157 Year Old House | True Paranormal Stories & Spooky Folklore | Ep #57

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Andy, how many ghosts do you
have in your home?

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That's too many ghosts.
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Settle in for a true strange
story here with Madam Strange

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Ways.
My 157 year old house by Andy.

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I've never had anything
unexplained happened to me in my

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life until I moved into my new
house.

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The house is old, 157 years and
has seen 20 plus families come

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and go since it was built.
I've also recently confirmed

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through old records that at
least two people have died

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inside the house.
Back story aside, I don't feel

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scared in this house at all.
I've never had the classic

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something is wrong moment that
I've always heard happens.

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I actually love this house and
feel nothing but comfort.

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However, I've had three specific
situations happen that I

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legitimately cannot explain.
And believe me, I want to.

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First, I was grabbed from behind
while doing the dishes shortly

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after moving in, like someone
short was behind me, hugging my

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waist.
It was light but unmistakable.

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I froze, and as soon as I
gathered the courage to turn

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around, there was nothing there.
I was alone.

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The second occurrence was
probably the worst of them.

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I was making dinner one night in
the kitchen with company and I

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mentioned out loud that I hadn't
eaten this dish in a long time.

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Clear as day.
I heard a male voice ask what's

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that from an empty doorway
around the corner.

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My guest immediately told me she
heard it too.

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The most recent was actually
reported by a neighbor.

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I was outside gardening and he
was walking by.

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We said hello casually and he
stopped for a second on the

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sidewalk and said, hey, this
might be a weird question, but

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who's the woman that stands in
the window upstairs?

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I see her sometimes when I walk
by.

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That was a fun one to try and
explain.

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Andy, how many ghosts do you
have in your home?

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That's too many ghosts.
That's crazy.

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OK, Andy, first of all, before
we get started, Andy, thank you

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so much for allowing me to Share
your story on the show.

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Really appreciate it.
But how many ghosts do you have?

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That's OK.
We've got the little kid,

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presumably a kid hugging you
from behind, right?

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Which is aw, that's sweet and
also all sad.

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We've got the man who only shows
up when there's food being made,

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which is a typical classic.
And then we've got the woman in

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the window.
No, I, the woman in the window

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is my least favorite out of out
of all three of those ghosts.

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I don't like it.
But it is good, however, that

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the vibes aren't bad, that the
vibes are good in the house, and

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that you seem to be living in a,
in a ghost hostel or a ghost

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hotel or a ghost halfway house
somewhere where ghosts are

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hanging out, but you didn't
invite them, but presumably they

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were there before you were.
So really, who's who is the

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intruder?
OK.

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And typically when you hear that
someone hears or sees multiple

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ghosts, especially so close
together, typically you might

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call them a psychic medium or a
spirit medium.

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It's the same thing.
So basically someone who can

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communicate with the dead while
us normies can't.

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However, that neighbor saw the
window lady.

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That's the only reason we know
the window lady exists is

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because a neighbor saw the
window lady ghost and then that

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guest heard the hungry man
ghost.

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So clearly it's not just Andy
that are seeing these things.

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So maybe, Andy, maybe you're not
the psychic medium here.

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Or are you?
Because some say that psychic

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mediums make it easier for
spirits to contact us.

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Or I mean, I don't know, maybe
they're like drawn to psychic

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mediums.
Like they know who can talk to

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them and so they want to hang
out near them.

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I mean, that's understandable.
So Andy, are you a psychic

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medium or maybe a psychic large?
I'll, I'll save myself out.

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No, wait, but hold on.
I'm coming back.

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I'm going to be here for a
little bit longer.

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Hold on a minute, because Andy
shared two more stories with me

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over DMS that I want you to
hear.

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I'm not sure if Andy has shared
these anywhere else, but I'm

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going to call it.
I'm just going to go on a limb

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and say it's exclusive content.
Exclusive strange content.

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So Andy says there's actually
two more situations that

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happened.
The first was during the tail

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end of COVID.
I think this would have been

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around 2022.
At that time, I worked in a

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store that was temporarily shut
down while there was a local

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outbreak.
So I worked from home, attending

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meetings and speaking with team
members over Zoom.

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During one of those calls, I was
talking to one of my employees

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about my house and some of its
history, just casual

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conversation before I got to the
real subject we were supposed to

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discuss.
One of the items I found under

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an old floorboard was an iron
key.

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I'm pretty sure it's from the
1800s.

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I kept it, obviously, and stuck
it in a spot inside a typesetter

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drawer that I hung on the wall.
Pause.

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Because I love typesetter
drawers.

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I want 1.
You know I love.

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I love little Knick knacks.
Little tiny little things.

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I love them so much.
Knick knack Paddywhack.

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Give me more Knick knacks and
also a typesetter drawer to put

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on my wall.
I want 1.

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I don't have one and I'm always
on the lookout for him, but I'm

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jealous that you have one.
Anyway, I can see it in my

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mind's eye.
I can see your little setup with

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the iron key in the typeshedder
drawer, and it feels so

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satisfying to picture.
OK, all right.

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Continuing.
As I was speaking about the

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house, I felt something fly past
me from behind my head.

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The employee stopped talking
right then and said, I think I

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saw something just fly off your
wall behind you.

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I got up and looked around and
finally found the key lying on

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the carpet about 10 feet away
from the wall.

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I can't in any way explain how
that one single item could have

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chosen to remove itself from the
wall, especially when it's the

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one thing in that collection of
random items that belongs to the

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house, which is very spooky.
But hold on, there's more.

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The second situation has
happened a couple of times in

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the main downstairs bathroom,
which used to be the main

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bedroom of the house.
Interesting, I have had the very

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distinct feeling of a cat
brushing up and dragging a tail

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against my legs.
Now I do have two cats, but they

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weren't in the room at the time.
I thought I could be wrong but

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found them both curled up on the
couch asleep.

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The first time I thought I was
just feeling things.

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The second time the door was
actually closed.

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So apparently I have ghost
kitties as well, which honestly

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makes me smile.
And it makes me smile too, Andy,

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I love the idea of ghost
kitties.

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That's so cute.
At least we know there's cats on

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the other side.
That's a relief.

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But hold on, because the key
flying across the room.

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What do you mean?
You know what?

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It's time for the paranormal
versus skeptical theories, which

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is something that we, the royal
strange we do on the show.

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I like to not only talk about
what paranormal or folkloric

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explanations there might be, but
also the mundane, the skeptical,

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the naturalistic.
We like to give both options.

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Again, the strange royal we,
there's just me.

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It's just, it's just me.
I like to present both because

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as someone who used to be kind
of cripplingly terrified and

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anxious about invisible things
like the paranormal happening to

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me, what was really helpful was
learning that I can feel afraid

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and not be in danger, and you
too can feel afraid and not be

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in danger.
And in order to feel like you

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can feel afraid and not be in
danger, to me, what's helpful is

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to know that there are multiple
explanations, that just because

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something is unexplained doesn't
mean there isn't an explanation.

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Now, sometimes I sure don't know
what the explanation is, but at

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least we know there are multiple
options.

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And so in this case, we will be
moving on to paranormal versus

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skeptical theories.
So I do think a skeptic would

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have to wonder exactly how far
the key really went.

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Like, Andy, I know you said it
was 10 feet, but was it really

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10 feet?
Or, you know, like, I don't

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know, do you do something in
your job in which you do have to

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constantly, consistently eyeball
10 feet?

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In which case maybe it was 10
feet, but maybe it wasn't 10

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feet, maybe it was 5 feet.
I don't know.

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I'm not really good at distance.
I would not be able to tell you

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with any sort of confidence how
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So Andy, maybe you are better at
distance than me, but I think

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that a skeptic would have to ask
that question.

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How far did it really go?
But honestly, it's something

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that I think a normal skeptic
would say is that did that even

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really happen?
Not did Andy make it up?

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That's not the question, but
more like, was the key

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previously knocked down from the
typesetter drawer?

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And then did the cats kind of
knock it around 10 feet away

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from the wall from where it was?
And then, I don't know,

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something else made it feel like
something flew off of the wall.

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But then you've got your
witness, you've got someone who

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saw it, so it wasn't just you
experiencing it.

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But I do think that a skeptic
would say, and I do also agree

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with the concept of Occam's
razor, which is the simplest

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explanation with the fewest
assumptions is usually correct.

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Usually, but not always.
So what I'm saying is I'm sure

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that there's many skeptics out
there who would probably say

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that the simplest explanation
for any undocumented paranormal

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activity is that it simply
didn't happen at all in the

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first place.
Which, you know, I don't love

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that take.
I just, I don't love it, Boo.

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It's not, it's not fun.
And it is a little bit

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disrespectful to people like
Andy who have experienced these

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things.
But believe me, I need you to

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trust me when I say when I'm
reading people's stories to

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decide which ones to feature on
the show.

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I try to be extremely discerning
and a little bit skeptical

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because the point of the show is
to give you the truest and

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explained stories, things that
could happen to anyone, things

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that could happen to you or me.
So I don't feature stories that

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I think are made-up whole cloth,
if that wasn't already clear.

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I've been kind of wanting to
address that on the show for a

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little bit.
So thank you for allowing me

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that tiny little rabbit hole
going down that explanation.

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All right, so here's the thing
for another actual skeptical

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theory.
There have been instances of

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poltergeist cases.
Poltergeist cases where the

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activity wasn't staged, but was
naturally occurring.

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Like, no, not like actual
poltergeists, like wind

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currents.
I know this was driving me crazy

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because I know I researched a
case where that actually

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happened, where there were wind
currents coming in through the

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chimney and that was what was
making things fly around the

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room.
And they thought it was a

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poltergeist, but actually it was
wind currents.

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And I did a lot of research on
it, and I know that it was

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around my research for the
Enfield Poltergeist episode, or

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at least I feel very strongly
that it was.

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But I cannot for the life of me
find the original source of the

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story.
If you know what it is, let me

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know about
strangeways@gmail.com.

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But even if it was some sort of
strange air current in the room

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that flew the key off of the
typesetter drawer, why was it

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only the key that was magically
thrown from where it was at?

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Because, you know, keys aren't
like old timey, iron keys aren't

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light.
So how did that happen, I ask

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you?
As for the ghost Kitty, I do

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feel pretty strongly that a
mundane explanation of that is

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just tactile hallucinations,
like when your phone vibrates in

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your pocket.
But oh, look at that.

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Your phone isn't even in your
pocket.

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It's across the room and it
didn't go off at all.

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It's not like you psychically
knew it was ringing.

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It's it's just a tactile
hallucination.

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It's like that.
I mean, I constantly, and I mean

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nightly feel the telltale
presence of a cat jumping up on

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my bed only to look and there is
no cat.

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I mean, sometimes it is Mochi,
but while Mochi is in bed with

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me, I will also feel something
like a cat jump on the bed and

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I'll think, oh, it must be
Cleocatra.

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And then I look, no Cleocatra.
Oh, OK, so maybe it's a ghost

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cat.
Maybe it's the ghost of my past

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Kitty cat, or maybe it's a
tactile hallucination.

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And As for the original story in
this episode that we heard at

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the beginning, maybe it's a mix
of auditory and visual

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pareidolia.
Pareidolia.

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Hold on.
OK, Google, how do you pronounce

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pareidolia?
What if it's pareidolia?

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That's pronounced pareidolia.
OK, great.

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Pareidolia.
Got it on the first try.

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Maybe it's anyway.
Maybe it's a mix of auditory and

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visual pareidolia where and you
see faces where there are no

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faces, like seeing Jesus on a
piece of toast.

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Or okay, this, this is maybe not
no, this is a great example.

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OK, You know those like dog, the
memes of like the dogs where

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it's like fried chicken or
goldendoodle and it's got

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pictures of fried chicken and
then also pictures of stupid

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goldendoodles and you can't tell
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Or my favorite, the the
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And the blueberry muffins look
exactly like little Chihuahua

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faces.
They look exactly, exactly like

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it.
It's maybe it's like that visual

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and auditory because you can
have auditory pareidolia too.

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Like you hear something and you
think it's something else and

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it's not, not a face
necessarily, but you know, but

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again, you know, even if it was
auditory pareidolia, the guest

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did hear the Hungry Man guy.
She heard him.

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So you both heard him.
So could it really be

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pareidolia?
I don't know.

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I don't know.
I don't have the answers.

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I sure wish I did.
About moving on to the actual

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fun part, the paranormal stuff.
I mean, honestly, Andy, you

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might just be a psychic medium.
Honestly, you're drawing human

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and ghost cats both to you like
moths to a flame.

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Which paused, because did you
know that moths aren't drawn to

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flames and actually really badly
do not want to be anywhere near

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the flame at all, and their
intent is to be nowhere near the

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flame.
All right, here we go from

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sciencealert.com.
We're going down a little rabbit

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hole.
Here we go.

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Hold on to your butts.
Insects evolved mechanisms based

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on the fact that throughout time
the sky has been significantly

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brighter than the land.
So when presented with a

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competing light source, flies,
moths, beetles, and so on find

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themselves in an erratic spiral
of continued course corrections,

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giving the illusion of an
infatuation with your porch

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light.
Contrary to the expectation of

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attraction, insects do not stare
directly toward the light the

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team described, clashing with
other signals for orientation

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like gravity.
The mixed messages give the

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unfortunate animals Vertigo.
It can trick Wasps into crashing

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into things and send dragonflies
plummeting toward the ground.

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Honestly, let's trick more
Wasps.

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Dragonflies, I don't like it.
Dragonflies, they can be spared,

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but let's trick more Wasps.
Wasps are not being tricked

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enough, I say.
Are you a wasp?

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Do you get Vertigo from flames
and porch lights?

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Let me know
madamstrangeways@gmail.com.

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Anyway, Andy, psychic
mediumship.

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OK, the call might be coming
from inside the house in which

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you are The house and the call
is the call is your apparent

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spirit mediumship.
Though Andy did tell me over DMS

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that things have been very quiet
lately.

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Perhaps a little too quiet.
So I'm glad for things to be

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nice and quiet for you, Andy,
because we don't want anything

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to escalate to the point where
the vibes in your house are

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thrown off.
We want vibes to stay good and

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the ghosts to stay chill in a
perfect world.

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And Andy, OK, even if you're not
some kind of medium, could it

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be, I don't know, Ley lines.
Ley lines, like Ley, have you

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heard of them?
Have you listening?

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Maybe not Andy, but you
specifically, have you heard of

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Ley lines?
I've mentioned them recently,

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but I realized I kind of don't
fully understand what they are.

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So here we go.
Here's another little rabbit

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hole.
Wikipedia.

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Ley lines are straight
alignments drawn between various

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historic structures, prehistoric
sites, and prominent landmarks.

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This sounds so boring, but hold
on.

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It's not just lines there, it's
woo woo, so it's fun.

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The idea was developed in early
20th century Europe, with Ley

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line believers arguing that
these alignments were recognized

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by ancient societies that
deliberately erected structures

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among them, along them, not
among them.

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Since the 1960s, members of the
Earth Mysteries movement and

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other esoteric traditions have
commonly believed that such Ley

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lines demarcate Earth energies.
See, I told you it was woo woo

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and serve as guides for alien
spacecraft.

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You didn't even know.
You didn't know that was where

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that was going at all, did you?
Did you know?

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Let me know,
manistrator@gmail.com.

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Did you know what Ley lines were
going to bring up?

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Aliens.
Are you an alien or a Ley line?

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Let me know Madam
strangeways@gmail.com, it

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continues.
Archaeologists and scientists

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regard Ley lines as an example
of pseudo archaeology and

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pseudoscience, meaning they
don't take it seriously even

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though it's really fun.
OK, so then you know, I'm like,

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let me pull up.
How do I find where the Ley

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lines are?
I'm Googling how to find Ley

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lines and there's a site, it's
pretty cool.

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So like it's like this GitHub
leyline Finder map thing.

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So I'm like, yeah, this is going
to be great.

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I'm going to see if there's any
leylines near where Andy is.

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And I'm actually don't think
that I know where Andy is, but I

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just, I'm like, are there any in
America?

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I'm like, I don't know if these
are supposed to be ancient.

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I don't know how.
Where are they?

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North America, maybe like in
Central America.

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But anyway, I pull up this
leyline Finder map to see where

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the Leylands are in the US, but
basically anywhere in the world

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that you click on, it's like, Oh
yeah, here's a Ley line.

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Dang.
Oh yeah, here's a Ley line

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that's going to some old castle
in Europe or something.

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Literally anywhere that you
click in the world, it just

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draws a line from that place to
an ancient prehistoric site or a

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castle.
So I just, I don't know, I don't

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think that's how Ley lines work.
So just like everywhere there's

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a Ley line.
That doesn't seem right.

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It feels like Ley lines are
specific places.

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You see what I'm saying?
So I don't know, either I was

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not using the map right or the
map is not done well.

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If you know of a better way to
find Ley lines, I'd be

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interested to
learnmoreoutofstrangeways@gmail.com

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let me know.
Maybe I don't know enough about

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Ley lines because I am just a
lay person.

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I'm a I'm a lay, lay person like
Layla Press.

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OK, All right, All right.
I'll see myself out.

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But really, I will see myself
out this time because because

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that's about it.
I mean, of course, you could say

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there were multiple deaths over
the years and I guess none of

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them are violent.
And everyone that died there is

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really chill in the afterlife.
But like, I just don't know.

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What are the odds of that?
What are the odds?

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But I think if I had to land on
a theory, Andy, you might be a

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psychic medium.
You might need to, you might

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need to hone your psychic medium
skills.

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Anyway, I hope everything stays
great in the house.

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I hope that you still love
living in that house.

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But if you, if you, Andy, listen
to me, if you meet another

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ghost, I'm going to need you to
tell me about it because I'm

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going to need to do an update.
If you meet a new character in

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the home, I'm going to need to
know.

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So let me know Madam
strangewayits@gmail.com.

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And if you listening, not Andy,
no, you, uh huh.

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I'm talking to you.
If you have a true strange story

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that you want to hear read on
the show, I'm going to need you

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to e-mail that to me
immediately,

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madamstrangeways@gmail.com.
Right now, Right now, I am

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waiting.
Not later, no.

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No, not tomorrow.
Not next week.

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Right now.
Remember that you can feel

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afraid and not be in danger.
You're safe here with me,

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probably.
Thank you for joining me for

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more true strange stories of the
unexplained.

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I'm running A1 Madam Show here,
so please do me a strange solid

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Leave me a rating on Apple or

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You can submit your own true
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See you soon, she said

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ominously.
I froze, and as soon as I

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gathered the courage.
Hey, hey, over here.

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Hey, you're still listening.
You're hey, look, listen, you're

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still listening.
Awesome.

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I love that.
I love to hear it.

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Here's the thing, if you're
still listening, why don't you

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pop over to patreon.com/madam
Strangeways, just, you know,

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just do just just a little, just
a little look, see, just a

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little window shopping.
You know, not only do you have

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access to Madam Strange Notes
content where I just kind of

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talk about whatever strange
things pop into my strange

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brain, but also you get a
special, special strange guided

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sleep meditation by me.
And don't you just love

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listening to the dulcet tones of
my voice as I lull you to sleep?

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And not into a, not into a
false, not lulling you into a

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false sense of security.
No, no, no lulling you to sleep.

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Doesn't it sound nice?
Check it out, Madam Strange

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ways.
Wait.

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Yeah.
You can go to

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madamstrangeways.com.
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patreon.com/madam.
Strange ways.

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OK?
Strange ways out.