Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised. Welcome, Weirdos. I'm Terran Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, solved and unexplained. If you're new here, welcome to the podcast and be sure to subscribe so you don't miss future episodes. If you're already a Weirdo, please share the podcast with others. Doing so helps make it possible for me to keep creating episodes as often as I do. Coming up in this episode… The first witch trial in the Americas took place in 1626 and I'll tell you the story of how poor Joanne Wright came to be accused and what the verdict came down as. In 1938, 34-year-old Alma Fielding reported objects mysteriously flying around her home. In 2017, Kate Summerscale, author of the true crime classic The Suspitions of Mr. Witcher, set out to investigate the unexplained case of the Croydon poltergeist. When you hear a knocking in the closet or footsteps in the attic, when you hear a door to the basement creak open or a plate crash to the floor in the middle of the night, is it a ghost, an intruder or could you be dealing with a darkling? But first, what do you get when you mix auto theft, disappearances, amnesia, murder and far too many tattoos? You get one of the craziest true crime cases you'll ever hear. It's the disappearance and apparent murder of James Eugene Harrison. But just wait for the twist. While listening, be sure to check out the Weird Darkness website. At WeirdDarkness.com you can sign up for the newsletter to win monthly prizes, find paranormal and horror audiobooks I've narrated, watch old horror movies for free. Plus, you can visit the Hope in the Darkness page if you're struggling with depression or dark thoughts. You can find all of that and more at WeirdDarkness.com.  No life of a true crime enthusiast would be complete without hearing this next story as it is so incredibly nuts, yet unbelievably true. At the center of our weird little saga is James Eugene Harrison of Indian River City, Florida. He was the owner of a successful window sash plant, happily married, a father of two young children, a perfect example of a solid middle-class citizen. On October 7, 1958, the 32-year-old drove to Cocoa Beach, about 15 miles away, to conduct some routine business, and promptly disappeared. When he failed to return home that night, his wife Jean immediately knew something was very wrong and she phoned police. However, their investigation found no trace of Harrison. No clues emerged regarding Harrison's disappearance until a week later when police in Jacksonville, about 150 miles from Indian River, found his abandoned station wagon. It had been sitting there since the morning after Harrison had last been seen. Ominously, the front seat was saturated with blood. Somebody was murdered in that car, a Jacksonville officer concluded. When the blood was found to match Harrison's type O, the natural conclusion was that the somebody was the missing man.  However, the only fingerprints found in the car were Harrison's. Poor Jean Harrison was naturally distraught and at a loss of what to do next. As she had no idea how to run her husband's business, she felt she had no choice but to liquidate everything and she and her children went to live with James' mother in Miami. To support her children, she took a job as a receptionist while waiting in an agonizing limbo, not knowing if her husband was alive or dead. On January 18, 1959, Mrs. Harrison finally received news about James. Unfortunately, it was the worst news imaginable. The Californian, named Roy Victor Olsen, who had just been convicted of the murder of television announcer Ogden Miles, confessed to killing James Harrison as well. According to Olsen, before stabbing Miles, he had murdered a Seattle man named John Wheeler. After the Miles murder, Olsen fled to Florida where he fell in with a young Kentuckian, James Leach. The pair spent several days hitchhiking together. Olsen went on to say that on October 7, 1958, he and Leach were walking along Highway 90 between Lake City and Jacksonville when they were picked up by a man in a station wagon. He seemed like someone who would have money on him, so when the driver stopped to stretch his legs for a few moments, the pair attacked him. Olsen told his interrogators, I stabbed him while Leach stood by with a rock in his hand. We robbed him of $500. We took a shovel, we found in his car, dug a grave, and put him in it with his business cards. We filled it in, then drove up to Jacksonville and left the car. His name was Harrison. Olsen did not know Leach's current whereabouts, but said that he shouldn't be too hard to find, saying he's just about the most tattooed fellow in the country. Olsen added more details. He and Leach covered their victims' body with two bags of something they found in the car. I think it was lime, he said. He described minutely the wooded area south of Jacksonville where they buried Harrison. Olsen concluded with, well, that's that. I wonder how many more I've killed. He was, in the words of Jacksonville officer Roy Sands, the coolest killer I've seen in 17 years of police work. Everything the police found corroborated Olsen's horrifying story. Harrison had bought two bags of fertilizer just before he disappeared. He did indeed carry a shovel in the car identical to the one described by Olsen. Two fertilizer bags were found in the area where Olsen said the body was buried. To wrap up the murder case, all that was needed was to find the body. And of course, the other murderer, James Leach. The FBI issued a warrant for the tattooed Kentuckian. Florida Governor Lee Roy Collins sent extradition papers to California to bring Olsen back to the state. On January 23rd, Leach was apprehended in Knoxville, Tennessee, and his captors quickly noted that Olsen had not been exaggerating about his co-horse body art. Leach had the words, the Kentucky kid tattooed on his right leg. The phrase, six months I lived and lost, was tattooed on his right arm. His chest sported a panther and the word crime. His left shoulder read, born to raise hell. His left arm was adorned with born to lose and death. His left leg featured a skull wearing a top hat. If Mr. Leach's the prize for suspect least likely to be overlooked in the identification parade, the 21-year-old Leach, who previously had never been found guilty of anything beyond vagrancy, protested his innocence. He admitted that he had spent a few days hitchhiking with Olsen, but he had no idea the man was a murderer, and he himself certainly had no role in killing anyone. I have no idea why he implicated me in something neither of us did, he declared. Given what the police had uncovered, it was a small wonder no one believed him. It was then that this seemingly straightforward murder took a bizarre twist. In Phoenix, Arizona, on the same day Leach was arrested, a well-dressed, freshly shaved man stopped a car backing out of a residential driveway and asked the driver to take him to the police station. This driver, understandably wary of this odd request, declined, but agreed to telephone the police to come and get the man. The Arizona man did contact police informing them that either a robber or a lunatic was standing in his driveway. When officers arrived, they found a man seemingly in a great state of confusion muttering, �How did I get here? How did I get here?� At the station house, he informed them that he was James Eugene Harrison of Indian River City, Florida.  He was stunned to find that it was now January 1959, not October 1958, and he had no idea at all how he came to be in Arizona. According to Harrison, �Yesterday, at least I thought it was yesterday, I was driving to Cocoa Beach.� When he stopped at a traffic light, a man with a gun forced his way into the back seat. This man said, �I want to go to Jacksonville. Take me there and you won�t get hurt.� When they arrived in Jacksonville, the gunman ordered him to pull into a parking lot. After that, he said, �The lights went out.� He explained, �I woke up just a little while ago. I was lying on a parkway beside a street. My clothes were dirty and this t-shirt that I was wearing wasn�t mine. I never wear them. My $300 was gone. So was my watch and my Masonic ring. I found I was still wearing my wedding ring and I had $0.67 in my pocket. I started walking. I thought I was in Jacksonville.� The police, eyeing the man�s dapper appearance, felt a bit skeptical of his story. They warned Gene Harrison that this Phoenix oddball was almost certainly a fraud. However, as soon as she spoke to the man on the telephone, she began screaming in joy. �It�s Jim! It�s Jim!� she cried. Still unable to believe the man�s story, investigators showed her a wire photo of the mystery man. �It�s Jim!� Gene insisted. �I don�t care what happened as long as he�s alive.� The ecstatic woman wired her husband the money to fly home. �It would be like starting our life all over again,� she said. The law enforcement saw their nice, tidy murder case suddenly turn into an inexplicable muddle. Somebody had left all that blood in Harrison�s car, and judging by the quantity of it that was found, that somebody just had to be dead. But who was this person? Did Harrison kill his carjacker? Or did his assailant attack Harrison and steal his wallet and papers only to be murdered by Olson? As for Olson, he now repudiated his confession, claiming that he only admitted to killing Harrison in order to get a �free trip� to Florida. As the erstwhile murder victim enjoyed the reunion with his family, authorities began compiling a long list of questions for Harrison. His whole story struck them as, in a word, fishy. They noted that Harrison bore no signs of any injuries, old or new. Police also found it odd that he had a reddish streak in his hair that appeared to be died. However, his family insisted that the red spot was natural, and Harrison himself maintained that he had no memory of what had happened to him. Harrison�s return from the dead forced police to drop the murder charges against a leech. However, they continued to investigate his confession, along with the riddle of Harrison�s disappearance. During the three months when everyone assumed he had been murdered, where was the window sash king, and what had he been doing? No one could say. Although his photograph was published in newspapers across the country, no one came forward claiming to have seen Harrison during the period when he was missing. When asked to take a lie detector test, Harrison declined, stating that �I�ve been pushed around enough.� He and his family went into seclusion, refusing to say any more to anyone about the whole ordeal. On February 4th, a Phoenix woman who had seen one of the published photos of Harrison contacted police. She claimed that he had been her seatmate on a bus trip from Los Angeles to Phoenix. This witness said that she had chatted with him and he seemed perfectly rational, showing no sign of distress or confusion. The man carried no luggage with him and left the bus in Phoenix on January 23rd just a few hours before Harrison went to the police. Frustratingly enough, there the matter rested, and the main questions surrounding this mystery have never been resolved. Police never learned how or why Harrison vanished or where he was for those three missing months. If, as authorities continued to suspect, Harrison knew more than he was saying, the Floridian kept his secrets to himself. The identity of the person who left all that blood in his car was faded to remain equally mysterious. Police were able to validate at least one part of Olson�s confession. He had indeed murdered a Seattle restaurateur named John Wheeler. It was said that perverted sex acts figured in the stabbings of both Wheeler and Ogden Miles. He was sent to Washington State long enough to be tried and convicted, after which he was transferred to California�s Folsom Prison. In the 1970s he was paroled, only to begin serving his 75-year sentence for the Wheeler murder in Washington. In the mid-1990s, Olson, who had a religious conversion in prison and claimed to be a reformed character, was released on parole. He seems to have lived a law-abiding life until his death in 2001. In 1960, the skeleton of a man was found near the Jacksonville Expressway in the general area where Olson claimed to have buried his victim. It was speculated that this man, whom was never identified, was the victim stabbed to death in Harrison�s car. But that, of course, was impossible to prove. All in all, this story is like trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle when you�re missing most of the pieces. And the pieces you have are drenched in type O blood. Coming up, in 1938, 34-year-old Alma Fielding reported objects mysteriously flying around her home. It became known as the Croydon Poltergeist. But before that, the first witch trial in the Americas took place in 1626, and I�ll tell you the story of how poor Joan Wright came to be accused and what the verdict came down as. These stories and more when Weird Darkness returns. He has been spotted all over the world, but photographic evidence is lacking as is any scientific proof. But he still exists and is still seen. And now you can search for Bigfoot every month in the Find Bigfoot calendar by Timothy Wayne Williams. Each month you�ll be captivated by an original Timothy Wayne Williams painting, beautiful and captivating. But within each painting hides a monster. Bigfoot is hiding somewhere in each painting. Search for Bigfoot and invite others to do so as well with the new Find Bigfoot calendar available now at WeirdDarkness.com slash Bigfoot. That�s WeirdDarkness.com slash Bigfoot. American Witchcraft has a long if not particularly proud heritage. In fact, colonial history gives the strong impression that the minute passengers stepped off the Mayflower, they couldn�t wait to start accusing each other of sorcery. America�s first witchcraft trial took place on September 11, 1626, in front of the General Court of Jamestown. The woman unfortunate enough to star in this historical milestone was Joan or Jane Wright, a midwife who lived in the community of Elizabeth City, Virginia. Goodwife Wright�s chief accuser was one Lieutenant Giles Allington. He claimed that a Sergeant Booth reported that Wright had asked Booth to share some of his meat with her. When Booth declined, Wright put a curse on him that completely ruined his skills as a hunter. In fact, Booth had not been able to so much as wound a deer ever since, despite having very fair game to shoot at. Allington went on to say that when his wife went into labor with their latest child, he had brought in Wright to act as midwife. Mrs. Allington was not happy with this as she had heard rumors that Wright was a witch. When she realized that the horror Wright was also left-handed, she insisted on a new midwife. Wright, Allington added ominously, left their home very much discontented. The birth of the Allington baby did not go well. The mother's breast grew dangerously sore of an imposture. Her husband came down with a strange illness that lasted for weeks and, most tragically of all, the infant sickened and died after only five weeks of life. You guessed it, their discontented former midwife had obviously placed a curse on the household. Further trial testimony revealed that Goody Wright had a disconcerting habit of declaring that certain people would soon die, and many of these predictions came to pass.  After quarreling with a neighbor's servant girl, Wright threatened she would make the girl dance stark naked. Regretfully, it is not recorded whether this came to pass as well. When a neighbor refused to sell Wright any of his chickens, shortly after, the chickens died. Wright's husband, Robert, took the stand, but all he had to offer was the old, how should I know if my wife's a witch, defense. Court records recorded more of Goody Wright's diabolical doings.  Wright boasted of using her powers to keep a woman's hand stuck inside a butter churn for hours. On another occasion, she had sickened a rival sorceress. If you're curious, this particular spell involved throwing a red hot horseshoe into urine. After she emigrated to Virginia, Wright made no secret of her magical practices, relishing the fear and awe she was able to inspire among her neighbors. According to one witness, Wright was a very bad woman and was a competent witch among all. Given all this testimony, Wright was considerably luckier than most accused witches. Although surviving records are vague on how she was punished, it is believed the court did nothing more than impose a small fine. By way of comparison, some years earlier, she had been publicly flogged for improperly hemming a shirt. The court ruled that Wright was not really a witch, but only a contentious woman. Unfortunately for her, Wright's folk magic was not enough to make her prosper in the new world. Robert Wright was repeatedly jailed for debt and he died in poverty in 1629. What became of Joan Wright after her trial is not recorded, which is a shame. America's first official witch deserves a larger place in history. On February 20, 1938, the Sunday pictorial carried a report of a haunting in Croydon. A 34-year-old housewife had called to tell them about strange events at the home she shared with her husband Les, her son Don, and their lodger, George Saunders. Come to my house on the fielding implored the pictorial's news desk. There are things going on here I cannot explain. The Sunday pick, as it was known to its readers, dispatched two reporters to Croydon. As Alma opened the front door to them, they saw an egg fly down the corridor to land at their feet. As she led them to the kitchen, a pink china dog rattled to the floor and a sharp-bladed tin opener cut through the air at head height. In the front parlor, a teacup and saucer lifted out of Alma's hands as she sat with her guests, the saucer spinning and splintering with a ping as if shot in midair. She screamed as a second saucer exploded in her fingers and sliced into her thumb. While the wound was being bandaged, the reporters heard a crash in the kitchen, a wine glass that apparently escaped a locked cabinet and shattered on the floor. They saw an egg whirl in through the living room door to crack against the sideboard. A giant chunk of coal rose from the grate, sailed across the room inches from the head of one of the reporters and smacked into the wall. The Fielding's house seemed to be under siege from itself. Less Don and George were at home, but as far as the pictorial men could tell, none of them was responsible for the phenomena. The objects were propelled by an unseen force. The pictorial published its piece the next morning under the slogan, This is the most curious front-page story we have ever printed. In an ordinary terrace in Croydon it declared, Some malevolent ghostly force is working miracles. Poltergeist, that's what the scientists call it. The spiritualists, they say it's all caused by a mischievous earthbound spirit. Here's the article. In January 2017, I visited the Society for Psychical Research Archive in Cambridge to look up some references to the ghost hunter Nander Fodor, who had investigated the case of Alma Fielding and the Croydon poltergeist. I didn't expect to find anything directly relevant. Fodor had been working for a rival organization, the International Institute for Psychical Research, whose papers were said to have been destroyed by German bombs. But when the documents were delivered to the university's library manuscripts room, I discovered that they were Fodor's original records. The SPR must have acquired the International Institute's archive when the smaller organization was disbanded in the 1940s. To my delight, one of the files turned out to be Fodor's dossier on Alma, mistakenly catalogued as a holding on Mr. Fielding. The manila folder contained transcripts of Fodor's interviews and seances with Alma, lab reports, x-rays, copies of her contract, scribbled notes, sketches, photographs of the damage wrought by the poltergeist in Alma's house and on her body. From Alma's story, Fodor had deduced to the horror of his colleagues that repressed memories could generate terrifying physical events. A Jewish Hungarian emigre, Fodor had thrown himself into the 30s supernatural scene. He joined the Ghost Club and the London Spiritualist Alliance, befriended members of the Fairy Investigation Society, contributed articles to the Spiritualist Weekly Light. Spiritualism was big business in Britain. The faith offered something tremendous, said Arthur Conan Doyle, a breaking down of the walls between two worlds, a call of hope and of guidance to the human race at the time of its deepest affliction. After the terrible losses of the First World War and the influenza pandemic of 1918, thousands of spiritualist seance circles had been established by the bereaved. In effect, seance was a voluntary haunting, a summoning of ghosts at which the dead would speak through mediums, wrap on tables, sometimes even let themselves be touched, smelt, or seen. These forms of contact seemed hardly more outlandish than methods that had become commonplace since the war. Soon, predicted Fodor, the mechanism of psychic communication would be understood and used with the same facility as the wireless and the telephone. Scores of seances and private consultations were advertised in the Spiritualist Press, along with lectures at Psychical Research Societies, books and pamphlets on the occult, displays of clairvoyance and levitation. Some spiritualists believed that there was so much supernormal activity because the dead were straining to come closer. The boundary between the two states, the known and the unknown, is still substantial, wrote the renowned physicist and radio pioneer Sir Oliver Lodge, who had lost a son in the war. But it is wearing thin in places and, like excavators engaged in boring a tunnel from opposite ends, amid the roar of water and other noises, we're beginning to hear now and again the strokes of the pickaxes of our comrades on the other side. But Fodor, having read the work of Sigmund Freud, was becoming skeptical about spiritualism. He believed that supernatural phenomena might be caused not by the shades of the dead, but by the unconscious minds of the living, and he sensed that Alma Fielding was the perfect subject on whom to test his theories. When Fodor took Alma to the International Institute in Kensington, he and his colleagues saw a brooch materialized from thin air, then an ancient oil lamp, a white mouse, a scarab beetle, a Japanese sparrow. She seemed able to astrally project herself from Croydon to Kensington and back again, and to open herself to spirit possession. To assess her powers, Fodor used all the modern methods at his disposal, voice recorders, telephones, cameras, x-rays, chemical analysis, hypnosis, and word association tests. He gathered witness statements and transcribed Alma's dreams, sent investigators to track her movements. He laid traps. If Alma's phenomena were tricks, he wanted to know how she was pulling them off. If not, he needed to understand the psychic mechanisms by which they were generated. There was a door which leads from the mind we know to the mind we do not know, he told the Daily Mirror in March 1938. Now and again that door is open. Strange things happen.  As the door to the unconscious swung open, Fodor reasoned a suppressed feeling might escape its human host in material form. He speculated that mediums discharged electromagnetic rays from their fingers and toes or extruded invisible semi-metallic psychic rods or ectoplasmic threads like cobwebs. There are, it is plain, strange forces about us, of which we know practically nothing, he said, just as once we knew nothing of electricity. Fodor noticed that Alma often seemed detached from herself when a weird event took place, and he wondered if at such moments her buried life surged to the surface and broke out. He was intrigued by the phenomenon of mental dissociation which had been observed both in mediums and in victims of shell shock. The subject fascinated novelists too. Agatha Christie featured characters with split consciousness or dual personality in her short story collection The Hound of Death. The protagonist of Patrick Hamilton's novel Hangover Square is helplessly besotted with a woman who spurns him and at a click in his head, or with the word snap or crack describe it better, he wonders, his yearning humiliated self is replaced with a numb, impeccable Avenger. Fodor wondered whether Alma's psyche had fractured under pressure of a forbidden emotion. Perhaps she underwent spells of amnesia in which she unconsciously carried out supernatural tricks, or perhaps her estranged alter ego was escaping her body altogether, snapping and cracking itself into being as an external physical force, ping. In March, Fodor arranged a day trip to Bogdaregis with Alma and four members of the institute. Alma, in skittish spirits, agreed to see if her poltergeist could spirit a ring from the local branch of Woolworth's. At the jewelry counter in the Bogdare Woolies, Fodor and his party watched Alma select a ring with two stones on a curved bridge, examine it, then return it to the assistant. It was the nicest ring there, Alma said, but she did not want to buy it today. The shop girl eyed them suspiciously as they moved away. It looked fishy to her, wrote Fodor. She followed us, we began to feel uncomfortable. As the group turned into a road near the stop, Alma said that she heard a rattle in the box that she was carrying. Fodor took the box from her, opened it, and found the ring she had handled. My flesh creeped, he said. Everyone was staggered, all swore that they had seen the ring still on the jewelry counter as they left. The experience was rather alarming, Fodor said. We had committed psychic shoplifting. A few of the hauntings that Fodor investigated took place in crumbling old manor houses with creaking stairs and hidden priest holes, but most were in ordinary towns and suburbs such as Bogdnor and Croydon. He had become familiar with the consumerist, aspirational, working-class culture of post-war Britain. This is the England of Arterial and Bypass Roads, wrote J.B. Priestley in English Journey, of filling stations and factories that looked like exhibition buildings, of giant cinemas and dance halls and cafes, bungalows with tiny garages, cocktail bars, Woolworths, motorcoaches, wireless hiking, factory girls looking like actresses, greyhound racing and dirt tracks, swimming pools and everything given away for cigarette coupons. You need money in this England, Priestley added, but you do not need much money, it is a large-scale mass-production job with cut prices. Poltergeists were a Woolies brand of phantom, vulgar copies of the ethereal phantoms of old. According to the Daily Mail they were altogether different from the honest, upright ghosts of decaying castles and ancient halls. They displayed low cunning and nasty intention and mean underhand ways. Poltergeists were domestic hoodlums, destructive, subversive, uncouth. Fodor's fellow ghost hunter, Maude Fawkes, said that she longed for ghosts in the same way that she yearned for the unspoiled country of yesteryear, a land untainted by roadhouse pubs and electricity pylons. But Fodor was not bound by the snobbery or nostalgia of his adopted country. Far from sneering at poltergeists, he liked them, and where others might see Alma as typical of her class and gender, irrational, opportunistic sly, to Fodor she was ingenious, complex and fun. He guessed that she sometimes faked phenomena in order to retain the researcher's interest, but he forgave such lapses. He had no doubt that her terror at the original poltergeist activity was genuine, and he understood why an imaginative working-class woman might resort to supernatural hoaxing. Almost days were a repetitive round of domestic chores, relieved only by forays to the shops and cups of tea with friends. She had to dust and polish to darn, sew and knit, launder and iron, cook meals for her family, sweep hearths and floors, fetch coal and lay fires, scrub pots and pans. British women had enjoyed a spell of freedom during and immediately after the war when many of them went out to work, but the popular press now encouraged them to keep to the home. They were urged to tend to their appearance, what men hate about your hair the mirror revealed in March and their family's health. A Daily Mail warned female readers against having too lively a relationship even with their belongings. Don't wear a necklace if you are tempted to twiddle it, advised the paper. Keep your hanky in your bag, it's not meant to be twisted. The ideal woman was contained, composed, restrained, but for a woman with psychic powers different rules applied. A medium could undertake extravagant feats of mobility, astral projection, transfiguration, time travel, levitation and in doing so escape the constraints of her gender and her class. Almost poltergeist not only twiddled necklaces but sprang them from shop counters, it whipped saucers across rooms, upended iderdowns, spun rings onto fingers, it took gifts to the researchers at the institute as if to charm or trade its way into their world. The American writer Charles Fort noted that poltergeists often emanated from those who had no direct power, women, servants, adolescents, children. In the event of a world war, Fort suggested in Wild Talents, published in 1932, a squad of poltergeist girls might be deployed against enemy troops. He imagined the scene, both futuristic and archaic, in which the girls combined their violent gifts. A regiment bursts into flames and the soldiers are torches, horses snort smoke from the combustion of their entrails. It struck me that Alma's haunting, like other supernatural events of the 30s, was an expression of national as well as personal dread. The poltergeist story of February 20, 1938 shared the front page of the Sunday pictorial with a giant photograph of Edolf Hitler so that the headline seemed to issue from the furor's shouting mouth, Ghost Rex Holm it read, Family Terrorized. Every week that spring the press carried warnings about Hitler and Mussolini's belligerence and reports of the British government's frantic efforts to shore up the country's defenses. The threat of war touched everyone. Alma's husband, Les, had been injured in the last conflict. He still woke in terror from trench dreams, and the early son Don was likely to be called up in the next. As summer approached, Fodor intensified his efforts to unearth the childhood drama that might explain Alma's poltergeist. In his desperation, he stepped up his surveillance and he resorted increasingly to deception. He was convinced that a repressed memory was responsible for the storm of violence in Alma's home. Supernatural events, he believed, embodied the splintering and contradiction of a traumatic experience. A ghost conjured the uneasy sense that something both was and was not real, that an event recurred as if it were outside time, undead. Fodor's colleagues were appalled when they learned of his conclusions about Alma's haunting. In the autumn of 1938, they expelled him from the International Institute and confiscated his papers. These were the papers that I found in the Cambridge archive. The fat folder of evidence seemed to me a wonderful object, a documentary account of fictional and magical events, a historical record of the imagination. Some of Fodor's methods were troubling, but I was moved by his refusal to condemn Alma as a maniac or a fraud. By the time that Fodor's book about the Thornton Heath poltergeist was published in 1958, psychical research was no longer taken seriously by most scientific thinkers. Yet his ideas about poltergeist psychosis found expression in fiction. In The Haunting of Hill House, a novel of 1959, Shirley Jackson explores the possibility that a disturbed individual can trigger supernormal events. She describes a ghost hunt conducted under the aegis of the psychical researcher Dr. John Montague, in which weird incidents seemed to emanate from a young woman called Eleanor Vance. When Fodor was invited to serve as a consultant on the film adaptation of the novel in 1963, he asked Jackson if she had read his work, and she confirmed that she had. The filmmakers proposed to Jackson that they present the events in her novel as the hallucinations of a woman in a mental asylum. But she discouraged this approach. The story was about real supernatural happenings, she said. Like Fodor, she chose not to explain away psychic experiences as madness or lies. Fodor wrote an article about The Haunting of Hill House shortly before his death in 1964, in which he observed that Jackson had adopted the modern approach to the supernormal. The creaks and groans of furniture, the imbalance of a spiral staircase, and the abnormally cold spots are objectifications of the mental anguish and chill of Eleanor's soul. The violent slamming of doors are explosive manifestations of inner conflicts. This strand of psychological gothic emerges again in Stephen King's novels, Carrie, in which a humiliated teenager's suppressed feelings erupt in supernatural violence, and the shining in which ghosts are awakened by the obsessions of the living. It runs through books and films, such as Barbara Common's The Vet's Daughter, Daphne du Marier's Don't Look Now, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Hillary Mantle's Beyond Black, Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger, Jennifer Kent's The Babadook. To the question of whether a haunting was real or fantasized, psychological or supernatural, the answer given by such stories was both. A ghost could be imagined into being, from a feeling repressed so forcefully that it acquired uncanny power. Our irrational darker selves, wrote Elizabeth Bowen, demand familiars. When Weird Darkness returns, when you hear a knocking in the closet, or footsteps in the attic, when you hear a door to the basement creak open, or a plate crash to the floor in the middle of the night, is it a ghost, an intruder, or could you be dealing with a darkling? There have been monsters among us lurking in the darkest corners of America, preying on children since the first settlers arrived on our shores. They've always been with us, stalking the innocent, from the days of the original colonies to the gilded age, the depression, and beyond. These monsters are not the stuff of fiction. They are bloodcurdlingly real and they still walk among us, always looking for their next victim. In the chilling book Suffer the Children, Troy Taylor shines a light on the darkest tales of horror and hauntings from American history and presents a terrifying collection of dark crimes perpetrated against our most tender victims, our children. His most disturbing book yet includes Nightmarish Tales from the 19th century, when the good old days were never good, like the Monster of the North Wood, the Pocassette Horror and the Girl in the Cellar, and continues into the modern day with accounts of the Clarkson Woods, America's first school massacre, Wineville Chicken Coupe Murders, Babes of Englewood, Suzanne Degnan, the Girl Scout Camp Massacre, the Perfect Murder of Bobby Franks, and many more. Be warned, this is not a book for the faint of heart. These are tales containing brutal, agonizing, and terrifying scenes of horror. Suffer the Children, American Horror's Homicides at Hauntings, Dead Men, Do Tell Tales series book 15 by Troy Taylor. Here a free sample on the audiobooks page at WeirdDarkness.com. I have heard many things in my life and probably you have also. Strange sounds like crashes in the attic, to the sound of plates and dishes crashing in the darkness. But in my extensive search throughout my home that night and the next day, nothing is found, damaged, or destroyed. Was it a darkling come to call? I often think it's a small earthquake rattling the dishes in the closet. We cannot predict earthquakes in the sense of being able to tell exactly where, exactly when, and how big. Even a tiny one that we can't feel will vibrate or knock something over. When it happens, too many blame it on a real ghost, not understanding that the earth moved. According to pages 133 through 137 and 2008's Mental Health Aspects Developmental Disabilities, movement disorders are complex phenomena that frequently create confusion among mental health clinicians working in the field of dual diagnosis. Some of the confusion arises from uncertainty about whether movements are voluntary or involuntary. Because abnormal movements are exacerbated by stress or other anxiety-provoking situations, wax and wane and severity and are associated with other disruptive behaviors, they are frequently confused with other repetitive behaviors as well as primary psychiatric disorders. This first segment of a series of Ask the Doctor provides a basic overview of the neuropsychiatry and the behavioral pharmacology of abnormal movements. I tell myself after I read things like that, hey, that could be the truth, but what if it was really a ghost or something actually worse, like the dark? We fear the dark, because we never know what lurks in the blackness. The fear of the dark is a common fear among children and to a varying degree is observed for adults. The pathological fear of the dark is sometimes called nictophobia, scotophobia or ligophobia. Some researchers beginning with Sigmund Freud consider the fear of the dark as a manifestation of separation anxiety. In the 1960s, scientists conducted experiments to discover molecules responsible for memory. In one experiment, rats, normally nocturnal animals, were conditioned to fear the dark and a substance called scotophobia that was apparently responsible for remembering this fear was extracted from rat's brains. Subsequently, these findings were debunked. The fear of the dark is heightened by imagination. Stuffed toy may appear a monster with many teeth and bulging eyes in the dark. Nightmares contribute to the fear of the dark as well. After waking up because of a nightmare, the child may refuse to go to bed without the lights on. Fear of the dark is a phase of child development. Most observers report that fear of the dark seldom appears before the age of two years. Fear of the dark is not a fear of the absence of light, but fear of possible or imagined dangers concealed by the darkness. The dark, in the mind of some, is actually a creature, a monster of unlimited proportions. It has the power to scare us, unnerve us, set us on edge. The dark can scare you. It will drive you to madness and take away any hope of tomorrow. Darkness is technically the absence of light. Scientifically, it is only possible to have a reduced amount of light. Darkness doesn't exist. The emotional response to an absence of light has inspired metaphor in literature, symbolism in art and emphasis. Today, many in the world enjoy researching and exploring dark tourism. Travel decides associated with death and suffering, ghosts and the paranormal. As a poetic term, darkness can also mean the presence of shadows, evil or depression. Darkness can have a strong psychological impact. It can cause depression in people with seasonal affective disorder, fear in nyctophobics, comfort in legophilics, or attraction as in gothic fashion. These emotions are used to add power to literary imagery. Religious texts often use darkness to make a visual point. In the Bible, darkness was the second to last plague in Exodus 10, verse 21, and the location of weeping and gnashing of teeth in Matthew 8, verse 12. The Koran has been interpreted to say that those who transgress the bounds of what is right are doomed to burning despair and ice-cold darkness, nab 7825. In Greek mythology, three layers of night surround Tartarus, a place for the worst sinners as far beneath Hades as heaven is high above earth. The Hindu goddess Kali, black, dark-colored, is also closely associated with darkness and violence, though she is equally associated with motherhood and benevolence. In Chinese philosophy, yin is the feminine part of the Taijitu and is represented by a dark lobe. The use of darkness as a rhetorical device is a long-standing tradition. Shakespeare, working in the 16th and 17th centuries, made a character called Satan the Prince of Darkness in King Lear, and gave darkness jaws with which to devour love in a Midsummer Night's dream. Chaucer, a 14th-century Middle English writer, wrote that knights must cast away the works of darkness.  Even in Old English, there were three words that could mean darkness. Hailstor, Genep, and Skadu. Hailstor also meant hiding place and became holster. Genep meant mist and fell out of use like many strong verbs. It is however still used in the Dutch saying in Het Geniepe, which means secretly Skadu meant shadow and remained in use. The word darkness eventually evolved from the word derk, which meant dark. The dead's great inconsolable grief. In many cultures, wearing of dark colors shows grief and attracts it. In the dark objects that are familiar to us take on different shapes and sizes. They also reveal the qualities in them that are truly paranormal and actually supernaturally in their nature. Call it evil or the work of the devil, but the inanimate becomes alive in the black of night. The dark links, the shadows, the dead sneak near to you as you breathe evenly and sound asleep. Accounts of the dark as a being typically describe them as being deep, non-reflective, black humanoid or creature-like silhouettes. Sometimes with no discernible mouths, noses or facial expressions, though at times those features might be all that you actually see in the darkness. Many lurid accounts also exist of these entities being child-sized humanoids or shapeless masses that sometimes change to a more human-like form or animals. The eyes are usually not described as being discernible, but in some reports glowing red, white or blue eyes are mentioned. The color of the eyes, if any, is typically given as red. Their specific form is described variously as two-dimensional shadow to a vaporous or distorted three-dimensional body as though made out of smoke, fabric, water-like or steam. Movement is often described as being very quick and disjointed. Some witnesses describe this movement as though the shadow entities they have seen danced from one wall to the next or as moving around the room as if they were on a specific track.  Often they are described as being seen staring at the floor. Some accounts describe what appears to be the outline of a cloak and in some instances the outline of a 1930s style fedora hat. This last type is referred to as the dark hat man or the darkling king or simply the hat man. The dark has also been called the white, from an old English word white. It is a middle English word used to describe a creature or a living being. It is akin to old high German white, meaning a creature or thing. The evil of the darklings over the centuries are based on shadow people, also known as shadowmen, shadow folk or shadow beings, are supernatural shadow-like creatures of both modern folklore and traditional Native American beliefs. They sound very similar, if not precisely, like shadow people that we have covered here on Weird Darkness on numerous occasions, but these seem to be much more malevolent.   They are known to poke your eyes out as you sleep. They have been known to kill infants as they sleep in their mother's arms or suckle at their breast. They can scratch you to the bone, and there are tales of them even stealing kidneys, thought to be what they love to eat, from sleeping victims.  They can roam highways and slip into your home and kill all that live there. In the darkness, they are the strongest paranormal entity you can encounter. They can change shape and even talk to you in the thick black night. According to folklore, they appear as dark forms in the peripheries of people's vision as they begin to haunt them. If they find no reason to haunt you, then they seem to disintegrate or move between walls when noticed. Reports of shadow-darkling people occupy a similar position in the popular consciousness to ghost sightings, but differ in that these types of shadow people are not reported as having human features or wearing modern or period clothing or attempting to communicate. Witnesses also do not report the same feelings of being in the presence of something that was once human in what a shadow person entails. A darkling has never walked the earth as a human. Some individuals have described being menaced, chased, or in some rare instances, attacked by shadow-darklings. There have also been reports of huge, menacing darklings appearing in front of witnesses and lingering for several seconds before disappearing. Witnesses report that encounters are typically accompanied by a feeling of dread. Darklings have been known to hide at the sight of any type of light. Their favorite spots to hide in are dark cracks or inside a child's toys like bears, dolls, stuffed animals, or closets. Robert the Haunted Doll is thought to be a darkling trapped in a stuffed body by a voodoo voodoo spell. In New Orleans voodoo, darklings are creatures that prowl the city looking for innocence to possess. They will take a person and make them act and turn into someone they are not.  They are aptly called, since the late 1800s, the dark darklings. The great voodoo queen, Marie Lavaux, described them as the evil thoughts that good church people have that they don't act upon coming to life.  The actual belief is that the darkling enters a person through their mouths as they sleep and are trapped inside them until they fall asleep again.   Small children between the ages of three and nine are more apt to encounter these beings and see them more clearly. Though those who have psychic powers have been known to see them as sparkling dark shapes in the blackness. Thanks for listening. If you made it this far, welcome to our Weirdo Family. If you liked the podcast and you haven't already subscribed, be sure to do so now so you don't miss future episodes. And also, please, tell somebody else about the podcast. Recommend Weird Darkness to your friends, family, and co-workers who love the paranormal, horror stories, true crime, or just the weird like you do. Every time you share the podcast with someone new, it helps spread the word about the show and a growing audience makes it possible for me to keep creating episodes as often as I do. Plus, telling others about Weird Darkness also helps get the word out about resources that are available for those who suffer from depression or dark thoughts. So please, share the podcast with someone today. Do you have a dark tale to tell of your own? Fact or fiction, click on Tell Your Story on the website and I might use it in a future episode. All stories in Weird Darkness are purported to be true unless stated otherwise and you can find source links or links to the authors in the show notes. America's first witch is from Strange Company. The housewife, the ghost hunter, and the Croydon poltergeist was written by Kate Summerscale for The Guardian. The Dark Darklings is by Mason Felinity for Haunted American Tours, and the man who wasn't murdered is from Strange Company. Weird Darkness theme by Alibiomusic. Weird Darkness is a registered trademark. And now that we're coming out of the dark, I'll leave you with a little light. 2 Corinthians 4 verse 6 For God who said, Let light shine out of darkness, made his light shine in our hearts, to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Christ. And a final thought. Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out. I'm Darren Marlar. Thanks for joining me in the Weird Darkness. In 2017, Kate Summerscale, author of the true... Kate Summerscale, author of the true... She claimed that she had been her seatmate on a bus trip. She describes a ghost hunt conducted under the... I guess that's a $10 word. Our irrational, wrote Elizabeth Bowen. Our irrational, darker selves, wrote Elizabeth Bowen. Demand familiar. Our irrational, darker selves, wrote Elizabeth Bowen. Bowen. In Greek mythology, three layers of night surround Tartar. Okay. Yeah, I can't really turn around. To the side. I'll wiggle for you. I love you, baby. Goodnight, baby.


For more videos on People's Struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hello and welcome back to Around the World in 8 Minutes, where we at People's Dispatch are with you every week to bring you stories of people engaged in struggle across the world. For our first story, we take you to the United States, where mass protests have been taking place across the country following the brutal police murder of Dante Wright on Sunday, April 11 in Brooklyn Center outside the city of Minneapolis. A police officer shot and killed 20-year-old Dante Wright when he was in the car with his girlfriend. Wright was being apprehended for having a dangling air freshener, which police alleged was a traffic violation. The shooting occurred in the midst of high tensions in the Minneapolis area due to the ongoing trial of Derek Chauvin, one of the former police officers charged with the killing of George Floyd. Protests broke out in front of the Brooklyn Center police station, demanding justice for Wright, as well as Floyd, and have continued to this day. The protests in Minneapolis and other cities such as Portland have been met with heavy police repression, with some injured and several dozen arrested and detained. In the city of Chicago, anti-racist protests have also been raging following the release of body cam footage of the police shooting and killing 13-year-old Adam Toledo. The footage released by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability on Thursday, April 15 showed the 13-year-old Adam Toledo unarmed being fired at while being chased by the police. Police had previously alleged that the 13-year-old boy was holding a gun and posed a threat, while the body cam footage clearly shows that he had his hands up and was unarmed when he was shot at. The release of the video footage from the scene was met with anger and protests by the residents of Chicago. In a press conference held by Toledo's family, Adina Weiss Ortiz, the lawyer representing the family, said that the videos speak for themselves. Adam, during the last seconds of his life, did not have a gun in his hand. The officer screamed at him, show me your hands. Adam complied and turned around. His hands were empty when he was shot at in the chest at hands of the officer. Ortiz added. For our next story, we take you to Palestine, where United Nation experts on human rights have warned that attacks on Palestinians by extremist Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem have increased in the first three months of 2021. The group of experts also expressed grave concern at the heightened rate of settlement expansion in occupied Palestinian territories by the State of Israel. This leads the forced displacement of thousands of Palestinians and the demolition of their homes. In a statement published on Wednesday, April 14th, on the website of the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the experts said, already during the first three months of 2021, more than 210 settler violent incidents were recorded with one Palestinian fatality. We call upon the Israeli military and police to investigate and prosecute these violent acts with vigor and resolve. According to the statement, the attacks are especially alarming because of the sense of impunity that the settlers reportedly enjoy from Israeli military, which experts say deeply worries them. They added that in many cases, the Israeli military has not been present or nearby and has not taken sufficient steps to protect the Palestinians from this violence. This amounts to discriminatory two-tier approach to military protection and policing in the West Bank. The experts cite one particular example this year of an attack on March 13th in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, in which 10 Israeli settlers, some armed, attacked the Palestinian family of Zayed Awad, his wife, and their eight children, which resulted in injuries to the skull, jaws, legs, to the couple and caused extreme mental and emotional trauma to the children. The family was on its way to some property it owned to ensure that it had not been encroached upon by settlers. On the urgent issue of sustained and accelerated illegal settlement expansion, the three experts called upon the international community to impose meaningful costs on Israelis' protracted occupation and to demand that the occupying power halt its settlement enterprise immediately. Currently, close to half a million Israelis live in 250-odd illegal settlements in the West Bank. For our last story, we take you to Cuba, where the Communist Party of Cuba has begun its eighth Congress for the historical continuity of the Cuban Revolution. This Congress, taking place in the capital of Havana, is held amid a complex economic panorama exacerbated on one hand by the COVID-19 pandemic and on the other by the intensification of the U.S. blockade. Among the most striking aspects of this party Congress is the departure from its leadership of several members of the so-called historical generation, such as Raúl Castro, the current First Secretary, and the entrance of New Cadre into the leadership. Ahead of this Congress, the party delegates carried out sessions to study and analyze the documents that will be submitted for debate and evaluation in the commissions of the Congress between April 16th and April 19th. These documents are the result of a process of evaluation and consultation carried out by the party's provincial leadership bodies and the political and mass organizations of workers, peasants, youth, and women during the year 2020. They address in detail how the actions approved in the Seventh Congress have been implemented up until now and taking into account the current economic and social conditions, including the difficulties and challenges facing the nation today. Today, 56 years after its constitution and more than a century after the germination of its ideas, at a time when the country faces new economic and social challenges with an attempt at destabilization encouraged from the outside and with uncertainty that always opens up the changes, no one should be fooled. The PCC is committed to preserving and strengthening the unity of its bases and that of the people around the revolution while renewing the faces that will lead the country in the coming years. That's all we have time for and keep watching People's Dispatch.


What is up a welcome back? Oh my sound is on everybody's sound is on. Oh the drama. Oh the drama. I'm hot and sweaty Shoo Oh now look This thing's all blinking. What's happened? So many things happening There's nothing attractive about that Are you gonna have to click it and then deactivate activate again? Can you hear me now? Yeah, we're back So we did that other thing and then we couldn't get the camera to work the the panel today Yeah, we did the laser craft vest panel earlier and then camera was fine Yeah, and then now the camera was occupied So we had to reboot Sorry, we're so late. We're sweaty now. Yeah, that's what I say Shoo stressful you guys stressful trying to get here trying to get it together busy busy day Look it's anti-climactic now, but I wanted to start our live Yeah, with a little birthday wish for Tanner Tanner.  Please stress. Do you even have anything to light it with? No, don't you anyway? It's 28 Happy birthday T-wizzle. He's still like nine in my head Okay, what are we doing today? So I was reading some of the chat not all of the chat because I was trying to help Yeah, but I could see that Laurie was hoping for her pumpkin. We saw your pumpkin We're all in on that pumpkin. I started your pumpkin, but we're not ready with it yet That is not as easy as it looks you see all those flowers and you see all those layers But we thought That's okay. I mean, but look at the overhead shot now. It's gonna be great nice and closed and focused We aren't doing a paint prep chat But we don't have a whole lot of We don't have anything new and fancy, but I did a remake of our Hello fall leaves so I'm gonna show you and I did a redesign of The welcome. Hope you like serial killers or let's talk about serial killers because I had to do one for the craft shows and Nope, it was too much redesign And I haven't really test-cut it. I know I gave it to the patrons, but I'm personally test-cut it I did open it in light burn So this was like one of the first signs we ever did Yeah, we call it season one So this is when we took the first craft show and it's very dark and It's okay, but it's not great. So I told Garrett we should remake it So this was an easy one to do For today, so just as Hello fall. It doesn't have y'all And this is what I'm gonna paint today. I thought this would be an easy one to prep for craft shows Trying to get some easy ones in there along with the super detailed ones And then like Garrett said he did a little remake a complete Redo of this one. Now, did you explain like what all you did? No so before welcome was in cursive and Let's talk about serial killers was in the typewriter font But he swapped it and now the typewriter font is up here and let's talk about serial killers is Like all one thing, right? Well separate words, right one two three four five things But it's way better than 52 that it was was it 52 letters something like that So we want to paint this see how this looks and get your feedback if we like switching out the fonts I know that it's still hard to read what's down below, but it was hard to read before so Give us your thoughts on this one once we're done. We'll see how quickly he can paint it Who is it a challenge? I already lost the dot to my found it All right, let's Okay, Tanner you've got some happy birthdays out there and Scott Hamill says Kelsey's birthday is today. She's 11. Yes, God I saw her Scott's daughter. Yeah, okay good. I think it was like Kelsey grammar Happy birthday Kelsey grammar from Scott.  You got a bunch of them Let's see so how how does it feel being? James says can you turn up the volume? I could barely hear you in full volume Do I need to turn the mic up somehow? That's Tanner. That's Tanner thing crank it Tanner Turn it to 11. All right. Is this any better? Can you guys hear me any better now? again switching back and forth between Between laser craft fest and our regular Tuesday go live You have to go back and retouch everything Yeah, the mic is now right right up here. I can whisper to you guys Yeah, the mic was so much louder on the little thing today, Christina. Oh, well with green under hello Yeah, we don't care camera microphone, we're just trying to make it louder for you Somebody else did save all you so I don't know Feel like a cyborg Yeah, Helen says her only complaint about the new sign is that it still doesn't fit in her pizza box With the drips. Nope. I know I'm thinking about getting rid of the drips But that's what gives it its character, though But I know it's hard because we deal with that too when we put it in the cart When we have to ship it and have to it has to go in a larger box when we put it in the wagons We're taking it to the craft shows Yeah, it's test cut this is why I'm test cutting it Because after putting together the other serial killers. I really felt bad And then I knew Helen Helen wouldn't have it I Wwhd What would Helen do? Helen would win Make it Monday Jerry says don't do it. We sold four of them this weekend. Don't do what get rid of the drips Tell me what you were thinking there. Oh, it's blurry now. What's blurry now the forward-facing camera Overhead well, you haven't even gone overhead yet Which you guys see this overhead we brought it way down Tasha said Garrett stepped off offscreen today at the laser fest Was that to drink sweet tea lol? Yes, it was I was like, did he really just walk away in the middle of this to take a swig of his tea Which you oh you can see it, right?  Was it to drink tea? Oh, what am I even doing I was so flustered I forgot You want to say hello, I was just gonna ask you if you want to go back and say hello We have 88 Rick Pooley Pauly was here first. Oh Rick He needs to go back and say hello to some of you guys I got my magic mirror Only glittered one side Only the side that you get to see all right. Well, and I just lost them. Oh, they're right here. Can you come over here? We're a mess and I see Rick and Tyra and Lori and Helen Helen's got a new radio show And I see Chris Yes, Jerry. No Chris Chris Jerry is clicker. Okay. I didn't Kathy Steve and Terry Veronica Christian. What's up Christian? Cat already say Kathy Chris Bob. Hey Bob Trudy Diane Tasha This I need to get this cleaned Yes Leather designs Michelle mark what's up work? What's up Michael you getting that grill ready? Yeah, Michael or pizza? We promise you a design and I can't find whatever you sent us to do it is on our Board it just says Garrett yoga. Well, I don't know what that design was supposed to be I can't find an email. I can't find anything So if you still want it, I know it's been a while now Send me an email at support a K and G make it calm I am happy to do it for you if I knew what it is. It needs to be done Or have him do it. Yeah, have me do it Where was I Mary Carol Bob? Amy tiny hands Baker Mary everyday life with Benson's That sounds interesting Go check you guys out Kim Woodward Woodard Woodard with Kim right underneath there. Hey Kim. Kim Lance. All right clicker a K And I like that that trucker name Renee Alicia Adina Was that iron haul Say I worry lorry all Well iron haul is now your trucker name Amy said up here I caught as you were scrolling through Amy said I watched the live today and one of the other speakers to stop talking so I could hear more from K and G A lot of good info to you. Yeah, I Didn't know those people until today. So it was interesting hearing all those different takes on things Carlos said that you had mentioned you did a redo of I smell children, but she couldn't find it on the Google Drive So hard keeping up with all the places So is it still on the go is it? I mean obvious? Oh better on the Google Drive But is it on patreon and the messages you put repost it out there? Did I or just do we secret have it?  I don't even know what's happening The paint usually is treats me a little bit better All I really did is take the score marks for like the stars and the moons and stuff And just make those cuts and all the little tiny pieces cut pieces I just got rid of those and kept the I smell children the hair the lips Oh, I even made the moles the cutouts on the backer Yeah, so you keep saying all these little things that you did but they made it easier to do So you definitely want to get it posted If you didn't post it You want to do this in antique white See I made them all cutouts now You don't have to paint all of those little pieces anymore Oh and the moles see the mole and he really reduced the hair like We would always lose this the blonde hair is just two pieces now This little piece of the hair was always a mess and we would lose little other little pieces and so He kind of brought those together Into like just just fewer amounts of hair pieces Trying to make it easier to put together So we will go back I'll make a little note LOL what does it say when all your pencils don't have any look none of them have Can you see that none of them are sharpened means you're a A diligent writer a Note taker I am that that's for sure you are a note taker You're the note taker We'll put this here so you guys can kind of see it And then we're gonna Let's put the camera. Where is tanner tanner's not in here when tanner comes back I'll have him move the camera up in this area. Wait a minute right here up in this little area right here So that they can see what I'm doing. Oh, I can go do that Don't need tanner Don't need him What I just did That's not gonna be good There you go. Now you guys can see Good thing it's kind of empty Whoa, look what I did Oh, you ripped that nipple right off Nipple ripping You're nipple rip I'll see an antique white roll Talk about Tea from Wawa Yes Killers tea from Wawa best tea ever That is Definitely Garrett's jam. Is that or turkey hill? Those are my go-tos But we can't really find that as much around here turkey hills Oh lois says she loves helens goats Yep, I like those nightmare goats too Nightmare goats. Good job with your nightmare goats Oh helen do you want to I wish some people could talk Helen would you like to tell everybody about What do you get to say? Tell everybody about your new radio show on amp the amp application I don't know What are you talking about? Helen's got a radio show. I'm not really sure what it's about She gave me the old not suitable for work So I don't know Check it out at your own Risk risk. Yeah risk. Oh, sorry. I was looking for my eye doubts All right at the bottom Oh, yeah, and mandy, when are you going live? On your other jam He will never let you forget. What about christian christian christian. You've been going live yet I haven't seen yours. I haven't seen you I'm gonna see you go live Christian I'm also waiting on that.  Now he hears his name Now he's gonna lay low. He's not lurking. He was saying some stuff, but I didn't get to read it all I had to move on down in the chat. I missed the first part of most of what everyone was saying Oh, I've been waiting for the Chat gpt Great ideas on laser craft fest. Y'all looked great. Oh, thanks. Sheila. We appreciate it. Well We were kind of surprised Garrett said I felt like we looked very professional. Yeah Then I felt like because of our logo and we were wearing our logo that maybe we weren't supposed to No, you were you were supposed to be able to self promote. I mean she did say Um Tell us about you and your channel and all that stuff Not not gonna the other people we tend to overdo things though Oh man Like we tend to overdo things like Kim how many uh, halloween costume concepts everyone. I don't like everyone everyone that we've been I don't know if it's everyone but You know what we didn't win and I have not forgotten because we Because we like overdo it we overdo it You got to take it to the next level Look, I knew you were going to be able to see it. Okay careful. I I painted my white board On top of this and now I've got paint on here. I need to sand it off But I couldn't find a piece of sandpaper So it's gonna ignore it and now this thing just highlighted it. Oh go fish. Isn't that over here? No over here Well, one of the things that I have not forgotten that we didn't win is that time we were on that cruise for the 20s thing Remember the speakeasy we went to the secret speakeasy on the ship. Well, that was like that was our first That was our first like maybe that's why we overdo it ever since yeah, and he came in and we felt under done Like people really brought costume everybody came out came out tough like I thought I was in the 20s I thought I was in a speakeasy. It was very very cool. I always looked for that There was some lady that came as like a flapper with like the whole Flappy dress thing and everything. She had a wig the whole thing and I had a dress I had like a flapper dress on But I didn't have And I pulled my hair up, but I mean I just didn't go that clearly I didn't go the extra mile because we didn't win anything And I guess ever since then we were like what we didn't do anything We didn't do we we didn't enter the dance contest nothing and I feel like that scarred us To then go learn dance and costume up Now we have Seriously, we have a whole freaking closet of just halloween costumes Sounds a little crazy. Now that I'm saying it out loud.  Wow Freaking halloween. Well, I mean can you be a nerd on halloween? I don't think you can I don't think it's possible All right, that was so quick and easy if I hadn't uh gotten paint on it I would have been done done done super done I had something else I wanted to talk about There was the I lost it What else is out there need to scroll down Why is the purple hair still in four pieces? Thank you I put it together the other day and said the same thing. I was like wait a minute. I think we can do better on this Come on now.  It should just be a quick overlay. I have to give you that I can connect them. That's fine. Yes. I will I will connect them Um, I think you need the buck teeth the red heads lips Oh, they are. Yeah, they're totally buck teeth. Yeah, get it. You want to show them? Yeah, I would I actually watched this movie Look at those buck teeth Look at them Get all up in there. Yeah, you can really get up in there now Oh my goodness. I mean I saw the movie. So I saw that it was all about her teeth So Yeah, they're in there Yeah, Eva said she was late. Yeah, don't worry Eva. So Christian responded. Yes We had some technical difficulties. So we are yeah, just really getting started How to do the old reboot any knocked off so our little um Device that switches between the cameras and our front view side view this and that Every time we went around to help troubleshoot He kicked the cable and twisted up the cable and that thing would fly off the desk The third time I had to laugh and he was like, it's not funny I mean, I think like kicking it off like drop kicking it off. I did. Yeah Not yeah, not like a little bit kicked it off It was like I'm surprised it's still working Oh, Mandy was here. What's up hangers? She showed up. Were you here before or after Garrett was lecturing you? Uh, he said he's ready to schedule the AI class Christian. Oh, yeah And he means artificial intelligence Yeah And Yeah Moving is very anti-craft Eva said moving is very anti-craft because crafting is inherently messy I have to have all the things out at once. Yeah. Yeah, I can't even imagine. Could you imagine trying to move? Well, um from the other house and still be running our business out of there There was no way we would have been able to do that and not in a week not in a weekend Let's see if I can push this back a little bit There you go Couldn't really see what I was doing or you were doing Well, they got a good close-up because they don't have a good close-up of anything happening Oh big scooby says. Hey there everyone. How's it going? What's up big scoop? Irma says hello from Irma and Fred Hey Irma and Fred Helen does that mean you gotta Helen might have to go away. She said she's got what is that somebody coming to her desk Some of the engineers coming to her desk to look at something Oh, you made it sound like she was on the lamp. Helen's gonna have to gonna have to go away I'm gonna go. She's got her passport She's heading out She's got her bug out bag She's gone Helen out Helen says sometimes I have to hide the channel. Sometimes I'm shameless I'll feel you Tuesdays at four I have things I have to do What else is going on everybody watch the after? Oh So do you remember the name who won did anybody watch our After show we finally got an after show published this week mark Mark nailed it before he could even watch the whole thing. Did everyone get to hear grace and her saxophone?   Yeah And I was like wait no No, you don't that was funny. You're crazy. Oh god. You know what you want to do Yeah, like it's how if I could keep telling them if you've got a passion fine Fine do it But if you're doing it because you have nothing else to do no. Yeah All right, I'm gonna get out of here with your hobbies. There's no passion I'm gonna move this over I need to put another coat on this Do-do-do-do-do Mandy says lol when I was answering the questions for the top tier group I had no idea what a trucker name was so I said bill lmfao Well, welcome, bill You're gonna have to come up with your own trucker name. Yeah now you gotta come up with a trucker name I mean unless you want to stick with bill I like bill I feel like it suits you It suits you bill Oh, Shoregood says, hello, I'm here. Hello, Shoregood. Oh, that's Sue there. That's my dad's name, who was a trucker, LOL. Oh, well, then it works out. That's your trucker name. That's your trucker name, though. That's Benny. I need those pieces. That's what we all say. Famous last words. I am making a mess. I thought this piece was too big to tape down, but guess what? Well, I mean, how hard are you pushing there?  What, Garrett's using tape? Yes. I'm tired. He's taking his own advice? Yeah. Hey, so what are we doing on the Zoom call tonight? What do you guys want to do? I got nothing. I've been busy. I didn't plan anything. Like, last week was like, last time was, what, fonts or something? Time before that was objects. You got, you still have, what, four hours or so? To think of something? To think of something. Mm-hmm. What do you guys want to see? Somebody asked about the maps again. Oh, that's right. You mentioned maybe doing something about. I'll do like a map on the thing, on the thing. Helen says, I have a file you can work on for me. Yeah. LOL. Not LOL if it doesn't have anything else to do. Yeah. Bring it on. Bring it. Or you share your screen and I'll walk you through it. Well, that might be fun. Yeah. But I want to see your arms flailing. I guess I don't see that on your screen. Oh, her personality, she has to be you. Is that what you're saying? Mm-hmm. Gotta keep me entertained. I'm almost doing what I... Christian said he replied in the thread. So... Oh, you did? Mm-hmm. Go take a look. I've barely been at my desk today. I fixed the Zoom call with the whole Monday thing. I'm sure there was some confusion on, is it Monday? Is it Tuesday? Yeah. He was like, no, I already fixed it. I was like, clearly you didn't because people are trying to join your Zoom call now and you're not there. Well, I don't think it updated because I even went back in and it did say second Tuesday. I even screen shot of it. But the calendar invite still says Monday and I even said update calendar. I don't think it's talking anymore or sending it out anymore. No, I think I fixed that. You fixed it. Oh, Lori Chavez wants you to work on her pumpkin. Oh, yeah, I can work on a pumpkin.  You're making a lot of promises. Promises, promises. Hey, who was on the laser craft fest and Garrett was singing in the beginning. Not realizing everyone could hear him. He wasn't singing that loud but he didn't realize the mic was picking him up that well. It's like, they all even said, hey, are you?   Did you use the song by myself? No, you didn't. No, I didn't. Oh, it's right here. Hiding it for myself. I'm about to call the paparazzi on myself. Sheila said I would love to share a file, get some constructive feedback to make it better. Total amateur here and I love it already but want to make it spectacular. Man, I have trouble giving feedback. I just... He's just gonna tell you it's great. I'm just gonna tell you it's great, yep. It's great. You love it, you like it, I love it. That's great. Chris said yes, very interested in the map so you got another one for maps. Maps would be cool. I struggle with the kerf. That was from Tyra. Tasha's looking forward to a zoom, first zoom call. Tasha, tonight's zoom call is the Adobe Illustrator zoom call. This is for somebody who wants to...  Yeah, there's usually only like, I don't know, five, six, seven people there. Five or six, yeah. Next Wednesday is the like, patron zoom call where everybody will be on. And we'll make you tell us if we'll be the back yourself. So have something prepared. What is that? A prepared statement, this is my knife. Is that the blade? Wow, blade really gets eat into, doesn't it? Yeah. That looks different. The blade is only two pieces. You're complaining about having to glue letters on letters and then glue them down. So I tried to take it down a notch. I usually don't like doing this. I usually don't like cutting into the other object like that. Nope, he'll put a 72 layer. Oh, just glue, yep. Well, that's another layer. Didn't I see you had blackout? Yes. What's Christian's hand? I was... I was... I don't know, he was what? Now I've got lost. And again, they needed to match others to your level. Needed to Mr. Crafty Pants or someone else at your level. Oh, on the thing today, yeah. Who was watching him? Were you watching it today? Yeah, Christian was there. Oh, he's saying they needed somebody on our level. Well, that's funny. Madonna, Whitney Houston. Is that what it was? That's funny, that's what Tanner said too. Tanner said that. I was like, oh, thanks Tanner. All good things, all good things. All good things. I checked out somebody else. I'm getting a couple votes. I think you might have to do maps tonight. Oh, maps. If you can do it quick, because there's more and more votes on maps. Man, I can do maps in minutes. I could do maps with my eyes closed. It's because they're 3D and I read them like Braille. What are you doing? Are you painting? Yeah, I'm painting over here on top of the... He's over there painting over by the laser. I'm out of room over there. So, do you guys check out any other... Eddie says I was late, but you can start the show now. Thanks Eddie. What is... What is up? Welcome back. Eddie, do you like to do a builder to make it? So do we. We have new videos each week. Every Tuesday and Friday. Let's get this party started. Eddie, you know what I realized lately? I was like, in my late 40s, when I realized not everybody had crazy Eddie. I saw him on YouTube. Didn't we talk about crazy Eddie once before? Yeah, you didn't know who he was, yeah. Well, I know you and I have, but I mean... His prices are insane. Is that New Jersey? Yeah, it was New Jersey. Yeah, so we talked about the goat eyes. I was more of a city mouse. I grew up in New Jersey, mainly, and I didn't see any goats. I don't think I saw a real live goat until I was an adult with children. Somebody asked if I was going to woodgrain back here. Oh. Why are you asking me? Because I'll be woodgraining it? Yeah, because you're a good wood grainer. I'm a grainer. What do you think? I've been a grainer for a while now. What color? What color would I do it? Oh, I would say dark. Come in with a dark color. You're driving after this. We're not going anywhere. I live here. Let's see. Oh, you got another vote. Sheila votes on the maps. I voted for the maps. Bonnie says I love the woodgrain. How do you chew, Bonnie? I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map. I think I need a little, just a little bit of paint on this brush, but not a lot. On what brush? This roller here. I just don't have, I don't have that much in my little, my little container here. You know, I got it all over everything. Rex and Regina. Cool name. Rex and Regina. You guys are together just because it goes like that, right? Right? Rex and Regina, Regina and Rex. Soon as you met me, Rex. Soon as you met me, you were like, I guess we're getting married. I guess that's it. We're getting married now. Rex and Regina, Regina and Rex. Sorry, guys. I enjoyed it. Anyway, they want to know when our paints will be out for sale. We're trying to do the labels now. Yes. Everything is here. Everything is ready to go with the exception of printing labels. We have the label design. I don't know the best place to get labels. Who wants to come do a bottling party? Well, we're going to start doing some giveaways. As soon as we're going to do like a fall paint set giveaway. Yeah. We're going to do some more fun things. Careful. You're careful. What's happening over there? Oh, here I got you. Whoa, whoa. This is blasting. It is blasting. Ready? No. Oh, just tore my rotator cuff. Okay, stop. I don't want mine to look like yours. What does this mean? You know what it means. Wow. Actually, it was the perfect amount of paint. Good job. Yeah, you're welcome. We'll watch. Watch her. Hello. Hello now. Watch yourself. Just needed one more. That was like a third coat. I think that first one was really thin. This is a new roller too. Yeah, need me to prime. Gotta prime it. Thanks, Lois. People watching. Smash that like button. Yeah, hit that red button. Thanks for joining us. Hey, here we got scraper tool. Coming to hang out. Of course I do.  I was really getting you a big scraper tool. Is that a blemish? And I need one little bit of black again because I made a mess. You should sell the paint already in the FIFO bottles. Eddie, we had that thought. But the problem is there's no like cap for FIFO bottles. So how do you ship it without it oozing out everywhere? Well, that and it would increase the price. I think we should do some that are near FIFO bottles. Well, I'll tell you what we wanted to do. You know like a upside down lotion bottle. Do I have anything like that right now? That I could show you. That's what I wanted to package our paints in. Yeah. But we're kind of a, we're small fish and I don't have the buying power. Well, first of all, I couldn't find them anywhere that we, for any of the like small retailers. Those are a little pricey right now. I had to order like 500 of each size. Yeah, we have we have different, as the paints grow, hopefully they grow, things grow and things, we sell enough paints. We know we want to do, our logo is going to be more of a black, white, and gray. We know we want to add color because it has a fox tail on it. And the fox tail has a drip, a paint drip at the end. And we want to cut that out so you can see the color of the jar, the paint through the little drip.  It's coming from this, get yourself a new It's coming from inside the bag! Yes. Just get a new, there you go, and I roll it quick, quick. No, I mean like, if you don't get it now it's going to forever be what? You're going to have a hard time covering that hole. You're going to have a hard time covering that hole. Oh gosh. So, and then what else do we have? We have, we know we want to do the label and color. The label and die cut. We know we want to change the container type but I can't do that yet. Iterations, Kim. Iterations. That's um, phase two, phase three, phase four. This is how you do it without going in debt. You make it pay for itself and do it in increments. You don't, you don't upgrade until it's already paying for itself. So I'm going to go get the wood grain tool. I'm going to show you guys what this would look like. So it would look like this. And that's nice. With our little, this is a little bit wet. Can you go overhead? I'm going to show you. Everything's still a little bit wet. So I wouldn't put it together quite yet. But this is what it looks like without wood grain. Oh, let me put the word fall on there. Hello. And I think that's quick and easy. And that looks nice. I think that'll sell. And before anybody asks about the font. It's a modified font. It doesn't exist. Well, he did the tails and we stretched it a little. Those are touching. Yeah.  What do you think? Would it be too matchy? Too matchy? I think you come in with that Dorian gray. Because it's got a gray, but with a hint of brown in it. This? What do you guys think? I think this should have been the back right now that I see it. I think it'll give it that wash look. I think, should I change this? To the Dorian gray? Yeah. It'll give it that paint. Well, I mean, it's fine. It's okay. But there's nothing exciting about it. Ooh, let's make it exciting. Exciting and new. On the board. We're expecting you. Alright, let me go grab Let's do this somewhere. The wood green tool. I think it's on the front table. Yeah, it's on the workshop last. Oh, so anybody catch any of the other speakers this week for the laser craft fest? I haven't had time. I was planning on it, but we have been back to back craft shows. Back to back to back to back craft shows we got coming up. So I've been busy trying to catch up on the store. That's been busy. So it's just I haven't had time to watch my YouTube's Oh, the sweet tea. Oh, there you go. That's my jam. I do a gallon a day. I usually have some kind of YouTube's playing like all day, every day and I go to sleep to it. That way I think about that and not all the stuff I have to do. I've barely been at my desk. Yes, Helen you are welcome for separating the knife pieces. I also like to spray the knife pieces. Kim says it doesn't need it. But I like to give it that good silver color. Try to get it almost shiny. I will give it two or three coats. Oh, John Kay. I'll have to check out John Kay working with the leather. I want to do more leather stuff. I can't think of any leather things to make. Oh, somebody asked about leather. I was just asking if anybody's checked out anybody else in the laser craft fest that Christian was talking about. John Kay. Yes, I saw that one. I was looking to go check that one out myself. Find the wood green tool. I don't know. Tanners look for it as well. We can't... I saw it. Are you dancing? Is this the tool you're looking for? Yes. Tanner, you found it. Where did you... I'm a good looker, Kim. I brought it right here. On the bottom shelf? I brought this little guy. Do you think... Yeah, I can do it. I can do the bottom one on the top. Two different... They look like they're two different woods. I don't think I want that. I don't think I really look like it's two different woods. I mean, it's just semi-circles. This looks like it's got a little... somehow it got glue on itself. On itself. It did it. It did it. Stop playing in the glue. I don't know how many times I told that tool to stay out of the glue. All right. We do have to think about wrapping things up. It's five o'clock now. It's beaker o'clock. What color are you using here? You're doing that for no reason. I got this here. Let me put a little of this. We're going to switch it up a little. Let's give it a try. I'm just wasting your time. Wasting my time. Mine won't take any time to glue together though. Because you... Mine will come together. All right. The trick about woodgraining is you got to be kind of quick about it. You want to keep the paint wet. You ready? Yeah. I'm ready. You ready? No? All right. Okay. Go for it. I don't love it. No? Let me try again. I want to need a little more pressure. Okay. Skipping on me. Okay. Get the top part there. Can't leave that hanging. Don't leave me hanging. What do you think? Now what are you doing? Why won't you just... Don't hand it to me. You can fix it. Oh, now what are you doing? I'm going to try to come back the other way. Here. Quick. Get it wet again. What do you think about that? I think that's better. Better. I think it needed to be darker behind it for this light thing. For this light stuff. It might be right there. I think we needed a bigger contrast. Watch my hands. I'm going to get into my crafts. I like it. It looks good. It's working. I'm feeling it. You feeling it? I am. How am I even? You know what? You might let it dry and I give it a little grain of little sand. Shoot. A little sand. Just give it a little distressing when it's done. Alright. Well, that's drying. I can add my glue on my letters here. Mine is not dry. I wonder why. What, Kim? That hurts. Why? Because I needed to do four coats of white on this jam. It needs to look... Christian said that John... J. Jingleheimersman? K. is a great presenter. Check out his workshop during the laser craft festival. He's on the K&G level. Oh, cool. Let's go check him out. Yes, by the by. Why aren't...  Definitely go out there and join or hashtag... Is it under a hand? I think it's under a hand. Join a hashtag... Shoot. What am I trying to say?  Kim and Garrett make a Facebook group. And hashtag it... Hashtag it. Hashtag it. Made it Monday so that we can get you guys entered to win a gift card to our store. So you can make yourself buy yourself something nice. Even if it's just some desktop laser boards. Can I have some glue please? This week's winner was Helen. Helen. And her little cool goat sign.  Don't you have glue over there? No, there's no glue over here. Stop. Just give me some glue, babe. Why are you trying to hold out on it? Don't have it. Those are empty. If you had looked for some glue, you found some glue. Saboteur. I'm over it. I don't feel like you were looking for your own glue. I couldn't reach the glue. I was looking at those empty ones. I was speaking to Saboteur. Where's Jason? He should be there tonight, probably. Depending upon what sports he's got going on. Look, I'm going to say it again. I mentioned it last week. This is a two ounce bottle of Starbond. Which means we were out of the 16 ounces for a minute so we were using the two ounce bottles. They're so hard to squeeze. If anybody has had to deal with that and you're like, I don't like this Starbond. It's so hard to squeeze. Definitely consider moving up to a 16 ounce bottle. The little bottles that come with it are so much easier to squeeze. This is so hard to squeeze. Say squeeze again. It's hard to squeeze. Not easy to squeeze. It's sort of easy-squeezy. The juice is worth the squeeze. It's just hard to do it. It's just hard to squeeze the juice. Yeah. All right. Here we are at a waiting point. Garrett's is still super wet because he puts so much. Do you want to take it to the other room? Take it to the other room. No. Just then take it to the other limits. One more time. Now you guys can't see it. I'm thinking the overhead, I need one more coat of that Dorian Gray and I was debating on whether I wanted to put it on there, but I have decided I am love this color. It is just beautiful to me. This is my favorite color out of the pack. It's baggy again. There we go. Last coat. I'm going to let that dry a moment. But I do think after not loving the way this turned out wood grading, I think it was the right thing to do. It really did add a little something to the sign. I needed it. Oh, look. What are you going to do about that? Use a paint brush. It's distressed. I got a message. Don't glue yet. I'll say you just sand it a little bit. Wait, you have some unpainted. Where? Right here? Are you guys talking about right here? Is that where you're talking about? What are we going to do about that? Oh, this is wet. Also, have you noticed that once you touch the glue together, it activates the glue and now you can no longer breathe if you try to smell it? What am I going to do about that? About what? This that doesn't have any wood glue in it. I'm telling you, hit it with a little bit of sandpaper. Make it look a little more distressed. I'm going to see that with the wood green, I can't really see where the line is now. It's right here. I think I got it. Dab Kim dab. I didn't think it needed a dab. All are so funny throwing my own words back at me. How about that? Did I get it? Ventilation is important. Once this... Or is it? This is sticking up a little on my paints too wet to push on it. I'll fix that later. I'll fix you. Yeah, it's top and bottom. The brown doesn't have the wood greening. Right here. It is wood green. I see what you guys are talking about this right here. It's there. You just can't see it from a distance. You see? A little hard to see. Oh, man. What am I going to do about that? Should I add a little? Yeah, yeah. The glue time is quiet. Wow. And I'm fixing. I'm repairing. Are you guys thinking of yourself? Don't do it. I can't do it. I'm just going to have to leave it like that. A little dry brush will fix that. Yeah, good. Everybody say good job team. It takes a village. So funny during a workshop when people kind of mess up their signs and they're like, oh no. That's it. Yeah, they too ruined it. And I'm like, no, I'll help you. I'm a magician. Yes.  I can really tell this is not your first time doing this. I'm like, oh yeah. I've messed it up. We've had tons of people in here doing these signs. Always. We're pretty good at being signed doctors. I'm a doctor. You guys are going to have to give me your vote on whether you like this color or the other color schemes. Did we take it to the next level? Yeah. Or did we belly flop? Or did I mess it up? Test cut Tuesday. Test cut Tuesday. Look, I'm going to tell you guys something. You're getting a Garrett secret. Which is going to be nothing. Don't get excited. I do these lives because I enjoy talking to you guys. But they do not help us at all. Yeah, this is what he complains about. We always lose subscribers. Last week we lost four subscribers. I don't know how.  They're so dumb. All right, what do you guys think? Is it better? Are you done? Yeah, I think I'm done. This needs to come down a little bit. I see the board is just a little bit warped. Warped boards. And he says add wood green to the knife to make it Damascus. Oh, you know what? I'll make the knife teal. But I do like it. I kind of done that through the... Oh, I like how the handle is brown. I'm going to make it teal. Like I got the knife from Target. The blood drips look awesome. Let me see. Yeah, they do. The hands are included where the fingers are. Well, most of them. Shouldn't the black part of the knife be silver? What is that? You mean in here? Those are holes. Oh, I guess they could be silver. Like the little rivets that hold it down to the... I like the color. Makes the leaves pop. There's no leaves on this side. Totally not season one anymore. Code the knife in acrylic to make it look like plastic. Yes. For that target look. Yes. For the target look, yes. They like the leaves. I'm missing my dot. And I saw the dot and I was like, huh. There's no dot here. I threw it away. The dot in my exclamation. Exclamation. Here's an apostrophe. Is that an apostrophe? No? Yeah. Well, no, that's an eye dot. Hold on. I'll get something to use. Do you want me to help you put glue? Absolutely. Let's get this party started. Finished. Let's get this party finished. Why, is Eddie leaving? Eddie's headed out. He's got to go. There you go. Thanks. How many thumbs does this guy have? Four. Is it dog? Is there a hole in the E in hello? Yes. You probably can't see it from there. It's hard to see. I can clearly see it, but there it is. Maybe you can see it. I tilt it just right. Maybe we have to make that a little bit wider. Like from here I can really see it. But from there I can't. Yeah. I can make it wider. What does it say? Let's talk about serial killers. I used to be a serial killer. I used to drop a plug for the dog. He told me some Captain Crunch. He said they would tear up the roof of my mouth. Kill a box of serial. Hey, who's seen the movie Hackers? Eddie says I'm stuck in traffic in Orlando. Ugh. That sounds horrible. I think I paid a lot. It's a best seller year round. True crime fans love it. Yeah, it is a best seller. People, I mean, we sold it for Halloween. Eddie just walks up. Oh, this is perfect for so and so. This is perfect for so and so. And I'm just, like you said, all year round. Doesn't matter what show I'm at. The words nesting in the blood drips look great. And Christians say the same thing. Love the way the font nests into the blood now. Those individual letters were a fiddly pain. Ooh, were they? I had to do them. And that's why I was like, I'm up with a good placement for the knife so that I would get a clean cut and I wouldn't have more than two pieces of the knife. I wanted one piece of the knife, two at the most, so I settled for the L in the middle. The middle of the L, but I wasn't going to try to put together that one with all the 26 letters. So much easier. Chris says my maple syrup making hubby says he's never seen a blue maple leaf LOL. I'll make one with light green to make him happy. Well that leaf is super cold. We debated on doing it with Garden Spot. Woo, there we go. But I decided to go with trying to keep the colors trendy. Open up the E a little. Yeah, because overhead it's really hard to see how you can see that. We can see it just fine. Yeah, I can open the E up a little bit. Give it some expanse. Everyday life with the Benson says idea, it would be nice to see what ribbons you would use. That's Charlie and Louise. Oh, hey, you know what? Maybe next Tuesday it's a tie on Tuesday where we'll do all the ribbons in the craft show. Well, if we get it done in time, I could actually make a ribbon and then when I'm done I just slap it on real quick. I could prepare a ribbon in advance. Ooh, pre-ribboned. Oh, Shannon's here. Shannon, better late than never. Coming in on two wheels. Coming in hot. This is what we're working with. Is it fall crooked? The F? No, same as score marks. It's a sign off. No. All right, so verdict. You think it's easier? Oh, definitely easier. Yeah, I'm going to do something about these drips. Because I think I'm going to make it the blood kind of pool at the bottom and then pool at the bottom here. So these will be like two pieces instead of eight. Where's your pool? Down here. Where it pools at the rim. I'll have it pool at the rim a little bit. So then it will pool at the bottom of the rim too. Oh, they could all be. To go back into drips. Okay, I like that. Make it even easier. And I want to connect this pinky over here to something. I don't think I want to connect the thumbs. All right, season one. Season whatever we are. Four. Twenty three. Season four. Four. Season four. Yeah, season four. Do we start doing craft shows in 2018 or 2019? 2019 right before the... Yes, 2019. So season four. We came back. We came back and I hopefully made it better. You can't even see that says A. Right, can't even see it. Level up. Level up. Something different. All right. I'm taking everything out. Yeah, that's right. Take them out. All right. Well, you know what? Kim's got stuff to take out. I got to go find something to eat. You got to go make some dinner because it's taco Tuesday. And we will see you on Friday where we're doing something, a rush job. We got a rush job today. Yeah, so we're a little out of time this week. We're getting real crunched up with craft shows season. The biggest show of the year is coming up in three weeks and we have our friends say they sell between 10 and $13,000 at this show. They sold up to $18,000 at this show and we don't have nearly enough inventory for $10,000 worth of merchandise. And we just got some wedding gift things that we need to engrave today. They want to be picked up on Friday. Well, this was a custom order that was supposed to, her stuff came in late and she's like can you still do it for Saturday? And I was like yeah, so I was just going to do it tonight and she said you know what, we're going to make that our video and it'll be kind of a quick and easy video for us. We can keep painting, get a video done. It's like how to do batch processing. Yeah. We got like 30 spoons to engrave. So I figured that's a good one. Okay, for real. Sorry. I got to go get something to eat. You did this already. All right. I will see you guys on Friday. I will see some of you tonight. I will see you guys tonight. Yeah. We'll start with maps and see where it takes us. Where the journey takes us.