Phantom Singing: Road Trip Edition | True Ghost Stories & Strange Theories | Ep #59

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Welcome stranger to Madam
Strange ways, where I Madam

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strange ways narrate your true
strange stories of the

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unexplained.
Whether you're a skeptic, A

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believer, or some secret third
thing.

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Stick around after the story
where I'll share my strange

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thoughts and research about said
strange story.

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And along the way I'll also drag
you down a slew of strange

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Settle in for a true strange

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story here with Madam Strange
Ways.

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Disembodied singing while
driving through fields by

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Spiritual Friend 235.
I want to preface this story by

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saying my mom and I sought every
explanation we could and are

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extremely skeptical and believe
evidence based scientific

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practices are best.
If you have a logical

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explanation, I'm all for it.
I was driving through some

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planes today out of my hometown
on a road trip with my mom.

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The area where N is very field
heavy and planes based.

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We had exited a highway onto a
back Rd. through some land with

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cars before us and behind us.
It's the kind of Rd. that twists

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and winds through large
privately owned land and MC

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mansions.
Trees were sparse but lined the

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length of the roads.
The cars near us kept respectful

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space as we're going 60 miles an
hour around single lane curved

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roads.
As I was driving, we had a story

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playing in the car.
My windows were rolled up, the

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air was whirring lightly, and we
were going about 60 miles an

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hour.
There wasn't visible wind, but

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that's not to say that air
wasn't moving at high speeds

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with the vehicle or through the
fields.

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There were rumble strips in the
concrete outside the paved lines

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on the road to keep you on the
concrete in the lanes and not in

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the grassy area.
As I was coming around a right

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curve, my mom and I heard a
strange operatic singing noise.

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We looked at each other to
acknowledge it wasn't just one

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of us hearing it, and we ignored
it.

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Then it happened again.
My mom asked me incredulously if

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I heard the sound.
I said yeah and turned down the

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story we were listening to.
I turned it up and down to

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confirm the sound wasn't some
backup noise for the track on

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the sound system.
And it wasn't.

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The singing sounded like a
concert that you were parking

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for, but not in front of, not in
the arena or near the stage, but

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a distant song that you
recognize as music but can't

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quite decipher.
As if someone was singing into a

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microphone in the distance but
in my back seat.

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I told my mom to check her phone
if it was somehow playing music.

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It wasn't.
My phone was plugged into car

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play, but the system was turned
down.

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She paused the story on my phone
just to be sure.

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We rolled the windows up and
down, trying to determine if the

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singing was inside or outside
the car or the wind or another

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vehicle with loud music.
If another car had their sound

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up as loud as it was for us to
hear it in my car going 60 miles

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an hour with the distance
between us as it was, it was

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loud music.
We couldn't find the sound,

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though.
We kept hearing it for a good

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few minutes, long enough for me
to wonder if I was going crazy.

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It wasn't inside or outside or
nearby or in the distance.

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It wasn't anywhere yet we were
hearing it.

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We could not determine the sound
of the singing.

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If it was the wind, it was
playing an extremely ominous

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Aria similar to a siren song.
It wasn't identifiable inside or

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outside the car.
Even sharing this, I would love

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some sort of explanation.
Was it the wind on the road

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around the car somehow
registering as a woman's song?

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Was it my tires on the ground
but heard through the car and

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not outside of it?
Curious to hear opinions or to

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clarify any information.
I couldn't describe it other

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than an operatic Aria.
Some soulful and lamenting noise

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making that registered as a
longing sound without a source.

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The words were indiscernible if
there were words.

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Curious to know others thoughts.
Hey, it's Madam Strangeways from

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the future.
Yeah, I know, I'm already here.

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How?
Something's wrong if I'm already

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talking to you.
Anyway, if you're confused about

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some random references in this
episode to the last episode,

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which has nothing to do with
whatever I'm talking about, it's

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because this is a lost episode
that somehow fell through the

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strange cracks and I just now
realized.

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So it should have been published
a few episodes ago.

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In fact, now it is now being
published now in the future

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instead of the past.
So there you go.

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All right, Madam Strangeways,
from the future out back to the

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past.
Spiritual Friend 235, thank you

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

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Spirit.
Can I call you Spirit?

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Spirit.
Thank you so much.

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I would have felt absolutely
insane.

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But like so many things,
especially the unexplained,

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something can be crazy.
Making something can make you

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feel crazy, but that doesn't
make you crazy.

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And also, what is crazy anyway?
Like, what do we mean when we

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say that it you know, I, I know
I, I need to stop saying it.

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I need to stop saying insane and
crazy, unless I'm talking about

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my mom.
And then you would totally agree

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with me that it is absolutely
the most accurate thing you

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could possibly say.
Anyway, this situation would

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have made me feel like I was
losing my mind.

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I think I'm losing my mind is
what I would be thinking the

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entire drive.
Because seriously, like you've,

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you've you've looked at
everything, especially like

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you've checked the phones, the
radio's down.

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How are you still hearing this
soulful, creepy Aria?

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How are you listening to the
first of all, opera is

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expensive.
Aren't tickets, are the opera

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expensive?
I mean, you weren't in a box,

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you know, like AVIP box, but
still.

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And there probably was not an
operatic concert going on

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outside.
And like you said, it would have

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to be super loud in order for it
to come through to the car.

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So what was it?
All the electronics are not

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guilty.
The radio, what is it?

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Well, you know, I've got
thoughts.

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You know, I have thoughts
because that's what we like to

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do here.
We, the royal, we, the strange,

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we the royal strange, we like to
do that here on the show.

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It's just me.
It's just me, by the way.

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But what I like to do is talk
about not only paranormal

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theories, but also the mundane
or naturalistic explanations.

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And one of the reasons that I
like to do that is because I

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like to remind everyone that you
can feel afraid and not be in

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danger.
Like when you experience

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something that is unexplained,
that doesn't necessarily mean it

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is unexplainable.
It just means that in that

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moment, you can't explain it.
And so it may feel very scary,

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but that doesn't mean that
you're in danger.

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However, that being said, always
trust your gut.

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Your gut is generally right,
unless it's my gut, in which

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case my gut is paranoid.
So, you know, it's always a toss

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up with my gut anyway.
Trust yours, not mine.

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Anyway, that's why I like to go
over both paranormal and

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mundane, you might say
skeptical.

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And that is where we're going to
start today.

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Right off the bat, reading this
story, immediately I was like, I

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already have a theory.
I already have a mundane theory

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and I'm so excited to share it
with you guys.

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If you have not heard of it,
it's a musical Rd.

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Now a musical Rd. is a road or
section of a road which when

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driven over causes a tactile
vibration and audible rumbling

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that can be felt through the
wheels and the body of the

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vehicle.
What are you?

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What are you saying to me?
You may be saying to yourself.

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What are you saying right now
Madam?

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Hold on.
This rumbling is heard within

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the car as well as the
surrounding area in the form of

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a melody.
Musical roads are known to known

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to exist in Hungary, Japan,
South Korea, Spain, the United

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States, China, Iran, Taiwan,
Indonesia, the United Arab

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Emirates, Argentina, Belarus,
Russia, and Turkey.

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In the past, they could be found
in France, Denmark, and the

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Netherlands as well.
I don't know.

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I guess France, Denmark, and the
Netherlands don't have any

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whimsy left.
I'm not sure.

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I'm not sure why they removed
those.

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So on this road, on this musical
Rd. each note is produced by

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varying the spacing of the
strips in or on the road.

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For example, an E note requires
a frequency of about 330

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vibrations in a second,
therefore strips I.

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I'm lost, but I feel like
someone will get something out

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of this.
Therefore, strips 2.4 inches

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apart will produce an E note and
a vehicle traveling at 45 miles

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an hour.
OK, you know what?

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You know what?
We're just going to here.

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Here you go.
Here's an example.

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This is a musical Rd. located in
the UAE, United Arab Emirates,

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so obviously not the same Rd.
that spirit was on.

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However, I now bring you
Beethoven's Ninth by a road in

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the UAE.
Like, I want, OK, I want you to

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imagine not knowing that you're
on a musical road and all of a

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sudden this is happening to you
inside of the car.

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That would freak you out, right?
I OK, listen, listen, Spirit,

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maybe you, you got to you got to
give me credit that this is I

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feel like this is a a strong
contender.

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Now, it did say that there's
some in the United States.

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Well, here's what I found.
Route 66, the musical, which is

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weird because I just mentioned
Route 66 in the last episode and

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these episodes could not be more
different.

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The topics, the locations
interesting.

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Anyway, Route 66 strange, you
might say.

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Oh strange.
Route 66 Musical project The

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Route 66 Musical Rd.
Project has been certified by

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the Route 66 Centennial
Commission as an official

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project to celebrate the 100th
birthday of the historic road.

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Route 66.
How cool is that?

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So I go to the website, I'm
like, I want to tell my

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listeners when they can go drive
on these musical roads and

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there's no information.
It's like TBD, OK, it's 2026 and

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that's when this is supposed to
be happening.

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So I don't know, I feel like we
can't fix our potholes.

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I don't know that we need to be
installing whimsical musical

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roads just by just a thought.
All right, Anyway, moving on.

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But also pause because spirit,
spiritual friend, I just want to

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be clear, I don't know if what
you were driving on is a music

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is a musical Rd.
God, I can't get words out.

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I don't know that what you were
driving on is a musical Rd.

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Maybe this is completely,
absolutely not what you were

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experiencing.
I am just introducing

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alternative theories.
Just some ideas are just

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brainstorming and there's no bad
ideas in brainstorming.

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All right, moving on.
This is from clickondetroit.com

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In December 2004, the mysterious
sounds of Van Dyke Rd.

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Ghosts, aliens or just new
asphalt?

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That's the headline.
Macomb County, Michigan.

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Eerie noises on northbound M53
near 18 1/2 Mile Rd. in Macomb

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County have drivers scratching
their heads and pulling over,

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thinking there's something wrong
with their road or the cars.

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Good news, there's not.
I was very worried.

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I don't know if you were
worried, listener.

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The freshly repaved stretch of
Van Dyke is emitting eerie

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noises that some say resemble
creepy music.

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Ghosts.
An opera singer.

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Hello.
An Aria.

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An operatic Aria is what we
heard.

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And now we're talking about
hearing sounds that sound like

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an opera singer.
OK, moving on.

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Or sounds of the ocean.
Or even an alien abduction.

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Now this is a quote.
It sounds like aliens.

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Like UR, like I'm being
abducted, said Paris Lockett,

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who drives the route daily,
often late at night or early

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morning.
Can I just say we did not need

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to include err dot dot dot.
We do not need to include

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ERRRRR.
In journalism.

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There is, there is a level of
acceptable cleaning up of a

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quote.
So like, you know, filler words

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like and like and err, as an
example, you generally don't

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include those.
You don't.

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You generally don't include
those in the quote unless you're

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really trying to drive home that
they were stumbling over their

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words that they just couldn't
get a thought out.

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I just feel like that was very
disrespectful to Paris Lockett.

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I don't feel like we needed to
include that.

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I think we could have cleaned
that quote up and instead of it

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saying it sounds like aliens,
like dot, dot, dot, like I'm

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being abducted.
I feel like I could have said it

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sounds like aliens, period.
Like I'm being abducted.

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Comma.
End Quote.

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You see what I mean?
That's all I'm saying.

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All right, moving on.
This is the same article.

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This is another quote.
It's like I'm under the ocean,

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added Cott Setzer, a frequent
driver on the road who works at

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a business nearby.
Now see, we didn't have any

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filler words in Scott's.
Do we think Scott didn't say any

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filler words?
I feel like he probably did, but

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why doesn't Scott?
Anyway, his quote continues.

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The first time I drove on the
road with my girlfriend, with my

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girlfriend, who I definitely
have everyone, did you hear?

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I have a girlfriend and we were
driving on that road together.

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She immediately started thinking
that something was wrong with

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her car and ever since they did
road work on there, all the

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customers have been coming in
and complaining that it sounds

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weird, especially my girlfriend
who is real, my girlfriend,

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everybody.
The mystery has sparked many

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questions and concerns on social
media and among drivers in

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Macomb County.
So Local 4 photographer Jason

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Wilger and I drove over this,
drove over the stretch of

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asphalt about a dozen times on
Monday, December 9th.

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OK.
I mean, you got to be scientific

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about it.
You can't just go once.

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You got to do it twice at least.
Maybe 3 * 4.

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Sure.
Six.

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OK, 12.
Is it just me or did maybe,

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maybe the writer of this article
and their photographer just

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wanted some alone time in the
car?

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Just a thought already
continues.

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Michigan Department of
Transportation m.spokesperson

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Diane Cross said this change
sounds are caused by ridges or

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waves on the road that
occasionally formed during the

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final stages of asphalt paving.
So these are not like rumble

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strips, like, like Spirit said
that we're on either side of the

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road to like wake you up if
you're, you know, veering off.

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And these are not like the
musical ridges to make a song,

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nor are they ridges like as in
Raffles.

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It's not those either.
No, no.

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These are just sort of like
imperfections that happen during

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the final stages of asphalt
paving.

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Just to be clear.
Cross advises drivers not to

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pull over unless they're sure
their car has a problem.

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She recommended waiting until
the next exit if you feel

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uneasy.
Also, the ghostly groans are

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temporary as cars and snow plows
travel over the road during

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winter and early spring.
The ridges will wear down and

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the sounds will disappear.
I feel like that's, I feel like

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that's kind of likely.
What do you guys think?

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What do you think, spirit?
What are your thoughts?

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Can we find out?
I don't know where this stretch

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of road was so I can't go back
and check.

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I don't even know.
Do they keep that sort of like

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infrastructure history?
Is there someone we can contact

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to see if how how recently that
road had been repaved?

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I feel like it's pretty
compelling from a mundane

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perspective.
I feel like that is a pretty

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compelling explanation.
And me personally, I always, not

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always.
I often wish that something is

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actually mundane and not a ghost
because like in this case, I

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would rather it be mundane
because I don't want to be here

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in operatic scary Arias while
I'm driving.

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On the other hand, when I hear
something in my house, I do want

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it to be a ghost because I don't
want it to be a human being in

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my home, you know?
So it just kind of depends on

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the situation.
Anyway, I think that's a pretty

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compelling mundane explanation,
but I do have one more for the

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skepticals, Skeptic, for the
skepticals out there, here we

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go.
OK.

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And this one.
OK.

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Spirit, I know you said that
both you and your mom both heard

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the music, which is why, by the
way, I have not mentioned that

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it could be auditory
hallucinations.

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I didn't mention that because
you both heard it typically.

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You know, Spirit, you might not
have listened to any of the

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previous episodes, but something
that I do bring up a lot are

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hallucinations because they're
extremely common.

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I am not talking about
hallucinations right now because

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you both heard it.
However, even though I still

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don't think that what I'm about
to say is necessarily the case

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because you both you and your
mom heard it, sometimes I do

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like to include things that are
kind of unlikely for this

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particular story, but I think
that maybe they would help

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someone at some future time.
Like for instance, apparently,

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apparently there's a form of
tinnitus where people hear music

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as if it was coming from a
radio.

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What it's called musical ear
syndrome or musical tinnitus or

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tinnitus I think as they say in
the UK.

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All right, this is from the West
Tennessee Hearing and Speech

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Centre website.
It feels like why did I choose

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that?
This story is not said in

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Tennessee to my knowledge.
I don't know where it's set.

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I just I liked this description
when I was researching it.

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I liked how they, I like how
they phrased this.

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So we're so shout out to the
West Tennessee Hearing and

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Speech Centre website.
Great job.

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What is musical ear syndrome?
Musical ear syndrome, MES, is

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when someone hears music that
has no external source.

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Some people hear a single
instrument playing a simple

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melody, others hear several
instruments playing a complex

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piece of music, and still others
hear a voice singing with or

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without accompaniment.
The most common melodies,

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however, are hymns, Christmas
carols, and patriotic music.

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Which would be, what, a
nightmare.

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I already get really bad
earworms.

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Like obsessive earworms.
Like one clip, one a few words

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out of a song on constant repeat
in my head to the point and then

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I start singing out loud.
And then I've done it so many

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times that I get mad at myself.
Like I can't even think.

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I don't even want to think about
it 'cause I don't have one in my

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head right now, so I don't even
want to think about one 'cause

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it's going to be in my head
again anyway.

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Drives me crazy so I cannot even
imagine.

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Hymns, Hymns or Christmas carols
or I don't want any of these.

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Anyway, it continues.
I cut it off, Hold on, it was

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continuing.
How is this different than when

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you can't seem to get a piece of
music out of your head, which is

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what I just said.
In the case of MES, the melody

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sounds like it is coming from an
obvious and specific direction,

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like a radio, so it's not clear
that it's internal.

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It sounds self evidently
external.

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That's why for so many people it
can take a while to recognize

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what's really going on.
Now.

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I thought that was so, so
interesting because it does

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sound like it's coming from a
radio.

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But this also reminded me,
Doctor Oliver Sacks, who wrote

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one of my favorite books,
Hallucinations, he has another

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book where he talks about
musical hallucinations

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specifically, and it's called
Musicophilia.

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It sounds like it's not.
It's it's not.

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It's not like that.
It's about musical

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hallucinations.
OK, but he does talk about some

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musical hallucinations, auditory
hallucinations in his book

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Hallucinations.
So if you like this topic,

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definitely go check out Doctor
Oliver Sacks's books

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Hallucinations or Musicophilia.
But he talks about this and

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something else that he
specifically mentions is that

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the his patients that are
hearing these sounds, they

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generally they genuinely go
around the house trying to find

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a radio.
They're like, where's this song

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coming from?
That's how real it sounds to

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them.
And he also said, again, most

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people do hear hymns, Christmas
songs and like patriotic music.

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Like imagine what fresh hell,
imagine spirit.

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I don't think this is what
explains your situation.

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But if anyone listening ever has
anything like this happen, maybe

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it's not a radio, maybe it's not
a secret radio.

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Maybe you have what is it called
MES or like musical tinnitus.

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It's possible.
And now we move on to the

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paranormal theories, right?
So remember Paris Lockett, we

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talked about them not that long
ago.

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Paris, you know Paris who said,
uh, aliens, which again, so

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rude.
Anyway, Paris might have been on

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to something because maybe it
was aliens.

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It could be aliens, like in
Signs where Bo's baby monitor is

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picking up the little alien
clicking conversation.

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That's my impression of alien
clicking.

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I feel like that's pretty good.
There's something there.

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I didn't do any editing there.
That's just that's just pure

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talent.
Anyway, maybe the radio in

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Spirits Car, even though it
wasn't on, was picking up an

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alien concert like in that Daft
Punk album.

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Interstellar 5555.
Do you say 5555 or do you say

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Interstellar 5555?
Hmm.

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Are you Daft Punk?
Do you know the way that it's

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supposed to be read?
Let me know, Madam

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strangevoice@gmail.com.
You know the alien band, right

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From you remember, like the all
the animated, you know, music

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videos to that whole album, the
Daft Punk album?

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I'm belaboring the point anyway.
Or it could be like in the Fifth

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Element, you know, maybe there's
an entire species of aliens who

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communicate solely through music
and song or the sounds of their,

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OK, the sounds of their like
intergalactic, planetary,

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planetary, intergalactic
interdimensional ships sound

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like music to us, but to them it
sounds annoying.

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Like like traffic to us, maybe.
What if our traffic sounds like

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songs to another species to
another alien species?

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Excellent questions, I feel.
But because there wasn't any

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missing time or because like,
the car kept going and didn't

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immediately like run out of
juice and leave them stranded.

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I it's probably not aliens, or
at least it's not an alien

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abduction, which, hey, that's
got to be a relief, right?

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Right.
OK.

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And this story happened
surrounded by planes like

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PLAINS, not like in an airport.
This happened surrounded by

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nothing, basically, is my point.
And on land landlocked,

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assumably, presumably
landlocked, right?

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That's where this happened.
So probably there aren't any

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sirens out there, which this is
something that kind of came to

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me immediately when reading it,
as well as like, oh, sirens who

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lure men to their death in the
ocean with their spooky,

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enchanting music and their song.
I thought, oh, I can't be sirens

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'cause they're like in plain
lands, Like plain lands.

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Anyway, I thought, well, are
sirens only in the water?

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Is there not like a different
type, A subtype of sirens that

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are land sirens?
Why can't there be land sirens?

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You're telling me that's
impossible?

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OK, because it looks like
actually actually, as I'm

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pushing up my glasses up my
nose, actually, it seems like

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some scholars believe that
sirens are actually

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manifestations of human souls
after death.

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And originally sirens were
depicted as bird ladies.

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Like not like the goat man where
I was like, which goat way does

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that go?
Is that half goat, goat on top

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or goat on bottom?
It's not like that.

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No.
It's like a bird with a human

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00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:08,400
woman's head.
A bird body, human woman said.

453
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,000
Which is not nearly as sexy as I
was expecting it to be.

454
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,480
I was definitely expecting
something different than that.

455
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:16,440
Or I don't know, maybe you're
into that.

456
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,480
I'm not going to yuck your Yum.
Anyway, sirens were originally

457
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,800
bird creatures before the
influence of Christianity turned

458
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:27,080
them into seductive sea singers.
Which I could spend a whole

459
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,640
other episode talking about that
deep dive.

460
00:25:30,120 --> 00:25:33,160
But if you think about it, if
they were originally bird

461
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,160
creatures, birds live on land.
OK?

462
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,440
They live in like the air and
like trees.

463
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:42,120
But like, yeah, I guess there's
some aquatic birds, but like,

464
00:25:42,120 --> 00:25:47,440
mostly birds are over land.
And what are planes Land.

465
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:52,000
Couldn't some sirens operate on
land?

466
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,600
I feel like I'm onto something.
I feel like maybe there could

467
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,800
have been a land siren.
Is that the name?

468
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,640
Is that where we're going with?
Is that the name I'm committing

469
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:00,880
to?
Land siren?

470
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,000
Plains siren?
That doesn't really trip off the

471
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,360
tongue.
It's the double S there in the

472
00:26:05,360 --> 00:26:07,480
middle.
I don't know.

473
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,600
Let me know, let me know.
Let me know what you think we

474
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,600
should call the land sirens or
if maybe is that a good enough

475
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:13,080
name?
Let me know,

476
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:17,320
madamstrangeways@gmail.com.
Are you a land siren or are you

477
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:18,600
a water siren?
Are you any?

478
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,080
Are there different kinds of
sirens?

479
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,320
Have I just blown this case wide
open?

480
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,120
How many kinds of sirens are
there?

481
00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:25,960
Let me know
madamstrangeways@gmail.com.

482
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,320
All right.
And finally, and obviously, the

483
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:33,280
paranormal explanations for this
one are kind of, one might say,

484
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:36,480
weak for this episode.
But I'm going to land on a

485
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:40,080
personal anecdote because if you
were to ask my grandma, may she

486
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:43,040
rest in peace, she would have
told you the story that I'm

487
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,200
about to tell you right now.
So I guess I could have just

488
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:47,440
said that my grandma told me
this story.

489
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,040
I don't know why I used so many
extra words.

490
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,880
Whatever, it's fine.
So she grew up in South Carolina

491
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:56,080
on a farm with no electricity.
So she would always tell us how

492
00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:00,560
at nighttime when all the lights
were off in her house, that you

493
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,040
couldn't see your hands in front
of your face.

494
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,400
And if you went outside, you
could not see your hand in front

495
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,640
of your face if it was like a
new moon and you only had the

496
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,480
moon to light things so they
didn't have electricity.

497
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:13,560
I guess that's not like super
relevant to the story.

498
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,120
I'm just telling you how she
told it to me.

499
00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:19,000
Anyway, she told me that one
night laying in bed, she heard

500
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:25,240
what sounded like a choir and a
horn, like a trumpet perhaps

501
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:27,000
playing in the middle of the
night.

502
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:33,080
It got louder and then quieter,
as if it was moving towards them

503
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:36,360
and then away from them.
Now this was the late 1930s.

504
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,760
There weren't roads by her farm,
so there wasn't like a car

505
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,960
driving music could, were there?
Did the 1930s even have music in

506
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,600
cars yet?
Hold on.

507
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:52,120
OK, Google, Were 1930s cars
equipped with radio?

508
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,520
Yes, but they were expensive
options.

509
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:55,720
OK, stop.
Shut up.

510
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,600
I don't want any more.
Stop talking.

511
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,880
OK, Yes, they were, but they
were expensive, so probably.

512
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,080
OK, look, it says here that
there were car models that

513
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,960
required large external antennas
and bulky vacuum tubes.

514
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,640
That's ridiculous.
So no one was driving around

515
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:16,640
with a radio playing angelic
choir music in the 1930s in the

516
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,480
middle of the night.
Anyway, I would also say that

517
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,400
there probably wasn't a group of
marauding choir boys harassing

518
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,880
farmers with their song.
And yet that's what she heard.

519
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:30,440
In the middle of the night is
this choir seemingly flying

520
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:34,040
overhead.
And the next day, they got word

521
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,040
that her grandmother had passed
away the night before.

522
00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:40,120
She always told me it was angels
come down to bring her grandma's

523
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,400
soul up to heaven, which is
like, really sweet but also kind

524
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,040
of scary.
She taught me a lot of scary

525
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:46,840
stories as a kid.
Like, what are you doing?

526
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,800
Stop scaring me.
But I guess, like, what do you

527
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,640
mean?
So like, the angels went and got

528
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,360
your grandma wherever she was
because she didn't live with

529
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:56,960
them.
So she went and got your

530
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,680
grandma.
And then she, like, the angels

531
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:00,800
took a detour.
You know what I mean?

532
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,480
So that you go on tour.
Is that how that works?

533
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,440
Angels take you on tour like a
farewell tour.

534
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,400
I saw how that works.
Is that in the Bible?

535
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,440
I don't think so.
I think it's too cool to be in

536
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,720
the Bible of farewell tour with
the angels.

537
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:16,200
I don't think that's how it
works.

538
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,480
But what do I know?
I'm not an Angel.

539
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:23,560
Are you an Angel?
madamchangeways@gmail.com Let me

540
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:25,040
know.
Do you do farewell tours with

541
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,160
with souls?
Anyway, this is what my

542
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:28,720
grandmother would explain that
song.

543
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:33,960
She would say, well, I would
figure that someone must have

544
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,640
died.
I suppose someone might have

545
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:42,280
just died and that was their
spirit going up to heaven to be

546
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,120
with Jesus.
I don't know, Mom, if you're

547
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:49,240
listening right now, I hope
you're flattered by my extremely

548
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,200
accurate impression of you.
I think she would laugh.

549
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,360
That would that would be her
explanation if I had her on the

550
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,520
show.
You know what, I could have just

551
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:57,880
told you that I had her on the
show.

552
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,360
I could tell you that I had a
Ouija board right here and she

553
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:01,760
was just saying all of this
stuff.

554
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:03,960
And you'd have to believe me
because this is radio and you

555
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,760
can't tell if I'm doing it or
not.

556
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,280
But I would never lie to you.
I would never lie to you like

557
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,160
that.
That's not our relationship.

558
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:16,520
That sounds toxic.
If you listening have any ideas

559
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:21,400
about what might have explained
this phenomena da da, da da da,

560
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:23,840
then let me know
madamestrangeways@gmail.com.

561
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:28,400
Have you
experiencesomethinglikethisletmeknowmyostrangewiz@gmail.com

562
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:30,480
spirit?
Again, thank you so much for

563
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,600
allowing me to Share your story
on the show.

564
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,520
I hope I gave you some food for
thought.

565
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:38,080
And if you ever go down that
road again, you know I want to

566
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:39,160
hear from you.
Let me know.

567
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:42,360
Genuinely update me if you drive
down that road again and you

568
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,120
don't hear it or you do hear it.
Maybe it is a siren.

569
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:50,080
Maybe it is a Land Siren TM.
Anyway, as usual, if you have a

570
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,520
strange story that you'd like to
hear read on the show, let me

571
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,040
know.
I need you to e-mail it to me

572
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:58,520
right now, this very moment, at
madamstrangeways@gmail.com.

573
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:02,880
Stop what you're doing.
Stop, stop, Stop what you're

574
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:08,240
doing and write your story and
e-mail it to me immediately.

575
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:12,640
Right now I'm waiting and I
can't wait to read it.

576
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,280
Remember that you can feel
afraid and not be in danger.

577
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,440
You're safe here with me,
probably.

578
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,760
Thank you for joining me for
more true strange stories of the

579
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,800
unexplained.
I'm running A1 Madam Show here,

580
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,280
so please do me a strange solid
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581
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:41,120
Leave me a rating on Apple or
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582
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:45,640
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583
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,600
Madam Strangeways is produced
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584
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:54,120
Madam Strangeways theme music is
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585
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,840
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586
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,120
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587
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,080
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588
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,280
You can submit your own true
strange story to

589
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:12,480
madamstrangeways@gmail.com.
See you soon, she said

590
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:13,720
ominously.