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Eric G.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.
HostThe house kind of combined in with Clyde Lewis today.
HostSo we're going to have some fun.
HostI used to work in a place called old time woodwork in downtown Tacoma.
HostThat was haunted is all get out.
HostAnd I mean it had.
HostAnd I didn't believe in any of this stuff installed until I started working there.
HostI mean this was absolutely insane there.
HostEverybody warns me on the first day where he came and you're going to see some stuff but just go with it.
HostAnd you go, oh, all right, cool.
HostWe 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.
HostAnd I went from the down to the stairs and it would sit there and just go bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
HostSide to side, full swing to full sweep for 30 seconds to a minute.
Clyde LewisYeah.
HostI mean, and there was no explanation for those things.
HostAnd we had a lot of weird things like that that would happen in that old building.
HostYou've got a lot of experiences.
Clyde LewisWell, yeah, I've had a lot of experiences with haunted houses and haunted locales.
Clyde LewisWhat's interesting, I was actually the first.
Clyde LewisThere 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 LewisShe kind of hung out with Joe DiMaggio in that area and Jim Morrison allegedly was there.
Clyde LewisAnd so a lot of people were saying they see things happening.
Clyde LewisWell, 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 LewisSure.
Clyde LewisThat trigger other things.
Clyde LewisAnd 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 LewisAnd this is the logical explanation.
Clyde LewisWhat's interesting though is they overlook things.
Clyde LewisIt'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 LewisAnd 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 LewisWe 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 LewisAnd so I said, well, do you think it's a supernatural cause or do you think there's something else going on?
Clyde LewisShe says, I don't know.
Clyde LewisShe says they look like little demons that come out of my walls.
Clyde LewisAnd she says that they're burrowing through the wood they're burying through the cement and the brick and everything.
Clyde LewisAnd I'm like, I've never heard of this before.
Clyde LewisThis is pretty bizarre.
Clyde LewisAnd a lot of people when I present on the show, oh, those are crickets and those are this and those are that.
Clyde LewisAnd I'm thinking, yeah, but here's the deal.
Clyde LewisWhy do we have this non indigenous creature crawling out of our walls?
Clyde LewisAnd in fact we had every reason to believe it's antlions that are there.
Clyde LewisWe don't know yet, but we're looking into the possibility of them being ant lions.
Clyde LewisBut not only that, but There was also some yellow slime that was, like, forming in areas and all this other stuff.
Clyde LewisAnd I remember the Amityville horror.
Clyde LewisThey used to say that.
Clyde LewisThe Amityville Horror, that the plumbing would go bad in the house.
Clyde LewisYou 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 LewisSo, I mean, if an infestation's happening, yeah, there's a logical explanation for an infestation.
Clyde LewisBut when you keep, you know.
Clyde LewisAnd she said she spent, like, thousands of dollars, exterminators, all kinds of things to come in and do this.
Clyde LewisWhen 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 LewisYou have to say to yourself, you know, why is this being targeted for all this infestation?
Clyde LewisAnd 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 LewisIt grows and it grows and it grows and it grows, and there's no explanation for it.
Clyde LewisBut, you know, you have to do something.
Clyde LewisAnd 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 LewisSo they wake up one day with, you know, some guy's ghost hanging in the garage, you know, because, you know, he.
Clyde LewisI don't know.
Clyde LewisBut 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 LewisNow, I'm not saying they need to be told that grandma died in the.
Clyde LewisWhat.
HostDo you talk about this?
HostYeah, because this is a big deal, because I did some research.
HostYou 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 LewisRight.
HostMay have mass suic.
HostAnything like that.
HostThey can't disclose that without having the homeowner's extent, written consent to do that.
HostNow, the question, though, is, do you want to know?
Clyde LewisWell, yeah.
Clyde LewisI mean, I do.
Clyde LewisI do.
Clyde LewisSee?
Clyde LewisAnd that's the thing is, to what extent?
Clyde LewisIt's like, I don't want to know if dad died in the next room because everybody dies in houses.
Clyde LewisPeople die in houses all the time.
Clyde LewisEvery house has a history.
Clyde LewisThat's why when they were at Houston space, well, I was told that somebody died here.
Clyde LewisWell, of course, people die everywhere.
HostYou know, it's like you're more likely to die in your own home because you're there eight hours a day, sleeping.
HostIn many cases, if you get eight hours of sleep, you're there.
HostYou're static in that house for that amount of time.
HostSo odds are it's gonna happen.
Clyde LewisYeah.
Clyde LewisIf that's the case, then hospitals are one of the most haunted places.
Clyde LewisPeople die in hospitals all the time.
Clyde LewisFuneral homes, of course, are always haunted.
Clyde LewisThat's different, I think.
Clyde LewisBut, you know, you're dealing with.
Clyde LewisYou're dealing with people who, you know, when they watch these ghost shows, they say somebody died here.
Clyde LewisWell, so what, you know, there's gotta.
Clyde LewisWhat it is, it hasn't anything to do with death.
Clyde LewisIt has everything to do with trauma.
Clyde LewisThere we go.
Clyde LewisSo if something happens in the house that's traumatizing or something leaves behind some residual trauma, and that's what you're getting.
Clyde LewisAnd there are other things.
Clyde LewisThere are other factors too that create hauntings.
Clyde LewisA lot of people don't know that.
Clyde LewisMost houses that are situated under high power lines, for example, they are the most haunted houses.
Clyde LewisAnd the reason why is because electromagnetic energy can give you the foolish feeling that you're having a ghost in your house.
HostOh, interesting.
Clyde LewisAnd it may.
Clyde LewisIt may be a ghost, or it may be that the electromagnetic current is causing hob with your head.
Clyde LewisBut 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 LewisA Tesla coil.
Clyde LewisSure.
Clyde LewisAnd you fire a bunch of electromagnetic energy in a room.
Clyde LewisGhost.
Clyde LewisLove it, man.
Clyde LewisThey eat it up like nobody's business.
Clyde LewisLike, it's like using dynamite to catch fish.
Clyde LewisI mean, it's right there.
Clyde LewisYou bring it on.
Clyde LewisSo 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 LewisThat's electromagnetic.
Clyde LewisElectromagnetic energy actually working itself on your brain.
Clyde LewisAnd if you have any exposure to that, you'll see ghosts.
Clyde LewisIt's just, it's.
HostThat's amazing.
Clyde LewisAnd 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 LewisThey're not always showing up as you know.
HostLet's talk more about ghosts here.
HostWe'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.
HostOkay, 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.
HostWhy in a world of ugly faces should I be allowed to be so.
JanineHot.
HostSo 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.
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Eric G.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.
HostClyde Lewis here from ground zero in studio.
HostWe're having fun.
HostThis is great.
HostThis is a great show.
HostTalking hauntings, all those different crazy things out there that people don't quite frankly understand.
HostWell, let's dive in here.
HostWe've got a call.
HostClyde here from Carlos in Silverton.
HostWelcome to around the house.
CallerHey, thanks a lot for having me.
CallerHow you guys doing?
Clyde LewisGood.
CallerHey, I love show, Clyde.
CallerI'm a, I'm an every night listener.
Clyde LewisThank you so much for that.
CallerThank you, Eric G.
CallerOh, yeah.
CallerYou're welcome.
HostThanks.
CallerAnd Eric G.
CallerEvery 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.
CallerWhat do you know, Clyde, about emptying out or cleaning your house from house from negative energy?
Clyde LewisWell, 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 LewisAnd because some people, they don't mind.
Clyde LewisThey don't mind having a ghost in their house.
Clyde LewisNo.
CallerSomebody is pretty lonely.
Clyde LewisI'm sure it's like, well, no, it's kind of like having somebody in your house.
Clyde LewisBut if it's an intrusion, if you have an intrusion, yes, you have to cleanse your house from negative energy.
Clyde LewisAnd there are many Ways to do that.
Clyde LewisI mean, first of all, clean your house.
Clyde LewisThat's important.
Clyde LewisFirst of all.
Clyde LewisI mean, usually, I mean, ghosts and demons or whatever they are, they are attracted to houses that are not kept houses.
Clyde LewisOkay?
Clyde LewisSomething called panpsychism is the study of whether or not consciousness blends in with inanimate objects.
Clyde LewisThere'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 LewisSome people have psychic abilities.
Clyde LewisLike, 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 LewisWhen she held the shingles, she got physically nauseous.
Clyde LewisSo 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 LewisSo first things first.
Clyde LewisClean the house.
Clyde LewisClean it as best you can.
Clyde LewisScrub it down.
Clyde LewisWalls, nooks, crannies, everything.
Clyde LewisMake sure everything's clean.
Clyde LewisGo in the attics, check and see if there's any rats that are dead up there or.
Clyde LewisOr, you know, grandpa was left up there forgotten or, you know, something.
Clyde LewisBut then if that doesn't work and you still have something going on, you can have a house cleansed.
Clyde LewisAnd 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 LewisI 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 LewisI had that once.
Clyde LewisI had somebody come in and bless a place for me.
Clyde LewisI just feel it's kind of nice to have.
Clyde LewisIt gives you a chance to get to know the people in your church.
Clyde LewisBecause somebody would go in and they'd say, okay, we're going to bless the house.
Clyde LewisThat's the first thing.
Clyde LewisIf then you still have the activity, then what you need to do is you need to also do some other things, too.
Clyde LewisThere are rituals.
Clyde LewisThere are things like sage that you burn it and you let it go through the home.
Clyde LewisIt's a cleansing thing.
Clyde LewisI mean, they say it's all superstition, but it does help.
Clyde LewisBut 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 LewisOkay, there you go.
Clyde LewisAnd a Lot of the time people bring with them ghosts and they bring their own demons into a house and they manifest.
Clyde LewisAnd it's because the power of the mind is so amazing.
Clyde LewisIt's complex and it's amazing.
Clyde LewisAnd 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 LewisSo you have to also make sure that you're okay.
Clyde LewisThat's mentally, physically, you know, and you're spiritually aware of what's going on.
Clyde LewisSo there's a lot of factors involved.
Clyde LewisWe just don't blame it on the house.
Clyde LewisWe can't also blame it on you or someone else.
HostOr even an object.
HostYeah.
Clyde LewisOr an object that may be haunted too.
Clyde LewisOnce again, it gets back to the panpsychism idea.
Clyde LewisAnd 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 LewisBut now scientists are talking about it.
Clyde LewisThey'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 LewisBut, you know, and that's the thing you need to also understand.
Clyde LewisMaybe somebody was in the house before.
Clyde LewisOnce again, back to the idea.
Clyde LewisDoes 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 LewisThese are things that I think they're very important to be actually exposed.
Clyde LewisIf so.
Clyde LewisYeah.
Clyde LewisSo that's.
HostThat answer your question, Carlos?
HostWell, yeah, it does.
CallerAnd you know, have you ever heard of like, maybe just reflecting negative energy from like other.
CallerOther visitors coming to your house, like by hanging a mirror?
Clyde LewisYeah.
Clyde LewisNow you're getting into witchcraft.
Clyde LewisYou're getting into witchcraft or bru kariya or whatever.
Clyde LewisI knew, actually what's interesting about this is that I lived in a neighborhood where there was a haunted house in my neighborhood.
Clyde LewisAnd I knew of the haunted house.
Clyde LewisA little girl that was upstairs that was making beds and doing all kinds of crazy stuff for families.
Clyde LewisAnd wouldn't you know it, a witch moves into the house, a Wiccan pagan moves in a home.
Clyde LewisAnd she was so tormented by this thing that she would put, like, she did everything, she covered her bases.
Clyde LewisHindu God idols, Jesus, Bible verses on the walls, like something out of the Omen, and she couldn't get rid of it.
Clyde LewisAnd so what she did is she Figured that there was something that was coming into the home from outside the neighborhood.
Clyde LewisShe felt the neighborhood was so negative.
Clyde LewisShe put mirrors in her windows and.
Clyde LewisYeah, mirrors reflect back out.
Clyde LewisLike I said, that's.
Clyde LewisThat's witchcraft.
Clyde LewisIn a lot of ways, it's a form of witchcraft.
Clyde LewisYeah.
HostAll right, Carlos.
HostHey, thanks for calling in, man.
HostWe appreciate it.
Clyde LewisThank you, buddy.
Clyde LewisNo problem.
CallerI'm glad to hear you guys.
CallerThank you.
HostAll right, thanks for calling into around the house, man.
HostThat's a lot of different things on that one.
Clyde LewisI was very surprised you knew about the mirror thing, because.
Clyde LewisYeah, 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 LewisAnd I lived in South America, and I saw a lot of this going on.
Clyde LewisThe idea of, you know, people using magic to do all kinds of crazy stuff, and it works.
Clyde LewisFolk magic.
Clyde LewisNo, I'm a full believer in folk magic.
Clyde LewisI had.
Clyde LewisI had a kidney problem when I was in South America, and I couldn't get it done by a doctor.
Clyde LewisNothing would help.
Clyde LewisAnd so I went to a quandetto, and the quandetto grabbed a leaf out of the tree.
Clyde LewisHe said, here, boil this.
Clyde LewisDrink it.
Clyde LewisYour kidneys will feel better.
Clyde LewisI boiled it, I drank it.
Clyde LewisKidneys were feeling better.
Clyde LewisNo problem.
HostOld school medicine, man.
Clyde LewisYeah, but, you know, I just.
Clyde LewisAnd then, of course, you know, later on, you know, the kidneys were doing well.
Clyde LewisWell.
Clyde LewisBut I'm just saying that, you know, it's kind of like a cover.
Clyde LewisFolk magic works.
Clyde LewisAnd.
Clyde LewisAnd, you know, and that's another thing, too.
Clyde LewisIf 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 LewisThey're very effective.
Clyde LewisVery.
HostLove it.
HostLove it.
HostWe're in studio here with Clyde Lewis from Ground Zero.
HostThis 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.
HostWe're just getting started.
Eric G.Welcome back to the around the house show, the next generation of home improvement brought to you by our friends at Monument Grills for that great grilling experience.
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Eric G.Check them out@monumentgrills.com now let's get out to our friend Clyde Lewis.
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.
HostWe are talking homes and the paranormal and everything else in between.
Clyde LewisI do believe in spooks.
Clyde LewisI do believe in spooks.
Clyde LewisI do.
HostWe're having fun.
HostI was just talking to story here about haunted places, and I was down at the Greystone mansion, which is.
HostAnd we talked about this off air a little bit.
HostThis is that thing that you.
HostThis is the house that you see as the big mansion.
HostAnd 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.
HostI was down there for the Baldwin hardware event that we had.
HostWe actually had two very haunted houses that we were in.
HostWe were in that one.
HostAnd then we're also in the Soden house where the alleged murders of the Black Dahlia murders happened.
Clyde LewisSo Cecil Hotel.
Clyde LewisHave you heard of Cecil Hotel, too, down there?
HostYeah, I've heard of that as well.
Clyde LewisUgly.
Clyde LewisThe situation down there where that girl drowned in the.
HostYeah.
Clyde LewisAnd they were drinking the water.
Clyde LewisYeah.
HostNot good.
HostNot good.
HostWell, I walk into the theater, which had not been operation since 1982 in this house.
HostNow, this is like 50,000 square foot house.
HostThere's 85 rooms.
HostBig.
HostThis room musty.
HostYou can smell kind of that.
HostThere had been water damage.
HostSo it had that moldy, musty smell.
HostUnrestored, not touched.
HostWalked into this thing, and the two people, me and somebody else, walk in there.
HostWe get three steps in, and that anxiety, electricity level went higher than I've ever felt in my life.
HostWe went and spun on a dime.
HostAnd headed right back out of that place.
HostAnd then the tour guide that was down the hall went, wow, you lasted longer than most in that room.
Clyde LewisSo this isn't something new.
HostThis was not something new.
HostAnd it's kind of funny.
HostI went onto their website there for the.
HostFor the Greystone mansion, and they're still looking for someone to come forward to restore that room.
HostBut they haven't found too many.
Clyde LewisWell, you know, I won't mention any names or any buildings, but that whole area there.
Clyde LewisThere's a bunch of places here in Portland, actually.
Clyde LewisPortland area.
Clyde LewisI mean.
HostYeah.
Clyde LewisWell, known area is Multnomah Village.
Clyde LewisIt's haunted.
Clyde LewisYeah.
Clyde LewisFat City Cafe.
Clyde LewisHaunted.
Clyde LewisRenters haunted.
Clyde LewisBut they just had a fire there, so.
Clyde LewisBut some of the bars there are haunted.
Clyde LewisIn fact, it was odd.
Clyde LewisWe 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 LewisThe guy went in, shot her a long time ago.
Clyde LewisHer body fell down the stairs.
Clyde LewisSo we were called in, and, you know, they said they were getting haunts and all kinds of crazy stuff going on.
Clyde LewisAnd my wife, who's very psychic, she came in and she was like, saying, I don't get Vivian here.
Clyde LewisYou know?
Clyde LewisAnd we were doing a lot of evp, which is electronic voice phenomena.
Clyde LewisWe're recording voices in the basement, and all of a sudden we get this.
Clyde LewisWe get this.
Clyde LewisMy wife gets this thing.
Clyde LewisIt's this inspiration, intuition.
Clyde LewisShe says, humphrey Bogart's wife died here.
Eric G.Whoa.
Clyde LewisAnd we're like, going, no, McCall.
Clyde LewisLaura McCall died here.
Clyde LewisNo, no, no, no, no.
Clyde LewisSome woman named Mile Meal.
Clyde LewisI said, I didn't hear about that.
Clyde LewisI don't know what you're talking about.
Clyde LewisSo, you know, but she was right.
Clyde LewisShe was so right.
Clyde LewisAnd so we called a historian, and sure enough, there was a time where Humphrey Bogart had a wife who lived here in Oregon.
Clyde LewisHer name was Mile Method.
Clyde LewisWow.
Clyde LewisAnd apparently she shot him.
Clyde LewisShe shot Humphrey Bogart in the stomach.
HostWow.
Clyde LewisBut she and him fought a lot.
Clyde LewisBut they loved each other.
Clyde LewisBut they fought a lot.
Clyde LewisAnd he couldn't take it anymore, so he went off with Lauren McCall, and.
Clyde LewisBut she died in a flop house that was just above Fat City Cafe here in Portland.
Clyde LewisAnd, you know, you don't know these things unless you do the history.
Clyde LewisWe were over to another place.
Clyde LewisIt's over off ofGrand in MLK.
Clyde LewisI don't name the building because they told me I can't name it.
Clyde LewisBut there's a bunch of buildings over there that were known as the.
Clyde LewisThose were.
Clyde LewisThe funerals all happened.
Clyde LewisWell, the mortuaries were.
Clyde LewisAnd all these buildings were converted from mortuaries to theaters to other things.
Clyde LewisAnd apparently this one place was haunted.
Clyde LewisThe plumbing was bad, infestations of bugs, all kinds of crazy stuff.
Clyde LewisCome to find out, man, the whole place was.
Clyde LewisThere was this ghost, a female ghost, looking for her baby there because she said she was separated from her baby.
Clyde LewisWe got this from a Ouija board.
Clyde LewisAnd also a demon actually showed up named Abisu, which is an old Mesopotamian demon that murders children.
Clyde LewisAnd because it was looking for that child along with the woman.
Clyde LewisSo, 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 LewisSo how do you feel it?
HostThat's wild.
HostHey, 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.
HostI had to do that.
Clyde LewisMeanwhile, you too can get this great demographic, right?
HostYeah, exactly.
HostWell, here's the thing.
HostI mean, there are.
HostI mean, you go down even just throughout the McMiniman's properties.
Clyde LewisOh, yes.
HostI mean, you know, pop down to Baghdad Crystal.
Clyde LewisI think that's on purpose, though.
Clyde LewisI mean, you go to those places like.
Clyde LewisYou're right.
Clyde LewisThe Baghdad, the Crystal.
Clyde LewisI'm pretty sure Ambry house really is haunted.
Clyde LewisIt is very haunted.
Clyde LewisAnd the reason why I think it's haunted is because.
Clyde LewisWell, the embryos, of course, were a very, very, you know, well to do family.
Clyde LewisThey had the whole area there and there was a room downstairs in the Embry house where people were born.
HostYep.
Clyde LewisAnd people die.
Clyde LewisWow.
Clyde LewisIt was.
Clyde LewisIt was like they kept it within the family.
Clyde LewisSo whenever a person was born, they were born downstairs.
Clyde LewisAnd 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 LewisAnd so the place is very haunted, but there's a reason why it's very haunted.
Clyde LewisIf 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 LewisNice.
Clyde LewisBut you go to the Embry house and they have a substation just across the street from the Embry house.
Clyde LewisAnd these huge power lines go from the substation across the house.
Clyde LewisAnd I think that's one of the reasons why it's highly Active there at the Embry house.
Clyde LewisOh, yeah.
HostBecause you've got all that electromagnetic energy and everything else.
Clyde LewisOh, yeah.
HostHey, give us a call, 503-417-9595.
HostI do want to hear your stories as well.
Host503-417-9595.
HostThis is around the House combined up with a little bit of Clyde Lewis here from ground zero.
HostIf you caught him around out there.
HostHe 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 LewisSemi famous in semicircles.
HostThere we go.
Clyde LewisActually 300 stations across the country.
Clyde LewisYeah.
Clyde LewisWere heard all over the world.
Clyde LewisAll over the country.
Clyde LewisAnd we're doing well.
HostYou guys are doing really well.
Clyde LewisYeah, I mean, here in Portland we do really well.
Clyde LewisI mean, it's just.
Clyde LewisIt's just a matter of, you know, we do paranormal.
Clyde LewisWe do what I call parapolitical, which is analyzing conspiracy theory rather than, you know, taking it at face value, we break it apart.
Clyde LewisAnd sometimes, you know, conspiracy theories are based on some really good evidence.
Clyde LewisBut.
Clyde LewisAnd that's where we get into, you know, get into a lot of political stuff.
Clyde LewisAnd sometimes people don't understand that it's not, you know, one side or the other.
Clyde LewisIt's apolitical.
Clyde LewisIf you're doing conspiracy theory, both sides need to be, you know, taken on.
Clyde LewisBut when it comes to the paranormal, there are a lot of things and people don't understand this.
Clyde LewisYou know, paranormal mythology, religion, dogma, all that stuff.
Clyde LewisIt actually dictates what we do as human beings.
Clyde LewisAnd so, you know, people say, ah, that's superstition, that's nonsense.
Clyde LewisNo, 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 LewisSo 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 LewisThousands of years we've heard of vampires.
Clyde LewisThousands of years we've heard of werewolves.
Clyde LewisI mean, in the Bible there are vampires.
Clyde LewisI was learning the other day as I was reading Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Clyde LewisThe blood is the life that comes from Leviticus.
Clyde LewisYeah, I mean, you can read that in Leviticus.
Clyde LewisIn Proverbs it talks about beings with razor sharp teeth that attack you in your sleep.
Clyde LewisAnd I'm thinking to myself, wow, so this is where vampires come from.
Clyde LewisAnd then ghosts, of course, are in Shakespeare and several others.
HostNothing new with any of this stuff.
HostI 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 LewisYeah, it's aliens.
Clyde LewisIt'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 LewisAnd in it it gives you all details on how you can hunt down vampires, werewolves and witches.
Clyde LewisSo 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.
HostMan, that's incredible.
HostWe come back, we're going to be talking more to Clyde Lewis.
HostHere we are around the house of Eric G.
HostAround 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.
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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.
HostAround the world out there as well.
HostWelcome back.
Clyde LewisThank you.
HostWe have got a lot of phone calls.
HostWe got the lines lit up right now.
HostLet's go out here to kind of a.
HostWell, let's call it a infamous caller.
HostWelcome to around the House.
HostJanine.
JanineYeah, hi.
JanineOh, my gosh.
JanineThat was the thing, like a doorbell.
Clyde LewisOh, my God.
Clyde LewisIs this Janine?
JanineYeah, Hi.
Clyde LewisOh, honey, why, how are you?
JanineI'm driving to return a piece of fur that I bought for a costume.
JanineSo aside from all of that, I had a question for you, Mr.
JanineRound the House Guy.
JanineYou mentioned that it was you that was present when an event occurred.
JanineAnd 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.
JanineAnd that caught my attention.
JanineSo I wanted to discuss that with you.
HostYeah, I had two other people there on that one.
HostWe actually this happened a lot.
HostSo this was one of those things that I was warned of when I started happening there.
HostIt would happen on a bi weekly basis that that door would do that.
HostSo it was not something that just happened once.
HostYou would see it a lot.
Eric G.We actually had a conference room where.
HostWe 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.
HostAnd there's probably a hundred of them there.
HostWe're sitting there in the middle of our conference room and it's leaning up against a brick wall.
HostIt flipped sideways back out into the room.
HostIt didn't slide out.
HostIt flipped back off the brick wall and kicked out probably 25ft.
Clyde LewisWow.
HostIn front of all of us watching it.
HostAnd it was.
HostI mean, there's nothing within 30ft of this thing.
HostAnd we all sat there and watched it happen right in front of us.
HostSo these things happened in front of a lot of people all the time.
JanineOkay, so every.
JanineSo how many times has it happened in front of you?
JanineThat's my question.
HostOh, that, that the door did.
HostProbably half a dozen.
HostSix or eight times.
HostProbably that I was there, that actually saw it, that I was in the building.
HostI wasn't always in the building, but yeah, in the year that I worked there, I saw it.
HostYeah, probably six or eight times at least, standing there watching it happen.
JanineOkay, so like, are you the only person to get that kind of influence that happens around you almost continually?
JanineSo what I'm curious about is if you may in fact have some kind of ability, like you're telekinetic or.
JanineBecause it doesn't usually.
JanineLike 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.
JanineI'll call it.
Clyde LewisShe's saying you're telekinetic.
JanineYeah, I'm just, I'm calling, calling this to say if you want me to take a look at it, I can.
JanineSo I'm just, I'm making an assumptive declarative statement to you saying, hey, you might be telekinetic.
HostYou know, I would tend to agree with you.
HostBut the other thing is too, I've been in.
HostI'm an interior designer by trade.
HostI've been in doing this for 30 years.
HostI've been in thousands of homes.
HostAnd I mean, I'm probably talking 2500 to 3000 homes out there in the Pacific Northwest.
HostI've.
HostI can count how many times and locations this has happened on my left hand, you know, and it was kind of bigger places.
Clyde LewisBut 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 LewisAnd that's the whole Thing.
Clyde LewisPsychokinesis.
Clyde LewisPsychokinesis, telekinesis.
JanineIf you guys need any furniture moves, you can just, you know.
HostIf I can get this going into home improvement projects and just start working power tools and stuff, I'm in.
HostAll right, you and I have to talk about this.
Eric G.All right.
Clyde LewisI love you, honey.
HostThanks for calling in.
HostOh, that is awesome.
HostThat was good.
HostIf I could sit at home watching the football game and have home improvement projects going on, I mean, just think of.
Clyde LewisIt's like Carrie, you know?
HostExactly.
HostThat's the new Steve.
HostStephen King movie, Candyman.
HostOh, we're having way too much fun here in the studio.
HostOh, this is awesome.
HostHey, let's run out here real quick.
HostTo David in Portland.
HostWelcome around the house.
Clyde LewisHow do you ma.
Clyde LewisYeah, you're there.
Clyde LewisHey, Eric, Clyde.
Clyde LewisThis is about this house that we had in Saigon.
Eric G.Oh, David, we're gonna have to go out to break.
HostSit tight.
HostLet me stick you on hold here.
HostWe'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.
HostI.
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