This Paranormal Life - #088 A Ghost that KILLS - The Ridgeway Phantom

Episode Date: November 20, 2018

Being haunted by a ghost is already pretty bad, imagine if you were KILLED by a ghost. This week we investigate the Ridgeway Phantom and it's many terrifying forms...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.

Is the White House actually a giant mech waiting for the next world war? How do bees have sex? All these questions you can find the answer to on This Paranormal Life. Welcome everyone back to the podcast, the comedy podcast that is also a paranormal podcast. And every week we investigate a brand new paranormal case, claim, tale, beast, and come to a conclusion at the end of the pod as to whether or not they are real or false true or fake my name is rory powers i'm going to be your host for this week joined by my professional paranormal investigator pal kit greer thanks for having

me glad to be here sir first off i just want to say shout out to andy coulter who actually recommended the chain tree alton tower story and i forgot to give him a thank you on the pod wouldn't be the first time that you forgot to so sorry sorry about that andy but i also want to say thank you to alec dose for this week's episode wow that's right this week is a dozy oh that's the let's be real that's the only reason you even thanked him yeah to make that i'm not even gonna actually talk about his story this is christina's submission yeah he actually said i want to be anonymous do not mention my name and you said dozy there's no way i'm passing up on this one you dozy bastard you dumb idiot that's not that's just mean you're not using my name anymore let's not dilly dally folks let's dive right in

because we got it we got a big case to investigate today sploosh now i will go on the line right before we start to say that there's quite a few narrative holes in this week's episode so i'm gonna fill them in and give them a bit more color right not lie just you know get to you know jazz up the story a little bit yeah listen i did journalism 101 back at paranormal college you know you know you know they that's the first thing they tell you is they go listen folks truth boring is all hell yeah and you need to grab attention we live in a this was back in like 1998 they were thinking real far ahead they said listen clicks are gonna be we didn't know what they were talking about no look at his fingers they thought everyone was just gonna

be in a crowd clicks are currency folks if it bleeds it weeds it took a drag of a blunt uh yeah that you know sometimes stories need embellishing exactly like when you're working at the newspaper and that old man fell down the staircase and died. Yep. And, you know, there's not much of a story there until you wrote about the Grim Reaper who haunts the staircase, preying on the elderly. And do you think that guy just fell down the stairs? Sometimes you gotta make the story. I think the statute of limitations is up on that one.

So I'm just gonna come clean right here or not they call me kit reaper it was some very spider-man shit i was covering myself in that paper yeah some peter parker bullshit get me pictures of the elderly killer it's like selfies of you okay well our story begins way back in the early 1840s we're in a small town in wisconsin now these were the days where the towns were set up around mines of course not land mines terrible place to set up a town we're talking coal mines that makes sense back then you know there weren't the same industries there are today. You relied, it was very much a runescape style economy that relied on mining, blacksmithing, and mages. Of course. One of these mining towns was called Ridgeway. And when you've got a town full of guys spending all day down a damp, sketchy-ass mineshaft, at night night they are gonna want to party right i guess that's how it works yeah and they did at night the ridgeway taverns would overflow with the drunken

disorderly one night at a ridgeway tavern things started getting out of hand you know a couple of balls thrown over there a couple of punches thrown over there. Before we know it, we are dealing with a full on medieval style tavern fight. Hobbits on the tables, dwarves chucking glasses, Legolas with his bow taking out orcs on the counter top. It's getting, it's getting pretty- Where's the ring? Where the f*** did the ring go? We don't know. It's crazy in there.

That guy just went invisible. It's unknown just how they were involved, but at the center of this fight was a pair of 14 and 15 year old brothers. Jesus. They were getting drunk in the mine? It's mining days, man. They were probably like, I mean, they were at their deathbed in the 18, what did I say?

The 18 goddamn 40s? They were like 100 years old. It's a miracle they lasted that long. Well, whatever they had done to start this brawl, the other drunks must have been pissed because in the middle of the fight, they picked up the 14-year-old boy and threw him in a fire.

Holy shit. He burned to death. What did he do, do you think? What's the greatest cardinal sin in all of mining i don't know mine someone else's rock kill someone's canary yeah i guess that's a pretty good one they've all got canaries on their shoulders like pirate style i mean these are real men you'd assume they wouldn't get pissed off at little things i can't believe he threw him in a fire jesus and he burned to death of course the other brother scared for his life ran out the

door into the night and froze to death oh my god really there was really no escape from this place what a shitty life now as i said these were mining times barbaric times and i'm assuming someone was thrown in that fire every night yeah it was kind of an aztec human sacrifice yeah like it's part of the ritual like it's midnight throw another little boy on the fire and i think you're right about the age thing i want to say that mining years are even more than dog years well the story of the brothers didn't end there kit nine years later a man Dr. Cutler was heading home to Dodgeville. And the route... It's a real place, alright, so... I'll show some respect to the people of wherever the f*** this is based.

He was getting out of Dodgeville. He was getting out, heading home. Sorry, he was going home today. That is a... You know when it's like a five lane highway one way, and then like a one lane into Dodgeville? He's going straight in. The route he was on took him right past ridgeway now he was riding down the road at night with his horse and carriage it was dark quiet creepy that wasn't supposed to be a question creepy but all of a sudden he looked down and saw a dark figure sitting on his carriage.

Riding along in silence. His carriage. Just sitting there, riding along. What are you waiting for? Boot him off. Well, this seems like a good time for me to tell you that Dr. Cutler was hammered. He was obliterated. Evening, officer.

Fancy a tipple? That's a tin of beans i just wanted to get that out in the open before you calm you research it yourself and call me out on it he was piss all disclaimer yeah dr cutler stared at the ghostly figure as it continued to just ride in silence and then without warning it disappeared okay thoughts he was drunk of course i mentioned he was drunk i said it at the start so you can't hold that shit against me that's how evidence works that's why in court when i walked in i said yeah i killed him what are you gonna do about it evidence works everyone respects Yeah, the judge is like, well, goddamn it, that's not the most innocent prisoner I've ever seen.

You got some balls, kid. Case dismissed. I like the idea of you going in and being like, you know what, judge? Just like leaning on his desk. He's like, you know what? So inappropriate, by the way. You know what?

I did it. And he's like, well, hell, I respect that. And you know what i did it and he's like well hell i respect that and you know what i'm gonna cut your sentence in half and you're like sentence i thought this was a get out of jail i confessed there's a sentence i learned my lesson i told the truth once i'm an angel for this the doctor tried to tell people about what he saw, but obviously they all just took the piss out of him because he was drunk. But was it a coincidence, Kit, that this ghostly spirit appeared right as the doctor passed by the house of the deceased brothers?

Oh, that's very interesting. But did he know? That's what you want to find out. I don't know. I feel like two brothers dying on the same night, one burning to death, one freezing to death. It's not a big town. People are going to find out about that.

Yeah, agreed. You're going to have to know about that. Yeah. A year later, the doctor was finishing up a visit to one of his patients who lived out in the countryside. So he headed back home to Dodgeville, right by Ridgeway, and the brothers' old home. As his horse and carriage trotted along the road,

he kept a watchful eye on the edges of the forest, you know, just in case something happens. Yeah, he's a little spooked. But he passed the house, and nothing appeared. Good, home and clear. Crack open the bottles, let's get this party on the road.

Then he looked down at his horse and there it was. What? The same dark spirit he had seen a year ago sitting in silence. What, on the horse? Yeah, sitting at the front of his carriage, just riding there in silence. Dr. Cutler yelled, and dropped the reins to the horse. Oh, shit.

Releasing it and the spirit out in front of him into the darkness. Okay. It just rode off. Okay. Yeah, that changes things. I'll say that. Yeah. Well, he's sober this time.

No, but it changes things because... Because he's not drinking. Suddenly, he's making excuses for why he lost his horse, which doesn't sound like a very sober activity. Because he's not drinking. Suddenly, he's making excuses for why he lost his horse, which doesn't sound like a very sober activity. I think when a spirit from another world lands on your pony kit, you can let him go. You have my permission to let him go.

Hell, you have permission to put a goddamn 12 gauge against the back of its head. I was going to say, I mean, I don't think that's a very fair life to give the pony over to. Yeah. Spirit life. You know, the spirit appears in front of you and you're like, oh, like, don't worry, horsey. Like, I'll make sure we both get home safe. And then the spirit comes up and you're like, take him, take the horse. He's got twice as much meat as I do.

And you're like, slap his ass and send him running into the darkness. Horse kicks you in the head. slap his ass and send him running into the darkness you in the head or like horse runs straight into a wall dies becomes a spirit and they both haunt the shit out of you chase you down the road for an eternity he's seen it twice now he's seen it sober kit he's seen it drunk there's no escaping it i think this guy has a uh a booze problem. I think you have a goddamn listening problem. Doctors are notorious drunks. Listen, if you saw the shit that they saw every damn night, you'd drink your eyeballs off.

Yeah, their pen and paper is drugs. So you know a little bit of that is going back into the system. You think that the one person society who has access to medical grade ketamine, cocaine, etc. isn't gonna hop that shit every single night? That's why they train. That's why you want to be a doctor. Not because of the money.

You don't need the money. You get the drugs for free. With the amount that you're gonna save on drugs, you're gonna be a millionaire. Sure. Yeah. You got a cough? The me will see you now going to be a millionaire. Sure. Yeah. You got a cough? The me will see you now. I'm a doctor.

This is you in your Harvard medical entry and interview? Sure, I want to be a doctor for the drugs. Who doesn't? Can you imagine being in an interview to get into a course at Harvard to study medicine? And they're like, all right, Mr. Powers, it's an absolute pleasure to have you here. What makes you think that you're a suitable candidate for the course? I'm obviously so high.

Like, lean in. We all know why we're here. I don't know what you're referring to. Oh, you know. No, you know. Oh, I really don't. That's why it's an interview format. I don't know your reasons for being here.

We're here because of the drugs. You've got to keep that in the down low, Junior. Like the dean of the uni is there as well. Excuse me? What? I want to help people. That's right. That's a good answer.

That's a good answer. Winking to him. Yeah, good answer. Imagine that's all you needed to say to get into medical school. I want to help people. Well, a while later, a well-known man in town named john lewis father of evan lewis who at the time was a wrestler in the united states wow and when i i had to look this up because when i say wrestler his son evan lewis was legitimately the first recognized

american heavyweight champion wow of, of wrestling. Yeah. Well, his father, John Lewis, was a farmer living in the vicinity of Ridgeway. And one day he'd spent hours helping his friend with some butchering. Not in like a murder way. Just an extremely manly circle of men, basically. Wrestlers, butchers, and farmers. That's probably how he got so good at it.

He had to like wrestle the cow down and chop it up. So afterwards, after his day of butchering, he's on his way home, walking past the house that belonged to the two brothers, when he noticed a figure standing by a nearby stone wall. The figure was tall, dark, and menacing. John said he assumed it was someone waiting to jump out at him, either as a prank or maybe to rob him. So we yelled at the figure.

What the f*** are you doing? I didn't know whether I was going to actually do it or not. But no response. It just sat there in silence. John had to pass by it to get home, so there's no other choice. I like the idea of being super aggressive up front and then being like, F***, that was my only hand. Yeah.

Like, just put his hood up. No, I just have to be a pussy and walk by. We slowly continued to walk down the path. One hand on the butcher's knife he had in his pocket. As he passed by the figure, it let out a horrifying wail and threw its arms into the air, flying towards John. John pulled out his knife

and thrust it into the figure's stomach. Then everything went black. The next morning, a neighbor found John lying unconscious by the wall. When the neighbor asked him what had happened, John explained about the figure and claimed that when he stabbed it, he was immediately, quote, hurled through the air like in a vortex of a cyclone. Wow. So he was just thrown through the air, corkscrewing through the sky and just hit into a wall and just knocked unconscious it was as if it was like a dragon ball z super saiyan like flying at each

other through the air and then whenever they impact they go and like blast backwards and it's like going through like mountain walls yeah well the neighbor carried john back home but it was too late hours later John passed away. Whoa. That's a death from a ghost. You don't see many of those. That doesn't happen very often at all. Old drunk Cutler's not looking so mad anymore, is he, Kit?

Back at the start when you said he was a drunk old shit. Look at him now. I don't know. This guy might have got hit by a horse. It was Dr. Cutler coming back pissed. This guy might have got hit by a horse. It was Dr. Cutler coming back pissed. Well, a short time after this, a dressmaker was found dead on the road. The medical analysis concluded she died from shock. Still think drunk-ass Cutler is mad?

Well, we just know something shocking is out there. Yeah, what's more shocking than a goddamn ghost? Yeah, what's more shocking than a goddamn boy ghost? Well, I'd love to have a Third point that would prove that drunk ass. Dr. Cutler is not mad, but he died too from getting drunk on his ass After seeing the figure for the third time he also died of shock right by the house This seems too convenient just like we got we got medical records We got facts to back up the all these people died of shock we outside the house on ridgeway the reason a lot of these testimonies and claims can't be backed up with hard evidence yes is because in 1910 oh here

we go the entire town of ridgeway burned to the ground just Just so we're clear. The whole thing. Was it the burning boy? Did he burn down Ridgeway? No one said it was a boy. It was a spirit. A dark spirit. Who used to be a boy? I don't know what caused the fire. Maybe they got sick of being shocked to death so they burned it all down.

They took our advice a little too literally. If you think of your street that you grew up on yeah your childhood home if three people died of shock walking down that street would you stay no absolutely not would you i don't know three people on the road that you have to walk every day but died of shock but but what are you gonna you're you're going to, you're going to pack up your whole life. You're going to, you know. I'd try and take a different road.

Would you take it? I don't know. Maybe not after sundown. Yeah. Cause no one, no one dies of shock when the sun's up. Nope. People are happy. Everyone's vibing.

Listen, no one dies of shock at 3 p.m. No. No. Unless it's winter time when it gets dark at like two yeah and then people are just dropping like flies when they see that sun go down it's like the cull i call it yeah exactly well that whole road around ridgeway became so feared by the locals that people just started to refuse to travel on it okay so there's your answer and those who did come back came back with chilling tales wow not just involving a dark figure but this dark figure takes many forms many forms okay i'm gonna rattle off a couple of them for you all right so let's say you're not we got your standard issue frozen boy. Yeah, frozen boy. Fire boy.

Or maybe they're just like an amalgam. It's just an amalgamation of both of them. Because you seem to be resisting that this is a ghost. You're saying this is a spirit. He's described in all the testimonies

as a dark spirit, a dark figure, a specter. Is that because he was burned badly? Maybe, maybe. That's a good point. Well, he takes many forms. If you're not scared of a

little figure what about a decapitated man riding a horse scared yet pretty different yeah i mean you don't know how it's all connected he's also it was also seen as just a cloud of sentient fog lost style yeah kind of i don't know follows you yeah and then also people just see him as the ghost of an old man but with a whip this sounds a lot like sleep like what's that movie like sleepy hollow yeah i didn't even think about that sounds a lot like it to be fair the decapitated man riding a horse and ghost of an old man with a whip are two completely different ones okay sorry i mean i think the the old man with the whip might have just been an old man with a whip. Yeah, sorry.

No, he's not decapitated. That's not really paranormal. That's... There's nothing... He didn't float or anything. He was just like an old looking man with a whip. Get off my lawn! It's him!

The boy who froze! I'm an old man! I didn't freeze. I've been here for 50 years. I i mean i guess if he is a ghost that's terrifying because like a ghost is bad enough a ghost with a whip yeah what is he whip your soul whips are pretty scary in general they're not really like a modern instrument they're very old worldy yeah but maybe it's like he's not even that good with it it's like more of like a dangly rope that he just kind of like it doesn't crack yeah he can't crack it he just kind of

swings it around or like uh like locker room towel like spanking your little ass as you run down the road you're like ah it's a ghost yeah this is so embarrassing um what are your thoughts i mean we got multiple don't laugh when i say what are your thoughts? I mean, we got multiple... Don't laugh when I say, what are your thoughts, all right? Because it makes me feel like shit. It makes the people of Ridgeway feel like shit because their house is burned down.

Okay. No, I'm sorry. I'm in the zone here. I'm going to treat this professionally. Thank you. I'm just concerned that there's a lot of loose threads here. You've painted with very broad strokes that we started off with a mining town in which these two boys were killed for unknown reasons.

Unfortunately, you have a lot of loose threads when the balls of yarn burn down. You're left with a lot of loose threads. We've got these boys that were killed in mysterious circumstances yeah which would normally lead us to believe that maybe the disembodied entities of those boys would carry on into the world after they're gone and hunt those who'd maybe transgress them that doesn't seem to have happened at all the miners don't seem to have faced any repercussions if anything the site of these boys home has become the site of just general paranormal happenings from old men with whips through to dark entities riding horses maybe you could say that their death has

caused a paranormal disturbance in the force that's causing Rip in paranormal space-time and ghosts and demons to just flow out of this particular road. Yeah, it's like the boys died in a bad way, so they weren't happy, so they went to the realm of the dead. And they're like, well, you know, f*** this. I'm going to go back and haunt that road because that was really uncool. And there's like the old man overheard it. He's like, you guys are going back? Hell, I want to go back and haunt that road because that was really uncool. And there's like the old man overheard it. He's like, you guys are going back.

Hell, I want to go back. I was whipped to death on that road 20 years ago. Yee-haw. The headless dude is like, you guys going back to that road? Yeah, that place is a piece of shit. One of those trees took my goddamn head off. They're all just like, we've just been playing chess for the last 200 years. We could have been here this whole time.

We could go back. How have children worked that out? So that's one possibility for what's happened. Right. But, you know, we always say on the podcast, if we're to make any, like, hard, fast statements about whether something's true or not, we need evidence. This is very much an issue when, as you say,

all records burned down. And maybe, for all we we know that miner took all the records in his hand in the pub and threw them all in the fire uh yeah it's it's hard to but i mean it wasn't just the records i mean the whole town burned down itself yeah so maybe this was just someone who's like look two people have died of. One guy was blasted into a wall with a dark magic kamehameha. Yeah. This place needs to burn. And took it upon himself to just try and like,

you know how when you get a medium in to cleanse a location from spirits? Nothing is more cleansing than fire. Right. Fire cleans all. But, you know, I agree. I think it's an underrated form of um you know getting rid of those problems because you know what there's like not a shortage of times yeah there's some like shitty small times that just do not really need to be there and you

could just move all those people and all their things even yeah into a new town great got twice the people in this time maybe we'll get some like nice new things some restaurants absolutely nice public spaces you know this place didn't sound like a very metropolitan up-and-coming area i think you know anyway but new town policy burn it down and move on that's what i'm saying this leads us to the other point of contention if the town burned down altogether who is telling this story well you'd have to assume as i said that the story of the brothers dying and i guess like a local haunting is so iconic that it's being passed down now between members of the town who lived there or once lived there right uh i will point out that ridgeway and all these taverns that all the miners went to were it was quite a violent area

there was a lot of robberies and murders and just bad stuff happening almost 24 7 right so there is a theory that uh the townspeople made up all of these stories to kind of warn off travelers and strangers and people who would stay out late at night so the idea is like if how if drunk people or assholes were traveling down the road they'd be spooked by the townspeople and be like oh i don't want to come back to richway that place is haunted as hell that's kind of an awesome idea yeah until wow one dude who was drunk got spooked so hard he thought he had to burn down the whole town right yeah that's it that's an interesting idea because there's you know so many places that are awesome. But then the word gets out. So in like the United States, you know, maybe go back like 30 years and people will be like living in New York, living in L.A.

And they're like, man, this place is really getting me done. It's just too crowded. Too many assholes. Too much big business. And then one guy, one guy in a plaid shirt and a cowboy hat's like, you ever heard of Austin? And they're like, no, where's that? He's like, listen, keep your voices down. But it's f***ing cool.

It's really small. Loads of nice people. But keep it on the, you guys seem kind of cool, so I'm letting you know. But keep it on the down low. They moved there. They had a great time. They tell a few more people. Call your mom, mama, papa.

Just moved to a new place. Mama, papa. really cool invite everyone next thing you know they f***ed up they told someone because next thing you know amazon's opening headquarters in taun it's yeah it's you know it's it's the new new york city there is a move to Austin event on Facebook with 1,200,000 attendees. People are flocking in. Paradise is ruined. Exactly. And so they need to find the next place. But what if those people in Austin who are really having a great time, they all looked at each other and just went,

we got a good thing going here. We need to keep the f***ers out. Right. How are we going to do it? Maybe putting on a few costumes scaring a few folks making it see you know cosplaying as murderers and thieves not doing it unless you had to i guess if someone's like a douche you could maybe steal their wallet or something commit to the bit yeah but um that would pretty effectively keep out new people. Yeah, high crime rates.

Genius, really. So maybe, you know, you hear about these towns in Mexico where like 200 people get shot every single day. Maybe... I don't know if that's accurate. Maybe those are the dopest, hippest, chillest places of all. And those are some fake statistics. be yeah it's a it's a tough story and the more i looked into uh wisconsin and this area well first off so wisconsin is haunted as shit really as you said i mean wow i was looking up some stories about this the ridgeway

spirit or phantom or ghost whatever you want to call him i mean he's like one of 50 different creatures that live even around this area even when ridgeway burnt down they said that the spirit moved into the woods near mineral point so he just up and shifted because you can't actually burn the spirit that's the thing no you just make him not want to hang out at that place anymore but i mean there's still way more people and as i said the spirit takes the form of like a hundred different things like an old man with a whip and a headless horseman well that's interesting the fact that you say that wisconsin is broadly haunted by lots of different things that maybe gives a little more credence to the idea that we don't need to be so hung up on these uh two boys yeah maybe it's just a general haunted

vibe yeah well i mean it'd be one thing if you know when you're walking down that road half your body feels hot the other half feels cold you know and then you see two spirits in front of you or something like that that would make more sense that don't make any sense it doesn't make an old man with a whip because a 14 year old boy was thrown in a fire during a bar fight what does that even mean yeah i don't want to be too down on my own story here yeah no be that be it because i'm gonna do it for you if you don't cool cool cool i was actually edging towards a yes but i was taking a real roundabout you know i was like it's unbelievable. So goddamn unbelievable. It must be real.

Because where there's smoke, there's a burning child in a pub. What are your thoughts on the story? Is this it? That's it. That's it, man. I just want to be clear. Yeah. I got no aces up my sleeve this time.

Except actually, I never said Dr. Cutler's full name. Dr. Elon Cutler Musk? Still think he's a drunk asshole, Kit? Oh, wait, I said he died. Yeah. Forgot he died. So my immediate thoughts with this case is that we have a very intriguing beginning with the death of these two boys of course had that led to a direct set of consequences that was very logically traceable to that death

we might have a different case in our hands but for better or worse what has ensued is a complicated web of paranormal shenanigans unfortunately mostly documented by a notorious drunk dr cutler not notorious he saw who died of unspecified drunken injury shock he died of drunken shock i think you'll find you can believe how much aftershock literal aftershock spirits which does not help the claims additionally where at that point we would maybe try to make a mad scramble for some evidence to um try and back up cutler's claims burned up the uh it burned up good unfortunately the entire town burned on no records the evidence the whole town's gone we don't even know if that time ever existed it did sir it did exist what about um uh the wrestler the wrestler's father that's like an actual notable man in history who did exist is famous to him again uh he was thrown against a wall by a dark

magician you didn't say dark magician a dark figure with wizard powers right the vortex vortex the vortex is unusual wasn't he drunk as well no he was he had a he was a butchering all day not everyone is down is drunk i don't know they just give a drunken vibe. Yeah, that was kind of interesting. Just too much scattergun paranormal phenomena to try and, if we're trying to build a logical case here, you know, in paranormal court to give a guilty paranormal verdict. Right. We need some kind of chain of events with a noticeable pattern

and then some sort of evidence to back it up, which is not what we're seeing here. Now, that's super unfortunate because the paranormal world is not predictable. It doesn't work out like in the movies or in the storybooks. Hell no. Maybe it is scattergun. Maybe the death of these boys did rip a hole in the paranormal space-time continuum and demons poured out into Ridgeway that eventually burned down the town but we just don't have enough to say that this definitely happened and definitely was paranormal which is why this week it's gonna be a no from me

that was the perfect conclusion I think to this week's episode I'm on the same page it's a no from me it's a good one and hopefully we can investigate some more of wisconsin's crazy hauntings because i i mean i glanced at an article for like three minutes and i was like five names have popped out already that i am just so interested in yeah so once again thank you to alec do's alec does that was'sy. That was a do'sy. We really appreciated that submission. If you have your own submission that you would like us to investigate, please email us in at thisparanormallifepodcast at gmail.com. So thank you so much for listening to this week's episode. If you would like to get a little bit extra from the podcast,

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we like to end every episode by giving you a special thank you shout out. That's right. A special shout out and thank you to Mr. Thomas Fitch. Thomas Fitch, you little witch. Sounds like the kind of name you would use as a cover-up if you were actually a witch exactly yeah you're like oh thanks for supporting the the patreon and he's like that wasn't really a response and you're like actually this isn't even a coin in the bucket of the paranormal piles this is like a black cat this is a this is eye of newt yeah what are we

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Thanks also to Marta Vasvari. Marta the Sparta. That's right. When she's put into the cryptid battlefield, she's unbeatable. I once saw her get Bigfoot in a why can't i speak i once i'm so intimidated by her figure i'm just quivering i'm i'm blown away frankly i saw her get big foot in a headlock wow uh and then gave him a indian burn on his ankle um holy shit and just flipped him over.

It was insane. What people don't realize is whilst Bigfoot is big, yes, he's terrifying. Yes, he's powerful. He does not know jiu-jitsu. No, he doesn't know shit all. He's a dumbass monkey man.

If you learn judo or some such martial art, you can, of course, use your tiny body to leverage his unwieldy paws into all sorts of choke holds and and it's really embarrassing actually i feel bad for him and thank you also to jack mclaughlin jack attack the man who pack a snack in his backpack thank you jack for the delicious treats that you brought on this trail because anytime me and kit go on an adventure

We only have one rule no food. You know you you got to get what you can get out there It's the wilderness. It's a not a dog eat world. It's a doggy dog world Which means you gotta be the number one pup to survive So you my dog about you say you say no. What you mean is you don't pack any. You refuse to buy any supplies or snacks. Hell no. Or even wear appropriate footwear. No.

And yet you eat all of my cliff bars. It's the law of the jungle out there. The only food I'm allowed is what I can scour from the land, i.e. your backpack when you're not looking. Like you start like 15 minutes into a three-day hike as well Oh, yeah, like straight in there like two steps out the door and I need a Snickers or I'm gonna drop dead I need that sugar rush. It's a doggy dog Up I just came up I was like the fog is spoken like someone who has never gone outside

like the song is spoken like someone who has never gone outside so good thank you also to amelia hope aldridge you know that reminds me of when we're you know reaching the 30 minute mark into our treks into the wilderness and i just think would i like a meal yeah yeah i would like a meal i'm hungry as hell i have my my Snickers. It's been 15 minutes. Kids put a padlock on the backpack and I'm starving my little skinny ass off. A meal? Yeah. I would like a meal, yeah. You haven't lost any weight in the 30 minutes we've been hiking. I was carb loading. Three months in preparation. I got confused about how hikes work. I thought you had to cut weight like for a boxing match before it. I didn't

drink for seven days. So a meal? Yeah, I would like a meal. Thank you, Amelia. Thank you also to Luke Quek. Quek! Luke's coming. And he's hungry as all hell. He's coming for her snacks. And I've only

got enough snacks to get this hungry bastard to my right home. You know, if you try and punch him as well, he's jumping in the air doing a Luke de Luke. Dodging every blow. Wow. Thank you, Luke. Thank you also to Philip Walsh. It's going to be a long, dusty trail out there. We're going to need some food.

So grab that backpack and fill it up with snacks. Oh, you better walsh your step out. Hold on. You better walsh your step out there. It's rocky. Thank you so much, Philip. I'm so sorry. Thank you so much Philip I'm so sorry Thank you so much for your contribution And lastly but not

Leastly thank you to Jason Keen Jason you're a little too keen to come on this walk So unless you're packing snacks In your backpack you know Take a hike But not with us Oh god

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