WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.339 You are now listening to Cryptid Cocktail Party 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:42.780 Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode 00:00:42.780 --> 00:00:44.240 of Cryptic Cocktail Party, a show where we have 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:46.000 a few drinks, share a few laughs, take a dive 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:47.719 into the unknown. I'm your host Dave, joined 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:49.759 as always by my wonderful co -host Sarge. How's 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:53.039 it going Sarge? Woo! What the fuck is up everybody? 00:00:53.859 --> 00:00:56.820 It's raining in Massachusetts. It's not raining 00:00:56.820 --> 00:00:59.000 right now, but it's rained every weekend and 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:01.179 I'm getting real fucking tired of it. Yeah, it's 00:01:01.179 --> 00:01:04.260 rained pretty much every weekend for the past 00:01:04.260 --> 00:01:06.260 like, I don't know, two months. I don't think 00:01:06.260 --> 00:01:09.579 we've had one Saturday or Sunday where it hasn't. 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:12.719 At least rained at least once, which is very 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:16.239 upsetting. Not a fan of it. Yeah. The new Englanders 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:18.140 are getting mad. There's going to be a riot soon. 00:01:18.579 --> 00:01:21.799 Eh, whatever. I'm going to go after God specifically. 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:24.859 It's not like new England's like a real happy 00:01:24.859 --> 00:01:26.900 place. Anyways, we're always just so angry up 00:01:26.900 --> 00:01:30.560 there. That's true. It's hard to tell when we're 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:33.400 angry because we're always angry. True. It's 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:35.480 like, we're like the Hulk. That's our, that's 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:39.040 our superpower. Is that. The secret is we're 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:41.200 always bad. Baseline is simmering rage. Yeah, 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:43.500 but we'll be super nice about it. Yeah, exactly. 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:47.340 And, you know, we'll just be mean to you while 00:01:47.340 --> 00:01:49.319 we're being nice. We'll do something nice for 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:51.140 you while calling you a complete fucking moron. 00:01:51.420 --> 00:01:54.140 Oh, yeah, absolutely. Sure, I'll shovel you out, 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:56.799 you fucking moron. Yeah, it's pretty much that 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:01.739 365, 24 -7. I don't know how many weeks there 00:02:01.739 --> 00:02:04.900 are in a year, but that many weeks as well. I 00:02:04.900 --> 00:02:08.159 think you covered it with the 365. Yeah, but 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:10.759 I kind of did it in backwards order. I feel like 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:14.439 it starts with 24 -7 and then you do 365. Yeah, 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:17.740 that's on me. All right, Sarge. That's okay. 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:21.800 52 weeks a year. We can just go that route. Yeah, 00:02:21.819 --> 00:02:27.639 sure. I don't know. Time is irrelevant. It's 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:30.159 a flat circle. It doesn't mean anything. Time 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:32.599 is a flat circle. Yeah, we just reinvented it 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:36.340 for fucking... work purposes it's not great uh 00:02:36.340 --> 00:02:40.319 yeah i was using a watch until russ cole joined 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:42.919 the join the chat now i now i just don't believe 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:47.219 in time at all i don't know who that is so he's 00:02:47.219 --> 00:02:50.139 the guy from uh true detective who kept saying 00:02:50.139 --> 00:02:55.020 time is a flat circle oh sorry um okay sarge 00:02:55.020 --> 00:02:57.879 i got an episode for us today whether it's good 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:00.629 or not i don't fucking know but it's fun It's 00:03:00.629 --> 00:03:03.389 a fun episode. Maybe. I'm ready. Okay. I'm ready 00:03:03.389 --> 00:03:06.110 to take on anything. I'm taking on all comers. 00:03:06.750 --> 00:03:09.930 Somebody get a mop. Jesus Christ. All right. 00:03:11.870 --> 00:03:14.469 Today, Sarge, we're going to be heading across 00:03:14.469 --> 00:03:16.710 the pond to one of London's most prestigious 00:03:16.710 --> 00:03:19.569 neighborhoods, Mayfair, a place known for its 00:03:19.569 --> 00:03:22.629 polished Georgian townhouses, manicured gardens, 00:03:22.789 --> 00:03:26.310 and an air of refined exclusivity. That's the 00:03:26.310 --> 00:03:30.349 only time the word refined has been paired with 00:03:30.349 --> 00:03:33.830 the word Georgia. It's Georgian. I don't think 00:03:33.830 --> 00:03:39.469 it's Georgia -ism. I know. I'm talking about 00:03:39.469 --> 00:03:41.949 King George. I get it. And nestled among those 00:03:41.949 --> 00:03:45.250 townhouses is 50 Berkeley Square, an unassuming 00:03:45.250 --> 00:03:47.669 building for where it is, but behind its polished 00:03:47.669 --> 00:03:49.830 doors and fancy facade lurks something older 00:03:49.830 --> 00:03:53.120 than time itself. A nameless horror that has 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:55.840 driven men insane and left bodies twisted in 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:59.020 terror. Is it a ghost? Is it a cryptid? Or is 00:03:59.020 --> 00:04:01.439 it something beyond human comprehension? Something 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:05.219 that shreds minds and warps reality? Who knows? 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:08.400 But maybe we can figure it out. So today, we 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:10.680 are going to be diving headfirst into the legend 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:13.539 of the nameless thing of Berkeley Square. Are 00:04:13.539 --> 00:04:16.319 you familiar with this at all? No, because it 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:19.930 doesn't have a name. At first I thought you were 00:04:19.930 --> 00:04:22.930 talking about Monopoly. No, we're not talking 00:04:22.930 --> 00:04:26.769 about Monopoly. Nothing sends a man into the 00:04:26.769 --> 00:04:29.889 descent of madness like a long drawn out game 00:04:29.889 --> 00:04:32.870 of Monopoly. I don't know about that. It definitely 00:04:32.870 --> 00:04:35.870 tears families apart. That's for sure. It does. 00:04:36.410 --> 00:04:38.829 I haven't spoken to my brother in three years. 00:04:39.529 --> 00:04:41.750 But for real though, you're not familiar with 00:04:41.750 --> 00:04:44.810 the nameless thing at Berkeley Square? No, not 00:04:44.810 --> 00:04:47.339 at all. I'm actually very excited. Okay, well, 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:49.680 before we dive into the Lovecraftian horrors 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:51.959 to come, let's talk a little bit about the history 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:54.399 of the house and the area that it's located in 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:57.279 for no other reason than just to kind of give 00:04:57.279 --> 00:04:59.279 a little context and also to pad the runtime 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:01.519 of this episode, because without it, it'd be 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:08.819 like five minutes long. So 50 Berkeley Square 00:05:08.819 --> 00:05:11.480 was built sometime around 1730, right in the 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:13.680 middle of Mayfair, which, like I said, was one 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:16.019 of the richest neighborhoods in London. It was 00:05:16.019 --> 00:05:18.980 very exclusive, wildly expensive, and if you 00:05:18.980 --> 00:05:21.019 didn't have an ungodly amount of generational 00:05:21.019 --> 00:05:24.160 wealth, well, sucks to suck. Just enjoy pooping 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:26.459 in your river, you fucking peasants. Goddamn 00:05:26.459 --> 00:05:30.540 fucking heathens. No, the house itself is a classic 00:05:30.540 --> 00:05:33.899 Georgian townhouse, which at the time, very swanky. 00:05:34.180 --> 00:05:37.079 Nowadays, I don't really know. I mean, I technically 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:40.420 live in one, and I'm broke as fuck, so different 00:05:40.420 --> 00:05:43.639 time, I guess. Back then, very posh. Now, you 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:46.319 know, I... found human shit on the trail by my 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:52.279 house so it's different times look i couldn't 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:54.939 find a public restroom there's a bear shit in 00:05:54.939 --> 00:05:57.319 the woods no but saj does god damn it all right 00:05:57.319 --> 00:06:00.300 so its first occupants were largely members of 00:06:00.300 --> 00:06:03.560 the aristocracy and the upper middle class pretty 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:06.319 much just a revolving door of high status figures 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:09.720 who could you know afford it the house was originally 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:12.079 built as part of the urban expansion of london 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:14.259 in the 18th century when the city was rapidly 00:06:14.259 --> 00:06:16.319 growing and wealthy people were ditching their 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:19.180 countryside manners for more convenient life 00:06:19.180 --> 00:06:21.740 near the palace and parliament probably just 00:06:21.740 --> 00:06:23.959 trying to work on you know they wanted a shorter 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:27.040 commute i guess to fucking ruin the world yeah 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:30.699 uh but by the late 1700s the house's reputation 00:06:30.699 --> 00:06:33.689 started to sour There were whispers around town 00:06:33.689 --> 00:06:36.009 about strange noises and unexplainable phenomena 00:06:36.009 --> 00:06:38.790 coming from within its walls. And over time, 00:06:38.930 --> 00:06:42.149 the once prestigious address slowly became a 00:06:42.149 --> 00:06:44.529 place people avoided and talked about in hushed 00:06:44.529 --> 00:06:47.449 tones. This can all be attributed to flatulence. 00:06:47.550 --> 00:06:49.569 This is what happens when you boil cabbage all 00:06:49.569 --> 00:06:53.149 the time. Again, this is the more famous, rich 00:06:53.149 --> 00:06:56.370 part of London. I don't think they're just eating 00:06:56.370 --> 00:06:58.389 boiled cabbage. Fine, they were boiling organic 00:06:58.389 --> 00:07:08.110 cabbage bought at Whole Foods. We have British 00:07:08.110 --> 00:07:10.569 food, fucking beans for breakfast. What the hell's 00:07:10.569 --> 00:07:12.490 wrong with you? Slow your roll, dude. English 00:07:12.490 --> 00:07:18.050 breakfast is fucking amazing, all right? Beans, 00:07:18.089 --> 00:07:21.689 blood sausage, come on. Yeah, I mean, it is popular 00:07:21.689 --> 00:07:24.029 around here too. And honestly, anything can be 00:07:24.029 --> 00:07:25.769 a breakfast food if you eat it early enough. 00:07:26.170 --> 00:07:28.029 That's true. Which is why I always start my day 00:07:28.029 --> 00:07:29.949 with a pickle. I mean, there are times where 00:07:29.949 --> 00:07:31.910 I have eaten pizza rolls for breakfast. Now, 00:07:31.930 --> 00:07:34.430 was I hungover and or still drunk? Probably. 00:07:34.430 --> 00:07:38.569 But was it? Because really, it still slaps. Yeah. 00:07:38.589 --> 00:07:40.529 Breakfast. It doesn't matter whether you're drunk 00:07:40.529 --> 00:07:42.910 or not. I'm just breaking my fast. That's technically 00:07:42.910 --> 00:07:47.230 what it is. But anyway, so. Exactly. Exactly. 00:07:48.189 --> 00:07:50.709 And if you wake up late enough, lunch can be 00:07:50.709 --> 00:07:53.189 breakfast. True. Breakfast can also be dinner. 00:07:53.290 --> 00:07:57.170 Breakfast or dinner. Oh, OK. We have what a time 00:07:57.170 --> 00:08:03.060 to be alive. But the most famous and talked about 00:08:03.060 --> 00:08:05.519 room of Berkeley Square was the attic. Now, both 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:08.300 tenants and servants in the home reported chilling 00:08:08.300 --> 00:08:10.480 experiences on the upper floors, but especially 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:13.600 in the attic. Stories began circulating about 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:15.480 a presence on the upper floors of the home. So 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:18.500 malevolent, it twisted minds and literally broke 00:08:18.500 --> 00:08:23.000 bodies. Despite some sort of eldritch horror 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:25.959 squatting in the attic, the house's status as 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:28.560 a luxury residence continued into the 19th century, 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:30.579 but its growing reputation made it sort of like 00:08:30.579 --> 00:08:33.360 an urban legend, even among London's elite. And 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:36.179 it's this dichotomy, like the elegant and proper 00:08:36.179 --> 00:08:39.600 facade of Berkeley Square and the horror so unimaginable 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:42.039 that they drive you mad that lurk inside of it, 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:44.220 that set the stage for the stories that I'm about 00:08:44.220 --> 00:08:47.759 to tell you. So are you ready to dive into the 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:51.850 legends? inside Berkeley Square, you look excited. 00:08:52.269 --> 00:08:54.350 Fuck yes I am. You know what I'm going to love 00:08:54.350 --> 00:08:56.730 the most? I want to see what they blame this 00:08:56.730 --> 00:08:58.950 on because they can't blame it on Native Americans. 00:08:59.690 --> 00:09:02.990 True. We sent one Native American over there, 00:09:03.090 --> 00:09:05.210 Pocahontas, and she died like almost immediately. 00:09:05.929 --> 00:09:09.450 Yeah, well, you know. Alright, so. It's a horrible 00:09:09.450 --> 00:09:12.409 climate in that place and the food is just garbage. 00:09:12.669 --> 00:09:14.850 We went over, the food's fine, alright? Most 00:09:14.850 --> 00:09:17.389 of it's beige, yes, like a 90s computer, but. 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:21.120 I'm sure it's fine. I haven't bet, so I have 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:26.659 no idea. But like beige, like a 90s computer 00:09:26.659 --> 00:09:28.960 that sat in the sun for a while, so it's also 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:31.440 kind of brownish almost. Yeah, like a good oatmeal, 00:09:31.580 --> 00:09:33.379 which I assume is what they eat for almost every 00:09:33.379 --> 00:09:35.919 meal. It's porridge. It's called porridge over 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:38.240 there. So before we begin, you and everyone listening 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:40.259 should know that most, if not all, of these stories 00:09:40.259 --> 00:09:43.679 are pretty much unconfirmed. So whether they 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:46.000 are real encounters, exaggerated stories, or 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:48.549 just outright fiction, I don't know. The sources 00:09:48.549 --> 00:09:53.029 for this were scant, to say the least. But what 00:09:53.029 --> 00:09:56.190 I do know is that these incidents and stories 00:09:56.190 --> 00:09:59.149 are what pretty much formed the backbone for 00:09:59.149 --> 00:10:02.330 the house's reputation. So the first widely circulated 00:10:02.330 --> 00:10:04.450 tale of death inside 50 Berkeley Square happened 00:10:04.450 --> 00:10:08.169 in 1840 when a young man only known by his last 00:10:08.169 --> 00:10:11.029 name, which was War Boys. Awesome. I don't know 00:10:11.029 --> 00:10:14.610 if that's how it's pronounced, but how is that 00:10:14.610 --> 00:10:17.570 a last name? I don't know. I don't think that's 00:10:17.570 --> 00:10:19.889 how it's pronounced. I think I'm, but it's spelt 00:10:19.889 --> 00:10:23.730 war boys and I love it. I mean, I can't think 00:10:23.730 --> 00:10:25.909 of another way to pronounce that. It's spelled 00:10:25.909 --> 00:10:29.070 just how it sounds. We're Boas. Yeah, I don't 00:10:29.070 --> 00:10:31.409 know. But anyway, I mean, there's no, yeah, your 00:10:31.409 --> 00:10:35.110 war boys is fine. So anyways, a man known by 00:10:35.110 --> 00:10:36.710 his last name, war boy spent the night alone 00:10:36.710 --> 00:10:39.190 in the attic either as a guest or a tenant. It's 00:10:39.190 --> 00:10:40.909 unclear, but really it doesn't matter because 00:10:40.909 --> 00:10:46.330 by morning he was dead. So his body. His body 00:10:46.330 --> 00:10:49.769 was found twisted and contorted, his eyes are 00:10:49.769 --> 00:10:52.870 wide open, and his mouth was frozen mid -scream. 00:10:53.210 --> 00:10:55.870 A pistol was found near the body with a spent 00:10:55.870 --> 00:10:59.009 round suggesting he had fired at something, but 00:10:59.009 --> 00:11:01.870 no evidence of an intruder was ever found. A 00:11:01.870 --> 00:11:06.070 few decades later, in 1871, Lord George Littleton, 00:11:06.309 --> 00:11:10.070 a well -known British politician, decided, hey, 00:11:10.110 --> 00:11:12.529 you know what? I'm going to prove that this place 00:11:12.529 --> 00:11:15.230 is not haunted and you lot are a bunch of pussies. 00:11:15.490 --> 00:11:17.769 So he arranged to spend the night in the attic 00:11:17.769 --> 00:11:19.889 and to prove he wasn't scared of no ghost. He 00:11:19.889 --> 00:11:23.830 was armed with only a candle. And a double barreled 00:11:23.830 --> 00:11:31.289 shotgun. No. When you say armed with only a candle 00:11:31.289 --> 00:11:34.490 and then a double barreled shotgun, maybe the 00:11:34.490 --> 00:11:37.210 candle is not necessarily what he was armed with. 00:11:39.070 --> 00:11:44.360 Both. Unless he was fighting scarecrows. Or just 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:51.879 like the dark. Yeah. I mean, am I wrong? His 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:57.120 pitched battle with the darkness. No. According 00:11:57.120 --> 00:11:59.860 to Lord George Littleton, sometime after midnight, 00:12:00.019 --> 00:12:01.759 he heard something moving that was described 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:06.320 as a slow, wet dragging sound. Then a dark sheep 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:08.909 emerged from the corner of the room. He fired 00:12:08.909 --> 00:12:11.049 both barrels into that motherfucker and then 00:12:11.049 --> 00:12:14.429 just immediately dipped out. The next morning, 00:12:14.490 --> 00:12:17.529 he claimed to have found shotgun pellets embedded 00:12:17.529 --> 00:12:21.750 in the wall, but no blood, no body, and no explanation 00:12:21.750 --> 00:12:24.769 for what the fuck happened. Now, whether Littleton 00:12:24.769 --> 00:12:32.889 was full of shit or he actually encountered something 00:12:32.889 --> 00:12:35.850 in the house, who knows? But due to his status 00:12:35.850 --> 00:12:39.899 and reputation combined with this story it lent 00:12:39.899 --> 00:12:42.460 the house and the happenings inside sort of like 00:12:42.460 --> 00:12:45.360 an air of legitimacy because he was so well known 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:47.759 you know what i mean now what did he live did 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:51.779 he survive yeah he survives okay well yeah i 00:12:51.779 --> 00:12:53.440 guess that would make sense because we know how 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:57.120 what it sounded like so he fired into the darkness 00:12:57.120 --> 00:13:00.179 at a wet like kind of squishy sound well something 00:13:00.179 --> 00:13:03.330 he said he saw like a like a an amorphous like 00:13:03.330 --> 00:13:05.789 a form come out of the it was i mean it was dark 00:13:05.789 --> 00:13:08.909 okay he couldn't see it but he fucking two two 00:13:08.909 --> 00:13:11.710 barrels right to that guy's chest or things chest 00:13:11.710 --> 00:13:17.809 the entities chest no another tragedy that occurred 00:13:17.809 --> 00:13:20.470 around this time involves a young maid who had 00:13:20.470 --> 00:13:22.629 the unfortunate opportunity to be employed by 00:13:22.629 --> 00:13:25.129 whoever was living at 50 50 berkeley square at 00:13:25.129 --> 00:13:28.149 the time now according to legend She was told 00:13:28.149 --> 00:13:30.889 to sleep in the attic. Some say it was a cruel 00:13:30.889 --> 00:13:33.190 prank. Others say it was some form of punishment. 00:13:33.330 --> 00:13:36.649 More than likely, it was just shit luck on her 00:13:36.649 --> 00:13:39.389 part. Yeah. Or they were like, my tea is cold 00:13:39.389 --> 00:13:43.970 to the attic. It could be a punishment or just 00:13:43.970 --> 00:13:45.750 like that's the only place they had for her. 00:13:46.049 --> 00:13:49.850 Either way, it sucks. Now, that night, the entire 00:13:49.850 --> 00:13:53.029 house heard this blood -curdling scream coming 00:13:53.029 --> 00:13:55.629 from the attic. When the servants rushed to the 00:13:55.629 --> 00:13:57.929 room, they found her curled in a corner, eyes 00:13:57.929 --> 00:14:01.669 wide and unblinking, shaking violently and repeating 00:14:01.669 --> 00:14:05.230 the same line over and over again. Don't let 00:14:05.230 --> 00:14:08.529 it touch me. Don't let it touch me. Also, the 00:14:08.529 --> 00:14:10.509 name of my sex tape, weirdly enough. You are 00:14:10.509 --> 00:14:22.970 the worst. God damn it. It's not my fault. I'm 00:14:22.970 --> 00:14:25.149 very pale. It scares people. Now, reportedly, 00:14:25.309 --> 00:14:27.830 she never recovered. She was admitted into an 00:14:27.830 --> 00:14:31.490 asylum where she eventually died not long after. 00:14:31.809 --> 00:14:34.029 Whatever she saw in the attic was so profoundly 00:14:34.029 --> 00:14:37.090 terrifying that it literally drove her into a 00:14:37.090 --> 00:14:40.529 state of irreversible madness. Then, finally, 00:14:40.690 --> 00:14:42.870 the last story I got for you is what is considered 00:14:42.870 --> 00:14:45.289 the most famous and for sure the most violent 00:14:45.289 --> 00:14:48.870 story associated with 50 Berkeley Square. And 00:14:48.870 --> 00:14:51.970 in my opinion, it's hardly the best one. So in 00:14:51.970 --> 00:14:56.009 1887, two sailors in their early 20s, Edward 00:14:56.009 --> 00:14:59.289 Blunden and Robert Martin of the HMS Penelope, 00:14:59.370 --> 00:15:01.730 were on shore leave. This has got to be good. 00:15:03.909 --> 00:15:06.470 You know sailors are just going to fuck shit 00:15:06.470 --> 00:15:10.809 up. All right. So in 1887, like I said, the two 00:15:10.809 --> 00:15:14.090 sailors in their early 20s, Edward Blunden. and 00:15:14.090 --> 00:15:16.649 Robert Martin of the HMS Penelope were on shore 00:15:16.649 --> 00:15:18.529 leave and were looking for a place to crash in 00:15:18.529 --> 00:15:21.129 Mayfair. They were low on cash and more than 00:15:21.129 --> 00:15:24.549 likely hammered off their ass. Now, they were 00:15:24.549 --> 00:15:28.029 either dared to or decided on their own to spend 00:15:28.029 --> 00:15:31.070 the night at 50 Berkeley Square. Now, by this 00:15:31.070 --> 00:15:33.169 point, the house is pretty infamous. Everyone 00:15:33.169 --> 00:15:35.610 kind of knew about it and well -known for its 00:15:35.610 --> 00:15:37.549 reputation for being just an absolute nightmare 00:15:37.549 --> 00:15:40.450 of a home. Like I said, whether it was a drunk 00:15:40.450 --> 00:15:42.830 wager or just an act of bravado by two drunken 00:15:42.830 --> 00:15:44.789 sailors, the two men broke into the house and 00:15:44.789 --> 00:15:47.090 made their way up to the attic, which by this 00:15:47.090 --> 00:15:49.830 point had just straight up and sealed off, which 00:15:49.830 --> 00:15:54.289 I mean, great call. I like that they decided. 00:15:54.389 --> 00:15:56.750 Yeah, makes sense. Yeah. Now, when they finally 00:15:56.750 --> 00:16:00.149 got in, the room was bare, cold, and thick with 00:16:00.149 --> 00:16:02.870 the smell of mold, mildew, and dust. One of the 00:16:02.870 --> 00:16:05.090 men lit a candle while the other decided to try 00:16:05.090 --> 00:16:07.590 and make some type of makeshift bed from some 00:16:07.590 --> 00:16:09.570 items that were left behind from previous tenants, 00:16:09.750 --> 00:16:12.269 which not going to lie so far, this is pretty 00:16:12.269 --> 00:16:16.090 romantic. This is pretty hot. It is. It's definitely 00:16:16.090 --> 00:16:21.549 a meet cute. Now, what stood out the most to 00:16:21.549 --> 00:16:24.230 them was just how quiet the attic was. It was 00:16:24.230 --> 00:16:27.149 one of those like it's too quiet kind of deals 00:16:27.149 --> 00:16:29.889 that always happens to someone like. just before 00:16:29.889 --> 00:16:32.889 some absolutely horrific shit goes down. But 00:16:32.889 --> 00:16:36.009 they tried to play it off. Cracking jokes, shooting 00:16:36.009 --> 00:16:38.450 the ship, playful wrestling, whatever sailors 00:16:38.450 --> 00:16:41.169 do when on leave together in a haunted attic. 00:16:41.230 --> 00:16:44.049 I don't know. Little Dutch rudder action. But 00:16:44.049 --> 00:16:47.950 not long after midnight, something changed. The 00:16:47.950 --> 00:16:50.070 temperature of the room dropped sharply. The 00:16:50.070 --> 00:16:51.929 candle began to flicker, even though there was 00:16:51.929 --> 00:16:54.830 no draft. Then a sound. It wasn't footsteps. 00:16:55.110 --> 00:16:58.360 It sounded... More like something dragging itself 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:01.019 across like the wooden floors. It was something 00:17:01.019 --> 00:17:04.519 wet. It was a regular and it was alien. Now Martin 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:07.220 claimed that Blunden grabbed a length of pipe 00:17:07.220 --> 00:17:10.019 and got in between the noise and his friend or 00:17:10.019 --> 00:17:12.740 possible lover shouting at whatever it was to 00:17:12.740 --> 00:17:17.019 stay back. Well, it didn't work. Obviously that's 00:17:17.019 --> 00:17:18.900 when this thing attack. Now Martin described 00:17:18.900 --> 00:17:23.150 that he like what he saw attack. He only could 00:17:23.150 --> 00:17:26.309 describe it in fractured sentiments, like statements, 00:17:26.349 --> 00:17:28.710 before he inevitably lost his mind, which we'll 00:17:28.710 --> 00:17:31.089 get to in a second. He described it as being 00:17:31.089 --> 00:17:35.490 a shapeless, amorphous thing. No visible face 00:17:35.490 --> 00:17:38.829 and covered in some sort of slime. It had tentacles 00:17:38.829 --> 00:17:42.670 or limbs or both that didn't move right. It didn't 00:17:42.670 --> 00:17:46.150 walk. It crawled or it slid or unfolded itself 00:17:46.150 --> 00:17:48.029 from the corner of the room like it had been 00:17:48.029 --> 00:17:49.809 inside the walls all the time. Again, he's losing 00:17:49.809 --> 00:17:53.029 his mind while he's trying to. he's also extremely 00:17:53.029 --> 00:17:56.210 drunk i'm sure yeah but but we'll get just wait 00:17:56.210 --> 00:17:59.769 so anyways this thing lunged and blunden swung 00:17:59.769 --> 00:18:01.609 at it with his metal pipe and landed a direct 00:18:01.609 --> 00:18:05.529 blow but it barely registered as an attack in 00:18:05.529 --> 00:18:08.390 its defense it wrapped blunden up in one of its 00:18:08.390 --> 00:18:11.599 many appendages Lifted him off the ground and 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:14.220 slammed him all around the room. I assume it 00:18:14.220 --> 00:18:16.160 was kind of like what the Hulk did to Loki and 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:18.160 the Avengers. You know what I'm talking about? 00:18:18.500 --> 00:18:22.140 It's just... That cartoon handshake where you 00:18:22.140 --> 00:18:24.240 shake the guy's hand so much you're slamming 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:25.839 him into the ceiling and then into the floor. 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:29.460 But now this is... So yeah, so he was slamming 00:18:29.460 --> 00:18:31.099 him around the room before the thing decided 00:18:31.099 --> 00:18:34.059 he was bored and fucking just chucked him across 00:18:34.059 --> 00:18:38.019 the room straight through a window. Now... Let's 00:18:38.019 --> 00:18:41.180 flip this. So at the same time, Martin is watching 00:18:41.180 --> 00:18:42.900 his friend get tossed around like a chew toy 00:18:42.900 --> 00:18:46.039 in the attic. Witnesses on the street and neighbors 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:49.619 reported hearing shouting, violent and repetitive 00:18:49.619 --> 00:18:52.220 slamming on the walls, the sound of glass breaking, 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:55.920 and then a single long inhuman shriek. I mean, 00:18:55.940 --> 00:18:57.720 those could have just been sex noises, though. 00:19:01.140 --> 00:19:03.819 Now, when they went to go investigate just what 00:19:03.819 --> 00:19:05.940 the hell was going on, they discovered Blunden's 00:19:05.940 --> 00:19:09.180 body impaled on the spiked iron fence that ringed 00:19:09.180 --> 00:19:12.740 the property. Oh, damn. Reports say his body 00:19:12.740 --> 00:19:15.759 was just torn the fuck up, but not just from 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:17.900 the fall, but from something prior. He was covered 00:19:17.900 --> 00:19:20.539 in bruises. He had a shattered arm that didn't 00:19:20.539 --> 00:19:23.200 quite match the fall, and his face was frozen 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:25.759 in what could only be described as an expression 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:29.460 of unspeakable fear. Now inside the house, they 00:19:29.460 --> 00:19:32.259 found Martin just barely clinging to his sanity. 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:35.440 He was tucked away, huddled in the attic's far 00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:38.140 corner. His eyes were wide and unblinking and 00:19:38.140 --> 00:19:41.059 his pupils were completely blown out on like 00:19:41.059 --> 00:19:44.160 unreacting to the light. They said he was quote 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:47.039 unquote, barely human in appearance. He was pale, 00:19:47.220 --> 00:19:50.440 trembling uncontrollably. He had both pissed 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:53.099 and shit himself and his mouth seemed as though 00:19:53.099 --> 00:19:56.220 it was stuck mid scream, but nothing was coming 00:19:56.220 --> 00:19:59.240 out. Besides a rasp, besides rasping breaths 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:02.099 that people have said sounded more like hyperventilation 00:20:02.099 --> 00:20:05.500 mixed with wet sobs. I can only imagine like 00:20:05.500 --> 00:20:08.799 the problems, like the, the, the mess that he 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:11.500 must feel like inside, you know? Oh yeah. The 00:20:11.500 --> 00:20:14.559 internal conflict. I mean, his buddy was just 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:16.799 looking out for him. Kind of a, you scratch my 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:19.539 back, I'll finish on yours situation. And then 00:20:19.539 --> 00:20:23.140 he gets thrown out a window and stuck on a, on 00:20:23.140 --> 00:20:29.519 a wrought iron fence. Like, how terrible? I hate 00:20:29.519 --> 00:20:35.240 you, Sarge. So much. And the fact that we have 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:37.599 lag and I can't discipline you in real time really 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:49.859 bums me out. Now, for hours after... Now, for 00:20:49.859 --> 00:20:54.130 hours after he was... I guess rescued from the 00:20:54.130 --> 00:20:57.009 house. He was incapable of speech when he did 00:20:57.009 --> 00:20:59.250 finally begin to mumble. It was just in broken 00:20:59.250 --> 00:21:01.690 fragments. Now, some of the greatest hits included. 00:21:02.109 --> 00:21:06.289 It came out of the walls. Too many arms or none. 00:21:06.450 --> 00:21:10.930 I couldn't count eyes on the floor. It touched 00:21:10.930 --> 00:21:13.549 me. It knew my name. And this is probably the 00:21:13.549 --> 00:21:16.849 worst one. The dark is alive. Don't let it know 00:21:16.849 --> 00:21:21.740 you're watching. Not great. Damn. That's a rough 00:21:21.740 --> 00:21:23.680 one. Yeah. That's a scary one. It's not good. 00:21:23.740 --> 00:21:28.240 Don't let her know you're watching. Fuck. That's 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:31.019 so scary. It's not good. None of this is good. 00:21:31.220 --> 00:21:33.319 And you're over here making cum jokes. God damn. 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:40.460 Well, I mean, too many arms did almost send me 00:21:40.460 --> 00:21:43.500 down a rabbit hole, but I held it together because 00:21:43.500 --> 00:21:45.480 I don't think our audience is ready for a Bukkake 00:21:45.480 --> 00:21:50.170 joke just yet. So. He also reportedly tried to 00:21:50.170 --> 00:21:52.390 claw his own eyes out at least once while being 00:21:52.390 --> 00:21:54.869 restrained. And on the carriage ride... A lot 00:21:54.869 --> 00:21:57.990 of women do that after sex with me. You're a 00:21:57.990 --> 00:22:06.410 married man, alright? Fucking chill. You proud 00:22:06.410 --> 00:22:08.890 of yourself? This is what you want? This is what 00:22:08.890 --> 00:22:10.910 you want for our audience, Sarge? Alright, huh? 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:14.900 You're having a grand old time. Sorry. I'm sorry. 00:22:14.980 --> 00:22:16.900 I'm a little punchy today. The rain is doing 00:22:16.900 --> 00:22:19.299 it to me. This man lost his mind watching his 00:22:19.299 --> 00:22:22.099 lover get thrown out a window. You're over here 00:22:22.099 --> 00:22:30.400 making cum jokes. I quit. I'm storming off. Oh, 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:43.130 God. Okay. Settled. I'm good. I'm good. Okay. 00:22:43.250 --> 00:22:46.529 Yeah. So like I said, he also reportedly tried 00:22:46.529 --> 00:22:48.509 to claw his eyes out at least once while being 00:22:48.509 --> 00:22:50.589 restrained and on the carriage ride to the local 00:22:50.589 --> 00:22:54.009 infirmary, he refused to sit near any windows 00:22:54.009 --> 00:22:56.470 or dark corners, which I assume would make travel 00:22:56.470 --> 00:22:59.470 very difficult. I can't imagine carriages back 00:22:59.470 --> 00:23:01.710 then were very well lit. So you either had to 00:23:01.710 --> 00:23:03.089 do one or the other. I don't think you could 00:23:03.089 --> 00:23:06.150 sit by a window and or he's a very confusing 00:23:06.150 --> 00:23:08.589 man. Avoid a dark corner. Yeah. How does that 00:23:08.589 --> 00:23:11.410 work? Just curled up on the floor holding a candle. 00:23:11.509 --> 00:23:14.609 Something. Now, once there, one nurse said he 00:23:14.609 --> 00:23:16.930 would scream every time someone would enter the 00:23:16.930 --> 00:23:19.029 room if he hadn't actually seen them approach, 00:23:19.230 --> 00:23:21.549 as if he was expecting to see something else 00:23:21.549 --> 00:23:24.390 when they finally popped in. Now, within 48 hours, 00:23:24.609 --> 00:23:28.210 he was committed to a psychiatric ward, but his 00:23:28.210 --> 00:23:31.039 condition never improved. Now, like I said, official 00:23:31.039 --> 00:23:34.079 records are missing or incomplete, but one orderly 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:35.799 is said to have noted that Martin died years 00:23:35.799 --> 00:23:38.339 later, still afraid of shadows and having never 00:23:38.339 --> 00:23:41.900 spoken again in full sentences. Some versions 00:23:41.900 --> 00:23:44.180 say he actually had to be kept in a padded room 00:23:44.180 --> 00:23:47.980 that had to remain lit 24 hours a day. Other 00:23:47.980 --> 00:23:51.140 stories like to claim that he would draw shapes 00:23:51.140 --> 00:23:57.220 on the walls in his own shit. God damn it. Just 00:23:57.220 --> 00:24:01.359 the same image over and over. twisting concentric 00:24:01.359 --> 00:24:03.660 spirals and blobs with curling tentacles. Now, 00:24:03.700 --> 00:24:06.480 I'm not saying all the details are true, but 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:08.579 the essential detail remains the same, and that 00:24:08.579 --> 00:24:10.940 is Robert Martin never recovered, and whatever 00:24:10.940 --> 00:24:12.940 he saw in that room, it didn't just break his 00:24:12.940 --> 00:24:16.940 mind. It completely swallowed it whole. So there 00:24:16.940 --> 00:24:20.759 you are. Those are the stories of 50 Berkeley 00:24:20.759 --> 00:24:24.359 Squares. They're not great. How are you feeling 00:24:24.359 --> 00:24:27.920 so far? Imagine being so scared that you draw 00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:31.240 shit monsters on the wall. That's horrifying. 00:24:31.759 --> 00:24:35.799 Like, it broke his brain so bad that he had to 00:24:35.799 --> 00:24:39.920 draw and poop. It might have been also just the 00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:42.559 only thing he had as far as... quote unquote 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:44.859 art supplies go. Yeah. They're probably not giving 00:24:44.859 --> 00:24:46.759 him too many. Yeah. They're probably not giving 00:24:46.759 --> 00:24:48.640 him too many pens and pencils. He's not getting 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:51.200 like a three B out of that one. I feel like he's 00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:52.960 not, they're not just willy nilly giving him 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:56.279 like, Oh yeah, here's a sharp object to here's 00:24:56.279 --> 00:24:59.180 some, here's some charcoal and oil pastels. Honestly, 00:24:59.259 --> 00:25:01.579 I feel like that's safer. I feel like oil pastels 00:25:01.579 --> 00:25:03.220 would have been the way to go. All right. Sorry. 00:25:03.259 --> 00:25:04.559 Do you want to talk some theories as to what 00:25:04.559 --> 00:25:08.339 this thing could be? Yes. Yes, I do. Okay. So 00:25:08.339 --> 00:25:10.740 let's talk theories because for a thing with 00:25:10.740 --> 00:25:13.230 no name, People have sure as hell tried to slap 00:25:13.230 --> 00:25:15.750 a lot of explanations on it. All right. So some 00:25:15.750 --> 00:25:18.410 folks say it's a ghost classic haunted house 00:25:18.410 --> 00:25:20.750 deal. Maybe the spirit of a young woman who died 00:25:20.750 --> 00:25:22.869 tragically in the attic. Maybe something older, 00:25:22.950 --> 00:25:26.609 meaner, something demonic. It doesn't behave 00:25:26.609 --> 00:25:30.009 like your average Victorian lady in white type 00:25:30.009 --> 00:25:33.369 ghost thing. It's super violent. Yeah, it's physical 00:25:33.369 --> 00:25:34.869 and it definitely has a body count. A little 00:25:34.869 --> 00:25:38.609 rough. For sure. Others think it's not a ghost 00:25:38.609 --> 00:25:41.109 at all, but like. just a straight up creature, 00:25:41.210 --> 00:25:44.930 like a legit biological thing. Reports, like 00:25:44.930 --> 00:25:47.730 I said, described it as oozing, amorphous, sometimes 00:25:47.730 --> 00:25:52.170 tentacled, which has led to this idea that the 00:25:52.170 --> 00:25:59.130 attic was home to a giant squid. A giant squid 00:25:59.130 --> 00:26:00.970 completely forgetting that they don't breathe 00:26:00.970 --> 00:26:04.369 air. Yeah, just a straight up cephalopod, like 00:26:04.369 --> 00:26:06.869 in the attic. Yeah, just crawling out of its 00:26:06.869 --> 00:26:10.160 aquarium. Yeah, I don't know. And then attacking 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:11.980 and then crawling back in there. Yeah, I don't 00:26:11.980 --> 00:26:14.019 know how it's supposed to have gotten there or 00:26:14.019 --> 00:26:17.299 what it was eating besides an occasional sailor 00:26:17.299 --> 00:26:20.079 or two, but I don't know. People bring it up 00:26:20.079 --> 00:26:23.859 more than you would think. You would think the 00:26:23.859 --> 00:26:26.079 sailors would have recognized that it was a squid. 00:26:26.740 --> 00:26:28.819 Maybe in the dark. It's weird. I don't know. 00:26:28.900 --> 00:26:31.960 I feel like on land you might not fucking know. 00:26:32.099 --> 00:26:34.000 Yeah, and they might have been busy doing other 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:40.180 stuff. I didn't look. I know I put the idea in 00:26:40.180 --> 00:26:42.700 your head and now it's just there. I was being 00:26:42.700 --> 00:26:45.619 gentle. It's pride, Sarge. We can't keep making 00:26:45.619 --> 00:26:48.900 gay jokes. It's not a joke. There's nothing wrong 00:26:48.900 --> 00:26:55.710 with being gay. Jesus. don't turn this on me. 00:26:55.710 --> 00:27:00.250 Like I have the asshole. There is nothing wrong 00:27:00.250 --> 00:27:04.029 with the love of two sailors. Just enjoy in their 00:27:04.029 --> 00:27:06.369 evening. Happy pride, everyone. Um, but anyway, 00:27:06.470 --> 00:27:08.809 so there's also the, and it was interrupted by 00:27:08.809 --> 00:27:14.390 a perverse octopus. Anyways, there's also the 00:27:14.390 --> 00:27:17.250 idea that it was some kind of escaped experiment. 00:27:17.630 --> 00:27:20.130 Victorian London had its fair share of bad scientists. 00:27:21.009 --> 00:27:23.609 You know, maybe someone whipped something up 00:27:23.609 --> 00:27:25.809 unnatural and locked it upstairs when it got 00:27:25.809 --> 00:27:27.730 out of hand. Yeah, that Dr. Jekyll guy was a 00:27:27.730 --> 00:27:30.410 real fucking weirdo. Yeah. On the more psychological 00:27:30.410 --> 00:27:33.529 side of things, you got theories, pretty much 00:27:33.529 --> 00:27:36.049 it's like mass hysteria, fear feeding fear. Like 00:27:36.049 --> 00:27:39.230 one person panics, another dies under mysterious 00:27:39.230 --> 00:27:42.369 circumstances, and then suddenly... anyone who 00:27:42.369 --> 00:27:44.529 walks into that place is just expecting to see 00:27:44.529 --> 00:27:48.670 something that breaks their minds yeah that makes 00:27:48.670 --> 00:27:50.789 sense too though because like you've heard you've 00:27:50.789 --> 00:27:53.910 heard the stories of like uh you know when people 00:27:53.910 --> 00:27:56.130 hear about a place being haunted they go in with 00:27:56.130 --> 00:27:58.819 the expectation Yeah. And so any kind of weird 00:27:58.819 --> 00:28:00.920 little noise or whatever is amplified and then 00:28:00.920 --> 00:28:02.559 they freak the fuck out. Yeah. That could be 00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:04.339 it. Then it's just, then it's just a ghost. It's, 00:28:04.339 --> 00:28:06.640 you know, obviously that's what it is. Yeah. 00:28:06.740 --> 00:28:08.400 But if you think about it, like you're, you're 00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:10.460 also, so for the sailors, I did have a question 00:28:10.460 --> 00:28:13.500 about the sailors for real. They, they go up 00:28:13.500 --> 00:28:17.039 the stairs, they find a room blocked off. Yeah. 00:28:17.180 --> 00:28:19.619 They've got a whole ass fucking house, but their 00:28:19.619 --> 00:28:23.240 thought is no, no, no, no. I want to sleep in 00:28:23.240 --> 00:28:25.849 the room. That's completely boarded up. Well, 00:28:25.910 --> 00:28:29.470 like I said, it was either a dare or the house 00:28:29.470 --> 00:28:32.529 already had a reputation. So they knew what was 00:28:32.529 --> 00:28:35.730 going on. So they were probably like, if we're 00:28:35.730 --> 00:28:36.890 going to sleep here, we have to sleep in the 00:28:36.890 --> 00:28:38.890 attic again. It was either a dare or they were 00:28:38.890 --> 00:28:41.250 just wanted to prove how brave they were. It 00:28:41.250 --> 00:28:43.849 wasn't like they didn't wander into a haunted 00:28:43.849 --> 00:28:46.950 house. Why is this blocked off? We got to figure 00:28:46.950 --> 00:28:50.680 it out. They didn't Scooby -Doo it. They knew 00:28:50.680 --> 00:28:53.059 what they were getting into. Yeah, it just feels 00:28:53.059 --> 00:28:55.819 like a really weird choice. If someone was like, 00:28:55.880 --> 00:28:58.180 hey, this house has broken a bunch of people's 00:28:58.180 --> 00:29:01.200 brains that are in an insane asylum down the 00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:04.440 street and there's bullet holes everywhere, I'm 00:29:04.440 --> 00:29:06.920 going to sleep adjacent to the horror room. To 00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:10.579 be fair, most of them died. Oh, that's true. 00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:15.519 Yeah, and these all happened pretty far apart, 00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:19.700 I guess. Time wise. It wasn't like a bunch of 00:29:19.700 --> 00:29:22.440 deaths in the span of a year. It was like every 00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:26.119 couple decades. Well, yeah, because no one else 00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:28.380 was dumb enough to sleep in the fucking shotgun 00:29:28.380 --> 00:29:31.200 attic. That's fair. He didn't die, though. Maybe 00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:33.859 the shotgun is the key. Maybe we're going this 00:29:33.859 --> 00:29:35.880 all wrong. You know, maybe this is it. This is 00:29:35.880 --> 00:29:38.299 an ash. You need that scenario. Yeah, exactly. 00:29:39.099 --> 00:29:41.920 Now, the other angle is that maybe there was 00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:44.710 like a. The quote unquote gas leak angle, like 00:29:44.710 --> 00:29:47.269 Victorian homes were full of carbon monoxide 00:29:47.269 --> 00:29:52.430 and other toxins, hallucinations, paranoia, sudden 00:29:52.430 --> 00:29:56.369 death. All those things can be kind of. I mean, 00:29:56.369 --> 00:29:58.630 yeah, the fucking wallpaper had arsenic in it. 00:29:58.690 --> 00:30:02.849 Yeah, it was not great. And then there's always 00:30:02.849 --> 00:30:04.630 the possibility that the whole thing was bullshit. 00:30:04.930 --> 00:30:07.529 You know what I mean? Like I'd like maybe like 00:30:07.529 --> 00:30:11.279 Lord Littleton. he heard about the ghost stories 00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:14.880 and then he himself went in there, exaggerated 00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:16.759 the whole thing. And over the years, it turns 00:30:16.759 --> 00:30:21.140 into a full blown, like urban legend, or maybe 00:30:21.140 --> 00:30:25.420 it's just a real mind bend. It was something 00:30:25.420 --> 00:30:27.059 else, like something that didn't belong here. 00:30:27.140 --> 00:30:28.759 Like it wasn't a ghost or a beast, something 00:30:28.759 --> 00:30:32.500 that like, like very Lovecraftian, like, you 00:30:32.500 --> 00:30:34.220 know what I mean? Like very interdimensional 00:30:34.220 --> 00:30:37.359 creature. Yeah. Someone called up from the ocean. 00:30:37.769 --> 00:30:40.549 Um, but yeah, it's just like, just something 00:30:40.549 --> 00:30:43.589 came through. I don't know. It's all bad. None 00:30:43.589 --> 00:30:45.829 of us great, but there you have it, Sarge. That's 00:30:45.829 --> 00:30:47.470 all I got. I think the thing that really sells 00:30:47.470 --> 00:30:50.250 this story though, is that it's like in the, 00:30:50.609 --> 00:30:54.730 it ends in Victorian England. You know, what 00:30:54.730 --> 00:30:57.289 did you say? 1880 or 1890, something like that. 00:30:57.369 --> 00:31:00.390 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it ends at like a really 00:31:00.390 --> 00:31:03.029 dark time in English history. I mean, you've 00:31:03.029 --> 00:31:06.279 got Jack the Ripper, not too far off. There's 00:31:06.279 --> 00:31:08.859 a lot of room for creepy fucking scary shit. 00:31:08.940 --> 00:31:13.440 Charles Dickens didn't help. No, definitely not. 00:31:13.579 --> 00:31:15.539 But there you have it, Sarge. That is the story 00:31:15.539 --> 00:31:21.539 of the nameless thing of Berkeley Square. How 00:31:21.539 --> 00:31:23.200 are you feeling? What do you think? I love it 00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:26.599 and I want it to be so true. Is the house still 00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:28.559 there? I have to imagine they probably torn it 00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:31.599 down at this point. I left this out. It's still 00:31:31.599 --> 00:31:34.289 there. The bottom floor is now a bookstore. And 00:31:34.289 --> 00:31:38.670 they do not allow anyone upstairs. So we need 00:31:38.670 --> 00:31:41.430 to break in. Paranormal teams have tried to get 00:31:41.430 --> 00:31:43.730 in there and investigate forever. I don't think 00:31:43.730 --> 00:31:49.970 many, if any, have as far as I know. Okay. Yeah, 00:31:50.029 --> 00:31:54.049 it still stands. It's now just a bookstore. It 00:31:54.049 --> 00:31:57.970 sounds like we just need to bide our time. I 00:31:57.970 --> 00:32:00.650 mean, bookstores can't be doing that well. She'll 00:32:00.650 --> 00:32:02.349 get to a point where they have a price and we 00:32:02.349 --> 00:32:05.160 can be like, yo. That's true. Let me take my 00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:07.299 shotgun and this candle up into your attic. This 00:32:07.299 --> 00:32:12.420 was a pleasant surprise. I really like this story, 00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:14.539 actually, a lot. I want to look more into it 00:32:14.539 --> 00:32:17.660 and find out more stuff. I want to go to this 00:32:17.660 --> 00:32:21.400 fucking bookstore for sure. Yeah, information's 00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:25.200 all over the place. The stories are different 00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:28.299 depending on who's telling them. It's very one 00:32:28.299 --> 00:32:31.299 of those type deals. I just kind of picked and 00:32:31.299 --> 00:32:35.160 choose my favorite ones. I mean, that's all you 00:32:35.160 --> 00:32:37.839 can really do with any paranormal story is like 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:40.380 hunt and pack. And like, just, I just want to 00:32:40.380 --> 00:32:42.700 know why it's like that. That's what I need. 00:32:42.799 --> 00:32:46.480 I need to know, like, there's no fucking haunting 00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:48.779 backstory that I need. Yeah. There's really, 00:32:48.819 --> 00:32:52.039 there's no reason why it's because it was, yeah, 00:32:52.140 --> 00:32:55.039 I don't know. There's no, they, I'm sure there's 00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:57.740 a dark past that I didn't look into. Maybe like 00:32:57.740 --> 00:32:59.279 a bunch of people died in the building or something 00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:02.109 like that, but it was. It wasn't built long before 00:33:02.109 --> 00:33:04.049 it started getting fucking weird. You know what 00:33:04.049 --> 00:33:07.569 I mean? I know. It wasn't there long enough, 00:33:07.609 --> 00:33:10.349 I feel like, to have a bunch of tragedies. So, 00:33:10.390 --> 00:33:14.750 I don't know. It's weird. All right, Sarge. You 00:33:14.750 --> 00:33:15.930 got anything you want to plug before we sign 00:33:15.930 --> 00:33:18.150 off? Yeah, drink Narragansett beer, you sons 00:33:18.150 --> 00:33:21.289 of bitches. I just had Narragansett Dell's iced 00:33:21.289 --> 00:33:24.029 tea. Really good stuff. Hey, I'm drinking the 00:33:24.029 --> 00:33:25.190 tea right now, too. A little bit of carbonation, 00:33:25.210 --> 00:33:27.210 but not, like, too much. Yeah, it's so good. 00:33:27.450 --> 00:33:30.960 A little bit of carbonation, not too much. And 00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:33.640 it, it just in that lemonade, Dell's lemonade. 00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:37.299 So good. It is. It's like a, it's like an Arnold 00:33:37.299 --> 00:33:40.140 Palmer, but, uh, you know, they won't let you 00:33:40.140 --> 00:33:42.519 into a country club if you're carrying it. Yeah, 00:33:42.519 --> 00:33:46.240 they might. Yeah. But like, yeah, it's probably 00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:47.980 a country club in like Quincy, Massachusetts. 00:33:48.039 --> 00:33:51.420 You know what I mean? Um, but no drink it. Narragansett, 00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:54.839 Dell's, uh, iced tea. It's a good summer drink. 00:33:54.960 --> 00:33:56.839 I'm drinking it while it's raining. So, I mean, 00:33:56.859 --> 00:33:59.519 I'm bringing the summer vibes into the studio 00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:02.740 by myself. It's fine. You kind of need to. That's 00:34:02.740 --> 00:34:06.519 what I'm doing, too. All right. Yeah, and if 00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:09.980 you drink Narragansett, whichever one you want. 00:34:10.059 --> 00:34:11.440 You don't have to drink the fucking tea just 00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:13.599 because Sarge told you to. You can drink whatever 00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:16.500 you want. Just drink it. The Shandy's good. Yeah. 00:34:17.699 --> 00:34:20.639 If you want to follow us. Or Fresh Catch is good, 00:34:20.699 --> 00:34:24.750 too. IPA. All right. All right. I'm sorry. You 00:34:24.750 --> 00:34:27.030 got me thinking about beer. Now I'm just fucking, 00:34:27.110 --> 00:34:29.210 you didn't even do it. I did it to myself. You 00:34:29.210 --> 00:34:35.449 did. Yeah. So if you want my sex tape, yes, I'm 00:34:35.449 --> 00:34:39.250 editing all this out. All right. 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And with 00:35:09.900 --> 00:35:11.079 that out of the way, Sarge, you want to say goodbye 00:35:11.079 --> 00:35:13.639 and a love to the audience? Goodbye. And if you 00:35:13.639 --> 00:35:15.880 are two sailors just trying to find a place to 00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:18.940 love each other, don't go to England. I love 00:35:18.940 --> 00:35:19.000 you.