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Chapter 1: What is the email that sparked this story?
But today, instead of having Thornberry, we brought somebody who's actually taller than average. So we just kind of inverted everything. This is our buddy Brian. We met him at Blobfest last year. Turns out he actually had sent us an email forever ago about a weird experience he had in the woods.
And I was like, hey, if I don't have Thornbussy, then I might as well bring on Brian to explain his weird experience in the woods. Because I remember looking at it and reading this email. And it was... I remember saying to Thornberry, this looks like it's too well-written to be a real thing. This is a creepypasta. As we eventually found out, it wasn't.
And I also never responded to that email, which hurt Ryan's feelings. It hurt my feelings a lot. So that felt like this was restitution. Bring him on, have him tell his story. And I know we're being goofy and the show's been pretty goofy lately, but this is a real thing that happened. So I'm going to have him tell that story.
But before we get started, obviously to protect his identity, he's wearing pit vipers.
Yes, I wanted to look like the dad you'd avoid at every baseball game ever.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
So I'm going to adjust the camera a little bit. To no where. We're going to... He's going to take them off.
He's a real guy. He's not that weird looking. Yeah, I'm not that weird looking. I'm just adjusting cameras and stuff because I'm neurotic. Anyway, the fun part about this story, I think... I'm going to see if I can pop it up because I think I have it set up to do this. Ah, wrong screen. Well, that's unfortunate. It wouldn't be the Lore Lodge without technical difficulties.
Anyway, so this right here is near where we live. I'm not going to show you exactly where we live, but it's pretty close. This state game lands right here is where everything went down. Ryan says it was around this spot right here specifically. To give you an idea of where that is, we live vaguely over here. That's actually not my proper correct address, just so you guys know.
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Chapter 2: What creepy experience did Brian have in the woods?
Chapter 3: What makes the location of the story significant?
I would think you can probably produce a... Oh, yeah, we'll make someone. I mean, I'm a Giants fan, so someone like JPP Sands blowing their fingers off, but, you know, well, okay, maybe they might blow their fingers off. Hopefully not. I think you know more about gun safety than that. I do. Do you know that story? Okay, well, yeah. No fireworks, dude. He was playing with fireworks.
Oh, it was fireworks? Yeah, he was playing with fireworks on July 4th, and he blew his fingers off like an idiot, and he had to wear a glove on his arm, and it looked cool, but, I mean, he still blew his fingers off.
This is why the Giants have not sniffed a championship in many years. How many Super Bowls have you been to in the last 25 years? Less than us, which is shocking. It is shocking. That's upsetting. But you need to give us the next Lane Johnson. We need that. We don't know where he is. He's somewhere in college at the moment. Or potentially high school.
I don't know how long Lane Johnson is going for. But anyway, point is, you were bow hunting?
I was bow hunting early season. Late September, first week of October. And it was...
uh won't we just get into it then uh i mean yeah that's yeah first of all if you want to explain why bow hunting season and gun hunting season are different i think that's a lot of people don't necessarily have yeah yeah so in pennsylvania uh bow hunting starts around september and also really quickly just because people are chatting this is live this isn't back live
I have not acknowledged Super Chats yet. They are over there. I see them. They are coming through. Duo, let me check and see about yours. I don't see it in here, so you might have a word in there that YouTube is flagging. But this is probably going to be a shorter episode. We're going to probably start taking Super Chats around 7.30, 7.45, depending on how long things go. So just be aware of that.
So probably won't take any Super Chats submitted after 7.30. Mods, if you're in there, if you could please remind people of that periodically. Thank you.
Anyway, tell us the story. Yeah, so with Pennsylvania, bow hunting starts earlier than rifle hunting. And for the area that I'm in, that's around September. And you get out early. Before that, you do all this scouting and stuff. And this was a tiny little game land that was kind of...
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Chapter 4: How do hunting seasons differ in Pennsylvania?
Oh, yeah, because we're right by the runoff over there. There's a lot of weird water over there. But, yeah, so it was a super yellow spot of water.
Oh, yeah, algal blooms, all that kind of good thing. But here's the thing. A lot of people in the chat are like, oh, maybe it was a mountain lion. I need you guys to understand something. I'm going to show you the area again. This is where all of this happened. This is about a square mile and a half of game lands that is ringed on three sides.
It's a peninsula ringed on three sides by the Schuylkill River. Schuylkill River is not a creek. It is deep. It runs fast. You can cross that. Most animals probably wouldn't cross it there. There are other places nearby that you can do it.
But the other thing is, if you look, Penrith Asylum over here, this is, for the most part, private property and not really used anymore, except around Halloween. There's a farm right up here. There are shops. There are residential neighborhoods. There's a golf course. Then over here, you got more residential, more golf courses. I mean, this is not Archie.
This is not middle of nowhere, Pennsylvania. This is not, you know, Archie. This is not getting out into the Appalachians when you get over towards Tuscarora. This isn't even Lancaster. This is... If you know what Cape Prussia is, it is a very, very, very densely populated suburb with a huge mall. So... Oh my god, you two, stop it. So point is, anywhere you look around this game... Stop it! Go!
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Chapter 5: What unusual creature did Brian encounter?
Out!
Out of the room! Go on! Go on! What? In the candy corn? Is that what they were fighting over? Of course it was. They love their candy corn. So the point is... There is a ton of residential area around here. This isn't the kind of place that a mountain lion is going to hang out. Not the kind of place a bear is going to hang out. All of that is miles West and miles North, not even South and East.
No, nothing for miles and miles and miles and miles. So the fact that something was right in here is, Utterly bizarre, if it's a natural apex predator. And then you consider the fact that Pennhurst was over here, and that there's this creepy algal bloom, and that there's a nuclear plant.
It really does, looking at it from perspective, it now looks like such a weird spot that weird things have to happen in. You know what I mean? You've got the nuke plant, you have... The insane asylum, and around an area that's super, super old, where people have been for a long time. Oh, yeah. And we have the empty industrial area right next to it, which is very eerie.
I mean, it's like... The thing that makes the most sense is, in fact, homeless person living out there, except for the part where... They must have been 80 feet tall.
Oh, yeah. And the other thing, too, is because it's so much residential there, the people, I mean, the road to access it, you're passing right by houses. And in this area, there's rules against using rifle calibers, so like .308, things like that. Because of the distances you are between residential properties, you could over-penetrate an animal or something and accidentally shoot. Yeah.
Into a house. So, you know, it's the families and the locals over there are I'm sure are keeping track of who's going in and who's going out of the game lands if they're causing any trouble or anything. So, you know, it just it was just so strange and it was so scary. It was so off putting. I just nothing ever felt quite like that. Did you ever go back? Yes. Yes.
I went back, uh, for small game, but during the daytime, cause there I was, it was like five in the morning and it was a clear day and I got to scope it out a little bit and nothing strange. It was very normal. It's a great spot. If you want to go dove and pheasant hunting, um,
The empty portions of the property on the back, that was probably, if anything, that's where someone would hole up, but I didn't see anybody or any evidence of people.
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Chapter 6: How do local legends impact perceptions of wildlife?
And so in this area, when it's rifle season, you can use buckshot and 12-gauge slugs. You cannot use a bottleneck cartridge.
Wait, so you can't even... So I understand they're not being able to use a rifle.
Mm-hmm.
Are you telling me that even on the bigger game lands, you can't use an actual rifle?
Chapter 7: What are the implications of urban wildlife encounters?
Yes. Very quickly, I'll tell you, very quickly, once we get out to 5C, this was in 5B, you get to use rifles. So, like, I guess we're on the map. I'm curious now. Oh, 5C is, oh, man, it kind of cuts in around Pottstown, down towards the left, towards New Holland. Okay, so. Yeah, so that's where 5C starts. Oh, near Reading? Yeah, yeah. Reading is like the center of 5C. Gotcha.
So you can use rifles. Yep. Out there, just not down here. Is it because of residential? Yeah, it's because there's so much residential. Gotcha. That makes sense. Damn. All right. Well, I still have no explanation. Yes. I want to go out there. I want to go out and see what we can see sometime. Take the GoPros. Like I said, I've done freaky stuff before.
We did in Jersey. Wow. But we got into a Greystone Asylum in New Jersey. We did the Gates of Hell in New Jersey. We did the Shades of Death Road, Clinton Road, all these kind of famous spots, you know, in high school growing up to go see all the spooky stuff. Never had an experience quite like this.
That's the crazy thing is when you go to all the, like, supposedly haunted places... And it's on some random tiny looking sign. All right, well, all of that, I think what we do now is I pull this over here. Actually, no, I pull this over there, and I put you over there, and I put this up there. This is so complicated. It's not that bad. I know, but I'm stupid.
But so now at 7.30, because again, Aiden Thornberry is not here, we're doing a nice short little episode tonight. We will probably not be able to get through any Super Chats that came in after right now. So obviously the ones from Duo and Eleanor we'll get to. But I'm just going to go through these ones. We'll have a nice short casual show tonight.
And then next week we'll have some fun with what we're going to be doing. So... Starting off, Telemachus and Rusted Valor. I see you guys have been members. 14 months. God damn, dude. And yes, we've been looking through about the editor stuff. We do have somebody local who we're looking at potentially bringing on. But if that doesn't work out, then we'll be going to the...
that side of things to the internet. Uh, and I will, I will let you guys know how that develops. Uh, telemarkets. Thank you for being a member for a month. Admiral Nelson said for four 99, thanks for the recommendation for the Anglican Catholic church found Holy Trinity and OB in San Diego. And I'm loving it. I'm glad I felt very, very at home in the, uh, the ACC. Yeah, go to church, man.
It's awesome. Yeah, he's a more traditional Roman Catholic. You know, what with his Irishness. Yeah, I know. Yeah, you know. I hate... You're not a Saints Catholic. Oh, good God. No. Me with my Welsh ancestry going and joining the Church of the Enemy. But I like it there. Dino Nuggies for $6.90. You guys with the specific numbers, I love it. The nice number. Graduated yesterday.
Thank you for all the videos and helping me get through high school. Well, I'm... Congratulations on graduating. That's an important step. And I'm glad we were able to provide entertainment through these years. Good luck in college if you are planning to attend, or in the trades if you are planning not to. Or whatever else you do. Or OnlyFans, I guess. Don't do that. Unless it's Feed.
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Chapter 8: What safety tips should hunters follow?
Oh, man, I love that.
Yeah, it's very, very simplified English. This is insane.
It's fascinating. 38, what did you say, 38.8 through 10? I can't read this. I'm too light-skinned to read this on the internet. It feels racist to look at this. I'm just gonna show you guys. You should show them. They need to know. Can you see it? Is it coming through for you? Oh, no. Oh, it's about... something. Oh. Oh, gosh. Ah. Oh, it's... Yeah. That's not good.
No, it's not. It's not good at all. Ah. Why would you ask me to do this?
They paid for it, man. They did. Who's each of your favorite Golden Girl and why?
Oh, man. I might forget all the Golden Girls right now.
I'll pull them off for you.
Thank you. That helps so much. I know. It's shameful that I don't know them. Oh, it's Sophia. Or Estelle. It's Sophia Petrillo. I mean, I gotta go with Betty White's character because Betty White's so... Sophia reminds me of my crazy grandmother, so it's perfect. How many times have you watched The Golden Girls? Enough.
Okay. It was on. It's funny. Sure it was. Duo said, we got Mountain Lion's Bay Area, I got a cyclist buddy who's seen one on the Chester Valley Trail a few years ago. Did he, though? Did he? Did he? Did he report it? I gotta look up where the Chester Valley Trail is in relation to where we're talking about here.
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