Asatru Folk Assembly - 10⧸29⧸25 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 173 - Bump in the Night, Part 2

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00:03:00.000 good evening everybody and welcome to another episode of victory never sleeps i am wit and

00:03:11.560 brandy i will be your host this evening and i am joined by githia sheila mcnellen hi sheila how are

00:03:17.980 you i'm doing great um i thought we'd have more people but i think you and i can handle this and

00:03:24.860 read lots of great spooky stories. Thank you, everybody. We've got some really good stories.

00:03:31.520 So everybody, thank you so much for sending those in and sharing all of those things with us. We

00:03:38.860 really, really appreciate it. So first thing I want to go over tonight is right off the bat,

00:03:44.920 GW Farnsworth donated $25 to VNS and $25 to Folk Services. Thank you so much for your generosity.

00:03:54.160 is appreciated every week. It is through the generosity of members like you that we get to

00:03:59.820 help our folk build our temples, run BNS, the academy, and all the other things that we have

00:04:05.740 going on. So thank you very much, sir. That really does make a difference and you are very much

00:04:10.420 appreciated. Other top of the show things tonight, if you yourself are interested in donating to

00:04:17.880 anything that the AFA is doing, whether it is the Academy or VNS or to any of our Hoffs,

00:04:24.600 please visit us at runestone.org slash donate. We also have our South African Fund,

00:04:31.540 VNS Academy. We've got all kinds of good things going on. Also check out our folk services as

00:04:36.500 well. Money raised by folk services. Go to those in need. So thank you to all those who donate

00:04:42.660 and keep this thing going. Also update on Frazehoff. So we have already made amazing

00:04:50.920 progress in paying off Frazehoff. We are at 25.3% and that shows awesome little graphic on where

00:04:59.040 we're at already. And they did do the math for me because math is not my strong suit. So I am told

00:05:04.980 and I trust those who tell me that it would take $125 per member in the AFA to pay off Frey's Hoff

00:05:13.860 today. So if you are able and willing to help, please visit our website and donate to the Frey's

00:05:20.940 Hoff Fund. Also, I wanted to ask Sheila, how was your holiday at the Hoff? The Hoff looked beautiful.

00:05:31.600 tell me about it yes um well obviously um daniel odom our folk builder who always does a halloween

00:05:40.480 extravaganza um did it again and we kind of limited it to the front steps but he had one of

00:05:46.720 those 12-foot skeletons and the whole thing and we brought in pumpkins for the kids i've got some

00:05:52.160 here on my own table that were painted by kids and uh it was really a fine fine event it went over

00:05:59.120 really well we had a few new people um it was a huge turnout we actually had 74 people who came

00:06:07.520 out for our veterinarian and uh that was really exciting and in doing that i did two bloats i did

00:06:15.440 one to the alfar in the morning and then again into the dc in the afternoon late afternoon early

00:06:21.680 evening and it was perfect worked out really nicely so you may not you may not know this

00:06:29.360 but i heard through the grapevine that it was one of the most powerful blows they have ever seen you 0.50

00:06:36.480 do my goodness it sounds like that job sheila so that you want to tell us about your bloat

00:06:46.080 yes well um the morning one was interesting because we do have three god poles and though

00:06:56.860 i kind of want to focus on fray um for the alfar bloat went around and in the three god poles we

00:07:03.880 have four oath and prayer and you know bless them uh spurge them even and it just we did lots of

00:07:11.520 elder in that one, and was actually in the ritual circle. And then later on, we were so busy during

00:07:19.940 the day, and there were so many people that normally I call the ladies aside, and we do our

00:07:24.460 practice of our chant that we do. The very famous one that Gidea Katie Erickson wrote so many years

00:07:33.520 ago. It's my favorite, all-time favorite. And some of the ladies knew it, but some were absolutely

00:07:40.220 knew so we were in first and um the gentleman came in and we actually did what we've been doing 0.92

00:07:50.540 we had two ladies at the entrance of the ritual circle with a bowl a bowl of warm water and a 0.83

00:07:56.960 towel and each one said welcome to you welcome to your mother's home and then step into the space

00:08:03.460 into the ritual circle and everybody did that we all we all walked into our mother's place and at

00:08:08.980 that point the energy changed it did because it was like everybody had something they wanted to

00:08:17.540 say they wanted to ask one of their mothers whether it's your mother or an aunt or grandmother

00:08:24.580 or whatever we all have those kind of things that are always haunting us a bit because we couldn't

00:08:30.260 do it when they were with us well we can definitely do it at winter nights and uh so everybody did

00:08:37.940 and that is um kind of the way i like it um we also of course as people were entering they would

00:08:45.460 say hail so-and-so hail grandma so-and-so hail helen hail aunt mary that kind of stuff and to

00:08:52.980 again bring those ladies forth and i think i did a pretty good job bringing all the holy powers into

00:09:00.420 that circle and at the very end we had runes that were blessed with water and i took some of that

00:09:08.660 icelandic water and i realized it's bottled but it comes from iceland from the glaciers in iceland

00:09:15.300 where so much of our history was written and acted out and lived fully by the people in iceland so

00:09:22.580 i use that for water because i think water is very appropriate especially for the goddess

00:09:27.380 and for our dc our mothers and so the ruins were blessed uh with water and with a bit of mead

00:09:35.720 and everybody took a rune as they left and of course and you know they get all scrambled and

00:09:42.020 there were patterns that emerged some of the ones we had been galltering um were coming up and other

00:09:48.460 ones that i never get that people never get never came up you know it's really interesting so that's

00:09:54.080 kind of this oh wow mystery magical stuff that can happen around us that is so subtle it doesn't

00:10:02.260 stay you know like a story but it happens all the time and I think I'm Brandy I know you've had the

00:10:08.780 same same thing happen you know just what to say at the right time and it all fits together like a

00:10:14.920 puzzle and that's the way this felt it was really really a nice float so I appreciate everybody who

00:10:21.340 was there for it. Yes. It sounds like it was a beautiful event. It really does. The Hoff look

00:10:26.360 beautiful. So Daniel, we appreciate all the work that you do out there. You, you really make it

00:10:31.560 absolutely gorgeous out there, sir. We also did, um, I use water in my dessert blood as well. So

00:10:37.760 I typically use water, you know, because of the water of the womb, um, the sweat from your mother

00:10:43.700 when she was raising you and chasing after you as a toddler, the tears that she cried, that's

00:10:48.380 all water. So I always work that into my Desir bloat as well. Um, this year, um, folk builder, 0.85

00:10:55.740 Ashley Erlandson, uh, go the Erlandson's wife had the most amazing, I think I sent it to you guys

00:11:02.120 in our, in our Githia chat where we kind of compare notes on things and she had the most

00:11:06.980 beautiful craft this year. So, I mean, she did a bang up job. I mean, I, it was just ingenious 0.52

00:11:12.840 what she did. So she had one of our menfolk go out and she got a branch and they took all of

00:11:19.020 the leaves off of the branch. And then she had these really beautiful fall colored leaves and

00:11:26.160 kind of flora. And we wrote our Desir's names on the leaves. So we took like a branch and then we

00:11:34.240 wrote her name, one of our Desir on the leaves. And then she had us write, you know, things that

00:11:40.700 that that woman represented whether it was like strength or industriousness or beauty or piety

00:11:47.220 and so it was like her name and then fanned around her name were all of these things that

00:11:52.160 we could be inspired because of her and then she had them all attached to it and I wish I had a

00:11:58.740 picture of it um I should have thought of that before and sent it to producer Nick to show but

00:12:03.480 it was absolutely beautiful and then she had it decorated with like the fairy lights so it was

00:12:08.040 all lit up and all different colored leaves on there she did an amazing job and we're going to

00:12:13.720 use it as a centerpiece for the fall at the hoth and then afterwards we're going to actually put

00:12:18.680 it up on our there it is our producer nick look at that wow she did such a beautiful job with that

00:12:27.080 but yeah we're going to put that up on our um our ancestor altar after the fall season but it's

00:12:33.560 absolutely beautiful nick you are always on point with getting all of the things that i need

00:12:40.520 but yeah she it was just beautiful and that's when the folk were were working on it so you know

00:12:45.320 there's more on there but yeah she just it was such a beautiful craft so if you guys are ever

00:12:50.040 wondering kind of what you can do you know we we do try to make a point to talk about um the things

00:12:56.040 that we do the crafts that we do at the hof or with our families or how we celebrate something

00:13:00.920 you know if you ever have a question on hey what can i do for this you know it's my first time

00:13:05.400 doing this or i've been doing it for a long time and i need something new you know reach out to us

00:13:10.040 we've got all kinds of ideas and things that we do with the hof and feel free to use those things but

00:13:14.920 i got to give it to uh to ashley erlinson she really did a great job with that so well done ma'am

00:13:21.480 and we do have a couple questions right from the start before we get into the rest of our

00:13:30.900 spooky stuff actually before i forget and before nick reminds me we should really talk about all

00:13:36.300 the different ways that you can find us and listen to us so if you are looking for other

00:13:42.620 ways to communicate with us or other places to catch this podcast you can catch us here

00:13:47.280 on youtube we're also on odyssey twitch twitter rumble youtube and vk and then our podcast is

00:13:54.860 also posted on apple music um spotify our heart radio and amazon music so definitely take find us

00:14:04.500 listen to us at work listen to us on your drive if you can't catch us live catch us there and also

00:14:10.400 there are moots going on across the AFA every weekend. I don't think there's a single weekend

00:14:18.100 that goes by that there's not something happening somewhere in the church. So if you are interested,

00:14:24.040 go to runestone.org slash calendar, and also be sure to check out your district websites.

00:14:33.060 And there we go. Look at Nick. Coming soon for Freyshoff, but we got Odenshoff, Thorshoff,

00:14:37.960 Waldershoff and Yorthoff. There's all kinds of news on there. There's information, contact for

00:14:43.000 the leadership. So be sure you take a look at those. Also, before we get too far ahead,

00:14:49.480 Sheila, would you be able to talk a little bit about the academy? And, you know, even if they're

00:14:56.540 not homeschooling, what the academy parents were not necessarily homeschooling, but still looking

00:15:01.820 for assistance i'd be happy to do that so um we have expanded the program this year it is now a

00:15:12.380 goes from kindergarten through seventh grade the kindergarten program as it's designed in

00:15:18.700 waldorf is actually considered a two-year program a k-1 a k-2 but ultimately it's the parents who

00:15:25.180 are the ones who are really the teachers who make the determination of what their child needs how

00:15:31.100 they're progressing and those kinds of things and even at the end of the year the parents will

00:15:37.580 assess their children and decide and hopefully that they're ready for the next year the next

00:15:43.180 grade level but what we have that's very special is we do have the waldorf program that is free of

00:15:49.020 charge to anybody who wants to put their children through it we have all the curriculum you need

00:15:54.780 and supplemental materials academic materials as well and you can always ask for help if you need

00:16:00.860 more but besides that we also have our religious studies part of it and it is also a k and actually

00:16:09.260 it's going to be k-12 before long i know that that go the rob stam is busily working on

00:16:16.780 high school level lectures and things like that particularly on history mythology i think politics

00:16:23.900 all those kinds of things which is going to be outstanding but every parent who has a child who's

00:16:31.820 at grade school age again k through seven right now you can enroll your child for free in our

00:16:37.900 religious studies program and the benefit of that is that if they're already in a public school or

00:16:44.860 a different homeschooling program and you're satisfied with that you don't have to do the

00:16:49.660 waldorf that is an extra bonus that we want to give parents who truly want to homeschool

00:16:55.180 and do a curriculum that's very conducive to our values um but you can sign up for just the

00:17:03.100 religious studies and it also has materials by grade level by seasons by days of remembrance

00:17:09.820 all the things that we feel that we all should know your children can start learning it when

00:17:14.780 when they're young. There are videos, there are stories, short stories, all kinds of activities,

00:17:21.480 you know, word puzzles and crosswords of things that relate to our lore, our religion. So it's

00:17:29.320 not too late to sign up here. Yeah, I realize we're at the end of October. Our year actually

00:17:34.580 goes from September, the old-fashioned Labor Day, to June, but there's no reason you can't

00:17:41.240 start it sometime and and continue it on through the summer you can do that or you can you set the

00:17:47.960 pace for your children and again the um the religious studies portion is is something that

00:17:55.380 is outside of any kind of um requirements by by a state we do have each state's requirements if

00:18:03.840 you're doing our actual homeschooling program the waldorf and we can help you with that get

00:18:09.140 set up with the state but the other is just for our edification so the children are ready to

00:18:16.580 learn and teach their parents even some of the things they're learning parents and kids learn

00:18:20.820 together it's wonderful so um you can write to school at runes is it school i think school at

00:18:26.580 runestone.org and uh usually we have our wonderful gidea sarah alt who is kind of the right hand

00:18:35.060 person a great administrator helping rob stam and she is wonderful at getting you set up showing you

00:18:42.420 how to access all the materials but again free of charge you just fill out a form and you must

00:18:48.420 have a gmail account though all the parents need a gmail account because it is now instead of what

00:18:53.780 we used last year it's on google google classroom and because of it it's very highly functional

00:19:00.420 is well organized and we invite you to enroll your children in our wonderful austro academy

00:19:06.980 nobody else has one like it we're the only ones again um we said we set the pace with the tip of

00:19:14.500 the spear as it's always been said about the afa the tip of the spear here we are absolutely

00:19:20.500 thank you ma'am and then we do have a couple questions and then we're going to get into our

00:19:26.020 spooky stories. All right. So random funny guy asks, how many members are there? This is a

00:19:32.920 three-part question. How many members are there? 749. Do you try to balance quality and quantity?

00:19:40.960 If you are a heterosexual white person who worships the gods and does not worship 0.66

00:19:47.960 chaos and destruction of the gods, you should join us. Things that we do 0.71

00:19:54.120 the things that we do check for and things that we do not allow. We do not allow offenders against

00:20:00.440 women and children into our church, and we do not allow sex offenders into our church.

00:20:06.900 Do you think we should watch what we speak into the world? For example, Indians won't speak the 1.00

00:20:11.800 word Wendigo because they're afraid it will draw the ire of one. Should the AFA people not say that?

00:20:17.260 um that's not my people so that's not my opinion um however i do believe that we should

00:20:25.040 i do believe that we should watch the caliber of our words so uh the law speaker has some really

00:20:34.040 great videos i don't know if our producer could find links for some of those videos that he can

00:20:39.880 drop in the chat for people to see they have been kind of scattered all over the history of victory

00:20:45.220 never victory never sleeps um but your speech and what you say and how you say it represents who you

00:20:54.180 are as a person who you are as a person can represent who your family is your family can

00:20:59.080 represent your folk your folk represents your church all of these things tie into each other

00:21:03.940 you are not just the sole being in the universe that doesn't impact anybody else you are your

00:21:09.780 father's son or daughter you are your mother's son or daughter you are the son and daughter of

00:21:14.960 your ancestors you are a member of the folk you are a member of your family you're a member of

00:21:18.840 your kindred you are a member of the church so what you say does matter and how you say it does

00:21:23.780 matter as well so nobility always we also have another question from random funny guy what does

00:21:33.680 your why does your religion try to be icelandic all your theodish gods have english names or older

00:21:38.980 common Germanic names. So we're not, we're not the Odish. We are Azitrim. And we are not trying 0.70

00:21:46.480 to be Icelandic. We are Pan-Aryan, which means all of the Proto-Indo-Europeans is welcome into 0.93

00:21:55.580 the church. If you are a, if you are a European white man or woman, you are welcome into the

00:22:01.360 church. The history on that is there are different names for Odin and Frigg and for holidays.

00:22:11.460 Every branch of that Aryan tree has got their own 0.97

00:22:16.940 little difference on how they name things or what they call things, or there might be a little

00:22:24.620 change in the tradition. So we're not typically trying to be Icelandic. We are Pan-Aryan.

00:22:30.760 However, we have decided as a church that we are going to have a little bit of consistency in what we're doing.

00:22:38.240 So we have decided on the nomenclature that we have for that consistency.

00:22:47.020 Do our Godar are working on learning Icelandic? Yes.

00:22:51.560 Why? Because it is the closest modern language that we have to Old Norse.

00:22:56.000 and we want to better ourselves and better understand all of the history that is written

00:23:01.280 so we're working towards that it's a goal that we have for ourselves um but are we be trying

00:23:06.160 to be icelandic no but are we using old nurse nomenclature as a standard for our church

00:23:13.680 for consistency and to reduce confusion yes

00:23:16.800 all right and with that let's go ahead and get into our spooky stories so this this is this has

00:23:29.360 been a fun topic i really like reading all of the submissions and all of the things that you've

00:23:35.040 experiences that the folk have had and things that go bump in the night so i'm going to start off

00:23:40.120 with reading Bobby's story that he's submitted.

00:23:46.120 This is from Bobby.

00:23:48.020 He says, my wife and I used to work nights

00:23:50.260 as I started to doze off a shadow past

00:23:52.660 in front of the windows less than four feet from me.

00:23:55.660 A quick glance revealed a man

00:23:57.340 in what appeared to be a Confederate uniform

00:23:59.220 walking by and disappearing at the wall.

00:24:02.380 I shoved back waking my wife up in the process

00:24:04.860 telling her, sorry, I just tripped out a little bit

00:24:07.100 and went to sleep.

00:24:08.200 I had a dream in which a name stuck in my mind that was a military rank like Captain or Major

00:24:14.620 so-and-so, in this case, Ferguson. There is an old school site near me that has its own cemetery.

00:24:22.640 I did a little bit of research and it was a military prep school active during war between

00:24:27.760 the states. And whom was a teacher slash administrator? That's right, Major Ferguson.

00:24:33.520 apparently an old soldier came by looking for him or it was him telling me so that is cool

00:24:40.400 i think that is cool

00:24:42.660 and i'd be interested to know bobby did you look to see you know if did you find any pictures of

00:24:51.340 him you know if you're here in the chat listening let us know like if we read your story and we

00:24:57.420 have questions and you're here listening answer those in the chat below inquiring minds want to

00:25:02.880 though. You know, I'd like to say the idea of cemeteries, especially this time of year,

00:25:09.900 if you go to a family cemetery, a place where you think your family is buried, oftentimes you are

00:25:16.760 just, you will wander around and you will find it. I found that over and over. Or if I went as a

00:25:22.580 child, I have no problem finding it again as an adult, you know, 50, 60 years later. So take

00:25:30.200 advantage of going to some of the cemeteries to visit your your ancestors if you can and if there

00:25:35.960 are no ancestors talk to the ones who are there who are buried there who have nobody looking after

00:25:42.280 them anymore i think that's really kind of a special thing to do we've done that before we

00:25:47.160 had a moot that we ended up in the cemetery and we actually um went around to all the graves and

00:25:54.040 kind of spoke to the person there and said you are remembered this day

00:25:57.080 very simple things you can do with your family absolutely i did get a text message i won't show

00:26:05.600 the picture because i wasn't told that i could but i did receive a text message of my nephew

00:26:10.940 walker watching what he calls the anti-b show and with a message that says walker picked anti-b show

00:26:20.160 over texas walker texas ranger so this is a big deal so i want to say hi to walker auntie loves

00:26:28.240 you can't wait to see you and i'm really glad that uh that you're here watching the auntie b

00:26:34.160 show with our friends so there was one there was one um one week that the ashira godi was hosting

00:26:41.920 and my family had been at uh Baldur's Hof for Freyfaxies so Walker got to see the Alshira

00:26:51.360 Godi and the week I think it was a week after a couple weeks after they were they were watching

00:26:56.200 the show and he was yelling at the Alshira Godi um at the tv he's like hi friends hi friends so

00:27:03.040 it makes a difference when you bring your children to the Hof and when you

00:27:07.840 bring your children into this community and they meet people and they they build attachments with

00:27:13.140 people you know it really is important so hi walker but yes back to cemeteries i had to put

00:27:23.420 that in here before he goes to bed for the night so yes cemeteries i love going to cemeteries i

00:27:31.720 will go to a random cemetery and walk, clean up the graves, look at the names, read their names

00:27:39.720 out loud. So if you're somebody who visits and cleans, remember to say their name out loud.

00:27:44.840 Remember to speak their name, you know, especially if it's your family member, especially if you have

00:27:49.160 that connection with them. You know, and some of them, some of these people really are forgotten.

00:27:55.500 Their family lines die out and nobody's taking care of the gravestone. You know, nobody's

00:28:00.600 remembering them and it's very very sad you know so if you go and you can you can find people and

00:28:06.160 you can do a little bit of research on them definitely say their names take care of those

00:28:11.120 it's an honorable thing to do all right so sheila would you like to read monk's story please

00:28:20.680 i would and i'm going to start with thanking monk for his offer of sending us a drum

00:28:28.040 um main drum that we had um was not it was not a special drum i don't think um it was not painted

00:28:37.040 was not marked in any way and i don't know its origin but it did happen to break a couple months

00:28:43.060 ago split um the the skin of it split when when matt was well i think maybe it had to do with uh

00:28:50.820 the antler going through it you know when you're using an antler and you're going down anyway

00:28:57.280 ripped through it and monk is sending us a beautiful hand drum and in that we can send back

00:29:03.960 thorgrin's beautiful drum that we have and give it back to his wife who wants to keep keep that

00:29:10.080 as something that belonged to him so thank you monk and now i'm going to read your story yes

00:29:15.440 thank you monk thank you very much and no matter how much you deny it you are a wonderful man thank

00:29:21.400 you he is he's one of our stalwarts always there on elderly my other things we love him

00:29:28.520 so here we go whoops monk story there we go

00:29:36.920 and why is that not working now

00:29:40.920 oh there we go all right the year was 2018 and it was about november farron who is his wife was

00:29:50.840 just getting settled in after moving in with me we were watching movies and i was making popcorn

00:29:56.760 and getting some chips together my dogs were acting a little strange this night and we kept

00:30:01.480 hearing footsteps and other odd noises farron had been watching a lot of weird scary movies

00:30:08.360 and was getting grumpy because i guess what was going on to happen next what was going to happen

00:30:14.360 next between telling me to shut up and flirting with me she asked if i heard someone walking up 0.54

00:30:20.520 the stairs bubba and betty my two dogs at the time were at the foot of the stairs and staring

00:30:27.640 at the landing and the hair was up on their backs so she asked me to go investigate

00:30:34.600 weird things happen around me often so i usually ignore that stuff but today i grabbed a pistol

00:30:40.920 and went upstairs checked the closets and so on and there was nothing there so i came down and

00:30:47.400 told her all was clear and she had she and that put her at ease then we heard footsteps upstairs

00:30:56.280 and the dogs started barking and acting weird farron used this as an excuse to crawl into my

00:31:02.200 lap acting scared they said it was the house settling and dumped her on the couch and went

00:31:07.640 to check on the popcorn and poured some chips into a bowl the coffee table top lifted up to make it

00:31:13.800 oh i thought it was automatic the coffee table top lifted up to make it more like an rv tray

00:31:21.200 and the top was up on the table farin was pouting because i dumped 0.76

00:31:25.720 her on the couch and telling me how mean i was for doing so

00:31:29.620 i got everything together and brought into the living room and started to sit down on the table

00:31:38.600 as i set down the popcorn and chips on the table with great power flew and smashed against the wall

00:31:46.840 breaking the table and scaring the crap out of farron and myself farron screamed and i stood

00:31:54.040 there mind racing trying to make sense of what happened the dogs were staring into empty space 0.53

00:32:00.680 hair standing and barking like crazy i got really mad the table was mad um was made by dad i received

00:32:08.680 it when he passed away so i stood in front of farron and the dogs the air was heavy and i said

00:32:13.960 to the empty space i don't know who you are what you want but if you mess with my dogs children or

00:32:20.440 women i will end you and then i called on thor to bless my home and those who reside in it as well

00:32:27.320 my animals. I then said, you are welcome to stay. Just follow the rules and I won't make you

00:32:33.080 disappear from here. The airs instantly became lighter and Farron was upset and cleaning up the

00:32:38.820 chips and popcorn. And we never had another incident like that. The things still move,

00:32:44.240 doors still open and close, and there's still footsteps upstairs and around the house,

00:32:50.300 cupboards open before I close. I'm not sure why this stuff happens around a lot everywhere.

00:32:56.700 I've lived, so I don't think my house is the problem. I think just some people attached that

00:33:02.220 stuff. Things picked up shortly after Farron passed with different noises and footsteps.

00:33:07.760 They finally settled down about three months ago. However, last weekend I would go upstairs and all

00:33:12.660 the lights would be on, come down the stairs, and all the cupboards would be open, and things moved

00:33:17.500 from where I left them Sunday. I cleaned the bathroom, leaving the window open, and when I

00:33:22.860 left shut the door behind me i heard the window shut and the pipe i used to lock the window clatter

00:33:31.020 so i opened the door and the window was closed and locked and the pipe was in the shower i said 0.99

00:33:37.740 whoever it was to behave or my wife would kick their butt and things have settled back down 0.95

00:33:43.740 life is strange at best and i'm pretty sure sparing even beyond the veil can handle that 0.98

00:33:51.100 I think so. Wild times in Ludlock, Nevada. Great, great, great story. Thank you, Monk.

00:34:03.340 Oh, in fact, he takes these amazing pictures of me doing bloat and all sorts of things appear

00:34:10.940 over the, typically over the ritual fire, but sometimes over the horn. So

00:34:14.700 actually monk brings out some of the uh i think noble spirits that are there and he's got an act

00:34:23.020 for that he's got an actual ability i think he inherited if i i don't know i might have to get

00:34:31.900 a text message but go the erlinson has um has a picture of me um at the at the um bouldershof

00:34:40.860 dedication. And the funny thing is about the Bulbershop dedication, my best good friend in

00:34:49.640 the entire world passed away a couple of weeks before that dedication. And I didn't know. All

00:34:57.420 I knew was I was extraordinarily angry because this is someone that I texted every single day

00:35:05.220 since 2011 not a single day had ever passed between us unless it was something really odd

00:35:12.580 but there was not at least a check-in how are you text and I was really stressed I mean that was a

00:35:18.820 really really stressful time in my life is getting that Hoff ready for dedication and

00:35:24.660 all of a sudden that just stopped and I was mad and I was like texting mean things to them like

00:35:31.240 you know, I don't know who you found that all of a sudden you're too good for your friends. You

00:35:35.240 know, I was just being mean. And this whole time it was, you know, they had passed away and I didn't

00:35:42.160 know. And they had, they, we, they buried him the weekend of the, of the dedication.

00:35:53.980 And there's a picture of me and, and strange things had started to happen. And I, you know,

00:35:59.520 I remember texting the Alshira Gauthier like, and this is when Hoff grandma started getting

00:36:04.500 really active too. And I had texted the Alshira Gauthier. I'm like, somebody's here.

00:36:10.680 Somebody's here. It wasn't him because it's, we call her Hoff grandma. It's, it's, you can smell

00:36:18.780 like a musky perfume that's in style with, you know, the older generation. You can hear the

00:36:26.760 click click click like a woman's high-heeled shoes like the thicker ones kind of going across

00:36:31.480 the floor you can hear her whisper and it's it's it's like an elderly woman's voice you know and

00:36:40.000 she's in that started you know around that time um but there's a picture of me standing in the

00:36:46.880 doorway at Baldershof and every I'm kind of it's just like a silhouette and everything's lit up

00:36:52.920 behind us that there's something in the doorway there and i i always say i'm like that's that's

00:37:00.100 gotta be him because he knew how mad i was because it's it is just crazy but you know different

00:37:07.440 people look at it and people also see different things um some people think they see like a an

00:37:14.980 elderly lady with a dog when they look at it and it's just really really neat so

00:37:21.400 monk, I understand. But I'm not the only one that's experienced Hoff grandma. Several people

00:37:30.600 have experienced Hoff grandma. And it's something that when we go in there, one of the first things

00:37:35.320 I do when I walk in, I'm like, hi, Hoff grandma, I'm here. You know, folk builder, senior folk

00:37:41.220 builder, Jason Gallagher has gone in there and he can hear her. He's had windows open and close

00:37:46.720 in the basement when he's there she's not mean she has only ever she has only ever acted up

00:37:55.300 one time with one person where it didn't seem friendly and protective and that person's no

00:38:02.120 longer in the church um that person actually said that they were standing in ritual and you know

00:38:09.240 they had told me about it later and i remember doing bloat and wondering if they were okay

00:38:13.440 because they kept hitting the back of their head like touching their head and apparently he said

00:38:18.000 somebody was like like putting their hands on his head during bloat but you know with that situation

00:38:27.680 maybe she knew you know what was happening but yeah but i i wish i had that picture on hand i've

00:38:35.840 seen it a few times and i've had it sent to me a few times but like speaking of pictures it's

00:38:40.560 crazy you know so for about probably a year after my friend died all of the blow pictures that they

00:38:48.640 would take during bloat if i was doing bloat there was always this green orb that would follow me

00:38:54.000 around even even if like the light was over here the fire was over there or whatever it was always

00:39:00.800 on on me and in that picture there's actually that green orb on on my back in that picture

00:39:07.920 and then it showed up for like a year year afterwards so it's kind of like yeah no i

00:39:13.360 promise i did make it you know i was just preoccupied brandy i didn't mean it you know

00:39:18.080 but yeah it's it's just wild

00:39:22.960 but i like it i like those kind of stories and i like those kind of incidents

00:39:29.760 as long as they're not hurting anybody or doing anything you know all right so i'm gonna read

00:39:37.500 one from Harold. It says, I have only two spooky instances in my life that are noteworthy. One

00:39:45.020 involving a very old house in Pony, Montana, which I was advised of it having a presence in that

00:39:51.580 domicile. Your basic spooky stuff, cabinets open, noises in the kitchen, your general run-of-the-mill

00:39:58.300 spooky ghost qualifiers. I only spent a short time in this house and did experience light switches

00:40:05.060 flicking on and off, but that's not the story I'm going to share with you today. The story I wish

00:40:10.460 to share with you today. The story I wish to share with you takes place north of Missoula

00:40:15.060 in the Rattlesnake River drainage when I worked trail cruise for Montana Conservation Corps

00:40:20.760 in 2008. After a long day of moving earth with hand tools, I laid down in my sleeping bag on a

00:40:27.780 full moon night body fatigued but mind and attention still sharply awake i laid out in

00:40:34.820 my sleeping bag with one arm out of the bag and above my head as i watched the shadow cast from

00:40:40.260 the moon to the tree branches casting crisp and layered shadows upon my tense rainfly you guys

00:40:47.220 are so descriptive i love this i took note of how clear the shadow cast were in multi-dimensional

00:40:54.580 layered effect the light projected for me to observe as the wind blew the branches in a nicely

00:41:00.660 orchestrated rhythmic pattern. Suddenly and abrasively, I felt what could only be a rope

00:41:07.180 lasso around my arm, which was above my head, tightened around my arm and began dragging me at

00:41:13.620 high rates of speed, tent, sleeping bag, and all through the woods. I felt as my body smashed

00:41:19.720 against trees, rock, earth, and subsequent impact. I felt bones break and felt pulverized

00:41:25.680 and grated. The sound of horse galloping and wind blowing as I groaned in agony, knocking the wind

00:41:30.780 out of me on each impact. The abuse went on for many seconds, when just as suddenly as the

00:41:37.360 experience began, it just suddenly ended. As I regained my consciousness laying in the same spot

00:41:43.560 I had begun. In my tents, in my sleeping bag, arm above my head, staying plainly at the roof

00:41:52.580 of my tent, watching the rhythmic dance of the branch of the shadowscape. Had I briefly fallen

00:41:57.580 asleep? I don't remember opening my eyes. They were already open when I regained my awareness.

00:42:03.880 What was this experience? It felt very real. I did next what any rational man of pride would do.

00:42:10.720 I stepped outside of my tent and marked my territory in a rugged manly fashion and claimed the space as my own.

00:42:19.020 I laid back into my tent and laid awake for several hours, contemplating the potentiality of a spiritual attack by hostile indigenous land veteer and or the real possibility of inconvenient and untimely schizophrenia.

00:42:32.820 I have since ruled out the later on account of a long history of normal rational life experiences since then.

00:42:39.700 i still to this day i wonder about that experience i hope you will find the story

00:42:44.360 sufficiently that is a great story that is great i like that what yeah i'd be in i'd be interested

00:42:56.080 in the history of that spot yeah what type of things happened in the past or was it something

00:43:00.940 he brought with him right experienced it from his family right or was it an echo from that area i

00:43:09.200 mean that would have been like a spot where those kind of things were likely to happen you know in

00:43:16.700 the modern day that can even happen in that area you know that's montana can still be some rugged

00:43:22.760 countries or you know be some rugged country out there but yeah you know was that did you fall

00:43:29.360 asleep for a second you know was that in was it an echo you know what was it that you experienced

00:43:35.020 you know what happened over there you know that is amazing that is a great story harold if you're

00:43:41.340 here if you're watching vns drop it in the chat tell us tell us if you ever researched that tell

00:43:48.460 us if you found anything that is an amazing story speaking of the chat if you guys have anything

00:44:00.060 that you do want us to air on here we do have all of these submissions but if you do have something

00:44:05.420 drop it in the chat if if you didn't know that we were taking submissions tonight and you have

00:44:09.820 a spooky story for us drop it in the chat and we will read it during the podcast

00:44:16.860 oh sheila have you ever had any have you ever had those nights where you dream something

00:44:21.660 and then you wake up and you're not a hundred percent sure if it was real or if you were

00:44:25.340 dreaming you ever had that sure i have oh yeah yeah where it felt so very very real at least i

00:44:32.380 know i get those still sometimes i don't dream very much anymore but every once in a while i

00:44:38.620 have a very deep dream and it feels so real but um i don't sense you know doesn't seem to go anywhere

00:44:45.500 but yeah i think those are fascinating how about you a lot i'm a very vivid and active dreamer

00:44:55.740 and i'm i'm very into keeping that dream journal because i've had prophetic dreams

00:45:01.260 so for example when i was really little i it was before my brother was born so i must have been

00:45:10.300 three or four um and everybody used to make fun of me all the time because i had a dream

00:45:17.020 that i went to work with my dad and we were uh walking through so you know like the movies where

00:45:25.260 they have like the the the sewer systems where it's like a big circle and there's like two paths

00:45:30.380 and then there's the water in between right so i had a dream that i went to work with my dad

00:45:36.060 my biological dad and his job was to count water makes zero sense right like to a rational adult

00:45:44.620 how do you count water that makes zero sense well when i was about five my dad started working for

00:45:52.380 the ditch company which managed the irrigation canals through all of the area of montana that

00:45:58.300 we lived in and he used to ride a ditch and he would do things like um you know put things into

00:46:06.780 the canal to raise the water level um they had this thing that caught the moss had to make sure

00:46:13.100 that worked so for a three-year-old who have no idea what that is that could very well be

00:46:19.100 counting water it's just you know in my little brain that's how it manifested right

00:46:25.580 and they're like yeah you said your dad counted water well he really kind of did

00:46:31.180 but water levels that's counting that's kind of keeping track

00:46:35.980 yeah he's going out into ditches and yeah the perceptive the craziest one i had was when i was

00:46:44.460 little and when i was really really young and i even remember being young enough that when

00:46:51.100 my grandma's brother, my grandmother's brother came to visit. His name was Sam and he was in the

00:46:57.760 Navy. And they asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up. And I said, I want to join the military

00:47:04.900 and I want to work on radars because I had had a dream that I worked on radars. And I remember

00:47:11.820 sitting in front of this big radar screen, right? And it was the black and green screen, just like

00:47:18.940 you see in the movies, right? And I remember I was working on the radar, but I was just sitting

00:47:24.600 in front of it. I remember clearly. And I remember looking next to me and there was like chairs and

00:47:30.080 there was more radars. And then I remember a man, a silhouette of a man standing in a lit doorway.

00:47:37.060 Well, I was 18 years old. I joined the military, you know, and I went to technical training

00:47:44.000 and I'm sitting in front of a mock radar screen, you know, controlling fake aircraft, you know,

00:47:53.220 in a radar situation. And I looked over and it was the exact same scene. And I had written this

00:47:59.500 down because it's very vivid. And I talked about it a lot. I want to work on radars. I want to work

00:48:04.400 on radars. And I looked over and my instructor was leaning against the doorway that was backlit.

00:48:11.580 you know and to this day that still sticks with me you know and it's just

00:48:16.880 I get a lot of deja vu like you'll just stop for a minute and you're like whoa like this has

00:48:26.320 happened before this is going to happen again right and you just feel like it's happened over

00:48:30.780 and over and over and I think that a lot of that stuff if I go back in my dream journals I'll see

00:48:36.320 it you know it'll be like that's where i got it from it's not that it actually already happened

00:48:41.520 it's just like that was in a dream you know so you're a very very vivid dreamer if if you wake

00:48:48.800 up in the morning and you remember those dreams take a minute and write them down because you just

00:48:54.800 never know but you never know am i gonna say that i prophesize through dreams no because i'm kind of

00:49:03.280 of like Nostradamus I don't know until it already happens and I have to go back and go oh wait there

00:49:08.160 it is so I mean if we went off of my dream prophecies my cat's gonna fly tomorrow you know

00:49:16.280 I mean I'm gonna have a Porsche you know yeah all right so let's see what we got in the comments

00:49:30.720 guys are quiet tonight

00:49:32.940 comments on these spooky stories

00:49:36.680 I do see them talking a little bit

00:49:38.680 in the chat though that's cool

00:49:39.920 it looks like we might have some more spooky

00:49:44.620 stories coming

00:49:45.780 all right

00:49:50.740 and it looks like we do have

00:49:53.000 another donation

00:49:54.920 tonight from Gilbert

00:49:56.240 thank you Gilbert

00:49:57.600 he donated a hundred and fifty dollars to beautify thorshof thank you sir appreciate that

00:50:06.120 so much gilbert you are amazing um gilbert is on a lot of our uh vns pre-game calls so if you do

00:50:15.240 not know what the vns pre-game call is i'm gonna edumacation real quick okay so the vns pre-game

00:50:21.660 calls we all get together about seven o'clock and we just kind of hang out get to know one another

00:50:26.360 talk about how our week was um and there's some of us that are on that call every week and gilbert

00:50:32.300 is one of those guys and we really do appreciate him but you never know what's going to happen on

00:50:35.980 that call like we might have a really really deep spiritual discussion or go the mayo and monk might

00:50:43.340 talk about their military service and compare notes and it's really hilarious to listen to

00:50:48.000 those men because they have no filter at all. If you ever see Goethe Mayo in person, ask him about

00:50:56.640 painting rocks. Ask him about painting those rocks. I promise you won't forget it. Or we might

00:51:02.740 talk about why ham is the superior Thanksgiving food over turkey. You just never know. It's just

00:51:10.500 a great way to get to know your folks. But only if it's your strawberry glazed ham. That stuff's

00:51:15.760 awesome yes my strawberry glazed ham is most definitely the superior thanksgiving food and

00:51:22.960 for those of you who are interested i am bringing that strawberry glazed ham

00:51:26.800 to feast of the einherjar at bouldershof in november so i only make it once a year it is a

00:51:33.760 once a year make so you gotta get it yeah those calls are awesome we've got a lot of really great

00:51:40.800 people on that call. Austin comes, Caleb's there, Gilbert's there, Sierra and Alexander. It's just

00:51:46.920 a really great call to be on. So if you're interested in that, reach out to myself or

00:51:52.980 Sierra or Alexander or check the MIWI groups. So we post the links for a lot of our stuff in our

00:51:58.580 MIWI groups. If you're a member of the As True Folk Assembly and you're not on MIWI yet, you

00:52:03.160 definitely need to get there because there's a lot of really good information in there.

00:52:07.100 all right so let's see here sheila would you be able to uh read one of the submissions from

00:52:17.700 jilly uh the story yes all right um jill who lives in pennsylvania and contributes a lot to

00:52:30.900 to our everything from our our australia academy to things like this we all really appreciate her

00:52:37.900 and if you can go to one of her moots in pennsylvania definitely do they're they're pretty

00:52:43.480 awesome this is what she wrote for us my daughter spoke of a prophecy to a friend of mine in 2015

00:52:51.280 when we lived in florida we were swimming in my backyard when autumn said to my friend timbra

00:52:56.700 Bye, Robin. Say hi to Mommy.

00:53:00.640 Timber looked at me incredulously and asked me,

00:53:03.900 How did your daughter know my mom's name?

00:53:07.140 Her name is Robin.

00:53:09.300 I'm going to read that again.

00:53:10.380 Bye, Robin. Say hi to Mommy.

00:53:12.820 Okay.

00:53:13.440 How did your daughter know my mom's name? 0.94

00:53:15.320 Her name is Robin.

00:53:16.680 Timber never spoke of her mother in the presence of Anna or me,

00:53:20.360 so I didn't know her mom's name or her backstory.

00:53:23.020 Timber told me that she hadn't spoken with her estranged mother in a decade or

00:53:28.480 more. A big reason is that she was serving a prison sentence in Utah for

00:53:34.600 manslaughter for killing a man in self-defense. Timber said that Autumn

00:53:41.620 saying this must mean I better call my mom. After she called her behind prison

00:53:47.320 walls she learned that her mother was terminally ill with cancer. She died a

00:53:52.300 a few days later because of autumn's weird message to her it gave timbra the opportunity to say

00:54:00.380 goodbye to her mom i didn't know about alcitron 2015 but thinking back a decade later i believe

00:54:07.980 autumn was communicating with the philia component of her soul someone who accompanies a protective

00:54:15.100 guardian that watches over a person or family githya anna told me that kids don't know that

00:54:21.260 they aren't supposed to say out loud what they see beyond the veil in this case nearly behind the

00:54:27.500 veil in this winter night season where we honor our ancestral mothers i thought it was appropriate

00:54:33.420 to recount the story of timbre's ancestral mother i mentioned it give the as sheila if autumn and

00:54:40.940 timbre swimming in water help facilitate the prophecy the real life prophecy has inspired

00:54:46.140 me to write a musical titled Autumn's Robin. I'm halfway finished. It will be a pre-Viking,

00:54:52.880 pre-Christian backdrop rather than modern-day Florida. I'm basing the musical on the ninefold

00:54:58.180 Aryan soul, most heavily on Filia, Minnie, and Hamina. Regrettably, I have lost touch with Timbra 0.74

00:55:06.540 after three attempts to contact her. She seemed a little distant with me after this prophecy,

00:55:12.860 like she seemed freaked out or something had i known about the alsatru soul back then i could

00:55:18.540 have explained it now my hope is that she watches my musical autumn's robin wow thank you so much

00:55:26.300 jill yeah she's and then she did some submit um a couple poems on there as well i'm gonna read

00:55:35.420 one of them i'm gonna read the autumn's voice by the philkia in the golden haze of nordic day

00:55:43.600 a toddler turned to softly say bye robin say hi to your mother then wandered off so calm so free

00:55:50.880 no one taught her no one knew the name she spoke had slipped from view a mother locked behind cold

00:55:57.340 stone a daughter far afraid alone but autumn's voice like wind through trees spoke what no one

00:56:03.960 else could see a whisper passed through soul and bone see her now before she's gone a visit made

00:56:10.340 a prison wall a mother weeps to hear it all no time to heal no long goodbyes but still she heard

00:56:16.540 her daughter's cries for autumn's voice so small so true carried what the spirits knew a thread

00:56:23.920 between the dying light and love not lost to time or night some say it's fate some say it's chance

00:56:31.700 but i have seen the shadow dance a soul was near a veil was thin and something sacred spoke within

00:56:38.180 autumn's voice not hers alone a spirit walked her gently home and in her words a door unclosed

00:56:44.740 a mother held a heart that knows jilly that is beautiful

00:56:52.580 sheila could you read the uh one from jilly it's the poem called river prophecy by minnie

00:56:57.620 um yes of course it's right here it's tied into kind of the previous poem as well

00:57:07.820 what did she say how does she know that name's been buried under decades of silence

00:57:15.340 actually i'm going to start again because it's called river prophecy by many

00:57:20.680 Bye Robin, say hi to mommy

00:57:23.040 What did she say?

00:57:25.140 How does she know?

00:57:26.540 That name's been buried under decades of silence

00:57:29.600 I never told her

00:57:31.440 I never told anyone

00:57:32.820 Bye Robin, say hi to mommy

00:57:35.360 It's just a game

00:57:37.460 Just a child pretending

00:57:39.020 But it echoes an urgency

00:57:41.400 My mother's name is Robin

00:57:43.840 Locked away behind steel and time 0.99

00:57:46.820 They left her there

00:57:48.180 but now this child calls her forth like she's watching from the other side the veil is water

00:57:55.740 the veil is thin what's said in innocence carries within soul remembers the soul still sees

00:58:05.200 what the mind forgets and the flesh disbelieves bye robin say hi to mommy i must see her before

00:58:15.080 it's too late before the veil seals tight. Wow. Beautiful. Just so powerful. Yes.

00:58:28.660 I'm just going upstairs. I agree with, I agree with Githya, Anna. Kids don't know that that's

00:58:35.140 not supposed to happen, right? So Sheila, you were a school teacher for a really, really long

00:58:41.120 time right you worked with your children did you ever witness that with with the kids or did they

00:58:48.320 ever say things that were kind of odd and then afterwards you're like oh i get it do you ever

00:58:55.040 remember anything like that happening i really don't i wish i did but i i don't recall that

00:59:00.080 happening but i mean that was a long time ago too it's been many years since i've been in the

00:59:05.280 classroom would probably have been with probably the kindergartners you know because i did that for

00:59:10.400 about 10 12 years but um but i'm not surprised um actually i have my my daughter when she was four

00:59:19.040 years old we were living in the coast range of california and i wrote a lot of poetry when i was

00:59:25.520 in high school i still i've got my poems memorized i haven't done it since but they were really

00:59:30.160 fantastic poems but my daughter did a picture and it was like because we were not far from the beach

00:59:36.960 we were in the coast range near the town of cloverdale for anybody who knows and she put a

00:59:43.120 seashell over the ocean to see the drifted sand she told me that and i wrote it down that was her

00:59:51.200 poem that went with her picture seashell over the ocean to see the drifted sand it just seemed to

00:59:56.720 kind of all fit in something and i think for a four-year-old that's has who knows the meaning

01:00:03.120 but something kind of came to her to write like that to think like that soon yeah poetry

01:00:12.160 poetry to me is sort of magic in its own way you know what i mean like i write terrible poetry

01:00:21.680 i just want to put that out here your witten writes a lot of poetry and it's all awful

01:00:27.120 but it's if it's it's a form of of blessing yourself and it's a form of devotion when it's

01:00:37.560 done for an ancestor or when it's done for a purpose or when it's done in worship you know

01:00:44.240 poetry is absolutely amazing and I'm a huge fan of poetry so one of my um one of my favorite poems

01:00:54.580 that we had like this set of encyclopedias you know how they they go around and they always say

01:01:00.500 the parents this okay back up for those of you who don't know i'm older than google i'm older than

01:01:08.960 than the interwebs i remember when that was a thing like i remember eight tracks so we didn't

01:01:16.500 have all of this knowledge at our fingertips so for you youngins there's these things called

01:01:20.780 encyclopedias, right? Where you can look up all of the information, which is now all outdated,

01:01:27.160 granted. But we had encyclopedias and my stepdad and my mom bought them for me. And I

01:01:34.400 read through those encyclopedias. Like it's, if I ever seem like I'm in an insufferable know-it-all,

01:01:41.280 but my facts are wrong, it's because I read encyclopedias. Okay. I'm outdated.

01:01:45.220 um but they also came with these these books and they they came with like medical books for children

01:01:51.580 and there was one that was a whole poetry book and I found my very favorite poem in that book

01:02:01.240 and I memorized it when I was a kid and it's it was my first introduction to like to the poet

01:02:08.380 Thomas More and it's the harp that runs through terrace halls and I I used to walk around singing

01:02:14.500 that like it was a song you know just but it's kids do that you know like nursery rhymes right

01:02:22.980 they're yeah poems that kind of have this horrible meaning but kids pick up on words

01:02:29.460 like even like song lyrics my brain is so full of useless song lyrics from the 90s you know

01:02:37.780 it's hard to push more information in here because i can like seriously sing any song

01:02:43.060 from back then because you remember the rhythm of it you remember the words you remember the

01:02:48.420 cadence you remember the meaning you know so i i feel like poetry has a lot of power

01:02:56.260 you know yeah well could i step in and tell you about a poem i wrote when i was 17 and i was

01:03:06.980 in my senior year of high school i had a um a really cool teacher who was fairly young i think

01:03:13.380 was his first teaching job but he he taught us poetry and so i learned about sonnets and things

01:03:18.900 like that but this is one that i wrote about my parents now to give you a little background

01:03:24.500 um my dad died very suddenly in his sleep when i was just turned five and um in fact it's the

01:03:33.700 anniversary of that is coming right up as my sister told me yesterday and my mom very soon

01:03:41.300 developed cancer and she died when i was 12. and so i wrote basically a poem to my parents

01:03:48.820 now the imagery in this i am a person who loves fantasy i love fairy tales i love nursery rooms

01:03:59.380 and so in this you have a lot of imagery that comes from those things the words though um

01:04:08.020 paper floors there's going to be paper floors when we built our house there was um they had like

01:04:14.020 um newsprint on the floor so we wouldn't scrape the floor so we were back and forth we were

01:04:18.500 skating my brother my sister and i doing that uh headstone because it's really a good one for kind

01:04:23.940 of halloween anyway this time of year uh winter nights the headstone um was my pillow you know

01:04:31.540 i go to bed there's my headstone but who knows what was in my closet right i always thought

01:04:36.580 there was stuff in my closet i'd have to get out all my stuffed animals and put them in my bed

01:04:41.060 so they weren't harmed so anyway it goes like this a child sliding over paper floors was i

01:04:49.380 unconscious green the see-through world i rolled up wrote on shoulders to my nightly grave and

01:04:55.940 sometimes hid beneath the head my headstone from the spooks when i awoke to jack frost's

01:05:03.220 fast escape i thought we're sleep wink and blink in the nod does mr sandman chase them in a boat

01:05:10.980 and do they hide behind the man in the moon they told me daddy fell asleep forever and now he sails

01:05:17.780 with fisher boys above um something like an ocean of air returned tossing a babe from tops of trees

01:05:29.620 to earth the fisher boys returned bon voyage mama so that's beautiful thank you yeah it's

01:05:40.420 kind of my tribute to my parents who you know i still try to attach to i still try to talk to them

01:05:47.780 absolutely yeah thank you ma'am that is really lovely we appreciate that

01:05:57.620 oh we've got more coming in sheila wow all right i do have one more that i need to

01:06:06.500 read from bobby let me find it here i got a little out of uh out of order when we read

01:06:14.900 jilly stuff okay so that one is from bobby says when my mother-in-law was in the hospital my wife

01:06:23.620 and i stayed at her bedside for some time along with my father-in-law getting a chance to go to

01:06:29.460 their house and clean up my wife ventured inside no one was there just us as my wife took care of

01:06:35.620 her business i stayed outside and asked the land whites and housewives to look over the place while 0.99

01:06:41.060 no one was there when my wife was done she came out and asked what i was looking for in the house 0.62

01:06:46.740 i told her i had been outside the whole time looking wide-eyed she said she heard footsteps

01:06:52.900 go from one side of the house to the other we figured out it happened when i was talking with

01:06:58.580 the whites that is awesome yes that is cool i think that they communicate with us i mean i

01:07:09.220 don't think that they communicate with us the same way that the ice that our ancestors communicate

01:07:14.500 with us you know because we have such a deeper connection with our bloodlines and with our

01:07:19.060 families but i definitely believe that the baits here have their own ways of communicating with us

01:07:25.140 as well for sure have you ever had a nature experience like that sheila where you kind of felt

01:07:31.540 like watched or heard anything absolutely in fact it was yesterday because i took my sister

01:07:40.260 um out to my favorite where our favorite place we've been going for over 30 years

01:07:45.300 called rock creek trail and it is beautiful this time of year because there are giant

01:07:51.060 um big leaf maples along in the canyon the water was flowing there are cedars and a few oaks but

01:07:58.660 but there's also yew trees, yew trees.

01:08:02.120 And to think that California has yews,

01:08:03.820 you find them in the Northwest, 1.00

01:08:05.740 but they love that environment,

01:08:07.660 but they're so twisted. 1.00

01:08:08.900 They're like little old men and women.

01:08:11.120 And there are just these amazing burls

01:08:13.700 and tipped over trees with huge root masses

01:08:17.540 and big boulders inside them.

01:08:19.720 And just, it's just so full of, you know,

01:08:23.900 it's a fantasy place, a fantasy forest.

01:08:26.260 So my sister got to do that yesterday

01:08:28.180 the first time and i think she was really amazed it's not something you want to rush through you

01:08:34.100 take your time on that walk because there's always something to see and there weren't many animals we

01:08:40.260 did hear one raven and a woodpecker but if anybody comes to california and you want to take that walk

01:08:47.620 i will take you up there um steve and i like i said we've probably been there i won't say 100

01:08:52.820 times but we've been there probably at least 50 or 60 times and all times of year it's just a very 0.98

01:08:58.740 magical place i mean i know the fairies are there i just know that's just where they have to live

01:09:05.540 around the roots of those trees so i've had strange things happen with wildlife right so my uh

01:09:17.940 my grandpa that was killed um in 97 he was very fond of robins very very fond of robins

01:09:28.400 and we used to sit out in the garden the man had a huge garden like when he looked at his

01:09:35.080 backyard an entire half of the backyard was his garden um and the other half was like this lush

01:09:42.660 beautiful grass that you could literally walk barefoot on and it was like carpet i mean the

01:09:47.840 man had a green thumb like nobody's business you know he could he can make anything grow

01:09:53.780 but he loved robins and he used to get his grandkids he had this little um this little

01:10:01.680 bb gun pistol like like co2 powered bb gun pistol and he would put us on post sitting next to him

01:10:09.560 and we would just be shooting cans you know but our real job was to shoot any bird that got into

01:10:16.080 his garden that was our job we were like guarding the garden but we had one rule we could not shoot

01:10:23.520 the robins the robins could come and take whatever they want out of that garden they would raid the

01:10:29.080 strawberry patch and we were never allowed to shoot them any other bird we shot them with the

01:10:34.720 BB gun. Love them. So for many, many years and to this day, still my family is just bombarded

01:10:45.040 with Robins. There was one year I walked in my backyard. Like I had to take a video of it and

01:10:51.000 send it to my mom because there must've been 25 Robins in the backyard. My mom has had Robins,

01:10:56.820 like she'll be, she'll be cussing up a storm and rent and Raven. And she, she was doing that one 0.95

01:11:02.840 day at work. And in her line of work, I don't blame her. And she was just mad and fit to be

01:11:08.160 tight about something. And this Robin came down and just started swooping her. You know, she's 1.00

01:11:12.760 like, okay, dad, I get it. I get it. I'll stop. I'll stop. I'll get myself under control. You

01:11:17.980 know, but we always associate him with Robins. And just seeing one is nostalgic. But when

01:11:27.400 you see 25 of them at one time, or you have one come at you, or you have one that is just there

01:11:35.100 every day, you know, it's, it may not necessarily be them, but it may be something designed to make

01:11:43.420 you talk to them, to remember them, you know. All right, I think we do have more submissions

01:11:57.300 here. A whole lot.

01:12:00.840 We do.

01:12:05.820 You can start after Gilbert's donation.

01:12:08.700 There we go. It's a good thing you're here, Nicholas.

01:12:13.060 Alright, so the next one is Primal Might

01:12:17.200 Kindred had a submission on there. Let me take a look here.

01:12:22.920 Sheila, would you like to read that one?

01:12:24.640 i'm trying to find out where it is what time i'll be good to get posted 47

01:12:31.200 oh what time yep it's in the chat in our chat yeah i'm saying that's 647 okay

01:12:42.160 um i saw y'all are lucky yeah it's primal mike kindred it's right under uh uh gilbert's donation

01:12:54.640 not saying that gilbert's donation i think it's back because he was writing a lot of stuff

01:13:03.440 yeah my storm nick's gotta post it in private chat too okay did you send it to me nick

01:13:14.960 nope it won't be in your email um it's but if you go to back to stream yard it's in the private chat

01:13:22.000 um yeah he's got all these sections i'm not sure where it starts yeah if you just go to the first

01:13:31.040 time you should see brandy mince talked in the chat it's a couple posts down from that primal

01:13:36.960 mike kindred oh yeah okay the one that starts my daughter my best friends gravesites okay

01:13:43.520 let's say my best friend my best friend i'm sorry it's okay oh there it is got it got it got it okay

01:13:52.800 my best friend died when i was 16 and a couple of days after his death i woke up i remember

01:13:58.640 looking down the hall and hearing my mom and aunt getting ready for work they were in the kitchen

01:14:04.400 and i could hear them talking i looked at the foot of my bed and there was my friend standing there

01:14:10.400 i remember it took my breath away in fear and i could just say what's up bud and he shrugged

01:14:17.200 i then told him you know they took anna a friend of ours had run away from a bad home life

01:14:24.800 he nodded his head and i looked down and when i looked back up he was gone

01:14:31.120 every detail is still extremely vivid in my mind even 30 years later okay

01:14:36.880 Okay. The experiences are crazy. Maybe wonder if it was a dream or real, but everything was so

01:14:45.640 vivid. My brother's seen him in his room one day as well. So I think that did that one. Okay.

01:14:53.060 Then I think we've got, if we keep scrolling down, he talks about his daughter as well.

01:14:57.840 Okay. When my daughter was really young, she had two spirits in her room at her father's house.

01:15:04.500 George was mean to her and scared her, but the shadow would scare George away and dance with her.

01:15:10.640 Wow.

01:15:12.460 When her mom and I got together, I gave her an old hammer, and she took it to her dad's and used it to bless the house.

01:15:20.460 She hasn't had any issues since then.

01:15:23.340 It's a great story.

01:15:24.340 The crazy thing is there was actually a guy named George that used to live at that house.

01:15:30.660 Wonderful.

01:15:31.780 Great.

01:15:32.080 i think that might be the end of that one that's wonderful we i wish we had the name for you other

01:15:37.120 than primal mike kindred i'll be getting one learn it yeah and now we have some poem submissions

01:15:49.200 because you know we're talking about poetry being magic and this is the magical time of year so

01:15:54.080 So you've got some poems to read, too.

01:15:59.700 Also, point of reference at any point in time, challenge me on on my favorite poem and see if I can still spout it off to you.

01:16:08.440 If you see me at the Hoff, ask me.

01:16:10.480 OK, OK.

01:16:11.240 OK, welcome, Leibroy.

01:16:15.600 Premal Mike's kindred gave us his name.

01:16:17.940 Leibroy, we're glad to have you here.

01:16:20.660 Excellent.

01:16:21.620 We've got.

01:16:22.940 Yeah.

01:16:24.080 i'm just gonna say something so we just had of course winter nights better nighter and um

01:16:32.000 i was hoping to do something very special for both the morning bloat and the evening bloat and

01:16:39.280 part of that was to do like a personal inventory you know just have people sitting on a piece of

01:16:44.480 paper write down their blessings and then things they wanted to work on in their own life and how

01:16:49.760 to do those steps i was focusing on those those rituals how to make them important and give value

01:16:58.400 to people and i was typing this up and i was trying to print stuff off because i was finishing

01:17:04.720 up all my plans all the things i needed and i was sitting at my computer and steve was upstairs

01:17:10.240 sound asleep and i heard a really strange noise it sounded like pebbles or something like beans

01:17:19.760 going and i could hear it was the only sound of the house and i waited and it happened again

01:17:31.360 it was in the kitchen so i went to the kitchen and i walked over to where by the toaster and

01:17:36.800 the coffee maker and i heard and then i stepped a little bit to the left and there was a box

01:17:44.320 and in it are pills different kinds of pills we have lots of pills in our house but there was

01:17:50.080 nothing nobody touched it you know i start going through the pills they're all soft tabs and not

01:17:54.240 the type that will make but actually sounded like it was pebbles and you know it kind of goes back

01:18:02.880 to a story i told last last time we were on about my my great grandmother who had passed

01:18:08.960 It didn't say that back in 1962, but in 1993, she somehow appeared at my home and gave me a gift, and it was a hairnet, and it goes back to our Christmases with her, and I almost think that whatever I was doing was kind of connecting.

01:18:28.680 so my story here is that sometimes it's the little things that you need to be aware of

01:18:34.760 because also that weekend it's just been a week and a half um we used runes and i have my

01:18:42.100 wonderful set of runes i use them for everything they're beautiful um handmade and and a special

01:18:48.940 kind of oak and i had scooped up all the runes as i left the hof the other day they had been in a

01:18:56.300 and put them into the bag brought the bag home put it over on my ancestors table the next morning

01:19:04.060 steve and i are on the sofa i'm right in front of us we have a coffee table with glass top

01:19:09.100 and there was a rune and i said steve did you put this here he said no i didn't do that

01:19:14.140 and i said well i didn't do it either the rune was i was or he was the you rune you know the

01:19:20.940 one that goes it goes that way and very very powerful in fact i think we had done that rune

01:19:28.300 at the ritual and i had also taken that rune as my own rune at the very last rune that was drawn

01:19:36.380 after the dc of load so um yeah went back with the rest of them but don't ask me how it got from

01:19:43.500 in the bag right in front of me on i think was monday morning so it was little things it says

01:19:49.900 you know there are the magnificent things the ghosts that walk through your house or whatever

01:19:54.140 and there's those little subtle things that you could easily miss so i call them anomalies be

01:20:00.140 aware of anomalies everybody and as you become more aware of them you're going to feel more

01:20:05.260 connections and make interpretations that are meaningful for you and that's what i did that's

01:20:10.460 how i kind of tied it back to ancestors trying to help me along getting ready for bloat and with

01:20:16.700 that don't ask me why i haven't figured that one out yet but still it happened and i heard it

01:20:22.780 happen it was almost right before me so there's my story maybe something just to get your attention

01:20:30.700 maybe so yeah just let me know yes this is well i felt that had i not been doing that particular

01:20:36.940 task it wouldn't have happened it was yes it was all part of the whole package of getting ready

01:20:42.380 to do two blow blow tar the next day and really wanting to make them very distinct because one

01:20:49.340 was for fathers one was for mothers and i did and i think i really i'm not one to do uh bloats to

01:20:59.740 the gods you know i tend to i always do the goddesses right and we ladies do but i did and

01:21:06.140 i did it to the fathers and it felt so natural to me because i was thinking about all of our fathers

01:21:11.900 all those men who sacrificed so much who taught us who cared for us all those things and it was

01:21:17.980 so easy to do that bloat it just just kind of flowed and came out of me and i think was a good

01:21:23.500 one i really liked it all right we do have a question and then we're going to get into some

01:21:34.220 poetry. Question is, what is the official as a true position on luck levels of black cats?

01:21:44.160 Unless they all share a go, they correct me in the chat. There isn't one. We love them. We love

01:21:51.700 them. I have the biggest, most beautiful black cat that is old and decrepit and does not know

01:22:00.340 that she is a little heavier than she should be right oh yes so she loves to go outside

01:22:07.480 you know she does and again she doesn't realize she's old and she doesn't realize that she's obese

01:22:14.200 and i let her outside one day and i was sitting outside just hanging out and she was sitting

01:22:20.060 there and the squirrels in our area have like turf wars you know like they fight each other

01:22:27.260 and it's and it's like block wars with squirrels so the squirrel comes into the yard and my cat

01:22:33.820 just automatically goes into predator mode you know keep in mind she's old and obese and she

01:22:40.780 takes after this squirrel and the squirrel runs up this tree and then my cat takes a flying leap 0.79

01:22:47.440 she jumps about four inches and she latches onto the tree and like she's gonna climb the tree

01:22:52.180 and then she realized she's old and obese and she just looked at me and hung there for a minute 0.81

01:22:59.480 and she looked at me like in sheer terror and then she just fell backward off the tree 0.96

01:23:04.020 oh wow oh she's hilarious yes what about you we have our own we have our own black cat she weighs

01:23:14.180 about 21 pounds she's enormous and we love her and she talks to us especially in the morning and at

01:23:21.100 night and um she you know will respond to us with a little sing-song meow and it's very sweet she

01:23:28.140 loves to roll on her back and get her tummy rubbed and her tail pulled and uh she just kind of came

01:23:35.300 to us we already had two cats we took her from a friend who uh was very very ill and we just

01:23:42.000 loved that cat so anyway think about freya's cats of course no matter what size those cats are

01:23:47.680 Of course we love cats, whatever color. I love, I love my cat. So another funny story about my

01:23:56.880 obese black cat, right? She's on a diet and the diet is not working because she will play anybody 0.99

01:24:07.780 that walks into my house. She gets a small hand food of food, food in the morning. She gets a 1.00

01:24:12.500 small handful of food in the evening, right? And I always tell everybody if they come to my house,

01:24:18.860 you know, I have people that like stay with me when there's events and stuff like that, you know,

01:24:22.220 and I always tell them, I don't care how much she cries, how much she begs, she's been fed,

01:24:28.820 leave her alone, do not give her more food, right? And she will just play the I'm famished 0.99

01:24:35.320 and mom forgot about me and I'm so abused and neglected. She plays this to the point where she 0.96

01:24:41.880 lays on the floor all stretched out in her big fat glory and she paws at her bowl and she flips 1.00

01:24:49.980 it and flips it and flips it like she is just completely malnourished like she'll flip it over 1.00

01:24:56.220 and she just goes mal like so dramatic

01:25:00.360 but we have to tell people don't let her fool you she's not starving i promise oh yeah

01:25:09.480 lana says my fat pug is the same always hungry

01:25:15.120 oh right now we got some poems that we gonna we are going to read so nick submitted a poem

01:25:25.840 and i'm going to read that for us okay and it's called grandma's rocking chair

01:25:31.600 there's a room of pink and lace where ponies play and smiles on her face a young girl sits

01:25:39.940 with dolls in hand dreaming of being in a fairy land in this quiet room where moonic

01:25:45.260 moonlight glows a gentle shadow shadow comes and goes she lingers near with watchful eyes

01:25:51.840 a granny's ghost time made wise she watched her grand girl with ribboned hair chasing butterflies

01:25:58.880 through summer air through scraped up knees and bedtime prayers her love has always her love was

01:26:06.260 always waiting there she saw her bloom and braided grace a vibrant young woman bright of face she

01:26:12.360 watched her walk to make his horn a steady man so strong so grand through candlelit nights and

01:26:19.260 lullabies she saw new babes born of twinkling eyes the same warm sport spark she once had known a

01:26:26.580 piece of her in flesh and bone. The years like rivers moved along, great-grandchildren grew with

01:26:32.540 voices strong, and still she stayed a quiet light, a loving soul in fading night. Children's laughter

01:26:41.160 warmed the quiet air, where little feet danced everywhere. Through passing years, a mourn's love

01:26:47.700 held true, but over time silver's hair the children knew. Now in her chair, she softly sways.

01:26:54.500 now she's a grandma in her twilight days her children groan their laughter near she keeps the

01:27:01.220 watch her own help dear as the rocking chair grew still the hurt the hearth was warm the house was

01:27:09.500 chill the old one smiled her breath was gone but death was just the breaking dawn she turned her

01:27:16.560 head no longer frail to see her granny though thin and pale no longer ghost but seen whole

01:27:24.160 and true with arms outstretched like dew and eyes like dew smiles and hugs to women where time is

01:27:30.960 none both old both young both newly spun a family returned that quiet presence now known grandmother

01:27:39.200 granddaughter a new role now shown wow that's beautiful beautiful man yeah

01:27:46.000 sheila do you see the uh private chat where monk's poem is in there otherwise i can read it too

01:27:55.800 yeah i'm not sure i i can read that one i got it right okay so monk submitted one as well it says

01:28:03.900 sadness sings the mind madness so so is the soul cold stone forges the heart the pain consumes it

01:28:10.080 all dry tears fall before blind eyes broken body is a is a prison born no one no escape while sanity

01:28:19.040 stands may the lady come for me to end the pain the world sings for me broken heart and in mind

01:28:25.280 may she someday set me free you see my eternal love so i can hold her one more time no rest for

01:28:31.600 the wicked no peace for the man mad unknown veteran oh monk someday someday she will sir

01:28:45.680 right i think those are all of our submissions but there was a question i did want to ask you

01:28:50.480 sheila um and it was like the children with not knowing that these things shouldn't be real right

01:28:57.680 so if we have um if we have parents and their their children are you know telling them things

01:29:04.480 what is the best way that you think you know as a parent having been a teacher working with young

01:29:09.280 children um how do you recommend that parents handle that okay kind of start your question again

01:29:19.520 is about about what is yeah when kids tell us oh i saw this or oh i dreamt this what is the

01:29:26.880 best handle that do you think in your opinion you know i just think uh parents need to stop

01:29:34.560 and pause and wonder if perhaps the kids are telling the truth at least the way they see it

01:29:41.120 especially in a home that is an australia home where we do believe in the other powers other

01:29:49.520 powers beyond us the holy powers and connection with the sir and our gods i mean our gods of

01:29:57.040 course our ancestors and um even the place where we live you know we just it all comes together

01:30:05.200 and children are thank goodness are perceptive to those kinds of things um i heard something

01:30:11.840 interesting today and had to do with um the idea of telling children the truth and i forget what

01:30:21.280 that was the topic was but the lady said you know we we tell them the pretend stories we tell them

01:30:28.720 about santa claus we tell them about the tooth fairy and make them seem real to the kids and

01:30:36.640 that's lying to them because they need to understand that that those things don't happen

01:30:43.520 and i mean i understand it but i have to say um i love i love the idea of a santa claus or

01:30:51.360 father christmas or father yule papa yule um when i had kindergartners they would be interviewed by

01:31:00.480 uh typically a kid fifth eighth grade who would come and and help them uh find out what they want

01:31:08.640 for what would they like for from santa claus or whatever and then the kid would write a letter

01:31:14.320 back to them as an elf and all the elves were like strawberry bunny elf or you know candy cane elf

01:31:22.360 and those kinds of things and i would roll them up scroll wise and they would suddenly appear with

01:31:28.980 with uh little ice chips all over them having been delivered that like day before they took

01:31:35.040 off and that's the kind of a teacher i was um i love using my imagination that's kind of the way

01:31:41.180 i've always been and i'm not very grounded in a lot of ways but i don't know if it did harm i

01:31:47.660 don't think my own kids uh we played up all the that that kind of mythology that kind of storytelling

01:31:54.220 and i don't think it harmed them at all i just i think it's it's a very sweet part of childhood

01:32:00.380 is and then of course they understand that it's part it makes it adds magic to the season to be

01:32:07.980 able to do that with little kids the expectations get so much more exciting however as people

01:32:13.580 approach you will um one thing that and we will probably be talking about but um witten's von

01:32:21.260 harrell does for his children is that they have um i think multiple nights where they receive gifts

01:32:29.420 and at least maybe one night where it's from the ancestors and a certain ancestor will bring them

01:32:34.780 socks we'll bring them the hat and as somebody that they know and i think that's a lovely idea

01:32:40.620 because it might be an ancestor the child has never heard of and so in a way we're doing that

01:32:45.980 same kind of embellishment and making up fantasy but in that way then the child can learn about

01:32:52.620 that ancestor what was who was person when did they live what it was like back then when that

01:32:58.060 person lived and who was their family all those kinds of things and i think we all if we have

01:33:05.580 children need to do something like that at least once during yule is to make sure that the children

01:33:12.140 receive special gifts could be a book it could be some writing paper um slippers you know anything

01:33:19.340 but it comes from a specific sign by specific ancestor you know with great love from you

01:33:25.340 great at mabel kind of thing so i think that is a great idea we do you know we do the 12 days of

01:33:32.860 yule at my house too and the kids have always gotten their presence are spread out between

01:33:38.220 the first day and the last day of yule you know we don't have just one big day where we open them all

01:33:43.500 um and it's just kind of like you know we never did the um the gift from the ancestors

01:33:51.100 but i wish i had because that is brilliant that is great you know my kids are 18 and 19 now

01:34:00.100 and they still leave their shoes out to get their their gold coins from crampus

01:34:05.820 you know so those things carry on you know what i mean like if you leave your shoes out you got

01:34:11.980 to check your shoes there's either coal you know or there's gold coins and we used i used to get

01:34:18.320 the um go to the bank and get a roll of dollar coins because they're gold colored you know so

01:34:23.580 the gold coins in there neat that's brilliant all right and we do have another poem that was

01:34:31.400 submitted uh submitted by nick and it's called rest revere and reflect and it says fallen leaves

01:34:40.760 ancient eyes silent earth to see your rise autumn's breath the twilight near whispers call

01:34:47.740 the ancestors here the desir watch with knowing eyes guiding hands beneath dark skies falling

01:34:54.700 leaves and misty air we honor those who once stood there hearth and hall their echoes stay in shadow

01:35:01.340 dusk we find our way honored to seer fierce and wise through the veil your voices rise

01:35:06.860 mother's past protect and guide in silent woods where shadows bide reflect remember we speak their

01:35:14.460 names through quiet winds they stoke the flames reverence deep as nights grow long their strength

01:35:20.940 within us ever strong winter nights a time to see the woven thread of ancestry that's beautiful it

01:35:28.140 is gorgeous yeah those are long poems that he writes he does he's just a great writer and he

01:35:38.380 does them every month he does the runestone yes you guys you guys gotta see the um so if you are

01:35:47.660 interested in like nick's poetry um eric also writes really beautiful poetry but there's a

01:35:54.620 poetry corner i believe in the runestone um nick producer nick are you can you pop on real quick

01:36:00.620 tell us about that poetry corner and tell us how to submit to the runestone if you are a member of

01:36:06.060 of the Astro Folk Assembly and you have poetry or things of that nature that you would like to submit.

01:36:12.220 The runestone, sir, please pop in and let our folk know.

01:36:16.060 Yeah. On the regular, it seems to just be the East Coast that writes the poetry.

01:36:23.740 So the Thorshoth runestone for like two years now has had a poetry section

01:36:31.980 where myself eric chris and occasionally aiden have submitted poetry um now that we have it's

01:36:41.980 split between thor's off and phrase off there's technically two poetry corners now and the other

01:36:48.700 districts could all have a poetry corner if people would submit poetry and like this month for

01:36:54.860 instance we had miss jilly submitted one of the poems that we read tonight so it will be in the

01:37:00.620 runestone coming up and yeah i've had one in it well once this next two runestones come out to

01:37:09.820 finish the year it'll be for a solid two years straight um and if you want to anybody members

01:37:19.420 can submit poetry or articles or artwork you want anything you want really if it would if it would

01:37:28.140 be relevant to our folk um or interesting to our folk recipes craft projects if you're a small

01:37:38.940 business owner or an entrepreneur and you've got something that might be relevant to our folk we

01:37:43.500 can advertise that anything like that you can send to press at runestone.org uh for most any of it

01:37:51.580 I'll probably run it by the Gothar, make sure it's good to go.

01:37:56.100 But assuming it is, yep, just send whatever you want through and we will chat about it.

01:38:02.620 Again, that is press at runestone.org or send it to myself or get you Sarah, one of the Gothar.

01:38:10.580 We'll get it to the right place.

01:38:13.040 We can all get it to the right place.

01:38:15.060 and if you are interested in reading the past poems that are in the runestone on runestone.org

01:38:21.060 in the library you will see all of the past issues of the runestone um all the way back to the very

01:38:28.420 first runestone we were able to track that down after years and years and sheila knows sheila

01:38:36.340 knows how long i was looking for the original i do years and years and years and years and they

01:38:44.260 finally showed up so yeah we may still have more and there's there were other things that were

01:38:52.100 being published too we had bear claw and austro update and lots of other things that were pretty

01:38:57.060 equivalent to to this we also have what was wolf age i have a whole um file folder of those and

01:39:05.940 those were really popular those were great and i love those anyway i'll get those to us into the

01:39:12.500 library as well thank you ma'am appreciate that yeah and i gotta i gotta give credit to chris

01:39:17.780 savage on that one man he i i was at the point where i'm like i'm never gonna see

01:39:24.260 issue one you know volume one issue one like i know it exists and i know it's there and i

01:39:29.540 can't get my hands on it oh we tried for years three years sheila i wrote to the library of

01:39:35.620 congress asking them to send me the digitized copies and they were like no you know but they

01:39:43.140 do have them they'll do exist there is one place there is one microfilm that has them okay and it

01:39:52.420 has every one of them um it has all of that cool thing um but my state library couldn't get it

01:40:00.260 my local libraries couldn't get it um there was a library in wisconsin that we tried to go through

01:40:07.300 and there's specific colleges that have it you can't have it unless you're a student

01:40:12.340 it was a lot but you know what it is finally finally up we finally got it chris savage

01:40:18.180 you are a hero sir for getting all of that information for us so he is the unsung hero

01:40:24.740 of finding the lost iron stones well i'm gonna go read that issue tomorrow because i don't think

01:40:31.060 i've seen that one i don't i knew the other ones but yeah that one wonderful well all right i think

01:40:38.980 that is all that we've got for tonight and we have another drawing for everybody who submitted

01:40:44.900 something tonight you guys are going to get you know what you're going to be surprised let's just

01:40:52.020 do that so nick can we get that spinner up please oh look at that oh that's so cute

01:41:06.500 bobby oh there it is all right so what i need you to do bobby is i need you to email me

01:41:22.180 or actually yeah nick forward me that email but bobby i need your address

01:41:28.820 so i can get you something sent over we know who bobby is we got his address 0.59

01:41:34.520 ass so nick tell me which bobby it is i didn't see the email it's the bobby you know who bobby is 0.74

01:41:42.840 we all know bobby everybody knows bobby so all right bobby something's coming to you from 0.90

01:41:49.960 from us for being a good sport and submitting all of uh the submissions that you did tonight

01:41:55.960 and we do appreciate everybody commenting liking subscribing share this with your friends share it

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01:42:08.260 in the gods send them our way folk come home i hope you guys have a beautiful night thank you

01:42:14.160 for joining us and remember victory never sleeps have a good night everybody good night

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Asatru Folk Assembly - October 30, 2025

10⧸29⧸25 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 173 - Bump in the Night, Part 2

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