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When the somber stillness of the darkening day was rent
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by a shriek so wild and weird that they who
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heard it felt the blood freeze suddenly in their veins.
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Okay, you should have someone take a look at that.
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I don't think that's normal. I'm not a doctor.
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But they shrank involuntarily closer and looked at each other
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with blanched cheeks and startled eyes. Before anyone found voice.
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It came again. This time it was a cry for help,
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thrice repeated in quick succession. Hi Caitlin, Hi Cassie, Hi
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creepy people, Henny, this is PNW Haunson Homicides, where we
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chat about true crime, the paranormal, and all things cool
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and spooky in the Pacific Northwest.
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I can't help but notice you didn't mention true crime.
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I did, did you?
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Yeah? Said we talked about true crime, the paranormal and
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all things cool.
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Oh in my brain, just now, I swear you just
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said we talk about all things cool, Like you didn't
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say true crime or paranormal. I did.
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Yeah. I'm pretty sure. I mean I can roll the
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tape later, but uh, I'm pretty sure. Caitlin just blacks
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out when I talk, So that's fine.
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No, probably probably the crow just flew by again, and oh, yeah,
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I'm getting a show out here.
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Yeah, she's watching bird Reality TV out her window. It's
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honestly the best. And I'm I'm for the crow personally.
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These other I mean, I told you these other brown,
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dingy looking bastards. They have like red chests and they
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just seem like they're being dix and I'm just not
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I'm not about it. I see the crows out here
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all the time. I don't know who these other guys are.
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They need to move on.
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Who are you? Where'd you come from?
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She doesn't even go here.
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You have to look up what kind of Pacific Northwest
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bird that is?
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I know, I wonder if it's not a Pacific Northwest bird.
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Who they migrated? Yeah, they migrated west for the summer.
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Yes, I've created a whole backstory for them, so I
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feel like I can create a richer character profile and Bill, yes,
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you know, it'll be a richer inner world story for
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me with the birds if.
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I Well, we were supposed to not get off topic today,
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We're supposed to stay on it, Caitlin, Yeah, I have
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to go watch your hair.
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I think we all knew that wasn't going to happen.
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But anyway, in case you didn't know, the Sipping Northwest
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is also the PNW if you n sty Oh, and
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we do a charro reading at the end of every
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episode for a little deeper insight into our topic. Also birds, Also,
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what if we pull a card with a bird on
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a ladder?
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I am thinking of a card that we have pulled before,
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and actually my card in the position is a crow.
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Yeah, I'm just saying, Okay, anyway, we're distracted by birds.
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We should we just get going. It's my episode this week.
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Finally we're going to be talking about yo Quinna Bay
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Lighthouse and some other places. But that's the first place.
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It's located on the Oregon Coast in Newport. On a bluff.
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What's a bluff? I meant to look it up.
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It's just like a hill, right, Basically, I don't know
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what the let's see bluff versus can.
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You tell what bluff means? Okay? One sentence in okay.
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A hill is a broad, raised area of land that
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rises higher than the surrounding terrain, usually with gentle, rounded
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slopes boobs.
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A bluff is.
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A specific type of steep broad cliff that often overlooks
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a body of water or a valley formed by erosion.
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That's exactly what I visualize, like when I'm trying to
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compare and picture both of them my head, like, hills
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are rolling, bluffs are like they're harder. They yeah, bluffing.
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Well, I should have finished my sentence too. So this
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lighthouse is on a bluff at the mouth of the
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Yaquina River, so it is like kind of off the
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body of water, like I said. So it was built
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in eighteen seventy one with an attached keeper's house. So
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it's basically like the whole building is the keeper's house,
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and then it has like a little light on the top, yeah,
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lighthouse part. And it's not very tall. It's not like
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you know what you picture with a big tower on
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top of the house. It's just like the top of
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what a light lighthouse would be sitting on the keeper's house.
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Okay, but I feel like the whole thing about lighthouses,
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I kind of thought they needed to be tall.
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Well, we'll talk about it in a minute.
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Okay, Okay, we'll get to it.
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This was an early early lighthouse, you guys. Okay, it
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is believed to be the oldest building in town. So
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it either is or it's one of the oldest. And
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it's the only wooden lighthouse in Oregon still standing. Wow.
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It was only operational for three years and then abandoned
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when a more favorable location was found nearby. It's about
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five miles north and the new lighthouse is a ninety
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three foot tall building.
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Oh okay, so more keeping with my expectations.
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Yes, it's very very tall. It is the tallest in Oregon. Ooh,
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it's Yaquina Head Lighthouse. So a lot of people get
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them confused, but this one's like actual. What you're picturing
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a lighthouse to be is what it looks like. Yeah.
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It was first lit in eighteen seventy three and still
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runs today. Wow. So back to Yaquina Bay Lighthouse. The
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first one we talked about, the old wooden one in
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nineteen forty six. It was sitting there waiting to be
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demolished because it wasn't operational anymore. I think they used
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it for some other things in between, but it wasn't
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an operating lighthouse anymore. And I listened to a podcast
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episode from Wicked West ooh, and it's kind of like
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a newsy I like a podcast, but they were talking
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to a historian and an all Meyer he said literally
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what I wrote. They were talking to historian and he
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said the locals fought to keep it standing and they
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formed a human chain around it. And I think, like,
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I think he was being literal. I don't think he was.
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I was gonna say that sounds like very you know,
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uh green peace protest. But honestly, it definitely sounds like
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something that could happen here.
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It was like the seventies, in the forties.
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Oh yeah, come on.
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Then the Lincoln County Historical Society was formed to try
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to save the lighthouse, like this is. That's the reason
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it was formed. And it was a struggle for them
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for many years until it was finally recognized as a
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historical site and turned into a museum and that ran
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until the seventies, and then after that it was finally
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listed on the National Register of Historic Places so it
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could be restored.
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There you go, that's what you gotta do.
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Yeah, but at least they saved it by getting they
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got it designated as a historical site first. Yeah, eventually
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in the seventies, which it took a really long time,
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but I got there. It took a minute, and then
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in nineteen ninety six it was actually lit once again
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and it still is lit today. Oh I love that.
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And it is part of Yaquina Bay State Park, so
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you can go visit it today too.
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Very cool. Well, you know we love a lighthouse.
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I know we do. It totally made me think of
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Port Townsend this whole time, like, I want to go visit.
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I want to go back and visit, and I want
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to go visit more lighthouses. I just want to go
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to all the lighthouses, you know.
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Honestly, I actually found some of the parascenalia from our
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Port Townsend trip when I was I took a day
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off to really do some cool stuff and I'm freeing. Yeah,
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I took a day off work I could organize the
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closet in the.
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Pod lab, oh my gosh.
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And then I started organizing and processing all of the
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all of the groceries for vacuum ceiling and freezing.
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She's going crazy over there, you guys.
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Super cool stuff over here. Lots of fancy plastic bins
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and organization happening.
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That's the very heavy meat rollers.
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Oh yeah, well, listen, could I have bought almost any
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rolling pin. Yeah, probably, but knowing me, would I number one?
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Pick one that is marble obviously Number two that could
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be used as a deadly weapon.
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Well sure, And in case you want to make pie crust,
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I told you it's really good for pie crest because
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it stays cold. Yeah, I really want that in your
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pie crest.
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I'm not worried about that being a temptation, to be honest.
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Yeah. Or croissants, I'd like to you could make Chris. Wait,
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do you even you roll croissants out? I don't even know. Yeah,
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you do, I know you do.
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I don't know, Honestly, the very brief free trial of
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this whole tradwife subscription thing, I you know, unsubscribed. I'd
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like to cancel.
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Bit you got a marble rolling pin, make me a croissant.
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I know, I'm gonna get right on it.
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Okay, anyway, enough about that, Let's get back to the lighthouses.
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You guys, you're throwing us off topic, creepy people. Just
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you know, we're trying to we have a mission here, okay,
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sisly so you quinn A Bay Lighthouse was clearly loved
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by the locals, but not just for its historical value.
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What made this place well known was actually a ghost story.
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Nah, imagine that, I bet, I bet not. I bet
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that I had nothing to do with it.
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Nope, it had a lot to do with it. And
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I'm gonna tell you about it all right. In eighteen
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eighty nine, m Miller wrote a short story called The
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Haunted Lighthouse Lisian about this lighthouse Litien. Yeah, it's l
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ch e n wow. Okay, listien. That's how they pronounced
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it in the podcast, So I say, that's right. Interesting.
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It was about a teenage girl named Muriel, which I
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freaking just love that name. I don't know why. It
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just reminds me of like the little old granny Muriel.
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I feel like Muriel makes me think of myrtle, and
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then I think of moaning myrtle.
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Ooh, I love that too.
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Just free word association.
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Yeah. So it was about a teenage girl named Muriel
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who mysteriously died inside the lighthouse. She and a group
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of friends managed to get the key and go explore inside.
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They found the building was in disrepair, and they also
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found a mysterious trap door leading to the ocean that
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they assumed was for smugglers. I mean, that seems like
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a fair assumtion legit. As they were leaving, she realized
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she left her handkerchief behind. Handkerchief, handkerchief.
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I mean, I think people say it differently, like in
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I think it's a regional thing. But yeah, I've always
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heard her kerchief her curchief. I know I do like that.
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Actually, So she left this very important handkerchief behind and
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turned back to go and get it. And I'm going
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to read you guys the end of the story. And
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if you want the full story, because it's pretty long,
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I'll have it linked in the past bind for you
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so you can get the rest of it's the rest
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of the context. I kind of just put in a
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couple sentences, but you can read the full thing, ok,
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if you wish. So this is Muriel talking to one
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of her friends. She went with Harold Welch Welsh, probably Welsh,
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not Welch's grape juice.
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He's the heir to the weltious motion.
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Yeah, maybe go hair Old, get it. Okay, So this
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is the start of the story I will be reading,
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or well it's the end. Oh okay, I'm starting to
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read the end of the story. Now go perfect. I'm
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going in alone, she said, you are not to wait.
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Lock the door and go on. I will come out
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through the kitchen. He objected, but she was obstinate, and,
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perhaps because her lightest wish was beginning to be the
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law of his life, he reluctantly obeyed her. Someone's got
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a crush that's not in the story, Hollie. Yeah, I
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was going to say. That is some flowery stuff there.
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Oh yeah, it's very flowery wording. I like it. When
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he reached the rear of the house, Muriel was nowhere
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to be seen. He called her two or three times
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and waited, but, receiving no reply, concluded that she had
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hurried out and joined the rest whose voices came to
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him from the avenue of Pines. I just I really
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like that part.
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I like that part too.
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She had been nervous and a little irritable all afternoon,
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so unlike herself that he had wondered more than once
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if she were ill or weary. Of his close attendants,
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Oh boy, if you could see the eye rolls we
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gave the camera. Oh no, I mean you can't, but