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You are now listening to Cryptid Cocktail Party.

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Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode

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of Cryptic Cocktail Party, a show where we have

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a few drinks, share a few laughs, take a dive

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into the unknown. I'm your host Dave, joined

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as always by Sarge, aka Darth Handsome. What's

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going on buddy? Hey, what's going on? For those

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of you who can't see, Sarge is wearing a Stormtrooper

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helmet because today we're recording this on

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May the 4th. Yeah. So obviously, you gotta celebrate

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in your own way. I got a ham tattoo. You know,

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he's wearing a helmet. You know, we celebrate

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in different ways. That's the beauty of society

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and culture. Right, Sarge? Yeah, of course. I

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mean, this is why I'm wearing this helmet. I

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want to celebrate my imperial roots. So I figured

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what better way than to put on a Narragansett

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t -shirt and then put on a Stormtrooper helmet.

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Which, interestingly enough, when it's humid...

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The inside fogs up very quickly, so I'm going

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to take it off. Okay, good. But I want everyone

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to know that I do appreciate Star Wars. Holy

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shit. Goddamn, that was hot in there. Woo! I'm

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glad you took it off, because it also sounded

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like ass. Yeah, I wasn't going to do the whole

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episode. I promise. That wasn't the plan. Yeah,

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so what's going on, bud? How are you doing? I'm

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good. I'm fucking great. Had a really busy week

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at work last week, but I got a lot of stuff done.

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Hell yeah. I got a very nice message on TikTok

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from someone, and that was nice of them to say,

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to agree with you, Dave, actually. They agreed

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with you. With me? Yeah, that I am extremely

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hot. Well, I mean, yeah. That's what they said.

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Yeah, that tracks. I find you eerily... Irresistible?

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Irresistible, yes. I appreciate that, man. I

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really do. Yeah, yeah. It means a lot to me.

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Glad you're doing good. Glad work's going well.

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How are you doing? I'm dying from the inside

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out. Yeah, I'm not surprised. Last night at Neshaminy

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Creek, which is a brewery up by my house, every

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Star Wars weekend, like May 3rd, 4th, they always

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do a Star Wars thing and they put out a different

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Star Wars beer. Last time I went, it was Bantha

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Fodder. This year it was Bespin's Best Lager.

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Really good. Oh, I like that. Yes, I like that.

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I had a few. And then I ended up getting a tattoo

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of Darth Maul's skull on my hand. So, you know.

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Kind of badass. Just decisions all around. Was

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it expensive? Not good or bad decisions, just

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decisions. No, it was like $150. Oh, that's not

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bad. No, it was just like a flash thing they

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had going on there. But I did get Street Fighter.

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and The Mummy on VHS in Japanese. So they're

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Japanese. Would it be hard to follow? Or are

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they subtitles? It's in English. It's just subtitles.

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Oh, okay. All right. It's pretty cool. The covers

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are all Japanese. They're pretty sick. Very cool.

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I'm regretting every decision I made that night.

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But besides that, we're doing great. You know

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what will help you with that? What's that? Some

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Narragansett lemonade with Dells. Iced tea and

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lemonade. The hard tea. I'm not drinking, but

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I always keep my Shandy's right next to me. Shandy's

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are so goddamn good. I need more, Cam. I'll talk

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to our guy. Yeah, if I could drink, I would,

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but I think I would die if I didn't buy it. So

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you're not a hair of the dog guy? No, I'm more

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of a crushing energy drink. Hopefully later today

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I'll have something greasy and then I'll die.

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That's a way to do it. Yeah. I hate this. All

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right. So, yeah, like I said, Sarge, listeners,

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I'm going to be very upfront. I, as previously

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stated, am hungover as fuck today, and I didn't

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feel like digging into some fresh rabbit hole

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to find something new to talk about. So I figured

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what we would do, just take it easy, and we're

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going to do another redo episode. We did one

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a couple weeks back, maybe a couple months back

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on the Flatwoods Monster. So we're going to go

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back and cover... I guess one of the very first

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topics I ever covered on the show way back in

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April of 2023. So this is like long before you

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were even a guest, I think, for the first time.

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Yeah. And the show is basically just me rambling

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at anyone who would agree to come on. So today

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I figured what we would do is we would revisit

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the Grafton Monster. Are you familiar with the

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Grafton Monster? No. No? No, I'm not. Oh, shit.

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No. Is it from Grafton, Massachusetts? No, it's

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West Virginia, obviously, because everything

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awful comes from there. Yeah, so the Grafton

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Monster was a huge, pale, headless nightmare

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that caused a bit of a stir in West Virginia

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in the year of our Lord, 1964. What I love about

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the Grafton Monster story, which is why I like

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it, is that it wasn't just like a one -off, I

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saw something weird story. This kicked off a

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frenzy in the community. Teens were organizing

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monster hunting parties, local papers were scrambling

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to cover it, and the town was buzzing with both

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excitement, and fear. So today we're going to

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break down the first sightings of this thing,

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the media coverage surrounding it, how the public

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reacted, and how this lumpy -ass cryptid wormed

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its way into the West Virginia folklore lexicon.

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Plus, I'm going to be pulling in some extra details

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that I missed the first time around because,

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let's be honest, I had no idea what the fuck

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I was doing back then. I mean, I still don't,

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but that's the size of it. Yeah, but I mean,

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neither do I. Yeah, so you ready to dive into

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this bitch? I am very excited because given the

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rural implications here. I think we're going

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to get some of my favorite things when we cover

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cryptids. I'm not going to say it because I don't

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want to steal your thunder, but I think we're

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going to get into some of my favorite cryptid

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situations. I think you have a good sense about

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this. I'm not going to confirm or deny, but I

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think... I think you're right on the money. So

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I know my country. I know my I know the United

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States. So the whole grafted monster saga kicks

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off on the night of June 16th, 1964, when 18

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year old reporter Robert Cockerell was driving

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home after his shift at the cock. You know, I

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try really hard to behave myself and be an adult,

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but sometimes you just you hear a name and you're

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like, you know what? That's funny because it's

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a dick. Yeah. You can't do anything about it.

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I tried to just breeze past it, but I could not

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giggle because I'm, you know, almost 40. Yeah.

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So Robert Cockerell was driving home after a

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shift at the Grafton Sentinel newspaper. Now

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it's around 11 p .m. and he's cruising down a

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stretch of road alongside the Tigert Valley River

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when he catches a glimpse of something in his

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headlights on the side of the road. He described

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it as a quote unquote huge white obstruction

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just looming there on the riverbank. Also known

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as Baron Trump. So Cockerell slams on his brakes

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to get a better look at this thing. He described

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what he saw as being between seven to nine feet

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tall, roughly four feet wide at the shoulders

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with slick pale skin, almost like a seal, but

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without like the fur, if that makes sense. Just

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like a slick white. mass but the worst part about

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this thing is that it didn't have a head all

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right like it was and it wasn't like hunched

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or bent down like it's just straight up headless

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just like a massive pale cylinder of pure muscle

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standing upright not great it's not no no i don't

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like this yeah so obviously freaked out by this

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andre the giant looking motherfucker cock rolled

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nope the hell out of there and just like tore

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off home but after a few minutes he was like

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reporter instincts or more likely the I need

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to prove I'm not insane instincts kind of kicked

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in and he rounded up two buddies Jerry Morse

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and Jim Mouser and together they headed back

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to the spot to check it out now when they got

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there the monster was gone but the grass where

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it stood was flattened like something big had

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been stomping around there now even weirder As

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they searched the area, they heard a faint but

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distinct whistling sound that seemed to be following

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them as they were conducting their search. Again,

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not great. Well, no, I don't like it. Now, the

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whistling will show up later in other reports,

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but that night, all it did was convince Cockrell

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that he hadn't just hallucinated the whole thing.

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I've got to tell you, as a veteran, there is

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nothing I hate more than a distinct whistling

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noise. Um, cause there's usually explosions after

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that. Yeah. That, that tracks. That makes sense.

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Um, I don't think that like that sound. Yeah.

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I don't think it was that kind of whistling to

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me. I don't know what I've, I don't, I was, I

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couldn't find an example of it because that'd

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be just that Russian guy. The, uh, no being the

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reporter that he was, he wanted to report on

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his encounter, but held back knowing. damn well

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people would just laugh him out of the newsroom

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if he showed up ranting and raving about a headless

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giant down by the riverbank. Still, word got

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out, and by the next afternoon, June 17th, Cockerell's

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little monster secret wasn't so secret anymore.

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Whether it was his friends talking shit or just

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the grapevine doing its thing, rumors of the

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alleged sighting exploded across Grafton. But

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here's the crazy part. Dozens of other locals,

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mostly teenagers, started calling the Sentinel

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and swapping stories around town saying that

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they had seen the same thing. Tall, white, headless,

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and emitting a weird, eerie whistling sound.

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So Cockrell, now realizing he wasn't the only

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one, finally decided to write up his story for

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the newspaper. But his editors were a bunch of

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fucking wet blankets about the whole thing. They

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pretty much were like, eh, sounds like a prank

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or local hysteria, and they rejected his draft.

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It's really encouraging to know that reporters

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have not changed at all. They're very much maintaining

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their integrity and not publishing absolute lies

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because they can't prove them. It's good to know

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that they're still doing that today in 2025.

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Now, meanwhile, the town was losing its collective

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shits. Here we go. Packs of teenagers grabbed

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flashlights, crowbars, and even shotguns and

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went full Scooby -Doo up on Riverside Drive trying

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to hunt this thing down. Just small town chaos

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at its finest. So you got a bunch of horned up

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teenagers, long summer nights, and a spooky ass

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creature lurking down by the river. So of course

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they're going to mob the place and start poking

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around. Of course. Yeah. Now by the next day,

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this is Thursday the 18th, traffic was so jammed

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up on Riverside Drive that locals started joking

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that the monster couldn't have shown up even

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if he wanted to. Poor bastard would have been

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stuck in a traffic jam. Traffic, am I right?

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Right. Now that same day. The Grafton Sentinel

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finally runs its first official story, but they

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don't exactly go like full X -Files and dig deep

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into the story. Instead, they came in hot with

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headlines basically saying, get a load of these

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idiots out there monster hunting. Yeah. The article

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focused way less on the creature and way more

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on the spectacle. I mean, it makes sense. Teenagers

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were roaming the riverbanks with fucking shotguns.

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So obviously you're going to report on that.

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And the editors at the Sentinel were loving the

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chance to just mock the whole thing. Then came

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June 19th. The Sentinel ran another story titled

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Monsters, Results of Spring Fever, Wild Imagination.

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Now, in this article, the paper declared that

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after a routine check, they figured out the whole

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mystery. The whole thing was just a case of mistaken

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identity. What it was is some dude was pushing

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a hand cart stacked with boxes down Riverside

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Drive that night. and was half -lit by passing

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headlights, he was mistaken for a big -ass headless

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monster. So, case closed. Everyone go home. I

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have questions. Yeah. How does a box look like

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a headless person? Well, I mean, if they're big

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boxes and they're all stacked up over the guy's

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head. Okay. I don't know, dude. All right. Okay.

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Yeah. This is feeling very swamp gas to me. Weather

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balloon, swamp gas situation. Yeah, so the editors

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didn't just shut the door on this one. They slammed

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it, locked it, pissed on the handle. They basically

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told the whole town, calm your tits, everyone.

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You're getting all worked up over some teamster

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on the side of the road. What they were doing

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with a handcart on this road at 11 o 'clock at

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night, who knows? He's just an American worker

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really trying to earn money for his family. Exactly.

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By making his boxes... look like a headless person

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who is nine feet tall. But that tracks. That

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happens all the time. Yeah, you see it every

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day. I see it on the side of the highways, roads,

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back roads. Walmart. I see it in Walmart constantly.

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Every day. So, yeah. Cockerel. the original witness

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he never bought that explanation he did believe

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that yeah some of the later reports were probably

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just teens spooking themselves sure but his sighting

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the thing he saw that night down by the river

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that wasn't a dude with a handcart like that

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was a living headless thing so yeah well the

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sentinel was busy trashing the whole town for

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thinking there was a monster on the loose, the

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people on the ground, the townsfolk, were split

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down the middle on what they believed. So on

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one side, you had true believers, mostly teenagers

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who were all in on the story. These kids were

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pretty much LARPing as cryptid hunters, prowling

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the riverside at night, convinced they were going

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to be the one to bag the Grafton monster. So

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for them, those few days in June weren't scary.

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They were awesome as hell. Like, this was the

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most excitement Grafton had seen. Pretty much

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ever. God knows I would have lost my fucking

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shit. Oh, yeah. But on the other side, you had

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the skeptics, like the parents, the police, newspaper

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guys, all are basically saying, Jesus Christ,

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it's summer break and these kids are just bored

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out of their mind. They're just doing what kids

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are going to do. Fucking wet blankets is what

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they are. Yeah. And they were entirely wrong.

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Like the monster hype hit right when school let

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out. The weather was warm and every teenager

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in town was just itching for something to do

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besides mow lawns. Whatever it is they would

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do in 1960s West Virginia. So for the kids, this

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week ruled. But for some, it kind of ruined their

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lives. I'm talking, of course, about Robert Cockerell.

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For him, the fallout of the story was pretty

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brutal. The dude was a young reporter. His credibility

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mattered to him. But all he got for going public

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with his story was a big old plate of public

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ridicule. His editors hacked up his articles

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on the sighting. His peers rolled their eyes.

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And he learned pretty quickly that... If you

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want to keep a job in journalism, maybe don't

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be the guy who cried monster. He's fucking dickheads.

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Yeah, I get it. Now, by all accounts, Cockrell

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went quiet after that retreating from the story.

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Like he stopped publicly talking about it. He

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didn't write any more about it. But behind closed

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doors, he kept investigating. He even found about

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like 20 other witnesses who confirmed that they

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had seen the same headless beast. Now, as for

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the town people, yeah, a few got laughed at.

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Maybe a few teenagers had to endure their dads

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calling them dumbasses. No one got ran out of

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town or branded a lunatic, not even Cockrell.

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Mostly it became one of those, remember that

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crazy week kind of stories that people chuckled

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about over coffee or a beer or something like

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that. So let's get into what the Grafton Monster

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possibly could be. You got any theories? Yeah,

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I think it was a tall white guy with a camouflage

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hat. You just couldn't see his head. He was there.

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It was like a camouflage, like balaclava or whatever

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they're called, just right over that. You just

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couldn't see him because he was wearing camouflage.

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Yeah, no, that makes sense. Now, like I said,

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the official explanation, the one that's put

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up by the newspaper, some dude pushing a hand

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cart stacked with boxes down a dim -ass road

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at night. According to the paper, that's what

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people saw. But that's boring and lame. So let's

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look at some other theories as to what this thing

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could be. Now, first up, we have escaped animal.

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Some teenagers suggested that maybe it was an

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escaped polar bear in 1960s West Virginia because,

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sure. Without a head? I don't know. But spoiler

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alert. There were no missing bears. None were

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ever reported. And if one had gotten loose, it

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would more than likely just be tearing through

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trash cans, not whistling down by the riverbank.

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You know what I mean? Right. Kind of weird. The

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next theory is that it's a cousin of Bigfoot.

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So some cryptid enthusiasts have speculated that

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maybe this was some Appalachian variant of Bigfoot,

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some sort of headless relative, or maybe it was

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a Bigfoot carrying something in its arms that

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was just blocking out its head. Call back to

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the Appalachian Monsters episode that I did.

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Perhaps this is the White Fang. Perhaps. Which

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is, he lives in trees. We surmise that it's probably

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just Grandpa and he's like really hairy. Gotcha.

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Get ahead of yourself, Sarge. Okay. Sorry. The

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only thing with the Bigfoot theory is that when

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you see a Bigfoot or you get reports of Bigfoot,

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it's usually mentioning like hair, the smell,

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the noises it makes. It's not shiny skinned,

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doesn't whistle. And it's, I mean, I guess it

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could be nine feet tall, but I feel like this

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is bigger. Lots of farts too. It eats a lot of

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roughage. Yeah. So we can chalk this one up as

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a maybe, but probably not kind of thing. Now

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let's move on to the fun shit. We got aliens

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and interdimensional visitors. This comes from

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none other than Gray Barker. He's the West Virginia

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paranormal writer who helped blast Mothman into

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the spotlight. He had caught wind of the story

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and went on to write that maybe this was some

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kind of alien lab animal that was left on Earth,

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like a science experiment that escaped and just

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started walking down along the river. The aliens

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were just really busy and so they didn't have

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time to put a head on it. Exactly, yeah. It's

00:18:07.859 --> 00:18:09.240
like forgetting to put the head on like a Lego

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man or something. Yeah. That happens to all of

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us. Others took this theory and spun it into

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interdimensional traveler theories, saying the

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monster was something slipping between realities,

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popping in and out of our world by accident or

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possibly by design. Now, obviously, there's no

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hard evidence for either of these theories, but

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hey, if you're going to get weird with it, you

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might as well just go. All the way with it. Let

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your freak flag fly, guys. Yeah. And then you

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got the folklore connection. Like you said, some

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people link the grafted monster to the West Virginian

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white things. But those legends describe more

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like a ghostly form, not like a chunky headless

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nightmare. Dave, I don't want to correct you

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here, but it's pronounced thang. Oh, sorry. T

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-H -A -N -G. Gotcha. That's on me. Yep. Oh, and

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then a quick little fun fact. Apparently someone

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had reported a similar creature up in Morgantown,

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West Virginia, just like a week before the Grafton

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monster sighting. So is it the same thing? I

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don't know, but I just thought that was kind

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of cool. It's not really mentioned in any of

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the other stuff, but now had this happened in

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Indiana, we could have proposed the theory that

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something terrible had happened to Larry Bird.

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All right. So let's get to wrapping this bad

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boy up. So, okay. Okay. After all the chaos of

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June, 1964, The sightings, the newspaper buzz,

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the roving bands of armed teenagers. What happened

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next? Well, pretty much nothing. After that wild

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week, the Grafton Monster slipped right back

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into the shadows. There was no major new sightings

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hitting the papers. No townsfolk were hauled

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off by headless beasts. And the cops never filed

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any official reports. It just kind of faded from

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front page headlines and settled kind of in the

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back of like small town folklore. But just like

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Babe Ruth said in the hit classic cinematic masterpiece,

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The Sandlot, legends never die. So forever. So

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for decades, the Grafton Monster remained. One

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of West Virginia's lesser known cryptid cases,

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overshadowed by the Mothman, the Flatwoods Monster,

00:20:14.259 --> 00:20:17.299
and the whole gang of Appalachian weirdos. You'd

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hear about it occasionally covered in like cryptid

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books or some weird blog deep dive, but it wasn't

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really front and center. But that all changed

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thanks to the magic of... Pop culture. Now, I'm

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not saying it was all thanks to this, but when

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Fallout 76 dropped in 2018, suddenly you had

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gamers worldwide running into a virtual grafted

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monster, a hulking, brutal monster lurking in

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the game's digital version of West Virginia.

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And just like that, the legend exploded into

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mainstream nerd culture. Players started Googling

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it, streamers made videos about it, and cryptid

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fans were handed a fresh new wave of curiosity.

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Now, locally... Grafton leaned the hell into

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it. By 2018, they'd slapped up a welcome sign

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declaring themselves the home of the Grafton

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Monster. Local businesses cashed in on it with

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shirts, mugs, hats, art, anything you could put

00:21:04.809 --> 00:21:08.890
it on, it's been put on. And by 2024, they launched

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the first annual Grafton Monster Festival with

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costume contests, memorabilia, panels, and plenty

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of people swapping, like my uncle once saw this

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thing, tails. What started out as a short -lived

00:21:20.890 --> 00:21:23.589
summer scare in the 60s has turned into full

00:21:23.589 --> 00:21:25.930
-blown local heritage, celebrated and laughed

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over instead of denied or mocked. It's not just

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a creepy riverside tale anymore. It's part of

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the cultural fabric, a quirky point of pride.

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And that's kind of the beauty of cryptid lore

00:21:35.470 --> 00:21:37.589
in stories like these. Even if we never get proof,

00:21:37.829 --> 00:21:39.910
even if the thing never shows up again, the stories

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ripple outward, shaping towns, pulling in curious

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travelers, inspiring video games, podcasts, art,

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and giving people something to wonder about.

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There you have it, Sarge. That is the story of

00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:53.380
the Grafton Monster. I hope you enjoyed it. A

00:21:53.380 --> 00:21:55.619
little shorter of an episode today, but, you

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know, we did what we could. It's a classic, though.

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And if you're one of the eight people in West

00:22:00.500 --> 00:22:03.319
Virginia, please invite us to the Grafton Monster

00:22:03.319 --> 00:22:05.420
Festival. I mean, you don't have to be invited.

00:22:05.559 --> 00:22:07.440
You can just go. Or do you mean like as like

00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:10.240
speakers? Yeah, no, we should go there to speak

00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:12.809
about it because I've got some theories. But

00:22:12.809 --> 00:22:15.089
most of them involving a tall guy with a camouflage

00:22:15.089 --> 00:22:17.930
hat. Gotcha. All right. Well, you make sure you

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write those down and we'll see what we can do.

00:22:21.890 --> 00:22:24.769
I already did. I just got the one theory, really.

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Okay. So it's not theories. It's just theory.

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It's not a bad theory. You know, like I could

00:22:30.490 --> 00:22:33.670
probably expand upon that. Maybe it is Barron

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Trump. We don't know. He is a tall, scary white

00:22:36.690 --> 00:22:39.089
thing. He's terrifying. He's like fucking Slender

00:22:39.089 --> 00:22:41.410
Man. Yeah. I mean, he's not that. He's tall.

00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:44.500
But he's not that tall, is he? He's seven feet

00:22:44.500 --> 00:22:47.720
tall. No, he's not. He's something like six,

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I want to say six, nine or seven feet tall. He's

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a fucking giant. Dude, that is disgusting. Yeah,

00:22:54.299 --> 00:22:56.279
that's why it's hilarious to see him standing

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next to Donald Trump, who is actually in real

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life only 5 '10". Dude, he's... He wears lifts,

00:23:02.579 --> 00:23:04.980
but he's only 5 '10". I feel like Baron's going

00:23:04.980 --> 00:23:06.960
to end up with hip dysplasia, like a fucking

00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:09.140
old German shepherd or something. You can't be

00:23:09.140 --> 00:23:11.299
that tall and not have joint problems, right?

00:23:11.420 --> 00:23:15.559
I feel like they're going to have to put him

00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:17.140
down eventually because his hips are fucked.

00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:22.500
He's like a Great Dane. Yeah. Just all sorts

00:23:22.500 --> 00:23:24.339
of fucking joint problems for that kid's future.

00:23:24.339 --> 00:23:28.180
What a mess. Yeah. Oh, God. But there you have

00:23:28.180 --> 00:23:30.619
it. That's insane. That's crazy. It's got no.

00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:34.099
So, I mean, I think my problem is, and maybe

00:23:34.099 --> 00:23:36.240
the reason why the grafted monster didn't catch

00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:38.019
on more, even though there's other cryptids out

00:23:38.019 --> 00:23:43.000
there that, that don't have the, uh, what's the

00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:46.880
word I'm looking for? The it factor. Well, no,

00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:48.700
I feel like the graph, that's the thing. I feel

00:23:48.700 --> 00:23:52.000
like the grafted monster doesn't have the it

00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:53.859
factor where other cryptids who probably been

00:23:53.859 --> 00:23:57.430
seen even less. have more of an it factor. And

00:23:57.430 --> 00:24:00.349
it's because he doesn't have a head. Yeah. There's

00:24:00.349 --> 00:24:02.950
no like creepy glowing eyes or like fangs or

00:24:02.950 --> 00:24:04.630
anything like that. Yeah. It's just a hulking

00:24:04.630 --> 00:24:06.890
mass of just flesh, which I mean, I feel like

00:24:06.890 --> 00:24:09.750
is worse and also kind of sick. It is worse.

00:24:09.829 --> 00:24:11.869
It is kind of creepy, but I feel like it didn't

00:24:11.869 --> 00:24:13.569
catch on in the imagination because you're not

00:24:13.569 --> 00:24:16.549
imagining like, you know, it's, it's glowing

00:24:16.549 --> 00:24:19.049
eyes in the, in the darkness. Instead, you just

00:24:19.049 --> 00:24:22.849
see his nips, you know? Maybe the nips are the

00:24:22.849 --> 00:24:24.789
eyes. Maybe we're getting this all wrong. There

00:24:24.789 --> 00:24:26.930
was no mention of nipples or anything like that,

00:24:26.990 --> 00:24:30.329
but I mean, I'm not knocking it. It's a good

00:24:30.329 --> 00:24:33.690
theory. Yeah, I mean, up until you described

00:24:33.690 --> 00:24:36.150
the fact that he didn't have a head, I was like,

00:24:36.210 --> 00:24:41.410
oh, this is just like my dad, really. Yeah. I

00:24:41.410 --> 00:24:44.829
imagine he has the same body shape as Danny DeVito

00:24:44.829 --> 00:24:47.740
in... when he's a trash man and it's always sunny,

00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:49.500
but just take the head off. And I think that's,

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that's the shape I picture. I could be wrong.

00:24:52.420 --> 00:24:54.420
I was also thinking of the episode always, always

00:24:54.420 --> 00:24:56.220
sunny where they were in the, they were in the

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bar and they all had like the flu and Frank covered

00:24:59.420 --> 00:25:03.440
himself in, in a hand sanitizer and was like

00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:06.119
writhing around on the floor. Yeah. I mean, that's

00:25:06.119 --> 00:25:08.140
what I was thinking too. Yeah. He's just, I like

00:25:08.140 --> 00:25:09.839
that. We both were picturing Danny DeVito, but

00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:13.900
it's just various. Various situations. Basically,

00:25:14.299 --> 00:25:16.420
anytime you say creepy and white, that's the

00:25:16.420 --> 00:25:18.460
first thing that comes into my mind. That's fair.

00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:22.039
I wouldn't expect anything less. Then the second

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thing is me without a shirt on. I mean, people

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want it. I don't know why you don't just give

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it to them. Welcome to the pepperoni potty, ladies.

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All right. Yeah, that's all I got. Before we

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sign off, is there anything you want to plug

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or talk about? Yeah. Yeah, we've been doing our

00:25:42.740 --> 00:25:45.539
sponsor dirty. We haven't talked about Narragansett

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in a little while, so I want to give them a shout

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out. The hard tea is actually weirdly good for

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a hard tea. You would think like hard tea, it

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just tastes like a hangover, but this is actually

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really good. That's because it's got local lemonade.

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It's the light carbonation, I think, that does

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it for me. Yeah, it really does. Something about

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it. It's so good. It's so good. Yeah, I agree.

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But the weather is getting warmer and I've been...

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hammering those shandies down. I'm about to run

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out. I'm very upset about it. I need more shandies

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as well. Yeah, Cam, get on it. I need to work

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on that. Alright, what else we got? Oh, the coloring

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book is still around. It's a ghost that haunted

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me. I think it's a tulpa. I made this coloring

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book expecting it to be a one -off and now...

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Everything predicted in the coloring book seems

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to be coming true. You kind of did will this

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into existence somehow. I am so sorry to everyone.

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Your coloring book is basically the Death Note

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notebook, I feel. Yeah, it's totally my fault,

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and I apologize for that. But if you want to

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get a copy of this coloring book to take out

00:26:45.900 --> 00:26:49.900
your frustrations on the horrifying hellscape

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that is America currently, just go to SajasSuperNormal

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.com. And purchase a copy for $9 .99. There you

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go. There you have it. Sajasupernormal .com.

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Nailed it. That's fine. Sajasupernormal .com.

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There's going to be two S's in the middle there,

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so don't forget about them. If you want to follow

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us on social media, you can follow us on Instagram

00:27:16.430 --> 00:27:18.710
at Crypto Cocktail, TikTok Crypto Cocktail Party.

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There's also links in our bio where you can find

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this coloring book, Sarge's social media, all

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that stuff. Leave us a rating and review, please.

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It really helps the show. I can't ask. enough

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but you know it's and send us direct messages

00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:35.440
just telling us like if you can't review send

00:27:35.440 --> 00:27:36.920
us direct message and we'll read them on the

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show yeah I mean I know fun I know Spotify doesn't

00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:43.039
allow reviews you can write some content yeah

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I haven't done one of those in a while so let's

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yeah let's get on that um I think that's it that's

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all I have anyways hey everybody goodbye and

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I love you