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you're stuck in traffic all

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at once several drivers, exit

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their cars and make their way towards

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you

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their eyes turn black

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unhinge

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do

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you my help? this

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is a voice from darkness

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hello all this is dr malcolm

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right psychologist here

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as always to answer your questions

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and help you with issue involving

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the supernatural paranormal lend

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a world leader

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in the show will open up the phone lines

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but first we have we have

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national alerts

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for to get to know so i have not

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so much know alerts perhaps

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, a reminder

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that time of year where high school

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and college seniors graduate your

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, entering that next phase of

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your life and i congratulate

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you all i

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also implore you not

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hold your graduation parties

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in haunted houses or places

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have known malevolent paranormal

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activity i

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, recently

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free a few dozen high school graduates

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would become trapped in a haunted farmhouse

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to bed broken in to throw a party

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the dead don't care about

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your future anything

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they're envious of it so please

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celebrate elsewhere

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alright that brief know out of the way

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let's get

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into our national alerts the

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, national alert is for

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fairfield nebraska nebraska

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a gas station along route to seven

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to over the past

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few weeks several patrons

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off the station have noted the same

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noted people are always

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that regardless of time

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of day and there

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are always having the

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same conversation one

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witness claims to have seen a script behind

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the counter one containing

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the exact words the three repeat

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day after day i

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remind listeners a while back

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we had a similar case at a diner in

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montana script

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yet week tank and

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then spread the

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castle in your travels and try your

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best to stay out of

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the script

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second national alert for

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the neighborhood of greenwich village in new york

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city a , is

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raging throughout a single three story

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graystone though the flames

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not spreading spreading ,

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the new york fire department is spent hours

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trying to quell the inferno assists

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interestingly the house

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is unaffected by the flames

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it is not chart nor is anything

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turning to lash but

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, warn those in the area to avoid

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the burning graystone graystone

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few firefighters and spy

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went to close to the flames claimed

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that they could hear whispers coming from

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coming all those

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who heard the whispers celtic

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compulsion to walk into the fire

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once again for those in greenwich

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village stay clear of the grey

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stone currently on fire

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and how third

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national alert is for preston idaho

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three , have been cited trick

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or treating though it's nowhere

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near all hallows eve one

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is dressed as is dressed one the devil

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and the third the

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traveling salesman if

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they come to your door give them whatever

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can do you have or offering of

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some kind the more sugar

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the more likely they'll be sated if

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you fail to provide them what

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they want they

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will get their candy one

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way or another there

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have been several deaths and

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hospitalizations of those

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who , not to give the

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children anything anything

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each case victims word

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this embattled their intestines

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stomach other in or organs

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were transformed

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handy

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alright let's open up

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the phone lines if you're experiencing

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anything supernatural paranormal

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let and , have a color already

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already you're on the air with dr with

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long last nine

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without raising

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, years block his life will pass

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by here than in the same as saying

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do you know how many

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circles of warning of love and around

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my studio how many spells

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and he will do no good like

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this cast by

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his unseen site

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i think someone might be misinterpreting

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that latter oh

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well

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oh

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oh sorry i

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yeah he broke

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the board

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if you were calling into

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the show just now i apologize

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mr curse the broke the phone

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board i'm afraid

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we won't be able to take anymore cause tonight

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that will

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lead is lead shame okay

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so what can we do for the rest of the show

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well

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i haven't i

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we've had many listeners

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writing into our patriotic since

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i can answer your call tonight

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how about we answer some of the questions

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you

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getting into the show remember

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, you wish to gain when the question

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for me you can do so over

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it patriot dot com forward

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slash v f darkness

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that's patriot on dot com

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forward slash vs darkness

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okay let's see what we have

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we go

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our first question

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will come from and the who

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writes

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are there any monsters in the great

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lakes

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interpreting your question in

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the broadest possible way yes

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there , quite a few crypts crypts

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the ruins of a lost civilization

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that was likely inhabited by

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non-human entities all

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found within the great lakes how

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about ipi like something from each

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lake to give you a sense of what's out

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there believe , doubt this list

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will not be exhaustive starting

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from east and moving west and

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moving lake ontario there's

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a patch of missed clings

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to this like though it's case

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is constantly at

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that's because it acts as acts shroud

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for a being called

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the walker

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the water

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little is known about him as

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he's mostly beating counted at a

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distance he ,

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to be a broad shouldered man with

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long hair hair

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features are unknown as no one's ever gotten

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close enough to see him see

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but he's walked lake ontario

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for nearly five for

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now at times

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boats have attempted to meet him when

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a dead the missed around him the

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answer and he disappeared it

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a dead usually be weeks if not months

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before anymore what zeit him again

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in

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lake erie rather appropriately

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named there's a creature called

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the drowning girl and

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, been the guess many

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many happens is a boat will hear

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a girl crying out for help

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and splashing somewhere far out

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in the middle of the lake of

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course the boat will go toward the sound

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to help they

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get closer the see

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exactly what they heard a

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, girl in the water drowning

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dot test they get closer still

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closer enough for a life preserver

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or yeah

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the rescuers a close enough to see her

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pupils they'll see that

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they're rectangular akin

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to the i have an octopus and

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, said creature creature

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a myriad of them will burst out

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of the water grab the would be

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rescuers and put

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them under attempts

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have been made to hunt and read the

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lake screech or possibly

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species of creature not

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, far as outwitted every

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aren't and in many

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cases

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at the bottom of the

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if the same name can be found

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the ruins of who run

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on

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the most accepted theory related

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to the ruins states that they were

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built over two hundred thousand

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years ago keep in mind

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the earliest humans only

11:59

last over into the americas fifteen

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thousand years ago

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recovered from the cigarette or a number

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of stone release elaborate

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carvings that once adorned it's was

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the subjects of which are not

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human

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the carvings feature beings

12:19

who are tall cloaked in wrote

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their , suggest that they have

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multiple sets of arms and

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growth some kind coming out of their

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backs backs there

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cloaked it's impossible to say what

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the scrubs ah most

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of the art features imagery of these

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strange beings we're shipping

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kneeling before an empty

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thrown at sits high

12:46

up on a diet it's

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unclear what happened to be civilization

12:53

but the great lakes only formed approximately

12:56

twenty thousand years ago so the

12:58

cigarette and the civilization that made

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it predates them by a substantial

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amount the land

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the cigarette was built on sank into

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what became lake huron and

13:10

the cigarette builders seemingly the

13:12

appeared

13:14

the face of the yeah

13:19

next in lake michigan

13:21

as or chicagoans know we

13:23

have the angel of

13:25

the merman although

13:27

, from head to toe in scales

13:30

this figure is vaguely humanoid

13:33

in appearance appearance continuously

13:36

swims the lake never staying

13:38

in one in with several

13:40

giant seems that way

13:44

out of the water and glides through

13:46

the air

13:48

it's unknown how old

13:50

he is several centuries

13:52

at least at least tribes tell

13:54

stories i'm going back for as

13:56

long as they have inhabited the great lakes

13:59

overall he seems indifferent

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to mankind though there

14:04

are many stories of him rescuing capsized

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boats and drowning sales

14:10

lastly that brings

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us to lake superior which

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has the blight a

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, of darkness of k

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clings new eastern part of the like

14:23

like blight offers a few feet above

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the water whatever touches it

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decays and dies

14:30

within dies there

14:32

are several boy drowned

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in the past

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when this has happened it has rusted

14:42

ships house instantly themselves

14:55

okay i hope that go

14:57

some way towards answering your question

15:00

let's see what else we have

15:05

oh okay next

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comes from eric who writes

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i heard you once fought dracula

15:14

this is that true

15:20

not true

15:23

you're confusing me for my grandfather dunk

15:26

and he didn't fight dracula

15:28

he thought dracula his reflection

15:31

which the vampire and cunningly hid

15:33

in a mirror in his castle in

15:35

case he was ever vanquished that

15:38

way of version of him could continue

15:40

on with his doc plans

15:43

nomination while

15:45

we're on the topic

15:47

vampires collectively

15:49

have reflections dracula

15:51

, particular because he

15:53

trapped tears in this

15:56

mirror which was been destroyed

15:58

as i sat by

15:59

grandfather

16:02

but i myself have had some

16:04

with legendary

16:06

monsters perhaps you've heard

16:08

of the goose island gargoyles

16:11

no hockey team but the actual

16:13

gargoyles they are named after during

16:17

, day they pertain to be stone

16:19

statues and hide out on go

16:21

silent a huge cock night

16:26

they're stone skyn

16:28

take on more ghastly forms

16:31

and then fly over the city swooping

16:34

down to grab their human

16:36

pray off the street date

16:39

terrorized the city for months

16:42

it was in all the local papers

16:44

go back and look at just about any front page

16:46

of the tribune from may two thousand

16:48

and eight to september of that year

16:52

dracula

16:55

level same but to be the front

16:57

page news for that many months i mean

17:02

defeating them was no trivial matter

17:05

there's , ancient book called the

17:08

stone vol gate gate

17:10

as you might have guessed it is a book carved

17:12

into stone into very

17:16

few copies of few book but

17:19

luckily and almost complete copy

17:22

is on display at the art institute

17:25

at , weeks to get the translations

17:27

right luckily i was able

17:29

to

17:30

the time

17:32

the stonewall gate details

17:34

of ritual one that must be

17:36

performed on the autumn equinox

17:39

and only when the moon is in crisis

17:42

waxing , waning waning

17:44

can only be done at the highest

17:47

point highest chicago

17:50

that is of course the sears tower and

17:53

so

17:54

the night of the autumn economics

17:57

i stood up there

17:59

or all the city i

18:02

said a small fire and through

18:05

two stones in dollar might

18:07

as it's common in the area and

18:09

diamond after

18:14

i need monstrous screams

18:16

echoed across the sky and

18:19

have the later wings flapped

18:22

towards me

18:23

over a dozen gargoyles

18:25

circled the sears tower as i stood

18:28

there next to my small fire

18:30

with the stone tablets before me

18:33

and , shouted to these creatures

18:36

before like my

18:40

fire is the sun

18:42

and so you are

18:45

snow

18:49

with these words what i said became

18:51

true the small fire turned

18:53

into a brilliant shining light and

18:56

the gargoyles

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from the at a sale and sat

19:03

on the streets beneath the tower

19:08

and that's how i

19:10

defeated the island

19:13

gargoyles i

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hope that to satisfying answer to your question

19:18

eric doesn't involve

19:20

me fighting

19:25

and i think i'll i'll make that the last question i

19:27

answered a night i need to make so

19:31

, can take her your cause i know net

19:33

shop until then

19:36

i'm dr malcolm rider and

19:38

if you're experiencing anything supernatural

19:41

paranormal or otherworldly feel

19:44

, to call in about please

19:46

not to curse me

19:49

the

19:52

boy

20:03

thank you for listening to a voice from darkness

20:05

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