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Speaker 1: we are back with var La Ventura as we talked

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Speaker 1: about a work paranormal parlor and we're gonna take calls now,

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Speaker 1: so let's go to Edward and Roseville, California to get

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Speaker 1: us start at Hello Edward, Good morning, George. Good to

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Speaker 1: have you with us. Go ahead, Hey, um, yeah, you callin,

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Speaker 1: tell you a story or two about ghosts. I've got

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Speaker 1: a couple for you. Sure, Okay. Working as a correction

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Speaker 1: officer over Vacaville, California. I saw two different um full

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Speaker 1: body apparitions. First one work on a unit second floor.

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Speaker 1: Time to lock up the two mates. Everybody stands by

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Speaker 1: the cell doors. You go down the line. YA locked

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Speaker 1: the door behind him. Get to the end of my

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Speaker 1: first tier. I always looked to the left make sure

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Speaker 1: nobody stand there before I walked across the tier to

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Speaker 1: lock the other side. As I look up, I see

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Speaker 1: an African American guy, lights light skinned, about six ft tall,

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Speaker 1: short hair, standing on the wrong side of the grill

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Speaker 1: gate that goes up to the next level. I locked

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Speaker 1: my door and I yell, what are you doing over there?

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Speaker 1: Run over there? And there's nobody there. Yeah, frea ky okay.

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Speaker 1: So I go down the line. I locked a few

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Speaker 1: more doors. One of the inmates have a good report,

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Speaker 1: which steps out and he goes, Officer, Brian, what do

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Speaker 1: you see. I don't know what she's talking about. Lock

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Speaker 1: it up, let's go. No, Officer Ran, I saw you running.

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Speaker 1: He goes, seriously, what do you see? Come on, tell

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Speaker 1: me tell me all right. I explained to him when

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Speaker 1: I just told you guys, and he goes, oh, that's

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Speaker 1: inmates so and so I'm like, who's that. He goes, Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's homeboy. Used to be a couple of cellars down

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Speaker 1: from me, hung himself a few years ago. Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: And they all know about it. Yeah, and so he goes.

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Speaker 1: He goes, yeah, I ask your porter. That's the guy

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Speaker 1: that works for you, claims claims everything. He goes, ask him,

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Speaker 1: he'll tell you about it. So later on that evening,

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Speaker 1: I'm downstairs. My porter comes into my office and I

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Speaker 1: asked him about and he goes, what do you mean?

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Speaker 1: He goes, did you see him? I go yeah, I

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Speaker 1: go what's going on? He goes, Well, he goes, you

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Speaker 1: guys always yell at me at nighttime because I always

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Speaker 1: put a little cardboard in my windows so you can't

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Speaker 1: see me when you're doing the cell checks, and you

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Speaker 1: guys always tell me to take it down. He goes, Well,

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Speaker 1: he goes while back, he goes, I was reading the

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Speaker 1: book in bed late at night, and he goes, I

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Speaker 1: got this series feeling. I look up and there's a

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Speaker 1: guy standing on my cell window staring at me. He goes,

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Speaker 1: but I can see right through him. I'm like, really,

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Speaker 1: he goes, and he goes. I started shaking I yelled

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Speaker 1: at this guy, hit the heck away from myself, leave

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Speaker 1: me alone. He goes. So I'm watching this guy and

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Speaker 1: he turns around, starts to go away. He goes. I

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Speaker 1: got up and I ran over there and he was gone.

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Speaker 1: And he goes. And I've seen him a few times

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Speaker 1: at nighttime. He goes, And that's why I covered my

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Speaker 1: window at nighttime when you guys come and yell at me. Gosh,

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Speaker 1: I love that story, Varnla. You can use these for

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Speaker 1: another book. I know I'm thinking correctional facility and oh

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Speaker 1: my god, that could be a huge Edward. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: move on to some of the calls. But thank you.

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Speaker 1: That's that. That is a great story. Why would an

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Speaker 1: inmate who dies, you hung himself want to hang around

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Speaker 1: a prison? Yeah, that's a good question, you know, because

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Speaker 1: people have a lot of theories about ghosts and do

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Speaker 1: they Are they people who are you know, we're interrupted?

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Speaker 1: Are they people who were um not finished here? Or

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Speaker 1: is it just sort of an imprint and a memory

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Speaker 1: of um the suffering that someone went through. And I,

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Speaker 1: of course we don't know any of those things, but

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Speaker 1: we do know that frequently when someone dies by tragic

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Speaker 1: means their ghost is often reported. You know, we've got

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Speaker 1: the largest prisoner listenership of any radio show, and they're

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Speaker 1: probably saying right now they can relate with this because

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Speaker 1: they probably those those people in that prison probably know

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Speaker 1: this guy. Well. One of the scariest, well maybe not scariest,

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Speaker 1: but one of the strangest places I had ever been

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Speaker 1: to was Preston Castle, which is in California. It's an

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Speaker 1: I own which is kind of like middle southern California,

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Speaker 1: lower kind of um foothills, and we we spend a

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Speaker 1: night there. Actually I talked about this in the book

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Speaker 1: We my sisters, two of my sisters, my mom, and

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Speaker 1: I went on an overnight ghost um tour there where

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Speaker 1: you you had the option to sleep, but nobody could sleep.

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Speaker 1: And the thing is that it was a correctional facility

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Speaker 1: UM for no or of years and there's actually a

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Speaker 1: correctional facility next to it now, and prior to that

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Speaker 1: was sort of like a sort of a juvenile hall

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Speaker 1: for boys. But then also during the Depression era, sometimes

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Speaker 1: families would like just leave, not exactly families UM an orphanage,

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Speaker 1: but families would give up a child to live there

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Speaker 1: because they couldn't afford to take care of them, and

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Speaker 1: it's very very creepy there. Um, there's just a lot

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Speaker 1: of I mean, for one thing, it's in a state

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Speaker 1: of sort of half abandonment, so there's healing wall paper

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Speaker 1: and um, abandoned hospital beds and dusty libraries and things

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Speaker 1: like that. But there's also very um, sort of heartbreaking

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Speaker 1: things like massive rooms where every you know, all the

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Speaker 1: boys had to shower under supervision, UM, a big pool

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Speaker 1: where kids were dipped to de lice them before they

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Speaker 1: were given their uniforms. So there's sort of something about that, um,

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Speaker 1: a little bit of that dehumanization of uh, someone going

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Speaker 1: into an institutional setting that adds this other element of

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Speaker 1: just so there's a bit of heartbreak there. And we

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Speaker 1: had a number of experiences and I talked about them

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Speaker 1: in the book, but one of my sisters had her

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Speaker 1: hair kind of tugged lightly, and we caught several things

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Speaker 1: just on camera back back when we had We did

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Speaker 1: it when there were cameras and we didn't use our

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Speaker 1: phones so much. So many strange things. So it was

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Speaker 1: an interesting, interesting place to go, and I think you

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Speaker 1: can still go and do overnight tours there and photography tours.

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Speaker 1: It looks like Hogwarts with bats running out of the rafters,

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