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So you wanna talk about synchronicities right?

May 23rd, May 23rd at 10:23am

I’m just scrolling through Twitter and all of a sudden

a name pops out at me.

It’s Thursday so there’s Folklore Thursday.

You ever participate in that? It’s pretty great.

It's just lots of folklore people throw up.

Well on this day, I see that Chris Woodyard retweeted:

"In Somerset it is said that a child alone

in a bluebell wood will be whisked away by fairies forever.

If an adult goes into a wood to pick bluebells, faeries

it will lead them round in circles for hours, if not days,

until someone ventures in to

rescue them.” I thought well, that’s interesting,

Somerset.

Must be a Somerset in the UK, right?

Didn’t really think much of it.

Well that was at 10:23, at 10:28 this pops up into

my timeline, “Somerset is a hot-spot

for the fae and for centuries my local fairies

have held a fair on the Blackdown Hills.

First reported in Bovet’s Pandaemonium (1684)

the event includes ribbon peddlers, pewterers, and ale

sellers.

But beware- guests are not welcome!”

So that’s another Folklore Thursday that popped up in my feed

minutes after. So then this pops up.

[Laughing] 10:28, “In Somerset,

angry tree fairies known as Oak- Men are said to inhabit any

coppice growing from felled oaks.

Locals know to avoid these thickets after sunset.”

Another photograph..

[Connor] Going again

-Somerset popped up again in my timeline, minutes later.

[Connor] Yeah, yeah

- So at this point I went “okay that’s weird, I’m gonna

start looking at Somerset.”

So I went to the search function on Twitter and I typed in

Somerset. The first thing that popped up is from last year,

“Anyone else who lives in Somerset

I swear there is a UFO hovering above I’m not messing”

Okay, here’s another one, “Triangle Shape in Somerset

Kentucky on Friday the 21st of February 2014.”

The legend of Goblin Combe, Somerset, as recorded in

“Folktales of England” Briggs and Tongue, 1965.

Whole story here about uh... fairies from Goblin Combe in

Somerset England. So by this point 3 hours had gone by, this is at 1:19.

Same day. May 23rd.

1691 book “The Secret Commonwealth of Elves,

Fawns, and Fairies” is regarded by many as one of the most important

works on fairy lore ever committed to paper.

The author it is said, paid a heavy price for

his involvement with fairy folk.

It’s not super thick but it’s like full of the secrets of the fae, right?

They say that this guy paid the ultimate price

for revealing these secrets.

You know what his name was?

His name was Robert Kirk.

Newkirk.

- You’re Newkirk!

- What are we literally doing right now?

- The new Kirk! and you’re like also a gray minister.

- This guy was a minister in this place. I’m literally an ordained minister

- Yeah

- My dad was a minister. This guy Robert Kirk was

dragged away by the fae because he was giving

their secrets away.

Which is literally what we’re trying to do.

It’s that idea of a story that continues to play out

over and over and over again.

♪ Hellier Theme ♪

At some point you need to resign yourself to the fact that

you may never know exactly what it is but if you’re

very fortunate you’ll get the poetry of it.

♪ "Seditionaires" by the Bent Brothers ♪

[Greenfield] It’s a transformational experience and again I’ll refer you to

Joseph Campbell and the "Hero's Journey."

This is the Hero's Journey,

and it involves going and obstacles and coming back

but not being the person that you were when you started,

being greater for the agony and the ecstasy of it.

[Greg] Hellier was a lot easier to compartmentalize when the

first season was being prepped. Before the first season

came out, I mean it’s obvious there was a point in time where I

kind of threw my hands up and was like “I- I can’t think about

this right now” I was frustrated with it.

So I wasn’t, I wasn’t dedicating a lot of time to it.

Then after Hellier came out, it was just impossible.

I didn’t really have choice in the matter anymore,

it just is kind of 100% Hellier all the time.

and then we try and do we try and do the museum whenever

we can but Hellier is always somewhere hovering

in the backs of our minds.

[Dana] The more that I think about us doing an initiation ritual,

the more I feel as if that’s the right direction to be looking in.

I think that there’s so much happening that just seems to be

perfectly situated in that space and it’s happening to each of us

separately in our own individual ways, and together as a group,

it just feels as if we are a part of this massive initiation and I don’t

know what we’re being initiated into but it feels as if it is

a current that we’re being pulled along through.

[Greg] A month after Hellier dropped, somebody sent me a

copy of a book that I’ve been looking for for years.

Really strange timing on it, super odd,

it’s like a holy grail book for Forteans and weirdos,

something that’s super rare, not many copies exist

in fact usually to read a copy, you have to go to a library.

and I think the nearest one here is like in Indianapolis

and you have to either rent it through like inter-library loan

for professors or you have to read it there.

[Connor]- Is it really old?

- Uh it’s like 70’s, 80’s? I think 80’s I wanna say?

It’s called “The Rebirth of Pan” he sent me PDF copy,

to buy a new copy-- to buy an old copy literally

they're like $500, $600. Even bootleg prints go for $150.

So it’s crazy that it’s so hard to find.

But because of that it’s one of the Holy Grail books for a lot of Forteans.

Really interesting timing on receiving this thing.

It was written by a guy named Jim Brandon,

There’s a lot of mystery around this guy because that’s a pseudonym.

Apparently he used to be a reporter.

He lays out a case in this book that we’re dealing with some

sort of a grand spirit of the earth, he calls it Pan,

Pan obviously after the god Pan but also because “pan” means “all."

I read the entire thing in one sitting and I’m just making note,

after note, after note in this book because so much of it

was so unbelievably relevant.

What really drew me to it was this page, there’s a three-toed

footprint. Another three-toed

footprint that’s actually at one of

the native mounds here in Ohio,

then these three-toed tracks that look like turkey prints.

He says the mythical personality Orion who is sometimes referred

to as the cocks foot or the foot-turning wanderer,

one can only wonder at the relevance of the fact that one of

the most persistent cliffs appearing on native rock art,

anomalous inscribed objects

and even as centerpieces in the great mounds complex in Newark, Ohio

is that of the three-toed bird tracks symbol.

A ridiculously associative mind might even ponder a link

with many three-toed bigfoot tracks widely found from

ancient rock, to contemporary garden mud.

I wondered what Wicca enthusiasts would have made of

them since this mark is the sign of witches' meeting places

in European lore.

This symbol also occurs in many other North American rock inscriptions.

I can only conjecture that this symbol has some unknown significance to Pan.

Immediately there’s’ this three-toed link

with the idea of Pan, and that’s kind of what got me started looking at Pan.

This symbol right here, that three-toed footprint symbol,

this is the... this is the footprint

that we didn’t think was related,

the one that was found just outside Hellier.

- Oooh! From that guys' friend!

You remember them talking about that in the cave?

- And that's in stone? - Yeah. It's literally that.

We could think back to the phone call we had with the guy

in Jenkins who said they’d found a three-toed print in a cave.

[Jack, on phone] Yeah there’s a track and I can

put my two fingers down in the track, - Yeah

- Like a... I don’t know if you would call it a turkey track

or something but I can put my two fingers in that track and

my thumb would be back, sort of like a turkey track.

- When we saw photos of it we wrote it off because it didn’t look

like the goblin prints we were looking for, it looked like a turkey

track. And now here all of a sudden is this book,

laying out the significance of these tracks in these paranormal cases.

This is when I started to really sit up and take notice, in fact

I actually texted Karl this immediately because

it was so strange.

He goes into power names, and talking about the idea of power names

and what those mean for Fortean cases and strange cases,

paranormal phenomena, things like that.

He says

"I’m not talking here about such spooky tongue twisters

as HP Lovecraft’s "Yog-Sothoth" or Arthur Machen's ‘Ishakshar,”

but of quite ordinary names like Bell, Beall, and variants.

Crowley, Francis, Grafton, Grubb,

McGee, Mason, , McKinney,

Montpelier, Parsons and Pike.

Particularly calls out Parsons and Pike as power names,

two of the things that were intrinsically connected to Hellier.

[Connor] Aaah! Like Pike County!

David M. Parsons. Which is SO odd, right? - So weird.

-So strange [Dana laughs]

[Tyler] Unbelievable! It keeps popping up, over and over again.

But we continue to see the name Parsons all over the place!

And a list of maybe, not even a dozen names here...

Shelby, Vernon, Watson, Watt, Williams, Williamson.

That was a big one.

I haven’t read a whole lot about power names until reading through this,

he also talks about something that he calls the “Fayette Factor”

where like anything with name "faye"

or any relation to fairy like names, tend to have

some really strange stuff.

"Pike is the name only slightly less charged

with strange significance than Fayette across our land."

Alright one of the other interesting things that he starts

going into is the fact that Sirius and Orion

seem to play a role in all of these sightings.

Sirius is the dog star, Orion is the hunter.

Orion

is the where the bad bad aliens come from,

Sirius is where the good aliens come from.

Bad aliens, for some reason, in tons and tons of these reports

and these cases go after dogs. They take dogs,

they show an outward hostility to canines.

What is the thing that happens to David’s dog?

It's abducted.

[David email reading]

They actively attempt to enter my home in the middle of the night.

Last month, they took my dog.

In the Mothman Prophecies there’s a whole passage about

people’s dogs disappearing during the Point Pleasant flap.

“Animal disappearances and deaths go hand in hand with the UFO

phenomena. In December 1973 and January 1974,

there were wholesale disappearances

of pet dogs from Connecticut to California.

Among my grimmer memories of 1966-67 are those times

when I knelt in farm fields to examine dead animals,

particularly dogs, who had suffered amazingly clean and expert cuts.

These deaths were not localized, but came in nationwide waves

simultaneously with UFO waves. This pattern has been

repeated ever since.”

Richard Hinckley Allen, the star lore expert,

notes that Orion was often in earlier times known as the "Cock's Foot"

or the "Foot-Turning Wanderer."

Again, three toes, the Cock's Foot, the Foot-Turning Wanderer.

The Cock's Foot, three-toed footprints,

Orion being at war with the dog star,

David finding three-toed footprints, his dog disappearing,

I mean it’s all there.

And what’s more, is that we come to find that Sirius the star

is sometimes referred to as “the blue star”

which is feeling more important and significant

with Sirius after we found this blue star balloon.

Running with that connection, I actually wonder if those

dates in February might have something to do with Sirius.

We actually reach out to an astrologer on twitter who had

done some really interesting work with some of the dates

from Hellier Season one.

And we asked about those specific dates in February,

along with the date in June when we found the blue star balloon.

We told her the locations of the balloons that were found

And the times that they were found. Nothing else.

She doesn’t know that they’re even balloons,

she knows nothing about why these dates are significant.

"The two dates in February also have a lot of planets clustered,

In what Steven Forest calls the 'Objective Fate Quadrant'

of the charts. So that tells me that these two dates

likely involved the same people and events.

Definitely similar vibes."

"Date one: Third of February.

Anne Ortelee says that sometimes the sun on the south node

can bring people in who can help you on your path.

If anyone new appeared then they’re probably significant."

That’s probably you.

[Karl] No that’s Amy.

Oh shit!

[Dana] Oooh! Oh my god! [Tyler] Yeah, yeah of course! Amy!

- Yeah you’re right!

- Oh man

"Another thing that stood out to me right away on the first chart

the 3rd of February, is Jupiter in Scorpio

is almost exactly trine to the MC

so Jupiter transiting Scorpio had a lot do with bringing up hidden things,

lots bubbling to the surface.

Major emphasis on publicly sharing with others."

"The third date, the 14th of June, has the moon rising in Scorpio.

This chart has an interesting 'Grand Water Trine'

with the moon ascendant in Mars north node,

Mercury and Neptune.

Mercury is out of bounds.

Because of this I would guess that this event had a notable emotional impact."

This is the blue star balloon...

"With Mars and Mercury on the end node, I wonder if this was a

weird synchronicity event.

Moon in Scorpio and Mars in Cancer are both in their weakest signs,

I would say this whole chart reflects something to do with restriction

or hesitation, careful planning but with a lot of drive to keep going."

I mean it’s pretty spot on for knowing nothing but the dates, times, and places.

What this person believes and what a lot of Anthropologists believe

is that the first appearance of Pan was in 20,000 BC

in a cave in France.

Also known as “the Trois Freres Sorcerer”

Super super old, 20,000 BC.

This was located so far and so deep into a cave it was very

very difficult to come across and some anthropologists

believe the whole idea was to meet the shaman, to meet the sorcerer,

the goat-headed sorcerer, you had to go on a very complex and tough journey.

Osiris, the Egyptian earth god, ruled over vegetation

and the dead, a psychopomp.

Right here.

Notice the color of his skin? It’s green. But he also has horns.

This shows up again in Islam,

in the Quran, this guy is uh- Al-Qadir.

Yeah, he’s a trickster prophet.

So there you have two Green Men motifs right there.

What pops up a little after that, in 2700 B.C.?

Is the steatite seal of India.

which shows a horned god doing a yoga pose.

Notice he’s surrounded by animals, he’s a forest god.

Cernunnos shows up in fourth century BC, that’s this guy right here.

This guy didn’t have a name until they were taking apart a church in England

and then they found one with an inscription that sailors had left

and then they called him Cernunnos.

Notice how similar it looks to the seal from India.

Two completely different places.

Hern the Hunter shows up in Shakespeare in the 1500’s,

wore horns and antlers, had a canine companion.

Eventually, Pan is turned into Puck, Puck is very mischievous.

He likes to cause chaos, but all of his chaos actually leads to

good things. Causes lots of dead ends for people.

But Those dead ends eventually lead somewhere.

Images of Pan surrounded by dancing fae and playing the flute,

you see that all over the place.

Whether it’s - where is it.. right here is one of my

favorite images of it because you see all of the nymphs

dancing and then right over here, just in the darkness

playing the flute, two little horns on his head.

just out outside of the view of everybody else.

This eventually turns into

this

which is the devil being danced around by the witches.

Eventually Christians took the traits of Pan and merged them with the devil.

A lot of old Christian sites were built on Pagan sites that were dedicated

to people like Cernunnos and Pan and things like that

because they tried to merge the two,

because they knew they would never get the Pagans to

worship, to worship the one God if they still had these Pagan belief systems.

So as these things started to merge they merged the devil and Pan together,

Most of these people didn’t really understand

because they had no concept of a pure evil.

That was not a thing.

That was like Zoroastrian dualism that showed up.

And then people stopped paying attention to Pan.

Pan’s actually the only Greek god that ever died.

The Green Man, lord of vegetation, growth, rebirth, things like that,

those are all tied in with Pan.

We start to see Pan everywhere in all of these different religions

over and over and over.

So basically what I’m laying out here, is that there’s an entity,

we can call it Pan we can call it whatever. The name changes,

The mask changes all the time.

But there is rarely as consistent an archetypal character

that exists throughout history

has to do with being a trickster, shows up in ufology cases,

shows up in Paganism,

shows up in Christianity,

all of these different places- as this horned entity

than Pan.

It all really comes back to Pan.

One of the things that he talks about here is about how uh- Crowley, again pops up.

“As his famous hymn to Pan suggests, Crowley was want to invoke

this god as the origin point of the supposed extra-human forces

he sought to harness in his ritual workings.

Crowley was literally invoking Pan in order to speak to

Aiwass,

ultraterrestrials,

any of these entities that we're actively trying to speak to,

he always coordinated with Pan to do that type of a working.

That I think is huge, I think it’s like

this is The Phenomena.

This is The Phenomena. Or at least a universal name

for the Phenomena throughout the ages.

[Dana] One of the things I started doing in the weeks leading up to this

was something that, the best way I can describe it is like pressing my

energy out or extending an energy grid to the Somerset

area during my mediations with the intentions of sort of feeling

out the vibe of the general area, just seeing if I could pick up on

anything. The area felt less tethered than normal places,

it felt really weird. It didn’t feel like Hellier it felt a bit different, but it

definitely had a sense of feeling much less tethered than like our

waking reality. Then maybe just being here in this room. I felt a

lot of really weird kind of elemental energy, like a lot of

non-human strange kind of landlocked grounded elemental

energy. I had definite senses of feeling like there was something

kind of primordial or almost ancient there in that space?

Maybe it’s everywhere but for some reason, again because

that spot is so untethered it felt very clear, it was ringing out

like a bell almost like the place had been hit like a tuning fork.

Again when I, I kind of mentioned it earlier but saying it

felt like a hub, it feels as if it’s an intentionally important spot.

Whether it’s- it has to do with mineral deposits or whether

it has to do with the location itself, it felt as if the spot itself was the

important part, like that spot specifically would become some kind of a hub.

I think that we can add a huge element of kind of magic to what

we’re gonna be doing while we’re there. Or at least put a nice

layer of magic over the top of everything that we’re doing.

Because why not experiment with it? So I made a couple lists

of things that we can do when we’re there, and uh the very first

thing that I think we should do when we get to the cabin is...

I think that we need to make- and I’m using this word just for the

sake of having a way to explain this. But I think that we need to

make a fairy alter, some sort of a fae altar, something that

basically is going to be continuously pumping out some

kind of a welcome and just letting whatever potentially is

around us, get to know us and know that that’s what we're there for.

So it’s an intention that's kind of constantly emanating

out of our space.

So some of the things that I collected for that space would

be milk, honey, cinnamon, cakes, white candles, things that

have traditionally appealed to the fae.

So we’re gonna just create some sort of an area that’s

dedicated to them, and every day each one of us is going to upkeep it.

So that just means changing out the milk and honey,

putting a different piece of cake on it, maybe a lighting candle.

Just something different every single day just to let them know

that we’re here, we want to communicate, we’re here respectfully,

and that if you’re comfortable, this is where, if you wanna and come

hang out with us, this is where we are. This is our hub.

So the other thing that I’ll be doing is when we get to the

cabin, I have a certain herbal blend and it’s- again going to

clear out some of the energy of the people that were there kind

of partying, being loud, being generally kind of scary to

potential fae-folk. And it’s just gonna clean out that stuff and

again, lay a really nice foundation for communication.

And that's going to be mug wort, St. John's Wort, rosemary, and

thyme. And they’re all herbs that are traditionally linked to the fae

but also to peace and harmony.

And just kind of letting again, them know that- that’s what

we’re here for to communicate and to make some sort of

a connection with them.

[♪ Guitar music plays ♪]

One of the things I’m going to have to do when we get to the

cabin is I have a list of things I want to go out in the woods and

find and they're just going to be things that we can place on that specific altar.

So toadstools, which are they have a huge association with

fae, especially in the Celtic traditions.

Clovers, bluebells, honeysuckle, those are all really associated

with fae.

So having them kind of naturally be placed on the altar from that

specific area is kind of another way of letting them know that we’re here and

we're recognizing that they are also here.

I have, limit the amount of meat that we eat, if we can possibly do that.

Try to be barefoot as much as possible.

Each one of these steps is a way to kind of let the

Phenomena know that we’re there, we’re there to

communicate and to learn as much as we possibly can from it.

The timing is kind of interesting, so we’re coming up on Mabon

which is the second equinox- er it’s the second harvest

festival basically.

So traditionally, there were three festivals during this time of year,

this is the second harvest festival.

It’s the autumn equinox, where the day and the night is equally- it’s

around the same amount of time- it’s a solar festival...

[Greg] Half in, half out.

-Half in half out, literally.

It’s a solar festival a fire festival, it’s a festival to pay

respect to the impending dark because winter is coming.

It’s a time of mystery and it’s a time of honoring aging gods.

[Greg] Oh, wow.

-Which I thought was really interesting.

It’s named after a Welsh god, it’s a Celtic festival.

But one of the things that I thought was interesting

was during Mabon the druids actually worshipped the Green Man

by offering the trees libations. So we have a really great recipe

for something we’re gonna make actually at the cabin.

It has to steep for four days, four nights,

and then we’re going to pour some of the libations in the trees

around the cabin and then maybe around the cave itself.

Basically as paying respect and homage to the Green Man.

♪ Guitar strums ♪

Being in Somerset with the whole gang made it real.

This was obviously something...

there really wasn’t any turning back from the case once we were all there together.

You’re surrounded by it, and you realize you’re in it.

It was one of those very surreal feelings of

understanding that

we’re in it now. This is the time to find out what’s going on.

[Kyle] Somerset is a very weird town, it’s uh- it’s where I grew up

from, from middle school on.

and you know when you’re younger it’s an awfully oppressive town.

There wasn't, as I mentioned a lot to do, very religious-based.

But as we’ve gotten older um, it’s gotten a lot weirder to be honest.

There’s always been weird things, but this town's not really talked about it.

There’s a lot of underground conspiracy theories that you hear in high school

and stuff, but the further we got into the paranormal stuff,

and especially now that we’ve opened the museum,

the more people locally have weird stories about the area.

[Greg] I was excited because Kyle was something that we didn’t have in Hellier.

We didn’t know anybody in Hellier that we could ask about local legends,

who was comfortable enough to talk to us.

It was really hard to get people to open up.

So now we have this guy with a paranormal museum right in the middle of town

that I already have a rapport with.

So I was very excited to get his take on Somerset.

We didn’t outright tell him what we were there for,

we just kind of said “hey we’re passing through”

because we were still trying to remain pretty low-key.

But we asked him, you know, what are some of the stories

that you get here in Somerset?

I mean ghost stories of course, bigfoot sightings,

we had a flying stingray seen in 2015.

We have a ghost train that is in the area.

We have a church that has gospel singings in the middle of the night,

and like, there's secret cults that we hear of.

It’s just the perfect place for a hub of weird things.

If we were going to go looking for UFO's or head into some caves

and look for these creatures, would you have any advice for us?

Be careful. The area specifically I’ve mentioned on short creek is...

I mean all people aside, it is out in the country so you’ll get weird people,

all ghosts aside there have been numerous weird things about it.

People always say that they feel watched there, they have had

people watch- like literal people watch them from the woods

and stuff. So just it being out in the middle of nowhere.

There was another thing that

Kyle alluded to but was very

cautious about saying.

He kind of stopped short of telling us about some of the

seedier paranormal stories, stories that potentially involve

some secret society in this town.

I guess tangentially related, and if you don’t want to

talk about this that’s fine.

Are there stories of secret societies in this area?

[Greg laughs]

So we have some weird stories about rings of questionable activity

in our area that date, as far as I know, date back to at least the 50’s.

- Do you think that we would have any

reason to be afraid of these rings of people

if we go poking around?

Absolutely, yeah. I would definitely even being here -

I wouldn’t dare mention these names on camera, you know?

I don’t want to get involved...

I mean we’re right now at a 25 year anniversary of some

of the most gruesome murders that have ever happened in

Somerset that are still unsolved.

And we think that that’s a part of the same underground

organization that has everything to do with what I was just talking about.

- Do you believe that they might have any connection to

any of the paranormal stuff that goes on in Somerset?

I think it’s very possible. I heard a story

from the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft

that Aleister Crowley might've been responsible

for the first Loch Ness monster sighting.

So I think that anything can happen.

So I think that some of this stuff is just the

manifestation of the weird energy

that has been poured into our area for hundreds of years now.

- Do you think this stuff might be like a

side effect or a symptom of some of the weirdness?

I think symptom is a good word for it.

[Greg] Kyle was very excited to introduce us to his friend Nate.

He had been working on a podcast, that was basically a

year in the life of the town of Somerset, this area.

and he had a lot of really weird stories.

[Nate] Everybody always says well Sedona has the highest

number of UFO sightings in the U.S. So one night I was like, why?

Why? You know, why is that?

And the reasoning behind it, obviously what you guys are

probably familiar with is that it's the quartz.

There’s a two-mile long deposit of quartz underneath the

desert. I mean it even comes out of the dirt when

you’re there.

You can see it in the ground.

Now that, what some people say is, it’s effecting people’s brains

and causing them to see balls of light. Not UFO’s but just distortions of light.

[Greg] Hallucinations.

-Right, hallucinations.

Or the other option is that it’s

causing some type of electrical effect.

So I can, I can actually check this out. You can go to NASA's

website and you can download any type of satellite map.

So I went and I got the electromagnetic map.

Immediately there was this, three hotspots.

One was in southern Alaska, purple was the peak. right?

Like really really bright purple.

So southern Alaska, Sedona, Arizona,

and the southeastern United States.

So I zoomed all the way down

and it was fucking Somerset, Kentucky.

Nate started out talking about him looking into geomagnetic

anomalies in the area,

which immediately I was like “oh score!

there’s another person looking into this, and they see the significant of Somerset."

A lot of studies have shown that places that are considered holy places where

people have a lot of spiritual experiences have high geomagnetic anomalies that

may be effecting the brain. Literally what the god helmet is built to do.

But Nate was finding stuff that I had no inkling of.

This whole region that is the Pennyroyal Plateau,

stretches from like Elizabethtown, Hopkinsville, that area

up to Lexington, over to Eastern Kentucky.

So really what’s right over top of the Mammoth Cave system, right?

Is the Pennyroyal Plateau.

[Greg] Turns out, the Mammoth Cave system sits right below Kentucky,

the center of Kentucky.

and you know, there could be a way that this is all connected.

There are two large deposits of quartz in the world.

The largest deposit stretches underneath the Pennyroyal Plateau

into Southeastern Tennessee.

If you have a piece of quartz

and you hit it with a really powerful magnetic field,

it creates this crazy distortion.

Electricity, energy, and it’s called the Piezoelectric Effect, right?

So this town is sitting squarely

on top of a giant piece of quartz

with the most powerful piece of electromagnetic energy firing,

it’s- it’s like we’re on the tip of a gun.

Somerset sits right on top of this huge deposit of- of quartz.

It's almost like an Indian burial ground in the paranormal

where it’s, “oh people think this exists here”,

but it doesn’t necessarily exist in many of the places they claim.

But it actually does in that town.

You can even see, because of the actual Van Allen belts,

dip down over top of this region to try to touch that magnetic field.

-So basically you’re seeing space and the Earth

trying to touch each other right here in this place.

-Yeah, which causes all kinds of crazy distortions, right?

- that’s wild.

Out highway 39 is a super strange place,

people see all kinds of weird stuff out there.

People have, I mean literally seen extra-dimensional "interlopers,"

like people have seen things reported.

One of the reports was of a white, furry, six foot tall man

sized thing with red eyes, that came into existence crossing the road,

stopped, and then passed through out of existence.

There have been a lot of UFO sightings out there, a lot of cultist activity.

- We keep hearing about that.

- A lot of robed figures.

Out at campground road there are all kinds, and 39,

there are all kinds of sightings of people in robes, right?

Over the years.

Jake's mom she said that the people in this neighborhood,

where they were, out in the country,

would constantly see things like that.

They would think people were in their house,

they would find animals on the property that had been cut,

drained of blood.

My wife's brother lived in an apartment and they would

always tell me about seeing--

they couldn’t describe what they were, but in their minds they were

“goblin-esque” or like dwarf-like,

pass in and out of the apartment that would move things around.

Later when i was researching it, the 37th parallel, cause once I

found out about the electromagnetic shit, and then

after I found out about the 37th parallel I was like

“well how close are we to the 37th parallel man?!”

And then you look at it and it slices straight through town, right?

But it goes straight through where his apartment was.

It turns out in that house, there were twin girls from the 50’s through the 70’s

that saw these "beings of light and energy."

which everyone with a Christian background termed "angels."

These beings of energy would appear to them

out of nowhere and reveal the future.

And these girls, people would come to this house

for these girls to tell them what was gonna happen.

and they knew all of this strange stuff. It’s two houses down from us.

So in the house that we live in,

when we moved down here-- three years after we after we

were here, my wife was coming out of the bathroom,

middle of the day she had taken a shower.

She was coming out of the bathroom, we have a thermostat-

--second floor bathroom-- we have a thermostat on the wall.

She walks out sees the thermostat,

the thermostat slides across the wall like three feet

drops down 3 feet

and then bounces back into place

with this “voo voo voo” shimmer.

She freaks. Screams for me.

Not because she thought she saw something paranormal,

because she thought that she was having a fucking aneurism

or that something had gone wrong with her brain.

I rush up there, she tells me what she saw, she’s freaking out.

And obviously the wall is there, it’s like nothing happened.

I wish I had taken note of when this happened, like what time of year,

but I know that it was like three years after we were here.

So two or three years after that she comes out of the bathroom,

middle of the day, same fucking thing happens.

Where it slides across the wall,

down,

bounces back with this *do do do do*

and slaps back into place.

And I came home from work and she was like “it happened again”

This is the other aspect to take into account.

Amy, my wife, when we lived in Lexington she was a candy striper

at Eastern State.

And I have verified this from two other people that have worked at Eastern State.

While she was there, you know the doctors would say

“Hey, where are you from?” and she would say “Somerset, Pulaski County”

and immediately they were like “What the fuck is wrong with Pulaski County?

"What’s in the water down there?”

Because 70% of the people in Eastern State,

They take people that are crazy and have mental illness

from the entire state. Like if you're in Louisville, if you’re in Western Kentucky,

if you’re in Pikeville, you end up at Eastern State, right?

70% of the population in there are from this county.

[Greg] "I don’t like talking bad about Ashland, but we have an incredibly

high rate of mentally ill people. The mental health

is out of control in Ashland."

This county has the highest, or the largest, mental health

service per capita in the entire state.

So then you've really got to start asking the question,

is something effecting the people here?

And then he started talking about the cult.

This is not paranormal sort of, paranormal kind of weird, this is

the stuff that just be careful about what you use of this.

Throughout the 80’s there was something called the Bluegrass

Conspiracy, you guys have probably heard of it.

That, my theory is that, that culture, drug culture, and cartels,

filtered out through other areas.

And I uh- so during this time period in the early 90’s, that we know of,

I think it stretched before that, but definitely during that time

period there was or is a group operating, I don’t know if it was

a pedophile ring.. there’s a lot of people that reported, that we’ve

talked to that they had robes on, that there was ritualism involved.

The two-two main witness were Linda and Cody, and they were

found out in the tree line and both of their heads had been cut off.

[Omitted] that works with Daniel and I on a lot of stuff, he is

talking to him and he’s like “yeah man I’m dating this lady

and she said that she was in a relationship with his doctor here

in town three years ago and he was taking her to all

these sex parties. And they were dressing up in robes and fucking

all these kids and fucking each other all "Eyes Wide Shut” and

she said she did it for few months, got weirded out when

they were having sex with a lot of kids and then broke up with him.”

So then she said that she tried to go to the cops and her house

was broken into three times, then... she’s never had any

history of drug use or any crime, they raid her house and find meth.

She had to fight the charges, right? to finally get out of it and

then she’s crossing the fucking street right down here and a

fucking hit and run almost kills her.

It’s still fucking going on man, the group still exists, even now.

Uh you’re gonna lose your shit. One day, I get an email from a

woman, from Somerset. Who tells me she’s seen these little

creatures, and they were in the mine shafts and the caves.

And she starts talking about running into people in robes who were

doing crazy-ass rituals out in the forests here in Somerset and

she thinks they have something to do, she thinks they worship

the green men, the little green men. I don’t know what that

fucking means, we’re trying to figure it out.

And now that fucking chick is in jail! She got fucking picked up

right after writing these emails to me.

-No fucking shit. -Dude.

-She really sent you this?

-Dude we have it all on fucking tape!

It's all a part of... it's insane. [Kyle] That’s.. that’s awesome.

-No shit man.

-So I don't know what to make of any of this.

Everything that we have done in this entire case from the very

get-go has been very much like “seat of the pants." We are led

where we’re supposed to go to find what we’re supposed to find.

This is not what I want to find.

Yeah I don’t know, I mean I’ve been trying to figure out like

what, what it is because it feels like it’s all connected.

Something is effecting the people here, I think

in some weird way. And I don’t know. There’s definitely

distortions and some type of weird permeability of reality here.

There is an anomalous nature to the very place we’re standing right now.

What if there is some cosmic trickster? And that it isn’t- that all

of these things really are just that.

And even the fucking cults and shit, all these people have just

been duped, they think they’re worshipping a fucking god and

this thing just thinks it’s fucking hilarious, you know? And it’s not

even a thing, it could just be a... consciousness. Or what if reality

is consciousness? You know?

-The "Great All" or whatever. -Yeah

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-That's really scary.

I’m into the high strangeness

[Greg] Connor’s fucking done with Somerset man, he’s over it.

When we got out of that meeting with Nate, I mean we sat outside

and Connor said “I don’t--we should just leave right now.

We should pack up and leave right now.

I don’t want anything to do with this. We should just go.”

And I understand, I understand him saying that.

I was ready to leave and didn’t think that finding... I didn’t think

that we were necessarily going to find a monster.

But it was more likely it seemed, at that time,

that we might find a human monster.

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[Amy] Hi.

-Hey Amy!

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