Name: The Experience That Made Sam and Colby to Believe in the Paranormal
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Experience That Made Sam and Colby to Believe in the Paranormal' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-11-28. Transcript available.

at a certain point you guys sort of pivoted to checking out abandoned places
right yeah and then
now it's become more haunted spots what made you switch from just like oh shit
just shit just being
abandoned isn't enough right because i'm we need more right we used to be
scared of spiders now
we're scared of spiders and ghosts so like but what makes you be like hey bro
there's nobody in this
dark room we're in let's bring them in and summon them yeah let's light up a ouija
board yeah what
makes you what makes that kind of like yeah how do you get there what makes you
make that turn well to
be completely honest with you we started doing the abandoned stuff in like 2017
2018 um and yeah we
were legally doing like pretty much all of our videos back in the day and we
got arrested so like
in 2019 like oh so you're just showing up places yeah we would just be like
okay like there's this
abandoned asylum let's try to figure a way in and figure a way out without
getting caught and it was
really like fun i mean that's exhilarating but uh there's a cameo time that we
actually got caught
and we're like oh well you know uh we can't do this as much anymore but luckily
like about a year prior
to that we had started going to some some places that were had like haunted
lore right and we're like
i don't really believe in this stuff like actually like both of us were very
very skeptical of anything
haunted ghost related before we started um and we thought it would be great
like let's do this
abandoned stuff but like let's see if there's a ghost there that's funny and
like you know it's
probably not just a dark building but it'll be great for content but then
things started happening
and it was like wait what what actually was that what was that voice what was
that slam what was
that door that just like you know crashed in front of me and then have it over
and over and over again
and we're like wait this might actually be real and then we went to this place
called the queen mary
in long beach oh yeah it's an old it's an old ship right have you been yeah
before yeah i think we
did a i think i did comedy on it oh wow that's awesome yeah i mean it's a it's
a huge hotel and
it's awesome oh i'll have some bad jokes on that mf so if one of those showed
up that was me
okay yeah for sure if you heard people booing that was that wasn't a ghost that
was just audience
people yeah yeah that's great um but yeah we had like such a crazy experience
and you really did
you're really having these experiences like you're really you this is real yeah
1000 well the entire
time like we didn't really like we didn't believe so like we were like let's
let's test it because
like actually it would be kind of cool if there was something you know it would
be really fun and so
like at this time we were skeptical but we wanted something to happen and then
at the night of the
queen mary even at we kind of gave up we actually did this entire video and
nothing really happened all
night and then at the very very end of the night turned off cameras and we're
like well that was a
horrible video but let's just try it one more time for the rest night it was
like 4 a.m
and then slowly stuff started happening off camera and this is like how real it
is for me it's like if it
was just for content we just turn on the cameras and like try to like capture
it but instead we just
like sat there and tried to have a conversation with a spirit and that night
completely changed my life
it made me religious it made me like want to get to those whole spiritualist
thing and i you know we
talked about this many times after being like okay screw this abandoned stuff i
want to know the
answer like this is not just for content anymore this is like this is beautiful
if it's actually like
out there if there is something on the other side i want to know and so that
dove us into this
whole like career over the last five seven years wow man as you're building
that up there as you're
telling me that even when you were starting just kind of that parable there or
starting that uh like
when you were starting to share there it made me think of like faith it's like
you know you sh you
you think there's nothing there right and and something shows up right and like
you're saying
like you were hoping something but but nothing had occurred right and it's kind
of the same thing
with faith like even you know for people that are religious or have um believe
in some sort of
higher power it's you have to meet it halfway right so just the fact that you
guys showed up willing
to meet whatever could be out there you know and and then whatever's out there
sometimes the way
it shows up could be positive but maybe the way we interpret it too is is like
scary to us because
it's coming from a place that we can't understand very very true and i mean
when we first started i mean
my entire life i've i've been christian so like we first started with this like
queen mary like
experience and for sam like he was saying it was something where he didn't
believe in anything
fuck i didn't know this yeah but i i've always been born and raised christian
and so for me it was
more of just like a hopeful thing that's like securing my beliefs i guess you
could say um so it really
just depends on the person but anybody can take the paranormal like however
they want depending on what
they believe in the personal life but you're right it's so much more of like
putting yourself out there
and meeting something halfway whether that be in a religious sense or as we do
and like the paranormal
world it's like so many people go out there and they're so closed off like they're
skeptical i'm
sure tons of people watching this right now are super skeptical but yeah i was
one of them a little
while ago yeah and but if you go into a haunted house and you're super
skeptical and you don't think
something's gonna happen same thing with faith you're you're never gonna get it
but like when we
turn off the cameras and we actually like actually okay i just want something
to be there i'm willing
to to really believe and put myself there that's when things started happening
and that's what we
always advise that people to do and when they go into these haunted places put
yourself out there
take a risk you know yeah it's dude it's so funny it brings me back to like
when i was a kid and like
that's one thing that is amazing about kids it's like especially like ghosts
and kids like when they're
like you know even till like 15 16 different ages but when you when you had
that youthful energy you're
so like right there on the edge of the moment that something can meet like
something small can meet
you right there really easily it's pretty so willing to believe yes you know it's
such an amazing time
yeah yeah and that's why like children have so many more experiences because
they're less closed off
they're less like i don't know jaded to the world you know oh it's so true dude
now if a ghost
showed up it'd be literally just like you know all right you know can you come
back later i'd probably
be like i'm busy all right i got some shit to do you know yeah people could beg
for like somebody to
come from the afterlife that they love and then they hear a weird knock at the
door in the middle of
the night and instead they call the police instead of go open it up like what
are you talking about
your grandfather come on go have that conversation but it is it's it's just
interesting that like um
how perception and belief can meet together to frame what your experience can
be right you know exactly
yeah and that's kind of why why we do it now like we definitely now believe we've
had so many
experiences over the last like seven years that have proved to us that it we're
not the only things
out there yeah but especially me i was at a place where i thought it was all
blackness after you die
it was nothing it was so hopeless that when i found that spark of like wait
there could be something
more it was like my version of finding religion uh it was my my version of
finding hope and i was like
wait a second if i can prove this to myself and now that i have over the last
couple years what if i
could prove this somebody else what if someone could watch one of our videos
and walk away being like
wait there is something more maybe so and what if that changes their course of
their life to maybe be
a better person or maybe be just more hopeful happy person yeah and so like
although we are like the
spooky guys we're ghostbusters we're whatever and we're trying to get something
that's scary
that scariness is super hopeful it's like very beautiful but we're also very
inviting to just
skeptics that won't or don't want to like be open-minded about anything like
they could just
watch our videos for entertainment so really just like you said it depends on
the person and
paranormal affects everybody in different ways depending on what you believe
what uh yeah this is
interesting man i didn't i didn't even know if i expected this conversation to
go like this but
this is great um i'd be curious like what do you believe well i've gotten to
speak with people that
have like we had a doctor on who is a cancer doctor and he had over the years
he started doing
he started interviewing people that had near-death experiences and just
collecting a lot of their
data right like a lot of the data and finding a lot of the commonalities in it
yeah um and so
once i spoke with him i started thinking like yeah this was him right there dr
jeffrey long and he
wrote a book about it and it's an easy read but it's um you could just tell how
much it changed his life
and his perspective that he at no um at no fiscal reward he started creating
this database and uh and
just putting together all different people's accounts and it was just
fascinating to see uh to see how
many people that had the same experiences right and so that gave me like okay
if there's if enough of
it's uniform here and the experiences are the same like that kind of shows a
pattern obviously and it
certainly starts to make you believe a little bit more right and it's really it's
like he couldn't
really get to what's on the other side hype but you know the other side like if
you go over to the
other side whatever the other realm is but he he was able to kind of like
through a great deal of
interviews examine some of the stair steps that people were on um and what that
experience was
like and so that i think gave me almost a little bit more of like a really a
scientific idea of like
okay there's there's something more than just us guessing this right so so that
kind of was there for
me i had like a dmt experience where it's like um you know some people use
plant medicine i'm not
encouraging that i know you guys have some younger viewers but that took you to
a place where you feel
like you were leaving for sure and that was pretty fascinating like okay you
felt like becoming this
you felt yourself kind of leave your body and become this spirit that the only
thing you could feel was
love like you couldn't feel anything else um all the earthly chains of like
people you knew and all of
that and like i always feel like if i die i'm gonna worry about them or there
and there was a little
bit of that but even that broke away the amount of like immense love that was
present in your being as
you were hypothetically leaving this body that we know was so immense and so
great and you knew
immediately oh they'll be here again they'll all be here someday so no matter
what they're feeling now
this moment trumps whatever that is and so even though you couldn't remember
anything that was going
on in this like fiscal plane you still somehow had the thought that like you
were supposed to be there
is that what you're saying well you still somehow had the thought that like as
it was happening you
start to i felt like you literally start to feel like you're leaving your body
and
you start to like my first thoughts are like you're still attached to a lot of
your like worldly
thoughts like oh my mom's gonna miss me i'm scared um i forgot to do this i
forgot to send that email
that was like one of my thoughts oh man i left those shoes on the porch little
things like that
were like kind of going in my head but then it was like this you became
overwhelmed with this feeling
of like so much love um and the only thing you're supposed to do while you were
alive was love and
everything else was just a ruse and then you thought oh my mom will miss me but
then you thought you're
like oh but she'll come to this feeling one day too when she passes away so she'll
have the same
realization that everything is as okay as it ever could be and ever was and it'll
be that way for
eternity dang dude so that may sound crazy i've never even said that out loud i'm
not even enough
but um but yeah so i think and i want to believe i think most people do i feel
like it's pretty sad if
like you want there to be nothing you know yeah like everyone like deep down
whether whatever you
believe in you would rather a way that you like move on just that's just human
that's what i yeah
that's what i think yeah just having and it makes it exciting and we showed up
here dude we showed up
here this is the craziest shit you could ever imagine yeah how lucky is it to
even be alive yeah
just the grace to exist to be a fish that like comes close to the edge of the
bowl like just for a
second and gets to like peek out into like the universe and before we dip back
in you know yeah exactly
so what happened in the queen mary that kind of can you take me into any more
like feelings or
something that happened was there anything like specific or was it just an
overwhelming feeling
yeah i mean there was definitely the feeling there uh we've told the story a
couple times but
uh the synopsis is when we turn off the cameras we all sat around it was like
four in the morning
it was us and a couple roommates so that we could all vouch for each other and
we just called out and
we said hey if there's something here can you give us a sign and there would be
like right off the bat
just a water faucet full on for like five seconds and then we ran into the
bathroom it turns off
and then so we're like oh okay well let's continue asking for signs and so we
get like things that's a
ghost brush in its teeth probably it's like getting ready for bed it's like too
late at night at that
point uh but then like afterwards it would be like little knocks or scratches
or taps everywhere and so
we would be we'd test it because we were very skeptical at that time too and it
was like okay well then
can you give us like three knocks and it was like okay let's let's say can you
tap over there on the
window of the ship so we know that it's not like an employee and we tap on the
window and dude we're
like whispering these questions so it's not like we're like can somebody tap
and it's like out in the
hallway it's like the janitor or whatever can somebody play rihanna you know
exactly and then uh
now that it's raining you just start hearing that dude i would lose my mind the
best paranormal
evidence ever just like coming out of nothing and it's just rihanna umbrella i
would love if the like
the best paranormal evidence ever that convinces everybody is something that
silly that would be
amazing it'd be crazy but it's wild because people will say you know even in
religious places
they'll be like call out to god for what you want call out to your higher power
ask your deity for
you know ask the world like it's the same as um when they say the secret it's
like write out what
you want and like meet it halfway build it build a um vision board that's all
the same thing it's just
trying to put something in existence physically or verbally that to to let the
world meet to let the
the spirit realm meet you halfway yeah exactly which goes back to like it doesn't
matter what you
believe in maybe you don't even believe in any god but you're just a spiritual
person and you're talking to the universe but all it's about is having that
like manifestation
and like yeah speaking what's it called the uh law of attraction like speaking
into the universe
what comes back to you yeah it's really cool
Thank you.

The Experience That Made Sam and Colby to Believe in the Paranormal

at a certain point you guys sort of pivoted to checking out abandoned places
right yeah and then
now it's become more haunted spots what made you switch from just like oh shit
just shit just being
abandoned isn't enough right because i'm we need more right we used to be
scared of spiders now
we're scared of spiders and ghosts so like but what makes you be like hey bro
there's nobody in this
dark room we're in let's bring them in and summon them yeah let's light up a ouija
board yeah what
makes you what makes that kind of like yeah how do you get there what makes you
make that turn well to
be completely honest with you we started doing the abandoned stuff in like 2017
2018 um and yeah we
were legally doing like pretty much all of our videos back in the day and we
got arrested so like
in 2019 like oh so you're just showing up places yeah we would just be like
okay like there's this
abandoned asylum let's try to figure a way in and figure a way out without
getting caught and it was
really like fun i mean that's exhilarating but uh there's a cameo time that we
actually got caught
and we're like oh well you know uh we can't do this as much anymore but luckily
like about a year prior
to that we had started going to some some places that were had like haunted
lore right and we're like
i don't really believe in this stuff like actually like both of us were very
very skeptical of anything
haunted ghost related before we started um and we thought it would be great
like let's do this
abandoned stuff but like let's see if there's a ghost there that's funny and
like you know it's
probably not just a dark building but it'll be great for content but then
things started happening
and it was like wait what what actually was that what was that voice what was
that slam what was
that door that just like you know crashed in front of me and then have it over
and over and over again
and we're like wait this might actually be real and then we went to this place
called the queen mary
in long beach oh yeah it's an old it's an old ship right have you been yeah
before yeah i think we
did a i think i did comedy on it oh wow that's awesome yeah i mean it's a it's
a huge hotel and
it's awesome oh i'll have some bad jokes on that mf so if one of those showed
up that was me
okay yeah for sure if you heard people booing that was that wasn't a ghost that
was just audience
people yeah yeah that's great um but yeah we had like such a crazy experience
and you really did
you're really having these experiences like you're really you this is real yeah
1000 well the entire
time like we didn't really like we didn't believe so like we were like let's
let's test it because
like actually it would be kind of cool if there was something you know it would
be really fun and so
like at this time we were skeptical but we wanted something to happen and then
at the night of the
queen mary even at we kind of gave up we actually did this entire video and
nothing really happened all
night and then at the very very end of the night turned off cameras and we're
like well that was a
horrible video but let's just try it one more time for the rest night it was
like 4 a.m
and then slowly stuff started happening off camera and this is like how real it
is for me it's like if it
was just for content we just turn on the cameras and like try to like capture
it but instead we just
like sat there and tried to have a conversation with a spirit and that night
completely changed my life
it made me religious it made me like want to get to those whole spiritualist
thing and i you know we
talked about this many times after being like okay screw this abandoned stuff i
want to know the
answer like this is not just for content anymore this is like this is beautiful
if it's actually like
out there if there is something on the other side i want to know and so that
dove us into this
whole like career over the last five seven years wow man as you're building
that up there as you're
telling me that even when you were starting just kind of that parable there or
starting that uh like
when you were starting to share there it made me think of like faith it's like
you know you sh you
you think there's nothing there right and and something shows up right and like
you're saying
like you were hoping something but but nothing had occurred right and it's kind
of the same thing
with faith like even you know for people that are religious or have um believe
in some sort of
higher power it's you have to meet it halfway right so just the fact that you
guys showed up willing
to meet whatever could be out there you know and and then whatever's out there
sometimes the way
it shows up could be positive but maybe the way we interpret it too is is like
scary to us because
it's coming from a place that we can't understand very very true and i mean
when we first started i mean
my entire life i've i've been christian so like we first started with this like
queen mary like
experience and for sam like he was saying it was something where he didn't
believe in anything
fuck i didn't know this yeah but i i've always been born and raised christian
and so for me it was
more of just like a hopeful thing that's like securing my beliefs i guess you
could say um so it really
just depends on the person but anybody can take the paranormal like however
they want depending on what
they believe in the personal life but you're right it's so much more of like
putting yourself out there
and meeting something halfway whether that be in a religious sense or as we do
and like the paranormal
world it's like so many people go out there and they're so closed off like they're
skeptical i'm
sure tons of people watching this right now are super skeptical but yeah i was
one of them a little
while ago yeah and but if you go into a haunted house and you're super
skeptical and you don't think
something's gonna happen same thing with faith you're you're never gonna get it
but like when we
turn off the cameras and we actually like actually okay i just want something
to be there i'm willing
to to really believe and put myself there that's when things started happening
and that's what we
always advise that people to do and when they go into these haunted places put
yourself out there
take a risk you know yeah it's dude it's so funny it brings me back to like
when i was a kid and like
that's one thing that is amazing about kids it's like especially like ghosts
and kids like when they're
like you know even till like 15 16 different ages but when you when you had
that youthful energy you're
so like right there on the edge of the moment that something can meet like
something small can meet
you right there really easily it's pretty so willing to believe yes you know it's
such an amazing time
yeah yeah and that's why like children have so many more experiences because
they're less closed off
they're less like i don't know jaded to the world you know oh it's so true dude
now if a ghost
showed up it'd be literally just like you know all right you know can you come
back later i'd probably
be like i'm busy all right i got some shit to do you know yeah people could beg
for like somebody to
come from the afterlife that they love and then they hear a weird knock at the
door in the middle of
the night and instead they call the police instead of go open it up like what
are you talking about
your grandfather come on go have that conversation but it is it's it's just
interesting that like um
how perception and belief can meet together to frame what your experience can
be right you know exactly
yeah and that's kind of why why we do it now like we definitely now believe we've
had so many
experiences over the last like seven years that have proved to us that it we're
not the only things
out there yeah but especially me i was at a place where i thought it was all
blackness after you die
it was nothing it was so hopeless that when i found that spark of like wait
there could be something
more it was like my version of finding religion uh it was my my version of
finding hope and i was like
wait a second if i can prove this to myself and now that i have over the last
couple years what if i
could prove this somebody else what if someone could watch one of our videos
and walk away being like
wait there is something more maybe so and what if that changes their course of
their life to maybe be
a better person or maybe be just more hopeful happy person yeah and so like
although we are like the
spooky guys we're ghostbusters we're whatever and we're trying to get something
that's scary
that scariness is super hopeful it's like very beautiful but we're also very
inviting to just
skeptics that won't or don't want to like be open-minded about anything like
they could just
watch our videos for entertainment so really just like you said it depends on
the person and
paranormal affects everybody in different ways depending on what you believe
what uh yeah this is
interesting man i didn't i didn't even know if i expected this conversation to
go like this but
this is great um i'd be curious like what do you believe well i've gotten to
speak with people that
have like we had a doctor on who is a cancer doctor and he had over the years
he started doing
he started interviewing people that had near-death experiences and just
collecting a lot of their
data right like a lot of the data and finding a lot of the commonalities in it
yeah um and so
once i spoke with him i started thinking like yeah this was him right there dr
jeffrey long and he
wrote a book about it and it's an easy read but it's um you could just tell how
much it changed his life
and his perspective that he at no um at no fiscal reward he started creating
this database and uh and
just putting together all different people's accounts and it was just
fascinating to see uh to see how
many people that had the same experiences right and so that gave me like okay
if there's if enough of
it's uniform here and the experiences are the same like that kind of shows a
pattern obviously and it
certainly starts to make you believe a little bit more right and it's really it's
like he couldn't
really get to what's on the other side hype but you know the other side like if
you go over to the
other side whatever the other realm is but he he was able to kind of like
through a great deal of
interviews examine some of the stair steps that people were on um and what that
experience was
like and so that i think gave me almost a little bit more of like a really a
scientific idea of like
okay there's there's something more than just us guessing this right so so that
kind of was there for
me i had like a dmt experience where it's like um you know some people use
plant medicine i'm not
encouraging that i know you guys have some younger viewers but that took you to
a place where you feel
like you were leaving for sure and that was pretty fascinating like okay you
felt like becoming this
you felt yourself kind of leave your body and become this spirit that the only
thing you could feel was
love like you couldn't feel anything else um all the earthly chains of like
people you knew and all of
that and like i always feel like if i die i'm gonna worry about them or there
and there was a little
bit of that but even that broke away the amount of like immense love that was
present in your being as
you were hypothetically leaving this body that we know was so immense and so
great and you knew
immediately oh they'll be here again they'll all be here someday so no matter
what they're feeling now
this moment trumps whatever that is and so even though you couldn't remember
anything that was going
on in this like fiscal plane you still somehow had the thought that like you
were supposed to be there
is that what you're saying well you still somehow had the thought that like as
it was happening you
start to i felt like you literally start to feel like you're leaving your body
and
you start to like my first thoughts are like you're sti