1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:29,240 Hey everybody, welcome back to the award-winning Cryptid Cocktail Party, a show where we have 2 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:32,120 a few drinks, share a few laughs, take a dive into the unknown. 3 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:36,680 I am your award-winning host Dave, joined as always by my award-winning co-host, Sarge, 4 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:37,680 what's going on bud? 5 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:41,600 Hello, I'm an award-winning superhero. 6 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,760 I don't know if that's the right word for it. 7 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:49,480 I was in Hollywood, that's why we couldn't record last weekend, so I'm important. 8 00:00:49,480 --> 00:00:51,200 I wasn't in Hollywood for a good reason. 9 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,240 Well, it was a good reason for me, but it wasn't like, you know. 10 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,320 Fucking rock star over here, god damn. 11 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,480 It was work, but I like my job. 12 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:01,600 So it was a whirlwind trip. 13 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:06,600 I went to Colorado to watch the Air Force Navy game with some coworkers and then journeyed 14 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,840 onward to LA to do some work stuff. 15 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:11,640 Then I got to have some fun as well. 16 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:17,760 I saw Arnold Schwarzenegger two hours after my plane landed. 17 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:19,400 It's the most absurd thing ever. 18 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,080 I'm walking through Venice Beach, I'm checking out all the sights. 19 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:28,120 I wanted to see the outdoor gym that they show in every 80s movie ever made in California. 20 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:35,720 As I'm walking back towards the car, I see this giant mountain on an electric bicycle 21 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:36,720 rolling towards me. 22 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:40,400 The fact he's on an electric bicycle is even funnier because he's on the way to a gym. 23 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:42,760 Like why wouldn't you just get your cardio in now? 24 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,400 Well, think about it though. 25 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:46,400 Think about it. 26 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:50,120 He's probably on the electric bicycle to get away from people like me because the minute 27 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:55,600 I saw Arnold Schwarzenegger, my jaw dropped and I just stared at him. 28 00:01:55,600 --> 00:02:01,360 I think he noticed because he was looking at my direction and he had this look on his 29 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:03,480 face like, get to the chopper, they found me. 30 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:08,360 I need to get away from this fucking wide eyed psycho as fast as possible. 31 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,080 I would have been an absolute ghoul. 32 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:12,600 I would have been like, let me take a picture with you. 33 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:13,800 He seems nice enough though. 34 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:15,560 I feel like he'd be fine. 35 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:20,720 I'm sure he would have been, but I don't want to be that guy who harasses a famous person 36 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:22,440 when I see him on the street. 37 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:27,160 But I am that guy always and I don't mean to be. 38 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:31,920 I'm actually glad he rode by so I didn't make an ass in front of myself in front of the 39 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:32,920 Govenator. 40 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:33,920 True. 41 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:38,760 I bet he deals like, you would remember that forever for the rest of your life as one of 42 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:40,480 the most cringiest things. 43 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:42,880 For him that's like- I would have told the story to everyone I knew. 44 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:45,000 For him that's like Tuesday. 45 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,160 He doesn't give a fuck. 46 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:50,520 Also I saw a picture of him recently and he looks like a fucking jack Santa Claus because 47 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:52,160 he has a big beard now. 48 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:53,160 That's what I'm saying. 49 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:57,520 I saw his beard and that's how I recognized him because I follow him on Instagram. 50 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:00,240 This is the second time I've seen Arnold Schwarzenegger. 51 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:02,720 I've now seen Arnold Schwarzenegger on two coasts. 52 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:03,720 Is he just bored? 53 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:04,720 What does he do now? 54 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,720 Is he just at the Govenator or is he just fucking through his mouth? 55 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:12,160 He does videos on Instagram and he's always smoking a cigar. 56 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:21,720 When I was in my late teens, I think I was like 19 or almost 20, I was working on Martha's 57 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:24,680 Vineyard for a summer. 58 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:28,280 But anyway, Arnold Schwarzenegger used to- I don't know if he still does, but he used 59 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:32,160 to have a house on the Vineyard and he used to have a big yellow Hummer that he would 60 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:37,280 drive around and I spotted him. 61 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:39,400 And so I thought, I was like, this is the coolest thing. 62 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,080 I've now seen him on two different oceans. 63 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:46,160 And then I went to Malibu one day. 64 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:48,660 We went to dinner at this restaurant. 65 00:03:48,660 --> 00:03:52,720 I think it's called Sunset at Malibu or something like that. 66 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:58,160 And we're on the second floor and you get to see these gorgeous sunsets. 67 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:03,800 And so I ran downstairs to call my dad because my parents were away as well and they had 68 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:05,040 just arrived home. 69 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:12,040 And so I'm talking to my dad and I hear this guy shouting about the UN Security Council. 70 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:16,080 Drone strikes in the CIA. 71 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:18,440 And I'm thinking, this guy's having an intense conversation. 72 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:23,480 I look over and I realize that he's not holding a cell phone and he does not have earbuds 73 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:25,280 in and he's looking directly at me. 74 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:29,320 And so I was like, uh-oh. 75 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,480 He was accusing me of being in the CIA. 76 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:37,000 And then he pointed right at me and said, California is not afraid of you. 77 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,480 And we're like, yeah, no, it's a detracts. 78 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:42,080 I was like, okay, fair enough. 79 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:43,080 I mean, you could be in the CIA. 80 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:44,080 Who the fuck knows? 81 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:45,080 I don't know. 82 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:46,080 You wouldn't tell me if you were. 83 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:47,280 Well, I mean, here's the thing. 84 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:51,160 I do give, I do at times give off big cop energy and I don't mean to. 85 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:52,160 You do. 86 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,160 It's just like, you know, it's my sunglasses. 87 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:55,160 Yeah. 88 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:56,160 And you know, I was in the military. 89 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,800 So I have like, oh, it's still like many years later not being in. 90 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:01,680 I still kind of have that military bearing. 91 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:06,040 So I walk around the corner and finish the phone call with my dad to go back upstairs 92 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:07,920 and tell my coworkers and they don't believe me. 93 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:09,800 They're like, no, no, no. 94 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:10,800 He wasn't talking about it. 95 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:11,800 It had to be something else. 96 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:12,800 He was probably just yelling at you. 97 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:17,280 You look out the window, just standing across the street, pointing at you through the window. 98 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:25,080 Well, we come back downstairs to leave and here he is still shouting at me. 99 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:30,720 It's like he was just continuing the conversation that he was having with himself or a ghost 100 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:34,080 at me. 101 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:39,200 And my coworkers got the biggest kick out of this because like I'm a relatively like 102 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:40,960 mild-mannered chill guy. 103 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:43,400 Like I don't get that worked up at my job. 104 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,240 I feel like when you work in HR, you can't get worked up. 105 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:47,240 That's like the opposite. 106 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:48,240 Yeah. 107 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,960 You have to, you have to be really cool and really even keeled. 108 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:54,560 Like I'm not like one of those like, no, one of those people that puts on like a facade 109 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:55,560 at work. 110 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:57,800 I just like, you know, I don't make a big deal about stuff. 111 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:02,560 And this dude was, he was losing his mind and they're laughing because like to them, 112 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:03,560 it's so absurd. 113 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:04,560 Yeah. 114 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:05,560 That's fucking wild. 115 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:06,560 That's insane. 116 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:11,760 So thank you for enjoying my 10 minute diatribe about, about the West coast. 117 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:12,760 Yeah. 118 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:14,080 I'm an LA guy now. 119 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:18,080 Not too, but also very exciting news for us. 120 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:21,560 I don't know if you're, if I'm sure you guys already forgot by now at the top of the episode, 121 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:28,680 but we won an award, best cryptid podcast of 2024 from the para pod podcast awards. 122 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:35,080 So boom, which is also by proxy, the two sexiest men in cryptology, cryptozoology, excuse me. 123 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:39,520 So we're, we're officially award winning podcasters. 124 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:41,280 I'll raise an arrogance to that. 125 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:42,960 And we're going to be very obnoxious with it. 126 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:45,320 And it's going to be very aggressive. 127 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:46,320 Cheers. 128 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:47,320 Cheers, buddy. 129 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:48,320 Thank you. 130 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:49,320 And thank you everyone listening. 131 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:54,880 I don't, I mean, it's not like you guys voted or anything like that, but I'm sure something, 132 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:55,880 I don't know how it works. 133 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:57,360 I just know we want, so fuck it, whatever. 134 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:58,440 All right, sorry. 135 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:00,360 I have an episode to go over with you today. 136 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:01,360 I'm so ready. 137 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:02,880 It's our first episode in like two weeks. 138 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:09,200 It's been a while, but you know, sometimes, uh, uh, what is it? 139 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:11,720 Distance makes a hard girl, Fonda or something like that. 140 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:12,720 Whatever. 141 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:13,720 Absence or distance. 142 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:14,720 Same thing. 143 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:20,920 Or, or, you know, like slightly enthusiastic hand jobs. 144 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:22,920 All of those things make the hard girl, Fonda. 145 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:23,920 Exactly. 146 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:24,920 All right. 147 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:29,000 Today, Sarge, we are going to be traveling to the Isle of man. 148 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:33,480 It's a self-governing British crown dependency located in the Irish sea between England and 149 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:34,480 Ireland. 150 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,440 I don't know what a self-governing British crown dependency is. 151 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,480 In my head, it's like, I'm like the British version of what I like, like Puerto Rico or 152 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:42,080 Guam, I assume, like a territory. 153 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:47,000 Like it's still under their control, kind of, but like they have their own government. 154 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:48,000 It's got to be like that. 155 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,960 I think it's kind of like Canada and Australia were until they became fully independent. 156 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:52,960 Okay. 157 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:55,960 So they're still like under the crown, but they're not, but they have like their own 158 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:56,960 parliament and shit. 159 00:07:56,960 --> 00:07:57,960 Like, God, all right. 160 00:07:57,960 --> 00:07:58,960 Yes, exactly. 161 00:07:58,960 --> 00:07:59,960 Okay. 162 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:03,600 Now the Isle of man is known for its rugged coastline, its medieval castles, and is home 163 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:09,200 to what is considered the quote unquote greatest motorcycle sporting event in the world. 164 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:14,800 It's called the Isle of man TT, which is a street racing competition that began in 1907. 165 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:18,880 And it takes place over a two week period and has since become a large festival for motorcycle 166 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:23,640 culture and is a big part of like the island's economy as a whole. 167 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:24,640 I don't know. 168 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:25,640 Okay. 169 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:26,640 Yeah. 170 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:27,640 I just wanted to give you a little flavor of where we are. 171 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:28,800 Now, this is all modern shit. 172 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:30,520 We're going to be going back to 1931. 173 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:32,480 So don't worry about any of this stuff. 174 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:33,480 Yeah. 175 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:38,800 Back when, back when motorcycles were really just, you know, you grabbed, you grabbed the 176 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:44,000 poorest person in town and paid them to push you on a bicycle. 177 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:49,680 But in a, in September of 1931 at the Irving family's isolated farmhouse at the door, Lish 178 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:54,680 Koshan located a little way from the village of Dalby, something a bit weirder was a foot 179 00:08:54,680 --> 00:08:55,880 on the Isle of man. 180 00:08:55,880 --> 00:09:00,720 See the Irving family consisting of James Irving, his wife, Margaret, and their teenage 181 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:05,040 daughter of Laura just arrived at the farmhouse in the fall of 1931. 182 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:09,900 Not long after their arrival, the Irvings began hearing odd sounds in their home. 183 00:09:09,900 --> 00:09:14,120 At first it was just things like scratching, rustling, things you would associate like 184 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:18,080 with like a rat or like a sort of animal caught in the wall. 185 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:23,120 Then whatever it was started stealing the family's food, which I mean, it's also kind 186 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:24,560 of like not stealing, but like eating. 187 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:27,920 Like, like you would just expect like a little varmint or whatever. 188 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:28,920 Just munching. 189 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:29,920 Yeah, just munching. 190 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:35,240 So James, the father was like, fuck this and set traps up like, like in all the areas, 191 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:39,800 like an animal could get in or out of, but no animal was ever caught yet the noise and 192 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:41,960 like the stealing of the food continued. 193 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:45,240 As the days passed, the sounds became a bit stranger. 194 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:49,480 Like whatever this elusive entity was behind the walls, it started mimicking animal sounds, 195 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:52,880 started making what sounded like spitting and growling sounds. 196 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:53,880 What in the fuck? 197 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:57,640 And then over time it evolved into speech. 198 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:03,600 Now at first it's spoken broken and nonsensical sentences, but over time the speech became 199 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:04,600 more articulate. 200 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,560 And finally the entity was able to introduce himself. 201 00:10:07,560 --> 00:10:09,880 He said, my name is Jeff. 202 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:22,840 And he claimed. 203 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:25,100 So he said that my name is Jeff. 204 00:10:25,100 --> 00:10:31,060 And he claimed to be a mongoose born in New Delhi, India in 1852. 205 00:10:31,060 --> 00:10:34,320 So today's side, we're going to be talking about Jeff, the talking mongoose. 206 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:36,480 Are you familiar with this at all? 207 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:37,480 I am. 208 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,840 I am lightly familiar with this. 209 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:47,200 So I had a book a long time ago that my mom bought me and it was like a whole book of 210 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,280 oddities, like, you know, strange rains and time slips in Versailles. 211 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:55,440 And of course, G E O F F the talking mongoose. 212 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:56,720 I do recall him. 213 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,720 G E F. Oh, is it G E F? 214 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:01,440 I thought it was G E. Okay. 215 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:02,440 You got the G right. 216 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:03,440 Yes. 217 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:07,460 I am mildly familiar with with this story and I actually fucking love it. 218 00:11:07,460 --> 00:11:09,040 So I'm so glad we're covering it. 219 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:12,840 So he said his name is Jeff and he claimed to be a mongoose that was born in New Delhi, 220 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:14,600 India in 1852. 221 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:18,040 But Jeff made sure to let the family know that he was no ordinary animal telling them 222 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,500 quote unquote, I am an extra, extra clever mongoose. 223 00:11:21,500 --> 00:11:28,960 Now at this point, the family's like, what the fuck is happening? 224 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:32,480 And they weren't like quite sure what to make of this voice, like, because it's coming from 225 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:36,040 the walls like they don't like, was it a spirit, a fucking demon or like, is it actually like 226 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:37,840 a talking mongoose? 227 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:38,840 Like who the hell knows? 228 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:43,400 But they kind of just like resigned to the fact that now they just have to like live 229 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:44,920 with it now, which. 230 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:49,080 Yeah, I mean, this is kind of a bold play for a ghost. 231 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:50,080 Right. 232 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:51,080 True. 233 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:53,400 Like you're already something that is hard to believe. 234 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:54,400 Yeah. 235 00:11:54,400 --> 00:12:00,200 But now you're expecting people to not only accept that you're a ghost that can talk. 236 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:01,200 Yeah. 237 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,320 But you're a mongoose, but you chose the name Jeff. 238 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:06,320 Yeah. 239 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:08,280 That's a lot to take it. 240 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:09,560 I mean, Jeff's a great name. 241 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:13,880 I mean, if you, if it is a great name, but not for a ghost mongoose. 242 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:18,960 I mean, yeah, but if you were in a isolated cabin in the middle of the Isle of Man and 243 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:20,640 you just heard coming from your walls. 244 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:21,640 My name is Jeff. 245 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:24,640 Like you'd have a blast. 246 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:31,800 I would be extremely excited about this. 247 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:35,680 Oh, I'm so glad I fucking stole that selfie. 248 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:36,680 I would tell everyone. 249 00:12:36,680 --> 00:12:43,040 So, no, as time went on, Jeff's interaction became a little more complex, so to say, and 250 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:44,960 his personality really began to shine. 251 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:49,040 You know, he claimed to live in the walls of the farmhouse and made his presence by 252 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:53,440 tapping on walls, moving objects and making a variety of different animal sounds. 253 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:54,440 I don't know what they were. 254 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,440 I'm assuming chickens, dogs, whatever. 255 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:00,440 Like I fucking who knows. 256 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:04,480 Jeff's and around this time, Jeff also started to let the family in on the fact that he's 257 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,360 kind of like a mischievous little fucker. 258 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:11,560 He's got, he's got like a kind of like a trickster vibe. 259 00:13:11,560 --> 00:13:14,280 There's no other way to be if you're a ghost mongoose. 260 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:15,280 You have to be a trickster. 261 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:16,280 Yeah. 262 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:19,960 He would he would listen in on conversations happening in the house and would only interrupt 263 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:23,560 to make rude or sarcastic comments, which is the best. 264 00:13:23,560 --> 00:13:24,560 That's exactly what I do. 265 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:29,120 Like one example was James Irving, the father, were like trying like speak to Jeff, basically 266 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:32,160 try to like, when I was like, who are you, spirit? 267 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:33,920 Like just like get to know him better. 268 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:37,560 And then Jeff would just openly mock him to his face. 269 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:42,320 It's like, what are you doing here, Jeff, when you do need Jeff? 270 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:44,320 It's like that kind of shit. 271 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:45,320 Stupid. 272 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:49,680 Like if James were to ask him a question, like something Jeff would say things like, 273 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:52,680 quote, if you knew what I knew, you'd know a hell of a lot. 274 00:13:52,680 --> 00:13:54,160 Basically just calling him fucking idiot. 275 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:56,720 Like, yeah, yeah. 276 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:58,440 But Jeff wasn't always a dick. 277 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:04,000 Jeff would sing popular songs from the radio from memory, imitate voices and recite nursery 278 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:05,000 rhymes. 279 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:06,880 He was also a bit of a gossip. 280 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:11,600 He claimed he had the ability to travel far from the Irving's farmhouse and he would eavesdrop 281 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:16,560 on like neighbors conversations and then bring the hot gossip back to the family. 282 00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:21,480 Just like I kind of hope that Jeff was actually just like the neighborhood drunk, just living 283 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:22,480 in the walls. 284 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:24,000 Yeah, just living in the walls. 285 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:28,440 I mean, like he needed a place to crash and he's like, what's the most logical thing I 286 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:31,080 could be to explain my presence? 287 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,680 Oh, a mongoose named Jeff from India. 288 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:35,680 Yeah. 289 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:39,480 Yeah, Jeff would also just start saying random shit. 290 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:44,400 Like he said, quote, I am a ghost in the shape of a weasel and I shall haunt you with weird 291 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:50,400 noises and clanking chains and quote, or he would say, quote, I am not a spirit. 292 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,000 I am an extra clever beast. 293 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,000 End quote. 294 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,000 Okay. 295 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,680 Now, I don't know if you've noticed this, but both the sentences kind of like contradict 296 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:57,680 each other. 297 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:58,960 They don't make any goddamn sense. 298 00:14:58,960 --> 00:14:59,960 Yeah. 299 00:14:59,960 --> 00:15:05,540 But it seemed like being an enigma to the family, I guess, is like he loved that shit. 300 00:15:05,540 --> 00:15:08,600 Like he would claim to be like a spirit or a ghost while other times claiming he's like 301 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:10,160 an actual living mongoose. 302 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:14,880 Like he just, he just like sows confusion and doubt into whatever is going on. 303 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:15,880 And why wouldn't he? 304 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:16,880 Yeah. 305 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:20,880 He described, he even described himself as being about 12 inches long with yellowish fur, 306 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:27,180 a bushy tail and small hands. 307 00:15:27,180 --> 00:15:32,720 And at this point, Jeff had never like appeared in front of anyone yet. 308 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:38,040 So like no one in the family knew like just what the fuck he is. 309 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:40,240 He did eventually like show himself to the family. 310 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:46,220 I think the father and the daughter were the first to like see him and the activity surrounding 311 00:15:46,220 --> 00:15:49,040 Jeff and the family kept on intensifying as time went on. 312 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:55,080 And by 1933, Jeff seemed to take a liking to the Irving's teenage daughter, Voira. 313 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:59,520 The two seemed, they like had like a special connection and they're like pretty close. 314 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:03,680 And it's because of this connection and close relationship that much of this story like 315 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:04,680 unfolded. 316 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,680 Voira was home a lot while James and Margaret were out working. 317 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:12,400 So she was, so she was able to like hear and see Jeff more than the other members of the 318 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:13,600 family. 319 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:18,720 And then this led some to believe that she was either like the focus of the phenomenon 320 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:23,400 or like the cause of like channeling the entity or whatever. 321 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:27,680 Like either intentionally or unintentionally, though Voira maintained that she had nothing 322 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:31,480 to do with what happened like spiritually or even like hoaxing it. 323 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:36,360 But as Jeff's presence became more entrenched in the household, he started to get what I 324 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,960 would describe as a little manic. 325 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:43,480 See actually before we get into this, how are you doing with this story so far? 326 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,080 Are you, is this, are you familiar with all of this or are you just know? 327 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:48,200 I'm fucking all in. 328 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:49,520 I'm familiar with most of this. 329 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:51,280 I forgot that he used to pick on the dad. 330 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:55,000 He was a straight up asshole to the dad. 331 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,240 Which is good actually. 332 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:01,360 It should be because now it just makes it like a sitcom. 333 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:03,520 This is like elf, but with a ghost. 334 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:04,520 Yeah. 335 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:05,840 Minus the cat eating. 336 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:06,840 Yeah. 337 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:07,840 We don't know that yet. 338 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:11,160 We don't know what, what Jeff would know. 339 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:12,280 And was looking true. 340 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:16,480 I didn't include this in here, but he also had like, he had like a weird thing where 341 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:20,560 like he can't, he didn't act as like a protector, but I think like the family thought he was. 342 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:26,800 So they would leave him like little offerings, like chocolates and biscuits and he would 343 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:29,200 take them and then he would say, thank you through the walls. 344 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,480 And then he would just end up being a dick to the dad anyway. 345 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:32,480 Like it's fucking hilarious. 346 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:37,160 Like Jeff fucking rules, dude. 347 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:39,320 Which is exactly like my cat. 348 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:40,320 Nice to everyone but me. 349 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:41,320 Pretty much. 350 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:45,200 I'm the one who feeds him and he's just like, let me know on your hand for a little bit. 351 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:49,400 This is basically like if a cat could talk, it's just fucking with you the entire time. 352 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:54,120 But like I said, as like things started like increasing, he got a little bit more manic 353 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:58,680 because word had started spreading about like what was happening at the Irving farmhouse 354 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:03,920 and it started attracting the attention of both the media and paranormal investigators. 355 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:09,480 So he became increasingly paranoid about being seen or exposed by outsiders. 356 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:13,720 And then he just started, he just started making like fucking shit off the wall remarks 357 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:20,320 like like about like what would happen if anyone saw his quote unquote true form stating 358 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:22,480 quote unquote, I am a freak. 359 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:24,120 I have hands and I have feet. 360 00:18:24,120 --> 00:18:25,760 And if you saw me, you'd faint. 361 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:30,720 You'd be petrified, mummified, turned into a stone or pillar of salt. 362 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:31,720 So he's like Goku. 363 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:32,720 I don't know. 364 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:34,440 I just don't get to see his true form. 365 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:36,400 Yeah, I don't know anything about anime. 366 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:41,880 I just, my teammate in Iraq used to watch Dragon Ball Z. And the only thing I knew is 367 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:47,600 that you had this guy with black hair and it would turn yellow when he had achieved 368 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:48,720 his true form. 369 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:50,640 And then he was like super strong in a fight. 370 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:51,640 Sure. 371 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:52,800 That sounds a hundred percent right. 372 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,800 I'm only saying that because I don't know anything about Dragon Ball either. 373 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:56,800 So me either. 374 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:57,800 Me neither. 375 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:03,160 I feel like Jeff is insinuating here that it's like Pennywise the clown. 376 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:07,600 Like, you know, like, like Jeff is like his, like what he can attract humans with, but 377 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:13,200 his true form is just something so fucking horrific that your human brain couldn't comprehend 378 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:14,200 it, which is hilarious. 379 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:16,480 He hasn't achieved his true form. 380 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:21,720 He's like, he's like your overly conservative neighbor who believes in, in contrails, but 381 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,560 he won't or what is it? 382 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:28,040 Chemtrails, but he won't tell you all that stuff at first. 383 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:30,800 He doesn't achieve his true form until you get him drunk. 384 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:31,800 Yeah. 385 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,560 The first neighborhood barbecue is when that shit starts really coming out. 386 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:35,560 Exactly. 387 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:36,560 Exactly. 388 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:41,760 Yeah, but, but despite Jeff's weird like existential crisis, he did continue to play his tricks, 389 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:45,960 you know, stealing food, moving objects, and then eventually started throwing little stones 390 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:50,520 at visitors or extended family members when they came and visited. 391 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,040 I fucking love Jeff. 392 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:53,040 Yeah. 393 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:56,200 And again, just to be clear, like even though his behavior was mischievous, he was never 394 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:57,200 malicious. 395 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:00,600 Like he never, like he would say off the wall shit, but he'd never like attacked anyone. 396 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:02,680 Like he was, you know what I mean? 397 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:03,680 He never harmed anyone. 398 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:05,720 He was just, he was like, like a shit talker. 399 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,640 He was like a, like a fucking pole board troll kind of thing. 400 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:09,880 Like he just said fucking crazy shit. 401 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:11,440 Which I'm fine with too. 402 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:12,440 Yeah. 403 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:17,680 Now, uh, in 1935, the family finally allowed the haunting to be investigated. 404 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:22,480 Harry Prince and his colleague, Richard Lambert were the lucky two who got this opportunity 405 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:28,080 and the pair were rightfully skeptical of the family and their story of a fucking talking 406 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:30,280 mongoose demon. 407 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:34,240 But they would be, they noted that the family seems sincere in their claims and they weren't 408 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:35,840 like gaining any fight. 409 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,200 Like they, like they weren't making money off this story. 410 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:39,200 Like they weren't going out. 411 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:40,200 Like they know like a book deal. 412 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:41,200 There wasn't like, it's 1930s. 413 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,200 So it's not like there's like fucking TV camera crews everywhere. 414 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:45,200 You know what I mean? 415 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:46,440 Like they weren't gaining anything from it. 416 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:48,800 So it'd be weird for them to just make shit up. 417 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,800 But also they were isolated and alone and maybe this is a way to get people to come 418 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:52,800 visit them. 419 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:57,720 So you know what I mean? 420 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:01,080 Like this, they needed some sort of interaction from the outside world. 421 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:02,080 Yeah. 422 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:03,320 I can see how this conversation goes. 423 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,520 You know, we don't really see our neighbors that much. 424 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:06,520 Maybe we should throw a party. 425 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,040 And the dad's like, hear me out. 426 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:12,040 I got an idea. 427 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:13,040 I mean it worked. 428 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:19,680 But needless to say, like their investigation into the matter was inconclusive. 429 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:23,160 They couldn't find any hard evidence of Jeff outside of the family stories, but they also 430 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,560 couldn't find any evidence disputing that Jeff wasn't real. 431 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:30,140 They did hear some strange unexplained noises like here and there. 432 00:21:30,140 --> 00:21:34,120 And they got some photographs and some footprints and a first sample, though that was later 433 00:21:34,120 --> 00:21:36,560 dismissed as being from the family dog. 434 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,960 But hold on. 435 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:43,960 But the footprints though, they were a little more interesting. 436 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:49,840 They were a set of four toed prints that didn't match any known species on the Isle of Man. 437 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:51,960 So you know what I mean? 438 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:52,960 Yeah. 439 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:53,960 I'm all in, dude. 440 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:55,440 I fucking love this story. 441 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,240 I want it to be true. 442 00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,060 I will accept it uncritically. 443 00:21:59,060 --> 00:22:06,920 Now after the investigation, so between like 1935, 1936 timeframe, Jeff's presence became 444 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:07,920 less frequent. 445 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:12,480 But when he did make himself known, he would just say more just off the wall shit. 446 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:19,560 And not and now it's like, and now it's like in an ominous tone. 447 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:21,440 I'm going to fucking kill everyone here. 448 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:25,480 He would say shit like quote unquote, I'll follow you wherever you go. 449 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,520 And quote unquote, I have three minds. 450 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:29,640 I am not like one of you. 451 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:31,120 The fuck does that mean? 452 00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:32,800 Yeah, I don't know what that means. 453 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,600 It sounds like Jeff had reached his incel phase. 454 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:36,600 It's wild. 455 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:41,640 He even shouted once, quote unquote, I am the Holy Ghost, which is at this time in this 456 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,520 area like super blasphemous. 457 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,280 And I feel like you should settle down, Jeff. 458 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,800 Yeah, he's he's going a little. 459 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,920 He's going a little off the deep end here. 460 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:52,920 Little too much. 461 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:53,920 Yeah. 462 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,520 So as the years continued, just presence faded more and more from the family. 463 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,840 And by the late 30s, they had reported less and less encounters. 464 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:05,120 Then in 1945, James passed away and the family sold the farmhouse. 465 00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:10,160 And it seemed as though once the family left, Jeff kind of moved on as well. 466 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:14,760 And there was no more reports either from the family or the new occupants of any antics 467 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:16,880 from the talking mongoose. 468 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:21,040 Vora moved to England and lived a quiet life after the events on the island, man, and always 469 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,520 maintained that Jeff had been real. 470 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:28,160 She did she did like a rare like interview like later in her life. 471 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,440 And she expressed how frustrated she was that people doubted her story and insisted that 472 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:36,840 she and her family were not part of a hoax and that she regretted the attention the story 473 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,340 brought brought to her and her family. 474 00:23:39,340 --> 00:23:42,560 And she just wants to like leave the whole thing behind her in the past. 475 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:47,960 I mean, for me, part of the reason I believe that this story is real to some degree, at 476 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,680 least to the people who live there, is who would make that shit up? 477 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:52,680 Yeah, right. 478 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:57,440 Like if you want someone to believe that your house on an isolated island off the coast 479 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:03,520 of England is haunted, you would you would pick a fucking sea captain or, you know, like 480 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:08,800 a puffin, some kind of sea sea going creature if you wanted it to be an animal. 481 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,240 You're not going to pick a fucking mongoose from India. 482 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:15,200 Well, maybe they thought that fucking like Ricky Tiki Tavi was just like to them it was 483 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:16,200 so exotic. 484 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:17,800 They're like, what if he said it was an exotic animal? 485 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,200 Yeah, they're like Ricky Tiki Tavi is the tits. 486 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,480 Right. A whole fucking script about that instead. 487 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:24,480 Yeah. 488 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,880 But like, but so just what was Jeff the talking mongoose? 489 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:29,560 There are a couple of theories floating around. 490 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,560 I figured we could discuss. 491 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:32,560 Yes. 492 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:33,560 You can tell me your favorite one. 493 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:34,560 I got one that I like. 494 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:35,560 I'm pretty biased. 495 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:40,080 So, yeah, why don't we just try and solve this right now? 496 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:43,760 The first theory is that it's just a straight up hoax. 497 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:45,640 OK, I don't. 498 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,000 Some think that whoever came up with that. 499 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:53,660 So something that Voira was like solely responsible for what they think was a long term prank. 500 00:24:53,660 --> 00:25:01,360 They claim that Voira was using ventriloquism to like throwing her voice to create the voice 501 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:06,680 of Jeff the mongoose, which is bananas, because that means you would have to practice ventriloquism. 502 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,200 You have to know what ventriloquism was. 503 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:10,480 Yeah. 504 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:11,560 Practice it. 505 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,040 And that like I just don't buy that one at all. 506 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,920 That one's a little too insane for me. 507 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,120 Yeah, it's not like they have YouTube. 508 00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:20,600 You know, she can't Google how to ventriloquism. 509 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:21,600 Right. 510 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:22,600 Come on. 511 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:23,600 Come on. 512 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,280 It's pretty bananas. 513 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:26,920 Number two is poltergeist. 514 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,920 This one seems the most plausible to me. 515 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:34,120 Like just behavior does closely resemble activity you'd see with poltergeist. 516 00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:39,600 Like, first and foremost, like the focus of Jeff was the young girl. 517 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:44,660 And it's like a lot of poltergeist activities for some reason does focus around young women. 518 00:25:44,660 --> 00:25:46,360 Also the fact that it's near water. 519 00:25:46,360 --> 00:25:49,360 Poltergeist activity also happens to be very prevalent near water. 520 00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:52,920 And it kind of makes sense that like as she grew up out of her adolescence, that like 521 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:57,320 that's why the reason Jeff's shit started like fading away. 522 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:02,620 But also like, you know, you add in like the mischievous and disruptive behavior of Jeff. 523 00:26:02,620 --> 00:26:04,220 Like it just seems to fit really. 524 00:26:04,220 --> 00:26:05,720 Like I don't know. 525 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,120 Does that make sense? 526 00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:08,280 I don't know that makes sense. 527 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,300 Yeah, but I think so. 528 00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:18,840 The reason that I'm leaning towards that too, is that with poltergeist activity, typically 529 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,080 it centers around teenage children. 530 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,000 She was a teenage teenage girl. 531 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:25,000 Yeah. 532 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,000 When they moved there, she was a teenager. 533 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,720 I don't know how young the thing is, though, like I don't remember. 534 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,640 I don't I don't think I've ever read a story with a poltergeist spoke. 535 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,020 Could be a mixture of both, though. 536 00:26:34,020 --> 00:26:35,020 Like you know what I mean? 537 00:26:35,020 --> 00:26:40,360 Like she could be trying to explain away all the weird shit that her that she knows is 538 00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:44,000 centered around her by learning ventriloquism. 539 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:49,000 It's like it's like a like a one to combo kind of thing. 540 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:53,840 Yeah, she wouldn't be the first awkward, isolated and uncomfortable teenager who resorted to 541 00:26:53,840 --> 00:27:01,720 learning ventriloquism. 542 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:06,560 The number three, the third theory is that it was a shared delusion. 543 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:10,840 So some people think that the family experienced some sort of collective delusion. 544 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,880 And as things would occur, they would just reinforce each other's beliefs in Jeff over 545 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:15,880 time. 546 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:19,320 So like over time, they just everyone was like, that's fucking Jeff. 547 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,920 I mean, I mean, that's also pretty plausible, weirdly enough. 548 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:24,640 It is, especially since you're isolated. 549 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,640 It's just you three in the house over time. 550 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:31,400 Like it is there was a story recently about a very isolated family in Australia. 551 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:36,480 This happened, I want to say, within the last 10 years or so, where they had some kind of 552 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,200 crazy delusion that they all shared. 553 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,920 And then one by one, the family kind of came out of it. 554 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:43,480 Now, they don't like to talk about it at all. 555 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:51,440 But during this delusion, they all ran away from their farm and like traveled across the 556 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:52,760 country. 557 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:54,840 And that's when they started to fall off. 558 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:59,600 Like as things got crazier and crazier, the two kids are like, oh, wait, no, this isn't. 559 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,240 Yeah, we're not being hunted. 560 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:05,040 Well, it's like that Ashley Judd and fucking what's his name movie where they think the 561 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:06,640 house is full of bugs. 562 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,680 Oh, oh, oh, yeah. 563 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:09,840 And they fuck another one you're talking about. 564 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:10,840 I can't remember what it's called. 565 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:11,840 And all that stuff. 566 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,920 And like they are like he she gets sucked into his like delusions turns out none of it's 567 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:16,920 real. 568 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:17,920 It's fucking wild. 569 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:18,920 Yeah. 570 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:19,920 I don't know what it's called. 571 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:20,920 Yeah. 572 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:21,920 Folly you do. 573 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,920 It's pretty much not the name of the movie, but that's that's the when two people share 574 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:25,920 delusion. 575 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:31,400 You know, there's twins from Sweden who went nuts in England and they both ran into the 576 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:35,360 middle of the road and tried to get hit by cars. 577 00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:40,400 And then one sister was in the hospital and the other one escaped from the hospital and 578 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:41,640 actually murdered someone. 579 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:42,640 Jesus. 580 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,080 They were sharing a delusion. 581 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:49,800 And now the sister who didn't murder someone is living in L.A. and the other sister is 582 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,800 in prison in England. 583 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:54,360 So yeah, that was possible. 584 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,440 And then number four, the final one we got this one. 585 00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:58,800 I don't I don't know. 586 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:04,280 It's something Jeff may have been a cryptid or some sort of folkloric spirit cryptid. 587 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:05,280 I don't know. 588 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:06,280 I don't think so. 589 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,560 As far as cryptids are notoriously talkative. 590 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:09,560 Yeah. 591 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:10,560 Folkloric spirit. 592 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:11,560 Maybe. 593 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:17,160 I mean, he does have like a trickster kind of trickster God kind of feel to him. 594 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:20,240 But I mean, the point of folklore is that it's folklore. 595 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:24,560 There's nothing I mean, like, I don't think that one is real to me. 596 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:25,560 The Poltergeist seems the most. 597 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,040 Yeah, I don't buy it. 598 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:32,840 To me, Poltergeist seems like the most poltergeist or shared delusion would be my. 599 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:33,840 Yeah. 600 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,240 But then again, the other thing about the shared delusion is didn't didn't you say 601 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,560 other people heard it as well? 602 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,080 Not the talking, but they heard the strange noises and stuff. 603 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:42,880 They heard unexplained sounds. 604 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,520 But I mean, you're in a farmhouse on an island. 605 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:46,520 Right. 606 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,080 You know, you're going to hear sounds like, you know what I mean? 607 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:51,800 But in the end, I mean, I guess we'll never really know. 608 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:52,800 And who cares? 609 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,560 Like if we don't know, it's a fun, silly story of a talking mongoose that fucked with the 610 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,040 family for almost a decade. 611 00:29:58,040 --> 00:29:59,720 Like it's a fun story. 612 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:00,720 It's weird. 613 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,540 But yeah, so there you have it. 614 00:30:02,540 --> 00:30:04,720 That is the tale of Jeff the talking mongoose. 615 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,080 How you feeling, Sarge? 616 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:07,080 What do you think? 617 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:08,080 Thoughts, feelings? 618 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:09,080 I'm feeling pretty good. 619 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:10,400 My poltergeist has joined me. 620 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:11,400 Hi, Lucille. 621 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,600 How are you, sweetheart? 622 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:19,040 For those of you who are only listening to this, my dog has decided to crash the party. 623 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:20,040 She missed me. 624 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:23,000 I was gone for eight days, so I don't blame her. 625 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,000 I don't know. 626 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,000 I don't think a poltergeist probably makes the most sense to me. 627 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,800 The talking is like the only thing that's kind of throwing me off. 628 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:37,680 I don't think the shared delusion makes that much sense, only because, like, again, like, 629 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:38,680 why a mongoose? 630 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,400 OK, so so there you have it. 631 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,600 I think I think we figured it out. 632 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:44,600 I think it was a poltergeist. 633 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:45,600 Yeah, I think it's a poltergeist. 634 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,000 I think we solved it. 635 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,000 Case closed. 636 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,760 Yeah, we cracked the case. 637 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,400 We cracked the case in in 38 minutes. 638 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:57,520 Granted, 10 of those minutes I spent bragging about my trip to L.A., but nonetheless, I 639 00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:58,760 think we cracked the case. 640 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:03,120 And then let's also say that, like, this is the reason why we're award winning podcasters 641 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,080 is that we we crack. 642 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:06,360 We get right down to it. 643 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:07,360 We figure it out. 644 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:08,360 It was for us. 645 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:09,920 A lot of this shit would just be unheard of. 646 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,280 I like the rest of you saps just talking about it. 647 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:14,280 Right. 648 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:15,280 We fucking solve it. 649 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,280 Yeah, we're boots on the ground, motherfucker. 650 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:23,040 But for real, I can't believe we won based on who we were up against. 651 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,040 Dude, like I just like who we are as people. 652 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:27,800 Just I can't believe we won. 653 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:28,800 I'm so grateful. 654 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:29,800 I'm so grateful. 655 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:35,560 All right, Sarge, do you have anything you want to plug before we sign off? 656 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:37,720 You know, we're getting we're getting close to the election. 657 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:43,640 So please go to SagesSuperNormal.com by my coloring book to help you ease your anxiety 658 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:48,200 while we wait for the downfall of our nation. 659 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:49,560 I'm just kidding. 660 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,520 The downfall happened a long time ago. 661 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:55,280 Now we're just the smoldering embers of what used to be America. 662 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:59,240 But still go buy the coloring book. 663 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:05,320 And I am not in the CIA as much as that gentleman in California insisted upon it. 664 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:06,840 He is incorrect. 665 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,800 They wouldn't take me because I'm an idiot. 666 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:14,640 You I feel like you're protesting a little too much, bud, coming off as someone who might 667 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,320 be in the CIA. 668 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,920 Me thinks the lady doth protest too much. 669 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:19,920 All right. 670 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:24,480 If you want to follow us on social media, follow us on Instagram at Crypto Cocktail, 671 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,320 TikTok Crypto Cocktail Party. 672 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,800 If you want to follow Sarge on his social media accounts, just look up Sarge the Destroyer 673 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,560 and pretty much any platform and you'll find it. 674 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:32,560 Yeah, you'll find me. 675 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:33,560 I'm there. 676 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:34,560 Please leave a rating and review. 677 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,560 I know we're award winning podcasters, so it doesn't mean anything to us, but it actually 678 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:42,440 does help a lot. 679 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:43,440 It definitely helps. 680 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:48,040 You know, five stars, you know, leave five stars and then 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00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:15,320 It's fine. 695 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,000 It's just to support the show because things are expensive. 696 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,000 You don't have to if you don't want to. 697 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,360 But I mean, like it'd be cool if you did. 698 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,760 It'd be it'd be a lot cooler if you did be a lot cooler if you did. 699 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:27,640 All right, Sarge, with that out of the way, do you want to say goodbye and I love you 700 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:28,640 to the audience? 701 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,560 Hey, you guys, I love you. 702 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:35,360 Even though I'm an award winning podcaster, I didn't forget you. 703 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,120 My name is Jeff.