When a young woman and her cat stop at a hotel on a road trip, they have no idea they're about to come face to face with paranormal madness. And then we take a look at the story of a house that's built right next to a forest. Most people would say, what a beautiful view. I can look out my window at any time and see squirrels jumping from tree to tree.
However, those people are idiots, because anyone who knows anything about the world of the paranormal knows there are monsters behind every tree. Today on Dead Rabbit Radio. Hey, everyone, welcome back to another episode of Dead Rabbit Radio. I'm your host, Jason Carpenter.
I have a great day. Hope you guys are having a great day too. Hope you guys had an awesome weekend. Hope you guys had tons of fun hanging out, doing whatever you're doing.
We've got a ton of stuff to cover today, literally. I waited before this episode started. First off, running into Dead Rabbit Command is one of our newest Patreon supporters. Everyone get on your feet and give it up for Jim Crowley.
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That helps out so much. Tell your friends, tell your family, tell everyone you know, Dead Rabbit Radio is your favorite paranormal show. Now, like I said, we have a ton of stuff to cover today. And that's true, because first off, I've got to give a shout-out to Into the Obscure podcast.
That's Into the Obscure podcast. All the links are going to be in the show notes. They interviewed me last week for their show. They do a paranormal interview show.
It was a lot of fun. I recommend you guys checking that out, Into the Obscure podcast. Check it out. And I've not announced this on the show yet, and it's coming up soon.
I don't know why I took so long. You know, just busy, I guess. November 10th, I will be giving a live presentation, Port Gamble, Washington, at the Port Gamble Ghost Conference. I will be giving a live presentation.
You guys sound like you're barely awake. At least enthused. You're like, oh, whatever, I'll be here. I am barely awake.
We'll get to that maybe. I don't know what's going on. I'm so, I gotta nap all the time. Maybe it's because I just turned 47 the other day.
Let me get a little bit of pep in my step. Let me dance around a bit here. The Port Gamble Ghost Conference is coming up November 10th through the 12th, 2023. Involves ghosts and ghouls, goblins of all sorts, mostly ghosts.
Otherwise, they would have called it the Goblin Conference. I, your lovable, huggable host, Jason Carpenter, will be presenting a speech, a live presentation on November 10th, 10th, 10th, 2023. It's going to open the conference, so all you procrastinators, you're like, what did you just tell me about it? So now I'm like, what?
You're going to be there the very first speaker on November 10th? Yes, yes, the very first speaker on the opening night, which I requested. That way I could relax the rest of the weekend. So come check it out.
November 10th through the 12th. I only speak on the 10th and then I give a presentation the next day about paranormal podcasting. But what's my presentation on, you ask? You ask, you ask?
Why are there no fat ghosts? And you go, Jason, first off, you should learn how to pronounce the word ghosts with a plural. You always add syllables to stuff. Ghosts.
But didn't you already do that presentation, bro? I already saw you do that same presentation at the Seaside Ghost Conference. Well, here's the thing. It's the same title.
Brand new presentation. So if you've already heard Why Are There No Fat Ghosts live, it's going to be all new ghost stories because we've actually researched more, found more stories. So it's the brand new for you, you, you, you. November 10th, 2023 at Port Gamble, Washington.
Probably should've announced that way earlier because there is no hotels in the area. We're going to be staying probably like a 20-minute drive out of the convention center. But anyways, I'm really looking forward to that. I'm going to be talking about it, obviously, a lot more.
We're going to be taking a break. My goal is to do episodes all the way up to Halloween. We're getting close to that 50-episode limit where I start to just kind of crash and burn and then I take a two-week break. But I think we can make it till Halloween.
And then after that, next time you'll see me is at the Port Gamble Ghost Conference. Be there or be scared because you missed it and you'd be sad as well. Jim, let's go ahead and toss you the keys to the dead rabbit dune buggy. We are leaving.
Oh, you know, I got one more thing I want to talk about. Let's see, are we going to squeeze it in? Am I going to have to bump this bathroom story back one more time? I think we can fit it in.
Jim, I'm going to go ahead and toss you the keys to the Jason jet. We're going to leave behind Dead Rabbit Command. Fly us all the way out to Israel. This is a super short story.
I'm assuming everybody has opened the newspaper or been within earshot of someone who has read the news in the past week. horrific tragedies going on in Israel. Troops are gathering. According to this, Israeli Defense Force has their troops massed on the border of the Gaza Strip.
They're ready to go in for like the first time in decades. You're going to have a bunch of ground troops in there. Crazy stuff, right? Russia is saying, hey, be careful what goes on.
Iran's, you know, saying, hey, you know, we'll back Hezbollah if the Israelis actually move in ground troops into Gaza. President Biden sends over. Now we have two aircraft carriers over in that region. Not a political podcast.
We're not gonna get into the politics of it, but there's something really interesting going on. It's really weird, really, really weird. Here's the thing. I suffer from anxiety attacks from time to time.
It's gotten better. It's definitely gotten better. My anxiety attacks tend to mimic heart attacks. It's very common, very common type of anxiety attack.
What will happen to me is, you know, I'm lifting weights or I pick up something wrong and I pull a muscle in my chest. Totally normal. Wouldn't be normal if I used good form or stretched before lifting weights. Three or four hours later, I get a pain in my chest.
And at that point, my brain starts going, dude, oh my God, man, you're having a heart attack. You're having a heart attack. You feel, you feel your left arm, it's getting numb. You're having a heart attack, bro.
This is it. You got to pick up that phone. You got to pick up that phone and call somebody. You're sweating.
That's another sign of a heart attack. You feel how fast your heart rate's going? It's stopping any minute. You're gonna die.
You got to call someone. You're gonna die right now. It's too late. You should have called someone a minute ago.
It's too late. And this will go on, this thought process and these physical symptoms, will go on from anywhere from a couple minutes to an hour. And this state of extreme panic. I think, I think technically what I have is panic attacks, not anxiety attacks.
Sometimes it doesn't even have a physical symptom. It won't even be a pain in my shoulder. I might be sitting kind of in a weird way, kind of slumped over playing video games. And I just feel weird.
And then all of a sudden, I will get chest pain and arm pain. Jason, are you sure you're not actually having heart attacks? I have gone to the emergency room more than once throughout my life. There are ways to test if you've had a heart attack, blood test, they can do all this stuff.
I've never had a heart attack. But it's always a panic attack. It's always an anxiety attack. It's always nothing.
But my brain is like full red alert. When I'm in the middle of one of these anxiety attacks, I can't look in the mirror. Because when I look in the mirror during an anxiety attack, the thought pops in my head. That is the last time you will ever see your own face.
You're going to die. You're going to die right now. But I don't. What's interesting is that's how an anxiety attack works for me.
But longtime listeners of the show will know I have had real medical emergencies. I haven't had one in a couple of years now. But the one that I had a couple times was an AFib. My heart would go out of rhythm.
We think we figured it out. It was having to do with acid reflux and sleeping and my esophagus punching against my heart, throwing it out of rhythm. Because since I started watching more of the spicy foods I eat before bedtime, not going, laying down, you know, right up to bed and eat a meal, all this stuff is pretty much eliminated. I haven't had an AFib in a couple of years.
But the first time I had an AFib, I was fully awake. I didn't wake up in AFib. I was sitting there and I was drinking water. I was eating a bunch of garbage that day.
I To finally determine who wins, good versus evil. Israel, the attack of Israel, the fall of Israel, the rebuilding of Israel, all of these are very, very important pieces of Christian in-time theology. Israel is very, very important to the Christians and most Western conspiracy theory is born out of that as well. Stories of the Illuminati, they're always Satan worshipers, right?
They're always trying to bring about the Antichrist or prevent the return of Christ. They're always talking about wiping Christianity off of the map, out of the globe. Western conspiracy theory is deeply, deeply soaked in Christian theology, especially end-time stories. And it's kind of a given.
It's kind of a given that whenever something bad happens in the Middle East, because I grew up like this, not just hearing it. My father was a son of a Baptist minister and it wasn't, he wasn't a fire and brimstone minister. We didn't get it all the time into the world being pushed down our throat, but obviously being part of that church, you would pick it up by osmosis. Whenever there happened to be some big event in the Middle East growing up, adults around me would be thinking, is this the beginning of the end?
Are these the end days? Is the final battle about to be set off? All throughout the Cold War, America aligned itself with Israel while the Soviet Union aligned itself with everybody else in the Middle East. And that gave it this whole like, will Israel be destroyed?
Is this the beginning of the end times? I remember very clearly when I was very, very into conspiracy theories, because I'm older at this point, Gulf War One. This was the beginning of the end of the world. If you look at prophecies in the book of Revelation, it says the sun will go as black as sackcloth.
And when Saddam Hussein lit the oil wells on fire, when he was retreating from Kuwait, a lot of people said that was the prophecy fulfilled. During the day, the sun was blotted out by these oil fires, these uncontrollable oil fires. The rivers will run of blood, was another very famous quote or vision prophecy of the book of Revelation. And people said that that could have been the oil spilling into the waterways because it was thick and congealed like a dead man's blood.
But it didn't happen. It wasn't the end of the world, but I remember people had talked about it a lot. And it came back during the second Gulf War. This is it.
I mean, remember all that Nostradamus stuff, you know, that he supposedly predicted the fall of the Twin Towers. This was supposed to be the rise of the Antichrist. All of this stuff, Gulf War Two happens and we're first off, huge attack, 9-11. Then we're in Afghanistan.
We're in Iraq, which is much closer to Israel. All of these things are going on and people are saying that this is the beginning of the end of the world. It wasn't the end of the world, but I remember all of the panic. And as time has gone on and I'm reading these conspiracy websites, the smallest things, the smallest things that happen in the Middle East or to Israel specifically, will light the conspiracy theory world ablaze.
This is it, guys. This is the end of the world. I've been seeing that for most of my life. There was an uprising in Gaza.
You know, these happen quite often. It's the end of the world. Israel is going to get attacked by Hezbollah. This is the beginning of the end of the world.
This Arab Spring that happened quite a few years ago, they're gonna overthrow all their leaders and then they're going to take on Israel. It's the end of the world. Russia is putting troops in Syria. This is the first step because it says the armies of the east will march into Israel.
This is the end of the world. I've been hearing that my entire life until now. I go to these conspiracy websites and since this Israeli thing has popped off, I've been checking them out a little more. And while there is a tiny bit, a tiny bit of discussion, I'm not gonna say that nobody's talking about it.
It is getting nowhere near the amount of discussion that any of these other events had. And we're talking about like, this is the worst I've seen it in my life. This is the worst I've seen it. Israel getting ready to go into the Gaza Strip.
We're moving aircraft carriers into the area. Iran is saying, don't. Russia is saying, don't. Biden's telling Iran, don't.
And on top of all of that, this past weekend, we had an eclipse. The sun will go as black as sackcloth. I've seen articles saying that the streets of Gaza reek of the smell of blood, almost like rivers running down the streets. And this invasion, this military march of over 300,000 troops, that may be how many soldiers they put into the Gaza Strip, has actually been postponed as of the time of recording this because of flooding.
Huge rainstorm hit the area. Who I've seen online, people say, well, that is the will of Allah, postponing the invasion of the Gaza Strip. Divine protection, they say. Flooding in Tel Aviv.
Huge rainstorm. Bad enough that they've had to postpone their invasion because it's cutting off their ability to use drones or aircraft in the battlefield. Listen, outside of the human element of this story, outside of the political element of this story and the religious element of this story, I'm looking at the conspiracy theory. And I've seen more conspiracy theories regarding this about photos, like this photo is fake.
That news story is not true. This news story was blown out of proportion. Those conspiracy theories are flying around like you can't even keep up with it. The media, the conspiracy theory media said, that's not true.
This is true. That's not true. And you're seeing this huge thing. Those are happening so quickly.
But the one thing that these communities are not talking about is this is the end of the world, guys. Or at least the start. We had an eclipse, major flooding. We're about to see Israel go in with a massive amount, a massive ground force into the Gaza Strip.
And a lot of countries are telling them not to. A lot of countries who have a vested interest in keeping them out. But it's okay. Don't panic.
Everything's gonna be just fine. It's weird, isn't it? Conspiracy theory community, the end of days community, they're pretty silent on this one. And I don't know why.
Hey, Jim. Jim, can you hear me? Jim Crowley. This is the craziest episode.
Some might call it cursed. I've gone through several iterations of this and I forgot to say your name. I actually, it's been a nightmare. So anyways, Jim Crowley, you get the studio mic that I usually use when I'm playing Fortnite and yelling at 10-year-olds.
Jim Crowley, I'm gonna go ahead and toss you the keys to the world-famous Carpenter Copter. We are leaving behind the Middle East. Why it's all the way out to a house at the edge of the woods. We're flying all the way out to South Carolina.
Here is 2023 and we're about to meet this woman. Her name is Patricia. We walk into Patricia's house and she's sitting there holding like grapes or something, eating. Yum, yum, yum.
We take a seat on the couch and she goes, welcome to my beautiful home. Welcome to my beautiful home. It's a fairly new house. It's only been built in the past 20 years.
And Patricia and her family have only lived in it for the past four. Patricia lives there as well as her husband. And they have at least one child, a daughter who we will call Betty. They're all living in this house.
Things seem to be going good. However, some parts of the house are creepier than others. Really what they kind of zoned in on, Patricia and her husband, is the stairway. Both of them have gotten the weird feeling that there's something on the stairs.
It's a two-story house. Did I mention that? You're like, where are the stairs? The porch stairs?
It's a two-story house. And both Patricia and her husband have, well, there's nothing been definitive as far as she knows, but it's just a weird feeling you get when you're on the stairs of this house. But what's interesting is they do have a collection of cats and the cats seem totally fine. They hang out on the stairs and aren't animals like more sensitive to the world of the paranormal?
It's an interesting story. It's not the whole story. You're like, wow, Jason really scraped the bottom of the barrel. I want you to remember the cats and I want you to remember how old the house is because I think longtime listeners of Dead Rabbit Radio can tell Patricia's already making some interesting, she's jumping to conclusions based on what she sees in scary movies.
The house is only 20 years old. You can't have a house that young already be haunted, can you? Cats hanging out on the stairs. Animals are sensitive to this paranormal stuff, so they should be running around.
The stairs must be okay. Patricia and her husband, let's give the husband a name. We'll call him Jack. I didn't come up with a name for him.
I don't know how much he plays in the story, honestly. But Patricia and Jack, they have a three-year-old daughter who we'll call Betty. And Betty goes, Mama, Mama, I don't like the window. Patricia scoops up her daughter and goes, what do you mean you don't like the window?
Betty goes, the window is spooky. There's a monster on the other side of it. It's super scary. Patricia's holding her daughter and looks out the window.
And I mean, it's a normal yard. Of course, there's no monster there. Of course, there's no monster. Patricia doesn't see anything out there.
This is She's walking to the bathroom down the hallway to get to the bathroom, and she turns on the hallway light because she has to pass by the stairs, and the stairway is just too creepy. It always gives her such a bad vibe, but she turns the hallway light on as she's walking down this hallway. A grown person, grown adult, afraid of the dark. She gets to the bathroom, and she flicks on the bathroom light switch.
Click. The bathroom light doesn't come on. She flicks it again. Click, click, click, click, click, click, click, on and off, on and off, on and off, the bathroom light will not come on.
Whatever, right? She has to pee. She doesn't want to go downstairs to pee. I'm just going to have to pee in the dark.
But that's not a bad thing, right? I used to live in an apartment with no electricity. I'd pee in the dark all the time, and I made it to the toilet. Pee in the dark, no big deal.
So she pees. She walks back down the hallway. She shuts off the hallway light, crawls in a bed. Next morning when she wakes up, she goes into the upstairs bathroom.
She flicks the switch, and the light comes on. So now she's even more puzzled. At first she'd be like the bulb burned out, something went wrong. But the next morning when it works just fine, now she's really puzzled as to what it could be.
She eventually brings this up to her husband, and she goes, hey, did you fix the light switch or change the light bulb out? Something really weird happened the other night. I woke up to go to the bathroom. Couldn't get the bathroom light to work.
That's when her husband turns to Patricia and tells her, he goes, listen, the next time that happens, the next time you go into the bathroom upstairs and you try to turn on the light and it doesn't turn on, either go back to bed or go use the bathroom downstairs. And do not look out the window. I found this posted online. It was posted by someone going by the name Winter Young.
And they ended their post by, really what they're wondering is what in the world this could be. And it says, quote, I guess my question is, what the heck am I dealing with? I don't think it's hostile, just curious, though my husband says don't interact. Also, I'm still going to pee in my own bathroom.
Ain't no way I'm going downstairs, is how she ends her quote. We can kind of take that as grammatically pretty rough sentence, but, I mean, I can't pronounce words, so who am I to judge? This story has all of those elements, right? You have a person who probably their only paranormal experience is through watching movies and scary books.
So you don't think a house that is only 20 years old could be haunted. The house itself is 20 years old. The land that it's built on is what, 6.5 billion years old? A lot of times people look at the structure itself and miss out that the land that your house, your brand new house is built on, could be charged with all sorts of positive or negative energy because that piece of land is as old as the earth itself, relatively speaking.
I know that islands are being formed by volcanoes. Just go with me on this. You could argue that most land we walk on is at least hundreds of millions of years old. People would be like, no, actually, Papua New Guinea is not 6.4 billion.
You've got to understand. Okay, so who knows who died there? Who knows who died on that patch of land? Also, I mean, building a house next to a forest, you're just kind of asking for spooky stuff.
You're just asking for spooky stuff to happen. I don't think it's a spirit. I don't think it's a spirit. I think if anything it's close...
In the Venn diagram of things, I don't think it's a pure cryptid. I don't think it's a pure spirit. It could be something in the middle. It could be something more like the boogeyman.
I don't think this thing is a ghost. I think this thing is a monster. It definitely is a monster, but it has ghost-like abilities. It probably is in the house from time to time.
It probably is what's making them feel uncomfortable on the stairs. But there's a bigger issue here. She's wondering, what is it? There's a big issue here, and I think you guys probably all picked up on it.
Jack, the husband, knows way more about this than she does. Not only was he fully aware that something was outside this house, that the weird feeling on the staircase, it could be something different. But the husband knew there was something outside this house. Not only did he know there was something outside this house, he knew the rules.
Don't go to the bathroom. If you go in there and the light shut off, don't look out the window. Either go back to bed, hold it in, pee in the bed, or go to a different bathroom. Go to the one downstairs.
Even though the stairway is creepy, go down there. He knew there was something outside the house. When the daughter, Betty, was talking about, it's scary, mommy, there's something outside. If Jack overheard that conversation or Patricia related it to him later, Jack knew, Jack wouldn't know that Betty was telling the truth.
Jack would know that his daughter had also seen this beast in the darkness. Yet he failed to tell his wife. That's what's absolutely bizarre about this story. I mean, the monster notwithstanding, right?
Obviously that's the most bizarre part of the story. But we've covered stories like this before, too. I don't know. I don't remember them off the top of my head.
But stories where you would have a couple, and when things finally started to hit the fan, one person would reveal to the other, yeah, I've been seeing this stuff for a long time. I wasn't telling anyone. Actually, I do remember that episode. I'll pull it up because it's a very, very good story.
Definitely in the back half of Dead Rabbit Radio about the... It's called The Economic Costs of a Haunting. The Economic Cost of a Demonic Infestation or something like that. I'll put it in the show notes.
And it's the story of a woman whose life has been completely destroyed by a demon in her house, but she's not telling her kids about it. She's seeing and experiencing all of these things, and she goes, I don't even have the willpower to start the process to sell the house. Like, it has completely drained me. I have to get out of here.
It's going to kill me, but I can't find the energy to do that. And then throughout the story, she realizes, I think at least her older daughter had seen it as well, but the older daughter wasn't telling anyone else. People in the family were experiencing this demon, but they were all keeping it quiet. And in this case, it's kind of the same thing where Jack knew there was something out in the darkness, right?
He never told his wife. And she doesn't even really pick up on that. She's just like, well, I wonder what it is, which still is a valid question. But, I mean, imagine if you...
It's one thing. Of course, people are going to keep secrets. Of course, people are going to keep secrets. But imagine if someone was keeping a secret that would put you in peril and, even worse, put your daughter in peril because Patricia didn't believe Betty.
Who would believe a 3-year-old when they said there's a monster flying up out of the woods and it might eventually hurt me? You're going to assume it's just the overactive imagination of a child. But then when you go, hey, you know, it's really weird. Betty just told me there's a monster in the woods.
And your husband's like, yeah, I didn't know how to bring it up, so I never told you. But she's right, there is a monster in the woods. That would already be alarming enough because Patricia would completely blow off these stories that there's anything out there which could put Betty in danger because if she doesn't know there's a threat near the house, imagine if your loved one knew there was a pit bull that had broke free from a neighbor's house and was wandering, but didn't tell you. Didn't tell you about it.
And then your 3-year-old's like, mommy, mommy, there's a big, muscular monster dog out there. And you're like, quit making stuff up. As you're kicking her out the door, you're pushing her out the door with a foot, go and play. Go have fun climbing that tree or digging those holes, whatever you do.
And the pit bull kills your kid. It's like that. It's like that. You would have knowledge that could possibly save a child from being...
Okay, maybe not eaten. I don't know what this thing wants or really what its end goal is, right? It seems to just be scaring them right now. But Jack knew about it.
Betty knew about it. And Betty told the mom, but Jack didn't. It's weird. And I understand the only thing I can think of is going back to the mockery angle.
If Jack does believe in the paranormal or at least is open to it and Patricia doesn't at all, and Jack sees an adult man and sees a monster in the backyard of their house. If he doesn't feel comfortable going to his wife and saying, I think there's a monster. And to be fair, most people wouldn't because the chance of being mocked for it is so high. It would be one thing if he goes, I think our house is haunted.
I saw a little girl in the basement. She faded away. I got a glimpse of her. That's one thing.
Even a skeptic can go, well I think if this is anything, it is hostile. And I think this family has to communicate with each other and figure out a way to protect themselves from it before they all learn for a fact that it is hostile. It hasn't hurt anyone in the family, at least not yet. Dead Rabbit Radio at gmail.com is gonna be our email address.
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