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Speaker 1: demons in your research? There's um, there's It's funny you

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Speaker 1: asked that. There's a clip. We did an episode of

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Speaker 1: the Old Show in Manchester, England, and it was a

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Speaker 1: radio station there with my friends Dave said Lerned, Steve

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Speaker 1: Mara and the host of the radio show. They for

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Speaker 1: some reason they started talking about demons and they said, well, Paul,

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Speaker 1: have you ever seen a demon? And I said, well, no,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to see a demon, not that I

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Speaker 1: know of. And you know it's like the demon shows

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Speaker 1: up and he says, well, you know, where's Paul. Well,

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Speaker 1: Paul heard you were coming and he left. You know,

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Speaker 1: if ghosts I can handle George, demons not so much. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't blame you. And yeah, you can get hurt

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Speaker 1: with those. Well that's the thing. I you know, it's funny. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I have a very good friend who's an Anglican minister,

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Speaker 1: which is I guess the Canadian equivalent of an episcopally

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Speaker 1: and I think that's the American equivalent of the Anglican Church.

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Speaker 1: And and he's you know, interested in exorcisms and stuff

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Speaker 1: like that, and he has warned me in a friendly,

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Speaker 1: kindly sort of way over the years to stay away

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Speaker 1: from things like wigia boards and opening doors to places

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Speaker 1: and being smart. Minister. Yes, yes, well he's a very

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Speaker 1: smart He's got a master's de Green Divinity or something

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Speaker 1: like that. But you know, I've psychics. Everybody I've talked

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Speaker 1: to has said stay away from stuff like that. So again,

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Speaker 1: you know, Paul is an idiot. What did Holly and

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Speaker 1: I do? We whipped out the weigia board during when

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Speaker 1: we in the previous series, and I don't think we're

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Speaker 1: going to do it again this time because Hally and

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Speaker 1: I used to joke when the last series ended we

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Speaker 1: only did one year of it, and we said we

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Speaker 1: should go to Peru or you know, Arizona or someplace

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Speaker 1: and and sit down with shamans and be cleansed, have

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Speaker 1: a spiritual cleansing, because what if, you know, after doing

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Speaker 1: thirteen episodes of this, uh, some sort of dark energy

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Speaker 1: has attached itself to you. I don't know if it has,

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Speaker 1: but on air on the side of caution, maybe we

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Speaker 1: should go see somebody. And the funny thing is neither

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Speaker 1: of us ever did. So we've continued. Um. I can't

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Speaker 1: speak for Holly obviously, but I've continued to have, you know,

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Speaker 1: synchronistic experiences that started happening after that. Holly and I

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Speaker 1: went to the Czech Republic when the series ended because

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Speaker 1: we were shooting in England and we thought, sure, let's

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Speaker 1: just make a vacation out of it. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I had an experience with a shadow the only way

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Speaker 1: to call it is a shadow person in a little

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Speaker 1: town called Chesky Krimlov in the Czech Republic that I

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Speaker 1: write about in my book, which is one of the

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Speaker 1: scariest things I've ever experienced. I honestly thought I was

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Speaker 1: people in the town and they say, oh, yes, I

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Speaker 1: So I said that drawing is do you guys sort

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Speaker 1: of like have strange things in this town? And she said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can't do a check accent. I'll try. Yes, we

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Speaker 1: It's like a speck on the map. Maybe ten people

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Speaker 1: lived there, I don't know. And it was bad juju

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Speaker 1: psychic with us that night, and I'm not a big

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Speaker 1: my mind to maybe psychics have something as well. So

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Speaker 1: Holly and the psychic sat upstairs in the kitchen, and

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Speaker 1: she was doing automatic writing, and the psychic was trying

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Speaker 1: to channel and all this sort of stuff to find out, Okay,

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Speaker 1: what's going on? And I plot myself down in the basement,

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Speaker 1: which was haunted. And to get to the basement you

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Speaker 1: had to go outside, so you had to walk out

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Speaker 1: and go down through a root seller. Many of your

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Speaker 1: rural listeners will know exactly what I'm talking about. So

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting down there in the root cellar by myself.

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Speaker 1: It's freezing cold. I have a camera trained on me,

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Speaker 1: but there's nobody else there. It's just running automatically. And

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Speaker 1: hear them through the floorboards. So there's this funny if

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Speaker 1: you watch the episode, there's this funny sequence where they're going, baby,

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Speaker 1: there's a dead baby in the basement, and I'm going,

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Speaker 1: what now? Dead? What in the base? And Holly says,

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Speaker 1: well what, And the psychic says we should send somebody

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Speaker 1: Paul's already down there, and and the psychic goes, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell the dead baby you know Paul's

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Speaker 1: down there. Make yourself known to him, and you see

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Speaker 1: me on camera. I mean, I'm already a little freaked

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Speaker 1: talking to the camera going no, don't send the baby down,

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Speaker 1: And then the door to the root seller, which was

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Speaker 1: And so it was this confluence of events whereas they're

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Speaker 1: telling the dead baby to come visit me in the basement,

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Speaker 1: the door blows open. There was no wind. I thought

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Speaker 1: thought the camera guy or the sound guy come out.

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Speaker 1: And then you know, ha ha, I got you ball.

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Speaker 1: So I kind of went, Okay, that's weird. You see

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Speaker 1: me get up. I look around. I realized there's nobody

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Speaker 1: there had been a hurricane, it would have been I

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Speaker 1: can't imagine how it could have blown this store open

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Speaker 1: over this this nodverse. Those are heavy doors too, yes,

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Speaker 1: and that too, so open it goes. And that was it.

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Speaker 1: You hear me sort of um swearing in Battlestar Galactica ease,

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Speaker 1: So I'm the only ghost hunter has ever used Battlestar

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Speaker 1: Galactical language, like you know, well that's just fracking hunky dory,

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Speaker 1: which is a combinator. You could use cling on? Who

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Speaker 1: would know? Right? Um? Yeah? I did meet General Martok

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Speaker 1: once at the Paranormal conference, so I probably could used

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Speaker 1: cling on too, but which would be better than my

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Speaker 1: check impression. So there you go. But that was it.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't go back down in the basement, but you'll

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Speaker 1: appreciate this, George, because you're a consummate professional. As they

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Speaker 1: were still filming in the kitchen, it was minus ten

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Speaker 1: want to and that is cold. Yeah, no, it was

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Speaker 1: bitterly cold. So it was me and the German shepherd

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Speaker 1: and I realized, you know what this is the I

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Speaker 1: had already been strangled, and I kind of wrote that off.

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Speaker 1: I said, this is where it serious, because I heard

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Speaker 1: them talking upstairs, and when they said do something, something happened.

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Speaker 1: And I said, Okay, yep, the skeptic in me might

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Speaker 1: still be sitting in that basement, but the frady cat,

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Speaker 1: who's now maybe peering towards woe there could be something

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Speaker 1: here wondering what the heck just happened to me? And that, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that really, to this day, I remember it like it

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Speaker 1: happened yesterday, and that that scared me. And I don't

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Speaker 1: have any problem admitting that it's scared. I don't blame you.

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