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All right, we are live. So tonight we've got Sirens
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of the Supernatural three guests at once. So we're gonna
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start with introductions, and I'm gonna go with Ryan first.
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So Ryan, tell us who you are and what you do.
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Yeah, I'm Ryan McCoy. I lived in Napoli Mountains. My
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entire life had a deep history of paranormal, you know, folklore,
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supernatural top stuff. My great grandmother was shirkey. You had
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of course, so you had that type of background and
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was raising them ountain So that brought up a love
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for not only watching scary movies scared of each other
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on weekends and and uh you know, so uh me
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and my fellow podcasters be siders of the supernatural. We
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got together. Don't want to do kind of spread spread
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that type of knowledge and that type of lifestyle to
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let people know, hey there, look there's a lot more
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out there. Uh you know, I'm actually working with marketing
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right now. I'm in sales, uh you know, which I
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meant get to meet a lot of very interesting people
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and I hear some pretty cool stories sometimes. But uh,
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you know, our passion for paranormal, for supernatural, for the unknown,
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the weird, the the strange. You know, that's something that
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intrigues us and fascinates us, and that's what we're all about. So,
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you know, we appreciate you having us on your show,
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and we love sharing stories and we love having people
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on our podcast to share their stories because it's all
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about knowledge. It's all about uh, commonality and just getting
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things out there. And plus getting into this, you'll realize
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there's a lot more people involved in this. And once
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you really think, you know, you start one to some
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of these different conferences and these different halloween themeed or
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paranormal thing things, you know, and Ronda and all of
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us got to go to a few this past year
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and it's unbelievable with the amount of people that show
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up for these type of things, especially here locally. Yeah,
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so that really excites us and we like, you guys.
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Have a whole bunch of festivals down around where you so, yeah,
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it's hard to get rich environment, you know.
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Yeah, we've got a lot of different experiences. We like
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going to research different things, we like finding out, we
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love learning new things and experience and new new things.
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We love learning fresh perspective as ideas, and it's all
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about knowing hocknologist powers. And one of the reasons I
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really got into this is because some of the things
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that we talk about, some of the things we do
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is are scary. And so when I was younger, I
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was like, Okay, if you find out more about it,
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it will become less scary, because it's scary because you
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just don't you just know the surface. But then I
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find out, Okay, well, sometimes I'm more scared to find
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out about it, the more scary it becomes. So some
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things you just kind of want to pull back and
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maybe go in a different direction, but it's still all interesting.
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And that's kind of what my interest is, you know.
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And I'm sure Ronda and Lindsay feel the same way,
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and I'm sure there's somewhere you know you kind of
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feel something similar. But all let them go ahead and
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jump in, because I don't want to talk a whole lot.
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So well, said Ryan, I'll jump in. I'm Ronda. Ryan
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and I are first cousins, and so we grew up
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in the crazy McCoy clan, and like he said, there
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were there were a lot of superstition's folklore that were
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passed down to us, so we heard pretty much we
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were little tykes knee high, and so we've always had
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kind of an interest in that and I think with
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our podcast, it gives us a chance to cover a
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variety of topics, but we kind of always end up
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coming back to the Appalachian folklore and some of those
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traditions that are getting lost with newer generations maybe not
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knowing or hearing about them. And it was a very
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rural area. When I graduated high school, I moved away
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and didn't end up coming back to the mountains until
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about eight years ago, and so just loved the mountains,
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couldn't wait to get back. You know, it's in your
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blood if you're raised in the mountains and got back
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closer to family. And actually it was another one of
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our cousins that got us involved in a podcast. It
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was his idea. He was like, hey, you guys could
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do a podcast and I'll produce it, and we're like, okay,
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So we just kind of jumped in and hit the
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ground running and we've been doing it since October of
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twenty twenty three. We've loved it. We've just had a ball,
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you know, as a family and getting our extended family
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involved too, going places and researching and just it's been
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a lot of fun for us. And Lindsay is my
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daughter and she she's my youngest daughter, and she's always
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kind of had a love for the supernatural and paranormal
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that I think she got from me. She's my scary
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movie buddy. She's always been, you know, like minded in
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that way, and so she, you know, we're like, let's
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get Lindsay on board and let's go with it. So
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we have and like Ryan said, we're learning a lot,
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We're meeting a lot of great people. And yes, I
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was very surprised when we started thinking about names for
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the podcast. There are so many paranormal podcasts. Well there's
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tons of podcas cast, but the paranormal genre is just
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and so we really start realizing, wow, we do need
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a niche and so what kind of stuff was what
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we knew and that's what we've done. And I am
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in the western North Carolina Mountains, so we're all in
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different states. Actually Ryan's Tennessee, I'm North Carolina, and Lindsay
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lives in Virginia. And I actually work for the local
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school district superintendent. So you can imagine after Hurricane Helene,
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it's been a while getting back to normal up here,
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but I think we are finally getting back to normal,
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and so love the mountains and love my family, and
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we get to do, you know, the best of both
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worlds with the podcast. So Lindsay, I'll kick it to you.
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I'm Lindsay, like my mom said, I'm her daughter, the
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youngest one on the podcast, but maybe one with the
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the most to say sometimes. So I won't say too
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much here, but what I will say is that for
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the podcast, it's been a really good time. I listen
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to podcasts for years and years now and always paranormal
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and true crime podcasts are my favorite. So when they
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said they wanted to start one, I was like, you know,
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well why not. I guess we'll see what happens and
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we've had a really good time. I get to produce it,
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so I get to add in all the what happened to.
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The other what happened to the other producer?
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Well, it was our cousin and me and him, my
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bad simnear wos raised together, loose neighbors, and you know,
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we watched scary movies together. You know, we was walking
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the mountains at three o'clock in the morning together. We
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was out of school, just kind of having something to do.
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He recently passed away. Oh god, my bad. He was
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involved in a lot of different things.
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Uh, he was involved in our podcast very heavily, and
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you know what's the producer and helped a lot for
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like the first year. A lot of other things going on,
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and he's like, look, guys, you know I want to
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step back. You guys can take the range. So you
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guys kind of cause we kind of all called each other.
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They're still they're much better at certain things than I am. Hey, look,
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just like my dad said, you know, I'm good to
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run out of my mouth. That's the one thing that
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I've been good at. So that's why I've been marketing
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in sales and talking on a podcast kind of out
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you know. Hey, that just falls right up my alley.
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So but yeah, he did recently just pass away.
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Sorry to hear that.
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Yeah, and you know, he wasn't much older than us,
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but he was a good guy. But you know, this
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is still part of some one of his legacies because
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he actually one of the ones. Because we got to
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talking whatenot and he's like, hey, lets go ahead and
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do this. We're like yeah, it's like okay, let's get Lindsay,
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We're like, oh, this is gonna be awesome, you know,
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and then the next thing, you know, here we go
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and you know, this is like her you know, pretty
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much our third season, and it's like, it's pretty amazing
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how you know, how things have turned out, in the
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amount of things that we've learned and growed, and how
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many people that we've met, you know. So that's what happened.
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But like I said, you know, it's not a bad
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thing because this is something that he was passionate about.
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We've all been passionate about a whole lot, but this
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is a way that we can actually express that absolutely. Oh,
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you know, it's a positive. It's a positive thing.
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So producer lindsay, yes, see you produced this now. And
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whenever I.
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Try to do Injustice, I really try to do, you know,
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as creative as I can be and a sound effects
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and videos, and I actually teach art, so I'm interested
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in that kind of stuff. Anyways, Yeah, we just have
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a good time. Honestly, I always say like, I'm just
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here for a good time. I love talking about this
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kind of stuff and meeting new people, and I'm excited
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to be on your podcast tonight. So thank you.
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For having Yeah, absolutely, so, all right, I the one
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question that I ask all guests is all right, so,
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and I need to figure out a better way to
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describe it, but either way, it is what it is.
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So everyone's got a gateway drug to this high strangeness
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madness that we that we deal with here and on
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this podcast. So mine was Bigfoot. That was my gateway
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drug to the supernatural prayer and normal cryptid space. Right,
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So what for you guys was your gateway drug to
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this whole thing? I mean, like you know what I mean.
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Okay, go ahead, lin, I was gonna say for me,
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I think I know it's not really encryptid, but I'm
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gonna say aliens because I feel like I have always
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always been into aliens, even as a little kid. I
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was like low Key convinced that I might be one.
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the time, and I won't on here, but with Aquarius,
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we're kind of the weirdos, and a lot of times
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it's associated with aliens. So I feel like it just
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comes full circle.
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Like I mean, they're talking we're going into the age
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of Aquarius here soon. So yeah, I'm a pissy, so
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I begin it. Yeah, what about you, Randah.
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For me, and I'm a tourist by the way, so
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for me, I think of what just sparked my interests
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from the get go was Ryan mentioned our great grandmother.
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We had our maternal great grandmother and our maternal grandmother.
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first cousins, and we all kind of seemed together at
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their house for a good while. My great grandmother, our
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great grandmother, lived with our grandmother, and so whenever they
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needed all of us kids to be quiet, they would
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sit us in a room with our great grandmother and
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she would tell us ghost stories. And she would tell
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stories that she told for true and when you're four
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and five and six years old, I mean, she could
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hold a whole room full of youngsters just we'd be enthralled.
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make the hair on the back of your next stand
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up with her stories. And I think ever since then,
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I have just been interested in everything paranormal. I think
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that mine are more ghostly, not cryptids. Not aliens, but
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more you know, paranormal in that regard ghosts and knocking spirits.
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She would tell us stories about knocking spirits and just
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different things like that. So that was kind of my gateways.
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Good all right, Ryan, Well mine's a little bit different.
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I had to like very you know, a lot of
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mine in Rondo's experiences were very similar because I said,
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the same grandmother, the same type of family. But it
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really caught me into it. This is a little bit
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more on the darker side of it. Well, when I
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was four, you know, I was visiting family in Missouri,
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and you know, we've done the little Hey, we're sleeping
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on the floor, Just throw some mattresses down or sorry,
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happened to wake up three o'clock in the morning. Every
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light in the house is off. It's a two story house.
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And I wake up and the Exorcist is off. So
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I look up. I'm four years old. I see Linda
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Blair's hair spinning around, and you know, that mortified me.
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and they always try to scare you, you know, it gets
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you to be quiet. Oh, trying to you know, don't
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want to upstairs, room on the left. Whatever. Then so
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it terrified me for a while, and I'm like, okay,
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well I'm scared of it because I don't know about it.
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So then I start doing more research. And then once
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you start going down that rabbit hole, then you start