1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,800 Find other great podcasts like this one at podmoth.network. 2 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:10,800 Honest Conversations with Interesting People 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:17,800 Hi, I'm Mike from the Genuine Chit Chat Podcast and I talk to a wide variety of guests across an eclectic range of interesting topics. 4 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:24,800 People I've spoken to include a Magister from the Church of Satan, a blind Australian filmmaker, a puppeteer from Labyrinth and Dark Crystal, 5 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:34,400 and I also speak to musicians of all kinds of genres, authors, actors, podcasters. Really, there is no limit to who I speak to and the subject matter is endless. 6 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:40,400 So if you believe in the art of conversation and want to hear different people talking about their passions, then this is the perfect show for you. 7 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:59,400 You can find Genuine Chit Chat anywhere you listen to podcasts and there's some video versions on YouTube, so there's no reason not to tune in. 8 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:20,400 Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode of Cryptid Cocktail Party, a show where we have a few drinks, share a few laughs, take a dive into the unknown. 9 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:30,400 I'm your host Dave and today I'm joined by a man whose name has been mentioned several times on this show, but you will be hearing his voice for the first time today and that is my good friend Luke Ferry. 10 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,400 What's going on bud? 11 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,400 Oh, you know, just having some cryptid cocktails. 12 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:37,400 Yeah, what is that, 603? 13 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,400 603 is my man. 14 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,400 Are you drinking 603 Wood's Devil? 15 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:46,400 Oh no, this is the 603 Black Cherry Pomegranate Hard Seltzer. 16 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:47,400 Oh, I'll give you yours. 17 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,400 Because I have celiacs and it gives me the poops. 18 00:01:49,400 --> 00:02:01,400 You know what's wild is that I actually was talking to somebody at work the other day about PBR and how it's gluten free and you came up, you come up in my life more than anyone else from New Hampshire. 19 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:07,400 And that's something I think, isn't PBR made with rice and you used to drink it all the time because it didn't give you the shits? 20 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:09,400 I was in denial. 21 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:10,400 Is that what it was? 22 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:14,400 Yeah, it was just denial. I just did not want to give up PBR. 23 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:18,400 It absolutely is gluten and it makes me shit my pants. 24 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:22,400 So you're telling me that South Park got it wrong? 25 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:24,400 South Park did something about that? 26 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:29,400 You don't remember when everyone went crazy about gluten and then they all switched to PBR because it was gluten free. 27 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:34,400 So that way their dicks didn't explode. 28 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,400 I miss that one. 29 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,400 What was funny is that I think that was the first thing. 30 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:44,400 You know how South Park never did like, nothing was like serialized. 31 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,400 One thing from one episode never carried over into the next episode. 32 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:49,400 You know what I mean? 33 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:51,400 It was all like, yeah, it's not the Simpsons. 34 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:55,400 Yeah. The gluten free PBR was the one thing that I remember. 35 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:59,400 It was like a season later, Randy's on the back porch drinking a beer. 36 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:00,400 And she's like, are you drinking beers? 37 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:02,400 Yeah, it's PBR. It's gluten free. 38 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:06,400 They brought like they just made sure to keep that one thing. 39 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:07,400 It's good. 40 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:08,400 Yeah. 41 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,400 I stopped watching South Park years ago, but yeah. 42 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,400 How you doing, bud? You look good. 43 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:14,400 I'm so glad you're finally on the show. 44 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,400 Like I said, you've been mentioned so many times by name and never acted. 45 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:26,400 I think the last episode we did, I mentioned you by name and I actually asked you about it was the ghosts up at Lakes in the Clouds. 46 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:33,400 And you asked me to send you like a little blurb about what it's like and I have ADHD and totally forgot. 47 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,400 Well, you know, just so I imagine a loud cabin. 48 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:38,400 It's that. Yeah, it doesn't. 49 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,400 It didn't look that great. 50 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:42,400 No, it's it's they're not called the hotels in the sky. 51 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:48,400 It's a hut. Oh, man. 52 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,400 But how you doing, man? 53 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:54,400 I'm toasty. First up, it's like 100 degrees here and my AC super loud. 54 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:59,400 So I turned it off for the podcast. But other than that, I actually I super appreciate that. 55 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:07,400 You'd be surprised how many guests come on here and just have like a fan blowing a TV on kids screaming in the background like, oh, my God. 56 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:13,400 If fuck that, you know, only thing I'll accept in a podcast is like their dog barking. 57 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,400 Yeah, I imagine he's a pretty little boy, but I hear some kid. 58 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:20,400 I'm just like fucking go slap it. 59 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:21,400 This is the problem with today's youth. 60 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:27,400 They don't respect the podcast medium. That's all it is. 61 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:34,400 All right, Luke. So is it safe to say that you're a you're a cryptids aliens type guy, right? 62 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,400 A little bit. Yeah. Yeah. 63 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:45,400 I think you know more about anything than anyone I know when it comes to the subject, because there's a few times where I've asked you if you if you've heard of things like, oh, yeah, I know. 64 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:46,400 I know all about that. Yeah. 65 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:52,400 No, that's where my autism just dials the fuck in. Like, oh, someone saw this one time. 66 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,400 Let's fucking go. Wow. That was loud. I apologize. 67 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:58,400 That's fine. Yeah. Some people it's trains for you. 68 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,400 It's a it's cryptids. Yeah. 69 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:08,400 No, I love that. Well, today I got an alien story for you that you are somewhat familiar with, but our listeners might not be. 70 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,400 I don't want to give it away too quickly. What it is. 71 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,400 No, no, no. It's the anticipation. 72 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:19,400 You sounded like Dennis from It's Always Sunny. 73 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:24,400 It's the implications. 74 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:32,400 All right. Well, our story today brings us all the way to I don't know if I'm pronouncing this right, but it's Tuscumbera, Missouri. 75 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,400 I'm sure they pronounce it wrong anyway. 76 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:40,400 Well, you want a little backstory on this little this little hamlet, if you will, before we dive into the story. 77 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,400 I feel like I have a good idea. But yes, I feel like it's necessary for this story. 78 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,400 But well, then you need to tell it. 79 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:53,400 All right. So Tuscumbera, located on the north bank of the Osage River, is a small village inside of Miller County, Missouri. 80 00:05:53,400 --> 00:06:00,400 And it's so small that on Wikipedia, it states the area it covers not in miles, but by acres. 81 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,400 Two hundred and eighteen, to be exact. 82 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:10,400 There's not much information about the village, except that in 1990, its population was one hundred and forty eight people. 83 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:17,400 It jumped up to two hundred and twenty three in 2009 and then drastically dropped back down to one fifty seven in 2021. 84 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:22,400 I recently went to a botanical garden that was bigger than this town. 85 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:32,400 It's the funniest part about finding out like the population information was that on the Wikipedia page, the only info is about the population. 86 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:42,400 And the last sentence of the opening paragraph just says the population was two hundred and three in 2010, at which time it was a town. 87 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:47,400 And that's the whole. Is it unincorporated territory now? 88 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:52,400 It's just it's a village. I don't know if there's like a threshold of population where you go from a village to a town. 89 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:57,400 But at one point it was a town. Now it's just a village. I did not know that was the thing. 90 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:02,400 I thought like I thought a village was just a town, but like cute. Yeah, that's what I like. 91 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,400 If a town goes cottagecore, it's now a village. 92 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:09,400 Like when I think village, I think of the town from Gilmore Girls. 93 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:11,400 I've never seen Gilmore Girls. What? 94 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:15,400 This is a discussion for later that we're going to have to have, but we'll move on. 95 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:20,400 You know, we are New Girl fans through and through. 96 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:29,400 You know, that's you know. All right. So quick side note, my wife one time, she went and Luke was living with Mike Norton and Tucker, I believe. 97 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:36,400 I was over there hanging out and my wife walked in and she saw three to four grown men hammered off their ass. 98 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,400 Middle of the day, just watching New Girl. 99 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:45,400 And I think that's when she finally fell in love with me last and we were wrestling. 100 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:50,400 I think that's when she was like, he's the one. That's what did it for. 101 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:55,400 Yeah. When you had me in a fucking arm bar, I was trying to kiss my cheek while fucking. 102 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,400 You're a handsome boy. I had to let you know. That's how I show affection. 103 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:04,400 And I get it. My only regret is that I can't kiss my own cheeks. 104 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:08,400 And then I started smoking at 18. Yeah. So those are the two. 105 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:12,400 Well, all right. Let's move on. 106 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:18,400 So, yeah. So essentially, it's like where we're talking about is like a farming community. 107 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:22,400 It's very rural, mostly white conservatives as to be expected. 108 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:28,400 Oh, I imagined the tech industry. What's funny is that niche dot com gave an A plus for diversity, 109 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:33,400 which I found hilarious seeing as the census data says that it's 95 percent white. 110 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:37,400 But, you know, I don't know what it's very diverse. They got Irish and Italian. 111 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:44,400 But also with such a small with such a small, I guess, with such a small amount of people living there, 112 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:50,400 to have five black people out of a hundred is like that's why like that must blow their minds. 113 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:54,400 That's five percent. I think that's higher than Dover, New Hampshire. 114 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:58,400 One family moves in. You're the most diverse town in fucking Mississippi. 115 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,400 I'm sorry. Whatever the fuck that state is. 116 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:06,400 The only other thing I could find on the town is that are sorry, the village is no longer a town. 117 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:11,400 Is that USC fighter Alex White is from there and that when he was a child, 118 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:17,400 he suffered a traumatic injury due to the fact that he chugged a gasoline out of a milk jug 119 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:22,400 that was mixed in amongst other milk jugs, but they were filled with lemonade. 120 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:28,400 It's not funny, but it just kind of gives you a vibe. Fuck you. It isn't funny. 121 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,400 But it just kind of gives you like the vibe of where we're talking about, 122 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:38,400 where there's just random gallons of gasoline intermixed with random gallons of lemonade. 123 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:41,400 So do you have an idea of where we're at? Right. Yeah. 124 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:49,400 This is when I refer to East Buttfuck. It's this town. Yes. This is this is East Buttfuck. We're there. 125 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:58,400 OK. Yeah. So the towns filled with down home, salt of the earth, good old Midwesterners 126 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:05,400 and one of those salt of the earth men who in the winter of 1967 would encounter a group of strange creatures 127 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:10,400 that are believed to be of extraterrestrial origin landed on this farm and based off his description, 128 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:14,400 would become to be known as the space penguins. 129 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:22,400 Oh, it's like two of my favorite things in one. It's adorable and it comes from space. 130 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:26,400 Right. That's what I'm saying. I want it as a pet. Let's go strap in. 131 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:32,400 So the story goes that in the early hours of February 14th, Valentine's Day, 1967, 132 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:36,400 farmer Claude Edwards woke up just before the crack of dawn to tend to his duties. 133 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:41,400 Move the cows, cluck the hens, wink the pigs, just your average farmer stuff. You know how it goes. 134 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:48,400 As the sun started to rise, he bundled himself up into the finest of car hearts to try and stay warm. 135 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:53,400 I mean, it's February in the Midwest, so you know it's cold as fuck out. 136 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:58,400 And he leaves his home to head to the barn across the way. 137 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:01,400 As he was walking, he noticed something odd with his cows. 138 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:09,400 He stated that as he walked, he saw that all of the cattle that were in his east field were all staring in the same direction, 139 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:18,400 which speaks to how good of a farmer he is because I, someone who is notoriously not a farmer, would not have thought that was weird. 140 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,400 I just assumed they were just doing weird cow shit. 141 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:29,400 When you told me what we were doing, I definitely thought there would be no actual good cryptid credence to it. 142 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,400 It would just be like some redneck on paint thinner. 143 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:33,400 No, sorry. 144 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:35,400 All the cows staring in the same direction. 145 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:42,400 Oh no, I just thought like this is, gasoline is for special occasions, okay? This is Valentine's morning. 146 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:45,400 You start your day with paint thinner. It's like a mimosas. 147 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:52,400 But like all the cows staring in one direction, that's fucking Skinwalker Farm like right there. 148 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,400 So I am invested. 149 00:11:55,400 --> 00:12:01,400 That would not have, to me as someone who is just, that would not have been weird to me. 150 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:06,400 But then again, I don't know farm animals. That could just be cows being cows. 151 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:12,400 Yeah, I guess I know farm animals like a decent amount because my family grew up in Amish town. 152 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:16,400 So I kind of thought that I was like, yeah, cows don't fucking do that. That's weird. 153 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:21,400 But I guess to like the city folk, like something interesting over there. 154 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:26,400 That's fair. Well, apparently he thought the same thing, that this was not normal cow behavior. 155 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:30,400 And it got him kind of curious. So he directed his gaze in the direction of where they were looking. 156 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:39,400 And through a small grove of trees saw what he described as a massive gray and green mushroom-like object resting atop a cylindrical tube. 157 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:42,400 Just sitting in the middle of a field that's just adjacent to the barn. 158 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:48,400 Never taking his eyes off the object, he continued to the barn because I mean, come on. 159 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:52,400 Just because a UFO is in your fields doesn't mean you can't ignore all the work you got to do. 160 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:57,400 You know, he still has to move all the cows and cluck all the chickens. Whatever farmers do, I don't know. 161 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:04,400 Fuck that. I don't care what my job is. If there's a green dick like 50 feet in the distance, I have to see why that's on my property. 162 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:09,400 A big mushroom thing on the top of a large shaft. Why is this on my property? 163 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:15,400 Well, to be fair, he didn't stop looking at it, but he did continue on his way to the barn. 164 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,400 He dropped off the feed the feed bucket that he had been carrying. 165 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:25,400 And after he dropped it off, he secured the barn once again and decides, all right, maybe I'll go and see what this is all about. 166 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:31,400 So Edwards turns around to face the object that has so rudely parked on his prize Kentucky bluegrass patch. 167 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:37,400 I don't know what he was actually growing, but in my head, it was a very much get off my lawn situation. 168 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:45,400 When you notice that the craft had occupants and they had disembarked the ship and now we're swarming around underneath the mushroom shaped ship. 169 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:51,400 Now, in my head, I picture just a bunch of little cute little penguins having like a little maypole dance. 170 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:57,400 Like it was like an alien. What's it called? Midsummer type deal going on. 171 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:08,400 I don't know what was actually happening, but in my head, I was trying to see if my recorder was in reach so I could do a little midsummer. 172 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:15,400 Now, I'm imagining Gunter from Adventure Time. That's what you're who is canonically an alien. 173 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:20,400 Fair enough. Either that or in my head, I also just see Pikmin just running around. 174 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:25,400 Yeah, no, that's fair. Now, which tracks. 175 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:34,400 Edward being the gruff, no bullshit taking Midwestern farmer that he is didn't take too kindly to trespassers extraterrestrial or not. 176 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:40,400 And being only about 70 feet away from the craft and its occupants separated by just a couple of fences and a couple of cows. 177 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:45,400 He just said, I'm going to go over there and give him a stern talking to about the meaning of private property. 178 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:50,400 Right. We live in America. You got to understand that there are laws. 179 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:58,400 Luke, there are laws in this country and his skin. His skin color was probably different, too. 180 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:02,400 So, yeah, you got it. Listen, you I don't take kindly to no trespass. 181 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:05,400 OK, we actually are not. But you understand this is my Kentucky blue glass. 182 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:11,400 OK, just stand your ground, not float your ground, you fucking weird ass. 183 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:15,400 Now, we use our feet around here. 184 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:22,400 So he went through the first gate as he was approaching the second fence gate and was closing in on the little creatures. 185 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:28,400 He knows that they began moving in an erratic and agitated fashion, even though they move quick. 186 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:38,400 He managed to get a good look at them and described them as being three feet tall with the complexion somewhat similar to the ships of gray and green, believing more on the greener side of things. 187 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:45,400 They had arms, but no visible hands or feet in a face that had a dark protrusion where the nose and mouth would be. 188 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:50,400 And they were maybe wearing goggles or they just had like large black wide sad eyes. 189 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:54,400 They just they looked like green penguins, which to me is just adorable. 190 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,400 And I love that's fucking adorable is all hell. I love them so much. 191 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:00,400 I would cuddle one right now. 192 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:09,400 Now, even after noticing that these little cuties were clearly in a panic, Edwards still wanting to teach them a lesson on the consequences of trespassing. 193 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:19,400 So at this point, he picks up two large rocks with the intent of throwing them at the craft in order to puncture its hull and keep it from taking off, which. 194 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:27,400 I mean, it kind of how good is this dude's fastball, but also it kind of defeats the purposes of trying to get them off of your land. 195 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:32,400 Like what was he going to he's going to immobilize and then call the cops and be like, you know, they were trespassing. 196 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:39,400 They they these little these little cute little bubbies, they were trespassing and I've bounced around and I threw my rock and it went. 197 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:41,400 He's got a lot of faith in himself at this point. 198 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:47,400 Just craft just broke through the fucking like ionosphere. 199 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:53,400 Yeah, I was able to like stand through the veil, like like an interdimensional type thing like you don't know. 200 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,400 Either way, I don't think rocks are going to fucking do it. 201 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:01,400 But also. Farmers are strong as fuck. 202 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:06,400 Don't like farm and he's probably a dad. He has farm strength, dad strength and old man strength. 203 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:12,400 He could puncture the hull of a ship with a rock if he played like he definitely played football. 204 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:18,400 What the fuck am I saying? I was going to say maybe if he was a great court, like there's only 20 other kids. 205 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:20,400 The whole fucking team was on the whole. 206 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:28,400 The kid was on the team and they didn't have enough kids. This whole village, this whole village's economy probably runs based off of their high school football team. 207 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:32,400 You know he can throw. Oh, 100 percent. 208 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:37,400 So I'll give him this. If he threw, I'm guessing he hit it. 209 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:41,400 I just think it just doinked off. Oh, is that is that what you think? 210 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:45,400 I think it is. And then just fell to the ground. 211 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:52,400 I don't think it pierced it, but I don't know the story. Oh, Luke, you're so about to be the most wrong. 212 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,400 I just never have faith in rednecks. 213 00:17:55,400 --> 00:18:03,400 But as he carried the rocks closer, he got within roughly 15 feet of the ship and his penguin pilots when he was suddenly. 214 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:07,400 That's pretty close. It's pretty good. 215 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:11,400 Like if he was the star like thrower, I feel like he could have done like a Hail Mary. 216 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:16,400 Well, he was he was only 70 feet away to begin with. So, I mean, like you probably could have hit it from there. 217 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:21,400 But I mean, the closer you get, I guess, like the more force you'd be able to hit it with. 218 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:27,400 But anyways, he was suddenly stopped in his tracks by an invisible force field surrounding them. 219 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:32,400 He said he couldn't see it or actually feel it, but at the pressure of the field was unmistakable. 220 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:38,400 And quote, I thought I was getting right up to it. I got up there and there it was just walked up against a wall. 221 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:46,400 End quote. That is God just like putting his hand down and being like, whoa, I think you're better than space penguins. 222 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:48,400 Yeah. Right. Get the fuck out of here. 223 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:53,400 Penguins had no idea. It's like this dude can't keep approaching. God just like, no, no, no, no, no. 224 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:58,400 I don't I don't think Edwards comes off as a good guy in the story. 225 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:07,400 He's from a he's from a village in a state I wouldn't fly to. Yeah. 226 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,400 There's a reason why they call flyover. I didn't have hope for it. 227 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:15,400 Yeah. So if this was so Cal, I'd be like, all right, let's see what this dude did. 228 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:22,400 So since as since as word couldn't get any closer to just absolutely pummel this thing with rocks, 229 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,400 he decided to get a better look at the ship. 230 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:32,400 He described it as being dome like 18 feet in diameter and eight feet tall, made of flawless and seamless shiny metal. 231 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:39,400 The two bit was sitting on was made of the same material and was just a little taller than the creatures that were scurrying underneath it. 232 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:46,400 It had what seemed like oval portholes or windows that were 12 inches long and evenly spaced around the rim of the saucer. 233 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:51,400 But on closer inspection, Edwards claimed that the ovals didn't seem to function as windows, 234 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:58,400 as they seem to be radiating colors out from them as if the lights were spinning from inside behind the portholes. 235 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:04,400 He described it as, quote, The object, it just looked like a big shell, grayish green looking outfit. 236 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,400 And underneath there were all long holes where the lights were coming out. 237 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:13,400 They were so bright you couldn't see when you got up to there as if the color wheel was turning inside the thing. 238 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:19,400 End quote. I just like honestly, my brain like like I. 239 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:24,400 The only thing I'm wondering is like. Why? Why? 240 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:32,400 Why would. Why do aliens have this thing where because it keeps happening like and it kind of also came from like the movies of like Close Encounter. 241 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:38,400 Just flat lights. Yeah, we just we need to be a fucking disco ball. Why not? 242 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,400 I mean, why not? Also is a good question. But I mean, we also don't know. 243 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:47,400 Maybe that's the source of the force. But there also maybe that's the force field thing. 244 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:53,400 Maybe it's not all the time, but since they're landed and they're outside of the ship, maybe something turns on and that's what projects it. 245 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,400 But you're right. Yeah, I guess. I don't know. I don't know. 246 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,400 They're very flamboyant. I like that. No, it's good. 247 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,400 They they're definitely flying their freak flag and they should. 248 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:07,400 I fucking love it. Do you think they would have turned that on if they like they landed in a blue state? 249 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,400 I think they were fine. They were good. 250 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,400 Yeah, you can come over like, yeah, we'll smoke you up. Yeah. 251 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:18,400 I mean, I would just go over little hotpats, feel a little bread, little cheese, little penguins, eat fish. 252 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:22,400 I bring a little can of sardines. Oh, they would love that. 253 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,400 If you bring a can of sardines for penguins, you get on that ship. 254 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,400 That's what I'm saying. I could fly through the galaxy with these motherfuckers. 255 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:34,400 For the low cost of like one ninety nine. Exactly. 256 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:41,400 Now, I don't know if it was because he was scared, felt the end of Edwards was just a straight up dick. 257 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:47,400 But after taking in what he was seeing, he backed up about 10 feet and threw one of his rocks at the ship. 258 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:52,400 But of course, it just silently bounced off whatever force field was surrounding it. 259 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:57,400 But being a man not so easily undeterred, he held his second rock, 260 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:03,400 this time with more force, hoping that his fragile terrestrial strength would somehow shatter this otherworldly force. 261 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,400 And to his surprise, it didn't. 262 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:13,400 It just it just it just skipped over the ship and then it like landed in the field behind it. 263 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:20,400 Like he was like skipping a rock across like water after his second failed attempt to penetrate their sorcery. 264 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:28,400 The penguins quickly ran around behind the ship and presumably entered through some sort of entrance on the backside. 265 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:29,400 And then they prepared for launch. 266 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:37,400 The ship tilted towards Edwards two times before raining hellfire down upon him in the form of laser fire. 267 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:43,400 Just kidding. It just kind of lurched forward a few times and then it took off. 268 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:48,400 Could you imagine though? They were just like they were so cute little things. 269 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:53,400 It would have been so good. 270 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:58,400 But no, it just it just kind of it kind of just like rocked back and forth a couple of times. 271 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:04,400 And on the third try, it ended up taking off and moving in a northeastern lead direction. 272 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:08,400 That's even more adorable because it's penguins on a ship. 273 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:14,400 And like it'd be less adorable if it just immediately took off, like absolutely military, nailed it. 274 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,400 No, it rocked a couple of times and it like wiggled. 275 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,400 It was very unsure of itself. 276 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:25,400 I'm just imagining like a penguin's like flapping at like a control panel. 277 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:31,400 Well, the funny thing is that you said it had they had arms, but he couldn't see hands or anything like that. 278 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:38,400 So they kind of were just like little flappy little guys. 279 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:46,400 In my in my head, I think that their controls were by their feet and it was very, very happy feet, tap dancing type of thing going on. 280 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,400 Oh, I love that. Oh, my God. 281 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:55,400 Their control panel was just that one long keyboard from the movie Big with Tom Hanks. 282 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,400 But they got such little feet that I have to like jump. 283 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,400 Well, there was a bunch of them. 284 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:08,400 Maybe each one had their own key and they had to say battle stations like Tom has to go to a sharp. 285 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:13,400 God forbid they have to have to do a key formation. 286 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:20,400 The they have to turn it with they have to jump on them with the accuracy of two dudes turning the keys to launch like a nuclear weapon. 287 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:24,400 Like it has to be like so in sync or just fails immediately. 288 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:28,400 I'm imagining the mice from Coraline. 289 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,400 So that I was just going to hop right back in the. 290 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:35,400 Let's get right to it. 291 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,400 I lost where I was in my fucking story. 292 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,400 All right, here we go. All right. 293 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:40,400 They just took off. Yeah. 294 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,400 So they they they took off. 295 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,400 They were flying in a northeastern direction. 296 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:51,400 Edwards later retold this story to ufologist Ted Phillips telling him that, quote, the whole thing took over five minutes, maybe 10. 297 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,400 I've never seen anything like it. 298 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,400 It looks like shiny silk or something. 299 00:24:55,400 --> 00:25:03,400 I couldn't tell. I was going to tell, though, if I could have hit it with that rock and quote. 300 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,400 Jesus. 301 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,400 So, so big name like good get. 302 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:15,400 I don't know how this fucking middle of nowhere, dudes, not just getting like the move on like bottle of the barrel. 303 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:19,400 So Ted Phillips actually so they got in contact with Ted Phillips through Edwards brother. 304 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:27,400 And then we'll go into a little I'm not going to go too much into how like what their conversations and stuff were because that's a whole separate thing. 305 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:32,400 But this was this was the first and only time that Edwards saw those space penguins. 306 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:39,400 And I'm pretty sure the first and only time anyone has ever seen space penguins, why they never returned to pay old Claude another visit. 307 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,400 Who knows? Maybe they found what they came here to find. 308 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:48,400 Maybe they crashed or maybe they just don't want to get pummeled to death by a fucking grizzled old Midwestern farmer. 309 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,400 It's a village car has a bunch of rock holes in it. 310 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:56,400 It's really it's anybody's guess. 311 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:03,400 But yeah, so that's the story of the space penguins of whatever the name of this town was. 312 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,400 I already forgot it because I don't care. 313 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,400 Who cares? The people in the town don't know. 314 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,400 The village. Yeah, the town is not a town. 315 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,400 Not good enough to be a town. 316 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:17,400 I do think it's important to note, though, that I do 100 percent believe this man. 317 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:29,400 The time period, the area took place for a man like him to come forward with his story is just basically opening yourself up to years of ridicule and becoming the butt of jokes for like years after. 318 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,400 It never goes well for an experiencer. 319 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:38,400 Yeah, 100 percent. He like he never tried to monetize his experience with books or speaking engagements or any type of like publicity. 320 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,400 This bitch could write a book. Yeah. 321 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,400 And there's like no real reason to like to like fake it. 322 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:49,400 He doesn't really seem like the prankster type, although he does love throwing rocks at things, apparently. 323 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,400 That's like his go to, which I mean, I don't hate it. 324 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,400 Yeah, it's not bad. Throwing rocks at shit. 325 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,400 It's fucking great stress relief. 326 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,400 But I do believe that he saw what he saw. 327 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,400 He stuck with a story until the day he died. 328 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:14,400 And in fact, when the story first came about from Tom Phillips, Edwards wouldn't tell his story to Phillips unless he agreed to keep him anonymous until after he died, which he did. 329 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,400 OK, that is exactly where I believe him now. 330 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:18,400 Yeah. How is and that. 331 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:22,400 So he so he made sure that he was anonymous until the day he died. 332 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:28,400 And that's when Tom Phillips, like I believe he came forward with the story before he died. 333 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,400 So before this, it was all anonymous. 334 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:34,400 And then after he died, we got the name of the farm, the farmer who experienced it all. 335 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:41,400 But that's the story, Luke. I want to know what you think about this story, especially the end little details. 336 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,400 Make it for me. Right. Because. 337 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:55,400 Just some rando, just saying something once like there's tons of cryptids like like the single use cryptids where Saul one time never happened again, but for some reason. 338 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,400 The keeps going, the fucking snaily gaster, one one sighting. 339 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,400 And it's like a big one. 340 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:12,400 Oh, well, first of all, Roosevelt did almost cancel a trip to South Africa to hunt the sound of the gaster. So don't say it almost almost. 341 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:17,400 That's because it was seen once and then a bunch of fake sightings happened years later. 342 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:22,400 And that's when the Smithsonian, I believe, put out a bounty on its hide. 343 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:26,400 And it was cited again after that. And Roosevelt was like, you know, I'm going to fucking. 344 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:31,400 And then someone dressed up like Kangaroo and oh, no, that wasn't the smelly gaster. 345 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:36,400 Oh, but. But you're right. 346 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:42,400 You were like you were saying, like, it never goes good for the experiencers or people that experience these things. 347 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:48,400 So the fact happened once the guy who wrote Communion, like, is that what it's called? 348 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,400 I've never even read the book. It kind of seems shitty. 349 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,400 The first one, the one with the big gray alien on the front. 350 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,400 He made money after that. 351 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,400 Your life just gets fucking ruined. 352 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:08,400 So doesn't seem like a man who does a lot of research unless it's stuff that he confidently says, I did my own research and like doesn't get the vaccine. 353 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:13,400 Yeah. But yeah. 354 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:20,400 The stuff that is it goes along with other things that happen in the paranormal, like cows are always very and most wildlife. 355 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:24,400 Very. They're very in tune to what's happening, happening around them. 356 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,400 Yeah. Very common, like Skinwalker Ranch and stuff like that. 357 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:31,400 So that was cool because he wouldn't have known to add that. 358 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:38,400 No. But also me being the asshole, like I said, a normal person, I wouldn't have noticed that that was a weird phenomenon. 359 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:43,400 The cows are not organized. No, they're organized if they're afraid. 360 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:52,400 Or if there's a fucking dog, like controlling them like a collie, like running around biting their ankles to get them in one direction. 361 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:56,400 Gotcha. So anyway, so what are your thoughts on the story? 362 00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:07,400 I love it. Probably going to be up there with my new favorite cryptid to just Google fan art of of just adorable little penguins happy feet in their way through space. 363 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,400 Some of the fan art is really good. Also, I'm hoping this is happy feet too. 364 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:16,400 Metazoo makes a space penguins card and it's one of the cutest cards I've ever seen in my entire life. 365 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:20,400 Oh, my God. It's really good. But yeah, so that's the story. 366 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:24,400 I mean, it's pretty good. I love it. I don't have no reason to doubt this man. 367 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:28,400 I believe he saw what he saw. And again, he he stuck to it. 368 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:37,400 And the fact that he did, he didn't want to tell his story to Phillips until he agreed to make keep him anonymous because he knew that if it came out, it would ruin him. 369 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:46,400 But but also sometimes the fact that he knew that kind of makes me think that maybe he had seen other things in the past where people's lives were ruined. 370 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:59,400 I mean, it could be a high area of high strangeness, but also he probably lives in that little village and he saw what happened when like Jerry came out as gay. 371 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:04,400 Everyone's going to be just talk shit. Yeah, no, that makes sense. I do believe. 372 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:13,400 If you were not the quarterback of like an all star American king of the hill town in that area, you're going to get ridiculed. 373 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:18,400 You don't want to be the penguin guy. Yeah, you don't. You definitely don't want to be the space penguin or a gay or a minority. 374 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:23,400 That's true, dude. They have the most diverse village. 375 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:27,400 I'm sure that one black family probably isn't that happy there. 376 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:35,400 I hope they are. That's probably why the it's probably the population decreased in 2010, 2021. 377 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,400 Sorry, in 2021, it decreased. 378 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,400 That's probably because they all didn't get the vaccine. 379 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,400 Oh, God, dude, I didn't even think of that. 380 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:48,400 Oh, no, that'd be was that 2022 or 2020? Everything's blurred together since that. 381 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:53,400 2020 was was the pandemic. So they all died off. That makes sense. 382 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,400 Not a single one got the vaccine. 383 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,400 All right. All right. All right, Luke. Well, thank you so much for coming on. 384 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,400 I appreciate it. I'm finally happy to be here. 385 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:08,400 I know. Well, definitely now that we figured this out and it's a good situation, definitely have you back on way more often. 386 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:14,400 We'll definitely do that. And if we need anything with a Boston accent, keep Colby away from that. 387 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:19,400 Yeah, he's not that great. That is that is not how people I grew up next to Dover, Massachusetts. 388 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,400 But it's funny. And I do think I saw the Dover Demon once. Do you? 389 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,400 I saw something fucking weird in the woods. 390 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,400 That was actually within the other podcast I was on. 391 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:33,400 Want to interview me about? And I was like, it's not a good story. 392 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,400 And they're like, no, no, no, we want to talk about it. 393 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,400 I'm like, it's it's going to be real short. And they're like, OK, tell us the story. 394 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:44,400 I'm like, I was seven. I saw a weird thing with yellow eyes. 395 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:51,400 It ran away. Fascinating. And yeah, I was like, I told you. 396 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,400 Don't listen to the podcast. It was bad. I love it. 397 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,400 All right. Well, thank you so much for listening, everyone. 398 00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,400 Thank you so much for Luke for coming on. 399 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,400 You'll definitely be back on. He definitely has a voice for radio. 400 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,400 I don't know why he hasn't doesn't do more of this. 401 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,400 That in the face for it, too. 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