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Welcome to Spooky, a paranormal podcast, joined doctor Cindy Little
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and Alison Robles as they journey through the realms of
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the supernatural, mysterious, and downright eerie, from ghostly apparitions to poltergeists,
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from haunted houses to strange phenomena. Prepare to have your
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senses heightened and your beliefs challenged. It's time to grab
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your headphones, dim the lights, em brace yourself for a
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journey into the unknown.
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If you dare, welcome to Spooky Everybody.
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Today we have a special guest, Georgina Holsmeyer.
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Hi.
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Hello, Hello, And I'm excited about that. Well, I'm excited
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about every episode, but.
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I'm excited about this episode because Georgina is someone that
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we investigate with. I'm sure you've heard us talk about
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her often, and she is really kind of our historical
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research expert, and we are going to be talking about
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her process of looking at historical research and how it
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ties into the para normal because the two really go
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hand in hand in so many situations for so many
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different reasons.
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So that's why I'm excited to have Georgina.
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On the show and anything you want to open with madir.
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No I mean we've talked about her often enough. We
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always say she's our in house historian, yes, which is
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nothing short.
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The truth is, it is very true.
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Our group is so so fortunate to have Georgia.
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We just have an awesome group.
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We do.
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I mean we really, we really do.
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And I mean Allison and I we just brag on
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our group all the time.
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The listeners are probably just like.
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Quit bragging, you know, And of course, you know, then
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people want to be part of our group and then
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we're like, well, you know, we're really tight knit group.
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We were not accepting applicants. Sorry, and it's I think
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we're snobs.
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But
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yeah, And it's funny because like the last episode,
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we were just talking about how I'm like the newest
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member and it's been close to five years now that
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have been part.
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Of the grobe, and it's like you're like sitting here
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talking about being a nubie and I'm like, girl.
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And I'm like, you're better right now.
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Yeah, it's been five years because I checked the certificate
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when I went to your class and it was almost
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five years ago. Yeah, yes, because I think October, whenever
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you offered, it would have been five years.
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Yeah, so I need to offer that class again.
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But it led to leading to and you know, meeting
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cool people.
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Absolutely, we do meet a lot of cool people.
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But anyways, yeah, and.
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Allison got a really cool camera and trying to get
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her to talk about and maybe do a little video
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on so then I can post it on the socials
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as she she demos it. But it is a really
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cool camera, like I don't know, twirls around.
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It's for the camera people. It's just an Ozma dj
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I Ozmo pocket three.
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So it's a.
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I like how we're talking about that. I say a
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bunch of things and you have no idea what it
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is when it comes to cameras.
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But I'm looking forward to learning though.
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I'm just sitting here across the table nodding and smiling.
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It's almost like a gobro.
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It's I think it's better.
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Yeah, yeah, it's not as like stationary. Yeah, it's a
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three access camera towards.
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Understand free access. So that hey, that's going to be exciting.
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Yeah So okay, Well anyway, anyway onward, So just going.
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To start things out here, Georgina, if you could just
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tell us a bit about yourself and what really got
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you hooked on history.
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Oh wow, Hi, I'm Georgina. I've been investigating paranormal for
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I honestly don't closer to twenty than ten years. I
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think we're probably in the sixteen seventeen year range. I've
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always been interested in things that you couldn't really see.
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Had one of the typical experiences as a kid and
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had kind of forgotten about it and then got back
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involved in it, and so the what come he hooked
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on the history part of it was Actually that was
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part of why I'm to do paranormal is because there's
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so much that goes on that is historical, and with
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history you can debunk things that are just pure bs,
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or you can actually find newspaper articles substantiating what you're
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picking up on and things like that. The first incident
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that really got me hooked on paranormal and history connection
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was we were actually in Granbury. I was with a
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previous group that didn't last long. Get into that eventually
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at some point, but those are reason groups don't stay
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together for twenty or thirty years for the most part.
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And we were investigating the nuthouse there in Granberry.
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Oh, they rebuilt the nuthouse.
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I have to go back to the nut House and
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activity is still there.
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Is it really the Nutthouse.
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And the new Nuthouse?
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Yeah, it's a hotel laughing.
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It's a little hotel bed and breakfast downtown Granberry on
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the square across from the historic Hood County Jail, which
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is also extremely active. And wow, that particular weekend we
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had so much activity back and forth, we rented the
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entire airbnb. I guess technically it was a bed and
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breakfast whatever for that whole weekend. And the first night
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we're there, we're upstairs, we're in one of the rooms
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and I have an STD Spirit Communication, the STD one,
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which is a software program for communication, and I had
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just built a portal. If you're familiar with Steve Hoff,
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he's the one that created this portal. He finds that
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it helps clearer communication, all that good stuff. So I'm
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trying that out with the CD one and we're doing
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an EVP session, dowsing and all of that, and someone
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asks the question. I can't honestly remember the exact question
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because we are talking about fifteen sixteen minute.
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While ago has been a little bit, and all of
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a sudden, through the portal on the SCD one combination
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clear as day, you hear an older gentleman holler.
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Mabel as in like are you here? Where are you?
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That kind of voice, and it was like everyone at
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the table was kind of like wow, because that was
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our first time using that particular combination and that was cool.
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But you know, it could have been anything. As far
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as I knew at that point, I'm still pretty skeptical,
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and so I start doing the research on it. Come
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to find out there was a lady in Granberry whose
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first name was Mabel. She was close friends with Miss Nutt,
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who is the great great great niece of the original
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owners and builders of the hotel. In fact, that hotel
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had been under the same family management up until two
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years ago when.
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This new renovated.
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When they renovated, and Miss Nutt and Mabel were heavily
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involved in the historic preservation society there in Granberry and
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they are almost single handedly responsible for turning Granberry into
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the historic tourist town that they have. And come to
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find out, Mabel had also her husband was one of
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the founding families and they had just renovated. Their family
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home was a couple of blocks away, and so that
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was pretty cool because you could actually document all of
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that information through newspaper articles and owner records and things
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along those lines, and at that point all the dots
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connected for me. And at that point it was like,
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all right, from now on, I have this is my thing.
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I'm going to see if I can actually figure this out.
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This really is Mabel really was someone that would have
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been there at the hotel often and lived just right
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around the corner, and she had that connection with miss Nut.
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And there we go. We had an answer to who
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was Mabel because Mabel was not on our radar at
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that point when we were doing our investigation. So yeah,
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that's when the geek started the.
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History nous. I'm still stuck on the nuthouse.
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I heard this story and then it's like, oh, yeah,
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the Nuts, and I'm like, I'm sorry, what.
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The family? The Nut family was one of the original
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founding families.
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And they probably could have chosen a different name house,
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but it's yeah, it's been a hotel that burned. It
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burned down and then they rebuilt it. And I'm so
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glad to hear that it's rebuilt because now Branberry is
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not that far from you, and it's not far from
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us here in a wago and that would be a
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fun spot to hit and you know, maybe staved the
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nut house and check out the jail. And you know,
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Janet and I did an investigation at the jail a while.
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Back, and it was it was disappointing. I'll just say that.
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I will say that with mister Sutton's passing, it's the
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quality of volunteers. Yes, that's not what it used to be.
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There's a lot to be said for people who just
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shut up during an investigation.
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Thank you, thank you.
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I'm trying to tread lightly here just in case they're
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they're volunteers that could be listening to this. And you know,
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I don't like the burn Bridge, but yeah, the particular
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set of volunteers, you know, the babysitters.
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And that's the other thing.
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I mean, there's so many of these historical places that
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you got to have a babysitter.
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With you, and and some of the babysitters are are fine.
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These these were nice folks, but they, yeah, they would
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not shut up.
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And it's such a tiny space.
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Oh and they were downstairs and they were literally the
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entire time yucking it up, just yucking it.
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I think we will kind of experience that at our
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favorite certain performance place, except where the babysitters and our
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babysity's are not the most h queable. Yeah, yeah, we've
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had that experience. I'll experience that in some form of fashion.
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So yes, I would love all to say I would
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love a redo of the jail because I understand that. Yeah,
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it's really active and it's a cool little jail, and
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to be able to get back in there it would
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be really cool.
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Maybe we need to do it on a weeknight.
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Oh there we.
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Go that option, just thinking out loud.
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Yeah, we'll get you into the nuthouse and into the jail.
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From the nuthouse to.
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The jail adventure.
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I love that. Oh you will. You will bring your
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fancy camera. So okay, So moving on a long here, Georgina.
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Maybe you can kind of tell us about some of
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the historical records that you use and how they can
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kind of help help you parse out or or you know,
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support eye witness accounts or you know, because a lot
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of these historical places too, they've got you know, legends
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and stories that have just been told so many times
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that it kind of becomes almost fact and so kind
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of I guess kind of maybe just go through your
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process of you know, what methods you use, and if
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you have any examples of you know, situations where it's like, oh, yeah,
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this this story has always been associated with this place,
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but you know, historically, if we look at the records,
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there was nobody that even existed.
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That type of stuff. So, you know, just kind of
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methods and examples.
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If you've got any, and you know badly on a
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scale of like one to ten, how important you think
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understanding the history of the location is to your investigation.
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Oh gosh, understanding the history of the location is number one.
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So that's like a number ten.
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Big, yeah, plus, it's a ten plus for sure. There
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have been so many urban legends and myths and just
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flat out lies honestly debunked by historical documentation. And it
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doesn't When I say historical, I'm not talking it has
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to be from the fifteen hundreds or the seventeen hundreds.
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I'm talking literally a newspaper article from last year can
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debunk some of the stuff that we hear. But yeah,
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history is so very important. And generally when I start out,
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I know the location that we're going to be doing,
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because we generally pick it now for the most part,
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and so the first thing I'll do is a Google
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search for sure and see what comes up, because there
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might be more than one Lincoln Street cemetery, so let's
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make sure we've got the bright one number one. So
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Google is a great I get a lot of hassle,
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but I will tell you Wikipedia is very useful, very useful.
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I know sometimes it's I wouldn't necessarily cite it, right,
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but if you're not familiar with a particular story or
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a building and it's got this kind of history to it,
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check it out on Wikipedia because you're going to find
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information there that It's like getting a thumbnail under that
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wallpaper strip and then you.
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Can high like that that's really what it is known
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there and it's.
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Linked, so you know, you can follow those links and
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get into more credible sources, if you will, more legitimate sources.
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cliff Notes version, if you will, So I use Wikipedia.
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with a general and then get specifica My next step
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is generally, if I have an address, I'll hit the
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CAD page, and that's the Central Appraisal District page for
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the county of the
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So if I'm looking up the Liberty Hotel, for instance,
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including in Texas, I'll go to the Johnson County page
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and pull up the CAD property search and pull up
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that address, and that will show me the current ownership,
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and depending on how many transactions, it will show me
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back ten years worth of ownership. Generally, by doing that,
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I can look at I can pull up that warranty
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or the deed, and you find out very quickly is
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it a warranty deed? I left all my deed notes
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at home, but there's a lot of different types of deeds,
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and so you can find out how that ownership changed hands.
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Did Cindy by that property from Allison, or did somebody
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die and just sign over the family signed over and
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a quick claim deed kind of situation. And then you
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also have liens. So if I went in Andy did
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some remodeling work for Cindy and she didn't pay me,
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I can put a lien on that property, which doesn't
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sound very important until you start working a case like
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the Haunted Hillhouse in Mineral Wells. There were several liens
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on that property and that's how a couple of the
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owners in the past came into possession of the property
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to resell it to someone else. Is because the lean
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I think it's called a mechanics lean wasn't honored and
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so pay your remodel bills because you can lose your property.
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And so that information's there, The ownership information is there.
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One of the struggles we had at your house was
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the fact that it had bounced between property management companies
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for many years because of the developed that urban renewal
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development program that was going on in the eighties here
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in Wago. So that's information you can find out just
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from a deed.
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Yeah, that's amazing.
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So that's important I think. And of course then you
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have names in the great resource for names, and finding
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out who those people are is I loveancestry dot com.
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Ancestry is awesome. Okay, if you've gotten names, especially if
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you've got birthdates. But you can even just take the
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fact that Alison lives in Waco during the nineteen twelve
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that's enough information to get hits that you can start following.
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And again you're just pulling that little strip of paper
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just a little bit more. I've been able to find
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death certificates and to verify that no, he didn't die
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of TV. He died of syphilis. Yeah, those kind of things.
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You get a lot of that when we're doing investigations.
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The nefarious death.
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That's really kind of the big one. And I mean
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when people, at least in my experience with investigating, when
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people want to know the history of a place, they
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want to know who died, when they died and how, Yeah,
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because they're absolutely convinced that there is a person, And
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then a lot of times they will have a story.
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You know, we know it's old Joe and that he
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died of heart attack in the back room, and.
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You know, and really nothing debase any of that on.
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And so I'm always stumped when somebody comes to me
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and says, you know, I want to know, was there
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somebody who died here? Was there a murder here? Was
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there a violent death here? And I'm sure that you
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can kind of in a round about way, you can
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at least find out through the public records that you're
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talking about, you know, getting your thumbnail under there of Okay,
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you know, I don't know that information yet, but I
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know the players definitely, the players are here, and I
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have the names, I have the dates, I know the people.
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So that it sounds to me like that's kind of
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the foundation of the house.
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That's like the beginning pieces of the puzzle.
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It is.
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And so I don't know, you know how easy or
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difficult it is to find those those more like you said.
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Those more nefarious or gruesome type.
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It's hard. It's extremely hard. Part of the struggle these
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days is the fact that most counties have realized that
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they can actually make money off of these records, so
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now you have to pay to find them, whereas before
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it was just out there and they were digitizing them
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for posterity stake or whatever. There for a while, when
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we were doing so much investigating down in Marlin, I
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could pull up anybody's death certificate without any really yeah,
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without any paywall or having to have specific information. I
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could pull up all kinds and boy, that gets really
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interesting when you're able to pull up any death certificate,
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especially like during time frames, because that's how they were
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filed at the time. So I was picking them up
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a decade at a time, nineteen twenty to nineteen thirty,
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and you can read through There weren't a ton of
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people in Falls County at that point.
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That was not like I was.
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Doing a million of them, you know. But you know,
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you go through them and you can very quickly see
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that yellow fever epidemic hit and leave. You could very
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quickly see another one of them. One of them was
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a plane or not a plane, a train wreck over
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in the Calbern area. Okay, So you can see those
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kind of patterns when you're lucky enough to get that.
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These days, it's really hard. I tend to get more
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of my death certificate information from ancestry, okay, and that's
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generally where that comes from. And then at that point
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you've got to have some pretty specific You need a birthdate,
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a death date for sure, and so that's generally where
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I get my death certificate information. Today, you can still
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go sit down in the county offices and pull out
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the old books where it's handwritten notes that's not recommended
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to spend day, days and days doing it and then
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still not find what
you're looking for.
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Yeah, for sure.
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But with ancestry also, and ancestry has different layers of membership,
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and the free membership you can find some pretty basic information.
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Here's a terrifying thought. High school yearbooks you're even available
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on ancestry.
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Seriously serious, If I just go to look at the
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high school yearbooks.
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Yeah, And Alison's like, what terrifying.
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It is, isn't it? Yeah, because that's where a lot
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of my recent hints on ancestry, on my personal genealogy
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have been is coming up from these yearbooks that have
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been handed over to whatever service ancestry uses.
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Interesting.
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Very and I think that's at a paid level. I'm
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not sure because I I did the free version for
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like two months and got pissed off because I wasn't
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getting enough information. So for me, it was worth going
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up that next level. And I want to say it's
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about two fifty a year, so just to give you
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an idea of what it costs if you're in didn't
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getting you know, so that's.
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Like what you know, twenty five twenty four bucks a month.
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Is something like that.
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I mean it's a Netflix.
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I was gonna say, it's like a subscription subscription.
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Yeah. And at that level that includes all of the
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military records. Oh nice, and of course you know the
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military background, the law enforcement background I have, so I'm
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able to find a lot of information on my personal
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genealogy there. But that's also where I found the corporal
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that we speak to occasionally at the palace was killed
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by a lance thos.
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Oh wow, yeah, what a death certificate.
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Yeah, that one was quite an interesting story. But and
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it was poor guy. Yeah, it was kind of battle. Yeah,
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it was interesting. But that's that's one of those weird
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little things. You would hear that and you would think
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that's not true, right, but then you go do the research.
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Oh my god, it is true, and so yeah, you
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can verify that crazy stuff.
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But I think I have that session, that communication session
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with the corporal on paper somewhere at the house because
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it came across through questioning and we were trying to
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confirm who we were talking to, and that was the
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clarifying confirming question was how did you die? And it
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was lanced.
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I was lanced to see it was lanced. I love
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it when things like that happened. I mean, when the
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puzzle pieces come.
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Together and you know, yeah, you're having a communication.
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Session and it's confirmed. I just think that's really cool,
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even if it's you know, a tragic lancing accident tragedy.
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But yeah, yeah, for sure. And like I said, with ancestry,
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you can also see all the census information which is
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going to tell you who all lived in the house
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at that time.
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Yeah, the players, the players, all the players.
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It's going to give their age male, female, depending on
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how old the census is. You can also see if
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they had slaves, they were slave neighbors in the household,
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where if there were laborers. It lists all that stuff
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out where they were born, all of that good stuff.
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What else property owned, property values, where they worked, what
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their annual salary was, whether or not they could read
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or write.
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Interesting.
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So just a ton of information there. The senses has
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debunked quite a few quite like it.
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Yeah, yeah, and I mean I love that. That's why
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it's so.
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I mean, you're just making this incredible case for the
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importance of doing at least some historical research just a
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basic Google search. Yeah, even just doing a basic Google search.
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And as I was thinking about this, first of all, Allison,
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do you have anything to say, I'm just yacking away here.
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No, I'm just overly here entertained.
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I'm like, wow, you know, from.
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Alistic trait of time, joy of history.
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Yes, you never know what you're gonna find.
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History. That's you know, it's fun, it's good. But anybody, So,
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I was thinking about this, and I don't know if
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you know anything about this. But y'all know, we've been on.
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So many investigations here in Texas and the people swear
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that this property is haunted because it's on an Indian.
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Burial ground, or there's you know, Native Americans. There's this
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this Native American can tie somehow, and that the the
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Indians are restless and they're they're haunting the house or
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the property or anything. Is there any way to yay
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nay verify that type of those types of because I
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hear them over and over and over again, those types
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of stories.
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It's difficult. It is really difficult. The most success I've
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had with that is being able to actually narrow down, Hey,
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were there Native Americans.
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In the area.
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There aren't areas there were no Native Americans. Sure, I
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get that story in my area. I live in Johnson
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County and I get that a lot.
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No like that.
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No, there was a small little Ketto settlement around Albareto
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and they were pretty much peaceful. And then some great
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books are depending on how geeky you really want, how
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deep you want to get in to Texas history, but
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if you know the background, you can find this at
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least two of three facts. Possibly there is a book
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out there, and I'm probably going to get the title wrong.
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It's Indian Depredations in Texas and it was written by
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Will Barger, who happens to be a Texas Ranger. Oh okay, okay,
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And it is written from his view and from people
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that he fellowed Texas rangers who interacted with Native Americans
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in a variety of ways. Okay. So that is very
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beneficial because it will tell you there nothing in Johnson
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County happened. But it does mention the Kilo massacre and
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the Morgan massacre outside of Marlin, and so we know
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from those on retellings that there were interactions, and so
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you know that if you're in that area, it's potential, okay,
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but other areas not so much. And then it's like,
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you know, you get all the Quanta Parker stories. It's
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kind of like the Bonnie and Clyde thing.
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Yeah, Bonnie and Clyde, boy, they got around, tell you what,
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from nineteen thirties.
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That was a hell of a vehicle driving.
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All over the state, all over the state, up.
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To Missouri, over to Tennessee and back, all within the
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course of a week.
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Yeah.
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I don't think so.
491
00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:36.400
Yeah, I don't think we're talking.
492
00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:39.440
A nineteen thirty vehicle where you couldn't go fifteen miles
493
00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:40.519
without losing a tire.
494
00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:44.480
No, no, I can. I think it's very plausible.
495
00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:48.359
You know, they started out I think in Dallas, and yes,
496
00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:51.039
if there are you you know, in Marlin or Waco
497
00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:54.440
or you know, anywhere in central Texas or between here
498
00:30:54.480 --> 00:30:56.519
in Dallas, plausible.
499
00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:59.039
Yeah, when they're like driving all over the place.
500
00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:02.319
Ye know, they were in Missouri at one point, but
501
00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:05.000
that was like a one time thing, you know, just
502
00:31:05.079 --> 00:31:08.160
over that short course of their lives. But again it's
503
00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:12.440
knowing time frames. Yes, what I ask how many people
504
00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:16.480
actually know when the Civil War war? Yah? They talked
505
00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:20.319
about a Civil War soldier and then they want to
506
00:31:20.319 --> 00:31:22.839
talk about dates in the nineteen forties.
507
00:31:23.039 --> 00:31:26.440
No, oh dear, oh dear, it didn't work that way. No.
508
00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:28.880
No, folks, if there's any listeners that think that the
509
00:31:28.880 --> 00:31:30.960
Civil Wars was in the nineteen forties.
510
00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:36.920
No, no, read a book book. Actually you should have
511
00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:39.839
listened to your history teacher in school. Yeah.
512
00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:42.400
Yeah, yeah, that's pretty well covered.
513
00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:48.559
But yeah, and just basic names and dates and yeah,
514
00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:51.559
I like the idea of you know, the Indians just
515
00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:54.559
even finding out where some of the Indian settlements were,
516
00:31:54.599 --> 00:31:59.119
if there's even a possibility of interactions because so.
517
00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:02.240
Many of them were no mad. Yeah, and it was
518
00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:05.000
only in the later eighteen hundreds that they actually kind
519
00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:08.359
of settled in areas and like Waco's rife with it.
520
00:32:08.680 --> 00:32:10.519
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, because you've.
521
00:32:10.400 --> 00:32:14.480
Got the bosky here, you've got the brasses here, you know,
522
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:20.480
and walking it's just down the road, and you have
523
00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:21.799
to watch those travel paths.
524
00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:22.640
You know.
525
00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:27.319
They didn't just randomly, Willy nearly wander the state until
526
00:32:27.319 --> 00:32:30.519
they went somewhere else. They went where water was, they
527
00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:35.720
went where grass was, they went, Yes, and said there's
528
00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:37.279
that aspect of history too.
529
00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:41.160
Yeah, well, it's almost kind of we're overlaying this idea
530
00:32:41.240 --> 00:32:45.480
that the Native Americans were like the settlers, where it's like, well,
531
00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:47.680
we're just going to be staying in one place, and
532
00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:49.759
we're going to be burying or dead in one place,
533
00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:52.880
you know, and you know that whole it's the Indian
534
00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:56.119
burial ground, as if there's like lots of Indians here
535
00:32:56.119 --> 00:32:58.759
that were buried maybe if there was a battle, you know,
536
00:32:58.799 --> 00:33:02.680
and they buried them at the back site. But yeah,
537
00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:06.079
and your point on them being nomadic is really well taken.
538
00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:07.559
Yeah, it's like my hunches is.
539
00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:09.720
Yeah, oh no, we got to take Joe back to
540
00:33:09.759 --> 00:33:11.880
the Indian burial ground. You know, we aren't just going
541
00:33:11.960 --> 00:33:15.119
to bury him here at the river. Yeah, you know,
542
00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:16.079
it would.
543
00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:22.240
Be interesting to do some investigating along those wagon trails,
544
00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:22.640
you know.
545
00:33:23.319 --> 00:33:25.720
I mean, any think you look at it, That's what
546
00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:28.759
it's going to bring up, is we have the Chisholm trail.
547
00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:32.079
That oh yeah, right, every way go suspension bridge.
548
00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:35.839
That was the part of it. It's like,
as you
549
00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:38.799
look at the history, why would the Native Americans not
550
00:33:39.039 --> 00:33:44.160
follow those trails and hopes to see yeah, other like
551
00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:48.160
quote unquote the white man to take their stuff and whatever.
552
00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:52.279
Historically you got to look at that kind of stuff.
553
00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:57.599
And getting into Native American it is such a treacherous
554
00:33:57.680 --> 00:34:01.799
road at times, because, believe it or not, not all
555
00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:06.640
Indians were friendly. Yeah, yea, So there was that aspect too,
556
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:10.400
and just like the settlers that were coming to the area,
557
00:34:10.440 --> 00:34:13.960
they're going to protect themselves in their own and that's
558
00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:17.039
you know, it's unfortunate, but that was a factive Locke
559
00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:20.599
back then. And I will tell you I get a
560
00:34:20.599 --> 00:34:26.239
lot of history also on that from my relatives ancestors
561
00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:28.920
were some of the first Texas Rangers.
562
00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:31.159
In fact, I think that was so interesting when you
563
00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:33.559
were talking about discovering that in your ancestry.
564
00:34:33.559 --> 00:34:35.679
It was crazy. This was one of those one of
565
00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:37.880
the things I love about ancestry dot Com. Help me
566
00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:40.239
confirm all of this. This was one of those stories
567
00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:42.239
I heard from the time I was a little girl,
568
00:34:42.679 --> 00:34:44.760
and my dad heard from the time he was a
569
00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:48.719
little boy, was that we were we came to Texas
570
00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:53.440
as part of Austin's original three hundred, and that we
571
00:34:53.480 --> 00:35:00.159
had Texas Rangers in our heritage. And you know, tell
572
00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:02.960
you that my grandfather was a jokester and loved to
573
00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:07.599
tell stories. So you couldn't really take everything for one
574
00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:11.719
hundred percent. So start doing the genealogy, and yeah, sure enough,
575
00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:17.239
we were part. We did come over from Tennessee and Arkansas.
576
00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:19.840
We were kind of spread out actually, a pretty big family,
577
00:35:20.119 --> 00:35:22.800
come to find out, came over as one of Austin's
578
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:30.480
original three hundred, and John Jackson Toumlson, which was the
579
00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:35.920
patriarch that came was considered one of the first original
580
00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:40.280
Texas Rangers. He was also the first Texas Ranger lost
581
00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:42.639
in the line of duty and when he was killed
582
00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:46.760
by Native Americans on his way home from Mexico because
583
00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:51.360
he was an impisario here for Mexico and he was
584
00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:55.719
killed by Native Americans outside of Sagein. And so then
585
00:35:56.000 --> 00:36:01.719
they also his children were invall they also were Texas
586
00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:08.400
Rangers and they were involved from the hunt when Cynthia
587
00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:13.199
Anne Parker was kidnapped, she and her brother, they were
588
00:36:13.239 --> 00:36:17.880
if I remember the story correctly, and they were actually
589
00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:24.199
able to retrieve the boy, Cynthia Ane's brother, but not
590
00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:29.880
these these were the settlers, yeah, okay, And so they
591
00:36:29.880 --> 00:36:34.440
were involved in that as well as other interactions because
592
00:36:34.440 --> 00:36:39.159
they were basically keeping theirselves safe and everyone else. And
593
00:36:39.239 --> 00:36:42.119
so that's I can get really geeky with that kind
594
00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:44.400
of stuff because I get to that level that detail.
595
00:36:44.679 --> 00:36:49.280
You know, we're talking six generations ago, and so yeah,
596
00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:50.280
that's a lot of fun.
597
00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:52.599
You can see why we love Georgina.
598
00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:56.360
It's like, so if we have historical questions about an
599
00:36:56.400 --> 00:37:01.039
investigation or some information that we'd like to bear, especially,
600
00:37:01.519 --> 00:37:05.639
I find the historic information especially helpful. If we have
601
00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:11.239
a psychic on an investigation and they start coming up
602
00:37:11.400 --> 00:37:16.079
with names, dates, places, and events, which is all finding
603
00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:20.719
good but boy, it is fantastic if we can go
604
00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:23.480
to Georgina and go, hey, here's some names. And she
605
00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:25.880
loves it too. She's like, I need some names and dates.
606
00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:27.760
Give me some names and dates, and she will just
607
00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:31.480
go to town. I will dig, she will dig, and
608
00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:33.760
I mean a nice It's exciting because a lot of
609
00:37:33.800 --> 00:37:39.159
times things are verified or you'll find uncover more information,
610
00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:41.480
and it's like, well, when we go back to this location,
611
00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:45.599
let's ask about this person or that person because they
612
00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:48.159
were supposedly there at this time or that time and
613
00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:50.920
this was going on, and then you know, you can
614
00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:54.000
kind of really go down these incredible rabbit holes, but
615
00:37:55.360 --> 00:37:57.840
in the best way, because it's kind of like, hey,
616
00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:03.840
you know what, we're building a solid case with data,
617
00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:12.119
with hard,
verifiable facts to support what we're experiencing, what
618
00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:16.840
witnesses are talking about and what they say that they've experienced,
619
00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:19.880
or we're able to say, you know, no, I call
620
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:26.239
bs because there's those those legends and folklore. One of
621
00:38:26.239 --> 00:38:28.039
the ones you have, Bonnie and Cly's a great example.
622
00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:31.039
Another one I think of is I haven't been there yet, y'all.
623
00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:31.239
We do.
624
00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:36.239
We need to go to the Myrtles plantation in Louisiana.
625
00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:38.199
That would be so so cool.
626
00:38:38.679 --> 00:38:45.280
But one of their cornerstone spirits is a slave woman
627
00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:49.400
named Chloe, who was supposed to be this voodoo princess
628
00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:54.159
and she poisoned the family. And I mean there's this big, gruesome,
629
00:38:55.480 --> 00:39:00.119
you know, story around Chloe. And they have a shadow,
630
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:04.599
we picture of what looks like a black woman in
631
00:39:05.239 --> 00:39:08.840
you know, eighteen hundred's dress, kind of standing behind a pillar,
632
00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:12.280
and they're like, that's here, that's Chloe. That's Chloe, and
633
00:39:12.599 --> 00:39:15.039
you know, and maybe you can shed some light on this.
634
00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:19.840
But whenever I've done, and I've done very superficial searches
635
00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:23.639
on Chloe, they do not have any historical evidence at
636
00:39:23.679 --> 00:39:26.079
all of Chloe at all.
637
00:39:26.199 --> 00:39:30.360
They don't I'm not tells super deep into it, because
638
00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:35.639
very quickly it becomes clear that there's no historical Yeah. Yeah,
639
00:39:35.679 --> 00:39:41.519
at some point you quit researching because you aren't getting
640
00:39:41.559 --> 00:39:45.159
any new information for sure. Yeah.
641
00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:47.880
I was just thinking about that one, and I'm just thinking,
642
00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:50.679
and I mean I think a lot of I'm always
643
00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:54.519
skeptical when you know, I go to the ghost tours
644
00:39:54.679 --> 00:39:57.840
or the public haunts, you know, and the Myrtles is
645
00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:01.920
a very commercial play place now where you know, I
646
00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:03.880
still want to go there because it's supposed to be
647
00:40:03.960 --> 00:40:04.880
really really active.
648
00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:08.119
But there, you know, I don't want to say any
649
00:40:08.159 --> 00:40:10.480
more names. But there's a lot of places in Texas
650
00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:11.000
that are the.
651
00:40:11.000 --> 00:40:16.480
Same exact way where it's it's like, oh this and
652
00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:20.320
it's always some spooky, spooky, gruesome story.
653
00:40:21.239 --> 00:40:21.440
You know.
654
00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:24.960
There's a house that I'd rather not name that supposedly
655
00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:28.599
has a demon that's bound to the upstairs room or something,
656
00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:34.239
you know, and so I'm like, there's no, there's Yeah,
657
00:40:34.320 --> 00:40:36.480
it'd be nice to have a little bit of verification
658
00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:42.639
outside of hearsay and stories and legends, you know. And
659
00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:46.760
that's why I think that's so important, definitely so important.
660
00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:48.639
I'm sorry, got it.
661
00:40:48.880 --> 00:40:50.719
So I would say, I like that you bring up
662
00:40:50.719 --> 00:40:55.239
the ghost walks and the historical stuff, because when I
663
00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:58.840
did not I did one in San Antonio when I
664
00:40:59.039 --> 00:40:59.960
when I was staying.
665
00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:04.320
In Spooky Central, I was like, of course.
666
00:41:04.079 --> 00:41:06.360
When I was staying at Emily Morgan, we did. I
667
00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:10.360
did one with my dad and it was kind of
668
00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:14.480
it was like really interesting because one of them was
669
00:41:14.559 --> 00:41:18.280
the old Joe House that's now a hotel. And it's
670
00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:24.800
interesting seeing because my grandpa being retired. SAPD was like, oh, yeah,
671
00:41:24.840 --> 00:41:26.480
that's the thing, like that used to be the old
672
00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:31.840
Bear County Joe House and then they converted it, but
673
00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:35.000
it being an historical marker, they can't really change anything.
674
00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:38.199
So I was like, oh, okay, So it's kind of
675
00:41:38.239 --> 00:41:43.199
interesting seeing from a cop having access to those records
676
00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:48.159
in that city, Like, no, that's that's true. So it's
677
00:41:48.239 --> 00:41:52.400
fun when you do those historical walks and then having
678
00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:57.159
somebody to back it up. Yeah, so it's I think
679
00:41:57.199 --> 00:41:59.719
that's always fun when you can have stuff like that.
680
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:05.320
Oh, absolutely absolutely, And I completely agree. And another thing too,
681
00:42:05.400 --> 00:42:07.639
is because we're you know, I'm back on Buye and Clyde.
682
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:12.840
But but no, yes, I think records and you can
683
00:42:12.840 --> 00:42:16.440
probably talk more about this than I can. But but
684
00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:20.239
you know, the records are great, but I have found
685
00:42:20.280 --> 00:42:24.599
that you can get a wealth of information from locals.
686
00:42:24.840 --> 00:42:28.840
Are our recent trip to Takuana and talking to the
687
00:42:28.880 --> 00:42:32.960
postmaster there. We had a very very bored postmaster who
688
00:42:33.119 --> 00:42:37.960
happened to know so much historical information
about the town.
689
00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:41.239
So you know a lot of those and I find
690
00:42:41.239 --> 00:42:45.159
that a lot of those oral local oral histories, they
691
00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:50.079
are really great at filling in the gaps as well
692
00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:52.840
as there are some people out there. And I think
693
00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:56.719
of the Bonnie and Clyde Museum, where you have got
694
00:42:56.840 --> 00:43:00.599
some folks that have been doing this historical research for
695
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:02.920
years and years and years, and they opened up these
696
00:43:03.000 --> 00:43:08.719
museums and they're worth a visit. They really really are,
697
00:43:10.199 --> 00:43:14.360
because that's where somebody has done all the labor, because
698
00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:15.679
for them a lot of times.
699
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:18.559
It's just a labor of love. And and you go
700
00:43:18.679 --> 00:43:19.679
and you talk to one.
701
00:43:19.519 --> 00:43:24.360
Of the museum docents and they will talk your ear off.
702
00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:26.000
They're happy to talk to you.
703
00:43:26.119 --> 00:43:30.679
Yesterday are and so you know, do you have any
704
00:43:30.760 --> 00:43:34.159
advice or any recommendations on anything like that?
705
00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:40.440
Oh, gosh, yeah. Locals can fill in the blanks. Gosh yeah.
706
00:43:41.039 --> 00:43:46.000
Is especially if you happen to be doing like a
707
00:43:46.119 --> 00:43:51.760
residential type place. Towns are always they're a little difficult
708
00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:56.360
depending on which generation you're talking to. I was really
709
00:43:56.360 --> 00:43:59.599
impressed with Zach's level of knowledge for a place.
710
00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:01.280
You know, for a younger man.
711
00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:07.400
For a younger man, he knew a lot. So much
712
00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:13.119
information that we get through spirit communication, whether that's an
713
00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:23.000
app on our phone or psychic medium, it's unverifiable. Was
714
00:44:23.719 --> 00:44:28.159
Margaret's favorite flower really arose or are we assuming that?
715
00:44:28.679 --> 00:44:34.039
You know? Just those little things like that we were
716
00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:41.159
struggling with and now I've lost it. Anyway, we were
717
00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:46.440
struggling with some information at the Palace Theater, in the
718
00:44:46.519 --> 00:44:51.360
little cafe that was next door, and that information and
719
00:44:51.440 --> 00:44:56.639
we had been we have been investigating the Palace Theater
720
00:44:57.440 --> 00:45:04.719
since day one. Okay, it was like literally my first investigation, right,
721
00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:08.599
and so there was some questions that never really got answered.
722
00:45:08.760 --> 00:45:13.440
And then we happened to be doing an investigation and
723
00:45:13.480 --> 00:45:16.840
I was podcasting
and just pulling in people if they
724
00:45:16.920 --> 00:45:19.480
wanted to because we were doing an event and if
725
00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:21.679
they wanted to come talk to me about Marlon and
726
00:45:21.719 --> 00:45:24.400
the theater. It was all great, and one of the
727
00:45:24.519 --> 00:45:28.599
ladies was actually able to answer several questions for us
728
00:45:28.760 --> 00:45:33.679
about the cafe that was next door and confirmed some
729
00:45:33.719 --> 00:45:37.320
of the noises and that we were hearing because it
730
00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:39.639
was actually cafe. She was able to show us where
731
00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:44.599
the kitchen portion was, where the stove actually was, and
732
00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:49.360
things like that, and so that really correlated and answered
733
00:45:49.440 --> 00:45:53.000
questions for some personal experiences and things that the psychas
734
00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:56.360
were picking up on because they kept getting things like
735
00:45:57.320 --> 00:45:59.280
I can't remember what it was. It was flower. Oh
736
00:45:59.320 --> 00:46:02.119
she's getting flower out of the canister or something like that.
737
00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:05.039
It's like, okay, well, yeah, they've got flower in a cafe.
738
00:46:05.519 --> 00:46:07.920
But then when Susie was able to say, oh, yeah,
739
00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:12.360
that's because that's where the kitchen was. Okay, there we go.
740
00:46:12.719 --> 00:46:15.960
So that's what that loud bang was. Yeah, that kind
741
00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:19.679
of thing. We were able to verify. There was a
742
00:46:19.719 --> 00:46:23.760
pool hall back there. We'd heard rumors about that alley,
743
00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:26.679
and Susie was able to verify, Oh yeah, we used
744
00:46:26.719 --> 00:46:29.360
to play pool there all the time. Yeah. And so
745
00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:34.480
it's those little things like that that you can't no
746
00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:37.679
one knows that except for a little bit of group
747
00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:41.480
or little family people in the family, even though you
748
00:46:41.480 --> 00:46:46.559
may get that information through communication, and so talking to
749
00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:52.639
locals or people that knew the people is definitely very beneficial.
750
00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:55.159
Yeah, that can be invaluable very much.
751
00:46:55.440 --> 00:46:58.960
Yeah, And I mean you combine that with the you know,
752
00:46:59.119 --> 00:47:03.639
the official documents and the historical documents, and then you
753
00:47:03.639 --> 00:47:05.920
can have that backed up with those oral histories or
754
00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:10.559
the museums. Yeah, you can start painting this really complete picture.
755
00:47:11.079 --> 00:47:13.599
And that's like the Calvert Hotel. When we did the
756
00:47:13.599 --> 00:47:14.400
Calvert hotel.
757
00:47:14.559 --> 00:47:15.880
Oh yeah, We.
758
00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:20.440
Had three psychic mediums do that remote viewing beforehand and
759
00:47:20.480 --> 00:47:23.400
had them send us all of the information they were
760
00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:26.159
picking up on. And it was really interesting because the
761
00:47:26.159 --> 00:47:29.519
one thing that all three of them picked up on, well,
762
00:47:29.559 --> 00:47:30.920
there were a couple of things, but the one that
763
00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:37.079
always struck me was one of them kept hearing opera music, and.
764
00:47:36.960 --> 00:47:38.559
I remember that it was.
765
00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:41.239
Like opera music, and another one was going, I don't
766
00:47:41.280 --> 00:47:44.679
know what it is, but there's something about opera, and
767
00:47:44.840 --> 00:47:47.719
so they were getting All three of them were talking
768
00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:53.400
about opera, opera music, opera performances, et cetera. And so
769
00:47:54.679 --> 00:47:56.000
I'm getting chills.
770
00:47:55.840 --> 00:47:59.559
Even I know where this story is going, and so.
771
00:47:59.519 --> 00:48:02.199
It gets digging before we go. And I was the
772
00:48:02.239 --> 00:48:05.880
one coordinating the responses, you know, and we based some
773
00:48:05.920 --> 00:48:10.000
of our spirit communication off of these impressions that are
774
00:48:10.119 --> 00:48:15.039
psychic mediums were getting. And doing the research on it,
775
00:48:15.199 --> 00:48:20.360
I found the description of the hotel and it was
776
00:48:20.400 --> 00:48:23.440
an MLS listening from a real estate agent because it
777
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:25.519
was up for sale at that point in time, and
778
00:48:25.559 --> 00:48:28.679
it talks about how the columns outside and a couple
779
00:48:28.679 --> 00:48:31.679
of columns on the inside came from the old opera.
780
00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:34.519
Building yeah, it came from the opera house.
781
00:48:35.119 --> 00:48:41.159
Isn't that crazy? That's is that cool? Yeah? So that
782
00:48:41.280 --> 00:48:42.880
was really cool and that was probably what like our
783
00:48:42.920 --> 00:48:45.639
second investigation, you and I together. Yeah, the first time
784
00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:46.559
I met Robbie.
785
00:48:46.840 --> 00:48:53.440
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, that was yes, I love I.
786
00:48:53.400 --> 00:48:56.800
Loved that was Yeah, that was great. I love stories
787
00:48:56.880 --> 00:49:01.400
like that. You'll like, we'd go so young. So that
788
00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:06.239
was the first time I met Robbie years ago.
789
00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:10.599
It couldn't be because we're only in our thirties.
790
00:49:10.320 --> 00:49:14.360
Right, exactly exactly what are you talking about? Come on,
791
00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:16.800
put readers under the table.
792
00:49:18.840 --> 00:49:21.360
Yeah, and I mean yeah, those types of stories are
793
00:49:21.599 --> 00:49:25.199
just the best, and and it makes me think of
794
00:49:25.280
--> 00:49:29.719
the Mabel leg story, you know, where we went to
795
00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:33.800
the Lassall Shop's antique mall and this lady in black
796
00:49:33.960 --> 00:49:36.679
was just scaring the but Jesus out of contract workers
797
00:49:36.679 --> 00:49:40.440
because they were doing some of their modeling. And she
798
00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:43.239
kept walking around the bathrooms. And so we looked at
799
00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:47.119
a booth there next to the bathrooms and saw some
800
00:49:47.320 --> 00:49:50.679
old timey pictures and one of them was, you know,
801
00:49:50.719 --> 00:49:52.360
a lady in black.
802
00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:57.079
And before or after the dressing room incident.
803
00:50:00.760 --> 00:50:06.280
Jennet Jenna, we're calling you out trying on clothing while we're.
804
00:50:06.079 --> 00:50:09.360
Looking around the shops. Someone was slacking.
805
00:50:09.719 --> 00:50:13.360
Yes, yes, that cracks me up. And I loved easing
806
00:50:13.480 --> 00:50:16.320
about that. We caught her on camera trying on clothes.
807
00:50:18.519 --> 00:50:20.480
But yeah, so and so we see this picture of
808
00:50:20.519 --> 00:50:24.519
this lady that fit the description of this this ghost
809
00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:30.239
that was walking around. And so what I did, I thought, Oh,
810
00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:33.840
what the heck, I'll buy the picture. Robbie, our psychic
811
00:50:34.519 --> 00:50:36.639
he was taking a look at the picture and went
812
00:50:36.679 --> 00:50:40.679
into the area where the ghost was and we didn't
813
00:50:40.679 --> 00:50:43.559
know anything historically, and he's like, you know, I'm getting
814
00:50:43.559 --> 00:50:51.440
a really stern, protective female presence, and I'm getting the
815
00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:57.239
name Melba or Maybel or something like that. He says,
816
00:50:57.280 --> 00:50:59.719
but this is a woman and she takes no nonsense,
817
00:51:00.639 --> 00:51:03.119
and you know she's a no nonsense person. This is
818
00:51:03.159 --> 00:51:07.000
all just straight from our psychic person, who's fabulous.
819
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:07.400
By the way.
820
00:51:08.920 --> 00:51:13.360
Well, what I did was I took the picture and
821
00:51:13.400 --> 00:51:17.039
I posted it online. So this is another possible resource
822
00:51:17.760 --> 00:51:23.000
is there's a lot of local history Instagram pages, Facebook
823
00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:27.679
pages you know that actually can offer some really helpful information.
824
00:51:28.360 --> 00:51:30.400
And so I put the picture on the one of
825
00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:34.039
the Waco History Facebook pages, and I said, hey, you know,
826
00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:36.880
I picked this up at a local antique store. Can
827
00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:39.840
anybody tell me do you recognize this woman? And I
828
00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:44.599
mean the thread blew up. I mean it blew up,
829
00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:48.079
and they're
like, oh my gosh, that's that's miss Leg.
830
00:51:48.159 --> 00:51:51.400
That's miss Mabel Leg. And so yeah, we've got the
831
00:51:51.480 --> 00:51:52.079
name Mabel.
832
00:51:52.639 --> 00:51:57.199
And she was a teacher for many years at the
833
00:51:57.280 --> 00:52:02.960
Children's Home here in Waco, and she taught English, and
834
00:52:03.679 --> 00:52:07.079
a lot of her former students they were older, we're
835
00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:11.599
talking about, Oh, yes, she was my teacher. She was
836
00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:14.000
she had a heart of gold, but she was a
837
00:52:14.119 --> 00:52:17.239
very stern woman. You know, you did not mess with
838
00:52:17.360 --> 00:52:20.920
miss Leg. You know those types of stories. But they
839
00:52:21.079 --> 00:52:25.599
loved her. And family members were on there and they
840
00:52:25.679 --> 00:52:28.119
started jumping in and saying, oh, the picture you have
841
00:52:28.440 --> 00:52:33.039
was her graduation picture, her college graduation picture from the
842
00:52:33.039 --> 00:52:37.639
early nineteen hundreds. So, you know, able to put all
843
00:52:37.679 --> 00:52:40.039
of this together, and then we were Georgia and I
844
00:52:40.039 --> 00:52:43.559
were able to meet and do a little oral history
845
00:52:44.719 --> 00:52:47.960
interview with one of her former students. And I mean
846
00:52:47.960 --> 00:52:50.800
this guy, he was like a mabele Leg super fan.
847
00:52:51.519 --> 00:52:54.800
I mean he had a whole table, his whole dining
848
00:52:54.880 --> 00:53:01.280
room table was filled with photographs of her, historical information
849
00:53:01.400 --> 00:53:05.320
about her and some of his assignments and the whole deal.
850
00:53:05.400 --> 00:53:07.480
And I mean, just there again, like you're talking about
851
00:53:07.559 --> 00:53:11.760
just that tiny little thread, and it just blew up.
852
00:53:11.920 --> 00:53:15.039
And so the family at the end of it.
853
00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:18.920
All, We've got to learn about this really basically this treasure,
854
00:53:19.119 --> 00:53:20.800
this Waco treasure.
855
00:53:20.440 --> 00:53:22.000
Of a woman that I didn't know about.
856
00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:26.440
And we got to submit that that interview to Waco's
857
00:53:26.519 --> 00:53:31.000
Oral History Institute. So Mabel Lake is archived. She's in
858
00:53:31.039 --> 00:53:34.239
the in the Oral History Institute now. And the family
859
00:53:34.280 --> 00:53:36.840
wanted her picture back and they said, hey, would you
860
00:53:36.840 --> 00:53:39.559
mind sending us that picture. I said, of course, you know,
861
00:53:39.719 --> 00:53:42.800
not a problem at all, and so I sent the
862
00:53:42.840 --> 00:53:47.400
picture back to her family. And then after that started
863
00:53:47.440 --> 00:53:50.039
following up with the owners of the antique shop with
864
00:53:50.119 --> 00:53:52.639
the cell shops, said hey, have you seen Mabel around?
865
00:53:52.679 --> 00:53:55.639
And they said no, no, they never saw Mabel again.
866
00:53:56.280 --> 00:54:01.360
So I said, well, I maybel must be home. But yeah,
867
00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:06.440
I mean, stories like that are just they're just so cool,
868
00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:07.880
unlike the Calivert story.
869
00:54:08.840 --> 00:54:12.760
And so the importance of historical research is, at least
870
00:54:12.760 --> 00:54:14.679
in my opinion, is really really important.
871
00:54:14.719 --> 00:54:17.880
I think it's really important. I think it's I'll be honest.
872
00:54:17.880 --> 00:54:21.719
I think it's one of the differentiating factors between ghost
873
00:54:21.760 --> 00:54:25.360
hunting for entertainment and actually doing research.
874
00:54:26.280 --> 00:54:27.000
I think so too.
875
00:54:27.239 --> 00:54:30.880
Yeah, there's definitely a credibility line there in my opinion.
876
00:54:31.320 --> 00:54:34.320
Yeah, yeah, I mean, are you in this to really
877
00:54:34.320 --> 00:54:35.559
find out what's going on?
878
00:54:36.079 --> 00:54:39.559
Or are you in this just to get spooked? Yeah?
879
00:54:39.079 --> 00:54:41.800
And that's kind of you know, because if you're in
880
00:54:41.880 --> 00:54:43.760
it just to get spooked in it, unfortunately, I.
881
00:54:43.639 --> 00:54:44.599
Think a lot of people are.
882
00:54:46.039 --> 00:54:49.840
Yeah, but if you really want to take the time
883
00:54:49.880 --> 00:54:53.400
to do some digging and put the pieces of a
884
00:54:53.440 --> 00:54:56.239
really cool puzzle together, that's what keeps us all hooked
885
00:54:56.280 --> 00:54:56.719
and going.
886
00:54:57.599 --> 00:54:59.199
Man, you're gonna get so much more out of.
887
00:54:59.239 --> 00:55:02.159
It, definitely, so much more, and you're going.
888
00:55:02.079 --> 00:55:06.119
To learn learn a lot. My gosh.
889
00:55:06.599 --> 00:55:11.840
So let's see here, because I should probably wrap up here.
890
00:55:12.480 --> 00:55:15.280
I like this, and it says when you walk into
891
00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:20.159
a reportedly haunted location, you're really investigating more than ghosts.
892
00:55:20.239 --> 00:55:24.480
You're investigating people, events and stories that history left behind.
893
00:55:25.199 --> 00:55:26.639
And so I think that's so true.
894
00:55:26.760 --> 00:55:28.400
I like that. I do that a lot.
895
00:55:28.599 --> 00:55:30.960
Yeah, I think that's just so true.
896
00:55:31.039 --> 00:55:35.800
So to wrap up, Georgina, you have any favorite stories
897
00:55:35.920 --> 00:55:38.880
or last minute advice or I.
898
00:55:38.800 --> 00:55:46.800
Would say another excellent resource is tshaonline dot org. And
899
00:55:46.840 --> 00:55:52.400
that stands for Texas State History Association. In any of
900
00:55:52.559 --> 00:55:56.159
the portal to Texas history. If you're looking for Texas information,
901
00:55:56.840 --> 00:56:00.639
those two websites are phenomenal. You don't need to know
902
00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:03.960
anything about Texas, you'll need You'll learn everything from there.
903
00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:06.440
I guarantee you by the end of it. Two very
904
00:56:06.519 --> 00:56:10.079
credible sources. And also, of course the Library of Congress.
905
00:56:10.880 --> 00:56:11.639
That's a good one.
906
00:56:11.719 --> 00:56:14.920
Oh my gosh, that one. It is all of the
907
00:56:14.920 --> 00:56:19.159
military records are there, All of them are there. And
908
00:56:19.239 --> 00:56:22.960
so that's another fun one too. So those those are
909
00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:23.760
my choices.
910
00:56:23.960 --> 00:56:25.719
You know, they're good choices.
911
00:56:25.800 --> 00:56:31.400
They're good choices. I'm ready for another investigation, a new
912
00:56:31.480 --> 00:56:32.079
rabbit hole.
913
00:56:32.440 --> 00:56:37.239
Yeah, maybe we can go to the nuthouse. Just for als.
914
00:56:38.360 --> 00:56:42.760
We're gonna take you to the nuthouse, yankes.
915
00:56:41.920 --> 00:56:45.320
Yeah, anything you want to wrap up with, my dear
916
00:56:47.719 --> 00:56:51.119
no read a book.
917
00:56:51.679 --> 00:56:51.880
Yeah.
918
00:56:51.920 --> 00:56:55.239
We were all at lunch before we started the podcast,
919
00:56:55.280 --> 00:56:57.360
and we were all sitting around rolling our eyes and
920
00:56:57.440 --> 00:57:00.320
lamenting the fact that people just need to read bok book,
921
00:57:01.360 --> 00:57:02.000
read a book.
922
00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:06.119
Yeah, there was some expletives in VARs. We'll just leave
923
00:57:06.119 --> 00:57:07.639
them out of the podcast. You know, we have a
924
00:57:07.639 --> 00:57:14.119
PG podcast. So anyway, well, I think that's it. Thank
925
00:57:14.199 --> 00:57:15.880
you so much, thank you.
926
00:57:16.239 --> 00:57:18.360
You know how much I love talking about this stuff.
927
00:57:20.440 --> 00:57:25.960
This'll be good the readers, the reader the listeners will
928
00:57:26.039 --> 00:57:29.559
love it. Lots lots of really cool, valuable information. And
929
00:57:29.599 --> 00:57:30.360
I think that's it.
930
00:57:30.519 --> 00:57:30.920
We're out.
931
00:57:35.800 --> 00:57:39.960
This has been spooky a paranormal podcast. We hope today's
932
00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:43.559
episode since shivers down your spine and sparked your curiosity
933
00:57:43.599 --> 00:57:45.079
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934
00:57:45.679 --> 00:57:47.119
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935
00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:50.000
Heard, don't forget to subscribe and leave a review on
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938
00:57:59.239 --> 00:58:02.239
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