Glowing Figure in Nagpur India | True Paranormal Stories & Spooky Folklore | Ep #52

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You're not going to find me.
Listen, the only way that you're

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going to find me in a forest is
if I'm the one doing the

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haunting.
Welcome stranger to another

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episode of Madam Strange Ways
where I, Madam Strange Ways,

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narrate your true strange
stories of the unexplained.

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Whether you're a skeptic, A
believer, or some secret third

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thing.
Stick around after the story

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where I will share my strange
thoughts and research about said

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strange story.
And along the way I'll drag you

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down a slew of strange rabbit
holes, kicking and screaming if

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needs most.
But first, the strangest of

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Well, sounds like it's about to
rain hellcats and hell Hounds

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outside, so you know what that
means.

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Time for a true strange story
here on Madam Strange Ways.

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Illuminated silhouette in the
forest by Amaya.

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I was near my hometown of
Nagpur, India.

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I had met a really cute girl on
Bumble and I had been seeing her

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for a couple of weeks.
Nothing serious, we were just

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fooling around since I was going
to be leaving India in a few

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weeks to move to Canada.
She lived on the outskirts of

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the city and she had a research
role at the law university which

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was located on the outskirts of
the city.

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She lived on campus and that
area had a huge forest nearby.

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She'd send me videos of snakes
and cobras randomly sliding

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through her campus.
I'd take my scooter about 25 or

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30 kilometers away from the city
to go meet her near her place,

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and we used to get drunk, fool
around, and it was the most fun

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I ever had on dates in my life.
To be honest, she was mad fun.

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One day we were on the way back
from one of those dates and I

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was supposed to drop her back at
the law college campus where she

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lived.
I wasn't familiar with the

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surroundings because I was new
to this area and the outskirts

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of the city, and neither was she
because she was new to the city

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as well.
While I was dropping her off, we

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got lost because I took a wrong
turn and we ended up inside the

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forest area I mentioned earlier.
It was around 7:00 or 8:00 in

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the evening and it was pretty
dark since the sun had set.

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I asked her to pull out her
phone to check Google Maps so we

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could find a way back to the
campus she lived at.

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She was sitting behind me on my
scooter and she said that her

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phone wasn't getting any signal
and Google Maps was offline, but

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she said that she knew we were
going in the correct general

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direction towards her campus.
My phone didn't have a

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connection either.
I didn't think much of it and I

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just kept writing and I thought
we'll eventually find our way

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out of here, which we did.
However, this is where the most

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bizarre thing I have ever
witnessed in my life happened to

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me.
I was casually riding my scooter

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and she was sitting behind me
and we were talking about how it

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shouldn't be too difficult to
get out of there because we

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weren't way too far out or
anything like that.

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And then I saw it on the right
hand side of the road, a tallish

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silhouette of a humanoid figure.
It appeared masculine in form

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and it was emitting a strange
glow.

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However, it had no features.
It was just a shadow, completely

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black with this radiant white
aura encompassing it.

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It was shaped like a man.
Important to note that the only

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light around on that mud Rd. was
the light from my scooter.

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I couldn't comprehend what I was
seeing.

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I slowed my scooter as I got
closer to it, I saw it

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hauntingly standing there and in
the blink of an eye it just

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fucking disappeared.
I was so mind blown I didn't say

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anything for a few seconds.
All I remember is that I just

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revved on the accelerator and
zoomed the fuck out of there.

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I thought I was too drunk
because we'd had quite a bit of

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rum and beer before this.
I turned around and told the

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girl that I should stop and get
off the bike for a minute

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because I think I am
hallucinating.

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And I saw a shadow.
And this is where I got the

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maddest chills I have ever had
run down my spine because she

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replied don't fucking stop here,
just go.

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I saw it too.
This is not a made-up story.

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This is a true event that
occurred in my life.

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This happened in December 2023.
I moved to Canada soon after

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this incident.
It's where I live now.

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I have not shared this
experience with many people and

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I have never heard about anyone
seeing anything like this

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before.
I was hoping someone could help

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me get some insight into what we
saw that night.

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I don't really talk to her
anymore because she started

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seriously dating someone else a
couple of months after I moved

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away, but she holds a special
place in my life because I

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shared this completely surreal
fucking experience with her.

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Amaya, thank you so much for
allowing me to Share your story

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on the show.
Terrifying for so many reasons

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for.
So first of all, you're in the

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cobra forest with cobras.
So that's out.

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First of all, any forest, you're
not going to find me.

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Listen, the only way that you're
going to find me in a forest is

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if I'm the one doing the
haunting.

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I am not going to be caught dead
in a forest in which there are

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at at all.
Period, end of story.

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But especially not one that has
cobras inside of it.

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You see, You see what I'm
saying?

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No cobras.
Anyway, that's before you even

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see something horrifying that
your mind can't possibly make

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any sense of.
Like, OK, so it's like, is it a

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shadow person?
Well, kind of.

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But do shadow people glow?
We'll get into it.

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We'll get into it.
Because of course, I have done

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research on the story.
Hello.

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Welcome.
Welcome.

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Is this your first time?
If it is welcome.

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If it's not, welcome back.
Happy to have you here.

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Something that we'd like to do
here on Madam Strange Ways.

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And when I say we, I mean the
royal.

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We the strange we.
Something we like to do here on

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Madam Strange Ways is to talk
about not just the paranormal,

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not just the skeptical, but a
Little Mix of both.

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A little column A, a little
column B.

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But before we get into it,
Amaya, I need a couple more

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seasons of this show.
I need to know what do you mean?

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What do you mean?
This cute girl that you had such

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a good time with, she's seeing
someone else.

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Hello.
No, that's no.

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How serious can it be, really?
You know, because you're

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thinking clearly like she's the
one that got away.

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You're the just the just you
clearly had such a good time

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with her and you miss her.
So maybe she's thinking the same

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thing.
Maybe you're both.

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Maybe this is like 5 Will goes
West and you're both.

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Is that the movie where that
happens where you're both

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looking at like the North Star
at night and you're thinking, I

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wonder if they're looking at the
North Star too.

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Maybe that's what's happening
here.

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I think I need a couple more
seasons of the show.

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I need you guys to get back
together.

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So keep me updated.
Let me know, can she?

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Is she coming to Canada?
Maybe she needs to take a visit,

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a little vacay.
Obviously she needs to dump

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whoever it is that she's seeing
first.

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So let me know, do you need help
with that?

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Do you need help with that?
Do we need?

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What do we, what do?
What do you need from me?

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How can I help you?
Let me know

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madamstrangeways@gmail.com so
that we can get you guys back

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together.
And Amaya, I can tell that you

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think about the story a lot like
with with the detail that you

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shared and how vivid the memory
still is.

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It's clear that this is
something that has stuck with

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you.
And of course it is.

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Of course it's something that
has stuck with you.

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I'm sure it's like burned into
your brain, like you.

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You close your eyes and on the
backs of your eyelids you can

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see this glowing shadow figure,
Am I right?

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And so for that reason, I hope
nothing like this ever happens

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to you again, unless you want it
to, in which case, all right, I

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do hope that it happens again.
Fine, fine.

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You can have it, but what I
found especially compelling

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about the story, and is one of
the main reasons that I asked

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permission to read it, is that
two people saw the figure, not

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just one person.
So it can't be dismissed as just

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a hallucination, which, you
know, I love to talk about

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hallucinations.
I think a lot of things that

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people mistake for the
paranormal are hallucinations

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because as a general rule, we as
humans don't understand how

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common it is to have
hallucinations especially.

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I'm not going to get on a
tangent here.

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We do go down rabbit holes.
We, the, the strange we, we do

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go down rabbit holes here at
Madam Strange Ways, but this is

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not one of them.
However, I do just want to

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mention stories that take place
in bed at night during a time in

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which you are normally asleep,
in which you are relaxed.

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If you see something that
doesn't make sense in those

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settings, I'm going to say
you're probably dreaming.

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You didn't realize you were
dreaming or you had a hypnotic

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hallucination.
You were falling asleep and you

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didn't think you were falling
asleep.

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Obviously, that's not the case
here.

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They were both awake.
One of them was driving.

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Not that you can't.
Oh, my God, I can hear.

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Yes, you can fall asleep while
driving.

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This is not one of those cases.
Both people awake.

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Yes, there was alcohol involved.
Yes, we'll get into it.

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We will get into it.
In fact, let's get into it right

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now.
So just quickly, we did specify

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that this is set in Nagpur,
India.

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Just FYI, if you are not aware,
it is in central India.

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The city of Nagpur is in Central
India and it has a few nicknames

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such as Orange City because I
think they grow a lot of oranges

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there.
I took these notes a few days

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ago and have slept since then.
So let's just let's just do a

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quick double check.
OK, I'm back.

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Yes, Nagpur is known for a
specific variety of Mandarin

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orange specifically grown in
Nagpur.

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Sounds delicious, very tasty.
So that's why it's called Orange

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city.
Here's another thing, it's

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called the heart of India.
And that is because literally

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the zero mile marker for the
entire country is located in

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Nagpur, India.
It's in the very center of

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India.
Nagpur is also known as the

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Tiger capital of India and the
Tiger Gateway of India.

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And that's because I guess
there's just a whole lot of

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tigers there.
There's a lot of tiger

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sanctuaries.
OK, now that we have established

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where we are, which is in the
very literal center of India,

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we're going to get into our
theories, both mundane slash

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skeptical and paranormal.
And we're going to start with

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the mundane today.
So like I said, when there's

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more than one witness to
something, it does make it

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harder to explain.
It becomes more unexplainable,

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not less, but not impossible to
explain.

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Though, as you'll see, I don't
have a lot of ideas for the

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mundane explanations.
So if you have thought of

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something I haven't, after you
finish listening to this

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section, go ahead and let me
know.

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madamstrangeways@gmail.com.
I always want to hear if y'all

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have thoughts on the theories on
the show.

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OK, mundane theories.
Right away, we have to address

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the fact that yes, they had been
drinking alcohol definitely

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impairs your perception and
memory.

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Obviously that is the case.
I am not arguing that.

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However, I feel like you're not
hallucinating on alcohol as

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easily as other drugs.
So OK, you know what?

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Hold, please let me check.
OK, I'm back.

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It's definitely not as common as
other drugs.

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However, here are two reasons
why alcohol might induce

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hallucinations, which I think
tells us that the alcohol wasn't

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relevant to seeing that figure
at all.

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My client is innocent, Your
Honor.

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Objection overruled.
Wait a minute.

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Is my client rum and beer?
Why did I take this case?

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All right.
From the NIH site.

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Alcoholic hallucinosis, which is
a fun word, is a rare

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complication.
It's not funny.

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Of chronic alcohol abuse
characterized by predominantly

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auditory hallucinations, Not
visual, that occur either during

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or after a period of heavy
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Usually it presents with
acoustic verbal hallucinations,

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again, not visual.
Delusions and mood disturbances

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are rising in clear
consciousness and sometimes may

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progress to a chronic form
mimicking schizophrenia.

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So yes, alcohol can cause
hallucinations.

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However, they were both seeing
the same thing and they were

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clearly not drunk enough to be
hallucinating, and if they were,

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it would be auditory.
So we're going to put that to

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rest.
The rum is irrelevant, which

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leaves the deeply fallible
nature of the human brain, which

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if you are not new to the show,
if you have been here before,

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then you know, I love talking
about it because it is true.

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The brain is not perfect.
Our brain is actually very

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imperfect when it comes to
memory.

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And I mean, sure, I've talked
recently at length in a couple

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episodes, especially in the
disappearing cabin episode, if

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you want to go back and listen
to that one after this one's

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done.
If this is interesting to you

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about how terrifyingly easy it
is to have your memory

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accidentally changed by someone
else's perception without you

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even knowing it happened,
without you even knowing that

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that's something that can
happen, that can happen to you.

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But that doesn't really apply
here because the two didn't have

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time to exchange stories.
It was on the fly.

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And she recognized to him that
she saw the figure before he

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even acknowledged it.
Now, we'll never know.

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Here's here's what we'll never
know.

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We will never know if the two of
them saw the exact same thing

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because, well, we, well, maybe
we will know when they get back

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together.
And then I'll have them on the

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show and they'll let me know
when you all get together and

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you swap notes, We'll have you
both on the show.

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E-mail me
madamstrangeways@gmail.com, but

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we will not know exactly what
she saw.

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Did she see the exact same
thing?

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A dark shadow figure with an
aura around it?

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Unclear.
But they did both see something

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that scared them.
Unless it's swamped gas or a

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weather balloon.
I mean, it could be either one

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of those, right?
All right, moving on.

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The paranormal and folkloric
explanations for what happened.

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All right, I took to Reddit and
I asked a couple of the, well, a

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few.
What do we define?

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Few, as you know, here's the
problem with me.

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I always take it literally.
A couple is 2, a few is 3 or

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more, and then several.
My brain always says if I talk

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to you guys about this, I always
think several is like 7 or more

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because Sev is in it.
And I guess as a child I just

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decided those two things were
related.

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But no, I'm out here.
Apparently people are using four

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and they mean several.
A four is a few.

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OK, 4 is like a a few, 3 is a
few.

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Now I'm like not oh McKay oh Oh
my God.

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That is not a rabbit hole we're
going down right now.

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I'm moving on.
Anyway, the point is I posted on

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more than two paranormal
subreddits, possibly 3, and I

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asked them if anyone there has
heard or seen anything about

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this exact figure.
So a shadow figure that has like

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an aura illuminating it.
OK so the first response is from

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a redditor and I'm paraphrasing
because I did not ask permission

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to read their comments.
So what they said was that it

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sounded exactly like what they
and their friend saw camping

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last year.
Camping outdoors.

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I didn't say in my post.
I didn't say this happened

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outside in a forest, I didn't
say it happened in India, I

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didn't say anything.
I just gave a physical

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description about what Emmaus
saw and the very first person to

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comment said that they saw the
exact same thing camping

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outside, presumably near a
forest.

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I feel like there's something
there.

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Anyway, they go on to say that
their siding was kind of shorter

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and that the glow was more blue
white instead of pure white.

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And they also specified that
they were both stone cold sober

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and that the figure just stood
there for like 30 seconds and

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then it slowly disappeared and
that they and their friend still

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argue about what it could have
been.

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I can't blame them.
Then another redditor commented

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and said yes, they had seen this
exact same thing.

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Yes, this is.
I'm going to read this verbatim

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because it's not that many words
and it's confusing.

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They said, yes, it was an
interactive object.

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Come again?
I replied and I was like, could

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you, what does that mean?
What do you mean?

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Please expand.
And they did not ever respond.

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They didn't respond.
And you know, I was like, is

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this like a, is this a
paranormal phrase that I was

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unaware of?
Like, because you know, there's

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new phrases all the time or
rebranded old phrases.

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And no, I can't find anything
about what it means.

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So if you know, do you know in
the paranormal context what an

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interactive object is?
Let me know Madam

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strangeways@gmail.com.
OK, so that's all that actually

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responded to me, but I did also
search the Internet, which

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includes Reddit, for other
sightings of people who have

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seen something exactly like
this.

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And so here we go.
You've heard of shadow people.

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Now get ready for scary light
people.

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Is that the opposite of shadow?
Shadow light?

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Get ready for light, people.
I don't know.

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So here we go.
Someone woke up in the middle of

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the night and saw through their
open door a glowing blue

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humanoid figure walking into
their parents room.

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Now that the whole figure is
glowing, and that's what you're

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going to hear in all these
comments, is that it's not

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exactly the same.
It was difficult to find a

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shadow figure with a glow around
it.

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That was the struggle.
I didn't find a lot of stories

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about that, but I thought this
is interesting.

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Pay attention to what color all
of these are.

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OK, It's interesting.
Someone else said that they saw

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once during an episode of sleep
paralysis this glowing figure.

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It was standing in their doorway
and that they could see it very

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clearly even though they
couldn't move.

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And they had the distinct
impression that it was a male

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figure, just like Emmaus said,
even though there weren't any

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features that they could make
out.

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It was literally an electric
glowing blue human shape, normal

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height, and it just turned and
walked down the hallway.

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And then yet another one,
someone saw a being that looked

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sort of like a stick figure that
was made of neon blue

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electricity walking towards
them.

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Now that one is outside.
That one was outside the the

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glowing stick figure, which by
the way, I have read multiple

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stories over the years about
stick figures, stick figures

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running alongside trucks or in
the forest.

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Very scary.
It's, you know what it brings to

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mind?
Blair Witch, Blair Witch

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Project.
Anyway, why are they all blue?

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Even the first redditor who
responded to me saying, Oh my

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God, that sounds exactly like
what I saw.

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They're all blue.
Why are all they, why are they

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all blue?
I mean, Emmaus wasn't blue.

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I, I, I think that Emmaus was
white.

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Emmaus, please correct me if I'm
wrong, but why are they all

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blue?
OK, there's like four or five

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more that I had on here.
But honestly just note that

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there's a lot of them.
There's a lot of people that are

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seeing like glowing figures.
Not exactly what Emmaus saw, but

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close.
But moving on to another theory,

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I have read theories that aliens
and Nhis so non human

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intelligence, which is kind of
like aliens but maybe not

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specifically aliens.
I can't get into it now.

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I'm going to need to do an NHI
episode.

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Do you want to hear about non
human intelligence?

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Do you want to hear about Nhis?
Let me know,

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madamstrangeways@gmail.com.
Anyway, I've heard that aliens

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and Nhis may just be made of
energy and instead of, you know,

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physical bodies.
So they're just made of energy.

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And then that would definitely
be something that they could

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turn their bodies into different
shapes.

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And that's why they can kind of
shape shift because they don't

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actually have a body, they're
just made of energy.

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In which case they will want to
be something that's more

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familiar to us so that we don't
freak out when we see them,

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which we definitely will be
freaking out.

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So again, I think I said this to
a ghost in a recent episode.

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Don't do that.
Don't.

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You're going to scare us.
So don't even try.

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Don't even try to soften the
blow.

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It's going to be really scary
anyway.

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If they're just made of energy,
they can take on human form and

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then they can lurk about in the
woods and then they can realize

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that they're spooking us and
then disappear.

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I don't know.
I don't know how Nhis work.

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Are you an NHI?
Do you have some insight into

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this?
Were you the NHI

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thatemmaussawletmeknowaboutastrangeways@gmail.com
All right, as you know, I love

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to do research on local folklore
about what's going on.

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Like is an area known for being
haunted is a known is an area

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known for being spooky.
So I wanted to see.

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So here we go.
Haunted places in Nagpur, India

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according to Reddit and also the
Internet, but it pulls from

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Reddit.
So anyway, there's a Parsi

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cemetery in Nagpur that I keep
seeing listed as a super haunted

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location.
But I did pull it up on Google

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Maps and it doesn't look like
it's.

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I don't know exactly where in
Nagpur that they were but the

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cemetery doesn't really look
like it was located too close to

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a section that they could have
been.

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But if I'm wrong I may let me
know.

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And I'm trying to not get too
distracted here and not go down

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too many rabbit holes so I can
focus on the story.

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But since I did mention Parsi
cemeteries, I can't not talk

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about them from Encyclopedia
Britannica.

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Parsi, member of a group of
followers in India of the

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Persian prophet Zoroaster.
The Parsis, whose name means

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Persians, are descended from
Persian Zoroastrians.

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Remember, Persian Persia is Iran
now, who immigrated to India to

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avoid religious persecution by
the Muslims.

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So I talked about Zoroaster in
the Three Greek Witches episode,

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which seems unrelated but I
assure you that somehow it is.

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So if you want to know more, go
ahead and check out that

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episode, which is also one of my
favorites.

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But anyway, Parsi cemeteries
specifically from Wikipedia.

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A dachma, also known as a tower
of silence, is a circular raised

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structure built by Zoroastrians
for ex carnation, that is, the

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exposure of human corpses to the
elements for decomposition.

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In order to avoid contamination
of the soil and other natural

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elements by the dead bodies,
carrion birds, usually vultures

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and other scavengers consume the
flesh.

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Skeletal remains are gathered
into a central pit where further

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weathering and continued
breakdown occurs.

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So metal.
Once the bones have been

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bleached by the sun in the wind,
which can take as long as a

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year, they are collected in an
ossuary pit in the center of the

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tower, where, assisted by lime,
they gradually disintegrate in

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the remaining material.
Along with rainwater, runoff

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seeps through multiple coal and
sand filters before being

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eventually washed out to sea.
However, the decline in the

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Vulture population in India due
to poisoning has led the Parsi

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community to explore
alternatives to standard

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dachmas.
So here's the situation.

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Not only, not only are Parsi
communities really rare, but the

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cemetery is, does not have a,
does not have a tower of

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silence.
So there's none of that stuff

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going on at this Parsi cemetery.
They've actually modernized and

453
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:53,120
they now opt for cremations.
So this cemetery is actually not

454
00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:56,440
as spooky as it sounds.
So I think the, I think the

455
00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,240
rumors of the hauntedness of
this Parsi cemetery are, you

456
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:04,400
might say, greatly exaggerated.
However, I did also find that

457
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:08,720
there is purportedly a haunted
road near Belludian.

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00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,040
A lot of cemeteries are located
along that road and it can be

459
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,920
quite scary at night.
So that's apparently also

460
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:18,000
somewhere local.
That is a very spooky, scary

461
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:22,680
skeleton, possibly filled place,
but unclear if that's where

462
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:26,400
Emmea experienced the sighting.
But getting more specific about

463
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,520
Indian folklore and belief,
here's what I have found along

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00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,440
those lines.
Spirits of the forests are

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00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,720
called yakshas.
So from Encyclopedia Britannica

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00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,080
again.
Which I do understand the

467
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,440
perhaps irony of using
Encyclopedia Britannica

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00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:47,680
Britannica for this stuff.
But you know, this is this is

469
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:51,160
where the information is.
So Yaksha in the mythology of

470
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,040
India, a class of generally
benevolent but sometimes

471
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:57,520
mischievous, capricious,
sexually rapacious or even

472
00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,960
murderous nature spirits who are
the custodians of treasures that

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00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:02,840
are hidden in the earth and in
the roots of trees.

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00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,920
They are powerful magicians and
shape shifters, which sounds

475
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,280
like a great time.
And now moving on to Wikipedia

476
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,440
and Hindu.
The Yakshas have a dual

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00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:14,080
personality.
On the one hand, a Yaksha may be

478
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,800
an an offensive nature fairy
associated with woods and

479
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,960
mountains, but there is also a
darker vision of the Yakshas,

480
00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:23,280
which is a kind of bhuta that
haunts the wilderness and

481
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:27,240
waylays and devours travellers.
That could have been nemea.

482
00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:31,440
That could have been them
getting waylaid and devoured in

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00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,560
the wilderness because they were
in the wilderness.

484
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:37,520
Come on, but slightly off topic,
just a really short little

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00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,240
rabbit hole here.
Yakshas are also an important

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00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,200
element in Thai temple art.
Like in Thailand.

487
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,360
They are common as guardians of
the gates and Buddhist temples

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00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:49,560
throughout the country since at
least the 14th century.

489
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,200
Yakshas are regarded as one of
the ancient clans in Sri Lanka

490
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,440
as well.
They were referenced in a cave

491
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,880
inscription written in early
Brahmi script from the 3rd

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00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,800
century BCE.
So they go way back.

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00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:06,600
And finally we'll close on some
folklore, specifically the

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00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,160
wonderful cow herd, otherwise
known as the Shining Man.

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00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:17,000
Now this is translated in 1909,
but I have no idea how far back

496
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,520
that this story goes.
Anyway, I'm going to I'm going

497
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,680
to just.
So of course, Once Upon a time

498
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,080
there was this Raja who had
seven daughters and these like 7

499
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,800
princesses were really pretty.
And in order to marry the eldest

500
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:32,120
Princess, there's some kind of
like fairy tale stuff where, oh,

501
00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:35,680
you have to figure out this this
mystery about her and then you

502
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,280
can have her hand.
And then of course, the guy that

503
00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:41,240
does solve the mystery to get
her hand is not who she would

504
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,080
really want to marry.
So he was just like a miserable

505
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,600
cow herd is how they like.
But of course, the story is

506
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,880
called the Wonderful Cowherd.
So interesting.

507
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,040
It's a miserable cowherd.
He's like, oh, he's sick and

508
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,760
he's like groaning and he's
miserable and unhappy.

509
00:26:55,120 --> 00:27:01,480
But at night he would take his
skin off OK and appear as a

510
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:05,360
beautiful and shining man.
And in this form, he would go

511
00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:07,480
and he would play and he would
dance in the moonlight in the

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00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,280
courtyard of the Raja's palace,
and he would have a great time.

513
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,520
And then, of course, he would
come back and he would put his

514
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:16,000
skin on and then be miserable
and awful and terrible the rest

515
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,480
of the day until he took his
skin off again at the next

516
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,920
night.
So of course, if you've heard

517
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,160
any amount of fairy tales, you
probably know that the Princess

518
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,000
figures out that this is
happening and is like, I don't

519
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,280
want him to get back in his
skin.

520
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:32,080
He sucks when he's in his skin.
So she takes his skin while he's

521
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,840
just this light creature dancing
and having a great time.

522
00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:38,200
She goes and he burns.
She burns his skin, and then he

523
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:39,480
comes back and he's like,
where's my skin?

524
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,680
I need to put my skin back on.
And she's like, yeah, that's

525
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:42,920
gone.
You're not putting your skin

526
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:44,840
back on ever again.
You're going to be this cool,

527
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,920
light guy from now on.
And then he was like, OK, cool,

528
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:49,880
that's fine.
And so then the Princess began

529
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,000
to live with pleasure in the
company of so glorious a

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00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,920
husband, who, however, could
only go out of the house at

531
00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,560
night because during the daytime
his body was too bright for his

532
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:04,760
for ordinary eyes to look upon.
Which I find a flaw in because I

533
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,960
feel like it would be easier to
look at him during the daytime

534
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,480
than it would be at night.
But I don't know that's I'm not

535
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,000
the writer.
I'm not the author, but people

536
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,000
start gossiping about it and now
they're whispering and they're

537
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,720
saying, like, who is this
glowing guy that's hanging out

538
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,080
at the princess's house?
Because, like, she's married and

539
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,800
that's not her husband.
So the Raja hears about it,

540
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,840
sends a messenger, and then the
messenger shows up during the

541
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,400
day.
And then of course, her glowing

542
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,880
husband opens the door.
And the messenger is like driven

543
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,480
mad or something.
And then the Raja keeps sending

544
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,640
more messengers.
And then of course, they're

545
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,000
sending during the day, during
working hours.

546
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,160
And of course, when they open
the door, the glowing man, The

547
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,280
glowing man turns all of them
also insane.

548
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,280
And then finally the Raja
resolved to go himself.

549
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:52,920
And when he saw the true form of
his daughter's husband now

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00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,560
glowing, he just faints.
He doesn't go crazy, he just

551
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:57,880
faints.
So I don't know if he's more

552
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:02,360
mental fortitude unclear.
Anyway, the glowing husband

553
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:06,880
revives the Raja and then dimmed
his light, which I guess he

554
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,800
could have done the whole time,
but he didn't for some reason.

555
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:11,880
And also, don't let anyone dim
your glow.

556
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,320
That's don't do that.
Don't ever let anyone dim your

557
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,120
glow.
But this guy did dim his glow

558
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,800
because I guess he was causing
harm to people around him anyway

559
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,520
when he dimmed his glow, which
he could apparently do the

560
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,920
entire time and didn't need to
actually drive a number of

561
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:31,200
people insane in the process.
Anyway, finally the Rodger could

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00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,520
actually see him and recognize
him.

563
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:35,280
Oh, you're the guy that my
daughter married.

564
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,040
OK, great.
Now they all lived happily ever

565
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,880
after and everyone loved the the
cow herd because now he's the

566
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,120
wonderful cow herd.
The end.

567
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,240
Do I think that's what happened
in the story?

568
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,960
Do I think that they encountered
the wonderful cow herd, AKA the

569
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,640
shining man from folklore?
Probably not.

570
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,720
But what I wanted to mention it,
the reason I wanted to mention

571
00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:00,280
it is that it does set a
precedent, either culturally or

572
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,800
paranormally for sightings of
glowing figures.

573
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:09,040
So where did they get the idea
of this glowing figure who saw a

574
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:13,240
glowing figure and then decided
to write it into folklore?

575
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,840
I ask you.
So Amaya, I'm going to say you

576
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:22,520
are not the first nor the last
person to see this figure.

577
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:24,800
But it doesn't make it any less
scary.

578
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,440
I mean, I guess it makes it a
little less scary because you

579
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,760
know, you're not the only one
and you know you're not crazy,

580
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:35,080
but but your, your, your future
wife also, she also saw it so

581
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:38,000
clearly you're not crazy.
Anyway, I hope it makes you feel

582
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,120
better to know there do seem to
be quite a few sightings of

583
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:42,800
something similar to what you
saw.

584
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,840
I wish I had a better answer for
you to explain it, but that's

585
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:51,880
what makes this unexplained.
So if you listening, if you have

586
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,760
a story of the unexplained that
you would love to hear read on

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00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:56,680
the show, I would love to hear
it.

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00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,200
E-mail me at
madamstrangeways@gmail.com and

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00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,760
Amaya, thank you again for
allowing me to Share your story

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00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:06,240
here on the show, and I expect
to be invited to your wedding.

591
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:21,240
Remember that you can feel
afraid and not be in danger.

592
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:25,360
You're safe here with me,
probably.

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00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,720
Thank you for joining me for
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00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,760
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00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:34,150
ominously.
The coin was termed.