Host

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I was on a station here in the Portland market called kxl which is another great radio station.

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Clyde and I were both on there and he was on a night I was on during the day and the Saturdays and we had a lot of fun and I thought, you know, let's bring him in and do a live show for two hours and see what happens.

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We've got a special Halloween episode today brought out of the way back machine.

Eric G.

We haven't done this in a long time and I wanted to bring it back.

Eric G.

This is my live interview I did about six years ago with Clyde Lewis, the infamous radio host about the paranormal and we talk haunted houses.

Eric G.

Let's get out to Clyde is around.

Host

The house kind of combined in with Clyde Lewis today.

Host

So we're going to have some fun.

Host

I used to work in a place called old time woodwork in downtown Tacoma.

Host

That was haunted is all get out.

Host

And I mean it had.

Host

And I didn't believe in any of this stuff installed until I started working there.

Host

I mean this was absolutely insane there.

Host

Everybody warns me on the first day where he came and you're going to see some stuff but just go with it.

Host

And you go, oh, all right, cool.

Host

We had this door that went downstairs into the lower building that was kind of a that double swing restaurant style door, that double hinge door.

Host

And I went from the down to the stairs and it would sit there and just go bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.

Host

Side to side, full swing to full sweep for 30 seconds to a minute.

Clyde Lewis

Yeah.

Host

I mean, and there was no explanation for those things.

Host

And we had a lot of weird things like that that would happen in that old building.

Host

You've got a lot of experiences.

Clyde Lewis

Well, yeah, I've had a lot of experiences with haunted houses and haunted locales.

Clyde Lewis

What's interesting, I was actually the first.

Clyde Lewis

There was a, there was a time where I was in Los Angeles and there was a haunted, I guess it was an apartment, it was there in the area where I guess Marilyn Monroe was there.

Clyde Lewis

She kind of hung out with Joe DiMaggio in that area and Jim Morrison allegedly was there.

Clyde Lewis

And so a lot of people were saying they see things happening.

Clyde Lewis

Well, I did an investigation and, and what's interesting is that in a lot of cases you have certain things that would be easily explained.

Clyde Lewis

Sure.

Clyde Lewis

That trigger other things.

Clyde Lewis

And then what bothers me is when I'm watching these ghost shows and they're like trying to debunk and say, like for example, the ghost hunters taps used to go and they'd say, well you know, this is doing this because of that and blah, blah, blah.

Clyde Lewis

And this is the logical explanation.

Clyde Lewis

What's interesting though is they overlook things.

Clyde Lewis

It's like, okay, so you see a couple things happen, they're logically explained but you know, it doesn't count for what triggers the rest.

Clyde Lewis

And that's what bothers me about these investigations is that while like for example, we did an investigation, we're doing an investigation right now into a home in Beaverton.

Clyde Lewis

We don't know which home it is, but a woman named Barbie Nadeau called our program, she went to the KXL news gathering and she was bringing these pictures of these, well she said shape shifting bugs that were invading her home and I never seen anything like it before.

Clyde Lewis

And so I said, well, do you think it's a supernatural cause or do you think there's something else going on?

Clyde Lewis

She says, I don't know.

Clyde Lewis

She says they look like little demons that come out of my walls.

Clyde Lewis

And she says that they're burrowing through the wood they're burying through the cement and the brick and everything.

Clyde Lewis

And I'm like, I've never heard of this before.

Clyde Lewis

This is pretty bizarre.

Clyde Lewis

And a lot of people when I present on the show, oh, those are crickets and those are this and those are that.

Clyde Lewis

And I'm thinking, yeah, but here's the deal.

Clyde Lewis

Why do we have this non indigenous creature crawling out of our walls?

Clyde Lewis

And in fact we had every reason to believe it's antlions that are there.

Clyde Lewis

We don't know yet, but we're looking into the possibility of them being ant lions.

Clyde Lewis

But not only that, but There was also some yellow slime that was, like, forming in areas and all this other stuff.

Clyde Lewis

And I remember the Amityville horror.

Clyde Lewis

They used to say that.

Clyde Lewis

The Amityville Horror, that the plumbing would go bad in the house.

Clyde Lewis

You know, there would be, you know, tarry stuff coming up into the toilets and into the sinks, tarry, you know, type of material, crazy flies, you know, gathering together in one area of the house.

Clyde Lewis

So, I mean, if an infestation's happening, yeah, there's a logical explanation for an infestation.

Clyde Lewis

But when you keep, you know.

Clyde Lewis

And she said she spent, like, thousands of dollars, exterminators, all kinds of things to come in and do this.

Clyde Lewis

When it keeps happening and she says she's having paranormal activity happening in her house, you know, it keeps happening over and over again.

Clyde Lewis

You have to say to yourself, you know, why is this being targeted for all this infestation?

Clyde Lewis

And if you look at, you know, and I don't know if anybody wants to go this far, but if you want to look at some sort of demonic infestation in a home, it's like a parasite.

Clyde Lewis

It grows and it grows and it grows and it grows, and there's no explanation for it.

Clyde Lewis

But, you know, you have to do something.

Clyde Lewis

And usually, you know, what you find is you find houses that have had prior distress in them, and a realtor sells the house to somebody without notifying them of the prior distress.

Clyde Lewis

So they wake up one day with, you know, some guy's ghost hanging in the garage, you know, because, you know, he.

Clyde Lewis

I don't know.

Clyde Lewis

But it's just that's the idea is that, you know, you know, people don't know or they're not told that there was some distress in the house.

Clyde Lewis

Now, I'm not saying they need to be told that grandma died in the.

Clyde Lewis

What.

Host

Do you talk about this?

Host

Yeah, because this is a big deal, because I did some research.

Host

You and I talked about this earlier in the week about this subject, and I was really surprised that, for instance, state of Oregon, it is illegal for a realtor to disclose without the homeowner's consent to a potential buyer, that maybe that there was some kind of a event, like let's say it was a mass murder or some kind of horrific thing like that that happened.

Clyde Lewis

Right.

Host

May have mass suic.

Host

Anything like that.

Host

They can't disclose that without having the homeowner's extent, written consent to do that.

Host

Now, the question, though, is, do you want to know?

Clyde Lewis

Well, yeah.

Clyde Lewis

I mean, I do.

Clyde Lewis

I do.

Clyde Lewis

See?

Clyde Lewis

And that's the thing is, to what extent?

Clyde Lewis

It's like, I don't want to know if dad died in the next room because everybody dies in houses.

Clyde Lewis

People die in houses all the time.

Clyde Lewis

Every house has a history.

Clyde Lewis

That's why when they were at Houston space, well, I was told that somebody died here.

Clyde Lewis

Well, of course, people die everywhere.

Host

You know, it's like you're more likely to die in your own home because you're there eight hours a day, sleeping.

Host

In many cases, if you get eight hours of sleep, you're there.

Host

You're static in that house for that amount of time.

Host

So odds are it's gonna happen.

Clyde Lewis

Yeah.

Clyde Lewis

If that's the case, then hospitals are one of the most haunted places.

Clyde Lewis

People die in hospitals all the time.

Clyde Lewis

Funeral homes, of course, are always haunted.

Clyde Lewis

That's different, I think.

Clyde Lewis

But, you know, you're dealing with.

Clyde Lewis

You're dealing with people who, you know, when they watch these ghost shows, they say somebody died here.

Clyde Lewis

Well, so what, you know, there's gotta.

Clyde Lewis

What it is, it hasn't anything to do with death.

Clyde Lewis

It has everything to do with trauma.

Clyde Lewis

There we go.

Clyde Lewis

So if something happens in the house that's traumatizing or something leaves behind some residual trauma, and that's what you're getting.

Clyde Lewis

And there are other things.

Clyde Lewis

There are other factors too that create hauntings.

Clyde Lewis

A lot of people don't know that.

Clyde Lewis

Most houses that are situated under high power lines, for example, they are the most haunted houses.

Clyde Lewis

And the reason why is because electromagnetic energy can give you the foolish feeling that you're having a ghost in your house.

Host

Oh, interesting.

Clyde Lewis

And it may.

Clyde Lewis

It may be a ghost, or it may be that the electromagnetic current is causing hob with your head.

Clyde Lewis

But a lot of times, and we found this out when we were doing ghost investigations, is that when you use like, for example, a.

Clyde Lewis

A Tesla coil.

Clyde Lewis

Sure.

Clyde Lewis

And you fire a bunch of electromagnetic energy in a room.

Clyde Lewis

Ghost.

Clyde Lewis

Love it, man.

Clyde Lewis

They eat it up like nobody's business.

Clyde Lewis

Like, it's like using dynamite to catch fish.

Clyde Lewis

I mean, it's right there.

Clyde Lewis

You bring it on.

Clyde Lewis

So when you have like, for example, an overabundance of electronic equipment, like games and stereos and everything in one room, you walk into that room and you feel kind of a weird feeling.

Clyde Lewis

That's electromagnetic.

Clyde Lewis

Electromagnetic energy actually working itself on your brain.

Clyde Lewis

And if you have any exposure to that, you'll see ghosts.

Clyde Lewis

It's just, it's.

Host

That's amazing.

Clyde Lewis

And so, yeah, and a lot of people, you know, they're expecting to see full on specters or whatever, but Most of the time these ghosts are nothing more than orbs or they're like smoky entities or something.

Clyde Lewis

They're not always showing up as you know.

Host

Let's talk more about ghosts here.

Host

We're going to go out to break and you know something, we're going to have some fun about this because I'm curious about one of my experiences with this.

Host

Okay, so we're going to bounce about that.

Eric G.

Joan, change that dial.

Eric G.

We're just getting started around the house.

Eric G.

We'll be right back with our way back Halloween episode with Clyde Lewis.

Host

Why in a world of ugly faces should I be allowed to be so.

Janine

Hot.

Host

So many people without.

Eric G.

Welcome back to the around the house show.

Eric G.

The next generation of home improvement.

Eric G.

I'm Eric G.

Eric G.

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Check them out@moncrills.com now let's get back to that way back machine where we were talking with that previous Halloween episode with Clyde Lewis.

Eric G.

We've remixed this one and remastered it ready for you.

Eric G.

Let's get back to this wild conversation about h houses.

Host

Clyde Lewis here from ground zero in studio.

Host

We're having fun.

Host

This is great.

Host

This is a great show.

Host

Talking hauntings, all those different crazy things out there that people don't quite frankly understand.

Host

Well, let's dive in here.

Host

We've got a call.

Host

Clyde here from Carlos in Silverton.

Host

Welcome to around the house.

Caller

Hey, thanks a lot for having me.

Caller

How you guys doing?

Clyde Lewis

Good.

Caller

Hey, I love show, Clyde.

Caller

I'm a, I'm an every night listener.

Clyde Lewis

Thank you so much for that.

Caller

Thank you, Eric G.

Caller

Oh, yeah.

Caller

You're welcome.

Host

Thanks.

Caller

And Eric G.

Caller

Every chance I get, you know, but definitely I called with a question about since we're talking about kind of home improvement and also got the whole paranormal thing going.

Caller

What do you know, Clyde, about emptying out or cleaning your house from house from negative energy?

Clyde Lewis

Well, since you specified, I was going to say usually when you go to a home and you say and somebody says to you, I've got a ghost, you ask them, well, do you wanted to stay or do you want to go?

Clyde Lewis

And because some people, they don't mind.

Clyde Lewis

They don't mind having a ghost in their house.

Clyde Lewis

No.

Caller

Somebody is pretty lonely.

Clyde Lewis

I'm sure it's like, well, no, it's kind of like having somebody in your house.

Clyde Lewis

But if it's an intrusion, if you have an intrusion, yes, you have to cleanse your house from negative energy.

Clyde Lewis

And there are many Ways to do that.

Clyde Lewis

I mean, first of all, clean your house.

Clyde Lewis

That's important.

Clyde Lewis

First of all.

Clyde Lewis

I mean, usually, I mean, ghosts and demons or whatever they are, they are attracted to houses that are not kept houses.

Clyde Lewis

Okay?

Clyde Lewis

Something called panpsychism is the study of whether or not consciousness blends in with inanimate objects.

Clyde Lewis

There's something called psychometry where if you hold an inanimate object and it has a history, you can pretty much figure out what went on.

Clyde Lewis

Some people have psychic abilities.

Clyde Lewis

Like, for example, we had somebody come on our show one time who had a shingle from Ed Gein house, who was the most notorious killer.

Clyde Lewis

When she held the shingles, she got physically nauseous.

Clyde Lewis

So if a house is unkempt, if a house is dirty, if there's mold, if there's anything going on in the house, it will attract some negative energy.

Clyde Lewis

So first things first.

Clyde Lewis

Clean the house.

Clyde Lewis

Clean it as best you can.

Clyde Lewis

Scrub it down.

Clyde Lewis

Walls, nooks, crannies, everything.

Clyde Lewis

Make sure everything's clean.

Clyde Lewis

Go in the attics, check and see if there's any rats that are dead up there or.

Clyde Lewis

Or, you know, grandpa was left up there forgotten or, you know, something.

Clyde Lewis

But then if that doesn't work and you still have something going on, you can have a house cleansed.

Clyde Lewis

And usually what I would do is I would call upon a clergyman, somebody that you trust that's, you know, pretty much, you know, that has, you know, the ability to come in and pray and, you know, give some sort of a blessing on your home.

Clyde Lewis

I think all people, if they're Christian or if they're any religion actually, they should have someone come in and bless their home before they get into it.

Clyde Lewis

I had that once.

Clyde Lewis

I had somebody come in and bless a place for me.

Clyde Lewis

I just feel it's kind of nice to have.

Clyde Lewis

It gives you a chance to get to know the people in your church.

Clyde Lewis

Because somebody would go in and they'd say, okay, we're going to bless the house.

Clyde Lewis

That's the first thing.

Clyde Lewis

If then you still have the activity, then what you need to do is you need to also do some other things, too.

Clyde Lewis

There are rituals.

Clyde Lewis

There are things like sage that you burn it and you let it go through the home.

Clyde Lewis

It's a cleansing thing.

Clyde Lewis

I mean, they say it's all superstition, but it does help.

Clyde Lewis

But the thing you need to ask yourself too, is whether or not there's an attachment on the home, meaning that the home itself is haunted, or there's an attachment on you.

Clyde Lewis

Okay, there you go.

Clyde Lewis

And a Lot of the time people bring with them ghosts and they bring their own demons into a house and they manifest.

Clyde Lewis

And it's because the power of the mind is so amazing.

Clyde Lewis

It's complex and it's amazing.

Clyde Lewis

And that's why a lot of the time it has a lot to do with what's inside of you rather than what's inside the house.

Clyde Lewis

So you have to also make sure that you're okay.

Clyde Lewis

That's mentally, physically, you know, and you're spiritually aware of what's going on.

Clyde Lewis

So there's a lot of factors involved.

Clyde Lewis

We just don't blame it on the house.

Clyde Lewis

We can't also blame it on you or someone else.

Host

Or even an object.

Host

Yeah.

Clyde Lewis

Or an object that may be haunted too.

Clyde Lewis

Once again, it gets back to the panpsychism idea.

Clyde Lewis

And what's really odd is, and we've talked about on the show, as you well know, panpsychism used to be, you know, woo woo stuff that only paranormal weirdos like me talk about.

Clyde Lewis

But now scientists are talking about it.

Clyde Lewis

They're saying, yeah, there's something to be said about human energy and how it somehow can boil over onto something that's inanimate object, some sort of inanimate object.

Clyde Lewis

But, you know, and that's the thing you need to also understand.

Clyde Lewis

Maybe somebody was in the house before.

Clyde Lewis

Once again, back to the idea.

Clyde Lewis

Does a realtor have to expose this, saying that maybe this was the house of some serial killer or that a number of people were murdered in the house?

Clyde Lewis

These are things that I think they're very important to be actually exposed.

Clyde Lewis

If so.

Clyde Lewis

Yeah.

Clyde Lewis

So that's.

Host

That answer your question, Carlos?

Host

Well, yeah, it does.

Caller

And you know, have you ever heard of like, maybe just reflecting negative energy from like other.

Caller

Other visitors coming to your house, like by hanging a mirror?

Clyde Lewis

Yeah.

Clyde Lewis

Now you're getting into witchcraft.

Clyde Lewis

You're getting into witchcraft or bru kariya or whatever.

Clyde Lewis

I knew, actually what's interesting about this is that I lived in a neighborhood where there was a haunted house in my neighborhood.

Clyde Lewis

And I knew of the haunted house.

Clyde Lewis

A little girl that was upstairs that was making beds and doing all kinds of crazy stuff for families.

Clyde Lewis

And wouldn't you know it, a witch moves into the house, a Wiccan pagan moves in a home.

Clyde Lewis

And she was so tormented by this thing that she would put, like, she did everything, she covered her bases.

Clyde Lewis

Hindu God idols, Jesus, Bible verses on the walls, like something out of the Omen, and she couldn't get rid of it.

Clyde Lewis

And so what she did is she Figured that there was something that was coming into the home from outside the neighborhood.

Clyde Lewis

She felt the neighborhood was so negative.

Clyde Lewis

She put mirrors in her windows and.

Clyde Lewis

Yeah, mirrors reflect back out.

Clyde Lewis

Like I said, that's.

Clyde Lewis

That's witchcraft.

Clyde Lewis

In a lot of ways, it's a form of witchcraft.

Clyde Lewis

Yeah.

Host

All right, Carlos.

Host

Hey, thanks for calling in, man.

Host

We appreciate it.

Clyde Lewis

Thank you, buddy.

Clyde Lewis

No problem.

Caller

I'm glad to hear you guys.

Caller

Thank you.

Host

All right, thanks for calling into around the house, man.

Host

That's a lot of different things on that one.

Clyde Lewis

I was very surprised you knew about the mirror thing, because.

Clyde Lewis

Yeah, a lot of times the mirror practice is done in Latin countries, Latin American countries, because a lot of the brujaria or the curanderos recommend it.

Clyde Lewis

And I lived in South America, and I saw a lot of this going on.

Clyde Lewis

The idea of, you know, people using magic to do all kinds of crazy stuff, and it works.

Clyde Lewis

Folk magic.

Clyde Lewis

No, I'm a full believer in folk magic.

Clyde Lewis

I had.

Clyde Lewis

I had a kidney problem when I was in South America, and I couldn't get it done by a doctor.

Clyde Lewis

Nothing would help.

Clyde Lewis

And so I went to a quandetto, and the quandetto grabbed a leaf out of the tree.

Clyde Lewis

He said, here, boil this.

Clyde Lewis

Drink it.

Clyde Lewis

Your kidneys will feel better.

Clyde Lewis

I boiled it, I drank it.

Clyde Lewis

Kidneys were feeling better.

Clyde Lewis

No problem.

Host

Old school medicine, man.

Clyde Lewis

Yeah, but, you know, I just.

Clyde Lewis

And then, of course, you know, later on, you know, the kidneys were doing well.

Clyde Lewis

Well.

Clyde Lewis

But I'm just saying that, you know, it's kind of like a cover.

Clyde Lewis

Folk magic works.

Clyde Lewis

And.

Clyde Lewis

And, you know, and that's another thing, too.

Clyde Lewis

If you want to bring in somebody like a shaman or a Native American shaman or someone to come in and do a blessing, they're.

Clyde Lewis

They're very effective.

Clyde Lewis

Very.

Host

Love it.

Host

Love it.

Host

We're in studio here with Clyde Lewis from Ground Zero.

Host

This is around the House with Eric Gar.

Eric G.

All right, if you notice, we've had to cut this episode up a little bit, because, one, we had different phone numbers back then, and two, we were on a different clock, which means our breaks were at different times.

Eric G.

And that's okay because it gives me a chance to narrate how wild this episode went.

Eric G.

And we had so much fun starting this thing out.

Eric G.

I had no idea if this was going to be a hit or a bomb.

Eric G.

And I tell you what, it was such a hit, I thought I'd brought it back for this week's episode because we haven't played it in a number of years, and it was just a Fun one.

Eric G.

One of these years, we'll recreate it, have a lot of fun with it.

Eric G.

Now when we come back, we're going to continue our conversation with the one and only Clyde Lewis, the paranormal expert radio host.

Eric G.

This guy did so much out there and is continuing to do it, so you need to catch his show.

Eric G.

We'll be right back after these important messages.

Eric G.

Don't go anywhere.

Host

We're just getting started.

Eric G.

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Eric G.

This guy is such a great paranormal expert.

Eric G.

And we're talking haunted houses and our way back machine here this week.

Eric G.

This show's about six years old, I think, but it was a blast to do, and we were doing it live.

Eric G.

Now let's get back to the program.

Host

We are talking homes and the paranormal and everything else in between.

Clyde Lewis

I do believe in spooks.

Clyde Lewis

I do believe in spooks.

Clyde Lewis

I do.

Host

We're having fun.

Host

I was just talking to story here about haunted places, and I was down at the Greystone mansion, which is.

Host

And we talked about this off air a little bit.

Host

This is that thing that you.

Host

This is the house that you see as the big mansion.

Host

And just about every single movie out there, from a little bit of Big Lebowski to Batman to anything else, that's the mansion in there.

Host

I was down there for the Baldwin hardware event that we had.

Host

We actually had two very haunted houses that we were in.

Host

We were in that one.

Host

And then we're also in the Soden house where the alleged murders of the Black Dahlia murders happened.

Clyde Lewis

So Cecil Hotel.

Clyde Lewis

Have you heard of Cecil Hotel, too, down there?

Host

Yeah, I've heard of that as well.

Clyde Lewis

Ugly.

Clyde Lewis

The situation down there where that girl drowned in the.

Host

Yeah.

Clyde Lewis

And they were drinking the water.

Clyde Lewis

Yeah.

Host

Not good.

Host

Not good.

Host

Well, I walk into the theater, which had not been operation since 1982 in this house.

Host

Now, this is like 50,000 square foot house.

Host

There's 85 rooms.

Host

Big.

Host

This room musty.

Host

You can smell kind of that.

Host

There had been water damage.

Host

So it had that moldy, musty smell.

Host

Unrestored, not touched.

Host

Walked into this thing, and the two people, me and somebody else, walk in there.

Host

We get three steps in, and that anxiety, electricity level went higher than I've ever felt in my life.

Host

We went and spun on a dime.

Host

And headed right back out of that place.

Host

And then the tour guide that was down the hall went, wow, you lasted longer than most in that room.

Clyde Lewis

So this isn't something new.

Host

This was not something new.

Host

And it's kind of funny.

Host

I went onto their website there for the.

Host

For the Greystone mansion, and they're still looking for someone to come forward to restore that room.

Host

But they haven't found too many.

Clyde Lewis

Well, you know, I won't mention any names or any buildings, but that whole area there.

Clyde Lewis

There's a bunch of places here in Portland, actually.

Clyde Lewis

Portland area.

Clyde Lewis

I mean.

Host

Yeah.

Clyde Lewis

Well, known area is Multnomah Village.

Clyde Lewis

It's haunted.

Clyde Lewis

Yeah.

Clyde Lewis

Fat City Cafe.

Clyde Lewis

Haunted.

Clyde Lewis

Renters haunted.

Clyde Lewis

But they just had a fire there, so.

Clyde Lewis

But some of the bars there are haunted.

Clyde Lewis

In fact, it was odd.

Clyde Lewis

We did an investigation into Fat City because there was some sort of a, I guess, tryst between this woman named Vivian, who was a waitress there, and some of the guy.

Clyde Lewis

The guy went in, shot her a long time ago.

Clyde Lewis

Her body fell down the stairs.

Clyde Lewis

So we were called in, and, you know, they said they were getting haunts and all kinds of crazy stuff going on.

Clyde Lewis

And my wife, who's very psychic, she came in and she was like, saying, I don't get Vivian here.

Clyde Lewis

You know?

Clyde Lewis

And we were doing a lot of evp, which is electronic voice phenomena.

Clyde Lewis

We're recording voices in the basement, and all of a sudden we get this.

Clyde Lewis

We get this.

Clyde Lewis

My wife gets this thing.

Clyde Lewis

It's this inspiration, intuition.

Clyde Lewis

She says, humphrey Bogart's wife died here.

Eric G.

Whoa.

Clyde Lewis

And we're like, going, no, McCall.

Clyde Lewis

Laura McCall died here.

Clyde Lewis

No, no, no, no, no.

Clyde Lewis

Some woman named Mile Meal.

Clyde Lewis

I said, I didn't hear about that.

Clyde Lewis

I don't know what you're talking about.

Clyde Lewis

So, you know, but she was right.

Clyde Lewis

She was so right.

Clyde Lewis

And so we called a historian, and sure enough, there was a time where Humphrey Bogart had a wife who lived here in Oregon.

Clyde Lewis

Her name was Mile Method.

Clyde Lewis

Wow.

Clyde Lewis

And apparently she shot him.

Clyde Lewis

She shot Humphrey Bogart in the stomach.

Host

Wow.

Clyde Lewis

But she and him fought a lot.

Clyde Lewis

But they loved each other.

Clyde Lewis

But they fought a lot.

Clyde Lewis

And he couldn't take it anymore, so he went off with Lauren McCall, and.

Clyde Lewis

But she died in a flop house that was just above Fat City Cafe here in Portland.

Clyde Lewis

And, you know, you don't know these things unless you do the history.

Clyde Lewis

We were over to another place.

Clyde Lewis

It's over off ofGrand in MLK.

Clyde Lewis

I don't name the building because they told me I can't name it.

Clyde Lewis

But there's a bunch of buildings over there that were known as the.

Clyde Lewis

Those were.

Clyde Lewis

The funerals all happened.

Clyde Lewis

Well, the mortuaries were.

Clyde Lewis

And all these buildings were converted from mortuaries to theaters to other things.

Clyde Lewis

And apparently this one place was haunted.

Clyde Lewis

The plumbing was bad, infestations of bugs, all kinds of crazy stuff.

Clyde Lewis

Come to find out, man, the whole place was.

Clyde Lewis

There was this ghost, a female ghost, looking for her baby there because she said she was separated from her baby.

Clyde Lewis

We got this from a Ouija board.

Clyde Lewis

And also a demon actually showed up named Abisu, which is an old Mesopotamian demon that murders children.

Clyde Lewis

And because it was looking for that child along with the woman.

Clyde Lewis

So, I mean, you never know what's buried deep in a home or in a place because sometimes there's a lot of bad energy, bad mojo there.

Clyde Lewis

So how do you feel it?

Host

That's wild.

Host

Hey, by the way, this segment around the house is brought to you by Dear homes Building quality, custom, affordable, custom homes throughout the Pacific northwest for nearly 50 years@darhomes.com CCB 593.

Host

I had to do that.

Clyde Lewis

Meanwhile, you too can get this great demographic, right?

Host

Yeah, exactly.

Host

Well, here's the thing.

Host

I mean, there are.

Host

I mean, you go down even just throughout the McMiniman's properties.

Clyde Lewis

Oh, yes.

Host

I mean, you know, pop down to Baghdad Crystal.

Clyde Lewis

I think that's on purpose, though.

Clyde Lewis

I mean, you go to those places like.

Clyde Lewis

You're right.

Clyde Lewis

The Baghdad, the Crystal.

Clyde Lewis

I'm pretty sure Ambry house really is haunted.

Clyde Lewis

It is very haunted.

Clyde Lewis

And the reason why I think it's haunted is because.

Clyde Lewis

Well, the embryos, of course, were a very, very, you know, well to do family.

Clyde Lewis

They had the whole area there and there was a room downstairs in the Embry house where people were born.

Host

Yep.

Clyde Lewis

And people die.

Clyde Lewis

Wow.

Clyde Lewis

It was.

Clyde Lewis

It was like they kept it within the family.

Clyde Lewis

So whenever a person was born, they were born downstairs.

Clyde Lewis

And whenever they died, of course they would put the casket in there and have the family mourn, and then they take the casket and bury it.

Clyde Lewis

And so the place is very haunted, but there's a reason why it's very haunted.

Clyde Lewis

If you go to the Embry house, which is a fantastic place to eat, I don't want to give a plug, but I love the Embry house.

Clyde Lewis

Nice.

Clyde Lewis

But you go to the Embry house and they have a substation just across the street from the Embry house.

Clyde Lewis

And these huge power lines go from the substation across the house.

Clyde Lewis

And I think that's one of the reasons why it's highly Active there at the Embry house.

Clyde Lewis

Oh, yeah.

Host

Because you've got all that electromagnetic energy and everything else.

Clyde Lewis

Oh, yeah.

Host

Hey, give us a call, 503-417-9595.

Host

I do want to hear your stories as well.

Host

503-417-9595.

Host

This is around the House combined up with a little bit of Clyde Lewis here from ground zero.

Host

If you caught him around out there.

Host

He is, to me at least, and many people around, he is the leading expert on all these things and he has heard around the world.

Clyde Lewis

Semi famous in semicircles.

Host

There we go.

Clyde Lewis

Actually 300 stations across the country.

Clyde Lewis

Yeah.

Clyde Lewis

Were heard all over the world.

Clyde Lewis

All over the country.

Clyde Lewis

And we're doing well.

Host

You guys are doing really well.

Clyde Lewis

Yeah, I mean, here in Portland we do really well.

Clyde Lewis

I mean, it's just.

Clyde Lewis

It's just a matter of, you know, we do paranormal.

Clyde Lewis

We do what I call parapolitical, which is analyzing conspiracy theory rather than, you know, taking it at face value, we break it apart.

Clyde Lewis

And sometimes, you know, conspiracy theories are based on some really good evidence.

Clyde Lewis

But.

Clyde Lewis

And that's where we get into, you know, get into a lot of political stuff.

Clyde Lewis

And sometimes people don't understand that it's not, you know, one side or the other.

Clyde Lewis

It's apolitical.

Clyde Lewis

If you're doing conspiracy theory, both sides need to be, you know, taken on.

Clyde Lewis

But when it comes to the paranormal, there are a lot of things and people don't understand this.

Clyde Lewis

You know, paranormal mythology, religion, dogma, all that stuff.

Clyde Lewis

It actually dictates what we do as human beings.

Clyde Lewis

And so, you know, people say, ah, that's superstition, that's nonsense.

Clyde Lewis

No, these are the things that motivate us and they motivated us from time, eternity, you know, and not only that, but our ancestors are motivated by this.

Clyde Lewis

So if you're having this being carried on from generation to generation to generation, I mean, what, thousands of years we've heard of ghosts.

Clyde Lewis

Thousands of years we've heard of vampires.

Clyde Lewis

Thousands of years we've heard of werewolves.

Clyde Lewis

I mean, in the Bible there are vampires.

Clyde Lewis

I was learning the other day as I was reading Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Clyde Lewis

The blood is the life that comes from Leviticus.

Clyde Lewis

Yeah, I mean, you can read that in Leviticus.

Clyde Lewis

In Proverbs it talks about beings with razor sharp teeth that attack you in your sleep.

Clyde Lewis

And I'm thinking to myself, wow, so this is where vampires come from.

Clyde Lewis

And then ghosts, of course, are in Shakespeare and several others.

Host

Nothing new with any of this stuff.

Host

I mean, you get back into, you know, reading stuff on the cliffs of walls, you get back into, you know, into the hieroglyphs and stuff.

Clyde Lewis

Yeah, it's aliens.

Clyde Lewis

It's funny because a lot of people don't know this, but there was an old book the Catholic church had called the malus maleficarum and the witch's hammer.

Clyde Lewis

And in it it gives you all details on how you can hunt down vampires, werewolves and witches.

Clyde Lewis

So if they have a book that's official, then there's got to be a reason why they go after the vampires and the witches and the werewolves.

Host

Man, that's incredible.

Host

We come back, we're going to be talking more to Clyde Lewis.

Host

Here we are around the house of Eric G.

Host

Around the House.

Eric G.

We'll be right back with more Clyde Lewis.

Eric G.

Joan, change that tile.

Eric G.

We are just getting started.

Eric G.

This is a wild one.

Eric G.

Welcome back to the around the House show, the next generation of home improvement brought to you by our friends over at Monument Grill.

Eric G.

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Eric G.

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Eric G.

And you can check them out@monumentgrills.com now if you want to find out more about us here at around the House, you can find us on our website aroundthehouse online dot com.

Eric G.

And of course, we got so many different things on social media.

Eric G.

Just look for the around the House show.

Eric G.

Now we've been talking today with Clyde Lewis from Ground zero, that groundbreaking overnight evening show that you hear out there across the country on the radio.

Eric G.

And he is such a big paranormal and everything radio show host, podcast host and just influencer in that space.

Eric G.

And it was so crazy back in the day when we were doing this show, I was on a station here in the Portland market called kxl, which is another great radio station.

Eric G.

Clyde and I were both on there and he was on a night I was on during the day and the Saturdays and we had a lot of fun and I thought, you know, let's bring him in and do a live show for two hours and see what happens.

Eric G.

And this was one of those shows where we just had to hold on tight because you never knew who was going to call in.

Eric G.

And in hour number two, we even get his wife calling in here.

Eric G.

So if you're checking this out on the radio, make sure that you stick around for hour two and if it's not carried in your local market, make sure you grab the episode and just look for us at around the House show.

Eric G.

This will be the second episode for our number two of this series.

Eric G.

So you got to check this out.

Eric G.

We did this six years ago, like I was saying, and we had so much fun.

Eric G.

And my eyes were blown out of my head when we were doing this back then because I was like, oh, my God.

Eric G.

Gosh, is this going to be a hit?

Eric G.

Is this going to be a bomb?

Eric G.

What are we doing with this thing?

Eric G.

And it was just a wild, wild ride.

Eric G.

Probably one of my wildest two hours of radio itself.

Eric G.

And it was a lot of fun and we just had a great time doing it.

Eric G.

So I thought I'd bring it back this weekend.

Eric G.

One of these days we'll try to recreate it.

Eric G.

But radio has changed so much since then.

Eric G.

That's a lot harder to do this kind of thing now in an audience like this when it's live.

Eric G.

So we did that.

Eric G.

It was a great time to do it and I thought I would share it with you this Halloween.

Eric G.

For all you out there celebrating, this was a lot of fun.

Eric G.

Now let's get back to the show.

Eric G.

We've got more from Clyde Lewis and then stick around after the break here.

Eric G.

When we get back after this, we'll be doing our number two.

Eric G.

And if you're listening on the podcast, just go to the next episode.

Eric G.

Let's get back to Clyde and all.

Host

Around the world out there as well.

Host

Welcome back.

Clyde Lewis

Thank you.

Host

We have got a lot of phone calls.

Host

We got the lines lit up right now.

Host

Let's go out here to kind of a.

Host

Well, let's call it a infamous caller.

Host

Welcome to around the House.

Host

Janine.

Janine

Yeah, hi.

Janine

Oh, my gosh.

Janine

That was the thing, like a doorbell.

Clyde Lewis

Oh, my God.

Clyde Lewis

Is this Janine?

Janine

Yeah, Hi.

Clyde Lewis

Oh, honey, why, how are you?

Janine

I'm driving to return a piece of fur that I bought for a costume.

Janine

So aside from all of that, I had a question for you, Mr.

Janine

Round the House Guy.

Janine

You mentioned that it was you that was present when an event occurred.

Janine

And I'm curious, who else was with you at that time when you saw these doors, you know, slamming, bat, bat, bap, bap, back and forth.

Janine

And that caught my attention.

Janine

So I wanted to discuss that with you.

Host

Yeah, I had two other people there on that one.

Host

We actually this happened a lot.

Host

So this was one of those things that I was warned of when I started happening there.

Host

It would happen on a bi weekly basis that that door would do that.

Host

So it was not something that just happened once.

Host

You would see it a lot.

Eric G.

We actually had a conference room where.

Host

We were sitting in there having our company meeting and a big warehouse, that same building and we had a big stack of poster boards because there used to be a sign shop in there years ago that your normal like big rock poster kind of size of poster boards.

Host

And there's probably a hundred of them there.

Host

We're sitting there in the middle of our conference room and it's leaning up against a brick wall.

Host

It flipped sideways back out into the room.

Host

It didn't slide out.

Host

It flipped back off the brick wall and kicked out probably 25ft.

Clyde Lewis

Wow.

Host

In front of all of us watching it.

Host

And it was.

Host

I mean, there's nothing within 30ft of this thing.

Host

And we all sat there and watched it happen right in front of us.

Host

So these things happened in front of a lot of people all the time.

Janine

Okay, so every.

Janine

So how many times has it happened in front of you?

Janine

That's my question.

Host

Oh, that, that the door did.

Host

Probably half a dozen.

Host

Six or eight times.

Host

Probably that I was there, that actually saw it, that I was in the building.

Host

I wasn't always in the building, but yeah, in the year that I worked there, I saw it.

Host

Yeah, probably six or eight times at least, standing there watching it happen.

Janine

Okay, so like, are you the only person to get that kind of influence that happens around you almost continually?

Janine

So what I'm curious about is if you may in fact have some kind of ability, like you're telekinetic or.

Janine

Because it doesn't usually.

Janine

Like that kind of activity doesn't usually happen unless somebody has that big of a functionality with a connectedness to the two way spirit world.

Janine

I'll call it.

Clyde Lewis

She's saying you're telekinetic.

Janine

Yeah, I'm just, I'm calling, calling this to say if you want me to take a look at it, I can.

Janine

So I'm just, I'm making an assumptive declarative statement to you saying, hey, you might be telekinetic.

Host

You know, I would tend to agree with you.

Host

But the other thing is too, I've been in.

Host

I'm an interior designer by trade.

Host

I've been in doing this for 30 years.

Host

I've been in thousands of homes.

Host

And I mean, I'm probably talking 2500 to 3000 homes out there in the Pacific Northwest.

Host

I've.

Host

I can count how many times and locations this has happened on my left hand, you know, and it was kind of bigger places.

Clyde Lewis

But still, even if it happened, you know, just a few times for you, I mean, Janine's got a point that you may have something within you that creates this.

Clyde Lewis

And that's the whole Thing.

Clyde Lewis

Psychokinesis.

Clyde Lewis

Psychokinesis, telekinesis.

Janine

If you guys need any furniture moves, you can just, you know.

Host

If I can get this going into home improvement projects and just start working power tools and stuff, I'm in.

Host

All right, you and I have to talk about this.

Eric G.

All right.

Clyde Lewis

I love you, honey.

Host

Thanks for calling in.

Host

Oh, that is awesome.

Host

That was good.

Host

If I could sit at home watching the football game and have home improvement projects going on, I mean, just think of.

Clyde Lewis

It's like Carrie, you know?

Host

Exactly.

Host

That's the new Steve.

Host

Stephen King movie, Candyman.

Host

Oh, we're having way too much fun here in the studio.

Host

Oh, this is awesome.

Host

Hey, let's run out here real quick.

Host

To David in Portland.

Host

Welcome around the house.

Clyde Lewis

How do you ma.

Clyde Lewis

Yeah, you're there.

Clyde Lewis

Hey, Eric, Clyde.

Clyde Lewis

This is about this house that we had in Saigon.

Eric G.

Oh, David, we're gonna have to go out to break.

Host

Sit tight.

Host

Let me stick you on hold here.

Host

We're gonna go out to break, and when we come back, we're gonna take David here.

Eric G.

It is always so much doing these kind of shows with Clyde Lewis.

Eric G.

Looking back, I forgot how wild of show this really was.

Eric G.

Now here's something.

Eric G.

If you're thinking about out there, you know, looking at homes, and you're wondering, is the house that I'm looking at haunted?

Eric G.

Let me give you some advice on this one, because this can be kind of a crazy one for you to believe.

Eric G.

And for those that don't believe, now, I will say in full disclosure, when I first started working here at a place about 10 years ago, I thought all of this stuff was made up junk.

Eric G.

And I was not a believer.

Eric G.

And you heard me talk about it earlier in the episode here.

Eric G.

And this was very true.

Eric G.

I did not believe any of this.

Eric G.

But after working at one place and seeing what was happening, there was so much stuff that was unexplainable that I thought it was co workers messing with me.

Eric G.

And then I realized that they weren't, and you could tell they weren't.

Eric G.

Then I realized there was a lot more that we didn't understand.

Eric G.

Whatever this is, I didn't understand it.

Eric G.

And you know something?

Eric G.

It got pretty crazy in that place with.

Eric G.

With doors, you know, slamming open and shut.

Eric G.

For a piano that played itself, that was just a regular piano to poster board in a conference room as we were sitting there having a meeting, flip over the opposite way off a brick wall and go sliding across the floor.

Eric G.

It was like living in Poltergeist kind of movie.

Eric G.

And it was something that was Pretty wild as an experience to work there.

Eric G.

And that building is still there in Tacoma if you do a little research to find it in Tacoma, Washington.

Eric G.

It was down on the waterfront.

Eric G.

It's right across from the University of Washington Tacoma campus, right by the Harmon Brewery.

Eric G.

And it was the former home of Old Time Woodworking right there off of C Street.

Eric G.

So that place, I tell you what, I'd love to talk to people that are in that building now because I know they are probably still for a wild ride.

Eric G.

And that building had a whole history from a fire that I think was a bakery at some point when it killed people in that.

Eric G.

And it had basement tunnels that went down to the waterfront down in the lower, lower basement.

Eric G.

So it was about a three story place with a sub basement that had crazy tunnels and big rats that were about the size of a small dog.

Eric G.

It was a wild place to work.

Eric G.

But you know something, we all survived going through it and nobody got hurt with this thing.

Eric G.

But I tell you what, working evenings by yourself was a brand new experience.

Eric G.

Now, guys, when we come back here, we're going to be talking more with Clyde Lewis in the next hour and I want you to stick around for this or check the next podcast episode.

Eric G.

And again, we've had to mix this up because of the new clock and make it so it makes sense for this show because back then we had a lot more commercials and so we had a lot less content in a live show.

Eric G.

So that's why you're hearing me give a little bit explanation in between stuff.

Eric G.

So we don't have any dead air and you can hear the inside of part of these stories.

Eric G.

So you thought this was wild.

Eric G.

Hold on tight because the next one, next one's going to be just even crazier.

Eric G.

I'm Eric G.

Eric G.

And you've been listening to around the House.

Eric G.

We'll see you next hour.

Host

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Clyde Lewis

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