Two Witches Podcast

This episode, we are going to tell you about another wonderful Hidden brick building built with the assistance of Mother Joseph, the Saint James the Greater Proto-Cathedral in downtown Vancouver, Washington. When you examine the building's history, even back to how the land was acquired, this cathedral has been a site of synchronicity since the very day it was planned.  

The original church was established by Father Blanchet at Fort Vancouver and had strong ties to the Army and the Hudson's Bay Company.

Within minutes of being in Vancouver to see Hidden bricks in person for the first time, Andrea found herself dumbfounded by a string of synchronicities surrounding this Cathedral that continues to unfold, most of them surrounding her brother James. For a deeper look at the history of the church and Saint James, head over to the St. James Cathedral page on our site. We'll review a bit of that history on this episode, and dig deeper into the building's connections to the God Pan later on Episode 13 of Two Witches Podcast. It's starting to get really weird, now!

TW: Language, Discussion of Sexual Situations, Clown Abortion, Demons, Massive amounts of SARCASM. 

Part Two of our discussion with Missouri artist janice.click about the massive amount of fakery in the Paranormal! Make sure you check the show notes to get your fill of weird horror!

http://brickmojo.net/twowitchespod/episodes9and10/

Make sure to comment "F*CK YOU DAVID HEAD!" on our pinned post on out Twitter at @TwoWitchesPod https://twitter.com/twowitchespod - to win one of Janice.Click's cursed prizes!

See you again soon to talk about what dowsing has to do with Nuns and Hidden Bricks!

Janice.Click Promotional Clip! Learn what the madness is all about. 

TW: Language, Discussion of Sexual Situations, Clown Abortion, Demons, Massive amounts of SARCASM. 

Some of this "brick shit" we dive into comes paired with heavy emotional work, whether we like it of not. Sometimes it can be exhausting, but being too stubborn to quit when things are hard is something that Andrea and Sara both have in common with the pioneer nuns at the center of this weird story.

Fortunately, not all of our research into bricks leads us to the existential questioning we are now both familiar with. We LOVE when our questing leads to the FUN kind of high strangeness we live for instead.

When Sara bought a random antique fire brick from Fulton, Missouri on ebay for some weird reason, it actually ended up being a hint to look into the area.

Soon she discovered an artist from Fulton who was making cursed objects similar to her own "cursed repaints,"  and we just knew we had to talk to them!  Get ready to learn more about janice.click's Dybbuk boxes, curses,  renegade filmmaking of demon catching, and of course... All about the horrifying PIGMAN that terrorizes the midwest!

While Sara was ranting about the huge amount of fakery in the paranormal with our friend Chris from The Eternal Void, but with Jazz, they started searching for Dybbuk boxes on ebay to make fun of and use as examples of this bullshit.    Suddenly stumbling upon a listing for a terrifying "SHREK  DYBBUK BOX",  Sara was SOMEHOW ABSOLUTELY AND MYSTERIOUSLY COMPELLED to buy it!

Also, if you like Zak Bagans or Ghost Adventures, you might want to sit this episode out. Sara gets really spicy about Bagans and his (literally) crappy murder museum in Las Vegas that she was suckered into going to in April 2018.

Make sure you visit us on Twitter @TwoWitchesPod the week we drop the episode for instructions on how to win some of janice.click's items!

TW: Language, Death/Murder (historical, some involving  women). 

Last episode we talked about how this "Brick Shit" seems to be contagious. We’re going to share some more of that unfolding madness with you as it seems to be spreading!

We are also going to talk about an amazing historic site that we recently visited together, the Willamette Heritage Center, and tell you about the hauntings experienced there due to its high liminality. Check the Pinned Post on our Twitter on the first week the episode is dropped to enter win a potentially haunted brick piece from here! We will also include some postcards of the Haunted Mill so you can brag to all of your weird friends why you have a chunk of old  red brick. GOOD LUCK! Contest will close the day that Episode 9 Drops!

Way back in Episode One we told you this "Brick Shit" was contagious. Sara send out a batch of Hiddens to new members of #TeamBrick and immediately strange things began happening... to at least 6 people.   Even our friends Sam and Sage from Your Brain On Weird Podcast have been sucked in with a wild brick synchronicity of their own, 5 years in the making!

TW: Language, Death/Murder (historical - involving children, women). 

You've learned about MoJo, but before there was MoJo there was Emilie, a humble and kind French Canadian nun that is well on her way to Sainthood, who happened to be Mother Joseph's closest friend and confidante.   

Much like Sara discovering similarities between Mother Joseph and herself, soon Andrea became dumbfounded when she started lining up the number of synchronicities between Blessed Emilie Gamelin and herself.  We'll talk about who Emilie was, what she was like, and why she's important to this Haunted Brick story.  Her message of faith and resilience is one we all could benefit from in the current trying times.    

For a deeper dive into Emilie Gamelin, head over to her page on Brick Mojo.

We told you it was contagious.

Way back in Episode One we told you this "Brick Shit" was contagious. Sara recently sent out a batch of Hiddens to new members of #TeamBrick and immediately strange things began happening... to at least 6 people in one week!   We'll wrap this episode up by sharing one of stories about the brick synchronicities that are starting to creep into the lives of the listeners of this podcast. We'll tell you about more of them on the next episode.  Are the bricks talking to you too? Tell us all about it on Twitter @TwoWitchesPod!

Sara's husband Dave joins us for part two of the virtual tour on episode 6 to discuss why men might have a bad time on the haunted top floor of the old school, convent, and orphanage that is considered Mother Joseph's finest work.  

This amazing historic site is also in grave danger of partial demolition by the City of Vancouver for a dirty development deal under shady circumstances.  

We really want you to be able and visit the whole site yourselves sometime in the future, and you can help us make that happen. MoJo needs our help.  

Action items to help us fight to save it are at the bottom of the Academy Tour Page.

SHOW NOTES HERE. 

We are absolutely humbled by the response to the launch of our Spreadshirt Site - and the Big John shirt certainly seems like a hit. Thank you to all that have ordered, and all those that continue to listen and support our work! WE LOVE YOU!

On this special two part episode, we take you on a tour of The Providence Academy in Vancouver, Washington, the last remaining building Mother Joseph herself built, where she lived and died. 

The best way to experience these two episodes is to head over to the Providence Academy page to follow along with the photos as we walk through and describe the building's details.  (We will link the episode audio there too.)  You also can go to the bottom of the page to find out how to help us save this place - we've made the easy action links clickable for you. 

It appears that this building is ground zero for Hidden Brick magick and we'll tell you why. Why might hauntings experienced there over the years continue to happen? 

Rumors of reasons for the activity here include CURSED BRICKS and a HAUNTED BELL.  We'll separate the fact from the fiction when it comes to the local rumors here.

SHOW NOTES HERE.

Fuck Pepe the Frog!

A dramatic reading for our friend Chris.

TW: Language 

Last episode we told you about when Sara found that first Hidden brick from 1871 that kicked off this whole Brick Madness for us both.

This time we give you brief history lesson on the English Hudson's Bay Company and how bricks first arrived in Clark County to build Fort Vancouver, where the first Catholic Settlement to the area was located.

John McLoughlin, a French Canadian employee in charge of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver, wrote his friend Father Blanchet in Montreal, Canada asking for help for the new settlement. Turns out McLoughlin himself is also connected to both Andrea AND Sara's family... and still seen haunting Oregon City. 

McLoughlin's letter to Canada brought an order of nuns to the area, led by new Superior Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart.  MoJo herself was the catalyst for the creation of the Hidden Brick Company,  and she won't let us forget it.  The Synchronicity web making up this story begins to weave itself together as we start lining out the long line of connections surrounding the Hudson's Bay Company.