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Hello, Malachi? Oh, sorry,

3:46

I thought you were my cat. Hello

3:49

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I'm Terry Carnation, shopkeeper and

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that we had something of a little scare here

4:31

ourselves. My cat Malachi ran off

4:33

after setting his tail aflame and he

4:35

still hasn't come back. At

4:38

first I wasn't overly concerned. I

4:40

mean, after all, he's roamed

4:42

around on his own before. But

4:44

now I really am starting to get worried. I

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mean, he's just, he's so used to his creature

4:48

comforts. His fresh tuna

4:51

and his pumpkin spice lattes and

4:53

his favorite little chenille

4:55

blanket and his bath and

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body works candles. His

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sardine flavored THC gummies. His

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anus expresser. That

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artificial cat scrotum that he wears around

5:08

sometime. You weren't supposed to know about that.

5:11

Anyway, so I made this sign. Have

5:14

you seen this cat? And I drew Malachi

5:16

as best I could. I'm not really sure

5:19

I did the whiskers justice. So

5:21

actually, if you have a better drawing

5:23

of Malachi and deeply in need, if

5:25

you would please email Radio Rental with

5:27

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5:29

so appreciated. RadioRental at

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5:36

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5:39

would be so appreciated. We'll

5:41

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5:44

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5:46

enough of my troubles and Malachi's. It's

5:49

time for the reason that you're really here. Let's get

5:51

into this scary collection of tapes, shall we? Oh,

5:53

let's see here. What do we have? Oh, this

5:55

one looks good. Let's

5:59

just pop it in. and see what happens. I

6:29

went to college in Williamsburg, Virginia, which is

6:31

a pretty and small, safe town. That

6:35

night, I was getting ready for a party

6:37

with a friend. She

6:40

was coming with me to some stupid

6:42

sorority formal thing as my date.

6:46

We're getting all dressed up, we're listening

6:48

to music, you know, drinking some beers,

6:50

just having a great time. It's a

6:52

great night. I was really looking forward

6:54

to it. We

6:57

go to this party, we dance the night away.

7:00

I kind of cut it off at a couple

7:02

of drinks because I wanted to see some friends

7:04

after the party and see if they wanted to

7:06

hang out. And I knew I had

7:08

a long walk to get there, so I wanted to make

7:10

sure I wasn't falling over. The

7:13

party started wrapping up, started

7:15

winding down, and my friend was feeling a little

7:18

sick, so I wanted to go home. So

7:21

I walked her home and decided to keep

7:23

walking to my friend's house on the other side

7:25

of town just to see if they wanted to

7:27

keep the party going. There

7:30

was about a 20 to 25 minute walk from

7:32

there to where I wanted to end

7:34

up. The

7:37

streets that I walked on were honestly streets

7:39

that I walk on every day. The

7:42

first, probably 75% of the

7:44

walk, well lit, weaves through

7:47

campus. The last part,

7:49

I had to walk on a main road that went

7:51

through the town and into the residential area. And

7:55

this part's pretty dark. So

7:57

as I transitioned from the light part of the walk to the left, I was able to see the to

8:00

the dark part, I

8:02

noticed a van parked

8:04

in a crosswalk of

8:07

a side street that I needed to cross. Okay,

8:11

that van is strange. The

8:14

van was white, windowless,

8:17

and there wasn't a license plate on the back. It

8:20

looks like the van that your mom tells you

8:22

not to approach growing up. I'm

8:26

probably 15 paces from this van and

8:29

then the van door flies open. Something

8:34

isn't right. A

8:37

man comes out, immediate

8:40

beeline for me. He's

8:43

wearing all black, so black hat, black

8:46

sweatshirt, pants, shoes. I can only see his

8:48

face in his hands. He

8:51

had a pretty nondescript face. He

8:54

clearly wasn't a student. I

8:56

don't know this guy. What does he want from me?

8:59

I don't like his van. I

9:02

don't like any of this. Why

9:04

is he approaching me like this? It

9:07

looks like he's in a rush. It

9:09

looks like he's frantic. I

9:14

didn't want to just run. Maybe

9:16

he's a normal guy and I don't want to be an

9:18

asshole. Maybe he needs help. He

9:23

starts approaching me, immediately

9:25

trying to get my attention. He doesn't break

9:28

eye contact. He's just headed to me. He

9:31

starts saying, come into my van as he's walking towards

9:34

me. Very

9:37

quickly I realized he doesn't need help. He

9:40

definitely doesn't know who I am. He's

9:43

just trying to get me in his car. Come

9:46

with me. Come into my van. You need to

9:50

be in my van. I'm shaking my head. He

9:54

puts his hand on my back and

9:57

he starts to push me. Get in my van.

9:59

Get in my van. with me, you want to get in my

10:01

van with me. I'm

10:04

still shaking my head saying no. He

10:07

grabs my arm and he

10:09

starts to pull me with his hands. He

10:12

grabbed me kind of by the bicep and

10:14

he started yanking on it and

10:17

trying to pull me down the sidewalk and

10:19

push me into the van. Come

10:23

into my van, you're getting into my van with me. Just

10:26

that kind of language over and over again. It

10:30

felt like he was talking to a toddler or

10:32

maybe he thought I was so drunk that he

10:34

could just kind of fool me into getting into

10:37

his van with him without using any force. Come

10:41

with me, get in my van. We're

10:44

going in my van. Just over and

10:46

over again. I

10:49

scream no. I just break his frantic, get

10:51

in my van, get in my van. He's

10:54

pulling me and I'm struggling a little

10:56

bit to get him away from me. I start

11:00

screaming no. I

11:02

kind of throw my elbow into him, break

11:05

free and I start

11:07

to run. It was

11:11

just adrenaline immediately.

11:13

This man is

11:15

trying to abduct me. I just

11:18

need to run and get away. I just

11:21

was running as fast as I could. I'm

11:25

high tailing it down the road toward

11:28

the woods and

11:30

then I hear the door slam.

11:34

The tires screech. They're

11:36

coming for me. They're

11:39

driving on the left side of the road and

11:43

he starts coming at me, following

11:45

me. Oh my

11:48

God, he's going to hit me. So

11:51

I'm running, running, running down

11:53

the street. I obviously don't have a lot of time. I see

11:58

some bushes on my left. I'm

12:02

waiting until the van gets just about

12:04

to hit me, maybe like five feet

12:06

away. And

12:09

I just dive to my left into

12:11

the bushes. Holy

12:15

crap. I can't

12:17

believe I just dodged that bullet. They

12:20

were so close to hitting me. And

12:23

if I didn't dive into those bushes, I think they would have. They

12:27

slam on the brakes, see

12:29

them start to turn. They're

12:32

turning for me. So

12:35

I have to get up and I just

12:37

have to keep running, start into some yards

12:39

and the woods. I

12:42

don't remember the route I took, but I just stayed

12:44

off the road and listened to them circle. I

12:48

could barely breathe. I've never run

12:50

faster in my life. The

12:53

animalistic panic and instinct running through

12:56

these yards, like busting through fences,

12:59

two or three blocks through woods and

13:01

yards, trying to be quiet

13:04

so I didn't reveal where I was. I

13:08

hear them circling the block looking for me.

13:12

And I'm just thinking, I have no

13:14

shot. They're going to get me. They're

13:17

going to get out of their car. They're going to chase me on foot and they're going to

13:19

get me. But

13:22

they didn't get out of their car. They chose to keep circling

13:24

the block. I'm

13:27

on foot in

13:29

the woods, in the dark, and they can't see me.

13:33

Do I give up or

13:35

do I give it everything I got? So

13:40

I gave it everything I got and I got

13:43

away. I

13:47

finally make my way to my friend's house after

13:49

navigating through a maze of yards and woods, just

13:51

not allowing myself to be seen on the street.

13:54

When I get there, let myself in. Nobody's

13:57

home. So I just sit on the couch and kind of hope I can

13:59

sleep. there and no one sees me. I was

14:03

completely numb. I

14:05

sat on the couch and just let myself breathe.

14:09

Sat there for a really long time. Just

14:13

kind of trying to calm myself down. What

14:17

the hell was that?

14:20

I definitely could have just died. I definitely

14:24

could have just been human trafficked or kidnapped.

14:28

They did not have good intentions. God,

14:38

that's just terrifying. It's

14:40

like the end of Ferris Bueller's Day off when

14:42

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14:44

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we're back. Like you know

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16:45

mood down. And as much

16:47

as I hate to admit it, I really am starting to

16:49

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16:52

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16:54

next scary story. Vamanos.

17:04

It was October of 2021. The

17:08

neighbor called me and asked if I

17:11

had seen another set of neighbors two

17:13

doors down. All

17:16

of our neighbors are really friendly. We all get along

17:18

really well. We talk a lot except

17:20

for one house on our street. So

17:24

my neighbor called me and asked if I

17:26

had seen Marine or her son Brian. Marine

17:29

was probably in her 80s and Brian was in

17:31

his 60s. So a mother and son

17:33

living together. I

17:36

told her that the last time I had seen

17:38

Brian or Marine was in August

17:40

at the beginning of August. I

17:44

had seen Brian walking out to his

17:46

mailbox and he had blue latex

17:48

gloves on. That's

17:51

the only reason I noticed it. And they were rarely

17:53

out of their house. Only

17:56

outside to take care of their rose bushes or mow

17:58

the lawn or get the mail. That's

18:01

the only time you ever saw them. They never had

18:03

visitors, no family visiting, no friends.

18:07

It was strange when she pointed that out that

18:09

I had not seen them before at that

18:12

point, almost two months. I

18:15

looked at their yard and realized that their

18:17

grass was three feet tall. It had not

18:19

been mowed, which was not normal for them. Their

18:22

mailbox was overflowing with mail to the

18:25

point there were letters flying around their

18:27

yard. The

18:30

neighbor that originally called me, she

18:32

called the police to do a well trek. It

18:37

was not much longer that she called us again

18:39

to tell us to sit down. She

18:42

had some crazy news. They

18:45

were both dead and had

18:47

been dead for a while.

18:54

The police thought that there may have

18:56

been some foul play. They

18:59

weren't sure if the son

19:01

had killed the mother or if she had

19:03

just died from natural causes. But

19:06

he had killed him since. And

19:08

she was dead. I

19:13

watched the police all day. The crime van

19:15

pulled up. The police

19:17

were in and out of the house. The smell

19:19

was awful. Watched

19:21

them take the body bags out and

19:25

then just waited. I

19:27

kept checking the news to see if anything was

19:29

going to come out. I kept waiting for someone

19:31

to come to the house, maybe

19:34

family or kin, to start cleaning

19:36

up. No

19:38

one ever showed up. In

19:42

the following 10 months, I

19:45

became pretty obsessed

19:48

with that house and

19:50

with Maureen and Brian just wondering

19:53

what their story was. Why

19:56

didn't they have any family

19:59

that realized that they had

20:01

been dead for a while, why were

20:03

the neighbors the only ones to notice that

20:06

they were gone and make that

20:08

call to the police. There

20:12

were multiple nights that I would stay up really

20:15

late just trying to find any information that I

20:17

could about Maureen. Had she lived

20:19

in other places, who was her son, what

20:22

was he like, where were

20:24

their relatives, all

20:27

I could find was that she

20:31

had been buried in a cemetery

20:34

north of town that

20:36

was dedicated to the unclaimed people

20:40

who had no one to pay for their

20:42

funeral or attend their funeral. And

20:45

I thought that was really sad, it just confirmed

20:47

that she had no

20:50

one and Brian had no one. So

20:54

I kept watching the house waiting to figure out

20:56

what happens to a house when there's no kin

20:58

to take over and clean it up and get

21:00

it ready to sell. It

21:03

took a long time for it to eventually go

21:05

to the state to be sold at auction.

21:10

While we were waiting for anything

21:13

to happen with that house, my son and

21:15

I were outside catching fireflies. It's something we do

21:17

every single year. The

21:19

house had always felt

21:22

really dark. The

21:24

shutters were always drawn, no lights

21:27

were ever on. It

21:29

felt so haunted. I

21:32

thought so many times about how many times me

21:34

and my family had walked by that house while

21:36

the two bodies sat there. But

21:39

we were out catching fireflies in our front

21:41

yard. We will often move from

21:43

our yard to a neighbor's yard because like I

21:45

said we're all very friendly with each other. So

21:49

we were moving from yard to yard

21:51

to catch fireflies. And

21:54

I looked at Maureen's house to see if there

21:56

were any over there that we could go catch.

22:00

Not a single firefly blinked

22:03

in that yard. They

22:05

were all up and down the street, but

22:08

that yard was dark. I

22:11

kept looking at the house, thinking,

22:13

surely this is in my head. One

22:16

of them are going to light up over there. And

22:20

the longer I stared, the more scared

22:22

I got because not a single lightning

22:24

bug was over there. The

22:27

whole yard was just completely dark. And

22:30

that felt really fitting. Everything

22:32

about it felt haunted. It

22:38

was August of the following year when

22:41

I finally started seeing people come in and out of

22:44

that house. And it

22:46

was people I had never seen before. And

22:48

they were bringing just huge bags

22:50

of what looked like trash. Bag

22:54

after bag after bag out

22:56

into the front yard. The front yard was full of

22:58

them. I

23:01

was so invested in who

23:03

Maureen and Brian were. Clearly

23:06

they had no one. So

23:08

for some reason I took it upon myself to

23:10

be that person for them. I was very curious.

23:13

I almost wanted to take care of them, like help take

23:15

care of their home, lay them to

23:17

rest since no one else was there to do it, help

23:20

take care of their things. So

23:23

I took my dog for a walk past

23:25

the house. To

23:27

have an excuse to talk to the people.

23:31

As I walked by, there was a woman in the

23:33

front yard. Her name was Quinn. I

23:36

asked her, did you buy

23:38

this house? She

23:42

said, I did not buy this house, but

23:45

another couple did. And I

23:48

have come to help them clean it out. In

23:51

exchange for her helping clean it out, she got

23:53

to keep any items of value that

23:56

she found. And she could resell them.

24:00

I was so invested I had spent so

24:02

many hours wondering what had happened

24:04

in that house that I had to ask.

24:08

What does it look like inside?

24:12

She looked at me kind of funny and

24:15

said, would you like to come in and see? I

24:20

couldn't say no. She

24:23

led me inside. Through

24:26

the front door there was a

24:28

walkway, but

24:31

there was hardly anywhere to put your feet. It

24:34

was just trash from the floor to the

24:37

ceiling, books, china,

24:40

coffee cups, boxes of belts.

24:44

It was a true hoarder home, as

24:46

bad as any that you've ever seen on any

24:48

show. She

24:52

led me through this very narrow

24:54

walkway back to a bedroom. Opens

24:58

the door. Inside

25:01

was a mattress

25:04

that was so

25:06

discolored from decomposition stains.

25:11

And the smell was so strong still even 10

25:14

months later because nothing had been cleaned out. It

25:19

turns out that if you do not have kin

25:22

to pay for that cleanup

25:26

from an unattended death, the

25:28

police just leave it there. The

25:31

state does not pay for that. I

25:34

asked her whose bedroom she

25:36

thought that was and she said, I think

25:38

maybe they were both in here dead. Because

25:42

this is the room that has

25:44

the strongest smell and the biggest

25:46

mess. She

25:50

invited me to come back the next day if

25:52

I wanted to help clean up. And

25:55

if I wanted to also take any items that

25:57

I thought I would want to take. getting

26:00

in on the deal that I could help clean up the

26:02

space. And also

26:04

I could take what I wanted. But

26:08

mostly I wanted answers to

26:10

my questions. I wanted to know who these people were,

26:13

what their lives were like, why

26:16

were they so strange? Why were

26:18

they so to themselves? I

26:22

spent that night not

26:24

sleeping. I finally had their full

26:26

needs. So I did

26:28

some more digging. And I found

26:30

out that the son, Brian, actually

26:34

had an FBI case against him for

26:37

soliciting a minor online. He

26:41

was never found guilty because he

26:43

never actually met up with the

26:45

minor. But he

26:48

was no longer allowed to have internet access in

26:50

his home. He

26:52

was clearly a predator. This

26:55

was incredibly upsetting to me as I

26:58

have a young child and did not

27:00

realize that this was who my neighbor

27:02

was. The

27:05

next day I could not get over there

27:07

quick enough. I got my son

27:09

to school and first thing headed over to the house.

27:12

Quinn was already there. I asked her if

27:14

she had found anything good. She said, it's hard

27:16

to tell with these things, but you can go ahead

27:19

and go inside and just start wherever

27:21

you want. So

27:23

I went directly to the one bedroom I

27:25

had not been to yet. And that was

27:27

Brian's bedroom. And

27:29

it was very obvious that it was Brian's

27:32

bedroom because it was full of

27:34

men's shoes, men's clothing. There

27:37

was a floor to ceiling bookshelf just

27:39

covered in books. The

27:41

bed was covered in piles of

27:43

clothes. It was so messy, you

27:45

could not see the floor. I

27:48

spent probably an hour going through

27:50

books, looking at which ones were

27:52

worth something, which ones weren't, putting them in the

27:55

tote bags and getting rid of trash as

27:57

I went. And

28:00

we're both really, really careful

28:02

about being very respectful as we were

28:04

going through these things. While

28:08

I was in their cleaning, I started to

28:10

notice that there were some staining on the

28:12

floor. So I called

28:14

Quinn in and I said, I don't think

28:16

Brian died in the same room as Marine.

28:19

I think he was in here. So

28:22

she came in and we started moving things back from

28:24

the floor. And it was very

28:27

obvious that some decomposition had happened

28:29

in there. I

28:35

sat on the bed and I just looked around

28:37

the room and I noticed

28:39

that there was a calendar hanging on the wall.

28:43

We knew that Marine had died

28:46

in early August, according to

28:48

the police. Brian's

28:51

calendar was turned to September,

28:55

indicating that while Marine had

28:57

passed in August, Brian

28:59

likely hung around for a while with

29:02

her dead body in the house. I

29:05

don't know why. It

29:07

was incredibly disturbing. I

29:11

continued cleaning up his room. Honestly,

29:14

I was just looking for more clues about who he was.

29:18

There were some really nice pairs

29:21

of binoculars underneath his bed. My

29:25

stomach dropped. Very

29:29

uncomfortable to find knowing that

29:31

he had been tried

29:33

for soliciting a minor. The

29:37

neighbor next to him has two small

29:39

girls aged about eight and 10 and

29:42

his window looked out over their yard. I

29:47

felt very protective in that moment

29:50

of my neighbor's children. I

29:52

felt protective over my son. It

29:54

made me suspicious of everyone on my

29:56

street. Who else is living on my

29:59

street that... is a predator potentially.

30:01

I realized

30:03

I don't know what's going on

30:05

in the houses 200 feet from

30:08

me. There

30:11

could be something incredibly dark and

30:13

awful happening anywhere around us

30:15

and we could have no idea. As

30:19

I continued digging in the space

30:22

I also found financial

30:24

records they were in so much debt.

30:28

All the stuff in their house was

30:30

their attempt at making money

30:32

without leaving their house basically. They

30:35

would buy things in bulk and then try

30:37

to resell them. Obviously

30:39

selling them was not happening because the house was

30:41

such a mess you could barely walk through it.

30:45

Eventually the house was just opened up to the

30:47

public and anyone could come in and take what

30:50

they wanted for five dollars. At

30:52

this point two industrial dumpsters had been

30:54

filled with trash and there was still

30:56

enough that they had to open up the house to the public

30:58

to come get more of the stuff. I

31:02

asked Quinn were they able to

31:04

clean up the floors where the

31:06

body fluids had piled up and

31:09

she said no but they had a buyer

31:12

interested. The

31:15

first couple's plan was not to buy the

31:17

house and flip it themselves. They just wanted

31:19

to come in get anything worth of

31:21

value clean it up and then sell it for

31:23

a profit. The

31:25

person who bought it to flip it I

31:29

don't know if he knew what had

31:31

happened in the house. I

31:34

reached out to the police department after

31:36

the house was cleaned up and resold. I needed

31:39

to know what records they had. I

31:42

wanted to know what they found when they walked into the

31:45

house. I emailed them asking them

31:47

for the records and they sent them over to me no

31:49

problem. The

31:51

police report said simply we

31:54

arrived at the home. The

31:57

front door was unlocked. So

31:59

the front door was unlocked. also unlocked the

32:01

entire time Brian and Maureen sat

32:03

there. They

32:05

walked in, they found a

32:07

note taped to Brian's door

32:10

and the note said, My

32:13

mother, Maureen, passed

32:15

away peacefully in her

32:17

sleep, August 11th. I

32:21

could not bear life without her.

32:25

And when they opened the door, he was hanging inside.

32:31

The house now looks beautiful to anyone

32:33

who has no idea what happened in

32:36

it. It doesn't

32:38

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a family has moved in with children. And

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I remember when I looked

32:49

at the listing online,

32:51

it said in

32:53

the description, all

32:55

original hardwood flooring. And

32:59

I looked at the pictures and

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I could see where they

33:04

had sanded away the decomposition

33:06

stains. So

33:09

that family that is living in that

33:12

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