0:00

Sixth of November. It was

0:03

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0:05

I took our way towards the east when

0:07

I knew Jonathan was coming. We

0:09

did not

0:10

Eleventh of October evening.

0:13

Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this

0:16

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0:18

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0:20

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0:23

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0:25

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0:27

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0:30

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0:32

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0:34

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0:35

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0:44

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0:50

I will pledge my life.

0:51

Twenty fourth of August.

0:53

I must imitate MENA and

0:55

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0:57

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6:52

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6:54

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6:57

and a gruesome discovery. One

6:59

of poor little dirt's hands has been

7:01

seriously burnt. and then the

7:03

children discovered a man's mutilated corpse.

7:06

The

7:06

sight of it shook that kindly

7:08

boy

7:08

to his core, Certain that

7:11

this would become his fate. In

7:13

a

7:13

fury, he turned on his compatriots

7:15

and fled into the attic. Meanwhile,

7:17

Woods and Joey came to blows. only

7:20

to be sued by a little Chelsea and

7:22

amidst all the chaos. The

7:24

increasingly suspicious Roger

7:27

has

7:27

disappeared.

7:37

Where are

7:38

you, man? Go.

7:41

You're scrambling through the attic. ducking

7:43

between beans and bringing

7:45

over boxes. There was

7:47

all kinds of commotion and fighting down

7:49

there. utter chaos. They

7:52

were probably arguing over who would get

7:54

to ring your neck first just

7:56

like your father and those chickens.

7:58

They're all gonna kill me. All you know

7:59

is that you stumbled into the farthest

8:02

corner you could find in the dark. Maybe

8:04

they'll never find you here. The

8:06

torrential sound and the rain against

8:09

the slate shingles above you is thrumming,

8:11

crushing almost definitely. The

8:14

hand is in so much pain. but

8:17

you can barely feel it at this

8:19

point. Cold rain dripping

8:21

through the cracks, hitting your

8:23

skin when you least expect it.

8:28

Air around you is heavy,

8:30

damp. Everything up

8:32

here just feels intensely

8:35

moist.

8:37

soft

8:37

winter in

8:40

a hole. He likes

8:42

when we hit him.

8:44

So healthy dirt.

8:46

Full of bugs.

8:48

Feed him spiders. Feed

8:50

him sucks. I

8:51

don't wanna eat slugs. I have a

8:54

good boy. They're not my friends. They're mean

8:56

even fire was mean to me. Oh,

8:58

but that wasn't the fire dirt.

9:00

That was the oil. Mhmm. That

9:03

evil trick oil. You're

9:04

right. I'm gonna I'm gonna light a

9:07

match. I

9:11

don't

9:11

wanna wriggle in the dark. In the

9:12

glow of the match light, you see

9:15

that you're in a

9:16

pile of papers and

9:18

quilts, luggage surrounded

9:20

by boxes of soggy

9:22

documents, magazines,

9:25

newspapers, books, all

9:27

too wet to burn.

9:28

I'm looking for a way out of the house. I'm

9:31

looking for any windows. I'm

9:33

looking for any exits,

9:35

any ladders, any holes.

9:36

Make a luck check.

9:39

Twenty

9:39

eight out of forty.

9:41

Okay. Oh, you

9:44

squeeze past boxes and push things aside,

9:46

but Don't see any

9:48

exits from this attic space. Something

9:50

does catch your eye over

9:52

there in the corner of the attic.

9:54

There's something on a

9:56

table. Oh, I don't know what's on the table, but

9:58

I'm gonna go over there and look at

10:00

it. It's a battered

10:02

scrapper and holding up your

10:04

match with its flickering light,

10:06

you see that there's a name on it. rigs.

10:12

I

10:12

think it says Briggs. Didn't you

10:14

hear that name earlier tonight?

10:17

Oh,

10:17

it's Briggs. Briggs.

10:20

Briggs,

10:20

can I can I open up the scrapbook

10:23

and take a look inside? Certainly, you

10:25

can. And within, you see all kinds

10:27

of photographs. newspaper clippings

10:29

and writings. Everything in here looks

10:31

pretty old. You'll need more

10:33

than match light to make out

10:35

the details. I don't I don't read

10:36

at all actually. So I'm gonna just take

10:38

this book and I'm gonna just

10:40

keep looking for a

10:41

way out of here. You start

10:44

to get the impression that this attic

10:46

space, it's not as big as the

10:48

whole house. Part of it may

10:50

have been walled off. Is

10:52

there no door into the rest of the attic? None

10:54

that you can find, but

10:56

the closer you get to the wall,

10:59

you can hear something on the

11:01

other side of it. squeeaks and

11:03

chirps. I touched

11:04

the wall and stroke it. And

11:06

I say hello to whatever is

11:08

there. It hopes it'll be my

11:10

new friend. Hello.

11:12

The

11:13

wood is thin and slick to the

11:15

touch.

11:16

Rotten.

11:16

I'm gonna take a step back. I'm gonna

11:19

I'm gonna go as far back as I can

11:21

and run and dive through this wall

11:23

because it's better than death.

11:25

Maybe make a strength

11:27

check. I have a lot of strength

11:30

too. You well up all your anger,

11:32

touch the big scrap look tight to your chest

11:35

and hurtle yourself forward.

11:37

The bottom

11:38

washes away immediately and you

11:40

go tumbling in as hard as that disturbing

11:43

the prongs of bats. Make

11:45

a sanity check. Thirty three.

11:48

Does that make it? Nope. I'm twenty

11:50

seven left. Oh my god.

11:52

Bats. Bats are swirling all around you

11:54

in a pan. Even though they're your

11:56

friends, Dirk, it's overwhelming. But

11:58

the thing that gets

11:59

you is this behind you

12:02

crawling through the hole that you just made in

12:04

the wall into the room with you.

12:07

is what looks like a

12:09

bat, but it's the size

12:11

of a puppy. Oh, is it coming

12:13

near me? Oh, it is. and it

12:15

looks up at you with a

12:17

jarringly, cherubic human face

12:19

surrounded in downey batburn.

12:22

its glossy blue eyes, meet

12:24

yours. And that's what I did.

12:26

This creature almost looks

12:28

relieved. Like like it maybe

12:30

got itself trapped in there somehow.

12:32

And and it's flapping its wings and

12:34

testing them. Hello? All

12:36

my friends wanna kill me,

12:37

but I'm friends with bats

12:40

bats are the only friends I've got. Do you

12:42

wanna be my friend? because I roll

12:44

the fifty nine. Out of

12:46

seventy five. Okay? Oh,

12:48

hey little guy. You're you're

12:50

cute. Can I

12:50

pet them with my burnt hand? Who wants to

12:53

smell my burnt hand? What's the

12:55

barbecue? Is that really working anymore? So if you wanna bite,

12:57

you wanna be like

12:57

You hold your hand out to it?

12:59

I hope my little burnt nugget.

13:00

Make one more be a power roll.

13:02

Okay. I hope you'll be my friend. I've got

13:04

all this tasty

13:05

arm.

13:07

Forty three.

13:08

Yes. I I enrolled successfully.

13:10

Make one more sanity check for

13:13

me. Oh, I don't have much more

13:16

Nope. k. D6

13:19

sanity? I I

13:21

rolled a one. Hey. There's one point of sanity.

13:23

Oh, that's not so bad. you hold

13:25

your hand out to it and I wanna sniff

13:27

my nuggets. This little

13:29

human faced fat creature

13:33

looks at you and turns its head and

13:35

says, holy

13:38

shit. Yep.

13:40

Friend. That's me. I

13:43

reach in my pocket and I'll take out the little bed

13:45

I've had with me this whole time.

13:47

Same We're all friends

13:49

here.

13:49

It unferrals one of its bat

13:51

wings. And from underneath, it

13:53

bleaches out a twisted

13:55

arm and grabs the bat from your

13:57

hand. Oh, look at that. I brought back your

13:59

child.

13:59

How romantic joyous. It

14:02

pulls the little peeping back close

14:04

and then swiftly bites its

14:06

head off. Oh, I

14:09

guess that's good too. Then

14:11

it

14:11

holds its arm out,

14:14

holding

14:14

the headless bat out to

14:16

you. the body gurgling the blood.

14:19

Oh,

14:19

I can't refuse a gift. I I'm gonna

14:21

eat a piece. I'm gonna I'll drink

14:23

it. I'll eat it.

14:25

Why not? I've had

14:26

worse. You take the bat from this creature.

14:28

I also suck the blood

14:30

from its neck hole. I don't know that

14:33

makes sense.

14:36

The bat

14:38

thing crawls its way up

14:41

on a nice little

14:43

arch on your shoulder and

14:45

hugs you. Oh,

14:46

oh, this is the most love I've ever had in

14:48

my life. hear my new best friend.

14:50

It

14:50

nozzles its head against you. It

14:53

whispers in your ear. Right.

14:55

Oh, it's right. We're the best

14:57

of friends now. get the hell

14:59

out of this place. Where do you wanna go? We

15:01

got wings. Bob

15:02

a bed.

15:03

There's such a thing as a

15:05

bad mama. Bob a

15:08

bed. Bye. My

15:10

mom is good, but she's also

15:12

dead. She's a great mom still.

15:14

She's always here with me,

15:16

telling me what a good Boy, I

15:18

am. Mom,

15:19

mine. The bat creature

15:22

holds a twisted little hand. Now

15:24

mind you, it's got big bat wings that

15:26

actually have, like, tiny human

15:28

like hands on the end of them, kinda like a

15:30

bat has fingers. But then it also

15:32

has these twisted little, like, semi

15:34

humanoid arms that are underneath it

15:36

like a second pair. And it holds

15:38

one of those hands out to you and kind of

15:40

strokes your face.

15:41

mama knowy. Okay.

15:44

Mama knowy.

15:45

And then it hugs you. I

15:47

I guess I'm your mom and now.

15:49

There's a flash of lightning.

15:51

You noticed that there's a window. It's

15:53

all boarded up like the others, but there are

15:55

gaps. Maybe

15:56

I can smash the glass Let's

15:58

go mister BAT. We're

15:59

gonna get out. As you carefully

16:02

make your way across the beams of the

16:04

atom, there's another flash of

16:06

light and you see crawling

16:08

over the window inside the attic with you is

16:10

another one of these bad things.

16:12

And this one looks mean dirt.

16:14

The creature on your back holds out

16:16

its hands and it says

16:30

Okay. Sit

16:32

back. Bad brother. It growls

16:34

at you and clears menacing and

16:36

holding its ground. We're gonna

16:38

head back the way we came.

16:39

If there's something that scares my new friend,

16:41

it must be bad. Right.

17:02

Meanwhile, just a floor below,

17:05

investigating another one of these upstairs

17:07

rooms, one that doesn't stick

17:09

with corpse. Boy, it

17:11

seems like you may have found a

17:13

study. There's a desk with a

17:15

drawer in here. Well, I

17:17

opened it up. looks like somebody's

17:19

coin collection. Oh,

17:20

neat. Hey, look at

17:22

these, Chelsea. Gosh, are they old?

17:24

Are they from other countries? As

17:26

best you can

17:27

tell, you do notice one that's particularly

17:30

alluring. A large copper

17:32

coin. There's a fish on it. I'm gonna

17:34

roll my nature to see if I can identify

17:36

the

17:37

fish. I rolled a

17:38

twenty two out of my eighty. Oh, you

17:40

recognize this fish anywhere. It's a

17:43

red herring. It's only there was a

17:45

coin collecting merit badge. Tommy,

17:47

I'm worried about dirt. Although,

17:49

like, noises. I don't know. I don't

17:51

know. We should go try and help

17:53

him. But this house, who knows

17:55

what's up there? I'm gonna go look for him. And I march back to

17:57

the bedroom with a dead guy. Oh,

17:59

no,

17:59

Chelsea. Everyone has been mean to

18:02

him. Even you talk on me?

18:04

What? When

18:04

was I made to him? You weren't aware I made him go

18:07

to

18:07

the kitchen alone because you were too scared.

18:09

Hey, now that is not how this went down. And

18:11

now he thinks everyone wants to kill him.

18:13

Look, Chelsea. Police don't

18:14

go in that attic. It's not safe. Dirk

18:17

will come to his senses sooner or later. Not

18:19

if something bad gets him first, then,

18:21

from up above you, there's some commotion,

18:24

clamoring, banging noises. Scratch Chelsea,

18:26

you know, ready to run out of the room. Everybody

18:28

make a sanity check I

18:31

pass. Forty

18:31

five, I pass. because there's

18:33

one point of sanity. Dirt

18:35

keeps stumbling out of the hole in the closet.

18:38

Stumbling over the corpse. Dick.

18:40

I think he's holding something,

18:43

something

18:43

furry. Dick, did you find the kitty?

18:45

Oh, it's not a kitty.

18:47

It's a bat. but it's not a bat bats

18:49

don't get that big. What? And bats

18:51

don't have human faces. What?

18:53

And bats don't have extras

18:56

sets of twisted humanoid

18:58

arms with tiny little humanoid

19:00

hands caressing dirt's

19:02

face. dirt, what is said

19:03

thing. It's my new friend and you're all

19:06

fucked now. You're

19:06

a new friend. Yep. He's my

19:08

new friend. And if you didn't all try to

19:10

kill me, you'd be your friend too. No.

19:13

No. No. Dirt. We weren't trying to kill you.

19:15

Oh, get him back

19:16

face. The bat creature

19:18

attached to dirt unlatches

19:21

himself opening his

19:23

wings to about a five foot

19:25

wingspan and curls himself at

19:27

you Woods. But

19:29

This is what you get one.

19:32

For one was my rearview. I

19:34

painted your arm. Not

19:35

very well. IIII

19:38

Are you paying blood that I

19:40

take the the the the shirt that

19:42

I had that I was gonna bandage dirt

19:45

with, I kinda try and throw it

19:47

up to try and, like, into the bat's

19:49

face to try and, like, block its view.

19:51

Make a fight

19:52

check. Oh, Jesus. I

19:53

rolled a five out of thirty three. is that

19:55

is one fit. This thing Beeline's like that,

19:57

if you're able to wrap it up in the shirts that

19:59

you

19:59

have, you would take to get the

20:02

band aid. And you're

20:04

able to keep this thing locked

20:06

up pretty tightly. You you find up the

20:08

planes and it's snapping at

20:10

you with its It's distinctly

20:13

human face. Get

20:15

on mister Batson. What

20:17

are you doing? After

20:19

a couple snaps. thing looks at you and

20:21

pisses and then says,

20:25

and then and then spits at you.

20:27

That's right. He's bad

20:29

to me. want to say talks,

20:31

what is wrong with this thing? He's my

20:33

best friend. What is your best friend?

20:35

Yeah. You're not my friend or tell

20:37

him you're We appreciate it.

20:39

What? They're all terrible. III

20:41

take the I take the thing. I grew.

20:43

I grow it onto the ground and I

20:45

start stomping. To just to

20:48

just smash I would have won't be a pout of the

20:50

bat. Seventy eight under

20:52

eighty. Woods, you pearl

20:54

this hideous abomination. This

20:57

this freak of nature, this

21:00

upfront to all that is found in the

21:02

scouting handbook to the ground.

21:06

And before

21:09

you're able to stop it, your little

21:12

sister shields it with her own

21:14

body, caressing its

21:17

tiny frightened head. It's

21:20

okay. It's

21:20

okay. Well, your friends too.

21:23

You're a good friend.

21:24

all good friends and you're just

21:25

What are you doing? You're better than a

21:28

kitty. Josie, get away from

21:30

that thing. Right?

21:31

listen, there are a lot of things that I've seen

21:33

tonight. This is one of the least terrifying things

21:35

I think you can calm down. As

21:37

she says that, The creature

21:39

extends one of its twisted little humanoid

21:42

arms up to her and strokes

21:43

her hair

21:45

and says,

21:49

What are you doing? Okay.

21:51

And I and I uh-oh. Alright.

21:53

And I and I rolled via PAL

21:55

on the on the on

21:57

the bat creature thing. the

21:59

gosh. Thirty

22:02

edit

22:03

two, I'm gonna do you

22:06

spend two luck points to

22:08

to get it to thirty.

22:10

would Woods, you hold your hand out to

22:12

this little creature swaddled up in

22:14

your sister's arms. And

22:17

It

22:17

holds its

22:18

twisted little humanoid handout

22:21

and wraps its hand around

22:24

your finger. You

22:26

seem

22:26

to have come to an understanding with it

22:28

for now.

22:30

Friend, it

22:32

nods and squeezes your

22:34

finger and says, I

22:38

carry it

22:38

around like a little doll. Charlie's

22:41

been replaced.

22:41

III hold my

22:43

other hand out to dirt.

22:46

And I'm like, friend.

22:48

I thought you were my only

22:51

friend. Friend.

22:51

I roll

22:54

to be a pal to dirt and try

22:56

and calm him down. I failed

22:58

that ninety one.

23:01

No. No. You are

23:02

not my friend. Nobody

23:05

is.

23:05

Woods. You noticed that dirt also

23:07

has some kind of a big book wrapped up in

23:10

his arms. It's says Briggs.

23:12

Like the Briggs girl who

23:14

died? Perhaps. What do you have?

23:16

What stop? Stopping. What do

23:18

you have? Nothing. What is that? It's

23:21

a book I found. I can't read. My dad

23:23

didn't let me. Okay. Give it to me, Dirk.

23:25

Give it to me.

23:26

Take it. I don't care. What's the road

23:28

at him? I'm gonna run

23:29

back into the attic. You're gonna climb

23:31

back up over the corpse into the

23:33

attic? Yes. As you do,

23:35

you can hear behind you the

23:37

creature it says. No,

23:41

you're

23:42

not my friend anymore.

23:45

I'm out of here. I'm you're

23:47

my only friend, but you betrayed me.

23:49

Now you're friends with everyone. I'm

23:51

out of here. I'm

23:53

I'm gone. I'm already gone. I'm

23:54

in the ceiling. The why. Chelsea, you

23:56

can actually see a little tier forming

23:58

in this back

23:59

creature's eyes, and it buries

24:02

its head in your shoulder. I

24:04

give it a sweet little kiss and I walk out of the room. Gross.

24:08

Friend.

24:14

I take

24:18

the

24:19

book. Chelsea, come here. I'm

24:21

gonna grab some candles that go into the room with

24:24

the desk to check this thing out. What is that,

24:26

Tommy? That little girl ghost I told you

24:28

about. The

24:28

one who cries in the

24:29

house. Remember what her family's

24:32

name was? I show

24:33

her the cover of the book. Let's

24:36

see what horrible stuff is in

24:38

here. Just inside

24:40

the front cup you see the Briggs family

24:43

tree. It ends with Jonathan the

24:45

father, Priscilla the mother, and their

24:47

little daughter. Donna

24:49

Briggs. born in eighteen ninety

24:52

four. You see their family photos

24:54

going away's back, and within a few

24:56

pages you see Donna as

24:58

a baby. than as a little girl.

24:59

That's her, Chelsea. The Brakes girl. Donna Brakes, I

25:01

don't wanna see. They're just

25:04

photos,

25:04

Chelsea. Oh, they are just photos, and

25:07

you feel DISCONNECTED FROM THEM AT

25:09

FIRST UNTIL YOU SEE AN

25:11

IMAGES DATED eighteen ninety nine OF

25:13

THE HAPPY FAMILY STANDING IN FRONT OF THEIR

25:15

NEW HOUSE. THIS

25:17

HOUSE immediately

25:19

followed by an article about a missing

25:22

child in nineteen hundred. Donna

25:25

Briggs, the eleven year old child of

25:27

miss Catania University library

25:29

clerk Jonathan Briggs

25:31

was reported missing from her home in

25:33

Uptown arkham last week. gosh.

25:37

As you flip to the pages beyond,

25:39

you see that this becomes sort

25:41

of a scrapbook journal. There are articles

25:44

going back to before the civil war and

25:46

annotation written in a deaf

25:48

hand, perhaps Priscilla's handwriting.

25:51

I should

25:52

have listened, but who

25:54

leads warnings of a curse in this

25:56

day? Who suspects their

25:58

daughter's nightmares aren't

26:00

just a match today's. When the house

26:03

mowns, who says it's

26:03

anything but the wind, I think

26:06

of every night I put her back in her room

26:08

or scolded her. when

26:10

now I'd give anything to hold her safe in our bed.

26:12

The other night, Jonathan and

26:14

I swore we heard her voice muffled as

26:16

though she would trapped in the wall

26:19

Tommy,

26:19

please don't. Well, but, Chelsea, there might

26:21

be answers here. There's some kind of clue, something to

26:23

get us out these people. They were looking

26:26

for answers. Well, they didn't stop people

26:28

from dying here. We're gonna

26:30

get chopped up and sold for meat.

26:32

You can't

26:32

help but look to your sister

26:34

as she cradles. that

26:37

creature. The further

26:39

we search

26:40

in the archives, the more tales we hear,

26:42

the more it becomes clear, this

26:45

There's no mere superstition. This is

26:47

no coincidence or hysterics. We

26:49

are not just grieving parents.

26:53

Seeing our daughter

26:53

calling out to us in the mirror, something

26:57

evil.

26:57

In habits this house,

27:00

and there's an article pinned

27:02

next to that note. Dark

27:04

visions at the Barncker House, Thursday night,

27:06

brought more screams and wild stories

27:08

from the Barncker House. Hillary

27:11

Blakeman, apprentice dressmaker

27:13

and renter, reported hearing

27:15

voices in empty rooms, infant

27:17

like wailing at night along with visions

27:19

too strange to print. This comes

27:21

after the previous owner took a two

27:23

month trip to the North Shore asylum

27:26

after reporting being watched and seeing lights in

27:28

the yard at night. He could not be

27:30

reached for comment. This is far

27:32

from the first time that there has been strange reports coming out

27:34

of this house. Local children and other

27:37

vagrants are said to inhabit the place at

27:39

times. It seems there will soon be

27:41

a vacancy at this location. This has

27:43

been going on for for since

27:45

eighteen

27:45

eighty five. This this

27:48

This article is from eighteen eighty five. You

27:50

flip

27:50

ahead another page and you

27:52

see dates even earlier.

27:54

A wedding announcement of doctor William

27:57

Barncker and Evelyn Wyman

27:59

from eighteen sixty, and

28:01

then two missing

28:03

persons report. Doctor Barniker

28:05

in eighteen sixty one and

28:07

missus Barniker nine years

28:10

later. The

28:10

Barniker house It was

28:13

their house. April

28:16

eighteenth eighteen seventy Evelyn

28:18

Barncker, a benefactor of the French hill

28:20

orphanage and widow of dock William

28:22

Barncker is the subject of an ongoing

28:24

missing person's investigation. It's unclear

28:27

how long missus Barncker has been

28:29

gone. Police suspect months,

28:31

perhaps another casualty of the past

28:33

winter's blizzards. She left

28:35

no notice and no clues as to her

28:38

neighbors and family members to note that she has

28:40

been increasingly reclusive in the years

28:43

since the similar

28:43

disappearance of her been

28:45

nearly a decade prior.

28:47

Mister Barncker's sudden vanishing was the

28:49

cause of some minor scandal at the

28:51

time. However, no signs of foul

28:53

play were covered. Alongside

28:56

these clippings, there are several

28:58

bullet pointed notes

29:01

called black widow barnacle by

29:03

neighborhood children says

29:06

that she's a witch

29:07

and eight, her husband, missing

29:10

children cases attributed her, all

29:13

rumors. Adults say

29:15

he left her when she miscarried.

29:18

Numbers of missing

29:21

children increase after

29:23

eighteen sixty one and persist after

29:25

her disappearance. Chelsea,

29:27

we have to get out of this house. how

29:29

Roger locked us in. I don't know,

29:31

but we've gotta get Joey, and I don't

29:33

know where Jared is gone, but he's gone, and we got

29:35

to get out of here. Is

29:37

there anything else in

29:38

this book can I flip to the end? The annotations get

29:40

more sparse as it goes along. The

29:43

last thing in this book before the

29:45

note stop is a page appears to been

29:47

torn out of another book, a

29:49

very old book, and part of

29:51

this has been underlined.

29:54

A which or any beast

29:56

that can sort with the

29:58

devil's power will

29:59

be caused grievous harm at

30:02

the touch of iron or silver.

30:04

That those measures do not suffice,

30:06

there is no substitute, but

30:08

for the efficacy, a

30:14

flame. Joey,

30:29

you have been looking everywhere for Roger.

30:31

I tried all the rooms upstairs.

30:33

I went downstairs. I couldn't find

30:35

them so I'm having a smoke in the

30:38

park. Where

30:42

the How

30:43

are you, man? All around you is

30:45

the sound heavy

30:46

rain, miserable damp

30:49

wetness. Well, there's a fireplace if

30:51

you're right. there is. And it still

30:53

got the remnants of that raccoon

30:55

corpse in it. But the flu is open

30:57

now. I'll keep that ticket shit

30:59

aside. Anything I can burn in

31:01

here? Plenty. There's lots of wooden

31:03

furniture, there's a rolled up carpet,

31:05

drapes, even

31:06

a couple books by the fireplace that look like

31:08

someone might have been actually trying to use

31:10

them to start a fire pre this way.

31:12

Nice. I'm gonna bust up a chair, rip

31:14

down some drapes, use some of those

31:16

book pages, get something

31:18

going. Maybe the promotion will get

31:20

Roger and You have no

31:22

trouble bashing up this ruined rickety

31:24

Victorian furniture. That's

31:26

more like let's say my first

31:28

jumpfire, you know. With all

31:31

the pieces assembled in the fireplace. You light up one of those

31:33

book pages. It's gonna be

31:35

nice in here. It

31:37

catches the drape begin to smolder and

31:39

burn. The flame travels

31:41

across the fabric a couple of

31:43

inches. The pages crumple into black

31:45

and tissue, and then suddenly

31:47

the flame flares pink

31:49

and just disappears, leaving

31:51

nothing but stinking smoke behind.

31:55

Give me a notice stuff roll.

31:57

Forty seven out of twenty five.

31:59

I don't notice a damn thing.

32:02

Yeah. So you are extra startled when you hear

32:04

a pounding on the front door.

32:06

What the

32:09

Roger. You lost

32:10

yourself outside, man.

32:14

Roger. I know

32:15

you're right now. you a little faster.

32:17

Open this goddamn door. How

32:22

is that? The

32:24

pounding turns into kicking. And then

32:26

all of a sudden, the door swings open

32:28

and a figure is tumbling in

32:30

with the door. It's Roger's

32:33

brother, ace. His suit is

32:35

soaked, clinging to his skin,

32:37

and he looks furious.

32:39

Hey. Hey.

32:42

Hey, man. and shut

32:43

the fuck up your week. Right? Whoa.

32:45

Whoa. Whoa. What's with the hostility?

32:47

Shut the fuck up.

32:49

Get your

32:50

ass out here, Roger.

32:53

There's no

32:54

laughing matter. You've done

32:57

it for the last time. You're coming with

32:59

me or not. It's just a

33:01

bloody pulp. I think he

33:03

means business Roger. Oh,

33:06

so do I? I step out at the

33:08

end of the hallway from behind the

33:10

staircase.

33:10

I ain't going anywhere. Brother,

33:13

so you're just gonna have to come

33:15

and get a ace

33:19

charges.

33:19

I charge back. Your

33:21

body is flashing. I charge my

33:24

certification on hold. It's

33:25

crashing up against the band. Ace

33:27

is much bigger than you, Roger. Whoa. Whoa.

33:29

Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.

33:31

Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. He hits me.

33:34

He's

33:34

always fit me.

33:36

My credit is a kitchen knife with

33:39

a light being flourish. Swiggy, here's I brought

33:41

this

33:42

over. What

33:44

what did

33:44

you? Let me fucking

33:46

breath. Let me I kill you?

33:48

Not tonight. Not never.

33:51

Okay. Great. Thank

33:53

you. Not your brother.

33:55

Not very much. He was a

33:57

stumble back, dumbfounded,

33:59

slumped out

33:59

with bleeding all over the place. What

34:02

the fuck, Roger?

34:04

Make a sanity check.

34:08

I rolled twenty one out of fifty

34:10

four. I'm good. Well, only

34:12

as good as you can be

34:15

under these circumstances. because, holy fuck, you just

34:17

watched Roger kill his brother. That just

34:20

happened. And that's not even the worst

34:22

of it. I look

34:24

Joey, dead in the eye. My

34:26

face speckled with

34:29

hot blood. and

34:31

I hold the dripping knife out pointing at

34:34

him.

34:34

This is how the world works, Joey.

34:36

You're either the predator? or

34:39

the prey. As he's pointing the knife

34:41

at you, his arm is

34:44

crippling. Something about him

34:46

is just not right. And for a

34:48

brief moment, he smiles at

34:50

you. And you think

34:52

you see it,

34:54

a centipede. brawling across

34:56

his teeth. Oh my god. What

34:58

has happened to you, Roger? Joey,

35:00

behind you, the front door

35:04

slam shut. get down in the basement. Through the

35:06

kitchen now. Look. Look. This

35:08

is going way too far. For a bargain

35:10

next. With

35:12

the bar Roger. This is what it tasted to be on

35:14

top, man. Fuck. Show me where the

35:16

bottom is.

35:18

Gladly.

35:30

Don't you

35:31

just hate it when

35:34

relatives come by unannounced?

35:38

Seems like

35:38

like ACE forgot the most important

35:40

rule of trick or treating. A

35:42

treat might

35:43

be sweet, but don't

35:45

come knocking if you

35:47

can't handle the trick

35:49

Now folks, I swear to

35:51

you here and now upon this

35:53

very microphone that here at WIS,

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we are all treats

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and

35:57

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All night.

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all night This

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is mind of

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the pond,

39:52

by height.

40:03

I'm

40:06

not

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scared of this. giant

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wave. It was

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coming down the

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way. It saw was

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being heated up.

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My needle's in the

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all gather working while.

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And when I'm not

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a human. Nobody

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had no connection

40:39

to the next

40:42

world in Sweden.

40:45

Oh, man.

40:55

all night. It's

41:02

train sensitivity to

41:06

blown electricity.

41:10

That's serve as

41:12

what's happening.

41:14

It hit in dimensions.

41:19

Plug in the pipe singing.

41:22

Oh, that was all loud.

41:27

Oh, don't believe can't

41:32

wait. Oh

41:38

man. Oh, man.

41:42

Oh, man.

41:46

Oh, all day.

41:52

All day. I

41:55

feel feelings. In

41:59

the crowd waiting. to

42:05

the female. And

42:11

when the sounds sounds

42:14

wild. And you don't

42:16

know how it happened.

42:22

Oh, beans. clacko. Be a

42:25

magnetic magnet. Oh,

42:30

man. Oh,

42:34

man. Oh,

42:38

man. all

42:44

day.

43:04

Thanks for

43:08

listening to the call

43:09

of the delivery program.

43:12

This series is recorded and produced in Central Florida

43:14

and Nashville, Tennessee, on land

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stolen from their indigenous people. The

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Tumuqua pivotal, and you seek to guitar, Johnny, and Cherokee

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respectively. Recognishment of the first peoples

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of these lands and the

43:26

lasting repercussions of colonization

43:29

is just the beginning of the restorative work.

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That is necessary. Through awareness,

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we can prompt allieship,

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action, and ultimately,

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