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Coming up on Paratruth Reborn, we talked to Brian Byers
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about his conversations with ghosts in Savannah.
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Welcome, Welcome, Well do Parah Truth Truth?
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How's it going Paratruthers. Welcome to another episode of Paratruth Reborn.
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My name is Justin and I'm Eric. And today, as
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the beginning stated, we're talking to Brian Byers about his
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new book in their own words, Spirits of Savannah. Brian,
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welcome back to Pair True three Born.
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Thank you guys. It's good to see you guys again.
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Hopefully you guys are doing well. We are doing great.
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Mm hmm. I like that. Well, great is great is
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probably the better side of what you can be. So
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that's one hundred percent. So I think the biggest question,
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and we asked you know.
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Everybody, is why write this type of book or right
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this book period?
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Well I have a really great answer because now at.
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The publisher made me do it. We hear that.
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This is definitely self published. Well, there's a million Savannah
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ghost books, you know, and Jen and I we own
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you know, we own the Mystic Apothecary in Savannah, Georgia,
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and we also own Savannah Psychics we also own Savannah
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Ghost Tours, which those are the three businesses we have.
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And as we learned the tour You're ago, I developed
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it and maybe be what we wanted to be. We
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started hearing all of these stories from other ghost to
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our companies coming through and going is that. I, Oh,
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that's odd. I can't find that they're saying things and
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I can't find the information. And I'm a medium. So
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one day I'm in Right Square and I'm like hanging
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out and I can feel different energy in there, and
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I'm picking up on one of the spirits and I'm like, okay,
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I understand who this is. This is Richard Weist. So
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I'm like, let me just talk to him. Hey, did
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you guys get really hung from this tree? Matt? You know,
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I'm asking, like straight for it, like the punchline to
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the story. He says no, and I'm like, wow, that's
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wild because that's not what we've heard. Found out later
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it was a gallows. They actually we're hung from a gallows,
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not a tree. So the trees in Savannah they're really
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big and beautiful, and everyone says there's just one tree.
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They call it hanging tree. And everyone says they were
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hung there. Sure a lot of people were hung in
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that square, but they were hung by gallows. And Richard
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was one of the first, if not the first, And yeah,
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he said no, it was a gallows. How he didn't
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like to really talk about it much, but we got
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a little conversation going. I started thinking, we're going to
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have to change some of the things we've learned. And
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it took me years, you know, just sort of wandering
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around so that, you know, can I choot someone to
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talk to me, kind of get a voice, and I
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just started writing them down. And obviously when a medium
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gets words, we're not getting you know, we're not getting
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a written document that would be wonderful, that'd be amazing.
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So I had to discern what was being said and
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try to put it in their words the best they could.
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But that's why the book started. And I didn't realize
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it was going to be a book. I was really
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working on it for our tour guides and up being
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the book. So that's that's why I'm like, it's probably
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the It is the only ghost book I know where
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a medium is interpreting for the spirits, you know, in
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a city. So so it's their stories just trying to
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get it straight.
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Yeah, now, what led you into spirit communication?
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In general? You know a lot of people get led.
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I woke up when I was born and oddly have
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always spoken with different, different spiritual beings. And my mom
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figured it out early, you know, when I'm like, you know,
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a little kid. And it wasn't that I was led
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into it. It just I didn't know what was wrong.
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You know, no one ever said, oh, it's just your imagination,
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go back to bed. My mom was always well, tell
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me more, what are they saying? And I would just
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reveal more and more, and I think people started realizing
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and yeah, that's that, can't you know, that's that's not
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just like a make believe friend. They're actually really talking
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to someone and getting information. So you know, and Jen
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is like that too, my wife the same. We almost
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have the same story. We just were born a little different.
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I think everyone kind of is, but some of us are. Yeah.
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I always used a baseball analogy. You know, you can
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start a baseball team. You can be born a picture,
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but not everyone's born a picture. Sometimes you have to
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train to learn how to be a picture, you know.
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But Jen and I were born pictures, and that's just
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we've sort of done in our old life, and no
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one's ever told this not to, so it wasn't really led.
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But I think we were just not told not to,
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so we just do it. And I mean, Justin, I've
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known you for twenty five thirty years. I don't know, man,
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it's been a long time.
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It's been at least twenty close to when we started podcasting.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, back before there was no podcast and
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we were the first man we were the pioneers. But yeah,
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Justin evenknew back then. I was a little weird, you know,
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and I just knew things, you know.
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Well, that's the nice thing about getting to know you
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is not only have you become a very good friend,
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a brother, but also one of my best mentors. And
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you know, going through the spiritual awakening that I have
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gone through in the past ten years, fifteen years in
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two months, well yeah that too. You know. It's been
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one of those things where I need somebody to talk
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to because I can talk to my wife Shelly about it,
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but she has no clue about it. She doesn't understand it.
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I feel she is sensed, but she doesn't want to
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open that door. And I'm like, that's fair. Enough because
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if I wouldn't have opened that door, I probably would
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not want to either.
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So you know, some people they don't embrace it. You know,
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they go, oh my god, that freaks me out, or
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it's a little weird, or is my life going to
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change if I if I step through the doorway And
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the answer is yes, you're like, but it's not so
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bad once you get over here, you.
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Know, right, Yeah, you just gotta get used to it.
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Well.
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I think also a lot of people, at least as
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of the last you know, ten fifteen years, kind of
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base this idea of spirit communication and just mediumship, often
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like Hollywood, off of movies, and they think, oh, it's
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just going to blow up and my life's going to
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be like a mess and ruin and not be able
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to turn it off. You know, It's like, it's not
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quite that way. It's not how it winks.
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You're right, You're right, I mean, Eric, you actually hit
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on something there. Hollywood has really destroyed the whole idea
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of what really is happening. You know. I love listen.
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I'm a I used to be a movie director and
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a TV producer. I love Hollywood, I love movies, I
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love stuff like that. But man, they they take little
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kidbits that are good and then they ruin it. I
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think one of the better movies ever that shows a
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little bit of that is The Others. I think they
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did a great job in that movie. That's closer to reality,
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though it is a little dramatic. They're seance scene. That's legit, man,
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that is how that stuff flies and it is. We've
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had a lot of those experiences here in Savannah.
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So now what makes Savannah different spiritually compared to other places?
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It's just more better than other place. I'm not joking.
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Savannah is one of the only cities in the United
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States that is all here. I go, Yeah, a necropolis.
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It's like there's been so many battles, so many deaths,
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and no place to put the body. So they just
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build this city on top of dead folks. Like they
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were digging up the road two years ago on Broughton
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Street found six bodies. Man, they just there's thousands and
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thousands and thousands of people that have died here that
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never got a burial. Now do I believe that when
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we die we come back and haunt our gravesite? No? No,
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But I do believe there's a lot of unrest because
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of that. A lot of spirits that are they're not
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like whoo, They're more like, hey man, that sucks, you know,
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And I really I didn't see that coming. And battles
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are traumas. When people die from trauma, suicides and murders,
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they stick longer. I've noticed. They come through just as
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easy as anyone else, but they are little more amped,
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you know, they're a little more upset in going. That's
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not what I wanted, Undo, Undo, you know. So we
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had a lot of that here. We have the Pawnee,
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we have the Yamacros that were here first, the Spanish,
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they came in, fought the Pawnee, pushed them away. Then
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we had, of course, you know, the English Oglethorpe came
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over here to found Savannah in seventeen thirty three and
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brought a whole court of Highlanders with them and Darien
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just south of Savannah, thinking we were going to go
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to battle, and all these Scots came over with hammers
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and you know, swords, ready ready to fight, and everyone
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was peaceful. So they just drank and ate and had kids. Man,
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they just settled in. That's where our scott Irish come from.
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Our blood comes from that area. That's why Savannah has
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such a huge Saint Patrick's Day a big huge and
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a lot of the Irish here are their first slaves.
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People don't understand that we had they're the first ones
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that that came here. So Savannah has a lot of history.
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Uh so does Europe They've had even older history. The
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Savannah has a lot of history that they just decided
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to build a city on pop off and not like
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bury anyone. So we have a lot of burial grounds
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underneath McDonald's, you know what I mean, It's like, it's weird.
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Why are my fries moving by themselves?
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Who stole the nuggets? They're plugging in the numbers.
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So if you think Ghostbusters, you think Savannah.
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Oh one hundred percent. Man, you know they should have
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filmed it here, not New York. I'm just that would
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make way more sense, and it would have been a
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longer movie, maybe a trilogy. All that happened, you know,
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back to back.
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Well, now when it comes back to the book, like
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when did you realize that the spirits weren't just present
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in Savannah and around at this time, but we're actually
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building to talk and did you have to nudge anyone
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in order to get gaffstation starting.
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Yes, I had to nudge a lot, and I actually
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utilized my guide, my spirit guide, and I call him Rabbit.
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A lot of people don't know about him, and I
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know that's a weird thing to say, but very spiritual, angelic,
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high high order angel with a nickname. It looks nothing
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like a rabbit. Everyone wants to know, Oh, rabbit, how
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is he doing that? He's not that he's slightly intimidated
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and I'm kind of yeah. Times, but I had to
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utilize him to get words sometimes, so I had to
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do some things that are out of the ordinary. Most
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spirits love the talk. They want to come through, not
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men but women. But the one I thought i'd get
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them the highest was one of our loudest stories and
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Samannah about Alice Riley, one of the very first UH
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slaves that was hung. I thought I was going to
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get a lot of information from her. She hardly came
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through at all for me, probably because I'm a dude,
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and you got to be honest. People don't change a lot.
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You have to understand, you know, men hung her. She
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was you know, raped by men. She was treated horrible
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by men, beaten by men, and so why would you
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want to talk to this dude with a beer who's saying, no,
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I'm a good guy. Of course, that that's not going
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to work. So I had to use her her lover
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who came through, who was Richard, and so I got
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him to tell her story. So I had to do
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some tricks here to get this to get the book written,
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but I did get what I think is closest to
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the story. There's even one of the Keiko house where
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there's these young twins that there's no historical evidence that
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they ever existed. People are saying that's a myth. Well,
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the twins are there, so I don't know whose they
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belong to, but they seem to think they did die,
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and I think they did die in a fireplace that
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collapsed on them. It sounds horrible, but that myth came
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from somewhere, and I think there is truth to it,
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though there's no historical evidence, which you know, I can't
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say this is a history book. I can say, according
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to the voices I heard, it's a history book. So
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now I tried my best to get the story out,
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but I hate that I can't find some of this
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as historical evidence, any documents or anything about the twins.
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But there are certain stories that I go, oh, I
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thought that was a myth. Nope, it's true, but most