I'm making a straight hardcore judgement call on this one Dad.
Dad was like, Dad was a straight racist.
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Now out with the show. Why does it look like that?
It's weird. No, it's weird.
It's the spirits, Gary. The spirits are.
It's the. Damn spirits.
Well, listen, I, you know, I remember touching on that a
while ago with you, that in this genre we're dealing with this,
there's going to be a lot of strange issues with equipment,
more so than in, you know, other things that you may have dealt
with in the past and you experienced it too, that time at
Forever Hollywood. I know it's a real pain in the
ass. Oh yeah, tell me about it.
That is why when I am on location, I literally have four
different flashlights and six phones ready to go because you
never know when something's going to be zapped, drained, not
work or act up. All right, well, we're getting
started here. Let's see who jumps in.
Who jumps in first? Let me get the let me get the,
let me get the chat up. I can't see it now it's like
some some reason like it's not refitting my browser isn't
fitting properly into the other. What up Heather Atten first one
in. You might need to spank if the
browser. Well, it's all right.
Heather Aiden, first one in thanks for coming.
Thanks for joining us today on Splintered Spirits.
Yes, thank you. Thank you.
Hello. Hello.
A few people and chips. Cassie, you're the first one on
AIG. What is going on?
Is anybody watching this on Facebook?
Let's see. On the book of Faces, I don't
know. See, that's a good question.
Let me get some bodies here, people.
In mind. Give him a minute, man.
Yeah, What's been going on over there?
You know, the usual little work here, little work there, a lot
of work here, a lot of work there.
You know, just it never stops. You know, either I'm working on
something or going through a replay.
That's life. That's what I've been doing all
day, back and forth. Making clips is like, you know,
we would, it would be great if we could make less clips if all
of you find people would tell at least 100 of your closest
friends that we're on. Yeah.
Every day, say listen to this podcast.
Send it to 100 people. It's Foxy approved.
And we would just get it. What's up, Tammy?
What's up, notorious? Yeah, What's going on,
everybody? Welcome.
Oh, you're a babysitting the
channel and nothing wrong with that.
Yeah, sit on it. Waiting for us to come on.
We try to faithfully be on at 7:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
every time, though there might be an issue here and there.
You might have to wait a minute or two, but.
Sometimes we have technical issues with the lives this
happens. Yes, it does.
We. Got about 15 people coming in.
They're coming in slow. We had a fun.
We had a good week for a month. Good week, good month, good
week, good month here on Splintered guys.
OK welcome, welcome, Welcome to Splintered Spirits.
Welcome your host Gary. With me as always is John Santa
from Santa Paranormal, my nephew.
This is a family run business guys where we try to answer the
question what? Are spirits.
We had a good innit. We've had some.
We've dropped some great episodes this week, and we've
got another one dropping to rap out or to complete our
paranormal power couple. We had Tessa Groff episode drop
Tuesday. We got Nick Groff, creator of
Ghost Adventures, dropping on this coming Tuesday.
And John and I just did an interview with one of the ghost
hunters, Cheri de Benedetti. Yep.
You can't say that name without
sharing it, by the way. Yeah, yeah.
You just can't say it or you guys say it mad Italian like
it's the only way I can do it. It's the only way to say it.
And that was a super fun interview.
She's amazing with some horrible, terrifying ghost
stories. Oh yeah, it was great.
It's really great. But yeah, we're getting into
some of these. I guess we can call them legacy,
legacy ghosts, hunters. Yeah.
I mean like sort of legacy media.
Yeah, yeah, they get, they get categorized as the legacy media
ghost hunters. Like the TV ghost hunters?
Which are always under fire. Man, I've always.
Always under fire. Always under fire.
Even in when I'm live and something gets brought up, it's
like they're always under fire and I'm like yo, can anybody go
one day without talking shit about anybody?
No, not in this space, it learned.
No, no, it's, it's insane. So I'm always trying to be like,
Nah, Nah, Nah, hold on, time out.
Let's look at the bigger picture here.
No, no, it's great. You know, it's great.
Bigger picture, I like the hat. Gary, where can you get that?
This hat Oh, where can you get this hat?
John? I'm.
Curious. I am.
I'm very curious and maybe I'll get.
You to this hat can be gotten. Got it.
Baby. At splinteredspirits.com.
Yep, just go there and go to our store.
That's it. Or if you're watching on YouTube
right now, just click the store and you can get it right there.
If I wore hats, if I wore hats, I'd wear that hat.
You like this one? Yeah.
I don't. I don't know.
I think this is an original or unique one because.
Or maybe I sell. I sell them sometimes they say
Splendid Spirits and I sell. I don't know if I sell the ones
without the name, but I But they're there.
I got the old. I got this logo.
I've got our other logo. It's all this guy.
I will. This right here.
Right there. Yep.
The skull. You buy a hat if I sign it?
Yeah, man, I'll sign your hat. For sure.
Did someone say something? I'll buy a hat if Brian did.
Yeah, hey, I'll sign. Smarty, I was like, wait a
minute, hold on Gary, they were signing Mert.
Yeah, outside merch shit price goes up but.
Yeah, put that gold permanent marker on it.
Get that silver sharpie, baby. Yeah, yeah.
Or if they ask for silver, you know.
But yeah, I will. But yeah, look, we saw all sorts
of a lot and and by the way, at Splinter Spirits store, that's
where all your Santa Paranormal merch is as well.
Guess. So that's where you can get all
our stuff, dude. And then it helps out.
We want to travel more, I want to go to more places.
That's what makes it happen. Yeah, do more things.
Do more things. So what else we got?
So we've got two big shows and it was been a good week.
And oh, I got some ghost stories.
Do we got some submissions? Do we?
Yeah, we haven't. Let's yes, yes, let me read you
some of this. This one I'm one favorite one's
got evidence and 1 is just like a long scary story.
Oh nice. So it's what?
Are we starting with the evidence?
Are we starting? I'm going to start with the
story. Let's start.
OK, this is Aria. Aria submitted this.
I don't know if she's watching today, but Aria, I'm going to
read through your experiences here.
And John, you can tell me what you think of these things.
We'll go. Through.
Them she she dropped a bunch so says a lot so it says the first.
What I'm sharing isn't a ghost story.
As much as my paranormal experiences stories can be fake,
mine aren't. A lot of it actually came from
my dad had his obsessions with Americana.
He wasn't diagnosed as autistic because mental health in the 50s
and 60s was garbage, but there were signs his obsession could
definitely qualify as a hyper fixation.
He wasn't into your standard stuff either.
He was fascinated with collecting everyday items that
we don't use anymore. He was a truck driver delivering
food from the LA school district so he was used to long hours
driving and driving. And he banked his PTO so he
could take the summer off every other year to road trip and camp
Rent America to find his treasures.
My childhood included visiting old battlegrounds, antique
shops, and other deeply historic sites.
I'm sure the paranormal exposure from his antique collection in
our trips pushed me into developing my ESP abilities.
So Arya is claiming she has ESP abilities.
All right, OK, let's see what's going on here.
Here's a couple of experiences he's going to share from the
road. One time we rolled up on
Gettysburg and I Gettysburg, and I didn't know why, but I was
terrified to get out of the car. I heard booms in the distance
that scared me to my core. I didn't want to go into the
visitor center. It was the first and only time I
asked to leave. My dad got uncharacteristically
aggressive and pretty much forced me out of the car in the
visitor center. I huddled in the corner while my
dad acted, for lack of a better word, like a drill Sergeant.
He pulled me into the visitor center museum, and when I saw a
Confederate uniform, I started to SOB.
My mom, watching us act very unusually, said we need to leave
now. We left the area and both of us
began to act like ourselves again.
Neither of us knew why we acted like that.
As a nine year old, having those feelings of existential dread
with no logical explanation was not anything I had ever
experienced before. So anyways, that's how I
discovered that I am a medium and I'm pretty sure it's
hereditary even though my dad doesn't like to talk about it.
OK, this is the first story so let's talk about this for a
second. Have you ever felt sort of have
you ever gotten a feeling like that and not known why or this
is not, this is clearly not a vision.
This is an emotion essential dread.
This is an emotion. I've, I've, I've had, you know,
random feelings where I'm like, yo, what's going on?
Like, you know, what's happening?
And some of those are actually tied to actual events where,
like, you know, something is going on.
Yeah, it's weird. It's weird.
It's very cloudy though. It's a very cloudy, cloudy
feeling for me because I, I have no abilities or, or whatnot, you
know, so but like, it's almost like, huh, maybe I should text
so and so and see what's up. But you've always talked about
feeling of of feeling. Yeah, all the environmental
places and whatnot. Oh yeah, you can feel that from.
So she's start this, she's talking about feeling an
emotion. I wonder how many people maybe
write off a bad emotion just they write it off but it maybe
it's experiencing the other side.
And let's not get confused here. I know some people in the chat
might start talking about it, being empathetic and being an
empath and all that. That's really murky water.
Because you know, when it comes to empathy, that's, that's you
feeling something for somebody else, right?
You know what I mean? Like if you see, you say you see
somebody hurt on the street and you feel bad for them, you're
being empathetic, right? There's a clear difference
between that and then all of a sudden feeling something out of
nowhere and you can't figure out why you're feeling that way.
So imagine being a nine year old and feeling that that horrible
dreaded feeling and having no idea why, you know?
It's like the ET syndrome, right?
Like he felt Elliott felt ETS feelings, not heard ETS
thoughts. All right, well, let's move on.
Let's lead to the next part of this, of Arya's journey into
this world here. So I'm not sure if it was the
same road trip or later, but we went to this campsite in an old
historic mine in West Virginia. At check in we were told of an
old trail that led through the woods and up to the mines.
We got our camp set up and time had slipped away from us, but we
decided to see the mine. It was around sunset and as we
came up the hill to the mine entrance, a couple of re
enactors were walking down. They were grizzled with beards
and dirty overalls. One had a well worn shovel.
It was very convincing, but I spent enough time at
Williamsburg, Jamestown, Monticello, and other living
history sites to know most reenactors get super into it.
My parents said hellos in passing and they seemed a little
surprised. My mom mentioned how
disappointed she was to miss their shift and asked what time
they ended. One guy was very serious and
kind of defensive. He kept walking a few paces down
the hill, but the other man was friendly and gay for the time
they get off work. He pulled out an old pocket
watch and said it was getting late and the missus expected him
home soon. He warned us not to be near the
mines after dark and to get on back as soon as possible.
The men walked down the path and into the woods leading back to
camp. We spent a little time looking
around, but it was a closed mine, so not much to see.
We spent some time enjoying the woods, but as it got darker it
started to feel more ominous, like an unwelcome feeling.
So we hurried back to camp because the miner was probably
right. We're city folks, and there's
probably bears or something. The next day, check out.
My mom asked what time the reenactment takes place because
those guys were so well in character.
The clerk gave us a look of complete shock.
We don't do any reenactments here, it's just the trail to an
empty mine. Wow.
All right, so now Ari is saying, and it's a little unclear, but
I'm assuming Ari is saying that not only did she see spirits and
full on apparitions. The whole family.
As through the whole family did. The whole family did.
That's something or. They were reenactors who just
don't work for the place and people like to dress up, freak
people out. Some people do like to dress up,
that's for sure. Yeah.
But I don't know if you look at it logically, you know, if you'd
like to dress up and you're not officially part of something,
you're not going to an, a, a, a random mine, you know what I
mean? You're going to go to like a
battlefield, right? And plus, I've never heard any
mine reenactors. I'm just throwing it.
Maybe they're maybe they exist. I've never heard ever someone
going, Hey Jimmy, let's let's dress up and go work in the
mines. Right.
We're we're mine. Yeah.
Like, why would it be a mine? Well, is it like, is it the same
as like in Williamsburg where they have like, churning butter?
They're all dressed up in reenactments, but they're making
real butter and shit, You know what I mean?
But that's still. But that's still, that's a
whole, you know, that's a whole setup.
That's a whole village, you know that a village that's all
planned, you know? Yeah, the old ladies dipping wax
and making the candy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, right? All right, well, let's get this.
All right. This is where it gets a little
interesting about Dad. Are you ready for that?
OK. I'm always ready.
OK all right so about my dad's antique collection.
Because most of his items are small he would put them into a 4
by 4 frame display in chronological order.
Soon it became 34 by 4 displays and by the time he passed we had
two C containers put underground for climate control and filled
every wall with 30 plus frames. Now I'm not saying every item is
haunted, but he has shit you would not believe.
I hooks for shoes. Grade school cards from the late
1800s. A slave catcher's badge.
A bone fork dating back to the Revolutionary War.
Tin type photos of both the living and those ones where the
person is dead but made to look as if they were alive.
Yep. Ma'am, old train tickets, a
military sign for a segregated shower, top hat and gloves, a
KKK membership coin. And then for the record, he
wanted to get the real history of America, not just the
comfortable history. So he has a lot of questionable
antiques in his collection that didn't necessarily necessarily
reflect on him personally and. It's like, I would hope not.
I mean I. Would hope not.
I mean, it's like when you know Mark Fuhrman, they've
discovered, you know, the guy who arrested OJ and they
discovered he just had a whole slew of Nazi memorabilia, like
artifacts in. His house.
So that's the thing. That's the thing, right?
That that's the fine line. If you have a slew of artifacts
in your house from World War 2, for example, and they're all
Nazi, they're all Nazi like the majority is Nazi, there's a
problem there. There's a problem that
somethings not right, somethings not right.
Now, if you have a whole collection of World War 2 items
from, you know, everyone that fought in World War 2,
completely different story. History is history.
Yeah, but but here's the problem with this story because.
She's telling us that her dad No go submit.
That's my. Way her right, her dad, she's
telling us her dad had a slew of items, right?
A ton of difference. Does she list?
Does she list any of them? She doesn't.
I'm I'm this is my point. This is what I'm getting at.
She does say there's a containers right with 30
something frames of things. But the things that she mentions
is the KKK coin a slave owner's badge, right?
Like. Crazy.
So it's like, hey man, maybe Dad was that guy.
I'm just, I mean, look, I'm just, I'm sorry to say it, but.
Of course. All the items of all the items
you could share with me and John that your dad owned.
So it could be kind of also enunciate the point of he had a
lot of questionable items in his collection.
Who knows? They were probably, you know, or
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt because
collecting historical items can be a tricky and iffy.
I get it dude. But here's the thing.
She made a point to e-mail this to us.
Yeah. Wouldn't you keep that shit?
Like why, Why say why say that? Why not say like, you know what?
When I e-mail these guys, I'm going to leave out the KKK
membership coin. I'm just going to not tell them
about that stuff. And maybe trying to prove I
don't know, I don't know. And so I so hold on.
I think she's trying. I think she's trying to prove a
point to herself. She's trying to say, you know
what I mean? Like she's having some wishful
thinking. Like I have to say this out loud
because if I do, then it'll prove it's not true.
But. Well, I can't make, I can't make
a complete judgement call on it unless I see a catalog of the
items there. If there's like all sorts of
random shit, then I'd. Be like, what's up, Tessa?
Tessa Groff in the house, John, I'm making a straight, I'm
making a straight. Hardcore judgement call on this
one. Dad, Dad, Dad was a racist.
Dad was a straight racist. Let's go to Gettysburg.
I'm going to Confederates. I'm keeping this.
Oh, is this a KKK coin? Let me put it in one of my
frames. Yeah, I need more data.
You know what I dude. Fuck, Dad, how much daddy do you
need? All right, so let let's keep
going with the. Rest of this stuff you know all.
Right, let's see this story. OK, so it says.
As a child, I've heard my kitchen furniture moving on its
own in the middle of the night. My dog will be sitting
comfortably suddenly be attentive and track something
invisible traveling across the room.
Electronics would act funny. One time I had a ball on the
floor that rolled to me so I rolled it back but then it
rolled to me again. I realized I was playing ball
with a spirit. For context, my bedroom floor
where this happened was fully level and carpeted.
Let's you know. We hope so.
I tried to replicate the event but it didn't behave the same
way. I rolled it away from me and it
just stayed where it stopped. One morning I woke up to my dad
saying my name and telling me I needed to get up right now.
I was groggy and asked for five more minutes and it dawned on
me. My parents are going out of town
and I was home alone. I looked at the clock and oh I
didn't. If I didn't haul ass I would
miss my ride and be late to school.
Whoever whatever mimicked my dad actually saved my ass and helped
me not be late for school. Wow.
All right. So that's really interesting
because yesterday we heard a story about something mimicking
somebody too, but it was a little different, little
different. That was that was that, that was
a -1. This is a much more +1.
Right. Yeah.
And then she tells that story yesterday and it was like she
tried to make a total talk about, like, Stockholm syndrome,
man. She made it, like, love with her
captor. But we'll get to that one later,
guys. All right, so things escalated
after my dad brought home. What?
OK, All right. Are you ready for the?
Yes, I'm ready. I'm ready laying.
Up things escalated after my dad brought home one specific item
that he is absolute that is absolutely vile and creepy even
without being haunted. Oh shit.
He was always on the lookout for antique stores.
This part is second hand experience which explains how he
came to his own to own this item.
One day he was making his deliveries in LA and noticed a
new antique store. So he stopped in to see what
they had. And I'm assuming she's it's LA
not Louisiana. I guess it's it's here in LA.
But the man behind the counter took a look at my dad and
instead of the normal what are you looking for or let me know
if you need anything. He pretty aggressively said what
do you want? My dad said he was just looking
around. The guy practically shouted
we're closed. My dad said he looked around and
it dawned on him that he was surrounded by Third Reich
symbols and other obviously pro Nazi paraphernalia.
This was in the late 90s. He was an olive skinned.
He was an olive skinned with Sicilian heritage and honestly
not of the Aryan race. He realized he would be attacked
just for innocently walking into the wrong place and being
assumed to be a cop. He didn't know if there was
anyone else behind the curtains at the front desk, but he didn't
want to find out. He grabbed something off the
shelf, paid for it, and got the F out of there.
He drove by a couple of days and they were completely gone with
no trace as if they were never there to begin with.
Anyway. The item he grabbed off the
shelf was a shower valve. It was an old metal and needed
some cleaning. It had white porcelain handle
and turn the water on and off. After he cleared it up, he saw
something engraved on the metal part of the valve, so he traced
it into with a red pencil. It was a swastika.
I mean, listen, Dad, what's this?
Like. Sweetheart, your dad is clearly
a racist and A and a Nazi sympathizer.
I mean, and I'm right. So Fast forward to what happened
when he brought it home and moved rooms and I moved rooms
and shared a wall. Hold on.
Sorry, sorry. This is a big, big, big e-mail.
Fast forward. When he brought home, I moved
rooms and shared a wall with the collected with the collection's
displays. Occasionally I would hear a deep
growling. One time I saw red glowing eyes
in the dark. Not human, a predator.
Occasionally I would smell cigar smoke.
Always when I was in bed. If my dog was myth with me, she
would be very tense and alert and alert.
I mean John, this feels like Dad is not the greatest guy and
would bring home this real dark shit and with it came some
fucking spirits man. And then she's sitting here
saying like, no, but dad didn't know and he was just a
collector. And this is like sounds straight
up trying to defend dad. I, I don't, I, I, I honestly
don't. I don't know.
I, I have no words. And it's it's rare that I have
no words. How many times does dad have to
bring home like a some racist or Nazi paraphernalia until you
realize that dad likes this shit, you know what I mean?
Well, all right, all right, so hold on.
Let's look at all the facts here real quick.
He is possibly autistic, OK? And there is a chance that,
well, especially with with autism, you know, social norms
don't matter. Still, there is a chance if he
was a collector that he was getting his hands on whatever
fell into that realm. Unfortunately, an old faucet
falls into that realm. The fact I, and granted he
didn't know it had a swastika. And I'm not defending this man
and I'm not defending, I'm not defending that What I'm, I'm
looking at the story she's telling because she's telling
the story. And I don't think she's trying
to say or, you know, trying to say her father was a racist.
I think she's trying to say that certain objects of the darker
variety came with attachments. That's what I said.
Listen, I walked into this bar. All these girls.
All these girls were dancing naked and honey, I don't know
how this glitter got all over me.
This is like, I didn't know what it was when I walked in there
and I just, you know, I had a drink.
I had a drink or two, but I didn't know what was.
That's that's a normal person. We're not talking about somebody
who's autistic, A neurodivergent person.
You can't put them in the same category.
You're not going to put it. You're not going to test a fish
how to climb a tree and then fail him when it doesn't do it,
is what I'm getting at, right? It's different if he is
autistic, which we can't prove. But he's not like Rain Man
autistic dude. He's he.
I mean, this is these are very clear, good versus evil, good
versus evil stuff. So here's my thing.
Like I'm like, I'm trying to picture him going into this this
because that's a pop up store. They used to happen all the time
back in the day. And the trading Nazi
memorabilia. That was a thing, Yeah.
OK, that's OK, let's go with the story.
He looked around, saw it was all Nazi paraphernalia, and didn't
walk out. He made a.
Purchase first. I know, I know.
That's the crazy thing like did now did he make the purchase
because he thought his life life was in danger and he was like,
oh, I better grab something. I don't know.
I don't it's.
If you think your life's in danger, don't you just want run
out? Or do you buy something first?
Come on, dude. So.
So now hold on. I'm gonna play devil's advocate
here. The last thing you want to do is
walk into a store that has Nazi membaria Membaria Nazi artifacts
and buy anything that looks like it turns a fucking faucet.
Yeah, yeah, dude, that is the last thing that that that is.
I'm sorry, First off, if I walked in there, I'd go fuck
this. I'd walk right out.
But if I did look around and I was like, huh, I'm thinking of
purchasing something to add to my World War 2 collection.
The last thing that I would buy is a faucet with no markings
whatsoever because you know exactly what that faucet was
used for of. Course, dude, it's terrible, the
whole thing, my man. This girl's her.
The poor impression of her. And again, she's choosing to
tell us this story. You know why?
Because I believe she knows deep down inside she doesn't have to
share this information, right? There's.
Plenty of ghosts think her father was possessed.
No, I think she thinks like part of her think knows her dad was
into this shit, like liked it and it's you don't like if
you're telling us ghost, you're you're saying the two Dicks like
us ghost stories. There's plenty of ghosts here.
The miners is a great story and there's nothing racial about it.
Like there's plenty of ghosts. There's plenty of ghost stories
here that don't have to do with Nazis or slave owners.
But she's choosing to tell us this and then defend her own
father. What is it?
What is the chat tag? They say anything about it.
They're not saying anything, is it?
Well, it's. They're probably jaws are
probably on the ground. I know it's like, right?
Like dad was into it, Dad was into it.
It's. A lot of information and my.
It's a lot of I'm not even done with this e-mail.
Bro I think you might need to be.
I mean, we're not even done, I'm afraid to continue to be honest
with you. Should I go on?
Yeah, we're dude, we already opted.
We might as well swim for a bit, you know?
To paint a picture, my bed was pushed up against the wall.
My feet faced the door which was directly across from my parents
room where the display cases were.
Directly across from my bed was my closet, which had sliding
mirror doors. One night I woke up to a man in
my room. I couldn't see him in the
mirror. I tried to tell myself I was
dreaming. My parents always had this weird
belief that if you encounter a spirit to shake hands with it.
Wait. And my parents always had this
weird belief that if you encounter a spirit to shake
hands with it. I don't know.
They're religious nuts, so they
have a lot of weird supernatural beliefs.
I'm half awake. I put my hand out to shake his
hand. I saw him extend his hand and it
went right through my hand and he disappeared.
I was fully awake now. My hand felt tingly, like it had
fallen asleep and not to that level kind of hard to describe.
My nerves were tingly but not numb.
I screamed for my parents. My parents.
They said a prayer and I slept in their bedroom that night.
A few weeks or months later, I woke up in the middle of the
night to the strong feeling that I was being watched from the
doorway. At the time I was a busty blonde
14 year old. I don't know why I should just
throw that detail in there. So not like a little kid having
nightmares. I was very, very scared.
But I tried to tell myself that I was just being a baby and to
listen to music to feel better. I've.
Started to say that that that her her her wisdom of her age
has to do with her breast size. I do.
I don't know what, I don't know what's going on in this.
This is like for us, like I, I had started, I had started
listening to the Spice World disc that was in my Walkman
next. To me, what you really really
want. Right.
Trying to push the feelings away, I turned towards the wall
with my back exposed. My blanket tugged and sank in
behind my knees. I tugged it back, hoping it was
my dog. I still had that feeling of
dread. There's only so much spice up
your life can do to calm the nurse.
Did you got that in or did you see that?
No dude, this is verbatim. This is awesome.
Then I felt what I can only describe as an ice cold ball
running down my neck, tracing my shoulder, down my spine.
I kept trying to tell myself it wasn't real.
Then the icy feeling made its way to the top of my underwear
and I felt my clothing actually move away from my body.
That was it, I lost my shit. I started shouting you have no
power here and screaming for my parents.
That was the last night I spent in my room.
It was also the last night I spent in my bed.
The last empty room in the house was our library room, which had
a couch on it. A couch in it.
I refused to sleep anywhere that exposed my back.
I couldn't. I actually couldn't sleep with
my back to the open end of the bed for a little over 15 years
from that night. We shit.
My parents divorced not long after, probably because she
realized dad was a Nazi and when I was 17 I moved in with my She
moved in with her dad in his new house.
For a few months mystery footprints would show up on the
solid colored tile. I even did the flower on the
floor test and caught footprints that were smaller than either of
our feet. Have you ever done the flower on
the floor test? No.
Even now in his seat container, even now in his sea container
museum, in his ranch in California's high desert, you
walk in and it feels heavy as a medium.
There are multiple spirits present.
There's a lot of space, but it feels filled.
I can't be in there for very long because the feelings shift
and are overwhelming. My dad would spend long hours
sitting in his museum. I told him I didn't think that
was safe. It could be completely
unrelated, but he died from a silent heart attack, which was
odd because he didn't have any history of cardiac problems and
had done blood work pretty recently before his death.
Now that these now that he's passed, my stepmom doesn't know
what to do with them. It belongs in a museum, but it
also isn't. But it's also a museum in its
own right. Dude, nobody wants that Nazi
shit to just get rid of it. Like get fucking.
Ready. No, no, donate that.
Donate that to a museum. Donate everything, everything
all at once, all to a museum. Let the museum sort it out if
you change. Your name before you do just.
Donate, don't donate it. Just donate it all and let them
sort it out. If it's, for example, if it's a,
if it's a Nazi item that there's hundreds of thousands of them,
it'll get destroyed. And rightfully so, right?
If it's something that belongs in a museum, it'll get placed
where it should go. But, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That I would. I would literally take all that
and just donate it to a museum. Change your name first.
Walk away from the entire thing. And walk away.
I know I've already given you a friggin chapter book and
probably tested your text limit, but I do have more experiences.
This is when I was 1920. My mom was remarried in Virginia
City. This was before Ghost Adventures
or any of those other shows had investigated there.
So I walked into the town with no clue what I was about to
experience. I'm happy to share more if you
like. Aria, I think you got to go talk
to somebody not about, I mean just about really getting to
coming to grips with who dad really was.
Now as far as your what you're experiencing, I mean, that's
pretty wild stuff. Yeah, and I again donate that
collection. Just donate to a museum.
Let them sort it out. Change your name or I dare you
to drop it off at Goodwill. Oh dude, that would that would
be insane. Imagine all that at Goodwill.
Well, the, the, the faucet handle, you can scrap, you know,
you can just scrap that, you know, throw it in a metal pile,
let it get melted down like it deserves.
Well, I mean, who knows? You know, there might be, you
know, something that can complete a collection in a
museum somewhere. Because let's be real people,
and this is my personal belief on this subject.
When it comes to history, history should be preserved so
we learn from it and we never repeat the same mistakes.
We can't do that by destroying stuff, you know that is, that's
just a fact, You know, it's history.
However, however, the shower knob with the swastika that
could get that could get melted down.
It's a. It's a crazy we know what.
Happens. We don't need a reminder of it,
that is aspects. That was quite the.
Ghost story. I don't know if that was a
ghost. The only part of the ghost story
of that was the mind story. That was wild.
Everything else sounded like a plea for help.
I mean, listen dude, here on Splintered Spirits, we welcome,
we welcome your experiences. We will go through them at
times. We will judge you and mock you
for it. So just.
You know, I'm so hard not to. I'm trying, yeah, I'm trying not
to, but let's. We went though you went 400.
I'm. Straight off judging dad.
Dad is into. It it's like, maybe there's a
reason. To getting an accident, listen
to here's the thing, getting something accidentally once.
But then she's listing items and of the more than half of them
are very controversial items. The KKK coin, the slave owner,
this the but you know what I'm saying?
Segregation signs like what? Why, Why what?
Oh, is this a Nazi store? I don't know why I'm in here.
I better get out of here quick, but not before I buy something.
What were we talking about? Don't we talking about that?
Was interesting. So I'll tell you a quick, quick
crazy story. When I used to do my eBay store
and I used to go through people's bulk garbage because,
you know, one man's trash, another man's treasure, right?
And I see, you know, selling on my eBay store, I came across a
couple boxes of historical artifacts, a lot of cool stuff
in there. You know what was in there?
A swastika, an arm band. And I went, and I went, wow,
look at this. I had a fire pit that night.
You know where that armband went?
Right into the flames. Throw it out.
I mean, it's gross. Right into the flames.
Everything else I kept because it was all other.
It was, you could tell it was someone's grandfather that
served and they took artifacts back and whatnot.
Some of it was really cool, but like the armband, I'm like,
yeah, the other stuff was cool. The other stuff I ended up
selling. The other stuff went went quick
too, is all. There's collectors for that.
That theater of war is a huge mark for.
Sure, but dad? Her daddy's dark.
Her dad is dark. Probably some dark stuff.
I would love to. Let me tell you something.
Not love to meet him, but I'd love to.
He's dead. No, he's dead, right?
Maybe I'll. Maybe I'll talk to him.
Now. I'm just playing that, you know,
just to see what he was like as a person, to see how autistic he
really was, right? Because then if he's like super
autistic, then it's like, OK, that explains it all, but I'm
not going to get into it. Oh 100% dude.
I don't know. I have a buddy of.
Mine you're, you're, you're connecting.
You're connecting autism to, you know, like psychotic.
You know what I mean? Like that's not.
Well, I mean, they psychotics a little different.
It wasn't like he was going around hurting people.
Well, but he sort of loved he. Was going around collecting.
You don't know if any puppies died or in his vicinity or what,
or have you. I have no idea.
Listen, I'm judging. All I know is, you know.
Yeah. Listen, all I know is that that
e-mail was wild. Trade stuff.
And I did. I didn't not enjoy it.
I actually I love. Listen, I thank you for sharing,
you know? Yeah.
Thank you. I thank you for sharing.
I think it's, I think, though, I think deep down and deep down
inside. Deep down inside, Yeah, man.
Deep down inside, though, you know, Arya, that dad was into
it. He wasn't just like he was into
it, man. I think.
I think you know that. I think the audience knows that.
And that's what went down. All right, we've got another
one. This one's a little lighter and
I think a little easier. This one comes with evidence,
right? This is a little evidence, but I
looked at it. I'm just going to show it
because I don't want people to think we ignore them.
Let's take a look here guys. Don't think that's a problem.
That we don't ignore it. Yeah, I don't think that's a
problem, Gary. We should call, we should call
them Paranormal roasting hour. Oh my God, so.
Funny. Send an e-mail, get roasted by
us. Oh man.
See how I can get this thing going here?
Why isn't it playing are? You going to play the evidence
first? I'm going to play it, yeah, but
it's not playing. I don't know why.
The damn spirits, you know they be acting up.
Blame the spirits. Stop playing.
We might not be able to show them.
Oh no, Some some something's wrong with this video, guys it.
Did a little something. It's corrupted.
I'll try for next time. We'll talk about it next time,
OK? And you know what?
And it's for the best. I don't think we can top, we can
topple. We just experienced it together
as people. Yeah, yeah, that was that was
what's called. You know what it reminds me of?
Oh man, what was that episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm with the
with the dog? They named the dog Adolf the
German Shepherd. Dude, it's like, you know?
There was a great episode. Did you watch Succession?
No. Succession is brilliant and
there was another was a great episode of that too, where he's
interviewing a guy and he's like, so you know, I it's kind
of my attention. You put a post up about it like
Mein Kampf and he goes, look, I just really love World War Two.
I've, you know, and I've read it a few times.
He's like a few times. It's like, you know, there were
things you didn't. He's interviewing a guy.
He's like, there's, there's things you didn't get from the.
First time reading. It from the first time reading
it and then he starts talking. He's like, yeah, you know, and
it's like, you know, the like we these these countries lost a lot
of there's a lot of lives lost on on this side.
He goes in other lives, right? Like it was, it's a it's a I'm,
I'm blowing it. But if you look up it, there was
a meme that was going around and and he's interviewing this guy
this this promote or somebody get promoted.
She's like, wait a minute. If he's clearly like a Nazi and
it's just hiding the facts. Dude, that's one of the most
uncomfortable things to deal with, especially in the
paranormal. Let's bring it back to the
paranormal, right when I am on location and, and now I don't
even highlight it right now. I don't even what do you mean
I'm live? Let's so let's say I'm live and
then all of a sudden the spirit will drop a racial slur.
Sure, right. I, I now I won't even bring it
up. Sometimes people in the chat get
it and they're like, oh, shoot, what did that spirit just say?
And I completely ignore it, ignore what they're saying in
the chat about what they just heard.
And I don't even respond. There are unfortunate times when
the Spirit won't stop and then it has to be addressed, right?
So, you know, if I'm ever guys, if I'm ever live, and then all
of a sudden that nowhere you hear me say, hey, you know, this
is 2026. We don't talk about that.
You know, we don't talk. You know, we don't, we don't
believe in that. That's not who we are as a
people, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
You guys know why? And most of you probably hear
what the Spirit's saying. Does it stop happening after you
give an announcement like that? Sometimes.
Sometimes sometimes you got to look at just like people, right?
I mean, I'm listen, we've all been around people that all the
sudden start saying very uncomfortable stuff when it has
to do with race and it's just like sold out like like, well,
what are you talking about right now?
Stop. I don't want to hear it.
Sometimes they continue or they bring it back to it.
Other times they stop completely.
Most of the time at that point, I'm already you.
Know right, Yeah, I'm. Already.
It's already getting the hell out of the situation.
So crazy. It's crazy, you know, that was a
good one, man. I'm like a little a little blown
away by that whole thing. Yeah.
That's someone that's someone confessing to us like we're
we're just the somebody she wants to let us know about.
You know, how do I tell this story?
In a way was my, maybe my. I'm lucky.
I live in the area I lived in. I live in man.
Because yeah, listen, it, it wasn't it.
I mean, it was a little better back in the day for people if
you were different here, right? It was a little better, you
know? That town, that town ain't
great. Little bit, no, but no, no, no,
I'm not talking about, I'm talking about back in the 1617
and 1800s, right? Like we got, we had Stony Hill,
which was the first African, African American settlement.
You know, we had, we have the Brown Cemetery, which is one of
the only cemeteries where, you know, both the enslaved, post
enslaved and you know, non slaved are buried together.
Those are things you don't find in other places throughout the
country. Right, so Christina, Christina,
don't come into the chat and just thank John.
You better thank me too. I see you.
I need love. You better give love to both.
I need love. Christina Franklin, I see you.
What do you expect on a country that was built on?
I know that, you know. On all that.
But some people loved it, like Aria's dad.
Yeah, yeah, shit. But it's, you know, this getting
it's, you know, here's another thing about that story, right?
She, she got touched. And now we've got, you know, you
had, if everybody would listen to the Tessa Groff episode,
right? She she had an experience in her
bedroom when she was younger. Sherri de Benedetti.
Sherri had an experience where she got held down.
Yup, we get into all that in that episode.
And it's, it seems, I mean, these young girls are not immune
to the spirits, which is very. Well.
Troubling. OK, very troubling.
She said she was 14. This girl was, Yeah.
This girl wasn't happened to her.
She was 14. Well, I mean, dude, you go back
in history, guess what, 14 years old?
They're already getting married and having kids and making, you
know what I'm saying? Like sure.
If that was this dude, this also speaks to what a lot of people
who investigate or study poltergeist activity right in.
It's teen girls predominantly. Yeah.
Right. I mean, that's like I think
parapsychologist would point out.
That whole thing, they're the poltergeist Asian, correct?
Well, yes, correct, that's what it right.
A poltergeist is not yes, a poltergeist.
They, they are the ones who are manifesting this thing that
happens a lot in teen into, into young girls.
And we're hearing these stories from women when they were
younger when this when this happened.
I don't think Sherri was a teenager in that story.
I think she was already older but.
I'm, I think she was in her 20s. I think she was an early, yeah.
But Tessa was old, was young, and then her story.
Yep, Yep. It's an interesting, it's an
interesting dynamic though, right?
That it happens and you know, the poltergeist agent thing
That's you know, what is that some sort of consciousness
manifesting that I haven't, we haven't come across a lot of
those. It's a good thing we got to look
into more of that. Well, you know what's really
crazy, and I've said this before on live and I think a lot of
people's draw and drop when I say it.
I got the data right, the data from all the documentation.
OK, so either the way it looks to me is either spirits or our
memory or we are subconsciously creating these things.
Well, yes dude, correct all. That's another I've said.
And I hate and I and I and again, the evidence points
towards both. It's either or or maybe it is a
sick mash up of both. We don't know.
It could be a sick match up of
both. So, so for the people that are
confused on that, what I mean is, for example, that's a mash
up of both. Let's take Joe for example.
Random spirit Joe, right? You, Gary, you go to talk to Joe
and you have a pleasant conversation.
Joe seems like he's one way with you.
And then I go and I speak to Joe, and Joe is a completely
another way with me. We would describe it as, oh, Joe
really likes Gary, but doesn't like John.
What if that's not the case? What if there's Joe and then it
is me at that particular moment in time affecting Joe, or you at
that particular moment in time affecting Joe?
Well, and also I think that another way to say, John, is,
you know, two things can be true at the same time. 100%.
Which very is a concept many people just don't understand
these days when we're so binary about everything.
It's two things can be true. They could be.
There could be ghosts and they could be consciousness bringing
that up, and maybe it is the consciousness that connects the
two things. Her father could have been
autistic. And Nancy racist he got him in a
racist and autistic dude. Her dad is so racist.
I'd love to meet her father. You.
Can't. Not because of that, because
just to see how he was as a person, you know what I mean?
I find people interesting and just just just to see him
operate for an hour, you know, as a human being, you know, just
be like, OK, I've seen you. I've seen your type before.
One second, dude. I know another guy who some
people would say is I'm mentally challenged in ways that collects
things. And I remember one time, you
know, it was a really funny story.
I had a Halloween party, right? He goes, hey, he goes, what
should I go? As I said, dude, I said, you got
so many uniforms, told me so many awesome World War 2
uniforms. I'm dressed up as a soldier,
right again. He's like, I'd be free, I'll do
it, I'll do it. I'll come in the nines and I'm
like, I perfect. So this was at a Polish club.
I rented out a Polish club. The workers at the Polish club
were all Polish and they were all older.
OK, that's a key part of this story.
I know where this is going, dude.
He's a key part of this story, right?
I see this. I read you.
I read you like a porno mag. I know where this is going.
He walks in in a full Admiral, Nazi Admiral uniform and, and,
and the bartender just looks at me with sadness and I turned, I
looked at him and I said, dude, go home and change.
He's like, why not? He goes not this uniform.
And I said no, not that one. And then he comes back as
whatever the British beret, whatever, whenever that was.
He comes in as that. And I'm like, dude.
Dude, when your instinct is to come in you.
Didn't look at the invitation. Yeah, that's weird.
But but granted, people that know this man are like, Oh yeah,
he's mad slow dude. Like what are you?
You know, right? If he's, it sounds like he's
touched, yes. Oh 100% great dude, don't get me
wrong, great guy, but 100%. But still it's like.
I feel like Ari is dead. I.
Didn't get that. You got to get that.
Siri. Siri, I didn't get that.
Who's touched? Siri, I know Siri's been like
thinking I'm talking to her all the time lately.
Dude, I had to turn, I had to turn my Siri off because I'd be,
I'd be like Spirit, what's your name?
And all of a sudden Siri would be like, I'm sorry, I didn't get
that, but I'd be like, Siri, I'm not talking to you.
You know, it's pretty funny. Anybody remembers that back last
year? Oh my God.
Anyway, that was a great one. Sorry, look, I know I'm teasing
you about your dad, and I mean it, but I do thank you for
sharing that e-mail and that story.
That was a great e-mail and that mind story was awesome.
And it was good. It's a lot of good stuff.
And that happened. To you when you were a teenager,
that stuff. Yeah, and I'm, I'm sorry about
having a dad who was really into that weird shit.
But you know, it makes for good. It makes for good.
You just made for a great episode of.
Donate it to a museum. Donate it to a museum or set it
all on fire. Either way, don't.
Send it to me please. Don't send it.
To me.
Take your name off it too if you donate it.
All right guys, what we got next?
We got Nick Groff, the one and only coming up on Tuesday.
Great story. And he gets into Nick.
Look, Nick's told this story about what happened on Ghost
Adventures and what's really great about it is, I mean, I
don't misunderstand what I'm saying about great, but it's
sort of this idea of God, even the closest of friends just fall
out, right? Bands break up.
And it really is the story of like a band breaking up, in my
opinion. It's just the little things.
The little things just pile on and the and then it becomes that
annoyance just is everything is super annoying because you just
start needling and needling and needling and then it's enough is
enough. And he's he's he's very grounded
about the whole thing. I mean, look, it's got to be
obviously it's very bittersweet. It's a monster hit show.
He created it and now it's like he's got it.
You know how that falls apart and this other guy gets it, gets
all the, you know, I, I get it, I get all that.
But look, he's doing really well.
He and Tessa, he's got a great wife.
He's got a great show. He's got a movie coming out
guys. The devil's mark.
By the way, if you're not following Nick, you got, or
Tessa, be sure to go and follow them on Facebook.
He's got a big, he's got a brand new documentary coming out.
And look, you know the guy makes good documentaries because he
started a movement with his one of his last ones which was Ghost
Adventures. I, I love, I love telling this
story. When we, when, when Nick gets
brought up, when Gary first told me that, you know, Nick was
going to come on, I'm like, oh, yeah, that I think I've seen
that dude. I think it was on that
Paranormal State show. And then Gary's like, no, dude,
he's the guy that started Ghost Adventures.
And I'm like, well, I, I really never really was.
A paranormal lockdown paranormal.
Lockdown. Lockdown, yes.
No, but he did. Didn't he do the other one too?
Didn't he do paranormal? No paranormal state?
Something else? It's something else.
It's all these. That was I think Chip, Chip
Coffee was Paranormal State. I believe that was with those.
I think Paranormal State might have been the college guys with
chip coffee, right? Like it was like a university.
Like they were kid. They were not kids.
All these paranormal shows. Yeah, yeah, they all but but but
but Nick made a documentary called Ghost Adventures that
started him, you know, was really the next.
A lot of this stuff Nick Nick as out on his YouTube and just
everything is is it's really good.
It's really. Building.
Yeah, they're really building a whole.
They're great. They were a lot of fun.
Yeah. Really open.
Really open, you know, good interviews with.
Tessa, it's all it's. All there, man.
Yeah. So look, if you're not already,
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I mean, that's a lot to unpack. A lot to unpack more than just.
Yeah, it seems like there's a lot of unpack in that
collection. Yeah, man.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. For a museum.
Anything coming up with you you want to talk about?
Going to a new location. Going to a new location tonight.
What time will you be there? We'll be there probably about
9:15-ish is when I'll start between 9:15 and 9:30 Eastern
Standard Time and brand new location.
It's got, well, I'll tell you what it's got real quick.
It's got native blood being still in a lot of it.
Occult activity in the 1800s, no less.
Native American spirits being seen doing rituals in the early
1900s up until about 1950s was the last report.
And the crazy craziness of all toxic waste.
Have you ever been to this place before?
No, actually that is that OK, So that's not true.
That is not true. I did do a one off there years
ago during the day looking for Native American spirits back in
2023. So some of you might remember
that, but it was a one off and I mean it was in a different
section. This is a different part where
you know. John, do you have a set when you
go to a new location like this? Do you have a what's the word?
I'm looking for a process for like, OK, this is my first time
so I have to do it this way so that I have a a bit.
Yeah. Can you walk walk us through
what that real quick what that is like?
What is the what is the opening of a new locations for to get
your baseline? So my baseline is the first
thing I do is I I'm actually really tone myself down as far
as trying to communicating with the spirits.
I want to hear more what's going on.
I want to hear, I want to hear what's being said.
Usually I use Digo Simple. I won't use two or three apps at
the same time. I'll just use one to get that
baseline to see what the spirit chatter is like.
I listen for things of how much spirit chatter there is and how
many of the spirits are like how I'm affecting their space that
I'm in. OK.
And then I take it from there. So that's pretty, that's, that's
actually pretty much it. And then I try to build a
relationship after that point with the the entities that are
there. So that's what we're going to be
doing tonight. So you try to see, you try to
see if you get more like a some sort of back and forth, at least
a volley of dialogue and then you try to hold on to it.
Tonight, I guarantee he's going to be a lot of get outs.
It's going to be a lot of leaves, a lot of get outs.
Not everyone's getting all these spirits.
You'll be like, what the hell are you being, you know, doing
here? Most of the spirits when when
people are there after hours, they're junkies.
Right. So this place has a heavy had
had a heavy history. They cleaned it up.
Check permission to be there. Is it public?
It is public, OK? It is it, it is public.
You from what I hear, most of the time they only go after
people that are, you know, like substances and what not in
there. If you're in there doing the,
you know, in there for nature or in there just by yourself, you
know, at night they don't bother you.
Gotcha. So.
All right, well be. Safe enjoy.
We're looking forward to seeing what what new thing you may
learn about this spot and of course about what spirits are.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for being a part of
Splintered Spirits today again. Thank you for watching everyone.
The The Groff episodes. Tessa's dropped last Tuesday,
Nick's drops this Tuesday. Hell yeah. 2.
Great episodes, make sure you check them out.
And head over to Apple. Give us a little bump on that.
Give us a little bump on Apple. Yeah, hit the.
Follow us everywhere. Follow us everywhere dude, let's
but, oh, you know we we hit 1000 followers on the Facebook page.
Did we on the Book of Faces? No shit.
Yeah, got 1000 there now on the page.
So that's moving up. I mean, we jumped, I think it
was just yesterday. I, we, I announced we had like,
not yesterday, literally, but not too long.
We hit 1000 subscribers on Spotify.
We're up over 1200 there. Wow, yeah, that's really
Spotify's going up, blowing up for us.
So it's, it's been really nice. Awesome.
The monthly hours are pretty pretty great.
That's because of the smooth sounds of our voice.
Dude, the smooth velvet. I've never even been on Spotify.
They can't see this right? Yes.
Spotify and YouTube are the only places you can watch us.
Really. So you can actually so you can.
You can see this. Yes.
And. Spotify and YouTube, Apple,
Apple is doing video now, but it's very, it's a little bit
more complicated to get our video over there.
There's a cost involved that you have to it's just not we're not
there yet to do it. So we distribute through
Spotify. So it's and it's free.
So they put it, you know, and YouTube's free.
So to put video right into store video, it is not that Apple does
not store video. So you have to find a service
that will obviously hold video which is a lot of memory.
We have over 100 episodes and right so and in Spotify is not
distributing to a competitor yet in that regard.
So you can only distribute audio over to Apple.
So it is what it is and hopefully one day we'll get
there when this thing picks up or somebody buys more of these
hats, we'll do that. But we're that's the plan guys.
I mean, as we grow and we get bigger and the and the dollars
I. Mean we should.
We'll do it. Some artifacts.
Yeah, maybe we should. All right, guys.
Thank you, everybody. Thank you.
All right guys, we'll see you next week.
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