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Speaker 1: Got ready to be amazed by the wizard of Weird.
Speaker 1: This is Strange Things with Joshua Warren. I am Joshua
Speaker 1: pe Warren. At each week on this show, I'll be
Speaker 1: bringing you brand new mind blowing content, news exercises, and
Speaker 1: weird experiments you can do at home, and a lot more.
Speaker 1: This is my first new recording of the year twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. This is January and last Christmas Day, December
Speaker 1: twenty fifth of twenty twenty two, as Lauren and I
Speaker 1: were sitting at home enjoying the festivities, talking about peace
Speaker 1: on earth and goodwill towards all and love and generosity
Speaker 1: and all these wonderful things, somebody at the same time
Speaker 1: was robbing my storeage unit. Talk about some granchy stuff,
Speaker 1: Isn't that It's so sad. I'm going to tell you
Speaker 1: what was stolen. But the thing is, there's some really
Speaker 1: weird stuff here surrounding this whole story, and so I
Speaker 1: will get into that. And you know, I sent out
Speaker 1: a newsletter recently and I said, you know, I got
Speaker 1: some bad news I'll tell you about. So look, I'm fine,
Speaker 1: Lauren's fine, everybody's okay. But it's just really unfortunate when
Speaker 1: something like this happens on Christmas Day. So we're going
Speaker 1: to dig into all of that and a lot more.
Speaker 1: But first, most of my holiday break, because you know,
Speaker 1: I took off quite quite a while for the holidays,
Speaker 1: had a lot of care up to do here at
Speaker 1: my new house in Las Vegas. Most of my holiday
Speaker 1: experience was wonderful, and I want to tell you first
Speaker 1: about some of the great things that happened before I
Speaker 1: get to that though, I just made a note of this.
Speaker 1: This is pretty random, but I wanted to mention this
Speaker 1: before I forgot. Of course, the latter part of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two was taken up in large part by media
Speaker 1: coverage of the terrible murder of these four college students
Speaker 1: in Idaho who were all stabbed to death in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night. And I just recently realized that
Speaker 1: that murder spree took place on November the thirteenth, and
Speaker 1: instantly I was like, that's a familiar date, because of
Speaker 1: course I am from Asheville, North Carolina. That's where I
Speaker 1: was born and raised, and November the thirteenth is the
Speaker 1: anniversary of Asheville's largest mass murder killing spree, the Will
Speaker 1: Harris murders, and those happened in nineteen oh six. So
Speaker 1: now there are at least in my world, two famous
Speaker 1: kind of murder sprees that happened on November the thirteenth.
Speaker 1: So maybe that's another one of those bad luck dates
Speaker 1: that we have to start paying attention to from here
Speaker 1: on out. So again, kind of random, but thought provoking, nonetheless. Okay,
Speaker 1: so before I get into this weird story about what
Speaker 1: happened to me, on Christmas, and I trust me, I
Speaker 1: know a lot of you had a rough time this
Speaker 1: past holiday season. I'm going to talk about all that
Speaker 1: as well, but first I'll tell you about some of
Speaker 1: the good things and really interesting things that happened to me.
Speaker 1: Producer Tom dan Heiser. He came here to Las Vegas
Speaker 1: and he invited me to go see a John Fogerty
Speaker 1: concert with him at the Win and he had these
Speaker 1: primo seats. Now, of course, John Fogerty he created basically,
Speaker 1: you know, Credence Clearwater Revival CCR, and he more or
Speaker 1: less wrote and performed all those famous songs. And he
Speaker 1: is I think seventy seven years old, yeah, seventy seven,
Speaker 1: and he still gets up on stage and dances and
Speaker 1: sings and plays like you wouldn't believe. It's just like,
Speaker 1: you know, you never I couldn't get up there and
Speaker 1: perform like this guy does. And he's a lot older
Speaker 1: than I am. And Tom and I had such a
Speaker 1: blast because one of the things that is impressive is
Speaker 1: that you don't realize it until you sit there and
Speaker 1: you listen to this guy perform for you know, an
Speaker 1: hour and forty five minutes. You don't realize like every
Speaker 1: single one of his songs was a hit, you know
Speaker 1: them all. I don't even know how many hits the
Speaker 1: guy had, and 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 songwriter. But I do want to
Speaker 1: mention this because sometimes, since I live here at Vegas,
Speaker 1: when I get to go see people in person, they'll
Speaker 1: tell a story about their lives that stands out in
Speaker 1: my mind, and I like to pass those stories along
Speaker 1: to you. I did that recently with Wayne Newton and
Speaker 1: so John Fogerty at one point he was standing there
Speaker 1: on stage and he was pausing for a moment and
Speaker 1: he said, you know, I played Woodstock. You know, he
Speaker 1: was at Woodstock, and he was a lot of big
Speaker 1: events in the nineteen sixties. And as a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: he said, Woodstock was just so muddy and rainy that
Speaker 1: you know, he wrote one of his songs about the
Speaker 1: wind will the rain end? I can't remember what the
Speaker 1: song is called. He wrote a number of songs about rain.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so he said that when he was there
Speaker 1: on stage at Woodstock. You know, he was playing this
Speaker 1: favorite guitar of his and he used this guitar all
Speaker 1: over the country, if not the world, for many many
Speaker 1: years in 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 little boy who wanted to be a rock
Speaker 1: star and he was trying to learn guitar and he
Speaker 1: didn't have a guitar. And he goes, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I got overcome, and he said, I gave this kid
Speaker 1: my prize guitar. You know, I just gifted it Tim
Speaker 1: And he didn't say at that time. John Fogerty did
Speaker 1: not say if he was in the right state of mind,
Speaker 1: but he certainly said that he regretted it. The next
Speaker 1: day he missed that guitar. Right, the guitar he played
Speaker 1: at Woodstock he gave to some random kid. Now, I
Speaker 1: bet you think the end of this story is going
Speaker 1: to be like and that kid became Eddie Venner, right,
Speaker 1: you know that would be a but no, it doesn't
Speaker 1: end like that at all. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: this kid apparently did nothing with this guitar and it
Speaker 1: was just lost. And so he always yeah, he was
Speaker 1: always like missing this guitar. And then a few years ago,
Speaker 1: on Christmas morning, he goes over to the tree at
Speaker 1: his house and there's a big box there and he
Speaker 1: opens it and guess what, it's this guitar. His wife.
Speaker 1: His wife knew how much he loved that guitar, and
Speaker 1: she'd spent all this time like tracking that thing down
Speaker 1: and bringing it back into his life. And he said
Speaker 1: it was like the best Christmas present ever. And he says,
Speaker 1: and this is that guitar, and he lifts it up
Speaker 1: and he's holding that guitar and then he starts playing
Speaker 1: songs on it. So I mean, like, I love these
Speaker 1: kind of like strange stories about synchronicity and the twist
Speaker 1: and turns the life takes and how things like that
Speaker 1: can come back to you. So you know, it was
Speaker 1: just it was an awesome time and Tom and I
Speaker 1: just had a wonderful evening in Las Vegas. And yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you so much, Tom for inviting me to do that.
Speaker 1: And let me let me just tell you, if you've
Speaker 1: never been to a John Fogerty concert, you get a
Speaker 1: chance to do it, you should do it. But you're
Speaker 1: not gonna hear anything in your head for like the
Speaker 1: next week or two. Except John Fogerty songs, It drives
Speaker 1: you crazy. So that was awesome. Speaking of music, you
Speaker 1: know I've talked. I had been calling him Jim Kalanna,
Speaker 1: the composer, but it's Jim Cologna. He's from Italian descent,
Speaker 1: Jim Colonna. He never corrected me. That's what a nice
Speaker 1: guy he is. Jim Colonna. 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's Shop of Miracles and Curiosities, and it was performed
Speaker 1: recently near Washington, d C. And it's a fantastic piece
Speaker 1: of music. I played part of it for you on
Speaker 1: this show not too long ago. And after all these
Speaker 1: years of corresponding with Jim, I'd never gotten to meet
Speaker 1: him in person. He was in Las Vegas, and so
Speaker 1: Laarne and I got together with him for an evening,
Speaker 1: and boy did we hit it off. As soon as
Speaker 1: we sat down and started to talking. 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'd
Speaker 1: known each other forever. He's such a warm and just
Speaker 1: like cheerful and just just a cool, interesting, funny just
Speaker 1: just a great person. But like he's one of those
Speaker 1: guys that I would want to hang out with on
Speaker 1: a regular basis if he lived close to me. And
Speaker 1: 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, go to his website, Jim Cologne,
Speaker 1: Jim Coloonna, Jim Colonna, Jim Coloonna Cologne, It's a time
Speaker 1: Jim Cologna. It's j I am O l o n
Speaker 1: A j I M c O l o n a
Speaker 1: dot com. And there's a section called music for Orchestra
Speaker 1: and right now if you click there for free, you
Speaker 1: can just listen to his piece he composed called Joshua's
Speaker 1: Shop of Miracles and Curiosities. And then also we went
Speaker 1: to Murray the Magician's party at his house. It was awesome.
Speaker 1: He's got a beautiful, big, beautiful new house and property,
Speaker 1: and hundreds of people were there and he was so
Speaker 1: generous and just paid for amy. It was like open
Speaker 1: bar catering of everything you can imagine. I had a great,
Speaker 1: great time. In fact, when I come back from this break,
Speaker 1: I want to tell you about a trip that we
Speaker 1: took to a place I'd never been to before, and
Speaker 1: then something really creepy that I found out about that
Speaker 1: I'm leading up, of course, to the bad thing that happened,
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Speaker 1: to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast,
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Speaker 1: of Weird, Joshua P. Warren, beaming into your worm whole
Speaker 1: brain from my studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada,
Speaker 1: where every day is golden and every night is silver.
Speaker 1: Before I continue, I did look it up during the break,
Speaker 1: and the John Fogerty song that I was referring to
Speaker 1: is called Who'll Stop the Rain? And I know if
Speaker 1: I leave stuff like that hanging, it's gonna drive some
Speaker 1: of you insane. Who Stop the Rain? But he made
Speaker 1: another song or two about rain, but that was the
Speaker 1: one that he said he wrote when he got back
Speaker 1: to 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 lead me down an interesting road of thought. So,
Speaker 1: being from the East Coast, growing up in the mountains
Speaker 1: of western North Carolina, I was always used to Christmas
Speaker 1: feeling very christmasy. You know, you've got trees everywhere and
Speaker 1: snowfall and all kinds of kind of like European decorations
Speaker 1: everywhere seems like, you know, the Old Country. But out
Speaker 1: here in the desert when you live in Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: no matter what they do to decorate, it just never
Speaker 1: quite fills Christmasy out here. And for one thing, you're
Speaker 1: almost certainly not going to get any snow. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the desert. And it's ironic because you know, well the
Speaker 1: whole Christmas story is based in the Middle East, so
Speaker 1: so the desert is really a more Christmasy and like
Speaker 1: an authentic Christmas environment than what we think of. Is
Speaker 1: this whole like European Bavarian Saint Nicholas kind of you know.
Speaker 1: But anyway, look, it's just about what you are exposed
Speaker 1: to when you grow up. So since we've lived here
Speaker 1: in Vegas for several years, we always you know, if
Speaker 1: we don't travel somewhere else, if we kind of stick
Speaker 1: around here, we're like that just doesn't quite feel, you know,
Speaker 1: 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 seat.
Speaker 1: And if you drive a few hours from here into California,
Speaker 1: then you eventually can wind your way up this huge
Speaker 1: mountainous region that's like over seven thousand feet in elevation
Speaker 1: to a place called Big Bear Lake. And Big Bear
Speaker 1: Lake is named after the grizzly bears that used to
Speaker 1: live there. There are no more wild grizzlies in California.
Speaker 1: I consider that a good thing, but you know, some
Speaker 1: people disagreed. Nonetheless, it's really weird because, you know, to
Speaker 1: get there, and it takes you if you're going to
Speaker 1: stop and get gas and eat, you know, it's like
Speaker 1: a four hour drive from Las Vegas to Big Bear Lake.
Speaker 1: And I did a lot of research on it, and
Speaker 1: it turns out that it was exactly like I was expecting,
Speaker 1: because you go through the Majave Desert and it's like
Speaker 1: desert up until like the last forty five minutes, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, there's this dramatic change where you
Speaker 1: just drive up this big, long, super steep winding road
Speaker 1: up and all of a sudden there's there are forests
Speaker 1: everywhere and streams, and there's the lake. And then finally
Speaker 1: you get to the village and Big Bear Lake and
Speaker 1: it looks like a little village in a snow globe
Speaker 1: and everything is all like rustic hunting lodge style and old,
Speaker 1: like old old European and Bavarian, and it looks like
Speaker 1: a little Christmas town. I used to tell people when
Speaker 1: I first found it, it looks like a town in a
Speaker 1: Hallmark movie. And then I got there and realized, like, oh,
Speaker 1: they actually do shoot Hallmark movies on this town. And
Speaker 1: it gets a ton of snowfall. It's very, very isolated.
Speaker 1: So it really was exactly what I was looking for
Speaker 1: in terms of this is the most Christmas y place
Speaker 1: that you're going to get to that's within a reasonable
Speaker 1: period of driving 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 a great Christmas, like a couple
Speaker 1: of days as always spent, but you know, we'd never
Speaker 1: been there before. It's really small. We walked everywhere we went,
Speaker 1: and we hit up all the shops and the bars,
Speaker 1: and I was exposed to cookie dough whiskey, which actually
Speaker 1: is really really good, but I think I drank a
Speaker 1: little too much of it. And then also it's just
Speaker 1: like lots of just quirky, little little themed gift shops.
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 you 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 hah a little pansy to
Speaker 1: people like me when I complain about it being thirteen.
Speaker 1: Other than that, everything else about it probably sucks really bad.
Speaker 1: But anyhow, so it was a cool place to visit,
Speaker 1: and all these celebrities have had houses there. But here
Speaker 1: is kind of the creepy thing I wanted to share
Speaker 1: with you. So I before I go to a new place,
Speaker 1: I do all this research and I learned everything I
Speaker 1: can about it, and I read all the tourist stuff
Speaker 1: and watched all the videos about Big Bear Lake, California,
Speaker 1: and I thought I knew everything about it, but it
Speaker 1: turns out there's something that they don't promote about Big
Speaker 1: bear Lake, and I can see why in retrospect. I
Speaker 1: only found it because I was digging deep, like I
Speaker 1: was going within like layers and a footnote level, and
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, so, okay, here's a story. My wife,
Speaker 1: Lauren is probably the luckiest lady in the world, whether
Speaker 1: she or realizes it or not, because I am her husband.
Speaker 1: She's married to me, and that means that she is
Speaker 1: always being told amazing stories about the world, whether she
Speaker 1: wants to hear them or not. So I'm like having
Speaker 1: your own living podcast there that's giving you, you know,
Speaker 1: breaking news and stories. It's like it's like being married
Speaker 1: to this podcast twenty four to seven. I'm always that's
Speaker 1: you know, you're getting the real me minus the cursing.
Speaker 1: And so so we get in the car and she's
Speaker 1: doing the driving, which is great because she's a much
Speaker 1: better driver than I have ever been. And so we're
Speaker 1: heading off to California and I go, okay, Lauren, listen
Speaker 1: to this. So here's the story. In the early nineteen eighties,
Speaker 1: Steven Spielberg was on a movie set and one of
Speaker 1: the young ladies who was acting on that set had
Speaker 1: her mother and her little sister on the set also,
Speaker 1: and at one point Spielberg looks over and he sees
Speaker 1: the mother and the little sister, and the little sister's
Speaker 1: like five years old, having lunch, and Spielberg sees this
Speaker 1: little kid, this five year old, and he's like, that
Speaker 1: kid's got it, you know, talk about this is like
Speaker 1: hitting the lot of when Steven Spielberg looks at you
Speaker 1: and it was like, boom, you've got and he goes up
Speaker 1: and he just like starts talking to him, and it
Speaker 1: turns out this little girl is Heather o' rourke. And
Speaker 1: at this point Spielberg is looking to cast Poultergeist, which
Speaker 1: of course is this super famous horror movie that came
Speaker 1: out in nineteen eighty two, and in fact, they just
Speaker 1: they just re released it this past October. You know,
Speaker 1: it was an anniversary thing where Lauren and I went
Speaker 1: and watched it on the big screen again, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a fun movie to watch again, but not
Speaker 1: nearly as impressive as it was in you know, the
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties. One thing that I always thought was interesting
Speaker 1: about Poultergeist is you've got the special effects, but also
Speaker 1: you have It was one of the earliest or one
Speaker 1: of the first movies that showed like the modern day
Speaker 1: esque paranormal investigators going in to do the job. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure you know, watching stuff like that probably inspired
Speaker 1: and affected me. So anyway, he was gonna Spielberg was
Speaker 1: thinking about casting Drew Barrymore, but instead he was like, Nope,
Speaker 1: you're the one, and he cast Heather O'Rourke turned in.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Drew Barrymore's people were very upset, but then
Speaker 1: she went on to be an Et, which was a
Speaker 1: much bigger, better role, so it worked out. Don't feel
Speaker 1: sorry for Drew Barrymore on this one. So so, Heather
Speaker 1: O'Rourke became famous as the little girl in the Poltergeist
Speaker 1: movie who is just entranced by the television with a
Speaker 1: static on it, and then of course he 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 very precient in retrospect. So Anyway, this
Speaker 1: movie becomes a huge hit. So this little five year
Speaker 1: old girl, Heather O'Rourke, she's like an overnight sensation. And
Speaker 1: 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 they've never seen and
Speaker 1: their family starts pouring in, and so this little five
Speaker 1: year old becomes this cash cow. And once the money
Speaker 1: starts pouring in, well, the parents decide that, hey, it's
Speaker 1: time to buy another house somewhere. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was a vacation home or if it was they
Speaker 1: considered it 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 in when she was in the fifth grade.
Speaker 1: I know, things seem to be going well for this family,
Speaker 1: but when we come back from this break, things take
Speaker 1: a terrible twist, and it has to do with them
Speaker 1: living in Big Barre Lake, I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're
Speaker 1: listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast,
Speaker 1: a paranormal podcast network, and I'll be right back after
Speaker 1: these important messages. Welcome back to Strange Things on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal podcast Network. I
Speaker 1: am your host, Joshua P. Warren, And this is the
Speaker 1: show where the unusual becomes usual. You know, Steven Spielberg
Speaker 1: did not direct the movie poulter Geist. He produced it
Speaker 1: and he has a screen writing credit, but the director
Speaker 1: was Toby Hooper, who was most famous for creating the
Speaker 1: Texas Chainsaw Massacre. You know, he wrote and directed that,
Speaker 1: and the guy he hired to shoot that, the director
Speaker 1: of photography, was named Daniel Pearl. And when I was
Speaker 1: I've talked about this on the podcast before. When I
Speaker 1: was working for Warner Brothers movie The Apparition, I was
Speaker 1: on the set in California one evening and it was
Speaker 1: really late and everybody was tired, and they were shuttling
Speaker 1: the cast and crew back and forth from the set
Speaker 1: to you wherever. I got seated next to this guy
Speaker 1: and I didn't know who he was, and I started
Speaker 1: chatting and it was Daniel Pearl. So I got like
Speaker 1: fifteen or twenty minutes to have this conversation with the
Speaker 1: guy who who actually shot the Texas chainsaw massacre. So
Speaker 1: that was cool. That's like six degrees of separation from
Speaker 1: Kevin Bacon. But anyway, look back to the story. So
Speaker 1: Heather O'Rourke's family, they buy this house in Big Bear
Speaker 1: Lake and that's where they start living a good chunk
Speaker 1: of the time, and she keeps pulling in money and
Speaker 1: then finally she's like twelve years old and one day
Speaker 1: she gets really sick. They don't know what's wrong with her,
Speaker 1: and they started taking her in for all this testing,
Speaker 1: and long story short, turns out that she had been
Speaker 1: drinking the well water there in Big Bear Lake, California,
Speaker 1: and there was some kind of parasite in it that
Speaker 1: got into her system and she had some kind of
Speaker 1: super sensitive system and ultimately it led to her dying
Speaker 1: from some kind of septic shock that set in when
Speaker 1: she was twelve years old. Isn't that horrible? And you
Speaker 1: may or may not know that there is this whole
Speaker 1: phenomenon regarding like the curse of that movie Poultrygeist. All
Speaker 1: these different people who were involved with that movie had
Speaker 1: or many of these people had bad things that happened
Speaker 1: to them, tragic endings. It's like the Curse of King Tid.
Speaker 1: Documentaries have been made about it, but she is one
Speaker 1: of the central figures there. So that was just an
Speaker 1: eerie thing. And I wondered when I got to Big
Speaker 1: Bear Lake if anybody would talk about it, and nobody
Speaker 1: did it either they didn't know or pretended that they
Speaker 1: didn't know. So that's just a quirky little thing about
Speaker 1: Big Bear Lake, California. But we, on the other hand,
Speaker 1: we had a fine time. And again I've been having
Speaker 1: all kinds of good things occurring throughout my Christmas season. Also,
Speaker 1: you know what, one thing about Big Bear Lake before
Speaker 1: I continue into you know what happened with the robbery,
Speaker 1: is that the Big Bear Lake, like so many other
Speaker 1: of these bodies of water, is shrinking tremendously. And you
Speaker 1: know how bad lake meat is getting here. And so
Speaker 1: 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 doctor 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 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 US.
Speaker 1: And here is why you might just think, like when
Speaker 1: 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 going to do it.
Speaker 1: It's the vast majority of it is based upon snowfall
Speaker 1: in 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 they go
Speaker 1: up for everybody all over the country. And when the
Speaker 1: price is for everybody goes up in the country, when
Speaker 1: we're already having this inflation period, it starts creating this
Speaker 1: chain reaction where everybody starts paying more for everything, the
Speaker 1: whole economy gets worse. And obviously whatever's happening in the
Speaker 1: US affects the economy dramatically and the rest of the world.
Speaker 1: And so everybody in the world has an interest in
Speaker 1: there being a major snowfall this winter in the Rocky Mountains.
Speaker 1: Start doing whatever you do to manifest right now and
Speaker 1: start making that happen. All right, So let's get to
Speaker 1: this strange story. Well, here in laws Fit, I have
Speaker 1: storage units all over the country, but I have one
Speaker 1: of my most prize possessions. I had some of my
Speaker 1: most prize possessions and two storage units here in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: So last year I bought this new house, which I'm
Speaker 1: still getting in order. I've accomplished about fifty percent of
Speaker 1: what I intended to over the Christmas break, but still
Speaker 1: fifty fifty percent. So I had two storage units here
Speaker 1: with a bunch of goodies from my museums. Actually, well
Speaker 1: it's I could say museum, but I have owned different
Speaker 1: incarnations of the museum. So we're talking like Crystal Skull,
Speaker 1: UFO crash stuff, stuff from Transylvania, signed artifacts, I mean,
Speaker 1: just all kinds of really interesting things. And so I
Speaker 1: had them in two storage units where they have been
Speaker 1: for five years without any problems. But when I got
Speaker 1: this new house, Laaren and I moved to the other
Speaker 1: side of town, which is like thirty minutes away. So
Speaker 1: I decided it was time to consolidate what I had
Speaker 1: in those other two storage units where we used to
Speaker 1: live into one new storage unit here close to my
Speaker 1: new house. So we went and we got a new
Speaker 1: storage unit, a third storage unit, a bigger storage unit,
Speaker 1: which it actually turns out is more more cost effective
Speaker 1: than having two smaller storage units on the other side
Speaker 1: of town. And then Laaren and I got together with
Speaker 1: our friend Jason Sarachi, the famous UFO videographer who lives nearby,
Speaker 1: and Jason helped us move everything from those two storage
Speaker 1: units across town to this one new storage unit. So
Speaker 1: I have all these goodies there that I have plans
Speaker 1: for to put back on display. And here's one of
Speaker 1: the weird things though, and I have talked about this
Speaker 1: in various places. You may have heard this when Lauren
Speaker 1: and I got this new storage unit. It's like, this
Speaker 1: is the building is huge, and this is an internal
Speaker 1: storage unit. And this building that's like three or four
Speaker 1: stories tall. I don't know how big it is, but
Speaker 1: it's fairly new. It's gigantic. So you go in there
Speaker 1: and it's like going through a maze until you get
Speaker 1: up to your internal storage unit. There's no telling how
Speaker 1: many hundreds of storage units there are in this place.
Speaker 1: When we went there for the first time, we were
Speaker 1: like the only people there. There were no other customers.
Speaker 1: It was kind of like early on a weekday. And
Speaker 1: the first odd thing that happened was when we went
Speaker 1: up to our storage unit and we were first looking
Speaker 1: at it, out of this whole place, a woman just
Speaker 1: kind of a you know, normal looking lady, she comes
Speaker 1: walking up and she opens up the storage unit right
Speaker 1: next to ours, and we were like, that's amazing. Of
Speaker 1: this whole place, we just got this storage unit, and
Speaker 1: you just happened to have this storage unit next to ours,
Speaker 1: And we were like, what a coincidence. And so we're
Speaker 1: kind of laughing and having a little friendly banter. But
Speaker 1: I just thought like, that's just one of those odd
Speaker 1: things in life. So then fast forward a few weeks later,
Speaker 1: which was last month in December, we get together with Jason.
Speaker 1: We were in a U haul and we consolidated everything.
Speaker 1: We go back to this big storage unit building where
Speaker 1: once again, there's like nobody there except for us. We
Speaker 1: go in, we haul all this stuff into the storage
Speaker 1: unit and lo and behold, guess who appears this woman
Speaker 1: who has the storage unit right beside ours. And we're like,
Speaker 1: what are the chances of that? And she goes, the
Speaker 1: last time I was here was when you were here,
Speaker 1: and we go that's the only time we've ever been here.
Speaker 1: So at this point our mind is blown, 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 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 ended 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: maybe you need to come out and do Nfara skywatches
Speaker 1: or something, you know, vegasufos dot com. So anyway, we
Speaker 1: left that whole situation after transferring everything into the new
Speaker 1: storage unit, and and I was having this conversation with
Speaker 1: Lauren and Jason like isn't that amazing? Like what again,
Speaker 1: Like that's just it. It's almost like that coming on
Speaker 1: where every time you park your car, somebody is parking
Speaker 1: next to you or they're coming to get out of
Speaker 1: that space next to you at the same time. I
Speaker 1: don't know, So we knew there was already something weird
Speaker 1: about the situation. Okay, so now now we're getting into
Speaker 1: what happened around Christmas time, and man, I wish I
Speaker 1: had more time. I knew that this show was going
Speaker 1: to go by too fast. When we come back from
Speaker 1: this break, I'm going to tell you this story and
Speaker 1: then it's going to be the end of the show.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna squeeze in something about the Blue Bunny. Also
Speaker 1: I'm Joshua Pete Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast. I am Pariinormal Podcast Network.
Speaker 1: I will be here right back. Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: final segment of this edition of Strange Things on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast. I am pamer Normal Podcast Network.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Joshua P. Warren, and I have
Speaker 1: so many cool, interesting, wild shows lined up for you
Speaker 1: over the next few weeks months. I mean, I've been
Speaker 1: You wouldn't believe the list of things that I have
Speaker 1: to share with you. But anyway, everything was going well
Speaker 1: for Lauren to myself up until right around like that
Speaker 1: week leading up to Christmas of twenty twenty two, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, like both of us started having
Speaker 1: health problems. I know, a lot of people around the
Speaker 1: world were having sicknesses, and you know, it's like my
Speaker 1: sister was sick in Ashville, and then we were having
Speaker 1: problems here, and my poor old mom and dad for
Speaker 1: the first time ever had to have Christmas with that
Speaker 1: either one of their kids present. And then of course,
Speaker 1: you know, the weather was terrible in many places and
Speaker 1: people were being delayed or having their flights canceled or
Speaker 1: stranded and literally freezing to death. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: like it was just a hard Christmas holiday of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. So anyway, but you know, again, we're fine
Speaker 1: now in terms of all that stuff, but so here
Speaker 1: we go. It's like, I think the day after Christmas,
Speaker 1: Lauren she was the one who got the phone call
Speaker 1: from the storage unit place saying like, we have a
Speaker 1: very important matter. Can you please call us back? And
Speaker 1: it 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 going to be okay. We
Speaker 1: opened the lock, We slide up door and all of
Speaker 1: our boxes are in disarray, and I go, oh, 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 drone because that is where I kept
Speaker 1: my one and only drone that I owned. And I'm
Speaker 1: looking around and I couldn't find any evidence. I mean,
Speaker 1: like they shuffled stuff around, but it looked like that
Speaker 1: nothing else has been taken. And Lauren goes, how is
Speaker 1: it possible nobody could have gotten in here? The door
Speaker 1: was closed, the lock was on there, and I go,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but somebody obviously had to have got
Speaker 1: in here, and from what I could tell, they just
Speaker 1: stole my drone. So the next day we went back
Speaker 1: over there and we went with one of the employees
Speaker 1: and I said, is it possible that somebody could have
Speaker 1: gotten in here without opening that door? I mean, it
Speaker 1: has to be. And it turns out in these internal
Speaker 1: storage units there's a little opening. It's not much, It's
Speaker 1: only probably like a foot wide at the very top
Speaker 1: of the door. You'd have to be really slim to
Speaker 1: get up there. And slip through that.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: We went back into the storage unit and over on
Speaker 1: the walls of the storage unit are these like metal
Speaker 1: rails that you can hang things on, and those metal
Speaker 1: rails were dusty, and we looked over and guess what,
Speaker 1: there were footprints on the metal rails. So sure enough,
Speaker 1: somebody had gone to the effort to not break the
Speaker 1: lock or anything, but to climb up and go over
Speaker 1: and slip through that little space and go down into
Speaker 1: our storage unit. And still that drone and fortunately nothing
Speaker 1: else was missing, just in dis right. And let me
Speaker 1: tell you why that is so weird that drone is.
Speaker 1: It's the only drone I've ever owned. It's not a
Speaker 1: very expensive one, and the only time I've ever used
Speaker 1: it was when I first got it. I took it
Speaker 1: way out into the desert on the way to California,
Speaker 1: and I just put it up in the air and
Speaker 1: took it down just to see if it worked. And
Speaker 1: that was it. And this area around Las Vegas and
Speaker 1: Nevada in general is so restrictive when it comes to
Speaker 1: drones that you hear stories about people having their drones
Speaker 1: and stuff confiscated all the time because people are going
Speaker 1: out there and recklessly flying them around military bases and stuff.
Speaker 1: And I have never done that, nor would I ever
Speaker 1: do that. But I thought it was pretty darned interesting
Speaker 1: that the only thing that was taken was that drone
Speaker 1: and there was nothing on it. Again, I took it
Speaker 1: out almost to the California border around prem put it
Speaker 1: up in the air, and took it down and that
Speaker 1: was it. So the conspiratorial side of me says, is
Speaker 1: it possible that somebody, the men in black, wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure that I wasn't using that drone for some
Speaker 1: bad purposes? Because I did last year, as you know,
Speaker 1: buy a piece of property not far from Area fifty
Speaker 1: one in Rachel, Nevada. And I have never attempted to
Speaker 1: take that drone out there, nor would I ever do that.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I've never even tried to
Speaker 1: get close to the Area fifty one boundary because I
Speaker 1: know that's a real top secret military base that I
Speaker 1: just thought it was really interesting that of all the
Speaker 1: things that were taken, it was my drone. So that
Speaker 1: put a really soured amper on things. But you know what,
Speaker 1: here's the good part of that. I wrote about this
Speaker 1: in my book. Used the force sometimes when something happens,
Speaker 1: it seems bad, and retrospect you look back and it
Speaker 1: was actually good. Things can't change, things can't improve unless
Speaker 1: something destructive happens. And that was an opportunity for me
Speaker 1: to say, you know what, let me take the stuff
Speaker 1: out of this storage unit that I really care about,
Speaker 1: and it was all there. I'm proud to say, I'm
Speaker 1: happy to say all my cool stuff was there and
Speaker 1: I got it out. And I'm not going to tell
Speaker 1: you where I put it, but I got out all
Speaker 1: my cool stuff and it's in a much more secure
Speaker 1: area now, so it's better protected. So no matter who
Speaker 1: you are, you know you're gonna have bad luck and
Speaker 1: weird bad things that happened to you. I wrote about
Speaker 1: my book Used the Force, which you can actually read
Speaker 1: for free right now if you go to Joshua Warren
Speaker 1: dot com and just click the link to the book cover.
Speaker 1: I wrote about the fact that you know, when you
Speaker 1: align yourself with goodness, you're actually polarizing yourself and in
Speaker 1: doing that, you're becoming a target for bad stuff as well.
Speaker 1: So you have to expect some bad things to happen
Speaker 1: in your life because you're becoming like the North or
Speaker 1: the south pole of the magnet, and you're attracting the
Speaker 1: other pole. And so this actually is an inspirational story
Speaker 1: because I feel like that this happening to me gave
Speaker 1: me an opportunity to go in and become more responsible
Speaker 1: with what I'm putting into storage units, and to give
Speaker 1: a warning to all of you who may have a
Speaker 1: storage unit about how vulnerable your stuff may be, that
Speaker 1: somebody can break in without even going through the door.
Speaker 1: And it gave me an opportunity to take out the
Speaker 1: stuff that I really cared about and put it in
Speaker 1: a more secure location. And so that's why I say, look,
Speaker 1: it was it was bad, but it actually turned out
Speaker 1: to be inspirational. And I will tell you this though,
Speaker 1: and I had so much more than I had planned
Speaker 1: to tell you in this show. But that's why I
Speaker 1: do this every week. I'll have it for you next time.
Speaker 1: Speaking of secrets that are being kept in this state, look,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not here to I'm not a whistleblower.
Speaker 1: But in episode seventy two of this podcast, I talked
Speaker 1: about the blue Bunny, this weird blue bunny like plasma
Speaker 1: creature that is sometimes seen running around this state, and
Speaker 1: I got contacted by a listener who said that he
Speaker 1: believes he had seen it, and he produced an illustration
Speaker 1: of this thing. And if you want to see this illustration,
Speaker 1: I have it posted right now for you. Go to
Speaker 1: joshuapwarren dot com, click the link to the Curiosity Shop,
Speaker 1: scroll down and you will see his illustration of what
Speaker 1: the bunny looked like. And he said it was more
Speaker 1: electric blue and it had a weird pattern. But if
Speaker 1: you want to see what he said it looks like,
Speaker 1: go to Joshua pewarren dot com Curiosity Shop, scroll down
Speaker 1: and look at the illustration that he made of the
Speaker 1: blue bunny. I have got so much to tell you about.
Speaker 1: I can't wait for the next show. But for now,
Speaker 1: let's kick off the new year the right way. It's
Speaker 1: time for us all to listen to the Good Fortune
Speaker 1: Tone together. Okay, let's set that stage. Take a deep breath,
Speaker 1: if you can, close your eyes, relax, resonate with this
Speaker 1: the good Fortune Tone. That's it for this edition of
Speaker 1: the show. Follow me on Twitter at Joshua p Warren.
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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 and support, Thank you for staying curious,
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