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Welcome back everyone to another episode of Crypto
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's it going Sarge? Hey, hey,
hey. What's going on? Nothing. Are you talking
to me or the audience? Everyone. Everyone all
at once. I hope you all enjoyed the little photo
spread that Dave put up. Somebody asked for that
to be a calendar. And I think that might be the
worst year of your life. No, I think that's actually
a pretty good idea, I think. I actually thoroughly
enjoyed that idea, and I think we should move
forward with it. The many seasons of such. Well,
you know, I just felt like, you know, a little
appreciation. And I appreciate you for appreciating
me. Yeah. That was unexpected and heartwarming.
And to all of my new followers. I'm not sexually
interested in you, but they are in you. So that's
really, I look like a hoe, but I'm, I'm a, I'm,
I'm a well -behaved man. Yeah. No, just when
I drink, I'm not, but I'm not, I'm not. Okay.
Oh, all right. No one's accusing me of this.
This is coming very projection -y, and I don't
know. Well, you did show me in my sassy little
outfit there with the pineapples and the palm
trees. Yeah, yeah. But you also had the cowboy
hat one. That was pretty good. The cowboy hat
one was great. Do you think the pineapple one
is the most spicy one? I feel like the one of
you cooking. Well, I think it's because I'm squatting.
Oh, yeah. There is the one where I'm showing
off my biceps. Yeah. while cooking. That's terrifying.
Yeah. As someone said, I think your cast iron
is properly seasoned. We have the best fans.
We really do. I was fully waiting to be roasted
mercilessly and it wasn't merciless at all. So
thank you. Everyone was very kind. Again, it
was a Sarge appreciation post because we all
appreciate you, Sarge. Well, I appreciate you
guys. I really do. Yeah. And plus, if it wasn't
for that post, we never would have made it onto
the page of the Satanic Temple, which was pretty
cool. Which makes my day. You have no idea. Yeah.
I go there all the time. My daughter finally
thinks I did something cool. It was a win. Yeah.
That was a cool notification to get to see that.
Yeah. What I love about it, too, is that. I know
it's like this, it's now, this is nothing, but
like, they didn't ask permission. They just screen
capped the phone and just posted it on there.
Like they didn't add, like, what if you didn't
want it there? It's fine. It's fine. I'm fine
with it. I mean, I guess it's a public post.
Anyone can see it. It's not like I like hit it
behind a paywall or anything, but yeah, they
are just like, Hey. I mean, the kinds of people
who would be offended by that are the kinds of
people I don't want following me anyway. So no
harm, no foul. It was cool. That was, that was
a cool notification to get. Yeah. All right.
Sorry. So you ready to dive into part two of
Easter? Oh my God. I'm so ready. All right. I'm
so ready. So I tried to like find like, I'm sure
I know it's out there. I've seen it. I've heard
them. I tried to find like EVPs or like ghost
voices caught on tape. But for some reason, when
I went to go try and find it this time around.
All my searches came back with like EVPs, but
it was all like ghost hunters and ghost adventures.
Or if I found one, they put music over it, which
is fucking wild. Like why? Why would you put
music over it? Because they're not confident.
They're not confident in their evidence. So they
tried to hide it behind. They lied to us. But
yeah, it was all just like I saw. We're not going
to put any evidence in this video or this episode
because it was a pain in the head. I just didn't
want to do it. Yeah. Nobody wants to hear Zach
Baggins describe how he feels about the evidence,
which is every goddamn episode. And I like the
amateur ghost hunting, like ones that I found
the exposition before they actually even played
the EVP. It took me out of it. I was like, I
don't care anymore. It's like, yeah, it's like
a 10 minute long video for like a split second
of a, what may or may not be just someone's jacket
rubbing against their arm. It's so frustrating.
Yeah. And like, I get it. You know, you got to,
play the video you got to have a certain length
video in order to be accepted by the algorithm
but Go fuck yourself. Yeah, I don't know. Pull
your thumb out of your ass, you dicks. All right,
so last week, Sarge, we covered the history of
Eastern State Penitentiary from its conception
all the way up to its closure in 1970, or 1971,
if you count that brief time that it was used
as a city jail. Reopened as a county jail, right?
Yeah, but something you and the listeners may
have noticed in part one as well is that while
Eastern State Penitentiary was controversial
for a lot of things, mostly the whole... indefinite
solitary confinement and psychological torture
leading to finally problematic yeah one thing
it wasn't known for during its time of operation
was ghosts so back then there really aren't that
many documented reports of hauntings or like
paranormal activity while it was an active person
there is one which we'll get to and it's pretty
funny uh but to be fair it was probably hard
to tell If it was haunted, considering it probably
already sounded like a haunted house with all
the screaming going on from the mental breaks.
Also, if you're suffering from visual and auditory
hallucinations due to long periods of solitary
confinement, it's probably kind of hard to figure
out what's a ghost and what isn't. Exactly. But
sometime between when the prison finally closed
and current day world. I'm not going to say the
date, what day it is today to keep this episode
evergreen. Then I won't mention Iran at all.
Well, I mean, that's probably still going to
be a problem 20 years from now if this plays
out anything. As an Iraq war veteran, you're
absolutely right. Yeah. But sometime between
then and now, Eastern State has developed quite
their reputation as one of the most haunted locations
in all of America. Ghost hunters investigated.
Paranormal shows filmed there. Or I should say
filmed there. Visitors report hearing voices,
seeing shadows, moving from cell block to cell
block. There's also reports of people being touched
and just like that overall vibe that someone
or something is watching you from just beyond
the shadows. What's crazy, though. Is that the
organization that runs Eastern State today does
not officially claim that the prison is haunted
and they're pretty firm on that. They actually
banned paranormal investigations in 2019. Like,
oh, come on. And that's like not just like amateur
people. That's like no one can. That's no fun.
Like, what the fuck is the point of owning like
an old ass prison if you're not going to let
people walk around with EVPs? shouting a ghost
well it's because well one of the reasons was
because of the decorum of some of the paranormal
investigators but another reason another reason
why and i get it is because like the it's a museum
and the museum is like their mission is for like
prison reform they don't want a bunch of fucking
zach baggins there and tap out shirts trying
to fight ghosts well it's not that's not their
mission i guess uh but at the same time they
do kind of lean into it because you know money
and yeah but but i don't mean that like in a
disparaging way like i get it i'm sure it costs
a shit ton of money to keep that place from like
just imploding in on absolutely like you've got
all like miles of of pipe in that building probably
full of water in pennsylvania you have to keep
it heated year round that makes sense i get it
i would i would do the same thing like For instance,
every year around Halloween, they host Terror
Behind the Walls, which is just like a massive
haunted house. See, that's awesome. Yeah, it's
pretty cool. And the official audio tour, which
again is narrated by Steve Buscemi. So good.
It even includes an entire section asking the
question, is Eastern State Penitentiary haunted?
And the answer is basically. I don't know, but
then it proceeds to walk visitors through some
of the more like famous like stories and experiences
people have had inside the prison. So I guess
the question is, if there wasn't any paranormal
activity when it was operational, the organization
that runs the prison doesn't acknowledge is haunted.
And Steve Buscemi has no fucking clue. Then how
did he get the reputation as like a paranormal
hotspot? Well, part of that answer has to do
with what happened after the prison closed. When
Eastern State shut down for good, it wasn't immediately
turned into like a museum. It was just straight
up abandoned and abandoned prisons like any good
abandoned building. The vibes become kind of
unsettling. Over the decades, the place slowly
started decaying. Roofs started collapsing. Paint
was peeling off the walls. It was just deteriorating
from the inside out. It's basically just in a.
abandoned ruin in the middle of center city Philadelphia,
which is kind of awesome. Honestly. Um, eventually
though, preservation efforts began and they started
doing limited hard hat tours, which sounds fucking
terrifying. I would never tour somewhere where
they're like, you're going to need a hard hat.
In case something falls and just fucking accordions
your spine real quick. Those began in 1988 and
they started doing like the Halloween fundraisers,
like the precursor to Terror Behind the Walls
in 1991. So it wasn't too long after the prison
closed. That would probably have been a great
time to go too because it's like very rough and
they're not ready. So it probably looks real
bad. in like 1992 you know what i mean well and
this actually segues right into what i was about
to say next instead of restoring the prison into
something close to what it would have looked
like while operational they intentionally preserved
it in its crumbling state so what it looked like
then is what it looks like now it's like a creepy
place and just the atmosphere alone is enough
to make you feel easy not me interesting choice
yeah like not me though i wasn't scared when
i was there at all i was super tough and it was
really fun and Well, you're a braver man than
I am because I spent a little time in an abandoned
prison and nearly shit myself. I went during
the day where there was a million people there
in the summertime. I will say this. Surprisingly
drippy. It was kind of like the inside of the
ship from Aliens. It was just wet with chains
everywhere. It's always wet. Yeah. I don't know
what that's about. do we want to know we don't
want to know yeah i don't know i don't remember
what i was saying oh it's a creepy place and
the atmosphere alone is enough to make you feel
uneasy well with all the water and all and it's
around this time that the ghost stories really
started to like kind of like take hold visitors
reported hearing voices seeing shadows some people
started claiming that certain parts of the prison
uh made them feel sick or dizzy or like they
were being watched at first These were just like
anecdotes from people who were visitors. But
after a while, these anecdotes started to like
cluster in specific locations. And once those
stories started repeating themselves, that's
when its haunted reputation really kind of took
hold. So I figured what we do today is basically
give you guys like a little haunted ghost store
of Eastern State Penitentiary, starting with
one of the most famous stories connected to the
prison. This begins the way most good paranormal
stories begin, with maintenance work. You know
what, Dave? You're taking me out of it because
you're not doing a Steve Buscemi accent. I wouldn't
even know how to. I wouldn't either. Does he
have an accent? He has a pretty normal voice,
doesn't he? Now I think he kind of talks like
this. Sure. He's kind of New York -y, I think,
a little bit, right? Hey, fellow kids. That's
actually pretty good. That's not bad. Thanks.
I won't do any more because I'll fuck it up.
So in the early 90s, restoration crews started
working inside the prison as part of the whole
preservation effort. One of the people working
there was a locksmith named Gary Johnson who
had been tasked with removing some of the old
locks from the old cell doors. And these weren't
like your normal door locks. These were like
massive iron prison locks that had been sitting
in those doors for well over 100 years and probably
hadn't even been touched in at least 50. yeah
and it probably had like comically large keys
yeah so keys the length of a toddler So Johnson
heads into cell block four and gets to work on
one of the old locks, trying to get it loose
from the cell door. And eventually the lock gives
way. But as soon as it does, something in the
air changed. Johnson claimed he felt a sudden
surge of negative energy move through the corridor.
Not just like an uneasy feeling, but something
a bit stronger. He said it was like he felt a
force grabbed him and held him in place like
he couldn't move. Then he started seeing distorted,
tormented faces with twisted expressions pressed
into the stone walls of the cell block. Like
the walls themselves were full of people trying
to get out. Then, according to Johnson, one of
those figures pulled itself forward from the
wall and began reaching towards him. And at this
point, Johnson did what I think any reasonable
person would do in this situation and got the
fuck out of there as fast as he could. I would
have quit immediately. I would have done the
same thing. I would have been like, hey, you
know what? Keep the money and my tools. and the
poop i left in there i don't want to be here
anymore yeah and uh and johnson's story was easy
it's easily become one of the most repeated ghost
stories associated with the eastern state probably
because it's a nightmare and i hate it uh yeah
it became so popular that the story made its
way into the prison's official audio tour again
narrated by award -winning actor uh steve buscemi
His story isn't the only strange shit happening
in Cell Block 4. Visitors report sudden waves
of dizziness there. Others claim that certain
areas of the block feel unusually heavy or oppressive,
which makes sense. So yeah, Cell Block 4 sucks.
Yeah. I don't like it. It's not a great story,
but it actually isn't the part of the prison
that comes up the most when talking about the
paranormal. That distinction belongs to Cell
Block 12. Over the years, this block has developed...
Kind of a pretty shitty reputation is one of
the most active areas inside of Houston State.
Visitors, staff, investigators, they've all reported
experiences there. Voices echoing through the
corridor, strange laughter coming from empty
cells, and shadow figures moving around the block.
One of the most common reports in cell block
12 involves the upper catwalk that runs along
the second level. It's just like a metal catwalk.
People standing on the ground floor. report to
hear like what sound like heavy boots walking
slowly along the catwalk uh like a thud thud
and then yeah and then it just stops and then
you look up there's no one there which isn't
actually steve buscemi wearing giant boots hey
fellow ghosts this is this is also the spot where
ghost hunters caught what is easily the best
piece of paranormal evidence i think i've ever
seen i also can't show you guys because this
is an audio medium but Basically, it shows a
figure on the catwalk coming towards the camera
and then immediately darting back in the other
direction. If you haven't seen it, I'll post
a clip up on Instagram and you guys can let me
know what you think because it's fucking wild.
Haters will say it's fake and people can debate
about whether it's actually paranormal or just
some sort of like camera artifact glitch. It
doesn't matter. I like it. Yeah, that's all that
matters. So whatever. If it scares you, then
it doesn't matter if it's fake. Honestly. Yeah.
Anyways, Cell Block 12. Spooky as hell, but it
isn't the only part of the prison where people
claim to see movement in the form of shadows.
And that brings us to the next stop on our little
paranormal tour, Cell Block 6. So Cell Block
6 isn't all that spooky, but it's worth mentioning
because it gets brought up a lot because just
the sheer number of shadow figures people have
reported seeing there. Also, just how intimidating
the term Cell Block 6 sounds. I think it's the
three S sounds. Cell block six. It's pretty good.
It sounds like you're scared to go there and
you're scared to say it five times fast. So visitors
walking through here report seeing dark shapes
moving along the walls of the corridor or slipping
into cells. Not like full body apparitions. Just
like silhouettes and shapes and shit. Usually,
it's a sighting that lasts a second or two. Pretty
much someone notices a movement out of the corner
of their eye. They turn to look at it directly,
and whatever it was is gone. Some people claim
they had seen dark figures standing briefly in
the doorways of empty cells. Some say they've
seen them moving across the hallway. Nothing
too wild, like I said, but... These reports are
the reason why Cell Block 6 has the reputation
it does. But sightings and spooky happenings
aren't just contained to the cell blocks. Now,
some of the more wild stories actually come from
outside the blocks, which brings us to our next
stop, the guard towers. But before we get there,
Sarge, how are you feeling so far? No, sir. I
don't like it. I mean, here's the thing. I do
like it. And I want to go and I want to see these
ghosts. But at the same time, like prison ghosts.
I feel like they're a little scarier. They're
different. You don't know why that ghost is in
there. That's true. Is he going to try to shank
you or is he going to take your butthole? You
don't know until it happens. This is true. Shank
on both accounts. Yeah. So box six. I mean, shadow
figures, whatever, dude, is if it's not choking
me out, I don't care. That doesn't. Yeah. You
know? Yeah. It's not a poltergeist. I found some
accounts of people saying they were attacked
there, but they were just Reddit stories and
I didn't want to include. I wouldn't trust a
Reddit story. As far as I know, there's not a
lot of violent shit happening. The only one that
really is scary is the guy who's stuck in the
cell for a minute. That sucks ass. I would hate
it. That wasn't a good one. I'm already scared
of prison. Like I never, I never want to do anything
that would put me in jail because I could not
deal with the, with the confinement. I think
you do great. But then to be trapped in there
by a fucking race. Are you kidding me? Spooky
ass mother. Keep you jail. That's so the, the,
the locksmith story reminds me, there's a story
that takes place on Mount Washington. That was
somewhat similar to that. And it's crazy. Yeah.
It was like a. Something in the clouds. It was
like a cabin up there, like a hiker's cabin.
Okay. Some guy got trapped in there and kind
of the same thing happened. Not great. I'll try.
I'll send you the story. Don't worry. That would
be a good place to put a prison though. On the
top of Mount Washington, you're not getting out
of that place. Well, I mean, isn't that what
the research station already is? It's pretty
much prison. You're kind of just stuck there.
You're going to get hypothermia whether you want
it or not. Yeah. All right. So now we're at the
guard towers. So over the years, there have been
repeated reports of people seeing a figure standing
in the guard towers. Just a silhouette of someone
standing in the window. Nothing crazy. Sometimes
a visitor walking around the prison will glance
up and see what looks like a person watching
from the tower. And when they point it out to
someone else and then look back, the figure is
gone. Just your standard ghost shit. But one
of the more unsettling stories connected to the
tower involves not shadowy figures, but voices.
According to Philadelphia author Charles Adams,
while he was visiting Eastern State, he and a
small group were near one of the towers when
they heard what sounded like people talking above
them. Kind of like two people having a quiet
conversation somewhere overhead. Yeah. So they
all assumed there were just people above them.
maybe staff or like another tour group. But when
they went to check, it was empty. Nobody inside
and whatever voices they were hearing had completely
stopped. Now, the story doesn't seem like much,
but I like it because unlike the cell blocks
where like echoes and footsteps travel pretty
far and loud through the corridors, the towers
are small, very enclosed spaces. So if someone
is inside them chatting it up, you know. So the
fact that no one was there is kind of fucking
terrifying. And hearing a ghost voice is already
unsettling, but then you hear one with a Philadelphia
accent. Talking about Wooter? Yeah, like, how
do you talk like that? It doesn't sound right.
I don't know. I don't talk like that. I'm from
New Hampshire. No, you don't. You're from up
here. Yeah, I'm from a real place. Not this fucking
made -up La La Land. But you have to admit, the
accent is slightly unsettling. And I'm coming
from a place with a... terribly ugly accent.
I feel like the Delco accent and the Boston accent
aren't too far apart. I think I feel like there's
more ours involved. Maybe they're like cousins.
Yeah. Kissing cousins. Sure. All right. So if
you've been to rural Pennsylvania, you'll know
how true that is. Yeah. All right. So. So moving
on, let's talk. Let's talk Capone. As I'm sure
you remember from part one, Al Capone was one
of the most famous inmates at Eastern State after
he was picked up on a weapons charge. He wasn't
there very long. Like I said last episode, he
was sent into a year but only ended up serving
about nine months. But his time there produced
one of the weirdest stories connected to the
prison. According to stories that circulated
among inmates, even though Capone had basically
all the amenities of a five -star hotel in his
cell, He apparently wasn't sleeping too well
during his stay at Eastern State because legend
has it is that Capone was being haunted. Could
have been a ghost. Could have been the raging
syphilis. Nobody knows. We're actually going
to get to that. Oh, God. More specifically, he
believed he was being haunted by the ghost of
a man named Jimmy. Now, depending on which version
of the story you hear, Jimmy was a victim of
the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. It was a gangland
shooting that left seven members of a rival gang
dead in Chicago on Valentine's Day. I'm sure
you're familiar with it. Yes. Yeah. According
to legend, Capone would wake up in the middle
of the night just screaming, Jimmy, leave me
alone over and over again. Now, whether this
story is true or it's just something that grew
over time, who knows? If it is true, was it actually
paranormal? Again, who knows? Capone was dealing
with untreated syphilis at the time. So he was
probably already half insane. Yeah, right. Because
apparently complications due to untreated syphilis
isn't great. It'll fucking just rot your brain.
Yeah, it ruins your brain and parts of you fall
off sometimes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, of course,
not everyone is convinced that Eastern State
is teaming with spooky specters. So before we
dive into, like, the skeptics argument, how are
we feeling? What do you got? Any questions, concerns?
Nope. I love it. I especially love Al Capone
being haunted. A little uneasy with the idea
there being ghosts in the guardhouse, because
the only thing worse than a ghost is a ghost
with a gun. I don't think a ghost gun would do
anything to you. We don't know. This is true.
I've never been shot by a spectral bullet, so.
I mean, maybe thoughts and prayers would actually
have an effect on a ghost gun, though. So maybe
that's why nobody's been shot. That's where all
the prayers go. The only time that thoughts and
prayers have ever been. Not effective against
real bullets, but you got some ectoplasm bullets.
100 % effective. Oh, that makes total sense.
Right. All right. I think we figured it out.
We solved it. But yeah, but not everyone is convinced
that this place is haunted. Both researchers
and historians argue that a lot of the strange
shit people report can actually be explained
away by the building itself. And it kind of makes
sense. Right. The prison is built out of massive
stone walls, long corridors and high vaulted
ceilings. They pretty much create like a wild
acoustic environment where sound can behave pretty
unpredictably. Voices can travel down the cell
blocks. bounce off the stone surfaces. So someone
talking quietly in one part of the prison can
echo down another corridor and sound like it's
coming from somewhere completely different or
even right next to you. It's kind of insane.
Footsteps are another big one, like those metal
catwalks that run along the upper tiers. It just
echoes for days because it's metal. Yeah, it
carries sound across long distances, making it
sound as though they're right there above you,
even if there isn't anyone. And it's not like
people were wearing sneakers back then. Everybody's
wearing old clacky shoes. Yeah, but even now,
like... What I'm saying, like walking on a catwalk
in old -timey shoes. Did you say clacky shoes?
Yeah, the ones that go clack, clack, clack when
you walk around. Yeah, but it doesn't matter
on metal. It's all going to sound the same. I
don't know. Rubber shoes probably don't sound
as loud. The acoustic value. Well, let's do some
testing and we'll get back to you. All right.
Wind also plays a huge factor. Eastern State
is preserved as a quote -unquote stabilized ruin,
which means... Parts of it are just exposed.
It is true. There are parts where just shit's
missing. Air is constantly moving through broken
windows, gaps in the stonework, whatever. And
the result is a place that is constantly producing
strange sounds. It sounds like a haunted house,
whether it means to or not. Yeah. Fun fact, stabilized
ruin is also how we refer to all of Western Massachusetts.
If you don't own a property with a derelict barn
that has a tree growing out of it, you are not
considered a landowner. That's fair. And with
this wind, like the airflow, it can slam old
doors, rattle metal bars or create low hollow
noises that travel all throughout the prison.
And again, it's just dripping all the time. There's
just water constantly. I don't know where it
comes from. Yeah. Again, the prison that I stayed
in up here for that, for that army thing, same
thing. It was just constant water dropping everywhere
and nobody could find a, where the water was
falling from or the puddles that were supposed
to be accumulating underneath it. Yeah. Most
old prisons are basically like the Nostromo from
aliens. And again, it's just wet all the time.
No one knows where it's coming from. Except instead
of like a, the, the alien, It's actually just
Steve Buscemi covered in grease. Yeah, I don't
get it, dude. It's just wet all the time. Super
weird. Yeah, just gross and creepy, really. Yeah,
it's awesome. I love going there. And then there's
just like the psychological side of it all. places
like eastern state penitentiary they already
have like a pretty heavy atmosphere even before
you factor in the paranormal shit like you're
walking through a decaying prison that once held
thousands of inmates like you already have the
stories in your head about the isolation the
punishment all the mental anguish that went on
there so your brain is already primed to expect
something fucked up i guess yeah right and then
when you enter an environment expecting something
paranormal like your perception Of that place
changes like small sounds become super significant.
Shadows catch your attention more easily than
your mind starts looking for patterns in all
of it. So every shadow, every sound, no matter
how small, could be rationally explained away.
But in a place like Eastern State, it always
feels like something more. But who knows? Maybe
it is just the architecture. Maybe it is all
psychological or maybe it's ghosts. I don't know.
Yeah. I mean, it could be anything. And frankly,
I don't care if it's actually ghosts or not.
I'm still going to be scared. I'm going to go
because I really do actually want to see this
place. It's really cool. But yeah, like it doesn't
make a difference at that point. Like some places,
like it doesn't matter if they're haunted or
not, because they're going to scare you no matter
what. Yeah. But it's a really cool building.
I like it. I, for one, want to believe it's ghosts.
How could you not? I want it to be ghosts. Very
much so. What's crazy is that we do a show about
cryptids, conspiracies, aliens, all that stuff.
Which, I mean, yeah, whatever. But if I were
to put all my eggs into a basket of what I truly
believe exists in this world, I go ghosts every
time. Yeah. And Mothman. Ghosts and aliens. Those
are the two things that I can 100 %... Well,
obviously, I can't say that, but... that I can
say that I believe 100 % do exist. I am certain
aliens exist. Yes. They may not be the ones we
want. They may not be the cool ones, but I think
they exist. And I'm nearly certain that Mothman
exists because you saw the picture I sent you
last night. Unmistakable. I'll post it on my
Instagram. Unmistakable. Unmistakably Mothman.
And I saw that before I started drinking. in
a bar next to a cemetery that gives you shots
with smoke that come in a coffin yeah god come
in a smoking coffin amazing bar by the way it's
a himalayan place can't pronounce the name to
save my life there's like four a's in it um but
it's i'll i'll give them a more proper shout
out the next time i'm on but oh my god the food's
amazing great atmosphere but your drinks are
smoky they come in a coffin And it is directly
across from a cemetery. And this is a weird cemetery.
I've never seen this before. There's lights.
People just put lights on people's graves. Like
I would expect that in Halloween, but it's like
March, you know? No, I feel like I've seen that
before too. And I might be wrong. And I might
just be making this up, but I'm pretty sure some
of those are like a religious thing. It could
be, yeah. I don't doubt that for a second. But
it was also exceptionally spooky because I walked
there. So I'm walking by the cemetery. What the
fuck are all these orbs doing around? There's
like fog lifting up off the cemetery. Yeah. Horrifying.
Oh, I'm sure it's a nightmare. I loved it. I
didn't go in the cemetery, but I loved it. You
should have gone to the cemetery. No. Well, maybe
next time. But yeah, I don't know. Ghosts. Definitely.
I believe 100. But like, no, I feel like ghosts
aren't. Well, we'll get into it another time.
I'm not going to do it now. It'll be a debate.
but I also believe in ghosts and aliens. It's
not a debate. I just think, I don't think ghosts
are like the souls of a fucking person. Like
that's. Yeah. I don't necessarily believe that
either. I think there's, there's, there's like
a whole, we should do an episode where we just
go over our theories on, on ghosts. That would
be kind of funny. Actually. I do kind of like
that idea. We just don't prepare anything. It
just started going. We just started talking about
it. Maybe a bonus episode though. Cause it could
go off the reels real, real fast. No, we'll just
do it straight up for, We should do it at night
on like the night before a Monday holiday. So
we can just get shit faced. I vibe with that.
I like that. Yeah. It could be a real long episode
or a real short episode, but it'll be a real
funny episode no matter what. It'll be good.
All right. Sorry. So yeah. So that's a Eastern
state, the hauntings, I guess, or not so much
the haunting, but like the stories of the hot,
like the suspected hauntings, potential hauntings.
Yeah. And, um, I think that's it. That's all
I got. Oh, I love it. Yeah. I want it to be true.
So bad. So do I, I do. I believe they're true.
That's why I've gone there like four times. So
yeah, it sounds awesome. I really want to go.
Yeah. Uh, all right. So I guess, thank you so
much for listening everyone. Um, and if you guys
got any stories about Eastern state that you
think we should know, send them to cryptic cocktail,
gmail .com. Maybe we'll do a followup with listener
stories or experiences or something like that.
Um, yeah. Sarge, you got anything you want to
plug before we do the whole wrap up? No, nothing
too crazy. I'll put the picture of Mothman on
my Instagram. You tell me what you see. Okay.
And thank you all again for the love. I appreciate
it. I just got a promotion at work, so it's been
a celebratory week for me. Oh, look at that,
bud, dude. Yeah. Yeah. Working hard for four
years. Finally. One step above where I was. You're
appreciated in all aspects of your life, bud.
It's been a great week. I love that for you.
All right. All right. So to the audience, goodbye.
And I love you. We haven't gotten there yet,
Sarge. Son of a bitch. You know, I take back
that post. I'm deleting. I thought it was a good
segue. I'm deleting that post. I fucked it all
up, Dave. You're no longer appreciated. Real
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