April 17, 2025

The Colonial Hotel Brownsville, TX

The Colonial Hotel Brownsville, TX

Is that crying? In this episode. Ayden shares a story that revolves around the haunting of Room 101 at the Colonial Hotel in Brownsville, Texas, where a couple experiences terrifying supernatural events during the Charro Days festival!

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Is that crying? In this episode. Ayden shares a story that revolves around the haunting of Room 101 at the Colonial Hotel in Brownsville, Texas, where a couple experiences terrifying supernatural events during the Charro Days festival!

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is the story of Room one oh one at the

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Colonial Hotel in Brownsville, Texas. Brownsville, Texas the last weekend

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of February nineteen eighty six. Every year, as winter fades

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and spring peaks around the corner, Brownsville comes alive with

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one of its oldest and proudest traditions, Chatto Days. Founded

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in nineteen thirty eight, Chado Days is more than a festival.

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It's a vibrant celebration of culture, community, and the deep

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rooted bond between Brownsville and its sister city, Matamoros, just

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across the river. For a few magical days, the city transforms.

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Streets are lined with babel bigado, children dress in traditional

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Mexican and Texan outfits, and families come together to share music, dance,

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and heritage. You can hear the click of boots and

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heels on the pavement as Flacuorico dancers twirl in bright colors.

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The scent of roasted corn, the malih and fresh banduse

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wafts through the air. The sounds of laughter and mariachi

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echo through downtown. Nineteen eighty six was special. It was

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the first year the city introduced the Sombretro festival to

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Chado Days, adding even more heart and soul to the celebrations.

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Live music contests and food stands filled Washington Park, making

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it a new tradition that would become a staple of

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the season. That weekend, people flooded into the city from

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across the Rio Grande Valley and Northern Mexico. Motels and

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hotels were filled to capacity. The joy was contagious. Jose

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and Biatrice, a young couple in their mid twenties from Matamoros,

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had been married for a little over a year. Jose,

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quiet but curious, wore oppressed but a nupshirt and jeans,

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and had the beginnings of a mustache. He was oddly

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proud of. Was the spirited one, chatty with curly red hair,

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gold hoop earrings, and a bright laugh that Hosses said

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could fix any bad day. They'd both grown up going

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to Chado Days, but this was the first time they

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attended it together. After a full day of dancing, parades

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and laughter, they realized they had nowhere to sleep. Every

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hotel they tried was full. Every hotel but one, the

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Colonial Hotel eleven forty seven East Levee Street, Originally built

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in nineteen nineteen, it now stood as an aging, forgotten

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building on the edge of downtown. Its facade hinted at

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a past grandeur. Faded stonework framed the entrance, and above

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the doorway a long, burnt out neon sign still read Colonial,

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but now the brick exterior was weather stained, modeled with

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years of rain and neglect. Cracks ran along the edges

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of the structure, and several windows were dark or boarded shut.

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They stepped into the dimly lit lobby. A lone, tired

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clerk sat behind the desk, barely lifting his head. The

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lobby had once been grand, marble tile floors and a

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wooden staircase hinted at a time when the Colonial had

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hosted important guests. Now the chandelier was dusty, some bulbs dead,

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and the floral wallpaper was peeling at the corners. The

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clerk looked up at the young couple as they walked

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across the lobby, laughing with joy but visibly exhausted from

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the festivities. Only one room left, the clerk muttered, Room

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one O one. Josse and Beatrice didn't ask questions. They

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were tired, and the bed was all that mattered, so

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they paid and got the room key. Room one O

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one greeted them with a creak of hinges and the

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faintest smell something old, damn and just slightly sour, like

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wet wood left to rot. The lighting was dim, provided

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by a single flickering lamp on the nightstand. The wallpaper

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was discolored and bubbled in places. The bed was made,

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but the comforter had a musty weight to it. One

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of the dresser drawers was crooked, and the mirror above

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the sceinc had cracks spidering from the corner. They slipped

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into pajamas and fell into the stiff mattress without unpacking.

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Sleep came quickly, shortly after one am. Batris's eyes shot open. Jossett, stop,

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stop what your hands on my legs? That's not funny.

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Josse didn't answer, because it wasn't him. Biatri shifted, trying

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to scoot away from the cold, clammy fingers, but they followed,

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first brushing, then holding, then gripping. She whimpered and sat

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up sharply. Josey, stop it, what is it? Then he

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felt them too, hands grasping his legs, wrapping around his ankles,

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creeping higher. They both shot out of bed, staring at

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the mattress like it might rise up against them. It

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wasn't me, Piatrice, it wasn't me. They yanked back the covers,

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expecting to find something, an animal, stray, bed springs, anything,

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but there was nothing, just cold sheets and they're tossed

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around clothes. Jose checked under the bed. Piatrice opened the closet.

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The bathroom door stood open, dark and still there's nothing here,

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Piatrice said to herself. Jose responded, I'm calling the desk.

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He picked up the dusty receiver and dialed the old

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rotary phone to call the front desk. Is there another room?

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I think there's an animal or something here and we

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can't sleep, the clerk responded, still half asleep, nada. Everything's full,

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not just here, probably nowhere else is late Chado days

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brings in so many tourists they had no choice but

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to stay. So they clung to each other beneath the covers,

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trying to reassure Beatrice and himself. Hossa said, let's just

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try to sleep just until morning, wooly, first thing, and

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find somewhere else, okay, but keep the lamp on at

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three am. Jose awoke, drenched in sweat and terrified. His

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heart pounded, but not from a nightmare. It was something else,

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something in the room. The air pressed heavy on his chest.

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Every instinct told him something was wrong, but he couldn't

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figure out what. He turned his head, trying to shake

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the fog of fear from his mind. The room was dark,

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the bedside lamp somehow turned off while they slept. Jose

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was sure there was something in that room with them.

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Finally he saw it. In the corner of the room,

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just beyond the bed, there was a shadow. He blinked.

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Surely it was just passing headlights from the street outside.

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The glow from the car should have made it flicker,

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but it didn't. The shadow stayed. He told himself it

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was nothing, just a trick of the light, a figment

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of his groggy mind. But as he continued to stare

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at it, the unease gnawed at him. He couldn't shake

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the feeling that it wasn't a shadow at all, not

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like any shadow he had seen before. The headlights passed again,

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illuminating the room with a brief flash, yet the shadow

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remained unmoved. Something about it was wrong, Josey's breathing quickened.

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His eyes darted around the room, trying to find the

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source of his fear. Was at the lamp, the faint

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shifting of the curtains in the breeze, he couldn't tell.

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But as the seconds dragged on, the shadow only grew

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more defined. It stretched, it became taller. The shape began

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to shift. It was thin, too thin, almost like a person,

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but twisted. The figure seemed to climb higher and higher

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toward the ceiling, and now jose could see it clearly,

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a tall, skeletal figure, impossibly tall, stretching, elongating in ways

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that shouldn't be possible. His breath caught in his throat. Piatrice,

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wake up. She jolted upright, startled and bleary eyed. What

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what is it? Jose pointed a trembling hand to the

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corner of the room, there, right there. Don't you see

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it yet? He squinted into the darkness, blinking, See what,

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There's nothing. The corner was empty. The shadow, if it

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had ever been there, was gone. Jose's voice was strained, urgent. No,

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I swear it was there, A figure, tall like it

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was watching us. It didn't move when the headlights passed.

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I stared at it. It grew. Biatrice rubbed her face

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with both hands. You're scaring me, Jose, because it was real.

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I'm not making it up. I didn't dream it, I

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was awake, I felt, I don't, I don't know like

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it was standing there looking at us. Piatri shook her head,

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her tone sharpening. Stop just stop first, the hands, now

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this are you trying to scare me? Is this some

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joke to you? Jose, hurt and confused, said what, no,

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why would I do that? You felt the hands too, remember,

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Piatri snapped, that was different. That could have been you

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all along. But this, there's nothing there. You're just feeding

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the fear. Now you're making it worse. I'm not I

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wouldn't do that to you, Beatrice. I swear to God

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there was something in that corner. Piatrice stood up, pacing

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beside the bed, now arms crossed slightly over her chest.

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She looked around the room with frustration and said, maybe

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we shouldn't have stayed. Maybe this place is just getting

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in our heads. There must be mold in the walls. Something.

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The room fell silent, heavy, the kind of silence that

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seems to wait for something. Else to break it. Piatrice,

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calmer but still frustrated, said, Josse, do you hear that? Yeah,

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it sounds like a baby. With a sigh, Piatrice said,

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we've probably woken someone's kid with all the yelling. Josse,

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half joking, half relieved, said that explains one sound in

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this cursed place that he stopped midstep, her head tilting slightly.

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The crying grew louder, too loud. They both turned toward

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the far wall, where they thought the sound might be

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coming from. At first they thought it might be the

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room on the other side of their bathroom, but it

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wasn't muffled, It wasn't behind anything. Biatriis whispered. He said,

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that's not next door. The crying intensified, wet and echoing slightly,

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now with a strange reverberation, as though bouncing off tile.

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It's coming from the bathroom. They stared at the half

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open door. Josse took a step toward the bathroom. Pietris

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held on tightly to Josse's arm. No, no, I don't

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want to look. Swallowing hard, he said, we can't just

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ignore it. They stepped toward the door together, every inch

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of their bodies. Resisting, Jossein reached out and pushed the

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door fully open. Inside the tub was filled nearly to

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the rim with cloudy, stagnant water floating on the surface

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a small figure, pale, limp and shrieking with impossible strength.

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An infant. It opened its eyes to look at them,

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showing that its eye sockets were bottomless deep pits. Its

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tiny fists thrashed in slow motion, moving in ways an

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infant shouldn't, Biatri screamed. Jose stumbled back, No, no, no, no,

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what is it? What is it? That's not a baby,

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that's something evil. We have to go, Beatris, We have

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to leave now. Jossein and Biatris ran, barely grabbing their

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suitcases as they fled the room, running back to the lobby.

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Our fathers and hell Mary's poured from their lips the

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entire way. The hotel's manager was at the desk, staring

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up as she heard the running footsteps coming down the

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hall to the lobby. What's happening, she shouted down the

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hall at the young couple. Patris responded, desperately, we were

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in room one oh one. That room is evil. What's

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happening in there? The manager went pale and seemed to

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hesitate to respond. She swallowed hard and explained, you're not

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the first that room. We only sell it when everything

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else is full there. There's been so many complaints. Jose huffed,

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angry that the clerk from before didn't even warn them.

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How could this happen? Why did he let us stay

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in that room? The manager continued to explain. Most of

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the time it happens to people who stay alone. The

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clerk earlier tonight probably thought you were safe. This is

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the first time I've ever seen it happen to a couple.

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Jose and Piatrice stared back at her with shock and

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anger on their faces. The manager continued, Some say part

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of this block was built over a lipan apache burial ground.

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The spirits give people something called ghost sickness. They don't

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physically hurt you. They just make you see horrible things

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until your mind goes mad. Jose cut off the manager.

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Did you hear that crying? The evil baby in the

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bathtub is still crying? The manager responded, calmly, there is

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no crying. You are safe. Other people have seen the

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baby too, but only the people who are alone. You

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are a couple, though I think it's getting worse. The

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spirits are getting more restless. Just then, the manager heard

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the faintest cry coming from down the hallway. She turned

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pale and looked away from Jose and Beatrice toward the

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hallway of the hotel rooms. I think I hear it too.

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I've never heard the baby before, but I hear it now.

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Jose and Beatrice didn't wait one more second and ran

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from the lobby. They drove right back to Matamoros that night. Today,

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the Colonial Hotel no longer takes guests. Room one oh

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one has been locked for years. No one stays there anymore,

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but sometimes late at night local say they still hear crying.

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Welcome back, cool friends, How did we do? What do

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you think? Of course, this is another original story by

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Jeff and myself, and I tried to put a little

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bit of some voice acting in there. I haven't really

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done that that much before. I don't know. Let me

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know what y'all think. Are we getting the Oscar, the Emmy,

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no Grammy or Tony Because I wasn't singing, but well no,

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actually I sang Happy Birthday at the beginning this. This

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episode could get me an egot anyway, we're gonna jump

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into some sources that we have here. So the first

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source is from Valley Central dot com. This is an

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article that was published by Salvador Gastro and Elizabeth Guimez Battino.

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This was posted in October of twenty twenty, so god,

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I believe that's five years ago. Twenty twenty was like

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last month, I don't know. Anyway, This says Brownsville a

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place of Forgotten Secrets. And this is kind of like

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a listicle of several haunted places in Brownsville, and so

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of course or haunted Figures two, but the first one

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on the list is the Colonial Hotel. This is a

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really short entry about the Colonial Hotel and then it

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goes into the other stories. So if you would like

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to see this link again, it's Valleycentral dot com Brownsville

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Places Forgotten Secrets. And the direct links to all of

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these sources will be in the Susto Google doc for

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Patreon subscribers. So this one says the Colonial Hotel, built

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in nineteen fifteen, has had several reports of paranormal activity,

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particularly in Room one oh one, where several guests have

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said they've seen a dead infant, which is tragic and

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also very scary in the shower and where guests felt

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unseen hands grabbing them under the sheets and from under

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the bed. So this room is just pure nightmare fuel,

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speaking a nightmare fuel. So this web page that I'm on,

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it has like a scrolling ad next to where I

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see my view of myself on camera, and it looked

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like there was something like the ad is literally right

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next to my monitor, so it looked like something was

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moving behind me, and I almost the scream. I almost

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scrumped false alarm. Anyway, And mind you, I am recording

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late at night. It is almost eleven wave past my bedtime.

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I'm just gonna try and get through this without any

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more nightmare fuel, like Room one oh one at the

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Colonial Hotel. So they wrote in this short entry about

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the Colonial Hotel, and it's very true. It's what I

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was thinking when I was hearing about this story when

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Jeff brought it up to me, and we're looking into it.

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They said, here, it reminded us a bit of the

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Shining Room two thirty seven. Right, this continues. Rumor has

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it visitors went into hysterics after checking into Room one

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oh one and finding a crying phantom baby floating in

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the bathtub. The Colonial Hotel is known as one of

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the ten most haunted hotels in Texas, so I wonder

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there are also there's a last little note here that

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says multiple suicides allegedly have taken place in Room one

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oh one at the Colonial Hotel as well. So it's

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giving very yes the Shining Room to thirty seven. What's

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the other haunted hotel in Los Angeles? The Secoul the

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Season Hotel. I'd like, I knew it, but it was

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escaping my mind. That kind of vibe too, right, is it?

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I feel like, is what's going on? But one of

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the top ten haunted hotels or one of the ten

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most haunted in Texas. I wonder if The board House

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is considered as one of those because the board House,

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if you remember that story, I've covered it on Sustal

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and I actually spent a night there, which I said

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I would never do that again, but I'm kind of

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considering it. If we know of any paranormal investigators out there,

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paranormal investigation teams out there that would like to go

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investigate the the board House and collab with me on

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the crossover episode, I would I would go again for

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something like that, anything for content, right, But I wonder

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if the board House is also on that list because

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it's technically now a hotel. Thank you Valley Central for

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that information. So the next source that we have here

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is from a Facebook post from says Brownsville Memories is

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the name of the page. Yes, Brownsville Memories. Brunzel Memories

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is a place where I post old stories and photos

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of Brownsville, South Padre Island. And then the description is

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getting cut off. So Brunzel Memories on Facebook, thank you

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for having this up. But there's a picture here. It

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says Brownsville Before and after and it shows Traveler's Hotel

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in nineteen thirties, which is I wonder if that's what

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they called it before. Their second photo is from twenty eighteen.

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It's called the Colonial Hotel. Fun fact, for about a

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full year I worked in Brownsville. And for those of

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you those are here from the valley, you know the

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geography of the area. You know that in the valley

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we build out, not up. If you're not from the valley,

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we build out, not up. So what that means is

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that we're all from the valley, right, It's a collection

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of cities and towns, but they're so far spread apart.

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A twenty minute drive with no traffic whatsoever on the

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highway will get you very far. So again, fun fact.

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I used to work in Brownsville, but where I lived,

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where I was living at the time, it was an

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hour commute one way, and I would make that drive

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every morning to go to work and every evening to

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go home. That's how big the valley is. And it's

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also so beautiful, and it's got rich culture, super cool

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history like this here. I'm going to post this picture

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here because it looks really cool. It's again the second

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photo from twenty eighteen. It's a photo, and the first

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one it looks like an illustration. It's even got like

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the old timey cars. It's the nineteen thirties right, So

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it just looks really cool. But a fun detail on

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this post. It's three lines. It says Travelers Hotel, Colonial Hotel,

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built nineteen nineteen, expanded nineteen twenty four. And this says

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in two thousand and two a fire destroyed the fifth floor.

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The hotel was renovated, but the floor was not replaced.

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So I wonder if they just kind of like they

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renovated the rest of the hotel around the fifth floor

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like below and above, and they just were like, whatever,

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we don't need this floor. There's not much in here.

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That's literally all the posts says, but there are tons

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of people in the comments that are talking about it.

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A lot of people saying that, you know, they have

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family history that dates back to this hotel in its heyday. Right.

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The second post that we have here, this is from

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the newsroom at UTRGV, which I have been featured in

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Hide the Newsroom. It's a video. It's a minute thirty

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five video. So again, this direct link is in the

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suit to Google docs if you want to look it up.

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It's on the newsroom at utrgv's Facebook page and it

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says second most haunted place in the RGV and a

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quick description on here. I'm not going to play the video.

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This is their property, so please go watch it. On

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their page, it says doctor David Bowles, friend of the

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pod who has been on Sustal. He was I think

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one of my first guests, so thank you. Mister David

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Boles an amazing writer. If you all have not checked

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out his work, please do. I have several of his

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books a couple of them signed. But this says doctor

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David Bowles, assistant professor for the UTRGV Department of Literature,

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This and Cultural Studies. This is posted in twenty eighteen.

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I'm not sure if that's still his current position. This says,

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continues the list of the most haunted places in the valley.

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Here is number two. I can't remember what number one was.

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I'm pretty sure I have the book that this is from.

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It's got like a bunch of you know, haunted history

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kind of places in the valley, so I will say.

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In this video, essentially doctor Bowles is talking about the

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some of the history of this place. Again it's allegedly

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built on top of desecrated lip Bana Pacha burial grounds

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that he's encouraging people to go check it out if

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they are feeling brave enough. I'm not sure if you

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can still get into the building. I don't believe you can,

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but I guess at the time you still could. He's

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also talking about the alleged suicides that took place either

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in that room specifically or in the hotel, and also

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this idea of the ghost sickness right where you are

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not really physically hurt but these visions are kind of

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forced on you, and so it kind of drives you

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a little bit mad. Right, it's just mentally taxing. It's

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a mental attack, a spiritual psychic attack, this idea of

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ghost sickness. So again, go check out that video. The

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next source that we have here, this is from actually

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Texas co oppower dot com for Electric cooperative members. I

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love that they have an article about ghosts on here.

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This says Ghosts history and legends, visit Brownsville for haunting

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and historical ghost tours. And this was published by Nidia

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oh Dapia Guensalez in October of twenty twenty one. This

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is just kind of a general story about Brownsville and

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its alleged hauntings, which again, the Colonial in Brownsville is

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not the only haunting alleged haunting in the city. There

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are many places. I know there's a really popular cemetery.

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Please forgive me. I cannot remember the name right now.

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00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:08.839
I'm going to look it up in a second. But

460
00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:10.640
I went there kind of to check it out one

461
00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:12.920
day just to see, you know, what the stories were about.

462
00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:16.839
And it's a really I don't know, I feel this weird,

463
00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:19.400
strange sense of comfort in cemeteries. And I know they

464
00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:21.519
can be very polarizing, and there are times when I

465
00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:24.599
feel like, yes, they are very kind of charged spaces

466
00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:27.319
because of the energy that's there, the experiences that living

467
00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:29.960
people have there when they're laying their loved ones to rest.

468
00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:32.400
But also I feel like there's just a sense of peace.

469
00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:34.839
I forgot which show or movie I heard it in,

470
00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:38.519
but someone said about cemetery. They were like, there's nothing there,

471
00:29:38.559 --> 00:29:41.839
It's just bodies, it just remains. There's nothing else, nothing scary,

472
00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:45.319
and there's something oddly peaceful about that. I don't know.

473
00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:48.279
Let me know how you feel about cemeteries in the

474
00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:52.079
comments for this episode, But this says this article one

475
00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:55.480
part mentions imagine ghosts so evil with the potential of

476
00:29:55.559 --> 00:29:59.200
causing insanity to the point of suicide, again referencing that

477
00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:02.319
ghost sickness. The ghosts of the Colonial Hotel in downtown

478
00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:05.680
Brownsville are known to do just that. Unsettled ghosts are

479
00:30:05.680 --> 00:30:08.759
believed to be the spirits of Lipana Pace, whose grave

480
00:30:08.799 --> 00:30:12.039
site was desecrated during the construction of the building. Again,

481
00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:15.200
there's that idea. Okay, I found the cemetery. I believe

482
00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:18.519
it is the Las Botmas Cemetery in Brownsville. I want

483
00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:20.839
to say that's the one. I just googled haunted Brownsville

484
00:30:20.839 --> 00:30:24.720
Cemetery and there are several links that popped up, including

485
00:30:24.720 --> 00:30:26.680
a couple of videos, so I'll probably throw those in

486
00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:29.160
the susto Google docs as well, but also it'll just

487
00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:32.000
come up with a quick Google search. So yeah, I remember,

488
00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:33.759
I can't remember who I went with to that to

489
00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:35.799
go check it out, but yeah, it was. I don't

490
00:30:35.839 --> 00:30:38.000
know I was. That was one of those experiences in

491
00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:40.079
a cemetery that I had where it felt that kind

492
00:30:40.119 --> 00:30:43.359
of sense of peace. But also again it's allegedly very haunted,

493
00:30:43.400 --> 00:30:45.640
so I don't know what I was feeling. Maybe my

494
00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:48.200
frequencies were off and I wasn't catching what everyone else

495
00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:51.240
was feeling, but there was that. So the last two

496
00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:54.119
sources that I have here, these are about Chado Days.

497
00:30:54.200 --> 00:30:57.519
So Chatter Days is a real event. It's a real

498
00:30:57.599 --> 00:31:02.000
festival that happened in the Rio Grendezva, happens in Brownsville, Texas.

499
00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:04.480
Chatta Days and Sonabredo Fest. But just to read a

500
00:31:04.519 --> 00:31:07.400
bit more about what Chado Days is. This is from

501
00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:13.039
tshaonline dot org, simply titled Chatto Days. Wow. This says

502
00:31:13.079 --> 00:31:16.000
it was published in nineteen seventy six, so I'm not

503
00:31:16.039 --> 00:31:18.559
sure where. Maybe this was like a newspaper article and

504
00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:21.559
then they added it to it says updated July fourth,

505
00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:25.200
twenty seventeen. This is by Lauda Batrisia Garza and Teresa

506
00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:29.119
Plomon Acosta. A beautiful picture to start with right away,

507
00:31:29.160 --> 00:31:31.519
and I will be posting these, this says. Chado Days

508
00:31:31.599 --> 00:31:34.799
is an annual fiesta celebrated in the city of Brownsville, Texas,

509
00:31:34.839 --> 00:31:38.000
during the latter part of February. This festival commemorates the

510
00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:41.039
Mexican heritage of the area and bonds both Mexican and

511
00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:44.039
American sides of the Rio Grande. Regardless of the harsh

512
00:31:44.119 --> 00:31:47.200
period of economic crisis left by the Mexican Revolution and

513
00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:50.720
World War One, border cities such as Brownsville continued growing

514
00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:53.759
during the early decades of the twentieth century. In nineteen

515
00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:57.480
thirty seven, influenced by the Citrus Fiesta in Mission, Texas

516
00:31:57.519 --> 00:32:00.200
and the opening of the Port of Brownsville, Brownsville is

517
00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:03.440
this man Kenneth Faxon, known as the father of Chado Days,

518
00:32:03.440 --> 00:32:06.720
and selected members of the Pan American Roundtable, directed the

519
00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:10.599
local Chamber of Commerce to coordinate a committee to commemorate

520
00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:14.000
a fiesta and pre Lenten festivity. The event was named

521
00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:17.559
Chado Days in honor of the Chadros or dashing Mexican

522
00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:21.240
gentleman cowboys. The first Chado Days celebration was held on

523
00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:25.119
February twenty fourth to twenty seventh, nineteen thirty eight. The

524
00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:29.559
fiesta consisted of three parades, dances, races, motor and sell boat,

525
00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:32.680
a bullfight, a rodeo, a concert by the Banda de

526
00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:36.599
Artieria from Mexico City, a grand ball, and a Noche

527
00:32:36.640 --> 00:32:40.480
Mehiicana held in Matamoros. Paramountain Us documented the first Chado

528
00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:44.279
Days celebration and released an approximately fifteen minute colored motion

529
00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:47.160
picture that was shown throughout the valley in spring of

530
00:32:47.279 --> 00:32:49.960
nineteen thirty eight. I need to find that documentary. If

531
00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:52.160
I find it, it's going in the Susto Google docs

532
00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:54.400
as a link. And there are again just really cool

533
00:32:54.440 --> 00:32:57.880
pictures here. Wow, there's an immature from fourteen ninety two

534
00:32:57.920 --> 00:33:01.000
and there's it's a man and a woman riding this

535
00:33:01.160 --> 00:33:03.440
horse and you can see there's a building in the

536
00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:06.400
background and there's people just lining the sidewalk and there's

537
00:33:06.400 --> 00:33:09.119
people also sitting outside of the windows from like the

538
00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:12.440
second story, watching the parade. God, it's so beautiful. To

539
00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:15.960
encourage the wearing of regional costumes of Mexico, a booklet

540
00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:18.839
of Patterns for Chado Days was issued in nineteen forty

541
00:33:18.920 --> 00:33:22.240
nine and featured drawings of women's and men's traditional apparel

542
00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:26.200
for Michwakan, Whaka, Yukatan, and Chiapas, as well as other

543
00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:29.079
regions of the country. The China boblana dress and the

544
00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:32.400
Chadro suit are among the most popular costumes worn during

545
00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:35.720
Chado Days. During the early nineteen fifties, the international bridges

546
00:33:35.759 --> 00:33:38.400
across the Rio Grande were open for all to cross

547
00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:41.880
and partake in festivities the way it should fucking be.

548
00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:46.640
Instead we have Elon Musk in Bronsville trying to colonize it.

549
00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:48.240
And I'm trying to have a good time with this

550
00:33:48.759 --> 00:33:52.599
and I don't want to go there. But listen, if

551
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:55.240
you're here, you know how I am. You know how

552
00:33:55.279 --> 00:33:57.720
I feel about these things, and I'm sure you feel

553
00:33:57.720 --> 00:34:00.440
the same way or similar or at least green agree

554
00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:03.920
with me that it's a little sad to see how

555
00:34:03.960 --> 00:34:07.000
this was celebrated before and where we are now as

556
00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:10.800
a country, but also how the Brownsville is being affected

557
00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:14.599
by a billionaire who frankly is a phony and doesn't

558
00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:16.239
know what he's doing. So I'm just going to leave

559
00:34:16.280 --> 00:34:18.880
that there to continue with the good vibes we will say.

560
00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:21.559
The Mister Amigo Association was created by members of the

561
00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:24.119
Brownsville Chamber of Commerce in the early nineteen sixties to

562
00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:27.519
promote international relations between the United States and Mexico. A

563
00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:30.119
nominee for Mister Amigo of the Year has to be

564
00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:33.239
a role model for the Hispanic community by showing excellence

565
00:34:33.280 --> 00:34:36.199
in their personal and professional life, and also must be

566
00:34:36.239 --> 00:34:40.199
a Mexican citizen. So there's been so many winners. Among

567
00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:45.840
them has been Vicente Fernandez Juangabriel, whoa these names are amazing.

568
00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:50.360
In nineteen eighty six, the Sombeto Festival was included to

569
00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:53.480
the list of main events during Chado Days to enrich

570
00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:56.280
the fiesta spirit throughout this city. This three day event

571
00:34:56.320 --> 00:34:59.599
takes place in Washington Park, located in historic downtown Brownsville,

572
00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:03.079
and hosts different attractions including the Haavenue Eating Contest, the

573
00:35:03.159 --> 00:35:06.920
Grito Contest, and the Chadro Bean Cookoff. Otto Beans. The

574
00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:10.719
Sombretto festival presents Hispanic artists, live music, and food booths.

575
00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:13.000
The last thing this says here is the Chado Days

576
00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:17.079
Festival begins with a traditional Mexican grito, a celebratory cry

577
00:35:17.239 --> 00:35:20.199
at the Gateway International Bridge, and with an exchange of

578
00:35:20.239 --> 00:35:22.760
words and gifts by the mayors of both cities. Since

579
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:26.400
the earliest Chado Days Fiesta, the celebrations have included as

580
00:35:26.400 --> 00:35:29.840
many as four parades complete with floats, Erodeo, Mariacci and

581
00:35:29.880 --> 00:35:34.320
Marine Bach concerts, and ballet float folklodogo performances by school students,

582
00:35:34.440 --> 00:35:36.920
which I'm not sure if I've said this before. I

583
00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:38.599
used to be a folklodo go dancer. I don't know

584
00:35:38.599 --> 00:35:40.840
if anybody knows that. I'm gonna try really hard. I'm

585
00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:42.000
going to see if my mom can get me a

586
00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:44.360
picture before this episode goes up so I can post

587
00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:46.719
it with the social post for this in my little

588
00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:49.679
folk Clodogo get up. Because listen, I was good at

589
00:35:49.719 --> 00:35:53.159
it too. I loved it, and I wish I had

590
00:35:53.159 --> 00:35:55.000
continued it because I think folk Goodoo is such a

591
00:35:55.280 --> 00:35:58.280
super cool dance. I see like professionals universities with their

592
00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:02.000
folklodogo programs and it's it looks so cool, so a

593
00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:03.559
fun fact. If you didn't know, now you know, I'm

594
00:36:03.559 --> 00:36:04.760
going to try and get a picture of of that

595
00:36:04.840 --> 00:36:07.880
in the social post for this episode and ballet Folklodorico

596
00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:11.280
performances by school students. Two principal street dances, the Notche

597
00:36:11.320 --> 00:36:14.679
Mehiicana and the Vile del Sol, are both held in

598
00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:17.599
the city of Brownsville. A Chado Days fiest organization oversees

599
00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:20.400
the extensive program and the twenty tens of celebration spanned

600
00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:24.559
a week or more of various events. Wow. And the

601
00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:27.639
very last entry that I have here, this is a

602
00:36:27.800 --> 00:36:32.079
good old Wikipedia, good old Wikipedia entry, and honestly, this

603
00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:35.239
is just reiterating everything that was in this last link.

604
00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:37.599
It says. Chatto Days, also known as Chatto Days Fiesta

605
00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:40.440
or Chatter Days Festival, is a two nation fiesta and

606
00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:43.519
an annual four day pre lent and celebration held in Brownsville,

607
00:36:43.559 --> 00:36:47.239
Texas in cooperation with Matamoos Stamolipas. The Grito, a Joyous

608
00:36:47.239 --> 00:36:50.480
Mexican shower opens the festivities every year. This festival is

609
00:36:50.519 --> 00:36:53.880
a shared heritage celebration between the two border cities of Brownsville,

610
00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:57.480
Texas and Matamoros Stamo, Alipas. The Chado Days festivals usually

611
00:36:57.519 --> 00:37:01.840
have about fifty thousand attendees each year. This celebration includes

612
00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:04.400
a Sombredo festival as well as a parade that goes

613
00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:07.840
down Elizabeth Street through historic downtown Bronswelle, Texas, which is

614
00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:10.760
where I worked. I worked in downtown Bronswelle on Elizabeth Street.

615
00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:14.239
This continues. The festival was first organized again nineteen thirty seven,

616
00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:16.440
celebrated in nineteen thirty eight by the Bronzel Chamber of

617
00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:19.639
Commerce to recognize Mexican culture and honor the chadles or

618
00:37:19.719 --> 00:37:23.280
again the dashing Mexican gentleman cowboys, which is how I

619
00:37:23.320 --> 00:37:25.519
would love to be described one day. Oh, this is

620
00:37:25.559 --> 00:37:28.320
an interesting tidbit here that is not in the previous one,

621
00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:30.679
it says. In addition, it is stated in the official

622
00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:33.320
web page that the Chadow Days festival was also created

623
00:37:33.360 --> 00:37:36.480
to bring people together during the effects of the Great Depression.

624
00:37:36.679 --> 00:37:39.840
Although not proven, it is rumored that the first unofficial

625
00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:43.000
Chatto Days was realized in the early to mid eighteen

626
00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:45.559
hundreds when people from the city of Bronsville, Texas and

627
00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:48.920
Matamoros Damlipas just across the Grande in Mexico came together

628
00:37:48.960 --> 00:37:52.519
to celebrate a cooperative cultural festival to honor the two nations.

629
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:55.599
This says the festival did go on hiatus in nineteen

630
00:37:55.639 --> 00:37:58.559
forty two to nineteen forty five and for twenty twenty one,

631
00:37:58.679 --> 00:38:02.760
which I believe was twenty twenty one. The shutdown was

632
00:38:02.760 --> 00:38:05.559
that the COVID shutdown time is not real to me anymore.

633
00:38:05.679 --> 00:38:08.639
This is wild, so wow. And then it says more

634
00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:11.679
about mister Amigo, about the you know, the get ups

635
00:38:11.719 --> 00:38:13.639
that people wear, some of the events that they have

636
00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:17.199
that goes on at Chadow Days and Sombdato Festival. If

637
00:38:17.239 --> 00:38:19.239
you're ever in Brownswell Textus during Chatter Days, if you

638
00:38:19.239 --> 00:38:21.880
have the opportunity, please go check it out. And those

639
00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:35.079
are all the sources that we have for you today.

640
00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:40.360
Welcome back, wel friends, Thank you so much for listening

641
00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:42.880
to this episode. Thank you for tuning in to the

642
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year six six sixth episode. It's literally to this day,

643
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the day that this episode is coming out for everyone

644
00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:52.079
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646
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free this is the sick your anniversary of Sustal one

648
00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:06.079
more time. I am so grateful, I'm so and now

649
00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:07.920
I feel like I'm gonna cry for real. I'm so proud.

650
00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:10.719
It's been six years. And I said this about year five.

651
00:39:11.159 --> 00:39:14.880
I said it felt like it went by so fast,

652
00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:17.400
But it also feels like it's been so long. I've

653
00:39:17.480 --> 00:39:20.760
learned so much. I've grown so much, not only as

654
00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:22.559
I'm going to cry enough for real as a creator,

655
00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:25.360
but this show has made me grow as a person.

656
00:39:25.760 --> 00:39:29.599
And it's an experience that I hope to continue for many,

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00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:31.719
many years. And I hope to continue to grow it

658
00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:34.119
and make it bigger and better, and to do more

659
00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:36.800
for you all, and to share more of this show

660
00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:40.039
with so many more people. It's six years. It's a

661
00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:44.119
long time, but I feel like things may just be starting.

662
00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:49.960
I don't know. I am far from done. Thank you

663
00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:54.039
all so much. I'm gonna go before I really lose it.

664
00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:58.480
Please follow at Sustal podcast on all social media platforms

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you all. Take care of yourselves and not the Answerstess Bye,

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get it your run, get it your rud