July 15, 2024 • 17 mins
Guest Host Connie Willis and Vince Ynzunza discuss paranormal stories from his YouTube series Pacific NorthWEIRD.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Coast to Coast AM is what you are listening to
Connie Willis here. Hey, I hope you're enjoying the show
and the music having a good time. I know that
I am, so I hope that you are too, and
I hope that you will join my newsletter, my newsletter
Where's Willis?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Again?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I wish I could imitate George Norri's voice, but I can't.
I got to get that. It just says a little,
a little drop, you know, So I can just play
that once in a while because nobody says it better
than him. But that's my newsletter, and you can go
to Connie Willis dot com and sign up for it.
Go ahead and sign up for it. Then you'll get
all the other information and I'll let you know what
I'm up to and what's going on. I mean, it's
(00:43):
so cool that today was the World Chimpanzee Day, you know,
with chain goodall, because if you look at the work
that I do with Blue Rock Talk and Project Creepy Hotspots,
which is live investigations of Bigfoot, Strange Lights, haunting, is
the big Foot in the strange lights, and I mean
that's my absolute favorite. I had hauntings as a kid,
(01:05):
you know, to scare me into to the next world.
But and pretty much have. But uh, it's just lost
my train of thought on all that thinking about all
those things. But uh, anyway, that's what you'll learn about me,
is is that kind of thing. That's what I like
to do. And uh uh with a newsletter, that's what
you'll find out. What's up and what's next, and where
(01:27):
we're gonna be and what's happening and I where's Willis
Connie Willis dot com? All right, let's get to the
Pacific north weird. Now our guest is Vince and Zunza.
Was that good? I'm gonna try it all that? All right?
Thank you? Thank you? Okay, So, Vince, let me tell
you what I know about the Pacific Northwest, and then
(01:52):
you you give me what you know. So I grew
up in Kentucky and lived in Florida and in Pennsylvania
and a little North California, but in little Texas at
one point. And I think I've named everything I think
and now Colorado. And the interesting thing is that when
(02:18):
you're on that side of the world, and now it's
different because we have the Internet and everybody talks to
everybody and everybody can talk to anybody wherever they are
in the world. But before you couldn't. Right, you knew
your you knew your hood, you knew your crowd, right,
you knew who was around you, right. And so if
you're in Kentucky, you talk to the people you know.
(02:39):
If you're big footing or ghost honey or whatever it is,
you know the people in that genre where you are,
and you might hear from if you're in Kentucky, you
might hear about some people in Tennessee and maybe you'll
go visit them, And maybe you know some people in
Florida and you'll go visit them. And everybody visits each
other's spots and that kind of thing. But when you're
over there, you don't know anybody. In the Pacific Northwest,
(03:00):
we don't know anybody. And then you start watching shows
like Monster Quest or whatever at one point, right, and
then you start picking up names from these other areas
of the country or world. And that's how you might
pick up somebody's name, or you might just listen to
the story in the encounter. But maybe you don't get
their name either way, we didn't get a lot of
(03:23):
the Pacific north West names. And it's interesting. This is
what I find anybody wants to back me up, polace
to do. But when you meet the people in the
Pacific Northwest, like we I think on the other coast
have been open to the fact, maybe because we've swarmed
around a lot, that we know that these things that
(03:48):
we've seen research, look for whatever, are everywhere. Pacific northwesterners,
I'm just saying, it's just like, this is where it is,
and it's nowhere else. And I don't think you'll ever
leave your area to look anywhere else because you're you know,
first of all, there's a ton there and it's really cool,
(04:09):
there's no question about it, okay, And the terrain is unreal.
It is like a story book. And then you walk
into those forests that look like a story book and
then there's creatures everywhere, and it's true. But is it
do you find that as well, that you guys are
kind of like, hey, we're in the Pacific Northwest or
(04:30):
Pacific north weird. We don't need to go anywhere else.
We got enough here.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I think that's true. Uh, in a lot of ways,
because because.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
When you're somewhere else, you're like, who are these people?
Who are they? What? Should we know who they are?
Or at least me, I'm like, should I know who
these people are? Because they say it like you know,
they're big time people. But really all it is is, hey,
this you all all know each other. You all have
had these names, uh, and people that have just grown
own together with all of the stories and things, and
we're just on the other coast and I've known who
(05:04):
any of you all are and vice versa, but now
it's all pulling together.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
But yeah, I just that's true that you know a
lot of the personality the individual the storytellers may not
be too well known outside of their community, but the
things that happened here in the Pacific Northwest have spanned
(05:32):
all across the nation and into the world. Like the
term flying saucer came from here. The first recorded interaction
with a man in black happened in the Northwest. The
work Bigfoot comes from northern California about south of the
Pacific Northwest is you can get but it's in this region,
(05:55):
you know. And the things that make the place really special,
I think are pretty universal. Like they've almost become archetypes
in themselves. And no matter where you are, you know Bigfoot,
(06:16):
you know what a flying sauce is. Those things are
as I mean, as universal and recognizable as Mickey the
House or the Golden Arches.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Is everybody up there pretty open to listening to it
from somebody.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I find that most people are, you know, I mean,
even if they're not true believers, they appreciate the fact
that we kind of have these regional mascots. Like over here,
Bigfoot is kind of big business in a lot of ways.
(06:55):
Like pretty much any gift shop you go into, there's
going to be just countless pieces of Bigfoot merchandise that
there are. There are murals, statues, carvings to pick foot
in almost like every single city and small town you
(07:15):
could h that you drive through going through the Northwest.
So there's a I feel like a universal appreciation for
for these these strange entities that everyone, even if they
(07:36):
don't necessarily believe in them, they they're proud of them.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I found it interesting at one point with let's go
to the Sasquatch to to the Bigfoot, I remember talking
to somebody from the Pacific Northwest and I had said, uh,
we were talking about the differences across the country, and
I had thought that they seemed to be my impression.
(08:07):
I didn't know at the time. I hadn't been out
there yet, but my impression was the Bigfoot were bigger
where you guys were, and that particular person said that
they thought they would be bigger where I was. I
found that interesting. But your all's terrain is like a
story book. It's absolutely amazing where you could walk into
(08:33):
forested area in your part of the country and not
come across some of the things, like if you were
in Kentucky or in Florida, where you're going to run
across some huge snakes and crazy bugs and all sorts
(08:53):
of just horrific things. Everywhere. It's really not that way
up there just seems cleaner. You don't have all these
tangled up messes when you walk through the woods. It's
just amazing to me. I couldn't believe it. I didn't
think it was real. And I grew up going to
King's Island and Disney World living in Florida, and they
(09:18):
really did create the Pacific Northwest on those log rides
or some of the other rides. And when I went
to your part of the country for the first time.
I couldn't believe it. I thought it was at a
theme park. They nailed it so well, it's just beautiful
where you guys are.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I agree. I've been here my whole life and I'm
never not in awe of all the different types of
terrain and natural bet that is just a car trip
away from wherever you are. You can visit the desert,
you can visit the ocean, visit that these grand mountains,
(10:02):
you can visit forests that you can just get lost
in forever. And yeah, I think we're kind of almost
like a Goldilocks zone.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yes, that's what I would say, Yes, yeah, yeah, Well
give us some of the great stories from the Pacific
North weird Okay.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Well, one passion of mine has always been lighthouses. There's
something about them that really it transfiss me. I feel
like I'm stepping back in time whenever I'm around them.
And there's some beautiful ones all along the Pacific Court
(10:46):
coast of Washington, Oregon, York, and California. And any good
lighthouse has to have a good ghost story. Oh yes, yeah,
And there's a couple of ones that really stand out
to me. One in particular as the Hasida Head Lighthouse
(11:11):
that's a near Florence, Oregon, right off of the Highway
one on one, beautiful scenic highway one on one that
just pretty much just goes right down by the ocean
for almost the entirety of the Organ Coast. And this lighthouse,
it was built in eighteen ninety two. And it's actually
(11:34):
not the lighthouse itself that haunted, but the caretaker's house
right next to it that has all the hauntings. And
for many, many years people have claimed to encounter this
entity called the Gray League, also known as Rue are
(11:55):
Uv like like Rue McClanahan. And in the seventies, this
hast ahead white house and the property was leased to
the Wayne Community College and they used as a coastal
classroom and retreat and a group of students were playing
with Aligi board and that spelled out the name Rue.
(12:19):
But since then, yeah, caretakers have reported all kinds of
encounters with what they call it a withered old lady
that floats across rooms. Sometimes she'll scream in the middle
of the night, She'll rattle dishes in the cupboard, pass
(12:41):
through walls and closed doors. One really see a story
involved a handyman that was doing some repairs on the
outside of the house and he had accidentally broken the
attic one of the attic windows with his ladder, so
he climbs up the ladder to fix it, and he
(13:04):
sees in the attic the gray Lady, and it just
scares the heck out of him, and he's so frightened
that he leaves the job, refuses to repair the window,
and there's always broken glass in the attic. But later
that night the caretakers say that they hear the sound
(13:24):
of sweeping going on in the attic above them. The
next day they go up there and find that all
of the glass had been swept into a perfectly neat
little pile. Oooh like. Yeah, but the gray Lady, it
seems like she cares about the house, like she wants
(13:47):
it kept well right, And apparently there's an old photograph
that shows the house along with a tombstone in the
front lawn. And the theory is that Rue was the
wife of an old caretaker and her her child had
(14:09):
died really young and had been buried on the property,
so she's just there to take care of the property
and try to find her her lost child, and she
is very sad.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
When people tell you these stories, do you do? You
go to the locations and then shoot stuff, and then
you've included that into your YouTube.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Sometimes there's there's a lot more stories than I've ever
had time to actually put the film right. So in
a certain way, you know, Pacific North weirds a YouTube channel,
but it's also like a state of mind for me.
(14:54):
So I'm just constantly, even if I'm not making a video.
I love visiting these places. I love collecting the stories.
I love collecting ephemera related to these weird places and
these great tales. I haven't done any videos in particular
(15:18):
about Hasid Ahead, but it's a story I just love telling.
And who knows what the future will bring.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Well, we've just got a couple minutes before the break,
but I wonder if you can tell me about the blobs.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I only have the Oakville Blobs, so that actually happened
right near where I grew up. I grew up in
a town called Rochester, Washington. Next town over is Oakville.
It's this small logging town in Grace Harbor County. And
on August seventh, nineteen ninety four, this weird blob rained
(15:58):
down over the a small town, a police officer was
patrolling at the middle of the night and it began
to rain on his car, so he turns on his
windshield wipers and noticed that it's not only rain, but
the windshield wipers were smearing this gooe like substance over
his windshield. So he gets that to examine it, and
(16:19):
wearing gloves, examines the the go and he says it's
kind of jello like, But soon, like within hours after
the end of the substance, he gets very very ill.
Other town residents, one in particular, Sunny Bark Clifts. She
(16:39):
worked on a farmhouse in Ulkville and that morning found
just tiny globules the size of the grains of rice
that were like jellyfish like in nature in texture, and
her mother got really set started experiencing extreme Vertico disneyness.
(17:01):
Another resident named Beverly Roberts found a dead raven and
a dead frog on the side of the road and
they were surrounded by this blobi like substance. So something
really weird was happening, and Sonny Barclett, she takes her
mom to the doctor and the doctor diagnoses her with
(17:21):
something called Menneer's disease, which is a disorder of the
inner ear. But soon after the entire wating room is
full of other Oakville residents, all with the same symptoms,
and he diagnoses them all the same.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Listen to more Coast to Coast AM every weeknight at
one am Eastern and go to Coast to coastam dot
com for more
Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Coast to Coast AM is what you are listening to
Connie Willis here. Hey, I hope you're enjoying the show
and the music having a good time. I know that
I am, so I hope that you are too, and
I hope that you will join my newsletter, my newsletter
Where's Willis?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Again?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I wish I could imitate George Norri's voice, but I can't.
I got to get that. It just says a little,
a little drop, you know, So I can just play
that once in a while because nobody says it better
than him. But that's my newsletter, and you can go
to Connie Willis dot com and sign up for it.
Go ahead and sign up for it. Then you'll get
all the other information and I'll let you know what
I'm up to and what's going on. I mean, it's
(00:43):
so cool that today was the World Chimpanzee Day, you know,
with chain goodall, because if you look at the work
that I do with Blue Rock Talk and Project Creepy Hotspots,
which is live investigations of Bigfoot, Strange Lights, haunting, is
the big Foot in the strange lights, and I mean
that's my absolute favorite. I had hauntings as a kid,
(01:05):
you know, to scare me into to the next world.
But and pretty much have. But uh, it's just lost
my train of thought on all that thinking about all
those things. But uh, anyway, that's what you'll learn about me,
is is that kind of thing. That's what I like
to do. And uh uh with a newsletter, that's what
you'll find out. What's up and what's next, and where
(01:27):
we're gonna be and what's happening and I where's Willis
Connie Willis dot com? All right, let's get to the
Pacific north weird. Now our guest is Vince and Zunza.
Was that good? I'm gonna try it all that? All right?
Thank you? Thank you? Okay, So, Vince, let me tell
you what I know about the Pacific Northwest, and then
(01:52):
you you give me what you know. So I grew
up in Kentucky and lived in Florida and in Pennsylvania
and a little North California, but in little Texas at
one point. And I think I've named everything I think
and now Colorado. And the interesting thing is that when
(02:18):
you're on that side of the world, and now it's
different because we have the Internet and everybody talks to
everybody and everybody can talk to anybody wherever they are
in the world. But before you couldn't. Right, you knew
your you knew your hood, you knew your crowd, right,
you knew who was around you, right. And so if
you're in Kentucky, you talk to the people you know.
(02:39):
If you're big footing or ghost honey or whatever it is,
you know the people in that genre where you are,
and you might hear from if you're in Kentucky, you
might hear about some people in Tennessee and maybe you'll
go visit them, And maybe you know some people in
Florida and you'll go visit them. And everybody visits each
other's spots and that kind of thing. But when you're
over there, you don't know anybody. In the Pacific Northwest,
(03:00):
we don't know anybody. And then you start watching shows
like Monster Quest or whatever at one point, right, and
then you start picking up names from these other areas
of the country or world. And that's how you might
pick up somebody's name, or you might just listen to
the story in the encounter. But maybe you don't get
their name either way, we didn't get a lot of
(03:23):
the Pacific north West names. And it's interesting. This is
what I find anybody wants to back me up, polace
to do. But when you meet the people in the
Pacific Northwest, like we I think on the other coast
have been open to the fact, maybe because we've swarmed
around a lot, that we know that these things that
(03:48):
we've seen research, look for whatever, are everywhere. Pacific northwesterners,
I'm just saying, it's just like, this is where it is,
and it's nowhere else. And I don't think you'll ever
leave your area to look anywhere else because you're you know,
first of all, there's a ton there and it's really cool,
(04:09):
there's no question about it, okay, And the terrain is unreal.
It is like a story book. And then you walk
into those forests that look like a story book and
then there's creatures everywhere, and it's true. But is it
do you find that as well, that you guys are
kind of like, hey, we're in the Pacific Northwest or
(04:30):
Pacific north weird. We don't need to go anywhere else.
We got enough here.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I think that's true. Uh, in a lot of ways,
because because.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
When you're somewhere else, you're like, who are these people?
Who are they? What? Should we know who they are?
Or at least me, I'm like, should I know who
these people are? Because they say it like you know,
they're big time people. But really all it is is, hey,
this you all all know each other. You all have
had these names, uh, and people that have just grown
own together with all of the stories and things, and
we're just on the other coast and I've known who
(05:04):
any of you all are and vice versa, but now
it's all pulling together.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
But yeah, I just that's true that you know a
lot of the personality the individual the storytellers may not
be too well known outside of their community, but the
things that happened here in the Pacific Northwest have spanned
(05:32):
all across the nation and into the world. Like the
term flying saucer came from here. The first recorded interaction
with a man in black happened in the Northwest. The
work Bigfoot comes from northern California about south of the
Pacific Northwest is you can get but it's in this region,
(05:55):
you know. And the things that make the place really special,
I think are pretty universal. Like they've almost become archetypes
in themselves. And no matter where you are, you know Bigfoot,
(06:16):
you know what a flying sauce is. Those things are
as I mean, as universal and recognizable as Mickey the
House or the Golden Arches.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Is everybody up there pretty open to listening to it
from somebody.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I find that most people are, you know, I mean,
even if they're not true believers, they appreciate the fact
that we kind of have these regional mascots. Like over here,
Bigfoot is kind of big business in a lot of ways.
(06:55):
Like pretty much any gift shop you go into, there's
going to be just countless pieces of Bigfoot merchandise that
there are. There are murals, statues, carvings to pick foot
in almost like every single city and small town you
(07:15):
could h that you drive through going through the Northwest.
So there's a I feel like a universal appreciation for
for these these strange entities that everyone, even if they
(07:36):
don't necessarily believe in them, they they're proud of them.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I found it interesting at one point with let's go
to the Sasquatch to to the Bigfoot, I remember talking
to somebody from the Pacific Northwest and I had said, uh,
we were talking about the differences across the country, and
I had thought that they seemed to be my impression.
(08:07):
I didn't know at the time. I hadn't been out
there yet, but my impression was the Bigfoot were bigger
where you guys were, and that particular person said that
they thought they would be bigger where I was. I
found that interesting. But your all's terrain is like a
story book. It's absolutely amazing where you could walk into
(08:33):
forested area in your part of the country and not
come across some of the things, like if you were
in Kentucky or in Florida, where you're going to run
across some huge snakes and crazy bugs and all sorts
(08:53):
of just horrific things. Everywhere. It's really not that way
up there just seems cleaner. You don't have all these
tangled up messes when you walk through the woods. It's
just amazing to me. I couldn't believe it. I didn't
think it was real. And I grew up going to
King's Island and Disney World living in Florida, and they
(09:18):
really did create the Pacific Northwest on those log rides
or some of the other rides. And when I went
to your part of the country for the first time.
I couldn't believe it. I thought it was at a
theme park. They nailed it so well, it's just beautiful
where you guys are.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I agree. I've been here my whole life and I'm
never not in awe of all the different types of
terrain and natural bet that is just a car trip
away from wherever you are. You can visit the desert,
you can visit the ocean, visit that these grand mountains,
(10:02):
you can visit forests that you can just get lost
in forever. And yeah, I think we're kind of almost
like a Goldilocks zone.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yes, that's what I would say, Yes, yeah, yeah, Well
give us some of the great stories from the Pacific
North weird Okay.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Well, one passion of mine has always been lighthouses. There's
something about them that really it transfiss me. I feel
like I'm stepping back in time whenever I'm around them.
And there's some beautiful ones all along the Pacific Court
(10:46):
coast of Washington, Oregon, York, and California. And any good
lighthouse has to have a good ghost story. Oh yes, yeah,
And there's a couple of ones that really stand out
to me. One in particular as the Hasida Head Lighthouse
(11:11):
that's a near Florence, Oregon, right off of the Highway
one on one, beautiful scenic highway one on one that
just pretty much just goes right down by the ocean
for almost the entirety of the Organ Coast. And this lighthouse,
it was built in eighteen ninety two. And it's actually
(11:34):
not the lighthouse itself that haunted, but the caretaker's house
right next to it that has all the hauntings. And
for many, many years people have claimed to encounter this
entity called the Gray League, also known as Rue are
(11:55):
Uv like like Rue McClanahan. And in the seventies, this
hast ahead white house and the property was leased to
the Wayne Community College and they used as a coastal
classroom and retreat and a group of students were playing
with Aligi board and that spelled out the name Rue.
(12:19):
But since then, yeah, caretakers have reported all kinds of
encounters with what they call it a withered old lady
that floats across rooms. Sometimes she'll scream in the middle
of the night, She'll rattle dishes in the cupboard, pass
(12:41):
through walls and closed doors. One really see a story
involved a handyman that was doing some repairs on the
outside of the house and he had accidentally broken the
attic one of the attic windows with his ladder, so
he climbs up the ladder to fix it, and he
(13:04):
sees in the attic the gray Lady, and it just
scares the heck out of him, and he's so frightened
that he leaves the job, refuses to repair the window,
and there's always broken glass in the attic. But later
that night the caretakers say that they hear the sound
(13:24):
of sweeping going on in the attic above them. The
next day they go up there and find that all
of the glass had been swept into a perfectly neat
little pile. Oooh like. Yeah, but the gray Lady, it
seems like she cares about the house, like she wants
(13:47):
it kept well right, And apparently there's an old photograph
that shows the house along with a tombstone in the
front lawn. And the theory is that Rue was the
wife of an old caretaker and her her child had
(14:09):
died really young and had been buried on the property,
so she's just there to take care of the property
and try to find her her lost child, and she
is very sad.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
When people tell you these stories, do you do? You
go to the locations and then shoot stuff, and then
you've included that into your YouTube.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Sometimes there's there's a lot more stories than I've ever
had time to actually put the film right. So in
a certain way, you know, Pacific North weirds a YouTube channel,
but it's also like a state of mind for me.
(14:54):
So I'm just constantly, even if I'm not making a video.
I love visiting these places. I love collecting the stories.
I love collecting ephemera related to these weird places and
these great tales. I haven't done any videos in particular
(15:18):
about Hasid Ahead, but it's a story I just love telling.
And who knows what the future will bring.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Well, we've just got a couple minutes before the break,
but I wonder if you can tell me about the blobs.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I only have the Oakville Blobs, so that actually happened
right near where I grew up. I grew up in
a town called Rochester, Washington. Next town over is Oakville.
It's this small logging town in Grace Harbor County. And
on August seventh, nineteen ninety four, this weird blob rained
(15:58):
down over the a small town, a police officer was
patrolling at the middle of the night and it began
to rain on his car, so he turns on his
windshield wipers and noticed that it's not only rain, but
the windshield wipers were smearing this gooe like substance over
his windshield. So he gets that to examine it, and
(16:19):
wearing gloves, examines the the go and he says it's
kind of jello like, But soon, like within hours after
the end of the substance, he gets very very ill.
Other town residents, one in particular, Sunny Bark Clifts. She
(16:39):
worked on a farmhouse in Ulkville and that morning found
just tiny globules the size of the grains of rice
that were like jellyfish like in nature in texture, and
her mother got really set started experiencing extreme Vertico disneyness.
(17:01):
Another resident named Beverly Roberts found a dead raven and
a dead frog on the side of the road and
they were surrounded by this blobi like substance. So something
really weird was happening, and Sonny Barclett, she takes her
mom to the doctor and the doctor diagnoses her with
(17:21):
something called Menneer's disease, which is a disorder of the
inner ear. But soon after the entire wating room is
full of other Oakville residents, all with the same symptoms,
and he diagnoses them all the same.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Listen to more Coast to Coast AM every weeknight at
one am Eastern and go to Coast to coastam dot
com for more
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