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I_m Blind_ I_m Not Sure How Many Steps My Staircase Has · INSPIRE STORY

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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to creek Cast.
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  Speaker 3: Today, we have an unbelievably spooky story called I'm Blind.
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  I'm not sure how many steps my staircase has. God,
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  that would suck.
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  Speaker 2: They're just kind of hit.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the title, Oh my god, I'm blind, I'm
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  not sure how many steps my staircase has that's got
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  to be a predicament for every blind person, right, Or
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  do you think they count them?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? I think you do count them because I think
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  you are very aware of every like spatial thing around you. Right,
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  Because like I've talked to blind people who are like, yeah,
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  I know how to get through my house because I
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  know exactly how many steps it takes to get to
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  every part of my house.
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  Speaker 2: They know how to talk. I'm just kidding.
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  Speaker 1: No, the uh chuck, no, the uh.
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  Speaker 3: This is this is an interesting I was really caught
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  by two things with this. The title is creepy because
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  it alludes to like, oh, uh, there's more stairs than
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  there was last time, or there's fewer stairs than there
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  was last time.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's good.
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  Speaker 3: And then uh, I like that the The author's user
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  name is Emma Watson, but Dummer.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed that as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a pretty good name. I checked her out.
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  Her name is Helena.
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  Speaker 2: Watch.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's let's all focus on Hunter making fun of
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  blind people. I think that's the important thing here. As
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  a matter of fact, I'll add it to the list
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  of things he hates the disabled.
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  Speaker 2: I love.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, what are you going to say? Go ahead?
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  Speaker 2: I love I love disabled people.
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  Speaker 1: This is what I thought you were going to say
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  that somehow even worse I do. It's even worse. That
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  is even worse. Okay. Her name is Helena Castellan. I
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  believe it's pronounce or casteline. She seems like a very
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  prolific uh no sleep writer, a bunch of different stories
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  on her subreddit uh and on a reddit. She also
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  has a buy me a Coffee account, it seems, but
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  otherwise I don't see any links to her being published anywhere,
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  at least from like a just a cursory glance. This
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  is actually an interesting model. I haven't seen a lot
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  of people on her cofi like her buying me a Coffee.
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  You can purchase like extra parts to stories and stuff
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  like that, which I think is the cool idea. Show
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  a lot of story free and then if you want
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  more of it, well there it did.
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  Speaker 3: I think from what we saw here, there's four parts
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  who are going to be reading today, and there's more
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  parts on her coffee. So if you like it, support
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  the author, go participate in the coffee, indulge more into
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  other art. You know it's just nothing, but support them
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  and help them create more and more cool shit.
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  Speaker 1: So m hm, yep, it looks pretty sweet. But for
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  now we'll go and get into it. I got a
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  bit this one is a hunter fine, so you know
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  those are few and far between. And I gotta say
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  I like the title. I think. Sorry I got choked
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  up complimenting Lord. I think I like the title. I
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  think it's an interesting topic. I do think it's interesting.
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  I don't really think about like how life is different
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  for some people, Like I remember when I was reading
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  House of Leaves. In the intro, it talks about like, uh,
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  the police are investigating apartment building that someone died in,
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  and they're like, at first, the police had questions as
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  to why, uh, none of what was it? Nothing in
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  the house had labels, The light in the fridge was out,
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  stuff like that. It's like, oh, he was blind, and
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  it's like, oh, yeah, I guess you wouldn't need the
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  light bulb and that refrigerator.
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  Speaker 3: It would take a lot more for me to make
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  that delineation.
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  Speaker 1: There were more layers than that. Actually, hold on, man, you're.
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  Speaker 3: Really putting a really selling. House of Leaves is a
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  real crime thriller here. I mean they went in and
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  the fridge didn't have a light bulb. So put two
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  and two together. He's blind. Wow, listen to Jody Foster
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  and Signs of the Lambs right now, that's impressive, man.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: His apartment, however, didn't come close to anything envisioned by Joel. Okay,
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  hold on, hold on, I'm trying to let me make
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  my case until Okay, here it is sure. His place
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  was eclectic, but hardly grotesque or even that far out
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  of the ordinary, until, of course, you took a more
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  careful look and realized, Hey, why are all these candles
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  unused by no clocks, not on the walls, not even
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  on the corner of a dresser, And what's with these
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  strange pale books. For the fact that there's hardly a
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  bulb in the whole apartment, not even in the refrigerator. Well, that,
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  of course, was Zampano's greatest ironic gesture. Love of love,
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  written by the broken hearted, love of life, written by
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  the dead, all of this language of light, film and photography,
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  and he hadn't seen a thing since the mid fifties.
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  He was blind as a bat.
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  Speaker 2: So, but I don't have a clock on my walls.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, that's significant. It's because when the police investigate his house.
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  It's covered in writings. There's like stories written across books
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  and books and books, and there's journals everywhere, and he's
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  been writing on the wall. But then he's blind, So
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  how was he doing that? And that's where the question
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  comes from.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, the kicker was the light bulb in the fridge.
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  You really have to go of your way to remove
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  the light bulb in the fridge.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if it goes out.
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  Speaker 3: When have you ever in your life, when have you
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  ever heard someone be like, hey, man, real, I just
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  gotta turn I have to change the light in my fridge.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, No, I have had a garage fridge. We know
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  every white middle class family has the garage fridge, right,
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  you know I'm talking no comment, Okay, that fridge. You're
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  not holding up a sign right now or anything right now? No,
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  could you do that to me? Sometimes I'll have a
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  sign that's like psychopath or whatever. That fridge out there.
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  I've had the light go out there, but everyone just
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  leaves it because they're like, well it's the garage fridge.
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  Who cares it is possible for the light bulb to
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  go out of fridge?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a blind person's house.
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  Speaker 1: That happens, so you would never know, So you would
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  never know.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: Uh okay, the.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, if you guys are listening to this, this throwing
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  episode of Cat and Mouse, listen to it on Spotify.
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  We appreciate you. I really and I got I gotta
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  tell you too. We really need a this needs to
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  be a strong story. Last week, I've been seeing the
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  people our viewers are revolting against us.
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  Speaker 2: We need a We need a strong one here.
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  Speaker 1: If you didn't enjoy that, then I don't know who
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  you are because I was having my life. You're meet.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't enjoy that.
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  Speaker 1: You were me and you didn't know that fridge's light
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  bulbs could go out. That's you. That's what you sound like.
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  Speaker 2: Got my stomach personally.
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  Speaker 3: Well true, I'm just letting you know. I've I've been
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  drinking this chocolate milk. I think it's spoiled. I think
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  it's gone bad.
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  Speaker 1: Are you still drinking it?
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's almost done. I feel bad if I
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  just dump it out.
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  Speaker 1: If it's bad, throw it out. You and Kaylor the
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  same way. She will eat rotten food because she's like,
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  I don't want to be wasteful. It's like it's already
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  gone to waste.
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  Speaker 3: This is definitely it's it's almost it's like a Greek tragedy.
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  I'm like, it's like Oedipus Rex or something. I'm looking
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  at this and it's resembling the last bit of chocolate
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  milk in the bottom of the Chateau Local milk bottle.
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  Is it looks like the diarrhea that's gonna be in
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  my toilet later. That's what it feels like.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, can we get to the story before you say
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  something else? I don't like.
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  Speaker 2: Hmmm, sour like a warhead. Yep, let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: Milk should not be so Okay. Actually, I'm gonna step
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  right here to my mini tridge and I'm gonna grab
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  a drink.
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  Speaker 2: To one second, you pull on a giant, a giant
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  bottle of vodka.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I was actually sitting here listening to see
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  if you had anything snarky to say, and you did,
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  so you failed. I thought I thought you could hear me.
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  I was obviously talking to you, and that time I
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  got up actually to get the drink, so I tricked
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  you twice.
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  Speaker 2: You're a sick fuck. That's very house of leaves of you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, shut up. That's an amazing book.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm just saying that, like brilliant cat and Mouse
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  game you're playing with me. It reminded me of my
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  favorite horror crime.
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  Speaker 1: No, what are you talking about? Cat and mouse game?
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  Speaker 3: This cat and Mouse, that's what all crime throws are.
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  You're trying to catch the purp. When they go in,
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  they're like, how exactly?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: The cat asks if he's blind, how did he right
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  on the wall? And then the mouse does You'll have
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  to find out cat and mouse. Okay, all right, let's
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  get into it, and we get.
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  Speaker 1: To Okay, let's get into it. I've always been blind,
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  and that's fine by me. I'm glad I never got
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  to see and then lose my sight. That would have
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  been too depressing. Instead, I don't get to mourn something
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  I've never had. I've lived in this Upper East Side
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  flat for a really, really long time. As a writer,
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  it's important for me to have my own space. I've
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  been told my riding style is exquisite because I cannot see.
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  I focus on the other senses, and my riding shines
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  by stimulating them. I don't say a red apple red
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  has no meaning for me. I say warm, firm and sour,
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  a bit sweet, fits in your hand, smells of grass
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  at childhood. I'm not gonna lie. This flat was nice
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  for a while, but really tiny, and I want to
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  learn to play the piano, so naturally, since I've saved
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  up a lot of money for my works about this
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  beautiful mansion in the suburbs. At least that's how my
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  friends and family called it. I don't care. I can't
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  see anyway. I just needed to fill the warm sunlight
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  in the kitchen, the crisp air for my balcony. I
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  drink my coffee in the morning and listen to the birds,
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  and I work day and night. People thought it would
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  be a problem if my house had an upper floor, because,
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  according to them, even if I've lived my whole life blind,
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  I cook, chop up, take fast, and clean the house.
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  I apparently can't climb some damn stairs. No problem for me.
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  I counted the steps of my staircase fourteen. Eventually I
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  got used to it, and I even started going up
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  and down the stairs faster since I knew exactly how
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  many steps I needed to climb. That's the thing when
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  you're blind. Some movements become reflexes. Since you live alone,
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  you learn how to position certain things and you always
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  find them in the same place. One day, however, I
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  was going down the stairs and I tripped where I
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  expected the floor to be. There was this additional step,
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  and I didn't think much of it. Figured I must
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  have not paid attention. I mean, yes, it was odd,
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  because after thirty years of being blind, tripping wasn't really
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  a common thing. But I don't look much into it. Uh. Look, however,
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  when I went up again, I tripped at the top.
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  That was definitely unusual. Sure as it was one extra step.
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  I went back the stairs and counted fifteen, counted again,
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  fourteen The fuck? Sure enough, fourteen steps whatever. I want
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  to sleep. A few days past and I didn't trip anymore.
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  I played it off with some air my tired mind made.
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  Then one night, as I went downstairs to get a
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  glass of water, I tripped again. This time I really
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  fell down on my foot. That was not a skip step.
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  There were at least two additional steps. I felt around
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  and stood up. My foot hurt a lot, but the
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  ankle was good. I couldn't really stand up on it,
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  but no serious damage. I went up carefully, counting sixteen
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  what the fuck it's funny because there's no quotes here,
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  just coming in to say the obscenity. Yes, that's really fine.
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 1: That's good. Keep it going. Sure, you mess up, you
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  count one more or one less, but two more. The
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  house was so still, so silent. No birds, no bees,
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  no car passing. Normal people fear the darkness. I fear
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  the silence. I went downstairs again, counting. By the time
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  I reached the bottom, I counted fourteen. Again. I went
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  up again. Eighteen. That was absolutely ridiculous. Was someone messing
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  with me? How could they even mess with me like that?
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  Speaker 2: I've never heard of.
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  Speaker 1: A burgular burgular I've never heard of a burglar to
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  break into someone's house and add steps to their stairs. Still,
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  I went to check to see if I locked the door.
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  I can make my way around pretty neat, through the kitchen,
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  then into the hallway, and then I bumped into something.
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  I froze, my organs tensed up, my hair stood up
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  all ears. I never felt so much fear in my life.
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  Decided to go on and check the door. Yeah locked.
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  I made my way back upstairs. This time I didn't
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  bump into anything or anyone.
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  Speaker 2: Eighteen for Fox's sakes.
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  Speaker 1: All night, all I did was go up and down
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  like a lunatic. Each time I got different results. Back upstairs,
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  I decided to go down and make one final count. Fourteen. Okay,
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  it's probably going to be more. Fifteen, hope still going
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  seventeen nineteen twenty one. That's a record twenty seven thirty
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  three that could not be possible. Fifty two eighty eight.
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  I could absolutely feel the sense of impending doom. Something
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  was there with me, and it was vile, disgusting and unnatural,
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  and this staircase was never ending. One hundred and two.
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  I finally gave up whatever this was. I didn't want
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  to reach the bottom. I went back up. At the
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  moment I turned my back to go up, I tried
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  to be brave, but something got over me, and I
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  ran on all fours, desperate to reach the top, desperate
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  to run, run, run back to my bedroom. I don't
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  remember how I got inside and locked my door, but
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  I did. And I'm setting here and typing. This house
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  is strange. It's eerie and disturbing, and I think if
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  I'd gotten to the bottom of the staircase, I would
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  have left this world. I don't think that was my
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  house anymore. However, no matter what stupid, cryptic, eerie, unnatural
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  staircase I inveld is important not only that I don't
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  go down there, but then nothing comes up here either.
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  Right now, I can hear it creaking end of part one.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: That's the end of part one that was sick not okay.
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  So we don't really talk about this a lot because
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  we're kind of like we operate under the impression of like, well,
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  this is a horror story that's submitted to No Sleep, uh,
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  and then the author has to act like they're really
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  there or whatever. Right, but this is one of the
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  only stories we've read where it's because of its length
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  and the way it's written, it actually kind of feels
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  like the tone of someone who is in this situation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think I just think that there's not
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  a lot of fat around to it, Like I mean exactly. Yeah,
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  it's just sort of the point the use of numbers,
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  And I think the idea to what really elevates this
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  is you could do this as well and have it
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  be creepy if you could see, but having it be
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  blind is now even we the audience are left to
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  imagine what is like what is happening to the house
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  around them to have it, you know, just magically these
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  stairs keep adding or you know, decreasing in number, and
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  it's it's just a lot of fun and to just
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  the subtle element of like not really emphasizing too much
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  in what's in there with this person?
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  Speaker 2: Something's in there with them, it's just creepy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's nice to go like it's you're stepping
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  into this pit effectively, or like if the staircase keeps going,
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  who knows its like it goes all the way down
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  to hell. Right, you have this like infinite staircase, but
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  they can't see it, like it could be one step
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  at a time right in front of their feet, or
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  it could be this chasm that's opened up. But then
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  being blind as a layer to it. The way that
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  it's worded makes it feel very real given our situation.
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  Stuff like yeah, I really like that.
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  Speaker 2: That was That was a great intro the Do you
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  think that this author is blind? Do we have any
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  evidence for that?
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  Speaker 1: This is I would say no because the title of
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  this story is I Am blind, So it's like that's
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  the unique thing there. And then a bunch of our
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  other stuff, doesn't None of the titles seem to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean just because you're blind, I mean
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  everything has to be about being blind and just just curious.
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  Speaker 1: Just because it was so well spoken to. I really
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  like the idea too.
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  Speaker 2: Of people say that her writing is rich because she
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  doesn't say that Apple's read. It's you know, like more
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  of the taste and feel of.
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  Speaker 3: Something, just a little little things that. I mean, we
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  were kind of talking about you just you really take
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  for granted your eyesight and stuff. You know, I think,
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  like you you really reject a lot of the other
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  senses because of that.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't know. Oh, it's a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: That was a really quick one too, So I'm curious
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  to see if the other parts are as you know,
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  are they as condensed? Does she start getting longer with
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  her writing? Gonna be curious?
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it's got me hooked. I certainly liked it,
• 19:14
  even if that was just to stay at alone vignette
• 19:16
  like by itself and be like that's Cool's.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just a spooky, little you know, story is nice.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So Part two, as I typed out the first post,
• 19:26
  actually dictated it. I would stop from time to time
• 19:29
  to listen. The creaking was not consistent and almost imperceptible.
• 19:35
  A normal person couldn't probably hear it, but my remaining
• 19:39
  four senses were overly sharpened. I guess what scared me
• 19:42
  most was the silence in between.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: That was one thing too, I forgot to say, And
• 19:46
  the first part was really liked.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: The use of like the silence, like kind of really raising,
• 19:54
  like the absolute the nothingness from all your other senses
• 19:57
  would make you so scared versus being like in the
• 19:59
  dark and not be being able to see anything. Imagine
• 20:01
  being in a place where you're descending these steps and
• 20:03
  like all you can hear is the sound of your
• 20:06
  feet on the floor, you know, like no cars.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: You have absolutely no idea what's going on. It really
• 20:11
  does feel like your house just gained more steps all
• 20:14
  of a sudden. Yeah, yeah, you have no visual lot.
• 20:17
  Yeah yeah, I'd speak to dictate, I'd hear the creaking,
• 20:21
  I'd stop. The creaking would stop too. It's almost as
• 20:25
  if it's almost as if it was mocking me. I
• 20:29
  didn't want to think if the thing I'd bumped into
• 20:31
  felt like bumping into a coat wrack or something. But
• 20:34
  I didn't stop to feel around. I have a consistent
• 20:37
  urge to flee any dangerous situation i'm in because I
• 20:40
  know I can't fight it. Even if I were fast,
• 20:43
  even if I were strong, I can't fight something I
• 20:45
  don't fully understand. They could be standing right in front
• 20:48
  of me, and if they were still enough, I wouldn't know.
• 20:51
  As I finished writing, I reached for my phone. I
• 20:54
  figured i'd call my sister. I was starting to fill
• 20:57
  the warmth of the morning light on my shoulders through
• 20:59
  the windows. And here's some birds. Judging on how stuff
• 21:02
  I felt. It must have been up all night. The
• 21:05
  creaking had stopped, and it made its way up to
• 21:08
  my door. Was it standing on the other side?
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Hey, Siri called Daphne.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: My voice sounded so hoarse. Usually I talked to myself
• 21:17
  a lot, I sing whatever, I play music. This time,
• 21:21
  I've been so quiet, so afraid to make a sound,
• 21:25
  so afraid to breathe. The phone was ringing, Hi, there
• 21:29
  you good.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: It's kind of early.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: What time is it like?
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: Six am?
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Damn? I'm sorry, everything okay.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I stopped slowly. I grab up to the door and
• 21:40
  place my ear on the oak wood to listen. I
• 21:43
  can feel someone's present outside waiting.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Ooh, that's creepy.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: I think someone broke into my house and they're being
• 21:51
  very discreet about it. I've started noticing things unusual stuff.
• 21:58
  I trip when I shouldn't. Last i'd it bumped into
• 22:00
  something like your coat wrack?
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: What are you sure?
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: And the staircase kept creaking right now.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: I've locked myself into the bedroom, but I think it's
• 22:11
  waiting on the other side of the door.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Fuck. That's so creepy. I have to be the opposite nine.
• 22:18
  But I'll phone it if I'm late, I'll come check
• 22:20
  it out.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Thanks. Do you have a key?
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Silence?
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Okay, daft? Do you have a key?
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: No?
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Well, why didn't I give you one?
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: You did, but I didn't take it. I felt weird
• 22:33
  having a key to your house.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: For fox sa.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Whatever. Just come, I'll fucking go downstairs again and.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Let you in.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Okay, stay safe?
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Whatever?
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: After that?
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: So here that silence? Do you think that something like?
• 22:53
  It feels like something was interjecting into the conversation, right,
• 22:57
  a complete tonal shift?
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Am I wrong?
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: No? I think you're right where it's like, uh, do
• 23:02
  you know everything was fined up until do you have
• 23:05
  a key?
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: What okay.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Also, Daphne's response, you would think would be more intense,
• 23:11
  where she's like, I think someone's in my house. Right,
• 23:16
  You think it'd be like, oh my gosh, I'm calling
• 23:17
  the police and get whatever. But she's just kind of like,
• 23:19
  that's creepy. Well, I have to be at the office
• 23:21
  at nine. She's kind of almost dismissive of it a bit,
• 23:24
  so that, yeah, do you have a key silence? Do
• 23:27
  you have a key?
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: No?
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: And then you did, but I didn't take it. I
• 23:31
  felt weird having a key to her.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: I think the whole idea of like being you're waking
• 23:35
  up at sixty and they're like it's kind of early.
• 23:36
  At six, she's kind of groggy, and then she's like,
• 23:38
  I think someone's.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: In my house. I feel like you would you'd be like,
• 23:41
  what what the fuck?
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: That's weird, Like I think she was given off normal vibes.
• 23:46
  And then even when she's like, well, i'll just call
• 23:47
  in and say I'm gonna be late and I'll swing by,
• 23:49
  like it's very receptive, and then all of a sudden,
• 23:51
  you have a key. No, it's like very short answered.
• 23:54
  Before it was very ever flowing.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: So I don't know there might be something there that's interation.
• 24:00
  I think you're right though, that there's definitely a tonal
• 24:02
  shift on purpose there.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: No matter what.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: The one things for certain is that that chocolate milk
• 24:06
  is worked. I mean, like I am having to hold
• 24:09
  everything in right now.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, you can, you can run to the bathroom.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: No, I want to see. I'm kind of hooked right
• 24:15
  now on seeing if you can hold it in or
• 24:18
  the story, the story maybe both.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: What would happen if you just violently, if.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: I had a violent diary in my pants, I would
• 24:26
  show the audience. It would show you the back of
• 24:28
  my legs and everything.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, but I want to I want to know what happens. Okay,
• 24:37
  if that, if that milk gets too bad, you need
• 24:39
  to let me.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: You know, I'll switch to mobile and I'll record that way.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I hug imagine now that like the
• 24:52
  cameras cutting back and forth between my normal set up
• 24:55
  and you, like in a dark bathroom with the phone
• 24:57
  right under your chin and light, you can just hear
• 24:59
  very loud toilet noises. I don't want to come to that.
• 25:03
  Please read it. I hung up and sat on the floor,
• 25:08
  back against the door, waiting listening nothing was going on.
• 25:14
  Did I scare it off? She texted me she had
• 25:17
  ten more minutes until she got to my place. Okay.
• 25:21
  Finally I stood up and unlocked the door. I stood
• 25:25
  there in silence for a while. Options were very limited.
• 25:29
  Normal people could literally look around and make out if
• 25:31
  they were alone or not. I couldn't. All I could
• 25:35
  do was listen if whatever was there was being really still,
• 25:39
  really silent. My worst option was to feel around. That
• 25:44
  terrified me. I've talked to others Subsean similar for them
• 25:49
  was sticking their hand out in complete darkness. Thought of
• 25:53
  touching that thing made my skin crawl. The direct contact
• 25:58
  was so unbearable, so much more danger. But I had
• 26:01
  no choice because everything was silent, so I stuck my
• 26:05
  hands out. My heart raced with every step. I wanted
• 26:10
  to keep going, but at the same time, I wanted
• 26:13
  so badly to stop and turn around. Made my way
• 26:16
  to the stairs fourteen steps, acted normal. I was barefoot
• 26:21
  in the hardwood. Force felt so cold, so unusual against
• 26:25
  my skin. I thought that bothered me till I stepped
• 26:28
  into something sticky.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: You you fucking fuck, fuck, what the fuck?
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I gagged and wiped my foot on the carpet. I
• 26:38
  was gonna ask Daphne what that was. Made it to
• 26:41
  the door without any other occurrences. I unlocked it and
• 26:46
  was greeted by the familiar voice of my sister.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Hi, Oh God, I'm so sorry you have to go
• 26:51
  through this. I'm ready to call nine one one dialed
• 26:53
  up and everything. I'll take a look. I wanted Ryan
• 26:56
  to come too, but you know how it is with
• 26:58
  him and work.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I felt her warm hands around mind and her sweet perfume.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Thank you, it's such a comfort that you're here. Yeah,
• 27:06
  no problem. Please take a look. Tell me if you
• 27:09
  notice anything unusual and.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: To stepped into something sticky in the living room, please
• 27:13
  tell me what it is. Okay, I will let's see.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Or past the room carefully without saying a word. Silence,
• 27:20
  So what is it?
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Anything weird?
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Silence? Oh, wasn't she speaking?
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: It's nothing alarming, It's just odd. What did I step on?
• 27:30
  First of all? That is jam?
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Jam?
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Jam? Are you sure? Yep? There's a jar on
• 27:37
  your counter open. Maybe you forgot about it.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: No I didn't.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: I did not fucking eat jam.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: But that's nothing. Things are a bit out of order.
• 27:46
  How usually pretty neat right now. It's a bit of
• 27:49
  a mess, but weird. Got a pan on the floor
• 27:53
  and this painting propped up on your dinner table taking
• 27:55
  from the wall. A pile of clothes spread around almost
• 27:58
  in a pattern.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: What the fuck? Go upstairs and check.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Two, bro, if someone has just been living in her house.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Someone not only has someone been.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Living in your house, but they were like basically doing
• 28:10
  some kind of like fucking ritual or something.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: And then yeah, yeah, they're just like they're just throwing
• 28:17
  clothes and they're eating. You do have terrified that. I
• 28:19
  have never considered that if you were blind in a
• 28:21
  really big house, there is if someone was really quiet,
• 28:25
  really sneaky, they could just live in the house with you.
• 28:28
  Yeah on oh my gosh, no, sir, no, sir, Oh
• 28:34
  that would be oh man. I could tell she didn't
• 28:40
  want to based on her hesitation. Eventually I heard her
• 28:43
  climb the stairs and walk around a bit.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: So anything, please speak. There's nothing weird upstairs and no
• 28:53
  one anywhere. It's pretty neat.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: That bothered me for some reason. How neat?
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Oh the usual bedmade things in order? My bed is made.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't make it.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Oh god gosh, I don't like that. I don't like
• 29:12
  that at all.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: I didn't make it. Oh no, I was literally sleeping
• 29:16
  in it. Then I woke up to get a glass
• 29:18
  of water. Then the weird shit happened. I locked myself
• 29:21
  in the bedroom. Didn't stop to make my fucking bed. Uh,
• 29:26
  I mean it's not perfectly made like a child tried to.
• 29:30
  Oh God, what a haunting details.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: God, he said no one was there.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: That met a little bit.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he said, no one was there. No one Call
• 29:42
  the police.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I heard her getting downstairs.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Look, I can't why not someone's definitely fucking around my
• 29:50
  house and tell them what this one made?
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Your bed, placed your pant.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: On the floor, no signs of force entry. You didn't
• 29:57
  get hurt. I bumped into something in the middle of
• 30:00
  the night in the dark. How unusual. Okay, well, someone
• 30:05
  was definitely there. Look, there's not much I can do.
• 30:08
  I've checked everything. You're pretty safe. You have no attic,
• 30:12
  no basement, no back door, windows locked, doors locked. You're good.
• 30:16
  I'll you clean up and I'll get going. If there's
• 30:19
  anything weird, call me.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I had to ask her, even though she was going
• 30:25
  to think I'm crazy.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: How many stuf does my staircase have but count them
• 30:31
  for me? Fourteen as usual?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, uh. For one, I want to call out
• 30:39
  her Daphne's comment where she says, uh, our author says
• 30:44
  I bumped into something, and Daphne says, in the middle
• 30:46
  of the night, in the dark, how unusual that way
• 30:49
  in a jerk thing to say that was very rude
• 30:51
  to be like, oh, it was dark out, how could
• 30:53
  you see?
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems a bit odd because it's like, well,
• 30:57
  that doesn't really matter. But I'm still under the impression.
• 31:00
  I don't know that the the sister character, it just
• 31:03
  seems like it's not well, I'm making.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Leaps and bounds, but I'm like, it just seems odd.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like there's something up with her.
• 31:11
  I also feel like, yes, I understand, like if my
• 31:16
  sister called me right now and I came over, she
• 31:17
  was like, I think someone's been here with me. Granted
• 31:19
  my sister's not blind, of course, but I'd probably be like,
• 31:22
  have you considered the possibility that you're stupid? Have you
• 31:25
  considered you consider not being dumb? Have you ever thought
• 31:28
  of that? Like, I don't know if I'd immediately be like,
• 31:32
  you're right, I'm calling the police and telling them that
• 31:33
  there's a man living in your house. It's all broken into,
• 31:36
  you know, so I kind of.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Get it, But I also feel like painting off the
• 31:42
  wall and like the living room situation was a bit odd.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: The thing about it's like a child made it.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that comment was fucked.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: This is great so far. By the way, just the
• 31:55
  premise of like a blind person having someone live in
• 31:57
  their house is terrifying. I definitely felt I had flipped
• 32:00
  a switch with that question, because after that question, the
• 32:03
  way she talked to me changed. She was overly patient,
• 32:07
  overly calm, kept telling me to put on some music, distress,
• 32:10
  take a bath, listen to one of my audio books,
• 32:12
  and don't panic. I felt an ounce of heartbreak, just
• 32:16
  think my sister didn't believe me. But I moved on.
• 32:19
  After that, A few days passed when I kept saying alert,
• 32:23
  but nothing happened, no weird stuff. Everything had gone back
• 32:26
  to normal. Christmas came and I hosted, had friends and
• 32:30
  family over, and forgot about how lonely and desolate i'd
• 32:33
  felt in that house. Maybe I just had an episode
• 32:36
  of wandering, Maybe my mind had just been somewhere else
• 32:42
  when you live with the disability, sometimes it's hard to
• 32:44
  stay on track.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: And to be fair, she was just going back and forth,
• 32:49
  like you could, you could make an argument for herself
• 32:51
  of being like I mean, I was counting my steps
• 32:54
  and it was crazy. Who knows, Maybe I just like
• 32:57
  had a weird you know what I mean, Like just.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, granted I'm not in her position, but I
• 33:02
  feel like a hundred steps, I would be like, Okay,
• 33:06
  Well That's.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: What I mean though, is maybe she's like, maybe I
• 33:09
  did have like a fucking weird mental.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so what if my mental health had taken a hit?
• 33:16
  I was aware of it and decided to see a therapist.
• 33:19
  Months passed and nothing happened. I was happy. My new
• 33:23
  book had been published, and I hadn't felt scared or
• 33:26
  watched in ages. Things were good. One night, I was
• 33:30
  on the couch drinking some wine and watching The Bachelor.
• 33:34
  Well not exactly watching, but listening, you know what I mean.
• 33:37
  It's still entertaining. The AC was on and blasting waves
• 33:41
  of warmth around the house, and I was starting to
• 33:43
  feel sleepy. I reached out my leg out of the
• 33:46
  blanket and touched the floor. The cold floor. Reached my
• 33:50
  hand out and felt the couch cold too. Coldness was everywhere.
• 33:57
  How could it be? I had the AC on for
• 33:59
  the Holy evening? Why was it so cold? I reached
• 34:03
  for the remote, turned up the AC. It wasn't working.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: Stupid fucking air conditioner. I'm gonna turn it off and on.
• 34:11
  Problems require modern solutions.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: I told you. I talked to myself a lot. So
• 34:15
  I pressed the big button. The AC beeped. Hmmm, the
• 34:20
  beep was wrong. It should have been lower. It's higher
• 34:23
  when it turns on. Was it off this whole time?
• 34:28
  Couldn't be. I literally felt its warm breeze on the
• 34:30
  back of my neck. It's like a gut punch hunter.
• 34:46
  I'm scared.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: I'm scaring. I'm a fling.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Oh wait, when did she say she felt it while
• 34:57
  she was on the couch.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just behind her, breathing, right behind her.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: So I was like, oh my word, it like it's
• 35:06
  just like she's just watching TV and it's just there
• 35:08
  with her whole time, and it could be anything. It
• 35:11
  could be a monster.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: I don't like that.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: I wonder if, like we have to have some blind viewers,
• 35:18
  right well, listeners. I guess we have some some blind
• 35:22
  audience members, right, is this like? Is this like I
• 35:26
  guess it would be a recurring fear or a common
• 35:28
  fear about someone being in a room with you you
• 35:30
  don't know about, right, Yeah.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: I mean there's that great movie called Hush.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: I think it's about a blind woman in the house,
• 35:39
  and I mean, I don't know I would I would
• 35:42
  assume just somebody watching, you know, Hush is a deaf woman.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Oh deaf woman. Oh okay, yeah that that movie rules too.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: But yeah, no, I think it's just the idea of
• 35:50
  someone being in your house you just don't know because
• 35:52
  you're just you're missing one of your senses and it
• 35:55
  just leaves you a little more vulnerable.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I wonder if that's like a common thing, because
• 36:00
  now that I'm thinking about it, that would be I mean,
• 36:04
  obviously as someone who like isn't used to it and
• 36:07
  just like afraid from a distance, I feel like that
• 36:09
  would be like nightmare fuel story. I feel like stories
• 36:11
  like this would be like terrifying.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, even just home invasion stories, Like I
• 36:17
  know people who are super susceptible to just like home
• 36:19
  invasion stories and stuff.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Very real, weird thing.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I stood there in silence, trying to process.
• 36:27
  It was as if I was just stalling, delaying the
• 36:30
  moment of realization because I didn't want to. I didn't
• 36:34
  want to admit someone or something. I've been breathing on
• 36:40
  my neck. It's probably still there, but the breeze had stopped.
• 36:46
  I turned the TV off. I needed absolute silence to focus,
• 36:50
  I said. Therefore, what felt like hours listening, the floors
• 36:56
  didn't creak. I could almost make out the carpet impressed steps.
• 37:04
  Normal people wouldn't have noticed, but I did. The steps
• 37:08
  were irregular, the pattern was weird, the pacing uncoordinated. I
• 37:15
  heard when it left the carpet, and the thump indicated
• 37:19
  it was right next to me. The couch shifted. I
• 37:27
  was over it. People hallucinate. I stuck my hand to
• 37:30
  the side, ready to feel whatever was there. I didn't
• 37:33
  get the chance. Suddenly the couch shifted back up and
• 37:36
  I heard a woosh. The thing had seen me try
• 37:38
  to reach and it moved. I didn't want me to
• 37:40
  touch it. Then I heard a click. My TV turned
• 37:43
  back on. Whatever it was, it was telling me to
• 37:46
  ignore it. Why I was not going to sit around
• 37:50
  and watch TV with that thing next to me. I
• 37:52
  was going upstairs after I counted the fourteen steps. For
• 37:56
  some reason, I knew the fifteenth would be there. Went
• 37:58
  back down, seven, went back up, nineteen, back down. I
• 38:02
  was twenty extra steps in and counting when I realized
• 38:05
  it was not going to end. Stairs were tweaking again.
• 38:10
  Turned around, went back up into the bedroom door locked.
• 38:12
  The TV is still running downstairs. After a while, I
• 38:15
  heard it turn off. Others would have been terrified. I
• 38:19
  was relieved. That meant the thing was downstairs and not
• 38:23
  here with me.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Wonderful. This is wonderful, bro, I'm having such a good time.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: What a banger, dude. That whole segment about like from
• 38:34
  from the breath on the neck to like you could
• 38:37
  hear it on the carpet setting down on the couch.
• 38:40
  Like it's also just no fat, just it's very just
• 38:45
  like to the point to the point. Yeah, just bam,
• 38:48
  here's your story. Yeah, gosh, what a this is sick.
• 38:53
  You know you were right. We needed something after last week,
• 38:56
  and I think this is our medicine. I think this
• 38:57
  is doing a great job right now.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Part three. I'm down.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Part three, Let's go. Hows how's the milk doing?
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: Uh, you know what, It's one of those things where
• 39:06
  I feel like it's kind of bubbled back up my
• 39:07
  gutty works.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: So I think, I'm okay, okay, I'm proud of you.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: All right. Part three. I've decided to install some cameras
• 39:16
  around to be safe. Then you think peculiar happened. I
• 39:19
  wanted to have a friend check them out, or at
• 39:22
  least tell me I was being crazy. I set them
• 39:24
  up the next day after the incident, I posted earlier.
• 39:27
  After that, I kept minding my own business. I was terrified,
• 39:31
  and I know what you guys would say.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Why would you still stay there? Why were you? Why
• 39:35
  are you? Why were you so calm?
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Well, there was this odd feeling I had. Something was
• 39:41
  definitely off, but somehow I was able to go through
• 39:44
  that be okay. Almost as if you're walking on a
• 39:48
  tightrope and you know that it's dangerous, but you don't
• 39:51
  want to hesitate or stop or even slow down, because
• 39:54
  you somehow feel that the less you think about it
• 39:57
  and go on, safer you are from fall. Although in
• 40:01
  my case, I didn't exactly know what my fate would be.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: I think also, it's just it's hard to just be
• 40:08
  like oh, get up and move leave. But then also too,
• 40:12
  I think that earlier in the story does a good
• 40:14
  job even I think that she may be rationalizing that.
• 40:17
  It's like, I think that she believes she is in
• 40:21
  there was something now, but we have seen it back
• 40:23
  and forth with like questioning some of her actions or
• 40:26
  decisions or like even her own like, you know, can
• 40:29
  she trust herself as a narrator kind of thing.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: The story has done, in my opinion, three things right
• 40:34
  now to not make me think of that option until
• 40:37
  she brought it up, because I feel like any other
• 40:39
  story you or I read, we would be like, why
• 40:43
  are you just get the fuck out house? Just drive away,
• 40:45
  get out right? But it's done three things For one,
• 40:47
  our characters blind, which limits options right, assuming this is
• 40:51
  out in the countryside, like she said, it's implausible for
• 40:54
  her to just start walking down the road, right she
• 40:57
  can't drive. And then the other thing is it's already
• 41:00
  pre established in the story that maybe part of this
• 41:03
  is her mind playing tricks on her, and her blindness
• 41:05
  causes her to have these moments of not really delirium,
• 41:08
  but she gets too caught up on one thing and
• 41:10
  doesn't realize what's happening around her. You know, her senses
• 41:12
  are impaired, So like, that's two good reasons to not
• 41:17
  immediately leave, because maybe she's over reacting, and even if
• 41:19
  she wasn't and how could she? Uh? And three, this
• 41:23
  writing has been doing so well and I've been so
• 41:26
  hooked in I didn't even consider that an option. Yeah,
• 41:29
  the story brought it up, which goes to show that
• 41:31
  a lot of your plot holes and like issues with stories,
• 41:34
  if you just write everything around it really well, most
• 41:37
  people won't care about.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: True.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: It was Thursday. I had just come home from my job.
• 41:42
  I also teach creative writing at a university. It's important
• 41:45
  that I write down my routine that day. So wait,
• 41:48
  how do you I guess she she's that out in
• 41:52
  the countryside, But I imagine there must be like public
• 41:54
  transport or something like.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: That that I imagine. I just imagine that she just
• 41:57
  got a lift or something from someone else in her job.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: I locked the door, got inside, locked it back, took
• 42:03
  my coat off and hung it up, took my shoes off,
• 42:06
  put my keys on a table, went upstairs, changed washed
• 42:09
  my hands, came back down to cook dinner, chopped, stirred,
• 42:13
  turned the Obanon set the table, worked my way around
• 42:16
  the stove, sat down and ate my dinner, washed the dishes,
• 42:19
  so on, then went upstairs bathroom, sent some text, went
• 42:23
  back downstairs and turned on the TV. After a while,
• 42:27
  I began dozing off. I could not keep up with
• 42:30
  whatever fight was going on on the show, and my
• 42:32
  mind began lazily sweeping away until a dream made its
• 42:36
  way in mixed with reality. I fell asleep. I awoke
• 42:41
  and was accreeted by silence. No eerie sounds, no movement, silence. Weird,
• 42:49
  hadn't I left the TV on?
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: I reached my hand out for the remote, which wasn't
• 42:55
  in the usual spot. The whole room was silent, so
• 42:58
  the thing was either very still. Where did left? I
• 43:03
  needed to call my friend and ask them to come
• 43:04
  over so I could have them check the cameras. The
• 43:07
  house remained silent for a while until I heard his
• 43:10
  car in the driveway. Good. I let him in and
• 43:13
  he asked me if he noticed anything unusual around.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Not really.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Ombed up my laptop and had him access to the footage.
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: Okay, let's see, so we're looking ato today, right, Yeah,
• 43:27
  I'll just down to the last twelve hours that should
• 43:29
  be enough, or the last six?
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Just do twelve? Fine.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: I heard the keyboard clacking for a bit, and then
• 43:35
  we waited until he said.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: There it is. Hmmm, fast forward, nothing unusual, how's empty?
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Here?
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: You are coming home from work, you're taking your coat off, shoes, keys,
• 43:48
  went upstairs? Nothing there, Fast forward here you are again?
• 43:54
  Back down, open the fridge.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: He fell silent for a while. At first I figured
• 44:01
  he wasn't seeing anything, so he got tired of narrating
• 44:04
  what I was doing. I even't thought the thing might
• 44:06
  not even show on camera. I didn't need another person
• 44:09
  to think I was crazy. But then the cell has
• 44:11
  gone on for too long.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: So what do you see? Are you fucking with me?
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Or what? Look?
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: I'm really not in the mood, so please tell me
• 44:25
  if you're fucking with me, what did you see? Let's
• 44:28
  just go to my car.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: I'll take your laptop with us and find and I'll
• 44:32
  tell him on some more footage and you'll be spending
• 44:34
  the night with me.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Why gosh, I'll tell you. I will. Just let's just
• 44:39
  go bro. Fuck good lord, dude, god, damn, that terrifying, terrifying.
• 45:00
  His voice was shaking a bit, and I knew he
• 45:03
  was trying to be calm, but his movements were too rushed,
• 45:06
  too unhinged. He was freaking out. Put my coat on,
• 45:09
  took my wallet and keys, and we left. Got inside
• 45:12
  the car. He immediately turned the engine on and hit
• 45:14
  the gas without saying a word. What did you see?
• 45:17
  Just tell me just you're freaking me out.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: I'm really sorry for you and what you've had to
• 45:21
  go through. That is some paranormal activity. Shit, what did
• 45:25
  you say? Okay, I'm uh so you opened the fridge,
• 45:31
  took out some stuff, then that started preparing dinner. I
• 45:34
  saw some moving upstairs, so like in the corner of
• 45:37
  the screen. Then uh, this fuck.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know how to explain it.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: It was a it was a thing. It was like
• 45:44
  it was so fucking creepy.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: It looked like a looked like you, but but not really,
• 45:48
  because it was longer arms and legs, and had a
• 45:51
  very bony face wearing some clothes. I assume yours soul
• 45:55
  was human. No, I don't think so. It's it's arms
• 45:59
  bent so weirdly. It was taller than you, and and it.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: Walked Fuck what the fuck?
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: It walked so strange and acted so strange, and it
• 46:07
  had this hair thin and falling off, and the face.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Face.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's eyes were really big. But that was, without
• 46:17
  a doubt, the scariest shit I've ever seen, and fixated
• 46:19
  on you the whole time.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: What was it doing.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: This is gonna sound crazy, but I think it was
• 46:28
  mimicking you. It literally watched you NonStop. And the shit
• 46:33
  that freaks me out the most is that it was
• 46:35
  in front of you the whole time. Well, you cut
• 46:38
  the vegetables while you ate, while you were watching TV.
• 46:41
  He's studying you, poorly, mimicking what you were doing. Then
• 46:46
  you fell asleep. Yeah, watched it whole time, took its
• 46:52
  bony finger at some point pressed the pressed the off
• 46:56
  button on the remote. It's face literally sat like two
• 46:59
  inches from you for a while, just scared until you
• 47:03
  woke up. Then walked I don't know if I can
• 47:06
  call it walked upstairs.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, fuck, fuck my god. It's just right in front,
• 47:20
  like a giant spider watching, just a giant you spider.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Also just so weird too, like wearing your clothes. It
• 47:28
  just like wants to be you, staring at you.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: It wears your clothes, It makes your bed for you,
• 47:34
  turns the TV off for you, breathe on the back
• 47:37
  of your neck. After you finished talking, he sat in
• 47:40
  silence for a while. I didn't know what to say.
• 47:43
  He parked his car and we went up to his
• 47:45
  apartment sat down to download the rest of the footage
• 47:49
  for Fox Sike.
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: What will I swear to god, he's been watching NonStop,
• 47:55
  Like I've downloaded the footage since the cameras were set up.
• 47:59
  So there's two months ago, and it's it's here all
• 48:02
  the time. Sometimes it climbs up to the corner of
• 48:05
  your wall or on the ceiling and watches. Other times
• 48:08
  it shadows you.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: M I felt sick all this time when I thought
• 48:16
  I was alone and.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: This isn't even the weirdest thing. Two months ago, it
• 48:21
  didn't have hair.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, mons ago.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: It didn't have hair. I think the hairs is not
• 48:33
  its own.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: What I think it got it from somewhere, like things
• 48:38
  to be picking out your hair while you're sleeping.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: It's trying to become human, to become you.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Oh god, fuck, I'm back to paranoid Isaiah. I've got
• 48:53
  the door open. I'm like, yeah, I know, I'm at
• 48:56
  the right monitor.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: There's gonna be some gangly giraffe bastard in your after
• 49:00
  and picking out all the hair from your fucking drain up.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, dude. Oh it gives me chills, man,
• 49:12
  just the idea of it being like right behind you
• 49:14
  all the time, it being up in the corners, like
• 49:17
  looking down at you. Oh, even the.
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: Moments when you're not there. It takes your things, tries
• 49:24
  them out. It looks fucking terrifying. It is literally learning
• 49:28
  studying you.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: I knew for some reason, and I didn't even need proof.
• 49:33
  I just knew it had to come from the stairs,
• 49:35
  climbed up from whatever portal I've been there. I knew
• 49:38
  it was trying to lure me down there so it
• 49:39
  could take my place, so it could become me. I
• 49:45
  explained everything to my friend. There was nothing I could
• 49:48
  do except get out. I didn't know how to close
• 49:51
  the portal, and I needed my friend's help if I
• 49:53
  wanted to try. I was trying to evaluate my risk,
• 49:56
  my options, and my friends had something that made my
• 49:58
  blood run cold.
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: Look, if you don't grow through that portal stuff, it'll
• 50:03
  probably just kill you and take your place, and the
• 50:06
  next time you return home you will have figured that out.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so the only logical solution is to never go
• 50:12
  home and fire bomb in the house. Yeah.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: So basically he's just saying, if you go back, you're
• 50:16
  gonna die.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: If you go back, this thing is certainly going to
• 50:20
  kill you. Yeah, there's no question. All right, are you
• 50:25
  ready for the final part?
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: Oh boy, I'm ready.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: How are we doing? Milk boy? You ready to do it?
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: I am so stoked. I can't wait to have a
• 50:32
  diarrhea after this.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be awesome, isn't it. And then while you're
• 50:35
  doing it, you can think about a hunter, a spider
• 50:38
  hunter right behind you.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a gangly spider hunter who's.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Learning how to have diarrhea.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like taking all of his sour milk and
• 50:47
  drinking it profusely, and he's just like, oh, up in
• 50:50
  the corner. Oh no, I'm like.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: First time bud. Yeah, hunter just makes friends with it.
• 50:59
  Yeah all right, but its more sour milk, this big
• 51:03
  nasty cicada person.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: I'm like fucking pussy drink.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: All right, last public part. I'm stoked.
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: Uh. If you guys haven't noticed yet, you should one
• 51:23
  hundred percent sign up for this coffee and read more
• 51:25
  of this story.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, person great, I think Emma Watson, but Dummer has
• 51:30
  proven herself quite well if I didn't say so myself.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: Very stoked. Last part. I'm ready, let's go.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: My sister knew now that I wasn't crazy anymore. Everyone
• 51:40
  had seen the footage. It's become some sort of news
• 51:43
  around my family friends. They were all dying to watch it,
• 51:46
  so more of curiosity making them want to see what
• 51:48
  traumatized me for the past months. I was grateful they
• 51:51
  saw it too, But at the same time I had
• 51:53
  to move out and sell the house and that was
• 51:55
  a bummer. Sells a strong word I would have. Has
• 51:59
  no one called acted the news yet?
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, is there a thing here?
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: I guess just it's like a well, I mean, we
• 52:05
  don't have to derail the story too much, but like,
• 52:08
  would you just I mean, could you even show this
• 52:09
  to the authorities or would it be just something where
• 52:11
  they're just like you should just burn the house down
• 52:13
  or like.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I don't know if that'd
• 52:16
  be legal advice, but I think, uh that that's what
• 52:19
  I would come to. That's a decision. I feel like
• 52:21
  there's no regard you could show the police and they
• 52:24
  would believe it. It just be like, Okay, that's all right,
• 52:27
  thank you for that. Yeah. I was struggling financially, and
• 52:30
  I knew I couldn't just buy another house. I just
• 52:32
  saw this one first, and that obviously meant I had
• 52:34
  to go back there and get my things. I was
• 52:37
  not planning to go alone though, or not, so, I mean,
• 52:39
  maybe it's his things.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: I think I can just like get a new TV.
• 52:42
  I think that's fine.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: I'm only going back if I have like a swat team,
• 52:48
  you know, if I if I can walk in with
• 52:50
  Seal Team six around me. You know. Well, here's the thing, right,
• 52:56
  she assumes that it is a thing that this house
• 53:00
  because of the staircase and because it showed up when
• 53:02
  she got there, right, But like, could this thing be anywhere?
• 53:07
  Why does it have to be part of the house? Right?
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: I am still like, you're assuming that there's one, you know.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: How do we know? Though I didn't even you know,
• 53:17
  I don't know way more. It could be like a
• 53:19
  nest of them.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. It's like some weird fucking bug family.
• 53:22
  I don't know.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: Ah, that'd be sick, would you? What would it take?
• 53:28
  For you to go back into the house.
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: I think that like to like, I think it would
• 53:36
  be to go back and help somebody, like if it's
• 53:38
  if it's like, oh, my wife's stuck in there or something. Yeah,
• 53:42
  you know like that, although I really don't know of
• 53:44
  earthly possessions were.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: You would be like, yeah, I can't think of anything
• 53:48
  I own that would make me go back. What about
• 53:50
  a pet? Would you go back for a pet? Yeah?
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd go back for my dog.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know how many guys would you bring with you?
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: God, I Jimmy, Gimmy fucked up.
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: As it would be something more like I'd be like, hey,
• 54:04
  you help me move something, and I'd like I'd go
• 54:06
  in and I'd shut the door. I'd hear the rustling,
• 54:10
  and then I just make a dead sprint for my
• 54:11
  beagle and I would leave.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: My bass and had not leave, and I'm like pressed
• 54:15
  up against someone like yeah, you can see like pulling
• 54:20
  the hair out of my head, Like.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're like, well, yeah, giant lips kissing the window.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Yeah you would be the one that,
• 54:31
  as I'm being torn apart, would be like, ah, yeah's
• 54:34
  big lips is It's funny. It would look like its
• 54:38
  face would be your drawing of me.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: That's perfect.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: That would be its.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: Head, that's perfect.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: Well, it's a it's a beautiful representation. So you you
• 54:47
  should be happy, Okay that you said when I said
• 54:51
  I die, you said, that's what I get for. What
• 54:53
  what were you about to say? Oh?
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: I can't remember.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm sure it was something.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: My My asshole is.
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: Like Alcatraz right now, and a few, a few little
• 55:03
  prisoners are about to escape if you can't make.
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: I wonder, I wonder how much longer if I keep
• 55:09
  rambling until I desperately want you just to read? So
• 55:13
  what if I did it? Though? It took a while
• 55:16
  to try to convince my friend to come with me.
• 55:19
  He was really scared, but I had to get it'll
• 55:21
  be even longer, it would be all right. It took
• 55:26
  a while to try to convince my friend to come
• 55:28
  with me. He was really scared, but I had to
• 55:30
  get my stuff out, and that man spent in a
• 55:32
  few more nights there. Why why would you do that? Anyway,
• 55:36
  So last month me and my friend went back to
• 55:39
  the house, just one friend by the way, unarmed. I
• 55:41
  imagine as soon as we entered, he let out a sigh.
• 55:44
  I asked what was wrong, and he just replied.
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: With he's been making some changes around here. What changes, Well,
• 55:52
  took food out of your fridge. Your clothes are torn.
• 55:55
  I think it's even slept in your bed. It's not
• 55:58
  gonna like you being back.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: I love that's funny. I'm going I'm gonna assure that
• 56:03
  thing that I'm not saying.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel there's that weird language here and stuff
• 56:08
  like that. Maybe the maybe English is the second language.
• 56:11
  I don't know. I'm gonna assure that thing that I'm
• 56:14
  not staying, like, I'm gonna make sure it knows that
• 56:16
  I'm not sticking around. This is its house.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: I'm okay, I'm gonna sure. I'm gonna sure that thing
• 56:21
  that I'm not staying. I'll leave you.
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: I'll leave my fuck. I'll leave soon enough, and i'll
• 56:26
  be free to and it'll be free to torment whoever
• 56:30
  comes your next. I fucking hate my life, right I
• 56:34
  hope you guys are reading the screen because I'm like
• 56:35
  a nonsensical, fucking schizophrenic right now reading the ship.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: God.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: I hate I hate myself. I hate my fucking ape brain.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: How's that how's that milk doing, buddy? It's not good.
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: Not good.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: So we started packing and cleaning. It's a bit harder
• 56:54
  for me, and we called for backup my other friend Jessica.
• 56:59
  She refused to with that her boyfriend. Now, the four
• 57:02
  of us versus that thing meant it would be too
• 57:04
  scared to do anything. Yeah, you hope that math?
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: Where are you getting that math from?
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: I didn't know much about it, but from its behavior
• 57:13
  I learned it mainly focused on me, and when it's
• 57:15
  transformation be complete, you would try to take over my
• 57:18
  life and send me to the other place down the stairs.
• 57:22
  We worked on it for a few days and what
• 57:25
  we'd left was just some furniture to be moved. I
• 57:28
  was extremely grateful for my friend Support, who, like my sister,
• 57:31
  believe me, from the beginning, we had so little to do,
• 57:35
  left just some furniture. As I said, so little. I
• 57:39
  hadn't expected it to end like this. It was me,
• 57:43
  my friend the one who saw the footage first, call
• 57:45
  him Adam, my sister Lisa. They were downstairs wrapping up
• 57:50
  the TV and I was upstairs lifting up the mattress.
• 57:53
  I could hear their voices downstairs.
• 57:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, like that wait, no, hold it, hold it, hold it.
• 58:00
  You're literally you're not holding it's so heavy. Okay, now
• 58:04
  help me up with the wrapper. Yeah, he drums it
• 58:07
  on my foot. Please just be careful. Bring me the scissors.
• 58:10
  I'm thinking I'll just cut this tape up like this.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: I'd mostly ask them to speak more, just so I
• 58:15
  wouldn't listen to the silence. Silence for me met danger.
• 58:20
  After a while, they stopped talking. I go I could
• 58:26
  only hear the sound of footsteps and things being dragged around.
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: Fuck Lisa, Lisa eh adam, no answer, guys.
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  Speaker 1: My heart dropped. I made my way downstairs. It's ubconsciously
• 58:43
  counted the steps sixteen whatever Lisa Adam, no answer. Feeling
• 58:52
  around the house was empty. No one was in the
• 58:55
  living room, no one was in the kitchen, just boxes
• 58:59
  and clothes. I sat on the couch, listening, hoping to
• 59:03
  hear some footsteps, but I was only greeted by silence
• 59:07
  so heavy, almost a being of its own. I had
• 59:12
  the urge to leave made my way to the front door,
• 59:15
  but just as I was about to turn the door knob,
• 59:18
  something this feeling stopped me. I turned around and pressed
• 59:23
  my back on the door feeling the phone in my pocket.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: Hey, Siri, call Lisa.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: She picked up.
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Will, is that you?
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: Where are you?
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: Where are you?
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: Lisa? Where's Adam? Why would you leave like this? You
• 59:41
  know you shouldn't leave me here alone?
• 59:43
  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: Where are you in the living room?
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: Will?
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: Where are you in the goddamn living room? There's no
• 59:52
  one here.
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: I don't understand you came on the stairs or you're
• 59:58
  now sitting on the couch looking at me. Who's calling
• 1:00:03
  me from your phone?
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: It's me, Lisa, it's me. I'm telling you I'm in
• 1:00:07
  the living room.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: Then who's sitting on the couch If it's not you?
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: The moment of realization hit both of us. Gradually. I
• 1:00:18
  knew who was on the couch or what was on
• 1:00:20
  the couch, and I knew that wherever I was, that
• 1:00:23
  wasn't my house anymore. I'd finally managed to go down
• 1:00:26
  to the other place, and the thing had come back up,
• 1:00:29
  but this time with a more efficient disguise.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: Listen to me, Lisa, that is not me. I need
• 1:00:36
  you to leave the house. Take Adam with you, Please,
• 1:00:39
  just get out.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: Suddenly she said something that shocked me.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: How do I know.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: How do you know what, But it's not you on the.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: Couch, it's the thing just sort of staring at you. Yeah, well,
• 1:00:55
  move around a bit. It knows I'm blind, so we'll
• 1:00:58
  pretend if it's blind too. If you do something unexpected
• 1:01:01
  and it follows you with its eyes, you'll know.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: I didn't hear much next, just movement. Then I could
• 1:01:08
  hear her say, oh.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 4: My gosh, true, what would you know? Well, I'm scared.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: I don't think it'll hurt you. Just don't let it know.
• 1:01:15
  You know, it's not me, wouldn't they wouldn't it know
• 1:01:18
  already if on the phone call is right?
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'll just go back upstairs and I hope I
• 1:01:23
  can somehow make it out anything he understands.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 4: What we're saying.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know, because if it does, then it also
• 1:01:31
  knows it. No that it also knows it.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: No, jess, No, then it also knows it. No. I
• 1:01:36
  felt helpless for the first time in my life. I
• 1:01:39
  wish I could see so badly. I just wanted to
• 1:01:41
  get out of whatever this place was, back to my
• 1:01:44
  real house, but I could not find the staircase. I
• 1:01:47
  was stuck. What if I wasn't going to make it
• 1:01:50
  out of this place.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: Please stay on the phone with me.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: Okay, Adam, come here. No what he talked of the thing?
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: What was you?
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: And what's going on?
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: Adam? Here? Take the phone.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: I heard Adam's voice.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Adam, listen, this is me. This is Will. I'm
• 1:02:11
  stuck in this place that if there's not me, Please
• 1:02:15
  don't talk to it. Don't let it know. You know
• 1:02:17
  it's a copy.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 4: What Will is that? You? Are you serious? Shut up?
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: Shut up?
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: Well, buddy, don't touch me. Stay there, freak. I need
• 1:02:27
  to call the police.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: Don't call the police. If it knows you don't believe
• 1:02:30
  it's an illusion. I don't know what it will do.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 4: Lisa, take this, I'll call the police. I'm tired of
• 1:02:36
  the shit.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: I heard some muffled voices and then Lisa again.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: Maybe it's good that he's calling the police. Right. Maybe
• 1:02:42
  the thing doesn't understand we know it's not real.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: She stopped.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: Don't act scared of it, Lisa, act normal.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: I'm trying, but it just stood up. Now.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: Please, I don't know what I can do.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: It's walking towards me. I'm just scared. What the fuck?
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: What? I listened as her voice changed from confusion, to discuss,
• 1:03:03
  to fear, to terror?
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: What Lisa adam?
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: I couldn't make out what she was saying. At some
• 1:03:09
  point I thought I heard Adam. I was still desperate
• 1:03:12
  to feel around for that staircase. I heard a thud
• 1:03:15
  meaning she dropped the phone, and some screams, then muffled crying,
• 1:03:19
  and some sounds I could not make out. At this point,
• 1:03:22
  my whole body was tensed up and my heart was
• 1:03:24
  beating so hard I was about to faint. The more
• 1:03:27
  noises I heard, the more I was convinced something sinister
• 1:03:30
  had happened. And as much as I tried to deny it,
• 1:03:33
  I knew I had no chance but to listen to
• 1:03:36
  this scene through the phone, unable to help. And even
• 1:03:39
  if I'd been able to get out of this place,
• 1:03:41
  I couldn't see anything either. At some point, after I'd
• 1:03:44
  screamed my lungs out, my face drenched in sweat and tears,
• 1:03:49
  the noise stopped and the silence remained. The silence I
• 1:03:53
  hate silence. I kept wailing, hoping someone would respond. It
• 1:03:58
  could have been hours until I got to respond, but
• 1:04:00
  not the one I hoped I would get. I heard
• 1:04:03
  some harsh movement and then this horse rotten voice that
• 1:04:07
  wasn't even a voice, but something like an animal trying
• 1:04:10
  to mimic a human.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: Just sleep.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: For some it would have been comical, but I knew
• 1:04:20
  that was just one of the phrases I used to say.
• 1:04:23
  It had just mimicking me again, bring me le I
• 1:04:34
  listened petrified. Meanwhile, my foot hit something stairs. Was it
• 1:04:41
  letting me go? I climbed up the stairs and found
• 1:04:44
  myself in the hallway. I could feel the familiar carpet
• 1:04:47
  under my feet. I went downstairs and sense the smell
• 1:04:50
  that I couldn't identify. The floor was slippery. Lisa, Adam,
• 1:04:57
  I heard something run up the stairs just like that.
• 1:05:00
  I knew the thing had left for now, but my
• 1:05:03
  mind wasn't on the creature, but on Adam and Lisa,
• 1:05:06
  guys walking around to the slippery floor. My foot hit something.
• 1:05:11
  It felt like hair. Nothing in the world could describe
• 1:05:16
  how I felt in that moment. There's nothing I can
• 1:05:18
  type down here which will help you visualize, because not
• 1:05:21
  everything feels like something else. There's no analogy I can make.
• 1:05:26
  When you discover a crime scene, you usually see it first.
• 1:05:29
  I had it. I've just been walking around the bodies
• 1:05:32
  clueless for a good few minutes. You know how it
• 1:05:34
  feels to not know if something is blood until you
• 1:05:36
  slip on it. To have to see if someone is
• 1:05:38
  alive by desperately feeling around her to find their hand,
• 1:05:42
  neck pulse. Just crawl around in their blood, running your
• 1:05:46
  hands through the mess, trying desperately to see any signs
• 1:05:49
  of life, calling out their name. I heard the door open.
• 1:05:53
  I realized the police had come. Adam had probably called them,
• 1:05:57
  and they had finally managed to make an appearance. They
• 1:06:00
  found me, obviously covered in their blood next to them.
• 1:06:04
  I didn't even know what the creature had actually done
• 1:06:06
  to them. No matter how hard I tried, they would
• 1:06:09
  not listen to me. They thought I was crazy. The
• 1:06:13
  next following days were a blur. Luckily I had the
• 1:06:15
  footage of the things from the past months and the
• 1:06:17
  testimony of my remaining friends and family, plus Adam's call
• 1:06:20
  that clearly said something is pretending to be my friend
• 1:06:23
  and it may hurt us. They had downloaded the footage
• 1:06:26
  of the actual murder, but they refused to describe it
• 1:06:29
  to me. They just asked me to rest. But I
• 1:06:33
  can't because no matter what, I won't revenge. I'm determined
• 1:06:36
  to find out the story of this thing, the story
• 1:06:39
  of this house and it's weird portal staircase, and I
• 1:06:42
  want to kill this creature, even if it's the last
• 1:06:45
  thing I do. For now, this is my final update.
• 1:06:49
  Most might post more on my account depending on what
• 1:06:51
  I come across. For now, I need rest. I've begun
• 1:06:54
  seeing a therapist and I'm recovering. I still get nightmares.
• 1:06:59
  I wonder what I've could have done better, But the
• 1:07:01
  truth is, I think I was doing from the beginning.
• 1:07:04
  From the moment I counted one extra step on my staircase,
• 1:07:07
  the nightmare had begun, and that is the story, and
• 1:07:13
  that is the story. That was good. I enjoyed it. Yeah,
• 1:07:16
  the tension was really well done. Yeah, I feel like
• 1:07:20
  I feel like she is not justified for going back
• 1:07:22
  to the house, and I think she's reckly responsible for
• 1:07:24
  her friend's death. Yeah.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: I think that the only part where the story kind
• 1:07:29
  of SUPs up for me is that kind of rationalization
• 1:07:31
  of I think that the monster should have left the house,
• 1:07:33
  like it gathered enough and it should have been trying
• 1:07:35
  to find her or something going baying and like putting
• 1:07:39
  people in that predicament is is a bit silly.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a bit too much. I also feel
• 1:07:45
  like I am glad it didn't do the thing I
• 1:07:47
  thought it was going to do, where it's like I
• 1:07:48
  am now in jail for my friend's murder. But it
• 1:07:51
  was like, you know, the police like saw the footage
• 1:07:54
  and then they were like, uh, you should go home.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, uh, I don't know. I kind of
• 1:08:01
  wish we'd never even went to that angle. I kind
• 1:08:03
  of almost just be trapped in the house and now
• 1:08:06
  she's just kind of riding there forever, but she can't
• 1:08:08
  leave the aspect, I'm not really totally sold on either
• 1:08:12
  kind of wish that it's like this if it was
• 1:08:14
  this thing's house. Because also I made this connection earlier
• 1:08:17
  of when she's like, so I bought this new house
• 1:08:19
  and people said it's a mansion, where I was like,
• 1:08:21
  what the fuck? You know, like, you're an author and
• 1:08:23
  you're getting this mansion. But it's like, if it's this
• 1:08:26
  weird place that people have like they don't want to buy,
• 1:08:28
  or it has some weird history that she doesn't know about.
• 1:08:31
  Of course, this large house might be super cheap, but
• 1:08:34
  if the thing is living inside of it trying to
• 1:08:36
  like mimic somebody, you know.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's like something where it.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: Like opens up a door and like the staircase is
• 1:08:41
  extended down into some weird cellar.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: That's what my mind was, that there's like a house
• 1:08:46
  underneath the house and they switch. It's like mirrored. Yeah.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: But that being said, I don't think that the ending
• 1:08:52
  completely didn't just like trip and stumble. I still think
• 1:08:54
  it landed it albeit a bit shaky, But I love
• 1:08:57
  the idea of like just like taking an element of.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: Someone being blind and throwing like a home invasion twist
• 1:09:05
  into that.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: I just honestly think that that segment where she's sitting
• 1:09:09
  on the couch watching The Bachelor and she goes from
• 1:09:11
  turning on the a s to feeling it set down
• 1:09:13
  as like an all time moment like.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: That, Yeah, one of the strongest creepy moments. It felt.
• 1:09:18
  It felt similar to uh like in pin Pal, we're
• 1:09:21
  on the river and like the person's on the outside
• 1:09:23
  watching him like real running through.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: Is that your favorite moments? Is that your favorite moment
• 1:09:27
  from any story we've covered, Which moment the pin Pal
• 1:09:32
  river moment? That might be?
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember that one being the creepy.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: It just the way it was described, and even with
• 1:09:37
  the woman in the house and the old woman that
• 1:09:39
  he used to be friends with, it was just it
• 1:09:41
  was really nice that one. And also the whenever the
• 1:09:43
  thing was like living under the the the like under
• 1:09:47
  the what is it the porch or whatever the thought
• 1:09:50
  that was great too.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, this story was awesome.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: I think that I really liked that it was short, sweet,
• 1:09:58
  and not tons of fat a like I said, all
• 1:10:00
  albeit it seems like trying to explain this like weird
• 1:10:03
  portal thing or how they came across that is kind
• 1:10:06
  of like it. It's a little it's a little uh
• 1:10:10
  doesn't stick landing precisely to you know when I'm saying.
• 1:10:13
  But I'm just being you know, just trying to, I guess,
• 1:10:17
  justify the thoughts I'm having that are running through my
• 1:10:19
  head right now.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: But I'm also diarrhea ridden, so you are, So we'll
• 1:10:23
  go ahead and get over it. I will say one
• 1:10:25
  last time that you could check out Helena, oh please
• 1:10:27
  don't buy me a coffee, coffee whatever, and you can
• 1:10:30
  buy more parts to this very story. So that's a
• 1:10:33
  cool model to have, Like your story set up and
• 1:10:36
  then it's like, well, there's a sequel to it if
• 1:10:38
  you want over here, So if you're interested, you could
• 1:10:40
  check that out or just support her online check out
• 1:10:43
  her reddit at Emma Watson but dumber, but yeah, thank
• 1:10:47
  you very much, Helena for such a cool story. Yeah
• 1:10:50
  that was great. I really loved that and much need
• 1:10:52
  to change from last week's. If I my dad, yeah,
• 1:10:54
  I think that i'd be. I'd love to just check
• 1:10:58
  out more of what this author has done. And just
• 1:11:00
  a lot of fun.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I had a lot tons of fun, and just
• 1:11:03
  appreciate how to the point it was.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: It doesn't linger or anything like that.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: It's really to the point, and it delivers the scares
• 1:11:11
  in a fun way, very elegant, and how it's written
• 1:11:13
  so all in all fucking amazing. We appreciate you, and
• 1:11:16
  I just want to say thank you guys so much
• 1:11:18
  for if you were listening to this on Spotify. Thank
• 1:11:20
  you so much for listening on Spotify or Apple podcasts.
• 1:11:22
  It does help us out. We appreciate it.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: And until next time, everyone, you stay scared.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: You fucking imbeciles. We'll see you next time.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: Well that was a little harsh. I'll just say that
• 1:11:32
  I love you, and I hope it was creepy. Bye checkmate,
• 1:11:36
  Hunter Mo