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The Thing In The Basement Is Getting Better At Mimicking People · INSPIRE STORY

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to another thralling episode of creep Cast. Today
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  we're gonna be talking about the thing in the basement.
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  Speaker 2: Is getting better at mimicking people.
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  Speaker 1: And before we get into this, I just wanted to say,
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  be sure and check us out on Spotify, Apple, Podcast,
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  all those other places.
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  Speaker 2: It helps us out a ton.
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  Speaker 1: And also, I'd like to think that I'm not the
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  best looker, so I think I'm better to listen to
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  if I'm being honest. Right now, I see I see
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  all the people dream voating over you, dude, but I
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  don't get that kind of now there.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen some people dream boat over you. I don't
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  know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever, you're a.
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  Speaker 3: Fan at that was talking about a certain kind of
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  choo choo train. If you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Then most of us okay, all right, this is a
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  four part series here, zoom passed ahead, got It's a
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  four part series here.
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  Speaker 1: I once again, as is tradition on the show, I
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  have no idea about this show or about this story,
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  but this is one that people have I've seen requested
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  quite a bit, and I'm pretty stoked that the title
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  is so intriguing.
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is one of those occasions I think
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  I may have to go back and look. But I
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  had at least heard about everything that we've covered so
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  far before the podcast, right, maybe not read it, but
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  I heard about it. This is the first one that
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  the first time I ever heard about it was in
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  comments for creep Cast. People were like, you should check
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  this out. So I'm completely blind. I'm as blind as
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  you are on this one. So I'm excited to see
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  how it goes and if if it's awful, it's your fault.
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  Keep it like audience, it's your audience.
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  Speaker 1: Well, okay, I was gonna say I thought I had
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  to take the weight thing. No, not fine, I'll put
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  it on the audience as well. A this is written
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  that exo guy user that exo guy. Oh it was
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  two years ago.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if that's kind of why it was past.
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  Speaker 1: Is that because I feel like a lot of stuff
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  that you know that I feel like a lot of
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  the stuff that you know is like it was a
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  little bit like maybe five to seven years ago, is where.
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  Speaker 3: Your most you know what I mean, it's stuff I
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  had with high school, like college, that's like area of expertise.
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  But yeah, when it like that's why this is off
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  my radar. But if it, that's not to say, you know,
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  bad story, I mean good stories can't come out since then,
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  not to say bad stories can't come out since not
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  to say good stuff can't come out since then. So
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  I'll tell you, I'll see what you kids are up to,
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  what you zoomers have got in store.
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  Speaker 1: I'm stoked. I mean, I'm ready to get into it.
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  So I mean, I guess without further ado, let's read.
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  Speaker 2: The thing in the basement is getting better at mimicking people.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go for it, same as always. You you got quotes,
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  and I got the I got the die the other stuff.
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  Speaker 1: That is right, And I want to say that, you know,
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  we don't have to be a rocket scientist to know
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  that there's gonna be a lot of mimicking here. So
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  if one if characters sounds similar, I don't know what.
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  I'm just gonna tell you, all right, I'll have a
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  slight deviation, but it's probably gonna be a little bit
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  of rough pumpkins throughout this deal, all right.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I gotta say.
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  Speaker 3: If it becomes like an issue, I could take one
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  maybe like I did Left Right Game. But until then
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  I'm happy to see you like flail and suffer till
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  we get.
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  Speaker 1: To Yeah, well that's fine as long you know the
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  cap apparently, so far as I think left right game
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  was what seven characters, So I got six in the bag.
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  As long as long as long as we can't sit
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  in six, I think we'll be all right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, as long as people start dying, you're good to go.
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  Speaker 2: Right where we're perfect.
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  Speaker 3: We're gravy, all right, Cool, cool, let's get into it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: Part one. I never had a.
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  Speaker 3: Close relationship with Sarah, my older half sister. She was
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  born out of my dad's earlier marriage, so by the
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  time I came into the picture, she was already a teenager.
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  We didn't argue or fight, We simply never spent time together.
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  I was starting kindergarten when she moved out, and she
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  wasn't thrilled about and a younger brother. I barely saw
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  her as I got older, meeting only occasionally during holiday
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  gets togethers or in the once in a blue moon visits.
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  But we were on good terms. So when the cops
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  called us a few days ago to let us know
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  they found her body, I was devastated. Some neighbors apparently
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  called nine to one one when they heard screams and
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  saw smoke coming out of the house. After the firefires
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  put out a fire in the basement, they found some
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  charred remains that they assumed were hers. Okay, first of all,
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  out of the gate, the story's just like full throttle.
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  Speaker 1: Like I mean, I was like, good God, yes, second, paragra,
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  we've got a charred body, Like whoa, yeah. You know
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  what's kind of interesting is it kind of reminds me
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  of a Midsummer a bit whenever the girl unlives herself
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  with her family in the house as well, and now
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  we're kind of having this, uh, this strange relative and
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  as the sister in Midsommer as well, who's kind of
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  picking up the pieces after the fact. So I liked
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  that the similarity is fun. But this is a yeah,
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  I mean paragraph too. My god, we're just already in.
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  Speaker 3: The head of the gate. All right, let's go with it.
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  They couldn't identify her given the body state, but all
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  the evidence pointed towards an accident. She didn't have a
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  husband or kids, so the duty of burying her fell
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  on us. The funeral was what you'd expect under such circumstances,
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  lots of crying and mourning around a clothes casket, but
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  the deed was done. I was left an only child,
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  and a few days later we took to scouring her
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  house and doing an inventory of her belongings. It was
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  an all around unpleasant experience on many levels. It felt
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  so wrong to go through her things like that, But
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  with her only living relatives being my father and I,
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  we inherited her house and possessions. We decided we didn't
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  want them, so we'd sell almost everything. The plan was
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  to only keep some of Sarah's stuff as mementos, things
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  like pictures and whatnot. I went along with Dad to help,
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  and we went and we went room by room, cataloging
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  items one by one. Given the small size of the house,
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  it went pretty fast, but we started late into the
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  day and so we wouldn't be able to finish by nightfall.
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  Speaker 1: One of the detectives wants to drop by later says
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  he oh, sorry, says he has some Oh my god,
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  let me restart one of the okay, first line already
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  did great. One of the one of the detectives wants
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  to wants to drop by later says he has some
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  more investigating to do.
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  Speaker 3: God, I know, I'm sorry. I'm not like I'm sorry. No,
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  what's funny was your recovery of it? Because you're like, God, stupid,
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  stupid idiot.
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  Speaker 1: You know what? So this is the dad, I'm you
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  know what?
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  Speaker 2: Fuck it?
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  Speaker 1: I'm giving a bat What are detective? What if the
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  detectives want to drop? By lated said, He says he
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  has to investigating to do.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you get.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you viewers get from making me feel so
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  bad about messing up that first line.
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  Speaker 3: My first thing, honor, this hell you're in was constructed
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  by you.
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  Speaker 1: Every now it is. That's forever the dad's voice. I
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  don't care what it does to the story. That is
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  the dad's voice moving forward.
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  Speaker 3: What if it becomes like a very dramatic, like.
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  Speaker 1: Serious weld, then it's gonna get very awkward very quickly.
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  What the detectives? What's to drop?
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  Speaker 3: By lea?
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  Speaker 1: He has some more investigating to do.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing Okay, the audience is in here right now,
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  this is a recording. All that I did was laugh
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  at your recovery. You talked yourself and too meming the dad.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in my own health, Okay, I'm in my own health.
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  Speaker 3: All right, as long as we acknowledge who did it?
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  Speaker 2: I did it.
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  Speaker 3: I did it, okay, so bug man Dad says that
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  My dad said, as we were getting ready to leave.
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  Speaker 1: He asked for so to stay here to night.
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  Speaker 2: But what a lowby?
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  Speaker 1: Could you do it?
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  Speaker 5: Jim?
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  Speaker 3: Oh sure, I mumbled, not in the least thrilled about
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  the prospect. Dad packed a small box of trinkets in
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  his truck, and off he went home. The only room
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  we hadn't gone into was the basement, and I wasn't
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  about to do it by myself. The wooden door leading
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  into it was wide open, charred by the fire and
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  black with soot. The basement itself was in similar condition,
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  ravaged by the fire and by the fireman's attempts to
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  put it out. It unerved me to know when, so
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  I dragged a chair out on the porch and spent
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  the evening there. I smoked half a pack of cigarettes
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  and drank some old beer left behind in the fridge,
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  all while the neighbors regarded me with curiosity. A few
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  of them even approached me, giving me their condolences when
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  they found out I was Sarah's younger brother. The detective
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  finally arrived at sundown, pulling onto the street in an
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  old beater car. He looked like your average guy when
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  he stepped out, dressed in a cheap suit and a
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  loose coat hanging on his shoulders.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, I'm Detective Marcus, he introduced himself.
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  Speaker 1: Clanty, Nice to meet you, detective. Likewise, I had that
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  for you, a beer, but I'm assumed you can't drink
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  on duty.
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  Speaker 3: Eh might as well, Marcus said, with the shrug of
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  his shoulders.
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  Speaker 2: I'm off the clock and I'll be here all night.
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  Speaker 3: That took me by surprise, But who's I'd argue with
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  the man. I fetched him a chair and a beer,
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  so he sat down and lit up a cigarette as well.
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  We had some admittedly awkward small talk, but the subject
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  quickly moved to Sarah and her death. Marcus asked the
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  usual questions. Was she depressed? Did she go out or
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  was she a shut in? Did she have any friends
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  or romantic partners? He could question all perfectly reasonable questions
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  mat to dig up new leads, but I was the
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  wrong person to try and answer them. I wasn't particularly
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  close to say so, I didn't know most of the
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  answers that Marcus wanted.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry about it, I get it, he reassured me.
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  I don't speak much.
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  Speaker 2: With my old man, for example, couldn't tell you his
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  birthday if you put a gun to my head, let
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  alone what he's up to these days.
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  Speaker 1: It's just I never imagined she'd go like this. You know,
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  I'd have to make an effort if I knew.
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  Speaker 2: Don't beat yourself up over a kid. What's done is done.
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  Speaker 3: It was getting late and darkness settled, so we went inside.
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  I led Marcus to the living room and he shared
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  some of the case details with me after we made
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  ourselves comfortable.
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  Speaker 2: The reason I wanted to stay in this house over
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  night is this.
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  Speaker 3: As he spoke, he pulled out a smartphone and browse
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  some files on it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll warn you they're pretty disturbing. If you want me
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  to stop at any moment, just say so.
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  Speaker 3: He pressed play in an audio file and laid the
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  phone down on the small table between us. We both
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  leaned in as Sarah's voice resounded from the speakers. I'll
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  do my best to write down what she said for memory,
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  as I don't have access to the recordings. Recording one
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  is this.
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  Speaker 6: App working test? Oh, okay, Well, my name is Sarah.
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  I moved into this house two days ago, and I
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  heard some strange noises last night from the basement. I'm
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  kind of paranoid right now because I live here alone,
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  so I'll leave my phone not to record them and hopefully.
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  Speaker 5: Find what's up.
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  Speaker 3: Recording two. Some breathing is heard in the background and
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  the phone gets set down. Footsteps walk away from the microphone.
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  Then it's quiet for a long time. Marcus skips through
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  most of the recording, as it's nearly nine hours long.
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  About two hours in, around midnight, the microphone catches a
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  distant crash. Some skittering follows, sounded like a cat running
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  around on bathroom tile. It goes on for a few hours,
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  with long pauses between bouts. A deep voice calls out weakly,
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  what the hell? I let out Marcus positive recording and
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  looked at me.
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  Speaker 2: Do you want me to stop it?
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  Speaker 3: He asked. I contemplated this offer. On one hand, whatever
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  followed had the potential to traumatize me for life, but
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  on the other hand, the sheer curiosity would eat me
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  up alive if I didn't find out more. So I
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  gave in and told him to let it play. The
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  voice calls again, this time sounded more human.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, is anyone? Is anyone there?
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  Speaker 3: No one answers it. The voice falls silent, and the
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  skittering carries it away from the microphone. No more sounds
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  are heard that night. Recording three the hell what the hell?
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  Speaker 7: I knew it?
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  Speaker 5: Someone's living in my basement.
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  Speaker 3: Recording four Okay, I come down a bit.
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  Speaker 6: I was terrified after I listened to the to the
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  last recording, so I ran out of the house and
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  called the cops. A squad card came after about half
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  an hour, and the bastard took their sweet time. I
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  showed them the recording. I went back inside, accompanied by
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  a cop, and we checked out the basement. No one
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  was there. We turned the place inside out. We checked everything,
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  but the room is small, the windows, no exits, and
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  no place for someone to hide. Cops think that it
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  was an intruder that broke in, but they couldn't find
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  any signs of it. They said they'll patrol the neighborhood
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  at night and keep on keep on the lookout for
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  any suspicious activity. One of them also asked me to
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  keep recording just in case.
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  Speaker 3: Recording five Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Here goes, I'll leave the phone out tonight as well.
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  The car just passed on the streets, so I feel
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  a bit safer.
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  Speaker 3: The sound of the phone being placed down is heard.
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  Sara's footsteps follow She leaves, and the recording is silent
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  for a few hours. Marcus skips ahead through it until
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  another distant crash is caught. Skittering returns, stopping a few
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  feet away from the microphone. Hello, The voice calls out.
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  Speaker 5: Is anyone there?
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  Speaker 3: It sounds more feminine than the last time, still in human,
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  sort of like an artificially generated voice, averging on crossing
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  the uncanny valley into unnatural sounding territory. It calls out
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  a few more times over the span of a few hours,
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  sounding more and more like a woman. When it becomes
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  apparent that no one will answer its calls, the voice stops.
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  The skittering takes it away from the microphone, and the
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  rest of the recording is silent.
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  Speaker 1: This is getting This is getting all kinds of freaky.
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  Speaker 3: I mumbled, I know. Marcus admitted, never seen anything like
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  it before.
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  Speaker 2: Do you recognize the voice by any chance?
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  Speaker 1: Not a clue? I admitted, it doesn't sound familiar.
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  Speaker 2: I was afraid that.
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  Speaker 3: Would be the case, Marcus said, with a sigh.
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  Speaker 2: Sarah confirms the possible identity to the voice later on
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  the recording, but I wanted a double check.
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  Speaker 1: Then maybe show it to Dad.
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  Speaker 3: I provided a solution.
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  Speaker 1: He was closer to Sarah than me. He might have
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  an idea.
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  Speaker 3: Marcus fell silent for a long moment. He joined his
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  hands beneath his chin and leaned forward, propping his elbows
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  on the table. Look in his eyes turned grim and worried.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sorry, Sonny, he sat out of the blue for
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  all you've heard so far and for all that's to follow.
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  But I'm glad it's not your father that decided to stay.
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  These recordings might just break him.
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  Speaker 3: What I s dumbfounded?
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  Speaker 1: What's what's that supposed to mean?
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  Speaker 3: It will make sense if you keep listening, Marcus answered.
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  The change in his demeanor was strange, and the night
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  took an unnerving turn. I should have backed out. I
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  should have kicked him out. I should have done a
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  lot of things differently, But my curiosity mounted to levels
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  beyond my ability to rein it in, so I proceeded
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  to listen further.
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  Speaker 1: Man, all right, so that's the ending of recording or
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  that's the the before we get into recording six here. Yeah,
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  it's a pretty interesting build up like that. It's it's
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  it's building up that obviously something like pretty crazy happens.
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  But even this Marcus guy, she kind of or Sonny
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  kind of alludes to the idea of I should have
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  kicked him out, I should have done a lot of
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  things differently. So I'm wondering what Marcus is getting ready
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  to reveal or I don't know. Dare I say this
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  early on that Marcus could possibly be the creepy person
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  in the basement. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: So m I'm very I'm very interested. It has me,
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  it has me hooked, great opener. My curiosity, I'm saying
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  this is a bit of a cynic, right, My curiosity
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  is if it keeps this energy up right, because this
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  this is like a bat to the skull way to
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  start a story, right, my sister's dead on fire. A
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  cop pulls up, he gives me tapes. It's my sister.
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  There's a thing in her basement like it's and you
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  know what if it if it like it builds off this,
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  or if this is like a cold open or something
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  that's the setup for the rest of the story Stellar.
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  I love it. This is this is so much fun
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  because I'm already like, I'm already around the campfire in
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  my head. It's already creepy. I'm already freaked out and
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  we're just we're not even like halfway through the first part.
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  So I'm excited. This is good.
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  Speaker 2: And back to the episode, recording six, let us go on,
• 19:38
  what the hell that was?
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: Mom?
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Sarah cries into the microphone for a few minutes before
• 19:43
  the recording ends.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Oh interesting, so recording six, she was, so Sarah is
• 19:50
  thinking that the person in the basements mimicking her mother
• 19:53
  at this point.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder if does he mention his mom anywhere before?
• 19:57
  I don't think so?
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Does he say I don't think.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: So, because it seems like it's the Also, it's if
• 20:03
  I believe it's the mom from a different earlier marriage, right, Yeah,
• 20:07
  So it's like I don't think that even Sonny knows
• 20:10
  what this is.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: That also explains why the cop was like, I'm glad
• 20:13
  you're here, you know, because you never even knew this
• 20:15
  mom that she's talking about.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes sense.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: He's like, it's probably gonna be a lot easier for
• 20:19
  you to know.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Interesting, Okay, right, this is pretty okay?
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Recording seven, I'm I'm not going to call the cops anymore.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: That was Mom calling out. I don't I don't want
• 20:36
  to talk to her, she's been gone for so long.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I don't know.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: How I like that.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I call the old fashioned talking
• 20:50
  to dead lady.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm even just thinking about being down in my
• 20:55
  basement right now, and I think I hear my deceased
• 20:58
  mother like, oh god. Well, also she's doing a thing too.
• 21:01
  It's weird. She's like those my mom calling out. I
• 21:04
  don't want to talk to her, she's been gone for
• 21:05
  so long. Like I feel like a lot of stories
• 21:08
  would take an angle about being like, oh I want
• 21:11
  to you know, I missed my mom. Like that's a
• 21:12
  huge part of like talk to me as a girl
• 21:14
  is trying to reach out to her deceased mom. So
• 21:17
  I don't know, just the saying of like I don't
• 21:18
  want to talk to her, it's been so long. It's
• 21:20
  kind of the opposite, the opposite reaction I would expect
• 21:24
  from either a deceased mom.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: I find myself as I get older, I get more
• 21:29
  scared by like concepts and mimicry, you know, like family
• 21:32
  members and stuff like that, because I think it's just
• 21:35
  I was so desensitized to it as a kid, because
• 21:37
  everything you read is like it was wearying my mom's face,
• 21:40
  or it looked like my dad or you know whatever.
• 21:43
  But thinking about like a literal scenario where an unexplainable
• 21:48
  thing looks like like your parent or your loved one
• 21:52
  or something like that, and it's it's like trying to
• 21:55
  sound like them like it. The more I think about,
• 21:57
  the more I don't like it, the more the well.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: This one's interesting too, because she's not even singing. It's
• 22:05
  it's just all sound, so in her head, it's like
• 22:08
  now she's visualizing that in her mind.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, So recording eight.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: Okay, I've come down a bit. I hope I'll wait
• 22:21
  here tonight.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: The recording is silent for a long time. It turns
• 22:25
  off abruptly about half an hour.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Do you know anything about Sarah's mother?
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: I jumped back in my chair at the sudden interjection,
• 22:34
  completely absorbed by my thoughts.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Not really, she died before I was born. It was
• 22:42
  why dad remarried.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Marcus gave me a thoughtful nod of his head and answer,
• 22:46
  and he played the next recording, recording nine.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: It's back.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: I'll start another recording.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: The scurrying returns. Sarah's breathing is audible in the background,
• 22:57
  and it gets faster as the sound approaches her. A
• 23:00
  chair creaks, presumably as she gets up, and her footsteps
• 23:05
  joined the skittering in the background.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Hello.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: The same woman's voice from the previous recording calls out,
• 23:12
  who are you?
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: Who are you?
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: The voice repeats Sarah's words back to her mom. Mom.
• 23:26
  The voice repeats her words again, Who the.
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: Hell are you? How do you have my mother's voice?
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: Who are you?
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: The voice repeats. Footsteps resound again, approaching the voice as
• 23:39
  it says the same line over and over. Answer me,
• 23:44
  Sarah demands. Knocking is heard as if someone bashes the
• 23:48
  door with their fist. Answer me, The voice cus what
• 23:53
  do you want? Voice lets out a few garbled words,
• 23:56
  but they are unintelligible. It's pitch and in ation adjust
• 24:01
  before it speaks again.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Sarah, my dear, is that you?
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: I was left stupefied. The uncanny valley was finally crossed,
• 24:12
  and the voice sounded decidingly human for the first time.
• 24:16
  It held none of the animalistic traits from before. The
• 24:19
  subtle anger and malice in it was gone, replaced by
• 24:22
  a deep sense of compassion and worry.
• 24:26
  Speaker 9: I haven't seen you and so long Sarah weeps silently
• 24:33
  in the background, but she doesn't answer the voice again. It, however,
• 24:40
  keeps calling out.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: Life, Life, miss missed you.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: My dear footsteps sound out as Sarah backs away and
• 24:49
  the voice grows distant. It calls out over and over again,
• 24:54
  but the facade cracks. It can't maintain its grasp on
• 24:58
  the charade for long, and it evolves back into the
• 25:01
  Uncanny Valley. Slowly, the footsteps pick up speed until they
• 25:06
  turn into a run. After a few seconds, the voice
• 25:10
  becomes inaudible. A door is opened and close shut with force,
• 25:14
  and Sarah starts crying uncontrollably. The recording stops.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I just want to say, we're not done with the recording,
• 25:22
  but I just want to say, this is.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Uh, that's that's pretty crazy, the Uncanny Valley aspect of it.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: It's really fun to read, by the way, It's truly
• 25:33
  really cool.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: But yeah, dude, your voice, your voice gave me chills,
• 25:36
  that's all. I was like giggling because when you would
• 25:38
  like go back and forth at the same time, that
• 25:40
  was hot.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jesus Christ, it's hot, alright, ezy now.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: H the I'm thinking about that train at it my vadom.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: The so wait, just to clarify as well, because I
• 25:52
  don't know if I'm the only one. Usually i'm the
• 25:54
  only one thinking this, So apologies, But is Sarah she's
• 25:58
  she can't see the things. You can only hear the
• 26:01
  creature moving around or whatever, a non like whatever kind
• 26:05
  of random entity.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: This is right, Okay. So the way this reads to
• 26:08
  me is initially yes, uh, but in this recording nine,
• 26:11
  she's closer to it because it says her her footsteps
• 26:14
  joined the skittering, so it sounds like they're in the
• 26:17
  same position, you know, relative to the recorder. And then
• 26:20
  you hear hello, who are you mom? What? And then
• 26:26
  what are you? Why do you have my mother?
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: A voice?
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Who are you?
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: And then it says the footsteps resound again, approaching the voice.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: And then it says, you know what I'm thinking, is that,
• 26:36
  sorry to interrupt you, is that it makes me think
• 26:38
  that like she's in a dark like Sarah is in
• 26:41
  this dark basement, and like maybe she's like trying to
• 26:43
  like turn on the light but can't turn it. Like
• 26:46
  it's definitely a dark thing. So I'm just imagining like
• 26:48
  one burnt out light bulb over like broken light bulb
• 26:51
  in the center of that just like that little that
• 26:52
  little chain, the little chain you have to turn on
• 26:55
  the light.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: It's just like barely swaying.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: So you like see that like the creature uh messed
• 27:01
  with it, like in my mind's eye, that's what That's
• 27:03
  what I'm saying. And even to do something where it's
• 27:05
  like you barely see something in the in the darkness
• 27:08
  of a room is so creepy.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I have the exact same idea. I kind
• 27:13
  of imagine Sarah is maybe in like a cone of light, right,
• 27:17
  and then there's something in like the shadow of the
• 27:19
  basement that's getting closer. And I think at the line
• 27:22
  after Sarah Yell's answer me, and then the voice says, Sarah,
• 27:25
  my dear, is that you. Sarah doesn't speak after that here,
• 27:29
  and the last thing we see about her is it
• 27:30
  says she weeps silently, and then says footsteps sound is
• 27:34
  Sarah backs away. So I think at that point she
• 27:36
  saw whatever it is.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I was wondering if she's I'm wondering if if she
• 27:41
  didn't see what it was, but she was like, this
• 27:43
  is not my mom kind Well, I.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Mean, look look at this this paragraph. The footsteps pick
• 27:48
  up speed, until they turn into a run. After a
• 27:51
  few seconds, the voice becomes an audible. The door's open
• 27:54
  and close shut with force, and Sarah starts crying uncontrollably.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: So she saw it turned around?
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so yeah.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, we still got to read on,
• 28:05
  but I almost see that she was so horrified by it,
• 28:07
  because you know, the only light source I'm thinking is
• 28:09
  coming coming from into the basement is from I would
• 28:13
  assume the doorway that has opened opened up, like the
• 28:18
  door leading into the basement, I assume that's stayed open,
• 28:21
  and it's just like the small trickle of light to
• 28:23
  where the there's a little bit of light coming down,
• 28:25
  but it's like the entire basement of shroud in darkness.
• 28:28
  So I yeah, I assume that she saw something, or
• 28:30
  maybe she saw the silhouette of something it freaked her out,
• 28:32
  or she came to terms of something and ran away,
• 28:35
  and it's just like totally in shambles.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: All right, let's keep going.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: I will say so my early like, again, we're not
• 28:42
  even halfway through part one, but my initial thing is
• 28:47
  I think this would kill as an audio show.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, And I'm sure there's some out there
• 28:55
  and we'll.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: We'll look at We'll do what we always do and
• 28:58
  look into it, you know as we get.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, look into it and be sure and give a
• 29:01
  nice shout out at the end for some of the
• 29:02
  stuff that we found.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: For sure, absolutely, so.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Let's keep going. The recordings are time stamped, Marcus said.
• 29:09
  If this one ended, Sarah didn't make another one for
• 29:12
  a few days.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Considering what I just heard, I didn't know what to answer.
• 29:17
  I kept silent mulling over my own thoughts and feelings
• 29:20
  on the matter. As intriguing as the situation was, I
• 29:23
  mostly felt horrified and sorry for Sarah. I couldn't even
• 29:28
  begin to imagine what must have gone through her head
• 29:30
  after living through that.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Why are you showing me all of this? If you
• 29:35
  really are detective and part of the police force, you'd
• 29:37
  lock stuff like this away behind ten locks and keys?
• 29:42
  What a weird thing to say? I why specifically ten
• 29:46
  locks here?
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: That's like a twelve year old statement. You put I
• 29:51
  don't know, ten locks on that like a high number.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: You'd put this stuff in diagon Alley.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Spikes pop culture reference. You'd have to catch this with
• 30:03
  the Infinity Gauntlet.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: What is this place?
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: What do you mean, it's where Wichard's and wizards go.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, I've never heard of such a police.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Oh Mark, is you crazy, little crazy ol goose?
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: What what is this some kind of horre crush?
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: She's like, what is this?
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: A horn? Crucksy?
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, has like a deathly hollows ankle tattoo. This is
• 30:25
  this is actually, this is actually a thirty two year
• 30:28
  old woman.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: I guess this creature sure was up to no good?
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: Huh.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: I bet he solemnly swore it.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Marcus is like, I'm begging you to please stuff.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: I don't understand what you're doing, but I know it's
• 30:49
  a reference to something, and I don't care.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: The hell is a huffle puff? What the hell is
• 30:55
  the what the hell do you mean? Hufflepuff?
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Man? Marcus? Whatever this thing was, it's a raven. It's
• 31:03
  a slitherin for sure.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I better. I hope Sarah didn't find the sorning
• 31:08
  hat down there. Who knows what how she would have
• 31:12
  been in.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'm going to keep playing of it, this
• 31:16
  crazy deity attacking your stepsister.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: The references don't even make sense. It's like, wow, I
• 31:23
  sure do feel like a malfoy about this, Like just man,
• 31:31
  this sure is hagrid.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Marcus, you're giving off hagrid energy. You mean so hagrid
• 31:38
  right now, you better watch a tone as he says, Man.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: This is serious, so serious, it's black.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Did you like that pun? Marcus, he's already gone. He's
• 31:50
  in his car, driving away down the road. The creature
• 31:54
  from the creature like crawls in the house, and it's just.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Like, I was gonna do a bunch of stuff.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: But I had like this whole four part series playing out. Yeah,
• 32:05
  I was gonna do a bunch of stuff. I had
• 32:10
  this whole thing playing with the lights they were gonna
• 32:12
  go out, and I was gonna pit around. I was
• 32:15
  gonna do but I can't be bothered. Yeah, man, Marcus,
• 32:19
  drive away together the creature and Marcus.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, she was just ding up a wall.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Let's try that again. Let's start over another teenage woman.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: But but no, you'd lock stuff like this away behind
• 32:36
  ten locks and keys.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna let that slow us down.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, continue. Marcus leaned back in his own chair,
• 32:43
  thinking my question over. He pulled out his crumpled up
• 32:46
  pack of cigarettes and retrieved one from it. I pushed
• 32:49
  the ashtray closer to his side of the table as
• 32:51
  he lit it up, and he bellowed out a cloud
• 32:53
  of white smoke.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: All in due time.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: His eyes scanned me in the fashion completely different from before,
• 33:01
  with a cold and calculated look behind them.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: What do you think so far?
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I fuck, I don't know what the hell is going on?
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Answer me Clancy, and be honest. Whether or not I'll
• 33:16
  show you more depends on it. Right.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Weird, Yeah, that's kind of a weird thing. The kid's
• 33:21
  name's Clancy, though. I like that name, so I'll let
• 33:23
  it slide.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Well, first he said Sonny, and now he says clans
• 33:27
  it's Sonny, just like just like a boomer way to
• 33:30
  greet a kid. Well, hi, Sonny, you know so Clancy.
• 33:33
  So this isn't a thirty two year old woman. This
• 33:35
  is a thirty two year old man who's a Harry
• 33:37
  Potter fanatic. Clancy, right, Clancy, Clancy man.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: Clancy's a boy's name.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: Earlier in the story he said he's the older brother.
• 33:46
  Oh that's right, okay, yeah, your younger brother. Younger brother,
• 33:48
  I mean yeah, yeah, yeah, she's not wait you know
• 33:52
  that the boys like younger right, yeah, lives with his parents. Yeah,
• 33:56
  he's not thirty two.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: No, but I like to imagine, oh in your head
• 34:02
  can in my mind?
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Die?
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: I see? Okay, all right, I don't want to take
• 34:05
  that from you.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I imagine Clancy is. I'd say teens, right,
• 34:11
  which is I'm going to get.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Like fifteen sixteen?
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say it's kind of weird that a
• 34:16
  detective is singling out of fifteen sixteen year old kid.
• 34:19
  It's also what do you think?
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Be serious?
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: What do you think of this?
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: He's like, it's weird. I don't know what.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: He's like, Okay, you're perfect. Well we'll keep going. What
• 34:28
  if he's like that, it's pretty normal. He's like, all right,
• 34:30
  good day.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: I just want to freak you out.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: I know you can tell me, all right, well this
• 34:37
  is no fun, goodbye.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: I racked my brain, but I was truly and utterly stopped.
• 34:43
  The situation devolved too fast for me to keep up,
• 34:46
  and I didn't know what to think anymore. But I
• 34:48
  could tell that that wasn't the answer Marcus wanted.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: It's I don't know, a ghost, a demon, a skin walker?
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: What is this kind of cream cast?
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I've been listening to a lot of creep cast and
• 35:04
  these are just some suggestions that I have.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Well, what are we some kind of suicide squad?
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe the maybe the entity has a I don't know,
• 35:15
  some kind of cave where he goes and impregnates tons
• 35:19
  of people. I don't know, right, Marcus is like.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: What the hell are you talking about?
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: It's funny. I don't know what you're talking about. For
• 35:27
  a second, I'm like, cave and pregnate. Yeah, I'm like,
• 35:30
  oh wait, I did that.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah that was that was a slight tumor grows in
• 35:35
  the back of your head and it's just like brusque car.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it just it follows me around.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: See, now that I was able to pass on the
• 35:42
  cursed you all, and specifically you Hunter, I just have
• 35:45
  pleasant memories of Brosco. What a nice little story. Psychopath, Yeah, psychopath. Yeah.
• 35:52
  Marcus seems surprised by that. He pushed the cigarette away
• 35:55
  from this.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: That's kind of funny.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Marcus seems surprised by that. By you mean by him
• 35:59
  saying a skin waker surprised.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: The detectives like, what do you think happened to your
• 36:05
  sister and the boys, like, I think a skinwalker.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Conner surprising, don't know, why you thought that.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: But I was just gonna say, someone you know, pretended
• 36:15
  to be your mom. What are you talking about?
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Like, I don't know. There's probably a guy broke into
• 36:20
  your house.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Okay, home invasions are pretty common. What do you what
• 36:23
  is a skin walker?
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the fuck a skin walker is.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: To be complete, I've only seen documentaries where it's like
• 36:30
  Skinwalker Ranch. No one ever really says.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: What it is.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Oh, you don't know who skinwalker is?
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: No, I have no idea.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: This is a safe space. The comments will boil you,
• 36:39
  but I won't. So a skinwalker is a creature from
• 36:43
  It's it's a lot of like Western American Native American mythology,
• 36:48
  but primarily like the Navajo. It's effectively was a shaman
• 36:54
  or like medicine man who became a witch doctor began
• 36:59
  to practice like, you know, darker sides of you know,
• 37:03
  mysticism or tradition and stuff like that, and began to
• 37:07
  develop the qualities of dark spirits. So in a lot
• 37:11
  of renditions of the story, they either become a cannibal
• 37:13
  or they become some kind of killer, and using the
• 37:16
  dark spirits that they've taken on, they can shape shift
• 37:20
  into the forms of various animals that they kill. So
• 37:24
  if the shaman or if the witch doctor kills a coyote,
• 37:29
  he can wear the skin of the coyote and become one.
• 37:32
  But it's always implied that there's something a little off
• 37:35
  about it. Maybe their cry doesn't sound quite right, maybe
• 37:38
  their legs don't move the way they're supposed to. That's
• 37:40
  why when you see like uncanny animals, people will be like,
• 37:43
  is that a skin walker? Okay, and like that's the
• 37:47
  original story. It blends a lot with like Wind to
• 37:49
  Go imagery, where people say it's not really like a
• 37:53
  medicine man, it's kind of just like a monster that
• 37:56
  can shape shift. But yeah, skinwalker basically means a shape shifter.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: It would be the same thing if they killed and
• 38:02
  ate a human being, would they be able to take.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: The likeness of that human It's not always they have
• 38:08
  to eat them.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: It's normally they have to wear the skin of them.
• 38:10
  In some stories they're cannibals too, okay, but yeah, yeah,
• 38:14
  Like so, say it killed someone you knew and pretended
• 38:19
  to be them. From a distance, it looked fine, but
• 38:21
  then you got closer. Maybe they walked differently. Maybe their
• 38:24
  face looks a bit off, maybe their speech is a
• 38:26
  bit different. That's like the idea.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, yeah, I sympathize with Marcus being slightly surprised.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: Then yeah, yeah, fair, he's like, go on, you were saying,
• 38:40
  you were saying, he pushed the cigarette away from his face,
• 38:43
  letting out another lung full of smoke.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: And you believe that that it could be something supernatural?
• 38:54
  What the fuck else could it be? What do you
• 38:59
  think it is?
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: What I think is irrelevant. I want to know what
• 39:03
  you believe. God, dude, what is up with Marcus? This
• 39:07
  is like some weird I don't know.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Maybe Marcus isn't a cop, or maybe he is, but
• 39:12
  he's been like chasing some supernatural angle for a while
• 39:15
  or something.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well I don't know that's what I believe.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Maybe hold on, maybe he's not a cop at all.
• 39:22
  Maybe he just because the only person who said he's
• 39:25
  a cop is Clancy's dad. Saybe he has been following
• 39:30
  like supernatural leads. Thanks, yeah I'm supernatural, And it's like, oh,
• 39:33
  I'm a cop. Can I talk to your son?
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Him being so hung up on that either makes you
• 39:38
  think that the dad is like very mental and well,
• 39:40
  or something something that makes him be like the validity
• 39:43
  of Clancy's responses, where he would need to be like,
• 39:47
  I need to know if you think this is supernatural
• 39:48
  or something that could actually happen, or something like I
• 39:50
  don't know, Clancy says, that's what I believe. I didn't
• 39:57
  know Sarah well, but she wouldn't fake something like this,
• 40:00
  So either she was haunted by something or or you're
• 40:03
  messing with me.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: That's the correct.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: Answer, Marcus said with a satisfied smirk. He put out
• 40:10
  the cigarette in the ash tree and leaned over the phone,
• 40:12
  placing a finger over its screen.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: So how about it. Do you want to hear more?
• 40:20
  Why would I want that? Do you or do you not? Clancy,
• 40:25
  no hard feelings either way. I can't force you to listen.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: I yeah, start the next one.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: I don't know for sure why I decided that we
• 40:35
  get set here all day while I blame curiosity or
• 40:38
  more likely stupidity, but those answers would be half truths
• 40:43
  at best. It didn't feel like a want at the time.
• 40:47
  It felt like a need. I needed to go through
• 40:49
  with it. I needed to hear all of it. The
• 40:52
  reasons I felt that way didn't matter at that moment.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: I had a good feeling about you.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: Kid, Marcus mumbled as his finger tapped the screen and
• 41:01
  started the next recording, recording ten.
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: I don't know what to do anymore. It's druving me nuts.
• 41:09
  Whoever's messing with me comes back every night. I hear
• 41:13
  them even now.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: The microphone picks up footsteps and a door creaks open. Slowly.
• 41:20
  Faint mumbling comes from the distance, accompanied by the familiar skittering.
• 41:25
  It pauses for a brief moment before it speaks up.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: Sarah, my dear.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: The voice calls out, not entirely human, please I just
• 41:38
  The door closes shut with a loud thud, and Sarah
• 41:41
  retreats back into the room.
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: I tried a lot of things over the past few days.
• 41:47
  It calls from the basement, so I got locks and
• 41:50
  put them on the door. They're untouched, so whoever it
• 41:53
  is isn't coming from outside of the house. It hides
• 41:57
  in there somehow, And I called the cops again. Well,
• 42:00
  the thing was there, but it left. When the cops arrived.
• 42:04
  The two officers asked me and unlocked the door, and
• 42:06
  they checked the basement again.
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: But lo and behold it's as empty as last time.
• 42:12
  I'm not sure what they think of me.
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: Maybe they suspect I'm fucking with them, so I can't
• 42:17
  rely on their help. I even told Amy about the
• 42:21
  thing and showed her at the recordings, so she slept
• 42:23
  over yesterday. The things somehow knew I wasn't alone, because
• 42:28
  it didn't make it peat the entire night. I'm not
• 42:31
  sure if Amy believes.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: Me or not anymore.
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: Well, I wouldn't believe me if I were her, but
• 42:38
  she offered a solution, get a roommate or a boyfriend,
• 42:42
  someone to live with me.
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: It could work, but I don't know anymore.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Do you know this, Amy?
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: Marcus ass As the recording ended.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: I think Sarah mentioned her a few times, but I
• 42:55
  never met her.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: I looked over my shoulder as I answered at the
• 42:59
  court or leading into the kitchen. The basement door was
• 43:03
  on one of the walls there, and I could see
• 43:05
  the locks mentioned in the recording. They hung open on
• 43:09
  the door, but they were still intact. Marcus snapped his
• 43:12
  fingers to get my clearly distracted attention, and he pointed
• 43:15
  down to the phone.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: Want to keep going? Yeah? Before I hit play, I
• 43:23
  want to ask you something again, did you buy any
• 43:26
  chance suffer any mental trauma as a child or even
• 43:31
  recently something that shook you to your core?
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: I raised an eyebrow at the strange question.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: No, why you're taking all of the surprising will? Your
• 43:44
  mental fortitude is pretty high. That's sometimes a sign of
• 43:49
  never mind.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: He hit play before I could pry him for more details,
• 43:54
  so I fell silent to not miss it. But I
• 43:57
  made up my mind when it was over, Marcus would
• 44:00
  have a lot of answering to do. Okay, So clearly
• 44:03
  Marcus is like putting together some like Avengers initiative, right
• 44:07
  that that whole Your mental fortitude is pretty high. It's
• 44:10
  a sign of you know, clairvoyant children or whatever.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Well, now I'm wondering if he's almost wondering if this
• 44:17
  thing is uh is our main protagonist?
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: Maybe what do you think about that?
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, you mean, like, does he think Clancy is
• 44:28
  the creature?
• 44:30
  Speaker 10: Yeah?
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: I mean I don't know, like that that'd be a
• 44:33
  great mimic.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Well that's a yeah, I mean, that's the thing is.
• 44:37
  I'm like, I'm wondering if where does Marcus come into
• 44:40
  this to where he's so knowledgeable about it? Because really
• 44:43
  the thing about it is. Yes, it is creepy what
• 44:45
  we're hearing so far, but I don't think it's overtly disturbing,
• 44:49
  especially for I mean, like it it is, but I
• 44:51
  just mean, like, it's not like you're hearing Sarah get
• 44:54
  mauled to death or something like that one grizzly bear,
• 44:57
  like the documentary about the Grizzly Man whatever. And then
• 45:00
  the guy listens to the audio of him getting attacked,
• 45:02
  like that would be shocking to be like, well, that's weird.
• 45:06
  Maybe he needs a skin.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Walker, you know, like that would be odd.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: But so far it's just people mimicking back and forth
• 45:13
  to a person that he kind of doesn't know very well.
• 45:15
  And now it is creepy because they're still in the house, right,
• 45:19
  They're in the house, like he can he sees the
• 45:21
  locks over there. So I didn't know if Marcus is
• 45:24
  maybe like suspicious, He's like, huh, you know, for hearing
• 45:28
  all this weird stuff, you're really not reacting the.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Way that I thought you would. And you know.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: What you're saying that might be.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's correct. I'm saying trying to get
• 45:40
  a grip on what he's on tap.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: Of way wait. Wait back here at the top, it
• 45:46
  says he goes with his dad and they go room
• 45:50
  by room. So as far as unless something changes later
• 45:52
  in the recording, the house has this mimic in it.
• 45:56
  While Clancy and his dad are in there, they go
• 45:59
  room by room. Given the small size of the house,
• 46:02
  it went pretty fast. And then the dad says one
• 46:06
  of the detective wants to drop by, says he has
• 46:08
  some more investigator do. He asked for someone to stay
• 46:12
  here tonight, but work won't allow me. Could you do it, Champ?
• 46:15
  And he says sure. So is I'm thinking maybe the
• 46:20
  dad was the thing.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: You know, Oh maybe I can't stay. Yeah, And he's
• 46:26
  just like the damage has been done in the dad line.
• 46:29
  I will see. I'm curious to that too.
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Also what kind of dad. He's just like, Hey, you
• 46:32
  know this house that kind of like burnt down or whatever,
• 46:34
  and some people died in here. Hey, would you mind
• 46:37
  just staying for a bit, But god, I just have
• 46:39
  such a busy night ahead at my job.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: Weird, try not to.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: Think about the smell here. That's your sister's flesh. Don't
• 46:47
  don't worry about it.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: See, that's kind of stuff.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: That's you.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: You know your your your feet are tracking all over.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: The floor, noise whenever you step.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: The ashes that are on your feet that you're tracking before,
• 47:00
  that's actually your sister's burnt skin. It's the ash for
• 47:03
  burnt skin. So don't worry about that. I have I
• 47:07
  have to go to my job. I have to, all.
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: Right, So you talk to the cops. I'm gonna go
• 47:13
  get some roadies.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: We're gonna takena do what we gotta do.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: Do a little booze cruising, kind of steady of me
• 47:20
  for the road son, you.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Know, yeah, have fun. Twelve year old child of.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: Mine talking to the cops a nerd booze.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Recording eleven.
• 47:33
  Speaker 6: I try my best to ignore it. I slept at
• 47:36
  a friend's house some nights, but that's getting harder to
• 47:38
  pull off. I tried looking for roommates, but no almots
• 47:41
  to share a small house with this stupid pandemic around.
• 47:45
  And my search for a boyfriend is just fruitless. I'm
• 47:49
  getting a bit old for the dating scene. We'll keep
• 47:53
  at it, but for the looks of things, everyone's mostly
• 47:56
  down to fucking not much else. I don't want to
• 48:00
  sort of frequent one night stands. The police still answer
• 48:03
  my calls, thankfully, but they're not doing much. Even the
• 48:08
  patrols are getting less and less frequent. I'm at a
• 48:11
  total loss here. I've considered selling the house and moving,
• 48:14
  but I can't afford that. Dad might be my last resort. Ah,
• 48:19
  Dad might be my last resort. Maybe I can move
• 48:22
  in with him and his wife and son. Weren't exactly
• 48:26
  friends though, who knows, and I can't risk telling them.
• 48:30
  There's no chance in hell they'll take me if they
• 48:32
  think I'm crazy.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I want I did that because your your theory
• 48:36
  right there. I was like, maybe I can move in
• 48:38
  with Dad. Dude, it's set. I'd setting something up.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know, right, we'll see, we'll see.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: Also, I know, I know it's kind of this is
• 48:47
  kind of a lame criticism for horror stories, I understand.
• 48:50
  But at the same time, leave just you're in the house.
• 48:55
  The house is weird. Don't be in the house.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean I was gonna wait until we
• 49:01
  got done with our first joh.
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, you're right, you're right.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just I do have some criticism so far.
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: Well Okay, although yeah, you're right, it can wait, we'll
• 49:09
  continue with the story. Hearing that, hearing her opinion of
• 49:14
  me and Mom, it's done. Sure we weren't more than acquaintances,
• 49:19
  but we're not horrible people. We would have taken Sarah,
• 49:22
  and if she reached out to us so to know
• 49:24
  that her salvation was so close, Kevin bay only by
• 49:28
  superficial assessments about it. It sucked, plain and simple, And
• 49:33
  if she would have showed us the recordings, we might
• 49:35
  have even believed her, Especially.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Dad, play the next one.
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: I demanded, before Marcus had a chance to say anything.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: You sure, you sound a bit riled up. Maybe play it.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: Marcus sighed deeply, but he did as he was told.
• 49:54
  According twelve, it's still here.
• 49:58
  Speaker 6: You won't go the fuck away. I haven't talked to
• 50:02
  it almost a month now, but it's still here. It's
• 50:05
  going to drive me insane, for real. I can't take
• 50:08
  it anymore. Look in front of it again tonight. Maybe I
• 50:12
  can find out what the fuck it wants or get
• 50:15
  some answers.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: Recording thirteen. The recording starts and is quiet save for
• 50:21
  static for a few moments. Sarah takes a deep breath
• 50:25
  and a barely audible step.
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: Are you there?
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: Skiddy returns, coming closer to the microphone than ever before.
• 50:35
  It sounds more frantic than usual.
• 50:37
  Speaker 6: Of course, my dear, I'm always here. You stop that,
• 50:43
  you hear me stop using her voice, Sarah, I said, stop,
• 50:50
  I know you're not her.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: The voice coughs loudly. It changes as it does, slowly,
• 50:56
  morphing and growing deeper. When it stops, it sounds male. Sarah, Honey,
• 51:08
  I paused hearing that it was Dad's voice, no doubt
• 51:12
  about it. Although it sounded ever so slightly off, I
• 51:16
  could recognize it. Up to that point. My running theory
• 51:20
  was that the thing could mimic the dead, but Dad
• 51:23
  is still very much alive, so that through my theory.
• 51:25
  Under the bus, I didn't know what to believe anymore.
• 51:31
  Speaker 5: What do you want? I just wanted to see.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: You open the door?
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: Sarah backs away as her breathing grows faster.
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: Please, Honey, it's dark down here.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: Just shut up. Sarah runs away from the door as
• 51:51
  the voice calls continue in the background. That was your father, correct,
• 51:56
  Marcus asked when the recording ended.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: A yeah, And what does that tell us?
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: I pondered the question for a moment.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: It's not a skin walker like I thought at first,
• 52:13
  I don't know much about them, but like skin walkers
• 52:16
  need to kill their victims to copy.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: Them, right, m hmm, not necessarily? Wait why I knew it?
• 52:24
  I knew it. I knew it.
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: Marcus is some kind of paranormal.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, not necessarily, but they do
• 52:32
  need to hear the voice they're trying to copy. And anyways,
• 52:35
  his skin walker could have broken.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: Down the door, so it's something else, but what I'm
• 52:43
  not sure yet.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: He went to play the next recording, but I stopped him.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Where do you know so much about skin walker's from?
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: Or are or are or?
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: Marcus chuckled dryly. All in due time, Clancy, we still
• 53:06
  have a few recordings to go through, you know what.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: He hit play on the next recording, so we listened.
• 53:12
  So I'm really not liking this thing where it's.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: Like, why did you just not tell him? Why would that?
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Like, I know it's probably something where it's like, oh,
• 53:19
  if he tells him, it might jeopardize him for wanting
• 53:21
  to listen on, But still, is that.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: Not just annoying? All in due time?
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: It's like, dude, just fucking tell him why you know
• 53:27
  so much about skinwalkers.
• 53:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: Also like okay, so Marcus like shows up and he's like,
• 53:37
  you know, Joey badass, right, like he knows all the stuff,
• 53:42
  and he was kind of presenting himself as a cop
• 53:44
  so he could get alone with Clancy. But I know
• 53:47
  Clancy's a kid, but there's still no level of clancy,
• 53:49
  Like there's the whole wait, where do you know about
• 53:51
  skin walkers or whatever? But I mean like, even when
• 53:56
  I was a kid jumping to supernatural conclusions, if an
• 53:59
  adult went along with me, I'd be like, yeah.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd be like, I'd be like, what the fuck really.
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: I'm talking about a movie I watched the other night.
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm Marcus. I'm Marcus, and I guess it is
• 54:10
  a ghost. Yes, Clancy, I'd.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: Be like, you seem like a very irresponsible.
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: I should have a parent right now, where's my.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: Dad at he's a werewolf?
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: I should call the police. The police are zombies or something.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: They're all plant people.
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: They're all plan people. It's just me and you child.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: Me New Clancy against the world.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: Now do you want me to show you where vampires
• 54:41
  come from?
• 54:44
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: Now? All right, then I guess I'll play the next record.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: Like Ic is like, you mean Transylvania.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: Marcus Lane's forward, He's like, how did you know?
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: Where did you find out about? The hell?
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: Told you?
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: Glass? Like this is just like Hogwarts. Marcus is like,
• 55:16
  dear God, good good, You're not a wizard? Like what
• 55:27
  Marcus is just an equally delusional old man who like
• 55:30
  also thinks media is real. We're gonna need to call
• 55:34
  Nick Fury on this one.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: Like He's just we are we are coming to the
• 55:39
  conclusion though, like just to get back. We are coming
• 55:41
  to the conclusion though, that we think Marcus is not
• 55:43
  a cop, right, Yeah, clearly it's becoming he is.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: Then he has a he like Moonlights as a paranormal investigator.
• 55:52
  But no, I don't think he's a cop. Okay, all right,
• 55:56
  Recording fourteen.
• 55:57
  Speaker 6: It's not just mom and dad anymore. The damn thing
• 56:00
  has so many voices now, Amy, my ex boyfriend Clinton,
• 56:05
  random voices I can't place.
• 56:06
  Speaker 5: Hell, it even used the voices of those.
• 56:09
  Speaker 6: Two police officers that went down in the basement.
• 56:11
  Speaker 5: Looking for it.
• 56:11
  Speaker 6: It keeps calling for me, pleading and begging, faying confusion,
• 56:19
  asking to be let out. But I won't do it.
• 56:22
  I won't open that damn door ever again. Fuck whatever
• 56:26
  I keep down there, it can have my stuff for
• 56:28
  all I care. I'm tired. I can't sleep because of it.
• 56:34
  It's getting so hard to do anything.
• 56:36
  Speaker 5: I swear.
• 56:37
  Speaker 6: Today almost got fired for mixing. For mixing up customers
• 56:40
  orders for the twentieth time. I nearly snapped at the manager,
• 56:44
  but I stopped at the last second, and I apologized.
• 56:47
  Some coworkers notice that I'm acting off and asked me
• 56:50
  about it, but I can't tell them to think I'm crazy. Hell,
• 56:55
  I'm starting to think I might be crazy myself.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: I would just tell somebody I feel like if it
• 56:59
  was like I fel like if it was messing you
• 57:01
  up that bad. I also, I know that this is
• 57:03
  a two years ago, so this.
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: Is a covid rite as well.
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: So yeah, pandemic like took me out. I was like, whoa, Okay,
• 57:13
  I was like.
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: Holy shit.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So it would be it would be a bit
• 57:16
  difficult to be like, hey, can I crash at your
• 57:17
  place because people would be like like, no, I don't,
• 57:20
  and I don't. I don't want to be mixing you know,
• 57:23
  germs or anything like that. I could see that, but
• 57:26
  still it's you know, also this is the second time.
• 57:30
  Speaker 7: Wait.
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: Wait, she's working at a restaurant.
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, mixing up customers orders for the twenty times, which.
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: Could be super COVID. It's not like the peak of it, right.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I guess that's true.
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: Maybe, well, there were some places that did like drive
• 57:45
  through and stuff like that, so maybe that's what.
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: Who knows.
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: I'm probably leaning too hard. We'll say, we'll save it
• 57:51
  for the end of the part. At least, I was
• 57:53
  just saying. It is literally part one of four, so
• 57:55
  we're well, we'll see, Okay, Yeah, we're taking up too
• 57:59
  much time in front of the three are only three
• 58:02
  characters so far, and before counting the dad's voice at
• 58:05
  the beginning recording fifteen Sis, that's as far as I
• 58:11
  got into that particular recording. I slapped my hand over
• 58:15
  the phone with enough force to send cracks into the
• 58:17
  glass surface at the table. Marcus jumped back in his chair,
• 58:20
  taken by surprise.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: What what the what the hell?
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: That's my fucking voice. I knew this one would get you.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: Come on, dude, come on, Marcus answered, without half bred.
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: I knew this one would get to you.
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: It's like I imagine if I had like all of
• 58:43
  the Poe screen goblin like, yes, your hatred.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: I knew this one would get to you.
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: Only fools are heroes, Clancy.
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: I knew this one would get to you.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: Marcus answered with half with a half grin, or.
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: Will get to you more than the others.
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: I just don't know why he's being so coy. He's
• 59:19
  being so.
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: Coy in spite of everything you've done for her. Eventually
• 59:24
  she will hate you.
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: Eventually she will hate you, Clancy.
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: In this world it's dripp or drowned spider man. Oh god, Okay.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: I have to keep the faith I have.
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it hasn't lost me. It hasn't lost me. I
• 59:46
  just think Marcus's characterization is a bit cartooning, is.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: All it is. It is well even with Clancy, a
• 59:52
  bit too, But.
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: Clancy's a child, so he gets some bonus points for
• 59:57
  me at this point.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: On Dude, I'm wiping myself. I'm I'm going in with
• 1:00:01
  full love here.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: I never visited Sarah here. It couldn't have. It couldn't
• 1:00:07
  have heard my voice, So how the fuck did it
• 1:00:09
  copy me?
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: Think?
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: Clancy, did you ever hear Sarah's dead mother?
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 5: For?
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: How long has she been dead?
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: Twenty years.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: So what does that tell you?
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: It doesn't need to hear people's voices, correct, So what
• 1:00:29
  it can read minds?
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: Maybe at the very least it can form a connection
• 1:00:35
  with people. But until we catch it and see for ourselves,
• 1:00:39
  I can't say for Sudan.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 5: Catch it.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: Is that what this is all about? You want to
• 1:00:47
  catch it?
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: Marcus wiped his smark off his face and looked at
• 1:00:52
  me intently.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, Clancy, either catch it or kill it, and soul
• 1:01:00
  of your sister's case. So what so what are you?
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: Marcus didn't let me finish. He pushed my hands away
• 1:01:11
  from the phone screen and hit play on the recording,
• 1:01:13
  interrupting me.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry in two times.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: Recording. Come on, dude, I was laughing, but he's like,
• 1:01:29
  so what are you like? I'm like, he's got like
• 1:01:33
  a duster on that's like flowing.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: In the way. I'm a motherfucking angel.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: Exactly. That's exactly what I am. He who walks between
• 1:01:48
  the here and the there. I am like like two thousands,
• 1:01:54
  two thousands FX like action movie dialogue, you know, like
• 1:02:00
  hell Boy.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh god, all in due time, he repeated once
• 1:02:09
  more sor right, So we're getting back into the recording. Now, yes, okay,
• 1:02:13
  presumably the this is Clancy's voice talking in the recording.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 5: Sis, are you there?
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: It repeats my own voice. It's been sometimes since Aara's
• 1:02:24
  first recording of the mysterious voice, and it sounds thoroughly
• 1:02:28
  human at this point, no more cracks and its facade
• 1:02:31
  can be gleamed.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 6: Listen to me and listen. Well, I won't put up
• 1:02:37
  with this anymore. You have tonight to leave my house
• 1:02:40
  and leave me the fuck alone. I'll go to bed,
• 1:02:44
  I'll plug in some earphones, and I'll ignore you. If
• 1:02:47
  I hear you again tomorrow night, you can bet your
• 1:02:49
  Assh'll come down here and int you whoever?
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 5: Whatever you are? Understood?
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: She sounds different, somehow, worried, tired, manic.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 6: Plea Sis, for fuck's sake, open the door and let
• 1:03:07
  me out? And why would I do that? How'd you
• 1:03:10
  get down there?
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 5: Anyway?
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 6: I fuck, I don't know, I can't remember, but it's
• 1:03:18
  scary down here. Let me out, please?
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: It copies your mannerisms. Well, it's spot on, actually it does.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: I admitted feeling the color in my face draining little
• 1:03:32
  my I'm sorry, I'm sorry. No no, no, no, no no no,
• 1:03:36
  it's it's just in that like.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: The Marcus character's so fuck have you ever.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: Seen uh the Fourth Alien movie? Now, huh Okay, there's
• 1:03:49
  a character in it who brought the aliens back to life,
• 1:03:52
  who like is like fetishistically obsessed with them. He's like,
• 1:03:55
  look at the beautiful babies. They're so like that that
• 1:03:59
  whole character, And like Marcus struck me as that just
• 1:04:02
  then when he's like, it copies your mannerisms, Well, it's
• 1:04:06
  spot on actually, Like he's getting like flustered talking about it.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Well, like I keep going back and forth between it's
• 1:04:11
  like very in my mind's eye when I see Marcus
• 1:04:15
  saying the stuff and stopping it with like a cigarette
• 1:04:17
  in his mouth, and the light on them makes me
• 1:04:19
  think of like a really cheesy noir like detective kind
• 1:04:22
  of thing, Like it copies.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: Your mannerisms, will, it's spot on actually.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: And it's like these people are just kind of sitting
• 1:04:29
  in the circle, but it's just like all these interruptions
• 1:04:32
  and him being just so.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: Kind of like I guess, just cartoony and just.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: Not blatantly saying like hey, this is what I think
• 1:04:40
  it is.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: I think we should do this.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: I almost wish it was that, and then maybe even
• 1:04:43
  Clancy could be like, you're a psycho.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: But the kid, yeah yeah, yeah.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what. Let's let's lean into it a bit. Well,
• 1:04:55
  it's it's striking like Saturday morning cereal, you know stuff.
• 1:05:00
  So let's see it. You can do interesting horror things
• 1:05:03
  with that. Most of the schlocky horror films from the
• 1:05:05
  eighties I love so much are in that tone, right,
• 1:05:07
  So so let's see. Let's see how it goes with that.
• 1:05:11
  With that in mind, I'm imagining him in the duster
• 1:05:13
  in the Fedora and he won't come out of it,
• 1:05:15
  So we'll see how that goes.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so I'll just proceed with the it does.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: I admitted feeling the color in my face draining little
• 1:05:24
  by little as I listened.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: Given enough time to learn that thing could be a
• 1:05:29
  top predator.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: And let me guess, you can't let that happen.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, yes, yes.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: I did. This is this is bordering on like do
• 1:05:57
  we even do we?
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: Like we?
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: I'm down to read the until the end of part one,
• 1:06:02
  but this is getting unbold. This is tragic. Out of
• 1:06:06
  all the things you've read so far this is come on.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: And we can't let that happen.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: And let me guess you can't let that happen. Oh,
• 1:06:19
  oh my god, we can't let that happen. All in
• 1:06:28
  due time, I replied, and pushed play on the recording.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: What is this?
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 7: What is this?
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, if this isn't to those listening, if this doesn't like,
• 1:06:47
  if you don't realize why this is so funny. The
• 1:06:49
  dialogue goes, it is a kid who just met this
• 1:06:52
  man who keeps saying stuff like it's a predator, one
• 1:06:55
  that can't be stopped, one too powerful, and it could
• 1:07:00
  be a top predator. And the kid goes and let
• 1:07:02
  me guess, you can't let that happen. And then the
• 1:07:06
  guy goes, we can't let that. That gets the most.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: Like, but you see here clancy is taking control and
• 1:07:14
  he says, all in due time, no's mimicking market. The kid,
• 1:07:19
  the kid who just found out that his sister's a
• 1:07:23
  full detective, a full grown X Files detective. Man is
• 1:07:28
  having this kind of camaraderie with what we assume to
• 1:07:30
  be a fifteen or sixteen year old child all in
• 1:07:34
  do time, and he's.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: Like, huh, that's right, Clancy.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the kid after hearing all this, hearing that his
• 1:07:39
  sister burna death a few days ago, was killed by
• 1:07:42
  a skim walker, the Kid's like, all in due time, god, bro,
• 1:07:48
  it's it's the most like Disney dialogue. Like, okay, in
• 1:07:54
  a minute, in a minute, there's gonna be like a
• 1:07:56
  thumping in the closet, and then Marcus is gonna go,
• 1:07:59
  Clan see, you're gonna want to see.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: This, Clancy. It's right behind me.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 3: And you know what, you know what like yeah, yeah,
• 1:08:15
  dialogue dialogue, very funny. I'm glad this is better to
• 1:08:18
  me than boring dialogue. I'll say that, yeah, because it's
• 1:08:23
  certainly memorable. But I still like the monster concept so far.
• 1:08:27
  It's just the dialogue.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: I just want to get to this first part.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: We'll get okay, we'll keep we'll keep going.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: I am and I'm almost I am almost in the
• 1:08:36
  fourth layer of hell.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: I need all right, so, Clans, I'm having a great time.
• 1:08:40
  This is awesome. So so Clancy pushes play on the
• 1:08:45
  recording and it goes. Sarah doesn't say anything else. Her
• 1:08:50
  footsteps carry her away from the basement tour, and the
• 1:08:53
  voice pleads in the background It shifts back and forth
• 1:08:56
  between different people quick and almost seamless. Short periods of
• 1:09:00
  time between the adjustments, glimpses of the animalistic nature make
• 1:09:04
  it through. The recording ends after Sarah closes the door
• 1:09:08
  to her bedroom.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: You know, and this is and then before we get
• 1:09:13
  into recording sixteen, I just want to say, because of
• 1:09:15
  how much of a sour tastes in my mouth right now,
• 1:09:16
  I'm now picturing Sarah's just like breathing heavily, and we're
• 1:09:19
  just hearing footsteps, like that's all we're hearing in the recording.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: We're just hearing like.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: I'm just like like patting around, and then she shuts
• 1:09:26
  the door, Like I just it's becoming even more comical
• 1:09:29
  in my head where they're like sitting around inquisitively looking
• 1:09:31
  at this like this phone, and it's just like hearing
• 1:09:34
  someone like like breathing heavily and walking around and.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: They're just like, no, seriously, clancy listening to this part.
• 1:09:41
  It's crazy.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: I will I will say I will say that one
• 1:09:45
  criticism I had is that Sarah goes from trying to
• 1:09:48
  find a way out of it to being like, if
• 1:09:50
  you're not gone tomorrow, I'm gonna come down there, Like what,
• 1:09:53
  like what what does she think she's gonna do?
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: I mean she's gone down there with cops and everything
• 1:10:00
  else and it's not there.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, so she's gonna go down there and just
• 1:10:03
  leave bad go camping. I know it's COVID lockdown, go
• 1:10:08
  said in the woods like it's a better Yeah.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: Like literally, I feel like in any other person, I
• 1:10:12
  feel like a lot of people just be like, I'm
• 1:10:13
  just gonna be in my car. I'm just gonna if
• 1:10:15
  I have nowhere to go, I will literally just sleep
• 1:10:17
  in my car.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: She has her mom, and she's like who has his
• 1:10:20
  wife and brother? Who? Like she's like on talking term.
• 1:10:23
  Sure she doesn't love them, I get it, but she
• 1:10:25
  thinks there's a thing in her basement that sounds like
• 1:10:28
  her dead mom. Like that will the gates and family,
• 1:10:32
  you know, discomfort?
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: I would, I would go through. I would go through
• 1:10:35
  the awkward interaction if I thought something was this tragic,
• 1:10:38
  and I would be like Also, I hate that she
• 1:10:39
  keeps saying like, well, they're gonna think I'm crazy. Didn't
• 1:10:43
  let them think that?
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: Who can try to let them think that you're having
• 1:10:47
  a psychotic breakdown and the twenty four to seven surveillance, right.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: Who the hell even I'm starting to think I'm pretty crazy.
• 1:10:55
  Howbout you say that seven more times, Sarah?
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: That sounds great.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: It's the only thing, the only thing that is getting
• 1:11:03
  me through this first part, where there is three more
• 1:11:06
  parts after this, dude, is that Sarah is going to
• 1:11:08
  be engulfed in flames at one second. That's the only
• 1:11:11
  thing pushing me forward.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: It doesn't before catching on fire.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: You're right, we know that for sure. So I just
• 1:11:17
  want to see, all right, recording sixteen.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 3: You know what's gonna happen. You already know what's gonna happen.
• 1:11:21
  If it stays this tone, the comments, they're gonna need
• 1:11:26
  a part two. I think you're stuck. I can't think.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: Recording sixteen is what I will say. Recording sixteen.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 6: Okay, So I can't get a firearm. They don't have
• 1:11:38
  the money for that. I don't even know how to
• 1:11:41
  handle one anyway. And fuck me, gasoline's getting pretty expensive too.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, god, I'm sorry that just a line
• 1:11:51
  is insane.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 11: And fuck me, gasoly is getting pretty expensive too. Canister's
• 1:11:57
  worth of a few gallons in a box of the
• 1:12:01
  current plan is simple. I'll fuck that thing up if
• 1:12:04
  I if I hear.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 5: It again tonight.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: Also, just the amount of use of fuck is just
• 1:12:10
  really annoying too.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 7: But my god, Sarah, give me a second, Give me
• 1:12:18
  a second, bro, I've never you get in heat.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 3: It it's so funny for one but her. Okay, the
• 1:12:29
  the gas line was so funny for one like I
• 1:12:33
  can't afford I. I want to go get a firearm,
• 1:12:37
  and I don't have the five hundred dollars needed to
• 1:12:39
  buy one, sure or whatever. I also can't go buy
• 1:12:42
  a gallon of gas.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: It's three dollars.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 3: It's three dollars out of your car that you drive
• 1:12:51
  to work in.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: My gosh, go to.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: Your kitchen, get any amount of the chemicals you use
• 1:12:57
  to clean stuff or do whatever. Throw that down there
• 1:12:59
  that's flammable. Do what I mean, like, go to the store,
• 1:13:03
  you know, I mean, like you don't have to just
• 1:13:05
  use gasoline. I mean, I don't know.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: It's just so stupid.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: I cannot wait. I cannot wait to where she's like,
• 1:13:12
  she she pours her She's like, how I'm gonna kill
• 1:13:15
  this monster? You're asking, Well, that's simple. I'm going to
• 1:13:18
  douse myself in chemicals and light myself on fire and
• 1:13:21
  tackle it. You're like, why would you do that?
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 3: Well, that's simple. It's like it's a TikTok to you.
• 1:13:34
  Why she literally begins.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: Her last thing she said with the current plan is simple.
• 1:13:43
  I just like I just like, uh, it's like so
• 1:13:46
  long that dies here? And then even even Clancy's like,
• 1:13:50
  my god, Sarah, like I mumbled as the recording ended,
• 1:13:55
  and like, Okay.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: I'll say I'll say this, this story needed a rewrite
• 1:14:05
  with the dialogue. I think I still like the premise
• 1:14:08
  of like a girl dies unexpectedly and her brother goes
• 1:14:10
  through the recordings with the cop.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about this when yeah, okay part one, Part one,
• 1:14:15
  Part one, okay, yeah, yeah right.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 3: You're right, okay. Hearing her in that state of mind
• 1:14:20
  broke my heart. No one deserves to go through what
• 1:14:23
  she did. And the fact that we didn't help her sooner,
• 1:14:25
  that none of us made an effort to be in
• 1:14:27
  her life, it ate me up inside. We could have
• 1:14:31
  made a difference. I could have made a difference. Maybe
• 1:14:34
  then this tragedy would have had a better ending.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: There's only one more to go, Thank God.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 3: He leaned over the table and slapped a hand down
• 1:14:42
  on my shoulder, giving me a tight squeeze. I nod
• 1:14:47
  in my head as I felt tears for me at
• 1:14:49
  the corner of my eyes and signaled for him to
• 1:14:51
  play it.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: What I mean, like is it?
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: Why is he?
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 3: What are they suddenly like a father figure? What was that? Well?
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: The weird but like also why is he crying? Like
• 1:15:02
  I understand that this is like I didn't.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: Emotional, but thirty seconds ago he went all in due time,
• 1:15:08
  like it's.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: Well, they're just like so what and you can't let
• 1:15:11
  that happen. Well, it's just also it's like you don't
• 1:15:13
  know her that well. And these are also only audio
• 1:15:16
  recordings and I'm sure that like it's still an emotional thing.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 3: But he was to all of the tapes that'd be fine.
• 1:15:24
  It makes sense after the whole like we've got to
• 1:15:27
  stop it.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: And then it's sixteen recordings and this is the first
• 1:15:30
  time where he's like, oh shit, it really hit me
• 1:15:33
  in the fields, Marcus.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: He didn't like how much he said the F word.
• 1:15:37
  Also when you were doing that, when you kept dropping
• 1:15:39
  like F bombs through that, I in my head, Sarah
• 1:15:42
  became Joe Paschi from Good Fellas.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna have to fucking kill it.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 3: That's exactly somebody you want me to do.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 6: You want me to like the fucking hands on fire.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: You still be fucking funny, funny out God.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: Here we go, record seventeen and the first line is
• 1:16:01
  this the fuckers still here?
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 3: Yes, okay, I'm excited. I'm excited to keep knowing. This
• 1:16:10
  is great. This is like football.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 8: Go.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 6: The fucker is still here.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 5: I warned it. I tried to be nice. I really did.
• 1:16:20
  What more could anyone ask me?
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 3: A liquid slashes around in the background, presumably gastly. Her
• 1:16:27
  breathing is strained close to the microphone. Metal rings out
• 1:16:32
  as it hits the floor. Sarah, it calls out in
• 1:16:36
  the voice of her mother.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 5: I warned you.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 3: Something topples to the floor and the sound of Russian
• 1:16:42
  liquid is heard.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 5: This is on you.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 6: It's not my fault, Sarah.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: Please.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 3: The voice shall is more desperate than ever.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 5: What are you doing? What I said I would? You
• 1:16:55
  didn't listen.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 6: Why didn't you listen?
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 5: Please, Sarah, you don't have to do this.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 6: Slip me out, please enough, stop using her fucking foe.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 3: The thing falls silent. Sarah takes a deep breath, and
• 1:17:09
  the sound of gasoline pouring out of the canister dies
• 1:17:11
  down as it presumably runs out. Her clothes rustle as
• 1:17:15
  she searches her pockets, and she shakes the match box
• 1:17:18
  when she finds it. The sound of the matches jumping
• 1:17:20
  around inside. It's the only audible thing for a moment.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 5: You know what, You know what that is, don't you.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 3: She opens the box and fumbles around with the matches
• 1:17:30
  for a moment. The voice doesn't answer her, but instead
• 1:17:33
  skitters away from the door. Frantically, Sarah takes one final breath,
• 1:17:37
  and the sound of a match being struck as heard
• 1:17:39
  loud and clear.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 6: Oh my god, get fucked.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: I'm in hell.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: Imagine also imagine here's the thing too, dude, here's the thing.
• 1:17:57
  And I really want you to take this into consideration.
• 1:17:59
  They are not seeing any of this. They are hearing
• 1:18:03
  this on a recorder on a phone.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 6: So you just you, like, get fucked.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 3: You know, it's sad that that line actually worked a
• 1:18:19
  little bit. I was like, oh, that's good. When she
• 1:18:21
  says stop using her voice like that feels there's like
• 1:18:25
  a reckoning for that, almost kind of like if Sarah
• 1:18:31
  hadn't showed any like badassery in the story story up
• 1:18:34
  until then, and then that was her first like resistance
• 1:18:36
  to it. It's so desperate, it's against her mother. Like that,
• 1:18:38
  that works. But then two lines later they had to
• 1:18:42
  go back to her holding the match, like you you
• 1:18:46
  called down the thunder, Well, now you got.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: It, you know, Like yeah, I dude, I I don't know.
• 1:18:54
  I mean it started with I mean, we'll keep going,
• 1:18:57
  keep going, just part part end of part one at least,
• 1:18:59
  and then we can talk about more.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 3: Yeaheah, okay, yeah yeah. The microphone doesn't pick up the
• 1:19:03
  lit match hitting the ground, but it picks up the gasoline,
• 1:19:05
  igniting air rushes in. As the flames begin to burn
• 1:19:09
  and Sarah lets out a yelp, the voice begins to
• 1:19:12
  scream loudly, rapidly, switching back and forth, let's out one
• 1:19:17
  final call for the first time using Sarah's voice. The
• 1:19:22
  recording ended, leaving me wrapped up in a whirlwind of emotions.
• 1:19:26
  I was horrified. I was stupefied. I was strangely glad
• 1:19:29
  for it to finally be over. I was a mess,
• 1:19:33
  to put it bluntly, my body felt like it melted
• 1:19:36
  into the seat, but I quickly composed myself when I
• 1:19:38
  remembered that Marcus still had some questions to answer.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: Did Sarah kill it? Did we bury a monster instead
• 1:19:46
  of her?
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know. We could very well be the case,
• 1:19:51
  but then then where is she exactly? Plus a lot
• 1:19:56
  of other things don't line up? But to be fair,
• 1:20:00
  they didn't line up no matter which angle I went
• 1:20:02
  at it. From.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: All that we know for certain right now is that
• 1:20:06
  someone died on a fire. So monster hunter.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 12: Hunh Yes they did?
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 3: They did the whole What are we some kind of suicide?
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 5: What they did?
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 9: I thought they did?
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 5: What else?
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 3: Some you some kind of monster hunter? Yes? Oh god,
• 1:20:54
  this is the great. This is the my favorite thing
• 1:20:56
  we've read on creep casts. This is about this black
• 1:21:00
  out of the water. This is so good. I can't
• 1:21:05
  Oh my gosh, oh god, I'm I'm.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: Oh my god. Wait wait wait wait, look, I asked,
• 1:21:11
  after a few moments of heavy silence.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: Pretty much, Marcus answers, I'm the only one they call when.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: Ship gets spooky, and let me tell you, this ship
• 1:21:24
  is very fucking spooky.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 3: Hold on, let me get back in my chair, let
• 1:21:28
  me get.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, dude, listen, pretty pretty much, Marcus answered,
• 1:21:34
  I'm the only one they call when shit gets spooky.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 3: Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, where are you.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: At, dude?
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 3: I thought I thought you were joking. No, I wasn't
• 1:21:46
  looking at the screen. So when you said I'm the
• 1:21:49
  one they call when ship gets spooky, I thought you were.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: Making that is a Legiti, this is this is quote?
• 1:21:56
  Pretty much, Marcus answered, I'm the only I'm the one
• 1:22:00
  they call when shit gets spooky. And let me tell
• 1:22:03
  you this, shit is very fucking spooky. Okay, but all
• 1:22:09
  of this still doesn't answer the most important thing. Why
• 1:22:12
  show me this any of this?
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 3: Okay, hold on, hold on, let's do this. Let's let's
• 1:22:17
  play a game. Okay, right now, we're taking it seriously,
• 1:22:21
  back to zero, right and let's just see if we
• 1:22:24
  can get to the end. Okay, okay without without you know,
• 1:22:31
  let's just see Okay, all right. So Marcus lit up
• 1:22:34
  another cigarette and leaned back in his chair. For the
• 1:22:37
  first time since he entered the house, he seemed truly comfortable,
• 1:22:40
  like he had nothing left to hide.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: We're always on the lookout for new recruits. Oh god,
• 1:22:47
  so considered tonight your entry test.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: You're a bit rough around the edges, but you seem
• 1:22:55
  like a decent candidate to me. Me, a monster hunter,
• 1:23:03
  you can't be serious.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 3: Marcus just shrugged his shoulders.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: You never know unless you try. I sure shit didn't
• 1:23:15
  never expected to hunt the things that go bumping the
• 1:23:18
  night before I tried.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: And what if I were to refuse? Will he kill
• 1:23:24
  me or erase my memory or something?
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 3: At that, Marcus just laughed out loud.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: If you don't want to, you don't want to, simple
• 1:23:38
  as you can try to tell anyone, But who's gonna
• 1:23:41
  believe you?
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 3: I frowned, and Marcus caught on that. He struck a nerve,
• 1:23:48
  so he composed himself, got up, taking the phone, stashing
• 1:23:52
  it in his pocket.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: Look, kid, it's like I told you time and time
• 1:23:58
  again tonight. I can't force you to do anything, but
• 1:24:03
  consider it. Okay.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 3: As he said that, no, no, don't make me read
• 1:24:11
  this next phrase. As he said that, he pulled out
• 1:24:15
  a bit.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 10: Oh my god, he pulled out a business card for
• 1:24:25
  the monster Hunters.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 3: Oh my god. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, maybe
• 1:24:33
  maybe what's happened.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: Just just get just get just let's.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 3: Finish this, please God, it keeps going. Okay, we're almost there.
• 1:24:40
  We're almost there. He pulled out a business card that
• 1:24:45
  he tossed on the table in front of me.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: The world, despline needs more people like us, if there
• 1:24:53
  were more of us to go around, and.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe what happened here wouldn't have been stu sooner.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 3: Centensons.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it might be too late for your sister, but
• 1:25:08
  you can make the difference for someone else if you
• 1:25:11
  can make up your mind. Doesn't matter if it's tomorrow
• 1:25:14
  or a year from now. Give me a call and
• 1:25:18
  take care.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 3: With that. Marcus left. I saw him to the door
• 1:25:25
  and closed it behind him. Then I went to crash
• 1:25:28
  into my bed. My entire worldview shattered.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 5: Tonight, I.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 3: Decided to get some rest before I tried to make
• 1:25:39
  sense of the pieces. Following days were uneventful, but even so,
• 1:25:47
  the strain of that night hung over me, permeated my
• 1:25:51
  thoughts at all times, permanently active in the background as
• 1:25:55
  it burrowed deeper and deeper. Dad returned earned we finished
• 1:26:01
  clearing the house and.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: Put it up for sale.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 3: But I couldn't focus on that, not when every other
• 1:26:09
  thought I had was about those damn recordings. In the end,
• 1:26:16
  I had to stay over for a little while longer,
• 1:26:19
  despite my constant complaints because of the slummy neighborhood and
• 1:26:27
  sketchy neighbors. Dad didn't want the house to go unoccupied.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: That's basically asking for thieves and punks to break in.
• 1:26:39
  And it's gonna be hard to sell it if squatters
• 1:26:41
  make the nest here. So just hang on for a
• 1:26:44
  little while longer, Okay.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 3: I wanted to fight him on the matter, to tell
• 1:26:50
  him that he could stay over himself if he was
• 1:26:52
  that worried, but I didn't. I couldn't not when I
• 1:26:57
  knew the truth about what went down. He wouldn't be
• 1:27:01
  another death on my conscience. So I lived in a
• 1:27:05
  house for another week or so, helping out with renovations
• 1:27:08
  and whatnot, and truth and truth be told, it wasn't
• 1:27:16
  all that bad.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: It was a bit creepy.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 3: It was a bit creepy, sure, but the freedom.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 10: Of living, sure, But the freedom of living on my
• 1:27:37
  own was.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 3: Oddly pleasant. One evening, after he went home and I
• 1:27:47
  was left all alone, I heard a knock on the door.
• 1:27:54
  I slowly made my way over to answer, expecting either
• 1:28:01
  him or Marcus. But who I found on the other
• 1:28:07
  side left me terrified. It was Sarah.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: Don don done. Hey, Clancy, she.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 3: Greeted, sounding almost casual. What how, I let out in
• 1:28:29
  a meek voice as my tears started to flow.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 6: I have a lot of explain to you, I know, but.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 3: I didn't let her finish. I jumped her, latching my
• 1:28:40
  arms around her shoulders as I bawled my eyes out.
• 1:28:44
  She put her arms around me as well, and we
• 1:28:49
  hugged for minutes in the doorway as I cried what happened?
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: Where were you?
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: We were we buried you, we thought you were dead.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: I had a lot happen and I had some problems.
• 1:29:13
  I ended up running away to a friend for a while.
• 1:29:15
  And it's a long story, okay and very crazy.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 2: Tell me about it.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: Call Dad and tell him to come over. He's no,
• 1:29:27
  You're okay asap. Actually it would be better if you
• 1:29:32
  for you to do it. I don't want to give
• 1:29:34
  him a heart attack.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 2: Good point.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: We kind of got rid of most of the furniture.
• 1:29:39
  But make yourself comfortable. I'll call him and join you.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 3: Don't it take long, she said, and went inside to
• 1:29:49
  find somewhere to sit. I watched her walk down the
• 1:29:53
  corridor towards the kitchen, passing by the basement door. She
• 1:29:58
  looked at it for a long moment, and she continued
• 1:30:03
  on her way.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: I pulled out my phone.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 3: And Marcus's card, unsure about what to do. The thing's
• 1:30:13
  facade was good, damn near perfect, but as it spoke
• 1:30:20
  those last words in its voice cracked.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: Just uh little dun dun dun. End of part one.
• 1:30:32
  And actually, wow, I can't believe we made it through
• 1:30:34
  all four parts of the Thing in the basement. It
• 1:30:37
  is getting better at mimicking people.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: What a what a story?
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: Wow?
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 3: Wow?
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: Wow, I really I met a loss for words.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 3: I really enjoyed all four parts of that that. I'm
• 1:30:53
  glad that we got through the whole story.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: You know what, you know what, this first part took
• 1:30:58
  much longer than I expect. Then we're already at an
• 1:31:01
  hour and a half on the recording. I would be curious.
• 1:31:03
  We can ask the viewers and the listeners at home
• 1:31:07
  if they want us to continue this story. We still
• 1:31:11
  have three parts. If you do, if not for the
• 1:31:14
  love of God requests something that is of I mean, dude,
• 1:31:19
  if you would have told me it's insane. First off,
• 1:31:22
  this is such a deceptively this story is so deceptive.
• 1:31:26
  And also I want to say that this is a bummer.
• 1:31:28
  This is two stories in the row where it's like, ooh,
• 1:31:31
  really really great beginnings, right, and then it just completely
• 1:31:37
  devolves into whatever the fuck.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 2: This is supposed to be.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: If you told me that this was supposed to be
• 1:31:41
  about a monster hunter? Who is who is recruiting a
• 1:31:46
  I mean presumably a fourteen to sixteen year old guy,
• 1:31:49
  why this is leading me into Jeff the Killer Territories
• 1:31:53
  where it's definitely a teenage kid writing this right about
• 1:31:57
  how cool it would be to be a part of
• 1:31:58
  a monster hunting situation. And and the thing is crazy
• 1:32:02
  good premise, It could have been so good, but the inner,
• 1:32:07
  the interjections between Marcus and Clancy, the entire time completely
• 1:32:13
  it disrupts any win that was in the sales of
• 1:32:16
  being in the story. And it's it's a shame because
• 1:32:19
  it could have been so sick, but instead it goes
• 1:32:22
  into whatever the fuck territory. This is whatever fucking territory,
• 1:32:26
  this fucking story, fucking fuck fuck fuck to quote my
• 1:32:31
  to quote this great author.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 3: So two things that I have two thoughts. Right, if
• 1:32:39
  we went into it under the uh, I guess you
• 1:32:44
  could say notion that what we were about to get
• 1:32:47
  into was supposed to be like an old like detective drama,
• 1:32:52
  right like you know you can hear jazz music, you know,
• 1:32:55
  you know the type thing, right, Like it's purposely over
• 1:32:57
  the top. I think it would have. The reason it's
• 1:33:00
  so funny to me is because it was so unexpected.
• 1:33:02
  That's the It's not it's not that the writing is
• 1:33:06
  like so horrifically awful that it's just hilarious. It's that
• 1:33:11
  it is, like I said, like Disney Dialogue and stuff
• 1:33:14
  like that, that came out of left field, right Like,
• 1:33:17
  it was the surprise nature of it. So if I
• 1:33:20
  went in expecting that, it wouldn't have been as funny.
• 1:33:23
  And also, I'm looking at the writer's stuff now, and
• 1:33:27
  it looks like he wrote He wrote the story a
• 1:33:29
  couple of years ago, and over time he's been writing
• 1:33:32
  more and more stories, and in a recent post he
• 1:33:34
  talked about how he's, you know, wanting to get better
• 1:33:37
  as a writer and stuff like that. So, like you said,
• 1:33:39
  this is almost definitely like a teenager or something like that,
• 1:33:41
  or just a new writer who's just you know, writing
• 1:33:44
  basically none, none of the laughing we've done is a
• 1:33:48
  criticism towards him. I you know, we're saying that he
• 1:33:51
  can't get better or anything like that. Of course that
• 1:33:53
  being said, Oh my gosh, just the the Monster Hunter line, the.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: The unexpected, it was insane. It's insane that the thing
• 1:34:04
  too is like, dude, you can just make some shitty
• 1:34:07
  stuff and you can grow better. I mean, like the
• 1:34:08
  idea of this is just crazy. It's so unexpected.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm gonna I'm going to throw a
• 1:34:15
  skeleton out there that I hope no one ever finds,
• 1:34:19
  but to prove for it is when I was in
• 1:34:22
  my freshman year of high school or sophomore year of
• 1:34:24
  high school, I swear I'm not kidding. I I wrote
• 1:34:28
  Doctor Who fan fiction, not not romantic fan fiction. It
• 1:34:34
  was like it was like, uh, head cannons about maybe
• 1:34:38
  this character went into this, maybe this adventure happened, right,
• 1:34:41
  it would be miles worse than what we're reading right now. Right,
• 1:34:46
  So everyone starts somewhere you know, nothing against them. If
• 1:34:50
  they're showing me their skeletons, I'll show you mine. But
• 1:34:52
  my gosh, was it funny the Monster Hunter line.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: Man, I'm so good the the the turn. The turn
• 1:34:59
  was like that of It had as much grace and
• 1:35:02
  decorum as a car going eighty miles an hour and
• 1:35:05
  then taking a sharp left turn into a brick wall.
• 1:35:07
  I mean it was like it was so unexpected. It's
• 1:35:11
  so funny. But I think, like there's a lot of merit.
• 1:35:13
  I think that this will be very memorable and like,
• 1:35:15
  you know, here's the thing, dude, would you want to
• 1:35:18
  finish this?
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 3: Well, okay, so here's what it is. I was thinking
• 1:35:21
  about this as we were reading, and I'm like, man,
• 1:35:24
  our comments suggested this and I and after reading it,
• 1:35:28
  I think I know why they suggested it. I think
• 1:35:30
  they knew very well what our reaction would be, and
• 1:35:33
  they thought it would be funny. So there probably is
• 1:35:36
  an element of our audience who misses like what we
• 1:35:38
  did with the Jeff the Killer one, and they just
• 1:35:40
  want to see us hurt. They want to see us
• 1:35:43
  in pain, right, So maybe that's why.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: But the problem either, the biggest concern I have is
• 1:35:52
  that if we do read this moving forward, we should
• 1:35:54
  try to read it respectfully. We should make sure the
• 1:35:58
  show it respect and well. Now, we know we're getting well, yeah,
• 1:36:02
  but does that also take out the fun? Well, see,
• 1:36:06
  no matter how much we know what we're getting into,
• 1:36:08
  if they say a line like so, what are you
• 1:36:11
  some kind of monster hunter, it's not gonna matter because
• 1:36:13
  we're gonna be out.
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 3: That's gonna take us out. That's gonna yeah, it's like
• 1:36:17
  a headshot, just boom boom dead.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: I'm curious. I mean, we're we could we could try
• 1:36:23
  to push forward, or we can see what the comments say.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: What do you think I.
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 3: Think we want to do? I think what we should do.
• 1:36:28
  It's an hour forty right, Part two looks the same length, okay, right.
• 1:36:33
  What we can do is we will throw part one
• 1:36:36
  out there. I'm sure someone will enjoy this, and if
• 1:36:39
  they're like, please, for the love of God to the
• 1:36:42
  other parts, will do the other parts. But I think
• 1:36:47
  I think what we got spreacause also, where do you
• 1:36:49
  pick up from there? Because it ends with like that
• 1:36:53
  ended the way most like short micro horror Creepypasta's in
• 1:36:57
  with like, yeah, the thing said it was my sister.
• 1:37:01
  I knew it wasn't because of its voice, right, Like
• 1:37:03
  how many creepypositas in that way? So I don't know
• 1:37:07
  where it goes from there.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean i'd be I would be curious to see.
• 1:37:11
  I think that setting up the monster Hunter organization really
• 1:37:15
  left some doors open. So I'm guessing now that it's
• 1:37:18
  it's it's Clancy going to have to convince Marcus to
• 1:37:21
  come back, or maybe Clancy does end up joining the
• 1:37:23
  monster hunting thing, and then his first assignment is his
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  now deceee skin walker sister and he has to like
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  observe it and do whatever, and he has to go by,
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  you know, the guidelines. There's probably some sorts. There's probably
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  a set of rules that he has to follow and stuff,
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  and you know, maybe he gets into some trouble himself,
• 1:37:43
  and he probably also finds some situations where maybe even
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  Marcus you can't tell if Marcus is really who he
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  is and all that kind of stuff, so, you know,
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  or vice versa, Marcus is like I can't tell if
• 1:37:54
  this is you or not or whatever. So there's probably
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  a lot of back and forth, you know, stuff like that,
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  that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I would I would assume.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is crazy, this is crazy. I've never been
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  I've never been so stoked on this creepy environment thing
• 1:38:10
  at the beginning, like being so excited about being like.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I found it funny, because I was locked
• 1:38:16
  into a horror story.
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  Speaker 1: Well, dude, this is also why I love these creepy pastas.
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  And the thing too, is like I have been so
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  we ate, we ate way too good, you know, with
• 1:38:26
  Braska and then pin Pal and all that stuff, even
• 1:38:28
  left right game, and you're gonna you're probably you're gonna
• 1:38:30
  have to sift through the layers of these stories and
• 1:38:35
  stuff before you can get into these truly biblically epic
• 1:38:39
  awesome stories that you know or you're so fascinated by.
• 1:38:42
  But that's just that, you know, it's like horror movies.
• 1:38:44
  I mean, it's like there's some good horror movies and
• 1:38:46
  you have give it's it's a part of the hunt,
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  you know.
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  Speaker 3: And I like, to let me be clear, I enjoyed that.
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  That was enjoyable. Yeah, I wonder reason that we're not
• 1:38:56
  getting into that, but I enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that for part one. Thing, I don't
• 1:39:03
  know how much of an interest I have moving on
• 1:39:05
  to part two. If people are just absolutely enthralled by it,
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  I'll consider it. But if people are also like, hey,
• 1:39:13
  you know, let's move on to a different thing. I
• 1:39:14
  wouldn't be opposed to that either, So you let us
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  know down below, and once again too, guys, be sure
• 1:39:19
  to listen to us on Spotify and Apple podcast all
• 1:39:22
  those places and give us a nice rating.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 2: It helps us out, and be sure.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: To let us know like stories that you enjoy in
• 1:39:28
  the comments below. We do as you can see, we
• 1:39:30
  read them. We try to make sure and take suggestions
• 1:39:34
  from the community as well, so we appreciate it.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 3: That was that was awesome. Again to the writer, that
• 1:39:41
  story was enjoyable. But I mean none of that as
• 1:39:44
  to say that you yourself are incompetent or whatever. Everyone grows,
• 1:39:47
  everyone to start somewhere. I'm glad that my first drafts
• 1:39:51
  of stuff isn't out there, you know, on the internet.
• 1:39:53
  But thank you for sharing with us. Thank you for
• 1:39:54
  the entertainment. I enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, I.
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: Mean, dude, like there's fun if we laugh for doing it.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 2: Thing it's it's there's absurdity to things.
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, like, I you know, I think that you
• 1:40:03
  can I think you can offer you can be disappointed
• 1:40:07
  or offer criticism with things and not just you know,
• 1:40:10
  be it's We're not like saying that this person will
• 1:40:12
  never you know, be able to do whatever I I
• 1:40:14
  I I've made plenty of things and still even to
• 1:40:17
  this day, I make absolute dog shit, you know. I
• 1:40:19
  look at the progress I've made within the time I've
• 1:40:22
  been on YouTube, and it's been uh, it's it's always
• 1:40:24
  cool to see. So, if anything, the only thing I
• 1:40:26
  would say with this story as well, is that, like,
• 1:40:28
  to put your stuff out there publicly to be ridiculed
• 1:40:31
  or to be loved, is the first step of truly
• 1:40:34
  becoming a better artist, to being a better creative.
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 2: You have to do it.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: So I think that this is just that, that that
• 1:40:40
  initial step, and I'm stoked to, you know, see what
• 1:40:42
  else comes out of it.
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree one hundred percent. I enjoyed it, and
• 1:40:47
  I will say this, I think I can say definitively
• 1:40:50
  that was better ridden than Jeff the Killer.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 2: Oh dude.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. Come on, now, what are we what are
• 1:40:56
  we doing here? Definitely? Yeah. All right, y'all, Well, that's
• 1:41:01
  all we have for this week. We will catch you
• 1:41:03
  on the next episode.
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 3: Goodbye, Thank you all for watching. Bye.