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2nd. April
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2nd changed my life forever. Rita
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May was born at approximately 607 in the
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morning, and my wife and I brought her
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home for the next day. No
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one ever tells you how much a baby changes your life. It's
0:48
it's one of those experiences that's hard to really
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put down in words. I'm
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here to tell you it's straight. All right. There
0:56
won't be any sugarcoating here. Being
0:59
a parent is a full time job, and a lot
1:01
of times it feels like you want to pull your
1:03
hair out. But don't get
1:05
me wrong, we immediately fell in love with Rita for the
1:07
first two weeks. As a matter of fact, you could say
1:09
that she was a perfect little
1:12
angel. I mean, in fact, I'd never even seen
1:14
a baby act so good. My
1:16
wife, Stephanie, was overjoyed
1:18
with being able to breastfeed, getting Rita
1:20
into a sleeping routine, even having a
1:22
little time for herself since Rita was
1:24
accommodating to her bassinet so well
1:27
right off the bat. Those
1:30
early days would make any parent immediately think
1:32
about having another kid, even if they were
1:34
all so amazing and all so well behaved
1:37
like our newborn was. But
1:41
something changed at
1:44
the two week mark. I
1:48
wish I could say for sure it was. I
1:51
had to work that day and Steph took our
1:53
little girl to the doctor for her first round of
1:55
vaccinations. A routine appointment that
1:57
every child has to endure. expect
2:00
some fussiness after the shots were given, the doctor
2:02
also advised us to make sure that
2:04
she was fed regularly and not dehydrated.
2:07
According to them, sleepiness was a side effect
2:09
of the medicine, so after the screaming died
2:12
down Rita would get drowsy and we
2:14
would go back to the same old routine as before.
2:18
But uh... The
2:22
problem is that... That
2:26
never happened. On
2:30
my lunch break, I called Steph to see how our little
2:32
princess was doing, only to hear a loud shriek that
2:34
made my eardrums want to burn. I'll
2:37
call you later! I shouted as I hung up
2:39
and frowned, wondering how long our newborn had been
2:41
upset. I assumed it was just
2:43
a simple crying spell, it would be over by the time I
2:45
got home. Instead
2:49
that afternoon as I walked in, I heard Rita
2:51
squealing and Steph was pacing the kitchen trying to
2:53
burp her. Hey
2:55
there's my little angel, how's daddy's girl I
2:57
could? Steph shot me a dirty
3:00
look and offered the squealing infant to me. I
3:02
don't know what's wrong with her, I've tried everything,
3:04
bottles, blankets, baths, you name it. I
3:07
tried it, she admitted as she tried to
3:09
hold back tears. I think she's
3:11
clearly distressed and earlier when I tried to
3:13
breastfeed, she bit me so hard that it
3:15
grew blood. Rita
3:17
continued to squeal as I rocked her and looked
3:19
at our baby girl in concern. I
3:22
think we should go to the emergency room? Should
3:24
we call the doctor? I asked. Steph
3:27
nodded as she paced the refrigerator.
3:30
Pediatrician has got a free opening on Thursday, but
3:33
that's days away. Maybe we should
3:35
go to the ER? Spend
3:37
hours now and it's non-stop. I
3:40
think that lab tech did something, I don't know.
3:45
I didn't know what to do either. We don't
3:47
live close to a hospital, I knew the drive would be taxing,
3:49
especially because I was supposed to go to work the next
3:51
day. No one gives you an instruction
3:54
manual for this sort of stuff. Okay,
3:56
let's go ahead and go. I mean, it's better to be
3:58
safe than sorry, I told my wife. We
4:00
were up the car and put our new
4:02
born in the rear facing car seat. All
4:04
Aussie continue to try and scream. Anxiety
4:06
levels spiking as we drove down the road.
4:09
Stuff that back there with. They're trying to comfort
4:11
her but I soon saw first hand. Nothing
4:14
seemed to be working. My.
4:17
Mind began to races I wonder what to
4:19
possibly be the matter, what a stuff was
4:21
right and Texan. Punctured a
4:24
nervous. As our daughter. Gonna be
4:26
alright. As soon
4:28
as he got to the emergency room
4:30
I fully expect to the readers Wales
4:32
would guess again. Immediately reality set in
4:34
when we were given paperwork to fill
4:36
out and paste the waiting room alongside
4:38
everyone else who sat down I tried
4:40
my best to folks from a questionnaire
4:42
but the more read a cried and
4:44
screamed the irritable I became how much
4:46
Herb but with the hospital staff really
4:48
seem to take no interest in are
4:50
suffering letting other clearly less urgent cases
4:52
into the three hours. Maybe
4:55
we should try to customers me. There's
4:58
a small neighborhood urgent care down the
5:00
road. I told stuff the only accept
5:02
asked don't have that kind of money.
5:05
I worried that we were bound to be of
5:07
a hospital all night, so I got up and
5:09
called my boss, told him I wouldn't be coming
5:11
in the next morning. I. Wasn't
5:13
happy about that, but. He
5:16
claimed that he understood. Family comes first.
5:19
All. While I was doing this I kept hearing
5:21
return wondering if Susie be touching her breath. But
5:24
it was insane I thought As I
5:26
walked back and looked at staff apologetically
5:28
the he are was at a standstill.
5:30
No one to tell me for sure
5:32
where we would even be seen. It
5:34
was pisses me off. My little girl
5:36
was excruciating pain and these asshole didn't
5:38
seem to care. I marched up to
5:40
the glass banging to get their attention.
5:43
John, this isn't going to help. Settled in
5:45
and really, I wasn't listening. We've been waiting
5:47
for hours are still hadn't even gotten to
5:49
a bed. We should have been sent straight
5:51
up to labor and delivery. What? What's the
5:54
holdup I demanded Sir, You need to take
5:56
a seat. I understand your concerns, but right
5:58
now, labor and. Delivery. Can't accommodate
6:00
anyone. There's nothing we can do. When.
6:03
Or said but. But
6:05
it wasn't a harsh tone. Something about the
6:07
tones of me off my started to raise
6:09
my voice. don't be condescending with me, our
6:12
baby eats is in pain and you're just
6:14
telling me that. To shrug it off she
6:16
got on a radio and muffled something which
6:18
only made me more upset. Hold on to
6:20
call security on me with you. I'm mad
6:22
that you haven't lifted a finger to help
6:24
my baby. A moment later
6:26
and hops or twice my size entered the room
6:28
staff grab my shoulder giving me a look at
6:31
the we should just go see some of. The
6:34
looked over at a reader who is continuing
6:36
to squeal and looks like she couldn't even
6:38
breathe properly. My. Heart breaking
6:41
as I realize the hospitals close to
6:43
throwing out. If
6:45
you don't take a seat and cooperate and freedom and have
6:47
to ask you to leave. The guard ones. That.
6:50
Had enough. I'd rather stuff and
6:53
I marched out. part of me so
6:55
foolish. We're no closer to figuring out
6:57
why reader was upset and I was.
6:59
Higher ceiling and times wasted. On
7:02
the drive home stuff gave me the stink eye but
7:04
agree that we had season ago the wrong time. There's
7:07
an urgent care pediatrics but it won't be
7:10
open until the morning. she said second, your
7:12
phone was better than nothing Much as I
7:14
hate the prospect of living our baby scream
7:16
all night. Wasn't for which
7:18
was we had. When
7:21
we got home we took shifts taking care of
7:24
are trying to make sure his aides or had
7:26
a diaper change. Read. A
7:28
Never Stop Mailings. Oh. Sure,
7:30
she was excruciating distrusts through doing nothing
7:32
to make it better. Our. Ancestors through
7:34
the roof, I told my wife to get a
7:36
bit asleep she could and I did read it
7:38
to the guest room. The. Walls were
7:40
sicker in there so I guess is when I
7:42
was brought her in here to cry the other
7:45
to get some much needed shut eye staff admitted
7:47
sleep was going to be difficult. Even
7:49
without hearing her infant, her motherly instinct to go
7:51
over and she was checking up on us almost
7:53
every half hour. i'm
7:56
handling her seeking get some sleep with
7:59
older as again to rock Rita.
8:01
Her face was bright red by now, and I couldn't
8:03
even imagine how she had managed to scream all day.
8:06
My mind told me that this had to be impossible. I
8:09
mean, if she was
8:12
that deprived of oxygen, she
8:14
would have passed out. There would have been moments where she
8:16
caught her breath, but I simply wasn't
8:19
noticing it. It
8:21
couldn't possibly be this bad. I didn't
8:24
want to imagine it permanently harming her, but
8:26
with each passing moment at home, that
8:28
dreaded thought lingered in my mind, especially
8:31
as I looked at her and saw her veins
8:33
popping near her neck and forehead. I mean,
8:37
what if this caused permanent brain damage or worse?
8:41
Deep breath, I thought frantically, and
8:43
yet here I was sitting in the dark, unable to do
8:45
a single thing to help her. As
8:48
I rocked her, her piercing squeals
8:50
heightened my anxiety with each passing second.
8:53
My fear was compounded by searching for
8:55
similar cases online. Many
8:57
of the things people claimed happened to their
9:00
newborn were terrifying. Nightmare-inducing
9:02
images of babies bleeding mouths
9:04
and ears filled my screen.
9:06
It was enough to
9:08
make my stomach turn end over end. I mean,
9:10
this couldn't possibly be happening to my Rita. When
9:13
Steph took over to let me rest, my head was
9:15
filled with frightening thoughts of what could be happening. Yet
9:18
somehow, we made it through the night. That
9:20
in sheer exhaustion finally took us past our
9:23
breaking point. In
9:25
the morning, Rita was still in pain, her
9:27
throat dried from her screams, her little body
9:29
wailing. Steph was trying
9:31
her best to keep it together as we hurried and got
9:33
in the car again. We were holding
9:35
out hope that the pediatric urgent care would have the
9:38
answers we needed, but
9:40
it wound up a dead end.
9:43
They did a cursory check of Rita, including
9:45
her lungs and checking her for infections,
9:47
but after running tests, they
9:50
surprised us and said there was nothing noticeably
9:53
wrong with her. No
9:55
fever, no broken bones, no
9:57
signs of trauma. If you ask me, this is
9:59
a This is just a short phase that your baby's
10:01
going through. She took fluids like normal, so there's
10:03
really no need to worry. You'll
10:06
simply have to endure it." My
10:09
wife looked like she was about to snap. They
10:11
simply didn't believe us, she said, when
10:14
we left. No baby could scream
10:16
that long or be unable to sleep. So
10:19
because our story was so unfathomable, they sent
10:22
us on our merry way, thinking we were
10:24
just a pair of typical, overly concerned parents.
10:28
I was at a loss. We've
10:30
gone to the doctor's and finally gotten tests
10:32
done, but nothing. Nothing explained
10:34
what was happening to her. Think
10:37
of this as waiting for a butterfly to emerge from a
10:40
cocoon. The transformation itself can be
10:42
a little ugly, the nurse said, as
10:44
we walked out of the urgent care office. I
10:47
didn't even bother saying thank you. I
10:50
mean, in my mind, they've done absolutely nothing to
10:52
help us. I
10:54
don't think I can handle much more of this,
10:56
Steph lamented, as we got home and tried to
10:58
settle Rita again with every trick in the book.
11:01
Her screams only seemed to get worse. She
11:04
kept clawing and scratching, hitting and wailing.
11:07
It was clear she was desperate for our help.
11:10
I knew that I wasn't as competent as a doctor,
11:12
so I wasn't about to challenge
11:14
their diagnosis, but instead I did the only thing I
11:16
could think of and I told my job
11:18
I'd try to come in the next day. I mean,
11:20
I had to get my mind off this. Steph
11:23
wasn't too happy when I gave her that news.
11:26
You're just going to heath me here alone so
11:28
you can get away from her, she snapped.
11:31
I wasn't in the mood to argue. Rita
11:33
was driving us up the wall with her
11:35
painful cries, and we were turning on each other. I
11:38
apologized and I left not long after that, promising I
11:40
would check in to see if Rita had finally
11:43
settled. We
11:45
have to trust the doctors know what they're talking about. If
11:49
something's wrong, they would know, I
11:51
told her. He
11:53
didn't even do an internal scan. What
11:55
if something's inside her and hurting her? Steph
11:57
said desperately. They did all the
11:59
tests. they felt were necessary, I told her. I had
12:02
my doubts, too. Something was wrong with our daughter.
12:04
That much was clear. The
12:07
only thing I could think of was the
12:09
recent checkup. So
12:12
when I went to work and had a bit
12:14
of free time, I called the clinic to find out precisely
12:16
what they had given to Rita that day. "'Oh,
12:20
little Rita May, how is she?' the nurse asked
12:22
cheerfully over the phone. I didn't
12:24
bother trying to convince them of any issues and repeated
12:26
my inquiry. Just typical shots she'd give
12:28
to every newborn at that stage. I must
12:30
say I meant to call and ask how your wife was handling
12:33
it. She couldn't
12:35
even bear to watch when we administered the
12:37
needle. I picked up
12:39
on the choice words and asked the nurse to explain.
12:42
"'Oh, what I mean to say is that she
12:44
stepped out of the room when we gave the vaccine.
12:46
I mean, it's actually pretty common, I guess. No
12:48
one wants to see their baby in that sort of pain.' I
12:52
thanked the nurse, turning not to
12:54
panic as my mind wondered why
12:56
this felt significant. Stephanie
12:59
had left the room. I
13:02
mean, what if they'd done something
13:04
to Rita that wasn't on record? Another
13:06
dark thought crossed my mind as I drove
13:08
home. What if
13:10
one of the nurses had discreetly swapped out
13:13
Rita with another newborn in the clinic? I
13:16
mean, it was the type of scenario that no parent wanted to
13:18
ever fathom, but it could
13:20
fit all the behavioral issues we've seen and had
13:24
be foolishly been doting on a baby we
13:26
didn't know, an infant that
13:28
was screaming frantically to be returned
13:30
to their own family, with our Rita
13:32
out there somewhere, right now trying desperately
13:35
to let whoever had taken her know
13:37
about this terrible mistake. As
13:40
I pulled into the driveway, I couldn't help but took
13:43
a long breath. I
13:46
was letting my imagination run wild. There was no
13:48
reason to suspect something so nightmarish
13:51
had happened. I
13:54
Just need to be here and support my wife, and we'll get
13:56
through this, I told myself as I walked inside of the house.
14:00
To my surprise it as I unlocked the door
14:02
I see was greeted with silence. The
14:06
small duplex we rented was dark and
14:08
I sighed and release surely this was
14:10
a good sign. Read had finally settled
14:12
down. I drop my
14:14
keys in I walk to the nursery, flip it on
14:16
the lights eager to see are sleeping little princess. And
14:21
said. Instead,
14:24
I was. Greeted.
14:26
With a manifestation of all my seers
14:28
combined. A
14:33
blood soaked mattress, A
14:36
stood there staring at it in disbelief
14:38
and then towards the floor for I
14:40
saw what looked like a tiny trail
14:42
of mucus and blood zigzagging towards the
14:44
door. A small crib she'd been lying
14:46
in was all torn apart. Assistance Useless.
14:50
I turn and call out my wife but there
14:52
was no response. My heart pounded of I followed
14:54
the trail of blood and guts to our bedroom.
14:57
Soft. Gleam of my phone like revealing more
14:59
gore exists or us on display in our king
15:01
sized bed. My heart sank of i turn on
15:03
the light and saw. Stuff.
15:11
Lying there. In.
15:14
Her own blonde and legs
15:16
off. As
15:21
I saw wouldn't happen. Or
15:25
newborn. A of whatever
15:27
and replacement for some requested swayed side of
15:30
my wife's body again. The
15:32
sheer amount of tissue and blood the covered the bed
15:34
told his stuff and done her best to fight off
15:36
this monster. But the results. Results
15:39
have been a losing battle. As
15:41
was decomposing staring wide eyed and
15:44
so was up at the sky
15:46
as the creature riddled and her
15:48
family torn in every direction I
15:50
saw the creature pulsing and heart
15:53
side of my life. i
15:56
screamed and backed away from the horrific scene
15:58
call nine one one is I bailed out
16:00
of the door and struggled to catch my breath. I
16:03
was hardly making sense to the operator, but I gave them
16:05
my address and they said that they'd be there in thirty
16:07
minutes. Somewhere
16:09
in the span of time the miniature
16:11
demon that had crawled its way into
16:13
our lives and fooled us into believing
16:16
it was my sweet Rita May vanished
16:20
into the night. When
16:23
the text got there, all
16:26
they found was what little was left
16:28
of my life. It's
16:30
like someone shoved its way inside her body, he ate
16:32
her from the inside out, one of the technicians said
16:35
in disbelief. He was
16:37
a small comfort, but they told me there were signs of
16:39
a struggle. Steph.
16:42
Steph had tried to fight
16:46
back. The creature must have been waiting until
16:48
we were so exhausted that we
16:51
couldn't put up a fight. I've
16:54
realized sourly as I
16:57
thank them for coming. They
17:01
told me the police want to question me. Typical
17:04
procedure. One thing
17:06
swirls around in my mind as I try to make
17:08
sense of what little sanity I have left. Where's
17:12
my daughter? What
17:16
happened to her? I
17:20
fear I may never know and I
17:23
belabeled monster myself. Who
17:27
would believe this shocking story? If
17:31
a distant air emits the shadows I hear a
17:33
newborn baby wail, is
17:36
that my Rita? Or
17:39
is the creature beckoning me to my own demise?
17:45
I sat here on the porch for
17:48
an hour waiting
17:51
for the police and
17:53
I heard the infant in the woods calling out to me. I
17:58
don't know. What of like out
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