Gregory Fedora

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The borders of space and time have opened once again,
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and transmitting from the mountains of West Virginia, It's time
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once again for Let's find Out with Diego. The universe
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is waiting for you.
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Wake up and remember on this episode of Let's find Out.
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Since a young age, our guest has been on a
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mission to unravel mysteries that have captured the imagination of
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people across the globe. With an insatiable curiosity for history, mythology,
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and folklore. Is YouTube channel The Fedora Files delves into
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the depths of the unknown, sharing captivating insights that will,
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like now your sense of wonder and expand your horizons.
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We will be getting into his latest book, Blood and Beak.
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Legends of the South Mountain Terror a monster that lurked
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in the woods at the great state of Maryland. This
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legend is surrounded by controversy, superstition, even to the point
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that Theodore Roosevelt himself was ready to wage war on
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this terrible beasts called the snally Gaster. All this plus more,
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please welcome a good friend of the show. Author and
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cryptozoologist Gregory Fedora. Gregory, my friend, welcome back to Let's
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find Out. I am happy to be back. I love
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coming on your show. I love listening to your show.
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I love when we run into each other at different events.
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It's always fun. The last event we ran into each other,
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we were both busy, so we didn't get it really hangout,
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but I gotta say hi to you, so that was cool.
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Oh that's mandatory, man.
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You know, every time I have you on the show,
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and I think this is your third time being on
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the show, that it always feels like I'm sitting down
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at a university and I'm learning about these cryptos, sometimes
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for the first time. It's the same I feel about
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when I watch the show on YouTube, the fedoraphiles, and
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it's always a great learning experience.
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I will thank you. I have fun doing it. I
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like looking them up and researching them and talking about
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them and telling the stories. And I've been kind of
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on a hiatus from the podcast for a few months,
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but I'm going to be starting back up in a
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few weeks, you know, now the new year and all that,
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and so I've wanted to put more effort into the
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stories because a lot of times I tell the stories,
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but and I was like, you know what, I need
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to do more with them and like add some more
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like you know, sound effects, music, make them making more
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for me, more entertaining, because I think we talked before,
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like in books and stuff when I was little and
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I'd find books in the library about monsters, but it'd
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just be a lot of words and no pictures. And
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I was like, I want more pictures. And so when
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I started writing my books, I try to put more
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pictures into them and make make them visually cool because
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that's just how I was. And then as I listened
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to my podcast, I was like, yeah, I'm telling some
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cool stories. I go, but you know what they can
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be like like I wanted to be educated, like educational,
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but entertaining. So people were like that was fun, that
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was cool, that was you know. So so I took
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some hiaas off and started working on that, and then
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also some fictional stories too that I'm gonna be putting
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on the podcasts that are just more just for fun
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and entertainment, you know. But that's all coming. So yeah, awesome.
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Now with with the new subjects that you'll be covering
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on your show, now you took a hiatus and you
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just came up with a new book. Now during this hiatus,
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have you discovered anything new that you think you haven't
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heard of in the past.
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There's a couple of things, A couple of monsters or
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more stories about a couple of monsters. I actually found,
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like besides I guess there's a few other monsters in Maryland,
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in Virginia Pennsylvania area, and one of them is like
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the hex Wolf. And after I had done you know,
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I just did this now a gaster book, someone actually
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talk to me. He's like, well, like in it, like
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there is one story involving the hex wolf slash duay
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out the other name for the hex wolf in the area,
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And someone said, are you going to do one on that?
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And I was like, hadn't thought about it. But then
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I was like I started researching and I was like, wow,
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there are about just as many stories about that that creature.
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Ez there is snow a guster, And so I was like,
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I you know what, I think I will. I think
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I will. So I'm started toying and putting some stories
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together and like like the Snow Guesser book, it's a
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lot of the folklore that people may have heard some
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of it. But I made it more of a narrative
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because again, I wanted it to be more ortaint, because
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a lot of times you'll find these like stories or
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little clip its, and it'll be like the stories like
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a paragraph for long, like Johnny was walking down the
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road and the sniley gasterer came and knocked him down
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or tried to drag him away, and that's all you get.
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So I took that and I kind of looked at
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the air of what was going on, and I was like, okay,
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so Johnny was probably a moonshiner. So then I kind
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of make it more of a story, kind of tell
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who Johnny was and look into it and then give
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the give it a more entertaining, more of a folklore
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feel as opposed to a little paragraph, you know, because
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I feel like a lot of these cryptids and monsters
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don't get the justice that they deserve, Like it's like
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it's just a little snippet here, and then it's like, no, man,
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there was something else going on. So I kind of
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look into that time period, what was happening and who
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it could have been, and then some have more details
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and some don't. So I've kind of found the same
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thing with the duel. There's a lot of stories where
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there's these snippets of encounters people had. I was like,
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that was probably a terrifying event. I'm going to write
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it and make it terrifying, so you know, I.
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Mean has an encountering already. The CRYPTI itself is terrifying.
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You got Moonshine Johnny going out there getting caught by whatever.
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Monster that was, and yeah, yeah, and it's funny. That
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sounds awesome. Yeah, that could be a band name, Like
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we should start a rock band Moonshine Johnny and then
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and then we will sell Moonshine at all the events
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and that'll be and that'll make them like our music
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more because they'll be drunk.
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I was gonna say, it's like I told I told
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my wife when I first met her, and this might
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be kind of outdated joke, and said, you know, the
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more you dreat the better looking I get.
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Yeah, No, no, it's not out there. It's true, Like
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it's yeah, that's you know, I just give my wife alcohol.
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So then she like it's like, wow, he's really a
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great guy.
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No, that's usually that is what it takes sometimes, but
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you know, I going back to the before this is
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gonna go off the rails and we'll talk offline. But yeah,
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last time I had you on, we were on the
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topics of lake monsters and sea serpents, and yeah, it's
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one of those where for centuries, every culture has a
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story of a serpent, you know, yeah, Levia, then a
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world serpent or something like that, or like here more
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look like you're talking about Chessy last time, or there
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are so many variations in Chessie across the United States.
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Yeah, chess Yeah, Yeah, you got Chessie, then you got
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like up near New York, you got Old Greenie. Then
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down in North Carolina you got Normany the Lake Norman Monster,
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and they're all they're all real similar, Like you got
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these similar stories, and it's now I guess we're kind
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of I feel falls into the dragon myth those because
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it really is. It's like this part bird, part lizard,
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flying creature doesn't really I couldn't find any stories were
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breathed fire, but but it had tentacles. It's a mismash
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of a lot of weird things, and so it falls
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into the dragon category. And that's just one of those
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things like we've had we have dragon stories all around
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the world. And and like I said, like pre was
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eighteen I came into the exact date, but eighteen thirty
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something that's when the word dinosaur even came into existence.
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So pre paleontology giving the name dinosaur, which means terrible lizard,
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which a dragon is a terrible lizard and a dragon,
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you know. So in my mind, I know, people get
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like scientists get all mad, like, oh, dinosaurs aren't dragons, Like, go,
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is it a giant, scary freaking lizard. Yeah, okay, well
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that's a dragon, you know, the same thing. You know
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it you know, and and there's many stories of dragons
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that don't breathe fire. There's you know, and there's a
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lot of you know, it's just a giant lizard monster.
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You know, Grendel from Beowulf was a dragon. Technically I
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maybe read the description. It's like, you know, although I
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believed it talked, uh so you know, the you know,
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they're all there, and I think the it's now a
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gaster fills into falls into the dragon category. H and
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and he's just cool. It's like it's one I say,
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it's one of those stories like I call him or
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her because we don't know. It could be a boy
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or girl, and I don't want to assume, but I
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call it. How about that, I call it the oldest
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colonial cryptid only because it you know, Sasquatch. The Native
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Americans had pre the you know, there's stories of that
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before that. But uh s now, a guesser came five
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years before the Jersey Devil. So the Jersey Devil's the
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second oldest colonial cryptied. And then you get into the
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hex Wolf, and then you get into like all these
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other like creatures that start popping up in the clone
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the history and the stories of the colonies. You know,
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they and they brought their superstitions from Europe, you know,
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because I mean there was a lot of superstitions over
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in Europe that came over and beliefs and and my
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thing is somebody saw or dealt with something and that
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just stayed in the DNA and the mind, and then
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when they came to the New World, they probably saw
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something and well that reminded us of this, and you know,
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kept going and we got to remember, followed us from
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the old country. Yeah, it came over snuck in a boat,
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got over here. But like you got to think about
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the fact that when because in our minds, you know,
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we're so you know, twenty twenty six, we we think
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we have modern technology. We have computers, we have lights,
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we have like you can't go outside, even like I'm
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pretty I'm kind of country, but like I go outside
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and I can see the lights of the town on
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the other side of the mountain, like the light pollution
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that's there. So even it's never truly like you have
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to really go far to get to complete darkness where
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it's just the stars in the moon affecting stuff. And
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when they first got here, that's what it was like.
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You didn't have so like you hear a noise, you
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see a shadow, and that thing's huge. You know, you
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don't know what you're dealing with, and there's a lot
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of fear. So and again it played into the superstition.
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And maybe they did see something that you know, was
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prowling that you know, such as sasquatch or something, and
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then you know, or maybe it was just a giant
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ou or a condor, you know, we don't know, but
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it was enough to terrorize this area from seventeen thirty
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to I think the last supposed sighting was in nineteen
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seventy five, so or's somewhere about there. Like someone claimed
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to have had to run in with the snelly Gaster,
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but you know that. I mean, I'm sure there's other
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people have said they've run into it, but that was
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one that actually made it into a blurb somewhere that
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hiker on the Appalachian Trail claimed to see a dragon thing?
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Could it be the snelly Gaster? So, yes, it was.
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I mean, Apalachia it's a very nice place to live,
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could also be a very scary place to hike in
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if you're not knowing.
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What you're doing.
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And I think probably at that time, with having these
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colonials coming over, there might have been some sounds or
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types of animals they've never seen before. Yeah, in my mind,
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they would be thinking, yeah, this thing followed us from
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the Old Country, or we got new monsters on this continent.
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But now with Snailey Gaster, I'm not very sure as
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far as the origins origins of where it began, but
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I have a little research it. I don't know sometimes
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how much I can trust some research, but I believe
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I'm gonna I would say I traced it because I
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didn't do any of the study. I just looked ghosts Germany,
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I believe, right.
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Yeah, yeah, the the is the Germans is Snelgeist and
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I'll probably mispronouncing that because I don't my Germans not good. Uh,
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it's either smile geist or snile geist or gyeast and
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it literally means quick spirit. At the same time, in
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the area, the Native American tribes had a story of
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a and this is kind of where it kind of meshed. Uh.
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They had a story of a monster on South Mountain
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as well, and very a flying creature. Uh, and that's
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kind of it's probably more of like a thunderbird thought.
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But then the two kind of melded. It went from
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being a quick spirit to this beast with wings what
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that had like feathers and a beak, but also lizard
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like and a tail and claws, and and then it
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morephed even more, grew tentacles and like it would grab
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you and eat you and take off your chickens and
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cows and whatever you know it. So yeah, so it
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started out as a spirit or whatever. H Like I said,
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the quick spirit, and it just morphed and got more
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terrifying as it came. It's kind of like a Pokemon.
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It just got bigger and badder every time it morphed.
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So it's a Pokemon cryptid. So and I would choose it,
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I'd be in the ball and to fight. It's got
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a lot, right.
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I think I made it more attractive for the young
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readers to do more research on this scrypt and now
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and there is a point where the terror spread throughout
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the country big enough to get the attention of a
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former president.
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Yes, and I tell that story in here. Now. I
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took it because I'll tell you the official story of that,
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and then kind of where I took it because so
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officially what happened was some guys disappeared on South Mountain
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and nobody knew what happened to So immediately people were like, oh,
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the snally Gaster got them, That's what they said. The locals, well,
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it was like, oh my gosh, a monster killed these
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three guys. What happened? And it got big enough that
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it was making it into like newspapers outside of the area,
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like into New York out out west, people were like,
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oh my gosh, a monster killed these three people. To
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the point that Teddy Roosevelt got wind of it, and
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he's like there's a what now. And the thing about
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Teddy whar Roosevelt is yeah, he was big on big
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conservative for nature. He brought us the national parks. He
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did a he was also an avid hunter and uh.
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And he he had belief in he didn't call it bigfoot,
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but a wild man, which was his description was bigfoot. Uh.
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He also believed in the ozark calor uh. He and
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he wrote about these and he actually in his journal
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mentioned the Snally Gaster because he was like, oh, we're
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gonna I'm gonna hunt it. And he and his son Kermit,
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who was his like you know son, but also his
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hunting buddy. They they are the ones who when he
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went to Africa, Kermit with him. But they they had
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planned to come to the Middletown Valley to go up
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on South Moulton Mountain hunt this thing down and kill
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it because it killed some Americans and so he had
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planned to be here. And I think it was roughly
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like a few days before the planned trip that the
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bodies of the guys were found. And what it happened
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was their distillery it had exploded and killed them, and
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which you know that happens when you're making illegal moonshine
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on a mountaintop somewhere in the woods. It can happen.
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So they the bodies were found, so the hunting trip
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got next. So they're like, oh, okay, it wasn't a monster,
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it was stupid guys. Well that's the official story. Some
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think that he actually did come and he hunted it
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down and then when they encountered it and he either
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killed it or it scared it away, he was like, Hey,
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America can't handle knowing that there's this out here. We
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can't tell people. Let's say we found the bodies that
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you know, and there was a distillery exploded, the moonshine
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killed them, and so that that's the official was that
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he never came. The more fun folklore ideas he did
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come but realized America couldn't handle that at that time.
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In nineteen oh nine is a weird year for America.
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If you look up, like all the monster things that
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happened that year, there's quite a few. There's like, you
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got Snali Gaster. You also have the Visitor van Van
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something visitor out in Iowa, which was another monster and
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the name just slipped right out of my head. You
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also had the Devil Monkey, being spotted all over the place,
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a couple encounters with the wampus cat and the ozark
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calor as well as like it was just a weird
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year of all these like cryptids showing up and just people.
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So I don't know what was happening in nineteen oh nine,
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but from basically nineteen oh eight to nineteen ten, you
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get all these weird like and meter visitor there. I
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had to get out of my head. So that happened
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in nineteen oh nine as well, And so it was
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like a lot of weird stuff happened that time period,
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and we don't know why.
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You know, one could opine, but you know, I have
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a theory. It's not a working theory because you just
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came up three seconds ago. So I've worked on it.
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That great.
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Perhaps it could be attributed to as the population grew
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and started expanding, more homes were being built, little towns
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that kept sprouting into bigger cities. Perhaps they were disturbing
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the local cryptids or animals, and perhaps it was their
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way of the reaction.
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Yeah, yeah, being hey you're in our area now, So
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it could be Yeah, it probably was. I'll go I'll
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believe you.
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I'll go with that I appreciate. That means a lot
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to me. And you know, he's like, you're not bringing
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the moonshine over here, so but.
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Not yet, not yet, not yet. Yeah, And and that
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wasn't the last story of snaw I Gaster. I mean
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nineteen nine, there were two incidences. You had that and
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then later in the year, or it might be earlier
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in the year, supposedly it killed somebody else as well.
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A man was walking home and it attacked him, and
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some guy claimed to have seen it happen, and it
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was like pretty horrific, and it also made it into
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the papers. And but so I think that happened first,
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and then the three guys vanished and then all together
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it's like it turns out. I think a lot of
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people think that the guy who was spotted being killed
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by Snodgaster. Actually they a lot of people think the
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guy who claimed to see it happen was the guy
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who killed him. But we don't know, you know, we
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don't know because it never went to trial. But you know,
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they just there was guy found on a side road,
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beaten up pretty bad, and another guy said, yeah, I
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saw this monster comeal sky and attack him.
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So yeah, it's like, I mean, it sounds plausible, like yeah, yeah,
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I did see the monster over there and away.
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Yeah. Kind of similar. Reminds me of.
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Because our neighbors to the south in northern Virginia have
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us not as similar to Texas. I don't think this
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supposed the crypto killed anybody, but the buddy man, I
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think there where supposedly a person dresses a bunny used
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to harass people with a machete or or actually hatch.
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He chased people. I don't know that he ever killed anyone.
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I do know he chased people, but I do know
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some people have died at the bridge he's supposed to
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be at, and not not too long ago. I think
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like three years ago someone was found dead by the bridge.
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Wasn't like hatched up by an axe or anything, but
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I don't know they jumped off the bridge or you know,
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but it just, you know, it's a place where some
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eerie things have happened, and some people have died in
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some her you know, you know ways, you know most
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probably most likely you know, unlive themselves. But uh, you know,
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the bunny man story is there. I've never been to
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that area like that. See for me, I like cryptids
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and stuff. But then like when you get into like
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the bunny Man story, it's almost like a demon thing,
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and I wig out about that kind of stuff where
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like ghosts and that kind of stuff. I'm like, it's
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a cool folklore, but I don't want to go. I
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don't want to go see it, you know, I don't
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want to go in that area. I just like it
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would be kind of like that the suicide forced over
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in Japan, Like it's weird, it's creepy. I like hearing
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about it. I like the stories, but I would never
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go because if I did see someone dead, I don't
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I would it would be like, oh man, that sucks.
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But also this is really eerie and you know there's
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something bad here. So yeah, I mean it is. It's advertised,
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So don't go in there. Yeah I won't. I won't
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don't want Yeah, no, I wouldn't either.
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Now this also, I think Louisville, Kentucky, has a similar
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thing with a pop public monster another monster to be
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hanging out by a train tracks, and I think some people.
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Have been found dead. They're either got to get hit
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by the train.
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You're gonna have to jump off, yeah, or yeah, there's
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same thing.
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Maryland has a goat man very similar like to like
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the bunny man. The goat man is by a bridge.
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It's like all the and I feel like it's a
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lot of them are by these train bridges, the we'reges,
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and it kind of goes back to like the old
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story of the goat trying to go over the bridge
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and the trolls who lived underneath. So again it's this
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myth those we have in our mind of dudes who
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live under bridges are not to be trusted, and you know,
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and so there's always there's always something weird about bridges
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and people. Yeah, a lot of the old stories like
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the cry Baby Bridge. You know, again it's at a
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bridge and you know, you hear babies crying and then
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and they lure you to the edge and you you know,
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And so there's something about bridges and it's water. I
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think there's a a lot of people think, say paranormal
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stuff water help. I don't. I don't. I don't. I'm
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not a paranormal person, ghost hunter. I have friends who are,
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but and I and I don't want to I'm gonna
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say it, but I could be wrong. But I think
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they kind of feel like the energy of the flow
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of the river attracts spirits and stuff. So you know,
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I'm not real positive on how that works, but I've
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heard it enough that there's probably something. And like I said,
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a lot of folklore mythology revolves around bridges going over
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water and there's a monster or something under it that
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you you know, you have to face and deal with.
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So there's like a weird connection that I don't understand.
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Yeah, I think they're great cautionary tales as well. We'll
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go out there and mess around.
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And I think the snile Gasterer was call it cautionary tale, like,
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don't go out into the woods alone. You don't know
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what's out there. You know there's this monster that will
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kill you and we will never see you again. So
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stop making your moonshine in the woods. Do it somewhere
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else safer, somewhere else safe. Yeah.
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No, because there's something about the Stanley Gaster though, it's
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making it a little bit of a comeback. I had
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a conversation with a person not long ago about Stanley
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Gaster and they kind of opened my eyes a little bit,
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because anybody could take a story, and unfortunately Sanley Gaster
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was that such cryptid dead. I think it was used
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for nefarious reasons. Yeah, back in the day to Yeah,
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it kind of broke my heart. But I don't think
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the true Stanley Gaster would.
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Do something like that. Yeah, it was. It was used
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to I think it was to scare runaway slaves at
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one point, and then it was just to, uh, I
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guess put fear into African Americans in general. And and
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I know a lot of people were like because of that,
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They're like, oh, you can't celebrate this now, I guess
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you can't blah blah, you know, and and I think
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those stories like what people did with that, and that's
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horrible and it should have never been done. But at
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the same time, there was there's a lot of mythology
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of this. Now, I guess for pre that had that
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had nothing to do with that, Like it it's not
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a guess, was not seeking only one kind of person.
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It didn't see race or color, It saw food and
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so like, it didn't care what you look like. Uh,
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it was after everybody. But yeah, there was, and there
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was an article written. I know a couple of people
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who got quoted in that. I was not interviewed for it,
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but I know a couple of people who were interviewed
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for it, and I'm friends with them, and they were quoted,
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and they actually were very upset because a person who
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wrote the article misled them on what they were doing
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and totally turned it into this thing. And the thing
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is they both told that, yeah, that it was used
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that way, but they went on to explain that, yeah,
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that was a time, but if you go back, it's not.
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Guess there's not the only one that got used that way.
475
00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:36.000
There were like the wampus cat was also used in
476
00:27:36.039 --> 00:27:39.880
a very similar way down south, like, hey, don't you
477
00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:43.079
go to don't you know the wampus cat will find you.
478
00:27:43.119 --> 00:27:46.559
Like the slave owners would tell their people that and
479
00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:49.680
would put fear in them, like they had people who
480
00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:53.680
like and this is true, there were slave owners who
481
00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:56.720
would go in the woods and make noises sounding like
482
00:27:56.759 --> 00:28:00.000
a monster you or have people do that at night
483
00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:02.240
and be like, hey, the only reason of your's live
484
00:28:02.599 --> 00:28:05.319
is you're staying on my property. We will you know,
485
00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:08.480
we may be horrible, but at least you're still alive.
486
00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:10.960
You know, I don't know, you know, so, I mean,
487
00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:14.960
snau Gaser wasn't the only one. But someone wrote an
488
00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:19.799
article and there was some controversy. Uh, And but like
489
00:28:19.799 --> 00:28:22.000
I said, I I didn't. I chose not to put
490
00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:24.240
any of those stories in the book because one, you
491
00:28:24.279 --> 00:28:29.119
know that in my mind, they those were, like you said, nefarious,
492
00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:34.759
They were done simply to oppress people. And I was like,
493
00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:38.079
you know what, that's you know, I don't really think
494
00:28:38.200 --> 00:28:40.920
that's the fun of it. Like, I think this Snu
495
00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:45.079
Gasser is a fun folklore, fun monster to study and
496
00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:47.680
interesting to see where it came from in the mindset.
497
00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:51.319
But I don't think that the two or three stories
498
00:28:51.359 --> 00:28:54.920
that happened with that, When there's about like fifty sixty
499
00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:57.440
stories of it and there's two or three that were bad,
500
00:28:57.519 --> 00:29:00.240
I don't think we should throw the whole folklore out
501
00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:04.039
just because of two or three stories about that, you know.
502
00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:07.480
And I wonder it was with covering that part of
503
00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:10.440
the history of it, if that's the reason maybe why
504
00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:13.359
it filled out of favor, because it could have.
505
00:29:13.559 --> 00:29:19.279
Yeah, yeah, I mean I did. There is in my book. Yeah,
506
00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:22.000
in my book, there is one story that takes place
507
00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:26.400
during the Civil War, and but it takes place during
508
00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:29.119
the Battle of South Mountain between the Union and the
509
00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:35.680
and the Confederates, and and it was like it did.
510
00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:40.480
You can say it was nefariously used in a way
511
00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:47.079
that the Union knew that the Confederate soldiers were more
512
00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:51.160
superstitious than them, so they allowed the story that there's
513
00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:55.799
a monster in South Mount and it got into the
514
00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:59.720
like the ranks of you know, the battle. And not
515
00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:03.640
to say that that helped anybody, you know then the
516
00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:07.480
Union win or whatever, but you know it helped, you know,
517
00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:09.960
maybe it did. Maybe they were more right, well, we
518
00:30:09.960 --> 00:30:12.000
don't want to charge up there. There's a monster up there,
519
00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:16.880
so you know, who knows, yo, I mean, they it.
520
00:30:17.559 --> 00:30:20.119
It probably did put some fear into some people. But yeah,
521
00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:24.400
I don't know. I wasn't there, so I just know that,
522
00:30:24.519 --> 00:30:27.920
you know, they eventually marched through Middletown to get the
523
00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:33.079
Gettysburg and then but so they did make it through
524
00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:39.559
and they survived the Snelly Gaster at least, sound like
525
00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:42.240
Gasker survived. It's one of those things we're talking about.
526
00:30:42.839 --> 00:30:43.400
At one point.
527
00:30:43.400 --> 00:30:45.279
It's a very popular crypt and it kind of just
528
00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:47.759
kind of failed to like a c great celebrity for
529
00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:51.240
a little while because honestly, we have so many cryptis
530
00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:52.880
that we talk about a lot of the same ones
531
00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:54.920
because we're talking about bigfo we talk about moth Man.
532
00:30:55.160 --> 00:30:58.319
Of course, if we're coming down closer to my neighborhood,
533
00:30:58.359 --> 00:31:01.640
my area that with monster is a big thing. Grafted
534
00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:05.039
Monsters now having a second revival of sorts.
535
00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:10.519
And yeah, and that's cool. Yeah, I love the Grafton
536
00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:13.759
Monster and that's I love that these lesser known ones
537
00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:16.519
are starting to get back into like people were fighting,
538
00:31:16.640 --> 00:31:18.480
and like I said, I think that there was like
539
00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:20.799
because of the nefarious thing that it kind of went
540
00:31:20.839 --> 00:31:26.720
away and then slowly he's starting to get a revival,
541
00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:29.720
he said, like you said, and like the like the
542
00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:31.519
sad thing. And for me, it's like, you know, the
543
00:31:31.599 --> 00:31:34.160
Jersey Devil was pretty huge, to the point that there's
544
00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:36.720
a hockey team named after him. Uh that you know
545
00:31:36.839 --> 00:31:39.880
they got uh you know, Mothman has a huge festival
546
00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:43.160
and he's only been around since the sixties technically, you know.
547
00:31:43.759 --> 00:31:49.039
And then uh, just recently the sny Gas in the
548
00:31:49.079 --> 00:31:52.920
Middletown area. This is only they've only now had two
549
00:31:54.039 --> 00:31:58.200
festivals for it, Like it's been ignored for so long
550
00:31:58.319 --> 00:32:02.400
in Middletown Valley is where it lived in Frederick area,
551
00:32:03.039 --> 00:32:06.160
and so they finally had two this year. It's going
552
00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:09.000
to be the third annual and they're trying to bring
553
00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:13.440
it back. And I talked with a lady, and you know,
554
00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:15.839
I'm trying to get her, you know, get her to
555
00:32:15.839 --> 00:32:18.680
get more Cryptid Monster people to show up, because it's
556
00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:21.039
kind of more of a crass fair and like a
557
00:32:21.079 --> 00:32:25.279
beer fest and there's some music, but I'm hoping to
558
00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:28.720
get it, you know, more storytelling happening, and you know,
559
00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:32.640
maybe some people come and talk about the talk about it,
560
00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:35.960
because people like when every time I'm there, I'm like
561
00:32:36.039 --> 00:32:38.079
one of the only boosts there. People come up and
562
00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:40.480
so what is this? You know, because they have it
563
00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:42.200
because I have pictures of it, and so I start
564
00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:44.319
telling the stories about it that and that's kind of
565
00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:48.880
what led to me to write the book. Like I'd
566
00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:52.920
been telling the stories about it, and so I you know,
567
00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:56.200
I've been writing them down, so I knew them, and
568
00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:58.279
I was just like, you know what, I got them
569
00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:01.880
all together, I should like polish them up, make them better,
570
00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:05.519
and then print them because no one did. And like,
571
00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:09.559
because I could never find a book about all the folklore,
572
00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:11.960
Like there's books out there about the snow Gaster, and
573
00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:14.920
there's books that have the snow Gaster in it. Even
574
00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:19.799
Harry Potter books mentioned the snowy Gaster. Uh, but no
575
00:33:19.839 --> 00:33:22.319
one had well I didn't know this, but no one
576
00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:25.559
had put together all the different folklore. So I did it.
577
00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:29.720
And when I did it, Frederick County has a Frederick
578
00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:33.400
magazine and a lady contacted me and said, we just
579
00:33:33.599 --> 00:33:35.720
found out you did a book about the snow Gaster
580
00:33:35.839 --> 00:33:38.680
and it's the first time someone's put together all the folklore.
581
00:33:38.920 --> 00:33:42.000
I go, really, I had no idea, and so I
582
00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:43.279
was just doing it because I was like, well, I
583
00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:45.160
have them all again, I'm going to do it. So
584
00:33:45.960 --> 00:33:49.720
and so I got interviewed there and then Hagerstown has
585
00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:51.960
a magazine. They interviewed me too because they're like, this
586
00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:54.359
is crazy that no one ever did this. I was like, yeah,
587
00:33:54.359 --> 00:33:58.079
it is crazy, like you think somebody would have and
588
00:33:58.160 --> 00:34:00.480
it what's cool? Is all right if you want to
589
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:02.559
talk about real quick like so like this is the
590
00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:06.519
book and uh, one thing I did. I like I
591
00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:09.199
had an artist like when I was doing it, I
592
00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:11.079
was like, because I'm not a good artist, I've done
593
00:34:11.639 --> 00:34:15.880
I can show you, like, here's like a picture. I
594
00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:17.360
don't know if you can see it real well, but
595
00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:20.719
that's the artist who did this. That's one of the
596
00:34:20.760 --> 00:34:24.920
renderings that he did. But he the guy I got
597
00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:26.639
to do it. His name's Chris Battles.
598
00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:27.239
Uh.
599
00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:31.280
He was a Marine Corps combat artist. But he's he
600
00:34:31.320 --> 00:34:35.519
has stuff in galleries and like he's a legit like
601
00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:40.079
amazing artist. And he doesn't do monsters. He just he
602
00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:43.119
does like he has stuff hanging in the Pentagon and
603
00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:46.719
in the White House, like like he's legit. Wow. And
604
00:34:46.760 --> 00:34:49.639
I've known him for years, like almost thirty years. I've
605
00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:53.199
known this guy, and we've been friends, and I know
606
00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:55.159
he was at my wedding. I was at his wedding
607
00:34:55.239 --> 00:34:58.000
and stuff, so like we but we've always talked about
608
00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:00.519
doing something together, but we've never done it anything. So
609
00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:02.760
when but because I know he's always busy and he's
610
00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:06.079
always traveling and he's, you know, got stuff to do.
611
00:35:06.639 --> 00:35:10.360
And so I contacted him because I was like, hey, dude,
612
00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:13.280
I know you teach some art and stuff, like do
613
00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:16.880
you have any artists that might be interested in illustrating
614
00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:19.239
doing some illustrations for a book?
615
00:35:19.719 --> 00:35:19.920
You know?
616
00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:24.239
Ah? And he goes, what's it about? And so I
617
00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:26.199
told him and he goes and he had never heard
618
00:35:26.239 --> 00:35:29.280
of it, and he's like, even though we're friends, he goes, well,
619
00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:31.639
I just don't really talk about monsters with him because
620
00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:36.639
it just doesn't come up in our normal conversation. But uh.
621
00:35:36.679 --> 00:35:38.880
And then I was like, well it's one of Well
622
00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:41.159
he knew I was into monsters, but he's like in
623
00:35:41.199 --> 00:35:43.840
the cryptids, and so I told him. He goes, that
624
00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:47.840
is crazy. He goes, I want to draw that. I
625
00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:52.119
was like, really, I go okay, and I and he goes, well,
626
00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:55.079
do you have any like pictures of it? I go, well,
627
00:35:55.079 --> 00:35:57.400
how about this. I go, I'm curious as to how
628
00:35:57.480 --> 00:35:59.840
you would draw it. So I will give you a
629
00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:04.239
description of what it is and what I've heard. And
630
00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:06.760
I go, and you just take that, And I go,
631
00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:10.360
promise me you will not go look at what other
632
00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:13.800
people drew. And he goes, okay, okay, okay. So that
633
00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:16.199
was so he I gave one. I gave him a
634
00:36:16.239 --> 00:36:19.559
copy of the manuscript, and I gave him the description.
635
00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:22.920
So he read the book and then for each chapter
636
00:36:23.079 --> 00:36:28.079
he did a drawing. And and so if someone does
637
00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:30.519
buy the book and they want to get it signed
638
00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:33.480
by him, if they want to contact me, I can
639
00:36:33.559 --> 00:36:36.639
get them a signed copy by him because it'll Actually
640
00:36:36.679 --> 00:36:39.960
I said when we were at the event, he was
641
00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:42.000
there with me and we were signing books, and I
642
00:36:42.039 --> 00:36:45.639
was like, his signature is like worth more than mine.
643
00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:49.760
So to get his signature on this book is like
644
00:36:50.119 --> 00:36:52.639
beier deal. And you can kind of like see behind me,
645
00:36:53.199 --> 00:36:56.880
that's one of the original drawings he did for the book.
646
00:36:57.039 --> 00:36:58.840
It's over on my shoulder, and I have another one
647
00:36:58.840 --> 00:37:03.000
over here. But he gave me all the original artwork
648
00:37:03.119 --> 00:37:05.719
he had done for the book, and so it's like
649
00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:08.679
which I did not expect, but I was like, dude,
650
00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:12.280
thank you, that's awesome. You know, I didn't think that.
651
00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:14.199
Wasn't even going to ask him because I was like
652
00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:20.880
that those those will be worse something. So but yeah,
653
00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:23.960
so it's cool for me to see someone who isn't
654
00:37:24.119 --> 00:37:26.840
like like you and I and are into into these
655
00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:29.159
you know, cryptis and stuff. And I know a lot
656
00:37:29.199 --> 00:37:31.320
of artists that you know, we meet him at events
657
00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:33.239
that are really into him and draw all these things.
658
00:37:33.559 --> 00:37:37.760
So it was fun to see his interpretation. So because
659
00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:39.960
in my mind it was kind of cool to be
660
00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:43.079
like kind of because in my mind go back to
661
00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:45.639
the original people who saw and describe it, you know,
662
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:48.400
they're like, this was what they thought it was. This
663
00:37:48.519 --> 00:37:52.360
is what they thought they saw, you know. So so
664
00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:54.280
he had fun with it and he did a great job,
665
00:37:54.559 --> 00:37:57.679
and all the art organ is like, to me, it's
666
00:37:57.760 --> 00:38:01.320
really cool just because I just knowing it's not someone
667
00:38:01.360 --> 00:38:05.000
who is ended that this area that note like knows
668
00:38:05.039 --> 00:38:09.119
these monsters like we do and stuff, so made it
669
00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:13.840
fun way more fun when he was sending them.
670
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:17.440
Yeah, because a person who, like you said, not into
671
00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:19.760
cryptids that you know of. And this is the first
672
00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:21.800
time I ever heard of Stanley Gaster for him to
673
00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:24.119
come out with that draw and he was pretty pretty
674
00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:26.559
spot on. I think captured the space of the animal
675
00:38:26.719 --> 00:38:28.800
very well in the drawings. And I did get to
676
00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:31.559
meet him at the event also, very nice guy, very
677
00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:36.480
nice guy. Oh yeah, I mess somebody. Yeah I met
678
00:38:36.519 --> 00:38:37.480
somebody else at that event.
679
00:38:38.239 --> 00:38:42.639
Oh yeah, something else. Oh did you I did? I did?
680
00:38:42.679 --> 00:38:47.920
I think Stanley Gaster himself, I believe it was. It
681
00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:50.840
was a beautiful thing right there right there. Can you
682
00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:52.800
see his head? You can see he's peeking.
683
00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:57.039
Over actually a little shy tonight, but yeah, I mean
684
00:38:57.440 --> 00:39:00.559
was this did you make that out fire?
685
00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:05.840
Yeah? Yeah? My daughter and I when we knew we're
686
00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:09.360
going to do the event because one I knew it
687
00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:12.239
was the Cryptid Halloween. I knew I was going to
688
00:39:12.280 --> 00:39:14.280
be the debut in the book, like because I'd been
689
00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:16.960
working on it and then working with Chris doing the art,
690
00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:21.239
and the plan was we're going to release it last October.
691
00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:22.840
That was a plan. I was like, well, I want
692
00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:27.679
to do something cool. So we're like, we got to
693
00:39:27.719 --> 00:39:34.159
get a costume for it, like someone to wear this costume,
694
00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:38.559
and so we went online and we're so what we
695
00:39:38.679 --> 00:39:43.199
did is like she's really talented artist in her own
696
00:39:43.239 --> 00:39:45.840
way of like not really drawing but photography, and like
697
00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:48.880
she's a good drawer too, but she she just does
698
00:39:48.960 --> 00:39:52.960
pretty much ever she does stop motion claymation stuff, and
699
00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:56.239
so we were like, let's make a costume. And she goes, well,
700
00:39:56.239 --> 00:39:57.639
that's going to take some time. She goes, how about
701
00:39:57.719 --> 00:40:01.639
we find a month like one that's kind of already
702
00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:04.360
in a way done. So we looked online and we
703
00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:10.960
found like this dragon and it was it was really
704
00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:14.039
goofy looking. So we're like, I was like, okay, let's
705
00:40:14.159 --> 00:40:16.320
order it. We ordered, it came and then we just
706
00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:19.400
totally like ripped off the eyes. We took off. It
707
00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:22.599
had some other stuff on it. We took all this
708
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:25.880
stuff out and then we redid it, made it have
709
00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:29.039
one single eye. Then we had she made all the
710
00:40:29.079 --> 00:40:32.159
tentacles for it, and then we like redid the body
711
00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:35.599
so it was like fatter and so we were like
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00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:38.519
we had a lot of fun making it and at
713
00:40:38.639 --> 00:40:44.119
and then got my other son to wear it. I
714
00:40:44.159 --> 00:40:45.840
was like, dude, you want to be the snow gaster
715
00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:48.800
and he's like all right. So so he was there
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00:40:48.840 --> 00:40:53.000
at the event running around, walking around in the snowy
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00:40:53.039 --> 00:40:58.800
gasser outfit, you know, waving and meeting people. And hopefully
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00:40:58.639 --> 00:41:00.840
he will be at the next event that we do
719
00:41:01.480 --> 00:41:04.719
so which I have not decided when. But yeah, but
720
00:41:04.760 --> 00:41:07.760
it's very hot, so I there's a couple of summer
721
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:10.599
events that we need to get like a cooling vest
722
00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:13.000
for him to wear. Because even at that event we
723
00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:14.719
were at and it wasn't a hot day, he was
724
00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:19.480
like get He was like after forty minutes, he's like,
725
00:41:19.519 --> 00:41:22.960
I gotta take this off. He would go take a
726
00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:26.760
break for an hour, then put it back on. So well,
727
00:41:26.800 --> 00:41:29.039
I don't I don't blame him. I think that best
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00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:32.280
for winter and late fall. But let me.
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00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:36.599
I'll say this, though, I believe you're probably the first
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00:41:36.599 --> 00:41:43.639
person to have somebody well Stanley Gaster outfit. I don't
731
00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:45.559
think so within the last hundred years.
732
00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:48.639
I'm gonna say, Yeah, you know, I may be I
733
00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:53.159
may be the first Snolly Gaster mascot costume that has
734
00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:55.920
ever been done. Like, and I also have a puppet.
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00:41:56.039 --> 00:41:58.679
It might be the first Snay Gasterer puppet. Over there,
736
00:41:58.880 --> 00:42:01.880
you can kind of see him behind me. He's over there.
737
00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:06.199
I remember him. Yeah, that's how I first met Yeah, yeah,
738
00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:09.519
I had the puppet. So so that's saw one. And
739
00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:12.000
then the big costume is Saul too. So I just
740
00:42:12.079 --> 00:42:14.320
named him Solve the Snowy Gaster. And it's the same,
741
00:42:14.440 --> 00:42:16.159
you know. He just like I said, he's like you
742
00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:19.559
you know Pokemon. He went really small, now he's really big.
743
00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:22.280
The next one, it will be something I can ride
744
00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:28.239
and animatronic. Dude. I can ride on its back and
745
00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:31.719
it maybe fly. We'll put some drones inside it and
746
00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:36.360
it'll fly me around. So that'll be the next incarnation.
747
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:40.719
Oh, they're gonna get plenty of phone calls about a
748
00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:44.559
flying dragon across here, man, so you gotta be careful.
749
00:42:45.239 --> 00:42:50.559
Yeah, yeah, I'll get shot down by the military. Crazy
750
00:42:50.639 --> 00:42:54.159
man in hat on a dragon. We have to shoot
751
00:42:54.239 --> 00:42:58.000
him down. Yeah, that would that would suck.
752
00:42:59.679 --> 00:43:01.440
Well, that's a hell of a promotion for your for
753
00:43:01.519 --> 00:43:04.840
your show man. That would be great and not really great,
754
00:43:04.840 --> 00:43:07.519
but it'd be it'd be something. I's just say that now.
755
00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:11.800
I know that twenty twenty six is already here and I've.
756
00:43:11.679 --> 00:43:12.440
Seen you a few times.
757
00:43:12.559 --> 00:43:16.239
You're in twenty twenty five the last few events.
758
00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:17.519
I believe.
759
00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:20.679
It's gonna be a very busy season for you. I
760
00:43:20.679 --> 00:43:24.079
know you're working on some material for your show on YouTube.
761
00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:26.280
What's coming up? And then what events will you be
762
00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:26.920
doing this year?
763
00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:32.039
Well, I'll definitely be at the Snellygaster Festival in Middletown
764
00:43:32.119 --> 00:43:35.280
Valley again because it'll be the third annual. So I
765
00:43:36.119 --> 00:43:37.920
want to try and I'm going to keep going to
766
00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:39.519
that as much as i can to try and help
767
00:43:39.719 --> 00:43:42.320
them build that up because I think it's really good.
768
00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:46.400
I know. Also in the fall, like these are the
769
00:43:46.440 --> 00:43:49.599
ones I definitely have. Know all bet there's a Sleepy
770
00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:54.960
Hollow Fall festival in Middletown that I always do, so
771
00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:57.519
I'll be at that one. And then I'm kind of
772
00:43:57.559 --> 00:43:59.840
just looking at what events, So I need to have
773
00:43:59.840 --> 00:44:01.800
a nailed any of those down, but I like if
774
00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:05.280
people come to check me out on Instagram, I will
775
00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:07.960
be announcing where I'm going to be and win. I'm
776
00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:10.480
going to also try and talk to a couple of
777
00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:15.639
places in the Frederick County, Maryland area to try and
778
00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:18.119
to use a couple of was like you need to
779
00:44:18.159 --> 00:44:21.320
do some book signings and book you know, talks and
780
00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:24.280
you know, and so I'm going to talk to like,
781
00:44:24.360 --> 00:44:27.239
I guess a couple of the libraries in the area
782
00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:31.840
where I'll have my books available to sign and talk
783
00:44:32.039 --> 00:44:35.440
and tell some stories and maybe have Saul there with
784
00:44:35.519 --> 00:44:39.679
me and he'll shake hands take pictures with people. He's
785
00:44:39.800 --> 00:44:43.719
very he's very friendly. Now he's very he's become very domesticated.
786
00:44:44.239 --> 00:44:47.519
He hasn't killed anyone in years, so you know he's
787
00:44:47.639 --> 00:44:53.079
you know, it's not I guess you know, he's enlightened. Yeah, Yeah,
788
00:44:54.599 --> 00:44:57.599
he's doing very well. Yeah, And I'll be announcing those
789
00:44:57.639 --> 00:44:59.400
and like, I need to talk with you because you
790
00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:01.000
know more of it than I do. So I need
791
00:45:01.039 --> 00:45:03.119
to find out like what cool ones I should try
792
00:45:03.159 --> 00:45:07.920
and get into, because I definitely want to as far
793
00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:10.679
as the podcast I gotta I said, I'm working on
794
00:45:11.599 --> 00:45:14.480
I'll probably be having some more guests. I'm talking to
795
00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:18.639
some people also, I'm gonna be like I said, I'm
796
00:45:18.639 --> 00:45:22.280
working on some stories. I actually have something that is
797
00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:26.079
not really Cryptid inspired. It's comic book inspired, but it's
798
00:45:26.440 --> 00:45:29.719
a story I'm telling and it's going to be in
799
00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:32.639
multiple parts, and it's going to be happening throughout the year,
800
00:45:32.639 --> 00:45:34.440
so it won't be back to back, so it'll be
801
00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:37.440
like episode one and then a couple of months i'll
802
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:41.920
do episode two. But it's it's a the story of
803
00:45:41.960 --> 00:45:46.760
a superhero comic book character I created, and it interestingly,
804
00:45:46.920 --> 00:45:51.039
it's going to be a musical, and we have a
805
00:45:51.079 --> 00:45:54.039
friend of mine and I have worked on the music recorded,
806
00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:57.119
so the first episode, all the music is recorded and
807
00:45:57.239 --> 00:46:00.760
I'm putting it together so we have all the voices recorded.
808
00:46:01.519 --> 00:46:05.360
So it's going to be a superhero musical that I
809
00:46:05.519 --> 00:46:09.079
just wanted to get done. And that'll be coming out
810
00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:12.360
probably in February, the first episode in February, and then
811
00:46:12.400 --> 00:46:16.119
the second one probably April, so it'll be every two
812
00:46:16.199 --> 00:46:19.159
months I'll do another episode of that, but then I'll
813
00:46:19.159 --> 00:46:23.159
continue to be doing the monster stories. I said with music,
814
00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:28.599
sound effects and fun stuff. So like, and there is
815
00:46:28.639 --> 00:46:30.880
one one of the stories in here I actually i'm
816
00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:33.159
working on. I'm going to turn it into like an
817
00:46:33.239 --> 00:46:38.559
audio play, so almost like an audiobook, but it'll be
818
00:46:38.599 --> 00:46:41.360
on the podcast. It'll just be And I don't think
819
00:46:41.360 --> 00:46:43.920
I'll do it for every story, but there's a there's
820
00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:45.800
at least two in there that I want to do
821
00:46:46.199 --> 00:46:50.440
that way that I think would be fun. So yeah,
822
00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:53.199
so that those are all going to be working on
823
00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:56.599
as well. So I got people voice actors and stuff
824
00:46:56.599 --> 00:47:00.360
that are helping me out with that. So we're we're
825
00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:02.599
gonna have a lot of fun in twenty twenty six.
826
00:47:03.119 --> 00:47:06.159
So there'll there'll still be fun stories, fun interviews, but
827
00:47:06.199 --> 00:47:10.760
then they'll be cool, like weird, you know, entertaining little things.
828
00:47:11.400 --> 00:47:15.639
Just yeah, all right, I'm looking forward to all what
829
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:19.000
you just said. I'm just sitting here. I'm not twitching
830
00:47:19.039 --> 00:47:22.039
from the caffeine, but anticipation of what's coming up. And
831
00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:24.039
I though that you know, we can talk about on
832
00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:28.480
your social media, on your Facebook, on your Instagram, also
833
00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:30.199
on Fiedora files dot com.
834
00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:34.519
Mhmm, yeah, all the Yeah, if anybody wants to find
835
00:47:34.559 --> 00:47:36.559
out where stuff is or what's going on. That's where
836
00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:39.239
they go. Yeah, if you go to fedorasfiles dot com
837
00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:43.880
and uh, then that gets you to the Instagram page.
838
00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:47.559
That gets you to everything, to the YouTube channel. And
839
00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:49.840
if they just go to the YouTube channel and do
840
00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:52.519
the Fedora files, they'll find it and you know, there's
841
00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:55.639
and and that'll take you to the Instagram and so
842
00:47:57.559 --> 00:48:00.360
all that. You know. So there's always stuff going on
843
00:48:00.440 --> 00:48:04.639
and I'm messing around with So it's fun. Yeah, So I,
844
00:48:04.719 --> 00:48:07.000
like I said, I want to entertain people, but also
845
00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:10.119
you know, give them cool, you know stories and just
846
00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:14.079
you know, a little break from reality, because I think
847
00:48:14.079 --> 00:48:17.119
there's you know, reality is not always great and people
848
00:48:17.159 --> 00:48:21.159
need a little little time to get away from it. Yeah.
849
00:48:21.880 --> 00:48:22.400
I agree.
850
00:48:22.440 --> 00:48:23.880
Sometimes we got to tap out a little bit and
851
00:48:23.920 --> 00:48:27.280
just enjoy the stories, the folklore, the superstition, all of
852
00:48:27.320 --> 00:48:30.039
it all together. It's a great feeling. And you also
853
00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:33.639
learn too while being entertained. And I know that I
854
00:48:33.719 --> 00:48:36.920
know you pretty good, my friend. Did I know you
855
00:48:36.920 --> 00:48:38.639
just at your book You can do the musical, you
856
00:48:38.679 --> 00:48:41.000
got the videos coming out, and I know you have
857
00:48:41.039 --> 00:48:43.760
many books in you and in my mind, I know
858
00:48:43.800 --> 00:48:44.920
you'll probably have one.
859
00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:46.360
Done by the end of twenty twenty six.
860
00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:49.400
I love to bring you back, and I know you're
861
00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:51.079
gonna surprise you with the next crypt that you're gonna
862
00:48:51.079 --> 00:48:51.679
be writing about.
863
00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:54.360
Yeah, I will, yeah, And when I do, I'll let
864
00:48:54.360 --> 00:48:58.519
you know. Maybe, like when I decide exactly like I'm
865
00:48:58.719 --> 00:49:02.480
I'm I mentioned the way on stuff, I'm still pun
866
00:49:02.519 --> 00:49:04.639
to get, but there's another monster to you that's a
867
00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:09.000
little lesser known, that's not in Maryland. But it's another
868
00:49:09.039 --> 00:49:11.800
one that I find fascinating. I don't want to get away.
869
00:49:11.800 --> 00:49:14.360
So maybe when I decide which one I'm going to do,
870
00:49:15.159 --> 00:49:16.880
I'll let you know. And whether or not I come
871
00:49:16.920 --> 00:49:19.159
on the show to do it, you can just say, hey,
872
00:49:19.199 --> 00:49:22.119
I just heard from and his next book is going
873
00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:25.480
to be about this, and so then you know either way,
874
00:49:26.159 --> 00:49:28.280
or maybe we just do a short, little quick thing
875
00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:31.960
that we put on Instagram together, you know, something like that.
876
00:49:33.559 --> 00:49:36.599
Consider it done, my friend. Thank you for coming back
877
00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:38.760
on Let's find Out and I'll see you later this year.
878
00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:41.960
Oh definitely, thank you for having me again. Thank you,
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00:49:41.960 --> 00:49:45.320
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