Episode 156: Spooky October Stories!

you some Halloweeny stories this month. As I'm recording this. It just it must be. Halloween is so great my favorite holiday because that it's just so creative. I think people get more creative with their decorations and their entertainment at Halloween than any other time of the year. And also it opens people's minds in a very special way.

Of course, I grew up in the mysterious Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, and everybody around there really goes all out at Halloween time, and I think it really captures a lot of that old European sense that the origins of Halloween go all the way back to you know. And so here's what I do. I guess it's kind of a tradition. Now. Every October, I have to play for you this recording of me reading a passage from a novel that I wrote many years ago

called The Evil in Ashville. And this novel is it's all about the legends and the folklore and the mythos around Asheville, North Carolina. It's quite lengthy. I think it's about three hundred and fifty pages. You can actually get it on Amazon. They'll ship it to you in a couple of days. It's only about sixteen ninety five, I believe,

right now on Amazon. But here is just me reading about what Halloween was like for me growing up sort of coming of age as a teenager in the mountains of west for North Carolina, when we would all go out and get into fun and mischief and all that at a Halloween time. So I even bought the rights to the music in the background. So relax, let your imagination soar for a moment as you listen to me

describe what Halloween was like where I grew up. October thirty first, it was like the earth had died for a night, and on its last exhale, as the life slipped away, the darkness of the other world had oozed in to the void, left behind ever so gently, the sun had submerged into the grave of the horizon, leaving

behind the cold blue world to fend for itself. The leaves and trees were dry and crackly, and the air was so thin that it could not restrain the spirits of the dead, unleashing them into the helpless realm of the living. The color black had never looked blacker, and the lustrous moon above a mangy cat at the side of the road, and the fire in a jack o'

lantern's eyes never looked more sinister. The sky above felt bigger and bleaker than before, its infinite mystery overwhelming, and within each shadow, a spectral predator lurked and waited, watching, always watching. But amongst the more substantial underlying malevolence of the night, frivolities danced about its crust. There were rubber bets flapping from bands of elastic fabric, ghosts hanging from trees, grinning, gap toothed pumpkins at every doorstep, and the people, ah,

the people. It was like the world had turned inside out for a night, and all of society filled the streets. Both children and adults were decked in costumes of every kind. Witches, goblins, werewolves, frankenstein monsters, and grotesque slashed faces strolled every lane. Plastic cauldrons of candy sweets abounded. Houses were mummified with soaring rolls of toilet paper, dry eyes, fog rolled off, green fountains of punch, and floating apples were bobbed for from

wide germ filled vats and ghoulish garb. Storytellers sat around lapping campfires, relating creepy tales of the past, stories of hooks and hitchhikers, spook infested houses, heads and bags, cold blooded murders, and pranks gone terribly wrong, all of them true, of course. And at Helen's Bridge, teens gathered to spot the ghostly mistress, perhaps to find her handprint burned permanently

into the finish of their cars. At other places, like the secluded, vacant water tower, the open cut or Spidey Mountain, some of the more bold searched to find Satanists absorbed in their cursed rights. A human sacrifice splayed before them. Young men intrepid and dashing in their capes and masks, competed for the favors of young women dressed seductively and the revealing costumes of morbid tempery, smoke, candy, mischief, tales, spirits,

ancient evil, and the crisp air. This was Halloween, all right, So that helps you understand why that I enjoy Halloween. So much. And again that is from the novel that I wrote years ago called The Evil in Ashville. Look it up on Amazon. Ashville is spelled ashe V I L L E. Maybe someday that will become a movie, I think, I honestly think it would make a pretty good movie, but I don't have the energy to go make it myself at this point. Big job, big story.

And also now, as you know, I create, I own the Haunted Ashville Ghost Tours and we sell out every October. So you're going to be around Asheville, North Carolina, go to Ashville and to go to the Haunted Ashville website. Okay, Haunted Ashville dot com, Haunted Ashville dot com. Book your reservation there. But if you're on the west coast out here where I am around Las Vegas, go to a Haunted Bouldercity dot com and take my tour out here.

You know what I was talking in that passage about Helen's Bridge, which is one of the most famous places in the whole region around western North Carolina, and I've had a lot of experiences up there. I want to tell you, however, about one thing that happened to me on in October night when I went up to Helen's Bridge. And you must realize, now there's this mountain, it's called boke at Your Mountain that it sort of sits right there,

looming above everything in Ashville. And on this mountain is a castle that was built in the eighteen eighties called Zeelandia. That's because the man who built it went off to New Zealand and made a bunch of money, and so he called his castle Zelandia. And right outside of Zelandia, the roadway passes under this old stone arch bridge that

connects the top of this narrow ravine. And so the story goes that at some point, this woman named Helen hanged herself from that bridge because of a tragedy that happened at the castle that ended up in her daughter dying. And there are all kinds of different versions of that, and some more legitimate than others. When we come back from our break though, I'm going to tell you about what I personally experienced when I had a very creepy

evening one night up at Helen's Bridge. And then it's going to take an even weirder and darker twist into a story that is almost unbelievable. I do want to point out, however, that another reason I always loved October and Halloween, well it's the month of my birthday. My birthday is October twenty fifth, so I guess I always kind of associated the fun and celebration with friends and family around my birthday with all of the Halloween decorp

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free e newsletter for some free instant digital gifts. I am Joshua pe Warren, and you are listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast am Paraanormal Podcast Network, and I will be right back. Welcome back to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast

am Para Noormal Podcast Network. I am your host, the Wizard of Weird, Joshua P. Warren, beaming into your wormhole brain from my studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day is golden and every night is silver. Agia dotto zoome. And before I get into the spooky stuff, I recently asked all of you to pray for my and Lauren's little Chihuahua slash schupacabra named Lama, who is suffering from mouth cancer. And I am thrilled to report

to you that Lama is still with us. She is still bright eyed, she is still playful, she is still eating voraciously, and I mean, it's it's really, it's really amazing. And so many of you have been sending in prayers and well wishes, and I think it's working. And listen, this is an old dog and we know that we cannot keep her around forever, but she is getting the best care that money can buy and as much love as possible, and so we want her to be with us as long as as long as feasibly possible, and

as long as she's comfortable. We want to keep her energy around. And I don't think that at this point she would be doing so well as she is without your prayers and support and manifestations. And a lot of you have gone and bought things from the Curiosity Shop to help pay bills, because the bills are ridiculous when it comes to treating a dog with cancer. So I'm just so happy to report that, and please keep doing it it's just been a Lauren, and I are so

deeply grateful. You have no idea, so thank you, thank you. Now let's get back to Helen's Bridge. You know, it's one thing when you hear about a haunted place and someone tells you a story about it, or even if you go on a website and you see pictures of it, even if you see it on TV. There's a difference between that and going to one of these places late

at night, especially if you are by yourself. There is no substitute for that personal sensation you get, especially when you're under something like this ancient, old haunted bridge up in the mountains with nobody else around, no houses around, nothing. I mean, you don't see any sign of other people up there under Helen's Bridge when you're standing there, craning your neck back, looking up at this old arcs structure.

And you know, if you're interested in whether or not the story of Helen, the traditional story is true, well you know you can go read what I wrote about all that in my book Haunted Ashville. I don't have time to dig into it. That would be a whole show, frankly, but regardless of whether or not that story is true. There has been death and tragedy associated with that castle and that bridge. One of the owner's wives did die in a fire. There was a caretaker up there who

committed suicide back in the day. He killed himself, he shot himself in the head. I mean, there is there is death associated with this spot, and that's historically provable.

And one of the stories about this old creepy bridge up in the mountains is that and it's not a very big bridge, I mean it's you're talking about a road that's just wide enough for two cars to drive past each other, and then this through this ravine, and then up above, you know, you have this arch bridge that was i think originally just used to bring cattle

back and forth across that little canyon. And so one of the stories is that if you go up there under the bridge and you say out loud, Helen, come forth, three times, then something will happen. Either she will appear, or if you're in a car, your car will malfunction. In some cases they say that she appears and she will actually put her hand on your car and burn her handprint into the finish. So there are all these

different things that are supposed to happen. And this story, you know, it's been around as long as anybody can remember. Who knows when it started. We haven't been able to pinpoint the exact origin. It had to be sometime since eighteen eighty nine. So and in fact, I have a friend I won't give his name out because he might not appreciate he now, he probably wouldn't want me to

give his name. I have a good friend who grew up in the area and Helen's Bridge is one of those places where a lot of kids go to hang out because there's not much else to do, and they go up there and they try to rile up Helen. It also has kind of a lover's lane, kind of a lure to it. And so one night, and I think this was probably back in the nineteen eighties, my buddy and some of his friends went up to Helen's Bridge about one or two o'clock in the morning, nobody

else around. They climbed up this. Well, there's there. You're not really supposed to walk on the bridge these days. I don't know if it was cool back then or not, but it's and it is being historically preserved now. But anyway, you kind of like half walk, half climb up this trail and you can get up there to the bridge.

And so he and his friends they go out onto the bridge, and they didn't believe in ghosts, and so they're taunting her, and one of this guy, who's a good friend of mine, he says, I'm not proud of this, but he started calling her insulting names, saying, you're not gonna show up, you're not real, blah blah blah, you know, And of course nothing was happening, and so finally, as his ultimate display of disrespect, to see if he could rile up the spirits, he decides to relieve himself on

top of the bridge, and as soon as he did this, he got a horrible, sharp, searing pain in his lower abdomen and he literally doubled over and fell to the ground in his own you know what, and ended up having to be rushed to the hospital where he had this enormous kidney stone that had been just percolating in there for who knows how long, And he said that it was the worst pain he'd ever felt, and it was absolutely astounding that as soon as he did that

act on the bridge boomed, that thing hit him and he did not think he was a coincidence, and he said, never again will he ever insult the spirit of Helen on Helen's Bridge. So there are lots of stories that just about everybody has some kind of a Helen's Bridge story. Who grew up in the area, all right, So on one October night, and I'm thinking at this point in time, i was in my late teens. I don't remember for sure, but I was by myself. I was driving a Chevy Lumina,

and I had been in downtown Asheville doing something. I was meeting with somebody. I don't remember exactly what it was, but I would make sort of a habit back then of if I happened to be out by myself late at night, I would take a little detour and I would go home by way of Helen's Bridge because I just liked driving under that bridge, and I thought maybe I'll see something. So on this chilly October night, with the leaves crackling and a full moon all the works,

I'm thinking this was. You know, it's pretty late, it might have been around like, you know, midnight. I was heading home and I say, this is a perfect night to go up and see Helen's Bridge. No other car was around. I didn't pass anybody as I wound all the way up Bowcatcher Mountain, and then I got around, I rounded the bend, and there it was, in all

of its glory, the spooky Helen's Bridge. And so I eased up underneath the bridge, and I rolled down my window and I leaned out and I said, Helen, come forth, Helen, come forth, Helen come forth. And I sat there for a moment and I didn't see anything, and I figured, oh, well, just you know, just another night where I'm seeing this

is nothing but an urban legend. Then I pull out from under the bridge, and almost immediately, the lights inside my car start flickering and dimming, and I start hearing weird noises, and I'm like, what is going on? And I'm driving on these windy roads, and all of a

sudden my car is dead. All right. I had just enough momentum as I was going down this incline to be able to get the car into the entrance of a driveway, this really secluded driveway, and I thought, boy, I hope somebody doesn't come out of here with a gun and think that you know, who's this weirdo with this, So I just I was able to actually get out and continue sort of pushing my car, and I was able to get it. Fortunately, this driveway had a wide enough mouth so that I could get the car there.

Now this, I didn't have a cell phone back in these days. So now here I am late at night, all by myself in October, on this dark mountain, and my car is dead as a door naill. I think that's what they said about I think that's what uh Dickon said about Jacob Marley. Dad is a door nill, And I think, well, I certainly am not going to walk up to somebody's house right now and knock on

the door. So my only option is to walk back the direction I came from, go underneath Helen's Bridge on foot, and then walk all the way down bow Catcher Mountain. There was a bus station at the bottom, and from there I'd have to either use a phone at the bus station or across the road and use a phone at a store across the road. So I had quite a journey ahead of me. When we come back, I will tell you what that walk down was like. But that is far from the end of my spooky stories

about Helen's Bridge. I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be back after these important messages. Welcome back to Strange Things of the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua pee Wara, and this is the show

where the unusual becomes usual. I estimated it would take me, maybe even though I was going downhill thirty forty five minutes, to walk all the way down this mountain by myself. I certainly was not going to hitchhike if anybody came along. This is bad enough already, and work my way down, hopefully to the bus station where I could make a phone call and get some help, get a tow truck or whatever and so so here And at this point

there's all this fog that's starting to set in. I'm telling you you could not have created a better environment for a horror movie. Foggy, chilly October night, full moon. Here I am walking all by myself. The leaves are crunching and crackling because the leaves are off the trees.

They're halfway on, halfway off. Spooky is an understatement. So here I now am approaching Helen's Bridge again, this time from the opposite side on foot, and I'm thinking, oh boy, if anybody, if you're ever going to see Helen, this has got to be the time. So as I passed under the bridge, I didn't even stop and try to call her forth. At this point, I was too rattled. I just wanted to get out of there and get

some help, you know, I felt completely helpless. And right as I okay, I passed under the bridge, and as soon as you pass under the bridge, then I had to take a right to go down the mountain. And as soon as I did that, I heard behind me footsteps.

It almost sounded like somebody running in my direction. And I turned around and I looked back under the bridge, and I didn't see anything, but I heard getting closer, and then I saw a shadow start to move, and at that point I turned and I kept going down the mountain, and at a certain point I stopped, and I turned around and looked back, and I was waiting to see who this person was that was going to

come out, but it was silent nobody ever appeared. So then I turned and I started walking down, and then here are the footsteps that get by me, crunching the leaves. And I stopped, and I turned around, looked back fully expecting to see somebody. Nobody there. This point, my heart is racing. I walked even further down, and then there they were again, the footsteps crunching in the leaves. And I turned around and looked up at the bridge, and there standing under the bridge was a dark form, a

silhouette of a person. And I just stood there and I looked at the silhouette and it stood motionless, very clearly visible in the moonlight. Plus there was a street light that was not too far from that bridge. And I stand there and I see this figure with the fog kind of swirling around it and seething at the base, and it was standing there looking down at me, and I was looking up at it. And at that point I said, screw this, I'm out of here, and I

ran down that mountain and never looked back. And I ran all the way down till I got to that bus station. The bus station was closed. Actually, I don't know why. It's no longer even in business. So maybe they were going out of business at the time. I don't know. I ran up to the phone. It was out of service. Yes, again, just like a horror movie. So I had to cross the road Tunnel Road, very busy road in Nashville, and then I went over to

I think it was a Walmart at that time. It later became an Ingles, But I went over to whatever was there at that time, and I got on the phone, and I don't remember if I had a quarter or if I had to call to collect or whatever I did. I called my mom and dad and told them what was going on, and so they came and rescued me, and we made arrangements for my car to be towed the next day. And turns out that the alternator had died and it was just conked right out after I

went under the bridge saying Helen, come forth. Now that is a true story. Now you talk about timing, talk about timing. Was that the ghost of Helen or some other spirit? I don't know, but sometimes you just don't want to stick around to find out. Yes, I'm a ghost hunter, but you know that could have been somebody who was there to kill me. I don't know who it was, but that happened, and you know it's just well,

let me tell you the more freaky story. A few years after that, or not too long after that, I ended up in college. Okay. I went to UNCA, the University of North Carolina at Asheville, And in my first year I was studying philosophy. That was my favorite class, and my professor there was just a brilliant guy, and we really hit it off and we actually became friends

outside of class. Taking philosophy opened my eyes up in a lot of different ways, and so sometimes after class I would go to his office and we would sit down and we would just continue having conversations, and he would loan me books and videos, and I mean he was actually very fascinated in the paranormal and the spiritual

world and all that. And we were coming up on Christmas break, and I went to his office one day and he loaned me a bunch of books and videos about paranormal stuff to watch and enjoy over Christmas break. And when the break was over, I went back to his office to return these materials, and his office was closed, and then as I was about to leave, a professor stepped out of an adjacent office, and he said, are you looking for doctor? His name was doctor Howard. He said,

are you looking for doctor Howard? I said yes, and he said, well, I'm sorry to tell you doctor Howard is dead. He has passed away. And I said what, And I mean, it was just one of those moments where the jaw hits the floor, you know, And I said what happened? And the guy says, well, we're not sure, but there was a gun involved. Well, it turns out that my philosophy professor, who had a PhD from Duke University, had he had committed suicide. He shot himself in the

head with a pistol during the Christmas vacation. And I was just terribly distraught and grief stricken for a long time.

I mean, that really hit me hard. And then, much to my shock, not long after that, maybe like a week after that, I got a phone call out of the blue, and it was from his widow, and she told me that doctor Howard would talk about me with her and that she knew that I was investigating strange and paranormal phenomena and she asked me if I would come to the house to see if I could facilitate

contact with his spirit. I couldn't believe it, so I said, yeah, absolutely, and you know, this is still very early in my career, so to speak. So I got together with my friend Mark L. Spinnett, who he's a great investigator. In fact, I interviewed him on my old podcast, Joshua Pee Warren Daily.

If you go to Joshua Pee Warren Daily and do a search, and this is a podcast I did before I started doing strange things, if you search for oh, let me see, I have too many notes here, Okay, go to the Joshua Pee Warren Daily from November twentieth of twenty eighteen, and it's called a Rare Call with paranormal investigator Mark Ellis Spinnett where we talk about spirits, synchronicity, alien implants and more. You'll realize who Mark is. So Mark and I decided to get together and go to

this house. And I had no idea where he lived. And guess what, Doctor Howard lived in a house on Boketcher Mountain right there, right down the side of the mountain from Helen's Bridge. Yeah. I could not believe it, could not believe it. So Mark and I we went do the house and was very emotional and we sat there for an evening with his widow and I'll never forget seeing his PhD stained with blood, his philosophy PhD

stained with blood. And that was the first time I think that I was able to take out my instruments and actually make communication, interactive communication with a spirit from the other side. And I need to keep that communication private. It was very personal information that came out that was extremely meaningful to his widow. Basically, they had gotten into a big fight which upset him enough to do this,

or was the straw that broke the camel's back. And that was an eye opening night for me to see that I had believed that we had communicated with the spirit of a deceased person with the aid of some technology. And I wish I could tell you more, but I think I've said enough about that. And it's really just amazing that that was right there on Billketcher Mountain next to Helen's bridge. I can't believe this show is almost over already. We only have one more segment when we

come back. I'm not sure if I'm going to have time for listener emails or not. I might have lied to you on that because I have some other stuff that I want to tell you that you're gonna enjoy. I'm Joshua Pee Warren. 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 segment of this edition of Strange Things on the

iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren, and I meant to tell you this before, but it was one of those things where I ran out of time. I recently did a podcast about the trip that my family and I took to Colorado and explored the Rockies, and I told you that before that trip, I set up an apex machine to protect us all and to keep us all healthy and to make sure the trip flowed smoothly and all of that kind of stuff, and I was very

serious about it. I took a picture of the apex machine after it was set up, and then I would look at that picture occasionally throughout the trip. And if you don't know what the apex machine is, just go to the apex machine dot com. Theapex machine dot Com. Well, here is what I wanted to tell you before, and

I ran out of time. I had never been to downtown Denver, Colorado before, and our very first night, we got in late, and so I had already looked at some possible late night spots for us to go, eat, eat, and go to bed. And this was on a Saturday night, so I knew that it was everything was going to be really busy. But I picked out this one place that looked really good on the internet. I don't want to use its name, and that was like, this is

going to be our go to. So after we got checked into the hotel, we're talking to myself, Lauren, my mom and dad, my sister Jessica, her fiance Andrew. We all piled into an Uber very friendly Uber driver, and he took us over to this place that I had decided we were going to eat at. And when we got over there, it really just looked a little too raucous. It looked too packed, and it looked like it might

be too noisy. And so I said, okay, Plan B, because I you know, I had two or three options lined up, and I said, yeah, let's not go to that place instead, let's try out this other place. And that's how we ended up at this spot called the British Bulldog, where we walked in and ate and had a great time. Well, the rest of the trip went smooth asward, and then when we got when we all got back home, they went to North Carolina, Lauren and

I came back here to Vegas. When everybody got back home, I think, you know, like a day or two later, I was looking at the news and I saw Denver in the headlines, and I found out, to my shock that that night, that night meant I'm talking like minutes after we got into our uber and left, there was a shooting on that street, right in front of the

restaurant that we were originally going to go to. And I don't have the new story in front of me, but I'm I think multiple people were shot, and I don't I can't recall if anybody died or not, but multiple people were shot. There was there was a young woman who was trying to get into someplace and they turned her down for some reason, and she just got mad and took out a gun and just started shooting

and firing bullets down the street. And if we had ended up at that restaurant, that we had originally intended to go to. There is an excellent chance that we would have been standing out on that street waiting for an uber when that woman started shooting that gun and shot those people. An excellent chance. So you know, I tell you this because I know sometimes you might try to manifest things. You say, I wanted to manifest some

good luck, good fortune, nothing happened. This doesn't work. Well, I get your point, but I want you to also realize that sometimes this you doing that may have prevented something from happening to you that was really, really bad. So always keep that in the back of your mind. The other thing I want to also tell you about this Denver thing is that I mentioned before that I went into this oddity shop called the Learned Lemur, and I found this picture of Jesus and he's on his

knees and he's praying. I guess he's at the garden and the power of the heavens is beaming down on him. And it's one of these like old fashion three D pictures, and Lauren and I collect those and we use them to decorate parts of our house. And it had this big, heavy plaster frame on it, and so I bought it, but only because they agreed to ship it to me here in Las Vegas. Because it wasn't gonna I only had carry on. I didn't check baggage and all that.

So when we got home, this guy, who I guess is the owner of the place, he called me and he says, I got some bad news. He said, we had this picture of this three D picture of Jesus on this shelf, and this shelf has been holding all of our stuff for three years, but today decided to collapse and your picture fell and broke all the pieces this frame did. So he says, you know, how do

you want me to handle this? He goes, you know, I can give you a discount and just ship you the picture, or I can ship you the picture with the pieces of the frame. And I said, well, it's really weird. I said no, just you know, send us the picture with the pieces of the frame. Maybe we can put it back together. So he said okay, and he says, and I'm going to, you know, give you a refund on your credit card, partial refund. I said, great, thank you. So then days and days and days go

by and this thing never arrives. So I called him back and I said, yeah, I'm just wondering, you know, if I should have received this picture by now. And he goes, huh, you don't have it yet. No, he goes, oh, boy, let me see what's going on. So he went and he checked FedEx. He had sent it with FedEx, and he goes, this is really weird. He says, it's showing that it's still at the FedEx depot where I dropped

it off. I don't understand this, okay, So he goes, let me check on this and I'll get back to you. So then a few days later he calls and leaves a message and he said, you may have a cursed object here. He said, somehow, after I dropped this thing off at the FedEx, the label got torn off of it, and nobody knew what it was, and they had it

in the corner. But fortunately I was able to describe it to them and they opened it and confirm it was the and he goes, so they relabeled it and now it's being shipped to you, and he goes, and I hope it doesn't curse your house. So yesterday it arrived and so we have the plaster frame and pieces I don't know if we're going to be able to protect to preserve that or not. But we have the picture of Jesus, and look, I don't think it's a curse.

I just think there's something very powerful and wonderful and synchronistic of about this, this image that I'm going to be looking at from now on. But I'll keep you updated because that's not the only odd thing that's come into my house lately. I also, I'm very particular about accepting things that people send me. But I have a good friend I've known for a long long time, and he sent me the most amazing haunted doll that anybody has ever sent me. I can from what I can tell,

this is one of a kind. It's something really special, and I'm not ready to tell you more about it, but I would keep something like this more than at arm's length away. But this one, Lauren and I love so much. It's sitting in our living room right now, and I'm going to have a very complete story for you about that in the near future. I'm studying this

doll right now. So there is so much going on, so much going on, all right, So let me try to squeeze in at least one email, but hey, you know the good thing about this show is yes, I run out of time, but there's always next week's show. Here's an email that came in from Nancy in Houston, Texas, and she said, Joshua, I have to share my daughter's successes with the successful Employment sigil. After nine months of being out of work, she used the sigil as her

screensaver on her phone. Within the week, she obtained her dream job. I also use the SIGEL to look for employment and had several offers within a few weeks. I am a true believer in these sigels. Keep up the good work. I truly enjoy your podcast and sigils and the Curiosity Shop items. Sincerely, Nancy, Houston, Texas. Well, thank you so much, Nancy. That is a really nice email and I am just delighted that you have had success

with that. And I want to remind everybody listening that if you go to thesigitl lab dot com, sigitl is spelled s I g i L. If you go to thesigil lab dot com right now, we are accepting requests for personalized sigils. But even if you don't want to buy a personalized sigel. Just scroll down to the bottom and you're going to find a brand new luck and money sigitl that has the luck it's it's a luck sigitl that we created and it's combined with the money sigitl.

You have different versions of it. And then there's a section that says for more info on parasigmatic sigils, click here, and if you do that, you'll find a bunch of other free sigils, including the employment sigil that Nancy wrote about. And look, the great thing about these sigils is all you have to do is just look at them as often as possible throughout the day. That's it, all right, my friends, relax, take a deep breath. Here we go. It's the good Fortune tone. That's it for this edition

of the show. Follow me on Twitter at Joshua P. Warren. Plus visit joshuapwarren dot com to sign up for my free e newsletter to receive a free instant gift, and check out the cool stuff in the Curiosity Shop all at joshuapwarren dot com. I have a fun one lined up for you next time, I promise, So please tell all your friends to subscribe to this show and to always remember the Golden Rule. Thank you for listening, Thank you for your interest and support. Thank you for Day Curious,

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