In the dead of night as people sleep, that is when the spirits creep. As the bell tolls three dark things take power, we like to call it the supernatural hour. Hey, welcome to the supernatural hour. This is your host Raven, and we are going to explore, as always, the unexplained, the unseen things that want to stay hidden.
We are going to unhide them. You like that word? Unhide? You also have read a mission that castles pray and say stupid stuff.
Be a cult. Castle consistently says stupid stuff. So that's going to happen. You don't have the market on that.
If you've never heard me in this podcast ever, I have my own share of stupid stuff. But tonight's episode is interesting because when it comes to death, there are few people more comfortable around it than morticians, funeral directors. These are professionals who more or less work in death. They're not going to get paid for.
They're going to have a lot of silence in their work. They're going to have a lot of stillness in their work. And rooms that most of us might be creeped out a little bit if we were in the moment. I don't know that I would be.
But a little bit. We'll get into that. We'll get into that. But funeral directors, morticians, same word for the same thing, they're not easily rattled.
I'm sure they are on occasion. It's not like they're never rattled. And being a bagpiper, I've played with a lot of funerals. I've met a lot of funeral directors.
And the band I play with actually practices in a funeral home. So I've met a lot of them. I've been in that culture a little bit. So when they say something happened and do things like pause before they finish the sentence or maybe say that they saw something they can't explain, we really need to listen to their stories because they're not messing around.
So tonight we're going to discuss real life stories for morticians, some small things, strange encounters, things that can't be explained that they've encountered in preparation rooms, doing chapels, hallways, blah, blah, all the things. But before we hop inside the funeral home, who do we have here with me? We have Chad and Castle here to say stupid stuff. Hey, get in line.
Get in line. Get in line. So as far as investigations are concerned, we don't have any new ones. But see, here's Raven's stupid moment.
Last time we talked about our investigation at the Wild Whistle and I gleaned forth lots of things. I told people things. And then I'm kind of in a spring cleaning purge. I do a spring cleaning and a fall cleaning purge and I'm cleaning out my phone.
And I found some notes. I'm like, oh, I'll hear to pull a bunch more notes from the Wild Whistle. So even though we haven't been to the Wild Whistle since we talked last, I have more info for you. So we'll give you that a little later in the episode.
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He did say that he was going to say stupid stuff. There's your counter out. I'm trying to do a drinking game this episode. So we want to give a shout out to our patrons as always because it's just not the same without you guys.
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Yes, we get to send it out every quarter. I just, well, I put it together. Chad sent it out. I'm not sure if you guys are all in shock because we did it at the very start of the quarter.
Now that Raven has more time, that might happen a little more often. So we also have our event coming up. You will hear this before we have it. It's on March 21st at the Shalom in Spanish Fork.
We do still have a few tickets. This one, it's a bigger venue. We're able to add a little few more tickets and we might normally do. Castle is eagerly wanting to jump in.
Jump in. Do it. I want to thank the rest of the weren't already convinced that you should come. That might be an addition to buy it the last you tickets.
Do you know what else? Castle. The Shalom. Kind of looks like a castle.
It doesn't look like a castle. It is way to say my home. Castle is a castle. It's two stupid stuff.
Chug chug chug. Oh and we still have lots of room for lots of chugging. If you're not aware. alcohol poisoning.
They've already gotten it. If you're not aware, one of Castle's talents is being able to see an attachment to an object. It just, well, why don't you describe it? You can describe it better than I can.
So I don't ever try and build myself as a medium or anything like that. I can feel spirit energy. I think honestly anybody could do that if they've had enough training and experience. In fact, actually there's a story I went into a few days ago.
In the minute I walked in the story, you could just feel the negative energy, just emanate from the story. I actually went into our group chat for Wisps and kind of said where this place was. Did you have a chance to go there, Raven? No, I haven't seen it yet.
I think one of her other members did. She said that she skidaddled right out of that story. I skidaddled into the story. That's right.
No, I haven't. But that being said, I do think people have spiritual gifts and I think everybody have a spiritual gifts. One of mine I discovered while investigating is I can sense object attachments. It's kind of hard to describe it and it depends on the type of attachment.
But if it's especially like an evil attachment, I almost get tunnel vision on whatever the object is. I can't really see anything. I can't even really say I feel anything. I just kind of like my eyes lock on it and I almost got tunnel vision and I just can't not look at it.
It's kind of like I just zone in on it and it's just there and it's really hard to describe. I try and look away and I can't. I just have to look at it and I'm just like almost like I'm trying to see what's attached to it and I can't see it but I just can't not look at it. And I discovered this on an investigation we did in Twilla several years ago where we went into the home, we investigated with the portals, we closed the portals, but they kept having problems.
And we'd and I wasn't with the initial two groups that went. But the third time I'm like okay I'm gonna go out and see if I can help figure out what's going on. And we got there the rock and the rock is probably about the size of a small cantalope and this rock was kind of orange-white and it had a co-cappelle drawn on the rock and then the rock was like varnished. Like over drawn the co-cappelle drew it on the other than varnished the rock.
And so I walked into the room and I just kept like locking on this rock and I just couldn't look away from the rock. I kept being drawn to it and I finally asked the homeowner I'm like what's the deal with this rock and I said oh it belonged to the previous homeowner who committed suicide and it's like the only thing left in the house that is not ours basically it was from the previous owner. So I came and about that time one of our mediums who was with the team at the time came into the room and saw the rock and I was like oh my gosh that things are horrible. I'm just kind of confirming what I was already feeling that there was going on with that rock.
Well I removed that rock from the home and it seemed to solve their problems like all the activities stopped down the road. But that night I took it to another investigation that we were going to a public investigation and it was a Benson Griss Mill which is usually a really tame venue but I took this evil rock to the Benson Griss Mill and I'll help rock loose to the point where Chunko was investing with us made me take the rock across the street to a local church for the rest of the night because things were getting crazy at the Benson Griss Mill. But after that I started noticing other investigations that I would notice things and just be drawn to them and they end up being like focal points for spirit attachments. So this mask which I'm going to bring to the salon quick story behind that is I was contacted a couple nights ago by old western investigators and a logarne the team a really good friend of mine and apparently his mom and some of her friends were filming TikTok videos at one of the friends's house and as they're doing like TikTok videos suddenly this wooden mask is just there and it wasn't there before in the videos it wasn't there about a five minute time frame went from not being there to there and nobody at the house could account for it did you bring it I didn't bring it did you bring it it just showed up but the mask was getting ready to heebie's and so the friend of mine said what should I do with it and I said well you can remove it I said well do you want it I said yeah I'll take it and so he brought it down to me yesterday it's currently being stored safely outside of my home but I will bring it to the salon and we can investigate it and see what we can figure out about it.
Yep so if you want to see Castle on action that is the time to do it so I know we want to get into our topic because this one's super interesting but we do want to talk about new patrons we're gonna have new stuff for you as a bonus sign-on which is a supernatural hour tumbler it will be a 40 ounce tumbler but we're only gonna give this to the first five new patrons that we have and to be postal or postal above not to get this correct so yes this work for digital it's for postal and above and if you miss out on the fire like oh man we do have a 40 ounce tumbler for the winner of our new venue contest we have a new venue coming up we're just in the throes of getting a date with the owner and I put out a few hints and stop it got no right answer yet so I'm gonna throw out another new hint here pretty quick and if we don't get any right answers by the time we get a scheduled I'll just put everybody's name that that guessed and draw a name out of Castle's hat I can see in the back it's spring so we have to use the white one it's the straw hat we're close all right speaking of things coming up I do want to hype up our shows for April we have got a show coming that it should be super interesting we're gonna take the top 10 demonic cities as laid out by Catholic exorcists and talk about top 10 demonic cities in the United States I should say as outlined by Catholic exorcists and why those cities are the 10 most demonic cities in the United States and I think you'll find this to be very interesting some I don't think we're gonna be a huge shocker but it should still make for an interesting show so plan on training in April for the 10 most demonic cities in the United States yes and because it's very interesting because there's a lot to talk about it will be the home of April that being said after we will do two episodes on that and we usually don't talk a lot about going forward of our topics unless you're an insider then you know what we're talking about the whole quarter but we will wrap up we're just gonna make April kind of fun so we'll have two different episodes on the 10 most demonic cities in the United States as per Catholic exorcists and then we'll kind of wrap up the month with the Warren's because you know the Warren's all right so let's jump into mortations stories and like I said I play backpipes I deal with a lot of funeral directors I've been to all the cemeteries in Utah maybe not all there might be one or two here and there but I'm very familiar with most of the cemeteries in Utah the backpike band that I play with we practice in a mortuary and so I've been able to talk to morticians just and passing hey how you doing kind of a thing and I've heard some interesting stories about them so the first mortations story is one that I have heard directly from the funeral director there's actually gonna be kind of two but the one because the one's really short so the funeral director said that he was working on someone that had passed and they were in the coffin and he was getting them set up and prepped for the viewing that was gonna be the next day and he finished and he looked up because you're looking down you're doing whatever you're doing and then he just kind of stood up looking the corner and he could see in the corner the very lady that he had been preparing for the viewing and he said that she looked at him didn't really smile just kind of look at him and he processed what it was and then just turned and walked out so that was very short story but interesting I think that would be a very interesting thing to run across but the one that's really interesting is in the place that we practice in the women's bathroom there's a stall and there's three stalls but there's one that no one ever uses and I thought it was just me I was like oh that's creepy I'm talking to the women in the pipe band and the people that came in no one likes using that stall and so one day and this has been years ago our drummers were doing a workshop and I'm a piper and so I was involved in the workshop I was the pipe major so I had the key of the building so I let everybody in they're doing their workshop I'm just sitting there on the couch reading or doing something and one of the funeral directors came through the door because he'd been where they do the the cremations didn't realize that I was there and he kind of startled and I kind of startled and we laughed and as he was walking away we laughed and I said oh I'm sorry he goes oh I know you guys were here but I forgot that you were here and and I said something like yeah you scared me like the ghost in the bathroom scares me and he stopped dead stop turned around looked at me and he says have you seen her and I was like whoa because the part of me I was partly joking you know I'm laughing creepy and I said no and he said I have and then he just turned him back to his office and I'm like ooh that's my actual personal mortician stories that's interesting we've got one it's about laughter in the hallway and this mortician has explained the story this way that the funeral home has been in operation since the 1940s the current director was third generation multiple employees over the years have reported hearing children laughing in the hallways outside the main chapel after closing not loud not echoing just the sounds of kids plane the first time it happened they assumed was coming from outside they checked it was an empty parking lot then it happened again months later same hallway the odd part there hadn't been a child service scheduled in quite some time one night after hearing it again the director reviewed the security footage nothing visible but an exact time stamp that the staff reported hearing the laughter the audio on the camera glitched for about five seconds no voices recorded just distortion that's interesting yeah after that small objects began shifting in the display case that held the memorial items from the past services toy cars from child services years earlier would occasionally be slightly moved not thrown around or displaced dramatically just turned and always facing towards the hallway no one ever admitted to touching them well and why would they yeah yeah say that's one of those job security things where if you're a mortician you're like hey myself move around people maybe not gonna have you be my mortician but it's interesting though because we still have a mortician on the team and he had a lot of personal stories and there's a mortician we've worked with for some of our venues and he's had some personal stories as well so I don't think this is an uncommon thing for these funeral directors and morticians to see these kind of activities things moving and things of that nature yeah my guess would be that finding a mortician that hasn't dealt with something like this would probably be more rare than one who has I would agree so let's let's go to Cleveland Ohio so if you know Director in Cleveland I shared this story anonymously through a professional trade group he prepared middle-aged man who passed away unexpectedly from heart attack it was a closed-casket service but the family had requested a short private identification before the public viewing well not viewing the visitation because they were gonna do things as close as it the director had worked with the family all week and he knew what the deceased guy had looked like he spent hours preparing him and right before their service about 7.15 p.m. he was finishing the paperwork in front of office the casket had been placed in the chapel ready to go and was closed and so they're ready for the service so as this director was closing up from the night as he walked out in the hallway towards the chapel to double check the floor arrangements he saw someone standing near the water fountain about halfway down the corridor and it was a man he had the same kind of build he had the same thing hair and same posture with one shoulder slumped slightly down on one side the man wasn't transparent he wasn't glowing he looked solid so the director kind of stopped walking he was confused he thought I leave it or unlocked it somebody get in so I wasn't quite sure what was going on he pushed open the temple doors found at the chapel was empty searched the building the rest of the building was empty he went to the casket the casket was still closed still locked side doors were open there's no alarms I had triggered the friend entrance was locked and so he stood there for a long time instead of himself in the casket because he kind of shaken because he recognized the gentleman he'd worked on him for hours he recognized the person he saw in the hallway as the person who was supposed to be in the casket so it shook him a little bit because he realized he saw a ghost and honestly with his stories one we're talking to some of our funeral director friends this is a pretty common occurrence seeing people that they've worked on or feeling people they've worked on I had an instance where I was in mausoleum which was owned by a funeral director and we had actually had a public investigation there and we had removed everybody for the night we locked all the doors and as we were down in the basement of this mausoleum myself and two other investigators who had just helped me lock up watched a gentleman walk across the hall and into a wall and I remember it vividly there's a little yellow glow around the silhouette of this individual I remember the the shirt was bunched up or it went into the pants and that was actually probably the first well it was the first full body I person ever saw and the other two people with me saw it as well so the interesting thing about this story is earlier in the story you said that the casket had been put in the viewing area not a viewing but it was closed and there's a feel in that room and it's different than when you go in for viewing like I said it's more to worry that my band practiced in you'd walk in and there was a lobby quite a large lobby some of the morticians offices the secretary's office the room where you'd go to plan a service and then there was two viewing rooms and most of the time 99.9 percent of the time we'd go to practice everything so I can go in you practice you leave but there are one or two times three times a year where you'd go in then I remember going and unlocking the door and as soon as you walk in I was usually the one the first people there I'd unlock the door I'd walk in and there was just a feel and the viewing room door was shut and sometimes it was shut sometimes it was open but I remember this one time in particular was shut and that's where we practiced was in that particular viewing room and usually only when it was warm when it's warm it was outside but we don't even go inside when it was bad weather or too cold but I opened the doors and I saw the casket there and they usually had the casket closed until this time of the viewing but I saw the casket there and I just said oh I'm sorry I audibly said it out and I said I'm sorry I shut the door but you can there's definitely a presence there you can eat the building physically felt different and that's that spirit energy that we've talked about and once you recognize it noted is I think lots of people feel it they just have no idea what it is it's kind like when you walk into a house and you get the heebie-jeebies that's usually you may give a spirit energy and when you're in like a church or something like that and you feel like peaceful and warm and fuzzy inside that's usually positive spirit energy and then there's just like neutral spirit energy but until you really learn to recognize it you feel it but you don't know what it is so another case a restorative artist was working alone preparing a young man who had passed in an accident it was an emotional heavy work those are hard when they're young and that even for people that have done that I had an uncle an aunt that were morticians up in Wyoming and I know that can be very very difficult work and the restorative work can be hard especially with young people that have been in accidents and that kind of stuff anyway she stood up facing the table behind the table was a large wall mirror that was used for checking final preparation angles presentation angles I'm gonna say that again she stood up facing the table behind the table was a large mirror used for checking final presentation angles while adjusting the knot of his tie she glanced up into the mirror she saw a man standing near the doorway dark hair similar boat build she assumed it was a family member entering early and turned immediately to address him the doorway was empty she checked the hallway empty when she turned back to the mirror the reflection showed only her and the decedent so she had seen something in the mirror there's nobody there so we are going to talk about something that happened in the hollywood forever cemetery this is in los angeles california and this story comes from a funeral director who regularly handled high profile services in los angeles whether it was movie stars or wealthy business and politicians just very high profile services and he was used to large crowd he was used to security he was you know used to the media none of this was new to him it was just kind of par for the course but this particular service was private but it had a lot of people and as most of these high profile services will do that had a very controlled guest list and they had security and the security would be at every single entrance of the mortuary so you could not get in unless you had an invitation so they're going along but halfway through the visitation he was standing in the side aisle as you notice the funeral directors are usually there but they're off to the side just making sure everything goes smoothly and he noticed a man standing alone against the back wall of the chapel which wasn't unusual but what caught the funeral director's attention was the posture of this man that he says that his hands were just loosely clasped in front of his front of him his sled was slightly tilted and he had not slouching but like all of his weight was on one hip and again this clicked in the funeral director's head he's like this is the same thing i've seen in all these framed photographs and you know the same height the same build the same hairline the same jawline and for a second the funeral director is like panther's like the man in the casket did a double cake had a look at the casket make sure that that the person he thought it was was in the casket but he was actually standing at the back of their watching and so the funeral director took a step forward if you get a better look at this gentleman and a couple guests as they're milling around kind of moved briefly between him and this person and when his view is cleared the man was gone there was no door opened no one walked past him except for the couple people that walked between him and this person scanned the room but he could not find the person that he knew that he saw so he was talking to the security later that evening and they went through and reviewed footage because they wanted to make sure that no one that was uninvited had gotten in because they thought man if that's happened there's something wrong with the security you know our business is gonna suffer from this but what they found was that at roughly the same time the funeral director noticed this figure there was a brief distortion near the back wall and not really a person it was like oh there's an apparition just kind of a vertical flicker that lasted about two seconds and from what they can tell in the footage no one appears to be entering or exiting that area and this particular funeral director said this was the only time in his career that he felt like someone present at the service didn't need an invitation because he was the reason everyone was there but he said he just kind of seemed content to just watch that's what I'm just gonna make fun of everybody I'm gonna just silently judge everybody as a spirit from the back of the room well everyone's tired of my funeral I can't believe they weren't that Thai really those dudes to the funeral and the Thaiing shoes and exactly all right so let's talk about this one this one it takes place in justice on noise and we're gonna call it the woman in the viewing room ooh right so this came from funeral director who had worked in southwestern Chicago I'm sure that that's a place where the business is hopping maybe have a little bit of a high murder there in Chicago so southwestern Chicago's representing was there for almost two decades and he wasn't had to go stories but he knew the local resurrection mary legend but it existed but he never paid attention to it so apparently there's this legend going around about this resurrection mary so they called her on one Thursday at about 445 p.m. he was setting up the chapel for a 6 p.m. viewing and the casket was in place the lights were dimmed music was playing quietly in the background and he's laying up chairs when you notice someone seated in the last row on the right side it was a young woman she was in her early 20s and he described her as having shoulder length blonde hair slightly curled and she had on a pale dress it was modest kind of like a 1950 style dress kind of a blow the knee skirt and a fit at top he'd mentioned that she sat straight with her hands full to her lap and she wasn't crying or moving just kind of waiting so he assumed that she was just like a family member who showed up early for this service he not had said something like hey the sir starts at 6 but you're welcome to wait she just kind of smelt frankly but didn't say anything so as he was setting up he stepped out of the room and he went to go grab some paperwork from the printer in the hallway and then maybe about a minute and a half later he returned to the viewing room and she wasn't there so he checked the lobby he checked the restrooms no one he checked the front door it was still locked so it wasn't even locked to begin with and it should be noted that this front door this place actually chimes and so he realized that the door didn't actually chime when she came in or when she left he'd never heard it the only thing that was different was the chair that she did and was slightly angled as someone had stood up carefully so the chair that she'd been in was moved slightly off-kilter from the other chairs later that week he was talking to a groundskeeper like groundskeeper mentioned there were long standing reports of a blonde woman senior of the resurrection cemetery which is kind of where this happened at often described in light vintage clothing kind of like color vintage so the funeral director realized at this time that what he saw fit that description now he mentioned that what he saw seemed solid it wasn't shadowy it wasn't transparent it wasn't see-through and his mind it was the actual person so it didn't really strike him that she disappeared extract him that she'd sat there normally like she belonged there she didn't say anything but she smiled when he thought she was a real person the crazy thing about this is it's not in common when someone sees a spirit to mistake it for a real person kind of a story that i have along those lines is where the wild thistle is the family tree at the time and we had a group of investigators in the back room we're seated around the table the room was the lights were out we had a light kind of in the middle of the table so we could see but it was pretty shadowy around the outskirts of the table and as we were investigating i saw one of our guests it was a black silhouette of one of our guests walking around kind of the other guests on the outside and i saw this guest walk down towards the bathrooms which were in that room and for those who have been to the wild thistle or the family tree it's a very short hallway with two dead end men's room and women's room at the end but it's a dead end you know what i'm talking about Chad and Raven yeah exactly okay so i saw the end of it to walk down that hall and then i lost him in the dark and i immediately just i turned on my flashlight and as i looked around i noticed everyone was seated and i said hey did somebody just walk down that hall and everybody said no we've all been seated and i said to me down the hall there's nobody there and so asking around with everybody nobody had been up walking around there was nobody to count for who i had seen and i just assumed it was over a guess walking around because that's what it looked like but it clearly wasn't it was this spirit and so that's kind of what this mortician experienced yeah i don't think those bathrooms even have windows in them i think they've got vents and fans but you go down that hallway and there's the only way to come out is the same way you go in yep and i think the most solid figure i've seen where i thought it was a person was at the helation i was standing on the stage looking out towards the you know so i was an actor and there was a person that walked just across one of the doors and i was thinking oh that's the owner or chad or someone but when you walk past the door the doorway there's literally nowhere to go back in the day that's where the bathrooms were but the bathrooms aren't there anymore and so i kept waiting for whoever that was to walk back out i stood there and stared at that door for probably two minutes that person never came back out and so without taking my eyes off the door i walked back to the back of the theater looked nobody was there but it clears day it looked like a person just walking and it would be so easy for any investigator any person anyone listening to this podcast to see somebody do that and i have a second thought about it just think it's regular person and they're not thinking ghosts there's like oh so they went in that bathroom and unless they really go to investigate and poke into it oh that person disappeared but i think most of us just see stuff like that and it's just outside out of mind yeah it makes me wonder how many you know there's like that one that i have debunked as it were or said i guess not debunked because i believe that one's actually a shadow figure or an apparition but how many other things have i seen that i didn't realize because i didn't think it through i didn't think wait a minute that doesn't work or maybe it did and i just thought it was a person okay let's do one more this is in new Orleans in Louisiana it's at cemetery number one it's the st.
Louis cemetery number one and this is about a child and so there's a funeral director excuse me there was a funeral director and he was finishing up paperwork about eight thirty in the evening building was locked he was the only person there he wasn't working on anybody he was just finishing up some administrative stuff the only light that he had on was there was a small lamp on his desk and his computer screen and that was it so it wasn't super well lit so his office doorway opened up into a short hallway that led towards the prep area and he's sitting there typing and he noticed the movement in the reflection of his computer screen when at first he thought oh just a glare that's really easy to explain things away but as he looked in the reflection he saw what looked like a small child standing in the doorway right behind him he said that this child was short as children are maybe about four feet tall he described the clothing that this child was wearing as light colored and still not moving just standing there just watching and so it kind of freaked him out a bit so he just turned really quickly but the doorway was empty and he's moving him a little bit so he walked the entire building all the doors were locked the alarm was armed and nobody was inside to accept him and so he goes and he sits back down and he adjusts his monitor to test the reflection angle because he's thinking well it was enough for him to go wow is that just some shadows now I see him things is that too late at night but he could not recreate that shape no matter what he did so later he learned that in the 1800s the building had briefly been used as an overflow area for children who died during a yellow fever outbreak and he swears to this day he says it was not a trick of the light he says I saw a child standing in my doorway and after that it did spook him and he stops staying late alone after work interesting yes so I'm sure there are many more stories out there we just can't yammer on about him for days on end but these to me I find fascinating and most mortations that I have ever met are very practical people have been a lot of them they understand science they understand biology they understand human processes they know what muscles do after death they understand temperature changes and they understand all that stuff so when something doesn't fit it doesn't fit and so if you're hearing a story from a funeral director listen to it because in my opinion it's going to have some substance behind it and many of them say the same thing that most of the time nothing happens and I still feel that even though nothing happens they're still going to be that that feel that we talked about earlier but sometimes it does and they say whatever appears in these rooms they say it never feels violent maybe not never but it's pretty rare but they do say that they describe it as feeling unfinished grateful or simply just there so I think this was a fun episode I like that topic I think it was too it's interesting just I thought and there's a funeral director that I think we all know but he actually had an individual who's involved in black magic who he prepared and when that individual was in his funeral home between being picked up and being interred there was all kinds of crazy stuff going on inside the funeral home just the negative entities that were with the individual before he died were there in the home and kicked up some activity so it's kind of interesting if you ever had a chance to talk to a funeral director or mortician just sit next to him on a plane I think they tend to do it you might find some interesting stories that their will talk to you all right so let's give a shout out real quick to our friends at radio ronin so the supernatural hour is a show hosted on the radio run and network they are a fantastic show if you like a good pop culture show with lots of humor and comedy without the terrible music or wiener pill ads which you get on terrestrial 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are going to talk about the green lady of dark hedges now this is in Ireland the northern Ireland because it's St. Patrick's time so what says St. Patrick's day more than a haunted tree huddle did I say tree huddle I don't know what a tree huddle is it sounded neat and it sounded like you know what you're talking about so I was just waiting for oh tell me about this huddle there you go there you go take a shot there you go take a shot i had three huddles take your shot a tree tunnel in northern Ireland whoo so this is called the dark hedge and it's actually a stretch of road that's lined with beach trees and these trees were planted in the seven hundred so they're going to be big they're going to be twisted they're going to be gnarly and during the day it's gorgeous I think of Ireland Ireland as it is as gorgeous it's just green rolling hills trees green grasses and everything but at night it looks like you have dismayed the worst decision of your life it's creepy it looks like it should be in a movie and locals have just for ages reported seeing what they call the green lady and they describe her as a woman in flowing green if you can imagine that big shocker sometimes they say gray and she appears at twilight now witnesses say that she glides silently down the road and when they say glide they mean glide she doesn't walk she glides and she doesn't acknowledge anyone which makes me wonders this more of a residual hunt rather than an intelligent hunt but drivers have reported seeing her cross in front of their car but then they say that she vanishes before she gets to the other side people have gone in and tried to catch pictures and the pictures that some have gotten they say that there's just an unexplained shape between the trees it's not a tree not a clear figure necessarily but their vertical forms where there was nothing there now who is she and why is she there one one of the stories that kind of kicks around with the locals is that she's a spirit of a woman from a nearby abandoned home who died under some sketchy circumstances we don't know what those sketchy circumstances are but they're sketchy and then there's another story that says she's one of several unmarked famine victims you know the potato famine back in the day who's buried in a shallow grave near the road now this is something I think is interesting going back to funeral directors there are funeral directors in the area who say that they have been called to accidents along the road where drivers say that they've swerved to avoid someone that's just been standing there but when they arrive when the police arrive there's anybody there there's no pedestrian there's nobody nothing just drivers that are shaken up because of what's happened and when you get to the point where you're calling the police and you're calling the funeral home there's something there it's not just a shadow or something weird you've seen something so it's become so common that the people that live in the area that the locals they don't have about it they say don't drive the hedges at night so there you go but hey castle do you know what's better than your can you hear us now segment nothing eating at oatails oh it is much better and i'll bet you even go with that one i'll bet you'd rather go to oatails right now than do this segment you know i wouldn't take that but because i love oatails they have a steak dish there that is to die for if you haven't been totails you need to go to oatails listeners yeah with that castle can you hear us now i can i think it's going to be said if you go to oatails you probably see one of us they're eating at some point or another because it's a deck and we can't seem to escape that place it literally close to my house now they move further north like yes all right so let's talk about evps and now we've talked a lot about the wild whistle it's a place we like to go back to it's a place we have a lot of stories a lot of experiences and so i have cherry picked this evp from the wild whistle and this is back when it was a family tree but you're gonna hear a woman's voice say here comes hank and it's gonna sound kind it's gonna kind of hype its woman's voice and i'm gonna mimic it and then we'll listen to it but you hear what was i say here comes hank and it's just like i said it's like they go but it's high pitched anyway let's have a listen how do you know what do you guys think of that she's kind of stinks on you she doesn't matter than you do i know i'm not good at doing type of women's voices but it's very clear and the interesting thing is that there's a spirit there named hank that has been reported many times so kind of interesting to you a little bit of a evb backup on something like that speaking of wild whistle thistle though the fiffle the fiffle take your shot okay all right so i am lame take your shot now there you go i had all these notes right after wild thistle so i wouldn't forget anything and then as we did the podcast last time whoo forgot him what do i mean whoo so here are more things that happened at the wild thistle when we were there so we were in the back room this is where the food was and we were there and there was a shadow figure that watched the length of the room but we took a cookie downstairs for Lucy i did this and i forgot about it i took a cookie down for Lucy and she said it was disgusting one of our investigators got physically ill while she was down there we talked about Lucy touching and pulling here one girl got scratched we were trying to get Lucy to throw a pebble and so we found one we found a little pebble and we said hey Lucy we've got a pebble for you to throw and she said to bring it to her through the itc machine so mill and the skinwalker kind of had a moment and don't take that the wrong way but she's a meeting and the skinwalker was kind of talking about the things that he went through and a lot of them were just kind of rough and so mill got emotional just feeling and hearing his some of his pains and some of the things that he went through and then through the itc machine we got the name hellstorm paradox and phoenix which are three of our investigators and also this picture i actually put up on tiktok a couple weeks ago but when you're downstairs in the wild thistle there's dirt not like dirt but it's a basement and there's dust and there's dirt and if you were there in the family tree days there's just a lot of stuff down there a lot of storage a lot of old things i didn't even realize there's a bathroom down there's a disgusting bathroom that doesn't work but there there is an old bathroom down there but in the family tree days there was barely enough room to sneak in there and sit in a little space and they've cleaned that all out but it is a basement and so you can get footprints on the floor but our investigators just took a picture there is a footprint down there that looks very hoof-like it's not a it's not a tennis shoe it's not a flip-flop it's not foot shaped it's very hoof-flike so if you want to see that picture hop on over to tiktok because we've posted it there so that's part two of our wild thistle investigation very cool interesting i need to get back there it's been a while yes you have we'll get back there we'll be there again before the years over so thank you for spending this hour with us and we spent some time in one of the quietest places on earth which in this aspect would be in a mortuary after hours and if you've ever worked enough funeral home hospital more or anywhere where that veil between this life and the next can be kind of thin we would love to hear your story so you can send it to us and if you want to you can remain anonymous you can make the details so that they're shareable and and keep people anonymous and like castle said next week we're going to open another door to month-long series month-long series because april has three episodes woo so again it's about the most in that demonic cities in the u.s. according to catholic exorcists and we are really looking forward to this because it's going to be a fun series so keep it creepy my friends hey have good night adios amigos you've been listening to the supernatural hour at advancedparinormal.com the supernatural hour is part of the radio ronin network found at radioronin.com copyright by advanced paranormal services