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

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Speaker 2: Man, welcome back to Coast to Coast, George Nori with you.

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Speaker 2: We've got the Hollywood ghost Hunters with us up first.

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Speaker 2: As stuntman, Rick McCallum began his career back in nineteen

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Speaker 2: eighty two performing a fight scene with Chuck Norris on

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Speaker 2: the film b Lone Wolf kwayd. Rick has performed in

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Speaker 2: numerous action and horror movies and has more than seventy

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Speaker 2: five credits to his name. He has doubled for the

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Speaker 2: likes of Daniel Baldwin, Oliver Platt, and many horror icons,

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Speaker 2: including Kane Hodter and Ra Mulhaloff, whom you'll hear from shortly.

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Speaker 2: Rick is a founding member of the Hollywood Ghost Hunters

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Speaker 2: and has been on our program several times. Rick, welcome back.

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Speaker 3: How have you been been doing good? George? How about

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Speaker 3: you great?

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Speaker 2: Did you ever get hurt doing stunts?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 2: What happened?

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Speaker 3: Well, I was doubling Barry Bostwick on a movie and

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Speaker 3: Kane was a stunt word eder Kain Hutter and they

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Speaker 3: wanted this metal beast. It was a giant metal where

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Speaker 3: Wolf smacked me, and I was supposed to go fly

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Speaker 3: in and I ended up running off, going off a

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Speaker 3: mini trap, going up and hitting a steel door upside

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Speaker 3: down backwards, and it didn't kick me back like it

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Speaker 3: had earlier, and I went straight down on my head

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Speaker 3: and spun around, so that one stung a bit.

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Speaker 2: Do they have to hospitalize you or anything like that?

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Speaker 3: Now? Fortunately I landed on something hard my head y.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how'd you get involved in stunts in the first place?

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Speaker 3: You know, it's funny. When I was getting out of college,

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Speaker 3: I had a degree in criminal justice and I had

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Speaker 3: to take a internship where they put me on the

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Speaker 3: h with the investigators at Maywood. And after about a

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Speaker 3: month of that, I realized I was meeting really rotten people,

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Speaker 3: not making very much money and doing a lot of paperwork.

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Speaker 3: So I thought, you know, there's got to be some

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Speaker 3: place where it's better than this. And I went, wait

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Speaker 3: a minute, I know a place where they have beautiful people,

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Speaker 3: they pay a lot more money, and they shoot fake

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Speaker 3: bullets at you. I'm going over there, So that's how

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Speaker 3: I started.

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Speaker 2: Then you're still doing your thing.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think right now I'm a little too beat

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Speaker 3: up to even go to the kitchen, so still do

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Speaker 3: the ghost hunting though.

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Speaker 2: Good for you. How did you end up with Ray

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Speaker 2: starting the ghost hunters?

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Speaker 3: Well, I actually started it with Kane Hodder, the guy

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Speaker 3: who plays Jason Baby, and we're working in Mansfield Reformatory,

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Speaker 3: and then Ra came in and I knew Ra because

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Speaker 3: he went to the same gym as me, and we

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Speaker 3: decided we might as well get Ra in with us,

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Speaker 3: so it was the three of us, and not long

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Speaker 3: after that we were on Ghost Adventures and then we're

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Speaker 3: starting to get more footage. And then this one nice

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Speaker 3: guy named George Noruri brought us in on Queen Mary

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Speaker 3: and that helped quite a bit too.

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Speaker 2: That was a fun time, Meghatt. So long ago, wasn't.

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Speaker 3: It, Rick, Yeah, it was twenty ten?

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Speaker 2: Where did the time go?

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Speaker 3: Up? To my hair? I thank you?

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Speaker 2: What have you learned about ghosts by this time?

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Speaker 3: That they are absolutely one hundred percent true, that they

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Speaker 3: will treat you the way you treat them. And you know,

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Speaker 3: I don't like the term ghost hunting. I like to

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Speaker 3: go investigate and then see if I can't make friends

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Speaker 3: with Some of the ghosts get a lot more answers

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Speaker 3: from them when they like.

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Speaker 2: You were you always a believer. Prior to getting involved

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Speaker 2: in the ghost hunting, when I.

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Speaker 3: Was thirteen, I had a pretty memorable experience that kind

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Speaker 3: of launched me. My grandfather had died and we took

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Speaker 3: him by train to Paducah, Kentucky to bury him, and

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Speaker 3: my mother and I. Because it happened so fast, she

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Speaker 3: And it was cheap. So the guy goes, I have

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Speaker 3: to tell you about it's haunted. Now. I was thirteen

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Speaker 3: at the time, and I was like, whoa golden ticket

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Speaker 3: to Disneyland?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: Well, when we got up there, it was like a

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Speaker 3: and I looked over. My mother's bed is just zipping

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Speaker 3: do to debunk it. Nobody even heard the word debunked

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Speaker 3: back then, and I tried pushing it from the side

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Speaker 3: and none of that. So after that I was pretty hooked.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic. Now you're still doing some movies when you're not sore.

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Speaker 2: What have been some of the monster roles you played

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Speaker 2: that you enjoyed?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Well, I played the monster in Deep Star six,

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Speaker 3: which was an underwater monster that was pretty challenging. Played

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Speaker 3: the monster in Love and Time of the Monsters that

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Speaker 3: And what other wores have been? Oh, Dark Wolf. I

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Speaker 3: was in It also was called Hatchet Too, and that

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Speaker 3: was one of Adam Green's movies. He was a director,

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Speaker 3: and we both got killed in spectacular fashion by Kane.

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Speaker 3: So you buddy, Yeah, we known him for forty four years.

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Speaker 3: I don't know why you talked to me.

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Speaker 2: How long does how long does makeup take? Sometimes?

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Speaker 3: Rick, Well, it depends on what you're doing. I doubled

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Speaker 3: sid Hagen Devil's Rejects, and I had to get the

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Speaker 3: bald wig on and the tattoos on the forearms and

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Speaker 3: the beard and the whole thing. And I've had in

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Speaker 3: some places when we were in when we did Fallen Angels,

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Speaker 3: I had it was like four hours to put it on,

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Speaker 3: about three hours to take it off. So it can

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Speaker 3: be harder than the doing the stunts. It's sitting in

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Speaker 2: Has Hollywood changed over the years based on horror flex

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Speaker 2: I mean we remember the old ones with Bors Karloff

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Speaker 2: and Lon Cheney and Vincent Price. What are they like nowadays?

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Speaker 3: Oh, they're much more brutal. I mean back then there

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Speaker 3: Now it's how many people can you put in the

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Speaker 3: pile before the end of the movie. So it has changed,

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Speaker 3: but they're still good. I like watching them, so I

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Speaker 3: like being in them. You know.

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Speaker 2: You still going to Scotland every year?

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Speaker 3: Oh you bet, I do. I don't know if you remember,

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Speaker 3: but I actually sent you a birthday wish from Rosland

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Speaker 3: Chapel while I was there.

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Speaker 2: I remember that. Oh yeah, that was cool. Why do

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Speaker 2: you go so often?

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Speaker 3: Something about that place draws me to it. The people

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Speaker 3: there are fantastic and this is a small country that

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Speaker 3: had three thousand castles, So if you're a ghost hunting guy,

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Speaker 3: that's like, you know, going to heaven. And I've actually

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Speaker 3: met up with a group called Scottish Paranormal which I

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Speaker 3: think is probably the best group that there is, and

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Speaker 3: they made me an honorary member and they put me

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Speaker 3: in their Hall of Fame. So I go ghost hunting

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Speaker 3: with them a lot when I get back there. So

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Speaker 3: Scotland is really something if you could for the people

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Speaker 3: out there. If you want to go ghost hunting, head

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Speaker 3: to Scotland.

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Speaker 2: How long do you normally stay out there once you

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Speaker 2: go out there?

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Speaker 3: Roughly three weeks.

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Speaker 2: Well that's a pretty long poke.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah. Well I like to go to a lot

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Speaker 3: of different towns. I mean I go to Glasgow, Inverness, Edinburgh,

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Speaker 3: Roslind You know, so I jump around and get to

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Speaker 3: go to a whole bunch of other places. We go

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Speaker 3: up to the northern you know, the northern part, the

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Speaker 3: southern part. I mean, we're all over the place and

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Speaker 3: ghost on pretty much every night. So that's my shangri law.

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Speaker 2: What do you think makes some areas more prevalent for

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Speaker 3: Well, and not to be flip, but anybody who's seen

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Speaker 3: Brave Heart.

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Speaker 2: That's Mel Gibson.

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Speaker 3: The yeah, yeah, that these people fought face to face

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Speaker 3: could smell the guy's breath. That you and that kind

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Speaker 3: of energy sticks around for a while, you know. There's

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Speaker 3: there's you know, thousands and thousands of people that died

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Speaker 2: What's your latest book? The Spirits are out.

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Speaker 3: There, Spirits are out there. I'm working on another one.

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Speaker 3: I was lucky enough the first one ghost Believe in

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Speaker 3: Me won the Paranormal Book of the Year awards, so

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Speaker 3: that that made me pretty happy.

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Speaker 2: Good for you. You enjoyed doing what you're doing, don't you?

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Speaker 2: So do the others?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, I actually love meeting new people,

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Speaker 3: you know, going to new places. You know that for me,

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Speaker 3: that's that's a good life.

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Speaker 2: Where do people get your books?

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Speaker 3: Rick? On Amazon? If you go on to Rick McCollum,

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Speaker 3: mcc a L l U N you know, you can

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Speaker 3: find it there. You could find it by the title

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Speaker 3: Ghosts Believe in Me. And the other one is the

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Speaker 3: spirits are out there and they're waiting for you.

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Speaker 2: Ever been scared to death by a ghost?

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Speaker 3: I've been scared to death by something that happened. I

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Speaker 3: got something that attached to me and just about and

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Speaker 3: I hate to say this because it sounds so melodramatic,

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Speaker 3: but there are plenty of witnesses who were there. They

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Speaker 3: were getting ready to call ambulances and everything else because

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Speaker 3: they thought I was dying. Yeah, it was. It was.

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Speaker 3: It was pretty rough.

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