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Horror Stories That Defined a Generation · INSPIRE STORY

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to creep Cast. How you guys doing today?
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  Today we are doing the famous creepy Pasta run. We've
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  been on a very very big r slash no Sleep
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  kick And the problem with doing normal creepy pasta is
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  that a lot of them are very very short, and
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  if we only did one and we focus on one,
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  some of these podcasts would be three minutes long. I mean,
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  it would be a very quick episode. So today we're
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  going to run through probably almost try to get all
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  of the key big old creepy pastas, and we're just
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  putting them all into a grab bag here for you,
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  and we're just gonna run through every.
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  Speaker 2: Single one of them.
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  Speaker 1: So some of these you probably have definitely heard read
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  or whatever. But where I once again, as always, I
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  have not read any of these classics. All Right, We've
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  touched on some of them, like I'm looking at we're
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  also on Creepypasta. We're looking at some of them here,
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  and I see like nineteen eighty nine is at the
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  top of creemypasta dot com. We've read that we tried
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  reading Bedtime before was boring as hell. When I think
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  that's whenever me and Isaiah were in person, we tried
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  reading it, et cetera. And then we've read Ben Drowned.
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  So there's someone here that we've read already. But I
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  see one at the top here that I feel like
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  I've heard of before, called candle Cove, that I believe
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  we're gonna start with today. So some of these are
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  ranging from it says less than a minute, and I
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  think the longest we'll ever read is like ten minutes.
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  So it's gonna be. It's gonna be a lot of them,
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  So buckle in.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be. It's gonna be a bumpy ride. It's
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  gonna be a bumpy ride. So what we're doing here
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  is Hunter Frankly has it too good? Right, Like this guy,
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  uh listens to some of the best selected off of
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  No Sleep. He listens to like these two hour long
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  things that are eventually adapted into books, and he hasn't
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  put up with what I've put up with what a
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  lot of us have. But these like, yeah, five minute
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  horror stories that would happen once in like twenty sixteen,
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  and we had to make those last for months until
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  something else came out.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I really have been eating nothing but prime rib whatever,
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  And then now I go, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Taking you to the gas station. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm getting a filet from seven to eleven. That's
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  that's how that's that.
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  Speaker 2: I need that.
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  Speaker 1: I need to have that perspective.
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  Speaker 2: But it's been there two weeks, but they reheated it
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  on like the hot dog roller wrecks for a bit,
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  so it kind of looks fresh from a distance. But
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  then you get in the car and you open the
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  bag and it's like that was a bad move. Yeah,
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  I should have done that. Yeah. Yeah, So I'm going
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  to afford to it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking I'm going to afford to it.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we're going to do. Hurt him more. I
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  think candle Cove is going to be probably the longest
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  one we're going to read. I want to take him
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  through a lot of the micro whore instances, the things
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  that I know about and you know about but he
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  doesn't know about. Sure, I have a plan here to
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  make this bad for him, and I can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: So are we start? Do you want to start with
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  the long one to kind of like, let's start with
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  candle Cove. I've heard candle Cove is supposed to be
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  pretty good. Candle Cove is different candle coats different than
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  the other side. We're gonna go through harrol'brin, We're gonna
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  we're gonna go through lavender Town syndrome. We're gonna go
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  through some of the bankers, as long as they're not
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  all I just don't want to do. I hate video
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  game ship like lavender Town. That sounds cool. I don't
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  know what the fuck that is.
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  Speaker 2: That's a shame. Huh. That's a shame because you don't
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  you're not picking today, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: All I know is I saw there was like Sonic
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  x EX and then I said, I was like, oh,
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  suicide Mouse and You're like that's mockey Mouse or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, so we'll see you. You know, Sonic
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  tax we did it a lot. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I I know, I know that for sure. I know
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  that there's sons That's why I was scrolling through. It
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  was like God, and I just remember because we've it's
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  not like we've never talked about some of these before
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  in the past, but it's mostly been like passing, like
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  just being like, oh yeah, there was a lot of
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  like video game stuff because we did Sonic x x
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  EX whatever.
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  Speaker 2: What was the I feel like we did another video
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  game one. Did we do another video game one?
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  Speaker 1: It was ledge temps out there, That's what it was.
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  So yeah, when we were I think even then we
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  were talking talk about how it was just like, oh
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  yeah insert goodh.
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  Speaker 2: God, I'll never forget about me hunter, I almost did.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's tons of seasoned veterans readers who their
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  they're twiddling their fingers probably and yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: You don't forget it. We're going to destroy them, just
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  Speaker 1: Candle Cove, let's start it off. Also to just want
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  Speaker 1: Back to the episode, don't get too.
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  Speaker 2: Scared so our beginning is entries from a net nostalgia
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  forum about local television shows. The first entry comes from
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  skyshell thirty three. Uh. The subject is Candlecove local kids show,
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  and skyshell asks does anyone remember this kid show? It
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  was called candle Cove, and I must have been six
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  or seven. I never found reference to it anywhere, so
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  I think it was on a local station around nineteen
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  seventy one or nineteen seventy two. I lived in Ironton
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  at the time. I don't remember which station, but I
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  do remember it was on at a weird time, like
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  four pm.
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  Speaker 1: On Mike Painter sixty five. Responding to the subject of
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  the post above, it seems really familiar to me. I
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  grew about side of Ashland and was nine years old
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  in nineteen seventy two Candle Cove was Was it about pirates?
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  I remember I remember a pirate Maryan at the mouth
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  of a cave talking to a little girl.
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  Speaker 2: Skyshaw responds, yes, okay, I'm not crazy. I remember pirate Percy.
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  I was always kind of scared of him. He looked
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  like he was built from parts of other dolls, real
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  low budget. His head was an old porcelain baby doll,
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  looked like an antique that didn't belong on the body.
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  I don't remember what station this was. I don't think
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  it was WTSF, though.
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  Speaker 1: Jar in two thousy and five says, sorry to resurrect
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  this old thread, but I know exactly what show you mean, Skyshaale.
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  I think Candle Cove ran only for a couple months
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  in seventy one, not seventy two. I was twelve and
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  I watched it a few times with my brother. It
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  was Channel fifty eight, whatever station that was my mom
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  would let me switch to it after the news.
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  Speaker 2: Let me see what I remember.
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  Speaker 1: It took place in Candle Cove and it was about
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  a little girl who imagined herself to be friends with pirates.
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  The pirate ship was called the Laughing Stock, and the
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  pirate Percy wasn't a very good pirate because he got
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  scared too easily. And there was a there was a
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  calliop music constantly playing. Don't remember that a girl's name
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  Janis or Jade or something.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was Janis. Skyshall replies to that and says,
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  thank you, Jared. Memories flooded back when you mentioned Laughing
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  Stock and channel fifty eight. I remember the bow of
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  the ship was a whaten smiling face with the lower
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  jaws submerged. It looked like it was swallowing the sea,
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  and it had that awful Edwin voice and laugh. I
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  especially remember how jarring it was when they sway from
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  the wooden plastic model to the foam puppet version of
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  the head that.
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  Speaker 1: Talked microspondsi and it says, I remember it now too.
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  Do you remember this part, Skyshial, you have to go
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  inside sky Shower.
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  Speaker 2: Repplies to that and says Mike, I got a chill
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  reading that. Yes, I remember that's what the ship always
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  told Percy. When there's a spooky place, he had to
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  go in like a cave or a dark room where
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  there where the treasure was. And the camera would push
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  in on laughing Stock's face with each pause. You have
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  to go inside with his two eyes a skew and
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  that flopping foam jahn the fishing line that opened and
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  closed it. Ah, just looks so cheap and awful. You guys,
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  remember the villain. He had a face that was just
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  a handlebar mustache above really tall, narrow teeth.
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  Speaker 1: I just knows that the guy's name is Kevin Hart.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, this person's name is Kevin Hart. Could be the
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  candor Kevin Hart.
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  Speaker 1: Know it's not the professional, the huge stand up comedian
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  Kevin Hart will never know.
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  Speaker 2: I think you should do that voice. I am not
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  for I am not going to. I don't know what
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  could possibly I.
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  Speaker 4: Think that that's you know, I think that I just honestly,
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  I honestly thought that the villain was pirate Percy.
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  Speaker 1: I was about five when the show was on Nightmare Fuel.
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  Jared says, that wasn't the villain the puppet with the mustache.
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  That was the villain's sidekick, Horace Horrible. He had a
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  monocle two, but it was on top of the mustache.
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  I used to think that meant he only had one eye.
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  But yeah, the villain was another marionette, The skin Taker.
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  What the fuck? The skin Taker? I can't believe what
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  they let us watch back then? Holy hell, were that
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  just turned up to eleven?
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's like, yeah, Pirate Percy, Horace Horrible.
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  Speaker 1: No, it was the skin Taker.
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  Speaker 2: The skin Taker, that's what you're forgetting. Oh, yeah, that
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  that is what I'm forgetting. Uh, I forgot about that
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  naked man blue for the series, The Skintaker, the man
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  who was completely naked on screens trying to extend his foreskin.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so, Kevin Harts again, says Jesus, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Christ a skin taker. Good God, what kind of shook
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  show were we watching?
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  Speaker 1: As soon as he could not look at the screw
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  when the skin Taker showed up, he just descended out
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  of nowhere on his strings, just a dirty skeleton, wearing
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  that brown top hat and cape and his glass eyes
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  that were too big for his skull. Christ Almighty. It
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  just goes straight from like oh yeah, Well at least
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  they grinded it back down, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I like, they ground it back.
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  Speaker 1: Down with him being like, oh, it was a skeleton
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  with a cape and hat whatever. So it's still it's
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  still in the vein of this children's show. It's not
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  like it's some you know, it's a.
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  Speaker 2: Little too dark thematically, but you can still Yeah, definitely
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  as a children's show. Yeah, I mean, if it was,
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  it makes you ask the question like why were we
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  why did they let kids watch this? But it doesn't
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  break it out of like, Okay, we weren't watching a
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  kid show yet. It's just like why would this be
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  in a kid show?
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  Speaker 1: I really hope that it wasn't.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't even go into it, and people were just like, yeah,
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  but that wasn't the villain. It was side night Sydney.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right, side eyed Sydney. But she she wasn't.
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  She wasn't the main villain.
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  Speaker 1: It was al Qaeda al like, no, yeah, Alka, he
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  was scary, But it just keeps going and going. That
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  wasn't the villain. It was Nazi Nigel.
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  Speaker 2: It was a Nazi. It was Nazi Nigel, just progressively
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  more like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys, are you know, I can see how
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  you can get that wrong. But actually the main villain
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  was foreskin.
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  Speaker 6: Frank, they get to they get to the end, it's like, guys,
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  that wasn't the villain.
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  Speaker 2: It was Jeffrey Dahmer. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the whole and at the end of the
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  deal though, show was ran by Jeffrey Dahmer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the way of it. And I like to
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  think that all the puppets are just foreskin references, where
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  it's just like, well, I just mean, can you imagine
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  the people being like, Okay, fine, nevermine.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I would I imagine people being like I was.
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  Speaker 1: Just gonna say that. Wouldn't it be fucking crazy. Wouldn't
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  it be the fucking craziest fucking thing if all the
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  puppets were foreskin related. And then at the end, Isaiah,
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  it turns out that all the puppets were made out
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  of kids foreskins, and it was a disgruntled man who
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  was clipped when he was younger.
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  Speaker 2: I see, I see like like they took it from
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  me kind of attitude about it. You think a lot
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  about children's foreskins.
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  Speaker 1: And then you get the and then you get the
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  classic pedophilia kind of angle that all these.
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  Speaker 2: Things have, right, Yes, they always thought that I had
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  that stranger danger kind of thing. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: If the creepy postle doesn't have it, then I feel
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  people who.
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  Speaker 2: Got laughed off the internet. Yeah, somewhere in the list
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  of like actual villains, it's like, oh, pedophile Pete like
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  he's a Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're almost They're all essentially the same character, they're
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  just made of different.
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  Speaker 2: For us skin anyway, of course, I'm going back.
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  Speaker 1: To every puppet has a turtleneck.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so they say that Kevin Hart doesn't. Sky Shall says,
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  wasn't his top head and cloak all sewn up? Crazily?
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  Was that supposed to be children's skin? Sewn up crazily?
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  I'm just sewing up on it, crazy style.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't supposed to be children's skin? See already? Skin angle?
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  Speaker 2: Who knows? This goes back to my thesis of you
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  making things like five steps further than where like they
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  need to be at any time for the story. You
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  just like dive in.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Painter says, yeah, I think so. Remember his mouth
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  didn't open and clothes, he just his jaw just slid
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  back and forth. I remember the little girl said, why
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  does your mouth move like that? And the skin taker
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  did look at the girl but the camera and said.
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  Speaker 2: The garage your skin.
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  Speaker 1: That would be a bit haunting, being honest, children's television.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, to grinders again, I'd say so. Skyshow replies and says,
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  I'm so relieved that other people remember this terrible show.
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  I used to have this awful memory, a bad dream
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  I had where the opening jingle ended, the show faded
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  in from black, and all the characters were there, but
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  the camera was just cutting to each of their faces
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  and they were just screaming, and the puppets and marionettes
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  were flailing spastically, just all screaming, screaming. The girl is
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  just moaning and crying like she had been through hours
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  of this. I woke up many times from that nightmare.
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  I used to whet the bed when I had it.
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  I don't think that was a dream. I remember that.
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  I remember that was an episode. Skyshow replies and says, no, no, no,
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  not possible. There was no plot or anything. I mean
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  literally just standing in place crying and screaming for the
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  whole show.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I manufacture the memory because you said that, but
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  I swear to God, I remember seeing.
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  Speaker 2: What you described. It just streamed.
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  Speaker 1: Oh God, yes, little girl Janis. I remember seeing her
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  shake and the skin taker screaming through his gnashing teeth,
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  his jaws careening so wildly. I thought it would come
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  off its wire hinges. I turned it off, and it
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  was the last time I watched. I read to tell
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  my brother. I already tell my brother, and we didn't
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  have the courage to turn it back on. I visited
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  my mom today at the nursing home. I asked her
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  about when I was little, in the early seventies, when
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  I was eight or nine, and if she remembered a.
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  Speaker 2: Kid show Candle Cove.
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  Speaker 1: She said she was surprised I couldn't remember that, and
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  I asked why, and she said.
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  Speaker 7: Because I used to think it was so strange that
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  you said I'm gonna be or sorry, this is type weird.
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  Because I used to think it was so strange that
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  you said, I'm gonna go watch candle Cove now, mom,
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  And then you would tune the TV the static could
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  just watch dead air for thirty minutes, get a big
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  imagination with your little pirate show, and.
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  Speaker 2: And there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Candle Coake, the classic that's a classic one of children's
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  show kind of like some it vibes of like kids
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  only experience it. Do you think nineteen ninety nine was
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  kind of inspired by that because one of.
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  Speaker 2: This again it's two to nine, okay, so this a
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  story comes from like okay. So the author of this
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  story was Chris Straub, who, if you're familiar with online horror,
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  is like a legend. He made Local fifty eight among
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  a bunch of other like horror works online. He was
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  one of the first to like utilize like second generation
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  Internet for horror storytelling. In my opinion, like he gave
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  birth to like analog horror genre as like a horror
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  genre and stuff like that. So as soon as he
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  made this story and things like it, a ton of
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  stories spouted off of it. I remember a bunch of people,
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  like in nineteen ninety nine, the channel's calad on Local
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  twenty one, but people would tie it in to like
• 18:03
  candle Cove, like, well they both aired on Channel fifty eighth,
• 18:08
  right universe kind of thing, same universe kind of thing. Yeah,
• 18:11
  even earlier in this story, he says that Channel fifty
• 18:14
  eight had candle Cove on it, and Channel fifty eight
• 18:17
  was you know, the basis for eventually Local fifty eight
• 18:20
  like the first analog core story. So like Chris Chrold
• 18:25
  created a lot of modern Internet horror culture, and if
• 18:28
  I remember right, candle Cove was a set of a
• 18:30
  bunch of series of stories that all spouted out at
• 18:33
  the same place. I mean, it was likely idea.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: It's probably so influential at the time. I mean looking
• 18:39
  at it from there to two thousand and nine, that's like,
• 18:42
  that's got to be some of the reasons that like,
• 18:45
  I don't know, our slash No Sleep came around, because
• 18:47
  even the way that it's supposed to be, like oh,
• 18:49
  this is your posts on the Internet, like utilizing that
• 18:51
  kind of u that vibe of oh this is your
• 18:55
  actual people talking to each other, even though it's in
• 18:57
  a story format that I wonder what the influences to
• 19:00
  even just be like, oh, this is all supposed to be,
• 19:02
  like utilizing like Reddit as a horror you know, place
• 19:06
  to post a story that feels real and it's more immersive,
• 19:09
  even like Twitter energy is all that kind of shit,
• 19:11
  like it's you know, it feels like it all stems
• 19:13
  from this thing. And I do remember now too, there's
• 19:16
  that show on shutter What was that called Channel zero?
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Channel zero? We've talked about that. I talked about briefly.
• 19:23
  The first season is about Candle Cove.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's cool to see the influence just kind
• 19:29
  of go over. I never finished the I think I've
• 19:31
  watched the first episode. I remember I thought the first
• 19:34
  episode was kind of cool. But I don't know if
• 19:35
  I don't know if the series, maybe the viewers might know,
• 19:39
  our listeners might have an idea if the show was
• 19:41
  any good, because I did you see watch Channel zero
• 19:44
  at all?
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: I remember? Okay, So from what I've heard generally mentioned
• 19:49
  about it online is that that like they did good
• 19:53
  in some places by checking taking these stories and adapting them.
• 19:57
  But also some authors feelt kind of slided by how
• 19:59
  they did it. Didn't think they interpreted it right, didn't
• 20:01
  think oh really adaptation. Yeah, I remember there was some
• 20:05
  drama about it. I would like to watch it for
• 20:07
  myself to know, well, you don't be fun is to
• 20:10
  if we did like a Creep TV for Channel zero.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: If we did a Creep TV for Channel zero, but
• 20:15
  we should read the stuff too and then be like,
• 20:18
  how do they adapt it? Because like now reading candle Cove. Granted,
• 20:22
  it's gonna be one of those things where they're just like,
• 20:23
  that's a great premise and they're probably going to expand
• 20:25
  they're just like, let's make a full season arc out
• 20:28
  of like the Kid. It's probably the guys meeting up
• 20:31
  and being like, do you remember this thing? And then
• 20:33
  he like, you know, it's kind of like it you
• 20:34
  getting all the people back together. They come back and
• 20:36
  they try to figure out what the fuck was going
• 20:38
  on or whatever. But I think, is it each season
• 20:41
  a new creepypasta?
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Each season's a new creepypasta? So season one is candle Cove.
• 20:46
  One of them's no end House. I think really that'd
• 20:49
  be kind of fun if I'm right. The fourth one
• 20:52
  is on the Search and Rescue Officer.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Butcher's Block, So it's candle Cove, no end House.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Butcher's Block, the dream Door. Those are the four seasons.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: I think Dream Door might be no end House. I
• 21:05
  could be wrong. Hold on Channel zero, Creevy.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: We'll discovered door in the basement, the secrets start to whatever.
• 21:11
  Butcher's blocks, young woman in her schizophrena.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, sorry, no here it is. Season one's candle Cove. Yeah.
• 21:17
  Season two is no end House.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, and then season three is Butcher's Block, yes,
• 21:24
  and then season four is the Wait.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: The Butcher's Block is the one that is. Uh. I'm
• 21:29
  a search and rescue officer, so therefore the Stairs in
• 21:32
  the Woods the Butcher's Blocks the one that uses stairs
• 21:34
  in the woods, and uh. The Dream Door is based
• 21:38
  on the creepy pasta the Hidden Door by Charlotte Bywater,
• 21:41
  which is the only one we haven't read out of
• 21:44
  the four that they adapted.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Oh so we all we would have to do is
• 21:47
  read that, And I think that'd be a fun deep
• 21:49
  dive horror space.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: But yeah, Candle Cove was a classic for a reason.
• 21:54
  Shout out. After giving you like a fresh cheeseburger so
• 21:59
  to speak, you know, kind of short, but like does
• 22:01
  it's job well and stuff like that, We're now going
• 22:03
  to dive you into something else. So I think we
• 22:07
  should just skip ahead to Dead Bart. I think that's
• 22:13
  a great one today.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Dead Bart can't wait for this. I fucking hated the
• 22:19
  squid word thing, goddamn. So this is another peak era.
• 22:23
  This is a year after Kano Cove, so this is whenever.
• 22:27
  This is early on this is but I will say
• 22:30
  I love an early creep apasta stuff, just children writing
• 22:33
  horror stories. There's something about children that are so that's
• 22:36
  just so funny. The unfiltered nature of what they think. Yeah,
• 22:41
  how they articulate things so fascinating.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: All right, So with that dead bart, here we go,
• 22:49
  written originally by K I. Simpson, could that be could
• 22:53
  potentially the fucking yeah, a pseudonym. We're not sure that
• 22:59
  has to be.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: If that person was just like, I'm gonna make a
• 23:02
  I'm gonna make a Simpsons horror thing and they didn't
• 23:04
  even like put two and two together.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Okay, so here we go. You know how Fox has
• 23:12
  a weird way of county Simpsons episodes. They refuse to
• 23:16
  count a couple of them, making the amount of episodes inconsistent.
• 23:20
  The reason for this it's a lost episode from season one.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, already I have no idea what you're talking about.
• 23:28
  I already don't understand what you mean by you know
• 23:32
  how Fox is a weird It's like, no, what do.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: You what do you? What do you mean? There's there's DVD,
• 23:37
  there's tons of listen. Listen. This is this is the
• 23:43
  point because if a kid comes along and reads this.
• 23:46
  They're just gonna be like, oh, I guess Fox has
• 23:48
  a weird way of counting, but they're not gonna show yeah,
• 23:50
  especially person show that's an old version show exactly, exactly. Yes,
• 23:55
  Now you're thinking, right, you gotta put yourself in the mindset,
• 23:57
  I know, being nine years old scrolling through YouTube and
• 24:02
  hearing like readings of these stories and when a narrator
• 24:06
  with like scary piano music in the background, he goes,
• 24:09
  you know how Fox has a weird way of counting shows.
• 24:11
  I don't. I'm like, okay, they do, got it? I
• 24:14
  get it? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Now you're locked in. So
• 24:18
  keeping that in mind. Finding details about this missing episode
• 24:22
  is difficult. No one who was working on the show
• 24:25
  at the time likes to talk about it. From what
• 24:28
  has been pieced together, the last episode was written entirely
• 24:31
  by Matt Groening. During production of the first season, Matt
• 24:36
  started to act strangely. He was very quiet, seemed nervous
• 24:40
  and morbid. Mentioning this to anyone who missed. Mentioning this
• 24:46
  to anyone who was present results in them getting very
• 24:48
  angry and forbidding you'd ever mention it to Matt. The
• 24:53
  episode's production number was seven G four four. The title
• 24:57
  was dead Bart. In addition to getting angry, asking anyone
• 25:04
  who was on the show about this caused them to
• 25:06
  do everything they can to stop you from directly communicating
• 25:09
  with Matt Groening. At a fan event, I managed to
• 25:13
  follow him after he spoke to the crowd, and eventually
• 25:16
  had a chance to talk to him alone as he
• 25:18
  was leaving the building. He didn't seem upset that I
• 25:21
  had followed him, probably expected a typical encounter with an
• 25:24
  obsessive fan. When I mentioned the lost episode, though, all
• 25:28
  color drained from his face and he started trembling. When
• 25:31
  I asked him if he could tell me any details,
• 25:34
  he sounded like he was on the verge of tears.
• 25:37
  He grabbed a piece of paper and wrote something on
• 25:39
  it and handed it to me. He begged me to
• 25:42
  never mention the episode again. The piece of paper had
• 25:46
  a website address on it. I would rather not say
• 25:49
  what it was for reasons you'll see in a second.
• 25:53
  I entered the address into my browser, and I came
• 25:56
  to a site that was completely black except for a
• 25:58
  line of yellow texts a download link. I clicked on it,
• 26:03
  and a file started downloading. Once the file was downloaded,
• 26:06
  my computer went crazy. It was the worst virus I'd
• 26:09
  ever seen. System restored at work. The entire computer had
• 26:13
  to be rebooted before doing this, so I copied the
• 26:17
  file onto a CD. I tried to open it on
• 26:20
  my now empty computer, and as I suspected, there was
• 26:23
  an episode of The Simpsons on it. The episode started
• 26:27
  off like any other episode, but had very poor quality animation.
• 26:31
  If you've seen the original animation for some enchanted evening,
• 26:35
  it was similar, but less stable. The first act was
• 26:39
  fairly normal, but the way the characters acted was a
• 26:41
  little off. Homer seemed angrier, Marge seemed depressed. Releas It
• 26:46
  seemed anxious. Bart seemed to have genuine anger and hatred
• 26:50
  for his parents.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Homer seemed more angry. He strangles his son. Every episode
• 26:56
  he's even more angry.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: He's even more angry. Now I need to take this seriously. Sorry,
• 27:03
  you're reading history right now.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: That is true, like reading the Declaration of Independence and
• 27:08
  like the giggle.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Yes, this is like scrolling through the Codex graphica, like
• 27:12
  there's a reference here.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Stand upright, Actually, one second, I'm getting ready to have diarrhea.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: One second is that real? Hunter just texted me so much.
• 27:24
  I had a bad to Malay yesterday and it's been
• 27:28
  buckets of liquid ever since. Must have been a big
• 27:34
  to Malay. I think rotten peppers. Maybe because it's fighting
• 27:39
  me on its way back out, had to get chapped, sick. Gosh,
• 27:47
  she's disgusting. Feels like Buffalo wild wings blazing challenge. I'm
• 27:52
  getting so many play by plays. He keeps texting me details.
• 27:57
  Oh of how it's going, tearing up thinking about it.
• 27:59
  Oh that's really cool, dude. Okay, sorry about that. Oh
• 28:08
  you're good man. Okay. The episode was about the Simpsons
• 28:13
  going on a plane trip. You're the end of the
• 28:16
  first act. The plane was ticking off. Bart was fooling
• 28:19
  around as you'd expect. However, as the plane was about
• 28:23
  fifty feet off the ground, Bart broke a window on
• 28:26
  the plane and was sucked out. Something funny, Hunter, That's
• 28:36
  just funny.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I like the idea of like that, about fifty feet
• 28:39
  off the ground. He just broke Bart broke a window.
• 28:42
  He just like punched out.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: A fucking window and got sucked out. The pressure difference
• 28:50
  wouldn't be enough at fifty feet you would.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Just like a broke close to the ground.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, planes were at fifty feet above ground for
• 29:00
  like a millisecond.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you're going fast, but I don't think
• 29:03
  you would just get immediately sucked out of the window.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, because it's the same pressure. It's the
• 29:09
  same pressure in the plane and out. So now there
• 29:11
  wouldn't be any like pull either way. I mean speed.
• 29:13
  It would be like a car that's going fast and
• 29:16
  like there's wind outside, but wouldn't be a pressure difference.
• 29:19
  At the beginning of the series, Matt had an idea
• 29:22
  that the animated style the Simpsons world represented life and
• 29:25
  that death turned things more realistic. This was used in
• 29:29
  this episode. The picture of Bart's corpse was barely recognizable.
• 29:33
  It took full advantage of it not having to move
• 29:36
  and made it almost photorealistic drawing of his dead body.
• 29:41
  There we go, there's photorealism, Hunter.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I already counted it. I know, in hyperrealistic, photo realism,
• 29:47
  hyper realistic, and then like realistic blood. I expect to
• 29:50
  see all.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: The similar to what you were saying at the beginning,
• 29:53
  where it's like, no, you didn't that idea of Like,
• 29:55
  Matt had an idea that the animation would represent life,
• 29:59
  and that death turned things more realistic. What are you
• 30:02
  talking about?
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: But once you unveiled the idea though, that, people are
• 30:05
  just like, yeah, you have to be like put yourself
• 30:07
  in the mind of a kid being like.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Sure he really did think like that, didn't he? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
• 30:13
  I've never seen the Simpsons, but I get it, you
• 30:15
  know what you're saying.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I also really like. I also really like and
• 30:19
  made an almost photo realistic drawing of his dead body.
• 30:22
  And it's like Bart is a like super round, bulbous
• 30:26
  yellow man with no hair and.
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: Just spice on his head, Like look, how really looks? Wow,
• 30:33
  It's like I'm there, damn. Act one ended with the
• 30:38
  shot of Bart's corpse. When Act two started, Homer, Marge,
• 30:42
  and Lisa were sitting at their table crying. Crying went
• 30:46
  on and on, got more pained, sounded more realistic, better
• 30:50
  acting than you would think possible.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: The animation started to decay even more as they cried,
• 30:56
  and you could hear murmuring in the background. This crying
• 30:59
  went on for all of Act two. Act three opened
• 31:02
  with the title cards saying one year had passed. Homer,
• 31:06
  marsh and Lisa were skeletally thin and still sitting at
• 31:10
  the table. There's no sign of Maggie or the pets.
• 31:14
  They decided to visit Bart's grave. Springfield was completely deserted,
• 31:19
  and as they walked to the cemetery, the house became
• 31:21
  more and more decrepit. They all looked abandoned. When they
• 31:26
  got to the grave, Bart's body was just lying in
• 31:28
  front of his tombstone, looking just like it did at
• 31:31
  the end of Act one. The family started crying again.
• 31:35
  Eventually they stopped and just stared at Bart's body. The
• 31:39
  camera zoomed in on Homer's face. According to Summaris, Homer
• 31:43
  tells a joke at this part, but it is an
• 31:45
  audible In the version I saw, you can't tell what
• 31:47
  Homer is saying. The view zoomed out as the episode
• 31:51
  came to a close. The tombstones in the background had
• 31:55
  the names of every Simpson's guest star on them, some
• 31:58
  that no one had heard of, nine some that haven't
• 32:01
  been on the show yet. All of them had death
• 32:04
  dates on them for guests who died since like Michael
• 32:07
  Jackson and George Harrison, the dates were when they would die.
• 32:12
  You could try to use the tombstone to predict the
• 32:15
  death of Landing Simpson's guest stars. But there's something odd
• 32:19
  about most of the ones who haven't died yet. All
• 32:22
  their deaths are listed as the same date, Don Don.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Tom, and that's the end of dead Bart.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: That was that was really lame. Yeah, oh you loved it.
• 32:35
  You loved it. That was pretty like all the summaries
• 32:38
  of it say, there's a joke like what summaries, I
• 32:40
  thought you had a virus to like download this on
• 32:42
  a piece of paper that the Matt Groening handed you.
• 32:45
  Also the application that there's going to be a mass
• 32:47
  extinction event that kills everyone that you can tell me
• 32:50
  you go the Simpsons episode, you can, I.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Will say, that's that was a fun twist I did
• 32:54
  not expect.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: I thought I thought that it was just.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Going to be like I got really scared and turned
• 32:58
  it off. Instead, it's you know, at least said went
• 33:00
  the angle of being like, yeah, everyone dies the same
• 33:03
  day a meteor that'd be so funny.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Though.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Also, this doesn't play until I get that the Simpsons
• 33:08
  predict the future like that mame of course, so you
• 33:11
  know what, you know what, actually more branding points not bad.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, way better than Ben drown way better than Ben Drowned.
• 33:17
  I'll say that Ben Round was good until it got
• 33:20
  to the text part. I liked the part of Ben
• 33:22
  Tround that was like, uh, I found the game from
• 33:25
  this old man. It's like, we are now on to
• 33:29
  Gateway of the mind. Are you ready for this one?
• 33:32
  Gateway of the Mind. This was actually one of my
• 33:35
  favorites when I was a kid. When I read this one,
• 33:37
  this was like one of my top I loved this
• 33:39
  one a lot. Written by important to me.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: So by an anonymous author. I don't even want to
• 33:44
  tell you I am.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: I need you to take this seriously, Hunt, I am,
• 33:50
  because it's meant a lot to me. This is a
• 33:52
  very important story to me, Hunter, Okay, yep, all right.
• 33:56
  In nineteen eighty three, a team of deeply pious scientists
• 34:00
  conducted a radical experiment in an undisclosed facility. I like
• 34:04
  that pious radical undisclosed, Like.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: We have Webster's Dictionary here writing the story.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Where they're unlocked. Dude, this was revolutionary. If you read
• 34:16
  like dead bart and Jeff the Killer, then you get
• 34:17
  all three of those adjectives. Yeah, and then it's like,
• 34:20
  WHOA did a professor Oh.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is an A plus student for sure.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: The scientists had theorized that a human without access to
• 34:30
  any senses or ways to perceive stimuli, would be able
• 34:33
  to perceive the presence of God. They believe that the
• 34:37
  five senses clouded our awareness of eternity, and without them,
• 34:40
  a human could actually establish contact with God. By thought
• 34:45
  an elderly man who claimed to have nothing left to
• 34:48
  live for it's the only test subject to volunteer to
• 34:51
  purchaim of all his senses. The scientists performed a complex
• 34:54
  operation which every sensory nerve connection to the brain was
• 34:57
  surgically severed. Although the subject retained full muscular function, he
• 35:02
  couldnt see, hear, taste, smell, or feel. With no possible
• 35:07
  way to communicate with or even since the outside world,
• 35:11
  he was alone with his thoughts. Scientists monitored him as
• 35:15
  he spoke aloud about his state of mind and jumbled
• 35:18
  slurred sentences that he couldn't even hear. After four days,
• 35:23
  the man claimed to be hearing hushed, unintelligible voices in
• 35:26
  his head. Assuming it was an onset of psychosis, the
• 35:30
  scientists paid little attention to the man's concerns. Two days later,
• 35:35
  the man cried that he could hear his dead wife
• 35:37
  speaking with him, and even more, he could communicate back.
• 35:42
  The scientists were intrigued, but were not convinced until the
• 35:45
  subjects started naming dead relatives of the scientists. He repeated
• 35:49
  personal information to the scientists, and only their dead spouses
• 35:52
  and parents would have known. At this point, a sizable
• 35:56
  portion of scientists left the study. After a week of
• 35:59
  convert with the deceased through his thoughts, the subject became distressed,
• 36:03
  saying the voices were overwhelming. In every waking moment, his
• 36:07
  consciousness was bombarded by hundreds of voices that refused to
• 36:11
  leave him alone. He frequently threw himself against the wall,
• 36:14
  trying to elicit a pain response. He begged the scientists
• 36:18
  for sedatives so he could escape the voices by sleeping.
• 36:21
  Statrick worked for three days until he started having severe
• 36:24
  night tears. The subject repeatedly said that he could see
• 36:28
  and hear the deceased in his dreams. Only a day later,
• 36:33
  the subject began to scream and clawed his non functional eyes,
• 36:36
  hoping to sense something in the physical world. The hysterical
• 36:40
  subject now said the voices of the dead were deafening
• 36:43
  and hostile. Speaking of Hell in the end of the world.
• 36:47
  At one point, he yelled ne, then ne. For five
• 36:54
  hours straight, he continually begged to be killed, but the
• 36:59
  scientists were convinced that he was close to establishing contact
• 37:02
  with God. Don't let the hunter. Don't laugh, it's serious.
• 37:09
  He's speaking of Hell.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: He's right, by God, He's so close. You're almost there, buddy,
• 37:17
  dam many And they're just like, he's right at Heaven's
• 37:24
  doorstep right now, guys, just give him a couple more days.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: God Like, he's like, he's like, look, I know, the
• 37:31
  scientist is standing in front of the glass, like, I
• 37:33
  know this looks bad, but hypothetically, like we we all
• 37:39
  think the devil. What's the opposite of the devil? God? Right, boom,
• 37:42
  He's got almost there, God right there has to be close.
• 37:47
  After another day, the subject could no longer form coherent sentences.
• 37:52
  Seemingly mad, he started to bite off chunks of flesh
• 37:55
  from his arm. The scientists rushed into the test chamber
• 37:58
  and restrained him to a table so he cannot kill himself.
• 38:01
  After a few hours of being tied down, the subject
• 38:03
  halted his struggling and screaming. He stared blankly at the ceiling.
• 38:07
  His tear dropped silently streaked across his face. For two weeks,
• 38:11
  the subject had to be manually rehydrated due to the
• 38:14
  constant crime. Eventually, he turned his head and, despite his blindness,
• 38:20
  made focused eye contact with the scientist for the first
• 38:23
  time in the study. He whispered, I had spoke, oh
• 38:27
  my god, and he had abandon and his vital signs stopped.
• 38:34
  There was no apparent cause of death the end. That's
• 38:42
  so funny.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: One thing I like about this is there was no
• 38:46
  apparent signs of cause of death. Wasn't he like ripping
• 38:49
  out his eyes and biting his flash and stuff.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: There was no apparent cause of death.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: There was nothing. I want to say this though, I
• 38:58
  want to say this the idea, so this is actually
• 39:01
  a sick idea, Like the idea of this is really
• 39:04
  really cool. It reminds me a lot of Martyrs. If
• 39:08
  you want to even this idea is closed.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: That was actually that was actually what I was gonna say.
• 39:12
  I'm pretty sure that this was just like the Martyrs concept.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think that the movie came out
• 39:19
  which Martyrs, the French version I think came I to
• 39:21
  thos and eight, So maybe they just saw it. They're like,
• 39:22
  oh cool, because it seems like it's a mixture of
• 39:25
  martyrs and Russian sleep experiment.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: That's what it feels like to me. Yes, exactly it
• 39:29
  martyrs if.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: You haven't For people who haven't seen martyrs in the
• 39:31
  French film, it's all about like a high society where basically
• 39:35
  like billionaires or whatever, we'll pay to come in and
• 39:40
  they basically take people and torture them as a martyr
• 39:44
  because the only people that have ever been who have
• 39:46
  contacted to be to see God is right before you
• 39:49
  die as a martyr, and you're like basically tortured basically
• 39:53
  like christ like levels of torture, you're able to like
• 39:57
  see God and people are able to like look in
• 39:59
  your eyes and see like reflections of Heaven. It's very
• 40:02
  it's very odd, but it's an awesome movie, like it's
• 40:05
  worth it's crazy, so you know, fucking warning.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, the idea is if you torture someone enough,
• 40:11
  they're able to establish a connection with God or like
• 40:14
  God will speak to them. Yeah, and I really like
• 40:18
  is it the remaker the original French one where the
• 40:20
  lady who set it up kills herself at the end
• 40:22
  because of what the martyr whispers to were.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: I think the American one, the English one is so
• 40:26
  not worth watching. Just watch the French one that the
• 40:29
  English one sucks, it's not worth it. But the uh
• 40:32
  I like the idea of a guy being I like
• 40:34
  also they established a homeless guy who had nothing left
• 40:37
  to live for because I signed up. But at the
• 40:40
  same time, you know, I like, it's it's fun, it's short,
• 40:43
  it's it's punchy. Hey, you know the whole thing. Oh
• 40:45
  see God, but really sees the you know, he sees
• 40:47
  hell and all that stuff. To me, that's like fon schlocky,
• 40:52
  you know, stuff that happens. I would be curious to see,
• 40:54
  like somebody come in and you know, make this like
• 40:57
  a full fledged thing, because you could also get the characters.
• 41:00
  Are all there conflicted scientists who want to do these things?
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Can you know?
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Back and forth there the homeless guy, why does he
• 41:07
  want to do this?
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: You know, there was a visual project that was created
• 41:11
  at the same time. I think, oh, actually, I think
• 41:13
  this is it at the end. Yeah, if you scrawll
• 41:15
  the way down to the end and watch that little
• 41:16
  YouTube video that's two minutes long. This came out at
• 41:19
  the same time. Uh so every reading of it you
• 41:23
  would find online had this video paired with it.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's creepy.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: It's like someone building clay around their face.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: And then oh, it's that he's a that's a French
• 41:33
  performance artist. I know exactly who this is. He puts
• 41:36
  clay on his face, that's like his whole thing.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: He has agree of course you would know where it is.
• 41:40
  Of course he was.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: I think whoever showed me this the first time, I'm
• 41:42
  pretty sure was James Lee showed me this. Uh this
• 41:46
  guy very weird, disturbing stuff. But usually he like puts
• 41:49
  clan's face, like takes his thumbs and makes like holes
• 41:52
  out of it or like polk into it. But yeah,
• 41:54
  this is like a I think, like a pretty well
• 41:56
  known French performance artist. Very cool, very weird stuff.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: The YouTube channel that posted this is the same YouTube
• 42:07
  YouTube channel that posted Blankroom dot Soup or blank Roomsoup
• 42:11
  dot av i, which is like a famous early YouTube
• 42:15
  like scary video that got passed around, and they posted
• 42:20
  the original Squidward suicide and stuff like that.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're just they're the og homies. I mean I'm
• 42:26
  pretty sure that they they I think that they probably
• 42:28
  made that black and white and they put the music
• 42:31
  behind it. Oh sure, because usual that guy's stuff is
• 42:33
  in color. I'm pretty sure. But I'm pretty sure he
• 42:36
  still does stuff too, So you.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Know, dude, Okay, this is I was scrolling through this
• 42:41
  guy's channel who posted it, and we can show this
• 42:44
  image on screen. When I was a kid, I remember
• 42:46
  seeing this picture of like a guy who says that
• 42:49
  there was a demon that appeared behind him in a photograph.
• 42:52
  I remember seeing this when I was like ten years old,
• 42:54
  and I like couldn't sleep for days. Really, Yeah, that
• 42:59
  like face over shoulder.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: The weird dog face over his shoulder.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: The clearly like it's like it's like a retriever of
• 43:09
  some kind over his love shoulder. I saw this thing
• 43:13
  in the corner of every room I walked into for
• 43:16
  a while.
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: Rocky Rocky Mountain paranormal research society.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: She's like a guy sitting in his mom's mom's living room.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: I imagine that's what most paranormal research society is.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I'm pretty sure that's where all of them
• 43:31
  are based out of.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I love that though.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Just I love the whimsy and mysticism of being a
• 43:38
  young and should we should we move on, Let's.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Move on, Let's move on. But yes, Gateway to the
• 43:44
  Mine was huge for me. I love this one. When
• 43:46
  I was a kid, to the mind or anything like that,
• 43:51
  I just like, I just liked the well, candle Cove
• 43:53
  is the best, But Gateweight to the Mine was just
• 43:55
  such a fun concept that if you shut off all
• 43:57
  sensory you can like speak to God. Yeah, yeah, I
• 44:01
  like that.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: I like that big grandiose, cheesy stuff.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: I like the the God has a ended us whatever
• 44:08
  that kind of stuff.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: Do we read he should he should really not be named?
• 44:12
  Since it's like two hundred words.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, alright, a candle jack.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Here, you're not supposed to name him hunter? Oh sorry, sorry, sorry, gosh, Okay,
• 44:25
  he should who should really not be named? Candlejack? I'm
• 44:29
  super serious. I'm being serious right now. In this world
• 44:34
  there exists a spirit, neither male nor female. The spirit
• 44:37
  is covered with a dark cloth, with a separate white
• 44:41
  cloth to cover its head. It is said to carry
• 44:45
  enormous brown burlap sack. So there's three cloths, white cloth
• 44:50
  of black cloth and a brown three different colored cloth,
• 44:53
  three cloth, three cloth. It is said that the second
• 44:56
  its name has been called out, either directly or indirectly,
• 45:00
  the person is collected and becomes the property of the spirit.
• 45:04
  So many who have witnessed its appearance have been said
• 45:07
  to have gone insane and were later found with their
• 45:09
  eyes scouched out. The spirit is very, very real. The
• 45:14
  failure to prevent the mention of its name will cause
• 45:17
  candle Jack to come and whisk you away. I said it.
• 45:19
  I said it at the NBA.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: You indirectly said it, And now you're going to be
• 45:24
  You're dead.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: I'm in the sack. I'm in the sack, and my
• 45:27
  eyes get pulled out. You.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: You are a fucking dead hyperrealistic. Blood is pouring all
• 45:31
  over you.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: You're dead all over I'm dead. I'm dead. That's That's
• 45:34
  the entire story. When I just reads the whole thing,
• 45:36
  that's the whole thing.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: But see, that's that's a classic.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: One of the top rated one of the classic stories
• 45:43
  listed on group of FASA dot com.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: You know what, though, once again, way to set up
• 45:47
  a nice little way to to kind of fuck over
• 45:49
  the reader at the end.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: I like that well that You've got to realize most
• 45:53
  of these are being read by like eight year olds. Yeah, dude,
• 45:56
  that's sick. Yeah, to be a kid back then and
• 45:58
  be like, yeah, can't.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: That kind of thing would be awesome.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yea. I remember being so scared by some of
• 46:11
  these I couldn't sleep. I like, no joke, not that
• 46:14
  one specifically that I remember, but one of them. Okay,
• 46:19
  So we're reading har O'Brien, Haro Obrian. I'm like, that's
• 46:23
  what we're reading me and you.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: I clicked it and it's a it's a Minecraft person.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: You better believe it. So Haro O'Brien. The you know
• 46:35
  about harro'brien, right.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: I feel like i've I feel like I've heard of it.
• 46:39
  I just don't.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: I've not. I don't know what it is. I've like, well,
• 46:43
  we'll read the story first, I'll talk about impact on stuff.
• 46:46
  So I had recently spawned a new world, single player Minecraft.
• 46:52
  Everything was normal at first. As I began chopping down
• 46:55
  trees and crafting a work bench, I noticed something move
• 46:58
  amongst the dense fog. I have a very slow computer,
• 47:01
  so I have to play with a tiny render distance.
• 47:05
  I thought it was a cow, so I pursued it,
• 47:08
  hoping to grab some hides for armor. It wasn't a cow, though,
• 47:12
  looking back at me was another character with the default skin,
• 47:16
  but his eyes were empty. I saw no name pop up,
• 47:20
  and I double checked to make sure I wasn't in
• 47:21
  multiplayer mode. He didn't stay long. He looked at me
• 47:25
  and quickly ran into the fog. I pursued out of curiosity,
• 47:30
  but he was gone. I continued on with the game,
• 47:34
  not sure what to think. As I expanded the world,
• 47:36
  I saw things that seemed at a place for the
• 47:39
  random map generator to make two by two tunnels and
• 47:42
  the rocks, small perfect pyramids made of sand in the ocean,
• 47:47
  and groves of trees with all their leaves cut off.
• 47:51
  I would constantly think I saw the other player in
• 47:54
  the deep fog, but I never got a better look
• 47:56
  at him. I tried increasing my render distance to whenever
• 48:01
  I thought I saw him, but it was to no avail.
• 48:04
  I saved the map and went on the forums to
• 48:07
  see if anyone else had found the pseudo player. There
• 48:10
  were none. I created my own topic, telling of the
• 48:14
  man and asking if anyone had a similar experience. The
• 48:17
  post was deleted within five minutes. I tried again, and
• 48:21
  the topic was deleted even faster. I received a PM
• 48:25
  from user name harro'brin containing one word stop. When I
• 48:32
  went to look at Harrobrun's profile the page four oh four,
• 48:37
  I received an email from another forum user. He claimed
• 48:40
  the mods can read the forum user messages, so we
• 48:43
  were safe for using email. The emailer claimed that he
• 48:47
  had seen the mystery player too, and had a small
• 48:50
  directory of other users who had seen him as well.
• 48:53
  Their worlds were littered with obviously man made features as well,
• 48:57
  and described their mystery player to have no pupils. About
• 49:01
  a month passed until I heard from my informant again.
• 49:05
  Some of the people who had encountered the Mystery Man
• 49:07
  had looked into the name Harro O'Brien and found that
• 49:10
  the name to be a frequently used by a Swedish gamer.
• 49:13
  After some further information gathering, it was revealed to be
• 49:16
  the brother of Notch, James developer. I personally emailed Notch
• 49:22
  and asked him if he had a brother. It took
• 49:25
  him a while, but he emailed me back a very
• 49:26
  short message, and then I hated no longer with us.
• 49:33
  I haven't seen the Mystery Man since our first encounter,
• 49:36
  and I haven't noticed any changes to the world other
• 49:38
  than my own. I was able to press prince screen
• 49:41
  when I first saw him, here's the only evidence of
• 49:44
  his existence. And then this image right here, Yeah, I
• 49:49
  see I see the I see him down the bottom left.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: The original hair brin post on four chan by anonymous
• 49:54
  user Wow.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: So let me tell you how impactful as was so
• 50:01
  this thing. This was early days of Minecraft two, like
• 50:04
  when the game first came out, and this made its
• 50:07
  way everywhere to the degree that Notch would make jokes
• 50:10
  about it, Notch, which we like, I don't have a
• 50:12
  brother named Harrobrien or whatever, and then he started putting
• 50:16
  it in the patch notes. So every time there was
• 50:18
  an update, the final patch note would always read removed Hero'brien,
• 50:22
  as if he was an entity, like he couldn't get
• 50:24
  out of the game. So people would make stories about this.
• 50:28
  All the early Minecraft animations would feature Harrobrien as the enemy.
• 50:31
  And I can say firsthand how well the story worked
• 50:33
  because I had two younger sisters and I was really
• 50:36
  into Minecraft. My younger sisters liked to play Minecraft with me,
• 50:40
  and they added a Harrowbrien's skin to the game. So
• 50:43
  I would turn name tags off in the settings, and
• 50:47
  then I would put on the Harrowbrien Skin and I
• 50:49
  would go stand on hillsides at night, so were the
• 50:53
  like I remember one dude, I remember what time sisters
• 51:00
  like I saw another just like building a cute little
• 51:03
  house or whatever, and one of my sisters just like
• 51:06
  glanced over to the hillside and they stare at me
• 51:09
  for a second and then she goes, I hear it
• 51:12
  through the house before I hear it in the game.
• 51:16
  Just my other sisters like starting to cry, like what
• 51:22
  what what? What is it?
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: So let me let me ask you this, Let me
• 51:29
  ask you this. So it's obviously a ghost of the game, right,
• 51:32
  it's like a gus of not just dead.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: The idea is not his dead brother died and you
• 51:36
  can't live with the game yet.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: So but he doesn't really do anything. Was it just
• 51:42
  because we creepy?
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: Here's what you got to realize with a lot of
• 51:45
  these early creepypasta stories, it is a blueprint, right, so
• 51:50
  it's like, here's the premise, do with it what you want.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: So it's like more so people took this story and
• 51:55
  they just started making tons of skill.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: It's like it with a hook handed man. So you
• 52:00
  can tell friends at a campfire and like freak him
• 52:02
  out with a bank or something like that.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I I once again, it's awesome to
• 52:07
  see how these things formulate. But I bet you anything,
• 52:10
  there was tons. I have to imagine, there was tons
• 52:14
  and tons of uh people's like videos and stare like
• 52:18
  people who like would write their own and be like yeah,
• 52:20
  I saw.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: Him and he he killed my dog or you know
• 52:22
  what I mean. It was a whole genre of early
• 52:26
  Minecraft YouTuber to be like harrol'brien hunting, where it would
• 52:30
  be like these five hour series of them going through Minecraft.
• 52:33
  I mean, like this tree looks like it's been shopped
• 52:36
  down before, like, and we put together clues to see
• 52:38
  if we can find harro'brien in our game. And whenever
• 52:41
  Minecraft moding got to be popular, that's when it really
• 52:45
  took off because people would program these entities that have
• 52:48
  like a one percent chance of spawning that look like Harrolbrien.
• 52:51
  So then people would make legitimate Harrowbrien hunting videos for
• 52:54
  maybe at the end of the five hours they do
• 52:56
  see him for a second and then he disappears, like whoa. Yeah. Yeah.
• 53:00
  It became like a whole genre of like gaming horror
• 53:04
  on YouTube and stuff like that, and so it's kind
• 53:06
  of making a resurgence. I've seen a lot of really
• 53:08
  cool Minecraft hormonds lately that do similar things to that,
• 53:11
  but harro Obrian was a classic.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, the new the newest one feels
• 53:14
  like that feels comparable to that. Is like all the
• 53:16
  back room stuff, all the backroom games that came out
• 53:19
  very similar, different like you know, liminal horror stuff that
• 53:23
  got you know, of the big thing with the kids,
• 53:26
  that kid angles. I was like, oh, this is definitely
• 53:28
  starting to get into the kid territory. Is It'd be
• 53:30
  like large, creepy industrials thing and then all of a
• 53:33
  sudden there'd be like giant.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: Slides and like pools.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: That's why I was like, Oh, that's that's when we're
• 53:38
  That's that's how you know we're in the thick of
• 53:40
  the the children era of it. Now, you know, big, colorful,
• 53:43
  weird uncanny like maybe there's like Poppy play yeah, exactly,
• 53:48
  Poppy's playtime area.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: But yeah, So that was the original four champ post
• 53:54
  and then from there it blew up. It went everywhere.
• 53:57
  It became like a recurring theme, like and people would
• 54:00
  use it to prank each other with. But I will
• 54:02
  say that when like I first read about this story,
• 54:05
  there was an undeniable creep factor to it because Minecraft
• 54:08
  has a lot of randomly generated structures, So like you'll
• 54:12
  be digging deep underground and come across an abandoned mine
• 54:15
  shaft all of a sudden, and like as a kid,
• 54:18
  I would always do that and like halfway through be like,
• 54:21
  is there actually something in the game? Yeah, yeah, right
• 54:25
  back out there. It's like, Okay, well I guess that's funny.
• 54:29
  Someone come play with me. Yeah. Yeah. So it worked
• 54:32
  for what it was, but it was very simplistic to
• 54:34
  begin with, of course, but that's all it needed to be,
• 54:36
  just a blueprint. Yeah, so there's harro O'Brien un dun uh.
• 54:45
  The Hooded Man sounds familiar, but I don't remember. It's
• 54:48
  only five minutes we could read it.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Twenty sixteen we got to read it's one of the
• 54:51
  top ones, hood It is one of the top and
• 54:54
  it's written by anonymous author. So you know that's how
• 54:56
  that's another man.
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: How can we miss out on that? Okay, all right,
• 55:00
  so Hoodie the Hooded Man, have you ever been influenced
• 55:05
  by clothing? I don't mean confidence, by looks. Have you
• 55:10
  ever been given more control than ever by an item,
• 55:13
  or a truth or just a favorite schure? Have you
• 55:15
  ever been influenced in the worst way by showing the truth?
• 55:19
  The following is taken directly from journal entries Just a journal.
• 55:28
  The entries were written by a notorious but unknown killer.
• 55:31
  Notorious but unknown. He is notorious in the means that
• 55:35
  everybody has seen his work. He has unknown because nobody
• 55:38
  knows that he has done it. His origin is unusual,
• 55:42
  no troubles, no evil family, no magic or paranormal forces.
• 55:46
  His life was chosen by him and him alone. His
• 55:50
  identity is also unknown. He will be named from here
• 55:53
  on as the hooded Man.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: Hell Yeah, hell Yeah.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: April third, two thousand and four. It's been really cold
• 56:03
  around here. I don't how do we set up a
• 56:07
  man who needs to put on a hoodie? Man, it's
• 56:09
  so cold. I wish I had a hoodie. It's been
• 56:12
  really cold around here.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: Fuck I wish I all my I have no articles
• 56:17
  of clothing, was exposed to the elements.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: If only there was a way. It's been really cold
• 56:25
  around here. I don't have anything really to cover myself.
• 56:28
  All I have with my T shirts and jeans. So
• 56:31
  today I decided to get a jacket, the kind of
• 56:34
  things you would journal about. Sure, I was just in
• 56:37
  a local store, nothing special. It's a black hoodie with
• 56:41
  a white lining. I think it looks pretty cool. And
• 56:44
  when I tried it on, the attendant said it suits
• 56:47
  me fine. I said, thanks to be polite. Common courtesy
• 56:51
  is so hard to find.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: Oh god, dude, fuck, this is like some serious like common.
• 56:57
  So I bought a black hood King.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: It's the David King voice. Ye, so how can you
• 57:10
  read this next one? In the voice?
• 57:13
  Speaker 8: So I bought it. I haven't taken it off yet.
• 57:16
  Not only is it war, but I can really see
• 57:18
  myself doing amazing things in it.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 57:23
  Speaker 9: What do you mean?
• 57:25
  Speaker 8: When I look at the mirror, I smirk.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: I feel amazing when I look in the mirror. He
• 57:33
  just does not bad bad.
• 57:37
  Speaker 8: I can't really explain it, but I like it. I
• 57:40
  really like it.
• 57:42
  Speaker 10: I feel the need to put my hood up, something
• 57:44
  about something about the hood as a way of masking
• 57:47
  a person even though it shows their face, and hide
• 57:51
  something somewhere somewhere.
• 57:55
  Speaker 11: It's really late right now. I've been feeling so great
• 57:58
  all day time, blue around to explain what tomorrow.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: All right, soul.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: I love that this first entry as a guy being
• 58:06
  like I'm cold, I'm gonna go I'm gonna go to
• 58:09
  a random store, like probably a Walmart. And he's just like, yeah,
• 58:12
  I feel like I want to kill somebody. That's a
• 58:17
  hundred percent words going the The Jacket's telling me they
• 58:20
  kill people.
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: I have to kill someone. Now. April tenth, I've had
• 58:26
  a hell of a week. I felt so great. I
• 58:29
  walked the halls like a big show. I like, I
• 58:33
  just understood that he's in school, middle school.
• 58:37
  Speaker 11: Well, yeah, exactly, He's like, whoever switted? This is also
• 58:40
  thirty eight years old.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: Of course, of course I'm sure I look smug. That's
• 58:45
  why Jack challenged me. He was so angry. Yeah, I
• 58:51
  won't see. All of these early stories were like I'm
• 58:54
  the kid who gets picked serial killer, who's hot with Jackie.
• 59:00
  This is also in the same area of like early
• 59:03
  like seeing Emo kids, you know it all kind of sixteen.
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: This is the This is like the four chainer red pillar,
• 59:10
  probably Jacket.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: This is this is when it started out. This is
• 59:14
  like start of it. Most of this stuff though, like
• 59:16
  Jeff the Killer laughing Jack stuff like that was like
• 59:21
  scene scene yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was so angry.
• 59:27
  Who never do ignore? Wait? Who never do? Ignoring an
• 59:31
  insult was more insulting than responding with shrewd comments about
• 59:36
  someone's family. He antagonized me. He asked for it. He
• 59:41
  threw a hard punch and I stood it stung harder
• 59:45
  than before when I actually argued with him. I felt
• 59:48
  so cool all week? Wait, is all that happened? He
• 59:51
  got he.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: Got punched in the face. He got punched in the
• 59:54
  face by a guy.
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: He took it.
• 59:56
  Speaker 8: He's just like it barely hood and walked.
• 59:59
  Speaker 12: Down even get he didn't even fight back. Yeah, so
• 1:00:01
  he's like that so cool a week. My confidence kept
• 1:00:06
  me on. I punched him hard in the stomach and
• 1:00:09
  I lifted him up with an undercook.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: It felt so good, it really did. Parents calling April fourteenth,
• 1:00:19
  Jack still isn't out of the hospital. So hard he's
• 1:00:24
  like all of his organs are failing. It was like, well,
• 1:00:27
  he said, he lifted him off the ground, so it's
• 1:00:29
  like you're like dragging drag Yeah, like like you can
• 1:00:35
  see the fists go through his back. Yeah, oh my god, Cagarage,
• 1:00:40
  you hit him way too hard.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 8: I didn't mean to begeta. I just come on.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: Him that hard, Gugarager. Your voice once identical to what
• 1:00:52
  it and it's normal. Never mind, that's voices. Actually, it's
• 1:00:57
  there's nothing weird with it with all. It's weird about
• 1:01:00
  it at all.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: I feel like you actually sound a little better today.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 8: Thanks, I'm so hungry.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna eat a big ball of food I got train.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: All right, that sounds good, Okay, thank you for telling
• 1:01:16
  me that.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm just saying, I gotta go to King Kay's
• 1:01:20
  plate and.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 8: Hope that monkey doesn't chase me around because I'm hungry.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 7: I gotta eat a big old I'm gonna eat forty
• 1:01:27
  bulls of ramen because I'm I have I have an
• 1:01:31
  inquenchable appetite.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: Cool.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: That sounds pretty, park actually got.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: So, why don't you go ahead and just do that.
• 1:01:48
  I'm gonna go sleep with Balma now, I'm going I'm
• 1:01:51
  going to have sex with Boma.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: Ah okay, growth, Yeah, why don't you just trains?
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: I mean it sounds fine, but I just I you know,
• 1:02:03
  I don't know. I just I feel like I need
• 1:02:05
  some distance from you, Gagarote.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know where I'm.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: Just I'll just lett you have with that one. Jack
• 1:02:20
  still isn't out of the hospital. They said he's in
• 1:02:23
  a lot of pain. He spit a lot of blood,
• 1:02:25
  his parents told me over the phone. I reflected on
• 1:02:29
  it on how great it felt when my first when
• 1:02:32
  my fist connected, how his crack scream sounded. That's good
• 1:02:37
  to hear, I said, blankly. I don't care about Jack.
• 1:02:43
  I smiled at his pain. I keep staring. I keep
• 1:02:47
  staring at my mirror. I'm always wearing my favorite hoodie.
• 1:02:51
  It feels so empowering. My friends would laugh at what
• 1:02:56
  I say. They would compare me to Spider Man, and
• 1:03:00
  it's black suits.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 8: Yeah, pretty much. Vino is taken over me from.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: Spider Man issue to seventy four.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 8: I have. I have a bit of a duck inside.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I almost I'm almost like fucking Capodia or droopy.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: At this point, you are getting well, you go, well,
• 1:03:30
  it's somewhere between droopy and like Steuwie Griffin.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 8: Made black suits.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: What makes it, what makes it droopy is like you
• 1:03:39
  had like the you had like the the.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 8: They have to do this and they made black she.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: There there's droopy.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 8: Have created me to things he used to do.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: It's funny to imagine this emo kid is like Luntunes
• 1:03:58
  character walking around.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 8: The overweight teenager. And they have made black Shoe too.
• 1:04:05
  Now everyone seeks seems to e.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: This is going to be hit the rest of the
• 1:04:12
  hooded man's.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: Voice by the way.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 12: He feels so much by okay, they would compare me
• 1:04:20
  to Spider Man in his black suit.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: Spider Man threw his power away. I don't plan on
• 1:04:25
  doing anything. It's my source of confidence. April twenty second,
• 1:04:30
  Jack has gone to a better Please. The words rang
• 1:04:36
  through my ears. He's dead. Lost too much blood, he said,
• 1:04:42
  lost to.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: My so so hard that they're like his body will
• 1:04:50
  not retain blood in the hot.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: Hospital he's been. He's one of the hospital for for
• 1:04:58
  twelve two weeks and they couldn't do what he was
• 1:05:02
  bleeding to me, he's leading, he's he is. He is
• 1:05:06
  like bleeding for this fat This fat kid punched him
• 1:05:10
  so hard in the stomach.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 8: Powerful individually, he said, a stylish Jackie made jackies.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: Oh. His father told me the day I visited that
• 1:05:27
  he was losing blood due to a personal health condition.
• 1:05:31
  But the way his mother looked at me and told
• 1:05:33
  me the real story. I killed him. Did I still
• 1:05:37
  remember the satisfaction of hitting him? I never wanted to
• 1:05:41
  kill him. I need to think about what I've done right.
• 1:05:45
  That'll fix my feelings. But what is there to think about?
• 1:05:50
  Regret is a foolish emotion. I don't regret. I don't
• 1:05:54
  need regret.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 8: Regret. They need.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: Jicky. This is great to imagine that he becomes a
• 1:06:08
  serial killer that punches people.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: If he if he is only if he is only
• 1:06:12
  a serial killer that punches people. This very well may
• 1:06:16
  be a better premise than Jeff the Killer.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: Dare I say honestly yes, But that's that's a low
• 1:06:22
  bar to like get over.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that the leg I'm just saying, like the
• 1:06:25
  legacy edge.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: Yea of the punch the Hoodie Punchman.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: One man, the American, the American apparel hoodie punch Man.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. May actually, you know, I like to think I
• 1:06:40
  like to.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: Think that he went to Buckle and it's one of
• 1:06:41
  those ones that had like a it was like an affliction.
• 1:06:43
  One had like a giantjeweled cross on it.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: And he's like, it feels to the cross is good.
• 1:06:49
  But what you're really what it really needs to be.
• 1:06:50
  You remember the rock Star energy merch everyone wore for
• 1:06:53
  a while shoes, It's like that it's got the giant
• 1:06:56
  rock star star like it's either.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: Rock Star or it's any it's any snowboarding or Mike
• 1:07:01
  or motorocross shirt from packs on us.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 8: And he's like, yes, don't they've never reading your movie?
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: What was that one motocross brand everyone would wear fox
• 1:07:10
  never Yes, yes, fox yep.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 11: Yeah, they actually be free to I can't write the basically,
• 1:07:20
  it'll be free to lady.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 8: He's dude's bakeday with late.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah you got it. April twenty fourth. Dad has been
• 1:07:30
  avoiding me late. My mom just tells me she loves me.
• 1:07:38
  Wi diag, I love your son. Yeah. He comes into
• 1:07:43
  the rooms floating like just like like pounding his fist
• 1:07:47
  into his head, like where is that.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 8: Which they have his tamwich chileng to give him.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: I like to think that this character he walks in
• 1:07:57
  and his his hands are underneath, his hands are in
• 1:08:00
  between two pieces of bread, is dead hungry.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 8: I have a sandwich I'd like to give him me.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, they both want me to feel endless guilt, but
• 1:08:12
  I won't or rather. I can't. Oh God, I can't
• 1:08:17
  fake it for the public. But the truth is, I'm
• 1:08:20
  not sorry. Spider Man's story is starting to make me
• 1:08:24
  think more. But what, But why would a cursed or
• 1:08:28
  possessed hoodie land in my possession. Everybody who knew Jack
• 1:08:33
  glares at me. Everyone who I would talk to have
• 1:08:38
  transferred themselves out of my class or went to a
• 1:08:40
  different school. Teachers don't look at me much. Get on
• 1:08:44
  to me if I'm breaking any rule. Today I threw
• 1:08:47
  a pencil at my history teacher. He hit his shoulder.
• 1:08:50
  He just froze for a second and continued what he
• 1:08:53
  was doing. Everyone either hates me, probably wants me dead,
• 1:08:58
  or they fear me. My writing is the only comfort
• 1:09:01
  I have. I can be at peace and let myself go.
• 1:09:06
  April twenty fifth, They provoked me, they threatened me. I
• 1:09:14
  had no choice. They would have killed me. My hood
• 1:09:18
  protected my face. The knife naturally moved from Rob's hand
• 1:09:22
  to mine. I didn't mean to. The writing was a
• 1:09:25
  short line at this point. April thirtieth, five days, five
• 1:09:31
  days being interrogated, sleeping in the cell. They decided I
• 1:09:35
  was only defending myself. I can hear Mom and Dad's talking.
• 1:09:39
  They want me gone. They're both scared. I was an
• 1:09:42
  idiot to think that this jacket of mine was possessing
• 1:09:45
  me or changing my personality. It's just a really cool jacket.
• 1:09:49
  I love how it looks. I feel like such a badass.
• 1:09:56
  I remember how I put the hood up, put it
• 1:09:58
  up when Jack challenged me. I put it up when
• 1:10:01
  those guys tried to kill me. I feel no remorse,
• 1:10:05
  I feel indifferent. I'm in control. I have finally come
• 1:10:09
  to realize insanity. I wanted to kill them, all of them.
• 1:10:14
  I needed only a push and the confidence to fight.
• 1:10:18
  I got it. Mom and Dad are irritating me. They
• 1:10:22
  all irritated me.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: The So you know what's funny about this? I just
• 1:10:28
  want to say this immediately. This is extreme, and not
• 1:10:32
  to make a lot of it. This is extreme school
• 1:10:34
  shooter vibes of course.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's yeah. And it's people. I wish, yeah,
• 1:10:41
  I wish.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: That he just punched more people. Also, it's funny too
• 1:10:44
  to think that like the cops like would let him
• 1:10:46
  just wear the jacket in his cell.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: Well, it is just a jacket, right, what it is.
• 1:10:52
  But usually if you get.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: Moved in, they have you, you'll take off your personal
• 1:10:55
  possessions and we'll keep it and then they give you
• 1:10:57
  like a uniform or whatever. If I think if you're
• 1:11:00
  there over a night, first multiple days, I could be wrong,
• 1:11:02
  but yeah, I this idea which I want to say this,
• 1:11:07
  I'd say, if people are feeling because this feels like
• 1:11:09
  somebody who's like everybody in my life is rounding me whatever,
• 1:11:14
  maybe just write a fun story instead of doing something crazy.
• 1:11:18
  I also think we need to have a new arc
• 1:11:20
  of this kind of character, the badass, like the misunderstood
• 1:11:24
  badass kid who's just like it shouldn't have provoked me.
• 1:11:27
  This story is lost because it's it's a it's so
• 1:11:32
  you know, wrapped in. People are like it's cheesy and stupid.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: I said, bring it, bring it back, dude, bring it back. Please. Yep,
• 1:11:40
  I agree. I I personally love this sound and see
• 1:11:43
  anything wrong with it. Ten out of ten one of
• 1:11:44
  the best stories we've read on creep cast in my opinion.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: Uh the idea too that all it wasn't even the jacket,
• 1:11:49
  it was him putting his hood up. It was literally
• 1:11:52
  a guy going to a American Eagle store buying a
• 1:11:55
  twenty dollars, zip up hoodie and he's.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 8: Like, holy fuck.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: When he puts up his his hood He's.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 8: Like, people could kind of see me, but not really.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: He's like the guy in Grandma's Boy when he's like
• 1:12:07
  pressed up against the wall, the black wall, and has
• 1:12:09
  his leather jacket on, and they're like, what are you doing?
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: And he's like, oh, could he see me? That moment
• 1:12:14
  he rends me of JP. I also like that part
• 1:12:19
  where it's like, uh, that this story you're about to
• 1:12:25
  read is of a dark one who's whose work is
• 1:12:27
  known everywhere. We never get an explanation that it's just
• 1:12:29
  like a really mad kid who's about to kill his parents.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: I also just like the kid bleeding profusely for two
• 1:12:36
  weeks they just and then also and he was bleeding
• 1:12:39
  for personal issues.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was he was, he was bleeding. The conditions
• 1:12:47
  were personal issues.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: It's like, do you mean when you punched him and
• 1:12:50
  you destroyed every organ in his body? Wasn't that It
• 1:12:54
  wasn't that personal issue?
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: This is a banger. I love it. I don't know
• 1:13:02
  what you're talking about.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: By far, today, my favorite story we've read easily close entertaining.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: I will say that all right, So we are now
• 1:13:10
  on Let's go to ickbar Begelstein bar Bigelstein. So I
• 1:13:15
  don't remember this one. I remember hearing of this story,
• 1:13:17
  but I don't think I ever read it.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: Another short banger.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: Twenty twelve, Let's go. When I was a small child,
• 1:13:27
  I was terrified of the dark. I still am. Back
• 1:13:30
  when I was around six years old, I couldn't go
• 1:13:32
  a full night without crying out for one of my
• 1:13:34
  parents to search beneath my bed or in my closet
• 1:13:36
  for whatever monster I thought was waiting to eat me.
• 1:13:39
  Even with the night light, I could still see dark
• 1:13:42
  shapes moving around the corners of the room, or strange
• 1:13:45
  faces looking in on me from my bedroom window. My
• 1:13:48
  parents would do their best to console me, telling me
• 1:13:50
  that it was just a bad dream or a trick
• 1:13:52
  of the light. But in my young mind, I was
• 1:13:55
  positive that the second I fell asleep, the bad things
• 1:13:58
  would get me. Time I would just tie under the
• 1:14:01
  blankets until I became tired enough to stop worrying, But
• 1:14:04
  every now and then I would become so panics that
• 1:14:05
  I would run screaming into my parents' room, waking up
• 1:14:09
  my brother and sister in the process. After an ordeal
• 1:14:12
  like that, there would be no way anyone would be
• 1:14:14
  getting a full night's rest. Eventually, after one particularly traumatizing night,
• 1:14:20
  my parents had had enough. Fortunately for them, they understood
• 1:14:23
  the futility and arguing with the six year old and
• 1:14:25
  knew that they would be unable to convince me to
• 1:14:27
  rid myself of childish fears through reason and logic. They
• 1:14:31
  had to be clever. It was my mother's idea to
• 1:14:33
  stitch together my little bedtime friend. She collected a large
• 1:14:38
  assortment of random pieces of fabric and her seing sewing
• 1:14:41
  machine and created what I would later refer to as
• 1:14:44
  mister Ickbar Bigglestein or Ick for short. Ick was a
• 1:14:50
  sock monster, as my mother called him. He was made
• 1:14:53
  to keep me safe while I slept at night by
• 1:14:55
  scaring away all the other monsters. He was pretty damn creepy,
• 1:14:59
  I do admit, honestly, looking back on it all now,
• 1:15:02
  I'm still impressed in my mom could think of something
• 1:15:04
  so strange and disturbing looking. Eggbar had the together look
• 1:15:10
  of a Frankenstein Grimlin, with big white button eyes and
• 1:15:13
  floppy caddiers.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: I'm the fucking wrong with my mom.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: He's like, here, we go sweetheart, fun with igbar.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 8: Like okay, thanks nice magel steam okay.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: His little arms and legs were made from a pair
• 1:15:33
  of my sister's black and white striped socks, and the
• 1:15:36
  half of his face that was green was made from
• 1:15:38
  one of my brother's tall football socks. His head could
• 1:15:42
  have been described as bulbous, and for his mouth, my
• 1:15:44
  mom attached a piece of white fabric, and so did
• 1:15:47
  his exact pattern to shape a wide grin of sharp teeth.
• 1:15:51
  I loved him at once. From then on, it never
• 1:15:54
  left my side, as long as it was after dusk.
• 1:15:57
  Of course, it didn't like the sun and would get
• 1:16:00
  upset if I tried to bring him to school with me.
• 1:16:02
  That was okay. I only needed him at night to
• 1:16:04
  keep away the boogeyman, which was what he was good at.
• 1:16:08
  So every night, at bedtime, it would tell me where
• 1:16:10
  the monsters were hiding, and I would place him near
• 1:16:13
  the section of my room closest to the spookiness. If
• 1:16:16
  there was something in the closet, it would block the door.
• 1:16:19
  If there was a dark creature scratching at my window,
• 1:16:21
  it would be pressed up against the glass. If there
• 1:16:24
  was a big hairy beast under my bed. Then under
• 1:16:26
  the bed he went. Sometimes the monsters weren't even in
• 1:16:30
  my room. Sometimes they would hide in my dreams. Nip
• 1:16:33
  Bar would have to come with me into my nightmares.
• 1:16:36
  It was fun bringing Nick into my dream world, and
• 1:16:38
  he and I would spend hours fighting off ghouls and demons.
• 1:16:41
  The best part was in my dreams. It would talk
• 1:16:45
  to me for real. How much do you love me?
• 1:16:49
  He would ask, more than anything? I would always tell him.
• 1:16:55
  One night, in a dream, after I had lost my
• 1:16:57
  first tooth, it asked me for a favor. Can I
• 1:17:01
  have your tooth? I asked him, why? To help me
• 1:17:07
  kill the bad things. The next morning, at breakfast, my
• 1:17:11
  mom asked me where my tooth went from what she
• 1:17:14
  told me, the tooth fairy didn't find it under my pillow.
• 1:17:17
  When I told her that I gave it to Ickbar,
• 1:17:19
  she just shrugged and went back to feeding my little sister.
• 1:17:23
  From then on, every time I lost a tooth, I
• 1:17:26
  would give it to ick something funny Hunter.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: That's uh, It's like I just want to say, First off,
• 1:17:34
  I'm I.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: Love the angle this is going.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: It's going into a laughing Jack kind of territory of
• 1:17:39
  things or whatever. But I just want to say, too,
• 1:17:41
  how fucking creepy would it be? Where it's like, hey, uh,
• 1:17:46
  the tooth fairy said he couldn't find your tooth.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: I gave it.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: I gave it to Ick, and it's like, You're like, okay,
• 1:17:54
  And then at some point all of your children's teeth
• 1:17:57
  are going to be into a sock puppet you made
• 1:17:59
  for him. How creepy would that be?
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: Dude? Fuck that. I don't know what you're talking about.
• 1:18:08
  This seems perfectly reasonable. I would He would always thank me,
• 1:18:14
  of course, and tell me that he loved me. Eventually,
• 1:18:17
  though I ran out of baby teeth, he began to
• 1:18:19
  get a little too old to still be playing with dolls.
• 1:18:23
  I sat there on my bookshelf, collecting dust slowly faded
• 1:18:26
  away from my attention. Over time, the nightmares, however, became
• 1:18:30
  worse than ever, so bad that they even began to
• 1:18:33
  follow me to the waking world to raise in every
• 1:18:35
  dark corner a rustle in the bushes. After one particularly
• 1:18:39
  bad night bikeing home from a friend's house, where I
• 1:18:41
  swore a pack of rabbit dogs were chasing me, I
• 1:18:44
  got home to find something strange waiting for me in
• 1:18:46
  my room. There on my bed, standing fully upright in
• 1:18:50
  the soft glove, the moonlight from my window the sick bar.
• 1:18:55
  At first, I just thought my eyes were playing tricks
• 1:18:57
  on me again they had been all so I tried
• 1:19:01
  to flick on the lights. Another flick of the light switch,
• 1:19:04
  and another and another, with no change for the darkness.
• 1:19:08
  It was then then I started to get nervous. I
• 1:19:12
  backed away, slowly towards the door behind me, my eyes
• 1:19:14
  never leaving the shape of ich silhouette, my hand awkwardly
• 1:19:17
  outstretched between behind, reaching for the door knob. I was
• 1:19:21
  just about to get my ass out of there when
• 1:19:23
  I heard this door slam itself shut, locking me into
• 1:19:26
  blackness and nothing but shadows and silence. I stood frozen
• 1:19:31
  in place, not even breathing, for how long I can't say,
• 1:19:35
  But after what felt like a lifetime of cold fear,
• 1:19:37
  I heard the shrill, familiar voice. You stop feeding me,
• 1:19:42
  so why should I protect? You? Protect me from what?
• 1:19:47
  Let me show you. I blinked once, and everything changed.
• 1:19:52
  I was in my bedroom anymore. I was somewhere else.
• 1:19:57
  It wasn't hell, but the compar garrison wasn't far off.
• 1:20:02
  It was some sort of forest, horrible nightmarish place with
• 1:20:05
  partial embryonic abortions hung. Whoa, whoa, there's a lot of
• 1:20:17
  abortions stuff. What is this? Fetuses that have ever been aborted? Bro,
• 1:20:28
  This would be great if it becomes like a like
• 1:20:30
  an anti abortion ad, an anti abortion ad all life matters.
• 1:20:35
  It's like, you didn't you just kill me? Well that
• 1:20:41
  hold on because you because you didn't support Yeah, because
• 1:20:44
  you didn't stop abortions, because you're not for the cause,
• 1:20:47
  So come on. Yeah, it was some sort of forest,
• 1:20:51
  horrible nightmarriage place for partial embryonic abortions hung from the
• 1:20:54
  canopy and the ground swarmed with carnivorous insects. A thick
• 1:20:59
  fog waffed it through the air and with a stinch
• 1:21:01
  of rotten meat while char truce? Is that right? Char
• 1:21:06
  truce lighting? Lightning lightening, char truce lightening. I'm I'm not
• 1:21:16
  sure what's going on in the chair, Like.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: I can't take this on the verge of a seizure.
• 1:21:21
  You're just gonna just scared me trying to figure out
• 1:21:23
  what he's saying.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: And I'm just like say with me, you gotta see
• 1:21:30
  what eggbar is planning. He's gonna he's gonna do something
• 1:21:33
  to the abortion clinic. We've got to stop him. I think,
• 1:21:44
  just this is it. This is a funny idea. This
• 1:21:48
  is a very real world tragedy. I'm not saying it,
• 1:21:51
  but just if this story ends with him being like, okay, bar,
• 1:21:55
  I'll do it for you, like drives to a plan pair.
• 1:22:00
  All right, fine, I'll do it. Loud a cleric bar,
• 1:22:06
  out a cleric bar. Just easy, please sap so hard,
• 1:22:15
  so quick, okay, charps truth. Lightning flashed across the night sky.
• 1:22:22
  In the distance, I could hear the agonizing screams of
• 1:22:25
  something not quite human. My head throbbed like it was
• 1:22:29
  about to explode, the pain forcing out a river of tears.
• 1:22:32
  In my mind. I heard his voice again, this is
• 1:22:35
  what Joe. Reality will begun without me. I felt earth
• 1:22:39
  shaking footsteps approaching fast. I'm the only one who can
• 1:22:43
  stop it. It was behind me now, huge and angry,
• 1:22:48
  hot breath across my back. Bring me what I need,
• 1:22:52
  and I will. I woke up before I could turn around.
• 1:22:57
  The following day, I read in my parents clause it
• 1:23:00
  for my brother's baby teeth. They keep those things, giving
• 1:23:03
  them all the death bar they got.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: My mom's a psychopath, and keeps all my baby, every
• 1:23:08
  baby tooth, and a mason jar from my nine relatives.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 13: Can I get to the mason jar in your closet?
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: Shin, Mommy, need to rest. She's just trapped up. She's
• 1:23:23
  an electric taped down to the sofa.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 8: Whatever you need, son, all right, mom.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: I love you.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: It's like definitely a kid like emotionally distraught from like
• 1:23:35
  his disturbed parents. She's like trying to She's like sitting
• 1:23:38
  there like peeling back the skin on her fingers.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: Sure, sweetheart, go ahead, alright, Mommy, I love you. Your new
• 1:23:44
  nails look nice. Almost immediately the night terror ceased, and
• 1:23:48
  I was more or less able to go on about
• 1:23:50
  my life as normal. From time to time I would
• 1:23:53
  have to sneak into my little sister's room and snatch
• 1:23:56
  what has been meant for the tooth fairy, or strangle
• 1:23:59
  one of the neighbor hood cats right out, sharp little incisors.
• 1:24:02
  Oh my gosh, God, come on, oh my, I gotta
• 1:24:09
  have teeth, anything to ward off the vision. The visions
• 1:24:17
  anything from a sharp toothed necklace to a cavity ridden
• 1:24:20
  Bicuspand I also began to notice that Ick would move
• 1:24:23
  about my room whenever I left for any length of time,
• 1:24:26
  rearranging my stuff and hang in additional curtains. He was
• 1:24:29
  even beginning to look more lifelike, said Bell. In the
• 1:24:34
  right light, his teeth would glisten and he was warm
• 1:24:37
  to the touch. As much as he creeped me out,
• 1:24:39
  I couldn't work up the courage to just destroy him,
• 1:24:42
  going perfectly well where that would leave me, So I
• 1:24:44
  went on collecting teeth for Rick throughout all of high
• 1:24:47
  school and college. Where I got, the more things I
• 1:24:50
  would learn to fear, the more teeth it would need
• 1:24:53
  to keep me safe. I'm twenty two years old now,
• 1:24:58
  with decent job, my own apartment in a set of dentures.
• 1:25:01
  It's been almost a month since x last meal, and
• 1:25:04
  the horrors are starting to crowd around me. Once more.
• 1:25:07
  Took a detour through a parking garage after work tonight
• 1:25:10
  found a man fumbling with his car keys. His teeth
• 1:25:13
  were staying yellow from a lifetime of cigarettes and coffee.
• 1:25:16
  Even still, I had to use a hammer to get
• 1:25:18
  out the molers. I got back to my apartment. He
• 1:25:22
  was waiting for me on the ceiling in the corner,
• 1:25:25
  two white eyes and a mouth of rasers, how much
• 1:25:29
  do you love me more than anything? I replied, taking
• 1:25:35
  off my coat more than anything in the world. End
• 1:25:38
  of the story. I just want to say I want
• 1:25:41
  to say good.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: I want to say this is this could be a
• 1:25:45
  really cool story if it would have taken that. Let
• 1:25:48
  me pitch you an angle forbody Kitty does this.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: He becomes obsessed with.
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: Teeth and he has like a his and his mom
• 1:25:54
  gives him like a sock puppet or she's like, oh
• 1:25:56
  I I don't worry, I'm your friend too, and she
• 1:25:57
  like jokes with him.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 2: What if you take what if he becomes like a.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: Killer that like has a bunch of like weird animal
• 1:26:02
  and human teeth and he's like bite like he has
• 1:26:04
  it's like a hand puppet thing. He's going to fucking
• 1:26:06
  like biting people's faces and ship yeah, and that kind
• 1:26:09
  of stuff.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 2: Like I'm a very disturbed man. I didn't I didn't
• 1:26:12
  mean to do it. It's I liked it. That was pretty good.
• 1:26:17
  Eickbar did it on me? Bar did it? That was
• 1:26:21
  That wasn't bad. That wasn't bad. I had a good
• 1:26:22
  time with that one. Yeah that was fine. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:26:27
  Like he's a kid and becomes obsessed with this, starts
• 1:26:30
  stealing teeth from people. Yeah, totally works for me. Get
• 1:26:34
  with me, all right, So now go We've got a
• 1:26:37
  classic for you. So you've read Jeff the Killer, You've
• 1:26:40
  read Laughing Jacking, and we're not gonna read. If we
• 1:26:42
  get into the Jeff the Killer spin offs, we're gonna
• 1:26:44
  be here all day. So we're gonna go on down
• 1:26:46
  to Lavender Town syndrome. Okay, you're gonna love this one,
• 1:26:52
  Love this one. Hunter just white. Here we go. The
• 1:26:56
  Lavender Town syndrome, also known as Lavender Town Tone or
• 1:26:59
  Lavender Town's Suicides, was a peak in suicides and illness
• 1:27:03
  of children between the ages of seven to twelve shortly
• 1:27:06
  after the release of Pokemon Red and Green in Japan
• 1:27:08
  February twenty seventh, nineteen ninety six. Rumours say that these
• 1:27:13
  suicides and illness only occurred after the children playing the
• 1:27:16
  game reached Lavendertown, whose theme music had extremely high frequencies
• 1:27:21
  that studies showed that only children and young teens can hear,
• 1:27:24
  since their ears are more sensitive. Of course, due to
• 1:27:28
  the lavender tone. At least two hundred children supposedly committed suicide,
• 1:27:33
  and many more developed illnesses and afflictions. The children who
• 1:27:36
  committed suicide usually did so by hanging or jumping from heins.
• 1:27:41
  Those who did not act irrationally complained of severe headaches
• 1:27:44
  after listening to lavender Town's theme. Although Lavendertown now sounds
• 1:27:48
  differently depending on the game, this mass hysteria was caused
• 1:27:52
  by the first Pokemon game released after the Lavender tone incident.
• 1:27:56
  The programmers had fixed Lavendertown's theme music to be at
• 1:27:59
  a lower frequency, and since then children were no longer
• 1:28:02
  affected by it. One video appeared in twenty ten using
• 1:28:06
  special software to analyze the audio of Lavendertown's music. When played,
• 1:28:10
  the software created images of the unknown of theknown unknown
• 1:28:16
  near the end of the audio. This race or controversy
• 1:28:19
  since the unknown didn't appear until the Generation two games
• 1:28:23
  Silver Golden Crystal. The unknown translates to leave now. There's
• 1:28:28
  also the said beta version of Lavendertown. It said that
• 1:28:32
  the beta version of Pocket Monsters was released to some
• 1:28:35
  kids to test the games. This is the video of
• 1:28:37
  the beta version of Lavendertown. So the grimypasta was built
• 1:28:41
  around this video. Yeah play it now. So this is
• 1:28:49
  actually the audio from the game, it's just cranked up
• 1:28:52
  a lot and they've maybe added a couple things to it.
• 1:28:56
  But this is based off the actual music that plays
• 1:28:58
  when you go into Lavendertown in the game, which admittedly
• 1:29:01
  is kind of a weird like sound for a kid's game, right,
• 1:29:05
  it is creepy.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: Well, here's the interesting thing about this, because that is
• 1:29:08
  the end of the story. First off, I just want
• 1:29:10
  to say, some of these old ones where it's like
• 1:29:11
  it's when people are like, oh they are they're cringe whatever.
• 1:29:14
  I think the cringe angle just comes because it's just
• 1:29:16
  like you can tell it was like, oh, it's Pokemon whatever.
• 1:29:19
  Pretty interesting idea though. In the nineties. First off, I
• 1:29:23
  just want to say, in the nineties, there's no way
• 1:29:24
  that this is. I mean, maybe it is. So in
• 1:29:26
  two thousand and one, there was a movie called Suicide Club.
• 1:29:30
  It was a Japanese horror film and it was all
• 1:29:32
  about like basically a pop band where people teenagers would
• 1:29:35
  listen to this song and teenagers.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: Would just basically kill themselves.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: But it was like it was inspired by the suicide
• 1:29:43
  rate rise in the mid nineties in Japan because of
• 1:29:47
  like some economic crash that happened and there was, I
• 1:29:49
  mean a ton of that that happened. To see that
• 1:29:51
  correlate too around the same time when Pokemon came out,
• 1:29:54
  and to have it be something that's also inspired by
• 1:29:56
  like you know, only kids and teens can hear this thing.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 2: It's just I don't know, it's cool.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's intentional, but I just want
• 1:30:01
  to say, if you haven't seen Suicide Club, it's not
• 1:30:03
  like it's a you know, it's like it's a like
• 1:30:06
  super amazing movie, but it's pretty interesting just to see
• 1:30:10
  this kind of like phenomenon of like, uh culture move
• 1:30:13
  through and it's affecting people that like listen to this
• 1:30:16
  song or whatever. So I just found that comparison kind
• 1:30:20
  of interesting.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, it is. It is interesting. Uh where the
• 1:30:26
  concept came from. I mean it's a harm It's like, oh,
• 1:30:28
  there's this creepy town in the game. Did you know
• 1:30:29
  that in the beta version kids took their own life
• 1:30:31
  because of it. It's like it's a fun you know's whatever.
• 1:30:35
  All these so far, I just want to say, all
• 1:30:36
  these so far not that bad, Like well, it's because
• 1:30:39
  they're they're inoffensive, right, they're well written or that depth.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: But it's just like legends.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: It's like, that's what most of them are. They're like
• 1:30:47
  urban legends, like campfire stories.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: That's the that's the best thing is that all of
• 1:30:51
  them have this yeah, campfire urban legend kind of vibe
• 1:30:54
  where you can tell it to your friends and they're like,
• 1:30:56
  what really that I feel is lost now, Like I
• 1:31:00
  just don't feel like those things are you know, that
• 1:31:03
  fun anymore? And it was fun too whenever the Internet,
• 1:31:05
  which you know, the Internet had been around for a
• 1:31:07
  little bit since then, but it was such this new
• 1:31:09
  frontier where you're like, what maybe it is or whatever,
• 1:31:12
  So I don't know if there's probably a new piece
• 1:31:14
  of something new that'll come out to where that will
• 1:31:16
  hopefully we'll get to have some more of that love
• 1:31:20
  again in that one.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Now the next one that's in here is
• 1:31:25
  one I actually remember. I specifically remember setting around at
• 1:31:28
  a sleepover telling my friends is to scare them, okay,
• 1:31:31
  like this one. This one was a campfire story to me,
• 1:31:33
  and it's called licking licking all right. So my great
• 1:31:39
  grandmother lived alone up in the mountains at her cabin.
• 1:31:42
  Her husband was dead, so she was there all alone.
• 1:31:45
  She only had one companion and that was her loving dog.
• 1:31:50
  They both adored each other and the dog was a
• 1:31:51
  great comfort to her. Every night when she went to bed,
• 1:31:55
  the dog would lick her hand to let her know
• 1:31:57
  that he was there to protect her.
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: God, one night, I'm getting flashbacks from that my fucking
• 1:32:02
  aunt with her licking her feet.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, dog with her feet. She's bringing that up again.
• 1:32:07
  Thank you. I'm just saying this is becoming very personal
• 1:32:09
  for me. Sorry, I got chay. One night, she had
• 1:32:12
  gone to bed and the dog had licked her hand
• 1:32:14
  like he had done routinely every night since her husband died,
• 1:32:18
  but this night was different. She had woken up in
• 1:32:20
  the middle of the night because she heard her dog whimpering.
• 1:32:24
  She wanted to comfort him and let her know she
• 1:32:26
  was there for him, so she stuck her hand out
• 1:32:29
  of the bed and she felt the dog gently licked
• 1:32:31
  her hand like always. She figured he was just cold,
• 1:32:34
  so she went back to sleep.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: I love this stup of like creepy thing. Isn't ment, No,
• 1:32:39
  but my dog wasn't the dog licking my hand?
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: Spoilers. Sorry. Sorry. The dog's whimpering had woken her up
• 1:32:47
  a second time in the night, so she stuck her
• 1:32:50
  hand out, the dog lickd it, and she went back
• 1:32:52
  to sleep. This happened a third time, and she stuck
• 1:32:55
  her hand out and the dog stopped whimpering and came
• 1:32:57
  and licked her hand. She stayed awake a few moments afterward,
• 1:33:01
  she went back to sleep again. In the morning, she
• 1:33:04
  woke up and stuck her hand out by the bed,
• 1:33:06
  but nothing licked her hand. She thought the dog had
• 1:33:09
  already awakened and was just in the front room. She
• 1:33:12
  rolled over and got out of bed and heard a drip, trip, trip, trip.
• 1:33:18
  She thought the sound was coming from the kitchen, so
• 1:33:21
  she walked over and turned the handles on the sink faucet,
• 1:33:24
  but it wasn't the source of the noise. After frustratingly
• 1:33:27
  checking the sink and its pipes, she gave up and
• 1:33:29
  continued into her bathroom to take a shower. When she
• 1:33:32
  got closer to the bathroom door, it was evident that
• 1:33:35
  the sound was coming from within. She opened the door,
• 1:33:39
  looked above the bathtub and gasped in at her horror. There,
• 1:33:43
  hanging from the light by his collar was her loving companion,
• 1:33:47
  his blood tripping into the bathtub. She screamed and began
• 1:33:52
  to cry, wiping her eyes and sobbing, She turned and
• 1:33:55
  looked into the mirror. In the mirror, she saw the
• 1:33:58
  dog's reflection and ridden on the air in her dog's blood,
• 1:34:01
  with drips and streaks. Hanging down from each letter were
• 1:34:03
  the words humans can lick two.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: You know what this This feels like a fun story,
• 1:34:12
  like something that fun and Punchy were like, ooh, kind
• 1:34:15
  of reminds me of the YouTube short that got turned
• 1:34:18
  into a movie. It was like lights out.
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the name of the YouTube video was
• 1:34:25
  don't turn off the lights or something like that.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't turn off the lights whatever, whatever that is.
• 1:34:29
  But it's just one of those little I missed those
• 1:34:32
  old horror vignettes that would happen.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you this killed at like a seventh
• 1:34:36
  grade sleepover. This Yeah, bloods can go yeah, you know, like, yeah,
• 1:34:43
  they drinking. The way I told it was different. So
• 1:34:45
  the way I told it got rid of the whole,
• 1:34:46
  Like the dog whippery. It's that she's in bed and
• 1:34:49
  she hears the sink dripping, and she goes and each
• 1:34:52
  time it's licking her hand, and at one point she
• 1:34:54
  gets so frustrated she turns on the lights and when
• 1:34:56
  she turns on the light, she realized that the drip
• 1:34:58
  is coming from the corner of the room where the
• 1:35:00
  dogs hung, and the blood stripping, and then on the
• 1:35:03
  wall as humans can look too. And I like that
• 1:35:05
  ending better because it implies that like, oh, she's figured
• 1:35:08
  it out, and the thing's still under the bed to
• 1:35:10
  her right, like it's right there, like a killer a second,
• 1:35:14
  That's how I always told it. But yeah, this killed
• 1:35:16
  people love that story. It went great, all right, So Hunter,
• 1:35:19
  I need you to go to the next page. Going
• 1:35:21
  to the next page. We have to do mister Widemouth
• 1:35:24
  for sure. I think mister Widemouth. Mister Widemouth, absolutely, mister.
• 1:35:31
  We had considered doing mister Widemouth for one of our
• 1:35:33
  live show ones. But that's okay, Yes, that's where you've
• 1:35:37
  heard of it before. But we fell in love with
• 1:35:39
  or you fell in love with uh laughing Jack.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: So Laughing Jack was just one of the best, I mean,
• 1:35:45
  one of the most entertaining stories we've ever read.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: Legendary. Yeah, it was great, all right. During my childhood,
• 1:35:52
  my family was like a drop of water in a past,
• 1:35:55
  never remaining in one location for long. We settled in
• 1:35:59
  Rhode Island when I was eight, and we remained until
• 1:36:01
  I went to college at Colorado Springs.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: What an extra first sentence. My childhood was like a
• 1:36:08
  drop of water in a vast river.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 2: It's like bro bro okay hunter. Most of these creepypastas
• 1:36:15
  were like twelve year olds in English. They liked thing
• 1:36:18
  they like, and they're like, I'm gonna throw that in.
• 1:36:21
  That'll spice it up. I'm gonna put this in there.
• 1:36:23
  It'll be like on the.
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: How many cherries can I put on top of a story?
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: Yep? Yeah. Most of my memories are rooted in Rhode Island,
• 1:36:33
  but there are fragments in the attic of my brain
• 1:36:35
  which belonged to the various homes we had lived in
• 1:36:37
  when I was much younger. Most of these memories are
• 1:36:41
  unclear and pointless, chasing after another boy in the backyard
• 1:36:45
  of a hoise of a house in North Carolina, trying
• 1:36:49
  to build a raft to float on the creek behind
• 1:36:52
  the apartment we rented at Pennsylvania, and so on. But
• 1:36:55
  there's one set of memories which remains as clear as glass,
• 1:36:59
  as though they were just made yesterday. I often wonder
• 1:37:03
  whether these memories are simply lucid dreams produced by the
• 1:37:07
  long sickness I experienced that spring, but in my heart
• 1:37:11
  I know they are real. We were living in a
• 1:37:14
  house just outside the bustling metropolis of New Vineyard, Maine,
• 1:37:18
  population six hundred and forty three. It was a large structure,
• 1:37:22
  especially for a family of three. There were a number
• 1:37:25
  of rooms that I didn't see in the five months
• 1:37:28
  we resided there. In some ways it was a waste
• 1:37:31
  of space, but it was the only house on the
• 1:37:33
  market at the time, at least within an hour's commune
• 1:37:37
  to my father's place of work. The day after my
• 1:37:40
  fifth birthday, attended by my parents alone, I came down
• 1:37:43
  with a fever. The doctor said I had mononucleosis, which
• 1:37:48
  meant no rough play and more fever for at least
• 1:37:51
  another three weeks. It was horrible timing to be bedridden.
• 1:37:55
  We were in the process of back in our things
• 1:37:57
  to move to Pennsylvania. Most of my things were already
• 1:38:00
  packed away in boxes, leaving my room barren. My mother
• 1:38:03
  brought me ginger ale and books several times a day.
• 1:38:06
  These served the function of being my primary form of
• 1:38:09
  entertainment for the next few weeks. Bored them always loomed
• 1:38:12
  just around the corner, waiting to rear it, secondly, head
• 1:38:15
  and compound my misery. I don't exactly recall how I
• 1:38:20
  met mister Widemouth. I think it was about a week
• 1:38:23
  after I was diagnosed with mono. My first memory of
• 1:38:27
  the small creature was asking him if he had a name.
• 1:38:30
  He told me to call him mister Widemouth because his
• 1:38:33
  mouth was large. In fact, everything about him was large
• 1:38:36
  in comparison to his body, his head, his eyes, his
• 1:38:40
  crooked ears, but his mouth was by far the largest.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: You look kind of like a ferbie.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 2: I said, as he flipped through one of my books.
• 1:38:50
  Mister Widemouth stopped and gave me a puzzled look. FURBI
• 1:38:53
  what's a pourbi, I shrugged.
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: You know the toy, a little robot with the big years.
• 1:39:00
  You can pet and feed them, almost like a real pet.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, mister Widemouth resumed his activity.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 14: You don't need one of those. They aren't the same
• 1:39:10
  as having a real friend.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 2: I remember, mister Widemouth disappear, and every time my mother
• 1:39:15
  stopped by to check in on me, I.
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 14: Lay under your bed. I don't want your parents to
• 1:39:21
  see me, because I'm afraid they won't let us play anymore.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 2: We didn't do much. During those first few days, mister
• 1:39:29
  Widemouth just looked at my books, fascinated by the stories
• 1:39:32
  and pictures they contained. Third or fourth morning after I
• 1:39:35
  met him, he greeted me with a large smile on
• 1:39:37
  his face.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 14: I have a new game we can play. We have
• 1:39:42
  to wait until after your mother comes to check on
• 1:39:44
  you because she can't see us play it. It's a
• 1:39:47
  secret game.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 2: Man. These stories would be terrified if they were just
• 1:39:53
  about like Pedophiles's.
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: I mean that is ninety nine honestly.
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, if it was just about like a man.
• 1:40:01
  He's like, you won't have to tell your mommy anything. Terrified.
• 1:40:05
  But it's always like the game is we have to
• 1:40:07
  eat a cat or something like your sister. Yeah, it
• 1:40:12
  doesn't really seem like a game to me, if I'm
• 1:40:16
  being honest. Mormal seriously, just took this hammer and hit
• 1:40:20
  in the head. It'll be fun. Ah, I'm scared. That's crazy.
• 1:40:27
  It's like a gang negotiation. It's like, Okay, after my
• 1:40:33
  mother delivered more bucks and soda at the usual time,
• 1:40:35
  mister Widemouth slipped out from under the bed and tucked
• 1:40:38
  to my hand. We have to go to the room
• 1:40:40
  up the end of this hole, he said, objected at first,
• 1:40:44
  my parents had forbidden me to leave my bed without
• 1:40:46
  their permission. Mister Weymouth persisted until I gave in. I
• 1:40:50
  really don't I should go. Sorry. Are you sure.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 12: About this, sir?
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 2: I really don't think that I should. I've been pretty sick.
• 1:41:01
  Actually have something super to your career. There Big Question
• 1:41:08
  had no furniture or wallpaper. The only distinguishing feature was
• 1:41:11
  a window opposite the doorway. It's wide mouth darted across
• 1:41:15
  the room and gave the window a firm push, fliging
• 1:41:18
  it open. He then beckoned me to look out at
• 1:41:20
  the ground below. Well, you're on the second story of
• 1:41:23
  the house, but it was on a hill, and from
• 1:41:25
  this angle the drop was farther than two stories due
• 1:41:28
  to the incline.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 14: I like to play pretendo here. I pretend that there's
• 1:41:33
  a big soft trip of lead below this window, and
• 1:41:36
  I drump if you pretend, if you bounce back up
• 1:41:39
  like a fuddler, I want you to try your totally
• 1:41:45
  kill yourself.
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think I'm gonna.
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 5: I don't think it's a good idea.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 2: Where's your totally just drum kill yourself?
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 2: Mom, not just was aud swear you'll bounce up. It'll
• 1:42:08
  be really cool. A further, I was a five year
• 1:42:16
  old with a fever, so only a hint of skepticism
• 1:42:18
  started through my thoughts as I looked down and considered
• 1:42:21
  the possibility. It's a it's a long drop. Well, that's
• 1:42:28
  all important for fun.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 14: It wouldn't be fun if it was just only a
• 1:42:32
  short drop, if it were not were your bear as well,
• 1:42:35
  just bounce on a real triple.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 2: Dude, we wouldn't want that. That sounds great.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: Where's one of those looks totally good?
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 2: You're not, mister whitemouth.
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 13: You can't say that. Stuff's reason it's you're gonna get
• 1:42:50
  your trouble. That's pretty homophobic. That's actually pretty insensitive. I
• 1:42:55
  wish you wouldn't it more.
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: Just totally good, mister whitemouth. You can't be problematic. I
• 1:43:07
  just could you just stop saying that? Please just start
• 1:43:11
  or just drip the swirl. I'm five.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 13: I'm five years old, and that seems kind of horseh
• 1:43:21
  it's all you figure bullying me.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 2: I think I'm being pressured into this, the Dare programme.
• 1:43:29
  I'm not gonna do it. I ted with the idea
• 1:43:34
  of picturing myself following through thin air, only to bounce
• 1:43:36
  back to the window on something unseen by human eyes.
• 1:43:40
  For the realist of me prevailed.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 13: Maybe some other time, I don't know. If I have
• 1:43:46
  enough imagination, I could get hurt.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 2: Mister white Mouse's face contorted into a snarl, only for
• 1:43:53
  a moment anger gave way to disappointment. He spent the
• 1:44:00
  rest of the day under my bed, quiet as a mouse.
• 1:44:04
  The following morning, mister Widemouth arrived hold in a small box.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 14: Would treat you hold a druggle pure aresal thugs you
• 1:44:11
  could use to practice before start giving you lessons.
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 2: I looked at the box. It was full of knives.
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 8: Where's kill me?
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 3: I don't think, or some shirt collars, like some fucking
• 1:44:40
  box full of broken glass and knives.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 8: I don't think.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: Can we start with maybe like a towel, or like maybe.
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 2: A pillow ball or something.
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 13: I just like a soft, just a soft like I
• 1:44:56
  don't show me up for like a baseball.
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 2: There's a I don't even been the need to a
• 1:45:01
  ball like a baseball.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: Don't be very.
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, mister, I don't think that langridge is appropriate.
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 13: I just take the knives in the user is I
• 1:45:16
  think you're kind of a bad guy.
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 2: Knives.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: I think you're kind of a not very well put together.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 2: Person, serious and just druggle these sharp, rusty knives. Don't
• 1:45:28
  be gary, I shouted, horrified that mister Widemouth had brought
• 1:45:37
  knives into my room, objects that my parents would never
• 1:45:39
  allow him to touch.
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 8: I'll be spanked and grounded for a year.
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 2: Mister Widemouth frowned, it's fun to druggle with. I want
• 1:45:50
  you to tart push the box away. I can't, I'll
• 1:45:55
  get in trouble.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, knives aren't safe to just throw in the air.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 2: Mister white Mouse frown deepened into a scowl, kicked the
• 1:46:04
  box of knives, and slid under my bed, remaining there
• 1:46:07
  the rest of the day. I began to wonder how
• 1:46:09
  often he was under me. You were very you were appreciative.
• 1:46:16
  I mean, I'm so sorry. I just I can't do.
• 1:46:18
  It's weird, you you know what, I get it, Okay,
• 1:46:25
  tell me whatever. It's just not cool. You're just not cool, funk.
• 1:46:32
  I'm sorry, man, I just I'm fucking scared. You're scared
• 1:46:36
  of me.
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 8: This is a lot.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 2: It's like fox eggs again. I can't. I can't fucking
• 1:46:45
  uggled knives. Man, I'm just I'll just chill ud you here. Well,
• 1:46:51
  let me come with you. You just stir up there,
• 1:46:54
  all okay, all right, well I'm sorry, jezuz dude, gosh,
• 1:47:01
  hold me. I can't fucking jump out a window. I'm
• 1:47:03
  fucking sick the fuck oh gosh. I started having trouble
• 1:47:13
  sleeping after that. Mister Whyemouth often woke me up at night,
• 1:47:16
  saying he put a real trampoline under the window, a
• 1:47:18
  big one one that I couldn't see in the dark.
• 1:47:21
  I was decline. I always decline and try to go
• 1:47:24
  back to sleep, but mister Whitemouth persisted. Sometimes he stayed
• 1:47:28
  by my side until early in the morning, encouraging me
• 1:47:30
  to jump. He wasn't so fun to play with anymore.
• 1:47:36
  My mother came to me one morning told me I
• 1:47:38
  had her permission to walk around outside. She thought the
• 1:47:41
  fresh air would be good for me, especially after being
• 1:47:44
  confined to my room for so long. Ecstatic, I put
• 1:47:47
  on my sneakers and trotted out to the back porch,
• 1:47:51
  yearning for the feeling of sun on my face. Mister
• 1:47:54
  Wymouth was waiting for me hersel to WoT sugar Sue said.
• 1:48:00
  I must have given him a weird look, because he
• 1:48:03
  then said, you're safe, my promise. I followed him to
• 1:48:09
  the beginning of a deer trail which ran through the
• 1:48:11
  woods beyond the house. This is an important pass.
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 14: I've had a lot of refrige about your age when
• 1:48:20
  they were ruddy or took them down to this path
• 1:48:22
  to a special place. You weren't ruddy yet, reward, I
• 1:48:27
  hope to tako there.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 2: I returned to the playhouse, wondering what kind of place
• 1:48:32
  lay beyond that trail. Two weeks after I met mister Widemouth,
• 1:48:37
  the last load of our things had been packed into
• 1:48:39
  a movie truck. I would be in the cab of
• 1:48:42
  that truck, sitting next to my father for the long
• 1:48:44
  drive to Pennsylvania. I consider telling mister Widemouth that I
• 1:48:47
  would be leaving, but even at five years old, I
• 1:48:49
  was beginning to suspect that perhaps the creature's intentions were
• 1:48:52
  not to my benefit, despite what he said otherwise. For
• 1:48:56
  this reason, I decided to keep my departure a secret.
• 1:49:01
  My father and I were in the truck at four am.
• 1:49:03
  He was hoping to make it to Pennsylvania buy lunchtime
• 1:49:05
  tomorrow with the help of an endless supply of coffee
• 1:49:08
  and six pack of energy drinks. You seem more like man.
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: Oh my, I thought he was gonna say beer. I
• 1:49:13
  was like, holy shit, But my dad was drinking coffee
• 1:49:17
  and bush Light all morning, so he was totally good to.
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 2: Get getting hammered on the road.
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: I've never heard anyone say six pack of energy drinks,
• 1:49:24
  A six a six pack of Natty Light and some coffee.
• 1:49:27
  And Dad was wide awake.
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 2: Son, you're too young to get this, but sometimes your
• 1:49:31
  dad needs something to steady him for the road. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:49:33
  You know, get shaky in the morning. This magic water
• 1:49:39
  wore I get behind the wheel, that's all. Okay, I
• 1:49:42
  just get shaky.
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: That's why that coolers in between your legs breaching there.
• 1:49:46
  Get Dad some of his magic water.
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 2: Help me out, Help me out, be a team player.
• 1:49:50
  You all want dad to be sad, do you.
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Dad's angry. That's why Mommy is such a bitch.
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 2: No, you get it, Dad, I really don't think you
• 1:49:59
  should talk about.
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: He's like getting it from all these different ankles, and
• 1:50:03
  I feel like you should age give.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 2: Me the beer. Goddamn. Okay, first to god, what the
• 1:50:10
  fuck is not upset to me.
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 9: When mister white Bell said it, I mean, you know
• 1:50:16
  he lives in this house.
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 2: Maybe he doesn't understand the connotation, but you definitely know better.
• 1:50:23
  You're forty eight years old.
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 9: I'm almost not not to make allegations, but I'm almost
• 1:50:31
  positive Uncle Rodney would fall into that category.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: And I think you would know.
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 9: Her suburbage that would hurt him. I'm I'm making a
• 1:50:48
  lot of mature decisions from my age, and I don't five.
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 13: I'm five years old. I feel like I should. I
• 1:50:56
  feel like I just want to be Can I just
• 1:50:58
  read my comic book or something?
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 2: I don't Why am I in this? I've been two
• 1:51:02
  different predicaments. They're really vicarious on either side. Anyway, he
• 1:51:10
  seemed more like a man who was about to run
• 1:51:12
  a marathon rather than one who was about to spend
• 1:51:13
  two days sitting still. Earlier enough for you, he asked.
• 1:51:19
  I nodded to place my head against the window, hoping
• 1:51:21
  for some sleep before the sun came up. I helped
• 1:51:25
  my father's hand on my shoulder.
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: This is the last move, son, I promise. I know
• 1:51:30
  it's hard for you, as sick as you've been. Once
• 1:51:33
  Daddy gets promoted, we can settle down and you can
• 1:51:36
  make some friends.
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 2: I opened my eyes as we backed out the driveway
• 1:51:41
  saw mister white Mouse Little White in my bedroom window
• 1:51:45
  stood motionless until the truck was about to turn onto
• 1:51:47
  the main road. Gave a pitiful little wave goodbye, steak
• 1:51:51
  knife in hand.
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 13: Oh you see that too, right down the tiny man
• 1:52:02
  in the window of the knife.
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: Dude, seriously, you're killing my fucking buzz. Turn off, diseasy
• 1:52:07
  top and just shut the hell up.
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 2: If I have to hear one more word out of you,
• 1:52:11
  the fake I'm sorry. Let's play a game. It's called
• 1:52:15
  shut up till Pennsylvania. How's that sound? That sound like
• 1:52:18
  a good dame slug bug my shoulder, Jesus Christ. Years later,
• 1:52:32
  I returned to New Vineyard. The piece of land our
• 1:52:35
  house stood upon was empty except for the foundation as
• 1:52:38
  the house burned down a few years after my family left.
• 1:52:42
  Out of curiosity, I followed the deer trail that mister
• 1:52:44
  Widemouth had shown me. Part of me expected him to
• 1:52:47
  jump out from behind a tree and scare the living
• 1:52:49
  but Jesus out of me, But I felt that mister
• 1:52:52
  Widemouth was gone, somehow tied to the house that no
• 1:52:54
  longer existed. The trail ended at the new Vineyard Memorial Cemetery.
• 1:53:00
  I know it's so many of the tombstones belong to children.
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: Done done done. First of all, I just want to say, uh,
• 1:53:07
  perfect creepy pasta material. I love, love, love that, all right,
• 1:53:13
  mister whitemouth being I love the idea of a monster
• 1:53:16
  just being.
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 2: Like, hey, kid, you should jump out the window, kill yourself,
• 1:53:20
  jump up.
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: What's the worst. I just love a reluctant child being like, duh,
• 1:53:26
  I don't.
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 2: I really don't think it's a.
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: Good idea and the person just being like, no, serious,
• 1:53:31
  it's so it's super fun, just do it.
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't think that's really a great idea. Okay,
• 1:53:39
  I guess. I mean my baby tomorrow.
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: Mister whitemouth may have may have moved his way to
• 1:53:50
  the top of today for me.
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's fun for what it is. It's just like,
• 1:53:55
  had a weird memory of this little thing that wanted
• 1:53:58
  him to hurt himself, and then when he grows up,
• 1:54:00
  it's like, oh, he was trying to kill me, and
• 1:54:02
  he did it to a bunch of other kids. It
• 1:54:03
  seemed like it's basic it's short, you know, gets its
• 1:54:06
  point across. Yeah, it's fun, it's fun. It's a fun
• 1:54:09
  little story. Yeah. I enjoyed a lot. So all right,
• 1:54:13
  So that's mister Widemouth. What we got after that? Where
• 1:54:15
  we want to go? We've read Psychode.
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: It looks like.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 2: Polybius. Oh Polybius. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't know
• 1:54:22
  about Polybius. That's right, we'll go there. Let's do Polivias,
• 1:54:25
  another classic. So Polybus this is another one of those
• 1:54:29
  blueprint kind of things, right, so okay. In Portland, Oregon,
• 1:54:34
  in nineteen eighty one, an unheard of new arcade game
• 1:54:37
  appeared in several suburbs, something of a rarity at the time.
• 1:54:40
  This game was called Polyvius. The game proved to be
• 1:54:44
  incredibly popular, to the point of addiction, and cues formed
• 1:54:48
  around the machines, quickly followed by clusters of visits from
• 1:54:51
  Men in Black. Rather than the usual marketing data collected
• 1:54:55
  by company visitors to arcade machines, they collected some unknown data,
• 1:54:59
  allegedly test responses to the psychoactive machines. The players themselves
• 1:55:03
  suffered from a series of unpleasant side effects amnesia, insomnia, nightmares,
• 1:55:08
  night tares, and suicide appearing as having been caused by
• 1:55:12
  the game. In various versions of the legend, some players
• 1:55:15
  stopped playing video games, while it is reported that one
• 1:55:18
  became an anti gaming activist. So that's like the basic
• 1:55:25
  like rundown of it. But then there's an alternate story
• 1:55:27
  that gets attached to it that says Polybius is an
• 1:55:29
  urban legend about a rare arcade game released in nineteen
• 1:55:32
  eighty one. The game was created by a mysterious company
• 1:55:35
  called Seneschlos which seneslosan Jah and was a puzzle shoot
• 1:55:44
  them up somewhat like Tempest. Was only released in a
• 1:55:47
  few suburbs of Portland, organ it was supposedly very popular,
• 1:55:51
  with people forming long lines to play it. Hower players
• 1:55:53
  reported strange things about the games, such as hearing a
• 1:55:55
  woman crying and seeing grotesque faces out of the corner
• 1:55:57
  of their eyes. Players would also have nightmare, experienced nausea, headaches, blackouts,
• 1:56:02
  or even develop amnesia. Some even committed suicide, Others stopped
• 1:56:06
  playing video games all together, and one became an anti
• 1:56:08
  video game activist. It's mentioned earlier. According to one owner
• 1:56:11
  of an arcade, men wearing black suits would often come
• 1:56:13
  to collect records from the game. They did not take
• 1:56:16
  any money, simply data on gameplay. Because of this deleting,
• 1:56:19
  theory is that it was some sort of government experiment
• 1:56:21
  using subliminal messages. The game remains in obscurity, as around
• 1:56:25
  one month after its release, all of the cabinets suddenly disappeared.
• 1:56:29
  One cabinet reappeared in Arcade in ninety eight quickly disappeared again.
• 1:56:33
  All some have tried to recreate the game. No one
• 1:56:35
  has ever found the original ROMP.
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: It's kind of interesting to do the German thing since deletions,
• 1:56:40
  because it's like, it seems like people they're like basically
• 1:56:43
  stealing people's memories, loading them onto these cabinets, and the
• 1:56:46
  people come up and pick them up away. I'm like,
• 1:56:48
  you know, this is like another little urban legend meme too,
• 1:56:51
  but it's also something that's I just like a weird
• 1:56:54
  fake well I guess you could just call misinformation. But
• 1:56:58
  it's like when people are like, oh, yeah, there used
• 1:57:01
  to be these like and then because attached here, we'll
• 1:57:04
  attach the screenshots, but there's like actual like black and
• 1:57:06
  white photos of cabinets and stuff from whatever else. It's
• 1:57:09
  what's fun.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 2: What's also cool about it is the original. Like Polybius
• 1:57:16
  story would get used in media a lot, so like
• 1:57:20
  video game articles like Game Informer back in the day
• 1:57:23
  would put like top ten classic arcade cabinets, and Polybius
• 1:57:26
  would be like number eight. They'd be like known for
• 1:57:28
  its great shooting, or like it would be an inside
• 1:57:31
  joke to act like it was a real game, or
• 1:57:34
  like in an episode of The Simpsons, there's a scene
• 1:57:36
  where they're in an arcade room and you can see
• 1:57:38
  someone playing Polybius in the back. Stuff like that. So
• 1:57:41
  it became like this kind of like a zeitgeist that
• 1:57:43
  would get passed around and stuff. So it would be
• 1:57:45
  a joke if like you go to an arcade game,
• 1:57:47
  tell your friends, like, oh, if they have Polybius, let
• 1:57:49
  me know, that's like the best. It was just like
• 1:57:50
  a little like a fun joke to play with each other.
• 1:57:53
  So yeah, it's just a little urban legend that would
• 1:57:55
  get passed around in like horror circles and stuff, and
• 1:57:57
  that the government choosing it to try to collect data
• 1:57:59
  on and stuff. It actually the stories of Bolivia started
• 1:58:04
  to come after a real life I'm pretty sure it
• 1:58:07
  was a game called Berserk. It was an old arcade
• 1:58:09
  cabinet that there were two different deaths that occurred that
• 1:58:14
  media at the time, like back in the eighties, attributed
• 1:58:16
  to Berserk. One of them was a kid had a
• 1:58:19
  heart attack at a arcade. Arcade, Yeah, I had a
• 1:58:26
  heart attack at an arcade and died, And this actually happened.
• 1:58:30
  I did this for a video, did the look up
• 1:58:32
  for it, and a kid did die of a heart attack.
• 1:58:34
  Turns out he had a heart condition, got a little
• 1:58:36
  too excited and passed away, but he apparently died near
• 1:58:38
  a Berserk machine. And then there was another instance of
• 1:58:41
  kids like trying to get a high score on Berserk,
• 1:58:43
  and then later on two of the kids got into
• 1:58:45
  a fight and one of them stabbed and killed the
• 1:58:48
  other kid. So the belief was Berserk like does something
• 1:58:53
  to your mind. It makes you go crazy, it makes
• 1:58:54
  you have heart attacks, like there are all these legends
• 1:58:57
  that came from the real world game Berserk. So Polybya's
• 1:58:59
  was kind of like an adaptation of that story.
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: I see, that's well, that's that's fucking cool then too.
• 1:59:04
  I still yeah, I mean, that's a fun way to
• 1:59:07
  just reintroduce that shit into the zeitgeist of like the
• 1:59:11
  online horror Zeitgeist.
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have to read Suicide Mouse. No, that's just
• 1:59:19
  I think we have to read. I don't think you'll
• 1:59:21
  getting out of this one.
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: I think we need to do who was Phone at least? Okay,
• 1:59:26
  but there's also who can't Trust Anyone?
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 2: Why with you? Why we can't trust every classic too?
• 1:59:31
  But I think we stilled, like, like, Suicide Mouse is
• 1:59:33
  six minutes. I think we have to read it. God
• 1:59:36
  damn it. All right, yeah, Suicide Mouse it is. Let's go,
• 1:59:39
  all right, Suicide Mouse. So do any of you remember
• 1:59:44
  those Mickey Mouse cartoons with the nineteen thirties, the ones
• 1:59:47
  that were just put out on DVD a few years ago. Well,
• 1:59:50
  I hear there's one that was unreleased to even the
• 1:59:53
  most avid classic Disney fans. According to sources, something special.
• 1:59:58
  It's just a continuously like Flintstones of Mickey walking past
• 2:00:02
  six buildings that goes on for two or three minutes
• 2:00:04
  before fading out, unlike the cutesy tunes put in though,
• 2:00:09
  the song in this cartoon was not a song at all,
• 2:00:11
  just constant banging on a piano for a minute and
• 2:00:14
  a half before going to white noise for the remainder
• 2:00:16
  of the film, it wasn't the jolly old Mickey we've
• 2:00:20
  come to love either. Mickey wasn't dancing, not even smiling,
• 2:00:23
  just kind of walking as if you or I were
• 2:00:25
  walking with a normal facial expression, but for some reason
• 2:00:28
  his head tilted side to side as he kept this
• 2:00:31
  dismal look up until a year or two ago, everyone
• 2:00:35
  believes that after it cuts to black, that was it.
• 2:00:38
  When Leonard Malton was reviewing the cartoon to be put
• 2:00:40
  in the complete series, he'd I love how they always
• 2:00:43
  name drop like someone who's like like Stephen Hillenberg.
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: They got to they have to legitimate. It's for avid fans,
• 2:00:51
  you know what I mean?
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, of course. He decided it was too junk
• 2:00:55
  to be on the DVD, but wanted to have a
• 2:00:57
  digital copy due to the fact that it was a
• 2:00:59
  creation of Wall. When he had a digitized version up
• 2:01:02
  on his computer to look at the file, he noticed something.
• 2:01:05
  The cartoon was actually nine minutes four seconds long. This
• 2:01:08
  is what my source email to me in full. He
• 2:01:10
  was a personal assistant of one of the higher executives
• 2:01:12
  at isn'ey and acquaintance of mister Malton himself. After it
• 2:01:17
  cut to black, it stayed like that until the sixth minute,
• 2:01:20
  before going back into Mickey walking. The sound was different.
• 2:01:23
  This time. It was a murmur, wasn't a language, but
• 2:01:26
  more like a gurgled cry. As the noise got more
• 2:01:29
  indistinguishable and loud over the next minute, the picture began
• 2:01:32
  to get weird. The sidewalk started to go in directions
• 2:01:35
  that seemed impossible based on the physics of Mickey's walking,
• 2:01:38
  and the dismal face of the mouse was slowly curling
• 2:01:40
  into a smirk. On the seventh minute, the murmur turned
• 2:01:44
  into a blood curdling scream, the kind of scream painful
• 2:01:47
  to hear, and the picture was getting more obscure. Colors
• 2:01:51
  were happening that shouldn't have been possible at the time.
• 2:01:54
  Mickey's face began to fall apart, his eyes rolled on
• 2:01:57
  the bottom of his chin like two marbles in a fishbowl,
• 2:02:00
  and his curled smile was pointing upwards on the left
• 2:02:03
  side of his face. The buildings became rubble floating in
• 2:02:07
  mid air, and the slidewalk was still impossibly navigating in
• 2:02:10
  warm directions of you, seeming inconceivable with what we as
• 2:02:14
  humans know about direction. That's a good line, mister Malta
• 2:02:19
  got disturbed and left the room, sitting an employee to finish.
• 2:02:23
  They always do this, They like the main guy gets disturbed.
• 2:02:26
  It sends like a lackey to watch it, sitting employee
• 2:02:30
  to finish the video and taking notes of everything happened
• 2:02:32
  up until the last second, and afterwards immediately stored the
• 2:02:34
  disc of the cartoon into the vault. This distorted screaming
• 2:02:38
  lasted up until eight minutes and a few seconds in,
• 2:02:40
  and then it abruptly cuts to Mickey's mouse face at
• 2:02:42
  the credits of the end of every video, with what
• 2:02:45
  sounds like a broken music box playing in the background.
• 2:02:49
  This happened for about thirty seconds, and whatever was in
• 2:02:51
  that remaining thirty seconds, I haven't been able to get
• 2:02:54
  a slover of information about from a security guard working
• 2:02:57
  under me who was making rounds outside of that room.
• 2:03:00
  I was told that after the last frame, the employee
• 2:03:02
  stumbled out of the room with pale skins, saying real
• 2:03:05
  suffering is not not seven times before speedily taking the
• 2:03:15
  guard's pistol and off. He watched thirty thinking about this cartoon.
• 2:03:30
  Real suffering does not, No.
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: There's not put his hand over his mouth, threw up
• 2:03:35
  the fucking vomit whenever where he's like grabbed.
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 2: The photo realistic vomit all over him. The thing I
• 2:03:46
  could get the thing I couldn't get out of. Oh,
• 2:03:49
  the thing I could get out of Leonard Malton was
• 2:03:51
  that the last frame was a piece of Russian text
• 2:03:53
  that roughly said the sites of Hill bring its viewers
• 2:03:56
  back in. As far as I know, no one else
• 2:03:59
  has seen it, but there have been dozens of attempts
• 2:04:01
  at getting the file on Rapid Share by employees inside
• 2:04:04
  the studios, all of whom have been promptly terminated up
• 2:04:07
  their jobs. Whether it got online or not is up
• 2:04:10
  for debate, but if rumors serve me right, it's online
• 2:04:13
  somewhere under suicide mouse dot av I. If you ever
• 2:04:17
  find a copy of the film, I want you to
• 2:04:18
  never view it and to contact me by phone immediately,
• 2:04:22
  regardless of the time. When a Disney death is covered
• 2:04:25
  up as well as this, it means this has to
• 2:04:27
  be something huge. Get back to me, tr I've had
• 2:04:31
  to find a copy of this, but it is out there.
• 2:04:33
  I know it.
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: The end at least we got the the guy pulling
• 2:04:38
  out the gun. You know, I seriously thought the candle
• 2:04:41
  Cove thing was so influential. It just like it's kind
• 2:04:43
  of the all ties back into that. Does all of.
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 2: These come off of Candle Cove for sure? One hundred percent?
• 2:04:48
  And then people started to do it with like real media,
• 2:04:51
  so that's where you get like Dead Bar, Squidwards, Suicide
• 2:04:53
  Suicide Mouse. There was really like I remember there being
• 2:04:57
  one for like every show, Like there was a fairly
• 2:05:00
  odd Parents one. There was like a total drum Island one,
• 2:05:03
  like I remember ones for like everything I watched. All right,
• 2:05:06
  So the Rake, the Rake, Creepypasta. Now several of you
• 2:05:11
  have heard of the Rake. The Rake has a lot
• 2:05:12
  of different adaptations. The version I'm most familiar with is
• 2:05:15
  when people say it's like a proxy of Slendermans, like
• 2:05:17
  Slenderman can turn or Slenderman turns someone into the Rake
• 2:05:20
  in order to do it.
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 5: It's a skin walker, right, Ah, It's like it's like
• 2:05:25
  it's closer to classic like Native American depictions of the
• 2:05:29
  wind to go like a humanoid like kind of skeleton.
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 2: Thing running around on the ground and it's tip like.
• 2:05:35
  I think it's some adaptations that can shape shift or
• 2:05:38
  at least mimic of voices. I think that's right. Yeah,
• 2:05:42
  this is one of the earliest renditions of the actual
• 2:05:45
  creepy pasta. But the rake gets used in so many
• 2:05:47
  different stories, like like the overview for it here on
• 2:05:51
  creepypasta dot com says, mostly associated with the image of
• 2:05:54
  a bald, pale skin creature hunched at an angle with
• 2:05:56
  bright or black eyes staring into the camera, So he
• 2:06:00
  gets used all over the place. But this is one
• 2:06:02
  of the This is one of the most famous stories.
• 2:06:03
  So this is from a suicide note in nineteen sixty four.
• 2:06:10
  As I'm prepared to take my life, I feel it
• 2:06:12
  necessary to assuage any guilt or pain I have introduced
• 2:06:16
  through this act. It's not the fault of any one
• 2:06:19
  other than him. For once I awoke and felt his presence,
• 2:06:22
  and once I awoke and saw his form. Once again
• 2:06:25
  I awoke and heard his voice, looked into his eyes.
• 2:06:29
  I cannot sleep without fear of what I might next
• 2:06:32
  wake experience. I cannot ever wake Goodbye. Found in the
• 2:06:37
  same wooden box were two empty envelopes addressed to William
• 2:06:40
  and Rose, and one loose personal letter with no envelope.
• 2:06:45
  Dearest Lenny, I have prayed for you. I have prayed
• 2:06:48
  for you. He spoke your name. So then another journal
• 2:06:53
  entry translated from Spanish in eighteen eighty reads, I've experienced
• 2:06:57
  the greatest terror. I've experienced the greatest terror. I have
• 2:07:00
  experienced the greatest terror. I see his eyes when I
• 2:07:02
  close mine. They are hollow black. He saw me and
• 2:07:06
  pierce me his wet hand. I will not sleep his voice,
• 2:07:11
  followed by unintelligible text. Another mariner's log from sixteen ninety
• 2:07:17
  one says he came to me in my sleep, from
• 2:07:19
  the foot of my bed, I felt a sensation. He
• 2:07:22
  took everything. He must return to England. We shall not
• 2:07:25
  return here again with the request of the Rake.
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: I was just saying. Then we get that the very
• 2:07:30
  infamous photo.
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, the classic trade to say, it's probably just as like,
• 2:07:35
  probably just as infamous as the like a couple like
• 2:07:38
  the Russian sleep experiment, the uh Jeff the killer, you know,
• 2:07:42
  like I feel like it's up there, it's gotta be.
• 2:07:46
  Three years ago, I had just returned from a trip
• 2:07:48
  from Niagara Falls with my family for the fourth of July.
• 2:07:51
  We were all very exhausted after a long day of driving,
• 2:07:53
  so my husband and I put the kids right to
• 2:07:55
  bed and called it a night. At about four am,
• 2:07:58
  I woke up, thinking my husband had got en up
• 2:08:00
  to use the restroom. I used the moment to steal
• 2:08:03
  back the sheets, only to wake him in the process.
• 2:08:06
  I apologized and told him I thought he got out
• 2:08:08
  of bed. When he returned to face me, he gasped,
• 2:08:11
  pulled his feet up from the end of the bed
• 2:08:12
  so quickly as he almost knocked me out of the bed,
• 2:08:15
  then grabbed me and said nothing. After adjusting to the
• 2:08:19
  dark for a half second, I was able to see
• 2:08:21
  what caused a strange reaction. At the foot of the bed,
• 2:08:25
  Sitting and facing away from us, there was what appeared
• 2:08:28
  to be a naked man a large hairless dog of
• 2:08:31
  some sort. Its body position was disturbing and unnatural, as
• 2:08:35
  if it had been hit by a car or something.
• 2:08:39
  For some reason, I was not instantly frightened by it,
• 2:08:42
  but more concerned as to its condition. At this point,
• 2:08:46
  I was somewhat under the assumption that we were supposed
• 2:08:49
  to help him. My husband was peering over his arm
• 2:08:52
  and knee tucked into the fetal position, occasionally glancing at
• 2:08:56
  me before returning to the creature. In a flurry of motion,
• 2:08:59
  the creature scrambled around the side of the bed and
• 2:09:01
  then crawled quickly in a flailing sword of motion, right
• 2:09:04
  along the bed until it was less than a foot
• 2:09:05
  from my husband's face. The creature was completely silent for
• 2:09:09
  about thirty seconds, or probably closer to five. It just
• 2:09:13
  seemed like a while just looking at my husband. The
• 2:09:16
  creature then placed its hands on his knee and ran
• 2:09:19
  into the hallway leading into the kid's rooms. I screamed
• 2:09:24
  and ran for the light switch, planning to stop him
• 2:09:26
  before he hurt my children. When I got to the hallway,
• 2:09:29
  the light from the bedroom was enough to see it
• 2:09:31
  crouching and hunched over about twenty feet away. He turned
• 2:09:34
  around and looked directly at me, covered in blood, flipped
• 2:09:38
  the switch on the wall and saw my daughter Clara.
• 2:09:42
  The creature ran down the stairs while my husband and
• 2:09:44
  I rushed to help our daughter. She was very badly
• 2:09:46
  injured and spoke only once more in her short life.
• 2:09:50
  She said, he is the rake. My husband drove his
• 2:09:55
  car to a lake that night while ra.
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 1: God, okay, man, I just look about nonchalant. The uh
• 2:10:05
  things are the verbiage anyways, my husband, my husband just
• 2:10:08
  drove his shit into a lake.
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 2: It's whatever, as drove his car to a lake that
• 2:10:13
  night while rushing our daughter to the hospital. He did
• 2:10:15
  not survive. Being a small town, news got around pretty quickly.
• 2:10:20
  The police were helpful at first, and the local newspaper
• 2:10:22
  took a lot of interest as well. However, the story
• 2:10:25
  was ever published, and the local television news never followed
• 2:10:27
  up either. For several months, my son, Justin, and I
• 2:10:30
  stayed in a hotel near my parents' house. After we
• 2:10:33
  decided to return home, I began looking for answers to myself.
• 2:10:36
  Eventually located man in the next town over who had
• 2:10:39
  a similar story. We got in contact and began talking
• 2:10:42
  about our experiences. He knew of two other people in
• 2:10:45
  New York who had seen the creature we now referred
• 2:10:47
  to as the Rake. It took the four of us
• 2:10:51
  about two solid years of hunting on the Internet and
• 2:10:53
  writing letters to come up with a small collection of
• 2:10:56
  what we believed to be accounts of the Rake. None
• 2:10:59
  of them gave any detail history or follow up. One
• 2:11:02
  journal had an entry involving the creature in its first
• 2:11:04
  three pages and never mentioned it again. A ship's log
• 2:11:08
  explained nothing of the encounter, saying only that they were
• 2:11:11
  told to leave by the rake. That was the last
• 2:11:13
  entry in the log. There were, however, many instances where
• 2:11:17
  the creature's visit was one of a series of visits
• 2:11:20
  with the same purpose. Multiple people also mentioned being spoken to,
• 2:11:24
  My daughter included. This led us to wonder if the
• 2:11:27
  rake had visited any of us before our last encounter.
• 2:11:30
  I set up a digital recorder near my bed and
• 2:11:32
  left it running all night. Every night for two weeks,
• 2:11:35
  I would tediously scan through the sounds of me rolling
• 2:11:38
  around in my bed each day when I woke up.
• 2:11:41
  By the end of the second week, I was quite
• 2:11:43
  used to the occasional sound of sleep. While blurring through
• 2:11:45
  the recording at eight times a normal speed, It's still
• 2:11:49
  almost This still took almost an hour every day. On
• 2:11:52
  the first day of the third week, I thought I
• 2:11:54
  heard something different. What I found was a shrill voice.
• 2:11:59
  Was the rage. I can't listen to it long enough
• 2:12:02
  to even begin to transcribe it. I haven't let anyone
• 2:12:05
  listen to it yet. All I know is that I've
• 2:12:07
  heard it before, and I now believe that it spoke
• 2:12:11
  when it was sitting in front of my husband. I
• 2:12:14
  don't remember hearing anything at the time, but for some reason,
• 2:12:17
  the voice in the recorder immediately brings me back to
• 2:12:20
  that moment. Thoughts it must have gone through my daughter's
• 2:12:23
  head make me very upset. I've not seen the rake
• 2:12:26
  since he ruined my life, but I know he has
• 2:12:28
  been in my room while I slept. I know in
• 2:12:32
  fear that one night I'll wake up to see him
• 2:12:35
  staring at me. And that is the end of the
• 2:12:37
  original creepypasta by Brian Summerville. Awesome.
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 1: You know, I think there might have been just a.
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 2: Little little after this. The rake got used everywhere. People
• 2:12:55
  would drop it. They'd write stories about like I'm in
• 2:12:57
  the woods, I'm in a cabin, the rakes outside try
• 2:13:00
  to kill me, stuff like that. It was very common. Yeah. Common. Also,
• 2:13:04
  does this make you realize, while when you read forty
• 2:13:07
  of these in a row, what Burrosca does or what
• 2:13:10
  pin Pal does? Yeah? Yeah, like that's why they had
• 2:13:15
  so much acclaim at once.
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 1: It, you know, and they're just good story I mean,
• 2:13:21
  like it's just something too where it's like, uh, to
• 2:13:24
  have to sit down, like the to the the the
• 2:13:28
  discipline it takes to sit down and write a full
• 2:13:31
  link story is so hard. Yeah, And it's like it's
• 2:13:34
  it's something too that has to be so meticulously crafted
• 2:13:36
  and put together to where sometimes it sucks. Whenever you
• 2:13:39
  read something where you're like, yeah, this is a nice
• 2:13:40
  long story. You can tell someone put their heart into it,
• 2:13:43
  and it just doesn't land. It sucks because you're looking
• 2:13:45
  at it as like a piece of just free media
• 2:13:47
  that you're just like, this sucks whatever. But seeing something
• 2:13:50
  that you know, these these like little blurbs or some
• 2:13:52
  guy probably just like was shitting his pants and just
• 2:13:55
  like writing something for twenty minutes he's like, boom, it
• 2:13:57
  gets uploaded. You know, it makes you appreciate this stuff
• 2:14:00
  where someone's like I had a full had this idea,
• 2:14:03
  I marked it down, you know, I did whatever to
• 2:14:06
  make this a full you know experience. So I don't know,
• 2:14:10
  all I'm saying is, you know, not that I'm not
• 2:14:13
  that I'm fatigued, but if I had to, I'm so
• 2:14:15
  glad that we're just doing this all now because it
• 2:14:17
  would suck have to just keep visit, just get them
• 2:14:20
  the fuck out of the way. This is what can
• 2:14:22
  we can we just end with who was phone? Can
• 2:14:24
  we just can we just call it? Because I'm so
• 2:14:29
  let's just do Who Was Phone? I think who Was
• 2:14:30
  Phone is the best way to end this and if
• 2:14:34
  you don't mind, I would like to raid this one.
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 2: It's going to take you to the statue white with
• 2:14:38
  red all of them. But you know what, fine, I'm going.
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  Speaker 1: To realize or last one today one of the classics.
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  Here traded a healthy six point three three out of ten.
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  Speaker 2: This is a famous one. So here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So basically it's like this. You're at a friend's
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  house for like the night or whatever, and then you
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  guys are making out.
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  Speaker 2: On the couch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then like her dad calls on the phone
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  and says, no, she likes it more if you use
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  the other hand. Yeah, and you're all like, oh, dude,
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  your dad is trying to give me advice on how
• 2:15:09
  to diddle you. And then she's like I don't have
• 2:15:13
  a dad or whatever. But what who was Phone? Also,
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  so you're with your honey and you're making out. When
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  the phone rains, You answer and the voice.
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  Speaker 2: Is what are you doing with my daughter? You tell
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  you're the girl and she say my dad is dead?
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  Then who was Phone?
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  Speaker 1: That is the end of who Is Phone?
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  Speaker 2: So the joke with this one was people would list,
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  like what's the scariest thing you've ever read? And people
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  would be like who was phonem? Like I couldn't sleep
• 2:15:47
  for weeks after that, like it was a scarce thing.
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  So everyone would hype it up it and then when
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  you eventually find it, it would be this, I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love this. Uh well, I love it. It's
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  the to me, this is the accumulation of everything we've
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  read today.
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  Speaker 2: And I think when I when I was a kid,
• 2:16:06
  I heard about this and I was and I was like, Okay,
• 2:16:09
  it's really scary. And then I find this and I'm like, oh,
• 2:16:11
  someone's made this as a trick to hide the real
• 2:16:14
  story from me. It's a troll. So I kept looking
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  for the real quote.
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 1: Unquote but yeah, exactly exactly. Well, you know what, I
• 2:16:23
  think it was a This was a it's like walking
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  through the Baseball Hall of Fame or whatever. It's like
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  the He's like walking through like the you know, it's
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  the Walk of Fame in Hollywood whatever, with less homeless
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  people and ship. This is a h It was nice
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  going through. And and I'll tell you what I would say,
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  the majority of stuff we read today, you're like, you
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  know it, you know, interesting, interesting ideas. It's also cool
• 2:16:46
  just to see stuff that starts like at such an
• 2:16:48
  influential stage like this is.
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  Speaker 2: Like all these things were people.
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 1: You know, millions of people probably read this ship, and
• 2:16:55
  that like sparked tons of people to just be like.
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  Speaker 8: I want to make a Mickey Bouse horset egg.
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  Speaker 1: I want to you know, I want to try to
• 2:17:01
  find them in Minecraft or all that kind of stuff
• 2:17:04
  is I think pretty cool, how moving these little stories were.
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm yep. So now now maybe you can respect
• 2:17:13
  a little bit more the Prime Rib your della. I agree,
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  I agree.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know what, listen, it does not fall. I
• 2:17:20
  I appreciate everything we read here. I think that we
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  have anything we need to tell our little viewers here
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  that guess what, dude.
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  Speaker 2: We we give them prime rib.
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  Speaker 1: We're serving them prime rib.
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 2: Dude, we do you know? Spoiled rotten? Spoil rotten they are.
• 2:17:36
  I agree, I agree, they need to suffer like like
• 2:17:39
  I did. I agree. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Isaiah, it's been a fun one. Guys, Thank you
• 2:17:45
  so much for listening today. Be sure to uh, you know,
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  sign up or sorry, be sure to listen on Spotify
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  and Apple podcasts. All that jazz. Give us some nice
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  ratings there. Uh and until next time, we're going to
• 2:17:57
  have a nice fun one.
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  Speaker 5: Also, I do we we we really should do the
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  Channel zero creep TV thing.
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 2: Creep TV is nothn We're just.
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 1: Trying to figure out what to do with it. We
• 2:18:04
  need we still need to finish out, finish.
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 2: Up marble hornets.
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  Speaker 1: That will happen someday.
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, thank you all for watching. Let us
• 2:18:17
  know you keep sending stuff like this. I need to
• 2:18:19
  torture Hunter more. I need him to know what I
• 2:18:21
  went through. But thank you all for watching. Appreciate you guys.
• 2:18:24
  And uh yeah, thank you so much for the support.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to check out your merch and I'm going
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  to buy your merch while you buy me all.
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  Speaker 2: That's so sweet. Thanks. I have new merch coming out
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  too soon, so if you got thank you also too.
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  Speaker 1: I guess have a full closet.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Bye,