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Speaker 1: School of Humans. Hello one, Hello all. Welcome to canaver Gals,

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Speaker 1: the podcast where we talk about all the ways people

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Speaker 1: have died throughout history to cope with our own mortality.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Taylor, along with Gabby Hey and Nika Hi. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Today we're gonna talk about ghosts and vampires and how

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Speaker 1: they may get you. Yeah, they're that's so sexy. They're gone.

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Speaker 1: Oh they're gonna get me. Oh don't get me, mister vampire.

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Speaker 1: They may get you, they may not, who knows. Some

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Speaker 1: trigger warnings for today are some just straight up gore, suicide, disease,

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Speaker 1: death penalty, Colorado murder, and ghosts. So get ready for that.

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Speaker 1: Cue the musical. Okay, so welcome back. I'm wondering should

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Speaker 1: I sing the whole um hosting for today? Probably not? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: sing it um? Okay, Gabby, Well, just from last our

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Speaker 1: two episodes ago with Governor Morris, for example, our last

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Speaker 1: episode I don't know time is. I do want to

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Speaker 1: make a Governor Morris musical and I've been thinking about it.

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Speaker 1: It's the follow up to Hamilton. Gabby is always wanting

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Speaker 1: to do a musical and I support this a lot.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Um, but you know, until then, yea, until then,

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Speaker 1: until then, Gabby, do you want to tell us your

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Speaker 1: your story? Yeah, it's a story of some vampireres. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here we go. So, wow, here's the thing. I'm mad. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, have you ever considered that one of

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Speaker 1: your dead family members might be draining your life and

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Speaker 1: that's why you're turning into a pale white sheet of

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Speaker 1: a person and basically look like you're wasting away. Have

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Speaker 1: you ever thought that? Oh? No, no, but I feel

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Speaker 1: something now. Yeah, it's a possibility. Yeah, your dead relatives

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Speaker 1: might be draining your life force. Well, that is what

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Speaker 1: some people in New England thought in the eighteenth and

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Speaker 1: nineteenth centuries. Okay, and they're specifically like, wow, your dead

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Speaker 1: relative could be a vampire coming for your wife, your kids,

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Speaker 1: your husband, for you, and also at the time though

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Speaker 1: they necessarily use the term vampire, but what they kind

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Speaker 1: of meant by that was that they were convinced that

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Speaker 1: dead and then was maintaining some siblance of life by

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Speaker 1: draining the vital force from living relatives. Okay, wait what

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Speaker 1: people thought? This was like mostly in the eighteenth and

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Speaker 1: nineteen centuries in New England. Okay, great, why why did

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Speaker 1: they think those? Well, okay, well that also that thing

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Speaker 1: I just said, it's from this dude, Michael Ebel. He's

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Speaker 1: a folklorist and he wrote a book about vampires called

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Speaker 1: Food for the Dead. So he's just like he looks

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Speaker 1: for vampires, but not real vampires, but just like this

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Speaker 1: because consumption it makes it look like you're wasting away,

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Speaker 1: so they're just like, obviously your dead relative is absorbing

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Speaker 1: your power. It's consumption. Like an infection, it's tuberculosis. Oh well,

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Speaker 1: there we go. Cuberculosis has a lot of names. I

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Speaker 1: So this was a thing a lot people believed since

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Speaker 1: And obviously her dad, George was like, I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: we're nocturnal for the most part, blah blah. And I'm

420
00:24:40,805 --> 00:24:43,565
Speaker 1: just like, this is amazing. Live your best life. If

421
00:24:43,605 --> 00:24:46,285
Speaker 1: you believe you are a vampire, you are. They also

422
00:24:46,365 --> 00:24:49,285
Speaker 1: allow people who believe that they have like psychic abilities

423
00:24:49,405 --> 00:24:52,405
Speaker 1: or people who have psychic abilities, and like there's like

424
00:24:52,525 --> 00:24:55,885
Speaker 1: these houses that you can be associated with that like

425
00:24:56,045 --> 00:24:58,445
Speaker 1: that's where I started being like, Okay, I gotta go

426
00:24:58,685 --> 00:25:01,165
Speaker 1: way further down the rabbit hole than I'm willing to

427
00:25:01,205 --> 00:25:06,885
Speaker 1: go on a Monday afternoon. I love it. I think

428
00:25:06,885 --> 00:25:10,365
Speaker 1: they're great and it's a really big association. So good,

429
00:25:10,445 --> 00:25:15,365
Speaker 1: good for Atlanta. Yeah we represent yeah, Okay. So with that, Nico,

430
00:25:15,445 --> 00:25:18,405
Speaker 1: would you like to change the topic for us? I would.

431
00:25:18,525 --> 00:25:22,805
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to a ghost story. I'm very excited

432
00:25:22,845 --> 00:25:25,285
Speaker 1: about it. Although I love vampires, I think vampires are

433
00:25:25,325 --> 00:25:28,845
Speaker 1: sexier than ghosts personally, don't hate me. Depends on it

434
00:25:28,885 --> 00:25:30,685
Speaker 1: depends on the vampire and it depends on the ghost.

435
00:25:31,125 --> 00:25:34,405
Speaker 1: That's true. That's true because some vampires throughout pop culture

436
00:25:34,445 --> 00:25:37,925
Speaker 1: have not been cute, and I disagree and my like,

437
00:25:38,205 --> 00:25:40,245
Speaker 1: a vampire story to me is not realistic if the

438
00:25:40,325 --> 00:25:43,205
Speaker 1: vampire is not hot. Sorry. Also, ghosts can be cute,

439
00:25:43,325 --> 00:25:46,005
Speaker 1: I know, I know. I think, Oh, Casper Caspers, a

440
00:25:46,045 --> 00:25:49,805
Speaker 1: good Cusper is adorable, okay, Oh my god. Or Jack

441
00:25:49,845 --> 00:25:55,165
Speaker 1: Skellington's dog Zero, He's freaking cute. Okay. So we're gonna

442
00:25:55,205 --> 00:25:58,645
Speaker 1: go to the town of Hammersmith in the outskirts of London.

443
00:25:59,325 --> 00:26:04,525
Speaker 1: It is eighteen o three in winter. Is a happening. Yep,

444
00:26:04,845 --> 00:26:09,405
Speaker 1: people are being terrorized by a ghost. Yes. Apparently a

445
00:26:09,445 --> 00:26:11,965
Speaker 1: man had set his own throat the year before and

446
00:26:12,125 --> 00:26:15,725
Speaker 1: was buried in the local churchyard, which, according to local belief,

447
00:26:15,805 --> 00:26:17,725
Speaker 1: meant that his soul would not be at rest since

448
00:26:17,725 --> 00:26:20,485
Speaker 1: he died from a suicide, and they just believed that

449
00:26:20,485 --> 00:26:26,165
Speaker 1: you shouldn't bury suicide victims in like a church cemetery.

450
00:26:26,525 --> 00:26:28,885
Speaker 1: So sometimes people assumed that's kind of what it was,

451
00:26:28,925 --> 00:26:31,325
Speaker 1: and that was it was his ghost kind of haunting people.

452
00:26:31,885 --> 00:26:34,725
Speaker 1: Others thought it was simply a deviant pretending to be

453
00:26:34,725 --> 00:26:37,205
Speaker 1: a ghost with a white sheet over you know, his

454
00:26:37,405 --> 00:26:41,645
Speaker 1: or her head and just like scaring people of her fun. Wow,

455
00:26:41,805 --> 00:26:45,885
Speaker 1: so scary the white sheet. But it was like someone

456
00:26:45,925 --> 00:26:48,365
Speaker 1: in all white like that's they would always say. It

457
00:26:48,405 --> 00:26:52,885
Speaker 1: was an all white being basically like this. One pregnant

458
00:26:52,925 --> 00:26:56,285
Speaker 1: woman reported seeing this very tall and thin figure when

459
00:26:56,325 --> 00:26:59,285
Speaker 1: she was crossing the churchyard late at night. Question why

460
00:26:59,285 --> 00:27:01,925
Speaker 1: were you crossing the churchyard late at night? But anyway,

461
00:27:01,965 --> 00:27:04,845
Speaker 1: and she reported that the figure seemed to rise from

462
00:27:04,885 --> 00:27:08,045
Speaker 1: the tombstone owns and had a human like form, and

463
00:27:08,125 --> 00:27:10,685
Speaker 1: it ran toward her and it shocked her and she

464
00:27:10,845 --> 00:27:14,405
Speaker 1: fainted and then this is tragic. She died two days later. Wait,

465
00:27:14,525 --> 00:27:18,925
Speaker 1: shocked her, like surprised her, shocked her like boo, or

466
00:27:19,045 --> 00:27:22,805
Speaker 1: like or like some sort of electricity. No, like like

467
00:27:22,885 --> 00:27:28,125
Speaker 1: shocked her like scared her. Okay, this is just a classic, Yeah,

468
00:27:28,165 --> 00:27:32,565
Speaker 1: a classic, like boo, I'm scaring you ghost. Um, anyway,

469
00:27:32,645 --> 00:27:34,885
Speaker 1: she died two days later, a little sad. And it

470
00:27:34,925 --> 00:27:38,125
Speaker 1: was also said that the ghost would hunt the passageways

471
00:27:38,165 --> 00:27:40,805
Speaker 1: to like get to the town, and so a bunch

472
00:27:40,845 --> 00:27:43,325
Speaker 1: of efforts were made in this town to try to

473
00:27:43,365 --> 00:27:45,765
Speaker 1: stop this person or ghost and there were but there

474
00:27:45,765 --> 00:27:47,925
Speaker 1: were like so many bylines and streets to get to

475
00:27:47,965 --> 00:27:51,285
Speaker 1: Hammersmith that it was impossible to tell which area the

476
00:27:51,325 --> 00:27:53,565
Speaker 1: ghost would be in. So they would have like patrol

477
00:27:53,565 --> 00:27:57,045
Speaker 1: women patrol certain streets, but then like the ghost would

478
00:27:57,085 --> 00:27:59,565
Speaker 1: pop up in the street that they were not patrolling,

479
00:27:59,685 --> 00:28:02,165
Speaker 1: which is just so it's just comedic to me at

480
00:28:02,165 --> 00:28:05,765
Speaker 1: this point. Um, yeah, it's it's a lot. The ghost

481
00:28:05,805 --> 00:28:09,365
Speaker 1: appeared to a couple other people as well, like documented

482
00:28:09,885 --> 00:28:11,965
Speaker 1: throughout the winter of eighteen oh three and in the

483
00:28:12,005 --> 00:28:16,045
Speaker 1: beginning of eighteen oh four, like this guy a brewer's servant, which,

484
00:28:16,045 --> 00:28:20,085
Speaker 1: by the way, the title some of these jobs are hilarious.

485
00:28:20,085 --> 00:28:23,285
Speaker 1: A brewer's servant, okay, he said that both he and

486
00:28:23,325 --> 00:28:25,885
Speaker 1: a friend were walking by the churchyard at nine pm

487
00:28:26,245 --> 00:28:29,245
Speaker 1: when something rose from a tombstone and grabbed him from

488
00:28:29,285 --> 00:28:32,205
Speaker 1: behind by his throat, and then when his friend turned

489
00:28:32,205 --> 00:28:34,965
Speaker 1: around to stop whatever it was, it let go of him.

490
00:28:35,325 --> 00:28:38,645
Speaker 1: And then the brewer's servant turned around and he saw nothing.

491
00:28:38,925 --> 00:28:41,285
Speaker 1: And he reports that he pushed on where his attacker

492
00:28:41,485 --> 00:28:45,125
Speaker 1: was and felt something like soft, like a coat, and

493
00:28:45,165 --> 00:28:48,605
Speaker 1: then they got scared right away because nothing was there obviously,

494
00:28:49,325 --> 00:28:54,885
Speaker 1: which actually does sound like a real ghost incident. But yeah, anyway, anyway,

495
00:28:55,165 --> 00:28:57,885
Speaker 1: so people were frightened that they were a little scared,

496
00:28:57,925 --> 00:29:01,685
Speaker 1: a little hysteric or desperate, as Gabby would say, like

497
00:29:01,805 --> 00:29:04,605
Speaker 1: with the other guy who was desperate, and the ghost

498
00:29:04,645 --> 00:29:06,965
Speaker 1: was just taking it to all on the town. And

499
00:29:07,165 --> 00:29:11,005
Speaker 1: Francis Smith, who was a customs officer, he was one

500
00:29:11,045 --> 00:29:13,525
Speaker 1: of the many men who were patrolling the community at

501
00:29:13,525 --> 00:29:16,285
Speaker 1: the time to catch the ghost. He was over. It

502
00:29:16,925 --> 00:29:21,165
Speaker 1: was like literally the original Ghostbuster. I mean, yeah, exactly.

503
00:29:21,485 --> 00:29:23,525
Speaker 1: They were like over and done with it. They were like,

504
00:29:23,525 --> 00:29:26,845
Speaker 1: this ghost has taken too much. We can't do it anymore.

505
00:29:27,045 --> 00:29:30,085
Speaker 1: And so he was out one night patrolling with his

506
00:29:30,205 --> 00:29:32,525
Speaker 1: friend and he was like, I'm gonna go to the

507
00:29:32,645 --> 00:29:35,245
Speaker 1: street over there. His friend was like, okay, I'll meet

508
00:29:35,285 --> 00:29:38,765
Speaker 1: you there at eleven. They're like okay. So he spotted

509
00:29:38,805 --> 00:29:42,405
Speaker 1: a white figure at around about to be eleven PM,

510
00:29:42,885 --> 00:29:46,645
Speaker 1: and the he like shouted, damn you, who are you?

511
00:29:46,765 --> 00:29:51,245
Speaker 1: And what are you? Damn you? I'll shoot you. Oh

512
00:29:51,245 --> 00:29:55,485
Speaker 1: scary to the ghost, And so he did. He shot

513
00:29:55,525 --> 00:29:58,525
Speaker 1: the separation. But the ghost is like in the left

514
00:29:58,565 --> 00:30:02,005
Speaker 1: lower jaw. Yeah. But it wasn't a ghost, is the thing?

515
00:30:02,245 --> 00:30:07,565
Speaker 1: Oh No, it was an innocent bricklayer named Thomas Millwood

516
00:30:07,885 --> 00:30:10,565
Speaker 1: who was simply dressed in his work outfit, which was

517
00:30:10,605 --> 00:30:14,285
Speaker 1: basically all white linen's like a white white apron, white

518
00:30:14,325 --> 00:30:18,805
Speaker 1: linen pants, like white, just white everything. And so Francis

519
00:30:18,885 --> 00:30:21,965
Speaker 1: Smith thought he was the ghost. It just shot him

520
00:30:22,045 --> 00:30:25,925
Speaker 1: immediately before even letting him like say anything, which is

521
00:30:25,965 --> 00:30:29,685
Speaker 1: bad before like following up like follow, hey are you

522
00:30:29,725 --> 00:30:33,165
Speaker 1: a ghost? You always got to ask first, literally, It's true.

523
00:30:33,205 --> 00:30:34,645
Speaker 1: You gotta ask you how to check in, you know,

524
00:30:34,805 --> 00:30:38,645
Speaker 1: consent to be yeah, be like hey, I doesneys know

525
00:30:38,845 --> 00:30:41,445
Speaker 1: if you're a ghost so that that I can shoot you? Well,

526
00:30:41,485 --> 00:30:43,405
Speaker 1: in my brain too. It's like, what would make you

527
00:30:43,485 --> 00:30:46,445
Speaker 1: think that a gun would kill a ghost? That's where

528
00:30:46,485 --> 00:30:52,405
Speaker 1: I'm just dead. But I think this was a minor

529
00:30:52,485 --> 00:30:54,525
Speaker 1: dumb and I think this is just like they were.

530
00:30:54,805 --> 00:30:56,965
Speaker 1: He was really desperate, and I think he just wanted

531
00:30:56,965 --> 00:30:59,925
Speaker 1: to be like the hero. You know. He was all rambo,

532
00:31:00,005 --> 00:31:02,045
Speaker 1: like I'm here to go kill the ghost tonight. And

533
00:31:02,085 --> 00:31:04,805
Speaker 1: it's like, well, you shot a person, can don't kill

534
00:31:04,805 --> 00:31:09,565
Speaker 1: a ghost. The ghost is already dead, guys, exactly. You

535
00:31:09,645 --> 00:31:12,525
Speaker 1: can pin them down though, you know, so they can't

536
00:31:12,525 --> 00:31:16,285
Speaker 1: get loose. No, you can't do that either. They're they're clear.

537
00:31:17,085 --> 00:31:19,725
Speaker 1: He might have a special gun or a special bow

538
00:31:19,805 --> 00:31:23,685
Speaker 1: and arrow or something, you know that a curse. Did

539
00:31:23,685 --> 00:31:26,245
Speaker 1: they have a curse that they could throw at the ghosts? Well,

540
00:31:26,245 --> 00:31:28,805
Speaker 1: he was very ill prepared. He really just thought a

541
00:31:28,845 --> 00:31:33,445
Speaker 1: gunshot would stop the ghost. Now they don't have bricks anymore.

542
00:31:33,605 --> 00:31:38,925
Speaker 1: He's like bricks anymore. I am man with gun. That's it, okay.

543
00:31:39,085 --> 00:31:42,485
Speaker 1: So it was bad and upon hearing the gunshot, Smith's

544
00:31:42,485 --> 00:31:45,845
Speaker 1: patrol partner and three other men ran up to the

545
00:31:45,885 --> 00:31:48,005
Speaker 1: scene of the crime and saw the dead body, and

546
00:31:48,045 --> 00:31:50,285
Speaker 1: his friend was like, go run while you can, and

547
00:31:50,325 --> 00:31:53,325
Speaker 1: Smith was like, no, I didn't do anything wrong, huh.

548
00:31:53,365 --> 00:31:58,085
Speaker 1: And so a constable arrested Smith, and Smith was relatively

549
00:31:58,085 --> 00:32:00,845
Speaker 1: compliant and went with him. Um, it's a super tragic

550
00:32:00,845 --> 00:32:04,285
Speaker 1: story because obviously someone innocent died, and it only gets

551
00:32:04,365 --> 00:32:08,645
Speaker 1: kind of weirder because the local courts didn't really know

552
00:32:08,725 --> 00:32:12,925
Speaker 1: what to do with him. Um. Smith pled not guilty,

553
00:32:13,045 --> 00:32:16,245
Speaker 1: and his argument was that he was convinced it was

554
00:32:16,325 --> 00:32:21,725
Speaker 1: the ghost, which makes sense, I guess. And actually Millwood's wife,

555
00:32:21,885 --> 00:32:24,805
Speaker 1: melodism And, who died, stated that she had asked her

556
00:32:24,845 --> 00:32:27,405
Speaker 1: husband to begin wearing a coat over his work clothes

557
00:32:27,445 --> 00:32:30,525
Speaker 1: because he had already been mistaken for a ghost twice

558
00:32:30,685 --> 00:32:35,725
Speaker 1: prior to the murder. That's sad. Also sad, why was

559
00:32:36,285 --> 00:32:40,165
Speaker 1: people be laying bricks at like midnight? Oh he was leaving. Um,

560
00:32:40,245 --> 00:32:43,125
Speaker 1: he was leaving his sister's house. Okay. Yeah, he was

561
00:32:43,165 --> 00:32:46,565
Speaker 1: saying he still wearing his outfit. Yeah yeah, I mean

562
00:32:46,605 --> 00:32:49,005
Speaker 1: this is a classic you know, like what was he

563
00:32:49,085 --> 00:32:55,805
Speaker 1: wearing situation? He was asking for it? Oh my god, guys,

564
00:32:56,085 --> 00:32:58,565
Speaker 1: I mean I guess. So she was like, you should

565
00:32:58,565 --> 00:33:01,525
Speaker 1: have worn a coat. Okay. Oh. Smith also tried to

566
00:33:01,565 --> 00:33:06,245
Speaker 1: say it was self defense, but Millwood had never attacked Smith.

567
00:33:06,325 --> 00:33:09,525
Speaker 1: He literally only stood there. And in fact, Millwood's sister

568
00:33:09,765 --> 00:33:13,005
Speaker 1: reported that it was just a few feet away from

569
00:33:13,005 --> 00:33:15,205
Speaker 1: her house when she had said goodbye to her brother

570
00:33:15,685 --> 00:33:19,325
Speaker 1: and she heard the words like that. For instance, Smith

571
00:33:19,365 --> 00:33:22,005
Speaker 1: said basically as he was shooting the gun, So you

572
00:33:22,005 --> 00:33:24,205
Speaker 1: can't even say it was like self defense or that

573
00:33:24,245 --> 00:33:26,565
Speaker 1: he gave Millwood warning because he didn't. He just like

574
00:33:27,565 --> 00:33:30,845
Speaker 1: got scared and shot. Basically, I do not like this man,

575
00:33:31,445 --> 00:33:35,485
Speaker 1: I know. So that was his argument. But killing someone

576
00:33:35,725 --> 00:33:39,005
Speaker 1: is killing someone, and the judge stated that even if

577
00:33:39,405 --> 00:33:42,325
Speaker 1: Smith had found someone dressing up as a ghost, it's

578
00:33:42,365 --> 00:33:45,445
Speaker 1: really just a misdemeanor and not acceptable to murder someone.

579
00:33:45,485 --> 00:33:49,725
Speaker 1: For obviously this is not acceptable to murder people. Okay, yeah,

580
00:33:49,765 --> 00:33:52,325
Speaker 1: And Millwood had done nothing to deserve being shot at.

581
00:33:52,485 --> 00:33:55,885
Speaker 1: He it was not self defense. And I mean, like

582
00:33:56,445 --> 00:34:00,845
Speaker 1: there is no legal he Smith had no legal right

583
00:34:00,925 --> 00:34:04,205
Speaker 1: to fire the gun at anyone ghost or not. You know,

584
00:34:04,445 --> 00:34:06,565
Speaker 1: like that was just he was not his legal rights

585
00:34:06,685 --> 00:34:12,445
Speaker 1: because nothing was happening. It's a risk also to shoot

586
00:34:12,485 --> 00:34:17,445
Speaker 1: someone because then you'll have more ghosts. That it is true.

587
00:34:17,765 --> 00:34:21,805
Speaker 1: That is true. So the court found him guilty and

588
00:34:22,045 --> 00:34:28,165
Speaker 1: sentenced him to hanging and dissection. Oh yeah, but the

589
00:34:28,405 --> 00:34:34,165
Speaker 1: case caused a lot of controversy on every angle. Some

590
00:34:34,205 --> 00:34:38,085
Speaker 1: people were a pro Smith, others were like, no, what

591
00:34:38,205 --> 00:34:40,565
Speaker 1: he did was wrong. They were really sad about Millwood.

592
00:34:40,605 --> 00:34:44,925
Speaker 1: Obviously the ghost was still terrorizing people, which is just crazy.

593
00:34:45,365 --> 00:34:48,365
Speaker 1: So the judge sent the case to the king and

594
00:34:48,405 --> 00:34:52,165
Speaker 1: then Smith actually ended up getting a pardon. His sentence

595
00:34:52,205 --> 00:34:57,645
Speaker 1: went from death to just one year in prison. Okay wow. Yeah. Also,

596
00:34:57,965 --> 00:35:01,205
Speaker 1: the real Hammersmith ghost came forward. It turns out that

597
00:35:01,285 --> 00:35:04,165
Speaker 1: he was an elderly shoemaker who was dressing up and

598
00:35:04,245 --> 00:35:08,525
Speaker 1: scaring townspeople to take revenge on his apprentice because his

599
00:35:08,565 --> 00:35:12,765
Speaker 1: apprentice had scared the shoemaker's children with scary ghost stories. Wait,

600
00:35:12,805 --> 00:35:15,165
Speaker 1: it was a real person. That was just yeah, that

601
00:35:15,245 --> 00:35:19,645
Speaker 1: was dressing He was literally going boo yes and scaring people.

602
00:35:20,005 --> 00:35:22,565
Speaker 1: But then there's the pregnant lady who died. So did

603
00:35:22,565 --> 00:35:25,885
Speaker 1: he get accused of it? Like, what's up with Ironically,

604
00:35:26,045 --> 00:35:29,725
Speaker 1: he received no punishment, like they were like, oh, okay,

605
00:35:29,805 --> 00:35:32,925
Speaker 1: you were dressing up. Okay, that's like oh yeah, it's

606
00:35:32,965 --> 00:35:35,205
Speaker 1: like you were just like really good at being a ghost,

607
00:35:35,245 --> 00:35:37,565
Speaker 1: Like good job. Just give him an Academy Award and

608
00:35:37,645 --> 00:35:42,165
Speaker 1: stad I mean kind of basically. I still think that

609
00:35:42,165 --> 00:35:45,045
Speaker 1: there must have been other like the guy saying that

610
00:35:45,045 --> 00:35:47,965
Speaker 1: he didn't see anything when he turned around and pushed

611
00:35:48,005 --> 00:35:51,045
Speaker 1: against someone and he felt something was like, oh, that

612
00:35:51,125 --> 00:35:55,685
Speaker 1: was probably not the elderly shoemaker, but the prankster who

613
00:35:55,765 --> 00:35:59,045
Speaker 1: was just scaring people to shock and to death was

614
00:35:59,085 --> 00:36:03,325
Speaker 1: in fact some weird old guy who for some reason

615
00:36:03,405 --> 00:36:07,005
Speaker 1: thought this was the way to take stress and revenge out.

616
00:36:07,045 --> 00:36:12,605
Speaker 1: I guess, Okay, people back then be weird. Yeah, I

617
00:36:12,605 --> 00:36:15,365
Speaker 1: mean there also might have been some copycat ghost, you know,

618
00:36:15,645 --> 00:36:17,245
Speaker 1: some other people being like I'm going to be a

619
00:36:17,285 --> 00:36:25,245
Speaker 1: ghost too, little tricksters, the tricksters or treaters. Yeah, we're

620
00:36:25,245 --> 00:36:28,885
Speaker 1: gonna treat you with a scare. We're gonna treat yeah exactly,

621
00:36:29,085 --> 00:36:33,525
Speaker 1: and then treat you with an accidental homicide. Yeah, okay,

622
00:36:33,605 --> 00:36:37,045
Speaker 1: that's a treat. Yeah, that's a real treat. And then

623
00:36:37,165 --> 00:36:40,285
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, you're going to be a vampire or

624
00:36:40,325 --> 00:36:45,965
Speaker 1: a ghost anyway, Okay, great, let's take a break. Welcome

625
00:36:46,005 --> 00:36:49,525
Speaker 1: back all you could have propalse I am. When I

626
00:36:49,605 --> 00:36:53,405
Speaker 1: started doing my research, I found this weird thing where

627
00:36:53,725 --> 00:36:58,605
Speaker 1: it was called ghost singles. Dot com and it is

628
00:36:58,645 --> 00:37:03,885
Speaker 1: a dating site for ghosts ghostly singles where you like

629
00:37:03,925 --> 00:37:05,805
Speaker 1: fill out this profile and you can chat with like

630
00:37:05,965 --> 00:37:08,565
Speaker 1: people and like you have like you say, like male

631
00:37:08,645 --> 00:37:12,485
Speaker 1: ghost speaking female female ghost or whatever. You can pick

632
00:37:12,525 --> 00:37:15,285
Speaker 1: your age range, you know, it can be like eighteen

633
00:37:15,365 --> 00:37:18,925
Speaker 1: to like one hundred, two hundred, three hundred whatever. You

634
00:37:18,965 --> 00:37:23,445
Speaker 1: can pick the kind of like death that they had, peaceful, crazy,

635
00:37:23,485 --> 00:37:27,645
Speaker 1: like morbid whatever. Anyway, I thought this was going to

636
00:37:27,765 --> 00:37:30,125
Speaker 1: be like really exciting to tell you all, but really

637
00:37:30,405 --> 00:37:32,125
Speaker 1: it wasn't because like I tried to fill out a

638
00:37:32,165 --> 00:37:34,005
Speaker 1: profile and then it was like you're a human, and

639
00:37:34,045 --> 00:37:36,645
Speaker 1: then it gave me this like other dating site. So

640
00:37:36,685 --> 00:37:38,405
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, why did it think you were

641
00:37:38,405 --> 00:37:40,965
Speaker 1: a human? Because I am a human. Anybody that can

642
00:37:41,005 --> 00:37:42,725
Speaker 1: feel that out it would be human. So that was

643
00:37:42,765 --> 00:37:46,405
Speaker 1: really stupid, and I got bamboozled, and you got banned

644
00:37:46,405 --> 00:37:50,165
Speaker 1: from the ghosts dating site also, Taylor, Yeah, Taylor, you

645
00:37:50,205 --> 00:37:52,925
Speaker 1: can just tell us you're lonely. You don't have to

646
00:37:52,965 --> 00:37:57,565
Speaker 1: revert to these ghosts. I know, I know, I know,

647
00:37:57,765 --> 00:38:03,485
Speaker 1: but anyway, I just I'm back on the regular dating sites. Anyway.

648
00:38:03,605 --> 00:38:05,445
Speaker 1: So I was like all excited to tell you guys

649
00:38:05,605 --> 00:38:07,685
Speaker 1: about this, but then it kind of fizzied away. So

650
00:38:08,165 --> 00:38:12,525
Speaker 1: instead I'm going to tell you an actual, factual ghost

651
00:38:12,645 --> 00:38:19,845
Speaker 1: story that is about my life. Okay, Oh, we're gonna

652
00:38:19,925 --> 00:38:24,645
Speaker 1: hear some intimate details about day. I still am pretty

653
00:38:24,685 --> 00:38:28,605
Speaker 1: mad that they, like gate kept you from a ghost

654
00:38:28,725 --> 00:38:32,245
Speaker 1: dating website. I mean, okay, like they had like sample

655
00:38:32,365 --> 00:38:35,365
Speaker 1: profiles too that you could read. You should have talked

656
00:38:35,405 --> 00:38:38,565
Speaker 1: more Victorian or something. Yeah, sure I could have what up,

657
00:38:38,605 --> 00:38:42,125
Speaker 1: but I didn't. So anyway, but there are new ghosts,

658
00:38:42,205 --> 00:38:45,485
Speaker 1: you know, there are recent ghosts, like modern contemporary ghosts,

659
00:38:45,485 --> 00:38:48,485
Speaker 1: so they also maybe they're just being Yeah, I'm mad

660
00:38:48,485 --> 00:38:52,165
Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, I know. I was like really excited

661
00:38:52,205 --> 00:38:55,085
Speaker 1: to like talk with other weirdouts or on this thing,

662
00:38:55,165 --> 00:38:58,325
Speaker 1: but it didn't work out. So anyway, a few years ago,

663
00:38:59,205 --> 00:39:01,525
Speaker 1: I was living in this apartment by myself and it

664
00:39:01,565 --> 00:39:03,885
Speaker 1: was really it was a good time. It was stop

665
00:39:03,925 --> 00:39:07,365
Speaker 1: bragging that you can live a Okay, Gabby, you live alone,

666
00:39:08,045 --> 00:39:10,805
Speaker 1: I know, but I'm old now. I was like twenty

667
00:39:10,925 --> 00:39:14,005
Speaker 1: nine when I lived there. Okay, anyway, twenty nine, you

668
00:39:14,045 --> 00:39:16,285
Speaker 1: were twenty nine only a couple of days ago, Gabby.

669
00:39:16,445 --> 00:39:19,245
Speaker 1: It's true. So I was living at this apartment. It

670
00:39:19,325 --> 00:39:21,885
Speaker 1: was a really cute apartment. It was an old apartment

671
00:39:21,925 --> 00:39:25,685
Speaker 1: built in the twenties. It had, you know, some plumbing issue.

672
00:39:25,725 --> 00:39:28,765
Speaker 1: They they had like all of the windows were like

673
00:39:28,805 --> 00:39:31,205
Speaker 1: painted shut. All of the like light switches, Like when

674
00:39:31,245 --> 00:39:33,205
Speaker 1: I first got there, I had to like hit them

675
00:39:33,205 --> 00:39:34,885
Speaker 1: really hard to like get them to flick on and

676
00:39:34,925 --> 00:39:37,445
Speaker 1: off because they just like painted over everything really thick,

677
00:39:37,525 --> 00:39:42,925
Speaker 1: you know. Helpful, Yeah, super nice and like my my,

678
00:39:43,085 --> 00:39:45,485
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a good time, but like it

679
00:39:45,525 --> 00:39:49,045
Speaker 1: was a hard time because they're also like the sink

680
00:39:49,285 --> 00:39:52,605
Speaker 1: was like just dripped and I didn't have a dishwasher

681
00:39:52,645 --> 00:39:54,165
Speaker 1: and so I would like have to wash my dishes

682
00:39:54,165 --> 00:39:58,605
Speaker 1: in the tub. It was a nightmare. But you know,

683
00:39:58,925 --> 00:40:03,965
Speaker 1: I it builds character. But what built more character was Gladys.

684
00:40:04,845 --> 00:40:08,005
Speaker 1: Who's gla. So Gladys was my ghost. I had a

685
00:40:08,005 --> 00:40:10,725
Speaker 1: ghost there. And let me just preface this by I'm

686
00:40:10,805 --> 00:40:14,565
Speaker 1: not I'm never really believed in ghosts necessarily, Like I

687
00:40:15,565 --> 00:40:18,325
Speaker 1: I don't know, I like never it had experienced it myself.

688
00:40:18,365 --> 00:40:20,085
Speaker 1: So I was just like whatever, I don't really believe

689
00:40:20,125 --> 00:40:21,885
Speaker 1: in ghosts, and I think that some people just make

690
00:40:21,885 --> 00:40:25,165
Speaker 1: stuff up anyway, So I'd like just be sitting there.

691
00:40:26,045 --> 00:40:29,245
Speaker 1: Note I didn't have air conditioning so or like central

692
00:40:29,285 --> 00:40:32,485
Speaker 1: heat or anything, so there was no drift or went

693
00:40:32,605 --> 00:40:35,485
Speaker 1: and all of the all of the windows were painted shut,

694
00:40:35,605 --> 00:40:39,365
Speaker 1: so like there was no airflow. This sounds like a

695
00:40:39,565 --> 00:40:42,765
Speaker 1: nightmare apartment. What do you mean the windows were painted shut?

696
00:40:42,925 --> 00:40:47,685
Speaker 1: You had no windows, Like you couldn't open a window. No. Wow, Yeah,

697
00:40:48,085 --> 00:40:50,485
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of where you are right now. There's

698
00:40:50,525 --> 00:40:57,525
Speaker 1: no air conditions. I started out the bottom of now

699
00:40:57,845 --> 00:41:04,045
Speaker 1: I met the lower middle. No, but anyway, so, um,

700
00:41:04,245 --> 00:41:06,285
Speaker 1: so I'd just be sitting there watching TV and in

701
00:41:06,285 --> 00:41:08,765
Speaker 1: my kitchen like I kept um, I kept my mail

702
00:41:08,805 --> 00:41:11,805
Speaker 1: on top of my refrigerator, and my mail would just

703
00:41:11,885 --> 00:41:15,285
Speaker 1: sometimes just go flying off the top of the refrigerator.

704
00:41:15,565 --> 00:41:17,365
Speaker 1: So there was like no draft. So like I had

705
00:41:17,365 --> 00:41:20,405
Speaker 1: to preface that there was no draft. So I was like,

706
00:41:20,605 --> 00:41:24,125
Speaker 1: that's weird and suspicious, but whatever. And that happened like

707
00:41:24,165 --> 00:41:26,965
Speaker 1: all of the time, and then you know, other things

708
00:41:27,005 --> 00:41:28,485
Speaker 1: kind of started to happen. I would kind of just

709
00:41:28,565 --> 00:41:31,565
Speaker 1: joke that I had a ghost because I was just like, yeah,

710
00:41:31,605 --> 00:41:34,325
Speaker 1: like that's the only thing that makes sense, right, And

711
00:41:34,405 --> 00:41:36,205
Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of funny. At first. I

712
00:41:36,285 --> 00:41:42,045
Speaker 1: was like so quirky and weird. So fun having a ghost. Yeah,

713
00:41:43,165 --> 00:41:45,885
Speaker 1: so like co tell my co workers and everything, and

714
00:41:45,925 --> 00:41:48,205
Speaker 1: like stuff just like I mean started falling, like cups

715
00:41:48,205 --> 00:41:50,165
Speaker 1: would fall off the tables, like I mean just stuff

716
00:41:50,245 --> 00:41:54,445
Speaker 1: was just like no, no, that's not it was that

717
00:41:54,645 --> 00:41:57,405
Speaker 1: and like it just kind of started to be on

718
00:41:57,485 --> 00:42:00,605
Speaker 1: the table, like in the middle of the table. It

719
00:42:01,205 --> 00:42:03,965
Speaker 1: all off. And then like my dog would also do

720
00:42:04,085 --> 00:42:06,845
Speaker 1: kind of weird things like looking in particular places, like

721
00:42:06,885 --> 00:42:09,565
Speaker 1: barking kind of randomly like whatever, thought nothing of it,

722
00:42:09,605 --> 00:42:14,925
Speaker 1: He's a dog. And then there was one night I

723
00:42:14,965 --> 00:42:16,845
Speaker 1: was like so tired. I think it was like a

724
00:42:16,885 --> 00:42:18,245
Speaker 1: long day, like I had a shoot it was a

725
00:42:18,245 --> 00:42:21,645
Speaker 1: shoot day. Um, so I was like I had worked

726
00:42:21,805 --> 00:42:23,565
Speaker 1: a lot of hours. It was really tired, and I

727
00:42:23,605 --> 00:42:25,765
Speaker 1: just like went straight to bed. I like didn't even

728
00:42:25,765 --> 00:42:29,685
Speaker 1: bother to take my contacts out, so tired. And while

729
00:42:29,725 --> 00:42:32,405
Speaker 1: I'm asleep, dead asleep, I just all of a sudden

730
00:42:32,445 --> 00:42:34,405
Speaker 1: just like wake up and like my eyes just open

731
00:42:34,765 --> 00:42:38,605
Speaker 1: and I see a figure and I'm like, oh good,

732
00:42:38,845 --> 00:42:42,165
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh what is that? And I'm like

733
00:42:42,245 --> 00:42:44,165
Speaker 1: I I can see because I have my contacts in

734
00:42:44,445 --> 00:42:46,365
Speaker 1: and I'm like that that is a figure and it

735
00:42:46,485 --> 00:42:49,365
Speaker 1: is like kind of hovering off the ground, like just

736
00:42:49,525 --> 00:42:51,445
Speaker 1: kind of like what you would have met, like dark

737
00:42:51,485 --> 00:42:56,365
Speaker 1: long hair like kind of wearing like a white cloak

738
00:42:56,405 --> 00:42:59,405
Speaker 1: if you not cloak, but like a gown if you will.

739
00:42:59,885 --> 00:43:03,245
Speaker 1: And she was just kind of like swaying side to side.

740
00:43:04,285 --> 00:43:07,965
Speaker 1: I can not were you not terrifying? I know, I

741
00:43:08,085 --> 00:43:10,525
Speaker 1: was like ghost or not real. I was like this

742
00:43:10,565 --> 00:43:13,005
Speaker 1: makes no sense. I was like, okay. It was like

743
00:43:13,285 --> 00:43:14,685
Speaker 1: in front of my dresser and I was like, okay,

744
00:43:14,725 --> 00:43:16,765
Speaker 1: what what did I put all my dresser that could

745
00:43:16,805 --> 00:43:18,405
Speaker 1: be making this? And I'm like, god, it's weird because

746
00:43:18,405 --> 00:43:20,205
Speaker 1: I have my context and like I can actually see

747
00:43:20,725 --> 00:43:23,325
Speaker 1: and so I was like, well, I just cleaned, so

748
00:43:23,405 --> 00:43:25,485
Speaker 1: there's really nothing there. And I was like I don't know,

749
00:43:25,605 --> 00:43:29,085
Speaker 1: like what what is it? Like, I couldn't. I couldn't

750
00:43:29,125 --> 00:43:32,445
Speaker 1: figure it out. So turn the light on and it

751
00:43:32,525 --> 00:43:34,605
Speaker 1: kind of it just like dissipates and I'm like, okay,

752
00:43:34,605 --> 00:43:36,485
Speaker 1: there's like nothing there, like I saw it before and

753
00:43:36,525 --> 00:43:38,845
Speaker 1: now it's not there. And then I was like, okay,

754
00:43:38,925 --> 00:43:40,725
Speaker 1: I'm just being crazy. There's something wrong with me. I'm

755
00:43:40,765 --> 00:43:45,125
Speaker 1: dreaming whatever. Turn the light back off and it comes

756
00:43:45,165 --> 00:43:47,525
Speaker 1: back and so I'm like, well, I guess I'm sleeping

757
00:43:47,525 --> 00:43:50,525
Speaker 1: with the lights on because that's just too scary. Didn't

758
00:43:50,565 --> 00:43:52,445
Speaker 1: sleep the rest of the night obviously, because I was

759
00:43:52,445 --> 00:43:56,205
Speaker 1: so scared, you know, telling everybody going to work, I'm like, y'all,

760
00:43:56,765 --> 00:43:58,085
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be lo lose, but I have a

761
00:43:58,125 --> 00:44:01,085
Speaker 1: scary ghost. How did you even function? I can't even

762
00:44:01,085 --> 00:44:03,805
Speaker 1: think of like making breakfast the next day, Like I

763
00:44:03,925 --> 00:44:06,845
Speaker 1: just it scares me too. It was pretty scary. So

764
00:44:07,205 --> 00:44:09,205
Speaker 1: I was just like whatever, like I had to have

765
00:44:09,245 --> 00:44:12,325
Speaker 1: been dreaming, but like it was real as all get out.

766
00:44:13,005 --> 00:44:16,405
Speaker 1: And so then like my co worker, you know, I

767
00:44:16,365 --> 00:44:18,925
Speaker 1: always told her about it, but she would watch my

768
00:44:18,965 --> 00:44:21,485
Speaker 1: dog at my apartment sometimes, and so there was one

769
00:44:21,525 --> 00:44:25,725
Speaker 1: time she was watching us and she was like, I

770
00:44:25,765 --> 00:44:27,845
Speaker 1: was just sitting there watching TV and her in the

771
00:44:27,925 --> 00:44:30,725
Speaker 1: cup went just flying, like she heard the sound of

772
00:44:30,765 --> 00:44:32,765
Speaker 1: it going from the middle of the table to like

773
00:44:33,325 --> 00:44:36,645
Speaker 1: sliding off, which it wasn't sliding because it had been

774
00:44:36,645 --> 00:44:40,085
Speaker 1: sitting there forever, and just went shooting off the table.

775
00:44:40,605 --> 00:44:42,845
Speaker 1: And she was like, oh my god, I'm experiencing this

776
00:44:42,965 --> 00:44:45,005
Speaker 1: ghost the Taylor's been telling you about. So she like

777
00:44:45,125 --> 00:44:47,845
Speaker 1: left the apartment. She took my dog and she stayed

778
00:44:47,885 --> 00:44:50,325
Speaker 1: somewhere else. She was like, yours apartment's too scary, and

779
00:44:50,405 --> 00:44:52,565
Speaker 1: I was like, oh yeah, yeah, that's glad as you know,

780
00:44:53,445 --> 00:44:56,925
Speaker 1: and so okay, So that happened. And then there was

781
00:44:56,965 --> 00:44:58,965
Speaker 1: a time where I kind of woke up in the

782
00:44:58,965 --> 00:45:02,685
Speaker 1: middle of the night and I heard this like electric sound,

783
00:45:03,045 --> 00:45:07,885
Speaker 1: electricity like snapping sound, and I look over like in

784
00:45:07,965 --> 00:45:10,405
Speaker 1: my slumber, thinking like it was my alarm, and I

785
00:45:10,485 --> 00:45:12,605
Speaker 1: look over to like go hit it, and it's like

786
00:45:12,645 --> 00:45:19,165
Speaker 1: this glowing blue orb and I'm like, that's really scary.

787
00:45:19,205 --> 00:45:22,685
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not I'm not touching that. I'm

788
00:45:22,725 --> 00:45:25,205
Speaker 1: not And I was like, so I would always like

789
00:45:25,245 --> 00:45:27,645
Speaker 1: text my dad and be like, Dad, Gladys is back,

790
00:45:28,085 --> 00:45:32,005
Speaker 1: you know. And then the last thing that I will say, wait, okay,

791
00:45:32,125 --> 00:45:34,685
Speaker 1: hold with the blue or yeah, so you just didn't

792
00:45:34,685 --> 00:45:36,645
Speaker 1: touch it and you fell back asleep. Now I didn't

793
00:45:36,645 --> 00:45:39,205
Speaker 1: fall back asleep. I was just awake. I was like, well,

794
00:45:39,205 --> 00:45:42,205
Speaker 1: I was really scary, Like my heart was pounding, racing,

795
00:45:42,285 --> 00:45:44,485
Speaker 1: like but when you turn the lights on, it was gone.

796
00:45:44,565 --> 00:45:46,005
Speaker 1: But it was light in my room because it was

797
00:45:46,045 --> 00:45:48,085
Speaker 1: like it was like early morning, so like my room

798
00:45:48,125 --> 00:45:51,325
Speaker 1: was relatively light, so it wasn't like pitch black. It

799
00:45:51,405 --> 00:45:53,365
Speaker 1: was like six am or something in the summer. It

800
00:45:53,485 --> 00:45:56,045
Speaker 1: just disappeared like when you saw it. Yeah, it like

801
00:45:56,205 --> 00:45:58,685
Speaker 1: it like snapped and then it was just like gone.

802
00:45:58,765 --> 00:46:02,525
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh my god's so weird. Oh

803
00:46:02,605 --> 00:46:06,445
Speaker 1: my gosh. And then the last thing happened that was

804
00:46:06,525 --> 00:46:09,885
Speaker 1: like the straw that broke the camel's back. Is that

805
00:46:10,005 --> 00:46:13,005
Speaker 1: the term is. I was laying in bed again asleep

806
00:46:13,085 --> 00:46:16,205
Speaker 1: early morning. It was always kind of like early morning

807
00:46:16,725 --> 00:46:20,525
Speaker 1: that it would happen, and the bottom part of my

808
00:46:20,565 --> 00:46:25,405
Speaker 1: mattress lifted up and dropped, and I was like I

809
00:46:25,525 --> 00:46:28,845
Speaker 1: felt it. I like experienced it. I like you know

810
00:46:28,885 --> 00:46:30,525
Speaker 1: what I mean. Like before it was all like these

811
00:46:30,605 --> 00:46:33,445
Speaker 1: visual things and like whatever, like didn't affect me in

812
00:46:33,445 --> 00:46:36,045
Speaker 1: any way, but like this, I felt it and it

813
00:46:36,165 --> 00:46:40,325
Speaker 1: was like an actual like the bottom part of the

814
00:46:40,325 --> 00:46:43,565
Speaker 1: mattress lifted up and then dropped, and I was like, okay,

815
00:46:43,645 --> 00:46:46,725
Speaker 1: I think it's time to move. And is that why

816
00:46:46,765 --> 00:46:51,245
Speaker 1: you moved? Yeah, Oh my gosh, Taylor. I was like,

817
00:46:51,285 --> 00:46:52,885
Speaker 1: this is too, I mean that, and like there were

818
00:46:52,885 --> 00:46:55,485
Speaker 1: a couple of other reasons, but how like the windows

819
00:46:55,485 --> 00:46:59,045
Speaker 1: were painted and there is no air conditioning. Yeah, and yeah,

820
00:46:59,125 --> 00:47:01,685
Speaker 1: and that makes sense too, and no way to like

821
00:47:01,725 --> 00:47:05,485
Speaker 1: wash my dishes besides my tub. That's another good reason.

822
00:47:06,245 --> 00:47:08,485
Speaker 1: And then that's when I was like, I need somebody

823
00:47:08,485 --> 00:47:10,005
Speaker 1: to live with me so that I can live in

824
00:47:10,045 --> 00:47:14,325
Speaker 1: better conditions. So so now my sister lives with me.

825
00:47:14,565 --> 00:47:16,885
Speaker 1: But yeah, so I don't believe in ghosts, but I

826
00:47:16,925 --> 00:47:20,005
Speaker 1: lived with one. And her name was Gladys. And you know,

827
00:47:20,325 --> 00:47:22,885
Speaker 1: she never like harmed me, but she did scare the

828
00:47:23,005 --> 00:47:26,365
Speaker 1: bit Jesus out of me. Wait, why was her name Gladys?

829
00:47:26,645 --> 00:47:30,365
Speaker 1: Oh that was just kind of a just to name.

830
00:47:30,525 --> 00:47:32,765
Speaker 1: Just seems like she looks like a Gladys to me

831
00:47:33,485 --> 00:47:38,805
Speaker 1: because we saw her. Wow. Well yeah, so okay, I'm

832
00:47:38,845 --> 00:47:42,645
Speaker 1: glad you're safe. I'm okay. And I did fear for

833
00:47:42,685 --> 00:47:45,085
Speaker 1: a while that she was going to travel with me,

834
00:47:46,205 --> 00:47:48,965
Speaker 1: but she did not. She It's taking everything to me

835
00:47:49,045 --> 00:47:51,565
Speaker 1: to not like go to my old apartment and be like, hey,

836
00:47:52,045 --> 00:47:56,125
Speaker 1: have you experienced some weird stuff? Like I want to

837
00:47:56,165 --> 00:47:58,205
Speaker 1: talk to the people that live there now. So that

838
00:47:58,365 --> 00:48:00,725
Speaker 1: is my you can you know, believe me or not whatever,

839
00:48:00,885 --> 00:48:02,805
Speaker 1: But it was a real thing that happened to me,

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Speaker 1: and really scary, So look out for all the those

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Speaker 1: ghosts out there. Look out for all those ghosts out listen.

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Speaker 1: I respect, I respect to them. I just want to

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Speaker 1: say like, I don't want I don't want any of that.

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Speaker 1: I'm just listening here as an observant listener. Okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just don't want to get in trouble. Yeah, So

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Speaker 1: look out for those ghosts and vampires, you guys. But

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Speaker 1: until then, we'll have another episode next week. Thank you

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