GRANDMA'S MENTAL TELEPATHY AND OTHER STORIES

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Halloween is coming up yes and in mexico it's dia de los muertos yeah november

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2nd and and uh so on that holiday what do you do there's a uh,

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well we go to the cemetery to honor our dead.

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And some families like to stay and sleep. Well, they don't really sleep,

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but they're in the cemetery the entire night.

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They bring food and, you know, candles.

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It's like a party with the dead. The party with the dead, yes.

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But then you go, my mom used to tell me.

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You clean the grave. You clean the grave. And you put flowers.

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And you bring food for them and whatever their favorite drink is or whatever.

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Yeah. And you like pour the whiskey on the grave or whatever.

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Yeah, and they, well, tequila.

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Tequila, I mean. Of course it's tequila. I know.

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And my mom said she used to go, I don't know if they went into a cemetery,

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but she said that people were waiting, like crying for their death. Oh.

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They also put... Because we're very melodramatic. because of people. Ay, no, que diga chica.

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No, no, no. Now we sound Puerto Rican. I know, right?

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But we are so melodramatic. Yeah, we're very novelanate, you know?

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So I was thinking, since Day of the Dead, you honor the dead.

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Halloween, all that spooky stuff is coming up. So I was thinking about,

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um, talking about, um, our dead, the people who passed in our lives that we

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know, like, um, our grandmothers, grandmothers.

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And, oh yeah. Our grandmothers.

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Yeah. I have a freaky grandmother. I had a freaky grandmother.

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She was telepathic and I'm not just saying that bitch was telepathic. She, um.

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She was very close to my father, and she had to remarry because her first husband died.

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So when she remarried, she had daughters. And the new husband thought of my

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father as a bastard child and made him sleep outside. Like Cinderella.

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Just like Cinderella. Only he was a male version. Cinderella.

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And my grandmother and him were very tight, and they communicated to each other

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telepathically. And I saw evidence of this many times when I was a child because,

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she would call like a phone call. She didn't have a phone.

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She lived in a town with five houses, only five houses in the entire town.

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And there were no cell phones. Yeah, but they didn't even have landlines.

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They had no phones at all.

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Yeah, because there were only five houses in that community.

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Mountain Bell, which was the only phone company at the time,

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decided not to run lines to their houses. So Mountain Bell ran all the way into

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Mexico? I didn't know that.

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Mountain Bell. No, it was in Paltzburg.

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Paltzburg, Arizona. Okay. They lived in Arizona.

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It was Mexico. No, it was Mountain Bell. I remember everything was Mountain Bell.

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So anyway, she would send him messages like, I'm coming to visit you. I'm 20 minutes away.

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And he would tell us. like yeah she just she just told me she's you know she's

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20 minutes away or you know she just told me she's driving up the neighborhood

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street and there she would be and we would be like what and and i remember that's freaky yeah,

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yeah once um my mother was uh pregnant and uh i was i was still a baby um but

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this is the this is what i was told um,

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We lived in Arizona, and it was an extremely hot summer.

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We were on our way to visit my grandmother, and the car broke down.

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And because it's a two-and-a-half-hour drive or something like that to her place,

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we didn't really have any supplies or anything like that. But the car broke

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down in the middle of the desert, and no water.

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My mother was eight months pregnant. She was huge.

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And they were really worried because there was nobody had driven by and they

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were stranded out in the middle of the desert and she was really pregnant and,

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yeah and then and my mom said that my my dad and my sisters told me too because

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they saw this that he sat down,

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you know that my mom was in a panic you know what are we gonna do what are we

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and and my dad just sat down and he just started rubbing his temples and he

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just started rocking back and forth.

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And my mom was like, what are you doing? You know, like, we've got to,

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like, you got to go to walk, find someplace with that to, to call for help.

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Yeah. Like, and he was just sitting there rubbing his temples.

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And then he was like, um, and then he told her that my mom's going to be here. Don't worry.

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And sure enough, like 20 minutes later, she pulled up and now she pulled up

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and she had water and food and everything for everybody and she knew exactly

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where they were. And then...

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So, she was having tests done in the hospital.

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And back in the day, they would run this liquid through your veins and take

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a, somehow, like a radioactive liquid or something. Yeah, that's happened to me.

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Yeah. I've done that. Really? Well, there were complications.

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But, so, we were at home. And I guess they didn't know there were complications.

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I didn't know how it worked. But I remember, because I was only like five years

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old, six years old, maybe. Oh.

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And, um, but I remember waking up and, uh, there was this screaming,

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the sound of screaming, ah, ah, and we went, it was coming from my parents' room.

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So all the kids, there was five of us, we went running into my parents' room.

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Like, you know, and my dad was kneeling on the bed. He was in the middle of

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the bed and he was screaming towards the sky.

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Ah, ah.

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Just screaming. And we were like, what's, you know, he was, we couldn't reach

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him. We couldn't get him to stop. We couldn't, he was just screaming.

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It was really scary. Like in a trance. Yeah, he was just, and then the phone rang.

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And my mom picked up the phone, and it was the hospital calling to tell us that

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our grandmother had just died.

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Oy, I got chills. And he was— Oy. Yeah. And it was—now, you have to understand,

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before this, my dad used to read bedtime stories to us, and he was more playful and stuff.

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From that day on, he shut down. Yeah.

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He didn't speak to us anymore. He became very angry all the time.

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He became very depressed. He started drinking heavily.

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And he basically turned into a monster because she was his whole world.

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And she wrote a book, a big, thick book about mental telepathy, my grandmother did.

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Handwritten. And it was thick. We're talking like three inches thick. It was a giant book.

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And she'd been writing it her whole life. We went looking for it,

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and it vanished. We couldn't find it anywhere in her house.

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It was just gone.

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I don't think so. Yeah, because when I brought it up to them,

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they didn't know. They didn't know about it?

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No, no. And they didn't even know about the pentagram in her bedroom under the

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carpet. I remember you telling me about that.

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Yeah, they didn't even know about that. And they were her own kids.

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And I was a grandkid who just visited.

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And I even knew that she had a big pentagram. Yeah, the human nosey.

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Yeah. I remember waking up one morning.

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And really early, the sun was just rising, and she was in the back of the house,

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because there were open fields.

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There was no fencing, because there was only five houses. Yeah.

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And she was back there, and she was holding a chicken's head,

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and she was splattering the blood from the chicken's head all over the house.

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And she was chanting in some weird language. I've never heard. Just this weird.

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And she was chanting like that and she was splattering blood around the house

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and here's something really bizarre,

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my grandmother's house was at the base of a mountain the mountain was being

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mined for limestone lime well lime that they make you know concrete out of um,

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And so what happens when you're mining lime is it creates this gray dust that

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coats everything around the mine for miles.

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And so the five houses and their yards and the land, it was surrounded,

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was all coated. Nothing grew.

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Yeah, a wild grass grew and it grew and it looked gray.

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And the trees were all covered in gray and they almost always had no leaves.

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It was a really harsh environment. It was barren.

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It looked like sad snow. Imagine snow, but the snow is gray.

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And instead of it being fluffy, it looked like talc powder, but it was gray.

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And it coated everything. And so there was no vegetation.

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But my grandmother's house, I kid you not, the walk up to her house.

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You'd walk through these archways, 10 feet long.

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And they were arched walkways, and they had these gorgeous grapes hanging from

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them, just from the vine, the vines.

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And then the whole front of the house had flowers and rose bushes,

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and it was this gorgeous, immaculate garden. So, nothing of the lime stuff,

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that plants, or anything? No, no, no, no.

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And she grew fruits and vegetables, and every—girl, You would walk outside beyond,

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her garden, and it looked like a moonscape of gray snow.

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But her garden all the way around her house was green and lush,

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and there was no powder anywhere.

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There was no—and, yeah.

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That's nuts. And after she died about—I'm wanting to say about 10 years after

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she died, my mother and I drove back to visit the house, because there was only

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five houses. It was a tiny town.

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The town wasn't even on the map forever.

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That's tiny. Yeah. So we went, and the thing that happens with any mine is that

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they ended up mining all of the limestone from the mountain.

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So the mountain was gone. It was now just a flat hill.

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It went from literally being a mountain to a flat hill, and so it was gone.

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So the mine was gone, everything was closed up, and the houses had all been

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demolished, and they were gone.

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And the only thing left were the five concrete.

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Slabs where the houses were, and everything was still covered in that dust.

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Everything was still dead. Everything was gray.

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And the concrete slab where my grandmother's house was in the center was growing

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out of the concrete a tulip.

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A bright, bright orange tulip was growing right out of the concrete.

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And it was the only color for like a mile. I don't.

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It was so bizarre. That's bizarre. You guys, it was bizarre.

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Yeah. So she was very much into Wicca or the arts.

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They didn't really call it that because she was Mexican. So they didn't.

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It was more just. She was like.

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She was into Santeria.

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Santeria. And yeah. And yeah. It was pre-Christian stuff. It was stuff that

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they did before the Catholics came in and turned everybody into Catholics.

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They used to have their own spirituality and their own religion, and that's what she did.

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But she was, you have an interesting relative as well that your family doesn't like to discuss.

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They only whisper his name from your past. Oh, but he wasn't a witch.

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He wasn't a witch, but he had an interesting life.

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He

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Assassinated the president in Mexico at the time.

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I think his name was Obregón.

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And hopefully Mexico doesn't come up to me for this.

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Yeah. But for years, your family wouldn't even mention his name.

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No, they would say it in secret.

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They would talk. The uncle. The uncle. Yeah, the deal. The great. Yeah.

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And I don't even know his name. Oh, wait, I think it was.

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I have it written down. Jose something.

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I wrote it down. I have it written down. It's in the book. I forgot.

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It's in the book. But it's fascinating.

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He was fighting for the church, actually, which was weird, because he was helping

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out the nun that was in charge of the nun. Yes.

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At the time, the Native people in Mexico suddenly had an awakening where they

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were just like, why are we Catholic? Yeah, they created a movement.

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Yeah, because it was like, this is not what our people are.

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We are Native people. with our own religion, our own spirituality.

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And all of a sudden, all of these Catholic cathedrals are being built everywhere,

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and now we're Catholic, and that's a Western religion.

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It's not ours. And this was later, because the Spaniards built their churches

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over a lot of the temples that exist in the Catholics, the Mayans.

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And they covered them. They covered them all. Yeah, probably as a statement,

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this is your new religion.

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They also destroyed all of the literature or the records that had been kept,

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and all of the ceremonial stuff that had to do with the spirituality and the history.

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They destroyed a lot of it. They destroyed it, and they imposed the Catholic

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religion on the Native Americans.

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I mean, they weren't Americans back then, they were Natives.

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And he wasn't an uncle. He was like a great uncle, we'll say.

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Well, for me, yeah, he would have been a great, great, great,

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great uncle or something.

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He was very Catholic. And at that time, the natives had gained political influence. Right.

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And they were successful at starting to remove the influence of the Catholic

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Church from Mexico and actually shutting down some of the,

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cathedrals, I guess, or the organizations that were Catholic. And.

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There was a nun who was very outspoken about it because she was a nun and she

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believed in the Catholicism.

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And she—so she was very outspoken, and he was an avid fan of hers. Yeah.

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He loved her. He was a big follower. He was very influenced by her.

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Oh, yeah. And so it's believed that he listened to her. Yeah.

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And that he followed her so intensely that he took it upon himself to.

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Assassinate the president who at the time was supporting the anti-Catholic rhetoric

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of, like, we should go back to our native spirituality. Isn't that crazy?

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Yeah. And he was, from what I remember the story, he went to protect the church.

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And I believe that he was shot in the church. No. Did you do that? No.

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So what happened was, because I read about it, he went to— Crazy.

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Yeah. In the history books.

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You have family lore. Well, they probably didn't spend a lot of time actually,

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putting the facts together.

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Right. Because they were trying. They were hiding from him. Because it must

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have been—I mean, talk about a black-listed person.

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Um, you know, I mean, he, so because he's a presidential assassin,

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I mean, there's very few of those in the world and he, um, and he's in your family, but yeah.

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So he, so the president was at party.

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I believe he got entrance to the party. I don't know if he was working there

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or if he got, but somehow he got entrance to the party.

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He took a firearm, and as soon as he had a chance, he shot the president and killed him.

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And here's an interesting thing.

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We've got more about this than I do. Yeah, because he did it to protect the Catholic Church.

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So because there were so many Catholic supporters,

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in the closet, so to speak, they ended up, when they autopsied the president's

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body, they found bullets from other weapons in him, not just his.

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So what's believed is that people went up after the president was dead and laying

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on the floor and just started firing their guns into him as well,

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like to say, you know, how dare you go against our Catholic church?

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Yeah, that's a lot of power, the church fat. And when he was,

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When.

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He was then executed for this crime, and his body, as it went down the street,

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tens of thousands of Catholic supporters filled the streets to cheer for him.

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Because he was a hero to them. Oh, God, I have chills. Yeah.

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But for those of us who do not support,

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that ideology and who are hungry for a return to our native ways,

00:19:06.921 --> 00:19:09.641
as opposed to the Western imposition,

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he was not a hero. Yeah. You know, he was a sucker.

00:19:15.801 --> 00:19:20.651
Yeah. You know, who fell for the rhetoric. Okay. And I'm sure a lot of people

00:19:20.651 --> 00:19:22.098
are going to be upset about this, but you know,

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I think the Catholic Church has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt its corruption and its fallibility.

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It is not an organization. I say this wholeheartedly with my entire intellect.

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I don't support it. I don't want to have anything to do with it, and I don't like it.

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I mean, not to delve more into it, but I guess I'm going to.

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I mean, look at all the, sorry, the priests that were. Oh, yeah.

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Yeah. And there's just so much. A lot of horrible things. A lot of horrible.

00:19:56.399 --> 00:19:59.151
More people die in the name of religion than any other cause.

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It's just these organized religions have got to go. We have to go back to simplicity.

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That's what I say anyway.

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But. And then my grandma was also. Oh, yeah.

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Reading the cart. But it wasn't Carol. It was the 52 deck.

00:20:14.501 --> 00:20:17.461
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I've heard of it, yeah. Yeah, she would read the

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cards to the people in her neighborhood in Kamala, also where your dad's from. Mm-hmm. Weird.

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And my dad always said, you know, the stuff would come true.

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Yeah. Oh, yeah. It would come true.

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It does. I mean, both of our families have card reading in their history.

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Yeah. A lot of card reading, which is why we also read cards.

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And also, we both have, I mean, we both have had our family lives early on were

00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:50.391
wrapped up in heavy duty in religion.

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We were very Catholic, and you guys were Mormon. Yeah.

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So, it's just like, no thanks. Yeah.

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No thanks. Our religion is spirituality. Yeah. And love.

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Love. Yeah. You don't, I don't think there's such a thing as a person who has

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a more direct contact, a more direct line with spirit, whatever that is up there.

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You know, this idea that you have to go to a confessional to talk to someone

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who has like a direct phone line to the boss is like, no, no.

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No one is closer than you are. Exactly. Come on, you guys. Come on.

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It's an internal thing that we have in our soul and spirit. The last I checked,

00:21:31.930 --> 00:21:36.267
the Lord our God was not handing out licensing to specific people to represent Him.

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Yeah. You know? But that's our opinion. Yeah.

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And I don't even know if it's the Lord our God. It could be the Lord our goddess. It's true.

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There's an entity. There's an energy. Let's say there's an energy.

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And then let's just leave it at that. Because we really don't know what it is,

00:21:52.540 --> 00:21:55.717
so let's stop trying to pretend like we know exactly what's going on up there,

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or down there, or wherever you're at, you know? Up there, down there, all around us.

00:22:01.028 --> 00:22:05.810
Yeah, but the, yeah, Carol reading, it was really, oh, this was interesting.

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I had an aunt who lived in a border town near Mexico.

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And she lived with her kids. Her husband had died.

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And she raised him and her children were all adults. And as is common in our

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culture, because they weren't married, they still lived in the house.

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So they were like between the ages of, I'm going to say, 15,

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all the way up to like 24, 26. Yeah, that's common. Yeah.

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So she's out, she had a garden and she's out gardening. You know,

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they were very poor. They had a very, very humble home.

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Very poor people and they lived in a place called Douglas Arizona look it up

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it's kind of cool town and um,

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so she's out there gardening and she's just smelling this horrendous smell like

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what is that just couldn't what you know and um like a dead cat or something

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yeah like a dead something dead,

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and uh it was coming from the neighbor's yard yeah and her next door neighbor

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and the The people that lived there, it was new people.

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In other words, they just moved in. Yeah. And.

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So I guess the lady of that house was out in the garden.

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And so my auntie kind of confronted her and she said, hey, what's up?

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What is that smell? Like, it's

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really bad. You've got to take care of that smell. Where's it coming from?

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We've got to figure this out because it's really bad. Oh, my God.

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And she said that the woman said nothing to her.

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She simply turned around and walked back into her house with a smile on her

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face, just walked away like… which gave her the chills and the eebie-jeebies.

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So, the following day,

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She went out to do some more gardening, and she saw voodoo dolls.

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The voodoo dolls were set up in the garden, in her neighbor's garden,

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and they were facing her house.

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And that night, she went to bed, and she felt something strange in her vaginal area.

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So she turned the light on, and she saw a bunch of worms crawling out of her vagina.

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A bunch of worms, hundreds of them. They were just crawling out of her vagina.

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And I kid you not,

00:24:33.827 --> 00:24:37.692
she started screaming, of course. Oh, God. So her kids came running to the room,

00:24:38.139 --> 00:24:43.055
and she was like, oh, my God, explaining to them what had happened.

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And they took her to the hospital immediately. And the doctors were like,

00:24:47.457 --> 00:24:52.987
ma'am, there's like nothing coming out of there. There are no worms. You're imagining this.

00:24:53.607 --> 00:24:58.606
She was like, no, I wasn't imagining. I swear they were coming out. I swear.

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And they were just like, don't know what to tell you. We didn't see anything.

00:25:02.897 --> 00:25:04.287
There's nothing there. Nothing there.

00:25:04.907 --> 00:25:07.567
And she was freaked out. And she went home.

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And the next day, she saw one of the voodoo dolls had pins in the vagina area,

00:25:14.732 --> 00:25:19.817
in the crotch area, and the pins were going through worms that had been stuck

00:25:19.817 --> 00:25:22.494
on the crotch area with pins going through them.

00:25:22.656 --> 00:25:26.534
There were worms, dead worms, earthworms, dangling like that.

00:25:26.871 --> 00:25:31.190
And yeah, and she was just like freaked, so freaked.

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And you guys, I kid you not.

00:25:36.733 --> 00:25:42.594
It freaked her out, and it wouldn't stop haunting her. And three months later, my aunt was dead.

00:25:43.998 --> 00:25:49.549
Dead yeah so i was you know halloweenies coming up,

00:25:52.246 --> 00:25:54.346
maybe we should have a seance i know.

00:25:57.846 --> 00:26:04.588
Oh yeah oh yeah because the bottle yeah well we recently put a video on youtube

00:26:04.966 --> 00:26:11.566
and other areas other yeah social videos uh there's a windex well i don't know

00:26:11.626 --> 00:26:12.826
Shout out to him next time. You're right.

00:26:13.706 --> 00:26:17.776
The bottle was moving by itself. It just was rocking there on the shelf.

00:26:17.776 --> 00:26:26.695
And so John read the cards to our neighbor, Esme, and he said—actually to all of us. Yeah.

00:26:26.874 --> 00:26:33.009
And then my question— Yeah, who was—because the bottle—you guys,

00:26:33.300 --> 00:26:35.929
for days, this bottle sat there rocking.

00:26:36.284 --> 00:26:41.196
By itself. By itself. Nothing. There was no vibration. No, nothing.

00:26:41.196 --> 00:26:44.626
It was just rocking, rocking, rocking. The fridge wasn't making it.

00:26:45.146 --> 00:26:49.146
Freaked us out. So one of my brothers— We got it on video.

00:26:49.466 --> 00:26:57.650
Yeah, one of my brothers recently passed, S.O.T. Sergio, and I asked him, is that Sergio?

00:26:58.608 --> 00:27:06.086
And I got the ace of swords, I believe. Yeah, yeah. Which means— Clear mind, yes, it was.

00:27:07.046 --> 00:27:09.318
Right on the spot. Right on the spot. You hit the target, girl.

00:27:09.632 --> 00:27:10.886
Boom, that's what it was.

00:27:11.306 --> 00:27:15.507
I got chills, I got chills, I got chills. Oh, and then, you guys,

00:27:15.681 --> 00:27:18.686
so we're not financially well off. Okay.

00:27:19.386 --> 00:27:22.186
I mean, the sparklies are not real. They're not real. These are like,

00:27:22.186 --> 00:27:25.149
you know. We hope, we wish. Yeah. So, but, um...

00:27:26.327 --> 00:27:29.215
I was working at a hardware store. I used to work at a hardware store.

00:27:29.215 --> 00:27:33.270
Oh, yeah. And my sister had just recently died.

00:27:34.170 --> 00:27:37.835
And she was very into money. She was financially successful and all that kind

00:27:37.835 --> 00:27:39.770
of stuff. And I was like, girl, I don't know how you did it,

00:27:39.985 --> 00:27:41.657
but send something my way.

00:27:41.982 --> 00:27:44.524
You know, give me winning lottery numbers or something.

00:27:45.012 --> 00:27:49.732
You know, and I had been asking her and asking her, like, you know,

00:27:50.213 --> 00:27:53.015
I don't know if anything's going to happen. It's probably silly.

00:27:53.375 --> 00:27:55.475
But I thought, what the heck? Doesn't hurt to ask.

00:27:55.915 --> 00:28:01.191
Oh, universe, if my sister's out there with you, would you please let her know

00:28:01.521 --> 00:28:05.095
that her brother would like the winning numbers for the lottery next month?

00:28:06.395 --> 00:28:09.835
And I kept, you know, and nothing was happening, nothing. So I said,

00:28:10.275 --> 00:28:13.607
I was at work and I was like, girl, give me a sign. I had just gotten done with lunch.

00:28:14.255 --> 00:28:19.221
And I was in an aisle. I had been called to aisle seven, plumbing.

00:28:19.575 --> 00:28:22.454
And I was helping a customer. No, it was aisle four, sorry.

00:28:23.197 --> 00:28:28.815
And I'm helping a customer in plumbing. and we're sitting there and we're talking

00:28:28.815 --> 00:28:33.304
about compression fittings and all this stuff like that and.

00:28:35.186 --> 00:28:42.899
Uh a package a package went from one shelf flew it like if someone tossed it

00:28:43.137 --> 00:28:44.774
and we were the only two people in the aisle

00:28:45.152 --> 00:28:50.194
and the package flew across the aisle hit the other other side of the shelves

00:28:50.194 --> 00:28:53.254
on the other side of the aisle and then fell to the floor and,

00:28:53.734 --> 00:28:56.094
me the customer and myself we both saw it,

00:28:56.657 --> 00:29:02.433
we were both happened to be looking exactly in that direction when this package went drop,

00:29:03.658 --> 00:29:09.887
and the customer just looked at me like i swear i swear and and he was like,

00:29:10.339 --> 00:29:13.324
i'm getting out of here and he just i swear and he turned around and he just

00:29:13.324 --> 00:29:14.594
bolted right out of that aisle.

00:29:16.274 --> 00:29:19.934
Yep and then and then um the other employees were like what happened what and

00:29:19.934 --> 00:29:23.794
i told them and they were like nah you're lying i'm like i swear to god and

00:29:23.794 --> 00:29:28.194
the customer was like this place is haunted i'm getting out of here and he swear

00:29:28.194 --> 00:29:30.935
to god he just bolted out the door Oh, yeah.

00:29:31.220 --> 00:29:33.757
Oh, yeah. And I was just like, that was weird.

00:29:34.146 --> 00:29:35.674
So weird. Anyways.

00:29:36.294 --> 00:29:43.322
So I was at the grocery store like a few months back, and I was by the bread aisle.

00:29:44.471 --> 00:29:50.683
And the guy was putting the bread up and all of a sudden a bread shot out,

00:29:51.435 --> 00:29:57.364
oh you know who it was i wasn't asking for anything because we both like stopped and we're like,

00:29:57.852 --> 00:30:03.495
what's going on wow and i said it's got to be a ghost wow because it just i

00:30:03.495 --> 00:30:07.155
mean it was like neatly put away because he had just put it there and then all

00:30:07.155 --> 00:30:08.835
of a sudden it just went shock.

00:30:10.115 --> 00:30:14.955
Hey yeah i know hey so you guys what What do you think about ghosts?

00:30:14.955 --> 00:30:16.463
Do they exist? Do they not exist?

00:30:16.707 --> 00:30:22.819
And even the word ghost, maybe it's something else. Maybe there's an energy, a residue of something.

00:30:23.226 --> 00:30:25.985
I don't know. What do you think happens to people when they die?

00:30:25.985 --> 00:30:28.655
Where do we go? I mean, I have my theories.

00:30:29.535 --> 00:30:35.195
I think, for me, I think everybody, they call it the soul, but I think there's

00:30:35.195 --> 00:30:36.924
an energy inside of everybody.

00:30:37.347 --> 00:30:40.535
Some people call it a soul, some people might have another word for it. Yeah.

00:30:41.275 --> 00:30:45.795
And that when you depart, it also has to depart.

00:30:46.215 --> 00:30:50.100
It's like when you burn a log, that log is gone now.

00:30:50.695 --> 00:30:55.345
But it created energy when it was disappearing, and it pushed the energy out

00:30:55.345 --> 00:30:56.631
into the world, into the universe.

00:30:56.927 --> 00:31:01.201
I think when we depart, when anything that's alive is now dead,

00:31:01.623 --> 00:31:05.885
I think whatever energy had inside of it kind of like explodes out into the

00:31:05.885 --> 00:31:10.534
universe, like in the most tiny, tiny microscopic, even less than like,

00:31:11.219 --> 00:31:13.310
particles, you know, just, just.

00:31:13.977 --> 00:31:19.561
And then I think that, like soup, all those energies are just swirling around.

00:31:19.921 --> 00:31:22.951
And I think when there's a new life that's going to be introduced,

00:31:23.497 --> 00:31:28.310
that whatever the energy is kind of scooped up in whatever quantity is needed

00:31:28.709 --> 00:31:30.315
and put into that new life form.

00:31:30.315 --> 00:31:35.546
Yeah. And that's why people sometimes are like, you know, I think that I have...

00:31:37.020 --> 00:31:42.830
Whoever uh dolly parton is in me yeah and it's kind of like she may be part of her maybe,

00:31:43.470 --> 00:31:47.890
because when her energy went poosh you know and and then you were born scooped

00:31:47.890 --> 00:31:53.965
up like that kind of thing yeah so i don't you know i think i think that when i mean this is just,

00:31:54.830 --> 00:32:00.910
my brain that when somebody passes away they're still around you and people

00:32:00.910 --> 00:32:06.150
that we haven't seen in a long time that we know I think they come and visit.

00:32:07.293 --> 00:32:10.224
And I think that they're on another plane.

00:32:11.710 --> 00:32:16.941
But they're still here. They're still here. Their energy is still here. That's kind of cool.

00:32:17.219 --> 00:32:21.329
Wouldn't it be sad if it was all wishful thinking and in the end nothing happens?

00:32:21.579 --> 00:32:26.990
You just lights out, story's over, you turn to dust, you're recycled into the

00:32:26.990 --> 00:32:28.930
earth. Nothing's going to happen.

00:32:29.770 --> 00:32:32.410
I mean, that's a possibility, I guess. That's a possibility,

00:32:32.410 --> 00:32:36.830
because we don't know. I mean, we won't know until we're gone. Yes. So. Knock on wood.

00:32:37.790 --> 00:32:44.362
LOL with Maddie and John.com is the website where you can tell us what you think.

00:32:45.605 --> 00:32:48.890
Because it's a very controversial issue. What happens when you die?

00:32:48.890 --> 00:32:50.847
It really is. What is it? What happens?

00:32:51.421 --> 00:32:54.420
Yeah. I guess we're probably thinking about it more now because we're closer

00:32:54.420 --> 00:32:56.830
to that reality than we were 20 years ago.

00:32:57.370 --> 00:33:01.928
Yeah. I mean, we're in our 60s. Yeah. And so it's on your mind.

00:33:02.671 --> 00:33:06.183
Just like when you're going to college, what are you going to major in is on your mind.

00:33:06.468 --> 00:33:11.013
When you're old, what about death is on your mind. You know, what are you going to do?

00:33:11.884 --> 00:33:14.120
Are you going to fight it or are you just going to go with the flow?

00:33:14.120 --> 00:33:18.610
Or are you going to encourage it? I mean, there's all different ways to approach it, I guess.

00:33:19.134 --> 00:33:23.865
But the thing is, one more Halloween that we're going to go through,

00:33:24.394 --> 00:33:28.700
which is one more time to celebrate Day of the Dead. Yes. And one more season

00:33:28.700 --> 00:33:33.830
of putting on a costume and acting crazy, lunatics going to parties.

00:33:35.793 --> 00:33:40.897
And bringing that inner ghostly, ghouly, ghoulish, funky, funky out, you know?

00:33:43.119 --> 00:33:47.566
And remembering our dead. And honoring them.

00:33:48.268 --> 00:33:52.436
And sending prayers, however you feel, you know, chants.

00:33:54.404 --> 00:33:59.397
Yeah, you can be like, I love you, sister. I love you, grandma. I love you, grandpa.

00:33:59.817 --> 00:34:03.860
I love you, mom. I love you, dad. You know what I mean? If they're gone.

00:34:04.412 --> 00:34:09.230
At our age, they are. But, you know, at your age, you might still have them. Hey. Enjoy them. Yeah.

00:34:09.747 --> 00:34:13.977
Listen, you guys, happy Halloween. Happy Halloween. Party.

00:34:14.417 --> 00:34:20.357
Put on a costume. Have fun. Be safe. Find an alternate, like, personality to become.

00:34:20.937 --> 00:34:24.337
Become, you know, a superhero or a nurse or whatever you want to.

00:34:25.477 --> 00:34:26.835
But become the same thing other.

00:34:28.078 --> 00:34:31.097
Fun. All right. Have fun. You guys, have a good one.

00:34:31.157 --> 00:34:36.137
Have a good one. Don't forget, LOL with moneyandjohn.com. and let us know what

00:34:36.137 --> 00:34:43.194
you think about ghosts and our stories and what happens to you at death.

00:34:43.362 --> 00:34:45.183
All right, bye. Bye, we'd love to see you. See you.