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My Wife_s Been Peeking At Me From Around Corners · INSPIRE STORY

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  We've we've done it finally, all right back to the
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  episode that further ado, Let's get in today's episode, which
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  we are talking about. My wife has been peeking at
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  me from around corners and behind furniture. It's gone from
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  weird to terrifying. People have requested this before, and I
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  wouldn't I want to say right now one of my
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  favorite titles of a story we've we're getting ready to
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  cover so far. Love the title. The title is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: I'll admit I'm a little skeptical, mainly because the audience
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  suggested this one and their track record has been questionable,
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  been burned. We have been burned a lot, and you
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  know what, for the record, I enjoyed Tommy Taffy, but
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  that was your all's fault. Any problems you have with it,
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  look in the mirror. That's who did it. But like,
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  there's a lot of creepypasta, especially like Our Slash and
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  No Sleep that have a title that's a question like that.
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  We've covered a few, right. My dead girlfriend keeps messaging
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  me on Facebook. The thing in the basement's getting better
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  at mimicking people stuff like that, right, and it can
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  be hit or miss. Now, I I'm with you. I
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  think the title's great. I think it's a good hook.
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  I am very excited for the potential, but the fact
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  the audience suggested it makes me nauseous. But we'll see
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  if they're worthy of being called our fans.
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  Speaker 1: It's true. Well, and I shared some of that rage
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  with you as well. I punched four holes in my
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  wall just because I read the comments once. So there's
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  a plethora of walls looks like a looks like a
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  goddamn beehive in my room right now with the amount
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  of holes and caverns that are. But I'm excited. I also,
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  as we've said before, I really enjoy whenever the names
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  of the stories also really heavily play into the social
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  media post aspect to it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I do. I do think that's frequent because,
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  like we've talked about before, the whole premise of our
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  slash No Sleep is it has to be conducted in
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  a way that makes sense for it to wined up
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  on No Sleep, right. Yeah, So like some of them
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  kind of try to hide it, like like they'll kind
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  of fit it in at the end, like the Left
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  Right game for example, the very end it's like I'm
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  sending this as my final message, you know, something like that.
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  Or the guy the framing device her friends who posted
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  it online is the one who received the email. And
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  there's others like this or my dead girlfriend that just
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  full bore starts with like, hey guys, I know this
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  is a subreddit. I'm going through this and you can
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  do cool stuff with it when you kind of embrace
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  the format. So again, we'll see how it goes.
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  Speaker 1: The immersion is beautiful. Well, I say without for the dude.
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  This is also by Malia Girl one three one four.
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  So I say, let's just dive in.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and dive in. There is one thing
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  I want to get off my chest before we start, though,
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  that mostly I feel like you'd appreciate. I was in
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  the city, uh this weekend, and some girl runs up
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  to me and she was like, oh my gosh, are
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  you that guy from creep Cast. Not wind to Go,
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  It's nice, not Isaiah, that guy from creep Cast. That guy,
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  that guy.
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  Speaker 1: You're the guy who does the Jeff Globebum impression, right,
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  and dude, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: If she said that, I would have been thrilled.
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  Speaker 1: I've been like, that would have been fucked up that
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  I would have actually quit the point. I would have
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  been like, I'm done, I'm actually done.
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  Speaker 2: I would have been like, that's right, that's me. No,
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  she wouldn't know that because the editor keeps cutting it.
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  At the Creep TV was the most the most the
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  Jeff Goldbloom impression got out because Caitlyn wasn't allowed to
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  touch it.
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  Speaker 1: She enjoy it, Why you could because it's the last time,
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  all right, let's get into it.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go. My wife has been peeking at me
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  from around corners and behind furniture. It's gone from weird
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  to terrifying.
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  Speaker 1: Terrifying.
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  Speaker 2: My wife, Lynn and I have been together for six
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  years and married for eleven months. Our entire history together
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  has been very normal, and never once have I noticed
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  any weird behaviors or red flax. I can't stress enough
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  how out of character this whole thing is for her. Okay,
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  hold on, I'm I'm already surprised. I will Okay, from
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  the title, I fully expected the beginning to be like, oh,
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  my wife's dead, right, and now her ghost is Oh really?
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking, and I was thinking this was gonna
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  be the trajectory of like, I, oh man, we've been
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  just so for some reason at this time, she's just
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  like a switch has happened, and then we get to
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  dive into that. I'm surprised. So you thought that. Did
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  you think this was gonna be a ghost story?
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was gonna be like a ghost story
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  or something, yeah, or maybe like maybe not ghost necessarily,
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  like skin walker kind of thing, like you know, she
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  comes from the house.
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  Speaker 1: I'm expecting it's like the the switches, She's like, oh whatever,
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  And then it's maybe something where I don't know if
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  she has been murdered and someone has replaced her, like
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  like she is in a physical state still maybe.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like my bias. For the way the
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  title was formatted, I talked about her, I was kind
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  of expecting my dead girlfriend keeps messaging me kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of does have you know, You're right, it does have
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  that kind of ring to it.
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  Speaker 2: But I but I emphasized that to say already, I'm like, oh, okay,
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  let's let's see what you have. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Lynna's very kind, intelligent, and thoughtful. She's always been the
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  no nonsense type of person. Being childish or trying to
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  scare me is not something she'd normally do. She doesn't
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  even like watching horror movies. The lame gosh you married
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  this girl?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know the far are you thinking?
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  Speaker 2: Man? Loser?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, She's kind and thoughtful, can be too kind or thoughtful?
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  Speaker 2: Roll back out that girl from pen pal who? I
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  was like, wait into who? Then I realized she was
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  a teenager and I backed off. You know whatever her
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  name was. That would have been a better option. When
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  we first started dating, she agreed to watch The Shining
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  with me because she knew how much I loved horror.
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  She was so scared that she didn't even make it
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  through half of the movie before we had to turn
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  it off. Okay, I'll stop, I'll stop breaking every paragraph,
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  but the shining halfway what happens halfway through the shining
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  that you would turn it.
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  Speaker 1: Off Jack Nicholson's hairline, that.
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  Speaker 2: You know what? Actually, that's fair, all right, continuing, She
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  isn't into anything creepy and has never been into pranks.
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  It's just not her cup of tea. And that's fine.
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  But that's what was so strange about this. It's just
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  so unlike her. I should also add that she never
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  had any mental health issues, and as far as I'm aware,
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  it doesn't run in her family. I know some people
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  are able to hide their mental health problems, but in
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  the six years we've been together, I think I had
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  seen some sort of sign.
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  Speaker 1: I love these build ups with these stories too, where
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  it's just like he the author has not said anything
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  specifically by what has happened, but it's been so many
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  things like well, she never used to scare me. I
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  also want to say that she has never been mentally
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  deranged at all. So it's just like slowly building these
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  pieces without ever actually being like, this is what she's doing.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like a guy actually coming to the board
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  for help, you know, so if you like, pretend like
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  it's not our slash no sleep, it's like, yeah, this
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  is formatted like a guy who's like, something's up with
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  my wife? Does anyone have any advice with this? You know,
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  something like that? Like I said, it embraces the format
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  right right. Two months ago, I was in the kitchen
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  making myself some coffee before work. I was ready a
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  bit late that morning and knew I wouldn't be able
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  to make it to Dunkin Donuts for my usual morning fix.
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  I took a sip of my coffee as I hurried
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  down the hall towards the front door, when I happened
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  to notice Lynn peeking at me from around the corner
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  ahead of me. I could only see her eyes and
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  a strand of her long, dark hair hanging against the wall.
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  The rest of her body was concealed behind the corner.
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  I nearly spilled my coffee when I saw her. I
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  did burn the shit out of my lips. Jeez, Lynn,
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  I said, wiping a few drops of coffee from my pants.
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  Speaker 1: You scared the shit out of me.
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  Speaker 2: She immediately popped out of you like a little kid
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  that had been caught. I heard her scurry off towards
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  the living room, and by the time I got to
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  the front door, she was out of sight.
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  Speaker 1: I'm definitely picturing her peeking, and you can tell she's
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  smiling about you. Her eyes, her eyebrows are raised.
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  Speaker 2: You know, man, I'm already okay, yeah, I'm in you know,
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  because like.
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  Speaker 1: It's just so weird too. It's like, not, it's obviously strange.
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  It's not that she's even threatening, because yeah, if I
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  first saw this, I'd be like, what the hell are
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  you even doing? And then just and then the shes
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  off because she got caught. It's there's nothing threatening. It's
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  just so surreal and odd that a grown woman would
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  do that that it does make it creepy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like so at a character, Like imagine your
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  wife doing that kind of thing, you know, like.
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  Speaker 1: That would yeah, no, I would be like, what the
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  fuck are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: It would be like, oh, no, come back here with
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  that ext what that was?
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  Speaker 1: Run off like a toddler?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't what, Like I'm imagining like my wife doing that.
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  Like if I was walking through the house and it
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  was like just an i of herbs, I'd be like no, no, no, no, no,
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  no no, we're not going to bed until we talk
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  about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no way. I'd be like, yeah, especially, can
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  you imagine like living on the day normally after that,
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  like we're like brushing our teeth at night, I'd be like, No, seriously,
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  what the fuck were you doing earlier? It's just a prank.
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  I'm like, well, don't do that no more.
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  Speaker 2: Like what I'm sorry, are you a child?
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  Speaker 1: Exactly? Were you a fucking jesture? I'm gonna get you
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  a hat with some bells on it. You freak put
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  a collar on her?
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  Speaker 2: Like, well, that sounded weird, but you know what I mean, Like, okay,
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  can take it back immediately down to that one. But no,
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  it's like it is uncanny. It's like an odd it's creepy.
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  It's it's creepy enough, you know. Yeah, it was really
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  weird and just totally out of character for her, Like
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  I said, but I also found it kind of funny
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  that she was being more playful and a little less serious.
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  I shouted that I loved her and called her a weirdo.
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  As I shut the door behind me, I heard her laughing, Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like that, even from him. I don't know
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  that whole interaction wasn't I love you, you fucking freak
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  behind the door, Like, okay, you get the dinner parties
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  at their house are unbearable. Hey worth the throwing on
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  the football game tomorrow night. I'm like, no, no, I'm good.
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  Hey babe, Hey, you freak of my attic. They just
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  got a touchdown. She makes the best pork roast, does
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  what she guys. It's like she's like hanging from the
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  ceiling like a spider, and she's like Chris scampering across
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  the walls. I got there.
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  Speaker 2: Is it? Her guacamole? Delicious?
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, it's delightful.
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  Speaker 2: She's She's like you just hear Laddin coming. She's not
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  speaking it, but there's Laddin coming from her. Her behavior
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  was a bit odd, but it certainly wasn't something to
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  call a priest over. I forgot about it by lunch,
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  and by the time I got home, she was her
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  normal self. I didn't bring it up, and neither did she,
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  and life went on. The next incident happened three days later.
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  It was around two am, and I had woken up
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  to get a drink. I was standing at the kitchen island,
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  jug of oj in hand, and I felt a strong
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  feeling that I was being watched for whatever reason. I
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  looked down at the floor and saw my wife's smiling
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  face staring back. She was speaking at me from the
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  other side of the island, staring up at me with wide,
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  unblinking eyes and grinning, grinning like the cheshire cat. I screamed,
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  I'll admit it, not out of irritation, but fear. For
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  some reason, at that moment, I was scared at the
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  sound to my scream, Lynn scuttled backwards out of my
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  scuddled I do not like the words cuttled.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, no, no, no, no, she's.
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  Speaker 2: Like vibrating backwards really quick, like yeah, her hands and
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  feet smacking the tile floor. Oh, I don't like that either.
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  Speaker 1: Her hands and feet smacking the tile floor, which she
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  had goddamn duck.
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  Speaker 2: Know.
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  Speaker 1: I imagine that she's like running away like a duck.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's just like feet pointed, just like blobbling side
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  aside to the ground. That gets me in like horror
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  films when it's like dark, but you hear like the
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  like the running you know, getting quicker.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, see I didn't I didn't have the visual of
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  you doing that, so I didn't know what that clapping was.
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  The uh, the the collar you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the.
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  Speaker 1: I will say, the new context of this being at
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  two am makes the one during the day, like you
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  could easily see that being played off, but at two am,
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  I'd be like, it takes on such a whole new entity.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like my wife's like pranked me before,
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  you know, like, oh yeah, put something scary somewhere, so
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  maybe you could ride it off as up, but I
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  would I would ask her about it.
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  Speaker 1: If it's super uncharacteristic, though, it just feels even more odd,
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  you know, you know it's uncharacteristic. Pick this up, you
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  know it's uncharacteristic.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean we've only seen one instance, so maybe
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  it happens here, But there's no alleviation after the scare,
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  right Like if some if your friend scares you and
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  you set me laugh, there's like the ha ha you
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  know whatever I got you. But if that never happens,
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  then there's like a it's like just a strange tension,
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  you know. Yeah, that's kind of it's kind of the
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  vibe I get scuttle down my view to smacking the
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  tile floor. Wait, whoa hold on her hands and feet
• 17:45
  smacking the tile floor. She hurried out of the kitchen
• 17:48
  on all fours. Yeah, I didn't get that far.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: She's running around the house. It's like I should have
• 17:54
  never taken to say, Planet of the Apes on all fours, like.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: A joke about the in spider running across the walls.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, like a goddamn beetle walk around.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: No, it's no.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: She's like, she's like six inches off the floor, her
• 18:09
  whole body parallel, and her arms and legs are bent
• 18:12
  at like the knees and elbows.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Like yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I'm expecting.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: What the heck? I didn't run after her, or even
• 18:19
  yell after her. I just stood there, frozen in shock,
• 18:22
  wondering what had possessed her to do that. It took
• 18:25
  me a little longer than I'd like to admit to
• 18:27
  go back upstairs, but I eventually did. When I got
• 18:30
  to our bedroom, Lynn was lying on her side asleep.
• 18:34
  I would wake her up. I'd be like, no, no, no,
• 18:37
  we're talking about this. Yeah, I mean, oh, I don't
• 18:42
  wake her Like.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Hell, I'd fucking turn on the flip on the light
• 18:45
  and slam the door.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: That's what I'd say, my prediction is that there's another
• 18:51
  entity in the house that looks like his wife.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Oh see, I'm I'm still if I was a betting man.
• 18:58
  I still think that his wife is gone and something
• 19:00
  has taken its place.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: That's what it is, what I think that's possible. I'm
• 19:03
  assuming in between, though there's like a lot of like
• 19:06
  normal time.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: At first, I imagine. I think it's gonna be a
• 19:09
  slow transition.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, or at least pretending to
• 19:13
  be asleep. I staid there for a while, watching her
• 19:15
  breathing to be sure she was really asleep. I had
• 19:18
  the feeling she might jump out at me the moment
• 19:20
  I got into bed, but she didn't climbed in a bed,
• 19:23
  and she didn't even move. Her breathing was soft and deep,
• 19:26
  and I was starting to wonder if I dreamt the
• 19:28
  whole thing. The next morning, I waited for her to
• 19:31
  come down for coffee, and after handing her mug and
• 19:33
  kissing her cheek, I decided to ask her about it.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: What was that about last night?
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I asked, keeping my tone light so I did an
• 19:41
  offend or embarrass her. She frowned over a cup of coffee,
• 19:45
  shaking her head like she had no clue what I
• 19:47
  was referring to.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: You were peaking at me again from over there.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: I said, pointing to the spot on the floor by
• 19:53
  the kitchen island. She followed my gaze, and when she
• 19:57
  looked back at me, she burst out laughing. You laugh
• 20:00
  so hard. I couldn't help a join her.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: You creep me the fuck out sometimes, you know that.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: She giggled and set her cup on the counter and
• 20:07
  wrapped her arms around my neck.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: You creep me out all the time. So I guess
• 20:12
  we're even what that was a weird interaction. This is
• 20:16
  what I'm thinking. I'm thinking that this is just a
• 20:18
  fucking socially weird ass couple. Dude, I've done some people
• 20:21
  like this.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: These are just some weird people.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like where it's just like the guys just like yeah,
• 20:26
  I mean, my favorite thing to do is play Settlers
• 20:28
  of Catan and watch the Old Gargoyle show on Disney XD.
• 20:31
  And she likes to crochet and eat pears. You're like,
• 20:33
  what kind of fucking what world are you in?
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Dude? The ampules are always so specific. You know, someone
• 20:41
  who played Settlers of Kittana watch this dark oil?
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, his girlfriend with cruche the whole time and you
• 20:48
  eat raw pears. It was so fucking odd. It was unbelievable.
• 20:52
  I'm telling you, described Yes, it's it's it's And I'm
• 20:55
  like it makes sense to where it's like then I'm
• 20:58
  reading this family you were talking. I don't know. All
• 21:06
  I know is when I read these things, I'm like,
• 21:08
  it is this is not out of the realm of
• 21:10
  reality of a guy being like just having these kind
• 21:13
  of awkward interactions and stuff. I don't know. There are
• 21:16
  a bunch of.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: People I know who are like strange, you know, socially,
• 21:20
  and I'm like, what are they like at home? You know, yeah,
• 21:23
  like a day to day conversations. Yeah.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Also, I just want to say too, just looking back
• 21:28
  at her quote, was you creep me out all the time.
• 21:30
  So I guess we're even just reading that back, it
• 21:33
  feels like she didn't respond to anything besides there do
• 21:36
  you think that's like, I mean, it doesn't feel like
• 21:38
  a human interaction. Really, she feels kind of weird, like
• 21:41
  I don't know.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: So I guess it kind of sounds like she's still
• 21:45
  not acknowledging what he's talking about.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: What's what I mean is she's He's like, what is that,
• 21:49
  because it's sure she laughed, but to me, I read
• 21:51
  it kind of like she's fucking weird as hell, a
• 21:54
  creepy eating pears and doing whatever that she has to do.
• 21:57
  But I think, like, more so, wouldn't you be like,
• 21:59
  I know, I've just been messing with you, Like you
• 22:01
  would like have a trail on sentence to that, and
• 22:03
  then her it's like even it's it's even kind of
• 22:05
  a threat to or her being like you creep me
• 22:08
  out all the time. It's kind of insulting.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: The closest thing I could think of is if like
• 22:12
  Kayla was pranking me and I was like, what's that about,
• 22:15
  she'd be like, I don't know what you're talking about,
• 22:17
  Like she would keep the game going, but like the
• 22:19
  whole yeah, you creep me out all the time, like
• 22:21
  almost making it like a like a cutesy romantic moment.
• 22:25
  You know that's what.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: It's a backhanded it's a backhanded like compliment kind of thing.
• 22:30
  Or it's like it's supposed to be a cutesy insult
• 22:32
  to me. I'm like, oh to where in the moment
• 22:34
  you'd be like, oh, okay, it's normal. But I feel
• 22:36
  like on my drive. It would eat at me all day.
• 22:38
  My wife would get some some very inquisitive test What
• 22:42
  did you mean by that?
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: What are you talking about? It's so funny, the fair
• 22:46
  thing is so good. Just eating this sounds like this
• 22:50
  sounds like it eats dry spaghetti kind of person right
• 22:54
  like from the just opens a box eats the dry noodles.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: You know, Oh dude, that kind thank you choose on
• 23:03
  dry noodles like chips and then cooks it and doesn't
• 23:06
  use like pasta sauce but ketchup. Yes, I mean it's tomato.
• 23:10
  I mean it's tomatoes.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: It's all the same thing. You can't taste the difference. Yeah,
• 23:13
  those freaks, Yeah those Yeah, horrible.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: The biggest horror of all.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Do you need to talk about it?
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: No?
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: No, I We said our goodvies and left for work.
• 23:26
  As I drove, I kept thinking about how creepy it
• 23:28
  had been. Seen her grinning at me from behind the
• 23:30
  island like that, the sounds her hands made on the floor.
• 23:33
  She crawled away, see like that. That takes me out
• 23:36
  of it. I've watched them, it's never crawled in.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: There would be there would be some inquisitive text. I
• 23:42
  would have to send.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, what the heck? I told myself she was
• 23:47
  just trying to be silly, just trying to join me
• 23:49
  in my love of all things horror. It's not like
• 23:52
  I was afraid of her, but it still didn't set
• 23:54
  right with me. Yeah, yeah, maybe maybe this can confine
• 23:58
  in the realms of just like a weird couple.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: That's how I'm reading it, Just kind of an odd
• 24:02
  ball couple.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I started seeing her peeking at me more and more.
• 24:06
  Sometimes she'd be peeking out from behind the couch or
• 24:08
  living room curtains. Once you and man should get inside
• 24:11
  her grandmother's old trunk that sits at the foot of
• 24:13
  our bed, I might not have even known she was
• 24:16
  there at all, had the trunks old Higgins Hinges not
• 24:19
  giving her away.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Hey, babe, could you get out of the trunk.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Please? Imagine you're going to bed to not You're like
• 24:24
  in your boxers and T shirt, and you walk out
• 24:27
  of bed and your wife like.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Staking your balls, your farting and all kinds of stuff,
• 24:31
  and then like, my wife is just hit the foot
• 24:33
  of my bed in the smallest bulvarian trunk of all time,
• 24:38
  And I'm like, how the hell did you even get
• 24:40
  in there.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Can you please come get out of the trunk. Please,
• 24:46
  I'm I'm going to have an affair just to make
• 24:50
  you do something else, just to make you mad.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I don't want to, but I need to feel something
• 24:57
  else besides field.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Something I I'm constantly afraid in this house. People looking
• 25:05
  at me like a freak.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Well, she hasn't gone to work in four months because
• 25:09
  she just sits in the trunk all day.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: You bring like her parents over there, like sweetie, you
• 25:14
  want to come out, just like looking at you like
• 25:16
  an eye.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we have to bring the family therapist over. It's
• 25:20
  because it's old German guy. He's like times, get trunk, Yeah,
• 25:24
  come to me. Then come, So he says.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Did this family? Did the Pear family have a German therapist? That?
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know?
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Okay, that that was your first abstraction.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the first piece of fiction to that story.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: By the way, she had the lip propped up just
• 25:43
  enough so that only half of her face peeked through.
• 25:46
  She'd been grinning like an excited toddler. It was unnerving.
• 25:50
  I didn't even know what to say to her. All
• 25:52
  I could do was stare. When I finally found my voice.
• 25:56
  I asked her why on earth she was doing this.
• 25:58
  She didn't answer. She had slowly closed the lid.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: A dude, can we talk about this like adults.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: I'll I'll let me read the sentence. She didn't answer,
• 26:15
  but she had slowly closed the lid, shutting herself inside
• 26:20
  the trunk. I just walked away, feeling disturbed. Imagine that
• 26:25
  you walk out, You're like, babe, can you can we
• 26:27
  go to bed? And she just like slowly sets the trunk,
• 26:31
  and You're like, I guess I'm watching Family Guy reruns.
• 26:35
  I guess I'm sitting on the couch. Oh, look, Family
• 26:39
  Matters is on reruns. I guess I'll leave that on.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Cosby shows on. I feel awkward about that, but I
• 26:46
  guess I'm watching it.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I didn't understand why she was doing it, but it
• 26:52
  clearly made her happy. I just hope she would tire
• 26:55
  out of the game quickly let it peek at me.
• 26:58
  For the next two weeks, I started to think she
• 27:01
  was done with her weird prank, and I was relieved.
• 27:03
  We're watching a show on Netflix one night, and I
• 27:05
  jokingly said that I hadn't seen her peeking at me
• 27:08
  lately and that she must have given up on her
• 27:10
  spy game. She looked up at me with a small
• 27:13
  smile and.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Said, maybe I've just gotten better at it. Oh, it's
• 27:17
  a great line.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: I didn't like that.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: That's that's a great line. That's fucking creepy. You. You
• 27:23
  know why that fucked me up though, too, is because
• 27:25
  my fat ass is thinking about like me chuck, like
• 27:28
  scarfing down some chocolate cake at night and not realizing
• 27:31
  that my wife is just watching me devour like a
• 27:34
  piece of like triple chocolate cake, and I'm like, did
• 27:36
  you see that? Did you see me the joul chocolate
• 27:39
  game bag?
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I mean it's like, sorry, go ahead to finish your bed.
• 27:46
  I didn't cut you off through the bed. There's like
• 27:50
  this sacredness to your house, right, you know that, like
• 27:54
  when you're up at like two in the morning walking
• 27:56
  around and stuff like that, Like you know, you're in
• 27:58
  your own world. Who cares? But it's it's weird to
• 28:02
  think that the person kind of invading that privacy would
• 28:05
  be like the one person you share it with, you know,
• 28:08
  because there's not there's not any other scenarios I can
• 28:11
  think of where like my wife would feel like an intruder.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: You know, yeah, to trust more than anyone else on
• 28:19
  earth exactly.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But if she was like refusing to talk about
• 28:24
  how she would spy on me for long periods of
• 28:26
  time and I couldn't see her, like, dude.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Well, it's just too it's just weird. It's good, that's
• 28:33
  I haven't.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Heard, you know. I can't think of a time because
• 28:35
  every like, oh, my wife is scary horror story I
• 28:38
  know is about like possession or you know, demonic stuff
• 28:41
  like that. Whatever. This was just kind of eerie. I
• 28:45
  like it. I didn't say anything, but I wondered whether
• 28:48
  or not she was joking. For the next few days,
• 28:51
  I couldn't stop thinking about what she'd said. Was she
• 28:53
  still peeking at me when I wasn't looking and I
• 28:55
  just hadn't noticed, And if so, what the hell was
• 28:58
  she getting out of this? I started to feel paranoid,
• 29:02
  constantly checking whether she was watching from around the corner
• 29:05
  or behind a door. I was jumping whenever I was
• 29:08
  home and she wasn't in in full view of me.
• 29:11
  I felt stupid and a little crazy. But after a
• 29:14
  few weeks without another incident, I began to relax. I
• 29:18
  stopped checking behind furniture and walls and told myself it
• 29:21
  was just a bad memory. Then a few days ago
• 29:25
  things got much worse. Lynn left to go to a
• 29:28
  friend's and I lounged on the couch and played a
• 29:30
  couple of games on my laptop. Around nine pm, I
• 29:33
  hopped in the shower as I was washing the soap
• 29:36
  from my hair. Okay, I'm getting chills now. Yeah, imagine
• 29:41
  because it's your wife, bro, you know, like it's supposed
• 29:44
  to be just positive feeling.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Well, one thing that's kind of interesting about these my wife.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Is than when I'm recording these episodes.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: But the instinctual feeling of like knowing that someone is
• 29:59
  watching it was such a weird human trait to have,
• 30:02
  But for the idea of it to feel so foreign
• 30:04
  from someone that you're supposed to trust so much is
• 30:07
  just really interesting. Yeah, because I feel like I've had
• 30:09
  feelings like, oh I can tell him, I like you can.
• 30:11
  It's like different presence, you know what i mean. Yeah,
• 30:14
  Like whenever you feel like a stranger's looking at you,
• 30:16
  like and you have that feeling is different than when
• 30:18
  you feel like your wife is maybe looking at you.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: So I'm just I feel like his body is even
• 30:22
  picking up on like, oh, I feel like like some
• 30:24
  kind of stranger is looking at me right now.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, there's been a lot, so it's like that
• 30:29
  primal thing, right of like someone's looking at me. Someone's
• 30:31
  looking at me. Yeah, but you like don't get that
• 30:35
  with your wife or you know, the person you live
• 30:37
  with or whatever. But to like, yeah, like you said,
• 30:40
  like to pick up, it's almost like you relearn that
• 30:43
  fear of them, you know. Mm hmm. That's interesting. I
• 30:46
  was in the shower. I felt that awful feeling that
• 30:49
  I was being watched. Slowly opened my eyes and almost
• 30:51
  had a heart attack. Lynn was peeking from behind the
• 30:55
  shower curtain. Her entire head stretched into the shower, leaving
• 30:59
  just her body outside. Her long dark hair hung against
• 31:03
  the curtain, the end stripping with water. Her mouth hung
• 31:07
  open in a terrible grin, eyes wide and red as
• 31:12
  if she had it blaked in a while. I screamed
• 31:16
  and jumped back against the wall. She didn't move, nor
• 31:20
  did she smile, nor did her smile. Waver her makeup
• 31:23
  ran down her cheeks in two black streaks. She looked
• 31:27
  giddy and completely deranged. I was terrified. Oh that's awesome,
• 31:32
  that's really good, and that's good. Her eyes like she
• 31:35
  won't blink, She's just wanting to look at you. We
• 31:38
  stood like that for a few moments, neither of us
• 31:40
  saying a word. Finally, after what felt like forever, she
• 31:43
  slowly pulled her head back out of the shower, and
• 31:46
  I watched her blurry figure through the curtain as she
• 31:48
  moved backwards towards the bathroom door. A second later, the
• 31:52
  bathroom door slam shut, hard enough to rattle the mirror.
• 31:57
  I screamed again and jumped out of the shower to
• 31:59
  lock the door. I stayed inside the bathroom for over
• 32:03
  an hour. Maybe I overreacted to some of you, but
• 32:08
  joke or not, I wasn't going to put up with
• 32:10
  this crazy shit anymore. That's what I kept telling myself. Is.
• 32:13
  I paced in my bathroom, stopping to listen at the
• 32:16
  door every few minutes. Suddenly I heard a muffled sound,
• 32:20
  and I pressed my ear against the bathroom door, straining
• 32:23
  to listen. I couldn't hear anything, but I envisioned Lynn
• 32:27
  standing on the other side of the door, giggling at
• 32:29
  her joke. I felt a surge of anger. I was
• 32:33
  beyond pissed at being made to feel scared in my
• 32:36
  own house and made to hide in the bathroom for
• 32:38
  an hour, all for what some joke. If it was
• 32:42
  a joke, it was an awful one.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: What the fuck, Lynn, this shit's getting really fucking annoying.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: I waited for her to apologize or to call me
• 32:50
  a jerk, but instead I heard a faint moan so
• 32:54
  quiet I wondered if I heard it at all, and
• 32:56
  then complete silence.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Lynn.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: I called out, not able to even hide the shakiness
• 33:03
  in my voice. I got no response, just my own
• 33:06
  heavy breathing.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I swear to God, just fucking stop it.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: I yelled, pounded my fist on the door. I waited
• 33:15
  for her to cuss me out, something I would expect
• 33:18
  from me talking to her like that. I never screamed
• 33:21
  at her before, But there was nothing, just the occasional
• 33:25
  drip from the shower head. I won't deny that I
• 33:29
  was scared, too afraid to open the damn door and
• 33:32
  face my own wife. I waited another thirty minutes or so,
• 33:36
  which feels like a lifetime when you're scared. Finally, I
• 33:39
  decided I wasn't going to spend the night hiding in
• 33:41
  my bathroom, so I got down on my knees and
• 33:43
  peered under the door. I almost expected to see her
• 33:47
  face peeking back at me, but thankfully I didn't. I
• 33:50
  could see straight down the hallway to the top of
• 33:52
  the stairs, but no Lin. I didn't know if I
• 33:56
  should be happy about that or not. I looked for
• 33:59
  a few minutes, waiting to see her head pop up
• 34:01
  over the top step, but it never came. And ah, oh,
• 34:06
  what an awful idea, What an awful visual. I stood up,
• 34:11
  my hand hovering over the door, and mentally prepared myself
• 34:14
  to open it. I slowly turned the lock with shaky fingers.
• 34:18
  I was about to yank it open when I heard
• 34:21
  a sound still makes me feel nauseous when I think
• 34:24
  about it, A moan louder than before. But this time
• 34:29
  I was able to tell just where it was coming from.
• 34:33
  I turned my head to the closet door ooh, as
• 34:36
  if in slow motion, and locked eyes with my wife,
• 34:40
  who was peeking out from the slight gap. Her eyes
• 34:43
  were still wide as ever, and her mouth was hanging
• 34:45
  open in the most grotesque, gaping smile I'd ever seen.
• 34:50
  I didn't even scream. I was too scared for even
• 34:53
  that her hands were clasped to her chest, body trembling
• 34:57
  with sheer delight, as if she could barely contain her excitement.
• 35:02
  A short, raspy moue bubbled up from her throat, deep
• 35:07
  and raw, and it does shiver through my entire body.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: How do you imagine the moon sounding.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: You can't hear, but that they can, Okay, yeah, kind
• 35:21
  of like a like a death rattle kind of noise almost,
• 35:24
  you know.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Well, imagine if you're smiling, it's like, uh.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, like you're so eager with the excitement,
• 35:34
  you're like trying to hold in a scream almost, you know.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, almost, Like it's like the kind of like short
• 35:39
  burst of air you get from trying to hold in
• 35:41
  your laughter.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Almost.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I'm just like a picture of my head because this
• 35:45
  is there's so much, I'm so glued to the story.
• 35:49
  I haven't like even been wanting to talk. It's it's
• 35:51
  been so good, but I'm trying to get in my
• 35:53
  mind's I'm having a hard time figuring out what the
• 35:55
  short raspe is.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: She like visibly like her eyes are red because she's
• 36:00
  holding them open her mouth. She has her hands clasped
• 36:05
  up to her chest, like not across her chest, but
• 36:08
  like like a kid who's like excited to go somewhere
• 36:12
  and has like his like fist up and he's like bouncing,
• 36:15
  you know.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I imagine a backpack or something.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's like yeah, yeah, exactly. And I imagine
• 36:23
  the moment to be like kind of like a little eke,
• 36:25
  you know, like like you know.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like like a very like little high pitch frequency
• 36:30
  with it.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, like.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: The little bit of the the big bubbling rasping, like
• 36:35
  the bubble that's coming up from her throat is carrying
• 36:38
  in just like a very low bit of wind coming
• 36:41
  from her her air coming that's over the top of this,
• 36:43
  just like leaking out a high pitch frequency.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: She is so excited for this. Yeah. Yeah. Somehow I
• 36:50
  found the ability to pull the bathroom door open and
• 36:52
  ran as fast as I could all the way down
• 36:54
  the steps, snagging my keys and phone from the table
• 36:57
  in the living room before running outside of my car.
• 37:00
  I could hear her shrill laughter behind me, but I
• 37:02
  didn't hear her getting closer. I didn't bother shutting the
• 37:06
  front door, drove away from the house faster than I
• 37:09
  legally should have, shivering the entire time, either from fear
• 37:14
  or the cold, maybe a little of both. I didn't
• 37:17
  grabbed a coat or even a pair of shoes. I
• 37:19
  was still in my boxers and my hair was still damp.
• 37:23
  I drove straight to my brother Chris's house, about forty
• 37:25
  minutes away. You know, in any and every call in
• 37:27
  text I got, I didn't check my phone until I
• 37:31
  was safely parked in my brother's driveway. Lyndad called four
• 37:35
  times and sent a flurry of text all wondering where
• 37:38
  I'd gone and why I left.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Quote like that, I'm reading that she's sending these texts
• 37:43
  as well, Like I'm just picturing her smiling looking at
• 37:45
  her phone. Yeah, I think left like that. I think
• 37:48
  it's much more malicious or it's like, you know, like
• 37:50
  almost like mocking and tagging.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: It's like, oh, why'd you leave like that? Oh you
• 37:54
  scared or you was scaredy boy, like that kind of thing.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: What'd you leave like that?
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like there's a there's like a like a high
• 38:02
  school mockery to it. Almost.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: I threw my phone at the dash in rage, furious
• 38:08
  at her nonchalant attitude. My brother and his wife were
• 38:11
  surprised to see me, especially dressed in just a pair
• 38:14
  of boxers, but told me to stay as long as
• 38:16
  I needed. Chris let me some clothes and asked me
• 38:19
  what happened. Told him when and I had a fight,
• 38:22
  but didn't get into the details. I didn't want to
• 38:24
  think I was overreacting leaving my wife over a prank,
• 38:27
  even if it was a strange one. I mean, hadn't
• 38:30
  I encouraged her for years to lighten up instead of
• 38:33
  being so serious all the time. I wanted her to
• 38:36
  relax and loose it up. But this, it's definitely not
• 38:39
  what I'd had in mind. That that is a hard
• 38:41
  situation to get anyone else to understand, you know, like
• 38:45
  your your friend comes over. He's like, well she she
• 38:49
  peeked at me, she's really excited about it.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's just it's just it's insane. I mean,
• 38:56
  like you probably feel like you're going absolutely crazy.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like how do you reason that through?
• 39:01
  I mean even to himself, He's like, he understands that
• 39:05
  this is an absurd situation, but it's how long it's
• 39:09
  gone on and her like unreasonableness afterwards that's got him.
• 39:13
  So I'd understand being mad, you know.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and being in a relationship too. I think that
• 39:18
  there's a lot of like give and take, especially when
• 39:21
  you've been within a relationship so long. That's just like,
• 39:24
  I don't know, like the amount of guilt you must
• 39:26
  feel as well, or like just be like what am
• 39:28
  I doing? I'm overreacting like you would be lying. You
• 39:31
  would be dancing circles around your head trying to make
• 39:34
  sense of all this.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I tried to sleep on their sofa, but
• 39:38
  my brain wouldn't let me sleep. Every time I close
• 39:41
  my eyes, I saw Lind's face staring at me from
• 39:43
  inside the closet, knowing she'd been in there with me
• 39:46
  the entire time. It made my skin crawl. She never
• 39:50
  left the bathroom at all, said, she flipped inside the
• 39:53
  closet and slammed the bathroom door shut to fool me.
• 39:57
  The mere thought of going back home gave me inside.
• 40:00
  I tossed and turned, unable to sleep. Chris ended up
• 40:04
  giving me a sleeping pill so I was able to
• 40:06
  get a little rest. Sleep was filled with terrible dreams,
• 40:10
  all of Lynne's smiling face.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: I think this could be some kind of creature that
• 40:14
  is uh like feeding off of fear.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Almost it could be like like a mimic of sorts.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: That's kind of like it's like relishing in the idea
• 40:22
  of just watching him be afraid, ye haris you know, yeah,
• 40:28
  that's what I mean.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: That question would be if it just looks like his
• 40:31
  wife and it killed her, or maybe it's kind of
• 40:33
  like a possession thing, like it controls his wife, you know.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm almost wondering if it's something that gets passed
• 40:39
  on as well, like and it follows deal of like
• 40:43
  is did something similar happen that maybe she didn't talk
• 40:45
  to her husband about before he even knew she was gone,
• 40:49
  and this thing had replaced her.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: So if I think if it is just like a woman,
• 40:53
  like when I picture the story in my head, it's
• 40:55
  it's more really scary, you know, like a like a stranger,
• 41:00
  like making that face and like smiling, being so happy.
• 41:02
  But when I picture my wife, it's more so like
• 41:07
  it's just annoyance.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: You know, I guess it's annoyance, But to me, it's
• 41:11
  even worse because you you can it's much easier whenever
• 41:16
  it's a stranger because you've never perceived that person any
• 41:18
  other way. Probably besides this so when it's some of that,
• 41:21
  you know, one my immediate thing is you feel guilty,
• 41:23
  and you're also like are you okay? Yeah, you are
• 41:26
  annoyed because you're like I'm trying. I'm like trying to
• 41:29
  help you, but at the same time, I feel like
• 41:30
  I want to leave and I feel guilty. Like there's
• 41:32
  so many different kinds of I think emotions that go
• 41:34
  into it.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's a weird emotion. You know. It's almost
• 41:38
  like have you ever tried to like reason with someone
• 41:40
  who's high. Yeah, where it's like where you're like, you
• 41:44
  kind of come on, talk to me talking they like,
• 41:47
  you know, they're in there, but you can't get through
• 41:49
  to them. So you're trying to figure out how to
• 41:51
  phrase yourself to get through to them, you know. Like right,
• 41:55
  it's it's yeah, it's like there's a veil almost. It's
• 41:58
  kind of it's creepy in that way.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: I woke up just as the sun started to rise.
• 42:03
  My sore body ached from the sofa and I felt drained.
• 42:06
  I knew i'd have to call in at some point,
• 42:08
  but I didn't know what to say to her. I
• 42:10
  wouldn't be going home unless she gave me her word,
• 42:12
  she never do any more creepy shit. I just wanted
• 42:15
  my wife back, her normal, serious self. Never looked so
• 42:18
  good to me. I was contemplating calling her and telling
• 42:21
  her that when that familiar feeling came over me, I
• 42:25
  was being watched. I was staring at the ceiling, my
• 42:28
  heart in my throat. Didn't want to look away. But
• 42:30
  the longer I ignored the feeling, the worse it got.
• 42:34
  My eyes drifted away from the ceiling, almost on their own.
• 42:38
  Her face was pressed up against the window beside the couch.
• 42:42
  Oh man, staring down at me with that same gaping smile. Bruh, Yeah,
• 42:52
  oh gosh. It followed him all the way there. Drool
• 42:56
  dribbled down her lips, leaving two long streaks down the glass.
• 43:00
  I didn't know how long she'd been there, but something
• 43:02
  told me she'd been there for quite a while, possibly
• 43:05
  all night. Bro.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: If that's the case. If that's the case, then two,
• 43:08
  I think that you were right to assume that's something paranormal. Yeah,
• 43:12
  I mean, how else would it know? Yeah, of course
• 43:14
  you were at It knows where he went. It was
• 43:16
  a forty minute drive and it got there, you know. Yeah,
• 43:19
  unless it stewed away in the car with him. How
• 43:21
  could it do that if not paranormal exactly, Which that's
• 43:25
  another terrifying fact that it was in the car with
• 43:27
  him the whole time. But yeah, that was moving and
• 43:29
  keep it keeps moving and like plotting how it's going
• 43:32
  to like follow and watch him. Yeah, it's just interesting.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: I didn't bother screaming, though I was afraid. Anger trumped
• 43:40
  any fear I felt at that moment. Jumped up from
• 43:43
  the couch and pouted, my palm against the glass.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Lynn, are you crazy? What the hell is wrong with you?
• 43:49
  Just go home now?
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: She didn't move, and her ghastly expression never changed, but
• 43:55
  anything or smile only grew, as if she had never
• 43:58
  been more elated. I could hear Chris and his wife
• 44:00
  moving around upstairs, as if Lynn could hear them from
• 44:03
  her place outside. Her head twitched slightly in their direction,
• 44:06
  and she began to close her mouth slowly. Chris called
• 44:09
  my name from upstairs, obviously concerned. I turned to see
• 44:13
  him and his wife, Rebecca, hurrying down the steps, and
• 44:16
  I turned back to the window. Lynn was gone. The
• 44:19
  only sign she'd been there at all was the two
• 44:20
  streaks of drools still dripping down the glass. I tried
• 44:24
  explaining to Chris and Rebecca about waking up and seeing
• 44:26
  Lynn watching me through their window. They were skeptical, who wouldn't.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Be That's a nice setup, not to interrupt you. That's
• 44:33
  a nice so too, because Chris did give our protagonist
• 44:38
  some like sleeping tilly before me two yep, so who
• 44:42
  knows I meant? And we don't know I mean? It
• 44:43
  could still be a hallucination of some kind.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: Good bee. Chris and I went outside to the spot
• 44:48
  in front of the window, but there were no footprints
• 44:50
  in the dirt, just a slight indent animal, probably Chris
• 44:54
  guest and I didn't argue. He and Rebecca assumed I
• 44:57
  dropped the entire episode, but they didn't underst dan and
• 45:00
  I was too tired to explain it to them. I
• 45:03
  called out of work that day and turned my cell off.
• 45:05
  I didn't want to face Lenn. Just talking to her
• 45:08
  was too much for me. At that point, I really
• 45:11
  started to believe something was irreversibly wrong with her, that
• 45:14
  no matter what promises she made, we never be the
• 45:17
  same again. The thoughts saddened me to my core. I
• 45:21
  cried most of the morning. By noon, I figured I
• 45:24
  was ready to confront her, give her one last chance
• 45:26
  to explain herself. I could at least give her that
• 45:29
  after six years, I told myself. Turned my phone on
• 45:33
  and saw the dozens of texts she'd sent, all from
• 45:35
  a seemingly concerned wife.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Can we talk, I love you, Please call me. I'm
• 45:41
  really worried. Can you answer? Just come home?
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: And more of the same, all text telling me she
• 45:48
  loved me and she wanted me home, how worried she was?
• 45:52
  Not a damn one addressing the crazy shit she pulled,
• 45:55
  like she had been acting like a character from a
• 45:56
  Stephen King book. I'll also mention those texts are very
• 46:00
  vapid and just like generic you know, well to yeah
• 46:05
  and to end with just come home. I mean it
• 46:08
  feels like bait. Yeah, yeah, yeah it does. It does
• 46:11
  feel like swinging the carrot on a stick sort of right, definitely, Yeah,
• 46:16
  Even her texts were different. She normally texted novels just
• 46:19
  to tell me to pick up a loaf of bread.
• 46:22
  You'd think she'd have more to say after her bizarre shenanigans.
• 46:25
  That's what I mean, right, Like, normally, like your your
• 46:29
  person will text you more detail or something more specific
• 46:33
  than just I love you, please call me. You know, well, yeah,
• 46:37
  it's it's it's very skinned walker esque. I know it
• 46:41
  probably seems childish just some of you who are miles
• 46:44
  away from this situation. But if you saw the way
• 46:47
  Lynn had looked at me, how she scampered away on
• 46:49
  all fours like some wild animal, printed at me from
• 46:52
  inside the closet like a lunatic, and I think you
• 46:54
  find my reaction was warrnted. Yeah, I get it, bro,
• 46:58
  I'm I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm fully there with you.
• 47:00
  I look, I was. I would have said grounds for
• 47:04
  divorce after the crawling away on all fours. Everything else
• 47:08
  is just reaffirmed that point.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: I would have never spoken to this person again as
• 47:13
  soon as she got in the fucking trunk. The trunk
• 47:15
  was last strong for me.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like maybe you can save the marriage after
• 47:19
  the shower thing. Maybe, but that yeah, no, absolutely not. Yeah.
• 47:26
  I ended up saying with christ and Rebecca for another night.
• 47:29
  I didn't wake up yesterday until afternoon, and thankfully I
• 47:32
  did see Lynn's face watching me through the window.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: I don't want to pry because it's not my place,
• 47:37
  But is this fight something that can be mended.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: Rebecca asked. She made us bout the sandwich for lunch,
• 47:42
  and I knew she wanted to breach the subject without
• 47:44
  seeming to be nosey.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I just she's like a different person.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: I said, choosing my words carefully. S wasn't ready for
• 47:52
  her or Christen of the full extent of the batshit craziness.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: I'd been dealing with people change, Ben, She's still the
• 47:59
  same woman you marry. Maybe people just need to talk
• 48:02
  to the issues. Whatever's going on. I'm sure it can
• 48:05
  be fixed, she said, Ever the peacemaker, I think it's
• 48:09
  beyond that now. I don't think. I don't think talking
• 48:14
  would help.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: I just don't trust her, I said, the words sung
• 48:19
  in my heart. I missed and loved my wife. How
• 48:22
  could I live with someone like that? Living in constant
• 48:25
  fear didn't sound too appealing.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: Lynn loves you. She has to be absolutely crushed. I
• 48:32
  don't know about that. Well, she certainly seemed like it
• 48:36
  to me. I've never seen her so upset.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: Very much unlike the Lynn I know, she said, shaking
• 48:42
  her head sadly. It took a full minute for her
• 48:45
  words to really sink in and when they did, I
• 48:48
  felt dread worming its way through my skin.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Wait, what do you mean you saw her? You saw low?
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Oh I didn't even register that.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I told me a second two. I'm like, oh fuck,
• 48:57
  when did you see her today?
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Or is she in the house?
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Like waking up?
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: Like waking up?
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: And it's like, oh yeah, we invite her over for dinner.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: Oh shut up, shut up, shut up. Rebecca nodded casually,
• 49:12
  as if the fact wasn't nightmare fuel. Maybe for her
• 49:15
  it wasn't.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: She stopped by this morning just after Chris.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: You've been in the house all day, a safe space.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Oh god, sleeping too, defenseless, gosh.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: She said, cleaning the plates from the table.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: I do you see your car?
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: Though?
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Maybe she took an uber or something. Dude, he told
• 49:42
  you that she was outside the door. And Chris was like, ohright,
• 49:44
  but it's like a deer.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, realistically, I come to your house and
• 49:49
  I'm like, yeah, dude, Kayla, she was pressed up against
• 49:52
  the glass this morning?
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: Oh sure, sure? No, no, yeah, here's the thing. Let's
• 49:57
  say that happens, right, you say that to me, I
• 50:01
  say this to my wife. Yeah, I don't know I
• 50:03
  think Isaiah, I think he's still a bit loopy. He
• 50:05
  said he saw Kayla come up, and my wife would
• 50:08
  be like, oh yeah, he's probably just you know, still yeah,
• 50:12
  dozing off. And then if if Kayla was like, hey,
• 50:16
  can I come in, and I'd be like the next day,
• 50:19
  the next day, I'm like, okay, okay, it's the next day.
• 50:21
  You're right, you're right, Okay, you're.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: Right, which does give it some level of like, okay,
• 50:25
  forget about that. Oh here she is.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: Sure. I would still be yeah, I don't know. It
• 50:30
  puts me on edge of it. Back what did she say?
• 50:35
  Did she come inside?
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: I asked? What? Starting to break out on my forehead?
• 50:40
  I began looking around, examining corners as though a predator
• 50:43
  lurked behind them.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: No, she just asked if you were awake yet, and
• 50:47
  I said that you weren't. I asked her she wanted
• 50:50
  to wake you, but she said no, just said to let.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: You sleep, she said, as she washed the dishes.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: That's all. She didn't say anything else. No, she looked awful, though,
• 51:01
  like she had in such in days. I think you
• 51:03
  should call her.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: I got up from the table and thanked Rebecca for lunch.
• 51:08
  I felt a little bit better at the knowledge that
• 51:11
  at least she hadn't come inside. Still, I need to
• 51:14
  double check that the doors were locked. Except for a
• 51:17
  while trying to figure out what to do next. I
• 51:19
  didn't want to go home, but I felt that I
• 51:21
  owed it to Lynn to help her if I could,
• 51:24
  had I sworn an oath to love and honor her
• 51:26
  through sickness and in health. Clearly she was very sick,
• 51:30
  and that's a good point, right, Like, true, my wife's
• 51:32
  had some mental snap. I want to help her if possible,
• 51:36
  of course.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's not the main characters on a monster.
• 51:39
  He's just completely drained. I mean he's he slept for
• 51:42
  basically twenty four straight hours because of just probably tossing
• 51:46
  and turning. Think about this stuff.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: Nothing supernatural has happened in the story, right, Like we're
• 51:51
  theorizing what it might be. But it's I like the
• 51:54
  mention of like, I need to make sure the doors
• 51:56
  are locked, because yeah, that probably would keep her out,
• 51:58
  because we haven't seen anything so far like oh she
• 52:00
  can lie, you know, crawl phase through a door or
• 52:03
  something like that.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: Well, he's scratching. He's scratching for any kind of security
• 52:07
  at this moment. Yeah, he does completely restless mind.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I'm so locked in. This is great. Yeah,
• 52:14
  you know what, audience, you're You're all right for now.
• 52:19
  It's going to be like two paragraphs later, it's gonna
• 52:21
  be like, there's a seven year old boy and he's like,
• 52:23
  have you.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: Seen Rebecca brought out her cousin, her nine year old cousin.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: We're going to go to see the skin. Ben like, yeay,
• 52:34
  oh is that a guy? Yeah, Rebecca shows up in
• 52:36
  a bear suit. Yeah, I'd be like, okay, all right,
• 52:40
  I see, I see what happened here. If she was sick,
• 52:43
  which I truly believe she was, I had to try
• 52:46
  and get her the help she needed. But I didn't
• 52:49
  even know where to start. I didn't want to call
• 52:51
  the police, and besides, what the hell was I going
• 52:53
  to tell them that my wife was peeking at me,
• 52:56
  she was being creepy. It's bizarre she'd been She's still
• 53:00
  hadn't committed any crime, not yet. Anyway, the police would
• 53:04
  have probably said that I was overreacting. But this wasn't
• 53:08
  some prank. It felt wrong, dangerous, even, like something sinister
• 53:13
  lurked beneath her smile. I knew was her husband. I
• 53:16
  was well within my rights to have her committed. But
• 53:19
  what if that's a funny way of phrasing that line.
• 53:23
  That's what I'm saying. I know that when a woman
• 53:27
  begins to lose her mind, it's only right that she'd
• 53:30
  be put into a ward as anyone, any normal, as
• 53:35
  any respectiful, God fearing husband would, and then sleep with
• 53:38
  his secretary to take the pain off of his mind,
• 53:41
  you know, as God intended in the Bible, as my
• 53:45
  pastor said. But what if she simply acted normal in
• 53:49
  their presence. She'd obviously been able to fall Rebecca into
• 53:52
  thinking she was just a concerned wife, as long as
• 53:56
  the doctors didn't find her a danger to herself or
• 53:58
  others that have no choice but to release her. After
• 54:01
  seventy two hours, I felt lost and overwhelmed. I will say,
• 54:06
  if this story was said of the nineteen fifties, would
• 54:08
  have been two paragraphs long. My wife leaned around a corner,
• 54:12
  So I shot her anyway, Yeah.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: So I So I choked her out and threw it
• 54:18
  in the lake. That old teacher for burning the roast,
• 54:21
  Yeah that yeah, yeah, exactly, And Nasha stopped crying so
• 54:25
  much around the house.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: Maybe if she wasn't like Pagan, this wouldn't have happened.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh well, she's she is Catholic.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: What do you do? God bless you, FDR. So I
• 54:37
  did what any husband in my position would do. I
• 54:40
  called her mother.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: That's a funny that's a funny line.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to believe me. Her mother, mary Anne,
• 54:50
  and I were never on the best of terms. I
• 54:53
  never fought or anything like that. She just wasn't a
• 54:56
  very warm person and it wasn't really easy to get
• 54:58
  along with. She ever smiled, and when she did, only
• 55:02
  her lips would move into a thin lips smile leaven
• 55:04
  her eyes as blank as before. She gave off this
• 55:07
  aura that felt like she was permanently on the offensive.
• 55:11
  I'd only ever met her twice, and both times were
• 55:14
  for such short visits. I got the oppressed, and she
• 55:18
  didn't approve of me. For her daughter, Alynn always ushered
• 55:21
  us out quickly, and she didn't want me to feel uncomfortable,
• 55:24
  which I was grateful for. Being at her mother's company
• 55:27
  felt almost unbearable, like walking on glass. I was glad
• 55:32
  when we moved three straights away so we didn't have
• 55:33
  to see her often. I was happy to avoid the
• 55:35
  woman I needed her help. I really didn't want to
• 55:39
  talk to her at all, but I had to talk
• 55:42
  to someone, and someone who knew Lynne better than I did,
• 55:45
  so I gripped my teeth and did what I had to. Yes,
• 55:49
  she answered, already sounding irritated.
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: Mary Anne, it's me, ben Do you have a minute
• 55:55
  to talk?
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: I asked. I could hear her cluck her tongue in irritation.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: I'm in the middle of writing some checks, but if
• 56:02
  you insist, I suppose I can spare a moment. Was
• 56:06
  it that you want to discuss, Benjamin, she said coolly.
• 56:09
  It's about Lynn. She's been acting strangely, and I was
• 56:14
  wondering if you had any idea whether there was something
• 56:17
  I was quickly interrupted. It's a bit difficult to follow
• 56:20
  your rambling, Benjamin, What is that you want from me?
• 56:23
  She asked.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: I could almost see her standing there with her thin
• 56:26
  sweater and slacks, tapping her fingernails impatiently on the table.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: I wanted to know if you've noticed any odd behavior,
• 56:33
  or possibly any mental health issues.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: There was a long, uncomfortable pause that I couldn't tell
• 56:38
  was because she was just thinking or something else. Finally,
• 56:43
  after a few seconds, she spoke.
• 56:45
  Speaker 6: Unless sure if this is one of your jokes, Benjamin.
• 56:48
  But if so, I don't find the humor it now.
• 56:51
  I do have business to attend to, as I've said,
• 56:53
  so if you don't mind.
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: She said, But I cut her off before she could
• 56:57
  get rid.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: Of me, Mary, And it's not a joke. I'm sincerely
• 57:00
  concerned about Lynn's mental health. Her behavior has been very
• 57:04
  radical lately, and I'm very worried about her, and I figured,
• 57:06
  as her mother, you would be as well.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: I said, the frustration evident in my voice.
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: If you're truly concerned that, I suggest you get the
• 57:14
  health professionals involved. I don't know what you expect of me,
• 57:18
  she snapped.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: I could tell she was seconds away from hanging up,
• 57:20
  and for some reason, I was desperate not to let her.
• 57:23
  I had the feeling that she knew a lot more
• 57:25
  than she was letting on.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: Please, if not for me, do it for Lynn.
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: I heard a faint, shaky intake of breath, as if
• 57:35
  she were trying to hold her steeply persona together.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: But failing, Marian, what, Benjamin, I don't know what to
• 57:43
  tell you. My only advice would be to seek professional help.
• 57:46
  Do not call here again? Goodbye.
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: Tried to call out to her, but she'd hung up.
• 57:51
  I tried to wrap my head around the call in
• 57:53
  her refusal to help me, even if she didn't like me,
• 57:56
  Why wouldn't she want to help her own daughter. I
• 57:59
  couldn't understand that. I tried to replay the conversation, desperate
• 58:02
  to find something I missed. After a while, I almost
• 58:05
  gave up till I remembered her last words to me,
• 58:09
  seek professional help. She said those words with a bit
• 58:12
  of urgency. I could have just been grasping at straws,
• 58:16
  but no, I was sure her voice had changed ever
• 58:20
  so slightly when she said that, as if they were
• 58:23
  very important. What had she meant? I assume she'd been
• 58:28
  referring to medical professionals, But maybe she was referring to
• 58:30
  someone else, someone that she didn't, for some reason, feel
• 58:37
  comfortable saying directly. May maybe I was just desperate. Well,
• 58:43
  I feel like the mom has seen this out of
• 58:46
  Lynn before.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, yeah, I think so.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: And maybe that's why she had all of the animosity
• 58:53
  towards Benjamin, like when they were dating and stuff like that,
• 58:56
  because she didn't want Benjamin to go through it.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: Perhaps, Yeah, I'm thinking that that. And because Lynn they've
• 59:02
  been married six years, or they've been together six years
• 59:05
  and married for eleven months. Yeah, and he's only seen
• 59:08
  her mom twice and now they leave live three states away.
• 59:11
  What I'm wondering is is Lynn keeping him from her
• 59:16
  shady past or her past self to where he didn't
• 59:19
  want She doesn't want him to be around Benjamin, to
• 59:22
  be around the uh mary Anne, because mary Anne might
• 59:26
  be like, hey, you don't know what you're getting yourself into.
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: Uh huh. Or maybe like maybe she has something that
• 59:33
  comes out, you know, once every ten years or something
• 59:35
  like that.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: I waited for Chris to get home, and after a
• 59:39
  very long and exhausting conversation with him and Rebecca, convinced
• 59:42
  him that Lynn truly needed psychiatric help. I didn't tell
• 59:46
  them everything, so prepared to go into it yet, but
• 59:48
  I told him about our last encounter, how she's hid
• 59:51
  into the bathroom peeking at me from the closet. They
• 59:54
  were obviously shocked, but thankfully they believe me. They too
• 59:58
  just wanted to help her. Still, they didn't think it
• 1:00:01
  was all that serious. Weird maybe, but not dangerous. They
• 1:00:06
  just kept saying that Lynn had to be playing some
• 1:00:08
  kind of weird joke.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: Maybe for YouTube.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: Everywhere you look everywhere.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Nan, she's actually a very prolific YouTuber called Lennyboo
• 1:00:25
  seven five five.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: She's a cam girl, Benjamin.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: She's really into this thing called creep cast, and she
• 1:00:31
  figured if she acted strange enough, maybe you'd put it
• 1:00:33
  on our slash and no Sleep. Sorry. Chris didn't think
• 1:00:36
  we should involve the police just yet. He offered instead
• 1:00:40
  to go with me, and I readily accept it. He
• 1:00:43
  reasoned that calmly talking to her, trying to coax her
• 1:00:45
  into going willingly, was the best. Of course, I agreed
• 1:00:48
  to do it his way. At least I wouldn't be
• 1:00:51
  going to that house alone. We drove over this morning,
• 1:00:55
  just after breakfast. There was no way I was going
• 1:00:58
  to night. We pulled it a driveway. My stomach began
• 1:01:01
  doing somersaults. Her car wasn't there, but I still didn't
• 1:01:05
  let my guard down. The front door was ajar, and
• 1:01:08
  for a split second I thought we'd seen her eyes
• 1:01:10
  staring through the gap. I was shaking and starting to sweat. Chris, however,
• 1:01:15
  was fine. He waited for me to open the door,
• 1:01:18
  his hands in his pockets, like he was going on
• 1:01:21
  a stroll through the park. I envied his ignorance. I
• 1:01:25
  pushed the door open and was immediately hit with the
• 1:01:27
  stench of rot. Chris smelled it too. He walked in
• 1:01:31
  the house behind me with his nose scrunched up.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: One of you guys used to clean the floors around here. Shit,
• 1:01:37
  shut up.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: I said, my eyes darting around for any signs of
• 1:01:41
  blind The house was deadly quiet and dark, despite being
• 1:01:44
  ten in the morning. All the curtains were closed up tight,
• 1:01:48
  using to allow any sunlight inside. If I haven't left
• 1:01:51
  it just two days prior, i'd have thought the house
• 1:01:53
  to be abandoned. Move through each room, carefully checking any
• 1:01:57
  place she might hide, occasionally calling name.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: What the fuck are you looking under the couch? Are
• 1:02:03
  we looking for your wife?
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: He was looking at me like I was a moron.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: Let's just go upstairs.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: He shook his head, but followed me up the stairs,
• 1:02:11
  checked the bathroom and spare bedroom. On the way up,
• 1:02:14
  my shoes crunched over pieces of glass that looked to
• 1:02:16
  be littered over a few of the steps. I noticed
• 1:02:19
  that one of Linn and my wedding portraits that hung
• 1:02:21
  on the wall along the staircase had been smashed. The
• 1:02:24
  frame hung crookedly, all the glass removed. I stared at
• 1:02:28
  the picture, the lump forming in my throat. We had
• 1:02:32
  taken the photo just after leaving the church after saying
• 1:02:35
  our vows. She looked so beautiful in her white gown.
• 1:02:39
  I looked at Lynn's beautiful face. I never dreamed her
• 1:02:42
  face would never be a source of terror for me.
• 1:02:44
  We climbed the rest of the steps and checked the
• 1:02:46
  spare bedroom, but it looked completely untouched. I was hesitant
• 1:02:52
  to go into the bathroom, my fear from that night
• 1:02:54
  coming back to me all at once. Chris noticed and
• 1:02:58
  offered to go in by himself, but I couldn't let
• 1:03:00
  him do that, so he walked in together, checking the
• 1:03:03
  closet and the shower. The bathroom looked as if it
• 1:03:07
  hadn't been touched since the night I left.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: I don't think she's here, Ben. Why don't you pack
• 1:03:12
  some clothes and we'll should coming back tomorrow or something.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: Chris said. I nodded and went into our bedroom and
• 1:03:18
  shoved some clothes into a devil bag. When I checked
• 1:03:20
  inside our closet, I came across the source of the
• 1:03:23
  smell and gagged. Chris took one look and lost all
• 1:03:27
  color in his face. He had to go stand by
• 1:03:29
  the stairs to get away from the side and smell.
• 1:03:33
  I gazed down in shock at what lay inside my
• 1:03:36
  bedroom closet. Soaking into the rug were at least a
• 1:03:41
  dozen eyeballs, all carefully laid out in pairs. Some were
• 1:03:47
  as large as a quarter, while others were as tiny
• 1:03:50
  as a marble. I stared down at the eye she
• 1:03:53
  collected from the small animals and wondered how she got them.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: Shuddered at the thought man on a headed bed with
• 1:04:00
  begger shoe addiction. But fuck me, your wife's in here
• 1:04:04
  collecting eyeballs, then I think we should go. I'm getting nauseous.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: I would I would punch him in the face.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, you're ah, I thought my I thought my
• 1:04:18
  broad was with all of her weird shoes. A man
• 1:04:21
  shoes is legitimately a lunatic. I'm getting the hell of it.
• 1:04:24
  Smells like baby diapers and ship eight pal lisis are
• 1:04:28
  less expensive, Am I right?
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: You can get eyebells in the backyard. Ain't gotta spend
• 1:04:32
  the check on the missus. The old ball and shade
• 1:04:34
  in your hair.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're lucky, pale? All right? I wish had eyebright.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: Get some for breeze, clear that right up?
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I get some for breeze. You can't go to
• 1:04:44
  you can't. You can't go to prison for tackling the
• 1:04:46
  neighborhood dog and ripping out his eyeballs. You'll be just fine.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: But you know, you know what you can't get over
• 1:04:52
  that price from pay Less shoes, That that receipt she
• 1:04:56
  brings home, am I right? But her?
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: There a The one thing you can't get over is
• 1:05:01
  a Balenciaga receipt.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah right, I'll tell you what you think. You think
• 1:05:04
  eyeballs are bad? How about some eye Balenciaga on over
• 1:05:07
  a seat you're here, Yeah, I'll tell you what.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: I grabbed my defel and shut the closet door on
• 1:05:14
  my new Nightmare, stepped out into the hall and took
• 1:05:16
  a deep breath of air. I tasted the broad of
• 1:05:19
  my tongue and I couldn't help the gag.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: The fuck lines of eyeballs in their closet like that.
• 1:05:25
  I tried to tell you she needed help. She doesn't
• 1:05:28
  need help. She needs a fucking exorcist, you come in
• 1:05:32
  to what I can't stand the smell ony.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: His words died in his throat, and his eyes grew
• 1:05:36
  wide with fear. I didn't ask him why. I could
• 1:05:40
  feel it. Someone was watching me, and I didn't think
• 1:05:43
  it was the eyes in the closet. I turned around
• 1:05:47
  my slowly scanning the bedroom. Christ I whispered as I
• 1:05:52
  finally saw what we missed under the bed hurled on
• 1:05:56
  her side, watching us with the excitement of a kid
• 1:05:59
  on Chris this morning was my wife. She held her
• 1:06:04
  hands together just under her chin, and they were shaking
• 1:06:07
  eagerly now that she knew she'd been found. I could
• 1:06:11
  hear the quiet noises. She was making a sort of
• 1:06:15
  hiccuping sound in her throat, as if the excitement was
• 1:06:18
  just too much for It was unnerving, to say the least,
• 1:06:23
  wide eyes in that same huge smile. Everything in me
• 1:06:28
  told me to run, but I forced it anyway. This
• 1:06:31
  was my wife, no matter how twisted, she was still
• 1:06:33
  the woman I married. I had to help her.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 3: Lynn.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: She didn't respond, but her head bobbed back and forth
• 1:06:41
  in two quick little movements, as if she were nodding.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: Baby. I just want to help Okay, can you let
• 1:06:49
  me do that?
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: I'd taken a single step forward, approaching her like some
• 1:06:53
  kind of dangerous animal. I love you, Lynn, I said, softly,
• 1:06:58
  taking another step closer. She let a tiny moment escape
• 1:07:01
  her wide open mouth, and I had to resist the
• 1:07:03
  urge to run. Her shoulders were starting to quiver, and
• 1:07:07
  her eyes grew as large as saucers. Crouched down so
• 1:07:11
  I could see her better and immediately saw the blood
• 1:07:15
  her hands were covered in it. It trembled more the
• 1:07:18
  closer I got, as if she were barely able to
• 1:07:20
  contain herself. Then. But you hurt, You're bleeding, I said.
• 1:07:27
  She bobbed her head again, and her bloody fingers, moving
• 1:07:30
  up and down as if playing an invisible piano, occasionally
• 1:07:33
  grazed her chin, leaving smears of blood on her skin.
• 1:07:37
  I wanted to recoil and disgust. The smell that was
• 1:07:40
  coming off of her was revolting. I could feel the
• 1:07:43
  vomit trying to climb up my throat. Her lips were
• 1:07:46
  dry and stretched thin, blood seeping between the cracks. I
• 1:07:50
  knew she wouldn't come out on her own, but I
• 1:07:53
  didn't want to leave her in the state she was in.
• 1:07:56
  I scooped it closer and reached out to her. The
• 1:07:59
  excited hiccopping sounds got louder, and her hands shook, fingers flexing.
• 1:08:04
  It's then that I could see the blood oozing from
• 1:08:06
  in between her fingers.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: Oh my Godlin, you're bleeding.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: Instinctively, I reached out to take her hand, but before
• 1:08:13
  I could even touch her, her hands sprang out towards me.
• 1:08:17
  Sharp pain shot through my arm and I fell back
• 1:08:19
  on my ass. My arm burned, and I could see
• 1:08:21
  the blood dripping down onto the carpet. I looked back
• 1:08:25
  at her and shock, and saw her grinning madly, her
• 1:08:27
  fingers clutching a large shard of glass.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: You all right in there. I hate Chris Chris so
• 1:08:41
  he's like taking all of the wind out of this
• 1:08:43
  really good story. It's so fucking annoying. Hey, I know,
• 1:08:46
  I saw those eyeballs, and you've been like you saw
• 1:08:48
  your dead wife. R. It's not doing okay.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: I thought those shoes were bad, buddy. Anyway, let's get yo.
• 1:08:55
  Oh man, anyway, you all right in there. I thought the.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: Bogo wings we got Buffalo wow wings were bad. But
• 1:09:02
  she looks crazy.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: She's right behind you, isn't she?
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: Uh, Benjamin, She's right behind you, isn't she. It's like, Chris,
• 1:09:14
  you can see you would know.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: That you're looking at me.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: You are looking at me right now. Oh yeah, yeah,
• 1:09:19
  she's behind you.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: Ierm ben You're gonna want to see this. I turned
• 1:09:28
  my head slightly nodded to him, cradling my arm to
• 1:09:31
  my chest. When I turned back to face Lynn, I
• 1:09:34
  saw that her focus had shifted. She wasn't looking at
• 1:09:37
  me anymore. She wasn't smiling anymore either. She was staring
• 1:09:41
  past me, her eyes glaring at Chris the way a
• 1:09:43
  hungry lion might stare in an antelope. Her mouth was
• 1:09:46
  still hanging open, but it was twisted into a snarl.
• 1:09:51
  I got on my feet and began walking backwards down
• 1:09:53
  the hall, afraid to take my eyes off her.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: Are you bleeding?
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: Chris asked, the moment the words up his mouth, Lynn
• 1:10:00
  started fast, scooting out from under the bed the glass yard,
• 1:10:03
  still on her fist.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Chris, run.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: Go, I yelled. You must have been too afraid to move,
• 1:10:09
  because a second later I felt my back bump into him.
• 1:10:12
  He was still standing at the top of the stairs,
• 1:10:14
  staring at the horror that was my wife. Lynn had
• 1:10:17
  crawled completely out from under the bed and stood in
• 1:10:20
  the bedroom doorway, her face twisted in rage. Her whole
• 1:10:24
  body was visibly tense. Blood ran down her fingers and
• 1:10:27
  onto the floor.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 4: Jesus, Lynd, you you played hide and seek? I God,
• 1:10:40
  damn it, grass, God, God damn it. Oh my gosh,
• 1:10:50
  Jesus Lynn, you played hide and seek? Yeah?
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: What the hell you doing? What is his operation?
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: WHOA? Don't go away? Look there must be that time
• 1:11:11
  of the month of something going a little crazy.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, bloody for what reason?
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: Ew hey, pal, don't we all got him? Oh? I
• 1:11:21
  see some blood on her hands. I know what that means.
• 1:11:23
  They all get a little wacky, they all get a
• 1:11:25
  little eyeball, you know what I mean.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: I hope Chris gets skinned alive here. He also want
• 1:11:30
  to say, before before Chris completely ruins this story for me,
• 1:11:34
  it does. If she is looking at everybody else as
• 1:11:37
  a threat and like threaten to kill their people, do
• 1:11:40
  you think that she uh was like looking at her
• 1:11:42
  husband with like some kind of weird demented love, then still.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: No, I think she I think so. I think happened
• 1:11:48
  that she's possessed, okay by something and whatever entity it
• 1:11:54
  is is feeding off of Ben, feeding off of fear.
• 1:11:57
  Fore Like, like I said earlier, parasite right, and other
• 1:12:02
  people can endanger that or basically give up the charade, right,
• 1:12:06
  because what the parasite wanted was to just spin the
• 1:12:09
  life of feeding off of the energy, the fear or
• 1:12:11
  whatever of Bin. But if someone else is there, then
• 1:12:13
  that ruins the charade, right, m hm, So I think
• 1:12:17
  that's one of those. But although that being said, she
• 1:12:21
  did collect the eyeballs and then stab Bin, So maybe
• 1:12:25
  it's like reaching some apex whatever this possession or like
• 1:12:29
  you know, Poltergeist did.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: I didn't know if it was just over I just
• 1:12:31
  didn't know if it was over indulgence, like feeding so
• 1:12:35
  much that now you're like like just a blood rage.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: Ca. Yeah, yeah, it might be. It might be uh okay, yeah,
• 1:12:40
  but locked in before Chris can ruin it, I reached
• 1:12:43
  back and pushed him towards the steps movie your ans, Chris,
• 1:12:47
  I said, as quietly but firmly as I could. Lin
• 1:12:50
  bobbed her head in fast, sharp motions and began to grin,
• 1:12:54
  stretching her mouth open wider and wider, so that her
• 1:12:57
  chin seemed to touch her chest. I heard Chris mutter prayer,
• 1:13:00
  and then he was running down the stairs. I stood
• 1:13:03
  at the top of the steps, stuck between the love
• 1:13:05
  for a woman who clearly needed serious help and self preservation.
• 1:13:09
  I really want to help, I said, choking back tears.
• 1:13:13
  Her eyes focused on me once again as she slowly
• 1:13:15
  lifted the glass, holding it out in front of her,
• 1:13:19
  and then she started sprinting towards me, grinning without her excitement.
• 1:13:24
  Bro Thankfully, my body took over and I flew down
• 1:13:28
  the stairs, skipping two or three at a time. I
• 1:13:30
  made it to the front door before I felt her
• 1:13:32
  leap onto my back, wrapping her arms around my neck,
• 1:13:35
  her open mouth next to my ear so that I
• 1:13:37
  could hear those terrible hiccuping sounds up close. I shook
• 1:13:42
  her off me, knocking her to the floor. I felt
• 1:13:44
  searing pain in my back as she went, but I
• 1:13:47
  tore open the front door and bolted to my car.
• 1:13:50
  Chris was standing in the front yard talking on the
• 1:13:52
  phone with the police. He's on the phone like she's
• 1:13:57
  right behind him.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: I need you to deliver this as fast as a
• 1:14:00
  Jimmy John Sun.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: I want this hot ready or else, it's free.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: Hear exactly. This is being absolutely wild. She's on screwy dewey.
• 1:14:12
  Get over here.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: I bring us a glass of wine and a weekend vacation,
• 1:14:18
  if you know what I mean. The woman's going a
• 1:14:19
  little stir crazy over a.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: Right like, sir, what the hell are you even calling
• 1:14:24
  us for.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: I didn't say a word. I just ran to my
• 1:14:27
  car and jumped in. Chris took the hint and followed me,
• 1:14:29
  still on the line with nine one one. I watched
• 1:14:32
  the rear view mirror, sure I'd see her there running
• 1:14:35
  after us, but I never did. I went straight to
• 1:14:38
  the ear and got eleven stitches in my arm, three
• 1:14:40
  on my back. The police asked a lot of questions
• 1:14:42
  and went back to the house to do a search,
• 1:14:44
  but of course Lynn wasn't there. They advised me to
• 1:14:48
  stay with a friend or relative for a while, and
• 1:14:50
  to follow a restraining order as soon as I could.
• 1:14:52
  But none of those things would matter. Somehow, I just knew.
• 1:14:56
  I dropped Chris off at home and went to a
• 1:14:58
  hotel an hour away. Why on earth would you go
• 1:15:01
  to a motel? No, I don't know. Why would you
• 1:15:04
  go anywhere with that why would you drop Chris off,
• 1:15:09
  tell the police, and then go isolate yourself? Okay, all right,
• 1:15:15
  this is where I've been for the last four hours.
• 1:15:18
  I thought maybe the police would find her, maybe they'd
• 1:15:20
  get her the help she desperately needs. But I don't
• 1:15:23
  think so, because forty minutes ago I got a text
• 1:15:26
  from an unknown number, just three words, I found you
• 1:15:32
  and a picture attached. Picture was dark and grainy, but
• 1:15:35
  I instantly knew what it was. There was no mistaking.
• 1:15:38
  My wife's eye started typing this out immediately after. I
• 1:15:44
  don't know what to do. I'm alone and scared. I
• 1:15:47
  can't help but feel that I'm being watched by story.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: That's a good one.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: That's a good one. That's a good one.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: It kind of the story to me like last ten
• 1:15:58
  percent kind of fumble bit. Uh, but here's here's all
• 1:16:03
  the concept. Yeah, I think great. I mean, first, I've
• 1:16:08
  been spooked in a while.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: That got me.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: That got me.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of good stuff. I wrote some questions
• 1:16:13
  down throughout that I would like to discuss with you now.
• 1:16:17
  Now one earlier earlier in the uh in the story.
• 1:16:22
  I wrote this earlier in and I think that the
• 1:16:24
  so I wrote, does this feel more believable? More believable
• 1:16:28
  if they were just dating for six months and not married.
• 1:16:32
  I say this because because of the back and forth
• 1:16:35
  of if your wife was being that way, I feel
• 1:16:37
  like you'd be a lot more You'd be a lot
• 1:16:40
  more confrontational, you'd be more open to being like what
• 1:16:42
  is hat? Like what are you doing? Like you would
• 1:16:44
  you would not let something lie versus if you were
• 1:16:47
  dating somebody for six months, like okay, I haven't really
• 1:16:49
  had a girlfriend in a while. I guess this is whatever,
• 1:16:52
  Like I would rather be with somebody than with nobody,
• 1:16:55
  you know what I mean? And I know that they
• 1:16:56
  have the I know that they kept it being a
• 1:16:58
  marriage because it's like, well, of course, where she wouldn't
• 1:17:00
  just like leave.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah right, but still you'd like, I mean, like, okay,
• 1:17:07
  I think I think leave the marriage part right, because
• 1:17:11
  you can make it be like you just got engaged
• 1:17:14
  or something, right, because that puts it in a middle ground,
• 1:17:18
  because the idea of the marriage thing is that it's
• 1:17:20
  too strong of a bond to separate. Because I feel
• 1:17:22
  like if they're just dating, then this would be grounds
• 1:17:25
  to be like and we broke up, you know, like to.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: Me, it's like it's more about the amount of time.
• 1:17:30
  I mean six years, like a two year relationship, I think, sure,
• 1:17:37
  that's about right. I think, yeah, not super long, but
• 1:17:40
  not like short to the point where it's like, well,
• 1:17:43
  I mean I've invested this much time into this thing.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: There would be a thing if you were dating for
• 1:17:48
  like two years of like a weird middle ground of
• 1:17:50
  like is she okay or something I think I know?
• 1:17:52
  Or six months is like okay, bye, But six years
• 1:17:55
  is like.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: What what? You You have so much more room. You
• 1:18:01
  have so much more room to actually be confrontational and
• 1:18:05
  be like like talk.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: Years in a relationship. Honestly, after like four years, you're
• 1:18:09
  comfortable to start a fight, you know, if.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: You're past the honeymoon stage and now you're this is
• 1:18:15
  where the relationship actually begins.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's like if there's an issue, you're because
• 1:18:20
  like before, it's like if there's an issue in your head,
• 1:18:22
  you're like, well, I don't want to cause any problems.
• 1:18:24
  But after like four years, it's like this needs to
• 1:18:27
  be fixed. Time to start a problem, you know, if
• 1:18:29
  need be, And this would absolutely be caused to start
• 1:18:32
  a problem, you know.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no one hundred percent. I was The next one
• 1:18:37
  I had too, is was the movie Smile based.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: Off of this? How old is this story?
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: Hold on, it's two years old.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: There's no way they turned Smile around that quick. Smile
• 1:18:48
  came out like a year ago, right, I think not officially.
• 1:18:53
  I think I would have heard something about that, right
• 1:18:56
  if it was based off creep Now it came out
• 1:18:57
  September thirtieth of twenty twenty two.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, so these came around just like a similar time. Yeah,
• 1:19:03
  I mean, like creepy smiling stuff is like a pretty
• 1:19:07
  standard trophy thing. But it was just some of the things.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: I just there was there was some specific notes. I think, uh,
• 1:19:14
  but they they're they're I mean, even if they there
• 1:19:17
  was enough time for one to be based off the other,
• 1:19:19
  I think there's enough uniqueness, you know that maybe it
• 1:19:22
  got conceptual. There's no way, though, that the movie came
• 1:19:24
  off of this story, because that's just that you sure, Yeah,
• 1:19:28
  you can't make a film that quick.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: I was just curious. I mean, I don't think either
• 1:19:31
  or is like parasitic tod yeah product, Yeah, I just
• 1:19:36
  wrote Chris Jokes sucked, just but just made a note
• 1:19:40
  for that, just because that every one of them sucked
• 1:19:43
  up so much. I mean, is I think all of them,
• 1:19:45
  all of the jokes sucked. I feel like he was
• 1:19:48
  the He was the only thing that made the story
• 1:19:51
  feel a little not poorly written, but just like just unbelievable.
• 1:19:56
  Like and then also it's like it's just not funny.
• 1:19:58
  And also I just don't think you need to have
• 1:20:00
  that quirky character and something like something. Yeah, I mean,
• 1:20:06
  here's here's another thing too. What do you think about
• 1:20:09
  her collecting eyes? Does that feel so random or is
• 1:20:12
  there a correlation there besides the aspect of staring. I
• 1:20:16
  really can't think of, like why why eyes?
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: Well, it's got to be a staring thing, right, Well,
• 1:20:22
  what actually what I think it is is so when
• 1:20:24
  he how she keeps doing these elaborate pranks kind of
• 1:20:28
  of like you know, slamming the door so that she's
• 1:20:30
  standing in the closet. I bet she did it so
• 1:20:32
  that he opens the closet and there's things staring at him,
• 1:20:36
  like not, it's not that the eyes have a significance
• 1:20:39
  beyond haha, it's something else looking at you. And then
• 1:20:43
  she's super excited watching from under the bed like haha.
• 1:20:45
  Made it look at you.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he puts an emphasis on the joke aspects that
• 1:20:49
  could be I almost read it at first as like, oh,
• 1:20:52
  is she plucking the eyes of things that are staring
• 1:20:54
  back at her?
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: I had that thought at first. I thought it was
• 1:20:57
  people's eyes and she was like a serial cop.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: Okay, animals, So yeah, it's just animals.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: But I think it's more than likely she like is
• 1:21:06
  getting a kick off of staring at him. So it's like, haha,
• 1:21:11
  made more things stare at you, you know. Yeah, Like
• 1:21:15
  if it's just like, oh, she's getting to the point
• 1:21:18
  she's killing animals, I think that's kind of lame, But
• 1:21:21
  as an extension of the whole staring joke, I think
• 1:21:25
  it works. I think that's fine.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: So the thing ends, and it's supposed to be that, oh,
• 1:21:30
  she found him, and that's how it ends. I think
• 1:21:34
  is it a better ending if when they get outside
• 1:21:37
  the cops have already showed up, because because Chris is
• 1:21:41
  called the cops to show up, and she's holding the
• 1:21:43
  knife and she's charging at Ben, she gets shot boom,
• 1:21:46
  So you don't even know what was going on with her.
• 1:21:48
  You're just like, what the fuck even happened? When they
• 1:21:50
  go back and they're figuring out what stuff going on,
• 1:21:53
  or Rebecca shows up to pick it up. It's like
• 1:21:55
  Chris hugs Rebecca whatever. And then as Benjamin looks up,
• 1:21:57
  Rebecca smiling because Lynn had that moment with her alone
• 1:22:02
  as well. So it's like passed on. That would have
• 1:22:05
  been a funer thing to where you were like, I
• 1:22:07
  don't know how that ended as inexplicable, but it doesn't
• 1:22:11
  end where she's like, oh, she's still out there. More
• 1:22:13
  so the thing has been passed on or this thing
• 1:22:16
  is like it's larger than her.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: Give me a second, I think, Okay, I'm not The
• 1:22:21
  ending's fine. It's like the standard creepypasta ending, the ending
• 1:22:25
  in the store.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: It's like you're saying the same as the dead girlfriend.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's your typical like, oh, it's still
• 1:22:31
  out there, it's going to come get me, you know whatever.
• 1:22:37
  Even if I think it's a bit contrived that he
• 1:22:39
  would make himself alone in the hotel, like no, he wouldn't,
• 1:22:43
  you know, Yeah, but it kind of forces to get
• 1:22:48
  the whole like, oh, she sent me a picture of
• 1:22:49
  her eyes. She's still out there. Sending a picture of
• 1:22:51
  the eyes kind of goofy too, Like I can't imagine
• 1:22:55
  a demon like holding the iPhone camera up to their
• 1:22:59
  eye and then like waiting for it to focus and
• 1:23:01
  then being like I.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: Kind of read like and then it kind of reading
• 1:23:04
  gets that of okay, Like you know, it reminded me
• 1:23:08
  almost like the ending to like a Jungi Eto comic
• 1:23:12
  and that absurdist kind of Japanese manga storytelling kind of way,
• 1:23:17
  which I kind of liked, but I just feel like
• 1:23:19
  it's not the strongest ending. I also think that my
• 1:23:22
  another general complaint I maybe had is I feel like,
• 1:23:25
  don't include the mom section of the story. It doesn't
• 1:23:27
  really lead anywhere, and I don't think it like I
• 1:23:29
  don't think the carret that you're dangling with the story
• 1:23:32
  of like, oh, she knows something that we don't know.
• 1:23:34
  I don't know if that really leads anywhere. And I
• 1:23:36
  think it also just takes away from what this entity is,
• 1:23:39
  which at the end of the day, I think it's
• 1:23:41
  strongest when you don't know.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the strongest element of the story was someone you
• 1:23:45
  love developing this insane joke basically, yeah, and the mother
• 1:23:52
  element almost explicitly said it was like demonic, right, like yeah,
• 1:23:57
  a professional, you know, that whole thing. Yeah, So if
• 1:24:03
  it had gone somewhere, probably would have been fine. But
• 1:24:06
  as it stands, it kind of just it gives you
• 1:24:09
  an out right like, oh, it's a demon, you know,
• 1:24:12
  and that's I don't want to feel satisfied with a
• 1:24:15
  creature in the way of like, oh I've I've figured
• 1:24:18
  it out, because the scary especially like it's unexplainable.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I was gonna say, if it's unexplainable, and
• 1:24:25
  especially if the format of the story that you're telling
• 1:24:27
  is through the social media post, I think it's better
• 1:24:30
  if you don't have these things where it's like, well,
• 1:24:32
  I better go see your mom or something. I feel
• 1:24:35
  like it just needs to be more self contained in
• 1:24:37
  that way to feel like this post is coming or whatever,
• 1:24:41
  and you can have this guy reaching out because he's
• 1:24:43
  just like I just don't know what's going on, and
• 1:24:45
  I feel like it's just more contained to his personal
• 1:24:47
  experience and he hasn't like gone out and done these things.
• 1:24:50
  It isn't totally unbelievable. It's just my personal preference. So
• 1:24:53
  I just I guess I just wanted to say that too.
• 1:24:54
  I think it's just my personal preference.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: I think I think this would be a better ending.
• 1:25:00
  This is very pretentious to me, by the way, to
• 1:25:02
  be like, oh, I think what would be a better
• 1:25:04
  but I think something that would maybe follow through on
• 1:25:09
  the best. In my opinion, the best parts of the
• 1:25:11
  story would be if he goes over to her right
• 1:25:17
  out there at the house, and you can have the
• 1:25:19
  eye part. I think the eyepart kind of works right
• 1:25:22
  if you do it this way, so the eyes are
• 1:25:25
  there to be like, aha, it's staring at you. You
• 1:25:28
  could even up the stakes a bit if you want it.
• 1:25:29
  Maybe there's like dozens of pairs of eyes, right, and
• 1:25:32
  she's like standing in the corner all excited, and then
• 1:25:36
  he gives his whole like Lynn, I want to help
• 1:25:38
  you or whatever, and then you don't have the kind
• 1:25:41
  of horror movie ending where she chases him and like
• 1:25:44
  running and stabs him, because then it's just like every
• 1:25:47
  other horror movie creature. Right. What if instead she's just
• 1:25:51
  standing there like mouth open, excited and he's like, come
• 1:25:55
  come with me, And what if she's like still like
• 1:25:57
  smiling and excited, and she's like did you see my
• 1:26:00
  did you see my prank? Did you like it? Are
• 1:26:01
  you scared. Are you scared? Did you like being scared?
• 1:26:04
  And he was like, yeah, yeah, honey, it was really good.
• 1:26:07
  You got me good, and like, do you.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: Think that works too? Is at the beginning, it's like,
• 1:26:13
  because I see what you're saying, you have like that's
• 1:26:15
  pretty demented and just fucking like mentally weird, you know,
• 1:26:19
  like I like that like kind of psychological ending. Do
• 1:26:21
  you think that it all starts off with? Then of
• 1:26:23
  them him, of him pranking her at the beginning, he's like,
• 1:26:27
  it was a helpless prank and like that's the thing
• 1:26:29
  that triggered this like response all does.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: That almost makes it too defined of like oh well,
• 1:26:37
  she just snapped on it. I think it makes it
• 1:26:40
  a bit scarier if she just started doing this and
• 1:26:43
  you don't know why, like there's not really an explanation.
• 1:26:46
  And then she's like did you see it? Did you
• 1:26:48
  like that? Because the one thing she says is like
• 1:26:49
  maybe I've gotten better at it, so maybe there at
• 1:26:51
  the end she says something like I'm really good at this,
• 1:26:54
  Like I've gotten really good at this, and he's like, yeah, babe,
• 1:26:56
  you are you know, I love you, And then he
• 1:26:58
  takes her to be committed and she goes into like
• 1:27:04
  she goes into a mental health facility, and he was like,
• 1:27:07
  I go to visit, but she won't really talk to me.
• 1:27:11
  The doctors have told me not to bring up what
• 1:27:13
  has anything specific about the peaking or whatever, because they're
• 1:27:16
  afraid that might agitate her. So I try to small
• 1:27:19
  talk with her about life and stuff like that, but
• 1:27:21
  it doesn't really go anywhere.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when I visit her, she just sits under the
• 1:27:26
  table and peaks at me from up under.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 2: The Yeah, like she's not getting better, Like it's.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: Just getting work.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: It's but there's no abject danger to it. It's just
• 1:27:37
  the unknowingness of why can't my wife be helped, you know,
• 1:27:41
  what's going on?
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: The uncanny nature of like this mental deterioration, which I
• 1:27:45
  think too, is just unbelievably horrifying as well. I'm curious
• 1:27:48
  what people have to say, like what people think of
• 1:27:50
  the ending and what people have maybe you know, do
• 1:27:53
  you agree with what we're saying, do you like the
• 1:27:55
  ending and how it is. I'm kind of curious to
• 1:27:56
  see what people say from there.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: There's a few ways you could end it. You could
• 1:28:00
  end it with just him writing about what happened is
• 1:28:03
  like this was a weird scenario. You could have her die,
• 1:28:06
  maybe somehow in the mental health facility, like you know,
• 1:28:09
  she does it herself or something like that. You could
• 1:28:12
  have her if you really want to have a monster
• 1:28:14
  in and you could have her escape or something and
• 1:28:16
  you don't know where she's at. You could have like
• 1:28:18
  a little ending where he has some like normal interaction
• 1:28:25
  with a person in public, maybe another relationship, maybe just
• 1:28:30
  someone in public who he thinks was maybe peeking at him.
• 1:28:34
  But it could also just be a normal scenario, you know,
• 1:28:37
  but he's so paranoid now he can't trust anyone. Something
• 1:28:40
  like that.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: I think the best way to end it would be Benjamin,
• 1:28:45
  in a fit of rage in a rainy night, shows
• 1:28:49
  up at Chris Jones's house or Chris Chris's house and
• 1:28:51
  just shoots him three times in the chest, and that's
• 1:28:53
  how it ends. Chris opens the door and like you're like, oh,
• 1:28:59
  this is horrible. I mean, he's not really going to
• 1:29:01
  do this, is he? But then Chris The first thing
• 1:29:02
  Chris says is cal bunga with a question mark, which
• 1:29:05
  doesn't even make sense. And then Benjamin's just like, God,
• 1:29:08
  get just.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 2: The shotgun directly into his face. Yeah, boom, and.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: The smiles, and that's how the curse gets transferred over.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: You could have an ending. Okay, so imagine, Okay, let's
• 1:29:18
  rewind a bit. He takes her to the mental health
• 1:29:20
  facility and then he was like, that was yesterday, so
• 1:29:23
  she's still in the health facility. Whatever. He was like,
• 1:29:25
  I drove over to talk to Chris about it tonight
• 1:29:27
  and I noticed Rebecca was looking at him from the
• 1:29:30
  from the bedroom window.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think I think having it passed on
• 1:29:34
  to Rebecca after after we have that thing where Lynn
• 1:29:39
  has talked to Rebecca. Yes, he was sleeping, like something
• 1:29:43
  happened there. I think it just sets it up for
• 1:29:45
  a great continuation of it and like or even like
• 1:29:47
  not continuation, but like, oh passed on and this is
• 1:29:50
  where did it go. Yeah, and somebody must have had
• 1:29:53
  this interaction with Lynn as well. I think that's just
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  like a fun way to go about it too, And
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  I'm curious with it. That's not to say that this
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  is bad in now, No, I'd like you. I think
• 1:30:03
  I think the verbiage of this would be a better
• 1:30:05
  ending is probably not correct. I think it was that
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  I would have written it, which isn't by no means
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  a like perfect. I'm not the arbiter of good writing
• 1:30:17
  by any means, of.
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  Speaker 2: Course, I think it. I think it worked well.
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  Speaker 1: I love had a great time.
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  Speaker 2: I did have a great time. I thought that one
• 1:30:25
  line was insanely good. Uh, maybe I've just gotten better
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  at it. Yeah, that was so good. I thought the
• 1:30:30
  whole bathroom section was fantastic. That was great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but the bathroom is definitely the highlight. That the
• 1:30:36
  beautiful tension race from there, and just like the kind
• 1:30:39
  of anticipation of waiting, I think that that was all
• 1:30:41
  really done really well. I also just liked Benjamin too
• 1:30:44
  as a main character. I liked him. I think that's like,
• 1:30:47
  I think you did everything like in a believable good way.
• 1:30:51
  I just felt bad for him. I think that. I think, Yeah,
• 1:30:54
  as a protagonist in a horror story, I don't think
• 1:30:56
  you could be much better.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't know.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: Curious y'all think let's know what you think down below
• 1:31:02
  and be sure to uh yeah, I guess just keep
• 1:31:05
  the suggestions. And this is a good suggestion.
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  Speaker 2: You know what you guys did good this time? So
• 1:31:09
  that is one four or five. I think how many
• 1:31:12
  of how many of that?
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  Speaker 1: I won't hold it against him.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: Tafy. Okay, so that one like that, I'm not.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: Gonna I'm not even gonna bring up the word again.
• 1:31:24
  I don't want us to be crucialiy.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 2: I am going to I have access to this channel,
• 1:31:29
  So I am going to make an entire Tommy Taffy
• 1:31:33
  like parts three and four episode.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: You're gonna, Yeah, it's gonna be basically fan fiction, the
• 1:31:39
  same way that like fanaf gets fan fiction and Tommy Taffy,
• 1:31:42
  I'm sure.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: People, And it's gonna be Hunter like. It's gonna be
• 1:31:45
  like at the ending, it's like I've I've got like
• 1:31:48
  a cigar in my mouth and I'm like out of AMMO,
• 1:31:50
  and there's hundreds of Tommy Taffy's and Hunters like laid
• 1:31:53
  on my feet in like a white dress like Isaiah,
• 1:31:56
  what are we gonna do? And I'm like, we're gonna
• 1:31:58
  keep killing or whatever, And that's how it is, too. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The first video of mine is going to be the
• 1:32:02
  Rise and Fall of Wind again.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 2: OK. Yeah, that's cool.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: And then I'm gonna have that.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna make a video that's actually talking about how
• 1:32:09
  if we analyze Meet Canyon's cartoon history. We can actually
• 1:32:11
  see a history of alt right supremacism throughout his works
• 1:32:15
  and these, uh, these total.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: You team up with the guy who did who made
• 1:32:19
  the video on you to make it on me.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: It's both of us standing in front of a green screen.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like, what the hell is like, what are
• 1:32:30
  you doing?
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 2: The enemy of my enemy is my friend?
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: Me is my friend exactly. That's the first line, is
• 1:32:37
  the first line in quotes by some guy.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, like we're both in pre scarb, like we
• 1:32:44
  have to stop him. All right.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: Well, I think that does it for our episode today.
• 1:32:51
  It was a wonderful one. I appreciate you guys. Also,
• 1:32:53
  once again, be sure to check the description and link below,
• 1:32:56
  probably for the merch the mercher drop that we're doing.
• 1:33:01
  I believe it is actually limited. I can't remember the day,
• 1:33:03
  but two weeks it'll say it. I think it's like
• 1:33:04
  two yeah, two weeks. It'll stay on the website too,
• 1:33:06
  so link it should be up there.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: Lincoln.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: Feel free to pick one up if you want to
• 1:33:09
  get the hat and the shirt, not to support Hunter,
• 1:33:12
  but to support me and I appreciate it, So that's right,
• 1:33:15
  And I will say the uh, don't support me, support
• 1:33:17
  Windagoon on this. I swear I don't get anything from it,
• 1:33:20
  and I think also I just want to say thank
• 1:33:22
  you guys again. I know Isaiah brought it up at
• 1:33:24
  the beginning, but thank you for checking out creep TV.
• 1:33:26
  I think it's going to be a fun continuation onto
• 1:33:29
  what we're doing here. And as always, we appreciate the amazing,
• 1:33:33
  amazing support on everything we've been doing. So thank you all.
• 1:33:36
  I just appreciate you, appreciate you all very much.
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: Thank you for all the support. It means the world.
• 1:33:40
  Continue to show love on audio platforms and stuff like that,
• 1:33:44
  it means a lot. You guys are awesome. Thank you
• 1:33:46
  for everything.
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: Stay scared, your fucking creeps.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: Say the stay creep, you scares, Stay creep, Stay you scares.
• 1:33:58
  Stay Okay, Yeah bye.
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: And I think and died of an aneurysm right there.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 2: You wish.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: Fire one h Thank you sim Bern for sponsoring the video,
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  and be sure to check out the links below.