Morse Code | True Paranormal Stories from Reddit | Ep #33

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Morse code tapping in the closet

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by alarming Badger 8316 Hey
everyone, this is something

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that's been racking mine and my
husband's brains for months.

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He's a skeptic, I'm a believer.
We live in an old mining town.

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I've told my husband just
because our house isn't old

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doesn't mean that the land we
live on isn't.

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And weird things have happened
in our house.

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I've heard my husband come home
from work when he hasn't.

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Things have been moved.
For example, he and I ripped the

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living room apart looking for
the baby monitor and TV remote,

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which were nowhere to be found.
Next morning they were both

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sitting perfectly side by side
on the couch.

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Our laundry dryer door opened
and slammed shut on its own.

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Like I said, my husband is
somewhat a skeptic but this one

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got him.
A couple months ago we were

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laying in bed and heard tapping
on the inside of our closet

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door.
I mean full on tapping.

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It was 4 taps, then a pause and
then two more.

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We both looked at each other,
eyes wide the whole time and he

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mouthed what the fuck was that?
We stayed up watching happy

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movies trying to forget it.
Next morning we were playing

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with our boys and he finally
admitted, OK, I can't explain

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that, what was that?
And I was like, I don't know,

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I've never heard that.
Then it clicked.

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I come from a strong military
background on my dad's side.

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So I said what would that be in
Morse code?

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Grabbed my phone and looked it
up and said four dots is H and

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two is I.
Then my face dropped, eyes like

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saucers and I looked at my
husband and said, Oh my God,

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that spells hi.
Hi you guys.

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I mean, holy smokes.
I don't feel threatened, I don't

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feel scared, but it's definitely
a little bit eerie.

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What do you think?
Yeah, yeah.

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Alarming Badger.
I think that it was definitely a

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little bit eerie.
Maybe a lot a bit eerie, let's

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say, Let's say a lot.
Very, very eerie.

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I I love, I love how why do we
do this?

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Why do humans do this?
Something scares us in our own

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bedroom and our reaction is to
stay there in the room in which

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there might be danger and watch
happy movies and just kind of La

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La la head in the sand.
Let's not think about it.

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I love picturing y'all like with
every light on in the bedroom,

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huddled together in the very
middle of the bed watching.

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OK, now you said happy movies.
I was asking myself, I wonder

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what happy movie they were
watching.

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How do we define happy movie?
So I'm wondering is it, you

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know, like is it just a Hallmark
Channel movie or is it like

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sister Act or like Mamma Mia?
Is it one of those?

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If you're wondering, my favorite
movie, which is my happy movie

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is the Silence of the Lambs.
But it's not a happy movie.

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It's not one I would recommend
watching after you hear knocking

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in your bedroom.
So all the other classical

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paranormal events happening
aside, OK, not even talking

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about, not listen, not even
talking about the Nordic flavor

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of doppelganger, which is known
as the Vadoga, which is what you

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experienced hearing Alarming
Badger, which is what you

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experienced hearing your partner
come home, but he hadn't

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actually come home.
That's one of the many different

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types of doppelgangers which
I've talked about in previous

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episodes.
Aside from that, aside from the

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remote and the baby monitor just
appearing neatly side by side on

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the couch as if by an unseen
hand.

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Although, as I've mentioned
before, when items move around,

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my first instinct is like
someone is living in the house,

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someone is living in your walls,
they are in your attic,

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etcetera.
They're there.

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Call 911.
Especially hearing a knocking

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no, like ghosts are really
scary, but the more immediate

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danger of an unknown person
living in your home.

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Otherwise known as frogging,
spelled PHROG.

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If you want to stay up all night
not watching a happy but well,

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OK.
If you want to stay up all night

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and then need to watch a happy
movie in order to forget what

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you read, go go Google frogging
incidents.

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Very, very, very scary.
Not unexplained, but very scary.

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However, aside from all of the
other classical paranormal

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activity, I am focused on the
Morse code because Jesus Christ

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at no, absolutely not hearing a
a Morse code message knocked on

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your bedroom wall from inside
the closet door, I believe.

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I don't like it.
I don't like it, you know, yet

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like I said, it could be a
Frogger.

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It could have actually been a
human being who knows?

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Morse code messing with you, I
guess, and also messing you with

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with you with the items maybe.
But we're going to just assume

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it's unexplained because that's
less scary sometimes.

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Sometimes it's not.
Sometimes it's more scary, OK,

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But you know me, I like to find
comfort in these scary stories.

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So to me personally, it being an
actual human doing these things

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is way scarier.
So we're going to go for the

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paranormal angle.
So you might think if you've

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listened to previous episodes,
you might expect me to go on

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about Morse code for a really
long time and give you a Morse

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primer and Morse history and go
down a bunch of Morse rabbit

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holes.
Well, no, we are not going to do

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that.
But if you want to hear, if you

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want to hear more information
about Morse code, send me an

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e-mail
madamstrangeways@gmail.com.

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I would be happy to give the
people what they want.

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But what I think the people want
right now is to talk about this

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story and the Morse code.
That is so smart of you alarming

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Badger to have even thought of
that especially.

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I mean, I'm sure you could.
I'm sure you'll never forget the

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sound of those knocks.
Let me tell you, the only Morse

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code that I know is SOS, which I
guess is probably more Morse

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code than a lot of people now.
But let me tell you, the only

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reason that I know it is because
it was on an old commercial when

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I was a kid.
They're like, the dishwasher was

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full of dirty dishes and The
Dirty dishes were like, oh,

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we're we need help because we're
so dirty.

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We're so dirty.
We need help.

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We need to be cleaned.
And so the dishwasher, the

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dishes in the dishwasher were
like banging.

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They were like sentient and they
were like banging a Morse code

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SOS.
So they were banging bang, bang,

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bang, bang, bang, bang, bang,
bang, bang.

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And then there was like a song
that was played along with the

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bang, bang, bang, bang, bang,
bang, bang, bang, bang.

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And I don't know at what point I
learned that that meant SOS, but

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I think it was not at the time I
didn't realize.

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Anyway, now that you've gone
down that little rabbit hole,

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see, we're not going down 0
rabbit holes.

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We're just going down fewer,
fewer.

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That's how I know any Morse.
So I certainly would not have

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immediately thought of hi.
I just wouldn't have even

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occurred to me because I don't I
don't know all those letters.

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So first of all, you thinking to
even check Morse code and that

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what does that mean?
Very scary.

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Hi, But hold on, because then I
was like, OK, well, like when

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you're knocking, how do you like
differentiate the the the dits

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and the dos?
I've never heard it said out

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loud.
I could have done that before

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this, but I didn't.
You know why?

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Because I got excited and I
wanted to record this.

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So dah is what it's like dits
DIT&DAH.

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Those are the, the little, the
dots or the little dashes, which

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I think is also what you can
call them, maybe we'll say dots

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and dashes.
So the little dots it's like

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short.
So like an SOSS is the the the

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dots.
And then the O is 3 dashes.

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So do do do and then the S
again.

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So high is just all dots.
So it's but then how like when

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you're knocking, how do you
differentiate?

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I mean, I guess, I guess the
sentient dishes did figure that

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just sounds like now that I'm
talking about, I've never, but

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I've never thought about like,
Oh yeah, this actually kind of

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sounds like like a 2009 like
creepypasta, you know, like, I

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don't know, it just sounds is it
have you, is there is there a

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creepypasta that exists about
dirty dishes trying to

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communicate with the outside
world, praying for praying to be

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cleansed.
Let me know

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madamstrangeways@gmail.com.
So when you're knocking, though,

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how do you, I guess it's just
you would just go like knock,

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knock, knock and then OK, hold
on.

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I'm going to let me see if you
can hear it.

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So maybe if I did like for hi.
Well, no, I'll do SOS so that

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you'll understand.
Listen, the reason I'm saying

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this, this is the reason why I'm
saying this is that there are

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dots and there's dashes.
So like, how do we know that the

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knocking was just four dots and
it wasn't, you know, dashes.

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So this is this is where I'm
getting at.

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So if it's, if it's high, OK, so
it's four dots and then two

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dots.
That would be so scary.

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I just scared myself hearing
that knock, like imagining it in

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the middle of the night.
It's so scary, but if you're

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doing SOSI would I think guess
this is how I would do it, which

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a reminder SOS is 3 dots, 3
dashes, 3 dots right.

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So that would that I would pee
my pants pants would be peed.

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If I heard that in my bedroom.
I don't think I could stay in my

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bedroom.
Even if I was watching sister

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act.
I don't think I could do it.

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I am also assuming that because
alarming Badger because you have

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that military background that
you would be able to

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differentiate between the dots
and the dashes.

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So I feel like, OK, especially
because there are no letters

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that have 4 dashes.
The most is 3.

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I tried to here's here's what I
was trying to do.

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You know, like maybe if you
can't tell the difference

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between the dots and the dashes,
like are there any combinations

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of letters that it could have
been?

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And here's some examples.
It could have been, it could

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have been J&L, it could have
been JL.

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That doesn't really mean
anything.

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LJ Live Journal.
That's what it might have been

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trying to communicate.
Live Journal.

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It could have also been P&Q
because those both have 4

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symbols.
Basically, the letters have

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between one symbol and four
symbols.

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So P&Q both have 4 symbols.
Maybe it could have been that

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PQ, the messages like mind your
PS and QS.

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Just a reminder, maybe it could
also have been ZZ.

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I could have been telling you
have a good night, good night.

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Why is that the sleeping?
Why do we why is it ZZZZZ?

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You mean that you're sleeping
ZZZZ bees.

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Why is that?
I'm curious, buzz.

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All right, so it's probably not
ZZ.

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It's probably not LJ.
It's probably not PQ.

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It is probably HI, all right,
but I had to check.

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I had to check, you know, me, I
got to do a check.

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So it's probably high.
And I thought that's the end of

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it.
But then me being me, I saw in

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the Wikipedia article that I was
reading about Morse code.

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I saw that it said that there
were even some punctuation or

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something, Marks and Morse.
And I was like, well, I want to

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know what's the punctuation?
I want to know.

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Tell me more.
Completely unrelated to the

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episode.
Now I'm just invested, so I

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Click to read what I guess what
are called pro signs.

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And then that leads me down a
little Morse rabbit hole, which

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I did go down, but I'm not
dragging you all down except

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these tiny little baby ones.
So I found this list of like

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shorthand basically.
So there's like there's like

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excellent, which is like FBI.
Don't know why.

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I don't know.
I can't explain any of these.

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Some of them you can kind of
figure out.

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Some of them.
I'm like, great question.

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Good afternoon.
Or go ahead.

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GA OK, so it's like early
Internet lingo, you know, like I

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guess lol.
But there were weird ones in the

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early Internet that just didn't
stick around and for good

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reason.
Or goodbye.

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GB.
GB Good evening, GE These are

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all making sense.
Good night, GN.

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OK GM Good morning.
Hey, we still use that.

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Then there's also stuff like for
like errors or like negative,

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which is just in this sort of
stuff.

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We're like old boy.
I don't know what that means,

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but OB not to be confused with
the doctor.

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Old chap, old man.
Why do we need all these?

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I have questions.
I'm going to have to go down

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this rabbit hole on my own to
find out because it's not

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spooky.
Oh, here's 10.

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Here's 1 loving kisses 88 I
don't know why it's 88.

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I want to know why but I'm not
going to look because I'm trying

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to talk about a scary story and
not so think romantic like 88.

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There's also what is this?
I have no more to send which is

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30.
You can just send 30.

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OK?
They could just say love and

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kisses.
I mean, isn't that the same

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thing?
I have no more to say.

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You're basically saying the same
thing.

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Just just say 88 to everyone
instead.

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I like it.
All right.

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So as you can see, there's all
these different kinds of, you

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know, shorthand abbreviations,
if you will.

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Now, I did not.
I did not think I was going to

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find this when I was looking at
this again, I thought this was

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just for fun.
This was just for me at this

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point.
This wasn't even for you, but

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strangers, strangelings, strange
cetera.

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Strange.
Selenius, I present to you

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another potential meaning for
the message that came through

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that night in Alarming Badger's
bedroom.

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Now we have H, and we have I.
Right now, we think that spells

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high.
Sure.

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Yeah, you would.
You would think that.

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Except apparently, apparently
Morse code abbreviation says

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that hi, HI is laughter in Morse
code instead of hi.

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It's actually he as in he, he,
he, he.

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So really, whatever knocked
wasn't saying hi.

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It was laughing, which is way
scarier.

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Is that not so much scarier that
it's laughing?

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I mean, maybe.
I don't know.

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What were they alarming?
Badger?

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What were you watching?
Were you watching something

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funny?
Like were you watching stand up?

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Were you watching, I don't know,
Fleabag, Very funny.

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Were you watching Arrested
Development perhaps?

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Or was it an evil sort of laugh?
Was it like, is that the kind of

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laugh it was, or was it more
like he, he, he, you know, we

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may never know.
We may never know.

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Also, it does sound like that
it's not ever happened again.

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It sounds like this was a one
time occurrence.

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An alarming badger.
For your sanity sake, I hope

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that it stays that way.
I hope it never happens again.

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But also, selfishly, if it does
happen again, I want to know.

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Let me know so I can talk about
it on the show and tell everyone

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what the new message is.
I just imagine.

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Imagine being able to
communicate beyond the veil with

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Morse code and what you choose
to say is the shorthand for

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Telegraph laughter.
I mean, honestly, it just sounds

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like it's trolling you.
You know, hiding your stuff and

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then putting it back out in
plain sight and then slamming

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the washer door, the clothes
washer, the dryer, something

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like that.
Appliance doors, as if it pays

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rent, which is rude.
OK.

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You know, like, you know how I
like to do.

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I like to do some naturalistic
explanations.

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Of course we can hit on, you
know, pipes in the wall, sure,

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but it's not a common sound that
they hear and they haven't heard

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it since.
So probably not a pipe.

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But what I will say is
apparently, apparently rats.

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I don't know about mice, but
rats apparently can make really

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loud thumping noises in the
wall, like with their little rat

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feet.
No hate to people that love

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rats.
I just a rat that's in my house,

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that's not supposed to be in my
house is not my friend.

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Anyone that's in my house that's
not supposed to be is not my

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friend, period.
So rats with their little rat

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feet can make really loud, like
surprisingly loud knocking

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noises on the wall, like when
they're turning around or

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they're trying to let clear
space.

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Also, squirrels can also do the
same because everybody loves

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squirrels.
They think they're so cute.

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Well, they're also rodents, you
know, just a reminder.

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They also carry fleas that have
the plague, like the plague that

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plague.
Yep, they sure do.

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So when they're in the walls,
they can also do that.

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OK, you'll note that I did not.
I did not put the plague on the

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rats, but I put it on the
squirrels.

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Yeah, there's a reason for that,
and that's because I may not be

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a fan of rats.
But I will say in their defense

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that I did read an article that
said that rats actually were not

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the reason that the Black Death
spread as quickly as it did,

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because it couldn't have moved
that quickly if it was just the

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rats and the fleas on the rats.
If apparently humans are the

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reason.
So infected humans infected

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other humans, what is it like,
hurt people, hurt people

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infected humans infect humans.
That's basically what happened

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with the Black Plague.
So, you know, fleas were the

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problem, but rats, they didn't.
They were not.

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Even though they were vilified,
they were not the main reason

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why the plague moved so quickly.
However, even though rats are

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rodents, I do also have a
vendetta against squirrels.

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So that's why I put it on
squirrels to say that they carry

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fleas with the Black Plague.
There, there's a rabbit hole for

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you, or a squirrel hole for you.
There you go.

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You're welcome.
And the reason that I keep

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saying that, and I'm trying so
hard to keep myself on task is

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that I will never, ever, ever
finish my deep dive episode on

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the Enfield Poltergeist if I
keep doing these really long

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episodes, even though I have a
lot of fun doing them.

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So I'm trying to rein it in.
All right, so Speaking of

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reining it in, so let's talk
about again, these are the

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things that it could have been.
It could have been pipes in the

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walls.
Unlikely though, since it hasn't

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happened that often.
Could have been rats in the

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walls or squirrels in the walls,
regardless of whether or not

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they carry the plague on them.
Could have been a person.

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I don't love it.
I hate it.

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So I don't want that to be happy
to be to.

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I don't want that to be the
case.

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I don't know what I want to be
the case, honestly.

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IA rat and then the rat left a
rat came in knocked the exact

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amount of knocks to say hi or he
he he he in Morse and then left

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OK, that's what I want.
That's what I hope happened and

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I also hope for the sake of
alarming Badger that this never

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happens again and that actually
no paranormal activity happens

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again.
Or as I always like to say,

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unless y'all are into that.
If that's what you're into, then

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you're you're knock yourself
out.

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And then I hope you do have
other paranormal happenings.

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But if you do have more
paranormal activity or if anyone

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listening ever experiences some
paranormal activity, feel free

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to share it with me.
Send it to me at

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madamstrangeways@gmail.com or
you can visit me at

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afraid and not be in danger.

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