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Speaker 1: Get Weird. This is Strange Thing. I am JOSHUAP Warren.
Speaker 1: At Each week on this show, I'll be bringing you
Speaker 1: brand new mind blowing content, news exercises, and weird experiments
Speaker 1: you can do at home, and a lot more. This
Speaker 1: is my first new recording of the year three. This
Speaker 1: is January and last Christmas Day, December two. As Lauren
Speaker 1: and I were sitting at home enjoying the festivities, talking
Speaker 1: about peace on earth and goodwill, tours all and love
Speaker 1: and generosity and all these wonderful things. Somebody at the
Speaker 1: same time was robbing my store of JUnit talk about
Speaker 1: some granchy stuff. Mean, isn't that It's so sad. I'm
Speaker 1: going to tell you what was stolen. But the thing is,
Speaker 1: there's some really weird stuff here surrounding this whole story,
Speaker 1: and so I will get into that. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I sent out a newsletter recently and I said, you know,
Speaker 1: I got some bad news I'll tell you about. So look,
Speaker 1: I'm fine, Lauren's fine, everybody's okay. But um, it's just
Speaker 1: really unfortunate when something like this happens on Christmas Day.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna dig into all of that and a
Speaker 1: lot more. But first, most of my holiday break, because
Speaker 1: you know, I took off quite a quite a while
Speaker 1: for the holidays, had a lot of kids up to
Speaker 1: do here at my new house in Las Vegas. Um,
Speaker 1: most of my holiday experience was wonderful, and I want
Speaker 1: to tell you first about some of the great things
Speaker 1: that happened before I get to that. Though, I just
Speaker 1: made a note of this. This is pretty random, but
Speaker 1: I wanted to mention this before I forgot. Of course, um,
Speaker 1: the latter part of was taken up in large part
Speaker 1: by media coverage of the terrible murder of these four
Speaker 1: college students in Idaho who were all stabbed to death
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night. And uh, I I
Speaker 1: just recently realized that that murder spree took place on November,
Speaker 1: and instantly I was like, that's a familiar date, because
Speaker 1: of course I am from Asheville, North Carolina. That's where
Speaker 1: I was born and raised, and November is the anniversary
Speaker 1: of Asheville's largest mass murder killing spree, the Will Harris murders,
Speaker 1: and those happened in nineteen oh six. So now there are,
Speaker 1: at least in my world to famous kind of murder
Speaker 1: sprees that happened on November. So maybe that's another one
Speaker 1: of those bad luck dates that we have to start
Speaker 1: paying attention to from here on out. So again, kind
Speaker 1: of random, but thought provoking, nonetheless. Okay, So before I
Speaker 1: get into this weird story about what happened to me
Speaker 1: on Christmas, and I trust me, I know a lot
Speaker 1: of you had a rough time this past holiday season,
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about all all that as well.
Speaker 1: But first I'll tell you about some of the good
Speaker 1: things and really interesting things that happened to me. Producer
Speaker 1: Tom dan Heiser, he came here to Las Vegas and
Speaker 1: he invited me to go see a John Fogerty concert
Speaker 1: with him at the Win and he had these premost seats. Now,
Speaker 1: of course, John Fogerty, he he created basically, you know, Credence,
Speaker 1: Clearwater Revival c c R. And he more or less
Speaker 1: wrote and performed all those famous songs. And he is
Speaker 1: I think seventy seven years old, yeah, seventy seven, and
Speaker 1: he still gets up on stage and dances and sings
Speaker 1: and plays like you wouldn't believe. It's just like, you know,
Speaker 1: you never I couldn't get up there and perform like
Speaker 1: this guy does. And and he's a lot older than
Speaker 1: I am. And Tom and I had such a blast
Speaker 1: because one of the things that is impressive is that, uh,
Speaker 1: you don't realize it until you sit there and you
Speaker 1: listen to this guy performed for you know, an hour
Speaker 1: and forty five minutes. You don't realize like every single
Speaker 1: one of his songs was a hit, you know them all.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how many hits the guy had.
Speaker 1: Um and that's it's just kind of mind boggling to
Speaker 1: sit there and have this guy packed, you know, two
Speaker 1: hours with hits and he could have kept going. I'm sure.
Speaker 1: So what a talented a songwriter. But I do want
Speaker 1: to mention this because sometimes, since I live here at Vegas,
Speaker 1: when I get to go see people in person, um,
Speaker 1: they'll tell a story about about their lives that stands
Speaker 1: out in my mind, and I like to pass those
Speaker 1: stories along to you. I did that recently with Wayne
Speaker 1: Newton and so John Folgretty at one point he was
Speaker 1: standing there on stage and he was pausing for a
Speaker 1: moment and he said, you know, um, I uh, I
Speaker 1: played Woodstock. You know, he was at Woodstock and uh
Speaker 1: he was a lot of big events in the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact, he said much Woodstock
Speaker 1: was just so muddy and rainy that you know, he
Speaker 1: wrote one of his songs about the when when will
Speaker 1: the rain? And I can't remember what the song was called.
Speaker 1: He wrote a number of songs about rain. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so he said that, Uh, when he was there on
Speaker 1: stage at Woodstock, you know, he was playing this favorite
Speaker 1: guitar of his and uh, he used his guitar all
Speaker 1: over the country, if not the world, for many many years,
Speaker 1: and his performances, and he said one day, he goes,
Speaker 1: he didn't get into details, but he goes, I met
Speaker 1: this like the little boy who wanted to be a
Speaker 1: rock star and he was trying to learn guitar and
Speaker 1: he didn't have a guitar. And he goes, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I got overcome, and he said, I I gave this
Speaker 1: kid my prize guitar. You know, I just gifted it
Speaker 1: time and uh he didn't say at that time, he
Speaker 1: John Fogerty did not say if he was in the
Speaker 1: right state of mind, but he certainly said that he
Speaker 1: regretted it. The next day he missed that guitar. Right,
Speaker 1: the guitar he played at Woodstock he gave to some
Speaker 1: random kid. Now, I bet you think the end of
Speaker 1: this story is gonna be like and that kid became
Speaker 1: Eddie Venner, Right, you know that would be But no,
Speaker 1: it doesn't end like that at all. As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, this kid apparently did nothing with this guitar
Speaker 1: and it was just lost. And uh so he always, yeah,
Speaker 1: he he was always like missing this guitar. And then
Speaker 1: a few years ago. On Christmas morning, he goes over
Speaker 1: to the tree at his house and there's a big
Speaker 1: box there and he opens it and guess what. It's
Speaker 1: this guitar. His wife. His wife, and I knew how
Speaker 1: much he loved that guitar, and she'd spent all this
Speaker 1: time like tracking that thing down and bringing it back
Speaker 1: into his life. And he he said it was like
Speaker 1: the best Christmas present ever. And he says, and this
Speaker 1: is that guitar, and he lifts it up and he's
Speaker 1: holding that guitar and then he starts playing songs on it.
Speaker 1: So I mean, like, I love these kind of like
Speaker 1: strange stories about synchronicity and the twist and turns the
Speaker 1: life takes and how things like that can I'm back
Speaker 1: to you, so you know, it was just it was
Speaker 1: an awesome time and Tom and I just had a
Speaker 1: wonderful evening in Las Vegas. And yeah, thank you so much,
Speaker 1: Tom for inviting me to do that. Uh And let
Speaker 1: me let me just tell you, if you've never been
Speaker 1: to a John Fogerty concert, you get a chance to
Speaker 1: do it, you should do it. But you're not gonna
Speaker 1: hear anything in your head for like the next week
Speaker 1: or two except John Fogerty songs that drives you crazy.
Speaker 1: So that was awesome. Speaking of music, you know I've
Speaker 1: talked I. I have been calling him Jim Colonna, the composer,
Speaker 1: but it's Jim Cologna. He's he's he's from Italian descent,
Speaker 1: Jim Cologna. He never corrected me. That's what a nice
Speaker 1: guy he is. Jim Cologna. He is the guy who
Speaker 1: was so inspired by the work that I've done over
Speaker 1: the years that he composed this work of music called
Speaker 1: Joshua Shop of Miracles and Curiosities, and it was performed
Speaker 1: recently near Washington, d C. And um, it's a fantastic
Speaker 1: piece of music. I played part of it for you
Speaker 1: on this show. Not too long a go. And after
Speaker 1: all these years of corresponding with Jim, I'd never gotten
Speaker 1: to meet him in person. He was in Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: and so Lauren and I got together with him for
Speaker 1: an evening, and boy did we hit it off. As
Speaker 1: soon as we sat down and started talk. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: we embraced as soon as we met each other, and
Speaker 1: then it was just like we were old friends. We've
Speaker 1: known each other forever. He's such a warm and and
Speaker 1: just like cheerful and just just a cool, interesting, funny
Speaker 1: just just a great person. But like he's one of
Speaker 1: those guys that I would want to hang out with
Speaker 1: on a regular basis if he lived close to me.
Speaker 1: And so that was fantastic. We got to just spend hours,
Speaker 1: you know, just talking about everything under the sun, exactly
Speaker 1: as if we were just old buddies. And if you
Speaker 1: have not gotten a chance to hear this piece of
Speaker 1: music that he composed, uh, go to his website, Jim Cologne,
Speaker 1: Jim Cologna, Jim Cologna, Jim Cologna, Cologna. It's Italian Jim Cologna.
Speaker 1: It's it's j I M see O l o n
Speaker 1: n A j I M c O l O n
Speaker 1: a dot com. And there's a section called music for
Speaker 1: Orchestra And right now, if you click there for free,
Speaker 1: you can just listen to his PC composed called Joshua's
Speaker 1: Shop of Miracles and Curiosities. And then um, also we
Speaker 1: we went to Murray the Magician's party at his house.
Speaker 1: It was awesome. He's got a beautiful, big, beautiful new
Speaker 1: house and property and a hundreds of people were there
Speaker 1: and he was so generous and just paid for amy.
Speaker 1: It was like open bar catering of everything you can imagine.
Speaker 1: I had a great, great time. In fact, when I
Speaker 1: come back from this break, I want to tell you
Speaker 1: about a trip that we took to a place I've
Speaker 1: never been to before. And then something really creepy that
Speaker 1: I found out about that I'm leading up, of course,
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Speaker 1: I will be right back. Welcome back to Strange Things
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Speaker 1: Joshua pe Warren, beaming into your wormhole brain from my
Speaker 1: student took in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every
Speaker 1: day is golden and every night is silver. Before I continue,
Speaker 1: I did look it up during the break and the
Speaker 1: John Fogerty song that I was referring to is called
Speaker 1: Who'll Stop the Rain? And uh, I know if I
Speaker 1: leave stuff like that hanging, It's gonna drive some of
Speaker 1: you insane. Who Stop the Rain? But he made another
Speaker 1: song or two about rain, but that was the one
Speaker 1: that he said he wrote when he got back to
Speaker 1: his his motel room after playing Woodstock. But anyway, let
Speaker 1: me tell you about this trip that I took that
Speaker 1: turned out to um lead me down an interesting road
Speaker 1: of thought. So um, being from the East Coast, growing
Speaker 1: up in the mountains of western North Carolina, I was
Speaker 1: always is used to Christmas feeling very Christmas e. You know,
Speaker 1: you've got trees everywhere and snowfall and all kinds of um,
Speaker 1: kind of like European decorations everywhere. It seemed like, you know,
Speaker 1: the Old Country. But out here in the desert when
Speaker 1: you live in Las Vegas, no matter what they do
Speaker 1: to decorate, it just never quite feels Christmas E out here.
Speaker 1: And for one thing, you're almost certainly not going to
Speaker 1: get any snow. But yeah, the the desert. And it's
Speaker 1: ironic because you know, well the whole Christmas story is
Speaker 1: based in the Middle East, so so the desert is
Speaker 1: really a more Christmas e and I like an authentic
Speaker 1: Christmas environment. Then what we think of is this whole
Speaker 1: like European Bavarian st Nicholas kind of you know. But anyway, look,
Speaker 1: it's just about what you are exposed to when you
Speaker 1: grow up. But so since we've lived here in Vegas
Speaker 1: for several years, um, we we always uh, you know,
Speaker 1: if we don't travel somewhere else, if we kind of
Speaker 1: stick around here, we're like it just doesn't quite feel,
Speaker 1: you know, like Christmas time. And so I was wondering about, like,
Speaker 1: what would a relatively easy road trip be that we
Speaker 1: could take to go somewhere that's a little more Christmas eve.
Speaker 1: And if you drive a few hours uh from here
Speaker 1: into California, then you eventually can wind your way up
Speaker 1: this huge mountainous region that's like over seven thousand feet
Speaker 1: in elevation to a place called Big Bear Lake. And
Speaker 1: Big Bear Lake is named after after the grizzly bears
Speaker 1: that used to live there. There are no more wild
Speaker 1: grizzlies in California. I consider that a good thing, but
Speaker 1: you know, some people disagree. Uh. Nonetheless, it's really weird
Speaker 1: because you know, to get there, and it takes you
Speaker 1: if you if you're gonna stop and get gas and eat,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like a four hour drive from Las
Speaker 1: Vegas the Big Bear Lake, and I was I did
Speaker 1: a lot of research on it, and it turns out
Speaker 1: that it was exactly like I was expecting because you
Speaker 1: go through the Mojave Desert and it's like desert up
Speaker 1: until like the last forty five minutes, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden there's just dramatic change where you just drive
Speaker 1: up this big, long, super steep winding road up and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden there's their forests everywhere and streams
Speaker 1: and there's the lake. And then finally get to the
Speaker 1: village and Big Bear Lake and it looks like a
Speaker 1: little village in a snow globe and everything is all
Speaker 1: like rustic hunting lodge style and old, like old old
Speaker 1: European and Bavarian, and uh, it looks like a little
Speaker 1: Christmas town. I used to tell people when I first
Speaker 1: found it, it it looks like a town in a Hallmark movie.
Speaker 1: And then I got there and I realized, oh, they
Speaker 1: actually do shoot Hallmark movies in this town. And it
Speaker 1: gets a ton of snowfall. It's very, very isolated. So
Speaker 1: it really was exactly what I was looking for in
Speaker 1: terms of this is the most Christmas ee place that
Speaker 1: you're gonna get to. Uh that's within a reasonable period
Speaker 1: of driving from from Las Vegas to my knowledge, Big
Speaker 1: Bear Lake, California. And I'll tell you a little bit
Speaker 1: more about the lake in a minute. So we ended
Speaker 1: up going there. Had had a great Christmas, Uh, like
Speaker 1: a couple of days. It's always spent, but you know,
Speaker 1: we've never been there before. It's it's really small. We
Speaker 1: walked every where we went, and we hit up all
Speaker 1: the shops and the bars, and I was exposed to
Speaker 1: cookie dough whiskey, which actually is really really good, but
Speaker 1: I think I drink a little too much of it,
Speaker 1: and then um, also, uh, it's just like lots of
Speaker 1: of just quirky, little little themed gift shops. It was.
Speaker 1: It was cool. It was really cool, but it was
Speaker 1: also quite cold. It was thirteen degrees while we were there,
Speaker 1: which I know some of you listening are like, ah,
Speaker 1: but that's always gonna happen because some of you live
Speaker 1: where it's like negative thirty fahrenheit. And if you do that,
Speaker 1: you're just I guess the only good thing about that
Speaker 1: is you get to say ha ha, you know, a
Speaker 1: little a little pansy too people like me when I
Speaker 1: complain about being thirteen. Other than that, everything else about
Speaker 1: it probably sucks really bad. But anyhow so, it was
Speaker 1: a cool place to to visit, and all these celebrities
Speaker 1: have headhouses there, But here is kind of the creepy
Speaker 1: thing I wanted to share with you. So I before
Speaker 1: I go to a new place, I do all this
Speaker 1: research and I learned everything I can about it, and
Speaker 1: I read all the tourist stuff and watched all the
Speaker 1: videos about Big Bear Lake, California, and I thought I
Speaker 1: knew everything about it. But it turns out there's something
Speaker 1: that they don't promote about Big Bear Lake, and uh,
Speaker 1: I can see why in retrospect. I only found it
Speaker 1: because I was digging deep, like I was going within
Speaker 1: like layers and a footnote level, and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh wait, so okay, here's the story. Um. My wife,
Speaker 1: Lauren is probably the luckiest lady in the world. Um,
Speaker 1: whether she realized it or realizes it or not, because
Speaker 1: I am her husband. She's married to me, and that
Speaker 1: means that she is always being told amazing stories about
Speaker 1: the world, whether she wants to hear them or not.
Speaker 1: So I'm like having your own living podcasts there that's
Speaker 1: giving you, you know, breaking news and stories. It's like
Speaker 1: it's like being married to this podcast. I'm always that's
Speaker 1: you know, you're getting the real me, um, minus the curse.
Speaker 1: And so uh So we get in the car and
Speaker 1: she's doing the driving, which is great because she's a
Speaker 1: much better driver than I have ever been. And so
Speaker 1: we're we're heading off to California, and I go, Okay, Lauren,
Speaker 1: listen to this. So here's the story. Um. In in
Speaker 1: the early nineteen eighties, Steven Spielberg was on a movie
Speaker 1: set and one of the young ladies who was acting
Speaker 1: on that set had her mother and her little sister
Speaker 1: on the set also, And at one point Spielberg looks
Speaker 1: over and he sees the mother and the little sister
Speaker 1: at the little sisters like five years old, having lunch,
Speaker 1: and Spielberg sees this little kid, this five year old,
Speaker 1: and he's like, that kid's got it, you know, talk
Speaker 1: about this is like hitting the Loto when Steve and
Speaker 1: Spielberg looks at you and it was like, boom, you've
Speaker 1: got And he goes up and he and he just
Speaker 1: like starts talking to him, and it turns out this
Speaker 1: little girl is Heather oh Rourke. At this point, Spielberg
Speaker 1: is looking to cast Poltergeist, which of course is the
Speaker 1: super famous horror movie that came out in nineteen two,
Speaker 1: and uh, in fact, they just um, they just re
Speaker 1: released it this past October. You know, it was an
Speaker 1: anniversary thing. Where Lauren and I went and watched on
Speaker 1: the big screen again, and you know, it was a
Speaker 1: fun movie to watch again, but not nearly as impressive
Speaker 1: as it was. And you know, the nineteen eighties. One
Speaker 1: thing that I always thought was interesting about Poltergeist as
Speaker 1: you've got the special effects, but also you have uh
Speaker 1: it was one of the earliest or one of the
Speaker 1: first movies that showed like the modern day esque paranormal
Speaker 1: investigators going in to to do the job. And I'm sure,
Speaker 1: you know, watching stuff like that probably inspired and affected me.
Speaker 1: So anyway, he was gonna Spielberg was thinking about casting
Speaker 1: Drew Barrymore, but instead he was like, Nope, you're the one,
Speaker 1: and he cast Heather O. Rourke. Uh turn, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure Drew Barrymore's people were very upset. But then she
Speaker 1: went on to be an Et, which was a much bigger,
Speaker 1: better role, so it worked out. Don't feel sorry for
Speaker 1: Drew Barrymore on this one. So um So, Heather Rourke
Speaker 1: became famous as the little girl and the poulter Geist
Speaker 1: movie who is just entranced by the television with the
Speaker 1: static on it, and then of course she basically gets
Speaker 1: kind of sucked into the TV and then they're trying
Speaker 1: to rescue her from this other dimension the whole time.
Speaker 1: Very eerie concept combining spirituality and electronics and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: which was very uh, very prescient in retrospect. So anyway,
Speaker 1: this movie becomes a huge hit. So this little five
Speaker 1: year old girl, Heather o. Rourke, she's like an overnight sensation.
Speaker 1: And her family was relatively poor. They were from southern California.
Speaker 1: And instantly they like, they signed her up for sequels,
Speaker 1: and it's just money like they've they've never seen their
Speaker 1: and their family starts pouring in and so this little
Speaker 1: five year old becomes this cash cow. And once the
Speaker 1: money starts pouring in, well, the parents decide that, hey,
Speaker 1: it's time to buy another house somewhere. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was a vacation home or if it was
Speaker 1: they considered a primary residency, but they chose to buy
Speaker 1: a house and Big bear Lake, California, this place that
Speaker 1: Lauren and I were on our way to visit, this
Speaker 1: little hallmark town, Big bear Lake, California. So they buy
Speaker 1: this nice house there and she starts attending class there.
Speaker 1: I think they said she was even like a class
Speaker 1: president or something, and when she was in the fifth grade.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Things seem to be going well for
Speaker 1: this family, but when we come back from this brig
Speaker 1: things take a terrible twist, and it has to do
Speaker 1: with them living in Big Bear Lake. I'm Joshua pe Warren.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio
Speaker 1: and Coast to Coast, a paranormal podcast network that I'll
Speaker 1: be right back after these important messages. Welcome back to
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Speaker 1: your host, Joshua P. Warren, And this is the show
Speaker 1: where the unusual becomes usual. You know, Steven Spielberg did
Speaker 1: not direct the movie poulter Geist. He produced it and
Speaker 1: he has a screen writing credit, But the director was
Speaker 1: Toby Hooper, who was most famous for creating the Texas
Speaker 1: Chainsaw Massacre. You know, he wrote and directed that and
Speaker 1: the guy he hired to shoot that, the director of photography,
Speaker 1: was named Daniel Pearl. And when I was I've talked
Speaker 1: about this on the podcast before. When I was working
Speaker 1: for Warner Brothers movie The Apparition, I was on the
Speaker 1: set in California one evening and it was really late
Speaker 1: and everybody was tired, and they were shuttling the cast
Speaker 1: and crew back and forth from uh the set to
Speaker 1: you know wherever um. I got seated next to this
Speaker 1: guy and I didn't know who he was, and I
Speaker 1: started chatting and it was Daniel Pearl. So I I
Speaker 1: got like fifteen or twenty minutes to have this conversation
Speaker 1: with the guy who who actually shot the Texas Chainsaw massacre.
Speaker 1: So that was cool that that's like six degrees of
Speaker 1: separation from Kevin Bacon. But anyway, look back to the story.
Speaker 1: So Heather O. Rourke's family, they buy this house in
Speaker 1: Big Bear Lake and that's where they start living a
Speaker 1: good chunk of the time. And uh, she keeps pulling
Speaker 1: in money and then finally she's like twelve years old
Speaker 1: and uh, one day she gets really sick. They don't
Speaker 1: know what's wrong with her, and they started taking her
Speaker 1: in for all this testing, and long story short, turns
Speaker 1: out that she had been drinking the well water there
Speaker 1: in Big Bear Lake, California, and there was some kind
Speaker 1: of parasite in it that got into her system and
Speaker 1: she had some kind of super sensitive system and ultimately
Speaker 1: it led to her dying from some kind of septic shock.
Speaker 1: That said, then when she was twelve years old. Isn't
Speaker 1: that horrible? And you may or may not know that.
Speaker 1: There is this whole phenomenon regarding like the Curse of
Speaker 1: that movie poultr Geist. All these different people who were
Speaker 1: involved with that movie had or many of these people
Speaker 1: had had bad things that happened to them, tragic endings.
Speaker 1: It's like the Curse of King Tutt. Documentaries have been
Speaker 1: made about it. But but she is one of the
Speaker 1: central figures there. So that was just an eerie thing.
Speaker 1: And I wondered, and I got the Big Bear Lake
Speaker 1: if anybody would talk about it, and nobody did either
Speaker 1: they didn't know or pretended that they didn't know. So
Speaker 1: that's just a quirky little thing about Big Bear Lake, California.
Speaker 1: But we, on the other hand, we had a fine time.
Speaker 1: And again I've been having all kinds of of good
Speaker 1: things occurring throughout my Christmas season all Also, uh, you
Speaker 1: know what one thing about Big Bear Lake before I
Speaker 1: continue into you know what happened with the robbery, uh,
Speaker 1: is that, Uh, the Big Bear Lake, like so many
Speaker 1: other of these bodies of water, is shrinking tremendously, and
Speaker 1: you know how bad lake meat is getting here. And
Speaker 1: so I told you that once it becomes the snowy season,
Speaker 1: I want all of us listening to this podcast to
Speaker 1: start trying to manifest historic snowfall and the Rocky Mountains.
Speaker 1: And I had Dr Molder on a while back and
Speaker 1: talked to him about it. He he flexes his muscles
Speaker 1: all the time by creating snowfall in places where it's
Speaker 1: not supposed to snow, like, uh, the Middle East. You know,
Speaker 1: he's always sending me stories about like look what I did.
Speaker 1: And you have to realize that we need a lot
Speaker 1: of snowfall this year in the Rocky Mountains, in the
Speaker 1: in the US. And here is why you might just think,
Speaker 1: like when you live out west, I don't who cares, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: The snowfall from the Rocky Mountains makes up the bulk
Speaker 1: of the water that goes into Lake Mead and these
Speaker 1: other reservoirs, and it's rainfall is not gonna do it.
Speaker 1: It's the vast majority of it is based upon snowfall
Speaker 1: on the Rocky Mountains. If we don't have enough water
Speaker 1: here in Lake Mead and the surrounding lakes, and that
Speaker 1: means we have less vegetation, less vegetables, and that means
Speaker 1: less feed for livestock. So when there's less vegetables and
Speaker 1: less feed for livestock, and therefore less livestock, well, then
Speaker 1: the prices for those things go up. And when the
Speaker 1: and they go up for everybody all over the country,
Speaker 1: And when the prices for everybody goes up in the country,
Speaker 1: when we're already having this inflation period, it starts creating
Speaker 1: this chain reaction where everybody starts paying more for everything.
Speaker 1: The whole economy gets worse. And obviously whatever is happening
Speaker 1: in the US affects the economy dramatically and the rest
Speaker 1: of the world. And so everybody in the world has
Speaker 1: an interest in there being a major snowfall this winter
Speaker 1: in the Rocky Mountains. Start doing whatever you do to
Speaker 1: manifest right now and start making that happen. All right,
Speaker 1: So let's get to this strange story. Well, here in
Speaker 1: last I I have storage units all over the country,
Speaker 1: but I have some of my most prized possessions. I
Speaker 1: had some of my most prized possessions and two storage
Speaker 1: units here in Las Vegas. So last year I bought
Speaker 1: this new house, which I'm still getting an order. I've
Speaker 1: accomplished about fift of what I intended to over the
Speaker 1: Christmas break, but still fift So I had two storage
Speaker 1: units here with a bunch of goodies from my museums. Actually,
Speaker 1: well it's I could say museum, but I have owned
Speaker 1: different incarnations of a museum, so we're talking like Crystal
Speaker 1: skull um, UFO crash stuff, uh, stuff from Transylvania, signed artifacts,
Speaker 1: I mean, just all kinds of really interesting things. And
Speaker 1: so I had them in two storage units where they
Speaker 1: have been for five years without any problems one. But
Speaker 1: when I got this new house, Lauren and I moved
Speaker 1: to the other side of town, which is like thirty
Speaker 1: minutes away. So I decided it was time to consolidate
Speaker 1: what I had in those other two storage units where
Speaker 1: we used to live into one new storage unit here
Speaker 1: close to my new house. So we went and we
Speaker 1: got a new storage unit, a third storage unit, a
Speaker 1: bigger storage unit, which it actually turns out is more
Speaker 1: more cost effective than having two smaller storage units on
Speaker 1: the other side of town. And then Lauren and I
Speaker 1: got together with our friend Jason Sarachi, the famous UFO
Speaker 1: videographer who lives nearby, and Jason helped us move everything
Speaker 1: from those two storage units across town to this one
Speaker 1: new storage unit. So I have all these goodies there
Speaker 1: that I have plans for to put back on display.
Speaker 1: And here's one of the weird things though, and I
Speaker 1: have talked about this in various places. You may have
Speaker 1: heard this. When Lauren and I got this new storage unit.
Speaker 1: It's like, this is the building is huge, and this
Speaker 1: is an internal storage unit. And this building that's like
Speaker 1: three or four stories tall. I don't know how big
Speaker 1: it is, but it's fairly new. It's gigantic. So you
Speaker 1: go in there and it's like going through a maze
Speaker 1: until you get up to your internal storage unit. There's
Speaker 1: no telling how many hundreds of storage units there are
Speaker 1: in this place. When we went there for the first time,
Speaker 1: we were like the only people there. There were no
Speaker 1: other customers. It was kind of like early on a weekday.
Speaker 1: And the first odd thing that happened was when we
Speaker 1: went up to our storage unit and we were first
Speaker 1: looking at it out of this whole place, a woman, uh,
Speaker 1: just kind of a you know, normal looking lady. She
Speaker 1: comes walking up and she opens up the storage unit
Speaker 1: right next to ours, and we were like, that's amazing
Speaker 1: of this whole place. We just got this storage unit,
Speaker 1: and you just happened to have this storage unit next
Speaker 1: to ours, and we were like, what a coincidence. And
Speaker 1: so we're kind of laughing and having a little friendly banter.
Speaker 1: But I thought I just thought, like that's just one
Speaker 1: of those odd things in life. So then fast forward
Speaker 1: a few weeks later, which was last month in December,
Speaker 1: we get together with Jason. We rent a U haul
Speaker 1: and we we we consolidate everything. We go back to
Speaker 1: this big storage unit building where once again there's like
Speaker 1: nobody there except for us. We go in, we haul
Speaker 1: all this stuff into into the storage unit and lo
Speaker 1: and behold, guess who appears this woman who has the
Speaker 1: storage unit right beside ours, And were like, what are
Speaker 1: the chances of that? And she goes, the last time
Speaker 1: I was here was when you were here, and we
Speaker 1: go that's the only time we've ever been here. So
Speaker 1: at this point our mind is blown and and and
Speaker 1: I'm like, are you with the CIA, you know? And
Speaker 1: I started just like joking around with this woman. We
Speaker 1: peek into her storage unit. She has a giant telescope
Speaker 1: in there and some pretty interesting things, and so I say, well,
Speaker 1: I guess we're friends now, you know. It's it's just like, so,
Speaker 1: what are the literally, what are the chances I've been
Speaker 1: to this place twice? At both times there's practically nobody
Speaker 1: else in the building except for this woman who shows
Speaker 1: up at the storage unit right next to ours. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I end up I talked to her for a
Speaker 1: little bit and I'm like, well, you know what, maybe
Speaker 1: you need to come out and you got a telescope
Speaker 1: and she goes, oh, I love the stars, and I said,
Speaker 1: you maybe you need to come out and do one
Speaker 1: f O skywatches or something, you know, Vegas UFOs dot com.
Speaker 1: So anyway, we left that whole situation after transferring everything
Speaker 1: into the new storage unit, and and I was having
Speaker 1: this conversation with Lauren and Jason like isn't that amazing?
Speaker 1: Like what again, Like, that's just it's it's almost like
Speaker 1: phenomenon where every time you park your car, somebody is
Speaker 1: parking next to you or they're coming to get out
Speaker 1: of that space next to you at the same time.
Speaker 1: I don't know. So we knew there was already something
Speaker 1: weird about the situation. Okay, So now now we're getting
Speaker 1: into what happened around Christmas time, and man, I wish
Speaker 1: I had more time. I knew that this show was
Speaker 1: gonna go by too fast. When we come back from
Speaker 1: this break, I'm gonna tell you this story, and then
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the end of the show. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: squeeze in something about the Blue Bunny. Also, I'm Joshua
Speaker 1: Pete Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio and Coast to Coast. Stay am perin normal
Speaker 1: podcast network. I will be right back. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the final segment of this edition of Strange Things on
Speaker 1: the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast. I am
Speaker 1: our normal podcast network. I'm your host, Joshua Pete Warren,
Speaker 1: and I have so many cool, interesting, wild shows lined
Speaker 1: up for you over the next few weeks months. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been he wouldn't believe the list of things that
Speaker 1: I have to share with you. But anyway, everything was
Speaker 1: going well for Lauren and myself up until right around
Speaker 1: like that week leading up to Christmas of two and uh,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, like both of us started having
Speaker 1: helped problems. I know, a lot of people around the
Speaker 1: world we're having uh sicknesses, and you know, it's like
Speaker 1: my sister was sick in Asheville, and then we were
Speaker 1: having problems here and my my poor old mom and
Speaker 1: dad for the first time I ever had to have
Speaker 1: Christmas with that either one of their kids present. And
Speaker 1: then of course, you know, the weather was terrible in
Speaker 1: many places, and people were being delayed or having their
Speaker 1: flights canceled or stranded and literally freezing to death. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was like it was just a hard Christmas holiday.
Speaker 1: So anyway, but you know, again we're fine now and
Speaker 1: in terms of all that stuff, but so here we go. Um,
Speaker 1: It's like I think the day after Christmas. Uh, Lauren,
Speaker 1: she was the one who got the phone call from
Speaker 1: the storage unit place saying, like, we have a very
Speaker 1: important matter. Can you please call us back? And it
Speaker 1: was the next day before she was able to connect,
Speaker 1: and they said, well, there's been a break in and
Speaker 1: we don't think they went into your unit, but out
Speaker 1: of an abundance of caution, we would like for you
Speaker 1: to come here because they broke into the units like
Speaker 1: right around yours. So Lauren and I this was after hours.
Speaker 1: We went over to our unit, which was on one
Speaker 1: of the higher floors, and we thought, how weird that
Speaker 1: of all this, of this whole place, they broke into
Speaker 1: units that are around ours. And we walked up to
Speaker 1: the storage unit and the door was closed tightly and
Speaker 1: the lock was on it, and everything looked fine, so
Speaker 1: we assumed, like, hey, everything's gonna be okay. We opened
Speaker 1: the lock, we slide up the door, and all of
Speaker 1: our boxes are in this array, and I go, oh,
Speaker 1: this does not look good. And we walked over and
Speaker 1: the first thing I saw was that one of my
Speaker 1: boxes was opened and it was partially empty, and it
Speaker 1: was labeled Drone d R O n E. Because that
Speaker 1: is where I kept my one and only drone that
Speaker 1: I owned. And I'm looking around and I couldn't find
Speaker 1: like any evidence. I mean, like they shuffled stuff around,
Speaker 1: but it it looked like that nothing else has been taken.
Speaker 1: And Lauren goes, how is it possible nobody could have
Speaker 1: gotten in here? The door was closed, the lock was
Speaker 1: on there, and I go, I don't know, but somebody
Speaker 1: obviously hadn't have got in here. And from what I
Speaker 1: could tell, they just stole my drone. So the next
Speaker 1: day we went back over there, and we went with
Speaker 1: one of the employees and I said, is it is
Speaker 1: it possible that somebody could have gotten in here without
Speaker 1: opening that door? I mean, it has to be. And
Speaker 1: it turns out and these internal storage units there's a
Speaker 1: little opening. It's not much. It's probably probably like a
Speaker 1: foot wide at the very top of the door. You'd
Speaker 1: have to be really slim to get up there and
Speaker 1: slip through that. Well, we went back into the storage
Speaker 1: unit and over on the walls of the storage unit
Speaker 1: are these like metal rails that you can hang things on.
Speaker 1: And those metal rails were dusty, and we looked over
Speaker 1: and guess what, there were footprints on the metal rails.
Speaker 1: So sure enough, somebody had gone to the effort to
Speaker 1: not break the lock or anything, but to climb up
Speaker 1: and go over and slip through that little space and
Speaker 1: go down into our storage unit. And still that drone
Speaker 1: and it turned unfortunately nothing else was missing, just in disarray.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you why that is so weird
Speaker 1: that drone is it's the only drone I've ever owned.
Speaker 1: It's not a very expensive one, and the only time
Speaker 1: I've ever used it was when I first got it.
Speaker 1: I took it way out into the desert on the
Speaker 1: way to California, and I just put it up in
Speaker 1: the air and took it down just to see if
Speaker 1: it worked, and that was it. And this area around
Speaker 1: Las Vegas and Nevada in general is so restrictive when
Speaker 1: it comes to drones that you hear stories about people
Speaker 1: having their drones and stuff confiscated all the time because
Speaker 1: people are going out there and recklessly flying them around
Speaker 1: military bases and stuff. And I have never done that,
Speaker 1: nor would I ever do that, But I thought it
Speaker 1: was pretty darned interesting that the only thing that was
Speaker 1: taken was that drone and the able there was nothing
Speaker 1: on it. Again, I took it out almost to the
Speaker 1: California border around prem put it up in the air,
Speaker 1: and took it down, and that was it. So the
Speaker 1: conspiratorial side of me says, is it possible that somebody,
Speaker 1: the men in black, wanted to make sure that I
Speaker 1: wasn't using that drone for some bad purposes? Because I
Speaker 1: did last year, as you know, by a piece of
Speaker 1: property not far from Area fifty one and Rachel, Nevada.
Speaker 1: And I have never attempted to take that drone out
Speaker 1: there uh, nor would I ever do that. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, I've never even tried to get close
Speaker 1: to the area fifty one boundary because I know that's
Speaker 1: a real top secret military base that I just thought
Speaker 1: it was really interesting that of all the things that
Speaker 1: were taken, it was my drum. So that put a
Speaker 1: really sour damper on things. But you know what, here's
Speaker 1: the good part of that. I wrote about this in
Speaker 1: my book, used the force. Sometimes when something happens that
Speaker 1: seems bad and retrospect you look back and it was
Speaker 1: actually good. Things can't change, things can't improve unless something
Speaker 1: destructive happens. And that was an opportunity for me to say,
Speaker 1: you know what, let me take the stuff out of
Speaker 1: this storage unit that I really care about, and it
Speaker 1: was all there. I'm proud to say, I'm happy to
Speaker 1: say all my cool stuff was there and I got
Speaker 1: it out, and I'm not gonna tell you where I
Speaker 1: put it, but I got out all my cool stuff
Speaker 1: and it's in a much more secure area now, so
Speaker 1: it's better protected. So no matter who you are, you
Speaker 1: know you're gonna have bad luck and weird bad things
Speaker 1: that happened to you. I I wrote about in my
Speaker 1: book Used The Force, which you can actually read for
Speaker 1: free right now if you go to Joshua pe Warren
Speaker 1: dot com and just click the link to the book cover.
Speaker 1: I wrote about the fact that you know, um, when
Speaker 1: you align yourself with goodness, you're actually polarizing yourself and
Speaker 1: and doing that, you're becoming a target for bad stuff
Speaker 1: as well. So you have to expect some some some
Speaker 1: bad things to happen in your life because you're you're
Speaker 1: becoming like the north or the south pole of a magnet,
Speaker 1: and you're attracting the other pole. And so this actually
Speaker 1: is an inspirational story because I feel like that this
Speaker 1: have this happening to me gave me an opportunity to
Speaker 1: go in and become more responsible with what I'm putting
Speaker 1: into storage units, and to give a warning to all
Speaker 1: of you who may have a storage unit about how
Speaker 1: vulnerable your stuff may be, that somebody can break in
Speaker 1: without even going through the door. And it gave me
Speaker 1: an opportunity to take out the stuff that I really
Speaker 1: cared about and put it in a more secure your location.
Speaker 1: And so that's why I say like it was it
Speaker 1: was bad, but it actually turned out to be inspirational
Speaker 1: and I will tell you this though, and I had
Speaker 1: so much more that I had planned to tell you
Speaker 1: in this show. But that's why I do this every week.
Speaker 1: I'll have it for you next time. Speaking of secrets
Speaker 1: that are being kept in this state. Look, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not here too. I'm not a whistleblower. But in
Speaker 1: episode seventy two of this podcast, I talked about the
Speaker 1: blue Bunny, this weird blue bunny like plasma creature that
Speaker 1: is sometimes seen running around this state. And I got
Speaker 1: contacted by a listener who said that he believes he
Speaker 1: had seen it, and he produced an illustration of this thing.
Speaker 1: And if you want to see this illustration haven't posted
Speaker 1: right now for you, go to Joshua P. Warren dot com.
Speaker 1: Click the link to the Curiosity Shop, scroll down and
Speaker 1: you will see his illustration of what the bunny looked like.
Speaker 1: And he said it was more electric blue and it
Speaker 1: had a weird pattern. But if you want to see
Speaker 1: what he said it looks like, go to Joshua P.
Speaker 1: Warren dot com Curiosity Shop, scrolled down and look at
Speaker 1: the illustration that he made of the blue bunny. I
Speaker 1: have got so much to tell you about I can't
Speaker 1: wait for the next show. But for now, let's kick
Speaker 1: off the new year the right way. It's time for
Speaker 1: us all to listen to the Good Fortune tone together. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's set that stage. Take a deep breath, if you can,
Speaker 1: close your eyes, relax, resonate with this the Good Fortune Tom.
Speaker 1: That's it for this edition of the show. Follow me
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Speaker 1: pe Warren dot com. I have a fun one lined
Speaker 1: up for you next time, I promise, so please tell
Speaker 1: all your friends to subscribe to this show and to
Speaker 1: always remember the Golden Rule. Thank you for listening, thank
Speaker 1: you for your interest in support, thank you for staying curious,
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