This Paranormal Life - #075 Curse Of The Blue Hope Diamond

Episode Date: August 21, 2018

First discovered in the 1600s, instantly became one of the world's most valuable treasures. But was it also one of the deadliest? Countless tragedies and deaths befell those who encountered it. Could the rumours of a curse be true?Support us on Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife to get access to weekly bonus episodes!Buy Official TPL Merch! - thisparanormallife.com/storeFollow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTubeJoin our Secret Society Facebook CommunityIntro music by www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do aliens watch sci-fi movies about humans? If you're born in a lab, do you have a birthday? Answers to these questions and more on this episode of This Paranormal Life! Hey-o! Welcome back to the podcast. That is right, it is Tuesday once again, and you are listening to This Paranormal Life, the podcast where every week we dissect a different paranormal tale, claim, or case and get to the bottom of whether it is true or whether it is false you're joined by myself kit greer professional paranormal investigator

and my co-host me mr you were taking too long to get to the point me you're the point i am the point i am the star i am the light really exactly the three shepherds looked to me in the night sky three thousand years ago then found me god or whatever who was in the manger i haven't read it in a while well santa or some shit and they all came down the chimney and gave him a little gift and the gift you me of course as always in this paranormal life we don't dilly dally at the top of the episode we jump right into a terrifying tale our story begins in an ancient and remote area of india many hundreds of years ago within a forest clearing lay the entrance to a hindu temple no one knows how long it's been there wow hindu relics are some of the oldest in humanity's history within their mythology the bh the Bhagavad Gita and other Vedic texts were passed on from the gods thousands of years ago,

before mankind's earliest records. But as long as there have been gods, there have been bastards desperate enough to try and steal some of their power. Of course. A long time ago, one tomb raider of himself braved the entrance of the temple. You can just imagine it. Probably the entrance is the mouth of a demon with huge stone teeth covered by warnings in forgotten languages. And this thing is just, that mouth is just vomiting out boulders. Indiana Jones style.

Like there's barely an entrance to get into. It's more Donkey Kong style Than Indiana Jones Boulder, barrel, banana You gotta jump over them every 3-5 seconds Yeah there's some like Indian princess Screaming at the top Grounded by a big gorilla

You gotta hammer that sucker in the face Grab it and move on Lit only by a torch He managed to evade ancient booby traps that have left countless warriors and treasure hunters paralyzed. But eventually, he turned a corner, revealing

a hall that contained a giant statue. Despite the darkness, the Tomb Raider couldn't believe his eyes. In between the statues brow was one of the greatest treasures in Earth's history. A giant blue diamond. Bigger than he had ever seen.

Bigger than anyone who had ever lived had seen. The light from his torch reflected off it. Dazzling him. This is very descriptive. I don't know how you've got any of this information, by the way. The light from the torch dazzled the gem, a beautiful blue as deep as the ocean

glistened in the light. What is this? It's f***ing great fiction is what it is. You've obviously made this as descriptive as possible. Hesitating only for a second as the stone eyes glared at him. Are you

right? Is this like a novel? A book pinch? He prized the diamond out from the statue. Just as he did, he thought he heard whispers echo around the pitch black hall, words he couldn't even understand. He grabbed his torch and ran out of the temple as fast as he could, trying to forget the look in that thing's eyes. Of course, this tomb raider would never realize the full value of what he had. Probably sold it for a pretty penny, maybe enough to retire on. You just said it was a bigger gem than any man had ever seen. I don't- I think you would not mistake that as garbage. Wasn't it in the arms of a giant statue glistening in the light?

But he had no idea of the journey this diamond would go on. So he knows it's a diamond! But it- Oh, he does know what it is! Christ. But it doesn't matter because this guy would never get to retire. The legend goes that this tomb raider died a bizarre and grisly death shortly after finding the diamond, leading some to believe the price of

owning this diamond may be higher than just gold but didn't he sell it the damage was done but he was taking it from the statue okay so so i'm to believe as this is a paranormal podcast you're implying there was some sort of curse some mystical force taking effect? Fast forward to the 1600s. No answer. Location, not important. There's a man, a great explorer and merchant, known as Tavernier. Tavernier traveled the seven seas,

sailing great ships. He explored India, Persia, and beyond. And by his own account, he sailed some 120,000 miles throughout his lifetime. Bearing in mind, the Earth is only around 24,000 miles around. He even wrote a book of his travels, Les Six Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. Or for those of you who don't speak French, The Six Voyages of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. Tavernier's expertise was trade.

He knew the trade routes, markets, and merchants of Asia better than any Westerner. By middle age, he'd acquired enormous wealth, and it was requested by the King of France himself that he write about his travels for others to study. Except Tavernier didn't write everything down. In fact, he left very specific information out. As a merchant, he had interest to protect, people to protect, his secret knowledge to withhold. You know, you're a man who travels the world. You're going to make a lot of enemies. Right. And that's how you trip yourself up, people. Paper trails. I actually write everything down on paper and eat the paper immediately

afterwards. Yeah. Best way to dispose of any information i'd recommend it to anyone who listens to this podcast i've tried eating other substances does not work as well you do eventually vomit it up eventually yeah but it's illegible mostly not shopping lists yeah things like that no i saw some pretty embarrassing lyrics you wrote earlier actually they vomited up on the kitchen floor maybe the ink smudged in my stomach i can't yeah i don't smudge into can i have those back actually pretty emo shit can i please have those back you know if you're just hurting just let me know if i just wait can i see the page for a second can i just eating it again try and get it out bitch i'm gonna see it in six to five hours maybe sooner hold on oh three more songs came out my paper dinner by rory powers my thin meal by rory powers can't keep it down

rory powers so whilst tavernier would write about his travels some of the actual specifics are pretty hazy what we do know is that tavernier was the next person to hold this blue diamond. So he got a hold of it through his trades. Exactly. Wow. All his time in India. He didn't mention how he got it. But just one day in his journals, there is mention of a 116 carat blue diamond.

Jesus. Now, I had to look this up. But apparently, even these days days a like 0.5 carat diamond could be thousands of pounds. Right. This is one of the largest diamonds ever discovered and as if from another world completely it is blue instead of clear. Even global merchants of precious stones had never seen anything like it. It came to be known as the Tavernier Blue. He knew this diamond was important, so he brought it to the biggest wig he knew, literally. King Louis XIV of France, and he

brought it to just the right person. King Louis was most pleased. He immediately made Tavernier a nobleman and rewarded him with literally hundreds of kilograms of pure gold. Wow. He knew what it was worth. That's what you gotta do, you know? Because if you've got a sketchy item, move it off your hands for good, clean, normal money. Right. That's what you need to do. Ideally, gold.

Gold. The cleanest money of all. Unfortunately, I don't know if that's how shit works anymore. I mean,'ve got you know a prize song lyric right i don't think you can you know walk up to queen liz and demand gold in return i'm not sure that's how it works well luckily kit i have a selection of prize song lyrics to choose from here this one actually my favorite from my little paper heart goes i can't keep this up this feeling inside my mouths have paper cuts i feel like i'll die uh it was just one course yeah to my paper hearts by roy powers i think you actually said before my little paper heart right change the lyrics will change on the fly

because that actually made it sound like i have a shit little heart and my heart is he's as strong as a ball of paper do you think that's worth gold? Is that worth gold? It's borderline paper mache at this point. Who's to say if that's worth the diamond itself? Hundreds, maybe thousands of kilograms of pure gold. We'll let the listeners decide. Yeah, he had done pretty all right.

You could be forgiven for thinking that the diamond had been a good thing into Vernier's life. Unfortunately, it wasn't long until he was ripped apart by dogs. Alive! Oh my god. In a freak dog accident. Need I remind you

what happened to the previous diamond holder? A grisly demise? Dog accidents? How frequent were dog accidents in these days? Was this like

an every other day kind of thing? These days, if you've got an out of control dog, the dog warden comes and like i don't kills your dog or something i believe that's right i think that's how it works i think he you know like he just like wanders the streets kind of judge dread style judge jury executioner

and you know makes the decision on the spot puts a 12 gauge between their eyes yep back in those days no dog wardens so presumably packs of violent dogs wandering the streets. Like militias. Looking for the faintest whiff of diamond on any traveling merchant's purse. Now they like sausages and meat and stuff. But back then it was all diamonds. Loved diamonds. Weird.

Evolution's crazy. Now, a quick disclaimer. The end of Tavernier's life was not actually well documented, much like his journals. And others have argued that he actually did not die from dogs, but actually lived to be 84. That's their opinion. Balancing the equation here. We're very objective on this podcast. I appreciate that.

But the diamond was now in the hands of royalty. And Louis' first order of business was to have the diamond cut. It was too big and unshapely for a king. He turned to his court jeweler, Sire Pitot, and said, quote, Make me a piece to remember! Turns out, cutting diamonds is hard. Like, literally hard.

Pitot took two full years to cut the diamond. It sounds like he was slacking. It sounds like he was massivelyacking it sounds like he was massively he's a borderline part-timer at what point did they just go you two years pito two years you've been cutting this thing you know you're going he's watching tv and stuff and they're like pito the diamond he's like yeah i'm just it's i was waiting for it to to cool down from the last time i was cutting it tried to cut it yeah yeah yeah the thing heats up it's massive king look at it it's huge and king's like it is huge it is huge do you want to cut it no i

don't you're the you're the jeweler that's right i'm the good jeweler so let me let me do my thing as he's leaving here's the tv switch switch back on again it's like pito is taking the piss do you want to come in and cut this thing do you want to come in and cut this thing? Do you want to come in and cut this thing? He's like, no, no, no. You're the, yeah, that's right. I'm the mythical jeweler that cut the dragon emerald in the goddamn history books. Isn't that right? Yeah. You want me to bring the dragon back?

I'll bring him back. No, no, no. I'll rub the crystal. I'll rub it right out. Whoa, whoa, whoa. We'll see how he feels about your no dragon policy, King. I have a feeling he's not going to feel too good about being woken up in the middle of a 200 year slumber.

So. I'd be cranky as shit to be honest with you that's it get back on your phone sit on your fat king ass and let me do my magic so rude I'm such a dick to the king

the king's like why did I give it to the biggest dick wizard I should have just given it to like a jeweler when it was finished it was worn by the king during ceremonies and needless to say death quickly followed my god louis died of gangrene and all but one of his legitimate children died as children however luckily for him he had a shitload of illegitimate children too good king good, bad man. Right. Bad husband. Not just that, but before he died, a close aide, Nicolas Fouquet, had worn the jewel and was later imprisoned by the king himself. Some even believe that Nicolas may have been the man in the iron mask, but no one ever discovered his true identity. But the cursed diamond stayed in the royal family for a little while longer.

Long enough for Louis XIV's descendant, Louis XVI, to take to the reigns. What happened to Louis XV? Now you might be thinking, years have passed. But what does this ancient curse have against this young man and his wife? All you need to know was, Louis XVI's wife was Marie Antoinette. And they both wore the cursed diamond. Ugh. Am I saying that the diamond caused the French Revolution? Maybe. Yes. Probably. All we know for sure

is Marie Antoinette was beheaded after wearing the jewel. Now of course once they were killed the commies or whoever raided the palace and stole all the jewels presumably to i don't know smelt them down into dandelions or something you gank what you can get and it was basically taken off the radar at that point all we know is that it was most probably stolen uh somewhere in the midst of all those beheadings of course and then it re-emerged exactly 20 years later, recorded as the possession of a London diamond dealer, Daniel Eliason. Now, people have noted it re-emerged in his records exactly 20 years later, which is exactly how long the statute of limitations were at the time, apparently.

Ah, I see how it is. I see how it is. You dirty diamond dealers so interesting exactly the same tactic taken as tavernia himself didn't even write down where he got it from it just turned up in his books one day oh yeah i've got a 115 carat diamond kicking about daniel elison later kills himself wow this is moving so quickly you've been talking for seven minutes, and I think 20 people have died, and there's been a revolution. It was then recut by Wilhelm Falls.

What's left? Why is it being cut so much? I don't know what cutting a diamond means. Does that mean shaving it down into a shape? Yeah. Okay. Whenever you see an image of a diamond, and it's always got the beautiful, like...

A Zelda rupee, perhaps. It's got like, you know, maybe seven or eight sides to it. Yeah. And it's gleaming, you know, and a diamond that comes out of the ground obviously does not look like that. What? So they got it. What?

What have I been looking for? Those were diamonds? I've got these piles of glowing blue rocks the size of your head. I'm like, another clump of shit. Chucking it back into the well. Looks like gold, but it's not a nugget. Shit. You're skimming them as rocks into the ocean?

Just to a bunch of like really rich pirates across the lake. I'm like, when did they get there? Every day you go back to skim rocks, the island across the way just gets bigger and bigger houses it's like a condo on the side lakeside now what the biggest natural diamond found of all time it's called i think sergio's diamond it's not a clear diamond like you're used to seeing on wedding rings and stuff it's like a black diamond it just kind of looks like a rock

and apparently they think it's from space they don't know exactly wow to put in perspective this tavernier diamond is one of the most you know valuable diamonds of all time at 115 carats this space diamond is 3000 carats plus that's insane but it's just not like a a gem quality diamond, no one wants that on a ring. I feel like it could probably power a Death Star. Of course. Or something. Black space diamond? Absolutely.

If not, it is at least a powerful street drug. Black space diamond? Drug dealers hit it out of the park with the street drug name Angel Dust. That sounds pretty fantastic. It sounds incredible, the dust of an angel. Actually, it sounds a bit demonic now that I think about it. A burnt angel? That's a bad trip. That's true.

I don't want to ingest the dead angel. A cremated angel? That's some dank weed, you know. I don't want to smoke some cremated angel. No! So yes, Wilhelm Falls, a Dutchutch jeweler was recutting it as well and it didn't go so well he was robbed by his own son and murdered did the son go full smeagol and freak out over the precious artifact we may never know because he committed suicide later too

good lord it then became the property of King George IV of England. How'd he die? He went broke and died. I don't know how. So it had to be sold on from the royal family. And I know we're going fast, but I'm going to have to speed up a lot more if we're going to get through the present day.

We've got a lot of deaths to go to. It passed through the hands of various dealers and royals. But long story short, it ended up in America, in the hands of the McLean family. Specifically in the hands of a fabulously wealthy heiress. And she would allegedly let her dog wear the jewel around the house. And she would, like, lose it at parties. What? You can imagine how this is going to end.

First, her mother-in-law died. Then her husband left her and he died in a sanatorium. Her son died at the age of nine. Her daughter overdosed. And worst of all, she herself had to sell the Washington Post. Oh, wow.

Newspaper. Look, you know, all these people respected the jewel and they still died. If you're using it the jewel and they still died if you're using it as a damn chew toy if you're losing it at parties that thing is gonna you have invoked the wrath of the jewel it really makes you think i mean if you wiped your ass with the jewel what would happen what would happen just the washington post would burn everything would burn new york times oh who knows who knows oh everything gone very least you probably cut your ass because it's been cut so many times that things like a blade

so i know what you're thinking it's about time this madness ended and the jewel be passed to an institution not just in the hands of a civilian it needs to go somewhere where it can't hurt anyone and it was committed to the smithsonian that's one of the best places i think it probably could have ended up and even then it said that james todd the mailman who delivered the diamond to the museum had his legs crushed by a truck and then his house burned down this jewel is an asshole that was just a mailman he didn't even he didn't even own the jewel. He didn't disrespect it. He didn't do anything wrong.

He literally just brought it from A to B and it burnt his house down and crushed his legs. Also, by the way, I don't think, I mean, they say this came from a Hindu temple. I don't think this is in any Hindu script, any religious text, that if you steal a diamond from a statue, this is all going to happen.

Maybe someone found this temple, this Indian Hindu temple, and they were like, no one's been here, no one's ever going to be here. Let's put this damn cursed jewel in this temple so people stop messing with it. Yeah, the statue's pretty sketchy looking. Like, they're not going to want to steal it from you. No one's going to take it. It was booby-trapped. And it is often said that James was the last last victim of the diamond but is that actually true because the smithsonian is a

public institution a national institution oh god could it be that the current holders of this diamond are the american people themselves? The whole country. The country's kind of going to shit. A little bit. A little bit. A little bit. Is this the diamond? The cursed diamond?

Interesting. That is all I'm saying. Bravo. Bravo. A speedboat just crashes through the window and destroys me for talking about it. That is a very interesting point. A nation brought down by the gem it possesses.

We've talked about curses right here in the podcast before. Is it not possible for an entire nation to be cursed? Interesting point. You know, I am a man that does not fear curses. I wake up every morning i set my alarm for 7 30 that thing goes off i lean over out of bed and i smash a mirror yeah that's how i start my day there's a ladder that goes over my doorway yeah every doorway in this in this whole flat is a ladder every time before i leave the house you literally throw a black cat in front of me

i'm not afraid of curses an expensive cruel habit i am so cursed now that my children's children will be cursed yeah your karma is through the floor as is my credit rating as is my love life as is my career yeah is that related to the curse you that wasn't hypothetical sir you've done the research please how do i break the curses you are currently on track to be reincarnated as a literal piece of shit. Right. How do I get out of that? Do I break more mirrors? Am I not breaking enough mirrors?

You're currently running at a kind of 20 to 30 million year deficit of karma. Right. You've been doing this for so long. I mean, how many mirrors you've broken to give yourself seven years bad luck i mean jesus christ you've amassed an entire universe's lifetime correct being reincarnated as a piece of shit um i don't think there's anything to be done nothing to fix that yeah cool cool cool this is the last time you're ever going to be a human is what i'm saying no well is that is that a good thing though oh could be i'm gonna be a dragon bro you're gonna be a dragon yeah what am i gonna be a piece of shit dragon shit i think like

caterpillar or something that you know live on a leaf that's pretty that's pretty i'm just looking for the silver lining here one second though sorry what you said i was gonna be a dragon or something what are your immediate thoughts regarding this whole curse situation look everyone that came in contact with that diamond people who had enemies living in dangerous times someone died of a dog attack that just goes to show you how insanely deadly these days were i think that would hopefully explain a lot of the injuries leading up to the present day but as you say there are some deaths and injuries more recent than that that are pretty suspicious especially the mailman

how did his house burn down i mean not many mailmen die on the job no i don't think it's a dangerous profession how were his legs crushed again by a truck his own truck i don't know if it was a postal truck. I didn't see that itemized online. He's just like in hospital watching the news. You're like earlier today, a mailman was impaled by a passing truck as he crossed the road on 443rd Street. People have been able to unidentify the driver, but CCTV footage was able to capture a brief second of the getaway vehicle. He just, like, looks closer with his tired eyes, and it's just the diamonds behind the wheel.

Glistening blue in the sunset. No! Diamonds! A diamond seen in a violent 10-car police chase down the I-5 North. The diamond's got a handgun at this point, winding down the window, taking shots at the police. Don't you f***ing touch me! I'll burn your house down! They take out the tires. The diamond makes a run for it. Flips off the police helicopter, this filming for the news. They're tracking him as he's going through the fields and stuff.

He's got, got like tattoos now yeah they wrestle him to the ground there's no way to cuff him it's slipping out like a greasy potato just shooting in between everyone's hands i'm a thousand year old hindu crystal you don't know what i'm capable of i got crystals on the inside and you know on on a side note i believe it or not i didn't even list like half the goddamn names of people that held this crystal at one point or another and died you know one of um mary antoinette's closest aides mary louise princess de lambelle she was disemboweled by a mob good lord might have been to do with the french revolution granted as i said dangerous times another greek jeweler simon mount charides embezzled by a mob. Good lord. Might have been to do with the French Revolution, granted. As I said, dangerous times.

Another Greek jeweler, Simon Mount Charitas, he had it for a time, then drove off a cliff, apparently. The list really goes on. Everyone died. Everyone died. But I'm sensing that you're not convinced that this is all just to do with the diamond. Not yet.

Not totally convinced. I do concede, whenever you fully go through the list of all the people who held it, there are high-profile people who held this diamond for a length of time, and that kind of nothing happened to them. Whilst it does seem like I'm listing an enormous number of people

who had something happen to them, and it is true, there is also a relatively long list of people who encountered the diamond and nothing happened to them it's very similar to when we covered the curse of the mummies uh i listed off a bunch of explorers and collectors and artifact hunters who dealt with the mummy and the discovery of the tomb who died i didn't mention the people who didn't die and there was a lot of them the majority did not die yes if we were to statistically analyze these numbers they would probably not be that crazy okay really shooting yourself in the foot here but i think you're probably sensing where I'm coming from. Yeah, I'm expecting a big, however, at any moment now.

Here it comes. If we're to come down to a hard and fast conclusion about whether the story of the Tavernier Blue, also known as the Hope Diamond, is truly paranormal or falsely paranormal, do you come down where's the hope diamond come from hope was one of the guys who had it who didn't die so i didn't talk about it he actually had it for the majority of the years uh um i'm gonna have to say i need more evidence i need to see newspaper clippings i need to see if i haven't seen a picture of this diamond even take my word on this shit god damn it i'm gonna show you a picture right now i show you you're like that is cursed that thing is cursed beyond repair yes beyond reproach has it been cut yet it looks like it needs to be cut so this is a photo that's pretty big. This is the actual drawing that Tavernier himself drew in his

journal. The first written mention of its existence. This was at its original size. There's the dog that wore the crystal. No respect. That is insane that that dog is wearing something more expensive than I will ever wear. Yeah. It's quite sad. God, see, this is good though. This is what I wanted to see was some physical evidence well i assumed you'd take my word for it but here we are i guess i'm having the stoop to the level of a stoop to the level of evidence in the paranormal case are you convinced now i'm edging towards it so i'm just gonna go ahead and say that i don't think this is a real curse cool cool glad you went first i was gonna be a hard yes uh actually since you showed me a picture of it

i was playing i know it's real get i have to be real with you guys you know i i go into this investigation you know eyes wide open heart open stomach full of paper with lyrics attached. There was a lot of crazy shit in this story that I just couldn't explain away. All these people who had it, nothing happened to. It just seemed like all the bad things that happened were just like a detective in a back room, you know, crazily trying to connect the dots between one thing and the diamond happens to be in the middle of it all. Right. It's like the one thing in common with all these very unfortunate people is they all had something to do with this diamond and for that reason i just think we don't have enough evidence to call this truly paranormal if there's

one thing a curse has to be it is consistent any inconsistencies show that this curse may not be real and that's what we have in this case today. It's inconsistencies. And for that reason, I think I am also this week going to have to be a no. Wow, two no's. I mean, what we have done right here in the podcast is disrespect the curse

on an international platform. I hope we'd get to this conclusion to put the curse to its final test. If there is no episode next week, you know why. Exactly. What I'm episode next week you know why exactly what i'm hoping is you know two negatives make a plus baby i'm already gonna be caterpillar shit maybe this crystal curse turn things around i become so cursed that i'm reincarnated as the devil right at least i get some powers just run the goddamn underworld yeah all of a sudden the

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Mostly blood, actually. I need a band-aid. It's a tiny amount of money. It's pennies. Really? And it's not going to cover up shit because this needs actual medical service. And the doctor's more expensive than whatever we got. So thank you to sam oats that reminds me of what i like to start my breakfast with a nice big bowl of cheerios

that's right and sam oats knows the cheerios are expensive that's why he gave me some paranormal cash to the patreon to support my breakfast needs thank you sam also thank you to mark priest thank you immediately expelled from the priesthood we somehow summoned the devil it was so bad yeah i thought it was a priest song um thank you so much mark priest for your contribution you put a little penny in the church box uh we appreciate it immensely so thank you thank you too neve walton neve walton how's your brother travis the sob that was abducted by a g g for gray i really hope she's listened to past episodes or this is gonna really sound aggressive and weird uh so listen back to the travis walton episodes

where your brother was kidnapped by a g the sob and also thank you um for contributing obviously to the patreon and helping fund the show and stuff that's great as well thank you yeah thank you um for contributing obviously to the patreon and helping fund the show and stuff that's great as well thank you yeah thank you to follow fi i would follow fi to the ends of the earth i would follow fi to the gates of hell because he paid me to just now on patreon yeah that was actually his like message to us as a page was follow full stop me full stop baller and here we are outside his house right now recording the podcast live yelling follow five four five i smell the blood of a patreon and we're being arrested yeah right now the cops are here we're being arrested he's a child it turns out he was a child.

Thank you also to Travis B. Davis. Buzz, buzz, Travis B. Thanks for giving me some of that sweet honey, baby. Thank you for that sweet nectarine, that delicious honeycomb. We couldn't build this hive without you. So thank you so much and enjoy the flowers. Thank you also to Crazy Jim. I wonder if like Crazy Jim is like a really tame guy.

That's just his Christian first name that his parents gave him. Right, yeah. He was like a chess master at school. Yeah, and they just named him Crazy Jim to hope that he would be crazy good at chess. But instead, he just started strangling. It could have gone either way, really.

Should have just called him Smart Jim. Yeah. Would have cut them out a lot of problems. He probably wouldn't have got into knives that way. Thank you, Crazy Jim.

We appreciate that you took time out of your knife collecting days to also coin the bucket of the paranormal peasants. Thank you also to Carlo Magliocco. Carlo, can you go? Carlo, can you go? That's right, Carlo, the goddamn limbo champ.

I've seen this guy scoot his hiney under an inch bamboo stick. This legend can borderline morph his body to that of a paper a sheet of paper and slide underneath if anything we should be investigating him you know the way snakes can dislocate their jaws you can dislocate just about everything about him you know how octopi can squeeze out the nozzle of a tiny bottle? I have seen this man legit eat an octopi and then limbo underneath harnessing his spiritual energy. Insane. But somehow he also has money and wants to support us.

So I bow down to the octopus god. I just can't help but wonder, did he get it by illegal means? Who knows? Because if I could do that, hell to the no. I'd be slipping under little bars, ganking all your money, sliding out of an air hole. Thank you too. Ryan. Short. Simple.

I hate it. I know nothing about him. I don't know where he comes from. I don't know if he's crazy or not. Is he crazy, Ryan? If you think you're getting into this goddamn commune with a one name like that, hell to the no. We need social security.

Name of your first pet. Mother's maiden name. Your mother. All of the above can, of course, be waived by a huge upfront fee. But if you're willing to... Oh, wow. He's actually getting full. He paid it?

Welcome aboard, brother! welcome to the commune you're promoted you're our boss somehow can i stay please my name is crazy rory actually that's a actually that's a decimal point right there so uh we're gonna need you to leave ryan get your ass out out. And thank you lastly, but not leastly, to Amber Sloss. Amber. The girl's so explosive, they should call her Ka-Blamber. That's right. She is one dynamite gal. She's the new leader of the militia here at the Paranormal Commune. I don't remember who we said was the last leader of militia,

but get the hell out of there. Because Blamber's in the house now. She's got an itchy trigger finger, and I'm pretty sure she snorts gunpowder like it's cocaine. Which is the two requirements for being head of Militia. Exactly. That just about wraps

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