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Speaker 1: In two thousand and five, in a little town in Illinois,
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Speaker 1: three people, two men and a woman, walked into this
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Speaker 1: strange living room inside of an apartment where on the
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Speaker 1: ground was the circle of lit candles, and the trio,
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Speaker 1: without saying anything, just marched into the circle of candles
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Speaker 1: and took seats cross legged on the ground, all looking
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Speaker 1: inward toward each other. Then, after sitting there for a second,
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Speaker 1: it was like suddenly the air in the room seemed
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Speaker 1: to change. And when that happened, the woman began to speak,
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Speaker 1: except it wasn't her voice. It was like this dark,
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Speaker 1: guttural voice that almost sounded like a man speaking, but
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Speaker 1: it was clearly coming out of her mouth. But the
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Speaker 1: two men who were sitting in the circle watching this woman,
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Speaker 1: they were expecting this, and so they sat there listening
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Speaker 1: intently for their instructions. And then after they got their instructions,
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Speaker 1: the two men waited for the woman to stop talking,
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Speaker 1: and when she did, she handed them a special tool
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Speaker 1: for the ritual, and then the two men stood up.
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Speaker 1: They said their goodbyes, they turned around, marched outside, hopped
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Speaker 1: in the car, and began driving towards their target. But
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Speaker 1: before we get into that very bizarre story. If you're
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. Just before midnight on August
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Speaker 1: twenty second, two thousand and five, thirty eight year old
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Speaker 1: Rick Eck knocked on the front door of an apartment
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Speaker 1: in the tiny Midwestern farmtown of Claremont, Illinois. As Rick
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Speaker 1: waited for the door to open, you could barely stand
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Speaker 1: still because he was so excited about what he was
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Speaker 1: going to be doing that night. Finally, the door swung open,
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Speaker 1: and Rick saw right in front of him this very
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Speaker 1: skinny and gaunt looking woman with dark hair and dark
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Speaker 1: eyes staring back at him. Her name was Irenya Kottner,
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Speaker 1: and she was thirty four years old, and by day
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Speaker 1: she worked at Walmart, but at night, she became the
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Speaker 1: real version of herself.
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Speaker 2: She was a.
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Speaker 1: Witch who actually led a group of witches known as
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Speaker 1: a coven that Rick was a part of. Without saying anything,
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Speaker 1: Irenya motioned for Rick to follow her into her apartment,
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Speaker 1: and then Irenya turned and began walking away, and Rick
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Speaker 1: before stepping over the threshold, he paused for a moment
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Speaker 1: and just turned to the guy he had brought with him,
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Speaker 1: a tall, muscular man named David Lindner, and Rick he
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Speaker 1: just kind of nodded at David, and David nodded back,
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Speaker 1: and then the two of them walked inside. As Rick
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Speaker 1: and David followed Irena into her apartment, Rick still could
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Speaker 1: barely contain his excitement. He had only joined this coven recently,
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Speaker 1: about a year and a half ago, and so witchcraft,
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Speaker 1: which is something they were going to be doing that night,
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Speaker 1: was kind of new to him, but it was very exciting.
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Speaker 1: Rick had been inspired to become a witch and join
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Speaker 1: this coven after watching the Harry Potter movies, and so
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Speaker 1: he was hopeful that tonight would go something like Harry Potter.
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Speaker 1: And Rick knew David, the guy he had brought along,
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Speaker 1: was this very powerful warlock, which is a male witch,
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Speaker 1: and so he figured, you know, if David's here, this
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Speaker 1: is bound to go to plan. Rick just hoped he'd
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Speaker 1: be able to keep up with David or at least
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Speaker 1: play some sort of meaningful support role. Irenya eventually led
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Speaker 1: Rick and David down this dark hallway to this small
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Speaker 1: living room where in the middle of the floor was
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Speaker 1: a ring of lit candles. And as soon as Rick
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Speaker 1: and David stepped into the room with Irenya, they were
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Speaker 1: hit with this powerful smell of incense that had been
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Speaker 1: burning in the room. And also there was all this
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Speaker 1: smoke hovering in the air from the various things that
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Speaker 1: Irenya had been burning in preparation for tonight's event. Rick, David,
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Speaker 1: and Irenya walked quietly into the middle of this circle
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Speaker 1: of candles and they sat down, cross legged in a circle,
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Speaker 1: facing each other, and then.
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Speaker 2: They got ready to begin.
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Speaker 1: Life in the town of Claremont was normally very quiet
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Speaker 1: and peaceful.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is a.
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Speaker 1: Town that literally has more cornfields than people, and Claremont
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Speaker 1: was over one hundred miles away from the nearest city.
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Speaker 1: But beneath the calm exterior, Claremont had a dark side.
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Speaker 1: Amongst the two hundred or so residents of Claremont were
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Speaker 1: several very dark witches. Not this coven, not Irena, Rick
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Speaker 1: and David. They were the good guys. The dark witches.
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Speaker 1: They were kind of out and about in this town
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Speaker 1: and doing bad things like practicing evil magic and evil witchcraft.
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Speaker 1: And so this coven, led by Irenea was actually in
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Speaker 1: place to try to combat these evil witches. In their
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Speaker 1: midst and tonight, Rick, David, and Irena were going to
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Speaker 1: attempt to perform their most ambitious and important magic. Yet,
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Speaker 1: the coven was going to attempt to break a powerful hex,
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Speaker 1: which is kind of like a curse. And this was
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Speaker 1: cast by a person who might very well be the
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Speaker 1: worst of all the dark witches in Claremont, a sixteen
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Speaker 1: year old girl named Lindsay Cassinger. As Rick sat cross
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Speaker 1: legged in the middle of the circle, he found himself
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Speaker 1: staring at the two slightly bigger candles that sat in
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Speaker 1: the dead center of the circle, that were basically right
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Speaker 1: between Rick, David and Irenya and David. As he stared
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Speaker 1: at these two candles, he saw etched in each of
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Speaker 1: the candle's bodies were words. On one candle it said Lindsay,
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Speaker 1: and on the other candle it was etched Baby, because
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Speaker 1: it would turn out this very evil dark witch Lindsay
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Speaker 1: was pregnant, and so instead of having to combat one
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Speaker 1: dark soul, the coven would have to combat two, because
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Speaker 1: Lindsay and her baby.
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Speaker 2: Were kind of intertwined.
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Speaker 1: Now, before this night, the coven had attempted several times
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Speaker 1: to try to break this hex that Lindsay had cast,
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Speaker 1: and the coven believed initially this hex was actually cast
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Speaker 1: directly at Irenya, because Irena was suffering from things like
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Speaker 1: depression and anxiety in not finding love, and so of
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Speaker 1: course that had to be a product of this curse.
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Speaker 1: And as the coven had continued to try and fail
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Speaker 1: at breaking this hex, the hecks had only become more
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Speaker 1: powerful and begun to spread from Irena to other witches
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Speaker 1: in this coven who actually were not present this particular night,
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Speaker 1: including a twenty year old woman who began complaining of
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Speaker 1: depression and ever worsening headaches, which of course had to
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Speaker 1: be because of this hex, and so that was why
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Speaker 1: on this night the coven had decided to really beef
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Speaker 1: up their attack on this hex, and so that was
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Speaker 1: why Rick had gone out and brought in David, the
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Speaker 1: experienced warlock from Saint Louis, Missouri, who claimed he had
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Speaker 1: broken a hex before and he could do it again
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Speaker 1: for them. As Rick, Irena, and Dave all sat in
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Speaker 1: the circle, they looked at each other, and then they
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Speaker 1: began chanting in unison to bring out the dead to
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Speaker 1: join them in the living room right now. And as
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Speaker 1: they began this chant, Rick found him self intensely staring
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Speaker 1: at those two candles with Lindsey and Baby on them.
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Speaker 1: And as he stared at the flames dancing across the
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Speaker 1: top of them, Rick started to feel like he was kind.
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Speaker 2: Of drifting off into a trance.
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Speaker 1: Like state, and he knew that, based on his prior
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Speaker 1: teachings from Irena, the leader of this cobin, that this
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Speaker 1: must be what it feels like when the spirit world
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Speaker 1: opens up, which means the dead really were coming into
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Speaker 1: the room. And then, as Rick is kind of dealing
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Speaker 1: with this trance like state, he heard Irena begin to talk,
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Speaker 1: but it wasn't her normal voice. It was the slow
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Speaker 1: and deep sounding voice, almost like something had inhabited her
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Speaker 1: body and taken it over and was now speaking through
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Speaker 1: her mouth. And Irena in this kind of slow and
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Speaker 1: strange voice, she would tell Rick and David that the
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Speaker 1: curse is still growing, and then she would say something
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Speaker 1: that totally caught Rick by surprise. She said again in
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Speaker 1: that slow, strange voice, that the hex now was also
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Speaker 1: on Rick and his entire family, and if they didn't
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Speaker 1: break this hex immediately, Rick and his family.
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Speaker 2: Would all perish.
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Speaker 1: And when Rick heard this, you know, he's still in
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Speaker 1: this trance like state, but his heart began racing because
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Speaker 1: he didn't know this hex could potentially affect his loved ones,
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Speaker 1: and so this was a really big deal. They needed
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Speaker 1: to end this hex tonight. Rick listened intently as Irenya
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Speaker 1: began to say in this strange voice what their plan
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Speaker 1: was for that night to break this hex. Basically, Rick
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Speaker 1: and David were going to perform a sacred ritual, and
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Speaker 1: Irenya she began to say to the spirits in the
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Speaker 1: room that Rick and David they were ready, but they
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Speaker 1: needed help. And so after she said this, she went quiet,
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Speaker 1: and so too did Rick and David, and they're all
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Speaker 1: just sitting there kind of waiting for something to happen.
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Speaker 1: And then after about a minute of just total silence,
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Speaker 1: Irenya began to speak again, still in this strange, slow,
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Speaker 1: bizarre voice, but Rick and David knew now it was
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Speaker 1: a different voice coming out of her. Now Irenea was
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Speaker 1: speaking on behalf of the spirit world that was in
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Speaker 1: the room with them, and Irenya she would say, in
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Speaker 1: this voice, I grant you five demons to help you
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Speaker 1: on your quest to break this hex. And then after
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Speaker 1: saying this, Irenya she opened her eyes and she looked
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Speaker 1: kind of confused for a moment, and then she kind
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Speaker 1: of got her bearings and she looked at David and
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Speaker 1: Rick and she told them now in her normal voice,
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Speaker 1: that they had to perform this sacred ritual before the
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Speaker 1: two candles in the middle with Lindsey and Baby etched
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Speaker 1: on them burned out. And so basically Rick and David
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Speaker 1: they needed to get this done tonight. Then Irenya handed
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Speaker 1: David a sacred tool that would be used that night
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Speaker 1: in this sacred ritual that David and Rick were going
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Speaker 1: to complete, and then Rick and David they would stand
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Speaker 1: up to leave, and before they left, Irenya would give
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Speaker 1: them the typical witch send off, which was blessed b
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Speaker 1: and then Rick and David they nodded their heads, they
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Speaker 1: turned and walked out of the apartment, and as soon
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Speaker 1: as they were out into the night, Rick could have
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Speaker 1: sworn he saw dark shadows moving around all over the place,
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Speaker 1: and he knew right then and there that he and
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Speaker 1: David would be safe that night, because clearly the shadows
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Speaker 1: moving around had to be those five demons that Irenya
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Speaker 1: had called forth from the spirit world to protect them
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Speaker 1: this night. And so, feeling very safe and empowered, Rick
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Speaker 1: and David went straight into Rick's car. Rick turned it
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Speaker 1: the sixteen year old evil witch Lindsay Cassinger lived, a
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Speaker 1: at the kitchen table in Lindsay's house, eating chicken wings
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Speaker 1: and just kind of enjoying his night. Josh didn't know
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Speaker 1: Lindsay very well, but he wasn't at her house to
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Speaker 1: see Lindsay. He was at her house to see his
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Speaker 1: own mother, and Josh and his mother had a lot
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Speaker 1: of catching.
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Speaker 2: Up to do.
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Speaker 1: She had abandoned him and his father when he was young,
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Speaker 1: and so Josh's dad had raised him, and then when
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Speaker 1: Josh was old enough, he had joined the military and
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Speaker 1: now he was about to deploy to.
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Speaker 2: The Middle East to go to war.
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Speaker 1: But unexpectedly, Josh's father had died, and so Josh had
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Speaker 1: come back to Illinois for the funeral. And it was
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Speaker 1: at the funeral where he saw his mother. She was
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Speaker 1: in attendance as well. And you know, even though he
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Speaker 1: was upset with his mother for abandoning him, he felt like,
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Speaker 1: you know what, I want to reconnect with her, and
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Speaker 1: so he had gone over and he'd given her a hug,
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Speaker 1: and his mother had been so touched that she had
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Speaker 1: asked Josh to come by her house in Claremont, Illinois,
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Speaker 1: where she lived with her boyfriend, because she really wanted
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Speaker 1: some alone time to actually hear about Josh's life and
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Speaker 1: kind of, you.
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Speaker 2: Know, get back together again.
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Speaker 1: And so of course Josh had said yes, and so
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Speaker 1: here he was at this house in Claremont. Now, Josh
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Speaker 1: had arrived at this house a little bit earlier, and
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Speaker 1: he was surprised to discover that it was not just
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Speaker 1: his mother and her boyfriend living there, but also his
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Speaker 1: mother's boyfriend's son, whose name was Jackie was also living there,
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Speaker 1: along with his pregnant girlfriend, the evil witch, Lindsay Cassinger,
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Speaker 1: but Josh didn't really mind that there was extra people.
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Speaker 2: It was just maybe a little.
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Speaker 1: Bit confusing that this was kind of a big roommate situation.
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Speaker 1: But it seemed like Jackie and his girlfriend Lindsay were
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Speaker 1: very nice people, and they quickly went downstairs to the
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Speaker 1: apartment in the basement and kind of just stayed.
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Speaker 2: Out of the way so Josh and his mother couldn't
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Speaker 2: catch up.
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Speaker 1: And so after Josh finished eating his wings, his mother
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Speaker 1: came into the kitchen and the two of them chatted
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Speaker 1: for hours, and then finally at about midnight that night,
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Speaker 1: Josh decided to go to bed, so he said good
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Speaker 1: night to his mom. He retreated to the bedroom and
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Speaker 1: he laid in bed, but he couldn't really sleep right.
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Speaker 2: Away because he had a lot going on in his life.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he had just lost his dad a couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks ago, and then at the same time, he
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Speaker 1: had reconnected with his estranged mother, and he's about to
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Speaker 1: deploy to a rack to a war zone, and you know,
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Speaker 1: he felt ready for that, but at the same time,
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Speaker 1: he was kind of apprehensive you know it's about to happen.
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Speaker 1: You know, I hope I'll be able to do my job.
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Speaker 1: And so, with all these kind of intense thoughts swirling
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Speaker 1: around his head, he just kind of laid there and
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Speaker 1: didn't really.
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Speaker 2: Expect to sleep anytime soon.
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Speaker 1: But eventually Josh did fall asleep. However, it felt like
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Speaker 1: he had only been asleep for a couple of minutes
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Speaker 1: when he was abruptly woken up by the sound of
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Speaker 1: barking coming out from the kitchen. Jackie's dog was going crazy,
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Speaker 1: and so Josh grabbed his phone and he checked the
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Speaker 1: time and saw it was three in the morning. And
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Speaker 1: so instead of going out there and dealing with this dog,
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Speaker 1: he just thought, you know what, it's gonna stop eventually,
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Speaker 1: and so Josh grabbed his pillow and he put it
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Speaker 1: over his head and tried to muffle the sounds so
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Speaker 1: he could fall back asleep, but it didn't work. The
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Speaker 1: dog just kept on barking. And then when Josh took
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Speaker 1: the pillow off his head and kind of sat up
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Speaker 1: wondering what he should do about this dog situation, he
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Speaker 1: heard the sound of a man's voice, a stranger's voice, saying,
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Speaker 1: I bring you forth from the dark. And then after
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Speaker 1: Josh heard this, he heard the sound of a woman
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Speaker 1: screaming and it sounded like his mom, and so, acting
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Speaker 1: on instinct, Josh leaped from his bed.
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Speaker 2: He ran out of the room, and.
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Speaker 1: He goes into the kitchen and he sees the dog
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Speaker 1: is jumping and barking and going mad, and his mom
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Speaker 1: is screaming, and there's this guy grabbing her, kind of
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Speaker 1: grappling with her, who's wearing black gloves and a ski mask,
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Speaker 1: and there's another guy next to him with the same
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Speaker 1: get up. It's absolute chaos. But before Josh could run
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Speaker 1: over and save his mother, suddenly his chest felt like
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Speaker 1: it was on fire, and then he went blind and
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Speaker 1: his eyes had this burning pain in them, and then
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Speaker 1: he couldn't breathe and he was stumbling backwards, barely able
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Speaker 1: to stand. Minutes later, Rick, who was one of the
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Speaker 1: witches from the cabin, bolted out of the front door
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Speaker 1: of Lindsay's house where all this chaos was happening, and
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Speaker 1: he just took off, running across the street directly into
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Speaker 1: a cornfield. And as he ran, he felt this throbbing
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Speaker 1: pain in his leg and he could feel blood pooling
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Speaker 1: in his shoe. Rick ran until he couldn't run any farther,
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Speaker 1: and then he collapsed onto the ground. And then he
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Speaker 1: began thinking about what an absolute disaster it had been
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Speaker 1: inside of the evil Witch's house. Not only had they
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Speaker 1: failed to break the hecks cast by Lindsay, but also
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Speaker 1: was concerned that David, his partner, who was still at
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Speaker 1: the house, was dead.
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Speaker 2: And Ricky began looking around.
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Speaker 1: Wildly hoping all those demons that were sent to help
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Speaker 1: them from the spirit world. He was hoping they'd be
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Speaker 1: nearby and they'd know what to do. But Rick looked
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Speaker 1: around and there was no one, and so Rick thought
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Speaker 1: for a second, oh my gosh, Lindsay's hex must be
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Speaker 1: stronger than any of us realize. You know, we have
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Speaker 1: to do something now. We have to end this before
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Speaker 1: me and my family get killed too. And so Rick
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Speaker 1: pulled out his phone and he called Irenya, the leader
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Speaker 1: of the Cobin, to get her advice about what they
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Speaker 1: should do next. But Irenya didn't respond to what Rick
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Speaker 1: was saying the way he.
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Speaker 2: Expected her to.
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Speaker 1: Instead, she seemed very cold and almost enraged at what
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Speaker 1: he was saying. And then before Rick could kind of
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Speaker 1: figure out what was going on with Irenya. He heard
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Speaker 1: off in the distance the sound of the sirens making
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Speaker 1: their way to the Evil Witch's house. Over the next
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Speaker 1: few days, police detectives would speak to everyone inside of
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Speaker 1: Irenya's cobin, as well as everyone who knew both Irena
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Speaker 1: and Lindsay, and slowly but surely, the police would put
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Speaker 1: together what actually happened inside of Lindsay the Evil Witch's
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Speaker 1: house in the early morning hours of August twenty third,
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Speaker 1: two thousand and five. At about three am on August
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Speaker 1: twenty third, two thousand and five, Rick and David pulled
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Speaker 1: up onto Lindsay's street and they parked their car a
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Speaker 1: little ways away from Lindsay's house. And then after parking,
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Speaker 1: Rick and David donned their ski masks and their gloves,
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Speaker 1: and then after looking at each other and nodding, they
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Speaker 1: hopped out and began walking towards Lindsay's house. Their plan
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Speaker 1: was to sneak in through one of Lindsay's windows and
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Speaker 1: confront Lindsay the Evil Witch directly and break the hecks
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Speaker 1: by performing a sacred ritual. And then after this ritual
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Speaker 1: was over, they had a second ritual they would need
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Speaker 1: to perform that would send Lindsay's evil soul through the
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Speaker 1: gates of Hell, and to do that they needed the
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Speaker 1: help of the five demons that had been sent along
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Speaker 1: by Irena from the spirit world. Now, Rick and David
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Speaker 1: felt like this was a great plan. However, as soon
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Speaker 1: as they got to Lindsay's house and David actually began
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Speaker 1: trying to climb into one of the windows, everything fell apart. First,
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Speaker 1: the dog began to bark inside of Lindsay's house, and
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Speaker 1: that alerted Josh's mother, who came into the kitchen and
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Speaker 1: sees the dog and sees David falling through the window.
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Speaker 1: And Rick, who didn't really know what was happening inside
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Speaker 1: the house, he just climbed through the window after David,
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Speaker 1: and when he stood up in the kitchen he realized
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Speaker 1: it was too late. They were totally caught. And so Rick,
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Speaker 1: not really knowing what to do, He's seeing all this
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Speaker 1: yelling and chaos happening. He looks over at David and
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Speaker 1: he sees David grab something from his belt and he
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Speaker 1: pulls it out, and it was the tool that Irena
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Speaker 1: had given them when they left her apartment to go
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Speaker 1: carry out this sacred ritual. This tool was part of
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Speaker 1: that sacred ritual, and it was a long sharp knife,
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Speaker 1: and what they were going to do is stab the
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Speaker 1: evil witch, Lindsay Cassinger to death with it. That was
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Speaker 1: how they were going to break the hecks. And then
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Speaker 1: after they killed Lindsay, they were going to perform this
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Speaker 1: ritual with her clothing that would send her soul through
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Speaker 1: the gates of hell. Now Rick did understand that this
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Speaker 1: was the plan they were going to murder Lindsey, but
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Speaker 1: perhaps he didn't really know how serious David was about
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Speaker 1: carrying it out, or the fact that David was not
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Speaker 1: really a warlock as much as he was a violent
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Speaker 1: criminal who had bragged to Irena about previously murdering someone
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Speaker 1: who had cast a separate hex, and so by killing
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Speaker 1: this person, that was how David had broken the hecks previously. Also,
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Speaker 1: Rick may not have known that David had been instructed
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Speaker 1: by Irena to not let anything stand in their way
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Speaker 1: to break this hex to carry out this sacred ritual
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Speaker 1: on Lindsey, and so Rick just watched as David raised
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Speaker 1: the knife and began stabbing Josh's mother over and over
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Speaker 1: again in the chest while screaming, I bring you forth
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Speaker 1: from the dark and it was at this point that Josh,
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Speaker 1: the army private who heard all this happening, came charging
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Speaker 1: out in his underwear into the kitchen, and Rick watched
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Speaker 1: as David went from stabbing Josh's mother to turning and
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Speaker 1: immediately stabbing Josh directly in the chest. And Rick, at
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Speaker 1: this point, he just jumped right in on it and
21:10
Speaker 1: pulled out his pepper spray and sprayed Josh in the eyes,
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Speaker 1: and so that was why Josh felt the burning sensation
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Speaker 1: and then went blind and couldn't breathe and fell to
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Speaker 1: the ground. And so now it is absolutely chaos inside
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Speaker 1: of this kitchen, and the actual target of David and Rix, Lindsey,
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Speaker 1: the Evil Witch. She managed to run out of the
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Speaker 1: house and run to a nearby neighbor's house to get help. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: the Evil Witch's boyfriend, Jackie, he comes upstairs carrying a shotgun.
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Speaker 1: And at this point Josh is on the ground, clearly
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Speaker 1: dying from the stab wound to his chest. His mother
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Speaker 1: as well is struggling on the ground, and David is
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Speaker 1: going totally nuts, saying all these strange things and whipping
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Speaker 1: his knife around, and Rick is just totally panicking and doesn't.
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Speaker 2: Know what to do.
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Speaker 1: And so when Jackie ran at Rick with this shotgun,
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Speaker 1: Rick pulled out his own knife and apt to stab Jackie,
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Speaker 1: but somehow missed Jackie and stabbed himself in the leg,
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Speaker 1: and so that was why his leg was throbbing and bleeding,
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Speaker 1: because he had stabbed himself. And then after Rick had
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Speaker 1: stabbed himself, Jackie just walked over and Spartan kicked Rick
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Speaker 1: down the stairs into the basement, and then Jackie turned
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Speaker 1: his attention from Rick to David, who was still just
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Speaker 1: going nuts with this knife and being a total maniac,
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Speaker 1: and Jackie just walked over to David, and David he
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Speaker 1: sees the shotgun coming over to him, and he tries
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Speaker 1: to move the barrel out of the way, but then
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Speaker 1: somehow only manages to point the gun directly at his
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Speaker 1: own stomach, at which point Jackie just fired a slug
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Speaker 1: directly into David's gut. And it was at this moment,
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Speaker 1: as David is crumpling to the ground with this horrible
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Speaker 1: stomach wound, that the neighbor that Lindsay the evil Witch
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Speaker 1: had gone to go get had come to the house.
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Speaker 1: They went inside and they found a scene of absolute
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Speaker 1: carnage and before the neighbor could even do anything, Rick
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Speaker 1: who had stabbed himself in the leg and been kicked
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Speaker 1: down into the basement and scrambled up the steps and
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Speaker 1: just run right past all the bodies on the ground,
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Speaker 1: past the neighbor who didn't even do anything outside, and
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Speaker 1: Rick just kept on running out into that cornfield. And
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Speaker 1: so at this point the neighbor didn't even try to
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Speaker 1: figure out what happened. He just called nine to one one.
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Speaker 1: But it was already too late for Josh, the army private,
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Speaker 1: who was only at this house to reconnect with his
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Speaker 1: estranged mother before he deployed to a rack, and here
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Speaker 1: he was dead on the ground from this totally bizarre attack.
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Speaker 1: It would turn out Rick, David, and really the entire
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Speaker 1: coven of witches that fell under Irena had been totally duped.
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Speaker 1: They all fully believed that Lindsay was in fact an
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Speaker 1: evil witch who had cast this hex on Irena which
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Speaker 1: was spreading to all the other members of the coven.
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Speaker 1: But in reality, Irena, the leader of this coven, she
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Speaker 1: didn't believe there was a hex that had nothing to
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Speaker 1: do with any of this. The whole coven thing was
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Speaker 1: he was totally made up She was just jealous that
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Speaker 1: Lindsay was dating Jackie. Irenya had previously dated Jackie and
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Speaker 1: they had broken up, and Irenya still wanted to get
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Speaker 1: back together, but Jackie didn't, and so now that Jackie
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Speaker 1: was with Lindsay, Irenya just couldn't handle it. And so naturally,
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Speaker 1: Irenya had constructed this whole thing about Lindsay being one
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Speaker 1: of the dark witches in Claremont, Illinois, and she's cast
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Speaker 1: this hex and now, you, my witches in this coven.
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Speaker 2: You need to go and kill her.
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Speaker 1: But of course Lindsay did not end up getting killed,
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Speaker 1: and instead it was the totally innocent person, Josh, the
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Speaker 1: army private, who had nothing to do with any of this,
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Speaker 1: who got killed. In addition to Josh dying, David the
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Speaker 1: warlock from Saint Louis, He died from the shotgun blast
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Speaker 1: to his stomach, and then Josh's mother, who had been
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Speaker 1: stabbed repeatedly by David, she would actually survive her attack.
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Speaker 1: Irenya would ultimately be found guilty of first degree murder
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Speaker 1: and she would be sentenced to fifty seven years in prison.
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Speaker 1: Rick pleaded guilty to murder as well, and he was
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Speaker 1: sentenced to twenty years, and a third member of the
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Speaker 1: coven who was not present for the attack, but who
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Speaker 1: after the fact helped cover it up. They were sentenced
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Speaker 1: to thirty two years in prison. One of the most
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Speaker 1: haunted places in the entire United Kingdom is this little,
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Speaker 1: nondescript farmhouse in rural Wales. In nineteen eighty nine, Bill
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Speaker 1: and Liz Rich, who were newlyweds, moved into their dream home,
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Speaker 1: this little farmhouse in Wales, and pretty much right away,
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Speaker 1: terrifying things began.
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Speaker 2: Happening to them.
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Speaker 1: They began hearing these loud footsteps marching around their second floor,
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Speaker 1: but as soon as they went up there, there'd be nothing.
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Speaker 1: And then Bill and Liz began randomly waking up in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the night and at the foot of
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Speaker 1: their bed would be this dark figure.
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Speaker 2: Just staring at them.
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Speaker 1: Bill and Liz were terrified, but their fear was ratcheted
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Speaker 1: up tenfold when their neighbors began telling them about their
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Speaker 1: homes very dark and insidious history, and not long after that,
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