Joe Rogan Experience #1922 - Sam & Colby

Sam Golbach and Colby Brock recount meeting in band camp as anxious teens and deliberately training their confidence at the mall before chasing fame on Vine and then YouTube. Their career pivoted after a felony arrest in Florida for trespassing went viral and a knocking 'conversation' in the Queen Mary's room B340 turned them toward haunted content. They walk Joe through their scariest investigations (Villisca Ax Murder House, The Conjuring House, Robert the Doll, Zak Bagans' museum, a near-death Odessa catacombs trip) and the gear and methods they use. The talk weaves in skepticism, the psychology of belief, manifestation and the law of attraction, and the realities of social-media virality.

• Their felony trespassing arrest in Tampa, Florida went number-one worldwide trending and launched their career into the millions of views.
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• First believable paranormal experience: a 35-minute yes/no 'knocking' conversation in the Queen Mary's room B340, secretly audio-recorded by a religious friend.
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• When asked 'is there a heaven,' the entity knocked three times for no, causing their Christian roommates to flee the room.
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• In Odessa, Ukraine's catacombs a guide revealed a pipe bomb and admitted rival guides booby-trap tunnels to kill off competitors' clients.
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• Four days before their arrest, they were held at gunpoint by officers who mistook them for school terrorists in all-black gear.
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• Sitting in Zak Bagans' Devil's Rocking Chair, Sam felt paralyzed and hypnotized, legs sore as if he'd run 5-10 miles.
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• At Robert the Doll's museum Sam suddenly dry-heaved for no reason; the guide tied it to yellow-fever victims buried in that corridor.
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• Robert the Doll has received more than 10,000 written apology letters from people who believe he cursed them, including Ozzy Osbourne.
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• Colby broke his back attempting to jump from a second-story balcony onto a bean bag during a pandemic TikTok challenge.
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• As an anxious teen, Sam carried Tums to pop before entering each classroom in case he got called on.
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• To beat shyness, the pair gave each other embarrassing public challenges at the mall, with 100 push-ups as the penalty for chickening out.
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• They got permanently banned from their hometown mall after putting a seating-area couch on an escalator for a video.
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• Room B340 on the Queen Mary was reportedly closed for 30 years due to multiple unexplained murders and suicides.
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• The 1912 Villisca, Iowa ax murders left two parents and six children dead in one house and remain unsolved.
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• Ghost-hunting EMF tools like the REM Pod emit an electromagnetic field that lights up when something enters its roughly two-foot radius.
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• Waverly Hills Sanatorium sells out access for the entire year within 20 minutes, and people rent it for parties and birthdays.
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• They cite the 'egregore' theory: that enough people collectively believing in something can manifest it into existence.
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• Joe debunks the Patterson Bigfoot film, noting the filmmaker was a con man and a man named Bob Hieronymus claimed to be the suit.
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