1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:27,440 From the unexplained to the mundane, join us on our journey to the fringe. 2 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:32,800 Hello and welcome to Journey to the Fringe, where we take French Halloween seriously. 3 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,800 And for any frat members out there looking for a French Halloween costume, might I suggest 4 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,960 a Chupa-Cop bro? 5 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:42,720 I did have to put hold for applause there, just in case. 6 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:47,360 We are your spooky host Taylor and Chelsea here today, talking about, I almost want to 7 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:50,360 call this a creature feature, but it's not quite that. 8 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:57,400 It's kind of hard to explain, but it is basically sightings of robed figures in the night. 9 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:05,440 It's a weird thing, it's hard to separate it out, because there's a couple things that 10 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:07,400 always came up when I was searching this. 11 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:08,800 First and foremost, shadow people. 12 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,080 We've done a shadow people episode, go take a look at the shadow people episode. 13 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,800 I'm keeping that part of this. 14 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,360 And here's the thing, if they're blacked and hooded, it's hard to tell whether or not 15 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:21,760 they're a shadow person. 16 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,960 The next part where this comes up, death, the Grim Reaper. 17 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:27,800 They're a very well known hooded or robed figure. 18 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:31,040 I have decided to kind of just keep that one out of this. 19 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:32,960 You took the Grim Reaper out, okay. 20 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:37,240 And the other part that I've somewhat avoided, just because I think it's its own topic on 21 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:42,720 its own, stumbling across cults, because I do know there are some somewhat that are larger 22 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:49,640 sightings like that, but right now, really all I'm focusing on is sightings of robed 23 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,640 or hooded figures in the night that are unexplainable. 24 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,960 I can pick that up, I can pick up what you're putting down. 25 00:01:55,960 --> 00:02:00,040 Because I had to put those limitations on it for what I've decided to do, I found it 26 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:01,040 actually kind of weird. 27 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:02,040 Only have one sighting? 28 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:06,280 No, in fact, I have many sightings, which is just, it's good. 29 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:07,920 I was scared for a second. 30 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:14,640 And we end the episode now because I couldn't actually find anything. 31 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:17,480 So the criteria was just too straight. 32 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:18,480 Too straight. 33 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:22,200 But you know, you guys, I stick to my morals on my strictness. 34 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:30,800 Now, what I came across, I actually found really interesting in that these can be traced 35 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:37,400 back fairly far in that we find carvings of hooded or roped figures all the time that 36 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,720 we can't really explain. 37 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:44,640 And this comes from a website called Ancient Pages, and the article title is called Mystery 38 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:47,720 of the Hooded Ones, Enigmatic Cloaked Figures. 39 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,320 And I just, I really liked the way this one went. 40 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:54,000 And I just kind of wanted to give like a bit of a background on how at least there's an 41 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,560 unexplained hooded figure in cultural backgrounds. 42 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:01,440 This is written by Jan Bartek on February 10, 2020. 43 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:05,400 Depictions of mysterious hooded ones have been encountered in various European places. 44 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:07,960 Who are these enigmatic cloaked individuals? 45 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,720 And why is it so hard to determine their gender? 46 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:15,160 Were they made in the image of pagan gods, monks, dwarves, spirits, or some unknown strangers 47 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:16,920 we haven't been able to identify yet? 48 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:21,120 The enduring mystery of the figures remains a captivating historical subject. 49 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:27,480 There are many speculations and theories on genius cocolatus, which means the hooded one. 50 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:28,480 No, it's not. 51 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:30,080 They named it something scientific. 52 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:32,840 Yeah, they have a Latin name for it. 53 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,200 That's funny. 54 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:39,640 Several stone carvings depicting the hooded ones clay statuettes have been unearthed in 55 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:41,320 continental Europe and Britain. 56 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:45,320 A famous carving of the hooded ones can be found on Hadrian's wall. 57 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:49,800 In most cases, it's impossible to say whether they were women or men, but a carving found 58 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,240 in the Mosul region shows the hooded ones wearing mustaches. 59 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:58,040 And that particular carving gives off a reason to think they could have been males. 60 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:02,640 The hooded ones wear a long cloak covering them from the head to the ankles. 61 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:06,000 This outfit makes it only possible to see the face of the hooded one. 62 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,840 On carvings, we find them depicted either as singular or as triplets. 63 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:13,040 Statues of the hooded ones have been found near springs, leading some scholars to believe 64 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,280 that these beings were gods of healing. 65 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:19,400 Over the centuries, people have observed the waters and its powers and created myths and 66 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:21,000 legends related to it. 67 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,280 Water has been credited with purification and healing effects. 68 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:27,640 Sometimes the hooded ones wear a sword, which gives us reasons to speculate whether they 69 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:29,080 were guardians. 70 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:30,680 What could they have protected? 71 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,720 Historians and mythology experts emphasize that these puzzling cloaked individuals occasionally 72 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,040 stand next to Lienus, the god of healing. 73 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:41,840 Being his presence indicates they may have been regarded as protectors against disease. 74 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:47,320 Although these sculptures resemble those of the Greco-Roman deity Plesperus, hooded attendant 75 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:50,040 of Asclepius? 76 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:57,000 Scientists know today that the hooded ones have been considered a figure peculiar to the 77 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,400 Celtic cultures of Britain and Gaul. 78 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,240 I find this really interesting speculation here. 79 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:05,960 Some researchers who have studied the hooded ones point out we should pay attention to 80 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:07,920 the small size of these cloaked beings. 81 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,160 Can their height offer clues to their identity? 82 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:15,160 Waldemar Diona, who wrote a monograph on hooded supernatural beings, said that they may not 83 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,960 have been great gods, but rather minor gods, demons, or spirits. 84 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:25,320 Diona asserts that the hooded one is usually a child or a dwarf, more rarely an adult of 85 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:26,320 normal height. 86 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:30,400 Other scholars before and after him have considered the hooded ones to be dwarves. 87 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:34,760 However, an examination of photos and sketches of the figures themselves allow one to wonder 88 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,080 what evidence there is for such a conclusion. 89 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,360 I think I can end that there, just with the dwarf thing. 90 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,120 I wanted to add that just because it's a mythical being. 91 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,880 I thought it would be fun to include at least that speculation. 92 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:47,920 Oh, I just want to make a comment. 93 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,880 I pulled up exactly the article that I think you're reading. 94 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,600 The first one, I see two different... 95 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:55,520 They have a bunch of different photos in there. 96 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:59,320 I've at least scrolled to the second one so far. 97 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:02,840 And the first one is of three, like Taylor's triplets. 98 00:06:02,840 --> 00:06:07,440 They do look probably like men in robes. 99 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:11,760 You can see their face, they're robed, it's like a cloak coming up to like a little point, 100 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:13,120 then their feet are sticking out. 101 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,200 And then the next one is kind of the... 102 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,440 I'm assuming it's a side profile? 103 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:18,640 It could be a side profile. 104 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:22,200 It could just be the erosion has kind of taken away any features. 105 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,160 It's hard to say for sure though. 106 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:25,160 That's true. 107 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:26,560 I want to say side profile though. 108 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:28,840 And it looks like they're moving in a line. 109 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:29,840 Still three of them. 110 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:30,840 Mm-hmm. 111 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:33,160 Yeah, no faces on that one. 112 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:34,640 And oh yeah, yeah, okay. 113 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:36,760 Yep, there are more pictures. 114 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:38,240 I'm going to stop my commentary here. 115 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:40,000 I just wanted to describe the figures. 116 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:41,600 Yeah, no, that's really good. 117 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:42,680 And Chelsea, there's actually... 118 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,200 It's not just a European phenomenon either. 119 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:46,800 I found this on a... 120 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:48,360 Oh, I think it was the... 121 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,080 It was a really weird website that I wasn't expecting to see it. 122 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:52,840 National Post is where it was. 123 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:55,840 Apparently it has some ground in Inuit culture too. 124 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:56,840 Really? 125 00:06:56,840 --> 00:06:57,840 That's what... 126 00:06:57,840 --> 00:06:58,840 Unless they're wearing a warm coat. 127 00:06:58,840 --> 00:06:59,840 This is the weird thing. 128 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:00,840 So you can take a look. 129 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:03,360 National Post hooded figurine Inuit. 130 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:05,040 If you Google that, you should be able to find it. 131 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:09,680 As they dug into the foundation of an ancient proto-Inuit house on Baffin Island, archaeologists 132 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:13,960 George and Deborah Sabo were turning up the usual artifacts. 133 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:18,800 Bones, bailings, harpoon heads, bits of wood, but then their tools under something downright 134 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:19,800 eerie. 135 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:24,440 A faceless man in a hooded robe with a simple cross emblazoned on his chest. 136 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:28,920 To any modern westerner, the figure instantly was recognizable as a member of the Roman Catholic 137 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:29,920 clergy. 138 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:34,520 But the nomadic tool people living at the time of the Middle Ages should have seen these 139 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:36,560 figures as alien as Martians. 140 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:41,720 To the Sabos, the eerie figurine was proof that the mythical hallelulind mentioned in 141 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:43,880 Viking sagas wasn't mythical at all. 142 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:46,720 It had been the Arctic Canadians all along. 143 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:49,040 But it's a super creepy looking doll. 144 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:50,360 Oh, it's super creepy. 145 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:51,360 Yep. 146 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,360 So yeah, hooded figures kind of pop up everywhere. 147 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:54,880 Now Chelsea, I found... 148 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:58,480 I just wanted to show that this thing isn't just a recent phenomenon. 149 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:00,320 It appears to go further back. 150 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:04,440 It's hard to find stories though specifically of that and especially separated out because 151 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:09,140 there are weird groups that like to have traditions in the woods wearing robes. 152 00:08:09,140 --> 00:08:13,600 So it is hard to get rid of those people that are just, you know, doing normal, I don't 153 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,000 know, orgy stuff in the woods. 154 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,400 A round of burning thing. 155 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:21,280 Really, if you want to be doing weird shit in the woods, you got to wear a robe. 156 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:23,200 That's just a law of nature. 157 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:26,360 I'm sorry to bring it back again, uptales. 158 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:31,280 But this always reminds me of my favorite episode of Duckdale. 159 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:32,280 With the druids. 160 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:33,920 With the druids. 161 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:35,440 It's come up many a times. 162 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:36,760 I love that episode. 163 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:38,880 I bring it up more than I should. 164 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:40,800 But I just had to say it one more time. 165 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:43,560 It's just so relevant to everyday life apparently. 166 00:08:43,560 --> 00:08:46,280 It's so relevant, especially to hooded figures. 167 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:50,360 Now Chelsea, for the first part of this, I took a lot of the sightings from the website 168 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:56,920 Phantoms and Monsters, which is heavily used in the Forty-In research and yeah, and it 169 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:02,040 is Lorne who does all the interviews for this and he was heavily used for the Mothman episodes 170 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:03,760 or the Mothperson episodes. 171 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:05,800 He was yet big fan of that website. 172 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:06,800 He does a good job. 173 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:11,040 He does a great job and he has quite a few robed figure encounters. 174 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:15,400 This first one I'm going to read comes from excited that we're getting stuff from him posted 175 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:17,720 on May 23rd, 2024. 176 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:18,720 Very recent. 177 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:22,320 I'm going to leave the title out just so we can hear this account without giving away 178 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:23,560 what's going to happen in it. 179 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:25,600 Okay, the title is a spoiler alert. 180 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:26,600 Okay. 181 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:28,720 Oh yeah, the titles are all spoiler alerts with this stuff. 182 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:29,720 Don't read the title. 183 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:34,160 I was hunting with a friend of mine, Tony, deep in the mountains of Northern California. 184 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:38,160 We went to the top of a ridge to get a good look at the area and try and pick a likely 185 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:39,720 place to find some boar. 186 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:42,800 I saw a dirt road to the east, a fire trail actually. 187 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,080 Was about to rain it off when I noticed a row of campers driving along. 188 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:48,240 They disappeared behind a hill at the edge of the valley. 189 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:51,600 I scanned the valley floor and found several other campers near the tree line. 190 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:56,520 Tony suggested we go over and see if they would share a meal and a warm fire with two 191 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:57,520 worn out hunters. 192 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:01,120 It was dark by the time we got to the hill they disappeared behind, so we climbed up 193 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:03,800 to get a good last bearing and distance estimate. 194 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:05,360 What we found was surreal. 195 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,640 About half a mile away in the middle of the clearing was a bonfire. 196 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:12,960 Instinctively, we both dropped to the ground and crawled to some brush for cover overlooking 197 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:13,960 the valley. 198 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:18,160 I scanned the area looking for the camp and at any security they might deploy. 199 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:20,040 Tony surveyed the other side of the valley. 200 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:22,800 When he grabbed my arm, I turned and followed his gaze. 201 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,560 There were two groups of people standing near the edge of the valley right below us. 202 00:10:26,560 --> 00:10:29,840 One was wearing black hooded robes and the other white. 203 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:34,080 A figure carrying a staff and wearing a red hooded robe walked out of the trees towards 204 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:35,080 the fire. 205 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,800 The others followed in two single file lines. 206 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,800 At the fire, the red figure stopped and raised his arms. 207 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:45,400 The black robes circled clockwise and the white robes counterclockwise until they completely 208 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,280 encircled the fire alternating black and white. 209 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,360 We could hear chanting, but we couldn't make out any words. 210 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:55,000 After about an hour of chanting and walking around the fire, first in one direction then 211 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:56,400 the other, they stopped. 212 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:00,240 And a naked man was brought out from the tree line bound in blindfolded. 213 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:05,580 He was presented to each of the robe figures clockwise around the fire before being presented 214 00:11:05,580 --> 00:11:06,720 to the red figure. 215 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,840 He was then made to lie down at the red figure's feet. 216 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:14,640 Then a naked and bound woman was brought out and the process was repeated counterclockwise 217 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:16,680 before she was laid next to the naked man. 218 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:20,600 I at least had no idea what I was watching or what I should do. 219 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:25,000 There was more chanting and then silence as four black robe figures emerged from the tree 220 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,680 line carrying a black robe much like a flag. 221 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:32,320 They circled the fire clockwise, once behind the figure and once in front of them. 222 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:34,760 Each black figure touched the robe as it passed. 223 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:36,160 Then they arrived at the red figure. 224 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:37,640 They stopped over the naked man. 225 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:40,360 The red figure said something and the other responded. 226 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:45,120 He then pointed his staff at the naked man and the four laid the robe over top of him. 227 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:49,640 After another chant, a white robe was brought out and the process was repeated counterclockwise 228 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:51,280 stopping over the naked woman. 229 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,000 The red figure said something and the other responded. 230 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:59,000 He then pointed his staff at the naked woman and the four laid the robe over top of her. 231 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:03,000 The red figure waved his hands and staff over them and raised his staff over his head. 232 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,840 The robe bearer then picked up the robes as they had before and the two rose from the 233 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:07,840 ground. 234 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:09,960 The robe bearer then lifted the robes over their heads. 235 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:13,560 The two then circled the fire twice embracing each member. 236 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:15,840 First the robes of their color and then the other. 237 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:19,920 When they got back to the red figure, he pointed towards the camp with the staff and the new 238 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:22,400 members led the procession back to camp. 239 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:26,480 They watched them enter the tree line and then looked back to the fire for the red figure. 240 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:27,720 He hadn't moved. 241 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:31,800 When the last couple was out of the clearing, the bonfire flashed green and then red and 242 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,240 the red robe collapsed to the ground. 243 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:38,320 We ran all the way back to our truck that night and we were too scared to stop. 244 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:40,400 The next morning we stopped at Denny's for breakfast. 245 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:44,400 We had put more than 60 miles between us and the clearing and felt safe. 246 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:46,080 While we were eating, two couples came in. 247 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:50,080 One sat behind Tony and the other behind me so that we each saw one of them. 248 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:51,600 They just smiled at us while we ate. 249 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:54,040 When we left, we saw two campers in the parking lot. 250 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:55,920 Tony and I never spoke about that night. 251 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:58,920 We found a better hunting area far away from that clearing. 252 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:03,000 It has been nearly 40 years since that night but each time I see a camper reminds me of 253 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,000 the incident. 254 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:05,000 And that was submitted by Jay. 255 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,000 Hey, I'll give you the title. 256 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,080 I'm pretty sure I know what that was. 257 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:11,880 Cousers and counters robed figures conducting bizarre ritual around bonfire. 258 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,360 Okay, so that was a KKK rally. 259 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:18,160 It could have been but the black and red robes are kind of different. 260 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:21,600 But if you google it, you'll see black and red robes for KKK. 261 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:23,280 Yeah, that's actually a fair point. 262 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:25,160 And I do have something to say with that. 263 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:27,240 That was for sure a KKK rally. 264 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:33,160 Funny enough, in my just readings through Reddit in like various things, Ask Reddit, 265 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:37,400 even paranormal communities, people just say what's the weirdest thing you stumble upon 266 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:38,600 in the woods at night. 267 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:45,000 A lot of people are commenting that they stumbled onto a KKK rally in the middle of the woods. 268 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:50,400 Yeah, and I guess that is its own scary implications and really fits with the theme of this week, 269 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:51,400 apparently. 270 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:56,920 Yeah, the amount of times I see it pop up on Reddit is disturbing and therefore spooky 271 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:02,560 for Halloween and spooky because this exists in our world as something that you have to 272 00:14:02,560 --> 00:14:05,080 be careful not to stumble into the woods on. 273 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:10,840 Keep in mind that, I mean, that's for sure makes me uncomfortable about that. 274 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:14,800 And you know what, a lot of the ones that I stumbled to on Reddit were in our neighbors 275 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:16,960 down in Oregon and Washington. 276 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:19,240 Oh yeah, Oregon's really bad. 277 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:22,200 Apparently, you wouldn't think it would be but apparently so. 278 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,160 Well, outside of the major cities is bad. 279 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:25,320 Alright, this next one. 280 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:29,080 This is a true account, even though it's difficult for me to believe sometimes. 281 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:32,920 This occurred right after I graduated from high school in the spring of 73. 282 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:36,360 That fall, a buddy and another friend of mine came over to my place. 283 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:39,560 We lived close to the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville. 284 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:42,320 We went over to get a pitcher of beer at a local watering hole. 285 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:45,200 There were no girls with us to bother us or anything like that. 286 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:47,720 I don't know why they had to include that. 287 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:50,600 Well, we got a pitcher of beer and then went back to my neighborhood. 288 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:54,240 One of us had to relieve ourselves so we turned into a Baptist church parking lot that I have 289 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:55,480 attended a time or two. 290 00:14:55,480 --> 00:15:00,680 We turned up into the driveway and there were about six characters dressed in cowled red 291 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:01,680 robes. 292 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:02,680 No. 293 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,760 We had to wear hoodies and robes all the way down to the ground. 294 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:07,560 So we come around the corner of this church. 295 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:12,200 My buddy was driving his beat up old Volkswagen Beetle, freaked out, hit the reverse, made 296 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:13,800 a U-turn and got out of there. 297 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:17,400 We tried to get him to go back but of course he wouldn't do it. 298 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:22,280 The oddest thing about it was these people, whoever they were, seemed to move strangely. 299 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:24,880 It's almost like a scatter shot thing. 300 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:26,960 Elbows raising that sort of thing. 301 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:28,480 I don't know what that means. 302 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:30,720 They just kind of moved around the corner. 303 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:33,520 I've wondered about that for all of these years. 304 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:34,720 I haven't got a clue. 305 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,440 All this time we just kind of figured it was devil worshipers. 306 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:39,880 But if they were, why in a church parking lot? 307 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:43,000 I'll never know but it sure has freaked me all these years. 308 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:48,480 What if it's just something mundane like the monks get together at night to late? 309 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:51,160 They have to move pews at night or something like that. 310 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:52,160 Yeah. 311 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:53,160 In full garb. 312 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:54,160 It's laundry. 313 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:55,160 Yeah. 314 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:58,280 Everything else is dirty. 315 00:15:58,280 --> 00:15:59,440 Yeah. 316 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:01,440 You know what? 317 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:07,360 Maybe they had their clothes lines out and it was just the wind blowing them about. 318 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:08,360 No this is Halloween. 319 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:09,840 It's supposed to be spooky. 320 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:10,840 It's spooky, yes. 321 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,400 Well, laundry can be spooky. 322 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:14,960 It can, it really can. 323 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:16,440 It is, it is spooky. 324 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:17,440 I'll wait. 325 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:18,440 Chelsea, next one. 326 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:19,440 They get spookier from here. 327 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:20,440 Hi, lawn. 328 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:22,160 I'd like your opinion on my encounter. 329 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:26,120 Back in about 2003 I worked at the city jail here in Louisville, Kentucky. 330 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:28,920 And I live kind of in a more remote area. 331 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,520 You know at the time I was driving home after work? 332 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:33,760 Very long double shift, about one o'clock in the morning. 333 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:38,760 I got off at midnight so about halfway home I drive on the road along the river. 334 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:41,240 There's not much down there except for old terminals. 335 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,160 There's not much activity down there at night. 336 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,200 It's literally right next to the Ohio River. 337 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:46,840 The other side is Indiana. 338 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:52,480 As I'm driving, I know Indiana, terrifying. 339 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,120 As I'm driving, I come up on these three figures. 340 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:59,280 You know, three people, they looked like they were wearing old time robes. 341 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:03,240 They were standing literally in the middle of the road to where they blocked both lanes. 342 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:04,240 I stopped. 343 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:06,360 I turned my bright lights on to look at them. 344 00:17:06,360 --> 00:17:10,840 One of them raised its arm to me and that's when I noticed their eyes were glowing red. 345 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:12,920 I had the creepiest feeling. 346 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:15,760 I felt like I was in grave mortal danger. 347 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:20,720 I did not dare try to go forward and I mean I was armed in everything but I turned around 348 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:22,160 and went the long way home. 349 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:24,720 I got home around 2am instead of my usual. 350 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,800 I wasn't that far from home but I turned around and went back. 351 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,600 I just felt like I was in mortal danger and the energy that night was weird. 352 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:35,880 My cat was doing strange things and there was a lot of fog that night. 353 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:39,600 After these many years since that encounter, I still feel a sense of grave mortal danger. 354 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:43,200 I really hope he just means what he thinks about that and it's just like not a constant 355 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:45,440 feeling of grave mortal danger since that time. 356 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,960 Yeah, I'm really, maybe when he thinks about it even. 357 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:49,560 Oh my god, what do you do? 358 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:51,120 What do you do if you see that? 359 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:52,120 You ram him? 360 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:54,640 Oh, I turned the fuck around. 361 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:57,600 Do you risk stopping the car at that point? 362 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:00,440 You make sure the doors are locked and then you turn around? 363 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,320 Yeah, we've gone over kind of a drill at night. 364 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:05,200 Yeah, we've gone over this drill. 365 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:06,640 People know what to do at this point. 366 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:08,760 If not, please listen to the back catalog. 367 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:10,080 It's come up many a time. 368 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:12,000 What to do with encounters at night in the car? 369 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,960 You remind me because I forgot and now I'm nervous. 370 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,880 It's in the Benny and Barty Hill, definitely it came up. 371 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,880 The Mothman episodes, it definitely came up and I think there's one more. 372 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:22,520 I can't remember up top of my head. 373 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:25,160 Do you remember what to do because I forgot now I'm nervous. 374 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:26,160 No, we got it. 375 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:27,160 You got to go listen to the backlog. 376 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:28,640 But it's for me. 377 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:32,760 Yeah, well, we still need to listen to none the less the boss can't do it themselves. 378 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:33,760 Right. 379 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:35,760 We need to make a million dollars. 380 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:39,240 Okay, I'm nervous, so I can't drive at night until I find it. 381 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:44,680 Yeah, this next story actually, Elani got it from two separate Collins, the coast to 382 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:45,680 coast AM. 383 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:50,280 So November 1st, 2014 is the first one, June 13th, 2015 is the next one. 384 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:53,160 The caller, this happened the night after Halloween. 385 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:57,080 I deliver newspapers at night and I was delivering newspapers that night and it was business 386 00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:58,080 as usual. 387 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:00,880 Around the curve, I saw a group of kids in the middle of the road. 388 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:04,400 There were about six of them and they were all wearing gray robes with hoods. 389 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:06,000 They didn't have the hoods on. 390 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:07,440 They were down their backs. 391 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:11,040 I thought that was kind of strange because Halloween had ended about 10 hours before 392 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:12,040 that. 393 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:16,200 One of them saw me and started walking very quickly towards my car saying something. 394 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,880 She got very close to my car and I could see that she was about 15 years old. 395 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:22,160 My first thought was, why was she out there? 396 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,520 That's pretty young to be out there at that time of night. 397 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:26,160 It was about 430 in the morning. 398 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:31,480 I didn't have time to talk, so I drove around her, but then there were the other five kids 399 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:32,920 in the middle of the road. 400 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:38,200 Then they saw me and they fanned out to surround my car so I couldn't move and that scared 401 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:39,200 me. 402 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:42,880 I drove up on the lawn to get around them, but they were coming pretty quickly at my 403 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:47,600 car and I almost hit one of them and then I thought, I'm going to call the police because 404 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:49,160 this is quite odd. 405 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,880 Then I thought, I better follow them so I could tell the police what they're doing. 406 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:56,240 I'm sorry, he's making so many bad decisions here. 407 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:00,800 I saw them turn down the street and I turned to follow them and it took about 10 seconds 408 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,080 to get to this street. 409 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:04,080 They were gone. 410 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:08,160 They had disappeared and there's no way they could have gone to even the first house. 411 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:09,600 So that was his first one. 412 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:11,560 This is the same guy having a second one. 413 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:14,960 Yeah, and this is Minneapolis just so that we're all on the same page for this. 414 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:17,520 Sorry, it's Mary in Minneapolis that called. 415 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:18,520 You know what? 416 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:20,640 I think the exact same ones you just called into the show twice. 417 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:25,080 I tried calling coast to coast, but nobody really helped me with it or told me what I'm 418 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:26,080 sorry. 419 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:27,320 This is darkness radio, not coast to coast. 420 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,320 The second one. 421 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:33,240 This radio is you can look that up. 422 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:34,440 You know, it is the exact same one. 423 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:39,360 So I think we can skip it, but it does end with I called coast to coast because David 424 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:43,960 Weatherly was on there and I guess he's the expert on what black eyed kids. 425 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:46,560 I thought maybe that's what they were. 426 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:50,560 It sounded like that's what it could have been, but he didn't really say much. 427 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:54,640 You just said that Halloween was the night that portals are open or something and whatever 428 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:55,640 can get through. 429 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:56,800 And just Google David Weatherly. 430 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:00,640 Can you please go to general to see one of his books that he wrote? 431 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:02,120 Oh no, the black eyed kids. 432 00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:04,120 They took his stuff. 433 00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:11,680 I'm sorry, he has a book and it's a funny black eyed kid on the front. 434 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:12,680 Yeah. 435 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:13,680 Oh God. 436 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:14,680 I just need to check. 437 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:16,040 Does he have a 1990s webpage? 438 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:17,040 He has to. 439 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:18,040 Oh, he has to. 440 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,040 And why does it say leprechaun press? 441 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,120 And let's take a look here. 442 00:21:23,120 --> 00:21:27,240 David Weatherly looks exactly how you would think that he looks. 443 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:32,720 I mean, I don't know why there's not any good looking people in the UFO community. 444 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:37,880 I feel like if you're, yeah, well, we can speculate on a different assholes of the 445 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:39,720 UFO community at some point. 446 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:41,000 But yeah, that's that one. 447 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:47,240 And unfortunately we're now done with phantoms and monsters for the time being. 448 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:48,240 Next one I found. 449 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,400 I don't know why this kept popping up when I was doing my research. 450 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,920 It's another forum called unexplained mysteries. 451 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:55,240 This man posted this. 452 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:56,680 I should say member. 453 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:00,240 I think he's a man because his nickname is hockey dude. 454 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,440 And he posted it on October 5th, 2006. 455 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:08,200 The sighting I had happened in May of 05 in Midland, Michigan, where I was attending college. 456 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,480 It was about 3.30 in the afternoon and a perfectly bright and sunny day. 457 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:16,040 I was riding my bike through the neighborhood where I lived and came to a dead end street 458 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,440 where I spotted a trail off to my left that led into some woods. 459 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:24,000 I prefer to ride on trails rather than sidewalks, so I started to head off this trail. 460 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:28,640 However, I quickly veered from that direction when I saw what was standing down the path, 461 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:30,840 roughly 50 feet from me. 462 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:35,840 Whatever it was was frightening enough to cause me to quickly turn the other direction. 463 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:41,120 However, my curiosity soon got the best of me and I turned back and stopped at the trail 464 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:43,600 ahead to view what had startled me. 465 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:48,400 I stood there with my bike for what seemed about a half minute staring at this thing. 466 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:53,480 Whatever it was, was just sitting there absolutely still just staring back at me. 467 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:59,160 I was wearing a pitch black robe or cloak which had a black pointed hood covering its 468 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:00,160 face. 469 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,160 I couldn't see any facial features, just darkness. 470 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:08,160 The most prominent feature which made the entire experience the strangest was the thing's 471 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:09,160 hands. 472 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:13,320 It had big, claw-like hands that appeared almost a foot in length. 473 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:18,240 If any of you can picture the big werewolf gloves that one would wear for Halloween, 474 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,080 that is the best I can describe it. 475 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:24,840 For a moment I thought it was the grim reaper statue that someone had put in the woods for 476 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:29,920 a prank, but there was an aspect of realism about it that kept me wanting to go closer. 477 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:31,920 That kept me from wanting to go any closer. 478 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:36,880 I was too frightened to go down that path alone, so I dashed to my house which was about 479 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:37,880 two minutes away. 480 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:40,680 I grabbed one of my roommates and we drove back to that spot right away. 481 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:44,680 We were back there within ten minutes of my sighting, however it was gone. 482 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:46,920 So the statue theory fell through. 483 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,400 It was then that I realized what I saw was truly something strange. 484 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,800 I did some research and found an article about a Mexican police officer which described what 485 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:56,240 I saw almost exactly. 486 00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:00,120 However this creature flew through the air and attacked this police car. 487 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:04,040 In a way I regret not trying to get closer to it, but when I read how the creature attacked 488 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:05,760 the officer I'm glad I didn't. 489 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,960 Some other research on hooded beings led me to the links describing reptilian human 490 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,720 oyes that were reported wearing such garments. 491 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:17,480 Does anyone have anything to offer on any personal experiences or elaborate on this? 492 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:18,960 That's where that one ends. 493 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:19,960 That's the creepy comment. 494 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:20,960 Comment anything good? 495 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:21,960 That is creepy. 496 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:26,640 No, I didn't really go through the comments on that one. 497 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:28,760 Next up we have finally come to Reddit. 498 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:33,040 Chelsea, we are on to the Ghost Stories subreddit. 499 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:37,800 This was posted ten months ago by Life Weird 5293. 500 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,800 WTF were those hooded figures I saw as a kid. 501 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:45,120 When I was a kid, about seven years old, I saw three hooded figures on two separate occasions 502 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:48,120 and I still wondered to this day what I had witnessed. 503 00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:49,120 Two different attitudes. 504 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:53,240 Here's to know if anyone else has seen, heard, or anything like this. 505 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,160 So the first time it happened was at night. 506 00:24:55,160 --> 00:25:00,480 I had not long gone to bed and was just laying there quietly waiting to fall asleep. 507 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:05,360 I used to be quite scared of the dark when I was that age as I had already had a few 508 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:09,640 paranormal experiences by then so my parents would leave the hallway light on for me and 509 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:11,160 my door open a few inches. 510 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,840 The way my bed was positioned against the wall I could see down past my feet through 511 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:16,560 the doorway and down the hallway. 512 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:21,120 All of a sudden I saw three hooded figures coming down the hallway in single file towards 513 00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:23,400 me and then turning into my parents room. 514 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,960 The third one stopped for a moment and looked into my room straight at me and that was when 515 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:28,240 I screamed for my mom. 516 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:32,880 The second time was a few months later and during the daytime I was just chilling in 517 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:37,160 my room alone playing with my toys when something caught my eye in my parents room. 518 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:41,360 I turned to look and saw the three figures walking in single file again. 519 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:44,120 Both times I only saw them for a few seconds. 520 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:48,200 Of course I was scared cause that's not normal but I didn't feel threatened by them. 521 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:52,880 They were quite small, maybe five feet or so and they looked quite like monks. 522 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:54,280 The clothes did anyways. 523 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,520 I couldn't see their face as it was just blackness. 524 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:03,480 They moved in the same way monks walked like slow deliberate paces and heads kind of down. 525 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,880 My dad was fighting with the council at the time to stop them from cutting down the lovely 526 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,320 big oak trees in front of our house and he thought that they might be spirits connected 527 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:11,520 to the trees in some way. 528 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:15,960 I don't know who they were but it was very strange and I can still remember it so vividly 529 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:17,400 30 plus years later. 530 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:22,400 I love the dad's insight on that one that it was spirits connected to the trees. 531 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,640 I also actually really like that the background I gave on the historical reference of hooded 532 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:32,440 figures matches those guys to a T. Came in a group of three about five feet tall that 533 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,240 I think he could be right on that. 534 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:39,600 Yeah, that's pretty either that or the parents were up to something but yes I mean if I was 535 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:43,240 up to something I'd probably be like they're probably connected to the trees outside. 536 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,800 However, creeping on the last. 537 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:50,400 So Chelsea the woods are alive and well with robed figures. 538 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:55,440 If I was to encounter any type of figure I would hope that it wouldn't be robed. 539 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:59,240 Hell even a naked figure is probably a better one to come across in my mind. 540 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:04,680 Probably because it's obscuring exactly what is standing behind the rope. 541 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:05,680 Yeah. 542 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,080 So there's all this mystery which makes it worse. 543 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,720 The imagination always makes it worse. 544 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:16,480 Whatever it is that's standing there behind the rope could be a skeleton, could be a werewolf, 545 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,480 could be a little person. 546 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:19,480 You don't know. 547 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,000 It could be two kids in a row. 548 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:26,360 Who knows exactly trying to sneak into a movie and it just makes it worse when you don't 549 00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:27,360 know. 550 00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:32,640 I mean I'd rather just have a skeleton standing there than no I would I would that way I know 551 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:36,720 what I'm dealing with but they're creepy and I'm gonna say I'm surprised. 552 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:43,000 I know we always say stop talking about what is it called again all those up tails how 553 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:48,920 duck tails but I was surprised the Druids never came up because in my experience so 554 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:53,040 that was the Druid which we have brought up on an episode before. 555 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:54,040 Yeah. 556 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,920 Let's just refer back to that one real quick in which we also brought up the duck tail. 557 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:01,760 And with that we you guys got a lot of listening so we won't keep you too much longer. 558 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:03,720 I have been Taylor here with Chelsea. 559 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,080 We are Journey to the Fringe. 560 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,600 Thank you all for listening and we'll see you next week. 561 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,920 Thank you for listening to Journey to the Fringe. 562 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:17,200 If you have liked what you have listened to please like share subscribe or follow depending 563 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,280 on what venue you are listening to us through. 564 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:26,400 Also please if possible leave a five star review as that really helps us in the algorithms. 565 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:31,240 Should you wish to interact with us please check us out on your social media of choice. 566 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:36,040 I bet you we are there and if you really want to communicate with us and give us ideas for 567 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:40,240 new episodes or tell us that we're wrong and terrible either way please send us an 568 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:44,360 email at Journey to the Fringe at gmail.com. 569 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:48,120 For now I'll see you in the next episode.