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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell you three stories that all
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Speaker 1: in their own way, fall into the category of ghost stories.
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Speaker 1: get into today's stories. One night in April of nineteen nineteen,
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Speaker 1: a middle aged man named Eric Marth woke up in
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Speaker 1: his bedroom in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, because his
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Speaker 1: entire bed was He saw his wife, Margaret, was lying
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Speaker 1: next to him, and she was thrashing around and gasping
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Speaker 1: for air. But Eric didn't panic because he knew exactly
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Speaker 1: what was happening. So Eric and Margaret had moved into
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Speaker 1: this house just a few weeks ago, but pretty much
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Speaker 1: right away after moving in, Margaret had begun having these
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Speaker 1: very intense nightmares that would wake her up almost violently,
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Speaker 1: like what was happening right now? Now? From Eric's perspective,
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Speaker 1: these nightmares she was having looked horrifying, but there really
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Speaker 1: was not any physical risk to Margaret. I mean, she
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Speaker 1: would just have these horrible visceral dreams and it kind
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Speaker 1: of shake around, but that was it. And so, like
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Speaker 1: he had been doing the past couple of weeks, Eric
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Speaker 1: just reached over and gently put his hands on his
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Speaker 1: wife's shoulders and began repeating her name very gently, over
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Speaker 1: and over again to try to kind of get her
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Speaker 1: out of this trance she was in. And sure enough,
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Speaker 1: a moment later, Margaret who kind of stopped flailing. She
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Speaker 1: let out this huge gasp and then she sat up
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Speaker 1: straight and panted for air, and she turned to her
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Speaker 1: husband and she said, I saw the ghost again. And
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Speaker 1: whenever heard this, he wasn't like, oh my goodness, there's
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Speaker 1: a ghost. Instead, he was just kind of annoyed, and
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Speaker 1: so he did his best to comfort her, but he's
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Speaker 1: just thinking, what in the world is going on here?
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Speaker 1: So a few years ago, Margaret had joined the spiritualism movement,
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Speaker 1: which was a very popular religious movement at the time,
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Speaker 1: and spiritualists thought they could contact the dead. Now, Eric
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Speaker 1: absolutely did not believe in ghosts, and he was pretty
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Speaker 1: sure that Margaret's staunch belief in spiritualism was now effectively
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Speaker 1: causing these nightmares. That it was not the house, it
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Speaker 1: was just her belief system. It was kind of manifesting
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Speaker 1: in these nightmares. However, Margaret felt the opposite. She felt
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Speaker 1: like it was the house itself that was haunted, and
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Speaker 1: it was haunted by avengeful spirit that attacked her every
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Speaker 1: night in these dreams. Now, Eric, you know, it's the
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Speaker 1: middle of the night. He's tired, he's annoyed. He didn't
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Speaker 1: feel like discussing whatever she believed about this ghost right now.
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Speaker 1: So after she said, you know, I saw the ghost.
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Speaker 1: I saw the spirit again, he just told her to,
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Speaker 1: you know, calm down, go back to sleep. But on
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Speaker 1: this night, Margaret didn't lie down. She actually turned to
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Speaker 1: Eric and she said, no, I have to figure out
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Speaker 1: what's going on. I have to figure out who this
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Speaker 1: ghost is and why they're haunting me. A week later,
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Speaker 1: a very resigned Eric sat at his kitchen table next
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Speaker 1: to Margaret, and across from them sat a medium, which
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Speaker 1: is a person who spiritualist believed could talk directly to
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Speaker 1: the dead by conducting a ritual called a seance. The
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Speaker 1: medium began to light some candles, and as they did,
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Speaker 1: they told Eric and Margaret to close their eyes because
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Speaker 1: she was ready to begin the seance where she would
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Speaker 1: ask the spirit haunting their house what it wanted, and
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Speaker 1: they needed, you know, silence in their eyes closed to
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Speaker 1: do that. So Eric fully believed that this seance would
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Speaker 1: be a waste of time and money. He didn't believe
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Speaker 1: in this stuff at all, but he knew his wife
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Speaker 1: did and it meant a lot to her, and so
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Speaker 1: he's thinking, you know, maybe this can help my wife
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Speaker 1: sleep through the night again. And so Margaret and Eric
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Speaker 1: did as they were told, and Eric in he closed
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Speaker 1: his eyes and he listened as the medium began clearly
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Speaker 1: rocking back and forth in her chair and began sort
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Speaker 1: of dramatically calling out to the ghost and telling him
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Speaker 1: to reveal himself. And at first nothing happened, which was
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Speaker 1: exactly what Eric had expected. But after a minute, Margaret
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Speaker 1: suddenly jumped up from the table and ran out of
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Speaker 1: the kitchen across the living room, and Eric, not knowing
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Speaker 1: any better, just got up and followed her. And Margaret
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Speaker 1: she ran down the hallway, and she threw open a
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Speaker 1: door that led down to their cellar, and she raced
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Speaker 1: down the steps. Now Eric was doing his best not
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Speaker 1: to ridicule what was happening here and just to play along,
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Speaker 1: but it's like, what is his wife doing? What's happening here?
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Speaker 1: And so as he's chasing after his wife, he starts
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Speaker 1: saying like, honey, what's going on here? Where are you going?
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Speaker 1: What is this? But she didn't respond. It was like
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Speaker 1: she was on a mission. And then finally when Eric
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Speaker 1: got down the steps and he's in the cellar, he
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Speaker 1: saw his wife, who was now standing in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the cellar with her arms out wide and slowly
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Speaker 1: she began to point to a spot on the floor
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Speaker 1: and in this really weird and hollow voice, with the
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Speaker 1: sort of vacant expression on her face, she told Eric
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Speaker 1: to dig. Now, at this point, Eric was totally freaked out,
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Speaker 1: not because he believed that the seance had worked or
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Speaker 1: that there was a ghost here, but because his wife
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Speaker 1: genuinely was acting totally bizarre. I mean, she was acting possessed.
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Speaker 1: And even if that wasn't act, it was a terrifying one.
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Speaker 1: And so he just said, no, there was no way.
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Speaker 1: He was just going to start digging up the cellar floor,
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Speaker 1: like what is going on here? But then the medium
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Speaker 1: came rushing down the stairs as well, and they said
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Speaker 1: that Margaret was in a trance, that the ghost in
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Speaker 1: this house was channeling her, and that basically Eric had
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Speaker 1: to do whatever the ghost said. Suddenly, Margaret's voice cut
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Speaker 1: across the room again and she said to Eric to
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Speaker 1: dig dig up the floor, and this time she was
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Speaker 1: more forceful and almost desperate, like you must do this.
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Speaker 1: And so Eric he's looking at his wife, he's looking
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Speaker 1: at the medium like what in the world is happening here?
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Speaker 1: But he's like, you know what, I don't know what's happening.
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna dig. I'm gonna do what they tell
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Speaker 1: me to. So he grabbed a shovel and just began
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Speaker 1: digging up the cellar and after just a few minutes,
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Speaker 1: Eric's shovel hit something in the ground, something hard. He
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Speaker 1: thought it was just maybe like a big rock or something.
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Speaker 1: But a few minutes later, after he and the medium
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Speaker 1: and also Margaret, who's now come over at this point,
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Speaker 1: they kind of cleared off whatever it was they saw
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Speaker 1: in the ground. You know what had previously been covered
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Speaker 1: by the earth, was this rotten wooden box. And so
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Speaker 1: he and Margaret and the medium they pulled it out
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Speaker 1: of the hole and they opened up the lid, and
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Speaker 1: all three of them immediately recoiled because inside of the
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Speaker 1: box was a human skeleton. And so, after a minute
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Speaker 1: of just again stunned silence, Eric just looked up at Margaret,
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Speaker 1: who did not seem shocked by what she was looking at.
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Speaker 1: This was like confirmation in some ways, and he says
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Speaker 1: to Margaret, is this the skeleton of the ghost that's
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Speaker 1: been haunting you? And Margaret, with that same hollow voice
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Speaker 1: like it wasn't her voice, looked at Eric and just
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Speaker 1: said no. It would turn out, according to the story
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Speaker 1: that has been passed down about whatever happened in this house,
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Speaker 1: that the ghost was a doctor who used to live
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Speaker 1: in the house that Eric and Margaret moved into, and
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Speaker 1: eighteen years earlier, this doctor had performed an illegal surgery
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Speaker 1: on a young woman, and this woman had died during
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Speaker 1: this procedure. But again, because this surgery had been illegal,
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Speaker 1: the doctor knew if word of what happened here got out,
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Speaker 1: he would be arrested. So what did he do? He
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Speaker 1: dismembered the girl's body and shoved it into this wooden box,
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Speaker 1: filled the box with quicklime, and then he buried it
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Speaker 1: in his basement. And amazingly, the doctor never got caught
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Speaker 1: for what he did, and so he basically spent the
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Speaker 1: rest of his life feeling very ashamed and guilty, and
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Speaker 1: finally when he did die, it was like his spirit
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Speaker 1: couldn't actually rest until he confessed. And so this haunting
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Speaker 1: was basically to get Margaret to go down into the
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Speaker 1: basement and see what he had done. One afternoon in
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Speaker 1: April of nineteen twenty five, a wealthy teenager named Lacey
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Speaker 1: raced his horse around the huge estate where he lived
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Speaker 1: in eastern Hungary and took in all the land that
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Speaker 1: he knew he would inherit someday. He stopped when he
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Speaker 1: reached the gardens on the far side of the estate,
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Speaker 1: but before he could ride his horse into the gardens
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Speaker 1: as he wanted to, a field worker ran up to
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Speaker 1: Lacey and asked him to stop and turn around. The
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Speaker 1: field worker, who was about Lacey's age, explained that Lacey
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Speaker 1: was not allowed to ride his horse through the garden
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Speaker 1: anymore because the last time he had rode through some
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Speaker 1: flower beds, and Lacey's father was really mad about it,
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Speaker 1: and at this Lacey felt totally exasperated because he was
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Speaker 1: tired of his father always bossing him around, and it
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Speaker 1: embarrassed him to be reminded of this by someone as
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Speaker 1: low class as a field worker. So Lacey's family was
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Speaker 1: part of the noble class. His dad was a baron
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Speaker 1: and his mother was a baroness, and they lived together
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Speaker 1: in an old castle on this beautiful estate. And for
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Speaker 1: the most part, Lacey loved his noble life, but his
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Speaker 1: father could be harsh and really controlling, and sometimes Lacey
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Speaker 1: dreamed of the day that he would inherit his dad's title,
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Speaker 1: because then he Lacey would be in charge of the
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Speaker 1: estate and he could finally run things the way he wanted.
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Speaker 1: And so Lacey decided he wanted to show his father
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Speaker 1: and this field worker and the other field workers that
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Speaker 1: they couldn't order him around all the time, and so
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Speaker 1: he rode his horse right into the gardens and intentionally
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Speaker 1: rode all over their prized flowerbeds. Lacey's plan was to
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Speaker 1: head back home and go into the castle and talk
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Speaker 1: to his father about that field worker's rudeness, But when
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Speaker 1: Lacey got back to the ca asshole. He didn't have
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Speaker 1: a chance to even speak to his father because that
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Speaker 1: whole day his dad was very busy with the state matters,
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Speaker 1: and then that night, his father died of a heart attack.
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Speaker 1: A week after his father's death, Lacey walked through the
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Speaker 1: crowded banquet hall in his family's castle looking for his
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Speaker 1: mother because he wanted to make sure that she was okay.
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Speaker 1: He and his mom had just gotten home from his
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Speaker 1: dad's funeral and now they were hosting a reception for
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Speaker 1: everyone who had attended. But Lacey couldn't find his mother
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Speaker 1: anywhere inside of this banquet hall, and with a sinking feeling,
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Speaker 1: he realized that there was only one place she could be.
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Speaker 1: So after Lacey's father had died, his mother had gone
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Speaker 1: a little bit crazy. She refused to believe that her
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Speaker 1: husband had died of a heart attack and instead kept
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Speaker 1: insisting that he had been murdered. More specifically, she thought
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Speaker 1: he had been scared to death because when she had
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Speaker 1: seen his body for the first time, his facial expression
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Speaker 1: looked horrified, like he was actually scared as he died. Now,
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Speaker 1: the doctor had explained to her that, you know, it
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Speaker 1: was entirely possible that his heart attack came on suddenly
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Speaker 1: and he was scared about what was happening to him,
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Speaker 1: and so, you know, was scared when he died. But
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Speaker 1: the Baroness wouldn't listen. She said this was intentional, somebody
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Speaker 1: did this to him, and so ever since she had
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Speaker 1: basically spent all of her time in Lacey's father's bedroom
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Speaker 1: searching for clues about her husband's supposed killer. So now
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Speaker 1: Lacey left the banquet hall and climbed the stairs up
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Speaker 1: the castle, up to his father's bedroom, and just as
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Speaker 1: he suspected, when he knocked on the door, his mom answered,
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Speaker 1: looking totally frantic. Lacey told her to come downstairs and
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Speaker 1: say hello to their guests, but she said no, that
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Speaker 1: she was too busy looking for evidence. Then before Lacey
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Speaker 1: could say anything, his mom just shut the door in
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Speaker 1: his face. The next six months went by basically the
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Speaker 1: same way. Lacey's mother spent all her time locked up
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Speaker 1: in the baron's bedroom around the clock, and Lacey spent
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Speaker 1: most of his time riding his horse, including in the garden,
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Speaker 1: because he didn't like going home anymore. His mother was
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Speaker 1: now technically in charge of the family estate, but she
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Speaker 1: had really let things go since her husband had died,
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Speaker 1: she basically had not taken up any of the responsibilities
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Speaker 1: that she was now in charge of, and so at
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Speaker 1: this point Lacey really couldn't wait until he was on
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Speaker 1: his own and in charge of the castle in the
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Speaker 1: estate himself. One night in mid October, so this is
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Speaker 1: at the six month mark from when Lacey's father had died,
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Speaker 1: Lacey ate dinner alone, which was common at this point
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Speaker 1: since his mom basically still refused to come downstairs at all.
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Speaker 1: And then after he ate dinner, Lacey began making his
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Speaker 1: way upstairs to get ready for bed, and as he
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Speaker 1: walked upstairs, Lacey just felt overcome with anger and desperation
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Speaker 1: and just kind of general angst about the current situation.
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Speaker 1: He longed so desperately to just be alone and in
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Speaker 1: charge of the estate. He hated the current setup with
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Speaker 1: his mother in charge but not really doing anything. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the whole estate was just falling apart here. But eventually,
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Speaker 1: you know, despite feeling kind of riled up, Lacey got
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Speaker 1: into bed and closed his eyes and did eventually begin
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Speaker 1: to drift off to sleep. But right after he had
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Speaker 1: fallen asleep, he was suddenly awoken by this ear piercing
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Speaker 1: scream that was echoing down the hallway, and he realized
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Speaker 1: it was his mother and she was screaming for help,
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Speaker 1: and so Lacey jumped out of bed and he raced
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Speaker 1: down the hallway to his father's bedroom, and as he ran,
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Speaker 1: other servants were flooding the hallway, racing towards the room
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Speaker 1: as well, and Lacey he got to the door, he
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Speaker 1: unlocked it, and he rushed inside. And when he got
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Speaker 1: in there, he saw his mother pointing at the foot
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Speaker 1: of the baron's bed, and she was saying that a
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Speaker 1: demon had appeared in the bedroom and had loomed over
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Speaker 1: her like it wanted to kill her. And so she
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Speaker 1: told Lacey that the demon had to be what scared
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Speaker 1: his father to death. The demon was the murderer. Lacey's
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Speaker 1: mother looked absolutely convinced here, but Lacey and really all
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Speaker 1: the servants as well, just kind of collectively sighed because
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Speaker 1: there was obviously no demon at the foot of the
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Speaker 1: bed here, and his mom clearly had just had a
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Speaker 1: bad dream or you know, it was just basically acting crazy.
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Speaker 1: And so as the servants kind of you know, went
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Speaker 1: back to their rooms to allow the family to deal
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Speaker 1: with this. Lacey told his mother to just go back
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Speaker 1: to sleep here, and then he turned and walked back
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Speaker 1: down to his room, feeling completely defeated because to Lacey,
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Speaker 1: his mom was basically losing her mind here and he
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Speaker 1: had no idea how he was going to help or
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Speaker 1: really how much longer this current setup was going to last.
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Speaker 1: But this was awful. On both of the next two nights,
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Speaker 1: Lacey woke up yet again to the sound of his
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Speaker 1: mother screaming about a demon inside of the baron's bedroom,
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Speaker 1: and so by the third morning, Lacey had just had enough.
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Speaker 1: He decided he was going to force his mother out
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Speaker 1: of that bedroom and insist that she come downstairs and
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Speaker 1: eat breakfast with him and just act normal for once. However,
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Speaker 1: when he walked to the baron's bedroom and knocked on
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Speaker 1: the door to speak to his mother, it was not
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Speaker 1: his mom who answered, it was a police detective. Lacey
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Speaker 1: was stunned, and he walked into the bedroom and saw
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Speaker 1: his mother, who was standing there with two more detectives,
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Speaker 1: and Lacey asked, like, what's go one on here? Lacey's
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Speaker 1: mother explained that she had called the police to help
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Speaker 1: her catch the demon that was haunting her at night
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Speaker 1: and very likely was responsible for killing her husband. And
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Speaker 1: at this point Lacey thought he might die of embarrassment.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this was unbelievable that now the police were involved.
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Speaker 1: But instead of talking about that, he just begged his
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Speaker 1: mother to please send the police home. They do not
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Speaker 1: need to be here. But his mother refused. She was
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Speaker 1: fully committed to the idea that there was a demon
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Speaker 1: here and the police were going to help her find it.
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Speaker 1: And the police, to be honest, looked like they didn't
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Speaker 1: really know what was going on. They were just kind
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Speaker 1: of trying to figure out if this was serious or not,
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Speaker 1: or if there was some sort of intruder, but they
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Speaker 1: were just kind of like, man, we'll see, And so
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Speaker 1: Lacey finally just turned left, hopped in his horse, and
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Speaker 1: went for his daily ride. That night, as Lacey crawled
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Speaker 1: into his own bed, he knew that down the hallway
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Speaker 1: his mom was already in bed, and that three detectives
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Speaker 1: were watching over her room in case a demon appeared again.
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Speaker 1: Lacey felt unbelievably embarrassed by this. To even be affiliated
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Speaker 1: this was just excruciating, but he managed to close his
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Speaker 1: eyes and go to sleep. But like normal, at some
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Speaker 1: point in the middle of the night, he woke up
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Speaker 1: because his mother was screaming, and Lacey, I mean, he's like,
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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this is so embarrassing. It's only getting worse.
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Speaker 1: But he got into bed, he went into the hallway,
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Speaker 1: and he began walking down towards where his mother was,
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Speaker 1: where she was screaming inside of the baron's bedroom, expecting that,
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Speaker 1: you know, once again the room would be empty and
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Speaker 1: the police would see. You know, this is just complete
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Speaker 1: delusion here. There's no demon, there's no problem. However, when
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Speaker 1: Lacy got to the doorway and looked inside, he saw
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Speaker 1: one of the detectives running across the room and then
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Speaker 1: tackle something that really did look like a demon to
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Speaker 1: the floor, and then Lacey's mother turned on the light.
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Speaker 1: It would turn out that even though Lacey fully expected
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Speaker 1: to inherit his father's title, he was actually not the
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Speaker 1: baron's firstborn son. Before the baron had met the Baroness
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Speaker 1: Lacey's mother, he'd had a relationship with a low peasant
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Speaker 1: woman and they had had a son together, and the
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Speaker 1: baron had given that peasant woman a plot of land
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Speaker 1: on the edge of the estate to raise their son
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Speaker 1: in secret. And then the baron had basically abandoned them both.
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Speaker 1: He had given them the opportunity to, you know, work
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Speaker 1: on the estate and sort of make a living for themselves,
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Speaker 1: but functionally he didn't interact with them at all. He
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Speaker 1: didn't recognize them at all. They were on their own now.
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Speaker 1: The peasant woman, the mother of this child, had sort
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Speaker 1: of accepted that this was their reality, but the secret
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Speaker 1: son had sort of buried that feeling forever until Lacey
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Speaker 1: rode his horse through the gardens despite being told not
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Speaker 1: to and destroyed those flower beds. Because the secret son
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Speaker 1: was that field worker, his job was looking out for
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Speaker 1: the gardens, and it just felt like a step too far.
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Speaker 1: And so the secret son, the field worker, decided he
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Speaker 1: was going to teach this family a lesson. He was
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Speaker 1: going to kill the baron and the baroness by scaring
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Speaker 1: them to death. That was his plan, and it sort
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Speaker 1: of worked. He went into the castle and pretended to
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Speaker 1: be a demon in the middle of the night, and
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Speaker 1: he scared the father the baron so badly he literally
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Speaker 1: had a heart attack and died. However, the secret Son
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Speaker 1: continued pretending to be a demon around the baroness. After
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Speaker 1: killing the baron and the Baroness would get really really
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Speaker 1: scared and would scream and claim there's a demon in here.
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Speaker 1: But she didn't die from this, She did not have
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Speaker 1: a heart attack, and so ultimately the plan was foiled,
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Speaker 1: and so in the end, there was no demon. It
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Speaker 1: was just Lacy's half brother wrapped in a cloak wearing
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Speaker 1: a horrifying mask. One morning in early August of nineteen
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Speaker 1: twenty seven, a twenty four year old woman named Dinez
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Speaker 1: Perry walked in the back door of the farmhouse where
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Speaker 1: her parents lived in rural Vermont, and as soon as
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Speaker 1: she walked in, she went into the kitchen where her
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Speaker 1: father was at the kitchen table with a man she
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Speaker 1: had never seen before, and the two were shaking hands,
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Speaker 1: and she heard her father say, we have a deal.
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Speaker 1: And then right after that, Inez's father looked over and
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Speaker 1: saw her, and he explained that this man's name was
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Speaker 1: Clarence Sinclair and that he and Clarence had just agreed
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Speaker 1: to swap houses. And for a second, Inez was confused,
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Speaker 1: but then it all clicked into place. So Inez's parents
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Speaker 1: had raised her and her other three siblings in this farmhouse,
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Speaker 1: but Inez and her siblings had all moved away and
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Speaker 1: her parents were getting older. Her dad's health in particular,
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Speaker 1: was starting to fail and keeping up the farmhouse was
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Speaker 1: getting to be too much for him, and so her
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Speaker 1: father had been trying to sell the property for a while,
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Speaker 1: but nobody seemed to want it. However, now it seemed
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Speaker 1: like he had finally found a solution. Her dad explained
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Speaker 1: to her that Clarence and his family would move into
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Speaker 1: this farmhouse and take over the farm, and in exchange,
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Speaker 1: he and Inez's mom would move into Clarence's house just
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Speaker 1: a few towns over. Now, as this arrangement did seem
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Speaker 1: a little strange, but it also did solve her parents problem,
20:05
Speaker 1: and so even though she was going to be sad
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Speaker 1: to say goodbye to her childhood home, she decided that
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Speaker 1: this had to be the right move for her parents,
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Speaker 1: and so she said that's great. A few weeks later,
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Speaker 1: Inez was inside of her parents new house, helping to
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Speaker 1: get them settled in and organize their living room, when
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Speaker 1: she heard the clattering sound of a horse drawn wagon
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Speaker 1: coming down the street and coming to a stop right outside.
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Speaker 1: So she walked to the door and she opened it up.
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Speaker 1: But the second she saw who it was, that was
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Speaker 1: getting out of the carriage, she slammed the door and
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Speaker 1: locked it because the person getting out of that carriage
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Speaker 1: was Clarence Sinclair, the man who Inez's dad had swapped
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Speaker 1: homes with, and the home swap had not gone how
20:42
Speaker 1: Inez and her family had hoped. Inez's parents were thrilled
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Speaker 1: with their new house, so everything on their side was good.
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Speaker 1: But pretty much immediately after actually doing the swap, Clarence
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Speaker 1: had started acting totally unhinged. He had come back to
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Speaker 1: his old home repeatedly without being invited, and he would
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Speaker 1: bed in as his dad to switch houses back, that
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Speaker 1: he had made a horrible mistake. But Clarence would never elaborate,
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Speaker 1: He would never really explain why he felt this way.
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Speaker 1: He would just you know, demand please, you know, I've
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Speaker 1: made a horrible mistake. We have to switch back. But
21:13
Speaker 1: in as his dad had said, no, you know, a
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Speaker 1: deal was a deal, and he just had too many
21:17
Speaker 1: health issues to live at that farmhouse anymore. And Clarence
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Speaker 1: couldn't actually cite any real problems with the farmhouse that
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Speaker 1: he so desperately wanted to, you know, give back, And
21:26
Speaker 1: so as far as he and as his dad was concerned,
21:28
Speaker 1: you know, the subject here was closed, you know, he
21:30
Speaker 1: he had not given him a faulty property, and there
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Speaker 1: was no real reason here to go back to the
21:34
Speaker 1: way it was, and so it was an So now,
21:38
Speaker 1: Inez and her parents watched from the window as Clarence
21:41
Speaker 1: hopped out of his wagon and came rushing onto the porch,
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Speaker 1: and he looked absolutely crazy. His hair was messed up
21:48
Speaker 1: and greasy, and there were dark circles under his eyes,
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Speaker 1: and he really looked like he hadn't slept in weeks.
21:53
Speaker 1: And Clarence promptly began pounding on the front door, shouting
21:57
Speaker 1: that his family could not live in there farmhouse and
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Speaker 1: that this was now a matter of life and death.
22:03
Speaker 1: But eventually, when Enes and her family refused to come out,
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Speaker 1: Clarence finally gave up, turned around, gotten his wagon, and
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Speaker 1: drove away. Now that was the last time that Clarence
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Speaker 1: came to their house, but it was not the last
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Speaker 1: time that Enes and her family would hear about their
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Speaker 1: old farmhouse. A few weeks later, on November fourth, after
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Speaker 1: several days of very heavy rainfall, Ines picked up the
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Speaker 1: newspaper and saw that their old neighborhood had been basically
22:31
Speaker 1: washed away by historic flooding, and that included their old
22:36
Speaker 1: farmhouse that had literally been carried off and the family
22:39
Speaker 1: that had been living in the farmhouse were dead. But
22:43
Speaker 1: that family was not Clarence Sinclair's family. It would turn
22:47
Speaker 1: out that after Clarence and his family had moved into
22:50
Speaker 1: said farmhouse, Clarence began having these horrible dreams where his
22:56
Speaker 1: dead mother would appear to him and tell him to
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Speaker 1: move out of this farm farmhouse right now, because something
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Speaker 1: terrible is going to happen here now. At first, Clarence
23:05
Speaker 1: ignored this and chalked it up to a bad dream,
23:07
Speaker 1: you know, But the dream kept happening over and over
23:11
Speaker 1: and over again. Then it was driving him mad, and
23:14
Speaker 1: so eventually he did go to Inez and Nez's parents
23:18
Speaker 1: and tried to switch it back because he just he
23:20
Speaker 1: felt like this dream really meant something, but Hez's father
23:24
Speaker 1: just kept saying no and said, no, that's your house now.
23:27
Speaker 1: So Clarence never elaborated to the family about why he
23:30
Speaker 1: wanted this back, because it made no sense to him either.
23:32
Speaker 1: But he ultimately listened to his dead mother and his dream,
23:36
Speaker 1: and he wound up just selling the farmhouse just to
23:39
Speaker 1: not live there anymore, and so that decision would ultimately
23:42
Speaker 1: save Clarence and his family, but it would also condemn
23:45
Speaker 1: to death the family who moved in. Thank you so
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