Beyond Bizarre -- Cannibalism - Bizarre Graves - Ocean Monsters - Punkin Chunkin - Anvil Firing - Body Parts Collector
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00:00The human diet is the most diverse in the world.
00:04Still, every society has established dietary restrictions of one kind or another,
00:13chief among them the ban against the consumption of human flesh.
00:19And yet there are rare instances where such chilling practices exist,
00:25and not only in the places you might think.
00:28It'd be shocking to learn in how many parts of the world
00:31it might be a dubious honor for your neighbors to plan on having you for dinner.
00:41High in the tropical rainforest of Papua New Guinea resides a group of natives
00:47which until the late 60s still consumed human flesh.
00:52The taboo against this is one of the strongest in the Western world,
00:57but here among these Stone Age people cannibalism was once a way to pay respect to the dead.
01:04Now that the authorities have forbidden this grisly tradition,
01:08the tribesmen have fashioned other forms of ancestor worship.
01:13This woman wears the dried foot of her late husband.
01:17White men first encountered cannibals in Africa.
01:21This drawing shows what one explorer called a human butcher shop.
01:27But Africa wasn't alone in this practice.
01:30Here we see a picture of an American Indian tribe preparing a very personal meal.
01:36This sketch shows them boiling what some natives called long pig.
01:43These Hispaniolas, a West Indian tribe, are shown butchering and roasting a body on the spit.
01:51The Aztecs had huge ceremonial feasts where human flesh was consumed.
01:58Here an Aztec girl eats an enemy's leg while another captive tends to the fire.
02:05This disquieting cuisine has been infused into our popular mythology.
02:10The fabled Amazon warrior women were not only seductive,
02:15if provoked they would roast and eat their enemies.
02:19But fantasy has been superseded by fact.
02:24In this cemetery in Littleton, Colorado, in a corner by itself is the soldier's grave of Alfred Packer.
02:32After leaving the army in 1874, he set off for Colorado with five buddies to prospect for gold.
02:42But a blizzard trapped them in the mountains that winter.
02:46By the spring thaw, Colorado's most famous cannibal had polished off all five of his friends.
02:55The graves are all that remain of this ghastly gourmet's deed.
03:01He was convicted and sentenced by a judge who was falsely rumored to have condemned Packer,
03:08because his victims were all Democrats.
03:12After a short time in prison, he was released on a technicality.
03:18He became of all things a vegetarian and earned his bread and butter
03:23autographed pictures of himself to tourists with a hunger for the notorious.
03:31Cannibalism next takes us to the concrete jungle of New York City and to Columbia University.
03:38Here, assistant professor Dr. Robert Klitzman recounts his work with Nobel Prize winner Dr. Gajdasek,
03:46who discovered that something called the Kuru disease was wiping out up to 90% of the women
03:53in the cannibal tribes of the eastern highlands of New Guinea.
03:58Through studying this disease in this Stone Age tribe, he ended up discovering basically a whole new form of life.
04:05The disease was primarily located in the brain, in that when someone would die in the tribe,
04:12the person would be eaten, and the body would be cut up.
04:16Parts of the body would be wrapped in banana leaves.
04:19They would dig a huge hole in the ground and make a fire.
04:22When the fire died down, there would be ashes.
04:24They'd have stones there that would get hot, and they'd then wrap the parcels for the meal,
04:29put them in the ground, then cover it up with dirt, and the contents of the parcels would basically be smoked.
04:37And then they would open the pit, they would take out the parcels, and they would eat the contents.
04:41This is how Kuru was spread.
04:44The closest female relative to the deceased would eat the brain,
04:48which contained the highest concentration of infection.
04:52When they died and were eaten, the epidemic spread.
04:57The Fori believe that the disease, the Kuru, is caused by sorcery.
05:01They believe that a sorcerer takes a possession of yours,
05:05it could even be a nail clipping or potato peeling,
05:08and wraps it around a stone with some leaves and casts a spell on it and puts it in the ground,
05:13and the stone will shake, and then you will shake and develop Kuru.
05:17I would say, no, Kuru is caused by a very small living thing.
05:20And they'd say, well, show it to us.
05:22And they'd say, no, no, it's too small to see, you have to use a microscope.
05:25And they'd say, well, have you seen it?
05:27And I said, no.
05:28And they said, well, has anyone seen it?
05:30I said, well, I'm not sure anyone has.
05:32And they all laughed at me, and they said, you know, that's magic, that's ridiculous.
05:35Kuru is caused by this Kuru stone right here.
05:38When you think about it, it was only in the 19th century that here in the West
05:41that we began to think of infectious disease.
05:43An epidemic is caused not by the result of the scourge of God,
05:46but the fact that it was, you know, a microscopic agent that was spreading disease.
05:51The same kind of disease also occurs spontaneously in sheep.
05:56And when sheep bones were fed to cattle in Great Britain,
06:00the mad cow epidemic occurred.
06:03As for New Guinea, if Westerners hadn't come
06:06and told the tribe to stop their cannibalistic practices,
06:10the Foray would have vanished.
06:13As it was, Dr. Klitzman himself got the chance
06:17to trek to the New Guinea rainforest with the Foray tribesmen.
06:24At one point I was standing on a high ridge over the village.
06:28I saw the Coral Sea that separates New Guinea from Australia.
06:32And I pointed to that and I said, see that? That's the sea, that's the ocean.
06:35And they had no idea what I was talking about.
06:37I got there and went with my guides the first day, I remember,
06:40and we're walking through the jungle on a little trail through the rainforest.
06:43And my guides all took bows and arrows.
06:45I thought, you know, my God, I'm with a bunch of cannibals.
06:48You know, here, you know, hundreds of miles from any other Westerner.
06:53Fortunately, they were endocannibals, the kind who eat their own tribesmen,
06:58as opposed to exocannibals who eat their enemies and others.
07:04In this strange world, consuming human flesh is an act of respect.
07:11As one woman said to me after she ate her mother,
07:14she said, this whale always had part of my mother inside of me.
07:18When they engage in cannibalism, it was out of respect for their deceased relatives.
07:22It was a way of incorporating something of the memory
07:26and the spirit of the person inside them.
07:28They did not go around killing people to eat them.
07:32One anthropologist commented that this tribe's cemeteries are their stomachs.
07:38They don't have furniture, they don't have metal,
07:41they don't have rubber, they don't have wheels.
07:44The body is a commodity. The body is, you know, they use it for different things.
07:49A couple of thoughts to chew on from a deadly realm that is beyond bizarre.
08:00The faces of evil, the masterminds of crime, the society's worst nightmare.
08:06In fact, they can be so stupid, you just won't believe your eyes.
08:11I didn't steal that car. I just borrowed it.
08:14Watch the most idiotic crimes ever attempted.
08:17We both know this thing's stolen, right?
08:19Not exactly.
08:20Why are you wearing her pants?
08:22I'm a cross-dresser.
08:24America's Dumbest Criminals, a new series, starts Monday on Zone Reality.
08:48Whoo!
09:01Since the earliest graves were dug by Neanderthal men some 35,000 years ago,
09:08humans have had a deep concern for the fate of their expired bodies.
09:15The ancient Egyptians built an entire civilization
09:19around the construction of royal graves, the pyramids.
09:25But while these immense tombs may have been the most ambitious on record,
09:31they are far from the strangest.
09:38Throughout the ages, man has put enormous effort and wealth
09:42into the interring of his earthly remains.
09:45In the Western world, the most common examples of this are cemeteries
09:50filled with monuments to the dearly departed.
09:55But not all cemeteries are the same.
09:58In New Orleans, for instance, early settlers were buried six feet under.
10:03The high-water table eerily caused their coffins to rise.
10:09The superstitious belief at the time was that Mother Earth
10:13was rejecting the dead from her womb.
10:16So they were switched to above-ground crypts.
10:20Another belief peculiar to the New Orleans area
10:24stems from the influence of the voodoo religion.
10:28These individuals believed that a strong spirit can actually transcend death
10:34and that through certain rituals,
10:36a believer may command these spirits for his own benefit.
10:42One such spirit, known to grant wishes with a brief ritual,
10:47is a departed voodoo queen named Marie Laveau.
10:54Meanwhile, at the National Museum of Funeral History in Houston, Texas,
10:58another bizarre belief is reflected in a collection
11:02from Ghana in West Africa by Mr Ken Quay.
11:07He believed that death was not a termination of life,
11:10but a transition to the realm of ancestral spirits.
11:14Guardians believe that upon death, a lavish display of prosperity,
11:20such as these costly handmade coffins,
11:23assures a kind of material wealth in the afterlife.
11:28The bigger the display, the richer the deceased will be in the spirit world.
11:35Fishing is an important occupation in Ghana.
11:38Appropriately, a dead fisherman would be buried in the fish's belly.
11:44The fish eagle is a symbol of power and status,
11:48a coffin suitable for someone with a keen eye and a hunter's instincts.
11:54This fishing canoe was one of the first coffins made by Ken Quay
11:59for his departed uncle, an important fisherman.
12:03Some of the coffins here are even fantasy fulfillments.
12:07The man to be buried in this airplane coffin had always wanted to fly.
12:14Yet another person chose to travel to the spirit world in this luxurious Mercedes Benz.
12:22We next move to the outskirts of Cody, Wyoming.
12:26Here on the original site of Buffalo Bill's hometown,
12:30we find Bob Edgar, a native of the Little Bighorn Basin,
12:34who has collected the largest grouping of Old West memorabilia.
12:40Cody City was actually built by Buffalo Bill,
12:43and the trail that goes right through here between the buildings
12:49is a trail that went into Cody City back in 1895.
12:53At this point, we've got 23 buildings that date from 1879 to 1901.
12:59Bob's collection isn't limited to places where frontiersmen lived.
13:05I think graves are important.
13:07Everybody relates to graves in their own way, maybe.
13:11If you think about the person in the grave,
13:13it is like going back in time, back to their time,
13:16and it's a personal contact between the two times and the two worlds.
13:22Old Trail Town has become the final resting place of many Wild West characters.
13:29Jeremiah Johnson was the movie name.
13:31His real name was John Johnston.
13:33His nickname was Liver-Eating Johnson.
13:36That comes from a story, Indian Battles,
13:39where at some point he had some flesh on his knife,
13:43and he asked him what that was.
13:45He just joked and said, oh, it's a piece of Indian liver.
13:50We've got two outlaws, Bill Gallagher and Blind Bill Houlihan,
13:54were two members of the Butch Cassidy gang that were killed in gunfights.
13:59Another grave we have there is a woman named Belle Drury
14:02that ran the saloon that eventually was killed in revenge
14:05for killing a man in a fight in a dance one night.
14:10This is Jack Stilwell's grave.
14:12He was one of the famous scouts at the Battle of Beecher's Island in 1868,
14:18a friend of Buffalo Bill's.
14:20Buffalo Bill had him come up here to take care of the T.E. Ranch
14:23when he was gone on the Wild West shows and ended up dying here in Cody.
14:26So it's quite a collection of frontier people.
14:30From where we are right here, we're looking directly over the south side
14:34of the street of Trail Town at Cedar Mountain,
14:37where Buffalo Bill wanted to be buried.
14:40And, of course, when Buffalo Bill died in Denver,
14:43he ended up being buried on Lookout Mountain
14:45and didn't get his wish that was in his will
14:48to be buried on top of Cedar Mountain above his town site of Cody.
14:54The controversy over Buffalo Bill's grave being on Lookout Mountain in Denver,
14:59rather than in his hometown of Cody, has raged for nearly a century.
15:05Steve Friesek was curator of the Buffalo Bill Memorial in Denver,
15:10and Paul Feese, a western historian, works at the historical center in Cody.
15:16For years, they have debated the controversy
15:19over the fact that Buffalo Bill died in Denver in 1917
15:24and was buried on nearby Lookout Mountain,
15:27rather than in his hometown of Cody, Wyoming.
15:32Well, of course, folks in Cody have always wanted to believe stories
15:36that the body was switched.
15:38This rumor so concerned the people of Denver
15:42that at one point they parked a World War I tank on the grave
15:46to protect it from robbers from Cody, Wyoming.
15:52In all likelihood, Buffalo Bill did not ask to be buried on Lookout Mountain.
15:57Despite the fine monument and scenic location,
16:01most likely, he didn't care.
16:05The main thing to keep in mind about Buffalo Bill is
16:08he was a fellow who was always forward-looking.
16:11He saw his monuments as being living monuments,
16:15the places and the things he had built, the irrigation projects,
16:19the Wild West Show and the things that came out of the Wild West Show,
16:23that vision of the West that he shared with the world.
16:27In fact, I think that he cared so little about where he actually would be buried
16:32that he joked about it.
16:35Probably there are a dozen sites around the West
16:38where he probably said, I'd like to be buried here.
16:41As I think maybe we both agree,
16:44Buffalo Bill, though, is certainly larger than any single mountain,
16:48whether it be Cedar Mountain or Lookout Mountain,
16:51and Buffalo Bill's spirit is indeed in many ways the spirit of the West.
16:56And quite frankly, I'm just happy that he's buried somewhere west of the Mississippi.
17:02Buffalo Bill himself is probably the only one who knows for sure
17:06the facts surrounding his controversial burial.
17:10As to where he is today,
17:12we probably find him playing cards at the Irma Hotel in Cody.
17:17Many claim it was this passion for games of chance
17:20and the fact that he wasn't very lucky
17:23that may have played a role in the burial controversy.
17:29Buffalo Bill died in debt,
17:31and the financial pressure it put on his wife, Lulu,
17:35forced her to let Denver put on the largest funeral ever held in the city.
17:40And months later, a second send-off
17:42helped her capitalize on her late husband's legend,
17:46provided he was buried at Lookout Mountain.
17:51But even as his body lies in Denver,
17:54his spirit lives on in Cody.
17:59From New Orleans to Ghana to the Wild West,
18:04man's final resting place has continued to generate stories
18:09and controversies that are beyond bizarre.
18:15It has been said that science knows more about the surface of the moon
18:20than it does about the depths of the ocean.
18:23Three-quarters of our planet is shrouded in watery darkness,
18:27much of it inaccessible to human eyes.
18:31Many have speculated on what creatures may lurk down in that sunless world,
18:37and stories of fantastic sea monsters
18:41have been a staple of nautical lore since ancient times.
18:46But there is an expert on such tales
18:49whose work documents the fact that many of these accounts
18:53are no mere fish story.
18:59Since the dawn of history,
19:01human imagination has stocked the ocean with all manner of monsters.
19:06The beast from 20,000 fathoms,
19:09an armored giant wreaking his prehistoric fury on modern man.
19:16Jules Verne's Immortal Sea Saga,
19:1920,000 Leagues Under the Sea,
19:21brought such stories into the scientific age
19:24that both he and Hollywood have continued the tradition
19:27of exaggerating reality
19:31for the purpose of creating a whopping good tale.
19:34The most thrilling sequence in motion picture history.
19:38Verne's dramatic account
19:40of the nautilus submarine's confrontation with a giant squid
19:44is a classic story in the age-old tradition
19:48of the big one that got away.
19:51This may be an example of science being swamped by fiction.
19:58But author and artist Richard Ellis
20:00points out that Jules Verne's sea monster has a basis in reality.
20:06The giant squid is probably the quintessential sea monster
20:10specifically because it was not identified
20:14until the middle of the 19th century.
20:16Jules Verne told the story of the giant squid specifically
20:20because about eight years before he wrote that book,
20:24a giant squid had been found off the Canary Islands in 1861,
20:30and that was the first time that anybody knew there was such a thing.
20:35Any time earlier than that, people saw some strange thing
20:39with a lot of long arms and great big eyes,
20:41they immediately decided it was some sort of a strange sea serpent
20:45or sea monster.
20:47Verne's story managed to rattle a lot of readers
20:51because of a strange coincidence
20:53that occurred after the book's publication.
20:56Immediately after Jules Verne wrote this story,
21:00a couple of giant squid in a 40, 50-foot range
21:03began washing ashore in Newfoundland,
21:05and they kept doing it till the end of the decade.
21:08About 50 giant squid began to wash ashore
21:12as if they read the story
21:14and were trying to verify their own existence.
21:17Of course, corpses washing ashore don't make for dramatic spectacle.
21:22The mysteries of the deep are so irresistible
21:26that the fantasy makers can't help but fill the seas
21:29with a harrowing variety of nautical nightmares.
21:35As a student of marine monsters,
21:37Richard Ellis often finds himself at odds
21:41with the familiar stories of killer sushi
21:45that has mankind on the menu.
21:48I think that we still have a ways to go
21:52in our investigation and exploration of the deep ocean.
21:57There are constantly things showing up that we didn't expect.
22:01Probably the most surprising of them
22:04is a shark that was found first in 1975,
22:09and it was called Megamouth because it had a great big mouth.
22:13This creature had never been seen before.
22:16Nobody knew there was anything like this that existed.
22:19It was 16 feet long and weighed 1,400 pounds.
22:22It was caught because it swallowed a sea anchor
22:26of a Navy research vessel in Hawaii in 1975,
22:30and when they brought it in, somebody looked at it and said,
22:33I've never seen anything like this.
22:35And it was unique in the history of zoology.
22:38It was a brand-new species, a brand-new genus,
22:41a brand-new family of shark.
22:43It had tiny little teeth, so it was a plankton feeder.
22:46Because it was a plankton feeder,
22:48it probably never would have taken a baited hook.
22:51So it's not surprising that this was found in this very peculiar manner.
22:55That is, by accident.
22:58Since this first encounter with Megamouth,
23:01a dozen more have been found, dead or alive,
23:05and they have sparked great excitement
23:08over the potential size of sea creatures yet to be discovered.
23:17An example of this occurred in 1938
23:20when a living coelacanth was found
23:23off the coast of South Africa.
23:25Finding this ancient fish,
23:27thought to be extinct for 65 million years,
23:30was like finding a living dinosaur.
23:35All of which doesn't necessarily mean
23:37that we're going to find a lot of gigantic monsters
23:40or huge sharks that can swallow submarines,
23:43but it certainly suggests that we have a long way to go
23:46in investigating and exploring the depths of the ocean.
23:49As landlubbers on what is essentially a water planet,
23:53we inhabit the mere fringes of the Earth's primary environment.
23:59Land life has been evolving for a few hundred million years.
24:04The cauldron of the ocean has spent four billion years
24:08brewing up exotic forms of life.
24:12Unfortunately, man occasionally produces monsters.
24:16Sometimes out of error,
24:18as with this prehistoric-looking shark carcass,
24:21or without right fraud,
24:23like this guitar fish, trimmed to look like a mermaid.
24:29But other creatures require no modification
24:32to inspire harrowing tales of beasts
24:35from the dark recesses of the sea.
24:40The oarfish is the longest living creature
24:44The oarfish is the longest of all fishes.
24:48The oarfish gets to be about 26 feet long.
24:51It is a very thin, kind of ribbon-like creature,
24:54but it has a remarkable appendage,
24:57which is a bright red coxcomb of spines at the top of his head.
25:02So if a fish like this was near the surface
25:05and it raised this coxcomb,
25:07it would look very much like people's idea of a sea serpent
25:11with flames coming out of it.
25:13So you see, it's easy to make these stories up
25:16if you have something to work with.
25:19Oarfishes were almost invariably described as sea serpents
25:23because they're kind of snake-like.
25:25They're bigger than people expect fishes to be.
25:28A specimen of this is very, very likely
25:31to have engendered sea serpent stories.
25:36Still, even Mr. Ellis admits
25:38that there are credible tales of sea serpents
25:41that even the experts can't explain.
25:47To me, the most difficult of all sea monster stories to explain
25:52took place in 1816 off the Massachusetts coast,
25:57and hundreds of people saw something
26:01that we imagine a dragon would look like
26:05with a lot of humps and bumps, a big long neck, a kind of a mane.
26:12The animal disappeared at the end of 1816
26:16and showed up again in 1819.
26:23We still don't know what it was.
26:25It fits the description of nothing that anybody knows about,
26:29and so it is, to me, one of the great mysteries
26:33of the whole business of sea monsters.
26:37Just one of the many tales of true-life monsters of the deep
26:41that are beyond bizarre.
26:46Webster defines a hobby
26:49as a pursuit engaged in for relaxation.
26:53But there are hobbyists out there
26:56who indulge in pastimes that often involve more work,
27:00ingenuity, and even danger
27:03than most professional occupations,
27:06and they give dramatic new meaning to the expression
27:10killing time.
27:16Not since Isaac Newton was clobbered by an apple
27:19has flying fruit garnered as much attention
27:22as in the annual pumpkin chunking competition.
27:272,008 feet.
27:30A contest where homespun engineers
27:33assemble an impressive array of hand-tinkered machines
27:37designed to hurl pumpkins across record-breaking distances.
27:42This is what makes America great.
27:44I think this is why the United States is going to continue
27:47to be the dominant superpower of the world,
27:50is our ability to launch a pumpkin.
27:53This time-killing charity event features inventors and hobbyists
27:57who have tooled together an arsenal of catapults and cannons,
28:01carefully crafted for their high-velocity vegetables,
28:05all targeted with Pentagon-class precision.
28:11Looming launch vehicles send gravity-defying gourds
28:15through the air at blinding speeds.
28:24The key to victory seems to be not so much in the technology
28:29as in the careful choice of personnel.
28:32The crew.
28:34I've got the mottliest bunch of pirates and cutthroats
28:37you've ever seen.
28:39We're a bunch of outlaws.
28:41With a NASA-like sense of mission,
28:43these spirited pumpkin chunkers aim for the stars,
28:47even if they ultimately end up with squash.
28:53Meanwhile, another breed of bizarre hobbyist
28:57is also willing to make intrepid treks
29:00across forbidding terrain to practice their passion.
29:06Utah Slim and his partner Bear
29:09are practitioners of a decidedly dangerous pastime,
29:13one with a tradition that is centuries old.
29:23gunshot
29:26The origin of anvil firing is, I think, no one knows for sure
29:31because it goes so far back.
29:33But it's pretty clear that anvil firing started in Europe
29:36with the blacksmiths back there.
29:38It came over to the United States and then traveled west.
29:42And the main reason they were done is just for fun.
29:45gunshot
29:47Or just to make a loud noise.
29:49gunshot
29:52While Utah Slim makes this hobby look easy and safe,
29:57it is potentially deadly
30:00and should never be attempted by amateurs.
30:03The process of anvil firing is a multi-step process,
30:08several things you have to do
30:10to get that big piece of steel up in the air.
30:13I start off with a thick metal base plate.
30:18And place the base plate down there.
30:21So the base plate spreads the force out on the ground
30:24and keeps the bottom anvil pretty much immobile.
30:28Then you place the bottom anvil upside down on the base plate.
30:35I have a fuse hole that's drilled in the side of the anvil.
30:38I insert the fuse into the cavity in the bottom of the anvil
30:41where the black powder's going to go,
30:43making sure you've got plenty of fuse
30:45so you can not have to run like crazy to get away
30:48because you don't want to trip and fall down 10 feet from it.
30:52At that point, I fill the cavity with powder.
30:55And this is black powder. It's not smokeless powder.
30:58Clean the top of the anvil off well
31:00so there's no grains of powder sitting up there.
31:03Place a gasket, which is, I've always used a playing card
31:07just because it's traditional.
31:09At that point, you take the top anvil
31:12and gently bring it over to the bottom anvil,
31:15and I always carefully lower that top anvil down
31:19over the cavity where the powder is.
31:22And I get it centered up so the force is directly
31:25through the center of mass on the top anvil.
31:28At that point, you're ready to fire.
31:31So light the fuse, get away, and turn around and watch the show.
31:36Sometimes, if they can't decide who will light the fuse,
31:41they'll flip a coin.
31:54The preoccupations you have witnessed are bizarre.
31:58There is one chilling hobby, practice.
32:02There is one chilling hobby practiced in Toronto
32:06that is beyond bizarre.
32:09The market in human body parts sold by willing amputees,
32:14thus says Shannon Laurat.
32:17I publish BME,
32:19a magazine dedicated to body modification of all kinds,
32:23including amputation,
32:25and that led into the brokerage of sale of amputated body parts.
32:30Shannon's personal preference is the collecting of human skulls,
32:35but his interest in anatomical spare parts
32:39has led him to a vocation in the trafficking of severed fingers,
32:44toes and other bodily bits and pieces
32:48for a network of macabre collectors.
32:52I knew people who had body parts that they wanted to get rid of anyway.
32:58They weren't doing anything with them.
33:00Then there was another group of people who desperately wanted these body parts
33:04and were willing to pay for them.
33:06He claims these amputees are unhappy with their self-image
33:10and seek to beautify themselves,
33:13even as others, like Shannon, harvest the trimmings.
33:17Hooking people up with other people
33:19and letting them know that what they're doing is okay
33:23is my favorite thing about doing the magazine.
33:26A particularly grisly hobby from a ghoulish underworld
33:31that is beyond bizarre.
33:37It has come time to lay these matters to rest
33:41and to issue our program's last rites.
33:45It has been a moving ceremony,
33:49filled with recollections of strange events
33:53that can make the blood run cold.
33:57These grisly tales may be gone,
34:00but they are not forgotten.
34:03They are likely to lay buried in your memory
34:07for a considerable time to come.
34:11It's the least we could do in gratitude for your attendance,
34:16and we trust that our little ritual will stay with you
34:21until you shuffle off your own mortal coil.
34:25I'm Jay Robinson, and I thank you for joining us
34:30in an excavation of the fertile ground
34:33in the realm of the bizarre.