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hey weirdos I'm Elena I'm Ash and this is morbid [Music] that was so fast I know I just wanted to
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do it and this is morbid you do fast I do demon Diamond we're here with a spooky episode today
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yeah I think it was the last haunted Lakes episode or like spooky Lakes episode Lake Lanier or have we done one
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yeah because I don't even think we deemed that a spooky Lake episode I think it was just like its own thing
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well guess what now we got a whole new series [ __ ] spooky Lakes because you know we love a spooky Lake a spooky Road
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a spooky Castle a spooky we love a spooky anything really and a lot of you requested spooky lakes that was like
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when we said like what other spooky things would you like to see likes was like top of the list oh yeah and well
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the lake that I'm covering in particular so many people have asked for us to come
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yeah and mine's just strange and it has like a little strange thing about the town later but I love that yeah Ash has
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like a really good one mine's good too but Ashley I think it's gonna blow our minds
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um but yeah I think spooky season is upon us it's time to get spooky let's get spooky and just because now we can
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say it Tobias Forge from Ghost is coming on the podcast [ __ ] so cool I'm dying
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many of you are also dying and I'm so happy that we can all freak out about this together I know this is like very
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exciting it's very exciting like very exciting how excited this is a good get it is this is a good gift this is uh it
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is yeah the ultimate get yeah I will say uh but if you guys have any questions that because we're gonna ask him a few
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uh fan questions and so if you guys have a question that you've always wanted to
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ask him just send us your question to morbidpodcast gmail.com put in the subject line ask Tobias
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because we got a whole folder going we're gonna sift through we'll pick a few and then uh we'll have him pick some
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to answer so hopefully yours will get answered but throw them out there because you never
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know burning questions for Tobias but we want you guys to be involved because when I said that like we started
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listening to ghosts John and I everyone was so sweet about it was like oh my God
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like the people who have been listening to them forever oh yeah we're like now you have to listen to this and you have
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to listen to this in fact Jordan from Nighttime podcast is like a huge ghost fan yeah 100 and he was all excited he
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was like finally um but you guys were like so sweet about it and giving me all these you know
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songs to listen to and being like I hope you get to a live show which we are gonna get to a live show I just am
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picturing myself at this live show and it's the funniest thing even to myself because I you know like we're all
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weirdos here but I I came late to the weirdo game a little bit different brands of weirdos yeah different brands
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of weirdo you even you and I are like entirely different brands oh absolutely I'm just like crazy
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um no I am yeah Oh I thought you said nah oh no I agree don't fool me I'm crazy um I don't know if we've told this story
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on the podcast before it originated from uh that Liz Dosh movie this thing didn't
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it oh yeah it did so we were watching what movie is that it's um Soul Survivors and they go to like a club
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that's kind of like Club hell yeah it's like the super goth club like yeah Ultra
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Ultra golf club like literally like you cannot get in unless you're wearing black or leather or chains yeah
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and there was like Elena showed it to me and there's this one scene where they're
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going to this movie and I I put up my little like devil horns yeah hands and I was just kind of like poking them into
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the air like groovin yeah like in the way that I groove and Elena is saying that I'm gonna do that because if you
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could see the like the visual of that because she does it in such a way that's just like yeah because I'm grouping yeah
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I'm not like a rock in like an ash way which is lovely and I hope it happens during the concert because but we're
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very excited about that and because you guys were so amazing we just wanted you guys to be able to be a part of this as
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well because you've been so cool about it so send those in yeah yeah let us know uh we're very excited about it and
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yippee we have some fun things planned for that episode it's not going to be just a straight up interview we're gonna
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we're gonna flip it on its head a little bit we've got some silly silly things and like really cool things and I think
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it's gonna be a fun interview it will be fun but you know what right now we're gonna get into some terrifying Lakes
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let's go swimming or yeah or no uh definitely don't swim in this Lake I feel it doesn't have a great uh
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reputation oh okay for swimming uh this is haunted lake let's go and it's in Francis Town New Hampshire it is also
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known as scoby Pond or scoby Lake we will I'll tell you why after but most people call it haunted lake I like that
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just keep it simple you know and it's been known as haunted lake for decades I mean like really yeah like
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long time like centuries she has a [ __ ] rep okay she does she has the background to be named hauntedly good
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for her uh I mean it when you're named haunted lake you have no choice but to be haunted it's that simple like you
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you're not just named that that's not just a feeling but what happened before was before New Hampshire was even
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settled there was actually a huge fire that happened around what is now haunted lake oh [ __ ] it was a blaze that took
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out all of the surrounding vegetation of the lake also some like some little like
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dwellings that were happening like around the lake not an actual like settlement dwelling right right like
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people that were even camping around there and such people died like it was bad oh no yeah it looked and it looked
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terrifying after this because it's just a bunch of charred just dead Devastation
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all around it do you know how people have like different fears like you have a fear of like very large things yeah
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well I think one of my fears is like the aftermath of a fire like what that looks
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like it's so ominous it is it's really unsettling yeah uh but I found this crazy old book from 1895 and it's called
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the history of Francis Town New Hampshire from its earliest settlement April 1758 to January 1st 1891 with a
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brief geological reference of all the Francis Town families but that tells you everything you need
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to know right in the title and it's by Reverend W.R Cochran go off Mr Cochran it's it's actually in it he talks about
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obviously the town of Francis Town New Hampshire oh he goes into the first settlers the first recorded deaths the
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first recorded births jurors the first bail like all the first things that happened in a town it's actually really
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interesting especially for like history Buffs yeah you just see like the creation of a town it's cool that is
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interesting and also in it they mentioned haunted lake and on page 432 it says and I quote even the page number
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there you go just because there's a lot of like opening stuff about the town that you might want to be like
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and you can find it there's like an archive of this book free online so it says there have been several Traditions
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concerning the origin of the name haunted all showing its early date one is that a fire once raged on its Shores
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so fiercely as to consume every living thing and only the trunks of the largest trees were left standing char hard ashy
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desolate and frightful causing the early surveyors and even the roving Native Americans to turn away in fear and
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presenting at night an appearance weird strange and startling in the extreme no doubt there was this basis this a basis
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of fact and no doubt it tended to confirm the early belief that the place was haunted
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so we got it really early on now I'm just going to give you a few instances that I found in this book and
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in a couple of other areas in 1741 two men came across each other on their way to the lake to buy land and you know
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settle do manly things yeah in 1741. treaties just lands they didn't know each other but they ended up making
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taking the rest of their journey together after coming across each other like they didn't go there together they
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just came across each other and were like you want to hang yeah they set up camp right along the edge of haunted
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lake and something dark happened that night that we don't know what happened but they started to argue in a fighting
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suit eventually one of these men killed the other one in the fight and then buried his body on the shores of haunted
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lake now it's said that the man who was killed wanders the shore screaming and moaning in anguish
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now in 1753 a team of surveyors came to the lake area to survey land for future farms and they were going to be there
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for a few days to complete the job they camped out the first night on the banks of the lake thinking it would be a
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soothing place to sleep right next to the water oh yeah how gorgeous well according to one of these surveyors who
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was actually leading the team named Matthew Patton it was anything but soothing or restful in his diary he
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indicated that the entire Camp was awake all night because they were tormented by
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the loud screams and moans of what sounded like a man who was being tortured or was in great pain holy [ __ ]
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and it's not known how the one guy killed the other guy no oh so you don't know how it happened or yeah like the
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fact that he's screaming out in like in English people say and it would insane people say they hear that still today
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yeah like when you go in that area some people said that they've heard those screams sounds like he was very much
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tortured yeah and it wouldn't stop and they all heard it all of his workers left the following
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day and refused to stay another second after this literally abandoned the job I feel that so hard in the book that I
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mentioned up top said about this incident quote these chair these chain men were hardly fellows not accustomed
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to fear the face of man but they had some Superstition and some alarm at signs at signs and bad Omens and they
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could not be persuaded to continue their work even for another hour um yeah now the next instance is two fur
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Trappers sometime before 1780 went up to the haunted lake area to set up what was
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called trap line circuits okay these are circuit shaped areas where traps will be
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hidden for various animals the Trapper will walk the circle area and they'll just like go you know check the traps as
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they go now these two Trappers set up two different Circus Circus circuits one was
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in the haunted lake area like right next to the lake and like around it and the other was slightly outside of that area
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but close enough that they could meet up after camp so one night they went through their
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circuits and one of the Trappers the one in the haunted lake circuit didn't come
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back to Camp okay the other one went looking for him and came across him dead completely mauled and there was a Giant
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mountain lion standing over him oh and then now this guy's just witnessing that yeah and he's like holy [ __ ] what do you
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do he ended up killing the mountain lion and he buried his friend that haunted lake because he was worried more
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Predators were gonna come quickly yeah so he had to bury him there and then he got out of there oh man so now there's
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two people buried at haunted place that's not good and now we come to 1780 and where the name scoby Lake comes from
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oh okay a man named David scoby came from Ireland to New Hampshire and all he wanted was to build a water powered mill
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on the shores of haunted lake so he got to building and while he was deep in the process he comes along a
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dead body oh yep randomly on the shores of haunted lake there was a dead body buried in a pretty shallow grave not
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wanna could have been either one of those okay they don't know and it was skeletonized and it seemed to be a
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younger man who was tall like pretty strong with good teeth that's how they knew he was like a younger guy oh okay
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um but I think it's probably the first one I would say because I don't know what you would find yeah I
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don't know what good condition the other one would be in and I also since it seems like it was like skeletonized and
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it was like a younger guy I don't know why but it just to me feels like those two guys that got in a fight
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one of them would be younger or at least both of them maybe sure but he was like
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oh [ __ ] like a skeleton but after turning that find into the proper Outlets he set out and finished his
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building his Mill whatever he said I found that I came I saw now to conquer it I gave it to the right people yeah
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good for him you know did the right thing but like here's my quick little life tip this is just me personally when
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you're building literally anything finding a hastily Berry body of a young man during the process is likely a bad
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Omen oh for sure luckily for me I don't know if I'll ever build anything but like if that happens just take that L
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move on yeah you don't even have to it's not even an L it's a yeah it's a w because the universe is like is letting
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you know don't do this and there's plenty of other places to build [ __ ] there's so much there's so much [ __ ]
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everywhere exactly there's so much [ __ ] everywhere they're very much it the world is full of [ __ ] it truly is it
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really is but it's also full of beauty it is and you could make the beauty in the
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[ __ ] make your own Beauty make your own Beauty out of the [ __ ] be beautiful and
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positive and wonderful if you if you haven't learned by now that's our motto that's our new our very
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well not new that's just our motto it's our motto now now I want to sing that song but hey guys so he got the mail
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done and it was up and running and his sons were working there was like a whole family affair everything was going all
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right but the lake was still showing its displeasure with people pretty consistently
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like in 1810 a 15 year old named Jacob Langdale drowned there and it was said he was found with lilies grasped in his
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hand oh yeah that's I don't I know it's so haunting and just so sad It's haunting and really sad uh in 1816
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another boy named Samuel Allen drowned in 1824 a man who was 55 years old named Ichabod gay he don't drown there Ichabod
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is such a crazy awesome name Ichabod is a really fun it's so cool then in 1829 haunted lake turned its attention back
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to the mill and David scoby wasn't done with them yet oh man it was in this year
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that he was bringing a big stockpile of ice across the Frozen haunted lake to transport it David scoby was okay
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that's exactly what I thought of yes I know you the ice cracked and he went down into the freezing depths where he
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drowned in the lake oh this lake is it means business this Lake doesn't want to be settled upon it
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sounds No it's like I'm haunted yeah I showed you that let me be haunted like it's charred and burnt out and
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devastated and it's like leave me the [ __ ] alone yeah it said I'm broken yeah what did they say like have you ever
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seen the picture of like the Witch and it's like don't touch the witch it's like don't touch the lake yeah yeah it's
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the very next year in 1830 Nathaniel Aiken drowned there no yeah and the mill was transferred to another owner uh
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David Fuller and the Fuller family did run it for a little while but then abandoned it in 1860. okay abandon it
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and the book also mentioned that the scoby boys uh David's sons who worked for him at the Mill were known to try to
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scare people around town who came into the vicinity of the of haunted lake like while they were working at the Mill yeah
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and they would hide in the woods and like groan and scream and try to freak people out but for people who are like
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well there you go that's what that is it's like nope because the book States they're very quick to state in the book
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that haunted lake had its name haunted lake from the get-go yeah from the jump way before the scoby boys ever arrived
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so that's not what made it haunted it's not like oh they were just getting people to think that right they were
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just playing into the whole vibe of it okay and they were like known to do that it was like all the scoby boys
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but this entire area this is the weirdest occurrence and I had to add it in here this entire area also had some
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weird occurrence happen in 1780 when scoby arrived to build the milk which I thought was weird it was like it called
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to him yeah like that year was just a lot of [ __ ] right and I don't know if this was it being like don't build that
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Mill yeah now May 19 1780 it's called The Dark Day what this was seen in New England and for several days leading up
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to this day they said that the air and this is recorded places that the air felt like it was Smoky and Vapors were
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seen in the air why have I never heard of this that's what I'm straight up live in New England I was like I'm from New
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England what the [ __ ] records said the Sun and Moon looked red and hazy wow for
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days leading up to this why don't we get to see it why don't they teach us the [ __ ] in school yeah it's so interesting
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why didn't pictures exist yet and May 19th came and it was drizzly and thundery a bit just like a regular
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drizzly day it but around 10 a.m that day it just got dark like Zero Dark Thirty like dark so dark this is wild
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that chickens went to roost Birds went back to their nests cattle were said to go to their stalls and were apparently
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making weird noises that can send Farmers apparently even flowers and plants thought it was nights so they
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closed or opened accordingly I [ __ ] love plants like then it rained and it was like soot apparently what according
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to the above book they said the rain was quote full of a substance that like burnt vegetable matter
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forming a scum with smell of soot over everything what yes by noon everyone was lighting
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candles to see it was so dark by noon and people legit thought this was [ __ ] end times like they were like
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this is the end of the world clearly sure like the world kind of just started but it's already over here it's done
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like obviously didn't just leave but like but like we just started like really getting this [ __ ] like moving
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right right and now it's over so people all over New England were running outside and confessing their sins and
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[ __ ] oh [ __ ] people were rushing into churches for confession and like Solace
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like it was literally like people in the streets praying on their knees screaming
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out the sins they have done well vegetable matter soot falls from the pitch black Sky do you have noon at noon
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like what you're like it's too [ __ ] early for this it is noon do you have any I or like any hypothesis as to what
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that vegetable [ __ ] would be none like no done I have no [ __ ] I'm like going
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back to like third grade and like trying to think of the whole runoff system and
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like evaporation and all that [ __ ] I'm like what evaporated me too I was like what the [ __ ] is that and what happened
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the day is leading up to this right and why did it get that dark the world is the craziest [ __ ] place it's wild and
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they didn't even get light at night when the moon came out because they were thinking maybe I think they were saying
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it not it would uh the moon would rise at nine o'clock and so they were waiting for nine to be like okay that's when
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we're gonna get our light like it's gonna happen and we're all gonna feel okay the moon didn't even come out what
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like it was they said it was so black that it was like you couldn't see your hands in front of your face and you said
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before this both the moon and the sun looked red and hazy yeah yeah this happened oh my God and you
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know people were running out there like confessing to some crazy [ __ ] only the
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next day they were like you know I was just like feeling some type of way I just wanted to write short
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fiction before I died that's all that's they Gerard Shaffer did yes like they literally we like it because the next
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day they woke up and everything was fine they just woke up but there was like this scum all over everything
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what from that rain yeah what was this skull and it was like all over haunted lake and [ __ ] like there was a layer of
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scum that had fallen and like was on hauntedly she said get the [ __ ] out isn't that the same yes that's insane I
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don't even know the proper word for that yeah that blew my mind I had to add that
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in there I was like what and that is the the tale of haunted lake but apparently
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people still hear those screams today people have seen like weird like things that it looks like somebody's walking
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across the lake but then they look like they look again like what the [ __ ] and no one's there no
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like people look for them oh that Old Mill I am a Goosebumps yeah no and people look for that Old Mill now the
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scoby Mill don't what's the Fuller Mill look for that and they've found like remnants of it after it was abandoned
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they were gonna rebuild it no but I don't they never did but there's like these remnants
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um of like you know stacked rocks and stuff that you can see where it definitely was don't touch that yeah
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don't take a rock from it don't take a vial of sand from there yeah don't breathe the oxygen in that area just do
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not yeah this is one place that I'm like no no so creeped out no way am I going there so freaky dinky it was a scary one
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definitely not the scariest thing you've ever told me but like up there but we're
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all freaky we're gonna talk because so many of you guys have been requesting that we talk about Lake Mead here we are
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all right like what better way to do that than on a haunted Lakes episode so Lake Mead is over in Nevada I believe
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that's how you would wish for me to say it nobody else I think that's how you're
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supposed to say it I think you are I've always said Nevada the word on those streets is Nevada the word on these
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streets over here in New England is Nevada so I feel very wrong but I'm gonna move past it you got it um in Lake
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Mead actually I didn't realize this is the largest Reservoir in America and it was America's first national parks uh
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excuse me first national Recreation Area so the lake was a man-made project we all know how that goes oh yeah took
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place in February of 1935 after the construction of the Hoover Dam and when the lake was at its fullest point it
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measured about 12 or 1250 feet deep but this Lake actually has not been that full since 1983 almost
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40 years ago damn you were showing me some of these pictures oh my god and we're gonna talk about this I am like
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wow it's crazy the last time that it was even close to being as full as it originally was was 22 years ago in 2000
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which also saying 22 years ago in 2000 it like hurts I can see it on your face you're hurting
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I'm just thinking about like when we were all scared that like the grin was gonna shut down oh in 1999. and now in
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2022 I think we're all like when is the grid gonna shut down can it like I think
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we're all in someone shut the grid we are so those things and I remember like it
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turned midnight we were all like I can't imagine living through that because I've lived through like there's
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been so many times where they're like the Mayan calendar ended yeah of course and like we all thought it was gonna end
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but I feel like Y2K was like the biggest of those everyone literally thought and
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it was gonna happen I think that's maybe like why like not as many people were afraid of like the Mayan calendar ending
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and all the different ones because they were like I don't know you said this in 1990 yeah it's like I really don't know
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about that but yeah shut the grid down yeah but now I'm like okay when's Y2K happening again
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it would it be like I don't even know never mind but anyway these days and as recently as August 3rd the late the lake
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has shrunken its depth to 1040.92 feet my that is outrageous it's lost over 200 feet of
00:27:55
water that is just drying up because of climate uh climate change and global warming it's awful now the majority of
00:28:03
scientists don't think that Lake Mead will ever reach its full capacity of depth again that's really sad it really
00:28:09
is and the trends show that if anything it will just continue to dry up damn it did gain a little bit of water recently
00:28:16
because we've been going through like a crazy drought and it's been even worse like over there on the west coast
00:28:21
um and they did get some heavy rainfall that definitely Rose the water levels up
00:28:25
but not near where it would need to be so crazy but all that said to get to the point of the story as the lake is losing
00:28:33
more of its depth all kinds of things are being uncovered it's actually like we were just saying super super creepy
00:28:40
to watch video footage because now you can see all kinds of boats that have re-emerged and some of them I don't know
00:28:46
why this creeps me out so much it's just like plain creepy the boats that are just standing vertically like up and
00:28:52
down that are oh that were once like under so many like hundreds of feet of water and now are just like just right
00:29:00
there like it looks like they're just like in the sand so crazy something about that it's it's that thing though
00:29:06
it's wrong they're big things yeah just are out of place yeah they're not in working order so it's just like that's
00:29:14
exactly what it is you're like no that's not something to be there put it back you're supposed to be floating on the
00:29:18
surface like there is what is happening God damn it there's also been even creepier things to emerge like um the
00:29:26
whole last cities yes I said cities yeah we're just sitting underneath the lake for the past like 87 years imagine
00:29:34
swimming oh no no swimming over a city freaks me the swimming that's another phobia it is it totally is because you
00:29:42
have to add to my growing list of phobias that I have I know I'm like holding myself right now it's like
00:29:49
that's that is another fight that is called something like swimming over big things oh yeah it's you should look it
00:29:54
up because it's like a fear that you'll be like sucked in by them I feel that way yeah we're at the lake recently or
00:30:00
like one of the lakes that we go to recently and I was thinking about it more and more and I was just like oh get
00:30:04
me out of here yeah it's a no for me but like things like that have re-emerged and then of course course they have
00:30:10
found many sets of human remains yeah Lake Mead has a long history as you well know and we're going to start at the
00:30:19
very beginning before it was even a lake way before there was even a thought of turning this place into a lake and of
00:30:26
course it had been settled first by Native Americans so first there was a group of Native
00:30:31
Americans known as the basket makers named because they made very beautiful and intricate baskets makes sense yeah
00:30:37
and shortly after the basket makers settled on that land another group of Native Americans came along and these
00:30:43
were the Pueblo Pueblo people excuse me and by most accounts the Pueblo people and the basket makers kind of like
00:30:50
combined their ways of life and they really maintained the land together history obviously tells us that it's
00:30:56
very uncommon for these groups to combine their cultures without some kind of War being fought to get there but
00:31:02
it's actually not known for sure whether there was a war or whether they were just like we have similar cultures like
00:31:07
let's spend them let's all live on the land um I just feel like it always has to be
00:31:11
a war so stupid always all now while the Pueblo and the basket maker people were
00:31:18
living together in unison they turned this area into a full-blown City the Pueblo people were known to make
00:31:24
beautiful structures and the people before them and even before the basket makers they were known to build
00:31:30
structures that were underground they're called pit homes but the Pueblo people built upwards and actually like in a
00:31:37
kind of modern way when you look at it if you're just picturing like small little one-room structures think again
00:31:43
because these structures were built like some of them had 100 rooms damn 100 rooms like you can look at pictures and
00:31:52
it's beautiful it it looks crazy now because it's almost like mummified but it almost looks like how Greece was
00:31:58
built yeah you know what I mean yep you're right yeah it's beautiful and one such structure can actually be seen now
00:32:05
because the lake has dried up so much you can go see the structure with 100 rooms that must be really
00:32:12
fascinating to look at but also terrifying I don't know it's just ominous you know like something lurks
00:32:19
within just because it was buried underwater yeah that's the thing now archaeologists begin to study this lost
00:32:25
city that would later become known as Pueblo Grande de Nevada Nevada sorry Nevada we got it they kind of started
00:32:33
really getting gumption into their studying of this place right as plans were being made to construct the Hoover
00:32:39
Dam and subsequently fill in the lake so they had to start hustling to uncover all kinds of artifacts that they had
00:32:45
already begun finding so they knew they would find more and through their searches they found ancient weapons they
00:32:51
found skeletons they found different like different buildings different structures so just way more than they
00:32:57
bargained way more than should be under a lake way more than to be under a lake exactly and the thing is like all of
00:33:04
these things all of these relics are just going to teach us more about the civilizations that came before us so of
00:33:10
course digging like crazy trying to get this done before the lake fills in they were literally digging up to the point
00:33:17
where the lake was being filled like they were pouring the water in and the people were like hang on one sec
00:33:22
like I found something what the [ __ ] one man said archaeologists were working there until the lake was Rising around
00:33:28
them can you imagine being so frustrated you're like no let me get the rest of this and it's literally like like we
00:33:37
have to put a lake here yeah like can we just can we postpone it can we just put
00:33:41
on the lake really quick for real and it's great that they stayed there that long because now there is a museum in
00:33:46
Nevada featuring everything they found uh it's called The Lost City Museum and it was actually founded by the national
00:33:52
park system and they have these like massive wall-to-wall cases just filled with ancient artifacts and Relics it
00:33:59
looks so cool I want to go so oh damn we need I never I'm not I feel like I never
00:34:04
was like interested in going to Las Vegas I'm just I don't gamble at all yeah it's never really been something I
00:34:09
wanted to do yeah but now I'm like let's [ __ ] go to Vegas I want to go to these museums so there's another Museum
00:34:15
that I'll mention later that I want to go to as well there is a lot of interesting things there that I think
00:34:20
get [ __ ] overshadowed by like the the like nightlife yeah exactly 100 now again I had said there is more than just
00:34:28
uh one City Beneath Lake Mead there are multiple actually I think there's three if you're getting technical so this
00:34:34
other civilization was founded by Mormon settlers and they named it Saint Thomas
00:34:38
after the main leader of their group Thomas sassen Smith these settlers in particular had been sent out by Brigham
00:34:45
Young one of the first leaders in the Mormon religion and he basically wanted them to go out
00:34:50
there so that eventually there could be some kind of like Trail set up between Utah and this area of Nevada
00:34:56
so they find this area they see that it's Rich for farming it's a little off the grid which is great because they can
00:35:02
live amongst themselves and Tom assassin Smith and the group that he was traveling with they founded this area
00:35:09
and at the time they thought that they were actually still in a section of Utah and they knew this muddy land would be
00:35:16
great for farming so they're like awesome it's 1865 we're christening This Place St Thomas let's live here and they
00:35:22
did for about five years this group of Mormon settlers lived amongst themselves they farmed the land they built a church
00:35:28
that they all went to together and I don't know they just vibed they survived together but then in 1870 there was a
00:35:35
survey done and it turns out that this small chunk of land was actually determined to be Nevada's piece of land
00:35:43
so they were like oh you guys gotta pay us back taxes now and you've lived here for five years so
00:35:50
you wanna hand that one gold I was just gonna say somebody hand me a calculator yeah they owed a lot of money and also
00:35:58
it was like kind of a dick move like okay just grandfather the men like technically I was in Nevada that's true
00:36:03
but now it is and so they simply didn't have enough money to pay that so they left the town abandoned some of the
00:36:08
buildings were burned down like they burned down their houses and businesses I think probably because they were like
00:36:13
you're not gonna keep this like [ __ ] so gnarly it is and everybody left except for one family and perhaps that
00:36:21
family was onto something because St Thomas would actually be revitalized once more about 20 years after this
00:36:28
so toward the 1880s the town was reborn when Farmers again realized how great the soil was and they began harvesting
00:36:34
the land all over again so these settlers actually welcomed back some of the Mormons that had previously been
00:36:40
kicked out and the town really started to ramp back up again eventually there were hotels Bridges cafes another church
00:36:47
was constructed and things went well for another 50 years so they lived like in peace and Harmony everything was cool
00:36:54
that's always fun it's like David scoby it was like everything was fun yeah it was when everybody started dying exactly
00:37:00
nobody died here yet it was just that President Coolidge signed off on the Hoover Dam being constructed and the
00:37:07
residents of Saint Thomas were told that they could live there they had another they had about seven years until this
00:37:12
whole project was set to get into place but they needed to make arrangements because in seven years they were going
00:37:18
to bury their town in hundreds of feet of water yeah that yeah yeah um I can you just like imagine somebody
00:37:25
knocks on your door and they're like yeah we're gonna um the city that you live in so you can do you mind just
00:37:31
figuring out somewhere else to go like how do you respond to that because like your whole means so much to you I
00:37:38
can't imagine being like yeah we're gonna flood it yeah and like you can never go visit it again or anything like
00:37:43
that like yeah that's just it's just like you're literally like okay like that's just so like what do
00:37:51
you say don't I mean you definitely please don't do that but they're just like we're going to
00:37:57
though yeah they're like President signed off on it sorry president's orders that's uh you gotta get out of
00:38:03
there enjoy the rest of your seven years though please don't like I don't I what
00:38:06
else you're like okay I guess I just abandoned everything I've ever loved and known so they can fill it with water
00:38:11
like cool cool cool it's so strange like you've it was it was it like linear that
00:38:16
yeah it was the same it was whenever you covered these ones and you say that I'm
00:38:20
always like what the [ __ ] like you just get first what the [ __ ] don't ever knock
00:38:24
on my door but you get a knock on the door and they answer back then nobody yeah the ring camera I'm like I don't
00:38:30
know you nope actually excuse me the Simply Safe exactly um but like I just what what you're just like hello I'm
00:38:37
like okay that's bad news no that's not great so pretty much everybody left because they really didn't have another
00:38:42
choice they received a very again just like Lake Lanier a very small payout it was not at all what their not enough
00:38:48
that they would need to start completely over from scratch that's the thing and it's like you're not only leaving your
00:38:54
home but you have land like they should be paid appropriately for that that's the thing they were not and Legend has
00:39:00
it that one man stuck around until The Bitter End this man is called Hugh Lord and he won was not going to accept such
00:39:07
a small payment for his home and his land and two he didn't actually think that the water was gonna rise as high as
00:39:13
the plans laid out he was like I think they're making this a big [ __ ] deal and it's not going to be that big
00:39:17
they're over exaggerating everybody do not worry Unfortunately they were not over exaggerated slightly wrong and I
00:39:24
don't know how true this story is because this sounds a little wild but it said that he realized one morning how
00:39:30
wrong he was when he woke up to his bedroom filling in with water I'm like would they be like allowed to
00:39:36
do that I feel like that would be uh jarring I feel like it would so he is said to have packed up all of his things
00:39:43
got his rowboat he had a row boat ready just in case yeah he set his home on fire and just rode away from it like
00:39:50
what and shortly after his departure Lake Mead was officially filled but as we know it would not remain full forever
00:39:58
so aside from the Lost Cities and the boats that I mentioned are now re-emerging there's also something
00:40:03
pretty [ __ ] wild that technically hasn't or not technically it just hasn't fully emerged yet but we have a view of
00:40:10
it that we've never had before I showed you this and I feel like you're gonna freak you out so crazy this Wild
00:40:17
Thing That is slowly like coming closer and closer to the surface is a B-29 plane that has been sitting in Lake Mead
00:40:25
since 1948. I hate it so this plane it previously was used to survey the Colorado River
00:40:34
and the day that it crashed it was actually running a test flight over Lake Mead so it's unclear really what exactly
00:40:40
went wrong to cause it to crash but when it did it sank so deep that it wasn't traceable now I will tell you luckily
00:40:49
the five people on board were rescued nobody died oh thank goodness everybody survived the crash that's wild so it was
00:40:55
not great but it would be 55 years before the plane was even discovered which happened in 2003 and it was only
00:41:02
because the water levels were of course starting to deplete now even now it is pretty deep down and you do need scuba
00:41:09
gear if you want to go check it out um but if scuba is not your thing I found this article that had a photo from
00:41:16
an aerial point of view and there's this sliding cursor that you can move to see
00:41:20
before the water levels started sinking and then after so first when you're looking at it with like the cursor like
00:41:27
slid over you would have no idea that a plane is lurking below just looks like a
00:41:30
body of water no then you slide the cursor and the view changes to like the after point of view and you can see the
00:41:37
top of this plane again it's still submerged but you can see it like this massive [ __ ] plane just sitting there
00:41:44
I hate it so much when you showed me this picture I was like I hate it I hate it I hate it I knew
00:41:53
there was one more I hate it extra one and another means of transportation also re-emerged very
00:41:59
recently actually in July of this year um I showed you a picture of this too a World War II Higgin ship which was used
00:42:07
for uh soldiers to storm the beaches back during World War II now a lot of these particular Boats were actually
00:42:13
used on D-Day during the second world war and this particular ship that now sits slightly in the water but mostly
00:42:20
sticking out it was a surplus ship that was originally sent to also survey the Colorado River much like the plane I was
00:42:27
just talking about but when they didn't need it for that job anymore it was sold to one of the
00:42:33
marinas at Lake Mead and they actually purposefully sank this boat and the reason they did that was to Anchor this
00:42:40
structure that protects the marina from harmful waves oh okay if the water gets too crazy
00:42:45
so when it sunk it it sat 185 feet below the surface and now is almost completely like above
00:42:55
the surface that's too much when like that's too much that and that gives you too much it
00:43:01
used to be a hundred and eighty feet below the surface and now is like completely that 185 feet of water has
00:43:09
depleted and it's just gone like what that's oof it's so creepy this is akin to like anything to do with oceans or
00:43:20
space where it's just like too much it's too overwhelming like it gets to be a point where you're like oh oh too much
00:43:25
so scared can't rationalize that in my brain no the other thing is this uh this like body of water is what we use for
00:43:34
drinking water for like 40 million Americans yeah that was a little concerning okay so there was like an airplane
00:43:42
lurking below a [ __ ] World War II ship um and we are going to talk about some bodies that are also below and an
00:43:51
ancient city that like we don't even know completely or multi excuse me multiple ancient that we don't even know
00:43:58
like what's lurking behind that land a handful of ancient cities underneath and we're just like oh yeah put that in your
00:44:04
Brita filter and drink it up it'll be fine definitely put it in your Brita [ __ ] film yeah for sure Jesus holy
00:44:10
[ __ ] so creepy no so and sad too because this is a real problem if this water keeps depleting at this rate like 40
00:44:18
million Americans I think it was actually over 40 million Americans are gonna need to find a different source
00:44:23
for drinking water it's so wild how are we at that point guys I'm like we gotta do something we gotta do something
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asking about all of you people on Twitter and Instagram all of the bodies that keep washing up
00:46:38
or being discovered in Lake Mead now in March of 2017 Lake Mead was actually named the deadliest park by outside
00:46:45
magazine and that was even before these bodies started washing up the lake really does get a bad rep because
00:46:51
there's a high amount of death associated with it a lot of people have drowned out there not necessarily in
00:46:57
like a lake linear way with like lost souls pulling you underneath I mean maybe that is the case but it kind of
00:47:03
seems more like people swimming out farther than they intended to and getting tired along the way or jumping
00:47:08
into the water from high up and not realizing how strong the currents are as well because I think when you hear Lake
00:47:15
a lot of times you're like oh Lakes are chill but this like I mean it's massive and it's the wind out there is strong
00:47:21
like the currents get crazy oh yeah because it's true you sync with Lakes like it's just gonna be like glass right
00:47:27
like really smooth you're not gonna have to worry about ocean [ __ ] right but you
00:47:31
do and drownings actually account for most of the deaths at the lake but there are also vehicle crashes there's been
00:47:36
homicides I guess and there's been Falls and suicides and actually when outside magazine named Lake Lanier the deadliest
00:47:44
Park they weren't even counting the deaths that were by Suicide wow which is really sad I know now as the lake is
00:47:50
drying up like I said a lot of partial remains are being found as well as whole entire bodies a man was recently
00:47:57
discovered inside of a barrel with a shotgun wound to the back of his head now some people think that this murder
00:48:03
was probably a mile pit because it does sound that way certainly Rings like one definitely does the man was found very
00:48:10
badly decomposed but still wearing actually some of the clothing that he had obviously been wearing when he was
00:48:16
killed including a shirt shoes and a belt now because of the style of the clothing it's believed that this man was
00:48:23
probably killed in the mid 70s to early 80s the mob Theory comes from the fact that
00:48:29
around the late 70s and well into the 80s the areas surrounding Lake Mead were Rife with all kinds of mob activity and
00:48:38
actually the Mob Museum which is the museum I want to go to it's in Vegas a set of the time quote it
00:48:46
was the most violent period in Las Vegas's past an era of unprecedented Street crime and underworld killings
00:48:52
damn and Mobsters were known to kill their pick their victims excuse me particularly with execution style murder
00:48:59
oh yeah so that's much like how this man was found so it's definitely a good theory but it has not been completely
00:49:05
proven yet and historian Michael Green he said or he lived in the area around this time and he did agree that the mob
00:49:12
definitely was known to take their victims out execution style but that most of the time he said people were
00:49:18
killed outside of the city and away from it all because they didn't the mob guys
00:49:22
didn't want to tarnish the gambling industry which does make sense so there are a lot of theories about who
00:49:28
this man could be and the first Theory comes from actually some of the employees at the Mob Museum oh they are
00:49:35
pretty sure like they they're really into this lead they think the man inside the barrel could be a man named Johnny
00:49:42
Papas now while he was still alive Johnny was said to have connections to the Chicago outfit which is a
00:49:48
chicago-based crime family and Johnny himself was from Chicago so it's not crazy to think that that's possible yeah
00:49:54
the leader of the Chicago outfit was Anthony the aunt spelotro I love the names it's like my favorite thing ever I
00:50:03
know it's like super [ __ ] but it's a name just the name the names are just hilarious they are the ant the ant what
00:50:09
about the ant is scary but then I'm like is it like he's the ant like they can carry Anthony they can carry a million
00:50:15
times their body weight oh I didn't even think and they can devour like a whole rotting thing and like can they really
00:50:21
carry a million times their body weight I don't know a million was like but they
00:50:24
can carry but they can carry an absurd amount over their body can carry a couple Crumbs from time to time oh yeah
00:50:31
they can carry more than that ew yeah I hate that my stepdad had this theory that like we're ants too like wear
00:50:38
somebody else's ants and it used to really creep me out that is so heavy he was a very emotionally unwell I was just
00:50:45
gonna say was he like dropping acid at that point or something well I mean you know what I'm doing so like potential
00:50:50
that's wild no he was doing like worse than that but yeah you know he had some theories but he had some thoughts he had
00:50:55
a lot of thoughts that like I don't particularly share damn yeah so Johnny Chicago yay Aunt uh not yay Aunt the
00:51:02
aunt worked with four different casinos quote unquote overseeing operations oh yeah I bet he did yeah but he oversaw a
00:51:10
lot and word on the street was that the ant and his guys were skimming off the top and that Johnny Papas might have
00:51:17
known about it because Johnny worked at the casinos uh he worked in the Las Vegas Hilton and at Caesar's Palace both
00:51:24
of those casinos he also managed a hotel called Echo Bay on Lake Mead and Echo Bay was run by a company that was said
00:51:33
to open up different properties to use as fronts for spending mob money for spreading mom money excuse me
00:51:39
so One Day in 1976 Johnny just simply vanished he told his wife in the morning that he was gonna show somebody his boat
00:51:46
on Lake Mead because they were interested in buying it but he never showed back up and they found his car
00:51:53
missing like four days later and they were like ah this is not good something went awry I eventually they found his
00:51:59
car abandoned they found it so it wasn't missing they found it it had been yeah so over
00:52:04
the years it's been suspected that the ant and his guys might have rubbed Johnny out which by the way doesn't that
00:52:11
expression just creep you the [ __ ] out yeah because it just makes you think of
00:52:14
like a big picture yeah and you're just rubbing a person with your thumb yeah it
00:52:19
creeps like that's not how that works I don't like it so yeah over the years many people suspect that the ant and his
00:52:26
guys rub Johnny out and by the way if the name Tony spelotro or any of this story sounds familiar to you that might
00:52:33
be because he inspired one of the characters in the movie Casino ah Nikki Santoro played by by Joe Pesci oh okay I
00:52:41
was inspired by the ant the ant ah now in August of this year a gun was actually found pretty close to where the
00:52:48
body in the barrel had been discovered but it has not been determined yet if this gun was used in that killing okay
00:52:55
but another woman who actually was contacted to give a sample of her DNA thinks it's possible that her brother is
00:53:03
the man who was found inside the Barrel in May of this year she said that when the barrel was
00:53:08
discovered quote I just knew it was him I still feel it's him oh now This Woman's name is Barbara Brock and she
00:53:15
explained that her brother Bobby Eugene Shaw went missing about 45 years ago and
00:53:21
she was told by the police that based on the condition of the skeletal Remains the time period of when he went missing
00:53:27
could make sense like he could be the body in the barrel okay and they asked if she would submit her DNA oh damn and
00:53:33
that's like pending that's pending and Bobby was said to also have connections to the Mob oh okay so like I
00:53:42
said Barbara was asked to give DNA and she did and her nephew also gave a DNA sample
00:53:47
um they gave their samples over I believe in May of this past year but the police think that it could take a while
00:53:52
to get a definitive answer like at least a year oh wow really yeah I guess it takes a long time to be like a DNA but
00:54:00
she feels very strongly that this is her brother and the police the fact that they did ask for her DNA
00:54:06
they're at least trying to rule it out they are now William Crespo has been another name brought up as potentially
00:54:12
being the man inside the barrel back in 1982 which I don't know about that he was arrested at an airport because he
00:54:20
was trying to smuggle a [ __ ] ton of cocaine back into the U.S we are talking 400
00:54:26
000 worth of cocaine I feel like that's a lot uh today it would be 1.2 million dollars worth of cocaine so you are
00:54:32
correct that is a lot many many cocaines uh he also had connections to the mafia
00:54:38
as well but when he was arrested at the airport he gave information to avoid a heavy sentence eek his testimony against
00:54:46
these people involved in the mafia actually led to 10 indictments and after that he disappeared oh yeah I would say
00:54:54
so so my question though is did he disappear because like uh revenge or was he placed in the witness protection
00:55:01
program yeah you know and it's like already disappear in huge somewhere else yeah exactly like he just disappeared
00:55:08
because he had to yeah or they killed they did kill him but they just put him somewhere else exactly doesn't
00:55:13
necessarily have to be this one no and based on the timeline I don't know how likely it is that he's the guy inside
00:55:19
the man inside the barrel excuse me because he was arrested back in 1982 yeah so it would have been like well
00:55:25
into the 80s and they're thinking more like mid 70s early 80s so it could happen but yeah it's like right on that
00:55:31
Fringe but like it sounds more like he disappeared because I think too yeah I think the other two are strong quickly I
00:55:38
do too there's uh one last name the last name I saw is a potential to be maybe a
00:55:44
match of the uh to the body in the barrel was jay van dermak he was in charge of running a slot machine
00:55:51
operation for the mob at the Stardust Resort and Casino when the Stardust was raided back in 1976 he left Vegas real
00:56:00
quick because he was like I'm not gonna get caught up on that but he did get caught up in that because there are
00:56:05
rumors that he met with the mob to hand over the seven million dollars that he had made for them oof but it was
00:56:12
discovered that he had kept three of those Millions to himself and was later killed because of that
00:56:19
so it is also possible in 1976 you never know I would say that the strongest two
00:56:24
leads are probably Johnny Papa's and Bobby yeah definitely I think so too so that's the body that was found inside
00:56:31
the barrel and remember that was only in May of last year so I'm hoping by next may like we could have an answer and if
00:56:38
it is Barbara's brother at least she'll she can have that yeah at least she knows where he is right what happened
00:56:44
because I was watching an interview with her and she said like she'll see somebody on the street that looks like
00:56:48
him and like stop them or like try to get a better look at them she's like constantly searching so it would be nice
00:56:54
so she could at least have some kind of closure as a weird word but yeah I don't
00:56:57
think I feel like we've learned over this like these past few years yeah that closure isn't the best way to describe
00:57:03
it but but some semblance yeah at least so now if you are a fan of paddle boarding I don't know if the next
00:57:10
Discovery will be for you or not I'm not so let's go me either uh so recently two
00:57:15
sisters they weren't us because we're not into that no but they went paddle boarding out on Lake Mead and they got a
00:57:20
little bit more than they bargained for uh-oh they were paddling along and they saw what they thought were the bones of
00:57:26
a bighorn sheep so they go over to this area and they start digging because they're like holy [ __ ] like is that what
00:57:31
that is is that a bighorn sheep is this a big horn sheep put a random thing to think it is I know I don't know if
00:57:36
they're like uh bighorn sheep aficionados yeah or I don't know if like bighorn sheep are frequent flyers in the
00:57:42
lake maybe they are I'm not sure it's pretty cool though so they start digging and they realize it becomes very
00:57:48
apparent very quickly that this is not a sheep one of the sisters Lynette Melvin
00:57:51
explained to the reporters later it wasn't until I saw the Jawbone with a silver filling that I was like oh this
00:57:58
is a human and started to freak out oh yeah that must be wild I can't imagine I hope that I hope that doesn't happen
00:58:05
ever so in investigators handling this specific case they haven't been able to determine a cause of death for this set
00:58:11
of remains like but we kind of have we but we basically have the answer they said they don't expect Foul Play but
00:58:17
later the remains were identified actually as those of a man named Thomas earned uh he had been reported missing
00:58:24
20 years ago on August 2nd 2002. he was 42 years old and he went out for a boat day with his family he jumped into the
00:58:34
water and it sounds like the currents were too strong and he started drowning but he was kind of a jokester so at
00:58:41
first his family thought he was joking no but then he started screaming like I'm serious I need help never joke about
00:58:47
drowning everybody no exactly and then he was not so his family went to get help but by the time they got back they
00:58:54
couldn't find him because horrific the currents are so strong like these currents can take a body hundreds and
00:59:02
hundreds of things it originally was now in Thomas's case like I said it took 20 years for his body to be located but
00:59:10
thankfully he was able to be put to rest and his family got some kind of semblance of peace and he was actually
00:59:16
able to be identified because there's a long list of missing people who went missing while on Lake Mead
00:59:22
so the police were like going through that list trying to like just narrowing down narrowing down exactly and Thomas's
00:59:29
son got a call asking if he could provide DNA to hopefully match up to the remains so Thomas's son and his daughter
00:59:35
both agreed to give DNA samples and sure enough it was a match his son told reporters I mean of course it's going to
00:59:43
close a big chapter just knowing he's at peace now after so long but it is definitely big news and I don't know if
00:59:49
I was ready for it I don't think you're ever ready for that no it's just like so
00:59:53
sad but I'm also happy that now they have a place to go visit exactly you know so more and more remains are being found
00:59:59
at Lake Mead a lot of them by the way are partial sets of remains that hopefully can put it can be put together
01:00:06
and potentially identify more missing people connected to that area and a lot of investigators believe that
01:00:12
this is really just the tip of the iceberg and that there are going to be a lot more remains a lot more relics just
01:00:18
like a lot more oh yeah that Lake Mead look at what has already been found and it's like we're just starting to have
01:00:24
this we're just scratching the surface like quite literally literally it's wild um but they say that it's not a reason
01:00:32
to stop enjoying the lake they do want people to continue to enjoy the lake but they also are urging people you know
01:00:37
this is like we need to do something about this we'll have to figure it out um the lake Meads National Park and
01:00:45
Recreation division Chief David Alber says I think people need to understand that this is a big place Lake Mead
01:00:51
covers one and a half million acres of land between Nevada and Arizona and we've been here as a recreation area in
01:00:58
one form or another since 1936 when the Hoover Dam was established damn this has
01:01:04
also been a land that people have seen moving through it for thousands of years between Native Americans and early
01:01:09
settlers blurs so to so to be surprised that another set of human remains has been found Is Not Unusual
01:01:16
now like I said there's been a lot of remains found I think I believe five sets of remains including the body and
01:01:22
the barrel have been found and it's hard to say if how many more are going to be
01:01:27
found because people are thinking that there could be hundreds more along the surface officers are getting calls every
01:01:34
single day to go out and investigate like a new lead but unfortunately sometimes it's things like skeletons
01:01:41
that like scuba diver scuba divers Left Behind like way back one as a joke oh geez so they're going out to investigate
01:01:47
that and then they're like no it's like like a Halloween skeleton yeah exactly yeah exactly or like they'll go out to
01:01:53
investigate and it's just animal bones because again it's a national park recreation area
01:01:58
now oh so shocking everybody there are also some reports of hauntings in the area why can you explain why that would
01:02:05
be I just didn't so people have heard crying and weeping when they're in the damn's power plant uh they'll hear
01:02:13
footsteps when there's nobody behind them sometimes people have even heard voices that don't belong to anybody in
01:02:19
their tour group and everybody will like turn their head and be like what the [ __ ] was that and it's a disembodied
01:02:24
voice and a man has also been seen in the dam he's dressed in what's referred to as old-fashioned Park clothes and if
01:02:32
you catch a glimpse of him you better not blink and you better not make any move toward him because the second you
01:02:38
do he simply poofs into the air oh like it should not even go anywhere near him he's like goodbye he's a shy one he is
01:02:46
and it's believed that he could be one of the many men that were killed during the construction of the dance uh yes 96
01:02:52
men were killed on the job and that number doesn't even account for people who died either like at the hospital or
01:02:58
home later crazy people also claim to hear activity coming from the abandoned Mead Lodge
01:03:05
which was once an up and running place for guests to come stay the weekend at the lake but they eventually closed down
01:03:10
when the lake like went further and further out yeah couldn't really enjoy it anymore again due to climate change
01:03:16
and I saw a few videos on YouTube of people just like exploring the abandoned Lodge it's got this creepy desolate feel
01:03:24
to it now and the air is said to feel very heavy inside oh I hate that and that my friends could be part one of
01:03:32
like me because I'm like are we gonna have to do a part two and more of these probably remains are found and look who
01:03:37
gosh knows what else is going to be found oh man that was intense it was interesting a lot it's the most no
01:03:46
wonder you guys were requesting that that was interesting ominous fascinating terrifying there you go and phobia
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