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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to coast AM on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about Jim the Wonder Dog. Who is that?

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Speaker 3: Jim the Wonder Dog was a English setter living in Marshall, Missouri.

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Speaker 3: This was back in the nineteen twenties and early nineteen thirties,

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Speaker 3: and his owner, man named Sam van Arsdale, had adopted

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Speaker 3: him when he was six weeks old and thought like that.

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Speaker 3: He actually said, this was a quote from newspapers back then.

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Speaker 3: He said, this was the dumbest dog I'd ever seen.

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Speaker 3: But that impression quickly changed. They were out for on

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Speaker 3: a quail hunt and Van Arsdale, as the story goes,

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Speaker 3: he mentioned that they should go rest under a nearby

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Speaker 3: hickory tree, and he was amazed that Jim headed straight

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Speaker 3: to the hickory tree, knowing which one it was. And

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Speaker 3: he thought that's odd, so he tested them. He started

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Speaker 3: naming other trees, and Jim started going to those other trees,

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Speaker 3: specifically a walnut tree, a cedar tree. He even went

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Speaker 3: to a stump. He said, go to a stump, and

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Speaker 3: he did all this again, as the story goes, without

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Speaker 3: any hesitation, so van Arsdale, thinking like, wow, there's something special,

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Speaker 3: about this dog, and he had no way to account

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Speaker 3: for this, and he had scientists, biologists, psychologists coming to

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Speaker 3: study Jim. This became national news. The press loved it

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Speaker 3: and no one, no one could figure anything out with

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Speaker 3: this dog in terms of how it was able to

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Speaker 3: know certain things right, and it went beyond that, so

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Speaker 3: it was able to understand different languages. In fact, Van

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Speaker 3: Arsdale said it could understand any language, so whenever someone

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Speaker 3: to whever that language was asking. And it even seemed

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Speaker 3: to have psychic powers. So Jim was known to have

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Speaker 3: picked six straight winners in the Kentucky Derby, which is

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Speaker 3: pretty amazing. And they would do that, you know, van

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Speaker 3: Arsdale would basically place the name of different racehorses on

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Speaker 3: pieces of paper and Jim would go touch the winner

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Speaker 3: with a paw, you know, be presumed winning with the paw,

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Speaker 3: And like I said, he got six of those in

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Speaker 3: a row correct. And then parents who were expecting a child,

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Speaker 3: they would write in request asking the dogs to predict

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Speaker 3: the sex of their baby, and supposedly this went not.

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Speaker 3: You know, he did many of these and got them right,

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Speaker 3: had a lot of success with that doesn't seem like

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Speaker 3: maybe the best use of a psychic dog. But this

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Speaker 3: was what was going on, and there was a case

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Speaker 3: a story I thought was kind of fun that someone

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Speaker 3: tried to stump the dog. This was a gentleman who

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Speaker 3: tested the dog. He basically had three women with him

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Speaker 3: and said, you know which one of of these women

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Speaker 3: is my wife? And the dog Jim just sat perfectly still,

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Speaker 3: kind of stretched down the floor and didn't go anywhere.

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Speaker 3: The man he finally admitted that in fact, he wasn't

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Speaker 3: pull one over on Jim, and Jim was too smart

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Speaker 3: for that, so, you know, how was he doing this?

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Speaker 3: Of course, no one really knows what exactly was going

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Speaker 3: on with Jim and how he was able to do

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Speaker 3: these amazing things. But this went on to nineteen thirty

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Speaker 3: seven when sadly Jim passed away while they were fishing trip.

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Speaker 3: It seems to have maybe been a heart attack or

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Speaker 3: a stroke that you know, that's all really the veterinarian

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Speaker 3: was able to say. Jim was twelve years all at

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Speaker 3: the time. Van Arsdale completely denied the use of any

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Speaker 3: it seems like maybe somehow he was suddenly signaling a

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Speaker 3: dog with the correct answers. But again, as the story goes,

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Speaker 3: scientists again were completely baffled by how he was doing

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Speaker 3: these things. And he's still memorialized today. A Jim the

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Speaker 3: Wonder Dog mus Him and Garden in Marshall.

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Speaker 2: Missouri tell us the story of the Phantom Barber of Pascagoula.

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Speaker 3: This is another truly bizarre story, which is interesting because

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Speaker 3: Pasca Gula, it's the strange story. Is probably most known

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Speaker 3: for is the UFO abduction case nearly seventies, that's right.

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Speaker 3: But in nineteen forty two, in June, you know, this

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Speaker 3: was when World War II was raging, you know, in

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Speaker 3: Europe with all kinds of horrible horrors, but people that

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Speaker 3: was this criminal who was prowling at streets at night

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Speaker 3: and he would sneak into people's homes. And it wasn't

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Speaker 3: as the Fantom Barber and what he would do is

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Speaker 3: would cut the hair of young girls. In fact, at

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Speaker 3: one point he went into a convent and he cut

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Speaker 3: oh my god, what is going on here? Why was

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Speaker 3: this guy cutting hair? And that was it. And so

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Speaker 3: the town's kind of freaking out about this, like what's

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Speaker 3: case with their bloodhounds. They offered a three hundred dollars

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Speaker 3: reward for its capture. They had volunteer officers, they were

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Speaker 3: giving guns to help catch this guy. Parents were nailing

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Speaker 3: And finally, you know, within a few months, after at

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Speaker 3: guy named William Dolan, who was a fifty seven year

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Speaker 3: old German chemist, and he was apparently a Nazi sympathizer

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Speaker 3: who wanted to strike at the morale of American workers

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Speaker 3: who were helping with the war effort in Pascagoula. And

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Speaker 3: this was his very bizarre way of doing that. And

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Speaker 3: eventually he was tried for attempted murder because he finally

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Speaker 3: did go beyond cutting hair. He attacked a couple with

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Speaker 3: an iron rod overnight that summer, and for that he

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Speaker 3: was tried and convicted, sentence to ten years in prison,

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Speaker 3: but eventually shared and the hair trimmings were found in

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Speaker 3: pretty obvious that this guy was out there strangely cutting

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Speaker 2: You have a book called Chasing Ghosts. Tell me about that.

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Speaker 3: Well, Chasing Goes goes into really the history of our

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Speaker 3: fascination with spirits and it's supernatural, so it goes into

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Speaker 3: some of the early cultural beliefs and ghosts, but also

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Speaker 3: really hits on the spiritual as a movement, which is

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Speaker 3: really what got me into the topic, which began in

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Speaker 3: eighteen forty eight in Hyttesville, New York, with the Fox

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Speaker 3: Sisters believe they were hearing rappings that were made by

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Speaker 3: a ghost in the basement, and that just took off,

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Speaker 3: you know, and kind of took over the nation and

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Speaker 3: over the seas as well, with different mediums claiming that

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Speaker 3: they could speak to the dead and spirituals, and became

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Speaker 3: a huge religion still religion where people truly believe that

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Speaker 3: we communicate with the dead, we don't truly die. So

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Speaker 3: I became fascinating with what these meetings were doing and

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Speaker 3: how they were manifesting different voices and making you know,

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Speaker 3: you know, tables, lifts and levitates and furniture move and ectoplasm,

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Speaker 3: all these different things, and people were completely believing it.

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Speaker 3: Scientists were staying them and buying into the whole thing.

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Speaker 3: So it gets into a lot of those different stories

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Speaker 3: and covers you know, hanted places as well, and in

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Speaker 3: different ways that the science is used to either detect

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Speaker 3: evidence of ghosts or or show how maybe some paranormal

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Speaker 3: events might actually be explained by science. So it kind

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Speaker 3: of covers a wide range of of the paranormal.

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Speaker 2: You're not a fan of oigi boards either, are.

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Speaker 3: You, Well, I'd find wigi board's pretty fascinating. So I

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Speaker 3: have a story here. This was one that actually didn't

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Speaker 3: end up ringing in Chasing Ghosts. But I did put

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Speaker 3: on my website weird Historian dot com Wiji boards. So

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Speaker 3: Wiji boards basically gained popularity in the late eighteen hundreds,

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Speaker 3: and they were a way for mediums to communicate more

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Speaker 3: efficiently with the other side because they could have the

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Speaker 3: plan chips spell out messages from the dead before you

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Speaker 3: take again that could be very tedious to spell longboards

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Speaker 3: really this was this was more I think, you know,

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Speaker 3: it didn't really become like this sort of evil item,

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Speaker 3: you know, fair normal thing until The Exorcist kind of

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Speaker 3: was actually apparently pretty evil. And this was a case

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Speaker 3: She consulted the Wigi board and was basically told that

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Speaker 3: took off. She consulted the Wigi board again with her daughter,

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Speaker 3: So she was convinced that this is what she had

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Speaker 2: In the nineteen thirties, What about the time people believe

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, this is a story I really loved, just

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Speaker 3: from again the Annals of Weird History. So this was

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Speaker 3: year saying that astronomer who's the famous astronomer Sir John

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Speaker 3: Frederick William Herschel had discovered man bats on the moon

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Speaker 3: and other kinds of life forms and fauna, all kinds

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