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Speaker 2: Pacific north weird. Now our guest is Vince and Zunza.
Speaker 2: Was that good? I'm gonna try it all that? All right?
Speaker 2: Thank you? Thank you? Okay, So, Vince, let me tell
Speaker 2: you what I know about the Pacific Northwest, and then
Speaker 2: you you give me what you know. So I grew
Speaker 2: up in Kentucky and lived in Florida and in Pennsylvania
Speaker 2: and a little North California, but in little Texas at
Speaker 2: one point. And I think I've named everything I think
Speaker 2: and now Colorado. And the interesting thing is that when
Speaker 2: you're on that side of the world, and now it's
Speaker 2: different because we have the Internet and everybody talks to
Speaker 2: everybody and everybody can talk to anybody wherever they are
Speaker 2: in the world. But before you couldn't. Right, you knew
Speaker 2: your you knew your hood, you knew your crowd, right,
Speaker 2: you knew who was around you, right. And so if
Speaker 2: you're in Kentucky, you talk to the people you know.
Speaker 2: If you're big footing or ghost honey or whatever it is,
Speaker 2: you know the people in that genre where you are,
Speaker 2: and you might hear from if you're in Kentucky, you
Speaker 2: might hear about some people in Tennessee and maybe you'll
Speaker 2: go visit them, And maybe you know some people in
Speaker 2: Florida and you'll go visit them. And everybody visits each
Speaker 2: other's spots and that kind of thing. But when you're
Speaker 2: over there, you don't know anybody. In the Pacific Northwest,
Speaker 2: we don't know anybody. And then you start watching shows
Speaker 2: like Monster Quest or whatever at one point, right, and
Speaker 2: then you start picking up names from these other areas
Speaker 2: of the country or world. And that's how you might
Speaker 2: pick up somebody's name, or you might just listen to
Speaker 2: the story in the encounter. But maybe you don't get
Speaker 2: their name either way, we didn't get a lot of
Speaker 2: the Pacific north West names. And it's interesting. This is
Speaker 2: what I find anybody wants to back me up, polace
Speaker 2: to do. But when you meet the people in the
Speaker 2: Pacific Northwest, like we I think on the other coast
Speaker 2: have been open to the fact, maybe because we've swarmed
Speaker 2: around a lot, that we know that these things that
Speaker 2: we've seen research, look for whatever, are everywhere. Pacific northwesterners,
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, it's just like, this is where it is,
Speaker 2: and it's nowhere else. And I don't think you'll ever
Speaker 2: leave your area to look anywhere else because you're you know,
Speaker 2: first of all, there's a ton there and it's really cool,
Speaker 2: there's no question about it, okay, And the terrain is unreal.
Speaker 2: It is like a story book. And then you walk
Speaker 2: into those forests that look like a story book and
Speaker 2: then there's creatures everywhere, and it's true. But is it
Speaker 2: do you find that as well, that you guys are
Speaker 2: kind of like, hey, we're in the Pacific Northwest or
Speaker 2: Pacific north weird. We don't need to go anywhere else.
Speaker 2: We got enough here.
Speaker 3: I think that's true. Uh, in a lot of ways,
Speaker 3: because because.
Speaker 2: When you're somewhere else, you're like, who are these people?
Speaker 2: Who are they? What? Should we know who they are?
Speaker 2: Or at least me, I'm like, should I know who
Speaker 2: these people are? Because they say it like you know,
Speaker 2: they're big time people. But really all it is is, hey,
Speaker 2: this you all all know each other. You all have
Speaker 2: had these names, uh, and people that have just grown
Speaker 2: own together with all of the stories and things, and
Speaker 2: we're just on the other coast and I've known who
Speaker 2: any of you all are and vice versa, but now
Speaker 2: it's all pulling together.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I just that's true that you know a
Speaker 3: lot of the personality the individual the storytellers may not
Speaker 3: be too well known outside of their community, but the
Speaker 3: things that happened here in the Pacific Northwest have spanned
Speaker 3: all across the nation and into the world. Like the
Speaker 3: term flying saucer came from here. The first recorded interaction
Speaker 3: with a man in black happened in the Northwest. The
Speaker 3: work Bigfoot comes from northern California about south of the
Speaker 3: Pacific Northwest is you can get but it's in this region,
Speaker 3: you know. And the things that make the place really special,
Speaker 3: I think are pretty universal. Like they've almost become archetypes
Speaker 3: in themselves. And no matter where you are, you know Bigfoot,
Speaker 3: you know what a flying sauce is. Those things are
Speaker 3: as I mean, as universal and recognizable as Mickey the
Speaker 3: House or the Golden Arches.
Speaker 2: Is everybody up there pretty open to listening to it
Speaker 2: from somebody.
Speaker 3: I find that most people are, you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: even if they're not true believers, they appreciate the fact
Speaker 3: that we kind of have these regional mascots. Like over here,
Speaker 3: Bigfoot is kind of big business in a lot of ways.
Speaker 3: Like pretty much any gift shop you go into, there's
Speaker 3: going to be just countless pieces of Bigfoot merchandise that
Speaker 3: there are. There are murals, statues, carvings to pick foot
Speaker 3: in almost like every single city and small town you
Speaker 3: could h that you drive through going through the Northwest.
Speaker 3: So there's a I feel like a universal appreciation for
Speaker 3: for these these strange entities that everyone, even if they
Speaker 3: don't necessarily believe in them, they they're proud of them.
Speaker 2: I found it interesting at one point with let's go
Speaker 2: to the Sasquatch to to the Bigfoot, I remember talking
Speaker 2: to somebody from the Pacific Northwest and I had said, uh,
Speaker 2: we were talking about the differences across the country, and
Speaker 2: I had thought that they seemed to be my impression.
Speaker 2: I didn't know at the time. I hadn't been out
Speaker 2: there yet, but my impression was the Bigfoot were bigger
Speaker 2: where you guys were, and that particular person said that
Speaker 2: they thought they would be bigger where I was. I
Speaker 2: found that interesting. But your all's terrain is like a
Speaker 2: story book. It's absolutely amazing where you could walk into
Speaker 2: forested area in your part of the country and not
Speaker 2: come across some of the things, like if you were
Speaker 2: in Kentucky or in Florida, where you're going to run
Speaker 2: across some huge snakes and crazy bugs and all sorts
Speaker 2: of just horrific things. Everywhere. It's really not that way
Speaker 2: up there just seems cleaner. You don't have all these
Speaker 2: tangled up messes when you walk through the woods. It's
Speaker 2: just amazing to me. I couldn't believe it. I didn't
Speaker 2: think it was real. And I grew up going to
Speaker 2: King's Island and Disney World living in Florida, and they
Speaker 2: really did create the Pacific Northwest on those log rides
Speaker 2: or some of the other rides. And when I went
Speaker 2: to your part of the country for the first time.
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it. I thought it was at a
Speaker 2: theme park. They nailed it so well, it's just beautiful
Speaker 2: where you guys are.
Speaker 3: I agree. I've been here my whole life and I'm
Speaker 3: never not in awe of all the different types of
Speaker 3: terrain and natural bet that is just a car trip
Speaker 3: away from wherever you are. You can visit the desert,
Speaker 3: you can visit the ocean, visit that these grand mountains,
Speaker 3: you can visit forests that you can just get lost
Speaker 3: in forever. And yeah, I think we're kind of almost
Speaker 3: like a Goldilocks zone.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's what I would say, Yes, yeah, yeah, Well
Speaker 2: give us some of the great stories from the Pacific
Speaker 2: North weird Okay.
Speaker 3: Well, one passion of mine has always been lighthouses. There's
Speaker 3: something about them that really it transfiss me. I feel
Speaker 3: like I'm stepping back in time whenever I'm around them.
Speaker 3: And there's some beautiful ones all along the Pacific Court
Speaker 3: coast of Washington, Oregon, York, and California. And any good
Speaker 3: lighthouse has to have a good ghost story. Oh yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: And there's a couple of ones that really stand out
Speaker 3: to me. One in particular as the Hasida Head Lighthouse
Speaker 3: that's a near Florence, Oregon, right off of the Highway
Speaker 3: one on one, beautiful scenic highway one on one that
Speaker 3: just pretty much just goes right down by the ocean
Speaker 3: for almost the entirety of the Organ Coast. And this lighthouse,
Speaker 3: it was built in eighteen ninety two. And it's actually
Speaker 3: not the lighthouse itself that haunted, but the caretaker's house
Speaker 3: right next to it that has all the hauntings. And
Speaker 3: for many, many years people have claimed to encounter this
Speaker 3: entity called the Gray League, also known as Rue are
Speaker 3: Uv like like Rue McClanahan. And in the seventies, this
Speaker 3: hast ahead white house and the property was leased to
Speaker 3: the Wayne Community College and they used as a coastal
Speaker 3: classroom and retreat and a group of students were playing
Speaker 3: with Aligi board and that spelled out the name Rue.
Speaker 3: But since then, yeah, caretakers have reported all kinds of
Speaker 3: encounters with what they call it a withered old lady
Speaker 3: that floats across rooms. Sometimes she'll scream in the middle
Speaker 3: of the night, She'll rattle dishes in the cupboard, pass
Speaker 3: through walls and closed doors. One really see a story
Speaker 3: involved a handyman that was doing some repairs on the
Speaker 3: outside of the house and he had accidentally broken the
Speaker 3: attic one of the attic windows with his ladder, so
Speaker 3: he climbs up the ladder to fix it, and he
Speaker 3: sees in the attic the gray Lady, and it just
Speaker 3: scares the heck out of him, and he's so frightened
Speaker 3: that he leaves the job, refuses to repair the window,
Speaker 3: and there's always broken glass in the attic. But later
Speaker 3: that night the caretakers say that they hear the sound
Speaker 3: of sweeping going on in the attic above them. The
Speaker 3: next day they go up there and find that all
Speaker 3: of the glass had been swept into a perfectly neat
Speaker 3: little pile. Oooh like. Yeah, but the gray Lady, it
Speaker 3: seems like she cares about the house, like she wants
Speaker 3: it kept well right, And apparently there's an old photograph
Speaker 3: that shows the house along with a tombstone in the
Speaker 3: front lawn. And the theory is that Rue was the
Speaker 3: wife of an old caretaker and her her child had
Speaker 3: died really young and had been buried on the property,
Speaker 3: so she's just there to take care of the property
Speaker 3: and try to find her her lost child, and she
Speaker 3: is very sad.
Speaker 2: When people tell you these stories, do you do? You
Speaker 2: go to the locations and then shoot stuff, and then
Speaker 2: you've included that into your YouTube.
Speaker 3: Sometimes there's there's a lot more stories than I've ever
Speaker 3: had time to actually put the film right. So in
Speaker 3: a certain way, you know, Pacific North weirds a YouTube channel,
Speaker 3: but it's also like a state of mind for me.
Speaker 3: So I'm just constantly, even if I'm not making a video.
Speaker 3: I love visiting these places. I love collecting the stories.
Speaker 3: I love collecting ephemera related to these weird places and
Speaker 3: these great tales. I haven't done any videos in particular
Speaker 3: about Hasid Ahead, but it's a story I just love telling.
Speaker 3: And who knows what the future will bring.
Speaker 2: Well, we've just got a couple minutes before the break,
Speaker 2: but I wonder if you can tell me about the blobs.
Speaker 3: I only have the Oakville Blobs, so that actually happened
Speaker 3: right near where I grew up. I grew up in
Speaker 3: a town called Rochester, Washington. Next town over is Oakville.
Speaker 3: It's this small logging town in Grace Harbor County. And
Speaker 3: on August seventh, nineteen ninety four, this weird blob rained
Speaker 3: down over the a small town, a police officer was
Speaker 3: patrolling at the middle of the night and it began
Speaker 3: to rain on his car, so he turns on his
Speaker 3: windshield wipers and noticed that it's not only rain, but
Speaker 3: the windshield wipers were smearing this gooe like substance over
Speaker 3: his windshield. So he gets that to examine it, and
Speaker 3: wearing gloves, examines the the go and he says it's
Speaker 3: kind of jello like, But soon, like within hours after
Speaker 3: the end of the substance, he gets very very ill.
Speaker 3: Other town residents, one in particular, Sunny Bark Clifts. She
Speaker 3: worked on a farmhouse in Ulkville and that morning found
Speaker 3: just tiny globules the size of the grains of rice
Speaker 3: that were like jellyfish like in nature in texture, and
Speaker 3: her mother got really set started experiencing extreme Vertico disneyness.
Speaker 3: Another resident named Beverly Roberts found a dead raven and
Speaker 3: a dead frog on the side of the road and
Speaker 3: they were surrounded by this blobi like substance. So something
Speaker 3: really weird was happening, and Sonny Barclett, she takes her
Speaker 3: mom to the doctor and the doctor diagnoses her with
Speaker 3: something called Menneer's disease, which is a disorder of the
Speaker 3: inner ear. But soon after the entire wating room is
Speaker 3: full of other Oakville residents, all with the same symptoms,
Speaker 3: and he diagnoses them all the same.
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