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Episode 4: Categorizing · World of Gore

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  SPEAKER_00: The following podcast contains descriptions of violence and horror.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listener discretion is advised.
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  SPEAKER_01: Log number four.
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  SPEAKER_01: Antoine de Rose recording.
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  SPEAKER_01: It has occurred to me that over the course of these tapes that I've referenced my Gore cataloging system on multiple occasions.
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  SPEAKER_01: While I did briefly touch on the subject in my second entry, there's no reason for me to assume anyone who has come across my logs are listening to them in numerical order.
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  SPEAKER_01: Actually, why would I assume whoever is listening to this even has more than one tape?
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  SPEAKER_01: Still, I've always intended to dedicate a log to this topic.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why not today?
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  SPEAKER_01: At the risk of repeating myself, I use a numbered categorization system to gauge gores based on a number of factors.
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  SPEAKER_01: At its core is a threat assessment.
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  SPEAKER_01: The higher the number, the more dangerous the gore is.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'd like to think there's more nuance than that, but for the purposes of this report, I think this description will suffice.
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  SPEAKER_01: I developed this system with a fellow researcher during my time at the bureau.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am told they still use a version of it today, minus one major aspect.
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  SPEAKER_01: The police precinct that I work with have taken to using it as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Before we begin looking at the system, I did want to talk about gores in generalized terms, specifically the common traits across all categories.
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  SPEAKER_01: First, the obvious one, gores are killers.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's not just that they kill, it's why they kill.
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  SPEAKER_01: Based on observations and interviews with the few that were apprehended, they have a deep, irresistible urge to not simply murder their targets, but to hunt and stalk them like a predator, like an animal.
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  SPEAKER_01: While it is impossible to know the motivation of every single gore incident, many of them don't speak and others are beyond rational conversation.
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  SPEAKER_01: But revenge seems to be a very common trigger, at least at first.
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  SPEAKER_01: Someone wrongs another party, or it's a perceived wrong, and that party comes back and they come back angry, violent.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or sometimes it's not even the original party, but a family member or close associate who now wants retribution.
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  SPEAKER_01: And retribution very often is not against the party who initially started things, but their children, grandchildren sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they are physically unable to stop until either they or their targets are dead.
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  SPEAKER_01: Gore incidents tend to last a few days at most, even if the preparation for the attack is months or even years in the making.
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  SPEAKER_01: Once the blood starts flowing, it seems to stop in less than a week in most cases, one way or another.
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  SPEAKER_01: Also, gores very rarely use firearms.
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  SPEAKER_01: Melee weapons, usually blades, are the preferred weapon of choice, although we do not know why there's a commonality.
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  SPEAKER_01: Knives, machetes, hatchets, chainsaws, but also baseball bats, hammers, those are all used at times.
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  SPEAKER_01: Once I came across an incident where the gore use a 2x4 with a nail sticking out of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, let's begin with the lowest tier, Category 1.
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  SPEAKER_01: Category 1s are considered quite difficult to classify, mostly due to the similarities between gores and non-gore serial killers.
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  SPEAKER_01: There have been many instances of law enforcement mistaking the two, and then things ending in bloodshed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Technically, all gores are serial killers, but not all serial killers are gores.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a difference between John Wayne Gacy, a man who killed over thirty people over time, who on occasion dressed as a clown, and a killer, who exclusively dressed as a clown while they meticulously ripped apart five teenagers over the course of a weekend in some abandoned subway tunnels.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ugh, clowns.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh uh the uh the best indicator is often the modus operandi of the killer.
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  SPEAKER_01: How long were they active?
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  SPEAKER_01: How brazen were they about the murders?
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  SPEAKER_01: Did they care about hiding it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Did the killer display any enhanced physical attributes during the murders?
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  SPEAKER_01: Some non-gore killers like to play games with law enforcement, but gores almost never do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Were there deliberate clues for the police at the murder sites?
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  SPEAKER_01: As for the actual classification, category ones are the least dangerous kind of gore, for what that's worth.
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  SPEAKER_01: In many cases, they resemble someone having the mother of all psychotic breaks rather than a murder obsessed monster.
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  SPEAKER_01: They, like all gores, still have the unexplained and uncontrollable impulse to kill, but their minds are still intact, for lack of a better word.
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  SPEAKER_01: They can still be rational, they can be bargained with sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, while their target would never be allowed to strike a deal, there have been plenty of instances where a survivor of an incident lived to tell a tale simply because they asked the gore if they could go free, and were obliged.
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  SPEAKER_01: This classification of gores are, in all the ways that matter, just as human as you or I.
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  SPEAKER_01: They break bones, they limp, they get blurry vision.
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  SPEAKER_01: They fall down when they get shot in the head.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, they might exhibit some measure of improbable physical traits, often in regards to durability.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's the difference of falling down several flights of stairs head first and walking away unaided as opposed to being knocked off a four story building, leaving no body, then reappearing completely unhindered just minutes later.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not only can they be killed just like any other person, but they can be fought, and anyone who has survived an instant understands exactly where that distinction lies.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are many examples in my notes, but I think I will relate the tale of the ice cream man, though some rather malicious and insensitive folks have taken to calling them the bad humor man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh we all know the case.
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  SPEAKER_01: An ice cream truck driver, Manny Cole, is killed in the hit and run one fateful summer, perpetrators being high school juniors without the sense to avoid drinking and driving.
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  SPEAKER_01: They buried the body, covered things up.
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  SPEAKER_01: No one knew.
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  SPEAKER_01: Until the next year, right after they graduated school and a deranged killer driving a heavily spiked and chained ice cream truck came into their lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the end, the survivors unmasked the ice cream man as Mary Cole, Manicole's mother, who had pieced together what had happened to her son, and had gone mad with an obsession for revenge.
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  SPEAKER_01: There has been contention over whether this incident was a gore attack or merely the actions of a grieving but unhealthy mother.
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  SPEAKER_01: I personally believe that there are enough traits to classify as a category one.
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  SPEAKER_01: We all know what happened next.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll get back to that shortly.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is one other major trait we should discuss about ones, probably the single most horrific thing about them.
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  SPEAKER_01: They can evolve.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's say there's an incident where a category one goes on a killing spree in a summer camp but is ultimately stopped, perhaps even killed.
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  SPEAKER_01: But then it changes, either through strange metamorphosis while it's captive, or it's body reanimating.
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  SPEAKER_01: In either case, the gore has now become something else.
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  SPEAKER_01: A category two.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's say the gore returns to its killing spree at its previous hunting grounds, but it's different now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Its motivation has become simpler, less focused.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe it still wants revenge, but the longer it exists, the less it's concerned with getting payback, and instead broadly wanting to make the world burn.
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  SPEAKER_01: At this stage, where a category one could potentially be reasoned with or bargained with, a category two cannot.
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  SPEAKER_01: Most times it won't even engage verbally, and the ones that do seem to be incapable of anything other than flippant mockery of their potential victim's plight.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not only mental, there's a stark physical difference between the two categories.
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  SPEAKER_01: Two's are stronger, far more durable.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're able to withstand bodily harm that would easily incapacitate a normal person with barely a flinch.
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  SPEAKER_01: Many of the perhaps most of them are impossibly fast, moving at speeds that defy our understanding of physics.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there's no easy way to put this.
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  SPEAKER_01: They possess powers beyond the physical attributes, including the ability to vanish without a trace the moment eyes are taking off them, likely related to their speed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's return to the ice cream man cases.
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  SPEAKER_01: These incidents were quite high profile, so I won't go into them with too much detail, but to give a brief recap, just hours after his mother dying in an attempt to avenge him, lightning struck the grave of Manny Cole, and then, within days, a very much walking and talking Manny Cole began picking off the last of the kids who had been responsible for his death, dressed in the tattered remains of a soda jerk uniform.
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  SPEAKER_01: Unlike his mother, Manny was fantastically strong and was durable enough to take two shotgun blasts to the chest and keep going.
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  SPEAKER_01: The last of the kids managed to knock him into the river, seemingly killing him.
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  SPEAKER_01: But when she started college the next year, the ice cream man and his truck followed her and went on a massacre across her campus.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are at least three other incidents related to the ice cream man.
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  SPEAKER_01: His mother was likely a Category one, but Manny himself was undeniably a category two.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or was he?
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  SPEAKER_01: That brings me to Category three, the most difficult to label because well, it's vague.
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  SPEAKER_01: The FBI rejected this part of my system.
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  SPEAKER_01: A large part of the reason why was that it's near impossible to prove their existence.
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  SPEAKER_01: I assign a gore into this category when they display aspects that go beyond our understanding of the universe on a fundamental level.
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  SPEAKER_01: This sounds far fetched, I'm aware, and have been told this many times.
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  SPEAKER_01: But there have been reports for years, for decades, of crime scenes that were not ruled as gore incidents, but still possess aspects that some would call supernatural, cases of whole families being reduced to puddles of blood in their sleep, reports of children being terrified and assaulted in their dreams by the same hideous assailant, claims of humans physically changing into monsters like they were made out of putty.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've heard several reports of murders and accidents that may have been linked to someone supposedly summoning a cadre of angels who wanted to bargain.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's go back to the ice cream man one last time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Something that was commonly observed from all incidents, except maybe the initial murder, was that the truck breathed.
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  SPEAKER_01: It seemed to make noises on its own, even move without a driver.
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  SPEAKER_01: One report suggested it had been hit by gunfire and bled.
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  SPEAKER_01: The truck seemed to be alive.
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  SPEAKER_01: A homicide victim's corpse being struck by lightning and coming back to life to wreak bloody revenge is an insane statement, and yet it's the reality that we live in.
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  SPEAKER_01: To say that the act of his resurrection somehow also caused his vehicle to become a living being, that is a notion that we simply cannot comprehend.
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  SPEAKER_01: It changes our perspective of what life is and what our beliefs are and should be.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's easier to ignore those parts, to write off the unbelievable as false without an abundance of evidence.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, Category three remains theoretical, though to be honest, I can't say I'm in any hurry to personally prove the existence of such creatures.
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  SPEAKER_01: These stories I've talked about, they have a much higher mortality rate compared to any other officially recognized gore incident.
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  SPEAKER_01: I uh I think I'll end things here.
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  SPEAKER_01: I hope you found the information on this tape somewhat useful.
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  SPEAKER_01: I do have a dark caveat to add, I'm afraid.
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  SPEAKER_01: While this system can be used to help you identify what you're possibly dealing with, the hard truth is that if you find yourself as the target of or adjacent to the target of a gore, then none of what I've shared will likely save you.
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  SPEAKER_01: It will just help you understand what it is that's tearing you to shreds.
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