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Something Whistles Outside Every Night at 3:03 AM | A Creepy Story · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: my name is Who. Hello everybody and welcome back to
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Speaker 1: you can call me Chris. And today we're doing a
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Speaker 1: getting really, creeping really close to Halloween. So I thought
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Speaker 1: it would be fun to read a creepy pasta. A
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Speaker 1: creepypasta in which I have not read yet. So I'm
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Speaker 1: going to kind of react as we go kind of thing.
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Speaker 1: But I thought it would also be fun to do
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Speaker 1: back and relax. Grab a little blankie and some snacks
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Speaker 1: and let's get into the creepypasta. So the creepypasta we
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Speaker 1: are reading today is called Something Walks Whistling Past My Head.
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Speaker 1: scared the shit out of me. I already scared. We
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Speaker 1: just got into this. Why do I have an alarm
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Speaker 1: at one? Does anybody else have alarms randomly set throughout
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Speaker 1: the day and they just don't turn them off and
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Speaker 1: they just go off randomly? I do. Anyway, I'm getting
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Speaker 1: off trail. Anyway, the creepypasta we're reading today is called
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Speaker 1: Something Walks Whistling Past My House Every Night at 3.03 AM,
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Speaker 1: I'm assuming, but we'll see. I'm not sure. It doesn't say.
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Speaker 1: So again, I haven't read this, so we're going to
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Speaker 1: read it together as we go. I'm going to try
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Speaker 1: to like stick to the story, but knowing me, I'm
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Speaker 1: probably going to go off on some tangents. It got
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Speaker 1: voted scariest story of 2019, most immersive story in 2019. So,
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Speaker 1: and it's written by grand underscore theft underscore motto five
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Speaker 1: years ago. So let's get into it. I need to
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Speaker 1: put on my glasses for this. So you can do
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Speaker 1: the Chris reads screens thing if you want to. Gather
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Speaker 1: round because now is Chris reads screens. Also, I want
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Speaker 1: to apologize as well that I'm still sick. So if
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Speaker 1: I sound a little nasally and stuff, it's because my
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Speaker 1: nose is clogged. So forgive me. But let's now get
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Speaker 1: into the story. Every night, no matter the weather, something
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Speaker 1: walks down our street whistling softly. You can only hear
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Speaker 1: it if you're in living room. Or the kitchen, when
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Speaker 1: they walk by, and it always starts at exactly 3-0-3.
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Speaker 1: The sound starts faint, somewhere near the beginning of the
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Speaker 1: lane near the Carson's Place. We're towards the middle of
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Speaker 1: the street, so the whistling moves past us before fading
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Speaker 1: away in the direction of the cul-de-sac. When I was younger,
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Speaker 1: my sister and I would sneak into the kitchen some
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Speaker 1: nights to listen. Mom and Dad didn't like that, and
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Speaker 1: we'd catch hell if they found us out there. but
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Speaker 1: they were never too hard on us since we always
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Speaker 1: stuck to the one big rule. Don't try to look
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Speaker 1: at whatever was whistling. That's, don't have to ask me twice, man.
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Speaker 1: I don't, nope, won't do that. I started watching horror
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Speaker 1: movies when I was like 10, so I just knew better. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: my neighborhood is a funny place. I've lived here since
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Speaker 1: I was six and I love it. The houses are small,
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Speaker 1: but well-kept, good size yards, plenty of places to roam.
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Speaker 1: There are a lot of other kids here my age,
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Speaker 1: I turned 13 back in October. We grew up together
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Speaker 1: and would always play foursquare in the cul-de-sac or roam
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Speaker 1: around from back porch to back porch in the summer.
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Speaker 1: This was a good place to grow up. I'm old
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Speaker 1: enough to see it. And there's only the two strange
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Speaker 1: things here. The night whistling and the good luck. Hmm, interesting. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so it is happening at 3.03 a.m. Okay, interesting. The
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Speaker 1: whistling never bothered me much. Like I said, I couldn't
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Speaker 1: even hear it from my bedroom. but mom and dad
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Speaker 1: don't like talking about it, so I've stopped asking questions.
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Speaker 1: My dad is a strong guy, tall and calm. He
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Speaker 1: has an accent since he moved to the U.S. as
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Speaker 1: a kid. His family, my grandparents, they're from the island.
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Speaker 1: That's what they call it. My dad, the only time
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Speaker 1: he isn't so calm is if the whistler comes up.
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Speaker 1: He talks a little quicker then. Eyes move faster. And
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Speaker 1: he tells us not to think about it so much
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Speaker 1: and to always remember that one rule, the big rule.
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Speaker 1: Don't try to look outside when the whistler goes past.
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Speaker 1: Not that we could even look if we wanted to. See,
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Speaker 1: there are shutters on the inside of every window, thick
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Speaker 1: pieces of heavy canvas that pull down from the top
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Speaker 1: and latch to the bottom of the window frame. Each
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Speaker 1: latch has a small lock about the size of what
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Speaker 1: you'd find on a diary. My dad locks those shutters
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Speaker 1: every night before we all go to bed and keeps
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Speaker 1: the key in his room. Interesting. Oh, I wonder what
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Speaker 1: it is. Is it like a demon? I can only
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Speaker 1: think that it's like a paranormal type thing at this point,
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Speaker 1: but I kind of want to just keep reading. My mom,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what she thinks about the whistling. I've
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Speaker 1: seen her out in the living room before at 303
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Speaker 1: when the sound starts. I could see her if I
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Speaker 1: cracked my door open just an inch to peek. She's
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Speaker 1: not out there often. At least I haven't caught her much.
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Speaker 1: but once or twice a month I think she sits
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Speaker 1: out there on the big red couch just listening. The
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Speaker 1: whistler has the same tune every night. It's tearful. Remember
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Speaker 1: how I said there are two odd things about where
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Speaker 1: I live? Well, besides our night whistler, everyone in my
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Speaker 1: neighborhood is really lucky. It's hard to explain, and Dad
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Speaker 1: doesn't like us talking about this part much, either, but
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Speaker 1: good things just seem to happen to people around here
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Speaker 1: a lot. Usually it's small things. Winning a radio contest,
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Speaker 1: or getting an unexpected promotion at work, or finding some
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Speaker 1: arrowheads buried in the yard. You know, the authentic kind.
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Speaker 1: The weather is pretty good, and there's no crime, and
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Speaker 1: everybody's gardens bloom extra bright in the fall. A million
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Speaker 1: little blessings. I'm gonna give her a voice. I gotta
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Speaker 1: give her a voice. I gotta give her a voice.
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Speaker 1: What should I give her? I'm gonna do a little
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Speaker 1: Texas country kind of accent, southern kind of accent. A
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Speaker 1: million little blessings. I've heard my mom say about living here,
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Speaker 1: but the main reason we stay here, why we moved
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Speaker 1: here in the first place, is my sister Nola. She
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Speaker 1: was born very sick, something with her lungs. We couldn't
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Speaker 1: even bring her home when she was born, only visit
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Speaker 1: her in the hospital. She was so small. I remember
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Speaker 1: small even compared to other babies. A machine had to
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Speaker 1: breathe for her. We moved into our house here to
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Speaker 1: be closer to the hospital. As soon as we moved here,
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Speaker 1: Nola started getting better. And the doctors couldn't figure it out.
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Speaker 1: They chalked it up to whatever they were doing, but
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Speaker 1: we could all tell that they were confused. But my
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Speaker 1: parents knew, even I knew, Nola getting better was just
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Speaker 1: another of the million little blessings we got for living
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Speaker 1: in our neighborhood. Ooh, interesting. This is, oh, I don't
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Speaker 1: even want to make assumptions at this point. I just
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Speaker 1: kind of want to read. I might not rant a
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Speaker 1: lot through this. So that's why we stayed even after
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Speaker 1: we found out that for every small miracle that happens
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Speaker 1: here every day, Now and then, some bad things happen.
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Speaker 1: But they only happen if you look for the whistler.
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Speaker 1: Don't look at the whistler! Don't look! See, our neighborhood
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Speaker 1: has a welcoming committee. Committee? Why do I keep saying that? See,
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Speaker 1: our wel- See, our neighborhood has a welcoming committee. They
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Speaker 1: show up with macaroni casserole and a gift basket and
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Speaker 1: a manila folder whenever someone new moves in. They're very friendly.
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Speaker 1: Four people showed up when we moved in seven years ago.
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Speaker 1: The committee made small talk, gave me a Snickers bar,
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Speaker 1: and took turns holding Nola. It was her first week
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Speaker 1: out of the hospital, so they were extra careful. Then
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Speaker 1: the committee asked to speak to my parents in private,
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Speaker 1: so I was sent to my room, where I still
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Speaker 1: managed to hear nearly every word. The welcoming committee told
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Speaker 1: my parents about how nice the neighborhood was. Really exceptionally.
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Speaker 1: Hard to explain, kind of nice. And then they told
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Speaker 1: my parents about the even harder to explain whistling that
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Speaker 1: happened every morning at 3.03. and ended at the tick
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Speaker 1: of 3.05. The group, our new neighbors, warned my parents
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Speaker 1: that the whistling was quiet. would never harm or hurt
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Speaker 1: us as long as we didn't look for what was
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Speaker 1: making the sound. Hmm, okay, so everybody's in on it.
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Speaker 1: That's interesting. I don't know, like if you look at it,
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Speaker 1: then that's where the bad luck comes from, I guess, maybe.
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Speaker 1: Like something bad happens to you if you look at it.
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Speaker 1: But like, what's the point of it? I don't know, okay.
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Speaker 1: This part they stressed and I pushed my ear into
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Speaker 1: the door straining to hear them. People who went looking
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Speaker 1: for the whistler had their luck change. Knew it, knew it,
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Speaker 1: I didn't read ahead. Sometimes, tragically, They die or something.
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Speaker 1: A black cloud would hang over anyone that looked. Anything
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Speaker 1: that could go wrong would. The manila envelope the committee
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Speaker 1: brought over contained newspaper clippings, stories about car crashes and
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Speaker 1: ruined lives, public deaths and freak accidents. Yes. I feel
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Speaker 1: like that was pretty obvious, though. Not everyone dies. I
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Speaker 1: heard the head of the committee tell my dad, but
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Speaker 1: the laugh goes out of him. Even if they live,
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Speaker 1: there's no light in them ever again. No presents. My mom,
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Speaker 1: I could tell she wasn't taking it seriously. She kept
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Speaker 1: asking if this was some prank they play on new neighbors.
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Speaker 1: At one point, my mom got angry, accused the committee
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Speaker 1: of trying to scare us out of our new home,
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Speaker 1: asked them if they were racist on account of my
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Speaker 1: dad being from the islands. My dad calmed her down,
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Speaker 1: told her he could tell our new neighbors were sincere
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Speaker 1: and they were just trying to help us. He explained
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Speaker 1: that he grew up hearing these kinds of stories from
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Speaker 1: his mom and that he knew there were strange things
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Speaker 1: that walked among us. Some of those strange things were
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Speaker 1: good and some were bad, but most were just different. Interesting.
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Speaker 1: It's good to have a dad that's just like, let's
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Speaker 1: hear him out. You know, that's good. But I feel
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Speaker 1: like the mom is very like, I feel like I'd
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Speaker 1: react like that. I'd be like, what the hell is
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Speaker 1: going on? After the committee left, dad went out to
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Speaker 1: the hardware store, bought the canvas blinds, the latches, and
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Speaker 1: the locks, and installed them on every window in the
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Speaker 1: house after dinner. The first night in our new house,
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Speaker 1: I crept out of my room at 3 a.m. Only
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Speaker 1: to find my dad awake, sitting on the living room couch,
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Speaker 1: holding my baby sister. My dad held up his finger
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Speaker 1: in a shhh motion, but patted the couch next to him.
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Speaker 1: I sat and we waited. At exactly 3.03, we heard
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Speaker 1: the whistling. It came and it went, just like our
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Speaker 1: neighbor said. The whistling returns each night and we never look.
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Speaker 1: and we enjoy our million little blessings every day. Nola
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Speaker 1: breathes on her own, and she's grown into a strong,
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Speaker 1: clever girl. My dad even joined the welcoming committee. We
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Speaker 1: don't get new neighbors often. Why would anyone want to leave?
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Speaker 1: But when a new family moves in, my dad and
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Speaker 1: the committee bring them a macaroni casserole, a gift basket,
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Speaker 1: and the manila folder. I can always tell by the
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Speaker 1: look on my dad's face when he comes back if
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Speaker 1: the family took the committee seriously, or... if we'd be
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Speaker 1: getting new neighbors again very soon. Ooh, everybody's dying. That's crazy.
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Speaker 1: Oh man. Yeah. I mean, what else could you do?
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Speaker 1: You know, all you could do is say like, Hey,
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Speaker 1: don't look outside. Otherwise bad things are going to happen.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't, I don't know. As a kid though, I'd look,
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Speaker 1: I'd look for sure. I'd be dead. Not long ago,
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Speaker 1: a family moved in directly next to us. The previous owner,
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Speaker 1: Miss Maddie passed away at age 105. She lived a
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Speaker 1: good long life. Our new neighbors seemed like they'd fit
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Speaker 1: in just fine. They believed in the welcoming committee, took
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Speaker 1: my dad's advice about locking the shutters since they had
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Speaker 1: a young child of their own. Whatever newspaper clippings were
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Speaker 1: in the manila envelope, whatever evidence, my dad never let
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Speaker 1: us see. But I imagine it must have been awfully
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Speaker 1: convincing since our neighbors got along with no issues for
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Speaker 1: the first month. One night, when our new neighbors had
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Speaker 1: to leave town, they sent their son, Holden, to stay
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Speaker 1: with us. Oh no, I'm already scared. He was 12.
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Speaker 1: A year under me in school. I didn't know him
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Speaker 1: well before that night, but as soon as his parents
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Speaker 1: dropped him off after dinner, I could tell it was
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Speaker 1: going to be a bad time. Do you know who's
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Speaker 1: always out there whistling every night? Holden asked the moment
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Speaker 1: the adults left the room. The three of us were
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Speaker 1: sitting in the den. Some Disney movie was playing idly
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Speaker 1: on the television. My sister and I exchanged a glance.
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Speaker 1: We don't talk about that, I said. I think it's
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Speaker 1: the weirdo that lives in the big yellow house on
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Speaker 1: the corner. Holden said. Mr. Tolles? My sister asked. No way,
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Speaker 1: he's really nice. Holden shrugged. Must be a psycho killer then.
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Speaker 1: I'm Holden. It's me. I'm Holden. Nola tensed. We don't
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Speaker 1: talk about it. I repeated. Let's go in my room
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Speaker 1: and play Nintendo. We spent the next few hours playing games,
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Speaker 1: eating popcorn, and then watching movies. A typical sleepover, but
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Speaker 1: I could see Holden was getting antsy. After my parents
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Speaker 1: had wished us goodnight, locked the blinds, and gone to bed,
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Speaker 1: Holden stood up from his beanbag and walked over to
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Speaker 1: where Nola and I were sitting on my bed. Have
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Speaker 1: you ever tried looking? He asked. It's nearly time. Like
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Speaker 1: most sleepovers, we'd conventionally ignored any suggestion of bedtime. I
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Speaker 1: was shocked to see he was right. It was almost
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Speaker 1: 3 a.m. I sighed. We don't. See, I can't. I
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Speaker 1: can't even try to look because my dad locks the
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Speaker 1: blinds every night and hides the key. He continued ignoring me.
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Speaker 1: So does our dad, said Nola. No, replied Holden. No,
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Speaker 1: he doesn't. You saw him do it, I said a
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Speaker 1: little sharper than I meant to sound. Holden grinned. Your
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Speaker 1: dad locks the blinds, yeah, but he doesn't hide the key.
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Speaker 1: He keeps it right on his normal keychain. So, I asked,
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Speaker 1: worried I already knew what he was going to say next.
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Speaker 1: Because I had noticed that my dad didn't bother hiding
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Speaker 1: the key anymore after all those years. Because he knew
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Speaker 1: we took it seriously. So, after your dad locked up,
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Speaker 1: but before your parents went to bed, I went to
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Speaker 1: the bathroom. And on my way, I may have peeked
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Speaker 1: into their room. I may have seen your dad's keychain
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Speaker 1: on his nightstand. And I maybe went and borrowed the
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Speaker 1: key to the blinds. Nola and I stared, and his
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Speaker 1: grin only grew wider. You're lying, I said. Holden shrugged.
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Speaker 1: You can check if you want. Just open your parents'
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Speaker 1: door and look. You'll see a keychain right there on
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Speaker 1: the nightstand. Stay here, I told both of them. Don't
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Speaker 1: move a muscle. I hurried over to my parents' room,
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Speaker 1: but hesitated at the door. If Holden wasn't lying, my
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Speaker 1: dad would be angry, beyond angry. I was scared thinking
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Speaker 1: about it. but more scared of an open window with
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Speaker 1: the whistler right outside. I opened the door, barely an inch,
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Speaker 1: and I looked in, but it was too dark to see.
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Speaker 1: Taking a deep breath, I walked into the room. Two
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Speaker 1: steps into the dark, I froze. The whistling started. And
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Speaker 1: I could hear it clearly from my parents' room. I
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Speaker 1: never realized, but they must have heard the sound every
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Speaker 1: night since we moved into the house. They never told us.
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Speaker 1: I don't think I could have slept through it. I
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Speaker 1: stood there, listening to the whistling coming closer, unsure whether
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Speaker 1: I should turn on a light or call out for
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Speaker 1: my dad. Soft sounds from the living room brought me
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Speaker 1: back to reality. Nola! I yelled, running out of my
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Speaker 1: parents' room. Holden and Nola were standing near the front
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Speaker 1: door next to the window. Holden wasn't lying. I could
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Speaker 1: see him fumbling with a lock on one of the blinds.
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Speaker 1: I heard a click. He did have the key. Oh no!
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, if Nola sees this, I got chills
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Speaker 1: right out. If Holden shows Nola, I'm a freak out.
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Speaker 1: She has a breathing issue. Oh no, she gonna die.
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Speaker 1: She gonna die. This is bad. This is bad. Bad
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Speaker 1: news bears. Holden let out a quick laugh. Nola stood
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Speaker 1: next to him, hunched up. Afraid, but maybe curious. The
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Speaker 1: whistling was right outside our house now. I think I
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Speaker 1: made a sound. Called out. I can't remember. Time felt frozen.
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Speaker 1: Clock hands nailed to the face. but I found myself moving.
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Speaker 1: I'm not fast. I've never been athletic. Somehow, though, I
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Speaker 1: covered the space between myself and Nola in a moment.
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Speaker 1: My eyes were locked on her, but I heard Holden
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Speaker 1: pull the blind all the way down so it could release.
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Speaker 1: I heard the snap of it start to raise, and
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Speaker 1: I heard the whistling just on the other side of
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Speaker 1: the window. But I had my arms around Nola, and
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Speaker 1: I turned us so she was facing away from the window.
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Speaker 1: At the same time I jammed my eyes shut, the
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Speaker 1: blind whipped open. The whistling stopped. I felt Nola shaking
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Speaker 1: in my arms. Don't look, okay? I told her. Don't
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Speaker 1: turn around. We were positioned so that she was facing
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Speaker 1: back towards the hallway and I was facing the window.
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Speaker 1: My eyes were still closed. I felt her nod in
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Speaker 1: my shoulder. I reached out with the arm not holding
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Speaker 1: Nola and tried to touch Holden. My hand brushed against
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Speaker 1: his arm. He was shaking worse than Nola. Holden? I asked. Silence.
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Speaker 1: I reached past him and gingerly felt the window, eyes
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Speaker 1: still sealed shut. The glass was cold against my fingertips,
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Speaker 1: colder than it should have been for the time of year.
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Speaker 1: I moved my hand up the window, searching for the
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Speaker 1: string to the blind. The glass began to get warmer
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Speaker 1: the further I reached, and there was a gentle hum
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Speaker 1: feeding back into my fingertips. I tried not to think
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Speaker 1: about what might be on the other side of the window. Finally,
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Speaker 1: I touched the string and yanked the blinds shut. I
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Speaker 1: opened my eyes. In the dim light leaking out from
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Speaker 1: the kitchen, I could make out Holden, pale and small,
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Speaker 1: staring at the now closed window. Holden? I asked again.
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Speaker 1: He turned towards me. and he screamed. Everything became a
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Speaker 1: flurry of motion. Light sparked life in the hall, then
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Speaker 1: the living room. My parents' footsteps thudded across the hardwood floor.
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Speaker 1: I didn't turn to look back at them. My eyes
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Speaker 1: were glued to Holden. He was pale, had bit his
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Speaker 1: lips so hard there was a thin red line of
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Speaker 1: blood running down his chin, and he'd wet himself. What happened?
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Speaker 1: My dad asked from behind me. I managed to swivel
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Speaker 1: from Holden and look back. He looked. I'd never seen
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Speaker 1: my dad scared before, but I saw it that night.
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Speaker 1: In that moment. An old, ugly terror stitched on his face.
18:21
Speaker 1: A parent's fear. Just Holden? He mouthed to me. I
18:24
Speaker 1: nodded yes. My dad let out a breath. He looked
18:27
Speaker 1: so relieved I nearly expected him to cheer. But then
18:30
Speaker 1: he turned to Holden and my dad's face changed. I
18:32
Speaker 1: wondered if he felt bad for feeling good that Holden
18:35
Speaker 1: was the only one that had looked. There was a
18:37
Speaker 1: knock at the door. We all froze. Holden whimpered. Don't
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Speaker 1: answer it, Mom said. She stood at the threshold of
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Speaker 1: the hall. I'd always thought she was a skeptic and
18:47
Speaker 1: just humored my dad about the windows and the whistler.
18:50
Speaker 1: But that night, we were all believers. I noticed that
18:53
Speaker 1: both my parents held baseball bats they must have taken
18:56
Speaker 1: from their own bedroom. The knock came again, a little
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Speaker 1: louder this time.' Please don't open the door,' Holden whispered.
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Speaker 1: My dad walked over to him, hugged him close.' We won't,'
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Speaker 1: my dad promised, still holding his bat.' Nothing is coming
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Speaker 1: in here tonight.' This time, the knocking was loud enough
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Speaker 1: to rattle the door. Holden screamed again, and Nola clutched
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Speaker 1: her arms around my neck. My mom came over and
19:19
Speaker 1: knelt down next to us, wrapping my sister and me close.
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Speaker 1: Call the police! My mom whispered to my dad. The
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Speaker 1: knocking instantly stopped. My dad looked over his shoulder at us.
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Speaker 1: Do you think... He was cut off by the frantic
19:30
Speaker 1: knocking that trailed off to the plate. Tap, tap, tap. Police!
19:36
Speaker 1: Something said from the other side of the door. The
19:39
Speaker 1: voice from outside sounded exactly like my mom, like a
19:42
Speaker 1: parrot repeating the words back to her. Oh, is it
19:45
Speaker 1: a skinwalker? Oh, I should have known this. Is it
19:46
Speaker 1: a skinwalker? Maybe it's a skinwalker that can like manipulate
19:49
Speaker 1: and like change the stuff or I don't know. I'm scared. Police,
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Speaker 1: call the police. Tap, tap, tap. Police. Oh, that's so creepy.
19:59
Speaker 1: That's so creepy. That's so creepy. It's like the mom's
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Speaker 1: voice and it's tapping on the door. I hate this. Oh,
20:05
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it though. This is great.
20:07
Speaker 1: Scare myself. Oh my God. My mom pulled us closer. Police! Police! Police! Police!
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Speaker 1: Please stop! I heard her whisper. I don't think calling
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Speaker 1: them will help. My dad said, how will we know
20:19
Speaker 1: when they're the ones at the door? The knocking came
20:22
Speaker 1: back harder than before. The door shook. Then it stopped.
20:25
Speaker 1: After a long moment, I heard the knocking again, but
20:28
Speaker 1: it was coming from our back door. We all turned
20:30
Speaker 1: together towards the back door, but the knocking immediately returned
20:33
Speaker 1: to the front door. Front to back, back to front.
20:37
Speaker 1: Loud then quiet, then loud again. Suddenly, the sound was
20:40
Speaker 1: coming from both doors at once. Big, heavy blows like
20:44
Speaker 1: a sledgehammer. Then something started rapping against all the windows
20:48
Speaker 1: in the house. Then the walls. It was like we
20:51
Speaker 1: were living inside a drum with a dozen people trying
20:54
Speaker 1: to play at once. Or we were a turtle and
20:56
Speaker 1: something was attempting to claw us out of our shell. Stop!
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Speaker 1: Holden yelled. The knocking died. I won't tell. Holden said,
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Speaker 1: staring at the door. I promise I won't tell anyone
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Speaker 1: what I saw. Just please go away. We waited for
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Speaker 1: nearly a minute. Then we heard it. A soft tap, tap,
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Speaker 1: tap coming from the window Holden had looked through earlier.
21:19
Speaker 1: Holden started to cry, sobbing like a prisoner watching gallows
21:22
Speaker 1: being built outside their cell. My dad held him, brushed
21:25
Speaker 1: his hair, but never lied to him. Never told him
21:28
Speaker 1: things would be okay. Damn, that dad is realistic as
21:32
Speaker 1: f * * k. I love that. He's like, You're
21:35
Speaker 1: probably gonna die, son. Shouldn't have done it. The tapping
21:38
Speaker 1: at the windows went on for the rest of the night.
21:41
Speaker 1: We huddled together in the living room for I don't
21:43
Speaker 1: know how long. Eventually, my mom tried to take us
21:46
Speaker 1: kids to the room while my dad stayed to watch
21:48
Speaker 1: the door. But the second we moved in my bedroom,
21:51
Speaker 1: the knocking came back. So loud it was impossible to ignore.
21:54
Speaker 1: I was afraid the door couldn't take it. We went
21:56
Speaker 1: back to the living room and the knocking stopped. Only
21:59
Speaker 1: the tap, tap, tap, on the window remained. None of
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Speaker 1: us slept that night. The tapping stopped around 7 a.m.
22:06
Speaker 1: That's about the time the sun comes up. We waited
22:08
Speaker 1: another two hours before my dad opened the blinds from
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Speaker 1: one window. He made us all go back to my
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Speaker 1: parents' bedroom first. I heard him open the door, then
22:16
Speaker 1: come back in. Okay, he told us. It's done. Holden's
22:20
Speaker 1: parents came back around lunchtime. My mom and dad walked
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Speaker 1: Holden over to his house, and they all went inside
22:26
Speaker 1: for quite a while. Nola and I watched from the window.
22:29
Speaker 1: She stuck to me the whole day, right at my side,
22:32
Speaker 1: sometimes holding my hand. When my parents came back, they
22:34
Speaker 1: looked grim, but wouldn't tell us what they said to
22:37
Speaker 1: the Holden's family. It was a Sunday, so we all
22:39
Speaker 1: spent the day together, ordered pizza, and watched movies. That night,
22:44
Speaker 1: everyone slept in my room. Nola and my mom in
22:46
Speaker 1: the bed with me, my dad in the chair he'd
22:49
Speaker 1: pulled over. There was no knocking that night, or any
22:52
Speaker 1: night since. We didn't see much of Holden or his
22:55
Speaker 1: parents for the rest of the week. But by Thursday,
22:58
Speaker 1: there was a moving truck in their driveway. Nola and
23:01
Speaker 1: I watched them pack up the whole afternoon after school.
23:04
Speaker 1: What sticks with me most is how tired Holden and
23:07
Speaker 1: his parents looked. All three had the same paler, grim
23:11
Speaker 1: mouths and lightless eyes. Even from across the street, I
23:14
Speaker 1: could tell something was very wrong. Holden and his family
23:17
Speaker 1: were gone before sunset. I remember what the original welcoming
23:20
Speaker 1: committee said to my parents when we moved in. Not
23:23
Speaker 1: everyone who looks at the Whistler dies. But even those
23:26
Speaker 1: that live have the life go out of them, and
23:28
Speaker 1: the rest of their lives are full of misfortune. A
23:31
Speaker 1: million little tragedies. I think Holden's parents must have looked,
23:36
Speaker 1: either to comfort him if they didn't believe him, or
23:38
Speaker 1: share the burden if they did. I watched Nola some days,
23:42
Speaker 1: happy and young and alive, and I wonder if I'd
23:45
Speaker 1: been slower, if she'd looked out that window that night.
23:48
Speaker 1: Would I have looked too? To comfort her? To share
23:51
Speaker 1: the burden? I'm glad I don't have to find out.
23:53
Speaker 1: We still live in that house, in that neighborhood. We
23:56
Speaker 1: still hear our whistler walking past every night. The blessings,
24:01
Speaker 1: the luck, the good things here are too good to leave.
24:04
Speaker 1: But we're careful. We don't have friends over to spend
24:07
Speaker 1: the night anymore. And my dad hides the keys to
24:10
Speaker 1: the blinds very, very well. Not that I've gone looking.
24:14
Speaker 1: Some things you just don't need to look for. Ooh,
24:17
Speaker 1: I got chills. They're multiplying. That was good. I enjoyed that.
24:24
Speaker 1: Obviously part of me is just like, oh, I wish
24:26
Speaker 1: who the whistler is or what it is exactly. Like
24:29
Speaker 1: immediately I'd assume it's like some sort of, skinwalker or
24:33
Speaker 1: like entity of some sort, probably an entity, I guess,
24:35
Speaker 1: of some sort, if it can give like good luck
24:38
Speaker 1: or bad luck, like some sort of like wraith or like,
24:40
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what kind of like
24:42
Speaker 1: demon is bad luck necessarily, but this was good. I
24:45
Speaker 1: really liked how it was written, the narration, hopefully the
24:48
Speaker 1: voices were okay and everything, but I enjoyed that. I
24:51
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