Susto Swap: Cryptid Cocktail Party (The Black Flash Of Provincetown)

0:24 A cool friends. It's me Adrian or Aiden. Either way, I am still your host, and you are still listening to Sustal, the podcast of paranormal folks or from Latin American cultures. And today you actually won't be listening to Sustal. I have a treat for you all. Today. We are featuring an episode from our friends Dave and Sarge over at Cryptid Cocktail Party. I just started listening to the show recently, and I am such a huge fan. I think if you're a fan of Sustal, then you're really gonna enjoy Cryptid Cocktail Party. David Sarge does such a great job at telling these stories. And I'm also just not gonna lie a big fan of of their personalities online, so make sure that you also follow them.

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1:44 Rod, Crag and got Crag. Joy Joy Joy Joy, sad. God old Now Lord. Welcome back, everyone to another episode of Crypto Cocktail Party, the show where we have a few drinks, share a few laughs, take a dive into the unknown. I'm your host Dave, joined as always by a wonderful co host, Sarge. How's it going, Sarge, I'm fucking amazing. Yeah, amazing. Yeah, that's a bold statement. It is.

2:29 It is bold, but I'm gonna stick. With it, all right. You better have some fucking reasons to back that up. Ah well, I mean, in light of recent events, I think we can all be very excited about the fact that they may have found some really definitive proofs of the life on Mars. Oh oh, yeah, you sent me that. I didn't. I didn't watch it. I'm not gonna lie. That's okay. It's a long video, but the guy breaks it down really, really succinctly and kind of explains like why this is different from all those other times they thought maybe they found life somewhere. Basically, the crux of it is, like the evidence would be very easy to explain if it was caused by living organisms. It would be very difficult to explain if it wasn't caused by living organisms.

3:18 Okay, but I mean they said the same thing about like the moon, Like it's easier to explain it's easier to disprove the existence of the moon than it is to prove its existence. So you can't trust mainstream science, is all I'm saying, Sorrge. All right, yikes, have you ever gone outside at night? Yeah? In in in the big the big white orbit in the sky. What do you think that is? Hologram? I need a new podcast. Sorry, dude, my fucking ever since the incident, my fucking TikTok for you page has been so out of whack that all I'm seeing is all these crazy right wing people and it's I mean, it's melting my brain in a little bit.

4:00 But some of the incident what what what incident? Are you talking about? The pain in the neck. Let's move on, all right, Serge, I got an episode for us today. I think it's pretty good. It's you'll we're gonna be some familiar territory today. Uh you you might remember this topic from a while back. We we touched on it briefly, but I figured it kind of needed its own, its own full episode, if that makes sense. Sure, okay, are you ready to dive in? Also, I'm doing great, by the way, thanks for asking.

4:41 You know what, Dave, you know what that's on me. I'm a bad friend, and I'm sorry. Let's let's pause here. How are you doing? You already told me how you were doing. Your dog threw up. Yeah, that was before we started recording. I'm just fucking with you, all right. I am a bad friend. I'm a bad friend. Look, get it all right, go let's move on. Cape Cod in the summertime, Oh yes, what a place to be. Beaches, boat shoes, lobster rolls, and more sun burnt douchebags than a Trump rally. But once the season starts to change and the tourists go home, everything kind of shuts down, all right. The air gets cold, and the wind coming off the ocean turns a bit sharp.

5:25 And everyone starts doing meth. The streets go quiet, and towns that were once bright and alive just a few months earlier are now desolate and take on kind of like a whole different type of vibe. Yes, and in October of nineteen thirty nine, Provincetown, Massachusetts felt the vibe shift in a very real way. And it wasn't just the usual eerie off season vibe that normal that normally comes with the territory. People were whispering about something lurking in the dunes and creeping around the streets at night, something that could move faster than any human, leap over ten foot fences and disappear into the night without a trace. Some say it had glowing eyes, others say blue fire. And by Halloween, Provincetown wasn't just uneasy, it was in a full blown state of panic. So today, Sarge, we're going to be revisiting one of the very first topics I ever talked to you about, the Devil of the Dunes a k a. The Black Flash of Provincetown.

6:15 Do you remember this one? Wow? Yes, you know from your description, I thought you were just describing like a very committed drag queen. Well, uh, she was just giving like really good face the whole time. All right, So what do you What do you remember about the story? I famously don't remember much. This is over, Like, this is over, like a year and a half ago. We did this. This is this is you. You weren't even the host yet, you were just a guest when we talked about this one. Yeah, it because we was just a short episode, right, because we were just covering a bunch of different things. Then we covered like two or three in that one.

6:57 Shit, all I really remember were the angry villagers. But that's like a normal cryptid scenario. Yeah, and I think there were just a lot of sightings. H I don't recall it doing anything violent. Kind of well, you know what, Okay, why don't we get into it. Let's do it. Let's get into it, all right. So whispers of the Flash actually started the year before that, like the real panic set in sometime in late nineteen thirty eight, a group of school kids claim that they saw a strange man out near the dunes. They described this figure as being dressed head to toe in black, with a long cape and hood. Some of them swore that his eyes glowed in the dark. And if you even said that, they noticed he had long, shiny silver ears sticking out from his head. Now, because children are stupid and nothing they say should ever be taken seriously, most of the adults brush this story off as nothing more than overactive imaginations. I mean, I get it, it was the off season, it's quieter, it's colder, getting dark out. Earlier, they thought the kids were bound to end up spooking themselves walking home from school anyways, because that shit probably happens every year around.

8:01 It's a spooky fucking place in the winter time, I believe it. I don't think I've ever been. I've been, and it's it's just very haunting. It's like a dystopian movie. Yeah. The other thing, I mean, do you watch American horror story at all? Yeah, I've watched some. There was a season where it was like a season that was like split in two. One took place like on the Cape during the off season, and like a bunch of vampires. It is kind of an eerie vibe maybe that eerie. Place, yeah, winter, so that would be actually a great setting for a horror movie. Yeah. And then the other half of the season I think was like Valiant Thor or something like similar to it. It was weird, Yeah, but been in October of nineteen thirty nine, the story's got a little harder to ignore because one night, a young woman by the name of Marie A Costa was walking past town Hall when she noticed a figure standing in the shadows. She described it as inhumanly tall cloaks, all in black, with glowing eyes and the same silver ears that the kid had mentioned, And before she even had a chance to like react or even really like acknowledge what she was seeing, it leapt out at her while emitting a strange like buzzing like growl. I don't know what that would have sounded like to me. It's probably like a cicada sound right, Maybe I don't know. Either way, it sounds not great.

9:18 So rightfully terrified, Maria booked it into a nearby cafe, screaming for help. Now, lucky for her, the cafe just happened to be filled with whatever the nineteen thirties version of quote unquote good guys with guns are, and they rushed outside to search the street, but whatever whatever had jumped out at her was already gone by them. So now this wasn't just like kids with overactive imaginations. Whatever Maria encountered was real enough to shake her to record, and everyone who winister come into that cafe that night they noticed it. So now for the first time, the adults of Pee Town had to like seriously consider that maybe there's a giant glowing eye demon elf prowling the reads at night.

10:01 So this woman, this woman was walking down the street and saw this horrifying creature. I don't. I don't think she saw it like it was in the shadows like. I don't think she really got like until like it really jumped out of her that she got the good look at it. I might have written that weird. Okay, So but like first she was afraid. She was petrified. Yeah, say that it was the first drag show ever. That's what it was. So she just didn't know what to. Expect real quick. I keep saying Providence when I mean Provincetown.

10:42 So if you hear me say the Black Flash of Providence, I really mean the Black Flash of Provincetown. I it's easy to mix up, guys, leave me alone. Yes, yes, the origins of drag don't come from anything else, but the Black Flash of Providence. Not gonna lie. Black Clash of Providence. Not a bad drag name. That's a great drag name. Not bad. Also, the Devil of the Dunes also. Come on, that's like a burlesque show. I feel like there should be a drag show in p Town called Devils of the Dunes and it's all like a dark drag show. I like it a lot. No one steal this idea. If you're hearing this, pregar.

11:24 If you need directors, Dave and I will help two straight men directing a drag show. I mean, nothing could go wrong. It'd be fun. I feel like it would be hilarious. Yeah uh so. Yeah, so there's the people are taking it seriously now, and it only got worse from here. Like in the days that followed Maria Cossa's encounter, promised town went from quote these kids in their stories they should be in the textile factories where they. Belong to tiny hands fixing big machines. To oh, fuck, shit is getting real real quick. What had started out as like just like scattered rumors and one actual encounter that all snowballed into like an avalanche of shit. People were spotting the flash all over town and the details just kept getting weirder. Some claimed like they saw the flash sprinting through the yards in the West End, while minutes later other calls came in from the East End saying it goes over there now, which I feel goes without saying is physically impossible for the average person to do.

12:26 Yeah. Yeah, this thing was everywhere, all the time, all at once, which made everyone a little on edge. It could be anywhere at any time. That makes me uncomfortable. Yeah, parents kept their kids home from school. Everyone was locking their windows and doors, and almost no one was out and about after dark. It was it was pretty much like after sunset, like the already quiet town just got like a lot, a whole lot quieter. But that doesn't mean the encounter stop, because, like I said, almost no one went out after dark. Uh. For example, one night, a teenage boy ran the police station, tears in his eyes, swearing up and down. That's my Trump impression. It's really bad, sir, You're doing a great job as president, but there's a demon.

13:14 Tears in his eyes, swearing up and down. That the flash jumped out at him and spit blue flames in his face while he was walking home from the library. It's not funny, but it is. It's a little funny, others said they now. Others said they saw it grab a grab out a woman from an alley before disappearing into the night. Not like with the woman. That would be an even crazier story, carrying her off and in at least two separate instances, men who confronted the Flash were knocked right on their ass with a single blow, with one of the men waking up the next morning to find a red hand shaped welt on his face, kind of like Chris Rock the morning after the Oscars.

13:56 Very similar scenario. Bitch slapped hard, dude, he fucking knocked down to the next boarding. The other man got a lap dance to share to a share song. So so so far we got spitting blue flames into the faces of children, grabbing at woman and open palm slapping dudes on the street. Now, from some of the things we cover, that's pretty tame behavior. It's also very much like a drag show. You really aren't getting very far away from a drag show at all. Well, them drag shows may come up later, okay, all right, But soon the encounters became a little more violent. And it's here that we get into Sarge's favorite part of any story, Americans exercising their Second Amendment right to blind finely fire at things they don't understand. Am I wrong?

14:54 It's my favorite part every time we do one of these shows. My favorite part is always when the villagers get armed. So nothing like irresponsible Americans with a firearm. So a local farmer, Charles Farley claimed that he spotted the flash skulking around his fenced in backyard. So Charlie, not one to hesitate when it comes to trespassers, grabbed his shotgun, flung open his door, and fired point blank into this motherfucker. There you go, but to. Chuck surprise instead of like just crumpling into an absolute pile. The creature just laughed this horrible, like distorted laugh that he said quote cut straight through his skull. Then, in a single bound, the Flash hopped over the eight foot fence and then just disappeared into the night. Now, Farley swore he couldn't have missed from the distance he fired at.

15:45 And I assume he's speaking from experience. I'm sure this dude has probably marked a few vagrants in his time. Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. There's there's a lot of symbols on his fence out front, warning the other hoboes that there's a man with a gun. Yeah, he claimed it was like the thing was bulletproof or somehow not entirely human. But this is nothing compared to what went down not long after or before. I'm not entirely sure of the timeline. Some of them get a little bit murky. It doesn't matter because one one night the police got multiple calls from some concerned citizens that the flash was lurking down near the local school playground. Like that you can't have you can't have that, yeah. So four officers responded, all armed with pistols and flashlights that already Now, the playground, it is important to note, is surrounded by a ten foot high fence, so there's really no way in or out unless you come in through like the main gate. So they thought that if they could just get in there and corner it like this whole ordeal would finally be over. So the four officers went to the playground, spread out and began sweeping the playground with their flashlights. Now, for a moment, everything was silent. Then they heard that same inhuman laugh echoing across the playground. They all shown their flashlights in the direction of the laugh, and there in the corner was the flat just like just watching them.

17:04 Yeah, they shouted out, it's not good. No, I don't like it. They shouted at it to freeze like the whole like hands were consume. I assume I don't know what cops were like back then. Get over here. But instead of complying with the lawful order. It tilted its head back and let out another mocking guttural laugh before making its move at them. The officers responded by opening fire empty emptying their pistols into this thing. But it didn't go down. I mean, some shots may have missed in its chaos, but at least some of them had to have hit, I assume. But still it just kept moving. Then, in a single impossible leap, the flash cleared the ten foot tall fence, landed on the other side, and just like the other encounters, vanished into the night Jesus. Afterwards, one of the officers, Francis Marshall, gave a statement about what he saw. He admitted the creature wasn't quite as impossibly tall as some people have claimed. That it was definitely above average hype, but more.

18:06 Drag queens usually are, but more important heels. We're gonna get canceled for you bringing up drag queens this much. I'm celebrating them. I think this is fucking great. Literally, nothing that you've described so far has disproven the drag queen jumping over high fences, impossibly tall, extremely fast and nimble. Are they known for their vertical leap. I mean, I assume, I don't know, there's a lot of things that they need to be able to do, like splits. Yeah, and so I feel like they should have pretty good like strength. Right, I guess, I don't know.

18:49 We'll go, we'll find out. Yeah. But more importantly, he swore that close up he saw that its face quote unquote wasn't a face at all, and not like in like a demond way. It looked more like a metal mask, possibly even like an old flower sifter being used as a mask, with like the mesh over the face and then two long handles sticking up like point of ears. Which okay, yeah, which might Yeah, I know, I know what you mean. Now when you said flower sifter, at first, I was like, what the fuck is this? Like, like thought it was like a gardening tool, No, like like a flower like yeah yeah, No, now I know, like a like a fencing mask. Kind of yeah, pretty much okay, And so this might explain the reports of the long silver ears and earlier sightings, but this is just one guy's opinion, and even if it was just a shorter, tall man wearing a mask, it didn't really explain how anyone could move like the Flash did, or how he was able to shrug off a shotgun blast to the chest like it was a fucking mosquito bite. Like yeah, yeah, So now at this point, the town is in chaos. Some people are now armed and patrolling their streets. The police are chasing reports left and right, and the Flash seemed to always kind of be just like one step ahead of everyone. And then so what went from like a kid's story has now turned into pretty much a full on public safety crisis.

20:10 Yeah. Well that's because everyone keeps opening their door and just firing into the night. Yeah, you got people fucking just shooting, willy nilly, people roaming their blocks to make sure it's safe. And then now the police are fucking stretched in because they're running all over town trying to find this fucking phantom. While dodging gunfire. So the police are completely overwhelmed, and the Provincetown Police Chief, Anthony P. Tarver's was starting to feel the pressure. People wanted answers, they wanted to rest, but most importantly, they just people just wanted to feel safe again. They wanted to be able to go outside at night. So he just started grasping at straws to try and figure this whole thing out. Like, for instance, on October twenty sixth, he brought three local youths into the station for questioning. Now, these weren't just like three random kids, like you didn't like open the door of the station, go you, you, and you come here.

21:01 No, he found them walking down the street, one on top of the other wearing a giant trench coat. Yeah. Uh No, these kids were like, they're like known troublemakers in the area. Like one was a tall high school track star and hurdler names nickname Stretch, uh. Which is it's the greatest nickname, but it's so obvious for a tall person, right, you know what? He might have been the first one, considering this was the nineteen thirties. Uh. The other was just another tall kid named Ford, And the third was a kid named I don't know if it's Rego or Reggo. It's r e g O. I'm gonna go REGI. Rego sounds fun.

21:44 I would say, yeah, Reggio sounds good. Yeah. Now, the chiefs theory was that if anyone in town could pull off a stunt like scaring people half to death and then leaping tall ass fences. It would be these boys again. One of them was a high school track star and hurdler, so he might have a pretty decent jump to him eye idea. So Travers began grilling them about the sightings, the attacks, anything related to the flash. He also questioned them about a string of mysterious arsons that I guess were also happening at the time, because of course there was something else going on, of course, But after hours of questioning, the boys denied everything, and with nothing really solid to hold them on, he had to let them go. So that went nowhere, but he didn't stop. So now Halloween is just a few days away, and the last thing the town needed was more chaos.

22:38 So Tavers came up with an idea, if you can't catch the pranksters, give them nowhere and no one to play with. Does that make sense a little bit? So, what are you like, kick everybody out of town? Everybody leave, You're close? He gathered them all into one location. Okay, so he organized a town wide Halloween party. It's kind of like a pressure valve, but also to kind of like very smart. Yeah, And on October thirty first, that party was bumping practically the entire town showed up. Hundreds of kids and adults packed in for nights of games, costume contests, and even an obstacle course. For some reason, I didn't get the details on what it would be.

23:21 I assume I had to be Halloween theme somehow, right, you know, unless this this is like a weird way of one of the things that maybe they met, like a corn maze. But I feel like you can't do that inside. That'd be hard, it'd be difficult. So they probably just did like bobbing for apples or well, this was like the nineteen thirty so it's probably like bobbing bobbing for cocaine because it was still. Legal medicinal cocaine, all right. So yeah, so the party's bump him. Everyone's having a good time. And as a little lighthearted fact in the story, a three year old boy named Manuel Jason Junior won the costume contest dressed as none other than the Black Flash. He had like a little tiny cape and glowing eyes. People loved it. It was like a little dark humor, I guess kind of maybe not dark humor, but I mean.

24:02 Nothing says New England like dressing up the thing that terrifies you the most. Yeah, and I feel like it probably helped the use the tension a bit. Yeah, you know. So with the event wrapping up, Tarvar's addressed the crowd and the present attendants directly and in front of everyone, declared, quote, as far as I'm concerned, the Black Flash is dead and gone. End quote. He then went on to tell the reporters that the whole thing was more than likely a prank gone too far by local teens, and that it was officially over now. He had absolutely no fucking reason to think this or say this and had nothing to back it up. He was just talking out of his ass. But it worked, like just just like that, the attacks stopped.

24:43 There was no more sightings, no more shootouts, no chaos. It's kind of like he read like the secret or something and just manifested it into being true. Nothing stops a bullet like saying it's just a prank, like I just. Don't understan out like he just like, yeah, it's over, and then it was and then it was over. Amazing, just incredible police work. But yeah, behind the scenes, nothing was ever officially solved, like, no one was arrested, there was no names giving, nothing, and by early November, Peatown began to finally breathe again, like families got their kids back outside, businesses reopened at night.

25:26 It was all normal until the fall of nineteen forty five, when the Flash decided he wanted to just check in, see how see everyone's holding up. You know, he heard the war was over. He wanted to swing back. Yeah. At first it started out the same as before, just whispers, you know, people swearing they'd seen something tall and cloak moving through the dunes, or a dark figure lurking in your backyards after sunset. And the sightings were pretty like few and far between, but enough to make people feel a bit uneasy, maybe trigger some right PTSD, you know, certainly, Yeah, and then things escalated. In early November, police received a report of a prowler at the old Bradford Street School, which by then had been abandoned. Officers responded and briefly sighted the figure. It matched the description from six years earlier, long, black cape, metallic quote unquote, silver ears, but like always, before they could close in, it leapt over the tall fence and vanished into the night.

26:24 Now the department went on full on hiler, fearing the return of the panic they'd worked so hard to bury, like they didn't want to have to deal with this shit again. Right, but the Flash did not care what they wanted, and for a few weeks there were scattered reports of the Black Flash being spotted near the edge of town, but nothing really concrete until one night in late December. That night, four children from the Jannered family, I think sure the Janner family were playing outside their home when they saw a massive, dark figure creeping towards them through the mist. The kids bolted inside, slammed the door, and locked it. Now, their parents weren't home, so they're just kind of inside being terrified by themselves, and right, the creature began pounding on the doors, rattling the doorknobs.

27:12 It was circling the house, and the children, scary, huddled together, terrified, and they were certain that this thing was going to get in. Yeah, Like, as a little kid, that's fucking terrifying. Yeah. But finally, thirteen year old Alan Janners decided they couldn't just sit there, and he was about to take some action, so he grabbed a bucket, filled it with boiling hot water from the stove, snuck upstairs, and then peering out a second story window. He caught the flash standing near the back door and just dumps the scolding hot water right on top of its heads. Oh shit, it was a home alone situation. Yeah, the figure let out this fucking guttural scream, it staggered backwards, and then it just fucked right off back into the mist. As folkloris Robert Cahill later quote, they saw him retreat through the backyard, a dripping black phantom, not looking half as fearsome as when he arrived, and quote.

28:11 Robert LSK. Hill is a legend. That guy has written so many stories about folklore New England. I've read a ton of his books. Oh but that's such a it's such a great description. But that seemed to do the trick. Apparently, if you just pour boiling hot water on someone, they just don't ever want to come back. And that was the last thing noted. Yeah the flash was ever seen again. Yeah, how you feel so far? Does any of this ring a bell from the first time we talked about it? Yeah? Yeah, I fucking love this story. I I don't even care if it's true, because I think it's just such a such like a a great setting because it closed down New England town in the summer to you know, in the fall when everybody's gone back home. Just it's so perfect. It's such a great setting.

28:59 Oh yeah, for sure. I love the story so much. It's so funny to me. And oh yeah, it's very new. Somebody in Provincetown needs to get on this and do like a tour. You live, mesters, is when do you reach out? I got them? Yeah, I'm sure you got you know someone in p town who might have some sort of connection to something. I don't, but I could, I could try. Okay, all right, sorry, are you ready to dive into some theories as to what the fuck the Flash could be? Yes, let's do it, all right. So first off is the prankster theory. It's the most straightforward explanation, and it was the one that Chief Tarvar's himself was trying to push back in nineteen thirty nine. And this is that the BlackFlash was just a handful of local pranksters. Travers claimed it was four young men working together, with one riding on another's shoulders under a long cape to create the illusion of towering height.

29:57 Did I call it? Did I call it? And the Silver Years again, those are just the handles of a flower sifter mass. So there was four kids, two were on each other's shoulders, but they were across town. Okay, so that's how like they were able to be spotted in so many different locations, you know, does that make sense? Yeah? Yeah, I just I'm still confused as to how that made them bulletproof. Oh yeah, it only explained the appearance. It doesn't really cover how it was bulletproof, able to spit fire or have a ten foot vertical leap. But yeah, that's also a problem because I don't even think I don't even think, like the greatest basketball players in history can jump that high. So I'd love to know that explanation.

30:41 You you don't You don't know that. You don't know that competent. That's a tough vertical leap. No, I mean, stretch was a legend. Exist what I'm saying, if anyone could do it as stretch, and he could do it with a kid on his back. Exactly exactly, stretch was supernaturally amazing. He was the Aaron Hernandez of his day. Later went on to become Larry Bird. Oh let alone fact. So I take back my Aaron Hernandez joke, then yeah, I should take. That back, all right, So they hit that out entirely. The next theory is the outsider theory. Some locals thought that the Flash wasn't from town at all, maybe like a leftover tourist or drifter who stayed behind after summer and promised town. It's always kind of been like a haven for artists, outsiders, and eccentric so it wasn't like a stretch to think that someone strange could be camping out in the dunes and scaring the townsfolk just for fun.

31:40 Yeah. Now, back then this theory even got mixed with prejudice. Unfortunately, a few whispered it might have been a man in drag or someone's from someone from Provincetown small, but at this time growing gay community. They were kind of like. One of them Italians. Yeah, they were kind of unfairly scapegoating drag queens in the gay community, labeling it was like the weirdo was haunting their streets. Petown wasn't always as open as yeah it's today, that's correct, And then you got the Devil of the Dunes of like, no, no, not everyone bought into the prankster ideas unbelieved or wanted to believe that the black Flash was something supernatural. Glowing eyes, guttural laugh, the way it shrugged off, shotgun blasts. Uh, it's it's hard to explain with just kids in costumes. So the name devil and the dunes stuck for suck around for a reason. And for a while there was there was like real fears that something otherworldly had come to Provincetown, especially when reports mentioned blue flames spinning from its mouth.

32:47 And then the last theory, and finally, probably the most realistic theory is one that it always comes back down to, is mass hysteria. Provincetown in the off season is isolated. It's eerie. There's long nights, empty streets. The wind is constantly howling through the dunes. Yeah, you add in real words stress like the looming war in Europe because this is right before. Or nineteen thirty nine, right, Yeah, and you got. Like the perfect recipe for fear, Like one weird encounter can spiral quickly, like a shadow becomes a monster, a prank becomes a town wide panic. And by the time the Janner kids boiled one off their back porch, the story you know, it was kind of growling. But yeah, so those are just some of the theories. What do you how do you what are you thinking?

33:37 I want this to be real so bad? Do you want to be a full on devil in the dunes type thing? Yes? Okay, However, I also love the drag queen angle, but not for the reason that they loved the drag queen angle. To me, it's like, this is a powerful athlete that is putting on one hell of a performance. Yeah, I can. I could fuck with that idea. Does that be so funny? Just living their best life? Like fucking with the with the straits? You know, sometimes you just gotta do that to us. Yeah, you gotta spook the normies. Oh ship? All right, Well that's all I got for you, man. I mean, I love the story. I love it even more because we went in depth. I want I want the devil to be real, but I also kind of love the idea of it being like just some dumb ass kid who thought he was like going to terrorize the whole neighborhood and doused with boiling water.

34:32 I feel like the second sighting had to have been like the first ones are harder to explain, but the second ones since they were like there wasn't really any real physical like attacks. Yeah that that time, it had to have been just someone fucking with the town, you know what I mean, Like. It could have been a mix of things too, like there might have been some one very real scary occurrence. Yeah, and then everybody just jumped onto it. It could be better. Yeah, the last the in nineteen forty five signings, I feel like we're more of a prankster. Yeah. That was probably a prankster I think, and somebody heard the story and was like, I'm gonna do that. Yeah, and some fucking thirteen year old kid just fucked that dude up, like.

35:12 Yeah, ruined his fucking day, like what. I feel like back then, no one probably would have thought to do it. But I wonder if, like if you would contacted like hospitals or a doctor's office of. Like any burn victims, Yeah, any any scolding victims come through here or like a missed opportunity. Really hey, because he was in the mist. I didn't think about that. But that's good, not bad. I'm good for doing it, all right, man. Well that's that's all I got. That was uh, yeah, we brought this up yesterday when we were talking to the I believe in the Bizarre people this story and that it dawned on me that we didn't really cover it in detail, and I wanted to go into it more because it's such a fun story. It's goofy, it's very spring heeled Jack. Ye kind of coded. I mean there were a theory.

36:02 I'm glad you. I'm glad you went into it because I now that I'm I remember the story. I want to go to Provincetown and see if like any of those places like have anything about it, you know, like see if there's a blaque somewhere. Maybe like there's like a historical society, there might be something. Yeah, you know, I don't know. I feel like a plaque is a little much. I mean, they. Should, they should put one in front of that kid's house. Was like, this is the site where the fucking the Flash got scolded to death. Where a child poured boiling water on gay icon the Black. Flash h ship. All right, well, oh no, I was gonna say real quick, Uh, there was another theory that like, uh, spring Hill Jack and the Flash were the same thing.

36:49 I didn't put it in here because it's kind of stupid. It doesn't make any sense, but the two are very similar. They did that with the Servant Girl Annihilator and Jack the Ripper, was that they were one of the same. Yeah, yeah, there's it didn't make sense at all. Yeah, they never do. They just say it, yeah, like. Haha, problem solved. Yeah all right. So yeah, so thanks for listening everyone. Thank you just Sarage for being here. As always, never miss it. Yeah, if you like what you heard, please leave us a five star rating and review anywhere you can. It definitely helps. Follow us on Instagram at Crypto Cocktail, follow us on TikTok, Crypto Cocktail party, chowner Patreon. It's gonna get retooled soon, I know, I said the last week.

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