Hello, you're listening to Weird Tales and the Unexplainable, and this is Bob Shoy. I'm all on my own for this intro, and most of this episode... As regular listeners know, I've been away for the last month. I've been in New Orleans and in Florida. And now I'm home and I've been going through some of the recording I did in New Orleans and putting together this sort of mini episode of my recordings there to bide listeners over while I get to hear some beef back on track and we finish off the Indiana Jones episodes. We're actually recording the next one of those tomorrow, so that shouldn't be following on too far behind this one. But what this episode is going to be, like I said, it's going to be a combination of recordings I made in New Orleans with Rebecca.
And it's going to have us checking out the cemeteries, and going on ghost walks, and meeting a voodoo priest, and bits and bobs. You'll hear it as it goes for this episode. And I'll jump in a couple of times, maybe just to give some context as I edit these things. So enjoy, this is the Weird New Orleans episode. Hello. I am currently sitting in City Park in New Orleans, or New Orleans.
Everyone keeps telling me different ways to say it. I'm not local, so I don't think it really matters. I don't look like a local. I'm quite obviously a tourist. But this is my second and a half day here, and I haven't done any recording yet. I haven't really had a lot to talk about. But yesterday we did do a walking tour of the Garden District, and I was seeing if I could remember anything that might be interesting to Weird Tales listeners. And the only thing I can think of was a lot of that was walking around saying, look at this swanky house, Sandra Bullock list there. But we did go past one of the big cemeteries, and people who know a little bit about New Orleans.
probably know they have interesting cemeteries. I knew that before I came here. But they're all above ground. That's Rebecca, by the way. Hi. Hi. They have teams, because if they...
Because they're below sea level, or most of New Orleans. Yeah, a lot of New Orleans is under sea level, and a lot of it flooded with Katrina, like several blocks down. Yeah, but that's not why they started. No, but as soon as you dig down, so you have to bury a body like six feet under, and when you dig down, the water table, you'd get to the water table before you got to your six foot. Well, that cemetery was like yesterday. He said it was only about a foot above sea level. So what they tried to do was bury people when they got here was...
Like cut holes, like make holes in the coffins and then like stamp them down. So the water filled up the coffin and kept it under. And kept it under. Or filled them with bricks as well. Filled them with bricks and things like that. Stamping down on them. But then he said that when there was a flood, they would just all raise, it would raise the dead. Night of the living dead. We are in voodoo town after all. And they would float down the river. Yeah. So I thought that was quite interesting. And they also, so they build the tombs above ground. There's like a couple of shelves in there, isn't there? But what he said is, it's actually, you can fit way more bodies.
Well, he said it's a, what did he call it? Rotating. Rotary system. Yeah, something like that. Again, we haven't got this written down. We're just trying to remember off the top of our head. And actually, Becca's already remembered more than me. Yeah. So basically, there's a few shelves in the tomb. It's like a little...
I'm making shapes with my hands. Go on. It's like a what? It's like a tiny little garage house. I think listeners know what it's doing. It's a bit like a shed. A glorified shed. Well, it's a bit more innate than a shed. Yeah, that's what I said. It's like a... But they write the names of the bodies on the side. Yeah. So you put somebody on the top shelf and then you wait a while and then when the next person dies you put them on another shelf and then once the shelves get full whoever was in there the longest... If someone in your family dies and it's like a long time later and some of the other shelves have been filled up by other people by then you...
Dig out the oldest dead body. Scrape out what's left of them, which is not a lot. And put them right at the bottom. I can't remember what he called it. You shove them in with the other family member. No, you put it at the bottom.
There's a big bit at the bottom that's like... No, I thought you'd dig out that shelf and put it in the shelf with the other family member because he said it's like a family reunion. Yeah, at the bottom. It's like a different section. Oh, God. Any local listeners listen to this, they're going to be like, you got it all wrong. Ruined it. No, I think it's called something. Because he was used to wrap them in a bit of linen, but now they just wrap them in a plastic bag. Yeah, to keep them separate. But they put them all at the bottom and then everyone stays. Once they're just bones and stuff, everyone stays at the bottom. But you get a new shelf for the new... Well, you clean out that shelf. You clean the shelf for the new person, yeah. Yeah.
Which is quite efficient, actually. It's an odd system, isn't it? But you said now, because cremation's more popular in the modern day, a lot of the time it's just like the ashes go in there. Yeah, I like that. It makes sense. I mean, if you opened one of them tombs and it's just full of like urns of ashes, it's almost very Egyptian. Yeah, that's quite cool. Although they have mummies and stuff. But didn't they have like, oh, they have urns full of your organs. Yeah, they separate the organs. That's what I'm thinking of, yeah, Egyptian organs. Anyway, they rotate. We might have got some of the finer details around, but they rotate them around. I found that interesting. It was really expensive to buy a tomb. He said it was like $300,000 plus. Yeah. Nick Cage has a spot, doesn't he? Well, he made his own. It's a pyramid. It's a big pyramid in one of them.
Good old Nicky boy. That's the only thing he didn't get rid of. Yeah. He didn't have to sell when he went to Bancroft or something, which I actually didn't know about. Yeah, yeah. Fun fact. He sold a couple of his Louisiana houses. Yeah, walked past one of his old houses just then. But yeah, I'm sure we are in like voodoo land, aren't we? Voodoo land, yeah. And I'm sure we're going to see a couple more voodoo things. I think you should go and get Spell.
Yeah, I don't know. I'm tempted. There were some people doing fortune-telling readings at the side of the road. It's a scam in it for tourists, but then I'm a mark, aren't I? No, I think we should go into that weird shop. I meant that woman who was yesterday just placing crystals on cards talking to the woman at the side of the road. You could do that if you wanted. Well, yeah, I could do. The thing is, I don't want to, but I feel like it's my job because of the podcast. Like, well, I better do that weird thing. Don't get a spell instead. Voodoo shops, obviously I'll have a look at some of them. I know it's tourism, but, you know, as if I'm not going to look in a big shop with a skull on the door. What else? We were thinking of this like a Louisiana ghost tour. Oh, that would be cool. We're thinking of doing that either tonight or tomorrow. Yeah.
We'll see. I'm either going to get enough stuff to make this a mini episode. I'll just tack it on. Or I'm going to tack it on to the next Ghost Stories episode, which is what I did with our Portland stuff. Okay, yeah, fair enough. So we'll see. But at the moment, it's lovely weather here. It's too hot to be spooky. It is blooming hot. Apparently it's been raining for the last two weeks. We got here the day it started getting hot again and now it's roasting. Yeah. But yeah, we're down in New Orleans. Been here a couple of days. It's the middle of September right now. Yeah. 2022. Be listening in the future. Yeah, we're sitting in a city park. It's under the duelling oaks. It's a beautiful mini train.
Here comes a little train. Oh, there he goes. We're near Café du Monde in the park. Oh, do you want to get on? No. I think we're too big to get on. Parents have to take their children. And for geography fans, I'll make it quick, because, well, travel fans, because this isn't necessarily spooky. We've been hitting all the foods. Obviously, I'm in New Orleans, so it's all about the foods. We ticked off a lot yesterday. So yesterday, we had beignets, we had etouffee, we had gumbo, we had barbecue shrimp, we had muffalada, or the vegetarian version.
And that's Bob Shoy signing off. Weird House in New Orleans. They love that, don't they? There's a classroom of children having a lesson in the park who are very excited by that train. Chasing after it. School cancelled. Oh, the teacher's trying to call them back. Just lost the class. They're just running off the land there. Anyway, we're here to all the foods. We're going to go get some po'boys for lunch. But I'll keep it updated with food stuff and with spooky stuff. So we just left our hotel. And...
We're heading over to Bourbon Street, which is not far at all. It's two minutes. Two minutes to Bourbon Street, famous Bourbon Street in New Orleans. And we're on our way. We spent all afternoon drinking in a beer garden after a big, fat po'boy that destroyed us. We only got one between us. Large. Yeah, let's have one large between us.
it's like um a side of fried pickles and it absolutely destroyed us anyway so we had we had a big po-boy for lunch and it killed us and um yeah fried pickle large po-boy killed us anyway um unwound in a beer garden yeah which we were just popping in for for a bit i know it's been all afternoon there because it was shady it's so hot here today um and while we were sitting having our beers in the big garden we said should we do a ghost talk tonight should we do a ghost talk So what I'm saying is at the time it felt like a good idea to do a ghost walk and now we're exhausted and we're like okay better chuck ourselves out and do this ghost walk. What I'm saying is we're on our way to a ghost walk. I'm probably not going to record on it, it's kind of uncouth to record on someone else's ghost walk. But like the walk we did yesterday that we tried to remember some stuff from earlier.
I'll try and remember as much as I can from this. It's a two hour long ghost walk. And I'll report back. Probably not later. We're on Bourbon Street now, by the way. Probably not later, but probably tomorrow. It's already kicking off here. It's not even. It's half seven. A little bit of Bourbon Street ambiance for you. It's Thursday night on Bourbon Street. Hey. Just got back to our hotel after walking around the ghost tour with Andrew. And I'm not going to go into it all now. We'll talk about it tomorrow. Some of the bits and bobs.
But I will give you a little teaser. I almost fainted. Okay, did I almost faint? It was really scary, actually. What, the tour? Am I fainting? No, like, you're fainting. Well, it's not scary for me. I just turned around, like, we were out the side of the road listening to the tour guide, and I was like, what the hell are you doing? Like, wandering off, basically. Turns out you're basically, like, stumbling down the street trying to find a place to almost be sick. Then I was like, okay, maybe you're just, I don't know, feeling a bit weird because the story is, like, gruesome. It speaks a lot, yeah. I didn't know that you were feeling very overcome by, like...
faint and sick and then you came in like literally kind of just almost collapsed and sat down like right next to me i was like what the hell sat on the sidewalk yeah listening to a guy like talking about this house in the corner yeah horrific uh goings on there we'll go into it tomorrow but um yeah a little bit he looks really like white like a sheep i look like a ghost yeah yeah that's pretty good and the tour guide uh andrew yeah He saw me sitting down. I think he just thought I was taking a break. Yeah. And he said, after he said, when the building he was talking about, he said, oh, we'll pass it a bit closer. Just so you know, some people feel very faint when they come near this building. Yeah. You'd already done it. And I'd already bloody beat him to it, didn't I? Yeah. He was like, did you feel, like when we spoke to Paul? I told him after. I said, when you said about feeling faint, I said, I felt faint now. He's like, normally people feel faint in the door. He's like, caught a woman from like falling over kind of thing, like fainting. And he said, like, I said to him, I don't normally feel that way. I don't, I felt fine going on tour. Yeah. It was really sudden. Yeah, really sudden. Dripping with cold sweat.
absolutely like my body expelled so much liquid in one go like I don't know what the hell and he said yeah whenever people say it happens to them they always say that they haven't been drinking I mean we had a couple of drinks this afternoon but we didn't get like drunk he said yeah they always say it like you do like they don't normally come by that stuff they haven't been drinking they're not overly hot it was like a kind of a coolish well cool for here warm for England but cool for here evening just in a loose shirt so and that felt fine afterwards when we got off the street and walking down the main street it felt fine Just bizarre. Very bizarre. But yeah, we'll talk about it more tomorrow. A little bit mysterious. Do you remember anything from the ghost tour last night? Because I've got some notes on my phone. And I didn't just want to rip off this guy's tour. Let's have a look. And my notes are very sparse. I've written Axeman. Yeah. Not Exma.
He was a murderer guy. He killed a lot of people. With an axe? Yeah, with an axe. Broke into the houses. Broke into the houses and killed them with axe and they never found him. Right. Yeah, again, we're not going into full detail of this because I'm not going to rip off other people's material. Yeah, that was like a hundred years ago. But that was one of them. There was the... This is the one I remember better. There was a restaurant. Yeah. And they used to put... He was like a patron. He was like a famous for the elector. Yeah, so this is a long time ago. Early star of the silver screen. Can't remember the extra guy's name. He was famous for being a woman impersonator, as they were called then. Yeah.
And they had a picture of him on the wall. Well, he liked them so much, came back again and again to this family-owned restaurant that he signed a photo for them. Maybe that was a rare thing. When they did the place up, by that time, no one really knew who he was anymore. So they took the picture off the wall and put it in the loft, the attic. And then years later, when the next generation, so it's like generations of people taking over on a family line, so the third generation start doing it up again, and they find that picture in the loft, and they're like, don't know who this guy is. But they leave it there. And the picture is him, because we saw the picture, and it's...
him in like his suit and then next to it there's a picture of him in all the get up yeah um looking like a woman nowadays he would be like drag that's what the that's what the tall guy said he's like basically an old version of a drag performer yeah very flamboyant but then this couple this was like ages after they'd kind of like put the photo away and then the other picture he showed us was only from like 2015 or something like that it was only from like 10 years ago but this couple were eating in the restaurant and they took a selfie and there was someone standing behind them in the picture and they asked the staff what's this about yeah and the staff member took it to the owner and the owner was like I recognised that yeah I recognised that person in that picture and it was the same it was this guy like went upstairs to dig through all the photos and all the pictures and stuff they took down and found The sign. Yeah, he's like, I've seen that person somewhere before. And it was the guy in the get-up as a woman. Yeah. It was a really... We saw the picture. We saw both. He showed us both pictures, yeah. And it was really weird because it was like... It was like you'd imagine a ghost. You could see through the ghost head to someone behind it, like sitting behind them kind of thing. It was in profile. It was a bit different from the actual portrait photo that he signed and gave them. She was obviously... They, sorry. Well, obviously in a different...
outfit or whatever. It looked like there was more of like a veil. Yeah. Well, you listeners know how I feel about these ghost pictures. It looks like when you're standard ghost pictures to me and I'm just never convinced. I'm like, okay, I guess kind of our brains are trained to see faces and things. Yes. It's kind of a coincidence that it kind of looks like that person. That's why someone at all said, someone at all said, um, had, has this been doctored? Has it been faked? And he said, well, it would, how would they know that they had this picture of that person in the loft, this star that like no one's ever heard of anymore. But I'm like, for me saying it looked like the actor was kind of a reach.
Yeah. Some people on the tour looking at it going, oh my god, it's the same person. And I was like, kind of. It sort of could have been anyone from that period. And also, like, nothing... It makes a cool story, doesn't it? All these things make a cool story. Nothing bad happened to that Fordville actor in the actual restaurant, so no one died, no one was, like, murdered or whatever, no one was, like, trapped anywhere, or, like, weird stuff where spirits kind of get attached to this place. He just, like, signed a photo, left it with them, and then, like, three generations later decided to, like, turn up and haunt the place. Very bizarre.
And now the place is closed down, they've relocated. Yes. And they're wondering whether, they haven't seen the ghost again, but there's the debate whether he haunts that building, it's tied to that building, or the family and he's moved to the new location. So they try and encourage people to take pictures when they're dining to see if anything shows up. So is that? I haven't made a note of all of them. It was literally just that one time, I think. Yeah, it was only that one time I've shown up.
oh Muriel's this was a good one there's a restaurant called Muriel's and that's haunted and it's a long story again I'm not going to go over because you really should go on these ghost tours if you're ever in New Orleans yeah it was really good actually but the thing about Muriel's is the person that haunts it is an active like not poltergeisty type thing but like they're actively mischievous does knock over plates and stuff so now to stop his naughty behaviour and there's a lot more history to this as to why that person's haunted the place is haunted on who it is but anyway they set a table with a glass of wine and a slice of bread to appease that spirit so they've always got a place at the restaurant yeah you can actually dine with it But they, yeah, if you want, you can eat at that table, but you can't sit in that seat. Or, well, yeah. And if you eat there, you have to pay. The cause is, if you want to sit at his table, you've got to pay for his wine, his glass of wine. Would you drink it? And it's, you know, there was the guy on the tour was asking, like, you know, if it was you, and you've paid for that wine anyway to sit at that table, would you drink it? Yeah. And it was about 20 of us on the tour, and the consensus was split. You can see, like, you can look through the window. You can look through the window and see them, yeah. And it's, like, cordoned off in the back, like a little table, like private table. Some people were dining there, weren't they, last night?
There was another hotel in town, but the building next to it was an old hospital, like a civil war hospital, right? But it was specialised in amputations. So it was full, they were cutting off arms and legs basically every day, but the whole street stunk of burnt flesh all the time. So what they would do is... Because they had to burn, like they burned the... Well, they would burn the limbs, but they would, to stop the smoke, basically, they had to only burn them once a week eventually. So they had a limb store room. Yeah, so they just stored the limbs on premises.
for a week and they would burn them once a week. But now that hotel... Those rooms are next door. Because it used to be one big building but it's split and the second half of the building is a hotel. And that's where they had the furnace and the storeroom. And yeah, that's where some stories have come up about... Well, people who stay in those rooms, which would have been in the same location as the storage, have claimed waking up in the night and fumbling around the dark and tripping over something, turning the light on it not being there.
They said it's ghost limbs, isn't it? Well, they said they felt like a hand grabbed their ankle and tripped them over as they've gone around in the night. They've had multiple reports of that. That's quite a cool story, isn't it? Is it? Oh, man. But it's really expensive. Now they charge a lot to stay there because people want to stay in haunted places. Yeah. There was a horrific story, which I'm not going to go into. That's the one that made you feel... Which is the one that made me faint, but it's basically in the days of slavery. She's one of the most notorious slave owners for how she mistreated her slaves. And it was really... It wasn't a ghost story. It was just a brutal, like, this woman's... One of the most horrific things I've ever heard.
Basically, she just tortured them for fun. She would tie her slaves up in the attic and torture them. And when they found them, the state they're in, it was turning my stomach. And I'm wondering maybe that's just what would make me feel faint, because I was just like, this is one of the most horrific treatments of humans I've ever heard of. You know what? I can't remember the name of the woman or the building. I will insert it now, once I've done my research in the edit. And if you're interested in it, search it. Because if you like your true crime stuff, it's probably up your alley. But I found this stomach churning. And if you're in New Orleans, then, yeah. Oh, and Nick Cage kind of accidentally... Nick Cage accidentally bought that house yesterday, yeah.
and didn't understand why tour groups are outside, that he thought someone had tipped him off, like, this is Nick Cage's house. And when he complained to the tour guides, they were like, no, you should really do your research on the house you bought. It's very, very famous. So the woman I'm talking about in that clip you just heard is a woman named Delphine LaLaurie. And I just went on the Wikipedia to find her. Went by a few other names as well.
So Marie Delphine McCarthy or McCarthy. She lived from 1787 to 1849 and was more commonly known as Madame Blanc or after her third marriage as Madame LaLaurie. She was a New Orleans socialite and serial killer who tortured and murdered slaves in her household. Yeah, so some pretty queasy stories. I think plenty of the true crime podcasts have talked about. I think she's probably been featured in different TV series here and there. She's quite a famous figure of New Orleans. But if you're not familiar with her and you've got a strong stomach and want to hear some of that stuff that made me feel pretty queasy, then look her up, Delphine LaLaurie.
And then the only other one I made a note of from the tour was it was another hotel, a lot of haunted hotels around. But it was, it's wanted by children, yeah. Yeah, because it used to be an old boys' home. Oh, is that what it was? I missed that part. Yeah, so it used to be an old boys' home and they've had people reportedly, like, they're quite mischievous. They hide things. They hide things. People, like, tickling your feet at night and stuff. They turn the telly on and it's always on, like, kids' programming, especially SpongeBob SquarePants. Yeah, and quite mischievous with, like, cameras and stuff. They said one couple in the 90s, had, like, a little couple of shots left on the end of their roll of film. And, like...
You know, when they got them developed. Well, they said they had two pictures left to take on their film. Yeah. And then when they picked up their camera the next day to take a couple more pictures. This was like early 90s, so it's a film. They went to use up the last two shots. They're like, oh, we must have taken it. And then they just changed the role. Didn't think anything of it. Got them developed like a month or so later. And the last two photos of them on that role were of them like at night sleeping. It was pictures of them sleeping. And they were like really creeped out. But the photos were taken from the perspective of the ceiling. Yeah, from directly above them.
which is kind of, like, obviously impossible for anybody to do without, like, treading on them in the night. Well, here's the thing. Who knows how true any of these stories are? Like, all ghost stories? Because there's no one seen these photos. No, yeah. The guy who... The woman sent them to the owner of the hotel saying, like, what the fuck? Obviously, yeah, I understand. So he has them. Photos of your guests, sleeping guests. Yeah, again, allegedly, the owner of the hotel has these photos. And allegedly, if you get chatting to him on a night out and he's drunk, he might go, like, check this out. But he can't have the reputation of showing around pictures of his guests asleep. But that, I guess, on the other hand, it perpetuates the... Exactly. It's like... Oh, there's also reports of them, like...
Kids, like, running around and stuff. People sleeping on the top floor without any floor above them and stuff. And hearing children run around footsteps with kids running around playing. So, yeah, it was a really cool ghost tour. It was provided by Free Tours by Foot. Yeah. New Orleans. They're great. We've done two tours. We're actually doing a third one today because they've been so good. We wanted to do some. They're very knowledgeable. Their YouTube is great as well. If you're ever in New Orleans, you definitely recommend doing some of their tours. We did the Garden District tour. That was really good. Which was great. We saw some famous houses. We did the ghost tour. That was last night. Last night, which was great. And we're about to go on the voodoo tour. Yeah. Which is the one I'm excited probably most about.
Yeah, I know it's only like, we're not doing it at nine, I think it's not the scary one. No, it's the only slot available, so it's 10am, we're going to go on this voodoo tour, and we'll report back about some voodoo, because I know nothing about voodoo, I just know New Orleans from some voodoo stuff. Yeah. Okay. I've heard of stuff, I've heard of voodoo practices and witch doctors and gri gri and things like that, but I want to know, what's the deal? What is it? Why is it? Is it just shysters? Yeah, or is it, I don't know, some of their weird burial practices and stuff, because they couldn't bury people in the ground.
Well, we spoke about that yesterday from the Garden District. That's why the tombs are above ground and all that stuff. But we're going to go and meet... Yeah, the cultural mystery of it. We're going to go and meet Voodie Priest in St Louis Park now. And we'll pull back later.
But yeah, like I say, I've been a bit skirting around some of the finer details and stuff of the ghost tour. I don't want to just like repeat this guy's tour. It's well worth visiting if you're in New Orleans. I definitely recommend it. And let us know if you feel faint. There was lots of ghost tours in New Orleans. So don't feel like if you don't get on the free walking tours by foot one that you've missed out because there's a lot of other ones. Yeah, we went on it because we've watched some stuff on their YouTube channel. We'd already been on one of their other tours. They had a very good reputation and we enjoyed their other tour. So they got the Weird Tales seal of quality. But there's plenty of ghost tours. But yeah, that's the one I recommend. And I think they do different stuff as well. So we did see like a couple of other groups.
A couple of the spots, obviously, like the really famous... They've got their own spin on the stories. Yeah, of course, and other tidbits and stuff they can share with you and things like that. But free tours by foot. Like I said, you just reserve online for free. I like a lot of these walking tours. And then when you... Turn up, you pay what you feel. They don't take more than 20 people. So once it's full, it's full. And you just pay at the end. Pay what you feel. Pay what you feel. We saw some people giving nothing, which is a bit of a piss take. It's almost like two hours. But we saw someone on the Garden District tour give about $80. So, you know, I guess those rich people are covering it for the people who ain't got much. Yeah, it's fair, isn't it? Yeah.
Let's go see some voodoo stuff though. Hopefully I won't faint this time. I'll keep you close. I mean, was it me feeling faint last night? And when I say I felt faint, I was just overcome. I went cold, white like a ghost. I'm not somebody who sweats a lot. The amount of liquid that came out of my body in the space of about 20 seconds was unbelievable. I was slick. My whole skin was just wet. And we'd been walking around all day and you haven't been like that, like drenched. It was so hot all day and it was getting cool in the evening. I had a loose shirt on, like I said, last night. I was just wandering around fine and then as soon as we got outside that house, I think it was a combination of like tired, been walking all day. We didn't have dinner because we had such a massive lunch, but I was not hungry at all. No.
And it was just such a gruesome story. I wasn't scared. It was a ghost story. I was just horrified that someone could do this to another human being. It was just awful. It was some of the worst treatment of a human being I've ever heard and it made me go cold at how horrible it was. This woman, one of her slaves who was chained to the oven started a fire and this is how they discovered everything else. She started a fire and almost died in the fire that she created because she didn't want to be taken upstairs. When they broke into the attic. Can you imagine how awful...
situation. I would rather die in a fire than be tortured. I'm not going to go into all the details, but some of the stuff from the people in the attic, we're talking like flayed pits of skin, sewn up lips so you can't hear them screaming. This is just the tip of the iceberg. But then after they, okay, so she got, she fled actually. Her husband fled. They never caught them. But the slaves that had all been tortured and stuff obviously recovered, like, well, I don't know how much you could recover from that. Some of the stuff they said, I don't think you're recovering very well from. They had them recovered enough to be resold after a year. Jesus.
What a time. Absolutely. Oh, God. So anyway, that stuff, just, I mean, slavery stuff makes me feel kind of queasy anyway. Ownership of any people. Yeah, it's so wrong. It's not as far away as you think, it's not as long ago as you think it is. Yeah. And that's what scares me, like, humans' ability for cruelty. Yeah.
I can't get my head around it. But anyway, yeah, that was kind of the less spooky side, but more just horrific side of that tour. And yeah, the details get pretty grisly. Yeah. But yeah, let's go get some cash. Let's go get some voodoo and let's go get some pralines. Yeah. Get some sun cream on there. All right, let's go.
Now it's time for y'all to do a little practicing of your own. If you have any coins, any pennies, nipples are done. And you would like to say a prayer to your own individual. Now's the time to do it. If you don't have a coin, it is not sacrilegious to pick one up off the ground and say your prayer. We throw money on the ground so y'all can pick it up and say your prayer. And if you don't believe me, let me do it right now. If you can pick it up and say your prayer. Once you are done, once you're done, just meet me right there. Now, if you have Native American blood in your veins from North to South America, if you do not have a dress, you have to do this. If you have African blood in your veins, don't get this 1% or 6%. Remember, those parents have parents and grandparents and grandparents are black. You have to do this. This is what's going to shock some of y'all.
If you have Irish-Scottish ancestry in your blood, you do not have a choice. You have to do this. This is your birthright. I'm going to tell you why in a few minutes. Mic bro. Once you're done, meet me right there by my seat and then we're going to do this club. We'll talk about Irish-Scottish. What are you doing? I'm fine, yeah. Isn't that how it works? Did a video ritual? Yeah. I was going to wash this blood off of us. Hello. I don't know how noisy this is going to be, but I'll get a little bit with the ambiance. We're just having some lunch in the French Quarter Market in New Orleans. Still.
And this morning we went on a voodoo tour with Priest Robey all around Armstrong Park and a little bit of the surrounding area. And it was really interesting. It's really hard to talk about all the stuff he went through. Because there's a lot. It was very interesting. I feel like I learned a lot about black history and stuff in this area. And also a lot about how... African religion and being brought over and how... Yeah. I like similarities and differences. And like, yeah, kind of slave owners and stuff trying to convert. And there's so much similarities here and also our different culture. Yeah. It's not something I feel like I'm qualified to go into. Yeah.
But it was very interesting. And what I wanted from a voodoo tour from England, I know nothing about voodoo. Yeah. I've heard it. I've heard of voodoo dolls. You obviously get like the cliched. Yeah. I've seen it in media. I've heard of sacrifices. I know New Orleans is like the home of voodoo. So I thought, well, I'm here. Let's learn what this is. Yeah. And I felt like we got the perfect post because he is from a bloodline of voodoo practitioners. He's a priest. And he was, yeah, no bullshit. It was so good.
very flamboyant character. I tried to get a little bit of recording on the tour. I don't know how much it would come through. But he explains to me, because I always had an inkling like, okay, is voodoo kind of bullshit? Is it like a media thing? And to a certain extent, yeah. Like, he was telling us the seed of truth that that media exaggeration came from. But it kind of, it was perpetuated by, like, slave owners, like, not really understanding what's happening, and then just, like, kind of...
propaganda and like vilifying like the slaves so that they basically if it wasn't in the bible if you're a slave owner the rule came in you know they have to worship god it continues to keep them separate separate yes but um so anything that wasn't in the bible was considered devil worship doesn't matter if it was someone else's belief someone else's religion blah blah they see it as devil worship misunderstanding and also just like absolutely like vilifying slaves and their like practice of their religion yeah and voodoo dolls not a thing no that was really interesting yeah the voodoo doll thing he said that's more like an English thing like an English witchcraft thing that they just put onto wax figurines yeah they push that on in the media in media onto voodoo practitioners And really, the actual dolls with the pins in is a thing that voodoo practitioners use, but that was more... For healing. For healing. It was like they had a patient who had a headache, they would make a doll that looked like that patient because they couldn't read or write, put a pin in the head, so the next time they came in, they could be like, pin in the head, oh, you had a pain in your head, okay. It's like doctor's notes. Yeah, he said they couldn't read or write, so this is a doctor's note, this is prescriptions. Yeah. And they just mixed that up with the wax figurines from English witchcraft. Put a pin in it, and for like, yeah. And then, you know, the legend sort of perpetuates itself through media and things, and he compared to the way voodoo was portrayed in American Horror Story, which is a really popular series. Yeah.
And he said, that's nothing like it. And the way that Mary LeBeau is portrayed in those things, he said, really, no one really knows anything about her. All the stuff you see about that famous voodoo character is all from fiction. Yeah. She was just, you know...
Someone who managed to get a lot of information on the slave owners. She was a gossip queen. Basically, yeah, a gossip queen. A hair stylist. Who got information from the slave owners on behalf of the slaves. And also the slave community. She was like a go-between and she gathered lots of gossip and basically just had leverage on loads of slave owners. Like he said, for example, she would do the women's hair when they gathered together. Well, she's seen as a piece of the furniture because she's a slave. And all the women are gathered together, all the slave owners.
and so bonus wives. They all gather together gossiping, not thinking this woman's listening, gathering information. Sharing their secrets. And then she's considered this witch who knows everything. Psychic. No, she's just gathering information and spreading it amongst the slave community because information's power. Using it for her benefit. As Roby said, you gather some dirt on people and you can be able to build mountains out of dirt. Yeah. So very interesting tour. Really. And if you are interested in learning the truth behind voodoo, that's just the tip of the iceberg, the stuff that we can remember on top of our heads. Yeah. If you're in New Orleans, I definitely would recommend Chris Roby's voodoo tour, which is, he's the only guy on the...
On the three tours by foot, who has his name on the tour. Because it's all from him. And he's actually the only voodoo practitioner who's actually giving tours. And he's the only male voodoo priest in New Orleans. Giving tours, yeah. So, giving tours. Yeah, he's a massive family. A lot of family history in New Orleans. I think we met half of them. Everyone who walked past him was like, that's my cousin, that's this, that's that. Huge family. A lot of history. A lot of history. Very interesting guy. And he does not beat around the bush. Yeah, he doesn't want... Misconceptions.
Yeah. Racism, et cetera. Basically, when you start the tour, anyone who's racist, anti-LGBT community and stuff, get off the tour. I don't want your money. We're done. A real character. Fully recommended. Really interesting morning.
And now, yeah, like I said, we're just sat in the market now, waiting for some red beans and rice. Yeah, I'm excited. So, that's our debrief. I'll put links and stuff in the show notes, obviously, for all these tours. They've all been great. And the three tours we did by Free Tours by Foot were all completely different in flavour. Like, Roby had, like, Creole Heritage. And the guy, Andrew, who did the tour last night was Cajun. Yeah. And then the guy who did the tour, Matthew, the day before that.
Grew up in and around New Orleans, so he knew all about the Garden District, the local stuff, local food and all about that. They all know, really know their stuff. They're such a good length as well. It's like... One and a half to two hours. Yeah, really, really good. Not too crazy walking distance-wise. You pay a fiver optionally to book the tour to reserve your seat, which does space for their admin costs and online, basically. And that's a 2QA, so it's $2.50 each. And then you pay what you want at the end. You know? Fully enjoyed it. Fully recommended. I think you should try and get him on.
I would love to get Priest Robey on Weird Tales because I don't feel like we'll ever do a Voodoo episode because I don't feel like we're qualified with the information. I'm going to ruin it. I've probably ruined some of the stuff I just said to get him on a future episode. But yeah, I'll try and reach out to him if he wants to jump on the show because he's a very interesting guy. And like I said, a real character. But yeah, that's our Voodoo Tour Debrief. So before that Voodoo Tour Debrief section, you heard a little clip of us doing the little mini Voodoo ritual with Priest Robey. I did try and do a little bit of recording during the hour and a half, two hours we spent with him.
But it's kind of hard to pick up some stuff. So I'm just going to chuck in a few minutes of some of the audio that I captured here. So you can have a little taste of Rudy Priest Robey's walk. And like I said, I definitely recommend doing it if you're in New Orleans. It was really interesting.
In real life, he's none of those things. First of all, he's that grandfather like to spoil the grandchildren. Y'all know what I'm talking about? You know how granddaddy always let the grandchildren get away with murder? Grandchildren can do no harm and granddaddy's eyes? That's Legba. He is a very kind and warm and kind spirit. Loves the sport children. And he's old. The man's so old, he crippled. All his fingers are curled like this, his neck turned to the side, and he carries a cane. He carries keys right here, and he stands at the gates of freedom. Again, the sport of children opens the doors of opportunity. And whenever you die, you're gonna enter the gates of freedom without going through Legba himself. I think that's enough. I gotta talk about the oranges, because those are so bright in color. Look how bright they are. He's just going to be like made of oranges.
So it's my last morning in New Orleans and I thought I'm heading to a voodoo shop. I had a look in some yesterday and I sort of got off all the chintz of it because of High Priest Rowby's warnings. But in the end I thought...
I'm going to cave and buy something. Because I'm sure they've got stuff I can use for the podcast. So we're just going to have a look. We're going to Voodoo Authentica. Let's head in. It's busy. Now, Roby said don't buy a Voodoo doll. So I'm not. I'm going to buy some spells. They sell Voodoo spells. We can test them out on the pod. No. Do you think I'll go with one of the Gator Claw? No, I don't buy that one. No. It's, um... There's just herbs in this room, right? I think it's what they make up stuff in. Yeah. This is like an apothecary. Yeah. I'm going to gather them.
I'm in the back room now, and there are envelopes full of spells and formulas, in-sealed, wax-sealed. See, I can... I mean, there's one that's calling out for me straight away, which says it will help me develop psychic powers. We've also got enemy begun, fertility, gambling, love and friendship, healing, get the job, money, good luck and success, peace and protection, power and confidence, unhexing, spiritual cleansing and win in court. I mean, it's got to be developed psychic powers in it. Take me to the next level. What's that? It's a ritual cleansing bar.
Ooh. This one's still showing. How much? Spirit of love and affection. Not sure. This might be a good gift. Here we go. This is what I've got. Some herbal scents. There's a rack of herbal scents that will help in my rituals if I give them a go. So cleansing, purification, house blessing. They come with like a shell. You light the stuff in the shell. What else have we got? Giving thanks, making offerings, peace of mind, inner calm. I think I might need that one if I'm developing my psychic. I might need to calm my brain. What do I want to attract good influence?
I'm getting one of these in my ritual. You burn them inside the shell. Yeah, I thought they looked really good actually. Attract good influence. I'm trying to try and develop my psychic powers. Right, okay. I don't care about cleansing the house. Yeah, no. Attracts good influence. What's that? I was thinking about inner peace of mind sometimes, but this is not the same. This isn't for burning. This is you put it in the bag and smell it. Right, okay. Let's say bubble bubble. Let's get one of them. Smell it. Burn something. What about that? Use in ceremony as offering. It's tobacco. Again, it's not the same. Attracts good influence. I need good influence.
for giving thanks giving thanks giving an offering and um making an offering yeah i think maybe offering is a good one let's have a look pinch our offering thanks to spirit keepers six directions mother earth yeah use for smudging that's probably good but this one's got rose and lavender so let's do that yeah rose and lavender for cleansing and purification yeah all right got it all right let's head back thank you There we go, I've got it. I've got some spells. Spells and formers to develop psychic powers. And I've got some stuff to burn. Smudging, cleansing. I'm going to cleanse the mind, cleanse the area and try and become a psychic. And like I say, if it works, then Weird Towers is really going to go step up to another level. We've got a bona fide psychic. A bona fide voodoo psychic on the show. I was very tempted to get one of the Grigri bags.
you know how i got some money yeah i mean it starts like yeah exactly but then i want i want a leg up i want everything i can i'm gonna come out on the masks everything i don't know how how offensive that is how culturally offensive if i come out wearing like a bag and like beads all over myself am i appropriate in a culture but then as uh roby said yesterday it's already been appropriated because it's kind of not a big deal yeah but we'll see i'll give it a go open-minded i'll record my adventures either on this episode or another probably another one i'd like to get beef and tips in the room It depends. I'll have to talk to me, see if he's like, no, I'm not doing that stuff. He wasn't keen on you doing the Ouija World, was he? He did not like me doing the Ouija World. But, this is how you do it. It's different. So, like I said, it's our last day. We're walking back to our hotel to pick up our bags. And, yeah, we're just walking past Jackson Square. All the artists are there. It's really busy because it's a Saturday. And, what is this? What cathedral is this? It's in the cathedral. I'm sure it is. The big one. This is where we met our...
The big famous cathedral. Walking past it right now. So if you know New Orleans, you can picture where I am. Do you want a quick reading? I would have a quick palm reading, but I just don't think I've got enough time now. I've left it too late. Yeah. 98% accurate. I'll be in that 2%, won't I? So you know it. Anyway, it's been a lovely few days. It's a mad place. It's a mad, mad place. Yeah. It's an assault on the senses, but in a good way. Yeah. I mean, hats off to anyone who lives here. It's mad. I've been here a few days, and it's awesome. Showtime! See, there's always something. You can tell them that it's on.
Anything can happen at any time. I don't think there's anything more to say. He's cut me off in the most gnarly way possible. It's mad. Right, so now you're with me back in my flat in Leeds. And I've got my little paper bag from the voodoo shop. And I'm going to dig into it. I haven't actually looked into this at all. So let's have a look. So first of all, I've got these herbal scents for cleansing and purification. And it's a blend of white sage, lavender and rose. So...
In the packet, I'm just going to open it now. So yeah, in here we have a shell I'm going to take out now, which is there. And what it says is I need to put a pinch of this mix into the shell, ignite it, and gently blow or fan with a feather upon the glowing ember to produce smoke. And I guess that is going to purify and cleanse me or the area and the area, I don't know. But I'll try that in a second. I've also got this envelope here.
Which says magical spells and formulas to develop psychic powers and it's got a wax seal and I'll take a picture of these so you can People who follow on Twitter or Facebook can see these So let's open the envelope So inside is another envelope with a cool seal with moon and the heart and some snakes Open that envelope as well and in that So there's a piece of paper that says Voodoo Authentic in Orleans And let's see what it says. So there's two pieces of paper in here So the first says The power of magic is real. It is around us, within us, and available to everyone. The most important ingredient in your magical work, spells, won't ever be an herb or a candle. It will be your desire, your ability to focus on and creatively visualize your goal. So be sure to pull some of yourself and your precious energy into every spell you do. And most importantly, don't give up. Your patience and commitment will be well rewarded by the results you achieve.
Three exclamation marks after that one. Yes, another note. Extra information on the colour, planet, offering, etc. which coincide with your purpose are given so that you may incorporate these elements into your magical work if you so desire. Be creative. Example, dress yourself in the appropriate coloured clothing. Offer the item suggested as a sign of devotion or thanksgiving to a higher power. Use an altar cloth of one of the given colours. Carry some of the listed herbs around with you. In a conjure bag. You get the idea. When your wish has been granted, be sure to thank the universe for the blessings you have received. We wish you luck, wisdom and blessings in your magical pursuits.
And there's a quote at the bottom. I don't know who it's from. It says, and it harm none, do what thou will. So then that's the general notes. And then as well, we also have the information to develop psychic powers. So let's see. I should do this on a Saturday, it says. Colours purple, blue and white. See, I'm not going to be able to do all this. This is a lot. This is on a full moon on a Saturday with the colours purple, blue and white at 7pm.
With offerings of a conch shell, gourd rattle, bowl of cornmeal. Using herbs of celery, iris, nutmeg, jasmine, lavender. The relevant planet is Neptune. The incense is lavender and jasmine. I've got some lavender in my cleansing bowl. It says reference to the Psalms 49, 78 and 95. And it says some helpful tips. Drink jasmine tea. I might actually have some. So I'll go and brew some of that before I do this. I'll try and get as much right as I can. I mean, I'm not waiting for a full moon on a Saturday at 7pm. Who knows when that'll be the only tea episode at some point.
use a bay leaf in cooking to increase psychic awareness um i'll look if i've got any bay leaves in the cupboard i think i'm actually out of bay leaves right now but i'll sniff some i'll have some on hand maybe i'll take a bite out of one let's uh let's do this right so i'm gonna go and get all this stuff prepared i think and then um i might get becca to help me when she gets back and we'll light the uh incense and we'll get this psychic powers there's um i'm gonna read through this information here and um yeah i'll be back becca yeah You're going to help me do some voodoo? I'm being wrapped in, yeah. Right, okay. So basically I read, I opened this envelope and I read, there was some general advice on a letter. So inside the envelope was another envelope and it keeps going into more and more envelopes until you get to a coin that says voodoo on it. There's two letters inside this envelope.
I read this one. Oh, it's like a seal. Yes. I read this on the episode already. It's all about doing it. It's about bringing your own positive energy. And then this is how I develop the psychic powers. So this is what it says. No. Well, psychic. So the extra information, I went through this. For best effects, you should really follow these informations. Do it on a Saturday. On a Sunday.
It's a bad start, isn't it? Do you want to wait until next weekend? No, wait, I've got to get this episode, haven't I? I'm going to do as much as I can. I'm going to do as a full moon. I don't know when. Is it? Have you checked? No, I don't think it is. Make an offering of a conch shower, a gourd rat, and a bowl of cornmeal. We've got cornmeal. Is it in date? It doesn't matter, does it? When is the next full moon? Sunday, October 9th. It is! It is! Full moon! Is it full moon? Yeah. Right, okay, that's... This is getting a good start. I think. Hold on. That's EDT. What's EDT time? That's fine. That's today. It's the same day. UK. Yeah, it is. Right, perfect. Do we have any jasmine tea?
We might. Right. I don't think we've got any bay leaves. What I'll do is, when I run out of bay leaves and cooking, I use oregano. You're going to end up... You're going to fuck this up. You're going to substitute so much that you're not going to end up with psychic powers. You're going to end up with psychic poo or something. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang on a minute there. Someone panicked. What's psychic poo? Go on. Your bowels know when you've got to go. Well, I know when I've got to go. You're just going to mess it up and it's going to go wrong. Because you're substituting too much. Well, let's ignore all that stuff for now. You've only got one thing on the list. No, let's ignore all that stuff for now. Let's just see what it says. Because I haven't read this. How to develop psychic powers, really?
During this and all other spiritual workings, it's best that you ensure that there'll be no unwanted noises or disturbances to upset the energy flow you'll be creating. Is that what you asked me to help out, so I'm not... Exactly, so you're not... Got the sewing machine going in the background. First, gather small equal amounts of nine of the following herbs. So let's go. Let's get in the herb drawer. We need nine different ones, right? Well, you need the... What? What are you doing? The little spoon, so you've got equal amounts. Well, yeah, don't worry about it. We have to get our mixture out, but let's see how many of these we've got. Get the bowl out. No. Flippin' ain't making a right mess of this. Let's just see what we've got first. So...
Finger grass. No. Anise seed. Star anise, yeah. I've got a star anise, that'll do it. Burning bush. No. Celery seed. No. Lemon balm. No. Parsley. Yep. I've got some fresh parsley. Are you actually going to do this now or are you going to go and get some? No, I'm going to do this now. It says nine of the following. There's loads here. Right, okay. So we're going to see if we can have nine of these. Cinnamon. Yeah. Right, we've got that. Cinnamon. Mint. There's some outside. What's that on the monitor? No, there's some outside. I moved it outside. Right, mint. Where's that on the monitor?
Is that from before you went away? How is that not dead? I think that's coriander. Mint. Sage. Might be some freezer. Thyme. Got thyme. The one outside is dead. Rosemary. Yeah, that's some outside. Right, someone's getting excited about their little herb garden. Bethel root. No. Botchew leaves. No. Bugleweed. Excuse me? Calendula flower. Calendula. No. Right. Eyebrite. No. So how many have we got? One, two, three, four, five. I've got...
Lemons. I've got lemons in the fridge for lemon balm. I'm trying to make the closest thing I can. You're going to have to go to the... No, Becca, we can do this. We've got no celery, haven't we? I'm just going to grate a little bit, a zest, a little bit of lemon skin. Are you doing this on the budge? No, this is how you do it. What do you need from outside? Mint and rosemary? Mint, rosemary. You said sages in the freezer? I've got lavender. I've got lavender. No, I've got lavender anyway. It's in my mix. Let me have a look in the freezer. Come down here in the freezer with me. I've got thyme in the freezer.
Oh, we've got time out of the freezer as well. Okay, not a big deal. I've got rosemary here. I've got mint here. So you don't have to get any of that. We'll use the frozen shit. Nothing but the best of my... I've got curry leaves. I've got rocket chillies. I don't think we have sage. How many have we got here? One, two, three, four, five, six. Wait, no, wait, wait, wait, wait. You could have told me. No, no, no. Star anise. You said we had some star anise. Maybe. It's in that box.
Rosemary's back there, look. Oh, bloody hell, I've got more rosemary. You can take a stick out of it. Dried, frozen, fresh. That rosemary's probably... Oh, wait, that's star anise, isn't it? No, that's chilli flakes. Yeah, I think I've used it all. I think I've used it all too. I think I've used it. Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, that's cardamom. Um, star anise? No, they're closed. Oh, wait, there's a star one in there. Right, okay. So, well, we don't even need star anise, we need anise seeds, but that's the next best thing. What's the burning bush? Shall I go cut some of my pews off?
How many are you short then? Two. Should I just go around the shop? No, no, no, no. Are you sure? Yeah. We're going to botch it. Right, I'm going to put some applause for a minute while I work this out. Right, so what we've got here... There's a little bit of a psychic substitute. Kind of. I didn't have any seed, but I put some star anise in there. Didn't have any celery seed, but I did put some caraway seed in. It begins with C, and it's a seed. And I also put in some fennel seed, because that was another thing short. I didn't have any lemon balm, so I did some lemon zest.
I did put in fresh parsley, cinnamon powder, and a little bit of cinnamon root. Have we got lemongrass in there? Because it might be better. No, no, no. Mint, thyme, rosemary. There we go, nine different things. Okay, within mortar and pestle, grind and thoroughly mix the nine herbs together. As you do this, keep your mind completely clear of any other purpose beside development of psychabilities. So what I'm going to do is, I'm actually going to light this now to clear my mind while I grind this up. Right, I'll just put it in the mortar and pestle. Well, tell you what, we'll put it in that, and we'll put that in the mortar and pestle. So get the mortar and pestle. Yes, sir. My mistake.
Probably should have done washing up before you took this. I've got to get on bed in there. Right. So, let's just rest that there. I'm going to put all this in the mortar and pestle. It's fine. It's like ASMR for the listeners this bit. Right. And then we get this shell. And we get a pinch of it. You got the matches? Yep. And then we get the matches. Take a match out and strike it. And I like this. Have we got any feathers? Have you got a feather? I do. Are you going to do it with a burner? No. I need to use it to waffle flame. I do have a feather.
What do you think of the smell so far? Ready? It's quite pungent. Yeah. Just lay it down on it. Just like lay it down. You set my feather on it. Now it's going. Right, here we go. We've got a good flame going now. And I've got a waft flame with this feather. Right, we're cleansing. While that cleanses, I'm going to grind this up. It's pungent, isn't it? Do you feel cleansed? My mind was clear while I was doing that. Oh, I've just got to sit and think about psychic abilities while I grind along them all. Right. Thanks for helping me with this, by the way.
When you feel the herbs are blended and empowered, place some of them exchanged to a clean purple cloth and tie with black yarn to make a grigri bag and place the bag under your pillow. Does it give you a purple cloth? I'm gonna go and find that stuff. I'll be back. Can't find the purple bag. It had a D&D dice in it. Is it in here? No. No. Are you sure? No, because I know where it was. It's been years since I saw it. I was just hoping it would still be there. What, do you need a purple cloth? A piece of purple cloth and a piece of black string. Well, I got black string. Right. Halfway there. I'm in purplish. I've got a bluish sock.
I might actually have a purple sock, you know. Well, that's a cloth, isn't it? Let's have a look in the sock drawer. Here you go. In a way, this is better because you can put it all in the sock and then tie the sock up. Becca? Are you using that? Yeah. This is clean cloth and it's purple and it's an odd sock. It's almost like I knew to hold on to this odd sock. Right, purple material. Put all this in there and tie it up with some black string. That's made an interesting smell, hasn't it? It smells a lot nicer when it's not done. Yeah, it's right up in my...
Cavity. Yeah, that's the one. Wait a sec. This is all in here. To make this a smaller bag, I'm actually going to cut this. Perfect. This looks like a little Grigri bag. Maybe they are just socks cut in half. Do you have to tie it in a special way? No. It just says tie it. Right, there's my bag. Put it under my pillow. Oh, I place it under my pillow at night. Before bedtime, burn some of the mixture.
On a small charcoal made for the burning of resin, incenses and herbs, use psychic potion oil to anoint a glass enclosed purple seven-day candle and light before bedtime. Are you missing something? No, I've got a candle. Oh, okay. Oh, good. Right, okay. Great. So I put this under my pillow. I burn some of the stuff before bed. I sleep on it. And then see what happens. Burn a bit of a candle before bed.
Then it says, we like to make our psychic potion oil, which we use to anoint ourselves, candles and objects, by blending some of the herb mixture with a pure base oil like yoba in a purple glass jar. Stir the mixture clockwise with a wooden spoon, continuously focusing on your purpose. Allow the jar to sit, covered with a lid, in a dark place for at least nine days. Then bring the jar outside in a clear and sunny day and briefly uncover it, allowing the sun to shine in. This symbolises your own psychic enlightenment, which comes from the darkness to light. Afterwards, put the lid back on and store it inside a cool, dry area.
You can use this potion oil to anoint your third eye at bedtime and any other time you especially need second sight. Be creative and trust your instincts and judgment in creating new uses for the oil, herbs, etc. So I'm not going to do the oil. It says, it's just a suggestion. I'm a newbie. I've cleansed the area. I've made my Grigri bag. I need to go and place this under my pillow. I guess that cleanses my sleeping area. And then later on, burn a bit of a candle. Burn a little bit of the mixture out of here. And then go to sleep. And then I guess I clock in tomorrow and see how I feel. See if I'm feeling any better.
Done. We voodooed. We could do the oil. I mean, not today, but let's try again next week. Right. Thanks for your help. I think it was a success. We'll find out. And tomorrow I'm going to be reading minds.
And that's it. Maybe I'll try this again and let anyone know if I develop anything. I'm pretty sceptical at the moment. But that's not the right attitude, is it? I have to be focused and believe in it and bring my own positivity. So I'll let anyone know listening if anything happens to my psychic abilities. But for now, thanks for listening. I love you lots. You know you can get in contact at wtatupod at gmail.com. You can find me on Twitter. It's at bobshoy. That's at B-O-B-S-H-O-Y. And you can go to weirdtalesandtheunexplainable.com for links to...
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