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Speaker 1: Thinking Sideways. I don't think you never know stories of things.

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Speaker 1: We simply don't know the answer too. Hey everybody, and

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Speaker 1: welcome again to another episode of Thinking Sideways. I'm Steve,

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Speaker 1: of course, joined by my lovely co host, and once

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Speaker 1: again we've got a little bit of a mystery. Well

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Speaker 1: actually it's kind of a story, kind of a mystery,

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Speaker 1: but uh, like most of them, we've actually got a

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Speaker 1: good bit of information to reveal this. Yeah, but we're

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Speaker 1: going to save that bit for the end. We do

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Speaker 1: have a big reveal. We actually did get some kind

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Speaker 1: of insider exclusive information about this, and we were always

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Speaker 1: stoked about it before we Before we get into the

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Speaker 1: the story itself, I do just want to real quick

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Speaker 1: say thank you to Nicole who sent this in. She

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Speaker 1: sent this to us six months ago or so. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and I apologize for taking so long to get to it.

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Speaker 1: Probably shouldn't apologize because that's probably gonna be most of

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Speaker 1: our because you're trying to work them in chronological order.

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Speaker 1: But let's get to the story. Today. We're talking about

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Speaker 1: Jeff the Talking mongoos. Yeah, Jeff. The story of Jeff

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Speaker 1: the Talking Mongoose starts out in September of nineteen thirty

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Speaker 1: one when the Irving family, and the family consists of James, Margaret,

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Speaker 1: and their thirteen year old daughter Vore. I want to say,

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Speaker 1: is how you pronounce her name, Vory? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's o r why. It's a very British. It's a

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Speaker 1: very British. I'm sure it was at the time kind

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Speaker 1: story takes place on the eye all of Man m m.

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Speaker 1: The family said that they heard persistent noises in the

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Speaker 1: these noises were evidently it would be rustling or scratching

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Speaker 1: and at some point kind of vocalizations. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what the early noises were. There's not a lot of

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Speaker 1: good description of it. The family said that the noises

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Speaker 1: kind of sounded like they were maybe made by a

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Speaker 1: ferret or a dog, or weirdly enough, a baby, which

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Speaker 1: is just weird in the wooden walls of walls. Let's

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Speaker 1: that didn't work. He failed, but the noises continued for

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Speaker 1: several days, and again James Irving, he said, traps, he

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Speaker 1: put out poison, nothing's working. As a last ditch effort,

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Speaker 1: had to have been some kind of opening. And I

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Speaker 1: don't know if this is a not hole or just

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Speaker 1: a bit of board missing. It doesn't we don't know.

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Speaker 1: But he decides that what he's gonna do is trying

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Speaker 1: a dog. Wait have you done that before? I don't

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Speaker 1: have animals living my walls anymore. Well it didn't. It

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Speaker 1: didn't work so well for James because whenever it was

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Speaker 1: when they discovered Jeff in the walls. Jeff. Jeff learned

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Speaker 1: to talk and said the Jett he was a mongoose

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Speaker 1: and that he had been born in New Delhi, India

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Speaker 1: in eighteen fifty two. That's some clever mongoose. It really is.

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Speaker 1: How to get to the man. We'll get to that.

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Speaker 1: The Irvings say that Jeff told them that he was

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Speaker 1: an extra extra clever mongoose and he was an earthbound

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Speaker 1: which is all rather strange to me. I thought you

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Speaker 1: reincarnated as a mongoose. Man reincarnation sucks. It wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: the worst thing to be reincarnated at. You could come

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Speaker 1: back as a fleet You're right, you know, a mongoose.

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Speaker 1: You get to just like nest up and like cuddle up.

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Speaker 1: And unless you have fallen the Hansard those jerks in

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Speaker 1: some countries that like, you know, put the pad up

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Speaker 1: against cobra's you know, yeah, obviously not the country you

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Speaker 1: want to reincarnate as a well. The Irvings made other

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Speaker 1: statements or claims about Jeff. They again, this is James

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Speaker 1: Irving said, it announces its presence by calling either myself

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Speaker 1: that he wrote. I think it might have been in

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Speaker 1: As we're going to talk about is hearing powers are phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: It's no use whispering. It detects whispers fifteen to twenty

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Speaker 1: an awfully nice thing to do, and would wake people

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Speaker 1: up if they overslaps. If if they did actually get

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Speaker 1: would actually just scare the mice away, which okay, I guess,

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Speaker 1: but that means to me they'd come back. But hey,

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Speaker 1: what do I know, I'm not a mongoose. The Irvings, well,

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Speaker 1: they fed Jeff not exactly the normal fair that I

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Speaker 1: that's not the standard diet for British people. Bangers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: probably would have loved some bangers and mash. Well. The

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Speaker 1: But Jeff would only do it when he thought that

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Speaker 1: None of the none of the adults in the family

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Speaker 1: wanted to pay good money for it. Yeah, is not

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Speaker 1: exactly an unfriendly ghost though, really no, no, it seems

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Speaker 1: and Leslie Graham claimed to have shot and killed Jeff. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Irving Sorry, she was certain that it was not Jeff.

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Speaker 1: So theory number one is that Jeff was poltergeist, which

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Speaker 1: kind of makes sense, Joe said earlier. Kind of a

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Speaker 1: friendly ghost. I thought Polter guests were always kind of jerks,

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Speaker 1: so well, not a ghost, an actual ghost, as Jeff claims,

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Speaker 1: That's kind of a ghost thing. Could talk to people,

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Speaker 1: turned out Jeff didn't like Margaret the mom very much.

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Speaker 1: But occasionally Martin would be out there and jeffers throw

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Speaker 1: but but Jeff got up to some pretty prankish behavior,

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Speaker 1: the protector. But hey, what do I know, she's got

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Speaker 1: to learn sometimes may as well be from that weird

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Speaker 1: Poultre guys that you have that's also among goose. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you know, what's the word I'm thinking of. He's been

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Speaker 1: like inhabited by by like a demon or something like that.

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Speaker 1: So it goes to possessed by a demon. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: so I don't going into it now. Our next theory

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Speaker 1: the area moese Okay, Mongese, Mongese the plural of mongoose.

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Speaker 1: I really only found that date on one site, Okay,

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