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Welcome. Welcome to Radio Rental. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Come on in. Kick your shoes off, make yourself at home. Smets me, it's Ricky Lee, cosmetologist and newly appointed head honcho of this here video shop, Radio Rental. And I am excited to see you today. I'm not gonna lie. Hold on, dad. Gummet, getting one already. One of my cosmological blasts is coming into my head. And today's blast is for Capricorn. Capricorn. I'm getting a message for all y' all right now. Capricorn. Quit being so dang shady. You're like a big cubulambulus cloud or something. You're raining on everybody's parade with your constant pessimism. How about the cup is half full for once? How about that? Or even better, how about my cup runneth over? Think about that seriously. All right, well, that's enough for the blast, but let's get to our first story of the day. Let me wheel on out the tv, VHS machine, get a tape, and let's pop this puppy in. I predict this one is going to be a real doozy.
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About 45 minutes southeast of Reno, there's this little town called Virginia City. It's an old silver mining town. People are taking the silver tours to those saloon casinos that you can go in there and have a drink. You can go down, like mines, there's gunfights in the street. It's really kind of an authentic old mining town that they turned into this tourist town. It's super cool. So I was like, wow, this is going to be a fun thing for the wife to go up there and spend a weekend in Virginia City. We're walking around, touring the buildings. The streets are packed and things are really bustling. We're getting set for a 3 o' clock check in at this hotel, which is right on the main drag. So we go check in at the hotel downstairs. There's like a front lobby area and all the rooms are up this very large, narrow staircase. It's like one of those very old farmhouses. It's a very narrow staircase, very steep. So we climb up the staircase, we get to the top, and our room is right at the top of the staircase. We walk in there. It's a big room, but it looks old. All the furniture in the room is old. Old quilts on the bed, there's old books on the bookshelf. It also had one of those toilets that had the tank suspended from the ceiling with, like, the chain that you pull it to flush. And it's got that musty smell to it. This room is truly authentic. We decided, okay, let's just change our clothes, we'll freshen up, we'll go out and we'll hit the big streets of Virginia City. There's nothing modern about this town at all. They say the theme of the city is you step back in time. Will you truly step back in time? Because when we walked out of this hotel, all those people that were there earlier in the day are gone. There was nobody on the streets. I mean, you could hear a pin drop. So we're just like, okay, well, let's make the best of it. So we started walking around and we ended up having dinner at this small pizza place that was pretty much the only restaurant that was open by this time. It's like 7:30, 8:00', clock, and we're like, now what the hell do we do? Down off the main drag, there was a couple of, like, small taverns. We're like, well, we might as well get a drink. We walked in there and there was a bunch of hillbilly type people sitting in his bar, which are probably like, old bikers, locals, whatever. As soon as we walked into the bar, you could see it in their eyes that they do not want you there. We immediately got a feeling like we weren't welcomed, that we kind of stood out, that we were the tourists and we weren't welcome in this bar. Wife and I, we excused ourselves and just kind of went like, well, we'll find something else to do. So we stumbled back to the hotel, walked in the lobby. There was nothing happening in this hotel. I mean, it was quiet and it was dark. We're like, okay, well, this is not like the big bustling night that we thought it was gonna be in Virginia City. So we walked up that long staircase again and went into the room. It's not like there's any TV in the room. There's no tv. There's no wifi, barely electricity. I mean, you truly felt like you were stepping back in time. So we ended up finding there was a couple of games in the room, a couple of decks of cards. So we played some cards, and that lasted for about an hour, hour and a half, and we're like, let's just go to bed, you know, let's Just get through the night. We'll leave in the morning. We drifted off to sleep. It was probably 11 30. We started hearing some sounds out in the hallway. You could hear like people laughing and carrying on. And then all of a sudden it started getting louder. There was some arguing. You could tell that they were definitely older. Gentleme sounded like hillbillies. Four to five people in the hallway. I mean, they were like mumbling. You would hear words like silver stealing, words like claim. And I believe we heard one person refer to him as a dirty dog. I mean, the conversation definitely got heated. And it got heated quick, like full blown. Yelling at each other, pushing each other. And the next thing we know, we hear one of the people get pushed down the stairs. You could hear every thud with this gentleman going down the stairs, bouncing off the walls, bouncing off the steps. You heard that loud thud at the bottom of the stairs. And you knew it did not end in a good way. And then there was nothing. You couldn't hear a damn thing. The silence was eerie, totally eerie. We're just holding onto each other's hands laying in this bed. I do remember her saying, I'm scared. And I said, I'm scared too. I think we were in shock because we were terrified of what was going to be outside the door because there was definitely more than a couple of guys out there in the hallway. We didn't want to get stuck in the middle of this thing. We laid in bed for a few minutes more and we fell back asleep. It was a few hours later, the sun started coming up. We knew it was time to go. We just kind of got out of bed, got our things together, threw it in a bag, and we're just like, let's just go. We weren't really sure what we were going to see when we opened up the door because after the guy fell down the stairs, we didn't hear anything. There was no ambulance. There was nobody rushing to his aid, including us, because we were terrified in our bed. Went to the door, opened it up. We looked down the staircase and to our amazement, there was no dead body at the end of the staircase. Walked down the stairs, walked into the lobby, and there was only one gentleman in the lobby, the hotel worker. And we walked up to the front desk. He said, how was your night? And my wife and I kind of looked at each other and we're like, does this guy really have no idea what went down last night? I made a comment to him, yeah, there was something that went down at 12 o' clock in the morning, I think there was a fight outside of our room, but it definitely sounded like somebody ended up falling down the stairs. He very deadpan looked at me and he goes, well, that's odd because you were the only guest in the hotel last night. The hairs on the back of my neck were starting to stand up. I mean, we were freaked out. He asked us to tell him a little bit more about what we experienced. Sound like a bunch of hillbillies. They were fighting over either claims or silver or something. He just kind of laughed a little bit and he goes, oh, the miners must be back. We've heard reports of the miners. They must have had a night last night. And it was just the way that he was laughing. It was like he was. He was like part of it. It was almost kind of like a big joke to him. But to us it wasn't a joke. We weren't laughing. I think the freakiest part of it is it seems so common for him. Like this is the regular thing with these miners and them having their activities in the middle of the night. As soon as he mentioned the miners and that they've been there all the time and that there was nobody else sleeping in the hotel rooms, it was clear as day to us that we experienced the spirits of former miners of Virginia City. I've heard of ghost stories, I've heard of spirit encounters, but to be honest with you, I never really believed it. But once we experienced it, we believed it. I remember what I heard, I remember what I felt. It was real.
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Okay, just to be honest with you, that's beyond a pair of normals. That's like four or five normals. All right, let's do some maths.
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I've been going into the woods my whole life, since I was a kid. I'm not a hunter, I'm not a fisher. I just like to be out in nature, bird watching, looking at plants and animals and hiking around and camping. In 2020, in the height of the pandemic, Oregon was really locked down. No restaurants, no theaters, there was really nothing to do. I discovered that the Forest Service rents out these old guard shacks that forest rangers used to use to maintain the forest and watch out for fires and whatnot. I rented one that's down in southern Oregon in Southern Cascades in the Rogue River National Forest. I was pretty excited about that because the Sky Lakes wilderness is there, Mount McLaughlin is there, and if you've ever seen that, it's this really pointy volcano that's pretty cool to see. It's about a six hour drive from my house. I drove down there and into this really vast forest that's full of remote areas. Came to the turnoff from the main road and it was a like a really rocky four wheel drive trail. I've got a jeep so I was able to get down that trail pretty easily, but it had a lot of really tall rocks and a lot of pointy rocks and was very closed in with trees and it opened up to this meadow out in the middle of the woods. At the head of the meadow was this old guard shack. It was just four walls and a roof, but on the inside it had a couple of bunk beds and a wood stove. Parked my Jeep about 100ft away from the cabin, hauled all my stuff to the cabin, set up, put my chair up by the fire ring. I spent the day just reading books and the day was dragging on and it started Getting towards like twilight hour. I was sitting in my camp chair with my legs kicked out on a stump with my binoculars with my book, just watching nature go by. As I was just sitting there, I just heard this roar come from the distance. And the sound was coming from behind me. I froze. Everything froze. Just got dead quiet, which is really unnerving in the woods. That's when the sound came again. That is a closer noise. All the alarms and red flags in my body were going off saying, get inside, this is dangerous. As they were getting closer, I was inching my way back to the cabin. That's when I got my phone out and started to record. So I'm holding my phone up. Sure enough, a few minutes later, there's that roaring sound again. Quite a bit closer this time. As I'm standing there listening and waiting for the intervals to come. I'm getting more and more freaked out about this noise. And then suddenly the roar comes again and it's very close. So I shut the door, lock everything, pull shut all the shutters on the windows and lock those and jump into my sleeping bag at the corner of the cabin and realize that I have left any sort of weapon in my jeep. So I'm laying there in the pitch black darkness because there's no light in this cabin. I can't even see in front of my face. Suddenly I hear that roaring sound right outside. I could hear it walking around the cabin outside.
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I can hear the heaviness of the footsteps. I can hear it growling outside of my cabin. So I sat there with my head under my sleeping bag. I started hearing like a slip, slump.
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Its foot was raking across the grass and then plopping down really heavy onto the ground. And then the next one raking across the top of the grass and then plopping down really heavy. What I heard walking around outside was big. It didn't sound like a quadruped. It sounded like two footsteps at a time. And I could hear it when it would walk around my side of the cabin like it was examining how to get in. I didn't want to make a sound. I was holding my breath. After a little bit of time goes by, I hear it again and it's a little further away. And then a little while later I hear it again and it's even further away. I can tell that it's moving away from me. And I ended up falling asleep in that same position, down in my sleeping bag, covered up. The next morning I get up and I can see the light coming around from the cracks in the windows. So I get out of the sleeping bag I'd slept in, all of my clothes, even my shoes. I go and I open up the door and I walk outside, and my camping chair is still there, my cup is still there, my water bottle, and nothing is messed with. The cabin backs up to the tree line. In the backside of it is just some really tall grass. And I could see very plainly a track where something had been walking around the cabin. It had knocked all of the grass down, but I couldn't see any footprints in the ground. The ground was too hard. This was a very wide disturbance area in the vegetation as it went around the cabin. Whatever it was had some width to it. That night, it was a perfectly relaxed night. Birds singing, you know, bugs bugging. So I was sitting in my camp chair reading my book, listening to the birds. Twilight was coming. There was some deer that were out in the the meadow, and I was watching them, and they were interacting with each other and looking around. They didn't really care that I was there. They probably see this pretty frequently. And then suddenly, this time, really close. And the deer bolted for the tree. They did not stop to reconsider. They didn't look around. They just bolted for the tree line. And that gave me an indication that this is a predator, that this is not something to be trifled with. I got up immediately, went and got my sleeping bag, threw it in the back of my jeep and immediately left. I'm sure that it wasn't a mountain lion. I have also heard bobcats and coyotes and wolves. That's not what this sound was. I know it wasn't a person. I know it wasn't a deer and it wasn't an elk. I've been around bear before, and they have a smell. They smell like a dirty, wet dog. I didn't detect any of that odor. And I've heard YouTube sounds of bears making noise, and it didn't sound like that. What it was, I don't know. I haven't been back, but I told a friend about it. He wants to go back because he wants to, you know, see what's going on down there. The cabin is now unrentable due to what the website says is safety concerns, which I don't know what that means. I did notice that area is thick with bigfoot sightings, if you believe in that type of thing. The Rogue River National Forest has quite a bit of documented sightings from people. There's websites that you can go and see the date and time that people see things. And I've cruised through YouTube looking for similar sounds that people have heard in the woods and have not heard anything like that. Even thinking about the story and telling the story gets me chill bumps. Pretty scary situation for me.
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Oh my word. Bigfoot is an Aquarius. You know what I'm saying? All right, let's do some maths.
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Okay, my friends, well, that's it for today. I am all tapped out. But look, you know what next week is? That's right. It is the height of spooky season. The big hoorah. You ain't gonna guess what my costume is. You want me to tell them? Nah, I ain't telling them. I'm keeping it a surprise. You gotta come see it. We'll see you next time. Ricky Lee. We gone.
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Character Host: Ricky Lee Bagley (Jeff Foxworthy)
Theme: Real-life horror stories – ghostly events in a mining town and a chilling creature encounter in the Oregon woods.
In this Halloween-season episode, Radio Rental invites listeners into a dimension where the line between reality and the supernatural blurs. The first story brings us a classic haunted hotel encounter in a Nevada mining town; the second plunges us deep into the Oregon wilderness for an inexplicable and terrifying brush with something monstrous. As always, comic relief is doled out by Ricky Lee, who frames the stories with his signature wit.
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03:30 – Ricky Lee opens Radio Rental with comic banter, sets a spooky, offbeat tone.04:55 – Story 1: Haunted hotel in Virginia City begins.12:10 – Manager’s chilling claim: “You were the only guest last night.”13:05 – Couple realizes they witnessed a haunting.14:13 – Ricky Lee jokes about “paranormals.”16:21 – Story 2: The Oregon woods cabin encounter.18:08 – First roar is heard in the woods.21:18 – Creature circles the cabin; terror peaks.26:12 – Connections to local Bigfoot folklore.26:57 – Ricky Lee’s “Bigfoot is an Aquarius” joke.The episode maintains Radio Rental’s signature blend of chilling documentary realism, retro-tinged humor, and immersive storytelling. Ricky Lee interjects with Southern wisdom and horoscope-based humor, providing necessary levity. The personal accounts are detailed and suspenseful, employing cinematic sound design to underscore every ghostly thud and unearthly roar.
Episode 93 stands out for the authenticity and detail of its eyewitness stories—from a ghostly feud echoing down century-old hotel halls, to an unexplained and primal encounter in the darkest forests of Oregon. Radio Rental again proves its knack for captivating, original storytelling—perfect for Halloween season.