Rambling 282: Clinton Road: The Menu Part 3: Significance

Is there any starting point for researching this Forest surrounding Clinton Road? What could be the most pressing amongst the sea of oddities? What can be found on the other end? The duo unpack the last of the reports from Clinton Road. This time, the clearly important bits are discussed. 

Rambling 282: Clinton Road: The Menu Part 3: Significance

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Topics Discussed:

  • Druid Activity
  • Disappearances
  • Satanic Panic
  • UFO Sightings
  • Mysterious Lights
  • Floating Orbs
  • Cross Castle
  • Mutilated Animals
  • Haunted Mines
  • Gnome Sightings
  • Invisible Barriers
  • Creepy Carvings

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Cristina: Warning. This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised.

Jack: Going live in 5, 4.

Cristina: What does live mean?

Jack: Welcome to the Rambling Podcast. I'm your host, Jack.

Cristina: I'm your host, Christina.

Jack: And this is the show where you and I ground humanity's most absurd and baffling ideals. Yeah, no, that's legit, bruh. But okay, so recap, recap. Last time on Dragon Ball Z, for anybody who wasn't paying attention, Clinton Road for the hundredth billionth time, many years later, except now we have a lot of information to relook at it with. And so we've broken up the excess of things we have discovered. And we have separated into three categories, of which we discussed two already. Ones are echoes. Any long term listener understands an echo is a type of ghost that doesn't interact with anything. It's just literally a repeating something that isn't there.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Then phantoms on the shadow episode, probably shadow people, which is probably shadow people or other things that are just aware and they're physically and are aware of you and try to interact or can react. Those are not echoes. They're not just there not being responsive. They are there explicitly being responsive.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And then today. Well, to clarify, in the echoes episode, we had some little details that the point of that was we were basically going down all the major events that happened in Clinton Road, breaking them up into these three categories. And with the echoes episode, it was to completely remove what we know isn't doing anything. But the point of discussing that to begin with was maybe something sticks out and is relevant. Which we have found a couple of things that we should look into. Because of the nature of those things, particularly intense distortions, directions, we could be looking at, whether it be a different realm or into the future to see how we can possibly determine something's happening. These kinds of details you've acquired. The phantoms episode was a sin. Well, the shadow episode is the same idea where we're trying to unpack phantoms. Phantoms are what we call the creatures that do interact, but we normally call ghosts. We've created a distinction. The phantoms are the type of ghosts that can interact, and they're usually just things in the shadow realm that you're interacting with.

Cristina: Yes. And they're spooky.

Jack: Yeah. A lot of them can be definitely.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Some of them are trolls. A pickup truck was definitely a troll.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Today's episode is the last part of our branch as we go through the Clinton Road menu.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: And this is a collection of all the things That I know factually as we go down. Each one of these points is important. Without a doubt.

Cristina: It's all important.

Jack: It's all important. These are the things that all the. The other two sections were composed of things that, I don't know, could or could not be.

Cristina: But these relate to what we're trying to figure out.

Jack: This has ghosts, this has phantoms, this has tech. It's again, everything relevant that was factually relevant.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: That wasn't in the other two lists. The other two list was just composed of those respective subjects, but that was unclear.

Cristina: May or may not be important.

Jack: Yeah, these are definitely important. And have things that should be on those two lists if they weren't obvious.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Every thing here matters now. Okay. The problem is that there was no way to order this more efficiently because of how important everything on this list is. So it's not like I can escalate gradually.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: So I'm just gonna go for the number one thing here because it's the easiest for us to just kind of get into the groove and start to unpack this. But it is quite commonly stated and believed that human creatures. Human people. Not creatures. People. People. Humans. Humans.

Cristina: Humans. Okay.

Jack: Also wander these woods around Clinton Road. We know this.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: I personally saw an individual doing something weird. Doing something weird. There was a town, like, adrift in this location where nothing else can get to. There are people now. Where it gets weird is the dialogue people have used to describe the people they have seen.

Cristina: These aren't normal people or they're not. They're. It's obvious that they're doing something sketchy.

Jack: There you go. Yeah. It's more about what they're doing, not who they are.

Cristina: Yeah. Okay.

Jack: So the stories are of cloaked figures, which we know. I personally saw a dude. And they're said to have been seen or glimpsed performing rituals of all sorts in the woods. And the word most commonly used to describe these individuals by people who are informed scholars who search for what people are talking about. Oh, it's spooky and blah, blah, blah. No, it's probably just this. The this they use is Druids. They believe they are Druid activity. Let's simplify. Druid people who work with occult things. Let's specify occult things in the context we're very familiar with. We're in a high energy displacement space time, problematic area. And people have seen cloaked individuals performing things that they would describe as magic if it wasn't technology.

Cristina: Yes. Crazy.

Jack: There was probably a necromancer there at some Point.

Cristina: Okay. Okay.

Jack: That would fit what a druid is.

Cristina: Yeah. A necromancer.

Jack: There could have been.

Cristina: Which I guess, like St. Patrick. He would probably be described as a druid.

Jack: He would be described as a druid. Correct.

Cristina: Yes. Because what we know is they're in hoods. They usually have some kind of staff.

Jack: With a stone either in the staff or in a necklace.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: There's definitely a dialogue they're using with intention. And again, the fact that they use this word to describe it kind of reframes immediately the guy I saw instantaneously. You're not a KKK member, dude. You black? You're black. Black. So you're some other s***. But now let's take a step back. We use the word druid. Druid in this context means a magical individual. All the magical individuals we've known. I'm about to ask you to say something I haven't said myself yet. So put your thinking cap on. Where are they from? This is not a difficult question. Where are the people we have talked about doing magic from? Not which country. Which region?

Cristina: Which region?

Jack: Easy.

Cristina: I don't know. It's not a country.

Jack: Not a country.

Cristina: Not a country. The sea people. No. What region?

Jack: Where is Iran? Where is the Middle East? The Middle East.

Cristina: They're doing magic.

Jack: Oh, God. Okay, I got a. Let me grab your hand and walk you through it. The Middle east is the only mention we've seen of every single necromancer, every single magic activity has ever happened that began with somebody wearing a hood. It happened in the Middle East. We have no outside source that ever had a necromancer, ever had somebody who fit these descriptions anywhere else. It's always been in the Middle East.

Cristina: What about Sansa? He's in the North Pole. And the guy, Merlin? He's not in the Middle East.

Jack: They're not wearing hoods. I used these words so specifically. Guys doing magic wearing hoods is literally what I just said. Those individuals have only. We've only found mentions of them in the Middle East. Now another question I have not explicitly said, but is the obvious answer to this. They are in the Middle East. What is their skin color? Not a hard question.

Cristina: They're brown.

Jack: Darker than brown. Oh, they're very bronze.

Cristina: Is this important?

Jack: The guy in the woods that's wearing a hood is dark. I don't. How are you not connecting these dots, bro? Okay, I'm gonna stop trying to get you guessing.

Cristina: Are they saying the same thing, though, in their description?

Jack: No, I'm telling you what I personally Saw.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: They're saying there's druids in the woods and he's wearing. They're wearing, you know, they got cloaks and they're doing the things that, you know, necromancers fit. And then I saw a dude wearing a robe and it so happened to be a D skinned dude.

Cristina: Yes, dude.

Jack: The dots are connecting. But no, no worries. I'm gonna just connect all the dots and I'm gonna just flat out explain that.

Cristina: Like, did they describe it like that too?

Jack: No, I would have said that. But the point is I'm making the connection that there's a dude with robe.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: In the place where they're saying there's people with robes doing things and we see him with a machete. Then we get to a animal sacrifice. Like, all the parts are just lining up.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: No explanation required, but I will continue to just explain it instead of asking. But the point being that's definitely fitting the suit. Dark skinned dude in a robe definitely did something sketchy with an animal.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And he's walking away from it. That's what I see. But that just fits them. Talking about rituals being performed in the woods by druids.

Cristina: That's crazy.

Jack: That's weird. Now I wouldn't have put those things. I was thinking KKK. That's. At the entire time, since 15 years ago when it happened, I've only thought, yeah, it's okay. But it doesn't make sense to have that thought because this guy is dark also.

Cristina: What does it do you have to do with a kkk?

Jack: Yeah, like, well, the area is drowning with them. That's a very, very KKK present area. But why would he be a member? Unless he's a troll who's using it to, like, disappear into. But he was visibly just walking around. You could see his arms. You can see, you know, and it's like, okay, it has a KKK vibe, but I can see your face. So it's not a hood that's literally covering your face. The assumption was, you know, he has it lifted and, like resting on his head. But maybe it's just a literal hood, not a mask. And maybe you're in a robe, not a cloak.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And maybe you were performing a ritual.

Cristina: Just out there like that. That's kind of crazy.

Jack: Literally what they say happens.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Rituals in the woods.

Cristina: Yeah, but you weren't in the woods. You're so.

Jack: You wouldn't have to literally be in the woods. They're not in a building would be the point of staying in the woods. It's outdoors. They're outdoors. Performing sketchy things would be the sort of general idea here.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: They're not hidden doing it because otherwise how would people see them? I'm sure that in the woods has meant some people have seen them on the street as well, just, like, doing weird things.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And so you move around them. At least that's what we saw. And the thing is, all of us saw that. All of us saw the animal, and all of us saw the dude. It was unclear what the dude was holding. Two of us thought machete, two of us thought shotgun. But by the time we get to the animal, there's kind of not really a debate here because it's sliced open. Two of us are right, two of us are wrong.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But weird. Anyways, the other weird part about that moment, that quote druid, unquote, is that moment of the machete or the shotgun, because what. How could we not tell? But let's back up and talk about what we know about Clinton Road and what we know about the shadow realm. Clinton Road has high distortions. That guy might have not even been present. That guy could have been in the shadow realm, and we were seeing the distortions of the shadow realm. That would explain both happening.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: It's a distorted image of somebody on the other side.

Cristina: Yes, but did the deer look like it was from.

Jack: Well, no, the deer was cleared on this side.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And maybe he used whatever he got from the deer.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And we were seeing him phase in the middle. The veil was thinnest right after he took it.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Because he needed the veil to thin for him to cross. And then we're seeing him slowly distorting more and more as it goes through his system and he crosses over to the other side. Weird.

Cristina: Okay, but he didn't, like, disappear in front of you guys. Like, it wasn't, like, that type of spookiness, was it?

Jack: So the debate that we had following this moment, because we're driving and then he's in the back mirror, we assumed it just got so dark that there's, like, a threshold that you just instantly get sucked into the dark.

Cristina: Yeah. Okay. So, like, it appeared like he disappeared.

Jack: It appeared like he tried to make.

Cristina: It make sense, but it could just.

Jack: Be that, again, we were in a car, he was on foot. Like, the dark could have just swallowed him instantly. Beyond some point, he did get smaller and smaller and suddenly gone, which is possible. It's totally possible. We were also spooked by the fact that we just saw some random dude out here in the woods with the machete or shocker. So, yeah, we're maybe not focused. It's already, you know, the sits, the place and the situations already getting to us a little.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: But we'll leave that there. Who knows? The next one is this. This is one we're definitely gonna have to unpack in detail one day.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: There are giant lists. Giant lists of people who've gone into these words and never been seen before. Like, again, they're just gone.

Cristina: They're just gone.

Jack: Gone. People missing in these woods all the time. All the time. They disappear. These woods are not big enough for. So for there to be lists and nobody to find them, just. It's not big enough. You'd find them. You'd find them. You'd send crazy search parties and find them.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Nobody's been found. They're just gone. Everybody. All of them.

Cristina: How long is the list at the moment?

Jack: About 300 people.

Cristina: Oh, my gosh.

Jack: Okay, spread out, spread out. It's not like 300 people last year.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Like, through all the time, we've recorded about 300 people wandered, never been seen.

Cristina: Again for like 200 years. For a hundred.

Jack: For the past maybe like 30 years. That's a lot.

Cristina: Oh, okay. 330 years. Whoa.

Jack: Yeah, that's a lot. There's people wandering and vanishing and wandering and vanishing.

Cristina: You know, if there's, like, groups of.

Jack: People that disappeared as well, like entire groups have vanished. Yes.

Cristina: What is that?

Jack: Well, there's an answer for what that is based on the fact that they vanish in an area that shouldn't be so easy to lose so many people. Where are they going?

Cristina: Someone's eating them up.

Jack: I guess they're going to slip into the other side. Yeah. Yeah, they're. They're falling through some of these thin places into different times or falling into different spaces.

Cristina: Oh, you think different times.

Jack: They could just go through one and. I mean, they're still the one that overlooks the lake and is always looking into a time in which there are people at the la.

Cristina: Yeah. And there's. There's a spot like the. The tall grass in there as well.

Jack: There could be. Where everything is intersecting. Yeah. Once you're in your track, that'd be crazy. Maybe that's what they are. Maybe there is a situation like that going on.

Cristina: Those are crazy.

Jack: I would argue the tall grass is kind of based on some concept like that that somebody, you know once read about or something, and, oh, how interesting. And it's like. That's kind of real, man. It's kind of Kicking around reality a little bit crazy.

Cristina: But it could also be that they're being killed off because, like, who knows what's in there? All these stories of monsters.

Jack: Like, not even.

Cristina: They gotta eat.

Jack: Not even stories of monsters. Let's go to how people try to explain this. Because that's the next important thing.

Cristina: How they try.

Jack: How they try to explain it. This takes us back to the castle. They believe that Luciferians inhabit the castle and that their cults operate in that area, leaving behind strange symbols. This is literally written, as I'm saying it. Symbols and sacrifices of unfamiliar animals. Now, how would we identify a Luciferian? Well, you're just guessing who they are. A Luciferian who's performing a ritual would be indistinguishable from a Druid, wouldn't it? Yes, except you call them a cult. You're saying an individual is a Druid and a group is a Luciferian. Why couldn't there be a group of Druids?

Cristina: Yes. And they're sacrificing Shadow Realm creatures.

Jack: Shadow Realm creatures. Now we're getting to something.

Cristina: Yeah, weird.

Jack: There are symbols which are transmutations. You can convince me of anything else. You could not convince me. S*** else is happening. Strange symbols, huh? That's too familiar.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And then unfamiliar creatures being sacrificed. There is some sort of a portal somewhere around here that distorted everything. Those creatures are coming in and they're bringing them in. Or something happened in the future, in the past. This is the hotspot and they're keeping it safe. Hence the sacrifices. It's not sacrifices. They're killing whatever comes through that shouldn't be here.

Cristina: But then how, if they're keeping it safe, like they're still mad people going missing.

Jack: That's why they need to be there, keeping it safe. If they're keeping it safe, what would happen if they weren't?

Cristina: Oh, okay, so you're saying it'd be so much worse.

Jack: It'd be so much worse. At least they can keep it contained in the woods of Clinton Road. You see? Now, if they're the ones causing it, then we are talking about an area, and this is gonna. I don't know how the f*** I didn't think about this last week when we were talking about the Phantoms in the Shadow episode. But I literally mentioned that the Vikings had created a forest through continuous sacrifices in order to stay in contact, be able to traverse and communicate with things from the other side. How the f*** is this any different than that?

Cristina: No, it's the same thing. They're probably talking to A co. Uncle God.

Jack: Hella people go missing. That sounds kind of accurate to what the Viking were doing.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Creatures from who knows where. People hear voices when they're there. People slip in and out of places they're unfamiliar with. Everything jumbles around.

Cristina: The same story, just a different location.

Jack: Yes. It's a modern day portal location. It's a sacred forest to cross into the shadow Realm in Clinton Road.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: The argument is whatever the h*** happened once we crossed Paradise Road into the town of paradise, we weren't on this side anymore. That's why it was jumbled. But then we didn't consume anything to get there.

Cristina: No.

Jack: So we must have been on this side and it was just because again, if the steps that we're talking about are as we're talking about them, then the Druid I did see needed the thing to cross. We didn't consume anything. So we were watching a really hot spot on this side of that side. Yeah. We were just watching that side essentially. Without being there.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Like the thinnest part of the veil.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Without crossing. And so it behaves almost like we're over there.

Cristina: Yeah. But you need something to actually be there.

Jack: So then this brings up another question. Is it possible to thin the veil so much? It's almost the same place.

Cristina: Like you don't need anything.

Jack: Like you don't need anything. If that's what's happening in paradise, then paradise is an actual. And listen to me what I'm about to say, this makes so much sense. If paradise is just the thinning of the veil, then you can coexist. When people from the other side. We go back to the origin of Halloween and Christmas and all these things when they will go to these graveyards. It's where the veil is very, very, very, very thin. And they can just people who are dead and. But also be careful. There's creatures there who might harm you. There is a town in Norway where there are people from the shadow realm, people from Elfim and people from earthrealm living together. In no moment that we ever come across a line that said anybody crossed anything to get there, we just know they're there together. There's two locations like that. That's just one of them. Is it possible that these locations are extremely focused so that you don't need anything and people don't have to cross, but you can still see people from the other side. Additionally, in situations like the judge sleeping in somewhere, these spots, it would just be one. He never went in.

Cristina: He never went in. No. That makes it make so much sense.

Jack: He abused the knowledge of being in this twisted place repeatedly and got familiar because the veil is so thin. It's not the same place.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: He didn't slip anywhere. And he could see them like they're standing in front of him even if they're not.

Cristina: Yeah. And his sister probably took something though, once they. She made the deal with the other girl or whatever.

Jack: The other girl actually. They both actually crossed. But they had to learn how to do it.

Cristina: Yeah. But I don't think he did.

Jack: I don't think he did. I think there's a. I think there are places within veils where you can just interact and it's the same place the them into us. And we haven't thought about this before, but it checks out. Because the way that fear thins the veil.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Means you could get it if you can just keep applying the same logic and never have adrenochrome. You never bring adrenochrome into the equation. You just keep applying more and more and more and more and more and more fear.

Cristina: That's why you were there. But it was different.

Jack: But it was different. But there are conflicts to this theory. What Twin towers fall. There's a crazy amount of fear. New York didn't suddenly shift.

Cristina: It's not a hot spot.

Jack: It would have created a hotspot. If the fear is what's doing it. Or are we talking that you need to create technologies to thin the veil to this point?

Cristina: Possibly.

Jack: So from the other side creatures can come to this. I would fear alone. But we need some catalyst.

Cristina: Yeah. Because we see all this time distortion thing going on. That's not happening.

Jack: That's not happening over there.

Cristina: No.

Jack: Another theory for the same idea of the thinning veil is what if it's literally the same thing to get across. How do I put it? We need fear. They can see us. What if there's something on that side they have to do and then we see them give a point. What's the fear equivalent?

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: If it's one to one, what's over there that we need over here to suddenly start seeing them? Ooh, we haven't thought about that.

Cristina: I don't know. That's tricky. I don't know.

Jack: But makes sense.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: If that's the case and is the kids in the playground who aren't there, they could get scared and then that, you know, thins that area a little more because foreign and exciting and. Oh my God. Well, we're kind of spooked out. There's people camping out there looking for things too, from the other side.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It could be just as scared.

Cristina: So you think it works both ways? The fear itself.

Jack: Both sides are horrified because it's a fun place to go be scared.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And so both sides are going and kind of scaring each other, not knowing. Oh, my God. There's something over there. People. People. It's just people.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: There are things. There's dangerous things. There's wolves and there's bears and there's snakes and poisonous and birds and crap and weird chimeras and. But also on the other side too. Just whatever things they got. But also they see weird things. But it's just us and we see weird things and it's just them.

Cristina: That's. Agree. That makes sense.

Jack: Makes so much sense.

Cristina: Yeah. It's just fear works the same over there as it does over here. Okay.

Jack: And if it's not literally fear, we can just put the value of X and call it fear. Anyways, they have something.

Cristina: We got something that works the same.

Jack: Interesting. Useful, right? Yes, interesting. Everything on this list is useful. It's important. And in like crazy thought reframing.

Cristina: Wow. Yeah.

Jack: So there's definitely something weird going on. I don't know if they're causing it or trying to contain it. Unclear. That's what we need to be looking at that castle for.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: But it brings up the theory that there is something going on. And then the Druid himself walking through having gotten some ambrosia, fades away because he crossed over. Meaning you do need the thing to cross over. But then we connect the fact that we didn't consume anything when we were in paradise and it seemed that we.

Cristina: Did crossover some event happening is important. The time distortion thing, because we would have these still anywhere. Like, why is this the spot?

Jack: No, 100%. 100%. I do agree. I think this is an overlap of many things.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: I think things happened here either on the other side in the future or in the past. And that created just enough disturbances had to happen so long ago or so far in the future or somewhere we just can't find that then makes us not know what this is. And it's just a unique place that we can't be like, oh, no. It's unique because of that. We don't have that answer. So we're just like, oh, it's weird and spooky and that gets people excited to go there. And then that sort of perpetuates the fuel of fear and crap.

Cristina: But something had to start.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Not sure where, when, but something yeah.

Jack: The distortion seems to be unrelated to the spooky s***, even if it kind of resulted in it.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It's just this came first and it allowed for other s*** to happen and now this s*** happens as a result of the curiosity from that s***. But it's still a super hot spot because it's where the thing, whatever happened.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So it's kind of like all of the things overlapping in one spot, making it this kind of complicated amalgamation of all the things we would define as ghosts and horror and mysterious. Now this brings us to the next part, which is again why we have to start looking in this area more seriously. Because the next sentence, I must say it as they describe it, but then we know really what it means, which is there are quite a hefty number of reports that identify flying objects that could only be described by the individuals as aliens.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: UFOs everywhere. We know who the UFO are.

Cristina: The sea people.

Jack: The sea people.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And this is a hot spot that all this ghost activity and then we have UFOs. No, they're observing and probably landing places and checking out. Because they're probably the ones with s***.

Cristina: Yeah. They probably end up doing something there that causes whatever to happen to happen.

Jack: Exactly. You tell me UFOs. I know who we're talking about. You tell me UFOs over weird time lapse hot spots within places and shadow realm creatures. I'm like, bro, yeah. There's only one group of people that's doing this.

Cristina: Yes. And they're a group of scientists. Anyway, like obviously they're doing something weird, even if it's to stop themselves from doing the weird thing. Like some kind of Star Trek thing.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: They end up doing it anyways.

Jack: But then this tells us something else interesting. They do come out because these sightings are recent. The spot is recent. This is all recent.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: This is the first mention we have modern day of something that is probably the sea people. Now. It would just be UFO and people being crazy if it wasn't where the f*** it is.

Cristina: Yeah. But is the same thing. Does that happen in the ranch that we were talking about a while ago?

Jack: Yes. So, yes. UFOs drowning in there.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Weird, right? I mean, that was the whole thing we're talking about. It's paranormal, but it really means just ghosts and aliens and it's like.

Cristina: Yeah, yes, yes, yes.

Jack: There's a pattern here where you have a lot of quote, ghost unquote activity. You have aliens and it's like neither one of these are what you guys think they are.

Cristina: And before those stories, you had fairy story.

Jack: Yeah. In the same places.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Oh, interesting. In both places. Kind of painting a lovely. It's becoming too easy to find what we're looking for.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: The. In the collective of what they don't know is all one thing. Paints us the picture we're looking for. Kind of crazy, right?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Now deeper into the rabbit hole. We got creatures that are unfamiliar, creatures that are likely familiar things that are probably the scientists. We know rituals. We got thinning veils. We got the clear shadow realm overlap. We got weird things everywhere.

Cristina: Everywhere. Yeah.

Jack: And then people say they see what they could only describe as sentient lights or orbs moving through the woods, responding to people and avoiding people. Usually the size of a softball.

Cristina: That sounds familiar.

Jack: I'm thinking fairies. I'm thinking this s*** has everything still to this moment.

Cristina: Till this moment.

Jack: I think all of it is in there. I think these are fairies and we're seeing what they would look like without coming through.

Cristina: Mmm.

Jack: We're seeing the shadow realm equivalent of fairies. Never thought about it. How would they look like if they didn't come fully, but they were still on their side watching us, if we thinned that veil.

Cristina: Interesting, because I. I don't know if we've talked about fairies like that.

Jack: Never cross our minds. It would apply the same. If it's all the same.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It would just be a different direction, but the same idea.

Cristina: Yeah. Yeah. They just see them moving around.

Jack: That's like an impossible to catch. Impossible. Just super fast. And seem to, like, not be phased by creatures. And just totally like the overpowered thing that doesn't care about anything is that orb. And it's like, weird. I can't confirm it's a fairy. I cannot.

Cristina: No, but.

Jack: But, like, what else could we be talking about? Yeah, we'll pin that as fairy for now.

Cristina: Mm. Could be a shadow realm creature.

Jack: Yeah, it could be. But the fact that it's a light kind of argue because the shadow realm. They named the shadow realm because of its dark characteristics.

Cristina: Yes. Yeah.

Jack: The fact that this is bright, a bright glowing orb, it's like, oh, okay. That's some whole other thing you're talking about.

Cristina: Okay. You know, yeah, that makes sense.

Jack: But yeah, that. That one caught my attention because I'm like, I've never thought about this, but I could only explain this as the opposite of the shadow realm, which I would say is all fame and, like, how would they look like if these guys look like shadows but they're not?

Cristina: What would the other guys look like?

Jack: They would look like light even if they're not. And definitely the most important thing here is Cross Castle, which is specifically the ruins of the castle that it's said to be haunted by spirits and consistently visited by alien presence. Which is like, bro, it's always being like, aliens are always a UFO's always hanging around. It's like, brother, come on, you just tell me.

Cristina: The Druids are doing rituals.

Jack: That's where Luciferians are at.

Cristina: Yeah, it's.

Jack: It's obviously there. Yeah. You're telling me aliens are watching Luciferians in a place where they're performing rituals and when weird creatures come out of. Come on, bro, that is.

Cristina: That's too much.

Jack: That's too much happening all in one place. None of this is coincidence. The fact that people are talking about it like it's random. Separate is stupid to me.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Like you guys really think all this separate is happening simultaneously? Just maybe it's all one thing. Whoa. Yeah. As I go through it, it's just gonna get dumber because it's gonna be so obvious. You don't even need any of the information we've uncovered to really understand what's happening.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: At this point, like, bro, obviously, obviously. But yeah. So Cross Castle, that's gonna be the main focal point. And I think as we unpack all of the details that matter to all these right now we're just skimming through, and then we're gonna truly deep dive into all these things. We're. We're in here for the long.

Cristina: Starting at Cross Castle, right?

Jack: No, we're ending at Cross Castle. That is the last point we will get to.

Cristina: All right.

Jack: Because I'm sure when we get to that, all the other points are going to become null and void. So I want to leave that for last so that we just don't run out of s***.

Cristina: All right.

Jack: But Cross Castle will be the very last visit out of all the things we deem are important here. Now, revisiting the mysterious animals that seem to be unknown, there are a couple of things that ring familiar with the descriptions of these animals. Now, oftentimes are considered exotic because people are just unfamiliar with the animals that there are. But there are two descriptions that ring very powerfully. There is an old research paper of a journalist who was digging through these things, John McLean. And John, in looking at these things, says a nearby zoo had animals escape. According to their mention, the zoos.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: But it seems that there was no forced entry upon police speculation. So it must have been a clean job. It's a zoo. There's no such thing as a clean job. So they gave the animals to somebody. That's weird. One fact random. Other note from a different. These are not journalists, these are people, okay, describing what they've seen, claim that the animals they witnessed are hybrid animals. Chimeras, literally.

Cristina: We do know about a scientist that was working on chimeras in real life.

Jack: Though, about many sciences.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Now where this becomes relevant is when we look at what was taken from the zoo. Lions went missing.

Cristina: Sea people's favorite animal.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Okay, yeah. Were there horses?

Jack: Horses went missing, huh? You got anything else? You're on point.

Cristina: Those are the only two main ones I can think of.

Jack: Horses went missing, lions went missing, eagles went missing.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: You see where we're going? It's just visually on point.

Cristina: We got the flying horse. The flying horse.

Jack: Eagle, flying lion. Oh, exactly. What the we're supposed to be seeing is what went missing from the. And no broken entry. How'd you take eagles? How'd you take horses? How do you take lions? No broken entry. Come on, you serious? That's a breeding ground. Those animals were donated, by the way.

Cristina: They're donated.

Jack: They were donated to the zoo. Oh, zoo's in on something, isn't it? Oh, you see, it's weird lines. It's like we don't even need to dig deep to understand some of these pictures. You tell me exactly what's missing over there is what people saw. Hybrid over here. What are the odds?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Just a coincidence, you know, just like they think isn't this is unrelated to that. It's just all random coincidence. It just so happened to be that only horses, lions and eagles are stolen and you see hybrid lion, horse, eagles over there. It's fine, it's unrelated.

Cristina: Unrelated. Okay, you're going.

Jack: You jump into speculation, man. What are the odds that exactly what's taken over there shows up over there? Fused.

Cristina: Were there any other animals taken?

Jack: No. Okay, horses, lions and eagles specifically. Yeah, no broken entry. The two explanations are escaped and were stolen in neither case could have happened. No, neither could have happened. You guys had to open and let them be taken. That's the only way. Yeah, crazy random details, not saying any of this means anything for anybody who thought this was always just coincidence after seeing everything put together. But whatever, you know, total coincidences. Then we get still on the topic of animals, what people describe as. And we know exactly what these are. Phantom animals, ghostly sightings of long dead pets, including dogs, cats, appearing alone in these areas. Very interesting detail here that these ghost creatures are pets. And that they're in this area because it would be the place where you would see the things from the other side. And if the veil is incredibly thin, then if you live in the area, your dog looking for you follows your scent like a wetchudge would and lands in Clinton Road tracking you. And then you see your long lost dog who's been dead for a while.

Cristina: Do they say like if they behave like an echo or.

Jack: No, these are just fully. Yeah, they feel like these are actually phantoms interacting and like. Oh my God, is that my dog? Oh my God. And then disappears.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: And it's like. Okay.

Cristina: This makes sense to be a spot where they'd.

Jack: Exactly. Where they would pop up. This fits the graveyard.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: That very well. People will go there because it's just a beacon for dead s***. And then you can go see your loved ones there.

Cristina: Yeah, yeah.

Jack: This could be the same thing. It's just a beacon for dead s***. And anybody who lives close maybe comes here to scare themselves once in a while, but your s*** is already in there somewhere. And once in a while you might just cross paths and see it. So I think that's very interesting. Weirdly and. Yeah. Yeah. It's weirdly enough. A lot of the visitors, like, this is my first time here. Like I saw my dog in there. It's like. Yeah, it's a beacon for deadship. Yeah, it's the hot spot. One of the. The other point that this makes me think about if the Vikings had one and we have one. Every major populated wooded area where people go missing is probably some s*** like this.

Cristina: Yeah, you gotta look into every.

Jack: There's an easy one. Japan has a forest of death where people allegedly go and commit suicide.

Cristina: Yes. There's gotta be weird stories coming out of there. If anyone just goes in there, they go in for the stories, but they see other s***. They gotta.

Jack: Yeah, I am sure now with the perspective this all we ever get more information. And then it enlightens other situations. And now we know this is probably the same as the Vikings place, which means we have a second one of these. But if there's two, then there are more.

Cristina: So much more. Yes, yes, yes.

Jack: There has to be a lot. And if we're talking Japan has the forest of death and Jesus went to Japan.

Cristina: That has been chosen for a reason. Okay.

Jack: F****** force is old, bro. Ours isn't. That forest is.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: That's been spooky to people for millennia.

Cristina: Yes. There's got to be some kind of energy or something that is involved.

Jack: Something. There is More important, Jesus himself thought that.

Cristina: Mm

Jack: Now we move to the next part of this. Here we're talking about undeniable s*** that we don't have to theorize about. Specifically with the next thing I'm about to say. People have found items in the woods that they believe look like cursed artifacts and relics. They use the term magic. That oftentimes when somebody tries to reach one of this, they've seen these artifacts begin to glow.

Cristina: Oh.

Jack: Or behave weird. Oh, it looks like a rock. And when I try to reach for the symbols on it light up or something. And it's like, maybe you're just looking at technology.

Cristina: Fairy technology, Shadow Room technology, Elysian technology.

Jack: Why would it look like our stuff unless it was made by earthlings. Okay, which would be the.

Cristina: But you said cursed.

Jack: They're describing it as cursed.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: People who don't know who wandered through the woods. All of this is just people who don't know. Every description we've given, there's people who don't know and they say cursed. They see a piece of stone with symbols on it, they reach for it and it glows. And they're like, it's cursed. That's an uninformed assessment of a piece of technology you're looking at.

Cristina: Okay. Okay.

Jack: Of course, anything sufficiently advanced enough would look like magic. That makes sense. Oh, I reached for it lit up. It's cursed. It's woods with Luciferians. There seem to be demons in here. And then I find a rock with a diabolical looking symbol. I reach for and it lit up. It's cursed. Checks the narrative. It checks out with the narrative they're painting. Yes, but that means that there's so much activity here that there have been pieces of technology left, left, right. That means that some Alicians maybe have been killed in these woods running experiments. And like a wet judge breaks out.

Cristina: And like, off them, something horrible is happening there. So currently, not just in the future, is there something gonna happen, but there's.

Jack: Something currently happening, energy wise, we don't know. But we do know, activity wise, never stopped.

Cristina: Never stop.

Jack: We don't know if there's a giant machine being run, a machine that was run, or a machine that's gonna be run and where it's at. Exactly. We don't know any of that, but we do know activity wise, since the moment it began, it has not stopped.

Cristina: It's not gonna stop. And it's not gonna stop. Looks like it's not gonna stop.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: Yes. And I wonder if we'll see these items Again, yes.

Jack: So I actually have mad stars next to that now. Because we've found images of technology from the past. I want to see what the f*** there. Somebody had to be brave enough and pick one up and be like. Or took a photo on their phone or something. You know, show it to me. So I'm gonna dig and find something. I want to see what it looks like. And then. Is it in a book? Can we find a hieroglyph with an image of it? Yeah, you know, anything. Just give me one image and I will cross reference everything under the sun until I find something.

Cristina: We're gonna find something.

Jack: We have to. They. It's. It's more than one person saying this happened.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: There are cursed artifacts that people have talked about. It's like, okay, okay, now we're on to something. And that's unquestionably something obvious.

Cristina: Yeah. But when I think of like, if they're gonna call something cursed, does that mean something happened to the people? You know?

Jack: Like, no, they don't know. They're. If they're reporting it.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Nothing happened to them. They just don't know what they were looking at.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Like, if they're telling you about it, they made it out.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Otherwise they wouldn't worry about the thing. They'd be like, people died in the wood, you know?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: They're like, no, I saw a weird thing. It was probably cursed.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Like, okay, then nothing happened. They're just using s***** language because they don't know better.

Cristina: Alright.

Jack: They don't know no better.

Cristina: You gotta check that out though.

Jack: So coming back to the idea of animal rituals, the. This is so related to me. Pretty often people find mutilated animals. That's just like a literal report. Mutilated animals usually on the curbside or roadside. Yeah. And the, the exact descriptions go like, they find animals in the woods. They're speculated to be result of the occult rituals. Oftentimes opened from the chest down to the belly button. You know, kind of that area.

Cristina: That's what you think you saw?

Jack: That's literally what I saw. Literally what I saw.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Literally what I saw. Yep. The deer cut straight from its neck all the way to its private parts and then just opened. That's it.

Cristina: And it looked like it just happened.

Jack: It looked like it just happened. I didn't think about this next part until this very moment. And now I'm disturbed because I think about this next part until this very moment. I've told you a thousand times about that deer.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: I never once saw blood on him or the deer. That's f****** weird. I never thought about that for the last 15 years. Never crossed my mind. There was no blood. Not a bit. I told you. I even f****** walked and was looking at it up close. I was amazed by what the f*** I was looking at. The guy was in a white robe.

Cristina: Yeah. No blood.

Jack: No blood did cross my mind when nobody questioned anything.

Cristina: The deer. No blood.

Jack: Deer, no blood.

Cristina: Mmm.

Jack: Weird.

Cristina: Weird, yes.

Jack: Now I have less idea what I saw. That's weird. Now I have less idea what I saw. I don't remember any blood. I don't know why. I don't know why the f*** doesn't cross my mind.

Cristina: So right now the whole situation's weird.

Jack: Yeah, it is f****** strange as h***. This strange one spectral fog. So a thick, unnatural fog that rolls in suddenly, obscuring vision and often causing travelers to lose their way. Now people say this fog is so confusing, it feels like the Roger movie. Is this fog literally what it looks like? When the veil is thinning more, you're seeing the other side, so it looks unclear.

Cristina: Yes. When you saw. But you didn't see fog?

Jack: I didn't see fog, no. But also we crossed something.

Cristina: Yeah, I don't know.

Jack: I don't know. Something to look at. I got everything here. Something to look at. All of it somehow relevant.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: We've never heard this before. First mention of a fog that rolls in right before things start to jumble up.

Cristina: But you saw things jumbling up and no fog.

Jack: No fog. I saw a jumbled up mess and I never saw fog.

Cristina: Strange. I don't know.

Jack: Okay, let me do some f****** rapid fire. Running out of time. G******. Okay, okay. This is important as f*** because I didn't even know this existed. I only found. This is one of the. It's towards the bottom of this list because it's one of the last things I found. Just looking through this and I'm like, what the f***? Nobody's ever mentioned this. There are mines out there. Mine, mine. There's old mine tunnels said to be haunted by spirits of miners who died in them. People have been seen coming in and out of the mines, bruh.

Cristina: People might be going in and out of the mines.

Jack: I don't think that's Rose, bro. Think about this real hard.

Cristina: We know people are experimenting.

Jack: There are mines going way out of sight. Let's take another moment. Eloi built his lab in a cave. When you go into those caves, you see the pipes going in random directions.

Cristina: Yeah. This could be a lab.

Jack: This could be a f****** Lab.

Cristina: I think it's a lamp.

Jack: The castle isn't in the center. The mines are. Of course, if we were to ever find a huge energy displacement, something, something. I think it's more likely to be in the mines. To be in the mines?

Cristina: Yeah, I think so.

Jack: It's also weird that that's the least mentioned thing.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: There's been mines there this whole time.

Cristina: Well, who's gonna be exploring the mind?

Jack: It's not about exploring them. Why don't people talk about them? That's all. Just mention it more often. I've heard so many of these other things, I've never once heard of the mines.

Cristina: Most people disappear at the mines.

Jack: Fair enough.

Cristina: Who knows?

Jack: Like, fair enough. Fair enough. That's definitely, like. I do believe if we. If we're looking for something, it's the castle or the mines, one or the other. And at this point, knowing the past, it's probably the mines, not the castle. Castle is probably home or, you know, the top of the mountain. The place you get to before you walk to the other place. Yeah.

Cristina: The mines has to do with the sea people, but the castle has to do with the Shadow realm, the necromancers.

Jack: So we're talking just a hot spot for, like, literally, not just for activity of other things, but, like, there. Different groups are coming here to use this.

Cristina: Mm. We got fairies. We don't have any fairy trees.

Jack: We don't have fairy trees, but I'm about to blow your mind. Now that you mentioned fairies. One of the most consistent sightings of things here are gnomes. Weird, weird gnomes.

Cristina: Have we spoken about gnomes somewhere else?

Jack: Yes, we've briefly addressed gnomes. Gnomes, yes.

Cristina: Weird. Okay.

Jack: Oh, yes. And gnomes are fairies. Very type of fairy.

Cristina: Okay. Are they hanging out by the mines or they're just random.

Jack: No. And just in the woods, along with orbs, along with all the weird creatures, just random spottings of these things. Everything is out here. All of it.

Cristina: I bet there's fairy trees. But of course, no one could find the fairy trees.

Jack: If you did, how would you tell? Yeah, how would you tell? I bet there is a fairy tree. I bet if we look hard enough, we could find a fairy fort.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: I mean, dude, there's the mine and there's the castle. Come on, bro. Everybody has a base here. Yeah, it's not big enough to lose a s*** ton of people, but it's big enough to have a couple of bases in here.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: You know, it's starting to paint a real vivid picture. I think we're looking at a spot that's kind of like the city up in Norway. I think we're looking at a spot that's kind of like the city in India. These places where, you know, amalgamations of people get together and they can kind of coexist and maybe. Neutral zone. It's a neutral zone. You are beef. Whatever. You know, we got the un. I might hate you as a country, and you hate me as a country, and we're gonna go bomb each other later. But at the un, we all shut the up and we're just. Nothing happens here, or everybody here bombs you.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And so that would be the idea, Right? The space. Neutral territory. We can't do anything to each other here or the other groups collectively. F*** you up.

Cristina: All right.

Jack: Neutral territory.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And so a fairy can gladly be here, knowing the Elysian can walk right by him. Be like, I'll get you when we get out of here. You know? Because if you do violate. Well, how many other groups are here that are just gonna. Well, we're not gonna let you violate our safe spot. Even if we don't like them, too. We're gonna you up, because now we can't let you do that because then you might do it to us too. And, like. Okay, so neutral zone where everything weird happens.

Cristina: I think so. That sounds like that.

Jack: Because we've seen too many different things now.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Too many conflicting interests coexisting. There must just be enough of something to go around. What is it?

Cristina: What's going on? They're all interested.

Jack: Mm. Now, this next one is definitely gonna be the hardest one to unpack, but it's also like, the clear. Yeah. People have probably even touched one of these buildings. People come across invisible barriers. And there's one group of people who we know are really good at making invisible s***.

Cristina: Just making invisible things.

Jack: The Alicians. The people who make entire mountains vanish. I guess the people who can be in plain sight and their civilization not be in there.

Cristina: Okay. Yes, we know they're in there.

Jack: They're in there.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But, yeah, people have literally, like, come across, like, what the f***? I can't go through?

Cristina: And it's, like, kind of scary.

Jack: Yeah. You're just probably touching a building or some s***. You don't even. You can't see it, so you're like.

Cristina: Which matches the whole. Like, they're going up and down. You're seeing these weird ways that they're walking. Like. Yeah, it could be.

Jack: Well, no, they wouldn't be. You wouldn't see them at all. They would be invisible in the building.

Cristina: Oh, yeah.

Jack: Everything in there would be invisible.

Cristina: So that's the shadow realm, the other one, I guess.

Jack: No, that's the elation. Cloaking technology.

Cristina: No, not that. The people that you do see walking up and down.

Jack: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Those people must be in the shadow realm. You must be watching movement within the shadow room, for sure. But these people are definitely not like, this is the fact that they. They literally set invisible barriers.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It's like, oh, man, that's so specific, bro. I don't even know what to do with that information. That means we just gotta walk a ton of Clinton Road, broad daylight, and just. Just such things run until we hit something that doesn't. That isn't there, I guess.

Cristina: I don't know.

Jack: I don't know how we would find it, but, like, people have come across it.

Cristina: Yeah, that's. That's tough.

Jack: Tough. But this also suggests something different. Elysians can find their building without uncloaking it. They must have something to show them where it is.

Cristina: Yeah, I guess. They have the technology.

Jack: Other obvious thing that is here are, you know, time slips. Little thin places, people. That's the primary thing we think is dominating this place. A s*** ton of thin places everywhere. And creates the main attraction, which is probably what everybody else is there. Abusing ways in and out of different places.

Cristina: Mmm.

Jack: And that's in abundance. People are like, I f****** went through here. I felt like it was a five minutes. And then when I got to the other side of this tree, it was f****** night.

Cristina: Okay. Now, there's a lot of stories like that.

Jack: That s*** is the most abundant kind of story. That is literally the most common occurrence. There is seeing something weird that can't be explained. The truck and people losing time. Those three events. Those are the most consistent things that happen. People see a truck a lot. That guy's out there desperate, okay. He's desperate. Seeing shadows and crap super common. And then people losing crap tons of time or moving in unbelievably quick. They're going. They began. Two minutes later, they're on the other side.

Cristina: That's strange.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: It's 10 miles. How'd you do it?

Cristina: Whoa.

Jack: Going back to odd symbols, there have been symbols found on stones. There have been symbols found on structures. There have been symbol found on odd relics and artifacts. The weirdest one is symbols found on trees that seem to always be in pairs.

Cristina: What do you mean?

Jack: What people describe always seeing two. I want to find images of this. I couldn't.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But people say fine. Always finding to. I had to say, because I know you're gonna ask, are the photos but two trees next to each other with exactly the same symbol on both trees?

Cristina: What could that mean?

Jack: What could that mean? Kind of sounds like a lazy portal.

Cristina: To me, I guess.

Jack: Right. Because it's still the arch. You still have the two walls to it.

Cristina: If you.

Jack: I don't know how. If the top is requirement. But like, I don't know. I'm just thinking, like, what could I picture possibly me. So, yeah, that's. That's what we get. Those are the important things to look at. This is the thing you need to.

Cristina: Look at that there's so much. Yeah, yeah. We gotta look at everything.

Jack: There isn't one thing I mentioned on.

Cristina: This part that we don't need to look at.

Jack: So this is why I called this what's significant.

Cristina: It's all.

Jack: It's all significant. I'm telling you. We're here for the long haul. This is a lot of crap to dig into.

Cristina: Yeah. Whoa.

Jack: There's a lot. Yeah. It's ridiculous. So, yeah, this is what we have, man. There's a crap ton. We, we got fairies, we got thin places. We got creatures from the Shadow Realm, we got Elysians, we got fairies, we got science experiments. We got people desperately trying to get back. People somehow just casually crossing to the other side. We have places with extremely thin veils that make it indistinguishable. We have that as an explanation to how people in the past managed to get in and out without ever actually going in. We have. Have too much information going on. Everything. Everything is here. All of it happens here.

Cristina: You have a lot of missing people.

Jack: We have a lot of. We have a lot of missing people. But that's a clear one, man. Because they're either cultivating a way to get through or there are stones being made. Maybe s***** ones. Could be just enough to do casual things. Yeah, you need something huge. You don't need a crap ton of people. Yes. Need a casual stone. Take two or three people.

Cristina: We have a deer with no blood.

Jack: A deer with no blood. We got chimeras. Obvious chimeras. A zoo that's somehow tied to it.

Cristina: Yeah. Weird.

Jack: So, yeah, that's what we got for you guys. So, you know, if you guys have any input, any ideas, any in. Anything interesting, any information additional. I think I didn't mention that. You guys think is relevant and falls into here, please. We're kind of just. Yeah. Connect Dots connect.

Cristina: Yeah. There's so much connecting we got to do. We tried our best but like anything.

Jack: We didn't see feel free. Call us stupid just give us the answer but what you got to do just tell us what the answer is.

Cristina: Yeah help us.

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Rambling 280: Clinton Road: Part 1: Echoes

Is Clinton Road actually Haunted? If not, what could explain the odd occurrences? Is there anything we can learn from them? The duo revisits the case of Clinton Road, a place often considered the most haunted region on Earth. Jack’s first hand experiences and the amount of reported cases work together to provide a new perspective on what is truly taking place at this paranormal hot spot. 

Rambling 280: Clinton Road: Part 1: Echoes

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Topics Discussed:

  • Thin Places
  • Spacetime Distortions
  • Ghosts vs Phantoms
  • Wormholes
  • Echoes
  • Slipping Through Time
  • The Bird Theory

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Cristina: Warning. This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised.

Jack: Going live in 5, 4.

Cristina: What does live mean?

Jack: Welcome to the Rambling Podcast. I'm your host, Jack.

Cristina: And I'm your host, Christina.

Jack: And this is the show where we ground humanity's most absurd and baffling ideas. And we have quite the baffling at the moment. So let's do a little house cleaning. Right. Hella years ago, we did a Halloween episode where I was talking about my experiences at Clinton Road. Yeah, the first time we did this, it took three episodes to really break apart everything that I personally experienced there. And it was just for the sake of Halloween. But then the episode stretched out and it was like a three part thing. And on the last of the three episodes, we called up Reaper and Nune and we had conversations with them relative to the thing so that they can tell us their angles on it. And everybody had a different story.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And everybody talked about different timings and everybody talked about a lot of different things. Now we know the stories say that Clinton Road is an exceptionally haunted place. We've about two years after that point, took another deep dive into Clinton Road. And then we found about thin places. And this kind of lined up pretty heftily that there was just, you know, space time anomalies and distortions taking place and that a lot of what was taking place could have just been echoes that existed in that region.

Cristina: Yeah, yeah.

Jack: Except we've now gotten even more insight and information. We found out how space time distortions in the form of thin places get formed. So in a weird full circle scenario, something that was totally unrelated has suddenly become pressing because it has space time distortions, which could only have been caused by highly advanced electrical magnetic technology, which could only have been done by the ancient civilizations that were extremely advanced, particularly the only ones that had that level of energy, which were either Djinn or f****** Elysians somehow. Full little circle.

Cristina: But why were they there?

Jack: But why were they there?

Cristina: Huh? Interesting.

Jack: Yes. So in figuring this out, it makes sense to once again visit this place. But now with new eyes and the ability to look granularly at all the things that could possibly be happening there. And so I've done that. I've gone and I've looked for a lot. Now here's what I'm gonna preface this with. There's a lot. So this episode is gonna be very surface level. The reason I began this was by talking about how we approached this in Halloween is because I kind of want to keep driving this topic that's probably gonna take us beyond Halloween because of how many things there are here. And we have to unpack some of them. None of which we're going to do here, but we're gonna. We're gonna discuss a couple of these.

Cristina: Points while we refreshing our memories or something.

Jack: We're gonna. We're gonna go through the things that are here and we're gonna talk. It's not anything about me. We're not refreshing memories on anything.

Cristina: No. We're learning the past episodes. No, we're going.

Jack: No, no. We're just. This has nothing to do with us.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: We're just gonna go through Clinton Road with nothing about us involved. No. No past research. No. Nothing. We at what exists. And then with the new eyes, we have kind of talk about the things that are obviously gonna stick out.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: We didn't know these things before, although we brushed by them. Now we're gonna look at these things that we've seen before, but now we have fresh eyes and it's suddenly gonna be like, Okay, I've divided this into three different sides that matter at different grades. The first of these sides is called echoes.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: This part comes first because we're going to easily dismiss it unless something in particular sticks out that we might need to correct for. But otherwise, these are things I believe are echoes.

Cristina: Okay, cool. There's a lot of them.

Jack: There's a lot. The one we'd be going to after that is going to get a little more pressing. These are phantoms. These are. These. Have a little bit of thought to them.

Cristina: Okay. Yeah.

Jack: And we're going to end at a third area that is just labeled under the things that are definitely, without a question, significant.

Cristina: That's what they're just significant.

Jack: Just significant.

Cristina: Well, what a difference.

Jack: Okay, so let us go back and visit this part one of a Clinton Road. Revisit this part one. I am calling the menu. This whole episode is called the menu. This is the menu we're gonna be unpacking. Okay, so let us begin first with a quick description of what we mean by echoes. When people say ghost, they are talking too blanketly. And ghosts have been obscured. So now ghost is a blanket term. It will remain a blanket term, but it highlights several things. It highlights dead humans who are spirits. It highlights creatures from other realms which are phantoms, and it highlights space time distortions and reflections which are echoes, all of which we refer to as ghost. Unanimously, yes. But these three things are now going to be unpacked. So specifically, echoes are the ones we're looking For. Because we can write those off. Those are only being caused by the space time anomaly. We don't know what caused the space time anomaly, but we know that things do cause the spacetime anomaly. We already have that fact in place. So now let's just discard the ones that don't matter. First, the boy at the bridge. There's a child, a ghostly boy. An apparition that shows up. And the boys reported he's reportedly always under a bridge picking up coins that people take.

Cristina: That's what I remember. I don't remember the whole story. I remember there's a boy with a coin.

Jack: And so he goes and gets the coins from underneath the bridge and he puts them back on top of the bridge. People see him consistently doing this one motion. He goes to the bottom of the bridge, grabs coins, bring those to the top of the bridge, goes back to the bottom, gets coins. And so the repetition of this, the fact that nobody sees anything different of this boy tells us that boy is not there. That's either in the past, most likely.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Or in the future. But likely mostly in the past because he tends to look old timey. Tends to look like an 1800s child.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So it fits the suit. He must have actually been there, maybe grabbing coins, collecting them himself to play or something. And we're seeing kind of the moment.

Cristina: Back of that moment.

Jack: Not a flash. Yeah, Sort of a flashback. The echo, the reflection of that instance in time. And this has been. This is upon one of the most mentioned things. But he's always described the same way.

Cristina: Okay. We're saying these are not ghosts. This isn't the ghost of the dead boy or anything. Like he is a person that existed and he's probably dead right now.

Jack: Yeah. But this is echo. This isn't him. This isn't like his spirit is cut in a time loop. No, this is. We're seeing through time back to when he was actually doing that. Yeah, that's literally him. But we're looking through a time window.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: The next one is just referred to as the girl. Now, this is a sort of ghostly girl in a white dress. Not to be confused with the lady in the white dress that is originally from Clinton Road too. Two different individuals. So this girl in the white dress is often wandering the road, believed to be searching for her parents. That's different than the hitchhiker lady in the white dress who usually gets a ride. And this is the typical story of you take her home. And then they're like, what the f***? My daughter's been Dead for years. Because she leaves like her hoodie in the back seat or something. And then the guy always comes back, oh, my God, I left the thing. And then, oh, no. So that's a different lady. This other girl is just always walking and she doesn't get in anybody's car. But I remember reading about this when we did this the first time. And it's always that she's looking for her parents and that she has like a really blank stare. Kind of like a nightgown. Not even a dress. It's sort of more like a nightgown. Like she just walked out of her house or something. And she's always walking on the side. She's got lost. Somebody asked, hey, are you okay? I'm just looking for my family.

Cristina: And that I able to take her home.

Jack: She does. She never gets in the car. They ask her to get in. She just walks away. Well, weird. Now, here's the thing about this. This is confusing. This one has a question mark next to it. Because the fact that they can interact with her is weird. But they ask her. But I think some of these echoes are also like, again, maybe somebody stopped by there around that time back then.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: That's why you hear her say the same thing.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It's always. She's looking for her parents and she's always walking along the same area.

Cristina: She's saying it's probably something she did say.

Jack: Exactly something somebody did see her. And hey, you're right. And oh, no, I'm just looking for my family. And so we're seeing that moment.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And some enough people, it's, you know, it's a hot spot. It's a tourist attraction. Enough people go through there that occasionally they catch her at that very moment and then they happen to talk to her at that very moment and she happens to say what she would say.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And so it's like, oh, my God. She said, but you're not really talking to her. It's always the same loop. It never changes.

Cristina: Yeah. I think it's still an echo.

Jack: I think that is checks out as an echo. Right. It doesn't seem like this is fantastic.

Cristina: No.

Jack: The next one referred to as the hitchhiker. This one is a person looking for a ride.

Cristina: Oh.

Jack: But there seems to be a cutoff point. So that by default means. Yeah. It's like they're asking for a ride and they just vanish in front of you.

Cristina: Yeah. But it still seems like an echo. Like that's true for sure. That's probably what they were doing once Upon a time. And they did get that ride.

Jack: Yeah. And a lot of people theorize that the hitchhiker got killed by somebody, but that's not how this would work.

Cristina: No, this has nothing to do with how they died.

Jack: No, this has nothing to do with.

Cristina: Everyone's gonna assume all these things are related to ghosts, and therefore they must have died in the area, which probably not. They probably just. They're really from that area. Yeah.

Jack: These are people who were definitely just people who lived around here. It seems to be the case, and it seems to be with echoes. It's always the way that that works. So I think the hitchhiker definitely appropriately put under an echo. The cutoff point makes it too obvious. I think anytime there's a cutoff point to, like, restart, you're objectively an echo.

Cristina: Yep. And it's not a ghost. It's important to know that, yes, they're dead, but they're not. It wasn't like someone murdered them.

Jack: No. Everything is a ghost that we're talking about. That's why we're referring to this as an echo.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: The different ghosts are the echoes and the phantoms. But this is a ghost. It's just not.

Cristina: It's not that they were hiking and then getting murdered and now.

Jack: Yeah, it's not a phantom that's over here.

Cristina: Thinking is unrelated to why they're there.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah. This isn't like a lingering spirit. We have the bicyclist, a spectral bicyclist, sometimes seen riding along the road, believed to have died and in a hit and run accident. Always on the same part of the road, always for about the same distance, Always on the bike, always the same outfit. And he's never seen beyond that point or before that point.

Cristina: And they're always gonna assume they died.

Jack: He must have died there.

Cristina: Unless they look like. Like if he looked like he was hit by something and he's.

Jack: Then I would say, okay, okay, you saw the death.

Cristina: Yeah, but it was just a guy riding a bike.

Jack: Yeah, it's just a guy riding a bike and. Yeah, exactly. It's like such a waste of thought ultimately, to be like, oh, his death put him here. It's like, I mean, if you saw him die, maybe, but chances are. Nah, nah. It has nothing to do with it. And the place is distorted. Yeah, the place is distorted. Not the people. Next, the haunted lake. This one is. Weird one. This is the lake near Clinton Road, and it is said to have been haunted by spirits of those who drowned in it. It's off a sharp Right turn, there's like a hard right entering Clinton Road. I'm not sure from which side, the south or the north. But right off of one of those two entrances, there is a little dirt path that goes on, and then it leads to this lake. This lake has two important things that are very weird. One, there are consistently sightings of people fishing there and people, like, hanging out in the lake usually at nighttime. And they're there and like. Like walking around it. You kind of get glimpses of them and stuff, but they're not like, really there. What makes this really weird is there's a high point vantage. This vantage point. We can see the lake. And from that point, people have always said the lake looks populated and full. I think there is an angular distortion that allows a continuous view of a past point. From that vantage point they're looking at.

Cristina: That's cool. And then, like, there's many figures, but they might not even be there at the same time.

Jack: That. Exactly. This could be a. The tall grass scenario where all the different timelines are kind of converging at that one spot. And through this sort of window, you see it all in one spot.

Cristina: The lake is a hot spot. That's where people want to hang out.

Jack: Yes, exactly. You people would normally be there in groups.

Cristina: Yeah. So it would be many groups. But those many groups are not there together.

Jack: They would be there for hours sometimes. So if there's just time slips that last a second, they would have been there to be caught by the time slips so that we can see them.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So it would look populated. And I do believe up there in that vantage point there is that. That is in fact maybe a sustained sort of thin place entrance that you can look through. Maybe you'd have to jump and clear a distance to get through it, but it seems to be sustained because it's always the same spot that people go to to see the lake filled with people.

Cristina: Yeah, that's pretty cool.

Jack: So that's a good. A great example of it being just an echo, but, like, you could probably jump through if we could see the gap. The problem is we can't see the entrance or exit to thin places. We can only see what's on the other side. But if we could somehow make a technology that allows us to detect them, I wonder how many we would see if turned it on. Like, you know, I put thin place detecting glasses. Would it look like bubble gates? Would it just be like a tear in space? I think it would look like a perfect sphere.

Cristina: I have no idea.

Jack: Everything in nature Kind of.

Jack: I think it looks like a perfect sphere.

Cristina: Cool.

Jack: A wormhole.

Cristina: Wormhole looking thing.

Jack: Yeah. We can't see it. And again, it's always positions properly with what you're looking at. So yes, in the past that lake was still there. So it's not like you looking through it. Oh, there's something else there. Yeah, you see a different time of it. But you know, geographically it's the same.

Cristina: It still looks. Yeah, it looks the same.

Jack: So you wouldn't see the entrance. Now if the place changed drastically and there was a place like this. Here would be my next sentence. I think because there is a sustained doorway that allows us to see to the past. Maybe there's a location that we altered somewhere on earth that has the same effect. And when you stand through it, we can see the entrance not because we're seeing the wormhole, but because the other side looks so different that it looks like two images overlapping. And one is a circular sphere of a different place that should exist somewhere. But it should exist as such a weird kind of.

Cristina: It's not like that farm place where we sometimes see the hole sometimes.

Jack: That could totally be the case. Is that a wormhole to a different time? It is a space time distortion. And we know thin places cause this. And those holes are migrating consistently. They're never in the same place.

Cristina: And are those even there now? Like I don't think.

Jack: Yeah, they show up and disappear all the time to this day.

Cristina: Wow. But like I don't know because you're looking at it, but I don't know.

Jack: To this day they move around. Yeah, it's f****** weird. But I think this, the haunted lake gives us a lot of information because the haunted lake tells us that they are thin place sustained entrances that don't move. And that seems to be one presumably one that if we could see and maybe keep open by will we can traverse to whatever alternate time that is. Potential time travel just exists. Yeah, but they would be tiny little gateways that we can't see. And we'd have to accent this also.

Cristina: Would expect multiple times are overlapping in that you're seeing groups of people.

Jack: That depends. It depends. That's a theory where. It depends if that's the actual case that's happening. Because it could have been a day that they were all at the lake, sunny day, you happen to be in the summer and all those people are one moment. And if that's the case and that's one place. And that would create an interesting situation. Right. We're talking about people flying and their planes completely disappearing. And you're going through where? Oh, you're crossing over to Bermuda Triangle. And what the. Do those people have excessively overpowered technology. You'd be making thin places like a m***********.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And then somebody flies over your thing and your plane totally disappears. We never see a crash. We never see anything.

Cristina: No.

Jack: No remnants. When we go and check, you're just gone. Or maybe there are enough sustained thin places that somebody went in. Poof. Popped out in the future. Popped out in the past. And they have no idea what. They can't see it to go right back in. They're just somewhere else.

Cristina: Some other time.

Jack: Some other time. And there's no way back. We've seen glimpses. Maybe there is. Let's say where I'm sitting, there's a thin place, and you are a plane flying parallel. You're not flying towards me, you're flying parallel. Me standing down here, you on the other side of the thin place in whatever time you're in. I'm technically looking through the thin place when you fly in front of it. And I see you from your time. From my angle. In my time, we've seen many things like this. Pictures of planes and hieroglyphs and stuff. That's easily somebody flying right by a bubble. And I see it.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And you didn't notice it was here. I didn't notice it was there, except I saw something weird. That's it.

Cristina: You saw something weird, but I didn't see anything.

Jack: You see anything. And so it looks like you blinked in, blinked out, but you never entered my thing. But now let's say that same thin place was in front of you instead. Then you enter it. But then I didn't just see you show up and disappear in my end. You just entered my end. And you'll never get back to yours. Okay, that explains many of the planes that have just disappeared. Boats have just disappeared, all of which happen to be around the premier triangle, which we know has the largest energy displacement on the planet.

Cristina: Yeah, they're just traveling somewhere else.

Jack: A lot of these dots are trying to f****** make sense. Some other time, different time through these sort of portals. And that's all thanks to this lake that gives us a good frame of reference. Now we get to the lady in white, which is a completely different apparition from the girl. This is again the one that always gets in the car and the one that has been dead. But this is a weird one. This has a little star next to it because the. You can interact with Her. But this seems less like. And she gets in your f****** car.

Cristina: But again, the hiker, though, gets in your car.

Jack: No, the hiker asks for a ride. And just. But this lady gets in the car, and you take her where she's going, and then she goes inside. And then the people inside never saw the door open. They never saw anybody come in. You come back with a hoodie, you knock, and they're like, what the.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: My question is, how does this story repeat? And the family isn't like, oh, somebody else showed up with the hoodie. That's where I get f***** up.

Cristina: That's also an echo.

Jack: Then they're not there. The family is part of the echo.

Cristina: I would think so.

Jack: Except the girl gets in your car. How are you tactically positioned in the same exact way? How are you moving in such a way that's so identical to how she moved when she was in the previous car that you don't lose. Sink and drive left slightly, and she's just floating next to you. Why doesn't that happen? This is interacting with the person. This isn't an echo, then. But then everything else would suggest an echo. Yeah, except she interacted with the individual and she left the physical object in the car.

Cristina: So then everything plays out just like an echo. That's the weird thing.

Jack: That's a weird thing. This is why this is a unique situation, because all the characteristics of an echo, except it has this one facet of a phantom. It's interacting with you. And the family at the door is too. When you get to the door, they get. They open it. When you get to the door, they're not just. You arrive and they're talking to nobody because you arrived five minutes too late. And they're just. Yeah, you see them talking to nobody. Or you get there too early and nobody answers for the longest. Until it's the time that it's supposed to be triggered. That they would open the door. No, no. It plays always the same. This is a weird one, because I would argue something different is happening. My argument is there's still an echo. I would argue this is. You never left Clinton Road. I would argue this is a person slipping into a thin place.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And now you're kind of trapped in a series of events.

Cristina: And once you're done with it, then you're out of it.

Jack: You exit on the other end. Yeah, I think we're seeing a different type of echo, one you're partaking in. You're not really interacting with it, but you've fallen into the Echo space.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And now you're part of the echo. Even if they're not there. And you technically are. You're kind of all here at the same time too.

Cristina: And you have to.

Jack: You have to complete the role.

Cristina: Complete the role. Yeah.

Jack: I would argue this is how Groundhog Day happens. In Groundhog Day, there's no way to really know how the role completes.

Cristina: You just have to.

Jack: You have to figure it out. That's the problem. He. He entered the thin place without being in a unique space where only one event is taking place. A thin place like this. You're in the middle of f****** nowhere. There's an obvious step to take. Oh, let me take the girl home. Oh, she forgot the thing. Oh, let me take it back home. Where she. There's obvious conclusions that could lead you to the exit.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Groundhog Day situation is you just fell in, and you don't know where you fell in, what caused it or anything. And there's also no guide on your way out. You don't know where the exit is.

Cristina: No. But you just. You stumble upon it. Like you stumbled upon the entrance.

Jack: Yes. So in this situation, the situation is guiding you towards the exit.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But it's because the echo ends at the other end. Not because the echo literally ends there, but because there happens to be a thin place that's the exit point. And they're sort of connected.

Cristina: Yeah. That's so weird.

Jack: I think this is people falling into him.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: As opposed to you seeing it, you're interacting with it, but it's sort of playing like an echo.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And again, you get to a house where somebody's interacting with you, but there can't be anybody there that doesn't check out, because they're not just like, oh, somebody else showed up with the same story.

Cristina: Yes. Like, how long could they live? And that's like.

Jack: So it's unique to them.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Now let's take an additional farther step. The proof that that is what's happening is that there are three moments here. There is you who exist in one instant, the family who exists in a second instant, and the girl who died before that family incident. That's why you can exit. Because the family's house is in a different thin place. That's a different echo that happened to happen however many years after the girl died.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So there just happens to be another bubble related. But they're not really. They're two different bubbles.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And you'll always fall into one. Interacting with the girl because she's where one is. And then the exit or not the exit, but just a different bubble that would just drop you back in your time. He's where the house is.

Cristina: Yeah. That is so strange. She takes you to the end of her bubble. Is beginning of another bubble. Pretty much.

Jack: Yeah. It's not even the beginning or end. Both of them are just entrances and exits. And you happen to. When you interact with her, the only way you can interact with her is by crossing in because you're not seeing her on one end. The story always happens that if you saw her, you ended up being the guy who delivered the thing. You've never not seen her outside that context. Nobody sees the lady in the white dress and not interact with her. People see the girl in the white dress in the white gown, and then they'll interact with her. But people don't see the lady in the white dress without ever interacting with her. It's almost like there's no option. There's nothing else around you at that moment, which checks out with you're somewhere else.

Cristina: Okay. I think unique.

Jack: That. Yes. That's very, very unique. I think that's definitely among them.

Cristina: So multiple echoes.

Jack: Multiple echoes playing together. That's two different bubbles. And you enter the echo space. Next one is the abandoned mental asylum, which is the typical, you know, oh, my God, something horrible happened there. But now we're in closer to home territory because maybe. Maybe something happened there. Because mental asylum, that's not about who died there. It's about what experiment was secretly being run there. We have a building, and it's haunted. And a haunted building, probably something went down. And the haunted buildings are always. What? They're always asylums where you can experiment on people. They're always prisons where you can experiment on people. It's usually where people aren't gonna miss the people.

Cristina: Those are still echoes.

Jack: Yes, but it is an echo of a place that might be one of the locations resulting in the thin places.

Cristina: Thin places.

Jack: The place matters more. That's why I didn't say the people.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: I said the place because the place here matters.

Cristina: It could also probably be a hotspot for Shadow Realm creatures.

Jack: Well, that would be a result of the place. Again, the distortion opens up all these things.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: That's why the place is what matters. Not the Shadow Realm people, not the humans that might have been tortured. There's the place. Yeah, because the place had whatever event took place that allowed for more thin places.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: And assuming this is one spot with a bunch of thin places. But there is, as we know, a castle that is Suspected to have sketchy s*** happen with a bunch of thin places. There's a town. They had a bunch of thin. So an area where there might have been a group of people who settled and had a bunch of different facilities doing a bunch of different s***. And this might be one of them. Particularly because out of all the structures there, this is the second most haunted place. It has the most thin places. It has had the most sightings. Even more than the castle. Although the castle is going to be our main attraction for different reasons. This has had hundreds of sightings within a day.

Cristina: Within a day.

Jack: Within a day. Groups of people going to explore, enter, see something. Almost every hallway. Try to get away, see things outside. Only when they get far enough does it start to decrease rapidly. Rapidly. Like the closer you get mad s***, the farther you get. Almost nothing.

Cristina: How big is it? Like, how many floors? Do you know how many rooms?

Jack: No. No details. Diving into nothing. We're eventually gonna unpack that and we'll find out all those details. None of this happens. Try to get deep into nothing because.

Cristina: Right.

Jack: We got too much. We haven't even made it to the next list. We're still on just echoes.

Cristina: Whoa. Okay.

Jack: Yeah, we know. We're not diving into. There's too much.

Cristina: Interesting. All right.

Jack: That everything in here we're going to dive into at some point.

Cristina: Good, good, good.

Jack: So I definitely think this is a very important one. Just like the. The haunted lake and just like are.

Cristina: Going to visit the haunted lake again.

Jack: We're going to visit the haunted lake again. We're going to visit the lady in white again. And we're definitely going to visit this place.

Cristina: Cool.

Jack: The next one is the ghost train.

Cristina: The ghost what?

Jack: The ghost train. This is a weird one because there was never in the past railroads here. Which tells us something really interesting. There's going to be railroads there. Now, that's interesting. Because of a look could be taken through that thin place at the right angle. We would be looking forward.

Cristina: That makes sense. Like you mentioned Egyptians seeing airplanes. Like it's possible.

Jack: No train tracks. But people see the train and they hear it coming from a while away. Like maybe if you're standing next to the thin place, you can hear the. Because you're hearing the sound come through it, and then you see it for a moment. If you happen to be looking in the same. Which checks out with the descriptions. Some people see it, some people hear it. Some people briefly see it after having heard it.

Cristina: Interesting. And if they're not going to have a train there, maybe these time Bubbles are a little more complicated than we think. Like maybe another hotspot in real life has a train. And they're. They're connected in a way.

Jack: Interesting. You think wormholes within. Like it's leading. The problem is. The problem is it doesn't look like that's how it works. What you would be arguing would be that there isn't a thin place, but rather a portal to a different part of our same space.

Cristina: But I don't think you travel. I think you're still seeing through time.

Jack: I think it's the same place we have. Would you be talking about is a portal and if there is, that would be walkable. Every portal we've seen is a traversable thing. So if that's the case, then that's visible. It would always be visible. And also we know portals don't function without structure.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So it couldn't be. It couldn't be a portal. It has to be a thin place because it has to be a space time distortion. There's no such thing as far as we know, as a portal that isn't sustained by technology to the point that we've had several different people had to be taught by somebody how to build a portal.

Cristina: So how are they watching a train?

Jack: I just said it's probably a thin place looking forward forward.

Cristina: And you think in the future there's going to be a train.

Jack: Yeah. I mean, how is that any different than right now? Us seeing thin places looking through the past.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Why wouldn't that exist in the future in the same place? And we're seeing the other end of it.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Why would we be the most ahead no matter what? I think it's just as light. And it would have to be that we have just as many looking forward as we would have looking back. There's no logic as to. And if the thin places don't dissipate ever, then there's literally an infinite amount of them looking in every direction infinitely.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: You know, so it would have to be tied like that. My question to that would be, are there thin places that work in such a way where this one only looks back to that time and that one only looks back to this time? So only when I'm in that time will I see it. But then there are some that are always. So I'll explain the two differences.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: There's a bubble that where I'm standing right now in 10 minutes will become visible for 10 minutes and will disappear. And it'll only ever be visible for those 10 minutes in that moment. And so somebody on the other end will only see me ever in that moment through there. Because the bubble isn't gonna sustain. I'll never be able to see the bubble again. And only them on the other end for those 10 minutes could see it. And then it's gone. So it connects 1985 at 3 o' clock to 2024 at 7pm in this one place and only in that. So forever. He saw me and I saw him and that's it. And that bubble doesn't exist. But the next minute a different bubble somewhere else. And so a bunch of bubbles are always coming in and out because the whole place is distorted. That's one situation. Another one will be. Maybe there are fixed ones. This seems to be the case. There are fixed ones that you can always look into.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So that moment you can always see, but the bubble you're looking through in might dissipate and pop up. So I walk to this spot at the bridge and I see the kid. You go to this spot, but you didn't see the kid. But then another person comes by and they do see the kid.

Cristina: So that's what it seems like.

Jack: Yeah, sometimes and sometimes not. So the bubble on this end sometimes is here, but the end it's looking at is always there.

Cristina: I would think that's how it works. Because, like, I don't. I doubt everyone ever sees the kid.

Jack: Yeah, exactly.

Cristina: See the kid.

Jack: Because then it'd be weird. Anytime you walk by that spot, like literally, that means people could get out of their cars and start taking pictures of this pass point. Yeah, but because that doesn't happen, it suggests our end is not fixed. But that end is. But it seems to be in the same spot.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: That's why I don't think there's ever been. Oh, you're seeing something else. Where the train looks like it's cutting through the woods. It doesn't look like, oh, there's a town on the other side or something.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And again, there's no structure. How would you have a portal when literally the most complicated, most sophisticated minds we've ever known about. We're trying to design these things just to get it to work. More about looking forward. Abandoned cars are seen consistently. Many. Some people have sometimes looked and seen the entire street covered with abandoned cars. And then the next second notice, there's nothing there.

Cristina: That's kind of scary. Yes.

Jack: Not only that, it tells us something quite interesting. A train is going to be seen there in the future. Civilization is going to exist there. Follow me on this. What if nothing has happened there yet. And the distortion that's going to cause a space time problem happens in the future. And the wreckage, the train, which suggests civilization, the cars all abandoned on the road, which suggests civilization. That hasn't happened yet. Those people get sacrificed. That creates the space time distortion that we now see. And that's why no matter how far back we look, we never come across it. It's always just distorted. But where's the origin?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It's because it's not happened yet. But the distortion must exist because it's through time. So the distortion is present because it's going to happen.

Cristina: It's going to happen. I think so. That makes sense. It's going to happen.

Jack: The cars, the train.

Cristina: Could be that something in the future leads to whatever's happening right now.

Jack: Yep. That's a really weird one. Right?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: The possibility that the reason we can't pinpoint what these distortions origin is is because there is no origin yet.

Cristina: Awesome.

Jack: All right, next on the list is the Haunted playground.

Cristina: Oh my God.

Jack: Which is an old overgrown playground that is said to be haunted by kids, of course. And something crying. Either a woman or some kind of animal imitating humans. Which is way horrifying. The repetition of this very echo. Disembodied. It's always in the same region. Weirdly enough, the area this tends to begin and end at are a dirt road. And where the laughter ends seems to be at the beginning of Paradise Road. And the playground is in the woods off the dirt. Paradise Road is where I took. Where me and the guys ended up. Hearing the kids laughing.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So we were exactly where we would hear kids laughing. I didn't know that was part of this.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Last time we didn't stumble upon that.

Cristina: So they're laughing by the park is.

Jack: What by a park? That's by the entrance of Paradise.

Cristina: And there's someone crying.

Jack: And there's somebody crying. The crying we did not hear. We heard the laughing children.

Cristina: Yeah. I don't know what's scarier. It's really hard. I think if you heard both, it might be less scary.

Jack: No, I think if you heard both, it's manic and more scary. Laughing and crying everywhere all at once.

Cristina: That's kind of. Yeah. But they're not sure what the crying sounds like.

Jack: Not in that area. It just sounds like something is crying. It sounds like. Kind of like a woman. But it's unclear. Which is the horrifying part about it. It's like man, it's almost like a woman. But the fact you got a question is what makes it uneasy?

Cristina: Yeah. That's way more scary than, like, children laughing.

Jack: But that ain't even the only thing crying. Because way away from there, towards the center of Clinton Road, about five miles in, there is consistently a baby heard crying in the woods.

Cristina: And they for sure know that's a baby.

Jack: That is for sure a baby screaming quite loud just in the woods. And many people have heard this one. This is among one of the most reported ones. And this is among one of the reasons people evacuate Clinton Road.

Cristina: That's so scary.

Jack: Yep. And screaming quite loud, like, come save me, like, almost is trying to get you to, oh, my God, there's a baby.

Cristina: I don't know. I would convince myself it's a crow pretending to be a baby.

Jack: The other one, people have posited that maybe there are animals pretending to cry because children might have fallen in the park or whatever.

Cristina: And they heard it because birds like to imitate sound. Yes, that's the sounds it's hearing constantly. I mean, like, what if an echo was of a baby crying or a lady laughing? Like, those are real.

Jack: And then the birds hear it.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Yep. Because they would also be in proximity to the thin places. And birds fly. They could be floating in and out all the time, landing in different places they don't even know.

Cristina: And that's why you hear the thing crying. But you're not sure what that one is. But you know, there's a baby crying.

Jack: That actually makes a lot of sense. I think you just solved a lot of the noises. Because it again, birds imitate sounds. Birds fly. A place riddled with thin places. Birds flying, not seeing them, you just hear. Now you're over there now and you heard there was a park there. However long ago you heard it, you go, you're now in the past. You think you're in the same place. You're making the sounds. You heard. There's nothing there. But now kids. People hear kids laughing and baby's crying. And then you fly through the thing again. You're no longer there. Now you're in this time.

Cristina: That's so complicated.

Jack: And it's just birds, usually crows, which happen to be in woody, wooded areas and in farmland. And this is a very recluse removed kind of rural area riddled within places. A couple of flights. You're moving through time. It is easy to. I think that is a great solution for that problem. I think the sounds can't be relied on because it's probably birds imitating. And that would answer a lot. Unless There was a house somewhere near there in a different time. Which again that still holds a possibility. That in the future this place is a bunch of people with the intent to do something horrible eventually.

Cristina: Is there a kids park there currently?

Jack: Yes. Right next to Paradise Road.

Cristina: Okay. Yeah. Like it's.

Jack: The theory, seems to be my theory that Paradise Road is gonna grow and eat all of Clinton Road. Like the entirety is going to become one new town, new city type of thing.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And that's going to be sacrificed way in the future to make a different stone. And that's why it's so f****** riddled. We're talking about maybe the largest stone that exists is going to be there.

Cristina: That's crazy.

Jack: Which is why it's also the most haunted place on earth.

Cristina: Whoa.

Jack: I think the largest stone and the fact that people have seen entire wreckage as far as the eye can see.

Cristina: I would like to see that. That's so scary. But cool.

Jack: It's not right? Yeah, it is an absurd thing that could have happened. Next one is ghost carriages.

Cristina: So carriage is like the thing with the horse?

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Or that old timey.

Jack: Yes, yes, yes. Now again the fact that there doesn't seem to be something traceable far back enough. It just seems like people were using this road the same way all of time. And then sometime in the future there were people living here like a fuckton. But at the moment and looking backwards in time, it's just more empty and more empty and more empty. So something crazy couldn't have happened here with less and less and less and less and less people. But that suggests that the distortion is throughout time and that we do see into the past. Even if this did happen in the future because we do see weird s*** from the past. The kid looked old timey and the carriages are old timey. Yeah, it's just normal New Jersey being old New Jersey. But us seeing those moments because of thin places.

Cristina: But is the carriage like. Do they. They call it ghost carriage because it's like riding along by itself or something?

Jack: Yeah, it's riding on the. On Clinton Road. People when they get close enough it vanishes. And like people have gone through it scared they're gonna hit it and sometimes it's gonna crash into them and just disappears. And it's really probably just went through you and like ghosts the closer you get because they're kind of translucent. You can't really see them up close. You got to be at a distance where what with a plasma looks more concentrated. It's an echo. It seems to be that it's definite. Most definitely an echo.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And the last one is last for a reason in the echoes section and with a question mark, which is the Paradise Road cemetery. So Paradise Road Cemetery, like the playground is actually opposite sides of the playground on that same dirt road.

Cristina: Horrifying. Okay.

Jack: And the cemetery, you know, it's a cemetery, so haunted or whatever. The problem is the cemetery doesn't have a lot of people. It's a small cemetery, but the cemetery seems to have an absurd amount of activity. So it's just very, very, very active and happens to be at the same opposite side of the children. But there have been people seen there at all times, always active. Now, what we know about cemeteries is that cemeteries do. People are scared of them inherently. So this doesn't bounce off of a thin place. Because the problem here is that people do see a lot of repetition, but people do see ghosts staring right back at them. People do see ghosts trying to lure them in. Like, they look straight at them and tell them to come over here. But we've seen, when we were doing the Christmas episode, what graveyards really are. Because people are scared of them. Enough potential fear energy exists that creatures from the shadow realm do manifest there.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Okay, and so now we're getting to actual. Yes, there's ghosts there because the whole place is riddled with thin places.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: But this spot actually has phantoms. It has djinn and other s*** from.

Cristina: The shadow realm there just hanging out.

Jack: Because it's fear filled.

Cristina: It's. The whole place is fear filled.

Jack: That is my next sentence. Okay, now the graveyard, extra scary. So you go to Clinton Road, you're extra scared already, and then you see that s***. Extra scary.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Now we got to make a distinction because all of Clinton Road is scary to people. And we were just talking about the echoes that people see there. But that does not mean that there isn't a bunch of s*** responding to people and a bunch of s*** that isn't there due to the thin places, but they're due to the fear. Things you can interact with, of course, of which there are more than there are ghosts. People have stories of literally getting harmed. People have physical proof in photos of. I don't know where the f*** this came from. Weird scratches that seem unnatural, Marks on their bodies, things saying their name, things talking.

Cristina: How do they know? Like, do they. I know they're not like us, but, like, does that give them special abilities? I know, like strength and whatever, but, like psychic abilities. Why?

Jack: I don't think it would make them psychic.

Cristina: Like, how would they Say your name.

Jack: I think you're with people who would say your name and they hear your name being said and they're assuring you, yeah, I'm here, too.

Cristina: Okay. Yeah.

Jack: You know who goes to Clinton Road by themselves? You're hanging.

Cristina: That's true.

Jack: Oh, I'm scared, Steve.

Cristina: We're gonna give their nicknames if we ever decide to go. Okay. We're not using our names. Do not call me by my name.

Jack: Fair.

Cristina: Because, like, I do not want to hear something say yes. Oh, my gosh.

Jack: No. It's nuts. And that is. Yeah, it's a really, really meant, often mentioned people with scratch marks. There are people who hear voices talking directly to them, saying their names. There are people who hear conversations that then stop when they're in the area and start referencing things that they're doing. It's just the weirdest f****** thing.

Cristina: That is scary.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: Now, the problem we're facing is that we are 45 minutes into this episode, and I think the next section is gonna take about as long. So I think I'm not gonna do the Phantoms part. And this first part is entirely the echoes. This is kind of what I meant.

Cristina: By we're gonna be doing this for a while.

Jack: We're gonna be doing this for a while.

Cristina: And even you think past Halloween.

Jack: I think past Halloween. We have to unpack some of these things that I think are going to be full episodes of their own. Just to kind of. This is all just trying to understand the most active spot.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Why beat around looking at other places if we can understand the most active spot? The knowledge we'll get from here will trivialize everything else. It'll be too easy to understand. And I think that's going to be a healthy approach. So instead of going into these next two sections that are just already set up episodes, I think we can, now that we've gone through the whole thing, have a short discussion before we close it off about what this informs us on. So I think the things that definitely don't matter here, because everything we've mentioned here is definitely an echo.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Nothing checks out is not an echo. But the information we acquire by looking at these echoes is quite interesting. I think the boy and the bridge doesn't matter. That's literally an echo. The girl in the gown, literally an echo. There's no interaction. The hitchhiker, literally no interaction. The bicyclist, no interaction. It's when we get to the lake that we have interesting situations happening. A sustained, thin place that seems to always look at the same time or at multiple times, but is always present and you could actively choose to look through it. Interesting.

Cristina: That is interesting. And the girl with the white.

Jack: The woman, the lady in the white dress.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Hers is a different situation because it seems that way. The only place you can or the only time you see her is by.

Cristina: Slipping into the echo itself.

Jack: The echo itself.

Cristina: You have to complete whatever cycle you.

Jack: Have to do the Groundhog Day until you exit on the other end. So that's definitely something exceptionally interesting. And it would suggest that there is the possibility that there are thin places like this elsewhere that two events might be tied together.

Cristina: That's so interesting. I do think that's. That has to be another. I feel like that story has been around in other locations. Like I don't think I've heard. Like I've heard that. But not in Clinton Road.

Jack: It's funny because the original story came from Clinton Road. It was about the 1770s with people showing up. And this story took place with carriages to begin with.

Cristina: Okay. Because I'm pretty sure I've heard one that's like somewhere in the south though.

Jack: Yeah. So this place, this story originated with carriages. It's never an actual car that the original story was with. And this is also why they assume her dress looks like. The dress looks old timey and s***. And that she's out there, just typical girl. And then when you go to the house, the house is kind of like farming looking and stuff. And it's like we're. We're not that far the out there. Why is this house here? Type of vibes. So there's a lot of vibes that suggest that this is really, really, really old echo. Which would explain more how they're connected. Right. Because you give enough time from one echo to the other, there's enough gap that maybe eventually the thing happened. But the problem is how the. Did the other event happen to coincide with a person knocking on the door? Man, that's f****** weird. Unless the family of the girl is somehow involved with the s*** that's causing these thin places. There must be something, because how are they so connected to both the girl and them simultaneously? I get that. That's what's happening.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Hers is the entrance, his is the exit. But how the f***. What are the odds that her way out there and they gotta drive four miles in the opposite direction and the exit just so happens to be there?

Cristina: I don't know if we find other stories like this that'd be interesting.

Jack: That'd be interesting.

Cristina: That's unrelated but like has its own one loop thing. Yeah.

Jack: That you gotta get through it in order to get out.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: That's worth evaluating. You see, that's my point. This is very interesting. We don't necessarily acquire too much information, as much as a lot of questions. Yes. But then that brings up another point and I guess it's worth mentioning this house leaves where you find the girl to her family. You know the. How her family's house is in the direction of the asylum. It's one of the closest structures to the asylum. That's a coincidence and a half.

Cristina: Yes. And that's why you think the family's involved somehow.

Jack: The family could have something to do with it. It's possible. The people in this area have always been involved. And the future is people who aren't from the area who gonna be invited for other reasons.

Cristina: Yeah. Okay. Interesting. There's something there. Maybe. I don't know.

Jack: Something there for sure. Same thing goes with the train. That's an interesting. The train in the car is really fascinating because the train in the car suggests the future civilization is going to establish here. Like a lot of people are going to move in here. But although the train tells us enough people are going to be here that we're going to add transportation, the cars tell us far enough from that point.

Cristina: Something that's gonna happen. Okay.

Jack: It's gonna get really hardcore. I think those are the things that definitely matter. I think your description of birds is genius because that does in fact solve a lot. It is. Birds do imitate sounds and this answers a lot when it comes to weird sounds in the woods. And like, this is impossible. And how. And it's like, well, birds imitate babies all the time.

Cristina: Mm. Birds are weird creatures and themselves especially.

Jack: Crows which are drowning in that area.

Cristina: So it makes.

Jack: It checks out. And they're slipping in and out of different thin places, landing in different. That all checks out. So I think out of this episode we definitely already have some topics we're gonna be looking at again, which are the haunted lake, the lady in white, the abandoned asylum, the ghost train and the abandoned cars. All of those things have to be checked out.

Cristina: What about the cemetery?

Jack: The cemetery. I don't think it necessarily has to be checked out as much as it is an interesting sp because it's both phantoms and ghosts. It's clearly things that are present and clearly things that are not. Which checks out with the Christmas episode, which people go to see their dead passed away relatives just present. And then some people are like, no, but Those things are trying to get you. And it's like, okay, both those narratives kind of fit together.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Things from the other side and things from this side at a different time. I think that is the reality of what we're looking at here. I think that's right.

Cristina: You've got a lot just from that.

Jack: Just from echoes. Echoes that are actually going to inform us on the bigger picture, because these are how these technologies have affected space, time and how they work. And understanding them might tell us a lot of ways that we can approach visualizing data from the past that we still haven't understood. Data from the present that might be too ambiguous. Information and. And perspective all working out. Yeah, I think that's pretty much it. I think that's what we're getting from this episode. So instead of. So this is part one, the menu echoes.

Cristina: Whoa.

Jack: Longest thing, I guess. Next one is part two, the menu phantoms.

Cristina: Okay. And what was part three again?

Jack: I forgot that one is just the most important stuff, the significant things.

Cristina: Oh, yeah. Dude, that's so ridiculous.

Jack: Yeah. Because what I just mentioned are things that, again, like I said, it didn't seem important at first, but maybe we'd find some gems, which we did.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: The things I know we're gonna look into are in that last section, and that's like 25 different points that are all relevant.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: So, okay, these are the echoes. You guys heard that if there's anything of these that you guys think are more important or maybe you think I.

Cristina: Can see the connection that we can't. Like the echo that's leading into another echo. Like, if you can help us out with that.

Jack: Yeah, if you can think about that in any kind of manner, shape, or form, or you see patterns that we're missing, or you think we're overvaluing something and you got a way to credit it and make us remove it so we got less to look into. Yeah, all of the above. Reach out to us on our socials. You could find us at just Convopod, on Tick Tock, on Twitter, AKA X, on Facebook, on Instagram. You can't find us on YouTube or on Reddit because we've been banned from both.

Cristina: Remember to subscribe. Right. And review the show.

Jack: Yes. And word of mouth. Tell everyone about this. Any thinker you have who's into the weirdest, fringiest things. Science fiction, science, reality and fantasy, all of this. Tell them it might all actually be real, connected. Yes. Show them this so they know this.

Cristina: Has been the Rambling Podcast. Take nothing personal and thanks for listening. Bye. S.A. good morning. The podcast is hosted by Christina Colazo and Jack Thomas, produced by Lynn Taylor and published by Great Thoughts info, art by Zero Lupo and logo by Seth McAllister with social media managed by Amber Black.

Rambling 125: Banshees and Women in White

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What are Banshees? What are their origins? Are they related to the Woman in the White Dress? Answers to this and more on this episode!

Story:
The duo unpacks Banshee’s, Women in White and any similar or relate ghost or creature in order to get better informed as they continue to fill their Mars prison with different paranormal beings to study. All in the name of science.

Rambling 125: Banshees and Women in White

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Topics Discussed

  • Banshees
  • Death Omen
  • The Weeper
  • Woman in the White Dress
  • La Llorona
  • Lilith
  • Shadow Realm
  • Shapeshifters
  • Fear
  • Reapers

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Cristina: This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised.

Jack: Going live in 5, 4.

Cristina: What does live mean? Welcome to Just Conversation, the show where we ground humanity's most absurd and baffling ideas in childish ways. I'm your host, Christina.

Jack: And I'm Jack.

Cristina: And if you haven't yet, remember to hit that subscribe button to get notified the second new episodes are released.

Jack: And also, this show is most enjoyable with a listening partner to share opinions and ideas on the topics that we discuss. So be sure to find a single individual, somewhere random, that they wouldn't expect to be found by a different complete stranger, and approach them with this very tone. I'm speaking.

Cristina: You sound like an anime villain or something.

Jack: That's fine.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: You approach them and you. Hey, Yugi, I have a show for you to listen to. And if you don't, I will fling you to the shadow realm.

Cristina: To the shadow. We're revisiting the shadow realm? Sort of. Not really, but one of the creatures we talked about.

Jack: We are?

Cristina: Yes. The Banshee.

Jack: The banshee? Yes.

Cristina: Remember last time? Well, not last time. Dragon Ball Z, but a few episodes ago, we talked about Ireland creatures. Yes, yes. And we learned about fairies. And I'm still unsure about this fairy ghost thing, if it's a fairy or a ghost or if it's us or not. Like, I know you explained it, but it still makes no sense in my head because it's so many different ideas, but it's all the same. But it's all different, so it's hard to understand for me. But the Banshee, she's a fairy lady, but she's also a ghost.

Jack: Right. Are they different variants of this?

Cristina: Of the banshee?

Jack: Yeah. Is it like, some stories say she's one, some stories say she's the other. Or is it like, collectively, it's unclear.

Cristina: I think she is definitely a fairy lady. Ghost. A ghost fairy lady. Got you for sure. She's usually. I didn't talk about this last time. I didn't realize she was. How short she is. Because, you know, if you remember, the other fairies are the short people.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Well, she could be between 1 to.

Jack: 4Ft tall, so not human.

Cristina: Yeah, so that goes. They say it goes along with her being an old lady, but also to show that she's a fairy lady. So although in different stories we talked about she could be a young lady. Little girl. Did we say little girl or just a young lady to old lady age range?

Jack: No, I think we saw this before she was an old lady. So there's more range here.

Cristina: There's more range?

Jack: Yes. Before we establish she was an old lady. And there's more range because she's not just an old lady.

Cristina: She's a fairy lady. No, she's a short lady.

Jack: So short said she could be a young lady.

Cristina: Last time. I'm pretty sure I said she could be a young lady.

Jack: Oh, really?

Cristina: I don't remember. There was like, three age ranges. The young, the middle age, and the very old. You remember that?

Jack: No.

Cristina: Okay, well, that was last time. This time I'm just talking about her being old because I didn't realize how short she was. But that doesn't matter. What matters, though, is that she's usually the ghost of a murdered lady or a ghost of a mother who died at childbirth. Those are important.

Jack: Yes. Okay.

Cristina: And if you remember, she sings or mourns over the death of family members. Because it's like every family in Ireland has a banshee.

Jack: Why?

Cristina: Well, not every, but the ones that come that have their blood from Ireland, of the first people that took over, remember there was a people that fought the fairies, and that's when the fairies disappeared.

Jack: So they're all descendants of St. Patrick?

Cristina: No, of the Malaysians. I think they were called those people. And if you have their blood, then you have a banshee.

Jack: Hold the f*** up. The Irish are just Malaysians.

Cristina: That's how I think it's pronounced. I'm not sure if that's the correct way it's pronounced.

Jack: What is Malaysian people from Malaysia?

Cristina: No. Then it's probably not the same Malaysia that you're thinking about. Is this other word that looks very similar to that.

Jack: Okay.

Cristina: I don't think they're connected. Well, sometimes they could be a predictor of death. They could be crying before someone dies. I don't know how they can tell, because usually you find out the person died afterwards anyways. And even if the person died far away, they'll get the news of the death from her crying. And that would be kind of their warning that something bad happened to their family member. Also, there's some moments where a bunch of banshees are crying. I didn't know that.

Jack: During tragedies, maybe.

Cristina: Well, for them, it means that if a person. For someone who's. For someone who's great or holy, they'll cry. A bunch of them will cry for that person.

Jack: What does that mean?

Cristina: Like, I guess the great. Like king or holy, like a saint? I don't know.

Jack: Okay.

Cristina: And then a bunch of them will cry. I don't know why they care, but they care a lot. And in Welsh folklore, there's also a ghost that cries before a person dies.

Jack: And in similar Dubanche, just in that.

Cristina: Way that it's crying. It's a voice that's crying, but it's.

Jack: Not, like, super short thing.

Cristina: A short thing like a.

Jack: Like a fairy.

Cristina: Oh, I don't know. I don't know if they consider. When it comes to things outside of Ireland, I don't know if they consider it as a ferry. I think they're just ghosts.

Jack: Yeah. I don't mean, like, it's called a fairy.

Cristina: Oh.

Jack: I'm saying, like, is it, like, is the description the same being?

Cristina: The only thing I got from the description of this ghost is that it has a voice that they hear. I don't think they see this ghost.

Jack: Got you, got you, got you.

Cristina: And then in Scottish folklore, there's, like, three different creatures that are like this. Can I call them creatures or ghosts? Three different ghost stories that are similar. One is called the Little washer Woman. And when they see her, she's usually washing clothes of people who are about to die. So if she's washing her clothes, I guess, you know, I'm about to die.

Jack: How do they know it's her? What does she look like?

Cristina: I think she's actually kind of described as the same as the banshee as the old lady. Like, she's an old lady washing clothes.

Jack: Got it, got it.

Cristina: And then in a second one from Scottish folklore, she's called a weeper.

Jack: I have heard that before.

Cristina: The weeper.

Jack: Yeah, I've heard that before.

Cristina: Okay. Well, do you. What do you know about her?

Jack: I don't know anything about the name.

Cristina: Oh, okay. Well, she also cries predicting death from her cries. She likes to cry at night by waterfalls, stream or lakes, and in glens or mountainsides. She's very found in very specific locations in Ireland. I mean, Scottish Scotland.

Jack: And she also looks like a fairy.

Cristina: We'll say old lady. Got you, old lady, because fairy. I don't know. I don't know. I guess, like the fairy banshee. Yes.

Jack: Sure looks like a banshee. We'll leave it there.

Cristina: She cries over the death of people who are killed in battle. Those are the specific weepers. Yeah, the weeper. It's just people who died in battle. She'll cry for them. And her cries cause people anxiety for their children that are in war because, you know, like, they're like, is it my child that's gonna be dead? Or whatever. Pz, you don't know. Who's she crying for? And there was an event, though, the Massacre of glencoe. And the McDonald's weeper was heard crying all night. People who heard her crying left the place before the massacre.

Jack: So those people lived and then everybody else died.

Cristina: Yeah, everyone else died.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: Yep. Yep. And she sounds a lot like the banshee, though, in that they're like. Well, I don't know if the banshee really predicts death, but we can't really tell from when she cries to when they find the death of people.

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: So, like, it seems like she stops crying when you find the body. So it could be that she's predicting as well.

Jack: Does she sound like she's luring you to the body? Is the cry always heard from the direction of the dead?

Cristina: I don't think so. I don't think so. I just think, like, once you do get the news, then the crying stops.

Jack: I wonder if there's a movie about banshees.

Cristina: Probably. I bet Supernatural has all these creatures.

Jack: Yeah, definitely. They've come across a banshee before.

Cristina: Yeah. And then there's the third version of the Scottish folklore thing because they have so many. Many, I guess, of this similar banshee ghost thing. And it's. This one's kind of creepy. It's when you're sick and you're about to die, she's gonna be outside your door crying.

Jack: But you don't know it's her.

Cristina: No, I guess not. But still, if you hear a lady crying, you're probably like, oh, I guess. I guess this is it. If you're sick and dying in bed.

Jack: That means you're probably in a hospital, in which case you just hear some random person you don't know crying.

Cristina: That's so freaky.

Jack: It just probably means somebody already died in the hospital.

Cristina: That's true.

Jack: And that's exactly where you're at.

Cristina: Because maybe before hospitals were a thing and you were just dying at home. That would be creepy then.

Jack: Unless it's so bad you know you're gonna die.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Then everybody around you knows it could just be somebody, you know crying.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It's only if you're in your house and you hear somebody who isn't familiar crying.

Cristina: Yeah, I guess that would be very creepy, though. Yeah. There's. In Latin America folklore, her name is La Giorona, and that means the Weeping Woman or the weeper.

Jack: Yes, the same thing.

Cristina: Okay. It's the same thing. The Weeping Woman.

Jack: And I'm assuming all the rule sets.

Cristina: Work the same this One's a little.

Jack: More complicated because La Giorona sounds like the woman in the white dress. That is usually what they call her.

Cristina: Yes. There is some connection with this one, I guess.

Jack: Yes, yes, I'm very familiar with La Giorona in Latin American culture. That one is identical to the lady in the white dress. You take her home and she goes in and she left. Some bullshit. And you try to take it and then they're like. She was always been dead.

Cristina: Yes. She's always wearing white, I guess, is what she has in common with the woman in white.

Jack: So you're telling me the woman in white and the weeper fused to create La Giorona?

Cristina: Well, she's a little more complicated though, than the woman in white, because in her story, you know why she's weeping?

Jack: Somebody died.

Cristina: Her children's dead.

Jack: Got you.

Cristina: That's what makes her different. She's usually. She drowned her children. Is it part of her story? And I know one of her stories which. A woman who was beautiful, marries a rich man, and they had two children. And one day she finds her husband cheating on her. So she kills her children for some reason out of anger, revenge, and she regrets it immediately. And out of the guilt, she drowns herself. But she can't enter the afterlife without her children. So she haunts. She haunts, I don't know, around. She haunts places, children, I guess. I think she tries to kidnap children. Maybe, I'm not sure. But yes, the reoccurring themes though, of her story, because there's a bunch of different versions of it. And that's just one of the stories of her is the white dress, the crying and the water, because she drowns her kids in the water. So I guess.

Jack: Right. Sometimes she's wet, sometimes she looks like she just got. She was drenched.

Cristina: Yes. There are white women stories, though, that the woman is also wet, but not relating to drowning her children, usually because.

Jack: She'S out in the rain.

Cristina: Well, the one that I read, one of them was that she. I think she was in a car accident.

Jack: It was raining.

Cristina: She was in a car accident and she actually. She drowned in a lake or something.

Jack: Oh, I know one that she was in a car accident while it was raining. And there was one where she forgot her purse and in. What was it? She left her purse in a cab, got out or she lost it or some s*** like that. Oh, and then she couldn't get in because her phone or some s*** was in there. Or maybe phones didn't exist. Whatever. She couldn't get in Contact with anybody, and she wandered into the woods or whatever, and she went missing. It's because she died in the woods.

Cristina: Yeah, there's quite a few in the woods.

Jack: Yeah, it was raining. And that's why she's wet.

Cristina: That's why she's wet. The. Oh, there was one in Canada, one of their famous white women. She felt she.

Jack: Women in white.

Cristina: Women in white, they call them both ways for some reason. Either or. But the woman in white is better, I guess. And she was gonna marry someone. I think he went to war. So she. She jumped off a fall that they have over there. They have many falls. Well, she jumped off one of them in her wedding dress. Of course, that was the white dress. Not all of them died in a white dress. In a wedding dress, but they're all usually white still. The dress that they are wearing. Some of them white dresses, Some of them wedding dresses. You've heard of the wedding dress ones?

Jack: I thought they were all either a wedding dress or some variant of it.

Cristina: Oh, okay. Because I'm assuming the lady that kills her children even though she's wearing a white dress, isn't wearing her wedding dress. I don't know. That's kind of crazy. But I mean, maybe she is. Like, who knows?

Jack: Maybe she put the wedding dress on and then killed her skids.

Cristina: Yes. Whoa. I guess that. Then that's really revenge to her husband.

Jack: No, that's madness.

Cristina: That's madness. Okay, well, in Mexico, they tell these stories to the children to encourage them not to wander off after dark. So she's like a boogeyman type of situation. In America, part of their story is that they could hear her screaming or crying while she's walking around near water or in the dark. So to scare the kids from going out there. Yeah, where they don't want the kids to be. In Venezuela, the story is a little different in that she has to raise her children alone because the father died in war. And she just. I guess she got tired of that and decided, I'm gonna kill my kids. And then her spirit now kidnaps and kills other people's kids.

Jack: Okay, so it's basically the same story.

Cristina: Yeah. Except in this story, families put wooden crosses above their doors to ward her.

Jack: Off because they think she's some sort of a demon.

Cristina: Yes. Which is like the Lilith story, which I want to talk about. Lilith. Do you know her?

Jack: Lilith is a biblical creature.

Cristina: Yes. She's from the. Well, she's not really from the Bible. Like, she's not in the Bible, but in an early Jewish interpretation, Of the Bible she appears, I guess. And the first Eve, they call her because she was made like Adam in the beginning, you know, instead of Adam. And then Eve threw Adam's. What is it? His. Something.

Jack: Yes, his rib. While Adam was created. And then Eve was created from Adam to be less than Adam and his servant. To Adam, Lilith was the equivalent. And I believe she predates Adam. She wasn't made at the same time as Adam, if I'm not mistaken. I believe she was made first. As if Lilith was the first person.

Cristina: Really? Well, I'm not sure about when she was made to Adam, but they were both made from the same ground or whatever.

Jack: And Lilith is not a good person.

Cristina: Yes, she. They had problems, her and Adam, because they had sex problems. Lilith didn't want to lay down. She was not happy with that because they're equals. She doesn't want to be the bottom. And he was like, no, you have to be the bottom.

Jack: So she wants to f*** in that way where the guy is on his back with his legs pushed up and then she sits on his d*** as if she were the one f****** him, but his d*** is inside her. Interesting.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: She was in some weird positions.

Cristina: Yes. Maybe she wanted them standing up together.

Jack: Or maybe she was a lesbian.

Cristina: Maybe she was a lesbian.

Jack: She was the first lesbian. She's considered the first sinner.

Cristina: She's definitely not a lesbian. I think only because she does, like have sex with people. She's. Before she was in this story, she was a. What's it called? A succubus. She's pretty much a succubus.

Jack: Before she was in the Bible, she was a succubus.

Cristina: Yeah. Like they turned that story into this story because everything's based on other things. The Bible's not the first story.

Jack: So the origin from her in a different culture was a succubus.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: There was a succubus called Lilith that then got incorporated into Christianity and became Lilith, the first woman.

Cristina: Yes. Do you know about that?

Jack: I did not know that. I knew that Lilith was the first woman and I believe she was the first human.

Cristina: You mean like her then Adam? Right?

Jack: I believe it was her then Adam. Except we wouldn't call her human.

Cristina: No.

Jack: Because human was Adam and everything that came from Adam.

Cristina: Oh, really?

Jack: Yes. The idea would be that if you make two different. Even if they look identical.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Adam is one and Lilith is another. So you'd have an entire name of things that came from Lilith.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And are like Lilith, made from her literal matter.

Cristina: Well, good.

Jack: And then entire Tree coming from Adam.

Cristina: She does have children.

Jack: They are not human.

Cristina: No, they're not human.

Jack: Yeah, they're not human because human is Adam and anything that came from him. If Adam mated with Lilith, then those would be human because it would be anything that came from Adam. Yeah, but because they did not mate, it did not come from Lilith. And thus no version of Lilith's offspring are human.

Cristina: Although it's weird, because she does steal his seed and have babies from him. But they aren't humans.

Jack: That's weird, because they should be. Anything that comes from Adam is human.

Cristina: Well, I guess because it's mixing with whatever she is. If she's a whole different thing.

Jack: No, no, no. If she mated with Adam, it would still be. It would be half and half. You'd still calling them human because Adam.

Cristina: Okay, they're called Lilium, and they're earthbound demons.

Jack: Earthbound demons.

Cristina: Yes. She ran away, of course, to gain her independence, like an independent lady. Whatever. And then Adam tells on God. He's. He's like a tattletale. And then God sends three angels to her to get her back. The angels find her in a cave giving birth to their children, and they. And she refuses to go to the garden, so they kill a hundred of her children. I wonder how she reproduces. I wonder what the number was. Unless it was 100 kids and they killed. That or there was, like, she had a thousand and they killed 100 of her thousand kids. But they say, we're gonna come here every day and kill a hundred of your kids every single day until you come back to the garden.

Jack: That's crazy.

Cristina: Yes. So in her revenge, she kills children. Regular kids, I guess, because we're all part of Adam now. So she's killing us.

Jack: Fair enough. She's just taking revenge on Adam's entire bloodline.

Cristina: Yeah. So the death of stillborns and crib deaths are blamed on her.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: Yep. Lilith is pretty cool. I don't know. There's like, a debate on, like, is she good? Is she bad?

Jack: No. Lilith is bad no matter what.

Cristina: I know. There's just women who look at her.

Jack: Well, she's not bad bad the way Lucifer is bad.

Cristina: What way is that?

Jack: That he didn't really do anything bad.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: She had an opinion.

Cristina: Yeah, well, raping people is not good. When she got there, I guess that was bad.

Jack: Well, she was initially not bad.

Cristina: Yeah, she was initially not bad until the angels killed her children, which then.

Jack: Makes it questionable whether she's bad or scarred.

Cristina: Or scarred. Yeah. And then there's In Ancient Greek, a lady named Lamia, she was having affair with Zeus. So his wife Hera killed. Well, didn't kill her. Killed her children. That's one of the stories. She killed her children and then Lamia kills other women's children. And then in the second story, Zeus's wife forced Lamia to eat her own children. And then Zeus gave her shape shifting abilities, which I think is interesting, that she's a shape shifting monster that eats children, which she should have been in our other episode about shapeshifters that we did about eating, but that was about blood drinking, shapeshifting.

Jack: Yeah, it was about blood suckers.

Cristina: Yeah. But she's a shapeshifter who eats children and might have eaten her own children because of Seuss wife. And today she's used as a boogeyman to frighten children. Similar to Il Cuckoo. And then the most popular version, this is a white lady. She's everywhere.

Jack: Yeah. There's no country that doesn't have this story.

Cristina: Even the people we mentioned before this point were probably white ladies. They were probably all dressed in white.

Jack: Yeah. That's what's kind of fascinating about the white lady, that out of all these arguments that one might be the possible one because there's so much s***. But then the thing is, people have stories of oh no, she's this and no, she's that. No, there's a f****** creature that happens to look like a lady in a white dress or something.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Because it's everywhere. It's similar to the problem of a chupacabra. You've seen it too many places to say. It's just here now there is the regional story equivalent where. Well, we believe in these things. So it has to take this form when we tell the story. Yeah, but there's one thing they're all talking about that's similar enough difference between Sasquatch and Bigfoot and Yeti is there's the same s***. It's regional. But there's a thing you're talking about.

Cristina: Yeah. Like even the white lady would look different in like her facial features or something. If you had a draw her, she.

Jack: Might in the Middle east she probably has reddish skin. If you're in Asia, she has yellowish skin. If you're in Europe, she probably has really milky skin. If you're in Africa, she probably has dark brown skin. But you're talking about the same f****** thing.

Cristina: Yes, she does the same exact thing.

Jack: All the same things.

Cristina: Yes, all the same.

Jack: So it's basically we could just say that the lady in white is A Banshee?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: They're the same thing.

Cristina: Yeah. The only interesting. Really interesting thing about the Banshee is that it's family related. So I wonder if the white lady. There's stuff like that. Like you hear her or you see her, if you're somehow related to her family and you just don't know how you're related. Because we have no idea how related we are to a stranger we meet.

Jack: Man. Here's the. Here's the interesting division between the lady in white and the Banshee. The problem is that the Banshee is you're totally. It doesn't have to be family related, but it's warning you of a death of somebody close.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And she's crying at your location.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: The woman in white doesn't do that. You encounter her in the middle of f****** nowhere.

Cristina: She might be crying in some stories, I'm sure there's a story. She's crying.

Jack: Who's lady in white?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: No, I'm not saying that she doesn't cry.

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: I think she's always crying.

Cristina: Oh.

Jack: I'm saying she's not at your house.

Cristina: There's no warning.

Jack: Yeah. She's not at your home crying. She's always wandering the f******, like, side of the woods or some s*** when you see her.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: On the road or some crap. Hitchhiking.

Cristina: Yeah. She's always. It's about her life because she's always based on a real person who died in a real tragedy.

Jack: But that's when we tell the story. Like if we break it down to what this really might be and we compare it to the banshee.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: We have two different things.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: They're similar.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: But they're not the same. Now, everything else we've discussed, I think would fall into one of these two categories.

Cristina: The white lady or the Banshee.

Jack: The white lady or the banshee. I think those are the only two real creatures we've heard about so far. And then the story equivalents. So we've heard of either the Chupacabra or the Yeti and everything else. Like, let's say the f****** creature in the middle of this place. And it's a shapeshifter. Okay. You mean the Chupacabra.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Or, well, this. Bigfoot. No, you mean the Yeti.

Cristina: So then Lilith fits more with a white lady.

Jack: Lilith fits more with the white lady. Yes. Or Lilith might be her own thing, though she might be unrelated.

Cristina: Okay. She is a ghost and she's killing kids.

Jack: It sounds like she's Intentional.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: But then based on the story, she would be the White Lady. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Cristina: He's a white lady. It's not the ones that we're about to talk about, but the ones from Mexico. Or not Mexico, but the South American one that we were talking about. She. It sounds like she wants to kill kids too, because she killed her own kids and she wants to take a ghost with her so she can go to the afterlife kind of situation then.

Jack: Man. It's interesting because it defers quite heavily with the lady in White from North America. She's not a. The lady in white isn't a woman with children at all. As far as we know. She usually dies in her teenage years. Maybe like 17 or 18.

Cristina: She's always young.

Jack: Yeah. And you take her to the house. She was just looking for a ride. She didn't do anything weird to you or anything. Just took her home and she forgot something in the car. And then you take it back to find out that's impossible. She's been dead.

Cristina: Yeah. Oh, my gosh. I do remember a connection to her and the Banshee, though. The original version of the Woman in White.

Jack: Right.

Cristina: There's a popular medieval legend about the Woman in White where she appears in the house of a family member who is soon to die. She's seen as the ghost of the deceased ancestor of that person. That sounds exactly like the man.

Jack: She and the lady in White.

Cristina: And yes.

Jack: She's feeling both. Rose. She's feeling both somebody who's already dead showing up and sort of an omen of death at the same time.

Cristina: Yeah. Like now she's not that version, but this. The older version of the original. The origin. Is that better? Origin.

Jack: Now, this is what's crazy. We have the lady in wine too many places. Obviously, she's not one person. Meaning. But it's also problematic to say that there's a bunch of this exact same circumstance happening. Coincidence would be too exaggerated at this point. There'd be thousands of the same scenario.

Cristina: But there are. It feels like there are.

Jack: Well, let's be reasonable about that. Obviously, the story is being told the same. But whatever they're telling the story about.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Is one thing.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So, like, just being reasonable about it. There's a creature, not a person.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Who seems like a person. Could identifiably be a person. But we could also say the same thing about a succubus or a vampire. They look like people.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But they're not mermaid like. It looks like a person, but it's not, you know, Siren.

Cristina: Yes, it.

Jack: It's not, but it looks like it.

Cristina: Okay, so these fairy ghosts are not ghosts, but more fairy, like for their own creature.

Jack: Well, depends on whether they're. Well, I guess we, we at this point we'd be leaving the fairy definition of Ireland fairies and be talking about maybe not necessarily fairies, because western fairies in our region of Western is more like. I guess. No, those aren't even f******. I guess it would be Asian fairies that we here in the United States envision are little people with wings.

Cristina: Oh.

Jack: So it's wrong to say fairy because whether we're talking Irish or North American, we're kind of off about what the f*** we're talking about. But it is some sort of entity.

Cristina: Yes. That's why I feel like the Irish one is the closest, because it is an entity.

Jack: But it's not a fairy tale.

Cristina: It's not a fairy.

Jack: It's not a fairy. Doesn't fit the description of fairy. Which are little people.

Cristina: Well, they don't. They're not always little people. Just a lot of the time. They're little people a lot of the time. But that doesn't mean they're always like that just fits the story. So they mentioned that one the most, maybe to make them all seem the same.

Jack: Got you.

Cristina: But that could have been, you know, like the story could have been different before. Like maybe fairy people did. Were our size before.

Jack: Yes, yes.

Cristina: They only shrunk in Ireland. They could be spread out. Spread out and just as tall as.

Jack: You know, their normal woman in white and the banshee might be the two variants with Lilith as an exception. That is she is a creature of her own. Or the woman in white. She's the only out of the women in white equivalents. She stands out the most. But she still fits the suit in some categories. While the banshee seems to be a whole other s***. Just warning. And then we have this weird cross pollination of that one event of warning.

Cristina: And also being dead. Yeah. So I don't know more than one creature. One creature.

Jack: I think two creatures, bare minimum. I think three creatures max.

Cristina: Three creatures max.

Jack: I think we're talking about two to three different creatures. And everything else is a regional variant.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: People just telling the story a different way.

Cristina: Mm. Probably. Yes. Yes, I think so.

Jack: Interesting. And they look like people is one of the characteristics.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: They usually embody somebody who's dead. They aren't somebody who's dead.

Cristina: No.

Jack: They appear to appear to be the person who said, if you're a Woman in white.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So whatever that creature is always shows up in white. Even if that person was probably not even wearing white. Maybe there's something about their transformation into that person that only allows that to be the color.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So they always look to be wearing white. Thus the woman in white, even if she died in a blue dress, when.

Cristina: You see her, it might be the same dress, but not white.

Jack: Exactly. Maybe they can't imitate these colors. Yeah, maybe we are talking about some sort of shapeshifter that can only embody somebody dead.

Cristina: Oh, you think a shapeshifter? But then that's more fairy, like, because they're very shape shifter too, like.

Jack: Yeah. So they could definitely embody somebody who's only dead. And that's why the story is always the same. Oh, no, it's not possible. And somehow they get the memories of the person too, because they often ask to go to the same place that the person used to live.

Cristina: Yes, Yes. A lot of them are the same place.

Jack: They're hunting the children of people similar.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Those that are doing that are feeding. So we can say the same creature two different instances. In one case, they still have the memories of the person somehow.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: That being said, all of that being said, maybe the lady in white. Holy crap. Isn't even on the side. We forget to keep talking about this, but maybe they're from the shadow freaking realm.

Cristina: That's where the fairies are from. That's where the banshees from. That's why I keep saying she's a banshee.

Jack: Maybe we're seeing. Maybe she's not taking the form of anything. Maybe we're just seeing her shadow form. Her.

Cristina: You know?

Jack: Yeah, her. This side form from the shadow realm.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Interesting. And it might appear as this person or that person. Or maybe using that energy from when.

Cristina: We see her feed, though it matches up with Lilith in that it's children.

Jack: Yes. So there are creatures over there feeding on children from over here?

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: That's a strange one. So far, I don't think there's any banshee eating children, though. But when it comes to women in.

Jack: White, maybe Lilith is the first. Similar to, like, Dracula.

Cristina: I mean. Yeah. Like she has children. They're demons. But maybe they're not really demons the way we think of demons.

Jack: Maybe she spawned whatever creature the women in white are.

Cristina: Yes. Yes. Oh, you know, that's so crazy. There's a place, though, that there's like 300 stories of the women in white, which, like, they're called. They're actually Called the Maidens of the name of the location of the place. Because there's so many.

Jack: Fascinating. So there might be a breeding ground.

Cristina: That's so crazy now.

Jack: It's not a breeding ground on this.

Cristina: Side, but it seems like it because they do. There are stories of the real ladies that died. Well that match up.

Jack: You know, the creatures aren't breeding on this side. The creatures manifest where there's energy to manifest through, as we've established. And if all these people have died in this area, there is more than enough sorrow and fear.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: To go around. And so they can heavily manifest. So haunted areas are just places with enough energy for these creatures to manifest most vividly.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And the more haunted you are.

Cristina: That's why there's so many women in white in a lot of places. But in this specific, in eastern Russia is where they're at, where there's like a ridiculous amount. It says like 350 of them.

Jack: So then the question would be in that area that they're in, was there some sort of tragedy? Is it considered particularly scary place or a haunted place place or something along those lines that could allow there. We know emotions allow shadow beings to manifest.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Specifically fear.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Is the most powerful of them all.

Cristina: That place is scary.

Jack: Are people scared of that place?

Cristina: I don't know if people are.

Jack: Because it could be self perpetuating. It could be. There was one story, people got a little freaked out about that story. But the fear surrounding every time people went through there allowed two or three to manifest. But then the experience is multiplied because their experience, more people had the same story to tell, which then created more fears. People would go through there, which then in return allowed more fear to linger and more to form. And little by little, anyone have to.

Cristina: Die for these things to be born.

Jack: Maybe just the first lady. Somebody saw something, maybe the right person. Here's what usually happens. Right. Somebody who doesn't know the person goes through, sees the lady in white. There was enough energy, enough here. Whatever case might be, pick the lady in white up. Either their children die or they take the lady to her home, quote home, unquote. And her father tells you the same bullshit. Sorry, she's been there. A little weird event that happened.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But maybe this is the one time that the father was the one driving down the street and he sees his f****** daughter and he freaks out and she gets in the car, he's like, what the f***? Or somebody who does know her.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: A family member or something like that. Bob. Her cousin, who didn't know and came the visitor or some s*** drives her to the house. Now the fear is so immense because I saw her.

Cristina: Everyone that knows her is seeing her.

Jack: We saw her. We saw her. She was there. We saw her. This place is haunted. That must have been a demon or something. Now the fear is real. Real.

Cristina: That's why certain locations are haunted. Because everyone's seeing her there. But only like it just took one person seeing her there for a bunch of people to see her there. And then she became a real thing there.

Jack: People have seen the lady in white in different places and they're unrelated. So it's not as scary. It had to be. In order for this place to be of mass ground, some series of events had to lead to the amount of fear that there is relative. Because otherwise every place would have that same amount.

Cristina: So then something else must have happened.

Jack: I'm telling you how it happened. It was somebody who might have known her.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Opposite to a stranger. A stranger picked her up. They were only scared after they were told the story. Somebody who knows or sees her. Holy s***. I was at the funeral.

Cristina: Yes. Okay.

Jack: Now you're like, I'm never going down the street again.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And you had to go down there one day for whatever reason, but you didn't see her, but you went through there so panicked the person behind you saw her.

Cristina: Have we ever talked about the haunted road like this though? Like maybe that's why it's so freaking.

Jack: Haunted instead of being a space anomaly.

Cristina: Yeah. What if it's not a space anomaly but some weird energy thing is happening? Like this place?

Jack: Definitely could be. It could. Well we've established that maybe it's not the streets, that the street itself that's haunted, but the forest, the woods themselves are haunted. We just didn't know what we meant by haunted. And what we meant by haunted is creatures from the shadow realm.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Cut through because of fear.

Cristina: So there's no such thing as haunted in Linton Road? Yeah, there's a hoarder of creatures in there, but not real creatures, shadow creatures.

Jack: They're real creatures. They're just from the shadow realm.

Cristina: Yes. And in this place in Russia, man, that's so crazy. 350. This is a lot of ghosts. Yeah.

Jack: So I think that's how it happened. It self perpetuated. Somebody saw it, freaked out. It was real fear. Like way more fear than just getting told the story. You saw the person you know is dead. You tell they're like, no f****** way, you're losing your mind. But now they're kind of freaked out. Like maybe he's telling the truth. Rolling down the same street. You see her too? Oh, s***.

Cristina: Yeah. It's interesting because none of these stories, it's random lady. Like, you have a real person who's died or supposedly this person really died.

Jack: I think whatever. Creed. I think they're all. I think we could call them all. D*** it. The problem is we don't have a name for it. The question is, is it different from a banshee? And I think it is. I think the lady in white is different from the banshee.

Cristina: But we can agree they're both shadow people.

Jack: I think they're both shadow creatures. Yeah.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: I think they're both shadow creatures, and I think the banshee is the harmless one.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: The banshee is probably the more scary one because it's screaming. Cries, yes. Like, you'll be way more horrified to encounter a banshee, but you're way more in danger with the lady in white. The question is, what creature is the lady in white? Because we know the banshee is some sort of warning creature.

Cristina: Yeah. While the lady in white is just sometimes. Sometimes wants to eat some children. There's some, though, ghost stories I just remembered about. She wants to share gold with people. I don't know why. She has like a gold, like, treasures.

Jack: Oh, no, that's a trap.

Cristina: That's. No. Well, it depends because sometimes she's like, you could have half, and if you're greedy, then death on you. But if you listen to her, she'll. She'll really give it to you. I don't know if there's one stories that there are traps, but the ones that I read, she's honest until you're greedy and then you're dead.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: But I don't know how that relates. But that's just an interesting thing I remembered about some of the white lady stories or the lady in white stories. There's another ghost that's similar to the lady in white, but she's not the lady in white. She's a ghost in Nigerian and African schools. She haunts the schools and like, the places the kids are sleeping. Like the boarding schools. That's what they're called. Whatever. And her name is Madame Koikoi. Well, she haunts the schools and she wears red heels. And she is popular in Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa. In Nigeria, there are two origin stories for her. In the first story of Lady Kokoi, she was a beautiful teacher. She liked to be her students. And she was fired for slapping a Student. And one day when she was going home, a car hit her and she died. And then she swore revenge on the school and the students for some reason. And then after she died, I guess while she was dying. And then she haunts the school.

Jack: How is she related to anything? Why did we learn about this one?

Cristina: Because she's a ghost lady. I guess that's how she relates.

Jack: There's a lady? Million other ghost ladies. How do you pick this one?

Cristina: I don't remember. Cuz she's really famous. Like the white lady in white. She's famous everywhere.

Jack: Right.

Cristina: This lady's famous everywhere around Africa.

Jack: Yeah, but the lady in white and the Banshee are heavily related in that they're both women, both crying, both surrounding the concept of death.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: This is just some random lady who died.

Cristina: Yes. Who kills her children. Which is like those ghost stories where they. She kills children.

Jack: Like the white lady in white.

Cristina: Yeah, the lady in white kills children. Except this lady's killing school children because of her death.

Jack: In a specific school?

Cristina: In specific schools. Yes.

Jack: No, in a specific school. Or does she like swear revenge on the board of education?

Cristina: No, no, no. I guess depending on the school you're at, she's haunting your school because that's how spread out her story is. So.

Jack: So her story is too specific. In the case of the lady in white, there is variance.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Here is the same story.

Cristina: Yes. With different origin stories, though just like little changes to them, but which makes.

Jack: This one sound way less likely.

Cristina: Okay. Even though they're all almost the same. Although one of them, the students, killed her by accident. They were tired of her beating them up, so they beat her up themselves. And one of them killed her with her own shoe. And then she started killing them off one by one like a horror movie.

Jack: So Final Destination.

Cristina: Yeah. So that was pretty interesting. And then there's these other things which I think relate more to the Banshee. And that's why I looked this up. But it doesn't. I don't think we'll find any relations with the women. And why? Because there's these things called psychopomp. I think that's how you pronounce it. And it means the guide of spirits. They're the creatures, spirits, angels or deities. And many different cultures and religions that guide the deceased from earth to the afterlife. Because we don't know if the Banshee is doing that.

Jack: Maybe you mean reapers.

Cristina: Yeah, I guess reapers is a version of it. Because there's many different versions of these things that just. They come when you're dead and they take you to the next place. And who says the banshee's not doing that? Like, maybe they're just crying until you die and then they walk away with you.

Jack: We don't know you aren't dying when a banshee shows up. Banshee's crying because somebody died and they're letting you know.

Cristina: No, but they're crying until that person is dead though. Like why? What if they stopped crying because they're now taking the soul to the next place?

Jack: That'd be weird. Because if somebody's dying far away, they're with you while that person far away is dying. So they're warning you about a person they're not around.

Cristina: Well, they're taking it as a warning. They're not. Like it might not really be a warning to you. They just happen to live where you're living. Like they maybe didn't want to leave Ireland because they love Ireland. It's their home.

Jack: No, no, no, no, no. I feel like you totally missed everything I just said. The ban. She warns you about somebody dying or about to die. See, regardless of where the person who's dying or about to die might be.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: She's around the people that would care. Oh, okay, so she's not around the dying person.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: She. How she delivering the soul if she's nowhere near the dying person?

Cristina: No, I guess not.

Jack: So she would be just like a warning system.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And then the reaper is a deliverer.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: This other creature.

Cristina: Yeah, but the reaper, I guess I'm sure there's another creature that's she.

Jack: I think there's a system of creatures that function in non harmful ways, as well as a sisters and ecosystem.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: As well as the system of creatures that function in exclusively harmful ways. Like a wet church.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Which is vicious and dangerous for no f****** reason. So I'm thinking, yeah, I'm thinking that the banshee in this case is harmless, as is the reaper.

Cristina: Yeah. He's just there to collect the soul.

Jack: Yeah. I think those are delivery beings to some degree.

Cristina: One example of the guide of souls that I like. They, they depict them as animals besides of spirits and creatures and stuff like that. They also see them as animals that are warning, I mean, that are there for the dead. In different cultures. It could be horses, deers, dogs, ravens, crows, vultures. There's a bunch of different animals. But the one that I think is the most famous of the animals are birds. Like if you see a huge amount of birds waiting outside a home of the dying, you're like they're here for that person. Well, I think that's the most famous cyberpunk.

Jack: It's well known for the crows.

Cristina: The crow. Okay. Yeah.

Jack: So crows are considered an omen of death, as well as black cats.

Cristina: Yeah. So those are the animals that are gonna, I guess, take the soul with them.

Jack: Interesting that you would say that, because in both the case of crows and the case of cats, they're usually not being noisy or anything. They're just waiting.

Cristina: They're just waiting.

Jack: They're just waiting. Specifically cats. Black cats. A black cat sitting on you while you are in a hospital is a bad sign.

Cristina: Okay, that's interesting.

Jack: Yeah. Like it's about to wait for your soul.

Cristina: Actually, I've heard of dogs, too. Of dogs in the hospitals would do the same. Like they would go to the person who's about to die.

Jack: Yeah. Before they die. Like they know ahead of time you can smell the death.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Well, maybe they're not smelling it. Maybe that's not any normal dog.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Or if these deliverers can take over.

Cristina: Creatures, that's possible too.

Jack: Maybe it is a normal dog. Until the liver takes over its body and patiently waits.

Cristina: Mm. What do you think of that? That's pretty interesting.

Jack: So it's a possession that's not violent?

Cristina: No, it's very peaceful in a way. Like the death. Or hopefully the death is as peaceful. Yeah.

Jack: Interesting. Interesting. The shadow realm has quite a couple of weird things in there. We got to keep these investigations going. I must see if I can catch. Like I said, with more information that we get, maybe catching a banshee becomes possible.

Cristina: Oh, snap.

Jack: Using science, using any means, we might come across any information based on what we learned. Right. I'll know more where to find a banshee as well as, apparently, I gotta find a woman in white to see if that is a creature of its own. The banshee doesn't seem harmful. The woman in white seems dangerous.

Cristina: What if she's the bad version of the banshee, like we had? Did we decide to scrap that idea?

Jack: No, I. I know what you're talking about, and I was thinking about it earlier, which was that maybe the woman in white is a type of banshee that has become feral. A feral banshee.

Cristina: That's what you were calling them. Feral. Right.

Jack: But the only difference is that we don't know that a banshee has lost anybody or that the banshee has even died. The banshee might not never have been human.

Cristina: No, I don't think so.

Jack: Then Again, the lady in white might just be inhabiting humans or looking like humans that were once alive.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: So they might not necessarily have ever been humans either. It's still. They sound so different either way.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Like we can see how a wet judge and a wendingo are the same.

Cristina: But they don't look the same either.

Jack: They behave so similarly.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: While these two. Like, they behave so similarly and similar to werewolf, almost.

Cristina: Yeah, There's.

Jack: There's real tight connections there.

Cristina: Well, in.

Jack: While here, there's the big discrepancy in behavior. Like, big. The only commonality is the crying. And not all the women in white cry.

Cristina: No. But a lot of them, I think, do.

Jack: Yeah. So there are some. And the person might have actually died. That's. I guess that's another similarity. They think the person who died became the banshee.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: They think it could just be that this creature is taking the shape of somebody dead.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: To then warn them of death.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So I guess there are some similarities to look at.

Cristina: So you might find a connection that we're not even thinking about right now.

Jack: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. There's a line I'm not even thinking about.

Cristina: Yep. Interesting. The psychotrop. In ancient Egypt, they had a God named Anebus. Do you remember him?

Jack: Right, he's the sort of Egyptian God of death or some s***.

Cristina: Yes. He's the. He's a guide of souls.

Jack: Oh, yeah. He's a spirit guide. He's actually not the guide. He's not the death bringer. No, he's the soul deliverer. He's the soul deliverer who delivers it to. Who's gonna weigh it.

Cristina: Yes. Yes, that's exactly. So he's a. Whatever these are called again.

Jack: Reapers.

Cristina: Yep. Reapers. I guess reapers are easier word than calling them psychotomps.

Jack: Maybe it's the same thing. Maybe we're literally talking about the same thing.

Cristina: Yeah. In the Greek mythology, there's the ferryman. Sharon. I don't know his name, but I know the Greek. You know, the ferryman from Hades, that you have to go on his boat to go to the.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: River. Across the river.

Jack: The river Styx.

Cristina: Yeah. Yeah. So when you die, a family member puts a coin on you so that when your spirit goes there, you could pay. And if you don't pay, you got to stay there a hundred years and wait again to cross. So. And then in Norse mythology, the Valkyries are choosing their favorite warriors to go to Valhalla to be part of Odin's army, because he's preparing for Ragnarok So he's building this army. So they're taking the best warriors for that. And then in modern day, the Jewish reaper is the archangel Samuel, whose row is both as the angel of death and the accuser. I don't know if you heard of that archangel.

Jack: No.

Cristina: And then in many cultures, there's the shaman who both plays the. That person that takes the soul to the dead, but also helps bring people to. Helps in giving birth to people. Like, I guess he would be there when you're. You're giving birth to your child.

Jack: The shaman.

Cristina: The shaman.

Jack: Interesting that I've never heard that name for it. But a very old version of reapers that I've heard are the same, and they're represented with the numbers 1 and 9. And the goal is that they bring their soul delivery in every direction.

Cristina: Yes. Well, the shamans are like that. Yes, exactly like that.

Jack: So the reaper I was thinking about this whole time was a shaman.

Cristina: Yep. Wow. And then in the Philippine culture, they think that the ancestor spirits are the ones that are the reapers. When a person who's dying calls out to call someone's name that's, I guess, dead. Like if you called your mother's name while you were dying, then it's because your mom is there to take you to the next life.

Jack: Interesting.

Cristina: And that's their thing. And that's pretty interesting because a lot of people probably say someone who's dead already name or whatever. But in. And In Christianity, there's St. Peter, Michael the Archangel and Jesus are thought of as the reaper. Yep, yep, yep.

Jack: Anyways, we're out of time, and that is definitely fascinating. I didn't know how closely related to banshees the women in white were, but there's definitely some lines crossing there. So as we go and find ourselves one of these s****, we got a experiment. Experiment. We got to find out. Because if we find two different things, that's crazy, but maybe they are related the way a wendingo wetcha and a werewolf are.

Cristina: Yes. Like, it's. It's gotta be. It's there. Like we can, like, glimpse at it. We can't really see it as well as those creatures, but it's like there's a tiny glimpse of.

Jack: There's some connection.

Cristina: Connection?

Jack: Yeah, they're either similar or the same.

Cristina: In different ways or like they're different types of the same thing.

Jack: Like a beaver and a badger.

Cristina: Yes. Oh, that's a good example. If you guys heard the shadow people story, not the shadow people. Which episode was that with the beaver and the badger?

Jack: And that was the Shadow Realm. Yeah.

Cristina: Okay. Yes. You guys check that episode out.

Jack: Yeah. Interesting.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: If you guys are interested in things of this nature, episodes of this type, there are many, many, many. We're building our understanding of the Shadow Realm as we move forward in order to capture some of these f****** on this side and find out what the h*** is going on with that.

Cristina: It feels like we're playing Pokemon.

Jack: Yeah. Catch them all.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And so, I mean, our prison is getting nice and packed. I like it. I mean, it's 95% just like reptilians.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But that's fine. Whatever. It's like, it's realistically 99% reptilian. It's a f****** planet worth of Reptilians and random s*** we added to it.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So it's like really, like 99.99% reptilians.

Cristina: That's a lot of Reptilians.

Jack: Yeah, but we got other s*** in there. Cat people and our guards who are subhumans. Oh, there's a s*** ton of cat people.

Cristina: Yeah. And roach people. I'm not sure. No, no, that's rare because we killed.

Jack: We destroyed a lot of them. Anything that was left was just not on planet.

Cristina: Yeah. So a few roach people, but they probably don't. They multiply like crazy. Yeah.

Jack: They're probably building an army.

Cristina: So. Yeah.

Jack: Yeah, there's probably war gonna happen at some point, but we got Reptilians to toss at them.

Cristina: Yep.

Jack: We're ready. We're getting ready. We just got to brainwash everybody we got.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: And we might have, like, ethereal beings on our side. Whatever. Anyways, if you guys want to hear more of those episodes, you can find the Shadow Realm episode. There's a Shadow Piece People episode, which is part of Groundhog Day episode, which you found out about all this s*** in the first place. And some Adrenochrome episodes and s*** of that nature to get caught up on what we're talking about.

Cristina: If this lawsuit and the Ireland episode, the Irish folklore.

Jack: Yes. So you can find all of those things@graythoughts.info or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you get your podcasts.

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Jack: Yes. And remember to subscribe and to rate. And if you feel so inclined, review.

Cristina: The show and let someone who might like this show know about it.

Jack: Yes, word of mouth. Very important. Find people who watch that garbage f****** show. Ghost. Ghost Adventures, where the guy gets that super Buff, jacked up guy who could, like, knock out a ghost in one shot.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Is just scared of everything he ever sees. See, if you know people who like that, then send them over here like this, tell them about this show, and they'll tune in and realize, oh, that's what they saw over there in Ghost Adventures.

Cristina: That's why they were that scared.

Jack: That's why they were that scared. Or that guy's a b****. That is a total coward. So, yeah, no, you could do that. Tell your friends, be like, hey, you like ghosts? I gotta show about ghosts for you.

Cristina: Ghostbusters. Yes, this has been the Just Conversation podcast. Take nothing personal and thanks for listening.

Jack: Bye. He's scooping the poop.

Cristina: Who's poop?

Jack: He's scooping his own poop.

Cristina: His own pool.

Jack: He says it. He's scoop of the poop. Scoop of the poopa de poop. Scooping the poop that you scoop. He's scooping the poop that.

Cristina: I don't know if that's right.

Jack: Amen. We know he's scooping poop.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And we know the poops being scooped.

Cristina: Definitely.

Jack: In order for this poop to be scooped, there must have been poop.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So somebody pooped. No other characters are mentioned in the story other than the fact that he's scooping poop.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: There's no cats, there's no dogs. There's no. No other person. Nothing else is mentioned other than the fact that he, the singular character, is.

Cristina: Cooping poop, but he doesn't say it's his poop. What if it was just poop?

Jack: It's not. It's from where? There's no other characters in the story. No other characters in the story. There's one character.

Cristina: Mention of someone else.

Jack: No, there's one character in the story. Him scooping the poop. Meaning it's his poopy scooping. Okay, this is writing 101.

Cristina: Okay. It's his poop.

Jack: It's not a magical poop that popped out of nowhere and just exists without a beginning and end. How do you know it's just always existed there?

Cristina: Yeah, that's why he's always scooping it, because it keeps reappearing.

Jack: No, the song is about the one time he pooped and then he scooped his poop.

Cristina: Just one moment.

Jack: Yes. It's about. Isn't that all songs are about a moment or an event, a series of events related to each other? If it's not one moment. But this sounds like a song about one moment where he was just scooping poop.

Cristina: Good morning. Good morning. The Just Conversation podcast is hosted by Christina Collazo and Jack Thomas, produced by Lynn Taylor and published by great dots.info art by Zero Lupo and logo by Seth McAllister. With social media managed by Amber Black.

Rambling 109: Werewolf Science

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What is the science behind the stories of werewolves? What are the possible events that lead to their stories being shared over generations? Answers and theories to that on this episode.

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After an episode where Calm Cristy elaborated on the intricate folklore and stories of Werewolves, Genocidal Jack decides to do an even deeper dive to see if the stories hold and scientific validity. With hopes of coming to a conclusion and maybe one day capturing their own pet werewolf, the duo unpack the origin of their stories. But what they discover about werewolves, native tribes and synthetic drugs throws their plans for a loop in ways they could not have predicted. All that and more on this episode of Just Conversation.

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Jack: Where do werewolves come from? Is there an example in nature of what a werewolf could be? Or maybe a werewolf is just a collection of ideas, possibilities, stories passed through generation. So what is a werewolf? The answer to that and more coming up on this episode of Just Conversation.

Cristina: Warning. This program contains strong themes meant for a mature audience. Discretion is advised.

Jack: Going live in 5, 4.

Cristina: What does live mean?

Jack: Welcome to the Just Conversation podcast, the show where we ground humanity's most absurd and baffling ideas in childish ways. I'm your host, Jack.

Cristina: And I'm your host, Christina.

Jack: And if you haven't yet, remember to hit that subscribe button to get notified the second new episodes are released.

Cristina: And also, this show is most enjoyable with a listening partner to share opinions and ideas on topics we discuss.

Jack: Yes. So make sure to get some body pulled up nice and close and prepare to be en. Wokened. It's like the combination of enlightened and woke.

Cristina: Whoa. The next level.

Jack: The next level. It's because the woke movement is of dumbasses and the enlightened movement is of, like, self help and like, what is it called? The. The essential oils and crystals, people. And it's like, how are you supposed to communicate if you ban everything?

Cristina: I don't know. What's. Your facial expressions?

Jack: I don't even know, man. Because you're not allowed to say everything because everybody's emotions. The end. Just everybody's emotions. And it's like, all right, so if everybody's censoring themselves for everybody's emotions, everybody's being f. But you get offended by fake people because they're not being real, which is where all those. You know, if somebody's lying to you, you're being fake, then, you know, remove them from your life. But you put them there because they can't say anything. You don't let them say. So they have to be fake in the first place in order to communicate. But then you don't like them being fake because it's fake. And so you remove them from your life. Before long, you force everybody to censor themselves, but you don't like anybody because they're all being this fake person. And then you find yourself alone and kill yourself.

Cristina: And you're also depressed because you're always having to be fake.

Jack: Yes, you also. You're a hypocrite. You land as a hypocrite at the.

Cristina: End of it because, yeah, you're doing the same. You have to do the same thing for everyone else. If you expect everyone else to do the same that to you. And Yep.

Jack: Although I don't believe that. No, I don't believe any of them. Like practice what they preach.

Cristina: Well, next we'll have to censor emotions. That's the next thing.

Jack: I think the only thing. We should be censoring our emotions. There should be no f*** speech. There should be because we need to communicate. There should be emotion police because you shouldn't. The problem is we're living in a backwards society where people rely on others for how they feel. Like why can words affect you that way? What the f***? Just suck it up. Your emotions are your emotions, not anybody else's. Actions that affect people, that's a problem.

Cristina: And they, they need help. Everyone needs help.

Jack: Everybody needs help. That's crazy.

Cristina: I want to be emotion police. What do I have to do?

Jack: I don't know. There's. I mean any kind of police, I guess you just sign up, they give you a gun and a badge like a day later and they're like, go out there and kill as many as you can.

Cristina: Yeah. Anyone who shows emotion, I just shoot them.

Jack: Yeah. They're like, if they show emotion, they're getting hostile. And then you put them down.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: That's how you do it. They show emotion. The suspect is being hostile. Then you throw yourself on the floor. Officer down, I need backup. Then you pull out your gun, he's attacking and then you just shoot him a couple of times. And he was just Karen ing it out.

Cristina: Yeah. And I'm just being a soccer player.

Jack: A soccer player?

Cristina: Yeah. Just like, oh no, my ankle. Oh yeah.

Jack: Like when a soccer player barely gets touched. Like that guy who got tapped in the shoulder and then threw himself on the floor and pretended to like be super hurt.

Cristina: Yeah, those soccer moves, those are my favorite part of soccer. There's nothing better. It's so. That's even more so papyri than like any other sport. There's nothing, no drama like soccer drama.

Jack: Like it. No. They will pretend everything is the end of the world. Yes, it's so funny. But keeping on the theme of rage and anger and going hostile and cops shooting people for no reason because that's what cops do. And if you're going to be emotion police, you better be ready to shoot anybody emotional. Which means all the Karens are going to die.

Cristina: Sorry, Karen's.

Jack: They gotta. They're ruining the world anyways. As people get wokened, we can educate them on anger. Particularly like rage filled anger. No. All jokes aside, previously previously on this Conversation. You were telling us some wolf related folklore. Werewolves. Yes. And although we came to some interesting conclusions. That episode turned out unique. We landed. We stumbled on some things that I didn't think would connect, but they did.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: That was interesting. But that gave me the thought that, like, how much do we really, like, sure, we know folklore, but, like, can we make a real werewolf? Is that like, a thing? Could it. Could it be possible that there was always a real werewolf? Like, everything?

Cristina: But when you're saying make, are you talking about, like, scientists, like, Scooby Doo lab?

Jack: No, I'm saying, like, is it based on something true?

Cristina: Oh, okay.

Jack: I'm saying, like, in every circumstance, every bit of folklore is based. It's like a rumor or a stereotype. Like some part of what's happening is true somehow.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So where did a werewolf come from? There must be something in there that's truth. Something that isn't a lie.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Even when we think of some of the conclusions from that very episode, those have to be based on some manner, shape, or form of something that was real to begin with.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: And so I started to sort of look into it, trying to find out. And obviously it took me to situations from the past and situations from the present. Mixture of things sprinkled together create a pretty interesting painting of what a werewolf could have rooted from. There is a multitude of things. And one of the things I didn't know about werewolves is that they have yellow eyes.

Cristina: What?

Jack: Yeah. A lot of folklore about werewolves referenced yellow eyed beasts. Yeah. That they had almost like cat like, eye slit, but that their surrounding eye is very yellow. Like you could see bright yellow eyes.

Cristina: They look like cat eyes.

Jack: The pupil.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But the rest of the eye, the cornea, I guess, would be. Looks very, very yellow. And I couldn't zero in on anything in reality that for some reason would cause that. Except one very specific thing, which is actually pretty common. If you don't take care of yourself. And that thing is when you have an inflamed liver, when you have liver damage and it can't process things properly.

Cristina: It turns your eyes yellow.

Jack: Your eyes turn yellow.

Cristina: Oh, like the white part turns yellow or.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Okay. That's what.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: And you looked at pictures of it?

Jack: Yeah.

Cristina: Whoa. Does it look creepy looking?

Jack: It looks pretty normal.

Cristina: Oh, so you wouldn't, in the dead of night, see someone with those yellow eyes?

Jack: They wouldn't have, like, glowing eyes. Like, that's an exaggeration. I don't know why. They'd have, like, fluorescent eyes or some s***.

Cristina: Yeah. But just those eyes wouldn't creep you out.

Jack: Yes. And if you saw those Eyes in a figure that was more or less in shadow. You would more than anything, like in any other case, see the eyes, most likely.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: And when it comes to eyes darkness, there's the stereotype of the black person in the dark. One of the few things you can see from them is their teeth and their eyes, because those are white. In the case that a dark skinned person is hanging out in the woods, teeth and eyes are what you'd see if you see teeth and yellow eyes, but they're hard to make out, you have a monster. Especially considering that most of these things go back to racist old white people from old times. So they had slaves. Slaves would escape, they would run away. And it's not an empty everything around you. There's other people. So you're running through the woods and you stumble into somebody's yard or some s***, they look your way, they can see teeth and yellow eyes, and they're scared there's a creature running through the woods. Especially if they've never seen a black person before. You're already something that they don't understand. So you're some sort of. And this is not doing anything extreme. You're malnourished, you have very little water, you have liver damage for some reason. You have yellow eyes. As a result, you're running through the woods and all they can see are your teeth and your yellow eyes. You're just escaping slave masters.

Cristina: You're a werewolf.

Jack: You're werewolf. You're some feral creature to them.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And we're just talking. You don't even have to be black. You could have just been Hispanic or some s***. You could have been Native American. And you're just dark skin enough that you disappear into particular dark light or you're hard to make out.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: If we think of Native Americans and their tribal where these tribes in the times of white people first arriving here, they still had their tribal wear in large numbers. If you come to a new land and you're not familiar with and you're still, you still miss, you believe in mystical things and a lot of fantasy based things. And you arrive from, whether it be England or Spain or Italy or Portugal or any of these conquistador infested locations, and you believe in gods and angels and demons and creatures created by monsters, you arrive in the land, you know some of the natives, but they live in nature. And in the middle of the night, you see, they're dark skinned, they're tan at minimum, and it gets darker from there. They're running around doing their thing. Maybe they're doing some ritual or something. They're in their tribal uniform and they look not the way. They don't have the normal shape of anything you could identify. They maybe have a helmet on. The helmet has weird spikes. Maybe they have the skull of a dead creature on them. Okay, so a dead cow or something that they put that on top of, like a buffalo? Yeah, anything.

Cristina: You know, just looking at like a chattel or something of it.

Jack: Yes. You're seeing something alien as f***.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And it's just a Native American with tribal gear on. They're just doing what they do, but you don't understand what they do. And it's the middle of the night, you look, maybe you're wandering, maybe, who knows, you're delivering goods from one town to another. It takes you a couple of days, which means you got to camp out in the woods and you just happen to be close to a camp and they're just walking their normal route before you see something really weird and you're like, what the f*** is that? I saw a f****** werewolf. It did not. It looked humanoid. It looked like he had a bunch of excessive hair or feathers and horns and a head that was oversized and he was way bigger than. And it's because they were wearing an outfit that was huge and fluffy and odd looking.

Cristina: What? Yeah, that could be the werewolf.

Jack: So now we're building where the stories are coming from before anything gets confirmed. We just have. Oh, I've seen them. Even if I've. If I haven't been up close. I've seen shadows and things. I know what they are. Those are werewolves. Those are a human creed, although it hasn't been a wolf yet. But you come to the United States before the United States. You come to America and you are exploring and you see these Native Americans or captives, slaves running away. You are in America. We have wolves of many different kinds.

Cristina: Yeah, this.

Jack: And they live where? The woods, the forests. And where do the Native Americans live? The deserts, the woods and the forest. So you're either seeing them with coyotes or you're seeing them with wolves. Either way.

Cristina: So they're wearing a wolf.

Jack: They could be wearing a wolf. And they're probably at peace in nature with the wolves.

Cristina: Ah, you hear like a wolf howling and then you see them and you're.

Jack: Like, there's a harmony between them and you're confusing one with the other. You hear the wolf and then you see the guy in the outfit you can't identify. It looks like some alien. It looks like a creature you can't but it's an outfit in the dark, and you can't really make out that they're wearing an outfit. You're just like, I. You could even think that's f****** Bigfoot. You don't know. You saw some crazy s***, but you heard the wolf. Now you're making associations. Now you're connecting dots, but there's nothing happening. These are just circumstances that happen to be close to one another.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: They're from the forest. The wolves are from the forest. You're walking on route to make a delivery by the force. You hear one thing, you see the other, you think it's the same thing. I heard a wolf. I know what a wolf sounds like, but then I saw a creature, and I'm already thinking wolf. But then I see that. I associate wolf to it. It's a wolf, man.

Cristina: Yeah. I'm not gonna investigate that.

Jack: Exactly. I saw Wolfman. Yeah, I heard it, then I saw it.

Cristina: Yeah. Real life werewolves.

Jack: Interesting, right? So there's definitely a psychological factor that leads to these things. There's the way rumors get started and myths begin. Is always base and grounded. There's something real going on.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: That gets twisted and turned by superstitious people and by ideologies and by narratives sometimes intentionally twisted in order to, like, think of. What's his name? Shakespeare. He writes stories about situations that aren't real to warn people about possibilities. And so that probably happened a million times. Fairy tales, a lot of the time were told because you wanted to warn somebody.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: We had a guest, our last guest before this episode, Chris Rustic, who was telling us about the banana tree, who would rape people. But it's really just a story you come up with to scare kids out of going into the woods, but not scare them away from other people. You just don't want them to be anywhere they can't be be seen where something horrible could happen.

Cristina: So saying werewolves are in the woods could scare off the kids from entering the woods?

Jack: Yes. At the beginning, it began as somebody really saw something. They don't know what they saw, but that mental association happens. But then they start twisting it because, look, I don't know what the f*** I saw, and I don't want my kids going into the woods.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So we make a story about the werewolves we saw because we did see werewolves. I saw it. I was there. I ran into town immediately afterwards. I'm like, I can't make this delivery. There's a monster in the woods. It was half man, half wolf. They tell the whole town. They tell the Kids, how long before that becomes just a tale that that town knows of, that the forest is filled with werewolves?

Cristina: And it's just to protect the kids, though, or.

Jack: It didn't begin that way. It was warning. It was like somebody saw a f****** creature in there.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Somebody saw a werewolf, and we don't know what those werewolves do.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Jump forward. Many, many, many, many years. We're in Modern Era. 2012, Miami, Florida. Some guy is on the street eating another m***********'s face.

Cristina: That's not a zombie. That wasn't the first case of a zombie.

Jack: That was the first case of a zombie. But it came from a person having bath salts, which are just a synthetic drug imitating, usually a methamphetamine or heroin. These synthetic drugs that are made to imitate, whether it be heroin or it be methamphetamines or whatever, they have very specific behaviors that happen to people. They do things that these other drugs don't. And like. Wait, what?

Cristina: What is it?

Jack: Oh, what things do they do?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Well, there's a couple of effects that they have that they create. You know, primarily the bath salt, specifically, it is a unique compound of things. Right. For short, it's called mdpv. But usually when people take these things, they tend to cause the user to go hypermanic with psychosis, and then they become highly aggressive.

Cristina: But do they take it for that?

Jack: No.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: They think they're getting high as if it were heroin or as if it were methamphetamine.

Cristina: So is this something like they're lied to that what it is or.

Jack: No, they know what it is. They just think they're going to have that reaction.

Cristina: Okay. But. Okay.

Jack: Not everybody reacts the same way.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: It's not like everyone who takes bath salts behaves the same way.

Cristina: No.

Jack: But some people do take bath salts, and. Because it's not like a science.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It's not down to a T. It's. Everybody makes it different, and it's always tainted one way or another. People are going to react in weird ways. Exactly. So with a lot of people having these sort of very aggressive behaviors come weird sporadic brain patterns and, like, irrational tendencies that they have. They scream and they throw themselves on the floor and roll over and they tear at their chest and they tear at their legs. They scratch themselves till they bleed. They kind of go crazy, essentially. In one of these cases we saw in Miami, the guy who ate the face, he was one of two. I think the other one was in California or something who attacked an individual and kind of started Just eating a f****** person while they were still alive.

Cristina: Were they? Did they sound like an animal? Like what did they sound like?

Jack: Their screams were f****** crazy. We can hear.

Cristina: We can hear it.

Jack: Yeah. So we can hear what this individual sounds like.

Cristina: Okay, that's gonna be horrifying. I know. Is that the guy?

Jack: Yes, that's a guy on Bath Sal.

Cristina: Wow. But did they do something?

Jack: No, they're just watching him trip out on bath salts.

Cristina: Stop it.

Jack: All right, all right, I'll stop the video. Sir.

Cristina: Stay down. Stay down.

Jack: You're going to hurt yourself. Okay, so that are the sounds that a person on bath salts makes?

Cristina: What? What? Hearing that in the middle of the night. Horrifying, definitely.

Jack: Hearing that in the middle of the night is a nightmare of sorts, especially if you don't know what is happening. Now, as we know, it's been associated with cannibalistic tendencies.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Now, let's keep all of these things in mind as we go back in time to hearing weird things. And a man runs into the woods saying, I was on my delivery route and I saw a f******. I heard a howl. I saw a weird creature walking through the woods. It was a f****** werewolf.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: You know, it has yellow eyes. You saw teeth, you saw big build, which is probably just a f****** outfit of some sort. And you heard a howl. There's a whole mentality happening here.

Cristina: A picture is being made.

Jack: Yes. Now, you, in these times, don't have a doctor the way traditional doctors work. Now we're talking 1700s.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: So a doctor is a bit different of a concept. A doctor is really an alchemist, a witch doctor. And what do they do? They grab random chemicals, put them together, trying to heal. Random s***.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Usually they give you something. It's not even research. They're just like this s*** with that s***. Yeah, here's some poison. Take it. You know, it'll cure you. People are getting f****** given. What was that thing that's inside of a thermometer?

Cristina: Mercury.

Jack: Mercury. People are getting mercury. F****** cure s***. Like, come on, bro.

Cristina: Yeah, yeah.

Jack: So, like, it wasn't the smartest of practices, but let's say you have liver problems. So you have yellow eyes. Your liver isn't functional the way it should be. You go to this witch doctor, the alchemist, and he's like, I got something for you. I'm gonna throw a couple of these things together, and you're gonna take this. It's random s***. It's random. What are the odds that once in a while there was an adverse reaction that behaved the way a chemical compound like bath salts does. You can actually get close to this type of behavior with mercury poisoning.

Cristina: Really?

Jack: You get fevers, you get hallucinations, you become manic, you become aggressive. And you can get that from mercury poisoning. You become very delusional. Okay, so what stops a witch doctor from giving somebody who has a failing liver without knowing that that's the case? Some concoction that works like bath salts. Person, for whatever reason, wanders the woods and now you have a yellow person freaking the out, running out at and.

Cristina: Trying to eat them, trying to bite their faces.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: Okay.

Jack: But you're alone, walking through the woods. It's dark. You get randomly attacked by this individual. You don't get to see them. You already just heard the stories. You heard the other guy and he was a. You were like, he's a p****. He does. He's just seeing. Yeah, Imma do the delivery and imma get the money he didn't earn. And now I'm walking through the woods and then boom. I got attacked by somebody, some s*** in the middle of the night. It kind of looked human, but I couldn't really tell because it was too quick. But I know it bit me, it scratched me and then it threw itself on the floor, started screaming and scratching itself, and then ran off into the woods. What the f*** did I just see? Yeah, it was the werewolf that guy was talking about.

Cristina: No, you're gonna become one. Or if you know that's part of the story, if that's part of the story already.

Jack: Not yet, but it's gonna be. Because the guy who spends his time in the woods is exposed to particular, that puts him in a unique kind of circumstance.

Cristina: Wait, which guy?

Jack: The quote, werewolf. Oh, okay, okay, so Native Americans, people wandering, making deliveries, slaves trying to escape captivity, running through the woods. Whatever the case might be, animals have parasites and have diseases. And if you get attacked by animals, there are certain kinds of diseases that are more prominent in creatures and others enter the most dangerous thing you could have gotten at that time. That now is one of the most easily curable things you could ever get. Rabies.

Cristina: Rabies? Oh, yeah.

Jack: Now, rabies, basic things, it's transmitted through saliva, usually through a bite. If you touch saliva with rabies, you're not gonna get it. So how do you get. You either need that saliva to fall into your mouth, to be ingested somehow, or to come in contact with your blood.

Cristina: Okay, like being bitten?

Jack: Like being bitten. Now, the virus is enclosed in the saliva. That's why it travels through it. It's sort of protected by the saliva itself. And it targets the nervous system and particular brain cells.

Cristina: And what does the rabies. What is it gonna do?

Jack: Well, the rabies is going to cause muscle spasm, aggressive behavior, psychosis, hallucinations, and very particularly foaming from the mouth.

Cristina: Foaming from the mouth?

Jack: Yep.

Cristina: That's pretty horrifying. If you see that in the woods and it bites you.

Jack: Yes.

Cristina: And then just a person biting you, you will get rabies.

Jack: It would be transmitted? Yes.

Cristina: Oh, so in the story, the guy who gets bitten gets rabies.

Jack: Yes. So if we follow the picture perfectly, there might be a Native American roaming the woods. He's where the wood, where the wolves are. The guy is first, guys walking through. He hears a wolf, sees the Native American, panics, doesn't make the delivery. Somewhere in that time, the Native American gets bitten himself by some creature in the woods. They don't have a vaccine. They catch rabies. The rabies causes a series of behaviors that makes their liver fail for whatever reason. Now you got yellow eyes. You still got your outfit on. You're savage. You're crazy. You're acting like a maniac. Your tribe leader creates a alchemic concoction, gives it to you, enhances the problems you're already dealing with. Now you are extra manic, extra crazy, extra psychotic. And you're attacking yourself. And anything you see, you get cast out. You're no longer part of the village. You're a danger.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: You're running through the woods. That other guy's coming through because that other previous delivery man is a b****. Imma do the job. He's paranoid. You run out, suddenly attack them in your big fluffy outfit because you haven't taken it off. Nobody could get close enough to you. You're danger.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So you still got it. You come out looking like some crazy creature they can't identify. You don't look human because of what you're wearing, but you kind of do look human because of your general shape, except you're not making sense. You're making crazy sounds like the ones we just heard.

Cristina: And you're foaming at the mouth.

Jack: You're foaming out of the mouth. You're crawling. So it's somewhere between animalistic and not. Your higher brain functions are shutting off because of the rabies. And the hallucination are coming on because of the rabies as well as because of the poisoning, probably from mercury. You have a ton of symptoms stacking up on top of each other. And then you go and you bite the guy on Top of your struggle, you're fighting him, you're fighting yourself. You bite him, you scratch him. He panics. He manages to get out in time. He leaves the package behind. He gets back to town, he's like, I was attacked by that thing.

Cristina: Oh, no.

Jack: There is a f****** werewolf out there. You don't know that. That bite has f***** you up.

Cristina: Yep. So.

Jack: So you have the bite. This guy's been living in the woods God knows how long, going crazy. He's gonna die soon anyways because he has rabies. Your s*** gets f***** up. You start developing a fever. The wound gets infected. You start getting started, starting to hallucinate, developing fevers and developing crazy behaviors. They're, like, associated with the thing. Yeah. Becoming a werewolf, they think, dude, you got whatever that guy got.

Cristina: Yeah. Then their solution to hunt down that guy.

Jack: No. Their solution is we gotta give you some s*** to cure you.

Cristina: Oh.

Jack: But in those times, you go to nat to the means, you know, back to alchemy. So you give this person something that basically accelerates their behavior and behaves like bath salts. On top of the fact that the rabies was already causing a series of symptoms that are very crazy. Animalistic psychosis, hallucination.

Cristina: So he goes through the same thing the other guy is going through times two.

Jack: Yeah, I guess literally exactly what the other guy's going through. You're going through the symptoms of rabies plus the symptoms of, essentially, bath salts put together. And they're watching you slowly become animalistic.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: You're becoming a beast to them.

Cristina: Didn't they stab you in the forehead to see if you're a werewolf?

Jack: No, probably. A lot of the times they probably just ended up killing these people. Now, there are a couple of things that could enhance this narrative. It depends on who gets it. There's actually a condition called hypotrichosis, which is the growth of excessive body hair. And it could grow not just everywhere on your body, but it includes your face.

Cristina: Yeah. So you could have seen people. Yeah. That look like. They kind of look like wolf people. Yeah. Yeah. Like what you'd imagine, like in a corny werewolf movie. They kind of look like that.

Jack: Yeah, you could have. Yeah, exactly. Like. Like wolf man or some s***.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So you could have this condition and go through all the same symptoms. I just said you actually don't even have to go through s***. You could have been attacked by a wolf and seen a man with this condition walking through the woods.

Cristina: Yeah. Well, even if he didn't attack you, just seeing this man through the woods Is probably frightening enough.

Jack: Yeah, fair enough. But in order to get the condition in which we see somebody get infected and then become, then we must consider that the person that they saw who had hypertrichosis was a person who also had rabies. So maybe this guy in the woods has rabies, has hypertrichosis. He doesn't. He looks deformed to you, Harry. Everywhere, you can't really tell. Runs out he has rabies. He's crazy. Comes in, he attacks you. He bites you, freaks out, runs off into the woods. You swear that was a wolf man. You go back home, then you're starting to freak out. You're starting to have symptoms. The local alchemist comes and he gives you your toxic poison that's gonna make you worse than that guy who only had rabies. But now you're freaking out quicker and sooner and behaving like a psychopath. And they swear you're becoming a werewolf. Yeah, yeah.

Cristina: Yes, Yes, I could see that.

Jack: Now, there are specific circumstances that are very interesting relative to the story. And in the case of the woods, the brightest nights in the woods are full moons, because the moon is reflecting the most light back down to earth. Meaning you can see things in the woods, most likely during a full moon than any other time of the month. Meaning anything you'd probably already see anyways if you could. Yeah, you're just way more aware of during a full moon. And if there's people normally roaming the woods but you can't see them, maybe they live in the woods.

Cristina: Yeah, you're more likely to see them in the full moon.

Jack: Yep. Full moon comes through and you're like, they're out only during the full moon. Not really. They're always there.

Cristina: That's where the whole full moon thing comes from as well. Transforming during a full moon.

Jack: Yes, yes. It's just that that one is entirely circumstantial that that's happening. So the we can assume that the first delivery guy probably was making that delivery close to ordering a full moon.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And then that's why he saw what he saw. He heard the wolf looking into the woods. He saw a figure roaming while the other guy had less visibility. The full moon is gone. The delivery still has to be made. It's been a couple of days. We need to get this out there. People are too scared. I'm the brave one. I'll go do it. But now it's way darker. You have way less moonlight.

Cristina: Then you get surprised.

Jack: Then you get surprised.

Cristina: Okay, now you have.

Jack: With less visibility. You don't know what's happening, how long.

Cristina: That you're sick for and when you're at your worst. And then it just happens to be a full moon when you're getting really bad.

Jack: Yeah. Not only, only that, the possibility that you run off before any of that. Like they don't see you become hairy, they see you run off into the same woods they're accusing people of being werewolves in. But that place already has wolves. If by any chance wolves are hungry, you roam into the woods. One, they're killing you. Second, they're not leaving just because they ate you. So people are gonna be like became a werewolf. I can hear him out there.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: So you ran off into the woods because you're crazy and irrational. Got eaten by wolves. But the number of wolves are still there.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: So they're just associating the wolves they're seeing with oh, one of them is him.

Cristina: Yes. They're gonna think one of them are you unless they burn the body. I think they have to burn the body and then that wolf you will die too.

Jack: But that's way in the future after these stories become more prominent and everybody knows. So this is around the face that building solutions for the werewolf. We can't have them adding to the werewolves in the forest because it's going to make it impossible for us to travel if it's just packed with werewolves. So we got to dispose of anybody who's infected. Yes, that's where that solution comes in. Because it becomes a problem if everybody who goes out either never comes back. Which means they got killed or they became one of them.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And that also creates the circumstance where you are traveling in large caravans. So you build large groups, you no longer make deliveries as individuals. But wolves stay away from groups larger than their own because they don't want to be the prey. So when there's a ton of people together, the wolves aren't coming out to play. They're gonna f****** hide. Same thing happens with native tribes. They don't know these f****** white skinned people coming through. If it's just one of them and there's a f*** ton you, that's cool. But if they're roaming together with gun and f****** carriages, you're not f****** with that.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So in large groups they're safer. And then caravans form and they start traveling like that instead. So people only see werewolves when they cannot confirm that it is in fact not.

Cristina: So when you're alone, when you're.

Jack: Yeah, when there's either less of you.

Cristina: Or you're alone to actually investigate or yes.

Jack: When you're too scared to think clearly.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: That's when you're more likely to see a werewolf. And again, it's just an alignment of situations. A person with this condition could run outside, get rabies, behave like an animal. It could have been a slave that got away. They have dark skin in any of these cases. Any of them could have had liver damage, creating the yellow eyes. In the case of any dark skinned individual, whether it be the native or the slave, could have. You can see their teeth in the dark, even if their skin is dark. If it was a native, they have, using any of their tribal wear, they have large outfits that make them look disproportionate but still humanoid. There are many, many, many. And the woods equals wolves instinctively.

Cristina: Yeah. That's the biggest thing though for the werewolves is just you're surrounded by wolves.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, you're definitely surrounded by wolves. And that creates a pretty vivid picture for people. And the solutions that come as time goes by are just all a product of this. So we have individuals believing, just experimenting, essentially. You gotta try to cure them, you gotta try to kill them, you gotta try to. You do everything you can. This is where we bring in the scientists of the times. Which probably led to a lot of torture.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Because we think of like the Salem witch trials when the things they did there, this is no different, this is just a new, a new foe to them. You know, some new circuit circumstances. They got to learn to navigate.

Cristina: There were strange things we talked about that they do. Like the stabbing on the forehead.

Jack: Yep.

Cristina: We're cutting the skin to see if there's fur behind the skin.

Jack: That as well. Especially if it's somebody with a hypertrichosis. But they wouldn't have the fur inside, they would have it outside, which is.

Cristina: Yeah. So I don't think there'll be any tests. You. That person's a werewolf.

Jack: That person's a werewolf. Yeah.

Cristina: Test for that.

Jack: That person is definitely a werewolf. But this brings in another interesting point. This is unrelated to all those things, but related to the entire idea that there is a condition which makes a person believe that they are a shapeshifter. It's called clinical lisanthropy. And people with this condition, it's a psychological affliction which causes delusions of one having been or currently being a shapeshifter most commonly associated with werewolves.

Cristina: But that means that they also. There are some that have different animals in mind.

Jack: Yes. But now let's reassociate this with the story you hear about the Werewolf. Nobody thinks anything about it. The story flies through the town. Oh, he talking. Oh, no, that guy's crazy. He's always talking nonsense like that. You don't have to believe him. But then the second guy comes and he's like, I saw it. I was attacked by it. And then he, quote, turns into it, unquote.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Now the fear is in the town. There's f****** werewolves out there. Two different people in two different circumstances have seen it. One of them was attacked by it. And somebody can develop this condition out of fear. The trauma alone could make them believe.

Cristina: That they're aware that they're werewolf.

Jack: So they'll think I either got bitten at some point and I don't know, or something along those lines. And then they start freaking out. And then they start showing weird behaviors that they think are what a werewolf would do, then causing other people to panic.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Now this leads us into a circumstance where we have somebody who is not transformed but claiming to be. Probably even claiming to have gotten bitten.

Cristina: Or maybe he drank that wolf water.

Jack: Well, that's a weird one. But you don't have a full moon yet, and that's usually when you see them. This person hasn't transformed and there hasn't been a full moon yet. Now you start making these sort of unnecessary associations of there hasn't been a full moon, they're bitten, they haven't turned, and that's the only time we see them. Do they only turn during full moons?

Cristina: Oh, okay, yeah.

Jack: You're starting to connect all the dots. So what? The people who catalog these things. Things, they start connecting random f****** dots. And it's like the first sighting during a moon during full moon. Second and third sightings during full moon. But the attack happened during a regular night, meaning the full moon turned them. And then they had. They were already this in the woods, just roaming aimlessly so they afterwards couldn't go back. They turned during the full moon, which is why we see more of them then. And then they're just out there stuck in this form.

Cristina: Okay, and then. But then why isn't this one like.

Jack: Because there's no full moon yet. That's where the panic starts. That's probably why they are more likely. We got to figure the salute, we got to solve the problem before the full moon. Or kill them.

Cristina: And then they end up killing.

Jack: Then they end up killing them. This is where the experimentation phases come in, where they end up stabbing somebody in the f****** head.

Cristina: Burning them alive.

Jack: Burning them alive and things of that nature.

Cristina: Where does the silver come from just a random torture tool that just got on, like, catch.

Jack: That's a weird one, right?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Now, in thinking about this whole shapeshifter thing, I started digging into that, trying to find out if there are any creatures in nature that shapeshift that have the ability to shapeshift. To my disappointment, there is no land creature that could do it. The closest thing is a frog that changes its color at will and some reptiles.

Cristina: Yeah, but what about butterflies? I mean, a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, that's pretty shape shifting.

Jack: No, I mean like actively changing its shape. Okay, that's your butterfly. Your butterfly, yeah. Saying like swamping from one to the other. And the only examples of this in nature are cephalopods, which include octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and nautilus.

Cristina: So they're all very similar.

Jack: Yeah, they're all pretty, pretty similar. They imitate their environment. They change their body shape by aligning because they're boneless. They get kind of like assort themselves in weird ways and they all have the capacity to change color.

Cristina: That helps. I guess that helps.

Jack: Yeah. But there doesn't seem to be any examples of this in nature other than those things. There doesn't seem to be land versions of these creatures.

Cristina: There's no Boo. That's so sad.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's definitely problematic because there is the lacking of where the original idea of a person turning into it come from. Because the best we can do is assume somebody saw a wolf or heard a wolf and then saw a person.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: It makes more sense if he saw somebody with hypertrichosis. So you hear a wolf and then you see maybe a Native American wandering the woods. And you can tell them very easily, but they're covered in fur, including their face. And you're like, that's what I saw. Heard howling. That's a wolf, man. Whatever the f*** you know.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So I don't entirely have any other path there than that because there is no shape shifting in nature, per se.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But that brings us to an interesting detail though, which is at the end of your episode, we got to the conclusion that it's completely possible that a werewolf and a vampire are similar and a not just similar, but probably the same creature.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: We're talking about a creature that either drinks blood or eats people. In every one of these instances, the werewolf, it took us getting to the story of somebody seeing bodies at war that were drained of blood. The vampires are commonly discussed as showing up in the middle of nowhere and biting somebody.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: And the chupacabra very similarly goes and drains animals that it can of blood.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Doing like looking into this, the, the most interesting connecting line here was lysanthropy, which makes people believe that they are a shapeshifter. And that's fascinating because it's common most commonly for a werewolf.

Cristina: That's very strange that it's most commonly for a werewolf.

Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Most commonly that they believe they're like half dog or something. But at no moment does it prevent them from thinking they're becoming a different type of dog or creature. Four legged creature. They're turning into some other s***, maybe even a bat sometimes. Who knows what they think they're turning into. It's the fact that these people believe they're turning into something.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: And that's a common thread between all those things that I found particularly interesting that they could all root back to this condition and rumors of this condition.

Cristina: It could be all on this. Wait, do you mean like vampires and chupacabras could somehow.

Jack: If they. If it's not all real. But they are all so similar. It's either the regional differences of everything. If we think the difference between a Sasquatch, Bigfoot and the Yeti, it's like the same creature. You're just talking about different places.

Cristina: Yeah. You know, in some places though, instead of werewolf, there's like were hyena or were, you know, other creatures.

Jack: Yes, yes. I'm thinking that a werewolf to the west is a vampire to Europe the same way that a Chupacabra is to the southwest. I'm thinking it's regional and they're talking about the same thing every time. The stories were because of the culture.

Cristina: And the area depends on what animals around them.

Jack: Yes, that's a big influencer, what they're likely to see. Why is it that the west is so prominent with werewolves, but wolves are so prominent in the west?

Cristina: Because they're scared of wolves. Exactly.

Jack: It's in the area you are where the thing came to be. So there's a wolf man because you're surrounded by wolves. But in the south there are other creatures. You live by jungles, you live by deserts, you live in very specific circumstances. So you're gonna have some not wolf kind of dog like thing happening over there. Sometimes they describe it even being like a little dinosaur, which is probably just a f****** lizard of some sort.

Cristina: They describe it as a dinosaur?

Jack: Yeah, like a little dinosaur. The chupacara. That looks.

Cristina: Oh, okay. Yes, yes.

Jack: Yeah. So it's probably just some sort of lizard of which they have f*** tons.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: Because jungle's everywhere.

Cristina: Yeah. Whatever they're afraid of.

Jack: Whatever they're afraid of. Whatever's in your region is most likely what your big bad monster is made of.

Cristina: Yeah. And people like before, though, I think it helped them explain serial killers with werewolves. Of the idea of, like, how could a human murder all these people?

Jack: Well, that's actually interesting, the possibility that it's a way to tell a story without making people inherently evil. Because we have a tendency of thinking we're superior, then we have to keep that idea moving forward. So even if we might know it was a person, we don't want our kids to know what's a person. So we make up a story and we tell them the story to explain things away.

Cristina: And we might also believe these stories because we don't want to believe we could. We're capable of doing something like that.

Jack: Here's where the twist of information that I mentioned at the beginning of the episode comes in.

Cristina: In what?

Jack: Because somebody makes up the fairy tale.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: But how long before. How many generations go by before you don't know where it came from? And it's just a story of something that did happen. And the person who said it probably even had that in mind. They come. They just tell it like it's real.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Then a couple of generations down, nobody knows where it came from. They just know it's a story about a series of events. Not that it's a fairy tale. Then you have this creature is real because these many people experienced it at these times and it's somewhere. But you gotta be careful. But really it's just a bunch of psychopathic murderers or tribe sacrificing people or some s***.

Cristina: Yeah. That's crazy. What if though? Well, now I wonder if there was also, like, besides blaming murderers as werewolves, maybe cannibals.

Jack: I definitely think that's a big one. In times when total crucial survival was needed. Anybody who's starving. Like there was a lot of cannibalism back then.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So for survival sake.

Cristina: But once that's over and they're still eating, then.

Jack: But also not just that. Like you could just be killed by a pack of wolves.

Cristina: Yes.

Jack: You could just have been murdered by random pack of wolves while you're were making your f******. There was never anything. It was just wolves.

Cristina: But you find your dead body covered in fur or something.

Jack: Yeah. But people are like, you know, I can handle wolves, but can you handle a werewolf?

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: So it could also be a tactic of getting people's stupidity in check oh.

Cristina: But you know, people still believe in werewolves, right? There are people who believe it.

Jack: What, today?

Cristina: Yeah. Like there was recently a dog or I guess a dog, a creature that they couldn't tell what the creature was, so they needed to take a DNA test of it because they didn't know what it was. I have the picture of it if you want to look at it.

Jack: Sure.

Cristina: This is the creature. And some people thought it was a dire wolf. I guess that's like an ancient wolf.

Jack: Yes, that's a very old wolf.

Cristina: I guess, maybe. But the DNA results was that it was a deformed female gray wolf. Deformed.

Jack: That's interesting.

Cristina: Yeah. Because it has oddly long gray fur, oversized claws and extra large head, which made them. Like there's something weird about this dead dog thing.

Jack: Like it's not like the others.

Cristina: Yeah, yeah. So that's why they were really. That's why they needed the DNA test because it just. It's just something off about this dead creature.

Jack: Interesting, interesting. Is it like larger than usual?

Cristina: Yeah, it's larger than usual. So. But its legs were too short also to be a wolf or a dog. They described it as. So I don't know, like everything else was big except their legs. So it was a really deformed looking wolf dog thing.

Jack: Interesting. I wonder what could have caused this mutation that made it that way. Maybe it had like cerebral palsy or some form of genetic disorder that caused it to be. Did. Did they ever see it alive?

Cristina: I don't think so. I think they found the dead because.

Jack: There'S a bunch of disorders that cause physical defects as well as some of them also cause sort of mental defects. So they could have probably told whether this had some human type of. Really. Because there's animals who've had mental retardation and there's animals who've had cerebral palsy and autism and things of that nature. So they could have perhaps been able to tell if it was alive and they could have seen its behavior.

Cristina: Maybe they. It was alive and they got too scared and decided, you gotta kill it before it kills me.

Jack: People panic.

Cristina: Yeah. It could be a panicky situation.

Jack: Yeah. This is what I found related to werewolves and the origin story of what, where it could have come from or what might have perpetuated the folklore in the first place. Like where did these stories really originate? It. It was probably a collection of circumstances because the probability that anything of this nature is real seems unlikely. Yeah, it seems highly unlikely that a werewolf would be real. It's like all the evidence is painting Pointing towards a collection of events sort of lining up in the right order.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But not like any singular thing could have all of these things all together in one instance. I think it's just circumstantial evidence and superstitious people putting two and two together on top of mixtures of drugs and diseases and fears. Fears. Weird timing. A bunch of put together equals what we know as a werewolf.

Cristina: Yeah. The conclusion is that vampires are cooler than werewolves, though.

Jack: No. The conclusion is the only circumstance that could make a werewolf be real by any means is that it's not a werewolf. The only possible solution for there being a werewolf. It seems like a vampire and a chupacabra are a million times more likely than a werewolf could be. Because a chupacabra is not just considered a creature. It's considered a creature that was probably made in a lab. That seems way more likely. And a vampire could just be a cannibalistic human. Human. Which is also something else.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: But the werewolf circumstances. Iffy. It's hard to come across. And it seems like the only way that a werewolf could be is if the other two are also the same thing. If we have a bit of a shape shifter going on, then it could also assume the form of a wolf man or a wolf.

Cristina: But it's hard to prove anything about shape shifting.

Jack: It's hard to prove anything about shape shifting because there's zero evidence in that direction.

Cristina: No. Maybe they're just so sneaky about it.

Jack: How do you prove something is even shifted into a shape?

Cristina: Yeah. I don't know.

Jack: It just looks like something else. But. Yeah. So that's basically what's out there. That's. The possibilities are there's either no werewolf and an alignment of stars led to the stories being born.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: Or people trying to explain things away or warn people without scaring them about other people. Made up folklore and fairy tales.

Cristina: Yeah.

Jack: Or f****** shapeshifter. That's it. You're either a shapeshifter, You're a product of a fairy tale that somebody was just using to warn people, or a very specific alignment of events, including drugs and diseases and too many things. Yeah. That one's the least likely is the possibility that it's real.

Cristina: Yeah. Yeah.

Jack: A vampire in a chupacabra. A million times more real than the possibility of a werewolf. A werewolf is just very unlikely.

Cristina: Mm.

Jack: So that's pretty much what it is. There is no chance that's rooming. Anyways, if you guys enjoyed this, if you guys agree with that, that leave us a Message.

Cristina: If you don't leave us a message.

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Jack: Bye.

Cristina: Okay, I'm hanged. So I died to this person.

Jack: But then, oh my God.

Cristina: Come back to listen to a newer episode. You're like, oh my God, she's still alive.

Jack: Hans, bro. Like that.

Cristina: Shocking though, didn't they? Well, it was in one movie I think where they thought his girl died. But then she wasn't dead. She just forgot her memories. But then bro, they do this. Converted her from the bad guy to the good guy anyway. And I don't even know if she gained her memories back.

Jack: I don't. Look, I don't even understand.

Cristina: She a new person who just. I don't fell in love with him.

Jack: Understand why this works. Wasn't a in movie reveal. They showed us this. What could be left inside that movie that's gonna blow our Brian.

Cristina: He's gonna come back.

Jack: He's gonna come back and it isn't even gonna be like his brother look alike. We're just gonna have Paul Walker in the movie. I like. What else could possibly happen?

Cristina: What is the point of showing us that? I don't know. And then it's crazy. Good morning.

Jack: Dub a dub. Dub dub.

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