EP 1059 - Bloodland

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There's bones everywhere. And then we travel to Missouri to take a look at a military installation that is so haunted that U.S. government has decided to leave it unguarded at night. Because anyone who walks the grounds after the sun sets is attacked by angry ghosts.

Today on Dead Rabbit Radio. Hey, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Ted. Rabbit Radio.

Your host, Jason Carpenter. I'm having a great day. I hope you guys are having a great day, too. I hope you guys are having tons of fun and doing whatever you're doing out there in the world.

Whatever it is, big or small. I hope it's fun. Actually, I hope it's big. I was not.

You're just having small fun. You're like, oh, man, you wish those other people a big fun. I hope you everyone's having big fun. That's not even a thing.

That's not even a thing. It was a big fun. Someone who always has big fun. That's my new catchphrase.

I'm going to make a show that says big fun. Somebody who always has big fun walking into Dead Rabbit Command right now is another one of our organ ghost conference attendees. Everyone get on your feet and give a round of applause for Sammy. Woo-hoo.

Yeah. We is coming on in. Sammy walking on into Dead Rabbit Command. He's wearing one of my brand new shirts.

Sammy, you're going to be our captain or pilot this episode. If you guys can't support the show financially through the Patreon or attend the live event, that's totally fine. It truly is. I really do appreciate anything you do to help the show grow.

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Is this some weird cult you joined? And you're like, kind of tell them about joining the fluffle. Tell them about listening to Dead Rabbit Radio Sammy. I'm going to go ahead and toss you the hair hang glider.

Let's jump off the highest point of Dead Rabbit Command gliders all the way out to El Salvador, El Salvador. We're one of the biggest podcast in El Salvador, which I love, which is amazing. I find that completely humbling. We're consistently the number one science podcast in El Salvador, which is pretty dope.

But I never get to find good stories from El Salvador to cover. I actually had a contest a couple of years ago and said, send me your stories. I got one. It wasn't even from El Salvador.

It was an urban legend about a man who had sex with a donkey. And again, that's not what you want to represent your country. You're like, yay, look it. We're going to be on this podcast.

It's about a man who banged a donkey. You're like, oh, man. It's about a man who had sex with a donkey. And the donkey gave birth to a half human half donkey person.

And it was what it was, was a photo of a deformed donkey. I mean, it's not your best one for it there, El Salvador. It was a photograph of a deformed donkey that was viral. And I covered it and said, well, this is the only story I could find.

Why don't you guys send it in to me even? And then it turns out that it was a people if this wasn't real. Can you believe that? Oh, Jason got fooled again.

It wasn't a man who had sex with a donkey and gave birth to a half man half donkey. Well, it wasn't. It was just a deformed donkey. And it went into an injury and then it didn't even take place at El Salvador, which led all El Salvadorians to breathe a sigh of relief and go, OK, we'll be fine.

Not taking claim to that one. Apparently, the photo itself was from Columbia or something like that. It was a viral photo that they made up this story. But I've constantly been on the lookout for cool stories from El Salvador to share with you guys.

And I recently stumbled across the one. We landed on El Salvador and we're walking down the street and we go to the local pancake house and we're eating pancakes. And we're eating them up. And you're like, dude, are these like pancakes?

You said in the intro, there's going to be a bunch of bones in this episode. Are these pancakes made out of bone meal? And I was like, no, I just got here a little early. We're eating some pancakes.

So then we go and walk around town and I'm like shopping at the mall. You're like, you going to the bone zone? We're going to that store where he's still nothing but bones? I was like, that's not a store?

Is it? And I'm like, no, I go, don't worry. We'll get to the bones. But while we're waiting, let's just go shopping, right?

So we're buying money. You carry all money stuff and you're like my personal assistant and walking around. I'm buying the heavy stuff. I was like, ooh, kettlebells.

He's my favorite. We're carrying all the stuff. I'm just kind of walking on the street. And I look at the watch and I go, it's almost time.

And that's when the sun starts to set. And I go, it's at nighttime when the bones arrive. Go ahead and put down all those kettlebells. All those chugs of water.

I'm not even thirsty. I just want you to carry around a bunch of heavy stuff. Set that stuff down, good friend. And let us wait for the sun to set.

And we watched the Golden Globe or that gives the world life creep behind the horizon. We're sitting on this city street and all the shopkeepers are like, see you later, bro. We're like, see you later, man. And then like women are like rolling their babies down the street and cradles and strollers and being like, hey, see you later, guys.

We're like, see you. Good night. Good night, babies. And they're everyone's going to bed.

And now we're on the deserted street. We're still just sitting there. Okay. Great.

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I kind of started laughing. I kind of started checking and you're like, what? The sound of the bones is deafening in your ears. You're like, Oh, listen to this podcast.

They might turn only curse. We are in El Salvador to check out the story of La Coretta Chilona. La Coretta Chilona. And if you don't know Spanish, or if you do know Spanish, you're like, I kind of can figure out what he's trying to say.

It's not even Ranta. La Coretta Chilona. This is a bizarre local legend. It's actually really popular over in El Salvador.

The story goes like this. A long time ago, we don't have a specific year for when this started off, but we're talking a little bit after the Spaniards had come to South America and they began conquering and past that at this point, they're kind of setting up. They're building the middle school when you guys have to build the missions. Remember when that was your job?

They're like, Oh, give fifth graders, get those bricks together, make those Adobe bricks. No, when I was in middle school in California, we had to build little missions, little Catholic churches out of like gumdrops or marshmallows or whatever. Like we was like an art project and a social studies project. We would build these missions and then we would turn them in.

That's all that I got from that lesson. I'm like, I don't know what year it took place. I don't know anything else about it. But when the Spaniards came over and they spread Catholicism to the new world, they built a bunch of missions.

And then the friars, like in some day, children all over America will build these. Maybe they don't do that in Missouri. I wonder if they learn, we learned about how to build a mission out of marshmallows. There's a little note.

It's like, no, this is not what they actually use back then. Do not try eating a mission. In middle school, we learned about the missions and we learned about the Oregon Trail. But I wonder if they talk about the Oregon Trail in Nebraska.

Because they'd be like, huh, what's Oregon? Is that some other country? No, no, that's the state, Nebraskans. Like, do you learn?

Because there's only so much history you can learn in any given time period. But that time period takes not even more than a few. Now, what? Just the way it takes place in the 90s?

Well, I don't know what it takes place. This sort of takes place back when they were building missions out of brick. It takes them. That's still like each lifespan.

But anyways, in El Salvador, there is a guy who came over from Spain named Terranico Perez. He came over to South America. He made his way up into El Salvador. And he's like, yeah, listen man, he had stars in his eyes.

He was like, you know what I want to do? I don't want to just be some dude. Nobody remembers. I want to be rich and famous to just be sitting in El Salvador post conquest, right?

There's not a lot of like tablets out there. He's sitting in El Salvador. He's like, I'm a big shot. I need to be someone that everyone likes.

But you know, you're part of an amazing army. You're not super popular with the locals. And no one knows you from dirt, like all the other Spaniards don't really know you. Well, he ends up teaming up with this guy named Juan Teppa, who is a native man in El Salvador and Juan in Terranico started hanging out.

And Juan's like, hey, dude, you are my best friend. And Terranico is like, yeah, I think you're my best friend too. And Juan goes, because you're such a good friend, I'm going to teach you some stuff. You see that plant over there?

See what I'm pointing out? That salamander sitting on top of it? Take a bite out of the plant. And Terranico is like, okay, he's like, I'm not using it up.

And he's like, wow, all of a sudden my gout went away. He's instantly circled in here. And Juan goes, yes, that's the power of native medicine. We have all these herbs.

We have all these herbs and spices everywhere. Hopefully, the girl never comes down here. We have all of these green bushes and stuff that you can eat or grind it up into a paste and like rub it behind your ears. We got all this great seven, it really worked.

And Terranico is like, oh, dude, this does work. He's constantly like rubbing it everywhere. He's eating all these plants. And he's like, I'm the healthiest man alive.

And Juan's like, yeah, this is the power of native medicine. Well, what Terranico does is he decides to take old-timey native medicine and market himself as a healer. But he doesn't go to the natives to heal them. Because if he's like, grab this plant, I'm going to rub it behind your eighth toenail.

And they're like, what? I know what that is. My grandma used to do that. What Terranico did was he would take this native medicine and then promote it to the local Spanish population.

And he's like, guys, I have what ails you. You over there, you have gout. Like, no, you have gout. Someone's like, no.

And he's like, does anyone here have gout? And this old lady raised up her hand. And he's like, come on up, lady. She can't walk her.

And he's like, ah, it's a long way. He's like, as this megaphone, he's talking to someone on the way back. Get up here, old lady. And then when she gets up there, he's like, eat this leaf.

And she eats it and her knees go, oh, yeah. I wish I had gout. And he begins to promote himself as a healer to the rich and powerful Spaniards. And they had no idea that this was like, not super common knowledge, but it wasn't as much.

I mean, listen, if you have a disease and someone can heal it, that might be worth any amount of money. And that's what Terranico was charging any amount of money you had, where if these Spaniards had made relations friendly relations with the local villagers and the local healers, they probably would have gotten it for cheap if not free. Because it's nothing to them. They're like, oh, yeah, go sit in that very bush for three hours and your diarrhea will go away.

And you'd be like, okay, you sit in the very bush. Terrico would be like, if you want your diarrhea to go away, sit in the very bush, but it's a special very bush. It's only in my house. There's a camera in it.

I'm also an upshot creep. Sit in my very bush and I'm going to charge you like 10 gold chillings or whatever they use crowns or frongs or whatever it was, the blooms. So the point is, is that he was taking pretty common medicine practices and position himself as this high level expert when really was just rubbing a couple bushes on you. Well, a plague broke out in this area.

That's because I believe Tariquio kind of moved around El Salvador, this scam wouldn't really work if one was hanging out with him and one's like, hey, yeah, you know that thing, you sit in that very bush, you can do that for free. And Tariquio's like covered his mouth and he's like, you bumblehead, you'll ruin my bull's scam. I mean, old medical practice. I think he moved away.

So it wasn't that obvious. I think he wasn't in the same area. But anyways, at a certain point, he is in this area and he's charging all his money to heal all these rich people. And a plague strikes the local native population.

Tariquio knew how to fix this. He knew what the plague was. He knew that he could treat them fairly easily. It wasn't a black plague.

It was just he was just a plague. But he goes, I know I can fix them, but I'm not going to. And the reason why is because they can't afford the services of the great Tariquio. So as the natives are like coughing and falling all over each other, I don't know if he was standing over there gloating.

I don't know if he's like, ah, poor people die before me. But he easily could have stopped this. A bunch of people died. Tariquio refused to help them while he was still charging huge amounts for this for really, for all intents and purposes, free medicine.

He also didn't want to go out to treat them because if he did go out and start treating the natives in this area, they'd be like, oh, like, thanks for showing us the secret. But like the bush you use to fix us with a bunch of those bushes are over there. We just sat on those bushes ourselves. He knew that if he treated them, not only would he not get paid, but they may reveal that this is super common.

You just need to know what it is, right? These these medicines are everywhere. He is not like the average farmer would be like, oh, no, I'm tired of the plague. My arm fell off.

Let me go eat a blueberry bush. So he had it did he did have a certain skill level to it, but the ingredients themselves were free. That's what he was selling where the ingredients basically. So he let him all die off.

And then one night Tariquio was at his house and he's sitting on a pile of money. He's sitting on a pile of doubloons. He's like, I'm the richest man in El Salvador. And all it took, all it took was hundreds of deaths and me being a greedy jerk.

And then all of a sudden the ghost of an old friend of his showed up back when he still lived in Spain. He used to hobnob with his dude named Frey and Tolen Ovidio. And his ghost shows up and he's like, Tariquio, what are you doing, man? Like, I thought I taught you better.

Remember before you came to South America, remember all that? Remember when we built that mission together? I've come drops and toothpicks. We built a bond.

But here you are in this new world and you let a bunch of people die for your money-making scheme. And that's just a terrible thing. So I will curse you, Tariquio. I will curse you.

You have to go and gather the bones of all those people who died because you didn't give them medicine. And then that's how Tariquio is like, okay, no other bodies. All right, watch them die. No, no, no.

And then you need to build a wagon out of their bones. That's a little elaborate. Like, I don't know how to build wagon silence. You're gonna learn.

I'm gonna give you a ghost book on how to build a wagon out of bones. They're quite popular in the afterlife. You have to find all the bones, all of them, of all the people who died because you didn't save them. You have to build a wagon.

And then you have to take their skulls and put them in the back of the wagon. And you sort a picture in like a super cool skeleton horse carrying this wagon. It's like, oh, I can do this. I should be pretty dope flames shooting out of the skull horse's head.

And the ghost can read his mind. He goes, no, it's not gonna be that heavy metal. You are gonna pull the wagon. So this is your lot in life.

And you have to do it until your mission's complete. You have to, one, build a wagon out of bones. Two, Phil said wagon. Not just any bones either.

I want you to see you going to the bed cemetery. You have to get the bones of the people who died because you didn't treat them. Then you have to take their skulls and put them in the back of the wagon. So they clitter-clatter as you're walking down the street.

And yes, you're going to be carrying this wagon. And you just have to do it until you find all the bones of the people who died because you didn't treat them. And Serena was like, no, no, I've been cursed. But you have to figure in the back of his head, he thought, first off, he thought, I'm sitting on those bushes.

I might be having some sort of hallucinogenic drip. Also, he goes, well, that's not such a bad thing. I mean, it's horrible, right? you're damned.

But he goes, maybe, you know, how many natives died? I don't know, it doesn't. A couple hundred at most. I could pick up all those bones in a short order of time.

But to this, we're now in the year 2023, you'll be sitting on the streets of El Salvador. Click it, clack, clack, click it, click it, click it, click it, click it, click it. The schwiggle, schwiggle, schwiggle is the skulls bumping up against each other in the back of the wagon. And the click it, clack, click it, click it, click it.

The sound of the bones hitting the street, you know, like the wheels made of bones and the wagons made of bones and the poles to pull the wagon made of bones and it's full of skulls. And so this day he's still walking, looking for the bones of all the people who died because he didn't help them. He's cursed forever. So I guess there's like one skeleton out there.

I don't know that he can't find some guys like, oh, grandpa, you died of the plague. I'm going to throw you off this cliff. I'm going to put you in a super hard place. I'll put you in a place where no wagon can ever go in the deepest crevice in the country of El Salvador.

He's still looking for the last pile of bones to complete his wagon and to be safe. It's interesting because so this story is very popular in El Salvador. And you have this idea that on the one hand, it's a story like, don't be greedy. Don't be greedy, kids.

It's a little scary for that kids. They're like, well, I'm in the seventh grade. It's the year 2023. And you're right.

Maybe I shouldn't be greedy if I was a post conquering Spaniard. They're like, no, you should never be greedy. Should never be greedy because someday you might have to carry a bunch of bones around. I'm like, wait, no, no, that was his one.

It's not mine. I'm not a doctor. I'm not ripping people off. I'm pretty good kid.

I just lie here once in a while. Don't be greedy. That's the first lesson, kids. The second lesson is don't stay out after dark because you might hear the weeping wagon.

Look, corruption, Chilona, the weeping wagon may come to get you and you're like, wait, what? Why would it get me? And then the person's on the source? I don't know.

It has to be smoking nowadays, too. If you hear the wagon, that means that it may be coming for you. And if you see it, your head gets chopped off and they throw your skull in the back of the wagon. You're like, what do you mean?

You're sitting wearing nails. I was like, you see the wagon. I was like, I don't hear anything. I'm wearing a blindfold.

It's like, what? What's going on? I don't see anything. And as your head's being chopped off by Torinquio and you're like, what?

Why is my head being thrown in the back of this wagon and you're hearing it rattle on down the street? You're like, what? No. I'm laughing.

You hear me laughing at the distance. Like, hey, don't worry about it, buddy. Here's a new head. I give you a new head and you're sitting back next to me.

I go, that's a weird addition to the story, right? Like the original version was the punishment was his. But like a lot of urban legends, like a lot of these myths, there is a story. It's a kid's like, don't be out after dark because it is day.

The real world is dangerous. But if you tell a kid, well, you know, a hobo might stab you in the neck to kid be like, ah, whatever. I'm five years old. I don't know what a hobo is.

You're gonna find out soon kid when you stabbed in the neck. That's kind like to tell a kid that a real world person might embed a screwdriver in their brain is they're sitting on a bus stop. I don't think a kid understands that that's possible. I don't know.

I mean, I don't know if that's a real world danger. But if you tell the kid, the boogeyman might jump out from behind you the bus stop and stick a screwdriver in your brain. They're like, oh, the boogeyman, no. I'm never taking the bus again.

I think I told a five year old kid. They might get stabbed in the brain and screwdriver. I'm pretty sure that's child abuse. I'm pretty sure there's like emotional abuse.

I'll figure that out when the court catches me. But if you're having a creepy story, it's more effective. Don't say out after dark type of thing. Sammy, I'm gonna go and attach the keys to the carboner comp.

Leave me behind El Salvador. Everyone make sure your heads are still attached as we wave goodbye. Sammy, take us all the way out to Missouri. We're headed all the way out to Missouri.

Specifically, we're headed to Fort Leonard Wood in Pulaski County, Missouri. This was built in 1940. You're not well versed in world history. There's a lot of wars.

There's a lot of stuff going on in the 40s. But this was before we entered the war. And it's funny because the US government said, you know what, we need, we need a huge training facility. Let's start building it 1938, 1939.

And then Hitler invades Poland. And at that point, they're like, okay, we better start building this really, really quickly. So they're building up this base originally. They're like, I don't know, we can take 10 or 20 years to build this.

What are the other chances of another great war happening? Well, once World War II kicked off, you imagine they were throwing the buildings together super fast. It was used as a training facility slash POW camp. The base was built in 1940, it sat on about 71,000 acres.

It was a massive sprawling base. You have the base itself. And because it was a training facility, you have this huge firing range as well. Well, one night in 1943, there was a soldier named James Clown.

He was on guard duty walking around the firing range. It was called the blood land firing range. And he doesn't report in, right? When you're on guard duty, you're constantly like on the radio being like, everything's clear over here.

Boss in the boss is like, yeah, the president, the president gets phone calls every single minute, how everything's going in every single military base. They're constantly like reporting and well, he doesn't report in. So they go to check on him. It is more or more to what's going on at this point.

Let's go make sure that our security is up to enough. They go check on him. They can't find him where he's supposed to be. Eventually, they do find him.

He's inside this little building pass out and they're like clown, clown, get up, get up. And he's like, uh, uh, and they're like, what are you doing? You're supposed to be on guard duty. He's like, guys, guys, you won't believe what just happened to me.

And it's hard smelling his breath. They're like, dude, have you been drinking? He's like, how'd you know? But it's more than that.

It's more than that. I was out doing guard duty at the blood land firing range. When all of a sudden a bunch of ghosts showed up, but not just any ghosts. These were hard drinking ghosts.

And they were carrying a jug of hard cider. And I said, none for me, I'm a member of the US military and I'm going to stay on guard duty as he's wearing his pants. It's still a bunch of ghosts. Like he's refusing because they're like, dream, dream, dream, dream.

He's like, no, no, I won't drink. I have a mission to fulfill. And he goes, they chase me down and they shove the straw in my mouth and made me drink hard cider until I passed out. And that is how I ended up in this shed with my pants, my pants full of urine.

That's the whole story. Obviously he was court martialed. Obviously he was raw before a judge and they're like, James clown, do you have anything else to say other than your whole, I was forced to drink by ghosts? And he goes, listen, your owner, I'm gonna tell you the truth.

It was on guard duty. But the coach showed up and said, okay, stop, stop. We're not going to let you finish the start. We've heard before court martialed.

He goes to jail for sleeping. We're really forgetting drunk on guard duty. It used to be in old times, if you fell asleep on guard duty, they just killed you. Right?

Because that was the worst thing you could do. James, they just put him in jail. Becomes a bit of a laughing stock around at the base, right? But eventually time passes and where a year later, it's 1944 in Randall Ellsworth is doing guard duty at the bloodland firing range.

He's not on his post. People go looking for him. They find him, passed out, laying in the ground in the middle of the firing range, which is kind of the worst place to be passed out, right? I guess you would wake up on the first bullet, whizzed over your head.

But he's passed out on the firing range and they're like, wake up, wake up. What are you doing here? What are you doing here? And he's like, I only say it once.

I have ears. He goes, listen, you guys won't believe what happened? Was that doing guard duty? Much ghost showed up.

They're like, wait, what? He goes, I know, I personally left that clown myself. I personally, I led the booing as the court partially was going on. I didn't believe him.

But I was doing guard duty. A bunch of ghosts showed up. They had a jug of hard cider. I refused to drink.

I always refused to drink the ghost showed up with alcohol for me. I'm like, look, look, look. They're like, I didn't say you can have any. Just walked in with this bottle of ghost liquor.

He goes, I refused to drink. I refused it. But they put a straw in my mouth and they made me drink hard cider until I passed out. Now he was not court marshaled because again, the first time it happens, you figure the guys making it up.

The second time it happens, it's real or possibly that he heard the story of the first guy and go, well, all he did was get court marshaled, right? I don't really want to go over and fight World War II. Maybe he made up the same story. You could argue that.

But the military goes, we should look into this. Ladies and gentlemen, if ghosts are invading our base and making our men drink liquor, we should probably figure out if there's something to this. Or is this just some urban legend? Is this just much alcoholics?

We might want to look at who we're drafting. But until then, we're not going to have any security at the bloodland firing range. No guards will walk that perimeter. And what it turns out is, let's go back in time a bit.

Let's go back before Fort Leonard Wood stood there. It was originally a town called Bloodland. And this wasn't like ancient times. Well, it's kind of ancient times us, but we're talking like it's the year it's like the 1930s.

And there's a town called Bloodland in Missouri, how the population of about 100 people, these were mostly German immigrants living on this land. And life was good. And the government, the US government saw this area, they go, this would be the perfect place to build a military base. It would take up about 71,000 acres.

And we're going to have to wipe out that town. But you know, whatever, like the rest of the area is pretty good. Let's get rid of it. We'll use eminent domain.

We're just going to take it over. We're not going to have any of these debates or anything like that. Now, the mayor of town knew about it. And a couple other people in town knew about it, but the population itself, like the majority of the people who lived there had no idea that this plan was going to roll out.

It wasn't until October 31st, when the city gathered for their huge Halloween celebration. Everyone's all dressed up in his old time. He said the costumes are kind of lame. Maybe there's like a Superman costume, you know, he was mostly probably people dressing up as pumpkins or someone just wearing a pumpkin on their head.

People walking around in bed sheets, they're having this huge Halloween celebration. The mayor gets up on stage and goes, residents of blood land, brothers and sisters, little babies, cats. I hope you guys are having fun. And they're like, yeah, they're all drinking a hard cider.

And he's like, yes, I'm having fun too. Lots of fun on this Halloween night. I see Superman over there. Good costume.

Guys, I have an announcement to make pretty soon. The US government is going to bulldoze all of your houses and you will all be almost there's nothing we knew about it. I knew about this way in advance. I've already moved.

I've already moved all my stuff. I don't think the bulldozers are on the other side of the hill. The bulldozers are dressed up as scary monsters, but they were coming soon. He's like, listen, in a very short order, this entire city's going to be wiped off the map.

Sorry, guys. I don't know why he decided to announce this on Halloween. Maybe that's the time he figured everyone was together and he can make the announcement to everyone at once. What do you think happened?

What do you think happened when you informed 100 people at a party? Half of them are already drunk that they're all going to be home. There's you dry it. Basically, the entire town rioted.

And the mayor's like, okay, there's nothing you can do at this point. You guys are just kind of being brat staring this stuff down. You're actually helping. Actually, why don't you go tear down all that stuff too?

That'll save the US government time and money. The people rioted and they were evicted and where the city stood, because it wasn't a big city. The majority of where the city stood is where the firing range was built. It was a huge firing range.

And as the people were finally leaving the city, there was talk of a curse being placed on the land that whoever resided there would fall into deep embarrassment, which, listen, as far as curses go, that's not a bad curse. If someone put that curse on you, you might step in dog poop or something like that. The curse made it so, I mean, again, it's kind of weak, right? But I guess like, if you it's not like they killed all these dudes, not like they killed all these German immigrants and took their land, they just kicked them off the land.

So I guess that's kind of fair. Like you lose your house and anyone who lives on that land later, every so often, they're like, fart loudly in public. Like it's just an embarrassment. But that's what was happening.

People were thinking like, is this the curse? Is it that not the best curse in the world? It wasn't worded quite well. No one's residing on the land, but for whatever reason, every so often, these young men are out guarding this area and a bunch of drunk ghosts make the men drink, get them in drunk and embarrass them.

There's really no sightings at all of these riotous ghosts between 1944 until 1974. That's the last official sighting. That's where three guards at that point, the military goes, listen, if you know wars in full swing, we probably should guard them. We probably should have guards on all ports in the military base.

Let's put guards out there, but we won't just have one of them. We'll have three guards. Surely, three guards will be able to fight off ghosts, right? Because there was originally three ghostbusters.

Well, they didn't, they didn't have a fourth ghostbuster in the military. Didn't anybody that movie? The three guards who were there that night in 1974 got captured by these ghosts, dragged around, trading, like this would be a funny hunting to watch, as long as it wasn't happening to you. It'd be actually kind of funny to happen to you too, right?

You're getting drunk, you're hardy with a bunch of ghosts. I mean, I guess they were the souls of the dams. I don't know how, I don't know how fun they were to hang out with. Like, so what do you even have to do?

They're like moaning, mostly, mostly just moaning, standing behind people in the bathroom. You're like, that's not too cool, man. These three guards got kidnapped by these ghosts and you know they kidnapped, they just took them a short distance. I don't know if kidnaps are right.

Legally, it is. If you move first in from one room to the other, it's kidnapping. But they took these three guards, forced them to drink. And actually, I think these guys were able to avoid getting drunk.

I think these guys were somehow maybe the three guards that helped. But they didn't show, they didn't say that these three guys woke up in a stupor were found later. But they did report that the drinking ghosts came to them. No citing sense.

This is a fascinating ghost story for several reasons. First off, this is one of those stories that I found. I was actually researching a different story that will cover tomorrow about Fort Leonard Wood. There was something else that really piqued my interest on the Shadowlands.net.

But I always like to verify as much as I can verify about these ghost stories. So I go, let's see if this place is really haunted. And I came across this. I gave her guys the story of drinking ghosts.

And not just drinking ghosts. They're getting you drunk. There's a lot of articles on this. There's actually more articles on this than the story I'm going to cover tomorrow.

But what was interesting is there's a website called militaryghosts.com. It's run by a guy named Dave Goodwin. And he did this big write up, basically a story I just told you. And I found that same story in multiple other places.

But like any good journalist, he decided to see, is this true? That's the big question, right? We believe, well, I believe ghosts exist. You may just like ghost stories or you may believe they exist as well.

But we also want to look at the individual accounts. Are they true? Well, he tracked back this story to a woman named Joan Gilbert who wrote a book called Missouri ghosts. And in that book, she tracks back the story to a newspaper called The Gateway Guide, which I wasn't able to find that that newspaper still exists.

It's such kind of a generic name, right? There's a couple websites called that, but it's like automotive parts or like computer gateways or something like that. Gateway Guide, the Gateway Guide published an article back on October 30, 1975. This would have been after the last sighting.

She tried to get ahold of the person who wrote the article. No longer worked there. The journalist no longer worked there because she was trying to verify it as well. And then she talked to different people of the paper and they said, we don't even remember that article being published.

Like, we don't know where that article came from. They're like, and they're like, they're art slider fingerprints all over it. It floated right into the printing press. They go, we don't remember that story.

We don't really remember the journalist. So they were no help tracking this person down. We don't know if the story is true. We don't know if the story was printed as a Halloween spooky story in a local paper.

Was it legit? It's interesting. We say the last sighting was in 1974, but the article telling the whole story, the whole thing I talked to you about, apparently that's the first time all the stories appeared in print together was in 1975. So the question is, is the story real?

It's interesting because we do come across to haunted military bases all the time. They're just as haunted as like abandoned as silums. The reason why you don't hear about them is like military personnel are always like, oh, no, they're always haunted. Like every person who works on base, not every person, but a lot of people who live on base to work on base, they've either experienced paranormal stuff or their second hand.

They've heard stories about it. They never show up on ghost shows, right? Zach Baggins is going to be like, Hey, everyone look at me. Look at me.

I'm at this secure facility. I'm walking around. We're going to go in this place. No, they're not allowed to go there.

They go to the public access places, the places I don't invite them in. Look at me, everyone. I'm in Guantanamo Bay. Look at all these ghosts.

They're not going to do that. So it would make sense, right? You have so much young energy, so much fear of what is going to, you know, what your future is going to hold. And six weeks you're going to be overseas fighting against people, killing people as they try to kill you.

You're just trying to look at a nudie magazine for five minutes and for the lights go out. All of this psychic energy just filling these places plus the real life tragedies, people committing suicides, family, annihilation, all of this thing. It's a very, very stressful life on base housing on themselves. So it would make sense that there were ghosts.

The town of Bloodland, we do it no existed. That part of the story, 100% is true. The town of Bloodland was there and had a population. They weren't told that their town was going to disappear.

It was taken over by the US military. That whole part of the story is true. Whether or not the mayor announced it on Halloween, that's kind of a fun detail, but it wouldn't make sense because that's when everyone would be gathered together. But I think stepping back from the story, truth thing, there's a more interesting question here and we'll wrap it up like this.

Where in the world did the ghosts get the hard cider? These are ghosts who are actively carrying around liquor that can get you drunk and can go in through your esophagus. It's not because it's not like floating out when you take a big gulp. You're like yummy, yummy, yummy.

And then it's like floating through your cheeks. It's actual liquor. So the ghosts are interacting with a physical object. And that's what I'm saying.

Like, did they get it? Did they first they're all these ghosts are hanging out of the liquor store? They're showing their ID. The guy's like, uh, according to this ID, you've been dead.

Actually, now that I think about this, I didn't think about this. And I do got to wrap this episode up soon. The town was demolished. Not that long before the base was built.

So remember the first the base was built in 1940. The town was still there. Let's get because they started building the base in the 30s. So they would have kicked everyone out at the latest the mid 30s.

But let's even push it farther back. Let's say that my dates are wrong. Let's say they kicked the people out in the 20s. And these are all German immigrants.

So they were healthy enough to immigrate over to the United States. These weren't like old, decrepit people crawling on a boat. Like a better life, a better life from 84 years old. I'm looking for the streets of gold America.

They all come over. They're probably in their 20s, their 30s. They're the residents of this town will put them around the age groups of say 70 to 10, right? There's a hundred people.

You probably have a couple different families there, multi-generational. We'll say the median age is 30. All these numbers out of my butt, but we'll get to this. Let's say the median age of this town is around 30.

I think that'd be fair. And in 1920, they tear the town down. Again, it's later than that, but just stay with me in that time period. They tear the town down.

And then this place starts getting haunted in 1940. 1943 is when the first sight of this ghost was there's a pretty good chance that most of these ghosts, if these are the residents of Bloodland that are mad that their town got taken over, they would still be alive. They'd still be alive. If you were 30 in 1920, you'd be 50 in 1943 or you know, around that.

And again, although you're gonna pull down your calculator, then you're thrown away. You're like, I don't even know why I tried to take Jason's mask. It's always wrong. I don't know what he's talking about.

But anyways, my point is is that they didn't kill everyone at Bloodland. They didn't destroy, well, they destroyed the German immigrants' houses, but they didn't kill all the German immigrants. They just were like, see you later losers. And they're like, oh man, we cursed this land.

So was it actually, this is interesting because as far as we know of a ghost, we covered a story recently, a ghost girl showed up to eat a piece of cake. But then the question was, was that a ghost girl or was that something disguising itself as a little girl? Kind of left that open ended here, which because normally ghosts don't eat food. If this is your first time you heard about ghosts, ghosts don't normally eat food.

It's incredibly incredibly rare to ever find a story like that. This time we have the ghosts carrying around liquor and forcing people to drink. And when we look at it from the idea of people's spirits who have manifested into the real world, they might be able to move objects. We see that in paranormal activity.

In paranormal activity too. But the idea of them carting around liquor and making it drunk, that's a little beyond what a ghost can do. And this is interesting because if you think about it, it was not the ghosts of the immigrants who were at Bloodland. They were still alive.

This would have been something they summoned because when you move out of the realm of the ghosts, the departed spirits of a human, which does have a peak power level into the realm of demons and spirits that have been summoned, not spirits as a ghost, but some sort of ethereal creature or curse. Their power level is, we don't know what the ceiling is to them. It's somewhere in between man and God. Somewhere in between the infinite and the mortal is where like a demon's power level would be or a spirit, like a summoned essence would be.