This Paranormal Life - #395 - The Dark Truth Behind the Secret Room at Glamis Castle

Episode Date: December 3, 2024

When we think about castles, a few things usually spring to mind - knights, kings, a moat. But if you mention Castle GLAMIS to the people of Scotland, only one word some to mind... MONSTER. That's because Castle Glamis allegedly holds a dark secret, one passed down from Earl to Earl - That there's a secret room in the castle, containing a prisoner who's been trapped their entire life...Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTubeJoin our Secret Society Facebook CommunitySupport us on Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife to get access to weekly bonus episodes!Buy Official TPL Merch! - thisparanormallife.com/storeIntro music by www.purple-planet.comEdited by Philip Shacklady Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can jellyfish sting other jellyfish? What if vampires are right and human blood is delicious? All of these questions you can find the answer to right here on This Paranormal Life! Hello everyone and welcome back to This Paranormal Life, the comedy paranormal podcast where every week we investigate a brand new paranormal tale and come to the conclusion right at the end as to whether or not it is real or it is false. Kit, I feel like you were thrown a little bit by those intro questions.

Mankind has not been thrown by a single word like that since Albert Einstein said, Yoricka! You threw in, I think, one extra word. I was like, oh, gee, it was like a live grenade just went off. The jellyfish one? The jellyfish question. No, it was the other one. You said, said something like right here. Oh, right. Oh, I see. Anyway, that threw me.

Um, the jellyfish question was dumber than usual actually, because that's an interesting hypothesis. Can they sting fish? That's the entire reason they have stingers. Well, yeah, but if you're a jellyfish who has stingers, you make the sting. So aren't you like, But didn't you say can jellyfish sting other fish? Other jellyfish! Other jellyfish?

Other jellyfish. Yeah, of course they can sting other fish. But could they sting another jellyfish? I think in the same way that someone can shoot themselves with their own gun. Yeah, I think you can. I think they can do it. Not to go back to the Albert Einstein thing, by the way, because you didn't bring that up. I brought that up. But isn't that a crazy word? Isn't that Eureka? That you do something so nuts, so sick, you just completely reinvent the world. And then he just like, is, is that even a word? Is it? I don't know. It's got to be like Latin or something for idea or something. So then just drop the hardest word of all times. Well, YORICA!

Yorica's not the hardest word of all time. YORICA! And like, and a word that no one ever gets to say. Yeah. Cause he kind of set the standard that it's, it would be like if Steph Curry said a crazy word after he sunk a three. I kind of like that though. And then he's like, you don't get to say that unless you're also making perfect shots from

the half court line. You don't get to say this word. Right. So what you're saying is we need to make up our own word that we can shout whenever we do something good. Yeah. I mean, you know, like, McClangoroon. We've already tried that one.

And it's bad. If you just like, I don't know, you're running for a bus, you don't think you're going to make it. But then you squeeze in right before the doors close and you just look into the face of the nearest old woman and just say, McClangoran! As like a celebratory thing. She'll get it. I guess everyone thought Eureka was weird, probably when Einstein said it.

So McClangoran, maybe people come around to it. Yeah, you never know. You never know. But hey, welcome to this paranormal life. We don't like to ramble too much at the start of the podcast because that's not what we're here today to do. Speak for yourself. I've got a case that I'm bringing to the table today on the podcast, a case worthy of a Mclangerun. It truly is. Today, we're not investigating ghosts or aliens or jellyfish. We're investigating a castle. A castle that holds a dark secret so terrible that those who learn it are changed forever.

Wow, so we're about to be changed? That's right. Kid, I know your parents have been trying to change you forever. So I'm going to try and do what they couldn't. And my wife. We're going to hear all about it right after a quick word from today's sponsors. With a reminder that every episode of This Paranormal Life is available ad free right now on type it in www.thisparanormallife.com or patreon.com forward slash this paranormal life. Our story today starts in the village of Glamis in Scotland. It was a rainy night when a young doctor arrived at his accommodation,

Glamis castle, a huge castle constructed in the 15th century. So old and awe inspiring that it was allegedly the inspiration behind the setting of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. The Doctor threw open the large doors to shelter himself from the rain. He was immediately greeted by the staff. Doctor, welcome to Castle Glamis. Please come with me. The man was shown to his room and dropped his bags, happy to be out of the rain.

I hope you find your stay here at Glamis Castle pleasing. Our one request is that you do not wander. Why is that? For you to not know why is the greatest blessing of all. Good night. You having a good night's sleep after that? He slams the door shut, you just hear 18 locks. Yeah, that's all you want to hear. What you want to hear when you check into an old timey castle is... Breakfast is at 11.

Breakfast is at 11. Just help yourself. We have muffins. Checkouts at 11.. Here's your keycard in room 412 and here is a straight jacket for when you finally lose your mind. At the stroke of midnight. I might later tonight go check out the hotel's gym. How late is it open? Oh, you want to go check out the gym in the Forbidden Zone? How about here we go. Why don't I just kill you now myself? I don't make things quick, I don't quicken up your stay a little bit." So he took this advice on board and the doctor went on with his stay in the castle. And let

me tell you, this place is huge. It had a chapel, dining rooms, a lot of bedrooms. The man felt like he could stay for weeks and not even see it all. Unfortunately, he was even more right than he knew. One day, he returned to his room and noticed that one end of the carpet was ruffled, as if someone had moved it while he was gone. Curious to see why, he began to move the furniture, clearing a path so that the carpet could be fully removed from the floor. And when he raised it up, in front of him was a trap door. Whoa! The Doctor had heard legends before that Castle Glamis was said to hide a secret room. But what scared him wasn't the existence of the room itself, but what it could be hiding.

The words of the staff echoed in his head. Our one request is that you do not wander. The doctor stared at the trap door. For you to not know why is the greatest blessing of all. Should he enter? Good night. I don't think the words good night were the words that were just like wrestling around in his imagination at this point. So what you're saying is curiosity is at risk of killing this cat. Meow. It really is. I mean, do you, would you go in the trap door and the old Glamis castle? I guess context is key here. Are you saying that he thinks someone has been coming up to and from this trap door? I don't know. Or someone's been going down into it while he's not in his room.

You know, best case scenario, wine cellar. Worst case scenario, sex dungeon. Yeah, I think we were on the same train of thought. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe best case scenario, depending on what you're into. Yeah. Combine those two things.

Wine cellar in the sex dungeon. Hello! Room for one? He took a deep breath and forced open the trap door, revealing total darkness below. Once he lowered himself down, he realized he was standing in a thin, dark passage, kept secret from the guests of the castle. At the end of the passageway was a large cement wall that was so fresh, it looked like it had just been put up in the last few days. Had someone locked off this part of the castle knowing that the doctor was coming to stay? He said the cement was so fresh that he could leave an impression just by pushing on it with a finger.

Just, no, that would be way too much effort to stop him from going there. Just put him in a different room. No, all the other rooms were full apparently. He decided that the staff were right. Whatever secret was being held in this castle, he wanted nothing to do with it. So we left. The next morning he awoke to a knock on his bedroom door.

Good morning, doctor. Your carriage is here to take you to the station for the first train. I've only just arrived. I'm supposed to- Your carriage is here. It's time to go. I don't know why my voice has changed

since you first met me. Sorry, oh, it's 3.15 in the morning. I've aged quite rapidly, it would seem. I forgot my original accent when you entered the castle. Someone disturbed my painting in the basement, I think. I inhaled some liquid cement last night while erecting the wall. He was almost escorted personally from the building

after having made that discovery. The Doctor never unraveled the secret, but there was a secret. Something, or someone, was being hidden from the public at Castle Glamis. Crazy start to today's story, am I right? Kind of. On the other hand, nothing happened. But you know, if you need puties in the eye of the beholder here, a guy said some weird words, for sure, and then someone stayed in the castle and found a door to nowhere. I think there's a lot of strange coincidences here.

Granted, if you trespass in most hotels, you'll be escorted out of the building. But the Doctor wouldn't be the only guest in this castle to tell similar stories. After staying in this castle, Lord Ernest Hamilton wrote about discovering a hidden passage in his room. In his own writing, he said he discovered, quote, a trap door in the floor of the blue dressing room. So similar claims to our original doctor friend who stayed, there's another patron who's visited the castle, discovered a trap door. Look, trap door, walk-in wardrobe. What is the difference here, you know? This is just extra real estate for storage Maybe it's not a seedy dark reason that it's there. It is weird that there is trap doors in the floor of every room

Sure, the guest rooms a little strange So what exactly is going on in this castle? Well to find out we need to learn a little more about its origin You see Kit the castle served as the home to the Earl of Strathmore and its Factor. I had to look up what a Factor was because I didn't know, but it's sort of a manager slash groundskeeper that is brought in to look after the property. Hmm, okay. Whenever the Earl passed on to the next Earl, that person would take up residency in the castle with the Factor. I think up to like 16 Earls and Factors lived in this castle, which is crazy. But by the time the 18th century arrived, the castle fell mostly empty.

Even the caretakers and owners refused to live on the property. And why? Because the castle Glamis allegedly holds a dark secret passed down from Earl to Earl and factor to factor I don't know why I passed down Earl to Earl Doesn't sound that cool does it this is like saying there was a joke passed down jester to jester It's like I didn't sound that cool This truth was that in the castle there was a hidden room We have to know what the secret is we're dancing around the secret so much We're dancing around it. The secret, if you know the secret, the door leads to nowhere, but the secret was passed on.

You're not ready for the secret. And if you only, clearly, you're not ready. Clearly I'm not because... Oh, is your name Kit Earl Malvena? No it's not, alright? So you don't get to know the secret. Do you know the... I need to know if you know the secret. The Earls can barely handle the secret. As soon as they learn it, one of them just killed himself. Right, but you...

The secret's so dumb. But you wrote the script. Rory's printed out the script. Don't touch the script, alright? So clearly he must know the secret and you're not an Earl. I'm sorry. Unless something's changed since I last knew you. How about a little flashback?

For you not to know is the greatest blessing of all time, I said, mother f***. And yes, my voice is back to normal now, because it's the first day you met me. He knows the word mother f*** in the 17th century or something. That's crazy. All I'm saying is you're going to look back on the days you didn't know the secret as the good times. The factor was Samuel L. Jackson. So just be happy you don't know the secret. Go in that trap door one more time, mother****.

Now look, I will admit, a trap door and secret passageways hidden in a castle, that isn't unheard of in the olden days. Especially back in the 15th century in Scotland. You know, if an enemy attacked, a secret room or a chamber could be used by the residents to hide. But this chamber was different because this castle's hidden chamber already had a resident. A prisoner who had been trapped there for their entire life. Pretty cool twist huh? And that's not even the secret. This better not be like a riddle where the prisoner is like time or something or the prisoner is the cat is the factor of because he can't leave because it's his job, there better not be a riddle.

Or like a metaphor or something. Like the treasure inside the secret room was the journey that we went on to find it. Yeah, hell no. I'm going to throttle you. I'm going to smash that coke can over your head. There's a goblin. There's a goblin in the room. It locked him down there. His name is Mike. Yeah, he was like the first goblin we ever found. We put him in a room. We were so scared of him. Confusingly, his name is Earl. He's not an Earl, but his name is Earl. If you meet him, he's like, my name is Earl. He is a country, he has a Western voice. Sounds like Jason Lee. The 13th Earl of the castle was named Claude Beauslian, a boisterous, energetic man with a large quote musical family, a real life of the party type guy.

It's easy to be the life of the party when you don't have a job and you just kind of think when you own a castle, your job is owning a castle and you're part of the aristocracy. You're going to have a good time. But later descriptions of the Earl are very different. They said quote, He has an ever-sad look and whatever the secret of the castle was, Claude thought it so terrible that it placed him beyond all normal aid. Hmm, what on earth could it be? Do you think it's KFC's secret blend of 11 herbs and spices? I mean, what could the secret be that you're a happy, go-lucky earl, you move into the

castle, you're having a great time throwing dinner parties, and they're like, hey, can you come with me for a second into the meeting room? And you're like, yeah, yeah, can I bring my drink? Because I just topped up this whole goblet with meat, and I'm just having a good time here. Do we have cigars yet? Yeah, Jerry was telling a crazy story too, so Jerry, don't tell me the punchline before I get back here. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, how many URLs does it take to screw in a light bulb? Don't tell me just yet, I'm just gonna go into this other room. And it's like, Sats, sats, sats, sats. The castle has a what? Sats, sats, sats, sats. Trapdoor leads to, excuse me? Sats, sats, sats.

He just comes back in. He's like 90 years old now. Sunken eyes, grey hair. It's like, yeah, so, so yeah, as I was saying, how many Earls does it take to... Silence. I shall retreat to my quarters. Silence, everyone. Alexa, play Johnny Cash's Hurt.

I hurt myself today. Alexa's just the name of his musician in the corner. I'm jealous. At once, Sire. Alexa is just the name of his musician in the corner. At once, Sire! What a flute! Alexa, remind me to not tell anyone about the secret. Of course, Sire!

There's a secret? Silence! A king having a servant just called Alexa is so funny. Alexa said a reminder for 9am tomorrow to write down the secret. So I don't forget. Actually I don't trust you. I'm going to use my squire, Siri. Siri, remind Alexa to remind me to write down the secret so I don't forget it.

I love that modern day virtual assistants just make you into like a 16th century earl. They were able to do all the same shit, but just using servants. Yeah, yeah. It's just like, Alexa, turn up the heat of the castle by two degrees. They just put a log on the fire. It's not like a home heating system.

Right. Siri, can you send a message to the other earls? You'll have to unlock my shackles to do that. Unlock the shackles. Honestly, sometimes I think it's easier for me to do it rather than even asking Siri to do it. But this is the truth. Whenever an Earl hears the secret, they are changed forever.

According to one guest, Claude at one point told his wife, I have been in the room, I have heard the secret, and if you wish to please me, you will never mention the subject again. What can it be? This was the party guy. What can it be? This was the fun, happy guy with his musical family,

who was like the life of the party, and he's now like, if you ever ask me about the secret again, I will behead you. I don't like to think about it. What happens in that trap door is, is this, is the servant just playing the Earl? You know, that COVID era Gal Gadot imagine video, is that what he's playing them? And he's just like, God, I can't go on after seeing this, the worst possible thing is he whispering in the Earl's ear, just climate change is real, then he just becomes impossibly depressed? Well, the crazy thing is,

is what is this secret that is so long lasting that it has to be passed down to another Earl? You said a guy was living in the trap door and then you said that's not the secret by the way. I know. So, so. I didn't say a guy was living down there. You know what, let's just park the secret because it feels like we're getting nowhere with the secret anyway.

Let's go back to the guy. I said that the secret room chamber, if there is one, might have a resident. You said it did have a resident. At one point I said it was a goblin called Mike. You said they had been in there their entire lives. You were quite specific. Well, that's just one theory of what could be in the thing. Oh my god.

This is where I'm like... That's not coming back, is it? That's not coming back. You're like, didn't you say there was a guy living in the room? I go down on one knee. So you know the secret. It's like, you told me the secret. I could tell from your sad, sad eyes.

I don't know the secret. That's just my eyes. I came into the podcast studio this morning, took one look at Kit, and I was like, you already know the secret? You've aged a thousand years, Sire. And I know. Over the years, many people have tried to uncover the mystery of Glamis Castle. In 1877, a British diplomat named Sir Horace Rumbould visited the castle and talked about the endless frustration felt by the many wives of the Earls, who repeatedly asked about the chamber, but were always shut down by their husbands.

But my favorite story from the castle appeared in the Smithsonian Magazine back in 1850. The current Earl of the castle was away on a work trip, so knowing that she had a window of time, the Earl's wife gathered the rest of the castle's guests for a bit of fun. My husband won't be back until this evening. So why don't we see if we can find this secret chamber? It wasn't long before the guests had devised a plan. They started opening up every window they could find in the castle and hung a white sheet outside. Assuming that this secret room would also have a window, it meant that if they stood outside the castle and saw an unopened window without a white sheet, they would know the

location of the chamber. By the time they'd finished, the castle's exterior was filled with white sheets flowing in the summer breeze. However, a change of plans meant the Earl of Strathmore returned early from his trip. Upon discovering what his wife had done, he flew off the handle. What is the meaning of this? I'm sorry my lord, we were just trying to find the secret chamber. I have told you before there is no secret, woman!

And as such you should not look for it. You are a fool to believe such lies and more so to disobey me." The Lord was so angry at the fact that she had searched for the room, he actually divorced her. But guests who were there that day claimed that when they looked at the castle, among the open windows and white sheets, there was one dark window that remained closed. Pretty cool stuff, huh? So you're saying they did find it. Well, they essentially did find it, but they didn't have the time to figure out where it was. Yeah. I really like this. Can we come back to the little freak who lives in the castle? You said a little freak has lived his entire life. I didn't say that. And maybe if you hear the secret, you'll feel bad calling him a little freak.

If there is a guy in there, or a girl, or anyone, or a goblin. So let's just not go so hard on him. It's the Earl's child or something. It's like Drake. He has like a kid he's not admitting. He lives in a room. We're not at the point yet where you can learn the secret. Because as I said, you'll look back on this part of the podcast as the good part. I'm turning into one of the Earl's wives. I'm like, is it bullshit? No, Rory's going to go to the toilet, half of this record, I'm going to take the script flick through it.

And I'll come back in. What are you doing wench? Just tell me the f***ing secret. Alexa, arrest this man. Earl Rory was so annoyed he broke up with Kit on the podcast. No more podcast. I mean, I really like this story. I could definitely see this as like a set piece in like a horror movie or something,

you know? Where the poor Earl's wife gets thrown in the mud and it's like, you shouldn't have disobeyed me and then gets dragged off screen. And then you're just left with the shot that slowly zooms in to a dark window without a sheet in it. Right, a Kubrick-esque zoom in on the window. And I see, hey, this is writing itself

because yes, yes, yes. And then we have the gas lighting Earl. You can't quite tell when he's lying, when he's not, you know, and then it, and then it's also like a feminist horror movie because it's because then he does that shit that used to do back in the day when he's like, I think you've gone mad woman. Yes. And she's like, don't tell me I've gone mad. I know about the room.

And he's like, I think you ought to see the doctor. The doctor flicks a needle. Ohs it into her, she passes out. Yeah, I think you've got a case of the period. You're acting hysterical, woman. Yeah, but then it's like he now owns the secret. Yes. And he's hiding something in that castle. And you could almost do a kind of a cool shining thing where it's like, you know,

the Earl and his musical family were really nice people before they moved into the castle and then he starts acting stranger and stranger weird things happen she finds the chamber with the fresh cement hey let me tell you can I copyright this I'm copyrighting this right on the podcast this is our idea take it in too much of an obvious direction, but after she gets knocked out by the Doctor, does she wake up in a chamber and there's other dead Earl's wives? Right. Just skeletons, she's like, oh shit. And maybe we keep those supernatural themes

like the castle is getting to the Earl, but like there's all the other women who've tried to find out have ended up dead. Oh, I like that, I like that. And then like amongst all the skeletons and the other Earl's wives, there's a goblin called Mike. Okay, so there is a little freak. There's a little-

Well, there has to be a guy in there, yeah. He's called Mike and he is a goblin. And he was like- Yo, what's up? I'm Mike. I built this place. He's like, some say that the castle goes beyond just one room. And there's like, yes.

You think there's a secret passage at Leeds? Yes! You're the secret room! Huh? But this is the castle! I heard there's a freak who lives out there! Calls himself the Earl! They say there's stuff to eat out here more than just bugs! Yes! We feast every night! I got so scared I put up this extra wall yesterday!

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The last story we told about the windows and... Tell me right now what's going on. You said we're about to find out right now what is happening. I've been very patient and you've been stringing us along and I feel like a donkey getting led along by a carrot. Well, maybe I don't want the carrot. I've been trekking for so long into the desert following one carrot. There's probably more carrots back where I went from. So do you know what? I think I'm done. You think you're done what?

I don't need to know the secret anymore. Well. I'm done. I think the podcast should just end. You sound like an Earl's wife right now, to be honest with you. I think you've got a case of the period. The last story we told about the windows and the towels took place in 1850. But according to the legends, 15 years later, in 1865, a workman at the castle stumbled across something that he shouldn't have. While working late at night, the man came across a door he'd never seen before. I don't know why that's funny. It's actually really scary.

No, go on, what's behind it? Oh, a wall. Oh, brilliant. The man? Might be something else. The man hadn't been working in the castle for long, so he assumed it was for storage or possibly a servant passage. But when he pushed the door open, he discovered a long corridor that stretched into total darkness. The workman took a deep breath and stepped inside. It seemed like the corridor was leading to a chamber hidden from the public. As he tiptoed further and further into the passage, he began to hear noises at the end.

Then he saw it. A figure standing at the end, watching him. The workman turned and sprinted towards the door, slamming it shut behind him. He immediately reported what he'd seen to his boss, the passageway, the figure, everything. And after hearing this, he was strongly encouraged to emigrate to Australia. The Earl even went as far as to offer to pay for the entire trip. I was going to say, this is where the checkbook comes out. Yeah. How much to make this problem all go away, old boy? And he's like, there's nothing.

Listen, I saw something crazy, I know what I saw. I'm not moving to Australia, I've got a family. He adds a zero. Ahem. Uh, as I was saying, I've got a family, and I can't just uproot me adds another zero. Mmm! Well, you know, did I see a figure?

Um, you know. Maybe, I'm still not quite sure, adds another zero, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Everyone's got a price. In 1870, just 15 years after that, we would get another story from a guest in the castle that would once again fuel belief in the secret of Glamis Castle. A woman named Virginia Gabriel stayed in the castle briefly in 1870, when the castle was under the watch of the current Earl and a factor named Andrew Ralston. Now, the Earl lived in the castle permanently, but Virginia noticed that Andrew Ralston, the factor, refused to spend the night in the castle, even when working late.

One night, Virginia was enjoying her stay when a terrible blizzard rolled in out of nowhere. The weather was incredibly treacherous and all the roads to the castle were blocked with snow. Knowing how dangerous it was outside, the Earl begged Factor Ralston to take a spare room for the night, but he refused. Instead, he gathered every servant in the castle and ordered them to dig a path out of the castle so he could escape to his home over a mile away.

To him, that was better than spending the night at Castle Glamis. Something is in this castle, something is going on, that even the current factor, who knows the secret, refuses to spend the night there. Never before, never before in an episode of This Part of a Life has it been such a cliffhanger that we're so late in the episode to be like, what is it? We don't even know what it is yet. What could it be?

And when we get there, it's going to be crazy. Right. I feel like there's really nothing I could reveal at this point that would have made this journey worth it. No! And I think I know that, so I know that all I can do now is keep stringing you along and adding more layers to the secret.

Yeah, clearly. Later during her stay, Virginia overheard the Earl's wife talking to Factor Ralston about why why he left that night and more importantly about the rumors surrounding the castle. Please tell me, Rolston, are the rumors of this place true? What is the secret of this castle? Rolston allegedly replied, Lady Strathmore, it is fortunate that you do not know it and can never know it, for if you did, you would not be a happy woman

right buddy i'm done all right sorry just yeah no no kid do you think there's something happening the less i interject the faster we get through this the faster we get through to the point of this story i think you're realizing firsthand how frustrating it is to be the person who doesn't know the secret. To be driven mad. When you're working and living with the person who does know the secret. Yeah, it would drive you crazy. Do you know what I'd do if I was Lady Strathmore in that situation?

As soon as he says no, I'm not going to tell you. I'd be like, all right, I asked you nicely, you son of a bitch. She takes out a knife. It's like, listen to me, mother f*****. I'm rich and I'm powerful. I will cut your f***** balls off. Tell me now or I'll slit your throat. You son of a bitch.

I'm done. I'm not playing games anymore, Ralston. Yeah. I mean, I don't know in terms of hierarchy is the factor above, I guess the factor serves the Earl. Yeah, because the Earl and the lady will be, I mean, they're the aristocracy in British class society. They are the aristocracy. He's nothing, mate. He'll be a regular degular guy, but he's like, he would have a status within because he runs this place, but I don't think it counts in the same level.

It's kind of, then it's kind of sad to get him involved with it. He's like, oh shit, so am I part of like now the sacred brotherhood who know the secret? No, you still just clean the castle and look after me. The secret, the weight of the secret is just too much for one man to bear. So we always give it to the factor too. He's Alfred. He's Batman's Alfred. He's just like, he's the guy who has just dedicated his life to the cause, even though it's like ostensibly not his business. Right. Well, it is his business, but you know what I mean? It's not his family business. Yeah. Which kind of sucks because it doesn't even seem like Alfred gets paid a lot of money. Yeah. Like, or has a good, he's not having a good time because Batman is so miserable

all the time. like that would really suck I think I would work in some cases when you had those really really devoted people who'd maybe been with the family their entire lives is If it is some like billionaire Batman figure yeah back in the day They might have like left them a shitload of money in the will right that that is kind of like look I recognize that you've pretty much, you've pretty much given your entire being to serving us. Yeah. We will, you know, we'll make, we'll make sure the family are looked after. Right. So when, when Batman's parents were shot in that alleyway, Alfred was like, here we go. The problem with Alfred was I

don't know if he even had a family. I don't remember. Right. So he's like, he's like, yeah, parents are dead. Yeah, I'll look after Master Wayne 100%. And we'll just like live in the mansion together. And it's like, the parents left the money to the kid. They left all the money to Master Wayne, who is nine, I think years old and he has a business empire now. And it's like, cool, cool, cool. That sucks. Cause I actually was friends with the Waynes.

I like served them for like 20 years and they've given all their money to the kid. Can we double check? Can we double check? They didn't leave a little something, little something to old Alfred? To master Alfred. That has a nice ring to it actually, master Alfred.

That's kind of cool. And then he's like, you know, a couple years go by, Bruce Wayne becomes Batman. Alfred's like, cha-ching! This motherf***er's gonna be dead in a week! He's going out fighting crime at night? He's not gonna last a month! Right, right, Alfred. Alfred is like, Master Wayne, your new bulletproof...

Wink! ...vest. Puts it on him, it's f***ing tinfoil. Alfred is like, Master Wayne, your new bulletproof, wink, ding, vest. Puts it on him, hits f***ing tin foil. It doesn't work at all. Got some cool new gadgets for you to try out. At night he goes down and cuts the brakes to the Batmobile. He's like, what will the f*** die? When Batman is asleep, Alfred's calling up the Joker and being like,

Hey, the passkey to the front door is 3109. I didn't tell you this. Cool, it hangs up. So yes, you would think if you were the lady of Strathmore, you should be able to get the secret out of the Earl. But as we've discovered in today's case, that's not what happens. Those who hold the secret, they hold on to it. There are endless stories from guests about the secret of Glamis Castle. Some saying that they found hidden tunnels, others saying they overheard the Earl talking about a secret chamber. Stop getting frustrated! This is the last page of the script so you know it's coming baby! I'm'm just laughing, I'm just laughing.

By the way, I don't see anything underlined, I don't see anything in bold, it's just regular words. Certainly no pictures. Just regular words. I didn't even show you a picture of the castle. And others, like the workmen claiming that they actually saw something in the castle. See, if you pull a kit, and this is part one of a part two series, Hell naw, hell naw. and this is part one of a part two series, hell no, hell no. Glamis Castle part one.

I'll be like, okay, great, Phil, get a pot of coffee because we're doing part two right now. We're not waiting a week. We're doing it right now. The twist is the secret was taken to the grave. Right now, Kit, believe it or not, Castle Glamis is a tourist attraction in Scotland. You can go visit the castle and even stay the night on the grounds, I believe. Right.

And so many people must want to come to the castle because the secret is so... Because not everyone knows the secret, right? That it's really exciting and everyone wants to go. And I'm sure I'll want to go once you tell me the secret in just a second. Well, you bring up a good question. If the castle is now open to the public, what happened to the secret? How can a man say so many words without revealing what a secret is? It's almost incredible we've been talking this long.

I know they say in horror movies, like never show the monster. Show me the f***ing monster or I'll break your legs. The moment I reveal it, you're going to be disappointed, so we have to keep the secret going. Right, but this is real life. That's story time. This is real life. You need to tell me. We should reveal the secret on like the $10 tier of the Patreon or something. Well, as we know Kit, the dark secret was passed down from earl to earl and factor to factor. It was only ever them that knew the truth. I know. But it seems that at some point the secret

didn't make it to the next Earl. Stay with me! Stay with me here! That doesn't mean we don't know the secret! Kits left the studio, which has happened a worrying amount of times in episodes of This Paranormal Life. I think this month he's just walked out of the studio a few times, which hey mate maybe I'll just tell you the secret now that Kits not here. on here. In the 1960s, a man named James Wentworth Day was talking with the 16th Earl of Strathmore. Of course, he couldn't help but ask about the mystery of Glamis Castle, to which the

Earl replied, To be honest, I know not a thing about any secret. It may have died out with my father or my brother who was killed in the war. Is there a chance that the secret never made it to the next Earl? I guess if you have a tradition of passing it down when the time is right, what happens if a brother is killed in war

or an Earl dies before he is given the chance to pass it down. Right. Classic kind of movie. Come closer, my son. The secret that you must know is... Ah! Yeah, exactly. Which is only very worrying if there was a little dude in that room. Because now no one's going in to check on him. Ah, you did it again! You did it again like a devil baby.

And you said, we'll come back after the break and there'll be a devil, pictures of a devil baby. I didn't say this movie. This is a pattern. No. You said someone's alive in there and they spent their whole lives in there. I said there are legends that say that there is a prisoner of the room. No, I think rewind it. I think he didn't say, I don't think he said legends at all. Kit!

What was the secret of Glamis Castle? When are people going to... When are we going to rise up against Freud? No! When are we going to say no, enough is enough? I'm about to tell you some theories of what the secret is and could be. Okay? The room was never found.

They never got in. secret is and could be. Okay. The room was never found. They never got in. There are people over the years who have claimed to have discovered the secret themselves or have heard it from an earl. And we are going to talk about some of those theories right now at the end of the podcast. I can't say that they're going to live up to the high expectations of yourself, Kit. I'm sure our audience, the factors of this paranormal life, will be excited to have the secret passed down to them, and not so pessimistic and angry about the whole

thing. I wouldn't say that I've got high standards for the story and what the secret could be. I think something paranormal should happen. Oh, well, you're going to love this then. At some point in the episode. Some people believe, kid, that the Earls of the castle had a curse placed upon them that meant every generation of the family would give birth to a vampire.

Okay, easy to test that one. This vampire child that was born to the family would be walled up in the secret chamber of the castle. And when a new Earl was brought in, they would learn the secret. That not only were they cursed to give birth to a demon child, but also the last demon child

is still bricked up in a hidden room. That would kind of do it, right? I mean, yeah. That's a pretty f**ing dark secret to learn. Yeah. And it would ruin your cocktail party like we acted out earlier. Uh, yeah. I mean, if we're writing a horror movie, that is the one.

That's the one you go with. Yeah. Not only is the first child that you give birth to going to be a demonic presence in the castle, but the last one's still kicking about. We put a window in the room to try and kill it with sunlight, but it avoids the sun. It's still in there, and now we just throw in a raw chicken. That's your job. You and the Factor have to throw in live chickens every Monday just to keep this thing alive.

Yeah, you know, Ralston tells the Earl, and he's like, Ralston, it sounds like just an old wives tale. Surely it's not real. He's like, meet Terry. Yeah, up against the door. Yeah. All right. I guess it's real.

That would, that would do it. Yeah. That would do it for me. That would put a bit of a dampener on the party vibes to learn that there's a vampire in the castle. I don't know if that's the twist that we would go for in our horror version. in the castle. I don't know if that's the choice that we would go for in our horror version. I liked your idea of it being filled with Earl's wives. Like not quite a twist, but maybe there is something cool we could do with that. Right. The other theory is, to be honest, a little bit more depressing. You see, back when Lord Glamis married his wife Charlotte Grimstead back in 1820, records say that their first born son did not survive

for long. He was born in 1820 and was reportedly deceased just one year later in 1821. However, some records claim that this child never received a proper funeral or even a headstone, leading some to believe that this first born boy, heir to the castle, didn't die at all. Back in 1908, someone even wrote, In the castle of Glamis there is a secret chamber. In this chamber is confined a monster, who is the rightful heir to the title and property, but who is so un-presentable that it is necessary to keep him out of sight and out of possession.

Mmm, well he's not there now. He's not there now. No, if it was a regular dude, he's gone. Yeah. Long gone. Which, I guess, mmm, does that make sense? I guess a few Earls would have to learn the secret as much as a human life can last. Yeah.

But then eventually, yeah, you don't need to pass the secret down because whoever is in that room isn't alive. Yeah, you know, this is really not such an unbelievable theory or story. I haven't studied history properly, properly. So there's probably amazing examples out there all through history. But I learned not that long ago that, I mean, I guess I had always guessed that, let's say, when disabled people were born through history, they were treated like complete and utter shit up to a certain point. Yeah.

Well, differing all around the world, obviously, and through various times in history, but it was probably at least in the last 200 years, much, much harder to be born with a disability than probably in the last couple of decades. Um, and. You know, disabilities would have affected everyone, including people like royal families, aristocratic families. Um, and it presented a pretty unique problem for them. And I was learning about how the Special Olympics were

in part helped to be founded, I think back in the sixties by one of the Kennedys, Eunice Kennedy. And it was because, and I didn't know that until I watched this documentary, they, one of the Kennedys had um, had a, an intellectual disability. Um, so Eunice was so moved by the fact that back then you were just like. Completely taken out of family life and the real world had to just go live completely separately and not in many cases live that long, um, depending on your disability that she was so moved to be like, this is bullshit. We're going to start special Olympics and start celebrating people in this way.

So even as recently as, you know, 50s, 60s, if you were born with a disability into a powerful family, you were just removed from, from public life. Yeah. So very easy to believe that 130 years, even before that, if you were born and had some disability of any type, you might be just hidden away. Now, were you literally bricked up into the bottom of the castle? I don't know, but maybe in some way they were being hidden away. Yeah, obviously this is incredibly depressing if this is the mystery of Glamis Castle. I will say, you know, this kind of story, this tale of a secret heir being hidden

away is quite common. I think in most cultures, you'll find a lot of stories about the secret heir. So not sure there's really a ton of evidence to back this up. And hopefully not, because that is incredibly depressing. I mean, if that is the truth, yeah, that's a pretty depressing secret to be taught about. You're like, wow, wish we hadn't done that. Yeah, that's sad as hell. But it's interesting that you bring up, especially in royalty, that this is a thing, because the craziest part about this whole thing is probably a lot of people who don't live in the UK or aren't history people don't know this but the Queen of England the UK Britain whatever actually had two as you said intellectually disabled cousins as part of her family and I actually couldn't I had to research this because I thought

maybe I have my facts mixed up. They were declared dead by the family. Really? Okay. And then again, you're not going to believe this. In as recent as 1987, the Sun newspaper discovered that they were alive and they'd been dumped in a hospital by the family. alive and they'd been dumped in a hospital by the family. And there was this huge, big controversy that the family had essentially just, as you said, just turned their backs on these poor people

because it was easier for them to not have to deal with it. I only bring up this story in particular because crazily enough, the queen actually lived in Glamis Castle. Whoa, Okay. Yes, and her cousins, they were the two daughters of John Herbert Boazlion, the second son of the 14th Earl of Strathmore.

Right. So, while I don't believe this is the truth to the secret of Glamis Castle, or whether or not there even is a secret of Glamis Castle, it is depressing to see that there is truth in rich people being assholes in kind of this capacity. So, me personally, I can't believe I'm saying this, I hope it's the vampire. That would be... The only time you'll catch me saying this, I hope there's a multi-century curse of vampiric children being born.

Yeah, that actually would be, I think, the better option. I would much prefer that. Isn't that a fascinating idea though, that maybe if we do go back through the ages, it's only thanks to living in the modern age and the Sun newspaper, which I can't believe I'm saying, that we maybe know what is some potential truth behind the legend. What if throughout history, in other cases of, yeah, some legend of a vampire, maybe there is some grisly, kind of more depressing reality to what was behind that legend. S1A3L00 Yeah, which is quite sad that we are living in a world where the truth of humanity is more horrifying than the idea of a goblin called Mike. I would much prefer Mike the Goblin lived in that room

and we had to feed him a chicken every week. That would be really awesome. That would be kinda cool. As I said, if it makes you feel any better, there is essentially no proof further than the theories that any of those are the actual explanation behind a secret chamber, if there even is one. It's a cool, mysterious tale passed down

with twists and turns, and people have different versions of it. The alternative is, it's an old f***ing castle. Kit, we both live in, or grew up in kind of old homes back in Northern Ireland. They were creaky as hell. Weird noises, wind whistling. You'd hear and see all kinds of crazy stuff. So if you're living in a castle in the 1800s, walking down the halls with a candle, you're going to see some things. You're going to hear some noises. Yes, yeah. Definitely, safe to say architecture of the 1700s

and 1800s lends itself a lot more to being haunted and paranormal elements rather than kind of modern U-build houses. I don't know how many people are walking around and being like, yeah, I think my Phillips Hue lights are haunted. Yeah. You know, my perfectly insulated and being like, yeah, I think my Phillips Hue lights are haunted. Yeah. You know, my, my perfectly insulated and level house, which has an A in energy

efficiency score. Yeah. Not too many ghosts hanging out in those walls. The closest I got to experiencing a haunted apartment in London was actually last week when my internet went out and I was going to bed and I said, you know, uh, Alexa, turn all lights off. And it was like, I'm afraid I can't do that Rory. Right. You know, real how.

It was a bit more 2001 space obviously, yeah. Exactly. And then I was like, oh shit, well, I guess I'll just turn them off with my phone then I'm gonna have to do it old school with my phone, not with my voice. And I take my phone off and it's like, can't connect to the Hue bridge. And I'm like, oh God, I had to go around and unplug all my lights manually with my hands

to turn them off. It was, I was, this is crap. I was like, this is one step away from being haunted. This is why I'm never going to have smart lights. You don't have any smart lights? No, why would I want my lights to be smart? I'm very happy with them being stupid. You'll never go back. You'll never go back. I am never joining

the smart revolution. Oh it's it's a game changer. Yeah, you had to get down your hands and knees and talk to your virtual assistant to get them to turn off the lights. I'm begging at this point, please turn off the lights. I haven't slept in two days I'm almost afraid to ask Kit Did the secret of the castle live up to your expectations? I know it was kind of 99% talking about the secret and then 1% revealing it But that's all there is once you reveal the secret is out there. it's done. You are an Earl now. Well done, everyone listening to the podcast. You're either an Earl or a Factor. You get to choose. But you are one, because you now know the secret.

Or you know as much as anyone else knows, except for a couple dead Earls. It's a no. Well, I wasn't even asking that yet. I'm taking the reins. I'm taking the reins. I thought we'd have a little back and forth and talk about theories and like... I just want to, you know, because we've been... Because it's hard to give it the no and then talk about theories. Because that takes the wind out of my sails a little bit. It's like talk about what we think it could be.

I think we've been dangling carrots for quite a long time. I don't want to dangle any more carrots. I just want to give people the carrot. OK, little donkeys, have the carrot and now we can have a discussion. Well, you're saying the carrot's not even real. You said no to the carrot. So that's a bit sad. I think it's an awesome story. I think it's an amazing M. Night Shyamalan movie, which hasn't been made yet. Which we have copyrighted. So no one else is allowed to do this. This is ours. I'll play the Earl. Kit can play the lady. But it seems so obvious. Whatever. That seems so... You were the lady the whole time seems so obvious. Whatever that seems.

You were the lady the whole time, the lady of Strathmore. I have no issue. I think you have the issue with playing the lady because you're like, I'm the Earl. I think it just seems clear to me that this is, you know, I think surrounding aristocratic families, surrounding royal families, surrounding the intrigue, the castles, whatever is always going to be legends and myth. Um, and, you know, and I appreciate you coming clean at the end with, surrounding the intrigue, the castles, whatever, is always going to be legends and myth. And, you know, and I appreciate you coming clean at the end with the more realistic scenarios here.

It just seems so clear to me that it is potentially what's happened is a nugget of a real story getting warped and twisted over hundreds of years into a paranormal legend. Yeah, yeah, I think that probably is the case. I think the darkest possibility here is maybe that there was a firstborn heir that they didn't like. I don't think they kept him alive in a chamber. He probably was killed at one years old,

like the records say. But I- Killed, hopefully they just died. I don't know. I don't know what's going on in this family. In the 1800s, there was probably so much dark stuff. Just becoming the Earl was probably the burden. Right. Because you now have to learn about all the horrible shit that your family did. We've all seen Game

of Thrones. Lot of sex. Yeah. Also a lot of killing and that's a bit of a mixed bag. And that's why, you know, everyone thinks it would be nice to be a king, or an earl, or have a castle. But I've said it once on this podcast before and I'll say it a thousand times. F*** royalty. Yeah. Alright? The party is on the streets with the people. It's the peasants. It's the nice people. Don't call them peasants.

It's the common folk. I too see myself as something of a peasant. Something of a shit muncher. Like yourselves. So, you know, when people join the paranormal commune, if you're listening to this podcast, you might not know that Kit and I have, we established it quite a long time ago. We created this incredible cult of over a hundred thousand people and don't take hope what did I say you said cult yeah it's a commune obviously

of a thousand strong people more than a thousand strong people hundred hundred I want to say I just love flustered because I said the c-word but but but our point being is we're in our commune, Kit and I are the Kings because we know that is the worst role to take on. That is the burden. That is the lowest point. It's like being captain of the Titanic. Like if the ship goes on, you got to go with it. Oh my God.

And that's a great analogy because things haven't been looking so great. There's a couple of icebergs headed our way. There's nothing but bergs. Nothing but bergs in the commune. So, you know, yes, I am King, Kit is Lady Earl of the commune, but we're taking the bad rolls. You guys are the peasants and the common folk. But f*** monarchy and f*** aristocracy.

F*** it! F*** it! The class system. Hell yeah! Suck one of these. Although I will say in other countries where there is not an inherent monarchy based class system, like the USA, they have proceeded to create a new class system within the new republic, which is equally arguably as bad. Yes. Maybe even more corrupt because it's filled with politicians and dark money more and equal

potentially hard to say You could argue that the new kings of the free world are the oligarchs like Elon Musk and tech billionaires running the free world And what they really need is an Earl to come in and straighten things out and to harbor the dark secrets of the country you know because to come in and straighten things out and to harbor the dark secrets of the country. You know, because I'm coming full circle. Because say what you will about Earls, but they aren't trying to form a penal colony on Mars like Elon Musk. Right. An Earl just bought Twitter. So I'm not sure.

Maybe they will. Maybe they will. It's a no from me this week as well. Just because I didn't say that. Just while we're on Earl chat right now, it's actually become a massive talking point because normally Earls don't feel like they control that much of our lives anymore. But it's actually been a massive issue in Ireland, specifically in Northern Ireland. We have the biggest lake in the whole of the UK and Ireland, Loch Né. Bigger than any other lake. See it from space. Looks crazy. It's very cool. Not to be confused with Loch Ness, which is in Scotland.

That's right. And it's full of toxic sludge. It's like a cartoon. It's full of green toxic sludge yeah from so many chemicals and awful things and it supplies most of the country's drinking water and you know why we can't do anything about it because it's owned by the Earl of Shaftesbury and so and the Earl of Shaftesbury he's just like a 45 year old guy and he's like he's like he yeah, well, it's pretty, it's actually pretty hard to do something about the toxic sludge that's in everyone's drinking water. I get mind flown in from Fiji.

So I'm not really bothered. So yeah, so it's interesting. So now the, we, the peasants were having to be like, this is nonsense. How about you give us the lake? Revolt. Revolt. It's time to revolt people. Don't clip that out. This is nonsense. How about you give us the lake? Revol- Revol- It's time to revolt, people.

Don't clip that out. Me threatening to shoot the Earl of Shastra. He's a real guy. The Earl's like, look, the water's fine. I've been feeding it to the dude who lives in the secret chamber for 20 years and he's still alive. If anything, he grows stronger by the day. I think as you said, if it makes you feel any better, I think someone did wing eggs

at him or something recently. Hell yeah. Or dumped like a bunch of goo on him and was like, yeah, see how you like it. Goo boy. They handed him a Nickelodeon Teen Choice Award and dumped goo on him. Something like that. Hey, there you go. Thank you for listening to this week's episode of the podcast F***ing Royalty. Burn it all down and give it back to you, the people!

I think I've just become a Batman villain. Why do you sound like you're running gas time in Mad Max? You, the people! They're trying to take your things away from you. I'm a Morton Joe? A Morton Roe, that's what you can call me. If anything, I would be the Chris Hemsworth of The Wasteland.

Right, we get it. You're the Earl, you're the Chris Hemsworth. Ooh, ooh, lady and gentlemen. Oh, ladies and gentlemen. F***, stupid movie. Thank you for listening. This week's episode of the podcast. I actually had a really fun time doing this one. I know it's a little different because we spent most of the episode dancing around the thing,

not talking about it, but the mystery is the thing. That's what's cool about it. That is the story today, is the mystery, all the people that have tried to find it, the theories. And I just thought this was a really cool, as we said, a cool story. It feels like a horror film. It feels like an old legend. And telling it today on the podcast was a blast. Hopefully the reveal didn't disappoint. Or hopefully it did disappoint, because I don't really want there to be anything in that room.

I'm excited, because normally Rory will attack me for doing anything a little bit different on the podcast. Not true. So the fact that he hosted this clanger and his lack of paranormal evidence means that I have got, because my next one is light on the bone for evidence, brothers and sisters. So I've got a hall pass to go nuts next week. I mean, it's still, you know, we'll have to present something, a story or some evidence. Do we?

I don't know, you made it to the 50 minute mark without saying jack shit. I told a lot of stories about people who granted didn't see or find anything. Was anyone doing the Castle Glamas drinking game where we take a shot every time Roy says the word secret? Secret or mystery. Whoever was playing that game is in the hospital.

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I don't know where a thousand... There's hundreds of hours of extra content over there. Don't put a dampener on it, man. Don't make it sound... No one's gonna sign up and then be like, oh, you said a thousand, cancel. I say you could have just like that's a good idea because there are people out there you know you guys know what patreon is but there's people who might like the show and but they're just not as online

and they might not know what patreon is so that's a great way to kind of get over that little tech hurdle by you can be like, here, here is your, your account, your login, here is the link. I set it up for you, GamGam. Here you go. Now you can listen to the two weird boys you like, GamGam. But of course, one of the other cool rewards that you can get on Patreon is your own personal shout out right at the end of the podcast. That's what we're going to do right now. So thank you to Hannah Anglish. Anglish is what you call yourself when you're angry and English.

Oh, right. Which is a powerful combination. Yeah, that's someone who hasn't been told the secret. They're furious. They're anglish. Have you ever seen football hooligans? That's anglish. That is a lot of anglish people. Hannah, I'm sorry that you haven't been told the secret to Glamis Castle even after listening

to this hour 20 podcast or however long this is. You know, all I'll say is just keep looking. Maybe that's the real truth. No it's not. It's not. Alright. Hannah, maybe the real treat. Stop listening to him. Just live your life and ignore him. Yeah, live your life. And by that I mean open doors. Oh my god. She's getting more anglish as we speak. More and more anglish. Thank you Hannah. And thank you finally this week to

Rosie Tibbits. Rosie Tibbits, the founder of Rosie's Tidbits. It's a fun little text service where just once a day you get an automatic text giving you a little tidbit of information to bring up at your next cocktail party. I forgot. So just whenever there's a dull moment, you could just be like, did you guys know that Santa used to be green? Yeah. Yeah.

Used to be. Yep. Did you know that in Castle Glamis there's actually a secret chamber where a vampire child has lived for centuries. I wouldn't say that's a tidbit. So I was thinking more like, at a dull moment, guys, did you know that in, what is it, Django Unchained, Leonardo DiCaprio improved that scene where he cut his hand and he just kept going because he's such a good actor. Fun little tidbit. Oh, that is fun. Or like, the CIA have astrally projected to foreign Navy bases. I think that could be a separate text. To retrieve classified information. It's like, it's not tidbit, it's like big bit.

Oh, I see, yeah. Rory's big bits. Rory, I don't think anyone wants to sign up for that. That might be like the name of an OnlyFans or something. Every day you get texted something f***ed up. That ruins your day. Hopefully Rory's Big Bit wasn't this week's episode. Hopefully I didn't ruin your week. Hopefully I enchanted it and I hope you enjoyed it, Rosie. I hope all of our patrons and listeners and every member of

the commune enjoyed it. I know I did. Glad to hear it, Kit. Glad to hear it. And you know what? I am so excited to come back next week and hear Kit's story. Right! Who knows what it could be. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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