Playboy, Poltergeists & Bridget Marquardt's Paranormal Life | @Ghost Bunny Podcast | Ghost Encounter

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Hello. We have a very special guest today back again with us because we're just obsessed with her and so we were like, why not

want to talk again?

Be our friend.

And I feel like last time we talked to Bridget and Holly, so we only got like some of their stories. But this time we spoke with Bridget who has a podcast called Ghost Bunny all about the paranormal.

And my goodness, does she have so many stories. Yeah, it was really great to deep dive into a lot of her experiences and just talk about like her history of exploring her lore.

It's Bridget's lore and she finds a way to attract spirits no matter what she does and where she goes.

We hope you enjoy. Yeah,

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very spooky.

Hi, Bridget.

Hi, guys.

We're so excited to be doing part two of our little collab that we're doing and talk more about your paranormal experiences.

ouija board things

Okay. You know what? I was just scrolling through the phone before you guys got on and have you seen I'm sure you've seen it on Instagram. There's this lady who's I don't know if it's even true or not, but this woman who passed away and she had these little tiny Ouija boards made for everybody that went to the funeral so they could talk to her after she died.

That's what brilliant.

And it said something like keep in touch or something like that.

Oh my god. Wait, that's brilliant. Also just brilliant in and of itself to pre-plan party favors for the guests of your funeral.

The attendees Ouija boards.

Wow.

We We should all steal this idea.

It should be a standard funeral favor that everybody gets,

right? Forget songs. I don't need anyone to give me a eulogy or anything like that. Like I I need a seance.

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I'm obsessed with this. Wow. Wait, speaking of Ouija boards, I remember you had told us this, but now I'm I'm going to ask you to tell it again because I think it's such an amazing story, but you told us last time we talked that you saved up your money to buy a Ouija board when you were a kid.

Yes. It was like my babysitting money and I um the first thing I wanted to buy was a Ouija board and I made my cousin who was like she's about two years younger than me and my little brother I don't think I made him play he was just one of those pesy you know wanted to like stick around with him.

So my cousin and I are playing I was like 12 so we don't know anybody that's has died at that point or very few people and the only person that I knew was my greatgrandfather and he had died recently so we're like okay let's try and reach out to him. So, we were talking and supposedly we were connecting with him, but I kept saying, "You're pushing it." And she was like, "You're pushing it." And like getting arguments over it and then we just decided we don't want to play anymore. This is dumb because you're just moving

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it and you know, whatever. And sometimes I tell this part of the story and sometimes I don't because I feel like it just goes into a bigger area. But my cousin had these like X marks in her leg, like indents, like she had leaned up against something, three of them. And the the board was not on her lap. Like at first I was like, well maybe the board like pressed into her leg or whatever, but the board was flat on the floor between us. So we do not know where she got those. But she was freaking out because she felt like they were like the sign of the cross or something.

That is terrifying. Your poor cousin. You were like, I'm making you do this.

No, she's still terrified to this day. I had the Winchester house to myself for two nights in a row and I invited her and her sister and their mom and stuff and my mom and everybody like a group of people to come and hang out with me and she was like, "I can't do this. I can't do this. I'm

She's going to stop hanging out with you."

Yeah. She dropped them off and she's like, "I'll be at CVS and back at the hotel. Call me when you're ready to be picked up. I am not here." She's like

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terrified to this day.

Wow. Did you bring a Ouija board with you to the Winchester Mystery House?

You don't have to cuz they have one there for you. And there's a there's a round table and like it's not the seance room that Sarah used to use, but they have another seance room set up upstairs and like they have a round table with like a chandelier and a Ouija board on it and stuff. So, we were definitely filming with the Ouija board there.

Did anything happen?

Yeah, we had some weird stuff happen. So, there's the seance room. There's a room right next to it with like pictures of um the like deceased photography, old deceased photography on the like and and they kind of have like a I don't want to say a game with it because that sounds rude, but like you know which ones are the people deceased in these photos, you know,

right? And just before we were about to move to that room, the light fixture fell out of the ceiling and onto the table in the middle. And they so they were like not letting us go in that room

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right away even though like we were ready to go. And I was like, "Wait, what's I don't understand like why we're not going in there. Like what's the hold up?" And then finally they were like, "Okay, we're just going to tell you. We don't know that it's paranormal or anything like that, but like the whole light just like just as we were going to go in there." And then the other thing that happened is I was doing this like scene where I'm bridg on the outside and I'm interviewing people normal and then I asked to come back in the like later at night and explore the house by myself at night and they say I can but then I have to meet somebody there. And so I go to the house at night and this is sort of a gag that we're doing in the the filming that we're doing. And I show up to the house and nobody's there. And so I go up to the front door and I open it and it opens and as I walk through the door, it's focusing on my feet and it shows my tennis shoes turning into like old like Victorian boots and I turn into like Sarah Winchester as I walk in the door and then I'm like trapped in the house and I look outside and I see Bridget outside doing like interviews

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and stuff but I'm inside. But anyway, in order to get that scene, we had to do it multiple times because they have to get it from different angles and whatever, you know. Oh, and part of the scene too is the door shuts behind me like on its own. So, we had a producer out there that was like taking the door and like shutting it behind me. And so, I went to go walk out to redo the scene and I go to grab the door knob and I open the door and I only had it open like just a little bit and something pulled it out of my hand and slammed it shut.

What? And I was like, "Oh, the Oh, the producer must be standing there thinking, "Oh, the door came open. I got to keep it shut." You know? So then I opened it again and he's not there. He's still hiding around the corner waiting for like the scene to end.

The ghost was like trying to help you out.

Yeah. I asked him, "Did you just shut the door? Like, did you just grab it?" And he's like, "No." Like I didn't want to interrupt the scene. And then one other thing, it's not a thing, but it's something tells me it was a thing.

I was at the end of the hall. Have you guys been to the Winchester House?

I have. I actually went on a Friday the

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13th when they like rang the bell and everything. It was cool.

That's so fun. Okay, so you know there's this long corridor and at the very end is the carriage house and her carriage is actually still parked in there.

Yeah. The cameras are at one end and they're like, "Okay, go all the way down at the end of the hall." And it's all dark in there and stuff like there's no lights on except for our camera lights and stuff and oh, and I have a little candle Aubra in my hand and I'm wearing like a veil over my face and stuff and I'm dressed in Victorian morning wear and they're like, "So go all the way to the end of the hall by the carriage and then wait till we say action, you know." So I walk down there and I'm standing down there by myself. I can see the camera people at the end of the hall, but like I'm by myself pretty far from them. And I swear I just felt like somebody was like next to me. Like I could almost feel breath or movement or something from something next to me. Like I just very much felt like something's going to whisper to me. Something's going to pick up on any other type of energy with it. Was it pleasant? Was it curious? Negative. What

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did it feel like? It just felt like somebody was about to whisper in my ear and tell me something, which was unnerving.

I can like feel it in my ear, like you know that feeling where one ear specifically is like listening more.

Yeah. And it's where you kind of get that tingle on your side of your body where you're like, "Oh my god, somebody's right next to me and about to whisper in my ear and I want to go like this

type of thing." It was just unnerving, but not because it was scary because I don't think that there's anything like evil or demonic or anything like that at the Winchester house. I think that it's probably staff who loved that house and are still there and maybe Sarah. I mean, when we filmed in her room, the second we like left or entered, we'd have to say, um, hello Sarah and good night Sarah. That's like a role they have there when you're filming at late at night and you're the last ones to leave it. I mean, they do say that there is a caretaker who passed away who they still see, especially in the basement. And in

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the basement, they we did this fun thing that I'd never done before. You know those little lollipops? They're called dumbbells. They're they're kind of small.

Oh, the the dum dums. Yeah.

Oh, dum dums. Yeah. Well, they had those and they hand them out to everybody in the basement and you put them in the palm of your hand and then you ask it to move the lollipop. So, you have the round end like in the palm of your hand. the stick is sticking up. And for the most part, it sticks up pretty straight. Maybe some of them are a little lopsided and go to the side, but you can ask it to kind of move your stick. And I literally saw people's sticks like bend all the way over and come back up. And

it's kind of like dowsing rods. But also, this is the coolest thing. And this just like I love a story that includes some sort of like scrappy form of communication where people are like finding tree bark and like marking it to create like their own Ouija board. And this feels like that. It's like, oh, you can still communicate with the dead, even if you just have a lollipop.

Yeah.

No, really. Like, it was I thought it was just so cool.

I feel like you have gone to so many

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places, especially now with Ghost Bunny, and you've done so many investigations, some of them, which you teased us about when we were on your show. So, we need to hear more. Where have you been? What are your favorite spots that you've investigated? And we'll start there.

Oh, it's so hard to pick. And I I forget. There's so many places like I forget until somebody brings it up and

experiences at Myrtles Plantation

I'm like, "Oh, I've been there. Oh, I've

probably already told you about it the last time is the Myrtles Plantation."

Yes. Well, you teased us, but you didn't tell us like what you experienced.

Oh, okay. So, um I went there for my birthday. It's It's been like a place that I've wanted to go for so long. Even back at the mansion. Like I was reading every book I could find on the Myrtles Plantation, watching every little like most haunted documentary on Travel Channel because that's all we had back then. And um anything I could find on Myrtles and I really really really wanted to stay there and I never got to do in fact we were supposed to shoot an episode of Girls Next Door there. We were going to go for Marty GR and I was

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going to do my Marty GR show there but I wanted to go to Myrtles because of course and they it was all set in stone and the last second it got pulled that was a bummer. So, flash forward to years later, I don't know, maybe eight years ago now. So, I really need to go back. We do it for my birthday. We're going to New Orleans, Nick and I, and we I'm like, we have to go stay at the Myrtles Plantation. So, we rent a car, drive out to the Myrtles Plantation, and we get the room in the house cuz there's like newer cottages that you can also rent that are on the property, but we want to stay in the main house,

of course. So, our room just so happens to be like this amazing room that also has a giant sitting area out front. The main staircase in the like entryway and then the the big haunted mirror and the piano and the entryway doors are all part of our room like and nobody else gets to go in there after after tours. During business hours, they still do tours through everything, but like once like at six o'clock or whatever, when the tours are over, they lock those

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doors and we're the only ones with the key to it except for the managers that are on property.

Yeah. And they ask you not to let other people in the area, which is kind of a bummer. So, but you have it all to yourself. So, it's kind of good in one way, but kind of sad in another way, you know. So, anyway, we get out all the equipment and Nick is not really a big believer, but he's a good sport. So, I give him like a K2 meter and I'm like, "Go check out the mirror. I'm going to sit on the 17th step because supposedly um this man was shot at the front door and he made it to the 17th step and died in his wife's arms there." So, I'm like, "I'm going to sit on the 17th step and with my recorder and see if I can get like any EVPs or whatever." And so, we're sitting there doing that and we're getting nothing. I mean, to the point where I thought maybe all my batteries dead. Did I even turn this stuff on? Because you know how the K2 meter it it usually just sort of like moves a little bit like go from green to darker green at least just to let you know that it's working. It was doing nothing. I mean no

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like green wasn't even lighting up. Like I'm like this something's wrong here. So we were getting nothing. So like around I don't know 1 in the morning or something like that. I'm like calling it. I'm like that's so disappointing. I mean, I know and I talk about on my podcast that just because a place might be the most haunted place in the world, just because you're there one night doesn't mean you're gonna get an experience. Like, they don't act on command and like it doesn't mean it's not haunted, you know? But it is still disappointing. And it's also interesting because the lack of anything working is also weird just based on like electricity and like different temperature shifts that just happen naturally which almost feels paranormal in itself cuz it's like are the ghosts like making it a literal dead zone?

Well, it could be cuz about what's about to happen. So I also that night I was getting a migraine and I have a medication that like wipes it out. So, I took my the gray medication and it didn't work. So, I took a second one and

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it still didn't work. And so, by 1:00 in the morning when we're not getting anything and my head is killing me, I'm just like, "Okay, we're going to bed." Like, that's it.

Yeah.

So, we go to bed and then like around 3 something, we're awaken by an electronic noise in our room and we both sit up straight in the bed. We're like, "What was that?" And we can't figure out what is. There's no electronics in the room, by the way. There's no TVs. There's no, you know, historic place. And the K2 meter that he was using was sitting on his nightstand and it was lighting up to like red and then going back to green, red, green, red, like and he's like, "Oh, was your K2 meter making that noise?" But my K2 meter doesn't make a noise. So I was like, "It's not the K2 meter." And then the the pressure in the room felt so so so heavy.

Oh god.

I forgot one thing and to tell you guys, I couldn't go to sleep at first. This is before anything started happening. And I was trying to go to sleep, trying to go to sleep. My head's just killing me. And

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I I was just trying to concentrate on I think it was the frogs out in the pond outside. I was concentrating on those frogs, just listening to them chirping away. And all of a sudden, they just stopped and everything went silent.

Everything went silent.

Just like a void.

Yeah. I remember thinking, "Oh, that's weird." Like, I wonder what time it is. Like, what makes them stop? Like, is the sun starting to come up? Like I don't even know what time it is. And then we hear that electronic thing in our room and we both sit up and we're like, "What was that?" And then we hear boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom up the stairs.

We're the only ones with keys to this room. And I was like, "Oh my god." And I open up the door and there's nobody there. And I shut it and we're like, "Oh my god, you heard that, right?" He's like, "Yeah, of course I heard that." And then we're sitting there just like, "Holy shit." And I I asked him to look at what time it was. And it was like it was like I don't know 3:17 or something weird like that, you know. And I'm like, "Oh my god, the last thing I want to do is get up and start investigating right now because I'm in like that like half right awake, half asleep thing. My head

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is killing me." And like now I'm scared.

Yeah.

And then we hear like furniture moving above us, but we're on the top floor and we hear like kids running around and like playing and stuff and we're like, "Oh my god, what is happening right now?" And he's like, "They have to be setting this up, right? They have to be doing this. There's no way there's this much going on. they are doing this and I'm like they're not doing that's how are they doing that like

the noise above us you could

I don't know how to describe it other than you could it's not just a noise you could feel the vibration of it too a little bit

and I'm like there's no way like how are they making that up how are they making up the pounding on the stairs and nobody's there like it's coming from all directions and stuff the heaviness like every muscle in my body felt tense like I just felt like I was like this the whole time and we're laying in bed like holding on to each other and we're trying to like pretend nothing's happening and then every time we hear something he's like did you hear that? I heard it. And then like a few minutes later I'd be like, "Oh my god, did you just hear that?"

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Terrified in bed and I have to pee so bad but ain't no way I'm going to the bathroom which is like way it's in our room but our room is laid out to where it's a pretty big room and then there's like this like kind of walked step down into like this creepy dark hallway that then goes into the bathroom. No way am I going to the bathroom by myself right now because I'm going I just knew if I even opened my eyes that something was standing there. I was confident of it.

Oh my god.

And this went on and on and on which felt like forever. And I thought we're never going to go to sleep tonight. This is not going to stop. And my body was starting to hurt from just being so tensed up. And then all of a sudden it just stopped. The whole atmosphere changed. Everything just felt like it lightened up. My whole body just relaxed.

I'm so serious. Was it 4:00 a.m.? Cuz we talked about 4:00 a.m. I think that

Yeah. So, I had him look at what time I was like, "Oh my god, it's over. What time is it?" And he looked at the his phone and he's like, "It's I forget 4:13

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or something random like that." And I was like, "Oh my god, it's over. It's over."

I'm also just so curious like why that block of time? Is that special or is it important in the history of the house? Like did something happen then or is it just when they have the most energy?

Yeah, I don't know. Like I know that they have like the witching hour and then like the devil's hour and stuff like that and it's changed. Like it used to be

midnight and then it was like 3:00 a.m. and stuff and I don't know I don't know all the differences and like what times are like certain portals or things like that. Um but I know that they some people think they have some significance. I just feel like this was meant to be for you, that it was supposed to fall through your radio show because think about how different your experience might be had you gone with that team with like producers and film cameras and all of that. Like you got such a rich experience riddled with ghosts. This was incredible.

Yeah. Oh, and then the next morning um

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they do like uh biscuits in the gift shop, so we don't want to miss that for breakfast, you know. So, but it's at like 7 in the morning. So, we hadn't slept all night, but we're like we're we're getting up and going down there for that. And so, we did and we get in there and the people that are working the biscuits section and stuff, they're like, "Oh, how was your night? What room were you guys in?" And I told him what room we're in and they're like, "Oh, and you guys made it through the night." And we're like, "Wait, do people not usually?" And he's like, "The last two people to stay in there have left in the middle of the night." That that makes me want to go stay in this room specifically so badly.

Right. And then there was a table of like older people sitting there and they were like, "Is it you guys making all that noise last night?"

And we're like, "It wasn't us."

So, everyone was hearing it.

Yes.

That's interesting that everyone heard noises, but it sounds like whatever happens in the specific room that you were in is far worse than what other people experience. Because otherwise, you would think like everyone would be running for the hills, right? Like if

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they're all hearing noises in the middle of the night.

Well, I think different rooms have different types of activity that go on. I would love to go back. I would love to go back and see what happens.

So, does Nick believe after this?

Yeah. He always tells me, "Stop telling people I don't believe because he's had a couple of experiences now." And it's not that he doesn't believe. He just is very, very skeptical about like things that, you know, I'm like, "Oh, look, this is going off or they said this or

The Stanley Hotel

whatever." And he'll be like, "I don't know about that." Which is good. It's good. But like his very first experience, we were at the Stanley Hotel and they were giving us a this was a long time ago. I heard they don't embrace the paranormal right now, but they used to big time. And they were giving me a um kind of like a private paranormal tour. And we were one of the first people to go into the carriage house. They had just opened it like I think like that weekend or something. And they took us up to the like attic area of the carriage house. We're on like a kind of a plank walkway and you can't really walk on either side of it

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for whatever reason. I don't know if you're going to fall through or there just wasn't safety measures for it or whatever. But like we were walking single file on this plank. The guide was in front. I was in the middle and Nick was behind me and it was only us. And something pulled his hair and he was like something just pulled my hair and and he like looked behind him. Nobody's there. And then that was like his his first like he was like there's no way that could have happened. Like somebody pulled my hair.

Oh. And he got touched for the experience that changed him. That's that

touched by a ghost

has to that's like kind of extreme. Touched by a ghost.

Touched by a ghost. Have you ever been touched by a ghost?

Yes. I've had a couple of them. One of them was at Holly's house. So, it's actually her ex-husband's house now, but they have this beautiful house in Vegas, and the guest house is haunted. And she kept telling us that, "Well, the whole house is haunted." But the guest house was especially haunted. And people didn't like staying in there, and worker people that were like um fixing it up

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and stuff were like, "I'm out of here. Like, that place is haunted." And she said, "Everyone has experience in there. You should bring your ghost hunting equipment one day and do a little investigation." So my friend and I drove to Vegas and we met up with Holly, went to her house and she had asked a psychic to come and also like come and hang out with us and do the investigation with us. And at the last minute, she had to cancel for whatever reason. And so when we got there, we were like, well, let's just do the ghost hunt first now that we don't have to wait for somebody and then go to dinner after instead of the opposite way. And so we go in there and I'm like kind of like just doing like a general read around the room with my K2 meter and like just my spidey senses and stuff, you know, just what I feel.

And then I'm like, I think we should go into this one bed. It has two bedrooms in the guest house. I'm like, let's just go in this one room. I'm feeling the most here. I'm getting some spikes on the K2 meter. Like I just feel like this room might be a good place to start. So we all plop down on the floor and we're sitting there and I'm asking questions. I'm like, "Oh, if there's anybody here,

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can you make a tap or something?" and we hear a like a click and we're all like but I'm not I'm not convinced that that's paranormal. So I'm like, "Can you do it again?" And we hear a click again, but I'm still thinking that it could be something in the little kitchen area that's making this noise and it just so happens to be timing out right when I ask. So I ask again, and we hear it again. And so Holly and and our friend Ashley are looking at going, "Oh my god, oh my god." But I'm like, "I don't know. I don't maybe maybe cuz it is, you know, three times now, but I'm not convinced. I'm like, if there's somebody here, will you tap me? And all of a sudden, I felt like a poke in my shoulder blade, my right shoulder blade. I was like, you guys, something just poked me. And they're like, no. Oh my god. And we're like freaking out. And then the ghost hunt in shortly after that. And we um are driving to dinner. And as we're driving to dinner, Holly's phone rings in the car. It's like, you know, hooked up to the car and everything. And she answers it. and it's the psychic. And

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she was like, "Hey, by any chance, did you guys already do the investigation?" Cuz again, we weren't supposed to do it until like 9:00 that night. Instead, we did it at like 6:00 or something. She like, "By any chance, did you guys already do that investigation at your house?" And Holly's like, "Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We just did it. We decided to do it before dinner and stuff." And she was like, "Oh, okay." Cuz I have the little girl that is haunting your guest house sitting in front of me right now. And she wanted me to say that she poked one of you in the back.

And we all started screaming in the cockpit.

Oh my god, I am covered in chills right now. Who is this psychic? Because that like that story verifies and validates for me her ability.

Right. I'll have to ask Holly cuz Holly goes to a few different psych. So I'll have to ask her which one that was.

Wow.

I love it when you get like cuz forever I would have been like I don't know. Like maybe I was just imagining that or maybe like I don't maybe my bra strap was twisted and like slipped around or so you know I try and think of any

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possibility you know but I'm like oh my god that was just that was the confirmation I needed 100%.

Right. There's in my mind there's no doubt like I believed it already but then having the psychic call. Wow.

Oh my gosh. And now you know who poked you too. Like it's not just oh a spirit poked you. It's a little girl. You know exactly who it is.

Wow.

Yeah. And we had heard that there was a little girl, I think the psychic had said she's from like the pioneer days. Um, wherever Holly's house was was near like a, you know, you're in Vegas, so it's a desert, but there was a spring, a natural spring nearby. And so when they were, you know, the wagon days and stuff going by, this would be a stop for a lot of people. And um, they think that she died during one of those stops.

Oh, wow.

And is probably buried somewhere. Well, at least died near the property, but possibly even buried near the property somewhere or on the property somewhere, like unmarked type thing.

Yeah. I mean, it sounds like not a terrible place to have been haunting as a ghost.

Yeah. Right.

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Especially if you like I feel like that would be a pretty sweet place to haunt or live because to see all of you guys doing your investigation. Like I would I would love to eaves drop on you guys hanging out, right? Like that's a great time. She picked a good spot. Yeah. Another time that I was touched is Holly and I were doing a um a pilot for a paranormal show, which didn't get picked up, but we were in the basement of the murder house from American Horror Story. It's the Rosenheim mansion.

Yeah.

And um that's where we were doing our pilot show and investigation, and we had a a psychic medium with us, Holly and myself, and then of course camera crews and stuff. And we were sitting in the basement on the floor and I was like, I feel like there's something behind me and Holly had like the SLS camera and she turned it towards me and the second she turned it towards me the whole thing just powered down. Like so we it lost all its battery and it was just it had just been fully charged.

Oh my god. Were you yourself?

Not yet. But I was like, "Okay, well

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that's weird." And then I had my hand out. I'm trying to remember exactly how this happened. And I said, "If there's somebody here with us, will you touch my hand?" And all of a sudden, I got this jolt through my finger, like an electric jolt in my like a zap. Like I touched something electric or something like or like when you know you have too much static in your bedding or whatever, you feel that zap on your finger. And I was like, "Oh my god,

I something just zapped my finger." It's so wild because every time Karan and I have done a paranormal investigation, I've asked and like said out loud to the spirits like, "I'm open to being touched. Like, you can touch me." And I've never been touched. But twice now, you've you've said, "If there's a spirit, you can like tap me or touch me." And it they do. That's amazing.

Yeah. But I will say I've been on a million investigations and I asked for it a lot and it usually does not.

So, I'm giving you the good stories of when it did. It's interesting too that like the two times that you were touched that it felt so different, right? Like

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one felt like a physical person poking you

and then the other one was just this like shot of electricity. It is really interesting how it can kind of manifest and and feel different even though the

recent investigations

act might be the same from the spirit like attempting to make contact.

So fascinating. Where have you most recently investigated?

Actually just this past weekend I was at um Bethy's haunted sweet suite. It's a haunted Airbnb in Jackson, California. It's like a the gold rush old mining town. I just had her on my podcast a few weeks ago and she was like, "Oh, next time you're in town, you have to come and stay at the Airbnb." So, it just happened to be my grandma's 106th birthday this past weekend.

Happy birthday.

Crazy, right? So, I went home for that and my brother came from Michigan, too. And I I let Elsie know that I was coming into town and that I would love to go and stay there. So I went with my whole family, my stepdad, my mom, my brother, and Elsie was there, too. And uh we were

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investigating her house and we she also took me around like Jackson and to some of the businesses who also have had experiences and that she's friends with and they told me all their stories. and the National Hotel, which is the historic hotel right in Jackson, the general manager like gave me a tour of the rooms and was telling me some of the stories there and they're going to do my podcast coming up.

So, it was a really Mhm. It was a really amazing experience. But as far as something happening, it was a little quiet, I would say. Although, they did say my name on the recording. Like, we were doing the EVP. We were in the National Hotel and we were in the card room which is where John Wayne used to play cards. It's down in the basement off the bar and we were doing an EVP session in there really quick. We didn't really have permission. Well, I don't think they cared but we didn't have permission really. So, but we were so we were trying to be kind of sneaky and we were in there doing it and it said my

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name and when people say they hear it, I've always been like is it though? Like I my I guess I can hear how you could hear that. But I don't know if it's if it is or not. But this one I was like like a second it happened it was so clear and it was clearly my name. And my name's my name's not weird but it's definitely not that common where it's not like oh Joe is here you know or something like that.

Yeah. Yeah. EVPs are so hard and I feel like in the moment especially they're really hard to hear and then afterwards when you like listen back so many things you didn't hear in the moment come through.

Yeah. Have you ever done the Esta's method?

Um did I do it

where you like you put the headphones on and it goes through like

I've been No. No. I know what it is. I've been involved in the investigations and like asking the questions, but I haven't worn the the blindfold and put the earphones on cuz I am terrible at hearing stuff. Like I'm the worst.

People hear all kinds of stuff and I'm like, they did they said that? What?

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Really?

That's how we feel, too. Like we've both tried it a couple times and it's so hard to decipher

what's happening. But you know who's really good at it, who's a friend of all of ours is Ash. She's so good at it.

She's so good. And even like not using the estas, just hearing anything coming out like she's it's so clear. She'll be like, "Oh my gosh, they just said this." And we're like, "What?" And then you play it back and it's so clearly that word. Somehow she's got ears for ghosts. So

interesting. That's a good person to have around then.

When we do our investigation, all of us together will

We all have our own special skills. Ash will be Esa's method. Bridget, you will be the touch touch for the ghosts. I don't know what we have to offer.

We'll figure it out on the fly.

Well, that's good. That's good to know. Yeah. I'm bad. And I And then I hate when people I don't hate it. Like I don't like hate on them when they tell me what it is, but I just hate it because I feel like, "Oh, now that's all I'm going to hear."

And like when they show it on TV shows

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and they put down on the bottom what they heard, I'm like, "Well, now how am I supposed to judge for myself what I thought it was?"

Like what if I heard something totally different? How did you hear that? I don't know.

Right. That is tough. I'm curious. Okay. So, I feel like you've had so many amazing opportunities just like within television and travel and everything like that, but there's one show I used to watch of yours. It was was it Bridgette Sexiest Beaches? Is that what it was called?

Yes.

Okay. So, obviously that wasn't a paranormal show, but I'm curious if on shows like that if you've still because you're so open and it seems like you also just like feel the vibe of places that other people might not peg as haunted on shows like that. Did you also find yourself still investigating the paranormal or interacting with the paranormal?

I purposely incorporated paranormal in it as much as I could like when we were doing Key West like we went and saw Robert the doll. So I got to meet Robert the doll for the first time. And in Hawaii, we did like this whole paranormal type thing where they were talking talking to me about the gods and

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the goddesses and they took me on this paranormal hike and they were telling me about the soldiers that marched through at night and like all their beliefs and stuff and this rock formation that they believe has like a fa a skull face in it and like all kinds of things they were showing me on that. And then like it's not so much paranormal, but like we incorporated pirate type stuff and like going out to where they think like the pirate booty was was like hidden on Rock Island. And so I tried to incorporate like

as much of that type of stuff as I could onto the show because it is such like a passion of mine.

Yeah. Because it's like any place can be haunted. And also like if you love the paranormal, we always try to find ways to bring it up, right? Like I feel like I'm a great conversationalist at weddings because somehow

I just end up with a group of people around me telling ghost stories

which is not like a normal setting for it but you know people are drinking and then suddenly they're admitting to their ghost stories and I'm writing them down in the notes app on my phone so I can tell it on the podcast.

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I love that.

If you created a paranormal investigation group, who would your dream people be to be part of your ghost hunting trip?

Aside from us, obviously.

Obviously. Yeah. Uh, it's hard. Um, I I prefer going into a place not to do like a hardcore investigation. I like to go into a place just to get an experience

and so I don't necessarily need like a specific group of people with me that bring different things to the table. I think it's kind of nice having a psychic medium with us because they can tap into things that maybe, you know, I'm not catching on to or um just get more information out of stuff. But one person or a couple of people who have like a love for it too or are super open-minded to having an experience because I think if you have people with you that aren't open-minded to it or don't want to have an experience or are scared of it or whatever that it will jeopardize the experience you have too. I also feel like there's some level of like intimacy

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and trust required for paranormal investigations. Like

cuz Karina and I always go about it with like utmost respect. And I feel like we we all kind of agreed on this when we talked on your show, but like

we're not trying to make them perform. We're generally just

Yeah. Ghost hunting is such like a negative word.

Yeah. It's not the right term to use cuz we're not like hunting anyone down and and forcing them into something. It's like an exploration and an inquiry of like what do you have to share with us? What do you want to tell us? Like just here for a potential experience.

Yeah. But like you don't always know how other people feel going into an investigation. Like are they going to go in being like I want demons to come through or are they willing to be respectful?

Yeah. You have to be careful of the energy. But I also like going I mean this sort of is contradictory but I also like going with new people who have not done it before. Like I really like introducing people to it at the same

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time.

Yeah.

But again like I don't just take any

haunted bucket list

random like oh off the street and be like you got to come with me. Like it's people that I've talked to about it before and are showing a curiosity and I'm like come with me. Let's go do it.

So where else do you want to go aside from everywhere? But like what's on your top of your list? My bucket list is so long and every time I do my show I'm like, "Oh, I'm adding that to my list." Um, Waverly is one of the top places because I really want to see the the creeper, the crawler. I mean, so many people have said that. I got a virtual tour on my old podcast with them. They like did a whole they put me on like FaceTime and we did a whole tour through the place.

That's fun.

But I feel like I just need to go there and experience it myself. Oh, Trans Alagghany is also high on my list. I just pulled out my notes.

Yes,

the Crescent Hotel.

I would love to go to the Crescent Hotel. I also have one suggestion for you, too. And this is also a suggestion to Sabrina because I've told you about it. We've covered it on the podcast, but I'm the only one out of the two of us who've gone. Have you in Charleston,

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South Carolina? Have you gone to the old Charleston jail?

No, I've never been to Charleston, South Carolina. I've never been to South Carolina.

Charleston's actually beautiful.

It's beautiful. It's very rich in in ghost stories and whatnot, but the old Charleston jail It's a very wealthy town.

Yeah. Um it's this like old dilapitated jail that they do ghost tours in and it has just like really tragic history. But it reminds me like it's it feels almost like a mini Waverly Hills because we were getting activity constantly throughout the whole thing. Shadow figures darting like people brushing like feeling other people brush up against you and you're like alone in here. You hear the old keys

like down the hall dangling from Yeah. the old jail cells. There was uh you were talking about lollipops, but like

there was a a wire that was just like disconnected coming out of the ceiling and it started like voom. It was like basically being like a yes, no call in response to Yeah.

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Wow. I would add that to your list because I feel maybe I was very lucky, but I do feel like, you know, I just signed up to go on the regular ghost tour to mostly learn about the history and just be in this old cool place and ended up getting so much paranormal activity around me and the group that I was with in like the 60-minute tour, whatever it was.

I walked past it when we were in Charleston last two years ago now. And I walked past it in broad daylight, but it looked like the lighting changed surrounding that building. It was like as if I was looking at the building during nighttime even though I was in daytime. There's a weirdness to it, but it's worth a visit.

Yeah. Have you guys been to Velisa?

No.

No.

Have you?

No, but it's on my list. I'm just going through my list here. There's so many. I mean, there's so many that I have done, too, though, so that's good. What else have you done?

So, I talked about the Stanley Mansfield reformatory. You know, they were so

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amazing there. You guys know um Ohio State Reform, right? Or Mansfield and where they shot Shaw Shank Redemption. So, a lot of people just call it the Shaw Shank prison. But they waited up for me cuz I was there doing a Halloween convention. And they waited up for me until like 12:30 at night till I was done with all the things that had I had to do with that. It was a PR person, a tour guide that that a ghost hunting tour guide and then a security guard and that was it. And it was Nick and I and they gave us a tour through the whole place. It was so incredible. I didn't have like an experience, but it was just an amazing time to be there and just like have it come to ourselves.

You're making me want to go paranormal investigate right now so badly. Like

so badly. But like not even plan. just be like, "Hey, can you let me in at 1:00 in the morning? Can you give me a tour?"

Just see what happens.

Eastern State Penitentiary. So, I used to have a show on Yahoo a long time ago. I don't know if you call it a show, but

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because it was on just like Yahoo online, but once a week I would do an animal show. It was called Animal Nation. It was like this cute story about animals of some sort. And we were we were all over the place with these stories. But then they asked me if I wanted to do like a six-part Halloween special for them. I was like, "Um, yeah, absolutely." And so we did different things, but they hooked me up to do um Eastern State Penitentiary.

And so we went there and they I got the full tour and they were like amazing there. I got locked into El Capone's cell and like it was just so incredible. And now I heard they're not embracing the paranormal anymore.

How can you not like why does that happen? It's you already have the reputation. You can't get rid of the reputation. So just lean into it. Like that's that and people mad. I'm mad.

I'm mad, too.

And I don't know if it's true. I don't know if it's 100% true, but that's I just somebody just told me that on my podcast not too long ago. They're like, "Oh, yeah. They're not really like they're not doing that kind of stuff anymore there." And it's usually due to new management,

right? Well, they'll they'll realize

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quickly they have to lean back in.

I feel like we should just create a management business now to reacquire all of the haunted places that have been stripped of their haunted titles. There's a hotel that we covered in Denver, Colorado, and I can't remember what it's called, but their website like had like two whole pages about the haunted history. And so I called the hotel. I was like, "Let's just like call and see if they can tell me any ghost stories." And the woman who picked up was so short with me and like was like, "It's not haunted as far as we know." And I'm like, "It literally says on your website like there's all this ghost history." As of like two months ago, all of that has been taken off of the website and like it's a lot harder to find now.

Oh, and you don't remember what hotel? Because I did a ghost tour and started at a hotel for my last podcast and it was called like the Oxford or the It started with an O.

We stayed at the Brown Palace.

Oh, Brown Palace. Okay.

That one's supposed to be haunted, too. I haven't stayed there, though.

Okay. We both had a really weird haunting there that like maybe it was a

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haunting, maybe it wasn't. We both, we were staying there on tour. We both the same night had a very similar dream about like a monstrous penis, which was like so weird and very out of character for us to be dreaming about this, but we were both dreaming about this like really scary penis.

Wait, you guys get a penis in a photo? Now you're dreaming a penis.

I know. And they were years apart, too.

So weird.

It was very weird.

It was very weird. We swear we're not that dickentric.

Have you guys done um Virginia City at all?

No. No.

It's in Nevada and it's an old mining town, but it's like the whole town is haunted. The entire town. And it's a great place to go investigating. It's a great place for like a newbie or a beginner because you're almost guaranteed to have something happen cuz the literally the whole town.

You're making our list so much longer now.

I know. Yeah. I definitely want to go to one of those old ghost towns. I feel like that's

they need a new western.

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We need to develop a good readads but for haunted places and so like people

paranormal game

can review the haunted places that they've been to and do like a where I want to visit.

Yeah,

it'll be a very niche app for just a specific group of people use it.

I would use it all the time.

I would too.

Okay,

Bridget, we have a little game for you

and this is going to help you maybe decide on some other places to visit and investigate. Okay.

So, we're going to read like three synopsies of haunted places, and you get to pick out of the three which one you want to go to, and then we'll tell you what the place is.

Okay.

So, the first one is a place where spirits do not rest. They remember, they haunt, and they terrify. You're almost guaranteed to have a paranormal encounter here. Crumbling long abandoned halls, hundreds of thousands of deaths, shadow figures, a death shoot, and children laughing.

Okay, that sounds like Waverly.

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Something mysterious lurks behind the facade of glamour and glitz of this next place. Known for iconic parties and sultry happenings, this haunted location offers secret passageways, phantom footsteps, and some personal memories.

H, that could be a lot of places. All right, this third one. If you're still looking for something royal, how about a fortress of fear with a haunting history? Torture, betrayal, major Catholic guilt, a headless ghost, starved prisoners, a lady in gray, and yes, ghost monkeys. It really has it all. Centuries of bloodshed and dark deeds means no corner is safe. Gosh, that sounds like the Tower of London or something. Um, I'm gonna go with the first one because it said paranormal guaranteed. I'm like, "All right, it the first one is Waverly Hills and that last one was Tower of London."

What?

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And then, okay, read me the second one again. Let me see if I can get it.

Something mysterious lurks behind the facade of glamour and glitz of this next place. Known for iconic parties and sultry happenings, this haunted location offers secret passageways, phantom footsteps, and some personal memories.

So, the Playboy Mansion.

Yes.

Well, honestly, I would want to go there to like check it out cuz they've been renovating it and stuff. So, I really want to go and check it out, but I'm so curious if it's haunted. There was this podcast recently that had a butler on who was like trying to say that it was never haunted and stuff. And I just have to say just because you've never had an experience somewhere does not mean it's not haunted.

Yeah. You can never say definitively that a place is not haunted.

He did.

Well, he's off. Shame on him. What's his name? Let's Let's post it.

I know. I know. And not only that, but like one of the encounters that I had

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there, two other people were with me and saw it at the same time. So, you're calling all three of us a liar at the same moment.

Oh my god, that's so insulting. Well, we have one more round.

Oh, I'm so excited though that I like got

I know. I was very I know you're three for three. Okay. Nestled in the woods, settled at top blood soaked battlegrounds, a place so haunted it inspired an iconic horror film. You'll be greeted by an array of ghosts, some playful, others unmistakably malevolent. You're sure to catch EVPs, feel cold spots, and maybe even witness light phenomena. But be careful. It might just be a gateway to something extraterrestrial.

Ooh, okay.

Forget one building. This haunted town offers delights by day and frights by night. Steeped with a history of death, betrayal, and murder, you are sure to experience vengeance seeking ghosts, full body apparitions, flickering lights, and the feeling of being

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watched. This historical place is remembered not for its beauty, but for its horrors. From cursed cemeteries to cursed ins, good luck finding a place to stay that isn't haunted. I'm trying to figure out which what place that is myself.

Okay. How would you like to step into the wilderness, get some fresh air, and stumble upon miles and miles of haunted happenings? Known for its hostile environment, this place has become a favorite for some unbecoming individuals, both dead and alive. Soldiers, hitchhikers, beasts. You'll have to determine what is real and what is not. But you'll enjoy nature as you do so. But just be careful where you step and let someone know where you're going ahead of time.

Oo. Okay. Well, those are harder ones. I mean, the Bridgewater Triangle,

it's close. Is that one of them?

That one was the Pine Barons in New Jersey with like the Jersey Devil.

Okay. The Pine Barons. I don't really

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know that much about that. Is that where the the New Jersey Devil is supposed to be?

Yeah. Mhm. It's a pretty big area that the mafia Italian mob is said to dump bodies as well. So,

there's a lot happening there.

There's a lot going on. dense forest

and then the first one.

Do you want us to read it again or do you want to pick between the three first?

Um, is one of them Gettysburg?

No.

No, but honestly the description for the second one could probably be applied to Gettysburg as well.

It could be. Yeah, it was Salem, but I feel like Yeah, it's pretty clear.

It's also Gettysburg.

Salem. Gettysburg. You know,

same.

And what was the other one?

The first one was the Conjuring House.

Oh, okay. cuz they say that there's a lot of aliens and alien activity there,

right?

And they've actually started, so this could be a new experience for you if you want to go to the Conjuring House and experience it outside of just the house. They've started camping. They call it glamping. Ghost camping.

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I don't know if they still do it

or are they not doing it anymore?

I think they've like closed down the Conjuring to ghost tours recently.

That's what I heard, too. I heard that there was some weirdness going on over there. Who who is this company that's

Bridget's alien experiences

buying all these places? And now I'm like now I feel very Scooby-Doo. We're like there's one evil masked person who's going into all of our favorite places and ruining them.

But you know what? The alien thing. Okay, this is going to sound crazy like I can't get a show sold, but Nick and I also did a pilot for a paranormal show way a long time ago. Like like shortly after I left the mansion, I feel like. And his dad was an astronaut. one of the original Mercury astronauts back in the 60s. And so, um, he's always been fascinated by like aliens and things like that. And so, we had a show where we were going to go to places that had both alien stories and like paranormal ghost stories and things and like see if there's like a connection or like what

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we experience when we go there and stuff. We did our pilot in Julian, California. It's over by kind of like on the outskirts of San Diego.

Okay. and it's up in kind of like the mountains and stuff. And this town is like really haunted. There's a old historic hotel there that's haunted. That's where we stayed and did our ghost tour. But then they also have had UFO sightings and things like that there. And there's a guy who does like these star tours at night where you go and look at the telescope and he's pointing everything out. So we added that to it. And then we went down into the old mine and went panning for gold, things like that. The whole thing. So like anytime where like the aliens are also involved like I'm have a special interest not because I want to because I know I'm going to get Nick to be interested.

So you don't want to have an encounter with aliens.

I don't know. See I believe they exist. I believe they're here

and I don't know if it's for our better good.

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I've heard too many different things going on. I I'm a little afraid of them.

Yeah, I feel that too. Sabrina has long been like, "Abduct me. I want to be abducted." And then I've been like, "No, I don't with aliens at all." But more recently, I have been open to participating in a C5 event because it doesn't guarantee you're going to be abducted. It's more of just like, will you see the UFOs in the sky?

Oh, I'm okay with that. And I may have seen that. So, my husband's family has a 500 acre ranch out in Colorado, and there's nothing on it except for like an old homesteaded cabin from the 1800s, which we just we just use it to store stuff. Like, you don't you do not want to stay in there. And not cuz it's haunted, but you'll get that what is it? The Anora virus or whatever, like dropping like it's not good. But there's a ton of cows. They lease the land to like graze cows on and things like that. And every year in the summertime, we go there and we camp on it for a couple of days. And one night we were sitting out by the campfire and it's not that late,

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but it it always feels later when you're camping and you know it gets nighttime and stuff like so I think it was probably like maybe 10 o'clock or whatever. And to get to the the actual um ranch, you have to go down this long ass road. Like it takes you go down a dirt road first that's like more public, but then you turn off of that road to a even like more dirt road with like potholes and like like not kept like the other one. And there's a gate and everything and and then you drive for like another 15 minutes down. And so we're like way deep in there and it butts up to the national forest. So it's very isolated. It's very out there. My husband and his brother and me, that's who was camping. And then one of them noticed at the end of the road row, they're like, "What are those lights down there?"

There was like these like little lights. I make it look like they were dancing around. They weren't. They were just kind of like sitting there at the And it looked like it was very like right at the end of the driveway. Interesting. Which is very far though. But we're like looking at it and I'm like not believing

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them. I feel like they're just

like whatever. And I'm not paying attention. And then they then they're both like really checking it out and they're like, "Yeah, what is that? I think that's an alien." And Nick's like, "You got to come over here and check this out." Like I think this might be an alien. I'm like, "Are they with me? Like what's going on?" And so I go and I look and sure enough there are these lights and it looks to me like somebody has a drone that's just sitting there. But like it's 10:00 in the in the night in the middle of nowhere, Colorado. Like why would somebody have a drone at the end of our

driveway? Yeah.

So like we're watching it and it's just sitting there. It never did anything. And the story doesn't go anywhere from that. But I just I that's the only time I question whether did I really see

How long did it stay there for though?

It was still there when we went to bed.

That's so weird. It feels like nope with the cloud that just hovers in the sky. But yeah, that is really bizarre.

It was the very first year that I met Nick. He went to the ranch with a friend

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and they found a cow that had been mutilated.

Oh, that's so

And he said it's crazy. It is crazy because it is laser precision.

What? Weird.

So, it's not just like it got struck by lightning or like something got it or something.

That's also just like unsettling to come across, but that's a lot of land, open land that like if people aren't there all the time, who knows what happens on the land.

I know.

Yeah. Like if I'm an alien, I'd be like, "Yeah, this is a perfect place for me to stop and dissect a cow."

Oh, you should encourage him to put up trail cams just randomly every like 10 acres to pop up a camera to see what happens. We should. The scariest thing that happened was just this last summer. We went for a hike and we were walking down this little I don't know, I guess just down the hill for lack of a better term. And um Nick's brother and his girlfriend were at the top of the hill still like on the ridge and we were walking down and there's like just all this like shrubbery and brush beside us. And all of a sudden he yells out,

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"Moose, moose." And we're like, "What?" And all of a sudden, we see this giant bull moose head peek out over the bushes and look at us. And we're And those things are so mean, you guys. Oh my god. And we're like,

"Oh my god." And we're like slowly backing up,

right? Well, they're extremely territorial and they're massive. Like if that thing charges at you, you're you're done. Damn.

So huge. It took him like 10 gallops to go across the entire field. like something that takes us 30 minutes to walk back.

Oh my gosh. Well, this makes me think about our plan to go look for Bigfoot at the Bridgewater Triangle.

Are there moose there?

No, but Bigfoot. But maybe we maybe we should bring something stronger than our our wits.

Than our visors. Than our visors.

I'll bring bear spray.

Would you rather encounter a moose or a Bigfoot?

Bigfoot for sure.

Okay. Wait, there is one other creature

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aside from Bigfoot that's said to haunt the Bridgewater Triangle, which also if we come into contact with it, I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but apparently there's pterodactyls. People see pterodactyls in the sky. Don't you remember this?

Yes, but it still blows my mind every time I hear it. There's a there's prehistoric dinosaurs in the sky in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

I was hoping you were going to say it was a puckwaji.

Nobody. We'd all like to encounter the puckwaji, right?

We also just recently learned about the squonk, who is a crypted from Pennsylvania, and it's like the saddest, ugliest crypted, but it like is always crying.

It's part skunk, right?

Um, no. It kind of looks like a pig and a pug.

Oh,

yeah. It's just it's um it's not attractive and it knows it, unfortunately.

And it cries a lot. It's like very depressed.

Yeah, it's really sad. If you encounter

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one or if you kind of like corner one, it will just cry itself into a puddle and disappear.

Yeah.

What? That's so sad.

I know. It's so cute though.

A I don't know about him.

Well, we'll all have to get together soon and actually do our investigation.

Yeah. So, we'll make some plans. But Bridget, thank you so much for joining us and for playing our game with us and talking about the paranormal. It's something that obviously all of us could talk about all day long.

For sure.

Can you tell everyone where to find you and if you have anything exciting coming out, what they can be excited for?

Yes. Um, I am Bridget Markore on Instagram. That's where I'm most active. There's a Twitter out there, too. I only post just like when I have something to promote on there. And Facebook, which I never go to, so don't bother there. Just Instagram.

You sound like me where I'm like, uh, this social media, but I never log in. I know. And then um I have YouTube I have YouTube for my Ghost Bunny podcast and it's Ghostbunny podcast and uh then I

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have Instagram for Ghostbunny podcast as well. Um and it's Ghostbunny podcast. Um and then I also do the girls next level podcast with my co-host Holly and we talk about we it's a rewatch podcast for the girls next door. So we have a lot of fun on that. That's everything that's going on.

Amazing. and we will see you on the other side.

Very spooky.