Haunted Bourbon: Proofing The Paranormal At The Jim Beam Distilery

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Between the realm of the dead and the journeys of the living, join Josh, Jamie, and Elisa as they delve into the vast world of the paranormal and breathe life back into the history of the departed.
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Hey everybody, welcome to the Paranormal Peace Podcast.
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I'm Jamie.
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I'm Elisa.
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And I'm Josh.
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And tonight we're going to Kentucky.
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Oh, we've been there.
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We have been there.
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We're going back.
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We're going back.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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I just had to do that so I could fit in.
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Take us back.
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Hey, in at least in August, you'd be like, I've got to be back.
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I've been to Kentucky.
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That's right.
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She'd be like, I've been to Waverly.
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Nee nee nee.
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I know.
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So freaking excited.
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Deep in the rolling hills of Claremont, Kentucky, the air is thick with the angel's share.
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That sweet oaky vapor that escapes the bourbon barrels as they age.
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But at the James B.
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Beam Distillery Company, the angels aren't the only ones taking their cut.
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Since 1795, seven generations of the Beam family have mastered the craft of the spirit.
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But some spirits here never left.
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From the lady in the window watching over the T.
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Jeremiah Beam House to the unexplained screams that echo through the grounds on the night of a full moon, the history of the distillery is written in the more than just whiskey and charred oak.
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Tonight we step past the copper stills and into the shadows of Warehouse D to uncover the legends, the sightings, and the souls that still linger in the birthplace of the world's best selling bourbon.
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Grab a glass and settle in.
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Tonight, we're proofing the paranormal at Jim Beam.
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Nice.
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That's quite the intro.
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I know.
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Now I just need a glass of Jim Beam.
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Like, what's that?
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It's a bourbon.
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It's bourbon.
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Alky Hole.
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Yes.
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What's that?
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I'm just kidding.
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Something I don't I don't drink.
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Nope.
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Not a Jim, not a Jim Beam fan, unfortunately, I guess.
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Is it unfortunate?
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I don't know.
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I mean, it's the world's number one bourbon, so maybe.
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Maybe it's an acquired taste.
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Oh, it is definitely an acquired taste.
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I would imagine it is an acquired taste, but you also don't follow the world, do you?
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I don't.
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So you're not missing out.
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No.
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The story of the Jim Beam distillery starts even before Kentucky was born.
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In 1740, when America was known as the Thirteen Colonies, many European settlers came on land dreaming of a better future.
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As did the Boehm family from Germany.
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They relocated 48 years later to where central Kentucky is now and changed their name to Beam because that sounded more American.
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They started growing corn because the hot summers and mild winters were perfect for this crop.
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The nearby limestone spring made it perfect.
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Some settlers, like Scottish, Irish, and also German, started carefully producing bourbon.
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Some settlers, like Scottish, Irish, and German, started carefully producing bourbon.
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Jacob Beam used his father's recipe for whiskey and decided to try this on his excess corn.
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The taste of his whiskey bourbon was much sweeter than the better known grain based whiskey.
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And when Jacob made the best dis oh sorry, and then Jacob made the best decision he's ever made, he started selling it.
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Why not?
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Right?
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If it's much sweeter.
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It's like, hey, this is pretty good.
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Yeah.
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Let's sell it.
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Let's make some moolah.
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In 1795, Jacob began selling his old Jake Beam sour mash whiskey straight from the barrel.
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Its immediate popularity throughout the region allowed him to expand his holdings and distribute his whiskey beyond state lines, laying the foundation for a burgeoning an enterprise.
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Well, that was like the thing then.
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Yeah.
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Any alcohol was like more precious than water.
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So when he started making his whiskey, there were 3,000 other distilleries in Kentucky.
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That's a lot.
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Holy.
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In Kentucky.
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In Kentucky.
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Dude, they got a problem.
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Just to give that context, there's 2,000 distilleries in the U.S.
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today.
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Holy moly.
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It's kind of like the gold rush, only alcohol.
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And we're talking legal licensed distilleries.
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Right.
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We're not talking about the moonshiners.
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I was gonna say the people grow or growing it, the people making it out in their backyard.
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Yeah.
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Or up in the woods.
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Yeah.
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Which Kentucky is highly known for moonshining too.
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So yeah.
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Yeah.
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This is just legal distilleries.
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We've had some good moonshine.
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We have, but that's legal moonshine.
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I understand, but it was still good.
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It was delicious.
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The one we had was butterscotch.
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It tasted just like a butterscotch candy.
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Like if you melted a butterscot candy.
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Except for it burned.
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Yeah.
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Gross.
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It was so good.
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Uh David Beam, Jacob's son, inherited his father's aptitude for both distilling and business.
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In 1820, at the age of 18, David assumed the role of distillery manager and spearheaded the company's move towards industrialization.
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Recognizing the potential for increased efficiency and production, he expanded the he expanded the distillery and became one of the first to implement the revolutionary column still technology instead of uh the traditional pot stills.
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So they're just industrializing and making it better.
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Or I should say more efficient.
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Well, because you have to be during that time.
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If you've got 3,000 people that you're going up against, you gotta be a step ahead.
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Yeah, exactly.
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The influence and contribution contributions of James Bergen, Jim Beam, were such that is were such that it is his name by which the company and distillery are known today.
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So born in 1864, the great grandson of Jacob Beam, he took over the family business in 1894 when the brand was known as Old Tub.
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Old Tub.
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Did they make it in an old tub?
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That's how it started.
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That's what I picture the label as just an old like claw foot bathtub.
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With an old dude bathing in bourbon.
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Got a little scrub brush in his hands.
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Bathtub full of bourbon.
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I taste like my old granddaddy.
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Like his grandfather, he wasn't content with the status quo and implemented modern techno techniques and business practices to make Old Tub one of the first national bourbon brands.
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So I mean you gotta figure, I mean, 1894, like there's still not that much as far as like national recognization of things.
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Things were still very localized because there's no there's no television, there's no local, you know, national advertising capable capabilities.
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I'm sure a lot of that stuff was by word of mouth.
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Exactly.
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Word of mouth, and then you know, some transporting it to other areas and like and like having to hand sell it to you know owner store owners and yeah, and stuffers, yeah.
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But unfortunately prohibition came.
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Oh, of course.
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And during pro prohibition, James Beam, who uh was the father of T.
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Jeremiah Beam, sold Clear Spring Distillery, which was their name at the time.
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The family was involved briefly and unsuccessfully in coal mining and stone crushing during the during Prohibition era.
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During this period, the Murphy Barber Company Distillery, a small complex at Claremont, was purchased by James Beam.
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The Murphy Barber Distillery had operated at Claremont from 1891 to 1918.
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Which sounds like a really long time, but it was really 2017.
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I was gonna say it's like what 30 years?
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Yeah, 27 years, yeah.
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Not as long as it sounds.
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It's not as long.
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Anytime you go like 18 something, you're like 19 something, you're like, whoa, that's ancient.
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Yeah.
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At the center of the small Murphy Barber Company operation was the two-story frame house, which later became the home of Jeremiah Beam.
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Built originally in 1911, it functioned with the Murphy Barber Company operation as a boarding house for Coopers, gaugers, and salespeople who visited the plant.
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When the Murphy Barber Company closed in 1917, the rooming house became a farmhouse.
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When Prohibition ended, James B.
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Beam formed a partnership with Harry Blum to build a modern distilling operation.
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The Murphy Baker Company site at Claremont was chosen as the site for the new operation, and T.
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Jeremiah Beam was put in charge of the on-site management of the new operation.
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So they took over an old distillery in the house and turned it into what is now modern-day Jim Beam.
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That's pretty cool.
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It is neat, isn't it?
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So Jeremiah Beam moved into the refurbished boarding house, which became the focal point of the operation during the 1930s.
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Beam lived in the house until 1946 when he moved to Louisville and became and began commuting to the plant.
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That sounds terrible.
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Well, how far is it?
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That's a couple hours today.
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Oh.
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So would he like commute and then just stay there for a while for the week and then go back home?
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More than likely, that's exactly what he was saying.
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I wonder if it if things like that would be like week on, week off.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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I mean, you you've heard of places of people doing that where they'd come in for a little bit and then leave.
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I mean, because if he's he if he's not actively doing the distilling and like being the the distill master, then he wouldn't necessarily need to be there all the time.
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Right.
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Except for the old boarding house, all the other structures from the Murphy Baker Company operation were removed as a modern Jim Beam distillery company plant developed over the next three decades.
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Numerous nine-story storage houses, warehouses were built on the site of the of the low hills.
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And by numerous, I think they're up to 32.
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Holy moly.
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Today?
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Yeah.
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Wow.
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They have a half a million barrels of uh product on site.
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Seriously.
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Holy cow.
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Yeah.
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Wow, I'd like to see that.
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I wonder how much they sell a day.
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Um, a few million bottles.
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A day?
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Yeah.
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The way you used to.
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I mean, I mean today, though.
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Oh.
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I wonder how much they would they sell in a day on average.
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They stopped operating for a year this year.
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Did they really?
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Yeah.
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This year?
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This year.
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They're stopping operations for a full year because they're Canadian.
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A lot of this is um consumed in Canada, and 86% of the Canadian exports dropped.
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So they they they're only down to 14%.
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Oh wow.
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And let's face it, most people aren't consuming alcohol like we used to.
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I hope not.
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That's probably a good thing.
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Yeah.
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So like the I think the the liquor industry in itself is in a decline at the moment.
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Eh, good.
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Who cares?
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I mean, this place will be a museum for a long time coming, so.
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Um, lakes were created to store water for the operation, and the modern still house and operation buildings were also constructed.
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All buildings have been added in the last 50 years, including one-story storage houses.
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Extensive changes to the structures built in the 1930s, plus the addition of other buildings in the last 50 years, prevent the nomination of the entire complex to the national registry.
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So unfortunately, because everything's being new, they can't get the entire site on the national registry.
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Because it's not old enough?
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Right, because it's constantly in flux.
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Because it's only, you know, 50 years old.
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I mean, most everything's other than the house.
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Right.
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Everything else is, you know, under 50 years old.
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The T.
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Jeremiah Beam House, which remains the focal point of the complex, is the building most significantly associated with the early uh critical years when planning and development of the post-prohibition distillery at Claremont took place.
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He relocated operations where the critical ingredient was stored in a safe location and nurtured through the dry years.
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This wasn't just a matter of preservation for him.
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It was an act of foresight that ensured the can continuity of Jim Beam's unique flavor profile.
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So imagine having the foresight to say, hey, prohibition, we can't sell anything.
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So we're just gonna store it.
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Until it's over.
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Until it's over.
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I mean, smart.
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Very smart.
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Yeah.
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And then you're then you got the supply of all the legal hooch once prohibition drops.
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Yeah.
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So when Prohibition ended in 1933, Beam was 69.
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Rather than retire, like we know, he rebuilt and modernized the facility.
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So the company as we know today, which is the Jim B.
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Beam Distilling Company, was officially formed in 43.
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Even though his family had the old tub for a lot longer.
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Right.
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Um, he passed away in 1946.
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But of course, his name is which the true legacy of Jim Beam truly rests.
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So T.
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Jeremiah Beam, uh, James Bean Beam's son took over distilling in 46, and he's credited with help building the brand's profile overseas, start selling it overseas.
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James Beam's grandsons, Frederick Booker No, the second, Edward Baker Beam, uh, further cemented the family's legacy.
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In the 1980s, Booker, a sixth-generation master distiller, created the small batch bourbon collection.
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These premium bourbons include Booker's Booker's Knob Creek, Baker's, and Basil Haydens.
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This is like all words I don't understand.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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They're just brands.
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Oh, okay.
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They're just brands, or they're different strengths, or are they they're brands.
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They're just brands.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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So it's very interesting.
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Looking into the history of the area, trying to find um why this these places would be haunted.
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Right.
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You look for, you know, tragedies and deaths and typically that's what we look for.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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Trying to find anything that kind of happened in the area.
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Um, and there's just nothing really reported, except for one incident that happened in 2019 on July 3rd.
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2019.
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Super recent.
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Yeah.
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Wow.
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Lightning strikes one of the barrel warehouses.
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So we're talking nine stories of whiskey barrels.
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Okay, so what happens?
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And everything's in wood.
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Oh, geez.
00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:37.279
The barrels are wood, the building's wood.
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So what happened?
00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:47.440
So the warehouse burns so hot that the heat melts the fire truck's tail lights that show up like candle wax.
00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:48.799
Well, okay, yeah.
00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:52.000
So wood and alcohol and fire.
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You got the alcohol to fuel the fire.
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That's gonna, yeah.
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Wow.
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Firefighters let the warehouse burn until Saturday evening in the hopes that most of the liquid would burn up rather than spill into the nearby creek.
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Even still, the runoff created a 23-mile-long alcohol plume that floated down the Kentucky River, leaving thousands of fish who couldn't hold their liquor dead in its wake.
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Poor fishies are not meant to breathe liquor.
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An official casualty count is forthcoming.
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So it was it was tens of thousands of fish then.
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No sad though.
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The plume had entered the Ohio River by Sunday night, which then thankfully it dissipated because of the the size of the river.
00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:44.559
Diluted it down.
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Diluted it down.
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Yeah.
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That's gonna be so hard for the fishermen.
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Oh yeah.
00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:50.720
Trying to catch drunk fish.
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Oh my gosh.
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Or dead fish.
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All the dead fish.
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And can you imagine the stench?
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It could be terrible.
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Oh, that would stink so bad.
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Yeah.
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Alcohol and rotting fish.
00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:05.519
Yeah, they end them did have you pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines.
00:19:05.759 --> 00:19:06.079
Oh, I think that's a good thing.
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Oh, I'm sure cleanup.
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Which sucks though, too, because it's not like really their fault.
00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:10.960
No.
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It's not their fault.
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Like, lightning strikes a wooden building.
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What do you do?
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Yeah.
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Starts the whole thing on fire.
00:19:20.319 --> 00:19:21.759
That's terrible.
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So many of the hauntings that have been reported over the years have been kept quiet.
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Um, they just the the staff haven't really talked a ton about it.
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So most of what we know um is actually from one single investigation from paranormal lockdown.
00:19:43.839 --> 00:19:44.480
Oh, geez.
00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:44.880
Okay.
00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:48.079
They were the first ones allowed in in 2018.
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Wow.
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Okay, so this was before the drunk fish incident started.
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This is before the drunk fish.
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So they're not being haunted, but haunted by drunk fish.
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They are not being haunted by drunk fish.
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Okay.
00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:02.799
And if you guys remember, um that show didn't last very long.
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In fact, that was season three of uh the show, and that was the last season that they had.
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Um, but it was uh Nick Groth and uh um wasn't it Katrina?
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Katrina.
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Oh yeah, I remember that.
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And they would spend 72 hours in a in a location and spend the night in there on cots.
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I'd love to go spend 72 hours in a single location.
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Yeah.
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Because when you typically when you go investigate, you're doing it for a few hours.
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You don't get the chance to do days to really get a chance, a better chance at experiencing what really goes on there.
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And like one night can be very different from the next.
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Absolutely, exactly.
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And so, and it's always and it's always variant too, right?
00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:50.000
Like you get you get that time, but then you get the daytime.
00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:50.799
Yep.
00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:52.960
No, there's daytime stuff too, exactly.
00:20:53.039 --> 00:21:02.319
So you get you kind of get this whole concophony of of potentiality of things happening, and it's like this would be fun, it would be amazing.
00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:13.279
So and I feel like you're gonna get way more uh good evidence that you can not refute.
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Yeah.
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Because I I feel like when you have a location for that long, you're going to get multiple things that that are going to happen, but that can re-occur.
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So instead of maybe you're only experiencing one door open, maybe you're experiencing three or four.
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Right.
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Right.
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Or maybe a certain incident that happens at a certain time of the day or night will happen on another day or night at the same time.
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Right.
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Maybe it happens every night at midnight.
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And then you could catch it every night you're there at midnight.
00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:47.920
That would be awesome.
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That would be way cool.
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Yeah.
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I remember I watched their one episode where they did Waverly and they had taken a um tripwire and laid it on the body chute.
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And then they slept.
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They slept down.
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In the body chute.
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Yeah.
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And you can see something walk up the tripwire as as the lights go up.
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Towards where they were.
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Toward where they were laying.
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Yeah.
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Whoa.
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That's pretty wicked.
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Yeah.
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Were they asleep when it happened?
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Yes.
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They woke up because they heard a noise.
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And they got to review their stuff.
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But yeah, it's I mean, it's kind of neat that way.
00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:34.799
It'd be I would love to be able to sleep in Waverly if we could get it for that long.
00:22:34.880 --> 00:22:37.039
But oh, that would be an arm and a leg.
00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:37.839
Yeah.
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And a butt cheek.
00:22:39.599 --> 00:22:43.839
You could you need you need the you know TV show money.
00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:45.599
Yeah, you definitely do.
00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:50.240
So when they were locked down for 72 hours in here, what did they experience?
00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:50.960
What they experienced.
00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:55.200
Yeah, so I I only covered the first part of their investigation.
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Um, I didn't want to give a whole like you can go watch it, right?
00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:04.480
It's per it's it's season three of paranormal lockdown.
00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:10.480
You want to find it, that's on um it's on HBO Max, so you can stream it.
00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:14.720
So there's three main haunted locations listed on this property.
00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:17.599
So we'll go the first one is warehouse D.
00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:18.319
Okay.
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Which people have experienced disembodied footsteps and whistling coming from above them when no one else is in the upper uh upper floors of the warehouse.
00:23:28.640 --> 00:23:31.920
Okay, so this isn't the one that got stuck by light struck by lightning, is it?
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No, no, this one still exists.
00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:38.160
Okay, so um this property is massive.
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Okay.
00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:47.519
So what I've found is in warehouses, I've seen where there's a lot of whistling in warehouses.
00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:49.279
That would make sense to me though.
00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:50.079
Yeah, right.
00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:51.680
You gotta whistle while you work.
00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:53.839
Well, it's like whistling to get other people's attention.
00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:56.960
Yeah, because it's just so big and yeah, whatever.
00:23:57.680 --> 00:24:16.160
Well, the the thing about these warehouses, too, um, and maybe people don't understand how bourbon gets made, but after you brew um the bourbon itself, the the alcohol itself, it gets put into casks, so wooden barrels and then stored.
00:24:16.720 --> 00:24:17.759
It's where it gets its flavor.
00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:19.279
Yeah, it's stored for 10 years.
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I think it's 10 years it sits in these barrels and they just rotate the barrels.
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Right.
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And so yeah, when it goes in, it's clear.
00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:30.559
When it comes out, it's brown, it's brown, it's caramel colored.
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All of the flavoring, all of the color comes from the barrel itself.
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And so these guys, the the people that would be going into these warehouses would be one checking on to make sure there's no leaks or anything like that, but they're also gonna be rotating the barrels on all nine floors.
00:24:50.079 --> 00:24:53.920
Oh my word, that's a lot, and this is Kentucky.
00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:55.680
That's hot and humid.
00:24:55.920 --> 00:25:05.119
Yeah, think of like how stuffy the top level of Benson Griss Mill gets, and that's only the second floor or third floor, technically, right?
00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:08.000
Yeah, imagine six more above it.
00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:11.839
Well, and how do they get the barrels from one level to the next?
00:25:13.119 --> 00:25:17.119
I hope they use cranes or like winch systems or something.
00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:20.160
Well, given the weight of the barrels, I'm assuming that they do.
00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:21.839
Yeah, they got it, some sort of pulley system.
00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:23.920
They're a couple hundred pounds at least a piece.
00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:28.000
Yeah, it'd be cool to go see though.
00:25:28.160 --> 00:25:29.279
It would be very cool to see.
00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:30.079
And you can.
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It's a it is a museum, so you can go see some of the stuff.
00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:34.319
Oh, that'd be awesome.
00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:37.519
Um, and you can do tours, they still do tours.
00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:40.480
Um, so you can do a tour and a bourbon tasting.
00:25:40.640 --> 00:25:43.920
Uh or not taste a bourbon if you don't like if you don't want to drink it.
00:25:44.160 --> 00:25:45.680
I'd like the to do the tour though.
00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:46.880
Yeah, tour would be fun.
00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:56.480
As people walk in the door to the barrel warehouse, they catch a glimpse of the lower half of a person walking up the stairs to the second floor.
00:25:56.799 --> 00:25:57.599
Half a body.
00:25:57.839 --> 00:25:59.920
Half a body going up the stairs.
00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:00.559
Wow.
00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:01.920
So no one's in the warehouse.
00:26:02.079 --> 00:26:03.680
You walk in and there's ch going up.
00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:10.559
Makes you wonder if it's like residual, you know, just their daily routine of rotating the barrels and they just didn't give enough energy to create the full body.
00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:11.599
They suddenly had enough.
00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:14.400
Yeah, because I mean they half they still had to walk up the stairs.
00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:15.920
Maybe they worked part-time.
00:26:16.079 --> 00:26:16.240
Yeah.
00:26:17.200 --> 00:26:18.160
So they're just half.
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That's half-time.
00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:29.759
Uh a man in overalls has been spotted standing in between the stacks of the barrels, and that area is called the ricks.
00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:36.799
So and there's not much space in between these racks, so it's you know, maybe only a couple a foot and a half, two feet wide.
00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:39.279
Well, right, they gotta pack as many in there as they can.
00:26:39.599 --> 00:26:40.960
You don't want to waste space.
00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:50.880
So he's often seen um as people are just walking down the main aisles and they catch they, you know, they look down the ricks and they can see them just standing there.
00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:52.400
Is he like watching?
00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:54.720
Like, yeah, looking at you as you're walking by.
00:26:56.640 --> 00:27:00.160
And then I'm sure they look right back and like they do a double take and they're gone.
00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:01.759
Yeah, exactly.
00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:03.359
But you know, it's kind of common.
00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:09.039
Like, I don't know how many people else do this, but like when I'm walking down a hallway with a bunch of doors, I'm always looking in the door.
00:27:11.359 --> 00:27:12.000
Yep.
00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:15.839
And so that'd be the same be the same way in these in these warehouses.
00:27:16.559 --> 00:27:25.599
So people have also felt a foreboding presence in the warehouse as if they're not supposed to be in the area and they're not welcome there.
00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:31.839
Well, and that would make sense too, because if you weren't a worker, what would you be doing up there, you know, right?
00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:33.440
Stealing some bourbon.
00:27:34.079 --> 00:27:35.599
You have no business being in there.
00:27:35.680 --> 00:27:36.319
Why are you here?
00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:37.119
Why are you there?
00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:37.359
Yeah.
00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:42.559
Or it's just something that's not a happy spirit that you're feeling that energy of.
00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:43.920
Yeah, it's their alcohol.
00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:45.200
Get out of right.
00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:59.680
I would I would imagine though, that if you work there and you're part of the the distilling crew, that you probably have a very high sense of possession, even though it's not technically yours, but there's pride in what you're doing.
00:27:59.920 --> 00:28:00.319
Exactly.
00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:08.160
Well, especially back then, a lot of people had pride in their jobs and did good jobs, not like today necessarily.
00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:10.559
Where it's half cheeked.
00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:18.079
That's that's why maybe that's why they're only showing up with the bottom legs because they're doing everything they're doing is half-assed.
00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:20.319
Literally.
00:28:20.559 --> 00:28:21.359
Literally.
00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:25.599
Um, so let's move on to warehouse K.
00:28:26.799 --> 00:28:27.119
All right.
00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:29.920
It's another one of the reported haunting locations.
00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:31.359
This one is interesting.
00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:37.920
It's reported that prior to the construction of the warehouse, there was a house that was on the property.
00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:41.440
In fact, there were many houses on the property.
00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:44.480
This uh property's 500 acres.
00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:45.839
Holy cow.
00:28:46.079 --> 00:28:47.200
It's got some size.
00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:48.240
Just a little bit.
00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:48.880
Yeah.
00:28:49.119 --> 00:28:52.640
Um, but that house burned to the ground.
00:28:53.599 --> 00:28:57.599
And unfortunately, there was somebody inside, and a little a woman passed away.
00:28:57.839 --> 00:28:59.359
Oh, that's too bad.
00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:07.039
Now, the the challenge is is that the you know, these properties have been around since the 1700s.
00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:10.559
Historical records are not very good.
00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:11.680
Sure.
00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:19.440
And so there's no telling which house, how long the house was there, or who owned the house.
00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:22.480
There's there's no solid records of any of that.
00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:23.359
Right.
00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:40.880
Um, but she's been re uh reported as uh wearing uh formal dress and that she doesn't really just stand on the ground on the up on the second and and upper floors, she more floats, kind of hovers, kind of hovers, okay.
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:48.160
But she's been seen by many employees, and some have refused to even just go into that warehouse.
00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:52.559
Just well, I mean, imagine if you see a woman just hovering there.
00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:54.400
I mean, that's a little alarming.
00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:54.799
Yeah.
00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:58.720
I mean, I think for paranormal investigators, it would be kind of thrilling.
00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:00.319
Oh, we'd be loving it.
00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:07.920
I mean, like if I was just a normal person, I would be more afraid of a ghost just hovering there.
00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:08.400
Yeah.
00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:13.599
Doing nothing than one that was going about their business doing whatever.
00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:14.559
Right.
00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:15.920
I would be more scared of that.
00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:18.960
That's more scary to me.
00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:27.519
Especially when you think like in in Warehouse D, there's there the activity that's there seems to be associated to the activity of distilling.
00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:28.240
Right.
00:30:28.480 --> 00:30:29.920
They look like workmen, right?
00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:31.119
But with a woman hovering.
00:30:31.359 --> 00:30:33.039
But a woman What is she doing?
00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:36.079
You know, yeah, like what are why are you here?
00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:38.640
Like this is not you're not supposed to be here.
00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:40.799
Okay, so is she on the main floor?
00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:41.759
Is she on all the floors?
00:30:41.839 --> 00:30:42.799
Like upper floors.
00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:43.519
Upper floors?
00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:44.000
Yeah.
00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:58.000
Which is interesting because we've talked about how residual spirits, when they're doing their thing, if the dynamic of their house or whatever they're at has changed, they do not.
00:30:58.640 --> 00:30:58.880
Right.
00:30:59.039 --> 00:31:02.000
So So they can go in and out doors that aren't there.
00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:07.680
Or like the floors their floors are higher up, and so the ghost is only seen halfway.
00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:08.000
Yeah.
00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:12.000
They half their torso and their head through the floor, right?
00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:12.319
Right.
00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:16.160
Walking because their main floor was three feet lower.
00:31:16.559 --> 00:31:16.799
Right.
00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:23.039
And and this could very well be something more residual versus intelligent.
00:31:23.359 --> 00:31:26.640
But it's interesting that she's hovering when she's on those upper floors.
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:27.519
Upper floors.
00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:33.680
I would think maybe hovering if it was on the lower floor because maybe where her house stood was just a little bit higher.
00:31:34.079 --> 00:31:40.240
Well, and they didn't they never said exactly which floor she appears on.
00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:40.880
Right.
00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:44.799
Um, and so it could just be the second floor.
00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:52.480
But when you say upper floors and there's a multitude of floors, you're thinking the the top sheet tune and all of that floor.
00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:52.880
Yeah.
00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:53.279
Yeah.
00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:55.359
And the who knows they never specified.
00:31:55.519 --> 00:32:16.960
And so they did there was an interview with an employee by the name of Becky who worked at the um distillery, and her account is that she was coming up the stairs, and when she looked down the hallway, the the the the aisle of the building, she saw a woman in old timey dress that was just standing there.
00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:21.440
She didn't move, didn't say anything, but looked solid.
00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:30.720
Although the interesting thing is she appeared m grayer than more c than color.
00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:32.000
Interesting.
00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:34.960
So she was like a grayscale instead of being full color.
00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:39.039
So Becky decided it's time to leave.
00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:46.559
As she left and started walking out, she looked back behind her and the lady was gone.
00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:47.519
Right.
00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:55.839
Now there's a belief there that the lady in this building is named Mary.
00:32:57.839 --> 00:32:58.720
Okay, why?
00:32:58.960 --> 00:32:59.759
That's the thing.
00:32:59.920 --> 00:33:00.480
Nobody knows.
00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:01.359
They don't give a reason.
00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:02.480
They probably just give a reason.
00:33:03.279 --> 00:33:04.079
They could have named her.
00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:07.680
Well, when you say there's a belief that her name is Mary, that's why I asked.
00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:08.160
Right.
00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:09.599
Not that they call her Mary.
00:33:09.839 --> 00:33:10.079
Yeah.
00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:12.160
They just and I think it's just one of those things.
00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:13.279
It's got it's handed down.
00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:19.920
Or maybe someone maybe found some information out once upon a time.
00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:26.079
Or maybe they got some they're intuitive and they know her names, maybe.
00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:28.240
I mean, that's entirely possible, right?
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:28.880
Yeah.
00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:29.759
It is.
00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:43.440
Um it's also reported, or Becky also reports, that sometimes when she's up on that that level, um, she can smell flowers in the warehouse.
00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:47.839
Which is interesting because you should be smelling distilling alcohol.
00:33:48.079 --> 00:33:48.240
Right.
00:33:48.319 --> 00:33:51.519
So if you're smelling flowers, that's a whole nother thing.
00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:57.599
And a lot of time the flower, the floral smell is uh obviously associated with a woman.
00:33:57.920 --> 00:33:58.079
Right.
00:33:58.240 --> 00:33:58.559
Yep.
00:33:58.799 --> 00:34:01.440
Or I wonder if it's like potpoury kind of stuff.
00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:03.680
It could be perfume-based too.
00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:03.920
Yeah.
00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:09.360
Because a lot of perfumes were were flower-based, and so could be smelling just her perfume.
00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:09.920
Sure.
00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:18.400
But it would be very interesting because like this if you smell alcohol being distilled, there's a very distinct aroma to it.
00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:25.840
And so smelling flowers would definitely be out of the ordinary.
00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:31.519
Well, and I wouldn't think that the smell of the alcohol would be subtle.
00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:34.480
No, I think it would be very obvious.
00:34:34.559 --> 00:34:39.840
So if you have a floral scent that's over that, it's gonna have to be a little bit more.
00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:43.119
I'm sure it was probably concentrated in one specific spot.
00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:43.760
Yep.
00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:44.639
Yeah.
00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:57.519
So because it, yeah, they so when um Nick and Katrina walked into warehouse D the very first time, they're like, Oh yeah, you can smell it.
00:34:57.679 --> 00:34:59.519
And they just stepped two feet into the door.
00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:00.159
Right.
00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:04.719
The alcohol, yeah, the smelling of the the distilling of alcohol.
00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:06.639
So you know it's gonna be strong.
00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:07.440
Right.
00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:18.880
Um in the main house, which is the one that was built in 1911, that's where all of the distillers and their families had lived and stayed.
00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:19.440
Okay.
00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:21.840
Um now it's a museum.
00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:29.840
Uh people have reported seeing and hearing a lady walking around the upstairs of the house and looking out the windows.
00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:35.119
So she's most seen on the second floor and the stairs.
00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:35.760
Okay.
00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:39.519
Um, it's suspected that it's T.
00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:45.280
Jeremiah's wife, Lucy, as she spent time overseeing the renovations of the house.
00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:46.800
I mean, it would make sense.
00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:47.599
Yeah.
00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:59.599
Um, and the people have all staff have also reported hearing footsteps and the tinkling of sample glasses moving across the floor when nobody's there.
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:01.119
Across the floor?
00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:02.480
Wait, how does that happen?
00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:04.239
How does it move across the floor?
00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:05.760
This is the sound.
00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:06.320
Oh.
00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:10.719
The sound of glass sliding on on on wood, obviously.
00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:15.440
Well, when you say floor, I picture little marching shot glasses.
00:36:16.079 --> 00:36:23.280
The little glasses like that just are sliding across the if it's on the bar if it's like on a wood bar, yeah.
00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:24.800
That makes sense.
00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:28.079
Yeah, I'm not sure how they would have done the sampling inside of the building.
00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:29.440
I have no idea.
00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:31.519
It's like everybody sit on the ground.
00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:33.039
I'm gonna slide you some glasses.
00:36:33.280 --> 00:36:33.840
Right?
00:36:34.239 --> 00:36:35.679
They just roll a barrel in.
00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:36.559
Yeah.
00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:59.199
Now, the interesting part, and this didn't come up in any of the um interviews that they had during the show, is there are reports of for some reason of a security guard who would go outside and howl at the moon when it was a full moon.
00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:00.400
Okay.
00:37:01.679 --> 00:37:02.800
Some people just do that.
00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:04.400
My dad will do that sometimes.
00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:07.039
If I'm in my house, at my parents' house.
00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:09.199
I mean, this is like my whole entire life.
00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:16.800
I'll be inside and my dad will come home from somewhere and it's late, and all of a sudden he will just howl outside.
00:37:17.039 --> 00:37:19.599
And all of a sudden I hear him like, oh, dad's home.
00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:24.079
Just a random quirky thing he does that we all laugh at.
00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:29.039
Okay, so maybe some guy who just says this little quirky thing he does every time it's full moon.
00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:30.960
It's very possible.
00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:39.840
Well, supposedly, now uh that he's no longer um living, he's still doing it as a spirit.
00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:43.920
Oh that'd be awesome to go there on a night when the moon is full.
00:37:44.159 --> 00:37:45.199
That would be cool.
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:46.880
Listen for that.
00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:48.159
Or see it.
00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:49.360
Both.
00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:50.960
That'd be really neat.
00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:52.800
See the guy out there howling at the moon.
00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:57.920
And then you see that he transforms and he's he's like standing wolf.
00:37:58.239 --> 00:38:00.320
Yeah, that part I wouldn't like so much.
00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:01.599
Little werewolf.
00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:03.280
Rip you apart, right?
00:38:03.599 --> 00:38:04.079
Yeah, I know.
00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:05.679
Ghost werewolf.
00:38:05.920 --> 00:38:07.440
It's cool until it's not.
00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:08.320
Right.
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:21.599
Um, so a couple of things that the paranormal lockdown crew experienced is when they were up in on this, I think it was the second floor of Warehouse D.
00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:22.559
It's kind of hard to tell.
00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:24.000
They all the floors kind of look the same.
00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:25.360
Oh, I'm sure.
00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:36.880
Um, they were Katrina and Nick were talking, and Katrina noticed that there was a um a dark mist showing up behind the cameraman.
00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:41.519
So the cameraman's sitting there filming them, right?
00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:46.079
And she sees behind him there's a shadow mist forming.
00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:47.679
Creepy.
00:38:47.920 --> 00:38:49.440
Yeah, that would be very creepy.
00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:51.199
Of course, it's not caught on tape.
00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:52.639
Well, of course it's not gonna be.
00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:55.199
Um cameras are pointed the wrong way, right?
00:38:56.719 --> 00:39:06.960
Then um, as Nick was kind of investigating down the hallway, he ended up hearing um loud noises of things moving amongst the stacks of barrels in the ricks.
00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:09.119
Oh, like what would be moving?
00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:10.559
Exactly.
00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:12.320
What would be moving?
00:39:13.199 --> 00:39:13.519
Jeez.
00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:19.280
Because remember, when they do paranormal lockdown, they're the only ones on the property for 72 hours.
00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:19.760
Right.
00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:23.280
But like, are there things that they can actually be moved?
00:39:23.519 --> 00:39:24.880
Yeah, so the barrels can move.
00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:38.800
There's like some uh uh you know, wood equipment that helps move transport barrels back and forth and I would I would assume it would be more of the equipment than the barrels themselves because can you imagine the energy that it would take with those big barrels like that?
00:39:39.039 --> 00:39:44.559
So to roll a couple hundred pound barrel, yeah, even move out of that barrel, just get across the room, right?
00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:46.880
It'd be like Donkey Kong barrel coming at you.
00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:48.000
Oh my gosh, it'd be careful.
00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:49.440
Quick, next floor.
00:39:49.599 --> 00:39:51.760
That would be so terrifying.
00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:56.559
Jump, jump, hit it with a hammer.
00:39:57.679 --> 00:39:59.039
You know, I'm white, right?
00:39:59.119 --> 00:40:00.239
I can't jump.
00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:05.119
Oh geez.
00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:09.360
Um so then they went over to Warehouse K.
00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:24.079
And as they were talking about the the woman uh up there, they were you doing an Echo Vox section, which is kind of like the Spirit Box, similar, similar, right?
00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:29.440
Um the same principle, it's the exact same principle, just different name, yeah.
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:34.719
Well, the the difference is is the Echo Vox is more like a data dictionary.
00:40:34.880 --> 00:40:41.920
Okay, so it's like uh an echoey ovulous versus using the uh radio stations.
00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:42.880
Gotcha.
00:40:43.679 --> 00:40:50.800
Um so while they're doing that, Nick experiences a tug on his pants.
00:40:51.039 --> 00:40:53.599
Okay, like right around his like knee level.
00:40:53.760 --> 00:41:00.480
He thought he might have clipped one of the barrels that were on the ground, and then he realized he was a foot and a half away from the barrel.
00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:04.559
Oh, so it's like, yeah, that's not uh that wasn't the barrel.
00:41:04.800 --> 00:41:05.440
Right.
00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:10.960
So then he, you know, what do we normally do when when something happens to us, right?
00:41:11.199 --> 00:41:12.239
Was that you that did it?
00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:13.440
And can you do it again?
00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:14.239
Right?
00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:17.360
And so when he goes, Was that you that did it?
00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:21.519
Over the echo box, a woman's voice comes up through and says, Yes.
00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:23.119
Nice, that's so cool.
00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:25.199
I love when I get answers like that, right?
00:41:27.119 --> 00:41:33.039
Um, and that's where I ended up stopping because they were setting up their their cots for the night, and I'm like, okay.
00:41:33.199 --> 00:41:34.639
Um far enough.
00:41:34.719 --> 00:41:35.679
I went, yeah, I went far enough.
00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:42.880
I don't want to recount the entire episode and just be in well, this is what happened on an episode of a ghost TV show.
00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:48.000
But it gives us a good idea of what's going on in the distilleries, yeah.
00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:50.480
It would be really neat.
00:41:50.559 --> 00:41:54.719
So they because they have tours, so they do daily tours.
00:41:55.199 --> 00:42:04.000
Um, it would just be really neat to go see and experience some of the just the just the buildings themselves, even if you're allowed.
00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:09.760
Um, it would be great, and especially now that they're not distilling for a year, yeah.
00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:18.239
If you could get in and investigate, like, even like okay, maybe they won't let you in the stacks of the barrels.
00:42:18.400 --> 00:42:20.639
It's understandable, like that's their livelihood.
00:42:20.719 --> 00:42:23.119
So they don't want people to want people messing around that.
00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:23.679
Right.
00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:29.840
You know, they want people messing around because if you pull a cork and drain a barrel, you know, there's or drink a barrel.
00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:34.800
Or I'm gonna find you in a puddle if you drink a barrel.
00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:38.800
Um everybody bring your straws, right?
00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:41.920
Bring a hole in the barrel, bring your sippy cups.
00:42:42.159 --> 00:42:44.639
Why do you get 700 people during this investigation?
00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:45.360
No reason.
00:42:48.960 --> 00:42:56.639
Um, but like if you could do just the house, even um, and investigate the house, which is now part muse is mostly museum.
00:42:56.800 --> 00:42:57.199
Right.
00:42:57.519 --> 00:43:02.880
It'd be neat to to try to experience um Lucy in in that hour.
00:43:03.199 --> 00:43:04.000
Oh, yeah.
00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:05.679
To see her standing there.
00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:06.079
Yeah.
00:43:06.239 --> 00:43:07.599
Well, she actually moves around.
00:43:07.679 --> 00:43:12.079
So like you can you'd be sitting down on the main floor and you could hear footsteps walking above you.
00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:13.679
That's always a cool sound.
00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:15.760
It is a very cool sound.
00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:17.599
We've heard that in the mill and stuff before.
00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:28.960
Which was the first time I I think we've all three of us have sat down in one spot together and experienced footsteps moving, and all of us going, Oh yeah.
00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:31.519
You could follow it, you can follow it back and forth.
00:43:33.039 --> 00:43:38.320
Yeah, yeah, like not even just a couple footsteps, which is what you normally get, which is so hard.
00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:39.679
Minutes, yeah.
00:43:39.760 --> 00:43:42.400
Cause usually when it's like footsteps, you're like, Did you hear that?
00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:43.360
Did you hear that?
00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:48.239
No, we just sat there and listened because it just kept going, kept going.
00:43:48.800 --> 00:43:53.199
Um, so I would hope it'd be something like that where you could just hear her moving around upstairs.
00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:54.320
That'd be really neat.
00:43:54.480 --> 00:44:13.199
Um, and there's no telling if she's actually residual or if she's um intelligent, like the haunting is so be fun to find out and go through and see if she would react and interact with yeah, or get a better idea of which one it is, residual or intelligent.
00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:14.400
Exactly.
00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:26.719
As the sun sets over the knobs of Claremont and the shadows stretch long across the rick houses, the line between Angel Share and the spirits of the past begin to blur.
00:44:26.960 --> 00:44:42.960
Whether it's Lucy Beam keeping watch over her window or a long gone distiller still checking in the checking the proof in the warehouse D, one thing is certain, at Jim Beam, history doesn't just sit in a bottle, it walks the halls.
00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:48.000
The next time you pour a glass of that Kentucky gold, take a moment to listen.
00:44:48.320 --> 00:45:00.159
That faint creak in the floorboards or the sudden scent of flora perfume might just be a reminder that some legacies are still too spirited to ever truly rest.
00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:04.719
And as always, stay ghosty, my peeps.