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Hey, y'all, this is Frankthe big Foot and you're listening to the
Paranormal Puncher. Hey, friends,welcome to another episode a Paranormal Punchers.
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Mark, I'm what was that?What was that idea? I'm nash you
all know, but what the heckwas that? Were you Captain Kirk on
that one? What are going on? Yes? Some William Shatner, oh
out and no day. By theway, Dave is on a business trip
to the Hollow Earth, to theHollow Earth, Yeah, sending pictures of
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him having a good time with theHollow Earth people, you know, yep,
eating curry. Yeah, yeah,he's he's having a wonderful time.
So Dave enjoyed that business trip andwe miss you. But he never listens
to the episode. Let's go.We are going to talk about the old
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Washoe Club in Virginia City? Isit Nevada? Right now? This has
been it was washow. I don'tknow, I don't know wash you know
what I want to say, Washo, But it's we just listened to them
saying wash was show. I don'tknow. We're about with pronouncing that.
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I figured it's just getting worse.Yeah, but yeah, So for this
episode, we we we're gonna makea decision. We're gonna call it wash
wash even though it does it isspelled like shoe. Yeah, washoe.
That's why I don't know. Now. This has been on Ghost Adventures three
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times, once in their original documentarythat we just watched the other day because
I own it. And it's like, I didn't think it was no offense.
I didn't think it was that great. It was Damn. I wish
we could have made this documentary before. I know before Travel Channel was like,
we'll buy all the ghost hunting showsyou have, right, But they
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went there in the documentary. Thisis where they got a full body apparition
in their documentary. Yeah, really, I need to watch it. I
didn't. I didn't see it.Yeah. Then in season three they went
back again, and then in seasonwhat twenty something they went for the final
time. Yeah. But you canghost hunt this place there. You can
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go on YouTube and everybody is doinginvestigations. This place is open for you.
Come and to do this. It'spretty incredible. But why don't we
tell you what the heck it is? What is that wash Show show?
The Old wash Show Club in VirginiaCity, Nevada is considered to be one
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of the most haunted locations in theWest. Now, Virginia City rose as
the center for silver mining. Therewas like a huge, a huge,
huge, I know, a hugediscovery there and everybody discovery of silver and
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everybody came to the area. SoI have a question before we even get
into it. It seems like,you know, when you go out to
a restaurant and they say we're we'redo the best barbecue sandwiches in America,
and then you go to another restaurantthat could be a mile away and as
they say, we do we dothe best this in America, We're the
best. It seems like that monikerhas now carried over to haunting in locations.
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It's always like the most haunted.Yeah, everybody's the most haunted.
Honestly, That's what I was likewhen I saw that. I was just
like, is everybody the most haunted? There's some small category they fit into.
Well, I guess you have togo and investigate to find out the
nice nice so Virginia And again,I wouldn't take that back there. There
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was nothing wrong with the Ghost Adventuresoriginal documentary. No, I'm just a
little jelly that I didn't put outa video first. I didn't know Travel
Channel is going to become the GhostChannel. I know, man, miss
so Virginia the travel Channel of allthings too, not the History Channel,
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the Ghost Channel. Yeah, itreally should. Virginia City it was a
bustling city that had institutions like theopera, Mental No No, like a
lot of like social scene situations,and they even had famou residents like Mark
Twain. Now the Washow Club openedits doors on B Street because he was
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an author for like the local paperor something that he was a writer for
the local paper. Yeah. Canyou imagine the editor of that paper being
like, yo, I got MarkTwain. Yeah, this is a yeah
he works for it was the placeto be? Was this this town?
Or did he realize that after MarkTwain died it was Mark Twain famous while
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he was alive or was he Justlike, whenever I think Mark Twain,
I always think of it. Therewas a there was a Star Trek episode
with Mark Twain where he was,you know, very prolific in the community
and whatnot. I don't remember mingin Nevana though, I don't know anyway,
I digress, Yeah you did,you did digress and you threw me
off. It was the smartest soundingdigression you ever made, you think,
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so, yeah, Washo Club openedits doors on B Street in the Reynolds
Building on June first, eighteen seventyfive. It was a luxurious space filled
with giant plate glass windows and bronzestatuettes and was nicknamed the Millionaire's Club.
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It became where the rich and newlyrich would drink, play games, and
visit with prostitute money. Money money. So less than five months after opening,
a fire burned through downtown, destroyinga good amount of Virginia City.
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A coal oil lamp was knocked overin a boarding house and thirty three blocks
of structures, including the wash ShoeClub, was destroyed. Now, it
didn't take very long for the clubto find a new space. The trustee
board that was part of the club. They settled on a three story building
on C Street. They even hadus. Nobody in this town is creative
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with street. No street street probablylike one two three were the cross C
two, you know right? Sothis this location, uh, there was
a saloon on the bottom floor andthen the top two floors consisted of the
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club. So they they created theirnew headquarters to be even more elegant than
the previous location. There were theMillionaires Club. Yes, they had eight
apartments, a reading room in theshape of a grand piano, a billiard's
room, a wine room, andthey also featured a reporting telegraph that would
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provide the latest stock market news tomembers. But you know what they don't
really ever talk about, which Ialways always wonder in the saloons if they
have them, is a really kickbutt laundromat. Huh okay, well,
the top two floors are for theprostitute to do their things. So who's
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doing the laundry because that's nasty.Hmmm. They're always talking about the billiard
room and it's really nice and luxuriousand opulent, but they're like, yeah,
we needed to have like seventeen haveyou ever booked a hotel in their
flyer or their website, whatever you'regonna do, we'll clean up, okay,
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okay, possible business venture, Okay. Interesting, But like you were
saying, this is a millionaires club. So the club it was very exclusive,
limit to only two hundred members,you know, But the only stipulation
was at a time, no,no, you had to be a millionaire.
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Wow. Yeah, Now, andwhat year we checked that out.
Was it the eighteen hundreds deer?But a millionaire in that time period?
Is that kind of like equate tolike a billionaire? And today? Because
it wasn't it around eighteen seventy five, It was about one hundred, about
one hundred years before I was born, So so Mark was around at that
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time. Well, I was justthinking, yeah, you're right, it'd
be a lot more than a billion, right. So back then, if
the only stipulation was you had tobe a millionaire, you were wealthy with
af as kids say, yes,So there's only one main entrance for all
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the respectable club members to come andgo, but but two secret rear Yeah
huh, exits I guess, Ibet, I bet where prostitutes or unruly
patreons could be removed quietly and discreetly. So some back doors to check out
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the drunks or the prostitutes can goout. So nobody ever knew that the
millionaires were in there doing millionaire stuffstuff. Yea with a monocle, drinking
cigars brandy. Yeah, they're twistingtheir while upstairs. Coming in the back
door, we're all the host whoawow, what a word. Let's not
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unpacked. That statement prostitutes, youknow, the world's oldest profession. Now,
there was also one room that wasin the building that I think they
called it the back crypt, thecrypt, yes, and that's that was
used to hold dead body bodies inwinter because they couldn't get into the ground
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because they couldn't dig. Yeah,they could dig up six foot hole.
I mean, my question is,how many dead bodies do you think they
were? I thought I read theywere stacked like seven bodies high or even
more. They like they were stackingthem like just like laying on top of
each other. Like, yeah,somebody was in there doing tetris like things
with these dead bodies making them fitin there. I got this arm,
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you know, get it in there. That's amazing. Yeah. And it's
like where they were they I'm assumingthey were all clued. I'm assuming that
assuming I saw photos what No,no, online they had them all wrapped
like in shrouds. They're all wrappedup. Okay, okay, okay,
so they were like I gotcha,Okay, thank god. I was just
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thinking, like dead bodies laid aroundlike cold. No. I assume they
did their best to be as respectful, uh to the dead bodies as they
could, because again it was asituation like just you gotta wait till the
spring, right Yeah. Well no, I mean this is a mining community,
so I'm sure there's a lot ofaccidents, but also there's like gunfights
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and cloth there's a lot going onthere. I wonder what I can't watch
it, what the smell would like? Well, no, it was the
crypt was like you know, lookingat some of the pictures, I assumes
the place you could probably keep winecool. So I think they were using
it because well, if it wasunderground and it maintains probably like a I
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think there might have been some owner. But I feel like it was they
were keeping them cold at the bestspot the Millionaires Club to keep a dead
body. Probably not the only deadbody laying around that Millionaire's Club. If
all the movies I watch served me, well, there could be some live
bodies that were, you know,in case and whatever I'm thrown down in
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there to die. They would havenot known anyway, the local minds they
began to diminish. Virginia City's populationdwindled, and the clubs and the Washoe
Club eventually closed in eighteen ninety seven. The Saloon on The bottom level of
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the club continued to operate, butthe second and third floors they sat empty
for I mean decades, so they'rejust like in a time capsule. Wow,
well they probably left them. I'mtrying to think of, Like,
Okay, so if you're going toabandon floors, you don't know what's gonna
happen. You're just about your dayto day whatnot, and you're just like,
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you know what, let's close theseguys up. So that means that
they left them as is and thenjust locked those rooms up, locked the
floors up, so you could gointo them, you know, years after
the fact, and it would belike a time capsule that are there dust
on everything? Right? School veryworn? Yeah? So and ghosts that
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you awaken when you Well, here'sthe thing. The building is constantly undergoing
restoration, which we all know disturbstuff. Absolutely not just just so I
feel like that might be why it'sYeah, but also there was a lot.
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There was a lot going on duringthe Silver Mind craze. So yeah,
there was so much. And that'swhy I say you could you could
end up playing cards, you know, trying to cheeve somebody out of cards.
People knew that there was this cryptroom down in there. You're cheating
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cards whatever, and they catch youand knock you out and wrap you up
and throw you down there. You'remuffled. You can't hear anybody scream down
there, and you just die wrappedup in the death room. And that's
what happens. There's nothing but bodyis down there. How would you know?
Mm hmmm. It probably wasn't underthe greatest security because they're all dead.
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Did you just fart? No?That was that? It sounded like
I thought it was. It wasa nice one. You're trying to like,
Sorry the listeners get to hear that, like you're trying to like act
like nothing happened, nor squeaky crocksyour bench. Okay, Okay, it
would be I would have been proudabout it too. So anyway, there
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are quite a few ghosts that arespirits that are kind of residents of the
club. There's a blonde lady ghostnamed Lena the Lady in Blue. Yeah,
she's also known as the Lady inBlue because she's wearing a blue dress.
She is seen at the top ofthe spiral staircase, which I didn't
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quite understand, but I just sawsome pictures of it, and I was
like, oh my gosh, thisis like a crazy staircase like that.
Well, but it's like super tight. So spiral staircases as things go.
So my neighbors family have a spiralstaircase where it's just a super tight circle
that goes right. Yeah, it'skind of crazy. It's it's there.
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Do it to conserve room. Ofcourse, this was a little bit bigger,
a little more grand okay then,but not by much because it looked
it looked kind of I was like, oh boy, that would be difficult
to go up and down. Shedidn't sound like she fell down and stuck.
In Eternity Haunting, it is believedthat Lena was a prostitute who was
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murdered in a third floor bedroom.Now it's also believed that her murderer committed
suicide on the second floor. He'swalking and yes, he's how like,
how screwed up is that? Sothat's pretty your murderer. He kills you
on the third floor, and thenhe goes down the second floor kills himself,
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and you're both trapped in this attorneyI know, uh, this repeating
situation in the wash Show Club WashShow. That's pretty that's pretty messed up.
I know well, and in Imean at any time period in our
history, even I mean now thenwhenever people have some pretty strange kinks.
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And these prostitutes were front line.Do I need to hit it? Do
I need a button? I undersaying that these these these the workers that
were there were frontline for dealing withthat. That was what they did.
There were prostitutes. So somebody couldhave been into something that was way terrible
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and then went down and yeah andthought, okay, well I can't I
can't live with myself, but Igotta stay here. Or there's a lot
of strange stuff throughout all of time. And to know that there's prostitutes and
there's dead bodies down in the cryptthing, I just I see that as
a recipe for just some and theMillionaires Club, for just a recipe for
some really weird stuff happening. Allright. You know that's interesting. So
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you're saying, that's building this recipefor inviting maybe whatever something there could be
a little bit more disturbing. Therecould be devil worshiping, there could be
all kinds of just right. Soone of the rooms in the at the
wash Show is Room twelve, alsoreferred to as the Red Room. Now
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this is reprobably also being called thedemonic Spirit Room. I'm telling you it's
it's there. This is a roomwhere people go in they feel like,
definitely like a dark, negative energy, and supposedly up to twenty six people
have been scratched in the scratch scratcheswill manifest in their body, whether to
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like people doing it like a ghost, yeah, trying to do an EVP
session, They'll be scratched twenty six, verified by the one person that works
there. I saw this on someYouTube videos or was it Did they get
a refund thost adventures. They probablyget a refund. That's what it is,
what they signed up for. Iwas going to say that, isn't
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that what you want? Right?I don't know. There's a line to
get crossed. So it is interestingthat you know, you're saying like maybe
everything is transpired is drawing in money, dark entities that want to chill here,
because like, hey, yeah,the the the I would just imagine
that when you add money and peopleof that time who were millionaires, and
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and you have the situation where there'sa saloon, there's a lot of drinking,
there's processes upstairs, that it's ait's a house if you could do
whatever you want, and the prostituteswill let you do whatever you want because
that's what you're into, and that'swhat they're getting paid for, and according
to what they think. But theydon't they might not know that to do
what you need to do is waydown beyond just having a little bit of
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fun in an evening. I don'tknow what you're saying. Yeah, a
little bit of fun with the prostitute, you know, you know, playing
playing hopscotch is you know, whateverthey do, you know. I just
I think their recipes for just reallypotentially really bad stuff, you know,
kinks that we never even thought aboutor heard of happening in these rooms.
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Well, I think that I reallyhonestly thought you were talking about everything they
transpire there was attracting dark it wasit is it is. I thought you
were going there could be there couldhave been sacrifices in there, There could
have been people up like demonic thingsand doing satanic stuff in there, and
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we're calling demons and God, whoknows, who knows. I just think
it's a recipe for everything that youdon't really want to hear about or think
about all of him. You seemovies about I just bad stuff, bad
stuff now, good times, theOld West. Hey, right, shoot
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him up? Okay, you done. Yeah. There are reports of a
teenage girl that is seen in thebasement, and it is believed that that
is probably where she passed away oryou know, met her demise. There
is a ghost of a little girlin a white dress who is scared that
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she can be seen. I wonderif it's a It has to be like
the daughter of one of the prostitutes. Possibly, you know, yeah,
I know. Now. Some havereported being touched or grabbed by small,
unseen hands and and they honestly feellike it's probably her. They just can't
see her, like I think they'relike grabbing her hand. That they're going
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on the stairs walking with somebody holdingonto their hand right now. No,
I don't want that. That wouldbe'd be pretty freaky. So also there
is the spirit of a prospector whoif you leave your shot of bourbon sitting
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on the bar too long, shalldrink it? Well, the spirit might
it moves it around and then alsosteals the drink. Yeah, where's it?
If he's drinking it, where's itgoing. I don't know. That's
a good question. That's that's thelogistical question. That's that's a that's a
really good question that I thought about. Totally assumed you thought about that.
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I haven't come up with an answeryet, because, yeah, because it
can a shot of bourbon be absorbedinto a ghost's body, I don't.
I don't know, because if not, then it's gonna end up on the
ground. So if bourbon goes intothe spirit world, where does it go
that? Right? I know,I thought about it. I don't have
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any answers. I've spent a lotof time thinking about it, thinking to
myself, Wow, what I justdon't know who now I'm like, I'm
perplexed. So so so anybody outthere who has a connection to the other
side and can get through the puddingskin and maybe talk to me, Well,
now I'm thinking on the other sideof put his skin is a freaking
party. Yeah, if any nextperson who has a potential experience or something
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like that where they can communicate comeacross, if you could just ask that
if they have bourbon over there anddid it come from our world, that
would answer so many questions. Canone thing from our will go to the
next like a shot of bourbon.M hmm. If so, they're having
a party. They're stealing all ofour stuff. They're having a party.
Mm hmmm. So the bartenders thatwork there now, they will leave a
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full shot on the bar when theyare closing down for the night, and
when they come back in the morning, it's empty. Yeah, you can
do that my bar too, it'sgonna be gone in the morning. The
janners get hammered for free. Yeah, barstools they'll move on their own or
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they'll tip over, which has alsobeen attributed to this this breast factor.
Ghosts. Yeah, they's stealing.Uh the salon, solon ya the saloon.
Yeah, the saloon doors will mysteriouslyswing open for ladies that are entering
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the bar. Oh, that's verygentlemanly, right. And numerous shadow for
years have been spotted and recorded onthe upper floors. So okay, But
now now I thought the floor twoor three were Are they still locked or
can you go up there and doyour investigations? Well, yeah, now
they have they have ghost to soI thought that they were still They were
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locked for so long that I guessthe only way to get up there now
is the tour. Well, Iassume like anything, like you want to
go up there, it'll cost yousome money. Yeah, I guess you're
right, Shadow Burb. Now,I also did find orbs orbits, you
know, orb lights. I'm goingto rephrase what I'm trying to say,
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right, because I was wondering.Yeah, yeah, so they were starting
I'm gonna just read it from whatI wrote down, reported orbs of light.
So I was going through and Ifound some pictures and they were talking
about, you know, lots oforbs flying around and whatnot. And so
I saw these pictures and I thought, these are just poorly taking pictures.
They're there there, there could bean ORB, but these are the pictures
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that I saw. One was likea time lapse photography, a photo of
somebody like walking and turning. Youcould see the skin tone. And they're
like it's an old fake and Iwas like, yeah, no, that's
not an ORB. That's just apoorly taking picture with a really long exposure.
There were debunked, Yeah, thatpicture was debunked. There was There
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was two other ones that that Ialso did. Bunks just looking at him
going like, okay, this isthat's somebody just flashed the light. You
know, you can see that it'sjust literally the flash from your camera.
But there was a couple that Iwas like, Okay, that might not
be. I didn't see any mirrorsaround. I didn't see anything else,
so maybe who knows. I don'tknow. But there have been reports of
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light orbs floating around and they're alsoso I'm on the fence on that one.
Yeah, I feel like Ghost Adventureswhen they were there, they had
a couple of orbs cruising around,some weird, some kind of like feely
you could de bonk it. Butthere's definitely some there's stuff going on there.
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Yeah. I wasn't too wild aboutabout the light orbs. But the
scratch orbs, I bet you do. I bet you do. No,
I don't, okay, okay,but the scratches, like I said,
the scratches, the holding of thehands, the other things that have happened,
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the physical things that happened. That'sI think that's fantastic. I think
that's right. Well, because youknow, if you go there and you
experienced that, then nobody could tellyou didn't. Even Like when we were
Gettysburg, we heard somebody walking aroundon the second floor when there was no
one else in the building, Like, I can't really debunk it because we
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all heard it to gay, right. We don't know what it was,
but it happened. So yeah,at the Washo Club, this is the
norm. They hear people walking aroundwhen there's no one upstairs, doors slamming,
like it just seems to be ahotbed. Yeah, that's what they
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call them, a hotbed hotbeds,hotbeds room one and two. That the
millionaires were like, yo, bro, going up to hotbed number one,
go get checked out number one.It's lovely freaking millionaires. That's my voice
of if I'm a millionaire, diabolical. Yeah, it's very very twisty of
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the mustache. Yes, yeah.Uh. The only thing I have left
is the tours that they have.They have a guided tour that lasts about
forty minutes in length. They dothis seven days a week, and each
tour includes three three floors, soall three floors. Yes, children are
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five dollars each, adults ten dollars, so it's it's pretty sure free now
sixteen and under is five dollars each. And then they also have overnight investigations.
Well, sure, it's your overnightinvestigation. That's overnight. Yeah,
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so they have The Millionaire's Club isnow available for overnight investigations. And this
is from their website and I don'tquite understand it, but for four hundred
dollars, your group will get accessto all three floors of the Washo Club,
the crypt as well as the spiralstaircase. All that know, Club,
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I know. All that has requiredis that each member of your group
becomes a basic member of the WashoClub Restoration Project at the twenty dollars level.
So it's not just four hundred dollars, it's everybody and then we all
kick in twenty right. Yeah,that I found it confusing, But Triple
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A did something like that trying toget into the Millionaires Uh huh. You
know I would do this. Iwould go out to Virginia City, Nevada.
Check this place out. There's alot of videos out there and people
are getting let say, evidence,but they're having experiences. Well, and
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that's I think the bigger thing islike you got to be there to really
kind of feel like is it haunted? Is it not haunted? Well,
it's it's also you could go,you could go do your tour. It's
super cheap. I mean ten bucksahead a big deal, that's nothing.
Well, no, we're the kindof people would do the four hundred dollars
plus twenty bucks members. I wantaccess to all three floors. You get
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it with the one's guided. Whywould because it's an all because it's an
all night thing. Oh, Idon't want to. I don't want to
that bar right right, that's whatI'm saying. I'm going to do the
forty minute one and go to thebar right. My bad? Sorry,
because about a half an hour toan hour away is you're in uh lake
Tahoe, Lake Tahoes that well maybeevery every mountain there had silver, but
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Lake Tahoe is beautiful. So youcould go stay in Lake Tahoe, go
to do this as an EVN,Go grab some dinner, go do the
tour, and then come back.That's a that's a hell of a trip,
right there. Have you been thereto what lake Tahoe? No,
I'm talking to the audience now,Oh no, I thought, have you
been there? Let us know Iwas still confused. Email dot com.
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We just go to our website PearlPunches dot com. You can reach out
to us. We'd love to knowif you've been to the wash Show club
and also if you know how tosay it right, that would maybe that
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