Oct. 21, 2025

Salem’s Gallows & Grace: The Delaney Murder & Rachel Belden Brooks

Salem’s Gallows & Grace: The Delaney Murder & Rachel Belden Brooks
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Salem, Oregon has always been a city of secrets—but few run as deep as those hidden within the Delaney-Edwards House. Before this graceful landmark hosted seances and afternoon tea, it was the stage for greed, betrayal, and one of the most shocking crimes in Oregon’s early history.

When wealthy settler Daniel Delaney Sr. was gunned down just outside his front door in 1865, the investigation pulled back the curtain on a frontier community built on contradictions—prosperity and prejudice, freedom and bondage.

The killing set off one of Salem’s first sensational murder trials, culminating in Oregon’s first double hanging. But behind the spectacle lay a deeper story—one that exposes the uneasy truths of race, power, and “justice” in a young state still defining its conscience.

At its heart is Rachel Belden Brooks, the woman Delaney once enslaved and brought to Oregon in defiance of the territory’s laws. Years later, she would take his estate to court, demanding wages for decades of unpaid labor and claiming her own measure of justice. And there was Jack DeWolf, the young Black boy whose brave eyewitness testimony helped bring two killers to the gallows—though the memory would haunt him, and the city itself, for life.

From whispered fortunes and back-room confessions to the gallows built beneath Salem’s oak trees, this story unearths the complicated legacy of a place where law and morality often diverged. If the walls of the Delaney-Edwards House could talk, they’d have plenty to say about gold, guilt, and ghosts—and the many lives intertwined within its walls that refused to be forgotten.

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Rachel's life remains remarkable. She stands among Oregon's first black

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pioneers and is recognized as the first documented black woman

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to live in the state. Her story reflects both the

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harsh contradictions and the rare opportunities that define the lives

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of black Oregonians in the mid nineteenth century. Rachel's story

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stands as an equal companion to that of the Delaneys,

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a reminder that the legacies of power, violence, and resilience

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are often bound together in Oregon's early history. Hi Cassie,

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Hi Caitlin, Hi, creepy people, Hello hellou. This is PNW

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Hants and Homicides, where we chat about true crime, the

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paranormal and all things spooky for Spootober season and always

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woh spooked over?

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I just like that? That's the thing? Is that a

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thing you just made up? Just now? Oh, you're so smart.

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I don't know. I'm sure somebody else has said it before.

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I might be recycling that, I don't know.

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Do you know what else is kind of spooky for

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Spootober walk Taro I like it, which we do in

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every episode for a little deeper insight into our topic

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for the day.

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All right, Well, we've already talked about this topic a

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little bit like a couple times. Yeah, actually, yeah we have.

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So I just wanted to really quick just say thank

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you to hill See from Ghosts at the Grand for

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hooking us up.

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Seriously.

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We just did their kind of dry run influencer like

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it's their soft opening for Ghosts of the Grand. It's

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like a haunted house. It's down in Salem, and thankfully

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for me, I was able to experience it because they

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were doing kind of a dry run and I got

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to go through ahead of time and see everything basically

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with the lights on. And they also sandwiched me between

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Cassie and Chris, so everything worked out.

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We made sure Caitlin had an escape route if needed, yeah,

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so if she got overwhelmed and overstimulated, she could step

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out if she needed to, which she didn't.

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Yeah, it was totally fine, you guys, I did it

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from start to finish.

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I felt kind of bad because you were like no,

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and I like wanted to respect you because I know

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it's overstimulating, but I was like, no, seriously, try this one,

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because I feel like this one you're gonna like appreciate

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a little bit more than a normal just walk through

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jump Scared Jump, scared, Jump, scared, jomb scared.

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Jump, Yeah, you know what I mean, definitely, and just

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knowing that everybody was like, oh wait, we have the

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sissy pants in the audience. Yeah, and you guys you

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know sandwiching man. You know. So I had my bubble.

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That was great, totally worth doing the trek. So this

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is kind of the crazy turnaround for that couple of

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days leading up to Ghosts at the Grand. I went

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up to Seattle for the Beach to Sandy show with Alicia.

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Got to hang out with Sandy and Christine and some

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of their friends and yeah, I've seen an actual green

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room and holy shit, it was green as hail. Oh yeah.

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So we had a really really phenomenal time on that trip.

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And right after their show, I gifted Sandy his very first.

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Tarrot duck, So I love that.

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Yeah, Christine was immediately demanding reading. So I'm hoping that,

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you know, they'll let us.

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Know how that goes. Yeah.

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Yeah, But back to Ghosts at the Grand. Okay, So

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drove up to Seattle, went to the show after, and

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around Seattle for a couple of hours with Alicia. We

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had a couple of hours the next day to hang

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out at Pike's Place and or Pike Place. I always

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want to add an S and you know what, I'm

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going to count it. I'm gonna mark it down. Is

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just sheer exhaustion. Drove back home and then had about

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two hours of downtime before I had to drive down

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to Salem for the Ghost of the Grand soft Open.

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Was it even two hours? I feel like it was

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like an hour. Yeah, it was like anybe an hour

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and a half. Yeah, yeah, yeah, No. It was pretty intense,

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pretty intense couple of days.

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And then I actually had things to do on Friday

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as well, like.

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My normal job and normal jobs. Yeah.

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So so that was a lot, right, but it was

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totally worth it. So checkout goes at the Grand in

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Safe on the soft opening night, I happened to grab

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one of their little flyers here and so I've added

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into my show notes for the week the promo code

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they get you five dollars off your ticket.

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Oh shit, I didn't know there's a promo code. Yeah,

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so hot tip, just the tip. Okay, you got to

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talk about your trip.

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And then I drove to Tacoma this weekend to go

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to the Haunted Market. So we're like both up and down,

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all over the states, all over the PNW.

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Oh my gosh, really though, really yeah, I've been everywhere. Man. Okay,

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spoiler alert is just the singular murder. But we're gonna

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sprinkle in just like a ton of old timey racism.

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So great.

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Yeah, so, I mean I didn't learn about it in school,

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So I'm ready.

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Let's go.

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And you know what, I spent probably almost as much

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time working on my show notes, the title and all

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of that for this episode as I did for like

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the research of the episode itself, just because what I

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learned was, oh my god, this is someone who's been

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almost entirely erased from Oregon history, like early Oregon history.

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Holy shit.

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And I'll give you I'll give you one guess why.

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Because racism.

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Also that andsogon woman.

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Oh I was gonna say, because she's a woman. Yeah. Yeah,

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she happened to be both black and a lady. So

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so yay. Rachel Rachel is that her name? Yep, I

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remember it.

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Remember, Salem, Oregon wasn't always the capital city we know today.

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Back in the mid eighteen hundreds, it was still a

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muddy pioneer town with more than its fair share of

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rowdy saloons and hard drinking, hell raising locals. It was

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the kind of place where gossip traveled fast, making secrets

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hard to keep, and sometimes those secrets turned deadly. In

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an environment so lawless and unruly, it almost feels inevitable

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that a brutal crime would leave its bloody mark on

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the history of the West, the wild wild West, the

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wild wild wist. I will say, in the era that

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we are predominantly talking about, and I know it's going

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to come up again later, Oregon had been a state

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for less than ten years.

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Okay, wow yeah, so okay, yeah, wow wow, and she was.

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Still kind of wilin for like the next hundred years

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after that. We're being honest, so.

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Oh, p and w if you're nasty, if you're nasty.

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The story begins with Daniel Delaney, an early settler of Oregon,

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who was accompanied by his wife and the woman who

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was enslave to care for her.

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I was wondering if she was sick or if she

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just this.

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Was like a normal thing, like a lady in waiting,

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like someone to help you with things.

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I could see it going either way, but my impression

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not having like delved into it, super deep was that

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she was ill, and I think you'll see why.

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Yeah, I didn't look into like if there was a

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specific diagnosed illness or anything, but it really kind of

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it doesn't really have any bearing on the story in particular,

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but yeah, as a wealthy lady of the scile, I

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could imagine that, you know, she maybe would have had

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a caretaker in any case, but I think it was

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because she was ill, Okay.

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Like tighten my baldice or whatever.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I could see it either way, but

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I think it was the latter.

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Delaney had arrived from the South in eighteen forty three

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already wealthy. He made his fortune in the slave trade. Primarily,

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it's a grim reality that we can't gloss over. He

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used that money to build his life here. Yi. Yeah,

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it's not my favorite part of the story. Born into

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slavery in the state of Tennessee in eighteen twenty nine,

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Rachel Belden became the property of Daniel Delaney Senior. In

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eighteen forty two, prior to his migration west, Delaney sold

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his plantation in Tennessee as well as his slaves. And

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I think it's important to say that's not because he'd

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had a change of heart about the moral implications of

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owning other humans. As it turns out, he enslaved Belden

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just prior to the journey, specifically tasking her to care

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for his ailing wife Elizabeth. So he sold all of

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the other slaves, but he specifically tasked his latest acquirement.

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I don't know, there's not a good way to put it.

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It's really yucky. I feel uncomfortable talking about it.

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I know you're talking about property and it's so gross,

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but it's pretty yucky as it should make us uncomfortable. Yeah,

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it kind of gives me the ick, as it were.

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I was gonna say, though, it didn't dawn on me

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even that he would have had a change of heart

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because you right sold them. Like, if he had a

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change of heart, he would just you know, a thousand

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of them regular human beings and let them go for you.

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Yep.

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Yeah, at that point in history, I don't know that

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still being in Tennessee, there was such a thing as

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really successfully living as a free, you know, formally enslaved

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black person.

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Oh wow.

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Yeah, it would be very difficult to make the journey

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all the way to Oregon with multiple slaves, in tow

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and they would not have been welcomed into what would

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later become the state of Oregon because he settled in

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Oregon before Oregon was actually a state. Oh okay, so

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eighteen forty three not a state. Right Upon moving westward

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and eventually settling in Oregon, he was known by his

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neighbors as a hospitable, well to do man. His was

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a life of relative and well established wealth. By eighteen

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forty five, the Delaneys had established a home and farm

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in the Limb Valley to the south of Salem, now

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known as the Delaney Edwards House. It is listed in

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the National Register of Historic Places. Just outside of Turner, Oregon,

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the Delaney Edwards House has seen more of history than

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most of us can imagine, though in truth, most records

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officially list a Salem address for the home. So Salem, Turner,

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you know, kind of an interchangeable Yeah. I think it's

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sort of like how people living in Gresham or like

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Milwaukee might just say Portland when they're outside of Oregon.

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You know, it's like I'm just going to point to

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the nearest feasible, like, you know, the closest city exactly,

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you know, Portland. You may not really like know some

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of the surrounding area, but close enough. The Delaney Edwards

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House is one of the three oldest standing houses in

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the entire state. Portions of the home date back as

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far as eighteen forty five. That was already a couple

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of years after the Delaneys arrived in Oregon, but it

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was nearly a decade and a half before Oregon achieved statehood.

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So let that sink in this house was already already

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sheltering generations when the ink was still drying on the

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state constitution.

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That like we were there, you guys, Like we.

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Were in the house that was this old, I know,

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before we were even a state.

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That's so crazy, Like I'm still getting chills thinking about it.

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Yeah, Like they're to think about how much energy is

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just there from like that had soaked into the wood

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and the walls and the.

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Yep, she got a lot of energy.

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Yeah, Like I wonder if that's what if you just

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like felt everything there and just exploded your brain and

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a little bit.

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I don't know.

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I mean, I'm really like part of me is like

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I kind of want to go back and see, and

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part of me is like, maybe don't.

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We're definitely invited back.

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So yeah, that's why I Chelsea would love to have

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a slumber party there with us.

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I know, And and honestly, I think maybe we can

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do a little bit of preparation to maybe, you know,

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create a little.

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Bit of a of a barrier for a little energy.

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Sponge such just the self. Yeah, so we'll see, maybe

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we can make it happened. Recognized for its historic significance,

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the house was added to the National Register of Historic

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Places in July of two thousand and four, which, honestly,

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what took so long?

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I know that.

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And as you all know, if you've listened to last

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week's episode, we've been there, and every episode for like

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the last couple of weeks.

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Right, the last couple of episodes, if you've listened, Yeah,

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we've been there. We keep braging about it, deal with it.

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Originally built by Daniel Delaney and his wife, Elizabeth McGee Delaney,

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the home first stood about three hundred feet from where

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it rests today. It was eventually moved to a sturdier

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foundation to ensure its long term preservation. Good call, I know,

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a second chance of sorts for a structure that's lived

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through more than its share of stories. Constructed as a

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wood frame farmhouse, it has evolved through generations, the eighteen

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forty five original structure, followed by a parlor edition and

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kitchen expansion with a charming wrap around porch in the

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eighteen seventies, then a woodshed in the early nineteen hundreds that,

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through a modern lens, looks more like a garage. Today,

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this layered piece of Oregon history operates as a bed

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and breakfast, an occasional host of seances and various salons,

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welcoming guests into a space that stood through more than

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a century and a half of change.

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I want to do a seanceer so bad.

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But when you step across that threshold, it's hard not

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to wonder how much of the past still lingers here.

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This house has stood through pioneer struggles, a brutal murder

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tied to its builder's name, and the slow march of history.

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And while generally it's considered a place of comfort today,

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it's also a space that seems to hold whispers of

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everything it's witnessed. If only walsk talk.

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Oo, which technically like their walls kind of do, because

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there's stuff written on them and they're like preserved.

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I didn't find the home of particularly comfortable space, But

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then I hadn't expected to experience searing pain in my

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head and the wooziness typically associated with seasickness. Our gracious

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tea brewing and gregarious host, Vicky, on the other hand,

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has nothing but good vibes.

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Oh seriously, Oh that reminded me too. Sorry, I just

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got really excited because I forgot this, But I remembered.

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Vicky is in Ghosts of the Grand too, so if

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you go there you'll see her.

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She's like in the show. Yea super fun But we digress.

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I meant to add that to the beginning.

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Getting back to our frontier days. One of the men

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who frequently enjoyed the hospitality that mister Daniel Dulaney was

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seemingly known.

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For was George Beale.

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Beale had once worked for Delaney and was a familiar

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face around the farm. He was handsome, charming, and ran

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a saloon where the Marion Hotel would later stand. Local

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said he belonged to a respected fraternity and plenty of

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people liked him. But behind the charm, it seems Beale

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had a habit of talking too much about things that

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back then and perhaps even now would have been considered

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impolite topics in some circles like locker room talker.

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Not exactly.

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He couldn't keep quiet about Delaney's wealth. Oh, in fact,

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he even knew that not only had Delaney recently sold

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off cattle, but also that, as a result, the man

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was keeping a significant amount of cash on hand. Beale,

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the wobblin' jaw really couldn't help himself, that chatty chad.

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In the Old West, a person who drank too much

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and talked too much was often called a wobblin jaw.

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I love that is a legitimate old timey slang term.

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The slang term was used for someone whose inebriation loosened

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their tongue and caused them to ramble or talk accessible excessively.

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My goodness, I feel like I met a wobble in

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jaw this weekend.

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Oh, my goodness, you surely did. He began bragging about

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how easy it would be to rob the old man.

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Oh, oh, that's fucked.

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Wait.

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Okay, so the wobble and jaw was talking about how

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easy it was. Okay, I know, are we surprised? No?

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No.

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Enter George Baker, a recent arrival to the Salem area.

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Baker was a butcher by trade. Whispers circulated about his

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personal life, including his marriage to a Native woman. Of course,

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this was likely considered a dark mark against his character. Historically,

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the wild West didn't exactly embody the love is love ideal.

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Oh yeah, but then you have the other people like

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the Fur Trading Company that like encouraged their employees to

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marry Native people.

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Yeah, and I think that was much earlier, was it.

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Okay?

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Yeah, and I think you know, it's very like regionally

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and it in that case, it makes sense because that

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was a that was purely driven by capitalism.

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Yeah, and yeah, they wanted them to be like incorporated

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so that they could like take over.

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Yeah, yep. And then they were like, Okay, then don't

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marry them anymore. We've got what we wanted.

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That's so fucked the fuck, Yeah, you guys. History really

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sucks anyway. Baker's frequent visits to Beale's saloon soon led

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to something far darker than camaraderie. Together, Beal and Baker

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hatched a deadly plan. On Sunday, January ninth, eighteen sixty five,

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the two men arrived at Delaney's home, their faces darkened

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in disguise because obviously there wasn't already enough racism in

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this story, so.

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They were purposely darkened their faces like colored it not

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just like where it wore like a ski mask.

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Nope, they were doing like blackface.

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Okay.

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Basically, one knocked at the door asking to be directed

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to the house of Delaney's son. The old man stepped outside.

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From their accounts differ on the exact sequence of events,

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but what's certain is that a musket fired and Daniel

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Delaney was killed on the spot.

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Wow, they just knocked on the door, he comes out

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and they shoot him, pretty much.

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Yeah, And I mean, I know you said it wasn't clear,

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like exactly clear, but.

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That's that's kind of what I've distilled down as like

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the established events, there are kind of like some other

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like more minor details that are sort of bandied about,

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and you know, oh, it could have gone this way,

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or you know, they could have said this or that,

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and it's like, I don't really care. Yeah, this was

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you know, over one hundred and fifty years ago, so yeah,

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you know what I mean.

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It's like, in the end, we know, here's a couple

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of things that for sureseys happened, it just seems so

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scary and so sudden, like you just never know, you

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answer your door and next second you're done.

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No, for sure, the wild West was not a kind mistress.

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That's a fuck the thing. Why? I mean, so that

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if anyone saw that, they would think that that black

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people did it, did the crime. I I'm not really sure.

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I'm not sure if they thought it was going to

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disguise them, or if they thought, oh, this will totally

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fool people and they'll think that, you know, yeah, I

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just I can't. I can't fathom, because I really don't

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think that either of those things could be accomplished by

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the rudimentary tools that they had at their disposal. And also, again,

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eighteen sixties Oregon, there's not that many people just peopling about.

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The chances we're going to be seen.

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Well, I think more importantly, it's kind of like kind

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of everybody knew everybody, right, there's not that many fucking people.

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So who else do you think they are gonna think?

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It was?

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Yeah, like I know, your face brout coloring, yeah, you know.

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And here's the thing is like maybe that would obscure

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their looks. Just I don't buy that it and it

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super didn't work spoiler alert, so stay stupid. The pair

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ransacked the house, taking about fourteen hundred dollars in cash,

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though some believed the hall was much greater, but their

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crime would hardly go unnoticed as they had hoped.

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Did they use permanent paint on their faces?

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That would have been hilarious. I don't think there was

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really such a Like they didn't have sharpies back then.

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But that would be really funny if they just something

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and they couldn't get it off, so then they should

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just had.

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To walk around like that.

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I didn't really tug at that thread as to like

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what they were using to darken their faces, But I

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have to imagine like at hole or something grease ash, cold, like, yeah,

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something of you know, who knows, shoe polish, nothing great,

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nothing you probably should put on your face.

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I hope it was like dog shit, cowshit, some sort

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of poo poo. These doo dooo smear motherfuckers. Yeah, A

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girl can dream, and I'm gonna picture. I'm gonna go

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ahead and just picture that they put dodo on their faces.

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Yeah, and then you then you could call them dodoo face.

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Do do faces? SUPI? Yeah?

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Like when we talked about the do doodler. Yeah, living

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with Delaney was a young black child named Jack de Wolf.

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Now one might ask themselves why was a young black

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child living with Delaney at the time, which is a

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fair question. There's speculation both Jack and his brother Noah

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were fathered by Delaney.

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Oh, getting around town.

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Well, I mean, technically if it were true, not even

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getting off his own property.

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Well you'll see, you know, it's convenient.

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Convenience, convenience, of course, of course. Yep. The language used

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to describe Jack in historical sources was, as you can

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probably sadly imagine, super duper racist and or cruelly demeaning,

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oftentimes both. What matters is this Jack was clever and brave.

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When he he heard the chaos unfold, he managed to

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stay hidden, apparently concealed in the nearby woodshed.

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Oh uh.

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It was described alternately as like a wood pile. It's

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kind of unclear it he was in a stack of logs. Well,

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could have been a wood pile and a woodshed. Yeah,

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what a wood check, you know that whole bit.

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Yeah.

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AnyWho, Jack saw and heard more than enough to later

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identify at least one of the intruders damn Jack. Wow.

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Yeah, so he was like able to even watch because

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that would be so scary. Did you say how old

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he was or just that he was a kid, you know?

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So I came across several different published ages, so anywhere

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from like seven to twelve.

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Okay, but yeah that's really young still to just know

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that you need to watch and just see who's doing

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it so that you could help.

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Wow. Yeah.

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Just knowing that, like, oh, something bad is happening, and

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having the wherewithal at any of those ages is you know,

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you just.

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Look like you see if something bad happening, you don't

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want to look at it. Yeah, yeah, or adult anybody.

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Yeah, it's just bad. By morning, Jack told relatives what

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he'd witnessed. As traces of the men's disguise were discovered.

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Suspicion fell squarely on Beal and Baker. A distinctive hat

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band and the materials used to darken their faces were

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recovered near a watering trough on Turner Road. With evidence

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mounting quickly, both men were arrested. Their trial began that March. So,

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I mean the murder happened January ninth, March, We're going

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to trial.

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I'm like honestly, great police were, you know, not bad

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for the time, but you found the evidence.

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Listen into a black child.

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Yeah, and actually, and I won't quote the specifics on

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this because here's the thing is, it's reported multiple ways

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as to whether or not his testimony was actually used

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in court. Technically because at the time it would have

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been illegal for Jack to testify. Oh okay, wow, because

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you know racism. Yeah, just casually.

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I never thought about that.

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Well, technically he was illegal just being there president in

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the state. And we'll get to that.

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Don't worry, dude, this is like also complicated.

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There's so much more racism. It's wild.

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Okay.

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The trial was swift, the entire region seemingly eagerly awaiting

467
00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:53.039
their punishment. Beial and Baker were locked away in a

468
00:27:53.079 --> 00:27:58.119
small red jail tucked into a corner of the courthouse grounds. Meanwhile,

469
00:27:58.599 --> 00:28:04.599
carpenters worked nearby. The Wilber brothers were busy constructing double

470
00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:07.319
gallows in a grove of young oak trees at the

471
00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:10.759
corner of Church and Mill Streets. If you pass that

472
00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:14.680
area today, the oaks are massive, immature, but they still

473
00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:17.720
stand as solemn witnesses to Salem's history.

474
00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:22.640
Dude, I totally forgot about this part because I semi

475
00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:25.720
looked into this was like the only thing I kind

476
00:28:25.720 --> 00:28:29.039
of looked into. It was like the how much not

477
00:28:29.119 --> 00:28:30.880
like a ton because I wanted to see if you

478
00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:32.880
could still go to the spot. M h.

479
00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:36.880
A lot of what I was seeing about hauntings in

480
00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:41.039
connection to the Delaney case was actually in this spot.

481
00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:43.960
That's why I was like kind of drawn to like

482
00:28:44.079 --> 00:28:47.920
researching that more So, I completely forgot about it though,

483
00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:51.079
because I dropped it. Yeah, and then yes, I'm glad

484
00:28:51.079 --> 00:28:53.200
you brought it back up. I really want to still go.

485
00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:55.119
I want to go visit that spot.

486
00:28:55.559 --> 00:28:56.359
Oh I do too.

487
00:28:56.599 --> 00:28:57.440
Yeah.

488
00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:02.400
The courtroom was reportedly quite a spectacle throughout. On one

489
00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:06.559
side were heavy hitting prosecutors Williams and Mallory.

490
00:29:09.279 --> 00:29:09.759
It's getting.

491
00:29:14.640 --> 00:29:18.599
On the other Beal and Baker's defense team. It was

492
00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:23.200
a clash of Oregon's legal titans of the time, whatever

493
00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:24.599
that means, because.

494
00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:28.680
They're probably the only legal titans of the time.

495
00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:31.400
Yeah, I mean the eighteen sixties of it all.

496
00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:33.400
I bet they just.

497
00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:36.839
Had fun, though, Like old timey courtroom is just a

498
00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:39.880
place I want to It just seems like a circus.

499
00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:44.079
Oh yeah, No, I mean people were like smoking openly.

500
00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:50.359
I don't know if women were allowed in this particular courtroom,

501
00:29:50.359 --> 00:29:53.680
but it was not uncommon for them to be like, oh,

502
00:29:53.799 --> 00:29:58.359
this part of the testimony, you know, the ferror, the

503
00:29:58.480 --> 00:30:01.480
delicate sex just shouldn't hear, so they would, you know,

504
00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:02.680
usher women out.

505
00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:06.000
I was picturing like when you when I said circus

506
00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:08.200
and everything. I was picturing like women standing up and

507
00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:11.240
go like oh, like fainting and like oh I.

508
00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:15.039
Can't yes, oh the scarlett O'Haras.

509
00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:15.880
Yeah.

510
00:30:16.799 --> 00:30:20.039
Still in the end, the testimony of young Jack de Wolfe,

511
00:30:20.599 --> 00:30:26.119
combined with the overwhelming circumstantial evidence, sealed the case. On

512
00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:30.119
March twenty fifth, eighteen sixty five, the jury returned a

513
00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:35.559
guilty verdict. Beale denied his guilt to the end, but

514
00:30:35.680 --> 00:30:40.519
Judge Ruben Boise or Boise, it spelled like Boise wasn't

515
00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:43.759
having it. That's the important part. He was not having it.

516
00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:46.839
He literally told Beale to his face that he was lying.

517
00:30:47.480 --> 00:30:50.200
Shit. I thought the judges were supposed to be like impartial.

518
00:30:50.599 --> 00:30:53.559
Well, I mean at this point he's already been found.

519
00:30:53.400 --> 00:30:56.720
Dudgety okay, okay, yeah, I can't judge.

520
00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:02.680
Yeah, I pretty Joji even for Oh god, we should

521
00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:04.640
make that a T shirt for the judge, even for

522
00:31:04.720 --> 00:31:05.319
a judge.

523
00:31:05.599 --> 00:31:08.960
Yeah, I want judges to wear that everywhere.

524
00:31:09.279 --> 00:31:10.039
That'd be so great.

525
00:31:10.119 --> 00:31:11.400
We need more lady judges.

526
00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:13.640
I think that would get that, that would get people going,

527
00:31:13.799 --> 00:31:15.920
like lady Judges's sure.

528
00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:21.480
We're going it's propocative. On May seventeenth, eighteen sixty five,

529
00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:26.000
Judge Ruben Boise, I'm going, I'm going hard on the

530
00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:31.240
Boise sentenced George Beale and George Baker to death by hanging.

531
00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:34.480
That's kind of how they did it back then.

532
00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:37.680
And they were both Georgia's I guess I didn't realize that.

533
00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:43.319
Yep, real common name Salem turned out for the Dark Spectacle.

534
00:31:43.599 --> 00:31:48.279
People came in wagons from Marion, Polk, Yamhill, and Lynn Counties,

535
00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:52.079
probably a lot of other places. Who knows. Some of

536
00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:53.680
the spectators came on foot.

537
00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:56.519
They walked to see someone die.

538
00:31:57.319 --> 00:31:59.039
Yeah, families brought their children.

539
00:31:59.160 --> 00:32:02.839
Can you imagine, Like that's not easy travel either back then.

540
00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:06.400
Like I have to assume it was people that lived

541
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:10.079
in the nearby surrounding area that came on foot. But

542
00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:10.640
I don't know.

543
00:32:11.000 --> 00:32:14.039
I guess, yeah, I guess, Okay, the walkers maybe were close.

544
00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:15.920
I just hope, I hope. I don't know.

545
00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:18.519
Listen, I don't know what to hope for in this case.

546
00:32:18.559 --> 00:32:19.960
It's real dark either way.

547
00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:24.079
Entertainment, You know, people are willing to do anything for entertainment.

548
00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:29.079
Think about like the Romans. Yeah, yikes, the men in

549
00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:34.400
their finest clothing, top hats and waistcoats. Amongst the eager strangers,

550
00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:38.319
there were also familiar faces barflies who used to haunt

551
00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:42.160
Beal Saloon, now waiting to see their old drinking companion

552
00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:43.200
meet his end.

553
00:32:43.799 --> 00:32:45.079
Jesus Christ.

554
00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:48.799
I will say it was very common when they were

555
00:32:48.839 --> 00:32:53.880
doing a public execution for people that like knew that.

556
00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:54.880
That's intense.

557
00:32:55.119 --> 00:32:57.920
Yeah, but it's like, I mean, you kind of I

558
00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:00.720
feel like I wouldn't you feel you need to be

559
00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:03.759
there for like that person, as gruesome and awful as

560
00:33:03.799 --> 00:33:06.039
that is. I don't know.

561
00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:08.799
I honestly don't know how to answer that.

562
00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:13.920
Questionhoud Nope, anyway, I really don't.

563
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:18.119
Among them was a boy named t t Gear, just

564
00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:21.839
a child. He'd once lived with the Beeal family. He

565
00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:25.200
carried a lunch his grandmother had packed, and walked seven

566
00:33:25.319 --> 00:33:26.799
miles to the gallows.

567
00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:29.519
See you seven miles?

568
00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:35.200
Yeah, Wow, okay, but get this. Thirty years later, as

569
00:33:35.359 --> 00:33:40.920
governor of Oregon, he would recall that day in his autobiography,

570
00:33:41.240 --> 00:33:45.359
describing the deep revulsion he felt at being part of

571
00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:45.839
the crowd.

572
00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:49.559
So the kid became the governor. Yes, the little kid

573
00:33:49.599 --> 00:33:52.119
who walked seven miles with his greennies lung with his

574
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:56.200
pack lunch and was so grossed out. What a good child,

575
00:33:56.319 --> 00:33:57.160
what a good human?

576
00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:01.559
And so not long after, Beal and Baker were led

577
00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:06.000
to the hastily erected double gallows and were executed before

578
00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:09.519
a massive crowd. The throng of spectators was said to

579
00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:14.440
have numbered anywhere between one and five thousand, all there

580
00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:19.280
to witness Salem's first execution, cementing this crime as one

581
00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:25.079
of early Salem's most notorious murders. God, that's a lot

582
00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:27.239
of fucking people for backside.

583
00:34:26.800 --> 00:34:31.159
Were the wild West? Yeah? That's crazy. Did you say

584
00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:35.360
that they built those gallows before they were even found guilty? Yep? Wow,

585
00:34:36.119 --> 00:34:36.599
I don't know.

586
00:34:36.800 --> 00:34:41.400
Yeah, something something doesn't really sit right with that, right.

587
00:34:42.119 --> 00:34:44.599
Why was it the first Did they just put it

588
00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:47.639
into law or did they just not need to execute

589
00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:48.840
anyone until this point?

590
00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:52.360
I'm not sure. I think a lot of times, especially

591
00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:54.199
in the wild West as.

592
00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:55.960
It were, They're just like, hey, let's kill these guys.

593
00:34:56.079 --> 00:34:57.960
I think, yeah, I think a lot of people died,

594
00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:02.000
and like, especially prior to statehood, a lot of those

595
00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:04.280
things wouldn't have been officially documented.

596
00:35:04.840 --> 00:35:08.440
Oh yeah, interesting.

597
00:35:08.159 --> 00:35:10.719
As a territory, I think there were a lot of

598
00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:15.320
things that probably occurred that it's harder to document officially.

599
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:16.199
That makes sense.

600
00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:19.880
It wasn't just the crowd or the condemned making noise

601
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:23.239
that day. Hawkers cut through the hush with their sales.

602
00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:29.519
Pitch One printer Frederick G. Schwatka had rushed to print

603
00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:34.199
copies of the men's confessions. Hawkers, in this context you

604
00:35:34.199 --> 00:35:38.840
can think of as essentially small time murderabilia dealers. He

605
00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:44.800
sold them as morbid souvenirs whoa In those confessions, Beal

606
00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:47.719
and Baker admitted their guilt, but each tried to pin

607
00:35:47.800 --> 00:35:50.480
the worst of it on the other. So here's the

608
00:35:50.519 --> 00:35:54.679
other thing is they had confessed in some former fashion.

609
00:35:55.360 --> 00:35:58.440
I wasn't there. I can't say if they were, you know,

610
00:35:58.639 --> 00:35:59.880
in some way coerce.

611
00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:04.159
But what little ships though, man, they're I was there

612
00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:08.000
were more and better stiff me.

613
00:36:10.440 --> 00:36:14.480
Some witnesses never forgot what they saw. E M.

614
00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:16.159
Cross Croissan.

615
00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:19.320
That's how I'm saying it, because that is how I

616
00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:21.440
have said it every time I've looked at the name

617
00:36:21.480 --> 00:36:23.360
in my notes and in the source material.

618
00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:27.079
It is I am obsessed with a buttery croissant. So

619
00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:31.239
well she was not anyway, E M.

620
00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:37.679
Describe the Marion Rifles a militia unit. Important to note, uh,

621
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:42.000
not to be confused with the Confederate Virginia Infantry unit.

622
00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:47.679
Very different. They were in full dress and armed, forming

623
00:36:47.719 --> 00:36:52.119
a protective ring around the transport wagon, bringing Beale and

624
00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:54.599
Baker to the gallows.

625
00:36:54.639 --> 00:36:57.119
Like did was? Were they scared someone was going to

626
00:36:57.199 --> 00:36:59.119
murder them, like on the way there, or that they

627
00:36:59.159 --> 00:36:59.719
were going to say?

628
00:36:59.719 --> 00:37:04.559
I think the concern was more so escaped and you

629
00:37:04.599 --> 00:37:06.840
know that they might be assisted.

630
00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:10.679
By ah, some people on the outside.

631
00:37:11.320 --> 00:37:19.519
Exactly. Meanwhile, young Josie Lafour, just twelve, and the victim's granddaughter,

632
00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:25.800
so Daniel Delaney's granddaughter, recalled a final insult. One of

633
00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:30.760
the condemned spat in William Delaney's direction before the drop.

634
00:37:31.159 --> 00:37:34.239
What the fuck while he was being.

635
00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:39.400
Hanged, right before he was being Yeah, whoa? So don't

636
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:40.800
love that? That's rude.

637
00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:41.639
What did he do?

638
00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:46.400
I mean, I killed her relative and now I'm mad

639
00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:50.519
at you. I listen, don't it the math ain't math,

640
00:37:50.599 --> 00:37:53.480
and don't make don't ask me to make that make sense.

641
00:37:53.559 --> 00:37:55.960
I mean, Plus, the only thing I can think is

642
00:37:56.000 --> 00:38:00.159
if they were somehow falsely confused confused.

643
00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:02.599
It's not even because it's not.

644
00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:07.960
True falsely accused, Like then okay, be mad and like

645
00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:10.639
maybe spit on the but like did that guy even

646
00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:12.000
but not have anything to do?

647
00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:16.519
I mean it's like literally one of the victim's family. Yeah,

648
00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:19.480
I think you're guilty, Like right, I think that's the

649
00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:24.440
whole point of that little tidbit Having been shared, Sheriff

650
00:38:24.519 --> 00:38:27.920
Sam Hendrick carried out the grim duty of pulling the lever,

651
00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:32.639
sending both men to their deaths. According to later accounts,

652
00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:35.679
he then dropped to his knees on the scaffold and

653
00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:42.559
prayed aloud for forgiveness. Well shit, yeah, I mean that's heavy.

654
00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:43.519
I know.

655
00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:45.480
I was just like holding my breath through that because,

656
00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:48.840
like I was like picturing for some reason, me having

657
00:38:48.920 --> 00:38:51.800
to do that for whatever reason, Like yeah, I mean

658
00:38:51.840 --> 00:38:52.360
I don't think.

659
00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:53.760
I couldn't think even if you.

660
00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:56.639
Like truly in your heart of hearts believe that these

661
00:38:56.679 --> 00:38:59.840
two men, you know, did what they were accused of,

662
00:38:59.880 --> 00:39:02.199
and you're like, okay, they were found guilty by a

663
00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:06.559
jury of their peers. Whatever that looked like in eighteen sixties,

664
00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:10.679
that is that is still very very heavy.

665
00:39:11.320 --> 00:39:15.800
Yeah. I have a hard time even like I wanted

666
00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:18.079
to be a vet at one point and like just

667
00:39:18.159 --> 00:39:20.760
having to like picture putting dogs down, Like I was like,

668
00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:23.800
there's no way, even though it's good, yeah, like better

669
00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:24.679
for them, it's.

670
00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:27.920
Right, medical, it's the kind thing to do.

671
00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:30.559
I just don't. I can barely kill a fucking spider.

672
00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:31.159
We all know this.

673
00:39:31.840 --> 00:39:37.079
Yeah, yeah, me too, but for totally different reasons. The

674
00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:43.239
crowd began to disperse almost immediately, spectacle complete, and onlookers

675
00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:47.760
seemingly satisfied, they climbed into wagons and simply drove away.

676
00:39:48.519 --> 00:39:53.480
But the bodies, well, the bodies were another matter. Baker's

677
00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:57.840
family eventually claimed him, taking his remains to rest in

678
00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:03.079
a family plot. Wasn't so fortunate. His family refused to

679
00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:08.000
take him back. It was Daniel Waldo, namesake of the

680
00:40:08.039 --> 00:40:13.039
Waldo Hills, who finally claimed Beeale's body, though he wasn't

681
00:40:13.039 --> 00:40:16.880
a man of faith or a churchgoer himself, he believed

682
00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:20.400
even a condemned man deserved a proper burial and a

683
00:40:20.480 --> 00:40:22.159
measure of dignity and death.

684
00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:23.199
Wow.

685
00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:29.280
Yeah, I remember reading something that was attributed as a

686
00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:33.320
quote about this, you know, from him at the time,

687
00:40:33.360 --> 00:40:35.880
and it said I may not be a Christian man,

688
00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:39.159
but if the church won't bury him, I will. Essentially.

689
00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:43.440
I was literally just thinking something along those lines. How

690
00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:46.480
is the community just not even just wanting a dead

691
00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:48.960
body hanging out in the open, right?

692
00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:51.119
I mean, if nothing else, but I don't think they

693
00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:54.920
had a real grasp on bare minimum sanitation.

694
00:40:55.480 --> 00:40:57.199
Yeah.

695
00:40:57.360 --> 00:41:01.159
He hauled the coffin to his farm, turing Beale on

696
00:41:01.239 --> 00:41:04.960
the hillside and erecting a simple fence to enclose the

697
00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:08.719
grave site. Today, if you were to drive the highway

698
00:41:08.760 --> 00:41:12.599
between McLay and Shaw, though the fence has long since

699
00:41:12.639 --> 00:41:16.320
fallen away, you might spot the lonely grave marker of

700
00:41:16.440 --> 00:41:20.079
George Beale, Salem's first executed murderer.

701
00:41:21.480 --> 00:41:24.440
WHOA well, we should go find it one of two.

702
00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:29.480
Yeah, but not everyone's story ended at the gallows. There's

703
00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:35.199
a strange, somber continuity between Beale's burial and some aspects

704
00:41:35.239 --> 00:41:39.719
of Rachel's story, a shared thread of suffering, and the faint,

705
00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:45.320
imperfect Mercy's history offered them both. For Beale, it came

706
00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:48.119
in the form of a stranger's compassion when his own

707
00:41:48.199 --> 00:41:53.440
family refused him burial. For Rachel Belden, it meant survival

708
00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:57.360
in a place codified cruelty, yet seemingly spared her the

709
00:41:57.400 --> 00:42:00.960
worst of it. Rachel Belden, who you recall, was noted

710
00:42:01.519 --> 00:42:04.360
not only the mother of one of the key witnesses,

711
00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:09.119
Jack to Wolf, but also the enslaved caretaker of Missus Delaney,

712
00:42:09.719 --> 00:42:13.639
ran the household and tended their garden. When the Delaneys

713
00:42:13.719 --> 00:42:17.960
brought her to Oregon, settlers assembled in Shampooy had just

714
00:42:18.119 --> 00:42:23.280
passed the eighteen forty three Organic Law. It established the

715
00:42:23.320 --> 00:42:28.320
provisional government of Oregon, including the prohibition of slavery. It

716
00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:31.480
wasn't until eighteen forty four that another law was passed

717
00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:35.760
designed to exclude and punish free black people who tried

718
00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:39.760
to settle in Oregon. However, the law was rarely enforced.

719
00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:43.960
Records mentioned only a single known instance of someone being

720
00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:48.039
forcibly removed, so there was no effect on the Delaneys

721
00:42:48.119 --> 00:42:51.559
or Rachel Belden. Upon their arrival in the state, nor

722
00:42:51.639 --> 00:42:55.000
during the twenty plus years she was enslaved to the

723
00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:59.360
Delaney family in Oregon. Even though the last law was

724
00:42:59.400 --> 00:43:02.159
never in form it should be noted that didn't mean

725
00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:05.159
a number of black residents in Oregon weren't targeted and

726
00:43:05.239 --> 00:43:08.639
harassed in an attempt to make them flee or see

727
00:43:08.679 --> 00:43:09.960
them permanently removed.

728
00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:11.239
I don't like that.

729
00:43:11.880 --> 00:43:14.239
Well, like I said, prior to becoming a state, I

730
00:43:14.239 --> 00:43:16.199
think there's a lot of things that may not have

731
00:43:16.239 --> 00:43:19.679
been officially documented. I think it goes without saying that

732
00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:24.840
there's a strong possibility in some rural communities that bad

733
00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:30.159
things could have happened that were supported by the very

734
00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:36.679
now antiquated and awful laws that were established here in

735
00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:40.199
the then territory prior to statehood.

736
00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:44.079
Yeah, I feel like it's pretty much just guaranteed. Like

737
00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:46.039
I don't. I don't think it's like a probably.

738
00:43:46.719 --> 00:43:50.239
Yeah, I kind of think so too. I mean, the

739
00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:54.360
fact that there are no documented cases means that that's

740
00:43:54.400 --> 00:43:56.800
all it means is there's nothing that was documented, and

741
00:43:56.840 --> 00:43:59.960
that's all there is and that's all there's going to be.

742
00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:07.159
It's particularly relevant because following Elizabeth's passing, Rachel finally gained

743
00:44:07.159 --> 00:44:11.280
her freedom. By the early eighteen sixties, she was manumitted

744
00:44:11.719 --> 00:44:15.039
freed from the Delaney household after more than two decades

745
00:44:15.079 --> 00:44:17.920
of service. I mean, some sources say she was pushing

746
00:44:18.039 --> 00:44:22.920
nearly three wow, three decades of service. Not long after,

747
00:44:23.199 --> 00:44:28.719
on September fifteenth, eighteen sixty three, she married Nathan Brooks,

748
00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:32.480
a seventy year old widower who, like Rachel, had known

749
00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:36.960
more than his share of hardship. Their union was officiated

750
00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:41.920
by Reverend John Stip, a white minister, something unusual enough

751
00:44:41.960 --> 00:44:43.840
in that era to make local headlines.

752
00:44:44.039 --> 00:44:45.079
That was documented.

753
00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:48.840
Yeah, and you know what, it happened again that same year,

754
00:44:48.920 --> 00:44:53.480
the marriage of America Waldo and Richard Bogel drew attention

755
00:44:53.559 --> 00:44:57.039
for the very same reason. When the couple wed, Rachel

756
00:44:57.079 --> 00:45:00.519
already had two sons. Again, they were leave to have

757
00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:05.239
been fathered by Daniel Delaney Senior, and Nathan had five

758
00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:09.519
children of his own together. They later welcomed two more

759
00:45:09.639 --> 00:45:13.119
sons and settled on the farm of Daniel Waldo. His

760
00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:16.360
name lives on in the hills nearby. Daniel Waldo just

761
00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:21.199
seems like a real good fucking dude. Really, Yes, he's

762
00:45:21.239 --> 00:45:25.639
the one who buried the unclaimed murderer. Okay, he lived

763
00:45:25.679 --> 00:45:29.880
on his property. He seems like a solid fucking dude.

764
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:32.800
I really, Oh, I kind of want to look into

765
00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:36.719
him deeper, but I'm afraid because I'm like, oh God, no, please,

766
00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:40.920
don't be secretly trash. Yeah, but it sounds like from

767
00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:44.360
what we know, Yeah, he sounds like a solid human.

768
00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:48.159
Knock on wood, you know, salt over the shoulder, you

769
00:45:48.199 --> 00:45:51.360
get it. It was there only a few miles east

770
00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:54.119
of the Delaney property that Rachel built the rest of

771
00:45:54.159 --> 00:45:57.239
her life. No longer bound to the household where her

772
00:45:57.280 --> 00:46:00.719
story began, she lived to the age of eighty one,

773
00:46:01.440 --> 00:46:06.639
passing away on October twelfth, nineteen ten, a survivor in

774
00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:11.239
every sense of the word. Just a year after Delaney's murder, though,

775
00:46:11.920 --> 00:46:15.840
Rachel Belden Brooks brought a civil suit in Salem for

776
00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:19.880
compensation from the estate of the late Daniel Delaney Senior.

777
00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:24.320
She legally sought payment for the decades of labor she

778
00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:27.320
and her sons had provided to the family throughout her

779
00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:33.280
years of enslavement. Wow, certainly a bold move for the time.

780
00:46:34.199 --> 00:46:38.519
Seriously, Like, my I'm like my jaw dropped, my eyes

781
00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:39.679
are wide.

782
00:46:40.159 --> 00:46:42.760
I love her. I had no idea.

783
00:46:43.639 --> 00:46:48.320
In the end, she won the case, Holy shit, though

784
00:46:48.800 --> 00:46:53.280
she was awarded only one thousand dollars, far less than

785
00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:56.920
the ten thousand, three hundred and thirty three dollars and

786
00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:01.519
thirty cents she had requested. Residing judge is said to

787
00:47:01.599 --> 00:47:04.480
have concluded that the food and shelter that Delaneys had

788
00:47:04.519 --> 00:47:08.360
provided to Rachel and her children were nearly adequate compensation

789
00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:11.880
for their labor, which is kind of bullshit. But she

790
00:47:11.960 --> 00:47:12.400
still won.

791
00:47:14.280 --> 00:47:16.519
Well, I mean, she was allowed to live on her own,

792
00:47:16.599 --> 00:47:20.800
to make the money to buy her own food and shelter.

793
00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:24.159
It's kind of a yeah, but whatever kind of judge

794
00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:29.320
for a judge. After Nathan's death in eighteen seventy four,

795
00:47:29.760 --> 00:47:32.960
Rachel took ownership of their one hundred and forty four

796
00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:36.000
acre homestead on the west side of the Willamette River.

797
00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:37.119
Hell yeah.

798
00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:40.519
She not only managed the land, but sustained her family's

799
00:47:40.559 --> 00:47:44.480
livelihood there for decades. When she passed away in nineteen ten,

800
00:47:44.639 --> 00:47:47.360
she was laid to rest beside her son Noah at

801
00:47:47.440 --> 00:47:50.880
City View Cemetery in Salem.

802
00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:52.639
I want to visit her grave too.

803
00:47:53.119 --> 00:47:59.760
I know Rachel's life remains remarkable. She stands among Oregon's

804
00:47:59.760 --> 00:48:03.800
first black pioneers and is recognized as the first documented

805
00:48:03.880 --> 00:48:07.199
black woman to live in the state. Her story reflects

806
00:48:07.239 --> 00:48:10.920
both the harsh contradictions and the rare opportunities that define

807
00:48:11.079 --> 00:48:14.599
the lives of black Oregonians in the mid nineteenth century.

808
00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:19.000
Rachel's story stands as an equal companion to that of

809
00:48:19.039 --> 00:48:23.400
the Delaneys, a reminder that the legacies of power, violence,

810
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:28.159
and resilience are often bound together in Oregon's early history.

811
00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:32.119
The same household that once embodied the privilege afforded to

812
00:48:32.199 --> 00:48:36.280
families like the Delaneys in pioneer days also became the

813
00:48:36.320 --> 00:48:42.039
setting for Rachel's eventual independence. In some ways, Daniel Delaney's

814
00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:46.760
name has faded into the footnotes of frontier crime, while

815
00:48:46.840 --> 00:48:50.000
Rachel's life continues to serve as an example of how

816
00:48:50.039 --> 00:48:54.000
an unlikely individual can leave a lasting impact in bold

817
00:48:54.119 --> 00:48:59.760
and enduring ways. I will say she does not feature

818
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:04.880
dominantly in the same way in Oregon history, and I

819
00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:09.119
think we understand that that is, I mean, just the

820
00:49:09.119 --> 00:49:15.039
most typical and awful whitewashing that we just have come

821
00:49:15.119 --> 00:49:20.000
to expect. Obviously, I mean a black woman, how dare she.

822
00:49:20.800 --> 00:49:25.559
And she did something completely amazing too, like yeah, wow,

823
00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:29.039
to stand up for herself, knowing like what could happen

824
00:49:29.119 --> 00:49:32.519
to her if she did? Yep, from history, Like from

825
00:49:32.599 --> 00:49:34.960
the history that she has witnessed her entire life.

826
00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:41.280
Her journey from enslavement to landowner remains one of the

827
00:49:41.280 --> 00:49:46.000
most compelling and overlooked chapters in Salem's past. And I

828
00:49:46.039 --> 00:49:48.159
had to fact check that as I was writing it,

829
00:49:48.199 --> 00:49:51.760
because I was like, wait, holy shit. In the United States,

830
00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:54.760
women couldn't have their own credit cards in the nineteen

831
00:49:55.199 --> 00:49:58.440
sixties and seventies. I think nineteen seventy four was when

832
00:49:58.440 --> 00:50:00.199
it became legal for women to have their own own

833
00:50:00.199 --> 00:50:03.679
credit card. Are we sure that she actually owned the land? Like,

834
00:50:03.800 --> 00:50:09.039
I'm it happened through inheritance, Okay, but yeah, great, she

835
00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:10.119
sure fucking did.

836
00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:11.239
Like that's amazing.

837
00:50:12.119 --> 00:50:15.400
Stories like Rachel's remind us that history isn't just written

838
00:50:15.400 --> 00:50:19.679
in court records or carved into headstones. It lives in

839
00:50:19.719 --> 00:50:22.920
the choices people made when the world gave them few

840
00:50:23.159 --> 00:50:27.320
good ones. The Delaney case may have begun with violence

841
00:50:27.400 --> 00:50:33.159
and greed, leaving behind a complicated legacy, but also carries

842
00:50:33.199 --> 00:50:38.199
the quiet power of survival and self determination. Rachel Beldon

843
00:50:38.239 --> 00:50:43.599
Brooks didn't just endure Oregon's early years. She reshaped what

844
00:50:43.679 --> 00:50:48.119
it meant to belong here, and in doing so, she thrived,

845
00:50:48.800 --> 00:50:51.719
and long after the echoes of the gallows faded, her

846
00:50:51.800 --> 00:50:53.440
life still speaks.

847
00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:58.119
Thank you, thank you for telling me about her. I'm

848
00:50:58.119 --> 00:51:01.239
so glad you found like anian for on it. I'm

849
00:51:01.280 --> 00:51:04.639
so glad it's not completely completely gone. I know I'm

850
00:51:04.679 --> 00:51:07.400
going to send you something. Oh, okay, you sent me

851
00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:11.159
a writing. It is hard to read. Yes, it's very

852
00:51:11.199 --> 00:51:13.079
cursify and old timey.

853
00:51:13.400 --> 00:51:17.280
Take a look and see if there's any of it

854
00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:21.639
that you can make out, and then I will tell

855
00:51:21.719 --> 00:51:22.840
you what it is.

856
00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:27.559
I see, Daniel Delaney. Is it a check?

857
00:51:28.239 --> 00:51:28.440
No?

858
00:51:29.119 --> 00:51:33.360
I saw it looks like one hundred and fifty dollars.

859
00:51:33.719 --> 00:51:37.320
So I'll try to read what I can make out

860
00:51:37.480 --> 00:51:42.239
of it. Okay, received of Daniel Delaney four hundred and

861
00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:50.159
fifty dollars in full payment for a black girl named Rachel,

862
00:51:50.960 --> 00:51:54.119
aged fourteen years. There's a lot of it that you

863
00:51:54.159 --> 00:52:01.840
can't make out. It's signed, and it is dated September

864
00:52:01.880 --> 00:52:06.039
eighteen forty two, when she would have been just a

865
00:52:06.159 --> 00:52:10.480
very young teenage girl. It's literally a receipt.

866
00:52:10.559 --> 00:52:12.760
I was like being positive. I was like, oh, is

867
00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:15.039
it a check, It's a fucking receipt. No, it's a

868
00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:16.519
receipt for a human being.

869
00:52:17.239 --> 00:52:18.360
Wow, that's gross.

870
00:52:18.400 --> 00:52:22.000
Yeah, but like in fourteen, it also makes me wonder,

871
00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:25.639
you know, like we know that possibly she had I mean,

872
00:52:25.719 --> 00:52:29.559
she definitely had children, but like the father was possibly

873
00:52:29.840 --> 00:52:33.079
Daniel Delaney, right, it just makes me wonder if he

874
00:52:33.119 --> 00:52:36.280
bought her at fourteen. It's just giving me vibes of

875
00:52:36.320 --> 00:52:39.480
that celebrity guy who adopted a daughter and then like

876
00:52:39.559 --> 00:52:42.880
married or later like oh woody Allen. Yes, it's giving

877
00:52:42.920 --> 00:52:46.239
me those vibes. And I just really I'm really glad

878
00:52:46.280 --> 00:52:49.960
that she like got something out of it, you know,

879
00:52:50.079 --> 00:52:53.079
like if if it wasn't a good situation for it's

880
00:52:53.119 --> 00:52:54.519
making me very uncomfortable.

881
00:52:55.320 --> 00:52:59.280
Yeah, it's kind of the worst. I found some really

882
00:52:59.320 --> 00:53:05.800
interesting photos from various decades of the house's existence pertinent

883
00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:08.840
things related to the case, but that was the one

884
00:53:08.960 --> 00:53:11.760
that stuck with me. It is literally a receipt for

885
00:53:11.800 --> 00:53:17.880
the sale of a human being, an actual child. Boy, though,

886
00:53:18.519 --> 00:53:21.559
did she have one hell of a come up.

887
00:53:22.440 --> 00:53:27.079
Yeah, I'm glad, sheep, gosh, I'm so glad that she

888
00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:33.039
did such amazing things and got that land, and yeah,

889
00:53:33.159 --> 00:53:34.440
because she fucking.

890
00:53:34.159 --> 00:53:37.159
Worked for it too. She worked for all of that. Yeah,

891
00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:38.480
so deserving.

892
00:53:39.159 --> 00:53:43.360
And there's so many facets to this case because I

893
00:53:43.400 --> 00:53:47.119
feel like it really just highlights kind of the cruelty

894
00:53:47.360 --> 00:53:51.519
of the era really because it's like, I think about

895
00:53:51.599 --> 00:53:54.800
the fact that they were constructing gallows before the men

896
00:53:54.840 --> 00:53:58.159
were convicted. I don't feel good about that, and they

897
00:53:58.199 --> 00:54:02.840
may have been guilty of sin, but holy shit, insane. Yeah.

898
00:54:02.920 --> 00:54:06.599
I mean, there's there's a lot of things to not

899
00:54:06.840 --> 00:54:10.480
feel great about news case, unfortunately.

900
00:54:10.039 --> 00:54:12.719
And it's like, gosh, we've come so far as humans,

901
00:54:12.760 --> 00:54:16.199
but have we? But also have we? I guess we're not.

902
00:54:16.480 --> 00:54:18.000
Yeah, you read my mind.

903
00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:23.719
Outwardly constructing gallows before people are found guilty, But we

904
00:54:23.800 --> 00:54:25.920
might be doing it metaphorically.

905
00:54:26.519 --> 00:54:30.920
I mean, we're keeping children in cages and a lot

906
00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:32.159
of other awful things.

907
00:54:32.239 --> 00:54:37.159
But but I digress. Should we do some taro about it? Yes? Please?

908
00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:45.920
I really want Rachel Vibes for this card. I just

909
00:54:46.000 --> 00:54:48.639
really really do. I want her to come. I want

910
00:54:48.679 --> 00:54:52.639
her to come through the cars pick a card for us, Rachel.

911
00:54:54.320 --> 00:54:57.360
I have the cards drawn in kind of like a

912
00:54:57.360 --> 00:55:03.559
a half moon. Right, Rachel will tell you it's the

913
00:55:03.719 --> 00:55:06.119
Six of Swords. And it looks like kind of like

914
00:55:06.159 --> 00:55:11.800
a crab looking thing, Oh, like a hermit crab. Yeah.

915
00:55:12.159 --> 00:55:16.360
Interesting, Okay, we haven't gotten this one.

916
00:55:16.519 --> 00:55:17.679
I don't think we have. No.

917
00:55:18.360 --> 00:55:20.519
It just makes me think of like her holding the

918
00:55:20.559 --> 00:55:21.639
household on her back.

919
00:55:21.800 --> 00:55:25.400
Honestly, who is it? Is it a hermit crab like

920
00:55:25.599 --> 00:55:27.039
going towards a bigger shell.

921
00:55:27.599 --> 00:55:29.199
It kind of looks like like needing to.

922
00:55:29.159 --> 00:55:32.639
Get like out growing its home. That's like suffocating it

923
00:55:32.679 --> 00:55:35.480
because it's like being enslaved, you know, like trapped and

924
00:55:35.519 --> 00:55:36.920
then needs to grow.

925
00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:37.519
And be free.

926
00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:40.960
Okay, so I'll start with the little book and yeah,

927
00:55:41.599 --> 00:55:45.199
like you nailed it, the Six of Swords, it's a

928
00:55:45.239 --> 00:55:51.480
black eyed hermit crab, and the key phrases are finding

929
00:55:51.519 --> 00:55:54.360
a new home, escaping a bad.

930
00:55:54.280 --> 00:55:59.920
Situation, departure, starting over a right of past.

931
00:56:01.159 --> 00:56:04.760
Moving is such a pain. It never goes quite as

932
00:56:04.800 --> 00:56:08.599
smoothly as you hope it would. On the off chance

933
00:56:08.679 --> 00:56:11.679
you actually find the perfect shell, half the time another

934
00:56:11.760 --> 00:56:15.840
crab is already scheduling toward it. And those moments when

935
00:56:15.880 --> 00:56:20.000
you've left your old you've left your old home and

936
00:56:20.119 --> 00:56:23.719
aren't in the new one, yet are terrifying, not least

937
00:56:23.800 --> 00:56:27.559
because you're easy pickings for a goal, not to mention.

938
00:56:27.800 --> 00:56:31.000
Maybe the new place doesn't even work out, there's some

939
00:56:31.119 --> 00:56:34.719
gross sand at the bottom, or it doesn't fit quite right. Well,

940
00:56:34.760 --> 00:56:37.119
good luck getting back in your old house when some

941
00:56:37.239 --> 00:56:40.480
other crab has already claimed it. Plus it takes months

942
00:56:40.519 --> 00:56:44.360
to settle in. All that time spent molting barely sticking

943
00:56:44.360 --> 00:56:47.360
your head out of the sand, it's enough to make

944
00:56:47.400 --> 00:56:50.800
you want to give up on moving all together. But

945
00:56:50.840 --> 00:56:53.480
then I think about all the shells I've had, how

946
00:56:53.480 --> 00:56:57.679
I've grown into each one and then outgrown it. Every

947
00:56:57.760 --> 00:57:03.079
move I've ever made has been for the better. Oh

948
00:57:03.119 --> 00:57:04.840
that's so Rachel.

949
00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:11.159
Wow, this is all the all the stuff she had

950
00:57:11.199 --> 00:57:14.599
to go through to get to like her final destination,

951
00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:19.079
her final home. It's crazy. Like we are talking a

952
00:57:19.119 --> 00:57:21.679
lot about a house too. Yeah, like that whole thing

953
00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:24.000
was like about home house like.

954
00:57:24.119 --> 00:57:24.360
Yeah.

955
00:57:25.320 --> 00:57:29.840
Keywords are movement, escape, a change for the.

956
00:57:29.800 --> 00:57:35.320
Better escape a wow, literally escape change for the better

957
00:57:35.440 --> 00:57:38.559
man that yeah.

958
00:57:38.679 --> 00:57:42.559
The Six of Swords represents moving away from past troubles,

959
00:57:43.199 --> 00:57:46.599
putting them behind you. It marks the beginning of a

960
00:57:46.639 --> 00:57:51.480
new phase after a time of upheaval. Some decks depict

961
00:57:51.519 --> 00:57:57.880
a person in a boat ferrying six swords, symbolizing pain, struggles, regrets,

962
00:57:58.000 --> 00:58:02.239
or losses across the water, so the wounds can heal

963
00:58:02.400 --> 00:58:03.360
on another shore.

964
00:58:04.199 --> 00:58:08.360
Wow, and she experienced all of that. Yeah.

965
00:58:08.679 --> 00:58:13.159
The upright sixth suggests smooth sailing ahead as you leave

966
00:58:13.239 --> 00:58:17.679
behind the trauma and sadness of the past. You're embarking

967
00:58:17.719 --> 00:58:20.440
on a new path, and the changes you make now

968
00:58:20.559 --> 00:58:25.400
are based in the wisdom you've gathered through suffering. Sometimes

969
00:58:25.400 --> 00:58:31.360
this card symbolizes a journey, either a physical or spiritual nature,

970
00:58:31.760 --> 00:58:33.239
perhaps a vision quest.

971
00:58:33.960 --> 00:58:38.039
Wow, she definitely went on a journey man, Yeah she did.

972
00:58:39.280 --> 00:58:41.920
In a reading about money, you've learned much as a

973
00:58:41.960 --> 00:58:45.400
result of past difficulties and now have more clarity that

974
00:58:45.480 --> 00:58:47.960
can help you benefit financially well.

975
00:58:48.119 --> 00:58:50.199
Yeah. Literally.

976
00:58:51.400 --> 00:58:55.480
Sometimes this card recommends letting go of an investment or possession.

977
00:58:56.239 --> 00:59:00.840
It can also represent relocation or travel for financial reasons.

978
00:59:01.400 --> 00:59:04.840
If the reading is about your job, this card shows

979
00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:06.760
your work situation improving.

980
00:59:09.440 --> 00:59:10.840
I think she has a sense of humor.

981
00:59:11.280 --> 00:59:14.880
Perhaps you've resolved past problems, or you've chosen to move

982
00:59:14.920 --> 00:59:19.000
to a different position that suits you better. Sometimes the

983
00:59:19.119 --> 00:59:23.719
upright six symbolizes a business trip. In a reading about love,

984
00:59:24.039 --> 00:59:27.480
the upright six indicates you and a partner have resolved

985
00:59:27.599 --> 00:59:31.880
major problems and arrived at a place of harmony and understanding.

986
00:59:32.440 --> 00:59:37.199
Let bygones be bygones. In some cases, this card means

987
00:59:37.440 --> 00:59:41.480
leaving an unworkable relationship for something better.

988
00:59:41.960 --> 00:59:44.880
Wow, I was sort of thinking about what the loved

989
00:59:44.880 --> 00:59:45.840
one was going to say.

990
00:59:46.280 --> 00:59:46.679
Mm hmm.

991
00:59:47.000 --> 00:59:52.119
I was wondering if she had any hard feelings for Daniel,

992
00:59:52.400 --> 00:59:55.679
you know, like we just talked about, you know, the

993
00:59:55.760 --> 00:59:59.079
receipt and all the things that may or may not

994
00:59:59.119 --> 01:00:01.559
have happened, like we I really have no idea I was.

995
01:00:01.719 --> 01:00:04.039
I was just wondering, like how she was feeling about it.

996
01:00:04.599 --> 01:00:06.920
Obviously I don't know for sure, but I feel like

997
01:00:06.920 --> 01:00:09.079
she's telling us like it is what it is, Like

998
01:00:09.119 --> 01:00:10.639
I got my boys.

999
01:00:10.280 --> 01:00:12.800
Out of it, like I got my land out of it.

1000
01:00:13.239 --> 01:00:15.760
I ended up with, Yeah, another man.

1001
01:00:16.079 --> 01:00:20.639
I honestly, I think by because here's the thing, based

1002
01:00:20.719 --> 01:00:25.320
on you know, the things that we know about the timeline,

1003
01:00:25.599 --> 01:00:30.400
it seems like Rachel and her boys were still living

1004
01:00:30.440 --> 01:00:35.280
on the property after she was technically a free woman,

1005
01:00:35.880 --> 01:00:38.599
and then you know, she married at a certain point

1006
01:00:38.639 --> 01:00:41.760
and it wasn't until after Delaney died that you know,

1007
01:00:41.920 --> 01:00:45.639
she went after the estate. And I think in the end,

1008
01:00:45.760 --> 01:00:51.480
it's like it seems representative of let bygones be bygones.

1009
01:00:51.559 --> 01:00:55.639
I'm holy shit. I don't know how you let literal

1010
01:00:55.679 --> 01:01:00.239
slavery ever factor into that, but I think that in

1011
01:01:00.280 --> 01:01:05.000
her case, she won the lawsuit. She ended up being

1012
01:01:05.079 --> 01:01:11.480
the first documented black female resident in Oregon. She went from.

1013
01:01:11.480 --> 01:01:17.199
Literal slavery to property ownership. If he left her the land, right,

1014
01:01:17.320 --> 01:01:19.960
or did she just inherit it because she was because

1015
01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:21.639
they were married, That's right?

1016
01:01:21.920 --> 01:01:22.280
Okay.

1017
01:01:22.719 --> 01:01:26.079
You know, it sounds like whatever chunk of land that

1018
01:01:26.119 --> 01:01:29.840
she had inherited that was that was specifically through her marriage,

1019
01:01:30.280 --> 01:01:35.480
not because of her relationship whatever that allegedly or factually

1020
01:01:36.400 --> 01:01:37.480
was with Delaney.

1021
01:01:38.199 --> 01:01:40.599
I was just wondering too, like, if he really didn't

1022
01:01:41.119 --> 01:01:43.039
want her to have it, he could I'm sure he

1023
01:01:43.079 --> 01:01:45.239
could have written a will or something leaving it to

1024
01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:45.840
somebody else.

1025
01:01:45.880 --> 01:01:47.199
I really don't know how that would work.

1026
01:01:47.400 --> 01:01:49.239
Yeah, I mean, certainly.

1027
01:01:49.119 --> 01:01:51.519
I'm sure they had ways of stopping a woman from

1028
01:01:51.760 --> 01:01:53.760
owning land if they really really want to.

1029
01:01:54.400 --> 01:01:57.800
So yeah, I mean, and here's the thing is that

1030
01:01:58.480 --> 01:02:01.280
you know, she had two so and and he had

1031
01:02:01.320 --> 01:02:07.400
five children before they got married. But Nathan and Rachel

1032
01:02:07.599 --> 01:02:13.719
had two additional children together, So it's very possible that, yeah,

1033
01:02:13.800 --> 01:02:16.239
like maybe he could have written into a will that

1034
01:02:16.679 --> 01:02:19.719
he wanted you know, all of his earthly possessions to

1035
01:02:19.800 --> 01:02:29.719
go to you know, their shared biological children. Anything's possible,

1036
01:02:29.840 --> 01:02:32.159
I guess any you know, it's a I want to know.

1037
01:02:33.440 --> 01:02:36.400
I need more details. Rachel spills the tea.

1038
01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:40.159
I know. To be honest, it really it sounds like

1039
01:02:40.320 --> 01:02:43.199
in the end, this was a woman who was you know,

1040
01:02:43.440 --> 01:02:48.800
about her business and about not just moving on and surviving,

1041
01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:53.440
but figuring out a way to go for what she deserved.

1042
01:02:53.519 --> 01:02:55.159
And and like I said, to thrive.

1043
01:02:55.719 --> 01:02:58.639
Thrive is like the word I was thinking of. Yeah,

1044
01:02:58.719 --> 01:02:59.440
she's amazing.

1045
01:02:59.679 --> 01:03:02.679
Honest, I really feel like she pulled this card too,

1046
01:03:02.800 --> 01:03:05.280
Like I was like really asking her because I'm like,

1047
01:03:05.320 --> 01:03:08.239
we just love you, Kim Visit and pulled card for us.

1048
01:03:08.239 --> 01:03:10.519
Truthfully, we just talked you up so hard.

1049
01:03:10.559 --> 01:03:14.119
Girl, Come on, I don't it's hard for me to

1050
01:03:14.280 --> 01:03:20.880
imagine us having pulled a better card for this case.

1051
01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:25.519
And I you know, it's hard because there are so

1052
01:03:25.679 --> 01:03:29.239
many people like I said this. It really just this

1053
01:03:29.360 --> 01:03:35.719
whole story for me just shows how how brutal things

1054
01:03:35.800 --> 01:03:39.000
were at this point in history, and especially in an

1055
01:03:39.039 --> 01:03:43.599
area that was like so brand new for for the

1056
01:03:43.639 --> 01:03:48.159
people inhabiting it. Like obviously there had been people inhabiting

1057
01:03:48.159 --> 01:03:51.920
it long before any of the settlers, you know, came west.

1058
01:03:52.079 --> 01:03:56.880
But rough, dude, it was rough for the two guys that, Like, obviously,

1059
01:03:56.920 --> 01:03:59.679
it really seems I don't have any qualms saying that

1060
01:03:59.719 --> 01:04:02.559
they I mean, they were found guilty, and I believe

1061
01:04:02.679 --> 01:04:05.639
they were guilty, but it is a raw deal to

1062
01:04:05.719 --> 01:04:09.199
sit in the jail cell and hear your gallows being constructed.

1063
01:04:09.599 --> 01:04:11.000
Yeah, that's fucked.

1064
01:04:11.400 --> 01:04:17.440
That's sometimes Daniel Delaney, slave owner, don't love that also though,

1065
01:04:17.679 --> 01:04:22.440
don't kill people, Yeah, you know, but I feel.

1066
01:04:22.159 --> 01:04:25.000
Like not to be like that person who like everything

1067
01:04:25.079 --> 01:04:26.719
happened for a rethon.

1068
01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:31.199
But he freed Rachel. It's so obvious how Rachel got

1069
01:04:31.559 --> 01:04:34.760
such a raw deal for so many years, but then

1070
01:04:34.840 --> 01:04:38.440
in the end, the way that her life so radically transformed.

1071
01:04:38.480 --> 01:04:41.559
It's like, you know, it's rags to riches and then

1072
01:04:42.360 --> 01:04:44.800
the complete opposite for for some.

1073
01:04:45.280 --> 01:04:48.559
Yeah, I really wonder too, like how much money they've

1074
01:04:48.599 --> 01:04:50.639
got because you said it.

1075
01:04:50.599 --> 01:04:53.920
Could have been more than the twelve hundred dollars or whatever.

1076
01:04:54.119 --> 01:04:58.360
Fourteen fourteen dollars dollars is the amount that was reported,

1077
01:04:58.440 --> 01:05:01.679
like very very widely. I did see some source of

1078
01:05:01.719 --> 01:05:03.079
say nineteen hundred.

1079
01:05:03.519 --> 01:05:05.719
I thought you were saying maybe that they had more

1080
01:05:05.800 --> 01:05:07.880
and they hit it somewhere and like they weren't found

1081
01:05:07.960 --> 01:05:10.599
with it or something very possibly like there's hidden treasure.

1082
01:05:10.719 --> 01:05:12.199
This is what I'm getting at you, guys. I'm really

1083
01:05:12.239 --> 01:05:15.119
excited about the fact that there might be hidden treasure. Okay,

1084
01:05:15.920 --> 01:05:17.559
I need a national treasure.

1085
01:05:17.239 --> 01:05:23.280
Situation that sat Yeah, absolutely so, just a quick Google search,

1086
01:05:23.599 --> 01:05:29.039
fourteen hundred dollars in eighteen sixty five is worth I'm

1087
01:05:29.039 --> 01:05:33.639
going to say approximately between twenty six thousand, four hundred

1088
01:05:33.679 --> 01:05:38.079
and twenty six dollars today and twenty seven, eight hundred

1089
01:05:38.119 --> 01:05:41.320
and twenty six dollars. I mean, it was a lot

1090
01:05:41.360 --> 01:05:43.960
of money, But to kill somebody for thirty grand today,

1091
01:05:44.000 --> 01:05:46.679
I'm like, once again I am.

1092
01:05:46.639 --> 01:05:49.119
Forced to state that no amount of money.

1093
01:05:49.159 --> 01:05:53.119
Would I mean, yes, yes, but also I just would

1094
01:05:53.159 --> 01:05:55.039
like to point out that wouldn't even pay off my

1095
01:05:55.079 --> 01:05:55.880
student loans.

1096
01:05:56.320 --> 01:05:59.039
So have a creepys day.

1097
01:06:00.119 --> 01:06:04.760
See you next Tuesday unless I see you, Rachel, because like,

1098
01:06:05.039 --> 01:06:06.320
come over anytime, girl.

1099
01:06:06.559 --> 01:06:10.320
I know, seriously, you're invited whenever we want to hang

1100
01:06:10.320 --> 01:06:12.719
out with you. Yeah, I know. Hopefully she's not annoyed

1101
01:06:12.719 --> 01:06:13.920
by us. We're just fans.

1102
01:06:14.000 --> 01:06:15.599
I mean, just like if you could just like be

1103
01:06:15.719 --> 01:06:19.400
cool about it. Though, like I don't listen, I've had.

1104
01:06:19.239 --> 01:06:20.119
A lot of ghosty.

1105
01:06:22.679 --> 01:06:26.840
Oh my god, she said no, I won't be chill.

1106
01:06:30.119 --> 01:06:31.760
I'm freaking out. Is she going to come back?

1107
01:06:31.920 --> 01:06:35.400
You have got to be kidding me? Okay, Well I

1108
01:06:35.480 --> 01:06:37.400
logged back in because I was like, I guess I

1109
01:06:37.440 --> 01:06:39.639
got kicked off, like I don't oh.

1110
01:06:39.599 --> 01:06:41.519
My god, oh my god, oh my god.

1111
01:06:41.920 --> 01:06:43.719
I was sitting here talking and I was like, okay,

1112
01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:45.159
she said no, I won't be chill.

1113
01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:47.840
It happened immediately after you said that.

1114
01:06:48.280 --> 01:06:52.840
Looks so bizarre. Everything just like closed, like everything closed.

1115
01:06:53.639 --> 01:06:57.199
And I was like, Rachel, Rachel, girl, who here.

1116
01:06:58.960 --> 01:07:01.400
I get a calming vibe from her, though, like I

1117
01:07:01.400 --> 01:07:06.239
feel like just the yeah, strong, no nonsense, you know.

1118
01:07:06.920 --> 01:07:07.880
Yeah.

1119
01:07:08.280 --> 01:07:10.760
That's why I feel like she slightly could get annoyed

1120
01:07:10.800 --> 01:07:14.159
with us, because she's just like no nonsense.

1121
01:07:13.760 --> 01:07:16.960
And we're just like a one hundred and fifty percent nonsense,

1122
01:07:17.079 --> 01:07:18.000
So that's tough.

1123
01:07:18.159 --> 01:07:19.480
She can have a sense of humor.

1124
01:07:19.519 --> 01:07:20.960
She showed us in the car she has a little

1125
01:07:21.000 --> 01:07:23.079
sense of humor, but it's like but also like get

1126
01:07:23.119 --> 01:07:23.960
it done, like stop.

1127
01:07:24.159 --> 01:07:26.840
Yeah no, it's like that's tough to hang with. I

1128
01:07:26.960 --> 01:07:27.400
get that.

1129
01:07:27.719 --> 01:07:31.039
So she'll just visit us occasionally, but like you know,

1130
01:07:31.360 --> 01:07:32.760
she won't be around all the time.

1131
01:07:33.440 --> 01:07:35.519
That's the vibe I'm getting. I hope.

1132
01:07:35.559 --> 01:07:37.639
So I think she'll be with us if we need

1133
01:07:37.679 --> 01:07:39.880
like a strong I don't know why. I feel like

1134
01:07:39.920 --> 01:07:43.280
now she's a part of our show. Yeah, Like I

1135
01:07:43.320 --> 01:07:45.599
feel like she's gonna show up around us when we

1136
01:07:45.679 --> 01:07:50.159
just need like a strong woman like get through it journey,

1137
01:07:50.199 --> 01:07:52.480
like if we're ever talking about another woman like that,

1138
01:07:52.559 --> 01:07:53.920
like she's gonna be around us.

1139
01:07:54.079 --> 01:07:55.800
I feel it. Rachel stands.

1140
01:07:56.199 --> 01:07:57.159
Rachel Stands