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- 0:02Speaker 1: My name's Peter, and this is the most haunting memory
- 0:05Speaker 1: of my life. And this incident happened when I was
- 0:08Speaker 1: twelve years old. My father had transferable jobs, so we
- 0:12Speaker 1: often switched houses. One time, we were staying in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
- 0:17Speaker 1: The company gave us an old house to stay in.
- 0:20Speaker 1: It was morning. I was helping my mom unpack our things.
- 0:24Speaker 1: Suddenly the doorbell rang. My father was at work and
- 0:27Speaker 1: it was just the two of us in the house.
- 0:30Speaker 1: I rushed to the door and opened it. I saw
- 0:32Speaker 1: an old woman standing on our house porch. She smiled
- 0:35Speaker 1: back at me and said, is your mother home? I
- 0:39Speaker 1: called my mom and they started to chat. I came
- 0:42Speaker 1: to know that this old woman was our next door neighbor.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Apparently she was also a valuable member of the town council.
- 0:49Speaker 1: She invited our family for the annual township parade and
- 0:52Speaker 1: fireworks on the coming Saturday. My mom happily accepted the
- 0:55Speaker 1: invitation and the old woman left that night. When my
- 0:59Speaker 1: dad came home, my mom told him all about it.
- 1:02Speaker 1: Even though my parents were excited to go there, I,
- 1:05Speaker 1: on the other hand, knew I would be bored. Being
- 1:07Speaker 1: a kid is not easy and I hated every time
- 1:10Speaker 1: we moved to a new area. Anyways, we all got
- 1:14Speaker 1: dressed up and left for the township annual parade, and
- 1:17Speaker 1: the celebration took place in a huge local park, so
- 1:20Speaker 1: some people greeted us, and the old woman got busy
- 1:23Speaker 1: introducing my parents saw all the council members. I grabbed
- 1:26Speaker 1: an ice cream from a truck nearby and sat down
- 1:28Speaker 1: on a wooden bench. A group of seven to eight
- 1:31Speaker 1: people were marching in the entire park, wearing different kinds
- 1:33Speaker 1: of funky costumes. Everyone was having a good time. The
- 1:37Speaker 1: fireworks started and I got busy watching them. I don't
- 1:41Speaker 1: know how long I sat like that, but suddenly a
- 1:44Speaker 1: sound broke my concentration. I heard a faint, sobbing sound nearby.
- 1:49Speaker 1: My eyes wandered around the park for three to four seconds,
- 1:53Speaker 1: and that's when I saw it. Under a tree to
- 1:55Speaker 1: my left, I saw a really tall figure standing in
- 1:58Speaker 1: the dark and was a man, but I couldn't see
- 2:00Speaker 1: his face clearly. The only thing that caught my attention
- 2:03Speaker 1: was his weird looking shoes. I was trying to figure
- 2:06Speaker 1: out the entire situation when the tall man came out
- 2:09Speaker 1: from the dark. It was a man dressed in a
- 2:11Speaker 1: clown costume, and his attire explained why he was wearing
- 2:14Speaker 1: those funky shoes. As I was looking at him, his
- 2:18Speaker 1: sense of discomfort came over me. Unlike other normal clowns,
- 2:22Speaker 1: he looked completely different. Tears were rolling down his eyes,
- 2:26Speaker 1: messing up his creepily painted face. His face was extremely sad,
- 2:31Speaker 1: and he was just standing there and watching me. I
- 2:33Speaker 1: don't know what it was about his stare, but I
- 2:36Speaker 1: couldn't move an inch. It felt like someone had glued
- 2:38Speaker 1: me to the bench. I don't know how long I
- 2:41Speaker 1: sat there, but it felt like forever. A man wasn't blinking,
- 2:45Speaker 1: he wasn't even moving, He just stood there with a
- 2:48Speaker 1: terrifyingly sad face and watched me. Suddenly, a huge firework
- 2:52Speaker 1: burst above my head and I got my senses back.
- 2:55Speaker 1: I looked up for a second and again looked at
- 2:57Speaker 1: the tree, but he was gone. That night, after coming home,
- 3:01Speaker 1: I didn't sleep well. I even had a terrible dream.
- 3:05Speaker 1: In my dream, I saw myself standing alone in that park.
- 3:08Speaker 1: The park was empty and awfully quiet, and there wasn't
- 3:11Speaker 1: any sound around me. But all of a sudden I
- 3:14Speaker 1: heard a sobbing sound and I turned over and saw
- 3:17Speaker 1: the sad clown standing near the park, blocking my way,
- 3:21Speaker 1: and he was whispering uncomfortably. After whimpering like that for
- 3:24Speaker 1: a while, the clown finally said, I want to smile.
- 3:28Speaker 1: Can you put a smile on my face? And he
- 3:30Speaker 1: then took out a shiny knife from his pocket and
- 3:32Speaker 1: started to cut his mouth through a great smile. I
- 3:35Speaker 1: could hear the sound of flush tearing. When more he
- 3:38Speaker 1: cut himself, the louder his whimpering grew. He turned back
- 3:41Speaker 1: to run and fell on the ground. That's when I
- 3:44Speaker 1: woke up in my bed covered in sweat. I didn't
- 3:47Speaker 1: tell my parents about this because I already knew they
- 3:49Speaker 1: wouldn't believe me. A few days went by and I
- 3:51Speaker 1: almost forgot about this clown. I went to my local school.
- 3:55Speaker 1: I met a girl named Sarah who lived close to
- 3:57Speaker 1: my house. She was kind of me the very first day,
- 4:00Speaker 1: and we became good friends in no time. Sarah and
- 4:03Speaker 1: I often walked home together after school. One day, we
- 4:07Speaker 1: were walking down the road when she started talking about
- 4:09Speaker 1: the history of the town. She talked about the annual
- 4:12Speaker 1: parade thing, and that's when that scary clown flashed in
- 4:15Speaker 1: my memory. I said in a hesitant voice. Yeah, I
- 4:20Speaker 1: was there that night, but the clown of the parade
- 4:22Speaker 1: seemed really weird to me. Sarah looked at me with
- 4:25Speaker 1: surprised eyes and said, what clown? I replied, well, there
- 4:30Speaker 1: was this clown that irritated me by making a sad
- 4:33Speaker 1: face and then suddenly disappeared. Sarah didn't let me finish.
- 4:37Speaker 1: She said, are you sure it was a clown? I
- 4:40Speaker 1: nodded my head. Yeah, everyone knows what a clown looks like.
- 4:44Speaker 1: Sarah said in a low but serious voice. We're in
- 4:47Speaker 1: Green Bay, Wisconsin. We don't have clowns anymore. It's kind
- 4:51Speaker 1: of forbidden here. Everyone believes clowns to be a bad omen.
- 4:54Speaker 1: After twenty sixteen, I said, in a confused voice, what
- 4:58Speaker 1: happened in twenty sixteen? Sarah told me how criminals terrified
- 5:02Speaker 1: this area dressed in clown costumes, and how people were
- 5:05Speaker 1: scared to go out. Everyone's life turned miserable due to
- 5:09Speaker 1: these killer clowns, until cops got them and even shot
- 5:12Speaker 1: some of them all to put a stop to it.
- 5:15Speaker 1: Sarah also said that the town people believed that the
- 5:17Speaker 1: spirits of those dead clowns still haunt the area. The
- 5:21Speaker 1: sun was about a set and the sky turned dark.
- 5:24Speaker 1: We realized it was getting late and there was no
- 5:26Speaker 1: one in the streets. Sarah waved me goodbye and then
- 5:29Speaker 1: went towards her house on the right. No, my house
- 5:31Speaker 1: was still a ten minute walk away. I started to
- 5:34Speaker 1: walk faster as their story spooked me a bit. The
- 5:37Speaker 1: memory of that terrifying dream again grabbed my mind. I
- 5:41Speaker 1: had no shame in saying that I was insanely scared.
- 5:43Speaker 1: In that moment, I decided to take the shortcut through
- 5:46Speaker 1: the park. The park was completely empty, and I began
- 5:50Speaker 1: walking through it. After taking a few steps, a sense
- 5:53Speaker 1: of fear grabbed my heart, and I felt as if
- 5:56Speaker 1: someone was watching me. Looking back over my shoulder, I
- 5:59Speaker 1: saw them spine chilling sight, and that sad clown for
- 6:03Speaker 1: my dream was standing at the entrance of the park.
- 6:05Speaker 1: Even though there was darkness around, I could still see
- 6:08Speaker 1: his terrifying face. I tried to tell myself it was
- 6:11Speaker 1: all just in my imagination, and I turned and started
- 6:14Speaker 1: to walk you in faster. But suddenly a rapid sound
- 6:17Speaker 1: of footsteps started to appear behind me. As I looked
- 6:20Speaker 1: behind me in reaction, I saw the clown running towards
- 6:23Speaker 1: me At full speed and his arms were widely stretched.
- 6:26Speaker 1: His face was drooping with tears of blood, and the
- 6:28Speaker 1: way he was staring at me freaked me out. For
- 6:31Speaker 1: a moment, I thought if he caught me, he would
- 6:33Speaker 1: kill me without any hesitation. When I screamed at the
- 6:35Speaker 1: top of my legs and started to run towards my house,
- 6:38Speaker 1: and I didn't look back. I didn't stop, and I
- 6:41Speaker 1: just kept running for my life. I don't remember exactly
- 6:44Speaker 1: what happened in the end, and my mom told me
- 6:46Speaker 1: she a a loud down in the dad in my scream.
- 6:50Speaker 1: She opened the door. She found me unconscious on her porch.
- 6:53Speaker 1: A high fever took over and I got bed ridden
- 6:56Speaker 1: for a week. My mom told me I often mummed
- 6:59Speaker 1: my sleep about if someone caught me, that I get killed.
- 7:03Speaker 1: My mom still doesn't know what exactly happened to her
- 7:05Speaker 1: son that day. My dad changed his job and we
- 7:08Speaker 1: took a house near our grandparents. I never went back
- 7:11Speaker 1: to that town, and since then I stayed the hell
- 7:13Speaker 1: away from clowns. Sometimes I even get nightmares. I've seen
- 7:17Speaker 1: myself running on an empty road even though no one's
- 7:20Speaker 1: chasing me, and all of a sudden, that sad clown
- 7:23Speaker 1: would appear in front of me. This incident has made
- 7:37Speaker 1: my life miserable. For the last ten years, I haven't
- 7:40Speaker 1: seen anyone in my family. I was five years old
- 7:44Speaker 1: and about to turn six. I never met my father.
- 7:48Speaker 1: My mom told me he left her at a very
- 7:50Speaker 1: young age. I was raised by mostly just my mother
- 7:53Speaker 1: and my grandma. Many people cherish childhood memories, but I
- 7:58Speaker 1: curse mine. We weren't ri but I came from a
- 8:01Speaker 1: financially stable household. I was a shy kid, which made
- 8:05Speaker 1: me an easy target to bullies. My only friend, Amanda,
- 8:09Speaker 1: always watched my back. It was before my tenth birthday
- 8:12Speaker 1: and my mom came to pick me up from school.
- 8:15Speaker 1: As we got in the car, she asked me, so,
- 8:18Speaker 1: you're turning ten tomorrow. How about a themed birthday party.
- 8:22Speaker 1: I smiled and said what theme? Mom? She replied, well,
- 8:27Speaker 1: we're gonna put up decorations in the backyard and order
- 8:29Speaker 1: your favorite strawberry cake. You can invite your friends and
- 8:32Speaker 1: it'll be fine. Jeremy, I got excited about hearing the
- 8:35Speaker 1: plans my mom made. After coming home, my mom and
- 8:38Speaker 1: grandma started with the birthday arrangements. I called Amanda and
- 8:42Speaker 1: invited her. My mom phoned her neighbors and invited them
- 8:46Speaker 1: to the party tomorrow. With a big smile on my face,
- 8:49Speaker 1: I went to bed that night. The next morning, my
- 8:52Speaker 1: mom woke me up. I got so many presents. By afternoon,
- 8:56Speaker 1: our backyard was flooding with cheerful kids and their parents.
- 9:00Speaker 1: There were balloons everywhere. Amanda and I were playing when
- 9:03Speaker 1: a kid from our neighborhood said in a loud voice, look,
- 9:07Speaker 1: there's a clown here. And I looked over, and sure enough,
- 9:11Speaker 1: I saw a man dressed in a clown costume standing
- 9:13Speaker 1: in the distance. His red colored hair and funky clothes
- 9:17Speaker 1: made him look funny. He had a big red smile
- 9:19Speaker 1: on his white painted face. His eyes were big and shiny.
- 9:23Speaker 1: He said in a squeaky voice, So, where's the birthday boy,
- 9:27Speaker 1: Amanda said, Jeremy's here. The clown suddenly looked at me,
- 9:31Speaker 1: and our eyes met. He smiled even bigger than before,
- 9:35Speaker 1: and walked towards me in a very weird way. He
- 9:38Speaker 1: leaned towards my face, and I got a bit creeped out.
- 9:41Speaker 1: He said in the same voice, So, Jeremy, you're a
- 9:45Speaker 1: big boy. Now I have a special gift for you,
- 9:48Speaker 1: and then laughed. I wasn't happy to see this guy
- 9:51Speaker 1: at my birthday, but I guess clowns are common at
- 9:54Speaker 1: birthday parties, so I didn't think too much about it.
- 9:57Speaker 1: If I'm being honest, I had no fear of clowns whatsoever.
- 10:00Speaker 1: But this guy gave me some really weird vibes. And
- 10:03Speaker 1: I said, in a hesitated tone, what gift. He put
- 10:08Speaker 1: his hand inside his pocket and then took out a
- 10:10Speaker 1: wooden box. As I opened the box, I saw a
- 10:13Speaker 1: set of colored pencils. It was a generous gift, and
- 10:15Speaker 1: I thanked the clown. The clown laughed again and said,
- 10:19Speaker 1: I guess we're friends now, Jeremy. I stood there silently
- 10:22Speaker 1: with an uncomfortable face. I didn't know what to say.
- 10:25Speaker 1: That's when my mom came in and patted my back,
- 10:27Speaker 1: saying it was time to cut the cake. The clown
- 10:30Speaker 1: looked at my mom and his face changed. It was
- 10:33Speaker 1: clear he didn't like the interruption anyways. Everyone gathered around
- 10:38Speaker 1: the cake placed on the wooden table. Ten candles were
- 10:40Speaker 1: lit on the cake. As I lifted the knife to
- 10:42Speaker 1: cut it, the clown said, make a wish first, Jeremy.
- 10:46Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll come true. I blew the candles and
- 10:49Speaker 1: honestly didn't wish for anything. The birthday party was going
- 10:52Speaker 1: well and the clown was interacting with other kids, but
- 10:55Speaker 1: whenever I looked at him, he looked back at me
- 10:56Speaker 1: and smiled. I was sitting on the swing my cake
- 11:00Speaker 1: when Marco came to me. Now, Marco was a bully
- 11:04Speaker 1: at my school. We studied in the same class and
- 11:07Speaker 1: unfortunately lived in the same neighborhood too. He was often
- 11:10Speaker 1: really means to me. I didn't want any trouble that day,
- 11:12Speaker 1: so I sat quietly. Marco started to tease me, saying
- 11:16Speaker 1: how boring the party was. I didn't react, but suddenly
- 11:19Speaker 1: he said maybe if you had a dad, your party
- 11:22Speaker 1: would have been more fun, and started to laugh at me.
- 11:25Speaker 1: I felt very insulted by this remark, so I said,
- 11:28Speaker 1: in an angry voice, well you can leave, then, no
- 11:32Speaker 1: one wants you hear Marco. Marco's face turned all red
- 11:35Speaker 1: and he pushed me off the swing. It was a
- 11:37Speaker 1: low swing, so I didn't get hurt, but my cake
- 11:40Speaker 1: fell on the ground. My parents came to stop the fight,
- 11:43Speaker 1: and his mother apologized for his behavior. My mom shrugged
- 11:46Speaker 1: it off saying things like this often happened in kids,
- 11:49Speaker 1: and I got really angry and went to my room.
- 11:52Speaker 1: My mom kept calling me to come back, but I
- 11:54Speaker 1: sat near my bedroom window trying to cool off the anger.
- 11:58Speaker 1: I could see the entire backyard from room window, and
- 12:01Speaker 1: that's when I noticed something. Marco was playing with a
- 12:04Speaker 1: bunch of kids from our school. The clown was standing
- 12:07Speaker 1: close to him. As he ran toward a kid to
- 12:09Speaker 1: catch him, I saw the clown push him. Suddenly, Marco
- 12:12Speaker 1: fell to the ground, tumbling over a small rock and
- 12:14Speaker 1: broke his chin. The tooth fell to the ground and
- 12:17Speaker 1: he started crying in pain. I saw it all clearly
- 12:20Speaker 1: from my bedroom window, and it all happened so fast
- 12:23Speaker 1: that everyone thought it was just an accident. I could
- 12:26Speaker 1: clearly see the clown intentionally pushing him. His parents left
- 12:29Speaker 1: the party to take him to the hospital. The clown
- 12:32Speaker 1: looked up in my bedroom window and smiled and felt
- 12:35Speaker 1: as if he did that to punish Marco on my behalf.
- 12:38Speaker 1: At that moment, I was angry and just a kid,
- 12:40Speaker 1: so I felt Marco deserved it. I went downstairs and
- 12:43Speaker 1: saw the kids leaving. My mom was busy talking to
- 12:46Speaker 1: the parents of the other kids about the accident. I
- 12:49Speaker 1: was standing on our house porch alone. Suddenly I turned
- 12:52Speaker 1: to my left and my heart skipped a beat. So
- 12:55Speaker 1: clown came near me and stood beside me silently. I
- 12:58Speaker 1: got scared of seeing him. He leaned towards my face
- 13:01Speaker 1: and said, I'm your friend, Jeremy. This will be our
- 13:04Speaker 1: little secret. I realized he now knows that I saw
- 13:07Speaker 1: him pushing Marco, and that's when my mom called me
- 13:10Speaker 1: to take my gifts inside. I walked towards my mom,
- 13:14Speaker 1: but as I looked back, I saw the clown was nowhere.
- 13:17Speaker 1: My mom was just as confused. She said, where did
- 13:21Speaker 1: the clown guy go? I couldn't even pay him. Two
- 13:24Speaker 1: to three days later, I went to the park with Amanda.
- 13:28Speaker 1: We were playing near the jungle gym when I heard
- 13:30Speaker 1: a voice close to my back. Hello, Jeremy, you remember me.
- 13:35Speaker 1: I saw the same clown standing behind me with this
- 13:38Speaker 1: creepy smile. Amanda said, hey, you came to Jeremy's birthday party.
- 13:43Speaker 1: Clown smiled back and said yeah, and now I came
- 13:46Speaker 1: to see you guys again. He gave us candies and said,
- 13:50Speaker 1: how's your friend Marco. I looked at Amanda and said,
- 13:54Speaker 1: in a fumbling voice, he's he's fine now. The clown
- 13:58Speaker 1: seemed interested in spending time with us, but suddenly my
- 14:01Speaker 1: mom rushed towards us. Why don't you leave these kids alone? Huh.
- 14:05Speaker 1: I know what you did to poor Marco. Jeremy told
- 14:07Speaker 1: me you pushed him. Listen, you freak. If you don't
- 14:10Speaker 1: leave now, I'm gonna call the cops on you. And
- 14:12Speaker 1: the clown took a few steps back. I saw his
- 14:15Speaker 1: joyful smile changing to a mean, evil grin. He then
- 14:19Speaker 1: looked at me and said, don't be afraid, Jeremy, I'll
- 14:22Speaker 1: always be your friend. He then walked away silently. I
- 14:26Speaker 1: knew my mom was pissed at him, and in the
- 14:29Speaker 1: back of my mind something told me he wasn't gonna
- 14:31Speaker 1: sleep on the insult. The day was the tenth of March. Yeah,
- 14:35Speaker 1: I'll never forget this date. I came home from school.
- 14:39Speaker 1: A man and I often walked home together, and when
- 14:41Speaker 1: we arrived at my house, I waved to her goodbye
- 14:44Speaker 1: and walked towards my house porch. I twisted the doorknob
- 14:47Speaker 1: and got inside. Usually, my mom watched TV whenever she
- 14:51Speaker 1: was home, taking a day off but that day, the
- 14:54Speaker 1: entire ambience of the house was awfully quiet, and I said, Mom,
- 14:59Speaker 1: I'm home, but no reply came. I said again, Mom,
- 15:05Speaker 1: where are you? I'm hungry, Still no reply. A shiver
- 15:10Speaker 1: ran down my spine. A feeling surrounded me, telling something
- 15:13Speaker 1: was not right with our house. I slowly walked towards
- 15:16Speaker 1: the kitchen, and what I saw made my skin crawl
- 15:20Speaker 1: in fear. The clown was sitting on the kitchen floor
- 15:23Speaker 1: in front of a small pool of blood. He smiled
- 15:26Speaker 1: at me and said, welcome home, Jeremy. Do you want
- 15:30Speaker 1: to see something funny? He then dipped his hand in
- 15:33Speaker 1: the blood. While his finger dripped the blood on the floor,
- 15:36Speaker 1: the guy started to literally lick them and I screamed
- 15:40Speaker 1: at the top of my lungs, and the clown started
- 15:42Speaker 1: to laugh. His hysterical laughter echoed in the empty house.
- 15:47Speaker 1: I said, now crying at this point, where is my mom?
- 15:51Speaker 1: What did you do to her? The clown got up
- 15:54Speaker 1: and said, in an angry, vengeful voice, your mom. She's
- 15:58Speaker 1: not your mom. He kept you away from me all
- 16:01Speaker 1: these years. I'm your dad, Jeremy, you're my son. The
- 16:06Speaker 1: clown then went behind the kitchen table and started to
- 16:08Speaker 1: drag something. I was out of words, completely shocked by
- 16:12Speaker 1: what was happening with my life, but the ultimate horror
- 16:16Speaker 1: flashed in front of my eyes. As the clown dragged
- 16:18Speaker 1: my mom's body, he slid her throat and she was
- 16:21Speaker 1: lying on the ground, lifeless, covered with blood, and the
- 16:24Speaker 1: clown then looked at me and laughed. I screamed even
- 16:27Speaker 1: louder this time, as I couldn't believe my eyes. People
- 16:31Speaker 1: in our neighborhood gathered in front of my house. The
- 16:34Speaker 1: clown didn't even try to run away. He just stood
- 16:36Speaker 1: there watching my dead mom with his psychotic face, and
- 16:40Speaker 1: the cops came and arrested him. I came to know
- 16:43Speaker 1: he was indeed my actual dad, but he was in
- 16:47Speaker 1: prison for some serious criminal charges, which is why my
- 16:50Speaker 1: mom kept me away from him all these years. He
- 16:53Speaker 1: got bailed before my birthday and came to get his
- 16:55Speaker 1: son back. I was standing close to my grandma. We
- 16:59Speaker 1: were in tears when the paramedics took my mom's body away.
- 17:02Speaker 1: The neighborhood was watching with scared eyes. When the cops
- 17:05Speaker 1: sticked the clown away before getting into the car, he
- 17:08Speaker 1: looked back at me and said, remember Jeremy, I'll always
- 17:11Speaker 1: be your friend. I feel I'm absolutely lost now. I
- 17:16Speaker 1: don't make new friends, and I don't even see my
- 17:18Speaker 1: close ones. I don't know whether the clowns slash my
- 17:21Speaker 1: dad received capital punishment from murdering my mother, but I'm
- 17:25Speaker 1: already enough messed up in trouble to ask anyone about it.
- 17:29Speaker 1: My grandma sent me away to boarding school to keep
- 17:31Speaker 1: me away from all this, and since then I've been
- 17:33Speaker 1: running away from my past. My grandma had an obsession
- 17:38Speaker 1: with dolls. The obsession went to such a level that
- 17:42Speaker 1: she basically turned the house into a doll museum. She
- 17:45Speaker 1: collected dolls from anywhere, and I mean literally anywhere. One time,
- 17:50Speaker 1: I went to the grocery store with my grandma. We
- 17:52Speaker 1: were coming home and on our way, my grandma saw
- 17:55Speaker 1: a broken doll laying on the roadside. She picked it
- 17:58Speaker 1: up and brought it home. So yeah, I grew up
- 18:02Speaker 1: amidst a lot of dolls, and not all of them
- 18:04Speaker 1: were nice. My grandpa was popular as a ventriloquist at
- 18:08Speaker 1: a young age. I think that's how Grandma's liking towards
- 18:11Speaker 1: dolls came in the picture. My father worked in the
- 18:14Speaker 1: navy and my mom passed away when I was five
- 18:16Speaker 1: years old. My grandparents took care of me. I only
- 18:19Speaker 1: saw my dad once or twice a year during the holidays.
- 18:23Speaker 1: Not having a mother did upset me at first, but
- 18:26Speaker 1: my grandma showered me with all her love. I got
- 18:28Speaker 1: used to living around the dolls until one day my
- 18:32Speaker 1: grandpa received a package from his old friend. As he
- 18:35Speaker 1: unwrapped the foil, we discovered a mid sized clown doll
- 18:39Speaker 1: lying inside a wooden box. Now, I've seen a lot
- 18:43Speaker 1: of dolls, but this one in particular creeped me out,
- 18:47Speaker 1: maybe because of how big it was. It was almost
- 18:49Speaker 1: the size of a toddler. The more closely I looked
- 18:52Speaker 1: at its face, the more chilling vibes it gave me.
- 18:55Speaker 1: My grandpa said that he had a friend named Marco
- 18:57Speaker 1: who was a ventrilochus with him and this was his dummy.
- 19:01Speaker 1: Having a clown doll as a ventriloquist dummy seemed really odd.
- 19:06Speaker 1: There was a letter inside the package. My grandpa opened
- 19:09Speaker 1: the letter and read it out loud. Dear Samuel, if
- 19:13Speaker 1: you're reading this letter, then I am no longer in
- 19:16Speaker 1: this world. You've been a good friend to me, even
- 19:19Speaker 1: though we hardly met each other for the last couple
- 19:20Speaker 1: of years. I'm leaving Willie at your responsibility. You know
- 19:25Speaker 1: he can get cranky if he's not treated right. All
- 19:27Speaker 1: you need to do is treat him as your own
- 19:29Speaker 1: family member, include him in your meals, and always make
- 19:31Speaker 1: him sleep inside his box. Don't put him elsewhere he
- 19:35Speaker 1: doesn't like changes. I only trust you with him, your
- 19:39Speaker 1: dear friend Marco, my grandma said in a surprise voice.
- 19:43Speaker 1: That's a lot of caution for a simple doll. Grandpa
- 19:46Speaker 1: laughed and said, well, you haven't seen Marco with Willie.
- 19:50Speaker 1: In those days, he treated Willy like his own son.
- 19:54Speaker 1: He even told me once that Willy cried all night
- 19:56Speaker 1: because Marco forgot to kiss him good night. To me,
- 19:59Speaker 1: all these always didn't feel adorable, but rather I was
- 20:02Speaker 1: spooked to see this new addition into our doll collection.
- 20:05Speaker 1: But with more passing days, I started to realize there
- 20:08Speaker 1: something really wrong with the clown doll. My grandparents surprisingly
- 20:12Speaker 1: started to treat Willie like an actual family member. Maybe
- 20:16Speaker 1: they felt bad for Marco. I was already annoyed with
- 20:19Speaker 1: the presence of this doll, so I stayed away from
- 20:21Speaker 1: it as far as possible. One night when we sat
- 20:25Speaker 1: for dinner, I was about to start eating when my
- 20:28Speaker 1: Grandma said, Cassie, please bring Willy for dinner. I was reluctant,
- 20:33Speaker 1: but to avoid further discussion about the stupid doll, I
- 20:35Speaker 1: got up and brought Willie. And there was something about
- 20:38Speaker 1: the eyes and the smile of the clown. It made
- 20:41Speaker 1: me feel like there was an actual person living under it.
- 20:44Speaker 1: I mean, its expression felt so lively and equally creepy.
- 20:49Speaker 1: After finishing dinner, I was about to go to bed,
- 20:52Speaker 1: my Grandpa took Willie and put him in his box.
- 20:55Speaker 1: My room was right next to the doll room. I
- 20:58Speaker 1: was sleeping when a sudden the sound of footsteps woke
- 21:01Speaker 1: me up. At first I thought I imagined it, but
- 21:04Speaker 1: within a few seconds I felt someone was standing right
- 21:07Speaker 1: outside my door and watching me. I immediately got up
- 21:10Speaker 1: in fear and switched on the light. I clearly remember
- 21:14Speaker 1: shutting my door before going to bed, when I found
- 21:16Speaker 1: the door wide open. Next morning, at breakfast, I asked
- 21:21Speaker 1: my grandpa if he had come to my room last night,
- 21:24Speaker 1: but he said he didn't, and neither did Grandma. This
- 21:27Speaker 1: wasn't the only incident that started to grow a sense
- 21:29Speaker 1: of fear in me. A few days later, I was
- 21:32Speaker 1: watching TV in the living room alone, and the doll
- 21:35Speaker 1: was perfectly visible from where I was. Unfortunately, my Grandpa
- 21:39Speaker 1: kept the clown door right in front of my room entrance.
- 21:42Speaker 1: My eyes were often going to the doll in the room.
- 21:45Speaker 1: I was feeling very irritated because it seemed like the
- 21:48Speaker 1: clown was watching me with its wide eyes. At some point,
- 21:51Speaker 1: my level of patience gave in and I got up.
- 21:55Speaker 1: I grabbed a white sheet from the rack and covered
- 21:57Speaker 1: the doll with it. I came back to my spot
- 21:59Speaker 1: and started to watch the TV peacefully. Fifteen to twenty
- 22:03Speaker 1: minutes passed by without incident, but suddenly I heard a
- 22:06Speaker 1: coughing sound. I thought it was my grandma, so the
- 22:10Speaker 1: first few seconds I didn't react, but with time, the
- 22:13Speaker 1: coughing sound intensified, as if someone was unable to breathe.
- 22:17Speaker 1: My Grandpa rushed downstairs, thinking something that happened to me.
- 22:20Speaker 1: After discovering me all fine, he got shocked too. We
- 22:24Speaker 1: were trying to figure out where the sound was coming from.
- 22:27Speaker 1: My eyes went to the dollroom. I don't know if
- 22:30Speaker 1: you'll believe me or not, but the white cloth that
- 22:32Speaker 1: I used to cover up. Willy was drenched in blood stains,
- 22:35Speaker 1: stains as if someone coughed blood into it. My Grandpa
- 22:39Speaker 1: and I rushed over and lifted up the cover. There
- 22:41Speaker 1: were drops of blood on Willy's lips. Was to say,
- 22:45Speaker 1: we were completely terrified of what just happened. My grandpa said,
- 22:49Speaker 1: did you cover him, Cassie, I replied, I mean yeah,
- 22:53Speaker 1: I was watching TV and his eyes were creeping me out.
- 22:56Speaker 1: I mean, it's just a doll, right, my grandpa said,
- 22:59Speaker 1: in a confused voice, And this is really weird. How
- 23:02Speaker 1: come there's blood on his lips? No one could come
- 23:06Speaker 1: to a rational explanation about the incident, But since that day,
- 23:09Speaker 1: I became sure that this doll is no doubt haunted.
- 23:13Speaker 1: I couldn't say that's my grandparents though, as they were
- 23:15Speaker 1: in confusion about what to believe. But what happened that
- 23:18Speaker 1: night was enough to traumatize me for life. After dinner,
- 23:22Speaker 1: I came to my room and lie down. I couldn't
- 23:25Speaker 1: shake off the thought that the coughing sound was made
- 23:27Speaker 1: by none other than Willie. It made me terrified to
- 23:30Speaker 1: think that I actually made it difficult for him to breathe,
- 23:33Speaker 1: which is why he started to cough blood to drive
- 23:35Speaker 1: our attention by Can a simple doll do all this?
- 23:39Speaker 1: And this question was driving me crazy. I don't really
- 23:42Speaker 1: remember when I dozed off, but a bizarre sensation woke
- 23:45Speaker 1: me up. I felt someone was breathing on my face
- 23:48Speaker 1: as I opened my sleepy eyes. It took me a
- 23:50Speaker 1: few seconds to adjust to the sight, and as soon
- 23:53Speaker 1: as it did, my heart dropped my throat. The clown
- 23:57Speaker 1: Willie was standing right next to my bed and breathing
- 23:59Speaker 1: on my face. His eyes were so close to mine
- 24:02Speaker 1: that I couldn't tell if it was real or just
- 24:03Speaker 1: a dream. That's when I saw his eyes turning blood red.
- 24:07Speaker 1: His face was filled with anger, as if he wanted
- 24:09Speaker 1: me dead. I tried to scream, but he placed his cold,
- 24:13Speaker 1: bony finger on my lips and said in a squeaky,
- 24:16Speaker 1: spine chilling voice a quiet Cassie then took a few
- 24:20Speaker 1: steps back and smiled, showing his big yellow teeth. And
- 24:24Speaker 1: before I could guess what was about to happen, Willie
- 24:26Speaker 1: floated in the air and then jumped on me. I
- 24:29Speaker 1: couldn't take it anymore and screamed at the top of
- 24:31Speaker 1: my lungs and hit the doll with my bed lamp.
- 24:34Speaker 1: The doll fell on the floor, making a loud thud.
- 24:37Speaker 1: My grandparents came running and found me sobbing sitting on
- 24:40Speaker 1: my bed while Willie was lying on the floor. I
- 24:42Speaker 1: knew it wasn't a dream, and I knew I couldn't
- 24:44Speaker 1: stay with this doll anymore. My Gramma switched on the lights.
- 24:48Speaker 1: I told him what exactly happened. He then walked towards
- 24:51Speaker 1: the doll and picked it up, but who knew the
- 24:54Speaker 1: actual horror was yet to be unfolded. As he took
- 24:57Speaker 1: a close look over Willy's face, he said, what is this?
- 25:02Speaker 1: Looks like there's something underneath this doll. He then sat
- 25:05Speaker 1: down on a chair nearby. My Grandma and I stood
- 25:08Speaker 1: quietly with scared eyes, and then the strike of the lamp,
- 25:11Speaker 1: Willie's forehead got cracked in the left side corner. My
- 25:14Speaker 1: grandpa started to take out the fiber coating. After some time,
- 25:18Speaker 1: we discovered a terrible truth and there was a small,
- 25:22Speaker 1: weary skeleton lying under the doll, and there were remains
- 25:25Speaker 1: of a dead human being inside the doll. My grandpa
- 25:29Speaker 1: went to the cops with the doll. The cops found
- 25:31Speaker 1: out that Marco had a son, but his son passed
- 25:34Speaker 1: away with black fever. But to keep his son with
- 25:37Speaker 1: him forever, Marco stuffed his son's skeleton inside the clown doll.
- 25:42Speaker 1: The cops burnt the doll, and since then, my grandparents
- 25:45Speaker 1: stopped bringing any dolls into our house