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for you. 11 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:43,900 You can find Genuine Chit Chat anywhere you listen to podcasts and there's some video 12 00:00:43,900 --> 00:01:13,200 versions on YouTube so there's no reason not to tune in. 13 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,880 Hello everyone welcome back to another episode of Cryptid Cocktail Party, a show where we 14 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:20,520 have a few drinks, share a few laughs, take a dive into the unknown. 15 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:26,400 I'm your host Dave and again I am joined by fan favorite Colby Clark back again. 16 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:27,400 Yes! 17 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:28,400 What's going on? 18 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:29,400 I still got the title? 19 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:31,800 Oh yeah dude fan favorite by far. 20 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:32,800 There's no way. 21 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:35,600 Oh yeah dude everyone loves it, I love it. 22 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:36,600 I'm glad you're back. 23 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:42,080 I appreciate all the fans out there I just want to say kill your idols. 24 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,360 How you doing bud? 25 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:46,360 You looking good? 26 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:47,360 I'm doing good. 27 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:48,360 Yeah? 28 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:49,360 I'm doing good. 29 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:50,360 You're looking good. 30 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:51,360 Am I though? 31 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:52,360 Yeah. 32 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:53,640 Alright I'm like half in the bag dude I've been fucking walking around in the hot sun 33 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:55,360 drinking out of this growler all day. 34 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:56,760 I'm feeling pretty good. 35 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,040 What an aggressive name for a drink. 36 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:04,040 It is but I feel like that should be one of the cryptids you're gonna have a story about. 37 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:05,600 A growler? 38 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,200 The growler from the from the undergrounds. 39 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:12,880 I mean I just did one on a howler so I mean I guess that's kind of the same. 40 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:14,880 It's pretty close. 41 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:20,240 Alright Colby well I got a fucking episode for you today bud. 42 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:26,760 I don't think you're ready for this. 43 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:28,160 I have one question for you. 44 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:29,160 Yeah. 45 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,160 How do you feel about moose? 46 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:36,720 How do I feel about moose? 47 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:40,600 I'm indifferent about moose I guess. 48 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:45,000 I feel like they're they're pretty crazy creatures. 49 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,480 They're pretty large. 50 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:48,720 They're pretty big. 51 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:50,720 Yeah. 52 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,040 But I'm I'm I'm neither here nor there. 53 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:56,320 You have just really middle of the road. 54 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:00,040 You wouldn't kick it out of bed but you wouldn't invite it into bed kind of thing. 55 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:07,160 Yeah I don't have any specific stories of you know I hate moose. 56 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:08,160 You didn't have moose? 57 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:09,760 The moose has never crossed you? 58 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:10,760 They done me wrong. 59 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:11,760 No. 60 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:13,560 But I also don't love meese. 61 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:14,560 Moose. 62 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,560 A large gathering of of moose's meeses. 63 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:18,960 No it's just the moose. 64 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:20,480 The plural of moose is moose. 65 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,800 Kind of like how the plural of Lego is Lego. 66 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:23,800 Right. 67 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,920 And the plural of bread is bread. 68 00:03:26,920 --> 00:03:27,920 It's not breads. 69 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:31,520 No you can have an assortment of breads. 70 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:32,520 Breads I think. 71 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:33,520 All right. 72 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:37,680 We're answering the big questions here but yeah it's a crucial episode. 73 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:39,360 We got to really dive into this. 74 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:45,920 All right well Colby I'm glad you're indifferent because this story might change your mind. 75 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:49,240 So moose aren't uncommon in New England where we're both from. 76 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:50,480 You see them all the time. 77 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,240 They're out in the woods walking down the middle of town. 78 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:57,120 There was one roaming around Rochester at one point when I was living there. 79 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:00,360 Standing in a bog or something. 80 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:02,840 Sometimes the baby ones get confused for Dover demons. 81 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:03,840 It happens. 82 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:04,840 Sure sure. 83 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:05,840 In the pucker brush. 84 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:06,840 In the pucker brush. 85 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:11,920 According to the main dot gov website there's an estimated moose population of about 60 86 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:17,320 to 70 thousand of these things just roaming around making it the biggest. 87 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:22,000 The biggest population of moose in the lower 48 states. 88 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:23,000 Fucking wild dude. 89 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,480 That's an infestation. 90 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:26,480 That's too many moose. 91 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:27,480 Dang. 92 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:28,480 But moose. 93 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:29,480 Meese. 94 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:30,480 Mooses. 95 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,800 While cool and majestic and shit. 96 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:38,520 And just a PSA you should definitely break for them because you will die if you hit one. 97 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:42,240 And those fuckers will just walk it off and then dance on your dumb corpse for even attempting 98 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,240 to plow through it. 99 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:50,500 But Colby I don't want to just talk about your average run of the mill boilerplate milk 100 00:04:50,500 --> 00:04:52,680 toast moose. 101 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:57,560 Today we are going to be talking about the spectral moose of Maine. 102 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:58,560 Spectral. 103 00:04:58,560 --> 00:04:59,560 Spectral moose. 104 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:00,560 Dang. 105 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,080 I don't even know. 106 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:05,560 What what do you what don't you know? 107 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:06,560 Continue. 108 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:07,560 Spectral. 109 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:16,720 I mean it's it's very open-ended which I think it's supposed to be right. 110 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:21,240 All right well the specter moose of Maine also known as the spectral moose is said to 111 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:29,000 stand about stand between 10 to 15 feet tall and weighing roughly 2500 pounds with the 112 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:34,000 span of its antlers coming in at about 10 to 12 feet across. 113 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:38,520 To put that in perspective for you and the listeners the average bull moose which is 114 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:43,560 a male is about six feet tall weighing anywhere between 800 pounds on the smaller side to 115 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:44,560 1500 pounds. 116 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:49,800 If it's like a really big fucker with an average antler span of about six feet. 117 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:54,800 So this is like a big fucking chunk of a moose that we're talking about today. 118 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:55,800 Yeah. 119 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:56,800 All right. 120 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:03,280 The spectral moose is also said to have bright white fur head to hoof and has a soft glow 121 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:04,840 emitting from it. 122 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:09,180 It's been said it can walk through walls and even has the ability to disappear without 123 00:06:09,180 --> 00:06:10,180 a trace. 124 00:06:10,180 --> 00:06:11,180 All right. 125 00:06:11,180 --> 00:06:12,180 What? 126 00:06:12,180 --> 00:06:13,180 Okay. 127 00:06:13,180 --> 00:06:14,180 What? 128 00:06:14,180 --> 00:06:17,200 It was a normal moose at first. 129 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,960 No it wasn't it was twice the size of a normal moose at first. 130 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,800 Well yeah it's large but moose are large in general. 131 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:25,760 But now it's just walking through walls and shit. 132 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:26,760 Yeah. 133 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:30,000 Now it's just a big old glowing white moose that can walk through walls. 134 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,760 Don't forget the glowing part. 135 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:35,440 It's it's it's ghost glow moose now. 136 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:36,440 Okay. 137 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,560 It's spectral. 138 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:39,560 Spectral in nature. 139 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:40,960 Spectral in nature bud. 140 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:41,960 Now all right. 141 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:42,960 All right. 142 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:46,760 Now the first sighting of the spectral moose was in 1891 when a hunting guide named Clarence 143 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:51,120 Duffy was working around Lobster Lake in Piscataqua County. 144 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:52,560 He didn't get close enough. 145 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,880 He didn't get close enough to shoot it which seems to be like everyone's reaction when 146 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:58,400 they see things that they don't quite understand. 147 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:02,900 But he did get a pretty good look at it and freaked out by his encounter with this fucking 148 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:04,060 nightmare horror moose. 149 00:07:04,060 --> 00:07:09,840 He went back to everyone and started telling his story where obviously he was met with 150 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:12,760 laughter and ridicule. 151 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:17,960 But lucky for him just a few short months later his story would be corroborated by a 152 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:21,840 lumberman from Bangor named John Ross. 153 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:25,680 He also saw the spectral moose down by Lobster Lake. 154 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:31,480 Now later later that same year an unnamed New York hunter was near a lake whose name 155 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:36,160 I am not going to even attempt to pronounce because I'm sure it would be super offensive 156 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,120 to the Native Americans that it's named after if I tried. 157 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,320 So I'm just gonna leave it at Lake. 158 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:42,320 Okay. 159 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:43,640 Probably a good call. 160 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:44,640 Yeah. 161 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:48,280 Now he saw the massive moose and fired some shots at it. 162 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:52,560 Now Colby do you think his shooting the moose had any effect? 163 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:56,320 I'm gonna assume he missed and had no effect. 164 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:57,760 No of course. 165 00:07:57,760 --> 00:07:58,760 Minimal effect. 166 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:02,640 It just he hit it and then it just pissed him off so he decided to charge at the man 167 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:07,200 who was forced to hide in the cave for a couple hours until the moose just kind of gave up. 168 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:11,400 I'm assuming that it was just too big to like go in the cave and just fucking kick a hole 169 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:12,400 in his chest. 170 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:16,480 So he found a nearby cave and he's like all right this this works. 171 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:20,440 Yeah so he just hidden there until the moose was like what am I gonna do. 172 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:24,280 I don't really care about this anymore. 173 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:29,080 The bigger fish to fry. 174 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:36,520 The next year in 1892 another New York hunter named Howard Van Ness and three of his drinkers. 175 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,280 All right now we're getting into the cool names. 176 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:42,960 I was gonna say the first couple names are like this story is not real. 177 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:45,080 Their names are cool enough. 178 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,120 All the other stories you told me their names are fucking wild names. 179 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,080 Was that dude's name Milt? 180 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:53,480 Come on. 181 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:57,440 No there's so the first year the first few names were pretty common. 182 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:59,480 They get better as they go along trust me. 183 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:00,480 Okay. 184 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:01,480 Do you try. 185 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:02,480 All right. 186 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:03,480 They they fucking better. 187 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:08,120 Now Van Ness and three of his drinking slash hunting buddies were hunting about 30 miles 188 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,720 northeast of Norcross. 189 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:15,720 Somehow Van Ness got separated from his crew when he came across the spectral moose describing 190 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:21,320 it as quote weighed a ton and as tall as a camel with magnificent head and antler just 191 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:23,160 he was really admiring this thing. 192 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:24,160 Nice. 193 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:25,160 And then of course he shot at it. 194 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:27,680 Now sure it was beautiful. 195 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:33,040 So I fucking fired by now hitting it just above the shoulder. 196 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:38,320 The moose let out a guttural bellow and then he grunted and then it charged at him and 197 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:41,440 then Van Ness ran and took shelter under some fallen trees. 198 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:45,640 Now he claimed that the moose then circled his hiding spot at an alarming speed. 199 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:50,840 So just fucking hoofing it around even jumping over where he was hiding a few times before 200 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:54,760 again just losing interest and then moving on. 201 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:56,800 Now after jumping over the cave. 202 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:57,800 No no no. 203 00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:58,800 He was a different guy. 204 00:09:58,800 --> 00:09:59,800 Okay. 205 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:00,800 He was under fallen trees. 206 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,720 He just a couple of times he just jumped over the whole cave. 207 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:07,040 Yeah just you know he's like no big deal. 208 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:08,640 No dude he was fucking spectral moose. 209 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:09,640 He can do whatever he wants. 210 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:13,960 Although if you walk through walls why didn't you just go into the cave. 211 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:14,960 Okay all right. 212 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:15,960 All right. 213 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:16,960 No I don't want to start doing that. 214 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:17,960 We're not going to start debunking this. 215 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:21,720 Now we're putting the pieces together here all right. 216 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:26,160 Now after Howard's encounter with the specter moose got around hunters quickly descended 217 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:30,800 into Maine to try and bag that fucker and mount its head on their wall as a macabre 218 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,840 trophy because as a human species we aren't allowed to just let beautiful things remain 219 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:38,400 untouched but unfortunately they never even saw the big guy. 220 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:45,320 It wouldn't be seen again until about 1895 by my voice is cracked so hard. 221 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:57,120 By a taxidermist from Bangor named Granville Gray. 222 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:58,680 Now we're talking. 223 00:10:58,680 --> 00:11:01,000 But even then it was just from a distance. 224 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:07,600 Now four years later in 1899 a Massachusetts man by the name Gilman Brown claims to have 225 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:11,600 gotten close enough to the moose while near the Roche River to count the points on one 226 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:16,680 side of its antlers which he counted as 22 which is a lot. 227 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:20,600 Most moose I believe only have like eight to ten points if I read it or if I'm remembering 228 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:22,360 correctly. 229 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:28,000 So again just he's admiring this beautiful creature really taking in what it looks like 230 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,120 and then he fired five shots at it because fuck it. 231 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:35,720 Again as well you know take a couple. 232 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,960 Yeah it didn't phase the animal. 233 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:46,040 And this time it didn't charge him it simply just kind of mean mugged him and then just 234 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:47,040 fucked off. 235 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:48,680 He said I got shit to do. 236 00:11:48,680 --> 00:11:49,680 Yeah. 237 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:53,080 Can't be fucking dealing with this getting shot at. 238 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:54,080 From the side. 239 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:55,200 Get out of here. 240 00:11:55,200 --> 00:12:01,360 Now over the next few years there were some more sightings one in 1901 by a Boston man 241 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:03,120 and then another in 1906. 242 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:06,520 This is probably my favorite story. 243 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:14,000 George Neeland was riding his bicycle which in my head it was one of those like giant 244 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,680 bikes with like the big front wheel and a tiny back wheel and he had to use like a step 245 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:20,560 stool to get on and off of it. 246 00:12:20,560 --> 00:12:26,400 When he got pretty close to the animal initially he thought it was a horse you know one of 247 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:30,760 the 15 foot tall horses with massive antlers super common in New England. 248 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:34,600 But after stopping to get a closer look and realizing it wasn't a horse and just a giant 249 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:38,760 moose said moose just kind of charges at him unprovoked. 250 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:45,040 So he was forced to bail off his bicycle and then climb up a tree for safety and not having 251 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:46,040 posable thumbs. 252 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:50,680 The moose couldn't really follow him up there but probably would have if it was capable 253 00:12:50,680 --> 00:12:56,240 instead it just kind of checked out the bike for a bit and then walked into the forest 254 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,680 without doing anything further than that. 255 00:12:58,680 --> 00:13:04,840 Sick bike over here with one big wheel one small wheel coming up with these days. 256 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,760 What is that a red line you got fucking pegs on that dude? 257 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:08,760 You got pegs on that bike? 258 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:09,760 Fucking bring me down to zombies. 259 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:12,760 Got a little ring on the side. 260 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:19,240 I was about to ask if that was your bike bell. 261 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:20,840 It was bad at first and then it got better. 262 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,720 Oh yeah you did the second time around it was good. 263 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:26,080 Maybe I'll edit in I'll just replace the audio. 264 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:28,600 There you go appreciate it. 265 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:32,240 Appreciate your confidence in my. 266 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:42,040 Now Colby we're hammering through this so before we kind of get into a little more. 267 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:44,600 So far your thoughts on the spectral moose. 268 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:46,760 There's so many sightings. 269 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:54,440 There's so many accounts of meeting up with this moose and just sometimes it's just like 270 00:13:54,440 --> 00:14:01,320 he just didn't care that he was seen and he just kept on moving. 271 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:09,960 He's clearly got some shit to do but almost every time somebody's taking a shot at him. 272 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:14,440 That's every story we've talked about ever is someone's taking shots at this fucking 273 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:15,440 right. 274 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:16,440 Right. 275 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:20,880 Although it is the 1800s. 276 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:27,080 I feel like every like no one gives a fuck like they're like yeah I'll take that. 277 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:28,080 You shoot at anything. 278 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:32,000 Yes fucking manifest destiny baby fucking take what you want. 279 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,200 That's right. 280 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:36,200 That's right. 281 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:37,760 I think you should have shot out of more. 282 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:40,920 You putting those sunglasses on really changed your demeanor. 283 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:45,600 Are they sunglasses though or they Mars glasses. 284 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:49,840 You know I'm saying they are they ski skiing glasses. 285 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:51,560 I can't really tell nobody skiing. 286 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:55,200 Do you mean doing cocaine off of a giant mirror. 287 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:56,200 I mean skiing. 288 00:14:56,200 --> 00:15:00,760 Yeah I mean I mean like skiing wink wink. 289 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:01,760 Yeah. 290 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:08,200 For the people that are listening as you saying skiing he is tapping his nostrils. 291 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:10,680 Did not for the investigators. 292 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:16,200 No but the wink wink the audible wink wink probably didn't help. 293 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:17,200 Yeah. 294 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,400 Well did I say that shit. 295 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,760 No I meant to say that. 296 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:22,760 No. 297 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:28,120 After the bicycle guy climbed a tree and hit from the moose after this the Spectrum Moose 298 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:32,360 would not be seen would only be seen sporadically throughout the years with some sightings in 299 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:34,320 1932. 300 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:39,760 Another rash of sightings occurring in 1938 in the Penobscot River area with one pretty 301 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:43,080 notable encounter by a hunter named Houston. 302 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:47,360 No I don't know if that's his first name or his last name is just Houston. 303 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:49,160 No correlation to NASA. 304 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:52,600 No but. 305 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:57,440 Houston the hunter stumbled across a herd of about 16 moose with the females grazing 306 00:15:57,440 --> 00:15:59,520 as three bulls watched over them. 307 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:04,000 Three of those bull moose were your average size moose while the third was you guessed 308 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:08,080 it a massive moose with white luminous coloration is what he said. 309 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:12,000 That was so big Houston the hunter said it made the other look other moose look like 310 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,200 pygmies in comparison. 311 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:19,360 After turning away for a brief moment I'm assuming to grab his gun to try and kill it 312 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:22,360 he turned back and the moose simply vanished into thin air. 313 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:28,760 Now another story of the Spectrum Moose which is even wilder than the ones that we've discussed 314 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:32,240 so far because since then these have been pretty tame and I wanted to save this one 315 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:39,100 for last because it is hands down the most fucking wild story I've ever heard and I really 316 00:16:39,100 --> 00:16:42,120 hope that it's true but I'm who knows. 317 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:43,120 Yes. 318 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,080 You ready for this one. 319 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:46,080 Spill. 320 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:47,080 Yes. 321 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:48,080 Bill and beans. 322 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:49,080 All right. 323 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,920 So a group of hunters near a stream in central Maine claimed they shot and killed the great 324 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:57,720 white moose even going so far as to sitting its throw and hanging it to drain so that 325 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,560 they could field dress it the next day. 326 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:04,920 But when they woke they found the moose carcass was gone assuming it was stolen or like an 327 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:05,920 animal got to it. 328 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:11,080 They just went about their day when that evening while they were sitting around their campfire 329 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:14,080 guess who decided to pay them a surprise visit Colby. 330 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:18,240 That same motherfucker. 331 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,760 That same motherfucker the Spectrum Moose. 332 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:28,760 Now its throat was still slit and obviously horrified they again shot it dead for the 333 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:34,880 second time and again it just got up and calmly walked back into the woods. 334 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:40,560 Now that's kind of fucked up but it gets even more fucked up ear. 335 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:42,320 The story continues. 336 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:43,320 Dang. 337 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:44,680 Now it's unkillable. 338 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:52,240 So soon after 90 miles north in Ashland Maine Bert Pagan's spotted the moose. 339 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:54,200 There we go. 340 00:17:54,200 --> 00:18:00,280 Bert Pagan's with with his throat still slit open and just kind of walking around minding 341 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:01,280 its own business. 342 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:05,000 So of course Bert shot at it. 343 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:10,440 And after seeing that guns clearly can't kill the thing he got freaked out and ran inside 344 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:15,160 but not before dropping his rifle in the hurry to get away. 345 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:23,960 Now according to New England folklore blogspot.com it's it said that from inside his home Bert 346 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:31,440 watched the moose walk over to his rifle pick it up with his teeth fire it and then just 347 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:32,440 walked away. 348 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:38,360 These motherfuckers have been firing at me all these years and I finally get a shot to 349 00:18:38,360 --> 00:18:40,640 take out Bert. 350 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:41,720 I'm taking it. 351 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:42,720 He's taking it. 352 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:44,440 He's just I how did he. 353 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:49,080 I don't know dude but it's so good. 354 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:52,000 This is out for revenge. 355 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,200 Spectral as fuck. 356 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:58,600 Oh god damn it. 357 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:02,160 Now besides a bunch of other instances where people claim to have seen the moose here and 358 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:07,400 there there hasn't been too many while they're captivating sightings of the spectral moose 359 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:13,240 in some time except one where in 2002 the Phantom Moose showed up in Franklin and then 360 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:18,040 the town's restaurant burned down which now leads people to believe that it's like a harbinger 361 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:20,280 of doom kind of like the Mothman. 362 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,040 Oh shit. 363 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:27,760 If he can use a gun he can definitely use matches you know. 364 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:28,760 Pour a bunch of gasoline. 365 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:34,160 It goes from going on a shooting spree to committing full on arson. 366 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:35,160 Arson moose. 367 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:37,120 Oh this moose is a menace. 368 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:40,160 We got to fucking we need to get him. 369 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:44,880 He's a mystical moose of arson. 370 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:45,880 But I don't buy that. 371 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,760 This is the only story where they someone saw the moose and then bad things happened 372 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:50,760 except for Burt. 373 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:55,040 He fucking got shot at by it but that was years years before. 374 00:19:55,040 --> 00:20:00,920 Burt's the one guy that's like nobody everybody else you had to shoot at him. 375 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:01,920 Yeah. 376 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:02,920 And he shot at me. 377 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:03,920 The one time. 378 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:04,920 Poor Burt. 379 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,360 Out of 20 sightings. 380 00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:09,360 But I don't know. 381 00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:10,360 Who knows. 382 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:11,360 I don't know. 383 00:20:11,360 --> 00:20:14,720 But yeah that's the but that's the story of the spectral moose of Maine. 384 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:15,720 Wow. 385 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:16,720 That's it. 386 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,040 I thought you'd get a kick out of that one. 387 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:20,040 That's fantastic. 388 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:23,760 It's a great story. 389 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:25,320 String of tales sightings. 390 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:29,280 I mean they are kind of tales. 391 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:30,280 They're all from the fucking 1800s. 392 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:32,400 Who the fuck knows if any of this is real. 393 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:33,400 Right. 394 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:37,080 I'm going to go on a limb and say nah. 395 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:38,680 How do we. 396 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,720 Where's the walking through walls thing. 397 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:43,720 Yeah I don't know. 398 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:45,480 That was never came up in any of the stories. 399 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:50,240 They just sprinkle someone just said it one time. 400 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:52,720 Like yeah that sounds that sounds right. 401 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:54,200 A lot of gunfire. 402 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,480 But you know let's talk about him walking through walls though. 403 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:57,480 You know what I mean. 404 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:58,480 Yeah. 405 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:01,640 If you could walk through walls it could easily get anyone like it didn't have to wait outside 406 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:05,480 the cave and if it can walk through walls they probably climb up a tree and get the 407 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:06,480 guy from the bicycle. 408 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:07,480 I don't know. 409 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:11,440 He's good through drywall but rock. 410 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:12,440 No. 411 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:16,920 Horse hair plaster and wood right through. 412 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:17,920 No resistance. 413 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:20,400 Rock is a little trickier. 414 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:21,400 Yeah. 415 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:22,400 It's a whole thing. 416 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,680 These are the laws of the spectral. 417 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,720 You know I don't write them. 418 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:30,000 None of us do really. 419 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:34,160 You know they're just they're they're set in stone and that's what the stone comes in. 420 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:35,160 You know. 421 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,240 Now give me two more laws. 422 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:38,240 All right. 423 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:39,240 Bird law. 424 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:43,120 I'm a lot like spectral law. 425 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:49,760 They just meant laws in general because I can make up laws baby. 426 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:51,080 I can make a laws all day. 427 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,120 Well we all can. 428 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:55,400 All right spectral laws. 429 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:56,400 Shoot or be shot. 430 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,400 You know shoot or be shot. 431 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,840 Oh my god. 432 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:12,560 If there is something unknown that is within my sight I will shoot at it. 433 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:13,560 Gotcha. 434 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:19,240 But it's more of that's more of a law of man against spectral not so much the law of the 435 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:20,240 specter. 436 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:24,040 No by law you have to shoot at the unknown. 437 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,840 Well yeah I'm pretty sure that that still holds up till today. 438 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,000 I think that's just human nature. 439 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:34,360 Because yeah if it confuses me it's getting got. 440 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:35,360 Die. 441 00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:39,440 That still holds true. 442 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:40,440 That still holds true. 443 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:41,440 Yeah no that's pretty good. 444 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:42,440 Oh shit. 445 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:46,880 Well Colby that is a story of spectral moose. 446 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:48,240 I loved it. 447 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:49,400 Did you? 448 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:50,700 I need more. 449 00:22:50,700 --> 00:22:51,700 More spectral moose. 450 00:22:51,700 --> 00:22:54,800 I don't have any more spectral moose. 451 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:56,600 That's all there is. 452 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:01,600 Well maybe we'll experience the spectral moose for ourselves. 453 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:02,600 Mews. 454 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,160 We'll just go camping in Maine. 455 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:06,720 Okay done. 456 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:10,000 Well Colby that's it. 457 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,160 Before we sign off though is there anything you want to plug? 458 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,680 I know you're in a band Lanterns Last Light. 459 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:15,680 You got anything coming up? 460 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:16,680 What are you doing? 461 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:17,680 Where are you going? 462 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:24,240 We got a slop fest coming up at the end of the end of shit. 463 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:25,240 I don't know the date. 464 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:30,560 You can't just say I got a slop fest. 465 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:34,520 Well yeah so they always do like a food vendor. 466 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:38,040 I got a slop fest coming up. 467 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:39,040 It's real. 468 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:40,040 Yeah. 469 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:41,040 We got milk steak. 470 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:42,040 We got sloppy steaks. 471 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:43,040 We got. 472 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:46,120 I don't think they're gonna have that there but they should. 473 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:50,520 Well the food vendor is doing sloppy joes. 474 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,160 So we're gonna have a show. 475 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,120 We're gonna backtrack real quick. 476 00:23:54,120 --> 00:23:58,600 I need you to tell the people what slop fest is and not just say food trucks with sloppy 477 00:23:58,600 --> 00:23:59,760 joes and reply. 478 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:00,760 Right. 479 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:01,760 Right. 480 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:02,760 So Colby you got slop fest coming up. 481 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:10,200 Why don't you tell the viewers what slop fest is? 482 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:18,160 So the 5ix9ine Underground is a venue that our buddy Rob throws every year. 483 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:23,000 Well multiple times and is really up in the ante this year. 484 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:28,720 He did a bunch of work on the basement and he has many many shows. 485 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,840 We're gonna do a show in I believe it's the end of June. 486 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:35,040 I hope I'm not wrong about that. 487 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,000 And the food vendor is gonna do sloppy joes. 488 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:43,120 So we're calling it the slop fest and we're excited to be back. 489 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:46,040 Who's all playing it? 490 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:47,040 All right we got. 491 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:48,800 Oh they bailed out. 492 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:56,000 We got cannabis crypt, fish face, cytokine, devitalize, stand abandoned, banana clip, 493 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,920 the calling and then they actually are the so the headliners. 494 00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:02,760 I want to say it's edict. 495 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:03,760 Shit. 496 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,480 Well it sounds like you got it all figured out Colby. 497 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:07,480 Anything else you want to plug? 498 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:08,480 It's gonna be great. 499 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:09,480 It's gonna be great. 500 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:13,040 The other plug is you know 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