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hundred. I
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remain work in a that spooky I'm Johnny and I
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Tyler in This was a weekly podcast that has a
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great idea for a horror movie. See, Hear me out.
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Okay, okay. Haunted Fantasia
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Party! Know that? get.
2:31
A circle of people are getting
2:34
dildo than other you know and
2:36
sexual object is so hot that
2:38
them meanwhile there's a presence. Ah
2:40
I do you think like just
2:42
like they accidentally create a summoning
2:45
circle at Nasa Fantasia? Par? Absolutely.
2:47
And they summon some sort of
2:49
evil entity? Yeah, totally yeah. Me:
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it's like a force that they
2:54
can't control array or the person
2:56
doing the party. They're like leading
2:58
them through your and then add the
3:00
and they're like since you're all set.
3:02
Cool Barnes I'm gonna show you something
3:04
that I usually wouldn't bring out to
3:06
the party. Ah damn they like take
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of silva cloth authors this like object
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if you know how they're all opposite
3:13
such as seats at because it's France
3:15
and then next thing you know that
3:17
the cursed object and that's where the
3:19
story began. So it's like a monkey
3:21
paw situation. the hand from Talk To
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Me since I graduated Exactly but it's
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a monkey paw. That like you fuck
3:28
yourself. Yeah, it's not as we are
3:30
monkeys part because that would be inhumane.
3:32
Let me. very yeah, yeah, probably very
3:34
unsanitary. I'm into. I think Daphne's to
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see stirring and perfectly good to see
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his. Yeah, I don't know. I think
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that's a good treatment saying. but I'd
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not be surprised if like a haunted
3:45
dildo movie already exists because there is
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like a killer Tom the Movie already.
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you know there's a killer Bond movie.
3:51
I'm sure it exists, but I just
3:53
wanna do a haunted Fantasia party specifically.
3:55
Noom. it's gonna be part. Of my
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greater haunted Ml lambs, I've. I'm
4:02
gonna kind of do it like Ryan Murphy style.
4:04
I like that the next installment to be the
4:06
Curse of Lose a Row a while yeah buddy
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would had to be Lego. Billie. Joe
4:11
or something like that. Yeah yeah. Headquarters
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on a little off of the original
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but it be about like leggings that
4:17
likes used to your body and your
4:19
you into this like serif like a
4:21
human noise. See our the like shrink
4:24
and compress you as you're wearing it
4:26
and then next thing you know you
4:28
like asphyxiate in your leggings. Yeah yeah
4:30
that's it. And then we can do
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like the candle what the Yankee candles
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or your party like Campbell's Yeah yeah
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exactly. And then it's like the sense
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is toxic, it turns people. Into Zombies
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Are you? Our things are called Sense Now
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I don't even know what it's called Archer.
4:45
I once went to a Party Life Campbell
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party overhauling the family member who hosted it
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may or may not be listening and I
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love you And I'm happy that she got
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out of the party with that and I
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believe and we held one A candle party
4:57
a thaw about. Anyway, I was in a
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sleepy early. Two thousand yeah, what a time.
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How are the candles? Never. Gonna
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slow down. Was not sponsor in our
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the fuck up a candle. Yeah really
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the I mean that's a thing of
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in Oh yeah although I I take
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that back. I did work at a
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Michael's once and Michael's Cells. Scented candles?
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Yes And their shit like you can.
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I know them when you smell the
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cannibal. when you realize it, there's nothing.
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Oh my God. You know what? If
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or a scented candle experience either or
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like a super like encouraging for his
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early on and like my process of
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like putting my creative felt out there
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on Instagram. He liked that uses platform
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and research mean he did not have
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too many though isn't so cool and
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yet he started. I believe it's like
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and be a scandal that mattered in
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Stewart, not it is Sir Candle Yeah
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I'm just trying to make it snappy
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and email. Of the times.
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But anyway, it's of the times and
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out because it's a legitimate damn business.
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And the candles are great. They're great.
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The smells other viewed of fall okay.
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Gray sweatpants is my favorite. Yeah, I
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like cruising. Yeah, I think that's the
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I think I'm thinking of the right
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one. It's the one that has like
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moss. Yeah, and it literally smells like
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you're in the woods. Get on a
6:21
rainy day. Yeah, it's really nice. They're
6:23
very nice. Campbell's yeah, it's really cool.
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Also, Plant Daddy. He. Got to me
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it's not like you're in a plant store.
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It's true though. Anyway, I if you're looking
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for subset the candles and you want to
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support Seuss queer small businesses yeah there's there's
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one that you can support. three separate name's
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Matthew Dean Stewart ensue we're he's do also
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not sponsor been awesome As he had to
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clarify that is that people think if you
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say something nice about somebody on the internet
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you being paid to say no and lead
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us like our friends Candles are friend from
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the internet who have never met by you
6:54
know yeah Chris gonna have queers ss any
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away. Hi everyone. A welcome to the
6:58
show. You might hear the pitter patter
7:00
of spider feet and the background. That
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is because das me as out this
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is an experimental says as yes it's
7:07
very hot today sir and ninety let
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her not be in her carriers the
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that she could we get to overheat
7:13
it but she's also getting into sick
7:15
somewhat. wondered how to enter. yeah I
7:17
don't know. I hear robed crank goals
7:19
and I'm getting concerned that think one
7:22
of the year but sit sit by
7:24
mother yeah mother got a have let
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me review and submit. Them. Are
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you can see this? but there's a sweet
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little wiener dog? I'm yeah so everyone say
7:33
hi to douse me. Hope you're doing well
7:35
and yet the of anything you want to
7:38
talk about before we get into it cause
7:40
spits We have two episodes a drag race.
7:42
I know we've got spooky gay bullshit and
7:44
now we have the regular died your topic
7:46
So yeah anything I mean just on the
7:49
topic of das Neue A. it's her one
7:51
year anniversary with us. it was her daughter
7:53
day. Yesterday was a were married so it's
7:55
been a whole entire year. Mean
7:58
our law and here we are celebrating with
8:00
her freedom. Yes I learned as mean I'm
8:02
but other than that I'm ready to just
8:04
talk drag race because like you said we
8:07
had two episodes job on premier day we
8:09
we're not prepared for exactly so if you
8:11
don't care if you don't want spoilers for
8:14
all stars nine episodes one team I want
8:16
to skip had like five minutes because we
8:18
are going to be talking about it and
8:20
spoiling the whole thing from top to bottom
8:23
of this. Anyway on so do you wanna
8:25
get into it? Nuts do and beautiful Episode
8:27
One Money is the first on the docket.
8:30
And that was I think it
8:32
was a track when Save the
8:34
World Now episode of Like a
8:36
basically the girl group Challenge everybody
8:39
had averse to this song I
8:41
Can't. With. These tell ya it's
8:43
that's my low point yet it that is
8:45
my low point in I don't mean that
8:47
any kind of a shady way but like
8:49
I just mentally check out when these challenges
8:51
are happening when the data when the queens
8:53
are performing these like songs you know what
8:55
I'm Amy and like allied context it would
8:57
be different but on my television I just
8:59
as own how it worked in the original
9:01
format you got three queens at the end
9:03
of the season and each produce of murders
9:05
and it's a competition menacing an eye on
9:07
him when it's nine at the beginning of
9:09
a sees an arrow like our welcome Back
9:11
Every one episode. Finances Kids that are
9:14
just say oh I still think like
9:16
the talent show is the best thing
9:18
to do to just kind of be
9:20
reacquainted are just to be acquainted with
9:22
these drag artist. yeah, has it really
9:24
gives you a really nice glimpse into
9:26
who they are as an artist? Yeah.
9:28
but I think the saving until the
9:30
end of the season where they haven't
9:32
other instances so get ready for that
9:34
because Spoiler alert No one's going home
9:36
this season. Yeah, which is definitely the
9:39
highlight I think. Well I mean I
9:41
have a different highlight. But it is definitely
9:43
a highlight. Definitely is a highly because we've
9:45
been seeing as for a long time I
9:47
I don't mean we but I just feel
9:49
like the discourse around drag races like it
9:51
sucks especially with all stars when these queens
9:53
come back who have a fan base who
9:55
have established themselves and then they're gone. It
9:57
and episode like Derek Puck and Bearing On.
10:00
The item or more number ever more. and
10:02
so now that everybody just gets to be
10:04
there show everything they got and still there
10:06
still competitive edge to the challenges and to
10:08
the show in general. Yeah so I'm not
10:10
mad at it at all. but as why
10:12
is there any does nothing to be mad
10:14
about? we just get more of the queen's
10:16
we want to see exactly is so I
10:18
really enjoyed that. But like I was saying,
10:20
I also had a number of other things
10:22
that I really enjoyed from this episode. some
10:24
for the sake of brevity because we have
10:26
to to talk about I'm just gonna lists
10:28
the things that I liked. okay. Tiki Palmer
10:30
as a guest judge. She was really
10:32
funny and when Ripple asked her if
10:35
she doesn't do anything well and she's
10:37
a said now I'm an I love
10:39
her I love that sense of confidence.
10:41
Also see looked like a combo of
10:43
like a beat poet and it's all
10:45
the it's true and I love that
10:47
Cr so I loved that. Love Roxxxy
10:49
Andrews Point blank period to see and
10:51
so now are my favorite forces in
10:54
our ground. That is absolutely fair. I
10:56
feel like the heavens a smiling down
10:58
upon As as Roxy said we cannot.
11:00
Read the doll. I am happy
11:02
to be an attendee of the
11:04
dollar's exactly as she has been
11:06
putting a it's everything's the dolls,
11:08
the Dali eyes yes and the
11:10
knowledge of at all yet all
11:12
cabriolet or he is apartments it's
11:14
to Furthermore, van she's setting koger
11:16
all the latest with a code
11:18
hovered and gold bobby pins and
11:21
they were flying off the of
11:23
or queens. Read her entire rather
11:25
rambunctious entrance because remember, it's Vanessa
11:27
these imitate that is it as
11:29
the energizer. Bunny, she's flail and she's
11:31
jumping. She's just like a ball of
11:33
energy and these bobby pins are literally
11:35
flying in all directions. Yeah, and like
11:37
there was one time when they zoomed
11:39
out when they were doing the reading
11:41
challenge which is also great Mom but
11:43
but you could just see on the
11:46
floor scattered all around her. All of
11:48
these bobby pins rabbi all the shrapnel
11:50
contour, honey and sign on the annoying
11:52
say that. My absolute high point from
11:54
this episode was the fact that the
11:56
Queen's had to create a signature scent
11:58
and and create a look. I'm
12:00
going to me some a long way
12:02
and this was just something folded into
12:04
the look right that medium for as
12:06
challenging pass in right? we didn't see
12:08
any. is it means had a dropped
12:10
upon are now the runway presentations and
12:12
bitches. It was great. So good I
12:14
thoroughly enjoy that Are Also check Gopnik
12:16
wearing literal could or on the fucking
12:18
army moon a literal could her blood
12:20
literal high fashion on the runway was
12:22
she was wearing something bi lo of
12:24
right and not low was like the
12:26
fucking hot. You know that Brand wrote
12:28
the me that a blue. Sequencer that all
12:31
the fashion was wearing a month ago of
12:33
i remember by a year was a blue
12:35
sequin or a blue sparkly polo shirt so
12:37
that everyone was talking but on Instagram a
12:39
cossack six thousand dollars he something for. But
12:42
anyway aloe eat of you either like a
12:44
new fashion or whatever. But ah anyway mic
12:46
was wearing armor that to serve and and
12:48
of itself should also wearing like other designers
12:50
are. Now it's a school in a queen
12:53
can literally just dip into the archives and
12:55
do that like I know that's not the
12:57
point of drag queens are making the said
12:59
how to and boxes and hope the up
13:01
but it's also to school at Lake in
13:04
all stars to see queens be able to
13:06
you know pull up on those result. Jaegers
13:08
is designers like come on over and where
13:10
you want on media anyway so I enjoyed
13:12
that but I'm talking quick. We have another
13:15
episode to talk about do and this was
13:17
arguably v better episode of the To and
13:19
were eleven minutes into this episode. Okay so
13:21
let's fair, we gotta go on a local
13:23
by also episode two it was called the
13:26
Paint Ball him literally a ball episode where
13:28
the queen's had to create outfits and. Then
13:30
like to dumb yes die love the okay
13:32
high points low points do even have low
13:34
points. I mean I really don't have a
13:36
low point actually I do. That lip sync
13:38
song was not a oh my god yeah
13:40
like I mean it worked really well for
13:42
Gopnik as he had the beetlejuice hair and
13:44
as the young they like dance to at
13:46
the end of so like a kind of
13:48
like I kind of enjoyed it. Their blades
13:50
jump in the line by Harry Belafonte his
13:53
image. That's not like a great song to
13:55
just like throw in a general like plastic
13:57
tier. I had to do this and I
13:59
felt for your. Like girl this is not
14:01
your moment like it when the in a that
14:03
nobody can blame you. Guys
14:05
are was were like weird like i
14:07
don't know I love a weird lip
14:09
sync but it has to be the
14:11
right person doing and it has to
14:13
be a personal choice. This was something
14:15
that was has thrown out. These greens
14:17
didn't really work the ah but anyway
14:19
rooms that was my only low point.
14:21
My high point was got mix monk
14:23
looked at as a small meme whole
14:26
these fucking see as you have not
14:28
seen a go on her instagram and.
14:30
Go look it up out Mack My
14:32
gosh year Double T M I K
14:34
for not following them. Follow yeah please!
14:36
That was bandanas. That was the most
14:38
amazing thing I've ever fucking see out.
14:40
So the three categories he had to
14:43
do on the runway. First one was
14:45
a monochrome work like monochromatic. Oh was
14:47
the categories. Next one was drag imitates
14:49
art which is like actually based on
14:51
art see and all. Side note: plastic
14:54
Tr to the yeah you'll he could
14:56
Sama look Wittenberg the house to and
14:58
it was really good to. And finally
15:00
they had to do the painted. you know
15:02
that a pre some of but anyway make.
15:05
Nailed. The runway to the wall
15:07
nailed it. Yeah, see, made up for
15:09
whatever the fuck. Nino less dead. What
15:12
the hell was that Thomas Finland like
15:14
girl? And oh no, it was. All.
15:17
Sorts of wrong I don't know. You wonder,
15:19
do you think the Foundation will be reading
15:21
a clue? Know as afterwards to offer her
15:23
a stay at like the time assembling the
15:25
like you know cab and like you know
15:27
that are to see. I see that they
15:29
do at best. They might be like they
15:31
might send her a complimentary inflatable Bilbao. There
15:34
you go to the oh those Tom of
15:36
Finland Dell desert a dinner and yeah, they're
15:38
scary. I think they probably hurt somebody. That's
15:40
a gag gift. it has to be. I
15:42
don't know. Anyway, I
15:44
make gag anyway that make a buck gags.
15:46
So as I begin what honestly talking about
15:49
Mack I'm just kind of Ford and how
15:51
nothing else to say like dragged start, stops
15:53
and ends. Period.
15:55
Yeah I don't know got make is the
15:58
winner for me. My heart my brain once
16:00
got mack my heart wants center on I
16:02
would you know? Enough
16:04
about your bad. Oh
16:06
mounted on in my life I think
16:09
my heart could be right in my
16:11
brain could be right. who knows you
16:13
have your wounds Sam Yes Now personal
16:15
oh how could you forget section of
16:17
So Gratifying The Girls We could sit
16:20
and talk about the salt and ah
16:22
we really to return or we can
16:24
Butts and now okay well let us
16:26
know what your thoughts are And first
16:28
two episodes of Iraq Greater. All stars
16:31
Nine and yeah whoa. Wickets next week
16:33
and more. Talk about episode three. next
16:35
week. It won't be as long because
16:37
we won't have to upset stuff right?
16:39
Yes, it will. Actually I mean we
16:41
have time for him. Blink the spooky
16:43
bullshit segment. Oh no I don't think
16:45
we do. Oh shit I'm a huge
16:47
he talked request. I mean I can
16:49
talk real quick read as this is
16:51
simply breaking news that know if we
16:53
just have to talk about entering as
16:55
y'all know, Robert Pickton right around the
16:57
biggest piece of shit in Canada. the
16:59
pig dude. Yeah, farm killer. Yet he's
17:01
in. He's in critical condition right now because
17:03
sony I sit out of him in prison.
17:06
I love that inherently he was impaled in
17:08
the head with like a broomstick or something.
17:11
Yeah, ya mean animals by another inmate
17:13
book And that as of this point
17:15
is all we really know because nobody's
17:17
really talking about it. And for people
17:19
who don't know who Robert Pickton is,
17:21
just look it up. He is the
17:23
biggest piece of shit that has ever
17:26
commit of Canada. He is a i
17:28
don't even wanna say prolific him but
17:30
he. Is a infamous serial killer yard
17:32
a lot of people. I think he
17:34
went to jail for the death of
17:36
six people, but it's believe that he
17:38
murdered a lot more and more and
17:41
women iron sights and a lot of
17:43
indigenous women are closely associated with The
17:45
Highway of Tear. Yes, it is a
17:47
topic that we will have to cover
17:49
on the show at some point, but.
17:52
Damn. That's so nice to hear that
17:54
he got the city that of our
17:56
yeah, exactly, yeah, nobody is crying any
17:58
tears over this motherfucker, but. The right
18:00
now he is in the hospital, he
18:02
is in critical condition. Who knows, maybe
18:04
he'll die and again like I said,
18:06
this is breaking news of the news.
18:08
could change by the time you're listening
18:11
to that but also like I also
18:13
said but also monkey thing all know
18:15
all the so it's an apartment as
18:17
well. Yeah and also because yeah also
18:19
but because it happened behind prison walls,
18:21
there's just not not not a lot
18:23
of information being shared publicly about a
18:25
we don't know who this person was
18:27
that attacked him. Although I want to
18:29
give. Them a little bit of round of
18:32
applause. Although they they have a history of
18:34
violence. oh I was gonna say I like
18:36
and I mean years. You have an Amazon
18:38
wish list, but then again, least let me
18:40
know what they're in for. Idea that we
18:43
don't know anything about them, but they were
18:45
in the same jail cell as Robert Iger
18:47
Dan so they probably weren't a great person
18:49
either. Been any right now. This has just
18:51
been flooding the headlines here in Canada. I'm
18:54
not sure if it's made international news, but
18:56
it's definitely significant and I just wanted to
18:58
highlight that, so that's really as. If you
19:00
want to know more just follow that is
19:02
shared. Our I will feature Tyler by why
19:04
have you here though the have any other
19:07
serial killers that about the sipping none of
19:09
him recently Unfortunately no man. okay well habits,
19:11
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The truth of that, anybody who was
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say I mean to be talking about be
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Coconut Grove. Disaster. Oh
21:50
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them whenever the word disaster and that I'm
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talking about tone. Safety door is in
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you know it's not be a good
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time. the I got an idea where
22:05
we're going. Yeah, get ready and think
22:07
happy thoughts. So of for this case
22:09
we're going to be going down south
22:11
of the Canadian border to the home
22:13
of our bodies. As and a from
22:15
more be going to matter to thirty
22:17
hours and I specifically. Boston.
22:20
Ah yeah yeah. Get lost in
22:22
Boston? Ah yes. Home or bang
22:24
And I you We arrive. At
22:27
home a pack India can have
22:29
a yeah yeah yeah yeah. care of
22:32
political my godmother from Quincy hours I
22:34
don't have as I do have a
22:36
soft spot for Boston. has it.
22:38
It feels very much like Halifax it
22:41
is. it's It's basically like the Nova
22:43
Scotia of America is kind of feel
22:45
that on the deep level of the
22:48
a little bit bigger. Not like
22:50
the same vibe. Yeah, exactly like
22:52
we got like. Beutner,
22:54
Into town and they got as I learned
22:56
bang and I you he is exactly. Also
22:58
be proud that Bang in the U is
23:00
like the topic comes up and you go
23:02
to look up for Boston his lingo of
23:05
the idea that yeah that's a seat on
23:07
any way for this case we're going to
23:09
be going to Boston back in the pre
23:11
ash and Alina days if you can even
23:13
imagine all the way back into the early
23:15
nineteen hundreds. And of course he will be
23:17
zooming in on a place called. The.
23:19
Coconut Grove, which was a pretty
23:22
big club in its day, was
23:24
about a story and a half
23:26
altogether. It was located at Us
23:28
seventeen Piedmont Street in Boston and
23:31
when I say located at Seventeen
23:33
Teeth monster you I truly mean
23:35
like it's banned. The block of
23:37
Piedmont and like nearby shown at
23:40
St. I'm in a building that
23:42
used to be a complex of
23:44
warehouses of so as big. Rather
23:46
significant. Yes, Yeah, So Coconut Grove
23:49
originally opened. Up in Nineteen Twenty
23:51
Seven which was smack dab in
23:53
the midst of prohibition an Mri
23:55
the As A I always forget
23:57
that that was even that know
23:59
right written quick circadian. But anyway
24:01
this sensibly means that as a
24:03
result of it being production and
24:05
consumption of and sale of alcohol
24:07
been completely legal arm the club
24:09
had operate as as speak easy
24:11
when you isn't illegal in private
24:13
establishment for folks to go and
24:15
drink while he does otherwise illegal
24:17
to do so right like he
24:19
gotta give a password at the
24:21
door that kind of shit. Exactly
24:24
very sexy and as a result
24:26
the club of course became a
24:28
huge spot for the local who's
24:30
who. Of Crime and kang
24:32
Why. Yeah, enemy
24:34
now of them. Much of a concern for
24:36
it's owners though. They were Guy's name, Shock
24:38
Renard and Mickey alp her to her to
24:41
do with. Really?
24:43
Deep connections in the less than legal
24:45
side of the local business world of
24:47
the catchment area. I mean, they just
24:50
kind of sound like side characters for
24:52
The Sopranos. Trying to be a totally
24:54
worth inside. Listens has underlined by the
24:56
fact that the club ended up changing
24:59
ownership four years after it's inception. So
25:01
open and nineteen Twenty Seven changed hands.
25:03
and Nineteen Thirty one or two a
25:05
bootlegger and Boston A in the mob
25:08
world named Charles Solomon I. and he
25:10
ran a club or ran the club.
25:12
For about two years until he was.
25:15
Gunned. Down had a hundred and club
25:17
in town. Okay, yeah, that tracks. About
25:20
or it's at this point. If I
25:22
were to clubs parent I'd be telling
25:24
them that they're wrong with some bad
25:26
influence Is for this or step at
25:28
a little. Ultimately the ownership of the
25:30
Coconut Grove working out become a little
25:33
bit more a street soda say and
25:35
a know mean had or oberg you
25:37
know what I mean. Straight laced yeah
25:39
exactly when it passed on to Solomon's
25:41
Lawyer or Dining Barney when Lion Ski
25:43
who oversaw the next era of. The
25:45
club's a life has prohibition would be listed at
25:47
the end of Ninety Thirty Three. And then the
25:49
booth. The booze can be just losing. Oh yeah,
25:51
you know the blues and the boys. The booze
25:53
in the boys bring the bulls. Know in the
25:55
boys, the boys in the both boys bring in
25:57
a boost. The boys are to drink the bulls
25:59
exactly. It was a boy and according
26:01
to John Christy the nose where it
26:04
find the booze in the boys his
26:06
over anyway. So mommy dearest aside Coconut
26:08
Grove at this point it's fake. You.
26:12
Always hear with Mommy Dearest Referee always
26:14
they do so via outside I'm always
26:16
wind up to one another. Thing you
26:18
gotta know about. The
26:20
i said the boy specifically usually have
26:22
been on gendered yet anyway and of
26:24
Nineteen thirty three, prohibition ends in the
26:27
U S and Coconut Grove transitions from
26:29
being a. Very illegal. Speak easy to
26:31
Martha mean stream establishment. In fact, it's
26:33
called a supper club a supper club.
26:35
So you go there for supper than
26:38
you just hang on have drinks. Yeah,
26:40
so the T is a supper club
26:42
is a thinly veiled designation. Really, it's
26:44
a cover up for it being in
26:46
a club. But the thing was, you
26:49
couldn't operate a nightclub in Boston at
26:51
the time. He literally nineteen thirties. I
26:53
mean, boots are just coming out, a
26:55
prohibition times are reared our hero. But
26:57
like, you could have a really long
26:59
liquid supper. exactly. How that's what
27:01
brought on the semantic sweatshops. But
27:04
they did said quite the vibe
27:06
which ultimately would make the Coconut
27:08
Grove a very popular spot to
27:10
be. So can this? The whole
27:12
place is set up with this
27:15
kind of tropical paradise style theme
27:17
that consists of lots of like
27:19
palms hair, leather wrap everywhere, rich
27:21
hand for mature ruff, roven moons,
27:23
blue satin draping the ceilings creating
27:26
a false guy. They really really
27:28
gone for a senior athlete. Sounds
27:30
like something or an establishment that the Golden
27:32
Girls would have gone to on a date
27:34
or very much so. but I mean that
27:36
would have been like the eighties this is
27:38
talk and will you know back in the
27:40
days when they would have been while sexier
27:42
back on the Golden Girls were hidden This.
27:45
Much and not the sexual teeth because women tend
27:47
to her were endless. The
27:50
point is the I had all that
27:52
going on. They also had their namesake
27:54
the coconut ah mostly fashioned into wall
27:57
sconces so they were ever pro then
27:59
cause you know sconces Darling on says
28:01
darling absolutely and the you know the
28:03
place offered a little bit for everyone
28:06
so to say hence popularity and mean
28:08
it held up to four hundred and
28:10
sixty people between the different spaces in
28:12
the club like a set of used
28:15
to be a warehouse so it or
28:17
a complex of warehouses so they had
28:19
like you know a dining room they
28:21
had between us like a restaurant built
28:23
and they had the club area we
28:26
you to go dance they had you
28:28
know different rooms for different purposes share
28:30
and. I. Should note though, like
28:32
even though they were growing and
28:34
becoming more straight laced even with
28:36
this shift toward the less legal
28:38
operation of the Coconut Grove Barney
28:41
Will Lansky, the new owners last
28:43
lawyer, still privately bragged about having
28:45
a litany of mob connections, so
28:47
it's not like things are operating
28:49
out and the light. So to
28:51
say that is absolutely fair. I
28:53
mean, he was a lawyer for
28:55
a monster who got gunned down
28:57
the a bootlegger and a mob
28:59
Dna. He just knew how to.
29:01
Play the public came a little
29:03
bit better than his predecessors anyway.
29:05
with all of the scenes over,
29:07
The Club would also sees some
29:09
significant expansion in these early years
29:11
of the Nineteen thirties, and ultimately
29:13
by the time to see Coconut
29:15
Grove became known as The Supper
29:17
Club and had gained more mainstream
29:19
patronage, Numerous renovations were done to
29:21
expand upon the already large space.
29:23
As a set of originally the
29:25
space had a few dining rooms
29:28
lounges, but in the fall of
29:30
Nineteen Forty Two. Barney Lansky
29:32
oversaw the space expanding and this
29:34
led to them opening up a
29:36
lounge in an adjacent building called
29:38
the Broadway. Allowed to very she,
29:41
she, she, she, she exactly and
29:43
as was connected to the rest
29:45
of things are, but it offered
29:47
some vibe outside of the nightclub
29:50
or supper club atmosphere and so
29:52
things are really looking up for
29:54
The Grove. Whoever just a few
29:56
weeks after the opening of the
29:59
Broadway Lounge, some that would happen
30:01
that would ultimately derail the seemingly
30:03
bright future set out for To
30:05
Business. Which brings us to the
30:08
real meat of this case is
30:10
a disaster. Yeah. So
30:12
to set the scene, picture it.
30:14
November Twenty eighth, Nineteen Forty Two.
30:16
As indicated the Coconut Grove had
30:19
just expanded. They open up the
30:21
Broadway Lounge me or weeks prior.
30:25
To say before prior in the
30:27
safe side rider nor are your
30:29
arm and for incidentally the record
30:31
is getting back up to speed
30:33
to get around. This time the
30:35
owner Barney Were Lansky was hospitalized
30:37
after experiencing a heart attack. Now
30:39
not to serve the heart. Attack
30:41
had anything to do with the
30:44
recent expansions at the Grove. Who.
30:46
The fuck knows, who knows sometimes
30:48
her Texas Ap and exactly. But
30:50
anyway, he was in layout. be
30:52
towel, that's France. Anyway, speaking of
30:55
the club, this day Saturday was
30:57
set to be a big one
30:59
at the Girls are than a
31:01
headline. He performance that night was
31:03
a drag performer named Arthur Blade.
31:05
I love their I. Their Arthur
31:07
Blake was a doll who did
31:09
celebrity impersonations and was known for
31:12
doing their show back and Province
31:14
Town in the sixties and seventies.
31:16
Class. Act Right notably to hit
31:18
the stage as Betty Davis and
31:20
Carmen Miranda Path The will also
31:22
come to be known for their
31:24
Eleanor Roosevelt some measure of oh
31:26
guess he just such stood There
31:28
are certain. A. Certain crowd look,
31:31
it was time. We and is
31:33
ultimately got Miss Arthur a gig
31:35
at the Fuck In White House
31:37
performing as like and special invite
31:40
for African Eleanor Roosevelt and Fdr
31:42
her husband, the fucking President. I
31:44
mean listen, if you're the First
31:46
Lady and you her that there
31:48
is a drag queen as impersonating
31:51
you, you do exactly the same
31:53
thing. I mean right right? He
31:55
saw that exactly So they had
31:57
a Queen at the White House.
32:00
According to reports you slade that's fiercely everyone
32:02
loved her. I don't know if they tipped
32:04
to the dollar, one would hope that they
32:07
were and him die and that it is
32:09
hop exactly months or a. This was not
32:11
a real dollar in the Td kind of
32:13
day and age. you know what I mean
32:15
year but you know medical or had you
32:17
know she want to put a dollar in
32:20
those to know she didn't know Eleanor Roosevelt
32:22
was looking at herself up near on the
32:24
net set my want to put a dollar
32:26
amount eighty right now right? Anyway, like I
32:28
said this was a big. Night at the
32:30
club the dogs were coming out for
32:33
the switch love to see support your
32:35
Queens now to reset. By the time
32:37
everything was said and done, it was
32:39
believed that about one thousand people were
32:41
attending the club that night which is
32:44
a seat and ignoring capacities. New really?
32:46
think about it considering as I mentioned,
32:48
the building did have a capacity of
32:50
four hundred and sixty people so year
32:52
Dublin That and some be a heartwarming
32:54
to think that that many people were
32:57
coming out to see the dolls. But
32:59
also fucking scary. When you consider we're
33:01
talking but a disaster yeah and how
33:03
you go see the dolls that many
33:05
people as he's going to be the
33:07
number of ooh yeah, that's that's not
33:09
how I want to see my drag
33:11
him Anyway, it's sad that there were
33:13
supposed to be more folks there that
33:16
night, but in a rather odd choice
33:18
of programming along with the big drag
33:20
show us. The Coconut Grove on that
33:22
particular night was also supposed to be
33:24
the spot for a celebration party that
33:26
have been planned in anticipation of Boston
33:28
College taking on the College of the
33:30
Holy Cross. Well see look to just
33:32
looking out for the straight six. I
33:34
know the missus kinda see the drag
33:37
show him and the misters can go.
33:39
Sports. Or whatever and whole is it
33:41
reminds me of Do member I think we
33:43
were together at this point I took issue
33:45
is Halifax Pop Explosion show isn't and it
33:47
was like. The. The band playing
33:49
was fucked up. did I take it to
33:51
the show you the and they were performing.
33:53
I think it's a dome is hello far
33:55
as a when when one is a big
33:57
night clubs. But anyway, this Halifax pop explosion.
34:00
Show was happening and like up a
34:02
hardcore punk show a happening until a
34:04
certain time than after than the club
34:06
oh was to start and be be
34:08
a while sucked up was playing the
34:10
club folks were coming in and I
34:12
mean these are Halifax club folk so
34:14
it's not like. Club. Kids the
34:16
ya ya ya know is this like
34:18
were in our Best Lisette how are
34:20
double callers popped? Because it's twenty eleven
34:22
through we got a hooker shall necklaces.
34:24
I see where we want to know
34:26
why these faggots or in our bar
34:28
exists The I remember that that showed
34:30
up pretty hostile yeah and been and
34:32
because the lead singer of Fucked Up
34:34
as like this guy who looks like
34:36
us yeah I had a shirt off
34:38
and was running through the crowd and
34:41
at that point all the pros and
34:43
their retinue were in the back of
34:45
the club. And it was. It was. He
34:47
had to like break up a fight or
34:49
oh yes he did. Yes, this was a
34:51
says when we gonna be that yeah more
34:54
or less because they had the drag show
34:56
have now I and then they had the
34:58
sports party that was supposed to be happening.
35:00
Budget. Turns out the game didn't end up
35:02
favorably for Boston College. so the celebration party
35:05
was ditched. The mayor was supposed to be
35:07
there that night on. He also pulled out.
35:09
Yeah, they just went to the streets and
35:11
decided to probably commit arson and destruction. God
35:13
has entropy. I like to do. When they're
35:16
sports, team loses the like to destroy
35:18
things when they went, and they really
35:20
like to destroy things when they will.
35:22
Now I'm young and that's another com
35:24
disaster, but regardless, success. Know sports, know
35:26
sports mods. Drag folks came out though,
35:28
if anything, to drink their sorrows away
35:30
and as I said, double the occupancy.
35:33
Know that the girls were darling and
35:35
the night rolled on in fact, out
35:37
about quarter past ten in the Melody
35:39
Lounge, which was like a kind of
35:41
insular he space in the complex. you
35:43
know, I'm kind of a piano bar.
35:45
Can I get it? A performer need?
35:47
Could he could tell was taking the
35:50
stage to perform for a packed room
35:52
of page for hims and this was
35:54
a pretty low lid five room out.
35:56
it's a piano lounge. We got a
35:59
good he play i'm singing on a
36:01
revolving stage you know date sitting at
36:03
tables around he get it I am.
36:06
Get in it I'm in their exact
36:08
a city like Julie Cruz and Twin
36:10
Peaks just guessing and seats as I
36:12
love that on are evolving stage what
36:15
more could you want? button The next
36:17
part of it is what I'm not
36:19
so into because it was said that
36:21
in the Melody Lounge as this lovely
36:24
Vi V show is tic nos near
36:26
one of the tables one of the
36:28
coconut sconces light bulbs. Wasn't screwed.
36:30
stances darling. it's always the sconces. but
36:32
this was said to be done by
36:34
a young man who was sitting with
36:37
a date nearby at table and wanted
36:39
a little bit of mutilating. so he
36:41
took it upon himself to become lighting
36:43
designer and undies a bob from it's
36:45
fixture gates. Now of course one doesn't
36:47
just get to choose when they can
36:49
kill the lights in a public spots.
36:51
How old are you know? The people
36:53
that had to do their jobs ultimately
36:55
noticed that it was darker than it
36:57
should have ban in an already dark
37:00
spot. Yeah, and since they had
37:02
to carry glassware and other such
37:04
things are hounds, they figured why
37:06
not err on the side? A
37:08
safety and story? The dang thing
37:10
back. And yeah, so ultimately a
37:12
buzzer. As sixteen year old named
37:14
Stanley Thomas to ski I was
37:16
asked to attend to be unscrewed
37:19
Ball which was still in Wisconsin.
37:21
long the decorative palm fronds now
37:23
Stanley approach to the scans and
37:25
without a flashlight the guide his
37:27
way. He reportedly got up on
37:29
a chair. And and lit a
37:31
match so that he could see
37:33
his way. Ah, returns the ball
37:35
to it's normal position. Latest restored
37:37
and. Things. Seem to be
37:39
co pathetic. He blows at the match,
37:41
further stomps it into the floor to
37:44
ensure that it wouldn't cause any small
37:46
during which sounds wilde. but it's a
37:48
nightclub in the nineteen forties. The you
37:50
know folks were thrown cigarettes out on
37:52
the floor from the time mulally they
37:54
were sets of drama. Also, people are
37:56
fucking garbage. But anyway, according to witnesses
37:58
who were at me bro. He
38:00
bought. A few moments after Stanley
38:02
walked away from the correct light
38:05
bulb, flames were observed flicker and
38:07
among the palm fronds that sounds
38:10
lived that Stanley was attending to.
38:12
S like. That and this the
38:14
core as you were describing. it's like oh
38:16
that sounds fun but now that it's all
38:18
catching fire. It's. Like this is
38:21
a fire fucking hazard. Ah so
38:23
staff who murdered and from this
38:25
point on the in there was
38:27
some onlookers actually took a the
38:30
kind of comedic side. The staff
38:32
was the scene attempting to the
38:34
flaming fronds be tempted to douse
38:36
them and water. Some even attempted
38:38
to spray them with seltzer water
38:41
arm and isn't working on. folks
38:43
were laughing at them to know
38:45
they weren't taking it too seriously.
38:47
But unfortunately despite the waterworks literally.
38:49
I.just too little too late
38:52
and. Not. Funny at
38:54
all because the flames were
38:56
quickly spreading even as the
38:58
frond and it's connected ceiling
39:00
panel were quickly removed from
39:02
above in hopes of standing
39:04
at the flames and keeping
39:06
everything contained. Again, he was
39:08
too late and the flames
39:10
are already starting to spread
39:12
into the ceiling. And I
39:14
mean this is rather dangerous
39:16
because as a previously mentioned,
39:18
the ceiling was a false
39:20
ceiling created with blue satin.
39:22
Favourite: You're right, Yeah now this
39:24
fabric had been fired treated which is
39:26
great but the thing or a fire
39:29
treatment is such a kind of gotta
39:31
keep up with it over time so
39:33
it's not just enough to apply once
39:35
inside it and forget it you can.
39:38
I gotta come back to it at
39:40
certain intervals and I'm I'm not an
39:42
expert. I'm not going to tell you
39:44
what does intervals should be, but let's
39:47
just say that hadn't been kept up
39:49
with as Sudan. And of course this
39:51
led to the lovely blue satin. Drop
39:53
Ceiling been a death trap waiting
39:55
to happen one hundred percent. Oh
39:58
my gosh, yeah, but unfortunate. The
40:00
before anybody was really able to
40:02
process things, the fire was spreading
40:04
among the ceiling of the pack
40:06
clowns. And I mean this fire
40:09
started like over in one corner
40:11
and the only access to the
40:13
lounge was over in the opposite.
40:15
Side. Of the room Right? So
40:18
as people noticed that the room
40:20
is literally raining embers and burning
40:22
sab rec. On. Them
40:24
nice he decide to fill you
40:26
with that one accent being the
40:29
only one in sight. Only problem
40:31
was in the early months of
40:33
people starting to flee staff weren't
40:35
really to up on what was
40:37
going on you or. I. Don't
40:40
know. Maybe people were just jerks,
40:42
but people are literally being stopped
40:44
from leaving as they hadn't paid
40:46
their taps. No fucking way Are
40:48
you kidding me? Not at all.
40:50
So of course this is happening.
40:52
The sky is raining fire and
40:55
suddenly in this small sounds which
40:57
again is only one part of
40:59
a greater complex of you know,
41:01
dining rooms and stuff like that
41:03
it's presented to utter and complete
41:05
chaos. The main lounges soon become
41:08
aware of what is happening below.
41:10
And the intensity of the situation
41:12
than only increases as more people
41:14
get folded into this. Ball
41:16
of flames rolling downhill, collecting more.
41:19
Flying. right? Legacy com or
41:21
been a higher higher the yeah
41:23
scared patrons flames began shooting up
41:25
the stairs with mixed with the
41:28
air in the scenery above and
41:30
moralists created a fireball that made
41:32
it's way through the adjoining lounges
41:34
of the Story and a half
41:36
supper club complex thought far as
41:38
well as the adjoining Broadway lounge
41:40
like the newly opened space that
41:42
they had which was connected to
41:45
the Rate or the the rest
41:47
of them via like a hallway
41:49
so it not. Immune from the fire
41:51
in no more than five minutes from
41:53
the inception of the Slain in the
41:55
Melody Lounge, the fire had more or
41:57
less taken over the entire night club.
42:00
This is wild and like. This
42:02
building at this point is quite
42:04
old to right and so it's
42:06
dry as hell no doubt. And
42:08
whatever is inside those walls is
42:11
probably just kindling for fire. And
42:13
it's covered in kindling because again
42:15
this had a lovely South Pacific
42:17
radio. Everything is why these everything
42:19
covered in return and fucking in
42:21
the just. At all the
42:23
flammable stuff. Maybe there is something to minimal
42:26
decor in a public space? I'd like to
42:28
think so. I'm
42:30
so folks of course are doing
42:32
the best of on the flames
42:34
at this point. Yeah, there's only
42:36
so much that they can do
42:38
again. This is a club that
42:40
is part Adam More than double
42:42
capacity crowd right? They are being
42:44
rain fire upon in some cases
42:46
and those who aren't being taken
42:48
by the he'd are dropping from
42:51
a noxious fumes that are overtaken.
42:53
The entire inside of the building because
42:55
as more and more things catch on
42:57
fire more and more fumes been created
42:59
and also I'm not talking about that
43:01
but also turns out that the buildings
43:03
air conditioning or refrigerant which is primarily
43:05
free on at the time he the
43:07
been replaced with answers fumes that are
43:09
overtaken the entire inside of the building
43:11
because as more and more things catch
43:13
on fire more and more for hims
43:15
have created and also I'm not talking
43:17
about that but also turns out that
43:20
the buildings air conditioning or refrigerant which
43:22
is primarily free. On at the time
43:24
he to been replaced with metal
43:26
poor I'd and a cost saving
43:28
measure which was us sales fuck
43:30
up because it created an abundance
43:32
of fumes and the methyl chloride
43:34
was extremely flammable. Poor thought far
43:36
so this cause an accelerated spread
43:38
of fire through the building where
43:40
a C was present and of
43:43
course now yeah got air and
43:45
the build an yeah so more
43:47
channels for flames to just travel
43:49
through, more ways for the sky
43:51
to be on fi or nightmare.
43:53
Now speaking a Fatal Fuck ups, The whole
43:55
situation was made exponentially worse by the fact
43:57
that not only were people being stopped. Leaving
44:00
because nobody wanted and leave it
44:02
up and their tabs Caesar's But
44:04
also numerous doors were blocked. numerous
44:06
windows were blocked off for the
44:08
sake of stopping patrons from skipping
44:10
out on their tabs. Now and
44:12
we're not talking like regular dig
44:15
your doors, were talking emergency exits.
44:17
all that kind of fun stuff
44:19
like or you're that worried like
44:21
the that many people skip it
44:23
on their tabs that you have
44:25
to lock them in a building
44:27
now. But we know that criminals
44:29
are. Running this business but not everyone's
44:31
a Kremlin all right, but you know
44:34
most to your friends probably are obliged
44:36
to. movie was his own Josie of
44:38
One Hundred show have yeah I'm yet
44:40
it was so fucked up and on
44:42
top of that as like the doors
44:44
and were you know operation we're not
44:47
up to code. ah. The. League
44:49
One Primary one. The people were getting
44:51
out through the melody loans with opened
44:53
up in words. Know.
44:55
Yeah. I'm an emergency exit door
44:58
that opens in that doesn't make any
45:00
fucking sad, it's absolutely fucked up and
45:02
it literally cause a what they believe
45:04
to be hundreds of lives. She's like
45:07
that door alone cost just as of
45:09
numerous lives and you know they found
45:11
the bodies later on and but I
45:13
won't get to that point just yet.
45:15
But ah anyway speaking of doors, we
45:18
haven't even gotten to one of the
45:20
most fucked up parts of this whole
45:22
story and a kind of hinted to
45:24
this of a bit earlier on. But
45:27
the main entrance to the
45:29
Coconut Grove was this lovely
45:31
revolving door. However,
45:35
There. Was only revolving door as
45:37
the main entrance to the
45:39
Coconut Grove which more or
45:41
less became an absolute death
45:43
trap as a crush of
45:45
people formed in the accent
45:47
as they desperately tried to
45:49
get themselves out of the
45:51
burning building. Him The thing
45:53
as it gets even worse
45:55
than that because outside of
45:57
the cross as folks were
46:00
able to get themselves to
46:02
slow the from the literal
46:04
wall of human body is
46:06
that we're creating a blockage
46:08
in the store. Yeah the
46:10
space that their bodies opened
46:12
up in the the damn
46:14
of body use allowed for
46:16
oxygen to enter on through
46:18
which literally created an incinerator
46:20
of sorts in the actual
46:22
revolving door jamb. I oh
46:24
my god has a crush
46:26
of people were so like
46:28
the fire just like blazed.
46:30
Up when people got out and
46:32
oxygen enter the situation. And
46:36
even fucking fathom that. Yeah,
46:38
so. I. Didn't think that
46:40
you can really get worse than the people
46:42
dying in a crush in a door trying
46:44
to get the like of high in the
46:46
another also survivors in there but like there
46:49
were just no survivors and by the end
46:51
of it yeah because as soon as people
46:53
get dislodged like fire came through and it
46:55
literally just became on of him. He.
46:57
I like this revolving door way
46:59
so it's just death traps everywhere.
47:01
exact including be one of the
47:03
only ways our of the building
47:05
exactly. And of course, it didn't
47:07
take much time for the outside
47:09
world to become aware of what
47:11
was happening at the Coconut Grove,
47:13
so fire crews were thankfully able
47:15
to get there quickly. In fact,
47:17
I was helped out by the
47:19
fact that some of them were
47:21
actually nearby, the disaster putting out
47:23
a domestic fire, a hot rescue
47:25
crews both formal, informed and informal.
47:27
Began descending upon the scene in an
47:30
effort to help out the victims. Also
47:32
people who got out with their lives
47:34
were got putting themselves back into the
47:36
building to get their loved ones and
47:39
anybody else that may be as it
47:41
like nobody's acting in an orderly manner
47:43
and the cdc have to consider all
47:45
the fucking panic that's happening amongst all
47:47
of this fucking failure in the building.
47:50
Yeah and I mean it's only gonna
47:52
get worse because as rescue efforts begins
47:54
to take place like and and around
47:56
the building. And like you know the fire
47:59
as being fought and. That kind assassin
48:01
who are new. Reality hits
48:03
when these people go from
48:06
a completely small inferno inside
48:08
to and the November air
48:10
outside. you know it's cold,
48:13
that. They. Go from hot to
48:15
cold and a number of them begin
48:17
dropping dead set on the exposure t
48:19
and is just like shot could basically.
48:22
ah, solar systems and her lungs and
48:24
all that kind of stuff. I'm like
48:26
you may scoff at that. But furthermore
48:28
it was sad that like some of
48:31
the bodies were so hot from being
48:33
inside the building that during rescue a
48:35
highly religious really like the bodies. The
48:37
skin to skin contact was burning the
48:39
hands of a rescuer. Oh my God.
48:42
Bodies were so hot internally. Like
48:44
I can't even fathom that. Like
48:46
scalding your hands on another human
48:48
being. But it's like an iron.
48:50
Yeah, but it's somebody his forearm
48:53
while. yeah, and I. Regardless,
48:55
Of their style, firefighting and rescue were quick
48:57
upon the scene and trying everything they could
48:59
now. They were ultimately able to fight the
49:02
fire and arena stop it from spreading and
49:04
folks were able to make their way out
49:06
of the club. If it did appear though,
49:08
that him more staff are able to get
49:10
out with their lives and patrons were because.
49:13
I mean they would just know the building
49:15
better than patron mind. They also knew what
49:17
exits were blocked and all that and that's
49:19
interesting. We wanted to. Surviving staff from the
49:22
night even included Mickey Alpert, who you may
49:24
remember as being. One the sounders of
49:26
the Speak Easy originally he was
49:28
actually the bandleader on the night.
49:31
Of the fucking Fire fire. I don't know
49:33
of years with the drag show or not.
49:35
I mean he doesn't He wasn't in the
49:38
Melody Lounge because I was a solo at
49:40
year via. the former owner was like one
49:42
of the bands that night. He made it
49:44
out with his life but anyway he made
49:46
it out through add the service areas of
49:49
the building. Bad word lena. Less of a
49:51
run by the public because my course does
49:53
were for the staff and yet off really
49:55
knew that they were there. I'm honestly there
49:58
are so many personal stories of survive. From
50:00
the fire and otherwise that have been shared
50:02
a week it probably be here for an
50:04
entire day talking about them. yeah it can
50:07
be. A podcast series is on. Some people
50:09
survived by hiding out in ice boxes in
50:11
the building others had it is just breathe
50:13
their way out while others as I said
50:16
went back and looking for loved ones are
50:18
just any survivors because again there were just
50:20
so many people tightly packed and with all
50:22
this happened so quick but again like just
50:24
given how many people over there and were
50:27
affected there are There are a lot of
50:29
stories to tell. Now by the
50:31
time at all was said and done
50:33
and the fires were put out and
50:36
folks were taken to the hospital, the
50:38
death toll did come in at four
50:40
hundred and ninety two people switches guys.
50:42
Harrowing to say the least. I mean,
50:44
this was the second largest building fire
50:46
in Us history as second to the
50:49
Iroquois Peter fire from nineteen of three
50:51
which claim six hundred and two lives.
50:53
More information on that. Check out Episode:
50:55
Two Hundred and Seventy Four: The Blue
50:57
Bus. Yes, But as for Coca Groves
50:59
dad, many. Died in the rush hours
51:02
or in the fired serve others died
51:04
in their seats are literally taken by
51:06
like the fire, quicker than they could
51:09
have even process what was happening to
51:11
them. Rakers are literal fireball say. And
51:14
others died in hospital. He was
51:17
actually said that half of the
51:19
people who were taking them for
51:21
medical help died shortly thereafter. A
51:23
fucking nightmare. Yeah, I'm ultimately personnel
51:25
from the Navy, Army, Coast Guard,
51:27
and National Guard had to come
51:29
in to. Boston to Assistant Rye with
51:31
the evacuation and removal of the injured
51:33
and our furthermore newspaper delivery trucks taxi
51:35
isn't just any other means we're used
51:38
to transport the injured because you know
51:40
course nobody was ready for this Given
51:42
the magnitude of the folks injured and
51:44
Dad how could you be apparent for
51:46
this? Yes I believe are also hundred
51:48
and sixty six injured which is less
51:51
than I thought to be funny enough
51:53
but still that's over half of the
51:55
people at Just Oh there's so much
51:57
about this that is upsetting and and
51:59
in. Fury Eight and while exactly
52:01
yeah and just as again heartbreaking even
52:04
consider because they they were having to
52:06
set up a temporary more Eggs like
52:08
in Assam distribution garage near the club
52:10
yeah deal to dad like features we're
52:13
not ready to deal with this and
52:15
of the followed from the Sastre was
52:17
notable. Ah just ten days before the
52:20
fire the Boston Fire Department it actually
52:22
inspected the Coconut Grove and deemed it
52:24
say oh no oh yeah they did
52:26
the yearly inspection. They're like it's been
52:29
here for improving. Grady, there's not
52:31
a you didn't give everything
52:33
the doors or windows. everything.
52:35
That's sad. We love that.
52:37
Yeah, yeah, so course this
52:39
was questionable as far as
52:41
far as questionable as fucked.
52:44
Leave. And and leave it in Riyadh
52:46
be a lot and it's questionable as
52:48
far as it really is vibe. So
52:50
then it probably like is this probably
52:52
this narrative like over the firefighters like
52:55
paid off to the same play with
52:57
cool absolutely cause a thing was this
52:59
called into question just how connected Barney
53:01
Will Lansky was an envoy were aware
53:04
he was super connected right? It also
53:06
came to light that it has Coconut
53:08
Grove. Hadn't had any of the necessary
53:10
liquor license or food permits for years
53:12
leading up to this fire. So else
53:15
just A with luster. Fox T.
53:17
also underage employees as illustrated by
53:19
the sixteen year olds who was
53:21
involved in the incident. you know
53:23
more. One who lit the match.
53:25
Good old Stanley Tom to ski
53:27
guy. he was the buzzer who
53:29
you know ma'am and on a
53:31
start of a whole thing's of
53:34
course he got called into an
53:36
inquiry about the fire to testify
53:38
forty years he had. The thing
53:40
is, he was later acquitted because
53:42
it was never determined whether. The
53:44
actual beginning the fire was caused
53:46
by the match or more something
53:49
stemming from the unscrewed like bald
53:51
and the surrounding non fire proved
53:53
to pour because yeah I mean
53:56
this is not vr the electrical
53:58
standards of even today. Or
54:00
or delay at odds of today's yeah.
54:02
You know it was easier to catch
54:04
things. A believes her with
54:07
a good all light bulbs just
54:09
below that unscrew those things as
54:11
fuck and I yeah do so.
54:13
Anyway, with being said, they couldn't
54:15
exactly pinpoint where the fire started
54:17
from. Weather was the mass of
54:19
people saw get stamped out or
54:21
the Bob. So all Smedley Stanley
54:24
gets acquitted. Mud. Speaking of the
54:26
inquiry, which was held about a
54:28
week after the fire. this would
54:30
lead to Barney, Will Lansky, the
54:32
owner, been convicted of nineteen counts
54:34
of manslaughter. Absolutely. Fair, honest little yeah,
54:36
and some people even think that it should
54:39
have been more i'm in the gutter really
54:41
nails one four hundred, ninety two counts of
54:43
manslaughter city, but they ended up choosing a
54:46
sampling of nineteen because they knew they had
54:48
the beds. Regardless, at a certain point, a
54:50
charge like that, the time spent is probably
54:52
not many different as the proper being served
54:55
consecutively. But and
54:57
currently with here's the T though
54:59
he was also super to nectar
55:01
so thorough this he got twelve
55:03
to fifteen years in prison and
55:05
nineteen forty three again responsible for
55:08
the deaths of four hundred ninety
55:10
two people. Maximum.
55:12
Of fifteen years sex thing is though
55:14
after four years he would receive a
55:16
pardon from mirror more restrained Tobin who
55:18
just so happened to be a close
55:21
personal friend of all the Lansky and
55:23
probably had his palm Greece really really
55:25
nicely. Likely so anyway he gets out
55:27
of there and if you actually remember
55:30
that's the same air who was supposed
55:32
to have been dining at the club
55:34
I'm amount of the fire that's right,
55:36
kind of. Only things have gone another
55:39
way but anyway he lets him out
55:41
early. Ah. And earth me are
55:43
also have had something to do
55:45
with the fact that Barney Will
55:47
Lansky was dying of cancer. So
55:49
and like a don't get to
55:51
hear about it because the t
55:53
is like nine weeks following his
55:55
release he did die but it
55:57
doesn't scrub the extreme. Last thing.
56:00
As a result of here's a responsibility
56:02
yeah and I mean he. they had
56:04
a big hand and what ultimately you
56:06
know led to this grand of a
56:08
loss of life world by and start
56:11
the fire but Beards He did a
56:13
great job of containing at a high
56:15
it has we were institution that he
56:17
created as it has. Who is setting
56:19
the policy with like that? Why was
56:21
the staff so concerned about people leaving
56:23
without paying their tab? Yeah Fucking inferno
56:26
right. Like that's been passed down from
56:28
the top right enemy. Yeah, like. He's
56:30
in the hospital with a heart attack
56:32
while all this is hop and anger
56:34
and I'm serve as a shock for
56:36
him when people started coming downstairs and
56:38
leave idea what's going on at the
56:40
hospital and they like oh yeah, your
56:42
club exploded yeah but a fireball spy
56:45
yeah like ultimately he was the one
56:47
who I hate to say but had
56:49
a seat held to fire over this.
56:51
So anyway as I mentioned, four hundred,
56:53
ninety two were dead, one hundred and
56:55
sixty six were injured and no matter
56:57
what vitriolic throw his way, it doesn't
56:59
bring. Them back now and then.
57:01
one silver one in the does
57:03
come from. All of this is
57:05
the fact that there were major
57:08
developments in burn and smoke inhalation
57:10
treatment that have you know advanced
57:12
quite a bit following these disasters
57:14
to given the abundance of folks
57:16
at the Massachusetts General Hospital and
57:18
the Boston City Hospital among others.
57:20
But I yeah I primarily those
57:22
two ip decide my lot of
57:24
people to try new treatments farm
57:26
or and one example I involved
57:28
like using Penicillin for preventing. Inflection
57:31
or infection. But. Also
57:33
increasing inflections arm but they also
57:35
tried like fluid resuscitation therapy for
57:37
folks dealing with smoking hot air
57:40
inhalation they made advances and burn
57:42
treatment a using like boric acid
57:44
ointment and petroleum jelly as well
57:47
as like wrapped bandages is now
57:49
versus the past treatment involving using
57:51
like panic acid i'm from there.
57:54
They were also able to do
57:56
psychological examinations into the effects of
57:58
grief and survivors. And to
58:00
the doctors who worked with a
58:02
number of the burned a doctor
58:04
charles want and daughter needing broder
58:06
actually created the London Broder Chart
58:08
Average a loss. Another the estimation
58:10
of the areas of burns charge
58:12
which isn't be used to contemporary
58:14
times. Okay, I mean that Listen,
58:16
I'll a advancements in the medical
58:18
care That's all great. But. The
58:21
the situation that led to is absolutely
58:23
horrible so it's hard to look at
58:25
that. We awesome. Good thing I know,
58:27
but I'd I'd at least have the
58:29
worst it because it is relevant to
58:31
the course. I'm not trying to be
58:33
like this, scrubs it away. But no,
58:35
I'm not saying that it's like to
58:38
one little silver lining to a very
58:40
very very very very dark. yeah, large,
58:42
all encompassing. Quite a lot of people
58:44
have benefited from what they've learned through
58:46
studying these Case yes, from this growth
58:48
loss of human life and has extremely.
58:50
Traumatizing of and sad and fucked
58:53
up numerous individuals and as I
58:55
now them unity and know. So
58:58
much complex itself was torn down
59:00
in Nineteen Forty Four following the
59:02
fire and the area was soon
59:04
we mapped thanks to urban renewal
59:06
initiatives On the site was used
59:08
as a parking lot until the
59:10
development of the Reviewer Hotel which
59:12
now covers like a bulk of
59:14
the buildings former footprint. On the
59:16
remaining area that wasn't under hotel
59:18
sat under a section of Chalmette
59:20
Street which would actually be renamed
59:23
Coconut Grove Wayne and Twenty Thirty
59:25
my top portion of the street.
59:27
Oh yes, And a plaque would
59:29
be pleased to commemorate the site
59:31
in Nineteen Thirty Three, but turns
59:33
out it was moved a bunch
59:35
of times due to local politics
59:37
and residents complaining and stuff like
59:39
that lane in a plant the
59:41
i guess they hate respect but
59:43
anyway, so they ended up having
59:45
moved around a whole bunch. But
59:47
a substantial morial was announced in
59:49
the November Twenty Twenty Three like
59:51
an eighteen by eleven foot memorial
59:54
which is gonna be finished by
59:56
September. Twenty Twenty Four. Oh, They're
59:58
going to be four hundred ninety two
1:00:00
granite blah each inscribed with the victim's
1:00:02
name and at which now I think
1:00:04
is setting. Absolutely Yeah, that's it. Like
1:00:06
I'd It's really important we when we
1:00:08
say this all the time, it's really
1:00:10
important for places to acknowledge these disasters
1:00:12
where they've happened. Yeah a easy and
1:00:14
in that say it can be as
1:00:16
simple as a plaque but like an
1:00:18
installation er statue is even better. Yeah
1:00:20
so that will be coming up and
1:00:22
of course we will be sharing the
1:00:24
news as it is finished because that
1:00:26
has not happened yet. But for now
1:00:29
that is the coconut. Grove Disaster aka
1:00:31
the reason that you have to have
1:00:33
regular day Cuellar door is flanking the
1:00:35
sides of revolving door is and see
1:00:37
like I never even thought of that
1:00:39
I got are just so that he
1:00:41
had an option now but there is
1:00:43
a very good reason as to why
1:00:45
those doors are there. No every time
1:00:47
I see them up into think of
1:00:49
this, that's the saying. It's like the
1:00:52
Mansfield Bar on a truck. Yeah, had
1:00:54
so yeah Other Unfortunately there are very
1:00:56
dark histories and reasons more. Some of
1:00:58
these. Some of. These
1:01:00
inventions. So anyway I saw my
1:01:02
I pad to send me. A
1:01:05
good little vibes because I phone close my
1:01:07
window and it just it opened up to
1:01:10
a photo of We Wouldn't Daffy Laying had
1:01:12
to have ah thank you World Bank of
1:01:14
the Forest are looking at photos of the
1:01:16
dogs when you think my sources said thank
1:01:19
you to the Boston Globe for police say
1:01:21
busboys Match caused fire published on November thirtieth
1:01:23
of Nineteen Forty Two think it of transcript
1:01:25
telegram for tragedy spreads from Match for him
1:01:28
to hundreds of homes published on member. Thirtieth
1:01:30
of Nineteen Forty to seek to
1:01:32
the Berkshire he go for Boston
1:01:34
death Toll Four Hundred and Seventy
1:01:36
Seven Published on November Thirtieth Or
1:01:39
Five Nineteen Forty Two. Stinky to
1:01:41
the reporting or the report concerning
1:01:43
the Coconut Grove Fire on November
1:01:45
Twenty ninth of Next, Forty Two
1:01:47
published by William Arthur Riley, the
1:01:49
Fire Commissioner for City of Boston
1:01:51
On November nineteenth of Nineteen Forty
1:01:53
Three Think A T V. Boston
1:01:56
Fire Historical Society for the sorry
1:01:58
Coconut Grove Fire Last updated. April
1:02:00
Twenty Fourth, A Twenty Twenty Four Think
1:02:02
the Britannica for The Coconut Grove Fire
1:02:04
and Tree published by Kieran So Gert
1:02:07
and a few other authors that aren't
1:02:09
listed. On November ninth of Twenty Twenty
1:02:11
Three, they did a prologue magazine for
1:02:13
of I'm Thirty Nine, number Three which
1:02:16
is there is and follow Twenty seventeen
1:02:18
for the Coconut Grove Revisited published by
1:02:20
Daniel Day Fleming, The Boston Public Library
1:02:22
for the Great Fires A Boston Coconut
1:02:25
Grove last updated on January ninth of
1:02:27
Twenty Twenty Four, It's think to the
1:02:29
University of Massachusetts. Law Library for
1:02:31
the Coconut Grove Fire Nineteen Forty
1:02:33
Two last updated on January nineteenth
1:02:35
of Twenty Twenty Three The that
1:02:37
Massachusetts Historical Society add a publication
1:02:39
the Be for the Coconut Grove
1:02:41
Fire published by Ricochet Shonda on
1:02:43
November twenty eighth or Twenty Twenty
1:02:45
to dig into the City of
1:02:47
Boston for I wrote cocoa. but
1:02:50
but it's different. Coconut Grove a
1:02:52
memorial I doubt they were right
1:02:54
Cocoa but grow for more. Allowed
1:02:56
to ski Reviewed: Yeah, see then.
1:02:58
People would have reason to complain.
1:03:00
Yeah to do a coat. Oban, I
1:03:02
love there's pastries as era. they're delicious.
1:03:04
May updated on Nov sixteen to Twenty
1:03:07
Twenty Three: the The Cbs News for
1:03:09
Coconut Grove Nightclub Fire. A chilling first
1:03:11
hand account published by Cbs Boston on
1:03:13
November Twenty ninth, A Twenty Seventeen. And
1:03:15
finally they did he boston.com for eighty
1:03:18
years later. For things you may not
1:03:20
know about the devastating Coconut Grove Fire
1:03:22
published by Madeline Eight Cans on November
1:03:24
Twenty eighth of Twenty Twenty Two. All
1:03:27
right, I'm sticking them. I still. Suffer
1:03:30
Severe. Yeah, yeah, that's fair. That
1:03:32
was quite a fucking All My
1:03:34
God it I was quite an
1:03:36
oh my God Yeah, I know.
1:03:38
Honestly, I just my brain just
1:03:40
flashed and I'm remembering the part
1:03:42
we're talking about how people were
1:03:44
burning themselves on other people him
1:03:46
and it says fucking. Disgusting.
1:03:49
Yeah, I know that shit like this is app and
1:03:51
can we move onto your fart monster now? Yeah, it's
1:03:54
not quite a fart model, but it's a lot better
1:03:56
than an. Is. Angel
1:03:58
less is now and. And we've
1:04:00
heard a lot of theories about why
1:04:03
I thought it was an ecoboost feel
1:04:05
worse than his books it was so
1:04:07
you could say is faster know as
1:04:09
to be more iconic. Murphy is
1:04:11
happening by dark. Library. Because
1:04:14
now you can compare from
1:04:16
Titan Service. Instantly and even to give
1:04:18
hasek handled from start to sinister and on
1:04:20
the the and it makes that the know
1:04:22
much more than just a less get started
1:04:24
at the end you that com family. And
1:04:26
Cia or it. a movie today. Let
1:04:31
me a life as it. Is
1:04:34
if he a sensor you have. A
1:04:37
frenzy signs along. With me these
1:04:39
facilities has are striving to
1:04:41
protect the sand and save
1:04:43
with he believes in every
1:04:45
single said. What
1:04:49
makes a life of good in this
1:04:51
as far as we think all of
1:04:53
the above and more the you'll have
1:04:55
to find out for yourself visit? Close
1:04:58
Card start of a higher note today.
1:05:00
I'm I'm stepping away from True Crime.
1:05:02
Talked about true crime a lot this
1:05:04
last. The last few episodes of Ring
1:05:06
on the High no clear. So today
1:05:08
I just wanted some kooky spooky find
1:05:10
them and I found it in today's
1:05:13
topic. The. Legend Of The Harry Hands
1:05:15
of Dark More ah years. I've never heard
1:05:17
of this but I already like the sound
1:05:19
of or I. you know if you don't
1:05:22
touch yourself go they won't turn Hear that
1:05:24
what they say All us will help us
1:05:26
from from attachment to mama. So
1:05:29
as I said, this is a
1:05:31
legend. A well known urban legend
1:05:33
that comes from Devon in England.
1:05:35
Okay, think you tell them. no
1:05:38
devotees. A place in England? But.
1:05:41
They're also a person in England. Further, aren't Evans
1:05:43
in Devon? Inertia. They
1:05:45
love that about themselves that month. That's how
1:05:47
you know you can do the podcast too
1:05:49
much everyone. Zola Summer. Split
1:05:52
away in the town of Devon in
1:05:54
the town of Devin, there's this legend
1:05:57
of these ghostly harry hands and honestly,
1:05:59
just one the many spooky stories that
1:06:01
Devon has to offer. It's it's. pretty.
1:06:04
Pretty. Supernatural place apparently our own
1:06:06
their been. Some legend suggests that
1:06:09
it is, but this is a
1:06:11
legend that has it been preserved
1:06:13
for more than a century. Him
1:06:15
and as far as we can
1:06:18
tell, the legend of the Harry
1:06:20
Hands of Dark More first entered
1:06:22
the public consciousness on Friday October
1:06:25
fourteenth, Nineteen Twenty One when the
1:06:27
Daily Mail published the following Arctic
1:06:29
com Care who is called the
1:06:31
Unseen Hands by T Deferred and
1:06:34
the article. Reads: The stretch of
1:06:36
road is quite an ordinary one.
1:06:38
It's wide, straight, open and bordered
1:06:40
on either side by a broad
1:06:42
strip of ruff grass. It's slopes
1:06:44
gently to a book went which
1:06:46
a crosses by a narrow humped
1:06:48
bridge beyond which lies the village
1:06:50
of Mid More. A Winter it
1:06:52
is a lonely spot, but in
1:06:54
the summer and many vehicles pass
1:06:56
daily. One day in June last,
1:06:58
a doctor was riding down the
1:07:00
slope on his motor bicycle in
1:07:02
the sidecar of which he had
1:07:04
passengers. It is two children quite
1:07:07
suddenly so the children say he
1:07:09
called out there is something wrong
1:07:11
jump and the next instant the
1:07:13
machine swerved, the whole engine broke
1:07:15
away from it's fastenings and the
1:07:17
doctor flung headlong into the road
1:07:19
and was killed instantly. Girl refunding
1:07:21
your kin for new your kid
1:07:24
move the children so shaken for
1:07:26
happily unhurt us with and am
1:07:28
I reading the article by the
1:07:30
way as my where it says
1:07:32
like was unclear by the occurs
1:07:34
because the probably on her. Ah
1:07:36
so the article continues some weeks
1:07:38
passed, then one day a motor
1:07:40
coach was traveling up the slope
1:07:43
when quite suddenly and for no
1:07:45
apparent reason it's swerved mounted the
1:07:47
grassy slope to the right of
1:07:49
the road and though it did
1:07:51
not upset, lay over at such
1:07:53
an angle that several passengers were
1:07:55
thrown out. One a woman being
1:07:57
very seriously injured him. This accident.
1:08:00
Occurred at the same spot as the
1:08:02
former. One mere coincidence, of course. Yet
1:08:04
listen now to the sequel Friday August.
1:08:06
Twenty Six was a dole, rather foggy
1:08:08
day, and in the morning, Captain M,
1:08:10
a young army officer who had been
1:08:12
staying at my house, left on his
1:08:14
motor bicycle to visit friends at some
1:08:17
distance from her. An hour later, I
1:08:19
was in the garden when I saw
1:08:21
Captain Em coming up the drive. He
1:08:23
had blood on his face and his
1:08:25
bicycle was badly battered, had a bit
1:08:27
of a smash and I thought I'd
1:08:29
better comeback. Was his brief explanation? K
1:08:32
and I took him in and saw
1:08:34
to his cuts and bruises with for
1:08:36
fortunately not serious. He was happily on
1:08:39
her to use happily unasur. So how
1:08:41
did this happen I asked and he
1:08:43
looked at me rather oddly. I hit
1:08:45
the turf at the edge of the
1:08:48
road. He answered. What? In the
1:08:50
fog I asked know there was not much
1:08:52
fog I could see. All right. I
1:08:54
suppose that I looked puzzled for I
1:08:56
knew that he was an expert cyclist
1:08:58
and had written his machine some thousands
1:09:00
of miles. It was not my fault
1:09:02
he said at last, believe it or
1:09:04
not, something drove me off the road.
1:09:06
A pair of hands covered minds. I
1:09:08
felt them as plainly as I ever
1:09:11
felt anything in my life. Large.
1:09:13
Muscular Harry Hands Daddy bought some
1:09:15
all I will work but they
1:09:17
were too strong for me. They
1:09:19
forced the machine into the turf
1:09:21
at the edge of the road
1:09:24
and I knew no more till
1:09:26
I came to myself lying a
1:09:28
dozen feet away on my face
1:09:30
on the turf. Know Daddy are
1:09:32
you know was So Gifford and
1:09:34
the article by saying I have
1:09:36
since visit the spot which is
1:09:38
the same at which the two
1:09:41
previous accidents occurred. I make. No
1:09:43
comment and will only add that for
1:09:45
obvious reasons I have authored the name
1:09:47
of the Village you. Know
1:09:50
although gifford use the pseudonym Mid
1:09:52
More. Within days it was learned
1:09:55
that the place in question was
1:09:57
actually Dark More in Devon Sure.
1:09:59
And the road was the Post
1:10:01
Bridge Road which is known today
1:10:03
as Highway Be Three, Two One
1:10:06
Two. Now. Dot More
1:10:08
is a vast area of more lands
1:10:10
located in the highlands. The roads at
1:10:12
that pass through.more wind along rivers, bogs
1:10:15
and then there's lots of relics of
1:10:17
the past in the area as well.
1:10:19
There are hot circles they're standing stones
1:10:22
and that are ancient stone crosses. movie
1:10:24
in this new case of their like
1:10:26
that. A lot of like history here
1:10:29
right? Oh really Now of course the
1:10:31
ancient history of the area stoke what
1:10:33
I'm so I got my oh yeah
1:10:36
others history because they. Didn't see no
1:10:38
wipe out all the history when they
1:10:40
came over. Install the lan. You're right,
1:10:42
they gotta observe. Their oligarchy over here
1:10:44
are either meme, interrupt you know, but
1:10:46
it's a fair point in early hours
1:10:48
of a nice of they have history
1:10:50
gather culture wasn't ripped out of their
1:10:52
fucking have right as other ancient history
1:10:54
doesn't exist in north now. it's just
1:10:56
that people white people get him over
1:10:58
and they destroyed all we just you
1:11:00
know when it on fire burn. I'm
1:11:02
proud that reservists a cold in order
1:11:05
to pay arts Lunar. yeah I know.
1:11:07
Anyway, The point being, this ancient
1:11:09
history of the area does stoke
1:11:11
the fire of the Legend of
1:11:13
The Harry Hands And this legend
1:11:15
once it was published in the
1:11:17
Daily Mail, caught on bass work
1:11:19
three days after gifford article. There
1:11:21
was a second article that was
1:11:23
published by an unknown author on
1:11:25
Monday, October seventeenth, a Night in
1:11:27
Twenty One as a response to
1:11:29
the first, and this article begins
1:11:31
with a summer ization of the
1:11:33
initial article, but then it elaborates
1:11:35
on who these ghost hand. Victims
1:11:38
were and my dating quote
1:11:40
the doctor in the first
1:11:42
instance was doctor He H
1:11:44
L B medical officer of
1:11:46
Prince Town Prison for his
1:11:48
hands similarly turned against his
1:11:50
will buy the large unseen
1:11:52
hands which so nearly killed
1:11:54
the young officer. It
1:11:56
is impossible to answer that question. But the
1:11:58
fact that he shouted. His two children
1:12:01
passengers in the Sidecar immediately before
1:12:03
the accident telling them to jump
1:12:05
as there was something wrong shows
1:12:08
that he was aware of the
1:12:10
danger Him Yesterday the author of
1:12:12
the article who is interested in
1:12:15
psychic matters told a Daily Mail
1:12:17
reporters that to explanations of the
1:12:19
matter where the interference of an
1:12:22
elemental are a natural spirit or
1:12:24
of the earth bound spirit of
1:12:26
some such person as a murder
1:12:29
him quote. As far as I
1:12:31
know however, there is no record of
1:12:33
a murder having occurred near the spot
1:12:35
he said. I do not think that
1:12:37
the young officer to whom the last
1:12:40
accent occurred new of the fact that
1:12:42
to similar accents had taken place on
1:12:44
the same spot. The accidents happened within
1:12:46
a few hundred yards of each other
1:12:48
I should say and club didn't have
1:12:50
Ls all that that second article had
1:12:52
to say and also I'm not sure
1:12:55
who the. The author.
1:12:57
Of the article is referring to my
1:12:59
dear using air quotes exactly I using
1:13:01
air quotes because I'm is the person
1:13:04
who wrote this article or are they
1:13:06
talking about Gifford? I don't really know.
1:13:08
The point is yeah of the there
1:13:10
was L aberrations and we got to
1:13:12
learn who the the doctor was that
1:13:14
died in the very first accident him
1:13:17
Now death announcements from March of Nineteen
1:13:19
Twenty One do confirm that this Dr.
1:13:21
Dr. H L B or Doctor Earnest
1:13:23
Hasler hell be if he had nasty
1:13:25
which I am with. You are Things
1:13:28
You did die in a motorcycle
1:13:30
accident like the article suggests and
1:13:32
it's death announcement also alleged that
1:13:34
his daughters were riding with him
1:13:36
at the time of the crash.
1:13:38
Stuff that seems to check out
1:13:41
Hover a contemporary writer named Blake
1:13:43
Smith whose research The Harry has
1:13:45
extensively claims that no public record
1:13:47
suggests that Doctor Earnest Haussler, hell
1:13:49
be and his wife ever had
1:13:51
any kids. So little bit of
1:13:53
a question mark for around there
1:13:56
so we can. Even get a vibe check
1:13:58
on him to see if they were happily on. Heard
1:14:00
are not exactly. And of course,
1:14:02
just because there are no records
1:14:04
of these children available publicly, that
1:14:06
doesn't necessarily mean that they didn't
1:14:08
exist. Baby Secret babies? Hello. Yeah,
1:14:10
as part of August And I
1:14:13
know, I know. Yeah, The thing
1:14:15
is, though, it definitely does cast
1:14:17
the first shadow of a doubt
1:14:19
on the facts that make up
1:14:21
the legend of the Harry Hands
1:14:23
of Dark More? Yeah. But either
1:14:25
way, this was only the beginning
1:14:27
of this legend as these articles
1:14:29
made. The rounds people began to
1:14:32
come up with their own theories
1:14:34
about these unseen have ah now
1:14:36
by and large spiritualists foods hived
1:14:39
and on the matter. All seems
1:14:41
to agree with the statement that
1:14:43
is invisible hands were of likely
1:14:46
the manifestation of an elemental spirit
1:14:48
of yeah and this was confirmed
1:14:50
or at least this was doubled
1:14:52
down on in to spiritualists publications.
1:14:55
The first one was The Truth
1:14:57
which was published in Nineteen Twenty
1:14:59
One. And then the second one was
1:15:02
of the light which probably didn't t twenty
1:15:04
two. Oh my God it is that. The
1:15:06
truth and the line. I know I can't
1:15:08
argue with the truth and the lie or
1:15:10
Martin one time sometimes from seen, take and
1:15:12
how does the same time have. It's top
1:15:15
yards, the anger, it's the truth and the
1:15:17
live right now. Anyway, the Truth and a
1:15:19
light. They both agree that this is probably
1:15:21
the work of an elemental spirit and we
1:15:23
talked about elemental spirits before on this show.
1:15:25
Yeah, they are said to be magical supernatural
1:15:27
entities that exist in nature and getting be.
1:15:30
Like into things like theories like bronze
1:15:32
gnomes and know just to name a
1:15:34
few out be be we love them
1:15:36
mind we did Miles much as you
1:15:38
can love an elemental while some people
1:15:40
do. I'm reading an article has to
1:15:43
find oh didn't simply so of them
1:15:45
into I don't know but a woman
1:15:47
was like really good friends elaborate on
1:15:49
apparently dislike com and gog. kind of
1:15:51
like do a bit of a teleportation
1:15:53
moment. many men would move not around
1:15:55
you. I am no leper cause yeah
1:15:58
I'll have to find that are. The
1:16:00
goal. But I'm sure somebody has fallen
1:16:02
deeply in love with an Elemental. Oh,
1:16:04
I'm sure if somebody married a house,
1:16:07
somebody is definitely fucking element. I have
1:16:09
one with like the Out And if
1:16:11
Nine here's your opportunity, I mean, you
1:16:14
know to say, find a nice and
1:16:16
fella. That's what Allah Elemental A They
1:16:18
can either be benevolent or malevolent in
1:16:21
nature, but in the case of The
1:16:23
Harry Hands, they certainly seem to be
1:16:25
of a violent ilk as they were
1:16:28
accused of driving people off roads. And
1:16:30
also causing some fatal accident Down
1:16:32
Now fast forwarding just a few
1:16:35
days: October Twenty Fourth, Nineteen, Twenty
1:16:37
One up. This is about one
1:16:39
week after the second article was
1:16:42
published. A local Dark More writer
1:16:44
named Beatrice Chase wrote into the
1:16:46
Western Morning News to suggest that
1:16:49
these three motor vehicle accidents were
1:16:51
caused by magnetic rock so kind
1:16:53
of arts I did learn about
1:16:56
mode Stones recently in those are
1:16:58
like super magnetic cross. Your mignon
1:17:00
of rock stuff we do exist announces I
1:17:02
was telling you this long an episode of
1:17:05
See As to the Snacks on the Secret
1:17:07
Society where I talked about the legend of
1:17:09
Lucy Lightfoot Button. If you ever want to
1:17:11
look up the Muslim mental image in the
1:17:14
world, look upload. Stones L A D as
1:17:16
to he. oh and youth are like rocks
1:17:18
and usually people showed their magnetic efficacy by
1:17:20
like having them. Covered. In
1:17:23
Nails? Yeah, I was like a stone covered
1:17:25
in males are now it's a hundred to
1:17:27
and a half and did it on. The
1:17:29
firm's out there anywhere. But anyway. Magnetic. Yeah,
1:17:32
Blockers Chase. He kind of things that maybe
1:17:34
magnetic rocks had something to do with
1:17:36
it. So she wrote the following letter. Sir.
1:17:39
In reference to the various press reports
1:17:41
on this subject, I may mention that
1:17:44
I happened to see one of these
1:17:46
extraordinary swerved in the same place at
1:17:48
three thirty pm on September fifteenth. We
1:17:50
were motoring up from two bridges and
1:17:53
saw a motor coach full of passengers
1:17:55
ahead of us are on the road
1:17:57
coming towards us. While several hundred yards
1:18:00
distant the code suddenly swerved into the
1:18:02
roadside almost at right angles. It seemed
1:18:04
for a few seconds impossible either that
1:18:06
it should not turn over or that
1:18:09
the passengers did not get thrown out.
1:18:11
It was a long straight piece of
1:18:13
road with no curves and know or
1:18:16
the traffic and the coach was being
1:18:18
slowly and carefully driven. When. We
1:18:20
drove up to the place. We
1:18:22
examined the tire marks on the
1:18:24
roads which are almost right angular.
1:18:26
I've never seen such a thing
1:18:28
he may. I suggest that these
1:18:31
things may be due to magnetic
1:18:33
rocks of which there are many
1:18:35
on dark more. This extraordinary season
1:18:37
may have increased or altered make
1:18:39
net occurrence. It would appear to
1:18:41
have some connection with metal and
1:18:43
the steering wheel or handlebars would
1:18:45
act as conductors and an electric
1:18:47
shock bite account for the strain
1:18:49
sensations described. By the young officer.
1:18:51
In the interest of the public,
1:18:53
it would be nice if someone
1:18:56
with the requisite instruments could test
1:18:58
back row who love that he
1:19:00
would just be nice. I don't
1:19:02
know that be nice guy like
1:19:04
it's just a video. Very cool
1:19:06
of you know, like how so
1:19:08
the rest was. it's not As
1:19:10
or Gap passive aggressive my mother
1:19:12
I know right off. The thing
1:19:14
is, although Beatrice wrote this article
1:19:16
with the best of intentions, it
1:19:18
was pretty much dismissed right? Away Hippie
1:19:20
broil. I'm not doing the work they it's
1:19:22
yes. And also the idea that there would
1:19:25
be a none of this magnetic rock told
1:19:27
literally throw vehicles just didn't seem like super
1:19:29
plausible. That party I probably, I don't know
1:19:31
another are not Iraq scientists. I don't know
1:19:34
anything about magnetic rocks but you probably need
1:19:36
a shit ton of it. I'm just throw
1:19:38
a vehicle with like human beings on it.
1:19:41
you know what I mean would think. yeah
1:19:43
there's also like those places like Magnetic Hill
1:19:45
but it's all very like. Commons.
1:19:48
And tenacity or elsewhere. And that's a
1:19:50
New Brunswick They me that? Yeah, they
1:19:52
just need something. it's no funds. were
1:19:54
exotic who is like nothing else him.
1:19:56
So there was this theory thrown out
1:19:58
there by Beatrice. But like. That it
1:20:00
was shot down pretty quickly and
1:20:02
also I guess it's there's a
1:20:04
lot of granite in dark. Moreover,
1:20:06
I don't know how many. How
1:20:08
much magnetic rocket really? Ah, if
1:20:10
only I'd become a geologist. Yeah,
1:20:12
the thing is. kudos to her
1:20:14
for trying to come up with
1:20:16
some sort of rational explanation. Yeah,
1:20:18
However, a far more rational explanation
1:20:20
came forward after this, which was
1:20:22
that these motor vehicle accidents where
1:20:24
it simply the result of a
1:20:26
poorly constructed road. I mean, My
1:20:29
would. Candid about him. As someone who learned
1:20:32
to drive in than the maritimes, well that's
1:20:34
it. I'm used to some fucked up road.
1:20:36
As if roads are not well maintained, are
1:20:38
not well built, they can be a literal
1:20:40
death traps. Like there's a highway back home
1:20:43
like in my home town that has not
1:20:45
been paved in a really long time. Yeah,
1:20:47
it's literally taking people's lives in Nasa. Not
1:20:49
even an exaggeration like a teenager died on
1:20:52
that road like hydro. planning on our quiet
1:20:54
down the highway can hear you? I mean
1:20:56
yeah, maybe I say I do for can
1:20:58
get your ass may be. Anywhere. But
1:21:00
anyway, yeah that some people think that
1:21:02
these accents are just the results of
1:21:04
the a bad road. House and local
1:21:07
seem to agree that most Bridge Road
1:21:09
was not a terribly well kept road.
1:21:11
it wasn't be road meaning that it
1:21:13
wasn't a main road and so it
1:21:15
didn't receive as much attention as and
1:21:17
Erode would. And who not be Squires
1:21:19
I guess the in the Uk they
1:21:21
have like a roads which are like.
1:21:24
That did. Rouse the highway route yards on
1:21:26
roads that everybody drives to the get
1:21:28
well taken care of. Then you get
1:21:30
the be rough lifts when earn less
1:21:32
maintained by a little not as well
1:21:34
traveled baby. I get that yeah I
1:21:37
I. I. Am I I
1:21:39
see you I hear you my fellow
1:21:41
be road new Mmo rice on a
1:21:43
C road myself a be millions of
1:21:46
comedy wrote a Hoosier all roads lead
1:21:48
to a my side of us on
1:21:50
top of the road maybe not being
1:21:52
in the best condition. Weather conditions in
1:21:55
the highlands can sometimes be pretty precarious
1:21:57
as night as far can make it.
1:22:00
Impossible to see mean anybody who's
1:22:02
driven in any kind of a
1:22:04
high altitude knows that, especially at
1:22:06
night time, it can get pre
1:22:08
a d foggy pretty quick out
1:22:10
of nowhere. So pair low visibility
1:22:12
with a slanted, winding road and
1:22:15
you could easily spell disaster Poor,
1:22:17
poor road conditions. I could also
1:22:19
explain why these three accidents happened
1:22:21
close to each other along the
1:22:23
same stretch of road. Her: if
1:22:25
one stretch of road is bad,
1:22:27
it's going cause multiple accidents. Furthermore,
1:22:30
Of this is also the early Nineteen
1:22:32
twenties when the story breaks and people
1:22:34
are still really getting used to operating
1:22:36
motor vehicle how right? right? Like I'm
1:22:38
sure people are just given cars do
1:22:40
their babies as the isn't a wine.
1:22:42
I see what they could do yards
1:22:44
as tastes just as an experiment to
1:22:46
see what'll happen yell at all T
1:22:48
I mean recently on Spooky Sachs I
1:22:50
did cover the death of Isidore Duncan.
1:22:53
When we're talking about the all the
1:22:55
time you days a car or is
1:22:57
it was now. but it is. No,
1:22:59
It certainly was. Not Crt and
1:23:01
comportment. And yeah, exactly So accents
1:23:03
are basically happening on a daily
1:23:05
basis because people were just can't
1:23:08
get used to the open road
1:23:10
everywhere. Light up that paralyse the
1:23:12
and now. Either way, it was
1:23:15
alleged that after these articles came
1:23:17
out, a chamber in the road
1:23:19
was discovered, which is basically the
1:23:21
road kind of curves. ah, slanted
1:23:24
towards the edges and it kind
1:23:26
of inclined towards the middle. So
1:23:28
when they discovered this. Is a
1:23:31
corrected it and apparently after that
1:23:33
there were no more significant accidents
1:23:35
on the road. Now.
1:23:37
After this resolve, the press pretty
1:23:40
much drop the story of the
1:23:42
Unseen Hands. There was not much
1:23:44
more left to be sad, sure.
1:23:46
However, The. Public was not
1:23:48
so willing to wave goodbye to
1:23:51
the Harry Hands legend just yet
1:23:53
of car and it's would live
1:23:55
on and over time it would
1:23:58
transform. Now come the me
1:24:00
to the late twentieth century the
1:24:02
harry hands of Dark More saw
1:24:04
it's renaissance thanks to the works
1:24:06
of to folklore is Ruth East
1:24:08
St Leger Gordon. Moon
1:24:11
and Man folklore romance novels with
1:24:13
a name like that I know
1:24:15
dry one of the to maybe
1:24:17
both the I mean honestly him
1:24:19
I'd read those romance novel I
1:24:21
would. but I digress. And the
1:24:23
other folklore as was named C
1:24:25
L Brown Okay now Ruth He
1:24:27
St Leger Gordon wrote about the
1:24:29
Harry. Hands of Dart More in
1:24:32
her book Witchcraft and Folklore of
1:24:34
Dark More from Nineteen Sixty Five.
1:24:36
That's when it was published and
1:24:39
Feel Brown wrote all about the
1:24:41
Harry Hands in her book Devin
1:24:43
Ghosts which was published in Nineteen
1:24:46
Eighty Two. Know, up until these
1:24:48
two women wrote about The Harry
1:24:50
Hands, the legend lived on through
1:24:53
oral history mostly and eyewitness accounts,
1:24:55
But by the time Ruth and
1:24:57
Theo were documenting these stories. The
1:25:00
description of the hands had
1:25:02
changed dramatically in the nineteen
1:25:04
twenty one articles. They were
1:25:07
described as invisible hand but
1:25:09
now the disembodied ghost hands
1:25:11
were not only visible but
1:25:13
they were hair reach her
1:25:15
on he barca fire there
1:25:17
and perhaps the a jump
1:25:20
to bug. Me
1:25:23
a Moment oppresses a typical the case and.
1:25:26
Now this jump from
1:25:28
the unseen. To the scene
1:25:31
and harry, yeah, to the tobacco
1:25:33
of at all exactly. Yeah, Know,
1:25:35
the tobacco of it all can
1:25:37
be traced back to Theo Brown,
1:25:39
whose mother apparently had her own
1:25:41
encounter with the hands back in
1:25:43
Nineteen Twenty Four rounds. So at
1:25:45
the time Via was just ten
1:25:47
years old and Nineteen Twenty Four.
1:25:49
and for at some of that
1:25:51
time, she and her parents were
1:25:53
living out of a caravan. Basically,
1:25:55
they had the vehicle and a
1:25:57
caravan and Co and they're just
1:26:00
doing their thing. gotcha now. And
1:26:02
like exactly now. Yeah, your family
1:26:04
right now. One night, the family
1:26:06
decided to pull over alongside the
1:26:08
road and door more to catch
1:26:10
some sleep and Theo and her
1:26:12
parents were all sleeping in the
1:26:14
back of the caravan. When all
1:26:16
of a sudden Ceos mother was
1:26:18
woken up by the sound of
1:26:20
something outside their window. Okay, Fios
1:26:22
Mom looked to the window and
1:26:24
saw the silhouette of a hand.
1:26:27
Just. A hand who run
1:26:29
up against the glass. Oh no,
1:26:31
this is like all of those
1:26:33
words scariest camping videos compilation though.
1:26:35
he was an army exactly over.
1:26:37
that's my nightgown so she just
1:26:39
saw this hand. It was unnaturally
1:26:41
large. mend it was Harry. Now
1:26:43
the window that this hand was
1:26:45
pressed up a good of glass
1:26:47
and then tried to get inside
1:26:49
the van by squeezing itself through
1:26:51
the Imo known and them and
1:26:53
are no no no Fios mom.
1:26:55
Not sure of what else to
1:26:58
do, not even sure what C
1:27:00
C like Am I awakened my
1:27:02
sleeping? I don't know what the
1:27:04
fuck is going on. Yeah he
1:27:06
decides to make the sign of
1:27:08
the cross and that seem to
1:27:10
be enough to scare the hand
1:27:12
away. As soon as she did
1:27:14
that it slid down the window
1:27:16
and then disappeared out of sight
1:27:18
never to be seen again. Okay
1:27:20
I mean you do the same
1:27:22
of across. I would have recreated
1:27:24
the pantry seen from sign one
1:27:26
hundred percent. Yeah now. feels mother
1:27:28
had no explanation for what she had
1:27:31
seen, but she claims that she believed
1:27:33
that the head was trying to get
1:27:35
inside to hurt them as it filled
1:27:38
her with dread. Now. From
1:27:40
what I understand, the on never
1:27:42
saw the head herself. She has
1:27:44
been sleeping the whole time, But
1:27:46
no doubt this early encounter could
1:27:48
have sparked her interest in Folklore,
1:27:50
Earth and The Legend of The
1:27:52
Harry Hand of Darkness Half Corps.
1:27:54
Now Theo told another story in
1:27:56
her collection of stories shared with
1:27:58
her by a Mrs. That is
1:28:00
com nemesis bad as com says
1:28:02
quote A young man who was
1:28:04
a guest at Penn in post
1:28:06
bridge undertook to run into Prince
1:28:08
Down on his motorbike to get
1:28:11
something for his hostess. In about
1:28:13
an hour he returned to Penn
1:28:15
leave very white and shaken, saying
1:28:17
he had a most frightening experience.
1:28:19
He had felt his hands gripped
1:28:21
by too rough and harry hands
1:28:23
which made every effort to throw
1:28:25
him off of his machine. and
1:28:27
he never got much beyond the
1:28:29
Clapper Bridge. Now. I
1:28:31
clapper bridge or had it look as
1:28:33
opposite. what the fuck is and yeah
1:28:35
totally how Harriet Harman club enough it
1:28:38
from us or robbery laps to draw
1:28:40
the brain you though I mean very
1:28:42
forward thinking it would be. The thing
1:28:44
is they're actually ancient structures that can
1:28:46
be found in the Moore's of Western
1:28:48
England. They basically a primitive type of
1:28:50
bridge in which planks or slaps a
1:28:52
stone rest on piles of other stones
1:28:54
ogre and just to kind of cross
1:28:56
over otherwise on cross able area. Now
1:29:00
another spooky. Run In with
1:29:02
the Harry Hands is committed by
1:29:04
folklorist Betty Partake in her book
1:29:06
Supernatural England which was published in
1:29:08
Two Thousand and Two K. Now
1:29:11
according to her in Nineteen Sixty
1:29:13
One, a young man was driving
1:29:15
from Plymouth to check for when
1:29:17
his car overturned along Highway Be
1:29:19
Thirty Two One Two, which is
1:29:21
again the road where the Harry
1:29:23
Hands or see totally. The young
1:29:26
man unfortunately did not survive the
1:29:28
crash and after a thorough investigation
1:29:30
and examination of. The seen the
1:29:32
they could not determine what caused
1:29:34
the accident in and and as
1:29:36
a result many people believe he
1:29:38
was driven off the road by
1:29:40
the Harry. Hands up dark more.
1:29:43
Public. Also shares a story from
1:29:45
Nineteen Ninety One where a doctor
1:29:47
from Somerset turned his car over
1:29:49
at the exact same place in
1:29:52
the row. In turn, this man
1:29:54
did survive and explained that it
1:29:56
was as if some malignant force
1:29:58
had sent his. Or out
1:30:00
of control. He claimed that just
1:30:03
before the crash, the temperature inside
1:30:05
his car dropped to near freezing
1:30:07
temperatures as if something evil was
1:30:10
in there with him. And then
1:30:12
moments later his steering wheel spun
1:30:14
out of control, causing the crash.
1:30:17
moon. Now, another account that I
1:30:19
read about involved a woman who
1:30:22
was driving down highway Be Three,
1:30:24
Two, one two one night when
1:30:26
she, for whatever reason, I decided
1:30:29
to pull over. Along the side
1:30:31
of the road and as she
1:30:33
sat there in her parked car,
1:30:36
she saw much like Ceos mom,
1:30:38
saw a disembodied hand appear out
1:30:40
of nowhere and just crawl along
1:30:42
the window shield inches away from
1:30:45
her face. Ah ha! The hand
1:30:47
was long and it was Harry
1:30:49
and then as quickly as it
1:30:52
appeared, it disappeared. There.
1:30:54
Are countless others stories about the
1:30:56
Harry Hands that have been shared
1:30:58
over the years some of them
1:31:00
had been written down, some other
1:31:03
meds has been told orally, and
1:31:05
locals never really seem to be
1:31:07
too surprised when a new story
1:31:09
of the Harry Hands emerges for
1:31:11
his. However, despite so many first
1:31:13
hand experience to to do their
1:31:16
slow to, there is no one
1:31:18
really knows where these Harry Hands
1:31:20
came from. but there are some
1:31:22
theories about who they might. Belong
1:31:24
to an odd thing for is a
1:31:26
pretty hairy body attached to those Harry
1:31:28
hands. but that's just me or ha
1:31:30
com a whole Chewbacca. Thanks! I'm over
1:31:32
here. On to Barca. I'm familiar with
1:31:34
which I believe is called Cacique. I
1:31:36
was actually a planet in which they
1:31:38
lived. but yeah, I haven't watched the
1:31:40
Star Wars Christmas special. I mean seventies
1:31:42
And while what is a planet but
1:31:44
island and spy means Earth? yeah you
1:31:46
know, you know, Really? Yeah. And
1:31:50
you have slipped going into some theories about these
1:31:52
has sure you don't want to caused by carl.
1:31:54
Sagan anymore. I see now I'm dow
1:31:56
a highway. Be thirty two. Want Who
1:31:58
is close to. The Dark More Prison
1:32:01
in Prince Town again. That's where the
1:32:03
Doctor Who Died in Nineteen Twenty One
1:32:05
Where Yes, Now this prison was opened
1:32:07
in eighty, No nine as a prisoner
1:32:09
of war camp before the French, when
1:32:11
England and France just couldn't get enough
1:32:14
of each other here. And so some
1:32:16
people think that these hands might belong
1:32:18
to an inmate who may have died.
1:32:20
There is something that the hands might
1:32:22
also belong to the spirit of a
1:32:24
man who was killed in an accent
1:32:26
along the highway shirts, while others believe
1:32:29
that the hands. Might belong to
1:32:31
a bronze age person who's resting
1:32:33
place had been disturbed over the
1:32:35
ear. Concern. Now a very popular
1:32:38
theory is that the hands belonged
1:32:40
to a man who used to
1:32:42
work at a gun powder factory,
1:32:44
and so power mills operated in
1:32:47
the area from Eighteen Forty Five
1:32:49
to around Eighteen Ninety Seven. And
1:32:51
legends suggests that a worker might
1:32:53
have died there after a spark
1:32:56
from his boots cause the gunpowder
1:32:58
to explode. That's a rough day
1:33:00
or were. Yeah, I guess it
1:33:02
would have been customary to were
1:33:05
like rubber slips over your shoes
1:33:07
her to prevent something like this
1:33:09
from happening. He apparently didn't do
1:33:12
that off and and moments later.
1:33:14
Kaboom! And Kerr it said
1:33:17
that the only thing to have
1:33:19
survived this explosion where the man's
1:33:21
hand. Oh, and now he hans
1:33:23
Roadways looking for his body while
1:33:25
taking his frustration out on the
1:33:27
innocent people who happened to get
1:33:29
in his way. He's a term
1:33:31
be for ignoring workplace safety right
1:33:33
now. Now it's a fun story.
1:33:35
My guess I mean it depends
1:33:37
on your definition of find. Yeah
1:33:40
now. Somalia. Highly dependent? Yeah. But
1:33:42
I'll tell you right now that
1:33:44
there is. Very little truth
1:33:46
to the house. Her Now
1:33:48
Blake Smith, who I mentioned
1:33:50
before who has been researching
1:33:52
the Harry Has Legend for
1:33:54
decades, said that in his
1:33:56
opinion, the legend is exactly
1:33:59
that. Yeah, Just a legend that's
1:34:01
not based in fact, broker. We still
1:34:03
don't know why this story even exists
1:34:06
or how it came to be, but
1:34:08
if we look at the primary source
1:34:10
that the being the T. Gifford article
1:34:12
from October Fourteenth, Nineteen Twenty One, we
1:34:15
might be inclined to believe that the
1:34:17
story of The Unseen Hands with completely
1:34:19
made up by him. Just to add
1:34:22
a little locals este to the Halloween
1:34:24
see cards have to be a bit
1:34:26
right. That's like I covered a case
1:34:29
for you recently. On spooky snacks. I
1:34:31
won't give it away which one, but
1:34:33
it turned out it was. Wake. The
1:34:36
legend originated because somebody just wanted to write
1:34:38
a story about this thing in their home
1:34:41
town on us and then years later down
1:34:43
the road somebody discovers the right and is
1:34:45
like okay well the things being ripped about.
1:34:47
I guess it's natural thing and bomb a
1:34:49
legend is more exactly so it's it. Seems
1:34:52
like Blake Smith is suggesting that that might
1:34:54
be what happened here. Like this story was
1:34:56
written in Nineteen, Twenty one people kind of
1:34:58
fell for it at that, continued to talk
1:35:01
about it and then a big discourse game
1:35:03
and all of a sudden a legend is
1:35:05
born. And then people are are
1:35:07
sharing stories of being like oh yeah
1:35:10
they're been accounts of the Harry Hands
1:35:12
from like the Eighteen Hundreds or all
1:35:14
the know. None of it's ever been
1:35:16
written about like the first time it
1:35:19
was ever get it to pay per
1:35:21
was this article in Nineteen Twenty One
1:35:23
which again was published in October is
1:35:26
Halloween season he be thanks to a
1:35:28
process of cognitive dissonance it becomes folklore.
1:35:30
Exactly the same thing is though if
1:35:33
he did make up the story he
1:35:35
was in. A few facts
1:35:37
isn't because the doctor who died.
1:35:40
Was. A real doctor. Okay, I'm
1:35:42
right so by maybe weaving in
1:35:44
these facts he makes the story
1:35:46
seem more plaza podemos and also
1:35:48
european really shady into suspected the
1:35:50
dead as yeah you're fucked us
1:35:52
although I'm doctor hell be who
1:35:54
was the doctors who did die
1:35:56
in that motor vehicle accidents? He
1:35:58
was a bit. The shady bitch because
1:36:01
he was one of the first doctors. I
1:36:03
read this while researching him is one of
1:36:05
the first doctors to force feed the suffragette
1:36:07
prisoner. So yeah, because you know how the
1:36:09
suffragettes when on like a hunger strike because
1:36:11
they just wanted to be able to vote?
1:36:13
Yeah, you know that doesn't want equal rights?
1:36:15
Yeah, Steve, He was one of the first
1:36:17
doctors to force feed them. Oh fuck that
1:36:19
I'm he was. He deserved it enough. At
1:36:22
Microsoft says my hands are just started
1:36:24
the earth and I'm just looking away.
1:36:26
As you know the International Firefox I
1:36:28
don't know. I'm not going to say
1:36:30
that he deserted either be viewed as
1:36:33
or to idea around the same time
1:36:35
as a bit. Yeah, because you to
1:36:37
no matter your ear Joseph yeah yeah
1:36:39
did I welcome It isn't that the
1:36:41
Us? So again, this might be just
1:36:43
how this story came to be. And
1:36:45
it's suggested by some people that the
1:36:47
legend lived on simply because. Well one,
1:36:50
it was a good story. Now what
1:36:52
he loves a good story short but
1:36:54
also it proved to be a really
1:36:56
convenient way to try and talk yourself
1:36:58
out of like. Traffic. While
1:37:00
he six or so you're like bomb and
1:37:02
down the road you get pulled over by
1:37:05
the police and like sorry officer I wasn't
1:37:07
speeding I've is that the phantom hence the
1:37:09
harry hands of dart more were controlling my
1:37:11
dear god me again officer I am sorry
1:37:14
Yeah so I can say for sure that
1:37:16
this ever really work to been in might
1:37:18
have been another one of the reasons why
1:37:21
this let's and seem to persevere a hover
1:37:23
the years. Okay I'm going to college somebody
1:37:25
is going to claim that their self driving
1:37:27
car is haunted and the next couple. Years
1:37:30
and they're gonna try to blame an
1:37:32
accident on A or I'm gonna be
1:37:34
Harry Hands part to Yeah, even better
1:37:36
if the person was actually named Harry
1:37:39
Can. Yeah, they Harry Handers. And right
1:37:41
now I though. and with that being
1:37:43
said, maybe just out of an abundance
1:37:46
of caution, Don't go down highway. Be
1:37:48
thirty two One Two. Inner self driving
1:37:50
be a gallery because you're really. if
1:37:52
the Harry Hands are real, you're really
1:37:55
just like opening the door from your
1:37:57
absolute have Yeah, Providence, you absolutely are
1:37:59
Now. Although some people
1:38:01
believe that the Harry Hand legend might
1:38:04
encourage people to drive more recklessly because
1:38:06
they have something to blame it on,
1:38:08
it could also have maybe have the
1:38:10
opposite effect. Where if people
1:38:12
do believe that the Harry Hands of
1:38:14
Dartmoor do exist, they might actually drive
1:38:17
more carefully along the road because they
1:38:19
don't want to attempt fate and they
1:38:21
don't want to risk running into these
1:38:23
hands. So they're going to take their good
1:38:25
sweet time just obeying the road.
1:38:28
One with hope. Now, I will say
1:38:30
that over the years run-ins with
1:38:32
the Harry Hands have seemed to
1:38:34
wane a little bit. A
1:38:36
lot of my sources suggest that the last reported
1:38:39
sighting was from 2008. However,
1:38:41
having gone on the internet and
1:38:44
looking at Reddit forums and different
1:38:46
things like that, it
1:38:48
would seem as if the legend
1:38:50
hasn't necessarily died. People
1:38:53
just maybe aren't reporting widely on it
1:38:55
because people still seem to be having
1:38:57
experiences on this road. And
1:38:59
honestly, the internet is filled with all
1:39:02
kinds of encounters more than I can get
1:39:04
into today. But if
1:39:06
you do want to seek them out for yourself,
1:39:09
you'll have a fun time reading a few of them. Okay. The
1:39:12
thing is, if you are really interested
1:39:15
in this story, I think you should
1:39:17
check out the really in-depth analysis of
1:39:19
the legend of the Harry Hands of
1:39:21
Dartmoor that was written by Blake Smith.
1:39:24
He goes super deep into it, deeper than
1:39:26
even I did, and he does a lot
1:39:28
more work kind of debunking some of the
1:39:31
facts as well and providing a lot
1:39:33
of the historical context to the story.
1:39:35
So that was a really
1:39:37
useful resource for me in delivering this,
1:39:39
so I definitely recommend you go check
1:39:41
out that article, which I will thank
1:39:44
now as I thank the rest of
1:39:46
my sources because that is all I
1:39:48
have on the legend of the Harry
1:39:50
Hands of Dartmoor. Shit, okay. So
1:39:53
thanks to skeptic.org.uk for the
1:39:56
article, The Harry Hands of
1:39:58
Devon. tabloid tale
1:40:00
spiraled into a full-blown urban legend
1:40:02
that was written by Blake Smith
1:40:05
and published July 22, 2022. Thanks
1:40:09
as well to Supernatural England, that's the
1:40:12
book by Betty Puddock and was published
1:40:14
on October 31, 2002. Thanks
1:40:18
to spookyiles.com for the article, beware the
1:40:20
hairy hands of Dartmoor, especially when you
1:40:22
are driving. That was written by Kevin
1:40:24
Haynes and published March 13, 2018. Thanks
1:40:29
to bbc.co.uk for
1:40:31
the article, definitely not a helping hand. I
1:40:33
don't have a date or an author for
1:40:36
that one. Thanks as
1:40:38
well to the Plymouth herald.co.uk for
1:40:40
the article, the terrifying tale of
1:40:42
the hairy hands forcing drivers off-roads
1:40:44
on Dartmoor. That was written by
1:40:46
Guy Henderson and published October 21,
1:40:48
2018. Thanks
1:40:51
to ca.news.yahoo.com for the article,
1:40:54
the hairy hands of Dartmoor,
1:40:56
the story of Devon's haunted
1:40:58
road. That was written by
1:41:00
Anthony Pierce and published September 20, 2016.
1:41:05
And then finally, thanks to Richard
1:41:07
O'Brien of Rocky Horror Frame. Okay,
1:41:09
riff-raff. Uh-huh. He recorded a bunch
1:41:12
of ghost stories. I believe they're
1:41:14
just called ghost stories by Richard
1:41:16
O'Brien. But he tells the story
1:41:18
of the hairy hands of Dartmoor
1:41:20
in a segment called Spirits of
1:41:22
the Open Air. They're all available
1:41:24
on YouTube and they're very entertaining
1:41:26
because he has the perfect voice
1:41:28
for telling ghost stories. What an
1:41:30
icon. Yeah, I just stumbled upon it
1:41:32
and if you're a spooky bitch, you're
1:41:34
probably going to want to get into
1:41:36
it. Super fun. I love it. Well,
1:41:38
thank you, Tyler. You're welcome. And with
1:41:40
a recommendation. Hell yeah. Okay, well, look,
1:41:43
I guess there's only one
1:41:45
thing left for us to do. Well, I mean a
1:41:47
couple things, I guess. But, uh, do you want to
1:41:49
move on? Yeah, let's do it. Alright, well, beautiful. I'm
1:41:51
looking at you. You're looking at me. I got one
1:41:53
question in my mind. What did
1:41:55
you learn today? Today, I learned
1:41:58
to stay away from any tropical-themed...
1:42:00
restaurant, bar, or just public
1:42:02
space. Oh, I mean, no. Not.
1:42:05
Really? Yeah. Really? It's tacky, and
1:42:07
it's dangerous. Damn, I'm flinging big
1:42:09
today. Yeah, I remember there was
1:42:12
a... I think they were
1:42:14
only in the Maritimes' Jungle Gyms, remember? Oh, yeah.
1:42:16
Oh, yeah. And that was the same idea, just
1:42:18
these fake-ass palm trees and these monkeys hanging from
1:42:20
them, and it's like, yeah, if you drop a
1:42:22
match, this shit would just burst into flames. Yeah,
1:42:24
but I'd like to think that they were a
1:42:27
little bit more fireproof to them, the coconut grove.
1:42:29
You'd like to think, but you don't
1:42:31
know. Yeah, that burned. Mm-hmm. Okay,
1:42:33
well, thank you, Tyler. You're welcome.
1:42:36
And for me, today I learned that I
1:42:38
will never look at a revolving door the
1:42:40
same way again. No. Sorry that I didn't
1:42:42
pull a lesson from your story, but... Fine.
1:42:45
I'm both rev... I love a revolving door.
1:42:47
I hate them, actually. I think it's so
1:42:49
much fun and whimsical. They're not. They're annoying.
1:42:51
No fun. And some people just push through
1:42:53
them. Oh, I hate that. And they shove
1:42:55
you, and people are rude on them. I
1:42:58
hate them. I know they conserve energy, but
1:43:00
you know what? Like, just give me this one thing. If
1:43:02
Taylor Swift can have her fucking private plane and fly anywhere
1:43:04
she wants, just let me use the door, and I can
1:43:06
pull a handle. Too loaded? Yeah. I won't
1:43:08
take that from you. I mean,
1:43:10
I can't. You can't. I
1:43:13
watched, like, a map view of her flight
1:43:15
pattern from 2023, and I wanted to vomit.
1:43:18
Uh-huh. Anyway. Okay, well,
1:43:20
do you want to move on? Let's move on.
1:43:23
Let's do something that doesn't make me want to
1:43:25
vomit. Like, reading a review. Let's
1:43:27
do it. Okay, so I have a review
1:43:29
here that was left by a listener on
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Apple Podcasts in the USA. In fact, this
1:43:34
listener is named Mara Saloni. Oh,
1:43:36
my album. So, gonna do that. See, I
1:43:38
think it's Sarah Maloney, but I think they
1:43:40
switched the letters, maybe. I'm not
1:43:42
gonna go, though. I'm not gonna decode their
1:43:44
name. Mara Saloni. There you go. I love
1:43:46
it. Sounds delicious. So, Mara Saloni
1:43:49
writes, Love you guys. Let me give us five
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1:43:55
Also, I have absolutely no idea how Tyler
1:43:58
made it through the poem at the end
1:44:00
of Spooky Gable. bullshit number 134 without dying.
1:44:02
I had literal tears. Keep doing
1:44:04
what you guys do with a black card
1:44:06
emoji. And I guess by saying
1:44:08
keep doing what you guys do, they
1:44:10
mean sharing James Joyce's fart love letters.
1:44:13
I guess we'll just have to find
1:44:15
more. Are there more? I don't know.
1:44:17
I'm sure James Joyce pontificated much more
1:44:19
about his love of farts.
1:44:22
Probably a little poopy freak. He was.
1:44:24
He was. But anyway, you know who's
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