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The Ghost Story Guys

Brennan Storr

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ Before our most recent trip into the mailbag we stop to salute the great escape ape Ken Allen, then get into stories of the Third Man Effect, haunted hotels, our enthusiasm for gin, and a whole lot more Our musical guest on this episode is Tracey Barnett, with her latest single "Raise Your Head" Full shownotes @ ⁠⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I should wait until I've watched a few more episodes of a TV show before I talk about it on this show.
0:09.3	Because previously, I have mentioned that I was getting into Beyond Skinwalker Ranch.
0:14.1	And now I'd like to formally announce I'm getting out of Beyond Skinwalker Ranch.
0:21.0	Hello and welcome to Talk Spooky to Me, the Ghost Story Guys Middle Show.
0:25.9	I'm Brendan Storr.
0:27.1	I'm Paul Bessel.
0:28.3	This is our opportunity to hear from you, our audience.
0:32.1	Paul Bessel, my friend, how are you doing?
0:34.1	I'm very well, very well.
0:36.0	I have been learning this week all about the life of Ken Allen.
0:40.2	And who is Ken Allen?
0:41.5	Ken Allen was an orangutan.
0:43.5	I'm already interested.
0:45.0	Tell me more.
0:46.0	So Ken Allen was an orangutan who was brought up at San Antonio Zoo in Texas.
0:51.0	He was infamous in the mid-80s.
0:53.4	I didn't know anything about this. And Ken, Alan,
0:56.5	was named after the two keepers that raised him, Ken and Alan. When he got to about 13 or 14,
1:02.5	people started to realize that Ken might to let himself out of his enclosure and go for a walk
1:09.1	around the zoo to look at the other animals. wandered about and waved at people as they walked past and just like to go out for a
1:19.4	wander around the zoo. And at first they were like, what's going on here? And so they began to
1:25.5	try and find out what was going on.
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