's footprints, and you've got an
episode that feels less like a news roundup and more like
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rummaging through your grandmother's attic and finding
a grimoire wedged between the cookbooks.
And perched beside me, as always, steady on the other side
of the microphone is the ever brave, sometimes slightly
skeptical, always entertaining. Rachel.
Ready to get weird with me tonight, Rach?
Bring on the weird. Back.
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Well, good, because we've got headlines that range from creepy
crawly to cosmically bizarre, and if the Veil feels a little
thin tonight, that's just the way we like it.
So buckle in. Let's strike the match.
All right, Vale watchers, let's strike our first match of the
night when, oh boy, this one will make you look twice at your
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floorboards before bed. In Happy Valley, Oregon, a
homeowner started hearing strange noises.
Now, normally that's part of thestory where you blame the cat,
the pipes or the ghost of great.But in this case, it wasn't a
ghost at all. It was a roommate they didn't
sign up for. Police were called, and what did
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they find? A crawl space converted into a
secret hideaway. My fear?
Uh huh. Holy shit.
We're talking string lights, ATVA bed that works, the man
living down there, a 31 year oldnamed Benjamin Bucher Bukhar.
Bukhar, something like that. That apparently turned the
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family home into his own paranormal episode of Extreme
Makeover Crawlspace Edition. He's now facing burglary and
drug charges with a bail set of $75,000.
And the newscasters called it what the Internet has been
whispering about it for years, frogging.
The act of secretly living in someone else's home without them
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knowing. I fear that to this day, I would
take a ghost, a spirit, a spook any time over that.
Like, sometimes I even just go look around.
Yeah. Oh, you're brave.
I'm scared. We've covered haunted houses all
the time, but this is next level.
It turns out the only thing scarier than a ghost under your
bed might be a dude charging hisphone under your floorboards.
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Oh my God, the creepiness of that.
Let me ask you Rach, would you rather find a ghost in your
basement or a full on squatter watching Netflix in your
crawlspace Ghost. OK, Ghost.
OK and the real question how long do you think you could frog
someone's house before getting caught?
I feel like your snacking game would give you a wait about 3
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hours. I know, but that that twisted
the the other way around. That's that's kind of a thrill.
I see how you rolling now. Here's the weird connective
tissue. For centuries, folklore has
whispered about hidden folk spirits who live in the walls.
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The rafters are beneath the floor.
Iceland calls them Huldufolk. Japanese lore has the zashiki
warashi, childlike house spiritswho hide under the tatami mats.
And here in America, well, we apparently have Benjamin string
lights and a $75,000 bail bond. So maybe the legends weren't
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wrong. Maybe the hidden folk are still
among us. They've just upgraded to LED
lighting. You know, I feel like my
groceries are going really fast.I swear to God if someone's
living in my walls. Rach is going to find you.
Maybe you need one of those detectors, those heat sensing
detectors. I'm going to home alone traps or
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something. Home alone traps and then that.
What is that called? It's a red.
You need to walk around and scanthe pipes.
I have a night vision camera. And I don't think that's going
to scan the body heat signature.Our next headline sounds like it
was ripped straight out of an Indiana Jones sequel written by
a conspiracy theorist on 2 espressos.
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Oh. A video has gone viral showing a
strange metallic sphere named the Bugosphere that supposedly
responds to ancient Sanskrit chants.
That's right, chant in the oldest living Indo European
language and the sphere hums or pulses or resonates.
Depending on who you ask, it's either alien tech, the lost
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relic, or a hoax filmed with better sound effects than a
Marvel movie. Now, scientists haven't weighed
in officially yet, so this is still floating in the twilight
zone between evidence and TikToktheatre.
But here's why it caught fire online.
For centuries, Mystics have saidsound, chant, prayer, vibration
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changes, matter. And now we've got a hunk of
metal allegedly vibrating in agreement.
Is it proof, or is it just another case of humans yelling
at objects until they rattle? So Rach, here's the $1,000,000
question. If you had a mysterious alien
sphere in front of you, would you chant to it or just back
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away slowly? I'm not chanting to it.
Oh my God. Really, you'll look at yourself
in the mirror like a Squire, butyou won't chant to a bugosphere.
No, I don't understand alien tech and all that.
That stuff creeps me out. At least the mirror I got a foot
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on that side. All right.
And what do you think is more likely that this thing is
genuine, or that someone's having a really fun weekend with
a Bluetooth speaker hidden inside most?
Likely. It's probably a hoax for
entertainment purposes. Not buying it.
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Remember, I'm slightly skeptic as you said.
Yeah, that's true. But here's where it gets
interesting. Ancient cultures have always
connected orbs with power, crystal balls for divination,
the sample and Finnish myth, theown fallow stone at Delphi in
India, Sanskrit itself was called the language of the gods,
said to resonate with creations Blueprint.
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So imagine for a second, just imagine that this is legit, that
a metal sphere responds only to the sounds of Sanskrit.
Would that mean whoever made it spoke the same language as our
ancestors? Would that tie alien visitors
not to our future, but to our past listeners?
We've got to know if you stumbled upon a strange orb in
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your backyard. What's the first thing you do?
Chant, call the news or try to sell it on eBay as slightly
haunted? Send us your takes, because
let's face it, half of you wouldabsolutely try to talk to the
Orb before calling the cops. Maybe I'd see if there's
something living in it or something.
Pokémon. Probably is just a glorified
Pokémon Ball. 2 minutes to countdown.
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I hope you strapped in, because this one defies even our
expectations for human weirdness.
In Hokkaido, Japan, an 80 year old woman befriended someone
online claiming to be an astronaut, stranded in space,
breathing problems and all. Concerned and convinced she sent
about 6700 USD to save him from an oxygen crisis.
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Spoiler alert, there was no astronaut in orbit, just a
profoundly skilled scammer playing cosmic heartstrings.
So this is instead of Nigerian Princess.
Now we. Have stranded astronauts talk
about launching grief and goodwill into orbit and having
it land in a scammers bank account?
Makes me wonder, did she hope a real astronaut was reaching out?
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Was she hearing the faint echoesof something beyond, or just
loneliness of space framed in pixels?
I think people are very lonely and they're doing whatever they
can well to find connection. On a scale from heartfelt sci-fi
moment to red flag flashing at lightspeed, where does this land
for you? That is, would she get it in the
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e-mail or what? How'd she get the message?
She befriended this person online.
They were online. Get out of here.
Would you even for a second consider sending help to someone
in space? Or would skepticism pilot the
shuttle here? I think I would have to get like
a what is the hologrammed message in my house or something
like that. Help me Obi Wan, you're my only
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hope that maybe I would I would consider, but in the chat room,
no. Well, here's where the ancient
tales would have thrived. In folklore, strangers from
distant realms, celestial messengers or starborn Wanderers
were figures of awe or tools of deceit.
Exchanges between worlds, real or imagined, always came with a
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price. So maybe this modern tale echoes
thousands of years of stories about longing, about believing,
and about the shadows love can fall into when connection
outpaces caution. Vale walkers gather round
because this one digs into a medical mystery that's literally
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fossilized. In Columbia, doctors discovered
a calcified fetus inside a 40 year old woman, a phenomenon so
rare it could be straight out ofa gothic novel.
We're talking lithopedion, colloquially called a stone
baby. It's been estimated to occur in
just one to 2% of all atopic pregnancies, but most go
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completely undetected. This one it turned into a $1.5
million Instagram post. Was this the woman?
Yes. The woman who's still alive?
Yes. That was a crazy thing.
Uh huh. Oh my God.
Tonight's news might just crack more than bones.
It cracks minds. Now imagine getting a call from
your OBGYN. Ma'am, congratulations, you're
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hosting a fossil. That's some Natural History
Museum level weirdness and humananatomy.
A stone baby happens when the fetus dies during an abdominal
pregnancy, but instead of causing infection, the body
calcifies it, turning it into a grotesque calm.
Fascinated, horrified, or just desperately trying not to Google
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Stone Baby on your lunch break? I looked into it because that
was crazy. Oh, so you did Google?
I did. I mean I think I saw TikTok on
it and I was like whoa, because I've heard of those things
called what they called like Terra teratomas that have like
teeth and hair and stuff like that.
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So that's it. Kinda is teratoma ish, but it's
actually a fetus. Real talk, if you found
something ancient and calcified inside yourself without the
souvenir T-shirt, what's your game plan?
Frame it. Bury it.
Listed on eBay as Vintage Pregnancy keepsake.
So I was talking about, we were talking about like the, you
know, Gwyneth Paltrow, yeah, kept her teeth and stuff.
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And I kind of thought like I, I wish I kept some.
She did. Gwyneth Paltrow did.
I thought it was Heidi. Klum, Oh, was it Heidi Klum?
Yeah, Gwyneth Paltrow has the Vijayjay candle.
Oh yeah. Famous thin blonde.
Yeah, hey, same category. Tomato tomato clone but.
For entertainment purposes only.But I think I would hold on to
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it. No, no eBay, huh?
It's kind of creepy and weird. It is.
It'd be good in a little museum.Little museum just come to my
house. And look at my little stone
baby. My stone on display.
In a glass jar. But that I would I would keep
that thing. Maybe it has some magical
properties to it? Thing is, this isn't just
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biology. Folk tales across cultures
featured petrified children, waxen statues or ghosts turned
into stone like Medusa's victims, or Saints and medieval
cathedrals. Lithopedion is literal
embodiment of that myth. Life frozen in time, uncanny and
silent, lying with a living body.
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I wonder what it metaphysically could represent it.
Blurs the line between the animate and inanimate, the
present and the fossilized past.Maybe that's why it chills us,
because we recognize our own mortality, our capacity to
preserve what was once alive, yet also to bury it forever.
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A stone baby doesn't cry, it doesn't move, just exists and
calcified stillness, like a memory that refuses to fade.
It just. Causes a lot of discomfort and
pain I. Can't even imagine a big.
Stone, you talk. About a kidney stone.
Our next story is equal parts medical oddity and gothic
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poetry, so brace yourselves. In China, doctors recently
removed a tumor from a man's scrotum.
That was What if that word scrotum got you already?
Just. Immature.
Wait for it. The size of a chicken egg.
And before you ask, no, this is not an Easter special.
This is real or rare medical case.
Here's the kicker. This type of tumor, called an
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angiofibroblastoma, is usually found in women, most often in
the vulvas of premenopausal women and men.
Nearly unheard of Indiana fact Fewer than a dozen cases have
ever been documented in English medical literature, and now we
can add one more to the file. Imagine the odds you walk in
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with a lump and doctors flip through the textbook like we've
only ever seen this eight times before worldwide.
Now, I'm not a doctor, but if someone told me I had a chicken
egg growing in my nether regions, I'd expect them to pass
me a basket and say congratulations, you're hosting
brunch. Instead, this poor guy had to
undergo surgery to remove what was essentially A flesh bound
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Faberge egg. Rare, benign and medically
baffling. Rach, to be honest, if you heard
a friend complain of carrying around a chicken egg where no
chicken egg should be, would youbelieve them or call the psych
ward? A man or a woman?
Man, I'd be like, listen buddy, once you go through what we go
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through. You don't want to hear it.
Cyclically, I'm not. Going to hear it.
You got 1 egg. Well, do you think our bodies
hide these bizarre surprises as cosmic jokes, or is nature just
endlessly inventive even in the most uncomfortable places?
Maybe it symbolized something? She keeps saying they symbolize
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something. The stone baby and the chicken
egg and the scrotum. What are they symbolizing?
You a bitch, that's why you growin female things.
OK, I was waiting for you to go.But here's where it gets uncanny
in folklore. And I always bring it back to
that lump swellings or strange growths.
We're never just medical. They were omens.
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See, Here you go. Curses, even signs of spirit
possession. A swelling could mean you've
crossed a witch, or that a body was harboring a ghost that
refused to move on. Medieval texts are full of stone
tumors that were said to whisper, bleed or vanish
overnight. And yet here in 2025, science
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delivers us a tale. Just a strange tumor where it
doesn't belong with the shape ofsomething symbolic.
An egg. And what is the egg if not the
eternal archetype of mystery, fertility, rebirth, the cycle of
life cracking open? Except in this case it hatched
in a scrotum. So actually it was a an egg.
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Or was it? Yeah, it was a fibro.
Yeah, it wasn't real. A real chicken egg, but it's.
Maybe it's just a sign to lay off the processed food.
Well, maybe that's why stories like this rattle, if they remind
us that the body isn't just biology, it's myth written in
tissue, symbol stitched in flesh.
We carry mysteries beneath the skin, and sometimes they surface
in the most unlikely ways. The doctor saw a tumor.
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I see the universe winking at us.
Life is stranger than you think.And sometimes it's shaped like
breakfast. Maybe he was cursed.
He did some. He did one woman wrong and she
axed him. Egged him.
Hi, I'm Rachel, still not possessed despite what Beck
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says. If you're digging this episode,
don't forget to like, subscribe and leave us a review.
It lets the algorithm know we'reworth haunting.
You can also support us on coffee.
It helps with editing costs, spirit snacks, and Beck's ever
expanding pile of haunted tech. And if you haven't checked it
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out yet, our Beyond Files on YouTube is full of strange
videos. We find and react to paranormal,
conspiratorial, and delightfullyunexplainable.
Got your own strange tale? Send it to to
thespiritpod@gmail.com and if itgives us chills, we might just
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share it. Now let's hop across the sea to
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Ireland, where something truly magical is stirring.
And County Leitrim. A dancer and folklorist named
Edwina Guckian is doing something rare.
She's collecting fairy tales by singing sessions and retirement
homes, then weaving them into immersive performances.
Schlimpenny set for the festivalof Bioaltenna in a secret
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location. Stories of she fairy lights that
dance you nearly to the ground. Ring forts that trap the
curious. What we think of as myth is
being reborn on stage. Think fairy stories are just
cute bedtime stuff? Try this.
Folks are still saying they've seen little lights and fields so
platch in a fairy origin that lure the unwary into endless
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exhausting dances. One tale even include a field
where potatoes were planted and instead of spuds only Hawthorne
trees grew. That's wild.
Literally Rach. Serious question, if a glowing
fairy light LED you into a field, do you run, dance or text
it for directions? Dance.
You Can Dance if you want to. Fun night time interpretive
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dance. 9 of cups energy. Just fun and whimsicalness and
hope that it's doesn't curse me.Do you think these stories are
fading, or are they old fairy tracks that modern people are
starting to follow again? It feels like things are just
coming back. Yeah.
And we're giving the the old things power again.
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Gnomes. Yeah.
Giants, Giants Big feet. Yeah, big feet, all these
creatures, I just feel like, I don't know, they're coming back
and we're bringing them back to life.
If they live in the Unseen realm, they might start emerging
more. I think they've always existed.
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Yeah, I think you're right. Fairies in Ireland weren't sugar
plum sprites, they were ancestors, spirits of long dead
tribes like the Two a Day Dannanor Fear Bulog.
Sometimes mischievous, sometimesdangerous, these were stories
told to explain the inexplicableor to protect children from
wandering. Shklipani resurrects those
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stories with dance, sound and communal memory.
Like the veil pulling back, if only for a moment.
It's the soul of folklore, part myth, part memory, all belonging
to us. And Guckians performance, those
invisible lights, those fairies don't just flicker in stories.
They become dances, hand gestures and a shared human
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heartbeat. And that's the kind of magic we
need right now, just like Rach said.
All right, everybody gather round.
The screens. Aren't the only things being
haunted by The Conjuring last rites?
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At a special preview in Texas, something emerged from the
darkness. A man convulsed mid screening
mere yards from an audience being blessed with holy water
and prayer cards by a Bishop. Was it genuine terror or the
wildest PR stunt the franchise has pulled yet?
Let's peel back the veil. In the Rio Grande Valley
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screening, Bishop Brian Ulet, yes the one from Ghost
Adventures, was on duty distributing holy water and
Saint Michael prayer cards in the lobby.
Then during the screening, a manbegan convulsing.
Audience chaos followed. Was this a spiritual showdown, a
medical meltdown, or just a perfectly timed scream for
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attention? With Warner Brothers staying
silent, speculation is hotter than a ghost whisper.
Be honest. If you were being blessed at a
screening and a man started jerking in the front row, would
you respect the holy water and back away slowly, snap a selfie
for horror crud, or just scream movie magic and genuine mayhem
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louder than the soundtrack? I'd be recording it because
that's going to go viral. OK, you're one of them.
I'm one of them. I didn't realize it was the
Bishop, the Ghost Adventures Bishop, the stage.
Look, horror is always flirted with fear in theatre.
The Exorcist handed out air sickness bags.
Paranormal activity use night vision clips to scare the pants
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off audiences. This It's two parts cinematic
ritual, one part anxiety, a blessing and a convulsion served
in the same bucket. The fans are split.
Some said Amen. Some said Nah, man, that's
marketing mojo in action. It's fun though.
It's all good fun. In a region where Catholic
symbolism runs deep, a Bishop atthe movies isn't odd, it's
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tradition. That this moment made the
Internet explode shows just how thin the veil between belief and
spectacle still is. And there it is, friends, an
unholy mash up of faith, fear and flicker.
Were we watching a witching hourintervention or just the
spookiest commercial ever conceived?
Either way, The Conjuring provessometimes the scariest thing
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isn't what's on screen, it's what shows U between the scenes.
Speaking of the Warren verse, hold your collective breath.
The Conjuring's most infamous antagonist just went Turing
again in the US, the real Annabelle Dahl.
Yes, the Raggedy Ann Gondemonic is back on display, fresh off
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its Hollywood debut and last rites and heading to conventions
and cult gatherings again. This September, the New England
Society for Psychic Research is touring Annabelle across the
country. She's showing up at horror
conventions like the main Paranormal and Horror Con and
the San Antonio Psychic and Spirit Fest.
Displayed under glass, yes, but still traveling.
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Comedian Matt Rife has even become the legal guardian of the
doll, and the entire Warren Museum collection has claimed to
fame. Now haunted by legacy.
Literally making it a joke. Now we need to talk about this a
little bit. Judy and Tony still own the
Warren Occult Museum artifacts including Annabelle and what
Rife and Cassidy purchased was the Warrens home in Monroe,
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Connecticut. Plus A5 year guardianship lease
of the 750 artifacts. This gives the Warren family
continued oversight but outsources the physical
caretaking and financial responsibility of maintaining
and reopening the collection. I think some of you may have
been interested like I was, as to why this was happening and
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that is why. But here's where I got to throw
down a little Truth and Fire Vale watchers, because the
Warrens themselves said it. Annabelle isn't just a doll,
she's a conduit. She's like a cracked battery,
leaking energy. You move her around, and that
influence isn't locked in glass anymore.
It breathes, It leeches, it looks.
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For new hosts. Think of cursed objects as
spiritual Wi-Fi. You don't have to touch the
router to pick up the signal. Just being in the room is enough
for it to find a way in. So when you start trucking
Annabelle across the country, Wheeling her into convention,
snapping selfies with her case, you're not just stirring hype.
You're stirring the entity that rides her.
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And let's be blunt, this also smells a little like a cash
grab. Haunted roadshow tickets, photo
OPS, overnight stays. The Warrens warned about moving
her for decades, and now suddenly it's a marketing plan.
If this isn't irony, it's hubris.
And hubris, my friends, is what every ghost, demon and trickster
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spirit loves to feed on. So yes, maybe this isn't just
spooky fun. Maybe it's a dangerous gamble
dressed up as entertainment. Because here's the truth.
Some relics were never meant forthe spotlight.
Some veils are thin enough without us poking holes.
And sometimes when you take the devil on tour, the devil doesn't
stay in the case. Rach, what do you think?
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Is this the biggest paranormal mistake since someone cracked
open Tutankhamun's tomb? Or is this just hype for the
headlines? Another haunted sideshow cashing
in on our goosebumps. It is the worst idea ever I
think and especially bringing Annabelle to Psychic and Spirit
Fest. That is a feeding ground for
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whatever is in that doll and you're giving it fame.
It's going to thrive off of the fame, the attention.
Doesn't feel like evil. Are these roots that are just
growing all over right now? Yeah.
And these idiots are spreading it around like a bad movie.
As I say, it's a a live horror movie.
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In the main game we've already had one person pass because.
Of it, Yeah, that's no joke. No, Annabelle isn't just a prop.
She's a living myth. Ed Lorraine Warren famously
warned she should never be movedfrom her case.
And yet here she is, far from Monroe, CT, sparking chatter
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online and local news. It's like inviting a legendary
monster on a talk show. Dangerous, tempting, and utterly
irresistible for the curious andthe conspirator alike.
Fairy lights dance, stone babieswhisper, and dolls go on tour.
The veil doesn't just tear. Sometimes it boards on Amtrak.
And if that doll stirs the air in a hushed hall, who are we to
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say that the veil isn't watchingback?
For our final headline, we head to the Bronx by the way of Hell
itself. Meet Ralph Sarchi, a retired
NYPD Sergeant who traded busted criminals for battling demons.
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If his name rings a bell, it's because he was the real life
inspiration for the book Beware the Night and the 2014 film
Deliver Us From Evil. Well, Ralph is back in the news
because he says sinister entities have been whispering at
him again, warning him to quit, to walk away, to stay out of
their business. And if there's one thing we know
(29:19):
from horror movies, that's the kind of advice you probably
don't ignore. Imagine this.
You retire from chasing murderers only to spend your
golden years chasing the devil. Most people get a gold watch.
Ralph got spectral threats in the middle of the night.
Demons apparently don't send Hallmark cards.
So, Rachel, if something dark started warning you stay out of
(29:41):
it, would you listen? Or would you double down like
Ralph and start polishing your holy water bottle?
They said stay out of it. I'm not like a a spiritual
warrior. You're going to.
You're complying. I might reach out to somebody
who is better experienced in that kind of work, but that that
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ain't my Forte. Got it.
And the real question do you think demons actually warn
before they act, or is that justthe human brain dressing fear up
in dialogue? They, they could give a warning
like just to kind of say, 'causeif they do it and be like, oh,
the demon told me to do it, but they're like, no, I, I didn't
(30:25):
tell you to do it. I actually gave you an option
and you chose this so. Here you go.
They're pretty cunning. I don't know if they'd give you
a warning, but that's just my thought.
Maybe in a manipulative way, some kind of, I don't know.
Here's where this collides with folklore.
Warnings from the underworld areancient motif.
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Banshees shrieking before death,witches sending omens, spirits
scratching messages into walls to be told to stay away is as
old as ghost stories themselves.But Ralph's case is different.
It's not a haunting of a place, but of vocation, a man's entire
calling, policing evil marked asa target.
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That's why it lands like folklore with a badge.
So here we are, ending tonight'snews with the man who can't
leave the veil behind, no matterhow much he wants to.
Maybe the lesson is simple. Some people get called to serve
in precincts, others in parishes, and some get drafted
straight to spiritual warfare. The rest of us?
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We just get to read about it andmaybe check our closets before
bed. And now it's time for strange
tales from history's shadow. The Devil's footprints of 1855
Vale walkers. For tonight's shadow tale, we
journey back to the frosty English countryside.
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Devon winter of 1855. Snow had fallen thick across the
land, blanketing the villages insilence.
But when dawn broke, the people awoke to something they couldn't
explain. Marching single file across
miles of snow were footprints, odd cloven, hoof like tracks
stretching for over 100 miles. They crossed rivers without
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breaking, climbed rooftops, scaled high walls and vanished,
only to appear again on the other side.
The villagers said only one creature could move like that,
the devil himself. Imagine waking up, trudging to
your barn and seeing hoof printson your roof.
That's not your neighbour's goat.
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It's Santa. That's a cosmic prankster
leaving bread crumbs. And the strangest part?
The Prince were all in a single file, as if one legged like some
demonic Pogo stick. What the hell?
So if you woke up to hoof Princemarching across your roof, would
you call the priest, grab a camera, or just follow them into
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the woods to see what's waiting?The following that in the woods
I I would get footage and reach out to somebody.
Rachel's always getting footage.I'd probably call you.
There's a theme, and do you think this was a demon dropping
by? Or maybe something stranger,
like atmospheric phenomenon balloons dragging chains?
Or my favorite, the world's mostambitious kangaroo escape.
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It could be like one of them Baycreatures that have the the hoof
feet. They're like the body.
Of person and. Then their two legs have the
hoof feet. Oh yeah, yeah, I know what
you're saying. Like the Lion Witch in the
wardrobe. Yeah.
Walking. Or Narnia.
Yeah, walking single file like 1foot in front of the other,
Yeah. Those are weird creatures.
They're like goat bottoms, I think.
Yeah. Villagers whispered that the
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devil had stalked them, reminding the faithful he could
walk the earth. Clergy declared it an omen, but
skeptics since then have pointedto wild animals, escaped
Kangaroos from traveling menageries, even experimental
balloons dragging weights acrossthe snow.
Yet none of these theories explain the sheer scale.
The Prince spanned over 100 miles, and to this day, no one
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has recreated the conditions convincingly.
The Devil's Footprints remain 1 of history's great unsolved
winter mysteries. Maybe it was hooves.
Maybe it was a hoax, or maybe itwas a reminder left stamped into
snow that something walks among us when the world is quiet and
white. The veil doesn't always whisper.
It sometimes leaves tracks. It kind of seems like I think
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the devil himself would have farbetter things to do.
Walk 100 miles in the snow. And I would walk 500 miles.
People have walked way more for way less.
Right. All right, Vale watchers, now
it's your turn. We love when you peel back the
Vale with us and share what's been knocking on your own door.
(34:44):
Tonight's story comes from Phantom Steps 87, and it's the
kind that reminds us the uncannydoesn't just live in books or
headlines. That sometimes lives in our
bedrooms, Phantom Steps 87 writes.
One night I woke up to the soundof footsteps circling my bed.
There's a lot of footsteps goingon today.
The room was pitch black, but I could hear breathing close
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enough that it stirred the hair on my arms.
When I grabbed my phone flashlight, nothing.
But when I looked in the corner,the rocking chair was moving by
itself. Slow and steady.
So. You don't put chairs in your
bedroom. Especially rocking chairs.
What the hell? That was your first mistake.
Like someone had just stood up from it.
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You could dismiss it as a draft,as creaky wood, as nerves.
But sometimes the bell shows up in subtle, unnerving ways.
Not the big jump scare, but the quiet reminder you're not alone.
That's my take on it. The phantom steps 87.
But Rach, what's scary to you? The shadow you can see are the
presents you can only hear. The rocking chair in your
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bedroom no see or hear makes seeing it scarier.
Yeah, I'm with you. I'm way more shook when I see
things than when I hear things. Uh huh.
I think it's because we're more clear audience by nature.
Yeah, and that, truth seekers, is our news for tonight.
Lit, spun and carried beyond theveil.
We've danced through crawl spaces with unwanted tenants,
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chanted to alien spheres, peekedat stone babies and chicken egg
tumors, watched Annabelle hit the road, and even followed hoof
prints into history. Rach, one last question before
we sign off. After all that, do you think the
veil is thinning or are we just finally paying attention?
It's damn near gone. I think we collectively have
just gone through a lot. So we're all kind of vibrating
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differently and we're seeing more.
And I think because of that, we've all gone through a great
awakening. So the veil has become far
thinner. Yeah, I agree.
I'm with her, I'm Beck, and withRachel by my side, we're honored
to walk this liminal edge with you.
Until we meet again, keep your match struck your heart.
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Curious. And your spirit unblanketed.
Goodnight friends, from Beyond the Bell to the Spirit podcast
Supernatural. Society I'm.
Ghosting ghost. Ghost.
Thank you, Mystic. Spirit.
Divine. Source in heaven the dead.
(37:19):
It's magic. Magic, magic, magic magic.
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