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Welcome back, everyone, to another episode of
Cryptic Cocktail Party, a show where we have
a few drinks, share a few laughs, take a dive
into the unknown. I'm your host, Dave, joined
as always by my wonderful co -host, Sarge. How
is it going, Sarge? Ahoy, everyone! Celebrating
the 50th anniversary of Jaws. Yeah, we are, baby.
With a little seafaring greeting. This episode
has nothing to do with sharks, but I just thought
it would be... to say ahoy. Well, to be fair,
you don't know that for sure. No, I don't. But
based on the title of the show that is in the
studio, I'm guessing it has nothing to do with
sharks, but there might be some blood in the
water. You're catching on quick to my little
titling. Sometimes I have no idea what I'm looking
at, and other times I'm like, oh, okay. But in
the end, they make sense, right? Oh, they always
do. They always make sense. I got to keep you
on your toes. I can't tell you outright, but
I can't name the studio what the episode is going
to be about. Where's the fun in that? Well, if
we did that, then we wouldn't be the best paranormal
podcast sponsored by Narragansett Brewery. This
is true. Man, I missed you. Thank you, Sarge,
for covering last week. I did not have explosive
diarrhea. I'm glad you didn't have explosive
diarrhea. I'm glad you let everyone know. No,
my mom came down for the weekend, and she doesn't
come down very often, so I wanted to spend the
weekend with her. We did the most touristy shit.
Yeah, but I mean, it's your mom. Yeah, but we
speed ran it. Yeah. We went to the Museum of
Art just to take a picture with the Rocky statue.
okay like we did we did that kind of shit um
yeah perfect yeah we went to the fountain fountain
wasn't on because i forgot that uh the trash
strike also also included the water with the
trash strike but it also included like the municipal
like water people as well it's like all one so
the fountain wasn't on so it's just insane yeah
there's a bunch of kids climbing on it and shit
i was like that doesn't say that can't be safe
yeah no but i mean It's Philly. What are you
going to do? It's wild that I always assumed
since I grew up in New England and New Hampshire,
I wouldn't say we have rednecks, but we have
a lot of white trash. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I thought
moving to a city, there'd be less of that. Bro,
people are the same everywhere you go. No, there
are rednecks in Boston. Yeah, it's wild. But
no, it was good. But yeah, thank you for allowing
me to do that and taking over. And thank you,
Maynard. for stepping up with you being way too
close to the camera dude i was just trying to
cut clips of that and i was like i can't look
at this anymore it is awful it looks like he's
like it looks like the intro like fucking like
i don't know malcolm and this is something you
see like i'm malcolm in the middle it reminded
me of every bus to rhymes music video in the
1990s it reminded me of Remember an Ace Ventura
pet detective? I think the second one. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, when he's looking in the drain. Yeah, it
reminded me. It's like, fuck me, dude. It was
unsettling. He's an unsettling guy. He is. I've
never met him. Seems like a genuinely nice dude.
He is a very genuinely nice human being. He just
is weird. Yeah, very soft. And that's what I
love about him. Yeah, he's very dry. I've noticed.
That was kind of you guys. I keep thanking you.
I don't know why. It's okay. It's alright. Everybody
needs a weekend off. What have you been up to?
What are you getting into? Anything fun? Anything
exciting? Not at the moment. I am going to be
taking my kids up to your old stomping grounds.
We're going up to New Hampshire in August. Hell
yeah. for a few days. It's just me and my sons.
We're going to be doing some boy stuff. Hell
yeah. I'm sure fireworks will be involved at
some point or another. There's a lake on the
little cottage we're staying in. Hell yeah. Dude,
nothing like fireworks over a lake, dude. Yeah.
It'll be a good time. All right, Sarge. Well,
I think it's enough catching up. We've only been
away from each other for a week. Yeah, we've
got to get into this. You know, I love you, but
we've got to fucking move on, dude. All right.
All right. Today, Sarge, we're going to be talking
about homeownership. Okay. All right. Now, homeownership
is something that, as a millennial, I will probably
never experience. But from what I've heard, it's
got its ups and downs. I mean, the upsides, you
get to do whatever you want with the house. You
can fucking... Add an addition. You have a yard.
You can decorate however you want. Some of the
downs are like leaky roofs, cracked foundations,
surprise plumbing problems that cost more than
your car. Conservative neighbors. Yeah, if you're
lucky, the worst you'll get is you'll have a
neighbor who will dispute property lines with
you when you decide to put up a shed in your
backyard. Something like that. Right. Even though
it's clearly in your yard. Yes, of course. I
don't know. These are just problems that I've
heard. But here's the thing. Most of those problems
have a fix. Like there's contractors, YouTube
tutorials. There's hitmen. There's sensor lights
that shine into your shitty neighbor's bedroom
window. Yes. But what do you do when the problem
isn't structural, cosmetic, or Craig from next
door, but something truly unimaginable? Like
say, for instance. blood coming out of your floors
and walls for no apparent reason. I guess you'd
need to establish a mop budget. Clearly you don't
have an answer and I don't have an answer and
unfortunately for subjects of today's episode
that is exactly what happened inside their home
in September of 1987. So today Sarge we are going
to be digging into the case of the bleeding house
of Atlanta. Is this something you're familiar
with at all? Actually no. No it's not. I'm very
excited. I figured you being a fan of like Kentucky
meat showers and shit like that that a bleeding
house would be something that was right up your
alley. you know you'd think but i i'm not i'm
unfamiliar with houses that get their periods
i see that's surprising to me i assume like this
would be like your kind of paranormal shit like
just like unexplainable shit i i love it i just
i haven't come across it yet i i heard that birth
control pills help though i don't know where
you would put it in a house Garbage disposal?
I don't know. Flush down the toilet? No. I'm
just trying to think of orifices in a house.
I have no idea. But also in researching this,
I found out that this happens more than you think.
There's a lot of cases of this. And I almost
did like a bunch of them in this one. I can't.
I'm going to stick to one. Maybe we'll cover
some other ones. Okay. All right. You ready to
get this party started? I'm more ready than ever.
Okay, so to get this party started, what we got
to do is we got to go back to September 8th,
1987. Just a regular Tuesday night in the home
of William and Minnie Winston, an elderly couple
in their 70s living at 1114 Fountain Drive in
Atlanta. That's a bad name for a bloody house.
Fountain Drive. I genuinely didn't even put that
together, but that's really, that's deeply funny.
Now, at around 1130, Minnie is finishing up her
nightly routine. Shit, shower, shave. You know,
she was just getting ready. She's just blasting
the toilet, getting ready, making a messy cobbler.
She was getting out of the bath when she steps
in something sticky on the bathroom floor. Now,
understandably, she's a little confused. I assume
whatever it was wasn't there before she got in
the bath. I hope it wasn't there after she shit.
I mean, before. Which one is it, Sarge? Maybe
she's just not good at wiping. She's just got
out of the bath. I don't think it... Well, I
guess it was before. Anyways, whatever. But when
she looks down to see what it was, she notices
that this looks an awful lot like blood. So she
calls out to her husband, Willie, who's laid
up in bed with kidney issues to see if maybe
he's bleeding or something. Like, he's fine.
There's no cuts. Like blood in his pee because
of the kidney issues? Maybe. I didn't even think
about that, but that's good. Men don't be aiming
when they pee sometimes. Yeah, so she calls out
to him to make sure that he's okay, but he hasn't
gotten up. He's fine, no cuts, no injuries, nothing.
Plus, I think she would have noticed if he came
into the bathroom and pissed while she was in
the bathtub. Right. Yeah. So he gets up, and
they both start looking for a source for whatever
this shit is that's coming up through the floor.
Now, as they go through the house, they see more
of it. Red smears and droplets forming in the
hallway, the kitchen, living room, bedroom, even
in the basement and crawl spaces. It's starting
to form everywhere. Some of it's running in streaks
along the baseboards. Now, I'm not great at painting
a picture sometimes in writing these episodes,
so I'm just going to say that... this like what
they were seeing it wasn't like blood splatter
like you know i mean it wasn't like little droplets
like there were puddles of blood forming in their
house and dripping down the walls like when the
police arrived which we'll get into in a second
they described it as quote a copious amount of
blood which is not that's problematic so the
winstons understandably start freaking out and
call 9 -1 -1 cops and emt show up and we're like
This is a crime scene for sure. Like, like somebody
died in this house. Thing is though, there's
no body. There was no intruder in the house and
no one in the home was like actively bleeding
at the time. So the cops checked the whole place
looking for any sign of possible source for this
blood. All the doors are locked. There's no broken
windows. And they had a security system that
many said had been armed since nine 30. So it's
like two hours that it's been armed and they
would, they would have heard something tripping.
Right. It was tripped. So. It doesn't seem like
a crime took place. They ended up like inspecting
the pipes, the HVAC system, the addict. They
checked Willie's dialysis machine thinking maybe
like it was a leak in that. It was leaking or
something like that. And it was like seeping
into somewhere and coming up through the floor
somehow. I don't know. But they also had like
they had no pets. They had no history of any
vermin problems. I know sometimes if like a rat
or raccoon or something dies in between like
the. when they decompose it'll kind of seep through
but they didn't find anything like that yeah
so the police did what they could they took some
photos snagged a couple like samples to go off
for testing because hey it might not be blood
you know could be yeah it could be uh paint paint
like maybe like rusty water maybe a leaky something
or other maybe there's a leak from the roof who
knows i don't know yeah Either way, the forensics
test, it came back pretty quick, and unfortunately,
it was 100 % human blood. Oh, my God. It's not
great. Did they keep, like, a sample so they
could test the DNA? I don't know. Even what made
it worse is that the blood was type O. The Winstons,
they were both type A. Okay. So now the police
have to treat this like a full -on crime scene.
But isn't, like, I think typo is, like, the universal
donor, isn't it? Yeah, maybe. Oh, see, the house
knew that Willie was sick. Just in case you need
some extra. Exactly. Let me open up some wood
blood. This is making me think about, I don't
know if you've ever heard of this, but there's
vulture bees. What are vulture bees? I assume
they're bees, though. So, vulture bees. Is it
the honey, just blood? Will they make their nest
out of flesh? This isn't real. I'm going to tell
you right now, do not look this up because I
looked it up and I couldn't eat for a couple
of days. So they make their nests out of flesh.
Now, do they make honey the same way bees do?
Yeah. Is it blood honey? Yeah. I'm not going
to lie, that sucks, but it's also metal as fuck.
It's metal as fuck, and when you look at it,
it looks like an H .R. Giger painting. Ooh, okay.
I love that. It's like if bees existed in Hellraiser's
universe. Like, I was looking at the nest and
disgusted, but at the same time, like, fucking
mystified. Yeah. I'm going to look that up. I'm
probably very upset about it, but at the same
time... Yeah, you're going to feel bad about
what you see. Don't curse me. I told you not
to. No, that's fine. I would never hold it against
you. Yeah. All right. So, yeah. So the blood.
was tested came back typo the winstons they're
both type a so this means that the police like
have to treat it like a like a crime scene now
you just have someone else's blood in your house
so it makes sense it's a problem yeah now so
so now like a real investigation opens up more
photos are taken more samples collected they
ran the blood against like missing persons cases
local crime reports and even checked with like
nearby hospitals and blood banks to see if any
blood bags had gone missing go in the hospital
is anyone missing any blood well i think they
were thinking like if blood bags were missing
someone could have been a prank we'll get into
some of the theories but a prank dude yeah i
don't know i don't know But this is the late
80s. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the
channel. Today, we're going to prank some old
folks. But the thing you've got to remember,
this is the late 80s, and it's also the height
of the AIDS crisis. So blood was pretty well
guarded at the time. Stealing blood at this point,
people would notice. And as far as I know, nothing
was missing. And people didn't know a lot about
AIDS either, so they probably were really worried
that they had caught it. They had like caught
something. Oh, I'm sure. Now, two days later,
the Atlanta PD held a press conference and basically
just like shrugged their shoulders. They admitted
that it was real blood in the house, that it
didn't match the Winston's and that they had
no fucking clue where it came from. One official
just straight up said, could be a homicide. Could
be a hoax. Could be. Could be. That's not helpful.
No. But, like, with no evidence of either a homicide
or a hoax, the case pretty much stalled. There
was no victim. There was no perpetrator of a
crime. There was just no crime. Like, it was
just a bunch of blood. God, that bothers me so
much. No, the cops did keep investigating it
a bit, but with no leads, it was a dead end.
Like, technically, the case stayed open, but
what are they going to do? It's a bleeding house
with no explanation. Yeah. How are you feeling
so far? I feel like you've made it clear how
you feel about it so far, but I figured I'd check
in. I feel like owning a house is a punishment
from God. Because every human being, if you look
at Maslow's hierarchy of need, right? Shelters
right up there. It's a big one. And so you buy
a house thinking, okay, now I have this property
that I own. But what it really is is just a hole
you keep throwing money into. Yeah, that sounds
about right. Because houses, even new ones, break
and have ridiculous shit happen to them. Yeah.
Again, that's why I'll never own a house. So
owning a house is just, it's punishment. Is that
what it is? Yeah. Now imagine all of a sudden
it just starts bleeding. I mean, that's what
I'm saying. You can't just fucking get a new
house. This shit's expensive. Well, I mean, not
in the 80s. You could buy one for, like, a button
in a pile of string, you know? Just whatever's
in your pocket at the time. Yeah. I mean, but
also, they're fucking pushing 80. Like, I mean,
I don't think they're just going to fucking sell.
What are you going to do? Yeah, you can't just
sell at that point. He's sick on dialysis. Like,
he can't just fucking up and go. Yeah, it sucks.
But it gets worse. oh good yeah not like the
blood house for the winstons i mean it's because
once news of what happened at the winston's house
made its way out of atlanta the news spread like
wildfire i mean it's a house of Bleeding human
blood, why wouldn't it? It's a bleeding house,
yeah. So local reporters obviously jumped on
the story immediately, but before long, it was
picked up by national outlets as well as international
papers. At one point, the story ran in papers
as far away as Saudi Arabia, which is fucking
wild. So it was kind of a big deal. No, news
travels fast. Yeah, it's not great. And because
of all this attention, crowds started gathering
outside the Winstons' home. Glenn Danzig shows
up trying to buy the place. Wasn't that, was
that an episode of. Yeah. All right. I had to
think about it. Blood in the front lawn. Yeah.
No. Yeah. So people just started showing up.
News vans lined the street. Groups of people
would just stand on their lawn, hoping to catch
a glimpse of the house bleeding. Like, yeah,
I don't know. And for the Winstons who were elderly
and also very private people, this was all very
overwhelming for them. Minnie ended up becoming
like the de facto spokesperson for the couple.
She would answer questions from the press, but
mostly she would, she was just begging people
to stop showing up at their house, which is very
sad. She seems like a very sweet old lady. Like
the press shows up and she's got like a tray
of cookies for them. Yeah. Some, some homemade
lemonade. Yeah. Yeah. She, she told the local
paper that they couldn't sleep anymore because
the constant phone calls and knocks at the door.
As for Willie, dude's already in poor health.
He told reporters he didn't care what people
thought. He was too sick and too tired to be
bothered with it, which, good for him. Interestingly
enough, that's how everyone in America feels
right now. Just overloaded. Too much. Everything's
overwhelming. I don't want to... Whatever, dude.
Just do your thing. I mean, if my house started
bleeding right now, I'd just be like, thanks,
Obama. But as the story spread, it wasn't just
news and curious onlookers showing up. Paranormal
groups started reaching out, offering to investigate,
as well as self -proclaimed psychics who told
the Winstons they sensed a demonic force in the
house and offered to cleanse it for them. Dude,
there is nothing worse than when the fucking
psychics come out of the woodwork. Oh yeah, new
grifters got a grift, baby. Well, thankfully
the Winstons were smart and they declined both
offers. Good. Yeah. As they should have. Yeah.
And within a few weeks, the blood stopped appearing.
It only did that one time. But with no developments,
the story began to fade. The police had no answers.
The media moved on. And everyone just kind of
forgot about it. A little while after, things
had died down and people moved on. Minnie was
talking to a researcher or a journalist or someone.
I don't know who she was talking to. But she
tried to downplay the whole thing. telling them
that it had just been rust or mud or dye from
a new carpet, basically anything but actual blood,
which it kind of contradicts the results of the
blood. What the police said, yeah. Yeah, but
I mean, people cope in different ways. If she
doesn't want to believe it was blood, do whatever
you got to do. She went on to say, quote, if
it had actually been blood, I wouldn't have stayed
in that house. But she did. She did stay in the
house. Yeah. Unfortunately, Willie passed away
two years later in 1989, but many lived in that
same house until her death in 2015 at the ripe
old age of 104. Jesus Christ. She fucking, maybe
she was, maybe the blood helped. I don't know,
but yeah, it kept it young. It's like Elizabeth
Bathory situation. That's what happens. Well,
that was my first. it's like a fucked up fountain
of youth over there they excavate the basement
and just find like the bones of hundreds of virgins
dude i just i i uh you maybe just today while
i was writing this a cnn headline popped up on
my like notifications apparently there was someone
dug up a septic tank in like ireland and there's
just hundreds of baby bones oh yeah what the
yeah Yeah, it was a it was a home. It was a home
for unwed mothers. Oh, that makes sense now,
I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Run by the Catholic
Church, of course. All right. Yeah. Never mind.
Not as shocking as I mean, it's still shocking,
but not as shocking as it makes sense now. Yeah.
Yeah. And it's only the second worst thing the
Catholic Church has ever done to children. So.
Oh, God. All right. But yeah. But as far as I
know, the house only bled that one time. It never
bled again. And I think the house still stands
as far as I know. I looked up pictures of it.
It's still there. Let's go stand in the lawn.
You should go there and throw tampons at it.
All right. Well, before we do that, do you want
to dive into some theories and maybe some possible
explanations? Yes, I do. Very much so. All right.
Well, as I'm sure you can guess, with no victim,
no evidence of a crime or a source for where
this blood could have come from, there was a
lot of speculation. Obviously. The first theory
we got is that this was a hoax or that there
was some sort of human -like interference intervention.
You know, basically someone did this. I'm sure
two 80 -year -old people just couldn't wait to
take their bags of blood and spread them all
over the house. Well, from the jump, the police
had considered the possibility that the blood
was deliberately placed there, either by the
Winstons themselves or someone close to them.
It's the simplest explanation, so it makes sense
that this is what people would immediately think.
People like Joe Nickel and the Georgia Skeptics
Organization, because of course that's a thing,
they outlined two possible scenarios. First is
that Willie Winston staged it. The theory being
that as a dialysis patient, Willie would have
had access to blood and or medical supplies,
and he used those to create this scene. Or, scenario
number two, A family member did it. One of the
Winstons' adult children reportedly worked in
a medical facility, so they're trying to say
that they could have had access to blood bags
and placed the blood in the home either as a
prank or possibly make the Winstons appear confused
and unwell in an attempt to, I don't know, put
them in a home or something. I don't know what
they're... goal would have been for it but that
those are the two i can't believe that the least
believable thing about this story is coming from
the skeptics look to what fucking end i don't
know that that's just you know how it is they
don't ever put reasons it's just this is what
could have happened but why i don't know but
it could have happened Skeptics are the worst
sometimes. Skeptics are like conspiracy theorists.
They don't really flesh out their ideas. They
just spout them. They're like, it's impossible.
It couldn't have happened. It had to be a prank.
Yeah. For reasons. Well, either way, both those
theories have problems, obviously. Yeah, I think
someone would notice if Willie was sneaking out
with a bucket of fresh O positive blood. Well,
that's the thing. First, the blood was typo.
Both Minnie and Willie were type A, which means
it couldn't have been Willie's or Minnie's. If
it was a hoax, that would mean that the hoaxer
had to get blood from somewhere illegally, store
it, and then transport a significant amount of
it without being caught. Second, the home was
alarmed and had been hours before the blood appeared
and there was no sign of entry force or otherwise.
And there was no evidence to suggest that maybe
the alarm was faulty or had been tampered with.
So it doesn't seem likely that someone came into
their home with a shitload of blood unnoticed
just to pull off a prank. Yeah, and there's also
a lot of other ways to make old people seem crazy.
Yeah. They don't involve bringing the police
to a house to test the blood on the ground. I
mean, that is a pretty funny way to do it, though.
It is, but when you think about it, like, clearly
the police were also like, ah. It really is blood,
I guess. I don't know. Not only did you fool
the old people, but you fooled the people that
were going to take the old people out if it was
successful. It just seems like so much work for
no reason. If anything, you would have put a
severed leg in the house and then taken it out
just before the police got there so that they
would seem crazy. That's the thing. You've got
to make them see the blood and then clean it
up before the cops get there. Exactly. That's
where they fucked up. They left it there. But
speaking of evidence, there weren't any containers,
tools, or materials that would have been used
to carry out the hoax found anywhere in or around
the house. So if it was staged, whoever did it
left zero trace. Like we said, even the police
at the time weren't assuming it was a hoax because
if it had been obviously a hoax, they would have
just closed the case. Well, the hoax explanation,
it's... like the most practical, I guess, on
paper, there just isn't any evidence to support
it. So if it wasn't a hoax, it's got to be paranormal,
right? Yeah, of course. Yeah, well, the paranormal
theory is the one that has gained the most traction
over the years because it's the most fun. Obviously,
people are going to fucking gravitate towards
that. Now, the idea here is that the blood was
manifested by some unseen supernatural force,
like a ghost or a poltergeist. You see it all
the time in movies. Blood dripping from walls,
that type of shit. A spectral period. A local
paranormal researcher named Kurt Rowlett interviewed
Minnie Winston. This was like months after everything
had settled down, and he concluded that a paranormal
event was, quote -unquote, as likely an explanation
as any, which is just another way of saying,
I have no idea what is happening here, so gotta
be ghosts. No clue. Probably, probably ghosts.
It's gotta be ghosts. It's gotta be. Yeah. There
was one paranormal interpretation that I thought
was kind of interesting. And this is that the
event is linked to Atlanta's like historical
trauma, racial violence, redlining, things of
that nature. Writer Danny Cherry Jr. proposed
this idea that the blood might be psychic in
nature and a manifestation of all the unresolved
hurt that is embedded in the city's history.
Now, obviously, there's no scientific evidence
to support this. It's part of a theory known
as emotional haunting. That's where like the
environment itself somehow holds and expresses
trauma. Also, I am just now realizing that this
theory makes more sense for you and those listening
if I had actually included the fact that the
Winstons were a black couple. So that's on me.
You know what I've got to say, though, Dave?
I've got to give you credit. It's pretty progressive
that you forgot to tell everyone that this was
a black family. You know what I mean? Yeah, I'm
realizing that now. Did you ever watch Them on
Amazon? yeah it's the season one it's think about
like that it's like right the like racism is
haunting their house if that yeah i mean i i
think i think i probably spoke too soon when
i said the skeptics were the least believable
yeah i mean it sounds a little silly to me that
racism did this it's not um no i know what you
mean i know what you meant um it's an interesting
theory uh i just i Just blood, though? No sounds?
Well, there was a theory. I didn't... I'm not
even going to get it. There was a theory that
was like... I'm putting you through your paces
right now. It was like a quick poltergeist, like
an in -and -out type deal. That was one of the
theories. Just like a, well, hey. He's a traveling
poltergeist. It was one of those, just like popping
in to say hello. It was like when the milkman
used to... Hey neighbor. And then they just leave.
It was like, yeah, it just pops in. Yeah. But
still, if this was the blood fairy, but like,
yeah. So if this was some sort of haunting, it
wasn't like your normal run of the mill boilerplate
haunting. Like there weren't any ghosts or cold
spots or voices or shit. Like the blood appeared
and that was it. So I don't know. Who knows?
I don't know. I actually, now that I think about
it, I kind of like the idea of it just being
like a one and done situation. If that was the
case with all hauntings, I'd take that. Yeah,
it was just like a quick little, how do you do?
You're going to pop in, say hello, scatter some
blood around the house. Sometimes that's all
you need. I mean, it works. Open and close a
few cabinet doors and then fuck off. Yeah, they
didn't even do that. It was literally just the
blood. It happened one time. The poltergeist
was like, There you go. Maybe realize there's
no teenage girls or water around. They were like,
this is not working for me. They're almost already
dead. Whatever. It's going to last a year, two
tops. All right. The dialysis machine was haunted.
That's what happened. Yeah, from the blood of
other patients. I did come across a more like.
out there kind of theory uh and that was that
this was psychokinesis or rspk which stands for
recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis this is a
very fringe theory like parapsychology type shit
that claims that usually under like extreme stress
like you can unconsciously just do shit with
your minds like move objects or in this case
cause blood to just appear It's dumb and it's
an unproven idea. You know what, though? As crazy
as that sounds, I think that was also kind of
the explanation for some poltergeist activity
that happens around teenagers. Yeah, it's like
most poltergeist activity usually happens around
like teens going through puberty. Right. So it's
kind of like that. I mean, yeah, I guess. I mean,
they were an elderly couple. The husband was
very sick. Like, it's not like he was fucking
up and about. Like, I'm sure. I don't know if
they had a caretaker, so I don't know if Minnie,
who was also elderly, was taking care of her
husband. Like, that could stress anyone out.
I mean, I've taken care of family members with,
like, dementia and shit. Like, it's not easy
for sure. Yeah. So, I mean, like, I mean, but
I never caused blood to just appear. But, you
know, I'm not saying no one else could happen.
But, yeah, but telekinesis, no, that's proven.
It's theorized. It could happen maybe. Who knows?
I want it to happen. You know, I wish that I
could do that. There are some nights where I
just can't reach the remote. You want the force.
You don't want telekinesis. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's
a good point. I guess it's not enough to lift
an X -Wing. I just want the Amazon remote. Gotcha.
No, that tracks. But yeah, but whenever you see
poltergeist stuff like this, you always... The
telekinesis, peritoneal, whatever it's called,
it gets... brought up a lot in cases like this
either way the bottom line is that every theory
has its holes the hoax theory is possible there's
just no evidence and the paranormal theory has
as much evidence as the hoax theory so what are
you gonna do it's kind of right whatever but
no matter what theory you subscribe to whatever
happened in the winston home on september 8th
1987 has never fully been explained All we know
is that human blood appeared in their house.
It was witnessed by first responders, tested
and confirmed to be real blood. And after that,
who the fuck knows, you know? Yeah. Well, I think
it's also important to call attention to the
fact that the sheer volume of the blood, like
there was a lot of it, right? Too much. Yeah.
So it's like, I feel like, so what, what killed
the, the like, um, emotional haunting theory
for me besides the fact that we don't really
would they didn't really say any noises and i
feel like if that were the case it was like emotional
trauma from you know centuries of of slavery
i feel like there'd be noises um or like some
kind of rhyme or reason to it it was just o positive
blood yeah just a bunch of it too yeah so unless
it was something i don't understand about slavery
i'm pretty confident they all had different blood
types you know what i mean true I feel like the
amount of blood that they're describing would
have been more than one person. You know what
I mean? Like, yeah, the, like I'm not, the amount
of blood would have been multiple people. I think
this is how I should have worded that. It's that,
but yeah, I don't know. It's been 30 years and
the case is still open technically, but it's,
it's still a mystery, but it's kind of weird
to me. They didn't do any DNA testing on it just
to like find out who it belonged to. That'd be
interesting. At 87, did they have that? I don't
know. I know they could test against blood types.
No, but they probably still have the evidence.
I'm sure you could still get the DNA out of it.
Yeah, I don't know. If they store the evidence
properly, they should be able to still get DNA.
I mean, they've solved cold cases from the 1970s.
I mean, that's how the Golden State Killer got
caught. Yeah, well, he got caught because of,
was it 23andMe or something like that? Yeah,
but they had DNA profiled to test against from
the 1970s. This is true. This is very true. I
don't know. I don't know either. I find it interesting.
I wonder if you could still test it, if they
kept it. They probably didn't. I mean, it's a
bleeding... This is fucking dumb. Why would we
keep this? This is taking up space. Because technically
there was no crime, so I don't know what they
wouldn't... I feel like they wouldn't keep it,
right? They open up the evidence locker and it's
just a bunch of paint cans that say house blood
on them. Alright, but... There you have it, Sarge.
There you have it, listeners. That is the story
of the, I forget what I called it. Oh, the Bleeding
House of Atlanta. I already forgot what I called
it. The Atlanta Blood House. The Bleeding House
of Atlanta. That is, man, I like this one. This
one was cool. Yeah, it wasn't bad. Like I said,
I was going to add other ones because this wasn't
the first or only time that this has happened
to people, but some of them got like, it was
just too poltergeist. Yeah. You know, I'm glad
that there weren't a lot of tropes in this one.
Like nobody mentions a native American burial
ground or anything like that. Yeah. That was
the other thing is that one of them was like,
Oh God, this house was on a psychic told me this
house was on a cursed native American. And I
was like, no, that's where I'm assholes. God
damn it. Yeah. So I was like, I'm not going to
get it. I'm going to stick to the one, keep it
at this. Cause this, this, this one is so open
-ended. You know what I mean? Even the paranormal
investigators are like, I don't fucking know.
It's probably ghosts. It's a lot. Cops couldn't
figure it out. Because I feel like whenever a
paranormal investigator comes in, they're like,
well, clearly this is the soul of Chief whatever.
It's like, nah. Yeah, exactly. This dude's just
like, I don't fucking know. We're not going to
get anything. No idea. Yeah. Oh, shit. All right.
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