Episode 244: Joshua's Scariest Experiences!

You know, gosh uh, your old pal here, the Great and Terrible Joshua pe Warren sometimes just gets kind of worn out talking about uh deep philosophy and quantum physics and all that kind of thing. I mean, look, recently, what have I What have I talked about? Oh? I opened the Portal to Another Dimension. I did a show about the Shuman Residence, Scientific Truths in the Bible, Who

Killed JFK? The Heepaphone, Whona? And sometimes I just get worn out and I'm like, you know what, I think I'm gonna do, like a simpler kind of show, and hopefully you'll enjoy that as well. It's more like we're just kind of sitting around next to the campfire. One of the reasons that I say that is that, you know, I live here in Las Vegas and it's an international city, and whenever there's a bug going around, well, I'm very

likely to get it. Because one of the things I like to do, of course, is I'll go out to these casinos. You know, I'm not as big of a gamblers. You might think I'll put twenty bucks in, maybe one hundred, and that's all you need if you know what you're doing, Sit there and gamble for a while, get some free drinks.

But the problem is you're touching everything, and you're you're constantly touching these slot machines, and you know, if you're not careful, then you'll get a cold, and so I got I got a little bit of a cold now. And it's also it's funny when when you are in my position and you have a podcast and you say you have a medical issue at all, like, oh, I got a cold. All these people we'll contact you and give you advice on what to do. But you have to understand this is not live radio. This is a

recorded podcast. So I usually record these shows two or three weeks before you hear them. So by the time you've heard this, the cold is already over. So there's no need to send me your your well wishes or your recommendations. And you know, that's just part of life. I mean, you got to you gotta get colds once in a while, and hopefully that makes you a stronger person. So I said, you know what, I'm going to take it easy for this show. I don't know if it's

going to be a good show or not. You might think it's a terrible show. You might think it's super boring. But people ask me all the time, they say, Joshua, you have been investigating the paranormal for over thirty years professionally, what are some of your scariest experiences? And so once in a while, I'm like, well, you know, let me let me just go ahead and sit down and tell

you about some of my scariest experiences. By the way, before I get into this, you know again, I recently at a show about Who Killed JFK That got quite a reaction. Let's see, that was episode two thirty nine called Here's Who Killed JFK. A lot of people really enjoyed that show. And I just want to mention real quick here that anybody in history who wants to be the president of the country is kind of insane because normal people don't want to do that. Normal people do

not want to be in charge of a country. And our founders here in the US they knew that, and so that's why they put checks and balances and all that kind of stuff in there to try to to try to rectify the insanity of the egos that get

involved with politics. And I've talked a little bit about you know, I don't really I don't usually get into politics on this show, but I have said before that I think that that's an inherent flaw in the political system that normal, sensible, logical people don't want to get involved in that. So we end up with leaders in many cases who are kind of out there. And look, I'm an independent. I have my entire life. I've always been registered as an independent, and I have voted for

every party you can imagine locally and nationally. So I'm not here to say anything in particular about a politician, but I just think in general, people who want to go into politics, they obviously think about life differently than

we do. All right, My scariest experiences, Well, you know what's funny is that when when I meet somebody and occasionally, believe it or not, so many people listen to this show that sometimes I'll be at a restaurant or something and someone will recognize my voice, and sometimes they can confuse me with another person, you know, but anyway, they say, are you? And so then they start telling me like, oh god, you know, I bet your life has been amazing.

Tell me about some scary things that have happened to you. And I think they're expecting me to say that I have contra up a demon or something like that, and that this horrific demon has appeared. And you know what the truth is, I tried that. I made a documentary years ago called Inside the Church of Satan, and I was the first person who was allowed to go inside the Church of Satan in many many years. And I'm not even certain right now how you can see that movie.

But in that documentary, I mean I did a bonafide ritual and I tried to conjure up the devil himself or something similar. And I can tell you that I have never seen a demon with my physical eyes. It's possible, if you want to get psychic about this, that I've seen it with my third eye. Sometimes. I mean, I believe this. There's certain things that you can see spiritually with your third eye that you don't see with your

physical eyes. So you know, I could sit here and tell you stories like that, but I want to be practical here. And the fact of the matter is I have never directly with my own two eyes. I've never seen a demon like a little monstrous creature with horns. I've never seen an alien. I have seen ghosts with my physical eyes, So I mean that's a different story, because you know, I even took a photograph of well, I consider a ghost a ghostly mists up. You know,

Ghosts or ghosts are different. Ghosts are things that are trapped in the environment, and you just rarely get to witness them. You know. When I was in Puerto Rico, I used to hang out with all these old salty fishermen and they said that sometimes you get lucky when you were out there on the ocean at dusk, and if you just were gazing in the right direction at the right moment, you'd see the green flash, some kind of weird atmospheric phenomenon. The sun is going down and

then boom, there's a flash of green. And man, I was out there frequently looking for that green flash, and I never saw it. But it's real, it's a true thing. Finally, you can look it up for yourself online. I mean, somebody went out and photographed the green flash. So I mean there are things that are real, visual things you can experience that are very very rare. Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it's not real. And so it's rare. To see a ghost, You've got to look

really hard for him all the time. So I've seen ghosts. But you know, the funny thing is, I'm going to surprise you probably because when we come back from our break, I'm going to tell you about some of the the truly scariest experiences that I have had, and most of them are mundane and things that you can relate to. I'm not talking about some kind of craziness. I'm talking about things that are very, very practical and real. You'll

see what I mean. You know, I do this show because that you support it, and so it's a free show. If you want me to keep doing it, then all you have to do is go to Joshuapwarren dot com and click the link to the Curiosity Shop there. Even if you don't buy something, just look at the cool stuff there and consider buying something down the road for

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am para normal podcast network. And I will be right back. Welcome back to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast af Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, the Wizard of Weird, Joshua Wa P Warren Beam again into your worm whole brain from my studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day is golden and every night is silver Zoom. And if you happened to be near Los Vegas, you have to go take my Haunted Boulder City Ghost and UFO tour. It's only about a

thirty minute drive outside of Vegas. And I just recently updated the website with a bunch of videos from basically like YouTuber's influencer types who have taken the tour and done videos about it Haunted Boulder City dot com. And now that we're getting into the busy season, you know this would be the time to do it because we sell out frequently. You know, it's funny because all right, my scariest experiences. I was talking to doctor Molder the

other day, and I hate having telephone conversations. It's just I don't know if it's it's probably because that I have just talked so much for a living for decades, but he and I had a great conversation. It was over three hours. Maybe I don't know. Maybe it's also like a gen X thing I was looking the other day.

You know what gen X supposedly is. Let's see, it says if you were born between the mid nineteen sixties in the early nineteen eighties, you're supposed to be some kind of I guess that's what they call gen X. And I was born in nineteen seventy six, so I'm going to be forty nine this year. Maybe it has

something to do with that. I don't know, but yeah, we talked for hours, and it was one of those conversations and it was like when we were done, we go, you know, we should just get together and record ourselves having one of these conversations and make like a documentary

out of it. One thing we talked about was this method that doctor Moulder he uses all the time when he's about to try to manifest something, he'll take it's called pumping chi And at one point, I don't know if I still have this on my website or not, but I had this thing, this booklet on my website at one point where it was like an instructional booklet

and it told you how to pump chi. So here's the idea, Like, okay, if you want to manifest a powerful ball of energy, you sit there and you relax, and you put your your two hands as close together as you can without touching them, and then you bring them about six inches apart, and then you put them as close together as you can without touching, you know, palm to palm, and then two inches apart, and you keep doing this so you start filling this kind of

like magnetic sensation, and it helps if you rub your hands together and get them nice and stimulated. I'm doing it right now, as you can tell. And what happens is you start to build up this imagine it as a ball of energy, and then once you have this ball of energy, then you can place that onto your wishing machine or your tepaphone or whatever your manifestation devices. And he says that he does this all the time,

and that's one of his keys to success. And one of the people that I met who made an impact on me when it came to generating all that was Grandmaster Tom Cameron, who lives in Chicago. So I believe the very first time I went to Chicago, and gosh, you know, I was a pretty young fellow at that time. I was probably you know, certainly in my early twenties. I went to Chicago. Uh, and he was teaching me and other people how to create these kind of balls of chi and and fire them at things. And we

have been on television together. I mean, uh, well, he was on Ripley's Believe It or Not and Steve Harvey and then and then I was there on a show with him for the History Channel where we were measuring him blasting these balls of energy and so. Uh so one time I was at his house and I was crashing. He was so nice he let me crash in his bedroom. Uh, and I believe it again. It was the first time I'd gone to Chicago. And then so we had a pizza. He introduced me to Girdono's Deep Dish pizza. A lot

of people would say it's more of a pie. Whatever. Okay, if you've never had gi your Donna's, go go try it out. And so so one afternoon I woke up and we'd had a long night, and I walked out to his parking lot. Great because he kind of lived in like a complex, and uh, there was a dumpster there and I opened the dumpster to throw this pizza box away, and a raccoon jumped straight out of this dumpster, right at my face. That may be the scariest thing that's ever happened to me, believe it or not, a

raccoon jumping out of a dumpster. There was another occasion when I was growing up in western North Carolina when I had a friend who had a pit bull, and one evening we were outside and that pit bull went, I don't know, he didn't like me for some reason. Most animals liked me, but he went straight for my jewels. And if he had not had a good leash on that thing. Wow. And then one time I went to a lion habitat and this lion saw me. That was here in Las Vegas, they have a lion habit and

the lion ran up and started roaring at me. And you see, the scariest experiences in reality that I've had, just to be honest with you, have probably come from from wild animals. You know. When I was when I was a teenager, I went hiking one evening in the Blue Ridge Mountains not far from Mount Pisga in North Carolina.

I was with a buddy and I walked up on a black bear in the middle of the night, and that black bear, you know, he or she or whatever it was, looked at me, and I looked at it, and we just stood there, and then it turned around

and ran off. And I had the same experience, similar experience when I would camp at Brown Mountain where the Brown Mountain lights appear where because that's actually a black bear reserve, where I walked up on a black bear and then a black bear would turn around and run off. And then, of course you've probably heard talked about that time that my wife Lauren and I we weren't married yet, but we were living together and we had this house out way out in the countryside of West North Carolina

now Alexander, North Carolina. And this black snake slithered up into my bed one day, and let me tell you that was you know, I don't want to tell that whole story again, but I mean, like that was. I woke up and there was a black snake right there in my face, and this thing was I don't know why, it was angry, and it was hissing and striking at me. I disposed of that snake, and then a second one was right there behind it. So I've had a lot

of these, you know experiences. Well, I think that's what's scary. I think that wild animals are scary. Ghosts don't really scare me, to be honest with you. And and for some reason, I've always felt comfortable being in the water. I mean, when I lived in Puerto Rico, I used to swim way out sometimes at two o'clock in the morning, way out into this harbor where all these boats were. And I wasn't afraid to do that. Never been afraid

of men. Oh, women I think are scarier than men, because you know, a man will get up in your face, but a woman will just poison you. That's you know. I've had some nightmares, you know. As a matter of fact, I was told h less than a week ago, I was diagnosed with sleep app you know, so now I got to go have a seapat machine. So I've had

some pretty frightening nightmares. But you know, speaking of speaking of like animals, Uh, here's a I gotta ask you this trivia question before we go to this break, and then when we come back, I have some other interesting stuff. You know, I'm just riffing here. Okay, what do you think are the loudest animals on Earth? I'll think about that, don't look it up, don't cheat. What are the loudest animals on Earth? And then I have a story for you about this This lady, she wrote me a really

good question. She said, I have a hearted house. Well, look stick around. I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I'll be back after these important messages. Welcome back to Strange Thing all the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua pe Warren, and this is the show where the

unusual becomes usual. You know, I really want to take a moment to sincerely thank all of you who have been listening to this show for years and who support it in every way you can. You know, you put the word out there, you go to the website, you

buy things because you know ultimately that's why. You know, sometimes I feel like I can do kind of a silly show where I don't have to talk about like some super heavy topic because some of you are just like, hey, I'm along for the ride, and you've always been really ends in the ether, and because you know, this is entertainment at the end of the day. I'm not a minister, I'm not a doctor. I'm not a guru. I mean,

I don't even have kids. I didn't have kids because I was like, I should not be a father, just like you don't want I just I don't feel like I'm qualified. This is entertainment. And if you if you've been, you know, sticking with this show for a long time, and you're you're just along for the ride, then you know what you're You're the only thing that makes this worthwhile for me. So so thank you for doing that. And I do have, you know, a supernatural scary experience.

But all right, what do you think Let's get back to the trivia question. The two loudest animals on Earth. I could drag this out, but I'm just gonna jump right into it. They say the loudest animal on Earth is a sperm. Well, and I mean, obviously, well it's going to be loud. But then I have to dig a little bit deeper. And I thought, well, okay, well, what's the loudest animal that's not in the water, And my guess with some kind of frog or some kind of like a little thing like that. Are you ready?

Are you ready? It's a Howler monkey. So animals are just so bizarre in so many ways, and you know, it's always surprising, isn't it. That's why I think that if there are aliens flying around here, most of the time,

they're probably in the oceans instead of out in outer space. Well, one of my scariest supernatural experiences, and I won't spend too much time on this ironically, just because I've talked about it before, is when I went to Myrtle's plantation down there, and I guess it was Saint Francisville, Louisiana,

not too far from Baton Rouge. I was doing a television show and I was able to go down there a night or two before the crew arrived and stayed by myself and this suite called the General David Bradford Suite. And then late at night something started rapping on the door. And one of the that I'm proud of is that you don't just have to listen to my stories and think they're bs because I actually have videotaped a lot of stuff. Let's see here, I'm going right. I think

it's okay. I'm a YouTube Joshua P. Warren. Alone in America's Most Haunted Bedroom. Yep, that brings it up. Alone in America's Most Haunted Bedroom. This was published seventeen years ago. It has one hundred and sixty seven thousand views. And you can see that I was, in my opinion, I was communicating with an invisible, conscious, intelligent being when I was in this room, and I was the only on

the property that night, as it turned out. And you know what's always perplexed me is it's like, why is that scary? Because you would think that, you know, just because there's a there's a ghost in your bedroom, that doesn't mean it's like a scary thing. But there's something I found inherently scary about the idea of sort of an invisible person or an invisible intelligence being there. And you realize it, I mean you recognize it and you acknowledge it, and you go, Okay, I'm not I'm not

the only intelligent thing in this room. There's something else in here with me that's also intelligent and able to interact to some degree, and uh, I don't know why. Why is that scary? I guess it's just, you know, that fear of the unknown, just that it must just be that very general fear of the unknown. And I am sure that I've had other paranormal experiences, and like it's this is one of those shows where it's like, as soon as I'm done recording, I'll be like, oh, crap,

I forgot to tell this story or that story. I mean, it's like, well, you know, one time I went to this haunted house. It was a haunted farm in South Carolina, and I believe something followed me back from that farm. And I was sitting in my office about five o'clock in the morning, and all of a sudden, the door to my office just blasted open, and this cold, cold

air came in. And the craziest thing was that instantly I had a boombox and it turned on by itself, even though there were no batteries and it wasn't plugged into the wall, and the boombox turned on and started

blaring some kind of insane music. And I looked and it was one of those things where it's like with my third eye, I was able to see that there was some kind of a horrible dark entity in this room with me, and I just started cursing at it and saying every horrible thing I could say to it to try to get it out of there, and that

worked and then it turned around and it left. So again, you know, I'm kind of just riffing with this show, but I do believe that, you know, my scariest experiences in life have not come from animals, or excuse me, not come from ghosts. It's probably been animals because I don't know, there's just something so so visceral about an animal like eating you. I guess. I mean, that makes sense,

doesn't it. And when I do this show, I take a lot of notes about things that I just want to bring up, and you know, sometimes I just have an idea for just an interesting topic, because the great thing about this show is that it's called Strange Things, and that means I can just talk about anything strange, you know, it doesn't have to necessarily be paranormal stuff. And I got an email recently from Vance Pollock and he said, are you aware of this phenomenon of anomalies

in baptism photos? I said, no, I never heard of that, I mean, and he sent me. He started sending me pictures of people because you know, I look, I was raised, you know, Southern Baptist style and all that, and to be honest with you, I've never been formally baptized, which is kind of odd. I don't know why that is. But you know, for a lot of people, when they get baptized, it's a big it's a big, huge moment.

And so apparently there is this whole like field that I didn't know anything about where when people get baptized, they get their picture taken. I guess it's kind of like a wedding photo or something like that, you know, and then you get some kind of bizarre like orb or ray of light or a ghostly figure in the background or just like, you know, something crazy like that. And so, uh, yeah, I just never even thought about that.

So I'm tossing this out there. If you uh have access to what you think is a legitimate baptism anomaly in a in a picture, please, you know, contact me. Just go to Joshua P. Warren dot com and you'll scroll down you can find my email address there. I'm easy to find and I'd like to kind of like, you know, look at these things and see if there are any similarities. Nowadays it's harder than ever to analyze weird photos. But anyway, we're coming up on a break

when you get back. So this this this lady should email me and she said, I got this haunted house. She says, it's so haunted, and I want to know if I just burn this darn thing down and start from scratch and build another house, is it still going to be haunted? Good question, isn't it. So we'll get into that and a lot more when we come back. I'm Joshua pe One. You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network,

and I will be right back. Welcome back to the Final setment. I have this edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua Plurren. I just thought of another scary thing. When I was a teenager, one time, my girlfriend and I went to an amusement park and we were on one of those rides that kind of looks like a big pirate ship that swings back and forth, and for some reason, right when it got to the

upside down position, it stopped. I don't know how it defied gravity. So I got to hang upside down for a long time. I mean, it may have been as long as thirty minutes, to the point where like grease and oil and everything was running down out of this ride, all over our clothes. I don't want to say where that happened, because I mean, I trust me, I remember it. But you know, I don't want to get like a

lawsuit for saying something about somebody. But I mean afterward though, I mean, when they finally got us down, we of course went to the office and they apologized and they wrote us a check. It was not that much, though, I mean it was. It was a few hundred dollars and gave us new clothes and everything. And so if they happened to me today, I'd be on the phone with my lawyer so fast. I would not have signed

the settlement. But anyway, Hey, you know I talked about this raccoon that jumped out of this dumpster in Chicago. Here's a good question for you. Do you think that raccoons are more related to dogs or cats? I'll think about it for a second. Is a raccoon more related to a dog or a cat? Well, it turns out that according to scientists, they are more related to dogs. Of course they're not. They're not dogs or cats. Raccoons are part of this family. Oh boy, it's one of

those words tros preside, which includes ring taels. And anyway, they're more closely related to bears and weasels odd creatures. Huh. How about this now that we're talking about trivia? Uh, how do you spell potato? Remember dan Quell? He was struggling with it. Try to spell potato right now. See if you can figure it out. Well, it's spelled p T A T O and there's no e on the end. And do you think a potato is a vegetable or something different? Well, the answer is yes, it is a vegetable.

It's a starchy, tuberous vegetable native to the Americas. You see, this is what I do for fun all day. I just sit around and look up ridiculous stuff like this. I got an email from this woman and she said,

I have a haunted house. And she said, if if I tear this thing down and rebuild it will the new house also be haunted, and so, you know what, you'd think that that would be a head scratcher, but for me, it really wasn't much of one, because I said, I believe that it will still be haunted, because I think that hauntings are recordings most often than not, not always, but most often than not, hauntings are recordings within a

block or a chunk of space time. So once a particular section of space time becomes haunted, then it's going to be haunted. I don't you know, forever is a big word. I don't want to say forever, but for a long long time until perhaps that energy wears down, which could take hundreds or thousands of years. And then of course she had follow up follow up questions and about details, and I said, well, I recommend that you contact my friend Angela Moore if you because like I

just deal with my version of scientific answers. You know, I'm not going to try to interpret things. Let's see what's Angela Moore's website, Angela Fey Moore. Uh looks like it's just uh, well, there you go. It looks like that's it. Angela fey f A y E m O O r E Angela Faymore dot com. I would if you if you want to know, you know, something more specific, I recommend that you contact her. And then this guy

emailed me. Let's see, his name is John, and uh, you know I get I get hundreds of emails per day, and it's impossible for me to answer everyone, but I do my best to read everyone. And this guy named John, he said, uh, he was he was listening to what I said about opening the portal here next area fifty one, and he said, uh, I'm getting that your open portal may allow some particularly particularly nasty things to emerge through it.

What safety countermeasures are you using to keep this from happening? Okay, So I've been talking about this for years now, and so I just said, John, just go listen to this, and I sent him a link to one of my shows. But that wasn't good enough for him. So then he wrote me back and he said, well, what I meant to say is do you have a means of dealing with whatever might come through? And then he wrote a bunch of other stuff, a bunch of other stuff. You know.

I was going to read it, but I'm like, nah, I'm not even gonna read this. So basically, here's the point that I guess I'm making here. I've been doing this podcast for years, and if you are new to the program, if you're a little late to the dance, and you send me an email and you want me to catch you up on everything, that's not part of my job. So you have to go back and listen to the previous shows if you want to understand what's

going on here. But in short, to answer his question is, for one thing, it's already happened, and nothing bad came through, even though I do have a cold. It was that darned portal. That portal gave me a cold. It's probably hanging out with Forrest Connor International Flight perser. And then also another thing is it's like it has a kill switch on it. I mean it was designed so that I could turn it off immediately if something if I thought that something bad was coming through, I could turn

it off. Now that you know, that doesn't mean that in a split second, you know, some horrific demonic force might not be able to come through before I'm able to do it. But yeah, as far as I can tell, very very positive things happened from doing the experiment. With the portal. I'm just worn out because I'm tired. It's not you might not realize it, but it's not easy to open a portal. It's not easy to go into Rachel, Nevada in the middle of the desert and buy land

and open a portal. So but don't worry. Everything has worked out just fine. So yeah, it's been kind of a like I said, I've just been riffing for this podcast. But you know a lot of times people like that, so maybe you've had a good time. But believe it or not, the clock has got ess. So I tell you what we're gonna We're gonna end the show as we usually do, with the one, the only, the original

good Fortune tone. And you know what, if you have a glass of water or something like that, you might want to put it near the speaker to absorb this. But regardless, and and and then you know you drink it afterward. You should know the routine. But anyway, here it is the good Fortune Tom. That's it for this

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