Chased in Appalachia | True Paranormal Stories from Reddit | Ep #32

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I live in the heart of
Appalachia and this is easily

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the most terrifying story of one
of my experiences by Doobie

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Doobie.
This.

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Story may be short or it may be
drawn out.

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I am recounting these events as
I type as it was honestly one of

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the most horrifying things I
have experienced and it brings

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me genuine stress to think
about.

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This happened maybe two or three
years ago.

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I live in southern West Virginia
and have for my entire life.

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The woods and mountains surround
every direction you look and

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night time is a darkness that
you can never dream of unless

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experienced.
I was with a friend, I'll call

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him Mark.
Mark was at my house 1 evening

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doing the usual things, watching
UFC, playing Xbox, etcetera.

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It was extremely late when we
finally got bored and decided to

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go for a walk on a nearby trail
to smoke a joint.

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This is not a particularly long
trail, but it is very dense in

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the woods that surround it and
it is easy to get freaked out

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when thinking of your
surroundings.

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We finally get to about halfway
into the trail about 30 minutes

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in, where we stop, pack our
joint, and stand on the trail to

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chill and talk.
The forest is very alive

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tonight.
There are always noises in the

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woods, but the amount of animal
activity for the time was

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unsettling.
At this point it was probably

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past 1:00 AM.
This was strange and kind of

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eerie, but not alerting, as any
sort of predatory animal in the

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area may cause a disturbance.
We finish smoking and continue

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our walk when almost immediately
the forest falls dead quiet.

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And as soon as the forest goes
quiet, there is a voice.

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It almost sounds like a mocking
humanoid voice, shaky and

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uncertain, almost like an old
children's toy.

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Like the ones with the crackly
speakers and robotic voice, if

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you know what I mean.
This immediately sets us off.

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We bolt directly down the
opposite length of the trail,

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but the sound does not gain
distance.

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It doesn't get closer per SE,
but no matter how far we ran

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down the trail, this eerie voice
remains the same volume, going

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over and over with no quieting
or stopping.

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At this.
Point I am convinced that we are

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in genuine danger, something I
have felt very few times.

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Finally after sprinting for who
knows how long, we exit the

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trail gasping for breath and
almost at the verge of tears of

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how frightening this was.
We begin to exit the trail.

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In about 5 minutes from the exit
there is a bone shaking, heart

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stopping, murderous scream from
directly behind us.

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I know what a Mountain Lion
sounds like.

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This was not an animal.
This was not someone playing or

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watching a movie.
This scream sent birds flying

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from nests and made my heart
drop into my stomach.

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It was the most genuinely
depraved and violent scream that

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I have ever heard.
This is a true story that I have

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only told to maybe three people,
all of whom seem to.

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Brush it off as false.
I've never been a person to push

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for the existence of the
paranormal or spiritual, but I

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genuinely believe I encountered
something inhuman in those

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woods.
Edit I know I will receive

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questions such as what the voice
was possibly saying or to

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explain the area and what
happened after.

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I genuinely cannot remember what
the voice was saying, if

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anything intelligible.
I don't know if I could

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understand it then, and I
certainly can't recall

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understanding it after several
years of blocking and out of my

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memory all that I recall.
Is that it was a fluctuating.

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Voice in pitch, shaking, almost
just joining sounds.

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Together.
After running from the scream at

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the end of the trail, we ran to
the car, which was only about 5

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more minutes from the.
Trail.

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So we got there relatively fast
from sprinting.

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Dooby dooby Doo dooby Doo like
zooby Zooby zoo anyone?

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OK.
Sorry, I've been thinking about

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it since I read the username.
You can't convince me there is

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no one in this world that can
convince me that sometimes these

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supernatural creatures don't
know exactly what they're doing

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and they're just messing with
us.

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Because if this really is
something supernatural or

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unexplained or paranormal,
etcetera, you know it didn't

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have to.
Scream.

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Like that at the end, they were
already scared.

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Creature, unknown, mysterious,
unexplained creature.

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They were already scared.
They were already running back

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to their car.
Completely unnecessary to scream

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right behind them like that.
Just totally unnecessary.

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Doobie Doobie.
Thank you again for allowing me

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to share this because what a
terrifying story.

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I I appreciate you letting me
share this on the show.

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So I do have some fairies, some
of them paranormal, some of them

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more naturalistic.
And mundane, as I tend to do,

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you know, 'cause.
I like to like to, I like to

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have a little balance, you know,
a little sweet with a little

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savory.
A little.

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Spooky with a little comforting
at least the the mundane is

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generally comforting not always
more comforting, but in some

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cases more comforting in this
case I think specifically.

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Before I get too deep into that
though, I did kind of want to

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address because I I read the
comments on the Reddit post and

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you know, I think it I do love
because I will also do the same.

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I do love when someone points
out that something could

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potentially.
Be a hallucination and.

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If you've listened to the show
more than once, you have

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probably heard me talk about
how.

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Common hallucinations are and
how they don't mean that you're

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crazy and how.
We just don't really talk about

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it, and so we don't realize how
common it is.

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I'm not going to go into a
hallucination conversation.

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Hallucination.
I guess that's basically just a

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typo, a misspelling of
hallucination, but someone in

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the comments was saying well.
You are smoking weed and weed

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can sometimes lead to
hallucinations.

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OK, but like probably not here.
I will say, yeah, that's totally

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possible and it is true that if
you are smoking the devil's

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lettuce.
Outside of your normal setting.

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You do feel way more high.
I don't know the science behind

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it.
I don't know the weed.

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Science.
I just know that it's true.

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So I I would say, yeah, maybe.
But they also specifically

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Doobie, Doobie clearly
specifically says that this is

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not the first time that they've
done this.

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This is not the first time that
they've smoked weed out in the

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forest.
I first of all, you wouldn't

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catch me in the Appalachian
forest, period, full stop.

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Let alone.
Inebriated in any way?

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So doobie, doobie, you're braver
than I am, but I don't think

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that that has anything to do
with this.

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I think that it's worth looking
at, but I think that we can

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discount anything to do with
being high, least of all because

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there were two people.
There was Doobie and Doobie's

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best friend.
And while, yes, there's such a

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thing as mass delusion, that's
completely a thing.

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And.
While yes.

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There is that French term that I
tried.

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Just now to.
To practice saying, but I can't,

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come on, I don't know.
I'm not good at it anyway.

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It means you like madness of
two.

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I don't think that's what this
is, so let's stop talking about

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it.
Please, Madam, please, let's

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continue.
So Appalachia not Appalachia.

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No, no, no, Appalachia.
Don't ask.

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Me.
Why?

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Please don't ask me because.
Then I'm going to look into it

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and we're.
Going to be here for an hour.

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So Appalachia, if you're
unfamiliar, is an infamous area

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of the United States.
The the specifically the

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Appalachian Mountains.
Did you know the Appalachian

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Mountains were actually formed
about ish?

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300 million years ago, that's
crazy that just like our

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Appalachian Mountains, like the
Appalachian Mountains in the

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United States and also.
In part of northeast Canada.

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That's crazy.
That's really old.

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That's so old.
That's so long ago, 300 million

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years ago.
They used to be as tall as the

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Himalayas, but they're shorter
now.

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OK, sorry, going back.
So there, there's some of the

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oldest mountains on Earth.
I wanted to know what is the

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oldest mountain on Earth?
And apparently it's the

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Barberton, I believe mountains
in South Africa.

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So there's that.
But in Nope, we've instead we've

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got the Appalachian Mountains.
They're not quite as old.

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But here's what that was so
fascinating is and I didn't know

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this till I was looking this up.
So the Appalachian Mountains, if

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you go, if you go way.
Back in time.

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Oh, I don't know how long ago.
Let's find out.

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OK, so Pangaea, which if you're
not familiar is back a very long

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time ago, specifically in the
Triassic and possibly Jurassic

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time period.
OK, so sorry.

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So 200 million years ago,
Pangaea had, it was basically

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back when the world had all of
the continents kind of smashed

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together just in one giant glob.
And then 200 million years ago,

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Pangaea started to break apart.
And when it broke apart, we

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actually saw that parts of the
Appalachian Mountains kind of

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stayed with a bunch of different
continents.

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So obviously we see it in North
America, but you also see it, it

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covers like Ireland, did I say
Norway, Norway.

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There's somewhere over, oh, the
Iberian Peninsula, so Spain and

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Portugal.
And then you also see Morocco

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has some of it.
Oh, and all of ice, all of

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Greenland.
I always get Iceland and

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Greenland mixed up, all of the
smaller one and just one coast

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of the larger 1.
So that's so interesting.

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So the Appalachian Mountains are
not just in North America,

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they're also in Europe, and
they're also partially.

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In Africa.
However, of course, in this

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specific story we are talking
about the North American,

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specifically the American
Appalachian Mountains.

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And I think this story in
particular is happening in West

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Virginia close to what's called
the New River, which should

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really instead be called the
extremely Old River because it

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is actually the oldest river in
the world.

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And how old is that?
I don't remember Hold.

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On let me check my notes up to
320 million.

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Years in age?
That's crazy.

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And like, apparently some
regions of the New River

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actually predate the Appalachian
Mountains.

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Themselves.
Also, fun fact, is it fun?

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It's it's happened.
It's a fact for sure.

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It's definitely a fact.
The New River goes N like it.

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Flows north when almost all.
The other rivers in the country

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go South.
There's probably more there.

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I'm having to hold myself back
from looking into what that

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means.
What does that mean Is that it's

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special?
I don't know.

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Why am I talking about how old
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OK, Well, obviously, you know, I
have a point.

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Well, I hope that you understand
that I did have a point because

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some of the theories that I've
been reading about Appalachia

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and why it's so scary and why
it's like, oh, you got to cover

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your curtain, cover your windows
with curtains at night, which I

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do anyway.
That's crazy to think that

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there's people out there that
need to be told that.

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But specifically, they're
telling you to do that if you

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live in Appalachia because of
the things that you will see.

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Or, I guess, the things that
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Or why it's like, don't whistle
or yeah, no, you shouldn't

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whistle because then something
might whistle back.

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But also, if you hear whistling
in the woods, no, you didn't.

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No, you didn't Go back inside.
close and lock the door. close

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the curtains or blinds if you
have them, Maybe both.

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Let's do both just to be safe.
But as a reason to explain why

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Appalachia has this huge amount
of like legendary creatures and

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cryptids and ghost stories and
hauntings etcetera, why is?

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That and so I've.
Heard some of the theories.

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Be that, well, you know,
Appalachia is, is ancient.

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It's ancient.
And so maybe there's something,

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you know.
Primal or something even

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primordial.
Even maybe because it's been

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around for so many millions of
years, it's possible that

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there's something, maybe not
otherworldly but definitely

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terrifying, that lives in those
mountains that we're not able to

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normally see because we're just
dumb squishy.

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Humans.
Who don't see in multiple

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divisions?
I don't know.

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But I feel like it's a
compelling.

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Argument well, maybe not
compelling, but it's scary to

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me, I guess like the thought
that like man, just like on a on

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on a purely primitive level,
thinking like, what do you mean

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we're not at the top of the food
chain, you know, thinking that

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something has survived this long
and the only way that we ever

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encounter it is in these really
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Very, very scary.
I mean, people go missing in

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Appalachia all the time.
Oh no.

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I'm wondering how often is it
super OK stop stop stop?

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I'm not going to.
OK, this is for This is a topic

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for another time.
Do you want to hear more about

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Appalachia from?
Me.

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E-mail me, Madam.
Strangeways@gmail.com So I can

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stop going off on rabbit holes
on this one because I want to

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get to the theories.
So if people are talking about

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maybe This is why there's
something to do with This is why

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there's so many scary things in
Appalachia is because it's just

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ancient.
It's just.

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So old, who knows what's there,
who knows what's out?

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There, hiding from humans.
For all this time.

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And I was, I was on board.
I was like, this is really,

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really scary.
I want to know more.

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That's a great theory.
Let's let's, let's dig in.

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So I thought, OK, if, if the
issue is the Appalachian

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Mountains exactly themselves and
how old they are, I was like,

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oh, I'll go look at other
cultures that also have remnants

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of the Appalachian Mountains.
Clearly that they're going to

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have the same level of scary
stuff there.

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And that's.
Just not what I'm.

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Finding, I'm not finding that
the level of scary shit, for

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lack of a better term, that
comes out of Appalachia in North

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America completely unmatched,
completely unmatched.

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And so.
I think.

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A more reasonable description
reason, I think.

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A more reasonable reason for all
of the hauntings and all the

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scary stuff to come out of
Appalachia in North America

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specifically is just the sheer
amount of human suffering that's

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happened there.
So of course there were

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indigenous people there.
I think specifically you're

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seeing a lot of Cherokee, and
especially in the region where

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the story happened in West
Virginia.

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I could be wrong.
Please correct me,

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madamstrangeways@gmail.com.
So the Indigenous people were

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here, and they obviously had
some cultural stories about the

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mountains and probably some
stories, you know, that are made

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to pass along wisdom, like, hey,
kids, don't go in the forest

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because you'll die.
Don't do that.

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So we'll tell scary stories.
But it's just impossible.

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To pick apart and figure out
what stories were actually from

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the indigenous peoples and which
came from the European settlers

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who came from, you know,
Germany, who came from all the

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Scots Irish, which I just
learned.

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I think I've looked this up
before, but I didn't retain it.

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Scots Irish means you're a Scott
who moved to Ireland.

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So the Scots, Irish, the
Germans, I guess just.

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English in general and then some
other various Europeans, they

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came over and they brought their
slaves from Africa, possibly

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from the Afro Caribbean too.
But I think specifically in the

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time of like the 1600s and the
1700s and the 1800s, well,

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specifically 1600 and 1700, I
think that was probably more

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likely to be from Africa.
It's closer to Europe, so it's

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more convenient.
Chattel slavery made more

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convenient by the their
proximity to Europe.

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That just sucks.
So first of all, whenever

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Europeans show up, that's not a
good time for the indigenous

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tribes.
Not good, right?

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But then you've got the
Europeans who've moved over here

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and while, yeah, they've almost
definitely had different types

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of hardship on their own, living
in a new world and it's it's

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just going to be.
Difficult.

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And you're going to starve.
And things.

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Aren't going to go how you want
them to go, and it's not.

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Good, it's not good.
And when you have that kind of.

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Amount of human suffering.
There's like a couple things

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that happened.
There's more than that, but just

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for the purpose of this
conversation.

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When you have.
That amount of human suffering

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in one location, you could argue
from a paranormal or a spiritual

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standpoint that it does kind of
like leave its mark like or a

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stain, you know, in the area.
And maybe that has something to

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do with the kinds of energy and
the kind of things that come out

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of that.
But also, if you look at it from

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a naturalistic standpoint, I
think it does make sense that if

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you are going through such
hardship that you do become very

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spiritual and you do develop
these very different spiritual

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beliefs that are this crazy
amalgamation of, you know,

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African and European, Nordic and
also indigenous Native American.

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So.
I think it's completely

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understandable.
Oh my God, hold on.

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I haven't even talked about the
Civil War.

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You want to talk about
suffering?

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You know, unmarked graves, like
just so much.

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Death.
So talk about leaving a stain on

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an area.
And OK, again, we're not even

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talking about the mines.
The mines, so much suffering and

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so much death.
So I think that's probably the

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reason why you see that sort of
stuff happening specifically

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with the North American
Appalachian Mountains and not.

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With the remnants.
Of the Appalachian Mountains

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that you find in the other
continents.

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So that's just my take.
There is a crazy amount of

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spooky, paranormal, supernatural
stuff that happens.

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It's like a hotbed for some of
the most famous American

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unexplained stories.
The Mothman.

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Everyone loves Mothman.
Who doesn't love Mothman?

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Mothman is also from West
Virginia specifically.

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Do you know the name of of the
town or city?

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Give you a moment.
Point Pleasant.

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Yay, everyone loves Mothman and
West Virginia again is where

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Doobie Doobie is based although.
I don't think this was.

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Spoiler alert.
I don't think this was Mothman.

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There wasn't a.
Bridge just to begin the Bell

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Witch.
Have you heard of the Bell

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Witch?
Said to be like the most famous

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haunting in America?
I think it was actually a

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poltergeist, though, so I don't
remember why.

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You know, maybe I need to do a
deep dive or I need to do an

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episode on the Bell Witch.
Do you want to hear about the

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Bell Witch?
Send me an e-mail, Madam

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Strangeways at gmailcom.
Also, I can't not mention the

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not Deer, which I've mentioned
in previous episodes.

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I think some of the very early
episodes, which I'm embarrassed.

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Don't go if you're listening to
this episode now.

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I don't love the idea of you
listening to an earlier episode

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if you haven't already listened
to it.

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Because I didn't know what I was
doing.

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I still barely know what I was
doing.

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Now I just, I, it's
embarrassing.

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It's just embarrassing.
It's embarrassing for people to

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see you not be perfect at
things.

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Or maybe not everybody has that
hang up, but I do.

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But you know what?
I had to start somewhere.

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So you.
Can go listen I guess.

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To the earlier episodes where I
do talk about not dear, very

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terrifying, then I mean just
really quickly, there is

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Bigfoot, obviously, who doesn't
love Bigfoot?

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If you love Bigfoot, I have a
Cryptid palooza episode about

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Bigfoot.
So go listen to that.

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Check that out.
Then there's like flavors of

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Bigfoot.
So there's like the Wood Booger

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and there's Sasquatch and
there's Grass Man, and then

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there's Sheep Squatch, which
from the drawing I'm looking at

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right now.
Doesn't look anything.

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Like a Sasquatch.
So I'm intrigued, but I am going

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to hold back and not look at it.
Then there's the apparently

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there's a chupacabra specific to
Appalachia, creatively called

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the Appalachian Chupacabra.
It feels like we could have been

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a little bit more creative with
that one.

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Now, if I had written this
episode like a good podcaster,

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that would have been a great
segue.

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But for now, we're going to talk
about.

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The naturalistic AKA mundane
explanations.

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For what might have happened.
So just as a reminder, if this

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is your first time listening to
the show, I like to offer.

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Possible.
Naturalistic explanations, and

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that is purely coming from the
angle of trying to show you that

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you can feel afraid and not be
in danger.

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So some of the things that we
see that are unexplained, maybe

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it's just it has a mundane
explanation and everything's

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fine and you don't need to be
scared of it anymore.

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And that's me.
That has helped me tremendously

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when I used to be really scared
about evil, invisible entities

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that could be possibly sitting
in the room right next to me

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trying to ruin my life.
That really helped me figuring

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out what's.
A mundane explanation for

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something.
That I'm experiencing.

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Hopefully it helps you.
Hopefully it helps someone

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listening.
So that's why I like to talk

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about naturalistic AKA mundane
explanations.

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We've already ruled out visual
hallucinations.

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I genuinely think that it's fair
to rule that out because there

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were two of them.
OK, so let's remove that.

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I will say though, that being
really scared or really stressed

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definitely interferes with the
way that you process information

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properly.
So if something.

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Was really, really scary out
there and both of them got.

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Really really scared.
Like I've.

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Said before, our brains are two
things super lazy, which I get

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it Same and they are pattern
seeking machines.

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And so when you combine those
two things together, what it

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means is that your brain just
takes a shortcut, especially if

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it needs to make a snap decision
and it's scared and it's trying

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to save your life.
That's when you see these like

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really sloppy assumptions that
your brain makes so it doesn't

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wait to have all the
information.

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It gets as much information as
it thinks it needs in order to

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tell you if you're in danger or
not.

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So if you've ever just been
spooked by something and then

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realized there was nothing,
like, I don't know, like

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sometimes I will see something
out of the corner of my eye and

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I'll get really scared.
And it was, you know, I don't

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know, like a shadow from
something in the window or the

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cat, one of the Cleocatra, maybe
it's Cleocatra.

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And Cleocatra has spooked me.
And I realized, Oh my God, no,

452
00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:02,400
everything's fine.
If you've ever been spooked like

453
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,560
that, where your heart just
feels like it's climbing into

454
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,960
your throat and it was so
nothing and you were scared over

455
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,720
nothing, That is your brain
trying to keep you safe saying,

456
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:16,680
oh, sorry, my bad.
I just I thought, oh, I thought

457
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,400
it was a monster or I thought it
was a a cougar.

458
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,200
Got to get out of here.
Hey, lady, get out of here.

459
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:29,280
Let's take your leopard print
clothing and and your Mai Tai.

460
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,480
No.
What drink would a cougar drink?

461
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,840
An appletini perhaps?
What is the one that a

462
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,080
Manhattan?
Take that.

463
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:41,960
Get out of here.
You cougar get it?

464
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:43,960
Because it's a cougar, because
it has two meanings.

465
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,760
OK, We're just going to move on.
So your brain is trying to tell

466
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:49,640
you, oh, you were in danger and
then actually you weren't in

467
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,840
danger at all.
That sort of thing happens,

468
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:55,080
especially when you're in the
dark and something has scared

469
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:56,240
you.
So do you see where I'm going

470
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,560
with this?
I think maybe there were other

471
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:03,280
things happening, and their
brains both interpreted it as

472
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:07,040
danger and understandably.
And so they start running, their

473
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:08,760
hearts pounding.
Their brain is telling them

474
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,600
they're in danger.
OK.

475
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,200
But then like, I don't know how
to explain that shriek that they

476
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,280
heard.
Maybe it wasn't like an.

477
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,880
Owl a screech owl.
OK Doobie.

478
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,560
Doobie specifically said like,
oh, it wasn't a big cat because

479
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,840
they know what those sound like.
So it wasn't that.

480
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:30,440
I would argue that when you're
in that state of fear, probably

481
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:37,120
you are not the best judge.
However, I do trust that they

482
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:41,040
know what they're talking about.
So I will just mention that that

483
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:45,320
it's possible that it was an
animal and like maybe Doobie.

484
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,360
Doobie knows what a big cat
sounds like, but maybe doesn't

485
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:53,720
hasn't had like some kind of owl
screech right in front of or

486
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,320
right behind them.
You know, I don't know.

487
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,760
I'm not I you're.
You're never going to.

488
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,240
Catch me in the Appalachian
Forest or the Appalachian

489
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:02,800
Mountains.
So I'm.

490
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:06,320
Never going to find out.
So those are two possible

491
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,280
explanations, but I do believe
that this happened.

492
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,680
Something happened and it
definitely scared them for sure

493
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:17,080
100%.
So now moving on to the

494
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,840
paranormal or supernatural
explanations for what might have

495
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:22,960
happened.
So I mentioned Bigfoot.

496
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,600
It could be Bigfoot.
Although you you, you as in

497
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:30,760
dooby dooby dooby dooby dooby
dooby Doo.

498
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:35,240
You did not smell anything
stinky.

499
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,200
You said in the comments because
someone else suggested Bigfoot.

500
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,200
I thought Bigfoot.
Someone else in the comments

501
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,600
suggested Bigfoot.
Well, they specifically asked

502
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,720
did you smell anything bad is
typically Bigfoot, Sasquatch,

503
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,040
etcetera, does have a smell that
comes along with it.

504
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:55,000
But I will say Bigfoot has these
vocalizations that it can make.

505
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:59,360
And if you have listened to my
Bigfoot episode, my

506
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:03,920
aforementioned Bigfoot episode,
you can hear clips of what's

507
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,200
called the Sierra.
Sounds which is.

508
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:11,360
It it allegedly captures
bigfoots because it's not big

509
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,520
feet plural.
You'll learn that in the episode

510
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:18,960
it it is allegedly capturing
Bigfoot's making what's called

511
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:23,120
samurai chatter, which basically
just sounds like Japanese men

512
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,560
yelling in the forest.
I mean, it's not English, but it

513
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,720
does sound like a human tongue.
And and Doobie.

514
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,320
Doobie said in the comments that
they don't remember what was

515
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,760
being said or even they don't
even remember if it was

516
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,760
intelligible enough.
I think it's possible.

517
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:42,400
And Bigfoot has a way of like,
running people out of the

518
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:47,440
forest, but like alongside them,
kind of like escorting them out,

519
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:52,840
but with fear and terror.
So there's also in Cherokee

520
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,760
folklore, the Raven mocker,
which I think is such a cool

521
00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:00,000
word.
What's what a cool name So in in

522
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:05,080
Cherokee mythology or beliefs, I
should say the Raven mocker is

523
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:09,840
this evil spirit or witch that
preys on the sick and dying and

524
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:15,040
I think also children and it
sucks their life force to extend

525
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,560
their own life.
And they do have this weird

526
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,200
sound that sounds like a Ravens
call.

527
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,200
That's why they're called the
Raven Mocker, because they're

528
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,280
mocking a Raven.
Which, OK, that sounds like fine

529
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,640
and all, but they also can be
invisible.

530
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:35,120
Like the Predator in the movie
The Predator.

531
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,800
They can be invisible, it's
really scary.

532
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,880
And Ravens, while they are not
humans, Raven can't Ravens.

533
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,880
Can't sound like humans.
They can mimic.

534
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,080
I don't know if you knew that
now you know, kind of like

535
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:53,360
parrots, Ravens can make human
sounds and they sound.

536
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,560
They can like mimic you saying I
don't know, hello, probably want

537
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:57,720
a cracker.
I don't know what you tell a

538
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,080
Raven, I guess nevermore
obviously.

539
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,280
What was they thinking?
That's what you would have a

540
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:07,400
Raven say clearly.
But what I want to talk about is

541
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:12,160
the Tayley Poe.
Now alternate names include

542
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,760
Tayley.
Bone Tayley.

543
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,040
Bones.
Tailbones.

544
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,600
Tayley Tale.
And then different varieties of

545
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:26,560
spelling Tealeypoe, strangely.
So tealeypoe is about the size

546
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:30,880
of a dog, but apparently it has
like tufted ears, like a bobcat,

547
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,160
which I love.
That's like the best part of a

548
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,680
bobcat are the little ear Tufts.
I love it.

549
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,920
Cleocatra has little ear Tufts.
It's so cute.

550
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,680
So I assume that the tealeypoe
is also cute because it has

551
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:48,760
little Kitty cat ear Tufts.
So depending on the storyteller

552
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:53,040
it has either yellow eyes or red
eyes which is not good.

553
00:33:53,480 --> 00:34:00,440
And it has slash had a long
tail, which you may be wondering

554
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,120
why I said that in the past
tense.

555
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:07,680
Well, that's because the story
that's told about the Tangley

556
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:12,000
Poe is about an old hermit who
lived in.

557
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:16,280
The middle of nowhere, I guess,
or I guess that's the whole

558
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,040
thing that a hermit does.
That's that's a hermit's whole

559
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,199
thing.
So this hermit lives.

560
00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:24,560
I think he's got a name.
I'm not going to name him.

561
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:26,520
I feel like he does have a name
in some of the stories we're.

562
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:30,120
Moving on, The hermit who lives.
Out in the middle of.

563
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:34,560
Nowhere with his three hounds
and he's hungry.

564
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,080
And then one night.
I guess there's different

565
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:41,520
versions, so sometimes the Taley
Poe comes into his house and

566
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,000
sometimes he's out hunting.
I like the one where he comes

567
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,280
into the house because that's
scarier.

568
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:49,280
One night when the old hermit
and his dogs.

569
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:53,600
Are in the house this strange
creature comes into.

570
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:57,160
A hole in the ground and.
He's really hungry.

571
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:00,640
Not the creature, the hermit.
The hermit's really hungry.

572
00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:04,080
Because all he has.
Is a handful of beans like that?

573
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:08,200
Mickey Mouse cartoon with their
where they're slicing the beans

574
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:09,840
and they're slicing.
The bread, you know.

575
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,440
Where it's like transparent.
I wanted it.

576
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,760
I wanted to eat that bread and
those beans when I was a kid.

577
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,920
So that's his, that's his life
picture that he's having to

578
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:26,080
ration slices of beans.
Then this creature comes in his

579
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,600
house and he's like, man, that
looks like good eating.

580
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,520
So he tries to kill it, but.
He only manages.

581
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:35,320
To chop off its tail.
So the tallypo escapes without

582
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,360
its tail.
And this hermit, because he's a

583
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,240
hermit, so he's really weird
because he hasn't actually

584
00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:43,200
encountered.
People in a really long time

585
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:48,440
thinks it's OK to.
Cook a weird skinny, weird

586
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:52,320
possum looking tail for his
dinner, for his soup.

587
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,240
I guess I've never been that
hungry.

588
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:55,880
So I guess I shouldn't judge
him.

589
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,480
And I hope that I never, ever
find myself in a situation where

590
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,560
that seems appealing.
But he did.

591
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,800
He cooked it up.
He ate it, goes to sleep.

592
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:11,960
Well, that night, the creature.
The Talee Poe comes back into

593
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:15,440
the house through the hole that.
He for some reason didn't like

594
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,240
bored up or anything.
He left it just open.

595
00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:20,760
This is don't worry, don't ask
questions.

596
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:23,120
He it.
Comes back.

597
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:24,880
Into.
The room while he's sleeping.

598
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:27,280
And it's at the.
End of his bed.

599
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,040
And it tells him in.
English.

600
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,560
That it's looking for.
It's Taylepo.

601
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:38,760
It says something like like.
Give me back my taylepo.

602
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,680
Where's the quote?
I'm looking for the quote on

603
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:46,960
this page where I'm guys,
there's a quote and I can't find

604
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:47,480
it.
Whatever.

605
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,280
That's what he says.
Give me back my taylepo.

606
00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:55,120
And the guy's scared.
Get his six's dog on it and the

607
00:36:55,120 --> 00:37:00,680
dog OK, don't worry about it.
The point is, by the end the

608
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:04,520
Taylee Poe keeps coming back and
terrorizing him and saying.

609
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,200
Give Me Back by Taylee Poe.
I don't know why it's called the

610
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,200
Taylee Poe.
It's possible that this actually

611
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:15,160
originated in African culture
and that this is a story from

612
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,040
there that has been kind of
combined, like I said, with the

613
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:24,120
mishmash hodgepodge of cultures.
So Taylee Poe.

614
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,000
And then at the end of the
story, in some versions, the old

615
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:32,120
hermit is, like, torn to shreds
or the only thing left of the

616
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,880
old hermit's cabin is the
chimney, presumably because the

617
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,760
Talee PO destroyed everything.
I'm not sure how it did that.

618
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,040
The point is, that's the story
of the Talee PO.

619
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:45,640
OK, Sounds terrifying, honestly,
Especially because it just keeps

620
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:47,360
coming back into his room every
night.

621
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,360
And he's laying there like, oh,
please don't come back tonight.

622
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:52,000
But he ate it.
He can't give the tail back.

623
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,200
I don't know if that was clear,
guys.

624
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:54,920
He can't.
Give the tail back.

625
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,520
Because he ate it.
It's not happening.

626
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:01,040
Tale's gone.
Tailey Poe, you need to stop

627
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:04,440
coming in people's houses
uninvited.

628
00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:07,280
Come on.
That's what really got me about

629
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:13,160
the Tailey Poe is specifically
that the Tailey Poe speaks some

630
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:20,320
English and in every single
version of the story, it repeats

631
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,280
itself.
Give me back my tailipo.

632
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:27,880
And what we heard in Doobie
Doobie's story was that they

633
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,160
were still hearing the voice,
and it was keeping.

634
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,160
Pace with them.
Right.

635
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,640
And so it sounds repetitive to
me.

636
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,240
So it's constantly talking as
it's chasing.

637
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,440
So think about it.
What if that was what?

638
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:43,840
Was chasing Doobie.
Doobie is the tallypo and it's

639
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,200
just.
Keeping keeping pace with them

640
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,200
as they're running out of the
forest and it just.

641
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,280
Keeps saying give me back my
tallypo.

642
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:54,680
Give me back my tallypo.
Although I thought it was really

643
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:57,880
creepy how it was described like
those old toys.

644
00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:59,240
What?
OK, but you know what I was

645
00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:01,840
thinking though?
It was like, what's the song

646
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:06,120
that has that in the background?
The speak and spell behind blue

647
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:09,000
eyes Limp Bizkit Like, is that
what it was sounding like?

648
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:12,720
Like a like a because that would
have sounded like because maybe

649
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:18,080
it would sound something.
Like give me back my daily PO

650
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,040
give me.
Oh, wait.

651
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:20,960
Hold on.
Hold on.

652
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:21,440
Hold on.
Hold on.

653
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:22,360
OK, It's this.
It's this.

654
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,840
It's this.
Give me back my daily bow.

655
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,760
Give me back my daily bow.
That's what I think.

656
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:32,520
That's what I think.
I think I nailed it.

657
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:36,560
You know, Doobie, Doobie, let me
know madamstrangeways@gmail.com.

658
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:41,200
Let me know how accurate that
was, because I think I nailed it

659
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:44,520
if that's what it's supposed to
sound like, which clearly it is.

660
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,160
So for this one, you know, I
think I had to land on.

661
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:51,240
That's mysterious.
That's mysterious.

662
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,320
You know, maybe it was the
Taylie.

663
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:58,280
Poe.
Maybe it was a scary owl, you

664
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:02,200
know, Maybe it was an.
Owl and A Taley Poe.

665
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:05,360
Working.
Together, maybe that's the

666
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,760
situation.
You know, either way, I'm happy

667
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:11,800
that nothing like this has ever
happened again.

668
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:15,760
I hope nothing like this ever
happens in the future.

669
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,000
Although I did see that Doobie.
Doobie commented saying that

670
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,640
they have heard a woman
screaming in the forest before

671
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:26,920
and then specified it was not a
big cat, which is also scary.

672
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,720
So stop hearing things scream.
Have you thought of that?

673
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:36,000
Just stop hearing them scream.
I guess that's just how.

674
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:37,880
That's just life in Appalachia.
Man.

675
00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:42,760
Or maybe.
Just maybe this was just a Civil

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War ghost who was.
Kind of annoyed.

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That you guys didn't offer it?
Any weed puff, puff pass, man

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puff puff, pass.
Anyway, in all seriousness,

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Doobie Doobie, thank you so much
for allowing me to Share your

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story on the show.
Again, I'm.

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Sorry that you had to experience
that sounds terrifying, but I do

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so appreciate you trusting me
with your story.

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So thank you very much.
Thank you for joining me for

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more true strange stories of the
unexplained.

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Remember that you can feel
afraid and not be in danger.

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You're safe here with me.
Probably.

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00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:40,520
Please follow the podcast.
Leave a rating on Spotify.

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00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:42,880
Or Apple.
Or tell your friends.

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And foes about the show.
It would mean the world to me,

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00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:49,360
the underworld.
Obviously.

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I mean, come on.
Madam Strange Ways is produced

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00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:56,200
and narrated by me.
Madam Strange Ways

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thememusicisbymarina.ryan@marinamakes.co
Cover art is by Andrea Chiselle,

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rolled on at Cult of Teddy on
Instagram.

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00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:11,400
You can submit your own true
strange story at

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madamstrangeways.com or.
Send in your thoughts or.

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00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:19,640
Theories on stories on the show
to madamstrangeways@gmail.com.

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See you soon, she said.
Ominously.

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It's OK, so one of one of them
OK.

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Google says the American
pronunciation is foliader, which

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that doesn't sound right.
The British pronunciation.

702
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I don't know why they don't have
just like French.

703
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,440
Oh, the American pronunciation
is foliader, which that doesn't

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sound right.
The British.

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00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:05,960
OK, well, she OK, Thank you.
Google didn't ask.

706
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,560
It's interesting Google doesn't
reply to me when I when I need

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it to and then when I'm
recording an episode.

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Here it is.