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In the basement. If your hair is blonde, it might
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get tugged on ew and I was like, oooh, thank goodness,
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I'd dyed my hair. They think there's a spirit of
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a little boy down there, which again is kind of
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creepier than the attic, that there's just like one spirit
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of a little boy in the basement.
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Yeah, I guess this. He'd not get along with the
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other kids, like he's in exiled to the basement.
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He was shot.
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They're all up in the attic and they sent his
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ass all the way down to the basement.
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Well maybe because he'd be the white hair. Hi Caitlin,
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Hi Cassie. Hi creepy people, helly you. This is PNW
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Hanson Homicides, where we chat about true crime, the paranormal,
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and all things spooky in the Pacific Northwest.
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Or the PNW if you're nicety, and.
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We also do a nasty little tarot reading at the
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end of our episode for some nasty insight into our topic.
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It just got so nasty up in here.
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That's that's I mean, that's how it's been, that's how
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it will be. All right, then, that's what I feel.
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Okay, Doka, I wasn't aware it was going to be
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quite so nasty.
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I mean, did you look at me today? Obviously it's
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gonna happ well. Do you want to know where we're
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going today? Yeah, we're going to Port Gamble, Washington.
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Port Gamble. Yes, I'm trying to think if I've even
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heard of it.
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I feel like I had heard of it, but it
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could have just been through all my ghosty research. I'm
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not really sure.
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I mean that's fair.
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Port Gamble was founded in eighteen fifty one because of
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the Puget Sound Milk Company. Oh, it's about thirty miles
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northwest of Seattle. Although you do have to take a
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ferry unless you want to like go eighty five miles
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and like go down and around and up.
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Yeah, I'm not really about that life actually, unless you're
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coming from like Portland, which you know, you're just going
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up so you wouldn't have to do the roundabout. But
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I guess if you don't want to take the ferry,
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which I feel like would be kind of fun.
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But I've never taken a fairy. You haven't, No, I
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feel like I would be terrified.
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No, actually I think it's pretty cool. I've taken it
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up to Orchest Island. From Anti Chordis several times. I
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think that's the only ferry that I've been on. But
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it's cool.
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I just said, I was like, it sounds fun. I
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would be terrified.
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Yeah, Hey, listen, two things can be true. You can
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have complicated emotions about a lot of things.
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Yeah. I think it's just weird that you drive your
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car onto a boat.
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Yes, I was just going to say, I feel like
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it makes sense because driving onto a boat feels not
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quite right. Yeah, there's something that's a little anxiety inducing
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about that.
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They just need to make all cars with the water
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cars where you can just drive in water. I've been
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in one of those. Have you been in one?
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No?
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It was like where were we Orlando, in Florida, Disney World.
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Well, that feels like a very Florida thing. Yeah, it
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was fun.
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I mean it was basically like it just felt like
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you were in a boat, but it was a car.
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Weird. I mean, I'm open to it. Maybe.
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Yeah, it's fun in the warm weather, you know, the
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top down, gotta of the top down.
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I don't know how I feel about that.
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I don't know. I feel like being enclosed and in
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the water. I feel like we're going on a lot
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about this car water thing, but you deal with it. Yeah.
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Well, honestly, that's exactly what I was thinking. I'm like, oh,
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I don't know how I feel about having the top down,
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And then as you started to say, oh, but being
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fully unclosed, that was the exact next thought that I had, like, Oh, actually,
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I don't know, being fully enclosed maybe doesn't sound great either.
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Actually that's kind.
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Of why I just felt like you're in a motor boat,
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because like, yeah, no top in the water. Yeah, that
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makes sense, but a lot smaller anyway, Yeah, let's move along. Yeah,
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because this episode, believe it or not, is not about
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water cars.
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Oh well that okay, I mean, I listen. I'm sure
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whatever topic you've picked is right, but I am a
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little bit disappointed that we're not gonna keep going down
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this road.
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This water road, haunted water car oho.
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Okay, well, keep looking.
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I'll get right on that. I'm going to read a
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quote from the Port Gamble website just so you get
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a little feel for the vibe. Port Gamble is on
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the Kitsap Peninsula, situated on the shores of Scenic Hood Canal.
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Explore the one hundred and twenty acre National Historic landmark,
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complete with picturesque turn of the century buildings, filled with shops,
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a historic church, breathtaking views, expansive grounds, and New England
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style houses on maple and elm tree lined streets. Oh wow,
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doesn't that sound beautiful? I mean, very picturesque, very idyllic.
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This town has what is known as the most haunted
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house in Washington. Oh boy, the walker Ames House. It's
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a Queen Anne style home built between eighteen eighty eight
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and eighteen eighty nine on Rainier Avenue, which I thought
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was cute.
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Okay, yeah, that is cute, and you know we love
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a Queen Anne obviously.
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I know I knew you would love this.
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Okay. So really interesting because I'm getting like kind of
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two different like pictures. I'm guessing I'm guessing it's like
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before and after paint.
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Oh it could be.
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Yeah, like somebody must have restored it to kind of
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it's prior glory.
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Yeah yeah, we'll kind of talk about that later too.
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So it's really cute. It's got like stained glass windows,
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it's got very like the poles. I don't know how
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to describe it, but the poles are very like bubbly, bubbly.
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Oh yeah, it has like kind of I think that's
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like gingerbread. Yeah, I think that's what they call that.
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Yeah, but very Queen Anne style.
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It's interesting because like how it's described when you Google
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it is exactly how like I picture it. It's like
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spindle work and fretwork. But it says it refers to
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the ornate lace like wooden embellishments characteristic of Victorian era architecture.
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And she is beautiful.
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Yes. The original home oh oh, though, although not as fancy,
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actually burned down in eighteen eighty five. Oh no, I know.
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And this new home actually faces the bay instead of
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the street, which is pretty unique. I mean that's what
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I would want, right, I know. But it was for
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the purposes of welcoming in the ships.
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Oh okay, So this house like had some sort of
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like official.
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Capacity, uh kind of, we're about to talk about it, Okay.
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So William Walker lived there with his wife Emma daughter
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mad which I freaking love that name, mod and her husband,
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Edwin Ames. Walker was the master mechanic for the nearby
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sawmill on Gamble Bay. So that's the big saw mill
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that was built, which is why the town is there. Okay.
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Ames was the resident manager and then the general manager
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until nineteen thirty one. So it's kind of like a
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head head of the sawmills house basically.
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Okay, okay, that makes sense. I feel like that used
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to be a really common thing. I mean you still
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see that, I guess with like the military or you know, it's.
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Very it seems very like military because they have other
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houses too that are that were built for like the
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managers and stuff.
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Yeah, it's built like specifically so that they can grow
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up this area around the industry.
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Yeah, and all the heads have nice places to live,
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and then there's also other places for like the just
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general workers to live maybe not so nice, but.
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Little tiny houses.
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The home was occupied by other mill managers and their
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families until the mill closed in nineteen ninety five, and
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at the time of its closing, it was the longest
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continually operating mill in the US.
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Wow, I was gonna say, that's like way more recent
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than I would have pictured, you know, nineteen ninety five,
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that's I mean, we're too young to even the nineties.
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But wow, wasn't even born yet.
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Just oh yes, just the fadust.
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After that, the home was abandoned and it is still
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unoccupied to this day.
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No way. Yeah yeah, yeah, So is this where we
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announced like the gofund me to help us buy it
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or I don't know.
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I'm not really sure the deal with it. So okay,
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because obviously the outside is very pretty, but I watched
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a video that shows the inside and it was only
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from last year, and boy does it look abandoned. Like
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there's all inferns growing in the basement. Really looks like
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nature is just like invading.
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She's been reclaimed.
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Yeah, and the wallpaper is all like ripped off and weird.
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It's just it's not restored inside whatsoever. From the video
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I saw that was dated from last year, so I
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don't know if anything's happened in the meantime. I'm not
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really sure. Port Gamble was declared a rural historic to
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so kind of like the quote from the beginning, and
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a lot of the buildings have been restored and preserved,
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although the walker Ames House does not seem to have
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been restored in the inside, but the outside has. So
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I was wondering maybe they started with the outside and
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they're going to get to the inside, or maybe they
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kept the inside spooky looking for ghost tours, like for
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a purpose. And yes, they do ghost investigation tours there,
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Like you can book one. It's like a three hour tour.
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What it's ran by paranormal Pete? Stop it, I know,
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like the best name, good thing. His name was Pete,
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you know, because like what else did he call himself? No,
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you got to have that alliteration, right. There's a lot
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of reported paranormal activity in the home. A woman is
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seen upstairs in the windows wearing a long dress.
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What color is it?
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I knew you're gonna ask. They don't say if it's
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whiteh So I was like, maybe there's no lady in
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white here. We'll see, we'll see what comes from.
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Well, all right, I mean I'm just saying white is
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already such an impractical choice. I feel like, even in
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this modern day, we don't have like horses and buggies
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driving through the streets and everything. Yeah, like olden times.
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But I'm like, I I wear white with so much
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caution and I can't even imagine how hard it was
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to keep a white dress clean back then. So to me,
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if there's a lady standing in the window wearing a
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white dress, I'm like, ghosts, it must be a go Yeah,
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there's no way she has been wearing that all day
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and she hasn't splashed something.
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I was. I watch a lot of like YouTube go
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videos or whatever, and I heard just yesterday when I
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was watching one that they said, like ladies in white
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present themselves that way because they they died in like
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a tragic way or something. Yeah, I don't know why
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specifically they would present in white. I always think of
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like a lady in a nightgown because I don't know
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why I think of like nightgowns as white.
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Yeah, I mean it makes sense. I totally get that.
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That visual makes sense to me too. I don't know.
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I mean there's a lot of symbolism with colors, for sure.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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And obviously, you know there's the there's the big one, right,
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you know, like ghosts historically look like a white sheet.
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Yeah, that is true. That is true.
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So I don't know.
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But they don't specifically say here that this lady is
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wearing white, so we don't know. Lights have been seen
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turning on and off when the home is empty. Cameras
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have malfunctioned, not cameras like their house security cameras, but
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like people right to use cameras, people touring or inside
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you okay, Yeah, people feel significant cold spots or have
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smelled a floral scent in one area of the stairs
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and nowhere else.
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Interesting because I thought all of the plant growth was
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down in the basement.
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Right, well, it didn't look like flowers.