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Joe The Ghost Guy: stories and the unusual parannoal podcast joe the ghost guy walked us into the crumbling celllocks of eastern state penitentiary a place built for silence that became something else entirely the stone still remembers and the voices well they never really left this where does he take us next tune in
Joe The Ghost Guy: to a brand- new episode of ghost stories and the unusual paranormal podcast with your favorite investigator joe a ghost guy good
Joe The Ghost Guy: morning Good afternoon. Good evening. where we are. cross. the country and around the world. You are listening. to Ghost Stories.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and the unusual paranormal podcast. I am indeed. Your spooky host. Joe. The Ghost Guy.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Tonight. Where did he go? We're going to stay in Holbrook. to a place. Where? you would imagine.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Let's take you. back To the Old West.
Joe The Ghost Guy: we' are go to it to a House. where
Joe The Ghost Guy: is simple. Warned. for her rest. that eventually. became the deadliest Shootout. and homework. history.
Joe The Ghost Guy: We are... talking about It goes. of the beloved's house. Holbrook. Arizona.
Joe The Ghost Guy: There's a place. for history. Feels dead. or buildings. abandoned streets. Forgotten Graves places.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Where the people. who once lived. fact. Suffer. and died. You have this. disappeared into the pages of history.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And then... There are places. for the history Feels like it's still breathing. here in the silence seems to remember.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Where are the walls? Sing to her old voices. or the darkness. Feels as though... He was waiting for someone to come through the door.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Goodnight. We traveled the whole world. Arizona. A railroad town. bornin In the rough. and violent days of the old west.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A town. that once had repetition. for bloodshed. so severe that violence was almost an ordinary part.
Joe The Ghost Guy: of life and standing within the street. is an old house. is called The Blevins House.
Joe The Ghost Guy: today. is a historic landmark Valaam. September 4th 1887
Joe The Ghost Guy: It became. One of the scenes. of the most infamous gunfights in Arizona territory. in history. A sheriff.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Walk to the foot. Foot door. Carried a warrant. Inside were the members of the Blevins family. and their companions.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Within seconds. A peaceful Sunday afternoon. became a storm. of gunfire. When the shooting stopped Three men.
Joe The Ghost Guy: were dead. Another. was wounded. And there's... and the sheriff Commodore Perry Owens. is still standing But some people believe that something else remained inside the house.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Something. that would not die. when the gunfire ended. Something that still... Walks in the room still waits.
Joe The Ghost Guy: near the doorway. And still. remembers. Those guns. This.
Joe The Ghost Guy: is a story. of the Holbrook Shootout. The people cut inside it. Sheriff Commodore Perry Owens and the ghost stories.
Joe The Ghost Guy: surrounding the beloved's house.
Joe The Ghost Guy: To understand. what happened inside the Blemons' house. We have to go. to understand. Hoobra in the 1880s
Joe The Ghost Guy: This is not. The quiet Arizona community. Travelers know today. Hope work. was a frontier settlement. Cowboys pass through.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Railroad workers. arrived. Kettleman. Ranchers. Gamblers. Drifters. merchants. Amen.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and outlaws. or cross paths. The tarot. or small. but its reputation. was enormous. according to the homework.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Chamber of Conference The town recorded. 26 shooting deaths. In 1886 alone. despite having a population.
Joe The Ghost Guy: of only about. 250 people. 36. 26. Imagine that. with community.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Only a few hundred people. and gunfire. became part of everyday life. Holbrook. was dangerous. In the middle of the violent frontier.
Joe The Ghost Guy: the world came. Amen. The violent frontier. World Team. Amen. lawmen named Commodore.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Harry Owens.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Come or Perry Owens was not the kind of sheriff. Who needed a large posse to make a rest? He had a reputation. as formidable gunman.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And he has something else confidence. Right. Confidence in the Old West. Yeah. and could be deadly.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Owens had a arrest warrant. Rip man. Named. and he belittles Who also? was also known as Andy Cooper.
Joe The Ghost Guy: 11th Adios. Associated. with the violin gram sign. of the Pleasant Valley conflict. And also.
Joe The Ghost Guy: accused of cattle. and horse step. and after a deadly aftermath near the Pleasant Valley region. Blevins was reportedly Her heard bragging in Holbrook about killing two men.
Joe The Ghost Guy: the situation Becoming involved explosive. Owens knew it. The Levins knew it. and Holbrook.
Joe The Ghost Guy: was just waiting. The sheriff. I've been taking other men with him.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The sheriff could. have taken men with you. He could have surrounded the house. He could have waited. Instead. He went alone.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The Holbrook Police Department still identifies. The Blevins House Shootout was the One of the most defining moments. in the town's law enforcement history.
Joe The Ghost Guy: in that decision. to walk alone towards The house. would become. Legendary.
Joe The Ghost Guy: September 4th 1887.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Sunday. inside the blood of his family. The atmosphere. was completely different. from the violence Brewing outside.
Joe The Ghost Guy: people. were eating. Children. We're present. family members. were gathered together. historical accounts.
Joe The Ghost Guy: place several people inside the small house. including Annie the Leavens. Thumbelina. Young Samuel Houston Williams. Moe's Roberts members of the family.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Women. your children. And then...
Joe The Ghost Guy: Came the knock.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Imagine... being inside of that house. You hear the knock. You stop eating. Someone looks towards the door. Maybe a child ass.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Who is it? And then... Here comes the voice. Sheriff Commodore Perry M. Owens in He has come for Andy.
Joe The Ghost Guy: He has a warrant But Andy Blevins does not simply walk outside. And now... The tension inside. a little house Becomes.
Joe The Ghost Guy: unbearable.
Joe The Ghost Guy: then Everything happened.
Joe The Ghost Guy: accounts. differ from the details. Exactly how? The comfort. Confrontation began. But the historical records is clear about what followed Gunfire erupted.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Owens. was confronted. by the man inside. And... In an an astonishment short period of time. The sheriff fired back.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Yeah. arizona highways account trying upon witnesses testimony saying that entire drama. unfolded in roughly one minute.
Joe The Ghost Guy: One minute. Less than one man corn to some accounts. A lifetime of terror. expressed. into second.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and another.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And another. And there's also...
Joe The Ghost Guy: The little house became a battlefield. the nature. Wow. doors. When it burns. People scrambling for safety.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Children's Boundary When we find you. Stop building the room. In the middle of it. It's coming. Carry on.
Joe The Ghost Guy: beloved I've become one of the most notorious members. of the Boleyns family. He also used the name of Andy Cooper.
Joe The Ghost Guy: the corn historical accounts he had changed his name after Coming to Arizona because the trouble. an outstanding warrant.
Joe The Ghost Guy: connected the crimes in Texas. By the time Owens. came to rest him. Andy. Welcome. deeply involved in violence.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Surrounding the pleasant valley conflict And now... He was trapped inside his family's house. The man standing outside the door.
Joe The Ghost Guy: was not backing away. The sheriff. I come to arrest him. and neither man. was willing to surrender then The gun spoke.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And. and he, by leavens, was struck. He fell. Now what? We're fighting people across the territory.
Joe The Ghost Guy: There's sadly silence. Damn. He would not. be the only one.
Joe The Ghost Guy: We are lost. Yes. folks one is the age of sammy houston He was only about 15 years old.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Historical accounts identify him as a youngster. a younger member of the family. to become involved in a gunfight. Think about it.
Joe The Ghost Guy: 15 years old. a teenager And now... He was holding a weapon in the house filled with gun smoke. When Samuel fired At Owens the sheriff fired back Samuel was dead.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The shooting continued. and another man. Mose Roberts entered the Delhi Exchange. Rose Roberts.
Joe The Ghost Guy: was associated with the Blevins family. He was inside the house. when the shooting erupted And he. Fired at e2 fired at Owens The sheriff.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Return fire. Good night. gunfire finally And ended. Annie Blevins was dead. Samuel, Houston, 11th. was dead.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Mose Roberts was dead. John Vilevens had been wounded. And somehow... some way. Commodore Perry Owens survive without being killed.
Joe The Ghost Guy: I even get wounded. Historical sources include the University of Arizona Historical Index, subscribe to the event As Owens.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Bringing down. Some multiple... Diversities with only handful of shots.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Yeah.
Joe The Ghost Guy: There's nothing. Thank you for watching.
Joe The Ghost Guy: No shooting. to silence. Imagine. standing outside the house. after the shooting A few seconds earlier.
Joe The Ghost Guy: There had been Chaos. Now. Three men. We're dead. Someone. was wounded. People were crying.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Blood was everywhere. It's now done. powder. Fill the air. and the walls. That's just been witnessed one of the most violent moments in Holbrook history.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The Arizona Highway's account describes the eyewitness. Recalculate or collections this This horrific aftermath inside the cottage It was not. a hollywood gunfight.
Joe The Ghost Guy: There is no dramatic music No clean ending. Just... dead bodies and people. terrified families.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and a sheriff. Standing in the Aftermath Owens. had come to me. And rest. Instead. He had created A legend.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Commodore Perry Owens. Good night. become famous because he carried a badge. He became famous. because he walked into a house alone.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Faced with several armed men and walked back out. Alive. and unwounded. The Story became part of Arizona's Old West mythology.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The Shootout was over. with the violence. of the pleasant valley war continued The bloodshed surrounded the feud. will claim many more lives.
Joe The Ghost Guy: in the Blevins' house. remain. Quiet. waiting.
Joe The Ghost Guy: today. The Blevins' house remains a... Fiscal reminder. of that terrible afternoon. it was listed as a historic property in holbrook The house was built in the 1880s.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and it's associated directly. with the 1887 shootout. And this is where the story takes a darker turn. because history Tells us what happened of folklore.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Ask a different question. What happened? Afterwards. What happened? when a building becomes a scene of sudden violence.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Do their memories disappear? do the voices Vanish. There's the Fear. Leave the people. or Does something remain?
Joe The Ghost Guy: There are stories. The Knuckle Legends Associated. with the old Holbrook. And it's violent. Frontier History What is important?
Joe The Ghost Guy: to separate. those legends from documented historical facts. There was no... Reliable history. historical evidence.
Joe The Ghost Guy: proven that the B 'levin's family Ghosts slowly haunt the house. It exists. and an atmosphere of the place. The history.
Joe The Ghost Guy: of violence. And they both see stories. Have grown. around the infamous location. And perhaps Peace. It makes the story even more frightening.
Joe The Ghost Guy: because when people enter no building where men Bye. Finally. They sometimes... Report sensations they cannot explain.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A cold spot. A strange sound. The feeling of someone watching. A sudden movement. From the corner of the eye.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The door that seems to move by itself. And sometimes... Even the sounds of... This. of distance None shots.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Imagine. Walking near the Blevins house. after dark. Holbrook. It's quiet. to win. moves.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Who the... streets You hear nothing. Then.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Enough. now look You turn around. There's nothing. You listen.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Silence. Then another sound Perhaps. It's the railroad.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Perhaps.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It's a truck. Perhaps it's nothing. Are you in your mind? Knows the history You know that what happened here And suddenly...
Joe The Ghost Guy: every sound becomes suspicious. Every shadow. Looks like a person. Every Creek the wood sounds like footsteps. And then you wonder.
Joe The Ghost Guy: If that was a gunshot, someone had died here. Still searching for a moment. when the shooting finally ended.
Joe The Ghost Guy: if the legends are true Who would haunt? the house. Perhaps Andy? The man who refused to surrender.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The man who became trapped. in a confrontation with the sheriff. The man whose final moments were filled with gunfire Imagine.
Joe The Ghost Guy: His spirit still standing somewhere inside the house. still angry. still frightened. still wondering why the sheriff came.
Joe The Ghost Guy: you hear it Still. Yuri. The Knox.
Joe The Ghost Guy: maybe be every unexplained sound at the house. Zandy. remembering the moment. When is life? ended.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Maybe. Every shadow. is another outlaw. who never Accepted. that the gunfight was over.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Perhaps. Perhaps. the saddest possibility his young Samuel. Only 15 years old. teen nature caught a kind of violent world.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A young man. who died with a gun in his hands. If the ghost could remember. What's Samuel? Remember that gunfight? Would he remember the people screaming?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Would he remember his family? Would he understand? That he was dead? or He still believed.
Joe The Ghost Guy: fighting. was to protect his home.
Joe The Ghost Guy: That is the part of the legend. amidst story. so disturbing. Yes, sometimes. The most frightening ghost stories.
Joe The Ghost Guy: we're about monsters. They're about people. Who never. not to finish living
Joe The Ghost Guy: Are others inside the house? Women. children. family members, I had nothing to do. with the gunfight.
Joe The Ghost Guy: They were simply there. When the sheriff arrived, Imagine. Being a child in the room. One second. sunday dinner The next.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Gunfire. Home. It's filled with smoke People. following. Adults screaming. A mother trying to protect her children.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And then... Silence.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Those memories. Never leave. Even if the dead. Our time. the survivors. Carry the memory.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And perhaps... That is the Chew Hop Team. of the blood in his house. Not necessary dose. but memories. of terror
Joe The Ghost Guy: And then there's another possibility. What if the ghost wasn't one of the men who died? What if the figure had seen walking through the darkness?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Is the sheriff Commodore Perry Owens. The sheriff survived. and bye but carried the memory of that day the rest of his life.
Joe The Ghost Guy: He became a legendary lawman. The legends often leave. out the human cost. Imagine. Standing outside.
Joe The Ghost Guy: their house. after the shooting You are alive. The people who came to rest. are dead. Your ears. are still singing.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The smell of gunpowder. is everywhere You know... And people. We'll talk about what you just did.
Joe The Ghost Guy: They were. Talk. about for generations. Perhaps the footsteps. heard on the darkness. are not the footsteps of the dead dead outlaw.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Perhaps. There are the footsteps. of the sheriff. Forever returning. the scene of the gunfight
Joe The Ghost Guy: during the day. the Blevins house's history. At night. your imagination could transform into something else. Catchers.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Now... Picture the house. Beneath the Arizona sky No crowds No voices. just darkness. The moon.
Joe The Ghost Guy: hangs over Holbrook. When? Who's across the old streets? Somewhere in the distance. A train passes.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It's just very warm, man. You can imagine he yourself standing. In 1887, Your boots. Protein The Sheriff.
Joe The Ghost Guy: One more. Alone. towards the door.
Joe The Ghost Guy: He raises his hand.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And so me. you hear voices inside In silence. Then.
Joe The Ghost Guy: the whole brook Shootout. That's the only moments. But it's legend. Last and more. than a
Joe The Ghost Guy: Three men were killed One was wounded. Be sure. Walked away Hmm. A small frontier house.
Joe The Ghost Guy: I came forever connected. to one of Arizona's most famous gunfights. the navajo county historical society describes the Owens -Belevin shootout.
Joe The Ghost Guy: as one of the Hmm. asthmatic and gripping episodes. homewrecks history. The house remains.
Joe The Ghost Guy: a tangible connection to that story. And today... visitors. Interesting history. and learn more.
Joe The Ghost Guy: at the Navajo County Historical Museum. Housed in the Hobroks. historical courthouse. but the ghost stories.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Those belong to the... the realm of legends. And perhaps... exactly where they come. would remain. is sometimes...
Joe The Ghost Guy: We would need to prove. of a ghost. We only need to stand in place where something was terrible happening. and wonder whether the walls remember.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Tonight. We stand. near the beloved cells Let's sing. dont look listen Listen to the wind.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Listen to the distant railroad. Listen to the silence. Because somewhere... beneath the modern town.
Joe The Ghost Guy: of Holbrook. There's another hope The whole group. 1887. Holbrook. of cowboys Outlaw.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Amen. and bloodshed and somewhere inside That memory. And Sheriff walks. towards the door.
Joe The Ghost Guy: raises his hand.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A voice answers. We share finances. Why he's come. And then... The past comes alive.
Joe The Ghost Guy: in silence. Perhaps. the science. It never truly came. Perhaps. The house still remembers.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Perhaps somewhere. in the darkness. And he belevens. still waiting. Perhaps. and Samuel. is still wandering through the rooms.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Perhaps Mose Roberts. is still standing somewhere in the doorway. Perhaps John XI's. is still searching for the moment before the shooting began.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Or perhaps. The footsteps belong to Sheriff Keck. Commodore Perry Owens. Never entirely. never returning to the place.
Joe The Ghost Guy: where he became a legend.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Three men are dead there. One man. walked away. but The story. Never did.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Ethic ghost. of the Blevins house. really stayed still there. Perhaps. They're waiting. For someone.
Joe The Ghost Guy: to not
Joe The Ghost Guy: you're listening the story the blen's house the place. We're done. once spoke. And where?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Some believe. the dead. Stopped. listening.
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Joe The Ghost Guy: become real. And if there's any ghosts. The step. forward. And breathe. BEEP announced.
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