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October 1, 2024 • 13 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott VORGIEZ.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
We're kicking things off this weekend at the Beautiful Benson
Theater sixtieth in Maple Streets. Beautiful Ben's in USA. We
have the beautiful Brian j Corey with us here from
historic Haunted Heartland. Back in the studio. Man, it must
be October slash talktover. If you're here, thanks for the compliment,
Beautiful Brian, Beautiful Brian Jay Corey. It's as good to

(00:23):
see you again. You've got another event here called Incredible
True Tales of Paranormal Phenomena, and I want to talk
more about what people can be treated to when they
go to the Benson Theater this Saturday night right now.
Where they can they go for more information if they're
like in the car going, I want to do this

(00:43):
when I got to check it out later. What's the website?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
You want to go to the Bensontheater dot org Benson
Theater r dot org. There's tickets, information and everything that
you need to know about the event is there.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
And you got some really good experts coming in here.
One of them is on the phone with us right now,
so we'll chat with him. But I want you to
get to know him. He's a paranormal historian who also
is featured on the TV show Scariest Places in the World,
which is on tub. That's the free streaming service that

(01:17):
you look at and go what's a tub and then
you open it up and you're like, oh, there's a
lot of fun stuff on here, including to get a
chance to get to know Joshua Darren, paranormal historian. Here's
one example of one he's done here in a series
of Alabama Urban Legends.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
There's something lurking in the Alabama woods. There have been
many descriptions, but one thing is common. It's definitely white.
Stories about this creature are being reported at high numbers
in the nineteen thirties and they've been told ever since.
What this creature is exactly something that many people disagree on.
Some people say it looks like a white sasquatch, others
say it looks like a white lion or wolf. And
probably the most strange is a white, hairless creature with

(01:53):
no eyes or ears, usually seen creeping in dark spaces
and holes.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
That's part of the series Alabama Urban Legends. The title
of that one is Alabama White Thing. We now welcome
on to eleven to ten. Kfabe Joshua, Darren Joshua, good morning,
welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Good morning, thanks for having me.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
What would you do if.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
You're actually caught up to the Alabama white thing? Me?

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Personally, Yeah, I would run. That's not something I'd ever
like to see out in the woods ever.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
At any point, how did you get started doing a
paranormal investigative work.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
Yeah, So my story starts very much like a lot
of paranormal investigators really young, seeing things that I couldn't
explain as a child, asking my parents, asking my grandparents,
my family, like hey, what is this, and always getting
an answer, Oh, we don't talk about that because I
am from Alabama. I am from the what they call
the Deep South, the Bible Belt, the Black Belt, all

(02:50):
of those things. Like I'm in the perfect storm of
people denying the paranormal pretty much unless it's, you know,
a church related thing. And so that my curiosity and
it stayed with me through my entire my entire lifetime.
I was always watching documentaries and researching and googling and
using Yahoo way back in the day to get my answers,

(03:13):
and it just kind of led me to now where
I went to school, got a degree in communications, and
decided I wanted to use it for something that I
loved and ended up being paranormal.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Well, most importantly, if you're there in Alabama, are you
okay there in the wake of this hurricane?

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah, thankfully, we are are a okay. I'm really sad
and devastated for obviously the people in Georgia and like
West Tennessee or East Tennessee and West North Carolina, because
we were very fortunate, but so many people weren't. So
we are okay, So thank you for asking.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Absolutely. And then the other thing, people wonder if you're
there in Alabama, are you tied or are you war Eagle?

Speaker 4 (03:55):
Well, you know, I'm I'm a diehard Auburn fan. I
probably will will die being an Auburn fan, but you know,
I've thought about wavering every now and then, but I'm
definitely a warrioral guy.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Okay, Well, then you're you're not going to score any
points with Lucy Chapman here. She's aband or Bama Bama fans,
so we'll we'll just try and keep try and keep
the peace here. You got too many problems in this
world for you guys to be fighting about college football.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Now we're good. We're good.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
So, Joshua, you said that you were a kid and
you'd see things that you couldn't explain, Like what what
kind of things did you see?

Speaker 4 (04:34):
Yeah, my first earliest memory of any type of paranorm
activity or strange thing was I used to stay with
my grandma for a long period of time, just every now,
you know, every now and then when my parents were working.
We're working. They were both service members, so they were
always out and about. In a way. I used to
not like her house. She always had a nack of
finding haunted houses, and this continued after these experiences too,

(04:57):
and this particular house just I always just got weird vibes.
As a kid, I didn't know what that meant. I
was like four, and so I used to like sleep
in her bed with her at nighttime because I did
not want to sleep alone. And I would wake up frequently,
so this was consistent activity. I'd wake up and I
would look outside of her window because I would sleep
by the window, and I would see two men talking

(05:21):
outside of her window. There was a street light that
used to shine some lights, so I would see them
through the sheer curtains. I would see them without the
sheer curtains. I would see them when the street lights
went on, and i'd wake her up and say, hey, Grandma,
there are two men outside talking. I don't know what
they're talking about, but they're really getting after it. And
she would be like, you don't see anything, Go to sleep,
and she would go and look and she wouldn't see anything.

(05:42):
And so I always thought that was weird that I
was the only person having that experience, And yeah, that
kind of stayed with me. I still to this day
can see those two men outside talking and it's I know,
it's a real you know, it's one of those like
it's real to me at least because I could never
explain it. But there were other weird things that happened
in the house to other people, and so I just

(06:02):
happen to be one of them who kind of latched
onto it.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, there's there's nothing that adults dislike more than a
little kid coming up saying I see dead people in
your in your house. So now you're an adult, you're
a paranormal historian, an investigator. You're part of this series
called Scariest Places in the World on to be I'm

(06:25):
curious as too, because you know, the the the dead
or the undead and some of these things, they're not
exactly you know, real camera friendly sometimes like otherwise they
just come out and sit down with Jimmy Fallon and
just you know, have a conversation with him. And maybe
they do, but I mean in terms of watching the
tonight show. So you're trying to set up stuff for

(06:47):
a TV show and you've got shy ghosts that aren't
allowing themselves to be seen or heard. How frustrating is
that when it's not happening, you're like, all right, guys,
but I've got to use a series for this TV show.
Something has to happen.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
I think it's I think you kind of get jaded
by it, a little desensitized, because normally the paranormal doesn't
happen when you want it to. It happened when it
happens when it wants to. And so that's when I
think a lot of what I do comes into play.
So even if you're not able to see it, you
can compilese so many stories that you can verify and
cite and look deeper into, and so that way you

(07:27):
can be kind of a conduit or a bridge to
telling the story. So at the very least people can
take themselves to these places and visualize the experiences that
other people have had and they can see it for themselves,
and then you know, they can choose to believe where
they don't have to. So it is a little frustrating,
but it's why we do what we do too as

(07:49):
a researcher and historian, because we go and tell stories
that might not live on if we don't tell them.
And I think that's the most important thing out of
all of it, even if nobody sees anything at all.
At least now we've talked about somebody who doesn't get
to speak for themselves anymore. We've talked about things that
might need to be brought back up to the surface,
and you know, in a storytelling aspect, we're also allowing

(08:12):
some of these stories to stay alive in a way
as ghosts themselves, for others to either whether they enjoy
it or whether to just learn from.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Now you own a coffee shop and a building that's haunted.
Was the building haunted and you knew it and you thought,
what a great place to set up a business. We'll
serve coffee or was it we need a place for
a coffee shop up, what do you know it's haunted?
How did that work out? And how haunted is it?

Speaker 3 (08:37):
In?

Speaker 2 (08:37):
What ways as that manifested itself when you're trying to
serve fancy coffees.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah, it was very convenient. I know, Like I always
talk to people and I'm sure they're like, yeah, I'm
sure your coffee shop is haunted. I'm sure. But we
went in not even knowing that it would that this
building would be the way that it is. We just
were trying to just find a place for a coffee shop,
and it just happened to be in my hometown. It
just happen to be in the historic downtown district of Lopolaika,

(09:04):
and it just happened to be haunted. I know, it
is super convenient, but it's also really cool because it
is very haunted. I would say that this place, if
I were to put it on a scale of one
to ten, is probably a seven. We have people traveling
here all the time just to see if they can
have an experience, and usually they can't because most of
the things that happen sometimes they do happen in the day,

(09:24):
happen at opening and closing and around those times in
between two because I'm here super late sometimes and we've
had everything as much as footsteps, which are probably our
most common phenomenon here. You will hear people or people
or a person walk up from our back office to
the front counter, and it's very noticeable. There's a very

(09:46):
distinct sound that it makes when people walk here, and
it makes it sound every time. We've heard noises and
pops happening at the same time in different places across
the coffee shop. I've seen a couple of shadows move
in here, and that's the hardest thing to explain because
we do have glass windows, so usually I logic my
way out of those, but there are some places where

(10:06):
it just doesn't make sense. And I found a boot
print halfway through the wall from boots that nobody has
ever worn in here. And most recently, my burist actually
saw an opperation, the first one that anybody seen in here,
no matter how hard you put a pair of pant
legs and boots walking up to the counter. And yeah,

(10:33):
so we have all types of stuff like that, and
I've heard, you know, music in here, and just things
that don't make sense. So I would say it's probably
a seven, and it's it's pretty active for the most part,
it's not as frequent as people think when the activity starts.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
I would think it'd be tough to keep employees in
that situation, Like, all right, we have some pretty interesting customers.
Some of them don't have torsos. But we'll see tomorrow
for your first day at work. Hey, Josha, I could
talk to you for hours. We're gonna hold off and
see you this Saturday night. Save travels to Omaha and
we'll see you on Saturday.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
Okay, thank you, all right.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Joshua Darren here on news radio eleven ten kfab featured
on the streaming show Scariest Places in the World. You'll
find that on two B Tubi, and he's a part
of Historic Haunted Heartland three Reconsider Everything Incredible, True Tales
of Paranormal Phenomena. Back to Brian J. Corey of Historic

(11:28):
Haunted Heartland. So you got Joshua come into this event.
What else is happening Saturday night at the Benson Theater
and how can people be a part of it? Well,
thanks Scott. Yeah, So Joshua is gonna be kicking off
the show. He's gonna be the first presenter that night.
Then we've got paranoral investigator extraordinaire, the veteran excuse me,
Dustin Perry from ghost Hunters ghost Hunters International. He's going

(11:49):
to be giving a wide ranging talk and then after
an intermission where you can visit the cash bar, you
can see John E. L. Tenny, paranormal occult expert from
Detroit and he's known world over. He's after he left
Omaha last year, he went and did a series of
talks over at Stonehenge. He does events all over the

(12:10):
United States, all over the world, and it's really just
a treat to have him back gracing the stage at
the Haunted Benson Theater.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
So yeah, I people want tickets. It's a Saturday night.
You can go to Benson Theater dot org and it's
a great time. It's entertaining, true ghost stories told by
experts in the field. And if that sounds like, well,
I don't know if I want to go and hear
a bunch of lectures. It's mister Tenney's lecture is akin
to stand up comedy. In fact, he goes around and

(12:38):
does stand up comedy around comedy clubs around the United States.
He did a sold out engagement in Chicago to a
famous club there. So it's a highly entertaining night and
you're gonna have a great time.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Bensontheater dot org or com or Benson Theater dot organist
theater r e, which means it's a fancy theater. Oh,
Benson Theater. You can also just google that and you'll
find the website and get your tickets online for Historic
Haunted Heartland. The third coming up this Saturday night, that

(13:10):
is seven o'clock at sixtieth in Maples Benson Theater. Brian J.
Corey is your host the evening the MC and also
with Historic Haunted Heartland. Great to see you every talktober
here Brian, have fun this Saturday night. It's gonna be
a really cool event. Scott, Thanks everybody, come on out.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Scott Boys Mornings nine to eleven on news Radio eleven
ten KFAB
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