WEBVTT - Episode 222: Who is Senor Misterioso? 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.200 Welcome to the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM paranormal 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:07.520 podcast network. Now get ready for us Strange Things with 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:08.720 Joshua P. Warren. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:17.159 Welcome to our podcast. Please be aware the thoughts and 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:21.200 opinions expressed by the host are their thoughts and opinions 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:26.440 only and do not reflect those of iHeartMedia, iHeartRadio, Coast 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:30.880 to Coast AM, employees of premier networks, or their sponsors 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.120 and associates. We would like to encourage you to do 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:56.440 your own research and discover the subject matter for yourself. 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:00.680 Ready to be by the Wizard of Weird. This is 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:12.440 Strange Warren. I am Joshua Wie Warren, and each week 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.640 on this show, I'll be bringing you a brand new 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:19.280 my blowing content, news exercises, and weird experiments you can 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:23.440 do at home, and a lot more on this edition 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:34.200 of the show. Who is Senor Mysterioso? Yes? Who is 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:40.440 Senior Mysterioso? Hmmm, that's a good question. It's a good question, 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:44.440 isn't it. Do you even know what I'm talking about? 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.319 I seriously doubt it. But this is not a joke 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:52.040 or a fluke. It's a real topic, and I guess 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.520 I should just begin by telling you how it all 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:59.400 unfolded for me. And by the way, I'm getting over 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:03.000 a cold, so forgive me if my voice sounds a 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.440 bit on the rough side. You know, George Norriy, the 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:09.720 host of Coast to Coast AM, has just an incredibly 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:13.560 busy schedule. I mean, he in addition to his radio show, 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.560 you know, he does TV shows, and he travels all 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.560 over the country every year and does these live events 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.119 called George Norri Live, where he'll you know, he'll rent 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:25.960 out a theater and sit there on stage and interview 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:32.000 guests in person. In addition to other entertainment, George likes 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.560 to sing songs and tell jokes and it's a fun 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.560 time for all. And once in a while, George Norri 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:42.440 and his producer Tom dan Heiser invite me to come 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:46.160 to these events and be, you know, one of the 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.120 guests who sits there and talks to George and then 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.680 answers questions for the audience. I did one in Ashville, 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.600 North Carolina, my hometown, did one of Boise, Idaho, and 0:02:55.960 --> 0:03:02.400 back in twenty twenty one, George did an event in Everett, Washington, 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.239 talking about Washington State. Here, of course, Everett Washington, which 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.920 is outside of Seattle, and I had never been to 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:12.000 Seattle before, and I'd always wanted to go there, so 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:16.080 I was more than happy to fly up there. My 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.920 wife Lauren came with me and we in addition to 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.560 the show, since I'd never been there, I added in 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.080 all this extra time so I could drive around and 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.520 explore the countryside and go into the mountains where all 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:30.959 the big foot sightings are, and go to the coast 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:35.240 and all that kind of stuff. Well, one of the 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:40.280 places that was just a must see for me, one 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.600 of the places on my bucket list in Seattle is 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:51.040 this store called Archie McPhee. And I mean it's a 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.080 novelty shop. I will say that it's but it's one 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.680 of a kind, and I would say it is the 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:02.360 ultimate novelty shop in the world. I was. Of all 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.000 the things I did in Seattle, I mean right there, 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.640 one of the top things was to go to Archie McFee. 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.320 If you go to their website, and by the way, 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:16.240 I'm not affiliated with Archie McFee, but it's McPhee McPhee 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.920 McFee dot com. It says for more than thirty years, 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.760 Archie McFee has been bringing strange and amazing things to 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:26.480 the world. We design and manufacture the kinds of impractical 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:31.960 items that make life better, says Located in Seattle, our 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.200 owner Mark Pollow started the business selling rubber lizards and 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.760 other crazy things out of his house in la He 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.320 found that people couldn't get enough of his collectible junk, 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.680 but he needed space for his company to grow. Risking 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.000 it all, he packed his entire inventory into a U 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.480 haul truck and headed for Seattle. In nineteen eighty three, 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:53.520 he set up shop with two employees in Seattle's Fremont District, 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:59.320 using the name Archie McPhee. It's fascinating story and there's 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.720 actually a really cool book about the history of it 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:05.000 called Who Would Buy This? The Archie McFee Story, And 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:07.880 he just you know, this guy came up with all 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:12.720 of these just like crazy, goofy novelty items and has 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.800 sold I don't even know how many to stay in business. 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:19.000 So anyway, one day, Lauren and I we drive up 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.159 to the Archie McFee store and I walked inside and 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.680 I was just like, oh, I mean I was. It's 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.200 one of those things where it was so overwhelming to 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:33.640 go into that store that It was almost frustrating because 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.320 it's like I wanted to see everything, but all at once, 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.760 and that's impossible, so I just had to take it 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:43.080 item by item. And of course, you know, this is 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.920 one of the problems with me when I travel. I'll 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:47.880 be like, oh, I'm gonna take here's my budget for 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.240 this trip, you know, and I'll have a nice little 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.080 trip budgeted out, and I'll go there and I'll be like, well, 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:57.159 let's check out the local antique stores. And before you 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.839 know it, I'm like boxing up stuff and shipping it 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.239 back to myself. I get home and my trip costs 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.960 twice what I was expecting because I buy all this stuff, like, oh, 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.320 I'm never gonna find that anywhere else. It's like earlier 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.560 this year, you know, we went to San Diego on vacation, 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:19.000 and like two hours before our airplane left, we go 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.960 to San Diego Antique and Unique and uh walk in 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:28.240 and Lauren goes, wow, look at that beautiful vintage Italian fountain. Yeah, 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.240 like a big fountain, Like, hmm, how can we get 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.280 that to Vica. Gotta have it. So anyway, like you know, 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.800 a few days later, after I'm back from the trip, 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.880 a truck pulls up my driveway. There's two people like 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.560 unloading a fountain and all these other box It's like, man, 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:47.040 that was an expensive vacation. Getting back to the story 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.720 at hand, as I was walking through Archie McFee and 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.200 they also have in addition to their products, they have 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:59.160 interesting exhibits and displays and they have gaffs and interactive 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:06.760 stuff you can do. I started seeing these products about 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:13.920 Signor Mysterioso. Now I'm talking about things like air fresheners 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:18.560 and refrigerator magnets and lapel pins and stuff like that, 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:24.240 and it just has this guy. He's standing there with 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.800 his arms behind his back, wearing a white three piece 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:35.400 suit and a white fedora, and he has a little 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:40.800 mustache and kind of an expressionless face. And I was 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.760 just like, well, who is Signor Mysterioso? Right? And there 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:47.480 was I never saw a good explanation for so I 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.560 was like, whatever the marketing is here, it's working for me. 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:56.120 So I actually bought some Senior Mysterioso stuff, not even 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.960 knowing who Signior Mysterioso was, and didn't even ask them 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.400 because again I just like had too much on my mind. 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:04.920 So then I got back home and I started going 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:06.320 through my stuff, and I was like, who is this 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:12.440 guy seenor masterios this rather pleasant, mild mannered looking man 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:18.200 wearing the fedora. And I realized that back and around 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:22.520 the year two thousand, Archie McPhee actually made a Senior 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:28.120 Mysterio so action figure. And I thought, well, that looks cool. 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:30.160 That looks like something I should have in my collection 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:33.880 because it glows in the dark. And I realized that 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:35.720 you couldn't find it anymore. I guess they don't make 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:37.920 it anymore. And I got online and searched and searched, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:42.280 and I couldn't find one for sale online, and so 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.920 I became very interested in just who this person is 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:50.640 Senior Mysterioso. Well, guess what. I finally found one of 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:54.040 these action figures online the other day and I bought it. 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.440 It was not cheap and it's still brand new in 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.440 the package. Now, let me read to you the back 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.800 of this the card here that this action figure is on. 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.240 And if I can remember, I'll ask Lauren to put 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.920 a picture of this on my show's Instagram page, which 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:12.719 is just I think it's just Joshua P. Warren podcast 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:20.960 on Instagram. Signor Mysterioso now You're connected bring danger and 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:28.200 mystery to your mundane existence. Featuring glow atomic suit, It 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:33.880 says on the back, m is signor mysterioso, an extremely 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:37.640 dangerous man or just a harmless socialite and a glowing suit. 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:42.079 He has inexplicably become entangled in all the major events 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.280 and the last half of the twentieth century, and nobody 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:49.360 is sure just how much he knows. His motives are unclear, 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:54.600 but there is documentation of meetings with extraterrestrials Howard Hughes, 0:09:55.240 --> 0:10:01.160 George Steinbrenner, J. D. Salinger, Chuck Norris, David P. Reinhardt, 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:05.400 and pe Wee Herman. Photos have shown him leaving the 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.560 White House late at night, but no records of his 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.439 visits can be found. He once had lunch with Jack 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:16.200 Nicholson at Pink's, although mister Nicholson's agent fervently denies this. 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:21.280 Of course, there are internet cults that worship him. He 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.960 has a Costco membership, but is not a member of 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.439 the Triple A, even though they offered him his first 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.760 year for free. It is said his fee for product 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.280 endorsement would be record breaking. He has declined a blank 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.840 check from Hollywood for the movie rights of his life 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.480 and Publisher's clearing House says he is a million dollar winner, 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:44.439 but the prize money remains unclaimed. He has never been 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:48.080 seen without his well tailored linen suit and fedora. The 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.640 function of his suit is a mystery, as is its 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:55.440 unusual luminescence. The Men's Warehouse has engaged its finest private 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:59.000 detectives to obtain the secret of the suit, to no ofvel. 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:01.800 Many believe that the suit allows him to vanish into 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.559 thin air, as if stepping in or out of another dimension. 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.400 In some circles, the elimination of Signior Mysterioso and his 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.680 atomic suit is of the utmost priority. To others, he 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.920 is a sought after dinner speaker, even more so than 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:22.560 Henry Kissinger. Who is he? Why is he here? And 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:29.320 who trims that impressive mustache that was written by somebody 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:33.080 with the Accoutremall company, which was the vision of Archie 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:40.600 McPhee around the year two thousand. Sounds pretty crazy, doesn't it? Well, 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:52.840 guess what? Guess what Sor Mysterioso is real? Yeah, bet 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.320 you didn't see that one coming. And when we come 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:59.360 back from this break, I will explain. Uh, do you 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.400 like this? Show. You want me to keep doing it, well, 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.000 then you better support it. 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I am Joshua pe Warren, and you're 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:50.280 listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:54.640 Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be right back. 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:34.240 Welcome back to Strange Things on the Iheartbridio and Coast 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.520 to Coast a m Paranormal podcast Network. I am your host, 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:41.360 the Wizard of Weird, Joshua P. Warren, beaming into your 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:46.480 wormhole brain from my studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.640 where every day is golden and every night is silver. 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:57.440 A Gietato zume. And I just realized that my wife 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:01.800 is probably going to be miffed at when she hears 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.160 this show, because she's gonna say that I made it 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:11.719 sound like that she pressured me into buying the vintage 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:16.520 Italian fountain that we have in our atrium, and that 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:23.000 is not the case. It was all my idea. And now, honestly, 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:27.000 we both we both love this fountain. I guess now 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.560 we'll have to put a picture of this thing also, 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.720 if we can remember, on the show's Instagram page, because 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.320 it is it's it's it's it's big. I mean it's 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.320 it comes up to my waist. I'm six foot two, 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.040 and then it has all these fancy lights and little 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.840 cherubs and things on it and I've never seen one 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.560 like it, uh, And we love the way it sounds. 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:54.200 It has just that right anyway, it's it brings a 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.920 lot of peace and good fung shue to the house. 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.720 My wife will if you can't ever pressure me to 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:07.000 do anything. All right, let's get back to the story, 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.560 shall we. Senior mysterios So you know reading that to you, 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:16.080 doesn't it remind you right off the bat of the 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:21.760 Dose Equi's most interesting man in the world, Right you 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:27.240 remember that campaign, let's see started in two thousand and 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.280 six ended in twenty eighteen. Why would you end that 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:36.080 the most interesting man in the world selling beer? I 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.480 you know, I get off on these tangents and I 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.360 go down these rabbit holes, and I was like, who 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.040 was that guy who played the most interesting man? Is? 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.120 He's an actor named Jonathan Goldsmith, and he is now 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:51.240 eighty six years old. And because I don't remember seeing 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.880 him in any other movies, but he's done a lot 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.240 of work obviously over the years. And listen to this. 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:02.920 It says that that man, and we're talking about the 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.640 actor now, who was in the Dose Sequis commercials, not 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.720 Senior MYSTERIOSO. Let me confuse you. The actor in those 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.880 commercials Goldsmith. It says he first established himself as an 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:20.200 actor in Western films. And it says that in this 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:23.160 film nineteen seventy six called The Shootest, which I've heard 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.520 of that, but I don't think i've seen it, he 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:29.520 played a villain who was shot between the eyes by 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:34.880 John Wayne, and it says John Wayne fired blood capsules 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:40.840 from a special pellet gun at point blank range into 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:54.080 Goldsmith's face for seven painful takes. Actors, they seem to 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.040 have had more fortitude back in the day, don't you 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:00.840 think nowadays? I don't think they would stand for that. 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:06.040 They would want some cgi or something. Back then, John Wayne, 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:12.840 guys like him and Jonathan Goldsmith when they decided to 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.480 make a movie, they were ready to take some pain, 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:22.080 all right, Signor Mysterioso. I'm looking at the action figure 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.960 right now. It's about four and a half inches tall. 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.800 It's in the plastic here that he just looks like 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:34.720 the ultimate gentleman, three piece suit and tie, fedora mustache. Well, 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:36.960 I started looking into it, and I figured that this 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:41.200 was probably just some character that Archie McPhee company made 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.399 up just to you know, like all their other wacky stuff, 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:48.240 just to have an interesting product to sell. But nope, 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.440 he was real. Here's one article I found right off 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:55.560 the bat says mystery solved, Signor Misterioso is in fact 0:17:55.600 --> 0:18:01.879 a Venezuelan saint. What Well, it turns out he's not 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:11.879 a saint, but he is getting close. This man is 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:18.919 named Jose Gregorio Hernandez. He was born well one day 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.639 after my birthday. He was born on October twenty sixth 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.879 of eighteen sixty four and he died on June twenty 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:32.280 ninth of nineteen nineteen. He was a Venezuelan physician, and 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:35.760 it says that he became a highly renowned doctor. More 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:41.960 so after his death. He was beadified by the Catholic 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:47.840 Church in twenty twenty one. WHOA, So that okay, when 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:54.480 here's what I'm not Catholic, but here's my understanding of Catholicism. 0:18:54.640 --> 0:19:00.560 After someone is dead, if that person was continues to 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:04.639 be very highly revered by members of the Catholic Church, 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.640 then they will eventually go to I suppose the bishop 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:11.760 and they will say, we want to recommend you know 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:18.400 that this person be uh be beatified, which means that 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.119 you're on the way to becoming a saint. And if 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:24.600 I'm not mistaken here, okay, let me just make sure 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.080 I don't want to I don't wanna step on anybody's 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:31.480 toes here. It says beatification from the Latin, which is 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:35.880 basically means blessed, is a recognition accorded to the Catholic 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:41.400 Church of a deceased person's entrance into heaven and capacity 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:45.520 to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name. 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.720 Beata is the plural form referring to those who have 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:54.560 undergone the process of beatification. They possess the title of 0:19:54.640 --> 0:20:02.720 blessed before their names. So, uh, once, I think, once 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:04.600 you go to a bishop and you say you know enough, 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:08.240 people say like, we want this person to be beatified. Well, 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:11.760 then they form a commission or a committee, I guess, 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:17.640 and that committee investigates the person who is being recommended 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.240 and goes over their life with the fine tooth comb, 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:22.000 and then they try to figure out if that person 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:25.200 is eligible, if they really were as good as everybody says. 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:28.280 And then I think, after that, uh, there has to 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:33.080 be at least a miracle that is attributed to that person. 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:37.480 And I read somewhere I wrote this down. I heard it. 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:39.640 I think it was a bishop say one time that 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.120 for them, when they go through this process, the miracle 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:52.680 attributed to this individual must be quote instant, comprehensive, and lasting, 0:20:55.920 --> 0:21:04.679 and so eventually this person can become a saint if 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:08.119 it meets those requirements over time. Let me tell you 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:11.280 more about this fellow. He was born in a small 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:15.560 village in the state of Tourillo. I guess it's called 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:20.159 Trujillo or Turhillo in Venezuela. It says he spent the 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:23.920 entirety of his childhood and his hometown, where his mother 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:27.679 worked as a housekeeper and his father sold pharmaceuticals and livestock. 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:32.240 At the age of thirteen, he told his parents of 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:34.639 his desire to go to law school and become a lawyer, 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:38.119 but was persuaded by his mother to pursue a career 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:42.960 in medicine instead, So he went off and finally got 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:49.240 his degrees, and he graduated in eighteen eighty eight as 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:55.080 a medical doctor. And during let's see, from eighteen ninety 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:58.199 one to nineteen sixteen, he dedicated himself to teaching to 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:02.639 medicine to religious practices. Well. He made two attempts to 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:07.959 begin studies for the priesthood, but his fragile physical conditions 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:11.199 would ultimately stand in his way. That's interesting, isn't it. 0:22:11.440 --> 0:22:14.240 He's a great doctor, but he has some I don't 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:19.760 know what they mean by fragile physical conditions, but he 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:25.080 decided I guess, combining his medical prowess with his faith 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:30.720 to start treating the poor for free, and even bought 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:35.680 the medicines with his own money. He published some important 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:40.439 papers in some scientific journals. It says when nineteen eighteen 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:43.600 hit with the Spanish flu there in Venezuela, he treated 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:49.359 patients freely all over the place and just had a 0:22:49.440 --> 0:22:53.720 knack for healing people, using both faith and prayer as 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:57.840 well as well science. And then it says that he 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:04.160 died in nineteen at the age of fifty four, when 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:10.639 he was struck by an automobile. How about that? Is 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:13.639 that something he helps all these people and then he 0:23:13.640 --> 0:23:16.240 gets hit by a car. Hopefully it was a fast 0:23:16.240 --> 0:23:21.240 and painless death. But says here after his death, Hernandez's 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:24.240 fame began to spread. Claims were made around the country 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:27.320 that miracles had been experienced in cases where his intercession 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:32.160 before God had been evoked. Eventually, his name became known 0:23:32.280 --> 0:23:35.879 all over Latin America and Spain. His healing help is 0:23:35.920 --> 0:23:40.240 often invoked by both doctors and patients. He is also 0:23:40.320 --> 0:23:46.440 called upon for protection during overland journeys. In nineteen forty nine, 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:50.360 Venezuelan Catholic Church officials began the process of determining whether 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:55.920 or not Hernandez was eligible for sainthood. In nineteen eighty five, 0:23:55.960 --> 0:23:58.879 the Holy See granted him the title of Venerable, and 0:23:58.920 --> 0:24:01.960 then the next step in the pros for Hernandez was 0:24:02.000 --> 0:24:05.160 that of beatification. Okay, so you got to be venerable 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:08.879 before you can be beatified. I thought there was a 0:24:08.920 --> 0:24:15.040 step in there. In June of twenty twenty, Pope Francis 0:24:15.040 --> 0:24:19.920 decided in favor of the beatification of Jose Grigorio Hernandez 0:24:20.000 --> 0:24:23.679 after the recovery of a girl who had been shot 0:24:23.720 --> 0:24:28.479 in the head, and this had been recognized as a 0:24:28.520 --> 0:24:33.720 miracle attributed to him. The solemn proclamation was made in 0:24:33.760 --> 0:24:36.760 a mass celebrated on the thirtieth of April twenty twenty one. 0:24:37.080 --> 0:24:38.880 All Right, we're up on a break. When we come back, 0:24:39.119 --> 0:24:43.199 let's talk a little bit more about Like there's a 0:24:43.320 --> 0:24:46.520 relic from this guy. There's a part of his dead 0:24:46.600 --> 0:24:53.639 body that travels around and people say it heals them. 0:24:54.119 --> 0:24:56.679 Maybe you could take advantage of this. I don't know. 0:24:57.840 --> 0:25:00.960 There's a lot to talk about, but well, just stay tuned. 0:25:02.720 --> 0:25:06.639 I'm Joshua pe Warren, and you're listening to strange things 0:25:07.359 --> 0:25:12.360 on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, 0:25:12.680 --> 0:25:51.760 and I will be back after these important messages. Welcome 0:25:51.800 --> 0:25:57.080 back to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to 0:25:57.160 --> 0:26:02.919 Coast AM Paranormal Podcast net work. I'm your host, Joshua P. Warren, 0:26:03.000 --> 0:26:07.160 and this is the show where the unusual becomes usual. 0:26:09.200 --> 0:26:13.480 You know, I just realized that I may have actually 0:26:13.520 --> 0:26:17.600 made my wife more angry at me by saying what 0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:22.840 I said in the last segment, because what if she says, 0:26:23.200 --> 0:26:26.040 you know, I wasn't niffed that in the first segment, 0:26:26.640 --> 0:26:30.480 you suggested that I pressured you into buying the vintage 0:26:30.480 --> 0:26:34.639 Italian fountain until you brought it up again in the 0:26:34.680 --> 0:26:37.679 second segment, and then that made it sound like I 0:26:37.760 --> 0:26:41.880 really did pressure you into buying it, because now people 0:26:41.920 --> 0:26:44.320 will think that, you know, I'm the kind of person 0:26:44.880 --> 0:26:48.040 who would be miffed over something like that, and that 0:26:48.200 --> 0:26:51.439 you had to backpedal to make sure that I wasn't miffed, 0:26:51.840 --> 0:26:58.080 even though now I aunt geez, you know what, I'm 0:26:58.080 --> 0:27:02.679 just going to shut up right now, or she's going 0:27:02.760 --> 0:27:09.480 to be super pod. Okay, what was I talking about? 0:27:09.560 --> 0:27:21.040 Oh yeah, Senior mysterioso. So there is this article here, Well, 0:27:21.119 --> 0:27:25.840 let's see. Oh yeah, this is Reiters published Uh well, 0:27:26.280 --> 0:27:31.560 October twenty sixth, on his birthday. Twenty twenty says Venezuela 0:27:31.640 --> 0:27:37.200 exumes remains of doctor beatified by Vatican. Yes, Senor Mysterioso 0:27:37.960 --> 0:27:42.400 Venezuelan forensic experts on Monday exum the remains of Jose 0:27:42.560 --> 0:27:48.480 Grigorio Hernandez, whose beatification decree was signed by Pope Francis. 0:27:50.280 --> 0:27:54.679 It says, the Vatican announced the beatification of Fernandez, a 0:27:54.680 --> 0:27:57.600 doctor known for treating the poor during the Spanish flu 0:27:57.720 --> 0:28:02.960 pandemic a century ago. His remains were exhumed. Isn't that weird? 0:28:03.280 --> 0:28:06.600 His remains were exhumed in a ceremony at a church 0:28:06.640 --> 0:28:10.359 in Caracas, quote to guarantee the prolonged preservation of his 0:28:10.440 --> 0:28:15.520 body end quote. The exhumation will collect relics, including skeletal 0:28:15.560 --> 0:28:21.639 remains and clothing, which will be distributed to dioceses in Venezuela, 0:28:22.440 --> 0:28:26.000 the Holy See and the sanctuaries created in other countries 0:28:26.040 --> 0:28:31.080 in honor of Hernandez. U It says he was of course, 0:28:31.119 --> 0:28:33.120 they talked about a little bit of his life, known 0:28:33.119 --> 0:28:36.320 as the Doctor of the Poor, died in nineteen nineteen 0:28:36.359 --> 0:28:38.440 after being hit by a car, And then it says 0:28:38.560 --> 0:28:44.719 the church cited Yaxeri Solarzano, a girl who in twenty 0:28:44.800 --> 0:28:49.560 seventeen defied doctor's predictions that she would either die or 0:28:49.720 --> 0:28:52.840 be unable to walk and speak after being shot in 0:28:52.920 --> 0:28:56.840 the head following an attempted robbery. She was ten years 0:28:56.880 --> 0:29:01.520 old at the time, so that's more detail on that case. 0:29:02.160 --> 0:29:05.440 It is said that her mother prayed to Hernandez to 0:29:05.520 --> 0:29:09.040 save the life of her daughter, and her daughter walked 0:29:09.080 --> 0:29:13.720 out of the hospital several weeks later after fully recovering 0:29:13.760 --> 0:29:17.800 from her injuries. Isn't that something? I don't know who 0:29:17.840 --> 0:29:20.680 started calling him signor mysterioso. By the way, I haven't 0:29:20.680 --> 0:29:23.880 found that, but I guess you know, it kind of 0:29:23.920 --> 0:29:29.440 makes sense. He he just looks like such a mysterious guy. 0:29:29.840 --> 0:29:35.000 Here's a piece Miami arch dot Org. It says when 0:29:35.000 --> 0:29:39.840 she had kidney surgery eighteen years ago, Lydia Alcala prayed 0:29:39.920 --> 0:29:44.520 to Jose Gregorio Hernandez, known as the Venezuelan Doctor of 0:29:44.560 --> 0:29:47.880