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We get a lot of stuff in the mail.
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We have a post office box
that’s dedicated just to the museum.
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We'll get a dozen packages there a week.
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It's a lot of stuff that you might think
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is typically haunted.
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There's a lot of dolls.
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There's a lot of porcelain clowns.
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Nine times out of ten,
the things that people send us
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don't ever do anything strange for us.
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That's not to say that I don't believe
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someone when they say
they think something's haunted.
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I think that our interaction with
these things is a big part
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of why they're haunted.
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So when we sever that connection
between the person who has the claim,
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they just don't do the same thing.
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At least not for us.
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Nine times out of ten,
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we don’t experience anything.
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But that last 10% is
where things get really interesting,
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and occasionally there's 1%
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that changes the way that we think
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about haunted objects.
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A majority of the objects in the museum
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have been donated,
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and a lot of them come to us
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from clients or people
that we've worked with
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or people
who really want to stay anonymous
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and they just have something
that they want to get rid of
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and they feel
as if there's something attached to them
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that they're frightened of.
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I really think that
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when we talk about haunted objects,
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a lot of the time what we're talking about
is maybe someone's trauma,
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someone's trauma that they're associating
very strongly with an object itself.
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And so oftentimes
what happens is when we become
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caretakers of that object,
when it's not in their possession anymore,
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it severs that connection,
that trauma connection,
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they're able to compartmentalize
that fear into the object itself.
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And the second
it's not in their presence,
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the second that it's not in their home
or they're seeing it every day,
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it gives them almost emotional space
to start to let go
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of whatever it is that is either
creating the fear or whatever it is
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that’s coming from their--
even if it's just their subconscious mind.
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It gives them space to start
letting some of that go.
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Doing this professionally
was not something
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that I planned on ever doing,
really fell into it.
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Everything that I know about ghosts,
I learned by accident, trial and error.
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My friends and I, we went ghost
hunting for fun when we were kids.
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I think we formed our first ghost
hunting team when we were 12 years old,
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and it was really just a way of going
into abandoned houses
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in the middle of the night,
sneaking out, and trying to get scared.
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Greg's initial experiences with
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the paranormal were really from a place
of wanting to have adventures
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and wanting to go out and get scared
and have fun.
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Initially,
we ran rival ghost hunting teams
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and he and his friends were out
investigating creepy
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cemeteries and me and my friends were out
investigating creepy cemeteries.
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And we found each other
and we found that we had some synergy
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and that we were some of the only people
at the time investigating the paranormal
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that way.
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And it became something
that we bonded over, was this sense
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that like what we were doing was fun,
but also scary, but also interesting.
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And we were willing to do the work
and we were willing to do the research,
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but we also weren't really willing
to take ourselves too seriously.
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And so that was what
initially bonded us together.
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I always had a crush
on Dana,
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even when I was a kid,
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but she kind of scared me a little bit
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because she was a witch.
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I've been a practicing witch
since I was 16,
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and so a majority of my life
has really been as someone
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who utilizes energies and works
with with different types of magics.
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So it feels like it lends itself
perfectly to what we do with the museum.
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And it's really become an asset
to a lot of the things that we do
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with these objects, specifically.
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I was raised
in a very religious household.
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I was supposed to be a Baptist minister.
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So a 14, 15 year old kid
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who has this crush
on this dangerous witch...
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Yeah, she was a little
scary to me, to be honest.
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When you're a kid, the idea
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of what a witch is very scary,
particularly if you're religious.
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Most paranormal media, whether it's
television, film, books, they typically
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depict witches in the paranormal space
as a negative thing.
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For centuries,
there has been a campaign
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to make witchcraft
seem evil.
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There’s ulterior motives
to make witchcraft seem
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as if it’s an evil thing.
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Even in the world that
we live in today,
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considering that witchcraft
is so popular,
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And is something that is on the rise
as a spiritual practice,
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there are still loads of people who
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make it their job to
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change the way that people
think about it,
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to see it as something
that’s evil,
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when it really isn’t.
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It’s really a beautiful,
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in most cases,
private spiritual practice
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of magical people who
connect with the earth,
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and connect with the energies,
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connect with their ancestry,
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and connect with the magic
that is around us all the time.
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So because what we’re going to be doing
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is drawing this energy towards us,
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what I will do is...
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I’m going to take a little dab
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of my solar oil--
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and I’m going to be using
my dominant hand...
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Dana is also a teacher.
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She does workshops on witchcraft
all across the country
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all year long.
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Our receptive hand is
the energy that we’re taking into us,
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so I’m going to be using my dominant hand.
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And if you’re curious about this,
we’ve talked about this
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in many previous classes
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so maybe go back
and check the master list.
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She also has a
digital coven, essentially,
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of hundreds of different witches
of all proficiency levels.
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And Dana teaches them
practical magic, hands on magic.
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And in that way,
a lot of her knowledge filters out
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into the paranormal community.
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So between her and I,
we cover a lot of ground that I think
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is often missing in a lot of
paranormal cases.
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Back in January of 2016,
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there was a post
to the paranormal subreddit by a user who
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used a throwaway account to tell the story
of how he and one of his friends
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found a strange effigy in the forest
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in the Catskill Mountains.
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They did what you're never supposed to do,
and they took the effigy home with them.
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My friend showed up here at like 11:30.
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He's out-of-his-mind-scared.
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I've never seen him like this before.
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Long story short, he's sleeping over
because something is in his house.
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We found the statue on Sunday,
and I told him
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not to take it
because it gave me bad vibes.
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But he took it anyway.
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He's been an atheist
for as long as I've known him.
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So when he told me
that something was going on,
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I thought he was just fucking with me
because he knows
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I like to watch paranormal shows
and he's always made fun of me for it.
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Now he says he can't sleep at night
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because banging keeps waking him up.
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By Wednesday, he started
waking up in the middle of the night
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feeling like something
or someone was watching him.
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This kept happening.
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Every time I'd wake up, he would smell
a really strong scent like pond water.
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He doesn't believe in any of this stuff,
so he just ignored it until a few days ago
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when the statue moved from his desk
into his living room.
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He says that every night since Thursday,
it's moved into a different room
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than where he left it.
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He thought it was his dog moving it around
because it smelled funny,
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but his dog won’t go anywhere near it.
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He says that she's actually peed
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in the house three nights in a row
and she's never done that before.
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Then last night,
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someone knocked on his door
at three in the morning.
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When he went to open it
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there was no one there.
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He said that as he opened
up the door to look outside,
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he knew that he made a big mistake.
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Like he just felt like he shouldn't
have opened his door.
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At that point,
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I didn't have any reason
not to believe him
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because it had gone way beyond a joke,
and he actually sounded really,
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really fucking scared on the phone.
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He stayed up all night
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and then decided to go to the movies
to take his mind off it.
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When he got home,
he said it felt like everything was fine
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and he decided to finally go to bed.
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This is where it gets super fucked up.
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He says that when he woke up,
which wasn't until like ten,
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it was because his dog was barking
like crazy.
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And when he went out into his hallway,
he saw all these muddy footprints.
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Not like shoe prints, but like, barefoot.
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Sitting in the living room
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was the fucking statue
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which had moved again.
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And he says that
when he started to go near it,
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he heard someone breathing
that sounded like his grandpa
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with a tracheotomy.
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He peaced the fuck out
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and now he and his dog
are sleeping in my guest room.
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I've never seen him this scared.
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He even started crying.
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I have no fucking idea what to do.
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I believe him because he has no reason
to lie to me about this
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because it's gone
way too far to be a joke now.
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I know that everyone says
not to burn it or whatever.
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So what the fuck do we do?
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They posted
to the subreddit
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and said, “listen,
this is what we did.
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We're really freaked out.
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We don't want to go back to the place
where we found this thing.
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We're afraid of meeting who put it there.
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What do we do?”
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Eventually I got called to the thread
because someone that we had just shot
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a television show with
had listened to Dana and my stories
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for like two weeks on the road
and told them, You should get in touch
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with Greg and Dana.
They deal with these types of objects.
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They could help you.
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I tried to give
a really detailed response.
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Hey, I get it.
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Here's what I would do
if I was in your situation.
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It's really important for Dana
and I to never come across
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as the people who will solve your problem
for you.
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It's very important for us to give
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someone the tools
to solve their own problems.
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That said, sometimes
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people just seem like they're incapable
of dealing with it.
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And in those situations, we're happy.
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We're happy to help.
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After responding to the initial thread,
we private message back and forth
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a few times and I gave him some advice on
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what I would do in his situation.
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Mainly just: take it back, talk to it,
just address
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that you made a mistake and say
you're going to take it back to the cave.
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It wasn't too long after that
that he messaged saying
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that everything had really
escalated pretty badly.
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Hey, Greg.
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Thanks for the advice.
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Today we went back to my friend's house
to get the statue and return it.
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When we got there,
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his dog wouldn't even come in the house.
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I saw the muddy footprints
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and the whole place smelled like a dog
that had just rolled around in the dirt.
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He went to show me where the statue was
when he left last night,
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but it was gone.
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When he found it, it was in his hallway
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and there was a big crack in the wall
like it had been thrown there.
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He swears that he never touched the thing
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and left it in its living room.
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We told it that we were sorry
about taking it
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and that we wanted to take it back
to the cave and asked it what we should do.
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I don't know if it was the feeling
you were talking about,
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but we both just felt like we should never
go back to that cave again.
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He said he felt like
we needed to send it to you.
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When we were standing in the hallway
talking this thing,
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his dog started barking
like crazy outside.
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We both thought we saw a woman
in the dark corner of his living room.
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She was totally naked,
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really old, and dripping water.
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And her--
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Her eyes sort of glowed in the dark.
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We both freaked the fuck out
and ran outside.
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Whoever
it was wasn't there when we went back in.
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We grabbed the statue, apologized again,
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wrapped it in a pillowcase
and put it in a box.
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He's just going to send it to you.
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Give me your address and
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we’ll mail it to you tomorrow.
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It was maybe a week or two later.
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A box showed up, and in it was this effigy
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wrapped in an old pillowcase.
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And when we rolled it out,
we could see that it was this...
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I mean, it was obviously a handmade item
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and it had nails nailed into the eyes
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and a noose strung around its neck.
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And my first instinct when I looked at her
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was that it felt obviously,
it felt very symbolic.
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There were very symbolic and intentional
symbolism attached to the object itself.
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So the nails in the eyes, my first thought
was, is this to blind someone?
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Or to cause someone not to see something
specifically? The noose around the neck,
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my first thought was,
is this the silence someone?
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Is it to keep someone from speaking?
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Is it to actually kill someone?
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Is it to control their energy?
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And those two things
were as far as magic goes,
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they were so obviously symbolic.
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One of the things
that always baffled us about the Crone
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is that her hands are to her sides.
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And it looks as if the wood
has been split away
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between her hands.
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Like something had been torn away.
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And we always wondered
what that might have been.
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We named it after the crone archetype.
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The two hikers had seen
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an old woman standing in their home.
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And the Crone is an old woman,
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sometimes seen as a witch.
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So we thought that would be
the perfect name
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for something that people were seeing.
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That sort of archeytpal spirit.
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We did with it
what we do with every object that arrives.
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We sit it down
and we take photos of it from every angle.
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Then that's really it.
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We just sort of go on about our day
because like I said,
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nine times out of ten, the stuff
that people send us never acts up for us.
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We just make room for it in the collection
and if it does something strange,
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that's when we'll start to study it.
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Later that night
we were in the living room.
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We were watching television
and we heard a loud bang
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in the office.
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I didn't think it was anything paranormal.
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I thought it was our cats.
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So I get up and I walk
in, realize the office door is closed.
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Cats couldn't be in there.
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So I went in the bedroom.
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The cats are hiding under our bed,
scared out of their minds.
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Another thing about having pets
is they're typically
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a really great early
warning sign that something
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ghostly is happening.
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I walked into the office,
didn't see anything out of the ordinary
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until I almost stepped on Jesus.
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I look up
and there's a crucifix hanging on the wall
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and Jesus has been cracked
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right off of the crucifix.
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This crucifix
only hung on the wall with a single nail.
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So whatever did
that had to have held it on
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and pulled it off.
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Both of the nails
were missing off the crucifix,
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except for the one that held the hand.
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And I looked right beneath it.
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And there was the Crone.
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That was the first indication
that maybe there was
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something strange happening.
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I mean, finding
a desecrated crucifix is definitely
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a frightening thing, I think, regardless
of whether you're religious or not.
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There's obviously an intention there.
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Religious iconography of any kind
being desecrated
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is not really a thing
that you want to see at all.
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It almost made me feel like I had
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to be 100% business with this object.
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A lot of people want to
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jump to that being a sign of evil,
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but I think more importantly,
it's a sign of anger.
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And for some reason
that symbol made it angry.
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When we thought that something stranger
than usual was happening.
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I said to Dana,
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“Well, we've got this trail cam
we usually use for Bigfoot hunting.
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Let's put it in the room.
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And if something is moving in there,
we'll catch it.”
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Nothing happened right away.
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But one night between the hours of three
and four in the morning,
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the trail camera triggered three times.
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One of them had something up
in the corner.
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We could easily write that off as a bug.
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There was another one
that had a weird globule in it.
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We are not orb people.
Those things never excite us.
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They're typically
some kind of a lens artifact.
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But when you look closer at the image,
whatever this thing is,
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is actually giving off
some kind of a light source.
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You look at one of the frames
in the corner of the shots
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and you can actually see it lit up
only in that image.
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So whatever that thing is
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that's floating through
the frame is actually giving off light.
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But my initial response was,
I think maybe looking to see where
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that light anomaly was moving from,
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because if it was a bug or something
like that,
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we might be able to follow the motion
in which it was moving.
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When she did that, we noticed something
we hadn't noticed before.
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If you look down in the corner
where the carving is,
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it moves ever so slightly.
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Nothing else in the frame moves.
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There were things
that were sitting on the table
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that were much lighter than it.
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Things that would move
much easier than it.
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We tried to rationalize
how maybe a truck had driven by
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or something, but that would have moved everything.
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That was big.
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That's something that is so rarely
captured by paranormal investigators
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that we knew this might require
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a lot more investigation.
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One night, things got really unnerving.
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It was very early in the morning.
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I'd been asleep.
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00:23:49,845 --> 00:23:53,181
Dana shakes me awake pretty violently.
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And...
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I turn and I look at her,
and I'm really groggy.
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And I can tell that she's really scared.
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It takes her a second to actually tell me
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what had happened.
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00:25:01,875 --> 00:25:04,294
The way that it moved,
the way that it felt.
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It was like a living nightmare.
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00:25:06,254 --> 00:25:06,838
Like it felt.
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00:25:06,838 --> 00:25:09,007
I felt like I was literally
looking at a living nightmare.
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00:25:10,842 --> 00:25:13,512
I didn't see it, but I believe her
379
00:25:13,845 --> 00:25:16,223
because I’ve very
rarely seen her this scared.
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That's when she
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really started to believe
that there was something
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that...
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had come into the house.
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I'm sitting in the office
doing some work,
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and Dana calls me
and I can already hear that
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she sounds very unsure.
387
00:25:54,302 --> 00:25:55,971
She says,
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Were you standing on the couch tonight?
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00:26:00,684 --> 00:26:02,060
I said, No.
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00:26:03,019 --> 00:26:05,230
She goes,
You didn't like get out of the shower
391
00:26:05,230 --> 00:26:08,233
and stand on the couch and change
one of the light bulbs or something?
392
00:26:09,192 --> 00:26:11,736
And I just laughed
because it just sounded ridiculous.
393
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,072
And she said, Come here right now.
394
00:26:15,991 --> 00:26:18,034
And we both kind of
stood there in the living room
395
00:26:18,034 --> 00:26:21,913
staring at these two footprints on the
back of the couch, staring at the wall.
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00:26:21,913 --> 00:26:24,040
And there was nothing leading up to them.
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00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:24,666
They were just--
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00:26:24,666 --> 00:26:27,752
it was as if they had just manifested
there on the back of the couch.
399
00:26:31,548 --> 00:26:33,883
At this point, there were
way too many things to ignore.
400
00:26:34,259 --> 00:26:37,846
So many things were lining up with
the story that had been posted on Reddit.
401
00:26:38,138 --> 00:26:41,975
We realized that we needed
to take our own advice
402
00:26:42,225 --> 00:26:43,727
and address this thing.
403
00:26:47,856 --> 00:26:53,361
So I went into the office
and I grabbed the carving
404
00:26:53,361 --> 00:26:56,865
and I brought it into the living room
and I set it down
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00:26:56,865 --> 00:26:58,116
on the coffee table.
406
00:27:00,035 --> 00:27:01,453
And we had a talk with it.
407
00:27:02,495 --> 00:27:04,456
And we just say, Listen,
408
00:27:04,456 --> 00:27:06,499
we're happy to share our space with you.
409
00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:08,710
This is something that we like to do.
410
00:27:09,002 --> 00:27:12,714
If there's help that you need,
we're happy to try and help you get it.
411
00:27:13,214 --> 00:27:17,552
But you need to understand
this is a coexistence.
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00:27:17,552 --> 00:27:20,263
We have to live with each other.
413
00:27:21,431 --> 00:27:23,475
And as we're having this conversation,
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00:27:24,643 --> 00:27:25,185
we both
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00:27:25,185 --> 00:27:28,271
hear the sound of rushing water
coming from the opposite side
416
00:27:28,271 --> 00:27:29,564
of the house.
417
00:27:34,027 --> 00:27:36,613
The last apartment that we lived
in, we'd had a burst pipe.
418
00:27:37,656 --> 00:27:39,908
It's not fun to go through.
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00:27:39,908 --> 00:27:41,868
I thought, Oh, no, not again.
420
00:27:42,911 --> 00:27:45,580
We get up,
we run to the other side of the house,
421
00:27:45,580 --> 00:27:48,291
hoping to stop whatever it is
that's happening.
422
00:27:51,252 --> 00:27:52,087
But nothing’s there.
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00:27:52,420 --> 00:27:55,507
And as we're standing there, confused,
trying to figure out what's going on,
424
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,426
we hear a series of loud thumps
425
00:28:00,387 --> 00:28:02,055
in the living room.
426
00:28:09,854 --> 00:28:11,606
We walk back in the living room
427
00:28:12,190 --> 00:28:13,441
and the Crone is gone.
428
00:28:15,527 --> 00:28:19,572
It was sitting right on the coffee table
and now has vanished.
429
00:28:21,533 --> 00:28:23,868
We're looking all over for it.
430
00:28:23,868 --> 00:28:27,455
And eventually I see it
underneath the television stand.
431
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,876
I get down on my hands and knees
and I reach under
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00:28:31,876 --> 00:28:35,130
the television stand
and I hear Dana absolutely shriek
433
00:28:35,964 --> 00:28:40,510
because the television
has started to tip down on to my head.
434
00:28:43,888 --> 00:28:46,266
If it wasn't for Dana,
it would have smashed right into my head.
435
00:28:46,599 --> 00:28:52,522
This was so upsetting to me
that I said something I never like to say.
436
00:28:53,106 --> 00:28:57,068
I said, if this is how it's going to be,
I'm going to put you in a box.
437
00:28:57,068 --> 00:29:00,029
I'm going to put a lock on it,
and I'm going to stick you on a shelf.
438
00:29:00,321 --> 00:29:01,740
After I'd said this,
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00:29:01,740 --> 00:29:04,868
we heard three loud bangs
on the kitchen wall.
440
00:29:07,662 --> 00:29:11,124
And I just took that as... okay,
this is how it's going to be.
441
00:29:12,125 --> 00:29:14,836
So I pulled the box out.
442
00:29:14,836 --> 00:29:18,381
I put it back in the pillowcase,
wrapped it up, put it in the box,
443
00:29:18,590 --> 00:29:19,674
slammed the lid shut,
444
00:29:19,674 --> 00:29:20,550
put the lock on it,
445
00:29:20,550 --> 00:29:21,968
and stuck it on a shelf.
446
00:29:23,428 --> 00:29:26,848
And that's where it stayed
until we would go out on the road.
447
00:29:30,977 --> 00:29:32,395
The final straw with the Crone
448
00:29:32,395 --> 00:29:34,355
happened at Michigan Paracon.
449
00:29:34,981 --> 00:29:38,067
This is the 8th annual
Michigan Paranormal Convention.
450
00:29:38,067 --> 00:29:41,613
It’s being held at the Kewadin Casinos
in Sault Ste. Marie this weekend,
451
00:29:41,613 --> 00:29:44,616
and it’s brought some of the biggest names
in the industry to the U.P.
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00:29:44,616 --> 00:29:48,411
There’s also the Traveling Museum
of the Paranormal and the Occult.
453
00:29:48,411 --> 00:29:51,915
We travel from coast to coast and
bring haunted objects to people.
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00:29:51,915 --> 00:29:55,168
We let them hold them, touch them,
experience them for themselves.
455
00:29:55,168 --> 00:29:57,837
The idea is to just give people
a paranormal experience.
456
00:29:58,004 --> 00:30:01,049
Michigan Paracon is an event
we always look forward to every year.
457
00:30:01,049 --> 00:30:03,927
It's one of the biggest
paranormal conferences in the country.
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00:30:04,594 --> 00:30:08,181
And at this event specifically,
a man had come to the event
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00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,600
and he really, really
wanted to see the Crone.
460
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,727
He came back
multiple times throughout the day
461
00:30:12,727 --> 00:30:14,062
and asked if he could see her.
462
00:30:14,062 --> 00:30:15,814
And we himmed and hawed
about it
463
00:30:16,147 --> 00:30:20,360
And finally we said, okay,
we'll pull it out just for a second.
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00:30:21,820 --> 00:30:24,364
And, seconds...
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00:30:24,364 --> 00:30:26,241
after I pulled it out of the pillowcase,
466
00:30:26,241 --> 00:30:27,408
all hell broke loose.
467
00:30:30,912 --> 00:30:34,123
The minute that the Crone came out,
it was like a force
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00:30:34,415 --> 00:30:36,459
shot down the aisle.
469
00:30:38,461 --> 00:30:41,172
The presenter that was across from us,
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00:30:42,715 --> 00:30:45,802
her bottle of soda
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00:30:45,802 --> 00:30:49,430
just popped and
sprayed all over her books.
472
00:30:49,430 --> 00:30:51,516
Just destroyed hundreds of dollars
worth of books.
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00:30:51,975 --> 00:30:53,226
She was screaming.
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00:30:54,644 --> 00:30:56,437
We then noticed that the lights
475
00:30:56,437 --> 00:30:59,983
that are going down
the vendor hall are swinging,
476
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,403
The lights are literally swinging
directly over top of everyone.
477
00:31:05,446 --> 00:31:07,198
There's people all the way up,
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00:31:07,198 --> 00:31:08,741
all the different presenters down the row
479
00:31:08,741 --> 00:31:11,995
are looking all over the place
because they know something's going on.
480
00:31:12,412 --> 00:31:15,915
And then all of a sudden
I see further down the aisle
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00:31:16,124 --> 00:31:18,751
on the right hand side, there's a man
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00:31:19,168 --> 00:31:21,045
who has his head
483
00:31:22,213 --> 00:31:24,090
slunk back in his chair
484
00:31:24,507 --> 00:31:27,760
and I see blood
start to drip down his neck.
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00:31:29,262 --> 00:31:32,056
And he has a really violent seizure.
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00:31:37,979 --> 00:31:39,439
All of this happened in the matter
487
00:31:39,439 --> 00:31:41,983
of 15, 20 seconds.
488
00:31:43,651 --> 00:31:45,570
I'm taking it all in,
489
00:31:45,570 --> 00:31:47,447
standing there holding this thing.
490
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,118
And the guy who had asked us to see it
491
00:31:52,118 --> 00:31:54,078
basically starts to weep,
492
00:31:54,078 --> 00:31:55,538
and says, I'm sorry.
493
00:31:55,538 --> 00:31:57,290
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
494
00:31:57,290 --> 00:31:59,000
Put it away.
495
00:31:59,292 --> 00:32:00,919
I slammed it back in the box.
496
00:32:01,336 --> 00:32:03,755
And I looked at Dana
and I said, We can never do this again.
497
00:32:04,172 --> 00:32:06,132
This cannot come with us anymore.
498
00:32:06,132 --> 00:32:07,759
We need to do something about this.
499
00:32:09,427 --> 00:32:11,596
And it was when the plan first started
500
00:32:11,596 --> 00:32:15,475
and we started talking about the idea
of figuring out a way to bring her back
501
00:32:15,475 --> 00:32:17,810
potentially to the place where she came from.
502
00:32:34,577 --> 00:32:36,037
We're a museum.
503
00:32:36,037 --> 00:32:40,083
We are all about preserving these things.
504
00:32:40,083 --> 00:32:44,671
We're living in a time where it's much
easier to preserve stuff than ever before.
505
00:32:45,088 --> 00:32:48,174
You can even preserve something
by 3D scanning it.
506
00:32:48,466 --> 00:32:52,220
And then the original can cease to exist,
but people can still study it.
507
00:32:52,220 --> 00:32:54,722
They can see every detail of it.
508
00:32:54,722 --> 00:32:56,891
We’re going to take a haunted object.
509
00:32:56,891 --> 00:32:59,143
We’re going to 3D scan it.
510
00:32:59,143 --> 00:33:01,104
And then we’re going to 3D print it.
511
00:33:01,104 --> 00:33:03,398
This is a first.
This has never been done.
512
00:33:03,398 --> 00:33:04,899
I’ve never heard of this being done.
513
00:33:04,899 --> 00:33:07,819
This is a completely uncharted territory.
It’s a new horizon.
514
00:33:07,819 --> 00:33:10,905
And I’m really excited about the possibilities.
515
00:33:10,905 --> 00:33:13,491
Our friend Jason Gowin
was our 3D scanning technician.
516
00:33:14,117 --> 00:33:16,035
He had all the equipment that we needed.
517
00:33:16,035 --> 00:33:18,371
He had a powerful enough computer
to run the software
518
00:33:18,621 --> 00:33:21,374
and he'd already scanned dozens
of our different artifacts.
519
00:33:21,374 --> 00:33:23,418
So he was the perfect
person for this project.
520
00:33:24,794 --> 00:33:26,379
My name is Jason Gowin.
521
00:33:26,379 --> 00:33:30,967
I have been a paranormal
adventurer slash investigator since
522
00:33:32,010 --> 00:33:33,928
forever? Like 1998
523
00:33:33,928 --> 00:33:36,806
I guess was when I officially started
doing all of this.
524
00:33:36,806 --> 00:33:38,808
Jason is one of my oldest friends.
525
00:33:38,808 --> 00:33:42,103
We were on the same ghost hunting team
when I was like, 13 years old.
526
00:33:42,687 --> 00:33:46,482
If there’s something here,
tell us your name.
527
00:33:47,108 --> 00:33:49,610
If you’d like us to leave,
give us some sort of a sign.
528
00:33:50,319 --> 00:33:53,072
He was the wheel man,
because he was a little older than us.
529
00:33:53,740 --> 00:33:55,408
You know, I’ll give you credit, Greg.
530
00:33:55,408 --> 00:33:57,910
You were the first... You were the first of us.
531
00:33:57,910 --> 00:34:00,496
When Greg decided to play a prank
on one of our friends,
532
00:34:00,496 --> 00:34:03,291
he asked me to go full “Blair Witch”
533
00:34:03,291 --> 00:34:08,671
and hide in a cemetery and scare
the living bejesus out of the kid
534
00:34:08,671 --> 00:34:11,966
with as much “Blair-Witchy” stuff
as I could possibly muster
535
00:34:11,966 --> 00:34:13,384
and we did it.
536
00:34:13,384 --> 00:34:15,386
Yeah!
Because we were trying to terrify you!
537
00:34:15,386 --> 00:34:17,472
Yeah. And you fuckin’ did.
538
00:34:17,472 --> 00:34:20,933
And we had so much fun that we
started checking out legends for real.
539
00:34:21,601 --> 00:34:22,894
Get down! Get down!
540
00:34:24,353 --> 00:34:28,066
I happened to notice that Greg
had put out a thing
541
00:34:28,066 --> 00:34:30,109
that he was looking for someone
with a 3D scanner.
542
00:34:30,109 --> 00:34:33,696
And so he kind of told me a little bit
about what he wanted to do
543
00:34:33,696 --> 00:34:37,366
with scanning the objects and
making recreations of all of them.
544
00:34:37,366 --> 00:34:39,994
Is it a responsible thing to do?
Who knows!
545
00:34:39,994 --> 00:34:42,121
Because I have no idea
what’s going to happen.
546
00:34:42,121 --> 00:34:43,915
And I was really interested
547
00:34:43,915 --> 00:34:47,418
I’d been looking for a new
paranormal adventure to have and...
548
00:34:48,169 --> 00:34:50,254
I got what I asked for.
549
00:34:50,254 --> 00:34:53,049
They have their own little souls and personalities
550
00:34:53,591 --> 00:34:55,301
and we’re about to make them digital.
551
00:34:55,301 --> 00:34:57,386
And then tangible again.
552
00:35:00,556 --> 00:35:01,015
Obviously,
553
00:35:01,015 --> 00:35:04,268
we have some big news to share,
but we'll wait until
554
00:35:05,019 --> 00:35:07,939
we’ve gotten this thing
spread out on all the channels.
555
00:35:08,356 --> 00:35:10,566
Before we started our
museum membership program,
556
00:35:10,566 --> 00:35:14,028
we used to host pretty regular public
live streams
557
00:35:14,028 --> 00:35:17,990
and during these live streams we would talk
about different items in the collection.
558
00:35:18,241 --> 00:35:20,409
Sometimes we'd do experiments with them,
559
00:35:21,077 --> 00:35:25,498
but we held a special live stream in 2017
560
00:35:25,790 --> 00:35:29,836
where we were announcing the launch
of our museum membership program.
561
00:35:30,336 --> 00:35:32,839
During this live stream,
we were discussing the Crone
562
00:35:33,214 --> 00:35:35,716
and Jason is in the comments.
563
00:35:36,342 --> 00:35:38,719
...and we’ve made a lot of
breakthroughs with the box
564
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:42,431
since we last chatted,
I think we’re really onto something...
565
00:35:43,099 --> 00:35:44,142
Dana and I saw it
566
00:35:44,142 --> 00:35:47,895
and we were horrified
because that's not the kind of joke
567
00:35:47,895 --> 00:35:52,567
that you make to something
as scary as the Crone was.
568
00:35:53,609 --> 00:35:56,445
It seems that ghosts
don't have a great sense of humor.
569
00:35:56,445 --> 00:35:58,030
They seem to be very literal.
570
00:35:58,030 --> 00:36:00,867
And I continued to watch
your live feed.
571
00:36:00,867 --> 00:36:04,579
And all of a sudden I heard this
boom-boom-boom-boom-boom
572
00:36:04,579 --> 00:36:06,581
walking around in our upstairs.
573
00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:16,841
And I looked and could see Lyla,
our cat, was laying down.
574
00:36:18,050 --> 00:36:21,888
And so I was like, okay, I'm
going to have to investigate what that is.
575
00:36:22,305 --> 00:36:26,767
I got up, I started to walk across
the kitchen floor and I stepped in wet.
576
00:36:28,144 --> 00:36:32,190
And that's when the light
caught one of the shapes.
577
00:36:32,190 --> 00:36:34,525
And I'm like, That's a footprint.
578
00:36:36,152 --> 00:36:38,821
I followed the water to the door.
579
00:36:38,821 --> 00:36:40,406
The door was open.
580
00:36:40,406 --> 00:36:42,658
And we had shut and locked it.
581
00:36:42,658 --> 00:36:45,119
The porch light was on,
it shouldn’t have been.
582
00:36:45,119 --> 00:36:47,622
But there were no tracks in the snow.
583
00:36:47,622 --> 00:36:50,666
But then I noticed it went back and
584
00:36:50,666 --> 00:36:52,460
back towards our bedroom.
585
00:36:54,378 --> 00:36:56,589
And then I called you immediately.
586
00:36:56,589 --> 00:36:58,424
And you guys were like,
587
00:36:58,424 --> 00:36:59,175
The Crone!
588
00:36:59,175 --> 00:37:01,510
I know it was Dana that said,
Did you go upstairs?
589
00:37:01,844 --> 00:37:04,347
And I hadn't even thought of that
because Jace wasn't home.
590
00:37:04,347 --> 00:37:06,349
So I had no reason to even check.
591
00:37:09,185 --> 00:37:10,186
And we followed the footprints,
592
00:37:10,186 --> 00:37:12,688
which then went up our stairs,
which are carpeted,
593
00:37:13,189 --> 00:37:14,523
up around the hallway,
594
00:37:14,857 --> 00:37:18,069
and they went right towards his door,
which had been shut,
595
00:37:18,653 --> 00:37:19,862
and...
596
00:37:20,238 --> 00:37:21,155
it was open.
597
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,282
So we went in,
598
00:37:24,283 --> 00:37:25,284
turned on the lights,
599
00:37:25,910 --> 00:37:29,288
and the footprint stopped
and left a giant puddle
600
00:37:29,288 --> 00:37:31,874
directly in front of his crib.
601
00:37:32,625 --> 00:37:35,253
“Tille Boom”
602
00:37:56,065 --> 00:37:57,733
Fortunately for him,
603
00:37:57,733 --> 00:38:00,903
his baby was at his mother-in-law’s
house that night.
604
00:38:00,903 --> 00:38:03,197
But it was enough to freak him out,
605
00:38:04,156 --> 00:38:06,158
and he realized he'd done something
606
00:38:06,158 --> 00:38:07,326
he shouldn't have done.
607
00:38:09,912 --> 00:38:12,123
And he asked Dana,
608
00:38:12,123 --> 00:38:14,417
give me whatever
you can to help me with this.
609
00:38:14,417 --> 00:38:16,043
What do I do? What do I do?
610
00:38:16,043 --> 00:38:20,047
So Dana sent him a package full
of all kinds of different stuff,
611
00:38:20,339 --> 00:38:23,592
some things that he could burn,
some rituals that he could do
612
00:38:23,843 --> 00:38:27,179
in order to seal his house back up.
613
00:38:28,639 --> 00:38:32,643
And from that point on,
he was absolutely terrified
614
00:38:32,643 --> 00:38:33,978
of the Crone.
615
00:38:42,153 --> 00:38:45,239
We knew that we were
going to take the Crone back
616
00:38:45,489 --> 00:38:46,782
to where it had been taken from.
617
00:38:46,782 --> 00:38:50,995
And so it was important for us
to get a 3D scan of her before we did.
618
00:38:50,995 --> 00:38:54,874
So we planned a live stream
on Halloween night.
619
00:38:55,666 --> 00:38:57,793
And Jason, of course,
620
00:38:57,793 --> 00:39:00,087
refused to do it at his house.
621
00:39:01,881 --> 00:39:03,382
Happy Halloween, everybody.
622
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:11,057
We are in a secure location,
in a hotel room,
623
00:39:12,141 --> 00:39:13,934
here in Sayre, Pennsylvania.
624
00:39:15,019 --> 00:39:17,104
I don't think any of us
could have anticipated that
625
00:39:17,104 --> 00:39:20,816
that would be the night that everything
came together with the Crone.
626
00:39:21,067 --> 00:39:23,861
We made every decision about
627
00:39:24,028 --> 00:39:26,655
what we were going to do with her
and how we were going to return her
628
00:39:26,947 --> 00:39:29,367
based on what happened
during that live stream.
629
00:39:30,701 --> 00:39:33,371
What are you going to be doing tonight?
What are you going to be trying?
630
00:39:33,371 --> 00:39:34,747
The Estes Method.
631
00:39:34,747 --> 00:39:36,707
I like to describe the Estes Method
632
00:39:36,707 --> 00:39:39,001
as a form of
technologically-assisted mediumship.
633
00:39:39,585 --> 00:39:42,004
It is a really interesting
634
00:39:42,004 --> 00:39:44,840
technique that makes use of
an SB-7 spirit box,
635
00:39:45,174 --> 00:39:47,885
a really traditional tool
in a Ghost Hunter’s toolkit.
636
00:39:48,260 --> 00:39:50,554
It's really nothing more than
637
00:39:50,554 --> 00:39:54,850
a radio that has a sweep function,
so it just scans through
638
00:39:54,850 --> 00:39:58,646
AM or FM radio stations
at a fast rate of speed
639
00:39:58,646 --> 00:40:02,566
and a lot of paranormal investigators
like to believe
640
00:40:02,566 --> 00:40:05,111
that the ghosts can
manipulate that sweep
641
00:40:05,444 --> 00:40:09,323
and then when you hear a word,
it means that a ghost has somehow said it.
642
00:40:11,158 --> 00:40:13,494
Can you say the name of somebody
that you want to talk to?
643
00:40:15,579 --> 00:40:17,415
- Uh, did it just say my name?
- Yeah.
644
00:40:18,124 --> 00:40:20,334
I never liked that very much.
645
00:40:20,334 --> 00:40:24,338
So when I saw what our friends Karl Pfeiffer
and Connor Randall came up with,
646
00:40:24,797 --> 00:40:26,257
I was blown away.
647
00:40:26,257 --> 00:40:28,092
What Karl and Connor started to do
648
00:40:28,092 --> 00:40:31,470
is they would use a blindfold
and a pair of headphones,
649
00:40:31,971 --> 00:40:36,183
and the headphones would plug directly
into the spirit box,
650
00:40:36,183 --> 00:40:40,396
meaning that the only person who
could hear the feed was the medium.
651
00:40:40,980 --> 00:40:42,523
That person,
652
00:40:42,523 --> 00:40:44,233
their world was just the audio.
653
00:40:44,233 --> 00:40:45,443
They couldn't see anything,
654
00:40:45,443 --> 00:40:48,446
and the only thing that they could hear
were those sweeping radio stations.
655
00:40:48,988 --> 00:40:54,743
So when whoever was acting as the
questioner would speak to the ghosts,
656
00:40:54,743 --> 00:40:58,205
occasionally, they would start to get
an answer from the medium,
657
00:40:58,205 --> 00:41:00,916
who didn’t see them
or hear them.
658
00:41:02,918 --> 00:41:08,174
When I watched Connor become a mouthpiece
for something that we couldn't see,
659
00:41:09,425 --> 00:41:12,219
I knew there was something special
about the Estes Method.
660
00:41:12,470 --> 00:41:15,139
I was really fascinated with it.
661
00:41:15,431 --> 00:41:18,767
- That was Dana talking
- Now that Dana is “in”,
662
00:41:19,518 --> 00:41:20,978
we’ll pull the Crone out.
663
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,651
...since the last live-stream that we did.
664
00:41:35,868 --> 00:41:37,286
There is motion, yes.
665
00:41:40,956 --> 00:41:43,751
We’re going to take you home,
we’re going to take you back.
666
00:41:43,751 --> 00:41:48,756
but before we do that, we want to
take your picture.
667
00:41:48,756 --> 00:41:51,759
That camera is going to send out little
beams of light
668
00:41:51,759 --> 00:41:54,845
that are gonna bounce off the artifact
that you inhabit.
669
00:41:56,388 --> 00:41:58,849
It’s not going to hurt you.
It’s not going to choke you.
670
00:41:58,849 --> 00:41:59,642
It’s going to bounce--
671
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:03,354
It’s not going to hurt you,
I promise.
672
00:42:03,354 --> 00:42:04,855
It hasn’t hurt any of the other--
673
00:42:05,773 --> 00:42:08,025
It, it-- I promise, it’s not going to.
674
00:42:17,326 --> 00:42:18,911
Oh, it’s getting a really smooth,
fast scan.
675
00:42:27,336 --> 00:42:30,548
I keep getting weird, sharp pains
in random places.
676
00:42:31,465 --> 00:42:33,592
I’ve got one in my upper thigh.
677
00:42:34,885 --> 00:42:38,138
Dana spent most of the live stream
under the Estes Method,
678
00:42:38,138 --> 00:42:40,599
so she was unaware of anything
that was going on in the room.
679
00:42:41,267 --> 00:42:45,646
The first scan, there were two moments
that Dana complained
680
00:42:46,021 --> 00:42:49,733
about feeling sharp pains
at different points in her body.
681
00:42:50,526 --> 00:42:52,069
At both of those moments
682
00:42:52,069 --> 00:42:54,780
we were actually performing
one of the scans.
683
00:42:54,780 --> 00:42:55,322
What?
684
00:42:56,198 --> 00:42:56,991
Well, I’m going to.
685
00:42:58,200 --> 00:42:59,618
I have to.
686
00:43:00,327 --> 00:43:01,745
”Don’t make that”.
687
00:43:02,830 --> 00:43:04,498
You don’t want us to print you?
688
00:43:11,797 --> 00:43:13,465
It’s almost done, sweetheart.
689
00:43:13,465 --> 00:43:16,093
There’s like two people talking.
690
00:43:16,093 --> 00:43:18,470
Two voices.
- Two?
691
00:43:19,597 --> 00:43:21,974
”More names”. It just said “more names”.
692
00:43:22,474 --> 00:43:24,560
- Oh man, oh man.
- There’s two voices.
693
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:30,441
There’s a very deep, growly,
scary-sounding voice
694
00:43:30,441 --> 00:43:33,027
that just keeps trying to scare me.
695
00:43:33,027 --> 00:43:36,322
- Okay. Whoever’s calling names,
- But there’s another,
696
00:43:36,322 --> 00:43:40,826
there’s another voice,
that’s a woman’s voice underneath.
697
00:43:41,785 --> 00:43:45,414
If you are attached to the Crone,
can you tell us what your name is?
698
00:43:49,418 --> 00:43:51,712
She said that as soon as I saved it.
699
00:43:53,172 --> 00:43:56,258
Alright.
- This is so weird.
700
00:43:59,386 --> 00:44:01,263
- Oh yes.
- It’s flawless.
701
00:44:03,807 --> 00:44:05,017
Oh my god, thank you.
702
00:44:05,017 --> 00:44:08,562
The only thing it didn’t scan,
there’s no nails.
703
00:44:08,562 --> 00:44:10,189
- It didn’t even pick them up.
- Wow.
704
00:44:10,939 --> 00:44:13,275
Okay. Good
- Here, let me save it.
705
00:44:14,443 --> 00:44:15,611
The first scan that we did,
706
00:44:15,611 --> 00:44:17,196
it went very smoothly.
707
00:44:17,196 --> 00:44:21,742
In fact, it still stands as the number one
708
00:44:21,742 --> 00:44:25,037
fastest, smoothest, best scan we ever got.
709
00:44:25,496 --> 00:44:28,666
The only thing that was weird about it
is that when we did the scan,
710
00:44:28,666 --> 00:44:31,877
there were no nails in the eyes
and there were not even divots
711
00:44:31,877 --> 00:44:34,922
where the nails should have been.
And there should have been--
712
00:44:35,506 --> 00:44:39,176
because it scans the surface,
it bounces light off an object.
713
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:44,306
So the light hit those and it should have
bounced off the nails, but never did.
714
00:44:44,556 --> 00:44:49,478
and to me that to this day,
it's a still very bizarre phenomenon
715
00:44:49,478 --> 00:44:52,272
that should have happened but didn't.
716
00:44:52,272 --> 00:44:56,402
I keep hearing this thing,
it’s not a word but I keep hearing it
717
00:44:56,402 --> 00:44:59,405
over and over again,
and it says, “Biddum.”
718
00:44:59,405 --> 00:45:02,866
- Biddum.
- And it’s a man’s voice.
719
00:45:02,866 --> 00:45:06,412
And he just keeps saying “Biddum”
and I don’t like him.
720
00:45:06,412 --> 00:45:07,871
Is it his name?
721
00:45:09,206 --> 00:45:10,499
Are you Biddum?
722
00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:13,961
We’re doing another scan
just to be safe.
723
00:45:15,629 --> 00:45:17,339
Well, you’re not the first to
call me that.
724
00:45:18,924 --> 00:45:22,469
- If... if...
- Ah! Pain in my back now.
725
00:45:22,469 --> 00:45:23,929
If you guys have questions...
726
00:45:23,929 --> 00:45:27,975
Three times throughout that hour and
a half long session, I felt physical pain.
727
00:45:28,350 --> 00:45:31,437
And I remember thinking that it was
very interesting because I had never felt
728
00:45:31,729 --> 00:45:35,357
anything physical in connection
to doing the Estes Method before.
729
00:45:35,774 --> 00:45:39,737
So I felt pain in my thigh,
in my upper back and in my throat,
730
00:45:39,737 --> 00:45:42,489
and it felt as if it was happening
at random.
731
00:45:42,489 --> 00:45:45,701
And I remember it was strong enough
that I felt it was important
732
00:45:45,701 --> 00:45:49,163
to vocalize it, even though I didn't know
if it really had anything to do
733
00:45:49,163 --> 00:45:50,956
with what was happening
around me at the time.
734
00:45:50,956 --> 00:45:51,874
Is there somebody...
735
00:45:53,041 --> 00:45:55,169
Are you being held prisoner
by something else?
736
00:46:04,970 --> 00:46:06,388
That was so sad.
737
00:46:10,768 --> 00:46:11,393
It’s frozen.
738
00:46:12,227 --> 00:46:13,187
There’s two voices!
739
00:46:20,235 --> 00:46:22,196
Who is talking to me right now?
740
00:46:28,827 --> 00:46:30,037
And what’s your name?
741
00:46:38,086 --> 00:46:38,796
Biddum,
742
00:46:41,465 --> 00:46:43,425
You were alive?
743
00:46:45,511 --> 00:46:46,595
What the fuck did I tell you?
744
00:46:47,262 --> 00:46:48,388
I wasn't terribly familiar--
745
00:46:48,388 --> 00:46:49,973
I knew of the Estes Method.
746
00:46:49,973 --> 00:46:52,684
But here I am watching it happen,
747
00:46:52,684 --> 00:46:59,149
you know, in person and happened
very intensely and build very quickly.
748
00:46:59,441 --> 00:47:03,695
So I was... to say I was hooked
is an understatement
749
00:47:03,695 --> 00:47:06,949
because it was truly mind-blowing
what I was watching happen.
750
00:47:07,950 --> 00:47:09,368
Something is...
751
00:47:12,538 --> 00:47:16,542
There’s a woman crying.
A crying voice.
752
00:47:17,668 --> 00:47:19,419
Under all of it.
753
00:47:20,003 --> 00:47:24,591
As it goes, duh-duh-duh-duh,
I can hear a woman crying.
754
00:47:26,802 --> 00:47:29,137
Male voice number two,
are you Biddum?
755
00:47:34,643 --> 00:47:36,061
What does that mean?
756
00:47:36,770 --> 00:47:38,272
Don’t ignore the question.
757
00:47:44,152 --> 00:47:45,070
I’m too loud?
758
00:47:46,113 --> 00:47:48,282
I think that the woman’s
being too loud.
759
00:47:48,282 --> 00:47:49,575
And this guy Biddum,
760
00:47:49,575 --> 00:47:50,826
Is telling her to shut up.
- He’s telling her to shup up.
761
00:47:50,826 --> 00:47:52,035
So he wasn’t addressing me.
762
00:47:54,162 --> 00:47:55,122
So they’re not talking to us,
763
00:47:56,123 --> 00:47:57,291
they’re talking to eachother?
764
00:47:57,499 --> 00:47:59,626
I think that we’re watching a conversation happening
765
00:48:02,296 --> 00:48:04,882
between two entities.
766
00:48:05,757 --> 00:48:07,217
When you do the Estes Mehod,
767
00:48:07,217 --> 00:48:10,846
one of the things
that I don't think is necessarily
768
00:48:10,846 --> 00:48:14,725
as important is the idea of listening
for the same sounding voice.
769
00:48:15,100 --> 00:48:18,520
I think because you're listening
to random radio stations
770
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:20,063
and lots of white noise,
771
00:48:20,063 --> 00:48:22,691
it's easy to sort of think that
you're hearing the same person
772
00:48:22,691 --> 00:48:24,401
talking to you
if it sounds like the same voice.
773
00:48:24,401 --> 00:48:26,862
And that's kind of something
that I really don't agree with.
774
00:48:26,862 --> 00:48:30,115
I think it's not really necessarily
as important,
775
00:48:30,115 --> 00:48:33,785
but what was really interesting
was this night specifically,
776
00:48:33,785 --> 00:48:38,415
I felt as if I was hearing the same
two voices distinctly,
777
00:48:38,415 --> 00:48:40,208
a male voice and a female voice.
778
00:48:40,375 --> 00:48:42,878
And that felt important.
It felt different.
779
00:48:42,878 --> 00:48:44,963
I had never experienced anything like that before.
780
00:48:44,963 --> 00:48:49,092
I was hearing
two people have a conversation.
781
00:48:50,761 --> 00:48:52,638
What I don’t understand is
782
00:48:52,638 --> 00:48:57,059
who did this to this?
783
00:49:01,438 --> 00:49:02,230
Biddum?
784
00:49:05,317 --> 00:49:07,819
Who are... who is in the room
with us right now?
785
00:49:10,906 --> 00:49:12,324
That’s how he said it.
786
00:49:13,784 --> 00:49:14,618
Shhh!
787
00:49:16,703 --> 00:49:19,122
I’m trying to figure out who I’m
talking to right now.
788
00:49:22,376 --> 00:49:23,919
That was loud.
789
00:49:23,919 --> 00:49:25,462
- Oh, fuck.
- I made it.
790
00:49:31,468 --> 00:49:32,552
Brother Biddum?
791
00:49:33,345 --> 00:49:36,515
The nice thing about doing these live
streams is there's sometimes 100 people
792
00:49:36,515 --> 00:49:39,309
or more watching them
and they're all sitting at their computer.
793
00:49:39,768 --> 00:49:42,354
So plenty of people were Googling this
794
00:49:43,397 --> 00:49:46,775
and they had all kinds of different ideas
about what this could mean.
795
00:49:46,775 --> 00:49:52,447
Some of them found translations
of the word that related to prayer.
796
00:49:52,447 --> 00:49:56,034
It seemed that whatever it was, the root
word of Biddum
797
00:49:56,326 --> 00:49:58,120
had something to do with prayer.
798
00:50:00,163 --> 00:50:01,498
Okay. Where’s the cave?
799
00:50:03,667 --> 00:50:05,877
It’s high. Is it in the mountains?
800
00:50:08,630 --> 00:50:09,631
It’s in the mountains?
801
00:50:10,882 --> 00:50:12,926
What mountains? New York mountains?
802
00:50:16,304 --> 00:50:17,222
The Catskills?
803
00:50:19,975 --> 00:50:20,684
Okay.
804
00:50:21,476 --> 00:50:22,185
Is it in a park?
805
00:50:22,185 --> 00:50:24,438
Something just put like a big...
806
00:50:24,438 --> 00:50:26,481
a sharp pain in my throat.
807
00:50:26,773 --> 00:50:30,068
Between the second and third scanning,
there were 40 minutes.
808
00:50:30,068 --> 00:50:33,321
So within that 40 minute time period,
I did not experience
809
00:50:33,321 --> 00:50:34,573
another physical sensation
810
00:50:34,573 --> 00:50:39,036
until they literally fired up the
the scanner for the third time.
811
00:50:39,036 --> 00:50:41,621
And that's when I experienced
the pain again.
812
00:50:43,081 --> 00:50:46,543
I like to think that that night
and that Estes Method Session,
813
00:50:46,543 --> 00:50:49,046
that I really did connect with her,
814
00:50:49,671 --> 00:50:53,175
with the energy of her,
with what had been happening around her.
815
00:50:53,550 --> 00:50:56,887
I really feel like I tapped into something
and I think that it was that
816
00:50:57,345 --> 00:51:00,849
trance state that doing the Estes
Method can bring you to,
817
00:51:00,849 --> 00:51:03,226
I think that that was
what really allowed me to tap into her.
818
00:51:03,226 --> 00:51:06,438
And I feel very strongly
as if there was a connection
819
00:51:06,438 --> 00:51:08,231
that really happened that night.
820
00:51:08,231 --> 00:51:11,318
If you understand this,
tell her...
821
00:51:13,904 --> 00:51:15,530
Tell her to not...
822
00:51:16,782 --> 00:51:20,035
Tell her that he has no power...
823
00:51:20,035 --> 00:51:24,247
He does not have power over you.
He has no power over you.
824
00:51:25,415 --> 00:51:27,542
We were saying this earlier.
825
00:51:29,002 --> 00:51:31,671
You can leave. You don’t need
to stay there.
826
00:51:31,671 --> 00:51:34,216
Whoever is keeping you there,
you don’t need to listen.
827
00:51:34,216 --> 00:51:37,552
He has no power over you other than
what you percieve.
828
00:51:39,763 --> 00:51:41,598
I know. You need to ignore him.
829
00:51:42,682 --> 00:51:45,102
Ignore him. He can’t do anything.
830
00:51:45,102 --> 00:51:46,186
He can’t do anything.
831
00:51:47,395 --> 00:51:48,146
No.
832
00:51:50,148 --> 00:51:50,899
We are.
833
00:51:52,067 --> 00:51:53,026
You have permission.
834
00:51:53,026 --> 00:51:54,611
She said permission so loud.
835
00:51:54,611 --> 00:51:55,862
You have permission.
836
00:51:56,613 --> 00:51:58,949
You do not need to listen to this person.
837
00:51:59,491 --> 00:52:04,121
Whatever or whoever it is,
you are your own person.
838
00:52:05,622 --> 00:52:07,707
You can leave. You can go.
839
00:52:10,752 --> 00:52:13,755
It seemed that the larger
picture was coming into view.
840
00:52:15,298 --> 00:52:20,428
Biddum, or Brother Biddum implies
some kind of man of religion.
841
00:52:21,221 --> 00:52:24,599
Even the name Biddum
seems to relate somehow to religion.
842
00:52:25,267 --> 00:52:30,063
The Crone itself was very obviously
an act of witchcraft, of some kind,
843
00:52:30,605 --> 00:52:35,110
and one of our first interactions
with whatever entity was attached to
844
00:52:35,110 --> 00:52:39,573
the Crone had to do with the desecration
of a Christian symbol.
845
00:52:40,615 --> 00:52:44,286
To me, it seemed like what we were finally
realizing was
846
00:52:44,536 --> 00:52:49,749
there was a visceral reaction
by this entity to Christian iconography.
847
00:52:50,834 --> 00:52:54,045
And it could be because
there was some form of persecution
848
00:52:54,045 --> 00:52:57,549
that had happened to
this person or thing
849
00:52:57,674 --> 00:52:59,426
at some point in the past.
850
00:53:01,469 --> 00:53:02,345
We’re going to help.
851
00:53:02,888 --> 00:53:03,555
We are.
852
00:53:05,724 --> 00:53:06,391
You’re in control.
853
00:53:07,392 --> 00:53:08,435
You’re not tethered.
854
00:53:14,858 --> 00:53:16,109
She’s so loud right now.
855
00:53:16,109 --> 00:53:18,278
If it’s him, we will get rid of him.
856
00:53:21,823 --> 00:53:23,408
We’ll get rid of him.
857
00:53:27,037 --> 00:53:29,831
I think in that moment it's
very easy to wonder
858
00:53:30,457 --> 00:53:33,418
if we were being manipulated or not.
859
00:53:35,086 --> 00:53:41,134
But if you hear someone
screaming down a dark alley for help,
860
00:53:42,302 --> 00:53:44,012
are you going to go help them
861
00:53:44,012 --> 00:53:46,765
or are you going to stand there and go,
No, that's a trick.
862
00:53:48,516 --> 00:53:50,060
And I think we felt
863
00:53:50,060 --> 00:53:52,437
very strongly that at that point,
864
00:53:53,438 --> 00:53:56,274
the right thing to do was to help.
865
00:54:00,820 --> 00:54:03,490
A few days after
the Halloween livestream,
866
00:54:03,490 --> 00:54:08,161
Jason contacted us with some progress
in his 3D scanning.
867
00:54:10,330 --> 00:54:16,628
There was no way to
3D print it with the nails and the noose.
868
00:54:17,254 --> 00:54:18,546
They were too thin.
869
00:54:19,464 --> 00:54:22,175
The nails were definitely too thin,
so they had to be digitally removed.
870
00:54:22,634 --> 00:54:27,013
And we thought it would be interesting
to put an actual noose on the 3D print.
871
00:54:27,430 --> 00:54:31,768
In order to do that, he had to actually
separate the Crone’s head from its body.
872
00:54:32,018 --> 00:54:33,561
I mean, I had manipulated
873
00:54:34,854 --> 00:54:37,565
probably a hundred different things
from children's toys
874
00:54:37,565 --> 00:54:42,070
to accessories for,
you know, our Amazon equipment.
875
00:54:42,946 --> 00:54:45,448
I had, you know,
I had started to build a drone.
876
00:54:45,448 --> 00:54:47,367
I was 3D printing a drone.
877
00:54:47,367 --> 00:54:51,788
I had done post-production
on dozens of these objects.
878
00:54:53,415 --> 00:54:54,457
Never,
879
00:54:55,333 --> 00:54:57,794
not before, not after,
880
00:54:58,878 --> 00:55:01,089
did I ever anything happen
881
00:55:01,089 --> 00:55:02,465
like it did with the Crone.
882
00:55:02,882 --> 00:55:07,721
I have no idea what’s going to happen
because I’ve never had it just openly,
883
00:55:08,888 --> 00:55:13,059
defiantly change the design
of what I’ve built.
884
00:55:13,059 --> 00:55:16,479
When I started editing the file, I was able
to get the noose off, no problem.
885
00:55:16,479 --> 00:55:20,233
But I was left with two pieces:
a head and a body.
886
00:55:20,233 --> 00:55:22,485
But when I did that,
887
00:55:23,903 --> 00:55:26,823
it looked like these fingers or tendrils
888
00:55:26,823 --> 00:55:29,868
were coming out of the bottom.
889
00:55:32,662 --> 00:55:35,498
They were twisted,
they were in the wrong position,
890
00:55:36,041 --> 00:55:39,669
and you could tell what they were
because they had fingernails on them.
891
00:55:41,296 --> 00:55:42,797
We would have known if somebody
892
00:55:42,797 --> 00:55:46,926
had scanned their fingers into this thing,
we would have seen it on the 3D scan.
893
00:55:46,926 --> 00:55:48,553
We were able to look at both of them
894
00:55:48,553 --> 00:55:50,305
immediately as it scanned.
895
00:55:50,305 --> 00:55:52,682
And I had taken my hand away from
896
00:55:53,892 --> 00:55:57,437
the mouse,
so the file was manipulating itself.
897
00:55:59,022 --> 00:56:02,650
At no point did I--
I have no explanation for what I saw.
898
00:56:04,361 --> 00:56:08,865
It just seemed like
a really obvious indication
899
00:56:08,865 --> 00:56:12,786
that something was trying to escape
from this piece.
900
00:56:13,453 --> 00:56:15,455
It was a visual reminder
901
00:56:15,789 --> 00:56:17,457
of what we were trying to do.
902
00:56:25,090 --> 00:56:29,010
We'd had enough problems
with the 3D scanning project at that point.
903
00:56:29,010 --> 00:56:31,221
The Crone was sort of the last straw.
904
00:56:31,513 --> 00:56:36,267
But the preservation of these things
was still very, very important to us.
905
00:56:36,893 --> 00:56:42,107
And knowing that our time with the Crone
was coming to an end,
906
00:56:42,107 --> 00:56:46,945
it was more important to us than ever
to somehow preserve her.
907
00:56:47,821 --> 00:56:50,532
It's very serendipitous
that we met Tyler Strand
908
00:56:50,532 --> 00:56:52,075
around the same time.
909
00:56:52,909 --> 00:56:54,994
- There he is!
- What’s up!
910
00:56:54,994 --> 00:56:56,162
Hey buddy.
911
00:56:57,205 --> 00:56:59,040
- C’mon in!
- We’re like half an hour early...
912
00:57:09,843 --> 00:57:11,886
My name is Tyler Strand.
913
00:57:11,886 --> 00:57:17,475
I am a special makeup and effects artist,
so I'm involved in everything from
914
00:57:17,475 --> 00:57:22,897
molding objects, creating custom
prosthetics, dental wear, prosthetic eyes,
915
00:57:23,106 --> 00:57:25,567
the whole gamut of works,
creating monsters
916
00:57:26,317 --> 00:57:28,903
on top of being a paranormal investigator.
917
00:57:29,821 --> 00:57:31,573
So I live a life of monsters.
918
00:57:32,949 --> 00:57:33,783
He's a really great artist
919
00:57:33,783 --> 00:57:37,120
and he's someone
who can help us preserve
920
00:57:37,537 --> 00:57:40,957
objects in the museum
at a museum-quality level.
921
00:57:40,957 --> 00:57:45,670
And he felt like someone
that was really going to be a big help
922
00:57:45,670 --> 00:57:48,673
when it came to the act of actually
preserving the Crone.
923
00:57:50,592 --> 00:57:54,429
I'm passionate about
the paranormal because it's a pursuit
924
00:57:55,180 --> 00:57:57,390
of everything that I view as
925
00:57:58,766 --> 00:58:01,060
higher or thought-provoking in our reality.
926
00:58:02,228 --> 00:58:04,147
You're tackling age-old mysteries
927
00:58:04,147 --> 00:58:06,941
that have always been at the forefront
of the human experience,
928
00:58:07,650 --> 00:58:10,236
and I can't think of anything else
929
00:58:10,236 --> 00:58:14,532
that invokes that in me
or has so much substance to it.
930
00:58:15,575 --> 00:58:18,453
The study of the supernatural, to me,
931
00:58:18,453 --> 00:58:20,330
is the study of the self.
932
00:58:29,380 --> 00:58:32,175
We made a promise to the Crone
that we were going to return her.
933
00:58:33,551 --> 00:58:37,597
We were coming up on almost a year
since we made that promise,
934
00:58:37,597 --> 00:58:41,684
And we were having a really busy year,
and we had one short window
935
00:58:41,893 --> 00:58:46,064
where we could still take her back
in that year before it got too cold
936
00:58:46,064 --> 00:58:48,399
and there was just no way
we were going to make it up the mountain.
937
00:58:50,652 --> 00:58:54,906
So we made plans and picked up Tyler
and drove to Ellenville.
938
00:58:55,823 --> 00:58:59,786
Ellenville is the town at the base
of the mountain
939
00:58:59,786 --> 00:59:00,870
that the crown came from.
940
00:59:02,497 --> 00:59:06,334
We get to Ellenville
and we start to notice
941
00:59:06,834 --> 00:59:11,339
that there's Ukrainian text on signs,
942
00:59:11,339 --> 00:59:13,550
on businesses, on churches.
943
00:59:14,008 --> 00:59:18,763
What... is... is it. an old...
944
00:59:20,181 --> 00:59:21,933
Church! It was a church.
945
00:59:21,933 --> 00:59:24,936
It says “Ukrainian Native Faith Church.”
946
00:59:25,228 --> 00:59:26,729
What we didn't anticipate
947
00:59:26,729 --> 00:59:30,817
was the massive Ukrainian community
that was in this town
948
00:59:31,776 --> 00:59:35,822
and that started to spin our wheels
and we wondered,
949
00:59:35,822 --> 00:59:38,825
could there be some kind of Slavic or
950
00:59:38,825 --> 00:59:41,786
Ukrainian connection to this item?
951
00:59:42,287 --> 00:59:44,831
We're on the road so we don't have access
952
00:59:44,831 --> 00:59:47,709
to a lot of research materials
except for Google.
953
00:59:48,418 --> 00:59:50,712
What we did is,
we texted our friend John Tenney.
954
00:59:51,087 --> 00:59:56,009
John’s a font of knowledge
on the paranormal
955
00:59:56,009 --> 00:59:59,512
and he keeps lots of files
on all kinds of stuff.
956
00:59:59,512 --> 01:00:03,433
He's a really great resource to have
when we’re stumped on something.
957
01:00:03,433 --> 01:00:04,976
John knew what we were doing.
958
01:00:04,976 --> 01:00:06,311
He knew where we were.
959
01:00:06,311 --> 01:00:08,688
He knew that we were out
to return the Crone.
960
01:00:08,688 --> 01:00:11,107
So when I texted him, I said, Listen,
961
01:00:11,107 --> 01:00:15,612
can you think of any connection
that that might have to this item?
962
01:00:16,029 --> 01:00:17,739
And he texted me back and said,
963
01:00:18,698 --> 01:00:20,575
Well, Baba Yaga.
964
01:00:20,575 --> 01:00:23,745
Baba Yaga is arguably
965
01:00:23,745 --> 01:00:26,956
the most famous witch
in Ukrainian folklore.
966
01:00:28,207 --> 01:00:30,293
She has existed,
967
01:00:31,044 --> 01:00:33,796
I mean, basically since the beginning
of Ukrainian folklore.
968
01:00:34,005 --> 01:00:36,466
She's sort of that Crone archetype.
969
01:00:37,634 --> 01:00:40,219
She exists in the forest,
970
01:00:40,595 --> 01:00:43,348
in a house with chicken legs.
971
01:00:44,974 --> 01:00:49,270
People are kind of scared of her,
but she does good even though
972
01:00:49,270 --> 01:00:50,938
people are scared of her.
973
01:00:50,938 --> 01:00:55,526
And it seemed really interesting.
974
01:00:57,445 --> 01:01:01,532
After Tenney came back with Baba Yaga,
I started to do some Googling.
975
01:01:01,532 --> 01:01:03,910
As I'm scrolling through the search results
for Baba Yaga,
976
01:01:03,910 --> 01:01:08,873
looking at pictures,
I see a carved statue.
977
01:01:09,374 --> 01:01:11,501
I click on it,
it takes me to an Etsy shop,
978
01:01:12,043 --> 01:01:18,383
and this is an Etsy shop based out of Russia
that creates custom, carved,
979
01:01:18,383 --> 01:01:21,844
altar dolls meant for religious worship.
980
01:01:21,844 --> 01:01:23,805
Traditional Slavic paganism.
981
01:01:24,097 --> 01:01:26,808
The Baba Yaga doll didn't quite look right,
982
01:01:28,101 --> 01:01:29,602
but as I scrolled,
983
01:01:29,602 --> 01:01:33,189
there was another altar doll named MoKosh,
984
01:01:34,065 --> 01:01:37,110
and it looked pretty darn close.
985
01:01:38,653 --> 01:01:40,071
I googled Mokosh,
986
01:01:40,071 --> 01:01:42,365
which led me to the story
987
01:01:42,907 --> 01:01:46,452
of really the only female goddess
988
01:01:46,452 --> 01:01:48,246
in the Slavic pantheon.
989
01:01:50,748 --> 01:01:52,792
The name Mokosh
990
01:01:54,043 --> 01:01:56,379
comes from the root word mokry,
991
01:01:57,255 --> 01:01:59,674
which is the Russian word for wet.
992
01:02:01,968 --> 01:02:04,929
Mokosh was the goddess of moisture
993
01:02:05,763 --> 01:02:08,307
and fate and witchcraft.
994
01:02:15,231 --> 01:02:17,316
My name is Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
995
01:02:17,316 --> 01:02:19,986
I am a professor of Russian folklore
and linguistics
996
01:02:19,986 --> 01:02:21,404
at the University of Kentucky.
997
01:02:22,155 --> 01:02:24,490
We have no actual evidence
998
01:02:24,490 --> 01:02:27,577
about the Slavic pantheon
or the Slavic gods.
999
01:02:28,035 --> 01:02:30,872
Well, particularly East Slavic,
which is what you're interested in.
1000
01:02:31,914 --> 01:02:34,876
Unlike in Greece and Rome,
these were not literate people.
1001
01:02:35,460 --> 01:02:38,296
There were no ethnographers
1002
01:02:38,671 --> 01:02:42,842
who were coming in to write down what
these people believed or what they did
1003
01:02:43,092 --> 01:02:45,386
or what the rituals look like,
or what the practices were.
1004
01:02:46,053 --> 01:02:50,016
So everything that has been written
on this topic,
1005
01:02:50,767 --> 01:02:53,519
well, 95% of it, is based on speculation
1006
01:02:53,936 --> 01:02:58,941
and parallels to what they know
about other European cultures,
1007
01:02:58,941 --> 01:03:02,612
which may or may not be what was there.
1008
01:03:03,488 --> 01:03:05,198
So there's almost nothing.
1009
01:03:05,198 --> 01:03:06,449
But the Russian specialists
1010
01:03:07,575 --> 01:03:09,827
felt that Russia suffered
1011
01:03:09,952 --> 01:03:14,457
from not having the same type
of heritage documented
1012
01:03:14,791 --> 01:03:18,878
that were in other great nations,
and so pretty much out of whole cloth
1013
01:03:19,420 --> 01:03:22,590
they determined what it was on the basis
1014
01:03:22,590 --> 01:03:25,134
of little scraps
of very little information.
1015
01:03:25,635 --> 01:03:28,513
We know that to some extent,
1016
01:03:29,472 --> 01:03:31,933
obviously, there was a belief system
1017
01:03:31,933 --> 01:03:36,312
and we know that those gods
were worshiped by somebody.
1018
01:03:36,979 --> 01:03:39,899
But what the organization was
and how they were worshiped
1019
01:03:40,358 --> 01:03:44,362
and really what they mean is--
a lot of it is extrapolated.
1020
01:03:44,654 --> 01:03:47,323
So that brings us to Neopagans, right?
1021
01:03:47,323 --> 01:03:51,577
Because what the Neopagans are arguing
is very much like the Soviets:
1022
01:03:52,411 --> 01:03:55,081
Christianity is not our faith.
1023
01:03:55,081 --> 01:03:57,166
We had an older faith.
1024
01:03:57,166 --> 01:04:00,753
And so what they've done
is they've seized on these
1025
01:04:01,671 --> 01:04:06,551
beautiful pictures of constructed pantheons
1026
01:04:06,717 --> 01:04:11,889
written by these 19th century
and Soviet era scholars to create
1027
01:04:13,975 --> 01:04:15,142
a belief system.
1028
01:04:15,142 --> 01:04:20,106
How popular are Neopagan,
Slavic beliefs in the United States?
1029
01:04:20,439 --> 01:04:24,277
There's very small groups,
but they are really small.
1030
01:04:24,902 --> 01:04:28,656
So one of the groups that--
there are some in Canada,
1031
01:04:29,115 --> 01:04:31,659
there are some in the northeastern U.S.
1032
01:04:32,743 --> 01:04:36,038
There's one in New York
that's pretty small.
1033
01:04:36,038 --> 01:04:39,041
Again, not much going on,
and that's about it.
1034
01:04:40,001 --> 01:04:44,088
I mean, except maybe emmigrates
who've come and brought
1035
01:04:44,088 --> 01:04:45,256
their religion with them.
1036
01:04:50,136 --> 01:04:53,389
But the image you have, well,
that statue does not--
1037
01:04:55,057 --> 01:04:58,060
What's weird about that statue to me,
that makes it an anachronism...
1038
01:04:58,311 --> 01:05:02,273
If it's a Neopagan group,
I don't think there'd be any reason
1039
01:05:02,273 --> 01:05:05,818
to have a noose or nails.
1040
01:05:05,818 --> 01:05:07,820
It would be different
1041
01:05:07,820 --> 01:05:11,198
because the model
is so powerful for them,
1042
01:05:12,158 --> 01:05:14,869
that is this established model
1043
01:05:14,869 --> 01:05:17,914
in the literary tradition.
1044
01:05:17,914 --> 01:05:22,501
So if you go to their pages, again,
all in Russian or Ukrainian, but if you go
1045
01:05:22,501 --> 01:05:27,131
and look you see that they keep using
these same old images
1046
01:05:27,131 --> 01:05:34,388
and when they create contemporary
versions, they're models of those.
1047
01:05:34,388 --> 01:05:37,058
And that statue does not,
to me, look like that.
1048
01:05:37,642 --> 01:05:41,938
Is it mostly the nails and the noose
that causes...
1049
01:05:41,938 --> 01:05:42,438
Yeah.
1050
01:05:42,438 --> 01:05:45,232
Plus her hand would almost inevitably
1051
01:05:45,358 --> 01:05:46,651
be holding something.
1052
01:05:48,277 --> 01:05:50,321
Looking at images of Mokosh,
1053
01:05:50,321 --> 01:05:53,407
there are statues that show her
1054
01:05:54,367 --> 01:05:56,911
standing with her arms at her side,
1055
01:05:56,911 --> 01:05:58,496
holding a bucket of water.
1056
01:06:04,752 --> 01:06:07,880
Sometimes she was depicted
holding a ball of twine because she was
1057
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:09,340
also the goddess of fate.
1058
01:06:11,759 --> 01:06:13,844
For the first time,
we realized
1059
01:06:13,844 --> 01:06:16,722
what went between
the Crone’s arms.
1060
01:06:19,809 --> 01:06:22,311
What we found out when we
were trying to make that replica,
1061
01:06:22,311 --> 01:06:24,230
trying to make it as accurate as possible.
1062
01:06:24,605 --> 01:06:27,316
The carving itself seemed fairly old.
1063
01:06:27,650 --> 01:06:30,361
The nails and the noose were pretty new.
1064
01:06:30,361 --> 01:06:32,363
They were added.
1065
01:06:32,363 --> 01:06:35,324
We were able to find-- the closest we could
find-- we went to every
1066
01:06:35,324 --> 01:06:36,951
hardware store we could find.
1067
01:06:37,284 --> 01:06:42,123
We found the nails and the noose
material both at Wal-Mart.
1068
01:06:42,123 --> 01:06:45,543
Which is the only big store at the
base of that mountain.
1069
01:06:45,543 --> 01:06:48,713
So it seems like somebody had taken
an existing carving,
1070
01:06:48,713 --> 01:06:52,466
and potentially had-- you know,
who knows the purpose of it--
1071
01:06:52,466 --> 01:06:56,012
had done something to it, they’d
added those to it.
1072
01:06:59,473 --> 01:07:02,309
She is strongly associated
1073
01:07:02,309 --> 01:07:04,270
because of this connection with Paraskeva,
1074
01:07:04,270 --> 01:07:10,109
with weaving, spinning,
obviously fertility,
1075
01:07:10,943 --> 01:07:16,198
particularly of cows and women.
1076
01:07:16,198 --> 01:07:20,786
People sought her for help,
but then she also sometimes scared people.
1077
01:07:20,786 --> 01:07:24,874
One of the things that she did
was she quite often stole children.
1078
01:07:43,976 --> 01:07:47,772
Yes, there is definitely...
definitely the potential for...
1079
01:07:50,941 --> 01:07:52,902
for conflict
1080
01:07:52,902 --> 01:07:55,946
between Neopagan groups
and Christian groups,
1081
01:07:56,197 --> 01:07:59,700
particularly because the Neopagans
are saying that Christianity is false
1082
01:07:59,950 --> 01:08:02,787
and not ours or especially orthodoxy.
1083
01:08:03,537 --> 01:08:06,248
And the Orthodox groups
1084
01:08:06,248 --> 01:08:08,375
have done very well
1085
01:08:08,626 --> 01:08:12,254
in the post-Soviet period,
you know, the first ten...
1086
01:08:12,463 --> 01:08:15,716
the first decade was
tricky, getting reestablished,
1087
01:08:16,717 --> 01:08:18,886
but they have really established themselves
1088
01:08:18,886 --> 01:08:21,430
as powerful social forces
1089
01:08:21,972 --> 01:08:24,016
and they do not want
1090
01:08:24,892 --> 01:08:27,853
any potential competition.
1091
01:08:27,853 --> 01:08:30,231
Yes, definitely the potential
1092
01:08:30,231 --> 01:08:31,357
for a great deal of conflict.
1093
01:08:34,235 --> 01:08:36,320
Mokosh was considered
1094
01:08:37,404 --> 01:08:39,990
a Chthonic deity,
1095
01:08:40,366 --> 01:08:43,786
not good and not evil,
a complete gray area.
1096
01:08:44,036 --> 01:08:46,872
Basically live and let live.
1097
01:08:47,123 --> 01:08:51,752
And this entire time
we were struggling with whether or not
1098
01:08:51,752 --> 01:08:53,838
the Crone was good or bad.
1099
01:08:53,838 --> 01:08:56,966
And really the answer is
1100
01:08:57,383 --> 01:08:58,634
neither.
1101
01:09:07,101 --> 01:09:09,145
The night before
we were set to go up the mountain,
1102
01:09:10,271 --> 01:09:13,482
we stopped about an hour
outside of our destination
1103
01:09:14,108 --> 01:09:16,694
and got a hotel so that we could prepare.
1104
01:09:17,987 --> 01:09:22,616
One of the most important things
to get a replica of the Crone
1105
01:09:22,867 --> 01:09:24,368
was to create a box mold.
1106
01:09:25,744 --> 01:09:29,123
So that was the first time
that Tyler had the opportunity
1107
01:09:29,123 --> 01:09:34,253
to actually hold the Crone and see her
even just in closer detail.
1108
01:09:34,587 --> 01:09:36,088
And it was a big moment for him.
1109
01:09:40,801 --> 01:09:43,554
I knew that there was going to be
a lot of manhandling of this object
1110
01:09:43,554 --> 01:09:47,349
that for a very long time
had not even been touched.
1111
01:09:47,349 --> 01:09:50,769
And so I was very nervous
about the idea of Tyler coming at her
1112
01:09:50,769 --> 01:09:55,399
with implements and measuring her
and having her out of the box
1113
01:09:55,399 --> 01:09:59,195
and really kind of putting her through
what felt like a very sterile exploration.
1114
01:09:59,195 --> 01:10:02,281
It felt frightening to me because I wasn't
sure what was going to happen.
1115
01:10:02,281 --> 01:10:06,035
This object had not been handled very
much, let alone in the past few months
1116
01:10:06,035 --> 01:10:06,827
at that point.
1117
01:10:13,751 --> 01:10:19,673
The atmosphere inside of this room
significantly changed, rapidly,
1118
01:10:20,799 --> 01:10:23,385
almost like there was an electricity in the air.
1119
01:10:24,345 --> 01:10:27,431
After a few minutes,
Tyler went and he grabbed
1120
01:10:27,431 --> 01:10:28,307
his Gauss meter.
1121
01:10:34,021 --> 01:10:35,564
This thing’s really sensitive.
1122
01:10:41,278 --> 01:10:42,821
Are you serious?
1123
01:10:59,505 --> 01:11:02,925
I've never seen anything like that before,
especially not with
1124
01:11:03,968 --> 01:11:07,388
an inanimate object,
seemingly, made out of wood.
1125
01:11:07,972 --> 01:11:11,267
I've never experienced
those kinds of spikes
1126
01:11:11,267 --> 01:11:13,519
that were so apparent in something.
1127
01:11:33,998 --> 01:11:38,752
It really set the tone for how whatever
it was seemed to be ramping up.
1128
01:11:39,128 --> 01:11:42,089
And that put us on edge because you could--
you could hear it.
1129
01:11:43,632 --> 01:11:48,137
And it it felt a lot
like handling a live grenade.
1130
01:11:49,096 --> 01:11:52,266
I feel as if it was tolerated
because of the just
1131
01:11:52,266 --> 01:11:55,728
her physical proximity to the location
that she was going to be returned to.
1132
01:11:55,728 --> 01:11:57,980
It felt like there was
some sort of an intelligent
1133
01:11:59,231 --> 01:12:00,691
energy there that was aware of that
1134
01:12:00,691 --> 01:12:03,319
and that's why
it was being tolerated.
1135
01:12:15,122 --> 01:12:16,957
So we knew that
we were going to return the Crone.
1136
01:12:16,957 --> 01:12:20,878
We knew we were going to unbind
whatever was attached to the Crone,
1137
01:12:20,878 --> 01:12:23,255
and we knew
we were going to make a mold of it.
1138
01:12:23,797 --> 01:12:25,632
This presented a really big problem.
1139
01:12:28,302 --> 01:12:31,388
We couldn't make a mold of the Crone
until we had removed
1140
01:12:31,388 --> 01:12:34,183
the nails and the noose,
which were part of the unbinding ritual.
1141
01:12:36,727 --> 01:12:40,481
But we couldn't do
the unbinding ritual anywhere except
1142
01:12:40,481 --> 01:12:41,482
her place of origin.
1143
01:12:42,608 --> 01:12:44,318
- Are you ready?
- I think so.
1144
01:12:44,318 --> 01:12:45,944
It was very, very important,
1145
01:12:45,944 --> 01:12:49,656
Dana stressed how important it was,
that we did it on the mountain,
1146
01:12:50,741 --> 01:12:54,536
which meant we had to do
the molding on the mountain
1147
01:12:55,245 --> 01:12:57,581
because we were not going to leave
that location
1148
01:12:57,748 --> 01:12:59,208
with the carving.
1149
01:12:59,958 --> 01:13:01,543
This is going to be a hell of a hike.
1150
01:13:01,960 --> 01:13:04,129
This is gonna feel fuckin’ horrible.
1151
01:13:05,255 --> 01:13:10,219
I honestly think that the ritual
to unbind the Crone began
1152
01:13:10,219 --> 01:13:12,554
the second that we got to the trailhead.
1153
01:13:15,641 --> 01:13:19,561
The second we started that walk,
I was very aware of the fact that we were
1154
01:13:19,561 --> 01:13:21,730
already moving into that ritual headspace.
1155
01:14:07,401 --> 01:14:09,945
One of the oldest
stories about Mokosh
1156
01:14:11,071 --> 01:14:15,659
is about how she was kidnapped
by the God Veles,
1157
01:14:16,535 --> 01:14:18,996
who was the God of serpents,
1158
01:14:18,996 --> 01:14:20,664
God of the underworld.
1159
01:14:22,749 --> 01:14:26,211
And Mokosh's husband, Perun,
1160
01:14:27,379 --> 01:14:29,715
had to chase him up a mountain
1161
01:14:30,757 --> 01:14:34,636
and cut Veles’ belly open to release her
1162
01:14:35,053 --> 01:14:36,430
from his grasp.
1163
01:14:38,599 --> 01:14:42,895
Which was pretty much
exactly what we were doing,
1164
01:14:42,895 --> 01:14:45,481
and we didn't even realize it.
1165
01:14:45,606 --> 01:14:48,066
We were taking an item
1166
01:14:48,066 --> 01:14:50,527
that seemed to have
something trapped in it
1167
01:14:51,278 --> 01:14:53,906
to the top of a mountain
1168
01:14:54,823 --> 01:14:56,200
to release it.
1169
01:15:26,772 --> 01:15:28,482
We're absolutely exhausted.
1170
01:15:28,482 --> 01:15:30,984
We finally get to the top
of the mountain
1171
01:15:30,984 --> 01:15:34,821
and Dana felt like
this was the right place.
1172
01:15:34,821 --> 01:15:36,823
This was the place
that we were supposed to be.
1173
01:15:37,157 --> 01:15:38,909
Look at that view...
1174
01:15:39,576 --> 01:15:44,456
And then as the sun went down,
Dana reiterated how important it was
1175
01:15:44,456 --> 01:15:48,710
that we stayed inside the circle
no matter what.
1176
01:15:48,710 --> 01:15:50,170
Then she cast it.
1177
01:15:50,712 --> 01:15:52,172
Do we have everything that we need?
1178
01:15:53,173 --> 01:15:54,758
- We have wood.
- Yeah.
1179
01:15:54,758 --> 01:15:56,510
- We have food. We have water.
- Yeah.
1180
01:15:57,594 --> 01:15:59,179
- Yeah.
- Okay. Let’s start.
1181
01:16:04,476 --> 01:16:08,146
Because we’re doing things that are
a little bit scary,
1182
01:16:08,146 --> 01:16:11,775
it’s just going to protect our space,
1183
01:16:11,775 --> 01:16:15,988
so that whatever potentially could be
drawn to it can’t enter the space.
1184
01:16:15,988 --> 01:16:17,823
And that’s what the black salt is for.
1185
01:16:27,666 --> 01:16:29,501
Extra on all our doorways.
1186
01:16:36,466 --> 01:16:40,512
I didn't know how we were going to finish
everything we had to finish.
1187
01:16:40,929 --> 01:16:42,306
We had so much to do.
1188
01:16:42,931 --> 01:16:46,101
And as we’re sitting there,
our phones start buzzing.
1189
01:16:47,394 --> 01:16:49,605
And it was because at that moment,
1190
01:16:51,481 --> 01:16:53,483
all of Dana's witches
1191
01:16:54,026 --> 01:16:57,070
were doing a ritual at the same exact time
and they had just started.
1192
01:16:58,822 --> 01:17:02,159
These are magic practitioners,
people that I've been teaching for years and years
1193
01:17:02,159 --> 01:17:05,495
and we knew they would be able
to lend us just as much energy.
1194
01:17:05,746 --> 01:17:09,583
So in one of the months
we included an optional ritual
1195
01:17:09,583 --> 01:17:12,878
that they could do alongside us
as we were doing our ritual.
1196
01:17:12,878 --> 01:17:16,757
So we had this huge group of people
who were able to lend their energy
1197
01:17:16,757 --> 01:17:19,926
and lend their magic to us
as we were up on this mountain,
1198
01:17:19,926 --> 01:17:23,972
exhausted and tired
and ready to give up at certain points,
1199
01:17:23,972 --> 01:17:28,268
we could feel them pushing us
through the final mile of this
1200
01:17:28,268 --> 01:17:32,773
exhausting journey that had taken us
three... three years to get to.
1201
01:17:36,860 --> 01:17:41,365
With twine, nail,
and wood times three...
1202
01:17:42,074 --> 01:17:44,284
No longer shall her binding be...
1203
01:17:44,743 --> 01:17:46,286
- There?
- This way.
1204
01:17:47,788 --> 01:17:50,999
With twine, nail,
and wood times three...
1205
01:17:51,541 --> 01:17:54,670
No longer shall her binding be...
1206
01:17:56,296 --> 01:18:00,509
With twine, nail,
and wood times three...
1207
01:18:01,218 --> 01:18:04,346
No longer shall her binding be...
1208
01:18:05,514 --> 01:18:09,726
With twine, nail,
and wood times three...
1209
01:18:10,435 --> 01:18:13,563
No longer shall her binding be...
1210
01:18:16,650 --> 01:18:20,862
With twine, nail,
and wood times three...
1211
01:18:21,571 --> 01:18:24,700
No longer shall her binding be...
1212
01:18:29,955 --> 01:18:33,500
Hail and welcome to
the earth, air, fire, water.
1213
01:18:34,042 --> 01:18:38,255
With twine, nail,
and wood times three...
1214
01:18:38,964 --> 01:18:42,092
No longer shall her binding be...
1215
01:18:48,306 --> 01:18:49,725
We prepared our space
1216
01:18:49,725 --> 01:18:54,229
and I started to cleanse and consecrate
the mundane tools that we would be using.
1217
01:18:54,229 --> 01:18:58,275
So literally pliers, things that would
be used to pull the nails out
1218
01:18:58,275 --> 01:19:01,445
or a pair of scissors or whatever
it was that we were going to need.
1219
01:19:05,615 --> 01:19:06,450
We were prepping
1220
01:19:06,450 --> 01:19:10,871
that space and I was cleansing them
so that we were removing any energy
1221
01:19:10,871 --> 01:19:14,708
that potentially was attached to it
by people who had touched them previously.
1222
01:19:14,958 --> 01:19:17,502
Anyone who had used them
without a ritual intention.
1223
01:19:17,836 --> 01:19:19,629
You want to clear that energy away.
1224
01:19:53,121 --> 01:19:54,915
We consecrate you.
1225
01:19:56,792 --> 01:19:58,585
And unbind you.
1226
01:20:04,341 --> 01:20:08,887
Dana's job was to consecrate the area
and consecrate the tools and the Crone.
1227
01:20:10,680 --> 01:20:12,766
My job was to pull the nails out.
1228
01:20:14,351 --> 01:20:18,313
That was really the first time
that it set in on me
1229
01:20:18,730 --> 01:20:21,608
what we were about to do,
what was going to happen.
1230
01:20:22,692 --> 01:20:26,488
We release the negativity
bound to this object,
1231
01:20:27,155 --> 01:20:30,534
And we bind them to the nails
and we release them.
1232
01:20:31,243 --> 01:20:32,744
And we release them.
1233
01:20:39,042 --> 01:20:41,753
It really struck a chord with me
1234
01:20:43,588 --> 01:20:48,134
because it felt less like something
that we were fearing at that point,
1235
01:20:48,134 --> 01:20:52,055
and it felt a lot
like he was holding somebody down
1236
01:20:52,639 --> 01:20:54,850
and he was doing something painful.
1237
01:20:54,850 --> 01:20:57,686
...to the nails. And we release them.
1238
01:21:05,068 --> 01:21:07,070
It was overwhelming.
1239
01:21:08,864 --> 01:21:11,366
Every one of the nails
1240
01:21:11,700 --> 01:21:13,827
was so hard to pull out.
1241
01:21:13,827 --> 01:21:15,704
With every one,
1242
01:21:16,997 --> 01:21:20,458
I reminded whoever or whatever it was
1243
01:21:21,084 --> 01:21:24,337
that what we were doing was
we were unbinding
1244
01:21:24,629 --> 01:21:27,966
any source of negativity from this piece.
1245
01:21:28,967 --> 01:21:30,802
What we were doing was to help.
1246
01:21:32,220 --> 01:21:36,725
We release any negativity
associated with this object.
1247
01:21:37,309 --> 01:21:39,352
We bind it to the nails.
1248
01:21:41,479 --> 01:21:42,731
And we release it.
1249
01:21:59,289 --> 01:22:02,417
And that left Tyler to pull the noose off.
1250
01:22:03,835 --> 01:22:06,296
You’re not bound by this anymore.
1251
01:22:26,107 --> 01:22:28,568
You don’t have to suffocate anymore.
1252
01:22:38,036 --> 01:22:43,083
And it felt like
there was just a pop in the air.
1253
01:22:43,083 --> 01:22:46,753
And all of a sudden
this thing was just a chunk of wood.
1254
01:22:47,379 --> 01:22:49,464
Whatever it was was gone.
1255
01:22:54,636 --> 01:22:56,012
That felt right.
1256
01:22:56,012 --> 01:22:58,598
- Listen, do you hear those coyotes?
- Uh-huh.
1257
01:23:00,266 --> 01:23:01,935
- Listen, listen!
- Listen!
1258
01:23:13,154 --> 01:23:15,740
And as soon as that realization
set in, we could hear
1259
01:23:16,032 --> 01:23:18,952
all the coyotes on the mountain start
howling at the same time,
1260
01:23:19,536 --> 01:23:21,496
we hadn't heard a single
one up until that point.
1261
01:23:22,497 --> 01:23:23,623
The mountain literally
1262
01:23:23,623 --> 01:23:26,710
lit up with the sounds of coyotes,
1263
01:23:26,710 --> 01:23:29,045
coyotes singing this song
1264
01:23:29,045 --> 01:23:31,589
as if there was a rejoice of some kind.
1265
01:23:32,090 --> 01:23:36,219
And it didn't feel like we had this
heavy burden anymore.
1266
01:23:36,803 --> 01:23:38,013
It was light.
1267
01:23:54,195 --> 01:23:57,657
After the unbinding ritual,
we took the Crone into a tent.
1268
01:23:57,657 --> 01:24:01,286
And Tyler and I tried our best to make
a mold of this item.
1269
01:24:02,078 --> 01:24:04,831
We weren’t very confident in
how it turned out.
1270
01:24:05,457 --> 01:24:07,042
But we’d already done what we
were there to do.
1271
01:24:07,333 --> 01:24:08,376
And that was good enough.
1272
01:24:21,973 --> 01:24:25,185
The next morning,
we wake up from what little sleep we got
1273
01:24:26,186 --> 01:24:31,816
and we knew we needed to have a burial.
1274
01:24:31,816 --> 01:24:35,820
We wrapped the Crone in a black sheet
1275
01:24:36,780 --> 01:24:39,866
and we found a nice, quiet, shady spot
1276
01:24:39,866 --> 01:24:42,911
where we didn't think
anyone would ever find it
1277
01:24:42,911 --> 01:24:44,954
and dug a hole
1278
01:24:44,954 --> 01:24:49,417
and we buried her.
And just kind of had a moment of silence.
1279
01:24:49,626 --> 01:24:53,004
We just sat there and thought
about what we'd been through
1280
01:24:54,214 --> 01:24:57,133
and said a few words.
1281
01:24:58,176 --> 01:25:00,804
And then started our descent.
1282
01:25:06,267 --> 01:25:11,898
It’s very easy to put your own fears
and thoughts onto an item
1283
01:25:11,898 --> 01:25:14,692
to kind of force it to fit a narrative.
1284
01:25:15,485 --> 01:25:19,197
But to us this thing was just a scary statue.
1285
01:25:19,197 --> 01:25:20,907
that was exhibiting scary stuff
1286
01:25:20,907 --> 01:25:23,743
and it felt like we have
to make it stop.
1287
01:25:25,912 --> 01:25:30,708
All these years later, seeing that
entire journey, having that perspective,
1288
01:25:30,708 --> 01:25:35,630
and going, oh my god, all of these details
about Mokosh
1289
01:25:35,630 --> 01:25:40,009
line up so perfectly with everything that
we and others were experiencing,
1290
01:25:40,009 --> 01:25:41,719
with this item,
1291
01:25:41,719 --> 01:25:47,016
leads me to believe that there’s
objectively something happening
1292
01:25:47,016 --> 01:25:48,476
outside of us.
1293
01:25:49,102 --> 01:25:52,355
That it wasn’t us haunting this object.
1294
01:25:52,355 --> 01:25:57,443
That this object either already was
or became
1295
01:25:57,443 --> 01:26:00,238
a conduit for something old.
1296
01:26:02,490 --> 01:26:06,953
We were engaging with this ancient
archetype of the Crone,
1297
01:26:06,953 --> 01:26:09,038
of Mokosh.
1298
01:26:12,333 --> 01:26:13,668
And we didn’t even know.
1299
01:26:14,794 --> 01:26:19,132
This whole time we had no idea
that that is what was coming through.
1300
01:26:19,591 --> 01:26:21,426
That’s what we were experiencing.
1301
01:26:22,719 --> 01:26:25,305
The things that we found out
about Mokosh
1302
01:26:25,305 --> 01:26:28,933
years after we thought we were done
with this story,
1303
01:26:33,062 --> 01:26:34,772
are so compelling.
1304
01:26:36,441 --> 01:26:41,279
It doesn’t feel like this was just something
that we impressed upon it.
1305
01:26:41,279 --> 01:26:42,864
It feels like...
1306
01:26:45,116 --> 01:26:47,535
something was subtly guiding us
to an end.
1307
01:26:55,919 --> 01:26:58,922
It’s three years later.
We're finishing up all
1308
01:26:58,922 --> 01:27:01,966
the last pieces of this documentary,
1309
01:27:03,384 --> 01:27:05,220
and the one thing that’s bothering us
1310
01:27:05,220 --> 01:27:07,263
is the fact that we can't put a bow on Biddum.
1311
01:27:07,555 --> 01:27:09,807
We don't know what Biddum means.
1312
01:27:09,807 --> 01:27:13,353
So we're sitting in the living room,
we're going through Google.
1313
01:27:14,020 --> 01:27:17,649
And while we couldn't find a meaning
for the word Biddum,
1314
01:27:18,233 --> 01:27:21,027
we found a few things
that really startled us.
1315
01:27:21,402 --> 01:27:24,280
...actually chilling. Like that is
the stuff that--
1316
01:27:24,280 --> 01:27:26,157
Like, that’s magic at work.
1317
01:27:26,532 --> 01:27:29,035
The problem with Slavic paganism
is that
1318
01:27:29,035 --> 01:27:32,455
there's only like bits
and pieces of it that exist.
1319
01:27:32,455 --> 01:27:36,084
So there are lots of different entities
that share traits
1320
01:27:36,084 --> 01:27:39,003
with Mokosh or sometimes
accompany Mokosh.
1321
01:27:39,754 --> 01:27:42,507
One of them is an entity called the Kikimora.
1322
01:27:42,507 --> 01:27:44,384
There are two different kinds of Kikimora.
1323
01:27:44,384 --> 01:27:46,386
The other one comes from the swamp.
1324
01:27:46,386 --> 01:27:49,180
It is said that she can be identified
by her wet footprints.
1325
01:27:49,597 --> 01:27:52,475
When the home builders
wanted to harm someone buying a house,
1326
01:27:52,475 --> 01:27:54,185
they would bring in Kikimora.
1327
01:27:54,185 --> 01:27:56,646
Once she is inside, it's
difficult to get her to leave.
1328
01:27:56,980 --> 01:28:00,608
Swamp Kikimora was described as
small, ugly, hunchbacked,
1329
01:28:00,608 --> 01:28:04,153
thin and scruffy old woman
with a pointed nose and disheveled hair.
1330
01:28:04,153 --> 01:28:05,863
I'm fucking getting goose bumps.
1331
01:28:05,863 --> 01:28:08,491
She was said to use moss and grass
as her clothes.
1332
01:28:08,741 --> 01:28:11,953
It was believed that she frightens people,
knocked travelers off the road
1333
01:28:11,953 --> 01:28:14,455
and also kidnaps children!
1334
01:28:15,456 --> 01:28:17,542
Yeah, that's fucking creepy.
1335
01:28:19,168 --> 01:28:21,421
As happens with a lot of pagan religions,
1336
01:28:21,421 --> 01:28:23,214
Christianity has a habit
1337
01:28:23,214 --> 01:28:27,427
of incorporating pagan gods
and turning them into saints.
1338
01:28:27,760 --> 01:28:32,682
And they converted Mokos,
or Mokosh, to Saint Petka.
1339
01:28:33,057 --> 01:28:36,728
Saint Petka has a very specific holiday
that is celebrated
1340
01:28:37,228 --> 01:28:41,232
the final weekend of October,
usually between October 25th
1341
01:28:41,607 --> 01:28:44,902
and November 1st, depending on where
that weekend falls in the year.
1342
01:28:46,696 --> 01:28:48,072
The festival dedicated to this goddess
1343
01:28:48,072 --> 01:28:51,242
was celebrated sometime between
the 25th of October
1344
01:28:51,451 --> 01:28:52,952
and the 1st of November,
1345
01:28:52,952 --> 01:28:55,121
depending on which date
happened to be a Friday.
1346
01:28:55,621 --> 01:28:56,664
Unbelievable.
1347
01:28:56,664 --> 01:28:58,166
What day were you guys on the mountain?
1348
01:28:58,166 --> 01:29:01,544
We were on the mountain on October 26th,
1349
01:29:01,544 --> 01:29:03,880
is when midnight struck,
1350
01:29:04,630 --> 01:29:06,841
when we were making the mold
for the Crone.
1351
01:29:07,258 --> 01:29:09,594
My birthday, October 26th.
1352
01:29:09,594 --> 01:29:11,679
It's horrible out here.
1353
01:29:13,931 --> 01:29:14,515
What?
1354
01:29:17,643 --> 01:29:19,062
Thanks.
1355
01:29:19,854 --> 01:29:23,024
27 years old,
1356
01:29:23,024 --> 01:29:25,068
sleeping on rocks.
1357
01:29:25,068 --> 01:29:28,154
“Historian and religious scholar Max Dashu
1358
01:29:28,154 --> 01:29:30,490
informs us that
the old goddess of the pagans
1359
01:29:30,698 --> 01:29:34,786
was known by many avatars across Europe,
and that Friday was observed
1360
01:29:34,786 --> 01:29:37,955
as her holy day, beginning with
its eve on Thursday night.”
1361
01:29:42,377 --> 01:29:45,546
You said it was between, what?
The 20...
1362
01:29:46,255 --> 01:29:49,926
The 25th of October
and the 1st of November.
1363
01:29:49,926 --> 01:29:51,427
Whichever day was a Friday?
1364
01:29:51,552 --> 01:29:52,261
Yeah.
1365
01:29:53,012 --> 01:29:55,765
The 26th of October 2018
1366
01:29:55,765 --> 01:29:56,474
was a Friday.
1367
01:29:56,724 --> 01:29:59,352
- Haha! Get out of here!
- Get out!
1368
01:30:02,688 --> 01:30:05,024
What we didn’t realize at the time
1369
01:30:05,024 --> 01:30:07,485
is we were actually climbing that mountain
1370
01:30:08,736 --> 01:30:11,114
on Thursday, October 25th
1371
01:30:12,365 --> 01:30:15,076
and performing that ritual as the clock
1372
01:30:15,326 --> 01:30:17,787
turned over to midnight on Friday.
1373
01:30:20,164 --> 01:30:23,418
Her feast day is celebrated on Friday,
but traditionally
1374
01:30:23,418 --> 01:30:25,503
begins on Thursday evening.
1375
01:30:26,879 --> 01:30:28,631
That is insane
1376
01:30:30,258 --> 01:30:32,260
How’s that... How’s that happen?
1377
01:30:32,927 --> 01:30:37,098
How funny is it that we were
so adamant we had to do this now?
1378
01:30:37,807 --> 01:30:40,685
- Yeah
- We had to do this now!
1379
01:30:43,438 --> 01:30:45,273
Of all the other days we could have gone,
1380
01:30:45,273 --> 01:30:47,942
of all the other windows we could have
even had to go there,
1381
01:30:47,942 --> 01:30:52,738
things had to line up so specifically
for us to be there at that exact time.
1382
01:30:52,738 --> 01:30:55,450
It should even exist. It shouldn’t be real!
1383
01:30:55,700 --> 01:30:58,953
It’s so specific. It’s so specific.
1384
01:30:58,953 --> 01:31:02,248
And it’s that type of strange...
1385
01:31:02,248 --> 01:31:05,084
Here’s the thing,
we can call it a coincidence if we want,
1386
01:31:05,585 --> 01:31:09,297
but there’s too many coincidences
in this entire case.
1387
01:31:10,506 --> 01:31:13,342
It’s direct. It feels...
1388
01:31:14,177 --> 01:31:18,222
I mean, I can’t talk about it without having
full-body chills because it feels like
1389
01:31:18,222 --> 01:31:20,475
something else was in control.
1390
01:31:23,769 --> 01:31:28,274
I am not the same person
now than I was before
1391
01:31:28,566 --> 01:31:31,694
the Crone’s investigation.
And the realization
1392
01:31:31,694 --> 01:31:35,990
that we were communicating
with or interacting with
1393
01:31:37,658 --> 01:31:39,911
a beloved goddess,
it’s...
1394
01:31:39,911 --> 01:31:43,456
I don't think you can be the same person
after having that kind of an experience.
1395
01:31:43,998 --> 01:31:47,710
It’s made me change my mind about how
we approach a lot of these things.
1396
01:31:49,212 --> 01:31:52,757
It’s made me change my mind
about what is behind
1397
01:31:52,757 --> 01:31:55,301
the activity with a lot of these things.
1398
01:31:57,845 --> 01:32:00,932
It feels incredibly narcissistic
1399
01:32:00,932 --> 01:32:05,228
to think, oh, we were doing this on
behalf of an ancient goddess.
1400
01:32:05,895 --> 01:32:08,773
But I do think we brushed up
against something
1401
01:32:08,773 --> 01:32:09,857
bigger
1402
01:32:09,857 --> 01:32:11,317
than a ghost.
1403
01:32:12,193 --> 01:32:16,781
If you go back and you look at the stories
of most of our ancestors,
1404
01:32:17,281 --> 01:32:19,033
a lot of those stories are scary.
1405
01:32:19,867 --> 01:32:21,410
And that doesn’t make them evil.
1406
01:32:21,410 --> 01:32:24,121
It makes them complex.
It makes them
1407
01:32:25,289 --> 01:32:26,040
human.
1408
01:32:26,624 --> 01:32:30,127
And that’s the irony.
1409
01:32:30,127 --> 01:32:35,091
The irony is that it’s that complexity
that often gets looked at as evil
1410
01:32:35,091 --> 01:32:40,513
when it is something that should
actually touch us on such a deep
1411
01:32:41,722 --> 01:32:46,352
human level that we recognize
that these stories are us.
1412
01:32:46,352 --> 01:32:47,895
They are a part of us.
1413
01:32:47,895 --> 01:32:53,025
And my hope is that people will
walk away
1414
01:32:53,025 --> 01:32:57,572
and recognize that sometimes things
are scary because they’re real.
1415
01:32:57,572 --> 01:33:02,118
and sometimes things are scary because
that’s part of the growth process.
1416
01:33:02,118 --> 01:33:04,912
And that sometimes things are scary because
they have to be scary.
1417
01:33:04,912 --> 01:33:08,541
Shit has to be scary sometimes
for us to change.
1418
01:33:08,541 --> 01:33:12,962
It has to be scary for us to have
an initiatory experience.
1419
01:33:12,962 --> 01:33:15,673
It has to be scary for us to
grow spiritually.
1420
01:33:15,673 --> 01:33:20,011
We can’t always sit in this place
of love and light,
1421
01:33:20,011 --> 01:33:21,762
we have to recognize
1422
01:33:22,722 --> 01:33:27,977
that the scary things are just
the complexities of us as people.
1423
01:33:27,977 --> 01:33:30,980
And the complexities of a spiritual
growth process.
1424
01:33:39,488 --> 01:33:43,701
...Right up to the base...
1425
01:33:44,327 --> 01:33:46,120
Just right there.
1426
01:33:46,871 --> 01:33:49,457
- Do you want me to hold this?
- Okay, wait, here’s the thing,
1427
01:33:49,457 --> 01:33:52,918
I want you to hold this open like this.
1428
01:33:52,918 --> 01:33:53,836
Keep it open.
1429
01:33:54,462 --> 01:33:55,838
Hold it just like that.
1430
01:33:56,422 --> 01:33:57,673
It’s still toasty, but...
1431
01:34:02,803 --> 01:34:05,139
I don’t want to rip any more of that silicone...
1432
01:34:06,932 --> 01:34:08,100
It’s coming out!
1433
01:34:08,517 --> 01:34:10,353
Oh my fucking god.
1434
01:34:10,936 --> 01:34:14,815
Oh my god, dude, it’s perfect!
1435
01:34:15,524 --> 01:34:18,194
Oh my god.
1436
01:34:18,194 --> 01:34:20,988
Holy shit.
1437
01:34:20,988 --> 01:34:22,782
- Look at that.
- Wow.
1438
01:34:22,782 --> 01:34:25,868
Dude, that’s not nearly as bad
as you made it out to be.
1439
01:34:25,868 --> 01:34:27,244
No...
1440
01:34:30,247 --> 01:34:33,250
Sometimes I think about the goddesses
1441
01:34:33,250 --> 01:34:35,419
and the gods that have been lost.
1442
01:34:36,879 --> 01:34:39,131
And I think about how they are
1443
01:34:39,548 --> 01:34:41,258
still here and still alive.
1444
01:34:42,677 --> 01:34:45,763
And I feel like the gods and
the goddesses are coming back to us
1445
01:34:46,263 --> 01:34:48,891
to remind us of who we are.
1446
01:34:50,184 --> 01:34:54,146
And that history is--
it's not history.
1447
01:34:54,397 --> 01:34:56,857
It's like an organism.
1448
01:34:56,857 --> 01:34:58,818
It's like a living, breathing thing.
1449
01:34:58,818 --> 01:35:02,947
It's finding its way back
into the collective consciousness,
1450
01:35:03,114 --> 01:35:06,492
and it's allowing
people to reconnect with who
1451
01:35:07,576 --> 01:35:08,828
they used to be.
1452
01:35:09,912 --> 01:35:12,164
And I think that that's
a really beautiful thing
1453
01:35:12,665 --> 01:35:14,959
and that it is
1454
01:35:15,126 --> 01:35:17,962
a living thing
and will continue to be a living thing.
1455
01:35:25,052 --> 01:35:27,680
Most of the objects that we encounter
1456
01:35:27,680 --> 01:35:31,016
I think are because someone has put
so much
1457
01:35:31,016 --> 01:35:35,604
intention, emotion, fear,
love, happiness, whatever
1458
01:35:35,604 --> 01:35:37,273
into a piece,
1459
01:35:37,273 --> 01:35:41,944
that that piece begins to exhibit
those types of traits.
1460
01:35:43,070 --> 01:35:46,407
But I see it all the time that someone
is so scared of something
1461
01:35:46,407 --> 01:35:48,826
that maybe never was haunted before,
1462
01:35:48,826 --> 01:35:50,703
they give it to somebody else,
1463
01:35:51,036 --> 01:35:52,997
and that person actually feels that fear.
1464
01:35:54,206 --> 01:35:57,835
And sometimes, it moves.
1465
01:35:58,753 --> 01:36:02,089
Or they see a strange shadow
that they’ve never seen before.
1466
01:36:03,424 --> 01:36:07,511
If people can do that with an item,
1467
01:36:08,679 --> 01:36:11,849
what happens when there’s millions
of people
1468
01:36:12,057 --> 01:36:13,934
doing that with the idea of a god?
1469
01:36:21,317 --> 01:36:24,904
That’s the type of thing we experience
first-hand with haunted objects all the time.
1470
01:36:25,780 --> 01:36:29,366
These stories that people have imbued
into these objects.
1471
01:36:30,910 --> 01:36:34,497
It’s the belief and the telling of the story
that gives them power.
1472
01:36:34,789 --> 01:36:37,208
And to us, that’s why it’s so important
1473
01:36:37,708 --> 01:36:39,543
to tell the right kind of story,
1474
01:36:40,252 --> 01:36:42,797
because if it’s told enough times
1475
01:36:44,590 --> 01:36:45,883
it becomes real.
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