Unexplained House Shaking | True Paranormal Stories & Spooky History | Ep #45

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On to our True Strange story
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Terrifying, unexplainable house
shaking by DC.

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This is one of the strangest and
most unsettling things I've ever

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experienced and after over a
decade I still don't have an

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explanation.
I've told friends, family, even

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therapists.
No one can explain it, but

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everyone agrees it's bizarre.
About 13 years ago I had just

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moved into a new to me house.
It was a nice clean two-story

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suburban home.
Looked totally normal, no red

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flags.
I thought it would be my forever

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home.
The house was about 15 years

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old.
One evening I was giving my

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young daughter a bath.
She was maybe two or three years

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old.
And out of nowhere, there was

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this massive bang in the house.
Not just a noise, it felt like

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the entire house shuttered, like
an earthquake.

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It was so intense I could
physically feel it.

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It scared me more than anything
I've ever experienced.

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I didn't think, I just reacted.
I grabbed my soaking wet toddler

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out of the tub and didn't even
dress her, grabbed the dog and

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ran out the front door.
I threw them in the car and

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drove straight to a nearby
Walgreens a mile down the road.

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That's how scared I was.
I called my husband and told him

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that he needed to come home from
work immediately.

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Something had happened.
I've never done that before or

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since.
I didn't return until he came

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home and checked everything
inside and out and found

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nothing.
No damage, no broken pipes, no

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roof debris, no cracked drywall,
nothing on the foundation, and

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no neighbors mentioned anything.
He ended up chalking it up to me

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being jumpy and overreacting.
I told my therapist about it and

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she said maybe a cougar or
something jumped on the roof,

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but it didn't feel like that.
This wasn't an animal sound, it

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felt structural, like something
hit the entire house.

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Years passed, I still thought
about it from time to time but

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there was never a good
explanation.

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No follow up issues with the
house, nothing weird.

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Until five years later when my
husband experienced the exact

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same thing.
I wasn't home.

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He said there was a huge bang
that shook the whole house so

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hard he fell out of his chair.
My husband is £250.

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He ran outside expecting to see
a tree branch or a car crash or

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something.
Nothing.

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Everything was normal.
Neighbors were just doing yard

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work again.
He even asked my next door

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neighbors at one point who we
were really friendly with.

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They said they didn't see or
feel anything.

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We became scared to talk about
it in the house, like maybe

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something was listening, but
we'd discuss it when we were out

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to dinner or etcetera.
It actually happened at least

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one more time when we were both
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Same deal, no damage, no
explanation, just the most

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intense physical jolt you can
imagine.

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Like something hit the house
with full force from the inside

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but left no trace.
We had the house inspected

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before we bought it and it was
in great condition.

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No foundation issues, no
settling, no visible signs of

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structural problems ever.
No cracks in the walls, no

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shifting floors, nothing.
We thought maybe it was a

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sinkhole or or an underground
shift, but we could never find

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any evidence.
And again, it wasn't ongoing,

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just a few very specific
identical incidents over 11

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years.
For context, this home is in an

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area with no real known seismic
activity.

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There had been mines in the city
at some point in the distant

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history.
So I actually went to the

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library and looked up the old
mining maps.

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This neighborhood did not have
any known mines.

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Eventually I realized that as
much as I wanted that to be my

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forever home, I could never
fully feel safe there again.

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Something deep inside me new.
I wouldn't be able to stay

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forever.
That house scared me so we sold

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it about 3 years ago and moved.
I've never felt anything like it

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in any house before or since,
and I still think about it.

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Not because I want answers, I've
kind of accepted I'll never get

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any, but because I want to know
if anyone else has ever

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experienced something like this.
I've never been afraid like

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that.
DC, thank you so much for

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allowing me to read your story
on the show.

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No, I have never experienced
anything like that, and I am so

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grateful that I have never
experienced anything like that.

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That sounded terrifying.
So terrifying.

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I'm sorry that you had to
experience it.

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I'm sorry you had to leave what
you had wanted to be your

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forever home absolutely sucks.
But you know what?

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Here's what I couldn't stop
thinking about was thank God

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your husband experienced, you
know, it's like, ah, God, I

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mean, it's not like I, I, I wish
it had never happened again, But

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if it's going to continue to
happen, it needed to happen

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where he witnessed it,
especially like alone to have

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that experience that you had.
You know, it's like when

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something's going wrong on your
computer and you're like, hey,

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IT, can you come help?
And they come over and it's

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working totally normal and you
look crazy and dumb, but no, no,

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no, it happens.
It just doesn't happen

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constantly.
So I am glad at least that you

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were vindicated.
I mean this at the silver lining

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to this story, to this
terrifying story.

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Thank you so much for allowing
me to read it.

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And DC also gave me some info in
our DMS and so I'm going to read

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this first message that she sent
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She said.
For some additional context, I

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absolutely consider myself a
skeptic.

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I am not one to believe anything
out of the ordinary.

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I live a normal, mundane life as
a suburban mother and have never

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experienced anything remotely
like this.

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The first time it happened I
tried to blow it off and

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ultimately did over the years,
but after my husband experienced

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the same thing, there was no
explaining.

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In a way, the shaking physically
removed him from his office

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chair onto the floor.
We have talked and researched

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and explained to friends and
family and never had any

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reasonable suggestions that we
haven't already considered come

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up.
There's no plausible

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explanation.
Additionally, there were other

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oddities about the home and This
is why I wanted to share this

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with you.
So listen up.

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This is this is the good part.
There were additional where were

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we?
We were other oddities about the

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home.
Our dog at the time refused to

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go upstairs.
We thought it was the physical

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stairs, but we would take her up
and she would shake and urinate

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until we take her back
downstairs.

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We stopped talking about the
house while we were there

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because it felt like it would
get worse when we would.

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When I told my husband about
this post, he reiterated that

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same feeling.
After the shaking, we'd be

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scared and uneasy for days.
We even stayed elsewhere for a

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few days once it didn't feel
normal.

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I could go on, but truly, the
shaking terrified me.

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I am not a nervous person or
easily shaken.

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I'm going to pause because I'm
going to tell you right now

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you're a little easily shaken
because your house was shaking.

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Because your house was shaking.
You see, you see what I'm OK or

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easily shaken, except in the
case when my house is shaking is

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I'm just, I'm just going to add
that for you.

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I really did plan on living
there forever, but I felt

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unsafe.
When we sold the home, there was

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another inspection completed by
the new buyers verifying the

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structural integrity of the
home.

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I'm glad we moved and I've
experienced nothing since then.

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Unfortunate or fortunately,
unfortunately not unfortunately.

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But she also went on to say that
we'd love to understand, you

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know, like what happened.
So of course I want to talk

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about it.
I want to, I want to understand

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what happened too.
I mean, I think we need to be

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honest up front.
It's unlikely we will ever know

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what actually happened, but
we're going to talk about it

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anyway.
We're going to see maybe if we

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can come up with some theories,
maybe not new theories, but OK,

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you'll see.
You'll see.

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So obviously what I like to do
is it's either a paranormal

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point of view or a mundane point
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Like, what are some explanations
through both of those lenses

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from a paranormal point of view?
And I'm going to move quickly

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through these because I've got a
lot of mundane explanations that

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I really want to talk about.
So the paranormal explanations,

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I mean, I think if I was Ed or
Lorraine Warren, wow, Ed or

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Lorraine Warren, or if I was one
of their ilk, I would probably

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say it's a demon.
I would probably say it's a

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poltergeist.
I would probably say you need

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some holy water and you need a
priest and you need an exorcism

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and etcetera, etcetera,
etcetera.

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OK.
I mean, sure.

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I, you know, my stance on the
show is that I personally don't

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believe that demons and
poltergeists and etcetera, you

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know, if they exist, I don't
think they can hurt you.

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So I would they be able to shake
a house?

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I don't know.
I don't buy it.

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What's the point?
That's all they do.

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I don't know, you know what I
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Say sure, it could be a
poltergeist.

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There could be some sort of
local folklore.

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I don't know where the house is
exactly.

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And I didn't want to potentially
docks DC and I don't know, it

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was 13 years ago.
So I don't know where DC lived

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13 years ago.
Is that my bad for not asking?

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Yes, but here we are.
So there could be some local

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folklore to explain, you know,
this is something that's known

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in the area or oh, there's a
there's a legend of, of a house

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that shakes.
You know, I don't know, I don't

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know.
I mean, maybe it's UFO related.

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Maybe it's some sort of alien
encounter.

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Like, you know, I mean, just
from my knowledge of The

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X-Files, you know, whenever,
whenever the aliens show up in

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X-Files for Fox Mulder's sister
and then eventually Scully,

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spoiler alert, whenever that
happens, the house always

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shakes, but there's always a
really bright light.

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So I think there are some people
that could argue that maybe this

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is an alien event, maybe this
is, you know, maybe maybe you

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were being abducted or I, you
know, I don't know, could be, or

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like, I don't know, Ley lines,
geomagnetic something.

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There's something here just, you
know, kind of also just again,

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it kind of depends on the
location of the house.

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But so sure, there's some of
those explanations, but I have

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found the more mundane
explanations to be much more

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fascinating than the paranormal
ones in this case.

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So because DC specifically said
we'd love to understand, I am

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here.
I don't know if this will

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actually explain anything, but
I'm happy to jump in.

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So #1 And I think this was
something that somebody in the

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thread actually suggested
explosive gas build up.

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Oh, it was because someone
actually linked to another

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Reddit post where someone was
saying that they had this house

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shaking event happened to them
when they were a teenager.

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And I think they were home alone
and the whole house shook and

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they were terrified and they ran
outside panicked, you know, had

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their parents come home early
from wherever they were.

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And then it turns out that there
had been a gas pipe underneath

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the house.
And so there was like this

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level, this huge level of gas
buildup that resulted

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specifically in their bedroom
shaking from the explosion.

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Like it didn't even impact the
entire house.

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It was like directly under their
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So I was like, OK, I want to
know more.

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I want to understand more
because I'm like, that sounds,

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you know, pretty.
That sounds plausible to me and

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why it wouldn't affect other
houses nearby.

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But here, here we go.
And now I'm not, I'm not an

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explosive gas buildup expert,
you know, but we're going to

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we're going to try.
So exclusive.

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OK, OK, great for explosive gas
buildup, fires and explosions

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associated with anaerobic
digesters and methane storage

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systems.
I'm so in over my head here, I'm

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going to start this over.
Fires and explosions associated

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with anaerobic digesters and
methane storage systems are more

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common than people realize,
mostly because of widespread

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underreporting.
This is especially true in near

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miss situations where there is
no human injury or death.

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So if we assume that there was
an explosive gas buildup beneath

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that house, specifically whether
it's like a gas pipe, I don't

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know how I don't, I don't know.
I'm not a city planner.

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I don't know how this works.
I'm just saying there's a

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possibility that there's some
sort of pipe or some sort of

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chamber system.
I don't know.

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But I feel like it's, it's, it's
a possibility that especially

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because it didn't happen often,
right?

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So maybe it happened just often
enough that the pressure built

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up and then there was an
explosion.

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I'm kind of picturing it like if
you've ever seen in person or

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just like on a video, obviously
a manhole fly off the ground

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like into the air and maybe
there's like a flame with it.

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You know, I feel like that's
what's happening because

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apparently this some, this is
something that happens at

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wastewater facilities all the
time, all the time because it's

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under reported.
And when something's under

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reported, there's just no
telling how often it happens.

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So it could be a lot more common
than we realize.

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Probably definitely is.
So I feel like I feel like this

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is a strong contender, but I
don't know what was happening

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beneath the house.
I also don't know if you could

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definitely for sure know
everything that's beneath your

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house.
I don't know.

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Can you?
Is that something you can do?

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e-mail me
madamstrangers@gmail.com.

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How would you even look into
that?

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How do I, how would I find out
everything that's beneath my

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home?
And now I'm curious.

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Now I want to know what's under
my helm.

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I hope this doesn't happen to
me.

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OK, so there's, there's one
theory which I I don't hate.

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I like it.
Actually, I would go so far as

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to say I like it.
But it's funny because in that

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discussion, we were discussing
wastewater, right?

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Wastewater facilities.
So Speaking of wastewater, here

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we go.
We'll get there.

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OK.
It's not you'll listen.

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Trust me.
Trust the process.

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So I know that DC said that
there is no seismic activity in

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the area.
There is not known seismic

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activity where this house was.
OK, I understand that.

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I understand.
However, even if an area isn't

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typically known for seismic
activity, like for instance,

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Oklahoma, just as an example,
fracking.

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OK, actually I went into this
thinking that fracking was

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causing earthquakes, but I
actually had to do a little mini

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rabbit hole deep dive to
understand.

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Actually, that's not necessarily
the case, although it kind of

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is.
It's definitely an indirect

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cause of fracking.
But OK, let me get there.

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So it's not just fracking, but
also the whole cause of

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earthquakes that are related to
fracking is due to wastewater

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injection.
See, I told you, you just got to

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trust me.
Wastewater injection as a result

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of fracking, but also it's a
result of mining or treated

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wastewater from cities and
factories.

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So I guess it's not just
fracking that causes earthquakes

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anyway.
So it's wastewater injection

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that's what's causing the
earthquake in areas where you

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don't usually find them.
And apparently, what wastewater

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injection is basically OK, I
don't want to get into this

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here.
Here we go.

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This is according to the USGS,
so the United States Geological

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Survey, The fluid that is
injected at depth is sometimes

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hydro hydraulically.
That shouldn't have been that

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hard of a word.
That's not that difficult of a

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word.
I'm embarrassed.

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Sometimes hydraulically
connected to faults.

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When this happens, fluid
pressures increase within the

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fault, counteracting the
frictional forces on faults.

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This makes earthquakes more
likely to occur on them.

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And analog to this system is an
air hockey table.

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So when an air hockey table is
off, the puck does not move

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readily, but when the table is
on, the puck glides more easily.

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So raising fluid pressure within
a fault is like turning on an

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air hockey table.
Also, you could look at it as

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lubrication to faults that are
not typically moving around.

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So just the thought.
I don't know if there's any

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fracking or if there's any
wastewater injections that are

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going on in the place where this
house was.

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However, according to the
Seismological Society of

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America, which is just got to be
the most exciting society to

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have ever existed.
They say wastewater injection

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resulting from oil and gas
production in Oklahoma caused a

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dramatic rise in seismic
activity in the state between

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2009 and 2015.
So just just some food for

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thought.
I will say, I think that this is

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a possibility.
I think this is a distinct

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possibility that there was not
seismic activity in this area,

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but now that there is depending
on the location of the home.

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So this could be a completely
moot point, but we're going to

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continue because here's the
thing you may be saying.

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Right?
But DC specifically said it was

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only them that felt the
earthquakes.

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Their neighbors didn't notice
anything.

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OK, don't worry, I got you.
So apparently come to find tiny,

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shallow earthquakes can exist
that are below standard

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detection thresholds.
And I know we're all familiar

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with the Richter scale.
Who's Richter?

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I feel like I Richter.
I hardly know where I I'm

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disappointed in myself as well.
Anyway, I am not going down a

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rabbit hole for who is Richter?
Why is it named after Richter?

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Richter.
I assume Richter is a

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seismologist, maybe V prominent
seismologist.

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You know, that's probably the
case.

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I think we can move forward with
that anyway.

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We all know about the Richter
scale, but then there is

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apparently a different type of
intensity scale and they're

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Rome, they're Roman numerals.
So, you know, it's fancy and it

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starts 12345.
It goes down further, but I only

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screenshot it down to 5 because
you're going to find out that's

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relevant anyway.
So there's different intensity

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scales.
And so we're going to get into

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it in a second, in a second.
But first, according to the

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United States Geological Survey,
booms have been reported for a

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long time and they tend to occur
more in the northeastern US and

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along the East Coast.
Of course, most booms that

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people hear or experience are
actually some type of cultural

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noise, such as some type of
explosion, a large vehicle going

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by, or sometimes a Sonic boom.
But there have been many reports

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of booms that cannot be
explained by man made sources,

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which that's what really got my
attention when I was in my 50th

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tab on Chrome reading about
this.

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I sat up a little bit
straighter, like OK, so let me

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just read that again for for
emphasis.

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But there have been many reports
of booms that cannot be

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explained by man made sources.
No one knows for sure, but

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scientists speculate that these
booms are probably small,

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shallow earthquakes that are too
small to be recorded, but large

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enough to be felt by people
nearby.

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So right there we have a
precedent for small, shallow

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earthquakes that are not in any
record and that are just large

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enough to be felt by people in
the Brighton.

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You may be saying it says
people, maybe not just one

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house.
OK, hold on, hold on.

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Because this is how this is when
we're getting into the

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intensity.
So the intensity one level 1,

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not felt, people's reaction.
Not felt.

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It, it, it, it says people's
reaction and then it tells you a

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little bit more details.
So the people's reaction for a

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#1 intensity, not felt #2
intensity felt by a few.

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OK.
And then it says for

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furnishings, delicately
suspended objects may swing.

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Obviously we know it was a
little bit stronger than that.

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So it's, although we like felt
by a few, you know, we don't

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like the furnishings just
swinging gently.

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OK, so #3 felt by several, which
what does that mean?

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Again, several, like several
houses, several people in one

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house, TBD felt by several
vibration like passing of a

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truck.
It feels like it was a little

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bit more intense than the
passing of a truck.

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But it does say for furnishings,
hanging objects may swing

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appreciably appreciably.
That's the word I need to use

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more in my common vocabulary.
So #4 intensity IV because

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remember, these are Roman
numerals.

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I don't want you to get it
confused.

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People's reaction to a #4 felt
by many sensation like heavy

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body striking building.
I mean, that's what it sounded

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like, right?
Because even the therapist

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suggested, well, maybe it was a
cougar that jumped on the House,

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which is just such a funny
thing.

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It's not funny that DC asked her
therapist.

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That's not funny.
I asked my therapist all manner

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of things that are not related
to my mental health.

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I mean, this is technically
related to mental health, but

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you get me.
I I don't at all blame DC for

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asking.
It's just funny.

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But that's like, well, maybe it
was a cougar.

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Like that is that gives me no
comfort whatsoever.

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That's like the negative amount
of comfort, not even because I

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think that there's a cougar on
the House, but like, oh, so

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you've got no ideas is what?
What?

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You could just tell me that.
You know what?

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Just tell me you don't know.
Just tell me you don't know

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'cause you don't 'cause it's not
a cougar.

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We know that.
So furnishings for level 4, it

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says dishes rattle and then
build environment, it says walls

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crack, windows rattle.
Now we've discussed there was no

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destruction of the house.
The house was totally fine.

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It was fine before, it was fine
after.

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So obviously the walls weren't
weren't cracking.

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So you know what I'm feeling,
I'm feeling like a 3.5.

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I'm feeling like Roman numeral
3.

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How do you do that in Roman
numerals?

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How do you do?
It's not like I I dot V that's

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not going to be 3 1/2.
How do you do halves in home and

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Roman numerals?
e-mail me

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mountofstrangeways@gmail.com.
Actually, I got to look this up.

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Hold on.
OK, I'm back of the Roman

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numeral for half.
Like 1/2 is semis and it's an

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SI.
Guess I should have said it the

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other way.
It's an S, which stands for

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semis, which means half I guess.
So you do IIIS.

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That's what I'm going for, is
IIS on the intensity scale

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because obviously the walls
didn't crack.

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However, we did feel like a
heavy body striking the

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building.
It was like pretty, pretty

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similar to that I feel.
So I don't know.

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I tell me what you think.
I want to know.

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We're not done.
We've got more.

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But tell me what you think.
madamestrangeways@gmail.com How

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likely do you find this theory
of localized small, shallow

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earthquakes potentially caused
by wastewater injection?

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I don't know.
Let me know.

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OK.
Now, strangely, this next theory

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I researched doesn't involve
wastewater, but it does involve

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waste, which now I'm just going
to have to start doing more

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00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,720
research because I did not
understand that we were just

456
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:04,720
pumping contaminated gross water
directly into the earth.

457
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:10,280
Did you know that I didn't know
that I at my big age, I had no

458
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,520
clue that that was happening.
I don't know where I thought it

459
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,200
was going.
It says treated wastewater.

460
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:16,720
I don't know what I thought
treated meant.

461
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,320
I mean, I didn't think it was,
you know, come going back into

462
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,560
my Brita.
But I definitely didn't think it

463
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,440
was being injected directly into
Mother Earth, which is

464
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,480
horrifying.
So that's what I'll probably be

465
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,240
looking up after I finish this
episode.

466
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:33,240
Just if you're curious.
So anyway, back more waste.

467
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,720
This is great.
We're humans are a blight on the

468
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,200
planet.
This is so fun.

469
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:44,920
So waste as in a landfill?
So DCI am so curious if there

470
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:46,600
was a landfill anywhere near the
house.

471
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,080
I could have totally asked you
this before doing the episode.

472
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,080
I didn't.
So let me know

473
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,360
madamstrangeways@gmail.com Or
you can just slide back into my

474
00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:56,640
DMS on Reddit.
I'm really curious to know.

475
00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:00,000
Also, let me know if you think
it was anywhere near actually

476
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,000
just tell me where it was.
I'll do the research and I can

477
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,600
do a follow up if we find out an
answer if you want to know.

478
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,080
Do you want to hear a follow up
madamstrangeways@gmail.com?

479
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,600
All right, so get this, This is
from CBS News.

480
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,880
It sounded like a jackhammer.
This is the headline.

481
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,280
It sounded like a jackhammer.
Twin Cities homeowner finds

482
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,200
violent house shaking linked to
landfill.

483
00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:23,680
This is this is promising.
I find it promising.

484
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,800
So here's the article.
After some digging, Carlson

485
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,320
found out that the.
Did my voice just crack?

486
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:31,760
We're going to.
I'm leaving it in.

487
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:33,480
You know what?
I like to be real with you guys.

488
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:34,960
We're going to leave it in.
We're going to start over.

489
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:39,080
After some digging, Carlson
found out that violent shaking

490
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:42,000
was caused by something that
happened at the landfill less

491
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,920
than a mile from her house.
Never in a million.

492
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,560
Oh, what character, where?
What accent do you have?

493
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,240
If you're from Twin Cities, I
actually don't know where that

494
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:51,680
is.
Is that in Minnesota?

495
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,280
I feel like it is.
Hold on, let's check.

496
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,640
OK, I'm back.
Yes, it's Minneapolis and Saint

497
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,680
Paul, Minneapolis and Saint Paul
and Minnesota.

498
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:05,720
So I am really good at
geography, if it's not already

499
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,960
very clear to you, obviously.
OK, so here's what I'm going to

500
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:11,440
do.
I'm not going to do an accent

501
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,960
because I don't did I kind of
just do one just now?

502
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,880
I don't know what people in
Minnesota sound like.

503
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:16,880
We're just going to, and I'm
not.

504
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,560
You know what?
I'm not going to insult the fine

505
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,720
people of Minnesota by doing a
Fargo accent because that's

506
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,120
North Dakota.
See, I know geography.

507
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:31,040
You might as well call me Madam
Geography ways, Madam Strange

508
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:32,680
geography.
There's something there.

509
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,000
Listen, here's I'm just going to
read her a quote.

510
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:39,120
She said.
Never in a million years would I

511
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,920
have thought that anything going
on at the landfill would be

512
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,920
causing my home to shake,
Carlson said.

513
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,840
The Burnsville Public Works
director said Carlson was not

514
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,480
the only one who called the
city.

515
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,600
He says the whole thing was
caused by a malfunction with the

516
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:58,560
equipment the landfill uses to
burn methane, a required step

517
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,440
that reduces the landfill's
impact on the environment.

518
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,920
The company said that the new
monitoring and control equipment

519
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,280
has been installed and is
functioning correctly, which

520
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,600
should prevent this type of
incident in the future.

521
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,640
I'm not sure that it did, but
there's not another article

522
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:17,560
about it, so we'll never know.
But what do you think, DC?

523
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,840
Were you near a landfill?
Were you near anything that has

524
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,040
to do with methane or waste?
Let me know.

525
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,480
I'm so curious to know, but
still good to know that there's

526
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,320
a lot of reasons why a house
might shake.

527
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:35,000
However, my pet theory I saved
for last.

528
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:39,280
Best for last.
This is definitely the strangest

529
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,600
of the theories and the most up
my alley, which is why I've

530
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,240
saved it for dessert.
So here is my pet theory from

531
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:50,760
The Associated Press.
The headline is shaking.

532
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,920
House remains.
Sorry, let me do my news.

533
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:55,680
What have I been doing?
I haven't been doing my news

534
00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:00,080
article.
Reader, reporter, that's the

535
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:01,480
word.
I haven't been doing my news

536
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,360
reporter.
Voice from The Associated Press.

537
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:09,720
Shaking house remains a mystery
decades later, 68 years later.

538
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,760
The story sounds like something
out of Poltergeist.

539
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,440
I'm not going to do the whole
thing like that because there's

540
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,320
a lot.
But listen, it says, no cause

541
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,240
could be found for the
mysterious phenomenon phenomenon

542
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,800
which affected no other house on
the streets.

543
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,200
I always interrupt myself with
the most important sentences.

544
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,560
No 'cause can be found for the
mysterious phenomenon of the

545
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,560
house shaking which affected no
other house on the street.

546
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,960
That is key that we're on to
something here.

547
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,960
Shaking house a mystery and
headache to tenants.

548
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,760
Read the headline on the front
page.

549
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:48,400
Story in the Worcestershire.
Worcestershire Word Worcester.

550
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,320
Worcester in the Worcester
Telegraph.

551
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:57,000
Where is this?
Is this Massachusetts?

552
00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,440
Oh, no, it is because I am
obviously, as you know, a pro at

553
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,760
geography.
OK, Google, How do you pronounce

554
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:09,800
the city in Massachusetts that
is spelled like Worcester?

555
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,520
I know there's like a woo or
like a woo.

556
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,000
Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia.

557
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,680
Worcester is a city in the US.
Worcester.

558
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,880
That's wrong.
There's no way that's right.

559
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,560
Worcester.
Worcester, No.

560
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,880
OK, we're going to get back to
the story that just doesn't

561
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,640
sound right, right?
So here we go, Shaking house a

562
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,400
mystery and headache to tenants.
Read the headline on the front

563
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:36,680
page story in the Worcester
Worcester Damn Telegram on May

564
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,080
13th, 1950.
It's not going to happen.

565
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,320
I'm not going to make Worcester,
Worcester happen.

566
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,440
The family of the house's owner
in 1950 offers a more mundane,

567
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,280
but head scratching in its own
way, explanation.

568
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,240
It's probably not as haunted as
you think it is, said Randy

569
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:56,280
Chavor, a retired Worcester
Worcester Fire Department

570
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,320
district chief whose late
grandmother, Victoria Chavor,

571
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,960
owned the three family apartment
at 14 Douglas St. at the time of

572
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,240
the disturbances.
From what I was told, he said

573
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,320
with a laugh.
It's not as exciting as it

574
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,400
sounds.
Where university engineers were

575
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:15,280
unable to find the cause of the
shaking, Chavoir family members

576
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:19,520
say a plumber later did.
Behind the medicine cabinet in

577
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,960
the wall of the first floor
apartment.

578
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,640
If you're like me, I was like,
what do you mean they found

579
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,040
something in the first in the
wall behind the medicine cabinet

580
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,120
on the 1st floor.
What do you mean it's in the

581
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:32,280
wall?
What's in the wall?

582
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,760
According to my cousin, someone
put a washing machine motor

583
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,680
inside the wall, Chief Chavor
said.

584
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,080
She's 99% sure, though she
doesn't want to get anybody in

585
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,200
trouble, that it was the first
floor person who wanted to buy

586
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,680
the house from our grandmother.
There was some type of motor.

587
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,160
He evidently put power to it and
it was enough to shake the whole

588
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,960
house.
It was said among the Chavoir

589
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,200
family that the man on the 1st
floor wanted to buy the house

590
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:03,360
and that perhaps is why he was
trying to make the place appear

591
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:08,400
haunted by making the house
shake to get the price down.

592
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:13,080
I kind of love it.
It's clever, it's resourceful,

593
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,880
you know, like you got to do
what you got to do to get a

594
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:18,800
affordable house.
Although here's what I'll say.

595
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:23,080
1950 y'all didn't need y'all
didn't need to be doing that.

596
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:28,440
Housing prices. 1950 girl, we
don't need to be doing that.

597
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:29,560
You don't need to be doing all
that.

598
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:33,120
You don't need to put a you
don't need to put a tab washing

599
00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:37,000
machine motor inside the wall
and turn it on and scare the

600
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,960
living crap out of people.
It's completely unnecessary.

601
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,719
You can afford a house in 1950
on nothing peanuts.

602
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:48,679
I think that's how much a house
cost in 1950 is approximately 3

603
00:34:48,679 --> 00:34:54,040
peanuts, maybe 3 1/2 peanuts IIS
peanuts.

604
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:55,960
That's how much it cost to buy a
house.

605
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,160
So completely unnecessary, but
very clever.

606
00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:05,040
Very clever, very mischievous,
you might say.

607
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:10,520
So I love that theory.
I mean, what are the odds that

608
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,960
there was actually a washing
machine motor in the wall?

609
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:18,320
Probably slim, but that would be
really interesting.

610
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,760
Now there wouldn't really be a
reason to put it in the wall

611
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:23,840
unless there was some drama
around the house.

612
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,920
DC let me know.
Was there drama about the house?

613
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,400
Did someone want to get the
house from you?

614
00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:31,600
Maybe.
You know what?

615
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,040
Maybe someone put it there for
the purpose of making the house

616
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:39,200
seem haunted and then they
didn't come and get it back.

617
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:40,720
Now that how would it be
powered?

618
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:42,080
I don't know.
I don't know.

619
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:43,800
I'm just an ideas person.
I don't know.

620
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:45,480
You all figure it out.
You tell me.

621
00:35:45,720 --> 00:35:50,160
How did they make this work?
If someone, if someone put a

622
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:56,520
motor of some kind in the walls
of DC's home that DC wanted to

623
00:35:56,520 --> 00:36:00,000
be her forever home, If someone
did that, how would they make it

624
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:00,560
work?
Let me know.

625
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,600
Madam strangewas@gmail.com.
So that's my pet theory.

626
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,000
That's my favorite theory.
Is it the most likely?

627
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:07,920
No.
Is it my favorite theory?

628
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:12,920
Yes, I know that you know,
there's in the in the Reddit

629
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,000
thread, you hear them talk about
Sonic booms.

630
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,240
You hear them talk about
honestly, I can't even remember,

631
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,280
but there's some other theories.
But I was like, uh, I feel like

632
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,040
a Sonic boom.
Other people around are going to

633
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,040
hear it.
However, I specifically only

634
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:30,200
looked at ideas that could
happen and have it where only

635
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,840
the person or people in one
house could have experienced the

636
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:35,640
shaking.
Because I mean, think about it,

637
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:39,280
even one of the earlier
theories, if someone's outside

638
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:44,320
doing their lawn and they're not
inside for their house to shake,

639
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,800
would they even notice?
If it's not something that can

640
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,560
even be measured on the Richter
scale, would they even notice?

641
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:53,280
Is, you know, I don't know.
However, what is it?

642
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,240
What are the odds that your
neighbors are never in their

643
00:36:56,240 --> 00:36:58,200
house when something like that
happens?

644
00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:00,360
You know, probably slim.
So I don't know.

645
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:04,640
You tell me what theory do you
think is the most plausible for

646
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,800
this situation and DC, let me
know.

647
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,920
Let me know if any of these
situations seem like they're

648
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:14,080
plausible for your story.
And hopefully I've given you

649
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,880
some more food for thought.
I know that never not having an

650
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:19,360
answer for me is the worst
thing.

651
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,080
I don't know if you can tell
that about me just from the show

652
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,760
that I do.
I don't like not having answers.

653
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,000
I love having answers.
I love knowing things.

654
00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:33,480
For me personally, the way I was
raised, but not knowing things

655
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:37,240
is really unsafe from my nervous
system personally.

656
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,120
So that would drive me nuts
never having an answer for that.

657
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:44,120
So you know, even if, even if
this did not give you answers, I

658
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:48,120
hope one day you do.
I hope you do because it would

659
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,600
drive me nuts.
I would to my grave.

660
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:55,160
I would take this mystery to my
grave, wondering what happened.

661
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,880
I can't even imagine how scary
that would have been.

662
00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:01,480
So DC again, thank you so much
for letting me Share your story.

663
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:05,880
And if anyone listening, if you,
yes you listening, has an

664
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:09,360
unexplained story that you would
like to share with me for me to

665
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:13,080
read on the show and to possibly
go down a few rabbit holes and

666
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:18,120
research holes, let me know.
Let me know. e-mail me at

667
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:22,160
madamstrangeways@gmail.com.
I can't wait to read it.

668
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:37,800
Remember that you can feel
afraid and not be in danger.

669
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,200
You're safe here with me,
probably.

670
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:44,760
Thank you for joining me for
more true strange stories of the

671
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,200
unexplained.
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672
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:52,920
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673
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674
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675
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,800
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676
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:11,520
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677
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:16,480
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00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:20,080
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00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,600
strange story to
madamstrangeways@gmail.com or

681
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,080
check out the website
madamstrangeways.com.

682
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,160
See you soon, she said
ominously.

683
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,320
So S so you would do 111?
Nope.

684
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:55,880
You would do 333?
Nope.

685
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:57,480
What is wrong with me?