Isaiah
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So we're going to go ahead and get into that, but first, for this story... Oh, I forgot to mention we have a little special guest tonight. Coming in to help us read this very funny, funny story is someone who makes good work. Dare I say admirable work. He's from this area, you know. Have you guys seen the movie Hereditary or Midsommar? Right? If you don't know him, his name's Ari Aster.
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It's especially weird, too, when you're kind of, like, younger, like, if you're 15 or 16, and you are, like, looking at an adult cry, it's even more awkward. I don't know why, but it's just something where it's like, you're not supposed to do that. You know what I mean? So it's, like, this, like, adult woman who's just, like, bawling, and this is, like, 15-year-old kid who's just, like, I...
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I'm just here to make pastrami sandwiches. I have nothing to give.
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So we actually make our own sourdough bread here. It's like just trying so hard to like get the fuck out of this conversation.
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what what a weird fucking thing what do you mean what the old man smiled at me and told me that i could have a free that it used to belong to a kid who was about my age that didn't live here anymore could what like your grandson what does that mean the child doesn't live here he said he opened by saying he went to a weird neighborhood so i assume he means the neighborhood that makes it even worse that makes it so much
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Yeah, I didn't think of that. What's wrong? Kimber, your mom is just being put in the ground. It's not a big deal. What's wrong, baby? What's going on? What's wrong? Yo, what the hell? Did you see that open casket? You see that open casket? Dude, your mom's bloated. It's weird.
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I'm going to laugh. I'm going to laugh so hard, Isaiah. I'm going to raffle copter, as the kids say. The day that you were like, hey, I can't record today because someone harvested my organs because you're so fucking naive. You're going to let someone come in and cut up all your gutty works and take it.
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What is that even? Did he live in the house? Then why does it just be like, hey, it's my gran- my gran- because listen, you can do this in a different way where the guy's like, hey, my grandkid used to play games here, right? But no, this old creepy fuck is like, there was no- the kid doesn't live anymore, but if you want it, you can have it. I don't know. I'm an old man.
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Can you imagine Slenderman giving you galaxy gas? Is galaxy... I heard some jokes about... Is it just nitrous? Well, it's nitrous oxide, but it's like... You know those Coleman thermoses? It's like the size of that.
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whippets are like tiny little capsules the galaxy guessing is like flavored it's like banana cream here's a psa do not do galaxy gas guys well you know you know how nitrous oxide gets you high do you know what the function of it is
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i thought it just suffocates like part of your brain it suffocates your brain yeah so it kills brain cells well dude to such a degree that you feel high because your brain is dying do you think our show instantly makes you stupid do you think our show is big enough to where somebody has been listening to us read terrible creepypastas and they're getting high on galaxy gas yes on uh on pina colada galaxy gas it tastes like dreamsicle
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Just like... Tastes like... Tastes like coconut. Like falls back in his deal. Yeah, we're just like... Just like listening to the left-right game. He took a left and then a right.
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Yeah, I don't know. Maybe that's just because I read things in, like, when I'm voice acting, I have to read scripts, and that's the only time I read. Maybe, who knows?
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Go back. Go back to the middle. I didn't... Someone overdosing on Galaxy Gas at the part when the main character of Left Right Game is talking to their future angel ethereal self would be such a trip. Someone would be completely high and they're just like, oh my fucking god. It's like, I'm in the future and the past. The guy's like, what the fuck?
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someone's about to die and we're like we just have to make it to winterby we just have to yeah the ambulance is there sir can you hear me i've never seen alex act the way he does in the following raw footage from marble hornets what do you think marble horns is about especially where it's like brian's gonna reflect here later
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You got a voice modulator just ready? Imagine you're sitting in a room with a guy. You guys are watching Marble Hornets. You just hear... You're like, what are you doing?
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No, but I'm wondering, um... I'm wondering if there's maybe some sort of infamous family or something.
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Um, the, uh... The thing about her, though, commenting like, oh, you guys are really far away from home is very suspicious. As soon as you read that, I was like, okay, uh-oh.
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You creep. Yeah. Average Isaiah gas station moment. Be like... I hate when people say like, oh, like when I have like my Missouri plates and I'm like, I had to drive to like LA when I first graduated college. People would be like, oh, Missouri. Well, you're very far out. And I'd be like, why the fuck does it matter to you? Leave me alone. Who the fuck are you? Yeah.
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Good fucking observation, dude. Hey, what do you want my social security number next? You creep. They're trying to talk. What's your blood type?
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Okay, you know what? Maybe I am. I'd be like, you know what? Why are you looking at my license plate? Was it that peculiar to you, dude? Leave me alone. I have a feeling a lot of people in chat are going to agree with me. I think a lot of our commenters are going to be like, yeah. If a guy came up to me, he's like, oh.
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I don't see a delineation. I did not see any delineation at all. What brings you to town? It's the same to me as, oh, you have a pretty set of hands. That's the exact same thing to me.
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Well, I'm wondering, too, if the girl that we just talked to, if she smells that way, too, because she's just technically rotting skin and stuff. Even the people walking around smell that way. Everyone's decomposed. Or maybe it just smells like bacon. Who knows? If it just smelled like bacon, but you couldn't have any. Well, I'll be honest.
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The older I get, the bacon becomes less and less alluring to me, if I'm being completely honest. And now I will go as far to say that when my wife will make bacon for herself for breakfast sometimes, it almost makes me gag, the smell of bacon.
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I honestly don't know. I used to like now. I don't know why, but the smell of bacon, for some reason, it makes me seriously sick to my stomach. I'm like, I can't do it. And I'm going to sound like a little Nancy, but I will say don't mind turkey bacon. Love some nice turkey bacon. All right.
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Definitely. And you don't like that. Well, it's been a while, but I feel like now even I would, I would rather smell the beautiful fresh air and the trees and not the goddamn disgusting pig meat. I'm just going to keep reading.
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If you're like, I hate the smell of bacon, like not just like favors, like, you know, man, sorry that I'm trying to like, just let you know who I am as a person.
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I, because if it's going to ruin our relationship as, as co as co-host, then I'll just stop telling you about myself.
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I'm saying that out of nowhere, in a story, right? Let's say I have a deal.
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That's fine. Actually, I'm a collection of grasshoppers. Yeah. Just inside of human leather is pretty much what I am. That's all I am. I'm a grasshopper scarecrow. That's what I am.
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every now and then we'll be out to eat or something like that hunter will like go to eat his food and like grasshoppers fall and he's like i gotta quit doing that as he's shoveling the back end really quick i picture i picture whenever i got uh dinner with you and kayla i'm like you guys are like yeah i really love this place and it's just me stiff like my eyes and my mouth open it's like grasshoppers just like hopping out of it and you're just talking to me as if it's a normal conversation i'm just
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yeah just like oh man how do you like the food and you're like a mannequin over there with grasshoppers pouring out on the table yeah my everything yeah my neck falls back and falls off my body like bugs are just like protruding everywhere jumping and going you're like oh wow the steak here is unbelievable everyone's screaming in terror and running out of the restaurant ah
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You have to try the spinach dip. It's Which makes it even better that I'm assuming that you have to you had to unbuckle me from the backseat of your car That's what I'm gonna do when you die I'm gonna have like a hunter statue I bring places like this for it
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If I die tragically, Isaiah, and you don't have some kind of manic episode and carry it, like at least some kind of Funko pop around of me. Oh, of course.
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I know, I fucking, I can't fucking read for shit. God damn it, dude. I'm so fucking mad about this.
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I don't know, dude. I've seen the mason jars you have in your house. I feel like a Funko Pop could fit in there.
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Can I just say something real quick? Yeah, go ahead. If I'm being completely honest, and this is just, I'm cringing just a little bit. I fucking hate when people, the word cuddle, cuddled. He keeps talking about how he's cuddling the whole time. I just, I had to put it out there. I don't know.
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We've got, um, all my big brothers and sisters are going to be the, the big boys and girls out there are going to get it because my ass, if I, if I remotely touch somebody, I get so hot. All right.
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I love grilled zucchini. It's so good. It's so good. It is good. It's very good.
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I'm not about to call my bitch monkey toes. Monkey toes. I'm going to call her angel or pretty face. Pretty eyes.
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I don't know. I'm like... I'm not, I'm not totally bought in yet, dude. I hate fun. I don't hate fun.
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I just, I'm, I feel like it's the, if he feels like he's a part, he's the experiment.
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This is fucked. He continues. The old farmhouse belonged to Dr. Wentz. He was the guy that I'm sure you've heard of about... I'm sure you've heard about. Who used to go... Oh my... Good fucking God, Hunter. Get it together. Good... My God. Come on! That whole farmhouse belonged to Dr. Wentz.
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I don't trust raccoons. I have, I've never been a big raccoon guy. I don't even think they're cute. You know what I mean? Do you think raccoons are a cute-looking animal?
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It is not normal for people to like raccoons, dude. People associate rabies with raccoons.
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That's why your hands are swollen all the time. Shut up. Because you've gotten 16 raccoon bites and you have perpetual rabies in your hands.
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Just wait. I do not blame you. The meet and greet is completely on your shoulders.
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As soon as I walk by, you're on the phone, you're like, oh, hey, whatever. He didn't say anything. He's just, like, bringing his groceries in. He gets in, he's, like, picking the groceries up and putting them into the hotel room, and she's already grabbing your shit and helping you. Oh, here you go. I'd be like, get the fuck away from my bag.
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In the series, this is our second time seeing her. Even if it was you, I'd be like, why the fuck are you... Like, if you... Let's say we... When we go on a tour, right? And we're in the same hotel...
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if i was walking down i saw you on the phone i was walking by with like some stuff i got a quick trip or like a gas station right some snacks and then i turn around and you're right behind me helping with my bags and i'd be like isaiah fucking what do you like get back up dude back up give me some breathing room hey can i help you can i put these bags in your room nah nope don't like it all right i'm uh can you pause it real quick
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Alright, I am adding to the list, helping with... You're saying that if you were, like, coming up and you're in your own zone, right? I'm doing my own thing, you're like, you haven't really, there's no kind of back and forth yet of like, oh, hey, come on in! And I was just already walking into a room, you wouldn't just be like, well, that's kind of rude.
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He was the guy I'm sure you've heard about who used to do botched abortions and all sorts of inhumane procedures back in the 1800s. He's the guy the rich went to when they had young daughters getting knocked up, when they had special needs child they didn't want to keep. God damn. He built the house himself and even named the road Patch Lane as a joke to all the patching he did for people.
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If I sat there and I was like, what's all these groceries for? What are you doing in here? Why are you here? You can at least give me that one.
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If it was you, is that what you're saying? No, no, no. If me and your relationship was like Jay and Jessica, which who knows?
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Make sure to delineate that it's not just help with groceries. It's that there was no dialogue of being like, hey, let me help you with that. Oh, sure, man. Thank you. So whatever. I am putting my things down.
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I don't even know you're behind me, right? All of a sudden, Isaiah's behind me. Give back shots 4K Slender Man style. And I'm like, hey, whoa, what are you doing back here?
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I like that. Did you like that? I like that. My speech is especially, uh, very good.
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Yeah, that dude's good. Public displays of affection. No. No, sir. No, thank you. Children. You're telling me with PDA, you ever see somebody sitting by one another and they're like... somebody's like whispering into each other's ear and the guy like kisses the girl's neck and shit. And you're just like, what the fuck? Like take that somewhere else, dude.
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You ever see a guy kiss a girl's neck in public? I'm like, God damn. I don't know. It's a bit, even for me, I'm like, I don't know why I get so icked out by that, but it does.
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You know what? If you're over the age of 50, if you're over 50 years old, cheek kissing is fine to me.
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literal throw up in my mouth right now all right the laughter of children that most deafening sound on earth others showing happiness okay that that that that's below the belt all the other ones have been very i would say answer the question honest i would i like seeing other people happy okay okay all right
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I'm thrilled to see the people who were able to get their tickets.
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Despise them. You know what I really hate? I hate baby. I don't like that. I also think it's inappropriate for women to call men daddy. We need to stop that. Bacon. I don't like that. I like turkey bacon. Can I get half a point for turkey bacon?
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When I was younger, I liked it. But the older I get, the more the smell makes me gag, dude. Okay. So I'm leaving bacon on there. Old people.
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You know what? I can pop my pussy to some Taylor Swift sometimes. So yes, I don't mind.
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You see those little guys carrying those nuts up that tree? They make the most delicious gravy.
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I love vegetables. Chicken pot pie. No. Can't stand chicken pot pie. Do not like chicken pot pie. That's a shame.
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what this last one you're gonna have to explain to me women touching and fanning their eyes when crying that's for a reason one i that is such a huge pet peeve of mine i was watching this show the uh secret lives of mormon wives and it's like whenever people have like when women have like their face fully fucking lit up with makeup you know what i mean and they cry and to stop for mascara they'll take like their fingers or they'll take like tissues and put them up near their tear ducts they'll do they'll do oh oh
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And they'll look up in the air and they'll dab it. And that just drives me fucking insane. Just let the tears fucking flow. I can't mess up my makeup. It's like you look like a ghoul already.
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But you know what, Isaiah? There was some positive movement on things that were misconceptions. Misconceptions.
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You just hear, like, like a guy, like, dying of snoring in there. Like a giant CPAP machine sound. They have a CPAP in the car. Yeah, from a generator. Ah, wintery bay, here we come.
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Excuse me? Like, you're in the line at, like, a grocery store. You know what I mean? They're like, what? What?
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Yeah, it's a nine foot tall monkey. Nine foot tall monkey that tickles you until you speak Spanish.
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Yo, her eyes look all buggy. It's weird, Kimber. What the hell's going on with you, though? Is it your time of the month or something, Kimber? For real? Is this how it's going to be? You realize we have a play of the day, right? How are you going to fake crying if you keep this up? Gosh! Get it together. Hey, baby, I know that this is probably an act, but you need to get your game face on, okay?
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Why did your lips purse? When you said that he's like leaning over and shit.
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the, that perfect time where it's like useful ignorance, but also like kind of upbeat adventurous kind of, you have enough agency to go do stuff, but still enough stupidity to put yourself in dumb situations. It's like the innocence of believing that someone like if two, if, if they were 26, you'd be like, do you have nothing better to do with time?
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But then being 12 years old, I think really leans into that. How old were you when you had your first kiss? 32.
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I'm sick. Leave me alone. Also, I want to say fucking ACAB, dude. I think every cop in the United States is a fucking coward. And I hate the cops.
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If I'm in your home today, I think that you're trying to lure people somewhere.
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i'm gonna say you know i'm gonna say i'm like that's really funny because my friend's been taking polaroid pictures of you for about three probably about 30 minutes and he keeps talking about his basement so i don't know what that means so feel free yeah no yeah i want to know stuff but i just want you know this guy's been taking pictures of you all day check his phone check his phone that's what i'll say okay if i'm like oh my friend here wants to talk to you you're like he he's he god easy good god
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So that, that pheasant and duck and stuff. So we had a, I could catch her basically. Oh, okay.
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Well, we had one, we had one. And then my grandpa who had a stroke, he was, he would sit in this electric wheelchair, uh, His fucking mouth would be open and his eye is blind in one eye. And he fucking shot the dog in the head. And that was really traumatizing.
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like on accident yeah well i would assume so i mean the man i i don't know why he had a gun in his hand i was too young to really process that this was a horrible thing but no also sorry trigger warning dog a little late for that hold on you were were you there yeah i was right next to you i was probably seven
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You know what I think? I think if you have a problem, deal with it. What are you calling somebody else to fucking clean up your mess? Am I right?
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Could have very easily happened. Let me just tell you that could have happened. It was sad. I feel like this is going to just bum everybody out. We should probably just not even include that.
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That was just a confession. It's just something that happened in my life.
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First off, they said hunting dog. We've experienced other dogs in the show, and that story has never been relevant, but now it is.
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No, I don't think so. It definitely, it definitely is as creepy as you going to like find dead bodies or whatever. Like you said, or in like the first episode.
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Not my best friend. First off the dog. I'll be honest. Was very mean. Was not a fun dog. I'll be honest. No, no tears were really shed. It was scary. It haunted me. I was scared in the moment, but I can tell. Okay.
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Yeah, exactly. We're going pheasant hunting in southern Missouri. I'm like, Grandpa?
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Why do you have to shame me? Can I not just talk with my friend? Here's the thing, too. You only respond with okay to it.
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And then they look at my Twitter and they're like, nevermind. It wasn't that bad. I was just telling you something honest that was happening in my life, dude.
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Hello, mom. Isaiah is making fun of Grandpa Ernest and how he shot our dog Roger. Can you tell him that it wasn't that big of a deal?
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You know what? No, because they're all so fucking stupid that they wouldn't be able to read. Yo.
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She can't hear me. Hello, Mrs. Hancock, can you hear me? She can't hear you, Isaiah. I mean, what happened to him after the fact? Ernest.
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How many years did, I know he's, I mean, this is when I was like seven, but how, did he die in the nursing home or did you guys at least take him out?
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Well, I thought it was an accident. Was it not an accident? No, I don't think so. Oh my God. Okay. Well, this, this is completely taken.
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I didn't know. I didn't know. That could not have gone any... Editor, you cut that out right now. You cut... You leave all of that in.
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telling scary stories here. We're deviating too far from the script here. We got to just get back to the story.
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I waited hours. I waited hours standing in the doorway. I believe is the next line. Get me out of this hell, please.
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It's fucked up because you've, you've planted the seed now. And now in the woods, all I'm hearing is a mobility scooter, cracking leaves and cracking branches, rolling through the darkness, random pop shots going off in the middle of the night. And now I feel bad for Sandy.
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Here we go. Let's get back. We're back into the story. People came to listen to a scary story. Let's give it to them right now. Boom. We're back in.
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it looks like this house is abandoned I think the 9-11 I think the 911 heading to 9-11 sorry guys sorry it's always on my mind I apologize I think that the 911 hang up might have been some wires crossed clearly no report and four sorry I'm just taking a moment of silence yeah I mean I every day in my life yeah
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then i waited until that night sitting on my porch step fainting off sleep deprivation to see my dog come back sandy did come back but not for another three days but i read i read all this yeah not for another three days that would me up dude at what point do you i mean what's weird is i feel like in the morning i would go searching right or would you even i would probably go that night with a flashlight walking around trying to find him
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Yeah. Yes. Yeah. What, what the fuck you get going? Okay. No. All right. I love dogs. Okay. I love dogs. I cannot be, I cannot be beholden to my family. All right.
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We got to get through this or people are going to get mad at us, dude. I'm telling you, we have to get through this.
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The dog wasn't even looking at him, dude. It was from behind. Come on. This story is completely been derailed. People are going to be so fucking mad at us. I'm sorry. If there is an audio listener, I am so sorry for this fucking horrible.
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Like, okay. But yeah, you know, as a level-headed guy, it's a quick little, this is a very quick story.
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I will be having, I'll be having choice choice words with my mother after this recording is done.
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And it was that, oh, literally who wants to be a millionaire lifeline call completely backfiring.
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the mom screaming downstairs is her getting like thrown into the garage door excuse me megan did i see you in the basement completely renovated it to be like a fucking giant stadium down there the end of the story the kid goes down there just like a rope ring like vince mcmahon is down there and he's like you beat tommy taffy you get a contract kid
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Entry 5, gang, rise up. Entry 5, gang, rise up. Oh, my God. Have you ever thought about how Slender Man is super inspired by Vecna? Slenderman has taken a lot from Vecna. Jay's kind of like Eddie Munson a little bit, if you think about it, too. Hello? Isaiah, are you there?
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Well, that's not the question. Which one do you like more? Say it with your chest.
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I used to have a Heath Ledger poster in my room that said, Why so serious? Written in blood.
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So, you know, that I don't have a, let me just say, I don't have a Joaquin poster. So I think that speaks volumes.
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Anyway, where are we? What are we doing? Oh yeah. Left, right game.
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And then, uh, what the fuck's his name? Who's the British guy in that movie? Michael Caine.
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That's exactly what Michael Caine sounds like in those movies. Mashed to wine.
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I just want to say, can I, I just want to pause you. Sorry to interrupt.
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i'm really emotionally tuggy people don't know where i stand so that's what that's that's the yeah that's the that's the great emotion yeah exactly people are like who does he what does he stand for hey regardless of what's going on you're just you're just rooting for the little guy i'm always an underground guy and here's another thing too i will do stolen valor
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And can you explain why the hair color was wrong and about half of these items are listed as undetermined? If you think you can do better, go right ahead. God, what is this police department? She's like the only professional person. She's like, am I the only person actually doing my job here? He's like, I took my crack at it. If you think you're better, go ahead, change it. I wrote it, I wrote it.
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I wrote it all in pencil, erase, whatever you want and write whatever you need down.
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that's another thing i will do this i will do that you will see me do that in my lifetime and i will get caught i i respect that i respect that yeah like teachers who actually care about their work and put themselves into it can have such a profound effect on kids oh absolutely you also had a very mature response to that because remember one time when you watched uh i think it was gone with the wind and it's the part where the woman rides the horse and dies and our teacher was crying and the entire class was just laughing at her
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Oh, yeah. They even put leaves in there. She's like, it's spices. It's oregano.
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If you can get potato soup, if you can get cabbage soup from Olive Garden. She's like, are you eating like a Depression-era person at a restaurant? I would like the edge of a loaf of bread and a bowl of your finest cabbage soup. Thank you.
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And then a slight tumor grows in the back of your head, and it's just like, Boroska.
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He pushed the cigarette away from his... That's kind of funny. Marcus seems surprised by that. You mean by him saying a skinwalker?
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You waited until your wife left for work and then you went out to the woodshed and hung yourself.
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I mean, without, without hesitation, I think the woman says just like Paul and my teachers like tearing up and crying and we're just like, I mean like hysterically laughing. It's like, could not be polar, more polar opposite to your story. Okay.
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All right. I want to make this quick because I'm tired of repeating this fucking thing to you pathetic suicidals. You get one question before I begin. Okay.
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Sure. At some point, but he lost control of it and he put the pigs in charge.
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Optimistically, I'm like, ooh, that's fun. Because it kind of reminds me of this Hideshi Hino comic. I think it's just literally called Pig Farm. Staring up at me was an armless man.
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Well, I like armless dudes sitting around the floor like a little worm.
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I feel like you are hitting the hammer right on the head. Hit the hammer on the nail with that one. That's my, that's my cute, uh, that's, that's my cute little quirk though. You're, you're into suffering. Like, no, no, not that I'm into suffering, but I, it makes me uncomfortable and I giggle. Oh, okay. See, that's why that makes me so cute off by it that you have to laugh.
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I think I'm so shocked by it at times that when I see when I hear the idea of a first time, I was the man holding the brick, you know, and then he, you know, was he holding it down? He doesn't have arms. He slid in the room. I like a little worm to me. I'd be like, if I was there, I would. It would just uncomfortable. Think how dirty his belly is.
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I don't know why you're trying to throw me down the river here. I was just, I was a little disappointed. Now I think this is cool. It's like, okay, what kind of reminds me of is like Silent Hill or like old PS2 horror game stuff. Silent Hill or fucking like, almost like The Suffering 2.
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Don't ever twist me. I imagine your room is completely flooded and you're just on a giant shark floaty.
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Okay. I'm not gonna lie. That kind of, I was like, I got a bad taste in my mouth. I felt a little something crawl up my spine there. You know what immediately made me think of, aesthetically, was the Poughkeepsie tapes.
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It's like... The very infamous one where it's like the guy crawling down the steps in the basement and stuff. All that kind of stuff.
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Also how cryptically vague everything is. Also, it's like... Recalling these things, it feels like it's recalling a dream or something. It's just... Ugh. We don't know the intentions yet, you know what I mean? And it makes it so much worse.
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So oblivious throughout all of this story. It's like so just fucking oblivious. I love it.
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I'm trying to wrap my head around that. He actually took you to the house. Okay, just keep going, and then we're almost done with this one, and we can actually see. I'm so curious to see. I will say... Okay. My God. My God. Get this child away from this dad, by the way.
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He never saw the station, but he is led to believe, sorry to cut you off, he is led to believe that he has read, he has read that thing. Right? As an adult, if I got a letter in the mail from a TV studio, presumably an adult, and it said, Dear Elliot, thank you ever so much for writing a letter. I would love to have you in my cellar.
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It's like the dash is like, oh, I don't give a fuck. Where do you need to go? What's the address? Oh, I'll plug it in. I don't give a shit. Sure. Yo, Elliot, get your bag. We're going. He's like, he wants him out of the house. Yeah, I got TV to watch. That's why I bought that TV so I could watch my shows. Unbelievable, dude. Even if you've never seen it, I'd be like, no.
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You want to go to a cellar? It doesn't even say come to the studio. It says come to my house. He's like, yeah, that probably makes sense. That's where Jerry Seinfeld, he films all those episodes in his apartment, so that makes sense. Unbelievable. Unbelievable, dude.
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That's testicular torsion if I've ever seen it. As she pulled herself from the floor. Why are you showing me all of this? If you really are a detective and part of the police force, you'd lock stuff like this away behind ten locks and keys. What a weird thing to say. Why specifically 10 locks again?
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I just want to say that I have to question now if you yourself are Mr. Bear. Because that's what that defense sounded like. Because I want to say that, sure, he's never seen the show. If I would have sat there, let's say I've never seen Dragon Ball Z. And my kid says, Oh, it's a show about fighting.
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Sure, right? Go to Master Roshi's island, he says. I'm like, well, that's a weird thing. And then it says, the next line says, Come to my house? At what point would I be like, hmm, that's kind of weird. It's shot in a house. Well, yeah, I guess.
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I also think it's being presumptuous that you said that he's like, because with how neglectful he's been so far, I would almost assume this 90s father is just waiting in the car. All right, I'll be here. Have fun. Get on in there.
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all i'm saying is i don't yeah i i i i believe at some point and someone will probably pull up this image i could have sworn that i've seen you with some kind of giant teddy bear mask on and i just i i don't know i don't know also you are rushing to the defense of of this extremely quickly
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All right. We'll see where this goes, Mr. Bear. We'll see where it goes. That's gonna be your new nickname, dude. I'm not gonna call- I'm not gonna- no longer are you Win the Goo to My Eyes. You are literally Mr. Bear, is how I see this. Also, you talked about how you've seen dead bodies in real lives and stuff. Mr. Bear! Mr. Bear!
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Did you say something dropped in the room? Dude, a box dropped off my shelf randomly in my room. Are you fucking kidding me? Yes fucking Elgato a fucking Elgato stream box box dropped from the second. I don't know how I this is honestly That's fucking me up.
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I'm glad. And my door is closed, Mike. My door is closed. There's no way.
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I got this dude now I'm at that. I'm at that feeling where it's like i'm really creeped out. I'm like hearing like little things. I don't like this I wonder... Dude, I wonder if you could hear... That was a pretty loud drop. I'm wondering in my recording if you could hear that. That was fucked up.
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No, nobody got to see that. And I want to say that's bullshit. I had people flooding, flooding me on Twitter after the fact and Reddit and everything. And I want to say that, like, I saw the edit. I saw, like, when I was rewatching the cut and I was like, this son of a bitch. I was like, the entire time, played me like a fool the entire time. So I want to say, yes, I saw it. It's unbelievable.
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My mouth was agape during the edit. When I first saw the first cut of it, my mouth was wide open. I was like, he trolled me the entire time.
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All I could do was grit my teeth and clench my fist in rage. I was just like, you bastard.
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As soon as you have your first child, I'm going to go up to it. I'm going to say, we're on the same level, you and I. That's what I'm going to say to him. I'm going to shake his little hand and be like, you and I are one in the same.
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But this time I'm actually like, yeah, could be, but I don't know. I'm glad, finally, the sadistic mastermind himself can't play one over on me.
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I'm like, I see your cock and balls, we cannot put this in. I don't know why you had to stand so far away from your Logitech web camera.
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that was a weird interaction this is what i'm thinking i'm thinking that this is just a fucking socially weird ass couple dude i've done some people like this these are just some weird people yeah like where it's just like a guy's just like yeah i mean my favorite thing to do is play settlers of katan and watch the old gargoyle show on disney xd and she likes to crochet and eat pears you're like what kind of fucking what world are you in dude i'm
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Does she really think I'm cute? Does she just mean I was funny? Does she think I'm attractive?
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Yeah, has like a Deathly Hallows ankle tattoo. This is actually a 32-year-old woman.
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Man down! Man down! Get him out of there! Aw, shit! Emac! Emac! Emac!
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She doesn't know it, but I count that. It's like, why doesn't she know that? Like, why would you not want to tell your best friend that?
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I don't think it's odd also to tell somebody, one of your best friends, like, hey, when I met you, I feel like my life is more enriched. Like, I'd say that to you, Isaiah. I'd say, you know what, ever since I've met you and stuff, I feel like my life has been enriched deeply. And it isn't creepy for me to say.
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When I was at your house, too, I was like, what does this smell like? So I went through your and Kayla's stuff, and I was just sniffing stuff around because it's not weird. We're friends. Yeah.
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I didn't know if the call broke out. What did it smell like? Yeah. Everything from Kayla's stuff to your stuff all smell like Old Spice Fiji.
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Yeah, how are you? He's like very normal. You're like behind an old oak tree. What did I tell you? He loves you.
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What were we talking about? We're adding lore to the universe. Mr. Weller is now the Creepcast poltergeist. He is the ghost now.
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I imagine he'll get legs. We'll see. I feel like in the future, as time goes on, I have a feeling we'll experience Mr. Weller again soon enough.
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No problem there, child. Actually, now, is there something that URL has to be taken, right?
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This is truly... A Barbie girl rendition of an edited clip of Naruto is pretty cool.
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Because even the giant red, a speedy chicken crossed the road. Oh, my God. How did the chicken cross the road? Is this seriously where we're going, dude?
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Dude, we're going to get into giant alien chickens. How do you feel about that, giant alien chickens? I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I also am getting a feeling that this is Greg's real mom. I want to say that. I'm putting that bet down. Sure. I think, like I said, it looks like it's like bloody, like blood skin draped over a skull, whatever. But it doesn't look like a regular nose.
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i am refusing until it proves otherwise we are in giant egg chicken territory i don't know okay
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I believe in that paranormal trash that fucking gunk beneath my boot. That's stupid idiot stuff.
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I actually believe that now I just like the, the, the pod, the comma.
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bro kyle jesus kember what's wrong kyle is one of the boys he is the most dude bro definitely ever especially he's just like viciously pulling up his like big ass pants and his like like oversized jacket he looks like he looks like that one talking head concert where they have like the giant suits on he's like kember what the hell is your problem
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Yeah, so what, you just went to sleep? You fell asleep in a house?
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You better watch your tone, is what he says. Man, this is serious. So serious, it's black. Did you like that pun, Marcus? He's already gone. He's in his car driving away down the road. The creature crawls in the house and is just like, I was going to do a bunch of stuff, but...
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Edwin takes off a comically large gothic mirror off his wall and holds it up to his brother.
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fucking, like, took the guy's kidneys, but he's like, here's something for you to remember me with. And, like, cut his cheek? For what reason?
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but but but he heard a drop he heard a thump on the window and he was like oh my god what what that's nothing it's probably just one of those raccoons right edwin right he's in the room next door right probably raccoon okay
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That makes the doctor to be fair. That makes the doctor so suspicious. We don't know how though. I'm sorry, bitch. I don't know what happened. Oh, you're you're you're missing your kidney.
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The good news is that you had minor injuries and your parents are going to pick you up. The bad news is that your brother has been killed by some thing. Sorry.
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Your brother's dead. It's just, it's, it's the fucking has been killed by some thing. So they know what it is. And then, and then he just ends it with, sorry, sorry about that.
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I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to take an even bigger cadaver. I'm going to put you in a coffin. I'm going to put the bigger cadaver on top of you, and I'm going to recreate the pen pal ending. And that's how I'm going to bury you.
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God. You have admitted to some crazy shit these past couple episodes.
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Well, I'm going to start learning bomb deactivation then immediately. I didn't know. Yeah.
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Well, the structure of that, a five minute long video where a man with no legs is attempting to break dance.
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Literally, it's just the word putting attempting in there that makes it very funny and tragic. What's funny about a disability, Hunter?
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What's the reading? Your baby just instant transmissioned out of your uterus. Well, I don't know how I'm supposed to say this, but we've lost your baby. He's like, what? He's in my body. What do you mean, you've lost it? Well, I hate to say this, but we seem to have lost your baby.
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remember that let me tell you that that was just that was unexpected that was i expected the child to be more part of the story okay sorry go ahead by searching bill's house the police found one of his daughters hanging by the neck from the ceiling in the attic that's not good she was only two months old it's something funny
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the baby was swinging in the attic attached to the ceiling fan at the highest speeds. I just imagine it's like...
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Also, I like how they show a full picture of the baby, but they're like, we're not going to show its very human eyes. We can't let people know the whereabouts of this baby.
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He showed a full picture of the dad, but we cannot let people know the identity of this baby. The baby was being flung 50 miles an hour on an industrial fan in the ceiling.
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The monster's too close now, Isaiah. What? The monster, he's too close now. He looks too close to us. Tell him to leave. What monster?
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Don't you know I know what you're... I know those big juicy lips are spread open and showing those big ass white teeth because you're smiling your ass off. What are you talking about?
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First off, I just want to say two minutes is forever. I mean, actually think about sitting there in silence for two minutes.
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Like, you know how long that'd be? I think I'd probably, I would probably be very afraid. I'd probably be irrational. I'd be like, hey, hey, hey. I'd probably start saying that. Hey.
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Yeah. And then when she turns at me and she's like, there's someone at the stairs, whatever I'd say, I'd say, right. I'd kiss her temple. I'd open the window and I'd crawled the window. I would chalk up the house as a loss on my taxes, and then that's what I would do. That would be it.
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You know what's fun about all this, dude? I'm already across the country. I've already talked to the accountant. The house, like I said, I've gotten that written off. What wife? Yeah, exactly. I'm like, I'm gone. I've been gone. See, people are going to judge me earlier on this story for being a bad person. Then they're going to read this shit and be like, oh, boy, there's no way in hell.
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My fat ass. I'm drinking a pina colada. Couldn't be more stressed. I have had the best sleep of my life.
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And then a slight tumor grows in the back of your head, and it's just like, Boroska.
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You know what my ass is doing? People are sitting there, they're like, what are we gonna do about my... But our... You know, my wife, I love her, right? My ass is on a plane, I'm like... Take me down to Kokomo, but not to Flask, they will take it slow.
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Speaker 2 and 3, 0, 0, 0, 0. like biblical levels of running away like jonah levels of like i'm seriously going to any time i watch any of these like movies now horror movies i'm just gonna think about a person uh listening to fucking uh the beach boys whatever
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Oh, yeah, no, I definitely do. Yeah, I know the feeling. Hold on, there's like a... Oh my god, yeah, sorry, I'm just now realizing.
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I was like sitting there and I was like, yeah, my stomach did drop.
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Well... Kind of almost looked like the dad was getting a little freaky with the squid, though, huh?
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He pushed the cigarette away from his... That's kind of funny. Marcus seems surprised by that. You mean by him saying a skinwalker? Marcus seems surprised.
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Your daddy needs it. Avery Jones is assimilated. Uh-oh. Uh-oh, it impregnated me.
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I fucking covered this SCP and it kind of reminds me of that. It was the... Hold on a second, let me see.
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Let's go back to the biblical monster stuff. I'm really tickling myself with that one. I can see that. Ray O'Connor?
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I want to see the guy fucking the dog again. This is the last known appearance of Officer Sam Page.
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Okay, so I want you to know that that's a better British accent than I've been doing, but you did sound like either AI or a robot butler.
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You're right, though. It does have the same vibe. It's funny that you say gay conversion camp because it has that kind of fanatic kind of thing where it's like a passive-aggressive sign is what it feels like.
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So you have to take yourself to like 12 years ago. How did they die? It was better to talk about anything else in the story of Mira's uncle's interest to me. The McCaskey boys? I don't really know. They died on the mountain somewhere. Oh, well, have you heard about the skin men? Sample needs to find a better way to approach people about the skin men.
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This guy he's like pouring his heart out. He's like yeah, I mean you know it's a lineage thing I don't know if our marriage is going to survive it, and he's like yeah, that's weird. Have you heard about the skin man? And then the guy's like skin man man.
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It is a pretty good comedic beat. How do we do this? Can we, uh, will this benefit the US government and can we weaponize it pretty much is what they're saying.
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Yes, Clancy. I'd be like, you seem like a very irresponsible adult.
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Gwyneth Paltrow with missile titties and she has a big goop candle coming out of her hands. Her goop candle that says it smells like her vagina. Could you go ahead and do that?
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Can you manifest Gwyneth Paltrow? And to me, she's really skinny, but to everyone else, she's really, really fat. Also, can she have a penis?
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If you see the shallow Hal version of Gwyneth Paltrow in the manifestation of a spider, don't worry.
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Go somewhere else. If you see a floating purple cancerous cloud of energy that's representative of sadness, don't worry. It can't hurt you. There's no way. There's no way the human mind can be like, oh, okay. Imagine seeing that spider out in the woods. You know what? You can't hurt me.
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That's scary. Bro, why are you giggling? You're fucking freaking me out, dude.
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Could you go ahead and give her one leg and she's always on a roller skate?
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No, all right, then I guess I'll play the next record Trey Aries I heard like Eric Lynch is like you mean Transylvania Marcus leans forward. He's like now. How did you learn?
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Yeah, give her one baby arm and then one regular one, but it's a giant oven mitt, and it's actually the hamburger helper icon that talks. Could you go ahead and do that?
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Can you just make hamburger helper real? You know what? Actually, could you just give me Oprah Winfrey? Thank you. I love her book club.
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Yeah. This is three minutes after the orientation VHS video. Can you give me Oprah Winfrey from 1986, just around that time?
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But also incredibly muscular. Yeah, but could you make her a bodybuilder?
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Yeah, you go and oil her up and put her in a pantsuit. Appreciate you. He's like saying it nonchalantly, like walks back, and then he's going to be obviously upset when he comes back for the results. Who the hell is this?
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Dave, is that you? Dave, get out of here. Stop that. Yeah, buddy. Sorry, you're not cut out for this.
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That's what he's upset about. You fake the painting? You aren't really painting those wonderful pictures?
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I legitimately thought that you were going to say something about putting your penis in the popcorn bucket.
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Dude, Greg's follows on Twitter is the fucking writing cast for Big Mouth.
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i'm done i'm done with this did we just get trolled super hard this is i can't tell if i just got trolled or what's going on but this i i we have to i'm gonna let the the listeners and the i'm gonna let the listeners and the viewers figure this one out on their own but i i i am mentally tapped now babe i'm talking oh god my friend's girlfriend what is your problem
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No, I pissed myself. It's not that it's not that I was working on model cars earlier. It's glue.
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Yeah, he's not even in the same house. He's talking to himself in a mirror. He's, like, wine drunk.
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Yeah, there's, like, an Italian-American family next door. Buddy, Jesus Christ, could you... Just give her a rest, drink some water, and get some sleep.
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If you know what I mean, Speaker 2.0 Having the door be cracked open and you walking by and there's a man talking into an unplugged phone and his whitey tighties. And he has like a bathrobe on. He's like, you want me to go over there? Look at your panties. Would that not be fucking horrible?
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yeah we're gonna go the house is like a venus flight trap huh yeah can you make like peek your head in on that and then you like he like looks up he has like wine he's like lips his lips are totally stained red from all the wine and he's like he's like i keep going to houses that are eating me like a bug i keep going to houses that keep eating me like a bug
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Just hear little panties, real quick, see them. He gets tackled by the cops.
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You puff out your chest and you say, you don't even realize the fucking wolf pack you just brought in on your buddy. That's what you say. And I go to his ear. I go to his earlobe and I do... Just like that.
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If you know what I have a second story, you're going to eat me like a bug. Do you have a second story? Are you going to eat me like a bug?
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I need you to look at me right now and I need you to tell me the truth.
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Paints himself green, puts himself in a flower pot with leaves. He does, feed me!
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Scooting forward in a big orange pot. So I think I'll take a white chocolate mocha with non-fat milk, extra hot, and I want you to eat me like a bug.
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Yeah, the house sees him shows up and the locked doors. He's like, let me in. They won't let him in the house. They're going to eat me up.
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Okay. Still, yeah, just like throws the empty bottle of barefoot wine at the front door. I'll be back! He's still in his pot though as he scoots away.
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Can you make me a martyr, please? God, we got to finish this story.
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The very first time I met my dad, my wife's dad, he got up and he shaved my head. I said, sit back down. I said, sit back down, old man. Let me get a look at you. That's what I said. I'm like, I scoffed at him. I did. Yeah, that'll do. That's what I said. I walked off. And did you ever see him again? Or did you kidnap your wife? Or how did that work? Oh, yeah. No, we're really good buddies now.
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So a weird going back to like him being normal. Cause I'm almost, I literally, when I was reading it in my head, I was like, yes, he's back again.
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He was in this dirt cake pickup truck with hooker fender, just staring at this main entrance. Like it was a bank. He was about to Rob.
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He learned his place. He learned his place in the wolf bag. He's my pup.
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So he's like, grrr, grrr, grrr. Opening up tiny wines of barefoot red. Sipping on them like a baby sips on a binky.
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They're going to be like, oh, you mean... They're like, oh, you mean Ezekiel? Because that's my dog name. What's your dog name? Yeah, that's my pup name. It's my alpha name. Ezekiel. You better not catch me on a full moon, dude. That's all I got to say. I'm going to keep reading now.
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Yeah. Large, large, large green leaves and stuff are going up his windows. He's trying to be inconspicuous, but he looks like a goddamn parade outfit.
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Yeah, it has the rocky horror. Or it has the little shop of horrors mouth on the front of his car. He had it modified. It's all papered machine and stuff. He honks his horn and it does feed me.
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Yeah, people will talk of... the deletion of the Jeff Goldblum impression, much like Greeks wearing like robes talked about the burning of Alexandria. It'll have that infamy.
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Tiffany, there's not a fucking man in there with you, God. Meet me halfway, Tiffany.
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I'm trying, Dr. Adacted, but it's hard. Tiffany, you're gonna make me lose my fucking mind. There's no one there.
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You know the episode people hated? He's like, oh, Tiffany, I'm very well aware.
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Of course, of course. These are obvious facts that people should know. But it doesn't matter. No one's in the room with you, Tiffany.
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It's not like they wrote the story, you know? They just read it. And it was them experiencing it for the first time. And that's kind of the entire gist of the podcast, right?
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Well, Tiffany, I think they are speaking probably the most facts you've spoken today.
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Oh, God. All right, let's go. This isn't even a part of any of his research either. This is just what he likes to do. He just likes cutting open dead mice. He's like, this mouse feels really weird against the blades of my scissors. It feels good. Jim likey.
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Oh my god, did someone else die? Oh, it's just your mom? Your psychopath mom?
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God, your mom jumped off the roof three days ago. Get over it. God. I love the line, I kicked his foot and shot him a look and said, really? And Kyle bit his lip and he's like, I mean, ah, fuck. I mean, ah, fuck.
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That's very aggressive. That's super bad, man. Okay, maybe you're right. Maybe you're right. She's sitting there smoking. She's sitting there, like, smoking.
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The beginning chords to Highway to Hell blasted from the speakers. Hell yeah, dude. What?
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Yeah, I will say this is to where I'm like, this isn't cute. This is just, I'm like, this is, the cringe is building up like beads of sweat on my skin.
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It doesn't always move like that. He sometimes travels on another plane. I can't explain it. Everything changes and warps around that thing, even time. That's why I'm about eight years older than I should be. I gotta explain every single fucking thing to you, by the way.
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Yeah, exactly. Oh, God, Kyle. That's what he's doing. He's hitting his head. Why do you do this? Oh, Kyle's my favorite. Okay. People's priorities are somewhere else in this small town. Like, it just doesn't add up.
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So that is going on on the speakers blaring. And the guy's like, yeah.
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A classic Kyle line here would be like, well, maybe your mom was a bitch. Maybe people just didn't like her, Kimber. Could that be it? Hey, Kimber, your mom was kind of a bitch, so she's, like, not that crazy, so I don't know, babe. I'm going to go get some cookies over there on the table. I'll be back.
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Oh, God. Why? Oh, God. First off, you're contradicting yourself because he's like, yeah, everyone's pretty much gone because of the season.
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Don't burn the artifact, dude. Rule one. I think we can establish that with all the stuff that we've read and everything so far. If you ever find something like this, I would say just don't even touch it. Don't mess with it. Like rule one, right?
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But first off, it's like, where did you find the twigs and twine? Yes, you can find the branches places, but to even go to the store and purchase twine, I I don't know that person, and I would have to be completely disconnected with it.
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I want to go on a limb and say, we're getting too far off the story, but I want to say this. If a family member, a grandpa of mine that I've never met and has no relationship to me whatsoever, gave me property and it's free money, and I'm like, hey, I...
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where do i sign to sell this is what i would say immediately i have no personal ties to this right and also to assume that you're a grad student and you want to live in the middle of nowhere on a lake are you kidding me yeah right dude that's all i gotta say
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He's shark bait. Who cares? He's shark bait, Wendigoon, because here's the thing, Isaiah. You're like, hey, it's really beautiful out here, and then you come back. Let's just say it's the third day you've been there, and there is a Blair Witch Project artifact on your door. It's not like, hey, I've lived here for a year. I'm settled, right? That's a different story.
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That's a totally different story. He's so, Greg is so new to this. It's unbelievable. Unbelievable. And then he burns it. He's a dunce. He's a goon. I don't respect Greg already. We got to continue. I'm sorry, listener.
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What are you talking about? You know what, though? If anything, it's like he is predominantly young, right? Like a college grad. So you could be like, I mean, I don't know what's going on. I mean, I guess, do the property tax, am I allowed to leave if I owe money on the plane? That feels outlandishly stupid to me. That feels like, what are you talking about?
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I feel like that would be, get me in trouble, there's all sorts of property tax stuff, I don't understand, I felt trapped. Okay, Greg.
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Yeah, well, he's burnt pagan artifacts, and now he feels he can't leave his house because he owes property tax.
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Yo, Slenderman, you freaky with it. All right, 29. If entry 29 doesn't have Slenderman looking down in the next room, I'm going to be very upset. What I wouldn't give to hear a woman be like, yeah, Slender man, give it to me. You just stay still. You stay still and you let me do all the work.
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I imagine him being passionate. This big ass long finger. I expect him to be emotional and off putting.
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Creepy. Hey, so you've been pounding on your wall for the past seven and a half hours. She's like, what?
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Two people visited by the hat man religiously, and now they're like, stop lying!
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Isaiah, so what if Jay is perceiving that Jessica's getting back shots by the hat man, and then she's just hearing tequila all night from his room? She's like, oh my god, he's back at it. That's why she's so mad. Yeah, exactly. That's why they both fucking hate each other. It's like 3.30 in the morning and she's just here. Toquila.
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He, like, takes out his iPhone and puts it in his pocket. He's just playing Black and Yellow by Wiz Khalifa as loud as it possibly can go.
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him it's just a slow fucking slender man the whole time so they're both just like insomnia ridden monsters basically that's why each of them keep coming to the other ones like stop exactly that's why they're so on edge around each other hey you that song sucks he's like what are you even talking about i mean i don't haven't even listened to killing i don't know 45 minutes
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That is brutal. You would have been so fucked up if you had put the night vision on. You're like, oh, my God. What is that?
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You come back the next morning with like Dunkin' Donuts or something. Babe, I just decided to go walk and get donuts. I hope they don't mind. Dude, she's just like fossilized in the car from being so afraid.
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He's like, you know what it is, Black and Yellow, Black and Yellow. Getting snacks and cold cuts at the table. Everything I do, I do it big!
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I would have been on shit creek for sure. Yeah, fuck. What the hell? That's my fucking voice.
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Dude. This is bordering on, like, do we even... I'm down to read until the end of part one, but this is getting unbelievable. This is tragic. Out of all the things we've read so far, this is... Come on.
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And let me guess. You can't let that happen. Oh, my God. We can't let that happen. All in due time, I replied and pushed play on the recording. What is this?!
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What would be more obnoxious? A 16-year-old listening to Wiz Khalifa, Black and Yellow, or if it was Fetty Wap's Trap Queen. And he has a Beats by Dre pill speaker in his back pocket. It's not even on his phone anymore. He brought a legitimate Bluetooth speaker with him.
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And he's here to read Laughing Jack with us tonight! Give him a round of applause!
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Like, it's the most, like... But you see here, Clancy is taking control, and he says, all in due time.
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A full-grown detective, a full-grown X-Files detective man is having this kind of camaraderie with what we assume to be a 15 or 16-year-old child. All in due time. And he's like, huh, that's right, Clancy.
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oh my god bro it's it's the most like disney dialogue she does i cannot wait she does get it i cannot wait to where she's like she she pours or she's like how i'm gonna kill this monster you're asking well that's simple i'm going to douse myself in chemicals and gasoline light myself on fire and tackle it you're like why would you do that
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I'm in hell. Imagine also, imagine, here's the thing too, dude. Here's the thing, and I really want you to take this into consideration. They are not seeing any of this. They are hearing this on a recorder on a phone.
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Hold on. Oh, my God, dude. Listen. Pretty much, Marcus answered, I'm the only one they call when shit gets spooky.
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Pretty much. Marcus answered. I'm the only, I'm the one they call when shit gets spooky. And let me tell you, this shit is very fucking spooky.
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Sorry, you know what I would say to my mom if she was on her dime?
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Never mind. No, say it. No, I was just going to say I was going to go to her and say I love you and you robbed me of my happiness when I was a child and I hope you burn in hell. You tired old goat is what I would say to my mom.
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I was trying to think, what would be the most insulting thing you'd say to someone before they die? I feel like calling them a tired old goat has got to, it's got to hit hard.
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If I had to choose between the two, I mean, it's going to suck when they both go, but I'd definitely probably save me over dad.
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Oh, actually, do you see that? It has the email here. What the email is actually listed. Windy goon at youtube.com. No.
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Yeah, she looks like a weird clown, dude. Tell me you did not pay for that. Okay, you didn't?
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We just have a silly relationship. Is that what they call it? I think that's what they refer to it as, as yes. Okay.
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I want to say that, I want to say it was fucked up how loud my headphones were when that happened. And I felt, I felt that visceral, that visceral knee-jerk pull. And it hurt. The snipped and whipped thumbnail, Jesus Christ. That's not even his clothes, dude. It's the guy's clothes. Whoever's living there, it's their clothes. It's not even, it's not even our main character's clothes, I bet.
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Okay. All right. Hey, you know what? Our better character must be a little cutie patootie to have somebody be fawning over him so much, huh?
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Anytime a singular woman is mentioned, I'm just like, oh my god. A woman? McQueen.
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Oh, God. You know what I like? I like the Jeep Wrangler from the beginning of Goonies.
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You know how disrespectful it would be to, like, go to an open casket, look inside, and he was just like, I've been cooking pies with my boyfriend. What?
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You remember the, I think it was either a Jeep Grand Cherokee or it was a Jeep Wrangler in the beginning of Goonies. But that style of Jeep back in the day, oh, man. Good stuff.
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Guy should call himself an Uber. You can't shut those guys up. Did you guys have Uber in England or? Yeah. Oh, then you know what I mean, right?
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Hey, baby, this is really lame. I'm going to get out of here. Hey, do you guys have, like, an aux cord or something? Yeah, he's got an aux cord. He actually doesn't even have a button-up on. He just has one of those graphic tees you find at, like, Target or Walmart that's, like, a fake. Like, they purposely faded it. It's like a Sega, like, a Sonic shirt or something.
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I'm a bit of a clown. I'm a bit of a jokester. I'm a honey roasted ham.
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Oh, you're talking about Jacoby? Yeah, he's just a ham. Me? Yes. I'm a ham. Hello.
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tell my mom and dad yeah i had to share that i couldn't let that one go yeah that's a nice piece of uh you know that's a good piece of cringe i appreciate that thank you so much the author of the showers is listening to this like can they just read the story yeah no shit no they're probably listening they're like i too had a girlfriend Yeah. I also think Jacoby's a man's name in hindsight.
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I have no response. I don't know how I'm supposed to... This is so sad. This is so unbelievably sad.
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I WANT TO PUT YOU IN A TRASH CAN RIGHT NOW WITHOUT YOUR TALKING ABOUT THIS.
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Can we get back to the story? I'm not even going to lie. Can we get back to the story? You're hijacking this, and you're telling your whole sad life right here. I'm trying to remember where the hell we're even at. We're at...
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I don't know. I'm literally doing a podcast with a guy high on fentanyl right now. I have no idea what the hell's going on.
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noise you know no no i don't think i've ever done that all right okay so i got to the ceremony i'm trying to put myself in the mindset of being like i don't want to break the droning hum of the soda machines i don't know if people are going to start yelling at me again like the license plate fiasco but sorry i don't give a fuck about the droning soda machines hold on hold on hold on hold on
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Way too many open chairs. Definitely there was not a turnout they expected, and there's just this fucking guy walking around the back. What do you mean I can't play my music? Who's going to care? All the people that aren't here. Yeah, he's listening. Now he switches over. He's like, fine, I won't play rap. He puts on Rev Theory. Hell yeah.
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That's not happening. I think, uh... I would have to imagine Ari Aster has a lot of better things to do at this time.
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Well, she's the spider lady who lives in the Joro Falls around Izu. I'm sorry, is that not the caricature that you're getting? I just don't believe Rob is actually going to these places. But he seems to be a learned man, so who knows.
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Yeah, Impractical Jokers clips. Yo, Murr, don't pants that little kid.
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Sorry back is Rob We would have gotten here sooner if we had to drop by to get some blankets pleasure to meet you ma'am pleasure to meet you, too Would you would you be the journalist? That's right You used to write for the town paper, didn't you?
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i'm gonna let viewers know too there's a lot of characters coming up and this is going to get very messy so if you're not on youtube watching this and you can see the characters names there i'm sorry it's gonna get very sloppy you know it's pretty funny because like initially i was like oh maybe he doesn't have enough to read but now that i'm looking down i'm like no he's fine i have plenty i have plenty
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and I would be ripped back into consciousness, terrified. For my entire childhood.
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No, I was honestly waiting to see if you could go to an even way, way down the road kind of thing. And just be like, robot, I think I'm going to make it.
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I don't go to the doctor as much as I should. Ah! I don't want to deal with the appointments and insurance and hear what's wrong with myself. I hate it. The less I know, the better. And that's why I let somebody else handle it. And that's why I use ZocDoc. ZocDoc is a free app and website where you can search and compare high-quality in-network doctors.
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You don't want to admit it, but you should probably see a doctor. So stop putting out those doctor appointments and go to zocdoc.com slash creepcast to find and instantly book a top-rated doctor today. That's Z-O-C-D-O-C dot com slash creepcast. Zocdoc.com slash creepcast. Let's get back to the story. Second victim was Jackie Graham found drowned with 27 stab wounds in the, in the, uh, yeah.
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Uh, don't know how to say that. Also, I want to say that it would be a huge disservice to any, to me and everyone else. If I didn't mention that 200 stab wounds, the band has a new album out right now and it's very, very good. So please go do that. We're talking about all these little 27, 36 kind of stab wounds. Well, what about 200? All right. Give the album a listen.
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There you go. So perineum is literally just a fancy word for taint?
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Yeah, exactly. You're yeah. I thought my, I thought my broad was bad with all of her weird shoes. Hey man, yours is legitimately a lunatic. I'm getting the hell out of it. It smells like baby diapers and shit.
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Get some Febreze clear that right up. Yeah. I guess I'm for breeze. You can't go to UK. You can't go to prison for tackling the, the neighborhood dog and ripping out his eyeballs. You'll be just fine. But you know, you know what?
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Speaker 2. The one thing you can't get over is a Balenciaga receipt.
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He's like taking all of the wind out of this really good story. It's so fucking annoying.
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If I found out some horrible, heinous things that you said privately, I'd be like, well, you know what? That's fucking between him, him and his lady. All right. What the hell?
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Bacon. Why do I have a feeling that you do a devious Scooby-Doo impression privately? You know why I think that? Because I remember when I went to visit Isaiah and his wife, I went and I looked in their kitchen. I was like, what is all this for? And it was a huge stack of huge stack of bread and salami slices, and they were pretty much preparing this giant 12-foot-tall sub.
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And they're like, don't even worry about it. So I imagine that you folded them like a deck of cards and ate it in one gulp, just like a big old Scooby-Doo himself.
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You're doing, like, all kinds of, like... fold it like a bunch of deck of cards like he does in the show you guys chase each other around your room but you do that thing where you run in place for three seconds and then dart off only leaving only leaving a cloud of your silhouette in the wake oh there we go oh my god that was so much fun
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You sit outside your bedroom door, because Kayla locked it, and you wiggle the doorknob like Fred Flintstone, and you do, Kayla!
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But maybe a strobing effect. And if there's any epileptic people listening to this podcast, they want to run far away.
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Actually, to have your room where you make love be called bedrock is pretty sick. That's pretty sick.
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Hey, Rob? Yes? Bonnie is pretty sure she's gonna kill us. I'm almost positive she's gonna kill us. Well, we got a lot of territory to chart.
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Rob, yeah, you're going to want to see this. She's right behind me.
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Begins to show distress as the suspect, someone is following him. I like how now he just shows distress.
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He's like, wow, what the hell is this thing? Someone's kind of behind him. He's like, oh, my God. And then he starts running.
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Irm Faye, you're going to want to see this. I will say, though, this does remind me. I'm actually getting flashbacks from my own childhood. In my music class, we could write to any musician.
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I got a postcard, and I wrote to Adam Sandler. That was the musician. Because at the time, I had a comedy CD from him called Everybody's Gonna Laugh At You. And I remember I got a thing back, and it was signed. And it was so obviously fake. But I remember at the time, I was like, what? your teacher's faith to signed Adam Sandler letter that I can only imagine there, there was never verified.
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So very well could be, but like looking back on it, I was like, there's no way there's just simply, do you still have that letter?
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No, no, okay, hold on. I'm looking up images of it right now, and the signature does look very similar. Because he did draw a, he drew a smiley face on mine. And then one of these things here on Google Images.
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I'm saying it'd be neat for that reason, not that... When I was listening to you, I legitimately thought you were being like... I thought you were legitimately being like, could you even imagine if you had Adam Sandler's signature right now?
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No. Are you saying Mr. Sandler touched ink and quill on that picture? What's it smell like? It smells like Adam. Give it.
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I immediately don't like this. I'm going to let you know right now. I'm going to let you know right now. I'm actually unsettled. And I'm like, the giant red flags before we started reading it of being like, turn back.
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you don't understand literally like five times it was like are you 18 not safe for work are you an adult please find something else to read you know what's fucked up is even when i was like thinking about how we're joking about this i still pictured the main kid just like he's like grabbing his mom's plate now and he's eating that chicken too he's over there like the tasmanian devil like a tiny tornado going around the kitchen
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Here's the thing, Isaiah. With that last sentence of one of his hands sliding across my cheek into my hair, that's disgusting.
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But I'm just going to pray that maybe, and I know this is fucked up to say, but maybe he just like breaks the kid's legs or something. I'm gonna pray he just breaks the kid's legs. Just smash the kid's fingers and be done with it. Let's have it be one of those stories, please.
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What I wouldn't give to just have him be like more of like a Looney Tunes character and just has like a cast iron skillet and he just like beats the shit out of the children with the cast iron skillet. That would be so much more digestible.
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What, what is, what, what is the definition of negging? But negging is a manipulative tactic that involves making backhanded compliments or negative com. Oh, oh, that's, that's where you're just like, you look really good for a fat girl. That's negging.
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I'd say lock him up, throw away the goddamn key, is what I would say. And also, I like to think that I'm not the best looker, so I think I'm better to listen to, if I'm being honest.
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Oh, thank you. It was really good. The other ones are good. This one's really good too. wow i'm good at everything that's what he meant there's never one negative thing okay well i'm glad i have an understanding of what nagging is now okay yeah i'm just gonna keep going inside the milk house police found a bloody mattress god this music is like so loud What? The music's what?
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The decapitated head of the Ford's granddaughter was found wrapped in a blanket. Could you turn down the music just a tad while I'm recording this? The head of Fiona's Ford. The worst smell came from within the second stall of the burn!
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I see all the people dreamboating over you, dude, but I don't get that kind of stuff.
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What?! Several faces were found after the walls inside the stall! Jesus Christ! Just turn down the mix! Some of them belonged to previous victims! Malformed! Beyond recognition! Just turn it down! There were also several decapitated pink carcasses!
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Okay. I love Paul because Paul says this. Yeah, it came down in the, you know, that blocked-in tunnel? Yeah, it's clear. And, like, an electrician came in and strung up lights. You know, people thought that they saw something, and they thought they saw a deer. Which I thought that was weird. Is a deer supposed to string up the lights in the tunnel?
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But it turned out it was just a tall guy, so... It's like, how'd you get that confused with one another? Nah, just actually, it's a nine-foot-tall man walking around the woods.
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You better... Frank, you are pushing my buttons. First the bug people, and now you have a human ladder putting up lights, all right? Need you to let us know, because this is our contract!
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The flow of that sentence, the way he structured it, he's like, I thought it was a deer.
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Yeah, but it's insinuated, at least for me, whenever I was listening to it. I could be wrong, and I know you and all the viewers can say I'm wrong. I like the image more of a deer. He's like, I could have swore I saw the deer putting up wires, and he had a DeWalt drill, and he was putting up lights, but it turned out it was just a nine-foot tall man.
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And they're all sick as dogs. Oh, my guys are sick. I did DoorDash about 60 pounds of Mongolian fried chicken last night. They're not feeling well after the altercation with the bug people. And the nine foot tall man, I think, did do something to the water supply. I don't know, Frank. All I know is my guys are royally pissed. Call me back.
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What? I do find that line funny. What? I know. And we found a Mesopotamian pyramid down here, Frank. And one of the guys on the crew, he's done a couple of these before, too. He's done archaeological work.
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I'm just saying, he's dug up some of these pyramids before, and he says that this is kind of old, Frank.
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he said that he's seen these gargoyle statues before and we keep reading them we keep trying to read the names out loud but we keep going blind when we read it so i don't know what's happening down here but if you could give me a call i also like how just nonchalant he is too he's like man frank i'm telling you there's a lot of crazy
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down here Frank there's a lot going on Frank I don't I think it's a bit serendipitous because we did offer the Mongolian fried chicken to the guy you sent out but he didn't eat it and he's he's sick as a dog too so now I'm wondering what now I'm thinking okay it's probably something else entirely potentially the beetle people yeah it could be the beetle people because we had to rule out the tall guy because it ended up just being three clowns on top of each other's shoulders in a large trench coat so that can't be them
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This sounds exactly like you. This feels like this young Wendigo talking to us.
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Alright, Frank. Call me back when you can. It turns out to be three clowns.
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Construction site? That's a typical thing you have to deal with when you're in a construction site.
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classic yeah they're all 14 year old clowns very young i didn't know clowns started this early frank all right call me back this is the next message he's like hey frank did you ever do the clown prank when you were in high school because we're not like he's just like talking yeah i thought you're gonna say the next call it's just honk honk He's like, all right, Frank, I'm a clown now.
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I'm not going to be able to finish the job. I am going to the circus. I wish you all the best, buddy. He's like, I'm making a bunch of pies right now to put in people's faces. I think the crew's getting a big laugh out of it. All right, Frank, talk to you next time.
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Wait, hold on, guys. This isn't evidence. I think this is the guy who did this.
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I imagine that you weren't a sick child, but I do like to imagine that you went to the doctor and the doctor was like his lips. They're far too fat and they're only getting bigger.
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Yeah, hey, oh, you know what? Hey, here's an ice tray. You probably need that too right now. There you go, for all your cold drinks you're having right now. Hey, Merry Christmas, Mom!
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Hey, all right, well, that's you. That's your kind of interpretation of the voice I'm doing. I'm doing a young child with big, goopy blue eyes.
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I thought it was a legitimate, good, creepy, weird... You're talking about a kid walking around in a red onesie with a devil mask on. Right? How do you think you should sound? Go ahead.
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I just read the stories. You sure know how to give criticism as if you are. You're right about that. That's for sure.
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No, I'm I am a grown man trying to do a child's voice. You know what? I'm going to I'm just going to let it roll. It might be different every time. Who knows? All right.
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So I get, I get blamed for laughing at a child, getting his head blown off, but something meeting pounded, pounded into her.
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And then it's no, I know. Yeah. Well, I mean, to be fair, it could be like thuds of a punch to be fair. Sure.
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Okay, alright, fine. I hopped in my car and texted Kyle that I was off work. He answered immediately and told me to come meet him. I happily whipped my apron off over my head and threw it in the car into reverse. Crystal Lake was my favorite place in all of Drisking.
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I feel like this is definitely going to be one where I'm going to be like, why the hell? Of course, this is what a 13-year-old loves. I'm just hoping it doesn't go Jeff the Killer as goofy as that. We'll see.
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Peter Terry's heroin dealer was a seven-foot-tall woman named Helga. You're like, oh, God.
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All right, let's go. I'm just glad that you're at least doing Rob. It gives a nice, at least there's one voice that isn't mine in there.
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Yeah. How funny would it be if we're, like, complimenting the whole time and then it just turns out that it's just Jason Voorhees is the skin men taking people?
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You're just like, oh, we moved into our new home. You open the closet and that's there, that painting.
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First off, one, I would say that the painting is just too good. Like, I couldn't paint that good. So I would say, you need to run, is what I'd say. You'd call me and be like, you'd call me and be like, You'd be like, did you just pull a practical joke on me? Also, I'm getting really good at your voice, Dan.
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Honestly, I've started to really hone it in, though. And I'm very excited on it. Are you pulling a practical joke on me? You're always kind of up here.
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Someone's going to break into your house and they're going to be like, are you guys serious?
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It's just fun. It is fun. I'm just actually picturing you like just young now. if you want to say easily and i took comfort in books now that you have to do my exit on top of that yeah oh my god so good i experienced the world through them i hate that voice so much it's just like never ending story where's falcorad oh my god
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Of course. I feel like that has to be a thing that people don't care about. When you were younger, when you used to play around, did you hope that you would stumble upon some kind of money?
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I feel like that has to be lost in these younger generations, dude.
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That's why this country's brought this to. Sometimes the cucumber tastes better pickled.
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This is a random thought I'm having, and this is just completely random. is how many people do you think when they were palling around with their buddies, look, you know, just walk around a crick, you know, you're like, Oh, is that a, I think I see a coin. How many times do you think somebody just murdered their friend? Just out in the, just out by the crick.
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I mean, I don't think it was that many, but over a coin. No, no, no, not for a call. I'm just saying like, undiagnosed rage or something.
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But specifically with like boys, just be at boys and hanging out. Right.
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Is there something you want to tell us about, Hunter? No. Well, in a way, I'm wondering, you know, did he even put out that the funeral was going to happen? Is he just embarrassed? Is he just mad that he's like, oh, I look stupid now? Like, I don't know.
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He's like, the guy's just like, what? All right, well, he claps his hands. I'll talk to you later, Mr. DeSantis.
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I'd sometimes get up to piss or get something to drink and to remember just going back to sleep on the bottom bunk. My God, I'm having a stroke.
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Wait, hold on. Pool floats are like balloons that sit on water. Okay.
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It's a balloon for the water. They say floats are the balloons of the sea. That's what they say.
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The majority of them are literally just milking some kind of creature.
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It's easy to read now. This would happen once or twice a week. One of the detectives wants to drop by later. Says he... Oh, sorry. Says he has some... Oh, my God. Let me restart that. One of the... Okay, first line. Nari did great. One of the detectives wants to drop by later. Says he has some more investigating to do. God, I know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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Can you imagine a full two hour podcast with two sentence horrors?
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All right, not safe for work, the pancake family. We're gonna get to it.
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I'm coming back. And if there's still two cities who are being read, I quit.
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Who invented the electric chair. All right. R slash no sleep. And this was uploaded eight years ago by A.A. Peterson. The dollar said four stamps.
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Oh, I don't like that. Even from him. That whole interaction was, I love you, you fucking freak! Behind the door? I bet dinner parties at their house are unbearable. Hey, we're throwing on the football game tomorrow night. I'm like, no. No, I'm good. Hey, babe. Hey, you freak! I'm in my attic! They just got a touchdown!
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It was very, very cool. And then finally, as he drew his last breath, he just said, And then he immediately disintegrated into fine ash.
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I'm imagining that he looks over at his wife's phone and there's just like a nude pic and he's like, oh my God, he's been getting, she's been getting nude pics from other men. You like look over and it's just a guy doing a goat brain. A goat brain? Yeah, it's where you shove your balls to the back of your legs and have a peek out the back of your thighs. Oh, my suspicions are true.
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And it's just like the most... Giant magnifying glass on an iPhone screen and it's just a guy doing a goat brain and spreading his asshole open.
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Well, the clues keep stacking. Like, just tons and tons of those kinds of pictures. She's, like, holding it in front of his face and just swiping. So she's just, like, going through the gallery on her phone. I feel like she's trying to tell me something.
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Yeah. Like almost like a yard gnome looking thing. My wife opened the door. Oh. Oh.
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Yeah, like they can't actually read its body language because it has just like a giant mask on.
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That's forever the dad's voice. I don't care what it does to the story. That is the dad's voice moving forward.
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well chat this is where wendigan dies it was my dog head butting the door you want to you want to sit here for creepcast for a minute this is all your fault stupid all right okay well yeah because it's it's it's such a crazy and empower like such a powerful and Oh my God.
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all right as long as we acknowledge who did it yes i i did it i did it after going public with the case and the sharing the paintings in the hope of saying of saving someone uh hold on of saving anyone that may be depicted the police received three photos in the mail all of them also titled That'd be a great public, like, uh, like a cops deal.
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Destroy all humans. Literally sitting there. He's so funny. He's like, it's a mummy. And then just in the bush, it's just like, I want to kill all human beings. I want to kill all human beings. He's like, no, seriously, it's a robot. He's like, I bet you it's a vampire. I'm a robot. I'm a robot.
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Very, very, uh, yeah. And here's a classic creep cast for people's fucking bingo cards. I see. That's very Lovecraftian of him to say.
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Yeah. Kyle from Boroska be like, Kyle from Boroska be like, yo, John, why are you so, why are you acting so weird right now?
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Nope. Oh, shit. Fuck. The following footage. Okay. Private investigating Sean Kane have been helping police to locate victims connected to several paintings. Oh, boy, looks constipated. The last body he found before his disappearance was the body of Tom Harris. The killer had been climbed... Fuck. The killer had climbed...
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This guy's sitting there, like, making ham sandwiches. Would you like black olives with that? Scream, crying in the back.
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It's like, okay, well, I didn't do that.
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David called looking around the warehouse.
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Then maybe we could have avoided this whole mess.
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I pulled my... He has a gun! He has a gun!
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No, sorry, dear. He's at work right now.
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Oh my gosh! He has a mob that's kidnapped his girlfriend?
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Hello? Katie. He kidnapped Katie. You motherfucker! Easy on the language, Xander.
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I don't think that's exactly like Aflac.
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I was just talking to an officer and he arrested my friend. Anyway, I need to talk to the other officer.
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You like David, the national guard logo on the shirt.
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It's another info dump. Oh my gosh, this is great.
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I need structure. I work 40 hours a week.
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What was that? What was that sound effect? I don't really know. I'm afraid to figure it out. Are you messing with me? I have no idea. I have no idea what that was.
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I'm not fucking saying it, dude. He won't.
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It's okay, mama. Police soon arrived to find... Yeah, he has the knife sticking out.
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Okay, well, first off, if it's an apocalyptic scenario, then there probably is no police. I'm saying that if... That's what I'm saying. If they... If... I think that under the right circumstances and under the right pressure, I think I could get you to do it. That's where I'll end it. I don't think it'd be easy.
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I've said this story. Twice now. Or three or four. An infinite amount of times. Yeah. We are in the end of the year of doing this show. We have... Some obligations we have to do as well, and also just want to make sure that you guys feel like you got enough content for the month as well. But I leave the country this week, going to be gone on vacation, going to Japan. My soul is there already.
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Like that, I think he could get you.
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You're trying to talk and stuff. I'm like, stop. Shh, shh.
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Put a bullet in my head. But I'd say like that, please. It hurts. Oh, it hurts. Okay. And then for you to have the gumption to even like visit me in the hospital afterward, I'd be like, you don't, you never look at me again. I'd say. The only way that gets justified is if you buy me, if you buy me. If you buy me robot legs and then somehow I'm able to get my cock balls and asshole back.
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You can still love your family. People are braver and stronger than I am. Not me. I'm saying that I know myself enough to know that there's no way.
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No. If I can't, it's not even like even sexually sexual. It's like some of it. Well, it is partly, but I just mean that some of it is more so like a nice piss. You're I mean, like if there are there are greater things to life than that.
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I mean there is I'm just saying that that's a that's a large it'd be the same thing if I was blind I don't think I could I don't think I could live as a blind man I'll be honest I do not think I could do it people that do that I'd like you could survive any amount of torture I feel like or being deaf even I do not bear I do not bode well with adversity this is what I'm saying I can see that clearly
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I think that's extremely selfish, Isaiah. I think that if I was sitting there and I was like, you're praying around me, and I was like, it hurts.
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Go ahead and ask me, like, however you would ask me to do it.
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Well, you'd be dead, so I would just be like, he asked me to do it.
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I think people would, people would come up and they'd be like, well, how do we know? I'd be like, well, what did I do? Drive a tractor on top of him after I fucking shot him in the head. I'm like, no, he's my buddy. He's in pain. I put him down. There's no wife to live. Look at his asshole. Like then, then they, the camera would look over and then people would look over.
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They'd see your asshole prolapsed out, squashed like a bug. And I'm like, what kind of life is that? He doesn't want to live like that. And then you know how you're like, I would make sure your family's taken care of. Then they'd sit there and I would hoard all of, I would not give Kayla any rights to anything.
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And I'd be like, I'd be like, listen, I had business with your husband, but not particularly you. And I would keep the gun and I would keep the bullet casing that I killed you with. And I would do like a Brokeback Mountain thing. And then the Brokeback Mountain when he like has the shirt of the guy that he loved. I'd look at it and I would like, you know, I'd be like, Isaiah, you son of a bitch.
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Yeah. Well, I mean, it's a traumatic thing. You know, I'm not thinking clearly.
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That's true. I would not continue. And I want to put this on record. Now I would not continue the show if you were gone.
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No, I mean, I'd figure, oh, I'm thinking selflessly, Isaiah. You know, I'm not thinking about the business. I'm thinking about my friend suffering.
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Well, I'd like to think so. Okay.
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I forgot that we're even reading a story. I forgot. Yeah. Well, I'm glad to know. See, I think people are going to want to know that. You know? I think it's going to help emotionally tie in with whatever happens in this story. That's what I got to say.
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It's kind of like whenever you know something's coming up, you're kind of just checked out. That's how it feels. Now, here's the thing about the story we read earlier, and I don't want to say the name because I don't want to... I don't want to crash out again. I don't want to freak out, but we could revisit it in the future.
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I feel slow. Actually, it's the other way around. Everything seems slow because you're fast. But my legs, my arms, they're moving in slow motion. That just freaked me out. That'd be fucked. Can you imagine that?
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Maybe I'll, you know, better mindset or whatever, but it has been, you know, we are, I am here to make sure that we deliver a nice show, but my God, is it pulling teeth? So I'm here to be a good little boy during this recording, no matter what, to make sure that this gets fucking done. And that we can end this year on a nice upbeat note.
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Yeah. I have, you know, I, this is my, this is my reality for a bit. Even the idea though, of like that much time passing. It's weird. It's kind of like a, uh, It seems like a monkey paw kind of operation, doesn't it? Like, you know, I wish time like I wish I had more time.
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It's kind of interesting. The fatigue as well makes it seem like because he's moving so fast and probably like going around that his muscles are actually still becoming physically exhausted, you know? Yeah, because he's moving so quickly. This also seems like a kind of an interesting take on like the horrors of like getting super intelligence or something.
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You know, like, oh, you becoming super strong and having that much access to your brain's functionality would actually just like be torture.
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Well, that's the thing is that you would never even be able to enjoy the like advancements of what you're doing. So it's like everybody else is probably impressed with what you're doing, but everything is so nonchalant and non-fun and like, or so nonchalant, non, it's just not exciting in the least. Like it would just be such a miserable existence.
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And I will say that if you're armed at the Glenmont Metro, please shoot me. It's a great title. And I think we, I think I'm pretty sure that we're going to do something similar. He did for the Whistler, which is because this is a short story. This isn't, it's pretty short. So I think we're going to try to read a couple by this author.
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It'll wear off in a few hours, which will seem like days to you. Try to use the residual effects to get some work done. Catch up on work emails while you're still in high speed mode.
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Well, yeah. Can you imagine breaking a leg? in this state or something. Well, also being able to hyper fix it.
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Cause I'm guessing he's able to, his brain is able to hyper fixate on like all of the neurons activating and like all of the pain receptors activating and stuff to where you'd almost feel like you'd be able to like feel and like understand like every crunch and like crack of your bone until it fully, just like fully snaps. But it's this excruciating process. Yeah.
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That's almost an hour long to sit in that painful thing for 45 minutes. Holy fuck.
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But what's weird, did the doctor say any... He didn't say how long it would last, right? He said it'll last a few hours. Be sure to do your work emails. That's right. Yeah, have fun doing your work emails. And it's like, yeah, you just sent me into hell, dude. Thanks. Thanks, bud.
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Yeah, so we could just pick and choose how we go about this.
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Let me ask, so is he perceiving all these things too? Like when he's looking at other people and they look like they're in slow motion? Yes. Yeah, everything seems slow to him. I'm trying to make sure I have, like, I'm trying to get it visualized in my head.
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If You're Armed At the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me | Creep Cast
Right. Even he feels like he's moving slow, too. Yeah, his body is, but his mind is processing it.
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So definitely time is slowing down even more. As it goes on.
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I mean, like the thing of like an instantaneous thing, like a page on a browser opening up is taking hours now. Like that's fucking crazy.
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Yeah, exactly. You'd want an upper something that's going to like, I guess perk you up. But I guess the idea is that he's like, well, I'm just going to try to sleep through this. But even then I would almost assume that, uh,
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This is probably the last episode of the year for Creepcast. We might do a little, just another little piece of content that we've been wanting to try for a bit as well for this month. But if you guys can, to support the channel, since I've been a good little boy this year, go to, I've even said that line four times now. Listen to this on Spotify.
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Listen to us on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and give us a rating there. It sincerely does help us. And when we do climb the podcast charts and stuff, it does help. And, you know, just food for thought. You know, if you want to give us any little cute Christmas gifts this year, maybe just listen to this episode so you don't have to see my face get beet red with rage.
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um you know what i'm so mad i'm so happy with my outfit for audio listeners out there i have orange sunglasses on look like porno sunglasses my porno mustache i have a nice beautiful hooter shirt on i was like i woke up this morning a little tired but i was like i'm ready to get it like today's gonna be a good day and immediately Immediately, I've questioned.
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Not even expelled from school. It's like I feel like the fat, ugly kid who doesn't get invited to his friend's birthday party. And everyone else is talking about the birthday party around me. And I feel like a fucking Neanderthal. That's what it feels like. That's how I feel right now sitting here. And this story, Isaiah, needs to reel me in. So I say, let's do it.
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Let's see if we can't turn the tides on today and get this recording going.
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If You're Armed At the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me | Creep Cast
Indicative of how I feel today for these recordings. Do you want to tell the audience what happened? I have no will. You're going to have to spill the beans, and I just need to emotionally chime in when I can.
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If You're Armed At the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me | Creep Cast
Already. That's what the perpetual hell I'm in already is that sitting down to open up reddit slash r slash no sleep feels like a thousand years is what it feels like. So good on you. I do want to say that's a sick way to end it. It will only last a few decades. It's kind of fucked, right?
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If You're Armed At the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me | Creep Cast
We'll see that. You know what? I'm trying to be a positive little, little, little bear.
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If You're Armed At the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me | Creep Cast
Oh, that's kind of fun. Like drug, not to get too sidetracked, but like drug testing, like pharmaceutical drug testing. I would never do it. I don't care how much of a pinch I am. I would be too afraid. There's too much crazy shit that they make too. You know what I mean?
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Yeah. I'm like, I will just assume that everything's fine. I don't know. There's nothing where they're just like, well, it's just, you know, this is just a vitamin. I wouldn't trust it with any fiber of my being. Absolutely not. Yeah. Also, here's another thing. I would gladly shoot somebody in the head if they were saying yes.
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If You're Armed At the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me | Creep Cast
If someone asked me to shoot them in the head? Yeah, if somebody was just like, hey, by the way, meet me at the mall tomorrow. Let's set it up. Let's meet me at the mall tomorrow. I want you to just go there. Everyone else knows you're not going to get arrested. That's just the most convenient place for me to be.
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I want you to put it in the back of my tent pole, point it down slightly, and shoot it into my brain. I think I should be doing me a big favor. Thanks, buddy. If you want to get arrested, clean conscious, would you do it?
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If You're Armed At the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me | Creep Cast
If I was on my farm and I was underneath a tractor... Would you kill me?
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If You're Armed At the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me | Creep Cast
Yeah, no. In my mind, it's the giant tires on my sternum.
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If You're Armed At the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me | Creep Cast
I wouldn't want that life, dude. If I don't have my cock balls and asshole, there's no way. I'm not going to shoot you. I would say, Isaiah, I don't have my cock anymore or my balls or my asshole. Shoot, kill me. I'd be like, wow, Hunter, that sucks. You know what?
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If You're Armed At the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me | Creep Cast
If I got to live with no fucking cock balls or asshole, I would kill you. That's what I would do. I would say, are you fucking kidding me? I would kill you with a knife.
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Why do I have to be the one to do it? Because I, here's the thing. I don't have to, to forcibly do it to yourself. I don't think I have the gumption. I would need someone to assist me. Could I kill someone else out of pure rage? Probably, but I don't think I could ever, I don't think I could pull the knife or gun on myself. So you're saying you'd have no problem killing me.
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I think if you left me in a state where my cock and balls and asshole are squashed like a bug. Why do you need the asshole? Why is that a requirement? I'm sorry. Do you not like a nice morning shit?
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I didn't say it was just the colostomy bag. I'm saying it's a collection. If I, if I, if I'm under a tractor, right. Right. If I'm under a tractor, And I'm like, Oh, Oh, I like lift up my neck a little bit. And I see that my cock, my balls and my asshole are squashed like a bug that would drive me to a place where I'm like, you need to put me down. Okay. Like a, like a 16 year old lab.
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If You're Armed At the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me | Creep Cast
Like, I mean, like there's no reason.
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If You're Armed At the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me | Creep Cast
I think, okay, well, then what about this? What if you take out your phone and I say, I, Hunter Hancock, approve.
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If You're Armed At the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me | Creep Cast
What if I sat there and I started the video by saying, are you recording?
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If You're Armed At the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me | Creep Cast
Isaiah, you're doing the intro today. You're doing the welcome back. There's no Will left after what we've been through this morning. Which, mind you, it's now been an hour. A little over an hour.
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I think I am going to die. The thing I'm saying is, please end my suffering. Please, I can't. So what I'm saying to you is I know I'm going to die. So for you to call somebody would do nothing. I'm going to die. Please end this for me. That's what I mean. This is a scenario where there's no chance of survival. And even if there was, and I was a person with no asshole balls, I would still do it.
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If You're Armed At the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me | Creep Cast
Even if I was like, Isaiah, I have no point to live. I will resent you for the rest of my life.
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If You're Armed At the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me | Creep Cast
Just cause you want to go in the second bed of the child with no cock balls or asshole. What kind of father figure could I be? I can't teach my boy's father figure a teacher. No, no. No, I don't think so. I would. Your son is going to appreciate that. I didn't shoot you in the field. I would think that he doesn't even have to know. This could be our secret.
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Burgrr Entries | CreepCast
Ja, na, hör mal, natürlich nicht. Es ist immer noch auf der Tafel, aber ich bin so, hm.
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Burgrr Entries | CreepCast
Oh, they just throw it in there as a terrorist act. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Burgrr Entries | CreepCast
Hold on, I have to tell it from my perspective. I have to say what happened. There were like six of us at a table and I was across from Hunter. It started out like one fly got near him and he swatted.
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Burgrr Entries | CreepCast
Shut the fuck up. Who cares? And then there's a few on him, and he's like, what the, what is going on? And then someone down the table says something, so I turn my head, and as I'm watching the person who's talking, I kid you not. Wie 30 Pferde.
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Burgrr Entries | CreepCast
Und ich habe versucht, respektvoll zu sein, zu dem, der gesprochen hat, also habe ich nicht sofort geschaut, aber als ich einen Sekunden später gedreht habe, hat er sich in seiner Schuhe gelegt, um etwas zu holen, aber es sah so aus, als wäre er weg.
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Burgrr Entries | CreepCast
There's food on it. Oh, that made me... Dude, it can't be that bad, man.
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Burgrr Entries | CreepCast
Oh, why would you say that? They do. They eat placenta. I know, I know. I forgot about it.
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Burgrr Entries | CreepCast
Don't justify this as an answer, just let me... Well, I don't know.
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Burgrr Entries | CreepCast
Nur dich zu hören und zu sprechen. Ich bin sorry. Es ist unbezahlbar. Es ist unbezahlbar.
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Burgrr Entries | CreepCast
You're so tilted right now. I know. We can cut it. No, no, no. I think it needs to stay because this is funny for me.
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Burgrr Entries | CreepCast
Oh, this is great. I love my job. Holy fuck! Alright. The eggheads. Yeah, they used to be people, you know.
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Burgrr Entries | CreepCast
Yeah. Because there was a big pig mascot that children would get sucked into. Yeah, this guy was like, it was a guy who was just stuck in it for years.
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Burgrr Entries | CreepCast
I'll never forget there was this one. Which, looking back on it, this is an insane joke to put in a kid's cartoon.
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Burgrr Entries | CreepCast
Ich erinnere mich, als ich als Kind dachte, ich wundere mich, warum ich das gemacht habe.
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Burgrr Entries | CreepCast
Yeah, I know it's not good for me, but if I'm at the fair, I'm not going to not have it. Well, come on, I'm at the fair.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
How did I propose? I took Allison to Fairbanks, Alaska, under the northern lights.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Oh yeah, it was awesome. Did you cry? Yeah, I did for probably like three or four hours. I don't know, I think she, I can't remember where she was at. But yeah, no, I teared up. Did you? I did, yeah.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Yeah, I was just saying, the language he's using is very flowery. Like everything used to be this kind of thing. But yeah, it's funny to do the same thing with like pussy juice and blood for the smell of birth. It's like, caught it like a fishing net. What the fuck are you talking about, dude?
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Es ist wie ein weirder chinesischer Finger-Trapp-Baby. Das ist nicht richtig. Wenn ich der Doktor wäre, würde ich sagen, das ist nicht richtig. Okay, sorry, go ahead.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Man, it kind of makes sense, right? When you have to push it together, it's like a contorted and it doesn't matter. I understand what you meant.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
I am not doing right. I am not doing right by the Asian community with this episode so far.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
It looks like little Brian Peppers popping out, doesn't it? Was ist sein Name? Es ist nicht lustig. Erinnerst du dich an Brian Peppers?
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Yeah, big clown nose. What do you think of that? It's a sword! Das wäre du als Arzt. Ja, ich weiß. Sieht aus wie ein Tommy-Gun. Balloon-Gun hier, oder? Nur ein Witz. Dein Kind ist tot.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
You know, and I want to say, I think this is the first time Und korrigiere mich, wenn ich falsch bin. Ich denke, ich denke, das ist das erste Mal, dass wir eine Quote-unquote Fan-Story lesen. Nicht nicht über uns, aber ich meine nur jemanden, den wir kennen, der uns folgt, der den Show kennt. Wir wissen, dass es unsere erste Zuschauer-Story ist, richtig?
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Okay. Well, now going into it. Kevin, I'm going to give you the prestigious viewer read story. I see a lot of people on our subreddit even write stories and stuff. And I would really love to get something to where we can get the community writing and start reading more stories and stuff like that. But you have to watch out because people usually suck. People suck at writing. It happens.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Well, I think it's supposed to indicate that he, like, I guess he knows both of them. He isn't revealing his whole hand, but it seems like he is indulging that this pastor knows not only the husband for his documentary work or his professional work, but he also knows the wife or whatever. Just make it a bit more creepy. Why the fuck are you reaching out to her? You know?
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Yeah, if you're in death areas, you might have to swallow your pride a bit and just fucking take the job.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Wir wissen nicht, was ein Pastor ist. Ich denke einfach nur, dass der Pastor-Eigenschaft so verrückt ist. Es gibt einen Mann da draußen, der das in der Mitte der Wälder trägt. Er trägt weiße Schuhe. Weißen Schuhe mit der rot-grünen Schale, was auch immer. Und dann kommt er aus dieser Kirche ohne irgendeine echte... Ich weiß nicht, es fühlt sich wie ein Setup an. Es fühlt sich seltsam an.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Do you think it's going to be some kind of Hellfire damnation, like cleansing thing then? Do you think we're heading on that route?
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
I have not read any of it yet. It was a lot. Also, still want to say, I'm in Japan mode now. So, all my cares are out the window. They're on a plane flying to Tokyo.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Yeah, it's very midsummery. Yeah, very midsummery. Traumatic thing in the real world is reflected into this almost perfect haven of foreign existence, basically. So like this cultish kind of thing feels very reflective. It also feels, you know, and also to just somebody, you know, predestined, you were supposed to be here, you know, that kind of stuff.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
What would you... I'll say it. You know what? Fuck it. I'll say it again. What would you do if you found out that I... I killed someone in Japan and I told you later. I would quit the podcast. That is not what you said.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
I mean, it's basically becoming a pet cemetery scenario where the dad's going to like go home, grab the baby and try to come here to heal it for sure.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
That is not what you said. I said that it would be terrible optics to continue the show. No, no, no. What if I gave you this one then? What if I gave you this one? I said, I'd go up to you. We're at like a Red Robin or something, having dinner, celebrating something.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Willkommen zurück bei CreepCast! Heute sprechen wir über etwas, das ich hoffe, dass es lecker und schrecklich ist, denn es heißt Berber im Fenster.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
And guess what? I got away with it. No one knows, only you. But I felt weird. You know, here we are celebrating at Red Robin, your favorite restaurant. And I... I feel like it would only be disrespectful if I didn't tell you this. And I just wanted you to know, no one else knows. I don't think anyone's ever going to find out. Will you continue the show with me? And that's the conundrum I give you.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
There's something... Yeah, I mean, there's obviously something that we're not being told yet. I'm kind of just waiting for more and more of the story to unravel. I think the first day starting with a huge mutation and like a fucking baby being eaten and like reborn as a healthy thing is crazy. Like insane. For the guy not... And I understand he has his own baby and stuff, but I'm like...
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Wondering what else is keeping him there besides that, because I feel like that would fucking horrify me. I would probably run. I don't know. And then just be like, you're sleeping in this barn now. We'll see you tomorrow. It's like, what the fuck else is the goal? You know what I mean?
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
I'm kind of just letting the story unfold and seeing and processing, I guess, my opinion that then.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Our perfect shot. I bet she's the dad or the mom. The dad, like the protagonist or his wife. I feel like it's going to be related to the pastor somehow. Oh, you think so? I feel that coming a little bit.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
So did knock die there? That's what I'm not sure of. I think that I mean, to an extent, you would have to say that she did die and she was reborn healthy. But I'm wondering if it's still the same person, like if she still is the same.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Not because of... Don't those trains move like really fast?
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Yeah. I guess it makes sense, too, why the pastor was so freaked out and ran away as well.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Ja, Unicare erinnert mich ein bisschen daran, nicht zu bleiben, es zu vergleichen, aber in einer Art, wie ich es fast als Monster bezeichne, wie der Mittwoch-Masch-Vampir, wo Menschen aufstehen und ihre Verletzungen und so, aber es ist wie, er ist nur ein fucking Monster, wie ein Typ ist, ein Typ ist ein Pastor, der basically sagt, dass dieses Ding dich heilen kann, es ist, du weißt, er sieht dreckig aus, aber es ist okay, aber wirklich, es ist einfach, du weißt,
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
So how did you hide her body? I put under a bench. It doesn't matter. You know what? I'll say this with my answer. I'll say this. I'll say, you know what? You might have said, yeah, Hunter, I would have to leave the show. I couldn't work with you anymore. But you said, I think. So for a moment, you were like, well, maybe I can get past this. And that's all I needed, buddy. Friendship secured.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Ja. Ja, ich denke, das klingt richtig. Wie der Pastor wusste, was passieren würde, aber es scheint, dass die Koalition es dumm war, bis es passiert ist, richtig? Ja.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Yeah, it almost makes you seem like everyone's there as well. Like all the congregation is there because they maybe have faith that they will be healed one day. Yeah, so maybe that's what it says.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Friendship saved. Knowing that... Did she have it coming? No, I'd like to think it was a barbaric rage. I was blacked out. I always hate that. In those crime documentaries, I blacked out. Bullshit.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Maybe. Yeah, I don't know. I think it's still, once again, there's just not enough info. To me, it almost reads at the end of this paragraph of keep the faith means like trust what i'm saying it's because he's like she didn't keep the faith she didn't listen to him and say not to go in the church she's like you're perfectly fine the way you are that this that i think that they're
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
It's worth living this life versus what you're given with this monster or whatever. It could be that faith is an analogy of like, trust me, you know, like he kind of a martyr kind of thing or whatever.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
That's a cope. That's what OJ said and stuff like that, right? I blacked out. I didn't know what happened. Yeah, go fuck yourself.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
I had a long night think. Actually, what if you found out that I strangled someone to death, but it was in self-defense? Like I saw some guy getting ready to stab somebody, right? Well, that's fine. He's like, give me your fucking wallet! Whatever like that. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. What if I said, I think I saw a guy getting ready to stab somebody to death?
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Yeah, and also it's like all the people, all the miracles that they've quote unquote been doing, I believe, have just been like thrown into this well.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Yeah, contorted hooves and stuff and those are the caps and all that kind of shit too. Yeah.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Okay, das ist eine Lüge. Das ist eine Lüge, aber hier ist eine Wahrheit. Ich habe gesagt, Isaiah, was hast du für Mittagessen? Und was hast du gesagt? Spaghetti. And then he was like, oh, it's because I'm part Italian, is what he said. He said, I'm Italian to my blood, was the direct quote. And I said, oh, that's what that smell is.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
I think I'm smart enough to space out enough to where... I think I'd get you. I think I'd get you again. Also, we should read the story. You know, I keep, some of the times I'm just like, just riffing around with my buddies fun, huh? Nice. But we do have a story called Berries in the Window. If it's not good, guess what, dude? And actually, me and Isaiah, we talked about this before the episode.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
We both followed Kevin Jones back on Twitter. If the story's not good, we're unfucking following him. Also Kevin, wenn das rauskommt und du sagst, dass sie mich nicht folgen, schau mal, was passiert, Bruder. Also hier gehen wir. Berries in the Window. Berries in the Window. Ich bin bereit. Auch das, es hat, ich bin gespannt auf die Themes.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
You know, I think I like the emotional tie-in of a father. I like the concept of a dad who is in a way, not inadvertently saying this, but ashamed of his son. I think he is unable to process the fact that his son is disabled and basically not how he sees fit. So he goes on a selfish crusade and
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Well, he gets a job and it leads to a selfish crusade of him being like, well, I, my son can be normal versus accepting him for who he is. And the nice tie in at the end that he has that, I think in some places it felt a bit rushed. Like I, I just kind of, I just wish there was more to things like even just some of the stuff of like, how did the pastor even know about the kid?
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Ich will nicht noch dazu gehen, weil ich es nicht spoilern möchte, aber ich bin gespannt. Von dem, was wir gehört haben, klingt ziemlich cool. Ja, jemand hat mir ein bisschen einen Rundown davon gegeben.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Well, more of the story is, I felt like, I don't know, it felt like time passed by kind of quickly. I kind of wanted to sink more Ich hoffe, dass wir das Szenario ein bisschen mehr gebaut haben. Ich glaube, dass die Welt in diesem Bereich und der Pastor ein bisschen mehr... Aber all in all, wie gesagt, ich genieße es.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Es hat diese Art von Mittagsmassen-Vibre von einem Kreaturen, der die Heilung in eine lustige Weise bietet. Und ich denke, es ist interessant, die Idee. Ich liebe immer die Glauben als Konzept für eine Geschichte. Und die Glauben in dich selbst und die Glauben in dein Kind am Ende, denke ich, ist eine wirklich lustige Schlussfolgerung. Ich mag den Charakter-Arch da, den der Vater hatte.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Aber all in all, wie gesagt, mit einigen dieser Dinge passiert es auch. Und auch... Just to keep in mind, Kevin Jones, I think he has two stories. Yeah. This being one of the first two stories.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
And I think as time goes, there'll be more of those instinctive... You know, and I think the... die you like very flowery like very very flowery very like everything almost felt poetic you know um with how he was describing things and i think just a bit more like i would have loved to hear more and have that realization that it's like because i do like that i like the bit
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
of yeah like we're we have only been here a month yeah he messaged you a month ago and it's like they're not villagers they're people that just kind of showed up and are looking for a cure themselves um i think kind of trying to stretch that out would have been nice but once again these are all just subjective thoughts and stuff i think all in all i really enjoyed the the i enjoyed the piece i also i'm just a huge sucker for like cult weird religious shit that i that that's just like a flavor i always enjoy i
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
I thought that it was like a... Well, I don't know. That's the kind of thing, too. Some of the moments in reading it, which it could be me just being a bit of an airhead, but I found that it was kind of hard to keep up with what was kind of happening. Because also at the end, it's like, yeah, they're getting healed. And it's like, oh, this is working.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
And then you have this moment of him being won over. And then he kind of just was like, well, then I see it for its true form. To me, it almost felt like it was... It was giving... It was like putting on a show. But really all the people were dead in the well. Like the reality is still there that the girl is still down there and the congregation. But I don't know if that's true.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Because that's the whole thing too. It seems like the pastor is selling... Is selling everybody on this false promise. And also there's the fun mirroring of like the pastor and his family. Of the pastor had the same thing. He is now basically trying to find a way to...
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
like have the souls for his son you know like it's a very selfish response of like what the pastor wants for his kid versus what uh our protagonist wants for alan and like his boy um so you kind of you kind of get the the healthier relationship that alan's you know alan had his ending of just being accepted and his dad's gonna love him now he kind of has like he actually looks at him like a son
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
versus the pastor looks at him like a dead child and now it's like a demon that needs to have souls and shit. The parallel there is really fun.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Und ich denke, wenn ich länger sage, glaube ich, dass ich nur mehr Aufmerksamkeit auf Dinge meine, mehr wie ein Setup von entwicklend. Ich wollte mehr in dieser kleinen Stadt und so entwicklend sein. Es gibt so viele tolle Starts von einer Kirche, die sich wie eine fremde Kirche befindet und wie eine Art und Weise wie Resident Evil.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Ja, einfach die Größe der, ich meine, einfach ein Garten, ein dekorierter Garten ist, was es ist. Und I was kind of picturing the place as this Resident Evil 4 kind of village of just like weird freaks walking around and stuff. And I think just getting to know them, because I think the highlight of the story is Noc. I love that character. Noc was very cool.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
And I think getting to experience more with her and just understanding more of the intention. And I think it's just more so as well, because I just feel a little lost on... It was pieced together in such a way where I understand the gist of it, but I wanted, I think I just want to make sure, I wish I would have left the story feeling like I had my head wrapped around all of it.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
And I wasn't just so like, well, is that what was happening here or whatever else? But once again, just subjective, just, you know, me, just for the food of thought of criticism or whatever, I just, that's it.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Yeah, I think that's about right. All in all though, once again, for second story, I mean, I love that this was wrote this year. dass das etwas ist, das ich liebe, dass diese Horrorgeschichten kontinuierlich geschrieben werden. Ich liebe das.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Und ich liebe, dass jemand einfach ihre, weißt du, Kreativität und wer weiß, du weißt, ich meine, ich weiß nicht, wir wissen nicht, Kevin Jones, aber es könnte etwas sein, wie Maybe some kind of personal story in there, you know, like personal aspect of this and exaggerated to fit a horror story.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Better, you know, it was kind of weird. My buddy was really religious when I was growing up and his brother had a mental disability. And I remember the dad always taking him to church and like. Ja. Ja. Ja.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Ich hatte Appendicitis. Ich kann es mir nicht vorstellen. Es ist so schmerzhaft. Und dann schlägst du einfach aus, wenn es funktioniert. Ich meine, es ist verdammt. Also das ist einfach furchtbar. Das ist das seltsame Ding. Die Eltern sind in den Gefängnis gegangen.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Sie sind in den Gefängnis gegangen. Das endet in einem etwas glücklichen Ende. Ein bisschen. Ja, ich weiß. Ich liebe immer Religion als Thema. Ich glaube, das ist der Grund, weshalb ich oft auf Meme gehe. Ich liebe kräftige Sachen und Dinge von Religionen und Ideen und Followern aus unbekannten Orten. Es ist immer so lustig.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Das ist auch, weshalb ich den Film The Wicker Man liebe, wo du diese paganen Dinge hast, Religionen, die älter als Menschen sind. Sie sind zurückgebracht, aus der Erde geboren, aus der Erde gekommen. Storys like this just kind of tickle that bone a bit and I think it's fun, especially whenever they almost disguise themselves as worldly religions like Christianity or something.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
They use that guise to lure people in like a Venus flytrap almost to catch them. Really, really fun. But yeah, no, Kevin Jones, fuck yeah, bro. We appreciate you. We'll put his Twitter as well, just because he has... Yeah, we'll throw his Twitter down there and we'll just give him a follow and check out his other work. Hopefully maybe in the future we'll read it as well.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
But Kevin, good job, buddy. And once again, this is just proof too that this, you know, creepypastas are still alive, baby. Okay, still going strong.
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Guys, this is berries in the window. Thank you so much. Also, we didn't say at the beginning of this episode, but please consider listening to this podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcast. It really does help us out. Give us a nice positive rating there.
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We have to. We have to do it. And just thank you guys so much again for the support. This year has been insane. And I hope you enjoy your holidays. Stay safe out there. Safe travels to everyone. And we will catch you
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Whenever I meet you, when I was in person with him, that's what that smell was.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
I assume she had a boyfriend waiting for her back home. But I was tired of assuming. That's kind of a creepy line. Also, I want to say to the horror class, that's actually true. In college, I had a class, it was a... Ich kann mich noch nicht erinnern, wie sie das bezeichnet haben. Es war quasi eine Gay-Theorie. Das war es.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Your mustache, you could fool me. You could definitely fool me. You look like an Italian-American.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Aber es war wie die Erlebnisse von Gay-Arten und Medien durch Vampire-Filme. Und wie die 80er-Jahre alle von der AIDS-Schmerze ausgesprungen wurden. Es war sehr interessant. Ich will nur sagen, das ist eine echte Sache. Ich glaube, es wird viele Leute sagen, was? Eine Horror-Klasse? Aber es war cool. Es war eine gute Klasse.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
I enjoyed all my history classes. That was like the big thing I really enjoyed. I took that. There was this one teacher. Ich habe sie einfach gefreut. Ich habe eine von ihren Klassen besucht. Die einzige andere Klasse, die sie danach besucht hat, war Feminismus. Also war ich in allen ihrer Feminismus-Klassen. Aber einer von ihnen war im Grunde eine Frauen-Historie in China.
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Und ich habe gelernt, es war verdammt verrückt. Wie chinesische Fußbindungen, all diese Art von Scheiße. Verdammt verrückt. Also ich habe fast jede Geschichte-Klasse genossen, die ich jemals besucht habe. Ich dachte, das wäre verrückt.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Absolut. Nun, ich muss es sein. Ich muss das Charakter auf dem Show sein.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Erinnerst du dich an die Venuses? Es ist wie in der Neolithic-Ära, da wären diese Statuen, die sie als Venus nennen würden. Oh, ja. Aber sie sind große, fette, dünne Frauen.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Weil wenn du groß warst, dann warst du wach, du warst gesund und was auch immer. Ja, es war ein Privileg, fett zu sein, weil es schwierig war, mit dem Essen zu kommen. Ja, ich will jemanden, der einen von mir machen würde. Jemanden, der mich als Venus machen würde. Das ist, wer ich sein will.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Big ass lips and a mustache and just huge hips and a belly.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
I think you have to be open-minded enough to be able to want to ingest and adore someone's culture enough to visit their country. And kill them. Well, exactly, and go there and indulge in whatever you have to in a blind rage, because I blacked out.
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Berries In The Window | Creep Cast
Ja, ich muss dieses Charakter sein. Ich breche meine Finger, weil ich sie so hart geschlossen habe. Charakter. Berries in the Window was written on June 20th, 2024. This great, the Lord's great year of this year. And apparently, sorry Kevin, but we saw you follow us, dude. Lame! Lame! Just kidding. Very excited to read this from somebody who's a fan of the show.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Ich kann nicht denken, dass wir etwas gemacht haben, das war...
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Das ist cool. Zwei veröffentlichte Werke. Wir stellen sie hier hin. Ich schaue sie an. Travis Brown. Lass mich dich fragen. Das ist eine wirklich schwierige Frage. Glaubst du, dass Travis Brown als Name oder Grand Theft Auto besser als Name ist? Ich erinnere mich.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I love this line. The wall was cracking, grief waiting on the other side, heavy and cold as an empty house. I really like that. Just like little beautiful little lines like that.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Das wäre völlig wahr. Jeder Travis, den ich je getroffen habe, ist ein schädlicher Charakter. I'll say it. Shady character.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Das ist ein interessanter Ansatz von Worten. Quarantiniert. Ich bin nervös. Was die Urgenz hat, wenn seine Mutter nur noch ein paar Tage übrig hat, um zu leben. Er macht all das in einer Runde. Aber es gibt viele Dinge, wo ich sage, du machst Unboxing und du machst all diese Dinge, die du nicht wirklich verstehst. Du machst sie in einer Runde. Und sogar Worte wie, ihr Legacy war Quarantiniert.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Es fühlt sich an, als ob er bereit ist, etwas nicht besonders gut zu erledigen. Das würde ich sagen.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Ich würde sagen, es erinnert mich an Hereditary mit der Mutter und dann die Großmutter, die weg war. Und jetzt bist du in einige der Traditionen, die sie gewohnt hat.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Ich sage auch, dass ältere Frauen mich einfach erschrecken, wie Großmütter und solche Sachen, wie ältere Menschen generell, aber speziell ältere Frauen schrecken mich einfach aus, also habe ich nur diese seltsame Verpackung von Items von dieser älteren Frau, Gott sei Dank, er beginnt sie zu sehen oder so, ich würde mich erschrecken, ich würde mich erschrecken, wo ist meine Liste, ich habe eine Liste irgendwo, oh, es ist in meinem Boden, ich muss es auswählen, ja, aber ich nehme alte Frauen, ich werde sie hinzufügen, jemand erinnert mich darauf, ja,
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I get a little strange. Is it legal to do exorcism? Can you still exorcise people?
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
See, and one thing has like also just sorry to derail it again, but the even like just in terms of like rituals and stuff, usually candle lighting a candle offers like spirit, like welcoming spirits, opening doors or whatever. Is there any indication that this is like that they're Native American or like any kind of culture that believes in this? Oh, Cantonese. Okay, my bad.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Incantation type of symbols and that kind of rituals and stuff. Yeah, that kind of thing.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I think in this desperation, I think that I would be, I would go through that book Ich wollte alles tun, was ich konnte. Wenn das Teil meiner Kultur ist und meine Glauben sind, und ich will einfach alles versuchen, denke ich, dass du alles tun wirst, was das Buch sagt. Das ist das, was ich mir vorstelle. Es gibt keine wirkliche Logik dazu. Er sagt einfach, dass er alles tut, wie eine Lädenliste.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Der Witz kam sofort. Die Flamme brachte einen ungewöhnlichen rot-braunen. Kein Wetter kam aus der Kante, und es sah eigentlich kühler aus, je näher ich meine Hand dem Feuer bewegte.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I didn't make it very far. And I wasn't really running away, only stretching my legs. Mom smiled.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Hollywood hat meine Vorstellung davon aufgeräumt. Ich weiß auch, dass es viele seltsame Fälle gibt, wo Leute sterben während von Exorzismen. Und sie sagen einfach, ich weiß nicht, es war ein Dämon. Es kam aus einer Mädchen, ich weiß nicht, wo es hinfiel. Aber wer weiß, vielleicht habe ich sie zu dem Tod des Baden geschlagen. Okay, so that's the illegal exorcism. Okay, I just needed to know.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I think I wanted to be all that combined. Young me was big on multitasking.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Yeah, I didn't exactly plan ahead for the circus escape. I remember getting over the idea quick, but I couldn't find my way back. I'm glad you found me.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I think, uh, I think it's going to be something where not that I think she realizes that something horrible is going to happen because she would probably say something. But I think it's also like almost it's almost like divine intervention, almost having someone like, no, seriously, I'm OK to go. You don't have to do this. Yeah, yeah. Also, that's an impossible thing to to grasp.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I completely sympathize with Brian about being like, I'm not fucking, this fight isn't over yet.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I'm getting ready to go to school for it, so I need to know. I won't bring my bat. But today we're going to be starting off.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Oh, Something Walks Whistling? That's kind of a fun, that's kind of a fun, uh, title too, Something Walks Whistling.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Ich will immer Kringel sagen, aber ich bin fast sicher, dass es Santa Claus' Name ist.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Ja, ich bin mir sicher, dass es das ist. Chris Kringle ist der weibliche Mann. Wer weiß, vielleicht ist es Rebecca's Vater, ich weiß es nicht.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I love you too. Don't cry, it's okay. I'll wake up anytime now. I'll see you then.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Do you think I'll have time to find out before I wake up?
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Ich würde sagen, nur in Bezug auf den Titel für den anderen, Something Walks Whistling, weißt du, was mich eigentlich ausdrückt, auch in der realen Welt, ist, wenn Menschen einen sehr genannten, starken Whistle haben, als wenn sie wirklich gut am Whistling sind. Das ist mir ausdrücklich. I used to be really good at that, but it's been a while.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
There are, well, there are things out there that want her, to hurt her. It's, it's my fault. I'm so sorry.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
You sound like a demented version of Hunger Games or some shit. There's just something creepy about whistling. I don't know why.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Willkommen zurück bei Creepcast! Heute sind wir auf Maria on the Moon und einer anderen Geschichte von diesem Autor, die heißt Something walks whistling past my house every night at 3.03. Das ist von einem Autor, der heißt Grand Theft Motto, den ich mag. Ich mag diesen Namen.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Very emotional, happy ending kind of thing. I think that it's the reassurance that when people are gone that you love, everyone walks that same road. All you can do is hope that there's some kind of imbalance of peace on the other side. I think... I agree. I think that the build up wasn't there. Like there, there wasn't enough horror in there to have that fun reveal of death.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Cause I do like the reveal of, I like the idea that, um, Yeah, you're doing more harm than good. Yeah, I think that letting other spirits in and all that stuff, I mean,
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Yeah, I think that if you can spend more time doing that, right... I think that one, it makes the subversion of death being like a peaceful, natural entity much more... I don't know, much more revealing or much more satisfying ending. But also it makes me wonder what the candle of like, like with this, like, how do you avoid death with these candles and stuff?
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Kind of wish there was more repercussions to that or something more where it's like, why would you want that to happen? Like if this person is spiritual, you'd almost think that like they would know that death is a natural part. So it's, why are you trying to trick death? Das war nicht die schrecklichste Geschichte, die wir gelesen haben, aber in Bezug auf den emotionalen Pull-In und so.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
um relationship and that kind of you just just that the hardship that comes with having to say goodbye to things i mean that's so relatable not only to even if your parents are still alive like animals that you've loved or anything else that you've had to you know permanently say goodbye to is a Very tough pill to swallow. So it's just the ending.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
It'd be funny if you just grew a huge pair of tits and you just became Jennifer Lawrence right there. Anytime someone does a Hunger Games whistle, they just immediately grow tits and they're like an expert archer.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Also I want to say reminded me a lot of left, right game ending of having this entity.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
And you have the long road and you know, that kind of stuff.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
i think that you're right too though of i think that in these situations i think it's more powerful to have the entity not respond like yeah think about how many times this entity has walked a soul down this road or whatever or like yeah that set up this transaction to me i'm like i think that there's nothing to be said it's only through action i think it's better you have the human being who's
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Just processing this and emotionally responding. I think, you know, that's the person who's yelling and screaming and it is emotionally responding. The situation versus death has probably heard this a billion times, over a billion times or whatever. So I agree, though.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
But all in all, I will say, I mean, like, I'm glad that we're doing two stories because I'm excited to see how something walks whistling past my house every night at 303. How this one holds up as well. Is this one also a little lighter on the horror? It's more of a emotional study. Oder wird es mehr sein? Ich würde sagen, es ist auch interessant, weil die 303 auch in Maria war.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
The amount of times I've woken up at exactly like 3.30 or 3.28, like right in there, I'm like, why? Why am I waking up right now?
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I'm like, I'm sure it's fine, just sleep apnea choking on my tongue.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Nur ein Weg, um herauszufinden. Ich sage, wir fangen an. Etwas schreit über meinem Haus. Jede Nacht.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I'm immediately bought in. Wow, so the parents even said that too? Hey, just whatever you do, don't look in the direction of the person whistling. I'm here for it. What a creepy fucking thing. Imagine your parents saying that to you when you were younger. Hey, someone's gonna be whistling. Just don't look at them.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Oh my god. This little dumb piece of shit is going to open one of the shutters. God damn it.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Oh, without further ado, we should probably actually get into the story here. Now I'm thinking about big floppy Hunger Games titties and stuff, so I need to get Maria.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Now it's my dad. My dad won't let us look at the Whistler. Dad locks the secret windows. Yeah, he's locking all the windows.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
was zwölf, als dieser Film herausgekommen ist, war es nicht sogar in einer unabhängigen Weise, ich war einfach so, wie ein Engel, also war das dein erster größter Künstler, es war wie sie und Scarlett Johansson, ich erinnere mich an die Avengers, meine Theater und ich bin so, wow, mein erster und noch heute ist Lucy Liu, ich liebe Lucy Liu, okay, Maria auf dem Mond von Travis Brown, a.k.a.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I mean, that's not a bad thing either. When I can't look outside at 3.03 a.m.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Oh, 100%. The kid is going to fuck this all up. I can feel it in my bones.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I'd have them go to bed with blindfolds on that are also locked.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
So here's your macaroni casserole. Here's a gift basket. There's some lotion in there. Smells good. Also a man who whistles and you are not to look at him. Do not do that.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Aber das Leben geht aus ihnen. Selbst wenn sie leben, gibt es nie wieder Licht in ihnen. Keine Präsentation.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Grand Theft Motto, den ich noch denke, du solltest legal seinen Namen wechseln,
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Mom smiled. How sweet of them to name the moon Oceans after me. Well, they didn't find any Oceans. Maybe they just didn't look hard enough. She replied, a little laugh slipping from her lips. Am I gonna cry? I feel a deep heaviness in my stomach. My dog has lumps. He has to go in tomorrow to get his lips removed. And I was like, oh my god, my poor little man. Right? Now I'm...
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
We don't talk about that. I think it's the weirdo that lives in the big yellow house in the corner. Mr. Tolles? No way, he's really nice. Must be a psycho killer then. Nola tensed. We don't talk about it. Let's go in my room and play Nintendo.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
We don't... See, I can't. I can't even try to look because my dad locks the blinds every night and hides the key. So does our dad. He continued, ignoring me. No, no he doesn't.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Your dad locks the blinds? Yeah, but he doesn't hide the key. He keeps it right on his normal keychain. So?
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
So after your dad locked up before your parents went to bed, I went to the bathroom and on my way, I may have peeked into the room and I may have seen your dad's keychain on his nightstand and I maybe went and borrowed the keys to the blinds.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
You can check if you want. Just open your parents' door and look. You'll see his keychain right there on his nightstand.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I just wanna fucking... I'm like sad. Yeah, someone's exercising me right now. I feel like someone just took a bat to my face and I got a little teary-eyed now.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
My people are okay. Well, not my kids, so. Exactly, yeah. Also at the same time, though, dude, fuck Holden.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I still think about him sneaking in and stealing the keys. I'm like, what a little rat fuck.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Bitte stoppen! Ich glaube nicht, dass sie uns helfen werden.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Yeah, I would say so. I would say that, I would say we were floored by Boroska, but I think Pen Pal was like an actual, like devastating.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
And that is the end of The Whistler! I loved that story.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I'm so glad we read that one second. First off, I just want to say, how awesome. Two completely polar opposite worlds.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Even with Rebecca, I love her, but I would say she does have a consistency of you can see her comfort zone, right?
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Recurring themes and stuff. I'm sure there's obviously different ones, but the ones that we've read... Es gibt einige Vergleiche. Das hier war so anders. Die einzige Sache ist, dass die Schwester krank war, aber es war nicht etwas von Schaden. Wenn etwas war, sollte es zeigen, wie glücklich sie war.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Sie war krank, aber als sie in diesem Wohnzimmer lebte, kann sie jetzt auf ihr eigenes Atmen atmen und all diese anderen Sachen. Das ist auch eine tolle polare Opposite zu der Todesrede. You know, in the first story. This one, the Whistler, you don't even know what the fuck it is. It is nothing.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
But how much more haunting was that story? Because of that.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Yeah, like it's like right there. Oh, it's so good. What I love about these kinds of stories, the something walks whistling kind of stories is if I read this tomorrow, I might interpret it in a different way. I would love to read this again down the road and see if there's a different way my mind processes or wraps around the story. It's very, very fun.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
To me, this is also the kind of story that a Tommy Taffy was meant to be. This is like a better Tommy Taffy to me, honestly. A creature that is plaguing a neighborhood. I love also they don't harp on the rule. It's just a rule. That's what it is.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Starting this off with such a heavy thing is pretty interesting.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Du weißt, du kannst es brechen, du wirst wahrscheinlich weggehen, du wirst nicht alle, und ich mag es, dass nicht alle sterben, auch die Idee, es ist fast, es scheint sogar eine schlechte Leben, dass man komplett voller Leben leben muss, und dann ist es nichts mehr als Schmerz und Leid, es ist so ein fucking, wie eine Gefängnis-Sentenz eines Lebens.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Glaubst du, glaubst du, dass der Vater wahrscheinlich, weil er sich entspannt sieht, er nicht, weil sie auch eine gute Note machen, dass sie nicht lachen, dass der Vater nicht lachen hat, dass er gesagt hat, hey, die Dinge werden okay sein, weil der Vater ist wie, du bist verdammt, Bruder, sorry.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Wie viele Male glaubst du, dass der Vater so etwas vorher gesehen hat? Ich weiß, dass er gesagt hat, dass nicht viele Leute reingehen.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Ja, oder er weiß die Verursachungen. Ja, ja, ja. Ja, aber ich glaube nicht, dass er in seinem Haus war. Nein, nein, nein. Das war auf jeden Fall das höchste Extrem. Was auch am Ende... Ich mag es, dass sie es wiederholen. Er sagt, dass er jetzt, auch wenn wir keine Gäste mehr haben, dass mein Vater die Schlüssel versteckt. Er sagt, dass er das nicht mehr riskieren wird.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Also, ich sage auch, was ich liebe, ist smarte Charaktere in Geschichten. Der Vater ist nicht unkompetent. Die Mutter ist nicht unkompetent. Es ist einer dieser Dinge, wo es ist, als ob wir dieses Ding gesagt hätten. Selbst wenn du denkst, es ist ungeheuer, der Vater hat dieses Glaubenssystem, wo er sagt, hey, ich habe das vorher gehört.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Denn du hättest, zuerst dachte ich, dass die Mutter sagen würde, das ist verdammt dumm. Und die Mutter würde etwas tun.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
That's what I like about setting up narratives like that, or narrative devices where it's just like, follow the rules and everything will be fine. Once again, very left-right game-esque.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Being able to live a prosperous life in a dangerous environment is a very interesting world-building tool. Yeah, like you're basically living in a hell for two minutes every day, which is an interesting take two. You have 24, 23 hours and 58 minutes of prosperity, but two minutes of hell. And hopefully you're asleep for us, right?
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Hopefully you're asleep, even though you would be driven mad as the child is in a way of like, there's no way I could sleep through that. I forgot what I was going to say. I had another thought, but moral of the story is, it was very, very good. I really enjoyed all of,
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
all of that i mean like just such a great setup i like that they didn't linger on the other neighbors and stuff too you know like in tommy taffy they had the part where it was like oh that's what i was gonna say is the idea of setting up a setting up a world where there is a specific rule that cannot be broken such as the left right game thing too is you can always account for human error and that's like a fun thing
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
ist, wer der schwächste Link sein wird. Und das ist das lustige daran, dass Menschen in diesen Narrativen sind, dass es immer menschliche Fehler gibt, immer menschliche Fehler.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Ich hoffe, es ist es eigentlich. Das wäre ein, das wäre ein großartiges Geburtstag. Eigentlich. Das ist nur, wir dachten nicht, dass das ein Grab Bag wäre. Du weißt, wie es mit dem selben Autor, aber ich denke, dass sie etwas kürzer sind. Also habe ich versucht, dass wir zumindest zwei davon machen, um zu sehen, wie sie rollen. Wir werden sehen. Ich habe gute Dinge gehört, aber.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Es ist der beliebteste... It is the most believable thing in a story is that a human selfishly will fuck something up. It's like there's without a doubt, you know, like it's impossible to think that there would be a prosperous kind of society in this neighborhood where everyone's just like, yep, we all abide by the rules. There's just no way.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I think that... Ich möchte auch zu deinem Punkt hinweisen. Ich denke, mit Tommy Taffey ist es so, als wäre es ein Cartoon. Ich meine, es ist sehr bedeutend, dass es wahrscheinlich so ist. Für mich hat es immer so gelesen, als wäre es wie ein Familienfreund, der dich verabschiedet. Es ist essentiell so. Ja, sie sind komplett anders.
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Es ist ein falscher, schöner Charakter, der ist, weißt du, das gleiche wie ein Familienfreund oder ein Relativ oder was auch immer. Ja. in that way. But the problem is... It feels like an abuse story. Envisioning so much of it, it makes it less frightening in terms of face value. I mean, it does horrible things, but the idea of the Whistler... And you touched on this earlier, is that you cannot...
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Du kannst einen Witzel nicht faken, es ist egal. Also für mich ist das Ding, ich weiß nicht, ob es menschlich ist. Ich weiß nicht, ob es so ist, dass es irgendeine Form haben kann, weil du nicht aus dem Register eines Witzels kommen kannst. Wenn etwas witzelt, wird es in der gleichen Karte sein, richtig? Also für mich ist es einfach so.
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Es ist einfach etwas sehr mysteriöses und ich liebe es, wenn ich denke, dass mein Gehirn vier verschiedene Designs hat. Ich bin so, was könnte das sein? Denn ursprünglich dachte ich an einen Jungen in einem Trenchcoat und einem Hat.
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So that takes out that equation. Like my mind has just been racing with it. Just such a great story to end on. I'm glad we read Maria, Maria first, but I am glad that we ended on this one because this is just such a, such a heavy hitter. I had a lot of fun.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
You know what's funny? Sein Name ist Freaky Fred. Freaky Fred, das ist es, ja. Weißt du, wie viele Leute sagten, dass Freaky Fred sie von Tommy Taffy erinnert hat, als wir das Video posteten? Ich habe viele Leute gesehen. Das macht Sinn.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Just really interesting parallels with some of the other stuff we've seen. You know what I really liked about today's recording, and I hope that people did too, was just the kind of similarities between stories, but just done in different ways.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Not to say that any of them took from each other, I'm just saying that the differences between the Tommy Taffy here, or the differences between left-right game, in the other story. If it bleeds, it breeds, all that kind of stuff. It's just fun.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I'm glad we're seeing, we're getting different examples of similar themes that we can actually compare now versus having just completely new things that we have to compare to stories that might not be necessarily fair to compare them to. But just because we've read them, they're a part of the discussion. Just a lot of fun. Travis Brown, once again, we will also link his two books,
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
I think I am too, because there's also some nice hardback versions, so... I'd like to do that.
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Sehr, sehr cool. Ich liebe es. Ja, Hardback-Versionen von beidem, was cool ist. Ich war nur die Hardback-Versionen, die superior sind, die superior sind, die superior sind, die superior sind, die superior sind, die superior sind. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Stay spooked, you crazy sons of bitches. Also the live tour episode should be coming out soon as well.
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I think we're editing down all that footage. So be looking forward to that as well.
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We can still go dancing later if you'd like. Though, we'll have to ask for my son's blessing. Ever since his dad died, Brian's been very protective of me.
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Only to know your intentions are pure, Dr. Bradshaw. God damn, dude. Good lord. I'm like, I should make the fucking happier day to read this shit. God damn.
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It just lit on fire. The orphans are burning. His girlfriend just broke up with him and they lost the baby last week. So.
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Er hat sich zusammengearbeitet. Aber ich müsste die Runde auf die Tanzmasse schauen, Frau Willen. Ich bin nicht so jung, wie ich früher war.
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The results came in this morning. It's spreading aggressively. We held it back as long as we could, Brian. Your mom is a fighter. But right now we just need to, well, to try to keep her as comfortable as we can.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
Anything experimental, untested? Anything? Dr. Bradshaw schlug seinen Kopf. Ich bin sorry. Manchmal sind wir nur aus Optionen entfernt. Sie hat einen guten Kampf gespielt.
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Ich weiß. Ich weiß. I lied. Thank you. I love this setup because I like these setups when someone is pushed to the brink of no return, right? Like this guy's mom's death.
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The Whistler At 3:03 AM | Creep Cast
And the simple setup with the stone tree has me hopeful that this is going to go into like he's going to try... Es ist fast wie eine Paranormale, wie spirituelle Praktiken, die wahrscheinlich aufhören werden. Ich liebe diese Art von Setup. Es ist immer Spaß.
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Und es ist immer so, was ich auch mag, ist, dass ich so viel Sympathie habe für nicht nur die Mutter, Brian und sogar den Arzt in dieser Situation. Alle sehr, wie Menschen in einer schicken Situation. Offensichtlich ist die Mutter da, aber du willst nicht der Sohn sein. Du willst nicht der Arzt sein, der das News übernehmen muss, wenn es offensichtlich so viel Gemeinsamkeit zwischen ihnen gibt.
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this is so heavy yeah yeah what else are you gonna do right you've got to try something very real too i don't think yeah i mean i we i don't know have we had any i'm trying to think if there's any stories read so far where cancer is kind of a part of the equation i think the uh no it seems like cancer is such a Ja, ich denke nicht, dass wir etwas hatten.
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It's a strange but addictive feeling. Soon I started to notice something just a little off. She never really answered anything about herself. She ignored my suggestions that we text or talk on the phone. All she wanted was to know more about me. It got me wondering. Like, maybe she's dying and just doesn't want to say. So I asked her.
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Maybe not. Everything was literal, like bones in the back of the cafe maybe, or something like that, but it all had a purpose. Yeah.
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Um, so yeah, at the end he, he finally contacts Holy Moses and he says it's himself who says the birds and the bees. Uh, there's also a lot of like subtle, like, uh, I guess not explicitly Christian, but like savior imagery because Holy Moses is the name of the account.
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And then the file is milk and honey starts to lead them out, which is in the Bible, uh, with the story of Moses, uh, the promised land that they were supposed to travel to was called the land of milk and honey. So it's like, there's this, uh, constant beckon. And it's almost like it's him on the outside trying to give him on the inside and out a way to escape.
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And then finally, at the end, the birds and the bees, he follows the bees through the woods and he comes to a place that sounds like birds only to realize the birds are actually a machine that's running this entire thing. So it's like escaping the matrix, so to speak, like he makes it to the end of the road and is able to pull himself out of the hole.
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But there's several other people like Milky, like Ben, who are just down there. They're stuck down.
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just subtly like sexual in a lot of ways um in the story it's just it's very well written i think that plus another detail i kind of like about it because you said early on like right when we started whenever there was the line that said uh it's not a part of the internet i think it was waiting for us when we got here whatever right and you heard that and you said i really hope they don't explain that
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And really like, they tell us more about it, but they never explained that there's that part where he says, it's like, we found it because it's in the anti-net, but that still doesn't explain what it is.
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I asked why she wasn't sharing and if there was something I should know. I start reading over her previous messages for clues, and I noticed something that didn't occur to me at all until then. Her email address was at globetrotter.net. That may not mean anything to you, but it struck me as strange. You see, Globetrotter was a Canadian ISP way back in the mid-90s.
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Here's the thing. I don't even think that was explaining what it was. That's just saying that back in the seventies, the Soviets started to find this too. Like they were stumbling across this. Yeah.
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I know what you're saying that that's like, I'm too invested to care about the auxiliary details. If that was earlier in the story, maybe I would have cared about it.
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The, this story kind of thinking about it, the story almost feels like a horror rendition of like the matrix, you know, like it's like, Oh sure. Consciousness. Everyone's plugged into, but instead of having entities like Mr. Smith or agent Smith that try to keep everything together, you know, You have like these demons, these monsters almost. You have things like Connie.
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You have the woman under the bed, which might have been Connie, you know, like because Bernie's niece talked about Connie would hide under the bed. You have like these women that hide under the bed. You have the bee people. You have these kind of like angry face drones, as our narrator calls them. And then one of my favorite mentions in the whole, oh, Commander Meat, he kind of looks like a dog.
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And that's never brought up again. It says when they went to the Egypt that there was a dog behind the counter that never did anything. And then they're like commander meat. He kind of looks like that. We get zero explanation for that. So it's almost like there's this, like for God to this other dimension, right? Of demons. Of monsters or whatever. That has been existing next to humanity.
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For thousands of years. But when we invented the internet. That made a bridge. And now they're pulling people into their side. Pieces at a time. And you see like drones of them. That move around in the hole. Things like Commander Meat and Connie. And stuff like that. Like agents. The more I think about it. The more I love.
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because it was so spacey and dreamlike in a lot of parts things didn't necessarily connect but again it felt like i was in a vision it felt like going into the matrix and i like it the more i think about it and i like the world building and this is this is a very inventive horror take that had very creepy moments very bizarre moments very kind of ethereal moments with the visions and stuff like that the more i think about this the more i like it and i already liked it like yeah
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I didn't even realize they still hosted. I know a lot of people still have their old email addresses for sentimental value and all, but it's like she was purposefully trying to be old school. Something about it creeped me out, like she was trying too hard to make me feel nostalgic or something. Again, I didn't have to wait long for her reply. Oh, she didn't answer my questions.
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I yeah, I'm I'm bought in and I'm going to be I'm this is going to be a story that's going to stick with me for a while. I'm going to be thinking about the details of it. It was very well done. I also want to point out for everyone again that Jared Roberts has several of his books available for like Kindle and Amazon. There's like paperback addictions.
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And one of them is called The Machine Stories, which seems to contain this, the hidden Web page. or whatever his rendition was for print, as well as several other stories that, at least according to the description, seem like they all tie in together, like it's all part of the same universe. There's a story there called Sunburn that seems to be a part of it.
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And the book is called The Machine Story. So if this was interesting, there seems to be more of it. And then he has another book called Glycemia. that says it fits between the hidden webpage and an upcoming sequel. So either he is writing a sequel to the hidden webpage or that already happened because this book came out pretty recently, I think. I'm stupid. I don't read Amazon.
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But all that to say, Jared Roberts has a bunch of other things in this vein in the same universe, which I'm actually going to buy right now because
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She asked me, Hey, do you remember the hole? I didn't know why then, but the moment I read that sentence, I felt uneasy. I was being watched. I had a hazy sense that I dreamed about something called The Hole once. Whatever it was, I was instinctively repulsed by it. I couldn't remember anything solid, though.
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In my head, I went over IRC rooms, websites, newsgroups, web rings, all the old internet stuff, and came up empty. She sent me another email before I could even reply. You really don't remember?
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So I'm... This is fun. I've immediately bought it. Just like her being a little creepy. I'd like this weird internet space and stuff like that. Trying to prey on his nostalgia a little too much. I'm...
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She was right. I did. I just didn't remember ever calling it the hole. What I remembered was that secret little space we found. I remember it was like the browser didn't see it as a real website or something. There wasn't even an address to copy and paste from the bar. It was just the letter M. I tried everything to pin it down to an IP, but M was all I could ever find.
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Another thing I remember is that I never liked the place. Not at all. There was nothing there. It was all empty. I remember being excited the first time we found it because it was something hidden and it felt like somewhere we shouldn't be. Then I hated it because it was just empty. And it made me feel bad and empty. Not boredom. Like it wasn't supposed to be there or anywhere.
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It wasn't part of anything. I wrote Angelica back telling her I wasn't interested in talking about that. I didn't hear back from her that night. That was unusual. She normally replied right away. Eerily fast, I realized while mulling it over. It was like she already had her answer typed out and it didn't matter what I actually said to her.
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Now that I was waiting for a response, because this whole thing had me inexplicably shaken up, of course she didn't reply. The next day, when I got home from work and email was waiting, she said, we were missing so much.
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I felt a strange chill down my spine that I brushed off his nerves. I was up for a promotion and a little stressed after all. Then I started to wonder if she was pranking me. Angelica wasn't really a humorous girl. She'd laugh at your jokes, but she didn't really make her own. In fact, something about her earnestness was really disturbing. I didn't reply to her right then.
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I decided to run some checks on her because things just weren't adding up. I started with her email address to see if she'd been posting anywhere. I was searching for a while before I hit something. I didn't find any forum posts or websites or anything like that. What I found was that her email host, Globetrotter, had stopped hosting. Eleven years ago.
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The email address she was writing from was impossible. Now I knew something was wrong with her, if it was even really Angelica. I mean, why would she go through so much trouble to create a fake email address that mirrored whatever email address she would have been using in the 90s? That wasn't just quaint anymore. Also, we hadn't talked in 18 years. Why did she suddenly want to reach out to me?
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And why just to talk about some long-forgotten website? Because I felt like that's what she was building up to all along. The more I thought about it, the more weird it seemed.
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a bit cheesy but i i'm kind of bought it feels good right now the way it's explained itself is like believable tone and it like it it feels right um so far and also i agree with you it kind of gives me the vibe that like uh it copies like uh internet users to get messages that or whatever so like basically copied her from the 90s and is now trying to fish for more people
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And also to clarify, I don't mean copy like it's a monster that copies people or anything, at least not yet. I mean, like it literally copies like users information.
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Kept digging around. I used her ICQ number, her name, the state I believe she lived in. I could find no record of her doing anything after her AngelFire homepage. No Facebook, no Google+, not even a MySpace. It's like her last presence on the internet actually was in the 90s.
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Like she disappeared completely, waited in hiding for almost 20 years, then reappeared just to talk to me about an old website. The whole thing was so bizarre, I started having trouble sleeping. I was having nightmares about staring into a monitor, not able to move. There were computers all around, and I was concerned about the beehive in the corner.
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After that, I went a week without sending her an email or her sending me one. I felt guilty about it, but I had every right. I just knew I'd regret it if I sent her another email. And it seemed like she took the hint at first, until a new email came in. This one was short and to the point.
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I remember those words exactly. Oh yes, because whatever the hell they meant, the way she said them, so real and urgent, was really upsetting. I didn't dare answer her. Another week went by without a strange email. This one was a different kind of email. This one didn't even have an email address. Though spooky enough in itself, it gets worse. The text read, It wasn't signed.
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I figured it had to be Angelica. It just wasn't her style. Not long after, I received another email from Angelica with instructions of where to go looking for the hole. A place on archive.org on their Wayback Machine still had the dot to click on. That was the only way in, she said. It had to be the dot. I thought about going to check it. I would have, except I was afraid of it.
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I couldn't remember what happened to me with that site, but I knew there was something bad about it. Then another email came back from the blank email address. In the body, just a link to a gopher site. Now, I hadn't seen a gopher site in a good 15 years. I had downloaded an old browser just to access it.
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If you weren't on the internet back then, gopher sites just housed a bunch of text files and folders, usually. You'd go to gopher colon slash slash blah blah dot com. They were usually run by universities. Okay, thank God he said that, because I was sitting here like, what on earth is a gopher site? Yeah, yeah. This particular gopher site only had a few files. All audio files.
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I listened to them all. They had different file names, but they were the same. The muffled sound of a boy's voice saying, help me, please, over and over. I was shaking. I got the police involved this time. They thought I was being pranked. I asked them if they could at least look into Angelica. I told them all I knew about her. The only thing I didn't tell them is who I thought the voice was.
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I know it's crazy, but the reason I didn't tell them is that I'm pretty sure it was my voice when I was a boy. Oh, wow. Oh, that's not great. Fuck that, dude.
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I've seen, I've seen like home videos of myself and stuff like that. Okay. I know I was like kind of high pit, like maybe I wouldn't know it immediately, but I think I could maybe like make it out if I thought about it enough, but I'm trying to think about like an actual video from when I was a kid and I don't think I have any recording of my old voice.
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Well, I was getting there. We recorded the story for, I think, two hours. And I eventually, like, midway through, I stopped Hunter from reading a quote. And I was like, Hunter, if we post this, this guy's going to get bullied. We have to.
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It almost feels like... like if you were to, you know, people talk about like repressed trauma, memories and stuff like that. Right. Um, it's almost like our author, like something really bad happened to him. Right. And it's kind of like, it's kind of like the website and all this is a manifestation of like remembering something bad that happened to you.
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Um, It almost kind of reminds me, I'm doing, I think the video will be out by the time this recording goes up, so it's fine. But I'm working on a Petscop video right now. Are you familiar with it? I've never heard of that. It's this internet horror series. But it kind of like the whole theme is that a kid's playing a PlayStation one video game that his mom left him.
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And it's like through the course of the game, he remembers a lot of horrible things that happened in his family. And the game's kind of like a metaphor for a metaphor for this kind of. Yeah. Yeah. And this kind of reminds me of that. But it's like a website thing. It's I think it's a very neat concept so far.
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I stopped receiving emails from Angelica and the blank address after that. I hoped it was over. I think a month passed before anything else happened. I got the promotion. Thanks for feeling normal. I told myself some secrets are best left secret. Well, I got a large manila envelope in the mail. No return address. I went against my gut and opened it.
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but why sick that's when they told me they actually had heard back from local PD where Angelica lived she had been a missing person since 1999 her parents offered a reward and everything they never found her no clues one night she was at a room listening to music on the computer in the morning she was gone without a trace I was so shocked I had to sit down maybe it was a prank
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But then, what if it was her? Wouldn't her family want to know? Maybe she had a psychotic break or something. What's this stuff about the hole? What about the blank email address? I didn't have a clue. The police were no help with these questions, and I was pulled back in. I decided to go looking for any contacts I could remember from the time when I was speaking to Angelica.
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Anyone who would have known both me and her. We had a few mutual contacts, mostly people from the web ring, but also people we introduced to each other. Just not many I remembered by their real names. Actually not. There was one guy. He went by the handle Rapscallion42. Is that right? Yeah, Rapscallion42. Yeah, I just thought it was Rapscallion. You know what?
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You're probably... I'm looking... Yeah, that's definitely Rapscalli.
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It's me, kids. The Globitrotter. Harlem Globitrotters. He went by the handle Rapscallion42. He was an odd guy into hacking and anarchy.
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I like how immediately after that, the author points out the funniness of it. He's like, he's into hacking and anarchy. The good, clean internet taboos we had back then. I feel like 10 years ago, even further, I'm sure, but 10 years ago, it was like, yeah, I'm really like a second phase anarcho-isolationist.
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He'd been on the net forever since the days of bulletin board systems. That guy, if he was still around, he'd probably still be going by the same username. So I got to searching. Not only could I not find any trace of Rapscallion42, I couldn't find any Rapscallion at all. He was all over the web in the day, so that in itself was weird, like someone scrubbed any trace of him.
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That's when I got the idea to dig out my old computer. It was an old 1997 HP running Windows 98. I had it stashed in the basement since I went to college. It would at least have all of my old contacts stored just where I left them. If it would even load. I had to wait five minutes for it to boot up. Then I got the ethernet cable plugged in.
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It was like it had just been in sleep mode for two decades. There they were. My desktop icons for IRC, ICQ, Netscape, and even Napster. Napster. I learned there was more to music than the radio from Napster. Some good memories. honestly wasn't sure ICQ would load. I believe ICQ still exists in some form, but I just doubted their servers would still accommodate the old software.
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One of the key features of ICQ that made it so ahead of its time was that, besides being the only instant messenger, it also allowed offline messaging. I mention that because not only did ICQ load, but it loaded with a message. That perturbed me a little, because it's like it was just waiting for me, knowing I'd boot it up. Except for one detail. The message was dated from November 1999.
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It was from Angelica, so it had to have been sent right before she disappeared. It just said, You coming? It sent a shiver down my spine. Where was she going? Could I have helped her if I'd seen it in time? Why'd she act like I knew? Even weirder is that I'm sure I'd been on ICQ after November of 1999. I'd say I used it up to 2001 or so. That's when I went to college. Thank you for watching.
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We are talking about an act of goodwill someone did for free for others' enjoyment. It's not that serious. And ultimately, at the end of the day, a critic will never... be like as valuable as the story that they are criticizing, regardless of how awful it is. Right.
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yeah it's highly rated it's on like creepypasta.com i've heard people talk about it i believe this along with a few of jared's other works has been adapted into these little like anthology horror books that he's put together jared's actually a pretty prolific writer and if you're in the creepypasta space you probably know him uh when i was younger he did a story called the arkansas sleep experiment um which despite the name has nothing to do with the russian sleep experiment
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Every now and then it's fun if we read a Jeff the Killer or a Best Friend Tried to Ruin My Life, but we don't want this podcast to just be clowning on stories that aren't up to standard or whatever.
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Thank you. ,,, So he said he tried to find the server tower it was running on. If he could do that, he could read the logs. Find out who set up the damn thing. While I was waiting for Ben to get back to me, I got a call from Detective Therault. The police hadn't shown much interest in my case, but it happened to land in front of this guy.
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Thankfully, he said the simple fact that Angelica had disappeared meant there was the possibility that a crime had taken place. I agreed. Because of that, he had done a little more work and felt I should know. He found Angelica. When he told me she was alive and well, I was thrilled. He said she voluntarily ran away from home and chose not to have contact with her family.
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She declined to say why, and he had no right to compel her otherwise. Legally, he was bound to protect her privacy. Point is, there was no crime. However, when he told her how it came about that he went looking for her, she asked him if she could speak to me. He said he took the liberty of accepting for me and passed on her phone number. I thanked him heartily. It was the first bit of good news.
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The first real break in this mess. As soon as I hung up with the detective, I called her. I was nervous. It had been so long and I was excited to hear from her again. She answered quickly and asked if it was me. I told her yes and said it was nice to hear her voice after all this time. Then she said, without any pleasantries, I told her I'd figured that much out already.
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this thing is mimicking like people you knew or like masking them to just full out building relationships.
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Yeah. Yeah. I'll, if it's either a person, a demon or whatever that's causing this, right? Like, uh, Oh my word. What a great, Oh, what a great reveal. That's I don't know you at all. A part of me was screaming. She's lying. She just sounded so certain. It almost felt like drowning because if she wasn't lying, a whole chunk of my youth was a lie. I told her all I knew about her personal things.
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We are also, might I add, two people who are just coming into these things. We have one guy who it's like, hey, does this story look good? And he does the same thing we do. He reads comments. And let me remind you, I Dare My Best Friend to Ruin My Life was one of the top-rated no-sleep stories.
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She said and wouldn't elaborate. What do you mean? Then I told her all the details I knew of her personal life, about her likes and hopes and dreams and her family. She said it was all true, but whoever told him about it, it wasn't her. That's why she wanted to talk to me now, so I would know the truth. She remembered how it used to happen every now and then a long time ago.
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She'd have people tell her they talked to her online all night, but she knew she'd never spoken to them. And they'd tell her she was doing things she knew she'd never done. She was asleep or sometimes not even in town. Then they'd get weird or disappear. She remembered this one time. She was doing her math homework and a random guy messaged her with the solution to the problem.
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She was terrified, but she asked him how he knew her math problem. Was he spying on her? And he told her no. She asked him for help. She didn't believe him, so he sent her a screenshot. The message was from a day ago. She just got in the homework that day. She said the worst it got was when she messaged a close friend of hers and she saw online on ICQ. Her friend replied with, Who is this?
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She thought it was just a joke, so she said something silly. She didn't remember what. Her friend said she didn't think it was cool to be hacking Angelica's account, or if this was her brother, to knock it off.
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God. You know, I know when one of these stories is good. I know when it's getting me because I suddenly become aware of the door to my office just off to my right. Like, I just start thinking about it.
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Yeah, its eyes are a little too tall. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, just something a little off.
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It would be, well, now I'd actually be safe because I know it's Jared Roberts, my close friend. Yeah, my lifelong 22 decade old buddy, old pal. I just call him randomly and start telling him about like his mom's birthday. He's like, who the fuck are you? Who are you?
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jared german jared it's me jared come on whoa she knew this friend wouldn't joke like that she didn't have the imagination for it whatever it was her friend really believed she was in the room with her but she wasn't her friend always insisted she was there that night she said angelica was showing her her cool new home page the friendship fell apart after that because her friend got strange
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That was the first she'd ever seen of the homepage, and she knew it was bad juju. I asked her if she'd ever heard of the hole. She went silent for so long, I thought we lost connection. She said she's still there. She just never expected to hear that again. There was this guy who used to harass her back when she was like 12 or 13 on IRC. He called himself Holy Moses.
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He started off nice, seemed to understand all her problems, and to know what she was thinking. At 12, that felt romantic, oh no. But she noticed weird things, like he didn't seem to have any life or personality, oh no. At any time of the day, he was always online and active, but no one knew anything about him.
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One day, he started telling her strange things, like, Do you remember the three men dressed as bees at the Halloween party? She didn't know what he was talking about. Eight years later, at a college Halloween party, she saw three men dressed as bees sitting in the corner of the room. They weren't doing anything, just sitting still and staring at the floor.
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Then they turned to her and their eyes looked so black. She ran out of the party. Whoa, okay. Another time, he told her, You can drink and smoke, you know.
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Bro. Dude, I had the mystery man on the other end say that. It's like, well, I guess I'm never leaving my home ever again, ever.
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Yeah, oh my word. It scared the life out of her. She briefly wondered if she really was a ghost, she said. When she told him to stop telling her things like that, he said there was a place she could go that was for special people only. She'd never need to go anywhere else. It was a place on the internet that was infinite in all directions. She said she remembered him saying that specifically.
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And everything she needed would be there. It was called The Hole. And she just had to send him a message with the letter M to get there. She actually tried to do it because things weren't going well for her. But she sent the letter N by accident because her hands were shaking. Holy Moses went offline and she didn't see him after.
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Until 2010, when she got an email from thenewcommandments at holymoses.com saying, You coming? If anyone was impersonating her, she said that was the most likely person. At the time, she was so naive. Looking back on it now, talking to me, she said he was the creepiest person she'd ever encountered. Just thinking of him creeped her out and made her afraid he'd sense it somehow and come for her.
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She promised we'd never speak again and bid me a good life before hanging up. I was left reeling. What she said meant whoever I spoke to for years in my teens. I don't even know who that person is. It was all a lie. And why? What's so interesting about me? I wondered how much else in my life was trickery. Before I could dwell on it too much, Ben called me back.
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He said he managed to track the server to a storage room in a sub-basement below his office. He was aware of the basement, but it was abandoned years before he even started working there due to ventilation and mold issues. It's just full of old IT crap now and some storage lockers.
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Someone had set up the server in a storage closet, and the closet itself was completely obscured by old computer equipment, probably for years. Figures that's why it was never found. I mean, the server had been running under their nose all the time. When he gets in, he sees an old desktop hooked up to a landline. Beside it, he saw a notepad with PLEASE STOP written on it.
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That alone made him want to get the hell out of there. The whole place is covered in thick dust too, and his allergies were acting up. Somehow the server was still running. He wants to hook up a monitor and keyboard just to interact with it. One thing he said in passing really disturbed me.
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Whoa. So I get, I get the impression from this. Isn't that it's not just the university of golf that has one of these. I think the idea is that like, this is a huge sort of conspiracy or supernatural thing for old web internet that was set up like everywhere.
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active like kind of like almost like little relics of universities and stuff yeah yeah yeah he said after shutting it down he went and told his manager all about it just a fun it anecdote spanger told him there's really only one man who could have set that up back in the early 90s he said a guy worked in the department they all called milky because his last name was milk and he was really white
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He was a little eccentric too. That had nothing to do with Milk. It just happened to be true. Then he had a burnout and he got a lot eccentric. It started with him pounding his desk. The manager at the time asked him if he was okay. According to Ben's boss, he answered with, There's no way out. Then he heard Milky say something like, You think you exist? You're just another part of it.
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After that, the rest of the department started getting nervous around Milky. Just got bad vibes around him, the manager said. It got worse. Every day around 3 p.m., Milky started standing in a dark corner of the office, facing the wall. He'd mutter some things. The guys joked that he was at his prayers, but he'd always come away looking more upset than anything.
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Once a new guy asked if he was a Muslim, and he replied with, I'm sorry. The guy asked what he was sorry for.
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I think if a grown man approached me and said, I saw your children die, I would have to be like, yo, why don't you never look at me again? Yeah, I would be like, okay, cool. So we're done. Yeah, you can pack up your things right now. You have till lunch, you know, get out.
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Sorry. So the idea is like Milky and some other people are kind of losing their minds because they figure out that everything is kind of like instrumented around them.
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So without further ado, I say we go with... Well, I wouldn't say without further ado. So on that note, I just want to be known by you all. Yesterday, before we started the recording, Hunter sent me a text message and said that him and his wife were in a car accident.
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Some of it has to be instrumented because of Angelica being like the three men dressed as bees at the Halloween party, right? Like... Yeah. Well, are those people being or are those people being manipulated? That's also a good point. It could, it could be self-fulfilling prophecy just made to look like it can tell the future stuff. It seems that milky definitely thought that he was going to, um,
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Like, Milky thought it was real, right? Yeah. Toward the end, before they fired him, he started telling them about how he found a place on the internet that wasn't made by humans. The guys joked that it was Skynet. But he said it wasn't created by machines either. It was always there. The internet just found it by accident. It showed him things he couldn't unsee.
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Ben's boss even recalled they started to tear up. Now I do... Now that sentence alone...
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is like awesome just that little uh that the internet we found a place that was always there yeah and we found it by accident like what do you like what is that a dimension we can only access through technology but it was there before we got there like that i really hope they don't explain i just want it to be that i just want it to be a statement that i believe You know what I mean? Yeah.
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It can explain some of the auxiliary stuff, like the telling the future and what the fake web page is and stuff like that, but I don't need to know what it is.
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Ben's boss told him it was sad to see such a smart guy clearly losing it. Even though Milky was never caught stealing anything, equipment disappeared during his shift. Probably the equipment that went into the server. When they fired him, he told them that the secret place got into his head and that he'd sometimes wake up in strange places and had no idea how he got there.
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Never saw him again after he left that day. Ben said after that story and that creepy gopher server, he straight up refused to look into the hole. I told him it really wasn't that bad and to quit being a wimp. That's when he said he hadn't told me everything. Server had a link up through the phone line to a really old webcam.
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One of those low res webcams where the image updates every four seconds or so. It'd been running nonstop since 97. All of the saved images just showed the front of someone's house. Same house back to 97. He sent me some of the photos because he knew what it was. It was my house.
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That camera was pointed here before I ever moved in. It was just an astronomically improbable coincidence. At least, that's what it should be. I didn't believe that's what it was any more than he did. Man, I think that's part one of the story ended.
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And these are two people I care about, you know, a couple who's very close friends of mine. And I was like, oh my gosh, are you okay? And he was like, yeah, we're all right, but we're cut up pretty bad. You know, my wife's cut up on her arms. I've cut across my...
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Yeah. Yeah. Just like it's, it's like old web horror, you know, like old web.
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The next day, I was still reeling from my conversations with Ben and the real Angelica. I ran it over in my head so many times. Like, maybe the police made a mistake. So, of course, I'd never spoken to this woman. She was the wrong Angelica. But no, I knew everything about her. Someone systematically deceived me for two years.
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And someone had been recording a house I was going to move into for 20 years. And someone had recorded me when I was a boy. What happened 20 years ago to cause all this? It was so insane. I started questioning everything. I felt I was being watched constantly. I started to wonder if my mom remembered anything. She saw me more than anyone at the time, naturally.
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When I called her up, she said she was expecting me to call. I generally didn't call during the week, so I asked why. She said because of my little prank. I grew concerned immediately. I wasn't pranking anyone. I tried to calmly ask her what prank. She said the two guys. They showed up with a note from me to let them in. They don't say anything or do anything.
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They've just been sitting there with their chairs pulled together in her kitchen, just looking at the floor.
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She laughed and said no, but I think she was starting to realize I didn't know what was going on.
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Fuck. She said almost as an afterthought. Oh, dude, in his dreams earlier. He said, I'm in a room surrounded by computers and I keep looking at the beehive in the corner. Yep. Yep. Yep. I told her to calmly get out of the house and call the police because I didn't have anything to do with this. She said she was upstairs. She'd have to go past him to get out.
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my face like uh he was like it looks insane it looks like a law got thrown through the window we're lucky to be alive and i'm like oh my gosh what what happened like i i think i sent up a prayer for him like i hope they're okay um and then he's like yeah check this out and he sends me a picture of him completely naked in his bathroom mirror um
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Told her to keep me on the phone until she got out. I listened carefully. It seemed to be taking forever. Finally, she said, they're gone.
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I told her to call the police right away and check in with me in a bit. While talking, I had absentmindedly walked from my office to my own kitchen. My front door was also left open. Not only was it locked just a moment ago, but it seemed like quite a coincidence. I closed the door and locked it. Then I looked all around the house with a kitchen knife in hand.
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I have a one story with a basement, so it was easy enough to cover all hiding places. Fortunately, there was nobody. So I tried to tell myself I just didn't close the door right. Until my neighbor came over and asked me if I was having a costume party. Oh no. Oh no. I said no. That's when he told me he saw two guys in bee costumes leaving my home. Bruh.
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They just walked straight across the road and behind the neighbor's house into the woods.
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I picked up my mother and we went to the police station. I figured this one would be best in person. All these strange events barely seemed coherent, but I got the feeling it was all connected in some way. The police were baffled. They admitted someone was harassing me, but without any more evidence, there was really nothing they could do.
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When we were making the report, my mom told me she was thinking about something just after this happened, because it struck her as odd.
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Yeah, ex-squeeze me? Hello? Okay, Mom, let's get you back to the nursing home. Don't you ever say something like that to me again. The way she said it, like it was nothing, sent a shiver through me. Because I didn't remember that at all. What? Was all I could say. This is what she said.
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Um, I think I would get rid of my mom. I would probably, probably kill the mom. I would. Which, to be fair, Hunter has a history on the show of expressing violent thoughts towards his mother. The old goat, as I believed you called her. But yeah, that's insane to just be like, yeah, remember when you would whisper to the little voice in your modem? Like, okay.
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Oh, I see. Okay. Just like there was a copy of Angelica with her friend at school. I told her I couldn't remember that. That sounds crazy, but she just gave me a blank stare. I thought maybe she was concerned. So I started to tell her about what was happening. The whole Angelica thing, so she'd understand.
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She kept giving me a blank stare. She couldn't understand me. So I told her more. I met her on the web bring. My Fortune City page was on. And didn't she remember my homepage at least? She shook her head. What she said next scared me in a way I've never been scared before. She told me she got an internet connection after I left for college to email me.
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So he set up knowing that I would care about him and like trust his word. He set up this whole scenario saying he was in a car accident in order to make me care and then look at his naked body.
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I would be tweaking. Wait, have you never had the internet at the home? How is he whispering to a modem?
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So all of these interactions were fake. I mean, okay, maybe they had a computer, but no internet, right? To like type or whatever, put files on, who knows?
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Yeah, yeah, I bet that's what, I bet you're right. They didn't have internet connection. So he was sitting at a computer without internet, making all these web pages and talking to friends that weren't there. Dude, that's terrifying. That's the Candle Cove twist.
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man that what uh i feel like we keep getting reveals but they all work you know yeah no it's something it's like it's like okay yeah i'm more bought in now like this worked and like getting me more hooked yeah i said she must have gotten hit in the head because i remember distinctly all these experiences being online building my home page if net or if net is that a furry website god i hope
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debt irc icq all of that was when i was in high school she flat denied it she said she remembered though that i used to tell her i'd found a way to get into the internet without a connection i'd have to call some number with my modem then i'd have to sit still at the screen for a few minutes something like Something like that. She always thought I was joking.
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You'd have to stem in your chair for a couple minutes. So to connect to the internet, you call the number on the back of the modem, and then you set and vibrate in your chair as the Dark Lord Baphomet takes your whole soul. Then you speak Latin, and then boom, you're online.
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like every time your kids over like you have the computer set up in like the dining room like parents used to do and it's like oh jimmy you're gonna talk to your friends that's cool he's like yeah mom yeah definitely he's like gripping the table the pictures are shaking off the wall he's like starts floating out of the chair You know, kids and their little computer games.
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I think he plays Bible games on there. I think that's what he does.
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Before Detective Thoreau came to get us, she looked into my eyes.
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That's fun, too, because it's like such a... It's like such a parent statement, but it has so much deeper meaning now, like, man.
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She rose to shake the detective's hand. I was grateful to get off the subject. The detective offered to have a friend in computer forensics take a look at some of the sites I'd reported, but he didn't have much hope. After I got back home, I secured the house one more time, then I got to work.
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The best lead I had at that point was this Holy Moses character, so I downloaded MIRC to see if I could find him in his old haunts. It had been a long time since I used MIRC. I barely remembered how it worked, and there are so many channels on EFnet, it would take forever. So I decided to focus on channels that would have been relevant to Angelica back in the day.
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I just started asking in channels like at Gothic and at Vampires if anyone knew of Holy Moses or heard of him. But each time I mentioned him, the channel fell to almost complete silence. I didn't get a yes or no. I got ignored. Sometimes users even started to leave the channel. I was about to give up and try another avenue when I got a private message from U47284U.
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He or she told me I shouldn't be doing what I was doing. I asked him why. He said it doesn't come off well to them, whatever that means. He also said Holy Moses is just a bot. It's been around forever, never logs off, and is almost always idling for days at a time. I told him if that was true, why was everyone so reluctant to talk about it? I didn't want to tell him Angelica's story.
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I just wanted to find out what he knew. So the whole thing weirds people out because nobody knows who built Holy Moses. Nobody. Over decades. No one has ever claimed ownership. Not even trolls. Nobody knows where it came from or why it's there. It doesn't do anything. It's just there, he said. That's the creepiest thing about it. Always just there. Legends had built up around Holy Moses, he said.
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Like it was a government or supercomputer monitoring IRC. Or it was a KGB. Or a ghost. A bot left running long after the owner died and his bank account kept paying the bills. But no one knows. It was just there. Users tried messaging it and it never responded. It never interacts in any channel. It offers no services.
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So anyway, unrelated to that point, you could argue. I was looking on everyone's favorite website, Rule 34, and noticed that there's no entries for Papa Meat or Hunter. There's entries for Meat Canyon, but none of them are of him. It's all cartoons he's made. So that's cheating. So if someone could do something about that, I have plenty of reference material.
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It has moments of apparent activity where it's no longer idle, but no one's been able to detect what it does during this time. Except occasionally, a change of channel, seemingly at random. He said there was only one time when it did anything substantial, as far as anyone knows. Once in over two decades. And that only made things weirder.
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I was typing out a message to ask this guy what it was because he wasn't saying. But just then, I heard what sounded like my front door slam. I paused and listened carefully, trying not even to breathe. I didn't hear anything, so I rushed out to the front door. Nobody was there. Nothing disturbed. The doors were all closed and locked. I chalked it up to nerves and went back to my office.
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buddy buddy all right counterpoint pal i have a gun all right if you keep keep this up you're gonna meet him that was a little eerie but i was focused on getting answers so i ignored it and asked what it was holy moses did he said fine i'll tell you This is what he said happened in 1999 at 5 a.m. on November 21st. The same day, might I remind you, Angelica quote unquote went missing.
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Holy Moses joined the channel hashtag ornithology and made a series of short statements. First, deceive them at 7 a.m. Empty it at 9 a.m. Abandon them at 6 p.m. Turn back 9 p.m. and have it your way just before midnight. Then it went offline until January 5th. Why? He asked. Why be silent and useless for years, do that, and then never do anything after?
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Sometimes, when he really thought about it, he said, it gave him the serious heebie-jeebies. That was all he knew, or anyone knew, and he reiterated that I really shouldn't be looking into this and I'd just drop it. I thanked him for his help. I remembered a little more of what commands MIRC had after getting into the groove some. So I tried a who is on Holy Moses to see if he was out there.
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He was, or it was. It was on one channel only, hashtag still life. It had been signed on for 16 days and idle for three. Its IP was showing only the letter Y. I was thinking about going to the channel and messaging him to see what would happen. But I suddenly got another message from 47284. I told you to drop it. I know it's just text, but it freaked me out.
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I closed out of MIRC immediately and walked away. I figured it was just a nut trying to psych me out. And you know what? It worked. I continued to argue with my mother the next few days about what she'd said, telling her she confused reality with a Lifetime movie. But she assured me there was no internet in her house while I lived there.
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She said I had a floppy disk that I'd take home with me, but that was it. We went on arguing for a while before it occurred to me to ask, "'Take home from where?' She said she didn't know. I'd go out at times and I'd come home with this. I had a sterile light tub full of them in my closet. None of them were labeled, so she didn't know how I had any idea what was on each one, but I seemed to know.
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She remembered how I'd dive into my bin and dig around through all the black discs and popped with just the one I wanted. Generally, she didn't intrude on my privacy, she said. She just saw me do it a few times. Of course, I didn't remember any floppiness. Either my mother was becoming senile or I was losing my mind. Both possibilities were upsetting. My mom's a really good person.
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She'd had a rough time since my dad died a few years ago, but she was super caring. She didn't like to see anyone hurt and she could see I was really upset, not just trying to be right. So she gave me a big hug and she told me I should ask Ricky. Ricky? I hadn't thought of him. Ricky was an old high school buddy of mine. Well, we were friends from grade two until we left for college.
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We just drifted apart after. I had him friended on Facebook and we never talked. You know how it goes. She said when I'd go out to wherever it was I went, I usually had Ricky with me. We'd walk on the way across the bridge into town to pass our weekends. I decided to take her advice. I sent Ricky a message on Facebook. He wrote back really fast.
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I was surprised because I never see status updates or any activity from him. Oh no. I asked him if he was free for a phone call. I was scared about having another internet-only conversation, frankly. Facebook said he was typing a reply for about five minutes without anything happening. I was wondering what the hell novel he was typing. Then my phone rang. I didn't recognize the number.
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I know I never gave my number to Ricky, so there's no way it could be him, I thought. While I waited, looking at my phone, Ricky started typing out periods over and over. I answered. The voice on the other end sort of sounded like Ricky. Oh no. As much as I could remember, but like he was really far away on a beat up CB. I don't know why, but it made me feel weird and uneasy.
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I said, I think we have a bad connection. He said it's the best possible and that he knows. I was about to ask what he knows when he said. And hung up. I got a message on Facebook saying nice catching up. He wouldn't answer anything I said after that, bro. I asked folks I knew if Ricky was okay. Apparently he was in a car accident years back and was mostly bedridden.
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I made a note to try to visit him someday. Anyway, alt.rec.birdwatch is, of course, a Usenet news group. I used to browse news groups all the time as a teen, mostly for the porn. I was surprised they still existed. Now I had to look up how to get to them. I remembered being able to do it through my email software, but apparently that's not a feature of Outlook anymore.
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So I looked up news group readers and found one I used back in the day. Then I found some servers and started looking for alt.rec.birdwatch. When I finally found it, it turned out to be mostly British upskirt photography. What? British? Like specifically? I didn't understand why Ricky wanted me there until I saw a post with the header. Remember the dog? And instantly felt clammy and cold.
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I didn't know why, but there was something to it. Something I couldn't put my finger on. This is what the post read.
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My point is I need more bad things to happen to Hunter. That's all I'm trying to get across. Okay. All right.
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It was a pretty big deal, like, you know, several years ago and like creepypasta culture. And since then, Jared's actually come out with multiple publishings. He has one called the machine stories from the hidden webpage to sunburn. So that's the one that of course includes the story we're talking about today. And then another one called glycemia, a hidden webpage story.
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I think it's showing up again, but, you know, my condolences. I hope it gets better. You know, sorry that happened, I guess. That was it, and that was enough. I was trembling, and I didn't know why. It didn't look like anyone had replied to the message, and it had been posted three years ago. It seemed so out of place. I kind of started to remember.
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I remembered at least there was an internet cafe in town. It didn't last long. Like most internet cafes, it popped up around 96, 97 to take advantage of the internet craze and let people who didn't own computers experience the wonder. When personal computers became more common, they died a quick death. This cafe was popular with the teens in 96. It got stale after that.
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That's when something happened to it. It changed management or something. It changed. We tried going back just to hang out, but most kids didn't want to be there anymore. I had some friends who just wouldn't go or say why, but Ricky and I would hang out there all the time. Why couldn't I remember that before? Maybe mom was right all along. Maybe that's where I was on the internet.
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I replied to the news group message with... Why wasn't I able to remember? It was a long shot since the post was so old. Then I started looking through the other photos to see if there were others like it. There were others. They were all vague. But I knew what they were about. I knew.
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I couldn't make out what the computers were doing behind us, but we weren't touching them. What were we staring at? What were we doing? Why would I do this? I couldn't remember these events at all. I was the only one that ever looked away from the wall. I kept glancing over behind the bar. It was hard to tell, but I think I was afraid of something. I looked frightened.
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The hidden web page by Jared Roberts. Sometimes I find it hard to believe that I've been an internet user for 20 years now. That's older than some of my coworkers. It's over half my life. Still, the internet feels like the new thing. I used to take it for granted, like we all do, but at least I remember what it was like when it wasn't there.
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I tried to make out what I was looking at, but the tracking lines were in the way. When they faded a little and I was able to make it out, someone was standing there in the shadows. Whoever it was, at just that moment, turned to look right at the camera. It's like they knew I was watching. I know that's crazy, but it creeped the heck out of me.
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I shut the video down there, and I don't plan to open it again. After that, I kept researching the new way, because there had to be something to it. I was able to find a record that mentioned the owner's name, Bernard K. Bush. The same name as on the ICQ message. Looked for obituaries, white pages, anything that could lead me to him.
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I didn't think to look for missing persons cases, but I stumbled on one anyway. An old homepage asking to help us find Uncle Byrne. I emailed his niece, presumably, from the address listed asking for more information. The page was made in the year 2000, so I didn't expect the email to work, but it did. I got a reply the same day asking me how I knew Uncle Byrne.
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I wasn't sure how to answer, but I decided to go with honesty. I told her more or less what was going on, leaving out the parts that would make me sound delusional. This is what I got back.
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When you had to leaf through an encyclopedia set to find an answer. When you could only find Gillian Anderson's picture in magazines. Or later, when songs took 30 minutes to download and full-length movies were almost impossible to find because no one's hard drive could hold them. First, getting online was super exciting. I mean, the first time I did it without supervision.
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Interesting. Hmm. Okay, so Connie... is either fully bought in, as everyone else is, or she's part of this... She's like some possessed entity or part of one of these demon things that is causing... Like they said, the internet just found something that was already there long before we got there, right?
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So either she's an entity from that, and Uncle Burn gave himself to it, or she's just a person who succumbed to it like a bunch of people, like Milky did.
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It's fun to use Y2K as a plot element of like, yeah, no, I think it's fun.
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yeah yeah it's a cool it's a cool note being like you know in the year 2000 like whatever was waiting for us here uh took took hold it was like the there's actually um there's one creepypasta what's it called the silent revolution or the silent takeover about like uh i think it's about mannequins that like every mannequin in the world comes to life at once and just replaces humanity overnight uh
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but it happened so quick. It's something about like mannequins don't know they're not people and like were the mannequins or something like that. Oh, I see. I forget how it ends, but it's like, it's kind of like that. It's like this whole thing happened overnight and the world didn't know. It's like, oh, I know a perfect example.
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In the Monument Mythos, the idea is there's this giant cell that looks like the island of Alcatraz, but that's neither here nor there. But basically, this super cell devoured and replicated the entire country overnight, and it made perfect clones of everyone that don't realize they're clones. So it's like overnight, everything got reset into this new... way of being.
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And it's almost like the same vibe I get here by whatever's in the internet. It like took over everything at once and we don't know it.
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It's a cool idea. I had plenty more questions and I sent them to her. I never heard back. That's getting to be a real motif in my life, but at least she gave me some answers and it all led right back to the hole. It had to be the same mysterious website. Just had to be. I figured if I ever wanted to know what was going on, I'd have to go to the hole myself. Yeah.
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Because I knew I had anything at my fingertips. I could type it into good old Lycos. What is Lycos? Lycos? Oh, it says right after. One of many pre-Google search engines. And there it would be. Do you know what that is?
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pulled up the instructions Angelica sent me on how to get there. I can't say I felt like I was doing the right thing. I didn't. I felt ass over tea kettle wrong. Like there was something really terrible just off screen in my memories. I knew it was there, but I couldn't see it. So I welcomed the interruption when my phone rang.
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My neighbor was calling to tell me the man in the bee costume was back. He said the man was standing in my front yard. I walked over to the window and peeped out. It was nice and toasty inside, but I felt my whole body break into goosebumps. He was there, under the streetlight, looking right out the window with his insectoid eyes. I asked my neighbor how long he'd been there.
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He said he called me as soon as he saw it and that I should hang up and call the police. I started to do that, but there was no point calling the police. As soon as I hung up, he walked across the road and into the woods. When hanging up, I received a notification on my phone of an email from Ben. There was no text, just a video file. I played it right away.
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It started with him speaking to the camera. He looked scared and like he hadn't slept in about two days. I went into hiding. Things just got too weird.
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He pointed the camera away from himself to a computer monitor. When he was turning, I recognized the notepad on the desk. The same one from his description. He was in that basement storage locker with the gopher sight. I thought he'd shut that thing down. There's an image on the screen updating every few seconds. But this one wasn't pointing at my house like before. It was inside. Watch.
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With each frame update, I saw a new shot of the inside of my house. First, the kitchen. Update the hallway. Update my office door. Update the door slightly ajar. Update the door opened more. Update entering my room. Update me sitting at the computer. I could hardly breathe. I turned around slowly, expecting to see someone there. The video wasn't live, of course.
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Yeah, you are a dinosaur. That's all well and good. Yes, I am. I was interested in naked celebrities and the paranormal back then. Breach. Man, this guy's cool. Breach. Me too, brother.
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When I turned around, the webcam was just a black screen. Because of that, I was able to make out the timestamp. It was tomorrow's date. Oh God. I'm sure someone just fiddled with the date, but that only made it creepier, if that's even possible. Now I had video evidence of breaking and entering, except nothing to say who did it or why. I was losing confidence in police altogether.
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The last thing Ben said on the video is that he went ahead and traced that link I gave him to the hole. He was able to get a specific address. I knew the address he gave me very well because it's a duplex apartment I grew up in. That didn't make any sense. Still, I knew if I wanted to know what was happening, that's where I'd have to go. My hometown isn't too far from where I live now.
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I moved to go to college. It's about a four-hour drive away. My mom moved to be close to me after dad died, so I rarely have a reason to go there. I heard from mom when they decided to abandon the duplexes. For whatever reason, they couldn't sell or rent them anymore and didn't have the budget to renovate, so the town government is just letting them rot.
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When I first heard that news, I didn't care much. I try not to get sentimental. But preparing to see the place again, where I had so many memories, it got to me. The days of watching He-Man in my fuzzy Star Wars pajamas. The days of watching The X-Files with Mom. The days of lying in bed all summer reading UFO books. Of course, I realized it'd just be empty space now.
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Nothing in common with those memories other than a floor plan. So, hold on. He saw on the webcam his current office with him setting up the chair, but what address was the one? The last thing Ben said on the video is that he went ahead and traced it.
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Oh, where the hole was coming from and that was from his childhood house. Got it, got it. And the pictures of himself were in his current house. Makes sense. Okay, gotcha. Those feelings vanished soon after I arrived. I was able to sneak in through the living room window in the back, just like I used to do when I'd get home from school and realize I forgot my keys.
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The moment feet hit the linoleum floor, the music started. It was low and distorted at first, so I couldn't make out what it was. It didn't matter. Someone had to be in there, and that someone knew I was there. I waited for a sound other than the music. Nothing. Felt a little more courage. So I started walking towards the stairs.
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This guy, by the way, I would, I would never be caught in these situations.
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Okay. Hunter, let me, let me, let me put this into some perspective for you. Okay. You have found out that several of the memories from your childhood are wrong. And every rabbit trail you chase with them leads to other people who have gone insane or disappeared or something like that, right? Right. You then see a video of you in your chair right now from behind you, and it is tomorrow's date.
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You find out that the website that is the source of all of this is coming from your childhood home. What do you do?
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Every 13-year-old boy's search history was like boob, boob, scary.
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Guess where I'm going to be tomorrow. Where are you going to be? A different country than the one that the video camera says I'm going to be in.
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So he's got a ton of works that deal with like technology. And if I remember the Arkansas sleep experiment was about dreams or something like that, or maybe I'm misremembering it. But yeah, he's pretty well known in like the no sleep community and stuff like that. And also while looking him up, I found his LinkedIn, which completely unrelated to his writing.
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I am going to be so far away that it is mathematically impossible to get me back to that office chair by the time tomorrow rolls around.
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I wouldn't go back to the address where the, the hole is coming from.
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Here's, here's, here's my, here's my, uh, Okay. Here's my actual game plan. Right. Okay. I know tomorrow someone's going to be, but the house, I'm probably going to die because like, if we, if anything we know about these guys, it's true. Like they can predict death, stuff like that.
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Yeah. Like people are either dying or they're disappearing. They're being sucked into this website. Okay. For 48 hours, I'm on the layup, right? I'm gone, but I know the holes coming from that website. So what I'm doing is I'm going to, uh, swat my own house, uh, I'm going to like, like if there's something in there, there's a guy in there controlling it or giant B people running a server.
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I am going to call the police and be like, yeah, they have five hostages. You know, you should probably send a tank and I'm going to let them clear it out. See if they come across anything, take it out. Um, and then I'm going to go in with them afterwards. Like I'll arrive, be like, Oh, this is my property or this. I was the one who called it in something like that.
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That's how I'm investigating the house. Um, I'm not. Now, is that cruel to send those SWAT agents?
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Well, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that these ancient Mesopotamian wind spirits, as I've called them, that do not adhere to time and can predict things like decades and have existed before. They existed in the internet before the internet. Probably not going to be affected by a bullet, huh? Probably not affected by both a bullet and the old Ferris Bueller.
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If they have had like a 40 year game plan to manipulate these possessed people into figuring out codes on these websites at internet cafes. And there's people through the walls. I think they understand what a mannequin is.
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Like, I don't, I don't think like they, they jump you. I don't think the, the B people see like the back of your head and they're like, it's the guy with the hair. Let's get him. They can probably just, I think they just know where you are. Okay. All right.
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I'm flying to Japan just because that's probably a long enough flight that statistically I'm not going to be back in that office chair. Then after that, I'm swatting my own home. If I have to go into it by myself, I am taking with me the equivalent of a SWAT team, dare I say, like a special forces task group.
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No, no, no, no, no. I'm saying I'm only in Japan until the date passes that I was supposed to be in my office. Like, it's a chess game, right? They made their move, so I have to counter and then I can attack. So... After that, I fly back home.
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Then I do the SWAT thing because I need to be there, not in the house, but I need to be like present because if I'm actually trying to take this thing down, I want to see what happens. And you know what? To credit my potential slaughtering of an entire SWAT task force, if they want me, they probably won't expose themselves by wiping out an entire SWAT team.
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The visions are taking hold of me. I was so interested in the paranormal. I built a fortune city free homepage all about the occult and the X-Files. And this guy's cool. I linked it to the dark net web ring where all the best quote dark websites and homepages came together. Pages on spell books, goth babes, occult, dark art, and a gross out page or two.
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So that may be an everybody wins scenario, you know? All right. That's my game plan. You know what, Hunter? Sure, you go to that house. You go to that house and hear music playing in your childhood bedroom and just keep doing this. I don't want to set the world on fire. Is that Fallout 3? Whoa. Yeah. Count me in. So I started walking toward the stairs. The music got louder, but no less distorted.
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The tune was familiar, though. I went up the stairs slowly. That's where my old room was. By the time I got to the top, I knew what I was listening to. Early in the Morning by Vanity Fair. An oldie. And it was coming from a grimy old radio propped in front of my bedroom door. That was odd, because the same song started playing again when it reached the end.
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A radio station plays the same song twice in a row. Switched the radio off. Doing that, I realized, telegraphed my exact location. I broke out into a cold sweat for a moment waiting for something to happen. But all I heard now was a buzzing from in the room. Like a beehive. I noticed my name placard was still on the door. Other people had lived there after mom left, I'm sure of that.
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Either those people chose to leave my name on the door in their home, or someone had put it back. Either way was weird. I opened it I didn't and still don't know how to react to what I saw inside. The room had been set up to look exactly like it did when I was a teen. Not like it did after I left for college or even just before. Like it did in 1999. Down to the details.
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Halloween lights around my desktop. Fangoria posters on the walls. My old Mr. T pillow on the bed. Someone had to have known my room in intimate detail to have done this. It was insane. Me, my mom, and Ricky are about the only ones. But there were some details that were off. At first, that was comforting. But the more I thought about it, they seemed intentional. Like on the Candyman poster.
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It said it starred Tiny Lister instead of Tony Todd. And the wall was painted with the same style of stucco, but the color was a shade or two off. Things like that. They were everywhere. That was more troubling to me than the recreation itself. It's like it was recreated in a bad dream, where it all meant something. I found where the buzzing was coming from. At any rate, it was a computer.
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It was running. I sat down and activated the screen. Like the rest of the room, the desktop was a faithful snapshot of 1999. Every icon just as I remembered. I couldn't find anything running out of the ordinary. It was like being transported to the past. That's when I noticed the one thing out of order with my desktop. An icon in the corner, almost off the screen, called Milk and Honey.
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I never had any such file. I'm sure of that. I started moving the mouse up to it. I felt strangely afraid to open it. Before I could, the radio started blasting early in the morning again. My heart almost stopped. I looked behind me expecting the worst. Nobody was there. I got up to switch the radio off, but it was still off. I checked the batteries, and there were none.
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That's when I realized the music wasn't coming from the radio. I don't think it ever was. I wanted to get out of there. I felt fear before. I don't think I've ever known what dread feels like before then. Not really. But I had to find out what milk and honey was. It loaded a telnet connection. I hadn't seen one of those in a while.
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The connection worked because in a few seconds, an ASC-2 mountain filled the window. I waited and waited for something to happen, but nothing did. Just the mountain. I tried submitting some inputs. I even wondered if the connection died. I was going to retry, but I got a phone call from Detective Thorold just then. Are you alone?
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I thought that was strange, but I told him I believed I was, but I wasn't sure. He asked where I was. I told him. He said I needed to get out of that house slowly and calmly, get in my car, and drive back to him. His voice, I knew that sound. It was controlled panic. Something was definitely wrong. I was ready to listen, but I told him I wanted to know what's going on.
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He said he had a gut feeling about something and decided to check back with Angelica to make sure everything was okay. Everything was not. He said that girl he'd put me in contact with two weeks ago was not Angelica. They had no idea who that woman was because no one's been able to find her. The home she was in was apparently between renters. Nobody lived there at the time.
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All they found left behind was a script detailing what she was supposed to say when she spoke to me. Wow. Oh, man. Oh, this is great. Every every turn feels so good.
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Yeah, yeah, they all fit well. I was speechless and confused. I just readjusted my thinking to believe everything with Angelica was a lie. And now that the truth about the lie was also a lie, did that make the lie true? But it got worse. Detective Thoreau said he contacted Angelica's family again and asked more questions. A lot more. She had every message I ever sent her printed out.
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Web ring's a thing. Again, this shows my ignorance to it. Was it? Was there, like, could you message people online and, like, stuff like that in the late 90s? Or was that, like, early 2000s thing? When did Web 2.0 start up?
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Pictures of me. A map of my hometown. A doll. He said in some of the pictures I was clearly sleeping. Did I know about any of these pictures? I couldn't speak. He took my silence for a no and he was right. I thanked him and prepared to do just what he said. That's when I noticed more had happened on the telnet screen. There was a question up. Are you alone? Is that you?
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I asked, but the detective had already hung up. I didn't really think it was him anyway. I just hoped. Oh. Oh, on the computer. Yeah. I responded in the telnet client that I believed I was alone. As soon as I did, sound started coming from the computer speakers. It came out slow and garbled.
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A warning transmitted by... After 2100. Interesting. Interesting. I had no idea what it meant, really. I only remember it because it kept repeating, so I was able to record it. Other than that, I couldn't find anything strange on the computer. I unplugged it from everything anyway, just in case. I got up, ready to calmly exit like the detective said. I would have been okay, I think.
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But I saw something. Something that froze me in place. There were strands of dark hair flowing from under the bed. Oh, Connie, you crazy, crazy fucking monster.
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I just kept staring at them. Mentally, I needed to make sure I was seeing right, that I wasn't just threads. It was dark in the area, after all. My eyes adjusted slowly, and I realized I wasn't just looking at hair. I'd been looking right into someone's eye for half a minute. God. And whoever it was had just been staring right back the whole time. Yeah.
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I screamed and I ran, jumping several steps at a time out the front door. Sure, it wasn't my proudest moment. What matters is I lived. I don't know who that was. I didn't want to find out. Knowing I was being watched that whole time, it still felt like that eye was on me. It's pretty much ruined my memories of that place forever. There was just one other thing to do in town while I was there.
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The Egypt. I don't know if I disconnected the hole by unplugging that computer, but I still had to face the Egypt again. When I got there, the parking lot of the post office was completely empty. I parked him back in front of the filthy old windows of what used to be an internet cafe. I didn't even have to break in. The glass in the door had already been busted. I just had to reach in and unlock.
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My hands started tingling as soon as I reached in. I kept expecting someone or something to grab my hand. When I got in, I was shocked to see it hadn't really changed at all. Computers everywhere. A sign-up sheet on the counter, and no one there. I started hearing some low voices. As soon as I did, I looked around the place to hide. The voices continued, distant and muffled.
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It took me a moment to recognize my own voice. It was the conversation I'd had with Angelica. The part where she told me about being seen in places she'd never been. It was coming from one of the computers. I got closer to it, and I could see someone was on the screen. I knew what it was right away. The animated skeleton GIFs and links to conspiracy theories in Heaven's Gate.
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Yeah, it was my homepage. The one that was deleted almost two decades ago. I never thought I'd see it again. But why? Who put it there? On another computer, I saw a video of a middle-aged couple staring into the camera, like they were watching me. And a little girl peeking over their shoulder.
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And the man was shaking his head slightly. He looked frightened. That's got to be Uncle Burn, right? I'm guessing so, yeah. Uncle Burn and Connie, yeah. Then another computer started playing a song. I recognized the sound of Vanity Fair again. Hitching a ride. That made it click. I just walked into a trap. I had to get out. But I couldn't. These people started coming inside.
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I hadn't even heard them approaching. Middle-aged woman with long black hair, well-dressed. An older businessman, it looked like. A rough-looking homeless guy. More and more people crowded in without saying anything. They were moving towards me. I tried talking to them, but their faces were blank, emotionless. I didn't seem to hear. I ran into the bathroom and closed the door behind me.
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It had a simple turn-the-bolt lock, so I locked it. I pulled out my phone to see if I could get the police, but there was no signal. I started hyperventilating and had to catch myself against the wall. That's when I remembered the story about the guy knocking on the wall. Maybe there weren't bricks on the other side.
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I knocked for a hollow spot, and when I found one, I started kicking a hole in the drywall. I tore the rest of the hole open with my hands. There was space back there. I used my phone's flashlight to look inside. The space was about two feet in width to the brick wall. I stepped inside. There were tons of floppy disks stashed in there. It was crazy. Bro. Bro.
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Oh, I know what you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah. It's like him sprinting. Yeah. You got mail.
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Oh man, that scared me enough to go deeper into the space, stumbling over pieces of sheetrock, but there was nowhere to go. While I waited for something, anything to happen, I noticed two things. One, written above the hole I just made on the inside, the hole had been painted. The other was that sheetrock I was stumbling over. It was bones. I don't know how long I sat there.
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Suddenly, the breathing sound stopped. A few minutes later, Detective Throat burst into the bathroom. The door splintered at the first thrust. Those people could have got to me if they wanted to. The detective said no one was out there when he arrived. While he escorted me out, I saw all the computers were gone. The guestbook, all of it. But the bones of Floppy Disk were there and very real.
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He said we'd have a lot to discuss. After I got away from the police station, I came home and settled down to try and relax. Anything to rest my nerves. Just as I settled, I got an email notification on my phone that said, please look, and provided a link. I didn't recognize the number, but since the link was to a Gulf University page, I figured it was Ben.
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The link brought me to the webcam that Ben found weeks ago on the Gopher server. I was regretting my decision to trust it already. Why couldn't they just leave me alone? The frames. French, I'm freaking out. I'm doing the thing where I move the story to the right monitor. Yeah, right by the door.
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I know so perfectly what he's describing when it's like you see something in the dark and you just squint at it for a while. You know? It's like, what am I looking at? Is that like a person? Is that a coat hanging? You know, like you can't, everything's fuzzy. Right. Um, and then to be in that position and realize you're looking in someone's eye. Yeah. Fuck that. Oh my word. Yeah.
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That, that, that got me pretty good. Uh, uh, uh, so what happened there? He, uh, detective throw burst in, helped him. And then he took him to the police station, but then right afterwards he leaves the police station, uh,
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Time for some personal reflection. Yeah. Just me, yeah. The link brought me to the webcam that Ben found weeks ago on the Gopher server. I was regretting my decision to trust it already. Why couldn't they just leave me alone? The frames kept updating, but nothing was happening. Until, with one update, I saw the trunk of my car was opening.
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When the frame updated four seconds later, the trunk was fully open and someone was half hanging out. I guess I was mesmerized because I just kept watching, waiting for the next frame update. Whoever it was, he was standing at my door. I went to my front door and looked out the peephole. No one was there. I looked at my phone again to check the webcam.
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Someone was or should be standing right in front of it. Maybe it was something that happened in the past. I looked through the people again and it was blocked. Oh, it took me a moment to realize I was looking right into someone's face. An awful, hate-filled face. I took my phone with me to my office and locked the door. I heard my front doorknob rattling and then open. I knew I'd locked it.
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Whoever it was walked in, purposefully, right to the office like they already knew where I was going. I didn't have much confidence in the lock. I expected the door to fly open immediately. Instead, I heard a weird, distant voice, just like when I spoke to Ricky. It was like the weather radio tuned to the wrong frequency. I called 911. I heard the operator pick up, but I couldn't speak.
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The door opened and this person walked in. His face was hazy, but it was familiar. He had some kind of weapon. He forced me to get on my computer and go to the hole. He walked me through each step. I didn't have a choice. I did it. After all those years, there it was. The same bland page that seemed to do nothing, but I could feel it like fingers poking in my brain.
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It was like I was still in my office, but that guy was gone. So were other things. I could see things that were always there, but weren't really there. It was all the same, but just a little different. I was still on the phone with 911, I realized. I tried to tell the operator that the man was gone. Nothing I said was coming out right. I kept telling the operator that I saw a tot.
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I saw a putty tat. And the operator was telling me, That's the captain. He's a jackal. And he's not happy with you. You ever heard of freaking? Someone asked, it was disorienting, but I knew right away I was looking at Ben and I wasn't in my home. There's a guy standing with Ben that I didn't recognize. I asked if I was in golf and how I got there. So, okay. So he goes to the hole, right?
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But then he starts to like go somewhere else. That's the, that's the interpretation I get from this, right?
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And, like, the 911 operator sounds weird, and now he's not in his home anymore. Like, he's changing location, basically. Yeah. He assured me I was in a motel in my hometown. He didn't trust technologically facilitated communication anymore, so he came all the way to talk to me. And he introduced his associate as Milky. He found him holed up in a Catholic commune in rural Ontario.
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They said I was in serious danger. Wait. Okay. So... He gets on the phone, kind of spaces out. And I knew right away I was looking at Ben. So he went from sitting at his chair. So now is he inside of the hole right now? Or did Ben come save him?
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There was an unknown. Like, now it's just, like, I have all my little friends in my computer, and I can, like... The chances of me getting groomed by a stranger or a cult leader online are very slim, but they used to be much higher.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. While he spoke, I kept hearing screams in the background of the recording. Some sounded closer than others.
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Let's get into it. Did I write this? Am I Jared Roberts? He does. Okay. I'm not just coping because I said that he was attractive earlier, but he has like my complexion and long black hair. So maybe this is like a bizarro. Me and him could get along. I think me and Jared could be friends.
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But I have to say he is a rather attractive man. Oh, he's a looker. Yes, he is a looker.
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Okay, for one, that's not at all what I'm saying. And then you're like, you know what, he looks... And I'm like, we have similar style is what I'm saying.
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We have similar style is what I'm saying. Okay, I'm just saying that I like this guy. All right. All right. And he, might I add, has yet to send me a picture of him naked after telling me him and his wife were in a car crash.
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He said these things don't want me going anywhere. I need to get out before it's too late. He knows, he said, because he's me. The last thing he said before the video ended abruptly was... The birds and the bees. Okay, so... He's been in the hole ever since he sat down at the computer. Yes.
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All of this has been part of the hole, but he can still use the internet or whatever the internet equivalent to get messages and out to Holy Moses and stuff like that. Right. And then he said, yeah, which is a way to try to get out. But now he has to get out of the hole. That explains why everything with Ben and Milky has been so spacey. Right.
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Maybe. He might be Holy Moses. You might be right about that. He has been Holy Moses this whole time.
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Okay. Angelica hosted a Wiccan Geocities or tripod homepage that I found particularly alluring. No, wait, it was Angelfire. She just made the best of some cool animated GIFs, midifs, and frames. Amazing stuff at the time. Just like her, the page was creative and attractive, but also simple.
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All of the... Or maybe Holy Moses is just sitting a video of himself on the outside. Right. Could be that too. Holy Moses is just a conduit for it. But that does make a lot of sense because ever since the whole Ben and Milky introduction, things have been very spacey. It's like I'm here. Now I'm here. Now I'm doing this thing. Now I'm doing that thing. It's like he's in a dream. Makes sense.
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Like I would go to turn on the TV. I don't like this show. I turn on this other show. Like it's the way someone would describe like a vision or a dream. Yeah. Oh, pussy. Yeah.
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So I took the door. Nobody was there. That just made me worry about where they really were. I stepped outside and still nobody there. I heard my car before mom come around from the back, and I heard rapid footsteps. Ben was running right toward me from way down the street. Stop hurting me! But he didn't look in pain, he looked in a rage. I got in my car and started backing up.
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When he got to me, he was pounding on the windows, still screaming. I drove straight back to my home, leaving them all behind. The only explanation could be that I'm in the hole, whatever that means. Because there was no other way Ben and my mom would act like that. But when did that happen? And what does that even mean anyway? Before I even stepped inside my home, I knew something was wrong.
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Waves of something, just bad, pure bad, were hitting me. I opened my front door. Everything looked normal. I started turning on all the lights, and I grabbed a knife from the kitchen drawer. Then I saw them. Two men in bee costumes sitting on my treadmill, looking at the floor, not moving, almost like they were stuffed or forgot where they were. What do you people want from me?
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I kept a tight grip on the knife. They stood up, then they both looked down the hall toward my office. I followed their gaze but saw nothing down there. After a few seconds of wondering what they saw, I heard the song start. Early in the morning, while I was looking down the hall, they were already heading out the door.
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I decided to follow them because whatever started that music gave me a worse feeling than them. As I stepped out the door, I'm sure I heard a dog growling behind me. I followed them across the road and into the woods. I turned my phone flashlight on to be able to follow them. It's like they could see in the dark, the way they navigated the woods. The deeper we went, the more uneasy I became.
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It just seemed to keep going and going. But the deeper we went, the more I started to hear birds. I never even thought of it before, but I hadn't heard any birds in a long time. Weeks at least. Or locusts, or any normal springtime sounds. The more I followed the bees, the more I heard the birds. Until they got loud enough, I figured we must be under a massive collection of nests.
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The reason I bring all this up is she suddenly contacted me just a few weeks ago by email asking, What's been happening? A catch-up question. We had almost 20 years of catching up to do, and this is pure Angelica. She signed the email with her ICQ contact number. I enjoyed the quaint touch. It'd be like someone in the 90s sending a letter with a wax seal, right?
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I kept following them until it got too loud to bear, and then it sounded like machinery, like elevators. There was a machine. Hidden out in the middle of nowhere, I followed them inside, and then... And then I was back in my office, sitting at my desk, slept over my keyboard. The corner of my mouth was wet. I must have blacked out. I picked myself up.
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It felt like I was just waking up from a deep sleep. The room was bright with sunlight. I could hear birds chirping up a frenzy outside. My screensaver was on. When I shifted the mouse just to see what time it was, there was an email from the globetrotter.net Angelica.
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So the entire story, he was in the hole, effectively, all the B people.
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I sat disoriented for a while before realizing I had to urinate, eat, and drink. When I had done those things, I looked around my home for clues. The knife I'd taken was back where it belonged. My old computer was put up in its box. I called my mom to ask if she was okay. She didn't remember any of the events from the previous night. That's when I remembered the video on my phone from Holy Moses.
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I checked and it was still there. I knew I wasn't dreaming. I played it back. Here would be my evidence. The video was two minutes of distorted audio and video, and all the distortions, no recognizable sounds or images. That was a few weeks ago. It's taken me some time to get calibrated to reality. Nothing strange has happened since. I can't explain what happened. Maybe I had a psychotic break.
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I was under a lot of stress at work. Maybe someone was gaslighting the hell out of me. Maybe there really is a secret to... Maybe there really is a secret website that uses electromagnetic waves to mess with your mind. I'm just glad it's over. I'm glad to be going back to work like a regular person. Making banana smoothies. not thinking about sinister internet cafes.
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I really do remember the Egypt and the whole, and it's like reality all twisted. I'll just end by saying I don't think I'll be feeling any nostalgia for the old days of internet for a good long while. The only problem I'm having is whenever I'm trying to sleep, I keep remembering the whole nightmare and asking myself, am I still inside? But then, what difference would it make?
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I replied back with a summary of how my life had gone over the past 18 years or so since I'd last communicated with her. 18 years makes you think. She shot back her response almost immediately, asking for details. We exchanged a few emails this way. I was pretty excited to come home from work and write to her, actually. Nothing romantic. It was just, it was reconnecting with my past.
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I would agree with those points, I think. Yeah, I think that makes sense. I think... Okay, so talking about the literalist part of the story, how do you feel about effectively the reveal that it was all a dream or a lot of it was a dream?
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So I normally don't, it normally drives me crazy, but the whole story was so weird that You know, like it was like the guys in B costumes and like, oh, I know this person actually don't know this person. I went to the internet cafe. There was like a crowd of people outside the door, but then just a detective burst in and your body's actually in the back.
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Support him. Are you supporting a cool author? But you are supporting a handsome author as well.
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Like it was so abstract that it almost works for me because it's not that none of this ever happened. It's not that he wasn't a young boy who went to the cafe and was speaking to the thing in the corner. All of that was real. It's that he was seeing visions of this. He was basically walking through his own history.
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Like while he was in the hole, he got to see reality for how it really is, quote unquote.
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So it's just like a vision. Like he was seeing a vision of like what the reality really is. Right.
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weird what the hell is this music box i'm gonna need a couple minutes alone with the music box i think yeah you just someone's in the closet they're like open it and shut it really quick like no no no yeah finally there you are flipping through all the dying people there's my favorite ghost
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Another product manufactured in great quantity at the Red Tower was a pocket watch and a gold casing which opened to reveal a curious timepiece whose numerals were represented by tiny quivering insects, while the circling hands were reptilian tongues, slender and pink. But these examples hardly began to hint at the range of goods that came from the factory during its novelty phase of production.
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I should at least mention the exotic carpets woven with intricate abstract patterns that, When focused upon for a certain length of time, compose themselves into fleeting, phantasmagoric scenes of a kind which might pass through a fever-stricken or even permanently damaged brain. God, that's so sick. That the carpets, like you see things. Well, yeah. They're like morph.
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Yeah, the incomprehensible carpet. As it was revealed to me, and as I have already revealed to you, the means of distributing the novelty goods fabricated at the Red Tower was a system of tunnels located on the first level, not the second, or possibly third. It had been excavated below the three-story factory building itself.
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It seems that these subterranean levels were not necessarily foundation of the original plan of the factory, but were in fact a perverse and unlikely development that might have occurred only as the structure known as the Red Tower underwent, over time, its own mutation from some prior state until it finally became a lowly site for manufacturing.
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This mutation apparently demanded the excavating of a system of tunnels as a means for distributing the novelty goods which, for a time, the factory produced.
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As the unique inventions of the Red Tower achieved their final forms, they seemed to be assigned specific locations to which they were destined to be delivered, either by hand or by small wagons or carts pulled over sometimes great distances through this system of underground tunnels. Where they might ultimately pop up was anybody's guess.
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It might be in the back of a dark closet buried under a pile of undistinguished junk where some item of the highest and most extreme novelty would lie for quite some time before it was encountered by sheer accident or misfortune. Conversely, the same invention or an entirely different one might be placed on the night table beside someone's bed for near immediate discovery.
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Any delivery point was possible, none was out of reach of the Red Tower. There has even been testimony, either intensely hysterical or semi-conscious, of items from the factory being uncovered within the shelter of a living body, or one not long deceased. I know that such an achievement was within the factory's powers given its later production history.
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But my own degenerate imagination is most fully captured by the thought of how many of those monstrous novelty goods produced at the Red Tower have been scrupulously and devoutly delivered solely by the way of those endless underground tunnels, daringly remote places they would never be found, nor ever could be. Truly, the Red Tower worked in mysterious ways.
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Just as a system of distribution tunnels had been created by the factory when it developed into a manufacturer of novelty goods, an expansion of the system was required as an entirely new phase of production gradually evolved.
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Inside the wire mesh elevator compartment that provided access between the upper region of the factory and the underground tunnels, there was now a special lever installed which, when pulled back or possibly pushed forward enabled one to descend to a second subterranean level. This laterally excavated area was much smaller, far more intimate than the one directly above it.
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As could be observed, the instant the elevator compartment came to a stop and a full view of things was attained. The scene which now confronted the uncertain minds of witnesses was in many ways like that of a secluded graveyard surrounded by a rather crooked fence of widely spaced pickets held together by rusty wire.
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The headstones inside the fence all closely pressed against one another and were quite common, though somewhat antiquated in their design. However, there were no names or dates inscribed on those monuments. Nothing at all, in fact, with the exception of some rudimentary and abstract ornamentation.
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This could be verified only when the subterranean graveyard was closely approached, for the lighting at this level was dim and unorthodox, provided exclusively by the glowing stone walls enclosing the area. These walls seemed to have been covered with phosphorescent paint which bathed the graveyard in a cloudy, grayish haze.
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For the longest time, how long I cannot say, my morbid reveries were focused on this murky vision of a graveyard beneath the factory. A subterranean graveyard surrounded by a cricket picket fence and suffused by the highly defective illumination given off by phosphorescent paint applied to stone walls.
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For the moment, I must emphasize the vision itself, without any consideration paid to the utilitarian purposes of this place, that is, the function it served in relation to the factory above it. The truth is that, at some point, all of the factory's functions were driven underground to this graveyard level.
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Long before the complete evaporation of machinery in the Red Tower, something happened to require the shutdown of all operations in the three floors of the factory which were above ground level.
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The reasons for this action are deeply obscure, a matter of contemplation only when a state of hopeless and devouring curiosity has reached its height, when the burning light of speculation becomes so intense that it threatens to incinerate everything on which it shines.
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To my own mind, it seems entirely valid to reiterate at this juncture the long-standing tensions that existed between the Red Tower, which I believe was not always stigmatized by such a hue and such a title, and the grayish landscape of utter desolation that surrounded the structure on all sides, looming around and above it for quite incalculable distances.
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I'm wearing the My Better Half shirt, which features me as a Jeff Goldblum-esque scientist from the fly, with Hunter being the tumorous gross that comes out of my nipple, just like in real life. That's true. Just creepcast down the sleeves, and it is super comfortable, super high-quality print, and we also have a couple of other items, don't we, Hunter?
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But below the ground level of the factory was another matter. It was here that its operation at some point retreated. It was here, specifically at this graveyard level, that they continued.
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Clearly, the Red Tower had committed some violation or offense, its clamoring activities and unorthodox products, perhaps its very existence, constituting an affront to the changeless quietude of the world around it. My personal judgment, there had been a betrayal involved, a treacherous breaking of a bond.
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I can certainly picture a time before the existence of the factory, before any of its features blemished the featureless country that extended so gray and so desolate on every side.
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Dreaming upon the grayish desolation of that landscape, I also find it quite easy to imagine that there might have occurred a lapse in the monumental tedium, a spontaneous and inexplicable impulse to deviate from a dreary perfection, perhaps even an unconquerable desire to risk a move toward a tempting defectiveness.
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As a concession to this impulse or desire out of nowhere, as a minimal surrender, a creation took place and a structure took form where there had been nothing of its kind before.
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I picture it, at its inception, as a barely discernible eruption in the landscape, a mere sketch on an edifice, possibly translucent when making its first appearance, a gray density rising in the darkness, embossed upon it a most tasteful and harmonious design.
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such structures or creations have their own desires, their own destinies to fulfill, their own mysteries and mechanisms which they must follow at whatever risk. From a gray and desolate and utterly featureless landscape, a dull edifice had been produced, a pale, possibly translucent tower which, over time, began to develop into a factory and to issue
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as if in the spirit of the most grotesque belligerence, a line of quite morbid, quite wonderfully disgusting novelty goods. In an expression of defiance, at some point, it reddened with an enigmatic passion for betrayal and perversity.
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On the surface, the Red Tower might have seemed a splendid complement to the grayish desolation of its surroundings, a unique, picturesque composition that served to define the glorious essence of each of them. But in fact, there existed between them a profound and ineffable hostility. An attempt was made to reclaim the Red Tower, or at least draw it back towards the formless origin of its being.
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I'm referring, of course, to that show of force which resulted in the evaporation of the factory's dense arsenal of machinery. Each of the three stories of the Red Tower had been cleaned out, purged of its offending means of manufacturing novelty items, and the part of the factory that rose above the ground was left to fall into ruins.
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Had the machinery in the Red Tower not been evaporated, I believe that the subterranean graveyard, or something very much like it, would nonetheless have come into existence at some point or the other. This was the direction in which the factory had been moving, a fact suggested by some of its later models of novelty items.
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Machines were becoming obsolete as the diseased mania of the Red Tower intensified and evolved into more experimental, even visionary, projects. I have previously reported that the headstones in the factory's subterranean graveyard were absent of any names of the interred and were without dates of birth and death. This truth has been confirmed by numerous accounts rendered in borderline gibberish.
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The reason for the blank headstones is entirely evident as one gazes upon them standing crooked and closely packed together in the phosphorescent haze given off by the stone walls covered with luminous paint. None of these graves, in point of fact, could be said to have anyone buried in them whose names and dates of birth and death would require inscription on the headstones.
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These were not what might be called burying graves. This is to say that these were in no sense graves for burying the dead. Quite the contrary. These were graves of a highly experimental design from which the newest productions of the Red Tower were to be born.
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From its beginnings as a manufacturer of novelty items of an extravagant nature, the factory had now gone into business of creating what came to be known as hyperorganisms. These new productions were also of a fundamentally extreme nature, representing an even greater divergence on the part of the Red Tower from the bland and grey desolation in the midst of which it stood.
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As implied by their designation as hyper-organisms, this line of goods displayed the most essential qualities of their organic nature, which meant, of course, that they were wildly conflicted into their two basic features. On the one hand, they manifested an intense vitality in all aspects of their form and function.
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On the other hand, simultaneously, they manifested an ineluctable element of decay in these same areas. To state this matter in the most lucid terms, each of these hyperorganisms, even as they scintillated with an obscene degree of vital impulses, also, and at the same time, had degeneracy and death written deeply upon them.
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In accord with the tradition of dumbstruck insanity, it seems the less said about these offerings of the birthing graves or any similar creation, the better. That's so cool. The bottom is filled with graves. And then these, these, they birth out as these organisms that are, they jerk and they move with vitality, but they have a degeneracy and death.
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With this job, it is not uncommon for me between phone calls to video games with the boys to podcasting to have headsets on for eight hours a day. So obviously comfort is a big deal and Turtle Beach has me covered. In the podcast episode you're watching right now, I don't have them on because I didn't get them in yet, but I can assure you from here on out, these are going to be the way to go.
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Also, I know firsthand that wireless headsets can be annoying when it comes to switching them between your phone, to your PC, to your Xbox. But now the Stealth 700s have me covered with the industry's first ever cross-play wireless system.
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I myself have been almost entirely restricted to a state of seething speculation concerning the luscious particularities of all hyper organic phenomena produced in the subterranean graveyard of the Red Tower.
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Although we may reasonably assume that such creations were not to be called beautiful, we cannot know for ourselves the mysteries and mechanisms of, for instance, how these creations have moved throughout the hazy luminescence of that underground world. What creaky or spasmic gestures
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They might have been capable of executing, if any, what sounds they might have made or the organs used for making them. How they might have appeared when awkwardly emerging from the deep shadows or squatting against those nameless headstones. What trembling stages of mutation they almost certainly would have undergone following the generation of their larva upon the barren earth of the graveyard.
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what their bodies might have produced or emitted in the way of fluids and secretions, how they might have responded to the mutilation of their forms for reasons of an experimental or entirely savage nature.
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Often I picture to myself what frantically clawing efforts these creations probably made to deliver themselves from that confining environment which their malformed or non-existent brains cannot begin to understand. They could not have comprehended, any more than can I, for what purpose they were bred from those graves.
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Those incubators of hyperorganisms, minute factories of flesh that existed wholly within and far below the greater factory of the Red Tower. It was no surprise, of course, that the production of hyperorganisms was not allowed to continue for very long before a second wave of destruction was visited upon the factory.
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This time, it was not merely the fading and ultimate evaporation of machinery that took place. This time, it was something far more brutal. Once again, forces of ruination were directed at the factory, specifically the subterranean graveyard located at its second underground level, its three-story structure that stood above ground having already been rendered an echoing ruin.
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Information on what remained of the graveyard and of its cleverly blasphemous works is available to my own awareness only in the form of shuddering and badly garbled whispers of mayhem and devastation and wholesale sundering of the most unspeakable sort.
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These same sources also seem to regard this incident as the culmination, if not the conclusion, of the long-standing hostilities between the Red Tower and the grayish halo of desolation that hovered around it on all sides. Such a shattering episode would appear to have terminated the career of the Red Tower.
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Nevertheless, there are indications that, appearances to the contrary, the factory continues to be active despite its status as a silent ruin.
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After all, the evaporation of the machinery which churned out countless novelty items in the three-story red brick factory proper and the ensuing obsolescence of its sophisticated system of tunnels at the first underground level did not prevent the factory from pursuing its business by other and more devious means.
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The work at the second underground level, the graveyard level, went very well for a time. Following the vicious decimation of those ingenious and fertile graves, along with the merchandise they produced, it may have seemed that the manufacturing history of the Red Tower had been brought to a close.
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Yet there are indications that believe that three stories above the ground factory, below the first and the second underground levels, there exists a third level of subterranean activity. Perhaps it is only a desire for symmetry, a hunger for compositional balance in things, that has led to a series of the most vaporous rumors anent this third underground level.
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In order to provide a kind of complementary proportion to the three stories of the factory that rise into the gray and featureless landscape above ground,
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At this third level, these rumors maintain the factory's schedule of production is being carried out in some new and strange manner, representing its most ambitious venture in the output of putrid creations, ultimately consummating its tradition of degeneracy, reaching toward a perfection of defect and disorder, according to every polluted and foggy rumor concerned with the issue.
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Perhaps it seems that I have said too much about the Red Tower, and perhaps it has sounded far too strange. Do not think that I am unaware of such things, but as I have noted throughout this document, I am only repeating what I have heard. I myself have never seen the Red Tower, no one ever has, and possibly no one ever will. Yet wherever I go, people are talking about it.
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In one way or another, they are talking about the nightmarish novelty items, or about the mysterious and revolting hyperorganisms, as well as babbling endlessly about the subterranean systems of tunnels in the secluded graveyard whose headstones display no names and no dates designating either birth or death.
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Everything they are saying is about the Red Tower, in one way or another, and about nothing else but the Red Tower. We are all talking and thinking about the Red Tower in our own degenerate way. I have only recorded what everyone is saying, though they may not know they are saying it, and sometimes they have seen, though they may not know they have seen it.
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You complain to Isaiah this time. I think Hunter. No, no, no. I'm not going to. Well, actually, you can't complain because I don't look at it. I'll never know. It's just me over here. I hide everything. I don't even know if people are watching my videos. I can't.
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But still, they are always talking, in one deranged way or another, about the Red Tower. I hear them talk of it every day of my life, unless, of course, they begin to speak about gray and desolate landscape, that hazy void in which the Red Tower, the great and industrious Red Tower, is so precariously nestled.
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Then the voices grow quiet until I can barely hear them as they attempt to communicate with me in choking scraps of post-nightmare trauma. Now is just such a time when I must strain to hear the voices.
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I wait for them to reveal to me the new ventures of the Red Tower as it proceeds into even more corrupt phases of production, including the creations being turned out by the shadowy workshop of its third subterranean level. I must keep still and listen for the voices. I must remain quiet for a terrifying moment, and I will hear the news of the factory starting up its operation once more.
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Then I will be able to speak again of the Red Tower. And that's the end of the Red Tower. And that's the end... God! Good fucking Lord. So, I... Well, I'll save my analysis for a second. How do you feel?
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I think, uh, so to me reading it, uh, and the shows, the different, uh, the shows like, um, how different, um, kind of preconceived ideas can affect your understanding of a story. To me, I felt like I was reading the creation story. Uh, cause you have like a gray landscape that is subtle and it's like for seemingly no reason at all. No one knows why the gray landscape invented the red tower.
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And if you do, if you do have enough shirts, you still are obligated to buy this because we said so.
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And for me, the red tower seemed to be like an analogy of Satan. Uh, because that's kind of a question that gets asked in like religious circles a lot. If God is all knowing and God understands free will and see the future, then why would God make Lucifer? Um,
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But it's like, perhaps, I like the way that was phrased, where it was like, perhaps to rebel against itself, or perhaps to give some spirit to the land or whatever, the tower was invented. And at first, the tower was beautiful and matched the land, but then the red grew over it. And it began to invent trinkets, and it began to invent beautiful things, and a lot of extra biblical beliefs.
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Yeah, like temptations and stuff almost. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And a lot of extra biblical beliefs. Lucifer was a musician. He would make music. He would make beautiful things just like the factory did. But then the factory began to be corrupted. It brought red over itself. And then there was a first desolation of it, of mankind being kicked out of the garden, the tools being taken away.
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But then after the factory began to make these hyper organisms, which could be seen as, um, the Nephilim, or it could be seen as demons entering the world or humanity itself. There was a greater desolation, which sounds like the flood. Um, and then it's like, it seems abandoned, but I know it still makes things. None of us have seen the red tower, but we all talk about it.
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Like the afterlife, the devil, God, um, Yeah, and like the subterranean and like the three floors above being representative of God, but the three floors beneath being representative of the devil and the three phases of humanity. And he's like, I believe now that the third level is still working, which is like the age of existence we're in now. Just like, that's what I got reading out of it.
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But I feel like depending on where you come to the story with, you could take it so many different ways.
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Like the antithetical nature of having graves that birth people, right? Life coming out of death. Yeah, exactly. Rebirth and all that. Yeah, there's so many interesting visual elements. I love the idea of tunnels that can deliver the novelties anywhere. They'll appear on your bedside or there's some out there that will never be found because they can't be found.
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I think it's just things that you're born with. It brought disease and pestilence into the world. It makes people worse, the formless. And also in like, I know in some Gnostic beliefs, but in like the book of Enoch and stuff like that, there's a lot of mention again, outside of the Bible of like the angels that fell with Lucifer introduced humanity to witchcraft and
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and to gunpowder, and to music, and all these different inventions, like these toys effectively, they gave humanity to distract them from God. And that's kind of the vibe I got from the tower, like these temptations they're passing out to people. It felt very religious to me. There's even the line where... Where is that? It's talking about...
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it doesn't understand why the tower created what it did, or it doesn't understand why the tower, uh, operates how it does. And it says, uh, truly the red tower worked in mysterious ways, which of course is the line everyone says about God, right? You know, the God works in mysterious. Yeah.
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odd you know surrealist nightmare it's just it's just cool yes it says uh legati has a compilation from 1997 called the nightmare factory uh so what we just read might be the entirety of like the nightmare factory like the the only story about the factory within the anthology book but he might have other stuff about it but as this stands on its own i feel it was it's like you said it's very dreamlike nightmare factory is a good word for it it's like a vision someone had almost
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I feel like, uh, you, I know that you don't like, uh, SCP stuff that much, but wait, bear with me here. I think there are two SCP stories that have to be directly based off of this. Um, One of them is an 01 proposal called The Factory, which is about a giant factory that's unexplainable and makes these weird items. And several of the items it makes are other SEPs.
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And that one's kind of like surface level, the themes of it. But there's this one... I think it's called the house of the worm. Um, and back when we were talking about SCPs, I tried to remember what the name of it was. Cause it was, it's my favorite SCP story. I think I've ever read.
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It's one of the only ones that the themes of it and like the writing actually stuck with me, but I couldn't remember the name. That's called the house of the worm. And it's about this, uh, He's a preacher or he's a businessman or something that has a vision of the end time.
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So he gathers everyone into his biggest state in England and boards up the walls and windows and begins to prophesy about the end of the world. And he goes insane and starts to dig these tunnels underneath the building. And he creates like... Every time someone dies, he uses these tools to build them back into these zombified creatures.
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And the ending of it's very Borderlands or Final Prayer, if you remember that movie. I know you're a fan of that one. But it's one of my favorite SCPs. But the language of him going insane and talking about the subterranean levels remind me of this. This story, even though I'm not familiar with Ligotti before what we just read, I feel like he has influenced a ton of stuff I am familiar with.
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I'm licking my oatee. I'm licking my oatee. I'm licking my oatee. We're about to lick our oatee. I'm about to lick my Odie.
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Faliol. Yeah, I would say. Here we go. No doubt the confusions of Carnival Night were in some measure to blame for many unforeseen incidents. Every violation of routine order was being committed by kerosene. Oh, like a carousel. Oh, I've never, I guess you can use that word in different ways.
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Committed by kerosene masses, their high register songs of celebration harmonizing with a low droning pedal point, which seemed to be sustained by the night itself. Having declared their town an enemy of quits.
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I would think that means quietness. Having declared the town an enemy of being quiet. There you go. Being quiet. There you go. The people of Soldori had taken to the streets. There they conspired against solitude and to accompany gyrations of squealing abandon, sabotage, monotony.
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Even the Duke, a cautious man and one not normally given to those extravaganzas perpetrated by his counterparts in Lannes or Dernzella, was now holding a lavish masquerade, if only as a strategic concession to his subjects. Of all the inhabitants of the three towns, those under the rule of the Duke of Soldori, occasionally to the Duke's dismay, were the most loving of amusement.
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In every quarter of their usually sedate principality, frolicking merrymakers combed the night for a new paradise, and were as likely to find it in a blood match as in a bewitching countenance. All seemed anxious, even frantic to follow blindly the entire spectrum of diversion, to dawdle about the lines between pain and pleasure, to obscure their vision of both past and future.
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So, three well-drunk and hog-faced men seated in a roisterous hostelry might well be excused for not recognizing Thaliole. whose colors were always red and black. This man, who had just entered the thickish gloom of that drinking house, was garbed in a craze of colors, none of them construed to a pointed effect. one might have described this outfit as a motley gone mad.
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Indeed, what lay beneath this fool's patchwork were the familiar blacks and reds that no other of the three towns, neither those who were dandies nor those who were sword whores, nor even those who, like Faliol himself, were both, would have dared to duplicate.
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But now, these notorious colors were buried under a rainbow of rags which were tied about the man's arms, legs, and every other part of his person, seeming to hold him together like torn strips hurriedly applied to the storm-fractured joist of a sagging roof.
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Before he had closed the door of that cave-like room behind him, the giraffe rushing in from the street made his frayed livery come alive like a mass of tattered flags flapping in a calamitous wind. but even he had not been cast as a tattered demelion, tattered demel, demeline, whatever. There was still so much else about Faliol that was unlike his former self.
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His sword, startling length of blade, bobbed about, unbuckled at his left side. His dagger, whose sheath bore a mirror of polished metal, which now seemed a relic of more dandified days, was strung loosely behind his left shoulder, ready to fall at any moment. and his hair was trimmed monkishly close to the scalp, leaving little reminder of a gloriously hirsute era.
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But possibly the greatest alteration, the greatest problem and mystery of Faliol's travesty of his own image, was the presence on his face of a pair of spectacles. And given that these spectacles were darkly tinged, as though fashioned from some murky substance, the eyes behind them were obscured.
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we're moving up in the world. We're having like actual people in the real world be like, Hey, you could read this if you want. Yeah. Next thing you know, next thing you know, buddy, we're going to be the one taking advantage of young writers. I'm going to be, I'm going to be the one. Yeah.
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Still, there remained any number of signs by which a discerning scrutiny could have identified the celebrated Faliol. For as he moved toward a seat adjacent to the alcove, where the booming voice trio was esconned, he strode with a scornful, somehow involuntary assuredness of which no reversals of fate could completely unburden him.
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And his boots, though their fine black leather had gone grey with the dust of roads that a zealous equestrian such as Faliol never have trod, still jangled with a few of those once innumerable silver links from which dangled small, agate-eyed medallions, ones identical to the onyx-eyed ambulant which in other days hung from a silver chain around his lean throat.
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Oh, that's rough. She creeping my cast until I... You creep my cast until I lig my Odie.
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Now, however, no medallion ornamented Faliol's chest, and since he had lost or renounced the inkish eye of Onyx, he had acquired two eyes of shadowed glass. Each lens of the spectacles reflected, like twin moons, the glow of the lantern above the place where Faliol seated himself.
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As if unaware that he was not settled in some cloistered cell of lubrication, he removed from somewhere within his shredded clothes a small book having the words Psalms of the Silent inscribed upon its soft-worn cover. The cover of the book was black, while the characters of its title were the red of autumn leaves. Faleon? A scholar?
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Someone whispered in the crowded depths of the room, while another added, And a scholar of his own grief, so I've heard. Baliole unfixed the tiny silver clasp and opened the book somewhere towards its middle, where a thin strip of velvet marked his place.
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And if there had been a miniature mirror bound in place of the book's left-hand leaf, Baliole could have seen three thuggish men gazing mutely, not to say thoughtfully, in his direction.
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Moreover, if there had been a second mirror set at the same angle on the book's right-hand leaf, he could also have noticed a fourth pair of eyes spying on him from the other side of the hostelries and grimed window panes. But there were only stern-looking letters written, to be precise, handwritten, in Faliol's own hand, upon the opposing leaves of the book.
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Thus Faliol could not have seen either of the parties who, for reasons separate or similar, were observing him. All he saw were two pale pages elegantly dappled by somber verses. Then a shadow passed across these pages and another and another. The three men were now standing evenly spaced before Faliol, though he continued to read as if they were not present.
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He read until the lantern above was extinguished, the stump of tallow snuffed out by the middleman's grossly knuckled stumps of flesh. Clasping his book closed, Faliol replaced it with the rags around his heart and sat perfectly still. The three men seemed to watch in a trance of uggsome hilarity at the slowly and solemnly executed sequence of actions.
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The face of the window panes merely pressed closer to witness what, in its view, was a soundless scene. Some words of insult appeared to be aimed at the man in rags by the three men standing before him. The first of them splashed some ale upon the bespeckled personage, as did the second man from his enormous tankard.
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Then more ale, this time expectorated, was received by the victim as the third man's contribution to what became a series of petty torments. Faliol remained silent and as motionless as possible, thereby expressing an attitude of mind and body which seemed only to provoke further the carnival-mad souls of the three Saldorians.
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As the moments passed, Ben waxed more cruel and their torments more inventive. Finally, he jostled a bloody-mouthed Faliol out of his seat. Jesus!
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to just beating the hell out of this guy good lord exactly dude you should be cool you write books idiot you should be fucking cool but you're kind of gay now dude let's beat this guy up this is this is actually what happens every time i'm around hunter yeah i'll just be over to the side like i'll be reading something and he'll just be like what's this guy about he just comes over and starts kicking me dude nice fucking book needle dick and i slap you in the face bam
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Hunter's always like, Hey, the chiefs are on. You want to, you want to watch the game? And I'm like, Oh, you and your sports ball. I'll be in the study. There's nothing. There's nothing, nothing in this world.
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Well, as you study your games, I will smirk and be in my library.
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Let us begin. The ruined factory stood three stories high in an otherwise featureless landscape. Although somewhat imposing on its own terms, it occupied only the most unobtrusive place within the grey emptiness of its surroundings, its presence serving as a mere accent upon a desolate horizon.
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I imagine it's like, uh, cause he says he's an equestrian. So he's a horse rider. So I imagine, uh, it's like one of those shoals they would wear, you know, that would like go down to their arms and cover them. It was like a windbreaker sort of looking thing. Oh, people wear it when they were horse riding. I'm picturing this, but it's like, but it's like a bunch of colors.
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Yeah, I think it's not going to go great for him. Just a moment.
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Two of them pinioned him against the planks of the wall while the trio's hulking third member snatched his spectacles. A pair of blue eyes were suddenly revealed. They firmly clenched themselves closed and reopened as if bursting out of black depths and into the light. Felial dropped to his knees and his mouth stretched wide to let out a strangled scream, the scream of a mute under torture.
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Very soon, his features relaxed while his ragged chest began pumping up and down with an even rhythm. He rose to his feet. How would you think his scream sounded? Is he actually mute or is that just saying like he's punched and he can't make noise? Stretched wide out.
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Really like that. What is it? Like when you get hit in the stomach.
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Ah! I like him. He's my boy. I know people like you, Hunter, wouldn't understand the mind of an intellectual.
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It's over. You summoned him. The one who had taken Faliol's spectacles had turned away and his clumsy fingers were fiddling with delicate silver stems, fumbling with two shadowy lenses that were more precious than he knew. Thus amused and averted, he did not perceive that Faliol had drawn his dagger from its shoulder sheath and was cutting away at his companions with stealth and savagery.
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No road led to the factory, nor were there any traces of one that might have led to it at some point in the distant past. If there had ever been such a road, it would have been rendered useless as soon as it arrived at one of the four red brick sides of the factory, even in the days when the facility was in full operation. The reason for this was simple. No doors had been built into the factory.
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It's self-defense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they definitely deserve to be stabbed to death in a bar for being drunk and messing with the guy who's riding in the corner. Where? He started to shout to his loudish comrades as they ran ripped and bloody from the host, hostlery. Then he turned about, face to feel Faliol's sword against his greasy leather doublet.
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He saw, he must have seen, that the blade was unclean but very sharp, and he must have felt it scrape playfully against the chainmail vest concealed beneath his doublet's sorry cover. Soon, Faliol was lowering his blade until it reached the spot where the vest protection no longer protected.
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He instructed the giant, who held what appeared in his hands to be tiny toy spectacles. Put them on. He repeated in the toneless voice of one who was dead to all appeasement or mercy. The giant, his lip-licking tongue visibly parched, obeyed the command. Upon doing so, his body went rigid and became as if fastened to the floor on which it stood.
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Everyone in the room leaned closer to see the giant and dark spectacles, and so did the well-groomed face at the hostelry window. Most of the men laughed, drunkenly and anonymously, but a few remained silent, if they did not in fact become silent at this sight. And a scholar of the wildest folly too, someone whispered. Faliol himself grinned like a demon, his eyes widening at his work.
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After a few moments, he returned his sword to its sheath, and even so, the giant held his transfixed position. Valiol put away his dagger, and the giant did not budge a hair. Trapped within himself, he stood with paralyzed arms, hanging beside his enormous flanks. The giant's face was extraordinarily pale. It was grizzled cheeks like two mounds of snow that had been sewn with ashes.
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Above them, circles of glass gleamed like two black suns. All laughter had ceased by now, and many turned away from the unwanted spectacle. The giant's meaty lips were the only part of him that moved, though very slowly, and very much in the manner of a dying fish gasping in the dry air. But having seen through fallible spectacles, the giant was not dying in his body, only his mind was a corpse.
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This is the wildest folly, whispered the same voice. Gently, almost contritely, Belial removed the spectacles from the face of the dumbstruck idol, and he waited until he was outside the hostelry before replacing them on his own. Good sir. He called a voice from the shadows of the street.
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Valiol paused, but only as if considering the atmosphere of the night, and not necessarily in response to a stranger who had accosted him.
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And when the coach began moving down streets on the circumference of the festivities, this finally-habited gentleman, though he was just barely more than a youth, continued to speak to a silent Faliol.
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No loading docks or entranceways allowed penetration of the outer walls of the structure, which was solid brick on all four sides without even a single window below the level of the second floor. The phenomenon of a large factory so closed off from the outside world was a point of extreme fascination to me.
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Of course, you were aware of my presence. He said, pausing to scan Faliol's expressionless face.
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The young man laughed briefly at what he understood to be a witticism.
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said Streldon, though obviously he had been prepared to hackle over the matter. But he left no pause which might have filled with the second thoughts of this hired sword, who looked and acted more like one of the clockwork automatons which performed their mechanical routines high above the town square of Sildori.
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Thus, with a slow turn of his head and a set movement of his hand, Belial received the jeweled pouch containing one half his payment. Strelton promised that the other portion would follow upon the accomplishment of their knight's work, as he now portrayed its reasons and aims.
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It seemed there was a young woman of a noble and wealthy family, a princess in all but title, whom Strelton loved and who loved him in return, accepting his proposal of marriage and cleaving to his vision of their future as two who would be one.
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there was another who was called wing my boy wing does that be right ving or wing it's let's let's call him wing wing wing yeah it'd be wing who was called wing though strelden referred to him thereafter as the sorcerer strelden explained the situation the sorcerer had appropriated the young woman for himself
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This unnatural feat was achieved, Strelton hated to say, not only through the powerful offices of the Duke of Soldori himself, but also with the willing compliance of the young woman's father.
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Both men, according to Strelton, have been persuaded in this affair because the sorcerer had promised to supply them, by means of alchemical transmutations of base metals into gold and silver, with an unending source of riches to finance their wars and other undertakings of ambition.
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Without bothering to embellish the point, Strelton declared that he and his beloved, in their present state of separation, were two of the most wretched beings in the world and desperate for assistance in their struggle to be reunited. And that carnival night would be the last opportunity for Faliol to untangle them from the controlling strings of the sorcerer and his compatriots.
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It was almost with regret that I ultimately learned about the factory's subterranean access. But, of course, that revelation in its turn also became a source for my truly degenerate sense of amazement. My decayed fascination.
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Do I have your attention, sir? Faliol vouchsafed his understanding of the matter by repeating to its last detail Strahdun's account of his plight.
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And it's magic. He's a sorcerer. Yeah, that's why she likes me.
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That's what this is. And he's an alchemist, so he's like, yeah, I'm really good at metal work and stuff like that.
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I will say I didn't really realize this until Legati started describing people in his stories because like in the Red Tower, it's just kind of like an exposition. But with the dialogue and people, this feels incredibly Poe. Oh, dude. Yeah. It's Edgar. But at first I was like, this feels like a cask of a Montalado. Yeah. Yeah. Ask about me or the, what's the other one?
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The, the, uh, the description of the party, uh, fall of the house of usher. I thought that was the red death or whatever. I don't know. Yeah. It's falling house of usher though. Oh, Oh yeah. Yeah. No, no, no. You're right. The red, wait, no. Yeah. Fall of the house of usher is the one with the different colored rooms. Yeah.
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Mask of the red death is, um, what's the one where he chops up someone and puts them in the floor. That's the tail tail heart.
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the decayed fascination. That was sick. Is that what you have? A decayed fascination?
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Trust me. I wanted to point out that you were correct. I was wrong. Mask of the Red Death is the party one. Fall of the House of the Usher is another one.
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Faliol asked if Shreldan had possessed the foresight to have brought along a pair of costumes to enable their entrance to the masquerade. Shreldan, somewhat vainly, produced from the shadows of the coach two such costumes, one that was appropriate to a knight of the old days and the other that of a court jester of the same period.
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Faliol reached out for the wildly patterned costume with the cheering mask.
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No sword will be needed, Faliol assured his nervous companion. This will be fitting, he added, holding the hook-nosed fool's face opposite his own. They were now traveling in the direction of the palace, and Saldori's carnival began to thicken about the wheels of Streledon's coach. Gazing upon the nocturnal confusion, Faliol's eyes were as dark and swirled with shadows as the raving night itself.
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Yeah, well, he says that his liege already spoke to him the night prior. So this has already been kind of set up. Oh, yeah. Faliol was probably going to that bar to meet up with him. So he's like, are you ready to do the job?
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I think the spectacles do. It's just the spectacles. I would think so, yes. Because he is... You put them on that guy's face and the guy freaked out. And he seems kind of like a quiet individual. He is... Okay, so the story said in the beginning, like, Faliol was common around here, but the most noticeable thing are his new spectacles.
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So Faliol was a known guy who people around the community knew about.
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That's what intellectual people do. They just say their own name out loud.
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You could. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. Don't say whatever you're going to say. It's not true.
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uh hellish landscape very very empty very yeah just like a subtle little subtle breeze dancing along the factory had long been in ruins it's innumerable bricks worn and crumbling so many windows shattered each of the three enormous stories that stood above the ground level was vacant of all but dust and silence
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You know what? You just say the bear trap thing to get me worked up. That's all it's for. That's the only reason. So I'm not going to do it. Baby, baby, baby.
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All right. Chapter two, the story of the spectacles. His eyes fixed and clouded as a blind man's. The mage sat before a small circular table upon which a single wax taper burned in a silver stick. Illuminated by that modest flame, the surface of the table was inlaid with esoteric symbols, a constellation of designs which reduced essential forces of existence to a few rather picturesque patterns.
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But the mage was not occupied with these. He was simply attending to someone who was raving in the shadow of a secret chamber. The hour was late and the night was without a moon. The narrow window behind the beardless, pallid face of the mage was a solid sheet of blackness that seemed to absorb the candlelight.
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Every so often, someone would move before this window, his hands running through his thick, dark hair as he spoke or tried to speak. Occasionally, he would move toward the candle flame and a glimpse could be caught of his bold attire in blacks and reds. His shining blue eyes, his fevered face, Calmly, the mage listened to the man's wild speech.
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So he's going to this mage who like in his place has esoteric symbols and stuff like that. And there's also a mage. So we can assume. I get what's going on.
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You're going to try to ruin this story for me. I'm just saying, does it not sound like that?
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That's not at all what he's saying. He's going mad. He is going mad because he is witnessing the... He's seeing the esoteric, the unspeakable. He's peering behind the veil and it's making him lose his mind. And he's trying to get help from the mage. He's trying to understand what's happening. Sure.
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The machinery, which densely occupied the three floors of the factory as well as considerable space beneath it, is said to have evaporated. I repeat, evaporated.
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What do you think? So he keeps having these dreams he can't explain. These heads speaking to him, saying things he doesn't want to hear would drive him mad, and the faces themselves are indistinguishable. It's like he's being haunted by some presence.
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I think what's going to happen is the mage is going to give him the spectacles to allow him to maybe see them while awake or to understand things around him. That's where I think this is going.
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Soon after the factory ceased operation, leaving behind only a few spectral outlines of deep vats and tanks, twisting tubes and funnels, harshly grinding gears and levers, giant belts and wheels that could be most clearly seen at twilight, and later, not at all.
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I don't mean this against you, but looking at you right now, at any moment, you can become a demon and rip a child apart. I can't trust anything. The Shakespearean guy is just like, good lord! He's like, I know, I'm sorry. I hate to even put it out there. There's just a mage over there.
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He's like a very Sigmund Freud-type looking guy, like the big glasses and the pipe.
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Thank you for picking that voice out of every option you chose. This is now the mage's voice. Said the mage in the same quiet voice.
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According to these strictly hallucinatory accounts, the whole of the Red Tower, as the factory was known, had always been subject to fadings at certain times. This phenomenon, in the delirious or dying words of several witnesses, was due to a profound hostility between the noisy and malodorous operations of the factory and the desolate purity of the landscape surrounding it.
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Replied the madman as if to argue the irreparable nature of his mania. You have envisioned precisely what you've been able to make.
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It's kind of a mage-y voice. Okay, so... No, it's not. That's a Dwight Schrute voice.
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So, um... Anima Mundi is the soul of the world, as described in ancient Greek text and Roman philosophy that shows up a lot in Hermeticism, Stoicism, and Gnosticism. So it's like old world thinking of the spirit of the earth itself. So the mage here... is saying that you are being touched by the nature of the spirit of the earth, and it is making you into what it wants you to be.
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the conflict occasionally resulting in temporary erasures or fadings of the former by the latter. Despite their ostensibly mad or credulous origins, these testimonies, it seemed to me, deserved more than a cursory hearing.
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That's why you're seeing these terrible things, because it has something in store for you.
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Which... I guarantee is what the anima moon. He's doing to him. It wants him to become the kind of person that wants to inflict this on others. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. It's making him into the villain, so to speak. He then instructed the madman to seat himself at the table of arcane designs and to wait there with eyes calmly closed. And for what remained of the moonless night, the mage worked in another part of his dwelling, returning to the wretched dreamer just before dawn.
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One of his hands was the product of his labors, a pair of strangely darkened spectacles, as if they had shadows sealed within them. These he fitted to the madman's face. Do not yet open your eyes, unhappy friend.
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The legendary conflict between the factory and the greyish territory surrounding it may very well have been a fabrication of individuals who were lost in the advanced stages of either physical or psychic deterioration. Nonetheless, it was my theory, and remains so, that the Red Tower was not always the peculiar color for which it ultimately earned its fame.
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Those lines were so cool. And they've forever been ruined. I can't even go back and look at them right now because it's just going to... Animamundi is going to just be in my head.
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Thus, the encrimsoning of the factory was a betrayal, a breaking off, for it is my postulation that this ancient structure was in long-forgotten days the same pale hue as the world which encompassed it. Furthermore, with an insight born of dispassion to the point of total despair, I envisioned that the Red Tower was never solely devoted to the lowly functions of an ordinary factory.
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Okay, so basically, like, these glasses will peer into the realm of the unseen, but for you who's already gone mad, it will dull everything. It will allow you to process your thoughts.
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At first, he did not notice that one of the mage's own eyes was closed, covered by a sagging eyelid. When at last he saw this and perceived the sacrifice, he said, Beyond the window at the back of the two figures, something seemed to be awash. Neither man took note of the image, which was so obscure as to be nearly invisible.
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Some would call it a face, yet its features were translucent, such that not even the sharpest eye could read them clearly. Nor could any eye outside that room where Faliol and the mage sat quietly conversing suffer to behold such a vision.
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anima mundi i really hope like some super hippy dippy people who like are into like earth cleansing and spiritualism like send you angry emails and comments that are like dude that's my god don't talk about it that way anima mundi is what i say that's what i would respond with
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like we kind of touched on a little bit with the red, the red factory or the red tower. But this is certainly in the realm of it feels very, very, like I said, Poe, like a way a lot.
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What would you call a story, Hunter, that is about esoteric things that cannot be understood and peer into the unknown that humanity is not capable of? Easy peasy. I got you. And I'm a moondie.
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okay all right chapter three while the revelers in the streets of soldori remedied their discontents by throwing off the everyday face of orthodoxy those attending the masquerade at the duke's palace found their deliverance by donning other faces other bodies and perhaps other souls the anonymity of that night no one masking was expected to be held enabled a multitude of sins against taste from the most subtle to the most grotesque indiscretions
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The society of the court had transformed itself into a race of gods or monsters, competing at once with the brightest and highest of stars and the strangest of the world's lower creatures. Many would undoubtedly spend the succeeding days or weeks in darkened rooms behind closed doors so that the effects their disguises had wrought on their bodies might be known to none.
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For a few rare spirits, this by necessity would be their last appearance in the eyes of the court before a final seclusion. All were quite clearly arrayed as if something unparalleled and possibly conclusive was to occur that night.
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Musicians played in several of the palace's most sumptuous and shimmering halls, glittering glasses were filled by fountains of unnaturally colored wine, and maskers swarmed about like living gargoyles freed from the cathedral stone. All, or nearly all, were straining for some unheard-of antic, suffering the pleasures of expectancy. But, as the hours passed, hopes dissolved.
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Beneath the three soaring stories of the Red Tower were two, possibly three, other levels. The one immediately below the first floor of the factory was the nexus of a unique distribution system for the goods which were manufactured on all three of the floors above. This first subterranean level in many ways resembled, and functioned in the manner of, an old-fashioned underground mine.
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The Duke, in essence a simple man, even a dull one, took no initiative to unloose the abundant possibilities of the masquerade, and, as if instinctively aware of these perilous directions, he restrained the efforts of others to pursue them and thereby digress in a wayward manner from the night's steadily unwinding course. No petitioning could sway him.
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He allowed several odd witticisms to pass unacknowledged, and he fiended that certain dubious suggestions and proposals were abstruse to his mind. Unnourished by any source within the Duke's character, every attempt at innovation curled at its colorful edges and died. The initial strangeness of the mass gathering went stale.
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Voices began to sound as though they were transacting business of some tedious sort, and even the sight of a jester, albeit one with darkness within the eyes of his mask, offered no special merriment to this sullen assembly. Accompanying the jester, who made no lively movements, was a knight out of armor, dressed in radiant blues and golds.
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The Crusader's cross emblazoned upon his chest, and over his face a white silk mask of blandly noble expression. The odd duo progressed from room to room of the palace, as if they were negotiating a thick wood in search of something or someone.
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The knight was manifestly nervous, his hand too obviously ready to go for the sword at his side, his head patrolling with skittish alertness the bizarre world around him. The jester, on the other hand, was altogether composed and methodical, With excellent reason, he knew, as the knight did not, that their purpose was not a difficult one.
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As they would enjoy the complicity of the wing himself, whom the knight had called the sorcerer, but whom the gesture knew to be the wise man mage in disguise. Oh! The person that the wing... So the wing, the person that his contractor wants him to kill is the mage? Yeah. Wow, okay. With this advantage, Faliol might easily assist the knight in escaping Sildori.
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Not that such heroics were any longer of concern to Faliol, who was merely serving the mage in a machination to break the duke. The alchemical transformation that the ruler desired would indeed take place, though not precisely as promised.
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What reserves of wealth the Duke and his sorcerous conspirator possessed would tonight undergo, per the plan of the mage, a reverse alchemy that would leave them paupers, and then his work would be done in Sildori, such as he could accomplish what he set out to do. The knight and the jester now paused at the arch entrance to the last and most intimate of the masquerade's many rooms.
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Pulling at the knight's golden sleeve, the jester angled his pointed, sneering muzzle towards a costumed pair in the far corner. The indicated figures were appareled as monarchs of the old days, king and queen in ancient robes and stoles and many-horned crowns. How can you be so sure they're the ones? whispered the knight to the buffoon at his side.
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I do trust you, said the knight as he fervently stuffed a jeweled pouch twice the size of the first into the belt of the gesture. Elphalio cared nothing for the copious reward. The two characters separated and merged with the murmuring crowd. The gesture arrived first at their destination.
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Elevator compartments enclosed by a heavy wire mesh, twisted and corroded, descended far below the surface into an expansive chamber which had been crudely dug out of the rocky earth and was haphazardly perpetuated by a dense structure of supports, a criss-crossing network of posts and pillars, beams and rafters,
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From a distance, he seemed to speak a few words into the king's ear and then suddenly leaped back to play the fool before him, hopping about wildly. The knight bowed before the queen and then, without ostentation, led her away to other rooms. Though her mask covered the expression beneath it, the manner in which she placed her hand upon the knights appeared to reveal her knowledge of his identity.
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After they had gone, the gesture ceased his antics and stood close to the statue-like king.
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replied the mock monarch, who abruptly strode off. But that was not part of your design, thought Faliol. Neither was the king's roguish voice that of the solemn mage. Oh. The dark eyes of the jester's mask followed the movements of the imposter until he became lost in the throng.
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Faliol had just started in pursuit when a strange commotion in another part of the palace adduced much talk on all sides. It seemed that something unheard of had finally occurred, though it did not gladden any of those who had hoped for a unique happening on that carnival night. The disturbance originated in the center-most of the labyrinth of capacious rooms composing the arena of the masquerade.
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To the surrounding, as well as the more peripheral rooms, including the one in which Faliol was now caught by the crushing crowd, there first traveled what sounded like cries of amusement. These quickly transformed, however, into ambiguous outbursts of surprise unto the edge of shock. Finally, the uproar took on the character of intense horror.
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All voices in alarm and confusion, tidings passed rapidly, though less and less reliably. From mouth to mouth, room to room, something terrible had happened, something which had begun or was initially perceived as a fabulous hoax. No one knew exactly how it was possible, but there suddenly appeared an outlandish spectacle in the midst of the most congested rooms of that night's affair.
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The matter of the event was that two participants in the mask, without being spied by those around them, had donned costumes which went far beyond the most grotesque scene beforehand at the palace gathering. Among some persons, words circulated about semblances most closely akin to giant leeches or worms, for they did not walk upright but rised along the floor as if absent of bones. Sick.
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Others heard that these prodigies of disguise possessed countless tiny legs and thus more properly resembled centipedes of some type. Still, others avered that what was now in their company were not masqueraders, but things in human nature, having many talon claws, reptilian tails, serpent faces, and an overall composition of fantastical beasts which could not be dissembled by man nor woman.
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It included a variety of materials, wood, metal, concrete, bone, and a fine sinewy webbing that was fibrous and quite firm. From the central chamber radiated a system of tunnels that honeycombed the land beneath the gray and desolate country surrounding the Red Tower.
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But whatever may have constituted the true substance and form of these beings, at some stage they affected the crowd with a panic past all reckoning. and however subsequent actions were construed to transpire, the consequence was that these bizarre intruders were hacked and torn and trampled, owing to an unreasoning revulsion for their aspect, or many aspects.
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Tragically, once the massacre was accomplished, it was not the slaughtered remains of two uncanny monsters that the masqueraders, their mask removed, looked down upon. Instead, it was two of their own, a knight and queen of the old days. Ah, whose blood was spreading across the ornate designs of the palace floor.
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Their bodies, which they had feared, would be lastingly parted, now all but indistinguishable from each other. Throwing off his jester's face, Faliol worked himself near enough to the scene to view the horror with his own shaded eyes. A tragedy, yes, but no such that would return Faliol to his furies.
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For the image he saw immediately took its place among the seamless and unending flow of hellish idola, which constituted anima mundi, and which, in his vision, was a monotonous tapestry of the terrible ceaselessly unfurling itself in the faintest shades of grey. Thus, the appalling tableau was neither more nor less sinister in his sight than any other which the world might show him.
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said a voice at his back as a forceful boot propelled him toward the carnage. But why was everything painted with such brilliance now, when a moment ago it was all so insipid? Why did every piece of mutilated flesh pulse with color? And why was Falio wholly benumbed by these red-smeared forms and their unhappy fate? He had been charged to save them, and he could do... nothing.
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His thoughts were now careening wildly through crimson corridors within him, madly seeking solutions but failing at every turn into blind corners and flailing in vain against something immovable, impossible. He pressed his hands over his face, hoping to blind himself to the scene, but everything remained invisibly there before his eyes. Everything, save his spectacles.
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Now the Duke's voice broke the brief lull of the dazed and incredulous assembly. The enraged sovereign shouted orders, demanded answers. How justified had proved his misgivings concerning the masquerade? He had long known that something of this nature might occur, and he had done what he could to prevent its coming to pass.
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On the spot, he outlawed all future occasions of this kind and called for arrest and interrogations, the torture of the question to be liberally implemented. Exodus was instantaneous. The palace became a chaos of fleeing freaks. Faliol! He called a voice that sounded too clear, within all the confusion, to have its origin outside his own mind.
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Through these tunnels, the goods manufactured by the factory would be carried, sometimes literally, by hand, but more often by means of small wagons and carts, reaching near and far into the most obscure and unlikely delivery points. The trade that was originally produced by the Red Tower was in some sense remarkable, but not, at first, of an extraordinary or especially ambitious nature.
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When Faliol turned around, he saw the masked king standing some distance away, unmolested by the frantic mob. The king was holding out his spectacles as if they were the dangling head of a conquered foe. Fighting his way toward the unknown persecutor, Faliol would chase him down and reclaim sanity, but not before he had barbarously dispatched the fiend.
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Yet he could not catch up to this figure, which led him through all the rooms where the masquerade once flourished, and then deeper into the palace. At the end of a long, silent corridor, the gaudy, flapping train of a royal robe disappeared through a doorway. Faliol followed the shape and at last entered a dim chamber with a single window, for which stood the mummer that taunted him.
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Spectacles were still held by the velvet fingers of a tightly gloved hand. Watching as the dark lenses flashed in the candlelight, Faliol's eyes burned as much with questions as with madness.
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These were a gruesome array of goods that could perhaps best be described as novelty items. In the beginning, there was a chaotic quality to the objects and constructions produced by the machinery at the Red Tower, a randomness that yielded formless things of no consistent shape or size or apparent design.
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Occasionally, there might appear a peculiar ashen lump that betrayed some semblance of a face or clawing fingers, or perhaps an assemblage that looked like a casket with tiny irregular wheels. but for the most part, the early production seemed relatively innocuous.
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Glazing-eyed guard on either side of him, Falio was dragged from the duke's palace and given to the crowd, which still rioted in the streets of Soldori. And the crowd embraced the mad gesture, hoisting his jingling form upon their shoulders, shaking him like a toy as they carried him along.
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In a scheme to strangle silence forever, Soldori's unruly populace bellowed a robust refrain to Falio's sickly moans. Into an onyx black night, his eyes gazed and his mind vanished. There must have been some moment, however brief, in which Faliol regained his old enlightenment and which allowed him to accomplish such a crucial and triumphant action.
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Was it solely by his own sleeping strength, fleetingly aroused, that he attained his greatest prize? If not, then what power could have enabled his trembling hands to reach so deeply into those haggard sockets and with a gesture brave and sure dig out the awful seeds of his suffering? However it was done, the deed was done well, for as Faliol perished, his face was flushed with a crimson glory.
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The crowd fell silent, and a new kind of confusion spread among them. Those heads, which were always watching, when it was found that they were bearing through the streets of Soldori, was only Faliol's victorious corpse. And that is the end. Interesting. Okay. So effectively, Faliol was driven bad by this mage who cursed him to see these dark things so that he could have control over him.
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So then Faliol goes to another mage to try to get a cure for it. That's where the glasses come from. So then he goes to the palace that this, I forget the guy's name, the dude, the lover boy who wanted to have his princess back. Yeah. He hires him to take him on this job to get his girl back.
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After a time, however, things began to fall into place, as they always do, rejecting a harmless and uninteresting disorder, never an enduring state of affairs, and taking on the more usual plans and purposes of a viciously intent creation. So it was that the Red Tower put into production its new, more terrible and perplexing line of unique novelty items,
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And then as a mockery, the original mage puts a curse over the crowd to see the two of them as these giant centipede worm things. And they dismember them, tear them to pieces. Yeah. And then he admonishes Faliol for trying to get away from him and says, you'll be mad forever. And as Faliol is being carried away by the crowd in a moment of clarity, he digs out his own eyes and dies.
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Then it says in the crowd fell silent, a new kind of confusion spread among them, those heads, which were always watching. So the heads that Faliol was having visions of whispering and speaking to him on pikes were the heads of the people who would carry his corpse through the streets one day.
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Yeah, yeah, he's out of the... Through death, he has escaped the mage, the one that's done this to him, or the sorcerer. That was really cool. I enjoyed that.
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All right. For the final story we'll read today, we have the Christmas Eves of Antelise. Are you ready, Hunter? Yes. Yes. We pronounced her name with a distinct Z sound. Remember, Jack, remember.
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The way some people slur Mrs. into Mrs. It was at her home in Grosse Pointe that she insisted our family, both in wealthy and its unwealthy sides, celebrate each Christmas in a style that excluded the traditional, the old-fashioned, the antique. Actually, Aunt Elise constituted the wealthy side of the family all on her own.
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Her husband had died many years before, leaving his wife a prosperous real estate business and no children. Not surprisingly, Aunt Elise undertook the management of the firm with admirable success, perpetuating our airless uncle's family name on for-sale signs planted on front lawns in three states. But what was Uncle's first name? A young nephew or niece sometimes wondered.
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Or it was more than once put by one of his children. Where's Uncle Elise? To which the rest of us answered in unison. He's at his ease. A response we learned from none other than our widowed aunt herself. Aunt Elise was without husband or offspring of her own, true enough.
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But she loved all the ferment of big families, and every holiday season she possessed as much in blood relations as she did in her tangible and intangible assets and investments. Nevertheless, she was not the conspicuously consuming type of rich bitch. Her house was something of an Elizabethan country manor, in style while remaining modest, even relatively miniature in its mass.
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It fit very nicely, when it existed, into a claustrophobic cluster of trees on some corner acreage a few steps from Lakeshore Drive, profiling rather than facing the lake itself.
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Among the objects and constructions now manufactured were several of an almost innocent nature. These included tiny, delicate cameos that were heavier than their size would suggest, far heavier, and lockets whose shiny outer surface flipped open to reveal a black, reverberant abyss inside, a deep blackness roaring with echoes.
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A rather dull exterior of soot-gray stone somewhat camouflaged the old place in its woodland hideaway until one caught sight of its diamond-paned windows and realized that a house in fact existed where before there seemed to be only shadowed vacancy.
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Around Christmas time, the many faceted windows of my aunt's residence took on a candy glaze and the pink, blue, green, and other colored lights strung about their perimeters. More often in the old days. Remember them, Jack. A thick December fog rolled off the not-yet-frozen lake, and those kaleidoscopic windows would throw their spectrums into the softening haze.
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This, to my child senses, was the image and atmosphere defining the winter holiday. A serene congregation of colors that, for a time, turned our everyday world into one where mysteries abounded. This was the celebration. This was the festival. Why did we leave it all behind us, leave it outside?
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Every Christmas Eve of my childhood, as I was guided up the winding front walk towards my aunt's house, a parent's hand in each of mine, I always stopped short, pulling mom and dad back like a couple of runaway horses, and for a brief, futile moment, refused to go inside. After the first Christmas Eve, I can recall, chronologically my fifth,
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I knew what happened inside the house, and year after year there was little change either in the substance or surface details of the program. For those from large families, this scene is a little too familiar to bother describing. Perhaps even lifelong orphans are jaded to it.
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Still, there are others for whom depictions of unusual uncles, lovable grandparents, and a common run of cousins will always be fresh and dear. Those who delight in multiple generations of characters crowding the page, who are warmed by the feel of their paper flesh. I tell you, they share this temper with my Aunt Elise, and her spirit is in them.
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For the duration of these Christmas assemblies, my aunt always occupied the main room of her house. This room I never saw except as a fantasy of ornamentation, a hallucinatorium in holiday dress. Right now, I can only hope to portray a few of its highlights. First of all, Holly, both fresh and artificial, hung down from wherever it was possible to hang.
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The frames of paintings, the stained wood shelves of a thousand goo gauze, even the velvety embossed pattern of the wallpaper itself intertwining with its swirls and flourishes, if memory serves. And from the fixtures above, including a chandelier delicately sugared with tiny Italian lights, down came gardens of mistletoe.
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The huge fireplace blazed with a festive inferno, and before its cinder-spitting hearth was a protective screen, at either end of which stood a pair of thick brass posts. What slipped over the crown of each post was a sock puppet Santa, its mittens outstretched in readiness to give someone a tiny, angular hug.
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Along the same lines was a series of lifelike replicas of internal organs and physiological structures, many of them evidencing an advanced stage of disease and all of them displeasingly warm and soft to the touch. There's a fake disembodied hand on which fingernails would grow several inches overnight and insistently grew back should one attempt to clip them.
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I think it's because it's so, like in my mind when I think about going to my grandmother's house at Christmas, it's like... The house, it's the same decorations. It's the same group of people. It's almost like that place is a pocket in time.
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My grandfather, when he was alive, he would always, like during Christmas and Thanksgiving, he would sit on the porch and carve with cedar all the time. So anytime you would step in, there'd be like this super strong smell of cedar that I still associate with.
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Yeah, no, that makes sense. Cause like to this day, I'll smell cedar or I'll like, uh, see someone whittling with it. And I think my grandfather has been dead. What? 14 years now, 15 years. And it's like, it's like, Oh, he'd like that. But it's, yeah, it's, it's, um, whatever the opposite of nostalgia is, you know, like, like sure. There's a nicety to it.
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In the corner of the main room, the ones beside the front window, a plump evergreen was somewhere hidden beneath every imaginable type of dangling, roping, or blinking decoration, as well as being dolled up with silly bows in pastel shades, satiny bows lovingly tied by human hands. The same hands also did their work on the presence beneath the tree.
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Year after year, these seemed, like everything else in the room, to be in exactly the same place, as if the gifts of last Christmas had never been opened, quickening in me the nightmarish sense of a ritual forever reenacted without hope of escape. Somehow, I'm still possessed by the same feeling of entrapment.
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My own present was always at the back of the hoard of packages, almost against the wall behind the tree. It was tied up with a pale purple ribbon and covered with pale blue wrapping paper upon which little bears in infant sleeping gowns dreamed of more pale blue presents which, instead of more bears, had little boys dreaming upon them.
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I spent much of a given Christmas Eve sitting near this gift of mine, mostly to find refuge from the others rather than to wonder at what was inside. It was always something in the way of underwear, nightwear, or socks. Never the nameless marvel which I fervently hoped to receive from my obscenely well-heeled aunt.
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Nobody seemed to mind that I sat on the other side of the room from where most of them congregated to talk or sing carols to the music of an ancient organ, which Aunt Elise played with her back to her audience and to me.
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She said without turning around. As usual, the sound of her voice led you to expect that at any moment she would clear her throat of some sticky stuff which was clinging to its insides. Instead, she switched off the electric organ, after which gestures some of the gathering dismissed left for other parts of the house.
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She said, turning to look across the room where I was seated in a large chair beside a fogged window. On that occasion, I was about 20 or 21, home from school for Christmas. I had drunk quite a bit of Annalise's holiday punch and felt like answering.
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Hell yeah. Okay, but instead, I simply stared her way, okay? I was going to be like, that's wild. drunkenly taking in her visage for the family scrapbook of my memory.
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Tight-haired head, light-combed wires, calm eyes of someone in an old portrait, someone long gone, high-cheeked bows, highly colored, less rosely than like a rash, and the prominent choppers of a horse charging out of nowhere in a dream. Yeah, that's rough. He's like, shut up, you old horse mouth.
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I had no worry about my future ability to remember these features, even though I had vowed this would be the last Christmas Eve I would view them, so I could afford to be tranquil in the face of Annalise's taunts that evening. In any case, further confrontation between the two of us was aborted when some of the children began clamoring for one of their aunt's stories.
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And this time, a true story, Auntie. One that really happened. All right! She answered, adding that...
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She said, pointing to the window beside my chair. I let my eyes follow her finger out that window and through the fog witness the empty lot of her story.
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It disappeared? Answered some of the children, jumping the gun.
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How do you know he wanted it? I interjected, trying to spoil her assumption. Why is he such a jerk?
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said Aunt Elise, drawing out these last words to suspenseful effect. The children, sitting cross-legged before her now, listened with a newly intentness, while the crackling log seemed to start up a little more noisily in the fireplace.
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She emphasized, though I'm not sure no one, except me, thought to apply this final statement to the storyteller herself. Tell everything, Jack. She went on.
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Antilles knows! asserted one of my little cousins just to shut me up. And when my aunt cast a glance at me, it seemed for a moment that she really did know. Then she continued her story.
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my grandfather used to do that all the time. He would tell stories. They were always like, it's like the skin taker roam through the woods and like blah, blah, blah. It was always like something. Right. Uh, and I was just there. They're like, wow, can I have another one? And I'd act real brave. And then I'd go home and like cry in my bed.
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Yeah, literally. And then I'd come back and be like, that didn't scare me at all. I want another one. And I like couldn't sleep for weeks. But yeah, I got that. Like the whole time you were telling that story, like I, I was imagining like again, Thanksgiving, Christmas setting, listening to my grandfather tell tales and stuff like that.
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it's like they represent some kind like problems with like you with people and stuff like that because it's like a it's a dull structure that he says at one point was probably white and it's grown red over time like a disease has corrupted it and then from the mines underneath it will produce like a locket but instead of a loved one inside it's an abyss
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yeah just fucking yeah like the warmness it's so you can feel the cold from the window but inside it's so warm like you can also tell that uh you can tell the drunk dude's getting kind of freaked out yeah yeah he got quiet he was like it seems it seems like she knows and it wasn't just like a typical like and then the man ran away the end it was like he the house took him to a different place a place that's a funny part though about that i think is that he's sitting there and he's like yeah you wouldn't even know that and she's like oh but i do he's like
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and then he shut up for the rest of the story you listen I felt tired more tired than I'd ever been in my life I barely had the will or the strength to push myself out of the chair into which I'd sunken down so deep how slowly I trudged past faces that seemed far off in the distance where was I going was I in want of another drink did I desire another dainty from the table spread with Christmas treats what was it that was calling me away from that room
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no time seemed to have passed but when I came to myself I was walking down a foggy street fog formed impenetrable white walls around me narrow corridors leading nowhere and rooms without windows I didn't walk very far before realizing I could go no farther as it happened though I did finally see something what I saw was a cluster of Christmas lights colors beaming against the fog but what could they have signified they should be so horrible to me
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Why did this peaceful vision of hazy wonder, which transported the imagination of my childhood self, now strike me with such terror? These were not the colors I had loved. This could not be the house. Yet it was. For there at the window stood its owner. The sight of her thin, smiling face, for some reason, was not right. Then I remembered.
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Aunt Elise was long dead, and her house, at the instruction of her will, had been dismantled brick by brick."
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Urge young voices at close range. Though technically, being an only child, I was not their uncle. Or accurately, I was just an elder member of the family who had nodded off in his chair. It was Christmas Eve, and I had a little too much to drink.
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said the voices, then they went away. I went away too, retrieving my overcoat from the bedroom where it lay buried in a communal grave under innumerable other overcoats. Everyone else was singing songs to the strumming of guitars. I liked their metallic timbre because it was in no way reminiscent of the rich, rotting vibrations of the church organ Annalise played on Christmas Eve's long past.
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Forgoing all rituals of departure, I slipped quietly out the back door in the kitchen. I left that Christmas Eve get-together as if I had an appointment to keep, one of long-standing whose import I never knew or had forgotten.
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So many things I can remember from years gone by, and easily enough because I have led such an uneventful and solitary existence, but I cannot remember what happened next that evening. My mind was not at its best, and the dream I had earlier must have carried over it one I had when I went to sleep at home, though I do not recall doing that either.
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or it will produce, he said, like physiological structures, but they have evidence of disease around them, like organs that are rotted and deteriorated. It's like it's corrupted people or corrupted flesh is being birthed.
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The one thing I do remember, as if it happened while I was still awake and not dreaming, standing before the door of a house that no longer existed, a door that opened in a slow, weighty sweep. Then a hand reached out and laid itself upon me. What horror I felt as I saw that great, gaping smile and hear the words, Merry Christmas, old Jack!
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Oh, how good it was to see the old boy when he came to me at last. He had grown old, but never grew up. Finally, I had him. Him and his every thought. All the pretty pictures of his mind. Those weeping demons, souls forever lost, came out of the fog and took away his body. He was one of them now. But I have kept the best part. All his beautiful memories. All those lovely times we had.
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The children, the presents, the colors of those nights. Anywho, they're mine now. Tell us of those years, old Jack, the years I have now taken from you, the years I can play with as I wish, like a child with his toys. Oh, how nice, how nice and lovely to be settled in a world where it's always dead with darkness and always alive with lights and where it will always forever after be Christmas Eve.
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And that is the Antilles Christmas story. The end. That was a fun one. That was a fun one, and I also want to say that was my bear trap, by the way, because what did I say earlier? I said it's like those Christmas Eves, like you're going to a portal to a place where it's always there. It's the same room, the same faces, and that is literally what this story was about. So you know what, Hunter?
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Yes, completely different. Is that crazy? It's been like different eras of writing. Yeah. It's like old English, not old English, old new English, and then kind of like the 50s industrial sort of, like the first story was very like Orwellian almost and how it was described sometimes.
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Numerous natural objects, mostly bulbous gourds, were designed to produce a long, deafening scream whenever they were picked up or otherwise disturbed in their vegetable stillness. Less scrutable were such things as hardened globs of lava into whose rough igneous forms were set a pair of roomy eyes that perpetually shifted their gaze from side to side like a relentless pendulum.
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It's like, It's like part of her is... It's like when they do those memories, it creates another her. It creates like a distant her. And the entire story, it's her trying to get him to write this down because there's those little notes that appear that say, tell them, Jack, tell them everything. So it's like after she died and the house was dismantled, she took the house with her.
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Now her house is some other place beyond the void. So when it comes her family members time to die, she brings them back to the house. Like our character, Jack thought he was a little boy and thought he was 22. And it turns out he's an old band that died in a chair.
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And when it comes his time to die, she brings his memories to the house to be with her forever in the place that it's always Christmas Eve. It's like a purgatory, a pocket dimension that's created by these memories being so strong by the creation of them. Like the memories himself became a place. I like that.
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It might be. I also think it is the rest of them. Because she says at the end, she says... How's that phrase? Hold on. She says... Those weeping demons, souls forever lost, came out of the fog and took away his body. He's one of them now, but I have kept the best part, all of his beautiful memories, all those lovely times we had.
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So it's like the parts that don't want to be at Christmas, the parts that aren't at Christmas Eve and her memories forever, those are the others. The other part of him is cast out to the void, the fog around the house. Um, but his best parts, his memories, the part that aunt Elise wants to keep there in the house.
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I think that is her giving an analogy for exactly what's happening, but she replaces herself with the old man. She's like, there's an old man who lived over there. And when he died, the house was taken apart. And then the boy who went to visit him became a part of the house forever. And then at the end, Jack says, I forgot Annalise is dead. And she took her house apart.
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And then at the end, he goes to be in the house with her forever. So I think she was just describing herself. Okay.
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And it's also like, if the entire story is her making him write it down, then he's already stuck in the house as he's writing these. So the little hatreds he has, even at a young age, he was like, when I was five, something kept me out of the house. I would pull my parents back like reins on a horse. Maybe I liked the lights, but for some reason I never wanted to go inside.
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And it's because he is a compilation of memory. It is very, however long he lived 80 years, it is 80 days at that house, all compressed into one moment. So something about even the childhood part of him doesn't want to go into the house. And that's why all the moments in the house happen back to back. Cause he's, he goes one day from the other. He's always in that house.
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And it's like his brain understands that. And something's off putting about it, but he can't say what until the end, when he realizes what's happened. The Christmas aesthetic here is really fun too. Yeah.
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Yeah. It's a weird combination between horror and hopefulness, you know? Where it's like, oh, you're with your family forever, but still half of you is ripped apart to be in the fog forever, crying with the others. It's very good with the bad, kind of. I like this one a lot. That was a lot of fun.
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There was also a humble piece of cement, a fragment broken away from any street or sidewalk that left a most intraceable stain, greasy and green, on whatever surface it was placed. But such fairly simple items were eventually followed and ultimately replaced by more articulated objects and constructions.
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You know, I mean, he does the incredibly well written. I appreciate how he can adapt so many different styles into the story he's telling. I really liked Legati. I'd never read it before, before this. And I really enjoyed it. Well, dude, so I think it's cool.
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I think we should throw links to those two in the description. I think that'd be cool. Yeah, definitely. I think people would certainly be interested.
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amazon and stuff and i'm sure he has you know any place you can buy books but i would just say the ones that we were reading from today that's the songs of the of a dead dreamer and grim scribe so be sure and check it out it's uh man what a fun read yeah that was cool that was awesome i really enjoyed that um i hope that you guys in the audience enjoyed i hope you support uh legati's work because that was really cool and uh yeah that was just a ton of fun i uh i would like to read and see more from this guy in the future
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I mean, obviously, he has a big body of work. I would like to see more from us regarding him in the future.
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I also appreciate... I didn't notice this until I was looking at it earlier, but... The Hawaiian shirt I'm wearing on the shirt is an actual Hawaiian shirt I have. I'm wearing videos. That's right. That's insanely well detailed. It's a great shirt. Great quality. Great shirt. Great art. And Hunter looks like a tomb raider. Just like he is in real life. That's just how I am in real life.
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See you all in the next one. Try not to get trapped in grandma's time prison cube thing. Bye.
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One example of this complex type of novelty item was an ornate music box that, when opened, emitted a brief gurgling or sucking sound, an emulation of a dying individual's death. Wow, that's sick. That's so cool. I like to imagine that it's like an actual, an actual person's like final breaths.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
So yeah, kind of way phrases, you know, it felt intimate, but it wasn't right. Um, so it's kind of like him justifying, like, I can't assign more weight to this situation than it is. Cause he's just me now.
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Like a cope with it, almost. The spacewalk itself was something else. The bag that surrounded Ben's body inflated in the vacuum, and I instinctively felt the urge to undo what I'd done. There is a body in there, and bodies aren't meant to have so little between them and outer space. When I touched the bag, I could still feel him beneath the paper-thin material. The crease of an elbow.
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The bump on his nose. By the time I reached my destination, his body already felt brittle. Attaching him to the station was easy enough on a technical level, leaving him there when against every instinct I had. After that, there was no pretending he was coming back. A day later and I began to pack his things away. There was a catharsis in it that I found calming.
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I cataloged his belongings within detachment. Most of his things were dry and uninteresting. Photos of him with the dog, a copy of a Michael Shea book, a certificate of excellence from NASA that he received when he was 10. He discovered a comet, he told me during our first meeting. Backyard with the telescope. NASA let him name it and everything. That was how he knew he wanted to be an astronaut.
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Described it as a calling. Ben was like that. A real-life Boy Scout. In life, he'd had no edges. You'd think, given our history, we'd be close. Two men selected based on extensive psychological profiling. Together, we had simulated multiple missions to Mars. Two on the ground, one in space. All of them highly secretive.
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An official mission to Mars was meant to be next, at which point the whole project would be made public. But the key to having two people work together alone for nearly an entire year isn't to find two guys who are best friends forever. It's finding people who won't grate on one another. Neither hate nor love. Two men who enjoy their own company, but don't mind one another.
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Ben and I had become acquainted over all that time together, but it wasn't like we were brothers in arms. Oh, sorry, I have to go get my package one sec. Man, Isaiah's gone.
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Apologies for killing the vibe. No problem. Ben and I had become acquainted over all that time together, but it wasn't like we were brothers in arms. We worked so well precisely because there was no meat to the friendship. No stakes. Nothing to argue over. To me, Ben was a nice guy, but that was all. I figured he was plain and simple all the way down. No dark secrets. No real problems to speak of.
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The journal changed that. So this I'm like the way he's describing everything with Ben and like the stuff about when he was a kid, he discovered a comment like humanizing him. And now like there was a dissonance between them and stuff. But I just like the way the author sets up his characters. Yeah.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
It was taped to the inside of a panel of a computer at his workstation. He must have hidden it close to his things, somewhere out of sight but easily retrievable. frayed leaves and yellowed pages, like some ancient artifact. Last thing I expected to find in a space station.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I almost mistook its leather cover for some sort of personal Bible, sort of well-worn tome held up by a preacher making exclamations about the devil, but its insides were handwritten, and hardly in keeping with the Bible. Scribbles, shapes, phrases repeated and dissected. Some of it was even in binary. It seemed like the ravings of a child or a lunatic.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I thought it was maybe a mindfulness exercise, empty-headed doodling to help him get his head straight during stressful moments. That didn't explain why he'd hidden it, why the numbers and pages seemed strangely organized. I don't know how to describe it exactly, except to say that there was the vague impression that it meant something to the person who'd made it.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Every last gram on a shuttle is accounted for. What you bring up with you can't be some random crap you want last minute. Ben would have had to clear the journal. I'm assuming he kept the content secret. One look at what he'd been writing in NASA would have had him in psyche valve before the end of the day. But the book's size and weight would have to be logged and accounted for.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
It could not have gotten on the station by accident, so I knew immediately that Ben had wanted it for something. I studied it for over an hour trying to figure out what that was. Flicking from one page to the next, glaring at rows of numbers, strange fractals, something that looked like a cross between an eye and a textbook drawing of an atom.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Given the way his writing and art skills developed throughout the book, I began to suspect he'd been adding to it since his childhood, which was just another layer to the growing mystery.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Yeah, like he was inducted into an order or religion at a young age.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Yeah, I'm in. He's got me hooked so far. I thought I was never going to get any insight in the book until, about three quarters of the way through, I came across yet another page filled with rows and rows of numbers. Only this time, one of the strings was underlined and a single word had been scratched ragged and angry next to it. The only bit of English, or any human language, in all those pages.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I agree. I agree. I'm trying to see if he has any published works right now. I know he has some like audio readings and stuff like that.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
The only thing written in a way that could make sense to a living human. The word itself made me stop dead in my tracks. Made my blood run cold. 170318042636 Aneurysm Oh, that's sick.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
It's either coordinates or there is some kind of like long form writing that was delivered to him or sorry. There was some kind of long form writing, um, that, um, was a code to say he would be, he would die of an aneurysm. It's almost like it was like his cause of death was predetermined by himself. Yeah.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Man, that's so cool. The suspicion that came over me felt like a kind of madness. I told myself I had to be nuts when I checked the data from Ben's biomonitor, that I had to be crazy to even entertain the notion, but the information recorded by several different machines confirmed it. Ben's exact time of death was the 17th of March, 2018, for 26 hours and 36 seconds. Oh, man.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I don't think I moved for a good 15 minutes after that. Just stared at the data as my mind worked its way around a giant, impossible realization. Ben knew he was going to die. Oh, that's fun. Okay. So down to the second, he had his death known. Yeah. But cause what would happen?
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Yes, it seems that way. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. He has some horror stories published through Velix books. One of them that it looks like came out last month or a couple of months ago is a story or is a book called With Teeth, which seems to be about a temple under the Arctic ice. Oh, that's one of the short stories in there. Oh, it's a publication of short stories. I see.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
He was supposed to be there for some reason. Right. Of course, I tried to rationalize this. Anyone would. I came up with half a dozen reasons he'd written what he'd written. None of them were comforting, although they at least fit in with a more rational worldview.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Take, for example, the idea that Ben had killed himself at that exact moment in time to meet some sort of prophecy he scrawled days or even hours before. Was that a good thing? What did it mean for me? Ignore the logistical issues of like what that poison can be timed to the second. Let's just say that's what he did. That left the hair-raising question of why?
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
And there's no comfortable answer that I could see. Of course, I went through that book with a fine-tooth comb looking for any more clues. I wish I hadn't. I eventually found another word, this one closer to the very end of the journal. Another date and timestamp, one that lay six weeks in the future, and another word scratched painfully into the paper by a clumsy fist. Immolation.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Bro, that would be terrifying.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I like the idea, too, of like... Yeah, you've seen Interstellar, right? Yeah. You remember that scene where Matt Damon gets sucked out of the ship and just dies? It literally goes quiet because space doesn't carry sound. Yeah. Is that Matt Damon? Was Matt Damon in Interstellar? Yeah, that's Matt Damon. The guy who stole the ship from him.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
and then did the docking process wrong, so it got ripped out of the ship. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think about that with space all the time. It's like everything that happens up there is completely unforgiving, and you just die without a sound, right?
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Everything with space terrifies me in that way, so immolation, it's like, yeah, there'll be a fire on board the ship, and you can do absolutely nothing, because it's not like you can leave the ship, right? Have fun. Good luck. Yeah, have fun dying. Yeah, Ben out. I bit my lip and took a deep breath. What about the station's integrity? I asked.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
They replied. I can hear something banging on the hull, I told them.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
That's why I need to go take a look. It's hard to argue with a computer. You can't shoot at a death glare. HQ could have easily arranged video calls, but really they wanted the distance. Made it easier to say no.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I made no further responses, but instead closed the screen and wondered if they were being entirely truthful. The tapping sound coming and going over the last few days was unmistakable, even over all those whirring machines and monitors. All those whirring machines and motors. Space stations are loud. They even give us earplugs to handle it. But whatever was out there was somehow louder.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Or perhaps, given the circumstances, I was just sensitive to the thought of something, anything, out there. There's no denying it annoyed me. Just one of those sounds I found impossible to block out, like water dripping in a bathtub at 3 a.m. Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. No sense of order, not even on the surface level. But something, maybe. Underneath. Some sense or reason.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Because if you go to his website and look through a lot of his stories, he has a ton of stuff that has to do with like Arctic expeditions and stuff like that. He's posted to no sleep.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Some kind of regularity that the brain detects and can't let go of. How could the microphones possibly miss it? Sleep was getting progressively difficult. At times I thought the station under some kind of hidden stress. Materials freezing and warming in irregular ways. No atmosphere, no conduction of heat. Things get hot in the sun's rays, objects warm and cool to both extremes.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
This is routine stuff for anything up in space, of course. But it didn't stop me thinking about all the ways that the station was just a pile of metal that could come undone. It could break and tear, bend and stretch. Like watching the wing of your plane wobble during turbulence, it's an uncomfortable reminder that you're just a monkey in a fancy toy. And what if something had come loose?
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Something. Oh, at first I stuck to this notion strictly, asking myself what if some antenna or strap or bit of metal had gotten loose and was banging against the hull. That would be bad. But of course, that wasn't really what I was thinking. It's what I wrote HQ about over and over and over. What was really on my mind was the thought that maybe, somehow, he had gotten loose.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
And of course, that's not so silly, right? The specially designed bag he was in, the one that would vent any gases produced by decomposition while maintaining his body's integrity, was brand spanking new. Know how many times it had ever been tested? Never. Never ever. Ben was the first. So of course it might come loose. Just because it's space age technology doesn't mean it's sophisticated.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
He was strapped to the outside like a Christmas tree to the family sedan. Maybe, I wondered, one of the straps had broken. Now he was thumping against the side every now and again. Never mind that there wasn't anything out there to prompt that kind of buffeting. No air, no wind. If he'd come loose, he'd just float a little farther away. Something was making that noise.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
And I worried almost constantly that it was him. Man, this is so fun.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
It's so fun. It's like the, there's a story that reminds me. Oh, you remember like at the end of the monkey's paw, how their son who died in the factory. Oh yeah. Knocks on the door and he's like, don't knock. No, that's what it reminds me of. Yeah. Yeah. Cause they won't look, they never look outside in the story. They just beg for it to be over. You can hear the knocking.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
You can hear him calling. Yeah. Yeah. They know that it's him.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
yeah only problem was i had cameras lots and all of them every single time showed the same thing the bag barely changed from when i last saw it in person strapped firmly and securely to the station's hull should have reassured me should have but it didn't something was out there tapping on the hull on and off no pattern no reason no correlation
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Absolutely not. You know, I mean like I get it when it was old, it was pretty cool when it was old. Um, but I'll pass. Yeah, exactly.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
It came and it went, seemingly choosing its moments to bother me the most. Sleep was difficult for multiple reasons. The tapping was bad enough, but lately my nightmares had taken a strange turn. Black. Cold. In them, I was trapped in a suffocating film. Freezing cold, nonstop agony, fighting furiously to free myself was this black void of a nightmare.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Kind of makes me think of that. He's inside the skin sheath or whatever. Exactly. Like all deeply terrible dreams, it colored my thoughts for the rest of the day. Each time I had it, it got harder to shake. I tried to endure, compartmentalize, take my mental turmoil, put it in a box, unhinged across the lid, and sit rocking back and forth waiting for my rescue. And that was, option, a good one.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
There's one little word that stopped me going the route of hunkering down and ignoring my own madness. Immolation. When HQ told me the date the shuttle would reach me, I spent quite a bit of time wondering if this wasn't just some big experiment. The sheer coincidence of it all. The magnitude of it. They sent me the message and the subject line had three exclamation points.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
But with teeth looks pretty cool. And it looks like it has four and a half stars on Amazon, which is pretty solid. So you can get a Kindle version, get hardcover paperback, all that stuff. So if you like the role play story and like this one, be sure to check out his work with teeth on Amazon. Show him some love.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Like the communications officer on the other side couldn't wait to deliver good news for once. Let their professionalism slip. They'd finally arranged a shuttle to retrieve me after it was done dropping some guys off at the ISS. It was lucky it had come so soon. Stroke of logistical genius allowed me to sneak Ben and me back without it being too conspicuous.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I should be very thankful, they told me. But I was just stunned. The date matched the one Ben had written out. Factoring in travel time, I'd be entering Earth's atmosphere at the exact time the prophesied moment would come and go. Ripe for an error, a misplaced heat pad, a mistimed thruster, something, anything, to go wrong and leave me plunging to my death in a burning metal tube.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Ripe for immolation. If it wasn't Ben out there tapping away, I wanted to know. I needed to know. I was a rational man, a skeptic. I did not believe the natural world would produce a man that could predict his death down to the minute, or the second. Nor did I believe he could predict mine. But I'm only an animal. I am made of meat. Vulnerable. A raw nerve in a world of jagged rocks.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
And I am risk-averse. That word. Immolation. Not random. Not chance. Up in the void, surrounded by pure oxygen, fire was a constant risk. Ben's little numbers loomed large in my mind. I had to make sure everything was in place. Had to make sure there were no errors. If it was a prediction, which I refused to accept at face value, then maybe I could take heart from it.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
What could Ben do in the face of an aneurysm? Nothing. But immolation? Fire? An accident? That sort of thing could be avoided. Just so long as everything was in working order. Just so long as everything was where it was meant to be. What did HQ know? Cameras and remote operators, not enough. No one else was in that tin can except me.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Why even have humans in space if you wouldn't trust their instincts and judgments? I needed to know what was making that noise. I needed to get out there. HQ caught on too late. I was inside the suit, the airlock cycling by the time they realized. I chose my timing well. halfway through my maintenance shift. Told them I was taking a look at the suit, make sure everything was in order.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Met they were slow to catch on to what I was doing. Technically, they could stop the process at any stage. They could do anything from their side. But I threatened to force a manual override that would shut them out from that part of the system. They told me they'd court-martial on return, but that was a piss-weak threat. For me, the stakes were higher than a court-martial.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
In the end, they backed down. Now how hard it is to build a space station in secret? It came first. If the spacewalk went wrong and I died, the station would still be there. Billion dollar asset awaiting the next top secret mission. It was my neck on the line, not theirs. I accepted it. Under time pressure, HQ accepted it too.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
By the time the door finally opened and I was able to gently guide myself out and around the rim so that I was clinging onto the station's exterior, it already tapped into the cameras and were guiding me along to my destination. But it was background noise to me at that point. Their voices and little pings. Constant readouts of soup temperatures in the distance to the station hall.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Meaningless, all of it. What mattered was the sound. Tap, tap, tap.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I have a prediction for where the story's going, and I don't necessarily want to call it out, but... If I had to guess, his own actions may cause his death. So I think there is some supernatural element happening because he did call out his own aneurysm down to the minute, right? Right. But I feel like the paranoia that this thing is ensuing in him might be what causes an immolation.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
You know, the, the, the, the similarities are just pretty cool. It makes it feel like there's an inevitable represented by Ben's body a little bit. Um, but yeah, I feel like that inevitable is going to be like self-fulfilling, like he's going to walk himself into it. That's where I see this going.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Mm-hmm. I think that's where this is going. Yeah, I agree. I was anxious by this point. Or perhaps, if I'm honest, scared. Space is all extremes. Not just heat, but light too. The shadows cast are vast and strange. You move in and out of the Earth's shadow like it's a hand in front of a projector. And the ones cast by yourself and your surroundings are a special kind of black.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
The station, its myriad of pipes and cables, was covered in an abyssal shadow's Long, warped things with ambiguous origins. Sometimes I looked at the darkness and wondered if there was anything there at all, or if the station was simply bisected by some kind of strange cosmic force. Like I might fall into it, somehow. Forever lost. Normally I'd think it was beautiful.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Spacewalks had, for me, in the past, been an almost religious experience. It's carried the same sense of weight, but for very different reasons. I felt watched. Something I tried to ignore, but it got harder and harder. Kept looking over my shoulder. Kept overthinking every little bump and vibration I felt on the station's hull.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
By the time I reached the place where I had strapped Ben's body, I was close to having a panic attack. That whole part of the station was covered in darkness. The kind where I couldn't see a damn thing. It was only HQ's voice telling me I'd reached my destination that let me know Ben was lying just a few feet from me.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Under their direction, I found him, and when my light fell upon the bag itself, I saw the metallic fabric glitter with ice. Touching it, I felt Ben's frozen body inside, hard as a rock. Gave him a nudge, and he didn't move an inch. The straps holding him in place were still there, firm as ever.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
The nameless voice on the other end sounded reticent, but that had been the default since Ben died. HU always sounded like they were holding something back.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I looked at the bag and grimaced.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
They replied, and then after a moment they added, You wanted this.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
so he's gonna look at the bag and blood just came back i think what i think i think what they're saying is like all the blood and like decomposition fluids and stuff are just floating around there and they like freeze and melt like at random as the whole changes with the sun yeah like so since they're in the darkness it freezes back up but then once in a sun it heats up and it liquefies again yeah so he's like a
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
A blob. Yeah, I mean, just a blob of gunk. Yeah, like... I wouldn't want to look in there either. Hold on one second. Another package is here. In fact, I'll be right back. I apologize. You're all good.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Okay, sorry about that. No problem. Of course, I'd wanted this, hadn't I? To satisfy my morbid curiosity? To address the rabid thoughts in my mind that had kept me awake, feeling what little sleep I had with nightmares. Now that I was at the threshold, I found myself so afraid that even moving my hand took a kind of effort. Yet I had no choice. I had to see this through.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
The bag opened with a specially designed sipper. No sound, but I could feel the click-click-click of the specialized teeth opening up. It's stupid, but as I unfurled the flap, I could have sworn a terrible stench passed over me. Less than no more than a few seconds, but so vivid, I turned and snapped my eyes shut as they watered. Power of suggestion, I told myself as I reopened them. That was all.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Nothing more. No air, no sound, no smell. Took a few deep breaths, tried not to let the incident unsettle me further, and looked inside the bag. Multiple people watching my video feed gasped when I made a fairly unflattering noise somewhere between a moan and a cry. I'd expected something. Got it worse, I'd expected something ghoulish.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Blue skin, icicles collected around the eyelashes, like a body found in the Arctic. But Ben, Ben had transformed. Great, jagged shards of frozen blood had erupted from the eyes and ears and mouth. His jaw dislocated to an unnatural angle as icicles the size of my forearm forced its way out.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
His neck was broken, his torso shredded with strips of flesh hanging off in ribbons, and his hands were clawing at his face with bizarre yellow nails. It even left grooves in his skin. I asked no one in particular, only to realize that HQ had been talking amongst themselves the whole time.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Looking down at Ben's tortured face, I couldn't help but feel a bit of doubt. I was about to ask what I ought to do next when the sun rose across the station. Unlike Earth, this wasn't a gentle morning. It flipped like a light switch. Thankfully, the suit reacted before I had a chance to blind me. But the temperature began to rapidly climb.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I watched as something beneath Ben's skin began to writhe in the new warmth.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I replied before pulling the zipper shut. I was keen to leave and made the journey back faster than I should have. That crawling sensation you feel when being watched, it was all over me. Made me clumsy and I knocked myself more than once on the way back, like I was suddenly unused to the suit's controls.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I just couldn't escape the notion that everywhere I looked, someone or something had darted back just out of view. Of course, that was impossible, so I told myself, what could survive out in space? But I only made that much worse to imagine something slinking into the shadows, tapping on the hull, stalking me every step of the way back. When I finally reached the door, the tension inside me rose.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
If something was going to happen, it would happen now with my back turned on infinity. I never felt so vulnerable. Uh, Reynolds? The sound made me jump. I'd been so focused on my surroundings, I'd forgotten I was being supervised by a room full of people a thousand miles away.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Oh, I love this. Oh, my God. I love it! The idea of him in a suit, like, frozen in an explosion in the body bag, like, clawing at his face and stuff. Clawing at his face.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
The visual is so good. Yeah. It reminds me of, uh, in the thing in the original movie when they, uh, pull that guy out of the ice and they, uh, zip him out of the bag. And it's like, it's when it's the two faces like melded into each other. Yeah, man. This is so cool. This is, this is like hitting all should have, have ground control.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
What do you mean? I shouldn't go inside. Yeah. Uh, okay, man. I'm, this is great. Something about the voice on the other end made my stomach sink. It didn't just sound confused, and make no mistake, when you're clinging to the side of a station, all on your own confused would have been bad enough. But no, there was something else. Fear.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I love that! Oh my gosh, this giant exploded frozen blood spike person's crawling around on the ship now.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
His eyes like flying out of his face like this panic on his face and he's crawling around. Oh my heart.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I'm getting that kind of vibe too. Only it's not Bigfoot. It's an exploded person.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
The only other astronaut... No, just wait!
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I tightened my grip on the railing, my heart pounding. Finally, the door cycled open and I was ready to disregard all orders when the man speaking to me from HQ practically screamed in my ear. Don't enter Reynolds! Do not enter the station!
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Tap, tap. Yes. I stopped. My brain processed. I'd heard that. I'd heard something in the vacuum of space. I looked around at my hands, my feet. That couldn't be possible. Not unless tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. Without moving my head, I turned my eyes towards the very edge of my helmet's vision and watched as a single yellow fingernail tapped gently on the glass.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Be sure to keep liking and supporting us on Spotify. Oh, true.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
The man in HQ spoke in a terrifying whisper. He's on your suit. Yes! This goes stupid hard. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Okay. The terror that shot through me was electric, white fire coursing through my veins. Without even thinking, I reacted like I just found out there was a grenade strapped to my back. All instinct, no rationality.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I cried out and swung around, trying to knock Ben off my back, but all I accomplished was setting off some alarms as I damaged my suit. Get it off! Get it off me! I thrashed desperately and felt something shuffling around the exterior of the bulky suit. Finally, my eyes fell on something useful, the jet controls.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I fumbled my hands into place and immediately blasted myself into the open pressure chamber, turning at the last minute so that the back of the suit smashed into the thick secondary door. I only hoped that whatever was clinging to the back of me was destroyed by the impact, but when I looked up, Ben was still out there, gawping at me with a mouth full of frozen blood.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Slowly, his movement packed with the eerie confidence of a predator. He prepared to enter the station.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Bended one hand inside when the door slammed shut and cut it off. Even in space, with the bulkhead between us, I could have sworn I heard him scream. Oh my gosh, dude. How hard does... Okay. There was no ignoring Ben or the sounds he made. Not anymore. Terrible thumps that battered the station, their location changing seemingly at random. This drove the people on the ground insane.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Oh, I'd heard my fair share of rationalization over the last few hours. Ben sent books worth of written material from every type of expert you could imagine. Ever since my colleague's death, I've been wrestling with all sorts of bizarre thoughts, but after the spacewalk, it was like they'd spilled out of my head and were now terrorizing other like-minded skeptics.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Try as they might, no one in HQ can make any sense of it. But they didn't have the journal. After what happened during my spacewalk, it became a priority for me to figure out what was going on. Those numbers Ben had recorded weren't gibberish. I'd sort of known that from the start. To read them was to feel like you were reading another language, something secret and hidden.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
And while I never cracked the code, not even now after all this time, I did figure out where Ben had found it. Light. The trick to dig deeper into Ben's research, specifically a pet project of his he'd spent nearly his entire life chasing. A little comet, ball of ice, way out in the Kepler belt close to where the solar system abates and the great cosmic void begins.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Something small and insignificant that rotated and shifted and occasionally caught the sun, bouncing photons right back at us. A glittering snowball so faint as to be invisible unless you happen to look at the right place at the right time. Like Ben did. when he was just tandem playing with hobbyist dad's backyard telescope. A light in the darkness.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
A light that spoke to a few instruments Ben had adjusted to record each little emission. Flash on, flash off. Flash on, flash off. Flash on. Tap, tap, tap. binary to hexadecimal, and from there, God, something else, something that spoke to him. Something out there had spoken to him. Oh my gosh, this is so cool. This is so cool. Oh, this is so cool.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
When he was a kid, when he was a kid, he got his dad's telescope and discovered a comet. And then after studying that comet his whole life, it was speaking to him in binary and he translated that. It became a part of some forgotten religion and language. And now when he's dead, he becomes this like, this necromorph abomination for it. Oh, that is now also tapping.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Yeah. I love it. I love it. It's so cool. Oh, it's so cool. Oh, how do I buy stock in Christian Wallace as an author? Oh, I don't know what scared me more, the sound of a reanimated bin pounding away at the station, an imminent, all too near threat, or the thought of something in the void whispering unknown secrets to a man for the last two decades.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
An idea that occasionally rose over me like the tide, swallowing me whole if I dwelt on it more than a few moments. I never did figure out what the transmission was saying, but I was transfixed nonetheless. Not just by Ben's little journal that contained hundreds, thousands of handwritten records, but the live transmission he had set up on his computer, the one he'd converted into a sound.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
It was like an earthworm on steroids, like white noise made of acid, a flood of alien ideas that left me confused and drooling if I listened for too long. All told, I spent more than a few days with access to that transmission, and by the end, I felt like I was on the verge of melting away. Ben, Ben had been exposed to that thing since his childhood.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Spent years and years listening and recording and waiting, working towards something none of us could really hope to understand. I had to assume that transmission was responsible for his death, and even worse, what had happened to him afterwards. Had it always been the reason for his coming to space? Had Ben I known just been a sham? The sound, the light coming from out there, it felt wrong.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
It wasn't a gentle lull or a siren's pull. It was dark and overpowering. Why had he given in to it? Why had he done everything it wanted? How much of his life had been lived because of its needs and wants? One thing I could be sure of is I spent days listening to Ben's furious rampage on the exterior of the station, whatever had spoken to him.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
It was hostile, and it couldn't be allowed to come back with me. I scoffed as I finished suiting up. That was an understatement. I asked as I pulled the helmet down and initiated the door's opening sequence.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
The only other astronaut on this mission died six weeks ago, but the computer insists their life signs are still stable. When Ben died, he made very little noise. When Ben drowned.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Uh, it's like, uh, it's that, that picture, the only man to ever fully be disconnected from the earth. It was that, that picture of him floating out away from the space station. Horrifying. Oh man. I made the journey with my back to the shuttle, floating in the wrong direction at a slow but consistent speed. My eyes glued to the station, looking for some signs of Ben.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
There's the occasional flash of something red, a slight shimmer of movement often obscured by some of the station's panels and antennae, that let me know he was still on the exterior, skulking around somewhere. So long as he stayed there, I knew I'd be okay.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
The entire time I kept waiting for the other foot to drop, for the tension to finally explode into that life-threatening danger I knew was waiting for me. It came as a surprise when I finally approached the shuttle without incident. The pilot told me I was a few meters away and it was time to turn around. So I did, drifting around as gently as a diver returning to the surface.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I had my back to the station no more than a few seconds when the pilot grunted. Huh. That's odd. He sounded nonchalant, but the object that hit me was anything but minor.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Ben, uninterested in making the journey safely, had launched himself off the station as fast as he could, and with no way of slowing down, he hit me at full speed, slamming me up against part of the doorframe and sending us both tumbling into the void before anyone had even the time to register his attack. This time, he was not letting me get a door between us.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I can't even do the gold blue thing right now. What's wrong?
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
He scrambled over my suit like a deranged insect, one that I desperately tried to swat away as the great void spun around us both. Stars turned to lines, the shuttle swooping past my helmet's field of view in almost random directions.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
It was sickening and terrifying, and I hoped to god I'd be able to correct the spin before I got out of control, but all of that came second to the monster who was clinging to my suit. At some point, he crawled around in such a way that I got a good look at him. The first in a few days, it was up close. Personal.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Even with the helmet's glass between us, I could make out such stark and startling detail that I momentarily froze in terror, aware only vaguely of the pilot's panic transmissions.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Some as big as kitchen knives, others like sewing needles. A spacesuit's worst nightmare. A puncture wouldn't lead to the immediate decompression you're probably thinking of.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Instead, I'd have a few moments at most before the air enveloping the suit dissipated and after that my lungs would collapse, my blood would start to boil, and the water inside my eyes, nose, ears, and other soft tissues would vaporize and try to escape. Like frostbite on Fast Forward.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
punctures weren't my sole concern i knew i had to stop ben's hands getting a grip on the helmet i don't know if whatever had animated him had access to all his memories but ben sure as knew how to remove a helmet from the exterior so all my focus went on keeping his nasty little fingers away from my neck a puncture would still leave me enough time to return to the shuttle but with no helmet i'd be doomed to a very painful death
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
So I fought the best I could, knowing everything hinged on me pushing him away. But Ben was lithe and insectile, constantly slipping out of reach whenever I got close to giving him a good shove. His fingers could easily find purchase on the suit and its many little gribbles, while I was basically wielding oven gloves that offered no dexterity.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
It's just everything. It's just so much... It's you. I was on the phone earlier talking about entertainment lawyers for like a copyright strike thing on the channel. And then I'm like, oh, my good pal and business partner, Hunter, responded. Let me hear what he has to say. And then it's just, it is that. It is something that I'm not built for. It's just, it's a lot at once. Yeah.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I had no hope of shaking him off the usual way, but I did have something on my side. Inertia. The whole time we'd been spinning furiously and that rotational force was just about the only thing trying to peel the two of us apart. So far I'd been fighting it, but why? I realized at the last moment I had one option left.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
So I jammed half thrusters on and decided to make the nearly out of control spin much worse. Normally an uncontrolled spin is one of those nightmare scenarios any astronaut dreads. Humans are irregularly shaped, and once you start rotating along more than one axis, applying more force is likely just to make it worse.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Correcting takes a huge amount of experience and insight, and even then there's no guarantee you can stop it. More likely is that by the time you figure out what you need to do, the rotational forces will have you on the brink of unconsciousness, and from there death is just a stone's throw away. For me, it was the only chance I had.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
So I accelerated the spin and kept accelerating, holding the button down until the forces at play pulled Ben further and further towards the front of the suit. That's where inertia wanted us. Two objects in near symmetry, ready to break off in opposite directions at any moment. Ben held on for longer than I did.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
At some point, my limbs went weak, my vision dark, and my arms fell to my side, no longer able to fight the monster off. But by then it took everything Ben had to just cling on to me and he could no longer attack or fumble at my helmet. Eventually, even he had to give in as the spin grew faster and faster and the forces trying to separate us grew too strong.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
It was like every roller coaster I'd been on merged into one and ramped up to eleven. The last thing I remembered before I lost consciousness was the sight of Ben's monstrous face being flung off into the void.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
god damn i'm like sweating dude you want to talk about bro i went that like i made the joke about interstellar earlier that scene where he's trying to like get the ship docked correctly like oh i was there oh that was so good i came to aboard the shuttle several men and women crowded around me jesus christ you lucky son of a bitch I groaned and made eyes towards the person who had spoken.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
It sounded like the pilot. I used to put a face to the voice. I don't feel lucky.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Where's Ben? The people around me shared a funny look before one of them realized.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
The pilot thought for a second.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
something not necessarily i don't want to say possession but i want to say like almost that the thing that was talking to him or like some space plague or something like that exactly so it was like him irrational and it was like a space demon kind of thing yeah you know i mean whatever was talking with him i made the joke about necromorph but it feels very dead space very like i mean it does like the marker the alien presence that like comes over you yeah yeah
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Yeah. Very necromorph. Very necromorph.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Oh gosh. That was just, yeah. Oh, I forgot. I didn't feel like I was reading. I was just like, I was in the scene. It felt so I was gripped that whole time.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
That killed that. That was so, so good.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
It killed, man. That whole, the part where it jumps across the spaceship on him and it's like they're spinning so fast that everything's going to blur and he's about to pass out and it's being ripped off of him into the void of space. It's going to burn up on re-entry, which means that all of this was literally told in the stars, right?
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
What's funny is people are going to start thinking you're doing that on purpose.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
That he would die of an aneurysm to die a second time of immolation and like this possession that's come over and what that means, is it on Earth now? Is it going to spread? Like, oh, there's so many fun angles you could take.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Yeah, and he'd spoken to this plague for 20, 30 years, for decades of his life, and then he goes up here into space, and it takes him... Oh, gosh, that was great.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
If I could divorce you, I would have done so. No, no, no. No, you wouldn't. But I'm stuck here. This love is too good, isn't it?
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Oh, that was great. I'm so glad we read that. Dude, we have to read more of his stuff. Absolutely.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
It's too good. Too many people watch the show. There's too much money in it at this point.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Stay spooked, you creeps. And this was just really good. I have nothing else to add. Bye.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Come on. There's too many advertisers and there's too many employees tied to it. I can't get out.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Then just go ahead and do it then, dude. If it's that bad, then do it. Okay. You'd like that, wouldn't you?
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Yeah. That's what I thought. Okay. The astronauts are dead. An astronaut is dead now. Okay. Okay. The only other astronauts dead, six weeks ago. When Ben died, he made very little noise. It was the computers that alerted me. Shrill alarms and flashing lights. I hadn't even got it out of my sleeping bag before my smartwatch had lit up with half a dozen messages about system failures.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
The situation didn't sink in until I was shaking an unresponsive Ben. White eyes rolling back into his skull. Blood pooling in his ears like red jelly. Viscosity. Mass. No gravity. It made me nauseous to look at. HQ would later say Ben died from an aneurysm. One in a million. A freak death that just happened to occur in low Earth orbit. So what now?
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I asked her after all the panic had died down and the reality of my situation finally settled in. HQ sent me a rarely used or discussed document that outlined what I'd have to do. Bodies pose a unique threat in microgravity, it explained. All that order becomes disordered. What is solid turns to liquid, what is liquid turns to gas.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
First thing I needed to do was to put Ben's body somewhere that had no oxygen and was freezing cold. Somewhere he would pose no danger to himself or me. Isolated, but easily retrievable. The conclusion was obvious. I knew what they'd suggest before I even reached that part of the booklet.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
It happened so fast that Ben was still warm when I put him in the special bag designed to endure the vacuum of space. I kept expecting him to protest as I pulled at stiffening limbs and manipulated swelling joints. Every step of the process, every zip, every bit of Velcro, I had to remind myself he wasn't going to complain. It felt intimate, but it wasn't. Intimacy requires two people.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Now, this is by Christian Wallace. That's why you need me. Don't forget that. That's true. So, yes, the story is by Christian Wallace. So we actually we have a list in like our discord of like stories you all recommend that we just kind of keep tally of. And then before we record an episode, we just go through and like say like this is a good one.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
By that point, Ben was just me.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
You say the craziest things and just diverge.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
If I do it, I'm killing you first.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
What are you even talking about? What do you mean? What am I talking about? I, I've, I've like, my ears are ringing right now. I'm so I'm starting to sweat.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
No, he didn't. Who wants that? No, you know what? At this point, no, he didn't. I don't know what you're talking about.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
So this title sounded interesting and it was highly rated. And then after we go to check it out. sure enough, Christian Wallace is the author of the, my wife has taken our role play too far. And my husband has taken our role play too far, which, uh, were some pretty good stories. I'm a big fan of that. We read on the channel. Yeah. They're, they're pretty cool.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
What do you think listeners response to things like this is? Do you think they hear this?
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
How does this pertain to what we're talking about? Intimacy requires two people.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
And now you're talking about a guy in a store with pistachio muffins. What is the connection? Mr. Floppy! What does that have to do with an astronaut?
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Maybe I can say, like, the right combination of words to get the podcast taken off of YouTube, and then maybe that would be enough to get me out of the obligations for it. I bet I could come up with some colorful ones right now.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I'm going to drop words you haven't heard of before. If it gets me out of this. Every syllable. Lovecraftian dialect of something I've never heard before. Every language, every pronunciation.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
They're going to have to make a new word for what I'm going to do. I'll hit everyone. I won't take any prisoners.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
I think what I was going to say about that paragraph is I love the way that Christian because he did the same thing with the descriptors in the role play stories where he takes these like These concepts no one can relate to, like an adult man reverting to a baby's form. Or here, talking about someone dying in space, how the blood congeals.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
But he describes it so well and so thoroughly, it feels like you're there. I was imagining the stiffening joints being shoved into a Ziploc bag of the spacesuit and stuff. Like it... He does so well at relating these impossible scenarios.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Uh, very unique, very creative, interesting body horror. Uh, so now coincidentally, we've come across another one of this guy's work. Um, So Christian Wallace is a fantastic author. You can check out a bunch of his stories. He has his own website, Christian Wallace. It's chwallace.co.uk. He's British, but don't hold that against him.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Yeah, yeah. And I imagine what they're going to do, unless he's just pushing him out into space, is they're kind of going to, in a similar way, like, tow the body behind them.
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The Only Other Astronaut On This Mission Died Six Weeks Ago
Yeah, exactly. So it's like they have to pull it behind, kind of like a trash bag, like you said.
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Welcome back to Creepcast. Today we are reading creepypastas based around rituals that you can perform at home that are real.
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Kill your mom. Go into your room tonight. Take a big fluffy pillow and put it over your mom's face. It's not where to go. Okay, you want riches beyond your wildest comprehension? Kill your mom. Kill her. I'm not even joking. I want you to kill your mom today. I want you to get a big old handful of pills and put it in her mouth when she's sleeping. She doesn't choke on them.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Top of the passage seemed to rest my cheek and the floor felt like broken glass on my opposite cheek. As I paused briefly to recuperate, I heard the scraping noise coming from deep within the cave. It continued for several seconds in silence. I let out a cry which startled me. I was no longer consciously reacting to the noise.
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The cry was a subconscious response to the fear which flowed through my entire body. In a panic, I began to scoot through the passage. As I reached the largest part of the tomb, I quickly slid my arms under my body to get into position to exit through our hole. I grabbed the rope and pulled with all my might. When my shoulders reached the hole, they lodged and I was stuck.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I dug my feet into the rocks and wiggled my way back into the passage. Then I turned my body slightly and tried again. This time I was successful in pulling my upper body through. Normally I would carefully work my way out, so there's a three foot drop on the outside of the hole. This time I kicked with my legs and pulled with my arms and plop, I dropped out of the tomb right onto my shoulder.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I tried to roll to soften the impact, but was able to do anything more than take the blow. Strangely, the pain was focused on my shoulder, apparently not affecting my already sore back. I rolled over onto all fours and slowly rose to my feet. The smell was much less intense outside the passage. I grabbed the glowstick and used it to find my helmet.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I began to head for the webbing to climb up while strapping on my helmet. When I got to the webbing, I reached up to grab hold and recoiled in horror. In dem Glow von dem Glowstick konnte ich zum ersten Mal die Schmerzen an meinen Armen sehen. Meine Vorderarmen waren mit tiefen Schmutzern und Schmutzern gefüllt. Viel von meinem Arm war mit Blut gefüllt.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Es sagt also, klickt, um ein Foto des ursprünglichen Öffnens zu sehen. Ich habe meinen Knopf in die Hose, um die Größe zu beurteilen. Du denkst also, okay, es gibt nichts auf der Webseite, und du klickst es, und dann, boom, ist das ganze Bild auf dem Bildschirm. Es schafft also diese Art von Tension,
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Die Schmerzen waren nicht tief genug, um frei zu bluten, sondern eher um die Blut zu schmutzern. In dem kurzen Moment, in dem ich stoppte, habe ich bemerkt, dass es in der Wälder Geheimnis gab. No sounds coming from the passage and nothing from up ahead. Once again, the feeling of being alone returned, motivating me to proceed.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Climbing up the little drop-off proved to be difficult in my condition. Having the glowstick as the only light source added to the challenge. Once on top, I scrambled to catch up with B. I was impressed with the speed of his ascent. Although I did not mention any more of my physical condition during my exit, I was hurting. With every step I took, pain shot through my lower back and my neck.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
My arms were shredded and my shoulder had a nice gash in it. I honestly believed that, were it not for the terror I felt at the time, I would not have the energy and the motivation to climb out. I was running on pure adrenaline. Fortunately, the adrenaline surge was about to end. I did not see or hear B until I reached the small area at the top of the drop.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
He was on the rope and climbing out as fast as he could. I could hear him moving quickly and breathing heavily. I called out to him and his startled reaction told me he was nearly as tense as I was. Er hat mir gesagt, dass ich auf die Roppe komme und starte zu steigen. Wir wussten beide, dass das gefährlich wäre und nicht etwas, was wir normalerweise tun würden, aber das war anders.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Er hat gesagt, dass er sich auf die Roppe geschaut hat, wo die Roppe in der Dunkelheit über mir verschwunden ist. Er hat sich umgekehrt, als B. seinen Weg zur Sicherheit gemacht hat. Er war aus der Sicht, aber ich wusste, dass er nahe war. Ich wusste, dass die Roppe meine Lebenslinie war, nach außen, zur Licht, zur Sicherheit. Hinter mir war die Dunkelheit, die Angst, das Unbekanntes.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich hatte den fliegenden Gedanken über eine Filmszene, in der der Schauspieler den Monster ausgeworfen hat und die Front der geheimen Haustür erreicht hat. Sobald er den Knopf befindet, hört er ein Geräusch hinter ihm und dreht sich nur ums Sehen. Ich ziehe den Glowstick in den Kord auf meinem Helmet und reiche für meinen Harnes.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Dann dachte ich, dass ich Bee ein bisschen höher gehen würde, während ich die Röhrung, die in der Wälder gestreckt wurde, nach oben ziehe. Das würde es einfacher machen, nach oben zu kommen. Ich habe mich entschieden, die Röhrung nicht um die Arme zu drehen, da sie schmerzhaft und schmerzhaft war, also habe ich sie einfach in einen Pile auf dem Boden gedrückt.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Von oben habe ich gehört, dass Bee mich erwartete, dass ich mich auf die Wälder gedrückt habe, als mehrere kleine Wälder auf dem Boden neben meinen Füßen landeten. Ich ging schnell zurück, um die Röhrung reinzumachen. Ich hatte ungefähr eine halbe davon drin, ungefähr 50 Füße, als die Röhrung einen Knall erhielt. Hahaha. I let go of the harness and began clawing my way up the rope.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Where, especially later in the story, you don't know what the image is about to be and you sort of like jump scare yourself.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
The unbuckled harness fell to the floor. Fortunately, I held on to an ascender. At that moment, I could not think straight and began climbing out of the cave without being attached to the rope. I climbed out many times without using an ascending device, but I was always attached to the rope just in case. I was climbing as fast as my battered body could haul me up.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I was in a near panic state again and consequently was scraping, bumping and gouging my arms and legs. As I climbed and I screamed to B that something was pulling the rope, he yelled back to hurry up. Luck was with me in that I didn't slip and fall back down into the hole. If I had, I would have bounced several times against the sides of the cave before smashing to the floor.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Das ist Ted the Caver. Du hast gesagt, dass es deine Lieblings-Creepypasta ist?
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
The injuries would be fatal. Without the necessity of having to stop to slide the ascender up the rope, I made excellent time getting up." Ich konnte Räder von Licht über mir sehen, die von der Entfernung in den Kaffee kamen. Das hat mir gesagt, wo ich in der Kaffee war. Ich habe mich auf die Lege gefangen, wo unser Relaispunkt festgestellt wurde. Ich habe ihm gesagt, dass er weitergehen soll.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Es würde nur ein paar Minuten dauern, aber jedes Sekunde würde er getötet werden, weil ich aufwarten musste, bis er hochkommt. Ich habe die Rope gesehen, die wir gerade hochgezogen haben. Ich erwartete, dass ein Kreatur von tief in der Erde hochkommt und mir sein Essen machte. Die Rope hat sich ein bisschen umgekehrt und rhythmisch mit Beesten hochgezogen, aber es gab keine Tension darauf.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
As I stood there waiting for B, I kept watching the rope for signs of anything bizarre. I didn't know if my heart could take any more stress. I could not have been more wired. I tried to relax a bit to make sure I was thinking rationally, but my poor brain had reached sensory overload. As we reached the top of the last climb, I got ready to clip on my ascender and get my sorry butt out of there.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
It was then that I noticed that the rope began to tighten from below. I could feel the tension on the rope, but it was a steady tension, like something was climbing up. Either way, I wanted out of there as fast as possible. I clipped on and scrambled up the rope. I didn't notice, but B had kept on moving toward the entrance. I got up to the last few feet in a hurry.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I just unclipped and kept on moving, leaving the rope behind. By the time I got to the entrance of the cave and daylight, B was almost up to where the rope was anchored. I wanted to get up so bad, I almost started to free climb without clipping onto the rope. I could see B was almost up, so I clipped on and started up. I almost didn't make it up.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I had just started up when I nearly collapsed from exhaustion. I managed to recover enough to pull myself up the last few feet. As I climbed, I could hear the tension on the rope manifest itself by the stretching noise in the rope. I prayed the rope would not break with me attached to it. The second that I reached the top, I unclipped the ascender.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I could see it be kneeling down by the tree, so I limped over to him and collapsed. For the first time since I went through Floyd's tomb, we could see each other. We just stared. I knew I looked pretty bad, but didn't know that B was in such bad shape. He had cuts and scrapes on every exposed surface of his body. His face was pale, almost white. His mouth and his eyes were wide open.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
He was breathing heavily, almost gasping. The shock we shared at the other person's appearance was broken when we heard the rope around the tree stretch and the knot be a tide tightened. I was frozen in place, overwhelmed with fright. Bee schlug sich auf den Knopf, und in einem Einfluss produzierte er einen Handknopf und begann, auf der Röhre zu arbeiten.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Es ist unglaublich, wie eine Person den Verstand der Zeit verändern kann. Ich bin sicher, dass es nur vier oder fünf Sekunden dauerte, um die Röhre aus dem Baum zu fressen, aber es sah wie eine Stunde aus. Als die Röhre getrennt wurde, fiel der Knopf auf den Boden, während der Ende der Röhre sich über die Steine und über die Ecke des Kliffs zippte.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Die Geschwindigkeit des Knopfes schlug, als es schlug. Sobald die Röhre getrennt wurde, schlug Bee einen Schrei aus, drückte den Knopf und fiel nach hinten. watching the rope fly over the edge, brought the feelings in that passage back to me. I got up and headed toward the truck. I noticed B was still laying there, wide-eyed, staring at the point the rope disappeared.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I called to him, which seemed to break his trance. He got up and hurried away from the tree, the cave, the nightmare. Neither of us said a word all the way home. It's now four days after our trip to the cave. It has taken me four days and dozens of attempts to get this entire experience written into my journal.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Every time I started to write, I recalled the terrible feelings I had and couldn't write anymore. I felt compelled to continue, so as to document the unbelievable events while all of the details were fresh in my mind, I could still feel the pain, still smell the stench, still experience the terror. End of passage. What a fucking insane passage, dude.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ja, es ist ein rundes Rock, weil es als eine Schale auf all diesen verschiedenen Türen benutzt wird. Das ist der Grund, warum manchmal der Luftfluss aufhört. Ja, genau.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Es ist ungefähr die Größe eines ballten Füßels, würde ich sagen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ja, ja, wie, ähm. Es ist nahe, es ist ein Ort, den andere Käfer mitfamilierbar sind, richtig? Und auch die Idee, dass es in demselben Raum noch einen Pass in demselben Raum gibt, bedeutet, dass es mehrere Wege gibt, um hierher zu kommen, richtig? Mhm. Also wer sagt, wie viel Zugang dieses Ding hat zum oberen Welt, richtig? Ja.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Let's get through it. So this is the final entry of the Ted the Caver series from May the 19th, 2001. It has been three weeks since our last visit to the cave. I want to update everyone as to my condition, the plans for the cave, and the events of the past few weeks. I apologize for not returning your phone calls. I've been getting all of your messages, just haven't felt up to calling back.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Steve and Mark, thanks for your words of encouragement on my answering machine. I know you two are sincerely concerned for me. You are awesome friends. Mark, I know you stopped by the house a few times and I'm sorry I never answered the door. You really helped me just knowing you dropped by. Sis, I can hear the worry in your voice. I'm okay. Don't worry about me.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Just take care of those nieces and nephews of mine. Ich versuche, wenn ich diese Seite verbessern kann, kann ich alle auf einmal wissen, wie ich es tue. Viel ist in den letzten drei Wochen passiert. Also mache ich mein Bestes, alles zu besorgen. Ich glaube, ich sollte anfangen, wo die letzte Übersetzung verlangt hat. Es hat einige Tage gedauert, bis die letzte Übersetzung gelesen wurde.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich war so aufgeregt von der Erfahrung, dass ich nichts anderes tun könnte, als mich herumzusitzen und zu beobachten, was passiert ist. Jetzt bin ich auf langfristigem Medikamentabschluss für Arbeit. Ich habe versucht, einige Tage nach dem Event zu arbeiten, aber mein Boss hat mich nach Hause gebracht. Ich konnte mich nicht konzentrieren und ich sah schrecklich aus.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I've even been to the doctor, but I couldn't tell him about the experience, so I just told him I was under a lot of stress, recommended rest, and gave me a prescription to help me relax. Mmm, good drugs. When we left the cave, I was nearly in a state of shock. I could not think clearly and was having a difficult time trying to understand what had happened.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I didn't eat much, nor did I get any sleep. I was glad I had the presence of mind to write down my experience while it was fresh in my mind. Als ich wiederholt, was ich geschrieben habe, fühle ich mich so, als hätte ich genau dargestellt, was in der Wälder am Tag passiert ist. Ich würde nichts ändern, was ich geschrieben habe, obwohl es drei Tage dauerte, es zu schreiben.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Als ich in meinem Büro beendet habe, fühlte ich mich viel besser. Ich glaube, es war ein bisschen therapeutisch. Glücklicherweise dauerte es nicht. In Wahrheit, war es nachdem, dass es wirklich schlecht ging. Bea und ich waren Teil der Firma nach dem Reise, und ich habe ihn noch nie wieder gesehen, bis gestern. Ich habe versucht, ihn zu erreichen, und er hat nicht versucht, mich zu treffen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Keiner von uns hat versucht, Joe zu kontaktieren. He just dropped me off after the trip and I spent the next several days by myself in my house. I tried to eat, but had no appetite. I was restless, but I couldn't find anything to take my mind off the experience. That's when I determined that I should write it down.
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As I mentioned, that helped me think a little clearer and I seemed to be a little calmer, but it didn't last. I wanted to work the next day, but was then home. The day after that, I had an overwhelming feeling of anxiety sink into my soul. I was depressed and confused and had no one I wanted to turn to for comfort.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I was getting all kinds of phone calls from people, but I just let the answering machine take the calls. I haven't changed the message on the machine to let everyone know I was alright. I continued in this miserable state, eating and sleeping whenever I could manage, until a week after the trip, things started to get strange. Zuerst hörte ich Geräusche im Haus, die keine Erklärung hatten.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Fußgänger, Schleifgeräusche, klingelnde Türen. Du weißt, die typische Horrorfilm-Fair. Nur die Geräusche waren nicht unterschiedlich. Es war so, als hätte ich nicht sicher gehört, was ich gehört hätte. Ich würde essen oder aus dem Kühlschrank gehen und stoppen, als ob ich etwas gehört hätte. Der Geräusch würde sich nicht wiederholen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Im Grunde, wenn es nicht der Fall war, dass es oft passiert ist, konnte ich nicht sicher sein, dass es im ersten Moment Geräusche gab. Egal wie, ich hatte Angst. Es war, als ob ich in einer Spiegelwelle für die letzte Woche gestorben wäre. Gefühle von Angst, Verzweiflung und Tension erfüllten mein Leben. Dann kamen die Verrückten.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I began seeing things in a manner similar to the sounds I was hearing. Just a glimpse of something in the corner of my eye. When I turned to look, nothing. I've been sleeping with the lights on in my room, but now I kept all the lights in the house on the room before dusk to after dawn. When I started to see things on a regular basis, I purchased a gun.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Got it from an ad in the paper, so I didn't have to wait for a permit. I went to the doctor, but didn't mention the details of my life. Just told him I couldn't relax, and I walked out of there with a prescription. Glücklicherweise wurden meine Schmerzen und Schmerzen in diesem Zeitpunkt beinahe gelöst. Mein Rücken schlug noch ein wenig, aber die Präzision hat das auch gereicht.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I love it. Yeah. It's like the first... breadcrumb to where we're going to go. I used my backup mini mag light and held it inside the hole to see what I could see. I was excited by what I saw. The wall around the hole was about three to five inches thick. It led into a tight passage. The passage opened up a bit just inside the hole.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Als ich auf der Medikation war, fühlte ich mich großartig, aber ich wollte nicht den Rest meines Lebens hochlaufen, also habe ich es nur am Ende eines schwierigen Tages genommen. Glücklicherweise erhöhte sich die Schwierigkeit der Schmerzen und gab den Bedarf für die Medikation auf. Die Flaschen in der Kante meines Ohres, so weiter, aber dann begann ich, Schatten und Schatten zu sehen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Sie wären außerhalb meines Fensters, meistens nachts. Ich konnte noch nie etwas solides herausnehmen, also war es schwer, das, was ich gesehen habe, zu öffnen. Bald begann ich, alle meine Kleidung und Blinde zu öffnen, damit ich die Möglichkeiten des Sehen von etwas entfernen konnte. Das hat mir in diesem Bereich geholfen, aber mein Leben war immer noch ein Schmuck.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Meine tägliche Routine war mechanisch und leer. Ich schlief so lange wie ich konnte, meistens aus Enttäuschung. Dann habe ich mich gekleidet und versucht, etwas zu essen. Ich habe viel Gewicht verloren, also habe ich versucht, so viel wie möglich nach unten zu kommen. Dann habe ich ein bisschen geübt und habe viel geschlafen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich bin nur ein paar Mal in den letzten zwei Wochen aus dem Haus gegangen. Der Stor, der Arzt, der Anbieter. Ich habe nicht viel TV gesehen, weil ich mich nicht konzentrieren konnte. Ich habe viel Zeit auf der Internetseite verbracht. Ich habe auf Kaisen und Kaisenmythen recherchiert. Die einzige Geschichte, die ich gefunden habe, war die Kave für Folklore über den Hodag.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Der Hodag ist offensichtlich ein Kreatur, der in den Kaisen reist. Zwei Wochen nachdem wir in die Kave gingen und eine Woche nachdem ich angefangen habe, Dinge zu hören, begann ich, Schmerzen zu haben. Extrem lucide Schmerzen. Kein spezifischer Theme oder rückläufige Events. Es war einfach furchtbar. Manchmal war ich in meinem Haus und jemand wollte mich holen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Nur konnte ich nicht rennen, weil ich keine Beine hatte. Andere Zeiten war ich in einem Watt und jemand hat mir ein lüftiges Wasser gefüllt. I would stay awake until exhaustion forced me to enter dreamland once again. A brutal routine. It continued for several days until I reached the climax of the sixth day yesterday. My dream seemed so real I had a hard time telling if I was awake or not.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
It startled me so bad I stumbled over the chair. When I got up, I wheeled around to look down the hall and nothing was there. I grabbed my keys and left the house. I felt compelled to get in the car and drive. My pulse pounded in my temples as I got in and started the car. I wanted to drive to Overlook Point to see the city lights. I didn't know why I needed to go there, but I knew I had to go.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
The closer I got, the more urgent the feeling. Er konnte von meinem Gesicht heraus erkennen, dass er eine schreckliche Erfahrung getroffen hatte. Die Gespräche war unglaublich breit. Du bist zurück? Er begann, obwohl er die Antwort wusste. Ja. Wir müssen zurückkommen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ja, morgens. Er ging in sein Auto und ich ging in meinen. Ich wollte nicht mal mit ihm über seine Erfahrung sprechen. Offensichtlich wollte er nicht meinen kennen. Ich fuhr zu B's Haus. When he answered the door, I thought B actually looked like he was doing fine, somewhat happy. One look at me and his disposition changed. Our conversation was also succinct.
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It continued back about two to twelve feet in a small crawl space. After that, it seemed to really open up. Although, how much, we couldn't tell. Das könnte eine Virgin Passage sein. Offensichtlich hat niemand durch diese Route gefahren, aber es könnte ein Weg in die Passage von der anderen Seite geben. Um sogar in den Crawlraum zu kommen, würden wir die Öffnung erhöhen müssen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
B looked dead serious, just nodded his head, asked him if I could spend the night at his house, eagerly let me in. He didn't notice until later, but every light in the house was turned on. He led me to his spare room.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich habe mich in die Toilette gewaschen, habe ein paar Medikamente genommen und habe den ersten guten Schlaf in einem langen Zeitraum bekommen. Ich habe früh morgens aufgewacht und bin nach Hause gekommen, um bereit zu werden für den Trip. Ich dachte, ich würde diesen Update senden, sodass niemand wundern würde, was mit mir passiert ist.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich vermute, dass ich bei der Zeit, in der die meisten von euch das lesen, wieder nach Hause komme und eine tolle Geschichte erzählen werde. Ich verspreche, dass, wenn ihr von mir noch nicht gehört habt, ihr es sehr kurz werden werdet. Es ist jetzt 10 Uhr am Donnerstag, der 19. Wir werden in zwei Stunden für den Cave weggehen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Das Präparieren für diesen Trip wird wie kein anderer Trip, den ich je gemacht habe. For the first time in my life, I will carry a gun into a cave. I will also carry a knife, an extensive first aid kit, plenty of food of water, and a camera. I will take several sources of light and a pad of paper and pencil. I will have to take all of my climbing rope since B lost his in the cave.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I will carry a good length of rope with me on the other side of Floyd's tomb. This is the first time in three weeks that I have heard any reference to Floyd's tomb. It sent shivers up my spine just typing it. There are so many things I hope to accomplish this day. So many answers I hope to find in a tiny passage hidden from view.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Reflecting on the events leading up to today leaves me feeling dizzy. Is this all a bad dream? Fortunately, I am wide awake and still in a few short hours I might face my nightmare. The thought of having another person with me in the passage does nothing to alleviate the fear I feel. I almost chuckle as I ponder a childish notion that we'll have to consider. Who will enter the tomb first?
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Obwohl es schwierig ist, einen richtigen Namen für meine Motivation zu nennen, finde ich Closure ziemlich gut. Ich brauche ein paar Dinge zu finden über diesen Kaisen. Das Hauptstück, glaubt es oder nicht, ist der Ende des Kaisens zu finden.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Mit all den bizarren Dingen, die ich in den letzten Wochen beobachtet habe, würde es ein bisschen schräg aussehen, als Hauptziel zu wollen, bis zum Ende zu kommen. Aber das ist es, was ich will. Um sicher zu sein, werde ich andere Teile des Wissens suchen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Wenn, aber, ich den Ende des Hauptpassages finde und den Ende des Passages, der von der Wolke versteckt ist, werde ich glücklich sein, dass ich nie wieder zurück in den Passag des Kaisers zurückkehre. Nie. Kaving ist die letzte Möglichkeit für die Beobachtung der Person mit modischen Bedingungen. True. Just a short drive from just about anywhere in the country is a cave waiting to be explored.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Even a cave well known among the general public can be approached by someone for the first time as an adventure. Something new, something to overcome, because it's there. Many of you don't agree with my decision to pursue this cave. I know this from the messages I have received. I'm afraid I don't have a choice. If I am ever to experience restful slumber, I must return.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Aktuell ist es ungefähr der Größe meines Füßes. Sobald wir über die Öffnung kommen, würden wir einen starken Crawl zurück haben, bis es sich öffnet. Es würde ein bisschen Arbeit nehmen, aber wir dachten, wir könnten es machen. Wir setzten uns ein paar Minuten auf, um uns auf unseren Plan des Angriffes zu erinnern.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
If I am ever to walk the halls of my own home in peace, I must return. If I ever to exit the overworld and enter the subterranean world of a cave, I must now return. I no longer feel that I have a choice. I must return. Love that. For my family and friends who are reading this, I say, be at peace. I will conquer this cave. Then I will return and update this website immediately.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I'll include any photos we take in the cave today. And if you stop by the house, I'll show you the video I will have. I expect to be home later tonight or tomorrow with the latest. See you all soon with a lot of answers. Love, Ted.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Yeah, it really does hit all the notes. Yeah, it's great. I see why, not only is it like the first, but it is one of the best, I feel. It's a banger.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ja, meine Theorie ist, dass es so ist, dass es so ist, dass es so ist, dass es so ist, dass es so ist,
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Während wir dort in der Dunkelheit saßen, hörten wir den Wind, der von der anderen Seite des Passages klingelte. Es war ein tiefer, ehrlicher Geräusch. Man konnte auch von Zeit zu Zeit einen tieferen Rumpel hören. Kein Problem. The cave is in the vicinity of a highway that has heavy trucks drive on it. We figured the rumble was the effect of the trucks resonating through the rocks.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ja. Ja, also das war sehr lustig, sehr glücklich. Und nochmals, schaut den Ted's Caving Journal oder Alex Archives auf YouTube. Ja, wir lassen den Link für die Präsentation.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
We'll stick with it. Until we're not sticking with it anymore. But until then, we're with it.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
So basically it's like you can see through the tiny hole that there's like a crawl space area then after that it opens back up. So the idea is no one's ever been here before And we know that the cave goes somewhere because we can feel the breeze. It feels like that might be a passage no humans ever stepped foot in, which admittedly is an exciting concept.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Wir haben uns entschieden, dass unser bestes Plan wäre, einen kordlosen Drill in den Kaffee zu holen, um in den Stein zu dringen. Dann könnten wir einen Bullpen und einen kleinen Schleifkopf nehmen und den Stein aufbrechen. Es sah ziemlich einfach aus. Wir hätten den Loch groß genug gewickelt, um zu sehen, was auf der anderen Seite war.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Die Bemühungen, das Equipment in den Loch zu holen, wären ein Schmerz, aber wir hofften, es wäre wert. I named the passage Floyd's Tomb after Floyd Collins. Seemed to look like the tight spot where Floyd spent his last miserable days on earth. And for those who don't know the story of Floyd Collins, that is the guy that I played in the Internet Historian video.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Now infamous Internet Historian video. But yeah, the guy who got trapped down there for like three weeks and people tried to get him out and no one could. That's who Floyd Collins is.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ja. Und dann hat er auch, es sagt, klickt, um ein scharfes Bild zu sehen, wie die Passage aussieht. Und er hat ein Bild, worüber er spricht, was ich für Audio-Hörer beschreiben möchte. Es ist nur ein kleines Bild der kleinen Gegend, die er sehen kann, und dann die breitere Gegend, die schlussendlich zu einem Öffnen führt.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Yeah, it's a classic. As a matter of fact, depending on your definition, this is the first Creepypasta, because it way, way predates Creepypasta in general. Creepypasta-Culture kind of took off like 2012, 2013-ish. This is from 2001. So the original idea is it was uploaded as an Angel Fire, which I'm sure... Die Mehrheit der Zuhörer hat keine Ahnung, was das ist.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Yeah, the darkness eats up the light. Yeah. Floyd Collins was a caver back in the early 1900s. He got stuck in a tight crawlspace and was unable to free himself. It's an amazing story that was detailed in a book called Trap, the Story of Floyd Collins. I think that was the title. I don't recall the author.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Calling Our Passage Floyd's Tomb was not only a tribute to Floyd, but a commentary of the size of the passage. Haha, in retrospect, it's funny how simple I thought it was going to be. I figured a few hours of work and we'd be in. Had I known how long it was going to take, I doubt I would have even begun the project.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Had I known what I was going to experience in that cave, I never would have returned. About a month has passed. About a month, yeah. Bea und ich waren beide aufgeregt, zurück in die Wälder zu kommen und zu arbeiten. Ich dachte, mit etwa vier Stunden Arbeit könnten wir in die Wälder kommen und sehen, was auf der anderen Seite war.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Wir haben uns vorbereitet, einen DeWalt-Kordless-Drill mitzubringen. Wir hatten auch Masonry-Bits, um mitzubringen, Schleifhämmer, um den Stein zu zerstören, Bullpins, um in die Drillhäuser zu reinschneiden und ein paar andere Werkzeuge, die wir nicht benötigten. Es war eine Herausforderung, die Werkzeuge auf die Arbeitsplätze zu bringen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Einer von uns stürmte sich auf die Röhre und stoppte auf einer Bühne oder einem guten Rettungsplatz, dann schlug die andere Person die Werkzeuge herunter. Wir haben diese Routine immer wieder gehalten, bis wir am Boden der Wälder kamen. Dann mussten wir die Werkzeuge in den Haufen drehen. Es dauerte etwa eine Stunde, um endlich auf die Arbeit zu kommen. B nahm den ersten Schritt auf den Haufen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Nach einer Stunde langer Arbeit konnten wir feststellen, dass wir nicht in einer Session durchkommen werden. We kept trading off after we worked ourselves into a sweat. One would take a break, get some food and water while the other one went to work. The routine went like this. To begin work, we had to get down on our knees and do our best to avoid smacking our heads on the ceiling.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Working in this awkward position, we could drill into the wall around the hole. Das war eine schwierige Arbeit. Wir mussten wirklich auf den Drill drücken und es war immer noch ein langer Prozess. Dann haben wir den Bullpen in den Loch gelegt und haben ihn auf den Rock geschliffen. Dann haben wir den Prozess wiedergeleitet.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Um euch eine Idee zu geben, wie lang es ging, der typische Rock, der sich ausbreiten würde, war ungefähr die Größe von einem Fingernaht. Wenn wir ein großes Stück ausbreiten, etwa ein Drittel der Größe meiner Palme, war es ein Grund für Feierabend. Von Zeit zu Zeit, für Variety, würden wir nur auf einem kühlen Schlag mit einem 5-Pound-Sledge wehen. Es war ein langer Prozess.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Das Problem mit dem Sledge war, dass wir nicht einen guten Wurf machen konnten, wegen der steilen Quartern. Obwohl wir viele Stunden und mehrere Reisen auf dem Loch gearbeitet haben, haben wir nie eine bessere Technik gefunden, um den Loch zu erweitern. Der Drill, Bullpen, Hammer bekamen die besten Ergebnisse für unsere Bemühungen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Wir haben uns ein paar verrückte Ideen für das Zerstören der Steine gegeben. Alles von TNT, niemals ernsthaft betrachtet, bis zu dem Haulen eines Generators in den Mund des Kaisers und dem Runnen eines Extension-Kordes zu einem Jackhammer. Wir haben uns sogar überlegt, Liquid-Nitrogen zu benutzen, um die Steine zu fressen und sie kräftiger zu machen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Im Grunde war es wie diese frühere Ring-Website, wo du deine eigene Webseite einstellen könntest, die zu anderen Seiten in Tandem führen würde. Also ist es als ein Blog behandelt. Das ist wie die Web 1.0-Ära. Also sehr, sehr anders als der moderne Standard. Jemand hat nur entschieden, das als eine Serie von Blog-Posts zu uploaden, vermutlich über eine echte Erfahrung, die er durchgeführt hat.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Nach ein paar Stunden arbeitsloser Arbeit haben wir uns erkannt, dass unser limitierender Faktor sein wird. Es war dann, als unser erster Batterie einen schmerzhaften Tod erzielt hat. Wir hatten einen zweiten Batterie, also haben wir ihn ausgewählt. Der zweite Batterie dauerte ein wenig länger, weil wir ein wenig mehr öffnen mussten und ein wenig länger jedes Mal.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Letztendlich, nach etwa drei mehr Stunden Dreck, ist der zweite Batterie gestorben und wir haben ihn nachts genannt. Puh, wir konnten sehen, dass wir ein bisschen Arbeit in der Kave gemacht haben, aber es war nicht viel. Für die erste Zeit, seit wir in die Kave kamen, haben wir uns beide zurückgesetzt und einen Break gemacht. Es war schön, die Ergebnisse unserer armen Arbeit zu beobachten.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Dann sahen wir wieder das Rauschen. Es scheint etwas lauter zu sein als das letzte Mal, als wir dort waren. Wir haben nur festgestellt, dass der Wind etwas stärker draußen war. Was wir nicht herausfinden konnten, war das Rumpeln. Es scheint auch lauter und mehr oft zu sein. Diesmal können wir die Geräusche nicht an die Fahrzeuge anzeigen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Die Straße, auf der die Fahrzeuge fuhren, war nicht sehr müde zu Beginn. An dieser Zeit der Nacht sollte es tot sein. Yet the rumbling continued. It seemed to be coming from deep within the passage. Bee said he could ask some veteran cavers what could be causing the noise.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ja, ich meine, wie etwas wird geschliffen oder die Erde schifft, oder ist es etwas ein bisschen mehr, ich weiß nicht, wie lebendig, äh, ich stelle mir es so aus, wie ähm, wie ein Lärm, fast wie äh, wie ein Gewicht, ja, ich verstehe, was du meinst, wie es ist, wie eine Art Vibration fast passiert,
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Sie wissen, was ich meine. Ja, ihre Bestätigung ist weg. Sie können es nicht als Autos. Ja.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
It's just enough noticeable that they can't just write it off as cave noises, right? It has to be something else, yeah. We didn't spend a long time admiring our work. We still had to haul the gear up and out of the cave. Actually, we left some of it in the cave. It was still difficult work. What made it worse was that we were both exhausted.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Our original plan was to be done with this cave and hit a couple of other caves in the area the next day. Instead, we decided to crash at a nearby motel, charge up the drill batteries, and go back to Mystery Cave. So you can click to see a photo of the opening after their first trip. And it's the same hole, but it's like, like double fist size now.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Yeah. Again, like you said, the shots are incredible. Yeah. They add so much depth to this. It makes it feel very legitimate. Mein Journal geht über die Nacht, nachdem wir in die Wälder gegangen sind. Wir hatten ein Zimmer, das Essen war exzellent. Ich habe nicht gut geschlafen, obwohl ich ausgewachsen war, usw.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Wir haben beide in die Wälder geschlafen, also haben wir einen späten Start in die Wälder gebracht. Am zweiten Tag, als wir in die Wälder gearbeitet haben, war es genau das gleiche wie am ersten Tag. Wir haben bis zu der Zeit gearbeitet, bis beide Batterien wieder tot waren. Aber wir sind noch nicht so nah dran, um durchzugehen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Das Wäldern und das Wäldern und das Wäldern und das Wälder und das Wälder und das Wälder und das Wälder So, bevor ich mit dem nächsten Journal-Eintritt weitergehe, dachte ich, es wäre hilfreich für den Leser, ein bisschen über das Kaven und die Atmosphäre in der Kave zu erklären.
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Während ich mich über meine Beschreibung der Kave erinnere, habe ich bemerkt, dass viel der Sprache, die ich in meinem Kaven-Journal benutze, und die Beschreibungen, oder dergleichen, dass der Leser ein Wissen über das Kaven und, wie es sich in einer Kave aussieht. In anderen Worten, ich schreibe meine Journale für mich. I will take this time to give a more detailed description of the cave.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I will tell about what it was like while we worked in the cave. I'll summarize our feelings up to this point. The cave was discovered several decades ago when construction in the area unearthed its entrance. From that time to the present, it has been visited by mostly locals in the area and avid capers in the region. Beer cans can be found intermittently in the cave, mostly in the upper half.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
When the cave was first entered, it was probably beautiful. Dust, Graffiti, Vandals, Pigeons und normaler Nutzung haben ihre Anstrengungen geringer. Es gibt immer noch Orte in der Kirche, wo kleine Formationen unverstörend bleiben, als Erinnerung darauf, wie die Rest der Kirche ausgesehen hat. Um in die Kirche zu kommen, muss man eine gute Länge von Röhrchen haben, um sich in den Stein zu bewegen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Eine nahe Anlage dient als guter Ankerpunkt. Sobald die Röhrchen an der Anlage verbunden sind, sind sie ca. 20 Meter entfernt von einem kleinen Berg. Sie können über die Ecke des Berges zu einer kleinen Fläche von 15 Metern unterliegen. Kavers can then descend the short distance to the entrance. Once inside the cave, artificial light must be used.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
My light source of choice is a battery-operated helmet-mounted light known as a tag light. Safe caving calls for at least two sources of backup lighting. For my backup lighting, I have a mini mag light mounted to my helmet and another helmet-mounted light in my pack, which I always carry with me. I also have glow sticks that I carry with me.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Diese sind nicht von einigen guten Ressourcen ein Backup-Light, aber sie sind gut zu verwenden, um den Abend abzuholen. Und sie könnten aus einer Wälder kommen, wenn die anderen Ressourcen nicht funktionieren. Nach einem kurzen Aufstieg über große Steine kommt der Wälder zu einem großen Pit. Die gleiche Roppe wird benutzt, um den Boden des Pits zu erreichen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Der Abstand ist nur 50 Meter oder so, aber er ist nicht frei hängend. In anderen Worten, du kannst nicht direkt auf die Roppe schlagen, was besser wäre. Du musst dich um scharfe Steine bewegen, während du nach unten fährst. Der Ascent wird für die gleiche Ursache schwieriger gemacht. Der Pit ist von ca. 10 m lang, bis zu 3 oder 4 m in ein paar Orten.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Die Wälder sind mit einem scharfen, weißen Stein genannt, Popcorn. Let me correct that. It used to be white, but is now covered with dust and dirt that was kicked down from above by years of caving. The popcorn makes it painful to brush against the side of the pit. My choice of clothing is Levi's, T-Shirt, gloves and knee pads.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I usually leave the cave with a few scrapes, but at least I'm comfortable while I climb around inside. The temperature is stable year-round. Es fühlt sich kalt im Sommer an und warm im Winter an. Wir sind in den frischen Tagen eingegangen und zehn Meter in die Wälder, es ist warm genug, dass die Schuhe nicht benötigt werden.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Es ist eine gute Temperatur, um arbeiten zu können, wie wir gelernt haben. Für diesen Eingriff in die Höhe, benutze ich meistens ein Figur-8-Gesetzungsgerät. Für den Aufsteigen verabschiede ich mich mit einem Petzl-Gesetzungsgerät, aber ich fahre selbst auf, ohne das Gerät zu benutzen. Es ist nur als Sicherheitsabhängigkeit da, in der Fall, dass ich schlafe.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Andere Kavers haben ihre eigenen Methoden, sich nach unten und nach oben zu bewegen. Am Boden des Droppes kann der Kaver ein bisschen schlafen. Es gibt einen kleinen Raum, ca. 6 x 6 Meter, am Boden, der dem Kaver einen Platz gibt, um seinen Harnes zu verlassen und die Aufsteiger-Geräte zu senden. Da es keine steiferen Droppen mehr gibt, ist der Harnes nicht nötig und wird nur auf den Weg kommen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Sobald der Kaver in den 6 x 6 Raum geht, kann er sich unter einem Schlauch verabreden, während der Rest des Partys nach unten kommt. Dann muss er auf seine Knie fallen, um einen 10-Foot langen Pass, der nur ein paar Füße hoch ist, zu negotieren. Das ist, wo die Kniepads in Ordnung kommen. Der Boden ist mit einer leichten Dürre gefüllt, die mit Teilen von gebrochenem Stein von oben verbunden ist.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Die dünne Länge der Dürre macht nichts, um den Schmerz an den Händen und Knieen zu lösen, als der Käfer den Krawlraum nach unten arbeitet. Als Begründung, am Ende des Krawls, kommt er auf seinen Bellen und schiebt sich unter einen festen Schmutz. Nicht wirklich tief, nur etwas, das tief genug ist, um den Käfer in der Dürre zu steigen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Sobald der Käfer auf der anderen Seite des Entschlusses kommt, gibt es ein paar Meter Laufraum, dann öffnet sich der Käfer genug, um zu stehen. Für die meisten der Rest der Käfer kann der Käfer stehen oder zumindest stupfen. Der Käfer wird in mehrere Passagen ausgeschlossen. Zwei Routen wenden sich um Steine und Krebsen und kommen zu abrupten Tiefen. The other two lead to small pools of water.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Each route is fun to explore. They all lead on for 100 feet or so in a gradual downward slope. Most of the time the caver can walk upright in the passages. Other times he'll have to climb over large boulders or occasionally crawl on hands and knees. Leider habe ich nicht das Wissen, mehr Details über die Arten von Steinen in der Kave zu geben.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Als wir drillten, konnten wir einige Teile haben, die einfacher zu drillen waren als andere. Und es gab verschiedene Farben der Steine, die Fotos in der Kave bezeichnet werden. Aber das ist das Beste, was ich tun kann, um das Make-up der Kave zu beschreiben. Ich werde auch sagen, dass ich weiß, dass Leute es in der Realität tun.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Das Konzept von Scuba Diving in einer Kave, denke ich, ist das Schrecklichste, was ich jemals gehört habe.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
It sounds miserable. Plus the idea of both being underwater and in cramped cave spaces is an absolute nightmare. Yeah. Es erinnert mich daran, dass es einen echten Fall gibt, dass jemand gestorben ist. Ich denke, wenn ich mich erinnere, könnte Jacob Geller es in seinem Video über die Angst vor der Tiefe besprochen haben. Aber man, die Wälder sind furchtbar. Es freut mich. Ja.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
An dem Punkt, an dem die Wälder in vier Routen verteilt werden. Die zwei Passagen, die am Ende des Todes sind, sind auf der direkten linken Seite der Wälder. Direkt vorne und rechts sind die Passagen, die zu Poolen des Wassers führen. Die Entfernung zur Passage auf der rechten Seite ist die größte der vier.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Das Erste Öffnen steigt fast zehn Meter in die Luft, endet nur einen Fuß unter dem Kaiserschein. Sobald der Kaiserschein in die Passage geht, steigt die Kaiserschein bis zu sechs Meter hoch. Es bleibt an der gleichen Höhe, bis zu 40 Meter, bis die Passage in eine kontinuierliche Richtung geht. Diese Kaiserschein-Bereich erinnert sich an eine Hardrock-Mine.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Seine Kante ist fast perfekt und der Boden flach und leicht zu gehen. Es ist leicht zu beobachten, dass rüste Mining-Karten auf den Rädern liegen und dreckige Mining-Miner mit blisternden Händen, die Dull-Picks bewegen. Die Pseudomine kommt zu einem Ende und der Käfer wird wiedermals gezwungen, sich auf Hände und Knie zu drücken und sich mit dem Boden des Kaisers wieder anzupassen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Diesmal dauert der Krawl ca. 20 Meter. Der Boden schlägt langsam nach unten für die erste Hälfte des Krawls. Dann wird es ziemlich steif und schlagartig. Abel-Body-Kavers können immer noch auf der dünnen Fläche aufsteigen. Wenn ich mit B fahre, fahre ich das Ende der Röhrung, die wir zu diesem Punkt hatten.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich brauche meistens noch eine kurze Länge von der Röhrung zur ersten Röhrung, um sicherzustellen, dass er es benutzen kann, um den Boden zu erreichen. Der Crawl dauert ein paar Meter über dem Boden des Slides. Über die nächsten 10 bis 12 Meter beginnt der Kaver langsam, die Standposition zu regeln.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Nach ein paar Füßen auf dem Weg und einem kurzen Abflug, kommt die Kaverin zu einem kleinen, geringen Gebiet, welches eine Passage hat, die sofort nach links führt. Die Passage endet 75 Füßen später an einem der kleinen Böden des Wassers. Auf der rechten Seite ist eine Rockwalle. Voran ist eine Entzündung in der Walle, die um drei Füße zurückgeht.
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Auf der Walle am Rückseite der Entzündung ist ein kleiner Loch, ungefähr der Größe eines Softballs. Um nahe an der Walle zu kommen, schlägt die Kaverin unter einen Überhang und knallt auf die Steine, die ein paar Inch über dem Boden steigen. Sobald der Käfer bis zu diesem Punkt erreicht ist, ist er entweder warm oder schmerzhaft und das erste, was er bemerkt, ist der kühle Wind aus dem Loch.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Es war mein Rekognition von diesem Loch als eine mögliche Tür zu unbeschlossenen Teilen des Kaisers, die letztendlich zu dieser Erklärung meiner Erfahrung führte. Wie es meine Tradition seit all den Jahren war, die Party erreicht einen Punkt im Kaiserspiegel, meistens in der tiefsten Teil des Kaisers, wo alle Lichter ausgelöst sind. Komplette Dunkelheit füllt das Auge.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Für einen Moment fängt der individuelle Kaver die Augenmuskeln an, sich in und aus zu fokussieren, mit der Erwartung, dass er irgendwo in der falschen Nacht eine Krümel von Licht fangen wird. Nach einigen feudalen Momenten schlägt der Kaver seinen Kopf zu einem Geräusch, vielleicht zu einem anderen Kaver, nur damit die anderen Szenen zurückkehren und ihn dann verstecken.
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Der Geräusch, die Geräusche und die Gefühle, die bis zu diesem Punkt überwacht wurden, kommen in perfekter Detail zum Kaver. Die Schmerzen ihres eigenen Hintergrunds, die sich auf dem Flur der Kave befinden. Der Geruch von Stoff, Schmerzen, Guano. Der Geruch moderner Material, die sich auf altartigen Steinen verändern, als die Käfer versuchen, sich auf dieser solidaren Bedeutung zu befinden.
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Auf der Rückseite jedes Käfers ist in dieser Zeit die Frage, was, wenn? Was, wenn eine Person aus der Kave mit keinem Licht aussteigen musste? Würde er es erreichen? Würde er all die Runden und Böden finden, die ihn zu diesem Ort führten? If not, would a rescue party find them in time? The depth of darkness recognized at this time is something that is rarely experienced outside a cave.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Many first-time cavers erroneously declare that they have to hold their hand to within two or three inches of their face before they can see it. The truth is, the human eye is incapable of seeing an absence of light. If they did not hear something coming toward them, they would feel it before they saw it. Complete and total dark.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
This exercise is a great way to remind people to take back up lighting. As we proceeded to work in the cave, we developed a system pretty early and little changed in succeeding trips. First time in the cave, B took first shift at chipping away at the opening. After about a half hour, he needed a break, so I took over.
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Es ist ein Verlust der Zeit auf der Internetseite. Es ist wie ein Klassiker und es hält sehr gut auf, wie wir heute sehen werden. So what better thing for our anniversary than to do one, even if you've seen the video that's up on Papa Meats channel, where him and I go over it, we didn't actually read the story together, so we're going to do that today. So nothing better for an anniversary, I feel.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Er hat mir gesagt, was am besten funktioniert, und ich habe weiterhin das Gleiche gemacht. Wir haben von Zeit zu Zeit neue Dinge probiert, neue Muskeln zu benutzen, aber meistens mit dem gleichen Methoden. Wir haben die Masonry-Maschine benutzt und die Drehung so hart wie möglich gedrückt und ein Loch in der Wolke gedrückt. Sicherheitsglas und Schmutzmaske wurden während des Arbeitens geworfen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Dann haben wir den Bullpen einsetzt und ihn in die Wolke geschliffen und kleine Teile des Kaisers ausgetrocknet. Dann haben wir ein weiteres Loch gedrückt und den Prozess wiedergeleitet. Manchmal schlug der Drill einen Softspot auf den Stein und der Schritt wurde verschärft. Wir arbeiteten, bis wir zu müde waren, weiterzumachen, und dann wurden wir verletzt.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Während einer von uns arbeitete, war der andere in der Dunkelheit, und hat entweder gegessen, getrunken oder sich auf dem Kaffeeflur gedreht. Nach nur ein paar Routen waren wir zu müde genug, um eine Nackenzeit zu haben, während wir uns verabschiedeten. Das einzige Licht, welches wir benötigten, war das Helmetlicht auf dem Kopf des Arbeiter.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Da es sich an die Höhle richtete, war die Resterin meistens im Dunkeln geblieben. Das war ein willkommener Vorteil, da die Resterin normalerweise, äh, ruft. Der Rettungsabbruch war auch eine Chance, ein bisschen zu kühlen, was nicht lange dauerte in der kühleren Temperatur der Wälder.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Glücklicherweise hat die Temperatur der Wälder uns ermöglicht, ziemlich hart zu arbeiten und nicht viel zu überheben. Ich erinnere mich daran, dass ich oft auf das Loch geschaut habe und dachte, hey, es ist groß genug, ich denke, ich könnte durchschneiden. Nur habe ich mich in meinem Versuch enttäuscht.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Jedoch, selbst nach dem ersten Versuch und der Verletzung, wusste ich, dass ich auf dem Loch weiterarbeiten werde, bis ich durchgekommen bin. Dies trotz dessen, dass ich wusste, dass es viele mehr Stunden arbeitslos werden würde. It actually became an obsession with me. I tried to get out of the cave and work as often as I could.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I hoped that the passage led to a larger undiscovered cave that we would be the first ones to enter. I guess the explorer in me wanted to find a new frontier there in the cave. Since B is such an avid caver, he was motivated by the same desire to find a new unexplored cave. What we did find was not at all what I expected.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Weißt du, was ich meine? Es geht um so große Details. Es tut einen tollen Job, wie die Seherität, wie weit zurück dieses Loch ist, dass, auch wenn du weg von dem Loch wollen willst, es dauert eine Weile. Es gibt so viele Schritte, die du durchgehen musst, um zurück auf die Oberfläche zu kommen. It does a good job at setting up the map for where the story goes from here.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
So now after that, we continue on to our next section, which was posted on February the 10th of 2001. Scarcely two weeks had gone by and already we were on our way back out to work in the cave. Wir sagen, dass wir uns mit der Idee, durch den Passagier zu kommen, überrascht haben. Das kann ein Zeichen sein, wie aufregend unsere Leben wirklich sind.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Es ist nicht so, dass wir denken, dass es etwas Großartiges außerhalb des Passages geben wird. Wir mögen nur die Idee, die ersten Menschen auf der Welt zu sein, die sich in einer heiligen Teil der Wälder befinden. Although if we found a hidden treasure, that would be fine with us. You gotta throw the hidden treasure stuff in there, right? Of course.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Yeah, these kids don't know kids with their TikToks and their iPhones looking for pirate treasure.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Back when I was a kid, you go out with your buddies and then Jerry gets bit by a copperhead and he died out in the woods like a man. Now what? You get hooked up on dialysis and live for 40 years? In my country.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Du und deine Freunde gehst da raus, du findest deine Dads Moonshine-Bottel und du machst ein paar Fehler. Wie gute Christen. Und du sagst niemandem, außer deinem Assistenten-Pastor, dann gehst du nicht mehr in die Kirche.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
There are some happy accidents. That's what I tried to tell the assistant preacher. He got me out of that church. As a matter of fact, he threatened to register me with the state of Illinois. So that's why I told the family we were moving out of Detroit because the business was gone in the region. That's why we're down here now.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
But look, I'm just saying that that is the kind of hard... No one wants to work anymore.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
My head's like, what does that even mean? And the other half of my head's like, just don't think about it too hard. All I'm saying is that if it wasn't for the liberals running this country, we would have real men built on work like that. That's all I'm saying.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I'm very excited as well. So we're going to get into it. Thank you all so much for the support. Continue to show support please on the Spotify on Apple podcast. Hold on. Let me check the score right now. We're 29. Not bad. Whenever we upload, it goes way up and comes back down. It's on its way down right now at 29. Just for full discrepancy sake, Hawk 2 is 74. That's all that matters to me.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Oh, you're saying how many like murders never got reported? Sure.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Right? I mean, I'm sure that kind of thing happened. I mean, there are plenty of stories of like, I mean, look at the number of missing kids back in like the, you know, 1920s on, right? It's like, okay, not all of those are actually missing, you know, right? Right. Like a few of them had to be like, oh, Johnny, you want to go on that rope swing today? And Bob never comes home.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Kind of scary to think about, huh? I mean, yeah. There's... Oh, yeah.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Hunter, is there something you want to tell us? No, nothing. Anything that happened to you, Hunter? I like how when I don't do the bit the way you want it, you do the bit yourself and pretend to be me on the other side of it. Is there something you want to tell us about, Hunter? No. Just wondering. Wurdest du verurteilt oder vielleicht von einem Freund verurteilt?
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Das wäre ziemlich verrückt, wenn ich einen Podcast mit einem Geistern habe. Mit einem Geistern? Geistern. Und ich komme zu deinem Haus und sage, ich muss Hunter sehen. Und dein Haus ist nicht da.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Das würde auch zu einer sehr langen Reihe anderer Fragen führen. Okay, die Leute, die dieses Show sehen, sehen sie alle auch den Geistern? Are all the people a hallucination? We need a meme to start. Do I have a wife? Do I even exist?
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
You're doing the Schmormu thing right now. This is our new bit. This is our new character. Our new thing for the show. Okay. Okay. All the way out to Mystery Cave, we talked about new ideas to speed up our work. B also told me he talked to some cave friends of his that came up with an explanation about the rumbling noise. They thought it might be the sound of water deep within the cave.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Possibly a waterfall. They couldn't really explain why the noise seemed to come and go. To me, it's just one more reason to get through. It's probably a waterfall that shuts on and off. Probably. You know, we have those from time to time.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Incredible. This trip we took B's dog, Whip. Ah, the return of Whip. Here we go. Here we go, Whip, the boy. Sie ist ein Jack Russell Terrier. Ich war nicht überhaupt besorgt, dass ich den Hund in den Kaisen nehme. Wir haben ihn vorher genommen. Sie antwortet dem Anruf der Natur, bevor wir rein gehen und dann wartet, bis wir wieder rauskommen. Außerdem ist sie gut gehalten im Kaisen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Wir mussten sie einfach mit einer custom-gesteuerten Hütte aufbauen, bis sie an den Boden der Hauptfläche reingekommen ist. Dann hat sie den Rest auf ihr eigenes. Sie liebt es, zu besuchen, aber wird nicht aus unserer Seite gehen. Sie hat keine Lichtabdeckung, also muss sie auf uns warten.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Eine andere Grund, warum ich es nicht mag, Whip zu bringen, war, weil wir geplant haben, sie in das kleine Loch zu bringen und zu sehen, wie weit sie gehen würde. Das ist ein 14-jähriger Jack Russell Terrier.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
If whip comes back, that means it's safe. If whip doesn't come back, that means it's not safe.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
We knew that if there were a drop-off that we couldn't see, the dog would turn around and come right back out. Sure, the dog that is blind in the back.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
We thought we might have to do some work on the hole before even the dog could get through. What a great idea. Here's a picture of Whip. And it looks like a crime scene photo.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Whip ist zu ehrgeizig, um in der Kave zu sein. Whip ist ein Künstler, aber nur weil es sich um Whip befindet, sieht es aus, als würde man das in Dokumenten als das letzte Bild von Whip sehen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja. Okay, do you remember the... This is such an obscure reference. Do you remember the giant like cricket claws that rip out of the wall and are yanking people through the holes in the canyon?
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I remember being a kid and being terrified by that, because it's like these giant cricket hands, like pinchers, reach through the cave and grab people, and then they rip them through a hole that's like a couple feet wide, right? I love that movie. Oh, it's such a good movie. I love it. Can I tell you a story about that movie?
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Die Art, wie du das tust, ist, du spielst Adrian Brody und du schießt die anderen Pläne runter, richtig? Und das schafft ihn. Und dann geht er zurück zu Skull Island. Ja.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
That's what it always was. Dude, that video game was incredible. The amount of things they did back then. For the time, especially for a made to... There were all these cinematic moments, all these cool things you could pull off. It was like a movie tie-in video game. It's insane.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Thank you. I imagine with the dog getting ripped into the wall by the by hand. That's where that was going. Okay. Easily.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I'm glad we got to go on that journey together. Anyway, despite working in the dark of the night, we were able to break up and get down pretty quickly. Wir haben nicht so viele Werkzeuge wie letztes Mal genommen. Außerdem haben wir einige in den Höhlen gelegt, damit wir sie nicht wieder rausnehmen und wieder zurücknehmen müssen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich habe zwei mehr Batterien für den Drill bekommen, für einen Total von vier. Auch ein paar mehr Masonry-Drill-Bitte. Auch mit dem Hund haben wir einen guten Zeitraum, um runterzukommen. Dann ist etwas bizarres passiert, das ich nicht ganz erklären kann. Der Hund begann zu explorieren, sobald wir sie aus der Röhre verlassen haben. Sie war im Hohen Himmel, schnüffelnd und schnüffelnd um uns herum.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Sie würde von einer Person nach der anderen fliegen, als wir zurück auf die Arbeitsplätze gingen. An dem Punkt, wo die Kälte in vier Ecken verteilt ist, sah der Hund aus, als ob er aus Gemüse gelaufen wäre. Sie stand einfach direkt neben B oder mir. Das klingt ein bisschen seltsam. Als wir weiter in die Kälte gingen, würde sie nur mit B bleiben.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ja, weit, weit zurück. Also unser erster Post von März 23, 2001. Hunter, bist du bereit, darauf zu kommen? Oh, ich bin bereit, mich zu erschrecken. Lasst uns uns erschrecken. Also hier geht's. Ich möchte einen kurzen Break von dem Show machen, um euch zu wissen, dass heute's Episode von Babbel gesponsert wird. Babbel ist einer der Top-Language-Learning-Apps der Welt.
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Sie sah aus, als ob sie etwas sah, was sie nicht mag. Ich denke, es mussten Tiere sein, die die Wälder als Zuhause verwendeten und Wippe riechte ihren Geruch. Zu schlecht hat es ihr verärgert, weil es keine Art und Weise gab, in die Passage zu gehen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Shut up. Oh my gosh. So you know what? This is what happened on that last cave trip. And you know what? You're still mad. That's what this is. So here's what you can do, B. You can put Whip up into the fucking hole so we can explore this thing, because we've been down here for fucking a month and a half.
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hammering away at this wall or i'm gonna rip up that handicap lanyard you have and you won't be able to park in the handicap spot anymore you have to wobble your ass from the back of the parking lot like the rest of us yep and now now your daughter's gonna even be more mad because when you get visitation on christmas guess what you can get that handicap spot a target and you couldn't get her anything for the holidays so who do you think she's gonna want to spend the holidays with after that
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We decided with this new development, the nervous dog, one of us would work while the others stay with the dog a few feet away from where we normally rested. We get right back into our routine of drilling, hammering, etc. With our extra supply of batteries, we were able to really push hard on the drill and not have to worry about using up the batteries.
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This did not make our working easier, but it did speed things up a little bit. Progress was still slow. I really didn't mind though. Mein Journal geht ein bisschen weiter über den Prozess, den wir gemacht haben. Die ganze Zeit, als wir gearbeitet haben, hat Whip sich nicht bewegt. Sie hat sich einfach auf einem Rucksack aufgeräumt. Sie hat sich von Zeit zu Zeit gewimpert.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Eine Sache, die ich damals nicht gedacht hatte, war, dass sie ihre Augen nicht aus dem Loch nehmen würde. Wir hätten besser beobachten müssen, als dieses intuitive Tier. We were on our fourth battery when the second bizarre thing happened to us. B was working. He had just finished drilling a hole and was getting ready to hammer the bullpen when he stopped working and clicked into the hole.
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What's it doing to me? I'm feeling something. He starts dancing, starts twerking. I felt like this since the divorce. It makes me want to get up and gyrate. Er sagte, es klingelte wie ein Stein auf Stein. Etwas wie ein Grinder-Geräusch. Ich erhoffte, dass seine Ohren nur vom Drill klingelten. Er träumte nicht von Airpluggen. Er sagte mir, er hörte, was er sagte, was er hörte.
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Ich hatte keine Erklärung, also ging ich zurück zum Dozen. B stand in der Ruhe der Wälder für eine lange Zeit, bevor wir das Werk beendet hatten. Er würde auch von Zeit zu Zeit stoppen und nur hören. B ist sehr grundsätzlich und will keinen imaginativen Geräusch beherrschen. I believe he heard something, but I'm too concerned about what it was. But I'm not too concerned about what it was.
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I assume we will figure it all out once we get through the passage. What a great outlook. Nein, ich habe keine Angst vor dem, was er gesagt hat, weil wir uns damit verletzen werden.
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Yeah, exactly. You know what I mean? I mean, you're in a cave and you're listening to like the drill. I would also be like, okay. Well, imagine like rock hitting rock. You mean like the drilling you're doing, idiot?
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Incredible reporting. Thank you, B. I never thought of it that way.
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Bizarre! bizarre wow that's weird anyway yeah because that should never ever happen ever that's that's if if there is a ancient cave that has had wind blowing through it for you know since the earth was created hypothetically it doesn't just stop right do you assume that this means that there is something that i whenever i've always read this i've always thought that it meant that like
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That's possible, or something has rolled over it, like something has plugged the hole. Right, right, yeah. Nun, das ist furchtbar, wenn man sich vorstellt, dass alles, was in der Kirche liegt, einen Gesicht hat, der groß genug ist, dass es die Entfernung öffnet. Ja, einfach wie ein Körper.
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Es müsste groß genug sein, um ein Schild darüber zu haben, richtig? Du würdest es denken. Es müsste groß genug sein. Na, stell dir vor, Oh mein Gott, das ist so ein furchtbarer Ausdruck. Erinnere dich an etwas, das groß genug ist, dass es, wenn du ein Licht anbringst, die ganze, alle Seiten des Kaisers öffnet. Gott, riesige Gesichter. Oh mein Gott, ja, es ist massiv.
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Es gibt mir, ehrlich gesagt, es gibt mir die ganze Idee der Steine, die sich umdreht, erinnert mich an die tiefen Wälder, wie die coole Partie davon, wie eine Steinefigur, die sich umdreht, wie ein gebrochener Gesicht. Ja.
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Ja, ja, diese reine alte Wälder wurde mysteriös. Wir haben lange in der Dunkelheit der Wälder gesprochen. Wir haben diskutiert, was diese ungewöhnlichen Events möglicherweise führen könnten. Ich denke, ein Teil der Grund, warum wir im Dunkeln sitzen, war, weil wir beide zu verdammt stark waren, um zu bewegen. Haha. Wir konnten keine sinnvolle Erklärung für die seltsamen Dinge in der Kirche finden.
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Nach mindestens einer halben Stunde sitzend, haben wir langsam unsere Geräte aufgelöst und begonnen, auf der Oberfläche zu starten. Whip konnte nicht glücklich sein, da rauszukommen. Wieder einmal haben wir einige der Werkzeuge in der Kirche verlassen, wir haben sie einfach in den Loch gesetzt. Nicht genug Leute haben die Kirche zu beruhigen benutzt. Und wir waren zu müde, um zu kümmern.
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Wir haben auf dieser Reise viel Erfolg gemacht. Es hilft, die extra Batterien zu haben. Wir haben noch einen langen Weg zu gehen, aber es ist sicher schön zu sehen, wie weit wir gekommen sind. So you can, there's another picture that says click to see progress of the hole. And I mean, like, it's funny, like when you compare this to the past one.
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Like, yeah, you can't fit a guy's shoulders through there, but you can definitely fit a head through there. It's also terrible, like, that part where he's like, I put my head through the hole, if it's just like his head just gets whacked off.
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Ja, sie sind so lange da und es ist so, dass ich mich fast auf meine Schultern befinden kann.
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You know what I mean? That's always such a... In any movie that pulls that, that freaks me out so much.
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But you're right. That is like a childish thing. Like, well, if we listen, we'll be safe. Because it won't want us to hear it.
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This will scare him. Haha. I bet he never thought of this. The rest of the journal entry talks about climbing out of the cave, getting a room at a motel, and crashing. We were beat. Im Übrigen kann ich nicht glauben, wie unangenehm wir waren, über alles, was in der Kirche passiert war. Zu dem Zeitpunkt konnte man sich nur daran erinnern, dass man in die Passage geht.
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Alles andere war nur eine kleine Veränderung. Ich erinnere mich daran, dass es schön wäre, in die Kirche zu kommen und zu sehen, wie die Mechanismen der Kirche funktionierten, woher die Wind kam, was den Geräusch machte, etc. Nun, Wochen später, denke ich an meine Unwissenheit und Neuheit und schüttel. So, wir gehen jetzt zur nächsten Sektion, die heißt Geräusche. Und diese wird vom 3.
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März bis zum 4. März 2001 veröffentlicht. Es hat uns drei Wochen gedauert, bevor wir wieder zurück in Mystery Cave kamen. Unsere Attitüden haben sich ein wenig verändert, seit wir das Projekt erst angefangen haben. Anfangs haben wir das ganze Ding als eine lustige Abenteuer betrachtet. Seit dem letzten Ausflug haben wir uns mit einer mehr seriösen Ansicht befasst.
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Auf dem Ausflug dieses Tages war unsere Konversation etwas mehr unterdrückt als vorher. Wir haben seit der letzten Reise viel geredet. Nicht aus irgendeiner Art und Weise, sondern um Konflikte zu planen. Statt darüber zu diskutieren, wie wir durch den Pass durchgehen, haben wir uns selbst über rationalere Erklärungen darüber befasst, was passiert ist.
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Keiner von uns hatte irgendwelche Ideen, die die ungewöhnlichen Ereignisse, die wir auf der letzten Reise erlebt haben, erklären würden. Wir waren überrascht, zu finden, dass keiner von uns viel über die letzte Reise mit anderen Leuten gesprochen hat. Das ist eine komplette Rückkehr von den anderen Reisen. Es war lustig, zu Freunden und Familie zu berichten über unseren Erfolg.
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Es ist immer lustig, Leuten zu erzählen, wie stark wir durchgehen müssen, um in den Pass zu kommen. Die meisten Menschen haben wenig Wunsch, sich selbst zu unglaublich steilen. Eigentlich nicht ich, aber ich werde es tun, um auf die andere Seite zu kommen. Gute Motivation. Wir sind früh in der Nachmittagszeit nach Hause gegangen, um den Verkehr zu beenden.
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I don't really recall what time we finally got to the cave. Like I said, the mood was subdued. We got rigged up and started down. Obviously, B left the dog home this time. We took essentially the same gear as the last time. We left some of the tools in the hole to save our backs the agony of hauling the extra weight. Even with the gear we got down in good time.
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We really have a good system for getting up and down. There was only one minor mishap this trip. B scraped his arm on the descent. Nicht wirklich schlecht, glücklicherweise. Er wartet, bis wir bis zu der Höhle kamen, um ihn aufzupacken. Es war nur ein superficieller Cut. Während er die Wunde gekleidet hat, habe ich angefangen zu arbeiten.
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Wir haben beide bemerkt, dass der Wind zurück war und das Rumpeln da war. Wir hatten vier frische Batterien und vier oder vielleicht dreieinhalb frische Arme. Ich hatte hohe Hoffnungen, dass das der Tag wäre. Es fing ziemlich langsam an. Als wir zuerst auf der Höhle begonnen haben, war die Dichtung ungefähr drei Inch. Als wir den Hohl erhöht haben, ist die Dichtung erhöht. Oh Gott.
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Can you actually imagine crawling through this shit? Fuck that. For people that don't, for people that are just listening to this, or, you know, just not watching here, uh...
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Wir haben beide gemerkt, dass wir nur eine bestimmte Anzahl an Arbeit einbringen müssen, um es durchzuführen, also sind wir einfach auf die Arbeit gegangen. Wir sprechen nicht so viel während wir arbeiten, weil einer von uns viel Geräusch macht mit dem Drill oder Hammer. Die Breakzeiten sind momentan verwendet, um über irgendein Thema zu sprechen.
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Die Breakzeiten werden stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen stattdessen statt
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We still celebrate the small victories we encounter along the way. Whenever a section we've been working on crumbles, we cheer. On the rare occasion that a fist-sized rock falls from the entrance, we hoop and holler. That's one small chunk of earth that no longer separates us from whatever lies on the other side.
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I still harbor the fantasy that there is a hidden entrance to the other side of the passage and years ago Spanish explorers hid their treasures in the cave and sealed up the entrance. And it has remained untouched until we find it. He has a more realistic, although more mundane theory. He figures there's more cave on the other side. We'll see who's right.
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This trip out I wanted to see if we could speed up the work by using large masonry bits. I purchased some good sized ones at a hardware store, at a good sized price. One was larger in diameter than all the rest. The other was smaller around but longer. I had pretty much concluded that the big one might be too big and I was right. We tried to get it to go into the rock, but progress was very slow.
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Thank you all so much for watching the ad and thank you so much to Babbel for sponsoring the episode. It really does mean the most. We are now back to the show. Due to the overwhelming number of requests I have received to tell about my discoveries and bizarre experiences in a cave not far from my home, I have created this webpage.
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We tried pushing for all we were worth and all we got was tired. The larger bit just created too much friction area for our strength. It might have worked with a hammer drill, but we didn't have one. Der längere Teil funktionierte gut mit unserem Drill. Wir hielten auf dem Drill für die meisten der Arbeit, die wir auf dieser Reise gemacht haben.
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Ich dachte, dass wir einen Teil und einen Drill und meine Hand ausmachen würden, als der Teil nach einem Ende gebrochen wurde. Ich drückte so hart wie möglich auf den Drill, mit dem Drill ein paar Inch in der Wand, als es knallte. Ich habe fast den Drill durch die Wand gerammt, weil ich so hart drückte. Wir konnten den Drill beheben und ihn immer noch benutzen, minus ein paar Inch.
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Es hat immer noch gut funktioniert. Nur einmal in einem langen Zeitraum versuchten wir, den Knall zu knallen. Die Arbeit ging wie normal, bis wir auf der vierten Batterie waren. Ich knallte runter und arbeitete den Drill langsam in die Wand. Ich hatte meine Ohrplugge drin, meine Sicherheitsglas war an und war in meinen eigenen Gedanken verloren.
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Plötzlich hörte ich über den Schmuck des Drills, der den Stein herunterhielt, einen seltsamen Geräusch. Es war laut. Ich konnte es über den Geräusch des Drills hören, auch wenn ich die Ohrplugge drin hatte. Zuerst dachte ich, dass es nur ein Drill-Bit war, der seinen Job auf der Kave machte. Es würde freundlich schreien und weinen, als wir es in die Wälder drückten. Aber das war anders.
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Es hat mich einige volle Sekunden gedauert, um zu verstehen, dass das von innen kam, nicht vom Bit. I stopped drilling and yanked my earplugs out just in time to hear the most terrible scream I have ever heard trail off an echo into the darkness of the cavern.
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Yeah. Just a massive, massive screech coming from the hole that you're drilling into. Yeah. And it's so loud that it is louder than a masonry drill bit.
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B, I told you if you ever want your daughter to love you, we're putting whip in that hole. I stared wide-eyed at the hole. For several moments I didn't move, nor did I breathe. I turned to look at B. Moments earlier he had been lying on the rope bag, catching a nap. Now he was standing upright, mouth open with a look of concern on his face.
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I will outline the events that happened to me during the past few months. Beginning with my journey into a familiar cave in December of 2000 and ending, well, it hasn't actually ended yet. I'll use my caving journal as the text to tell about my recent experience. I will give them to you as I experience them in chronological order.
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I turned and looked into the hole again, half expecting to see a demon face staring back at me. Nothing was different in Floyd's tomb. Fixed my gaze on the back of the squeeze, where the limits of my light reached. There was no motion, only darkness beyond the reaches of my light. In the complete silence that followed, I could hear my heart pounding in my ears.
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Not another sound could be heard in the cave. Suddenly I heard a scraping noise behind me and straightened up. I nearly knocked myself out, hitting my head on the overhang. Es war nur die Bewegung, um sein Licht aufzunehmen, aber ich war so verwirrt, dass es mich fast in meinen Geist gesendet hat. Ich sprach zu ihm und ich schlug wieder.
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Er sagte, dass er einige Steine bekommen würde und sie in den Garten geben würde. Er erklärte, dass jedes Tier, das dieses Geräusch gemacht hätte, durch den Garten kommen könnte. Ich nahm sofort ein paar Steine und führte sie durch die Öffnung.
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Mit dem Handgelenk des Sledgehammeres schlug ich die Steine so weit zurück in den Tunnel, wie ich es erreichen konnte, um eine Wand zwischen uns und der anderen Seite zu schaffen. Seit der Schnauze so klein ist, hat es nicht lange gedauert. Die ganze Zeit, als ich das gemacht habe, dachte ich, dass der Geräusch sicherlich nicht von einem Tier kommt.
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Ich wusste nicht, ob B wirklich das gedacht hat, oder ob er nur versucht hat, sich zu überzeugen. Ich habe ihm nichts gesagt, was ich gedacht habe. From the time it happened to the writing of this journal entry, two days later, I have tried to come up with some possible source for such a noise.
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To describe it, I would say it sounded like a cross between a man screaming in fear and a cougar screaming in pain. It sounded like it came from the hole and was roughly 100 feet away. The horrific noise reverberated through the cave and through my ears. B estimates the scream lasted 8 to 10 seconds. My best guess is about 5 seconds.
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Es ist schwierig zu sagen, wie viel Zeit passiert, wenn man ein Solo von The Depth of Hades hört. Even if it is an animal. Still horrifying. Like a cougar. Don't go in there. I don't need to be in a tight cave with a cougar.
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So, anyway, after they continue for some reason. After I filled the back of the passage with rocks, we just sat there listening to the silence. My breathing was a lot more rapid than usual. Neither of us spoke for quite some time. Finally, B suggests we get back to work, but keep an eye out for movement in the hole. Put a light in the passage that shined to the back of Floyd's tomb.
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I've included photographs that were taken during my many trips into the cave. I've also created a few illustrations to help the reader get a better idea of what things looked like in the cave. All of the photos were taken by me or one of the few people I went into the cave with.
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Es war nur an diesem Punkt, dass wir bemerkten, dass der Wind wieder aufgehört hat und das Rumpeln nicht mehr hörbar war. Zu sagen, dass ich nervös war, wäre ein Verurteilung. Ich habe nichts gesagt zu B, noch nicht zu mir. Zurück zum Drillen. B hat das Werk übernommen, was mir gut ging. Ich war genau ausgeworfen, aber ich hatte keine Angst, weiter aus dem Loch zu kommen.
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B würde von Zeit zu Zeit stoppen und hören. Ich saß einfach, ihn zu sehen, mit meinem Licht an. I wasn't close to the entrance to the hole, but I still found myself looking behind me down the passage to the still water. Every time my light would cast an unusual shadow, my heart would jump. My imagination was running wild. Oddly, B seemed to be less concerned about the strange noise than me.
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After a short time, he seemed to be focused entirely on getting through the passage. I was still straining to listen to the sound of the drill. I heard nothing but the now familiar sound of carbide on stone. Well, see, I want to say that you say this, which it is insane, but...
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Ich finde, es ist verrückt, aber ich fühle mich, als wäre es fast wie eine, äh, wie eine Sakralität, um den Drill zurückzuziehen, richtig, als wäre es völlig ruhig in der Küche für ein bisschen, und dann wäre ich so gefreut, den Drill wieder zu starten, fast wie, ja, fast als würdest du es erläutern, du bist so, hey, ich bin hier, ja, definitiv,
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Me and you were in a cave and all of a sudden I'm like, well, back to work. What's your response? Oh, I'm out of there already.
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Yeah, I would not be in the... Yeah, I see no scenario where I'm down here. I've been on like school field trips to caves. Like safe routes. And I'm still like... Yeah, no, no, no. My thoughts were broken when B let out a yell. Possibly a cuss word. He said the drill battery was dying, but he hadn't quite broken off a large relative section he was working on.
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Ich setzte den unnötigen Drill weg und habe einen Hammer und einen Bullpen gekauft. Ich begann, die ganze Kreativität zu wehlen. Nach fast zehn hohen Minuten Hammerung setzte ich mich wieder gegen den Rock, schmerzhaft und fast aus dem Atem. Der Bullpen flog immer noch aus der Wiese.
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Ich rief den Hammer nach mir, erwartete mich, ein paar Schwünge zu nehmen, hielt meinen Hand und schlug meinen Kopf. Ich war bereit, in die Wiese zu gehen, aber es war schon lange her. Er hat die Probleme nicht gedrängt, und ohne zu sprechen, haben wir beide angefangen, das Gehäuse, das wir nehmen wollten, zu sammeln. Wieder einmal haben wir einige der Werkzeuge in der Passage gesteckt.
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Ich war der Erste, der an der Spitze des Kaisers anfing. Viele Male musste ich aufhören und warten, bis ich da war. Nicht, weil er langweilig war, sondern ich war einfach mehr als ehrgeizig, um rauszukommen. Ein paar Mal fühlte ich mich besser als an dieser Nacht, steigend in den kühlen Sonnenschein.
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My Journal talks about the rest of the evening, our dinner, our decision to get a motel and come back the next day, a lengthy discussion on the strange sounds we had heard, another mediocre night's sleep. I could not believe that we were so willing to get right back into the cave after hearing the scream.
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Part of the reason I went along with the idea was because B seemed so indifferent to any possible dangers. Even if it were an animal, which I did not believe, but could offer no better explanation, weren't we possibly putting ourselves in harm's way? In retrospect, I still have difficulty understanding our thought process at the time. We were just too eager to discover virgin cave passages.
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Yep, he is equally stupid and equally insane. Alright, so our next entry is from February 13th.
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It's amazing what a couple of good meals and a little sleep can do for someone's attitude. Even though we still had memories of the strange noise fresh in our minds, we relit our fire of enthusiasm. The other side of the passage seemed so close. We were sure this would be the day. We got to the cave and started to work our way down to the hole.
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Getting back into the darkness of the cave brought back the memories of the night before. The sight of the circle of rock illuminated by our headlamps, the smell of dirt in the air, the sound we made as we crawled across the rock. Once we reached the entrance to Floyd's tomb, however, we were once again ready to blaze the trail leading to an undiscovered part of the cave.
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We immediately noted the presence of the breeze blowing out of the hole and the rumbling. Der Bullpen, der aus seiner Höhle steckte, war ein offizielles Zeichen dessen, wo wir für den Tag anfangen mussten zu arbeiten. B nahm an, wo er am heutigen Tag geblieben ist.
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The pictures are great. And I think it does a really good job at getting across like the authenticity of it. Yes. Because even watching the picture, looking at the pictures, I'm like, how did you do this? Right? Like how in 2001... Did you set up all these scenarios? It had to be a guy that was actually into spelunking. Absolutely. Who decided to add this on, add this narrative onto it.
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Er nahm die Residenz am gleichen Ort, an dem ich am heutigen Tag gelebt habe, obwohl ich bereits gut aufgestanden war und anfing, Arbeit zu beginnen. B was making the hammer sing with each blow. After a mere two or three minutes, he let out a cheer. Turned to reveal a handful of rock that used to be attached to the cave. He was breathing heavily, but had a big smile on his face.
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So did I. For the time the strange noise had been forgotten, the vision of success captured our attention. And here we have, it says, click to see the size of the opening at this point. And this is getting like human length, kind of.
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The lower left hand corner of the hole had been giving us grief because of the thickness of the wall at that point. We felt that if we could just remove that corner, we might be on our way inside. B now held in his hand the crumbled remains of the corner. Our excitement consumed us as we examined the hole. I took the hammer and pounded away at the surface of the hole.
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The idea was to remove the jagged edges that would take their toll on my skin. Size looked right. Now the moment we had been working for. I cautiously approached the entrance to Floyd's tomb. I decided the best way to enter the small hole was to place one arm over my head, turn my head sideways, and slowly work my way in.
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Like your arm extending out. Yeah, like a stroke. Yeah. Fuck. Terrifying. I soon determined this was not going to work. The hole was small. If I was going to make it in without widening the hole anymore, I was going to have to put both arms over my head. In a diving position, turn my head sideways and slip into the tomb. God. The width of the entrance was the limiting factor.
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Die Höhe war genügend, die Armabseite-Position schlug meine Schulterbläder heraus, aber es gab immer noch Raum, um reinzukommen. Außerdem gab mir die Armabseite-Position den besten Ausprung von Seite zu Seite. Um direkt ins Loch zu kommen, stand ich auf meinen Füßen und ging über, um mit der Entfernung zu leveln. Meine Knie wurden aufgeworfen und die Position war unangenehm.
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Etwas wie eine Semi-Squat-Position. Aufgeworfen an der Brust mit den Armen gegenüber. Außerdem musste ich mein oberes Torso etwas nach links wechseln, um den Angang der Entfernung zu vergleichen. Notiert ihr in der letzten Fotos, dass die Entfernung generell nach rechts schlägt. I got my arms through the entrance with minor scrapes. Next came my head.
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By keeping it turned sideways, I was able to get it in. For the most part, up to my shoulders. When I got to my shoulders, I could feel the rocks touching all around my shoulders and chest. It was not stopping me, but I was definitely scraping many surfaces of my body. I decided to just push through, keeping in mind that I was going to have to come back out eventually.
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The pain was not too bad, and I was in. Oh Gott. Oh mein Gott. Oh mein Gott. Oh mein Gott. Ich liebe dieses Bild so sehr. Es sieht so aus, als wäre er geschmissen.
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And it's not like, yeah, you're, it's rock on your chest and back. Oh, God.
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Like both sides of you are a hundred percent completely, you know, locked into place like a,
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Und es gibt auch subtile Aufmerksamkeit zum Detail. Zum einen hat er das Outfit, das er vorhin beschrieben hat, aber die Rückseite der Jeans ist schmutzig, weil er sich auf dem Dach befestigt hat. Man kann sehen, wie ein Schaufel, der sich in den Füßen vor ihm geschlagen hat, um den Gravel aus dem Weg zu bringen. Es gibt viel Aufmerksamkeit zum Detail in diesem Bild.
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Once inside the tomb, I had a few inches all around me in which to position my body. This was the largest part of the passage and it was conveniently located right at the beginning of the crawl. That gave me a little room to get positioned to crawl further into the passage. Inside the tomb gave me a whole new outlook of what it was going to be like to crawl through.
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Obwohl das die größte Teil der Wanderung war, war es immer noch klein. Ich konnte meinen Kopf frei umdrehen, aber in jeder Richtung, die ich drehte, war ich an einer Wall von soliderem Stein. Als ich zu mir sprach, klingelte meine Stimme, als ob ich in einer kleinen Box sprach. Ich konnte mich auf dem Passagierflur befassen, aber die Steine waren unangenehm.
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Ich drehte meinen Kopf, um weiter voranzugehen, aber konnte nicht sehen, wie weit die Wall der Steine war, die ich am Tag vorher gebaut hatte. Der Schmuck am Ende des Passages war jetzt näher und schien noch näher zu sein. Ich wusste nicht, ob ich ihn durchschneiden kann oder nicht. Ich wusste, dass es nahe wäre. Ich wollte weiter in den Passage schlafen.
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Zuerst, aber, musste ich arbeiten, um einige der leeren Steine, die auf dem Passageflur liegten, aus dem Weg zu bringen. Ich war enttäuscht, als ich herausgefunden habe, dass die meisten der fehlenden Steine tatsächlich auf dem Boden befestigt waren. Ich hoffte, dass ich sie einfach aus dem Weg entfernen konnte.
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Ich habe den Sledgehammer vor mir in den Passagier gedrängt, sodass ich es an diesem Punkt benutzt habe, um den Stein, den wir weiter in den Passagier zurückgetragen haben, zu drücken. Dann habe ich den Sledgeberg zurück und weiter über den Boden gedrängt, um keine fehlenden Steine zu bewegen oder die steilen Steine zu brechen.
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Als ich den Kopf des Schwertes unter den Schwert geschliffen habe, habe ich bemerkt, dass der kleinste Teil des Schwertes etwa sieben Inch hoch war. Ich dachte, wir hätten etwas Arbeit zu tun, bevor ich durchlaufen könnte. Die ganze Zeit, bis ich den Kopf des Schwertes hatte, war B. nur zurückgekippt, auf meine Beschreibungen und Fortschritte zu hören.
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Irgendwann hat er das Foto, das oben gezeigt wurde, geschnitten. Danke, B. Bis zu diesem Punkt war die Größe des Schwertes nicht so groß ein Problem. I was in an incredibly small passage, but only my upper body was in, and since it was the largest part of the passage and my arms could move freely, I was pretty calm. Then it was time for a push. Ugh, man. Are you calm? God.
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I slid the sledgehammer up as far as I could reach. Since my body filled the entrance, I could not slip the tool out, so it was easier to push it ahead. Um meine Hüfte in den richtigen Anglein zu drehen, um in die Hüfte zu treten, habe ich mein oberes Körper auf meinen Vorderarmen gelegt. Ich habe meine Füße benutzt, um die Wand außerhalb der Hüfte zu steigen und langsam in die Hüfte zu schlafen.
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Meine Hüfte haben sich kaum befestigt. Sobald ich die Entfernung geschlossen habe, konnte ich mich ein wenig entspannen und mich in die Position bringen, um nach der Entfernung zu arbeiten. Ich habe versucht, die Ein-Arm-Vorwärts-Technik durchzuführen. Die Passage war so breit, dass ich jede Position, mit der ich angefangen habe, durch die ganze Länge bleiben musste.
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Es gab einfach nicht mehr Raum, um sich zu bewegen oder Positionen zu ändern. Ich musste auch meinen Kopf auf eine Art oder andere Weise drehen und ihn in der gleichen Position halten. Dieser Crawl war hart. Es war relativ einfach, an dieser Stelle nach vorne zu gehen. Ich konnte meinen vorderen Arm nutzen, meinen linken Arm, um mich zu drücken und meinen anderen Arm, um mich zu drücken.
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Gleichzeitig würde ich meinen Körper wickeln, um so weit ich konnte, um meinen Körper aus den Steinen zu halten. Ich versuchte beide Wege und bestätigte, dass ich meine Hände nach rechts drehen würde. Ich fühlte mich am komfortabelsten. Ich begann, Dinge zu lernen, als ich losging.
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Ich bestätigte, dass ein kleines Lichtschirm in einer Hand schön wäre, dann könnte ich vorbeigehen und eine bessere Idee davon bekommen, worüber ich überlaufen werde. Das war ein schwieriges Manöver, weil ich nach vorne schauen musste, seitdem meine Hände gedreht wurden. Es wurde sofort klar, dass wir noch mehr Arbeit machen werden, die Steine vom Passage entfernen.
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Als ich mich auf der Oberfläche bewegte, schraubte ich mich ständig auf die Steine. Sie waren scharf und schmerzhaft. Manchmal schlug sich ein Stein unter meinem Schlauch und schlug mich zwischen es und dem Topf des Passages.
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Dann musste ich mich zurückziehen und versuchte, den Stein mit meinem Bein zur Seite zu bewegen, mit einem schwebenden Bewegungsdruck mit meinem Kopf, oder zurück und mit meiner vorderen Hand. Meine kleine Reise in die Passage war eine große Maßstufe in meiner Karriere. Als ich angefangen habe zu karrieren, fühlte ich mich nicht wirklich zufrieden, durch tiefe Späße zu gehen.
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Selbst die kleine Ausprägung am Anfang dieser Karriere war ein Obstakel, den ich übernommen habe. Durch mich zu drücken und mich zu fordern, die scharfen Passagen zu probieren, bin ich viel kälter geworden über tiefe Späße. Immer noch, diese Passage war eine neue Benchmark in kleinen Späßen. Ich habe mich nicht mit so etwas befasst.
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Ich erinnere mich nicht daran, dass ich meinen Helm vorher entfernt habe. In diesem Vers ist es notwendig. Wie ich schon erwähnt habe, muss ich nicht nur meinen Helm entfernen, sondern auch meine Hände an die Seite drehen, um sich zu befinden. Die Reise in den Turm ging so weiter.
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Nachdem ich meine Hüfte in den Vers geworfen habe, habe ich ein paar Minuten gedauert, um einen Spielplan zu erstellen. Die größte Länge meiner Beine war noch außerhalb der Entfernung. Sie waren nur in der Luft. Der Turm war noch groß genug, um meinen Kopf zu bewegen und sogar meine Arme frei in Position zu bewegen. Es war größer als der Rest des Passages, aber nicht viel.
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Es ist einfach viel Spaß. Bist du auch mit dem Ted's Caving Journal auf YouTube kennengelernt? Ich glaube, du hast das mit mir auf dem Stream gesehen. Yeah, it was the stream I started reading out my credit card information, remember? Yes. So he's now changed his name to Alex Archives because he started doing different stuff than just Ted's Caving Journal.
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Es war wie einen Kopf in eine Box zu stecken. Wo immer ich geschaut habe, gab es Steine und nicht zu weit von meinem Kopf. Jeder Geräusch, den ich gemacht habe, war vermischt und tot. Der kleinste Teil des Passages war ca. 10 Meter innen. An diesem Punkt war ich ca. 3,5 Meter innen.
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An etwa dem 4-Foot-Markt musste ich an jeder Position, in der ich mich komfortabel fühlte, bis zum 12-Foot-Markt, an der Zeit, als die Kirche öffnete. Ich ging mit meinem linken Arm vorwärts und drehte den Kopf nach rechts. Bee hatte mir eine Flasche gegeben, die ich in meiner linken Hand hielt. Als ich nach vorne ging, versuchte ich, die leeren Steine mit meinem linken Arm wegzuschneiden.
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Das war ziemlich erfolgreich, aber es gab viele Steine, die ich verpasst hatte oder nicht bewegen konnte. Wie erwähnt, ging der erste kleinste Teil des Abbruchs ziemlich schnell, da ich nicht mehr viel Raum hatte, um den Abbruch zu negotieren. Dann begann die Wand, sich um mich herum zu schließen.
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Ich hatte ein paar zusätzliche Steine auf der anderen Seite von mir, aber der Topf des Abbruchs war sehr niedrig. Um die 7-Stunden-Marke konnte ich den Topf rütteln, als ich mich nach hinten drehte. Nach einem anderen halben Fuß konnte ich nicht mehr archieren. Ich musste mich einfach mit meinen Beinen anziehen und mit meinem vorderen Arm drücken.
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Ich habe entschieden, dass es ein guter Zeitpunkt wäre, um zu sehen, ob ich wieder rauskomme. Ich habe es versucht und es war ziemlich einfach. Das gab mir viel mehr Selbstvertrauen. Noch immer hatte ich einen B-Tie-Webbing an meinen Füßen, um zu sehen, ob er mich rauskommt. Und hier sehen wir... Oh mein Gott. Oh mein Gott. Oh mein Gott.
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Man. So it's so it's such effective horror by the way. This even exists. So terrifying. Mein Nacken war anfänglich schmerzhaft. Mein Kopf war schwer. Aber zum Rest hatte ich nur die Möglichkeit, es auf den gebrochenen Steinen zu legen. Es war schmerzhaft, aber ich habe es oft gemacht. Ich starrte mich an die Wand nach rechts. Es war nur vier bis fünf Inch von meinem Gesicht.
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Die meiste Zeit war ich nicht auf der Wand. Ich hatte meine Augen geschlossen, was ich manchmal tue, wenn ich durch einen festen Spot gehe, oder die Lichter schien nicht in eine Richtung, die mir gut ging. Es war sehr ruhig in der Tomb, außer meinem eigenen Atem. I was breathing heavy from the effort it took to move. Thankfully, the breeze was present and cooled me off.
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By lifting my head and carefully touching the ceiling from time to time, I could gauge the size of the passage that my body would soon pass through. Much like a cat using its whiskers to gauge an opening in a fence. At the seven and a half foot mark, I could tell things were about to get real tight. While lying in the darkness, in a passage deep within a cave, one is in a unique position to ponder.
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But he has a series called Ted's Caving Journal that not only looks incredible, like it was actually inside of a cave, but it is paced so well that for one, at least for the first several, he uploaded them not year-wise, but date-wise the same dates as the updates from the original Angel Fire story. Just a lot of fun. Ja, er hat den 23. März, den 23. März, und so weiter.
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Eine Mountain literally resting on top of me, the entire earth below. One tiny movement of earth and I would cease to exist. Or worse, to recognize the fear shared by Floyd Collins as he lay there, trapped for days deep within the heart of Mother Earth, incapable of freeing himself from this earthen prison.
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So much of the horror from this comes from the real horror of it. Like how terrifying Spelunking is. And also there might be a monster. Exactly. It does a good job at blending the two. I feel that it's almost seamless. Schau dich in meine Position an. Du liegst auf deinem Rücken und deine linken Arme sind über deinem Kopf.
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Deine rechten Arme sind an deiner Seite, sie haben nur ein paar Inchchen, um sich zu bewegen. Deine Arme und Hände sind schmerzhaft und blutig, weil du dich über die gebrochenen Steine ziehst. Dein ganzes Körper sitzt auf den Steinen. Dein Nackt wird müde, wenn du deinen Kopf auf den Steinen hältst, also stehst du deiner Nase auf den Steinen, um zu schlafen.
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Sobald du wieder anfängst, musst du dich mit deinen Beinen drücken, um deinen Körper nach vorne zu schlagen, um sich über die Steine zu schlagen. After moving a few inches, you are breathing hard and have to rest. As you inhale, you can feel your back pressing hard against the top of the squeeze. It takes several minutes before you recover enough to press forward.
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The entire time you are lying there, you think about how you are going to get back out and what if? That's pretty much what I was going through at that point in the passage. Ich dachte, das wäre ein guter Zeitpunkt, um ein Foto des Entspannens anzunehmen. Das Foto wurde tatsächlich auf einem anderen Reiseweg genommen, aber es zeigt, wie fest die Dinge an diesem Punkt des Passages waren.
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Ich habe bemerkt, dass mein Kopf zur Seite gedreht wurde, nicht per Wahl, und du kannst sehen, wie ich meinen Bein auf den Steinen aufheben würde. Du kannst auch sehen, wie schwierig es ist, vor mir zu schauen. My arms are also pinned to my side. I later determined that would be the best position. There is virtually no space between the top of the passage and my back. Tight.
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Not for the claustrophobically inclined. Oh my god. This is such an iconic image now in the realm of internet culture. I see this everywhere.
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Oh, for all the stories that are about it, yeah. And people just in general, when they talk about the horrors of cave diving or whatever, they'll show this picture around.
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If the early pictures looked like he was being swallowed, this is him in a digestive tract.
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When I reached the point where my back was rubbing and I could feel with my head the passage was not getting bigger, I knew I was most likely not going to get through. Still, I decided to give it one more push. If I had been in the position a year ago, I would have been in a state of panic, but not today. Oh. Oh. Unglaublich, habe ich es wieder gemacht. Ausatmen, ausatmen, aufstehen.
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Und er hat die Video-Linke gespeichert. Also, wenn du die ganze Sache schaust, progresse die Video-Linke um die gleiche Stufe, wie du die Geschichte lesen würdest. Ja. Es ist unglaubliche Aufmerksamkeit und Detail. Und es sieht fantastisch aus. Ich habe noch keine Ahnung, wie er die Hälfte der Effekte gemacht hat. Aber ja, gut, es wurde genug empfohlen. Wir linken es in der Beschreibung.
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Wieder nur ein paar Inch. Wiederholen. Ich habe ein paar weitere Minuten gebraucht, um diese Position zu genießen, in der kleinen Passage. Wow, ich kann nicht glauben, wie entspannt ich war. Ich habe noch einmal versucht, ausatmen und ausatmen. Mein Bein war zu viel zu rütteln, um zu fortsetzen. Trotz des fehlenden Versuches war ich begeistert.
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Ich habe einige lange Minuten gebraucht, um da zu stehen und von dem Versuch zurückzukommen. Bee hat mich die ganze Zeit ermutigt. Es war lustig, als er sah, dass meine Schuhe tiefer und tiefer in den Loch gehen. Es war nicht zu schwierig, aber es hat ein bisschen Arbeit gedauert. Ich habe die gleichen Herausforderungen erlebt, wie als ich in den Loch ging.
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Nachdem ich meine Hüfte aus dem Loch gewickelt habe, was ein bisschen Zeit dauerte, hatte ich Probleme, meine Schultern rauszuholen. Both arms were overhead at this point. My shirt was getting caught on the rocks and my shoulders were brushing the sharp rocks. After struggling to find a good position, I gave up and just pulled my upper body out. Scrape.
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My shirt pulled up over my head and I had some nice scrapes on my shoulders, but I didn't care. To me, this trip was a success. I pushed myself beyond what I thought possible. Ich knallte an der Entfernung und schaute in die dünne Passage, in der ich gerade war. Der Rockwall war jetzt an der 11-Foot-Marke. Ich habe es ein wenig mit meinem vorderen Arm gedreht.
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Das kleinste Punkt war an der 9-Foot-Marke. Wir waren nahe. Zwischen der Arbeit und der Enttäuschung war ich müde. Just sit on the rope bag grinning. What a trip. Then we see another picture. Or this is a collage of the progress across the whole.
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Weißt du, was ich meine? Ja, du vergisst es. Es ist so furchtbar. Du vergisst, dass es potenziell einen Monster da unten gibt. Ja, du vergisst, warum er es gebaut hat. Ehrlich gesagt, die Erinnerung an den Brick des Rockwalls am Hintergrund erinnert dich auf, oh ja, sie haben das Wall gebaut, weil sie Angst vor etwas sind.
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Ja. Der Rest des Journalentrucks spricht über das Normale. Aussteigen, Abendessen, Reise nach Hause, etc. Auf dem Weg nach Hause haben wir gebrainstormt und kamen mit einigen Ideen vor, die uns helfen würden, durchzuführen. Wir haben beide einige Werkzeuge entwickelt, um den Stein auf dem Boden tief in der Passage zu entfernen. Wir sind beide sehr aufgeregt über diesen Reise.
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Ich, weil ich meine Grenzen in der Kirche drücke, und B, von seinem Erfolg beim Aussteigen der Kirche. Das war der erste Mal, dass er die ganze Weile ohne die Hilfe von Klappern oder meiner Hilfe aus dem Weg kam. Es war ein persönlicher Erfolg, der den Prozess gezeigt hat, den er seit seinem Unfall gemacht hat. Sehr cool.
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Wir waren überrascht, dass wir so einfach vergessen konnten, den furchtbaren Moment, den wir nur den Tag vorher erlebt haben. Es wurde alles vergessen, mit dem seltsamen Geräusch, den wir in unseren Denken verurteilt haben, und einer rationalen, schmerzhaften Erklärung. Als nächstes gehen wir in die Sektion von April 7th, 2001.
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Bevor wir zurück in Mystery Cave gehen, haben wir viel Zeit vorbereitet. Wir haben eine Squeeze-Box gemacht, die ist eine dünne Box, die Öffnung von der kann in Größe gestaltet werden. Warte, die Box kann in Größe gestaltet werden?
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In Wahrheit. Ja. Sehr gut gemacht, wenn du eine visuelle Adaptation von
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Wahrscheinlich. Wir würden dann durch die Öffnung schlafen, um zu messen, wie fest der Ausdruck ist, den wir durchsetzen können. Dadurch konnten wir feststellen, dass ich etwa acht Inch in Höhe brauche, um durch die kleinste Teil der Tummel von Floyd zu kommen. Diese Kante müssten wir etwa einen Inch von der Flur des Passages entfernen.
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We also learned that the best option I would need to get through the passage would be on my stomach with my arms by my side. And of course, my head would be turned one way or the other. That position allowed my shoulder blades to drop to their lowest point. In order to move, I would push forward or backward with my toes. It sounds difficult, but felt adequate.
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You're a worm. Yeah, to get through anything. Yeah. Das Zweite, was wir vorbereitet haben, war, die Werkzeuge zu konstruieren, die wir entdeckt haben, um in der Kirche zu arbeiten. Das ist, wie es aufgespalten wird, okay. Ich habe einen klugen Weg gefunden, in der Kirche reinzukommen, ohne in der Kirche zu steigen.
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Ich habe meinen Nachbarn mehrere Stühle aus Stahlpfeife gekleidet, damit wir sie entfernen können, während wir den Turm herunterklappen, aber trotzdem die Stärke haben, um von einem Hammer herunterzuhalten, nachdem es zusammen war. Wir haben unsere eigenen Tipps gemacht, die wir in unsere Pfeife drehen können, um das Bereich zu erreichen, auf dem wir arbeiten mussten.
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B kam mit einem coolen Design für einen Schrauber mit Angleirn. Er hatte seinen Nachbarn zusammengeräumt. Es war ein unnötiges Werkzeug, um den Stein zu schrauben und zu entfernen. Wir waren beide stolz auf unsere Erfindungen. Also made a device to hold my drill that attached to our pipe. We ended up not using it since B's scraper device worked so well.
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In the description for the image says, here's a picture of B edited to protect his identity with the pipe we made. I took the picture facing away from the tomb. He's sitting on the rope bag that we used as a bed. Behind him to his left is the passage that leads down to the still water. Behind him to his right is the last drop off before the passage.
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Aber trotzdem, zurück zu diesem Thema. Ich möchte ein paar Dinge bemerken, bevor ich über die Events erzähle. 1. Most of the pictures were taken with a Kodiak-disposable-type camera. I took a better camera into the cave on one or two of the trips. Pictures on this side are all original photos and have not been messed with or enhanced other than where noted.
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I... Ich denke, es gibt etwas über dieses Bild, das mich so interessiert. Als ich das Krimenszenen-Foto vorhin sagte, gibt es mir wirklich... Oh, 100%.
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Und der Abiss hinter ihm sieht so furchtbar aus. Oh mein Gott, ja. Und das ist die sicherste Teil der Kave, die Teil, die sie wissen. Ja. Ich habe einen Versuch gemacht. Ich habe einen Versuch gemacht. Ich würde die Kave nicht verlassen, bis ich es durch die Passage gemacht habe. Ich habe Floyds Turm übernommen. Das wäre der Trip. Es war ein langer Zeit, seit wir aus dem Mysterium gekommen sind.
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Wir waren aber beschäftigt. Wir haben die Werkzeuge gemacht, die wir gesprochen haben. Es war Spaß, mit Ideen für Werkzeuge zu kommen. Wir haben auch eine Schnauze gemacht, um die beste Technik für den tiefen Spot zu entscheiden. Außerdem wussten wir, wie viel Stein wir entfernen mussten, bevor wir durchkommen konnten.
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Wir waren aufgeregt, zurück in die Wälder zu gehen, um unser Projekt zu beenden. Unsere Reise nach der Passage dauerte etwas länger als normal, da wir zusätzliche Werkzeuge hatten. Als wir nach der Passage kamen, konnten wir sofort mit B's Scraping Tool arbeiten, die wir mit der Pipe gemacht hatten. Es funktionierte wie ein Charme.
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Wir konnten die Pipe auf einer Seite schlagen und das Scraping Tool auf der anderen Seite in den Stein drücken. Dann konnten wir den Dschungel durch den Passagier und aus unserem Weg drücken. Wenn wir unseren Prozess messen wollten, würden wir den Schrauber in den Passagier umdrehen und die Entfernung beobachten. Wir haben für etwa zwei Stunden gearbeitet, bevor ich das Zelt probieren wollte.
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Ich wollte nur darauf achten, dass ich es auf den ersten Versuch durchführe. Bee machte einen weiteren Schlauch auf den Passagierflur, klärte die fehlenden Steine, von denen ich schlafen würde, und drückte die Wand, die wir gemacht hatten, in die Rückseite der Entfernung. Man, that's such a... Just put the fucking rope on your feet, bro. Just put the fucking rope on your feet.
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Da wir keine Arbeit an der Entfernung gemacht haben, musste ich die selbe Tanzroutine durchgehen, um sogar in den Passage zu kommen. Sobald ich meinen oberen Körper durch den Sprengen bekam, schien ich die Flasche vor mir, um auf einen Plan des Angriffs zu arbeiten.
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Der Passage sah nicht größer aus als der letzte Zeit, als ich dort war, aber die meisten der Arbeiten wurden tiefer in den Ausdruck gemacht. Ich pausierte ein paar Minuten, dann drehte meine Hüfte, um meinen oberen Körper einzuziehen. Ich stürzte langsam nach vorne, als mein ganzer Körper den Passage langsam füllte. Bevor ich komplett rein war, ging ich in die Position für den Push.
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Ich drehte beide Hände an meiner Seite und drehte meinen Kopf nach rechts und begann, nach vorne zu stürzen. Once my toes were inside the cave, I used them to push forward. To keep from scraping my body, I would walk using my shoulders, knees and toes. Progress was slow but steady. That was fine by me. A foot or two before the tight spot, I could already tell there was a little more room.
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Even so, I began to touch the roof of the passage with my back. This time, however, I was able to continue moving forward. Ich erreichte den höchsten Punkt des Passages und ich konnte sehen, dass es immer noch schwierig werden würde.
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Selbst mit dem Arbeit, das wir gemacht haben, um die losgelassenen Steine zu entfernen, fühlte ich immer noch scharfe Pfeifen unter meinem Körper, als ich weiter schlug. Als ich meine Rückseite fühlte, die den Topf des Passages in mehreren Orten brachte, verweigerte ich mich auf meine Technik des Ausatmen. Denn ich begann, aber, zu bestätigen, dort im Passage zu liegen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich konnte den Glanz von Bee's Flaschlein sehen, als die Räder von Licht über meinen Körper schüttelten. Ich konnte den coolen Wind fühlen, der die Schmerzen von dünnem Schmerz auf meinem Vorhinein evakuierte. Ich konnte 1.000 scharfe Ecke auf der Oberfläche meines Körpers fühlen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich fühlte den Wunsch der Entzündung, als ich bemerkte, dass das Ziel, das wir vor einigen Wochen vorgelegt hatten, zu erfüllen war. Dieser Gedanke allein machte mich, weiter zu bewegen, egal wie tief das Passage wurde. Ich atmetete in und aus für ein paar Sekunden, dann begann es. Oh ja. Oh ja. Oh ja. Oh ja. Oh ja. Ja, no shit. Ich zeigte B zurück, dass ich durchgegangen bin.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I will not reveal the names of the other people involved in this experience. If you know me well enough, you probably know them already. 3. I will not reveal the location of the cave to anyone for any reason. So please don't ask. I refuse to be held accountable for anyone's life but my own. I'll refer to the cave as Mystery Cave that is not its real name.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Wir haben beide einen Moment genommen, um uns auf unseren Erfolg zu gratulieren. B hätte wahrscheinlich niemals die Möglichkeit gehabt, den Passagier durchzuschneiden und zu sehen, was ich gesehen habe, also gab ich ihm eine Beschreibung, wie die Kälte aussah. An diesem Punkt hatte ich nur meinen Mini-Mag, also konnte ich nicht sehr weit in den Passagier sehen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Der Ende des Passages machte einen leichten rechten Schritt und sah aus, als würde er weggehen. Ich konnte an diesem Punkt nichts tun, aber sitze, wegen der Größe des Passages. All the broken rocks we had pushed through Floyd's tomb were around me at this point. There were no other signs of human intrusion. I had to wait until B passed me my helmet light to get a better feeling for the cave.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
B used the pole we had made to slide me the end of the rope. Then I was able to pull all of my gear through the squeeze. The first thing he sent through was my helmet and light. After I got the light fired up, I was able to see our new section of the cave. Hier haben wir eine dieser Bilder.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich bin so froh, dass das passiert ist. Ja, ich liebe das für mich. Danke. Der erste Teil des neuen... Das ist eine Beschreibung für das Bild. Der erste Teil des neuen Passages. Ich war fast auf dem Weg, seit der Passage so klein war. Meine Beine sind vor mir gestiegen, wie Sie sehen können. Sie sehen den gebrochenen Stein auf dem Flur des Kaisers.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Der Passage sieht aus wie ein totes Ende, aber es dreht sich langsam nach rechts, nahe dem Ende.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich fragte B, wie weit er dachte, dass ich in den neuen Kaisen reinkommen sollte. Im Hinblick auf die seltsamen Events, die sich ergeben haben. For the first time, he too toned down his enthusiasm as he remembered the noises. Oh yeah, now.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
If you think these events sound far-fetched, I agree. I would come to the same conclusion had I not experienced them. I'll try to finish the site as soon as possible. Check the date on the main page to see what I've made updates. So basically lays out the ground rules for what is going to be the series that follows. So, we now move into the discovery portion.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
He slid the pipe through the tomb with a loosened tip on the end. Er sagte, ich könnte ihn als Waffe benutzen, wenn ich in ein Tier reingehe oder... Ich mag das Dot-Dot-Dot. Oder eine dämonische Entität einsetzen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Oder vielleicht das Ding, das hinter dir liegt. Er hat mir auch gesagt, dass wir uns sicher machen können, dass wir uns hören können, als ich in die Kirche hineingegangen bin. Obwohl wir zumindest dachten, dass es möglich wäre, in Schmerzen zu kommen. We never really considered the fact that if I got into trouble, Bea would never be able to rescue me.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
And in fact, no one would be able to get to me for many hours. If I were in serious trouble, as in hurt, there was no way anyone would be able to get me in time. But, symbolic of the whole experience, we were focused on our goal, and not the potential dangers we faced. So far, we had dodged the proverbial bullet. So far.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich hielt meine Hose an die Knochen, nahm meine Kamera und begann mein Abenteuer. Ich schlug durch die Passage, die ich oben bezeichnet habe, die ca. 20 Meter lang war. Am Ende war der Weg, der die Wälder schlug, etwas nach rechts. Ich musste auf eine leichte Strecke steigen, aber dann konnte ich am Ende der nächsten Seite der Wälder stehen. Die nächste Seite war ca. 40 Meter lang.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Im Gegensatz zu einer höheren Bühne waren die Wälder etwas breiter als die Seite, die ich gerade geschraubt habe. Beide Seiten waren relativ streitig. Der Flur war mit einer Art Stein, der sich krankte, als ich mich zerstörte, und dann über den Weg gestiegen bin. Die Wälder waren im Grunde die gleiche Größe wie in einem Mystery Cave, nur präziser.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Es war offensichtlich, dass niemand dort vor mir war. Auf einer kürzere Beobachtung der Wände fand ich zwei leckere Formationen. Die erste erinnerte an mehrere Stücke von geradetem Käse, verbunden auf einem Ende. Mit dem Rest des Käses flippend runter. Die zweite Formation war nur kleine Stücke von Stein, dünner als menschliches Haar. Es sah ziemlich cool aus.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich habe mehrere Beispiele für beide Formationen gefunden. I was not even through the second section of cave and I could barely hear B. Cave passages are not very acoustically friendly. I shouted to him that I would go for half an hour then return. He said that I'd be fine and to be careful. Then I proceeded to explore some more. I could walk nearly upright at this point.
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I was on the third straight section of the cave when I noticed a crystal formation on the wall to my right. It was in several layers on the wall, resembling clear candle wax. Okay, so that... I don't think I thought of that first time, but that is a very interesting detail. Nothing has ever been back here.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
And if a stalactite got heavy enough that it fell off, then it would be on the ground right below you, right? But for some reason, something has moved it at some point in history. That's pretty cool. At some point from now to the beginning of time, something has moved that broken stalactite or broken it off potentially. That's fine.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Yeah, it just happened. We have a picture. It says the crystal formations are right behind the rock in the upper right hand corner of the photo. I could walk upright but had to stoop on occasions like ducking under that rock. Such a pretty, so pretty, so haunting at the same time.
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The passages continued on for another hundred feet or so before the cave opened up a little. It was at the end of a short straight segment of the cave. Am Ende des Segments hat sich die Kave nach links gewandert und sich in einen Raum geöffnet. An dem Punkt, an dem der Raum begann, gab es einen runden Stein, der sich gegen den Wall gelegt hatte.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Das sah seltsam aus, aber singuläre Formationen sind in Käfen üblich, also sind sie nicht einzigartig. Ich habe mich über mehrere große Teile des Steins gesteckt, die von der Kante heruntergefallen sind, aber dieser war runder als die anderen. Ugh. Oh, Mann. Oh, Gott. Und es ist so, als ob du in einem riesigen Raum unter dem Boden bist, in dem kein Mensch je gesessen hat. Ja.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Und dann fühlst du dich, als ob du geschaut wirst. Es ist, äh, es ist, es ist wie die Sensation von, äh, allein zu sein, wie du über die Geschichten von Space Horse hörst, von allein auf der Erde zu sein, richtig? Wie der letzte Mann auf der Erde, aber er, aber etwas ist da mit ihm, weißt du, es ist wie, was auch immer hier ist, sollte nicht existieren.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I will divide the text into two colors for the sake of clarity. The plain text is taken directly from my cave-in journal. The italicized text is my comment as I reflect on the experience. I will do my best to convey the thoughts and feelings I had during the entire event. I will not use the actual names of the other individuals involved. I will include the entire relevant text of my journal.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Wieder einmal fiel die Erwartung auf den neuen Find. Und die Erinnerungen an die mysteriöse Seite der Kirche riefen sich zurück in meinen Kopf. Plötzlich fühlte ich mich sehr allein. Glücklicherweise war mein Ego fast aus dem Zeitraum, und ich musste zurück in B, bevor meine halbe Stunde hoch war. I took several pictures of the room.
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I was going to just get a feel for how long the next passage was when something caught my attention. On the left side of the room, on the wall at about eye level, I discovered what appeared to be hieroglyphics. Oh, God. It was a single drawing that almost appeared to be just part of the rock coloration. It looked like very crude representations of people standing below a symbol.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich war überrascht. Das bedeutet, dass es noch eine Entfernung zu diesem Gebirge gab. Selbst wenn die Entfernung geschlossen oder blockiert war, könnte es eine Möglichkeit geben, sie zu öffnen und in den Gebirge zu kommen. Ich habe noch einmal das Bild angeschaut, um sicherzustellen, dass ich es bezeichnen kann. Dann habe ich ein paar mehr Bilder genommen und zurückgekehrt.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Als ich zurückgekommen bin, konnte ich fast nicht sprechen genug, um B zu wissen, was ich entdeckt habe. Er war nur gespannt auf unsere neu gefundenen Treue. Als wir darüber diskutierten, was unser nächster Schritt sein würde, begann ich, mein Gehirn wieder durch den Turm zu senden. Ich sagte ihm, es wäre am besten, wenn wir jemanden haben würden, um mit mir zurückzukommen, falls etwas passiert.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Er verabschiedete sich. Sobald ich mein Gehirn durchgezogen habe, war ich befasst mit der wunderbaren Aufgabe, Floyds Turm wieder zu negotieren. Theoretisch sollte eine Person aus einem Pass, den sie gerade durchgegraben hat, einfach durchdrehen können, wie sie es gerade gemacht hat.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Wenn er einen bestimmten Weg in seinen Körper geht, sollte er in die gleiche Position kommen, um sich herauszuholen. In der Praxis ist dies nicht möglich oder praktisch. So war es mit dem Turm. Ich habe in der Voraussetzung bemerkt, dass ich versuchen würde, nach vorne durch den Wurf zurück zu gehen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich wusste, dass ich es definitiv machen würde, mit den Füßen zu gehen, aber das würde bedeuten, dass ich die ganze Zeit durch den Turm zurückgehen würde. Das würde einen langen Zeitraum nehmen und sehr anstrengend sein. Mein einziger Wunsch war, wenn ich am Ende des Entspannens gekommen wäre.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich müsste durch das Loch gehen, das wir gemacht haben, ohne den Vorteil zu haben, meinen Körper zu verwandeln. Oh, na gut. Ich habe mich entschieden, zuerst mit dem Ausgang zu handeln, als ich darauf gekommen bin.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I started into the squeeze very close to the tight spot, so at least I would have it over with soon. It turned out to be tricky getting through. I had to shift my hips to the right a little to get through, but I just kept plugging away at it. My hands were once again by my side, my head was turned to the right and I was scooting with my toes.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
And once again, I was using my head as a gauge to tell when I was at the tight spot, then when I was past it. I seemed to get tired a little quicker on the way out. Must have been from all the work we had done to get through. I was a little over halfway through when something bizarre happened. I was laying there taking a brief break when I heard a sound deep within the cave.
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It was faint, but distinct sound of rock sliding on rock. My blood froze in its veins. I couldn't move. I just lay there straining to hear the sound again. Nothing. I quickly began to scoot toward the exit. I didn't mention the sound to B, but I did recall one of our earlier trips when B said he heard the same thing.
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Only small parts of the journal will I skip. This will only occur when the entry has nothing to do with the experience in the cave, such as eating dinner after a trip, getting fuel or snacks, irrelevant details, etc. My journal is fairly thorough. I will merely summarize what I am cutting out of the actual entry.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
The task of getting out of our hole turned out to be as painful as I thought it would be. I had to put my arms overhead and force my shoulders through the hole. I definitely left some skin behind as I slipped through. B helped me as I wiggled my upper body out of the passage. Dann konnte ich mich fangen und meinen unteren Körper aus dem Turm auslösen. Ich war raus.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
B und ich schlugen die Hände und begannen, unsere Geräte aufzulösen. Ich versuchte, die Geräte aus dem Turm zu hören, aber wir machten zu viel Geräusch, um unsere Geräte zu sammeln. Sobald ich mich auf die Entfernung erhofft habe, war es eine Erleichterung, wieder rauszukommen. So fühle ich mich in den Kaisen im Allgemeinen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich liebe es, in die Kaisen zu gehen, aber ich fühle mich gut, wenn ich wieder rauskomme. Something strange happened with the pictures I took in the new part of the cave. The pictures I took in the passage leading up to the large room all turned out just fine. Strangely, none of the pictures taken in the room turned out. God, dude. Fuck off. Could you imagine? Fuck that. Oh, it's so good.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Oh, that's so fun that like the room you felt like you're being watched in. Ah, man. Fuck. God, dude. Fuck that. Oh my gosh, it's so fun. So, the drawing says, the description says, it's a crude drawing of what I saw, but it's accurate. First thing I thought when I saw it was Blair Witch Project. Kind of has the same feel to it.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Symbols in the center and several figures that looked like people raising their hands were below this.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
There's also something so haunting about it being alone. You know, just like, I don't know, especially on the Angel Fire when you open it and your whole screen is just the image. So you have a picture.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
It's like something that'd be put up on a pyre. I almost imagine one time this is like the cave, like an as below, so as above, so below thing. Like it's almost like a map. Aber ich weiß nicht. Vielleicht ist es ein Symbol eines Kreaturen. Vielleicht ist es ein Ritual. Ich weiß nicht. Ich liebe, dass es da ist. Und es da zu sein, bedeutet so viel auch. Hat ein Mensch da schon mal gewesen?
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ist es vielleicht ein Dämon, der das gemacht hat? Ist es vielleicht eine ältere Sache? Ist es eine verlorene Religion, die zu dem Zeitpunkt vergessen wurde? Wer weiß.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
In an effort to present this experience in as accurate light as possible, I will type my journal as I wrote it sans grammar check. Please overlook my errors. My additional comments will help to clarify the things I wrote in my caving journal. So... Das ist basically the breakdown. We are now getting into the journal itself. And again, he is keeping anonymity for the people he's involved with.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
It just, it worked so well. It's killer. Then we have two more pictures like that. Next one says, this is the last picture before I entered the large room. At the end of the passage, partially hidden in the shadows, is the round rock that I saw. So we see the first one and then the second one says, here's the same picture with the round rock outline.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
You can't really tell from the pictures what you're looking at. They're the only ones I got of the round rock. Oh my God. Which again, the picture is so terrifying. Also just the idea of a perfectly round rock in the middle of the room.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
It's kind of odd, right? Yeah. We're already getting some ideas, which not to give away my theory, but you have a rock that is round and you hear the sound of like... Rock on Rock Bewegungen, wie etwas passiert in diesem Raum, aber es wird nicht vor ihm passieren. Aus irgendeinem Grund.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Oh, okay, also gehen wir weiter mit April 14th und bleiben, bleiben wir in diesem Bereich. Also wirklich April 14th, 2001. Nur ein paar Tage bevor B. jemanden gefunden hat, der die Passage mit uns besuchen wollte. B. hat mir gesagt, dass er mit einigen anderen Menschen gesprochen hat, die es nicht machen konnten, weil es um Beschlüsse ging.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Er sagte, dass sie ihn wirklich gegrillt haben, um Informationen über die Kirche und über die Passage zu bekommen. Er würde ihnen nicht sagen, welche Kirche es war, um sicherzustellen, dass wir es zu unserer Zufriedenheit besuchen, bevor wir es dem Publikum bekannt machten. Auch derjenige, der mit uns ging, wusste nicht, welche Kirche es war, bis wir sehr nah dran waren.
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He was warned of secrecy that he would not reveal the location of the cave to anyone on the planet. I wanted to identify him by name, so I will just refer to him as Joe. Joe, Bea and I set out early in the morning to make sure we could spend all the time we wanted in the new passage. When we got to the cave, we were able to rig up and descend rather quickly.
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It helps when you don't have to haul half a hardware store down into the cave. Joe was impressed by our work. Joe ist ein ziemlich dünner Käfer, der viel Erfahrung in Käfen hatte. Er sagte, das könnte sein, dass er in den Käfern gefangen hat, aber es hat ihn nicht geholfen. Ich wusste, dass er es physisch schaffen würde, weil ich größer war als er und ich es gemacht habe.
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Er war so gespannt wie wir, um durchzukommen und Käfen zu machen. Vielleicht mehr. Das ist so verdammt. Das ist so verdammt verdammt. Das Wort vielleicht ist so lustig.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
So for example, B, who we're going to hear throughout the story, is just a pseudonym for whatever.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Yeah, sure. Yeah. Just something. It was perhaps admittedly our bad. What exactly do you tell someone? How many of the weird things did we need to reveal to him? We did not feel that we were in any danger or we would not go in the cave ourselves. So we did not tell him prior to him entering Floyd's tomb. Natürlich sagten wir ihm später, dass es zu spät war.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich konnte nicht glauben, wie einfach Joe durch den Passagier flog. Er sagte, dass es fest war, aber es sah nicht so aus. Sobald er reingekommen ist, haben wir ihm sein Fahrzeug übernommen und dann habe ich angefangen. Obwohl ich wusste, dass ich durchführen kann, war es immer noch ein langer Zug durch den Turm. Du kannst nur so schnell gehen, wenn du mit deinen Beinen steigst.
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When I reached the tight spot of the squeeze, I had Joe snap a picture of me. I thought it would make a good photo. Once I got through, B started to relay my stuff to me. Then disaster struck. I had gone all the way in and turned around to pull my gear through. I had to kneel down and still crouch down low.
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I had just got my helmet, ironically, and light and was turning around to feed the rope back to B when I smacked my head on the top of the passage. Human skull versus solid rock. Rock one. I told B what had happened so he sent my first aid kit through. I was bleeding but even worse I didn't feel too good. Als ich dort lag, konnte ich ihn in der Dunkelheit hören.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Yes. So December 30th, 2000. Bea und ich haben uns entschieden, einen weiteren Kaving-Trip vor dem neuen Jahr zu machen, also haben wir unsere Augen auf Mystery Cave gesetzt. Nicht eine spektakuläre Kave, aber da wir beide schon lange im Kaving waren, wäre es schön, in jede Kave zu gehen. Es gibt ein bisschen Aufregung bei dieser Reise.
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Sein Licht verschwand nach der ersten Runde. Ich durfte einen Moment oder zwei, dann begann meine Reise zurück durch den Wurf. Es war bemerkenswert, dass ich den ganzen Weg in die Wälder ging und dann es nicht beobachten konnte, bis zum Ende. Eigentlich tötet es mich. After I got through Floyd's tomb, which was painful, I sat down and munched on a cliff bar while Bea and I chatted.
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I told him I would pay for a motel room if he would stay overnight. Then we could see how I was doing the next day and make another attempt at the cave. I felt goofy for having smacked my head on the cave wall. Bea said he was willing to give it another try tomorrow. He was just as anxious to put some closure to this cave.
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As long as Joe would stay overnight, we determined to wrap things up the next day. Once this was settled, we just sat back and enjoyed the darkness. We could hear no sounds coming from the passage. The sounds reminded me of the scraping noise that I heard last time we were out there. I brought up the subject with Bea.
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Since I had not explored the cave completely, I could not offer any explanation of what could be making the scraping noise. Or the change to the wind strength. Or the rumbling. Or that terrible scream we heard. Suddenly, both wish we had not sent Joe into the cave alone. Oh, now you realize.
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I know the story needed this beat to happen, but just from everything we know about our author, Ted, I don't think, even if his head was bleeding, he would have not continued, at least to the main room.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
If he is injured enough that he can sit in the cave with B for two hours, he would have continued through at least to the atrium room.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
B went to the hole and yelled into it. Joe! Keine Antwort. Nicht überraschend. Man hört sich einfach nicht so gut aus, wenn man sich in einem Gebirge sehr weit entfernt fühlt. Wir warten nervös auf irgendwelche Geräusche. Gute Geräusche, das sind Joe-Type Geräusche. 25-Minuten-Zeitlimit, die wir gesetzt hatten, passen. In 25 Minuten.
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Ich hatte wirklich kein Wunsch, wieder durch die Schnauze zu steigen. Mein Gehirn war immer noch schmerzhaft und die Schnauze sah stärker aus als jemals. Ich wusste trotzdem, dass ich Joe sicher machen musste. Just as I was getting prepared to go back through, I saw a light deep in the passage. Joe? I called out. Nothing. Joe! Still no answer.
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Es gibt einen kleinen Pass in der niederen Teil der Kave, den ich ausprobieren wollte, um zu sehen, ob es möglich ist, ihn über die Kave zu kommen. Es hatte eine kleine Öffnung, aber es gab viel Luft. Obwohl es viel zu klein war, um durchzukommen, habe ich noch nie beobachtet, was in der Passage drin war. Wir haben unsere Fahrzeuge aufgeladen und sind um 3 Uhr auf dem Weg gekommen.
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The light got brighter and I could hear the noise of someone crawling across the broken rock that lined the cave. You okay, Joe? No, was his weak reply. Als er auf die andere Seite des Turms ging, sagte er, dass er sich nicht gut fühlte. Er hat schnell seine Schuhe entfernt und sie in die Tasche gesetzt, damit wir sie durchziehen können.
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Als ich die Tasche durch die Passage gesetzt habe, begann er, sich zurück in den Turm zu steigen. Wir hatten nicht einmal die Chance, ihn zu fragen, was er vorher gesehen hatte, bevor er zurückgekommen ist. Er ist schnell durch die Schnauze und den Loch geschlüpft und wir haben ihn endlich gesehen. Er sah schrecklich aus. Sein Gesicht war schmerzhaft und er war aus dem Atem.
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Das Schmuck, das den Boden des Schmucks befindet, hat sein Zeichen auf seinem Gesicht und Klappen verleuchtet. Er hatte mehrere kleine Schmerzen und Schmerzen auf seinem Gesicht und Arm, wahrscheinlich aus seinem schnellen Ausflug aus dem Passage. Seine Augen waren weit offen.
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Wir hatten nur einen kurzen Moment, um zu schauen, wie sich die Veränderung auf Joe bewegte, bevor er anfing, nach oben und aus der Kirche zu gehen, ohne ein Wort zu sagen. Während Joe und Bee für die Oberfläche begonnen haben, habe ich einen Moment genommen, um unser Fahrzeug zusammenzubringen. Dann habe ich aufgehört, in den Passage zu hören. I heard nothing. And I felt nothing.
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The wind had stopped. Part of me wanted to get out of the cave as fast as possible. But another part of me wanted to immediately climb back through the passage to find out what made this cave tick. Then was not the time though. I still felt a dizzy from my injury. At that moment I noticed Bea and Joe had made good time getting up the cave passage and I was left alone.
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Chills ran through my body as I scurried to catch up with them. Once we got outside the cave, I figured we would be able to find out more from Joe. But when he got up the final climb, he just unclipped from the rope and went straight to the truck. In the light of day, he looked even worse than in the cave. Bea and I gathered up the rope and our gear and headed for the truck.
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Joe said he did not want to stay overnight because he felt terrible and we believed him, so we headed home. We could get no more information from Joe. He just stared straight ahead. He was shaking like a leaf and he said he was not cold. When we tried to question him, his answers were short. I asked him if he saw the hieroglyphics. No. Did you hear his yelling? No. Did you see the round rock?
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Did he see the crystals? No. He said he just went a little ways in and started to feel sick. Something was fishy about his answers. Er hätte die Kristalle sehen müssen, wenn er weit genug in die Wälder kam, dass er nicht hören konnte, dass er weint. Aber warum würde er nicht erläutern? Der Rest der Reise passierte in ehrlicher Stille. Joe sagte nichts anderes.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Er gab ihm eine kurze Auszeichnung der seltsamen Events, die in der Wälder geschehen sind. Er antwortete nicht. Als wir ihn abgelenkt hatten, fragten wir, ob er zurück in die Wälder gehen wollte. Er schlug seinen Kopf an und rief in sein Haus. Ich versuchte, ihn später am Tag zu nennen, und am nächsten Tag bekam er nur sein Wortmeld.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Wir sind in einem tollen Zeitraum in der Kirche gekommen, da B schnell fahren will. We anchored from the usual tree and began to rappel into the cave. I went down first and got my gear together while B came down. What's the saying with caving? If it blows, it goes.
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Yeah. Yeah. It's like, so my theory is, Because I don't think, some people look at this and they're like, oh, a giant monster or something like attacked him or whatever stuff. I think that's a bit much. I think he probably got the exact same feeling that Ted had in that room, like something's watching me. Und es hat ihn schmerzhaft gemacht.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Und dann vielleicht, als er begonnen hat, seinen Weg rauszuholen, hat er den Rundrock direkt hinter ihm gehört. Rollen näher oder so etwas wie das, richtig? Wie etwas, was dich nicht sofort auf die Supernatur oder Extraordinärung tippt.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Alright, so we now move in. This is the last big entry. And this is like the big one, the one everyone remembers. So this is April 28th, 2001. In this journal entry, I discussed briefly the feelings B and I had at this point. I would like to elaborate on those feelings and set the mood for this part of my journal.
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I hope I can successfully convey our exact thoughts and feelings as we contemplated our next move. Wenn nicht, bin ich froh, dass wir dem üblichen Leser als ignorant, naiv oder aufwärts schuldig aussehen. Diese Kirche war für uns die Kulmination von Wochen langer Arbeit, voll mit einer Reihe von Emotionen. Von Verzweiflung zu Angst, Antizipation zu Schmerz, Frustration zu Glorien.
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Für uns standen wir nicht auf der Brücke von möglicher Zerstörung, sondern rather hielten uns eine ungesagte Angelegenheit, wie ein Vater eines wehwürdigen Kindes. Wir wollten nicht unser Kind aus der Angst vor dem Unbekannten verlassen. Wie es oder nicht, wurde diese Kave ein Teil von uns. Und jetzt müssen wir diese Abenteuer zu ihrer Führung sehen.
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Außerdem, für beide Erklärungen abgesehen, wurden wir mit Freude lebendig gegessen. Obwohl der überraschenden Anzahl von unerklärten Ereignissen, die wir erlebt haben, mussten wir zurück in diese Kave. Was machte den rumpelnden Geräusch? Was verursachte die Veränderung in Windkraft, etc., etc., bis zu Joe? Was könnte ihm möglicherweise geschehen? Was hat er gesehen oder erlebt?
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Wir hatten viele längere Diskussionen darüber, was unser nächster Schritt sein würde. Wir kamen immer zur gleichen Schlussfolgerung. Wir mussten zurück in den Kaisen. Wir konnten keine möglichen Szenarien offerieren, die die vielen Rituale im Kaisen enthalten hätten. Der einzige Weg, den wir hoffen könnten, um das Puzzle zu erreichen, wäre es, die Kirche zu besiegen.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Wir waren zurück in Mystery Cave. Also... Ist das ein Punkt, an dem du sie als dumm bezeichnest?
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
I mean, that's true, I guess. I would be a little worried about what is doing the action. Just you and your boys, dude. Oh, the people you bring in with you. That's fine. I thought you meant you find something in a cave.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Zwei Wochen nach unserer Reise mit Joe waren wir auf dem Weg zurück in die Wälder. Um sich für diese Reise zu vorbereiten, haben wir die lokale Wälder-Rescue-Gruppe kontaktiert und die Möglichkeit bekommen, ihr Low-Voltage-2-Way-Phone zu verkaufen. Das Phone enthält zwei Transceivers und einen langen Spul Thin-Wire.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich konnte dann das Wire auswenden, als ich in die Passage ging und mit mir die ganze Zeit in Kontakt mit mir stand. Wir haben auch gedacht, es wäre eine gute Idee, eine Videokamera in die neue Passage zu nehmen. Wir haben einen Kasten gekauft, der meine Videokamera aus Stoff schützt, sowie scharfe Steine.
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Ich war mehr als bereit, den Kost des Geschehens zu bezahlen, um sicherzustellen, dass B den ganzen Passagier sehen konnte. Mein Kopf war in Ordnung. Ich hatte noch eine leichte rote Linie, um den Spot zu markieren, wo ich versucht habe, den Stein mit meinem Kopf zu brechen. Ich bin nie zu einem Arzt gegangen, aber es war eine sehr schmerzhafte Erfahrung.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich habe überlegt, was hätte passieren können, wenn ich in den Passagier mit Joe gegangen wäre. Er war ein verändertes Mann, als er rauskam. I have been calling his house nearly every day trying to talk to him, but he won't answer his phone. He called his work and a mutual friend told him that Joe called in sick two weeks ago and hasn't been seen since. God, God.
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He said Joe warned his boss he might be out for a while. I haven't stopped by his house twice. First time it looked like someone was home, no one answered the door. Second time his car was gone and there were no lights on. I hoped to talk to him before this trip, but it didn't work out. So we were rigging up the rope to descend into the cave, I felt something for the first time.
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I did not want to go into the cave. It was not a feeling of foreboding. I was not receiving some premonition. I just had no desire to enter the underground world of Mystery Cave. I didn't share this feeling with me at the time. Even though I had no desire to go into the cave, I knew we had to. So I double checked my gear and slipped over the edge of the cliff.
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Right from the beginning, it seemed like the cave did not want us to be there. Nothing went smoothly. Every time we tried to clip a carabiner or tie a knot or attach something to the rope, we had to do it two or three times to get it right. Fortunately, we recognized this and made sure everything was safe and secure.
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As we slowly made our way down, we were continually bumping into the side of the cave or stumbling as we walked or dropping things. We finally reached a point where we stopped to gather ourselves before continuing. Unsere Lüge waren relativ leicht, aber wir haben uns lange gedauert, bis wir in die Höhle kamen. Am Ende haben wir es geschafft.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Yeah, I'm kind of worried for your intentions with me that every story we come across that involves two male characters, you always take in that direction.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Wir haben die Kamera und Telefon angeschaut, um sicherzustellen, dass sie die Reise überleben. Wir haben alles getestet und ich habe die Arme, die ich in den Passage nehmen wollte, gesammelt. Dann war es Zeit. Wir haben uns geguckt und haben nichts gesagt. Dann habe ich die Füße des Passages umgekehrt.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Als ich mit meinem Körper begonnen habe, in den Turm zu kommen, habe ich es sehr gehofft, dass es das letzte Mal wäre, dass ich meinen Körper bewegen würde, um in diesen Klosterphobischen Schmerz zu kommen. The trip through Floyd's tomb went smoothly, figuratively speaking. After I got through, we took several minutes to get everything passed through to me.
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I got suited up and tested all the equipment. The phone worked like a charm. I videotaped the squeeze and then the first section of the new passage. Since I would be unable to tape while I crawled, my plan was to crawl to the next section, then stop and film some more. I could video what I had just been through and then video what I was going to crawl through next.
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So konnte ich jede Seite von beiden Enden bekommen. Ich fühlte mich ziemlich gut über den Tritt. Ich fühlte eine persönliche Zufriedenheit, dass ich einen Weg geben konnte, um B zu sehen, wie die Früchte seines Arbeitgebers aussehen. Es war seltsam, die Kamera abzulegen und das Schraubendreher zu lösen, während ich versuchte zu schlafen. Ich wusste, dass es es wert war.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Die kleinen Formationen waren zu klein, um auf dem Video zu zeigen. Mit normaler Außenlichtung wäre es kein Problem, aber mit meinem Headlight als einzigartiger Lichtstoff war der Versuch fudal. The crystal formations turned out quite nice. They were easily large enough and made for some pretty good footage. I took advantage of the film stop to check the phone.
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It was comforting to hear someone's voice deep within the passage. We chatted briefly, then I unplugged the phone and prepared to continue. The phone resembled an oversized regular phone. More like the ones you would see in war movies. When I wanted to talk to Bea, I would just plug the phone into a special jack on the spool of wire.
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Die Power-Source war auf Bs Seite des Phones, also wurde es immer aufgedrückt. Die Anrufung war so klar wie ein normales Handy. Ich ging weiter. Obwohl der Prozess langsam war, war es steil. Alles ging ziemlich gut, bis ich den Runden Rock erreichte. Wieder einmal hatte ich ein seltsames Gefühl, genau wie die letzte Zeit. Ich schaute vorsichtig um, aber sah nichts, worüber ich beruhigt war.
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Ich fing an, das ganze Zimmer zu filmen. Ich habe gute Fotos des Runden Rocks von allen Seiten bekommen. Ich habe die Wälder, den Garten, den Flur bis zu meiner Fähigkeit. Ich habe auch ein ziemlich gutes Tape von der Figur auf der Wand. Es ist schwierig, genau zu erkennen, was es auf dem Video war, aber man kann definitiv sagen, dass etwas da war.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Nachdem ich alles zu meiner Zufriedenheit geklappt habe, bin ich nach dem Ende der Raum geflogen, um neue Gebäude zu besuchen. Am weitesten Ende der großen Raum war eine Passage, die in die Dunkelheit geführt hat. Die Entfernung war etwa einen Fuß niedriger als meine und es sah so aus, als ob es an dieser Höhe noch so weit zurückgehen würde, wie ich es sehen konnte.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich bin unter den Boden gedrückt und habe mich vorbereitet, neue Szenen zu sehen. Die Wände der neuen Passage waren bis jetzt dunkler als die Rest der Kirche. Der Boden war aus dem selben Art von gebrochenen Steinen. Der Boden hatte den selben Art von nahem perfekten Arsch, wie in der alten Reihe von Mystery Cave. Es sah fast so aus, als wäre ein Cave in einer hübschen Atmosphäre.
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Ich konnte nur ca. 30 Meter zurücksehen, als sich der Passagier umgekehrt hat. Ich dachte, das wäre ein guter Ort, um mit B zu kämpfen. Es dauerte ein paar Beats, bevor er das Telefon beantwortete, aber als er es machte, war seine Stimme immer noch kristallklar. It sounded like he might have been snoozing. I've been gone that long.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
He said he was doing fine and that I could take as much time as I needed. I thanked him and hung up. His patience has been wonderful during this whole project. He has spent a lot of time just waiting for me while I explored the passage. I was glad he was still willing to sit and wait. I hung up the phone and started to film the new passage. And then it happened.
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From behind me, I heard the scraping noise. Es war laut, es war nahe, es kam aus dem großen Raum, das ich gerade verlassen hatte. Ich drehte mich um, um zu sehen, was das Geräusch gemacht hat. Wenn ich es gemacht habe, habe ich meine Präsenz verloren und stand gleichzeitig auf. Krümmel! Mein Helm brach in den Passage-Gelände. Mein Licht brach und ich war in der schweren Dunkelheit verbrannt.
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Schmerz schlug durch meinen Nacken und in meinen Rücken. Der Helm hatte meinen Kopf geschützt, aber mein Nacken war fast aus dem Einfluss. Der Schmerz enthüllte mich und meine Knochen begannen zu wechseln. Ich schlug langsam und involuntär zu meinen Knochen. Ich setzte die Kamera langsam herunter, als ich die Sterne aus dem Schmerz meines oberen Halses gesehen habe.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Der Schraubgeräusch dauerte nur einen Sekunden und jetzt war der einzige Geräusch, den ich hören konnte, mein eigenes panikgespürtes Atmen. Not only could I feel the fear thick upon my chest, but the darkness seemed to hold me in place. I felt like I was vulnerable from every direction. I wanted to turn and look behind me and to the side of me and in front of me. Everywhere I looked, I saw black.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Finally, I broke the stupor, terror long enough to reach for an alternate light source, the mini mag on my helmet. I twisted the light to turn it on, and when I did, I nearly cried. I had forgotten to put fresh batteries in, and now I could barely see more than a few feet. Stimmt, besser als nichts. Ich begann sofort, die Lichter mit all meiner Macht in den großen Raum zu schalten.
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My mom texted me the other day. She's like, oh, I started listening to Creepcast. And I'm like, oh no. No, please. I will refer to be many times. Okay, well... Was ich gesagt habe! Das bedeutet, wenn ein Passagier einen guten Luftfluss hat, ist es wahrscheinlich wert, um zu investigieren. Okay. Nachdem wir alle normalen Passagen besucht haben, sind wir runtergekommen, um das Loch zu beobachten.
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Ich versuchte, einen Blick auf jede Bewegung in der Raum zu bekommen. Nichts. Ich war wütend, als ich da saß, um herauszufinden, was ich tun soll. Mein Geist war nicht klar. Ich dachte ehrlich gesagt, dass ich direkt in der Wälder sterben werde. Für einen fliegenden Moment fragte ich mich, wie B überhaupt herausfinden würde, was mir passiert ist. Dann hat mich ein Bouldern gefangen. Die Telefon.
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My mind must have been clearing up at the point because I also thought about my glow sticks. Without taking my eyes off the large room, I felt around in my pack for the glow sticks. Since I was carrying the phone and video camera, I removed as much as possible from my pack and one of the things I left with me was my backup headlamp. Thus, I was left with only the glow sticks.
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I found one and ripped it out of the package. I could tell something was wrong by how it sounded. It has been inadvertently broken and was now useless. I chucked it on the ground and searched my pack for another one. I took my eyes off the large room only to check the passage behind me occasionally. I found another glowstick, broke it to light it up.
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Der leichte grüne Schmerz hat die Wälder der Wälder ausgelöst. Der Stick bietet kaum genug Licht, um das sofortige Gebiet zu sehen und gibt keinen Hinweis darauf, was vorhanden war. Ich fühlte den Pack für ein weiteres Licht, wieder ohne meine Augen aus dem Raum zu nehmen. Ich fühlte einen dritten gelöbten Stick und rief ihn aus dem Pack.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Nachdem ich es zerbrochen habe, um sicherzustellen, dass es funktioniert, habe ich es verspürt, dann habe ich den Glowstick in den großen Raum gelegt. Der Schmerz war ein perfekter und der Stick flog durch die Länge des Raumes. In dem kurzen Moment, in dem das Licht durch den Raum fliegte, sah ich nichts mehr als Waldwälder.
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Die Unabhängigkeit von etwas Ungewöhnlichem machte nichts, um meine Panik zu verhindern. In der Nähe des Raumes bekam ich einen kurzen Blick auf den runden Stein, als das Licht auf ihn fiel. Dann ging das Licht hinter dem Stein und sah sich weg. Ich war immer noch wackelnd, aber zumindest sah ich nichts. Stattdessen gab es den Geräusch.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich habe den Glowstick benutzt, um das Handy schnell aufzulösen und mit wackelnden Fingern habe ich es geschafft, mein Handy in den Jack zu stecken. Ich habe das Handy in mein Ohr gelegt und habe nichts gehört. Die üblichen Beats, um eine Verbindung mit dem anderen Handy zu zeigen, waren nicht da. Verrückt, habe ich das Handy aus dem Jacker gedreht und es wieder aufgeführt. Wieder die Ruhe.
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Die Linie war tot. Was hätte passieren können? Ich habe gerade mit dem Handy gesprochen. Ich fand mich fast mit Angst. Ich wusste, die einzige Weg aus hierher war zurück, wie ich gekommen bin, aber etwas war da. A third attempt at making contact with B met with the same results. I tried to think of another plan, but I could only focus on the memories of the grinding sound that I had heard.
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In my weakened state, I slumped against the side of the passage, breathing as if I had just finished a race, never breaking eye contact with the shadows of the large room. Als mein Schulter an der Wand getroffen wurde, hatte ich einen mächtigen Schmerz, der mich an meine Verzweiflung mit dem Ruf des Kaisers erinnerte. Leid, Schmerz, Schmerz.
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Ted The Caver | Creep Cast
Ich kann nicht genau sagen, wie lange ich dort saß, aber meine Beine klingelten und meine Knie schmerzten. Die Schmerzen in meinem Rücken kreppten niedrig, obwohl mein Nacken sich nicht anders fühlte. Ich versuchte, einen Versuch zu machen, dieses schreckliche Passage zu entfernen. Ich wusste, wenn ich zu lange aufwarte, würde ich das kleine Licht, das ich hatte, verlieren.
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Ich versuchte zu stehen, aber hatte nicht die Kraft. Ich schlug langsam bis zum nahen Ende des großen Raumes, drückte meinen Pack neben mir. Mit den Wänden des Kaisers konnte ich langsam stehen, obwohl nicht direkt, wegen meiner schmerzhaften Rücken. Statt schnell zu atmen, führte ich langsam durch den Raum. Ich wendete die Telefonanlage, als ich gegangen bin.
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Meine Augen standen direkt vor mir, für jeden Beweis von Bewegung. Mit jedem Schritt würde mein Licht unveränderten Schatten auf der Wand schießen, mich beschäftigt zu halten, um an jeden zu schauen. Meine Augen schlürfen, als ich bemerkte, dass ich nicht für viele Minuten blinke. Wie viele? Wie lange ist das passiert?
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Die einzigen Geräusche, die ich hören konnte, waren den Knall an meinen Beinen auf dem gebrochenen Stein und das Wehen meines Atems. Als ich das Chor gewandt habe, konnte ich den Schmuck des Radwurms hören, mit jedem Wurf bringe ich mich näher zu dem Teum, näher zu B, näher zur Sicherheit. The short trip through the room took an eternity.
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As I passed the crude drawing, it seemed to glow as if offering some sort of warning. I didn't know what the drawing represented, but everything about this cave seemed to instill fear. Toward the far end of the room, I could see the round rock dimly lit at the far reaches of my light. Something seemed different about it, but I couldn't tell what.
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When I got within a few feet, I could finally tell what had changed. It had moved. That was the sound I heard. Again, terror gripped my entire body as I realized how close I was to something. I had no choice but to continue. Still, it was not easy. I inched toward the rock, holding the glowstick ahead of me in my shaking hand, using it to pierce the darkness.
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I stopped just this side of the rock and wound up the slack of the foam wire. Then I realized why I'd lost contact with B. The rock was now sitting on the wire. I gave it a tug and the thin wire snapped. My only hope of contact with the outside world ceased to exist when that wire broke. I never felt so alone and helpless.
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Buried deep within the earth, I'd voluntarily descended into my own grave with a casket of solid rock. With the phone now useless, I set it down on the passage, my gaze fixed on the round rock. I proceeded forward. My breath was rapid, with my throat dry and aching and my mouth dusty. With every crunch of the rock below my feet, my heart seemed to stop.
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No movement could be seen in the green glow of my stick. I got to the rock and peered over the top. Seeing nothing, I took several rapid steps past it. When I reached the other side, I recoiled in horror at what I saw. Auf der Seite des Passages neben dem Boden war ein Loch, mit einem anderen Passage entdeckt. Es wurde von der Wolke geklemmt, aber jetzt wurde es ausgeschlossen.
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Die Wolke konnte sich nicht selbst bewegen. Ich ging weg aus dem Loch und kollidierte mit der oberen Wand. Ich hatte nicht die Aufmerksamkeit für die Schmerzen in meinem Rücken, aber jetzt kam es zu mir in all seiner Furcht. I stared down the newly discovered passage. It went down at a 45-degree angle and continued straight for as far as I could see.
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Several feet down, I could see the glow stick that I had thrown. It illuminated the passage enough that I could tell the walls were fairly smooth. The floor seemed to be the same way, unlike the rest of the cave. The passage was about three feet in diameter, as far as I could see. Es wäre ein leichter Versuch gewesen, ihn zu entdecken, wenn ich es nicht wollte.
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Ich wollte aus der Wälder und in den Sonnenschein. Ich ging langsam von der Höhle nach B. Ich nahm nie die Augen aus dem Abyss. Ich blieb fast über den Schmuck, als ich den Teufelsschlag verlassen musste. Ich bemerkte, dass mein Mini-Magg praktisch tot war, mich nur mit dem Glowstick zu verlassen. Ich wollte in Floyds Gebäude springen.
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Ein Hören eines Menschen würde mir helfen, einige der Angst, die ich erlebte, zu lösen. As I turned away from the large rock and the hole, I felt an overwhelming sense of panic fill my soul. I felt like a legion of demons was about to attack me from behind. I felt my salvation lie ahead of me in the darkness and Lucifer behind me, trying to keep me from safety.
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I found myself moving much faster than I should have been in that cave. My only thought was to get out as quickly as possible. I passed the crystal formation, barely even noticing this beautiful creation of nature in the green glow of my light. Every time I ducked to avoid a rock, I felt my back scream its reminder of my injury.
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When I got to the point of the passage where I had to crawl, I flung myself down on all fours, barely slowing down as I stopped. When my hands came in contact with the cave floor, I felt an electric shock shoot all the way down my back and simultaneously down my arms. For the first time since this nightmare began, I let out a scream.
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I crumpled down and lay there on the rock, with new levels of pain manifesting every time I inhaled. Whimpering from fear and pain, I tried to listen to any other noise in the cave. I could feel the silence pounding in my head. I knew from previous trips that Bea was still out of earshot, but I was close.
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Ich versuchte mich zu bewegen, ich witzte, als ich meinen Körper auf alle Vierer drückte und begann, in der Kirche zu prognostizieren. Ich hielt immer noch den Glowstick in der Hand, aber ich habe nicht mehr hinter mir geschaut. Jetzt war mein Fokus vor mir. Ich erreichte den Punkt, an dem ich schreien könnte, aber ich habe kein Geräusch gemacht.
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Das Loch ist tief in der Kirche, nahe der niedrigsten Seite der Kirche. Es ist auf der Seite einer Kirchenwalle, ungefähr drei Fuß von der Flur. Wenn man sich innerhalb des Loches anschaut, musste ich runterknien und unter einem Überhang von Stein stürzen. Oh mein Gott. Etwas, was auch lustig ist, besonders auf der Angel-Fire-Version, ist, dass alle Bilder ihre eigene URL sind.
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Ich wollte nicht lange genug stoppen, um zu sprechen. Finally, I reached the last stretch of the cave before the squeeze. As I was crawling toward the beginning of the tomb, I called to B. He answered back. I screamed to him to get everything ready to go. He asked if I was okay. Since he hadn't heard from me on the phone, he had gotten worried. I told him, no, and to get everything ready to go.
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When I reached the rope, I flipped off my helmet and shoved it into the pack. For the first time, I realized I had forgotten the video camera. Es war ein fliehender Gedanke. Ich wusste nicht mehr mehr über diese Kamera, als ein Passagier auf der Titanic sich um eine Hatte oder einen Schrank kümmert. Ich hab den Pack an die Röhrung gesteckt und ihm gesagt, ihn durchzuführen.
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Dann hab ich ihm gesagt, dass er nach der Oberfläche anfängt, sobald er die Röhrung durchführt. Er fragte, warum, und ich schrie, dass etwas in der Kirche mit uns war. My back ached with every move I made. I knew it didn't matter though. I was going to get through the tomb as fast as I could, injuries notwithstanding. Just as I started into the squeeze, I felt the wind in the passage increase.
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And with it, the most nauseating stench I have ever experienced. It smelled like damp, rotten, rancid, putrid death. I almost started to dry heave. I pulled my shirt up over my nose to shield me from the overpowering smell. At this point, B smelled it too. He yelled... Was ist das? Dann hat er mich geäußert, um schnell durchzukommen.
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Ich habe ihm gesagt, dass ich komme, dann habe ich einen tiefen Atem durch mein Shirt genommen und bin zurückgefahren. Bees Gehör hatte meine Angst und Panik intensiviert, als ob ich Hilfe benötige. Ich wusste, dass er die Urgenz senden könnte, um aus diesem Ort zu kommen.
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Noch immer, als ich meinen Weg durchgearbeitet habe, habe ich an ihm geäußert, um zu beginnen, dass ich mit ihm aufhören würde, wenn ich durchgekommen bin. Er hat gesagt, dass er es würde. Er hat meinen Glowstick in die Passage gelegt und begann, rauszukommen. Halfway through Floyd's tomb, I took a break to catch my breath. I was approaching exhaustion and my respiration rate was through the roof.
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Okay. So this story comes from like, okay, so the author of this story was Chris Straub, who, if you're familiar with online horror, is like a legend. He made Local 58, among a bunch of other like horror works online. He was one of the first to like utilize like second generation internet for horror storytelling, in my opinion.
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Like he gave birth to like analog horror genre as like a horror genre and stuff like that. Yeah. So as soon as he made this story and things like it, a ton of stories spouted off of it. I remember a bunch of people like in... 1999, the channel's Caledon Local 21, but a bunch of people would tie it in to, like, Candle Cove. Like, well, they both aired on Channel 58 or whatever, right?
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Same universe kind of thing. Same universe kind of thing, yeah. Even earlier in the story, he says that Channel 58 had Candle Cove on it, and Channel 58 was, you know, the basis for eventually Local 58, like the first analog horror story. So, like, Chris Traub... created a lot of modern internet horror culture.
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And if I remember right, Candle Cove was a set of a bunch of series of stories that all spouted out at the same place. I mean, it was probably the same idea.
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Five minute horror stories that would happen once in like 2016. And we had to make those last for months until something else came out. Okay.
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We've talked about that briefly, too. We have talked about it briefly. The first season is about Candle Cove.
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I remember... Okay, so from what I've heard generally mentioned about it online is that... They did good in some places by taking these stories and adapting them, but also some authors felt kind of slighted by how they did it. Didn't think they interpreted it right. Didn't think it was the best adaptation. Yeah, I remember there was some drama about it. I would like to watch it for myself to know.
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Well, you know what would be fun? If we did a Creep TV for Channel Zero.
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But is it each season a new creepypasta? Each season's a new creepypasta. So season one is Candle Cove. One of them's No End House, I think. Really? That'd be kind of fun. If I'm right. The fourth one is Stairs in the Woods.
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Those are the four seasons. I think dream door might be no end house. I could be wrong. Hold on. Channel zero.
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whatever and then now i go like i'm taking you to the gas station yeah exactly now i'm getting a filet mignon from 7-eleven that's that's how that yes then i need that i need to have that perspective and it but it's been there two weeks but they reheated it on like the hot dog roller racks for a bit so it kind of looks fresh from a distance but then you get in the car and you open the bag and it's like that was a bad move yeah i should have done that yeah
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Okay. Sorry. No, here it is. Season one's candle Cove. Yeah. Season two is no end house. Yeah. Okay.
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Yes. And then season four is the butchers block is the one that is, uh, I'm a search and rescue officer. So therefore the stairs in the woods, the one that uses stairs in the woods and, uh, the dream door is based on the creepy pasta, the hidden door by Charlotte by water, which is the only one we haven't read out of the four that they adapted.
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horror space but yeah candle cove was a classic for a reason shout out so after giving you after giving you like uh a fresh cheeseburger so to speak you know kind of short but like does its job well and stuff like that we're now going to dive you into something else So I think we should skip ahead to Dead Bart. I think that's a great one.
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Yeah. And how they articulate things. So fascinating. All right. So with that dead Bart, Here we go. Written originally by K.I. Simpson. Could that be? Could potentially the name Simpson be a pseudonym? We're not sure. It has to be.
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Okay, so here we go. You know how Fox has a weird way of counting Simpsons episodes? They refuse to count a couple of them, making the amount of episodes inconsistent. The reason for this is a lost episode from season one. Okay, already I have no idea what you're talking about.
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Listen, this is the point. Because if a kid comes along and reads this, they're just going to be like, oh, I guess Fox is a weird way of counting. Yeah. Like they're not going to check. Especially in 2010. That's an old person show. That's an old person show. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yes. Now you're thinking, right. You got to put yourself in the mindset. I know. Okay.
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Being nine years old, scrolling through YouTube and hearing like readings of these stories. And when a narrator with like scary piano music in the background goes, you know how Fox has a weird way of counting shows. I don't, I'm like, okay, they do. Got it. I get it. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Now you're locked in. So keeping that in mind, um, Finding details about this missing episode is difficult.
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No one who was working on the show at the time likes to talk about it. From what has been pieced together, the lost episode was written entirely by Matt Groening. During production of the first season, Matt started to act strangely. He was very quiet, seemed nervous and morbid.
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Mentioning this to anyone who was present results in them getting very angry and forbidding you to ever mention it to Matt. The episode's production number was 7G44. The title was Dead Bart. In addition to getting angry, asking anyone who was on the show about this caused them to do everything they can to stop you from directly communicating with Matt Groening.
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Yeah, so I'm looking forward to it.
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At a fan event, I managed to follow him after he spoke to the crowd, and eventually had a chance to talk to him alone as he was leaving the building. He didn't seem upset that I had followed him, probably expected a typical encounter with an obsessive fan. When I mentioned the lost episode, though, all color drained from his face and he started trembling.
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When I asked him if he could tell me any details, he sounded like he was on the verge of tears. He grabbed a piece of paper, wrote something on it, and handed it to me. He begged me to never mention the episode again. The piece of paper had a website address on it. I would rather not say what it was, for reasons you'll see in a second.
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That's what we're going to do. So to hurt him more, I think Candle Cove is going to be probably the longest one we're going to read. I want to take him through a lot of the micro horror instances, the things that I know about and you know about, but he doesn't know about. Sure. I have a plan here to make this bad for him, and I can't wait.
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I entered the address into my browser, and I came to a site that was completely black, except for a line of yellow text. A download link. I clicked on it, and a file started downloading. Once the file was downloaded, my computer went crazy. It was the worst virus I'd ever seen. System restore didn't work. The entire computer had to be rebooted.
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Before doing this, though, I copied the file onto a CD. I tried to open it on my now-empty computer, and as I suspected, there was an episode of The Simpsons on it. The episode started off like any other episode, but had very poor quality animation. If you've seen the original animation for Some Enchanted Evening, it was similar, but less stable.
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The first act was fairly normal, but the way the characters acted was a little off. Homer seemed angrier. Marge seemed depressed. Lisa seemed anxious. Bart seemed to have genuine anger and hatred for his parents.
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He's even more angry.
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Hunter, I need you to take this seriously. Sorry. You're reading history right now. That is true.
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Yes. This is like scrolling through the Codex Grafica. Like, there's a reference here. Stand upright.
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Is that real? Hunter just texted me. So much. I had a bad tamale yesterday. And it's been buckets of liquid ever since. Must have been a big tamale. I think rotten peppers, maybe? Because it's finding me on its way back out. Had to get chapstick. Gosh, he's disgusting. Feels like Buffalo Wild Wings Blazing Challenge. I'm getting so many play-by-plays. He keeps texting me details.
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I love how it's going. I'm tearing up thinking about it. That's really cool, dude.
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No, you're good, man.
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The episode was about the Simpsons going on a plane trip. Near the end of the first act, the plane was taking off. Bart was fooling around, as you'd expect. However, as the plane was about 50 feet off the ground, Bart broke a window on the plane and was sucked out.
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The pressure difference wouldn't be enough at 50 feet. You would just be like a broken window close to the ground. Yeah. Yeah. Planes are at 50 feet above ground for like a millisecond.
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Cause it's the same pressure. It's the same pressure in the plane and out. So no, there wouldn't be any like pull either way. I mean, speed, it'd be like a car that's going fast and like there's wind outside, but wouldn't be a pressure difference.
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At the beginning of the series, Matt had an idea that the animated style of the Simpsons world represented life and that death turned things more realistic. This was used in this episode. The picture of Bart's corpse was barely recognizable. He took full advantage of it not having to move and made it almost photorealistic drawing of his dead body. There we go. There's photorealism, Hunter.
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Candle Cove is different. Candle Cove is different than the other. So we're going to go through hair O'Brien. We're going to, we're going to go through lavender town syndrome. We're going to go through some of the bangers. As long as they're not all bad.
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I expect to see all the... Similar to what you were saying at the beginning, where it's like, no, he didn't. That idea of Matt had an idea that the animation would represent life, and that death turned things more realistic.
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Act 1 ended with the shot of Bart's corpse. When Act 2 started, Homer, Marge, and Lisa were sitting at their table, crying. The crying went on and on. It got more pained. It sounded more realistic. Better acting than you would think possible. The animation started to decay even more as they cried. You could hear murmuring in the background. This crying went on for all of Act 2.
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Act 3 opened with the title card saying one year had passed. Homer, Marge, and Lisa were skeletally thin and still sitting at the table. There was no sign of Maggie or the pets. They decided to visit Bart's grave. Springfield was completely deserted. As they walked to the cemetery, the house became more and more decrepit. They all looked abandoned.
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When they got to the grave, Bart's body was just lying in front of his tombstone, looking just like it did at the end of Act 1. The family started crying again. Eventually, they stopped and just stared at Bart's body. The camera zoomed in on Homer's face. According to summaries, Homer tells a joke at this part, but it isn't audible in the version I saw. You can't tell what Homer is saying.
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The view zoomed out as the episode came to a close. The tombstones in the background had the names of every Simpsons guest star on them. Some that no one had heard of in 1989. Some that haven't been on the show yet. All of them had death dates on them. For guests who died since, like Michael Jackson and George Harrison, the dates were when they would die.
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You can try to use the tombstone to predict the death of one of the Simpsons guest stars, but there's something odd about most of the ones who haven't died yet. All their deaths are listed as the same date. Dun, dun, dun! And that's the end of Dead Bard. That was really lame. Oh, you loved it. You loved it. That was pretty like all the summaries of it. Say there's a joke. Like what summaries?
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I thought you had a virus to like download this on a piece of paper that Matt Groening handed you. Also, the implication that there's going to be a mass extinction event that kills everyone that you can tell because if you go to the Simpsons episode, you can.
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I'll say that. Ben Drown was good until it got to the text part. I liked the part of Ben Drown that was like, I found the game from this old man. It's my kid. We are now on to Gateway of the Mind. Are you ready for this one? Gateway of the Mind. This was actually one of my favorites when I was a kid. When I read this one, this was like one of my top. I loved this one a lot. Written by.
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This was very important to me. Written by an anonymous author. I don't even want to tell you who I am. I need you to take this seriously, Hunter. I am. Because this meant a lot to me. This is a very important story to me, Hunter. Okay. In 1983, a team of deeply pious scientists conducted a radical experiment in an undisclosed facility. I like that. pious, radical, undisclosed like the three.
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They're on lock. Dude, this was revolutionary. If you read like Dead Bart and Jeff the Killer, then you get all three of those adjectives. It's like, whoa, did a professor write this? He's a scholar. This is an A plus student for sure. The scientists had theorized that a human without access to any senses or ways to perceive stimuli would be able to perceive the presence of God.
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They believed that the five senses clouded our awareness of eternity, and without them, a human could actually establish contact with God by thought. An elderly man who claimed to have nothing left to live for was the only test subject to volunteer. purge him of all his senses, the scientist performed a complex operation in which every sensory nerve connection to the brain was surgically severed.
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And I was like, oh, God. So we'll see. You know Sonic.exe. We did it at the live show.
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Although the test subject retained full muscular function, he could not see, hear, taste, smell, or feel. With no possible way to communicate, with or even sense the outside world, he was alone with his thoughts. Scientists monitored him as he spoke aloud about his state of mind in jumbled, slurred sentences that he couldn't even hear.
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After four days, the man claimed to be hearing hushed, unintelligible voices in his head. Assuming it was an onset of psychosis, the scientist paid little attention to the man's concerns. Two days later, the man cried that he could hear his dead wife speaking with him, and even more, he could communicate back.
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The scientists were intrigued, but were not convinced until the subject started naming dead relatives of the scientist. He repeated personal information to the scientists that only their dead spouses and parents would have known. At this point, a sizable portion of scientists left the study.
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After a week of conversing with the deceased through his thoughts, the subject became distressed, saying the voices were overwhelming. In every waking moment, his consciousness was bombarded by hundreds of voices that refused to leave him alone. He frequently threw himself against the wall trying to elicit a pain response.
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He begged the scientists for sedatives so he could escape the voices by sleeping. This tactic worked for three days until he started having severe night terrors. The subject repeatedly said that he could see and hear the deceased in his dreams. Only a day later, the subject began to scream and claw at his non-functional eyes, hoping to sense something in the physical world.
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The hysterical subject now said the voices of the dead were deafening and hostile. Speaking of hell and the end of the world, at one point he yelled, For five hours straight. He continually begged to be killed, but the scientists were convinced that he was close to establishing contact with God. Don't laugh. Hunter, don't laugh. This is serious. He's speaking of hell. He's right by God.
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Take me out! Take me out! The scientist is standing in front of the glass like, I know this looks bad, but... Hypothetically, like, we all think a devil. What's the opposite of the devil? God, right? Boom. He's almost there. He's gotta be right there. Has to be close. After another day, the subject could no longer form coherent sentences.
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Seemingly mad, he started to bite off chunks of flesh from his arm. The scientists rushed into the test chamber and restrained him to a table so he could not kill himself. After a few hours of being tied down, the subject halted his struggling and screaming. He stared blankly at the ceiling as teardrops silently streaked across his face.
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For two weeks, the subject had to be manually rehydrated due to the constant crying. Eventually, he turned his head, and despite his blindness, made focused eye contact with the scientist for the first time in the study.
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And his vital signs stopped. There was no apparent cause of death. The end. Why not? It's so funny.
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So that was actually what I was going to say. I'm pretty sure that this was just like the Martyrs concept.
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Yeah. Well, the idea is if you torture someone enough, they're able to establish a connection with God or like God will speak to them. Yeah. Um, And I really like, is it the remake or the original French one where the lady who set it up kills herself at the end because of what the martyr whispers to her?
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There was a visual project that was created at the same time. Oh, actually, I think this is it at the end. Yeah, if you scroll all the way down to the end and watch that little YouTube video, that's two minutes long. This came out at the same time.
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is the same YouTube channel that posted blankroom.soup, or blankroomsoup.avi, which is like a famous early YouTube-like scary video that got passed around. And they posted the original Squidward Suicide and stuff like that, yep.
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Of like a guy who says that there was a demon that appeared behind him in a photograph. I remember seeing this when I was like 10 years old and I like couldn't sleep for days. Really? Yeah. That like face over his shoulder. The weird dog face. The clearly like, it's like, it's like a retriever of some kind over his left shoulder.
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I saw this thing in the corner of every room I walked into for a while.
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Gateway to the mind. I didn't know martyrs or anything like that. I just liked, I just liked that. Well, Candle Cove is the best, but gateway to the mind was just such a fun concept that if you shut off all sensory, you can like speak to God. Yeah. Yeah. I love your life. I like that.
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Do we read he who should really not be named since it's like 200 words?
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You're not supposed to name him Hunter. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Gosh. Okay. He who should really not be named Candle Jack. I'm super serious. I'm being serious right now. In this world, there exists a spirit, neither male nor female. The spirit is covered with dark cloth, with a separate white cloth to cover its head.
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It is said to carry an enormous brown burlap sack. So there's three cloths, a white cloth, a black cloth, and a brown cloth.
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Three cloths. It is said that the second its name has been called out, either directly or indirectly, the person is collected and becomes a property of the spirit. So many who have witnessed its appearance have been said to have gone insane and were later found with their eyes gouged out. The spirit is very, very real.
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The failure to prevent the mention of its name will cause Candlejack to come and whisk you away. I said it. I said it at the end because the story said it.
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I'm in the sack and my eyes get pulled out.
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That's the entire story. What I just read is the whole thing.
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Well, you've got to realize most of these were being read by, like, eight-year-olds.
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I said it!
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That kind of thing would be awesome. Absolutely. Yep. I remember being so scared by some of these. I couldn't sleep. Like no joke. Not that one specifically that I remember, but one of them. Okay. So we're reading hair O'Brien.
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That's what we're reading. Me and you. Let's go.
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You better believe it. So Herobrine. You know about Herobrine, right?
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We'll read the story first, and I'll talk about its impact on stuff. I had recently spawned a new world in single-player Minecraft. Everything was normal at first as I began chopping down trees and crafting a workbench. I noticed something move amongst the dense fog. I have a very slow computer, so I have to play with a tiny render distance.
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I thought it was a cow, so I pursued it, hoping to grab some hides for armor. It wasn't a cow, though. Looking back at me was another character with a default skin, but his eyes were empty. I saw a no-name pop up, and I double-checked to make sure I wasn't in multiplayer mode. He didn't stay long. He looked at me and quickly ran into the fog. I pursued out of curiosity, but he was gone.
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Yes, exactly. Me and you, don't forget it. We're going to destroy them, just crush them. I can't wait.
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I continued on with the game, not sure what to think. As I expanded the world, I saw things that seemed out of place for the random map generator to make. Two by two tunnels and the rocks. small perfect pyramids made of sand in the ocean, and groves of trees with all their leaves cut off. I would constantly think I saw the other player in the deep fog, but I never got a better look at him.
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I tried increasing my render distance to far whenever I thought I saw him, but it was to no avail. I saved the map and went on the forums to see if anyone else had found the pseudo player. There were none. I created my own topic telling of the man and asking if anyone had a similar experience. The post was deleted within five minutes. I tried again and the topic was deleted even faster.
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I received a PM from username Herobrine containing one word. Stop. When I went to look at Herobrine's profile, the page 404'd. I received an email from another forum user. He claimed the mods can read the forum user messages, so we were safer using email. The emailer claimed that he had seen the mystery player too and had a small directory of other users who had seen him as well.
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Their worlds were littered with obviously man-made features as well and described their mystery player to have no pupils. About a month passed until I heard from my informant again. Some of the people who had encountered the mystery man had looked into the name Herobrine and found that the name to be frequently used by a Swedish gamer.
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After some further information gathering, it was revealed to be the brother of Notch, the game's developer. I personally emailed Notch and asked him if he had a brother. It took him a while, but he emailed me back a very short message.
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I haven't seen the mystery man since our first encounter, and I haven't noticed any changes to the world other than my own. I was able to press print screen when I first saw him. Here's the only evidence of his existence. And then this image right here.
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So let me tell you how impactful this was. So this thing, this was early days of Minecraft too. Like when the game first came out and this made its way everywhere to the degree that notch would make jokes about it. Notch, which we like, I don't have a brother named hair O'Brien or whatever. Uh, and then he started putting it in the patch notes.
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Every time there was an update, the final patch note would always read removed here. O'Brien as if he was an entity, like he couldn't get out of the game. Um, So people would make stories about this. All the early Minecraft animations would feature Herobrine as the enemy. And I can say firsthand how well the story worked because I had two younger sisters and I was really into Minecraft.
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My younger sisters like to play Minecraft with me and they added a Herobrine skin to the game. So I would turn name tags off in the settings and then I would put on the Herobrine skin and I would go stand on hillsides at night. Dude, I remember one time my two sisters, like I saw them down there just like building a cute little house or whatever.
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And one of my sisters just like glanced over to the hillside and they stare at me for a second. And then she goes, I hear it through the house before I hear it in the game. My other sister's like starting to cry. Like, so let me, let me ask you this.
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The idea is Notch's dead brother died and he can't leave the game.
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Here's what you got to realize with a lot of these early creepypasta stories. It is a blueprint, right? So it's like, here's the premise. Do with it what you want.
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So you can tell friends at a campfire and like freak them out with something like that.
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It was a whole genre of early Minecraft YouTuber to be like Herobrine hunting, where it would be like these five-hour series of them going through Minecraft and being like, this tree looks like it's been chopped down before. And we put together clues to see if we can find Herobrine in our game. And whenever Minecraft modding got to be popular, that's when it really took off.
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Because people would program these entities that have like a 1% chance of spawning that look like Herobrine. So then people would make legitimate Herobrine hunting videos. Or maybe at the end of the five hours, they do see him for a second. And then he disappears. And they're like, whoa! Yeah. It became like a whole genre of... of like gaming horror on YouTube and stuff like that.
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And which it's kind of making a resurgence. I've seen a lot of really cool Minecraft horror mods lately that do similar things to that. But Herobrine was a classic.
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So with that, let us begin.
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Yeah, exactly.
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But I got to experience it. Yeah. So that was the original 4chan post. And then from there, it blew up. It went everywhere. It became like a recurring theme. And people would use it to prank each other with. But I will say... That when I first read about this story, there was an undeniable creep factor to it. Because Minecraft has a lot of randomly generated structures.
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So you'll be digging deep underground and come across an abandoned mineshaft all of a sudden. And as a kid, I would always do that. And halfway through, be like... is there actually something in the game? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right back out there. It's like, okay, well, I guess that's funny. Someone come play with me. Yeah. Yeah.
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The hood. It is one of the top.
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How could we miss out on that? Okay. All right. So hoodie, the hooded man. Have you ever been influenced by clothing? I don't mean confidence by looks. Have you ever been given more control than ever by an item or a truth or just a favorite shirt? Have you ever been influenced in the worst way by showing the truth? The following is taken directly from journal entries. Just a journal.
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The entries were written by a notorious but unknown killer. Notorious but unknown. He is notorious in the means that everybody has seen his work. He is unknown because nobody knows that he has done it. His origin is unusual. No troubles, no evil family, no magic or paranormal forces. His life was chosen by him and him alone. His identity is also unknown.
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He will be named from here on as the Hooded Man.
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Hell yes. April 3rd, 2004. It's been really cold around here. I don't... How do we set up a man who needs to put on a hoodie? Man, it's so cold. I wish I had a hoodie.
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Why are my arms always exposed to the elements? If only there was a way. Sure. Sure. I said, thanks to be polite. Common courtesy is so hard to find.
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David King.
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Can you read this next one in the voice? The next paragraph.
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I have to kill someone now. April 10th. I've had a hell of a week. I felt so great. I walked the halls like a big shot. I like how it's just understood that he's in school. He is middle school.
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This is, this is when it started out. This is like start of it. Most of this stuff though, like Jeff, the killer laughing Jack, stuff like that was like 2010, 20. Yeah.
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He was so angry. Who never do ignore, wait. Who never do ignoring an insult was more insulting than responding with shrewd comments about someone's family. He antagonized me. He asked for it. He threw a hard punch, and I stood. It stung harder than before when I actually argued with him. I felt so cool all week. Wait, is all that happened?
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He didn't even fight back. Yeah, so now he's like, I felt cool all week. My confidence kept me up. I punched him hard in the stomach and I lifted him up with an underhook. It felt so good. It really did. Parents calling April 14th. Jack still isn't out of the hospital. He punched the guy so hard. He's like, all of his organs are failing. It was like, well, he said he lifted him off the ground.
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So it was like, you're like Dragon Ball. Dragon Ball Z fucking punch him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, you can see the fist go through his back as he punches him. Yeah. Oh my God, Kakarot, you hit him way too hard.
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Your voice is totally... Kakarot, there's nothing weird about it at all.
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That sounds good, Kakarot. Okay, thank you for telling me that, Kakarot.
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I'm going to go sleep with Bulma now. Yeah, I'm going to have sex with Bulma.
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I don't know where I'm going with this. I was just like, you have fun with that one. Jack still isn't out of the hospital. They said he's in a lot of pain. He spit a lot of blood. His parents told me over the phone. I reflected on it. On how great it felt when my fist connected. How his crack scream sounded. That's good to hear, I said blankly. I don't care about Jack. I smiled at his pain.
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I keep staring. I keep staring at my mirror. I'm always wearing my favorite hoodie. It feels so empowering. My friends would laugh at what I say. They would compare me to Spider-Man. In his black suit. Yeah, I'm pretty much Venom. I'm Spider-Man. This is my symbiote. This is my symbiote suit.
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From Spider-Man issue 274.
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Well, it's somewhere between Droopy and like Stewie Griffin.
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What makes it Droopy is like you add like the... You add like the big cheekness to it.
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It's funny to imagine this emo kid as like a Looney Tunes character walking around a hospital. I'm a severely overweight teenager.
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Okay, all right. They would compare me to Spider-Man in his black suit. Spider-Man threw his power away. I don't plan on doing anything with my source of confidence. April 22nd. Jack has gone to a better place. The words rang through my ears. He's dead. Lost too much blood.
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And they couldn't do it. He was bleeding too much.
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Oh, his father told me the day I visited that he was losing blood due to a personal health condition. But the way his mother looked at me and told me the real story, I killed him.
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I still remember the satisfaction of hitting him. I never wanted to kill him. I need to think about what I've done right. That'll fix my feelings. But what is there to think about? Regret is a foolish emotion. I don't regret. I don't need regret.
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This is great to imagine that he becomes a serial killer that punches people.
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Honestly, yes, but that's a low bar to get over.
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What was that one motocross brand everyone would wear? Fox? Yes. Yes. Fox. Yep. Yep. It's a Fox. It's a black Fox.
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So our beginning is entries from a net nostalgia forum about local television shows. The first entry comes from Skyshell33. The subject is Candle Cove local kids show. And Skyshell asks, does anyone remember this kids show? It was called Candle Cove and I must have been six or seven. I never found reference to it anywhere, so I think it was on a local station around 1971 or 1972.
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You got it. April 24th. Dad has been avoiding me lately. And mom just tells me she loves me. I love you.
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I love you, son. He comes into rooms floating, just like pounding his fist into his hand. Like, where's dad? Where's dad?
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Oh. They both want me to feel endless guilt, but I won't. Or rather, I can't. Oh, God. I can't fake it for the public. But the truth is, I'm not sorry. Spider-Man's story is starting to make me think more. But why would a cursed or possessed hoodie land in my possession? Everybody who knew Jack glares at me.
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Everyone who I would talk to have transferred themselves out of my class or went to a different school. Teachers don't look at me much. Get on to me if I'm breaking any rule. Today I threw a pencil at my history teacher. It hit his shoulder. He just froze for a second and continued what he was doing. Everyone either hates me and probably wants me dead or they fear me.
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My writing is the only comfort I have. I can be at peace and let myself go. april 25th they provoked me they threatened me i had no choice they would have killed me my hood protected my face the knife naturally moved from rob's hand to mine i didn't mean to the writing was a short line at this point april 30th Five days. Five days being interrogated, sleeping in a cell.
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They decided I was only defending myself. I can hear mom and dad talking. They want me gone. They're both scared. I was an idiot to think that this jacket of mine was possessing me or changing my personality. It's just a really cool jacket. I love how it looks. I feel like such a badass. I remember how I put the hood up. Put it up when Jack challenged me.
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I put it up when those guys tried to kill me. I feel no remorse. I feel indifferent. I'm in control. I have finally come to realize insanity. I wanted to kill them. All of them. I needed only a push and the confidence to fight. I got it. Mom and dad are irritating me. They all irritated me. The end.
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That's 100%. Yeah.
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Well, it is just a jacket, right?
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I lived in Ironton at the time. I don't remember which station, but I do remember it was on at a weird time, like 4 p.m.
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Yep. I agree. I, I, I personally love this. I don't see anything wrong with it. 10 out of 10. One of the best stories we've read on creep cast, in my opinion, the idea to that all, it wasn't even the jacket.
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I also like that part where it's like, This story you're about to read is of a dark one whose work is known everywhere and we never get an explanation of that. He's just like a really mad kid who's about to kill his parents.
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This is a banger. I love it. I don't know what you're talking about.
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All right, so we are now on. Let's go to Ickbar Bigelstein. Ickbar Bigelstein. So I don't remember this one. I remember hearing of this story, but I don't think I ever read it. It's another short banger. Let's do it.
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When I was a small child, I was terrified of the dark. I still am. Back when I was around six years old, I couldn't go a full night without crying out for one of my parents to search beneath my bed or in my closet for whatever monster I thought was waiting to eat me.
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Even with a nightlight, I could still see dark shapes moving around the corners of the room or strange faces looking in on me from my bedroom window. My parents would do their best to console me, telling me that it was just a bad dream or a trick of the light. but in my young mind, I was positive that the second I fell asleep, the bad things would get me.
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Most of the time I would just hide under the blankets until I became tired enough to stop worrying, but every now and then I would become so panicked that I would run screaming into my parents' room, waking up my brother and sister in the process. After an ordeal like that, there would be no way anyone would be getting a full night's rest.
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Eventually, after one particularly traumatizing night, my parents had had enough. Fortunately for them, they understood the futility in arguing with a six-year-old and knew that they would be unable to convince me to rid myself of childish fears through reason and logic. They had to be clever. It was my mother's idea to stitch together my little bedtime friend.
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She collected a large assortment of random pieces of fabric in her sewing machine and created what I would later refer to as Mr. Ickbar Bigelstein, or Ick for short. Ick was a sock monster, as my mother called him. He was made to keep me safe while I slept at night by scaring away all the other monsters. He was pretty damn creepy, I do admit.
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Honestly, looking back on it all now, I'm still impressed that my mom could think of something so strange and disturbing looking. Ickbar had the switch-together look of a Frankenstein gremlin with big white button eyes and floppy cat ears. What the fuck is wrong with my mom?
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His little arms and legs were made from a pair of my sister's black and white striped socks, and the half of his face that was green was made from one of my brother's tall football socks. His head could have been described as bulbous, and for his mouth, my mom attached a piece of white fabric and sewed it in a zigzag pattern to shape a wide grin of sharp teeth. I loved him at once.
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From then on, Ick never left my side, so long as it was after dusk, of course. Ik didn't like the sun, and would get upset if I tried to bring him to school with me. But that was okay. I only needed him at night to keep away the boogeyman, which was what he was good at.
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So every night at bedtime, Ik would tell me where the monsters were hiding, and I would place him near the section of my room closest to the spookiness. If there was something in the closet, Ik would block the door. If there was a dark creature scratching at my window, Ik would be pressed up against the glass. If there was a big hairy beast under my bed, then under the bed he went.
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Sometimes the monsters weren't even in my room. Sometimes they would hide in my dreams, and Ikbar would have to come with me into my nightmares. It was fun bringing Ik into my dream world, and he and I would spend hours fighting off ghouls and demons. The best part was, in my dreams, Ik would talk to me for real. "'How much do you love me?' he would ask.
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I would always tell him. One night in a dream, after I had lost my first tooth, Ik asked me for a favor. Can I have your tooth? I asked him why. To help me kill the bad things. The next morning at breakfast, my mom asked me where my tooth went. From what she told me, the tooth fairy didn't find it under my pillow.
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When I told her that I gave it to Ickbar, she just shrugged and went back to feeding my little sister. From then on, every time I lost a tooth, I would give it to Ick. Something funny, Hunter.
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His head was an old porcelain baby doll. Looked like an antique that didn't belong on the body. I don't remember what station this was. I don't think it was WTSF though.
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Fuck that. I don't know what you're talking about. This seems perfectly reasonable. I would think... He would always thank me, of course, and tell me that he loved me. Eventually, though, I ran out of baby teeth. I was beginning to get a little too old to still be playing with dolls. Ick sat there on my bookshelf collecting dust, slowly fading away from my attention.
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Over time, the nightmares, however, became worse than ever. So bad that they even began to follow me to the waking world, terrorizing every dark corner or rustle in the bushes. After one particularly bad night, biking home from a friend's house where I swore a pack of rabid dogs were chasing me, I got home to find something strange waiting for me in my room.
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There, on my bed, standing fully upright in the soft glow of the moonlight from my window, was Iqbar. At first, I just thought my eyes were playing tricks on me again. They had been all evening, so I tried to flick on the lights. Another flick of the light switch, and another, and another, with no change for the darkness. It was then that I started to get nervous.
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I backed away slowly towards the door behind me, my eyes never leaving the shape of Ick's silhouette, my hand awkwardly outstretched between behind reaching for the doorknob. I was just about to get my ass out of there when I heard this door slam itself shut, locking me into blackness. In nothing but shadows and silence, I stood frozen in place, not even breathing.
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For how long, I can't say, but after what felt like a lifetime of cold fear, I heard the shrill, familiar voice.
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I blinked once and everything changed. I was in my bedroom anymore. I was somewhere else. It wasn't hell, but the comparison wasn't far off. It was some sort of forest. Horrible, nightmarish place with partial embryonic abortions.
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Bro, this would be great if it becomes like a... An anti-abortion ad. An anti-abortion ad.
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Because you didn't support... Yeah, because you... You didn't stop abortions.
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It was some sort of forest, a horrible nightmarish place where partial embryonic abortions hung from the canopy, and the ground swarmed with carnivorous insects. A thick fog wafted through the air with the stench of rotting meat, while chartreuse lighting flashed across the sky.
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sure what's going on in the chair like i can't take this anymore i'm like on the verge of a seizure it's gonna just scared me like trying to figure out what he's saying and i'm just gonna be like stay with me we gotta see what iqbar is planning he's gonna he's gonna do something to the abortion clinic we've got to stop I think this is a funny idea. This is a very real world tragedy.
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I'm not saying it, but just if this story ends with him being like, okay, Akbar, I'll do it for you. All right, fine. I'll do it. Loud and clear, Akbar.
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just easy please it just amped up so hard so quick okay anyway chartreuse lightning flashed across the night sky in the distance I could hear the agonizing screams of something not quite human my head throbbed like it was about to explode the pain forcing out a river of tears in my mind I heard his voice again this is what your reality will become without me
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I felt earth-shaking footsteps approaching fast. I'm the only one who can stop it. It was behind me now, huge and angry, hot breath across my back. Bring me what I need, and I will. I woke up before I could turn around. The following day, I raided my parents' closet for my brother's baby teeth. They keep those things? Give them all to Iqbar.
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Almost immediately, the night terror ceased and I was more or less able to go on about my life as normal. From time to time, I would have to sneak into my little sister's room and snatch what was meant for the tooth fairy. Or strangle one of the neighborhood cats right out of sharp little incisors. Oh, my gosh.
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Come on, man. Whoa. Sorry, kitty. Oh, my gosh.
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Anything to ward off the visions. Anything from a shark tooth necklace to a cavity ridden bicuspid. I also began to notice that Ick would move about my room whenever I left for any length of time, rearranging my stuff and hanging additional curtains. He was even beginning to look more lifelike somehow. In the right light, his teeth would glisten. He was warm to the touch.
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As much as he creeped me out, I couldn't work up the courage to just destroy him, knowing perfectly well where that would leave me. So I went on collecting teeth for Ick throughout all of high school and college. The older I got, the more things I would learn to fear, the more teeth Ick would need to keep me safe. I'm 22 years old now, with a decent job, my own apartment, and a set of dentures.
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It's been almost a month since Ick's last meal and the horrors are starting to crowd around me once more. I took a detour through a parking garage after work tonight. Found a man fumbling with his car keys. His teeth were stained yellow from a lifetime of cigarettes and coffee. Even still, I had to use a hammer to get out the molars. I got back to my apartment.
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He was waiting for me on the ceiling in the corner. Two wide eyes and a mouth of razors. How much do you love me?
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I replied, taking off my coat.
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That was pretty good. Ickbar did it, not me.
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That wasn't bad. That wasn't bad. I had a good time with that one. Yeah, no, that was fine. Yeah. Yeah. Like he's a kid who becomes obsessed with this, starts stealing teeth from people. Yeah. Totally works for me. Get with me. All right, so now we've got a classic for you. So you've read Jeff the Killer. You've read Laughing Jack. You can scroll. We're not going to read.
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Skyshell replies to that and says, thank you, Jaren. Memories flooded back when you mentioned Laughingstock and Channel 58. I remember the bow of the ship was a wooden smiling face with the lower jaw submerged. It looked like it was swallowing the sea and it had that awful Edwin voice and laugh.
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If we get into the Jeff the Killer spinoffs, we're going to be here all day. So we're going to go on down to Lavender Town Syndrome.
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You're going to love this one. You're going to love this one, Hunter. Just wait. Here we go. The Lavender Town Syndrome, also known as Lavender Town Tone or Lavender Town Suicides, was a peak in suicides and illness of children between the ages of 7 to 12 shortly after the release of Pokemon Red and Green in Japan, February 27th, 1996.
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Rumors say that these suicides and illness only occurred after the children playing the game reached Lavender Town, whose theme music had extremely high frequencies. That study showed that only children and young teens can hear since their ears are more sensitive.
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Of course, due to the lavender tone, at least 200 children supposedly committed suicide and many more developed illnesses and afflictions. The children who committed suicide usually did so by hanging or jumping from heights. Those who did not act irrationally complained of severe headaches after listening to Lavender Town's theme.
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Although Lavender Town now sounds differently depending on the game, this mass hysteria was caused by the first Pokemon game released. After the Lavender Town incident, the programmers had fixed Lavender Town's theme music to be at a lower frequency and since then children were no longer affected by it. One video appeared in 2010 using special software to analyze the audio of Lavender Town's music.
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When played, the software created images of the unknown near the end of the audio. This raised a controversy since the unknown didn't appear until the Generation 2 game Silver, Gold, and Crystal. The unknown translates to leave now. There's also the said beta version. of Lavender Town. It said that the beta version of Pocket Monsters was released to some kids to test the games.
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This is a video of the beta version of Lavender Town. So the creepypasta was built around this video. Yeah, play it now. So this is actually the audio from the game. It's just cranked up a lot. They've maybe added a couple things to it, but this is based off the actual music that plays when you go into Lavender Town in the game.
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Which admittedly is kind of a weird, like, sound for a kid's game, right?
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I especially remember how jarring it was when they switched from the wooden plastic model to the foam puppet version of the head that talked.
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Yes. Yeah. It is. It is interesting where the concept came from. I mean, it's a harm. It's like, oh, there's this creepy town in the game. Did you know that in the beta version, kids took their own life because of it? It's like, it's a fun, you know, whatever.
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Like, well, it's because they're, they're inoffensive, right? They're not well written or that in depth, but it's just like urban legends. It's like, that's what most of them are. They're like urban legends, like campfire stories.
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Now, the next one that's in here is one I actually remember. I specifically remember sitting around at a sleepover telling my friends this to scare them. Okay. Like this one was a campfire story to me, and it's called Licking. Licking. All right. So my great grandmother lived alone up in the mountains at her cabin. Her husband was dead, so she was there all alone.
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She only had one companion, and that was her loving dog. They both adored each other and the dog was a great comfort to her. Every night when she went to bed, the dog would lick her hand to let her know that he was there to protect her.
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The dog licking her feet. Jesus Christ.
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One night, she had gone to bed and the dog had licked her hand like he had done routinely every night since her husband died. But this night was different. She had woken up in the middle of the night because she heard her dog whimpering. She wanted to comfort him and let her know she was there for him. So she stuck her hand out of the bed, and she felt the dog gently lick her hand like always.
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Skyshell replies to that and says, Mike, I got to chill reading that. Yes, I remember. That's what the ship always told Percy when there's a spooky place he had to go in, like a cave or a dark room where the treasure was. And the camera would push in on Laughingstock's face with each pause. You have to go inside.
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She figured he was just cold, so she went back to sleep.
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spoilers sorry sorry the dog's whimpering had woken her up a second time in the night so she stuck her hand out the dog licked it and she went back to sleep this happened a third time and she stuck her hand out and the dog stopped whimpering and came and licked her hand she stayed awake a few moments afterward she went back to sleep again in the morning she woke up and stuck her hand out by the bed but nothing licked her hand she thought the dog had already awakened and was just in the front room
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She rolled over and got out of bed and heard a drip. Drip, drip, drip. She thought the sound was coming from the kitchen, so she walked over and turned the handles on the sink faucet, but it wasn't the source of the noise. After frustratingly checking the sink and its pipes, she gave up and continued into her bathroom to take a shower.
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As she got closer to the bathroom door, it was evident that the sound was coming from within. She opened the door, looked above the bathtub, and gasped in utter horror. There, hanging from the light by his collar, was her loving companion, his blood dripping into the bathtub. She screamed and began to cry, wiping her eyes and sobbing. She turned and looked into the mirror.
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In the mirror, she saw the dog's reflection written on the mirror and her dog's blood, with drips and streaks hanging down from each letter were the words, Humans can lick too. Laughter
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think the name of the YouTube video was Don't Turn Off the Lights or something like that.
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Let me tell you, this killed at like a seventh grade sleepover. the story.
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Bloods can kill you. Yeah. You know, like, yeah, the way I told it was different. So the way I told it got rid of the whole, like the dog whippering, it said she's in bed and she hears the sink dripping and she goes and each time it's licking her hand. Hmm. And at one point she gets so frustrated, she turns on the lights.
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And when she turns on the light, she realized that the drip is coming from the corner of the room where the dogs hung and the blood stripping. And then on the wall is humans can look too. And I like that ending better because it implies that like, Oh, she's figured it out. And the thing's still under the bed to her, right? Like it's right there. Like a second. That's how I always told it.
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But yeah, this killed people. Love that story. It went great. All right. So Hunter, I need you to go to the next page. Go to the next page. We have to do Mr. Widemouth for sure. I think Mr. Widemouth, Mr. Widemouth. Absolutely. Mr. Widemouth. We had considered doing Mr. Widemouth for one of our live show ones, but that's okay.
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With his two eyes askew and that flopping foam jaw and the fishing line that opened and closed it. Ah, it just looked so cheap and awful. You guys remember the villain. He had a face that was just a handlebar mustache above really tall, narrow teeth. I just noticed that the guy's name is Kevin Hart. Yes, this person's name is Kevin Hart. Could be the Kevin Hart.
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yes that's where you've heard of it before but we fell in love with or you fell in love with uh laughing jack so laughing jack was just one of the best i mean one of the most entertaining stories we've ever read i love legendary yeah it was great all right during my childhood my family was like a drop of water in a vast river never remaining in one location for long we settled in rhode island when i was eight and we remained until i went to college at colorado springs
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Okay. Hunter. Most of these creepy pauses were like 12 year olds in English. I heard a lot. They like the thing they like. And they're like, I'm going to throw that in. That'll spice it up. It'll be like seasoning on the story.
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Yep. Yep. Most of my memories are rooted in Rhode Island, but there are fragments in the attic of my brain which belong to the various homes we had lived in when I was much younger. Most of these memories are unclear and pointless.
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Chasing after another boy in the backyard of a house in North Carolina, trying to build a raft to float on the creek behind the apartment we rented in Pennsylvania, and so on. But there's one set of memories which remains as clear as glass. as though they were just made yesterday.
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I often wonder whether these memories are simply lucid dreams produced by the long sickness I experienced that spring, but in my heart, I know they are real. We were living in a house just outside the bustling metropolis of New Vineyard, Maine, population 643. It was a large structure, especially for a family of three.
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There were a number of rooms that I didn't see in the five months we resided there. In some ways, it was a waste of space, but it was the only house on the market at the time, at least within an hour's commute to my father's place of work. The day after my fifth birthday, attended by my parents alone, I came down with a fever.
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The doctor said I had mononucleosis, which meant no rough play and more fever for at least another three weeks. It was horrible timing to be bedridden. We were in the process of packing our things to move to Pennsylvania. Most of my things were already packed away in boxes, leaving my room barren. My mother brought me ginger ale and books several times a day.
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These served the function of being my primary form of entertainment for the next few weeks. Boredom always loomed just around the corner, waiting to rear its ugly head and compound my misery. I don't exactly recall how I met Mr. Widemouth. I think it was about a week after I was diagnosed with mono. My first memory of the small creature was asking him if he had a name.
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He told me to call him Mr. Wide Mouth because his mouth was large. In fact, everything about him was large in comparison to his body, his head, his eyes, his crooked ears, but his mouth was by far the largest. You look kind of like a Furby. I said as he flipped through one of my books. Mr. Widemouth stopped and gave me a puzzled look. Furby? What's a Furby?
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You don't need one of those. They aren't the same as having a real friend. I remember Mr. Widemouth disappearing every time my mother stopped by to check in on me.
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We didn't do much during those first few days. Mr. Widemouth just looked at my books, fascinated by the stories and pictures they contained. Third or fourth morning after I met him, he greeted me with a large smile on his face.
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Man, these stories would be terrifying if they were just about, like, pedophiles.
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Yeah, yeah. If it was just about, like, a man who's like, you won't have to tell your mommy anything. Terrifying. But it's always like, the game is we have to eat a cat or something. Yeah, we have to kill your sister.
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This is crazy.
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After my mother delivered more books and soda at the usual time, Mr. Widemouth slipped out from under the bed and tucked my hand.
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I don't know what could possibly. I think that that's. You know, I think that I just.
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He said. I objected at first, as my parents had forbidden me to leave my bed without their permission. Mr. Widemouth persisted until I gave in.
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are you sure about this sir I really don't think that I should I'm pretty sick actually no seriously I have something super funny to tell you down here come here the room in question had no furniture or wallpaper its only distinguishing feature was a window opposite the doorway Mr. Widemouth darted across the room and gave the window a firm push flinging it open he then beckoned me to look out at the ground below
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We were on the second story of the house, but it was on a hill, and from this angle, the drop was farther than two stories due to the incline. I like to play pretend up here.
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You'll bounce up. It'll be really cool.
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I was a five-year-old with a fever, so only a hint of skepticism darted through my thoughts as I looked down and considered the possibility. It's a long drop.
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I toyed with the idea of picturing myself falling through thin air only to bounce back to the window on something unseen by human eyes. But the realist in me prevailed.
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Mr. Widemouth's face contorted into a snarl, but only for a moment. Anger gave way to disappointment. If you say so. He spent the rest of the day under my bed, quiet as a mouse. The following morning, Mr. Widemouth arrived, holding a small box. I want to teach you how to juggle.
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I looked in the box. It was full of knives.
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I shouted, horrified that Mr. Widemouth had brought knives into my room, objects that my parents would never allow me to touch.
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Mr. Widemouth frowned. It's fun to juggle with these.
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I pushed the box away.
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Mr. Widemouth's frown deepened into a scowl. He took the box of knives and slid under my bed, remaining there the rest of the day. I began to wonder how often he was under me.
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You know what? I get it, okay?
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oh gosh um i started having trouble sleeping after that mr white mouth often woke me up at night saying he put a real trampoline under the window a big one one that i couldn't see in the dark i always decline i always decline and try to go back to sleep but mr white mouth persisted sometimes he stayed by my side until early in the morning encouraging me to jump he wasn't so fun to play with anymore
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My mother came to me one morning, told me I had her permission to walk around outside. She thought the fresh air would be good for me, especially after being confined to my room for so long. Ecstatic, I put on my sneakers and trotted out to the back porch, yearning for the feeling of sun on my face. Mr. White Mouth was waiting for me. I have something I want you to see.
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He said, I must have given him a weird look because he then said, You're safe, I promise, Rod. I followed him to the beginning of a deer trail which ran through the woods beyond the house.
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I returned to the playhouse, wondering what kind of place lay beyond that trail. Two weeks after I met Mr. Widemouth, the last load of our things had been packed into a moving truck. I would be in the cab of that truck, sitting next to my father for the long drive to Pennsylvania.
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I considered telling Mr. Widemouth that I would be leaving, but even at five years old, I was beginning to suspect that perhaps the creature's intentions were not to my benefit, despite what he said otherwise. For this reason, I decided to keep my departure a secret. My father and I were in the truck at 4 a.m.
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He was hoping to make it to Pennsylvania by lunchtime tomorrow with the help of an endless supply of coffee and six pack of energy drinks. He seemed more like a man.
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Son, you're too young to get this, but sometimes your dad needs something to steady him for the road. Yeah, exactly.
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I need to level out before I get behind the wheel. That's all, okay?
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Help me out. Help me out. Be a team player. You don't want dad to be sad, do you? Yeah, dad's angry. That's why mommy is such a bitch.
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Okay, first of all... God, what the fuck is wrong with me? What have I done to upset so many people? When Mr. Wine Mouth said it, I mean, you know, he lives in this house. Maybe he doesn't understand the connotation, but you definitely know better. You're 48 years old. I'm not to make allegations, but I'm almost positive Uncle Rodney would fall into that category.
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I'm making a lot of mature decisions for my age and I don't like it I'm five I'm five years old I feel like I just want to be can I just read my comic book or something can I not why am I in this I'm in two different predicaments they're really vicarious on either side anyway he seemed more like a man who was about to run a marathon rather than one who was about to spend two days sitting still early enough for you
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He asked. I nodded and placed my head against the window, hoping for some sleep before the sun came up. I felt my father stand on my shoulder. This is the last move, son. I promise.
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I opened my eyes as we backed out of the driveway. I saw Mr. Widemouth's silhouette in my bedroom window. I stood motionless until the truck was about to turn onto the main road. I gave a pitiful little wave goodbye, steak knife in hand.
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Let's play a game. It's called shut up till Pennsylvania. How's that sound? That's not like a good game. Slug bug.
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Years later, I returned to New Vineyard. The piece of land our house stood upon was empty except for the foundation, as the house burned down a few years after my family left. Out of curiosity, I followed the deer trail that Mr. Widemouth had shown me.
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Part of me expected him to jump out from behind a tree and scare the living bejesus out of me, but I felt that Mr. Widemouth was gone, somehow tied to the house and no longer existed. The trail ended at the New Vineyard Memorial Cemetery. I noticed that many of the tombstones belong to children.
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I mean, it's fun for what it is. It's just like, I had a weird memory of this little thing that wanted him to hurt himself. And then when he grows up, it's like, Oh, he was trying to kill me. And he did it to a bunch of other kids. It seemed like it's basic. It's short, you know, it gets its point across.
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It's fun. It's a fun, it's a fun little story. Yeah. Yeah. I enjoyed it a lot. So, alright, so that's Mr. Widemouth. What do we got after that? Where do we want to go? We've read Psycho. Looks like, what is it? Polybius? Polybius? Oh, Polybius. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you don't know about Polybius. That's right. We'll go there. Let's do Polybius. Another classic. So, Polybius.
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This is another one of those blueprint kind of things, right? Okay. In Portland, Oregon in 1981, an unheard of new arcade game appeared in several suburbs, something of a rarity at the time. This game was called Polybius. The game proved to be incredibly popular to the point of addiction, and queues formed around the machines, quickly followed by clusters of visits from men in black.
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Rather than the usual marketing data collected by company visitors to arcade machines, they collected some unknown data, allegedly testing responses to the psychoactive machines. The players themselves suffered from a series of unpleasant side effects, amnesia, insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, and suicide appearing as having been caused by the game in various versions of the legend.
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Some players stopped playing video games while it is reported that one became an anti-gaming activist. So that's like the basic like rundown of it. But then there's an alternate story that gets attached to it. That says Polybius is an urban legend about a rare arcade game released in 1981. The game was created by a mysterious company called Sinishlotion. Sinishlotion. Sinishlotion. Ja.
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And was a puzzle shoot-em-up somewhat like Tempest. It was only released in a few suburbs of Portland, Oregon. It was supposedly very popular with people forming long lines to play it. However, players reported strange things about the game, such as hearing a woman crying and seeing grotesque faces out of the corner of their eyes.
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It just goes straight from like, Oh yeah.
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Players would also have nightmares, experience nausea, headaches, blackouts, or even develop amnesia. Some even committed suicide. Others stopped playing video games altogether, and one became an anti-video game activist, as mentioned earlier. According to one owner of an arcade, men wearing black suits would often come to collect records from the game.
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They did not take any money, simply data on gameplay. Because of this, the leading theory is that it was some sort of government experiment using subliminal messages. The game remains in obscurity as, around one month after its release, all of the cabinets suddenly disappeared. One cabinet reappeared in Arcade in 98, but quickly disappeared again.
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While some have tried to recreate the game, no one has ever found the original ROM.
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What's also cool about it is the...
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the original like polybius story would get used in media a lot so like video game articles like game informer back in the day would put like top 10 classic arcade cabinets and polybius would be like number eight they'd be like known for its great shooting or like it would be an inside joke to act like it was a real game um or like in an episode of the simpsons there's a scene where they're in an arcade room and you can see someone playing polybius in the back stuff like that
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So it became like this kind of like a zeitgeist that would get passed around and stuff. So it would be a joke if like you go to an arcade game, tell your friends like, oh, if they have Polybius, let me know. That's like the best. It was just like a little, like a fun joke to play with each other.
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So yeah, it's just a little urban legend that would get passed around and like horror circles and stuff. And that the government's using it to try to collect data on gamers and stuff. It actually, the stories of Polybius started to come after a real life story. I'm pretty sure it was a game called Berserk. It was an old arcade cabinet.
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There were two different deaths that occurred that media at the time, like back in the 80s, attributed to Berserk. One of them was a kid had a heart attack at a... arcade. What am I trying? Arcade. Yeah. I had a heart attack at an arcade and died. Um, and this actually happened. I did this for a video, did the lookup for it. Uh, and a kid did die of a heart attack.
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Turns out he had a heart condition, got a little too excited and passed away, but he apparently died near a berserk machine. And then there was another instance of kids like trying to get a high score on berserk. And then later on, two of the kids got into a fight and one of them stabbed and killed the other kid. So, uh, The belief was Berserk does something to your mind. It makes you go crazy.
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but you can still think of it as a children's show. Yeah. I mean, if it was, it makes you ask the question, like, why were we, why did they let kids watch this? But it doesn't break it out of like, okay, we weren't watching a kid show yet. It's just like, why would this be in a kid show?
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It makes you have heart attacks. There are all these legends that came from the real-world game Berserk, so Polybius was kind of like an adaptation of that story.
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Yeah, we have to read Suicide Mouse.
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I don't think you're getting out of this one.
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Oh, why would you, why would you trust everyone? Classic too. But I think we still like, like suicide mouse is six minutes. I think we have to read it. God damn it. All right. Yep. Suicide mouse. It is. Let's go. All right. Suicide mouse. So do any of you remember those Mickey Mouse cartoons from the 1930s? The ones that were just put out on DVD a few years ago?
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Well, I hear there's one that was unreleased to even the most avid classic Disney fans. According to sources, it's nothing special. It's just a continuous loop like Flintstones of Mickey walking past six buildings that goes on for two or three minutes before fading out.
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Unlike the cutesy tunes put in though, the song in this cartoon was not a song at all, just a constant banging on a piano for a minute and a half before going to white noise for the remainder of the film. It wasn't the jolly old Mickey we've come to love either.
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Mickey wasn't dancing, not even smiling, just kind of walking as if you or I were walking with a normal facial expression, but for some reason his head tilted side to side as he kept this dismal look. Up until a year or two ago, everyone believed that after it cut to black, that was it. When Leonard Maltin was reviewing the cartoon to be put in the complete series.
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I love how they always name drop like someone who's like, like Steven Hillenburg.
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It's for avid fans. You know what I mean? Yes. Yes, of course. He decided it was too junk to be on the DVD, but wanted to have a digital copy due to the fact that it was a creation of Walt. When he had a digitized version up on his computer to look at the file, he noticed something. The cartoon was actually nine minutes, four seconds long. This is what my source emailed to me in full.
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He's a personal assistant of one of the higher executives at Disney and acquaintance of Mr. Maltin himself. After it cut to black, it stayed like that until the sixth minute before going back into Mickey walking. The sound was different this time. It was a murmur. It wasn't a language, but more like a gurgled cry.
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As the noise got more indistinguishable and loud over the next minute, the picture began to get weird. The sidewalk started to go in directions that seemed impossible based on the physics of Mickey's walking, and the dismal face of the mouse was slowly curling into a smirk.
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On the seventh minute, the murmur turned into a blood-curdling scream, the kind of scream painful to hear, and the picture was getting more obscure. Colors were happening that shouldn't have been possible at the time. Mickey's face began to fall apart. His eyes rolled on the bottom of his chin like two marbles in a fishbowl, and his curled smile was pointing upwards on the left side of his face.
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The buildings became rubble floating in midair and the sidewalk was still impossibly navigating in warped directions. A few seeming inconceivable with what we as humans know about direction. That's a good one. Mr. Malton got disturbed and left the room, sending an employee to finish. They always do this. The main guy gets disturbed and sends a lackey to watch it. Ha ha ha.
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This happened for about 30 seconds, and whatever was in that remaining 30 seconds, I haven't been able to get a sliver of information about. From a security guard working under me who was making rounds outside of that room, I was told that after the last frame, the employee stumbled out of the room with pale skin, saying, Real suffering is not known.
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seven times before speedily taking the guard's pistol and off. He watched a 1930s Mickey Mouse cartoon. Real suffering is not known.
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Yeah, it was.
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photorealistic vomit all over him the thing I could get the thing I couldn't get out of the thing I could get out of Leonard Maltin was that the last frame was a piece of Russian text that roughly said the sights of hell bring its viewers back in as far as I know no one else has seen it but there have been dozens of attempts at getting the file on rapid share by employees inside the studios all of whom have been promptly terminated of their jobs
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Whether it got online or not is up for debate, but if rumors serve me right, it's online somewhere under suicidemouse.avi. If you ever find a copy of the film, I want you to never view it and to contact me by phone immediately, regardless of the time. When a Disney death is covered up as well as this, it means this has to be something huge. Get back to me. TR.
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I've yet to find a copy of this, but it is out there. I know it. The end.
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And then people started to do it with like real media. So that's where you get like Dead Bart, Squidward Suicide, Suicide Mouse, stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was really like, I remember there being one for like every show. Like there was a fairly odd parents one. There was like a total drama Island one. Like I remember ones for like everything I watched. All right.
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So the rake, the rate creepy pasta. Uh, now several of you have heard of the rake. The rake has a lot of different adaptations. The version I'm most familiar with is when people say it's like a proxy of slender man. So like slender man can turn or slender man, turn someone into the rake in order to do it.
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Uh, it's like, it's like, it's closer to classic, like native American depictions of the Wendigo, like a humanoid, like kind of skeletal thing running around on the ground. Um, and it's like, I think it's some adaptations that can shape shift or at least mimic voices. I think that's right.
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Um, yeah, this is one of the earliest renditions of the actual creepy pasta, but the rate gets used in so many different stories. Um, Like the overview for it here on creepypasta.com says, mostly associated with the image of a bald, pale-skinned creature hunched at an angle with bright orb-like eyes staring into the camera.
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That wasn't the villain. It was Nazi Nigel. It was Nazi Nigel.
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So it gets used all over the place, but this is one of the most famous stories. This is from a suicide note in 1964. As I prepare to take my life, I feel it necessary to assuage any guilt or pain I have introduced through this act. It's not the fault of anyone other than him. For once I awoke and felt his presence, and once I awoke and saw his form.
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Once again I awoke and heard his voice and looked into his eyes. I cannot sleep without fear of what I might next wake experience. I cannot ever wake. Goodbye. Found in the same wooden box were two empty envelopes addressed to William and Rose, and one loose personal letter with no envelope. Dearest Lenny, I have prayed for you. I have prayed for you. He spoke your name.
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So then another journal entry translated from Spanish in 1880 reads, I've experienced the greatest terror. I've experienced the greatest terror. I have experienced the greatest terror. I see his eyes when I close mine. They are hollow, black. He saw me and pierced me. His wet hand. I will not sleep. His voice followed by unintelligible text.
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Another, a mariner's log from 1691 says, he came to me in my sleep. From the foot of my bed, I felt a sensation. He took everything. He must return to England. We shall not return here again at the request of the rake.
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Yes, the classic.
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Three years ago, I had just returned from a trip from Niagara Falls with my family for the 4th of July. We were all very exhausted after a long day of driving, so my husband and I put the kids right to bed and called it a night. At about 4 a.m., I woke up thinking my husband had gotten up to use the restroom. I used the moment to steal back the sheets, only to wake him in the process.
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I apologized and told him I thought he got out of bed. When he returned to face me, he gasped, pulled his feet up from the end of the bed so quickly as he almost knocked me out of the bed. Then grabbed me and said nothing. After adjusting to the dark for a half second, I was able to see what caused the strange reaction.
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At the foot of the bed, sitting and facing away from us, there was what appeared to be a naked man or a large hairless dog of some sort. Its body position was disturbing and unnatural, as if it had been hit by a car or something. For some reason, I was not instantly frightened by it, but more concerned as to its condition.
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They get to the end. It's like, guys, that wasn't the villain. It was Jeffrey Dahmer.
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At this point, I was somewhat under the assumption that we were supposed to help him. My husband was peering over his arm and knee, tucked into the fetal position, occasionally glancing at me before returning to the creature.
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In a flurry of motion, the creature scrambled around the side of the bed and then crawled quickly in a flailing sort of motion right along the bed until it was less than a foot from my husband's face. The creature was completely silent for about 30 seconds, or probably closer to five. It just seemed like a while, just looking at my husband.
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The creature then placed its hands on his knee and ran into the hallway leading to the kids' rooms. I screamed and ran for the light switch, planning to stop him before he hurt my children. When I got to the hallway, the light from the bedroom was enough to see it crouching and hunched over about 20 feet away. He turned around and looked directly at me, covered in blood.
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I flipped the switch on the wall and saw my daughter, Clara. The creature ran down the stairs while my husband and I rushed to help our daughter. She was very badly injured and spoke only once more in her short life. She said, She is the rake. My husband drove his car to a lake that night while...
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Being a small town, news got around pretty quickly. The police were helpful at first, and the local newspaper took a lot of interest as well. However, the story was never published, and the local television news never followed up either. For several months, my son Justin and I stayed in a hotel near my parents' house. After we decided to return home, I began looking for answers myself.
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I eventually located a man in the next town over who had a similar story. We got in contact and began talking about our experiences. He knew of two other people in New York who had seen the creature we now referred to as the Rake.
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It took the four of us about two solid years of hunting on the internet and writing letters to come up with a small collection of what we believed to be accounts of the Rake. None of them gave any details, history, or follow-up. One journal had an entry involving the creature in its first three pages and never mentioned it again.
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A ship's log explained nothing of the encounter, saying only that they were told to leave by the rake. That was the last entry in the log. There were, however, many instances where the creature's visit was one of a series of visits with the same purpose. Multiple people also mentioned being spoken to, my daughter included.
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This led us to wonder if the rake had visited any of us before our last encounter. I set up a digital recorder near my bed and left it running all night, every night for two weeks. I would tediously scan through the sounds of me rolling around in my bed each day when I woke up.
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By the end of the second week, I was quite used to the occasional sound of sleep while blurring through the recording at eight times the normal speed. This still took almost an hour every day. On the first day of the third week, I thought I heard something different. What I found was a shrill voice. It was the rake. I can't listen to it long enough to even begin to transcribe it.
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I haven't let anyone listen to it yet. All I know is that I've heard it before, and I now believe that it spoke when it was sitting in front of my husband. I don't remember hearing anything at the time, but for some reason, the voice in the recorder immediately brings me back to that moment. Thoughts that must have gone through my daughter's head make me very upset.
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I've not seen the rake since he ruined my life, but I know he has been in my room while I slept. I know and fear that one night I'll wake up to see him staring at me. And that is the end of the original Creepypasta by Brian Somerville.
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So after the, after this, the rate got used everywhere. People would drop it. They'd write stories about like, I'm in the woods. I'm in a cabin, the rakes outside trying to kill me, stuff like that. It was very common. Yeah. Also, does this make you realize while, when you read 40 of these in a row, what Boroska does or what pen pal does?
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I was going to take you to the statue, white with red, all of them. But you know what? Fine. If that means nothing to you, Hunter, go ahead. I'm going to read who was phone.
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So the joke with this one was people would list like, what's the scariest thing you've ever read? And people would be like, who was phone? Like I couldn't sleep for weeks after that. Like it was the scariest thing. So everyone would hype it up. And then when you eventually find it, it would be this. I love it. Yep.
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And I think when I, when I was a kid, I heard about this and I was, and I was like, okay, it's really scary. And then I find this and I'm like, Oh, someone's made this as a trick to hide the real story from me. It's a troll. So I kept looking for the real quote unquote, but where's the good one at?
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I see. I see. Like they took it from me kind of attitude. You think a lot about children's foreskins.
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Mm-hmm. Yep. So now maybe you can respect a little bit more the prime rib you're dealt. I agree. I agree.
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Spoiled rotten. I agree. They need to suffer like I did. I agree.
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Any final words? Thank you all for watching. Let us know. Keep sending stuff like this. I need to torture Hunter more. I need him to know what I went through. But thank you all for watching. Appreciate you guys. And yeah, thank you so much for the support. Merch on the way soon. New Creepcast merch on the way soon.
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I also have merch available to buy right now, which I can say because I'm wearing your merch right now, Hunter.
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Yeah, so they say that, Kevin Hart does, and Sky Shell says, wasn't his top hat and cloak all sewn up crazily? Was that supposed to be children's skin? Sewn up crazily. I was just sewn up on it crazy style. Was that supposed to be children's skin, see? Already getting into the foreskin angle. Who knows?
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This goes back to my thesis of you making things like five steps further than where like they need to be at any time for the story. You just like dive in.
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For children's television? Yeah. To grind your skin? I'd say so. SkyShow replies and says, I'm so relieved that other people remember this terrible show. I used to have this awful memory. A bad dream I had where the opening jingle ended, the show faded in from black, and all the characters were there, but the camera was just cutting to each of their faces, and they were just screaming.
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and the puppets and marionettes were flailing spastically, just all screaming, screaming. The girl was just moaning and crying like she had been through hours of this. I woke up many times from that nightmare. I used to wet the bed when I had it.
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Skyshell replies and says, no, no, no, not possible. There was no plot or anything. I mean, literally just standing in place, crying and screaming for the whole show.
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It's going to be a bumpy ride. So what we're doing here is, uh, Hunter, frankly, has it too good, right? Like this guy, uh, listens to some of the best selected off of no sleep. He listens to like these two hour long things that are eventually adapted into books. And he hasn't put up with what I've put up with what a lot of us have of these like, yeah,
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It looks pretty highly rated. And this story that we're going to read today is from six years ago. And like I said, it's very highly rated in the subreddit and a bunch of people have told us to check it out. So if this is good, you can check out SF Barkley's other works on Amazon. It looks like they're all sold on Amazon. Shout out wherever you want to support her. SF Barkley.
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Yeah, it's like your classic officer response to creepy call. It is a fun campfire story.
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Yeah. It feels very, very classic. Feels very classic.
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All right. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. We're not making this to another. Which one did you make that joke on? Someone made the web comic about. Sometimes the cucumber tastes better pickled. Well, first off, that's a Dave Chappelle line.
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All right, well, I didn't need to know that. Yeah, so I made a little web animation of you talking about making happy accidents with your friends in the woods. There's some happy accidents. That's what I tried to tell the assistant preacher. He got me out of that church. As a matter of fact, he threatened to register me with the state of Illinois.
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So that's why I told the family we were moving out of Detroit because the business was gone in the region. That's why we're down here now. Right. But... Look, I'm just saying that that is the kind of hard. No one wants to work anymore.
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I don't know what it is about you that keeps wanting to take stories in that direction.
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I don't like any, I don't like anything you're saying. Uh, I will say during the, uh, while we were reading goat man on tour, Hunter kept bringing that up at every show, kept bringing up the whole, like, Oh, isn't it, isn't it, uh, funny of some guys got to fooling around in the woods. And I will just say, LA did not like that joke.
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Nothing funny about every, every other city founded hilarious in California. Not, not a laugh in the room.
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And you kept trying to force it.
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Much like my fist. It was.
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Yep. Yep, that's what it is. I'm going to keep reading now. Okay. I continue upstairs through the bedrooms, closets, and everywhere a person could be. I checked. I worked my way back downstairs and checked the basement. It's a pretty small basement, but it's broken into several tiny rooms. One room has a metal door with a padlock on it.
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Padlock means a key to open it and is completely rusted shut, covered in cobwebs, and even one big old black spider was guarding that lock, having made its home. Clearly, this lock has been there for years, maybe decades. I didn't worry much about it since there's no way anyone was in there due to how rusted this old lock was. Even the keyhole looked corroded and filled with rust and dirt.
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I eventually left and advised dispatch no report. I grab a cup of hot coffee around 4am and catch up with one of the guys from the DUI crash and ask him what the mess of a scene looked like. He told me I'm lucky I wasn't stuck on that scene. He asked me about the Patch Lane house and I told him it was pretty creepy, but I checked it out and it has to be crossed wire somewhere.
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Uh, also check this one out.
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I felt comfortable telling him it was creepy since I knew this guy from when my dad was still on the force and he treats me like a daughter. He said he used to get dropped calls all the time from there back in the 90s, but there was actually a family living there back then. Each time he got dispatched, they were surprised to see him and they let him search the whole house. Never any problems.
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Just a single mom with her two kids minding their own business. Asked him what happened to that family and he said nothing suspicious. They moved away after maybe 10 months or so, definitely less than a year. And a few families moved in and out, renting the house. But ever since about the late 90s, nobody moved in. I asked him if he remembered there being a locked room in the basement.
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Honestly, not really knowing what it was... Honestly, not really knowing... It's so hard for me. Honestly... Sorry, they almost won that time. Honestly, not really knowing what I was expecting as a response and his eyebrows raised and he said... And he said... And he said... You know what?
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And we're like, I said, I gave the clause. If it's good, if it's good, I gave, I gave the clause. I'm so glad that you guys were so happy about the eat me like a bug thing. I won't be like a bug. Eat me. I was fighting for my life with the editor. She made a joke to my wife about cutting it, and I was calling her like, you better not. And I'm glad it paid off. I'm glad it paid off.
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That voice was actually too good that I was expecting you to launch into a bit at some point, but you never did. Thank you.
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I think you did a really good job. The only time you try that hard is when it's going somewhere. When you have a joke lined up. Not so far at least.
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So we both shrugged it off, finding it odd, but moved on with our shift into the early hours with another DUI stop and a domestic violence call from a guy whose wife drank too much and decided it was a good time to confront him for cheating on her three years ago. Goddamn. Good God.
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Good fucking God. There is a DUI fatality. Yeah. And there's another DUI stop and then a domestic violence scenario. So a lot, a lot happened. I mean, like most people I know who are police, like this tends to be the vibe. It's like, yeah, well yesterday we had a couple domestics. This guy beat his wife to death.
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Water off a duck's back at some point, yeah. Fast forward to Sunday night. Back at work, and this time the call comes out right at 0300.
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Are you able to go? Since I was in the middle of eating my lunch, I decided not to even go.
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This time, the front door was wide open, and I know I shut it closed the night before. At this point, I begin to think a homeless person's inside, which is still a trespass. So I call out the dispatch, I have an open door, and I'm going to check it out.
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You are all over the place. Your political compass right now is like a star. It's like everywhere on the board. They freak me out.
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Why did I do wrong? Cause they're homeless people. They're not animals. It's like, there's someone who does not currently have a home. Now I'll give you that. There's, there's like people who are high on something and maybe you don't know what, but they seem unstable. That's scary. Right? That's more so just anyone on like heavy drugs.
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We had, uh, my grandfather, he used to live in this really big house, uh, over in East Tennessee. And, um, After he went through a divorce, he just quit taking care of it. And he started living in a double wide on the property of the big like fancy house. And he didn't touch that house for like 20 years. So my dad and I go in there to clean it up. Mm hmm.
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We were trying to see if the house was salvageable because the roof had fallen in and stuff like that. And we go inside and someone had been living in there. And keep in mind, the house is not like a closed off house. All the windows are broken. There's vines growing up the wall and stuff. And we go in there and there was like...
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I threatened to do horrible things to her future business opportunity. Destroy, burn the future to the ground. Exactly, yeah. Yeah, so I'm glad you all appreciate it.
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There's like a homemade cot that was laid out and like some empty cans of food and stuff like that. And it looks recent. That's why. But here's what's weird about it. This isn't a property that's in like the middle of a town. It's like, oh, he walked down the street. Probably. There is one gas station, but you know everyone who's at the gas station.
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Other than that, it is trees and dirt roads for at least eight miles. That's what I'm saying, dude. It's like, where is he? If he's not here right now, where'd he go?
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So here's the thing about this house, right? Because now I'm talking about more of my trauma that's being unveiled. Sure. I was maybe like nine at the time. Nine or ten. And we set... all of that stuff that we found inside of the house, we set it outside. We didn't throw it away. It's just like, Hey, we're trying to redo the house. Like here's your stuff. Come get it.
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So the next day, and we were sleeping in the double wide that like was in line of sight of the house. Oh yeah. They probably came out like fucking possums grabbed it. We go, we go, we go to sleep that night. We wake up the next morning and everything had been moved back into the house. My, my God.
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My, so now here's the thing we were like, it was in such a way they either had to come from the road or the double wide we were staying at. So the other alternative is, were they in the house while I was in there? Oh dude, I bet you they were in the closet or the basement or just being real quiet while we were, can you imagine? I think about that sometimes.
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You know, I almost, it's weird. It's weird. You mentioned that. Cause I, I, I used to have these nightmares about that house. Cause there was so many ghost stories. Do not tell me that you do not fucking trauma dump me right now. Listen, I used, I used to have so many nightmares about that house.
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I would have, I would have dreams about like there was a monster in it or like it was on fire or stuff like, cause it was just a creepy house. Right. Because it was, you know, old decrepit. It was built like in the late 19th, or early 1900. So it looked like an old, like plantation style house or whatever, but it was like overgrown and stuff. So I used to have nightmares about it.
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And I would have this one nightmare where there was a face looking at me from like the top of the stairs, like where the banister was, there'd be someone looking down. I had that dream a lot and it's almost so vivid. I wonder if it's like a memory that I blocked.
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Hoodies are sick. Be an adult.
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I'm A Cop & I Keep Getting Called To The Same House | Creep Cast
I mean, if it was the can man, he was quite nice to me. Like I did. I know.
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The, the can, the can man is certainly a great precast character to relay off my possible childhood trauma. Look, here's what I have to say. Here's what I think. If it is a repressed memory, I hope it stays repressed. I hope I never, I hope I never dig that one up.
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I have a feeling if I do, if I do, you'll be the first in your brain. I actually haven't thought about that in a long time until we started reading about the house. And as she's describing the open door, I'm thinking, oh, that's kind of familiar.
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he was very, yeah, he was just like a friendly old guy. Exactly. Yeah. That's a much more pleasant outcome. Yeah. I know. Cause we decided that the house was too far gone.
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uh because it was like two damage it cost more to repair than you know it would be to just get a new place right so um we went back years later because it had uh what was that wood called wormy chestnut it's like a older like vintage wood that some of the floorboards were made of and we're like oh well maybe we could salvage it and sell it because it's apparently worth a penny so we go back to look at the house again
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I like the idea that there was like a creepy old man who lived in the house outside and the worst thing he ever did was sneak me beans to share with him as he told me stories around the campfire.
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I do vividly remember. Finding a dead cat in the house.
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I remember because I'd never seen like a pet sized animal dead or like an animal that could be a pet dead. And I remember what it looked like.
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That's what that smell was.
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I'm A Cop & I Keep Getting Called To The Same House | Creep Cast
This time, the front door was wide open, and I know I shut it closed the night before. At this point, I begin to think a homeless person's inside, which is still trespass. So I call out to dispatch, and I have an open door, and I'm going to check it out. I make entry, and this time I see someone run around the corner.
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My gun's drawn since I have no idea what to expect here, and I announce myself and run after them. When I turn the corner, it's just the kitchen and door to the basement. No way out. I run into the basement, and nobody's down there. Nobody. I get on my radio and ask for backup, but get no response. make my way back up and still nothing on the radio.
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I finished clearing the house and still can't find the person. I make my way out to my cruiser and use the cruiser radio and I'm out of breath at this point. 1034 to dispatch.
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of course everyone asked me about what happened and all i can say is that they must have ran out when they saw me i did tell anyone that the direction they ran left them absolutely no way of running outside i begin to wonder if i'm going crazy i'm off tuesday and wednesday nights rookie remember so at this point i just have one more night before i can rest monday night shift left me speechless
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A roll call everyone jokes about when I'm planning to go back to Patch Lane. I tell them they can get the call and I'm done. 3 a.m. Dispatch to 1045. 1045 is my good friend who has been to the house in the 90s.
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Not even 30 seconds go by, my cell phone beeps, and I have a text. Hey, wanna meet me there? Bastard. Of course I'm gonna say no. So yeah, I go.
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We show up the same time, and this time the front door is wide open again. Awesome. Both clear the first floor, then the top floor, and make our way into the basement together. Nothing. Nothing. Then we turn the corner and I see there's no lock on the metal door anymore. We look at each other and he said, I thought you said this was locked. Uh, it was.
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So he slowly opens the door and we are hit in the face with the most horrid smell. A smell I know well. The smell of death. We find a corpse of a young female. Bloated. Fresh. The body naturally bloats about two to four days after death and traps gases. That's where the odor comes from. We call for backup and medical examiners show up on the scene.
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They processed the scene and began to take the body away. I asked them how long has the body been there? They're the experts, not me. And the ME guys say between three to four days based on rigor mortis, liver mortis, and a few other medical terms I probably can't even spell. I said, there's no way that's possible because I was there a day ago and there's no way that was freshly locked.
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The lock was so corroded, rusted, covered in cobwebs. Nobody touched it in years.
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Tomorrow will be my first night back, and I'm not sure what to expect. That's the end of part one.
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Oh, definitely paranormal. The way that it was like... Oh, there's an old doctor who did who used to do like private abortions there. And then it's like, oh, she sees someone who runs into the basement then disappears. I think that's all. I think it's definitely paranormal.
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There's a lot of ghostly shenanigans. Ghostly shenanigans, you say?
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It was fun. I enjoy it here. You know what I'm going to do? I am going to grab a crisp Red Bull from my mini fridge right here. Oh. Yes, a beautiful, delicious, sugar-free. Part two. All right, part two. Update, Thursday, August 9th, 2018. I woke up this morning to a blaring ringing coming from my nightstand. I smacked my alarm clock, but it didn't stop the noise.
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I finally realized with half an eye open that it was my phone. I answer.
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hello barkley wake the hell up chief wants to see you now sergeant oakley is not the voice i wanted to hear at 8 a.m this morning i rolled my ass out of bed and began to get ready to head into the station since i knew it was never a good sign when good old chief fox wants you in his office asap round nine i walked into the station in uniform and headed towards chief fox's office
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Hooked on his open door and poked my head around the corner. Chief said, Barkley, come in and shut the door. Shut the door and took a seat.
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The hell? How's he turning this thing on me? I did my job, I followed protocol, I followed my training, and I cleared the house as I was taught. Okay, Chief, what questions do you have?
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Yeah, that reads like, did you need a man to come do it for you?
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Bro. I love, I love like stereotypical police settings. Like you're off this case.
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This whole department's coming apart.
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You're on the case. You're off the case. You're on the case again. No one's on the case. Everyone's on it. No one's on it.
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Get on the case. All right. Now that you're on it, now get off it. I wanted you on so I could put you off.
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That's got to be like crack to like grow a mustache, be on a department for years. Like some rookie you're off the case. It's got to be.
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That's so good. I love that one. I'm keeping an eye on you. I feel like, hold on, I've got aviators. Should I put them on?
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Okay, that took much longer than I was originally expecting, but I found them. Alright, that was definitely worth the time. That was definitely worth the time. It was definitely worth it, 100%. What an asshole. I knew from the day city council hired me that he hated me. Yeah, as I said, it's a small town, so the chief tends to do what city council tells him to do.
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Lucky for me, city council was eager to hire another female officer. Now, I think Fox was on board with their idea. I'm used to the sexism in these small towns, but I tolerate it since my... That's so funny, me putting the shades on to be like, yeah, I'm used to the sexism in small towns. But I tolerate it since my fellow patrol officers, for the most part, don't share the chief's criticisms.
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I decided to follow up with the medical examiner's office to see what information they had from the autopsy and the crime scene since we didn't seem to have a copy of their report at our station.
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Sexual harassment. Got it.
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I'm A Cop & I Keep Getting Called To The Same House | Creep Cast
You don't have to tell me about sexism in small towns because I know all about it.
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I'm A Cop & I Keep Getting Called To The Same House | Creep Cast
I'm the chief of... I'll assault your sexual any day you want. I'm a medical examiner. I'll examine you medically. He's wearing like a female body inspector shirt.
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Yeah. Yeah. It was like in time. You want, I think the body's here somewhere. Oh, that. Yeah. Well, I think we have that.
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I'm A Cop & I Keep Getting Called To The Same House | Creep Cast
So just like underneath a corpse, like eating, like warmed up. He knows it's like the grease is dripping all over the body. Good. Ah,
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Thank you. Thank you, King. That's only brave opinions on this podcast.
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the chief medical examiner wasn't exactly eager to help but I grabbed my cruiser's keys and headed on over to the lab the assistant was a young girl fresh out of college greeted me with a smile hello officer how can I help you asked her for a copy of the ME's report from patch lane and she proceeded to enter some letters into her computer then hit print she handed me a three page document so I asked aren't there more pages nope that's it
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I found this very odd considering most medical autopsy reports for a homicide case are all well over 20 or 30 pages. I took a seat to look over the report and I guess my confusion and anger showed on my face since the receptionist asked if there was a problem. So I reviewed the autopsy report. I saw that for the hair color, which was clearly long and blonde, they listed brunette.
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For eye color, they listed undetermined. I wish this was the end of the shit show, but the entire report seemed to be either wrong or just incomplete. The manner of death was listed as homicide, but the cause of death was listed as undetermined. What the hell? Isn't that their job to determine the cause of death?
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I marched over to the chief medical examiner's office and knocked twice before walking in. Chief, is this just a skeleton report from the Patch Lane incident? Held up a three-page document in my hands to show him. A skeleton report is just a basic report cops will fill out prior to end of shift, and then the next day, with fresh eyes, they fill in the gaps.
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However, with the homicide case and being that this was now over 48 hours later, I didn't understand why they would only have a skeleton report.
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I hate when old creepy men call me sweetheart.
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I'm A Cop & I Keep Getting Called To The Same House | Creep Cast
It's really funny because it's like, hey, you didn't list the cause of death. It's like, it's been a whole two days. You think we can tell after two days? Who are you?
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It was especially funny because as soon as you said deal with it, the connection cut, like you got raided. Yeah, SWAT team just raids in and just beats the shit out of me.
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What do I look like? Harry Houdini? Do you think I'm Batman or something? World's greatest detective. No, ma'am. Come on. How am I supposed to tell? You think I could tell how somebody died from a body? They got to be alive to tell me that I bought a baby, duh, toots. And then she's like, okay, did you, why did you say her hair was brewed at?
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First, she wants me to be a magician, figure out how she died. She wants me to look at the body. Who are they hiring down at the department these days?
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I'm A Cop & I Keep Getting Called To The Same House | Creep Cast
Yeah, he just immediately launches into like, has anyone ever told you you're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen?
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I don't mean to be too forward here, but you have an amazing rack. Can I say that? I don't mean to be too harsh, but it's just a fact.
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He's like taking his clothes off.
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She's like, why did you list the hair color as brunette? And he's like naked rubbing oil on himself.
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I'm A Cop & I Keep Getting Called To The Same House | Creep Cast
I would like to take you on a date tonight. What do you say?
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Please! It'd be pretty easy to repel in on your set, I think. That'd be great. Maybe you think one of them would stick around to finish the podcast with me. That'd be friendly.
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Leaves. Leaves. They put leaves in there. Then if you get the potato soup, you can dip the bread in the soup and then it's a whole nother world. It's a different ballgame.
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Okay. Where was I? Okay, yeah. I asked to go see the body and I wanted to make sure I wasn't just making shit up in my own head. Shockingly, he agreed and took me over to the freezer. Again, it's a small town, so the morgue only had about five bodies in the freezer. That's a lot of bodies, I feel. Five bodies? Good God. For a small town to have in the freezer? Yeah.
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There's 70 people who live in this town.
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I'm A Cop & I Keep Getting Called To The Same House | Creep Cast
We had an 8% casualty event last night.
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This is a cop episode. So this one's been recommended a few times in the comment section and whatnot. So looking into the author, her name is S.F. Barkley. And she was like in real life, a former police officer in Western Pennsylvania. Hmm. who while she was a police officer experienced several strange and like supernatural calls.
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of the five people are dead.
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We don't as well as, as well as the pastor of three churches in the region. One of them was Jewish. We don't know how he did it. That's how good he was. We'll never recover. There's a body in there that's in both like a priest garb and like a Jewish synagogue.
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Okay. We have to, I have to get, we have to lock in on the story a little bit. We were pushing it with the bug thing last time. I feel like this is a bridge too far. I know everyone's mad, whatever. We're having fun. Sorry that we're having a good time. I found our Jane Doe from patch lane and zipped open the bag. I immediately noticed her blonde hair. I knew I wasn't crazy.
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I grabbed some latex gloves and began to go through her pockets to look for identification since clearly the ME's office decided it was undetermined if she had items in her pockets. I found a receipt from a gas station for 10 gallons of gas priced at 112 per gallon.
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I actually felt jealous of this dead woman wondering where she found to get, where she found to go, where she found to get gas that sheet, man. I don't know why that hurt. Then I looked up top of the receipt and saw the date stamp as 10, 20, 1998. So what? 20 years ago. 20 years ago. Yep. Why the hell would she keep a receipt that old?
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We can bleep or cut any of this. No, you're not. You sure are not. Go ahead. We're having fun.
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I flipped the receipt over and saw there was some type of writing, like in pencil, on it, but I couldn't make it out. I put the receipt in a baggie and decided I was going to send it out to the PA state lab for further testing to see if they could decipher what was written.
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The more I looked at her, I also noticed she was wearing bleached jeans with a multicolored sweatshirt, like what my mom used to dress me in when I was younger. I left the freezer, since I could barely feel my own fingers, and asked Chief Emmy if he had copies of their attempts to identify the body, dental moldings, fingerprints, DNA tests, etc.
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He handed me over a stack of some papers and said, Good luck. Why are there only six fingerprints?
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What is this? It's insane. He's literally like, look, you couldn't find the body. So I'm going to not identify exactly. I left out four fingers, even Stevens, the clean slate asshole. I decided I was going to redo her fingerprints. And so once he handed me look shitty and weren't even complete, she's usually more thorough than this.
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And I have no idea why it feels like I'm the only one even trying to solve this case anymore. Fingerprinted all 10 of our Jane Doan's fingers and ran them through my mobile automated fingerprint identification system. I was pleasantly surprised to see that I got a hit, so I clicked see more and my screen read, Michelle Klein, date of birth, July 5th, 1972, date of death, October 20th, 1998.
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This guy being like, Oh, what do you want me to do my job? Are you crazy? Yeah. That's a hundred percent. This is undoubtedly police department malfeasance. I do think as far as the case itself goes, there's some weird time wibbly wobbly stuff going on, I think. Because it's like she died in 1998. Her clothes are from 98. The receipts from 98. So yeah, I think this is...
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some weird time warp thing that's happening. Um, I don't know exactly what yet. Maybe she died. Then it was transport. Cause she was dead for two days. It's not like the body's been there for 20 years. Right. Right. Or maybe there was something that preserved her body perfectly, but then why would the date of death be listed? That, that wouldn't make sense.
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So I feel like this is maybe it's like, maybe it is an old case that like the body repeated itself was like copied over into the house or something. I don't know, but I am interested. Part 3. Update. August 13th, 2018. I woke up Friday evening, groggy, with a pounding headache. I'm beginning to think the bottle of wine I finished Thursday night wasn't such a great idea. That's the thing with cops.
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When we come across horrible scenes that we can't rationalize or explain, whether it be murdered children, abusive husbands, finding a 20-year dead body, we turn to alcohol. Me personally, I turned to a nice dark Merlot. Is that how you pronounce Merlot? Merlot? Yeah, I think it's Merlot. Yeah, I think you're right. I couldn't stop wondering how the hell that body could have died 20 years ago.
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It was fresh. I could still smell it. It made absolutely no sense. Grabbed my keys with my left hand as I wedged my right hand fingers between my duty belt and uniform belt to get my last belt keeper snapped in place before running out the door to make it to roll call on time. While driving to the station, all I could think about was how there's no way my mobile APHIS was correct.
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I decided that as soon as roll call ended, I was going to grab a different mobile APHIS from the Batcave, the not-so-creative name we call the room with all of our tools, gadgets, and weapons, and scan my Jane Doe's fingerprints again. As soon as roll call was over, I ran upstairs, grabbed Jane Doe's fingerprints from the case file.
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Next, I grabbed one of the newer mobile APHIS devices and scanned Jane Doe's fingerprints. It was running slow, but seemed to be thinking. The screen read, processing, processing, processing. And after it felt like an eternity, but in reality was maybe three minutes, I got the message. System has timed out. Failed attempt. Weird. This has never happened to me before. I decide to try it again.
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Yeah. Well, we'll see how it does. We'll see what Barkley's got in store. Also continue to do the liking on Spotify and all that stuff. We're currently 35 on the charts, and Hawk 2 is nowhere to be seen. So I think we won.
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This time I can actually feel my heart start to thud louder and louder as I waited for the results. Processing. Processing. No results found. What the hell? Are you kidding me? This is the response I'm used to seeing when I scan a suspect's fingerprints who has never before been arrested. I didn't tell anyone about my previous Michelle Klein results because it didn't make any sense to me.
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I worried something exactly like this would happen and I would look like the crazy one. Before I could jump on one of the computers to start to do some digging, I heard the tone drop. The tone is the loud, high-pitched screaming tone that makes every cop's heart skip a beat.
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Can I say real quick? I have a story, but I feel like this is a good one. So when I was a kid, I actually had to go to court.
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No, I've never been caught to court as a witness. Thank you. I got a speeding ticket. I was going, I think it was like 16 over the speed limit or whatever when I was 16. So to try to scare me, I was driving through Kentucky. They sent me to a local court.
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So I show up at my court date and at the beginning, so like, you know, you show up early morning, 738, whatever, and you have to sit there in the back before they call up your case. So you're just listening to all the trials, right? So I'm listening to all the trials. And it's all of the initial hearings, like all of the, what do they call it when they do reasonable suspicion?
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What do they call it? I'm going to find that there is plausible. Deniability. Whatever. No, the thing where it's like, I'm going to find that there's reasonable suspicion or whatever to go forward with your case. Basically, like the judge is determining, does the case deserve to go into trial? Guilty, not guilty, whatever. So I'm sitting there listening to all of it.
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And they are going through a bunch of the assaults and the whole line of people going up to the stand, up to the bench to talk to the judge are the kind of people you'd expect, like a bunch of like drug addict looking guys and t-shirts who are there. It's all like domestic and stuff like that. But there's one girl in line who looks like a soccer mom. Like she's like has her face done in makeup.
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She's like wearing like a track suit or whatever. And the whole time I'm like, what is she here for? And she gets up to the front and, uh, the judge is like, do you understand, uh, the, the like ruling against you? And she was like, no, I do not. And he was like, would you like me to read like officer's report? And she was like, yes, I would. And in my head, I'm like, oh yes, fantastic.
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Give me the tea. And the judge reads off the officer's report and it's like suspect entered into a local McDonald's. And after getting into a disagreement with the worker, hopped the counter and began punching several members of the staff. Good fucking God. After this, she began grabbing food and refreshments from behind the counter and throwing them at patrons as they entered.
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When police arrived to the scene, she began throwing ice cream at them before she had to be tased and arrested.
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Sometimes you have those days. So the whole courtroom is like starting to laugh and the judge like has to slam the gavel. He's like order, order, whatever. Yeah. And he was like, man, I'm going to find that there's reasonable suspicion, maybe whatever. I'm going to find that there's reasonable suspicion to move forward until then. Uh, I'll see to it that you are not allowed to enter a McDonald's.
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And she says, well, how many McDonald's, which ones? And he says, any McDonald's in the continental United States. And then, so she's walking out the door and some crack addict in the back of the courtroom, whenever she's about to walk out, goes, here comes the Hamburglar. Yeah.
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Yeah. This dude was like scratching scabs off of his skin, like near shirtless. And he's like, here comes the Hamburglar. And like the judge was laughing. Like the, the other crack addicts, like abusers were laughing. It was great. Yeah. Anyway, so yeah, that's happening in this town. There's gunshots being fired near McDonald's.
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I ran to my cruiser, flipped the switch to turn on my lights and siren and raced to the scene. We circulated the area for over an hour with no results. Finally, dispatch got back on the air.
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Yeah, yeah. Call me, Chris. She's ahead of us. We got to kill her. Call me, Chris. Done.
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Sergeant Oakley was kind enough to offer the rookie's assistance. Just like that, I spent the entire rest of my night sitting at the hospital waiting for the victim to come out of surgery so that I could question him. I spent all Friday night thinking about our Jane Doe case and trying to find answers. But the more I thought about the case, the more questions I had.
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When I returned to work Saturday, I decided I wanted to return to Patch Lane and try to get some closure to some of the unanswered questions. After everything that happened, I realized it would be best for me to not go alone. I texted my friend Tim, he's a badge number 1045 who responded last time with me, and asked if he'd be willing to head back over to Patch Lane with me under the radar.
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He agreed and we both advised dispatch to hold us out doing foot patrol around the park. This is an area we had a lot of problems at night with underage drinking and smoking. hold my cruiser to a stop and shut off the engine Tim slowly forced himself out of his cruiser muttering about his bad back Barclay what are we even looking for back here?
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shit I didn't tell him about my little visit to the ME's office Nothing. Let's start out and do a full sweep of the perimeter. She should tell him she should, if she trusts him, she should tell him. Yeah. Why would she not? Especially the way maybe at this second, it's like, okay, we're standing here. Let's just get this over with. And then I'll explain it to him.
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She listens to the show, so that's a threat. That's a direct threat, Chris. Just a joke.
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But she needs to explain it to him.
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You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, you'd think it'd be something to bring up. I wasn't really sure what I was expecting. There was still police tape across the front door with a fire red sticker on the seal of the doorway stamped, Do Not Enter. I leaned in to check the door handle to make sure it was locked. As I reached down, I heard a loud, chill scream come from immediately behind me.
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I jumped up, turned around, and shined my flashlight straight ahead. Nobody was there. I heard a much softer, quieter skill come from ground level. Redirecting my light downward, sitting in front of me was a Halloween black cat.
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Now that she had my attention, she came up to me and wrapped her body around my leg, purring. I proceeded to check the rest of the windows and worked my way to the rear of the house, towards Tim. Haley, yes I named her, followed me and began frantically meowing at me the closer I got to the rear of the house.
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Her screaming got so bad I had to throw her some crackers from my pocket just to distract her, and it worked. I noticed a shadow in the upper level window, but couldn't make out what it was. I began taking steps backward to get a better look through the upper level window, all while shining my flashlight upwards.
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About the seventh or eighth step back, I felt something hard and sharp whack into the back of my ankle and brought me to my knees. Tim came running over since this time I was the one doing the yelling and not Haley. He shined his light down to make sure I was okay. Thank God there was no blood and I seemed to be fine.
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I bent over to see what it was that I felt go to my ankle and I felt a rusted, sharp chunk of metal. It was an old root cellar door handle. Root cellars are not uncommon on these old farms. It was a way for farmers to store their harvest over the long winter months when refrigeration was non-existent. What the hell is that? It's a root cellar door. We need to see what's down there.
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We opened the door and I used my ASP baton to wrap all the spider webs around it and clear a path for us.
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So hold on. She heard a scream, but then she wrote it off as being the cat. And then after that, something just a door handle just flew into her ankle.
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I shot my light down and began going down one step at a time. I went slowly so as to not fall through one of these old wooden stairs. We walked down what could only be described as a tunnel for about 10 seconds before we reached a small set of stairs. There were about four steps up that led to a smaller hatch, almost like an attic door. One that you must crawl through without a ladder.
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I reached up and opened the hatch, popped my head up and shot my light around. There was a large rug over the hatch opening. Tim helped me push it out of the way. Once we could finally see in the room, I recognized it. It was the room we found Jane Doe.
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Tim grabbed my arm and convinced me we needed to leave because this house was still an active crime scene and we couldn't go walking around inside. We finally figured out how the body got into that room. I knew I wasn't crazy. There was no way anyone had touched that lock on the outside. I turned around and retraced our steps, careful not to disturb anything.
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Along the way, I tried to look for evidence, but it was too dark. It was an area that would be better examined during daylight. We returned to our cruisers and calmed our nerves over a long smoke break, despite the fact that I'm not even a smoker. I got home, passed out, and went back into work on Sunday.
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One thing I love about working weekends is that there is no brass at the station when I go into work. However, this day was different. As soon as I walked in the station, I overheard my coworkers talking about some suits that were up in the chief's office. Sergeant Oakley saw me and immediately snapped his fingers at me. Barkley, get over here.
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Headed upstairs to the chief's office. Little surprise that the feds were getting involved in this case. I began to wonder if the FBI got involved because of a potential serial killer. My thoughts were quickly interrupted by Chief Foxx.
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Oh, the wonderful sound of his voice. Hello, Chief.
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US Marshals? They usually go after fugitives. Do they think a fugitive did this to our Jane Doe? Do they think our John Doe is a fugitive? My mind is going 100 miles per minute. Chief Fox then told me I had to sit down with them and answer any and all questions that they had. I took a seat and walked them through my past week, explaining the 911 hangups and finding the body.
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I wasn't planning to give them any details about the fingerprints, Michelle Klein, or the secret door, but they asked me something that sparked my interest.
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Ooh. End of part three, end of part four. Part four. Let's go. I'm excited. The glasses are really doing a lot of heavy lifting here for me, emotionally. I just want you to do that.
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Yeah, no, it's a good combination, I think. Update, Tuesday, August 14th, 2018. My conversation with the U.S. Marshals left me speechless. It seemed like every time a question was answered, it created 10 more questions. My Jane Doe was in the Witness Protection Program. Why? Why would she risk her life by coming back here? Who wanted to kill her? The U.S.
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Marshals were extremely professional, polished, and appeared as though they wanted to help. They weren't willing to divulge any specifics or details of why Jane Doe was put into the program or why she may have been killed. They did tell me that she was a key witness to a very high profile case years ago involving the ATF. They also admitted that Michelle Klein was her real name.
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However, they faked her death upon entry of the witness protection program. wherever I ran her fingerprints through a fist, I triggered an alert in their system. And that's how they came to be standing in front of me. Okay. So I will say that's really cool. I got worried for a second that the story was going to take a direction of being like the whole department's in on it.
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And the second she ran the fingerprints, like, um, they blotted them out of the system. So I was just afraid that there was going to be like an unbelievable level of like local cop corruption or whatever. Um, Um, but I do like the idea, like, oh no, the reason it did that is because this was a witness protection case we had to investigate. So like, I like the direction the story's going right now.
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I guess, what is it like? It's bounding itself more in the realm of mystery than it is the supernatural.
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In a good way, yeah. This honestly reminds me of how the OG Sherlock Holmes stories went. Because a lot of those, I remember reading... this Sherlock Holmes story as a kid called The Speckled Band. And it was about this woman who said that there was like a ghost that would come into her room. And one night she woke up from bed and then yelled The Speckled Band and then died.
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So everyone thought the ghost did it. But then it's Sherlock Holmes going through and seeing that there's like a secret entrance, a secret wall that people were hiding in, stuff like that. It reminds me of that a lot in a good way. I like it.
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before I could ask any questions they shook my hand and thanked me for my time they walked out the door before I could even get a why out of my mouth who killed Michelle Klein who kept calling 911 what did this poor woman get herself into why was there a receipt in her pocket from 20 years ago I finished up the rest of my ship, completing paperwork, which I eventually faxed over to the suits.
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I went home early Monday morning and only had two glasses of wine before rolling into bed by 5 a.m. Don't be mistaken, it's not that I didn't want to drink an entire bottle again, but I was just too tired. Monday evening, I headed back towards the station for roll call, which started around 5 p.m.
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Sergeant Oakley read and summarized aloud the prior shift's reports before releasing us to hit the road. Before I could finish racking my cruiser, dispatch calls.
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Although there isn't much for an officer to do on a call such as this, we are obligated to respond if someone calls and requests to see an officer. I drive down the long country road towards the caller and can't help but glance to my right as I pass the patch lane sign. I arrive on scene to meet with the sweetest old woman who reminded me very much of my own grandmother.
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She explained to me that she walked to her neighbor's house and called the phone company about her phone's not working, but just wanted an officer to keep her company until her phones were fixed so she was oxygen dependent. She also shared that she already had more than one fall in her home and used her medical alert. I told her I was happy to wait with her.
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She lived in an older farmhouse, there are many of those in this area, and had one of the prettiest farmlands I've seen in a while. She had her garden filled with colorful flowers and cute lawn ornaments throughout.
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yeah that's the kind of voice i think of when i think of a sweet lovely old woman yeah i was shocked to see the local phone company drive down the gravel road within 30 minutes of my arrival i went outside to greet the technician and explain the problem he introduced himself as tom and asked me where the box was located as quick as i could repeat the question in my head i heard the older woman yell from the porch it's behind the shed
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I followed Tom behind the shed, and about 20 yards away, I saw a large, three foot square pole sticking out of the ground. Tom walked over to it and began reaching on his belt for some tools.
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He attempted to open the hinge. No luck. these things usually go months maybe years without being opened and take a little tlc to go to open there we go the front face opened after just a little elbow grease was put into it saw several wires and some labels next to wires containing a series of numbers so explain to me what's going on here
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I noticed a loose wire hanging from the bottom with no label. This one appeared to have a female attachment on the end.
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As he motioned to the labels and switches, it was then that I had my lightbulb moment. What if my 911 hangups at Patch Lane were being done at one of these boxes? I asked.
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Tom paused for a moment to think about it and responded.
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Tom finished up his work and was able to get the phones working again. I left the scene within the hour, so it was still light outside. I decided to head back to Patch Lane in the daylight to see if I could find one of those landline telephone poles. I arrived on scene and began walking through the acreage. After about 20 minutes, I found it.
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I leaned over and wrapped my two fingers inside the front panel and pulled. The door opened with ease, much like the last box I watched Tom open. Somebody had opened this box recently, but who? As I started to head back towards my cruiser, I heard screaming. Damn it, Haley. Turned around and saw Haley sitting by the front porch. She's really got to clarify screaming. Yeah, for real.
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It's messing with me a little bit. This time, she looked in pain. She was holding a front paw in the air and kept looking at it, screaming in pain. Got closer to her and saw that her paw looked incredibly swollen. I'm an animal lover, so I decided to wrap her in an old uniform shirt I had in my trunk and set her in my cruiser.
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I'm a local rookie cop in a small town in Pennsylvania, currently stuck working night shift. I work the normal patrol shift, driving around, pulling traffic, responding to your normal domestic disputes, and whatever other wonderful calls dispatch sends my way. But ever since this past weekend, every single night I keep getting calls at the same house.
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Grabbed my phone from my front vest pocket, googled local veterinarians. I was pretty damn surprised to see my family's old vet was showing us still open and in business. We had a black lab growing up that I swear was the most intelligent dog. Dr. Demeyer's was just down the road and open until 8 p.m. I glanced at my watch and saw it was already 7.40, so I rushed down the road to the vet.
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Dr. Mary immediately took us in and began examining her paw. I couldn't believe this guy was still alive, let alone still working. I remember him as being old when I was a kid. He has to be in his 80s by now. My dad used to always take our dog to him, and I remember he would call Dr. Myers the mayor because he knew everyone in this town and knew everything about them.
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For as much as my dog hated the vet, I swear my dad loved going there to shoot the shit with Dr. Myers.
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He stopped to write down some notes in his chart. He looked up and said, That was a beautiful farm.
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Never heard about the owner of Patchland until just now. Where is he now? I asked.
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Wait, what the hell? I'm going to have to give her medicine. So now I have a cat. More of a dog person, but I can't stomach the idea of dropping her off at the local shelter either. On my way home, I stopped at the local mart and picked up a litter box, some cat litter, cat food. These cats are lower maintenance and more independent than dogs.
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Haley decided to snuggle up next to me for the night, and I'll admit it was the best I slept in months. I woke up Tuesday morning and decided to make it a productive day, despite the fact it's my day off from work and I'm exhausted. Began to think, who would have more information on Patch Lane or Michelle Klein? All my thoughts came back to the same person, my dad.
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He was on the force back in the 90s. Hell, he was on the force even back in the 80s and 70s. Drove over to his house and pulled into the driveway. Saw the rosebush and bloom in the front of the house, and it instantly reminded me of my mom. She passed away a few years back, but every time I go to my dad's, I find pieces of her everywhere, such as a rosebush that she planted.
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At first I thought it was my coworkers playing pranks on the rookie. I have two years on the job, but in such a small town, I work with most guys my dad's age. I've omitted certain names and addresses for obvious reasons. Anyway, here's what happened. Friday night, around 0200 hours, so actually Saturday morning, dispatch gets over the radio.
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welcomed myself inside and was greeted with the best bear hug. After feeding me and fueling me with his famous super secret recipe, coffee, we sat down.
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Well, that made me feel a little better. I felt guilty for insinuating that I was questioning Tim. My dad began to ask me questions about my own calls to patch lane, but I made the dash to the front door and told him I had to get going because of Haley and simply told him I had taken an astray who was still healing.
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What is with characters in these stories not explaining... Like, just tell your dad. Maybe your dad knows more info. You're a detective. Do the detective thing.
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Right. I would be suspicious of the department if I was her, but if there's anyone you can trust, it's your dad and Tim. Yeah. Right. So I would tell them everything. I'm suspicious of the department because the departments, the guys are like, Oh, blonde brunette. What's the difference?
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Yeah. Here's what I know. Can you help? Yeah. I hadn't heard back from the Pennsylvania State Lab yet, so I called them to get an update on what was written on the back of the receipt I found in Michelle's pocket. Receptionist answered the phone.
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Yeah, we'll see. I don't know if it's all going to wrap up right now, but we'll find out. Yeah. Update Wednesday, August 15th, 2018. I became obsessed with trying to figure out where a safe could possibly be on Patch Lane. I woke up early Tuesday morning and threw some food in a bowl for Haley before racing out of my house. Don't worry, Haley. Mom will be home later.
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She meowed goodbye in response, brushed along my leg, and trotted over to the couch to curl up and wait for my return. So damn hard to leave her now. She filled a void in my heart I didn't know existed. Headed over to my dad's. I didn't call him ahead of time since he's just down the road and I stop in all the time. So I was pulling up, I saw Tim's truck parked in my dad's driveway.
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Not very surprised since they're good friends and today is Tim's day off as well. So they tend to catch up on Tuesdays or Wednesdays over cigar on the back deck. I was actually really glad Tim was there because I had some more questions I wanted to run by him as well. My dad greeted me with his famous bear hug and Tim gave me a nod on the head and smiled.
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So she started writing about them like online on no sleep, stuff like that. And since then has been a part of several anthology stories where there's been like collective writers groups, uh, but has written her own novel as well called patch lane, which looking at it right now with 430 reviews, it has 4.3 stars on Amazon, which is pretty high. Uh, Patch Lane. Patch Lane.
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I remember working them cases. I tell you what, by God, we down here, we down here. We got our time off on the Lord's Day. Taking our time off the way God intended. It's just like the Sabbath because I'm rested. Ain't that right? Can I get an amen? Okay. Amen, brother. Amen. I welcomed myself back into the conversation.
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So I immediately start driving to the address which was about 6 miles away, but it's a pretty rural area so I got there in less than 10 minutes. I turn right onto the gravel lane and after about 7 seconds I see the house up ahead on the right. No lights on inside. I park my cruiser on the gravel lane, lights off, so as not to announce myself in case there is an actual emergency going on inside.
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Tim took a long inhale of his cigar, held it, slowly released.
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Flashed him a smile and offered. Well, I could go alone. Tim agreed and my dad laughed at him and remarked.
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I wasn't sure what to make of this information, but I let Tim finish his cigar before we headed into the station. We were scheduled off for Tuesday, but given this new information, I requested and was granted to come in and work overtime to follow up. I remembered that Tim used to go to the beach and come back with old coins and whatnot that he would find using his metal detector.
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I asked him if he could bring his metal detector to Patch Lane with him this evening to help us find the safe. After we broke from roll call, we immediately headed to patch lane. Scene was done being processed, so we walked through the front door. We went up to the master bedroom and tried every floorboard, every inch of the wall, looking for where a safe could be hidden. We were unsuccessful.
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We mutually decided to try the basement before the rest of the house. Worked our way into the room where we found Michelle's body. There's some scenes you just won't forget. That was one. Her body was purple, swollen, and unrecognizable as human. The only way I even identified her as a young woman was based on the long blonde hair and the clothing she had on.
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We're trained not to just roll up to a house. Lights on in case the subject decides to ambush the officers arriving with gunfire. Anyway, I quietly approach the old farmhouse and check the perimeter. No signs of anything. No lights, no sound, not even a car parked anywhere. I begin to think maybe dispatch got the address wrong. 10-34 to dispatch?
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Tim ran his metal detector along the cement wall and we heard beep, beep. He continued to move it along to the left. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. We looked at each other for a moment before he dropped his metal detector and we grabbed at the wall. I don't know what we were even grabbing at, but we kept feeling along the wall. As I pushed along the wall, the block moved.
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I grabbed my knife from my pocket and Tim grabbed his. Both shoved our knives along the cement brick, eased it out from the wall. There it was, the safe. It was an old fashioned turn dial lock, like the kind I used to have in my high school locker. Drawing on my memory, cleared the lock before trying the combination.
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Spun to the left, stopping at 34, spun it two times to the right, stopping at 16, spun it back to the left, stopped at eight, click. I went to open the door. Tim's eyes and mine locked on the safe. Then I heard another click. This wasn't like the unlocking of the safe. This was familiar. It was the cocking of a revolver. I turned around and was faced with the barrel of a gun.
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He had blonde hair, although the gray was taking over and piercing blue eyes.
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The problem with facing a gun is that no matter how fast I could grab my gun, we would have been able to pull his trigger faster. However, there are other options. Slowly walked towards our killer, hands in the air, leveled with my shoulders and asked, You're Joseph, aren't you? Yeah, and you're dead. As he finished his sentence, my nose was nearly touching the barrel of his gun.
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I grabbed the barrel, twisting it to his right, making a full 360-degree circle. I heard his pointer finger snap as it got tangled in the trigger and broke. I had his gun and pointed it right back at him.
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He slowly raised his hands in the air and got on his right knee, then his left. Tim ran behind Joseph and placed him in handcuffs. Once the scene was under control, we called for backup. So officers arrived on scene, so did the suits. Two suits from earlier in the week came down. Tim and I recounted the evening's events.
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It was at this point that I realized I still didn't get to see what was inside the safe. Walked over and opened the door. Grabbed a handful of papers, pulled them out. There were photographs. Tim instantly said, That's her!
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Suits looked at him and said, that's Michelle Klein, your body and our witness. I took a deep inhale and released it with a long sigh.
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Oh, man. The suits looked at each other and the older one nodded his head.
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Suit took a sip of his coffee and continued.
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He looked towards the safe and continued.
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Appears nobody is home, but I'll update. At this point, I knock on the front door and announce myself. Officer Barkley! Police Department. No answer. All the windows were closed, and I gently try the front door. Locked. 1034 to dispatch.
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Okay. So there was, I, I zoned out as you were explaining that, but there was this woman. Michelle Klein. Yeah. There was a ditzy hot chick. She was apparently for this guy that was running guns. Yeah. Mafia guy. Sure. Yeah.
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I'm A Cop & I Keep Getting Called To The Same House | Creep Cast
So then she gets put a store photographs.
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Yeah. So, so she goes back to the house to get pictures of her life before witness protection to tell a 22 year old that she is his mother and she wanted to see him. So she went and bought clothes. from 20 years ago.
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And, and then she goes to the house to get the photographs out of the wall. But the guy who 20 years ago had the house, the ATF was searching is just living in the woods of the property now. And he's in like, he's in like a tree stand with a rifle and he sees her and And then kills her. And then for some reason, after he kills her, starts calling the police.
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Yeah, so he was like just to be evil, I guess, mess with the police. And then when the police show up to his, which why did he got away from the police? Why does he care about this house that has nothing except pictures of a woman he killed in it?
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And then when the police show up to go through the safe, he's like, I'm going to kill you. And then she like quick judo chop disarms him and he doesn't get disarmed.
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I processed what they had just said and asked.
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Hold on. Someone saw that the guy who had the mouse murdered a woman and then put her in the secret room that led to another secret room in the house. So their solution was to just call the police and say something was happening at this disclosed house over and over until... We headed back to the station where I started the never-ending paperwork process.
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Now that we were more secluded, I grabbed one of the suits and decided to tell him about my experience at the medical examiner's office. He began to think he was involved and it was something they needed to know.
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Asu came back with the Emmy and he extended his hand to shake mine. I was confused by the gesture, but shook his hand.
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Sorry, I'm just taking a moment of silence. Yeah, I mean, every day in my life.
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Okay. So I met the thing I said about the story earlier that it's like a Sherlock Holmes format still fits, right? It's like, yeah, hold on. You have like... you have like, Oh, it looks like it's a supernatural case. But then as the story goes on, you figure out that there's like realistic. It has, it has like Scooby-Doo. Yeah. It's, it's a guy in a mask. It's not a monster. Yeah. Um,
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My issue is I feel like the story bit off a bit more than it could chew with trying to set up like, oh, there's a house that someone from a different point in time appeared in the locked room. And then at the end, it was afraid kind of to leave some of that to the audience's discretion. So they had this huge info dump that explained... Because you explain so much that it becomes more complicated.
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Like if you didn't say anything about... the woman having a kid who has cancer. So he needs, she needs to dress up as how her son would remember her from 20 years ago. Uh, if you just said nothing, you could be like, Oh, well maybe the killer dressed her in that because he's a freak. And that's how he remembered her. Right.
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Just, if you just don't address it, you can give plausible reason to the audience. Like it tried too hard to make sure you understood everything that it kind of like led to more confusion. Um, But that being said, I really liked the idea of setting up like a police officer's call to where you think it's a supernatural case, but then it has a reasonable explanation.
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I feel like it leaned in a little heavy to the exposition dump at the end, but I like this format. And also this seems to be one of her first stories, I believe. And now she's a published author with a bunch of work. So I would love to see this kind of format refined. I think it could do well. Yeah.
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Yeah, he had to be evil. And then afterwards, there's the whole like the hero gets their way in the end because the medical examiner is like, I apologize for my behavior because this random person threatened to kill me. And instead of doing what any medical examiner would do and telling the police I work with, I just went along with it and decided to help cover up a murder.
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Maybe introduce the concept of someone being there before. It's like a revolver cocks. I'm going to kill you. And then she just arms him and that's it. Never gets robbed again. Why is he there to shoot police off? He got off of the case 20 years ago. Why is he in the woods? Here's the old house.
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i feel i feel i feel like a piece of cloth all right maybe we should in the episode there buddy i feel like a ragweed Okay. All right. Thank you all so much for watching. I want to check out some of the other stuff. I like this idea. I want to see it refined more. So be sure to check it out. We'll have stuff linked in the description. Hunter, is there anything you'd like to say?
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I feel like a piece of cloth.
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I don't want to go home. Thank you all so much for watching. I hope that you enjoyed it. Get the merch while you can. It's going to be sales are going to be over very soon. Thank you. Continue to support like call it audio platforms, all that. Thank you all so much. And we will see you next week. Stay creeped. You cast stay cast. You creeps. Yeah.
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I appreciate, you know, between, between this bit and the a cab opening, we are going to get destroyed. I'm really, I'm really getting a Texas boys.
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Regardless of what's going on, you're just rooting for the little guy.
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i will do that you will see me do that in my lifetime and i will get caught i i respect that i respect that at this point it's about oh 2 30 out i'm just gonna say 2 30. it's about 2 30 and i need a cup of coffee since i have another three and a half hours left on shift i head over to the local 24-hour gas station and find two of my ever so busy co-workers standing there fueling up on caffeine as well
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They grin and ask me if I had fun responding to the old doc's house. Clearly, I must have had a dumb look on my face, showing the confusion I was feeling, because then he goes, You don't know, do you?
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The description for the book says, Sarah Hastings is a rookie cop who works the night shift in Amber Forest, a small rural town in western Pennsylvania. After repeatedly responding to an abandoned and allegedly haunted farmhouse for 911 hang-up calls, she discovers a dead body in a secret room. So... It's about a police officer who's on an investigation, supposedly supernatural.
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I'm just laughing. You, cause it sounds like the cop, like when they threw us like, get it together. Come on.
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I finished my coffee laughing about the old tail. The guys were trying to pull over on me. I wasn't going to let these guys spook me, especially being that I was one of the only females on the department. I have to, I have to have skin twice as thick. I finished up my shift, get some Z's back in. I go on Saturday night around the same time.
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i think i think my wife got home and was singing to the dog that or there's just a a disembodied woman's voice singing maybe it was dr wince or one of his maybe maybe it was dr patch or patchland or whatever they call it maybe a little later around 2 30 a.m i get the call dispatch to 10 34 10 34 go ahead
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Now, I'm pretty sure the guys are getting dispatched in on some type of joke, but whatever. I still have to respond, better safe than sorry. So I drive down the road, turn onto the gravel road, park my cruiser away from the house, check the perimeter, and go up to the front door. Still no sign of life inside. I knock on the door and announce myself. Officer Barkley with the police department.
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I'm about to leave, and I go to check the door handle out of pure habit. Sure as shit, the door opens. I was so startled by the fact that the door opened, my right hand immediately went to my gun on my right side. I announce myself again.
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Come to the front door, or else I'm entering. Before entering a house, for officer safety reasons, we always get on the radio. 10-34 dispatch.
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I'll advise. I figured I didn't need backup breaking from a potential homicide scene for this abandoned house search. Make entry, gun drawn. I proceed through the first floor, dodging cobwebs and stepping over dead insects and critters. By the way, can police do that? Just enter a... Like, if no one answers, could they just walk in? I guess so, as long as they announce.
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I, okay. Sorry. I forgot who I was talking to. Let me, let me call literally anyone else.
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Oh, that's funny. Yeah, so originally the United States bird was going to be a turkey. It was going to be a turkey, but then they changed it to the bald eagle. Yeah, that's funny. What the... I don't know. What's the word? Frick. What the frick? There you go. Thank you. It had actually stopped recording over two hours, but it was enough.
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This story is written by Veristal. Veristal, however you pronounce it. Veristal.
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At the 42-minute mark, I watched as my cream envelope gave a shudder and disappeared. 30 minutes later, the blue envelope had faded into existence a few inches over on the desk. I wasn't sure what to do at this point. I thought about asking Christine for advice, but it would be hard to explain over the phone and I didn't want her to worry. I could call the police, but what good would it do?
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Even if I showed them the video, they would think it was fake and I was a jackass wasting their time. I didn't know if I believed everything the letters were saying, but I couldn't deny the evidence was compelling. And if the guy really was another me, it could wind up being something really great. I might even become famous for discovering some parallel dimension.
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First things first, I needed to write another letter. Wow, so this is big news, right? So you're saying you can see us through mirrors. That's kind of embarrassing. Can you hear us too, or just see us?
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Now, we have covered his work before. His real name is Brandon Faircloth. He has several different stories on Amazon, one of them being Roadside Sarcophagus, which I believe we shouted out last time. There's several more that will be linked in the description. Be sure to show Brandon some love.
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your people have any theories on how this all happened have other people on your world had this happen where you can talk to people from my world very curious to know more this time i watched as my letter disappeared only to be replaced with another response a short time later yeah you've got a lot of questions i understand no we can't hear you just see and i don't know about anyone actually communicating like this before no one knows why the world is changing so much
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I mean, that, that was the way of phrase that they've discovered inter dimensional communication. And the guy's like, you've got a lot of questions. It's like, yes, I have a lot of questions.
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I got one too. You want to have a little switcheroo ski.
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Yes. Oh yeah. That's where it's going because he's talked about how terrible his world's been about how people have gone insane and it's monstrous. I don't even think it's an alternate him. I think it's like a demon or something like that line about being him. But if it is an alternate version of him, it's going to try to switch places.
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I didn't like the tone of the new letter, and I had even more questions now, but I wanted to keep him talking, so I tried to respond in a way that would make him happy. Yeah, she's my girlfriend. She's great. We're planning on getting married next year. Do you have a Christine, too? Tell me more about your world when you can.
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My letter shuttered away fairly quickly, and I waited for an answer, but none came. It was getting late, so eventually I went to bed, though I would wake up periodically and check the desk. Around six in the morning, saw the blue envelope, and I jumped out of bed to read the two lines written there.
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Brandon has some stories that we've covered before, one of which being My Job is Watching a Woman Trapped in a Room. And I understand that Hunter and I had a bit of a crash out with that story. Okay.
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Yeah, yeah, 100%. That's where this is going. He's going to try to swap with him. He talked about everyone from his world got super violent, and it's getting better now. It did not. He is still super violent. Yeah, well, yeah, definitely. It is. Yeah, well, this can only go in good directions, I'm sure.
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We've made jokes about characters together. I don't think it's literally an incel horror story. I think it's just like everyone's hyper violent in the world.
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Maybe. I don't know. I feel like we have. I feel 100% like we have. I barely fucking remember any of the things. I know because you hate any time that you spend with me and you can't stand my company or presence. I understand. And you're just my friend for the show. You've made that clear several times off camera that you want nothing to do with me aside from this. Thank you. Hold on.
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Let me look at my page. Maybe we, I mean, there's David King.
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Don't forget to let them know we sent you, and thank you so much to Mando for sponsoring the show. We are now back to the episode. I was done. I didn't know what this was, but I knew it had to be real, and it was feeling more and more like it was dangerous. Throwing the letter down, I started looking around the room.
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Because I can tell, I can tell, I know you.
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I saw the small mirror I had hanging on the back of my closet, and I yanked it down quickly, hearing it crack as it hit the floor. I tried to think of any others, and the only ones that came to mind were in the bathroom and the one Christine had hung over a mantel in the living room. Christine. I looked at my phone and saw it was almost 7.
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She was going to be back in town this morning, probably coming straight here. I tried calling her, but it went straight to voicemail like it was powered off. I didn't have her parents' number, so I had to resort to leaving her a voicemail and text message telling her not to come to my apartment, that I would meet her at hers when she got back.
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I debated what to do until she arrived, but ultimately decided I couldn't stand being in the apartment myself, so I left a note on the door saying... Christine, don't go in the apartment. Call me instead. I'll explain to meet you. And left the building. For the next few hours, I basically drove a circuit between our two apartments, occasionally parking outside one place or the other.
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I was sitting outside her place when I got a call from her phone. It was her mother. She said Christine had knocked her phone in the toilet getting ready for bed last night, and they had put it in a bowl of rice to dry out. Christine left to come back home a few hours ago. She must have forgotten it. I felt my mouth go dry.
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Her mother was asking what she should do to get Christine the phone, but I told her I'd have to call her back and hung up. Based on when she left, she should have been back at least an hour at that point. I knew she wasn't at her apartment, so I sped back over to mine. Saw her car parked down the street from the place. My head started pounding.
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Running up the stairs, I reached my door and saw the note I had left was gone.
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its place was a blue sheet of nice stationery bearing a drawing of a red ink cart and the words come on in in my handwriting oh no i started yelling her name as i fumbled the door open but as i entered i could tell she wasn't there the apartment felt empty and lifeless i ran to the bedroom stumbling to a stop at the doorway my mind had difficulty making sense of what it was seeing at first
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On the wall next to my desk, there were strips of paper plastered to the wall and making the outline of a small door about three feet tall. The strips seemed to be some combination of blue and cream paper, speckled here and there with spots of crimson and soggy near the baseboard, but there were partially bloody handprints on both sides as though someone had been trying to hold on. Oh, God.
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Getting pulled through the hole in the wall or where the door would be. Yeah. Leading away from the paper door, the floor was covered with more blood. And as I look closer, I could see several thick runnels in the wood that I thought at first were scrapes or cuts of some kind by something heavy being drugged.
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unfair considering my jobs watching a woman trapped in a room was like a fifth part of some interconnected story that we were coming in midway through so we didn't understand a lot of it so today we're going with a one-off like a single story not attached to any others it's five parts to itself because the author certainly shows talent as a writer and we want to give him a fair shake
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But then I saw one of Christine's bloody fingernails tore off at the nail bed and ragged, jutting out of one of the grooves she had raked into the floor in her fight to get away. God damn. Good Lord. That's rough, man.
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I collapsed to the floor and began crying. After a few minutes, I pulled myself together enough to look around the room for any other clues or some means of helping her. That's when I saw the blue envelope on the desk.
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That's uncomfy. As I'm finishing writing this, I dread going back into that room. I know I have no way of getting her back, and I know I can't have her blood being found in my apartment. Even without hard evidence, there will be questions when she's reported missing, but all of that is in the background at the moment. I can't shake the feeling of being watched.
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I look around and see no one, but then I notice the dingy brass door of the elevator across the hall from where I'm sitting. The reflection there is dark and distorted, but I can still see myself in it, or at least a version of myself. It looks like me, but I can tell that it isn't. because that version of me is laughing.
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I was thinking the same thing. Yeah. And he goes over there and it's like, it's a demon worshiping.
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And like the, they're like genitalia or like monsters or whatever.
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So we're, yeah, we're going into a little oopsie daisy territory. Yeah. That's such a funny way to describe what's happening to her. Yeah. It's a oopsie.
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I think that's only fair to give him a fair shake. I want to give him a fair shake. I don't know what Hunter wants to do. Hunter may want to want him to suffer.
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Part two. Oh, boy. Scott, I know you're a good guy at heart. I know that because, well, you're me. And despite my flaws, I like to think I'm a good guy, too.
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understand that your world's different than mine and that has to have affected you a lot who's to say what you would be doing who you would be as a person if you had grown up like i did my point is i don't blame you for anything i just need you to listen to me i spent a lot of time with my dad growing up i don't know if that was true for you or what your version of dad was even like but mine was great he was always there for me and not just out of some sense of parental duty but because he really loved me and wanted me to succeed in life
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One thing we did a lot was go hunting. Sometimes for wild pig or rabbit, but mostly deer. I remember the first time I killed a deer. It wasn't a clean shot. We had to track it over a mile before finding it dead in some underbrush at the edge of an empty field. Father took out his knife to show me how to field dress it, but before he handed it to me, he stopped and put his hand on my shoulder.
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I said that I did, and I was being honest at the time, but of course that was the understanding of a child. The world has taught me to more fully appreciate the importance of his words now. How do we also not know that this isn't bad, Scott? Or evil Scott. Because it's in the italics from what the story said so far.
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You know what I mean? I mean, he could, but I'm assuming they're not breaking that rule yet, at least. This sounds to me like our Scott is desperate. Yeah, he's writing a big passionate word. Yeah, he's trying to get Christine back, and he doesn't know how else to do it other than plead. He's begging here.
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Yeah. My father would also tell me stories about his own childhood. My favorites were always about the dog he had growing up named Rex. Hunting dogs. Does that remind you of anything, Connor? Tell you of anything?
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Every time I opened up the subreddit, it's still just post of like wheelchairs with machine guns mounted to them.
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Yeah, well, look, you're my Christine. Hopefully you can satisfy me in this life.
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How's that pleather feel, Christine? It feels good, Daddy. Yeah, I know. We're cutting all that.
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We're cutting all that. My father would also tell me stories about his own childhood. My favorites were always about the dog he had growing up named Rex. Dad had gotten him when he was eight, and he loved that dog more than anything. They really were best friends, I think.
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They would play together, explore the forest around the farm where my dad grew up, and were generally inseparable as much as life allowed. When dad got old enough to drive, Rex would ride everywhere with him. He was big for a dog, apparently, so he could easily sit in the seats and stick his head out the window to catch smells as they drove to town or out to go camping.
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My version of our father never went to college, but he was a smart man and a hard worker. He opened up a little hardware store at 19, and within a couple of years, he had bought a house and was saving up ring money for that girl that is our mother. One night, as he was closing up shop, he heard Rex start growling.
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He turned to see where the dog was and found him at the back door, hackles raised and teeth bared. At first, my father thought it was a raccoon, or another dog, maybe. Grabbed Rex by the collar and opened the door to look out. It was dark and he couldn't see much, but suddenly he was knocked down and being attacked.
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He would never say by what, although I've always suspected that was more to keep from scaring me too much than because he didn't know. Rex broke free of his grasp and charged the thing, whatever it was. He snapped, snarled, bit, clawed, and after a moment, my father was free of it. He was preoccupied by Rex, who was fighting it for everything he was worth. Thank you. Thank you.
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Yes, I agree. And also, I just want to say to the audience, we really appreciate you guys being so supportive. Again, Brandon's links will be in the description. Be sure to show him some love. But it's been really cool that every time we cover an author online...
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We normally see posts about the author, sometimes even in the Creepcast subreddit, talking about how supportive the audience has been, how their books are doing better now, how they're getting more traffic on their websites. It's really cool that being featured on Creepcast has become a thing that a lot of authors are looking forward to instead of dreading.
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And that's all thanks to your guys' support. So it means a lot coming from us and it means a lot to them. So thank you guys for that.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I woke to ashes fluttering down onto my face like sullen snowflakes, covering my skin in a hundred gray kisses of burned down yesterday. I coughed as I sat up, pulling in another spasmodic breath as I wiped at my eyes. The ashes had caked there because I had apparently been crying in my unconsciousness. My hands came away black and running as my eyes began to water again.
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Kick us off, dude. I've been on my knees trying to scrub up all this blood and the scraps of paper for the last half hour. I'm making some progress, but it's slow and I keep having to stop when my hands start shaking too much. I'm out of my apartment for the moment, sitting on the floor in the hallway, and I can feel my nerves settling some.
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And blinking through the smut and the tears, I could see the flakes falling down on me through a hole in the roof. or rather the ceiling, because Scott's apartment wasn't on the top floor. Yet looking around, it was Scott's apartment, or a very close approximation of it.
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I was far more run down and dirty, and some of the decorations were different, but the layout and the general appearance was similar. My head was still drifting through a fog so thick I could scarcely tell I was even in a fog, but I was starting to remember myself and Scott, parts of what had happened. I looked up again and remembered that there should be at least three floors above this one.
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I'm going to write this out so I'll have it all recorded, and also so I can wait a bit before having to go back in. It started when I was bored yesterday. The internet was out of my apartment, and after casting about for a couple of hours trying to read or do some cleaning, I was out of ideas to entertain myself. That's when I saw the box of stationery on my desk.
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And at the edges of the hole in the ceiling, I could see parts of those ruined rooms hiding in the shadows up there. It seemed that the top part of the building had been destroyed somehow at some point in the past. And through the hole that was left behind, I could see the ashes and beyond that, the stars. I came back to myself as I remembered Scott attacking me.
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Well, not Scott, but someone that looked like him. A lot. Like some older, crazy twin brother. He had dragged me into Scott's bedroom, and I had seen the floor and wall were covered in blood. He dipped his finger in the blood and traced the outline of a rectangle inside the perimeter of a strange collage of colored paper pasted to the wall.
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I had felt amazement push through my tear as I saw a crack appear in the wall where his finger had traced, and at his touch, it swung open as a door. I had known then what was coming next, however insane or impossible all of this was.
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I fought harder to get away, but he was bigger and stronger, and when he slammed my head against the floor the second time, I couldn't fight the darkness that rose up around me any longer. I felt the back of my head at the memory and gasped at the pain as my hand found a clotting wound in my sweaty tangle of hair.
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I started looking around again, and I could see I was in the living room of this place that is like Scott's apartment, but not. My brain had been screaming a thousand things that are wrong since I first woke up, but I could only process a few at a time. Just as I realized that not Scott was coming back from the bedroom, my hand found its way up to my throat and the dog collar there.
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Hello, Christine. His grin was so like Scott's that it's familiarity made it all the more ghastly on this man.
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Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That's what this has been.
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You don't know who's talking at any given point. Yeah. And not in a bad way. And like a miss.
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It uses the medium to play well into itself. I agree. Yeah. His face was thin and his eyes were two bright pieces of glass and sunken pits, glittering with intelligence and ill will. I can now see that it somehow was Scott, despite the longer hair and the harder, harsher lines on his face. Just wasn't my Scott. I didn't know how it was possible.
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Once the thought was fixed in my mind, I knew it was true.
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I tried to sound confident, but it was a weak attempt given I was sitting hurt and confused in a dog collar in some bizarre place with some bizarre version of Scott. His smile widened.
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He raised his hands in a placating gesture.
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My Aunt Emma had given me the stationery as a birthday gift the week before, and there was nothing inherently wrong with such a gift. It was a box of high quality paper and envelopes personalized with my initials at the top of the sheets of paper and on the back fold of the envelopes. As a 20-year-old... Oh, sorry. As a 70-year-old man... I don't know why I said 20, whatever.
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He's like just an awful man. He crouched down on his haunches next to me.
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I stared at him, trying to keep any scorn out of my expression. He was clearly insane, and I didn't want to risk setting him off, especially when I really didn't know what was going on or what this place was like. That was the key. I needed as much information as possible, and I needed to see how much latitude I could get before trying to escape. So, you'll take the collar off now?
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The next few days, I do like how, like, even though it's not the focus of the story, there is some attention given to the alternate world. Like, there's no dogs. There's creatures.
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The next few days were a cycle of sleeping, eating, and trying to figure out the best way to escape and where exactly I would be escaping to. Last part was primarily facilitated by Not Scott. He spent hours each day talking to me, seemingly starved for conversation and human contact.
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He had some kind of job, and depending on something he called occurrence reports, he would be gone working for periods of time most days. But whenever he was there, he was usually talking to me. He would tell me stories about himself sometimes, but a lot of his time was spent asking me questions. What was my childhood like? What had my life been like before he took me?
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What kind of things did I like to do, like to eat, etc.? It was all so strange. He had this aura of discord and violence around him, so palpable the air fairly vibrated with minutes when he was in the room. But he was never rough or even rude to me, aside from the obvious of holding me against my will. It was made stranger because parts of him did remind me of my Scott.
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As a 70-year-old man, I would probably have thought that's... Okay, I don't know why I can't read all of a sudden. It's okay. The gift of, what is the, literacy. The gift of literacy has been taken from me. As a 70-year-old man, I would probably have thought they were the cat's pajamas. But as a 25-year-old man, not so much. But still, I was very bored.
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The way his face would light up when he was telling a story, or the way he would look at me sometimes when he didn't know I was looking. It somehow made it all worse instead of better. Seeing those glimpses is something I love for being choked to death by whatever sickness had taken root in him. I tried to find out more about the world I was in from him, and he told me some, but not much.
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He said that years ago, before he was born, things had started changing. A lot of animals had started dying off for no discernible reason, and all at once, this had led to the partial collapse of a number of ecosystems around the world, which led to disease and famine and death. According to Not Scott, things stabilized some eventually, but they were never really right again.
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Strange things would happen. People would disappear, go on murder sprees. Pods of dolphins started killing off large portions of the shark and the whale population in the Pacific. Then in 1998, over 200,000 people across the globe committed suicide within 10 minutes of each other for no apparent reason. People called it the awakening now.
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because that was when the world governments and media began admitting that there was an ongoing major problem, and they didn't know how to stop it. Not Scott told me with a laugh that it wasn't like the world was ending, but sometimes it sure felt like it. After the awakening, a lot of fanatics started popping up. Religious zealots, doomsday preppers, militant groups itching for a fight.
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He said those groups caused disorder and could be dangerous to be around, but mostly they were just scared people looking for an answer. For the most part, civilization was still chugging along. Governments existed. People went to work. As time went on, strange became the new normal. Then people started going insane.
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Not the normal scared, I'm going to wear a bulletproof vest to the grocery store insane, but more the, I'm going to eat the bus driver's face insane. He said that actually happened to him when he was riding the Metro one day. People turning crazy didn't happen a lot at first, but in the last five years, it was building. There were more random acts of extreme violence.
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A teacher chopping up her third grade class. A little boy stabbing out his father's eyes while he slept. But there were more subtle versions of it too. People would develop strange obsessions or fetishes. They'd become paranoid or have wild mood swings for no apparent reason.
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Not Scott said that most days at work, there would be at least one or two people crying or laughing uncontrollably at random times throughout the day.
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Or he thought she was doing that. He thought that she was sleeping with another guy. Yeah. He had tears in his eyes when he told me that last, and I felt my heart breaking a little at what he said next.
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I reached forward and took his hand.
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Now Scott pulled his hand away, his face hardening.
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Standing up, he wiped his eyes with the palms of his hands, and as he stared off, his expression hurt and almost embarrassed.
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So I sat down at my desk and started messing around with it. First, I tried writing as neatly and fancily as I knew how. My handwriting is horrible, and my best efforts looked like a slow fourth grader as opposed to a slower second grader, but it was something to do. Then I doodle a bit, but my drawing skills are equally lacking.
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After that, he talked to me a lot less, though some nights he would sit with me for a while, saying very little but seeming to not want to be alone. Other nights he would seem different, a dark look on his face more akin to when I first saw him upon waking. Those nights I just tried to stay inconspicuous and small.
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He didn't tell me much more about the world outside, other than that there were worse problems now than just people going crazy. and I could hear signs of the chaos outside. Gunshots, screaming, the orange glow of distant fires were a regular part of life.
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I asked about what had happened to the building and he said a television helicopter had crashed into it a couple of years back, taking out most of the top three floors. It only put the small hole in Knott Scott's ceiling and caused minimal structural damage to the rest of the building, so he had stayed.
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He grinned and said he negotiated the rent down and decided to look at it like a skylight, and the days moved on. I need to stress again that after he got me here, he never hurt me. He was generally kind, in fact. He didn't threat me, didn't try to force himself on me, or even come onto me sexually. And the things we talked about, they seemed harmless.
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Combine that with the fact that in a lot of ways, not Scott was Scott, and it made it easier to be taken in. Looking back on it now, I see that peppered into our conversations were questions that would prompt me to talk about my Scott, to talk about my world. I told him stories of my parents or my ninth birthday or my college major.
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I was giving him information and insight into a place he was desperate to learn more about. He was smart about it, subtle, and over time was handing him everything he wanted. I let myself forget I wasn't dealing with my Scott, but just afflicted with some strange mental illness. I was dealing with a stranger.
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I remembered that fact when he brought her in, screaming and crying, snot pouring from her nose as he dragged her by the arm across the living room and into the bedroom. He tried to shut the door back when they entered, but in her flailing, she kicked it and swung back open as he brought the knife down across her stomach. His blood welled out of the wound.
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She raised her head and her eyes met mine. She couldn't have been more than eight years old. God damn. Rough. Oh my gosh. Nod Scott followed her gaze and saw the door was open. He looked at me, his face pale and stricken.
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With that, he slammed the door shut. I muffled the girl's last gurgling scream, but not nearly enough. I screamed at the door, begging him to stop, but I knew it was no use. It was more just to make myself feel better and to vent my frustration. For the hundredth time, I strained my collar and tugged at my chain, but he had secured both well.
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I finally gave up, my throat hoarse and my body exhausted. Even amidst my struggling and thrashing about, I had noticed that the bedroom had fallen silent. As I lay there panting, I strained to hear any sound. There was nothing for several minutes, then a series of small scuffling noises followed by the sound of something being drugged. Silence again.
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I debated yelling, but I knew it was too late for the girl, so I stayed quiet. When the door suddenly burst open, I let out a scream. Scott was standing there, his face and clothes smeared with blood. He was squinting and seemed unsteady on his feet, but when he saw me, his eyes widened. Christine? Christine?
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I was feeling myself getting drowsy, but then a thought occurred to me of what to do with the stationery. I'd write a letter to myself. It was a stupid idea, but I thought it was kind of funny too. So I took out a clean sheet of paper and set to work. Hey Scott, how are you today? My day is okay, if kind of boring. Christine's out of town visiting her parents and the internet's dead.
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end of part three so that is so that was leading up to the moment where not scott pulled scott through the portal yeah now they've switched places yeah and he had to kill that eight-year-old girl because he needs blood to make the portal it sounds yeah he yeah he had to like cut her
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I'm so glad it did not go a sexual route. Cause that's a hundred percent what I was expecting when he put her in a collar and he's talking about weird fetishes and it didn't do that. So you know what? I'm happy.
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Uh, part four or five. We're, we're moving right along. Part four. Let's go. Okay. So my assumption is going to be, this is back to our Scott when he got pulled through. Yeah.
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I woke to hands around my throat, choking off my airs. I swam out of the black currents of sleep and opened my eyes to see a face eerily similar to mine staring down at me. The other Scott was straddling me, bearing down hard as I started trying to flail and get free. His arms prevented me from getting a good hit in on his head, so I tried punching him in the sides.
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He grunted at each impact, but was unmoved. I tried to make eye contact, mouth something to him, but he wouldn't meet my eyes. I seemed to be avoiding them, in fact. I just stared at his hands around my throat, lips skinned back from his teeth and some kind of snarl or grimace below eyes that looked almost sorrowful. This somehow scared me even worse.
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I started fighting back harder, trying to buck him off while slamming an elbow into his arm, hoping to break his grip. But he was too strong, and I could already feel myself slipping back into the icier waters of unconsciousness. As I faded out, I had time to worry if my shoes were still on and to hear him say he was sorry.
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When I woke next, I was face down on the floor, the left side of my head wet with some kind of viscous liquid. I wiped at the left eye and then opened them both experimentally. I was in aversion to my bedroom, but I could tell it wasn't mine. I looked around slowly, my throat aching with every breath as I sat up.
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The room was empty and the door was shut, and I had to fight the urge to rush out and search for Christine. I needed to be smart, take my time, and take everything in. With revulsion, I noticed my hand was wet with blood from where I had wiped my head. My entire side was soaked in it, in fact, as was the floor. Filled a lurch of fear in my stomach.
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He had killed Christine before he came back across to get me, but I tried to hold it at bay as I studied the rest of the room. Nothing that noteworthy other than that he had five mirrors hanging in different spots in the room, all of which were dark. I looked at the corner of the ceiling above the bed and breathed a sigh of relief when I saw no mirror there.
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Into the wall, I saw that he had stripped away the paper he used to make the doorway on this side. I guessed he had replicated it on the other side so it would stay open while I destroyed this side, but aside from the paper, I still had no real idea how it was done. Given the fresh blood, it seemed likely that was part of it.
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Again, I had a thrill of fear for Christine, but this time I couldn't resist it. Standing up stiffly, I went to the door and yanked it open. The woman screamed, and as I looked across the dimly lit living room, I saw it was Christine. She looked terrified, and she was chained to the wall by some kind of collar, but she was alive.
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I have zero ideas of what to do with myself. This is lame. Goodbye. Sincerely, Scott. I just want to say right now, I've done, I've done shit like that before. Oh, yeah, like if the power's out or whatever, it's like, well, I guess it's time to set up a calendar for the year, even though I don't use paper calendars.
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She blinked, her mouth slowly closing as she took me in. After a moment, she started to stand, her face shifting between fear and hopefulness.
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I wanted to run to her, but I could tell she was freaked out, so I approached slowly. It's me, baby. Did he hurt you? Are you okay? Her face crumpled as she ran to me, almost knocking me over with the force of her embrace. Thank God, oh God, oh God, oh God. I stayed quiet and hugged her back. After a minute, she pulled back, her expression serious and more composed. Is he gone?
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I caught myself and smiled sadly at her.
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I reached out to stroke her hair, but she pulled back.
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I took a couple of steps back, her hands holding her elbows as he smiled apologetically at me.
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What about you? Trying to hide the pain and guilt I felt at her words, I turned away to take in the living room.
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I wanted to ask about the details of how he may have mistreated her, but I didn't want to make it any harder on her than it already had been. We could talk about it later when she was ready. So instead, I added lamely.
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Christine reached out and touched my arm.
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She pulled her arm back, her voice trembling slightly.
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I shook my head as I turned away again, ashamed to look at her any longer.
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At the corner of my eye, I saw Christine's face fall with despair. I pointed to the bedroom and went on. There's blood in there.
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She hesitated and then shook her head.
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Did you see how he did it? Again, the strange pause, and then she gave a quick nod.
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She looked past me into the bedroom.
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Well, that was smart of him. That was incredibly well thought out.
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He's got the upper game. I'm going to get switched because he threatened that. I need to prepare for it. Her expression brightened for the first time, and she grabbed my hand, pulling me into the bedroom. Try it. Maybe it'll work. I took the strips of paper from my shoes, and for the next few minutes, we pasted them carefully in an alternating pattern of cream and blue.
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As far as I could tell, it was close to exactly how he had them arranged when he took Christine. Then, dipping a pencil eraser in the thickening blood on the floor, I traced the outline as she directed. I did nothing. After a couple of minutes of waiting, I tried again. No change. Suddenly, Christine pushed past me, her fingers dripping with blood.
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She frantically traced and retraced the outline over and over, but to no avail. Screaming, she punched the wall and fell back in a heap on the floor. I realized that her hand wasn't covered in the blood from the floor, but was bleeding itself. What happened? How did your hand get hurt? I started to reach out to her, but her dark look stopped me.
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She sighed deeply and seemed to regain control.
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I swallowed and nodded, jumping up to check the closet. Inside I found a small assortment of clothes and a couple of pairs of shoes, but the rest of the closet was devoted to books. They were stacked on a shelf at the top and in neat piles along the closet's walls.
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Most of them looked to be fantasy or science fiction, many by authors I had never heard of, few by authors who had never written those particular books in my world. On top of the closest book stack was a key. After Christine was free, we searched the apartment over for any clues on how to reopen the door. 30 minutes later, we were back in the living room.
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Christine staring at the floor forlornly while I tried to figure out something comforting to say.
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I knew the unspoken subtext of what I was saying was that hopefully it would be nice because we might be stuck here. but I couldn't quite bear to say it. Instead, the idea of being marooned in this place just hung between us like some kind of noxious cloud, slowly killing the little hope we had left. As I was thinking this, I realized Christine was on her feet.
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Yeah, I've done strange stuff like that. I've left pranks for myself before. Like I've been on an old laptop. What does that even mean?
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I thought about protesting, asking that she stay at the apartment in case the outside world was dangerous, but I could tell she was determined to go and it would be good if there were two of us. Between us, we managed to find a pair of long kitchen knives and a flashlight along with a light jacket with pockets I could store the items in while we traveled. Then we were off.
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Stepping out of the apartment, the ill repair of the hallway matched the hole in the ceiling of the apartment. The only thing in sight that looked clean or well-maintained was the elevator, the brass of which carried a mirror-like sheen. I stopped and looked at the reflection there, but saw nothing. Her questioning look, I explained my encounter in the hallway to Christine.
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She said not Scott, she called him, had told her some about Mears, but not a lot. She asked how I'd been able to see him back in the reflection on the elevator, and I realized I didn't know. By then, we were pushing out of the downstairs outside door. When we stepped out, the first thing that struck me was how quiet the city was. Still. Still.
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It was still early, but in our world, there would already be people out of cars and bustling along the narrow lanes of the street that ran in front of the apartment building. There'd be sounds of nature mixed in as well, even if it was just the occasional bird song or dog bark.
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Here, there were a handful of cars driving down the street, and the people driving them seemed to either be staring straight ahead, so their gazes were welded to the road in front of them, or constantly looking in every direction, seemingly terrified of some surprise attack. It's hard to say which was the better idea.
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We turned to the left and made our way down to what would be a corner grocery store in our world. Along the way, we passed only a couple of people. They were both walking determinedly on the far sidewalk. They shot us wary glances, but that was all. My attempt at waving hello to the second person was ignored.
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I've been old on old laptops and stuff like that. And it'll be, I've like found passwords that are like, um, or not passwords. It'll be a document that's held like a bank account passwords. And I'm like, why did I have to save? And I'll click on it and it'll just be like a, a word doc that just says like idiot or something like that.
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At the end of the block, we found that Patterson's Grocery Store was now Patterson's Package Shop. But when we entered, we found that aside from a large volume of alcohol, the place still sold various food and drinks. Sticking close to each other, we selected a small variety of items and headed towards the front.
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Money didn't seem to be an issue for the moment, as Not Scott had left a small stack of bills and a debit card with a pin taped to it sitting on the kitchen counter. The bills were red and reminded me of Monopoly money, but when I handed the cashier a $100 bill, he took it without complaining and gave me a handful of strange change in return, including another RFK nickel.
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On the way out, we were almost run over by a large teenage boy barreling into the store past us. As he cleared the threshold, he started yelling about how he needed fresh tickets for my mom. Get them up for her, you cozening fucker. I propelled Christine out onto the sidewalk, but not before I heard the cashier scream back that the boy's mother had been dead for three years.
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We exchanged a look and I debated suggesting we head back to the apartment, but Christine was already opening a bottle of water and cutting across the street. There was starting to be more traffic now, but the flow of people was still anemic. I made the comment that this was what the world would be like after some plague in a movie where half the people had been wiped out.
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Christina shot me a glance, her face hard.
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She pointed ahead to Bristol Park, which was actually called the same thing here as well. Let's go in there and see if there are any people out. Our version of Bristol Park was always bustling with people in the morning. On the weekends, it would be families and casual games of football or frisbee, but even the weekday saw a steady stream of joggers, dog walkers, and miscellaneous others.
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At first, we thought this version of the park was largely empty, but then Christine heard singing. The outer pass of the park followed cultivated hedges and trees, curving and winding along the park perimeter with inlets into the more central areas every hundred yards or so.
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Even when you start down one of those inner paths, it takes more than a few steps before the large open spaces at the center of the park are revealed. As we were walking along the outer path, Christine suddenly cut onto one of the inner paths, murmuring that she heard music. I followed, but at first, I heard nothing.
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It was only when we were stepping onto the dying grass of the central field that I heard the faint singing or chanting that was coming from the throng of people clustered around the enormous bonfire in the distance. So I'm no expert in this world, right? But I would say don't walk towards that.
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I would say I would say no, thanks. People here are insane. They kill others sporadically. And there's a bunch of religious zealots. And then you hear chanting at a bonfire in the park.
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Christine was walking towards the group quickly. And after a few more paces, I grabbed her arm and stopped her. She turned to me, her eyes fierce and her voice low and trembling when she spoke. What are they doing? Do you see that? I had been more focused on Christine as we had drawn near, but as I looked again, I saw exactly what they were doing. The bonfire was not really a bonfire.
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It was a 20-foot metal frame in the shape of an X. The lower half squatter and much thicker than the top. Inside the frame, wood had been carefully inserted throughout instead of blaze. That was all very strange, but I only noted it in a perfunctory way as I watched the man catching fire. The man had been stripped naked and chained at each wrist.
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Like, at some point years back, I was like, I'm going to leave a file that just says idiot, but I'm going to title it something important. Just so years later, I prank myself.
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The lengthy metal bindings trailing off into the crowd on each side of the burning X. The man was in the middle between the burning effigy's legs. The top of the white hot metal only inches from his head. The air around him shimmered with the heat, his skin blackening and peeling off as he was jerked back and forth from one side of the X to the other at the whims of the crowd pulling the chains.
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We were still 50 yards away, but when a breeze shifted direction I could smell the pungently sweet smell of his flesh cooking even as I heard him scream. I was about to start pulling Christine away when I stopped, my skin growing cold. The man wasn't screaming. He was laughing.
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It's a guy being burnt on a giant X, but the crowd gets to pull him from one side to the other. The, uh...
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That's what I had that thought. I had that thought. My other thought was that maybe at some point, maybe this isn't his Christine. This could be other Christine and she could not be dead. But I don't trust Christine fully.
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There's a bunch of, like, unknowns going on, yeah. This world's insane, though. Like, just a few people walking around. There's, like, a public burning in the park.
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i tugged weakly at christine and she glanced at me her eyes went wide we gained it back away slowly and i was terrified at any moment we would be noticed but the crowd was transfixed and even when the man stopped laughing and slumped forward he kept him aloft and dancing like some kind of cob tug of war we had to start way back to the perimeter of the field and my last look before we headed back to the path and out of the park i saw the cooked meat of the man begin to pull apart as the mob ripped him in two
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I swear, I could hear the wet gasping of his skin as it ruptured. The greasy crackle of his weaker bones as they flexed and snapped, but it seemed impossible at such a distance. Real or imagined, I had to stop and vomit on the path, seeing Patty on my back and telling me to please hurry. Ooh, that's a great, I like that. That's such a brutal description. That's awesome.
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Yes, but it's always myself. It's always me who gets pranked by my own thing. And then you kick your feet and you giggle. Yeah, and I'm like, I'm like sitting on my bed doing this and like my feet are in the air.
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The wet gasping of his skin as it ruptured, the greasy crack of weaker bones, ugh. Like the way you'd imagine a burnt turkey when you pull it apart.
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Yeah. We exited the park, wasted no time returning to the apartment. I could feel Christine's terror and knew my own matched it, but I felt no closer to an answer than I had before. We didn't talk about what we had seen, but Christine did take my hand and sit silently with me for a while. I could tell we were both starting to slip into shock or some despondent form of madness.
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We had to do something. Getting up, I started searching the apartment again for anything we might have missed. That's when I found a cream-colored envelope on the bedroom desk. I opened it and read it, and read it again, my heart pounding. I gave it to Christine. She studied it for a long time before looking up at me.
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She was about to speak, but I couldn't hold it any longer and blurted out, Did he rape you?
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So I imagine the cream colored envelope is the one that we read in part two, right? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, because it hyperlinks to part two.
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Okay. Yeah. So they read that entire one. And then he says, I opened it, read it. My heart pounding, give it to Christine. And he's like, did you do it? Scott's face was worried, hurt and scared. So I imagine this is now Christine. Yep. Scott's face was worried, hurt and scared at all the same time as he asked. And I could feel myself loving him and hating him for asking the question.
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I knew he, I do like this position switch and it does, it does play pretty well. I knew he was concerned for my well-being, that he loved me, and I knew that he felt guilty because of who had taken me, but there was still something so selfish in him asking, so childish in him needing to be comforted.
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If I had been raped, this is a crazy conversation, or even better, him hoping I could reassure him that whatever brutalities I'd endured at Not Scott's hands weren't as bad as all that so he could start pretending this wasn't his fault. Because it was his fault. I saw that now. Not necessarily because it was an alternative version of him, but because he had talked to Not Scott. Responded to him.
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Told him about me. I was trying not to be angry with him, but I was so hurt and scared and we had to get out of this place. Okay, I think she's starting to slip too.
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I will say it is a fitting level of mad after he asked that question.
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Yeah. Yeah. I had already been toying with the idea of lying to Scott after reading on Scott's letter. I had no idea why not. Scott had lied about raping me. Did he say that in the letter?
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Uh, Christine, I just want to say, I'm sorry. Yeah, I mean, I assume there is if she's saying, if they're talking about that now, yeah. I'd already been torn with the idea of lying to Scott after reading Not Scott's letter. I had no idea why Not Scott had lied about it, whether it was due to his insanity, natural cruelty, or just to make Scott hate him more. Didn't matter.
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If it could drive Scott's guilt and his anger long enough to force him to do what had to be done, it was a blessing. Oh my gosh. Yeah. And if Scott's sad face of worried toe made it easier to tell the lie, so be it. I could ask for forgiveness when we weren't in hell anymore. So he didn't do it. He lied about it. No, he didn't.
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I was going to try and fake tears, but I found there was no need. After everything, after what we had just witnessed, tears were going to come easily for some time. Okay, this is fucked. That's insane.
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I saw Scott's face darken as his fist balled at his eyes. That's the response I was hoping for. I waited a moment for him to stew, and then I went on.
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Some of that was guesswork on my part, but I had seen enough to make an educated guess. Scott's eyes widened some, but he still looked hard and determined.
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I licked my lips. Ask for forgiveness when you aren't in hell.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. foreign foreign ,,,, I try not to lose my stride so as not to alert Christine and the last glimpse I saw was the woman's hand on the boy's shoulder.
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Only a man this foolish was tricked by everyone, but one day he decided to trick the only person he could, himself. It happened here, in the Twilight Zone. It happened here, in the Twilight Zone. In the Twilight Zone. I want to make a video about the twilight zone. It was such a cool series, especially for the time it's on.
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I want to, I was talking to some of the, my editors and stuff like that about if we could set up like a little set to look like one of the sets from the Twilight Zone and if we could do like black and white and like grainy effects. So I could like do a review of the Twilight Zone as Rod Serling. You should. You totally could do that. And I could just do the voice, the whole video like this.
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May have been my fear or a trick of the shadows but I swear I saw her hand going into him slowly. Oh, I swear I saw her hand going into him slowly as though they were running together like pink candle wax. So it's like they're like morphing into each other. That's a lot better than what I thought. I told Christine we should keep going.
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Imagine a world where you're a YouTuber and imagine a world where you're a YouTuber and everyone hates you.
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Decided in the back of my mind we should be taking a different route back to the apartment. Kept looking over my shoulder, but to my relief, I saw no sign we were being followed. Was that the first uncanny thing?
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That is the second mention, because earlier when he was when not Scott was talking about his dad, he said my dad was attacked by a thing. Some presence.
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Yeah, because there's there's been hints of stuff.
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Yeah, it's like a supernatural presence has corrupted this world. It's just kind of rotten over everything.
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Seven years ago. And I want to say that VHS was more recent, right? That was a Spanish director, right? He was Spanish.
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I remember hearing an interview with, or no, James A. Janisse talked about it on Dead Meat that he said he just used a lot of the satanic imagery because he thought it was cool. He thought it looked creepy. He was like, no, it's not actually satanism. I just think it's like an evil aesthetic.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's supernatural stuff happening. Yeah. Yeah. That was the day our luck changed. A mile down the road, we found an elementary school. It already let out for the day, but the next day we were back bright and early. After watching most of the morning, we had a plan.
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Most of the children came in by school bus or were dropped off by parents, but there were a handful that walked there in the morning. Assuming that was true in the afternoon as well, we would just wait for a small child who was walking alone, preferably a girl since that's what not Scott had used, and that would be that.
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It was terrible, and I still hated the idea of doing it, but it had to be done. I had to try and make all of this right, even though I had to do some wrong to do it. do some wrong is a very subtle way to describe butchering a child.
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And I told myself that these children had no real future other than a short life filled with pain and fear. I couldn't quite convince myself that killing one of them was a mercy, but it did take the edge off my guilt at least. School let out and it soon became clear who we were following.
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While many of the children who were walking had left in pairs or groups, there was one little girl who had headed off on her own immediately, as though she couldn't wait to be away from all the laughing and shoving and joking around the rest of the children were doing as they got picked up or struck out on foot. She was overweight, with long black hair that was stringy and unkempt.
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Clothes were clearly old and dirty in spots. And as she walked, I could see that the sole was starting to separate on the back of one of her red sneakers. This is so sad, dude. Just, oh man. Oh, she looked sad and unloved, and I had to fight the urge to tell Christine that this was a mistake.
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But when I looked at her, all I saw was the grim, almost manic determination I had been since we had started this days before. She was past any mercy or equivocation at this point, and how could I blame her given all she had been through? So we followed the child. Man, this is brutal. Like, man, just a poor, a sad girl.
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So we followed the child until she started down a route different than what would lead in the apartment's direction.
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which point we approached her and told her she needed to come with us she asked why and we gave our pre-planned generic response of a member of your family has been hurt we were told to get you we don't have all the details yet that's so this is so messed up because that's like the classic like child predator thing right yeah yeah every child predator psa is like if if someone tells you that mommy or daddy got hurt use the code word like you know like oh
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It was vague and lame, but we hoped it would be enough to at least get her down the road a mile or two before she started asking more questions. She seemed to weigh our words considering and I could tell she didn't really believe us for any of a dozen good reasons. Still, to my surprise, she just shrugged with a resigned look on her face.
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It occurred to me that children were likely going crazy in this place, just like the adults. And given what I thought I had seen in the alley, my appreciation for how potentially dangerous this little girl might be was exponentially greater. But as we walked, she didn't try to attack us or even complain. She moved along docilely.
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After a couple miles, I began wondering what her life must be like that she was okay with being abducted. pushed the thought away, the less I thought of her as a person, as a sad little girl, the better. The trip back was taking longer than expected, not because of any problems with her, but because we had gotten lost.
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As twilight came on, the semi-familiar landmarks became less familiar, and somehow, in my rerouting, we took a wrong turn. We made it to the apartment without incident, but well after nightfall, and the resolutely stoic little girl had started to murmur about being hungry and needing the bathroom. When we got upstairs, I shared a look with Christina's.
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I told the girl we'd fix her some dinner after we showed her something in the other costume.
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Uh, where were we? The novelty. The novelty of the idea had clearly worn off quickly, but I did fold it up and stick it in an envelope at least, even going so far as to address the letter to myself. Standing up from the table with a sigh, I laid down and fairly soon I was fast asleep. When I woke up, it was early evening, and the room was only dimly lit by the fading twilight outside.
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Oh, man. The paper and knife were already set up in the bedroom, so it should go quickly enough. Then the girl asked again about going to the bathroom. I relented telling her to go on, but to make it quick. She nodded and went with dutiful haste into the hallway bathroom, closing the door behind her. Christine was giving me a hard look, to which I just shrugged.
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Look, that little blood bag in there better hurry up.
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I nodded and thought about reaching out to comfort her, but now wasn't the time. We had to stay focused and get past this. Then we could work on helping each other get back to normal. After another minute, the toilet flushed. Oh yeah, remember, don't flush after dark.
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That came back. That actually came back. Wow. Immediately, the pipes began to squeal and rattle with the level of noise that still amazed me after nearly a week of using them. Christine had warned me about them, about not using them at... It's after dark! Christine's eyes were wide with panic. He's set to never flush after dark. I felt fear fluttering in my chest and tried to ignore it.
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that's a fucking way to go dude roving band yeah giant hordes of people sprinting in the building right now i am legend shit whatever it's more people for the metal cross still i could feel my heart racing and i was about to hammer on the bathroom door when the girl came out looking confused at our excitement grabbed her arm and pulled through.
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I grabbed her arm, pulled her across into the bedroom. She was still quiet, but she was starting to physically resist now. Fortunately, Christine was there and grabbed her from behind, wrapping her arms around the girl's chest.
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I let go of the girl's arm and looked into Christine's face. She looked 10 years older and like a different person than the woman I knew and loved. Her easy smile and bright, intelligent eyes had been replaced with a grim slash and dull stones that bored into me as she waited for me to grab the knife. I picked it up and had time to think about how heavy it felt, how wrong it felt in my hand.
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Next moment, there was a crash that sounded like it was coming from the front door of the apartment as someone tried to bash their way in. Christine's eyes widened as her grip on the child tightened.
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Being careful to avoid the child's face, I moved my gaze down to the knife. Taking a deep breath, I shoved it into the girl's stomach. Oh, goddamn. Come on, not Scott. Or Scott, regular Scott. Even then, she didn't complain other than to make a woof sound. She'd been punched in the gut. I was starting to cry, but the splintering sound of the front door finally gave way, spurred me on.
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Put my fingers in the blood pouring from the knife wound, turned to trace the rectangle inside the paper door. Immediately a crack appeared, and at my touch, the door swung open. Wow, so it fucking worked. It worked. I shuffled away and told Christine to go through, seeing two men and one woman coming into the living room and looking at me across the distance.
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I reached over and turned on my bedside lamp, blinking blearily at its brightness. I hated taking naps. I always felt groggy afterwards and had trouble sleeping later in the night. Rubbing my eyes, I rolled discontinuously onto my side and began getting up. When my eyes slid upon my desk, I sat back down. The envelope with the letter I had written was different now.
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I jumped and slammed the bedroom door shut, twisting the lock, but knowing the door would only hold for seconds. Turning back, I saw the last of Christine disappear through the door and I dove behind her, scrabbling through and back into my world. The first thing I noticed when I passed through was barking.
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I looked up to see Christine standing nearby, the knife we had used on the girl in her hand. I was standing a few feet away at the doorway to the room was not Scott, and bizarrely, it looked like he was holding a small pug puppy that was furiously barking at us. Get back, motherfucker! Christine growled at him.
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Not Scott was about to say something in response, but then I was getting pulled back through the door. Rough hands had me, pulling at my clothes and yanking me away from my way home. I looked up and saw strange faces with small symbols tattooed between the eyebrows of all three of them. They didn't seem angry or even upset as they began to punch and kick me.
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Instead, they were placidly calm, almost bored looking, as though what they were doing was just part of their daily routine. Most likely it was. I tried to ball up, but I was hurting badly already. Protecting my stomach only exposed my back more. I closed my eyes tight. I knew I was going to die here, beaten to death by strangers in a strange world, but one of them started screaming.
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When I opened my eyes, I saw Knott Scott pulling the knife Christine had been holding out of one of the man's eyes. As the man began to fall, the woman left off kicking me to jump on Knott Scott's back with a furious howl. He pushed backwards, slamming her into the wall and jamming the knife back and into her side.
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I was so confused. But I suddenly felt sure I shouldn't be leaving Nodscott here despite everything he had done. Why don't you come back with us? You can pay for your crimes there. He stared at me for a moment then shook his head.
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see it was crying but i knew we didn't like it when people commented on us crying so i left it alone i promise scott if you get them and i almost said survive but i couldn't make myself say the word you want to come over use one of those scraps and send me a note i'll send you more paper to make a door i left out the unspoken step of him having to kill another child but i saw in his eyes he was thanking it he shook his head
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I nodded and rolled back onto my stomach, crawling as quickly as my pain would allow. As soon as my feet cleared the other side, the door was gone. I looked up to see Christine holding the shaking puppy who looked at me for a moment before starting back to barking frantically and squirming. It's been six hours since then.
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I found and read what the other Scott had written and have included it above. To her credit, Christine was honest after reading his letter. She told me she had lied about him abusing her and told me what she says is the truthful account of her time there with him and with me. I plan to include portions of that in this or earlier postings as well.
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It was in a different spot for one, but I could tell from the bed that it was also a different color and looked like it had a small stain in one corner. Standing up and going to my desk, I looked at the envelope closer before picking it up. My name and address was still on the front, but hadn't I written it smaller and more sitter than that?
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She left a couple of hours ago to go home and clean up, get some rest. We hugged when we parted at my door, but I can tell everything's different now. Something has broken between us. I was too fragile or too rigid to bear the weight of all we have seen and said and done. The saddest part is that I'm okay with that. Last month has given me a great deal of insight into what I can survive.
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Right now, I'm trying to make friends with a small puppy named Trixie. He's a cute little guy, but he rolls his eyes at me with mistrust whenever I try to go near him. I'm not the right Scott for him. I'm starting to think I'm not the right Scott for a lot of things. I've been checking the desk for a sign all night, but there's been nothing.
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So finally, after taking a second long shower and giving Trixie some more water, I tumble into bed in a deep slumber. I start awake and I can tell it's either early morning or early evening, but I have no idea which. Trixie is what woke me up, barking at something. I roll over and see he's jumping and barking at the desk. On it is a single scrap of blue paper.
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Leaping out of bed, I wipe sleep from my eyes and read it.
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Laughing and feeling stupid, I read the note to Trixie, who was bouncing excitedly against my leg as though he knew what was coming. Just then I saw it. The door was opening one last time.
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That is the end. So I guess you do have to... Okay, so what I was expecting to happen is there's going to be a revelation at the end that, like, any blood will work. Like, you could use an animal or something. And it's like, oh, you jumped to the kid thing.
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But I guess her lying to him turned out to be the correct thing to do because if it wasn't a child... Because in that final note, he says, good thing the cult recruits young, implying he used the blood of a cult member. So...
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Unless you kind of read it as a difference. Maybe someone else found out how to come through. Because we don't know that that's not Scott coming through. You know, it could be anything, hypothetically. Yeah, but no one else would.
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Regardless, the envelope itself was definitely different. So clearly, I hadn't written this at all. My next thought was that someone had come into my apartment to either prank me or try and scare me. The obvious answer was Christine. It didn't really seem like something she would do, but she was the only other person with a key.
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Uh, no, I, I agree. I'm not crazy about that ending, but I did enjoy it. It was fun. Um, it was very brutal at parts, but I think a lot, the killing, the, the mention about like the sexual abuse and like killing the child was so brutal. Uh, but it was a very dreadful world that depicted, uh, and I think it was interesting in a parallel world.
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After I'd had a quick sweep at the apartment for intruders, I texted her. She swore she was still half a state away and even sent me a picture as proof. She also seemed worried and asked if I called the cops, but I wasn't to that point yet. I needed to look inside the envelope first.
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hopping back and forth and getting all these different characters perspective so i just had a great time so going off of uh my jobs watching women trapped in a room if you remember that was like a super interconnected story yeah uh and when we got to the ending with the house of the claw i was like um this the house of the claw seems like a super specific thing to just mention at the end
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end of a story. Yeah. So I go to his Reddit page and then sure enough, house of a claw is a theme thing from another, from a bunch of other stories. And then it turns out this dude has a map that I just sent to you, Hunter. Yeah.
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It was a 1% as bad as I think it affected the ending of the other story. But then I think the other story was never, was never even meant to exist outside of being a collaborative story. Exactly. Whereas this one just kind of, this one's more so like an Easter egg thrown in at the end. So readers who are really into Veristal's work. Oh, I remember that.
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Yeah, this is super impressive looking at this flow chart right now. There's a couple that look like pure standalone, but most of them connect into each other one way or the other, which is pretty wild. When are we going to get the Veristal iceberg, dude?
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A fucking deep dive. Then we're going to come back. I'll come back to an episode and be like, I didn't like my jobs watching a woman trapped in the room because what I didn't realize is it's the opening of a third act of the greater universe.
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Literally the way people talk about Marvel movies right now.
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I pried it open carefully and peeked inside, seeing a light blue piece of paper that matched the envelope and was wholly different than the cream-colored paper I'd used earlier in the afternoon. When I unfolded it, I was surprised to see it really did look like my handwriting, but it wasn't the same letter. It seemed to be responding to mine.
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It connects. And that's what happened to the one character from the first captain America movie. It's like, I can't, I literally cannot care less, man.
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the justification for it's interesting as well, because he kept being like, I mean, like everyone here's insane. So this little girl's probably insane. So we're probably doing her a mercy, like the way, because I don't want to be here. Like justification was interesting. I wish the ending kind of leaned into that a little bit more of being like,
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Like he, I wanted the end of like, he becomes not Scott, which is kind of what it did by wanting him to be like evil and the other world. And like, not Scott's kind of the protagonist now or whatever, like whoever's in that world becomes corrupted, you know? Uh, I mean, I'm not super furious at the end or anything like that. And the rest of the story was good that I really don't mind it. So yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. It's simple. We killed the child.
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She was pre-Type 1 anyway. It's fine.
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She flushed the toilet after midnight.
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It's also really funny that it's like... it's like the little girl's like, okay, I'll come with you guys. And she goes to the bathroom and they're like, what, what, why'd you do that idiot? And then they stab her to death.
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We'll see you all in the next one. Be sure to get the merch, get the merch while you can eat me like a bug or any of that other stuff. And be sure to remember kids Hunter made fun of a small overweight child that was stabbed to death and made fictitious, fictitious child. No, that's, I don't think that part's important. I think history will remember you as it will off.
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The information was he's gone. So I can say that he does that off channel too. Anytime it's me and him alone loves to talk about children, especially the big ones.
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keep it short for now i hope to hear from you again soon glory and peace scott i read the letter three times i really really couldn't tell i didn't write it other than the content itself which was decidedly weird whoever was doing this was either a very good prankster or i had a dedicated stalker that had taken the time to learn my handwriting Either way, I was calling their bluff.
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Hey man, good to get a response. So are you like me in some other world? That's crazy. Tell me some facts about your world and we can compare. And if you have some kind of souvenir you can send next time, that'd be awesome. Looking forward to the next letter. Put the new letter in an envelope, addressed it, and sent it on my desk.
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I then took out my tablet, plugged it in, and set the camera to record at an angle where I could see my desk and the door to the bedroom. Thought about just sitting and waiting, but the idea was too tedious and would make it less likely anyone would come back. I was assuming this wasn't some kind of one-shot joke or harassment, but time would tell.
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Either way, I decided to go grab something to eat and see a movie. Four hours later, I returned home to another blue letter.
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Yeah, the Robert Kennedy thing's funny. He never got murdered by Sirhan Sirhan. Sure, dude. I looked back in the envelope and found a nickel tucked into the corner. On one side, it had a man's profile with the name Robert F. Kennedy listed under it. On the other side is what looked like a large turkey glowing over, glowering over a shield bristling with spears and covered with stars and stripes.
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I'm being, I'm being targeted. This is discrimination. Of course. Also, we're still reading a story. I forgot. Yeah, yeah, the story. Yeah, about that, the story. Where's it even at? Oh, Toby stared blankly out the window. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd like to take a quick moment to thank today's sponsor, AG1.
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Thank you for Turtle Beach for sponsoring this episode and let's get back to reading. Toby stared blankly out the window, his face empty of any emotion. And every few minutes, his shoulder, arm, or foot would twitch. Every bump that the car tires hit would make his stomach turn. Toby Rogers was the boy's name, and the last time Toby remembered riding in a car was when it crashed.
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That's all he thought about, unconsciously replaying everything he remembered before he blacked out, over and over again. Toby had been the lucky one. His sister had not been so lucky. When the thought of his sister came, he couldn't help the tears that welled up in his eyes. The horrible memories replayed in his mind. her screaming that had cut off when the front of the car was smashed in.
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It all went blank for a moment before Toby opened his eyes to see his sister's body. Her forehead pierced with glass shards, her hips and legs crushed under the force of the steering wheel, and her torso pushed in front the too-light-inflated airbag. That was the last thing he had seen of his dear old sister. The road home continued on for what seemed like forever.
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It took so long to get home because his mom wanted to avoid the sight of the crash. When the surroundings gave way to a familiar neighborhood, they were both more than ready to get out of the car and step back into their own home. It was an older neighborhood with quaint little houses all next to each other. The car drove in front of a blue house with white window panes.
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They both quickly noticed the old vehicle that was parked in front of the house and the familiar figure that stood in the driveway. Toby felt automatic anger and frustration take over him at the sight of his father. His father, who wasn't there. His mother pulled the car up in the driveway beside him before turning off the engine and preparing to step out and face her husband. Why is he here?
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Toby said quietly as he looked back at his mother who reached to open the car door.
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His mother responded in a monotone voice, trying to sound less shaky.
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Toby narrowed his eyes out of the window. He was drunk that night, honey.
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It's awesome. Your father works hard at the beer drinking factory. Yeah, exactly.
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He couldn't drive it. It's hard to be the drink tester at Miller Lite, but he does it for this family.
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Really curious to see how that correlates with arson. Look, that tells you everything you need to know about the demographic of people who look up and read these things.
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Toby pushed the door open before his mother and stumbled out onto the driveway where he met his father's gaze before looking down at his feet with a stern expression. His mother stepped out before him and met her husband's eyes before walking around the car.
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His father opened up his arms, expecting a hug from his wife, but she walked past him and put her arm around Toby's shoulder and started leading him inside. Connie? Her husband began in a raspy voice.
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Little wines are open all over the driveway. Hold on. Let me make sure I'm right.
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welcome back to creepcast this is a story we wanted to throw in a all-timer known as tiki toby uh as per usual i've never read this but isaiah seems to have quite a quite a nice history with it oh it's uh it's a work of art surely i only picked the best i mean clearly look at creepypasta.com i mean has yeah nine what what is hold on i i lost it because a super mario ripoff uh game in japanese
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Was it Eric or Mark? I can't fucking remember. Yeah, whichever, whichever one eat me like a bug is, his wife was Connie.
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Yes, he's back again. Oh, man. Okay, so yeah. She ignored her husband's obnoxious words and walked past him with her son under her arm.
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He's 16! He can walk by himself! His father began to follow them in. He's 17. Connie glared back at him before opening the door to the house and stepping inside.
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Connie, I went to that teacher's meeting the other day, and there was a teacher there who gave me a lot of Adderall.
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He's like, you guys are stupid pancakes. What's the Death Note character that's pale white with the black hair? Yeah, L. That's L. Is that L? Okay. Yeah, I think it is. Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
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And his dad's just did a flower pot. Oh man. Connie, Connie was like a biblical level pole for us.
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It's beautiful. All right. So now back to Toby's line. That's you. He's 17. Connie glared back at him before opening the door to the house and stepping inside.
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Toby said sarcastically and glared back at his father before stumbling up the small staircase and turning into his room, where he slammed the door violently.
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Yeah. For, for absolutely legitimate non-sarcastic reasons. I assure you. I feel like this wasn't. the beginning of Tiki Toby, I feel like he was like a fan art creation originally or something like that. And then someone wrote this story. So it's kind of like Slenderman then. Cause what was that?
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His little room didn't have much in it, just a small bed, a dresser, a window, and his walls had a few picture frames of his family back when they were a family, where his father became an alcoholic and acted violently toward the rest of the family.
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toby remembered when he was arguing with his mom and he grabbed her by the hair and shoved her to the floor god damn when lyra that's rough that's another thing these writers always they will throw super heavy imagery do you remember the one we were reading about the little stuff puppet and it's like uh aborted fetuses were hanging everywhere yeah
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They will take super heavy three themes and just dive bomb them into stories just completely haphazardly over and over.
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It's funny to be like, I'm mad at my dad because he didn't come see my sister before she died. Anyway, I remember the time he grabbed my mom's hair and shoved her into the wall.
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Toby remembered when he was arguing with his mom and he grabbed her by the hair and shoved her to the floor. And when Lyra had to try to break it up, he pushed her and she hit her back on the corner of the kitchen counter. Toby can never forgive him for what he did to his mother and sister. Never. Toby didn't care how much his father beat him down. He couldn't feel it anyway.
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What he did care about was how he intentionally hurt the only two people he cared about.
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and when he was waiting in the hospital where his sister took her last breaths the only one who didn't rush there was his dad Toby stood by the window and looked out at the street he could have sworn he saw something out of the corner of his eye but quickly blamed it on the meds he was on oh my gosh I forgot about this oh Hunter you are in for a treat okay
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When dinner time had come and his mother called up to him, Toby came down the stairs and hesitantly sat down at the table across from his father and in between his mother in an empty chair. It was quiet as his parents picked at their food, but Toby refused to eat. Instead, he just watched his dad with a blank stare. His mother caught on to his staring and elbowed him slightly.
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Toby looked over at her slightly and then down at his uneaten food, which he still didn't touch. Toby laid in bed or it's supposed to say laid in bed. It's typo says he laid in B. Tony laid in B. He pulled his covers over his head and stared at the window. He was tired, but there was no way he would fall asleep. He couldn't. There was too much to think about.
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He had been debating on whether or not to follow his mother's directions and forgive his father or continue holding a grudge with his boiling hatred. He heard his door creak open and his mother padded into the room, sat on the bed next to him. She reached over and rubbed his back, which had been turned to her.
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When is he going to leave? Toby said with an innocent tone in his shaky voice. Connie let her gaze fall down to her feet.
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Yeah. Kinda. Cause there's never been like a main story. The closest thing was like the marble Hornet series. Um, There's never been a main hardline story for him. I could be wrong on that, but I feel like Tiki Toby came before this story did or people actually put notes to him. It was mostly anime-esque fan art. I wanted to bring that up because
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Tony didn't respond. He just continued to look forward at the wall, holding his damaged arm near his chest. After a few minutes of silence, his mother sighed before she leaned in to kiss his cheek and stood up to walk out of the room. Good night, she said as she closed the door. The hours passed slowly, and Toby couldn't quit tossing and turning.
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Every time he let his imagination take over, he heard the screeching of tires, the screaming of his sister, and he would uncontrollably jerk in bed. He threw off his cover and lying on his back, he pulled his pillow over his face and cried into it. He could hear his own pitiful weeping. He could have been screaming and crying if he didn't press his pillow under his face.
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After a few seconds, he threw the pillow off his face and sat up, hunched over, holding his head and breathing roughly, tears streaming from his eyes. couldn't help but cry. He tried to keep it in, but he couldn't stop the whining and whimpering as he sat there shaking. He inhaled before he stood up and walked around his bed to the window and peered out, taking deep breaths trying to calm down.
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He rubbed his eyes and looked out at the group of tall pine trees across the street. He stopped suddenly, and his gaze slowly centered on something standing under the streetlight. He heard ringing in his ears and couldn't look away. The figure stood beside the streetlight, about two feet shorter than it did, long arms draped at its sides as it stared up at him with non-existing eyes.
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The figure had no facial features to speak of. No eyes, no mouth, no nose. It had held Toby's hypnotized stare, seemingly peering into his very being. The ringing in his ears grew louder and louder each second he stared before suddenly, it all went black. The next morning, Toby woke in his bed. He felt different.
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He wasn't tired at all, and when he consciously woke up, it felt like he had been lying there awake for hours. He had no thoughts flowing through his mind. He sat up slowly and stumbled over to the wall, but when he stood, he automatically felt dizzy. He stumbled to the doorway and walked down the stairs. His parents were sitting at the table.
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His father was tuned in to the small TV that sat on the countertop, and his mother was reading the newspaper. She quickly looked over when she felt Toby's presence looming behind her.
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She greeted him with a hesitant smile. Toby slowly looked over at the clock and noticed it was 1230 p.m. I made you breakfast, but it got cold. I was going to wake you, but I felt you needed some sleep. Her expression fell from happy to worried as her son resisted responding to her.
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Toby stumbled over and sat by his father. He felt as if he was on idle and had no control over his actions. He was seeing everything he did, but it didn't register in his brain properly. He reached out to his father's arm, but his hand ended up getting slapped. His father turned to him abruptly and pushed his chair over with his foot.
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The days went by and things continued on as they were. Connie spent most of her time cleaning the house and her rude husband spent most of his time ordering her around. Just like how it used to be before the crash. It's so funny to imagine like the guy in the flower pot and then L from Death Note is just touching him gently. Like rubbing his arm.
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Toby never really left his room. He was set by his bed and tremble. His mind would wander, but his thoughts changed too fast to be remembered. He would pace around his room like a caged animal or stare out the window. The unhealthy cycle continued. Connie continued to be pushed around by her husband, being way too submissive to him, and Toby remained in his room.
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Is that your depiction of what spousal abuse looks like? In this scenario, yes.
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Before he could think twice, he would begin to chew on his hands, tearing the flesh from his fingers. What?
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no so it's saying it's saying that like because he can't feel pain he like nervously bites at his fingers yeah and he's like fucking biting off the skin yeah yeah yeah that's a big problem with like uh especially like little kids who have those conditions where they can't feel pain they'll like gnaw their lips off and like fingers and stuff because they can't i've heard of the lips thing it's pretty crazy like you can bite holes into your cheeks and shit when his mother walked in on him while he was doing so she reacted horribly he rushed him downstairs and grabbed the first aid kit wrapping his hands in bandages
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Afterward, she demanded that he wouldn't leave her side again. Toby isolated himself so much that he grew to hate being around others. His memory grew glitchy as well. He'd start missing memory of minutes, hours, days, and so on. He would begin talking nonsense about things completely unrelated to the conversations he would have.
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He also has several mental conditions that he's constantly bullied for. He's been through a traumatic episode and now his sister is dead. No, no, fine.
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It's funny to imagine the husband is the one who brought it up eventually. Like, damn, Connie, why don't we... Goddamn, Connie, can you not take him to see a therapist?
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Connie walked Toby into the building, holding his hand and guiding him in. She walked him up to the front desk and began talking to the lady who sat behind it. Mrs. Rogers? The lady asked.
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The lady stood and led them down a long hallway. Toby looked at the framed artwork down the halls and tuned in to the sound of the lady's high heels on the hardwood floor. She opened the door to a room with a table and two chairs.
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He smiled and held the door open. Toby stumbled into the room and sat down at the table. He looked over at his mother and the lady before the door slowly shut behind them. He looked around the room before he held up his tightly bandaged hands and began to bite at the bandages to unwrap his hands.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Yeah. I, like you said, not exactly a bear trap. I think it's kind of evident, but it will be something. It's a classic.
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He was interrupted as the door swung open and a young woman in a black and spotted dress with light blonde hair stepped in, holding a clipboard and a pen. "'Toby?' she asked with a smile. Toby looked up at her and nodded." Nice to meet you, Toby. My name is Dr. Oliver. She put her hand out for him to shake by hesitantly.
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Oh, it's another typo, but hesitantly pulled away when she noticed his bandaged hands. Oh. Exactly how a healthcare professional would act. Ew, gross. Oh, don't do that.
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Here, eat this Adderall and get the hell out of here. She smiled nervously before clearing her throat and said, no, that's what they say to you because you're a grown teacher trying to get Adderall prescriptions in a hospital. Like, go in as if you are a child. Yeah, exactly. I'm a kid. I need pills. Dr. Oliver, I know the drug racket you have going with the kids in my class and finding this guy.
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It does. So before we dive into that Hunter, is there any more time left for them to buy the merch? I think they've got like a day or something.
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I need a, I need hydros to sleep, please. Uh, actually my husband, Mr. Lee from your school told me about you and said, if you ever show up in this clinic, I should call the police. Who do you work for? Let's just go back to that again.
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She smiled nervously before clearing her throat and sitting in the chair across the table from him.
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You responded quietly. She wrote that down on the paper that was clipped to the clipboard.
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Who is your immediate family? Toby pause for a minute before answering your question.
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Her expression faded into a sad pity filled book. I'll be nodded. Do you remember anything from the crash, Toby? Toby looked away from her. His mind went blank for a moment. He looked down at his lap, and in the surrounding area he heard a faint ringing sound. His eyes widened and he froze in place.
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Toby felt a shiver go down his spine until he froze once again and slowly looked over a little window through the door, where he saw it. a dark, featureless figure peering in at him. He stared, eyes widened, the ringing growing louder and louder until suddenly the voice of the counselor broke his trance. Toby! She yelled.
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Toby jumped and fell sideways out of his chair and backed up into the corner. Dr. Oliver stood up, holding her clipboard to her chest, a surprised look in her eyes. Toby met her eyes again, his breath hitching as he twitched. That night, Toby lay in bed. His eyes were dazed as he stared straight up at his ceiling.
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He could feel himself begin to doze off when he heard the scattering of footsteps down his hallway. He sat up and looked towards the doorway, his door wide open. There was no light. Everything was lit by the luminescent blue glow of the moon through his window, leaving a cold lighting. Leaving a cold lighting. Everything was lit by the glow of the moon, leaving a cold lighting. It was pitch black.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
There was cold lighting. It felt like an AI sentence. Is there lights in this room? No, the light is from the moon.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
He stood up and slowly made his way toward the doorway when suddenly the door, which previously was wide open, slammed in his face. He gasped and fell back. He was out of breath when he hit the ground and he began breathing heavily, his eyes wide open. He waited for a few seconds before getting back on his feet.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
He reached out and grasped the cold door handle with his bandaged hand and it creaked open. He looked out into the dark hallway and tiptoed out of his room. The window at the end of the hallway lit up the darkness with blue moonlight as he padded his way down. He could hear footsteps rustling around him and faint giggling followed by the pitter-patter of small feet.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
which sounded like a child had run in front of them, giggling and running around. There's been like five sentences. It sounded like the footsteps of a child, the child running in front of him, giggling and running around.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
The hallway was a lot longer than he remembered. It seemed endless, like the ride home from the hospital. He heard the door creak in front of him.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
He called in a shaky voice. Suddenly, a door slammed between... There's a lot of door slamming. Suddenly, a door slammed behind him and he jumped and turned around. Behind him, he heard a long, eerie groan that sounded like a croak right in his ear. He turned around as fast as he could and was suddenly face-to-face with none other than his dead sister.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Her eyes were clouded white, her skin pale, the right side of her jaw dangling there by tissue and muscle, glass protruding from her forehead, black blood leaking down her face, her blonde hair pulled up in a ponytail as it always was, and she was wearing her gray t-shirt and athlete shorts, which were dirty and spotted with blood. Her legs were bent in ways that they shouldn't be.
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She stood emitting a long, croaking noise only an inch away from Toby's face. Tony yelped and fell back. He started to crawl backward away from her, but he was unable to break the eye contact he held with her blank dead eyes. He dragged himself backward until he backed up into something. He went backwards. While going backwards, he backed into something backwards.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
pancakes he stopped for a second everything was dead silent except for his heavy breathing and crying he slowly looked up to meet the blank face of a tall dark figure the same figure that stood over him now behind the tall dark mass were rows of children looking to range from three to ten years old their eyes completely black and dark black blood leaked from their eye sockets Why is it key?
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Every paragraph it picks a word and then says that word five times. He likes it. He screamed and stubbed as fast as he could, only to be tripped by dark black tendrils that wrapped around his ankle. He fell straight on his stomach and got the wind knocked out of him. He tried to scream, but he couldn't make a sound. He wheezed out before it all went quiet. Toby woke with the start.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
He screamed out and set up as fast as he could. Completely short of breath.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Fuck sakes, dude. He keeps blacking out and then the room looks black, but then he blacks out because it's too black.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Given the amount of healthcare professionals we can see, they probably saw the kid hyperventilating and was like Tourette's syndrome. It's just Tourette's. It is what it is. It's just Tourette's, yeah. He wheezed out and held his chest with his bandaged hands. It was just a dream. Just a dream. He lay back down on his bed and rolled over on his side.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Absolutely. So here we go. Time to begin. Long-grown homes seem to go on and on. The road continued to stretch in front of the vehicle endlessly. The light that shone through the branches of the tall, green trees danced around the window in random patterns, every once in a while, noxiously shining in your eyes. The surroundings were full of deep green trees forming a forest around the road.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
It felt like against weight had been lifted off his chest. I don't even know what I was trying to say there. Had been lifted off his chest as he took in deep breaths. He stood up and padded over to his window. He saw nothing. Nobody was out there. No ghosts, no figures, nothing. He heard the rustling and coughing of his father outside the doorway. His door was closed.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
He walked over and opened it. Looking out into the hallway once again, he padded down. People keep padding hallways. He padded down the hallway and into the kitchen where he found his dad standing and having a smoke in their living room. Toby waited for a second and watched him from around the corner before a burning feeling started deep in his chest. Deep, boiling anger overtook him.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
They chanted. He turned away and held his arms. He felt like he actually had control over himself like he did for the past few weeks since he got home from the hospital. He actually had complete thoughts for just moments before.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Like Toby standing behind him from his POV. It's like a dark room with like the only light being the glow of the TV. And it's just like, it's just like outlining the silhouette of a giant flower head.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
It's like him from the back of the room standing at the corner. He just sees, like, the silhouette.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
and it's funnier to imagine because you brought up earlier how like um the that he describes earlier that his dad hit his mom but the only stuff we've seen happen in the story is that she was quote-unquote too submissive and then you brought up like what if he's just like hey babe do you care to can you get the remote for me and she's like uh sure like like he's completely happy there's no abuse happening
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
So because the character is now Eric in my mind, it's funnier to imagine there's no actual abuse or anything bad happening, and he's just a happy sunflower on the couch, and his son has decided to murder him.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
He's like watching Animal Crossing Let's Play on the TV, just happy, kicking his feet in a flower pot. And his son's about to stab him to death. He turned away and held his arms. He felt like he actually had control over himself, unlike he did for the past few weeks since he got home from the hospital.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
He actually had complete thoughts for just moments before the chanting of the little voices in his head clouded them.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
The only sound was the sound of the car's engine as it traveled down the path. It was peaceful and left a serene feeling. Although the ride seemed like a nice one, it lacked every form of nice from its two passengers. The middle-aged woman behind the steering wheel had neat, short brown hair that fit her complexion quite well. She wore a green V-neck t-shirt and a pair of blue jeans.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
They continued on. Toby trembled. No, no, he wasn't going to do it. What? Was he going crazy? No, he won't kill anyone. He can't. He hated his father, but there was no way he was going to kill him. That was it. The last thought he had before he fell into an idle state once again. The influence of the voices in his head was too much. He began to silently walk up behind his father.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
He reached... Oh, yeah. He reached... Oh... He reached over the counter to the knife in the case. He grabbed it in his hand. He felt the sensation take over his chest. He let out a snicker. He...
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
the dad on the couch he's like yeah I like how the dad is like hearing his laugh he's just like whatever dude can't be that funny I like the idea of the dad as the giant flower ranging around his head every time he turns his head he knocks everything on the table over
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Hey, son, you want to come watch Animal Crossing Let's Plays with me?
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Come down here! He began laughing so hard he had to gasp for breath. His father turned around abruptly before he felt a brute force shove him to the floor. He grunted as the air was knocked out of him. There's two more air mentions again. What? He looked up at the boy who stood over him, grasping the kitchen knife in his hand.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
He went to sit up and put his arms out in front of him in self-defense, but before he knew it, Toby was on top of him. He went to grab his neck, but his father reached out and blocked his hand by grabbing onto his wrist.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
He yelled, and with his other hand, he threw an off-center punch towards Toby's shoulder, but he didn't stop. The look...
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
take that sorry what do you think about this just the visual of his mom coming downstairs and toby like is like on top straddling his dad but his dad has his feet in a comically large flower pot he's rolling around trying to get out of it damn you toby you know how like when you're a kid and you're like my one weakness
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You know when you're a kid and you're fighting with siblings, like you'd be on the ground and you would like windmill your legs so they couldn't get close? Yeah. The dad's doing that with the flower pot. The look in Toby's eyes was not sane. It looked as if a demon had taken control of him.
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Diamond stud earrings decorated each of her ears, which partially showed from behind her haircut. She had deep green eyes, which her shirt brought out, and the lighting seemed to make them more noticeable. There wasn't anything significant about her appearance. She looked like any other average mother you would see on TV shows and the like.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
He yelled back and went to stab the knife into his father's chest, but his father blocked him and grabbed onto his wrist once again. He went to shove him back, but Toby kicked his feet out in front of him and landed a hard blow straight to his father's face. His father recoiled and pulled his arms away to cuff his face, but Toby got back up and drove the knife straight into his shoulder.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
His father let out a loud cry and went to pull the knife out, but before he could, Toby threw his fist straight into his face. He began to pound his fist into his head, laughing and wheezing. He cracked his neck and grabbed the knife and ripped it out of his father's shoulder.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
He drove it deep into his dad's chest and repeatedly stabbed into his torso, blood spilling out and getting splattered everywhere. He didn't stop until his father's body went still. He threw the knife over to the side and leaned over his body, coughing and panting. He stared at his father's smashed in face and sat there. Hell yeah. You already know what I'm thinking.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
It's like the face is smashed in, but it's got like, it's got like the flower petals around it. Father's face smashed in and sat there twitching until a loud scream broke the silence. He looked over to see his mother standing a few feet away, covering her mouth, tears streaming down her face.
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toby stood up and began to back away from his father's bloody corpse he began to back out of the kitchen he looked down at the blood-soaked bandages on his hands and looked up at his mother one last time before he turned and ran out of the house he ran into the garage and slammed his hand against the control panel on the wall and pushed the button to open the garage door before he ran out he noticed his father's hatchets oh boy
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
which had been hanging on the tool rack above a table full of jars filled to the brim with old rusted nails and screws, huh? Which had been hanging on the tool rack above a table full of jars filled to the brim with old rusted nails and screws. One of the hatchets was new. It had a bright orange handle and a shiny blade, and the other was old with a wooden handle and an old dull blade.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
He grabbed both and looked down at the table, and he saw a box of matches, and under the table was a red gasoline tank. He held both of the matches in one hand and grabbed two matches and gasoline before running out of the garage, down the driveway, and up the street. As he approached the streetlight that he could see out of his own bedroom window, he heard police sirens in the distance. Hold on.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Okay, so he gets the hatchets. Uh, with the wooden handle, he grabbed both matches and then he stole matches and gasoline. Okay. He turned around and the red and blue flashing lights came rushing down the street. Toby stood for a second before he pulled open the cap on the gasoline tank and ran down the street, spilling gasoline all over the street after him. He turned and ran into the trees.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
However, the one thing that made her different than the average mothers was the dark bag she had under her eyes. Her facial expression was gloomy and sad, although she genuinely looked like someone who smiled a lot.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
He poured the last bit of gasoline out before he reached to his pocket and pulled out a match. He struck it against the box and immediately dropped it, and an instant flame spursed around him. Fire caught on the trees and bushes around him, and before he knew it, he was surrounded by fire.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
silhouette of police cars were visible through the flames as he backed away into the forest around him he looked around but his vision was blurred his heart was pounding and he closed his eyes for a moment this was it this was the end toby felt a hand on his shoulder he opened his eyes and looked over to see a large white hand with long bony fingers resting on his shoulder
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He followed the arm that was attached to the hand up to a dark, towering figure. It appeared to be wearing a dark black suit, and its face was completely blank. It towered over Toby's small frame as it looked down on him. Tendrils reached out from its back. Before Toby knew it, his vision blurred, and he heard the sound of ringing in his ears. Everything went blank. That was it. That was the end.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
That was how Toby Rogers died. A few weeks later, Connie sat in her sister's kitchen... His sister, Lori, sat next to her drinking a cup of coffee. I think that's meant to be her sister, Lori, sat next to her drinking coffee. About three weeks ago, Connie lost her husband and her son. And a few weeks before, she had lost her daughter to a car crash. Since then, she moved in with her sister.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
The police were keeping her busy. They had just finished cleaning up the case. And the story had been released two weeks ago. The focus of the world seemed to have shifted to completely new stories. Lori switched the TV onto a news broadcast. On the TV, the news reporter began introducing the new headline.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Picture changed to show snapshots of the weapon exactly as it was left at the crime scene.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
She would sniffle every once in a while, and occasionally glance in the rearview mirror to look at her son in the backseat, who was hunched over partially, with his arms held tight around his chest and his head pressed against the cold window. The boy lacked any normal appearance, and anyone could plainly see there was something wrong with him.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
First off, I think... Hold on, hold on, hold on. First of all, did you get what the large figure that was with him was in the fire? The large figure? Wasn't that him in the future or something? No. No, Hunter. What? I want you to think about it.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
It's just the Grim Reaper? No, no, no, no, no, no. Let me read this for you. Is it literally Slender Man? It's Slender Man, yes.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
So, it is Slenderman. So, Tiki Topi started as a Slenderman proxy, similar to, like, Isla Shack, Jeff the Killer, and stuff like that. And this was his origin story that someone wrote out. So this is slender man's origin story. No, no, no, no.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Not slender man's Toby's because the whole idea is slender goes from person to person and he picks like agents, like followers of his Toby was always one of those like followers, like the rake stuff like that. Offshoots of slender himself. Like we kind of saw that in the marble Hornet series. Remember the mask guy and the hoodie guy and stuff like that. Yeah.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
It is actually Slender Man. And that's the same face that shows up while he's in the hospital and the face that shows up while he's at... When he's looking out his bedroom window.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Incredibly. Because there was no weight attached to it for them. Like, the young writers of these things... Yeah.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
I mean, did you get that story, that little, that visual at the end of it, the woods on fire and he like looks at the cops and dramatically backs into it. Like it's a intro to a fight game. Yeah. Yeah.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
His messy brown hair went every which way and the luminescent lighting brought out his pale, almost gray skin. It's just a rotting corpse in the backseat.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
No, no, no. That's because, okay, so you... that scene of him getting the hatchet is because all of the fan drawings of Tiki Toby, he always had a hatchet. He has to, he has to write the hatchet into the story. It would be like, if in like the first captain America movie, he's like, huh, I'll be needing this. And he grabs a random American shield.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Like, I don't know where, you know, you know how cool it is though.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
That's how, that's how it was. People would write stuff and some stuff would get cannon. Other stuff. People would be like, ah, we don't like that. So someone would write their own version of it. There's a ton of that slender man specifically. There were so many. So, okay. So like I'm pulling up the slender man wiki right now.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
And, uh, not only are there proxies and a bunch of them, but there's different rankings for proxies. So there's like different, there's five different levels. Where are you seeing this? It's on the Slender Man wiki. Hold on, let me just go into this.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
This was like people's entire personality when I was growing up. Like online, people would talk about this kind of thing.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Instead of die off. I mean, like I, like I was passively interested in some of the stuff and then I turned 14. I was like, okay, this is kind of, so you do think it's just better stuff. People grow. I think a lot of it's growing up. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So if the five different rankings, um, according to the blogosphere, um, which is like a website where people are right.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Anyway, the ranking systems as follows rank one, how load mindless puppets created by Slenderman for the harassment of runners. No other purpose. I assume runners means people running from Slenderman to his berserkers, most commonly resembling the traditional perception of proxies slaves to the Slenderman, but with enough of their own will left to have superior problem solving and tactics.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
That's like the rake. That's what Tiki Toby would be. I would think. The third one is sleepers have their original personalities kept intact and are left unaware of their status as proxies. Four is Agents. Not proxies in the traditional sense. Agents appear to be the blogosphere's interpretation of cultists. I don't know how that's any different from berserkers or sleepers, but whatever.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
And finally, Revenants. Proxies with super strength and regenerative abilities granted to them by Slenderman. Eventually became unpopular with bloggers and were retconned away as hallucinations. So that's like...
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
that pop up just destroyed the screen. It has 9.1 out of 10 stars. Who would rate the story so highly? Almost a perfect score. Almost.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
That last part specifically is like everyone would have OCs of like themselves and they would like they would always write themselves as like Slender's proxy, but they were like a super strong proxy that Slender liked a lot. So he gave him like superpowers to fight people. It was no different than any other like, you know, early child community.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
That kind of thing. Yeah. Part of the. Well, I have a superpower resistant spell that makes it where you can't hit me. controversy of Tiki Toby when you're looking on the wiki. Sponsor Cast Wave.
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So that there are several Jeff, the killer versus sticky Toby stories about them going head to head with each other. There's one. I remember where they're, they're having a fight and like the building they're in catches on fire and they're both on fire, punching each other.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Who would, who would win? Um, Tiki Toby, because he, uh, he actually has an ability. He can't feel pain. Whereas Jeff can, even if he's just a district Jeff's ever, but also in the, all those crossover stories, they both have like special powers by slenders. They can like throw each other through walls and stuff like that.
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That'd be the one where you're like, he deserves the win. You know, he's the Jason of the Freddie Jason combo. Where Jason's like, oh, I was a kid who like died and it's tragic. Whereas Freddie's just a monster. You know, he's more sympathetic. Right. So I'm trying to think there's the observer. I remember the observer. He was another proxy. He like another story. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. The Observer.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
There was Deadhead. That was another proxy. There were literally like a dozen of these things. Like entire stories people built about specifics. Deadhead was the one in a hoodie, I think. Deadhead... Deadhead is a member of the Collective. Deadhead's only defining feature are his hoodie, chain, and skull mask. Yes. Yep. Yeah, there's a ton of these. It's a whole rabbit hole.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
So, Initially, it was people who were interested in writing and wanted to write scary stuff. And then there's people who wanted to be a part of online horror communities. And those are two very different things, right? Like some not which there's some overlap. I'm not saying there's not.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
But most of the time, people who say write fan fiction within groups and stuff like that, about half those people want to be writers and continue to write afterwards. The other half want to write fan fiction.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
right um so initially when there was no community or anything like that it was just people who wanted to tell creepy stories for whatever reason that's such a good observation man like the idea of like people that were writing this stuff back in the day were like i just love writing i love writing stories and stuff I read Edgar Allan Poe. I read Stephen King. I want to write.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Oh, his life's so hard, isn't it? It's so his tragedy. His eyes were dark, unlike his mother's, and he wore a white t-shirt and scrub pants that had been provided for him by the hospital. Clothes he had worn before were so shredded and bloodstained that they weren't wearable anymore. The right side of his face bared a few cuts along with a split eyebrow.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Oh, hold on, hold on. They're not way better, but you know. Is there anything for those? Google's telling me not to. That's great. Jesus Christ. Here we go. This is the kind of thing I want to send you. So you're like, oh, this is so fun. This is great. This is the majority of what I experienced from the fandom. Just looking at this kind of thing. My crush is a killer. It's gender bent.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
I got to have, So many pictures of Toby and Jeff kissing right now. There's so many.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Of like old MS paint detail. Love it. Love it. Hold on, this is the shirt. The one I'm about to send you is the shirt.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
You have to click on the link of wine. Just sent you. Is that link? I just saw it. Okay.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
His right arm was bandaged all the way to the shoulder, which had been shredded when his right side hit the shattered glass. His injuries appeared to be painful, when in reality he couldn't feel anything. This was just one of the glories of being him. One of the challenges he had to face while growing up was... Oh, I forgot about that. I forgot he had a superpower. Wait.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Spoils! It's this sentence. This was just one of the glories of being him. One of the challenges he had to face while growing up was growing up with a rare disease that caused him to be completely numb to pain. That's awesome. Never before had he felt himself get hurt.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
No, Jeff the Killer was that his face got burnt. Well, yeah, but wasn't it burned that he couldn't feel anything anymore? No, no, no. He cut his eyelids off so that he would never go to sleep. That was the thing. Of course. And he cut a smile into his face. It never says he can't feel pain. Okay. But here it's like our character was born with a condition that makes him not feel pain.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Almost 5,000 people have come here and said this is a near perfect story. When you look at the tags for it, what kind of perfect story would not be tagged with things such as gore, mental illnesses?
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
That makes sense. It's like, what's his name? It's like Kick-Ass from the movie.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
He can feel love. He needs to want to feel pain. That's the difference. He needs to want to feel love. Yeah. Or he's like, I don't deserve that. I say, yeah. I don't deserve to feel pain, babe.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
I don't want to feel anything at all. That's what I deserve. Oh, don't worry. It gets better. So. Oh my gosh. I actually forgot about this.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
I'm having so many flashbacks. Oh, this is written from such a different time in the internet. I forgot about this. Okay. Um, He could have lost an arm and felt nothing.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
The other major disorder he had faced, which was the one that deemed him many insulting nicknames in the short time he attended grade school before he switched to homeschooling, was his Tourette syndrome, which caused him to tick and twitch in ways he couldn't control. I forgot about that.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Yes, yes. I 100% mental block that, but yes, he does. If I remember right, there's like five other disorders he has.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
He's damaged! He's damaged goods! Yeah, it's like it's like the author was so desperate to like cram every disability.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
And also it's like the ultimate form of like society doesn't understand.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Yeah. I was homeschooled for a couple of years when I was a kid and I can definitely say I was like that, that this story would have appealed to me being like, yeah, I'm different. I am so damaged. I'm so, I am broken. Yeah. I'm sorry. I am Tiki Toby. Yeah.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Isaiah, we have to get it out now. I think you're going to keep going. I think you can't help yourself. I don't stand by him. I don't condone him. Look, whatever problems you have with him, I probably have as well. We can come to agreement on this.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Absolutely not. Pancakes. Where was I even? I forgot. Was this Tourette's Syndrome? I got it. He would crack his neck uncontrollably and twitch every once in a while. The kids would tease him and call him Ticky Toby, and they mocked him with exaggerated twitching and laughing. It got so bad he had to turn to homeschooling.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
It was too hard for him to be in a common learning environment with seemingly every kid poking, or more like stabbing, fun at him. I like how the teachers don't do anything either.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
They're all like, no, the teacher was probably you. The teacher was probably you and making fun of him along with the other students.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Make it worse. Yeah, exactly. And then you're in the principal's office. You're in the principal's office with the kid. Like, I have no idea what he's talking about. Yeah, I don't know.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Kid's just crying. Yeah, I planted a huge... No, you're trafficking these, aren't you? What cartel are you working with?
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
The image of you going to a principal and be like, I think they've got a meth lab under the school.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Yeah, Mr. Hancock, that's Mr. Lee, the English teacher you're referring to. And they would talk to him because he's in the back of the room.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
We have worked together at this school for four years now. I'm tenured, actually.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
This is so not like me. You walk out of the principal's office and you go to the assistant principal. Like, I think the principal's in on it. I think he's getting a cut.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
Give it to me. Mr. Hancock, you were brought up here because you have to quit calling the parents of the children in your class who have disabilities and saying that it would be funny if you kept making fun of them when they're home.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
And on a related note, you cannot steal Adderall prescriptions from children who have legitimate diagnosis.
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Ticci Toby | Creep Cast
We also at this time and it's insane. I have to say this, but you have to quit accusing Mr. Lee of operating a Chinese drug smuggling. I refuse out of the fifth grade special. I refuse. I refuse. I don't know what he's doing. I don't even know. He's from Michigan. I don't know what connection you think he has to Chinese. Tell me who you work for.
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But I'm hoping that you've told me about SCP-3000. I think that if there was a way to get us into SCP, I think this would be the one.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Everything they said, I think it's fun. It's a weird kind of boat that's just kind of around. Don't be fucking with this thing without letting anybody know. I've referenced this a lot, but the terror. It makes me think of the submarine thing. Don't be going in the water and fucking with stuff.
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Which is such a haunting and cold thing. But then there's also these little trickles of shit where I'm like, this is where I'm like, what the fuck does that mean? And processed at Site 151. It's these things where it's like, I know that it's just supposed to be like, you're not even supposed to know. Because the organization is so big. But to me, it just feels like so much jargon sometimes.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Ich verstehe. Und das ist, wo ich manchmal ein bisschen verletzt werde. Einige Geschichten, wie ich am Zentrum von allem bin, es ist so viel, es ist so viel, wo es zerstörerisch ist. Das ist gut.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Ich weiß nicht, wie das überhaupt möglich ist. Wir haben nicht einmal einen Deep-Sea-Creepypasta gefunden.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Oh yeah, no, that shit is fucking horrifying. I got really into Moby Dick for some reason when I was younger.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
There was a movie in the 50s or 60s, an adaptation of it with Gregory Peck. I was a really big Gregory Peck fan for some reason because I'm a 95-year-old man. But I just, I love the idea of old-timey Fischereien und solche Sachen. Es gibt so etwas, was so verdammt schrecklich ist. Der Ozean ist so eine mächtige, dunkle Kraft.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
The idea of me being in a large body of water and just having shit below me that I can't see. Absolutely not. I cannot fuck with that at all. Also, I just feel like I would drown. I know how to swim. I wouldn't say I'm an avid swimmer, but I feel like I would be a sinker. Ladies and gentlemen, I would sink.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Auch hier ist eine andere Sache, ich denke, ich fasse nicht wirklich mit Fischen. Na, es hängt von den Fischen ab, ich mag nicht riesige Fische wie SCP-3000, aber ich meine, wie auch wenn ich nur, auch wenn ich nur im Meer schwimmte und mein Fuß einen kleinen Riesentraut gegräbt hat, ich würde das nicht mögen.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
In comparison to how long it is, but still being... I mean, 30 feet wide is big.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
If you had to theorize, actually throw up some art of what people theorize his head to look like.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
It pales in comparison to this. To how big this thing is, yeah. This thing has to also be... Some kind of alien, right?
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Ja. Ja. Ja. I like in creative scenarios when people are put in a box in a way. And to have it be in a box where it's like, well, it needs to be in a document. It needs to feel like it's a file in this agency. It isn't just creamy pasta, but it's creamy pasta in a new kind of structure.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
It's kind of a classic Lovecraft trope there too. I know, I'm Lovecraft, I get it. But it's a thing of a person who is not abiding by the warning signs and keeps descending more and more into madness kind of thing. You see that a lot with like at the mouth of madness. There's also, I forgot which... I can't remember which book it was too, but it's all about actually a submarine.
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All I know is that at that one, it's just a guy who is just completely fixated. Seeing these kinds of things of people slowly... I mean, can you imagine actually going down into the absolute darkest part of the world, the Marley Ocean, you see a giant face... Which I want to say this too. I just want to speculate now just to see if people are thinking the same thing.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Does it make it worse that he's so big or would it be more intimidating if it was small?
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Does it become crazier where you're like, is it harder to find? This thing is so big. So if you don't know about it, so normal people who are doing fishing or deep sea diving and whatever going around, they don't know, so they're not affected by it. But if it was like, let's just say it's like an entity that lives, like let's say it's the moss. Okay. Okay.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
The same way I guess No Sleep is, it needs to feel like an anonymous post.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Das ist verrückt. Also, und ich weiß, es ist verrückt, aber ich denke sofort an die Subnautica, die die Titanic gesehen hat. Ja, was auch immer. Implosion.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Oh, ja, ich war wahrscheinlich. Was war es überhaupt genannt? Ich kann es nicht erinnern.
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Die Titanic-Implosion-Ding. Ich denke, dass, oh, als sie da unten waren, sie sahen den fucking Beast, weißt du, was ich meine? Denkst du, dass der Typ war... Was he driven mad? He was hitting his face against the glass. Was it because of the madness or was it like a deep infatuation to actually... I don't know, see or get to the thing.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Do you think he was drawing them in or do you think he was just like, I can't, I can't, this is hell.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
As there's a lot of good ideas, I'm just saying that when I was going through, it was pulling teeth, but I will say maybe with someone here I'll find, I'm looking forward to it.
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Even if he's a rational person, being driven to an irrational place, I think, can be justified. I think, too, once again, I kind of Es macht mich in den Mode, wo ich mich nicht wirklich weiß, ob ich mich mit dem, dass es so groß und so schrecklich ist, als ob es ein Art Entity ist, die einfach in der Wasser fliegt oder etwas, wo es dir das existenzielle Schmerz verursacht.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Etwas, das nur in einem wichtigen Punkt ist und es kann immer noch um die Erde gehen, aber es ist so klein. Es ist wie mannsäugig. So kann man, wenn man Leute hat, die es irgendwie herausgefunden haben oder es sich jemandem gezeigt hat, fast wie ein seltsamer Mermaid oder so etwas. Das wäre verdammt, weißt du?
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1971-1998, 26 Jahre, um das eigentlich zu überprüfen. Ja, weil die Forschung war schwer zu überprüfen.
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Unterwater, yeah. You probably wouldn't even want to fucking approach the thing.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
But I think it's, if you're reading it with a friend, totally different experience than trying to read it on your own and, you know, take it and have fun with it.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
It's a sick name. I will say, just right off the top, as not being that big of a... Okay. Okay.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
I love a nice... There's nothing seriously more horrifying than losing the ability to control your own thoughts. Mental deterioration is the most horrifying thing.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
It's hard to say. Because there was also things about abortion. It kind of felt like all of their guilty consciences kind of come in.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Delete your memory, right? I figured it was something that Oh yeah, like it's a layer of something that just makes you go insane. Like a defense mechanism or something. I was almost thinking that if he's this big and he's excreting stuff, how much is he polluting the water and stuff? Like is it a way of him being able to like, you know, is he slowly just seeping shit over time to the ocean?
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
The ocean's huge. Even if you're 700 miles long, the ocean's giant. So I didn't know if it's some kind of way of him to be able to secrete this kind of stuff into the water as well.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Willkommen zurück bei Creepcast. Heute machen wir etwas sehr Ungewöhnliches. Ich muss sagen, es ist ein kleiner Protest, aber ich denke, es ist für das Gute der Menschheit. Wir steigen in den SCP. Was steht SCP für, Isaiah?
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Also, das ist wahrscheinlich, als sie wahrscheinlich die Regel implementiert haben, dass wenn sie weg sind, wenn sie da unten sind, sie weg sind. Wenn sie das Schiff verlassen, sind sie verurteilt. Auch, wenn man all das hört, wie justifizierst du es, mehr und mehr Menschen zu senden?
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
I like the world building, but I also like how you can take from the story without completely... Because with creepypastas, I feel like no sleep. You're taking someone else's character creation and if you wanted to use it again... You're kind of like taking that person's character without them really saying, oh, is that cool?
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Versus you just saying like, oh, Class X. It's like, yes, it comes from this, but you could also just be like, oh, that's like a fun way.
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The collaborative efforts and like the community around this is just... I can see how it would be just way more strong of being like, oh, I... Das ist cool.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
So it'll come, they're basically going to use it to wipe people's memories.
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And sometimes they're right. I'm not sure it is in a way, but it's just a matter of like, it's at the greater good as always at the loss.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
It's kind of funny to think of a guy in a giant suit, just asleep, floating down. He's just like...
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Also, it's under the assumption, too, that the eel does not move. It's just kind of idle.
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So, yeah, I was going to say, but its body is idle, but it's just kind of sitting there and it just kind of sits in place. Pretty menacing.
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Can you mention the thing with, like, what other motives does it have? You know what I mean?
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How long would you... If you got eaten by the thing, you would just... I mean, you would just drown to death or something? I mean, like, imagine going into a body that big, right?
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Das ist alles, wie im tiefen Meer, wie das ist, ozeanische Horror, im Grunde genommen, richtig?
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Diese Übergabe war stressig... Es ist nicht... Nein, es ist... Es ist kein Stress. Ich habe das schon mal gemacht. Ich war auf... Ich weiß nicht, ob ich das schon mal gemacht habe. Du hast es. Ich erinnere mich nicht daran. Ich habe diese aus dem Kontext gefühlt. Wie mein Körper reagiert auf Reflexe, die es nicht wusste. Alles ist so unabhängig.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Wie lange sind wir hier? Ich erinnere mich nicht daran. Ich weiß nicht, wann ich ehrlich gesagt... Ich weiß nicht, wann ich ehrlich gesagt nicht... Ich wünschte, ich könnte dir mehr sagen als das. Aber ich habe nichts. Ich schaue in den Ort in meinem Geist und da ist etwas anderes da. Oder manchmal nichts überhaupt. Was meinst du mit etwas anderes?
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Ich habe andere Menschen Träume, die ich nicht habe. Ich sehe Gesichter, die ich nicht erkenne. Plätze, die ich nicht kenne, die ich nie gewesen bin. Oder vielleicht habe ich sie. Ich weiß es nicht. Wie kann ich wissen, was real ist oder nicht, wenn ich meinen eigenen Geist nicht vertrauen kann?
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
I know you felt it. Your mind gets hazy. Parts of you start to slip. Your memories grow faint. Fading in and out until they're gone, or worse, replaced. You see paths that aren't yours. Experiences you've never lived.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Ich weiß nicht, wie wir uns kennengelernt haben. Ich kenne Ihren Namen und Ihren Psychologen. Aber sind wir Freunde? Sind wir Brüder? Ich weiß nicht, wie ich Sie kenne. Wir arbeiten zusammen. Ich weiß das. Ich habe das noch. Beide Dinge, sie kommen und gehen.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Ich... ja, ich verstehe. Und das... das ist nicht das Schlimmste. Ich weiß, dass mir das passiert. Ich weiß, dass mein Geist zerstört wird. Aber es ist auch etwas anderes drin. Etwas, das aus dem... aus dem Schmuck meiner geschmolzenen Bewusstsein fließt. Ein Eel. Das Eel? Ich... ich erinnere mich nicht an meine Mutter. Ich kann ihre Stimme hören, aber ich kann ihre Gesichter nicht erinnern.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Ein Zauberer. Der König der Zauberer. Er sagte, er liege unter Vishnu im Kosmos. Ein sechsheiliger, gezwungener Gott. Ist das nicht etwas?
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Sie... Ich... Ich erinnere mich nicht viel daran, aber ich erinnere mich, dass sie mir erzählt hat, wie Anastasia bis zum Ende hinkommen würde, die Dunkelheit bis zum Ende des Tages beobachten würde. Sie sagte das. Wenn das Licht des Universums weggegangen wäre, alles, was übrig bleiben würde, wäre Anastasia. Ich habe mein ganzes Leben mit der Foundation gearbeitet. So viel, wie ich mich erinnere.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Ich habe versucht, meinen Namen, meine Reputation zu bauen und alles getan, was ich tun kann, um zu verlassen. Etwas. Irgendwas. Irgendeine Art von Mark, die sagt, dass ich hier war. Was ist es? Ich glaube, dass SCP-3000 Anastasia ist. Ich glaube, dass diese Versuchung, diese Verzweiflung gegen die Kognition, der Resultat von uns ist, die Präsenz eines Gottes zu sein.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Nicht nur eines Gottes, sondern eines Gottes, der über die ganze Zeit existiert. Alle auf einmal. Und sogar über die Welt. Vielleicht ist auch ein Teil der Nullität über die Ecke der Zeit Teil von Anastasia. Vielleicht ist es ein Konduit, irgendeine Art von... Vincat, bitte. Wir sind Wissenschaftler. Nein, lass mich beenden. Es definiert das Nichts, was danach kommt. All das. Da ist Anastasia.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Es gibt die Chance, dass meine Erinnerungen aufleben werden. Dass ich mich erinnern werde, wie die Erinnerungen, die ich gesehen habe, durch mich waren. Ich habe keine Beweise dafür, aber... Als ich in seine Augen schaute und sah, was sie mir gezeigt haben, war ich furchtbar. Ich bin nur ein mediocre Mann, Arnott. Das war eine Angst, die ich seit Jahren nicht beurteilen konnte.
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Eine Angst vor Unwissenheit. Dass niemand weiß, wer ich bin, wenn ich... Dass niemand weiß, wer ich bin, wenn ich sterbe. Angst vor dem Vergangenen. Angst vor dem Unwissenden. Angst vor dem Einzelnen. Angst vor dem Sterben. Es ist ein Schmerz in mir, den ich nicht beurteilen kann, Arnott. Ich werde dir nicht lügen und dir sagen, dass das Maul von Naga mich auch nicht furchtbar macht.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Okay, so I think that there was SCP-49-JP, if I'm wrong, but it was interesting. It's like you go into a well and you basically see like a faceless cat or something like that. I can't remember what it was, but all I know is I've only ever read the faceless cat one, the Japanese one, Infinite Ikea, Cousin Johnny, and the one, and the Flush that Hates, I think it was one.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Aber zwischen dem und der unendlichen Dunkelheit, in der ich geschaut habe, habe ich meine Meinung erarbeitet.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Also, was hast du davon gedacht? Es ist interessant. Es ist interessant, dass ein Kerl zurückgekommen ist.
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Es ist übernatürlich, sicher. Egal, ob es der Name der Gnade ist, die sie sagten, ich denke, dass es immer noch ist. Ich bin unter der Vorstellung, dass es wie ein alter Gott ist, irgendwie.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Through a scientific lens and also I like the logs of people talking about once again their descent or they're trying to rationalize something that the human brain cannot, would never be able to fathom. It's kind of like those universal questions where it's like the human brain is not meant to comprehend that.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Well, and the one that broke me was I'm at the center of everything.
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Ich denke, ich meine, ich denke immer noch, dass wenn er sagt, ich war falsch, ich denke, du denkst, dass er vielleicht dachte, dass der Gott, den er gedacht hatte, vielleicht...
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
I almost think that him thinking that if this thing is talking to him, that he feels special because this thing is manipulating his mind, talking to him. So he's like, oh, I'm worthy. But then when he gets there, it's almost like... Es ist nichts. Es ist wie, oh, warte, ich werde einfach sterben.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
I was such a petty bitch about all of it that I was just like, I don't want to do this anymore. You don't know the femur breaker? No, no, no. Das ist der Grund, weshalb ich mich immer noch auf die Idee des SCP-Gesetzes aufmerksam halte.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Vielleicht ist er nicht falsch darüber, aber er ist falsch über eine größere Erleichterung. To say like, you know, God save me, it's not, whatever. I think it's him realizing that he probably like gave his faith to something that was... A wolf in sheep's clothing.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
It also just goes to show that this is just such a faceless, like, no one gives a shit.
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See, I almost read that as just even further... I read it almost like him coming to terms with his own thoughts and stuff and him putting on the airtight suit and stuff as him having the goal to be like, I'm gonna... Als ob ich einen Namen für mich selbst machen würde.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
He was just another doctor on the... A psychologist that was talking to Krishnamurti.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Can you imagine being down there and not doing that? Like having some kind of actual clear reference. Otherwise you're just going to be... You're looking at a picture of your family.
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Ich denke, es ist wichtig zu wissen, bevor wir in das 2 einsteigen, dass es viele Dinge geben wird, wenn du dich nicht mit SCPs kennst, die, wenn du auf diesem Video klickt, wahrscheinlich sind, aber nur für Redundanz, für Audio-Hörer auch. SCPs haben Dinge wie verschiedene Klassen, verschiedene Threaten für diese Monster, richtig?
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Do you think that Venkat was experiencing Badaw's thoughts then too, like insecurity and stuff?
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Du wirst Dinge hören, wie D-Klasse Menschen, wie die Art, wie sie Subjektmatter benutzen, um mit diesen Monstern zu handeln, wie D-Klasse, ich bin mir sicher, es soll so sein, wie Gefängnisse oder wie... Leute, die verschwinden können und die Gesellschaft nicht bemerken wird. Ja, also es ist... Es gibt all diese verschiedenen Dinge, die du sehen wirst.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Him being that big and just having tons and tons of humans in himself is sick. I still think, I'm still under the impression where I'm like, Let's just say it was a statue or just something. Something that was just some kind of thing, some kind of idol to something that's smaller, that it still could suck people in and excrete in some kind of liquid. I think that's cool, too.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Wenn wir sie kennenlernen, werden wir versuchen, sie zu erklären. Es ist eine Organisation, die klassifiziert, wie ernst eine Bedrohung ist. Und die Menschen, die dabei sind, die Ponds, die sie benutzen, um Dinge zu übernehmen, haben auch eine Klasse.
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Das ist das, was ich mir vorgestellt habe. Es ist wie ein riesiger lebendiger Organismus-Tunnel, der mit der Erde verbunden ist. Es ist fast so, als ob es nicht schwimmen kann. Es ist wie eine Pflanze. Es hat einen Gesicht und es sieht aus wie ein Eel oder was auch immer. Aber es ist wie wenn die Erde geformt wurde. Ja. It's just been like that forever.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Or it's just, you know, it's been around so long that now it just sinks to the floor and it's just like embedded itself in a weird way.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
The idea like you're saying of the Play-Doh mashing everybody's stuff around and the realization you're like, I'm not even... All this life I feel like I've lived, that's not even mine. I can't remember my old life.
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It's such a fun twist. It's a lot of fun. I mean, for a first SCP, I think this is a home run.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
I think this was much, much, much, much more palatable than any I've read. I think whenever you just get into stuff where it's the redacted stuff, or you harp too much on like, take them to this site, you get into the extreme minute details, which I'm sure a lot of people like.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
So it's pretty... Sometimes when you're reading through, there's so many things that are just totally blacked out to where it fucks with the flow.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Well, yeah, it fucks with it, which I understand that's a part of... Ja. Ja. Ja. Ja.
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I just know, if I saw him again, I know Keeter and that guy. I feel like almost every single one I read was a Keeter-Class. Yeah, so the big three are Safe, Euclid, and Keeter.
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Ja, diese kleinen Ereignisse oder Fotos geben immer so viel hin. Das ist das eine. Ich weiß, dass ich viel über meinen Cousin Johnny spreche, aber Cousin Johnny zeigt immer noch Familienfotos. Er ist nicht mal in unserer Familie. Genau, ja. I like that a lot. But, you know, I think for our first SCP episode.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
I felt very much like that. Yeah, no, I think this is, this has been reinvigorating. I think that having somebody too who knows good ones to be able to come in and also have somebody here to kind of go back and forth with makes it a much more enjoyable sit through. Also, I'm sure it's Das ist sehr, sehr lustig zu hören.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Shout out, Volgun. Die Creep-TV und so. Manche lieben es, manche nicht. Ich finde, das kann auch besser sein, wenn du in deinem Auto fährst.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Ich finde es cool. Oh ja, ohne weiteres, das war unser SCP-3000-Episode. Wir hoffen, es hat euch gefallen und wir sehen uns im nächsten.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Ja, also das macht Sinn, weil ich weiß, dass Euclid, Cousin Johnny war Euclid, was war, es hat einige Wege, es zu kontrollieren. Es gibt eine Prozedur, die man folgen muss. Und dann wie die, die, die, die japanische, die ich gelesen habe, ich kann mich nicht erinnern, aber es ist im Grunde die Welle. So lange du nicht in der Welle siehst, bist du in Ordnung. Richtig. Ja, also das ist das Gleiche.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Oh, interesting. Almost like they use its power to do something else.
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
Es ist ein bisschen dumm zu sagen, aber du weißt, wenn du all diese Dinge hörst und hörst und einfach nur über SCP sprichst, dann fühlt es sich so an, als ob die Leute, die den Film Cabin in the Woods gemacht haben, es fühlt sich so an, als ob das eine direkte Inspiration war, wie die Organisation dort und das große alte Gott kommt und all diese verschiedenen Geräte, die du spielst, weißt du, was ich meine?
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SCP 3000 | Creep Cast
everyone would just clip cabin in the woods and be like scp film and as a kid i thought it was real i mean i was like in a way though it's so true i will say i guess since this is our first scp i know we're kind of hearkening where this is kind of a long intro to get to the story but in terms of internet spaces because usually we've done no sleep and we've done like one twitter arg and
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Usually they're in the space of, I would say, anywhere from 2011 to 2017, work at the peak years. Where does SEP fall into that time frame of when it was popular? Because I do remember, even though I didn't, I wasn't a part of that culture, I do remember being online back then and seeing some influence of it, because I knew it was pretty big at a point.
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Es gab einige. Nicht falsch. Wenn du meinen Kanal gesehen hast, habe ich ein paar SCP-Sachen gemacht. Es ist nur die Redundanz, die ganze Redaktion zu machen. Der Format, nach einiger Zeit, hat mich einfach ein bisschen gedroht. Aber es gibt noch Infinite Ikea, die ich als coole Idee fand. Oder Cousin Johnny. Ja. That kind of stuff. I love that. I love the ideas. But sometimes just the formatting.
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So the Creepypasta and the SCP thing, they were just kind of in tandem.
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Well, it makes sense, because I'm thinking that the success of Creepypasta contributed to SCP.
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I haven't read a lot, but one thing I've noticed too is everything seems to be a lot more logistical. Or they try to really make things have some kind of sense or purpose. Even if the power of the monster or the threat of the monster is nonsensical. There's some kind of... Just to fit that parameter of having a government document on it versus a creepypasta can just be so... Whatever you want.
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I hope it does well to where we could explore. Because I would love to read Cousin Johnny again. It's super fun.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
And I don't really like personify it that much, but it's funny that it means so much to me. It's impossible not to. Anyway, yeah, this story. So you talking about being a psychic and whatnot? Her voice.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
I'll reread that line since you were seeing visions from the heavens. Yeah, I fucked it up. Normally I would be like, it's okay, but I think you should feel sorry for this one in particular. Her voice had reduced me to a teenage version. What? Jesus Christ. Oh, I don't know. Oh, my gosh. My eyesight was way off. I read Teenager again and Visions.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Shut up. Shut up. Her voice had reduced me to a teenager again. Visions of her watering her flowers and walking her dog occupied my mind for the rest of the evening. There. Is that better? That's good. Okay. I'm going to get... Who's the other guys I can sell you for? Flash gets. I'll do it with me, I'm sure.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Polina was in her front yard in the morning, meticulously tending to a healthy bed of flowers. She smiled from a crouched-over position, her golden hair adding to the splashes of flourishing color. Tulips, sunflowers, and geraniums were spread thick across the lawn like a rainbow nestled in a sky of green.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
We exchanged waves, her mouth open and ready for conversation, just as the back gate swung open.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
all at once they were upon her in an orchestrated attack concentrated streams of water blasted out of the barrel of their oh oh it's kids it's kids with water guns okay i was i saw that coming up like did she get swatted like i kind of like that though he's like he's like fucking turning this into a like boondock saint scene with water guns
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
All at once, they were upon her in an orchestrated attack. Concentrated streams of water blasted out the barrel of their guns. She let out a wail, covering her face from the attack. Her white tank top was now see-through, drenched by the precision of trained killers. The shooters, her two sons and husband, Keith, giggling at the scene of the crime as her pleas for mercy went unanswered.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
I kept walking. Hey Mark. I waved to the group. A couple of the waiting staff were huddled together in front of the stairs that led into the restaurant. It was their ceremonious drag of nicotine before the chaos. Friday nights were always a gong show, and this one was sure to be no exception. One of the busboys, Dwayne, was wearing a vexed look on his face, more so than usual.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Aproil. It's AP Royal. It's like his initials. AP Royal. Aproil. Or you just say Aproil. Aproil. Sure. Aproil. Aproil. So Aproil has his own website. He seems to be a very prolific author on boards like No Sleep and stuff like that. There's a bunch of stories. And...
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
After his puff, he warned. Silva's looking for you, man.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
From the outside, you could never tell Azalea's was a restaurant. It looked more like a cellar with cracked cement stairs that led down into a basement. That was Silva's vision all along, to be a hidden gem in the rough. Walk in thinking the place was a dump, walk out pleasantly surprised.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
It was the psychology of the food industry, and this element of surprise seemed to be essential for fine dining. Azalea's was the height of exclusivity. Not just anyone could stumble in. In order to keep up this allure, speaking about the restaurant in any capacity was strictly prohibited. Staff were never allowed to dine in. We were servants, not clientele. Not that any of us could afford it.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
The menu items never seemed to reference a price, which always signaled trouble. But from the bills I'd hand out at the end of every meal, the numbers were always staggering. It was clear Azalea's was catering to a very specific crowd with refined taste and deep pockets.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Where it's just like, for one, I really like Royal's writing style. Like, the way he described Paulina getting attacked by her kids, like you said, it's kind of described almost like a boondock saint hit. But he describes, like, the sexual undertones of her, like her sultry voice, her shirts now see-through. But the, like, objective thing we see is that she's got a husband and two sons, right?
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
So is that, like, something about his neighbor, like, wanting him? Or does he want her in a physical way and she's not perceiving that? Or it's just, like, her author's intent of it?
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
You had to say deep. You had to add adjectives to it. You had to make it more explicit. I'm sorry. My gosh. Good Lord, man. Okay, so anyway. Good Lord, man. That's just... Just dropping a brick on the gas pedal. We were at the red light.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Don't say that. What are you talking about? Like a fork with some spaghetti. I'm going to kill you. Mercy. Okay. Anyway, I'm going to... Okay. what I was saying, I like Royals writing. So I'll have so much is conveyed in just the way he describes the scene. Right.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
That being said, with this description of the restaurant, we have like the initial, like the front facing premise of like, it's just a really expensive restaurant that in order to keep, you know, it kind of exclusive, you can't talk about it. But then you think about, it's like, what kind of restaurant can you not talk about in the menu items are priced, you know? Um,
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
So yeah, it's like there's a double meaning, like what could be happening here. That I agree with you is just set up very well. A referral and a reservation got you through the door. You needed both, no exceptions. This drew a certain type of crowd. Snooty, high maintenance, but I didn't mind it, to be honest. That combination could be tiresome, but it usually meant great tips.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
I approached the splintered door and knocked three times. One of the greeters let me in. The interior was nothing like the exterior. The foyer had a gothic medieval vibe with high ceilings and narrow hallways. Chandeliers sparkled overhead in the dim light. Halls were plastered with stone and exposed brick, a handful of doors on either side.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
The doors concealed the intimate dining experience that Azalea's offered, private rooms for every party to make you feel at home. Silva's office was the last door on the left.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
I went to this one restaurant in LA that someone...
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
uh and like the youtube talent side invited me to that was kind of similar where you had to walk down a hallway and it's like you had to have a membership or know someone to get in that it was this was it was like a very stereotypical l like la white walls like big windows yeah so it didn't look the same but i'm imagining the same kind of like entry setup like you have to take an elevator to get to the restaurant kind of deal it was like a so it was like an olive garden
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Dude, Hunter, you're not going to believe this, but the breadsticks were literally endless. You could get as many as you wanted. There was no end of them. Exactly. Bill came, no charge. Yeah, no charge.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Whoa, where are you taking me? I'll sign whatever paper you pass me right now. I feel like I'm in Sicily right now. Me standing outside of an Olive Garden just like a country bumpkin from Tennessee. Like, you good sir know how to make a deal.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Yeah, they seem like a cool company. They seem like very in the know about like, you know, cross promotion between like YouTubers and like authors making stories and stuff. So they're chill. So it's cool that AP Royal has got with Felix books and it looks like he has a book called The Kaleidoscope coming out with them late this year, early next year.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Yeah, so gothic, medieval vibe, whatever, walking through. I knocked with caution. No response. Two more times. Nothing. Confused, I headed back the way I came. Hey, Julia, have you seen Silver around? Dwayne said he was looking for me. The greeter glanced up from her tablet.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Her eyes dived back into the seating chart on her screen. Workers were starting to enter now, squeezing past us down the hall. If you see him, can you please let him know I was sent to his office? She nodded. I followed the flow of people towards the change rooms. My shift was about to start, and I needed to set the tables before dinner service.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
The night became a blur of well-dressed people and trips to the kitchen. I was scuttling past streams of people into narrow pockets of space while balancing wobbly plates. Just another day at the circus. There were glimpses of Silva here and there, darting around the halls with his scruffy beard and velvet blazer. He was bouncing from employee to customer to office like a bad game of Pong.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
I didn't bother seeking him out. I knew that he would come and find me when there was time for a breath of air. In the middle of me reaming out a... Whoa. In the middle of me reaming out a bus boy.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Paulina Strode passed. Yeah, there you go. That's what it says. Yes. Paulina Strode passed. Her maxi dress sparkled with little rhinestones flowing with the natural curves of her body. Oh. leaving nothing to the imagination. It appeared to be a family affair tonight. The boys looked dapper in their matching bow ties, and Keith was all smiles in his tailored suit.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
This was a special occasion, indeed. Mark? My heart sank as she disappeared into one of the rooms. One of the rooms I wasn't working. Are you deaf? Martin scolded. You can fuck off with your critiques. I don't answer to you. I glared back at the lethargic slug. The man looked like he hadn't caught a wink of sleep in years.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
His bags were deep black, like a coat of mascara had been slathered under his eyes. I rattled the massive cart he was leaning against, the weight shifting in a dangerous, teetering fashion. Some china clattered together in ominous clangs. Fuck off!
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
His face soured as he pushed the cart away. The metal contraption was over six feet tall and wide, an ugly metal cabinet on wheels. He muttered something under his breath as he passed. What did you say? He was near the kitchen before he hollered back. It ain't as easy as it looks, chump. I took a deep breath before entering the adjacent room. Welcome to Azalea's cookhouse.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
but you can subscribe to his newsletter and get updates on that. You can also get like short stories delivered straight to your inbox as a bunch of stories across no sleep. The story itself seems pretty highly rated. So I'm excited. And also the title is just enticing in itself.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
So he was in the hallway and then he saw her and lost his mind. And then like he started following her mentally. And then the guy he was yelling at the busboy says, Mark. And then he goes back into the fight. Gotcha. On my way back from the kitchen, I was balancing two plates of Hakarl. Is that how you pronounce it? Hakarl? You're asking the wrong guy.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Hakarl. An Icelandic delicacy, a fermented shark. When Silva tapped me on my shoulder.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
My bud boiled at the thought of Lana swooping in to claim my tips. She wasn't even scheduled to work this evening. I sighed and dropped off the food before making my way to his office. This time, the three knocks were answered. The door swung open. Thanks, Mark. Have a seat.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
We were surrounded by a forest of cherry wood, bookshelves and cabinets filled to space, carved in looping, intricate patterns. Everything was so polished and quaint. There were floating shelves that carried up the walls, each holding rows and rows of books. Behind a grandfather clock in the corner were pots of leafy plants. I wondered how any of them survived in this dungeon.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
He continued, the sounds of muffled conversation trickling in through the halls. I'll level with you here.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
A promotion? Couldn't get Martin and his multiple smoke breaks out of my mind. Look, Silva, I like what I do.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
A smirk grew on his face once he detected the astonishment on my face. He pointed his finger at me. This doesn't leave the room. The news went down the hatch like sour milk. I understood why the chefs would make more money. The menu was always revolving to keep the clientele happy. They likely had years of experience overseas, attended culinary school. But the busboys?
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
These guys were glorified dishwashers. I knew the way Silva ran the restaurant was different, but this corporate structure was completely backwards. Servers were the face of the business, the point of contact between the restaurant and the customer. Surely that had to be worth more.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Not really. A glint of something conspicuous in his eyes. The door was now ajar, the bustle of the business now flooding into the room. You'll do great. Now go and find Dwayne. He'll be showing you the ropes. Dwayne was outside with one of the chefs, another cigarette to his lips. The light emanating from the lamppost highlighted his bronze complexion. "'Hey, Dwayne.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Silver said you're gonna train me tonight? Guess I'm gonna be one of you guys now.' He raised an eyebrow and dropped the cigarette to the pavement. With a blank expression, he said, "'Well, hot damn. Let's go.' He stomped the butt out and we drifted inside. I followed him deep into the kitchen, past the cooking staff carefully preparing the meals. The atmosphere wasn't much better back there.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Plates were sliding around amidst fits of yelling and chopping. I passed one of the chefs giving a lecture to one of her apprentices."
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
He stopped at one of the metal monstrosities in the corner of the dishroom. Get pushing! The cart was frustrating to maneuver given the state of its back wheels. One wheel refused to roll in line with the others, opting to wiggle uselessly instead. It was a cumbersome task given the sheer size of the cart. It was heavy with its many drawers, and it was a challenge to see over it.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
There would have certainly been a collision without Dwayne guiding me in the front. We finally stopped in front of one of the rooms, my arms and legs feeling like jelly. He held the door open as I inched the cart in, slowly, then the door was firmly closed shut. The scene at the dinner table nearly knocked me off my feet. We were inside the private room that Paulina's family had dined in.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
There was Keith, his cheek resting in a thin layer of cream sauce. His mouth was full of foam. The tablecloth soaked in a puddle of vomit. His eyes were staring back at us in a dead stare. Their two sons were on their floor, their bodies lying limp. There was no ounce of recoil from Dwayne. He just gripped Keith's head and pulled it out of the sauce. Let's go, Mark. We don't got all day.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
The walls felt like they were closing in on me. Everything was spinning.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
What the fuck is this, man? He was dragging Keith by his shoulders, his limp legs bobbling against the ground as he was carried towards the cart. Most of his body was able to fit into one of the compartments. The rest of the parts that overhang were forced in with a metal pole. The squishing and cracking made my stomach churn.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
He laughed, glint of madness in his eyes. He had one of the boys by the back of his blazer and was dragging him along. I'm out. I want nothing to do with this. I said, turning towards the door. Dwayne dropped the body and beat me there. His arm held the door shut.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
You can meet me at the front for the next one. I took off in a steady march past the greeters and guests waiting to be seated past the menacing stare of Silva. I was focused on one thing, escaping. The air outside was crisp. It helped steady the spinning. I slowed down to catch my breath, but the rapid gasp for air wouldn't stop. I'll get a new job, I thought. Start fresh. Flee the city.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Does your brain just take all the stories we read and it like lays the titles out randomly and you just like grab one at moments and stuff?
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
At the end of the parking lot, something shimmered that caught my eye. It was the flowing dress of Paulina. She was just entering her minivan. This is a very tumultuous moment, Hunter. She was just entering her minivan. Oh, yeah. I stared at the vehicle as it backed out of the stall and slowly cruised in my direction. Instead of taking the left turn to exit the lot, the van stopped.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
The window buzzed as it rolled down. "'Mark?' My words were stuck in my throat. All I could offer was a slight nod. "'Everything okay? I'm just heading home. Do you need a ride?' Her voice was nonchalant, with no regard for what she'd done. Because she hadn't done anything except enjoy a pleasant meal, the Azalea family took care of the rest. "'Mark! Mark!'
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
A voice yelled from the bottom of the stairs. I've got to go. No worries. She smiled, her glint glistening white perfection. Before she rolled up her window, she called back. Hey, let's go out by to eat sometime. The offer hung in the crisp air. She drove off in the empty minivan. Just a silver emerged from the bottom of the stairwell. Sam was clutching something in his pocket.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Yeah, I think it sounds like it's only members and members' friends who come there, right? So I think it's like if you want someone taken care of, you know, come to the restaurant, we'll lace the food, right? We'll kill them, take care of the body, do the rest. So it's like a hitman service almost is what I get from it. And that's interesting how it's like we have Mark who's like,
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
not evil by any means but in the beginning he's kind of portrayed as a jerk right like he's yelling at the bus boy he's thinking about a married woman like physically like looking through his shirt and stuff like that like he's a bit of a jerk and now he's like in this super evil position and he's like oh i should get away i should flee the city but then seeing paulina who's now single mind you kind of like is enough to make him be like
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Well, maybe I'll, you know, like she asked for dinner. Maybe I'll stick around a little bit.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
almost like poetry like he's just like her hair was this and you know it's like the way that we even that were bought into her is nothing but a rainbow across a green sky like yeah very flowery language with how he describes everything about her and now it's like oh she just murdered her husband and two kids uh but now she wants to go out for dinner so yeah
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
I'm sure. Look, I wouldn't put it past this place morally to like serve people of like clientele asked for it for sure. Um, But also, like, it's just funny that she just had her whole family murdered, and she's like, what if we got a bite to eat?
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
The husband and kids. So it was, okay. He's dragging... Yeah, because it says that after he got done shoving the husband, he grabbed the kids whose lifeless bodies were lying on the ground. Okay, so yeah, so awesome.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
No, no, no. It's instantaneous. It's actually wild. And then the bear's like, 20 feet down the trail, and then it's like, did you hear that? Because it shut up on nothing.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
A family annihilator? That's great. Love those. All right. Part two, the family. The family. Something deep inside of me told me to run. It cried for me to take flight, to duck behind the nearest car, to weave in and out of the stalls to safety. My brain convinced me otherwise, however. I stared at my red Prius parked at the back of the lot. It was in Silva's direct line of fire.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
It would be an easy point-blank shot. Freedom was only steps away, but it might as well have been a thousand miles. Silva's hand crept out of his pocket and landed on my shoulder. The movement was smooth, but not smooth enough. Polished chrome flashed for a moment, then disappeared amongst the folds of his dress shirt, back into the confines of his pocket. Does he know I saw it? Does he care?
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
So how's the shift going? He asked, squeezing my deltoid tightly. My words were caught in my throat as we made our way down the concrete steps. I don't think I can do this, Silva. He paused, one of his eyebrows raised.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
We stop before the entrance. The sound of classical music leaking out of the building. I finally let go of my shoulder. Dwayne is waiting for you at table one. I plead with him further.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
If there was one thing I knew about Silva, it was that he wasn't much of a chit-chatter. He stuck his palm out. Phone. There was a sinking feeling in my chest as I looked back at Silva. Surely he wasn't serious.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
I don't think he'll be like, you know what? You're right. Due to the Constitution. Actually, you know what?
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
You know what? I like you. A man can do attitude.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
That's right. That's that red pill right there, Mark. I like this guy. The soft melodies continued, masking the cold-blooded murder taking place inside. His face turned blood red, the wrath of Silva nearly upon me. It was a face I'd seldom seen, a crack in his cold, calm demeanor. Phone! Now! I laid my phone in his palm, diffusing the situation.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Placed it into his other trouser pocket, next door neighbors to the pistol. Thank you. Now let's go. He knocked three times as a scowl morphed into a cheery grin. Just like that, we were back inside the restaurant. In a matter of seconds, one of the kitchen staff had whisked Silva in her direction. Much of the dinner crowd had dispersed. Moderate number of people were now up and down the halls.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
I caught Dwayne's gaze leaning against the front desk, chatting with one of the other busboys. You good? Slightest smile stretched across his face, only for a moment until he caught Silva's gaze out the corner of his eye. His face instantly went blank as he motioned for me to come with him down the hall. I didn't respond. I only followed. Table one looks like it's ready.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
That caught the Diania house incorrectly because it originally caught the Glenmont Metro.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
We've got a quick turnaround, so let's hurry. Maya shot back at Dwayne. He casually held the door open. After you. You could see the woman from the doorway. Her head was face down. Layers of shiny, ebony locks were spread across the table. I detected a hint of fruit mixed with a strong hairspray aroma.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Dwayne hovered around the table, grabbing the wine glass across from the lady and swishing around the remnants of the cup.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
I shook my head no. Those were two of the head chefs at Azalea's. I never really mingled much with the kitchen staff.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
He made his way around the table, collecting some of the cutlery.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
So I grabbed one of her shoulders and helped hoist the body up. Her face was a disturbing shade of plum, her eyes staring back in a cloudy, empty stare. She was pretty, what was left of her. She was maybe in her early 40s, way too young to suffer this sort of fate. How can you do this, man? Her petite frame easily slid into the confines of the metal walls. I don't know.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Yeah, okay, hold on. If you had to start moving bodies, you would be like, this is wrong. No, no, no.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
You know what I think Mark's doing here, the reason that his wording's the way it is? I don't think, because he's still going along with it, I don't know how much Mark really cares. Because, like I said, in the first part, he's kind of established to be a bit of a jerk, yelling at guys, thinking about sleeping with a married woman. So here, it's almost like he's trying to...
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
can talk himself out of it. Cause he's going along with it. He's like, no, this is criminal. My, my phone's my proper. You should take it. It almost feels like he's trying to talk himself out of it.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
But what I mean by talk himself out of it is I don't know how much he himself... like cares and is willing to do a job like this. It means a lot of money.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
sure sure you know what you would 100 if this was me in this scenario I would 100% be marked oh my god this is criminal give me back my phone that's my personal property and you would be the guy that's like it's good money shut up put the body in the bag three times god damn three times money all right we're stuffing lobsters here
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Hunter would hear triple pay. Yeah. He would come out of that first room like, oh, that trash in there was a real load. Wink, wink. Yeah. Here we've got a family of shrimp in room number five.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Yeah, I hear you need to toss out a couple of crabs down in room four.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Silva has to come meet you in the hallway. It's like, you got to quit.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
you're making everyone uncomfortable. I know we're all like moving bodies and we're all in the know about this, but you're way too into this. And I'm over here like, this is illegal, guys, please. Guys, this is illegal. This is a crime. And then Hunter over my shoulder like, looks like the stakes start to settle, if you know what I mean. Got a full load in this one.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
With that bleak sentiment, we pushed the cart through the hall in silence. On our way to the kitchen, we passed by the next group of patrons. A couple of young professionals with vibrant smiles and flamboyant suits. My mind played Russian roulette with their bodies. Which one's body would we fetch next? It was clear that Dwayne had been lost.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
The money, the trauma, maybe a combination of the two, had severely warped his mind into having a morbid indifference for life. I knew my words would go nowhere with him. I had this business model all wrong. Everything I thought Azalea stood for, quality dining, intimate gatherings, unbeatable service, it was all a lie.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
With the dinner crowd dissipating, the halls were a lot quieter and easier to maneuver through. I knew this was my chance. I knew I had one shot. Dwayne was leading the way, pulling the metal cart from the front. I was at the caboose, pushing the heavy contraption ahead as best I could. The towering cart would provide the shelter that I needed.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Out of my front pocket, I pulled out a pen and notepad, the trusty tool of the trade. Keeping one hand on the cart and pushing it along, I used the other to frantically scribble together a note. Craning my neck from one side of the cart to the other, I caught a glimpse of Silva. He was on the right side of the hall, chatting with one of the guests.
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The cart squeaked as we approached the front of the house. If I had timed it right, his view would be blocked, but only for a moment. As we approached the front desk, I took a deep breath and crumbled up the note. I whispered. She was alone at the front desk, her face planted in the tablet. I could feel the opportunity slipping away.
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Just as we passed Silva on my right, I had no choice but to gamble. I took aim and lobbed the note into the air. The ball of paper seemed to hang there as I watched it in horror. It overshot the table and bobbled off Julie's shoulder just as we passed the front desk and Silva came into view. The impact broke her gaze from the screen. The paper bounced to the floor where it landed.
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I wasn't quite sure. I glimpsed her annoyed stare in my direction before steadying my attention to the front of the cart. As we exited the front of the house and entered the hallway to the kitchen, I could feel Silva's gaze burning a hole in the back of my skull. The kitchen had also simmered down compared to earlier in the evening.
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Many of the cooks had gone home, only a handful of chefs remained, fussing around with the various display of dessert arrangements. There were plates of chocolate lava cakes topped with caramel drizzle, crème brûlée and little cups with apricot shavings, and some sort of tower of fudge layered with sheets of sugar. The garnish was a colorful display of a key fruit and lychee.
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I admired the creativity from afar as we wheeled the cart into the dish room. Duane discarded the dirty dishes, and then we pushed the cart around the corner. I saw each chef bring their masterpiece over to Elsa. She inspected everything in the back, added the finishing touches, and the plates were carried out by the servers.
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Duane led us down a dark hallway that bore no resemblance to the restaurant. It had a smell of musk. It was left dusty with no attempt made to clean or decorate the area. There were holes in the drywall, cracks in the concrete, and questionable stains on the ceiling. We took the cart as far as we could until we hit a dead end. The only thing at the end of the hall was a service elevator.
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Dwayne swiped his access card and hit the button. We waited a couple of moments until we heard a high-pitched ding. I half expected a wave of blood to come out like the shining. Instead, Martin's ghoulish face popped out. Why is this asshole back here? Silver's orders. He's a busboy now. Martin's lips formed a wry smile. Who is he now? I looked away and helped push the cart into the elevator.
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I stepped inside and waited for Martin to hit the button down. Nuh-uh. Dwayne said, wiping me out. Only Martin is allowed down. I stepped out. Martin muttered something under his breath just as the door closed. Chump. Just let me say. this entire setting is so well established. Like, like Martin's the guy who takes the bodies down and then who knows what he does with them.
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You gotta watch out. So you're already mad at him? No, I'm not mad.
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And then like the staff doesn't know, but Silva knows and the bus boys know. And it's like these private server rooms. That's how they are able to kill people. Then dispose of the bodies quietly. Like so many layers of this just play off each other very well. Yeah. I love it. The rest of the night carried on like a bad nightmare.
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I towed the line, collecting the bodies and transporting them to the back of the kitchen. The smell of excrement and death continued to make me gag. Dwayne seemed immune to the scent. He was finding humor in my reaction after every pickup. No matter how hard I tried, it was impossible to get their faces out of my head.
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The bulge of their eyes, the bluish purple tint on their skin, the bloated look in their cheeks. Their loved ones would never find them. The gravity of it all was sinking in. When midnight finally hit, I was itching to leave the restaurant. Silva was waiting for me at the exit. How'd it go? He asked, pulling me into his office. I took a seat. Nothing's changed, Silva.
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It's going to be hard to find a replacement. He strolled over to one of his plants and was inspecting one of the leaves. I eventually worked up the nerve to cut off the awkward silence. Can I go home now? My shift's over. He broke out of his trance and walked over to his desk. In the top drawer, he pulled out my phone and slid it across the table.
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It's a polite suggestion. So now you're claiming that you're so... quick-witted that you're near um psychic with your your knowing well i didn't want to have to go out and expose my psychic ability can also be wrong at points well see it's never wrong so so in other words you're just you're just guessing redeemed redeemed
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The words were cold, his piercing stare warning it in itself. Of course. I got up from my seat and made my way to the door. When do you work next, Mark? Monday. Glanced up from his paperwork. Have a good weekend. I held my breath as I walked out of the restaurant, traveling as fast as my feet would take me. Only once I left the parking lot did my nerves return to normal. I was free.
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There was only one thing on my mind. I needed to put as many miles as I could between myself and Azalea's. I could find another job, that'd be easy, but the victim's families deserved closure and Silva needed to be exposed as the monster he truly was. One problem was my phone. I tried to swipe and click the power button with no success.
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As desperately as I wanted to call the cops, the call would have to wait until I got home. The streets were quiet as I pulled into the cul-de-sac. The lights were off in every household on the block, the whole neighborhood asleep. Paulina's minivan was parked in her driveway, the side of the vehicle sending shivers up my spine.
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Pulling up to my driveway, the headlights revealed something stuck to my garage door. I parked the car and walked over to inspect the object. It was a sealed envelope labeled Mark in bold black marker. My throat tightened as I tore it open. Inside the envelope were photographs printed in a glossy finish. Each frame was crystal clear with no hazy pixel in sight.
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There was one of me jamming a body to the meal car, the bald forehead of the victim poking out of the cabinet. There was another candid shot of me pushing the cart through the hall. There were more than just photos of me at the restaurant.
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There were shots of me walking around the neighborhood, pictures of my ex-wife and her daughter at the mall, photos of my mother and father watching television in their home, their bodies comfortably lounging on the sofa. My heart was beating at a dangerous pace as I flipped through the stack of photos. Something else was crammed to the bottom corner of the envelope.
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When I pulled it out, I gasped. It was the paper note I had written to Julie. In my missing handwriting, it read, There are bodies in the dish carts. Call 911. In utter shock, I dropped the contents of the envelope. The photos scattered across the concrete, floating away in the wind. I dropped to my knees, quickly stuffing the contents back inside.
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Some of the photos were traveling towards my neighbor's lawn in a carefree gust of wind. I scurried across the drive pad to collect them, glancing up at the sleepy suburban neighborhood, the place I had called home for decades. It suddenly didn't feel so homely. One of the photos that was carried across the lawn had flipped over.
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There was writing in permanent marker on the back that read, Welcome to the family. See you on Monday.
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End of part two. Oh, buddy. This is flowing really well.
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Yeah, but it's supposed to look, it's like a kind of speakeasy, like, you know, fancy underground stuff. But yeah, if he does any merch that's like Azalea's cookout, like make it look like a steakhouse, you know, like Azalea's or whatever. I would 100% rep that anywhere you want it. It's so fun. The premise is awesome. Why hasn't this been done before?
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The closest thing I can think is the menu, but that was a one-off everyone's dying tonight kind of story. This is like the whole business is killing and disposing of bodies for rich clientele.
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No, no, that British pull was... The more I think about that, the more the British thing doesn't make sense because the whole point was like, oh, this one person's British, but because you made everyone British, it ruined that part of the story.
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Within the story, I am willing to say like, um, What if all of the people that were seen, like, interact with it and stuff like that, like... what if there's enough people willing to cover up? What if the family is so powerful that they're able to make up cover stories for these dead people? You could also like put the body somewhere else away from the restaurant, stuff like that.
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Yes. Yeah. Yeah. To some degree. So I think that, um, the, uh, Okay, so for one, I'll say maybe I was a bit too harsh on our main character because it seems like as soon as he got away, he was like, how do I call the police? How do I let these people's families know? Seems a bit more virtuous than I said.
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What I'm saying is now if he goes back to the restaurant and stuff, it's different because they've threatened his ex and his kid. They've threatened his family and stuff like that. So now it's a different ballgame than just virtue.
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Yeah, yeah. I think he's going to justify it a bit. We'll see. So with that, part three, the neighbor. The comfort of my home did little to calm my nerves. The doors were locked, but the damage had been done. Silva was watching. He'd been watching for God knows how long, tracking myself and my closest loved ones in order to ensure everything was kept in the family.
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The photos were a clever insurance policy, a weapon to wield if things went south. Now I was stuck under his thumb with my real family within his crosshairs. What a difference a day can make. Not even 24 hours ago, I was just a lowly server. Now I was sitting in the dark, trawling through the shady corners of the internet, hunched over my laptop in my pajamas.
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I scrolled through my internet tabs, each one more incriminating than the next. Where do I buy a burner phone? How do you know you're being stalked? How much jail time for the possession of a dead body? Maybe the police would believe my story. Maybe if I showed them where the bodies were, maybe if I could get my hands on the security footage, this could all end.
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I could go back to living a normal life. But maybe they wouldn't. And who was I kidding? Life was never going back to normal. For the brief moments that I managed to doze off, all I saw were the cloudy eyes of the victims. They will never let me sleep. Every shadowy corner was a threat, concealing one of Silva's henchmen. Every creak from the floorboards made me jolt.
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Nothing felt safe as night faded away. A hint of amber broke through a gray arc of cloud before the harsh reality set in. I wasn't going to figure this out alone. I needed to talk to someone. Someone I trusted to keep quiet. Someone who had information that I didn't. Someone hiding a secret as dark as my own. someone I think I loved, screwed up as that was. It was an impossible thing to explain.
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The cold hard facts were there. I stared into her husband's lifeless eyes. I carried out her children's limp bodies, and yet here I was, still in love. The Paulina I knew was warm, inviting, full of heart. I had known that woman for years. Despite my apprehension about that evening, I still held out hope that there was something I didn't understand.
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When the sun rose and the songbirds chirped their familiar chorus, I got up from my heaps of blankets and ran a hot shower. After breakfast, I made my way over to Polina's house. The usual characters were moseying around outside. Moe from across the street was firing up his lawnmower, the purr from the engine overtaking the songbird's tunes.
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Debbie was putzing around her front yard with her little cockapoo on leash. I only made it a few steps past my driveway before I noticed that she'd had company. parked beside the red minivan was an empty squad car. Shit. I switched gears, darting towards Debbie, the self-proclaimed eclectic neighbor on our block. We stood on the sidewalk outside of her aquamarine-painted home.
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The rainbow pinwheel lawn ornament stabbed into her lawn at seemingly random locations. I dove into some polite conversation, all the while keeping my attention on Paulina's home. Ten minutes of chitchat went by with no movement from her residence. I casually asked, Any idea what's going on at Paulina's place? No idea. A hint of a smirk emerging on her face.
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She couldn't resist the delectable piece of gossip. You know, I think there's some trouble in paradise. What do you mean by that? Debbie was basically our neighborhood watch. At her age, there wasn't much else for her to do.
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She tugged on Romeo's leash, his nose deep in a pile of his own droppings.
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This was all news to me. I paused to take it in, patting Romeo on the head. That is awful. Really awful.
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So hold on. So you don't, you can't see specifically how it applies. You can just see details. Well, not all the time.
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my, my grandmother was the exact same way. She just, you know, old lady talk about stuff and she'd be like, Oh, did you hear about Eunice at church? I think she's hitting the bottle again. It's like, well, grandma, why'd you say that? It's like, she came to church last week without makeup. And I thought that was strange. Just like, all right.
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That's a bit, that's a bit high level to jump to maybe, maybe dial it back a little bit, but That Debbie's so funny. Debbie, come on now. She doubled down.
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My stomach churned knowing we were speaking about someone who was murdered. While Debbie continued her rambling about other neighbors' deplorable acts, at the corner of my eye, I saw two cops walk out of Paulina's house.
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Nice chatting with you. I wave goodbye as the vehicle rolled out of the cul-de-sac. I waited outside of Moody's back room. Underneath the humming neon sign, wondering if I was making a big mistake. A murderer and her accomplice enter a bar. It all feels like one bad joke. Something tells me I won't be around to hear the punchline. Moody's back room is not like Azalea's.
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It's a roof and four walls with a couple of kegs. It's got a flashy neon sign that you could spot from outer space. There are signs promoting their daily food and drink specials on every street corner in the neighborhood. This is a place begging for service. Anybody's service. How I got here is still a whirlwind. On Saturday, I retreated back to my house and opted to stay in.
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I figured Paulina had too much heat on her to risk any interaction. I was out of luck and out of time. But as fate would have it, Polina spotted me on Sunday on my way back from a morning jog. I was hoping the endorphins would help clear my head, but all it did was leave me exhausted. I couldn't resist her wave, and in a moment I found myself standing on her porch.
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She had a strawberry lemonade in hand and a smile across her face. Her hair sparkled in the sunlight. She looked radiant, given the circumstances. We chatted for a bit as I tussled with my attraction to her and the reality of our situations. She extended another offer to grab a drink, and in a helpless, sudden reflex, I said yes. The brain was no match for the heart. And dick.
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Yeah, I think that's what's implied by the heart, Hunter. Thank you. Sorry. We're going to get you in church. We're going to fix you. Once she arrived, she gave me a hug and we grabbed a seat in plain view of the VLTs. We watched people. What is a VLT? It's like a slot machine, right? Oh, okay. See, if I go to church, I wouldn't know that. Unlike you, deplorables.
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you step into the bear traps you can tell what you're thinking you can tell what you're gonna do yeah with this power isaiah you don't understand the complexities of how this kind of okay so here here's my point if you can if you can just pull random stuff and you don't necessarily know how to play it's like you pulled british last time because you're super bear trap for this for today's story are you getting anything
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So it is, it is a, I was curious. Yeah. We people watch chatting about the weather in the news. We discussed her vacation plans to Mexico and her current projects at work. Our first round is casual like this, like an awkward first date. Polina's hair is in a messy bun, but her appearance is far from disheveled. She's wearing a boatneck sweater, silver hoop earrings, a pair of Levi's jeans.
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This is what I imagined a night out with her to be like. This is the Polina that I know. Two rounds in, the conversation starts to get more personal. Polina asks about my history, so I told her about my divorce and how my dating life has been. I have her full attention. I can see the interest in her eyes. I really don't know what else to ask her at this point, so I just keep going on about myself.
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Three drinks in and the alcohol has washed away all of the nervous energy. Floating through conversation with lighthearted, friendly banter, she's playfully patting my arm when I decide it's finally time to chip away at her fortress of secrets. With liquid courage, it's running foolishly through my system. So I start to ask the bold questions. Questions I've been dying to ask all night.
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How are you doing, Paulina? She looks puzzled. She sips her Mai Tai through a straw. What's wrong with you? You're doing good. How about you? I lean in, my voice falling to a gentle whisper. No, I mean, how are you really doing? She puts her drink down and cocks her head to the side. How's everything with the family? She pauses, stirring her drink. Oh, they're doing well.
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That does remind me, though. I should check in with Keith. She pulls out her cell phone as I place my hand on her arm. Paulina, I know. Her eyebrows are raised. I lean in closer across the table. Yesterday at the restaurant, the cop car this morning. I can see the color slowly draining from her face. Her eyes are moist now. They glisten under the pendant light above us.
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For a moment, there's a pause. The truth hangs in the air. I don't know what you're talking about. She says, sinking in her seat. A shift of energy in the room is now palpable. I'm sorry, it's too soon. I just need to know. She glances at the exit and grabs her purse. Wait, Paulina, hear me out for a second, please. She stands up. I follow suit, reaching for her shoulder. Paulina!
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The bell above the exit door jingles as the swing is shut behind her. You dumb son of a bitch. Yeah... She murdered her husband and children, Hunter. It's Paulina, though, dude. Dude, this isn't just like a cute mom next door. This is like she killed her kids. Oh, Paulina, please. Please love me, Paulina. You're next.
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Watching and waiting. Did me and you sing that at karaoke? I think so.
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We did. I know there was that one. There was definitely Out of Touch. I know. Yeah. You know what? With the mention of Hall and Oates, I'm back in. I'm in. Yeah, exactly. See, Pauline is back in. I was like, she murdered her family. But then you brought up Maneater.
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That's what I love. Sarah Smile. That's a good one too. That was a good one. You are such a good singer. It's frustrating. After painting the tab, I drove home knowing that I shouldn't. I'm tiptoeing the line of sobriety with an empty stomach. The hard liquor and dark thoughts swirl around inside of me in an anxious concoction. I scream as I pound the wheel. Screw up, you idiot!
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It's a short route home through residential streets. The cookie cutter homes are blurs of color as I drive past. Besides the parked cars, the roads are empty. The sidewalk's bare. In my rear view, I notice a black SUV behind me. It turns left when I turn left down Teddon Road. I think I'm overreacting, so I test my theory and make another left into a nearby cul-de-sac.
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The vehicle follows me in a loop past the row of two-story homes. My chest begins to tighten. My only thought is that I can't go home. So I keep driving down Citadel Road, Citadel Crest, Citadel Circle, leaving the community. I head down McKenzie Boulevard with the SUV on my tail. Eventually, I will have to stop. I just don't know where to go.
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My heart is beating so strongly that I feel it in my skull. I figured the safest place is somewhere public, so I decided to pull into the Southside Strip Mall Walmart parking lot isn't exactly packed. There's some scattered RVs and late-night shoppers, but it's the best option available. Park near a row of cars and wait. The SUV pulls up beside me.
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The tint on the passenger side window is too opaque to see through. I only hear the opening and slamming of the driver's side door. Get out of the car! The glow from the lamppost reveals a curly-haired woman. Both arms are covered in an elaborate sleeve of tattoos. Two colorful gardens of fully bloomed flowers in an elaborate watermark style.
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I roll down the window a fraction of an inch and yell back.
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Ew! Why are you such a... Quit! Oh, my gosh. You had that one banked. You just had that on deck. I'm sorry, dude.
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These are inferences. These are all things you're pulling from the title. No, no.
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No, it's because you're sexualizing it. It's fine. Two perfectly fine... Two women want to be together. That's between them. Whatever. I don't need to come in and make it into... I don't need to fetishize it. I'm sorry. That was wrong of me. I was probably wrong. Was it wrong? You had the Colonel joke on cue. That was in your tape deck, like skip next song, ready to play. I'm sorry.
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Oh no. That's definitely what it is. They were definitely having an affair. We don't know. We don't know that for a fact. No, no, no. That, that is, that is absolute. What are you doing with Paul? That, or she's like an investigator that was trying to take down the restaurant or something like that. That, that is a hundred percent what it was. It is your, it is your, um, characterization of it.
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No, yes, that's the woman, but the only... No, okay, Hunter. The woman across the street said, I've seen this girl with tattoos. It's like horror or whatever she said. Oh, Paulina's been cheating. It was actually... Yes, Paulina's been cheating.
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Okay, yes, I was saying that is what was happening. No, no. It's not a bear trap. How do I honestly do it? It's so odd. It's scary. This is not a bear trap. Dude, I'm fucking scared of myself. If it has already happened, you were calling out something that just happened in the story.
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Yeah, you were right about. No, no. You said the thing. And I said, yes, that's the thing that happened. And then you got confused. And I said, no, the thing you originally thought would happen. That's not a prediction.
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Okay. Anyway, yes, you are right that it was an affair happening. It was the sexualization of the affair that I was jumping you for. Mm-hmm. Okay, whatever. I rolled down the window a little more, and now I noticed the distinct characteristics of her face. Dark brown hair, eyes blue eyes. Her prominent nose, tall stature. She was sitting at the table next. Mm. Mm. Mm.
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Look, just, uh, the only reason I'm attracted, look, tattoos, tall, dark hair, light eyes. The only reason, the only reason I'm attracted is because this is what my wife looks like.
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She was sitting at the table next to ours, and up close, she looked incredibly familiar. The resemblance is uncanny. Calm down for a second, I said, stepping out of my vehicle. No reason to get all worked up. We're just friends. Bullshit! You know something. I can feel it. By now, a small crowd of shoppers are enjoying the show.
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Their hands are gripping plastic bags full of groceries, their carts abandoned in the middle of the road. With a sudden interruption, the dark-haired woman that could only be Keith's sister shouts back to the crowd. I'm calling the cops. Okay. Nevermind. I was wrong. I was wrong. We were both wrong with the sun eruption.
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I had not listed bear trap, bear trap into part three. So, so you're still saying that it was an affair, but I'm thinking so.
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It's Keith's sister's looking because she's trying to figure out what happened to her brother.
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You just like it because you think they're both hot. You just like it because you think they're both hot.
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It's not a bear trap if the story said a thing happened and you say that same thing happened.
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Okay. Part four, The Last Supper. The crowd feasted their eyes on the drama ensuing. The woman who I believed to be Keith's sister had a fiery look in her eyes. I felt horrible for her family, but she was looking for answers to questions that I just couldn't provide. Silva had me backed into a corner with jail time or collateral damage as the only ways out.
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Her hands were shaking as she placed her phone to her ear. Stop for a goddamn second. There was a gasp from someone in the crowd. The woman resembling Keith nearly dropped her phone.
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The woman glared back, eventually taking the phone from her ear. She placed it in her palm, squeezing it violently as she screeched. Took a step back, as did some of the closer shoppers. She did something to him. She declared tears welling in her eyes. I know it. She pointed her finger at me, her body trembling.
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Okay, so how is that bear trap looking now? It is, in fact, just his sister.
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There was silence for a moment as the woman paced around the lot. She eventually began to sob as she found a seat on the curb, her face shielded by her tears. The crowd slowly dispersed. Once she calmed down, we were able to make a proper introduction. Her name was Viola. She confirmed that she was Keith's baby sister.
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Keith was her only sibling, and she became concerned that he didn't respond to her text messages Friday evening. When he no-showed for their brunch plans Saturday morning, that's when she really began to worry. Paulina had recently decided the family was going to move out of the country with little warning or consultation provided to Keith. This was how Paulina was.
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The qualities that made her fun were also what made her dangerous. Keith had become fed up with her unpredictable nature. The extended family was worried that with the move, they would never see their children again. All I could offer were some hollow words of encouragement. Remain calm and hope for the best. I could tell they did little to soothe her soul.
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We eventually said goodbye, the lies tossed around in the pit of my stomach knowing that the man was never coming home. With one bomb carefully disused, I went home to think about the major issue at hand. My plan to build a closer relationship with Paulina had gone up in flames. There was no new information garnered. The opportunity had been wasted.
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I suffered one more sleepless night, and before I knew it, the weekend was over. In the morning, I peeked out my window. Paulina's driveway was empty. On my way to work, I saw Viola walking down the street with a small group of people. They were maybe three blocks from my house, and her hand was a stack of papers.
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At one of the nearby light posts, I pulled over to look at what they were taping to the metal structures. Help bring Keith Bargalo home. Keith Bargalo, a loving husband, devoted father, and upstanding member of our community, has been missing since Friday, April 30th.
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There is a cash reward for anyone who can provide information on his whereabouts or the whereabouts of his wife, Paulina, and their two children, Riley and Colton. Help us bring them home. Please call the number below. The photo on the flyer was a family portrait taken at a nearby park. The image haunted me all the way to the restaurant.
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There was the usual rush of workers when I arrived at Azalea's. They were scuttling through the halls, heading to the nearby change rooms, and preparing the tables for the upcoming dinner service. As I left the front of the house towards the change room, I caught a glimpse of Silva. He was walking at a brisk pace down the hall with a couple of other associates.
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It was only a quick flash of his black and silver crew cut. It was only the back of his head, but that's all it took for me to suddenly feel cold. Dwayne was dwaddling around by his locker with a couple of the other cooks when I entered.
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Playfully swatted one of the cooks in the belly before leaving. Let's go get that money. This would be you. If you had to dispose of bodies for the mob, you'd be like, making that bread, working at a bakery. Yeah, making that bread.
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Like, like it's a football game every day. All right, we're going to get out there and make some good plays and get some good. Let's get, let's get that money. Make some people happy. Made that bread.
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Not even a hint of like thought about what you're doing. You're like, I'd shove my mother in here if you tell me to at this pay. I stared blankly at the lockers as flashbacks of Friday entered my brain. The contorted body stuffed in the dish cart, the squishing of bloated flesh, the cracking of bones. There was no way in hell I was ever going back to buzzing.
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Silva and I would need to have another word. After I changed into my uniform, I went to help set the tables and fold some last-minute cutlery. I hoped to cross paths with Silva. He was usually running up and down the halls leading up to the service, but today I wasn't so lucky. His office door was locked and my knocking went unanswered. Lana gave me a wave down the halls.
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I had already seen Greg at the lockers and passed by Steph and Kelly wrapping cutlery. By my count, we were fully staffed for servers and that number excluded me. 20 minutes to go before service, I began to panic. I asked Mia, the hostess, if she had seen Silva. She shrugged. Sorry, haven't seen him. Does he have any appointments? I asked, scratching my head.
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She scrolled through the tablet and shook her head. As I approached the hostess podium, I noticed something resting on the shelves behind it. It was a cell phone with a glittery phone case and a distinct Hello Kitty tassel attached to it. Julie working tonight?
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She's dead. Yeah, she's 100% dead. Oh, her phone's there? That's so weird. Wow, good catch. It's been there the whole day. What the fuck are you talking about? She must have missed that. Thanks, Mark. What would we do without you? Once I left, I began to snoop around the podium. On the bottom shelf, there was a black purse. It had a matching tassel.
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Stupid cat seemed to be waving at me from the ground. I froze. Her wallet, her keys, everything was in the bag. I remembered the note, and suddenly my limbs felt weak. I jumped at the only logical conclusion. Julie never left. So, congratulations, Mark. You killed Julie. Bear trap. Wait, what do you mean bear trap?
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Okay, whatever. I'm not, you know what? The fader freak out. You want me to have an emotional reaction to your insanity?
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Okay, but until then, no. Because it said, oh, her phone's there. Thanks, Mark. Like, that's such a clear, like, she's dead, right? You don't get it when two sentences later it confirms for us that she's dead. Okay, whatever. I wandered down the halls, rummaging through the storage rooms in the kitchen and the dish room. I opened any door I walked past, searching for signs of Julie.
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My heart beat aggressively in my chest with every failed attempt. There's no doubt that Dwayne was looking for me too. My watch told me that the dinner crowd would be arriving any minute. I felt a cold hand grab my shoulder from behind. I flinched. Jeez, Mark, relax. Lena laughed. They're gathering everyone together in room one. I followed her down the empty hallway.
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Monday nights were always our slowest, but the complete absence of foot traffic was very concerning.
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When we arrived, a bald, burly man held the door open. He was a familiar face, someone I seldom saw this deep inside the restaurant. He wasn't an employee, as far as I knew, just some sort of supplier of ingredients and various cooking supplies to the restaurant. You could feel the heat coming from the crowd before you even entered the room. There were too many people for the cramped space.
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The air was musky as employees seated across the long table looked aimlessly across the room. Those that weren't early enough to nab seats were standing in a line along the walls. On top of the table were beautiful arrays of mouth-watering appetizers. Bacon-wrapped prunes, bellini with caviar, beef tartare, and cheese fondue.
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The strange man with squinty eyes was pouring shots of alcohol out of many liquor bottles while the bald man from the doorway followed him towards the table holding a bottle of wine. He passed around the glasses to everyone. Wine or liquor? The squinty man asked. Through pursed lips, I replied.
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It sounds like you're doing an Asian voice because it said squinty eyes. No! That's what I'm trying to do. That's what I'm trying to do. What are we doing, man? There you go. Okay, that's better. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Throwing that on there. You have to be like, come on, we are celebrating. That's German. Okay, that's better than the direction you were heading. Sorry, dude. Straight up.
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Straight off a cliff. I have... Sorry, dude. Sorry if it wasn't good enough for you. Damn. I hesitated for a moment, then pointed towards the bottle of red that the bald man was holding, poured a generous amount, and handed me a glass. Is this everyone? Yes, the room. A couple people nodded their heads in assurance.
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Lana and myself share puzzle looks. I've never seen this man before.
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While Sergio spoke, I began to scan the room. There's still no sign of Julie, or better yet, no sign of Silva. I cling to my glass against Lana's and a few other employees in my vicinity, holding the brim of the glass to my lips. Some of the waitstaff and hostesses downed their drinks and were nibbling at the finger food.
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Some of the line cooks and junior chefs were pouring themselves another round with delighted smiles across their faces. This was the first team-building event in all my years at the restaurant, so many of the workers seemed to be making the most out of the occasion. But those that knew better held their ground. Dwayne held his full glass to his hip with a stern expression.
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Elsa was sitting at the table, her chef hat flopping out of her pocket, her glass untouched. I'd seen too much death to enjoy the offerings. Not an ounce of alcohol was going to hit my throat. You should try the tartar, Plano whispered. It's delectable. I smiled, wine glass still to my mouth, as I eyed the exit. I slowly shuffled towards the door as the speech continued.
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The doors slowly creaked open, sound lost amongst the celebration.
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Excitement slowly shifted into nervous apprehension. Do not worry. Sergio assured the crowd. You will all be welcomed back with open arms.
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The dim light sparkled off the chandeliers in an iry dance as I strolled through the halls. I walked past the foyer, into the kitchen, and then down the grungy, abandoned hallway. With everyone preoccupied with the party, it gave me an opportunity to go digging for some answers. As I made it closer to the elevator, I detected movement. My walk turned into a run as I saw a marred and slinky figure.
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The door to the elevator was slowly closing. I pounded my feet into the concrete and sprinted as fast as I could. With an outstretched hand, I managed to activate the sensor just as the door was closing. What the fuck are you doing? He barked. I grabbed him by his scrawny neck and pinned him to the back of the elevator. Take me down, now! He flailed and sent a powerful kick to my stomach.
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I noticed his hands were coated in a thick layer of blood. Wheezing and clutching my midriff, I yelled, "'Take me to the bodies, you scum!' We grappled with each other in the hallway. He managed to clip me on the side of the head with a shot that made me wobble. With gritted teeth, we both struggled for control. I wrestled with him, holding his body close to mine as I tried to gather my composure.
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The dim light from the elevator was sparking like little flashes of lightning. The room was spinning, but somehow, with a sudden burst of energy, I managed to connect with a short jab. It stunned Martin long enough for me to push him into the wall. He went blind, his head hitting the corner of the wall's exposed brick. There was a deep thud, and then his body collapsed to the floor.
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A small trail of blood trickled out the sides of his head, forming a tiny puddle on the floor. I scrambled to his body, rummaging for his access key. There were sounds coming out of me that I'd never heard before. Uncontrollable sobs, moans of sorrow. I found the card in his back pocket and booked it for the elevator.
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We are now back to the episode. how can i help you is that how you think that the um i i don't this is our narrator talking so whatever voice you come up with is going to be the narrator for the rest of the story well is it a girl or a guy uh i i don't know it's it's a waiter normally they don't specify in these stories but waiters a man and a waitress is a woman right
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As the door began to close, I noticed the flashing red light coming from the ceiling. The camera was pointed in my direction. The odor was crippling. It crept up the shaft and seeped through the cracks of the elevator doors. The elevator carriage rumbled as I slowly descended into the unknown. The doors eventually slid open to reveal what looked like an ongoing construction project.
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The framing and some of the drywall had been completed, but the floor was packed dirt. Darkness seemed to cover large sections of the room. There were lights strung up on the ceiling, but there was little done to mask the smell. If there wasn't a pile of gas masks laid out by the entrance, I surely would have vomited. I followed the hanging, glowing orbs down the old tunnel.
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It only took a couple of paces before I saw the industrial-sized fridge. It was a massive stainless steel house with a large sliding door. I shivered as I entered the unit. Inside were shelves and shelves of plastic bags. Hearts, livers, lungs, intestines, vials of blood. Names of either the victims or the new recipients were written in permanent marker.
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Everything was sealed, labeled, and organized. Tiptoe deeper into the cold room, only making it a few more steps before I finally screamed. Silva was rigid and face up, lying on top of a pile of bodies. Thousand dollar suits and flowing gowns were all lined with speckles of frost. Silva's eyebrows were covered in an icy white, his expression frozen in a look of terror.
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The bullet wound was right through the center of his skull. That moment I understood that this was so much more than a murder-for-hire operation. It was so much more than a restaurant. Everything seemed to turn a profit. I ran out of the cool room and started pacing outside of the unit.
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I wanted so badly to go back up the elevator to make my way to safety, but I knew I was on the cusp of the secrets. There was still so much I didn't know potentially down the hall, so I foolishly pressed forward.
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As I went further into the... For what I got to say, that is so cool that Silva was just a piece in the operation. You know, like he's made to be the big guy, but it's like, no, he messed up by letting you get too far. So he had to be taken care of. As I went further into the basement, the smell intensified. The piles of bodies were in plain sight. If you could even call them bodies anymore.
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I removed my mask just in time to unleash a violent wave of chicken casserole. Their stomachs were fleshy, gaping holes hacked away with little left of their insides except for the rib cages and bone that held the remaining bits of skin together. Their faces had no eyes, just black holes carved out of the now rotting flesh.
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The maggots were little white dots in a sea of decomposed skin, festering all through the crevices of what was left. The dirt floor had clearly been disturbed in numerous places. Something drew me towards one of the hands dangling from the middle of the pile. It was dainty, the fingernails painted in a pastel pumpkin. The flamboyant color palette looked familiar, like something Julie would wear.
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As I pulled, heaps of limbs and serrated bones toppled from the top of the tower of bodies. Roves of beetles and blowflies buzzed from all the commotion. I recoiled, losing my footing on some loose sediment. In the corner of my eye, I spotted the meat grinder at the end of the room. The piece of machinery was hiding in the shadows, kept from plain sight.
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As I got closer, I could see that the thing looked polished to perfection. Sinister thoughts flooded my brain regarding its purpose. Some off-menu items for an extra cost. A special order of beef tartare. I dry heaved, nearly losing my lunch once again. I couldn't experience the gruesome scene any longer. These were all of Azalea's deepest, darkest secrets.
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Secrets that some of the family members took to the grave. I needed to get out of here before I suffered the same fate. There was a thundering sound of footsteps and scraping coming from the roof. I made a mad dash for the elevator. I strode past Martin's body down the hall and made it through the empty kitchen. I managed to round the corner of the foyer before I heard shouting. Hey, stop!
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The bald man was wheeling one of the dish carts out of room one. Dwayne was wheeling another behind him. I took the flight up the stairs, hearing the pounding of ominous footsteps behind me. I managed to exit the parking lot before they were able to get close. Okay, so... They killed all the servers, right? Because they had to move locations or whatever.
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So it's like, hey, we're shutting down in case any of you know anything, except for people like Dwayne who are already like in too deep. We're going to kill everyone. And then we put the bodies and we're going to dispose of them. So it seems like they were killing people as a hitman service. But then, as he said, everything turns a profit.
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So they were also in the organ trade and they were also in the business of if someone wanted to eat human flesh, they had like that option with the meat grinder. But most of the body pieces they couldn't use were just left to rot in the basement.
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Yeah. Yeah, they've made the money here. Like I said, everything at a cost. Everything turns a profit. I told you at the start of this that I was a nobody. I was just a lowly server. I was no mastermind. I was no criminal, despite what the security tapes may show. There was no plan. There was nothing. Just a series of events that unfolded after that evening.
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There was no gun, although I did think about this often during my fits of insomnia. I would have been too much of a coward to even pull the trigger. But if anyone deserved a bullet in their brain, it was Silva. It would have been satisfying to do the honor, but the end result was the same. There was no fake passport. I just didn't know where to get one. There was no burner phone.
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I just never had the gumption to follow through. In the end, there was just me and the open road. My first stop was a small town bank in the early morning. I withdrew all the cash that I could and loaded it into a suitcase. Kept driving, only stopping to load up on fuel or to reload on convenience stores, food, and energy drinks. I kept going for a few days until I reached the Mexican border.
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I prayed they would let me through, and for some reason, my prayers were answered. The Azalea family always proved to be a tight-lipped bunch. There's a beach along the coast just outside of a small town. I remember the recommendation from a dear friend. It's off the beaten path and far away from tourists. I think the name was El Decembo or maybe Decemboque. My Spanish was never the greatest.
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It just seemed like a good place to stop. The water was crystal clear and the beach was quiet. I sat in the sand just in time to watch the sunset. There were a few other Mexican teenagers splashing around in the water and a handful of fishermen dragging around empty nets across the beach. There was one other person, the only other gringo that I've seen.
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Her hair is an unusual midnight black for her face complexion, and her smile seems to glimmer in a familiar way. She's all alone and out of place. Most of all, she looks happy. Gazing at her sprawled out on the beach towel for some reason, I felt the need to make a call. I dialed the number, the same one from the poster. Hello? Viola? Uh, yes, who is this? It was her. You were right all along.
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And I tell her everything I know about everything. The sun dips below the horizon. The sky suddenly a murky marmalade. It's harder and harder to see with every passing second. My mind wanders into the dark recesses of my brain towards the memories I've tried to forget. I think about my time at Azalea's and how great the job was before it wasn't. I think about my co-workers. I think about Julie.
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Yeah, yeah. Azalea's Cookhouse is a family restaurant, but please don't bring your family. Part one, Hunter, bring us in. Azalea's Cookhouse, how can I help you? I despise the inflection in my voice. The fakeness irked me to my core, but it was all part of the job, so I took my customer service seriously. Thank you so much for watching.
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I think about how close I came to death. I think about the others who weren't so lucky. I think about the life I took and the one that got away. The beach is empty now. The fishing boats are all secured and hitched to the dock for the evening. My vision's hazy in the shadows of the night, but I still hear the playful frolicking in the water and the soothing splash of the waves against the rocks.
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At this moment, I am sure it's the most beautiful place in the world. It's a matter of time before they find me. Whether they track my cell signal from the nearby towers or they find the footage from the restaurant. Tomorrow, I'll be in another town and another after that for as long and as far as my money will take me.
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For now, I sit, take in the crashing of the waves, avoiding the dead, restless eyes that will come from me in my sleep.
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Uh, great story. Really enjoyed it. Great. No sleep. Fine. Very great. No sleep. Fine.
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I think the kaleidoscope, the kaleidoscope, that would be one.
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I think the only, we should also, it's a, It's also an anthology horror series, so if we can get in contact with him when it comes out, we should definitely do one of the stories from it, I think. Yeah, we should just make sure. That'd be cool. And you can sign up for his newsletter to get updated and new short stories from him as they come out because this story banged. I liked it a lot.
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Yeah, but it's also at the same time, it's like you either end with our main character dying or you end with... Because he saw everything. Like he goes to the basement and he sees what they're doing with the bodies. He sees that Silva's been killed. This is a part of a much bigger operation that he can't hope to deal with. So he just escapes. And then I did...
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At the end of part three, whenever Keith's sister comes up, or whatever his name was, when his sister comes up, Viola, and is like, I know something happened to my brother, and she's emotional and everything. I was like, I don't really know if that was a good touch. But then at the end, after he's done everything, that's like his last piece of redemption.
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Even if I can never go home, even though my life as I know it is over, I'm going to call her and say she was right to hopefully get the word out. That's like a lifeline.
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Yeah. I had this thought near the end where I'm like, I hope this doesn't become like when he goes to the basement, I hope it's not like, like Silva's the devil. Yeah. There's like a demonic sacrifice. Yeah. It's like, and there's these creatures are praying. I was afraid to go that route, but no, it's just like a body, like body part trading circuit and broadened bodies.
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So I like how, like you said, how it stayed grounded. I really like all the story beats I took. I thought it was interesting how like Paulina is kind of like, Oh, she's cute. And then she's a part of this whole world. And he tries to like justify it to himself, but it doesn't work out. And he has to escape. Like I I'm really happy with the decisions it took. I thought it was great played out.
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I really loved the writing style. The writing style was awesome.
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I think it's just because it is an interesting story. Like, the concept is so unique and cool that it's like, oh, well, you could do this, this, this with it. And I think that's just a symptom of... Like having such a creative concept for a short story, the naturally you're going to be like, oh, well think of all these other things you could do with this concept. Yeah.
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Because it's a unique concept. So I think it's more so a statement of he had a really good idea that I want to see more stuff done with it. I want to see more direction. I think there's going to be a lot of people.
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Or you could do an entire anthology series out of different stories from Azaleas, right? Yeah.
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The tricks of the trade were simple, but you'd be surprised how many college kids wandered into the industry with zero regard for service. It was an epidemic, as far as I was concerned. Pretty faces were always welcome, but seldom did they stay. It wasn't like this was my dream job, either. I used to have real ambitions, too. Played in a rock band. I had a marriage.
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Do that. And most importantly, Hunter was wrong about his prediction.
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Sure. Yeah. Have you quit recording? Okay, Hunter was wrong and I was right. And he's also, he does this a lot. He'll say things are going to happen and they don't happen. And he has them cut from the recording in the end. But he's lying. If Hunter ever tells you anything is right, he has gone back and posted, edited it. And he lied. He lies all the time. He's full of lies. But yeah, great story.
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Those things, well, I wish they were as simple. When everything went up in flames, when it all started to slip away, the restaurant industry was always there. And to them, I was valuable. Plays like Azalea's was a great gig. They demanded a pristine level of service or your ass was on the curb. But for what you got paid compared to other places, I felt the trade-off was worth it.
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I recognized the silky voice right away. It was a twist of warm friendship mixed with passionate lover. Oh, fuck. Let me reread it. No, no, no, no, no. Let me reread it. No, no, no, no. I think that needs to be the voice.
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Yes, there you go. Okay. It was elegant and upbeat. It was Paulina. I didn't take my neighbor for the type to dine at this kind of establishment. And while it was only her voice, she could have been a hundred miles away. It was enough to send me down into an anxious tailspin. Isn't he married? No, no. He had a marriage. He had a marriage. Okay. And a rock band.
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Hold on. CC's pizza. You don't bring your family. No, not the whole point of that was no, no, no, no, no. Well, like a little, there's a CC's in your house and I loved it. It was a family. It's a family restaurant. Please don't bring there's a little arcade corner in the back.
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Like it's, he lost out on that stuff, but this restaurant is the one thing that's been dependable for him. Yeah. Yeah.
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Sorry, ma'am. That's not a problem. And for how many? Four. In less than a minute, it was confirmed. Oh, my God. She was scheduled for tomorrow at 7 p.m. This is the stuff that I was saying. Okay, go ahead. Sorry. For one, the audacity to do it in the first place, to just read the story ahead and say it's a premonition. But then the further audacity to call it out. What is the next line, though?
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Her voice had reduced me to a teenager again. Visions of her watering her flowers and walking her dog occupied my mind for the rest of the evening.
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Who's another YouTube and really any of the only guys would probably do it. Yeah. Who's another animator that I could like sell you for?
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
You, you, you say that, but every time someone like talks about me anywhere online, they're always like, where's Hunter? Why isn't this post about Hunter? I'd rather be talking about Hunter or whatever. I saw one that was brutal the other day. Look, look, I saw one that was brutal the other day. There was a guy that someone had posted. I subreddit Instagram somewhere.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
It was like, these two are some of the best personalities on YouTube. And then someone commented as like, well, one of them's a YouTube personality. The other one's a guy who got lucky with an iceberg trend. And I was like, ow, that was rough.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Mm-hmm. Right. So I just like to... There's one guy. So there's one dude. He has like... I'm not going to say his name because I don't need people to know, but he has like eight followers on Twitter. Complete nobody, right? Yeah. Every time I post a video announcement, after a couple hours, he will quote tweet... the tweet I made announcing it and say either good video or bad video.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
And he never gives any further explanation. That's haunting. He never says why or anything like that. That's legitimately haunting. But my algorithm, I think because I've looked at his page, it always shows me what his reaction is. Every time I post a video, he'll just be like, bad video. And I'll be like, ugh! Why? Dammit! Explain. Like, yeah.
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Azalea's Cookhouse Is A Family Restaurant
Bad für dich. And I'm over here like, damn you, Wilhelm. Like, shaking my fist at nothing. Augustus! It's like the kid from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory just eating chocolate. It's literally just Augustus Gloop just covered in chocolate watching the videos. What is he planning? I know he's scheming something over there. Yeah, it's just random. What sticks you? What does it?
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Hey, Isaiah Khan from Las Vegas. Can we talk about the collusion among hot dog companies and hot dog buns? Hot dogs are sold in a pack of ten. Buns are sold in a pack of eight. Ich komme und gehe. Sag mir alle Wege, die du brauchst. Ich bin nicht lange hier.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Listen, boys, we got to talk about Jägermeister, a go-to guy at home, at the bar, or maybe even out at the rink. A drink so ice cold, it deserves its own video tribute at every sports bar across North America. No trash talk, no running its mouth. We love the confidence on them. Jägermeister sent us an ad to read on the show, but they're so confident they said, don't do any of that normal ad stuff.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
The one that has no choice but to consider running for president. Not Steve Smith.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
You have left me with no choice but to consider this. It's incredible. You've got a choice. No, I've got no choice but to consider running for the highest office in the land. Which Steve Smith are you talking about? The wide receiver.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Yeah, fair enough. There's three different ones here. Well, that's what the A's for. And that's what the senior's for as well. Steve, that's what the tricky's for.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
I'm going to try to find out if the Miami Herald readers actually gave him the nickname. I asked artificial intelligence, why is he nicknamed Tricky? And apparently he had deceptive ball handling skills and he had a signature move. Now, AI can be wrong. It's wrong often. He had a signature move that people referred to as, oh, that's the Steve Smith move.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Roy, you know that moment when you're out watching puck and the server comes over and asks the table, what can I get you guys? And everyone freezes up. You know what you should do? What should I do, Mike? You've got to have some confidence. Or as Jagermeister calls it, shotfidence. I love it. If everyone's struggling, take control. Just order for the whole table.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
A round of ice cold Jagermeister shots. Damn, that's cold. Because apparently, we've all been drinking Jagermeister wrong. Well, how should we be drinking it? We should be drinking it ice cold. At zero degrees Fahrenheit. Roy, like Jagermeister, what else is infinitely better ice cold? The sport of hockey, Mike. It's in the name. It's ice hockey. Ice hockey. Yes. Regular hockey, not as great.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Not floor hockey. Ice hockey, real good. Damn right. Wherever you are, if you're hanging with friends or at the bar, call the shots. Cheers with ice cold shots of Jagermeister.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Drink responsibly. Jagermeister liqueur, 35% alcohol by volume. Imported by Mass Jagermeister U.S., White Plains, New York.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
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Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
You know, I think, you know, I don't know. I just was... I have watched the Smitty in action. Steve Smith did a breakdown on NBA TV. By the way, all the old analysts were wearing their game jerseys there. But pants also. Yeah, it was weird. Isaiah Thomas, who laments how LeBron dresses, he was wearing business pants, but he was wearing his jersey with no sleeves and a lot of upper arm skin.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
But the Smitty move... It concludes with him saying, now, it's a bit of a carry. It is tricky, but it only happens on the left side of the floor when you're up by the corner three. You travel. You carry the ball with you. You do a little skip, and then you power to the baseline, and you take it all the way to the cup with a slam dunk.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
But it is a very deceptive move, which plays into the nickname down.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Is that good? It's a lot. That's a lot of possible nicknames.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
I think that's different than entries, though. I think 852 possible nicknames were submitted. As far as votes go, it's probably much greater than that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
but also going to kick my ass.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Yeah. With a game that's tricky.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
I mean, how else would it be if you're 5'6"? You've got to have some tricks up your sleeve.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
We know ball back here, man. Thank you. It was pointed out to me that Amin and I pretty much nailed the Wizard season when it came to a win-loss total before the season and preseason oddball special. Your boy knows ball. Congratulations. I'm a ball knower.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
We had the number one album in America on iTunes briefly.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Yes. No, I think we have. You did? Yeah. By being more unlikable than him. Stugatz wrote a book before you did? Yeah. That's a good one. That's a really good one.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
We're still around, which is a massive achievement. And not at all was in the cards for us when we started on an upstart radio station.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
I'd argue for the merits of that because it's radio.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Oh, bedding. If he gave time and temp, I'd want that too. Exactly. Even if it doesn't apply. Exactly. He's just a master of the craft.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Tell the listeners two things. Jägermeister is great, but everyone's been drinking it wrong. Damn, that's cold. Well, how should we be drinking it? They're so glad you asked. Ice cold at zero degrees Fahrenheit, to be exact. Ice cold shots of Jagermeister. That's it. That's all they want to tell you. So wherever you are, if you're hanging out with friends or at the bar, call the shots.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Rookie contract. Because they know, even at the highest end, what that would be in the WNBA because of the rookie wage scale there. That's pretty crazy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
I don't know the answer to your question.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
It's also much fewer players that you have to pay given how the league is structured and All the operating costs. It's three on three. Yeah, with all the operating costs that come with having to have an expansive roster and all that comes with that in the W. They built a campus, though.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Where do you find out where Messi's playing?
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Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
after gassing up their expectations them underperforming under delivering on that promise it sounds like a barn you'd want to be in but a hard ticket to get so that's quite the conundrum what do you do what do you do you download the game time app that's what you do you create an account and you use code dan for 20 off your first purchase terms apply download game time today last minute tickets lowest price guaranteed panoramic seat views all in pricing great ticket coverage
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Game time is what you need to be on to check and get yourself some big-time meaningful playoff basketball tickets.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Yeah, that was good, even though there was a question mark in there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Yeah, Macklin Celebrini. I would love to talk about Macklin Celebrini. I think I saw a player in a game level up. He's a very young player. He was the number one overall draft pick. Last week, I was locked in on a great sports day all across on the pitch, on the hardwood, on the ice, though. My mouth was left agape as Kaprizov and Celebrini and Erickson Eck essentially went shot for shot.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
I saw in that game – A player level up. And Macklin Celebrini would not surprise me in the least if next year he's a top five player in the league. I think he's damn near approaching it right now. He's on a bad team. They're going to have to level up the talent around him. But they have a good player in Will Smith to do that. This dude is a brilliant hockey player to watch.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
So I love watching greatness there. But turning my attention to the playoff matchups, I love the rivalry between the Grizzlies and the Warriors. It's been several years long. Remember, the Grizzlies surprisingly knocked them out of the play-in a couple of years ago. John Morant is deciding to apparently double down. Triple down. Quadruple down on this perceived villainy of his.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Cheers with ice cold shots of Jagermeister. Damn, that's cold.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
And now he's just going to keep doing the hand gestures anyways. He did one in the direction of Steph Curry just last week. So to have that added juice to Grizzlies-Warriors... given that now all of a sudden we're questioning the Warriors with these injuries popping up at the wrong time. That one, to me, has the most juice, certainly out of all the play-ins.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
I cannot wait to watch that game unfold.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Drink responsibly. Jagermeister liqueur, 35% alcohol by volume. Imported by Mass Jagermeister U.S. White Plains, New York. Now's a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Cuervo. What are you doing here?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
The Blues and the Wild are nightmare wild card matchups to draw because the Blues are playing the way that they did to close out 2019. They are playing so well right now. You do not want to face them. And the Minnesota Wild are just all of a sudden really healthy at the right time. The NHL playoffs are going to be insane.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Maybe. That's where we are. That's precisely right. Sports. And one of the few regular season games I did get to watch some was Pacers-Bucks, in which Tyrese Alliburton had an unbelievable win probability defying four-point sequence against them. And it's kind of under the radar, I guess, because the market that they play in. But as it was alluded to by Marcus Morris on first take,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
This is kind of like a blueprint series for what Milwaukee's got going on with Doc Rivers and Damian Lillard. The Damian Lillard thing, I know they won the IST, but you kind of need proof of concept here. And if they bow out in the first round... he's right to seize on, this is roster changing dynamics at play for Milwaukee.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Yeah. I didn't see a single gray hair on that NBA TV set. Yeah, there was a lot of dye on that set. And I know some of those guys are longer in the tooth. Yeah. So you've got Steve Smith on that set.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Is that the dude that Sam Mitchell gave away his home address to? Oh, yeah. I think that might be. It might be, yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
Jams, you can't let your players go out on the court looking like that. I'm like, he looks pretty great. He's 40 years old, put together. I'd be shirtless too, all the time. I'd be shirtless during the game.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
One of the best bodies I've ever seen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?
He was on the airplane shirtless? I know he's everywhere shirtless, but I think that the airplane, someone may tell him to put on a shirt.
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The Lore Lads Invite You To Ask Us Anything | Podcast Episode 167
We technically already hit.
The Lore Lads
The Lore Lads Invite You To Ask Us Anything | Podcast Episode 167
Okay. At the car wash, yeah.
The Lore Lads
The Lore Lads Invite You To Ask Us Anything | Podcast Episode 167
Ask lore. I don't know if I want to say that.
The Lore Lads
The Lore Lads Invite You To Ask Us Anything | Podcast Episode 167
Why does it sound familiar?
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Nobody Builds Wealth by Accident
Yeah, actually, I've never even thought of that. And that's a really good thought just because he already like he almost takes a more lead role in the business anyway, just with his. I don't know. He just he just always has. He's just been more kind of hands on always than me.
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Nobody Builds Wealth by Accident
And so I've actually never thought of that, you know, almost me just taking more of a backseat and just doing it as a part time or side hustle, you know.
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Nobody Builds Wealth by Accident
Exactly what you're talking about. Like me and my brother were twins. So we have a very close relationship, but there's even times where this has put a lot of strain on our relationship just because there's a, it's, Especially since we both have bills, we both have responsibilities. There's a lot kind of in the balance.
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Nobody Builds Wealth by Accident
Yeah, because I'm going to be honest, before, like, he started it initially himself before I ever joined him and, you know, quit the job I had and came and started working with him. And before I ever joined him, he was making a lot more than he's making now, which is kind of sad to admit that.
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Nobody Builds Wealth by Accident
But, you know, a year and a half, we've really grown, you know, we've just like blown it out of the park and we're like so happy and so proud.
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Nobody Builds Wealth by Accident
Awesome. So basically, I'm 18 and I got married this year in January. and I'm super young. I own a home service business with my actual twin brother, so we're both 18, and we've been running this for about a year and a half, and I just want to know if I should maybe look at getting a traditional job because there is an opportunity for right now to make more money.
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Nobody Builds Wealth by Accident
All good. Yeah. So I just want to know if maybe looking at getting a traditional job would be a better idea. Um, just for consistent income. Um, I also moved out this year, so maybe, well late last year, so basically this year, but uh, all kind of happened at the same time. So I have a lot more responsibility, a lot more bills.
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Nobody Builds Wealth by Accident
And I just want to know if maybe getting a traditional job, um, especially specifically something in sales where I'm something I'm already really proficient at, um, where I have the opportunity, you know, to make a lot of money.
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Nobody Builds Wealth by Accident
I just want to know if maybe that is a better avenue to take than continuing to grow this business, especially with the, you know, inconsistencies that can often come with small businesses.
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Nobody Builds Wealth by Accident
So, uh, right now I make anywhere between like five to 700, sometimes on a good week, a thousand dollars a week. Okay. And, um, you know, it's not a lot. Um,
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Nobody Builds Wealth by Accident
we we pretty much we split most of the income down the middle uh me and my brother and you know we leave some for uh you know bills and leads and you know all the overhead that we have for our business which is pretty minor but you personally you personally take home as your pay somewhere between two thousand and four thousand dollars a month is what you're saying yes ma'am yeah okay and it fluctuates very heavily okay but it fluctuates between the two and four thousand
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Nobody Builds Wealth by Accident
Yeah, so I got an offer like a while back for a car sales position. And then I've also done my own research and looked into different sales positions from
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Nobody Builds Wealth by Accident
um companies that are kind of similar honestly to what i've been doing already like selling so like you know roofing and you know stuff like that yeah um does does your wife work yes ma'am yeah she does what does she bring home uh she brings home so she makes uh she just recently got a raise so she makes 17 an hour and she works full time so okay per month what would you say she's gonna bring home um i would say uh
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Nobody Builds Wealth by Accident
Yeah, so we don't have a super detailed budget. We've only really been home from like our honeymoon for like three weeks. But, you know, it's roughly, you know, the bills for like, you know, rent and utilities and pretty much everything that we have to pay the company that we live under is around $2,000 a month. And then, you know, obviously gas and everything else is probably...
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Nobody Builds Wealth by Accident
a couple hundred dollars a month and we know groceries is roughly at least a hundred dollars a week. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
Nobody Builds Wealth by Accident
Yes, ma'am. Yeah. So I do enjoy what I do. Like, you know, obviously the home services itself, like the pressure washing and window washing is not really like my preferred, like, I don't think anyone really like loves, loves that. I mean, some people do, but you know, running a business, I do enjoy it, especially with my brother.
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Nobody Builds Wealth by Accident
Um, you know, we have a good time and we work hard, but you know, I also wouldn't mind, you know, Doing something else. It's always been something that's been in my head.
The Ramsey Show
Make Decisions Based on Guidelines, Not Headlines
Hey, gentlemen. Thank you for your time today. I just started a new job about nine months ago. I work for a medical supply company. And, you know, obviously, everyone's paying attention to the news. these tariffs are kind of scaring us as a business and a company. Um, and so my question to you guys today is, you know, we're on baby step two, we're taking the course right now.
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Make Decisions Based on Guidelines, Not Headlines
So we're like on our seventh or eighth week in the course. Um, and we've been paying off debts and it's been feeling great. Um, but with these tariffs, there's, you know, there's communications and stuff from our uppers or CEOs and they've been very good with us. Um, but at the same time, there's, there's no guarantee that our jobs are safe.
The Ramsey Show
Make Decisions Based on Guidelines, Not Headlines
So my question to you today is, do we continue to make these extra payments with a high concern in job security, or do we hold off on making those payments to kind of see how things go and just save that money?
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Make Decisions Based on Guidelines, Not Headlines
Yeah, yeah. So a few years ago, they moved everything from China to Mexico. So obviously that has a big impact on our business to the point of significant losses.
The Ramsey Show
Make Decisions Based on Guidelines, Not Headlines
Yeah, it's a complicated structure, but I would say probably, you know, we're set to lose, you know, 17, 18% of our business.
The Ramsey Show
Make Decisions Based on Guidelines, Not Headlines
Yeah, exactly. We'll lose most of our profits, and that's kind of my concern. Okay, gotcha.
The Ramsey Show
Make Decisions Based on Guidelines, Not Headlines
No, they've been communicating, and everything's on a table. We'll try to eat some of it, obviously, but we also, it's a medical field, so there's set contracts and fees and stuff that are already locked in.
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Make Decisions Based on Guidelines, Not Headlines
Yeah, so we have about $15,000 to $16,000 in consumer debt and then another $36,000 in student loans. And over the past five years, we've paid off probably $70,000, $80,000 with no real intensity. But now that we're taking the course, we're trying to stick to the course and do what we're told.
The Ramsey Show
Make Decisions Based on Guidelines, Not Headlines
You know, one of them is a private student loan, one's medical, and then one is a refinance that my lovely self did a long time ago.
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Make Decisions Based on Guidelines, Not Headlines
You know, we were shooting for probably two, three years.