Ghostly Moments (Compilation)

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In front of me? Is there a window in front of you or something? No. Right. Are you referring to this? Yeah, I saw a shadowy figure. What is? What is going on? It looks like a window and someone's walking by it. What is that? I'm in a basement. Let's be very clear about this. I'm in a basement. This is a TV that's off that is reflective, but what it usually reflects is my monitors. And I just saw that. Yeah, you saw that to someone walked by. You could see my hand in the monitor, right? You could see like right here when I- Yeah, our angle I can't, but I believe you. I swear, something walked by. I saw that because you made me look at it right with that- It looked like- What is that? What is that? What? I saw it. What is it? I'm in a basement. Oh, man! What's happening? My monitors are all static, except for your images right now. Good luck putting that in a YouTube short editor's. Man, Bob, if this is a prank, it's a good one. Dude, those are the prank, I'm pranking my own selfie or two. What the fuck is happening? Hey, I'll give you 20 bucks to stare in front of this light while I'm recording an episode and just walk back and forth. I'm in a basement. There are like basement windows, but there's no way that they reflect- That's what's reflecting because they're covered by horizontal slats. It keeps happening. Man, it didn't mean to derail your episode, but- Yeah. No fucking idea what that- What's reflecting right now in that top part, like what is that green line? I don't know. Watch right here, right? You can see my hand shadow right there. That's my hand in front of my monitors. What is up? Wait, I can obstruct that. Yeah. I don't have an explanation for that. I think there's someone hiding behind your monitor. I think that's the only thing. The only other thing in my office that emits light is I have a- Over there up high, I have a computer, but it's purple. It's all purple lighting inside my computer. It's not green. All the listeners are shaking their steering wheel. Listeners, there's a TV that looks like someone's moving in front of a reflection in it. There you go, you're welcome. It honestly looks like someone is walking back and forth in front of the reflection. I'm alone in a basement. I don't know what to tell you. Are you? Okay, I hope so. I don't know. Oh! They walked the other way. It did go the other way. I saw that. If a face appears and stays there, maybe we'll talk to it. Maybe that'll be the episode. I don't like that. I don't like that. Oh! This is not a big thing, but it's preparation. Okay. So the day the mountains fall, I want you all to close your eyes, okay? Imagine, imagine, imagine, imagine, imagine, imagine, imagine. I went searching for the truth, and like a fool, I found it, but some truths are best left undiscovered. Well, I turned around, and there was, I was bigger than I could imagine. The hikers claimed that when they turned around, it seemed as though their friend had simply vanished when I turned around. My whole farm was gone, hope that even does, when I turned around, I couldn't miss that. I would never see. This is morbid mysteries of the missing millennium. Viewer discretion is advised. If I swallowed this right now and die, will you give me the point? That's at worth at least two points, I guess, yeah? Everyone pull over to the side of the road. You got to watch this one. Oh, I'm dead. That's two points to mark, I guess. Jesus, I'm getting railroaded here, man. Well, thankfully, he can't compete for any more points now, right? If he comes back to life, he loses the two points just to be clear. Okay. Anyway, interesting discussion, I think. Hey, what's up, guys? Back from the afterlife here. Want to finish this episode out strong. I'm going to cross out dead and take those two points away real quick. Can I get one point? I'm a ghost, man. All right, I'll give you one ghost point. Okay, cool. Here, my echo. You've always seen everything. I don't do any of this. Just make him live with what he's done. No, please. I sign your checks. That's not even true. None of us sign shit. You're right, but I could call the person who does. I know them too. I have their number two. I'll call them and tell them not to listen to Mark. You don't even worry about it. All right. Fine. We have to talk about a very important topic. I want you to use science. I want you to use mysticism. I want you to use personal beliefs regardless of facts shown to you. I want you to use whatever methods necessary for you to discuss the important topic of our ghost's real. No, final answer. All right, episode over. All right. Thank you, everybody. Mark wins because he answered first. Thank you for listening to the podcast. Make sure that you watch it on Spotify. No, well, so we can talk about this from several different perspectives. Getting number one that I have that I enjoy is ghost hunting, both the TV shows that exist around ghost hunting and the actual devices that you use to go ghost hunting like EMF readers and talk boxes or whatever they're called and all the different little tools that you use to try and detect the presence of ghost. All that stuff is very entertaining and hilarious and bunk. Do you guys believe in any of that stuff that it works that it means anything? No. No, it is interesting that they would believe that it does because if you, even if you watch this of the show, the EMF thing with like the radio where it cycles through and it grabs like, it'll be like a word came through and I'm like, yeah, you're going through radio signal, the spirit box, the spirit box, EMF's the little light that I'm like electromagnetic field detector. But it's just so funny to me because it's like, yeah, this thing, what it does is it cycles through the radio frequencies that are passing through. Yeah, it picks up words that are broadcast into this realm. But what happens whenever you ask a question like, what do you want and you hear Apple? And it's like, clearly the ghost wants an Apple and you hear, my hips, laugh and it's like a daring Lauren, I heard that. I used to watch those ghost hunting shows quite a bit, they're very funny. They're so entertaining. They are edited in a way that just never gets to a conclusion ever and it's like straight through the, like it goes up to the commercial break. It's not even a cliffhanger. It's just a constantly building like, and then this happened. They circle back to the same clip of like a little dot going through with a circle on it and then the circle's bigger and then it closer to the circle and it's like, that can stretch that up for 10 minutes and the sound, dude, the sound stingers they use. Oh my god. It's a black and white infrared shot of a door that's already open that just goes. And then I saw that the door was open, show the clip again, and I don't remember opening the door and they put it in the squeak sound effect. Yeah. I love those shows like, no, and it's like a Dane cook joke to some of those two and they'll be in a room and they'll the door will move or whatever thing falls over. And they're like, Gary, Gary was downstairs, Gary, come up here. Gary's got the EMF, Gary, come up here a minute and a half ago. Did you get anything? Well, yeah, no, I got like a three, like a three out of five on this reader thing. Why did something happen up here? You got a three out of five. It's like, they're all through the house and it's like, I was in the basement using the dividing rods. You were in the upstairs with the dolls. I don't know why because it's also painfully boring because you just know you watch a show. You know the formula and you're like, after the commercial, they're just going to come back and circle back to that one thing that happened. But I have to see it because I want to see the mall get so excited about it. All right. So this has happened a couple of times in my life. But specifically last night, we were in a hotel. We just got back from traveling today. Last night at like 11.30 p.m., isn't too late, but we have a baby. So he was already asleep for a couple hours at this point at 11.30 p.m. Some like kids, some like middle school kids were staying in the hotel, I think, but they just slammed our door. Like we were staying in a hotel. The door was locked with all the extra security locks. And we're just sitting, man, and I were sort of laying in bed like talking kind of falling asleep. And it was just like, you're like, I heard feet footsteps starting away, right? Like I know that a human did it. But that should have happened to be multiple times. How many people slammed doors in hotels? All right. Just really unlucky. That's never happened to me. It was scary. I've had noisy people in a hotel, but I think they've ever slammed into my door. The box is waving at us, everybody. Hi, box. That's horrifying. What is happening to that box? Hi, box. Hi. Okay. You stay back there. Don't talk to me while we're recording. That'd be great footage. I don't like that. Man, he's actually just off screen right now just doing that at some point. He's just going to launch it out. Tackle me. Okay. So, um, hi. Welcome to Distractions. I assume that he has started already. When when did we start the haunted box really through me? We're not gonna talk about why that's doing that. If you're watching this on Spotify, you're seeing it But you're seeing it and like just you got really squint and hold your phone really close up to your face That's probably small on your phone. It's fine. Time. Don't worry about it. Totally fine. We'll won't zoom in on that or anything at any point It's it's just not a big deal. You were right. Thank you for admitting it. I thought I thought that we were just having a goof and it was just a joke for an episode our new house It's haunted Our new house so my Mandy's parents live 20 minutes away from our new house, right? So we're it's in Ohio. We still we're still in California right now So they're like watching the place right they go over there the new house is haunted and the new the new house We don't live in yet is already haunted. They go over there and they like make sure everything's good Make sure you know, whatever make they just check on the house just to make sure and so this is the garage Let's just show on my phone while that's hideous. There we go. This is like a hatch like into the attic of the garage, right? Yeah, they went over there one day and they sent us they like panic send us some text messages and we're like something Something moved in the house. We think someone's been in the house. I can't we can't tell it's weird It doesn't seem like then he know there's no break in but look Look they sent that like a week ago maybe or we a while ago now and on that day they sent that and we were like What the hell did the previous owners like leave something in the attic in the garage and they came back and broke into the house Like they had a key or something and got in or what I like We don't know like what happened but for those listening at home. Sorry listeners Good idea Mark. I wouldn't even tell them the first picture was like, you know It's that attic access so you push up on it and it slides It's just a big piece of wood and then you climb in the hole into the attic the first picture was closed and sealed Mm-hmm the second picture was slightly a skew with gaps where I could see the darkness beyond But it looks like so I correct me if I'm wrong It looks like in order to move it you have to lift up and twist it This isn't just a panel that like can shift on it so it used to be push up right? It's supposed to be set into a thing where you push up and it goes into the attic Yes, so it looks like like my first thought was okay a raccoon or something But a raccoon's getting across it wouldn't lift it up necessarily unless they dug at it right Yeah, and there is a ladder in the garage according to our Parents they they they left a ladder or something. I think they went back to the house today It's the same hatch more tilted open. Oh did they reset it when they saw it last time? No, so this is on the ceiling of like a pretty high garage right the garage is like 12 foot It's like a tall garage door, so they couldn't reach it and and they're not trying to climb up on a ladder or something They just so they left it from the they left it in this condition here where it's very slightly tilted open That was a like a week ago wish that's a while ago. They went back today and it's open by like a few more inches It's way more open your your reflections are showing in my phone. Hey guys. How's it go? I can see the latency. So the house is haunted you bastards. That's haunted. That is haunted. It doesn't look light It looks like it's got some weight to it. No, it's like made a wood. It's got a metal like around the edge It's just metal for like the seal got a handle on it It looks like it would it wouldn't be like hard to open But you would have to climb up a ladder and like And move it out of the way to get into the attic that thing's gonna be out and following and breaking on the floor soon So it's either a ghost or someone lives in that attic. I That's what I thought it was if I'm honest. I thought they sold the house and didn't tell Crenfield the guy who lives in the attic and then like he came out for his monthly trip to the grocery store It was like guys. Oh no. Oh god. They forgot about Crenfield So 4th of July I went over to my mom's and we like my family came over We had like a little get together for 4th of July and we had a weird event where we were sitting around talking and One of my like mom and sisters dogs went and like was chewing on They grow like their own like herbs and vegetables and stuff in their backyard and the dog went like started chewing on one of those and like Mid-sentence like we were talking my mom and my sister my mom just starts yelling jalapeno jalapeno jalapeno and we're like okay, we were talking about like cameras mom What the hell what just happened and she's like well, it's hot. That's like excuse me It's what we yell to the dogs to get them to stop eating stuff They're not supposed to because jalapenos are hot and I was like you trained them on the jalapeno a four syllable word to Sell them to stop or hot and they're like well, no, we didn't train them So why do you yell jalapeno? It's the dog knows jalapenos are spicy and the dogs don't like spicy food But the dog doesn't know jalapeno It's just as fucking shocked as we are that my mom goes from talking calmly normally to screaming jalapeno Like she's being murdered in the backyard. We trained our dog to react to me screaming nonsense words out of nowhere very Stereically, it always works because it's just so shocking my mom would be like oh, yeah, that's cool And I thought she was being possessed by a demon because do we do an episode since I went ghost hunting? No No, when you went ghost hunting. Yeah, I did go ghost hunting. I don't know if that video will be out yet We're actually waiting on a cameo from a Expert in the field that fully edit the video look forward to that, but I went ghost hunting down at Bob Mackeys Which is a new port Kentucky. It's like a bar that has a history of like being owned by the mob and people being Interrogated in the basement and other such events. We went down there and filmed some stuff and nobody would do the Ouija board with me except for Delive everybody was afraid like even non-believers were like Ouija board which I don't get it. What is so special about a Ouija like you'll get a spirit box You'd be like ghosts show yourself. Give me pinch me suck my balls ghost punch me ghost But if you touch a Ouija board, you're like what is your name? They're like oh don't ask that not on a Ouija board That's and the Ouija board like says fucking Parker brothers on the bottom So it's a goddamn kids toy, but for some reason it's the scariest ghost hunting device and I don't understand it It's cuz they're real Wade. Okay, the rest of that stuff is technological Google gobble Ouija boards are made of wood and like plastic and glass and whatever and it's just real It's just the spirit's reaching out and sending you a message. Okay, people are walking around with their holy water their cameras They're EMF readers all the other devices and they're like ghost pinch me Throw a table at me do something and I'm like what year were you born? They're like, oh you're fucking fool That's a Ouija board so we wrap up and we're coming home and I was like hey, can you guys carry this out? I was like packing up equipment. I was like trying to get someone to carry the Ouija board No, no one would touch it. My sister wouldn't wait out this and she was like I'm not taking that back home with me because it was their Ouija board. She's like you can have it So I brought the Ouija board back and now I own a Ouija board that everyone thinks is possessed by a demon and when my mom started fucking screaming Howl a pain you I was like oh my god They were right she possessed you look over at the window and the Ouija board is pressed up against the window And the thing is just frantically pointing it. Yes, the Ouija board is all yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah But that was the only thing that could possibly have explained Howl a pain you told she was told me what that was going on But ghost hunting man is it more expensive than I thought and it's like four or five hours of being in a fairly uncomfortable building Uncomfortablely with not much happening Maybe it's because you got a cheap Parker brothers one and not an actual authentic I thought that was authentic. Is there a is there a brand of authentic Ouija board real Ouija boards are hand-cuned by Montsu or Ouija himself obviously they only come from the Ouija part of branch. Yeah, everyone knows that you were using a sparkling board That joke really lead It's the same board that we use for Drown Man. Oh, well, then you know it works. Yeah, that's extra cursed So you're going to burn that house down now that you moved into the new one the fiery man I don't want to be the fiery man, please don't wish that upon me. Yeah. Oh, no, no. What's other disasters? Funniest what what's disaster would be funniest to befall you the gas leak man Dude, I just had propane work done. Don't wish that upon me the carbon monoxide poisoning man The bad grading man all the water is gonna drain right up against your foundation. Oh Your basement's gonna be so moist the sinkhole man. Ooh, that sounds stature. No, oh the other ones are safe Yeah, probably I don't know. I don't like any of this shit for the record. You know, it's gonna be cursed as your car You ever get a car that's where it's gonna be well. I've beat them to the punch if you don't have when they can't curse semi-man the crashed man the crushed man. Well, that sounds violent. Oh, yeah, the the fired man sounds so less violent You can run away from a fire if you Yeah, if you're crushed, what are you gonna do? Uncrush yourself? I don't know. Yeah, all the people that have died in fires, they just didn't run fast enough. Yeah, 80 hits. Obviously, you just run away from it. Fire can't be that fast. Billy, silly. I have something I want to play for you. Have you ever felt the chill up your spine? I don't know, man. Something just feels off. Like you know, there's something standing right behind you. But you just can't turn around. Cut it out, man. You're giving me the creeps. What if I told you that the world was stranger than you could ever possibly imagine? I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I don't believe in ghosts. But something just feels weird. Welcome to unusual oddities of an unreal understanding. I enjoy the reference back that turned it around and goes. View discretion is enough. Of course. People of you that interrupt that. I put so much work into that and you just interrupted? Yes. Interrupt the 15-second interlude in the song? Well, cut him out. Yeah, yeah, cut him out of there. No, Amy was literally like, oh, I got that gap. They're gonna start talking and they're gonna think it's over. Well, yeah, there isn't necessarily long pause. That whole is 50 seconds long. I don't know why in that song. I made that literally in between the break. I told you I was gonna get food. I skipped food to make that. I don't know, man. You're like a sweet man. Oh my god, they never miss. Mark, how did that such a skill you possessed? They literally all bangers. I don't understand. It cards on the table. I found this in a cracked article titled the seven most ridiculous ghost stories from around the world. And I read it passively while I was brainstorming ideas for this episode. But I came across this ghost and I had to tell you all about the hauntute to tech. There's a great apparition ghost, some say a witch, a bolognese witch with an unimaginably enormous rack. And this ghost's purpose is only to float around and smother disobedient young men to death with her shocking bosoms. Guys might hear that and be like, "Pff, all right, if I have to die." This is not like some anime fantasy girl is gonna show up and come fulfill all your dreams or whatever. Hauntute hot techs are described in a lot of ways. Generally, they're described as being very large or extremely obese to crept it looking like deathly old woman sort of look. But the real absolute banger of all of this is the hilariously large fun bags are in the spookiest location, not in the front where regular boobs go. They're located on the ghost's back. Yes, the spookiest place to have boobs, obviously. That's terrifying. Back boobs sound kinda nice to me. But anyway, this ghost comes from Malaysian culture and actually recently had quite the stir up in February of 2021. Had quite the come up on Twitter. I have no idea what inspired this person to do this, but they posted some sketches of what they thought this ghost looked like. Twitter couldn't decide if they were gonna be horny about it or terrified about it. And they basically went with both. A lot of the responses were due to just being like, "Oh, how do I summon a little hotute tech? I want some of this in my. " And a lot of them were like, "I would not mess with this ghost." That's not terrifying. Is it really actually gonna be able to physically interact with you? It seems to suggest it might be some sort of poltergeist instead of just a ghost. Yeah, I mean, the descriptions are vague. This is an old. It comes from Malaysia. I am not Malaysian. I don't know if you can tell. For my appearance or, you know, all the information you know about me. But like, it's hard to find a lot online. I'll show you all of the links I found online. I will put in the discord so you can look who knows how it uses the boobs to suffocate you. I don't want to find out. Being crushed to death is not a good, serious tribute. Okay, never mind. I would deduct points from you. We all gonna go some time, man. If you're gonna go, you might as well enjoy it. No, that's the exact logic that the stupid people are getting. You're getting crushed to death. This doesn't matter if it's between backmams or five minutes. I survived 2020. Maybe I'll survive the back boobs too, you never know. And just like, I don't get how that's an appealing death. What is an appealing death? You're getting smushed between the humongoid movies. So I will say, you guys, I don't know what pictures you've looked up exactly. Let me find the one. This website has some good imagery that really might swing your opinion about. It's not an English. And I couldn't get it to translate. It's from the way back machine. But there are some images that I feel like might really swing your opinion about whether or not you want to get a smothered to death by those big old headlights. The top ones, little more childish, little cartoony. But if you get to the bottom there, you really get more to the meat of what I think a haunt you to tech looks like. Because anime has taught us that boobs grow as like spheres on there. Perfectly spherical. We all know this. Not how boobs work. I had to break it to you. I've never seen anything quite like that though. They really are like scarves or like snakes even. See, the problem is like, I disagree fundamentally that bigger is always better when it comes to boobs. And to be perfectly honest, I am a. I shouldn't just be making big declaratives about judgment of boobs in general. Hey, I agree with your disagreement. I think that any size can be very nice. I'm gonna get myself in trouble, man. I'm a married man. Well, I didn't say bigger. Bigger may not be better, but I didn't say bigger was worse. You know what I mean? I agree. I don't. I think it. Each titty deserves to be judged on its own merits. Yeah. When a titty's have to be judged. Why are you judging? Yeah, why are they getting judged? It's like a. It's always positive, just fuck, fuck. I'm in trouble. Go ahead. So, this is an interesting topic. It stirs a lot of different emotions about general horniness, a general discussion of death, but death in a way that sort of comical, but does that make it better. The thing that I find really messed up about this saggy specter, got to work in my name. Nice, nice. At least to some extent, it comes from my understanding. It comes from parents using this to scare their young male children into behaving themselves. This isn't just like some goat, like I could totally imagine. Someone creative coming up with this character, some adult or whatever. Someone over, you know, teenager, older coming up with this. And be like, "Ah, big tits and stuff. It's a scary, funny ghost." This was used by adults to influence children. And like, I was a young boy once, right? And if my parents had described the giggity ghost to me as being very old and grotesque and scary looking with back boobies that was confusing, I would probably be scared. But like, young boys are really horny. And I would definitely, at least, have toyed around with the idea of like, "How much do I misbehaved?" So just get a little threatening smush without actually being smothered to death. Like, where's the line? Just get slapped with one tit, you know? Like, it's a tough slap, but you know, it's more disciplinary. This puts you a picture and discord of something I found about the huntoutatec. Yeah, might lean a little more on the horse. I know this. That one, I definitely know what, that one would be one that would work. That's the horse. Yeah, when it's 50% nipple and yeah. If you're listening at home, you can find maybe, find this on the Distractable Podcast website. Either that or we will do a faithful recreation of it. Or it won't exist at all. Unless we don't need a special license to post it, I don't know. Exactly. But yeah, no, that doesn't look good. Sidebar, there's a whole discussion to be had of like, the sexualization of breasts in general, you know, the stigma behind it and all that stuff. But for you guys, not even the nice pictures do anything for me. I don't look at this picture and I'm like, "Well, maybe, if I saw this and I wasn't sure it was just a person that needed help, I would be running and screaming as fast and as loud as I possibly could." Yeah, I don't think this is exactly what I would be fantasizing about ever. I mean, I think you're right, but also like, your parents describe this to you or maybe you see it. And I think I agree. I would not see an image of any of these things in real life and be like, "Yeah, let's see where this goes." Sorry, this is my last one, but I gotta work it in. I would come upon this flabbergasted fad to has him. That's another point, man. That's another point, yeah. And I would be absolutely shocked and running like you're describing. But in my mind, like, this is, you know, it's kind of embarrassing to think about and admit, but in my mind, I know I would have fantasies about this. You can't throw something that like sexual and, I mean, it's not sexual, but the boobs, like, at least in the culture I came up in, it was a worse sexual though. And everything was like this weird, I would twist it into a fantasy of like, "Oh, yeah, that's pretty hot, actually." Like, you know, that's how young boys' minds work. And maybe part of this is that Malaysian culture is different. - Maybe boobs are not as sexualized by the culture. Maybe it's a whole different thing. Maybe this is terrifying and I just don't understand it. It's possible. But I just think that would have made it for some really messed up childhood like fantasies and thought experience. It's just a weird angle to go for keeping kids in line. This gotta be better ghosts and things to you as to scare your kids into behaving right. - But wait, here, ready to pick it back up and bring it back. - I'm looking at this like wheel of emotions and they've got different colors associated with them. The three main colors are like red, yellow and blue but red, yellow and blue are kind of somewhat closer together. And then they've got green across from red, which is a little bit weird. And for the life of me, I cannot figure out why in the world it's designed that way. It's then having red, yellow and blue equidistant from each other. And I'm just curious why green gets like two shades of green and a light blue. Red and blue just have one peak between them. Red and yellow just have one orange between them. And I don't know why green gets so much love on this place. - Are you trying to distract me, is it? - Huh? - What do you mean? (laughing) - Oh, is that on the list? That's crazy. - I've never been more focused on anything in my entire life. Are you kidding me? - Oh my God. For those who weren't watching, for that moment, there's no words I could describe. - Except yes, I have words to describe that. - Oh, sorry, my little weird paper towel ball. (laughing) - Yeah, I'll try and describe it, Lister's wage set with his face barely in the shot. And that's why he sounded so distant. And then he was just waving a weird crumpled up paper towel in and out of the other side of the shot. The whole time he was talking about the colors. - Oh, man. Mark said this was the best episode ever. I had to give it my all to do. - I don't like to admit it to anyone, but yes, I paid this man $60 to come to my house so I could smell his fingers on my birthday. - Oh, did you? - Yes, three separate times I smelled this man's fingers. - Three times, that's the little strange. - And none of the times that his fingers smell like maple syrup. They were bad, it got away from bad to worse. - The mystery thickens. - You know, and there were only two pipes you rubbed on, so I really, I honestly, I swear to God, I don't know what the third one was that I smelled, but they were all bad. - I don't mean to say it, but have you thought about a Canadian ghost? Like, I hadn't. - There are a lot of Canadian ghost refugees in Ohio. - Are you, are you as your house on a Canadian burial ground? Is this like, I just gotta ask. - Yes, people do, they have their pilgrimage from Canada to Cincinnati to bury their loved ones, where I live quite often. - I feel it. - I had an experience in Phasmaphobia the other day. So Phasmaphobia, I did this new map and new game mode. I did Nightmare Mode, a new map called the campsite. And in the campsite, there's this campfire. And sitting by the campfire is just like an acoustic guitar, laying against like one of the chairs. And immediately all I could think of is like, mm, campfire guitar guy, don't wanna be campfire guitar guy, don't wanna be that one guy. And something this ghost, what the ghost name was, but one of the audio clues is the figure out where it was. It randomly played the guitar, like it just strummed it. So I heard the guitar play. And I was like, you gotta be fucking kidding me. We actually have a campfire guitar guy ghost. And I jokingly said that it was a yokai. And yokai's are the ghosts that get angry and are more likely to hunt if you're talking and using your microphone. It can hear you and it gets more agitated and more likely to hunt. And I said that because I was like, well, if there's one thing that campfire guitar guy doesn't want to do when people are talking while they're trying to steal the show and have all eyes on them. And it ended up being a yokai. But it made me think of that one guy campfire guitar guy. Not the point he fingers anybody that I know, but I do know a couple of campfire guitar guys that carried around guitars or carry around guitars. And not necessarily did it for the whole same reasons as the stereotype, but I definitely think of like, you know, you watch a movie and there's a stereotypical guy that, you know, people are sitting on the beach and they're all having a fun conversation. Someone's just like, oh, by the way, we play Wonderball for you and they pull out their acoustic guitar out of nowhere and everyone has to stop talking and just put their eyes on campfire guitar guy who was miraculously not wearing a shirt, you know, hair drooped down to their shoulders, muskily playing their guitar. And everyone's just like, well, we were talking and having a good time. I guess we'll just stare at you now. And I got that ghost in Phasmaphobia, but that's another that one guy. No campfire guitar guys. I've never experienced that in real life ever. No, you talk about campfire guitar guy way more than anyone has ever experienced campfire guitar guy 'cause I know this is a thing that you tell your campfire guitar guy talking about campfire guitar guy guy. You literally mentioned campfire guitar guy. He's playing any turn. I remember when I was trying to, I was playing the guitar like for the tour and I was like, yeah, I'm trying to improve them better myself and you're like, oh, here comes campfire guitar guy. Was this guitar? I think he just hate people that play guitar. I might, maybe. I think I do. Whoa. Jesus, I shouldn't have put my desk up in standing, but I was just fucking fell over. Oh my God. This image is a guy with his hands up in fist form with his chin resting, eyes closed, and the fart genie is leaving his armpit. Yeah, imagine the statue of the thinker. Yeah. The man is pulling a double thinker. Why is he grabbing his head like that? Once the make sure he doesn't look back here and see what's going on, you know? (laughing) Keep that in, dude. This guy's like, you don't want to see what I'm not to do, bro. (laughing) Oh, wow. I feel like this one's such a peculiar image. It must be obvious. It's the most trash bag like ghost I've ever seen. (laughing) It's like someone saw one of those online tutorials like all you need is some chicken wire and paper mache, and you can make a ghost decoration for your front yard for Halloween. And then they tried to make it and they got this. Maybe it's the angle, but like the face of the ghost does not look like it could possibly be this dude's face. This gave me an idea 'cause I'm going to get back to learning Korean as soon as I'm done with this freaking movie. These would be great for flashcards. These would be great for flashcards for Korean. Yeah. Because for flashcards, what's really good if you have image flashcards is getting images that are memorable but also completely unique. I don't think that there's anything more unique than this. And if you can even relate, even somehow relate it to a word or a sentence. This would be very good for the. All right, I'm gonna, I'm gonna place you, tell me if you hear it. (dramatic music) - This is something snowed. - Ah, off to you. - It's too loud? - It's a little loud, but yeah, I do hear it. (laughing) - Back up, pretend you didn't hear that. (laughing) - All right, here we go. Ready? - You ready? - No, don't do it again. - This is something snowing. (laughing) - To you, hey, do you smell something? - Well, that's a weird smell. I don't know what it is. - Have you ever felt the chill run up your spine? - It was like something sat me on the shoulder, but when I turned the lamp, get ready to forget everything you know about everything. - Guys, I'm still smelling something weird. - A whole city of people just turning round and round. - I just knew it. - All right, if someone doesn't say they're smelling, I'm smelling, I swear, I'm, oh my gosh. - What happened to the moon? - You expect me to believe we're surrounded by gases that we cannot see. - I know what clouds look like. - These are clouds. - Welcome to the show that was formally known as Don't Look Up, but we were sued by some dumb ass in a movie studio. This is, it's in the air. (laughing) - So, when I told you I was late 'cause I was working on a thing. (laughing) - Look, it's so good. - That's great. - Sorry, it was so loud. I tried to do a hack to get it to play for you. - Yeah, Mark was late to the recording today 'cause he was working on this. I think I'm understanding why iron lungs take you a lot. (laughing) - Damn. - Look, guys, I'm not gonna lie. - He spent three days on this. (laughing) - So, I'm not gonna lie. I spent so long working on this this morning. I didn't come up with an idea for the episode. (laughing) - I didn't this. 'Cause I was like, "Oh, I'm gonna bring "the small thing during small talking." This will be a funny way to do it 'cause I haven't done one this a while. And I had a bunch of problems with the software 'cause I haven't done it on this computer in a while. And so I had to hit or reinstall the benchy and all my software or so. (laughing) - Anyway, did you? (laughing) That admission actually gave me a headache. My brain could not comprehend this. - You'll never guess what I'm googling right now. - You trying to figure out what gravity is? What is this? (laughing) - He's like apparition. - Welcome to the first sushi restaurant in space. You won't have no gravity here. You'll be eating your sushi floating through the air. I got the ghost of. Sato Takahashi here. A real dead apparition to cook you your sushi. Not a lot of cookin' go on. Mostly just cuts it up. But he's good for a ghost. And you're gonna be good for paying money for this fish. It gets sent up with a catapult in space. Flash frozen in an instant right into our back door. You get sushi from the water to your mouth. All in the first sushi restaurant in space. Come with your friends. You never leave. Teacher stick and action. - Are you tired of ghosts in your kitchen? - Trying to be dinner, but they're on a mission. - If you and your friends, what piece like we do? - It was like we gotta try our new ghost trap. We're ready to assist you. - Do you have apparitions in your kitchen? causing you quite a stir. Well, we have the new apparition trap ready for you. It uses a gravity-based system that lures them in and we have learned a very unusual secret that ghosts are attracted to dead fish. Therefore, we use sushi as a bait. We place it on the trap, the ghosts fly over, grab the sushi, the gravity well sucks them in and they're put in the trap. Bringing you peace, and you don't have to leave the dinner table to catch them and you can enjoy your meal. Call us today. Who wears the people on the side? You don't know that reference? What, does no one hear no references? That was the Ghostbusters, bit. That was the Ghostbusters. When they're on the TV, they're commercial. We are ready to believe you. I don't think I've ever actually seen Ghostbusters. What? I have to do the rest of this episode in this call. Oh, it's broken closet. All right. This is my curse, bye. No, no, no, no. People in the closet aren't cursed. That's not how that works. Oh, God, how ghost. Oh, my God, these guys actually got away. No, no, not actually. I don't have object permanence, so I'm scared. Oh, I'm a, that gave me chills, though. I'm really not, I'm like, where did you fucking go? What the fuck is that? Mark, I need a borrow on your tape. Ooh. No, oh, my God, you can have it. Jesus Christ, where'd he go? Oh, no, my God, what's it going? It was a ghost hand. This is why we're the top 50, in the top 50 of Best Podcasts in the world. This right here is why. Are we still there? Are we still top 50? Oh, yeah, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I'll take the win. And the fuck did I just hear? What's happening in everyone else's locations today? What? Uh-huh. He's just leaving. I heard what sounded like someone crawling on all fours down my hallway. That's such a specific sound. How would you know that sound? It's like a slidy, slappy noise. Slidy, slappy? I might be about to get some arid. Well, I'm going to keep the recording rolling then. I don't want to leave the camera. Theory, theory. I'm scared of everything. It's because I have a phantasia. I can't imagine what anything looks like. So while I'm experiencing things, as soon as I have it in my head, it's like, oh, there's a ghost, but then in my head, I'm like, what, what, what does a ghost look like? Which one's a ghost? What's it, and then in real life, my body is like, oh, we don't know. It could be anything, 'cause I don't know what it is. It's just a feeling, and the feeling is fear. That's interesting, it's interesting, thought, though. Maybe, because if everything's always unknown to you, 'cause you can't picture it, that's. What does it go smell like? I imagine bad, but it's hard to say. In an age where digital content reigns supreme, mysterious audio series emerges, captivating minds within anigmatic themes and challenging narratives, but behind the allure lies a shadow organization with a hidden agenda. As listeners become unwitting participants in a clandestine experiment, ethical boundaries or shatters in lives are irrevocably altered. Unbeknownst to them, select individuals are identified for their psychic potential. Drawing into advanced studies from which some never return. As desperate families and anonymous insiders come forward, the question arises, how did a seemingly innocuous form of entertainment become a conduit for something so dark and dangerous? Well, it all lies in the person at the center of these events. The eye of the storm that is the whirlpool of darkness and dismay. I would like to start with some quotes that pertain to the event from people that were affected directly. Quote from Sarah Williams. I was a regular listener of Distractable, but things changed when they sent me a cryptic email after I submitted my reactions to one of their special episodes. It was as if they were probing not just for my opinions, but for something deeper, something inexplicable. I didn't sign them to be a lab rat's way unsubscribed. Still, it makes you wonder what they're really after. Another sad after I responded to a prompt in a Distractable episode. They sent me an invite for what they called phase two. I was curious, so I agreed. The next episode was different, intense, disorienting, seemingly spinning off in random circles, covering topics they already talked about in weeks, sometimes years before. I had nightmares, and then I started seeing things, shadows, flashes of images that weren't there. Whatever they were doing, it's not just a podcast anymore. It's something darker, and I want no part of it. At the core of all this is one man, one man, above all else. Bob Meisken's host of the popular podcast Distractable is, in fact, a cover for a sinister government operation known as Project Distraction. The podcast, Bob seems to talk about random, unrelated topics, but in reality, he's subtly planting seeds of doubt and distrust in the minds of his listeners. It's all a psychological experiment, aimed with identifying potential recruits for the organization. I'm here to expose the truth about a way, would you? Imagine setting your makeup? Then forgetting it's even theirs. Gel to mist technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours, with flexible all-day comfy grip. Maybe it's Mavily. Like, tribute. I've found some information that I found to be very intriguing that I don't know if Mark if this corroborates what you found, or if this is its own thing. I have found evidence from, what was the name of the person? Did you say Sarah Williams? Yeah, Sarah Williams. Okay, this other is the same Sarah Williams or a different Sarah Williams. That's also got information from Sarah Williams. All the same. Suggesting that there are either two, he's living a double life or he has a twin, he's never revealed. While the well-known version of Bob My Skins is a well-known YouTuber and gaming content creators primarily known for his gaming videos and collaboration with their content creators, Sarah Williams, box of the same person, an entirely different set of circumstances, and I actually have her testimony. Sarah Williams is an investigative journalist with a passion for unraveling mysteries and is an avid fan of My Skirm's gaming adventures and content. She heard some rumors floating around that there was a Robert My Skins, a scientist and inventor. He was doing all kinds of like ungodly, horrible deeds in the town of, let me see what it was, Pixelville. He was known for and wide as My Skirm, a name that since shivers down the spines of those who heard it. My Skirm had a reputation for being a recluse. He resided in a grand ancient mansion on the outskirts of town and mentioned it seemed to hold secrets of centuries past. Some said it was cursed while others believed it was filled with hidden treasures. The town's focus were tales of ghostly apparitions and unexplained phenomena surrounding the mansion, fueling the curiosity and fear of the locals. One fateful day, a young and brave journalist, Sarah, arrived determined to uncover the truth about My Skirm's ancient mansion. She believed there was more to the story than spooky legends circulating in the town. Her journey was fraught with obstacles, including skeptical town spoke who wanted her to stay away, but undeterred she persisted, researching old archives and interviewing those who dared speak about My Skirm. As she dealt deeper to the mystery, she discovered that he had once been a renowned inventor and scientist has mentioned how countless inventions many of which were years ahead of their time. One evening, she wrote, as a storm raged outside, I ventured into the mansion to determine to find the truth. I uncovered hidden rooms filled with mesmerizing gadgets, intricate blueprints and a journal detailing Bob's life's work. I realized that My Skirm had not been a recluse out of fear or malevolence, rather to protect his revolutionary creations from falling into the wrong hand. As I explored further, I encountered a holographic projection of Bob himself, and this hologram he explained the dedicated life to advancing technology for the betterment of humanity. He remained hidden to safeguard his inventions and ensure they would only be revealed when the world was ready for their potential. I asked, "What about your public persona, your gaming content, your streamed?" Who was he replied, "Oh, I'm not prepared to talk about that." Where you see, "That's not me." As soon as it began, the hologram ended, leaving Sarah confused, wondering, "What did he meet?" Were there two Bob's? Was it one Bob? Did he have a twin? And such a lot is left to our imaginations. - Yeah, I've got to actually, I think I corroborate that perfectly because there's an anonymous insider from the organization that this mysterious Bob was running that is trying to expose the truth. They said, "I worked or I worked or worked "within the organization behind distractable." The public needs to understand that this isn't just an experiment. It has real consequences. People have disappeared and not just figuratively. I can't reveal my identity for obvious reasons, but someone has to blow the whistle on this. Don't engage with their special episodes. Don't become another missing piece in their twisted puzzle. What I think is happening is it's a consciousness upload program where they're trying to get people to upload their consciousness and then use their corporeal forms as puppets that they can control the population. - So you think like the public persona version is forming an audience just to have sheep to lead to the slaughter, so to speak? - Absolutely. You upload the consciousness of the individual they can exist online, making content. They've never seen them in real life. It's pie-piper in them all into the machine's slaughter. - I feel like if we looked at certain points of Bob's career, we could probably pinpoint the progress. What he was uploading, how he was acting, where he was living. - Yeah. I think there's a lot of dots to be connected. And Sarah Williams is the key. - Yeah, I actually have another quote from Sarah Williams. I think it's her last one. So this is from a, this is a text transcription of an audio log that Sarah left behind on her final exploration. I've made it into a room that appears to be some sort of control center. There are monitors displaying real-time analytics of listener engagement, biometric data, even geolocation. It's not just a podcast. The data collection operation on a massive scale. And there's something else. Files marked phase three. I didn't open them. But the very existence is chilling. This isn't just unethical. It's organized, premeditated exploitation. I've gathered as much evidence as I can and I'm getting out of here before I'm discovered. What I've seen goes beyond mere speculation or conspiracy theory. It's organized manipulation with unknown but clearly dangerous aims. Whoever's behind this has resources, intelligence and a complete disregard for ethical boundaries. Listen, if you're tuning into that podcast or thinking about it, just stop. be another pawn in their game. I'll do everything in my power to expose him, but for now, stay safe and stay skeptical. People have disappeared. And the rest is just screaming." I tried to look up what happened to her, and what I got was Sarah Williams, the intrepid investigative journalist, had always been relentless in her pursuit of the truth, but when she got too close to a shadowy conspiracy, she mysteriously vanished without a trace, leaving behind a trail of clues and a haunting question that still lingers in the world of journalism. Kind of fits what her warning was all about. Absolutely. I think at the core of all this, we need to look more deeply into who this Robert is. Agreed. Also Bob points. So, listen, hey folks, that's all we have time for today on the Curious Conspiracy Corner. We've explored some wild theories to wacky ideas, maybe even venture to a bit too close to the edge of absurdity. Remember, conspiracy theories are meant for entertainment purposes, not for taking seriously. 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