The Bhangarh Curse: Inside India's Legally Haunted Fort

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[SPEAKER_00]: Picture this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're standing before ancient ruins as the sun bleeds over Waza-Stan India.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A government guard approaches with an official sign that reads, entry prohibited after sunset.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But this isn't about safety.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is Bengar Fort.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The only place in India

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're 11 million people died in a catastrophic famine, where two competing curses claimed to have destroyed an entire city overnight, and where 266,000 visitors come every year hoping to encounter something supernatural.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tonight we're unlocking the doors to India's most notorious paranormal destination.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hello friend, welcome to the haunted bunker, where mysteries hide.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Shane Waters, and tonight my brother Josh and I are cracking up in one of Asia's most infamous haunted locations.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But first, if you are a long time listener, you've probably noticed a few changes around here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Stick with us, we'll explain everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, if you're a long time listener, you've probably realized when you looked at our artwork today, but it has changed a little Josh, you know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, oh, the did you change the?

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[UNKNOWN]: You looked around.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, where?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Where?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, oh, where?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know, you do stuff random.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The true challenge, Josh, do you remember what we changed our podcast name to?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I was looking.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Here we go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was looking through our text this morning to try to, like, what?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, what did we decide on, was it the haunted bunker?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He got to look to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I wanted to make sure I said it right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was so nice because we have such a devoted group of people on Patreon who are just so sweet and nice and yes, and so like we had their help.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that what you need about our show is that we have the the small group of people there who are just so devoted no matter what we're doing like they're always there and always communicating.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and so like when we were thinking about like hey guys we should change our name because everyone is getting us confused they think we're a scuba dude yeah everyone's thinking that we're going to be talking about old scuba dude episodes and then you listen and then like there's a gay guy talking about his charades and then there's mysteries and so it's just not what people don't

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[SPEAKER_00]: Shane and Josh, we were really excited about getting our patrons involved in this new change and helped us go through some names of what they would want because what was really important when we were all talking about it is like when we think about the podcast like it's our community really that makes it special to us because we're not doing this podcast for money like we're not here because we're making money from it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're here because it's filling our cup

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And a part of filling that cup is the community behind it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's you listening.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That helps me when we record too, especially now that we just spoken to them on Patreon various apps for over how long has it been?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Is this our third year?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's our third year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it's third.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're trying to ask them to be in the middle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, I love going on Patreon.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I asked them questions.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But you guys know us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We are ADHD, DDD.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We are all the D's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We had it down to like four names.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we asked them on Patreon.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then we got a whole bunch of like new names.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're never going to pick one because I like these now, too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, she has.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We did finally settle on the haunted bunker, which is great because we do, of course, record in the bunker.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's haunted.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, which is true in itself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: For Geist.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, so I love it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love the fact that the haunted bunker is a name that is accurate because we do record in a haunted bunker.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I love the fact that when you start listening, you're in the know when you know what the name means.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like BVD's.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But you have to be a long time listener to change.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And what good cult does I have a bunker?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was eventual.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That is so true.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we are really a cult.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We got a bunker, but no Kool-Aid.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, we like to have a subtitle, too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here you go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here you go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The haunted bunker, where mysteries hide.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just want that so much.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it just, I feel like if someone's like, hey, Shane, would you like to visit a haunted bunker?

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[SPEAKER_01]: We have pizza, I'd be like, yeah, I sure do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would love to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: How you get me in the white van.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right, exactly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's where Shane goes, and that's where he disappears.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He just goes down to that bunk, we don't see how tired her hair is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right, but yeah, so we're pretty excited and we're excited to bring you guys along for this next journey of this show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And this whole time that we've been talking about changing the name of it, it's you listening that makes what Josh and I have been doing this entire time worthwhile.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you appreciate a girl's yeah guys, yeah, she's safe, but you'll probably notice that you're not hearing I'm annoying for this today Who who is that?

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[SPEAKER_01]: He has transitioned to spirit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She is now the ghost in the bunker.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We couldn't guess so lucky My gosh, can you imagine there'd always be this weird smell around here?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, Kim isn't going to be joining us for a while because she's going to have a grand baby soon, so she's going to be focusing on that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just let it over a month away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, her own grand baby.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that, we're getting right into winter today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, she lives a long way away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There will be some new changes with the new branding.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so we'll roll those out a little bit slowly as we go along.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One of the things that will be a new, which is some feedback that we always receive, that we are going to start doing our mystery at the head of the show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I am a head expert, so I think so.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We will be doing the mystery at the head of the show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then we'll talk a little bit at the end, but then we'll save most of the conversation for unmasked.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's where we'll get into the nitty gritty.

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[SPEAKER_01]: People just don't like our banteries.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, they just get so wrong, she about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It goes past 5, 10, 45 minutes and I just...

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And look, like here we go after our 12 minute reign.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was gonna say it hasn't been half an hour already.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, friend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's time to descend into mystery.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's travel to India.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, I'll go ahead and get into my mystery.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is that okay with you if I go first?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Alright.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, when I picked this mystery, I really wanted to do it, but I also knew that I was going to butcher the name of this place, but I was so excited to do it, but I looked up pronunciations.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're a long time listener, you know, that's not going to help.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm gonna do my best.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, you looked up, that's effort.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is, but when you are white trash from Northern Indiana, it's still not going to you anyway.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're talking about, I've never been trash in my life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, well, imagine you're standing in front of ancient ruins at sunset.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A guard approaches with an official government sign that reads, entry prohibited after sunset.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing unusual about that, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Except this isn't about safety.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is Bangar Fort.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In Rajansthan, India.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Rajansthan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sure, you know this place.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It sounds vaguely familiar.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Josh's like, it just names this place often, like anyone who's been there or knows India or if you're from India, then you're like, yeah, on at me in this podcast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Idiot, that!

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[SPEAKER_00]: Look, okay, I don't, I've never been there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Teaching myself Spanish.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, locals call it legally haunted.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now the archeological survey of India posts sunset warnings at thousands of historical sites.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But only one has earned a reputation that brings 266,000 visitors every year, hoping to encounter something supernatural.

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[SPEAKER_00]: People love a good go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, here's the thing, Bungar Fort was abandoned in 1783 after a catastrophic famine killed 11 million people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's how they do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's how you go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, historical records document exactly what happened.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So how do two competing curse legends claim they destroyed this place?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And why did people invent supernatural explanations for what history books tell us?

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what we're going to dive in today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do I have all in?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I will.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's start with what the history books tell us happened.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because even that story is pretty remarkable, even if you don't look at the ghost stories.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Construction began in 1573 when Rajah, Bogun-Wat-Doss.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bogun-Wat-Doss.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When that person built the fort for his younger son, he must be a relation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Botto says, right, Botto sing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, this wasn't some backwater outpost.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This location was strategic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was right on major trade routes, connecting Delhi to the Aravali region.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And here's what makes this family interesting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Motto sing's brother was,

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[SPEAKER_00]: These names don't sound real, and I'm not laughing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My mystery makes me feel like it's from India as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But when you have people with the last name seeing, I don't know, I just feel like I've written their names down wrong.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm trying not to make fun.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I'm trying not to laugh at the name.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just like, I'm trying to pronounce it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I feel like I'm making fun of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not trying to, but then I start laughing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But here's what makes the family interesting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: want of Emperor Akbar's famous nine jewels of the Mogo court.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now this family was at the absolute center of power.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bungar flourished.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The town grew to around 10,000 houses with bustling markets, trading spices, textiles and grains.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The architecture was impressive.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There were three massive walls, five gates, temples with intricate yellow stone carvings, grand mansions, and a royal palace

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, picture this place at its peak, merchants would be shouting in the marketplace, priests would be conducting ceremonies in nine different temples.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The royal palace was overlooking everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This was a proper city, but then trouble hit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: around 1630, Charter Singh's son died violently, possibly in battle, his death marked the beginning of instability.

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[SPEAKER_00]: His son inherited a weakened domain, a weakened kingdom.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then in 1720 the ruler of Jobhore forcibly took over this kingdom.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Mughal Empire was collapsing,

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[SPEAKER_00]: This isn't all my script either, so don't let that go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He got a book.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the records say that the town, quote, gradually diminished in population as trade routes shifted elsewhere.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The final blow came in 1783.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Charlie South Famine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This wasn't just about Harvest, it was catastrophic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A severe weather event caused Moon Sun failure across northern India.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The numbers are staggering and estimated 11 million people died across the region.

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[SPEAKER_00]: rainfall dropped by more than 50% in some areas.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Around Delhi, 60% of villages were completely abandoned.

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[SPEAKER_00]: People were starving to death by the hundreds of thousands.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bangar already weakened by decades of decline didn't stay in a chance.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Historical records are crystal clear.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Since the famine of 1783, the town has remained uninhabited.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a quote from the records.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, according to the historical documents, those historical records weren't talking about the place being cursed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There wasn't people mysteriously vanishing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was people were dying because they were starving to death.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mass starvation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was one of the deadliest famines.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The historical record was pretty clear about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But here's where it gets pretty interesting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There are two completely different curse legends that start coming up and they both are coming up both claiming that they both destroyed this region.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now neither one of them appears in the historical records, but they're both folklore that's pretty important to understand because although the historical record doesn't quite agree with it 100% there still could be some truth within the

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[SPEAKER_00]: Some of them that I'll explain will talk about tales of powerful figures.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Some of them will talk about some supernatural revenge and some things like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The first one is referred to as the holy man's shadow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now this first legend involves Babba Baloo Nath.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now this was a holy man who was meditating on the hills where Rajah wanted to build his fort.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When asked for permission, the Holy Man agreed under one strict condition.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No structures shadow could ever fall on his dwelling.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If violated he warned, the fort in the entire city would be destroyed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now according to the legend, construction went fine during motto Singh's lifetime.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone respected the shadow boundary.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But later, during Ajab Singh's rule, motto Singh's grandson's ambition took over, and Ajab Singh's raised the palace.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He raised the palace's walls higher, casting shadows across the Holy Man's retreat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the moment darkness touched that sacred place, Baba Balunath, pronounced his curse.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The fort would be destroyed and no one could ever live there again, as the curse goes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The village was mysteriously abandoned overnight, and all inhabitants disappeared or died.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now here's what makes this legend stick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Baba Baloonath's tomb reportedly still exists within the fort today, and locals believe

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[SPEAKER_00]: will cause an immediate collapse of the roof.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and some sources even report deaths of people who have tried to rebuild roofs on those homes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It looks like open light.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And for hate.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's pretty compelling imagery.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You'll have a holy man who gives a pretty strict warning.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You have an arrogant ruler.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You have divine punishment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It all follows that classic curse structure, perfectly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But there is more because there's a completely different curse story

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[SPEAKER_00]: Related at all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This one is called the princess and the sorcerer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love it already.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So this is the second legend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it involves princess Rottenau Vt. She was allegedly the daughter of Chottersing described as the jewel of Rotterston when she turned 18.

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[SPEAKER_00]: According to the story, her legendary beauty attracted marriage proposals from across the region, including obsessive attention from Singa, a local sorcerer who practiced dark magic, knowing his low status made marriage impossible.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sinha devised a magical scheme.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When he saw the princess's servant buying perfumed oil in the marketplace, he enchanted it with a powerful spell.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When applied, the magic would make princess fall in love with him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the princess had some knowledge of magic herself and sensed the trick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Instead of using the oil she threw the bottle onto a large boulder,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would have put it on a page.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The moment that the enchanted oil touched stone, the bolder came alive, rolling with tremendous force toward the sorcerer, it crushed him, mortally wounding him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As he lay dying, consumed with rage, he pronounced his curse.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bungar would be destroyed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No one would ever live within its walls again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All who lived there would die.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All their souls would never find peace.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What an asshole.

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[SPEAKER_01]: First he tries to roofy a princess with magic and then gets pissed at a backfire.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sounds like a man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.

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[SPEAKER_00]: According to the legend, the very next year a fierce battle erupted.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The princess was killed along with most inhabitants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Locals believe she's been reborn elsewhere and hope she'll return one day to lift the curse.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A temple dedicated to her reportedly exists within the fort and is supposedly a paranormal hotspot after sunset.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the thing about this princess is there is no historical records that confirms that she exists.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She doesn't appear in court records that we would still have today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And contemporary accounts don't mention her, at least by name.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's possible that she is just made up as a part of the folklore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think it's interesting because you have two completely different folk laws or two different completely legends about what happened to the place.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What we do now is the boulder is real.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There was a boulder.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now the archaeological survey of India, which is what they call the ASI,

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[SPEAKER_00]: They managed 3,650 protected monuments across India.

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[SPEAKER_00]: At many of the sites, they post rules that you can't go in there after sunset because of safety concerns.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's like here too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like you can't go into parks after dark and stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't want people to hug and ride.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's from Harry Potter and it Darden kissing and making an hour.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, I learned it from windy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I don't think I don't think Harry Potter would mention dogging.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm not talking.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's an argument.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe kiss and maybe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I called a snoggin in the owl.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you

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[SPEAKER_00]: At this place, there's a sign in Hindi, and it reads, entering the borders of Bungar, before sunrise, and after sunset is strictly prohibited, legal action will be taken against anybody who does not follow these instructions.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If I had a dollar every time I've been into a park after sunset, honey, that's how we had to do it back in the day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's also why I have a good tolerance for poison ivy to this day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, somewhere along the way, the sign that I just read to you evolved.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so it got changed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The phrase legally prohibited got changed into legally haunted.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's nice that they even put legally prohibited here in America.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You will be shot or cops will not be called.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Once they put legally haunted, that's when this area became viral.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's when everyone was like, I don't know what's going on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so the idea that India's government had officially declared the size haunted, like really got the public's attention and got everyone else like, what's going on over here?

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[SPEAKER_01]: because the government's, oh yeah, yeah, let's play Sprite Haunted.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And don't mess around there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and so the place does use it as like their marketing angle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the ASI says for their actual reason for putting it on the sign, they did it for safety wildlife protection and preservation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The fourth sits near a tiger reserve and at night you've got bingo tigers, Indian leperds, sloth bears, and hyenas in the areas which are real dangerous and they don't want man eaters.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they don't want people to be hanging out in the dark

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the fact that you have legally haunted people are, they don't care about all the dangers they're like, oh, right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're not worried about a tiger.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They want to see a spirit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So because of the legally haunted stuff, it became a tourism gold rush.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So between 2022 and 2023, visitors numbers jumped.

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[SPEAKER_00]: from 184,000 to 266,000.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus Christ over a year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's 44.5% growth in one year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My bedroom's haunted.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's really active when a big bearded daddy is in the room.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So any big bearded daddy's come check it out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not 200 and something thousand.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, this place is now considered one of the most

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[SPEAKER_00]: in India, and one of the most haunted places in Asia when it comes to a notorious paranormal destination.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I wonder if it really is or if it, you know, the power of suggestion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.

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[UNKNOWN]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, with all of those people flocking there, there are a lot of ghost tours and history tours and all the things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, the economic impact of all those visitors is pretty significant for the area.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can buy souvenirs that are all ghost themed merchandise.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There are tours selling cursed stories, there's hotels that advertise their proximity to India's most haunted place.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But here's what makes this fascinating.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The haunted reputation has actually helped preserve the site.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Locals generally avoid the ruins after dark, not just because of the ASI rule, but because they genuinely believe in the curse that fear has stopped vandalism, theft, and unauthorized construction.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the supernatural reputation has become an accidental preservation method.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Ghosts are better than any security system.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So what do people actually report experiencing at this place?

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[SPEAKER_00]: The stories are pretty consistent.

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[SPEAKER_00]: People are reporting the same type of stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're hearing a lot of strange sounds, they're hearing whispers, footsteps, bells, jingling.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Shadows moving between ruined structures, feelings of being watched, cold spots, equipment problems, cameras and phones dying despite having full batteries, strange lights, and photographs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Some of the more dramatic claims include a group of boys who had allegedly

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[SPEAKER_00]: workers who died falling into wells during restoration work.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Deaths attributed to the curse rather than safety violations.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tourists reporting panic attacks, or overwhelming fear when approaching certain areas of the fort.

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[SPEAKER_00]: particularly where they say the princess is temple or the Baba Balu Nests is too, where they report those places to be, is where people are talking about how they're feeling all those feelings.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if we look at it from a skeptics point of view, the experiences could be explained pretty straightforward.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you look up pictures of the fork, the shape, it's possible that the wind going through it could, that's what we ate like.

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[SPEAKER_00]: sound that mailed sound like whispers like I've been in old like churches and stuff where there's when coming through windows and you're a hell it sounds like a big alley and when you go to places where you know something really bad has happened like you become hyperware especially if you believe that it is correct or noticing more and you're yeah all your senses are on high alert yes and because

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[SPEAKER_00]: It naturally will create unusual shadow patterns as the light shifts and there are monkeys and other wildlife that move throughout the entire structure during the day and at night and that can cause the impression of hearing footsteps.

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[SPEAKER_01]: See in a shadow past your real quick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah and they live all around it so you don't always hear them or see them but you can hear them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And there's also psychology, if you visit a place, believing it's haunted, your brain very well may interpret unclear things as paranormal, a shadow may become a ghost, a breeze may become a supernatural presence, you remember the weird moments, you may forget the normal ones, but

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[SPEAKER_00]: maybe in his haunted.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think maybe just because you can explain, okay, yeah, the wind is coming through here, but that doesn't necessarily always mean that like for me, I don't think that fully explains everyone's feelings and all of the experiences.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think I would have to

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[SPEAKER_00]: As an outsider, I'm not here to disprove everyone's experiences.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what my job is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're just giving both sides of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, for sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think like I would have to go there and I would have to like, oh, that does sound like a whisper.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That could be the wind.

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[SPEAKER_00]: or that can't be the wind because it's not windy right now and I'm hearing whisperer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Even now we'd be a little biased just because we know that it's advertised as haunted, whereas I would prefer to go to it without any knowledge of history.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're haunted and make up my mind after that visit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I agree falling.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I thought the place was really interesting, especially because millions of people died there really quickly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's bound to leave some residual energy in it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Especially something as brutal as famine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You starve to death and slow die and all your family that make me a little eager to stay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not ready yet, not like this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I don't die anything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My biggest fear is dying embarrassingly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: As a gay man, I hope it's not like, oh, something flew up his ass and a car crash and a metal rod goes up his ass and kills me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'd have some words with the creator.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A little bit sharper too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'd die annually.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's that good call for me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's not many ways.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think about dying, but that's one of them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just please the universe And that's the last room Even that I could get by.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like I I'd find peace in it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh It's so quiet down here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Glove Like blanch on the golden girls.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, baby.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Glove

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was the rest of my mystery.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Pass any.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Had you heard it before?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I had not to my knowledge.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you've heard it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have to hear how the name is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You should have to do that sometime.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I used to watch a lot of ancient aliens.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Some of them don't stick.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When they start getting too deep into the bullshit of, oh, that's when I like start tune and now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, I know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, you're just pulling hairs now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Come on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not everything's a ghost or an alien.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I agree.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a couple shows that they have going on that are like, oh, caught on tape, and I'm like, no, they're just showing all fake stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, even TikToks and whatnot, they'll be like, there's this weird creature in the woods and it'll be some guy in an Amazon costume.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they all use the same sound.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It sounds like a gorilla, you have words, but it's literally the same audio clip on all these people's videos.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like how many people are following for this shit?

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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of them, apparently, by the comments,

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[SPEAKER_01]: hearts, that in AI videos, I'm like, how can you not tell it's AI?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The one that gets people the most because a lot of people send them to me are the ring cam AI videos, which is a way AI uses that format because porch cams aren't the clearest and there's a little glitchy, so it's easier for it to make it look real.

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[SPEAKER_01]: These people really at her thinking these old ladies are feeding bears and tigers and shit from their front porch, like it's their house pet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, come on, let's send in me this bullshit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that's good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, friend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Before we close up the bunker tonight, I've got a story that'll make you say, well, you'll see.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Josh, before we end this episode, I have a shipfire story to tell you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, shitfire!

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, shitfire.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're new to the show, shitfire was, I sang our grandma used to say.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you don't know what it means, you'll learn when I talk to the story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Alright, gang.

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[SPEAKER_00]: For this shipfire story, we're traveling to March 2019 in Texas, just outside of Houston.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now we've all seen those signs a pet co, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: The all-leashed pets are welcome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Dogs, hang by the wolf, hamsters, bring them all in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But Vincent Browning and his partner, Shelley Lumpkin, looked at that sign and thought, you know what?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see if they really mean all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is a buffalo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they loaded up all of her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oliver is not your average pet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oliver is a 14-year-old African, want to see steer, who weighs over 1,600 pounds.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, get a quiet out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: His horns, they span nine and a half feet from tip to tip.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He got to fit down an aisle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking horns so massive that all of her has to tilt his head sideways just to fit through a standard doorway.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This animal is bigger than some cars.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He has his own Facebook page, in fact, with 42,000 followers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus Christ.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Vincent, a former 1992 Bud Light World Champion bull rider, has raised Oliver since he was six months old and takes him to rodeo events across the southern states.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And on Monday, March 18th, Vincent and Shelley pulled into the pet co-parking lot with Oliver on a leash.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They walked this massive beast right up to the automatic sliding doors, and here's where it gets beautiful.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oliver, like the gentleman he is, carefully, tells his giant horns to the side and walks through those doors like he's shopping for dog treats.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Why do you even get a bull at Petco?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They sell boli sticks, little dried bull penises, I don't think he wants that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I guess they probably would just eat dog food.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Bulls don't eat me?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Me Buffalo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do they not?

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, cows don't eat me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, grass, rain, and good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I chew it and good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sounds so dirty.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It does.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It does.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Inside pet coat employs absolutely lost their minds.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Instead of panic, though, they welcome them to them with open arms.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Customer started lining up to pet this big beast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Customers were pulling out their phones, they were taking selfies with Oliver in the aquarium section, and one employee walked right up and started petting him like he was just a golden retriever.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the moral of the story when a business says, all least pets are welcome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Apparently, pet codemines it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But shit fires have the matches.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just can't imagine walking in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And there's a big ass bowl.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd walk out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like this place is lost their damn mind.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I went into the pet's mart in monthsy before.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was in line in the person in front of me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought that they had a big scarf.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was a large snake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't realize it until it moved.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I like that's where they almost felt my body, a massive snake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And another time I was in there,

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[SPEAKER_00]: The person behind me and a person in front of me in line, I just, I don't know why there's people in line.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Had a big bucket and I assumed that they had boss stuff and they had a bucket, I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so they got up and they were asking the cashier question and they're like, So I was out fishing and I found these snakes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you guys know what kind they are and the ladies like working in the bucket?

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's no, and I need you to get those out of here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're not on a leash.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, what the crap are you bringing in like wild snakes and just leave them there It's like, no, we need to get those out of them I took these snakes out of their home in the wild and brought them to a pet store Yeah, that's why he was like, God, I was fished I found them in the, why river or something I don't acknowledge when people bring their different

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[SPEAKER_01]: pets into public spaces like that because I'm like I'm not giving you the attention you so desperately seek.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The only thing I like about the Big Ball is just that it was a massive ball and it was just so friendly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The fact that it just let people come up and pet it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just something about that just made my heart smile that was cute.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm also thinking about the employees as a former pet store

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[SPEAKER_01]: fake cats on the floor not it's horned not stuff off the shelves and what if it wasn't nice yeah what if it like all it took us one moment for it to be like oh you know what i'm over this i want to go lay down or one person that adjuice it needs to take so for us it will child that runs up to it pushes it yeah people used to bring in both dogs at the pet shop that i worked at and they're huge and to me i'm like i don't believe that the animal is going to buy anybody that's not my fear

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[SPEAKER_01]: My, I would, as a pet owner, I would be too afraid to bring, if I had an animal that could be dangerous into public, like a kid goes up to it and kids don't know to be easy sometimes and pulls its hair and it gets a little nip from the dog, what not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then now you gotta put your dog down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not risking that, just so I could bring my dog into the pet store.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I'd rather put the person down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah!

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna put my dog down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're kids, hold my dogs hair.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, thanks for joining us today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And don't forget that we have a post office box.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we want your postcards.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We have a wall of postcards.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We got some today and some goodies to try.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you guys need to come join us over on our bonus episodes so that we can try those with you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've been eyeballing this marshmallow butterfinger from Mary.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I see weeks now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank God I didn't it's been on my dresser in the package.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It came in and out of sight at a mind Or I would have eaten it because I did not remember it until last night and I put it in my bag and I was like Oh, thank God I forgot about that because I've had two weeks or more and I had to stop myself as soon as I opened it

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, we're going to go ahead and in this, our PO box will be in the show notes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it is PO box 690, Wabash, Indiana 46992.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can also find us on Facebook at Shanajosh's rabbit hole.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So just come on over, hang out with us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna have a jelly hole time, but we're gonna see you on our bonus episode right after this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you can listen to us, have some delicious snacks because I know that's exactly what you want us to do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we're doing it for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to us, chew it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we're doing it for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: ASMR.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, all right, we'll see you there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bye.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's going to do it for this trip into the bunker.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tonight we travel to Bangar Fort and Rajasthan India.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A place where 11 million souls perished in a famine were two ancient curses battle for credit and where the government itself warned you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't stay after dark.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is it truly haunted?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Or is it the weight of history pressing down on anyone brave enough to walk those crumbling halls?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're meant to be felt.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tell a friend about the haunted bunker.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Word of mouth is how we grow, and every share means the world to joshin me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And don't forget our PO box is in the show notes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We love your postcards, your snacks, and your stories.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Send them our way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: the lights are dimming, the bunker door is closing, the mysteries they're just getting started.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Shane Waters, stay curious, stay skeptical, and stay a little bit scared.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Good night friend.