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Hello, I am Joshua P. Warren, and this is Joshua P. Warren Daly. Well, this is my first podcast from Puerto Rico, which is uh interesting because you know I've been here in Puerto Rico for years. I've had a part-time residence here. Um however I only started doing this particular podcast in October of last year, and uh I have not been back to Puerto Rico since. So this is of my official first podcast from Puerto Rico. And of course, uh as you know, uh the the two hurricanes, especially Maria, they hit there in the uh late summer, early fall of last year. Maria was the one that caused so much devastation. So uh Maria hit uh around five months ago. So um I'll tell you sort of what I experienced as soon as I came back to the island with Lauren. And by the way, we we traveled gradually down the eastern seaboard until we got to uh around Miami, Florida, and then flew from there to Puerto Rico. And in the process of traveling, both of us not surprisingly picked up colds. So if my voice sounds a little weird, it's because I have a cold right now. That's not unusual when you travel like I do in the middle of cold and flu season, and you have a weird schedule where you don't get proper rest and all that. So I'm working on the cold, it's no biggie. Uh, but just so you know. Um, so Lauren and I, we flew to the Aguadilla Airport. Now, this is the same airport where the homeland security footage was shot of the strange object flying around that I call an OUFO. So it's always interesting to fly in and out of there and keep your eyes open and look out the window of the plane. Uh we didn't see anything odd coming in, and actually looking at the island on the way in, the island looked pretty beautiful and green and good. Um so my friend investigator Ellis picked us up at the airport, and we had a drive ahead of us of uh about an hour back to um Cabarojo to the little area called Bocheron, which is where I have my condo. So this was daylight, and so as we were going, of course Ellis was telling me stories, and then I was also able to uh get a good look at um uh that whole sort of uh really the whole western coast because Aguadilla is on the the extreme northwestern corner of the island, and so we drove all the way down the west coast, so I got to see all of that. And altogether I was really impressed and relieved that it did not look that different than it did before. Now, granted, um this is the part of the island that fared best, and that's because there is what they call a spine of mountains that's over four thousand feet tall that runs through the middle of the island. And when the hurricanes come in from the east, uh usually they stay to the north side of that spine of mountains, and the mountains shield this part of the island. And so that said, um, you know, the it the vegetation had come back very well. It's nice and green and uh just as beautiful as ever. Um there are a lot of traffic lights that that do not work. Uh there are a lot of uh electrical poles that are leaning over uh or just you know cracked in half. Um there are still power lines that are drooping uh on the sides of the roads. There are uh road signs that are missing or are just sort of warped and bent all to pieces. Uh occasionally you'll see uh a pile of debris that's sort of um been swept off into you know one little area on the side of a road or behind a building, and you'll see areas where you know shingles have come off and that sort of thing. But but honestly, um it didn't it does not look that bad at all. I mean it it it is nothing like you know a bomb going off or whatever. Now I can't yet uh speak to what the rest of the island looks like, and granted it has been five months later, but I found it most impressive that on our drive back, um all of my favorite businesses were still open, you know, all my favorite restaurants were still there. Um and and of course, if you've never been to Puerto Rico, you might envision the whole place as being just like some kind of wild jungle. But I mean, no, there's you know, along the way you have like Applebee's and Longhorn Steakhouse and Chili's and stuff like that. I mean, all that stuff was is open and running. And um so uh then we got to our condo, and uh as we already knew, the uh wooden railing on the front of the condo it came off of the hurricane. But that was a rickety old railing anyway. I wouldn't ever like lean on it or anything, so that wasn't a surprise. I'm just glad that didn't hit somebody. Um so that came off. Otherwise, we went into the condo and uh everything is just fine. Um it's it there are some small signs that there may have been some water that got in here or there, but uh no significant damage at all. And of course, before we leave this place for an extended period of time, uh we always take things uh off of the floor and elevate them things that are sensitive to water. But no, the electricity worked here just fine, uh the air conditioning is working just fine, the water, all the plumbing's working just fine. The only problem is I still do not have internet and cable. Um the internet provider in this area is called Liberty, and they are struggling to get everything back up and running. So I do not have my regular internet nor cable, and so I am relying on Wi-Fi hotspots. I have a number of different hotspots. Uh one is AT ⁇ T, one is T-Mobile, one is uh Sprint, uh one is Claro, which is a local thing, and um they they do pretty well most of the time, but uh not always. I mean, for example, um when I got here my cell phone was working just fine, and then I went to sleep and I got up the next day and my cell phone was not working at all. And it said something about couldn't connect to whatever network, and so I had to get on one of these hotspots and troubleshoot and contact the provider, and then they got they got it fixed somehow. So anyway, my my connectivity here is still a little bit sketchy, and I'm limited when it comes to what I can do uh on the internet, especially without burning up all of the bandwidth that I have available. Uh you may have seen in the news that they apparently have these big balloons of some kind that are flying around 65 miles above this island. I think they were installed by Google in order to help bring uh internet uh signals, you know, Wi-Fi signals to people across the island, and so uh you know I think they're working pretty well. Um but it it's definitely a flimsy situation here. And uh but I'm I'm working feverishly, and I know a lot of other people are, um, to get this stabilized as quickly as possible because uh you know I'm gonna be doing a bunch of big radio appearances soon, including one on Coast to Coast AM, and I want to make sure that I have redundant systems in place so that I'm able to communicate effectively. So um so that's a little bit disconcerting that uh I don't have the connectivity that I need for all the projects that I'm working on, uh, but it could be a heck of a lot worse. So altogether, uh Lauren and I feel very blessed, and uh everything here is uh is really in in very good shape, especially considering what some of the other people on the island have experienced. Uh i i I knew from the very beginning that the people who were going to get the the worst of this were those who um live up in the mountains, because those mountains are so rugged. I mean, even when the weather was absolutely perfect, uh you know, you drive up into those mountains and there were roads that were caving off into huge canyons and ravines and little landslides and avalanches and real narrow, you know, run-down uh lanes, and uh you know, that people who live up on those mountains, they're never probably gonna have it quite like they had it before. So um so anyway, I appreciate everybody being concerned about me. Uh the reason there's been a bit of a delay in me getting back to you is because of um me working out my connectivity connectivity issues, and also this cold has uh taken a toll on my uh voice, so my throat catches a lot. So I'm you know I'm doing all the typical stuff you need to to get your voice back up, because when you do what I do, it's not good to not have a voice. Um so anyway, uh that's uh you know that's the the good news. And um as soon as I got back here, of course, I started asking stories, uh or asking for stories, um about paranormal phenomena that may have happened before, during, or after this incident. And and I want to explain to you what I mean by that in more particular terms. You know, I grew up in North Carolina, and when you grew up in the Carolinas, you used to hear this story about this phantom called the gray man. And the gray man is this ghost that is seen on the coast of the Carolinas just before a hurricane. Uh he is most prominently reported on this island called Pauli's Island, South Carolina, which is between Charleston and Myrtle Beach. Now, of course, understand these days we know when a hurricane's coming days in advance. But hundreds of years ago you didn't necessarily know. I mean it hit you off guard and you were in trouble. So they say that this gray man was seen sort of roaming the beach before hurricanes uh first around the year eighteen twenty two. And the last time he was confirmed seen was just before Hurricane Hugo hit in 1989. There were a couple of residents there named Jim and Clara Moore, and they were interviewed on television saying that they saw the gray man on the beach outside their house, and uh they waved at him and he disappeared. And their house was spared in the storm, but the homes of their neighbors were practically destroyed. Um nobody knows who the gray man was or is. I mean, one story is that he is the ghost of a young man who was traveling from Charleston to see his fiancee, and on the way he and his horse were caught in quicksand in the marshes, and uh he died, and so his spirit is still roaming the area, and he's a a kind soul, so he, you know, gives a a warning when he sees something terrible on the way. Uh then there are other people who think it could be the spirit of Blackbeard, uh Edward Teach, and you might think, well, that's unlikely. Why would Blackbeard do anything nice? And well, it's one of those things, like he was a bad guy, and so he's he's doomed now, and he is given this task to help people out to do something positive to make up for all the bad deeds. Who knows? Um but this represents what you could think of as two different types of harbingers. Harbingers are of these paranormal things, uh visions, manifestations that uh the materialize just before some kind of a major disaster, and one type is the type that appears to signify that you are protected or to give you some kind of a warning so that you can protect yourself. And then sometimes the second type are just uh to signify imminent doom, like you're screwed. If you see this guy just giving you a heads up, you might want to get your affairs in order. So knowing this, uh, you know, I kind of hit the ground running best I could um with this cold and everything, and and I already have just been getting tons of stories about harbingers of what was about to happen here in Puerto Rico. And so uh these are things that I'll be talking about more um later this month, especially as I go on some of these radio shows and do more in-depth radio interviews. So, anyway, I think that's about all my voice is uh gonna take for uh today. So I'm happy I was able to at least give you this update, and uh, you know, I'm gonna keep resting the voice till uh I can get back to a hundred percent. But uh that said, uh as you know, it's a busy time. I have a lot to accomplish here over the next few months before I head to Las Vegas for my big event there, and I'm looking forward to seeing many of you at that event. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go to youwillmanifest.com. Uwillmanifest.com. There's also a link at joshuapwarren.com. And uh this podcast is called Joshua P. Warren Daily. And uh I'll do my best to give you a new one very soon. Thanks for staying curious. I'll talk to you soon.