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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome to Georgia Focus. I'm John Clark on the Georgia
News Network. Halloween is coming up on the thirty first,
and we're going to do something a little bit different today.
Daylan Spratt is on YouTube with his Graveyard Shift. He's
also on Travel Channel with the Ghost Brothers, but today
he's here with us. Today we're visiting Oakland Cemetery in
Atlanta with Dayalen and we're going to follow him around
and find out a little bit more about what he does.
(00:30):
Here's Daylan Spratt. Well, I'm hear in Oakland Cemetery with
Daylan Spratt, who I see all the time on YouTube.
And you're on TV too. You have the TV show, Yes, yes,
but I want to find out more about what you
do and why you do it and all about you.
First of all, your TV show is tell us about
the show.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
So the television show is called Ghost Brothers Ghost brother
So we're essentially television's first all black ghost hunting group.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah literally to hear the televisions. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
We tell people all the time with like the Jackie
Robinson's of the paranormal industry and.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It's you and your friends.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, me and my two friends We've been friends for
twenty something years. We were genuinely friends before the television show.
I'm talking about sleeping on each other's couches, eating, eating
in each other's mamas refrigerators, like real life friends before
doing the show. So it was cool being thrusted into
the pair of normal with no background in pairagem.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So, how did you get started as a black ghost hunter?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, yeah, oddly I fell into it.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It's crazy how life works and how like God orchestrates
your path. But I was working in television at the time.
Me and my partner Juwan, we were doing wardrobe, working
for the Monique Show on BT So it was shot
right here in Atlanta at Turner Studios. We would shoot
two TV shows a day, three days a week, and
so literally I'm just watching them shoot television all day long.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
So I'm just learning.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I'm like, Okay, you got a director, you got three cameras,
you got a sound guy, you got wardrobe. I'm just
watching how they put these pieces together. One night, I
was asleep in my room. I woke up in the
middle of the night and one of the ghost hunting
shows was on television at that time, and it just
dropped on me like a pile of bricks. I was like,
I've never seen black people ghost hunt and I was
just curious to.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Why was that, Like what was the reason?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And I got on Google and Facebook and I was
literally looking for black ghost hunters and I couldn't find anyone,
and so I thought, maybe, you know, it might be
worth exploring.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
And so yeah, that was my introduction.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, just noticing that there was a void in a
genre and just trying to solve a problem by figuring
out why were there not many minorities hunting ghosts?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
And yeah, that was my journey.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oh and did you start the show pretty soon after
that or no?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So literally we spent about a year looking for black
ghost hunters. So we sent emails out to organizations and groups,
probably about three hundred emails looking for black ghost hunters.
We couldn't find a single person, Like every respe we
got back was a black ghost hunter. What are you serious?
Or this must be a joke? Like it was no,
(03:08):
like none. So I told my partner Juwan Bro, We're
just gonna have to shoot it ourself to get a
proof of concept so we can show a television network
the idea. We're trying to produce, and so we went
down to Savannah, Georgia. We found a cameraman off Craig's list.
He charged us sixty three dollars off Craig's list.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, we shot a two minute video and we ended
up putting it on YouTube and literally nothing happened. Nothing happened.
Five years later, I had moved to Los Angeles. I'm
driving Uber. I get a random email and it was
from a representative of Discovery Channel and they were saying
that they were looking for black ghost hunters and the
(03:49):
only black ghost hunters they could find was this clip
of us on YouTube from five years earlier. And they
asked a simple question, are you guys ghost hunters? We
had only did it two minutes? Two minutes anyway, listen
when I tell you, I ain't never told somebody yet,
so fast ghosts on a professional.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah, I'm a professional. I do it.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I'm actually just leaving a hunted house right now. And
uh yeah that was a lie, started ghost Brothers.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
That is fantastic, and they're your friends and you'd still go.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Do it and yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Now you pick places outside of Georgia too, though, right.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Oh, of course we've been all over the country.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Man, We've been to Satan's belly Button or other people
might call it Ohio.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Ohio. Yeah, man, it's literally like one of the most
honed states out there.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
But yeah, man, we go all over the country, went overseas, Yeah,
for sure.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And now you have the Graveyard Shift on YouTube and
that's how I found you. I'm like, this is great,
this is great. The Graveyard Shift is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yes, yes, what CAUs you to do that?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Literally, we were in between television shows and Travel Channel,
so Ghost Brothers got put on hiatus while they figured
out the landscape of ghost shows on the Travel Channel.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
And I would just wanted to keep up. I wanted
to keep my.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Reps up in the gym, as I like to say,
like I want to keep putting up some shots. So
I was like, what could I do in the pair
of normal while we're waiting on our show to come back.
But I needed it to be inexpensive because once people
find out that you come from a TV show, that
budget goes up really quickly, Like, Hey, I would like
to come visit your location. Can I come out?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You're daily from Ghost Brothers twenty five hundred dollars for
an hour, like what, Like I get charged more because
I had a TV show, Like no, this is coming
out of my pocket. So I was like, what could
I do? And I was driving past a resting community
and it just looked beautiful, and I was like, I
wonder if I could just go in there, use a
spirit box and just see if I can talk to
people that have passed away. And I did it and
(05:51):
it worked and people enjoyed it, and I was just
like there might be something to being like I called
myself a par ofanormal journalist.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Where was that? Where was where'd you go?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
First? First cemetery was in Mableton.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It was a cemetery on this beautiful hill off of
Veteran Memorials Highway in Mableton, Georgia.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
And uh yeah, man, yeah, yeah, overlooks the city.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You can see the city of Atlanta in the distance
of Since High on a hill and yeah yeah man.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
And I know you've been everywhere? How many about how
many in Georgia have you been on?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
How many cemeteries in Georgia?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
How many?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Oh my gosh, man, if I just had to throw
just in Georgia alone, ah man, probably.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
A man maybe thirty forty just in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
But I like get like I've taken the graveyard shift
all over the country. We've been all over the world.
We've been in We've been in Uh where was I did?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I go? Columbia, Columbia, South America.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That's where I went to a cemetery and you could
see bones inside the graves wide open, so you could
see skulls and femurs and radios raised.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
A radius a bone? Is that a bone?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I don't know if you're raised it sounds like Anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We've been to London, England and went to the victims
of Jack the Ripper.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, man, We've been all over the country. LA to
talk to Anna Nicoles. I'm not Anon Nicole Smith, Nicole
Brown Simpson. Uh Anna Nicole, Anna, Nicole, Anna, Nicole what's
her last name?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Smith?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, yeah, there was Smith.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That was the one that was the model, was the
model who was married to the elderly giant who she's
buried in the Bahamas.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
She's on my list to go speak to. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, I saw your Nicole Brown Simpson one that was.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Kind of creepy.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, that was really interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I've been following the o j.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Simpson trial and case since the mid nineties when it happened,
albeit I was very young, I remember it vividly, and
uh yeah, I jumped on the opportunity to see if
I can speak to Anna what I keep that's a
sign I got to go to the Bahamas.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
You gotta go.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, not for vacation, but for vacation, but to speak
to Annicle. I've said her name too many times something. Yeah,
I gotta go make that happen. But Nicole Brown, Simpson
and Ronald Goldman, it was just interesting to be able
to just ask them the questions that people always wanted
to know.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
And I try to do it respectfully because I know
they lived.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
The traumatic experience and I don't want to keep bringing
it up, but I do want to give those resting
the opportunity to speak their piece.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Now you use the spirit box I do. I showed
you when I have a very normal I have. I'm
using for I'm using for a murder case and I'm
hopeful having a show one day. I'm going to the
I'm going to it. Nothing's happening, nobody. I don't know
if I'm doing it wrong or what w How do
you do it?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah, you do it.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You should show well.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Now, it takes practice, just like any other instrument. I
tell people it's just like a piano, a flute, a guitar.
It's all an instrument that you have to train your
ear to understand and listen to.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
It becomes like music.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And just listening to it for so long I start
to pick up on things and my ears have adjusted
to the box. So it just takes practic because essentially
a spirit box all it is is scanning a predetermined
either word bank or radio frequencies at fast paces, either
frontwards or backwards. So in Layman's terms, imagine yourself sitting
(09:14):
in your car and you're tuning your radio. You're spinning
the knob, and that's essentially what a spirit box is
doing consistently. And if a spirit wants to communicate with you,
theoretically it can manipulate that chatter to spit out words
or phrases to speak to you.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And it's not in their language, just in whatever language
comes on.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
To be honest, I've only done it in English speaking
spirit box app spirit box.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
App, but I have had Spanish come out of it.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Okay, okay, and the voices are whatever. How the voices
are their voices.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So essentially, if you're using a app, it's usually a
predetermined uh words and phrases and audio like voice. But
if you're using seeing like what you have the SB
seven is handing radio frequencies.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
You're using you're pulling from.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Songs, music talk radio, and you're pulling out bits and freezes,
bits and pieces of phrases to answer your questions.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Now, you go to a cemetery and you put you
set up that yep, and you set up your camera.
We're on camera now, why we're doing this right? We're
looking at this, this cemetery, this disgrave here, the what's
your names?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
This would be.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
The o'donald's, o'donaldy, Yeah, O'Donnelly, o'donald's. We just happened to
be sitting in here talking this one. If you want
to do this one, you would set it up now
and ask them questions out here.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I would walk around and I would acknowledge all the
people that are resting here, and I would introduce myself
because essentially this is their home.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
You know, this is their space.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
You wouldn't want anyone walking into your house without introducing themselves.
I would greet them, I'll tell them my purpose, let
them know that my job is essentially just to speak
to those that haven't been spoken to in a long time.
And then they start asking questions and just see if
anyone would talk to me. People get irritated because I
always ask the one question a lot is can you
tell me your name? I might ask that question twenty
(11:10):
times in a session, but that's my way of getting
the spirit to be like familiar and like telling me
who they are who I'm talking to.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
So that can get a little frustrating to view.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
And why you keep asking their name? Yeah, because you
want to know who you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
But that gives me a way too of knowing this
really for them exactly, you know exactly exactly here you
have Kenny Rodgers, you have Manor Jackson, Margaret Mitchell, you
have so many around here. Do you go to the
famous people?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I do not most of the times, a lot of
the time.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
So I've done Kenny Rogers, Yeah, yeah, But when I
come to Oakland Cemetery, I usually come and just speak
to random people resting. We have a few elderly ladies
in the back from the old Evan type, old ladies home.
It's like twelve, like maybe eight to twelve elderly women
buried together. I guess who did maybe have families or whatnot.
(12:00):
So we go and speak to them all the time.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Today.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Actually, when I leave here, I'm gonna go have a
conversation with them. It's been a couple of months.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
I need to check in. We call them the Nana's
Nana's Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Well obviously they have a lot of Confederate soldier spirit
here or Union soldiers just army dead here. I used
to hear a story here and my brother and I
tried to do this.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
It didn't work.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
The line of the Confederacy statue which is down here,
used to they said in November or December. If you
go and you stip by that statue, it's getting dark,
you'll hear the army walking by.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Oh wow, I've never heard that. I heard that.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I read it and read it, and I heard it
every just two or three a lot of locations. I
found it. We went down there and we looked like
it's getting dark. It's getting dark, and we said, well
it's not working. We went to we went over to
gave and had drinks right right, right, So we did
that and so it never happened. But I always heard
that about this the lot of the Confederacy.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, I've never heard it, but I'm gonna try it.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Try that. You're gonna try it, Yeah, for sure, said
December when they said it was Yeah, okay, I guess
the war was about that time. Yeah, but yeah, yeah.
So there's some generals buried here. Have you ever talked
to a general's.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I have not. I have not, especially not here. No,
I haven't.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, this is good ones here. John Brown Gordon's buried here.
I thought, okay, oh, I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
That's actually the coolest part about my job is that
I get to have these conversations with people from history
and learn the history of.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Things I never even thought about.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Literally, there's one of the very first people buried here
in the far back over here was a doctor who
was ended up dying and he was so afraid of
being buried alive that he had someone slit his throat
after he died to make sure that he was dead.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
And uh, yeah, he's he was the first person buried
over here. Oh wow, yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Man, the former mayor of Atlanta is buried over here too,
for for Walt is that his name or something like that.
So he's the first guy that's madeavor Atlanta back when
Atlanta was a rocking town, right right right right, God
it didn't now, but over there it's also But this
cemetery is fascinating. It's it's it's so it's just just
beauty to it too. That has to add to it.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yeah, yeah, I love it. Man. It's literally like being
in a park, like people like you don't get.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Freaked out being the cemeteries not now man, Like it's
well known. Yeah, I've been to so many and it's
just they're all I find myself alone sometimes in the
woods in like abandoned cemeteries, like places like all right,
not only are you in the cemetery, you're in the
woods and it's.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Dusk, like you're just asking for like issues.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
But now I feel safe. Yeah, I don't feel like anything.
And then I feel like what would harm me are
real people? And I feel like real people ain't gonna
just follow you deep into the Cemetery's one safe place
you got, So.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
What safe place you got? Jack? Cemetery?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
But what do you think? Uh? I look at that
shit from a religious standpoint too, what about the people
who are still there, is that they are they waiting
to go on somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I don't know. I don't know, and I don't try
to act like I do know. I feel like some
things we never will know. I've asked a question, I
haven't really gotten a solid response. Uh, but I just
know that we're communicating with some one or something. I
don't know what or who it could be. I like
to believe I'm talking to the person I'm talking to,
(15:23):
but I would also hate to believe that they're just
stuck here, you.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
So maybe it's just like maybe they are in some
purgatory state, or maybe they are in heaven or hell,
or maybe they are walking the earth. Like I have
no idea none that you get there. Everybody gonna find
out one day.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
But like, yah, it's do you ever see anything else?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
All the time? You see all the ghost all the time,
all the time.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I don't know if it's a ghost, I guess it
would be considered, but I mean, there's so many things.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
It's shadow figures, it's apparitions.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
There's like all type things, all types of anomalies that
could be sensed but it's always usually in your peripheral,
like I remember, I've been here before, and I tell
people all the time. It was the funniest thing because
I set my camera up and I was talking to
the camera, and I saw a man walking to my
peripheral and I could clearly out the.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Corner of my eye. I could tell what he had on.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
He had on khaki pants, he had on a brown belt,
and he had on a red plaid shirt, long sleeve
shirt tucked in.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
And it was butting all the way to the top.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I couldn't see his face because I'm looking at the camera,
but in my peripheral the same way, if somebody was
standing right here, I can see them from the corner
of my eye. And I was thinking, oh wow, somebody's
walked up on me while I'm filming. But let me
get through my little intro and then I'm going to
acknowledge them. So I see him standing here and I
do my you know, welcome Graveyardshire family, d D DA
(16:47):
DA DA, And I was like, all right, and I
go to acknowledge him and there was no nobody there.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Wow wow.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
But I literally could see him for five seconds, you know,
I mean enough to where I was like, oh wow,
somebody walked up on me. Let me finish this and
then acknowledge them and just let them know what I'm doing.
But then I realized, yeah, every cemetery has some sort
of like watcher.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yeah, yes, patrol man.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yeah, did they ever come up to you and ask
you what you're doing?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
People? People, real people all the time.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
If i'm if I'm in a resting community and people
are there, a lot of times they'll give me my space,
but you can see them watching. But a lot of
times people will break that wall and be like.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
What you're doing?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Does that really work? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I remember you did the one in Valdosta, the kid
down there who died, Kendrick Kendrick. Yeah, and the lady
wouldn't leave you alone. She kept coming looking over it,
she kept going on, yeah, anything.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Was just I don't and I don't even think she
was I was. I don't even think that she was
trying to bother me. I think she had her own
purpose for whatever reason doing something. But we just I
think it's almost like a written code. Man. In resting communities,
you just leave people alone.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yeah, you just let people do their own things.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
So it's just like I'm not asking her what she doing,
she ain't asking me what I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Just yea.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Do people come up recognize you.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Though I've been stopping community resting communities.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Ok.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, a lot more so now because the community is
getting bigger, the Grave Russia family.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
So when people see.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Me, they're like, ah, yeah, yeah, that's great. Can I
go with you over to to see the ladies? Yeah,
I'd like to get it. I'd like to get some
of that if you Yeah, I'd like to hear it
so people can hear what we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah, it's a walk, that's okay.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
We drive over there, Yeah, okay cool. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
We haven't been here in a couple of months. So
Miss Kate, Miss Coleby, Miss Neil, Miss di Vine, Miss Partridge,
Ms Boyce, Miss English, Miss Ladd, Ladies, I have missed y'all.
I have missed y'all. I have missed y'all, and I
would love to communicate with y'all.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
So uh yeah, it's a lot to catch up on.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
So yeah, so you always you know, make yourself, yeah know,
and your your presence known and let them know what's
going on.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
But you know, today's a busy day it is here.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, coming from everywhere, it's one of the
nicer days, and it's not as hot.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Right, that's that's true, it's very nice. I never knew
that this was the things were here. I left seeing this.
I drive right by here all the time.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, these are some of the sweetest ladies resting here
and so yeah, so literally I got box. All right,
ladies are you here?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Right?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Hey, Nana's how are y'all doing today?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
So just for clarity, a lot of times you have
to go back.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And listen to it with airphones on to decipher a
lot of stuff that's being said. It's easy to miss
a lot of stuff with outside interference going so cars, trains, people, dogs, wind,
it's a lot of outside interference.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
So when I go back and edit this video, we'll.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Hear a lot of information coming out the box that
we need to catch in real time.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Okay, yeah, that's that's what I wanted. That that answers
my question. Then how do you go back and do it?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah, you have to go back and put the headphones
in and play it back and forth, back and forth
and here through the chatter yep.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
So are any of our nana's here right now? Can
you tell me who's here? Can you tell me the
last name of who's here with me?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
So we have your I thought I just heard kne
I thought I just heard Kate. I thought I just
heard Kate. So you do have Miss Kate Thomas right here?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
And I noticed something else. She said she's seventy three
years old. It says on there, Yeah, I tell you
you shard George seventy something?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Really?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, I think I just showed that.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Okay, I'm gonna hear it. Listen, So we have miss Kate,
Miss Kate. Are you here? She's sitting?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
No, I'm dead. Okay, I know that, Miss Kate. But
are you here with us right now?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
What? Miss Kate? I wanted to bring my friend here
to meet y'all.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
He's a part of a news network and he's doing
a story on us, so I wanted to bring him
here to y'all so y'all can get some more attention.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Girl, I'm trying to make y'all famous. How y'all feel
about that? Huh?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
How do y'all feel being on the news? He said
something about the news, and it said something I guess
so again, Yeah, you watched the show. I have to
go back in and edit all of this and listen,
(22:24):
and I'm very curious of what's coming out the box.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I am.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, I know, I haven't been here in a long time.
How do y'all feel about me being gone away.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
For so long? You said, that's normal, he said, no words.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
So you're not mad at me for for for not
coming here for a while. Something about family I have.
I've been spending a lot of time with my family,
and I've been working a lot of great things have
(23:12):
been going on though, as you can see me doing
interviews now, So.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
What have you all been up to.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Something?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Do you have any questions?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
No, I know, I can't think of any. I'm just
fascinated by it.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know it sounds like a
lot of nothing.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah I understand that, but I promise you questions are
being answered for sure, and you just have to go
back and listen to the chatter. And once I go
in and listen, you can hear everything.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Man, that is fascinating. This is great, This has been great.
This I'm I'm looking at miss Kate Thomas and seventy
three years and I kick focusing on her. That was
that's the one I'm focused on the most. That's that's
the most prominent one. But you know, miss.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Kate, do you have anything you would like to tell me?
And John right, let's just walking now, miss Kate. Have
you ever been interviewed before the first time?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Man, this is great, this has been really great. This
has been great, and I just I appreciate you. Let
me tat along and come out here with you. This
is great, It's terrific.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Man.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Yeah, thank you any time.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
And just tell everybody where to get you and where
you look for you.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah, you can find me on YouTube. My name on
YouTube is just my name Dayalen Spratt. And uh yeah,
look up the Graveyard Shift in Ghost Brothers. Those are
the three things I'm doing in the pair of normal
and catch me every week on YouTube speaking to those
that are resting on the other side.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
You look on the Graveyard Shift on the regular Internet
and you just get more and more and more and
more of them sore they come up there, they're all
on there. They're great, They're great. I would encourage you
to listen to them.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Listen. I appreciate this, all right, thank you so.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Much then, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That's Dalen Spratt talking to the Ghost and Oakland Cemetery.
If you believe in ghost you can follow him on
the internet on the Graveyard Shift and on Ghost Brothers
on the Travel Channel. If you have questions or comments
about today's show, you can email me, John Clark at
Georgiannewsnetwork dot com. Thanks for listening, and I hope you
have a happy Halloween. From Georgia Focus
Welcome to Georgia Focus. I'm John Clark on the Georgia
News Network. Halloween is coming up on the thirty first,
and we're going to do something a little bit different today.
Daylan Spratt is on YouTube with his Graveyard Shift. He's
also on Travel Channel with the Ghost Brothers, but today
he's here with us. Today we're visiting Oakland Cemetery in
Atlanta with Dayalen and we're going to follow him around
and find out a little bit more about what he does.
(00:30):
Here's Daylan Spratt. Well, I'm hear in Oakland Cemetery with
Daylan Spratt, who I see all the time on YouTube.
And you're on TV too. You have the TV show, Yes, yes,
but I want to find out more about what you
do and why you do it and all about you.
First of all, your TV show is tell us about
the show.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
So the television show is called Ghost Brothers Ghost brother
So we're essentially television's first all black ghost hunting group.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah literally to hear the televisions. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
We tell people all the time with like the Jackie
Robinson's of the paranormal industry and.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It's you and your friends.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, me and my two friends We've been friends for
twenty something years. We were genuinely friends before the television show.
I'm talking about sleeping on each other's couches, eating, eating
in each other's mamas refrigerators, like real life friends before
doing the show. So it was cool being thrusted into
the pair of normal with no background in pairagem.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So, how did you get started as a black ghost hunter?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, yeah, oddly I fell into it.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It's crazy how life works and how like God orchestrates
your path. But I was working in television at the time.
Me and my partner Juwan, we were doing wardrobe, working
for the Monique Show on BT So it was shot
right here in Atlanta at Turner Studios. We would shoot
two TV shows a day, three days a week, and
so literally I'm just watching them shoot television all day long.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
So I'm just learning.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I'm like, Okay, you got a director, you got three cameras,
you got a sound guy, you got wardrobe. I'm just
watching how they put these pieces together. One night, I
was asleep in my room. I woke up in the
middle of the night and one of the ghost hunting
shows was on television at that time, and it just
dropped on me like a pile of bricks. I was like,
I've never seen black people ghost hunt and I was
just curious to.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Why was that, Like what was the reason?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And I got on Google and Facebook and I was
literally looking for black ghost hunters and I couldn't find anyone,
and so I thought, maybe, you know, it might be
worth exploring.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
And so yeah, that was my introduction.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, just noticing that there was a void in a
genre and just trying to solve a problem by figuring
out why were there not many minorities hunting ghosts?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
And yeah, that was my journey.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oh and did you start the show pretty soon after
that or no?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So literally we spent about a year looking for black
ghost hunters. So we sent emails out to organizations and groups,
probably about three hundred emails looking for black ghost hunters.
We couldn't find a single person, Like every respe we
got back was a black ghost hunter. What are you serious?
Or this must be a joke? Like it was no,
(03:08):
like none. So I told my partner Juwan Bro, We're
just gonna have to shoot it ourself to get a
proof of concept so we can show a television network
the idea. We're trying to produce, and so we went
down to Savannah, Georgia. We found a cameraman off Craig's list.
He charged us sixty three dollars off Craig's list.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, we shot a two minute video and we ended
up putting it on YouTube and literally nothing happened. Nothing happened.
Five years later, I had moved to Los Angeles. I'm
driving Uber. I get a random email and it was
from a representative of Discovery Channel and they were saying
that they were looking for black ghost hunters and the
(03:49):
only black ghost hunters they could find was this clip
of us on YouTube from five years earlier. And they
asked a simple question, are you guys ghost hunters? We
had only did it two minutes? Two minutes anyway, listen
when I tell you, I ain't never told somebody yet,
so fast ghosts on a professional.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah, I'm a professional. I do it.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I'm actually just leaving a hunted house right now. And
uh yeah that was a lie, started ghost Brothers.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
That is fantastic, and they're your friends and you'd still go.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Do it and yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Now you pick places outside of Georgia too, though, right.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Oh, of course we've been all over the country.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Man, We've been to Satan's belly Button or other people
might call it Ohio.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Ohio. Yeah, man, it's literally like one of the most
honed states out there.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
But yeah, man, we go all over the country, went overseas, Yeah,
for sure.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And now you have the Graveyard Shift on YouTube and
that's how I found you. I'm like, this is great,
this is great. The Graveyard Shift is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yes, yes, what CAUs you to do that?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Literally, we were in between television shows and Travel Channel,
so Ghost Brothers got put on hiatus while they figured
out the landscape of ghost shows on the Travel Channel.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
And I would just wanted to keep up. I wanted
to keep my.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Reps up in the gym, as I like to say,
like I want to keep putting up some shots. So
I was like, what could I do in the pair
of normal while we're waiting on our show to come back.
But I needed it to be inexpensive because once people
find out that you come from a TV show, that
budget goes up really quickly, Like, Hey, I would like
to come visit your location. Can I come out?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You're daily from Ghost Brothers twenty five hundred dollars for
an hour, like what, Like I get charged more because
I had a TV show, Like no, this is coming
out of my pocket. So I was like, what could
I do? And I was driving past a resting community
and it just looked beautiful, and I was like, I
wonder if I could just go in there, use a
spirit box and just see if I can talk to
people that have passed away. And I did it and
(05:51):
it worked and people enjoyed it, and I was just
like there might be something to being like I called
myself a par ofanormal journalist.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Where was that? Where was where'd you go?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
First? First cemetery was in Mableton.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It was a cemetery on this beautiful hill off of
Veteran Memorials Highway in Mableton, Georgia.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
And uh yeah, man, yeah, yeah, overlooks the city.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You can see the city of Atlanta in the distance
of Since High on a hill and yeah yeah man.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
And I know you've been everywhere? How many about how
many in Georgia have you been on?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
How many cemeteries in Georgia?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
How many?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Oh my gosh, man, if I just had to throw
just in Georgia alone, ah man, probably.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
A man maybe thirty forty just in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
But I like get like I've taken the graveyard shift
all over the country. We've been all over the world.
We've been in We've been in Uh where was I did?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I go? Columbia, Columbia, South America.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That's where I went to a cemetery and you could
see bones inside the graves wide open, so you could
see skulls and femurs and radios raised.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
A radius a bone? Is that a bone?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I don't know if you're raised it sounds like Anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We've been to London, England and went to the victims
of Jack the Ripper.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, man, We've been all over the country. LA to
talk to Anna Nicoles. I'm not Anon Nicole Smith, Nicole
Brown Simpson. Uh Anna Nicole, Anna, Nicole, Anna, Nicole what's
her last name?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Smith?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, yeah, there was Smith.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That was the one that was the model, was the
model who was married to the elderly giant who she's
buried in the Bahamas.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
She's on my list to go speak to. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, I saw your Nicole Brown Simpson one that was.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Kind of creepy.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, that was really interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I've been following the o j.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Simpson trial and case since the mid nineties when it happened,
albeit I was very young, I remember it vividly, and
uh yeah, I jumped on the opportunity to see if
I can speak to Anna what I keep that's a
sign I got to go to the Bahamas.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
You gotta go.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, not for vacation, but for vacation, but to speak
to Annicle. I've said her name too many times something. Yeah,
I gotta go make that happen. But Nicole Brown, Simpson
and Ronald Goldman, it was just interesting to be able
to just ask them the questions that people always wanted
to know.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
And I try to do it respectfully because I know
they lived.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
The traumatic experience and I don't want to keep bringing
it up, but I do want to give those resting
the opportunity to speak their piece.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Now you use the spirit box I do. I showed
you when I have a very normal I have. I'm
using for I'm using for a murder case and I'm
hopeful having a show one day. I'm going to the
I'm going to it. Nothing's happening, nobody. I don't know
if I'm doing it wrong or what w How do
you do it?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah, you do it.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You should show well.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Now, it takes practice, just like any other instrument. I
tell people it's just like a piano, a flute, a guitar.
It's all an instrument that you have to train your
ear to understand and listen to.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
It becomes like music.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And just listening to it for so long I start
to pick up on things and my ears have adjusted
to the box. So it just takes practic because essentially
a spirit box all it is is scanning a predetermined
either word bank or radio frequencies at fast paces, either
frontwards or backwards. So in Layman's terms, imagine yourself sitting
(09:14):
in your car and you're tuning your radio. You're spinning
the knob, and that's essentially what a spirit box is
doing consistently. And if a spirit wants to communicate with you,
theoretically it can manipulate that chatter to spit out words
or phrases to speak to you.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And it's not in their language, just in whatever language
comes on.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
To be honest, I've only done it in English speaking
spirit box app spirit box.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
App, but I have had Spanish come out of it.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Okay, okay, and the voices are whatever. How the voices
are their voices.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So essentially, if you're using a app, it's usually a
predetermined uh words and phrases and audio like voice. But
if you're using seeing like what you have the SB
seven is handing radio frequencies.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
You're using you're pulling from.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Songs, music talk radio, and you're pulling out bits and freezes,
bits and pieces of phrases to answer your questions.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Now, you go to a cemetery and you put you
set up that yep, and you set up your camera.
We're on camera now, why we're doing this right? We're
looking at this, this cemetery, this disgrave here, the what's
your names?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
This would be.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
The o'donald's, o'donaldy, Yeah, O'Donnelly, o'donald's. We just happened to
be sitting in here talking this one. If you want
to do this one, you would set it up now
and ask them questions out here.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I would walk around and I would acknowledge all the
people that are resting here, and I would introduce myself
because essentially this is their home.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
You know, this is their space.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
You wouldn't want anyone walking into your house without introducing themselves.
I would greet them, I'll tell them my purpose, let
them know that my job is essentially just to speak
to those that haven't been spoken to in a long time.
And then they start asking questions and just see if
anyone would talk to me. People get irritated because I
always ask the one question a lot is can you
tell me your name? I might ask that question twenty
(11:10):
times in a session, but that's my way of getting
the spirit to be like familiar and like telling me
who they are who I'm talking to.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
So that can get a little frustrating to view.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
And why you keep asking their name? Yeah, because you
want to know who you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
But that gives me a way too of knowing this
really for them exactly, you know exactly exactly here you
have Kenny Rodgers, you have Manor Jackson, Margaret Mitchell, you
have so many around here. Do you go to the
famous people?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I do not most of the times, a lot of
the time.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
So I've done Kenny Rogers, Yeah, yeah, But when I
come to Oakland Cemetery, I usually come and just speak
to random people resting. We have a few elderly ladies
in the back from the old Evan type, old ladies home.
It's like twelve, like maybe eight to twelve elderly women
buried together. I guess who did maybe have families or whatnot.
(12:00):
So we go and speak to them all the time.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Today.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Actually, when I leave here, I'm gonna go have a
conversation with them. It's been a couple of months.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
I need to check in. We call them the Nana's
Nana's Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Well obviously they have a lot of Confederate soldier spirit
here or Union soldiers just army dead here. I used
to hear a story here and my brother and I
tried to do this.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
It didn't work.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
The line of the Confederacy statue which is down here,
used to they said in November or December. If you
go and you stip by that statue, it's getting dark,
you'll hear the army walking by.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Oh wow, I've never heard that. I heard that.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I read it and read it, and I heard it
every just two or three a lot of locations. I
found it. We went down there and we looked like
it's getting dark. It's getting dark, and we said, well
it's not working. We went to we went over to
gave and had drinks right right, right, So we did
that and so it never happened. But I always heard
that about this the lot of the Confederacy.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, I've never heard it, but I'm gonna try it.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Try that. You're gonna try it, Yeah, for sure, said
December when they said it was Yeah, okay, I guess
the war was about that time. Yeah, but yeah, yeah.
So there's some generals buried here. Have you ever talked
to a general's.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I have not. I have not, especially not here. No,
I haven't.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, this is good ones here. John Brown Gordon's buried here.
I thought, okay, oh, I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
That's actually the coolest part about my job is that
I get to have these conversations with people from history
and learn the history of.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Things I never even thought about.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Literally, there's one of the very first people buried here
in the far back over here was a doctor who
was ended up dying and he was so afraid of
being buried alive that he had someone slit his throat
after he died to make sure that he was dead.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
And uh, yeah, he's he was the first person buried
over here. Oh wow, yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Man, the former mayor of Atlanta is buried over here too,
for for Walt is that his name or something like that.
So he's the first guy that's madeavor Atlanta back when
Atlanta was a rocking town, right right right right, God
it didn't now, but over there it's also But this
cemetery is fascinating. It's it's it's so it's just just
beauty to it too. That has to add to it.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yeah, yeah, I love it. Man. It's literally like being
in a park, like people like you don't get.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Freaked out being the cemeteries not now man, Like it's
well known. Yeah, I've been to so many and it's
just they're all I find myself alone sometimes in the
woods in like abandoned cemeteries, like places like all right,
not only are you in the cemetery, you're in the
woods and it's.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Dusk, like you're just asking for like issues.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
But now I feel safe. Yeah, I don't feel like anything.
And then I feel like what would harm me are
real people? And I feel like real people ain't gonna
just follow you deep into the Cemetery's one safe place
you got, So.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
What safe place you got? Jack? Cemetery?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
But what do you think? Uh? I look at that
shit from a religious standpoint too, what about the people
who are still there, is that they are they waiting
to go on somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I don't know. I don't know, and I don't try
to act like I do know. I feel like some
things we never will know. I've asked a question, I
haven't really gotten a solid response. Uh, but I just
know that we're communicating with some one or something. I
don't know what or who it could be. I like
to believe I'm talking to the person I'm talking to,
(15:23):
but I would also hate to believe that they're just
stuck here, you.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
So maybe it's just like maybe they are in some
purgatory state, or maybe they are in heaven or hell,
or maybe they are walking the earth. Like I have
no idea none that you get there. Everybody gonna find
out one day.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
But like, yah, it's do you ever see anything else?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
All the time? You see all the ghost all the time,
all the time.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I don't know if it's a ghost, I guess it
would be considered, but I mean, there's so many things.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
It's shadow figures, it's apparitions.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
There's like all type things, all types of anomalies that
could be sensed but it's always usually in your peripheral,
like I remember, I've been here before, and I tell
people all the time. It was the funniest thing because
I set my camera up and I was talking to
the camera, and I saw a man walking to my
peripheral and I could clearly out the.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Corner of my eye. I could tell what he had on.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
He had on khaki pants, he had on a brown belt,
and he had on a red plaid shirt, long sleeve
shirt tucked in.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
And it was butting all the way to the top.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I couldn't see his face because I'm looking at the camera,
but in my peripheral the same way, if somebody was
standing right here, I can see them from the corner
of my eye. And I was thinking, oh wow, somebody's
walked up on me while I'm filming. But let me
get through my little intro and then I'm going to
acknowledge them. So I see him standing here and I
do my you know, welcome Graveyardshire family, d D DA
(16:47):
DA DA, And I was like, all right, and I
go to acknowledge him and there was no nobody there.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Wow wow.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
But I literally could see him for five seconds, you know,
I mean enough to where I was like, oh wow,
somebody walked up on me. Let me finish this and
then acknowledge them and just let them know what I'm doing.
But then I realized, yeah, every cemetery has some sort
of like watcher.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yeah, yes, patrol man.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yeah, did they ever come up to you and ask
you what you're doing?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
People? People, real people all the time.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
If i'm if I'm in a resting community and people
are there, a lot of times they'll give me my space,
but you can see them watching. But a lot of
times people will break that wall and be like.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
What you're doing?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Does that really work? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I remember you did the one in Valdosta, the kid
down there who died, Kendrick Kendrick. Yeah, and the lady
wouldn't leave you alone. She kept coming looking over it,
she kept going on, yeah, anything.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Was just I don't and I don't even think she
was I was. I don't even think that she was
trying to bother me. I think she had her own
purpose for whatever reason doing something. But we just I
think it's almost like a written code. Man. In resting communities,
you just leave people alone.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yeah, you just let people do their own things.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
So it's just like I'm not asking her what she doing,
she ain't asking me what I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Just yea.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Do people come up recognize you.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Though I've been stopping community resting communities.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Ok.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, a lot more so now because the community is
getting bigger, the Grave Russia family.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
So when people see.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Me, they're like, ah, yeah, yeah, that's great. Can I
go with you over to to see the ladies? Yeah,
I'd like to get it. I'd like to get some
of that if you Yeah, I'd like to hear it
so people can hear what we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah, it's a walk, that's okay.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
We drive over there, Yeah, okay cool. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
We haven't been here in a couple of months. So
Miss Kate, Miss Coleby, Miss Neil, Miss di Vine, Miss Partridge,
Ms Boyce, Miss English, Miss Ladd, Ladies, I have missed y'all.
I have missed y'all. I have missed y'all, and I
would love to communicate with y'all.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
So uh yeah, it's a lot to catch up on.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
So yeah, so you always you know, make yourself, yeah know,
and your your presence known and let them know what's
going on.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
But you know, today's a busy day it is here.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, coming from everywhere, it's one of the
nicer days, and it's not as hot.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Right, that's that's true, it's very nice. I never knew
that this was the things were here. I left seeing this.
I drive right by here all the time.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, these are some of the sweetest ladies resting here
and so yeah, so literally I got box. All right,
ladies are you here?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Right?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Hey, Nana's how are y'all doing today?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
So just for clarity, a lot of times you have
to go back.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And listen to it with airphones on to decipher a
lot of stuff that's being said. It's easy to miss
a lot of stuff with outside interference going so cars, trains, people, dogs, wind,
it's a lot of outside interference.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
So when I go back and edit this video, we'll.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Hear a lot of information coming out the box that
we need to catch in real time.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Okay, yeah, that's that's what I wanted. That that answers
my question. Then how do you go back and do it?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah, you have to go back and put the headphones
in and play it back and forth, back and forth
and here through the chatter yep.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
So are any of our nana's here right now? Can
you tell me who's here? Can you tell me the
last name of who's here with me?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
So we have your I thought I just heard kne
I thought I just heard Kate. I thought I just
heard Kate. So you do have Miss Kate Thomas right here?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
And I noticed something else. She said she's seventy three
years old. It says on there, Yeah, I tell you
you shard George seventy something?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Really?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, I think I just showed that.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Okay, I'm gonna hear it. Listen, So we have miss Kate,
Miss Kate. Are you here? She's sitting?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
No, I'm dead. Okay, I know that, Miss Kate. But
are you here with us right now?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
What? Miss Kate? I wanted to bring my friend here
to meet y'all.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
He's a part of a news network and he's doing
a story on us, so I wanted to bring him
here to y'all so y'all can get some more attention.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Girl, I'm trying to make y'all famous. How y'all feel
about that? Huh?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
How do y'all feel being on the news? He said
something about the news, and it said something I guess
so again, Yeah, you watched the show. I have to
go back in and edit all of this and listen,
(22:24):
and I'm very curious of what's coming out the box.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I am.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, I know, I haven't been here in a long time.
How do y'all feel about me being gone away.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
For so long? You said, that's normal, he said, no words.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
So you're not mad at me for for for not
coming here for a while. Something about family I have.
I've been spending a lot of time with my family,
and I've been working a lot of great things have
(23:12):
been going on though, as you can see me doing
interviews now, So.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
What have you all been up to.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Something?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Do you have any questions?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
No, I know, I can't think of any. I'm just
fascinated by it.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know it sounds like a
lot of nothing.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah I understand that, but I promise you questions are
being answered for sure, and you just have to go
back and listen to the chatter. And once I go
in and listen, you can hear everything.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Man, that is fascinating. This is great, This has been great.
This I'm I'm looking at miss Kate Thomas and seventy
three years and I kick focusing on her. That was
that's the one I'm focused on the most. That's that's
the most prominent one. But you know, miss.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Kate, do you have anything you would like to tell me?
And John right, let's just walking now, miss Kate. Have
you ever been interviewed before the first time?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Man, this is great, this has been really great. This
has been great, and I just I appreciate you. Let
me tat along and come out here with you. This
is great, It's terrific.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Man.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Yeah, thank you any time.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
And just tell everybody where to get you and where
you look for you.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah, you can find me on YouTube. My name on
YouTube is just my name Dayalen Spratt. And uh yeah,
look up the Graveyard Shift in Ghost Brothers. Those are
the three things I'm doing in the pair of normal
and catch me every week on YouTube speaking to those
that are resting on the other side.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
You look on the Graveyard Shift on the regular Internet
and you just get more and more and more and
more of them sore they come up there, they're all
on there. They're great, They're great. I would encourage you
to listen to them.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Listen. I appreciate this, all right, thank you so.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Much then, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That's Dalen Spratt talking to the Ghost and Oakland Cemetery.
If you believe in ghost you can follow him on
the internet on the Graveyard Shift and on Ghost Brothers
on the Travel Channel. If you have questions or comments
about today's show, you can email me, John Clark at
Georgiannewsnetwork dot com. Thanks for listening, and I hope you
have a happy Halloween. From Georgia Focus
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